From: AusieWanaB@aol.com Finialy I finish one. And in a day too! Well heres the first in this series. Please send comments! Please I worked hard! Well hope you like! Kara Archivers: Sure I don't care! Disclaimer: I own only my knew charcters the QTWE. I don't own any of the origonal characters. So dont sue! Rating: Alt, H, E, April 19, 99 Quest Team World Explorers Episode 1: Hello Mr.Danger Present Day. It seemed to be a normal day at the newly built Quest Compound in Maine. The team had just moved into their new house a couple of weeks ago, and had just finished installing the last of the new equipment and furniture in the newest addition to the compound, it was a guest house fully furnished with the latest high tech equipment, a fully loaded kitchen, four huge bedrooms, and much more. It wasn't the normal guest house, this one was the size of most peoples homes. Big indeed, but it was all needed. It wasn't your normal guest house, this one was built for teenagers, the newest edition to the Quest Team. The Quest Team World Explorers. "Whoa watch it!" cried out the tall white headed man, Race Bannon, who was helping loading in the last bed. Race was the teams body gaurd and all around handy man at times. "Im trying to, if you wouldn't scream like that!" the blonde headed teen, Jonny,son of the multi-billionare Benton Quest, he was also helping bringing in the bed. "If you two scrap up my new bed, I'm not going to be happy!" Said the red headed girl Jessie Bannon who was trying to direct and hold the door for the guys. "It's not as if you paid for it Ponchita, so I wouldn't talk to me that way!" said Race to his daughter Jessie. "Yah but Im the one who has to live with it untill the house gets blown up again,"she snaped back. She was about to say something when her father gave her a stern look that told her to keep her mouth shut. "So Race, what time is this party at?" asked Jonny as he caried the bed frame upstairs. "I believe all the guest are ariving at around 7pm." he said as he steped up the last stair. The Quest team had decided to throw a party so that the new members parents and the teens could get to know each other better. It wasn't much of a party. Nothing fancy, just nice church type clothes and a dinner. "I wish you would tell us something about these people we will be working with," said Jessie. "All in good time," he said with a grin and turned into his daughters new bedroom. He was glad it was the last of the furniture to be loaded in. In the past three days the three of them had moved the three of the origonal teams stuff into their new rooms. Jessie's was last since she had more and they didn't want to wear themselfs down early with hers. Tonight would be their first night in here, and for the new team. "As soon as we get your bed together and the mattress on we will go eat, how does that sound?" asked Race. "Sounds good to me," said Jonny. "So is everything set Sister Victoria?" asked the tall dark man, only known by his last name, Rage. "All set, the guest will be ariving at nine-hundred hours." said Sister Victoria. A short but dark woman. She was naturaly tan and her face gave way to her age. "Good. Revenge for the inoucent will be ours, so sayeth the book of Rage," he said as he held the book up into the air. "Is everything in place?" yelled Dr. Quest as he paced around waiting for the guest to arive. "Its set," said Dr.Quest's adopted son Hadji, who is the sultan of Bangalor. "Good, lets hope it stays that way, what do you say Hadji we go and check up on the others," said Dr. Quest. Hadji answered him with a nod and headed upstairs to check up on Jonny, who was still trying to find something to wear. He steped in and was about to ask if he was ready when Jonny quickly interepted him and asked, "Hadj, which polo shirt? Should I go with the red and white Tommy one or the solid black Polo one?" "Im guessing the black my friend. Why do you care all the suddon which one?" he asked. "Because theirs going to be new girls and I want to make a lasting impression." Jonny said. "Jonny, you leave a lasting impression to everyone even if they don't want it!" said Jessie as she walked in on the conversation. She was wearing a long dark green cotton sun dress, she had also thrown her hair up in curled pony-tail. "You better hurry or the impression you'll be making is one of being late" she went on to say. "Yah yah," Jonny said as he sliped on the black Polo shirt and combed his hair with the comb that was laying on the bathroom counter were he was trying to get dressed. "I see some of the guest ariving,"Said Sister Victoria. "Keep an eye on them." Said Rage over the walkie-talkie. "Why ello old chap, its been a while I do say hasn't it?" asked a man with an english accent. "It sure has Giles, so wheres Abigail?" asked Dr. Quest to his friend Giles King. "Abigail is sick and stayed behind, she sends her regrets and hopes to talk to you soon," Giles said. "Thats a pitty I