A/N: Now that their investigation is done, it's time to support their friend! But what will happen next? Let's go to Part 2!

Double, Double, Spoil, and Trouble: Part 2

Back at Fils-Ame Moffit, few of the students are waiting at their seats in the auditorium along with Kani and Bren when Jordan, Itzal, and Zeus entered and get to their seats in relief.

"Guys, you're here!" Kani said in a surprised tone.

"Yeah, can't wait to support Calla," Jordan said in determination when she saw her cousin next to her. "Wait a minute, what are you doing here? I thought you're not interested at this play because it's an one-man play.

"Don't even jump the rope, cuz. I'm only here to guard the auditorium. I don't want Andre's cow to wander off in here eating the props," Bren said in a serious tone.

"Oh," Jordan said. "But I thought Andre was keeping it in the Lounge."

"Yeah, but I'm just staying here just in case. Don't want what happened with Jomar to happen again, you know."

"I hear you on that," Jordan said. "Anyways, according to the pamphlet, the play is called "King Ordinas VIII Capades, a Historical Musical". This ought to be interesting."

"Hey guys, sit down, the curtain's going up," Kani said. Jordan, Itzal, and Zeus took their seats as the curtain goes up and the lights go down. The lead student Zane appeared on the village-backgrounded stage riding a toy horse and began to sing a corny Shakespearian-like song to equally-corny music.

Zane: (singing) Whoa my steed, where is my bride-to-be?

All this lady trouble have left me in rubble

"This is upbeat," Jordan said. "But where's Calla?"

"Yeah, I thought she was gonna have a lead role," Itzal put in.

"Oh she's got a lead alright," Zeus said as he pointed at the stage. Everyone looked and was shocked to see Calla and many other students dressed as street objects, with Calla herself dressed as a streetlight. "Leading streetlight to be exact!"

Calla and the others continued to dance around the stage to the corny music. Zane continued to sing all the way to the song's not-so-shocking finale.

Zane: (singing) I'll never taste the feel, only this tender meat

I'm stylish I know, so thinks for view my show

I'm King Ordinas the VII! Yeah!

Once the song had ended, the audience stood silent for a while, until Jordan, Itzal, Zeus, Kani, and Bren all clapped their hands somewhat awkwardly.

"Thank you!" Zane said as he bows when he notices two audience, namely Lena and Sierra sleeping. "Hey, hey!"

The girls woke up in drowsiness, didn't care what happened at the play.

"Just so everyone knows, Tack's Café is open late tonight, with desserts and refreshments, and your ticket stub gets you a free straw with every two beverage purchases," the man said to everyone in the auditorium, which Calla waves at her friends in glee.

"Well, she's at least good at being a streetlight," Zeus sheepishly said to his friends.

"I don't know if I can say the play is bad, but it's better than watching TV," Bren said, who is little impressed by the play.

Then Calla noticed her friends and shouts out, "Hey guys, I'll meet you outside of school! I want you to show a cool hangout I visited often!"

As they got out from their seats, Jordan says to her cousin, "You better check what Mr. Computer Cow's up to."

"Good idea, wanna help me out, Kani?" Bren asked to Kani.

"As long as I can study at the lounge, sure."

Then they left the auditorium as the three Runners about to do the same when Itzal shouts out to Calla, "We'll see you outside of school!"

As the group left, Calla turned towards Zane as she said, "Wow, who'd have known that acting could be so satisfying to the soul. Sort of like a double decaf foam latte. Wanna join me for one?"

"Those idiots!," Zane snapped. "They wouldn't know a good play if it hit them like a ton of bricks!"

He then stormed out of the auditorium as Calla said, "I guess you just need time to work on your award speech then. See ya later?"

As Zane stormed out, he growled, "It's time to kick things up another notch. Then they'll acknowledge my greatness!"

At the streets of Los Angeles, the man from before is trying to open some kind of dessert shop, but before he can do, he was approached by a mysterious figure then raised a phaser-like ray at him.

