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"I'm telling you something's not right!" Nicole argued.
"How do you know for sure?" I asked.
"She's been acting weird for the past few days. She disappears during the battle and doesn't show up until we leave. I'm telling you, she's a fucking Controller!"
We had been arguing about Stacey all afternoon. Fortunately she wasn't around to hear us, she had gone to the mall. Or to the Yeerk pool as Nicole thought. I didn't want to believe it, the last time she was made a Controller I was so depressed that I nearly killed myself. I couldn't bear to lose her to them again.
"Okay, so what if she is? What can we do about it? They no longer have to regenerate, so how can we know if she is or not?"
"That scanner Ketara made. We'll use that."
I called up the others and told them to come over. We sat in the living room and waited for Stacey to come home. She must have flown in through the window, because I heard her bedroom door close.
I morphed to lion once I was at her door. My muscles coiled, preparing to pounce as Nicole knocked.
"What?" Stacey called.
"Let me in, it's my room too."
"Just a sec," the door opened. "What the fu-"
I pounced and knocked her to the floor. Marco was in his gorilla morph, he held her hands behind her back. Rachel stood by in her grizzly morph.
"What are you doing?!"
Shut up Yeerk!> Rachel snarled.
"I'm not a Yeerk! Let me go!"
"You expect us to believe you?" Nicole demanded. "You've been acting strange a lot lately. I didn't pay attention until you disappeared in the Yeerk pool."
"I'm not a Controller dammit!"
If you're not a Controller, then why have you been disappearing?> Marco asked.
Stacey sighed. "Let me go first."
Make me.>
"Okay." She snatched her hands free. From a gorilla!
Rachel took a swing at her and was lifted off the floor. Stacey held her poised over her head.
That's not possible,> I said.
"I'll show you guys why I've been taking off," she said, setting Rachel down, "but you have to promise not to try and kill me."
She unbottoned her shirt to reveal the logo of... a spider!
"No fucking way!" We all said.
"Wait a minute," Travis said. "If you're Spider-Girl, then how were you here as you also?"
Actually, that was me,> Ketara said. I pretended to be Stacey so suspicions wouldn't arise.>
"The spider exhibit!" Cheyenne exclaimed. "That's why you weren't feeling good that day! You must have got bitten by one of those new spiders! The change must have started taking place shortly after."
"Remeber when I said there was one missing? That's the one that bit me!"