America..... Erica

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"Yeah I don't know man, I don't know if you can actually fit it's like really tight" Steve said looking through the duct as Anna sat with her glasses on, she chuckled a little as everybody looked at her

"What?" She asked instantly shrugging

"Why did you laugh?" Steve questioned

"Oh god no no no" Dustin mumbled shaking his head as he knew what was about to come

"Cuz that's what she said" Anna smiled and everybody rolled their eyes "What? Y'all wanted to hear it" she defended herself

"Anyway, I'll fit trust me, no collar bones remember?" Dustin proposed the idea

"Uh excuse me" Robin asked not really knowing what's going on

"Uh he's got that disease chry... chrydo something he's missing bones and stuff" Steve explained making Anna roll her eyes

"It's called CCD short for cleidocranial dysplasia and it's a genetic health condition, not a disease" Anna explained taking off her glasses but putting them on again as the lights were practically blinding her

Anna maybe the stupid one, or just someone who dropped out of school mid year and now practically is a druggie, that's what they used to call her, a druggie, which she didn't mind, she always had a rare obsession towards mutation and the study of genes, which led to her obsession with the X men comics

"Touch my butt I don't care" Anna heard Dustin yell from where he was practically trapped in the duct

"Yeah, no let's find another way, he'll get stuck" She walked towards the duct stumbling a little as Robin helped her

Anna grabbed her brother's legs before lightly pulling him down, carefully not to hurt him

"Ahoy sailors! all hands on deck" They heard the counter bell ring several times as Robin gave Anna a look

"Yeah I don't know" The girl said looking inside the duct

"You don't know if you can fit?" Dustin questioned

"Oh I can fit, I don't know if I want to" She replied

"Are you claustrophobic?" Robin asked

"I don't have phobias" She said

"Well then what's the problem?" Steve asked

"I still haven't heard what's in it for Erica"  She shrugged

"Wait, who's Erica now?" Anna questioned from where she was seated with her glasses still on

"I am Erica" She replied

"We've told you a hundred times now c'mon" Steve said as Anna just ignored his words

"Erica as in, Lucas Sinc- Erica Sinclair?" Anna exclaimed like she cracked the world's hardest Puzzle

"I must have been high the other times we met" Anna walked towards the girl stumbling

"And you are obviously sober now" Erica pointed out

"Still the sass" Anna smiled

They were all seated in Scoops Ahoy, trying to explain and also convince Erica of the plan as she kept saying things un-favourable of their plan

"Child Endangerment" Erica shouted

"Erica? Hi. Uh... We think these Russians want to harm our country. Great harm. Don't you love your country?" Anna asked

"You can't spell America without Erica" she said taking another sip of her drink.

"Uh, yeah, yeah. Oddly. That's uh, totally true. So, so don't do this for us. Do it for your country. Do it for your fellow man. Do this for America... Erica" Anna slightly lowered her voice leaning in saying the girl's name

"Ooh! I just got the chills. Oh, yeah, from this float, not your speech" Erica said putting her drink down Anna chuckled

"Know what I love most about this country? Capitalism. Do you know what capitalism is?" she asked.

Everyone except Anna nodded.

"It means this is a free market system. Which means people get paid for their services, depending on how valuable their contributions are. And it seems to me, my ability to fit into that little vent is very, very valuable to you all. So, you wang my help? This USS Butterscotch better be the first of many and I'm talking free ice cream for life" she said eating cherry off of her ice cream.

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