Hey, I finally updated! XD Well, in this chapter the gang's gonna get 3 people switched to normal! Guess who? Either way, the gang is gonna get a new ally who's gonna help them out!
BeyMistress05: …The main reason for the high confusion was because I wanted certain people to BE certain people, but be animal-fied or something. Since I couldn't decide, I just went with both. ...Oh, and I hope your brain gets better. XP
Astera Snape: I needed some new teams, so...yeah...and Zeo might make an appearance if I'm in need of a new guy. And yes, Hiro will start hanging around Kai (especially more because of what happens later in this chapter) and him, Ray, and Tala will cause...quite a bit of mischief. --inserts a few lines-- There, now Brooklyn speaks about his misfortune. XP
Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
My first chapter for MU&C-F of 2006. --sniff-- I'm so proud...--can't believe she made it to chapter 12 without losing intrest in story-- WHEE!
Disclaimer: Nothing. I don't own nothing.
Chapter 12: Fixing the Switcher with a New Ally!
"Gemini, where are you going?"
Gemini froze, and then responded coolly after a moment, "Out."
"Out where?" Jubilee pressed.
"…Outside of course!" Gemini stormed to the door of their hideout.
"Gemini! Don't you dare try and get the switcher back! We don't need it!" Jubilee yelled after her younger-by-2-minutes-brother.
"Really now?" Gemini asked with spite and a cold glare. Jubilee growled.
"Yes! It's completely broken, they can't fix it!" Jubilee pointed out. "Gemini, don't go near them! I'm serious!"
"Whatever. I'm going now. See ya!" Gemini snapped, opening the door and then slamming it as hard as he could.
"GEMINI! I'm warning you! Don't go near them!" Her warning fell on deaf ears. "…" Jubilee sighed, running her hand through her pale purple and pale orange streaked hair. "What an idiot…Why did you put me with such a irresponsible little brother, God?"
ZAP! ZAP!
"YOW! Cutting it a little close aren't we?"
ZAP! ZAP!
"GAH! Fine! Fine!" Jubilee shook her fist at the sky, "I'll go make sure he doesn't do anything if you stop trying to electrocute me! Sheesh, how's lightning strike inside a building anyway!" And at that, she ran out the door after her brother. "GEMINI! Wait for me!"
———XX
"...Hiro..." Brooklyn started.
"What?" Hiro looked at Brooklyn. "What is it?"
"...You do know I'm not looking all too forward to returning to my own body because of my substained injuries, right?"
"...Yes..." Hiro said, sweatdropping. "But it was Kai's fault!"
"So, you found the switcher!" Tyson asked, excitedly, changing the subject.
"Yes, we did!" Johnny said as he and some of the other chibi's played tag…FAR AWAY FROM THE CLIFF.
"Or rather it found us…" Rick said, laughing as Julia tackled Raul and they started tumbling around, laughing.
"I see…" Hiro said, being the only chibi not playing tag… instead Hiro, using his arms for his pillows, was resting contently on Tyson's head: payback for having Tyson on his head the entire time. "So, are we all gonna change back soon?"
"Uh…" Kenny sweatdropped, "No…"
"What!" Tyson and Hiro exclaimed. "What do you mean no!"
"It's completely broken and—" Kenny was cut off.
"If it's broken then how'd we switch?" Hiro asked with a glare Kai'd be proud of.
"…I like the gware…" Kai said proudly, speaking in chibi…or younger kids language.
"…You just might be right, Hiro…" Judy said thoughtfully. "Kenny, please let me examine it…" Kenny nodded and went to fetch the dreaded remote thing under Mrs. Tate's demand.
"Whoa, whoa, not so fast!"
Everyone looked up, seeing a pale blue with pale purple streaks haired boy standing on a branch, his arms crossed.
"So, you're the thieving bandits that stole our switcher!" Gemini yelled. He jumped down off the branch and landed perfectly on two feet and one hand, his other hand out for balance. He stood up, crossed his arms again, and glared at the teens.
"Stole? You must be mistaken; we found it." Brooklyn said calmly. Gemini huffed,
"Yeah right! You think I'll believe that!" Gemini growled. "It was stolen from our lab, and now we find YOU with it? Gee, seems pretty suspicious, don't you THINK? How dare you!"
"How dare we what!"
Gemini slapped his forehead, "Holy hell…"
"Gemini, I strictly told you not to go near them!" Jubilee shouted angrily, jumping down next to him. "Why do you never listen to me!"
"You're not the boss of me!" Gemini barked, glaring and ignoring the teens.
Everyone: —sweatdrop—
"Gemini!" Jubilee crossed her arms. "Leave them alone and abandon the switcher! It's of no use."
"…Neither is your mouth, but hey, you don't hear ME complaining…" Gemini pointed out, his eyes half-mooned as he pointed upwards with his hand.
