Ch. 14 We Can Work It Out
Morning...
Onyx wakes up all sore and tense. He groans as the sun rays penetrate his eyes.
'Why can't this go away? Why can't this all go away? I just want everything the way it was. But how?'
Onyx goes to the bathroom and looks at the mirror closely, 'How did it all go wrong so fast? I would say I've no one to blame but myself, the problem is with that assumption; is that I don't even know myself. It's getting harder and harder to remember myself. Thanks to this situation I'm in, everyone; except Mayhem, believes I'm just another experiment created by Jumba. But, with this holophone I know that isn't true. It is the only reminder of my former life. However, that doesn't stop when I look into the mirror and see me; the old me, the human me. It is ironic this dilemma. Before I was denying my experiment side and now I'm denying my human side. What was I thinking? Before that night, I actually had a normal life. I-I don't know anymore.'
He punches the mirror, 'Damn it all to hell!'
He looks back at the mirror as he recoils his arm, "Perfect."
'Just perfect.'
Onyx leaves the bathroom, quietly.
Few hours later...
"LILO!" A shriek thunders around the house, waking everyone up abruptly.
There were many thuds heard around the house as the residents fallen out of their beds and all were groaning.
"LILO!" Nani screams louder as she walks into Lilo's room.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BATHROOM MIRROR!?" she yells.
"What are you talking about Nani?" Lilo groans as she rubs her eyes.
"Why is the mirror in the bathroom broken?!" she shouts.
"I don't know? You're screaming woke me up," Lilo stated sleepily.
"Onyx. Onyx! Where are you?" A voice screams and both turn to see Mayhem coming into the room.
"Have any of you seen Onyx? I can't find him anywhere," Mayhem said.
"Oh really? Onyx's disappearance just happened right when the mirror is broken, coincidence? I don't think so?" Nani stated.
"Yeah...He has been acting up these past few weeks anyway. Do you think something happen to him?" Lilo asks.
"Or do you even think it is someone else," A voice offers an opinion as the group turn to see Pleakley there.
"Gaba?" Stitch voices.
"I mean, it makes sense. It could've been someone else disguised as Onyx," Pleakley explains clearly.
"Come on. Don't think that. It could be something else," Mayhem stated.
"True," Lilo said. "So now what do we do?"
"Well. I'm going to find that experiment that I saw last night," Mayhem explains.
"You mean might've seen," Lilo points out.
"Listen, I know what I saw and only an experiment could do that. So if you don't mind," Mayhem speaks as he walks away.
"Just everyone waking on wrong side of bread," Jumba said while rubbing his eyes.
"We can't keep doing this. I'm sorry, but we've to something about Onyx and Mayhem. I can't keep fixing the house with the little money I have. Either we do something about them or…" Nani trails off.
"Or what?" Lilo said.
"Or they've to find some other place to be," Nani said.
"No! You can't do that. They're ohana Nani. You can't get rid of them, you can't," Lilo pleaded.
"Well….Either we somehow get more money coming in or it might have to be that option," Nani said as she puts her hands on her hips.
All was quiet as Nani sighs, "Sorry"
She adds as she pinches the bridge of her nose, "Let's just try to be careful and no one goes into the bathroom until I clean up the shards."
All was quiet as Nani, Jumba, and Pleakley left the room. Mayhem turns off his chameleon ability and sighs, "Onyx."
He quietly leaves the house and starts to look for the experiment he saw last night.
Afternoon…
Lilo and Stitch were walking around, trying to feel better.
That is when Stitch said something to Lilo, "Lilo…Stitch has something to tell youga."
"What is it Stitch?" Lilo said as they stopped.
Stitch looks around and then pulls Lilo behind some of the trees and bushes.
Lilo was perplexed by this and as soon as they stop, Stitch releases her hand and sighs.
"Meega naga nota where start?" Stitch said.
"Well, the beginning would be a good place," Lilo said a little confused.
"Okie-taka," Stitch began, "Well…remember when Onyx was helping Ty?"
Lilo nods as Stitch continues, "Well…Meega and Crimson were listening to Ty and Onyx talking."
"Listen? You mean eavesdropping?" Lilo pointed out.
