"What are you doing!" the tall old man screamed.

"Chill, Jenkins, " said Ezekiel. The young Asian with a heavy Austrian accent was in his late twenties but judging by his personality and the fact that he was using the collection of ancient magical items to make a cheesecake- his mental age would be closer to that of a teenager.

"Are you making a cheesecake using a cauldron and the waters of Atlantis?"

"Because we don't have a kitchen."

"But we do have a door that can open to any room in the known universe!"

Cassandra entered. The pretty red-haired girl brushed past Jenkins. "What smells so good?"

"Peppermint bark cheesecake," Ezekiel said, as he paused the video on his laptop.

Jenkins placed his hand on his forehead. "What is the point of pausing to see the oven times when you are using magic?"

"I want to compare what this one looks like compared to this other one." He clicked to a different window.

Cassandra looked at the bar at the bottom of the screen of his Windows laptop "How many windows do you have open?"

"A thousand?" he said, absentmindedly attending to his cake.

"Why?" she asked.

"Because there are just so many. And a lot of them are a variation on the same recipe or concept. That's why I made my new hard drive." Ezekiel pointed to what appeared to be a hard drive encased in crystal.

"Is that a crystal of the ice giant's lair?" Cassandra asked.

"I don't tell if you won't," he said as he pulled up yet another video.

A surge of electricity flickered through the room. "I think your secret is about to come out all on its own."

"What in the hell?!" Eve shouted. The team leader, a tall super-model blonde was former military and she did not take kindly to Ezekiel's antics.

"I was bored!" he said pleaded, at the sight of her anger induced expression. "We haven't received a new assignment in days."

Their assignments typically came via a magical notebook. The blank pages would fill in with unexplained/paranormal cases from around the world. But as of late there had been nothing.

Jacob Stone, the last member of their team came in the room. The Oklahoma cowboy with the rugged look of a country music star was the resident historian. So he was perhaps the most enraged at the sight of Ezekiel set up. "What have you done?"

"I don't see what the big deal is, it's not like I …" Ezekiel paused as his laptop was suddenly sucked into a hole of pure white light.

Cassandra shrugged. "Not like you tore a hole in the fabric of space?"

Ezekiel reached for the hole. Eve shrieked and grabbed him. "What are you doing? We have no idea what's in there!"

"My laptop is in there," he said calmly.

"Hello," called a voice. It sounded like a young female, possibly a teenager. "Is there anyone there? Did someone drop a laptop?" her last question was asked in the most puzzled tone, and the team was about to see why. The light expanded to reveal a garden, and standing in it, a girl. "Hi, I'm Megumi."

"Hi Megumi," Ezekiel took it upon himself to say.

Megumi picked up the laptop but as she did, both she and Ezekiel were hit with a blast of light. Ezekiel was now in the garden (still without his laptop.) Megumi was nowhere to be seen.

Then suddenly the portal snapped shut. The transportation door glowed as did the assignment book shooting off a light show what resembled indoor fireworks. When it was over Megumi was standing in the Librarians team headquarters. "This can't be good. Um...Hello, I'm Megumi Tadokoro," she said, extending her hand to each person.

Cassandra looked up. A map of the lay lines covered the ceiling. "I don't think she's the only one who came through."

Eve threw up her hands. "Great, Ezekiel used magic to break the fabric of reality. And he also managed to tear a hole in the shield that keeps the supernatural under control. How bad is the damage?"

"Good news is I only see two abnormalities," Cassandra said. She used her powers to create a projection. "Here and here- New York and Toronto."

All eyes were on Megumi. "I've never been to either of those places."

Jacob stepped forward, "Let's start with a different question, where are you from?"

"Totsuki Culinary Academy," she said nervously. "Tokyo, Japan."

"Japan, by way of a portal?" Cassandra asked. "So maybe your world overlays with ours?" She looked up and once again threw up a set of coordinates in the form of a map made out of light. "This is strange." She pointed to the abnormality over New York. She waved her hand, zooming in on the data. "Look at the energy levels around here- where Megumi came through, and look at the energy levels surrounding New York."

Eve and Jacob could see what she meant. Megumi had come through a neat little portal, but whom or whatever came to New York had traveled there through a very different means. Eve squinted her eyes as she reached towards the shape. "It's like a giant knot. -Or a time loop! Jake, go check the book for any happenings out of New York."

Cassandra closed the projection. "I have a better idea- Google!" She opened Ezekiel's laptop. "Megumi, can I call you Meg?"

"Sure," the girl said, looking as confused as the rest of the group.

"Meg, you said you come from a culinary academy, right? And I take it, where you come from it's a pretty big deal?"

"I guess?" Megumi shrugged.

"Answer me this," Cassandra said as she opened the browser. "Where you come from, who would be a biggest of big deals?"

"There's this one girl, Erina Nakiri. She's kind of the culinary princess of the school. She has a superhuman sense of taste, and her family is very wealthy."

"Ok, let's try that," Casandra said as she typed. "Totsuki... Culinary... Academy...E" before Cassandra could finish Google populated the search bar. 'Did you mean Totsuki Culinary Academy Etsuya Eizan?' "Etsuya Eizan? Meg, do you know anyone by the name?"

Megumi had been looking over Cassandra's shoulder. She backed away nervously. "Um, by any chance, does it say what he's up to?"

Cassandra clicked the first link. "Etsuya Eizan, the millionaire app designer, will be launching his own clothing line."

Megumi took a breath, "Ok, that's not too bad."

"Let me click the next one," Cassandra said out loud. "He is also buying up property in Laos, Cambodia, and the Philippines."

Megumi bit her tongue. "Still not a red flag. He could have a perfectly innocent reason for wanting to take over South Asia."

Eve looked at Megumi. "Meg, who is this person?"

Megumi fanned herself with her hand, clearly getting nervous. "Etsuya Eizan is someone who is very good at getting what he wants."

"Hum," Cassandra said as she continued to type. "Let's find the latest news. Oh! He's also planning a trip to meet with the North Korea President..."

With that Megumi fainted.

Eve sighed. "Jake, you and I will head to New York. Cass, you keep an eye on Megumi until she wakes up." Eve looked to the transportation door. "Hopefully Ezekiel is having better luck."