A crowd had formed around the medium-sized crater. Most of it consisted of Ricochet party guests. Nobody dared to go into the crater. This strange teen could be dangerous or something. But their savior seemed to know him so they waited in curiosity for what happens next.

Max and Eli stared at each other for the longest time, mesmerized by the other boy's appearance creating tension in the air for the Slugterran's as they awaited for something to happen between their hero and this strange foreign teen.

Then, Eli slowly moved closer towards Max. The crowd was waiting in anticipation. Grendel and Saturday held hands while biting their nails waiting for a hug or a kiss or something. Eli was now standing in front of Max. The blunette raised his hand up and back handed Max across the face with an echoing sound of skin slapping skin.

"OOH!" The crowd winced. They were not expecting that.

"I have to be honest, I did not see that coming." Billy said.

"Now, where the hell have you been?" The Shane questioned angrily in an English accent. He held his head in high authority and confidence.

"My apologies My Lord," Max used an English accent as well as he bowed down to blunette with his hand on his heart. Everybody looked around confused about what was happening. Twist was suspicious about this "Maxwell" character's sudden appearance but not as much as he was confounded in what they were doing."But I've seemed to have found myself married with an alien robotic. So, I feel I must introduce you two to each other. Steel, this is Ciel Phantomhive, Ciel Phantomhive, this is Steel."

Eli, Ciel Phantomhive, circled around the floating droid as he studied him with a watchful eye that seemed to be looking for anything to criticize about Steel as the alien droid looked on in confusion.

"Hm," Eli hummed to himself. "This is a good excuse. But an excuse I still an excuse and are no good for a Phantomhive servant. Evidence or not, you have been absent for an entire year!"

"Apologizes my Lord," Max apologized again with a bow. "Oh, Young Master?"

Eli huffed, "What is it?"

The blunette adopted a look of surprise when Max hugged him suddenly. "It's good to see you again." Max said without the British accent.

A look of confusion, and possibly fury, flashed into Eli's eyes before he too dropped the act and hugged his cousin back with a smile. "I missed you too."

The crowd awed at the couple, but they were still confused.

"Hey!" a jealous Steel cut in between the cousins. "What about me? Don't I get a hug?"

"But I don't know you," Eli said through a chuckle.

"Hey, Max and I are bonded," Steel said, "you hug him, you hug me. Now come here!" Steel, with his arms wide open, chased Eli around and out of the crater as Max laughed at them.

Not a second after Max climbed out of the crater Burpy came jumping up to him. "Burpy!" He held the slug close to him. He could feel the fire slug's natural heat radiated onto his skin. Burpy nuzzled into Max's neck making the human chuckle. "How're you doing boy?"

The chase between Steel and Eli came to a grinding halt when Billy hooked his arm around Eli's neck and pulled him to the side. "Hey Shane, aren't you going to introduce us to your friends?"

"Um, well," Eli was caught off guard and stuttered a bit, "I don't know who he is. " The Shane said honestly, pointing at Steel who was being looked over and asked a million questions a minute by a few people. "But that guy," he pointed to Max, "is my cousin."

"Another Shane?"

"No, his last name is McGrath," Eli said, "we're not blood related."

"Oh, so it's the whole 'related by marriage' thing?"

"...Yes," Eli said after a pause hoping the Hooligan wouldn't get suspicions from it. Yes, Max and Eli are not blood related but in truth they weren't related domestically either. The only relation they had to each other was through the times Will Shane and Forge Farrus worked together.

Billy gave Eli a look that meant he knew his enemy was hiding something, but that look disappeared when Billy suddenly erupted with laughter. Eli looked in the direction the blonde was looking in to burst into a fit of laughter himself.

Burpy had his mouth pressed fully against a surprised Max's in a kiss. Burpy then jumps down giggling his little head off while Max was furiously wiping his mouth. "Burpy! You know I hate it when you do that!"

Pretty much the entire crowd was laughing their heads off at that. A few people were rolling on the ground clutching onto their sides with tears streaming down their faces. Steel fell to the ground and started pounding at it in laughter. Max glared at his bonded droid. Max stomped in a huff over to Eli whom had just been pulled out from under Billy's arm by Kord. Max stopped when he noticed Kord's large form, mostly how huge the cave troll's muscles were.

"Um...Eli...whose your friend," Max was as pale as L. Holy crap this guy is so scary I think I might wet myself but if I do that than Steel would never let it down I'm so afraid! Max thought to himself in a fast pace that could rival Italy.

"Oh, I should probably introduce you two to each other. Kord Zane, this is Maxwell McGrath, my cousin. Max, this is Kord Zane. He's kind of my boyfriend." Eli said, wrapping his arms around the cave troll's forearm.