"Naga point. Anyway, Onyx asks Ty to naga tell ohana about his problem. That isa big secret," Stitch explains.
"Secret? Why would Onyx want to keep a secret from us?" Lilo asks.
"What could it be that he doesn't want any of us to figure out?" she adds.
"Meega naga nota," Stitch said, "But isa misa big. We find out together."
"No Stitch. You shouldn't try to figure out someone's secret. It's a secret for a reason," Lilo protests.
"But gaba if isa something huge! We need tell ohana," Stitch stated.
"No, Stitch. We can't tell someone else's secret or secrets, it might hurt them or others," Lilo said.
"But are youga curious gaba isa secret?" Stitch said. "Even a bit curious?"
"Yes. Yes I'm very curious about the secret, but that doesn't mean I'm going to poke my nose in someone else's business," Lilo said.
The two walk back and were walking again, but the thought of Onyx's secret was always coming to mind.
"Wait!" Lilo stops and Stitch looks at her, "Do you think it also has something to do with Mayhem?"
"Gaba?" Stitch asks.
"Well…It just seems like whenever they want to talk to each other, they're either gone together or they meet up and talk. It is always the two of them. They always seem to be talking to each other more and more," Lilo pointed out.
"So gaba youga saying isa Mayhem nota Onyx's secret?" Stitch asks.
"Or, they both know or it is between them. Making it their secret," Lilo explains. "Seriously…sometimes I think they know more than they let on."
"Youga nota," Stitch said, "We should get Fibber. He sort this out."
"Yeah, but another time; right now all I want is to be happy," Lilo said.
The two were saw people rock climbing and smile to each other as they went over to the rock wall. Lilo was strapped in while Stitch was already on the wall. The two climb as high as they wanted and could see how nice today was. Lilo and Stitch hear honking and look down to see a person having no control in his car and hitting the rock wall.
It shook and some of the kids were screaming, as some were falling but were held by their life lines. The shaking of the rock wall also dropped two blue experiment pods off the top and into a garden when the sprinklers were on and the two blue pods; 632 and 625. The green glow grew and appeared were two experiments. One looks like Angel but red and white and the other looks like a golden, chubbier version of Stitch with short ears that flop down at the sides of his head, three small antennae that look like a tuft of fluffy fur, pointed fingers, short stumpy legs, hourglass-shaped marking on his back and two flat teeth sticking out of his mouth and overlapping his bottom lip and a very dark gold that run down his back.
As soon as the two experiments look at each other, 625 couldn't help but blush at the beautiful creature that was standing before him. The other experiment chuckles as she grabs his paw and pulls him as they run off somewhere.
Back to Mayhem...
Mayhem was walking around the island until he finds Onyx sitting on a log, with a lost expression on his face.
"Onyx? What has gotten in you?" Mayhem asks.
Onyx turns and the lost expression turns into a kind of 'fuck you' look and he spats, "Just leave. I don't want to talk."
"Onyx, what is really going on with you?" Mayhem questions.
"Since you know me so well, you should've figured out by now what the hell is bothering me. I guess you don't really know me as well as you thought you did," Onyx stated hatefully.
"You know what. Fine, don't tell me. But, at least help me find the experiment I saw last night," Mayhem said.
"You mean you think you saw," Onyx shot back.
"I know what I saw and only an experiment could do damage like that," Mayhem defends himself.
He adds, "You need something to take your mind off whatever is bothering you."
Onyx sighs, "Fine."
He stands up and the two begin a search for the experiment.
At the moment...
625 was walking around with shopping bags for himself and Gantu, since last night Mayhem made him so mad he needed comfort food.
"Why that no good... How dare he say my skills are bad," 625 mutters to himself.
Since his mind was so busy with other things, he didn't even notice someone was walking up to him. Until both collided and fell to the ground.
"Ow," both groan.
When he risen up from the ground, he look to the person who he collided and was shocked to see who he was looking at.
"I-it can't be?!" 625 exclaims.
"This is not possible!" the other adds.
"How can there be two of me!" both 625 exclaims.
"Oh boojiboo," a voice calls out to them and both turn to see the other experiment there.