Jubilee glared, "You are an idiot!" Jubilee growled and ran off. Gemini glared at her back,
"I hope you get struck by lightning, you goddamned—!" Gemini cut himself off as he crossed his arms and plopped down onto the ground cross-legged. "Son of a gun…"
"Hey, you're the kid that switched us in the first place!" Ming Ming exclaimed. Gemini nodded, the glare still on his face.
"What'cha wanna make of it?" Gemini asked, his glare focused on Jubilee's retreating figure; he didn't once turn around to face the gang.
"We want you to change us BACK!" Rick yelled, glaring. "I can't be threatening as a GIRL!"
"HEY!" All the born bey-girls yelled.
"Change us back!" Lee exclaimed, pointing at Gemini.
"…Okay." Gemini said, shrugging with his back still to the teens.
"We said change us BACK! Don't make us use for—" Miguel stopped yelling and furrowed his brow.
"What'd you say!" Kevin asked quickly.
"Okay." Gemini stood up. "I'll do it."
Everyone: O-O… Really?
"Of course…that is…if…" Gemini rubbed his arm. "If you'll do me a small favor…"
"I knew it!" Emily exclaimed. "What do you want!"
"…Help." Gemini said weakly. "I want help."
"Help?" Hiro asked, raising his eyebrow. "With what?"
"…I'm not really like this. Like Oliver, Rick, and Ming Ming, I'm gender-switched. Jubilee's not my sister, even though we look alike. She's just a friend; and a bad one at that. I want your help in getting myself back to normal…If you do that, I'll help you in every way possible." Gemini bowed. "Please help me…I can't stand being who I'm not for the rest of my life …" Gemini looked down at the ground, waiting for their answer. "So? Whatddya say?"
Everyone looked at each other for a while, unsure of what to do.
"…Let us think about it," Judy said as the teens and chibi's huddled in one giant circle.
"What do you say, guys?" Hiro asked. "I think we can trust him. He doesn't seem to want to help Jubilee anymore, and he does look…" Hiro looked over his shoulder at the teen, "sad…"
"…I agree with coach," Brooklyn said. "I trust the kid."
"Me too! Me too!" Mystel said, smiling.
"I trust him." Tala said from his seat on Bryan's back.
"I think he's all right…" Robert admitted.
"Hey, I tink we can twust him!" Kai said hyperly. The other kinda stared at his behavior.
"He can't be too bad," Rick stated, glancing over her own shoulder.
"He doesn't look harmful…" Miguel said thoughtfully.
"Looks sincere enough…" Lee agreed.
"I think he means it…" Ozuma spoke up, most of the teens unaware he was even there.
"I believe he just wants to help us," Kane stated.
Eventually, everyone did agree with each other.
"All right, kid," Bryan started as they parted and turned around, "You're cool with us."
Gemini smiled, "Awesome! Thank you!"
"…Kenny," Judy started, "did you get the switcher?"
"Yes, I did, Mrs. Tate!" Kenny handed Judy the switcher with a smile on her face.
"Now…how did this work earlier?" Judy pondered. Gemini snatched the switcher out of Judy's hands. He looked at it for a moment before replying in monotone,
"The marble's missing." He pointed out with half-mooned eyes.
"The what?" Kenny inquired. Gemini cleared his throat,
"The blue marble. It spins in place…here—" Gemini pointed to a small hole in the switcher after he opened it. "—from the gale of air you push through when you press the operating button and that creates a turbulence which generates the magnetic pull of the friction on the gear here—" Gemini pointed to a slightly rusty gear. "—in which electrically charges the rechargeable battery in which results in the beam being amplified and shooting out here—" Gemini pointed to a small hole on the front of the switcher, "—thus making molecular switching, opposing sex, animal-lization, and chibi-fication possible through a device as small as a remote control for your television. The blue marble also amplifies the beam and makes it bigger and wider ranged."
(A/N: Do know that…I don't know a scientific damn about all of that…I just drabbled and hoped it made sense. XD)
Everyone: —stare—
"…It needs a blue marble to operate," Gemini said annoyed, putting his long, drawn out speech into simplest terms possible.
"Oh, then…where do we find that?" Judy asked. Gemini reached into his pocket.
"Here." Gemini held out a red marble. "It's red, so it might fracture the beam and cause something else to happen. Of course, I'm just guessing. It could, or could not, happen. As I've never…experimented with it, I could just be worried for nothing."
Kenny grabbed the marble from the teen's hand and popped the marble in where Gemini pointed to in his speech. "Is….this correct?" Kenny asked warily, worried she'd messed up and make things worse.
"Yes, that's correct," Gemini said as Kenny screwed the switcher and looked as the button glowed. "Good, that means it'll work."
"So, who should we hit?" Tyson asked, wanting badly to shrug, but couldn't because of the injuries Hiro obtained from the previous fall off a certain cliff because of a certain chibi that turned sharp corners.
"Well, who do we find should be switched?" Robert asked, looking around. All of freeze tag.
"Why not Hiro, Tyson, and Brooklyn?" Garland asked, motioning to the prodigy, who was sitting contently under a tree keeping a watch on the chibi's. Tyson nodded,
"Good idea!"
