Astera Snape: Yush, poor little Hiro. –Hugs him— And Kai was just acting normal, I suppose…but HOW could he resist such a cute face? …and I wonder what blackmail he has, too…o.O And yeah, Tyson's a good brother, as I think I've said before. And thanks X3 I liked that line too. Max just seems like the one who would turn to someone and say "I bwame you, (insert name)." And thank you for patiently waiting! Oh, and just for you I doodled up a picture of Kai going hyper. I was out at dinner couple nights ago (Place called 'Whitehouse Inn') and had nothing to do while waiting for food, so I decided to doodle.

It's not the greatest (I doodled it in 5 minutes…what do want from me? XD), but it gets the point x3: http/img155.imageshack.us/img155/4039/whenkaigoeshypertlwt5ii.jpg

BeyMistress05: Thank you, Bey!

WolfMoonSinger: (x2) Glad you found me. X3 And thanks, Bri. Glad you liked 'em!

Chapter 18: The Blame Game With New Players

"I bwame you."

"What?"

"Yeah, ya heard me! I bwame YOU!"

"I DIDN'T DO NUFIN'!"

"DAT'S WHAT DEY ALL SAY!"

Max and Ray were now in a heated argument. Hiro, along with Brooklyn and Mystel, was covering his ears and was tempted to tape them shut with the tape the 5 had discovered in Max's pocket.

"Wait," Brooklyn said suddenly as Hiro moved to tape his ears shut, "Lemme use that for a sec," Brooklyn coached as he took the tape from Hiro.

———XX

"Dat was a good investment," Mystel said happily as Ray and Max sat in the corner, eyes swirled () and mouthed gagged and shut with hands tied together behind their backs.

"Me agwee," Hiro said, smiling as Brooklyn smiled back. "Now what?"

"…Hiro's wight…dat was our only source of entatainment…" Mystel said sadly as Brooklyn sweatdropped and mumbled,

"Anybodeh got some carwds?"

"No!" Mystel yelled, "What do we wook wike…kangagwoo's?"

"Why kangawoo's?" Hiro asked, clearly puzzled.

"Duh…da pouches!" Mystel exclaimed, rolling his eyes. Hiro and Brooklyn sweatdropped, sighing as Mystel pouted.

"What now?" Ray asked. Max nodded,

"Yeah, what?"

"AHH!" The three chibi's screamed, "How did ya bowth get untied?"

Ray shrugged, "Woophole," Ray explained.

"…Damned things dey are," Max mumbled.

Brooklyn sweatdropped, "Err…"

"I still bwame you!" Max pointed at Ray.

"I TOLDS YA IT WASN'T MY FAULT! I DIDN'T DO NUFIN'!" Ray screamed, glaring as his eyes slit.

"Er…" Max turned to Hiro, "I bwame you!"

SLAP!

Hiro crossed his arms, pouting seeing as he had just slapped Max. Max turned to Mystel,

"I BWAME YOU!" Max pointed at Mystel. Mystel glared and max backed off, seeing as Mystel still had the temper of Garland from when they had switched. When Max turned to Brooklyn to blame him, the prodigy glared,

"Don't even tink 'bout it…" He warned. Max backed off—A mad Brooklyn? Not fun…not fun at all…

——XX

"…" Glare.

"Stop glaring at me!" Gemini whined as everyone continued to glare. "I know where they are!"

"Well, then, WHERE ARE THEY?" Judy yelled. "My son just floated away in YOUR giant bubble!"

"My brother, too!" Tyson glared and Bruce added 'as well as my chibi-fied son!'

"What about Mystel?" Garland added, glaring. "Brooklyn, too!"

"AND RAY!" Mariah yelled.

"Err…" Gemini paused. "…Kimara…kinda…kidnapped them."

SLAP!

"OW! That hurt, Mariah!" Gemini whined, holding his cheek which now had a red hand-shaped mark on it.

"THEN GET THEM ALL BACK!" Mariah yelled. "I AM NOT AFRAID TO KILL YOU!"

Gemini gulped, "Uh…there's…there's good news…and bad news…What d-do you want f-first?"

Everyone looked at each other, "…Good news."

"The area is very high strung and we'll never be able to get in there!" Gemini smiled.

"…and the bad news?" Lee asked.

"Oh wait…" Gemini paused, "That was the bad news."

"THEN WHAT'S THE GOOD NEWS?" Kevin shouted.

