Astera Snape: All of my fav. artist are reviewing! (-points to you and Bey) and Thank you so much! That means a lot to me; I love making people laugh.And don't worry, Brookie won't ruin Hiro's reputation...TOO badly...-shot- Nah, don't worry, he'll just have a li'l Tyson on Brookie's head most of the time. And yes,frowning Mystel and smiling Garland is scary. That's why it was in a nightmare of mine a few nights ago... o.O; ...And I kinda thought of the gender part from a friend who acted like Max the entire day, which made her 'switch' genders: and the body/cat thing was a small inspiration by Bey! -points down-

BeyMistress05: Thanks, Bey! (Was the chapter strange? XD)And I'm updating! -points down past review responses-

FlashOfFire: Hehe. Someones has muse problems, I seeee...X3 And thanks, Flash, I update! Kai-sangoing sugar high? Interesting...I think I might make the gang suffer that...-evil laugh-And do you mean KAI blackmail someone, or have someone else blackmail someone else? ...Either way, I think blackmail shall become part of the story.

Red Nox: A: You ARE a dork, 'Beth. (XP) B: Yes, the gate part made me laugh, too. And yeah, Kai should enjoy it since you know how the poor kid was so mistreated when he was young. . And, here's more humor!...and the OC'S leaving the story! D -Shot-

Chapter V: Separated from the Pack

"Bye guys!" Raven waved from the doorway, Xnic, Ash, Aminta, and Scarlett (Who came out of nowhere, again, by the way) standing beside her.

"I hope you all return to normal, soon!" Xnic called, cupping his one hand around his mouth and waving with his free hand.

"Good luck!" Raven called, waving, as the teens and adults walked away.

"…Think they'll get back to normal soon?"Ash asked as Raven sighed and shook her head, starting to walk into the house.

"…We can only hope, Ash…" Raven said, looking at the backs of the teens. "We can only hope…"

-----XXXX

"…Hiro…" Tyson whined. "My feet hurt…" Hiro looked down at his little, little brother and smiled. He stopped and reached down, grabbing the chibi and lifting him up onto his shoulders.

"Better?" He asked, starting to walk again.

"Much." Tyson replied, sighing contently. Brooklyn looked at the brothers and laughed.

"You seem closer than you were before," He remarked, smiling.

"I didn't notice," Hiro replied truthfully and a confused face, as Tyson leaned on his head, his arms crossed.

"…Brooklyn…"Tyson whined, bouncing slightly; Hiro ignored him with his a heavy sigh. Brooklyn looked at the chibi blader,

"Yes?" he asked, "something wrong?"

"…Where are the others?"

That caught Hiro's attention.

"What!" The prodigy and older brother cried at once, stopping abruptly. They glanced hurriedly around, before biting their lips. One word escaped Hiro's lips, a panicky sigh afterwarsds:

"…Crap."

----Others

"Hey Ollie…" Johnny tugged on Oliver's pant leg.

"Yeah?" The French blader looked down at the Scot. Johnny cocked his head, making him look even cuter,

"Where's Brooklyn, Tyson and Hiro?" Oliver gasped.

"…Robert!" Oliver cried, "Judy! Mr. Dickinson!" The three mentioned turned around as they walked and stopped.

"What is it?" Judy asked, looking at the greenette.

"We lost Brooklyn, Hiro, and Tyson!" Oliver exclaimed, throwing her hands up…and forgetting she was clutching Johnny hand.

"Ahh! Get me down! Get me down!" Johnny whined, flailing his legs and free arm as he was hung in midair from Oliver's grip.

"Whoops…" Oliver set the chibi down, who glared and ran ahead, finding Kai, Ray, and Max to hang around instead. "Sorry," Oliver called as Mystel looked around, fidgeting with his (Garland's) hair.

"…I don't like thiiss…" Mystel said, biting his lip. "I feel watched…" Mystel whined, putting out his lower lip.He eased slightly when he felt a chibi Ray wrap around his leg (which he found was hard to walk with) and a switched Garland lay a hand on his shoulder.

"What are we gonna do about Hiro, Tyson, and Brooklyn?" Kai asked, a sleeping Tala in his arms; Spencer and Bryan couldn't help but smile at the scene, wishing they had a camera badly.

"…Should we go back and look for them?" Rick asked, brushing her hair back behind her ear.

"…Well, let's stop and eat some lunch," Romero suggested, pointing at the basket of food Raul and Julia insisted on carrying.

