Inspirational quote: Two wrongs don't make a right.

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Dr Kozak stared at his daughter confusingly, then at her daughter's clone, then at his daughter again.

In the meantime, his daughter did the same thing however in reverse order.

"Are you guys going to shake my hand or what? My arms are getting tired..."

Reluctantly, Agent Arista shook it, followed by her father, where funnily enough, nothing bad had happened to them.

Dr Kozak then looked back at his daughter, sort of raising an eyebrow at her.

"Explain?" He ordered.

Agent Arista rolled her eyes in return.

"Dad, I told you... My clone is only rude for a short amount of time before she becomes nice again."

Dr Kozak didn't really reply because there was something in his eye which was stinging him so he tried to do something about it.

"You know, Arista," he trailed off dramatically. "Realise that you never asked me to clone yourself. You just went ahead and cloned yourself anyway."

Arista nodded in agreement.

"Yes. I know. And I'm sorry. I just really wanted to go on a date with Agent Ezekiel's son but I didn't know how to be in two places at the same time. Plus I knew you'd say no."

Dr Kozak just blinked at her continuously in return.

"So let me get this straight. You used my clone machine to clone yourself even though you knew I'd say no?"

Steadily, Arista nodded. Her father was giving her that malevolent look again, like he always did when he was annoyed with her, but then for some reason, smiled afterwards.

"That's my girl. See, you're becoming rebellious now. I like that."

Arista was just downright dumbfounded and really didn't know what to say.

"Okay... And Dr Kozak, why has your voice gone all squeaky? You sound like you're on helium."

Dr Kozak just kind of shrugged his shoulders in return before hearing a beeping sound in his bag.

"Hang on... Did you just hear that, Arista? Or was it just me?" Dr Kozak asked his daughter, walking closer to his jacket pocket.

"No... Hear what?"

There it was again, that same repetitive beeping sound.

"I think it's my watch- wait, let me go and check," he proclaimed to her, even though she wasn't really listening.

Kieran in the meantime was freaking out as he tried to hologram chat Dr Kozak about him sort of accidentally killing Esperanza without actually really doing anything to her.

"For goodness sake! It's been like fifteen minutes now! Why the hell isn't Dr Kozak picking up!"

Although as Kieran said that, a mini holographic Dr Kozak had appeared on his watch.

"There you are! What took you so long?!" He asked him angrily.

"Sorry. My apologies. I genuinely didn't hear this going off before," he replied calmly, sort of biting his fingernails- the really long ones.

Then he used scissors to cut them instead of a nail clipper like a normal, not insane person would.

He also probably did that because the scissors were kind of right next to him and he had to walk to the other side of his laboratory to get his nail clipper. Kozak was kinda lazy like that, but then again... he couldn't really be blamed for this.

"So why've you decided to hologram chat me then?" Dr Kozak desperately wanted to know.

"I have a massive problem and it involves Esperanza!"

Dr Kozak kind of smiled to himself complacently.

"Why are you smiling? This isn't a smiling matter, sir!" Kieran retorted through the other side of his watch.

"Nah, I'm not smiling. Just kinda surprised. I didn't know that I'd predict the future correctly this time. I usually get it wrong."

Kieran didn't reply as he asked him something else.

"Sir, can I ask you something?"

Dr Kozak just stared at him for a long long time before nodding really quickly.

"Yeah... Sure... What is it?"

"Are you at home?" Kieran asked him, trying to picture out where he was. "It's really hard to tell where you are right now."

Dr Kozak just blinked at him confusingly before sort of laughing, then blinked at him again.

And Cynthia Rose was right, Dr Kozak did have the cutest smile and prettiest eyes, for a sort of middle aged man.

"By home, do you mean KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS? Then yeah."

"Okay, well, I have to talk to you!"

"You're talking to me right now kid."

Kieran just shot him an annoyed stare in return, which Dr Kozak interpreted as a look of death and understood immediately.

Then he rolled his eyes.

"Okay okay, stop staring at me like that. Jeez. Although can I set you up on my computer? My watch is about to die."

Kieran nodded slowly whilst Dr Kozak in the meantime ended the hologram chat and set Kieran's hologram up on the computer screen.

"Awesome..." Dr Kozak told him, fixing a few gadgets on his computer screen. "Kieran, you are now on my computer... Anyway what do you need to talk to me about?"