was realy looking foward in talking to her about her new research." Said Dr. Quest. Meanwhile across the lawn the rest of the group was ariving and mingling with the others. "Hey you must be one of the other members." said the tall handsom man to the young girl who was standing alone watching her mom talk to Estella Velaquez, Jessie's mom. "Yup. Hi Im Brandlyn DesCamps, and you are?" said Brandlyn, as she reached her hand out to shake his. She was nervous, this was about as much vocal as she would get for a while. She didn't want to sound rude by just noding, so she had pushed her shyness aside to greet him. "Im Preston Ford, nice to meet you Brandlyn." he said with a smile. Just then some more of the teens came over. "Ello," said the bright cheerfull british blonde, "you must be the rest of the team also," she said. "Im Preston Ford," said Preston "And you are?" asked the british blonde to the tall strawberry blond girl. "Im Brandlyn DesCamps." she said quietly. She felt nervous around her. It was probably because the girl was so perky and energetic around her. "Oh silly me, I'm poundering that you two are woundering who I am. Im Gemma King," she said. Then one other girl and guy walked over. They were talking to each other, when they arived and introduced themselfs. "Hi Im Janiece Blankenship," said the other girl. She was tall, and looked athletic. She had her medium length brown hair in a funky hairstyle. The bang hair was pulled into a small pony-tail, split in half and strung to the other sides where it was again tied down and taken back down to the end of her head. It was in the shape of a diamond. "And I'm Joel Young," said the tanned boy with the Australian accent. "But all my mates call me JR" he said. "Nice to meet you all," said Preston, "Now if we can meet the rest of the team, we'll be all set." he said and as if on cue, the three remaining team members walked out the doors and glanced their way. They walked over to the new teams way and talked. The as they were almost there, Jessie looked over and noticed someone who was all to formilure to her. "BRANDY!" she yelled as she ran her way. "Jessie, hey surprize surprize!" she said with a smile and ran to met up with the girl. They both huged each other. "So why didn't you tell me last week when I called you that you were one of the new members?" she asked her friend. "I couldn't. Sorry!" she said. Then the rest of the team introduce themselfs and started talking. Preston just stared at Jessie. He knew her from a long time ago when they were kids, but doubted if Jessie remebered then. He always thought she looked cute. Her smile, her passion, her enthusism. Everything. He knew he would enjoy every minute of this. After all the teens had finished their meals they decided to go take a look around the place, while the parents talked with eachother. They had decided since it was a beutifull day, that they would eat on the patio. "Master Rage, we are all set up for the invasion." said Brother Clyde. "Excellent. Get ready to go in five minutes." Said Rage. "Is Sister Victoria and Bonnie ready?" he asked. "Ready for your orders sir."Said the female voice on the walkie-talkie. "Good. May innocent die to pay for the loss of the innocent, so sayeth the book of Rage." "This is where we are staying?" said Gemma as she walked into their part of the house. "Yup, Dr.Quest decided it would be better if we had our own seperate part so we wouldn't disturb him when he's working." Said Jessie. "We also have more room. If we were at the main house it would be about four to a room, here we have two to a room." added Jonny. Then Brandlyn and Jessie looked at each other and new that they would be together. "Lets go upstairs,"she said and motioned for them to go. "You guys can go on. Any one who wants to come, Im going downstairs to the game room." Then all the guys followed him while the girls went upstairs for that part. "Do you two mind to room together?" Jessie asked Janiece and Gemma. The two girls looked at each other. "Sounds good to me, eh?" said Gemma. "Thats cool. I don't care who I room with. Just as long as I get my stuff settled in."said Janiece. The two girls went to their room and looked around. While Jessie and Brandlyn went into theirs. "Whoa a pool table and stuff. I might never leave here." said Preston with a girn. "I could get use to this." said JR. "No kidding its been fun breaking this stuff in," said Jonny as the main alarm system went off. "Whats going on?" said Janiece as her and Gemma ran into Jessie's room. "I don't know. Iris whats the problem?" she asked. "Main disturbance on patio," said Iris, the computer who ran the whole house. " Five unknown humans with guns on patio." "Thats where are parents are, we got to save them!" Cried out Gemma in fear. "No keep quite we need to sneak down to the basement with the guys, there we'll think of something." Jessie said. The four girls then snuck downstairs and to the basement