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Ryan Harper - You've officially been promoted to primary reviewer! Your position now is primary reviewer and co-manager of some stories that you came up with. I love coming up with parodies, and by now I think everyone has noticed that. The site did muck it up. Stupid site. I will have to agree with you about Nicky and Malou. I love them as a couple.

VeronicaWeasley - To think Nicky and Malou weren't planned at all... Well, here you have the next chapter! Read and enjoy! We all love The Raincoat Academy.

Dylan Quagmire - I'm glad you took such an interest in my stories! Thank you very much! Enola Holmes truly was pretty similar to ASOUE. If you write any fanfic for Enola Holmes, make sure to tell me about it, because I sure would want to read it!

The silence that followed Nicky's explanation of what had happened during his absence was incredibly awkward. Once again had Nicky told them off. Not as aggressively this time, but annoyed and done as heck. Dawn was left staring at him with her mouth hanging open. Ricky simply sat with his lips incredibly pursed, and his arms crossed tightly. Dicky simply looked as confused as he had done when he found out that chick peas did not come from chickens.

"But Malou said you weren't with her," Dawn pointed out.

Nicky snorted and looked away. The situation wasn't one to laugh in.

"I told her to say that," he said, still an amused tone to his voice.

"Why?" Ricky said.

"Maybe because I didn't want you three to come storming in to kidnap me back," Nicky irritably shot back.

None of the other quads could figure out something good to say back. They had prepared arguments in their heads, but now they didn't even seem to work in theory; meaning that they much less would work in action. Nicky glared at the others, disappointment held in every inch of his face. When they didn't respond to him in any way whatsoever, he got up from his armchair, and said, "I'm going to bed." He then headed up the stairs.

The pressing silence did not follow him. Dawn, Ricky and Dicky stared at the air as they tried to comprehend everything that had happened in the last few hours.

"I'm gonna go too," Ricky announced after a few minutes' silence. He walked in the opposite direction of the stairs to brush his teeth in the downstairs bathroom. Barely a minute later Dawn left without another word. She clumsily went up the stairs, muttering something about how invisibility was useless for getting around the house.

Dicky turned himself 90 degrees on the couch, leaned back and stretched out his legs. He had no plans of moving, now that he had the living room to himself. Not to anyone's surprise, he was having the hardest time making sense of the situation. He barely knew what power he had right now. That was easily figured out when he reached his hand out in front of him and focused on the closest random item: a coffee cup Ricky had drunk from earlier. He went through each power in his mind, then finally, the teleportation glow consumed half of the cup. Right about then he couldn't hold on anymore. His energy was out, and he had to let his arm fall down. The very next second, sounds came from the stairs again. Dicky turned his head, and there was Dawn, looking like she had just came up with the solution to all human problems.

"I got it!" she said.

"Got what?" Dicky asked.

"It!"

"What's it?"

"What we're gonna do!"

"About what?"

"The power switch!"

"Oh, cool," Dicky smiled the half happy, half clueless smile everyone was used to. "What do we do?"

"Get Ricky!"

"'Kay," Dicky got up, and made the impulsive decision that he was going to teleport. He thought back to a couple of weeks earlier, when Dawn had explained how she teleported. Take a step, but think of your foot landing somewhere else...

He dramatically lifted his foot, way higher than necessary. He closed his eyes, imagined the kitchen, and put his foot down with force.

"What are you doing?" said Dawn's puzzled voice.

"Teleporting," said Dicky at the same time as he opened his eyes. He was not in the kitchen. He was one step away from where he had been before the "teleport".

"Just go get Ricky!" Dawn yelled. It was obvious that she was getting impatient. When Dicky turned around he could see her staring at him with wide open eyes, and a bit of a manic gleam in them. A dangerously irritated Nicky was behind her in his pajamas.

While Dicky went into the kitchen (through the door), Nicky turned to Dawn to angrily ask:

"Why are we doing this?"

"I realized something when we all ran off in different directions," Dawn speedily said. Nicky barely caught what she said.

Then Dicky came back with a confused Ricky, and Dawn was off again.

"So-ya-know-how-couple-weeks-ago-when-first-switched-we-all-ran-off," she started rambling, making it all sound like one, long word that made no sense at all.

"Slow down!" Ricky commanded, annoyed.

"Fine!" Dawn said quickly. She took a deep breath, which seemed to calm her down a bit. Her eyes didn't look like they would pop out anymore at least.