"Hey there sugar," the other 625 said as he winks over her and she runs over to him.
The other 625 had his mouth hung open as he sees the two of them.
The other 625 with the female experiment helping him up asks, "Hey...is that materials to make a sandwich?"
"Yeah," said 625.
"Cool. I'm starving," the other said, "so is my girl."
She giggles and then waves to the other 625.
625 returns the action as he thought, 'Gantu is going to love this.'
625 said, "Follow me then."
The other two experiments nodded excitedly as the three of them walk to Gantu's ships.
Back to Mayhem and Onyx...
They were walking and they didn't speak for some time. Onyx was getting annoyed and bored from this, he sighs.
Mayhem senses this and asks, "I know. But, I smell an experiment here."
Onyx stated rudely, "You should get your nose check along with your brain. I don't see, hear or smell anything like an experiment."
Mayhem quips, "Is it because of your emotional distress is making your other senses dull?"
"Grr," Onyx growls and then stops. Mayhem turns and questions, "Did you just growl at me?"
"Yeah so what of it!" Onyx barks at him.
"Who do you think you're dealing here little boy! I'm just trying to stick to the plan. The one we agreed on and it seems like I'm the only one actually doing anything right," Mayhem stated.
"Oh, so now you think I'm doing something wrong then?" Onyx shouts at him.
"Now you're putting words in my mouth. Anyway, we don't have time to quarrel about this," Mayhem adds.
Mayhem turns around and begins to walk again with Onyx following close behind him.
Onyx mimics him, "We don't have time to quarrel about this. Blah."
Mayhem shouts as he remains walking forward, "I heard that!"
"Mayhem...Lets face the fact that you didn't see an experiment and that the whole store scene was just a crazy coincidence," Onyx said.
"No! I know what I saw and what I smelled that night. It was an experiment and I'll show you even if it kills me," Mayhem said.
"Then that'll be forever. Look can we just go home," Onyx complained.
"No. We can't. Besides, you need something to help you get out of your funk and since you won't tell me what it is; we'll just spend some quiet time together," Mayhem explains.
"Why not read my mind then," Onyx mutters.
"Don't think I haven't thought of that option," Mayhem shot back.
"What!" Onyx exclaims, "That's invading my privacy! You can't do that!"
"Note how I said thought of, never did I mention I was planning on doing it," Mayhem said.
"You know sometimes I think God likes to play with me. That's just my luck, huh?" Onyx adds.
"Okay, stop it. It's not like you're cursed or something," Mayhem stated.
"Oh really. We don't know that for sure. I might be cursed and I don't even know it," Onyx said.
"Onyx, stop it," Mayhem speaks, "you shouldn't think like that."
"Don't get me wrong. I believe that everything happens for a reason and all, but sometimes I wish that it didn't had to be so drastic, like this," Onyx stated.
"We can go at this whole religion thing or we can find the experiment," Mayhem offers.
"Fine," Onyx sighs.
Onyx walks pass him and adds, "Then let's continue searching for it."
Onyx turns on his holophone and looks at it sadly, he sighs.
"Onyx," Mayhem mutters sadly. His ear twitches and then he smell the same scent as before from last night, "Onyx! Look out!"
But before Onyx could react, a green mouse-like experiment with a long tail adds three tiny tentacles attach itself to him. He struggles to get out but the pest won't get off of him. The experiment inserts his tentacles into the jack of the holophone and then it turns on. Onyx tries to pull the experiment off, but it wouldn't release the holophone.
Mayhem psychically picks both Onyx and the experiment and then slam them onto the ground. "Oof," Onyx groans, "Ow! Mayhem!"
Mayhem shrugs, "Thought it would stop the experiment from attacking."
Onyx shakes his head and tries to pull his arm out, "Let go! Don't touch it!"
The harder he pulled, the more resistance was met. "Mayhem! Which experiment does this remind you of!?" Onyx hollers.
"What?!" Mayhem shouts back.
"Think, which experiment does this remind you of. Look over the clues and the conclusion should come out!" Onyx states loudly.
Mayhem thought quickly, 'Okay...Let me think. Experiment shaped like a green mouse. Okay with appendages. Now, think back to the electronics...the speakers blew out, the TVs exploded and the cellphones...The people with cellphones had all everything erased. That's it!'
