The wind billowed across the grassy fields of the countryside of Illinois, where blue and white farmhouses dotted the landscape. In the sleepy town of Applecliffe, there were exactly three things worth talking about. The schoolhouse, which was vandalized atleast thrice a year, the Apple museum, which was only worth talking about because who would make a museum about apples?, and Sasha Kim's latest hairstyle. Whenever a hapless tourist stumbles in, it's the talk of the town.

It was the kind of place where nothing exciting or special could happen. Because, come on, it's Applecliffe!

What none of the residents of the town could suspect was that, tucked away in Josef Gold's villa, was a matter of national importance, a decades old conspiracy, and a biological wonder.

Said biological wonder was currently perched on a kitchen chair, excitedly sampling with chocolate, sharp pronged cybernetic claws smeared with cocoa, whilst murmuring in Russian, while a faint-feeling Darius and baffled Josef looked on.