Fan Fiction ❯ the Comics: Book Two ❯ Chapter 3 (Meta) ( Chapter 3 )

As told by Metamorphia:

"I'm glad you're all here," Conan said all happy-like. And that made me all happy. I hadn't seen him smile in soooo long. But I didn't tell him that. I told Kim I liked her new outfit. Because I did. Her superhero name was Tiger back then, not Lyria. And she didn't know anything about Earth Elemental stuff. But oh well. She's cool and she has great fashion sense. See, her costume was this white one-piece mini-skirt jumper thingy with black stripes on it. And she had these cool black spandex leggings and sleeves. It was a lot cooler than her old costume especially.

But then my outfit was really pretty too!! It was, like-

Um, Conan's looking at me funny…. I think I'll tell the story now. :\

Shadow wasn't buying any of Conan's nice-talk. She was all: "So-what are we here for, already? It can hardly be a reunion; no one brought a dish to pass. You were a little…vague in your summons, Conan." Vampires aren't always nice to each other. I don't know why. I mean, they're practically all related and stuff.

Conan shrugged. He does that a lot. "There's a bit of a problem in town. . . ."

"Right. You mean, that huge ship that drilled a hole in the middle of the town square?" Kim's face was sarcasticky. "I think that's `a bit' of a problem. And I'm guessing that's why we're here?"

Shadow nodded. "Yup. And I'll personally give a cookie to the first person who can tell me what that's all about."

I thought really really hard. I love cookies.

"Ah, I couldn't really say. I was sorta . . . out of it at the time. I'm afraid we're going to have to depend of Joe's account-"

"JOE?! Oh, goody! Where is he?" My heart frolicked happily. Joe is so cute.

Conan sighed and glanced at his watch all unhappy-like. "I don't know. . . . He was supposed to-"

"I'm here." Every head turned to look at the doorway. Joe was looking really really cool, leaning back in the doorframe and everything. He peered angstily over the top of his shades. "Against my better judgment, of course."

"JOE!!" Super Stacie and I saaaaang his name happily. It sounded pretty. But then, she looked all sad and lost and stayed where she was while I ran up and glomped Joe. He's so cute.

Shadow sighed and rolled her eyes. "The is pathetic! We actually need Joe??"

Joe stopped trying to get me off him and grinned all badly. "Hey Shadow, you better watch out! I am the Joe Cool. And no one messes with Joe Cool!"

Shadow laughed and crossed her arms. "Really now? That's somewhat debatable. Tell me, Joe, do you really think you could take on a vampire?"

"I'll have you know, it was I who took on Co-" Joe gulped as Shadow leaned closer. "Err, let's not get violent now!" He squirmed a little, then looked at me because I hugged him tighter. "SR, what are you doing??"

"I won't let any violence happen to you!!" I gave him another love-squeeze and stepped back. "Anyway, my name is Metamorphia now, not SR." I like my new name, It sounds pretty and-

"Meta-mor-what? Why?" Stacie poked me.

"Metamorphia! But you can call me Meta. And those powers I have-the one that the author was too lazy to work into the plot of the last book-they specialize in morphing into cool stuff." I smiled, all proud of myself and happy. I like being happy.

"Morph?" Super Stacie looked lost, so I decided to do a demonstration. I picked a DNA sequence that was pretty new to my system and concentrated on shifting my own human DNA into that. The room got really really big around me. But that was just because I was getting really really small. Funny how things like that work!

Giant Tiger blinked and crouched down next to me, squinting her big eyes at me. "Um, cool, but what are you? Super Dust Mote??" She picked me up on the edge of her finger.

"No! I'm a flea! Cool, huh?"

"Say! That's great!" Shadow looked happier than she had when she was talking with Conan. "If we can properly exploit that . . . you'll be the best spy ever."

Tiger nodded and smiled. "What else can you be?"

"Hmmmmm…" I concentrated on the DNA I had just picked up, from Kim's hand, then jumped to the floor. In a few seconds, I was about half a foot shorter than my natural form. At least everyone wasn't soooo big anymore! I waved at Tiger. She gasped and turned ghost-white.

Super Stacie peered at us funny, then poked both of us. "There are . . . two Kims!"

I morphed back to my normal self. Conan was happy again. He asked me how I did it.