"Onyx! I know which experiment it is! It's, experiment 224, Tweak! Designed to reset dials to "maximum chaos." Get him off you!" Mayhem shouts.
"Don't you think I'm trying to!" Onyx hollers.
He rams the experiment into a tree repeatedly, until the experiment slides off his arm.
Onyx looks at the experiment and then immediately turns his attention to his holophone. He turns it on and ganders at it quickly. The expression of desperation grew more noticeable the longer he searched through the holophone. He mutters, "No, no, no, no."
Mayhem asks, "Onyx?"
"No...No way. I- ….My holophone," Onyx mumbles.
"What? What's the matter?" Mayhem asks Onyx.
Onyx lets his arms slowly fall to his side as he looks down as he whispers, "It's gone. Everything I had on it, all gone."
"Onyx," Mayhem softly speaks.
"You...This is all your fault," Onyx accuses loudly as he balls his fists.
"What? How is this my fault?" Mayhem asks him.
"Because...You didn't study the experiment's power and now I lost all the things on my holophone," Onyx finishes.
"It's a heap of junk, that's all. A fancy junk cellphone," Mayhem said.
"Shut up," Onyx speaks.
"I mean...what is so special about it anyway. All it is is garbage," Mayhem continues.
"Mayhem, shut up," Onyx threatens.
"There is no value to that decide you keep on you," Mayhem states.
"I said SHUT THE HELL UP!" Onyx shouts as he charges at Mayhem.
Mayhem makes a force-field and Onyx crashes into it. Mayhem releases the force-field and asks, "What is wrong with you!?"
Mayhem rolls his eyes and goes over to pick up the experiment "Come on."
Both were quiet as they walk back to Lilo's house.
Gantu's Ship...
"Hey G! You're never going to believe what happened to me!" 625 shouted.
"What?! Can't you see I'm trying to fix the stupid machine. Dumb machine, here I thought it was working and then suddenly, nothing," He mutters the last part.
"Gantu come over here! I've got experiments!" 625 said.
"What! OW!" Gantu said as there was a loud crash heard around the place and then the sounds of footsteps being heard.
He rushes out to the door and could see the Angel experiment. He smiles, "Nice going 625-"
He stops as he sees two of them and then his jaw drops.
"You know...you should be careful with that. Your face might freeze like that," the other 625 said.
"I think it would be an improvement," said 625.
Both turn back to Gantu and then Gantu's 625 said, "Do you think his brain has stopped working?"
"Only one way to know," answered the other 625.
Both go over to him and shout at him, "HEY!"
When they got no response. Both of them wave their paws in front of his face and still nothing. Both go down and then gave Gantu a light push, he fell on the floor hard.
"Ouch, that looked like it hurts," Gantu's partner said.
"Yep. ...Now, let's make us some sandwiches," the other 625 said, "Agreed?"
"Agree," Gantu's 625 said.
The three of them walk away from Gantu as they make sandwiches.
Few minutes later...
Gantu wakes up as he groans, "Ooh. My head."
He adds as he sits up, "...I've the worst dream. I thought I saw two 625s. Thank god it was a dream."
He stands up and walks off as he chuckles, "Two 625s. That'll be the day."
When he goes into one of the rooms, he sees the three of them eating sandwiches. His face lost its coloring as he stood there paralyzed by what he sees.
"Hey look it's blubber butt," Gantu's 625 said.
"Blitnzak," Gantu mutters.
He screams, "How can there be three of you!?"
The three experiments chuckle and Gantu was confused by this, until one of the 625s transforms into an Angel-like experiment. He just stared at the experiment with bulging eyes.
"Yeah...I decide to call her Morphite. She can morph herself or others into different people perfectly," 625 said, "Oh and this is my new friend. Me."
The other 625 waved and Gantu mutters, "I'm not getting pain enough for all of this."
"Wait...I think we can use Morphite to our advantage," Gantu said as he was thinking.
"I've got an excellent idea," he exclaims as he snaps his fingers. He goes over to the three and mumbles the plan to them.
