"hey mum! what's with the dummy?" asks Amy walking in with Jake and Mahlia after school
"Amy, that's no way to talk about your father." Eva says holding a dummy doll
"haha! good one mum." the doll says
"Colby?" Mahlia asks
"yeah, still shape-shifting into random things, this morning he got stuck as this wisecracking ventriloquist dummy." Eva points at her dummy for a son
"oh, well congratulations Colby you've officially scraped the bottom of the shape-shifting barrel." Amy claps
"so Colbys a creepy doll. i've had nightmares that start like this. well at least this ones not telling bad jok-." Jakes cut off
"hey! who wants to hear a joke? what do dummies use to hear? their puppeteers!" Colby laughs
"I'm regretting agreeing to being your friend." Mahlia sighs
"you guys are friends? never thought i'd see that day." Jake says suprised
"we realised we where over reacting a bit about how bad each other are." Mahlia admits
"really? Colby's pretty bad." Amy shrugs
"well we're off, just make sure to grease Colby's little mouth hole so he doesn't lock up on the punchlines." Vic says as him and Eva leave
"oh whatever you do, do not pull his string, not gonna make that mistake a fifth time." Eva walks out
"yeah i'm not greasing anything bye!" Jake goes upstairs
Hartley is at the door panicing since she was meant to mentor this fifth grader Scarlett at her house but now she can't because her grandma Celia invited the girls over to play cards
"so you don't want don't want the kid to see them playing cards?" Amy asks
"no. i don't want her to see the fights that break out when my grandma loses." Hartley huffs
"forget mentoring and come with me and Mahlia to the mall." Amy tells Hartley
"yess come." Mahlia cheers
"no way, this is my first time mentoring and it'll look horrible if i cancel," Hartley forwns, "but i wouldn't have to if i could just invite Scarlett over here and then-"
"uh-uh no way." Amys interrupted by the doorbell, "you alreadly told her she could come here?!"
"yeahhh." Hartley opens the door
"hi Scarlett, aw your so cute!" Mahlia smiles
"uh, Scarlett this is Mahlia and this is Amy, she was nice enought to let us use her house."
"yeah, yeah let's skip the chit-chat and get down to business, i got to be down at the docks at 5:30 sharp to sign for a shipment." Scarlett bosses
"what kind of shipmeant?" asks Hartley
"hair scrunchies from guatemala, i mark them up 80 percent and sell 'em in the girls' bathroom. got to make that paper, am i right ladies?" Scarlett sits down
"oo i like this kid." Mahlia high fives Scarlett
"what's with the doll? he looks creepy." Scarlett points at Colby
"yeah well the view ain't so great from over either shortcake." Colby blurts
"did that thing just back talk to me?" Scarlett asks shocked
"uh yeah it's my little brothers smart doll. it listens to what you say and it responds. like this shut it colby!" Amy makes up
"you shut it!" Colby yells back
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General FictionMahlia is a super hero, she becomes super close to a family who soon reveal their identity as super villains. What happens when a villain and super hero take a liking to eachother? can you guess who those two might be
