Shockwaves: A Suite Life/Waverly Place Crossover

Part 7:

At Variety Court…

Alex came to the lobby.

She smiled in glee.

She saw a crowded food court like no other.

Countless food stalls were at its long rim, along with street color schemes. There were also tables shaped like isolated vehicle wheels standing on clean axles.

With some indecision?

Alex muttered greedily, "so many choices, so little restrictions."

She took out the money she magically made appear.

She walked the rest of the way down.

She made her way to the one thing her parents never let her eat:

Plenty of fast food.

Alex chortled.

She thought out loud, "I'll just subtract the fat with magic and deduce a memory wipe spell from that."

Maddie and Zack were alone at one table with spaghetti.

Zack was reluctantly using a fork to eat: Much to Maddie's relief.

London was sitting next to fancily dressed Corrie and Lance on the other side of the court. They were talking mostly about their apparent celebrity lives as if they were always rich and got what they wanted in bliss.

Cody was surprisingly sitting next to expensively styled Bailey at their own table. They were eating varied tamales with loose leaf wrap lying on the side.

Cody, as usual, was nervous around girls.

But... When they both took quick pauses to floss?

He was strangely becoming more confident and love struck.

Alex looked away from the two in some personal disgust.

A couple of chair sets of four away from Zack?

Alex sat at one of the few available tables.

She was about to eat her meal in peace.

That is…until she noticed some familiar faces she never expected to see together a short distance away.

Justin and Max were eating sandwiches…and with T.J. Taylor?!

Alex looked worried.

She snarkily commented, "even for Justin? There's something severely wrong here."

She was getting teary eyed.

But... Her hidden love for her family resurfaced from the dimension of her despair.

She used her wand to teleport right behind T.J.

Alex poked him with the magic stick warningly in the back.

She knew the crowd seemed distracted with themselves.

T.J. groaned in partial pain.

Justin looked at Alex in horror.

Justin exclaimed, "Alex! What the heck are you doing here?!"

His appetite was gone.

Max just kept eating as though nothing new was going on.

Alex was glaring furiously at T.J.

With cold fury... Alex pointed out, "I could ask you the same thing…T.J."

T.J. just sickly chuckled.

He realized in twisted amusement, "you think I enslaved them?"

Alex suggested cruelly, "give me one good reason why I shouldn't turn you into a frog and drop you at the furthest abandoned marsh."

Justin was speechless at the intense dialog.

T.J. moderately sighed.

He taunted back, "wands up!"

Max muttered under his breath, "bunk!"

He and Justin's hands abruptly took out their wands uncontrollably.

They pointed them at the shattering spirit of Alex.

Tears were starting to fall from her eyes.

T.J. hinted in altering moods of evil, "one of these wands will make you join me in failure if you such as start to wave yours: Unless of course you're willing to listen."

Alex then got a hunch.

She decided to use it to her advantage in desperation.

She sat down next to T.J...acting as if he already won.

It wasn't hard due to the very real tears and horror in her voice.

Alex figured in deep realization, "you bewitched my parents to sentence me to loneliness yesterday… Now my siblings. Why?!"

While she was stalling for time there?

She started to cautiously sneak her wand under the table at T.J.

T.J. commanded in a whisper for the Russo brothers to lower their wands from civilian sight.

T.J. creepily smiled, verifying the claim.

T.J. raved on persistently, "come on, Alex! You of all people should know the enslavement of the government upon us. I'm merely bringing back what was meant to be in the first place...long lost freedom to do anything we see fit for our equally subdued happiness!"

He all too casually waved a arm toward her.

Alex disputed in rising retaliation, "with me as your magic 8 ball? What kind of twisted freedom is that?!"

T.J. opposed in equal force, "as I recall? You escaped from Waverly Place to pursue your joy…or did you actually physically buy that dress?"

Alex bitterly glared at him.

She remarked bitterly, "pretty words from a psycho oppressor hypocrite who plays with people as though they were cards."

T.J. laughed at this.

He protested coldly, "you don't get it, do you? Our parents, our teachers…they're all separating us in control groups to break our spirit and match theirs."