"Something terrible has happened to Esperanza and I need your help!" He yelled at him again.

"What?" Arista answered for Dr Kozak in the background as Dr Kozak was deep in thought about something.

Which surprisingly, wasn't really anything at KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS.

For once in Dr Kozak's life.

"I don't really know. Something terrible has just happened to her."

Just like I predicted... Dr Kozak thought cunningly to himself, making his daughter scream.

"Wait Dr Kozak, you knew this was going to happen? You set this up?"

Dr Kozak just turned to face her horrifically in return.

"Crud... I forgot you're a mind reader too, erm..." Dr Kozak trailed off, running his hand though his hair and standing up.

Arista just pulled him to one side, privately.

"Wait dad, how did you know what was going to happen?"

Dr Kozak didn't reply, just kind of turned completely red.

"Wait... Are you a fortune teller? A psychic? Can you predict the future?"

Dr Kozak just turned red again as he ran his hands through his hair again, staring at something.

"Hey! Look over there! Cute spider!"

Agent Arista fell for it for about two seconds, but once she could sense that her father was about to run away, she then instantaneously held him back.

"Dr Kozak, honestly.. What's going on? Can you predict the future or something?"

Dr Kozak just looked at Arista in the eyes for a while, not saying anything.

"Yeah... Yeah I can. Just not correctly sometimes... But I didn't know this was actually going to happen."

Arista gasped in return, Dr Kozak placing a hand on her mouth and squeezing it before she really had the chance to say anything.

He walked her back to the wall, still squeezing her mouth, and sort of strangling her.

"You cannot tell anyone this okay! If you do then I'll see you in the graveyard one day, understand?"

Kieran in the background was just downright fed up because neither Dr Kozak or his daughter would pay attention to him.

"Hello! Guys! I told you I have a problem! And it involves Esperanza!"

"Shut up Kieran, you stay out of this!" Dr Kozak told him back, before looking at Arista's face again, sort of hypnotising her.

"Seriously? It's like I get no respect around here!"

Dr Kozak just stared at him annoyingly in return, not saying anything before slowly facing his daughter again.

"I mean it. If you tell anyone I'm a mind reader and can predict the future, you die, understand me?"

Arista nodded and muffled something which was presumably 'okay okay now let me go already!'

Although just then, as Dr Kozak had done that and had headed back to his computer to talk to Kieran, a sort of really deafening and irritating fire alarm had gone off.

"Sir! What is that? A fire alarm?" Kieran asked stupidly throughout the other side of the screen.

"No, Kieran, it means that everyone who is dead in here is going to resurrect now and there will be a zombie apocalypse taking over KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS. Of course it's a fire alarm!"

No one said anything as agent Arista sort of tried to leave the room until it said the words 'Security Lockdown Mode.'

"Uh oh... Security lockdown mode? What does that mean again, Dr Kozak..." Arista asked her father uncertainly.

"It means that we can't get out of here and that we're all going to die, whether we like it or not!" Dr Kozak hissed back.

Agent Arista fell onto her knees just then, half caterwauling, half singing.

"No! But I have a date with Agent Ezekiel's son Septimus today! That's my first date in three months, Dr Kozak, and my 90th one overall."

Some parents were completely against their children being in a relationship at a young age. But for some reason, Kozak was okay with it.

He didn't really care much about Arista's love life to begin with, plus his parents kind of let him start dating at a young age too because they were really strict enough to say otherwise.

"Well I'm sorry Arista but it looks and seems like we're all going to die. But hey, everyone is in the same boat here. All 50,000 rooms are on security lockdown mode anyway."

There was silence between them for a while until for some reason, a voice on Dr Kozak's computer spoke to him.

"You guys aren't all going do die," the computer assured them nicely.

Dr Kozak just looked around the room in confusion, then at his computer once he realised that no one or nothing else could have possibly said that.

"Wait. What? You can talk? And you can hear us?"

The computer 'replied' by becoming louder. There was a voice on there, kind of like a Siri but for computers.

This had happened anytime there was a Security Lockdown Mode, not that Kozak knew this because this hadn't exactly happened before.

Security Lockdown Mode for those wondering had happened whenever a trespasser was trying to enter KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS.