"You just think it's a good idea because it involves you," Max said, laughing.
"So?" Tyson asked, smirking.
"Well, if everyone agrees…" Michael started. "We might as well switch those three…"
Everyone agreed.
"All right then," Oliver said, smiling, "Start the switcher, Chief, let's switch 'em!" Brooklyn overhead and grabbed Hiro, and stood beside Tyson.
Kenny, with the help of Gemini, set the controls and aimed in at Hiro, Brooklyn, and Tyson, "Ready?" The three nodded. "All right, let's go!"
Kenny pressed the button and an orange, light blue, and blue beam flew out and towards the tree switched teens. Each teen winced as the beam transferred from one to the other. After the bright light faded, 3 teens stood there.
"I'M ME AGAIN!" Tyson and Brooklyn exclaimed, looking at each other happily.
"Ow…" Brooklyn whimpered at the injuries. "Thanks a lot…" Brooklyn wanted to look to the side, but when he saw air…
Everyone: O-O uh oh…
"…What?" Hiro asked, blinking. "…What!"
Tyson sweatdropped, "Two are normal…"
"One's…kinda chibi-fied…" Brooklyn finished.
"…Chibi-fied?" Hiro blinked. "What tat?"
"Ray!" Tyson turned to the Chinese chibi.
"Yesh?" The chibi asked. "What want?"
"...Something tells me that beam didn't just chibify his body…" Gemini pointed out, sweat dropping. "I think now the beam reverts them completely…And haven't you noticed Kai going hyper?"
"…You know what, I think you're right, Gem," Michael pointed out.
"Who are you pweople?" Hiro asked, cocking his head.
"…I'm….Tyson! You're…older brother!" Tyson smiled. "I have always wanted to say that!" Tyson laughed.
Hiro nodded, "Oh. Okay…" He smiled.
Max muffled a laugh, "Why's he wearing your hat?" Max asked. Spencer nodded, snickering.
"My hat?" Tyson felt the top of his head. "My hat's still on." Tyson took a double-take on his…er…older brother and found the same hat on him. "Guess he had it when he was this age…" Tyson watched as Kai ran up to his chibi-fied brother.
"Hey, who's teh new kid?" Kai asked, Ray behind him.
"Hero," Hiro replied. Kai smiled and motioned for him to follow. Tyson watched them carefully as it appeared to the teens that the chibi's put Kai as "it" for freeze and all the chibi's run away as he chased them.
"…Can't you switch him back?" Brooklyn asked as Kai tapped Johnny, causing the Scot to freeze while he was running, which made him lose his balance and tumble and slide. Oliver frowned and ran over to him when the chibi started crying from scraping his elbow.
Brooklyn sweatdropped as the gender-switched teen cradled the chibi.
"I'm afraid it's too risky…" Kenny replied as she sighed. Judy nodded,
"In addition, the switcher is too low on power. But how long will it take for it to e useable again?" Judy asked Gemini.
"It'll take up to two days for it to fully recharge…Since it was used on 3 people at once," Gemini pointed out. "But going back to the risky part, something else could happen to him if we use it. If we get the blue marble, though, and the switcher fully recharges…"
"We can switch back?" Miguel finished, more as a question more than a statement.
"Yes, exactly," Gemini said, nodding.
"So…we have to wait two days?" Oliver asked, cradling the chibi Scot in her arms.
"…Yes, but in that time we need to get a BLUE marble…" Gemini said, throwing his arms up. "Unless you want something worse to happen!"
"Well," Moses started, "There was a city not too far from here…"
"Remember the way, Crusher?" Mystel asked, bouncing up and down.
"I think so." Moses replied.
"Are the Saint Armors or whatever and the See-kicks or something coming along?" Mystel asked. Garland snickered as Ozuma and Kane glared.
"No, we're gonna keep an eye out for Jubilee," Mariam said. Salima nodded,
"Yes, we're gonna stay here."
Robert nodded, "All right. Then lead the way…Moses."
"Crusher." Moses replied, glaring. "Now…" Moses started walking, the teens following. The chibi's ran after, all of them giggling as Johnny jumped down out of Oliver's arms and raced after them, apparently him being "it".
The Saint Shields and the Psykicks waved goodbye and the teens vanished.
———XX 5 minutes later…
"…" Moses looked around shiftily.
"…We're lost, aren't we, Shrimp?" Garland asked, poking Moses in the shoulder from behind.
"WE ARE NOT LOST!" Moses yelled, causing Tala to cover his ears since he and Bryan were trotting along side…okay, Tala was actually laying on Bryan's back, but whatever. Moses sweatdropped as Mystel glared at him,
"I just…. don't know where we are!"
R&R Please. It builds—
Tala: DON'T SAY IT.
Me: It builds my self-confidence….—mumbles— and strong bones…
Tala: —sighs in annoyance—
Me: …Now, who do you want turned back next? It can be anyone! I'm leaving an open vote poll this time! Because 2/3/4 people will be returned to normal! -
Everyone: WHOO-HOO!
T-LW-T
