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Cut The Camera Podcast (by the Sturniolo Triplets) upload: EP. 10 Superpowers? Superheroes?: Thoughts on Everything Going On With The Epidemic

"Good morning campers and welcome back to the Cut The Camera Podcast?" The blonde sounds more questioning and unsure than usual as he opens the episode, "I'm Nick Sturniolo." 

The camera cuts to one of his brothers, "Matt Sturniolo." 

"And Chris. Hello." the last one is quick to introduce himself, the three of them stating their names one after another like the topic of the episode was so incredibly important and getting off track wasn't even an option. 

"Okay, so today-" 

"Today we're-" 

"We wanna talk about-" 

All three of them try to talk at the same time, which obviously doesn't work. Nick groaned, before speaking loudly enough to drown everyone else out, "Superpowers are real, and we're talking about it. We had a different concept for this episode but we are talking about the science-breaking shit above all else, obviously." 

"There's not even a fucking outline for this, honestly. We had a few pages written out so that we could record this episode but then yesterday happened and we threw all that out for later." Matt explained, adjusting the headphones on his head. 

"If you're living under a fucking rock, then we'll give you the quick recap." Chris is speaking now, "Starting like early yesterday morning, random people from all over were turning up with unexplainable abilities. I found out through a girl on tiktok who discovered she could send electricity from her hands." 

"Oh my god, I saw that one too!" Nick exclaimed, "I also saw a guy who claimed to have telepathy. Like, hello? What universe are we in?" 

"I saw the video of the chick flying over New York City." Matt told them, "I thought it was like, an acting or stunt trend or something at first but then people starting doing shit on live streams and government people were freaking out all the sudden." 

"They tried making a 'scientific statement' that basically boiled down to 'idk man, magic? don't hurt each other or break any laws lol'. It was actually insane." Nick took a sip of his water. 

"I'm kinda scared, honestly." Chris admitted. "This has been happening for just over twenty four hours and we already have people committing crazy crimes. What happens when someone insanely evil actually gets used to these powers?" 

"I think superheroes will pop up." Matt answered immediately, "If the powers don't just go away, that is. We don't know if it's sticking around. Maybe it's a week-long fluke of the universe and one day we'll wake up and everything will go back to normal." 

"I don't know if that's how this works." Nick disagreed. 

"Well, superpowers didn't fit my vision of 'how this works' until yesterday morning, Nick." he argued back without missing a beat. 

"I'm just saying, there are new people still discovering their powers now. I think if it was some sort of 'fluke of the universe', it would've been an all at once thing, y'know?" the blonde broke down his point, "I could be entirely wrong but I don't see this going away anytime soon."

He made dramatic movements with his hands as he spoke, only pausing to take a sip of water. 

"It's crazy to me that superpowers have become real and the world is still functioning on some level. Like, there are bitches with lazer eyes just chilling and we're still here recording our silly little podcast. I don't think those two things should exist at the same time." Chris took the opportunity to cut in. 

"Thank you! My thoughts exactly!" Nick pointed at him excitedly, "I feel like we're going through COVID again except this time I'm kind of excited about it." 

"They did label this as an epidemic, actually." Matt added, "They don't know where the powers are coming from and it's effecting people seemingly at random, so for now they're assuming it's some sort of airborne thing." 

"'Epidemic' is crazy, bro." Chris claimed.

"Superpowers are crazy, bro." Nick mocked him, "And the powers people are getting are fucking wild! What do you mean you can teleport? Read minds? Super speed? Did we jump into a fucking comic book?" 

"Nick's just jealous because he didn't get superpowers." Chris looked up at the camera, smiling lightly. Before the blonde could reply, Matt was cutting in, 

"It's not like it'll happen to us," he began, no idea just how incorrect he was, "But if it did- what superpowers do you think we'd end up with? People who are getting them are claiming that they 'feel right' and 'fit their personalities', so." 

That question causes the other two to jump into their own rants, joking accusations flying around the room relating to energy and strength and functionality of certain powers in their world. 

And the conversation about the current events continues on and on for an hour and some change, zooming from power types to how this would effect the world to possible explanations as to where this was all originating from, ending only when Nick realized they were about to go overtime. 

"Alright, we have to end at some point." he said, stretching his arms over his head. "I genuinely think I could talk about this forever. I don't think I've ever been so invested in quote-unquote 'historical events' before, like I'm genuinely following the fucking news right now." 

"Me too, it's wild." Chris agreed, "We can ramble about it in a car video if we want, especially once more stuff comes out." 

"We can ask our viewers if any of them have powers." Matt suggested. With the interested tilt of Nick's head and the sounds of agreement from Chris, that idea was noted for the next time they filmed. 

"Thank you guys for tuning into the Cut The Camera Podcast, episode ten. We'll definitely be uploading this as soon as possible, so I'm sure you'll see it as that." Chris talked into his mic, "New videos and such coming soon. Whatever, whatever, thanks for watching." 

There's a few seconds of the three triplets waving at the camera, and their various social media usernames popping up on the screen, and then the episode is over just like that. 

The reality they had come to know had been shattered entirely, and they were still talking about the events in their silly little podcast. 

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Sturniolo Triplets upload: rating your superpowers (and ranting about the government)

"I know we said that we were going to do this video in a podcast episode like, right after the superpower epidemic started, but it was really difficult to find the right time to do it." Nick started talking to the camera, "Research pieces on the powers and stories about people discovering they have them just kept coming out and we wanted to wait until we had a good grip on the situation, y'know?" 

"We have been watching everything unfold, and it's weird watching it become the 'new normal'." Chris spoke up, using air quotes around his words. "I heard they're gonna start a power-based police force to combat the fucking wannabe supervillians popping up." 

"That's crazy hypocritical because they're arresting people working around law enforcement to protect normal citizens from evil people with powers. They put an anti-vigilante law in place and now they want to make legal superheroes a thing? That's entirely insane, actually." Nick clearly had a lot to say, taking a sip from an energy drink in a colorful can. "You can't have both."

"I agree." Matt told him, "You're either chill with people using their powers for good or you're not. It's crazy to me that all 'unapproved power usage' is listed under the same legal issue. Like, a villain hurting people and the vigilante stepping up to stop them are guilty of the same crime." 

"It makes no sense." Chris hummed easily, "Anyways, we asked you guys if you had any powers and to send video proof if you did, and we'll be reacting to some of them."  

"I already have it pulled up." Nick announced to the other two, scrolling on his phone and clicking something on the screen. "Oh my god! I'm so jealous of this person." 

