Not too while after what happened that day, Coach Blitz tried to make me leave, so he could take Duncan to somewhere else, but I was stubborn enough to follow them to their jet plane which was by the way hidden in a very old school bus in the parking area, with an excuse of giving Duncan his jacket back from Kenny who went back to the boy's locker because he was worried about Duncan. And of course, I took my chances.

In the end, Blitz gave up trying to make me stay and let me follow them to where they are going and Duncan was amused at how I managed to make Blitz gave me up on my stubbornness. The two of us talked about random things like we used to in the back while Blitz drove the plane. I still wasn't able to believe that I was right about how Coach Barnes really wasn't just a normal gym teacher but in fact, was a M.E.G.T.A.F agent going on an undercover to keep his eyes on Duncan in our school.

Soon, Blitz landed the plane in a huge agency which was completely in plain sight in the middle of the desert. Now, I was looking around in Dr. Patel's lab who by the way was a very nice and friendly woman while she examined Duncan.

"Well, this doesn't look too bad," Dr. Patel said as she closed her small flashlight.
"Are you kidding me? My face looks like an Australian outback," Duncan said with a frown as he held his cheeks which seemed to reflect like small scales of a dragon.
"More like the face of mars," Blitz said as he watched Duncan being scanned in full body while Dr. Patel laughed at his words, " Mars? No, it's not mar...I mean, a bit Mars, but no," she said with a serious tone as she walked away to see Duncan's results on the machine of which name I don't remember.

"I don't know, Duncan. You look fine to me," I said, walking up to Duncan who smiled at me with a small blush as he waited for the bed to go back to the right angle. "Is it it, Doc? Or should we expect other surprises?" Blitz asked while I went to watch Dr. Patel worked on the machine since I was curious.

"Well, obviously, Duncan's innate strength and resilience have been growing steadily since birth, but since his fight-or-fight response created a hyper-stimulated state, which manifested itself as incendia respiro," Dr. Patel explained as the projector shows a pair of lungs and heart which Duncan and Blitz looked at each other with questioning looks before they looked at her with blank expressions as if they were saying "I have no idea what you are talking about." I giggled at their expressions, "It's fire breath," I said and they all looked at me, impressed.

Duncan held onto his throat.

"Ooh. Impressive, (Y/n)! Any chance you would like to work here in the future?" Dr. Patel asked, making me chuckle, "I'll think about it," I said and she chuckled as she pressed something and the projector started showing a beating lungs and heart in red shade.
"Anyway, you have it, Duncan. You'll learn to control it in time, but until then, you're just going to have to stay out of situations with, uh, potential conflict," she said and Duncan sighed as he got up and went to sit on a chair nearby. "Like high school?" he said, making me frowned as I started walking towards him while Dr. Patel laughed, thinking it was a joke. Blitz pulled her aside to talk while I watched Duncan let out a small flame as he sighed. He looked surprised as he sat up straight and held his throat.

"Looks like somebody's getting a hang of it," I said and Duncan smiled as he let out another breathe, slowly getting a hang of controlling his flame. He chuckled as he smiled at me, "Looks like it. Check this out," he said as he let out another breathe, this time with the flame coming out in a circle.

"Wow..." I said, enchanted as I watched the flames disappeared into the air, "It's beautiful..."

Before I could say anything, we heard someone called his name, "Duncan."
We looked up to see a beautiful looking woman in a suit with a short red hair, looking at Duncan before she frowned and started glaring right at Blitz who flinched. "Hi mom," Duncan mumbled and my eyes widened. "Whose brilliant idea was it to bring Duncan here?" the lady said with a stern voice as she motioned her hand towards Duncan who frowned and hid his face in his hand. Blitz took a deep breath and sighed, "Uhh...How have you been, Margaret? It's been a while," he started, but the lady called Margaret aka Duncan's mom looked at him, obviously unamused by the fact that Blitz brought Duncan to a science lab without her permission. Meanwhile, Dr. Patel quietly slipped away from Blitz not wanting to get involved between the conversation.
"Look...I-I don't like this either, but there was little incendia respiro incident at school and..." Blitz said, trying to explain, but Margaret cut him.

"That's what we called a your problem," she said which caused me to hold my laugh back as she continued, "I have a legal contract with the MEGTAF stipulating my son have as a normal life as possible."

I turned back to Duncan who was still playing with his fire breathe. He looked at Blitz and then, smirked as he let out another fire breathe in circle, this time gently blowing it as he made the small flame ring flew around.

Our eyes met and Duncan smiled as he gently made it flew around me beautifully which I gasped and looked at it with wide eyes and a smile, amazed. Soon, Duncan made his small fire ring flew away from me as he smiled slyly and motioned me towards where Blitz and Margaret were talking.

I turned around and giggled when I saw that Duncan was quietly making his fire ring flying above Blitz's head who was busy trying to please Margaret. Not a second or two later, he finally noticed the little fire halo above his head, causing him to curse as he glared straight at Duncan without having asked who's done it.

"Son of a buck!"

Everyone gasped as they turned to look at me and Duncan who chuckled.
"Not bad, huh?" he said, jokingly while Dr. Patel smiled as she watched, "Very interesting, Duncan."

I chuckled and turned my attention back to Duncan, leaning onto a table nearby with a smile "It's not nice to play with fire, you know? Though I've got to admit that it was kinda funny watching you do that on Blitz," I said with a chuckle, and he smiled and looked away.

"Hey (Y/n)?" he called, and I hummed in response as our eyes met once again. "Thanks," he said with a smile, looking right into my eyes which made me smiled back at him.
"That's what friends do, right?" I said and he chuckled as he smiled, "Right."

Just then, Margaret walked up to us and she turned to look at me curiously.
"Hello there. Umm, you must be...?" she trailed and before I could say anything, Duncan beat me to it, "Mom, this is (Y/n). She's my friend from school. (Y/n), this is my mom," he said with a smile, introducing us.

I smiled and took out my hand, offering for Margaret to shake.
"Pleased to meet you, Mrs. Rosenblatt!" I said and she smiled as she shook my hand happily. "Ah, so you're (Y/n). Same to you, dear! I've been curious to meet you since Duncan's been talking about you a lot once he gets back from school. By the way, just call me Margaret," she said with a wink, making me giggled while Duncan blushed, "Mom!"

"What? It's true," Margaret said and before she could continue, Duncan got up, blushing a mess as he started pulling his mom along with him.
"Ah, okay! It's getting late! Let's go, mom. Thanks, Doc!" he said, leading his mom away while I couldn't help but smiled at how shy he was being. "You're welcome, Duncan," Dr. Patel replied with a chuckle.

I smiled to myself, quietly happy with the fact that he was talking about me.

"Uhh...are you coming with, (Y/n)? We could drop you back at your house" Duncan said, turning back to me with his face still red which I found it adorable.
"Sure. That'd be great," I said, starting to walk after them and Margaret smiled as she pulled herself away from Duncan and came to warp her arms around me.

"Wonderful! I was hoping we could have a little chat or two on our way back," she said with a smile and Duncan groaned as he sighed, "Mom..."

"I'd love to," I said, and Margaret smiled happily as she started walking away, pulling me with her as we started talking about ourselves while Duncan followed us from behind.