A/N: Okay. I warn you, now, reader, that this is a little- like. Angsty. Chapter. So. Yeah. I've read through it, like, a thousand times, so I THINK I've covered pretty much everything, but there may be stuff I've forgotten. If you notice any grammar/spelling mistakes, could you PLEASE tell me so I could improve my writing skills?

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Trust Me – Part One
Seeing the Truth – Chapter Three, In wich Foes turns to Friends
Word Count: 4552

Song(s): 'Towards The Sun', by Rihanna. 'Run To Me', by

«You were awesome!» Tip laughed. Oh smiled brightly. She hadn't been talking about anything else the last hour, and it amused him greatly, though he did not let it show. «We're gonna find my mom, you're gonna show everybody the super-chip and be a big hero, and even captain Smek will have to…»

When she suddenly trailed off, Oh shot her a surprised look. She was hanging out of the window, feeling awestruck at something. Only god knew what. «Wooooow. That's a lot of people…» Well, that explained.

And she was right. He himself was hanging out of his window, and that was clearly many people. Like, many. People.

Really many.

People.

And there, right outside of the Happy Humanstown, were a few organized Boov circles. «Wow. You guys really are good at running away.» Tip said.

Feeling odd, Oh answered absently. «Yes. Yes we are.» And then he gasped and turned yellow, because the third-to-last escape pod was driving away. Escape plan .

No.

No no no.

Not now, please not now, I'm not ready to face this yet!

«Look! That's where we saw my mom!» Tip smiled, pointing to one of the circle towns near the white fence. Oh, slightly panicking, took an U-swing and went down to all but crash into one of the streets. Right after he opened the door, a few Boov ran past it and slammed it shut again.

«Hurry up! It is the last ship!» one of them cried.

What am I going to do?

Oh thought for a brief moment, changing between orange and yellow.

He could take her with him, couldn't he?

Yes. Yes he could.

He closed his eyes and turned purple. He wanted to sob, he wanted to cry, he wanted to let his species go and stay on Earthland-

but he couldn't.

He just couldn't.

Not 'didn't want to', but could not.

«We're almost there!» Tip said, looking at the hord of people.

«Over here!» Oh whisper-yelled.

«What?» Tip asked.

He grabbed her arm, and wanted to sob again. «Hurry!»

And then they began running. Oh had his eyes closed, wanting desperatly to just bring her with him.

Please just come with me he prayed.

Apparently, Boovs don't have much luck with the ones above. «I don't understand.» Tip said and stopped. Oh let her go and watched her, and he was sure that even if he wouldn't've been a Boov, his pain would be clearly visible. He didn't want to do this, but something in him urged him to do it. Boovs are a species who run away.

It's in their nature.

Never had Oh hated being a Boov more then he did then.

«My mom's in there?» Tip asked, calling him back to the problem at hand.

He wanted to be with her. To stay with her. That, too, was an urge. To stay with her, and the only way to get those two urges at ease, was to bring her with him.

«Yes.» he lied, and knew he was turning green. He could see it on her face, feel it in her feelings.

She took a step backwards.

No, wrong direction, he cried.

«Tell me the truth» she demanded. She sounded hurt.

Again, Oh wanted to sob. «There is no time! You can come with me! You will be safety!» he insisted, walking slowly backwards, taking small steps.

Tip looked down for a moment, and Oh could feel the sadness crushing over him. And anger. «My mom's not on that ship. Is she? You promised to help me find her and now you're leaving!?»

More anger.

Oh cringed at the sound of her voice. «You lied to me…» she said, gesturing with her hands, taking a half step back.

«No!» Oh insisted, all but running towards her again. I don't want to leave you he wanted to say. Please don't be mad at me. It's not my fault I am a Boov. «A lie is a bad thing! I did a thing so you could live!» he said, smiling nervously.

Please.

Please, Tip, I-

I don't know what to do without you.

«Well, I'm not going! My mom is here.» Tip told him, and turned around to leave.

Oh nearly lost his mind, begining to turn desperate. «You will never find her.» he argued, pushing his way past her and in front of her. He was lying again, he knew it. «It is one hundred percent.»

Tip was looking mad now. Like, really, really mad. Oh didn't like it, not at all, but still, when she tried to walk past him, he just moved so she couldn't.

He was not in control anymore, he said things without thinking them through, watching the two of them interact like he was only a ghost.

«Staying now, does not make hope!» he cried. «Gorg mothership will be here soon!» He grabbed her arm and turned them both around, trying to drag her towards the ship. «It destroyes planets! We must run away now!» he yelled, turning red in the exact moment Tip pushed him away.