"Well, first, I need a sample of DNA from something. A skin cell does nicely. Somehow the cells in my body can copy the sample. The cool thing is, once I pick up a sample code, I can remember it to use anytime later." Everyone went ooooooooooooooo. "Well . . . sometimes later. It takes energy to morph." That's where my marshmallows came in! A sugar high is great for getting me hyper enough to morph a lot. I like marshmallows.

Conan quirked an eyebrow. "Dare I ask where you got the flea DNA from?"

"Joe! When I hugged him!" He's so cute.

Everyone blinked at the same time. It was really neat.

"Speaking of Joe. . . ," Tiger looked at him. "Aren't you supposed to explain what's going on?"

Joe smoothed his hair and eyebrows and stuck a pose. "Earlier today, this lady and her space ship landed in town. Of course, I got there right away and challenged her to fight me! And I gave her a hah and a hi-yah and rah and-" Joe stopped kicking and stomping on the air and straightened his shades. "Anyway, it was a long and terrible battle. I had almost defeated her when she hypnotized a hundred and four people to do her evil bidding. Conan, here, was one of those poor unfortunate punks. And I turn the story over to him." Joe waved a hand at Conan and smirked. (Well, he said a lot of other things too, but they were bad words.)

Conan quirked an eyebrow. "Um-hmmmm. . . . Well, I can vouch for the fact that I was hypnotized. I had some time to collect myself and gather my thoughts before you guys got here, and I can find residual post-hypnotic commands. Nothing strong enough to control me now that I'm aware of them. Basically, this Myena is a demon. She wants to wreak havoc and take over the world. You know, same old, same old."

"Awwwwww." Now I was sad. "Poor Conan! How did you escape?"

Joe elbowed his way over to Conan. Hehehe, he touched me. When I realized he was talking, he said, "I kicked his butt. Yup, I saved him. He owes me his life."

"Nuh-uh!!!!" Super Stacie roared and stormed over to poke Joe in the chest. "You only got one punch in and that's because I distracted Conan! I've had it with you and your stupid macho ego, Joe! I wish Conan had mauled you!" And it was really cool because every time she said a work, Joe got pushed farther and farther over until he almost fell over backwards. Poor Joe. If he did fall, I'd kiss it all better.

Super Stacie stormed back past me to lean back on a wall. She let out a biiiig breath and grinned really big with sharp pointy teeth. "I feel better now!"

Conan cooed, "Awwwwww, they still like each other!" at the same time Shadow did a little dance and sang, "Aren't they cuuuute??"

"PEOPLE!" Almost everyone wet their pants. At least I think they did. I almost did. Okay, maybe they didn't. "We're way off the subject! There's an important mission at hand, here! The town is in danger again, and it'll be up to us to save it. We can't do that when we're talking about silly unrelated things, now can we??"

Everyone stared at Tiger, because she was the one who was yelling. I never heard Kim yell before in all my life. Okay, so I've only been with this group for a year. But I've never heard her yell. And a year's a long time.

"Kim spoke up? Kim??" I talked out loud, but I didn't mean to. But it was okay because Stacie was yelling, "Oh no! The aliens got her! They took our Kim!"

Tiger sighed and held in face in her hands. "Settle down, people! I just wanted to-"

And we all got our second shock of the night. From out of nowhere, Amy's voice yelled out: "Hey, guys!"

Conan nearly had a heart attack-if vampires can have those. "Amy?! Sounds just like her voice . . . but it can't be. . . ." He turned around and looked at me funny.

I shrugged. "Don't look at me; I haven't morphed."

Super Stacie clapped her hands. "Then she must really be here! She's back, guys! The universe has been saved!"

Amy's voice chuckled. Now that I heard it again, it sounded like a lot like amachine-voice, all tinny. "Sorry, guys, but I'm not exactly back. I'm still on that planet, talking through Conan's computer."

Everyone charged the computer, which was innocently sitting on the desk. Conan hit us until we backed up some. He loves his computer. We might get it smeary, he says. Anyway, there was a picture of Amy in the monitor-screen. She was waving and smiling. "This communicator is an invention of Cosmo's. He rigged it up to actually create a comm link sort of thing wherever he wanted. Cool, huh? Kinda like Star Trek." I like Star Trek! It's so cool and they do cool things and it's fun and it's futurey and Riker is really cute and I like Data and-

Super Stacie looked really close and pointed, but Conan pushed her hand away. She glared. "Who's that?"

