Hacker Baron
Chapter 2: Mixed Up
Draco and Chip walked over to Jeremie. Draco was carrying Morph's container. Morph, for some reason, was still in the container and not moving so much. "Where'd the Skipizoa go?" asked Draco. "I don't know. What's even more confusing is what caused it to act this way." "What did it do anyway?" asked Chip. "It switched something between Ulrich and Yumi, but I can't tell what. It might have something to do with their slow materialization." "Allow me," said Chip and he took over Jeremie's position at the keyboard. "Where's Odd by the way?" asked Draco setting Morph's container down. "He's in the scanner room waiting for the others," said Jeremie. "Eureka!" cried Chip. "I found it!" "So what did it do?" asked Jeremie. Chip scanned the screen and muttered, "Oh boy." "What?" "You guys might want to cover your ears," advised Chip covering his own ears. Jeremie and Draco did the same. No sooner than they did, two screams came from the scanner room.
Chip turned around towards the elevator. "This isn't going to be a pretty picture," he said to himself. "What are you talking about?" asked Jeremie. "What's going on?" asked Draco. "You'll see." As the elevator rose up the shaft, they could all hear Odd's laughter rising with it. Then the elevator hit the floor they were on and opened. Chip withdrew his arms, legs, and head into his body and braced for the eruption. When the elevator was fully open, they could see the source of Odd's laughter. Standing there in the elevator, (Odd was on the floor laughing,) were two unknown, but strangely familiar, teenagers. One was a boy with black hair wearing Yumi's clothes. The other was a girl with brown hair wearing Ulrich's clothes. Draco and Jeremie were standing there speechless with their jaws dropped. (In Draco's case, all of his jaws dropped.) The tin can that Chip was trying to be started shivering. The boy and girl walked over to Jeremie, howling with questions and panic. Chip extended two arms and used them to slap the two in the face, calming them down. "Let me get this straight," said Jeremie. "Yumi?" he asked pointing towards the boy. The boy nodded. "Ulrich?" pointing towards the girl. The girl nodded. Jeremie rubbed his forehead. "This is worst than I imagined," he groaned. "You imagined?" cried Ulrich. Her voice sounded like his old one only higher. "This is a living nightmare!" Odd stopped laughing and got off the floor. "Hey, I had to deal with the same thing when me and Yumi swapped bodies," he said. "Beg your pardon?" said Chip, uncurling himself. "Don't ask," said Yumi. His voice was his old one only deeper. "But your body wasn't changed," shouted Ulrich. "It was just like the way it was before you switched while mine was, was…" "Beautified?" finished Draco. He then got a hard knock on the head with a wooden mallet that just happened to be there. "Well Yumi's taking it well," said Odd. "In fact, in the right light, he kinda looks like William." Yumi didn't bother with the mallet; she used an axe kick on Odd's foot. This resulted in Odd hopping up and down on one foot for a while. Chip however was taking a better approach at this. "I know what caused it," said Chip. "The Skipizoa switched Yumi and Ulrich's chromosomes. That would explain the long materialization. Their bodies were adjusting to the new DNA. The Skipizoa only swapped the gender chromosome, which is why Ulrich and Yumi look like they used to. However gender-switching is not as bad as it seems." To prove this, Chip switched his gender mode a few times. "Did Jumba program that into you?" asked Jeremie. "Actually," said Draco coming out of his daze, "Chip built it into himself when he…" Chip grabbed Draco's throat, halting Draco in mid-sentence. "If you recall that episode," hissed Chip, "I'll tell what happened to you at the end of it." That made Draco shut up instantly. "So how do we get back to normal?" asked Yumi. Draco looked around for an answer and his eves fell upon Morph's container. "Simple," said Draco picking up Morph's container. "We'll have Morph turn into Morpholemew and then he'll turn you two back." He opened the container and tipped Morph out. But instead of bouncing out as he normally did he splattered on the floor in liquid form. "Ew!" said everybody. "That arm drained Morph's molecular energy to power up the Skipizoa's transferring power," said Jeremie. Chip turned his hand into a large turkey baster, sucked Morph, and put him back into the container, which he then closed. "Why would a hacking experiment have a turkey baster built into him?" asked Odd who had just stopped hopping. "You know, I often wondered that myself," said Chip. "Is there anyway to recharge Morph?" asked Ulrich. "Normally we would use the fusion chamber but it's got a virus," said Chip. "And there is only one other way to recharge Morph and we use it as an emergency last-resort. Do you remember me telling you about Nodessertro?" "The dessert stealer?" asked Jeremie. "Yes, why?" "Well Nodessertro is also capable of making desserts but these desserts have a lot of sugar and will cause you go on a sugar rush. And there is one particular dessert that is dangerous in the hands of an experiment. Coconut Cake & Coffee Pudding. It will fully charge any experiment but will make go completely nuts. Morph would be recharged if he eats it but then he'll being a living wreaking-ball, only deadlier." "Guess we'll have to wait," said Yumi. "For how long?" groaned Ulrich. "Morph can naturally recharge himself. But it will take three days for him to turn into anything at this stage. Or we could try to find the Skipizoa and make it change you back." Ulrich clutched her head and groaned. "How are we going to fake this for three days?" "You won't have to," said Chip. "I found a program in the supercomputer that can alter reality a little. Not enough to say make it so XANA was never created or that Aelita was never infected by the virus, but enough to make everyone think that Yumi and Ulrich were always like this. But you'll have to learn a few things about your new bodies." Ulrich attempted to walk forward but lost balance and fell. "First thing is your new center of gravity," said Chip. Chip walked over to the computer monitor with Jeremie and showed how the program worked. Chip typed in the right keys and said, "Rewrite Reality, Now!" A blue dome of light covered the factory and the entire city.