Chapter 4:
Back at the dance, Angelo was in the halls of the school getting two sodas from the soda machine.
"Let's see... a root beer for Cornelia and a ginger ale for me.", Angelo said as he bent down and got the sodas.
As Angelo went back upright, he saw Caleb standing next to the machine.
"Hey, Caleb.", Angelo said. "You here for a soda too?"
"Yeah.", Caleb said as Angelo began to walk off. "So you and Cornelia, huh?"
'I should of none.', Angelo thought to himself after taking a deep sigh. 'Might as well get this over with.'
"Yeah.", Angelo said as he turned to face Caleb. "Me and Cornelia. Is that a problem? No, wait! I don't care!"
"Is that so?", Caleb questioned as he glared at Angelo.
"Yeah! It is so!", Angelo said. "You had your chance with Cornelia and blew it when you broke up with her and said what you said to her. Now we're together, and I plan on making it last a real long time. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my girlfriend."
Angelo then turned to walk back into the Lunch Hall when...
"You think you know everything about Cornelia?", Caleb questioned with a smirk stopping Angelo in his tracks. "There are things about her that I know, that you'll never know!"
"That's it.", Angelo said as he turned to face Caleb again. "I'm getting real tired of your mouth, Caleb! I suggest you back off and go be with the girl you came with."
"And if I don't?", Caleb questioned.
"Then that's your problem.", Angelo said before turning to go back into the Lunch Hall.
But then, Angelo stopped a few feet from the doors of the Lunch Hall.
"You know something?", Angelo said as he turned to face Caleb. "For a minute there, I thought I was going to lose my cool and take a swing at you. But I realised that you're not worth it. And it would hurt Cornelia to see us fight. So, I'm doing nothing."
Caleb then charged at Angelo. He then threw a right hook, which Angelo dodged.
"So, you really want to do this?", Angelo asked as he sat the sodas he got on a nearby window sill. "Cause, I really don't want to fight you."
"Scared?", Caleb asked with a smirk.
"No.", Angelo replied taking a fighting stance. "I just don't like to fight unless I have to."
"To bad!", Caleb yelled as he charged at Angelo.
Caleb threw another right hook, which Angelo dodged. Then he threw a left, which Angelo dodged. Caleb then started throwing combos of punches and kicks. Angelo either ducked, dodged, or blocked them. A few punches hit him mind you, but he quickly recovered by blocking most of the attacks.
"I'm not going to hit you, man!", Angelo said as he blocked one of Caleb's kicks.
"You're gonna have to stop me somehow!", Caleb said throwing a punch.
"Good point.", Angelo said after grabbing his arm.
Angelo then flipped Caleb over himself, slamming him on the floor in front of the Lunch Hall doors. Angelo then leaned against the wall, waiting for Caleb to make the next move. As Caleb got to his feet, he and Angelo were about to charge at each other when Matt and Joel came through the doors and grabbed Caleb by his arms.
"Chill dude!", Matt said as Caleb was trying to break free of Matt and Joel's hold.
"Caleb!"
Caleb stopped struggling when he heard that voice. Matt and Joel then let him go. Caleb then turned around to see Elyon not looking to happy at him. Elyon just simply pointed back into the Lunch Hall before heading back herself. Caleb just walked back inside without a word as he had his head held down. Seeing this confused Angelo a bit, as he grabbed the sodas he put on the window sill.
"How she do that?", Angelo asked Matt and Joel.
"Um... she has a way of commanding respect.", Joel said as he got two sodas.
"And she commands it well.", Matt said as he got two sodas as well.
"I can see that.", Angelo said as he headed back to the dance.
"And the fact she's Caleb's queen also counts.", Joel whispered to Matt.
"That it does.", Matt said with a grin as they went back to the dance.
As Angelo was making his way to where the others were, he saw Elyon telling Cornelia something. He then saw Cornelia have a look of shock on her face! She then walked up to Caleb and slap him!
"You jerk!", she yelled as she glared at him.
"Ooooooooh!", most of the students said as they saw the slap.
"Whoa!", Angelo said as he got closer to them.
Once he was there, Cornelia headed straight for him.
"Aw, crap!", he said as she got closer to him.
Cornelia was about to say something when...
"Hold it! Before you say and do anything!", Angelo said. "I want you to know that I didn't start the fight! And I didn't even hit him! I was ducking, dodging, and blocking all his blows! I did flip him on his butt! But that...!"
"Are you okay?", Cornelia asked as she placed a finger on his lips shutting him up.
"Mmm-Hmm.", Angelo said nodding as he held up the root beer he got for her.
"Good.", she said as she took the root beer and kissed him.
"So, I'm not in trouble?", Angelo asked as they sat next to each other.
"No.", Cornelia said as she opened her soda.
"Cool.", Angelo said he opened his soda and began to drink it. "But be honest. There's a part of you that's smiling on the inside knowing that two guys were fighting over you."
Angelo then saw a small smile creep up on Cornelia's face.
"See! See! There's the smile!", Angelo said grinning as he pointed at her. "I knew it!"
"Stop!", she grinned as she nudged him with her elbow.
