Finn got out of the taxi and walked up to the guard who was standing in front of the gate. He pulled out his I.D. and presented it to the guard with a serious look on his face. The guard checked the I.D. and looked back at Finn. He looked down at the black briefcase he held in his hand with a confused look on his face.

"Something wrong?" asked Finn.

"Uh what no, nothing's wrong, welcome to Blair Research Lab Mr. Duke," stuttered the guard opening the gate. Finn tilted his hat over his eyes and stared at the badge pinned to the guards chest as he walked past him.

"Donnell Grey," Finn muttered to himself. He quickly lowered his head as he made his way towards the facility. He entered the building and saw Austin, Starlight, and Spike waiting for him along with a man in his 50s with a white lab coat. "Sorry for the wait," apologized Finn.

"You sure took your sweet time," said Austin.

"Taxi didn't come on time," said Finn. "I presume those two are Starlight Glimmer and Spike?" asked Finn looking at the unicorn and dragon.

"Yep," answered Spike.

"He wasn't kidding," Finn muttered to himself. "And who's that?" he asked looking at the man.

"Finn Duke, it's an honor having you here, welcome to Blair Research Laboratory, I'm it's head president Connor J. Wells is my name," said the man.

"Yeah same," Finn added sarcastically.

"I've heard a lot about you from Officer Hopper here, please allow me to give a tour of the facility," said Wells. Finn looked at the three as they nodded their head. Finn and the three followed after him as he lead them down the lab's hall. "Here at Blair Research Lab, our objective is to research and understand the lifestyles of abnormal species, whether it's supernatural, only depicted in myths, and vice versa," explained Wells. "I believe that if we get to understand these creatures more, then we won't have to fear them," As Conner Wells continued his explanation, Finn kept his attention on some of the rooms where scientists were experimenting on different animals such as piranhas, snakes, and alligators.

"Uh sorry to interrupt but what reason do you have for experimenting on live animals?" asked Finn looking through the glass.

"Oh that, we scientists hope that here at Blair Lab we can create and evolve certain animals in hopes that they can interact with these abnormal creatures to help us better understand what kinds of species they're comfortable being with," answered Wells.

"Ok and how does that benefit us?" asked Austin as he scribbled down everything Wells just explained in his notebook.

"We as humans will want trustful animals to protect us if these creatures were to ever escape, I believe that Blair Lab has the capability to do so," answered Connor. "Anymore questions?" Finn, Starlight, and Spike shook their heads as Austin placed the notebook into his pant's pocket. "Very well then moving on," said Wells continuing down the hall. As the four continued to follow Wells, they passed by five more rooms, two of which were doing experiments on animals, while one of them had scientists testing different kinds of chemicals and looking through microscopes while taking notes. The fourth room had different equipment with multiple graphs hanging on the walls. The fifth and final room was the lab's cafeteria.

"Um excuse me, but what's that door?" Starlight asked pointing to a single metallic door that slid shut as an employee entered the room.

"Oh that, that's the security office," answered Wells.

"Security office?" asked Spike.

"Well we call it a security office, but really it's just a large room where our employees and guards go to keep an eye on our abnormal species that we have in this facility," answered Wells.

"I'm sorry, but can you go in depth to what you mean?" asked Finn.

"Ah right, you see there is an underground bunker beneath this lab where we keep all the abnormal creatures we have captured, locked up in special indestructible glass cases," explained Wells. "However we have to make sure that none of these creatures tries to escape, so we have cameras observing these creatures at all times,"

"And I assume that's the room your employees and guards go in to keep an eye on these beings?" asked Austin.

"Very clever, I like you, you catch on quick Officer," said Wells.

"Ok so then what's that?" asked Spike pointing to a pair of double doors with the toxic logo imprinted on it.

"That elevator is what we use to go down to the bunker where the creatures are held," answered Wells. Just as he said that a scientist escorted by two guards walked up to the double metal doors. The scientist took out his I.D. and scanned it over a single pad on the wall. After 5 seconds, the green light over the elevator flashed as the doors slid open. The scientist and the two guards entered the elevator and closed the door as it started descending into the earth.