"What is it?" Matt turned so that he was facing the backseat. 

"Fucking super speed." the blonde leaned forward, letting a quiet video loop for his brothers. 

It showcases a teenage girl with red hair, stood in front of the camera for a moment before there's motion so fast that the camera blurs. She zips in front of and around the frame multiple times over, items from around the room disappearing from their places and being put back down on different surfaces.  

When everything comes back into focus, she's holding a poster board decorated simply with sharpie, spelling out the words "Hello, Sturniolo Triplets!" in bold ink. 

"Good use of your powers, for real." Chris is the first one to speak, earning laughter from his brothers, "Fuck stopping a robbery, promote us. Next time do a Fresh Love ad." 

"Okay, big guy, chill with the promotion. But I agree, ten out of ten." Nick passed the phone to Matt while Chris protested his teasing, tuning him out to continue the video, "You find the next one." 

And so he did. The video went on and on from there, showing them discussing and rating different unique abilities like it was any other video. 

Like they were staring at photos of dogs or talking about their favorite foods, like the superpower thing was so incredibly normal and not breaking the rules of the universe as they knew them. 

At that point, it was starting to become normal, because the world was still turning on it's axis and society was still running even if it was in a different way than before. 

The Sturniolo Triplets were left to keep existing in a world full of unexplained science, and they had nothing better to do than to make a video about it. 

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Sturniolo Triplets upload: matt sturniolo is a telepath *real superpowers*

 "If you don't know how this works from the one million other parts we've done, we're gonna try and bake brownies with one of our senses stolen from us." Nick slammed the box mix onto the counter, talking to the camera as he did so. 

Matt entered the kitchen with various bandanas in his hands, spreading them out on the surface in front of him. "We agreed who would do what ahead of time based off of what we each thought would be the most fun. Chris is deaf, Nick is blind, and I'm mute." he explained just as the third brother joined them, headphones sat around his neck and thick roll of tape in hand. 

"Are we all set?" he asked, running his hand through his hair. Whatever beanie he had been wearing earlier in the day had been discarded for the time being, leaving him with slightly messy curls. 

"Wow, someone's punctual." Nick teased, "Matt, you've gotta blind me before we can start." 

"I'm putting my music on." Chris announced, pulling his phone from his pocket and placing it on the counter in front of him. He put the headphones on so that the band held his hair back, turning on the device. While he did that, Matt set to work tying multiple bandanas around Nick's head, the two of them bickering back and forth about whether or not he was doing it too tight or too loose. 

Eventually, Matt has bright blue tape stuck over his mouth, and they're left trying to run through everything without any way to effectively communicate just like in every other video in the series so far. 

And that's all it is, for a while. Chris sings lines of whatever song was blaring through his headphones, Nick attempts to preheat the oven while not being able to see anything (Matt stopped him from burning the house down), and Matt makes motions that he thinks are specific but come off as vague and confusing to everyone else. 

It's another baking video, just as entertaining and chaotic as always. 

But there's this point partway through, when Nick's throwing ingredients in the bowl without knowing anything about the measurements or the instructions on the back of the box and Chris is shouting in an attempt to correct him, where everything just shifts. 

At this point in the video, italic text appeared along the bottom of the screen.

just so that this is a bit less confusing, i'm putting in captions with loose recreations of what matt was "saying" - editing nick 

At this point in the video, everything shifts and it stops completely, because Matt gives up on his vague motions and throws his hands up, resigning himself to the fact that his brothers were incapable and that he'd have to do this part, the cracking the egg part, himself. 

"you guys are stupid. let me do it." 

"Hey! Don't be rude! We're gonna figure it out." Chris turns to Matt suddenly, and it's not until after the words leave his mouth that he realizes that something's wrong with that statement. "Wait, how did I hear you over the music?" he lifted his hands to his ears, checking that the headphones were still there. 

"I'm not wondering how you heard him; I'm wondering how he spoke at all." Nick added, reaching forward in every direction until he tapped Matt's chest, lifting his hand up and up and up until he was able to confirm that he still had tape plastered over his mouth. 

Matt's confused, shaking his head. He placed the egg on the counter, pausing everything because nothing was making sense. 

"i'm not talking?"

"You're literally talking right now!" Chris said his words as if he were disagreeing with something unheard by the audience. "I don't know what you're doing but it's creepy! We can both hear you, clear as day." 

"you're going insane."

"What the fuck is going on?" Nick steps back from all the ingredients, "Is he pulling the tape off like, super silently or something?" 

"No! I can see him." Chris confirmed, "But I can also hear him. Like, in my brain." 

Matt's eyes go wide for a split second, and then he's tilting his head. He narrows his eyes slightly as if he's focusing, locking his with Chris's. 

"Can you hear this?"

A moment passes, then two, and then he's asking a question with his facial expression. A silent one that his brother seems to understand.  

"How the fuck..." Chris trailed off, hand lifting to cover his mouth momentarily before it drops again. Then, like it's the biggest secret in the world, he whispers out a realization that the camera just barely catches. "You're a telepath." 

The moment the words leave his mouth, the video concept is thrown out the window and they're all pulling off their headgear to face each other. 

"Fuck the video." Nick speaks first, "What the hell just happened?" 

Even though Matt had pulled the tape off of his face, he just crosses his arms and looks at the blonde. There's the slight furrow of his eyebrows to tell his brothers that he's focusing, but that's all. 

If they didn't know him so well, if they weren't triplets, they likely wouldn't notice the tiniest shift in expression. 

"Telepathy, I guess." 

"Oh my god, don't do that ever again." Nick shook his head as if it'd get Matt's voice out of his brain, his eyes widening after another split second. 

"why not?"

"Get out of my head! I hate this, I hate this." 

Matt laughs out loud, "That's fun, actually." 

"I swear that we're not like, faking this." Chris told the camera, "I swear to fucking god, I could hear him. Not now, though, because he's specifically tormenting Nick." 

"How does this even work?" Nick questioned, uncomfortable and amazed and confused all at once. "You were getting to both of us and now just me?" 

"I think it's like, group chats versus one on one messages." Matt shrugged lightly, "This is crazy." 

"Says you." Chris said, but then he's stepping backwards. 

"I can also say it like this."

"Okay, I really hate that now that I know what's happening. I feel violated." Chris shivered dramatically, "That's my brain. Stop thinking things for me." 

"I wonder if I can read your guys's thoughts." Matt hummed. 

"Don't even try." Nick lifted a finger to him very seriously, "I'll actually kill you." 