Yeah, Kozak could control who could have seen the headquarters from the outside, but he had fallen out with some people that could have seen it from the outside, and their names couldn't have been removed unless he had gotten the last trophy needed for his trophy collection.

The one Diana Valentine annoyingly had just lurking around in her trophy cupboard, kind of waiting to be used.

"Haha. Yep. To both questions. And I can see all of you as well. And I'm telling you guys, you guys aren't all going to die."

Dr Kozak smiled.

"And please wipe that smile off your face, mister, I haven't finished talking yet," Computer Siri (or Sarica in this case) snapped at him, making Dr Kozak smile drop immediately.

"You guys have to do one thing to survive," Sarica continued.

"Which is?" Dr Kozak and his daughter wanted to know.

"You guys aren't going to die, unless..."

A rather dramatic pause.

"Everything you say from now on has to rhyme."

"Rhyme?!" Dr Kozak repeated, head metaphorically exploding in disbelief.

"Yes! Rhyme. I'll give you an example. You have to rhyme. Although this is just a sample, you're seriously wasting your time."

Dr Kozak sighed as his daughter whispered that she wanted to get her clone ready for the date in case security lockdown mode had ended soon and she wasn't ready.

"Okay. So let me get this straight. Everything we have to say from now on has to rhyme, if we want to survive?"

"Yes... I believe that was what I said."

"Wait! Does that include me as well?" Kieran wanted to know through the computer.

"Yes." No one replied after that until the person voicing Sarica yelled:

"Well, don't just stand there looking at me, get rhyming y'all!"

Dr Kozak sighed and rolled his eyes in disbelief as he turned to face his chair to Kieran.

"I'll start." He muttered to himself angrily, and through gritted teeth. "Kieran, what the hell is wrong? We have to 'rhyme' now, so please put everything into a song."

"More enthusiasm!" Sarica bickered.

"For goodness sake! I hate you!" Dr Kozak screeched, where the computer just yelled killing mode activated and pointed a laser beam at Dr Kozak.

"Fine ! Fine! I'll put more enthusiasm into it. Although may I start again?"

"Sure. Go ahead. I'll be listening," Sarica muttered then said nothing else.

Sarica couldn't really talk... there was a person voicing it. For some reason.

Then the rest of the conversation pretty much went like this as Dr Kozak had turned to face Kieran again, rolling his eyes one more time.

Dr Kozak: Kieran, what the hell is wrong? We have to 'rhyme' now, so please put everything into a song.

Kieran didn't even have to think about what he wanted to say next because he had planned all of this just now anyway.

Kieran: Oh Dr Kozak, I have a problem.

Dr Kozak just looked at him, muttering rhyme or you die kid to him, where Kieran thought of what could rhyme with problem.

Kieran: Well, I've got two actually, and I don't know how to solve 'em.

Dr Kozak: Okay. So what happened?

Kieran: Esperanza. I tried talking to her but silence filled her.

Dr Kozak just blinked at Kieran, not saying anything.

Dr Kozak: How is that a problem? Maybe she just didn't know how to reply to what you said.

Kieran: ...And well, if I'm being genuinely honest, I kind of think I killed her...

Dr Kozak lost it completely as he stood up on his chair, wanting to murder Kieran completely.

Dr Kozak: You killed Esperanza? Why the heck would you do that? What's wrong with you, Kieran? Jesus Christ.

Kieran just blinked at him blankly in return, still keeping the rhyming thing going as he watched Dr Kozak sit back down again.

Kieran: Well I'm not sure, although she's being all mysterious. Please help me Dr Kozak because this is very serious.

Dr Kozak: Don't jinx yourself Kieran. Please don't say that. Maybe Diana Valentine planned all of this but we're definitely getting pay back!

Kieran: Well, the truth is, I don't know if she's lying. She may actually be alive, and not necessarily dying.

Kozak: Why don't you check then! Looks are deceiving. But unless this problem is fixed, then none of you are leaving.

Kieran: The irony! We can't anyway. Have you not been paying attention? Esperanza might be dead- Anything else that I've forgotten to mention?

Kozak: No! Death can not happen. Now is not the season. Maybe someone planned all of this for some illegitimate reason?

Kieran: This rhyming thing is hard. Lots of words popping in my head. Although, which words are simpler than Esperanza might be dead?

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Moral of chapter: Sometimes being a psychic isn't so good.