Back to Lilo's house…
Mayhem and Onyx walk inside and see Lilo sitting on the couch, upside down with stitch next to her.
Mayhem carries the experiment to the ship and Onyx heads to Lilo and Stitch.
"What's up guys?" he asks.
"Oh, nothing special; except we rock climbed for a short time but then had to stop," Lilo said.
"Why?" Onyx questions them.
"This guy's car went crazy. He said he stopped in front of a weird looking mouse as it went under his car," Lilo answers.
"Oh…so that guy must've met Tweak already," Onyx said.
"Tweak," Lilo asks.
"Yeah…the new experiment Mayhem put away with the other experiment," he finishes.
He goes to the kitchen and turns around to find Mayhem there. "Jesus Christ!" Onyx mutters to himself as he fell back against the refrigerator door. He looks back to Mayhem and speaks, "Don't do that."
"Gaba," Mayhem asks, "Why not?"
"Because…just don't," Onyx said after failing to find a reason, "also why did you say gaba. I thought you hated saying those words because it made you feel inferior?"
"Well…Meega did it so you wouldn't feel so stupid," Mayhem counters.
Onyx sighs, "Going to ignore that."
Onyx looks down at his apple and takes a bite out of it as Mayhem stands there. "What do you want?" Onyx asks a little annoyed.
"Well…I thought I saw another experiment and was wondering if you'd like to help me," Mayhem said.
"Will it make you stop looking at me?" Onyx retorts and Mayhem nods. "Okay, fine. I'll help you find another experiment, but after this…I want to be alone. Got it?"
Mayhem nods again. When Onyx is done eating his apple, both Mayhem and Onyx leave through the back door.
A few minutes of searching…
"Mayhem…I don't smell anything," Onyx said.
"That doesn't mean it isn't around here. Let's keep looking," Mayhem retorts.
"Mayhem…I really don't think there is an experiment out here," Onyx voices his idea.
"Yeah…But who was right the last time?" Mayhem asks.
"You were," Onyx said.
"Exactly, so why not we spilt into two groups; you go right and I'll go left. We'll cover more ground like that," Mayhem order.
"Aye, aye captain bossy pants," Onyx murmurs to himself as he is done what he is told.
Mayhem goes to the left and then softly speaks, "Okay…where is it."
Mayhem sniffs the air and then the ground as he follows a scent. He digs up the sand and there before him was a pod labeled 211. He picked up the pod and then threw it to where the closest body of water was. Once the water reactive to it, the green glow was shown and the experiment was exposed.
Mayhem hollers, "Onyx! The experiment!"
Onyx asks loudly, "What? Where?"
Mayhem runs up to him and points out the direction, "Go, we need to get him! Come on!"
Onyx looks back to Mayhem and said, "You take a rest. Let me do it. You look tired."
"Thanks," Mayhem sighs as Onyx runs off to the capture the experiment. Mayhem stands up straight and morphs into Morphite as she smiles. "This isa too easy."
"Mayhem, come over here. You'll never believe what this experiment can do!" Onyx cries out.
"Coming!" Morphite changes her voice to Mayhem's and then changes her body back to Mayhem. Mayhem runs after them and sees monkey everywhere.
"What…What happened here?" Mayhem asks. "What's with all the monkeys?"
"That's the thing. They aren't really monkeys, until now I mean.…Before, they were just garbage and stuff," Onyx states with a smile.
He adds, "We've to be careful not to be touched or we'll turn into monkeys. Maybe you can use your psychic powers to apprehend the experiment."
"So you want me to do all the work while you just stand around and do nothing," Mayhem said.
Onyx sighs, "Fine. I'll do it. Hopefully this will get you off my case."
They run through as they follow the path of monkeys to where the experiment was. It was a brown monkey-like experiment. They see the monkey grabbing a bicycle and it transform into a monkey.
Mayhem asks Onyx, "What's the plan?"
"Well…" Onyx pause, "I'm going to wing it."
"Wing it? What do you mean by-," but before Mayhem could finish Onyx was already going to the experiment.
"Rrar!" Onyx growls as he charges at the experiment.