"Wait, I'm actually curious, though." Chris disagreed, "I'm gonna clear my mind and think about a specific thing. And you have my permission to try and-" 

"The color blue. You could've been a little more creative with that, honestly." Matt interrupted him. Nick's eyes widened, 

"Now I feel left out. My turn." he insisted suddenly, locking eyes with his brother until- 

"You're thinking about how I'm just getting this now even though the superpower epidemic has been going on for months." he told him, earning an open mouthed and wide eyed look. "I had to focus more to read your thoughts, but communicating stuff to you guys wasn't hard at all. This is insane." 

"We have to register your powers so that the government doesn't get mad at us." Chris realized with a groan, "We have to go to the big office building place. This is terrible." 

"But once he's registered and we can upload this, the views will go crazy." Nick added. 

"You're gonna clickbait using my telepathy?" Matt asked, sounding entirely bewildered. 

"Fuck yeah, I'm going to clickbait with your telepathy. What's the point of superpowers if they don't make you a bit famous?" 

"I don't know, the power itself?" 

"Get out of my head! Oh my god!" Nick's shouting now, picking up the whisk they had been using to mix the brownie batter and pointing it at him in a vaguely threatening way. Matt flinches back, laughing and crossing his arms in an 'x' shape in front of him. "Yeah, that's right. Back off." 

"you back off." 

"I'm going to kill him." the blonde tells Chris in the same serious-ish tone from before, "Are you going to be like this forever? Because I hate it." 

"I'm just...experimenting." Matt decided on his words, "I wanna figure this out." 

"Figure it out on someone else." Nick replied, so Matt looked to Chris. 

"You cool with this?" 

He shrugs a bit uncomfortably in response, "It's about the same amount of cool as it is weird." 

"Wait, are we gonna finish the brownies?" Matt was distracted, his eyes catching on the mess they had made of the kitchen. Chris's headphones, Nick's blindfolds, and his used tape were hastily discarded on the counter alongside all of the ingredients and bowls and the oven was still preheated behind the blonde triplet. "We might as well." 

"I find out that one of my brothers has one of the most rare powers in the world and we're just expected to keep going like it's nothing?" Nick mumbles under his breath, but he steps forward anyways, picking up the box for the mix and reading over the instructions. 

"Shit's wild." Chris agreed, grabbing for the egg that had been abandoned on the counter and giving it to him. He cracked it, handing the broken shell pieces off to his brother, quickly running through the last few steps of the baking process.

"We're gonna need to record something else for next Wednesday." Matt scrunched up his nose, plucking up the baking spray and coating the glass pan they were planning on using. "Because if we post this before my powers are registered there's gonna be a whole court case to deal with." 

"I'm gonna scream." Nick rolled his eyes dramatically. "Why does the government care so much?" 

"So that they can try and avoid any more supervillians popping up." Matt answered easily and logically, motioning to the camera as he says his next words, "We couldn't get away with hiding powers like some people, though. There's five million of them." 

"This is going to be an insane video, though." Chris hummed, "The views will be worth it.' 

"This is insane." Nick repeated the same sentiment they had all expressed, "Matt's a fucking telepath and we're talking about Youtube views. I feel like there should be more going on." 

"I feel like the universe should've exploded the moment superpowers were brought into the equation, but we're still here. So lets get these brownies in the oven." Chris started to discard some of the trash, moving unneeded objects out of the way because the video was already sort of ruined via the superpower discovery so he might as well clean up on camera. 

The video became a vlog the moment they removed their headgear anyways. 

"Do you think you guys will get powers too?" 

"I don't know." Nick winced at the use of telepathy, but he replied nonetheless, "Some studies say that if anyone if your family had powers, you're more likely to get them. But there's plenty of jealous siblings left without powers while their big sister has like, super strength or something." 

"I was wrong in the podcast." Chris realized, "I said that Matt would 'definitely have teleportation'." 

"That was right after it all started, though." Matt pointed out, opting to speak out loud after glancing at the camera, "We didn't know as much back then. That's a rare ass power." 

"You say that like telepathy isn't just as rare." Nick finished mixing the batter, moving to pour it into the glass dish. 

"Nick's now extra grumpy about not getting powers." Chris teased, just like he had in the podcast months prior. 

"Okay, fuck off." the blonde told him, "You don't have powers either." 

"Yep, it's just me." 

"Okay, I agree with Nick on this one." Chris ran his hand through his hair, which wasn't held in place by anything now that the headphones had been removed. "That's gonna become annoying real quick." 

Matt laughed, shaking his head before moving around the counter, pulling open the oven for Nick. "I love this, actually." 

"Of course you do." Nick rolled his eyes, setting a timer on the oven. In a swift movement, that's done, and he's spinning back around to face the camera. "I think we're gonna end the video now? I think we should call mom and dad or something." 

"You're probably right." Chris nodded, "We might record more stuff later, though." 

"We should separate it into different videos to maximize the superpower clout." Matt said, "End of this video. Everything else will be part of a different vlog." 

"You know how to be a Youtuber." Nick agreed, "Okay! Bye! Make sure to subscribe to see new videos every Wednesday and Friday!" 

"And Cut The Camera Podcast episodes drop every Monday! We actually have one from back when the superpower epidemic started. That info will be in the description!" Chris added. Even though nothing in the world was normal anymore, they run through the same outro routine they always do, and then the video is over. 

The video is over, and Matthew Sturniolo is still a fucking telepath. 

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sturniolo.triplets TikTok video: i wonder which triplet gained superpowers

"Look at this kid." Chris panned the camera to Matt, who was tapping away on his phone. "He's acting all humble about the superpowers thing but is so excited to see all the attention he's getting on tiktok." 

"Fuck you." Matt pushed him away, "The video just went up. I'm looking at the comments." 

"You don't usually care about the comments." Nick pointed out. 

"They think I'm cool, Nick!" he tried to defend and play off his action. 

"They're twelve year old girls! They think you're cool anyways!" Chris zoomed in on him. 

The video cuts off with the three of them breaking out into laughter. 

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Sturniolo Triplets upload: life as a telepath (matt storytime + Q&A) 

"Okay so it's been a few months since the 'matt's a telepath' video and Matt has funny stories relating to his powers that he's been saving for a big story time extravaganza." Nick explained simply, "To help guide the conversation, we have some fan submitted questions, but that's it. Matt, you actually have to speak in this video." 

