A/N: Just so it's clear (I forgot to say this last chapter), Piper is split into three separate parts of herself. They AREN'T clones of the real Piper. Each of the three Pipers have to combine to form the Piper we all know and love. If you look closely, you'll be able to see why this happened. ;) Prince Halliwell: Piper's new power is just Molecular Deceleration. The-Cheese-Fairy: lol "Geeks will inherit the Earth!" I should get a bumper sticker that says that! Ah! I'm glad you liked the description of the demon! I wasn't even going to describe him, truth be told. But then I was thinking of Merlin and I was like, "Hmm, what about a Merlin looking demon?" So as I started to describe him, I began to imagine more and more elaborate (and rather demonic) details. I'm so glad my work paid off! About the power in your fic, no, I don't mind at all! Great minds think alike, right? moonfirefairy: Thanks for the compliment! RJF: Yeah, Paige and Emma know about Pam being there (I just didn't write that in, my bad). I'm thrilled that you liked the different Pipers. LOL C. C. McKenna: Aww, thanks CC! And I'm tickled that you liked the idea about slowing down the magic that was holding Slow Motion Piper and Paige in the cage (that was not intended to rhyme). Wow, I only got 6 reviews this chappie. Are there a lot of you out there who aren't liking the storyline? Sorry about the spaced out updates, but I have so much makeup work (about a half an inch thick in Math alone, I swear and that's not including tests/quizzes/quests) and I'm not even completely over my nasty cold! And once again, I apologize for the words that are clumping together. It happens every time I upload and when I try to fix it, then other words clump up. This chapter is a play on the T.V. show, "The Amazing Race".

Every Halliwell Counts
Chapter 8: The Amazing Chase

Blue and white orbs fizzled into the air, forming into the shapes of Paige and a very odd looking Piper. When the orbs cleared, Paige gaped at what she saw. "P-P-P-Piper?"

The Piper with bangs, Freezing Piper, swung her head around. "Paige?"

At that moment, another swirl of orbs formed on the opposite side of the room, forming into three people; Leo, Prue, and Exploding Piper.

"Piper!" Prue gasped, as more of a statement than a question. She stared from one sister to the next, her jaw lagging on the floor.

The three Pipers stared at each other, not sure of what to say, until Exploding Piper broke the silence.

"Who the hell are you two?" Exploding Piper raised threatening hands at the less violent Pipers.

"I-I-I..." Slow Motion Piper stuttered, her entire body quivering at every letter.

Freezing Piper raised her hands. "Don't you come near us!"

"Or you'll what?" Exploding Piper threatened. She ran her hand across her sleek, red leather bra.

Freezing Piper flicked her wrists, but nothing happened.

In turn, Exploding Piper extended her hand and caused an exploding blast, sending Phoebe and Paige blasting backwards since her powers were unable to hurt them. "I've got to get out of this dump.." She turned to walk away when she felt Leo grab her arm.

"Piper," Leo said forcefully. "You aren't going anywhere."

Exploding Piper let a tight grin form across her red lips, as she turned to meet the whitelighter. "Well, the boy's got guts I see."

"Piper," Leo warned.

"Oooo, touchy, touchy." Piper extended her hand, roughly caressing Leo's cheek. "I think we should go somewhere a little more private.."

"We have to get you back to normal, Piper." Leo refused to soften his stone look.

Roughly grabbing the collar of Leo's plaid cotton shirt, she brought him into a hot lip lock and allowed her tongue to grace his lips, before harshly shoving him backwards but her hand remained locked to his collar.

"Piper, I," Leo stuttered.

"Save it," Exploding Piper hissed as she wiggled her fingers that were attached to Leo's shirt. Leo exploded into a thousands of whitelighter orbs and she walked straight through them, exiting the front doors before her sisters could protest.

"Leo! Oh my..." Freezing Piper gasped, as her husband reformed.

"I'm okay," Leo assured.

"This is another reason why we should get rid of these cursed powers!" Freezing Piper fumed. She wanted to badly to rid herself of what she considered a curse on her life.

"Oh, don't start with this again!" Phoebe exclaimed, angrily.

"I don't want to hear it!" Freezing Piper threw her hands into the air angrily and stopped towards the stairs. "I'll be in my room if you need me!" She disappeared upstairs.

Leo looked curiously at Phoebe. "How'd you get here?"

"I summoned Cole to shimmer Piper, the one that went up the stairs, to shimmer us here."

"Where's he now?"

"Trying to gather information in the Underworld," Phoebe explained.

Paige waved her hands feverishly. "Can someone please tell me what's going on?"

"It would seem that Piper has split into three Pipers," Leo replied.

"Like when Prue used the spell to multiply her powers?" Phoebe questioned.

"I'm not sure," Leo replied. "Could be clones, I guess."

Prue placed her hands on her head. "Wonderful!"