"Hey, what the–," the man said before a bright light flashed in his face, causing him to scream.

At the same streets, Jordan, Itzal, and Zeus are walking with Calla, who is currently taling right now.

"I'm telling you, Tack makes the best desserts in town. Ice creams, fondues, any dessert you can think of!"

"Wow! Sounds like to tummy's ready to dig in," Itzal said.

"Yeah, I really want to try those chocolate parfaits," Jordan added in glee. hey arrived at the café. Jordan tugged at the door handle but found it to be locked.

"Hey where's Tack? He said the place was gonna be open! Tack?!"

"You know, I made the streetlight role look so easy, but I actually did my homework on it before the show," Calla stated.

"Well, it did look…natural," Zeus said.

"I know. And didn't Zane totally rock? He such a misunderstood but cute artist."

Just then they saw Tack coming through the door.

"Finally," Jordan said. "My stomach is just growling with hunger."

Tack, then opened the doors and to the group's shock, he was wearing a cowboy's uniform.

"Howdy, kids!," he said with a southern drawl. "Can I get ya'll some baked beans and portbelly roast?"

"Uh, Calla. Ever heard about cosplaying?" Jordan whispered to her best friend.

"Yes, and to answer your question, it's not cosplay night in Tack's Cafe," Calla answered. "Tack, Halloween's like 6 months away. What's with the get-up?"

"There be gold in them thar hills, so Imma heading west!" he said without noticing the kids or his clothes.

"Okay... I'll ignore your get-up and get me a delicious Stawberry Supreme Cheesecake," Calla said as she enters the shop.

"I like your special choco parfait!" Jordan added as she follows Calla in glee, but was stopped by Tack.

"I told you varmits what's on the menu! Baked beans and portbelly roast!" Tack said in anger.

"Uh, as much I know what that is, I prefer not to eat beans, they give me indigestion," Zeus protested a little to Tack.

"Yeah, plus we already have dinner," Itzal added.

"You darn city slickers don't know hospitality when you see it," Tack said angrily. "Now get outta my café."

With that, Tack threw the four out of the café and slammed the door behind him.

"No. In fact, he was actually normal and he has a friendly relationship to my parents," Calla explained.

"Well if you ask me I think he's been sniffing way too many coffee grind fumes," Jordan said. Just then the light on Calla's street light outfit fizzed out.

"Aw man," Calla said.

"Come on let's just go home," Itzal said.

The four then started walk home, while unknown to them the same figure from the previous night watched from the café's rooftop.

The next day in the hallways, Andre was heading back toward the Mid-Zone Lounge, with a wheelbarrow of fresh grass.

"The freshest grass for my favorite heifer," he said as he reached the lounge. However, he saw that the door was opened and upon looking inside, he discovered the place was completely empty, with the cow nowhere to be seen and hoof prints leading out the door and into the school halls.

"Oh no," Andre gasped in horror.

At the hallway, Kani is currently in a conversation with Bren.

"So let me get this straight, even though you're a mischievous prankster from the Philippines, you're actually a good role model to your siblings?" she asked.

"First off, it's not "prankster", it's "rebel". As in I'm the street-smart rebel of Manila," Bren said in a show off manner.

"Right," Calla said with suspicion.

"And second, my family is struggling back in my childhood days. Since my parents are busy at that time, I have to keep an eye on my siblings for dangers and crimes lurking around the streets. It's not very safe in Manila, you know," Bren explained. "And since Jomar is more mischievous than I am, he always gets me and my cousin into some sticky situations."

"Like that cow in the mall thing?"

"Yeah. I always vow myself to protect those I care about. But somehow, Jordan's will is much stronger than mine. Either her cartoons inspired her or maybe there's more than I can see from her. The truth is, I'm kinda jealous of Jordan, despite her being a girl. No offense."

"None taken. And you have a good point about Jordan, she always have a determined face around her, whether it's school or her games."