were the game room is. "Jonny whats going?" Jessie asked the blonde who was watching the servalence film. "Jess we have big problems. The others are being held hostage by Rage and his men." "Keep calm everyone." Hadji said. "Its a little hard to when your 'rents are being held hostiage. Poor dadday. We have to get them out." said Gemma as she headed for the door. "NO, if you go out there they'll get you too." said Jonny. "So whats the plan Quest?" asked Preston. "We have to trick them. Ive notified the athorties but untill then we have to do it our way." Jonny said as he walked over to a secret closet. He opened the door and got out a set of walkie-talkies. He conemplated on getting the guns out but desided not to. "Okay I have a plan." he said and the group huddled together and to his plans. "SO WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T FIND THE TEENS?" said Rage. "Where are they Bannon?" "Im not sure. They left a while ago." "No matter, they'll have their doomsday after they discover their mommies and Daddies death." Rage said as motioned for his men to point their gun at the parents. Just as he was about to motion for them to shoot. A voice startled him. "Daddy?" said Jessie, who was trying to act like Rages dead daughter Carla. They had done this before and got away with it. "Jessie don't do it again!" Race wispered to his daughter. He feared for her safty, but when he noticed the men droping their guns and the other teens around the corner, he knew it would work. He then motioned for Rick Ford, Preston's dad and Race's old army friend. As Jessie distracted Rage the teens snuck up in four four wheelers and aimed it for Rage's men and Rage. The plan worked, the men were so distracted that they didn't notice untill the last minute the four wheelers hiting them. Right before the last one hit Rage, Race and Rick jumped up, Race grabed Jessie and Rick grabed a gun from one of the men and aimed for Rage, just to make sure. It was over, and the athorities captured Rage and his men. "So are you sure you want you kids to stay?" asked Dr. Quest. He was worried that the little incident might have changed a few minds. The parents all glanced at each other and Rick stood up, "I dont know about you guys, but I think they can handle it. Preston, if you want to stay you can." he said. All the other parents said the same thing. Just then Jonny, Jessie and Hadji glanced over to the others hoping that their decission would be good.The other five looked at each other and said yes all at the same time. Later around midnight. "I still don't belive this is were I am living!" said Gemma. "I have a feeling everythings going to be all right!" From: AusieWanaB@aol.com BWAHHAHA I finished another part! Need the charactor Bio's, episode 1 or epsisode 2 part 1? Just email and ill send it to ya! Archivers: Sure I don't care! Disclaimer: I own only my new characters the QTWE. I don't own any of the original characters. So don't sue! Also the people used in this publication, who actually exist, own themselves! Rating: Alt, H, E, 4-23-99 Aliens Among Us By Kara Part 2 Early morning came quick to the new members. Race had woken them up around 4 AM to help load in equipment and luggage into the Quest Jet. They had left the compound in Maine around 5:30 AM. The sound of Sarah McLachlan blared out of Brandilyn's diskman (tm) as she tried to drown out her thoughts. She had put on her X-Files Fight The Future soundtrack CD in hoping it would help her sleep and forget her problems. But until the song Black by Sarah McLachlan came on, she had forgotten everything. "As the walls are closing in, and the colors fade to black, as my eyes are falling fast and sleepily to me." She drifted back to the past. "And I follow the tracks that lead me down. I will never fallow those. And they wonder some times if they can see all the sadness, the truth brings to life." She was brought back to a dusty rode in the middle of the desert. She had no where else to go, she knew she shouldn't had gone this far from camp, but still she was intrigued upon what was out there. She came upon a pile of rubble. It was in an odd state of being. Then a light came upon her eyes and blinded her. "Cause I cant see no reason, what is blind cannot see, Cause I want what is pleasing. All our takings be free. So I rob from the innocent what I steal from the rich." She stopped to look at the rubble. She kicked around some of the left over shrapnel and saw the chard remains of the sandy earth. Something had been there that nobody wanted to be found. She heard footsteps and men talking. They weren't ordinary men, but strange looking men, who wore strange clothes. They were laughing about something, when one of them noticed the small naive child. She ran as one of the men ran after her, she tried getting away when one of them grabbed her arm and tugged her towards him. Brandilyn jerked up out of her trance only to find she was safe in the