"That was an uncalled for comment." Matt claimed, leaning back in his seat and reaching for his cup of root beer. "Is there anything we wanna talk about before we get into everything?" 

"Not really." Chris shrugged, "You can talk about the superhero force trying to recruit you that one time, though." 

"Oh my god, yeah." his eyes widened like he was just remembering it. "Nowadays, anyone registering their powers gets asked if they're interested in a training program or becoming 'part of the force' but when I did it, it wasn't like that yet." 

"They were still sorting all that shit out." Nick added for context. 

"So it's a month or so after I've registered, after I've done everything I was meant to do. I use my powers on a small scale and only with friends and consenting individuals, I've been following every rule. Still do." Matt emphasizes some of his words as he speaks to build up the story, "One morning, I'm woken up by Chris shouting about there being a police officer-looking person at the door and I'm fucking terrified." 

"It was scary as hell, for real." Nick dipped a chicken nugget into sweet and sour sauce in the backseat, letting Matt take the focus and only commenting when he paused to take another sip of his drink. 

"You know what the fuck they wanted? What they scared us all for?" Matt tilted forwards, towards the camera, as if daring the viewers to take a guess. 

"The fucking superhero equivalent of army recruitment." Chris scoffed, shoving a french fry into his mouth. 

"It was crazy because there's a rule against people who are already famous becoming heroes for safety shit, or whatever." the blonde in the backseat added, "I guess five million and some change subscribers doesn't count as 'already famous.'" 

"They just have a long list of people with powers who aren't in a superhero training program or anything." Matt clarified, "Apparently they don't like people with superpowers just existing. Also, my powers are public information. If I had joined and a brunette telepath superhero popped up, everyone would know it was me." 

"I think that's what Nick was just saying about already-famous people becoming heroes." Chris told him, "We should do a question now, I think." 

"Right." Nick clicked somewhere on his phone screen, scrolling a bit, "Oh, this person asked 'what's the craziest thing you've heard someone think via telepathy?'"

Matt sat up suddenly, clearly having an answer ready to go. Chris groaned, throwing himself back in his seat as if he knew exactly what story he was going to tell. By the way Nick started laughing in the backseat, it was clear all of them knew what was going on without the usage of any brain-connecting powers. 

That was just them being triplets. 

"Sometimes when I'm talking to Nick and Chris, I just like to check that they're paying attention. Like, real quick, I'm in and out." Matt started to explain, only to be interrupted by Nick. 

"'In and out' is crazy. That's a wild way to describe invading someone's brain." 

"Shut the fuck up!" Matt shouted, causing the other man to back up a little and look at him in shock. He just kept on talking like nothing happened, "I just take a quick glance at their thoughts. I'm talking to Chris one day, right? About a movie or show or something- no! It was about the Five Nights at Freddy's trailer, and he's just kinda nodding along and not saying much. I use my powers and you know what this man is thinking about?" 

"Pepsi." Nick and Chris answer at the same time, the later covering his face like he was embarrassed. 

"You caught me at a bad time." He defended, "I was paying attention for most of the conversation." 

"Sure you were." Matt hummed sarcastically. "Sometimes in a public space I'll zone out and accidentally reach into stranger's brains, I've heard some crazy stuff that way. Out of context drama, for real." 

"What's the craziest shit you've heard that way?" 

"Probably the thoughts of this guy that was definitely cheating on his wife." Matt answered, earning wide eyed looks from both of his brothers. "That story isn't as funny though, because I couldn't say anything."

"Because of the-" Nick started, and then Chris spoke in unison with him. 

"Nonconsenual power usage thing." 

"Exactly. I'm not even supposed to use my powers on strangers, but the government can't do anything about stuff I accidentally pick up. So whatever I find out can't be shared with names attached or to anyone involved." Matt briefly fidgeted with the earring on his ear, "Unless I become, y'know, part of the hero force." 

He sounded annoyed by this detail. 

"What if you find out someone's like, a murderer?" Nick asked, "Can you breach it then?"

"I'm supposed to call the cops or the hero force in that situation, but I wouldn't be allowed to tell like, the mother of the person killed who did it. The government would have to investigate it and I'd become a witness for the case." Matt clearly didn't like this idea, shifting uneasily in his seat. "I've done a lot of research about the legal stuff surrounding my powers and I've basically concluded that I should just mind my own fucking business." 

"Oh! The next question is actually about if you'd ever consider joining the hero force or any of it's teams." Nick read aloud, glancing up at his brother knowingly.

"Nope." Matt answered immediately without any ounce of hesitation, "I'm a youtuber, not a savior. I'd probably be put on research and investigation and so I would get all the stress of being a government employee but none of the fun of running around a city to save people. No thank you." 

"That's so real." Chris lifted his fist for Matt to bump his against, "If I had powers, I don't think I'd wanna be a hero either. It's crazy that I'm saying that because ten year old me would be so upset, but whatever." 

"No, I agree." Nick got his own fist bumps from both of his brothers, "Lowkey into the vigilante vibe though." 

"That's illegal, that's illegal, that's illegal." Chris looked back at him with wide eyes, "You can't say that."

"For legal reasons, I would never become one! I don't even have powers!" Nick amended, but he was nowhere near as panicked as Chris was over it. "But the vigilante teams are more effective than the hero force and no one can tell me otherwise." 

"Moving onto the next story!" Matt spoke up before Nick could dig himself into a hole in relation to superpower politics, tapping on his phone screen. "Oh, this is the party thing." he looked up to Chris, who smiled immediately. 

"This was the first time we realized we can just use it to our advantage in every day life, I think." he prefaced, "Like right after you were registered and still figuring it out." 

"This is when I realized that I could 'forward' thoughts from one person's brain to another's." Matt used air quotes around his words, "And once I figured that out, we basically opened a triplet group chat where I'm the fucking phone service. And it's insanely annoying how much they rely on this." 

"There's this thing I call 'thinking loudly'." Nick spoke up, smile clear across his face at the conversation topic. "Where you think thoughts 'openly' so that a telepath can pick it up more easily. And once we figured out how to do that, it was over for Matthew Sturniolo. He's still figuring out how to block things out, so it's really easy to annoy him." 

"We're getting off track." Matt said, "We're supposed to be talking about the party." 

"We'll get to it!" Chris assured, hitting his arm lightly, "But first tell them about the song thing." 

"Chris always has a song stuck in his head! I can't use my powers on him for shit!" Matt didn't seem to mind drifting away from the story anymore, venting to the camera without stopping to consider whether or not he should go on this rant. 