"Uh… I know where they are and can get them back with all of your guys' help!" Gemini explained.

"…"

"…"

"There's more to the bad news, isn't there?" Emily asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Er…yes…" Gemini said slowly. "Uh…Boris and Voltaire are kinda running the business…"

"WHAT!" The Blitzkrieg Boyz yelled as well as Kai.

"Er…yeah…" Gemini sweatdropped.

"…Let's get moving." Kai said and started walking.

"Do you even know where you're going?" Gemini called after him.

Kai stopped, "…No."

"Then please," Gemini and Jet walked in front of Kai. "Try to keep up!" Gemini raced off, Jet in the lead, as the others followed him, barely keeping up.

"Hell, where'd he learn to run so fast!" Lee asked, running next to Mariah, who had Kevin holding desperately onto her shoulder.

"I don't know," Mariah answered as she glanced to Rick who was running next to her.

"This is crazy!" Rick said as she panted slightly, "They're running too fast! We can't keep up!"

"Funny," Bryan mused as he raced past them, "I can."

"That's because your runnin' on four legs!" Michael yelled after Bryan as he caught up to Jet and Gemini, running evenly at their side.

"Damn dog," Kevin mumbled.

"Got that right," Mariah agreed. "I think we lost Mrs. Tate and Mr. Kinomiya, though…"

"Nah," Tyson motioned backwards, "They're back there!"

"Way back there…" Emily mumbled, sweatdropping.

"Whoa, wait, guys, STOP!" Jet yelled suddenly. But they were all distracted…

WHAM!

"You know…I yelled out STOP for a reason…" Jet growled, taping his fingers on the ground, him being on the bottom of the pile-up.

"Well maybe I didn't hear you!" Tyson argued as he huffed. Unfortunately, Jet was under Tyson…

"I YELLED IT!" Jet snapped, glaring. Tyson sweatdropped,

"Err…sorry?"

"You better damn be! NOW GET OFF ME! All of you!" Jet snarled, glaring up at the teens. One by one they all jumped off, leaving a twitching Jet. "Some friendly advice…LOSE SOME WEIGHT!"

"…Are we at da base?" Johnny asked, pointing. Jet dusted himself off before looking up.

"Yup. That'd be it!" Jet replied.

"It just screams "Evil Lair" now, doesn't it?" Oliver asked, sweatdropping as she put her hand behind her head.

"That…" Tyson started slowly, "AND the fact that it has a giant neon sign on the front that reads "Evil Lair"…"

"That too," Jet replied as he started to the door.

"Those guys are just WANTING to get caught, aren't they?" Kai asked boredly as Spencer and Ian agreed.

"Whoa, whoa, what about security!" Gemini asked as Jet continued to walk.

"Heellloooo…did you forget?" Jet rolled his eyes, "I can phase through stuff, remember?"

"…No, actually," Gemini started slowly, "No I don't…"

Everyone: —sweatdrop—

"Let me just pick the lock…" Jet replied as he phased through the door.

——XX

"Are they comin' for us?" Max asked boredly as he and Mystel played some sort of hand-game.

"'Course dey are!" Hiro said, smiling.

"…You are WAY too optimissic…" Ray said, sweatdropping.

"Optimistic," Brooklyn corrected.

"Whatevah!" Ray scoffed.

"Hey wook…a vent!" Hiro pointed upwards.

"…" Everyone blinked, "You just have a knack for findin' vents, dun cha?"

Hiro nodded proudly, "Yup!"

"Who cares?" Max asked as he jumped up from his sitting position, "Wet's GO!"

"…I feel wike dis is a woophole…" Brooklyn muttered, sweatdropping.

"Why's dat?" Mystel asked as he ran over to Max and Hiro.

"'Cause dere is a laddah," Brooklyn pointed out.

"…WOW!" Mystel gasped, grinning, "How convenient!"

"Very!" Hiro agreed as the 5 filed into the ventilation shaft.

Max suddenly stopped as they were crawling and the 4 behind him crashed into him. "Wait…"

"WHAT!" The 4 behind him snapped.

"…What if da heat turns on?"

——XX

"On your right is the Cells, All right?" Jet pointed left, "And to your left you see Kimara and Jubilee tied up, cursing at me in…what seems to be Russian…HEY HEY! There are children here!"

Bryan sighed, continuing to walk with Tala riding on his back, half-asleep, "Must you point everything out?"

"Yes."