"Yeah. I wish I can have her determination like her," he said with a smile on his face, right before going back to his usual self. "But don't tell anyone, not even Jordan about what I said."

"My lips are sealed," Kani said when Bren stops walking to see something shocking unknown to her. "So, I've been meaning to ask you. What do I look like from your perspective?"

However, Bren is still busy staring at something in shock, which Kani says in annoyance, "Hey! I'm talking to you, Revie! What do you think of me?"

Suddenly, Bren starts to stutter, "B-B-B-B-B-"

"I'm b-what?"

"B-B-B-B-B-B-"

"Come on, Revie! Spill it out!"

"B-B-B-B-B-Baka!"

"What?! You think I'm an idiot?!" Kani said in anger.

"Not Japanese Baka!"

He turns Kani's head to let her see what he just saw: a cow walking into the hallways, much to Kani's shock.

"Filipino Baka!"

Remembering that Bren's a Filipino and realizing that he was trying to say "cow" in his language, she became more shocked as him as they quickly screamed at the cow's temporary owner.

"ANDREEEEE!"

Inside the science laboratory, Jordan, Itzal, and Zeus, who are exhausted from yesterday, woke up in startle as they heard Kani and Bren's voices.

"Did I heard Kani and Bren screaming Andre's name?" Itzal asked in confusion.

"Let's hope the latter didn't do anything stupid to the cow," Jordan said in worry.

"Unfortunately, I was hoping that the memory of Calla's friend in a cowboy costume would wipe off from our memories as dreams and not real," Zeus said in a same tone as Jordan's.

Then, Itzal looks away from his friends in his usual artificial moods, but was shocked at what he saw.

"Actually, I think it was a dream that just turned into a nightmare!"

He points at what he saw right in front of him to his friend and in shock, Jordan and Zeus along with Itzal couldn't believe at what they saw.

"What a mess," Lena, dressed in a maid outfit said as she dusted the lab. "Not to worry, this place'll be clean and tidy again in no time."

"Space the final frontier," Sierra, dressed in an astronaut suit said as she started writing an equation on the board. "It is mankind's destiny to explore it all."

"Whoa, is Lena cleaning the class, with her own hands?," Zeus said. "When did she start doing that?"

"Moreover, where'd Sierra learn to do that?," Jordan asked.

"This is the greatest endeavor, we've ever encountered since the beginning of time," Sierra said as the class applauded her.

"Okay, I think it's time to ditch Science class and call the weird control!" Jordan said to her friends.

"I better give the teacher a note about this just in case," Zeus said as he took a pen and paper from the counter near the door, when he saw the same cow that Andre took care, staring at him in a bored look. "Cow."

Hearing Zeus, the whole class are shocked upon seeing it when the cow starts to moo.

"DID I JUST HEAR A COW?!"

Bren, Andre, and Kani suddenly rushed in, ushered the cow to the classrooms back door and put up a sheet around it while making mooing noises, just as Principal Roenick walked in.

"Making cow sounds is fun, huh guys," Andre said as the three grinned sheepishly.

"What's behind that sheet?," she asked suspiciously.

"NOT A COW!," they all said. Roenick moved them aside and grabbed a sheet to pull it away. The three braced for the worst as everyone watched. But upon pulling the sheet away, Roenick saw…nothing but an open back door.

"No cow."

"Yeah, see? No cow," Bren said.

"I spent every summer of my childhood on my grandparents' farm, so I know when one is near. If I catch any of you near a near a cow, you three will be moooving into detention for a long, long time."

With that, Roenick left, and Bren and Kani glared at Andre.

"Andre Renald! Why you got to say for yourself?!" Kani asks in anger.

"Not only we'll be in trouble, which I don't care but Kani is, that cow is going to eat some supplies around the school or worst, captured by animal control!" Bren scolded to his friend.

"I don't know what happened," Andre said. "Someone must've left the door unlocked and she got out."

"Well, you are gonna help us catch her, there is no way, I'm detention for your screw-up."

"Me neither, I've got a perfect record to uphold!," Kani agreed.