"The best way to live life is with a good song in your head." Chris smiled, "Plus, it's a top-tier way to keep lurking telepaths out of my thoughts." 

The video goes on for longer than usual, consisting of story after story and barely touching the fan-submitted questions as all. 

With a promise to talk about it again at another point and use the questions then, they end the video with a clip of Nick and Chris pretending to shoot each other with motions meant to mimic the ones elemental powers needed to be activated. They say things like 'fireball!' and 'i'm throwing a fucking rock at you' until Matt eventually cut off the camera with a string of incoherent noises. 

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Sturniolo Triplets upload: chris sturniolo is a raccoon (literally) *real superpowers part 2*

"We're doing trash or gas again." Chris told the camera, "We asked for items on our Instagram, which you should follow by the way! Nick will put it on the screen." 

"Yay! I get to do more work in editing." He cheered sarcastically as Matt climbed back into the car, "Is it good?" 

"Yep!" Matt smiled at the camera, shutting the door as he settled back into his seat, "We're doing trash or gas." 

"I already told them." Chris hit his shoulder, causing him to lean back and away from him. "Do you have it pulled up?" 

"I will." Matt hummed, pulling his phone from his back pocket and unlocking it. 

"Wait, I have one." Nick leaned forward, his voice nearly a whisper, "Superpowers. Gas or trash?" 

"Cool concept, annoying effects on how the world works." Chris answered immediately, "Too many of the wrong people are ending up with powers and the government is meddling too much. It would've been cool if like, a select few people got 'em and they were certified good, y'know?" 

"I strongly agree." Matt nodded along, "Gas concept, trash consequences. If I get one more letter in the mail asking me to join a hero team, I might actually cry. I don't even have a combat ability." 

"Oh, Matty." Nick reached forward, squeezing his arm momentarily, "You couldn't be a superhero if you wanted to. The fans would get all upset about the idea of you getting hurt." 

"Bro, I'd get upset at the idea of him getting hurt." Chris admitted, "I feel like a wife in the sixties begging her husband not to go to war." 

"'War' is wild, but okay." Nick shook his head. 

"Oh! I got one!" Matt stopped his scrolling, "Pickle flavored chips." 

This video goes on for longer than the baking video did before the shift happens, the triplets running through various objects and arguing about them just like they'd do in any other video. The mention of wild animals gets Chris extremely off topic. 

And this is when it happens, when the world shifts once more and one powered triplet becomes two. 

"I saw this raccoon the other day, I swear to god!" 

"When the fuck did this happen? Did you leave the house without us?" Matt asked. 

"No, I was just taking the trash out because Nick was yelling at me about it all day and there's this fucking raccoon outside, just chilling." he answered, "Sitting on top of the trash can, just staring at me while he chomped down on a day-old pizza crust." 

"I don't believe you." Nick decided, "You would've ran into the house screaming about it if that actually happened." 

"Everyone was sleeping!" Chris shouted at him, "I didn't get to take a photo or anything either, but I meant to tell you the next morning." 

"And spotting a wild animal on top of our dumpster just slipped your mind?" Matt questioned with a bewildered tone to his voice, earning laughter a shrug. 

"He was lowkey cute, though." the youngest admitted after a moment of them all sharing laughter, earning looks from both of his brothers. "What? I'm entirely serious! He had big eyes and- I don't know how to describe it! I wish I had a photo or something so that I could just show you what the little guy looked like." 

As if the universe was listening to his words, his wish to just show his brothers what he was talking about was fulfilled. In a split second, Chris Sturniolo vanished from the air, and in his place sat a baby raccoon with wide, panicked eyes. 

"WHAT THE FUCK?" 

"HOLY SHIT!" 

In the span of ten seconds, the raccoon shifts into a cat, then a puppy, then a turtle and then finally- 

Finally, Chris Sturniolo is back, breathing uneasy with this terrified look plastered on his face. 

"I couldn't- I couldn't figure out how to get back. What the fuck?" he isn't speaking to anyone in particular, grabbing for the water bottle in the cup holder and chugging it down despite the fact that it definitely wasn't his. Neither of his brothers say a word, stunned to silence and shifting between staring at him and glancing at the camera. 

No one knows what to say. 

"Are you okay?" Matt is the first one to speak, reaching over and placing a hand on his shoulder. "My first time using my powers was nowhere near that...drastic." 

"Powers." Nick repeated the word in realization, "Fuck both of you." he fell back in his seat, crossing his arms. "And fuck the universe! Because now we can't post this video this week because the registry office doesn't do their job fast enough!" 

He hit the back of their seats as if this deeply angered him.

That gets laughter out of everyone despite the shock of the situation. 

"I'm a shapeshifter." Chris eventually mumbled, his tone injected with amazement just like Matt's had been when his powers were uncovered. "It sounds cool when I'm not scrambling to get my body back." 

"I'm not sure if the camera could see you switching between eighty forms in two seconds or not." Nick said, "It was insane, though." 

"I'm tired as hell." Chris admitted, slumping back into the seat behind him. "My brain is still catching up on what the fuck just happened."

"It didn't hit me that I had superpowers until a week and a half later." Matt told him. "Like, after I got a grasp on the basic rules of how they worked and could use them casually. That's when it hit me, for real." 

"Cut the camera. We're milking another vlog or two out of this like we did with Matt." Nick told them from the backseat, 

"Oh, yay! It's my turn to be clickbait." Chris sarcastically said, clapping his hands together and cheering. "I'm gonna try doing it on purpose." he decided after a beat, taking in a deep breath as Matt plucked the camera off of the dashboard and panned over to him. 

There's a moment of silence and then- 

There's a ginger kitten sat where Chris used to be, his clothes vanishing along with his human form and reappearing once he took his normal form again a few seconds later. 

"That was insane." Nick told him, "Don't transform into something that small around the house, I think I'd like, step on you." 

Chris broke out into laughter, and Matt flipped the camera around so that it was on him. he screamed at the viewers and that's where the video cut. 

The video cut, and two of the three Sturniolo Triplets had superpowers. 

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Sturniolo Triplets upload: matt and chris causing problems with their powers for 21 minutes and 17 seconds

"We can't find Chris. His new thing is transforming into a baby animal before curling up somewhere weird to sleep because it 'keeps things fresh'." Nick complained to the camera, spinning slowly so that the camera got a 360 shot of the entire living room. Before he could get distracted searching or saying something else to the camera, Matt came in holding a golden retriever puppy. 

"We don't have any pets." he joked, "So this is Chris. Look at him." 

