Everyone had finished eating, and the girls were now relaxing at the table, when Stacy sighed, long and begging for attention.

"What?" Veronica tilted her head.

"Don't you ever wish there were guys on the team?" Agura started choking on her water.

"G-guys?" She sputtered. "Why?" Veronica patted her on the back in a friendly variation of the Heimlich.

"Why do you think?" Zoë smirked, twirling a pigtail.

"I agree with Zo. I need a man." Stacy grinned.

"Eh. I'm doing just fine on my own. A guy on the team would be nothing but drama." Shannon looked pointedly around the room, and Agura wondered if they had ever had a conversation like this about her.

"I dunno, Shannon, it could go either way. We'd probs fight over him, though." Veronica commented, again making Agura think. Did they ever…fight over me? She pushed the question away.

"Nuh-uh. He would obviously fall madly in love with me right away. It wouldn't be a problem." Stacy said cockily, making them groan.

"Sorry Stacy. I don't think a new recruit is going to show up at our doorstep anytime soon." Sammy reasoned.

"Oh well. Always the diner." Stacy shrugged. "That one Ben guy, you know, the blonde? He's kinda cute."

"I'm more into "tall, dark and handsome." Veronica said, and Agura's eyes widened a bit. "What about you, Agura?"

"Me?" She asked, still contemplating his/her "tall, dark and handsome" remark.

"No, the other Agura." Sammy said, voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Well, I don't know." She pushed the question off.

"Aw, come on! Even Shannon has a crush on the new waiter at Zeke's!" Veronica pressed, making the younger Cortez turn beet red. Agura debated. She had never had anyone to talk to about her and Vert, and now, presented the golden opportunity of a roomful of teenage girls who wouldn't remember a thing she told them…what was the harm? She could even get Vert's opinion!

"Well, there is one guy I've seen around town." She began, and the girls leaned in intently.

"Name?" Sammy demanded.

"Uh, Jake." Agura randomly said.

"Is he hot?" Stacy asked. "What does he look like?"

"He's blonde," She began, and Zoë whistled her approval. "And has blue eyes-"

"Sexy." Veronica grinned, implying that she was talking about her blonde self. Sammy smacked her.

"Let her talk, woman! Is he hot? Muscular?" She waggled her eyebrows.

"I don't know!" Agura giggled despite herself. "It's weird. Like, we're good friends, and we've helped each other out more than once, but…I don't know if he likes me as more than a friend."

"How does he act around you compared to around Grace?" Zoë asked.

"Why?"

"Because all the guys around here hit on Grace! It's stupid." She replied, angrily changing the song on her iPod.

"Well, he asked her out." Agura slowly realized, and the girls winced. "But it was a long time ago, and…" She tried to comfort herself.

"Don't worry about it." Veronica put an arm around her. "All the guys ask her out. I bet he only did it to make you jealous." She said nonchalantly.

"Well, it did make me think I wasn't good enough for him." She admitted.

"See? Totally playing hard to get." Stacy confirmed.

"Well, I don't even know if I like him. I mean, I do, but what if he doesn't like me back?" Agura asked.

"Well, I think he does." Veronica said. "Just be patient. He's probs just shy. All guys are." Agura shrugged.

"Alright."

"I don't see the obsession with guys! Who cares?" Shannon threw her arms up in the air.

"LIAR! You totally have a crush on that new waiter, Mitch!" Sammy accused.

"Maybe, but I don't want him to come live at the Hub!" Shannon retorted, when Sage's voice rang out over the intercom.

"Stormshock in T-minus four minutes. Agura, please see me for a vehicle upgrade." Agura's heart leapt into her throat. Did Sage have the cure? Her hopes fell slightly when she realized, as her FE-mates raced out, that she would miss them.

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Agura raced into the Hub. "Do you have the cure?" She asked Sage eagerly.

"Yes. Here is the re-engineered Fusion Pod. I am sending you to the same BattleZone. Launch this into the portal before you enter and it should reverse their condition." Sage confirmed, and Agura put the pod on her car.

"Will they remember anything?" She asked.

"I was unable to predict that outcome." Sage apologized, and Agura turned deathly pale. "Agura? Are you not well?" The Sentient inquired.

"Nope! I'm fine! See ya soon!" Agura sprinted to the Tangler, praying that they wouldn't remember under her breath. Approaching the Stormshock to whoops of excitement from the girls, she nervously gripped her controls. Once the portal was in sight, she crossed her fingers and fired the Fusion Pod. Blinking as she passed through the portal, Agura held her breath when she heard…

"Way to lose the Fusion Pod, Agura. No wonder I'm the Artillery Expert." She had never been happier to hear Stanford's egocentric voice.

"Lay off, Stan." Vert was normal too! "Everything okay, Agura?"

"Yup!" She replied happily. "Oh! Uhm yeah, just a rough portal crossing. My hands slipped."

"Speaking of rough, I have a killer headache. Can we bust up the baddies and go home?" Spinner whined.

"I wish. Sage must have glitched; no Reds here." Sherman said.

"I'm with Spin. Let's jet!" Zoom said, taking off his helmet.

"Uh, Zoom?" Spinner snickered, making the others investigate Zoom's ebony hair, now streaked with pink and blue.

"Aw man!" Zoom groaned, examining a fistful of hair. "Spinner, I swear, if you did this-" He stormed threateningly over to the Buster, and Spinner ducked back inside in fear.

"No! I swear!" He protested. Vert laughed.

"Let's go home, guys."

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"Agura? Pass me that wrench?" Vert asked. The two were alone in the Hub; the others had gone for pizza. "Thanks."

"Mhm." She muttered from under the green ATV.

"So, I guess with this Jake guy, none of us have a chance anymore?" Vert said casually, and she dropped her wrench.

"What?" She exclaimed, picking up the fallen tool. "How'd you remember that?"

"I dunno. It's all kind of fuzzy…we were girls, weren't we?" He asked, and she apologetically nodded. "So, no chance then?"

"Why?" She asked suspiciously, and he turned a light shade of red.

"No reason. He sounds nice, is all."

Agura sighed. "Yeah, you are."

"Huh?" He said.

"Vert, "Jake" is you. I didn't think you would remember anything, and you were all girls, and…" She trailed off, and he walked over to kneel next to her.

"So…you're not sure if "his guy" even likes you back." He said, and she nodded in confusion. He kissed her cheek.

"He does." She looked to him in shock.

"What…why didn't you tell me?" Vert shrugged.

"You were always so casual. I just didn't think you liked any of us. I gave up." He admitted.

"Oh." She managed through the shock.

"Yeah." He shrugged. "Probably shouldn't have brought it up."

"No." She stopped him. "No, it's fine." He grinned at her, then returned to his car. Agura sighed to herself. Gender switches, relationships …Gosh! Maybe she should just stick to saving the earth for awhile…The Huntress glanced back over to where Vert was working on the Saber. As if by fate, he looked up, meeting her eyes. The blonde smiled and returned to his work.

Or maybe not…