"When we switched the first time, you all remember what we did before?" she said, now speaking at a pace everyone could understand.

Nicky looked away, his eyebrows turning down a bit more than before, and Ricky and Dicky nodded impatiently.

"Nicky yelled at us, like he just did," said Dawn. Nicky looked away even further. "Then we all left this room in different directions, like we just did."

None of the boys were really following.

"This evening is just like the one when we first switched! We should recreate it and switch back to normal! It has to work!" Dawn yelled, now annoyed that the boys didn't understand quicker.

"Dawn, if we were to recreate it, we've already failed. We switched powers before we ran off," Ricky reminded her.

"But we realized we switched after we left!"

"That doesn't change the fact that we switched before that-"

"Let's just try it!"

Her tone made it clear that this was nothing to be discussed. They were attempting to switch back, whether they liked it or not. Dawn ran down a couple of steps, and jumped the last few. She hurried to the coffee table, where she picked up the shopping list Anne had left for later.

"Use this," she instructed. "You teleport it, and you rip it apart."

"We know what to do. We did it earlier today," Ricky reminded her. It was unclear if she even heard him. She was too caught up in her idea. She placed the shopping list on the couch backrest.

"Do it," she said excitedly. All three boys almost felt a little scared of her. There was something about her entire body language that looked frighteningly manic.

"She's lost it," Dicky mumbled to himself before he started focusing on the shopping list.

For the second time in one day, the Harper siblings looked in anticipation at a random object, as it started being consumed by blue light. While Dicky started sweating and getting lightheaded, Ricky got ready to rip Anne's list apart. Then the list snapped away, and Ricky made a quick hand motion. The energy circle they had now seen twice spread out from the point on the couch backrest, and passed all three of them. At the same time, a rip appeared on the couch from Ricky's lousy telekinesis.

"It worked. It worked!" Dawn told herself when she felt the bubbling sensation in her chest again. She nodded to herself, her eyes still bulging. It was becoming fairly obvious she was not in her right mind at the moment.

The next second Dicky fell to floor, completely drained of energy. He groaned uncomfortably, and then he was out.

"Are you sure we got it right this time?" Nicky asked cautiously. He had never been more truly afraid of Dawn.

"Yeah!" Dawn nodded again, and her hand flew up mechanically to teleport a pillow on the couch. It took a few seconds, but then the effect of her current powers took place. The pillow started levitating. Dawn lost her insane grin. Her mouth turned into a thin line, but her eyes remained wide as ever. At that point Ricky and Nicky fled. They ran up the stairs. Nicky, who assumed they had now switched to the last power they hadn't had yet, attempted to teleport into the boys' room. He felt very lucky when it worked well. Ricky bolted in a couple of seconds later, and he locked the door.

"Okay," Nicky panted - one teleport was enough to exhaust him. "What's wrong with Dawn?"

"I don't know," Ricky answered. "But I have an idea. I don't think it's good for us to have switched. It's impacting our minds now."

"So Dawn's gone crazy?"

"Pretty much."

A crippling feeling grew inside Nicky. If it happened to Dawn, it could surely happen to himself and the other two as well.

"We need to switch back," he said, his voice trembling. He did not want to end up like his sister.

Then quick footsteps ran through the hall, and a door slammed. Dawn was in her room. Dicky was now left unconscious and alone in the living room. Ricky and Nicky only needed an exchange of glances to agree that they would go down at get him. They exited the room, and both ran downstairs - Nicky neither had the energy, nor did he feel safe enough to teleport again. Dicky seemed to just be waking up again. He stirred faintly on the carpet. He woke up fully when Ricky bent down and shook him.

"Dicky!"

Dicky groaned and opened his eyes.

"Did it work?" he got out in only a whisper.

"We switched, but not back to normal," Nicky explained quickly. "You've got invisibility."

"Cool," Dicky mumbled. He then made an effort to push himself off the floor, but his arms fell down like sticks holding up a rock. He groaned again. It took a few seconds, and then he was out cold again.

Nicky and Ricky looked at each other.

"I think it's gotten to him too," said Ricky. "He hasn't ever been this exhausted, not even when he ran three laps around the school to avoid taking the English test in fifth grade."

"So Dawn's lost her mind, and Dicky's lost his energy?" Nicky asked nervously.

Ricky nodded, pursing his lips.

"It's only a question of time before it happens to us, or before we switch back to normal."

"I vote for the latter."

Ricky silently agreed, then they got down to get Dicky out of the living room.