"As much as we want want to help you two catch Andre's cow, we got important things to do," Zeus said to his friends.

"And although as much I want to let Lena and her posse friends be that way forever for Calla's amusement, we have to get them back to normal somehow," Jordan said.

"I don't know what you're talking about, cuz. But whatever you do, you better do it late so Lena and her girly friends get themselves on YouTube," Bren said as he laughs on the posse.

"You guys do what you want. We'll handle it from here," Kani said in a determined tone, when she notices Andre trying to back away from them until she grabs him with his collar. "And you're not off the hook yet, Renald."

"Uh, and I was wondering, where's your cousin right now?" Jordan asks in curiosity.

"In the library. Apparently, Calla wants to create her own play after yesterday and tries to be inspired by some novels in there," Kani answered.

"Okay. Just give her a holler if you see her," Jordan said as she, Itzal, and Zeus left the lab.

Outside of the school, the Runners run to the school gate as they recap on what just happened.

"That was just the weirdest thing I've ever seen so far," Itzal said to his friends.

However, Zeus is thinking about this whole event as he guesses, "It's either weird or hypnosis."

"Come again?" Jordan asks in confusion.

"What if the hypnosis program that got recently cloned is behind all this?" Zeus asked.

Thinking about yesterday, Jordan and Itzal realizes what Zeus is talking about as the latter says, "You don't think there's a connection to all this?"

"Yeah. I thought so, too," he says as he's about to use his RunCom. "And I think it's high time for Ms. Reyheart to tell her what we know right now."

However, the same limo before drive in front of the Runners as the man from yesterday orders, "You three, get into the limo, quick!"

"Huh? You again? But we're just about to call Ms. Reyheart about it," Jordan said to the man.

"She told me if you three be better get to CodeX United immediately," the man said in a serious tone.

Realizing they have no choice other than being forced into the limo again, the Runners decided to enter the limo without hesitation.

As it drives to their destination, Zeus asks, "What's the problem, sir?"

"Actually, she needs to let you three see something," he replied.

"I hope it's not a mundane task," Jordan muttered. "Otherwise, we went to CodeX for nothing."

Inside CodeX United, she is currently watching something as the Runners quickly entered her office.

"Ms. Reyheart, you can't believe what just happened!" Jordan said in shock.

"Yeah, first this friend of our friend Calla, who owns a café, started acting and talking like a cowboy from the old west," Zeus said.

"And our enemies Lena and Sierra," Itzal said, "they're acting like a maid and genius scientist, which we all know is totally out of character for both of them."

"Well, looks like you're not the only ones who saw them acting strange," she said without any panic on her voice.

"What do you mean?" Jordan asked in confusion.

"Those people are not the only ones who afflicted by this phenomenon," Tina said as she points at the camera footages of some random people, who are acting out-of-character like Lena, her posse, and Tack.

"What the?! You mean they aren't the only ones?" Zeus asked in shock. "That's why you called us here?"

"Yes. For now, it's only affecting your school's area in Los Angeles, but if we don't find the culprit in time, it might spread worldwide," Tina said in a serious tone.

"Then we have to act, fast!" Jordan said in a determined tone. "Did you get the results from the clue we sent earlier?"

"Yes, it's a unique velvet fabric, that was made all the way back in the 17th century."

"Sounds like something you make curtains with," Jordan said.

"That's not all. My search found that was bought recently at an antique auction by a Zachary McClintock?"

"Zachary McClintock? Who the heck is that?" Itzal asked in confusion.

"This is," she said as she showed a picture of the person. They were shocked however, to see that Zachary was actually…

"Zane Show?!"

"You know him?"

"Yeah, he's the head of the new theatre/drama club at our school. But why's his name listed as Zachary?," Zeus asked

"Either it's a stage name or an alias," Itzal said.

"But what about Calla? She's in theater club and she might be next," Jordan asks in worry.

"We have to worry about her later. Besides, we can't dive in without any answers. Like what's Zane's motive for all of this?" Zeus said to Jordan.