Mayhem stood back as he looked around the place. He hoped there was something there he could use. Then an idea sprung to life. While Onyx was fighting the experiment, Mayhem was going to get the one thing monkeys can't resist. Bananas. He took them from the empty Fruit Market and whistles at the experiment.
Both Onyx and the experiment look and see bananas, the experiment was going crazy and then Onyx charges him in the gut as the experiment was sent into the air. It falls back down and was out for the count. Onyx waves to Mayhem, "Thanks for the distraction."
Mayhem comments, "Don't mention it. Really."
Onyx picks up the experiment carefully and asks, "I wonder how you unchanged the process?"
Mayhem suggests, "Maybe something in the lab can help us change these things back to before they were monkeys."
Onyx nods and both walk back home.
Lilo's House…
Mayhem comes into the living room and sits down beside Lilo and Stitch as they watch a show.
Mayhem asks Lilo a question, "Lilo…do you believe in curses and all that stuff?"
Lilo nods, "Yes. Why do you ask?"
"Well," Mayhem began, "it's kinda hard to say, but I talked to Onyx and he thinks he's, uh…Um…You know cursed."
"Whatever gave him that assumption?" Lilo asks.
"Believe me, you don't want to know," Mayhem stated.
Back to Onyx…
"I mean…it makes sense. Just when something good comes into my life, something bad happens and snatches it away from me," Onyx said.
"You know you're not cursed, right?" Mayhem said as Onyx nods, "I just don't understand why things are the way they are. You know what I mean, right?
Mayhem comments, "Well, there's gotta be a reason."
Onyx just looks down and Mayhem exclaims, "Onyx, stop it, stop thinking like this. It's not like you to be like this."
"It's just…" Onyx started, "Bad luck has always been my companion, my company. And I'm tired of trying to do good things if bad things happen to me."
"Come on. Everything can't be as bad as you say it is?" Mayhem speaks. "Let's look at it like this; we don't even know what's going on here."
"No. We certainly don't," Onyx said sadly.
"Onyx, I'm being serious about this. There's has to be something," Mayhem said nicely.
"Like what?" Onyx asks confused.
"I don't know. Okay, well, then, there's probably another reason. I don't know, but what I do know is it's not your fault," Mayhem finishes.
Onyx laughs and Mayhem looks at him perplex, "What's so funny?"
"Never thought you would be this nice to me, that's all," Onyx answers.
They go to the front of the ship and then Mayhem stops Onyx. "Onyx, you can wait inside. I think I can handle things myself."
"You sure?" Onyx asks.
"Yep," Mayhem said.
"Well…Just be careful with Jangle there. I don't want to see you as a monkey," Onyx laughs and 'Mayhem' joins.
Onyx said, "Actually, let me take the experiment while you look for something to help change those things and/or people back to how they used to be."
"Okay," Mayhem agreed.
Onyx took the experiment and both went into the ship, Onyx went to where the other experiment were while Mayhem stood there. Then he camouflages himself to match the ship's interior as he followed Onyx. Once he got there, he sees the Onyx finish doing something and a door opens. He tries to get it before the doors shut, but the defense system activates and soon the ship goes into lock down mode. Morphite changes back as she is pushed back by the defense system. She growls, "Meega so close too."
She runs out of the ship and camouflages herself as others from the house rushed in. Jumba deactivates the system and goes inside. He asks, "What is going on in here?"
"You ask me? One moment I was about to put away the experiment, next thing I knew everything was in lock down mode," stated Onyx.
Onyx walks back outside and asks Jumba, "Jumba how long does 211's transformation process last?"
"Ah, 211. He, ha ha. That was very amazing surprise for ex-wife's mother, being turn into a monkey on her birthday," Jumba responds.
He adds, "Jumba will grab anti-monkey ray and shoot compound into air so it can disperse and help change everything and everyone that was touched by experiment 211."
He walks away and Onyx looks at Lilo, Stitch and Mayhem as he shrugs, "What?"
Lilo said, "Onyx…You're not cursed. You do know that, right?"
"Yeah, of course I do. Now. Though I should've listen to you Mayhem a few minutes ago," Onyx said.
"Um…Sorry, Onyx what was that?" He asks.
"What?" Onyx asks.
