Author's Note: Research for the creature was taken from online. I may not have gotten the description totally right. I'm not an expert. Also, sorry Connor fans, I wanted to make Becker slightly more macho...

707 Words, Sorry, having trouble deciding where the chapter breaks should go.

Chapter Seven, Body Swap: Becker and Connor

The others peered inside to see a huge, 6 foot long, very fat, salamander like thing, squatting in the corner, under one of the sinks.

"The good news," said Connor, "is it's diadectes, one of the first amphibians. It's a vegetarian, and not hostile."

"The bad news?" asked Becker.

"It's over 200 pounds, and packed in tight."

"Let's just blast the thing and pull," said Becker.

Abby laughed. "That is definitely a Becker statement," she said.

He smiled. "Good plan, right?"

"I like it, sir," said Turner, still looking at him slightly strangely but smiling. Something was different but comforting about Temple today.

Before they could do anything, the 200 pound slug suddenly hissed and flopped toward them.

"Whoa!" screamed Connor, quickly EMDing it.

The creature's bulk kept moving, it's tail flopping towards Private Hunn.

"Hunn! Watch the tail!" screamed Becker, moving with lightning speed, even in a different body, pulling the private out of the way.

The creature finally stopped its movement, plopping against the wall, unmoving.

"Thanks," said the private.

"No problem," said Becker. "Everyone else OK?"

They nodded.

"Incursion over?" asked Becker into his comm.

"I think so," said Jess.

"Wait, what's that sound?" asked Abby.

It was a kind of sliding, slurping noise.

Becker walked toward the sound, inside the last stall, just as he reached the door, it popped open, and another long slug-salamander thing flopped out.

"Whoa!" cried Becker, jumping up, flipping over the thing, landing on the toilet, straddling the sides, and shooting it from where he stood, atop the toilet seat.

He looked up, and saw all the humans staring at him.

"Temple?" asked Lt. Turner.

Becker shrugged and smiled.

"Come on," said Matt, "let's get these two through the anomaly. That is, if you're done performing, 'Connor?'

Becker laughed. "Yeah."

Connor mumbled, "How come he works my body better than I do?"

Becker, out of breath asked, "Now is the incursion over, Jess?"

Jess giggled in his ear. "Yes, unfortunately. I was enjoying the show, Captain."

He smiled.

They dragged the amphibians to the kitchen and pushed them through, and closed the anomaly.

Becker and Connor turned to see the soldiers staring at them.

"What's going on with you two?" asked Turner.

"Yeah you're acting...odd," said the private timidly.

Becker looked at Connor. "Go ahead, this is your territory, Connor."

"Excuse me, Sir, did you just call him, Connor?" asked Turner.

Becker and Connor laughed, then filled the soldiers in.

At first, they all looked doubtful, then Turner smiled. "I thought Connor was acting awful macho."

Connor smiled. "Macho's not really my thing."

Hunn looked at Becker's body oddly. "You're not the Captain?"

Connor shook Becker's head.

"So...it was Connor who shot me, in the firing range?" asked Hunn.

Becker smiled widely. "Yep."

"That makes a little more sense," said Hunn.

The other soldiers laughed and nodded.

"It explains a lot," said Turner, laughing.

Connor shrugged. "Let me point out, that I still hit my mark."

The soldiers all laughed. "Sounds like Temple," said another soldier.

"Are you...stuck this way?" asked the private.

The men cringed.

"We don't know," said Matt. "We'll do everything we can to fix this."

The soldiers all nodded.

Turner looked at Connor, now knowing he was actually his superior officer, and said, "I'll follow you sir, whatever body you're in."

The others nodded.

"Thank you," said Becker, giving Connor's head a slight nod.

"Still, it's probably for the best you're wearing Temple's body and not Miss Maitland or Miss Merchant," added Turner with a wink.

Becker groaned. "Don't even suggest that. Ew."

Abby made a face, while Emily just raised her eyebrow.

"Definitely, ew," said Connor.

Matt shook his head, chuckling.

Turner laughed. " I guess, I'm no longer in command?"

"No," said Connor's mouth, with a very Becker-like smirk.

Matt laughed. "Let's go back to the ARC. We have other...business."

The two body swappers smiled.

"Do we ever," said Connor.

"Jess, we're coming in," Becker said.

"Good. I knew you'd be brilliant," she said.

"Even in this body, huh?" he asked.

"Stop putting my flesh and bones down!" cried Connor. "I like them!"

Everyone laughed as they walked to the trucks.

End of Chapter Seven