Room 314 - Saturday Morning

[onlyajones]

When Jo woke up and found she wasn’t in her normal room in Charterville, California she didn’t find anything unusual about it and instead assumed that one of the monsters at Hillhurst had messed about with some experiments and now she had ended up in a different location - she had a look round what seemed to be her side of the room, it appeared she was in a dorm room of some kind.

She spotted a calendar on the wall, “it’s October 2021 here?” she’d somehow been transported across time as well.

[Jo is now Josephine ‘Jo’ McCormick from Big Bad Beetleborgs. Door and Post are both open!]

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[x_discospider_x]

Jason had been on his merry way, humming along, maybe even skipping a little bit, eager to get another day of solving mysteries underway, when he couldn't help overhearing the girl in room 314 as he passed by.

"2021?" he asked. "That doesn't sound right! Maybe this is a job for the Mystery Team!"

One third of it, anyway. He didn't know where Duncan and Charlie were. Maybe he should make this the Case of the Missing Mystery Team! But for now, he stuck his head in the door.

"Excuse me, miss," he implored politely, "did you say 2021?"

[onlyajones]

Jo glanced over at the door, she nodded, “I did, i mean I would say that’s unusual since it was 1996 yesterday but it’s not the strangest thing to ever happen to me honestly,”

[x_discospider_x]

"1996?" Jason's frown deepened, but then he laughed, lifting a finger and wagging it at the girl. "Nice try! You'll have to try harder than that to fool a member of the Mystery Team. We all know it's actually 2009."

[onlyajones]

“2009?” Jo was more amused than anything, she shook her head, “I don’t know what experiments they were running but this is new, even for them, I take it you’re not from Charterville then?”

[x_discospider_x]

"Experiments?" Jason's eyes widened with excitement, before he controlled his face, masterfully, some might say (but not many), into a deeply concerned frown. "That sounds bad."

He fished a small notebook and a tiny pencil from his back pocket, poising the writing instrument on the ready as he regarded Jo intently. "And you said there are happening at a place called Charterville? Can you spell that for me, miss?"

[onlyajones]

“With the monsters involved? Yeah it is probably bad, odds are it was mums,” Jo shook her head, “I’ll have to talk to Flabber, assuming they figure it out and I get back,” she paused “and Charterville is c-h-a-r-t-e-r-v-i-l-l-e,” she added helpfully.

[x_discospider_x]

"Monsters," Jason repeated, as he wrote that down with a nod, following it with a lot of questions marks, and he wrote down Flabber as well, and then slowly wrote down each letter of Charterville as the girl spelled it out.

He took a second to look over those three notes like it was a detailed dossier, smacked his pencil against hte paper, and nodded again.

"And who is this..." He checked the notebook. "Flabber? Where can I find him? He must be a Person of Interest."

[onlyajones]

“Oh he’s a Phantasm, he lives at Hillurst Mansion,” Jo said casually like this was a normal everyday conversation for her, “my brother Drew and friend Roland released him from a pipe organ,” as one did.

[x_discospider_x]

Oh! Good! More things to write down!

"Hillurst Mansion," Jason repeated thoughtfully, lifting his head and squinting into the distance in case it started to ring any bells. It didn't, but what kind of a mystery solver would he be if he couldn't figure it out. "I'm on it! Don't you worry, Miss! We'll get this Case of the Misleading Calendar solved in no time!"

Now if only he could find the rest of his Mystery Team!

[onlyajones]

"Thank you so much," Jo said, with an amused smile, "let me know if there's any further information you need,"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Who," Belle (who was still herself) asked, looking at this girl who was certainly not the roommate she'd had last night, "are you?"

[onlyajones]

"I'm Jo McCormick," she paused, "where exactly am I?" she could piece together some details but she still didn't know where exactly she had been sent.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"You're in my room," Belle said. "Mine and Jo's. At our school. In Fandom."

[onlyajones]

"Fandom?" Jo shook her head, "is that in California? That's where I'm supposed to be, but last I checked it was also 1996."

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Maryland," Belle said. "I'm not entirely sure where California is."

[onlyajones]

"Huh. I'm on the other side of country and over twenty years in the future?" Jo blinked, "I shouldn't be surprised by this point, Flabber needs to talk to the monsters about the experiments that they run,"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"You have monsters experimenting on you?" Belle asked. "That sounds horrid!"

[onlyajones]

"Well not on me," Jo clarified, because she had not yet reached that part in her canon, "but they like to perform different experiments, they're mostly harmless, especially since Flabber keeps them in line," she paused, "most of the time," even had had trouble controlling them sometimes.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"What's a Flabber?" Belle asked. "And how do you keep monsters in line?"

[onlyajones]

"He's a Phantasm," Jo said helpfully, "my brother Drew and my friend Roland and I released him from a pipe organ," she said as though it was the most normal conversation to have, "I think the monsters are kind of scared him, so they more or less toe the line for him, doesn't always work though,"

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Isn't that a sort of ghost?"

Belle. You had a ghost for a teacher this summer. Honestly.

[onlyajones]

"I think it's similar," Jo tried to remember the difference, "Flabber can't leave Hillhurst because then he'll lose his tangible form and he has magical abilities, he turned us into the Beetleborgs from the comics,"

Secret identity? What secret identity?

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"Beetleborgs?" Belle repeated.

Jo, nothing you were saying made sense!

Of course, Belle was from a fairytale land where nothing made sense so it wasn't too difficult to follow.

[onlyajones]

“They’re a superhero team,” Jo said helpfully, “he gave us all their powers and everything,”

She paused, “of course it also brought the villains to life as well so we have to fight them now as well,”

Still not helping Jo.

[noonedecidesmyfate]

"There's a class here on superheroes," Belle said slowly.

Well. There was a class that was supposed to be on superheroes.

"Your world sounds complicated."