"What do you mean?" Mayhem questions him.
"You know, the talk we had when we caught 211. The one I named Jangle," Onyx said.
Mayhem looks bewildered as Onyx begins to put the pieces together.
"Wait, was that not you?" Onyx asks.
"Well, if it wasn't than it must've been a cousin. Jumba did make Morpholomew. He can change shape, but this cousin can also change the voice," Lilo said.
Onyx asks as he walks over to Mayhem and closely examines him, "Okay, well, how do I know this is you now? How do I know you're not that experiment right now?"
Mayhem pulls back his arm and pushes Onyx's paws away from him, "Because I'm not."
Onyx challenges Mayhem, "Prove it."
Mayhem looks around the group and speaks, "Sidebar."
Mayhem takes Onyx to a place out of eye shot and then puts a force-field around themselves so no one could hear them.
"December, blue, water. Can an experiment from this time-line tell you all about that?" Mayhem said as he lowers the force-field.
"I think I'm losing my mind," Onyx states as he and Mayhem walk back to the group.
But Onyx keeps on walking. "Where are you going?" Mayhem asks.
"To find something to help me calm down before I really do lose my mind," Onyx said.
Mayhem looks to Lilo and she nods, Mayhem copies the action and goes after him. "Onyx!"
Few minutes later...
Onyx's P.O.V
"So you aren't going to tell me what happened?" Mayhem repeated for the hundredth time. 'I couldn't tell him. I know what he would've said and that would just make me feel worse. I don't even remember the last time I felt so many emotions happening at once. Our time here, has blur through my mind. I remembered how I was. I used to be a quiet, shy teenage boy who got mostly A's. I never done anything my parents wouldn't be proud of. I haven't done anything really reckless, except that night. The night when I ran from home after fighting with my dad. When I said "Listen one day I'm going to leave and never come back!" Mayhem would never understand that and that's why I haven't spoken to him.'
"Why are you ignoring me? I didn't do anything!" Mayhem cried, as he grabs my paw. But I still wasn't going to speak to him. I had a right to ignore him. Every right. But the look in his eyes, almost made me cave. He looked lost. As if he was working on a puzzle that didn't have all the pieces. He didn't understand what was going on. Or what happened to me.
I sighed pull my arms away from him. Hoping he'll just leave me alone. I didn't want to feel anymore guilty than I do right now. I shouldn't feel guilty. I was the victim in this whole disaster. I didn't want to this, but looked what happen. Classic Marcus gets the worst of things. So add all of this together and try to put the blame on me. Trust me. It won't come up as my fault.
"Onyx, we've been walking around the island for quite sometime now. Are you ever going to tell me what is on your mind?" Mayhem asks.
"Yeah, perfect. Everything is perfect," I sarcastically remark.
'Just perfect. Tell me how did it come to this. Why this?'
"Onyx...you can't keep doing this to yourself when you feel whatever it is you feel," Mayhem said.
"That's why I can't tell you. You don't feel. You don't know how to use your heart. You only use your fuckin' brain. Unlike you, I can't turn off my heart. I'm sorry I've feelings. I'm sorry I feel emotions like sadness, hate, love, happiness. But, aren't you forgetting what I was before all of this," I said as a tear drop falls off my face.
"Ooh. So this is what's about," Mayhem said softly as it finally hits him.
"December, your birthday along with Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day; you spend it with your family and friends," Mayhem said.
"But not this year. I-I can't do it. B-because I-I'm here in this world. I can't believe we're in February. Six more months till our anniversary of being trapped here," I state as more tears fall.
I add angrily, "And you...You. You!"
I stop myself as I pace back and forth.
"Onyx, what's wrong?" Mayhem asks sternly. "Are you okay?"
"I hate this. I'm sorry for not being myself at all lately, but can you blame me? It's getting harder to know which me to be. I mean, a couple of days ago Sapphire said I looked butifa, Onyx. No Marky, no Marcus, no boojiboo. Nothing. I was quiet and she asked what's the matter in her tongue and that's when I realize something as I look into the mirror and saw the old me. I mutter to myself I can't do this anymore. I can't do this. She said 'Okie-taka. Okie-taka. Was isa something meega said?' I told her as gently as I could, 'No. Absolutely not. It's not you. I'm sorry.' Then I left," I told Mayhem.