"That's an excellent question, Zeus. And your answer might be in his club room," Tina said to the Runners. "Infiltrate and find something that connects his motive and the program he cloned."

"But what about the people who are affected?" Itzal asks in worry, which unknown to him, Jordan and Zeus are mysteriously abducted by a familiar figure.

"We have the Chicago lab work on the reverse program for it. Just focus on stopping Zane before it's too late.

"Right," Itzal said as he turned to see that Jordan and Zeus were gone. "Hey, where'd they go?"

He heard a loud noise behind him and turned around to see Jordan and Zeus, with their swords on their hands, facing off the same robotic samurai from yesterday.

"Uh, guys…"

"Can you wait a second, Itz? We're about to prove this hunk of junk that we are improving very well!" Zeus said in a determined tone.

"Yeah! Plus, we'll show it who's the real weakling around here," Jordan added in a same tone.

With both their primary and secondary weapons in hand, they split up and charged in towards the robot. Itzal is very impressed at the offscreen battle at first, but he quickly winces as he saw the robot kicking his friends' butts once again before it thrown them at Tina's desk, leaving them dazed from the short fight.

Tina chuckled a little bit as she explains to them, "Don't feel bad you two. Our robot is designed to be unbeatable in spars."

Meanwhile, Mr. Bigby was heading towards the school elevator and pressed the button to go down a floor. However the doors opened to show Andre, Bren, and Kani with the cow squeezed inside.

"Okay, who's bright idea was it to bring a cow in here?," Mr. Bigby asked.

"That would be Andreas over here," Kani said, pointing at Andre.

"Hey come on, give me a break," he said.

"I sense a cow," Roenick's voice said. Bigby looked and saw her coming down the hall in a huff. "And cows are not allowed in my school."

Turning back towards the trio, Bigby said, "For your sakes, get this heifer out of here as quickly and discreetly as possible."

He then pressed a button on the inside of the elevator, shutting the doors and sending the elevator to another floor just as Roenick walked up.

"Have you seen a cow, Mr. Bigby?," she asked.

"Nope, sorry," he replied.

"Curses," she said as she stormed off still looking for the cow.

At the auditorium, Calla is looking for Zane at backstage in worry as she says to herself, "I hope my script might impress Zane a lot. It even has a cool male role in it."

As she walks around the backstage, Jordan is secretly spying on her behind the props, who is worried about her best friend.

Meanwhile, in Zane's clubroom, Itzal was pacing back and forth with worry, while Zeus was standing quietly.

"What's with you?," Zeus asked.

"I'm worried about Jordan," Itzal replied. "Are you sure she'll be okay all by herself?"

"Relax, Jordan's a strong girl. One of the strongest I've ever known. She'll be just fine."

"I hope so, Z. I hope so."

They then examined Zane's desk to look for clues. Zeus looked and found some articles on Zane.

"Check this out," he said. "It seems he wrote, starred in and direct several plays off-off-off-off Broadway."

"That's so far off Broadway, it's not even funny," Itzal said. "And it looks like he's got several of those plays here."

Itzal opened one of the scripts and read it. Suddenly he saw something shocking in the reading and gasped.

"What's wrong?"

"Does this line sound familiar?," he asked as he read the script. "There be gold in them there hills, so Imma heading west!"

"That's what Tack said to us at the café!"

"Yeah and check this: 'Space, the final frontier. It is mankind's destiny to explore it all.'"

"What Sierra said in class. These lines are their quotes! But why are they in a script?"

"Dunno, but look like we found Zane's connection to the crimes!"

Meanwhile, Calla was walking backstage in the theater, when she saw Zane with another one of the audience members from the previous night strapped to a chair.

"Zane?," she whispered. "What's he doing?"

She took cover behind some props and watched as Zane approached with the same ray that had been used to hypnotize Tack.

"So didn't care for my play did you? Well, maybe this'll change your attitude," Zane said as he raised the ray and zapped the screaming student with it. When the light died down, the student had taken the persona of a dainty ballerina.