He held him up so that Nick and the camera got a good look at him. He barked, making a smile appear on Matt's face. 

"Where was he?" Nick asked his not-puppy brother.

"In your bed." Matt answered, holding him closer again as if protecting him. 

"I fall asleep on the couch one time-" the blonde started to yell, but he was cut off by Chris jumping from Matt's hold towards him, ending up at his feet. Nick stepped back, zooming in on the dog. "You shed fur when you're a dog." he remembered, "You're washing my blankets." 

The puppy tilted his head all cute as if that was going to get him out of this. 

"Shift back to a human before I start feeding you actual dog food." Nick threatened, and he only sounded half-playful. In a moment, Chris took his human body back, stretching his arms over his head and ruffling his own hair in a routine he always did to readjust after taking an animal form for a while. 

"I'm not washing your blankets." He told Nick, earning immediate protests as he walked around him into the kitchen. 

"Why were you sleeping in my bed anyways?" Nick questioned.

"It's the comfiest, obviously." he states his words as if it's a widely known piece of information, opening a cabinet and pulling out a bowl that he left on the counter. 

"We all have the same exact mattress." Matt pointed out. 

"Well, whatever. It's where I fell asleep." Chris stood on his toes and grabbed a box of cereal from the top of the fridge, 

"After running up and down the stairs in puppy form at like, three am?" Nick challenged, earning a sheepish look from the other man. 

"It's against the law for me to shapeshift and run around outside and I have the ability to shapeshift and run around as an animal. It's going to happen somewhere, for sure." Chris took a moment to defend himself, tipping the contents of the box into the bowl until there was a decent amount in there. 

"Would anyone know the difference if we like, took you to a dog park?" Matt asked, grabbing himself a bottled lemonade from the fridge. Chris paused, his eyes widening slightly as his face took an expression of consideration. Before he could answer, Nick cut in, 

"No, dumb fucks, they wouldn't be able to tell the difference. But if we were caught via being recognized by one of our millions of fans, we'd all go to jail for the action or support of 'nonconsensual power usage'." he emphasizes the amount of fans they have as a way to highlight how stupid the mere idea was. 

"We're too famous to get away with that shit." Matt agreed after a moment of thought, leaning against the island and cracking his drink open. 

"Not famous enough to not be bugged about joining the hero force, apparently." Chris scoffed, "They showed up again to talk to me!" he suddenly shouted at the camera, dramatically moving around his arms with the cereal box still in hand. 

Text appears on the screen, narrating what Matt was saying as he was busy taking a sip of his lemonade. 

the government really wants a sturniolo superhero

"Every time they try to convince you guys I just sit and watch and it's very funny as like, the powerless outsider." Nick admitted. 

"When you say it like that, it sounds sad." Matt spoke out loud, now. 

"I'd rather not be bothered by the government and all of their weird ass technicalities, actually." the blonde disagreed, "I'm good, honestly." 

"What're you gonna do if you get powers, then?" Chris questioned, moving t put the cereal back onto the fridge and grab a spoon from a drawer. "When it was just one of us, I wasn't that worried. But two out of three? I'd bet an insane amount of money on you probably getting powers at some point." 

"Me too." Matt agreed easily, "No way you don't." 

"You think?" Nick asked, earning identical nods. "I better not get some dumb shit like turning into a hairy animal at will." he panned over to Chris, capturing a clip of his shoveling Lucky Charms into his mouth. 

They other two burst into laughter, and that's where that clip ends. 

The video opens back up on them in the car, Chris recording himself in the front seat. "We're getting the shit to make really good waffles." he explained, "We have this old waffle maker that we've never actually used and now we want to so we're getting waffle mix and whipped cream and shit. It'll be fun." 

"We gotta get fruit, too." Nick added, "It's called balancing your meals. Maintaining a healthy diet." 

"you know you're going to put so much whipped cream on it that the fruit won't matter." 

"You guys cant hear it but Matt is talking shit telepathically." the blonde glared at the boy in the front seat, earning giggles from the driver. "You're lucky we're driving or I'd beat your ass." 

"I think the whipped cream and fruit will like, cancel each other out." Chris suggested, having been tied into the telepathic communication this time. Sometimes, Matt strategically shot comments to one of them or the other, but more recently they had been using the 'group chat' function of his powers most commonly. 

"that's not how that works, you fucking idiots." 

"Say your words out loud for the viewers to hear, or are you too pussy to let them have proof of you insulting us?" Nick mimicked his nonverbal communication, but Matt didn't even blink at the insult, clearly finding the whole back and forth really entertaining. "They always say that we're so mean to you but if they knew half the shit you say off camera or telepathically on camera, everyone would have a different opinion." 

"leave it in the video then. do the caption thing." 

"That requires me to actually remember what you said. We always have to huddle around my computer in editing and try to remember the silent half of the conversations. It's fucking terrible." 

That segment of the video ends following a bit more conversation, and then they're inside some grocery store, Chris taking control of the camera and storming off from the other two with the intention of grabbing candy. 

"Nick and Matt can get the actual ingredients we need." he assured, "But we're also doing a movie marathon later tonight, so these snacks are just as necessary." 

He walked the viewers through him picking out different snacks, stating which brother of his liked it and why even if it was just himself rambling about Pepsi. 

"My little basket is filled up, so I think that's my signal to stop." he lifted the black plastic basket that was hanging from the nook of his elbow by the handles. "Off to find my brothers- wait, off to find the wizard, the wonderful wizard of Oz!" he sang quietly, laughing softly as he exited the aisle and rounded the corner. 

"why is the wizard of oz song in your head? also where are you?" 

"Matt's doing the telepathy thing." Chris explained out loud, "It's always weird when he does it from a different room because then not only is he in my head, but I also can't see him. That shit's wild." 

"stop rambling to the people. briefly think about what aisle you're in please." 

A new color of text appeared of the screen, showing Chris's mental response to Matt, which he didn't narrate out loud. 

"i'm passing by the ice cream aisle." 

"wait we're like right here. also nick called you stupid." 

"fuck him." 

The short interaction is entirely outlined via captions on the screen, showing only Chris's facial expressions to go with it. He giggled out loud at the last part, making his way into the ice cream aisle and flipping the camera to face his brothers. 

"Fuck you, Nick." he said just as Matt grabbed the camera, "The viewers will be mad confused, a good minute or two of footage is purely telepathic communication." 

"I love being the editor of our channel." the blonde cut into the conversation sarcastically through gritted teeth, letting the freezer door he had been holding open fall shut, placing a tub of whipped cream into the cart Matt had been pushing before he stole the camera. 