"That's why the mirror was broken in the bathroom," Mayhem said.
"Yeah. How am I supposed to be with them when it isn't the right me. This isn't the right me at all," I add.
"This is working so far. Just as long as we don't blow our cover," Mayhem retorts.
"No. I think you're wrong," I state.
"What?" he asks.
"Basically, I don't think this is working anymore. Actually, let me rephrase that. I don't think it actually worked at all to begin with. You don't understand, okay. I'm sick and tired of being someone else. I miss me. The old me, the human teenaged boy me. I'm miss my old boring life. I miss my family. I wish I had never said that to my dad. I never meant it. I want my old identity back! I don't want to be doing this anymore," I confess.
"You can't change what has already happen," Mayhem stated.
"Sometimes I wonder if it is better to say the truth and let it out in the air, anyway," I voice my thought.
"Yeah, being sent to the asteroid prison in a strait-jacket. Great idea. You don't think they'll think we're crazy if we were to expose ourselves," Mayhem said.
"This is why I didn't want to tell you. You never listen to your heart. You never give it a chance," I told me.
"It's been a long time since I seen them, I didn't give them a text, a call, never came back from visiting Sapphire like I said I would. Never sent them a letter or an email, not even a facebook message. I wonder if they miss me," I ask as I look down to the ground feeling more guilty than before.
Mayhem saw Onyx shake as he brings his paw to his eyes as he wipes the tears away, "I-I miss them. I-I miss them so much. I-I want to go back to that night and take back what I said."
"You mean after all the things they did to you, you want to be back to that?" Mayhem asks.
"At least when I was a boring human I didn't have to constantly look over my shoulder for some crazy person after me! I didn't need to be fighting and hurting people and...and love ones. I was safe and sound in my quiet town! But now I've to worry about an evil hamster trying to take over my world, my clone who just wants to use me to help his sorry ass and now I've a robot bounty hunter after me along with the Grand Councilwoman! So yes I would love to have my old life back! Also, I didn't have to worry about dying! I'm sick of this! I mean, I feel like my head is fighting against me; trying to hide and erase some of my memories! I know I sound crazy, but that is why I can't do this. I can't," I said.
"No. You promised me you wouldn't do that. That we would keep our identities a secret," Mayhem counters.
Mayhem speaks, "I warn you. I warn you not to make bonds. I told you, pleaded with you. With this life, you can't make attachments. Now look at you, you want to give everything up!"
"Maybe they can help us?" I suggest.
"With what? Jumba didn't make the device yet and he doesn't have the plans set," Mayhem said.
"Listen to me. I lost my temper with Ty and I...I became like my dad," I confess sadly.
"What?" Mayhem asks shocked.
"Yeah, that's why he was crying with Crimson and Sapphire and the rest of them. I scared him pretty bad. I-I didn't mean to. I was just so angry at the situation and his nosing around was the last straw and I couldn't hold my temper anymore," I add, "I...I almost did what my dad did to me to Ty. I'm exactly like my dad."
"Onyx...you should get some sleep to help you," Mayhem suggests.
"Help me?! How will sleeping help? I'm still going to be here with you, away from family and the only thing that I had as a memento is gone! I no longer can use it!" I holler at him.
"That's exactly why you need some sleep, because you are not thinking clearly," he stated.
"I would love to sleep, but I want to know about my family and friends. I was going to test my holophone until today that is," I glare at him.
"You're blaming me for what that experiment did!" He exclaims.
"Yes. Yes, I am!" I shout angrily, "If you hadn't taken so long to get the experiment off me my holophone would be working just fine!"
"Okay... it's is getting late and I'm getting a headache. Let's go back to Lilo's place and sleep. Tomorrow we will work this out. We can work this out when we both aren't annoyed," Mayhem said, "Agreed?"
"Agree."
"Good."
"Perfect."
'Fuckin' perfect.'
We both go back to Lilo's home and I sleep on the couch. I just want everyone away from me. But the harder I push them away, they just come running back. No one can understand me here. No one.