comfort of the jet. Everyone else was still either asleep or reading. The girl next to her, Jessie, was still listening to her diskman (tm) while she slept. As she glanced around at the others she laid her head back down. The CD was pretty much done at that part. It had just finished the X-Files theme by the Dust Brothers and was silently playing waiting for 10:13, when the secret explanation of the whole X-Files story line came on. Brandilyn flipped open the diskman and took the CD out. She needed something to liven her up, she opened her black CD case and flipped around until she came to her Foo Fighters CD and played it. *Authors Note Foo fighters is Slang for Flying Saucers if you didn't know, that's where the band got it from. Just thought I would include a pun or two* Gees, why did I have to take all my weird music with me Jessie thought to herself as Offspring's Americana CD played out through her diskman. It was at the song "Get a Job" and she was getting sick and tired of lame punks wannabes telling people what to do. But then again how could you refuse or hate Offspring she thought. She turned her diskman off and glanced at her watch, 7:15. Still pretty early for the rest to be up so she staggered her way up to the cock pit and strapped herself in. She figured she could spend some "quality time" with her dad before she left. "Careful with that equipment!" cried out a girl who was directing the unloading and loading of the equipment. She was tall and looked like she was fresh out of high school. She was interning as an archeologist for the investigation in New Mexico. When all the equipment was unloaded and loaded in the right area she walked over and introduced herself to the Quest group. "Hi, I'm Morgan, but every one here calls me Jubilee," she said. "So what's your all's names?" "I'm Jonny Quest," Jonny said as he started to point to the rest of the members, "And this is Jessie Bannon, Joel Young, Preston Ford, Janiece Blankenship, Hadji Singh, Brandilyn DesCamps and Gemma King." Jonny said. He decided to make sure Gemma could hear him say her name right. He looked over to were she was standing and gave the 'Happy now' look at her. "Nice to meet you all. But no need for chitchat, we've got to get going to meet up with my supervisor," she said. She then motioned for them to get in one of the three jeeps. The ride down to the camp site was long and tiring. They were going to be camping out in the middle of nowhere. By the time they reached the campsite it was going towards three O'clock. They had been traveling for around six hours, and they were all exhausted. When they finally arrived they set up camp and relaxed for a while. They then meet the supervisor of the site, Eric Aldaway, and settled in. Hadji, Joel and Gemma all sat around one of the picnic tables outside, and went over all the notes from the days past. Jonny and Preston walked around and made sure everything was in order and sat up. Jessie, Brandilyn and Janiece all sat in the girls tent and went over some of the paper work and notes that Hadji and the others weren't doing. "Hmm...," Hadji said. "What is it?" asked Joel as he leaned over to look at what his fellow teammate was looking at, along with Gemma looking at the other end. "These notes don't make sense. They seem to skip around and contradict previous notes." He said with bewilderment. "What do ye mean?" asked Gemma. She walked behind him and glanced over his shoulder to get a better look. Hadji then laid the paper down and picked up a couple of papers off a stack next to him, and laid them down on the table, in order of date. "Look, Feb 28, 1999 it says that this explorer, Georgi Kinoti, that he hadn't seen these in the desert before. But look back to Jan 12, 99 it states that same phrase exact." Hadji said. "Are you sure that Kinoti is meaning the same lights?" asked Gemma. "I'm pretty sure. He describes them the same too." Hadji said. "Maybe the poor bloke ran out of words to write, so he copied his own work." Joel said as he shrugged off the coincidences and went back to work shuffling through papers. "I'm not sure it would happen to this poor bloke Joel," said Gemma. Joel just shrugged and went on. "Eh Pres, found anything abnormal yet?" asked Jonny as he sorted through the check list hunting for the next item. "That's a negative," Preston said acting like he was one of the big Government officials. "Is your area secured?" he asked trying to sound professional. "Funny!" Jonny said. Preston then walked up behind him and taped his shoulder. Jonny then turned around right when Preston put on his sunglasses. "Would you look this way please Quest," he said. He decided he would have a little fun while having to work. Why not he thought, when do I ever get to come to the alien capitol of the world? He then handed his checklist to Jonny and said, "You won't remember this incident or our meeting," he said with a grin. "You've been watching too many