Chris deposited the snack basket into the cart, effectively taking up half of the available space. No one complains, though, because they already had most of what they needed. 

 "Maybe editing is your superpower, Nick." Chris offered, leading the other two down the aisle. "Fucking, cutting our power bullshit into the videos for entertainment purposes. That takes more talent than me taking the form of a cat does." 

"It's a skill, not a superpower." Nick disagreed, "But thank you, I think."

"Are we done?" Matt asked, panning to the cart and everything in it. There were containers of fruit and the snacks and the waffle mix and everything else they said they'd get. "Yeah, let's go check out." he answered his own question. 

The next clip showcases them back in their apartment, camera focused on Matt unpacking the groceries while Nick and Chris's chaos sounded in the background. 

"I'm the one putting away the shit we aren't using because Christopher Owen is flying around as a bird. And Nick, obviously, is-" 

"OH MY GOD, GET AWAY FROM ME!" 

"Screaming about it." Matt finished his sentence with a strained smile on his face. "We might get evicted, but at least Chris is having his fun. You better not break anything, by the way!" 

His eyes follow something moving in front of him just behind the camera, and then there's a vague crash heard. 

"What the fuck?" Nick said, taking in deep breaths as he stumbled in frame in an attempt to reorient himself after running around the first floor like a lunatic. 

"Hello? Go after him!" Matt shouted. 

"You go after him!" the blonde yelled right back at him. 

"But I'm-" 

"I'll do the groceries, you dumb bitch." 

Matt looks like he's about to say something, but then there's another crash heard from the other room so he spins around to 'go after him' as his brother had requested. 

The video focuses on Nick unpacking all of the grocery bags, speaking casually about how they planned to use each thing like nothing had happened at all. Eventually, Chris and Matt come back, 

"Is everything good?" he asked them. 

"Yep, I ran into the wall and then shifted midair. Took a bit of a fall but I'm okay!" Chris answered cheerily, Matt walking in behind him with an exasperated took on his face. He doesn't look genuinely annoyed, though, so everything was fine. 

"You're so fucking stupid." Nick told him. 

"It was worth the way you screamed and ran when I chased you, though." 

"I never thought I'd have to say this, but no flying in the house, please." Matt pointed to Chris, "Same for you, if you get any powers that involve flight." Now, he acknowledged Nick, who's eyes went wide. 

"I don't have any powers, first of all." he states carefully, "Secondly, I'd be much more responsible than you guys are. Turning into birds indoors and accidentally sending mental messages to the wrong people." 

This phrase causes an argument to break out between the three brothers, something between playful and exaggerated and maybe more physical than it should've been, but it makes for an entertaining video so most of it gets left in anyways. 

Even the moment where Matt uses telepathy to cut through the other two's thoughts ends up in the final product, allowing him an entire forty five seconds to make his point before the other two were ganging up on him about how that move was 'entirely unfair'. 

It doesn't matter, though, because then Nick's plugging in the waffle maker and Matt is washing the fruit and Chris is pulling the lid off of the container of whipper cream. 

Even in a world full of superpowers and heroes and all the other forces at play, they were still them. Making baked goods together for their viewers just like they always had been. 

Some things never changed. 

But then again, some things did. 

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sturniolo.triplets TikTok video

"'Oh, where's Chris?', you might be asking." Nick flipped the camera around to show Matt sitting on his bed, all wrapped up in a little blanket. Then, he moves closer, the video overtaken by Matt's giggling and quiet words, 

"Shh, Nick! He's sleeping." 

"He's not a fucking baby." Nick did speak quietly, his words creating a whisper-yell as Matt pulls back the blanket to reveal an orange-furred cat, sat in a loaf position on his lap. 

"He is a kitten, though, which is almost the same thing." Matt smiled, his hand coming down to scratch lightly at the space between his ears. "You should appreciate him while he's asleep. He meows very loud when he's a cat." 

"He really does." Nick hummed, "The viewers think he's cute as a cat. Vlog him." 

"Will do." Matt agreed easily, and the video ends there in a simple moment of playful comfort. 

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Sturniolo Triplets upload: nick sturniolo has the coolest power *real superpowers part 3*

"We are having a skills competition, and superpowers are entirely off limits." Nick is explaining the rules of the video to the camera which is being held by Matt. The blonde pauses in the next moment, glaring directly above the camera. The italic text captions that the viewers were getting used to at that point showed up at the bottom of the screen just like they always did. 

"are they?"

"Fuck off, Matt. I'm serious." he insisted, earning Matt's first sound of the video: a light chuckle.

Far ahead of the pair is Chris, who's carrying a backpack stocked with needed supplies for the video into a field. "We're mostly doing racing today so that we can find out who's the fastest. It'll be fun." Nick sounds a bit unconvinced, lifting a water bottle he had in his hand to his lips and chugging down the liquid. 

The clip cuts to Chris standing in the center of the field, "We're doing races, honestly. Nick already said it. We're using the cones in these bags to mark the start and finish lines and we're gonna go two at a time." he gave an awkward thumbs up, "We're in the middle of nowhere so legally, we can use our powers. But we're not going to because that would be unfair to Nick and we're good brothers." 

"I'm not against cheating to win a race." Matt's voice admits from behind the camera, and the clip cuts off with the beginning of a complaint from their brother. 

The first few races go pretty much the way they expected them too, with Nick getting out and resigning himself to the role of timer/videographer pretty early on. Then they decide to mark down the winner (Chris) and go again, and this is when all of the agreed-upon rules go out the window. 

This is when something in the universe shifts one final time, and they reach a grand total of three uniquely powered triplets. 

"Matt telepathically screamed in my head." Nick is complaining the moment he steps up to the camera, "I can't win when there's yelling IN MY HEAD!" 

"He didn't send that to me." Chris laughed, zooming in on his face. 

"This would be the one time he doesn't use the fucking group chat." he huffed, plopping down in the grass for a break like a kid who didn't want to be at a sports game. Matt came over, water in hand, sitting down next to him. 

"How's it feel to loose?" 

"I didn't even know you could telepathically scream." Nick answered, taking the offered water bottle. 

"Me and Chris discovered it while fucking around one night." Matt gave a cheery smile, earning an eye roll from his brother. 

"That's straight up a combat move." the blonde realized, "You always say you'd only be useful for investigation but you could take out a bitch with that. Especially if you were actually trying to hurt them." 

