CHAPTER SEVEN

(NOTE: holy crap, just now realizing that there is a story called "kratt sisters" (without the "the") with an incredibly similar plot (only they get turned into opposite genders instead). Hooooolllly crap, how did I not see this? Well, I promise you I did NOT know about this before making this story, hence, not stealing it. Wooow, awkward . also, check out my deviant art (same name), I drew the characters (Donita, gourmand, Dabio and kids coming soon.)

Marteen and Martin laughed as they ran around. Marteen grinned and listened to the call of a bird. (AUTHOR NOTE: Now that I have your attention, that "no updates" message before has been updated with chapter six, if you haven't read it all ready)

"Toucan!" Marteen cried out. Martin heard a familiar honking sound.

"Proboscis monkey!" He laughed. They ran together, naming the different calls and noises they heard.

They kept running until they were exhausted, and they landed on the ground with equal plops.

"That makes 68 species so far." Martin huffed, out of breath.

"Man, I never knew I was this much fun! If I had known you existed, I would've pestered Akiva to invent a machine to find you! This is awesome!" Marteen squealed joyously. Martin was already joining her laughter.

"This could possibly be the best mess up Aviva has ever done." Martin said with a grin as he looked to his counterpart. Marteen suddenly stopped laughing and gave him a weird look.

"Mess up?" she asked, and Martin suddenly realized that they hadn't told them how they ended up in their universe in the first place. He smiled and sat up to explain.

"So Aki-I mean, Aviva, started on a time machine, but ended up with a universe displacer of some sort?" Kris summed up. Chris nodded.

"Yeah, and then we split up to look for the date, and then we sorta just all ended up together." Chris ended.

"You mean when you saved us." Kris further explained. Chris nodded.

"Thanks, by the way." she said. He scratched his head sheepishly.

"Aw, it was nothing, me and Martin just happened to be at the right place at the right time." he excused modestly.

"Are you kidding me?we could've- no, 'wouldve' died without you... Speaking if which, I wonder what would've happened to you guys if you hadn't saved us... Could you survive without a counterpart?" she asked. Chris shrugged.

"Not sure... Who knows what could've happened... I'm just glad you're...I'm... We're okay." He said. She nodded, her loose long hair swishing in the process. It was really this first time Chris observed the differences between each other. His counterpart, Kris, had long hair with his signature tuff of spiky hair at the top, the rest just flowing down. She had his jacket, and the same styled pants, though he could tell that they were shorter than his.

His brother's counterpart, Marteen, looked bigger than Kris, just like Martin was bigger than he was, but Marteen was more petite than Martin, just like Kris was to Chris. She also had the same sort of clothing, and her shorts were shorter as well. Marteen, Unlike her sister, had her hair in a ponytail, which had a slight curl at the bottom. She still had Martin's hair sprigs at the back of her head.

They walked along the riverside, spotting more and more animals. They had come across more than 80 species. It was only 3:00 pm, and they still had two or three hours left.

Chris thought back to the other counterparts. Akiva wasn't too different than Aviva. His hair covered his right eye, and the rest was a little shorter than where Jimmy's hair ended, but longer than where Chris or Martin's ended. Other than his jeans, which were baggier than Aviva's, they were very much alike.

Jimmi, like Jimmy, had those red stripes in her hair, but her hair was cut a little abnormally (but not strange in a bad way) there were strait ends like Jimmy's, but that was only for a little bit, then, the rest had grown out (NOTE FROM AUTHOR: check out my deviant art [same name], I drew Jimmi, then you'll understand what I mean) as for her wardrobe, she had a skirt rather than shorts, but otherwise had the same clothes, hat in all.

Kris pointed to more animals, and so did Chris. Unbeknownst to him, she was thinking the same thoughts and comparisons about her own crew.

As for the last crew member, Koukin, he was the one that differed the most, having a baggy sweatshirt and baggy pants like Akiva's, though they were the same colors as Koki's clothes. The jewelry was lost, and so was the head band, simply opting for short curly hair like Koki's, though more boyishly cut. He also had a meteor, or shooting star, rather than Koki's normal star.

Chris then realized that there were villains. He then started to laugh out loud. Kris stopped and looked at him weirdly.

"What's so funny?" she asked. He calmed himself enough to choke out "Girl Zach", to which confused her a bit more, then she realized what he meant, and promptly widened her eyes.

"Oh my goodness, I completely forgot about them..." then she began to gag a bit, as she thought about a boy version of what she knew as Gormand's girl version.

"Ewwww, Gourmanda as a guy? Yuck!" she hissed out, disgusted. Chris shuddered.

"Trust me, it's just as weird for me to imagine." Chris said with a creeped out shiver. They kept talking, about what they thought about the counterparts, what surprised them, and they tried to explain to each other what the villains looked like. Kris looked up at the sky and gasped.

"Oh no, it's almost sundown!" she cried out. Chris widened his eyes, and they both ran back to the tortuga.

Zach ran so fast, he would've made an excellent marathon runner. The girl clad in black flew on an incredibly familiar looking, yet distinctly more feminine, robot, chasing after him. She didn't understand, felt the need to understand, and would come to understand so long as she could catch up on him. How did he get in, anyways? She had locked the door, hadn't she?

Donita steered Dabio as they too, ran away from their counterparts, out of fear and confusion. Their counterparts were doing the same, and they shouted at her.

"Stop! What were you doing in my jet?" he cried out. The buff girl huffed and gasped for air as she continued her run, holding the man much smaller in stature on her shoulders.

Gourmand was running faster than any of them, for he was in actual 'danger'. The woman held huge meat carving blades in each hand, and she growled angrily at him.

"YER GONNA GIT BACK HERE, AND YER GOIN' TO DO SOME EXPLAINING'!" she hollered, which sounded more like battle cries than yelling.

It turned out that Martin and Marteen were waiting for them, already confident that they had them beaten. They could see that both Jimmy and Jimmi were immersed in a serious video game session, Koki and Koukin both were talking while surfing the internet, and Aviva and Akiva both sat in portable camping seats.

"601 species, beat that!" Marteen cried out. Kris laughed sheepishly.

"You have us beat, 167." She informed. Marteen laughed.

"What were you two doing then? You two making out or something?" she asked, amused. Chris squeaked embarrassedly while Kris's eyes widened. Both were instantly beet red.

"MARTEEN! WHAT THE HECK?" Kris squealed. Marteen held her hands up to in defense.

"Jeez, don't spaz on me, Kris, it was only a joke!" she said pitifully.

Martin nudged Chris and joked on his "lady skills". Chris crushed Martin's toes with his heel, and he hopped up and held his foot in agony.

"We were talking, about us and what we thought about each other, that's all!" she said. They soon were laughing about the situation, though Chris and Kris were both still a little sour about it. They sat down next to their friends all in camp chairs. Martin started a fire, and they all sat around it as nighttime began it's course.

The sets of four people all slammed into each other. They held different parts of their body in pain, and slowly opened their eyes to see a very strange sight. They all pointed to different counterparts in utter confusion.

"What the heck?" they all cried out simultaneously.