AN: Wow, it's been a long time since I've updated, so sorry about that.

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I'm sorry this story is so confusing for you to read, what with the people in other bodies and stuff....just bear with me!

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"What the hell did you think you were doing?" Alec yelled furiously, as soon as Max and him were safe in the covers of an alley.

"Uh...adjusting?" Max said cockily, eyebrow raised.

"You adjust in the privacy of my..I mean, your home!" Alec argued, barely able to suppress his anger and embarrassment.

"Just because you jumped Normal..." Max said, leering.

Alec clenched his teeth. "I was in heat!"

"Nevertheless..." Max retorted.

"You are impossible!" He cried.

"Aw," Max said sympathetically, "You know you love me."

"I'd love to beat you to death." Alec said dryly.

Max made a puppy-dog face. "Be nice."

"I am." Alec growled to her smirking face.

"Oh, by the way, with the night-light thing? That was so unoriginal." Max informed Alec, unable to keep from chuckling.

"I can't handle this anymore!" Alec yelled to no one in particular.

"Well, like it or not, we have to go back to work." Max said, indicating at Normal who was obviously wanting to have a word with them, standing outside jam pony.

Alec sighed. "I can't wait til this is over." He muttered.

Max grinned. "Well, I, for one, am loving it!" As she tailed behind Alec, who was dreading speaking to OC, Sketchy, and Normal.

Not to mention everyone else at Jam pony.

"You would." Alec mumbled under his breath.

Max just gave a sweet smile and practically skipped the rest of the way.

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"Okay, boo, what was that little display of er..." OC looked to Sketchy for the right words.

"-Affection?" Sketchy offered.

OC rolled her eyes. "Well, whatever the hell it was."

Alec looked for a way out of explaining that he was in fact, Max.

Then he decided just act like nothing was wrong, which was the completely opposite of the truth.

He sighed. "Um...Lover's...er" He looked to Sketchy for the right words.

"-Tiff?" Sketchy said.

Alec clicked. "That's it. Thanks..buddy."

"No problems," Sketchy said modestly, "I've got to go cos Normal thinks I left ten minutes ago...But make sure you're at Crash tonight, I wanna go pick up some honeys."

He gave Alec a knowing look.

Alec tried to hide a grimace behind the grin he was returning Sketchy.

"Listen, I gonna go talk to Max. I've gotta blaz-ummmmmmm, cya."

He walked away, looking somewhat awkward.

He didn't have that swagger that was usually there, but instead, as OC looked towards Max, she was oozing it.

"Max, I think we need to go see Loga-"

"No can do," Max said cheerily, "Got packages to deliver."

Alec raised an eyebrow. "You do realise," He whispered, "That you are never going to be able to get onto your bike."

Max raised an eyebrow in return. "And why is that?"

"That skirt will rip."

"Revealing YOUR ass to the world." Max said smugly.

Alec gritted his teeth, this was the most ridiculous situation he had ever gotten himself into!

"I don't think so. We're heading to foggle towers, even if I have to drag you there."

"Fine," Max huffed, as they left Jam Pony without even notice to Normal, "But don't expect me to talk."

"You never do." Alec rolled his eyes as a greasy looking businessman walked past Max and not to subtly checked out her butt.

Max looked indignant. "Ew. How old was he?!"

Alec hid a smirk. "Oh, I would say in his early seventies." He replied innocently.

Max just looked disgusted. "That was so..." She trailed off.

"So...?"

"...Degrading."

Alec gave a genuine laugh at that.

Max gave an involuntary shiver. "I want a pair of jeans." She declared finally.

Alec rolled his eyes. "Thank god." He said, briefly looking up.

"Um, question." Max said, staring at the bike.

Alec raised an eyebrow.

"Do I get to ride this bike anytime this year?"

"It's my bike," Alec protested, "You can just sit behind me."

"Ah," Max said, wagging a finger in Alec's face which he pushed away stubbornly, "But technically, it's MY bike. I want to ride."

"Over my dead body." Alec growled.

"Well, technically, that's over MY-"

"Just shut up already," Alec said, exasperated as he handed the keys over, "But let's get one thing straight-"

"-Yes, chief?" Max said, mock saluting.

"-Okay, TWO things straight," Alec continued, glaring, "One, don't call me chief, and two, this is a one time deal. Don't think just because of this freak episode we're having and you are lucky enough to annoy me to a point where I'm letting you ride my ninja, that I'm ever going to let you near her again."

"But see, I actually own this bike, so..."

"....don't even go there." Alec gave her a pointed look.

Max decided not to push her luck and took the keys from an irritated Alec.

He watched with a tinge of amusement at Max trying to clamber onto the bike.

It took a good ten minutes before she was able to do it without any embarrassment.

It was clear to Alec that she wouldn't be wearing skirts to work anytime soon again, but hopefully, Logan had found a cure for this crazy body swapping thing.

"Would you rather walk?" Max asked, as the bike purred to life and she glanced at Alec still tapping his foot on the sidewalk.

"Bite me." Alec hissed.

"I hope that offer still stands after all this." Max said, raising an eyebrow as Alec climbed on behind her.

"You are SO lucky you're driving." Alec muttered. Max caught it and smirked.

They zoomed past a Normal who did a double take as he recognised his two workers who were meant to be doing their job.