«No!» she yelled back and turned around for the second time.

Oh, don't- he thought. «Argh! It is true. Humanspersons do not even understand the simple, simple things. I am saving you! I am being your friend!»

Well done. Congratulations. If thoughts could be sarcastic, this one was.

«No, you're just running away!» Tip cried, and Oh could feel her anger growing. He should back away now, he really should, but now she was holding the torch, she was in charge of what to say, it was her choice now, and she was mad. «You don't leave your family,» she said, voice suddenly sad.

«But you don't understand that, because- you're just a Boov!» she cried.

Oh'd red colour disappeared and he turned purple instead. It's not my fault! he cried.

«You've never. Been my friend.» Tip spat, and Oh turned white.

Her feelings disappeared. He couldn't feel her anymore, and she was running away, and he was loosing her and this was bad this was bad this was bad and his feelings and instincst mixed, blended and fought.

He saw himself turn blue, and he could feel the darker blue stripes pulsating over his skin as he looked after her and begun tripping, running a few steps in one direction and then the other.

His mind just kind of… turned off.

He did not choose what to do anymore.

His body turned orange with yellow stripes and then yellow with orange. «Wait!» he called after her, as a horrible feeling hit him in the face. But that was pretty much everything he managed say.

It was as if time was slowing down, and he watched himself trying to decide what to do. He was not the one in control.

It was his instincts fighting towards something even older, something deeper, and many colours were fiddling over his skin, mostly red, orange and yellow.

Mentally, he cried out when he turned purple.

'You've never. Been my friend.'

'Call me Tip'

'…my friends call me Tip'

'she's so amazing…'

'faaaaaaar too complicated for a simple humansgirl…'

'No!'

'…fix our car..'

'You've never. Been my friend.'

Oh closed his eyes.

He had nothing left here.

And then he was back in his own body, running towards the last escape pod.

'…never. Been my friend.'

Absently, he threw himself forward, so one of the arms sucking Boov up from the ground got him too.

And then he was away.

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Tip looked up when the last escape pod was floating away. Quickly. She stopped still in her tracks, looking up at it.

She already regretted her words, but now it was far too late.

He's gone.

She'd never see him again, that was very possible. Memories from the last fifty-five hours haunted her, and she closed her eyes for a brief moment.

He still has the car keys.

She couldn't bring herself to care. Tip shook her head, turned on the heel and ran into the mass of people, ignoring the tears prickling in her eyes and threathening to spill.

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Inside the pod, Oh tried to hide his face as casually as possible, light blue stripes pulsating over his body. The pod drove into the Boov mothership just before the Gorg drones reached them, making said drones slam into the wall.

And soon Oh was being pushed through a long circular tunnel with red blinking lights. All the other Boovs just kept on moving, while Oh stopped and hesitated, blinking owlishly at the lights. It'd been a while since last time he saw them…

What have I done?

You left her.

The Boov, Oh included, ran into the control-room.

«Aw, I hate upon the Gorg! They are always finding us!»

'…is Smek! Shush, shush, shush!'

'…faaaaar to complicated for a simple humansgirl…'

'Excuse me?'

'You've never. Been my friend.'

Feeling the urge to throw up, Oh hid his face and hurried away from his captain. Gasping slightly, his stomach turned. He panted now, even though he did not know why.

«The Gorg mothership!» a Boov in the mass shrieked and pointed out the window.

(It was all happening too fast, he was in shock he could not take it in, he didn't understand)

All the Boov around him turned yellow and screamed, but he only widened his eyes slightly and opened his mouth. He was not scared, though it became harder and harder to breathe every moment that passed, and an odd pain has started to spread in the lower parts of his stomach.

«We are doomed!» Smek cried. «Run away!»

And, on his comand, all of the Boov did so. «Let me pass, I am- I am holding a baby!»

Watching all the Boov run pass him, Oh looked at the Gorg mothership. He really didn't understand why they were running away now. They would just be standing in a crowd at the back wall anyways!

'…you're just running away!'

'…don't leave your family'

'she's so amazing…'

'you've never. Been my friend.'

'We are doomed!'

...

Not if I can stop it.

Oh quickly opened his front pocket and draged out the super-chip, casting a look at the controls, filled with Boov fuel. His face shifted to a determined look and his pads started running in the wrong direction. Towards the danger. Towards death.

'…were awesome!'

'…show everyone the super-chip…'

'…come 'ere'

'…tried to make friends at school…'

'tell me the truth!'

'these are your smartest Boov?'

