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"I can't believe this is happening" the now younger Donte groaned.
Kitty walked up to her brother who was still a good deal taller than her.
"It's not that bad. At least you didn't get as young as we did. It was the candy that did it to them and to us. Now we know and can probably find an antidote for it"
"So let's go" Donte said walking towards their truck. The others were about to follow when Jimmy spoke up.
"Wait...you're 15 now."
"Yeah, and?"
"A few months too young to drive" Chris realized.
"15 year olds can get permits" Donte said defensively.
"Even if that, you can't use your drivers license anymore either. If we get caught, they'll never believe you"
Donte frowned stepping back from the truck and slammed the driver's door closed. He sighed in defeat realizing Chris was right and sat on the ground. "Fine. But now what, then?"
"We could always take a bus or cab"
"We have three problems" Martin started listing things off his fingers "It's Halloween, so even if we did, we wouldn't get far fast, remember? Second, do the even work on Halloween? Third, we'd need money to even get that far. I doubt any of us has enough to pay for 7 bus ticke-"
"Are you done?" Donte stopped him right then in his rant.
By then, everyone was staring at him blankly which made him stop complaining further and look away.
"Okay. What if we just walk? It'll take longer, but we have to get...wait a second, where are we even going?" Chris brought up.
Jimmy shrugged, "Well...to find some sort of cure? To find the person that did this? Someone that could help? I dunno"
"Well I think I'd be good to find out who did this, first" Koki suggested.
Aviva nodde in agreement. "Hey, yeah. I bet if we find the person who did this, we'll find a cure"
During this, Laura had been looking around and waiting to point something out.
"Hey...wait a minute. Guys, come here a second"
Aviva and Chris, the two nearest by people, walked over to where Kitty was.
"What's up, Kit?"
"Maybe he knows something. Why don't we ask him?" she motioned over at a man who was handing out candy across and the street from where they were. She made her way across with a group of trick-or-treaters.
Kitty, Aviva, and Chris went over to the shop next door. Kitty asked the man if he knew anything about the two.
"A girl and lady? No, Mr. Zahari owns the candy shop alone, and he's out of town. He doesn't have any wife, daughter, or whoever else they may be to him that I know of, sadly. No family. They could be friends, but I haven't seen them before, anyways. Sorry"
"Thanks anyway" Kitty nodded looking at the candy shop across the street, thinking. The trio went back to the others, Chris walking slowly behind the girls.
"Something wrong?"
"No, but something is up with that shop, guys. I bet those two that gave you the candy have something to do with it. I'm sure of it"
Chris nodded touching his head absentmindedly. "Yes, but the shop is closed. What are we gonna do? Break in?"
Martin sent Chris a sneaky grin and Chris immediately wished he hadn't given him the idea. "Er, wait, I take that back! Martin don't get any-"
"Too late" Martin said already up and walking towards the sweet shop's direction. Jimmy and Donte slinked behind him to see just what he was gonna do.
Koki followed to try and keep an eye on the three, mainly, ring leader and his sidekick, ready to fish them out of any plan backfire trouble they might get into.
"Oh, brothers. I swear, its like we have to watch them like we're the older siblings!" Kitty sighed walking quickly after them.
Aviva followed "Definitely. It's just like having more than one brother to watch after living with those three. Sure glad Koki's around, too. And when you came around, Laura"
Chris sighed, but followed. He felt unusually tired. Until he realized something. "H-Hey! Wait a minute, I do not get into trouble!"
Kitty nodded. "We know, Chris. You usually think, and then go right along with them"
Chris frowned, not realizing his stumble. "No way! Martin...Martin drags m-me into...t..."
The girls laughed.
"Speechless because you know we're right?"
Chris didn't answer. "Oh, cmon, Chris. We were just messing with you"
Still no answer. The girls turned around, and what they saw made them gasp. "Chris!"
They ran back to the now fainted Kratt. "W-What happened?! He was fine just a second ago!" Aviva panicked.
"I don't know! He just...I can't..."
But just as soon as he'd passed out, Chris started to become conscious again. Both girls sighed in relief.
"Chris, you scared us half to death" Aviva told him, still worried.
"Why did you faint?"
"Are you alright?"
Chris blinked slowly, looking up at the girls, his eyes big and questioning. "W-who are you?"
Aviva stared at Chris for a long time.
"Um...what? Is that...a trick question?" Kitty asked not knowing how to respond to that question exactly.
"Chris, it's us! Aviva and Kitty?"
Chris sat up rubbing his head. "I don't know you...where am I?"
Aviva was trying to process this. She had an idea of what was wrong, but worried what the answer would be. "Chris? How...old are you?"
Chris looked at her and held up three fingers. "I'm four" he answered simply.
Aviva stared at him, concerned, then sent Kitty a look asking if she realized the same thing she had.
Kitty glanced from Aviva to Chris and back to Aviva, starting to understand. Both girls could tell by the almost innocent look he was giving them that he wasn't joking.
"Oh, no...we gotta find Martin"
"Guys! This is breaking and entering. We could get in a lot of trouble..." Jimmy said hesitantly.
"Oh relax! What are they gonna do, put us in jail? Too young. Besides, it's for a good cause" Martin shrugged still trying to find some way to open the door, no longer pulling on it.
"Yeah, but Donte's not. And like the police are gonna believe that!" Koki had good points, but Martin wasn't really listening.
When Kitty, Chris, and Aviva up to Martin and one of his partners in crime, they were already busy trying to pry open the back door. Aviva stood by holding Chris's hand and Kitty went up to Martin. "Martin, there's...wait what are you doing?"
