Ash tosses and turns in her bed dreaming of an apocalypse that consumes the world due to the tyranny of her enemies. She wishes she could use her own gift to give herself a good dream but Ash knows that her own tricks won't work on her. Ash sits up quickly in a flash, she hits her head on Ollie's head noticing that he is standing over her licking her face with comforting licks. She holds her forehead and looks at her digital watch which reads 4:oo a.m. "Ow, I'm sorry Ollie, are you okay buddy? Why are you standing on me? He sits down on her lap wagging his tail while slightly hurting her legs due to his weight, "Get off me." Ash whispers to her lab, "Oh, I'm betting you want to go outside?" Ollie gets up leaping off her bed and spins circles on the floor, "Ollie, Ollie, Ollie calm down buddy." She whisper yells at her as she jumps out of bed to grab him. She kneels on the floor to give him a hug to calm down, "okay, okay I'll take you outside." Ash looks around to see the others asleep. She glances around and shoves her pillow and clothes in her bed to make it look like she is asleep, they'll look for Ollie as well. Ash shrugs her shoulders at herself. She pulls on her tan ankle length hiking boots, "Ollie ready to go outside?" She pulls on her coat and grabs her staff then sneaks to the door with Ollie following her. Ash walks out into the quiet dark hallway. "I wonder if everyone wakes up in the night." Shortly after she hears the slight echo of the door open after her, "I guess I was right huh Ollie?" Ash and Ollie make it to the main lobby where they sneak outside. Ash walks down the road to find a second road splitting off, in a way I'm glad I grew up around here. She walks down the road with Ollie sniffing about for any scent he hasn't smelled. Ash hears the faint sound of a pond fountain. "Ollie, wanna go swimming?" Ollie bounds over to her answering in yes. That is how Ash and her parents picked out Ollie's name; she remembers they took him down to the creek as a puppy for the first time and he jumped right in like an otter. Ollie the otter dog. She rounds an S curve to hear Ollie splash in the water excitedly. "Ollie come here boy." Ash runs over to the dock that stoops over the small pond with a stick she picked up on her way over there. "Look what I got for you." She throws it into the pond for Ollie to catch. Ollie jumps into the pond like an otter.

Scorch churns in her bed thinking about all of the people left behind at the old facility. She picks her head up slightly to see Ash take her dog outside the room, don't worry about it she is probably taking her dog to go to the bathroom. After several minutes of shuffling in her bed while trying to make her mind go blank she decides to get up and go for a walk. What am I even doing here? The team seems to do well without me. Besides I need to go home and see my family. Scorch opens the door to walk around the hallways hoping that walking off her thoughts will help them leave her in peace maybe she could even get Ash to use a mind trick on her to get rid of these thoughts. The hallway was unusually dark, lit by dim emergency floodlights lined up on the ceiling. There is both comfort and fear to the dark but I am not sure which I should choose. Scorch carefully makes her way down the grey linoleum hallway when she hears the patter of bare feet down the hallway in front of her. She presses herself up against the wall doing her best to blend in unnoticed.

Blaze wakes sweaty up from a haunting nightmare of S.T.E.P. attacking the previous facility and seeing people he would have gotten to know get die right in front of him. He glances around the room to see the others sleeping soundly. But doesn't notice Ollie laying around. Blaze shuffles his blankets to make it look like he is still in bed then he teleports to the pantry of the mess hall. "Midnight snack should ease my conscience." He whispers to himself as he pulls out a bag of ranch chips. I couldn't save them! I left them behind! It's my fault that I dropped a ship onto our people without thinking of the consequences. Blaze clutches his bag of chips and sits down thinking of the same thoughts. We will be saving the people that got captured soon though. Blaze stands up and places the chip bag back onto the shelf. Instead of using up his energy in his metabolism Blaze decides it's best to walk back to the room. As he is making the last stretch down the hallway, he hears the creak of the room's door clank shut. Blaze continues walking until he gets to the corner of the grey hallway and peers around the edge at the figure trying to sneak around.