Faintly, Oh heard someone call «It is the fugitive Boov!» Followed shorty after by «He's running towards the danger!»

'we're almost there!'

I am.

'…don't be such a Boov!'

'…just a Boov!'

'…ditch me!?'

'call me Tip'

'…my friends call me Tip'

'You've never. Been my friend'

«Stop him!» Smek yelled just as Oh slammed the super-chip into the controller. As said controller absorbed the new force of fuel, the Boov mothership sped away from the Gorg one. Oh didn't let go of the chip, but all the other Boov slammed into the large window behind him.

His breath camer quicker and shallower by every second, the feeling in his stomach reaching a little higher.

And then all the Boov fell back onto the floor, spread around everywhere. Oh, even in his slightly dazed situation, found it kinda amusing that the only place there was a heap of Boov were on top of Smek.

'What is the purpose of your face?'

'Your mistakes are what makes you human'

'…older than you'

'…not getting this close…'

'you've never. Been my friend'

«Captain! We are acchieving new highest speeds!» Oh could hear a Boov cry.

Smek's head popped up from the heap. «What has you done!?» he cried, turning red. Suddenly, all the Boovs attention were on Oh. «What is that thing?»

Shaking himself out of the daze, Oh quickly answered. «It is Gorg super-chip.» he said sheepishly. For a short moment there he was back with Tip, and the realisation that he'd probably never see her again were drowsing.

«What?» He heard someone ask, as more and more of the Boov got up again, flocking around him.

«Gorg drone crashed, and I ran to it, and I found the chip.» Oh explained.

Smek made his way over to Oh. «Enough!» he barked, pointing the Shusher at our hero.

«You ran to a gorg?» Kyle asked disbelievingly as he pushed a few Boovs aside. Smiling slightly, Oh nodded.

He felt a pang of amusement when a Boov fainted.

A random Boov among the masses spoke up. «He rans towards the danger?» he asked.

«What kinda Boov is he?» another male wondered.

«He is like a… a super Boov…» the first one whispered, the two of them, plus someone else too, turning bright orange.

'But he is a hero Boov now!'

'…be a hero, and…'

'…such a Boov'

'Boov don't have family…'

'…just a Boov!'

'…never. Been my friend.'

«No, no, no!» Smek exclaimed frantically. «He is not a super Boov. There is just one super Boov at this ship and you know who it is, yer lookin' at 'im.» he tried. «I invented running away! And look at this!» he said and held up the Shusher. «I have the Shusher.» He walked up to some of the Boovs watching. «I am your captain» he said, throwing his arms around their shoulders.

«But you are not good captain.» Oh argued, and he knew he was right.

Earlier, he'd thought captain Smek was great and amazing. But he had realised, after spending a lot of time with Tip –Gratuity Tucci- that he actually wasn't.

And, honestly?

Oh kinda blamed his captain for himself leaving her.

«What!?» Smek exclaimed, taking a few furious steps forward and hitting the Boovs he was having his arms around, right in the face, kind of proving Oh's point.

«You told us these things, and we all believed them.» he began, knowing exactly what to say. «I believed them.» And it was true. «But- then I met a humansperson. And she is not like you said.» he said, turning towards Smek. Also true. «She is… brave, and smart and cares about other humanspersons, in a way that we Boov do not even care about each other!»

'You don't leave your family'

«She even cares about me!»

'You've been gone forever!'

'I thought you were dead!'

'Or… hurt, or… I don't know!'

«And I have done very little to earn that.» he muttered, turning blue.

'…ditch me!?'

'…now you're leaving!?'

'…you lied to me.'

'You've never. Been my friend.'

Oh quickly shook it off. «The Boov may be superior in many ways.» he told his audience, and Smek accompanied him with a low «M-hm. Yeah.»

«But not in the ways I now thinks is the most important.» Oh finished, and watched as the listening Boovs turned a deep blue.

Tip would have been proud of me.

'…never. Been your friend.'

Or maybe not…

«Oh, big deal!» Smek cried. «I've had enough!» he said, turning red and storming towards Oh while raising the Shusher. «Shush!»

Oh turned just in time to see someone stopping the stone from hitting him in the head, before he turned a bright yellow and gasped.

«That. Is enough. Shushing.» Kyle said slowly, as if talking to a kiddo. Oh gaped. The Boov officer who had been haunting him and Tip-

'..ditch me?'

'…understands, I just don't care'

'Let go'

'what!?'

'Trust me'

'…never. Been my friend'

He bit back the pain.

Don't think of her.