"Maybe they'll catch up that way," Bryan said as Mariah tried to wrench the basket from the twins.

"Where'd the basket come from?" Judy asked, never noticing the twins had it; she never remembered bringing one, either...

"Raven," Raul and Julia replied, gripping on the basket protectively as Mariah gave up and let them reached in and grab the blanket to lie on. The twins grabbed the blanket daintily and gave it to a gender-switched Mariah, who smiled gratefully. Hilary and Ming Ming tried to get the basket from the twins; but the twins just growled and set it down, leaning on it protectively.

"…Why are you two so protective of that?" Romero asked as Ming Ming crossed his arms, looking at the chibi's spitefully, growling like a tiger on the hunt...whoa, where'd that come from? -hears documentary on TV about tigers-...oh, okay.

"…" Raul said nothing, so Julia took the liberty.

"No reason," Julia replied, shrugging and grinning. Lee smiled and said--- no, demanded:

"Then give it to us."

"NO!" The twins screamed, clutching the basket. By now, Tala was starting to wake up from the noise. He growled and started yelling, but Russian or English wasn't coming out of his mouth. Kitten tongue was.

Ray started laughing, clutching his stomach and tumbling on the ground. The other neko-jins' just stared, not knowing what the kitten said.

"What did he say?" Kai asked Mariah, looking up at him with big eyes.

"…I'm not sure," Mariah said, shaking his head. "And I don't think I want to know, either…" He added, looking at the laughing chibi Chinese blader.

-----With Hiro/Brooklyn/Chibi Tyson!

"AHHH! Where ARE WE!" Brooklyn clutched his head. They were pretty much out of the forest and into a city.

"…Brook, if anyone should be doing that, it should be me," Hiro snapped at the prodigy teen. "After all, who has the chibi on their head!" Hiro growled. Brooklyn sighed.

"You're right…I'm sorry…" Brooklyn apologized. Hiro smiled,

"Hey," he said softly. "No worries, Brook."

"…Hiro…" Tyson muttered, rubbing his tired eyes. "Where are we?"

"Lost." Hiro replied, sighing. Tyson whimpered, showing that his child side was getting the better of him. Noticing this and regretting it, Hiro added, "But Brooklyn knows the way!" Which made Tyson smile, but Brooklyn looked on the verge of murder when he glared at his coach who was currently in his body. He definitely did NOT know the way, and worse, if he just happened wrong, Tyson would hate him when he returned to normal.He and the arrogant teen had just come to terms with each other; he didn't want to loose that...and if he killed him before he returned to normal, Hiro would definately have a hard time adopting Tyson in his body! And everyone knows paperwork for that is EVIL.

"Hiro…" Brooklyn warned, narrowing his eyes. Hiro backed off from the prodigy when he started growling, but both ceased their actions when a voice came out.

"AWWW!" Hiro and Brooklyn flinched, turning abruptly to a young woman. "Are they yours?" Hiro and Brooklyn blushed like apples and shook their heads. (A/N: Apples heads! XD)

"He's my little brother," Hiro replied without thinking. The lady blinked.

"He looks more like you," She pointed out, pointing with two fingers at Brooklyn.

"…Blame my mom?" Hiro said, scratching his cheek. The lady smiled and reached into her purse, pulling out a lollypop. She handed it to Hiro, and jestured her head towards the chibi on his head. "I'll give it to him, later," Hiro said, taking it and smiling fakely. "Thank you," He said as the lady waved and walked away. Once she was out of sight, Tyson "woke up" and snatched the lollypop from his brother, who sighed.

"Mine," Tyson said, popping it into his mouth. Brooklyn laughed as the older brother shook his head at his possessive younger brother.

"You and your food…" Hiro muttered, not noticing the three had happened upon a beydish, 6 young boys and 3 young girls huddled around it, abeybattle apparently going around the small, country-side place that wasn't too far from the city...wow, that was a horrible description.

"Hey Hiro…" Brooklyn started, but was cut off as a beyblade landed at his feet. "Hm?"

"Hey mister! Throw it here!" A young boy waved. Brooklyn picked it up, and, with Hiro and Tyson following, walked it over. "Hey…I know you! You're Hiro and Brooklyn!" Brooklyn and Hiro tensed up.

"Wow!"

"Cool!"

"That's is so awesome!"

"Are you visiting!"

Came the other cries from the kids watching as the two literally tried to act like each other.