Emma, Alternate Paige, and Persia chose that moment to enter the room.

"I knew I felt your presence," Emma exclaimed. Then she realized that Piper looked vastly different. "Is something wrong with her?" She pointed to Slow Motion Piper.

"Which one?" Paige asked dryly.

"You've failed!" The Merlin looking demon raged, as he waved a threatening arm at his triplet mutations. "You failed to capture them! Now we'll never have an ultimate force of evil!" He had decided to leave out the part in which he was unsuccessfully in capturing a Charmed One or two.

The triplet mutations lowered their head in shame. That was until one of the mutations reared his head with threatening eyes. "If you want them so bad, then why don't you go after them?"

"You dare to challenge me?" The Merlin demon asked, his eyes glazing over with fury.

In one swift move, the eldest of the mutations had ahold of his creator by the throat. "Dare to repeat that?" He looked to his brothers, nodding.

One of the brothers grabbed a long dagger from a nearby slab of stone and walked over to his only moments older sibling.

The triplet grasped the dagger. "Goodbye, father," he sneered as he plunged the dagger into his creator's heart and the dagger began to glow black. Then the black was quickly absorbed into the eldest triplet and he smiled wickedly, letting his creator slide to the ground in puddle of silver blood. He was now the strongest of the triplets since he now had the powers of his creator. "Let us leave," he commanded before shimmering out with his brothers in toe.

Emma's eyes flashed open as she came out of a strong premonition.

"What happened?" Persia asked, worry was evident on her fine features.

"I saw a mutant mutiny," Emma explained.

"Well that can't be all that bad," Prue retorted. "Mutant demons killing mutant demons."

"No," Emma shook her head. "They killed a demon that looked similar to the sterotypical Merlin, from the feelings I gathered, he was the one who created them. But now the eldest of the mutant triplets has his powers and they're coming for us." She turned her attention to Persia. "And they kill you."

Phoebe's protective arms were instantly around her eldest child. "They won't lay a damn finger on my child's head!" Her motherly instinct was fast and furious.

Suddenly a shrill scream emanted from upstairs, followed by the sound of pounding, and ending with sounds of plaster crumbling from the walls or ceiling.

Alternate Pamela stood in front of the children, her arms spread as wide as they could go, allowing the full strength of her untapped telekinetic abilities to be unleashed. The triplets were in a large pile on the floor of room, they had not been expecting her. She heard footsteps and she turned to see many witches both family and alternate family flooding into the room. She slapped her arms to her sides, breathing heavily as that kind of power had taken a lot out of her.

"Pam!" Emma yelled as a clump of ceiling plaster fell between them. "Are you okay?"

"Fine," Alternate Pam yelled over Prissy's terrified cries. "Get the kids out of here!"

"Not so fast," the eldest triplet smirked. He'd used his hyper speed to trap Persia in his arms. "I want all of you to come with me or I'll kill her," he exclaimed. He held the dagger next to Persia's throat, still fresh with silver blood. His eyes shifted to the Paiges. "And if either of you try anything, my brothers will kill her before my dagger rematerializes in your hand."

This is how she dies, I shouldn't of allowed her to come up here! Emma mentally cried to herself.

But we can change that, right? Pandora's thought to Emma. The powerful witchling had easily entered Emma's mind without her even knowing. She was pretending not to make eye contant with the psionic, so as to not draw attention. She may be young, but she was a very bright little girl.

Who's this? Emma thought.

Pandora, over here. Pandora thought. Her body ached, she wanted so much to move but she was afraid for her elder cousin's life.

"I'm giving you until the count of three!" The eldest triplet was growing highly impatient.

He's gonna say three next! This time Pandora's telepathy reached everyone in the room, minus the demons.

"No!" Slow Motion Piper screamed as Pandora's mental message hit her mind. Her hands flew outwards and the demons who were in regular motion at that specific moment went into slow motion.

"You bastard!" Paige yelled, flicking her wrist and orbing the dagger into the chest of the eldest triplet.

Persia took that moment to run into the arms of her mother, just as the slow motion wore off.

The eldest triplet stumbled back, pulling the dagger from his chest and watching as the hole closed up. "You can't hurt me with mortal weapons!" He grinned sardonically and with hyper speed, he'd hurled an energy ball straight for Persia.

A burst of orbs errupted from Alternate Paige's stomach and enveloped the group in a massive globe of orbs, protecting them from the energy ball which bounced away harmlessly and then the orbs faded away. "Good girls," Alternate Paige praised her unborn twins.

The young Blessed One, Pearl, hurled a powerful exploding light ball into the triplet leader and caused him to explode into a flurry of particles, only to reappear.

"Go!" The eldest triplet yelled, shimmering out with his brothers not far behind. They would be back soon, with a plan.

"We need to find Piper," Phoebe began.

"Which one?" Prue asked.

"The one that left earlier," Phoebe replied. "Leo, try to sense her."