"Trying to open this door"
"He's been yanking on it for the last few minutes" Koki explained with her arms crossed.
"Kitty grabbed his Martin's to stop him. "Martin, stop! Look, I know where your coming from, but I just don't think-"
"Uh...Kit? It's already open..." Martin said slowly pulling the door open.
The girls blinked. "How...?"
They looked in the doorway to see Donte standing there with a few cuts on his costume. "That was definitely not the easiest way to open a door..."
Kitty shook her head. "I'm not even gonna ask how you shimmied your way in there"
Martin shrugged, "Well, as long as its open. The damage has been done"
Kitty sighed. "Well we ave a problem that might mean we have much less time than we thought. Chris is acting like a four year old now!"
"What? Where is he?" Martin asked. He spotted his brother next to Aviva and went over. "Chris?"
Said four year old grinned letting go of Aviva. "Martin! Who are they?"
Martin looked over his shoulder slowly at the others who were staring back.
"Chris?! Oh no, if things keep going the way I think they're going, I'm next!"
Jimmy panicked.
Donte sighed. "We have to hurry"
Martin nodded and walked past Donte, who was still standing in the doorway, and inside to find a light switch with the other guys behind him. The girls gave them looks, but followed, Chris with them.
After flipping on the light, they all looked around. They'd entered in the back in some storage area. Many jars of different candies lined he shelves of two walls, while on the other side of the room there were the ingriendents to making them.
Chris grinned in a childish way. "Wow! Look at all this! That's the biggest lollipop I've ever seen!"
Jimmy got wide-eyed. "Whoa...I'm in sweet heaven! The perfect place to be on Halloween! And since we didn't get to go trick-or-treating..."
"Okay. Lets split up and look for anything out of place. It could be one of the ingriendients, a potion, anything's possible. Let's be quick about it"
Just as Jimmy was about to grab a jar full of chocolates, but Martin grabbed his wrist.
"Help me look in the other parts of this place, JZ"
"Uh, but-"
Martin was already pulling the heart-broken redhead away, oblivious to the younger's distress.
"Hmm..." Kitty watched them as they left the room.
"Chris, you come with me" Aviva stated taking Chris's hand.
"Okay" Chris answered as they turned to leave. Then Chris remembered something "Oh! Hold on"
Aviva watched as Chris ran over to Kitty, tugging slightly on her outfit. She bent down, and Chris whispered something into her ear. She smiled brightly and nodded. "Definitely. Will do"
Chris smiled at her before he ran to Aviva again as the went out.
"That leaves us three" Donte said looking at the two girls.
"We should all stay together" Kitty told him. They both nodded in agreement.
Koki looked around. "Well, honestly I think the cause isn't in here. Everything looks normal"
"Let's check the front of the shop" Donte suggested walking towards the exit of the room where the others had gone.
Koki and Donte entered a kitchen which is where Martin and Jimmy were. They passed through and Koki noticed something. "Kitty?"
Kitty came running up stuffing a brown bag in her pocket. "I'm coming"
"What was that?" Donte questioned.
"Oh, nothing, really" Kitty shrugged as they walked into the front of the shop behind the counter.
Koki walked over and looked at some of the random jars on the shelves. Donte looked in a pantry will Kitty looked under the counter. She looked and found each nearly empty save for a few papers. She was about to go search somewhere else when a small glint caught her eye from inside the cabinet.
"What's this?"
Kitty pulled out a jet black unlabeled jar with a note under it. She read it. She then quickly opened the jar and looked at its contents.
"Guys? I found something you wanna see"
Koki and Donte walked over to her and she showed them.
"It's the candies" Koki recognized them.
"Yeah. And you'll never guess what else"
She handed Koki the note and Donte read it over her shoulder.
"Zach" they both said lowly.
"And to think all I found in that pantry was this camcorder. Why was this even in there anyway?" Donte said pulling it out then putting it in his pocket. The girls gave him a look.
"What? I'll put it back"
"Anyways, I should've know that was coming. Who else has this kind of skill?"
"Well, I can actually name one or two more people, but not important. Right now, we have to-"
"Guys!" Aviva yelled running in she stopped by the door. "You will not believe what we found!"
Chris came running after her and crashed into her unable to stop. He fell back. "I said wait up..."
"You won't believe what we did either, but what's yours?"
Aviva pointed to the back room. "C'mon! There's this...thing inside the closet"
"Thing? What kind of thing?" Donte questioned.
Aviva sighed. "I don't know, but we can show you. Now let's move it, I left Jimmy and Martin in there alone"
*XX*
"Great! Zach, they're onto us! What now, genius?" Donita asked with slight sarcasm in the last statement.
"Yeah. What now, shrimpy?" Gorumand asked from his seat in the dark room.
"Stop critizing me!" Zach said raising his voice. He was currently typing like crazy pushing what seemed to be a zillion identical random buttons on his huge monitor. "I'm working on it!"
Donita rolled her eyes mumbling. "We weren't..."
Dabio stood directly behind Zach watching him closely. Zach turned around suddenly. "Woud. You. Please. Stop breathing down my neck? You've been doing it for the past twenty minutes, and I can't think! Go away and do something productive!"
Dabio, looking slightly hurt, walked away and out of the room.
Donita and Gourmand smirked.
"Getting a little touchy, are we Zach?" Donita asked.
Zach sent a glare her way before huffing as he turned sharply around and went back to work. "You'd better how this works. Our whole plan could be at risk"
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