Sparks wakes up from the loud noise that Blaze made to sneak off. Should I wake up the others? Sparks lets her feet rest onto the floor then she walks over to Pyrah's bed. "Hey, wake up." Pyrah grumbles and turns over onto her side, "Wake up!" she shakes Pyrah more aggressively. Pyrah sits up, "Huh?" She looks at Sparks, and rubs her eyes from underneath her sleep mask, "you better have a good reason for waking me up Sparks." Sparks stands back as Pyrah sits up over her bed, "yeah Scorch went out." Pyrah looks around, "looks like Ash did too, and Ollie is not by her bed." Pyrah stands up to yank the blankets off of Blaze's bed, "Looks like he left as well." Sparks wakes up Smokey by tapping her shoulder, "Smokey wake up." She abruptly sits up, "Huh I'm UP!" she sits over her bead sleepily, "why are we awake?" she groans. Pyrah throws on her tennis-shoes, "because everyone else is not here." Smokey flops back onto her bed and throws a pillow over her head, "Ash probably took her dog to go to the bathroom, Scorch and Blaze probably left to go do couple stuff." Sparks and Pyrah look at each other, "Logical evaluation." Pyrah smirks, "whoa Spock, easy with the big words past midnight, our brains won't process them." Sparks looks at Pyrah with a stink eye. "shuddup I'm tryin' to sleep." Smokey sleepily yells at the two gabbers. Pyrah yawns, "I'm tired, I might go back to bed if we stay here." Sparks grabs her jacket, boots, and her laptop that Miran placed under her bed while they were gone. "I'm going to go find Ash, go back to sleep if you want to."

Scorch watches the figure walk around the corner and look straight at her, "Blaze?" "Scorch?" they both say at the same time. They run into each other's arms for an embrace, "I thought you were someone else...maybe, Ash." Scorch quietly says.

"I did to." Blaze pulls away, "do you want to go sit in the lounge and hang out?" Scorch takes a step closer to Blaze and looks up into his eyes, "yeah why not." They walk to the lounge to find not a soul in sight. "The lounge looks kind of cozy." The warm air swirling around them brings a welcoming smell of cinnamon to their nostrils. Blaze reaches into his pants pocket to pull out an Mp3 player. "Will you care to dance with me, hot spot?" Hot spot, that was a new saying that Scorch has never heard from him before, Blaze holds his hand out to her. Scorch takes his hand and they begin to dance to the country music that Blaze plays on his player. Scorch begins to laugh at the sudden joy dancing has brought her. Blaze laughs as well seeing how happy she is by getting her to dance.

Sparks and Pyrah sneak out of the room into the hallway and crouch by the door, Pyrah trips over herself coming out, "Shhh! You're being too loud!" Sparks shushes at Pyrah, "Shut up you're the one talking." Sparks and Pyrah look at each other with stink eyes, "Okay, okay were both tired let's just find our bunk mates and go back to sleep." Sparks slaps her forehead, "I hacked into the security cams, Scorch and Blaze are.... Dancing?" Pyrah pushes the screen down, "why are you watching them dance?" Sparks laughs, "Not that kind of dance, this kind you doofus." Sparks swivels the laptop around in her hands to show Pyrah, Pyrah shields her eyes, "I don't wanna see!" Sparks punches her in the arm, "just look it's not what you think it is." Pyrah un-shields her eyes, "Oh! they are gone don't joke with me like that." Sparks rolls her eyes, and presses her fingers to the keyboard, "no, they were just here." Sparks checks the other cams to find Scorch and Blaze on the roof of the complex. "To the roof." Sparks closes her laptop to gain some ground quietly Pyrah follows in suit.

Ash hears a branch break in the night, she swivels her head towards the sound to see a deer come out of the brush and run into the field several feet away to bed down for the night. Ollie's fur on his back stands up like a razorback and he growls in his touch-my girl-you're-dead voice. Ash grabs Ollie's collar, "Shhh, its okay." Ash grabs her staff and swivels it around in her hand at the end of the dock. "We need to get back before anyone suspects a thing, Ollie lets go."

Ash gets to the main gate where she sees the two guards quietly chatting. "Hey you think that my wife would like a 45 for her birthday?" The other guard looks at him, "Well if you do, let her pick it out. Number one rule for buying guns for women just make sure it's in your price range because they tend to gravitate to the most expensive shit." The other guard laughs. Ash watches in amusement as the two guards talk about getting gifts for women. She looks at Ollie who was laying down on a decorative grass, "Okay let's get back to bed." Ash and Ollie sneak inside the way they came. To find Scorch and Blaze dancing to some music. She walks by casually to go unnoticed. As she swivels her head around to look ahead and not at the rhythmic dancing of the couple She runs into Pyrah and Sparks, "Woah!" Sparks almost drops her laptop. That was a close one. Ollie begins wagging his tail slowly, "Were you two spying on Scorch and Blaze?" Pyrah cuts in quickly whispering, "NO, we were trying to get to the pantry... we got hungry." Ash begins to move further into the hallway, "Is everyone awake tonight? Where is Smokey?" Sparks stops tapping in keys on her laptop, "She is asleep in the barracks room." Ash crosses her arms, "I know you two were spying, you should get some sleep; we should all get some sleep." Pyrah yawns and rubs her eyes, "yeah I'm with you." At least one person was on the same side of Ash, Sparks closes her laptop, "Eh, they'll come back to bed sometime, I needs me some sleep."