sci-fi movies." Jonny said with a grin and took the paper out of Preston's hand and placed it with his. "Geez, you can't even read this mans handwriting" complained Janiece as she stared at the notebook she was supposed to be reading. "It can't be that bad," said Jessie. She then glanced over and looked at the notebook. "Whoa! Geez, you can't," she said. "Let me see," said Brandilyn in her soft scared voice. Janiece handed her the notebook and Brandilyn looked at it. "It says that the strange lights that had been seen in the desert happened after a strange, violent storm," she said. "Where did you get that from?" Janiece asked. "Its simple, you just have to be able to pin point certain letters and put them together." Brandilyn said. She felt a little less shy, and more proud. "Do you think we should write that down as check into?" asked Jessie. "It sounds suspicious. How about you Brandilyn, what do you think?" Brandilyn just shrugged and sat there. "Well, what do you think Brandy, should we or shouldn't we? Your the one who has lived around here so you should know about this kind of stuff." Jessie said. "Sure, I guess put it down." She said as she shrugged again. Later that night, the group split up again. While Hadji and Jessie went over their notes with Jubilee and Eric, the others sat around in the guys tent and talked, as they called it. It was their time to get to know each other a little more. Each told stories and characteristics of themselves. It was going for eight o'clock when Jessie finally joined the group. She had finished all of her notes and had left Hadji to sort through them all. She had caught in on one of Jonny's wild stories about their adventures that she had wished she had stayed to help Hadji than hear it. "And see the Milosh guy who Jessie was quote "Hanging out with" turned out to be hiding the truth, and that Irena was the ghost's relative, and we found the rest of the missing Sonata." Jonny said. He had noticed the face Jessie had been giving him when he told the story. He figured it would embarrass her a little. "Well, now Jonny, you shouldn't just talk about the adventures that don't include the ones where the Bannon's save your life every five minutes, now can we, because you just about told them all." Jessie said with a grin. She just smiled as Jonny glared at her. "Explain would you Jessie?" asked Gemma. The others shook their heads. "Well, were do you want me to start?" she said. Just then Jubilee stuck her head in and said, "You guys better be getting to bed. Long day ahead of ya'll." she said. "Well, looks like my stories will have to wait for another day." Jessie said. Then all the girls got up and walked out of the guys tent. Jonny then got up and followed Jessie out. When they got out of reach of both tents, he pulled her aside. "What's the meaning of that little stunt you just pulled?" he asked her. "What's the meaning of your little stunt you pulled on me?" she asked. "You know I hate it when you tell that story and rub it in my face. Get over it. So you were right and I was wrong, let me go kill my self over the embarrassment of having everyone who comes along know that story. I never went around telling about all the times I've saved you or how you were wrong. Neither does my dad or anyone else on the original team. So why do you have to be the childish one and carry it on this far?" she said with a harsh whisper. "I'm not the childish one. You are, you're the one who can't face their mistakes and laugh at them." He said. "I can laugh at my mistakes. It's just that you can only laugh so much at the same story before it becomes boring and a nuisance" she said. "Sorry," he said. "Whatever," Jessie said. "Are we finished now or do I need to tell you everything else that bugs me?" she said. He then let go of her arm and walked off back to his tent. "That's what I thought," she said with a grin. It was about time someone did that, she thought. She then in the corner of her eye spotted someone who looked like they were sneaking around. She snuck around the corner of the picnic table and looked at him. He then went into one of the night tents. Jessie then scolded herself for being so paranoid. It's just one of the workers, she thought. She then walked over to the water cooler and grabbed a cup of water and walked back to her tent. "What was that all about?" asked Janiece. "Nothing, just a little ego bashing," Jessie said as she took the last gulp of her water and sat it down. She was tired and was ready for bed. ~Later that night~ "Ahmmm, gosh," cried out Jessie as just started to feel sick. It had just came to her all the sudden. She woke up with the terrible feeling she was about to throw up, and it gotten worse and progress to add in a headache. She then grabbed the flashlight, unzipped the tent, and ran out into the back were she threw up. She tried to keep as quiet as possible, figuring it was something she ate. Just then a light came up behind