"I can't believe violence is your first thought when it comes to everything." Chris cut into their back-and-forth. 

"Oh, I'm sorry." Nick's voice drips with sarcasm, "Does screaming coming from inside your brain not invoke feelings of violence for you?" 

Eventually, the third brother is given a chance against Chris, one where the shapeshifter swears he won't use his abilities but the camera briefly pans to the crossed fingers at his side. Matt signals that they're in shot, shouting that the timer is starting in: 

"Three, two, one!" 

Immediately, Chris shifts into a large cat- a literal fucking cheetah, and Nick's eyes catch on his figure. Instead of even trying to run after him, he just stops, rolling his eyes and resigning himself to the fate of loosing. 

He had a fair shot against them at the start of the game, and he was just sort of tired by then. 

The only way he could get to the finish line before Chris in his new form was if he suddenly gained the ability to teleport. 

Oh. 

Like the universe is plucking him up and placing him back down, he vanishes from his palce and reappears just beyond the finish line, landing unsteadily on his feet with time to spare before Chris catches up. 

"I KNEW IT!" Matt shouted, watching the scene play out. Chris shifted back into human form, 

"Did I see that correctly?" he asked, voice quiet and amazed just like they all had gotten the other two times this happened, earning a hesitant smile from the oldest triplet. Before any of them know it, they're hugging. 

"I won the race." The camera catches Nick's whisper as Matt runs over to join the embrace. Chris laughed, 

"You did. Just the one, though." He pulled away, taking the camera from Matt so that the other two could hug and enjoy the excitement of the moment. "Guys, I did predict teleportation. For the wrong triplet, but I predicted it." 

"Shut up." Nick ordered, removing himself from Matt. In that moment, his face fell, "We can't upload this." 

"what is it with us discovering our powers on camera?" 

"Right? It's cool to have these moments for all eternity but I'd like to be able to put the videos up when we originally planned for them." he ran his hand through his hair. "I was more annoyed about it when it was you guys, though. Right now, I just kinda wanna-" 

"Oh, we're testing this. In another video, but we're doing this." Chris suggested the same thing they did for the other two, earning laughter. 

It's crazy that there was a routine to this, now. It was insane that they had a step-by-step drill to run through when any of them stumbled across something that broke the rules of the universe. 

Now that all three of them had powers, they had to be done. 

The video ends abruptly, with the typed-out promise of more 'superpower content coming soon'. 

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Cut The Camera Podcast (by The Sturniolo Triplets) upload: EP. 50 Life as Triplets with Superpowers: Unheard Storytimes

"It's crazy to think that our last episode on superpowers was ten months ago." Chris pointed out as soon as the intro was done, "And that was recorded within a day of the first people with powers popping up. Like, special abilities like ours haven't even been real for a year. yet" 

"There's already a superpower convention and spaces where powers are going to be allowed without being part of a hero force team. I'm so excited about it, honestly." Nick is speaking into his microphone, now, "There shouldn't be such strict rules on harmless powers anyways, but y'know. Progress." 

"Agreed, it is really cool to see how things change." Matt hummed, "And what we've learned. Like the telepathic screaming and you figuring out how to take us and objects with you when you teleport." he motioned to his right. 

"Living in both Boston and L.A has never been easier." the blonde gives a cheesy smile to the camera, "I can go hug my mom at the drop of a dime, no plane needed. Fucking insane, actually." 

"I wish we could use the teleportation more publicly to go to like, McDonalds. That would be amazing." Chris took a sip of whatever soda filled his plastic red cup. 

"It would also remove the benefit of even owning a car." Matt pointed out, "We'd look stupid as hell driving to parking lots solely for car videos." 

"We look stupid as hell using telepathic communication in videos and relying on our future selves to remember what the fuck we were talking about." Nick argued, earning laughter from his brothers. "That shit has me with a fastest video editing turn-around rate I've ever had in my life, I swear to god. Got me editing right after we film and everything, actually terrible." 

"It's so fun, though!" Chris argued, "And the fans love it." 

"The fans love you as a puppy, I think it's annoying. We can disagree." Nick replied quickly, "Regardless, this episode is just talking about existing as powered individuals. Not as heroes, but just as Youtubers who happened to be among the many that ended up with powers." 

"The government seems to want nothing more than for any one of us to join them." Matt amended, causing Nick to roll his eyes. 

"I truly did not realize how annoying and persistent they were until the letters and shit were addressed to me." he groaned, "I don't wanna join your diversity brownie points gay-men super team. Take me to a drag club and I'll get the same benefits, I'll reap the same rewards without all the stress." 

"Lets focus on the positives, though." Chris suggested, glancing down at his phone where some bullet points were written down, "I thought we'd talk a bit about what being internet people with publicly known powers is like? There's a reason Markiplier kept his under wraps for as long as he did, honestly." 

"I do not regret getting the superpower clout, honestly." Nick admitted before either of the other two could reply to the point. "But I think our fans just forget that we're not supposed to use our powers in public spaces without consent from everyone? That it's something we can quite literally go to jail for?" 

"If you meet us in a restaurant, we can't show you our powers without standing on a table and announcing that we're doing it. And that's assuming no one in the building protests." Matt agreed, "It's a safety thing, I guess, but it's a lot and generally speaking, power usage is just not possible. I know I could make a fans day by saying 'hi' telepathically but I'm just not allowed to do it." 

"That isn't very positive, is it?" Chris sighed, glancing down at the paper. "Okay, here! What's the craziest thing you accidentally pulled off with your powers?" 

"The first time I zapped from L.A to Boston was an accident. That was insane." Nick answered, and the other two laughed in agreement. "I was supposed to be getting on a plane and then there was delays, and I just just stressing about missing this nice dinner our mom was doing back home. Suddenly, I was there." 

"He went missing in an airport, though, so we were both freaking out. We call him and somehow he's already there, and we're all screaming because we had no idea that he could even go that far in one trip." Chris added to the story, following it up with his own suggestion, "I want us to talk about how Matt got a message to me when I went to the Fresh Love meeting on my own." 

Matt's face lights up. And with that, they're fading from one story to the next. And they keep going just as they had nearly a year prior, filling out the runtime of the podcast with stories about secret messages and running late and luring animals away from their items on vacation. 

Like it's nothing at all, they describe their experiences in a world full of unexplainable science because they were a part of those miracles, somehow. 

The world was still spinning and society was still running, except now the Sturniolo Triplets could teleport and shapeshift and telepathically communicate and that was just normal. 

It's funny how the world changes, isn't it?