«How dare you shush a shushing?» Smek asked, eyes flickering, searching for help.

No one came.

«Oh is right! We need a new captain! I thinks, it should be Oh!» Kyle claimed, ignoring Smek completely.

What!?

«Me!? No!» Oh gasped.

«No!» Smek cried, tugging desperatly at the Shusher. «He cannot be captain! I have the Shusher, I am captain!» he yelled, turning red and pointing sharply at Kyle, looking like a stubborn, young child not getting his candy.

«Not anymore!» Kyle yelled back, dragging the Shusher towards himself before punching it into Smek's stomach.

Okay. This is weird, Oh decided unsurly. Maybe he was sleeping? He pinched himself in the arm, and almost began crying when it hurt. No dream.

'…what makes you human'

'It is not what makes you Boov'

'Stop being such a Boov!'

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Calm down, he told himself as the pain in his stomach increased.

«He will not know how to operate it!» Smek cried desperatly, but the yellow waves were giving him away. «It is very complicated, and- the light on one end, heavy on the other-!»

Kyle stopped him abruptly. «Shush.» he commanded and hit him in the head. Oh smirked slightly despite himself when a Boov in the audience yelled «Booyah!»

But then Kyle was coming closer to him, holding out the Shusher for him to take. «No!» Oh cried, holding out his hands and backing off. «I am not a leader Boov, I makes far too many mistakes!»

Like leaving Tip.

'…what makes you human.'

'stop being such a Boov!'

'…just a Boov!'

'You've never. Been my friend.'

'call me Tip'

«You are not the only Boov who makes mistakes.» Kyle assured him. «For examples. My mistake is… not being your friend.»

Oh stuttered slightly at that. That was a mistake? If that was one mistake, he didn't dare think about how many mistakes he'd made by leaving Earthland.

By leaving Tip.

And before he knew, he was clutching the Shusher tight, and Kyle was yelling «All hail, captain Oh!» and the pain was increasing and breathing became harder and the Boov were cheering and giving high-fives and asking him if he wanted them to hold a party and trying to hug and they were all different shades of orange and Oh was freaking slightly out.

Just saying.

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Tip hurried through the streets in the city, getting closer and closer to where she'd seen her mom. She was dodging people cheering, people hugging and laughing, and she could only imagine how it was.

He's gone

No, she reminded herself, do not think about him.

Finally, finally she reached the boot with the text Ask A Boov written on it.

'…when the other Boov said 'Oh''

'…the sorry, to you…'

'I am sorry'

'No!'

'Always with the running towards danger!'

'It is not what makes you Boov'

'…saving you'

'…being your friend'

'You've never. Been my friend.'

She shook her head slightly just in time to when she reached the boot, and-

no mom.

She felt silly for a moment, because really? Did she really expect her mother to be standing there and waiting for her in over eighteen hours?

But how was she supposed to find her now?

'…so amazing'

'…cannot wait to meet Mymom'

Tip sobbed lightly, but pushed the memories aside. Finding a picture of her mom on her cellphone she begun quickly showing it to a few people, hoping against all hope that someone had seen her.

«Sorry, miss, I don't know her»

(don't break don't break don't break)

«No English»

(don't break don't break don't break)

«You- your battery is dying!»

(don't break don't break don't break)

Frantic, Tip glanced down at her phone. As she did it, the screen went black.

(…)

(There's no use)

(…)

(break)

Tears welled up in her eyes, and this time she allowed them to. Dropping to the floor in the boot, Tip buried her head in her hands, sobbing loudly with tears running down her cheeks, showing the whole world her pain, her sorrow.

She was alone, yet again. Oh had left her. Her mom would be impossible to find-

'…it is one hundred percent!'

'…staying now, does not make hope!'

'…simple, simple things'

It broke for her. The tears rolled down her cheeks even quicker, and her breath caught up in her troath.

I think I'm going to die she thought, when a sudden pain hit her in the stomach, a throbbing headache started and her heartbeat went out of rythm. Her breath came in heavy puffs, but right now she couldn't bring herself to care.

'for you to change your mind'

'we are doomed'

'engage weapon system!'

'My name is captain Smek, shush shush shush!'

'you are a master at transformations!'

'I am sorry'

«What have I done?» Tip whispered quietly.

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On the Boov mothership, Oh was wondering the exact same thing. On some point, he'd been pushed onto the scene for the leader, and whoever was controlling it, raised it.

He really didn't want this. He didn't want to become the leader of a whole species- it was a lot of things to take care of, already… but he did not have any choice right now, it was too late, and if this job could take his mind away from Tip, it was worth it.