"I feel as light as a sparrow," he said in a girlish voice.

Calla gasped in shock at this. As she backed away she knocked over a lamp, causing Zane to turn around and see her, at which she gasped again.

Back inside the club room, the Runners are still searching Zane's desk when Zeus saw some kind of PDA or a smartphone.

"Huh? Why would a theater enthusiast like Zane have to do with a computer disk?" Zeus asks as he examines the device, which Itzal realizes something.

He then uses the wireless feature on his RunCom to examine the disk's contents, which he became shocked at what he just found.

"Tranze?! That's the top-secret hypnosis program that was cloned from the Chicago lab!" Itzal said in realization.

Zeus also realized something as he remembers the last few minutes earlier.

"Which that might explain that people around Los Angeles are behaving strangely!" he said.

Then, realizing in shock and fear, Itzal says, "And Jordan is alone with that freak-a-jerk!"

Zeus gasped at this as he says in determination, "Then we have no time to lose!"

Back at backstage, Calla swung the horse prop at Zane, who dodged every attempt.

"Get away from me you freak," she said. Zane grabbed the horse. "I must say Ms. Gale, impressive use of the stage props. You might have enough potential to make it big in the acting world."

Upon hearing this Calla stopped swinging as she said excitedly, "Really. Are you serious?"

"Very. Too bad, though, I'll have to cut your career short."

He then pointed the ray at her and prepared to fire as she braced herself.

"Hey, theater wannabe!"

They turned around to see Jordan in her Runner form.

"Huh? What are you doing here?!" Zane demanded.

"And what are you wearing anyway, Jordan?" Calla asked in confusion.

"I'll explain later, Calla," Jordan replied in a sheepish tone before focusing on Zane in determination. "As for you, Zaney Show-off! You're under arrest for brainwashing some of the people in L.A. and stealing a top-secret program!"

"Well, I'd like to see you try to take me in," Zane said as he grabbed a knight's sword. "En garde!"

Jordan then drew her -Ice Crystal Blade-, and the two faced each other for a short time before charging in and clashing blades. The two then thrusted and parried attacks back and forth, and surprisingly Zane turned out to be a better swordsman than Jordan had anticipated.

"Whoa! Who knew that guy can act and sword fight!" Jordan said in a surprise tone.

"And unfortunately, you won't see my sword fighting performances for a very long time," Zane said as he aims the ray to Jordan and Calla, which they are frozen in shock.

Before he could activate the ray, Itzal dashed into the auditorium and pushed the girls from Zane's aim.

"Itzal!" Jordan shouted in worry.

"Forget about me! I can take another brainwash!" Itzal said in determination as Zane's ray is about to activate.

"Brainwash? What does he talking about, Jordan?" Calla asked in confusion, which Jordan is too shocked to answer.

"But..."

"Don't worry! I need more experience anyway! You need to stop Zane!"

Before Zeus can even join his friends on stage, Zane's ray activated, causing everyone to shield their eyes.

"Itzal, no!" Jordan shouted.

In a bright flash of light Itzal vanished. When the light cleared, Itzal stood dress as an old man dressed in a British gentleman's suit. Jordan rushed over to him and grabbed his shoulders.

"Itzal are you okay? Say something!"

"Hello there, govn'r. Mind directing me to Mulberry St?" he said in a English accent. Jordan touched his cheek in sadness.

"Itzal..."

Then Zeus joined with Jordan and Calla as he says, "How dare you turn our friend into a elderly Englishman!?"

"What can I say, the theater takes all kind," Zane says as he pulls a rope lever near him, causing the trapdoors on stage to open as the three fell into it.

As the three got knocked out, Zane's laughter is heard from above them.

A/N: Oh no! Not only Itzal became Zane's mind-controlled bad actor, but Jordan, Zeus, and Calla are captured! Can they be saved? Find out in the last part of Double, Double! Review and stay tuned!