A/N: Thanks for the review everyone! I finally got 100! Woo-hoo! Ok, there's going to be a little change in this. I'll type her name as Crystal, but everyone will call her C.J. But it's the same person, ok? Crystal and C.J. are the same person!

Ch.13-Captured!

"Onto Step Four: The Change," Zack said as he paced his bedroom; Max, Kuro, and Tapeworm sat in front of him. "What happens in step four again?"

"I told you this before! Max and I will go out and by you clothes that Cody would normally wear while you and Tapeworm go to the gym to either work out or play basketball until you're…as slim as Cody. Then, once he gets here, you two will switch. No one will know the difference," Kuro responded.

"I think they would know the difference. Zack's not that bright," Max pointed out.

"I can tutor him."

"Then you'll need to start teaching him now. We'll swing by later," Tapeworm said as he and Max stood and left the room. Zack and Kuro waved at their friends as they left. Kuro then turned towards Zack and had a look of disgust on her face. He had his arm raised and was counting armpit hair.

"Put your arm down and open a book!" She snapped. He dropped his arm and looked at her confused. "What book?" Kuro growled and pulled her math book out of her backpack and opened it up to the chapter they were working on. "Get working and ask me when you need help!"

Zack opened a notebook and picked up a pencil. He stared at the book and looked up and smiled at Kuro weekly and asked, "Can you help me?" Rolling her eyes, Kuro got off the bed and got next to him. For the next hour she was helping him on two different functions. He couldn't process the information that well so they took a while.

"That's it! I give up! You can't concentrate! It's hopeless!" Kuro said as she stood up and glared.

"Saving my brother is NOT hopeless!" Zack said in a quiet voice as he glared at the paper.

"No, but helping YOU is!"

"Look," Zack said as he stood abruptly and grabbed her arm; she looked into his hard blue eyes. "My brother is out there somewhere getting hurt by my bastard of a father! I want to help him, no matter what. Even if it means studying. I have to save my brother! You'd understand if you had siblings."

Kuro growled and jerked her arm out of Zack's reach. Her icy blue eyes hardened into a glare as she backed out of his room with a scowl on her face. Her gaze was still on him as she said, "If you were smart enough you wouldn't have told me that!" With that, Kuro stomped angrily out of the room and slammed the door to his suite shut.

Sighing angrily, Zack threw his math books off of the desk and they landed on the floor with a thud. He dropped onto his bed and held his head in his hands as he felt his twin telepathy starting. He quickly grabbed a pillow and pressed it against his mouth as he started to scream when he felt his brother's pain. He was so used to it and it didn't hurt as much as before, but it was still painful.

He panted heavily as the pain subsided and sweat trickled down his forehead. He closed his eyes and tried to focus on the pain that Cody was feeling, trying to link to his brother. Scenes started to flash before his eyes as sounds entered his head. He heard a girl's scream and a man's shout. It sounded like his father. He shut his eyes tighter as he heard Cody's gasps of pain and saw a man pointing a gun at Cody. He saw the man slowly pull his finger against the trigger and-

"Zack?" Carey asked in a worried voice as he shook her oldest son. Zack's eyes shot open as he looked up at his mother from the floor. He sat up and rubbed his head as his mother continued to look at him in concern.

"I'm fine mom. I just dozed off," he said as he stood.

"It didn't seem like you 'just dozed off'. You were screaming Cody's name, and jerking around, and-" Carey started.

"Mom! I'm fine, ok?" Zack snapped as he backed up.

"Why're your math books on the floor?"

"I was trying to study…and I got a headache and accidentally knocked them over. That's all."

"If you're sure-"

"I'm sure!"

"Ok then. I have a gig tonight. Maddie will come to baby sit you in about twenty minutes. Love you."

"Yeah, whatever," Zack said loud enough for his mom to hear and for her to flinch. "If you loved me you'd bring Cody back."

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While Maddie baby sat him, Zack sat at the table all night working on his homework. He got Maddie to help him and was finally starting to understand it when the phone rang. He watched as Maddie picked up the phone and started to talk to the person on the other line. Only when Maddie called him to the phone, did he put down his pencil.

"H'llo?" He asked as he stared out the window.

"Zack…it's C.J." a voice full of pain said on the other end of the line.

"What's up? Where's Cody?" He asked immediately.

"I don't know where he is…he must've taken him."

"NO!"

"I'm sorry."

"How could you let him take Cody like that? How could you? You were supposed to be protecting him!" Zack growled, trying not to catch Maddie's attention.

"I know, I know!" Crystal sounded as if she were crying. "This is my entire fault. I'm here, if you wanted to know. We can go looking for him tomorrow. I remember one thing before waking up here."

"Hold on. I'll come down. Where are you?"

"The alley two buildings down please hurry."

Zack took a quick glance around the room and noticed, more like heard, that Maddie was in the bathroom. He quietly grabbed his coat and left the room. He got into the elevator and waited impatiently for it to go down to the lobby. He avoided Mr. Moseby and left the Tipton and stepped into the cold air. He went down the street two buildings and saw a girl with black hair clutching her knees and trembling uncontrollably.

"Crystal?" He asked in a quiet voice; it startled her anyway. She looked up at him with confused filled eyes as he knelt by her. She reached out a hand and gently stroked his cheek, ran it through his hair, and turned his head from side-to-side.

"You're…him," she muttered. "You're Zack. You look a lot like your twin."

"I know. Come inside, you need to get warm," He said as he put an arm around her waist and helped her stand. She leaned against him for support and he helped her into the hotel and up to his room. He helped Crystal sit on the couch, right as Maddie came out of the bathroom wearing her Tipton uniform but a towel was wrapped around her head; the scent of lavender came out of the bathroom behind her.

"Maddie, this is Crystal also known by us as C.J. She's the one who's been helping Cody this whole times," Zack said as he handed Crystal a cup of hot-chocolate.

"If she's here that must mean Cody's-"Maddie started.

"He's been captured. Now we don't know where he is or how we're going to find him," Zack interrupted as he ran a hand through his hair; then it suddenly dawned on him. "Ceej, you said that you remembered something? What was it? Did it have to do with Cody? Tell me!"

"I heard something that your dad said. He said something about…Cody. Something like, "If they come for him again I swear I'll kill him. I'll tell them it was an accident. That way they won't be able to get him back!'" Crystal said in a perfect imitation of Kurt.

"Where were you when you got ambushed?" Maddie questioned.

"That's the pathetic part. We didn't even get out of California."

"Well, that settles it. If we can't get my brother here, we'll have to go to my brother!" Zack announced as he looked out the window into the starry night. "And we will get him back, safe and sound!"