Try-$quad

Where to start? At the beginning, I suppose. It started at 00:01 on January first when I was born. I only lived for a minute then promptly died. Let me explain: Everything I do takes exactly one minute, no more, no less. That's just how it's always worked. It's my blessing and my curse. It's really nice when a normally long task takes me only a minute but it's a pain when a task that should take a few seconds takes me a whole minute. My Grandpa, Father Time (well Grandfather Time to me) is the one that controls time itself. He split his workload into four parts. He is the first part. My dad, Hour Hank, is the second part and does everything in an hour. I come next and already explained my power. Then comes Second Son, my son, who does everything in a second. Four times I 'died' {so far} at ages of 0, 13, 18, and 21. I do not know when I die again.

Most of our powers are really weird, take me for example. But mine isn't even the weirdest. But despite our deficiencies, we will always try to save the world, one way or another. Our leader is Try-El, an angel with one wing. He can't really fly straight, but he get's the job done somehow. Try-El does have one have one thing going for him, a transforming shotgun that always has one shell (or other ammunition) in the chamber.

Then we have Captain Obvious, who thinks it's obvious that he's the leader. His name is Captain so I can understand why he thinks that. The loudmouth pretty much can only state the obvious and then can change into the obvious. Captain Obvious' powers are pretty obnoxious but he's oblivious to that. Sometimes when the squad is especially annoyed with Captain Obvious, we'll call him Captain Obnoxious or Captain Oblivious for that reason alone. His real name is John Doe, though.

I've got a real name, too, but I'm going to waste my minute to tell you. Saying my name takes one full minute. You should know that, though, because everything I do takes a minute. If you tell me to "be there in a minute," you'd better expect to see me there in exactly a minute. Most people call me Minuteman. I've got 24 watches on my arms and legs, 1 for each time zone. My favorite watch is the giant clock I wear on a necklace. You know Flava Flav? He got his style from me. I gave him my other clock necklace when I left that dimension. But back to the squad.

Lavender Librarian is from another dimension as well. She was the Librarian for a super villain named White Warrior who thought it would be funny to make everything she did have be Lavender. The super villain(White Warrior) thought she could be his sidekick and gave her a special suit and tools. He gave her a librarian attire that changed into librarian armor at the push of a button, a book titled 'how to look like a librarian while in armor' that turned into a shield, and a pen that turned into a sword. The power he bestowed on her ended up being a lot more useful than he expected because it allowed her to do anything and everything but no matter what, it had to be lavender. Once given the power, Lavender Librarian made sure he was dyed Lavender and sent him to another universe. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the universe that we are in now. Lavender Librarian's real name is Lavendel Lavenda, which means Lavender Lavender in two languages. Figures.

But the most ironic member of the squad is Germ-O-Man, who isn't even a man, but I won't tell. She can shrink to the size of a germ with a special hazmat suit that hides her gender, but that is not the worst part; she is germophobic (the fear of germs). Her real name is Jeremy Germo. We think that she is crazy and tell us that Irony is the cause of her problems and I only know from her that Irony 'helps' out.

I cannot fathom how we still win most days, oh wait I do. Her name is Karma and without her, this 'team' would fail from the start. Father Time gives out the missions to the squad. Also, on our team is Spoilers the Alien, but she's really annoying and we try to ignore her.

Now we are near the end of the intro and I would like to remind you that I will have written this part in a minute and give bonus points to those who have read this chapter in a minute.

So who are we you ask? We are the Try-$quad.

To be continued...