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Chapter 6: Morning Madness

The birds chirped happily the next morning. The "couple" and their "observers" made in safely the night before and two of the four had a very restless night. Elsword had nightmares of a questionable nature and Raven just couldn't sleep.

Echo had come over that morning, both to see the new Eve and to ask Rena for advice on her newest potion invention. The childlike alchemist was talking animatedly with the elf-woman while Aisha and Ethan made breakfast. Chung sat at the table near the two girls, polishing the components of his cannon. When Raven finally made his way down the stairs he was quite the mess. His clothes were rumpled and he had dark circles under his eyes. Ethan looked up at him and asked with concern, "Raven are you feeling well?" The silver haired android stepped right up to the knight and began feeling for a temperature, "If you are ill we can go see the doctor. It would not be beneficial if you got hurt in battle because you neglected your health."

Raven backed up nervously when the nasod got close, he fought to keep red out of his face. "I-I'm fine." He hardened himself and pushed the other male away, "I don't need your worry, machine." He said coldly. He forced the image of Ethan's pained and hurt expression out of his head. He stalked over by Chung and snatched up an apple, biting into it harshly.

When Elsword finally stumbled down the steps he saw Aisha calling Ethan back over to the stove. He felt a boiling sensation in his stomach and he got really angry. Before he realized what he was doing he stomped over the purple haired magician and yanked her around by her elbow. "What the hell was that last night?!" he yelled at her.

Though Aisha had known he'd been watching them she wasn't sure what had happened that would make him this upset. So she got defensive, "I don't know? What the hell your talking about?!" She yelled back.

"I saw you with-with him!" He pointed harshly at Ethan, who was still recovering from Raven's harsh treatment and was not in any way prepared for this. "You kissed him! How could you?!" Elsword almost screamed.

Aisha had been bracing herself for when Elsword would snap, but this was worse than she'd imagined. Everyone had stopped whatever they were doing and were staring at the three of them. Ethan began to stutter out, "B-But we didn't-"

"So what if we did." Aisha cut him off. She wrapped her arms around Ethan's waist and pressed herself to him, "What's it to you?!" she yelled.

Raven looked like he was gonna be sick. Rena was a bit surprised, she couldn't tell if this development was going to be good or if it was going to end very badly. Chung was close to stuffing himself in his cannon to hide from this fight. Echo just watched with some fascination while sucking on her lollipop.

Elsword's face darkened, "You shouldn't even be dating, he was a girl! Were you secretly lesbian or something?! Were you going out with Eve!?" He grew more distressed as his mind spun to these conclusions.

The magician looked as if he'd slapped her. "Excuse me! What are you my mother?! You can't tell me what to do, I can date who ever I want, so but OUT!" she pulled away from Ethan and roughly shoved the fire mage.

His eyes blazed, "You two are so disgusting, it's screwing with the team! I don't know how they stand it see you two being all over each other all the time!"

"Are you calling me disgusting!?" Aisha yelled, she summoned her wand-staff in a flash of lavender light, the top crackled with magic energy.

Elsword reached behind him to grip the hilt off his sword, "You wanna go, homo-girl?!"

With a scream Aisha blasted him with a spell, he dogged expertly and slashed at her. Raising her staff she blocked the sword. The two of them were inches apart, Elsword's fire magic mingling with Aisha's. The team had finally recovered from their shock and moved to intervene. Ethan went to pull Aisha back with Rena; while the boys rushed for Elsword. Echo ran from the room, leaving her things behind. She was an alchemist not a fighter.

Now, everyone was so busy trying to separate the two fighters (and failing at it) that no one noticed how the brawlers' magic was affecting the potions and magic items that Echo had forgotten. They began to spark and smoke and then, when they could no longer withstand the fire magic in the air, they exploded.

The blast nearly destroyed the kitchen/dining room. It separated the members of the El Gang and knocked them all out. Ethan was the first to wake. He tried to blink the diagnostic screens from his eyes. Glancing about the room he was very distressed to see that the kitchen had been torn apart. "Raven!" He called, worried, "Raven! Where are you?!" He pushed a piece of ceiling off his legs to see that one of them was torn open, wires exposed. He grabbed the broken counter and hauled himself up. Then his sensors picked up the sound of his teammates stirring.