"We're going to get fired again," Max exclaimed, then sighed insufferably, "And then I'll have to be the one to get our jobs back..."

"Once a golden boy, always a golden...girl." Alec replied.

Max craned her neck around slightly so Alec could hear over the engine noise.

"So, are you telling me that if we don't get switched tonight, we're going to have to rely on YOUR charm skills?" She said, acting horrified.

"I can be charming." Alec said defensively.

"Dear god, I'm going to be unemployed forever....." Max muttered.

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"Guys, I think I have something..." Logan was busy fiddling with some strange looking equipment on his table.

Max slowly backed up, eyeing the devices on the table. "No."

"No what?" Alec asked, confused, "You don't even know what he's talking about."

"I saw that," He pointed to a small black box with buttons and other things on it, "And then I saw that," She pointed at Logan who rolled his eyes, "And then I said No."

"How very elaborate of you." Alec rolled his eyes as well.

"Okay, so I haven't figured out what exactly the government is planning to do with this technology, but I DID manage to find out that your 'unnamed file'-"

"-Whoa, why mine?" Max asked.

"Because you opened it, moron." Alec muttered. Max sneered at him.

Logan coughed. "The unnamed file was meant to be transferred to another security facility-"

"-With actual security this time?" Max butt in.

Logan decided to ignore him...er, her. "-but obviously the technicalities of it were still being dealt with. There were bugs. The program was not meant to make the two participants switch bodies....at least I don't think."

"Finally he speaks the truth." Max murmured.

Alec shot her a death glare.

Max just raised an eyebrow and smirked.

"According to my understanding, the program wasn't actually a program. It was a formula for a chemical that had only recently been tested on animals."

"Then how did we switch?"

Logan scratched his chin thoughtfully. "Well, I'm not exactly sure, but apparently the X series have memory chips. Like computers, and when you-"

"-Grabbed onto the wire at the same time, we switched," Max yawned, "Way ahead of you pops. Let's go to the part where we fix it, eh?"

"What was it actually designed for?" Alec asked, curious.

Logan sighed, glancing at Max annoyingly. "Well, believe it or not, the chemical was designed to read minds. You gave the chemical to one person, a few minutes later, they can read someone's thoughts, given the right DNA coding of the person of course, for a full hour."

"And this was done on...animals you say?" Max raised an eyebrow, "I'm not even going to ask."

"They tested for brain waves." Logan told her.

"From that, to this," Alec indicated himself, "I don't understand...i mean, I understand why they would want something like that. Get information out of unwilling participant, no torture involved...."

"Aw shucks, I'll have to do the Iron maiden another time." Max grinned.

Alec gave her a look of utter irritation and Max wisely decided not to comment anymore, at least, for the time being.

"Well, as I said. The formula had only been tested on animals, and considering the memory chips in your brains, the fact that Alec is a clone of your brother, provides grounds, however unstable, for the switching."

"But you have come up with a solution?" Alec asked hopefully.

"Only temporary," Logan said regretfully, "I'm working on finding out exactly what the formula was made out of and how your memory chips work...its really quite strange how they absorbed the formula so you didn't have to drink anything in order for it to work."

"Me. Need. Beer. Now. Any switch is a good switch. Hurry up." Max ushered.

"Did you just graduate from caveman academy?" Alec asked, annoyed.

"Valedictorian." Max answered proudly.

"Thank you so much Logan." Alec gushed, as Max mimicked him from behind disdainfully.

"Yadda yadda yadda, let's switch back so I can get outa...here," She considered, "That didn't really rhyme, did it?"

"You're pathetic." Alec said grumpily.

"You just called yourself pathetic." Max pointed out smugly.

"Logan, can we get this over and done with? Even if it's temporary." He was on the brink of begging.

"You love being me, admit it." Max said, yawning.

"I'd so love to hit you right now, if you weren't a girl." Alec said, taking a menacing step towards her.

"I'm not a girl," Max huffed, "And you're just jealous."

"Of what?" Alec asked, incredulous.

"The fact that I looked hot today."

"Well, technically, I looked hot today." Alec corrected.

"Not in the clothes you wore to bed you didn't." Max retorted.

"I swear to god," Alec almost screeched, holding two fingers a millimetre apart, "I am this close!"

Max pretended to whimper. "But I'm a girl." She pouted, sniffling.

"Goddamn gender discrimination." Alec muttered.

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Logan tried to block out their ramblings, the faster this was over with, the better.

They'd battled government conspiracies, whacked out members of the X series, crazy psychopaths of various cults trying to kill them...but this was by far the scariest thing Logan had ever seen.

What kind of apocalypse did the government unleash on them?! He thought, horrified as Logan listened to the sounds of two chairs, a table lamp and his microwave being broken as the minutes wore on as he fiddled with the machinery.

"What the hell are you doing?" Alec's unmistakable voice rang out from the kitchen.

A pause.

"Alec broke your microwave!" Max's chirpy voice rang out.

The brief sound of someone choking.

Oh god, Logan thought to himself as he quickened his actions, don't find the wine cabinet, not the wine cabinet-

"Hey, what's this?"

Logan squeezed his eyes shut and bellowed out that it was ready and please do not touch the wine...don't they realise that its pre-pulse?

Too late. Max came back and wiped at her mouth, grinning like a Cheshire cat. Alec just shrugged apologetically.

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