"Well stop!" Bryan snarled as the others sweatdropped, agreeing. Jet rolled his eyes,

"Fine."

After about 6 minutes of walking in silence, without Jet informing them of anything, Tyson reluctantly spoke up.

"So… where are we now?" Tyson asked, looking around.

Everyone: GRAH —anime fall—

Kai glared at Tyson, an anime vein on his forehead, "You are such an—!"

———XX

"IDIOT!" Mystel yelled, smacking Max. "You fwippin' IDIOT! You gots us lost…AGAIN!"

"OW!" Max whined as Mystel hit him again. "WOULD YOU RATHER WEAD?"

"YES!" Mystel yelled.

"NO!" All the other chibi's behind him yelled.

"…Sheesh…" Mystel grumbled. "Get wost ONE time…"

"ONE?" All the chibi's yelled, "IT WAS WAAAYYY MORE THEN THAT!"

"Was not…" Mystel mumbled, glaring at them as the 5 continued through the ventilation system. Ray suddenly shushed them,

"Shh! I hear voices!" Ray growled at them as they all shut up and crowded around the opening of the vent plate. Inside was an office…with two men inside.

"…" Brooklyn frowned, "It's Bowis…"

"And that meanie Voltar!" Mystel complained.

"I'm sorry to report sir that your grandson is no longer a chibi, so we were not able to capture him," Boris reported, crossing his arms. Voltaire closed his eyes and grumbled,

"Then who DID your little lackeys get!" He ground out, opening his eyes and glaring.

"Well, we did manage to get Brooklyn Kingston, Hiro Kinomiya, Ray Kon, Max Tate and Mystel…whatever his last name is," Boris informed.

"Ah, yes…all right….BUT THEY ARE NOT WHO I SENT FOR!" Voltaire bellowed, slamming his fist down onto his desk.

"A-Ah, yes, I understand that! But we can get who we want by using them…" Boris tried to reason.

"And how is that!" Voltaire growled.

"W-Well…we DO have the prodigy along with Tyson's brother…" Boris started, "And Garland a-and the others for sure will try to get Mystel back….and Judy Tate will of course, along with the rest of her team, will want Max back and Mariah and the rest of the White Tiger-X will stop at nothing to get R-Ray back…!"

Voltaire pondered this, "Yes, yes…you DO have a point…perfect. I have a plan already. Follow me, Balkov!" Voltaire commanded as he stood up and exited the office, Boris following him.

Once the two men had exited the room, and a few minutes after they were sure they were gone, Mystel growled.

"BAIT?" He yelled, "THEY'RE GONNA USE US FOR BAIT?" Mystel screamed before Hiro clamped his hand over the blonde's mouth.

"Do you WANT dem to come back!" Hiro snapped as Brooklyn took the ventilation cover off.

"I'm NOT gonna be used for bait again," Brooklyn growled as he jumped up, followed by the other 4 chibi's.

"So what we gonna do?" Max asked, frowning. "We can't get outta here!"

"…" Ray suddenly smirked. "Sabbytooge."

"Ya mean zabotige?" Mystel corrected.

"He means SABOTAGE," Brooklyn re-corrected, closing his eyes and smiling at his vocabulary skills. He suddenly snapped his eyes open, "I mean, WHAT?"

"Mystie, Maxie, you're CRAZY," Hiro sweatdropped. "We'd get in SO much twouble!"

"Dat's the point," Ray said, smiling and showing off his fangs. "They'd throw us out!"

"…" Max twirled his finger near his head, saying Ray was "cuckoo".

"HEY I SAW THAT!" Ray growled, glaring at Max.

"…Might be a good idea…" Brooklyn pondered.

"…You're stupid to bewieve that!" Hiro snapped, glaring. "They'd just like throw us in a cell or-or-or…or a dark room!"

The four chibi's sweatdropped at the younger as he waved his arms frantically up and down.

"Hiro…YOU'RE crazy," Max corrected, pointing at Hiro and twirling his other finger near his head again.

"I AM NOT!" Hiro complained, pouting.

Mystel suddenly started bouncing.

"Huh?" Max looked at Mystel.

Mystel was now twirling and bouncing, grinning and giggling madly like a mad Egyptian chibi.

"Is he havin' a seizure…?" Hiro whispered to Brooklyn, who shrugged in response.

Mystel bounced his highest yet, yelling hyperly, "SUUGAARR RRRUUSSHH!"

