"Okay now do you have everything?" I asked and Berto rolled his eyes at me. Well my eyes and that still felt really weird.
"Jessie, I appreciate everything you've done for me but you're starting to sound like my mom or something. Well maybe my dad since you're me." Berto said, giving me a grin when I frowned at him.
"I was just trying to help. Look you two better go so please make sure you don't injury my body. I'll take care of yours so do we have a deal?" I sighed and he nodded, reaching over to shake my hand. Berto went to give me a goodbye kiss only for us both to blush, feeling a little strange and as they left Shock glanced back to see my face fall. Wordlessly he linked to Berto and they left via Turbo Flight, leaving me alone in the hangar.
As I started to wander back to Berto's lab I wondered just what I was going to do to occupy my time until they returned form school. By the time I returned to his lab I found myself at a lost and I leant against the wall, confused as to why this had happened.
"I know Berto caused this...problem but he didn't mean it. I should just find something to work on until he gets back though the question is what exactly." I said as I stood there and after a few minutes I sighed, lost until I noticed that the lab looked a little untidy. "Well I suppose I could give the room a clean. That's something I guess." I muttered as I went in seacrh of a broom.
Meanwhile at school Berto was trying to act like me which was proving difficult even for a genius and it didn't help when Shock kept making comments.
"No, she walks more like this." Shock said and Berto let out a yelp as the Ultralink started to move his body. "See like that?"
"Okay that was a little strange. Do you always do that, amigo?" Berto asked once he was back in control and Shock sighed. "Okay now what's wrong?"
"You can't speak in Spanish, Berto. This is Jessie's body remember?" Shock told him and he cringed. "That was actually pretty good. Oh and before I forget I can talk to you using my mental link so try and remember that." Getting a nod he grinned. "Good."
"Well I supposed that's a little better. Can't believe we're stuck like this. I just hope Berto finds a way to fix this because I am not spending the rest of my life in his body." I grumbled as I leant the broom against his keyboard, brushing the dirt off my lab coat with my hands. "Still I suppose its not a bad body to be stuck in." I grinned as I turned this way and that, looking down at myself. Just as Forge walked in and I coughed, face going red as he walked over a slight grin on his face. "Can I help you, Commander?"
"I just came past to see how you were doing." Forge answered as I retrieved the broom. "Did you do all this?" He asked and I smiled as he looked from one end of the room to the next.
"Yes actually. I was kind of bored and I thought I'd clean up a bit. I hope Berto's okay at school...not making a fool of himself in my body." I replied with a slight frown and he chuckled.
"Don't worry, Jessie. I'm sure Berto's working on a solution to this little problem right now." Forge answered as I leant against the keyboard. When I jumped away from it he frowned. "Is something wrong?"
"Oh yeah...no Turbo touch. Forgot about that." I muttered and Forge let out a laugh. "It's not funny." I added and he shrugged, not hiding a grin.
"Since you're looking for something to do how about cleaning my office next?" Forge offered and I gave him a nod, grabbing the broom and following him into the hallway. I wasn't really all that happy about being reduced to cleaning offices but with nothing else to do I decided to just go along with it until Berto returned.
Right now Berto had just walked through the door, almost bumping into Max who gave him a grin.
"Hey Berto." He said and Berto frowned, not looking forward to being teased by his friend. "Or should I say...Jessie?"
"Oh shut up. It's weird enough being stuck like this without you teasing me." Berto grumbled as he adjusted his, or rather my, backpack and Max laughed.
"Okay, I promise not to tease you anymore. I think seeing you stuck as Jessie is enough of a punishment." Max answered and Berto narrowed his eyes, clearly not happy.
"That isn't funny, Max. Once I get back to N-Tek I'm working on switching us back. Hopefully it shouldn't take too long." Berto told him, heading for my locker. He was just about to open it when he suddenly realized that he had no clue as to my locker combination. "Great. I completely forgot to ask the combination."
Staring at the locker for a few seconds, Berto had a bright idea. Trying the first combination that came to mind worked perfectly and as he opened the locker, Berto made a mental note to get me to change it once we were back to our normal selves.
As Berto walked with Max to his first class, which turned out to be Spanish, I had just finished sweeping the floor of Forge's office.
"Why am I doing this?" I whispered to myself, feeling pretty fed up as I leant the broom. "I can't believe I'm reduced to cleaning duties. I'm not a janitor, I'm a Turbo user." I grumbled just as Kat and Jefferson walked past. Over hearing me muttering angrily to myself, they walked over and I jumped dropping the broom.
"Sorry, Jessie. Is something wrong?" Kat asked and I sighed, bending to retrieve the broom. When I straightened I rubbed at my eyes.
"While Berto's at school pretending to be me I'm stuck cleaning Forge's office. I just hope he can switch us back really soon because this is not how I want to spend the day." I grumbled, earning myself a laugh from Jefferson. Who immediately went quiet when Kat nudged him in the stomach.
"Maybe you can help us with something." Kat offered and I grinned, instantly brightening. As I followed my two friends into the corridor I wondered what they needed my help with. I might have Berto's body but not his mind so hopefully it wasn't something only he could help with. Thankfully as it turns out they wanted my help with a new N-Tek weapon, mainly to test it out and make sure it was working correctly.
Now that was something I could help with.