Leo closed his eyes, activating his sensing power.

"I've blocked myself from your useless whitelighter abilities and I've gone out to have some real fun," Exploding Piper's voice rang through the air.

"She used a cloaking spell!"

"An answering machine cloaking spell!" The witchlighter fumed.

"Let's see if she blocked herself from me," Emma smirked. She smiled wickedly as she folded her arms over her chest. "I've located her. Guess she's not used to telempaths."

"Let's go," both the witchlighter and her alternate counterpart exclaimed. They took ahold of Emma's hands and combined their powers of orbing and Emma's telempathy to find and orb to Piper.

Alternate Paige, Emma, and Paige appeared in the comebined orbs of the whitelighter-witches. They looked around, noting that they had appeared in a motel bathroom, a rather crappy one.

"Where are we?" Emma asked, rhetorically.

"Looks like a motel room bathroom," Paige muttered as she thrust the door open and gasped as she saw her older sister falling onto the bed with some burly, drunken biker. "Oh my Goddess!"

The biker slid off the Charmed One and turned to the three women standing in the doorway of the bathroom. His eyes were bloodshot and they rolled wildly from side to side. He arched his neck to the side, red and blue vains bulging from the thick skin. "Wh-who arrre you?" His words were badly slurred. The biker lumbered forward, his black leather pants and jacket making noise as he walked, along with the thundering of his steel toed black leather boots. Large, silver rings adorned his hands which were also covered with black leather gloves, opened fingered. "I don't go let you in here!" Now the man, if you could call him that, wasn't even making sense. His voice was thick and husky and the smell of booze from his breath permeated the air, probably for miles. His arms were thick and leathery, almost too large for his leather jacket and his muscles were strong as was his powerful chest. He was a bald man, probably in his late 40's, and fashioned an obviously dyed red beard.

"What the hell are you doing here?" Exploding Piper asked, she pulled off the bed. Clearly, she hadn't gotten to anything to intimate with the man. She pulled her bra strap up.

"You're married, Piper!" Paige hissed as she came towards her older sister.

"Doesn't mean I can't have some fun on the side!"

"I want ya all gooone!" The biker roared, rearing his hands at Paige.

Paige flung out her arm, smacking the biker with a powerful bitch slap, and sending him stumbling out of her way. She now had a clear shot at her older sister. "You've gone way too far!"

"And who are you to talk?" Exploding Piper asked, grabbing Paige by the hair and pulling her face to face.

The biker stumbled to his feet and charged at Paige.

"Enough, mister," Emma spat. A globe of white light hovered above her head and she sent it straight into the biker, sending him into unconsciousness.

"Now look what you've done!" Exploding Piper raved, as she threw Paige into the wall and aimed her hands at the redhead.

"Manor!" Alternate Paige yelled, orbing Exploding Piper away before she could harm the woman that was like another sister to her. She walked over to Paige and knelt down. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," Paige spat as she stood up and brushed a candy wrapper off her new white pants.

"We should get back," Emma said.

"Right," Alternate Paige agreed. She waved her hand, orbing Emma and Paige home, then followed in a swirl of orbs herself.

Exploding Piper orbed in and as she did so, her power hit one of Prue's newly framed photos and blasted it to smitherings.

"That was a prize photo!" Prue screamed.

Exploding Piper spun around, angry eyes flicking to her older sister. "You-" She fell to the ground, revealing Emma and the Paiges standing behind her.

"Nice shot," Prue complimented.

"Thanks," Emma smiled. "Glad to be of service."

The doors burst open as Glenn and Andy came rushing in, both with box loads of paper.

"Where've you been?"

"Researching," Andy replied. He settled his box on the floor and noticed a rather raunchy looking Piper on the floor. "Do I want to know what happened?"

Glenn shook his head. "No, man, I don't think so."

"He's probably right," Alternate Paige agreed.

"So what did you boys find out?"

"Pretty mortal stuff," Glenn replied.

"Sometimes mortal is good," Alternate Paige stated.

"Look, why don't you take Britney Spears upstairs and I'll talk with the guys in the sunroom?" Prue suggested.

"Fine by me," Andy stated. He walked over to his wife and wet her lips with a warming kiss. "Come on, we've got a lot to discuss."

"I bet we do," Prue agreed. She, along with Glenn, followed Andy out of the room.

"I'll go round up everyone else," Paige replied. "Do you think you can take care of Ms. Spears?"

"Sure," Alternate Paige grinned as she laid a hand on Piper's wrist and orbed them out.

"I'll go meet your sister," Emma said as she left the room.

TO BE CONTINUED...

A/N: BTW, if anyone was wondering, Piper was able to freeze the triplets to escape a few chapters agowith her new power by first placing them into regular motion (they were going in hyper motion when she used her new power, countering acting their powers and putting them to normal speed instead of slow motion) and then she froze them in normal speed.