Chibi's: Oh. That. —sweatdrop— T.T

Max suddenly had a mischievous grin, "I say…we go awong with Ray-Ray's pwan…"

"What!" Hiro looked at him, "You can't be sewious!"

"Oh, but I am!" Max laughed and ran up to Voltaire's desk, grabbing an…oddly placed potted plant. He tugged it to the ground, shattering the clay pot and sending dirt everywhere. He now grabbed a bottle of water (How conveeeeeeniiieennent… ) and poured it in the dirt and stuck his hands in what was now mud. "Wet's go!" Max stuck his hands onto the wall, making two chibi-sized mud handprints.

Mystel giggled and stuck his hands and feet in the mud, bouncing up the fan and clutching it, swinging, "TURN DA FAN ON, DUDE!"

Max nodded and raced the on-switch, flicking it. Mystel's hyper scream was heard as the 4 glanced and saw his spinning around and around very fast, mud splattering everywhere.

"OW! Dat's my eye!" Ray whined, wiping mud out of his eyes.

"S-S-SO-SOR-SORR-SORRY R-RA-RAY-R-RA-RAY!" Mystel managed to get out as he spun around and around faster and faster. Ray shrugged it off and ran to the phone, pulling it off the desk and picking up the receiver.

"Ray-Ray, what if we get in trouble…!" Hiro asked quickly as Ray started pressing random numbers.

"Shhh! Someone's answering!" Ray ignored the fretting Kinomiya beside him as he heard someone pick up.

'Hello?'

"Hewwo, dis is Voltie's personal seckretary," Ray answered as professionally as he could.

'…Ray? RAY, is that really you? Oh god, where are you?'

Ray paused. Apparently, he had dialed Mariah's cellphone number…that or he dialed Judy's and she was caught up in something at the moment so Mariah had to answer.

"Uhhhh…" Ray blinked, "WRONG NUMBAH!" He was about to hang up when Hiro snatched the phone from him,

"Mawiah!" Hiro said quickly, "We at Voltie's in his office!"

'What are you doing in there!'

Hiro blinked and looked around, seeing Mystel bouncing from wall to wall leaving muddy foot prints, Max and Ray were preoccupied in pulling a giant vase (with the plant in it) over so it would shatter, and Brooklyn was ripping up papers on Voltaire's desk as well as throwing them onto the ground and messing them up, tossing other things off the desk as well.

"You name it…" Hiro mumbled, sweatdropping.

'What's that supposed to mean?'

Hiro was about to explain when Mariah started cursing and apparently was fighting over the phone. He just closed his mouth and waited as the 4 chibi's behind him started pulling the rug and messing it up.

'Hiro!'

"Ty-Ty? HI!" Hiro said, grinning.

'Damn, we were worried about you guys! What the hell are you doing in Voltaire's office?'

"Well," Hiro started, "We couldn't exactwy stay in da cell…Max and Ray wouldn't shut up." In the background, Tyson heard Max yell 'I STILL BWAME YOU, RAY!' "So we twied to gag them…"

'…You tried to what now?'

"Gag dem. It didn't work…"

'Apparently…Ah, either way, I— WHAT THE! HEY! GIVE ME THE PHONE BACK, MARIAH!'

'Ugh, shut up Tyson. Hiro, let me speak to Ray!'

"He's busy wight now," Hiro admitted, sweatdropping as Max and Ray continued to attempt to pull the vase down.

'Doing what!'

"Uh…would you bewieve me if I said dey're plotting against da pwant?" Hiro asked as the vase fell to the ground and shattered and the cheers of the two chibi's were heard.

'Err…yes. Either way, Jet's leading us to Voltaire's office, so stay p—'

"Oh! Gotta go, Mawiah!" Hiro chirped, grinning, "We're going ta expwore!"

'WHAT? No! HIRO! DON'T HANG—'

Click!

Hiro hung the phone up, smiling, "Okies! Wet's go!" Hiro looked around the room, sweatdropping, "…"

"Wet's just go…" Max said as he, Ray, and Mystel jumped into the other ventilation shaft, soon followed by Brooklyn and Hiro.

———XX

"…He hung up on me…" Mariah growled, snapping the phone shut and handing it back to Judy.

"Ah, chill, we're almost to the office, anyway!" Jet informed, grinning. "They're good kids—they're probably waiting for us with open arms!"

"…Uh, Yeah…" Mariah did a fake cough and cleared her throat, "about that…"

"Not now, Mariah," Michael rolled his eyes, "Talk later."