Careful, he backed away so the others couldn't see him. He staggered when he crashed into something, and turned around quickly, but the next moment he really wished he hadn't-

His bumping and crashing had zoomed in on the picture of the planet they were leaving- Earthland.

What have I done? Oh thought sadly, and raised a hand as if to touch the picture. He saw his own hand turn blue. Dark blue, like, really blue.

He sobbed lightly, finally allowing himself to do it, now that noone was watching him. Why did he leave? He wanted to go back, so badly. In the moment, at the time, running away had seemed better then staying- now he knew that it was untrue.

Never, ever had he wished more that he was something else then a Boov.

I have to get back, he decided. But how?

It took him a moment, but then he almost hit himself in the head.

With the Shusher.

Just so his thoughts would go silent.

He was captain! He could turn the ship if he wanted, and no one could argue!

I am coming back, Gratuity Tucci, even if you don't want it.

Then, his memories came rushing down on him, starting in Paris-

Tip, hugging him-

Tip, taking his hand without thinking over it-

Tip, saving his life from the Boov by turning the Great Antenna upside down-

Tip, holding onto him even if he was too heavy-

And a perticular scene,-

'Let go'

'What!?'

'Trust me'

And she did! She holy moly did!

Tip, using her weird way of making him feel better-

Opening up to him about things she'd never told anyone before, pretending to be Smek, laughing with him, god, laughing. with. him.

Sharing! Sharing with him!

Oh, dazed in memories, reached inside his pocket and almost burst out laughing. There was the Slushious car-key! So, well, now he actually had a reason to go back.

And there, there was a picture of Tip… a younger Tip, smiling ang laughing.

Oh looked up at the picture of Earthland.

I am coming back.

I am not letting go of all that, and even if you hate me I will do everything I can to make it better.

It could have ended there, Oh could have just ran down from the scene and commanded that the ship would turn, he could have found Tip and been happy about it, but no.

He caught a glimpse of himself in the window and staggered three steps backwards.

Oh my god

Oh sweet Lord

This is a joke.

This is a joke, right?

Holy. Shit.

He was pink. He was a hot, clear pink.

The Boov is not a species who love. It is physically and, in some cases, mentally impossible for them.

However, there are some, few lucky Boovs who can love one person in their lives.

Their soulmates.

About one Boov in a hundred Boovs has a soulmate, and only about one out of a hundred soulmates find their counterparts, since really. Souls do not care about time nor space. Your soulmate could be anyone. Anything.

For Boov, (Oh didn't know how other species took it, but for Boov) it was hard to be away from your soulmate. They would be in constant pain, and could actually die. However, how much it hurt, how quick it increased and how far away they had to be from each other all depended on how strong their connection and bond were.

So, naturally, if you had never met your soulmate, you had no connection to them, and so you would not be in pain.

Okay, fair enough. Remember what I said about love? The colour of love is pink.

«I- I thinks I has to sit down» Oh mumbled. He didn't actually sit down, I would say it was more falling on his Boov end.

She's my soulmate.

She's my soulmate.

And, even in everything, Oh actually felt a pang of joy. He held out an arm and studied it carefully, stroking his other, also pink, hand over it.

Soulmate.

Well, this explains a lot, a voice told him. It was right, Oh realised. How he'd felt so weird the last days, and definitley how he felt now. (the pain in his chest his breath the pain in his stomach)

She had probably saved his life when she said 'You've never. Been my friend', since that broke their connection a little. More then a little.

And then it hit him; what about her? He scrambled to his feet. Joyful, he could be later. He did not know how humans took it being away from their soulmate. Tip could be dying and he wouldn't know.

That thought sendt him down the scene, and he almost fell face-first onto the ground. «We- we must turn!» he declared, load enough so the whole room would hear him. The Boov around him all turned to him, and when Oh saw their disbelieving looks, he growled.

(The pink had quickly turned to yellow when he thought that Tip could be dying, but now he flashed a short red that disappeared as fast as it came)

Think about Tip, about Tiiiiiiiiip

His skin turned pink again. «My soulmates is in that planet!» he cried, and all the Boov in the room gasped.

He didn't need to say more, as a few Boov scrambled out of the room and over to the controls, turning the ship abruptly around. All Boov were told about how soulmates worked, even though only one in about ten thousand Boovs found them. And, besides, having a soulmate made your rank in sociatity increase. A lot.

Oh turned around again and cast a quick glance out the window as his heartbeat evened out.

I will returning. And besides; I gave you a promise.

I gave myself a promise.

-End Chapter Three-