"Hey Brooklyn!" Hiro turned to the kid after he remembered he was technically Brooklyn. "Who's that kid on your head?" The chibi blader almost responded, but a glare from "his brother" (or Brooklyn) silenced him.

"Tyson's and I little brother," Brooklyn said, hands in his pocket.

"Then why isn't he on you and not Brooklyn?" A girl asked.

"…I wike Brooklyn, too," Tyson replied, making himself sound younger so he could play along. "Brookie's fun!" Hiro smiled up at his little...little, little, little brother and Brooklyn chuckled. "…Brookie…" Tyson whispered into Hiro's ear.

"We gotta go," Hiro said, waving. "Have fun!" Hiro waved, trying to act like Brooklyn. Brooklyn bowed and followed Hiro without a word. Along their way to the clothing store (Tyson's clothes didn't fit so some odd reason), so many women hit on them it wasn't funny…to them, to Tyson it was HILARIOUS.

"This it?" Brooklyn asked as Hiro slipped some sunglasses on Brooklyn's face, making less people notice him. They walked into JC Penny's, feeling awkward whenever the females would hit on Hiro, who was currently Brooklyn. Brooklyn grabbed a pair of small blue jeans, a yellow t-shirt, some blue gloves, and a red jacket to slip over the shirt; technically what Tyson already wore, but smaller. After paying and quickly leaving, Hiro cursed as Brooklyn panted from walking so much in a different body...which is weird because how long has he been in that body, now?

"…I hate females," Both males said in unison; they then realized they said it in unison; they looked at each other, and started laughing, Tyson not catching what they were laughing about.

"Why are you laughing?" Tyson asked, but he was just ignored. "…Adults…" He muttered and started laughing, causing Brooklyn and Hiro to stop laughing and look at him.

"Why are you laughing, little bro?" Hiro asked, looking up at the chibified teen.

------With the gang and two very possesive twins...

"OURS!"

"Yes, it's our lunch! Now hand it OVER!"

"NO! OURS!"

"Give it up, Mariah, they won't hand it over…"Robert said after 5 minutes of the bickering between Mariah and the twins.

"Why won't you give it to us!" Ming Ming asked, clenching his fist; he was about ready to punch the little suckers into oblivion. (Ming Ming: Ahhh! I feel like Garland! I have urges to punch someone! Garland: HEY!)

"Because it's OURS." Raul growled, shocking the gang because usually it was Julia who was the forceful one; Raul was usually the quiet, reserved, I-always-start-the-argument kinda kid. "And it's not yours, it's OURS."

"…Raul…" Ming Ming smiled, his one eye twitching slightly. "I used to respect you, even if it was only a little, but …" Ming Mingpaused as the smiled faultered in pure rage. "YOU LITTLE BRATS BETTER GIVE THAT TO ME, NOW!" Kenny shook her head sadly at Ming Ming's uproar. On the bright side, Kenny could still swoon over Ming Ming since she was now male and he was now female; so really he didn't mind too much, just the fact that Ming Ming was acting a lot like an angry Garland, though, was kinda scary. (Garland: Stop picking on me! -goes into corner and sulks- Mystel: ...All right, now he's acting too much like me!)

"NO!" Raul screamed at the top of his lungs. "MINE AND HERS!" Julia nodded in agreement as Mariah had had enough.

"…Grr…" He growled as he tackled Raul, grabbing the basket from his tiny hands. "BINGO!" Mariah ran as Romero grabbed the twins, who were now threatening to burst into tears because Mariah took their basket. Mariah opened the basket and reached in… and screamed while jumping back.

"IT'S…IT'S…"


What did Raul and Julia stuff in there? Was it a squirrel? All the food was gone? Tell me what YOU want to find in there! I'm serious, I need something to put in there! Tell me what you want to find!...I already said that, didn't I?...

Tala: GET TO THE POINT!

Me: >>...

Brooklyn: ...do I really need to say it?

Me: Yes...

Brooklyn: -sigh- Flames will be accepted but ignored and flamer will be hit on the head with a remote that T-LW-T keeps next to herself so she can change the channel to Beyblade which isn't on Friday's and Monday's, but is on Saturday's and Sunday's! And it's now one at 10 instead of 9 and Sam's mad...and she's taking it out on us...-smiles widely- So, R&R please!

UPDATE/A pain in the heart for you all (yeah right): My computer fried. o.O I'm on the laptop using a document that I uploaded before. Luckily I didn't have the 6th chapter done. EITHER WAYYYY...

I lost everything. All my documents, word programs, files, and whatnot is