"Okay.", Angelo said. "I'll stop."
Once they were finished with their sodas, they went back onto the dance floor and began dancing along with the others. As for Caleb...
"What were you thinking?", Elyon questioned as she and Caleb were in a corner of the Lunch Hall.
"I don't know!", Caleb replied. "I guess my temper got the better of me.."
"You know you were wrong!", Elyon said. "When this dance is over, you had better apologize. Until then, keep your distance from Cornelia and Angelo."
"I will.", Caleb said as he rubbed the side of his face. "Man, she can hit hard!"
"You deserve it.", Elyon said as she walked away.
Soon, some slow music started to play. All the couples there began to slow dance. As the music played, Cornelia was thinking back to how she felt when Caleb broke up with her. The pain she felt in her heart was slowly soothed by the love from her friends. And soon, over time she had gotten to know Angelo a bit better. Soon they started dating in secret. And soon, it became something more. Angelo was even glad he got to know Cornelia more. For look at them now.
'I'm glad to have him.', she thought to herself. 'I guess my mom was right. The Lord does work in strange ways. And to that I say, thank you God, for working your mojo.'
'Thank God I met this woman.', Angelo thought to himself as they continued to dance to the music.
Meanwhile, in Heatherfield Park, Geras was watching the last of the power flow into the blue crystal from the four smaller ones. The blue crystal then glowed with power as it floated there in front of Geras.
"At last!", Geras said. "The Transformation Crystal is at full power!"
Geras then stood back a little and pointed his staff at the Transformation Crystal.
"And now my crystal, spread your power throughout the city and make the people become those they are pretending to be!", Geras commanded as he shot a beam of energy at the crystal from his staff.
Once he did that, a powerful wave of energy was sent throughtout the city.
"And now the Guardians shall be without the power of the Heart of Kandrakar!", Geras said with a sinister smile. "And now to gather my forces to take them down."
Geras then went in search of those that will be of use to him. Back at the dance, the slow music was about to end. Cornelia looked up at Angelo with warmth in her eyes. Angelo saw this and smiled. Their faces got closer to each other and they then kissed. As they kissed, they felt a strange tingling sensation go through their bodies.
"Did you feel that?", Angelo asked.
"Y-yeah.", Cornelia asked with a smile as they headed back to the chairs they sat in.
A few minutes later, Will came and sat next to Cornelia.
"Did you just feel a strange tingle while ago?", she whispered to Cornelia.
Cornelia looked at Will in surprise.
"How did you...?"
"Me and Matt felt it too!", Will said.
Just then, Elyon came running up to them.
"Can I talk to you two alone for a minute?", Elyon asked Will and Cornelia. "It's important."
"Sure.", Cornelia said as she and Will stood up. "I'll be right back, Angelo."
"Yeah sure.", Angelo said before the three girls left.
Once out of the Lunch Hall, Elyon lead Will and Cornelia outside of the school where the others were waiting. When they got up to them, Will and Cornelia saw that they were looking a bit freaked out.
"What's wrong with you guys?", Cornelia asked. "And how did Nigel's hair get blond and why is Matt a brunette?"
"What's wrong? What's wrong?", Nigel yelled. "This is what's wrong!"
Nigel then spread the wings to his costume as if they were real! Seeing this surprised Will and Cornelia!
"What the heck?", Cornelia questioned.
"Oh, it gets better!", Hay Lin said. "Check this out!"
Hay Lin and Eric then pulled out the light sabers they had with their costumes and pushed the buttons on them. Once they did, blue beams of light rose up out of them as if they were real light sabers. They then turned them off and put them away.
"Ooookay.", Will said. "Any one else?"
Irma then began to float in the air, while Taranee formed lightning in her hands while making a wind blow around her. Joel pulled out a real arrow from his quiver, when it was supposed to be fake, and Matt shot a beam of energy from his visor at a tree.
"Do you get it now?", Taranee questioned. "We are who we dressed as! Even my hair is different!"
"What do you mean?", Hay Lin asked.
Taranee then pulled at her white wig to show that it now was her real hair.
"You too?", Irma questioned as she tugged at her now black hair.
"How did this happen?", Will questioned getting a bit scared.
"How should we know!", Irma said.
"One things for sure!", Taranee said. "If it happened o us, then it may of happened to everybody else at the dance!"
"And aren't some of them dressed as super-villains?", Eric questioned getting everybodies attention.
"I just remembered!", Will said. "My mom and Dean are at a Halloween party right now!"
"Who did they go as?", Matt asked.
"I don't know!", Will said getting worried about her mom and Dean.
"Why not use your powers to find out.", Eric suggested.
"That's right, Will!", Matt said. "As Jean Grey, you have telepathy, telekinesis, and some mind control!"
"Really?", Will questioned.
"Really?", Taranee, Cornelia, and Irma questioned after hearing that Will now had their powers.
"Yeah!", Joel said. "Just focus on your mom and you should be able to find her."
"Actually, I think we can control our new powers.", Taranee said.
"I think you're right, Taranee.", Will said. "I can sense my mom! She okay, but it's like she's not herself."