her. "Jessie?" asked out a male voice. "Blaaa," she said as she threw up again. She then choked back the tears and answered. "Yeah? Who's there?" "It's Preston, what's wrong?" "I think I'm sick," she said as she fell backwards into the arid desert floor. From: AusieWanaB@aol.com Okay here you go. Dont kill me after the last cliff hanger! WArning very short. Kara Archivers: Sure I don't care! Disclaimer: I own only my knew characters the QTWE. I don't own any of the original characters. So don't sue! Rating: Alt, H, E, 4-29-99 Jubilee: THANK YOU! Oh mighty one! Part 3 "She's coming through." "Someone help prop her up." A flash of light. A sudden blare of sound. The groggy redheaded Jessie staggered up. She felt dizzy and looked out to some familiar faces. "How do you feel?" asked Jubilee. "Besides the fact that my whole body is aching and the rooms spinning, not too bad!" Jessie said. "We better get her into Roswell to see a doctor. I don't like the looks of this," said a new voice. She was Dr. Jackson Nimmo. He was the chief archeologist. "I'm fine, trust me," Jessie said as she tried to pull herself up, but failed when her arms collapsed with the pain. She felt weak. "No, Jessie, were going to call Race and ask his opinion, and I'm guessing it's the same as Dr. Nimmo," Jonny said as he pulled out his cellphone and dialed a number. When he finished dialing, he left the tent where most of the others were looking after her. He felt bad about the argument they had last night, but this was the least he could do for her right now. It wasn't long before some of the helpers had taken Jessie to the nearest town, Roswell, which was a mere few hours away. Jonny had, luckily, gotten hold of Race and he was on his way immediately to Roswell. "That was kind of odd, Jessie just all a sudden got sick." Joel said as they were riding out to excavation site. "No joshing," said Gemma. "I know, I'm getting a feeling that something's going on around here, but I just can't seem to put my finger on it." Jonny said. The day had flown by, yet no word on Jessie's condition. They had arrived at the campsite at around 11am. "Hey, Jubilee, where exactly did these explorers disappear at or around?" asked Brandilyn. "We're not quite sure, but around here somewhere," she said. "Hey what's that up there?" asked Jonny. "I'm not sure. It's not on any of these maps." Jubilee said. "Hmm, than let's go and explore it," Jonny said, and ran off from the others. "JONNY WAIT!" Cried out Janiece. They all then took off trying to catch up to him. "Hey, Hadji, does he always jump before he looks?" Asked Brandilyn. "Yes, my friend, you'll get use to it sooner or later." Hadji said. Back in Roswell. "So Miss. Bannon how are you feeling?" asked Dr. Jessica Foltz. "Bad" Jessie said. "Well, were still running test on you and we just got word from your father that he's near our location and should be here within the hour." "Hmm kay." Jessie mumbled. She felt she was getting weaker. Meanwhile back on the Ranch of ::wack over the head:: hey! Kara this isn't the Dukes of hazard! Okay okay! The desert Jonny stopped all the sudden at the location he was running to. It was a huge pyramid in the middle of New Mexico. It wasn't anything like the ones Jonny had seen in Egypt. These were smaller and had strange, non-Egyptian hieroglyphic writing on them. They were truly a unique, one of a kind site. "Would you guys come and see this?" asked Jonny. The others then came running up to his location. Some of them were out of breath from running so hard. "Oh my god!" Cried out Jubilee. "I have never seen anything like this in my life." she said. She then started walking around it. She came up to some more of the fancy writing. "This is so odd." she said with awe. "I think I found something," Preston yelled from the other side. Then the rest of the team and Jubilee came running over. "It looks like if you press on this wall it opens up." he said. Jonny then pressed on it and the floor beneath them came out. "AHHHHHHHH" they all screamed! Eastern New Mexico Medical Center, Roswell NM "Jessie, how are you doing?" asked Race as he flew into the door. "I've felt better before." she managed to get out. "Mr. Bannon, I presume." said Dr. Foltz. "Yes." Race said. "I'm Dr. Jessica Foltz. We just finished running some test and we figured out what's wrong." she said. "What's wrong?" he asked. "Well, it's good thing they got her here as soon as possible. The blood test shows that she suffering from Arsenic poisoning. It's not enough to be truly deadly but enough to make her sick." she said. "How in the hell did she get that?" he asked. "We're not sure, but were currently getting it out of her system and she should be better soon." she said. "Were guessing that she got it from something out there. But our only concern is that the other people she's with may be poisoned also without knowing!" COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS COMMENTS