"He's not gonna eat me is he?" Max squeaked in terror.

Kord laughed. He wasn't to sure what to think of this 'Max' at first sight of him but now that he knows he won't try anything with Eli... "I'm not gonna eat you." Kord said with a smile. Max sighed in relief.

"So what was going on," Steel appeared out of nowhere, startling Max, "before we crashed?"

"We were having my birthday party," Eli said.

"Fantastic! I love parties," Steel said.

"Oh yeah, it is your birthday isn't it?" Max said to Eli. "So how old are you turning? Twelve? Thirteen?"

"Max," Eli shoved his cousin, "I turned sixteen and you know it."

"Sorry Edward," Max ruffled that head of navy blue hair, "it's the height that got me." Max was four inches taller than Eli which gave him the idea to said that joke. "You haven't grown very much have you?"

"Shut up!" Eli swatted Max's hand away. "I swear if I could do alchemy I would make you eat those words."

"Then what kind of alchemist would that be?"

"A really weird one, apparently,"

"Hey, not that this isn't entertaining," the Power Triplets said.

"But can we get back to the party please?" Grendel and Saturday finished.

"Okay, okay," Eli conceived. "Lets go back, guys."

Max's eyes never left Saturday since the voodoo man opened his mouth. The man's appearance looked...familiar somehow. As the group walked back to the Ricochet Pizzeria it wasn't until they walked in through the front door when it clicked.

"Eli," he got his cousin's attention. "Do you know who that guy looks like?"

"Mr. Saturday? Well, no," Eli admitted. "He does remind me of someone but I could never figure it out who he looks like."

"Ok, add longer hair to his head," Max started to visualize for Eli, "replace those...eyes...with normal ones with gold irises," Saturday gave Max a look when he said that, "put him in a heavily embroidered sherwani and plain, tight-fitting churidars and you have-,"

"Prince Soma! I knew it was Kuroshitsuji-related!" Eli laughed to himself. "Ok, Twist come here, come here."

Twist hesitantly obeyed, curious as to what Eli was thinking. "Max, this is my enemy, Twist."

Twist looked up at the newcomer. "Hi," Max said, he chuckles. "Got all three masters here. All that's missing are the butlers." Max told Eli who snickered.

Twist seemed to be caught in a trance for look into his enemy's cousin's blue orbs. His eyes seem to glow with a mystifying light color of blue of a brave soul with a kind heart. Twist felt faint the longer he looked into Max's eyes. He broke eye contact and held his head in his hands. "Are you okay? You look kind of feverish. Are you sick?"

Twist hadn't noticed that he was blushing, but he did when his face turned redder and hotter when Max pushed his blonde hair back and pressed their foreheads together.

Eli, the Power Triplets and a few other guests were having trouble containing their squeals. They bit their nails and giggled to themselves to restrain as much as they could.

"Hm, you feel a little warm," Max said. Now that their faces are close together Twist was forced to look into Max's blue eyes with his own dull ones. They were so, so...attractive. "But I don't think you have a fever."

"You have beautiful eyes," Twist cringed at the compliment he cannot believe that just blurted out of his mouth.

Steel made a whistling noise. "Go for it Max!"

Twist hid his face in a hand while Max just waved off the alien droid with a grin.

Most of the guests of Ricochet, the owner/employee of the place included, had their eyes on Steel. The TURBO energy dependent being felt unease at the attention he was receiving.

"Um, can I help you?" he asked.

"What exactly are you?" Grendel questioned. "You look like a robot but, how do you fly?"

"You and this 'Max'," Saturday said, "aren't from around here. So where did you come from?"

More people started asking Steel a million questions a minute. Eventually Max got separated from Twist and was cornered by the crowd's questioning.

"Everyone please, one at a time," Max tried to quiet them down but failed. "Any ideas Steel?"

"No," Steel answered. "Wait, I have one!" Steel then emits a high pitched noise that sounded like foreign siren. Everyone yelped and covered their ears at the noise, except Eli who was laughing. When the siren stopped Pronto came back and looked at the crowd.

"What in Slugterra was that dreadful noise?" the molenoid asked.

"Melmacian mating call," Steel answered. Several people took a step back.

"It's not a real mating call," Steel said, "and I'm not from Melmac."

"Then where are you from?" Mario said after clearing his ear and slung his slug by a ladle making the slug ricochet off of surfaces and causing pizza ingredients to land on the dough before it sends the pizza into the oven.

Max and Steel stared at him in amazement. "Wow." They said bewildered. Mario smirked confidently at them.

"Well, it's-it's kind of...complicated," Max said. He looked to Eli and motioned for him to help him with explaining. "You guys might want to sit down for this."