May Parker was sorting through the first-aid supplies in the warehouse of the FEAST Homeless Shelter.
Suddenly, a faint humming sounded above her.
May Parker looked up to see a green, oval portal suddenly open near the ceiling. Then a black-haired Asian boy stepped out of it, looking back and waving.
"Holy crap!"
The boy cried out and fell straight down in front of May Parker. Right behind him, two younger girls sprang out of the green portal and landed on him almost simultaneously.
"Oof!"
The boy doubled over under the second impact, then flopped back onto the floor.
"Ah! Get down, Arale! We're standing on our brother!"
The little blonde girl cried out and jumped off the boy's back, then reached out to pull the little purple-haired girl down.
The purple-haired girl first adjusted the glasses on her nose, then crouched beside the boy. She produced a small twig from somewhere and gently poked him in the head.
"Oh dear... are you okay, big brother?"
"I'm... I'm okay... I'll live..."
Holding the spot on his lower back where they had landed, the boy shakily climbed to his feet.
"Owww..." The boy groaned as he stood, muttering in a language May Parker couldn't understand, "That was a miscalculation. I didn't expect something like this to happen. Looks like I'll have to check the surroundings before coming out next time."
Although May Parker couldn't understand what the boy was saying, she had heard similar speech from Martin Lee and knew it was Chinese.
"Um..."
Only then did May Parker recover from her long, stunned silence and ask, "Is there anything I can help you with?"
Although the three children had arrived in a rather unusual fashion, May Parker wasn't particularly wary of them. She had always been a kind soul who