"What about you two?", Cornelia asked Elyon and Caleb. "Any changes?"
"I feel fine.", Elyon said.
"Me too.", replied Caleb. "I guess seeing as we're dressed as ourselves that weird tingle didn't affect us."
"Lucky you.", Irma said. "I think it's Guardian time, Will."
Will then puled out the Heart and...
"Guardians, unite!", Will said as she held the Heart up.
The girls looked around nothing happened. Will decided to try again.
"Guardians, unite!"
Again nothing happened.
"Guardians, unite!", she yelled hoping it would work. "Guardians, unite! Guardians, unite! "Guardians, unite!"
"Oh that's not good.", Joel said.
"I can't transform either!", Matt said as he tried to change into his Regent form.
"What gives?", Irma said.
"Well, it may be the Jedi in me thinking.", Hay Lin said. "But, what ever made us like this may be blocking the powers of the Heart."
"I can't open folds either.", Will said as she tried to open one.
"And our Guardian powers are gone too!", Taranee said as she tried to make a flame but couldn't.
"I have my powers!", Elyon said as she opened a fold to Meridian.
"You guys head back to Meridian.", Will said. "Who know what might happen next."
"Right.", Elyon said. "Let's go Caleb."
"But...", Caleb began to protest.
"Just go, Caleb!", Cornelia said. "Elyon needs you more than we do!"
Knowing she was right, Caleb followed behind Elyon before the fold closed behind them.
"At least they're safe.", Taranee said as she breathed a sigh of relief.
"So what now?", Irma asked.
Just then, Angelo came running out of the school.
"Guys! Something weird is going on inside!", he said. "No one is acting like themselves and all those dressed like heroes are fighting those dressed like villains! It's an all out brawl in there!"
Suddenly, a truck fell on Angelo!
"Angelo!", Cornelia cried as she ran towards the truck.
Once there, she tried to use her telekinetic powers to move the truck but remember that they were gone! Just then, the truck started to go up! Cornelia looked to see Angelo holding it up like it was nothing!
"What the heck is going on?", Angelo asked as he set the truck aside. "How was I able to do that? And who threw the truck?"
"Well, it seems that he has the powers of Superman."
Everyone turned to see someone they never thought they see.
"Is that... Bane?", Nigel questioned.
"What the heck is going on?", Angelo asked. "First, the big brawl inside the school! And now this! Somebody better start talking!"
"Long story short!", Will said. "We've all become the people we're dressed as!"
"Say what?", Angelo questioned.
"And it seems that we're the only ones who are in our right minds.", Cornelia said. "Everyone else is acting like the people they're dressed as!"
"On the plus side, we know how to use our new powers." Matt said as he fired a laser blast at Bane.
"That explains a few things.", Angelo said.
"What do you mean?", Cornelia asked.
Just then, Absorbing Man came walking up. He then touched the metal bars of the school gates and was suddenly coated head to toe in metal.
"Ten kids all alone.", Absorbing Man said with smirk. "Just like he said."
"Like he said?", Taranee questioned. "Who's "he"?"
"Don't know.", Nigel said. "But we better beat this guy before he beats us!"
"Allow me.", Angelo said as he flew towards the super-villain.
"Angelo!", Cornelia yelled as Angelo flew past her.
"Bring it on kid!", Absorbing Man said as he swung at Angelo.
Angelo quickly dodged the attack and upper-cutted Absorbing Man, sending him flying over a few buildings!
"Whoa!", Eric said as Angelo flew back towards them.
"I could get use to this.", Angelo said as he landed. "But how come only the twelve of us are in our right minds and look like ourselves, while everybody else has changed into the people they're dressed as and are acting like them?"
"The better question is, who's behind all this?", Joel said.
"That would be me, young ones!"
Everyone turned to see a man with black hair and green eyes dressed in a black robe with red trim holding a black staff with a ruby at the tip. He looked upon the teens with a evil smirk on his face.
"So, which super-villain is this?", Taranee asked Nigel.
"None that I know of.", Nigel said.
"I am no, as you say, super-villain.", Geras said. "I am Geras! I am the one who caused all this chaos!"
"What?", everyone questioned in shock.
"That's right!", Geras said. "And do you want to know why?"
"Because you're a nut job!", Irma snapped.
"Because, I want the Heart of Kandrakar!", Geras said surprising all but Angelo.
"Where have I heard that name before?", Angelo said to himself.
"As you five girls have already found out, the Heart of Kandrakar doesn't work for you!", Geras said. "That's because of the item that I used to change most of the people in this city! As long as it's doing what I have it doing, you five can't turn into the Guardians! It blocks any other kind of transformation as well! So, your Regent friends are powerless!"
"Now I remember! The Guardians of Kandrakar!", Angelo said surprising the others. "Wait a second! You girls are the Guardians?"
A/N: Aw, snap! Everyone has become the people they've dressed as for Halloween! But only the Guardians and their boyfriends are not totally affected by it! And now Geras is ready to do battle with them! Will they be able to take him out with the powers they have, thanks to their costumes?
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