Gemini bounced ahead, "AH-HA! Here it is!"

Tala looked down at Bryan (since he was riding on his back), "Bry-Bry… Gemini hyper?"

Bryan grumbled something (apparently in "Dog") before nodding as a reply, scowling.

"Here's the office!" Jet said as he opened. "HOLY…"

"What?" Everyone asked, running next to him, "WHOA."

Bryan burst out laughing, "HAHA! We should sign those chibi's up for redecorating class! HA!"

Everyone just glared at him.

"We need to find them!" Lee crossed her arms.

"Where could they be!" Oliver asked, looking around the messed up room.

Tala grinned, "Vent!"

Spencer looked at his chibi-fied captain, "…huh?"

"The vent!" Tala repeated, pointing to the open ventilation shaft. "They prolly went through dere!"

"All right then," Robert started, "Who's going to try and follow them?"

Everyone paused before shiftily looking at Mathilda and Hilary, who were completely oblivious.

"…" Tyson coughed.

Mathilda and Hilary just looked around.

"…" Tyson coughed louder.

They didn't hear him.

Tyson gave up with the cough, "COUGH COUGH COUGH!"

Hilary didn't look at him, but responded all the same, "You should get that cough checked, Tyson."

Everyone fell over anime style.

"IDIOTS!" Bryan yelled, glaring at them. Hilary and Mathilda looked at each other with confusion.

Kevin sighed loudly, sweatdropping, "You two are going in there."

"What! Why us?" Mathilda and Hilary snapped in unison.

"You're small enough," Ming Ming informed, glaring at them. "We don't dare send Tala, Garland, Johnny, or Enrique in there."

"And if we refuse?" Hilary asked, puffing out her chest.

Rick clenched her fist, "Then we'll FORCE you!"

Moses sighed and walked over the them, grabbing Mathilda and Hilary.

"HEY! PUT US DOWN!" The two animals yelled in protest as Romero lifted Moses up enough to stuff the two through the vent.

"Now go and find them!" Moses ordered as he jumped down, closing the shaft as he did so the girls couldn't come out.

Loud animal curses soon were heard from the vent.

"I hope the chibi's aren't in trouble…" Michael said, sighing.

Tyson grinned, "Now WHAT could they POSSIBLY do?"

"Yeah, flood the building?" Spencer suggested, laughing, as soon did everyone else at the crazy idea.

——XX

"DARN IT, RAY!" Max yelled angrily as he clutched the pipe with his arms and legs, hugging it with his body upward, his hair soaking wet and hanging over his right eye.

"YOU FREAKIN' IDIOT!" Mystel added loudly, glaring as he hugged a beam, his body hanging downward, his hair also wet. Ray smiled sheepishly, clutching a different pipe, chuckling nervously as Hiro glared at him,

"Nice goin'," The youngest hissed as he scrambled up to a pipe near Mystel, doing the same as the others, hugging a pipe, only he was much wetter since he had been trying to stop the mishap.

"Ya, weally," Brooklyn added, glaring as he hugged a support beam tightly and for his life. The five chibi's were each in a different corner, excluding Mystel and Hiro, who were in the same. The 5 chibi's were high above ground for a one reason and for one reason only…

Ray decided to see what the cork in the pipe prevented and he was curious about what the sign said, also, (WHICH was "DO. NOT. TOUCH.")

And he apparently had….as you could guess…flooded the building. Picture this:

A 13 or so foot ceiling. A broken pipe at the top (not one the chibi's were clinging to), pouring water out of a snapped in half metal (the ring broke, okay?), 5 chibi's hugging objects for their lives, with the water up to 10 feet already, the door closed.

The last thing heard was Max mumbling angrily,

"I STILL bwame you, Ray…"

——————————————XX To Be Continued…

Ahhhh, Max's infamous ending line. XD Hehe, poor chibi's…Wonder how they'll get outta this one?

Ah, anyways, hope you liked this chapter. Sorry it…seems short. –sighs- I try to make them long, honestly I do, they just never seem to come OUT long…uh…Yeah….Sorry……… –sweatdrop-

Any who, R&R please! It builds strong bones!

Oliver: DAMMIT, YOU, WOLF! THAT'S MILK!

Me: Whoa, you guys haven't been in here for awhile! Welcome back!

Oliver: …darn it! –sighs-

Me: -evil smirk- Ah-ha, any who, R&R Please. It makes me a happy wolfie!

T-LW-T