Aisha picker herself off the ground, her head was pounding and she felt sick. She looked for Elsword in a bit of a daze. Then she saw a lump of black and red on the floor several feet away. She began to pull herself across the floor when something stopped her cold. She felt something. She wasn't sure what but it was weird and… she looked over to the oven's glass face, which had survived somehow, and saw a face that looked like her own but was just, wrong, very wrong. It was a bit more angular and just seemed off. She reached up and touched her face but couldn't quite figure it out. Then with a feeling of dread she slid her hands down to her chest and paled. They were gone; she knew she never had an ample chest, which was why she was so aware of it. Now, it wasn't simply small they were just gone. She was as flat as a board and when she trailed her hands further down she discovered a hard stomach and even further down…

"Aisha," Ethan voice grabbed her attention, "Are you unhurt?"

Aisha looked up at the nasod and said, "Ethan… I think… I think I turned into a… boy." She was a bit surprised to hear that her voice had become a deeper tenor than it normally was.

Ethan blinked. His processor was having trouble processing that. Aisha's shirt did look like it had gotten smaller. But not much else looked too different. Aisha staggered to her feet, "Check the others, are they-"

That as when Elsword woke up and gave a high-pitched scream. They both looked at him and saw a long red haired girl with an ample chest, wearing Elsword's clothes. "Whoa, whoa, what the hell?"

That was all the confirmation Aisha needed. She began to panic, blathering on about the woes of her situation. Ethan was really gone, his system on the verge of shutting down. There was a crash as a beam that had separated the kitchen in two was lifted and thrown to the side. And behind it was a woman with long dark hair, flaming golden eyes and wearing Raven's clothes. "ELSWORD!" the woman shrieked. She stalked over to the red-haired girl and grabbed her by the throat with a slightly misshapen Nasod arm. "THIS IS ALLYOUR FAULT! LOOK AT ME!" she screamed.

Two more figures emerged from the rubble, a man with short blonde-green hair and pointed ears holding a passed out long haired blonde girl. Both of their clothes defiantly didn't fit their physiques anymore. At seeing the violence being committed the elf set his companion down and rushed over to the Raven-look-a-like and started pulling on her grip. "Ethan," The elf called in a deep voice. "Get over here and help!"

The order helped clear the nasod's mind; he ran over and was able to dislodge the ebony-haired girl, grabbing her by the waist and lifting her off the ground. She kicked and flailed yelling for the "stupid android to put her the fuck down."

It was to this madhouse that Echo stumbled into, "Hey, you all o…kay?" she trailed off and took the scene in: of Ethan holding a flailing ebony haired girl and the other team members checking on the coughing Elsword and unconscious blonde girl. She sighed, "Well, damn, we're in trouble now."

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It had taken much effort and sneaking to get what had become of the El-Gang to Echo's house. They all gathered in her living room. Raven was sitting in a chair by herself, glowering at Elsword who was over on the other side of the room by a shell shocked Aisha. Rena was using his magic to get Chung to wake up and Ethan was sitting by the wall with machine parts scattered around him as he fixed his leg.

Echo came in with steaming mugs of tea she set it on the table, "Now, no attacking anyone in my house, you hear?" She clarified with them, though she looked right at Raven when she spoke.

The dark haired woman blew a lock of her bangs out of her eyes. "What happened? The last thing I remember is that Elsword was picking a stupid fight with Aisha then… the explosion and when I woke up I was a," She stumbled over the next part, "a girl."

Echo tapped a finger to her chin, "Well, the stuff I brought over was meant to transfigure a person so they could sneak into places-"

"Like the candy shop's you're banned from?" Rena asked, innocently, fanning the slowly rising Chung.

"Yeah," The pale haired alchemist admitted, "but the change wasn't meant to be permanent. I think it reacted badly with the fire magic that Aisha and Elsword where flinging around and blew up. It got on all of you and somehow swapped your genders."

"So it is Elsword's Fault?!" Raven said, getting to her feet.

Deathly terror spread across Elsword's face, "H-hey, Aisha was fighting to!" She tried to defend herself.

"You started it." Aisha said numbly.

"Calm down," Echo said, popping a new lollipop in her mouth, "I said it wasn't meant to last forever. It should wear off eventually, but I'm not sure when. I can make a potion to fix it, but I'd have to write it, gather the ingredients, and test it. I estimate it'll take at least…" she counted on her hands, "One week!" she held up seven fingers.

"ONE WEEK!" Three voices yelled.

"That's way too long!" Raven yelled, "I don't want to be stuck like this for another minute!"

"I want my body back!" Aisha wailed.

"You know on second thought I look good." Elsword said, patting her now ample chest.

Aisha and Raven grabbed her by the back of her head and slammed it into the table.