He almost slammed his hands down on the table for emphasis.

Justin kept staring anticipatively at the two troublemakers to see what was going to happen next.

And... Ironically?

He was using Alex's technique to secretly point his wand at the same direction.

Max just started casually eating chips strangely unfazed.

He was thinking that his siblings will deal with T.J. for him.

With an impulse of his own though?

Max with his other hand aimed his wand at the isolated meal a short distance away.

Alex challenged, "even if that were true, how is that different than putting brainwashing food into everyone else?"

T.J. persisted calmly, "one, it would be tomorrow…when your family's sandwich business partners up with Variety Court for distribution across the nation. Two…"

Max wondered randomly, "how did you do it?"

He then just kept eating chips.

T.J. chuckled.

He revealed bitterly, "after my powers were pulled away? I resorted to the only resource I had: Biology class and Home Economics. I brought home and snuck in my own enhanced yeast. It modifies brainwaves barely enough to respond to command without hesitation. Yet, without unraveling independent thought. After that? Getting your spare wand was a cakewalk."

Justin remarked, "if only Alex had that drive in school."

Alex viciously glared at him.

Her tears were starting to dry up in inner vicious anger.

She inquired deviously, "so… limitless freedom for youth everywhere, huh? Could be fun."

This was while Justin was preparing for a spell:

Unknown to T.J.'s rising neglecting pride.

T.J. assumed to Alex, "I thought you'd see the way."

He sounded more impressed.

Alex smirked.

Alex questioned in a more flirting manner, "and more personally knowing T.J., the greatest freedom fighter, doesn't come with bonuses?"

Justin was finding it harder to concentrate on his spell.

But... It was hard to tell if anyone really was noticing.

T.J. contested back nervously, "what could you possibly offer me that I won't already have?"

With a twistedly high spirit?

Alex suggested, "a companion of the same mind to expand your limits."

T.J. realized in astonishment, "you're asking me out? Hmm…tempting."

Justin almost finished his spell...when Alex kicked the wand out of his hands.

With mixed feelings... Alex muttered under her breath, "not happening, Justin!"

This was to Justin's great shock.

The wand landed on T.J.'s feet.

He picked it up in some confusion.

Then... Alex cast something that truly caught the rest off guard.

She spell rhymed, "Vocarizo Mutarizo!"

T.J.'s vocal chords unnaturally tightened to his horror.

He tried to speak.

But... It only came out in incomprehensible gibberish and random coughing.

T.J. dropped Justin's wand on the table.

T.J. was clutching his throat.

Max remarked, "sweet music."

T.J. started exclaiming more angrily in a child like temper tantrum.

But... Alex just knocked him out with a punch to the head.

T.J. fell off his former seat.

He was unconscious.

Justin staggered in disbelief, "you…and then…him…manipulated?!"

Alex answered sarcastically, "good to see you too."

They were both teary eyed.

But... They both smiled some.

Then... Alex chuckled.

She noticed that Max had nearly used levitation to knock out T.J. with a hurled leftover dinner.

But... When his concentration was broken?

It had instead descended onto the center of the table.

The teariness in Alex's and Justin's eyes was drying up.

Alex sighed with some relief.

She concluded, "at least Max wouldn't doubt me."

Alex and Max smiled a little.

Max wondered, "are you going to eat that?"

Alex playfully slapped him on the back of the head.

Max asked absentmindedly, "what?!"

Alex started to reach for her food...when Justin blocked it with one of his hands.

Justin protested, "Alex! You know you're not allowed."

Alex challenged, "oh. And you are...Momma's pet?"

Max clutched his sides in laughter.

Justin retorted, "at least that's much better than a mini Kelbo doll."

Alex gasped in hurt.

Max checked obliviously, "does this mean my food chain is offline?"

Justin pointed out, "don't you get it, Max? This reality shouldn't even be existent!"

Alex pushed her mental shakiness aside.

Alex wondered in confusion, "what are we even talking…about?"

That's when the last piece suddenly clicked to her:

Her wish created this reality...and this reality has been giving mean kids like T.J. and Gigi more power all the faster.

And... Alex was trying hard not to cry from the realization.