"Cool," said Spike.

"Follow me, we're almost to my office," said Wells continuing. The group followed after Wells as he lead the group past a set of double metal doors.

"What's in here doc?" asked Austin. Wells stopped and turned around.

"In there, we have our little library where we keep all the information of each and every abnormal creature we have here at Blair Lab," answered Wells.

"Interesting," said Austin scribbling it down in his little notebook.

"Now then, we're almost there, let's keep going!" announced Wells. As the group lead by Wells turned the left corner, they soon entered a narrow hallway and continued straight forward until they stopped at the very last door to the left at the end of the hallway. "Here we are," said Wells unlocking the door. "Please make yourself at home," he said letting the four in. They all took a seat while Wells went to his desk. "Now that you had your wonderful little tour, what is it that you wanted to share with us Mr Duke?"

"Right," sighed Finn. He pulled the desk closer to the group and placed his briefcase on the table. "As I was doing my research back at our hotel, I found some quite interesting things regarding the 5 mysterious incidents," He opened the briefcase and pulled out the folder containing the files. "But first, Starlight Spike I think you should read these to understand a little about what's going on," Starlight and Spike looked at each other as Starlight took the folder from Finn.

"Ok then," said Starlight. She opened the folder and pulled out the files. "Um should I just read these out loud?" she asked.

"Go ahead," said Austin. Both Austin and Finn listened as Starlight read the files out loud to Wells, Spike and herself. By the end of it, she was clearly shocked.

"O-oh my," she gasped dropping the files onto the table.

"So you agree that these incidents are indeed terrifying," said Finn.

"Yeah but why?" asked Spike.

"You two don't know this, but the sites where these incidents took place, they are all relatively close to one another if you were to look on a map," said Austin. "However we still don't know why it's these areas,"

"But because I did my homework, I was able to dig up some pretty interesting information," said Finn. "First of all the five murders on Hawaii, they all took place 5 miles from another,"

"Five miles from each other," Starlight repeated.

'That's right," said Finn. "Next thing, what do you guys notice about the dates?" Spike took the articles and stared at the top of each one for a while.

"I don't know," he answered.

"They all took place 5 days after each other," answered Finn. "Now what do you notice about the time?"

"They all took place five minutes after each other," answered Austin.

"And there are five incidents," added Starlight.

"As you can tell, the number 5 is significant in these cases," said Finn.

"But why the number five?" asked Spike.

"That's what we came to find out," answered Finn looking at Wells. The other three turned towards him.

"Wait no just wait a minute, what does these incidents have to do with me?" he asked.

"These cases were traced by the U.S. government, and according to them it led them straight here to this lab," answered Finn.

"Tell us, what are you hiding?" asked Austin.

"Whoa, whoa now wait a minute, just because these cases were connected to our facility doesn't mean I'm responsible for them, please don't jump to conclusions like that," laughed Wells.

"That's what you say, but you sure you aren't hiding some abnormal species that can some how control mother nature?" asked Finn.

"Whoa now, just wait a minute, our lab's goals are trying to improve the relationships between abnormal species and humans, we would do nothing to create a fuss," said wells holding up his hands in surrender. "And besides you say mother nature, but how do you explain the murders?"

"That's why we're asking you," said Austin.

"No, we don't know anything I swear!" said Wells.

"Fine, you don't have to say anything now, but just you wait, once the government starts up an investigation, your identity won't be hidden from the public much longer," said Finn. He began to collect the files and placed them back into the folder and placed the folder back into his briefcase. "Now if you'll excuse us, we have work to do, thanks for the tour," said Finn putting on his hat. Austin glared at Wells as he followed after Finn with Starlight and Spike tagging along behind them leaving Wells at his desk alone.

"Well, this isn't good, if our lab becomes a major suspect, my career is over!" gasped Wells. "I'll have to stand up for the company even it means being thrown into prison,"

Author's Note

Chapter 2 complete. So now we're introduced to the head president of Blair Research Lab, Connor J. Wells. He seems like a nice guy but still pretty suspicious, don't you agree. But hey at least he gave them a nice tour.