Amy looked behind her and smiled, then waved her hand to get the guy to stand next to her. I drooled. He was really hot! Like really hot! Like hotter than Joe! I looked at Joe. Well, only a little hotter than Joe. Joe is so cute.

"Meet a really good friend of mine. His name is-" She looked at him funny for a sec. "He calls himself Samurai." From what we could see, he was wearing this tan-brown tunic and a dusky red cloth draped over his shoulders and around his neck. The coolest thing was his eyes. They were all slanted and pretty. But the right one had a black iris and the left one was totally white with a thick scar going up and down through it.

I looked at Conan because he made a funny noise. He had a funny look on his face, too. "A friend, huh? How good?" He wasn't happy.

She smiled. I guess he looked happier when she looked at him through a computer screen. "Well, he's saved my life a time or two." The really hot Samurai guy smiled at her too. I wondered if he could see me. Because then I'd smile at him. Everyone but Conan looked so happy. Maybe Conan needed a hug. Or a marshmallow.

"Well guys, I didn't exactly call to chat. Cosmo's not too happy about me using this device. He says the demons can trace a connection if it's open too long. So I need to keep this short and sweet. And for dramatic effect, I'll open with: Earth is in grave danger, and it's up ot you to save it."

Super Stacie nudged me and whispered. "Guys like girls who save the world, right?"

Amy grinned at SS and shook her head. "Sure they do, Stace. But it's gonna be harder than that. Radin, king of the demons, has sent a wonderful surprise your way."

"A surprise?? Oh goody goody! Is it for me? Huh?" I love surprises! Like Christmas and birthdays and stuff!

That made her laugh. "Not that kind of surprise! A very very bad one. He's shipped his second-in-command to Earth. She appears to possess the powers of ancient Egyptian gods. For all I can figure, she's been on Earth before, back in those days, and gave godlike powers to some Egyptians she managed to get ahold of. This way, she established control of an entire civilization. Demon King Radin sent her because of her prior knowledge of the planet."

"Why do all the bad things have to happen to Earth?" Tiger sighed.

"Well, these demons do have a reason. They have mapped out a good part of the known universe and correlated forty-two focal points. Earth happens to be one of them. Once these points are under demonic control, they'll spread out from there, infesting planet after planet . . . until all is theirs." The transmission seemed to be breaking up and got fuzzy once in a while.

"Ooooooooooooh . . . ." Joe said another bad word.

For once in her life, Amy looked like she agreed with Joe. "Master Ling didn- want you to fa-e this stuff a-one. He wants me -- send these coordinates. --and ready to rec--ve. . . ."

Conan looked at her funny. "Okay, I've got them now, but what are they? And you'd better talk quick. Looks like Cosmo's device is failing."

The screen was getting really fuzzy now. And sometimes Amy's head turned green. Conan scooched closer until his nose was almost smearing on the screen. "---- help you! Leave immed---!! --- have to ----" Then there was just loud ssssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhh sounds.

"No!" Conan flew out of his seat and bounced around. But not happy bouncing. Poor Conan. "What are we looking for? Why? Arrrrrg! It couldn't have just waited one more minute to fart out, could it??"

Shadow made him stop by clamping a hand on his shoulder. She's really strong. "Now we just trust Amy and this Master Ling guy. It sounded like she said we should leave immediately, and that it wasimportant."

Conan sighed again. "You're right. Nothing we can do now. Let me call up the information she sent." He tapped away at his computer for a bit. I tried to stand closer to Joe.

"Well, now." Conan whistled funny. "Thank god there's some directions with the coordinates. Three different locations. And we have to be at each one at precisely noon. I'm going to start immediately. I have to rig up three data chips with specific codes-ones that make absolutely no sense whatsoever." He jumped up and made a run for the backroom.

"I wanna go with Joe!!" I tried to catch him to hug him, but he suddenly remembered to tie his shoelace and I flew over his head. I like flying.

"No!" Conan poked his head out the door again. "Shadow will go with Joe. You can go with Super Stacie. Tiger and I will take the last location."

"But but but…."

He shook his head. "Trust me. We'll need Shadow to keep Joe in line. And you and Stacie can shed all the blood you want over Joe in the meantime."

"Hey punk!! What makes you think I wanna go on your stupid girly quest?" Joe shouted. But Conan had already shut the door. Joe kicked a passing dust bunny. "Stupid girly quest. . . ."

He is so cute.