After that incident in the cafeteria, Tom had detention for a month. As the week went on Anya heard from Mr. Johnson that Tom was being very irresponsible with his chores. All he does is eat, sleep, and watch TV. Anya felt sorry for them, and wished that she could help.
After school the principal came up to Anya. "Could you please go to a test serum lab for me, Anya?" she begged. Principal Dakota's husband worked at the science organization on the outskirts of town. He always has a new serum or experiment and asks his wife to test them out. "Sure! I would love too," said Anya with a smile.
"Now Anya," started Mr. Dakota, "this new serum I've been working on allows people to do as your told." Anya looked at him with a what-are-you-talking-about look. "Ok, say after you drink this someone asks you to walk the dog. You would automatically do it." Anya thought for a moment this would be a great thing to use on Tom! It would probably teach him a good lesson and maybe get a few laughs out of it. "Mr. Dakota, if it's alright, could I use the serum?" asked Anya. "Sure, here's a extra vile that you can use on someone." He handed over a small vial of the serum. "Pour this into someone's drink and the serum will take affect as soon as the person drinks it. The serum will last for 24 hours." Anya said thank you to Mr. Dakota and left for home. Well Tom, tomorrow I hope you have fun.
The next day at lunch, when Phantom wasn't looking, Anya poured the serum into his water. Ivan and Lilly still sat at the table, but Ivan kept his distance away from Tom. Phantom drank the water/serum and noticed that it tasted different. Then Anya asked Phantom if he could get her another carton of milk. He automatically got up and got one for her. Anya giggled a little. It works! She thought. He came back and gave Anya the carton. "Thank you Tom," she said with a smile. Phantom wondered what just happened and why did he get Anya a carton of milk when she asked him to.
The day got worse as it dragged on. Phantom did all of his homework when the teacher asked him to do it. He participated in football in gym when the gym teacher asked him to play quarterback. He even painted a wall in the new art room when principal Dakota asked if someone could do it. Now everyone knows that Tom is doing work around school. Anya went to find Tom after school and found a little crowd around him asking him to do things. Once she got there she noticed that he was trying to block out the requests. "Stop it!!" he yelled. He did a back flip out of the crowed and ran off.
Anya ran after him and followed him home. "Tom! Stop!" yelled Anya trying to catch up with him. He automatically stopped, and Anya dragged him inside the house. Anya noticed that he had a terrified look on his face. "What's going on?" he asked falling onto the couch. Anya was going to tell him what she did, but first she wanted to ask him a question that has been nagging at her ever since he came to Meteor Vill. "Tom, I want you to tell me the truth," she started, "who are you? Where did you come from?" She took out her cell phone and turned on the voice mail to record the conversation. He got up and answered the question, "My name is not Tom, its Phantom. I come from another world called MAR and I want to destroy it." Anya was shocked at his answer.
Just then Mr. and Mrs. Johnson walked in. "Oh, Anya, Tom, I thought you were going to the library after school today?" said Mrs. Johnson. Anya quickly turned off her cell phone. "We were but we got sidetracked. I got to go," she said in a rush. She ran out the door and ran home.
Later that night she listened to the recording over and over again. She picked up a manga that was called MAR. It's not possible that a character from a book to be in real life… can it?