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Suddenly, Majest got knocked over. The beam stopped pulling
in Aych.
"Capernaum! Boy, am I glad you showed up!" Aych
said, looking at the hooded white Blumaroo who'd saved her. "Get someone to
bring him in the Spysub."
"No problem, Aych. I'll just rewrite history,"
Capernaum said mystifyingly. Everything he said was just a little bit cryptic.
It more his voice than the words. Suddenly, Majest disappeared and was locked
up in the prison at Spyworks HQ.
"Sometimes your power takes the fun out of everything,"
Aych said rolling her eyes. "Did you bring the other Operation Neopia members?
Oh, and if you didn't, there's no need to rewrite history so that they appear
right in front of us like you did the time you forgot you had to cook lunch
for the Spyworks crew." Capernaum just smiled.
"They're here. Sometimes I do things the old-fashioned
way," Capernaum said. The seven other Operation Neopia members and Commander
Dawson came out of the SpySub each wearing a nifty diving suit.
"What's going on? Where are Kaleigh and Nahum?"
Ashley asked the two spies.
"Kaleigh went through the roof and is trying
to destroy the whirlpool," Aych said to the six pets and their leader. The group
saw Kaleigh closing in the whirlpool and hurried to stop her.
"Don't worry, she'll be okay! Nahum watching
to pull her out if the rampage stops. The whirlpool is a giant robot so it should
be destructible," Aych said holding the pets back.
Kaleigh had reached the whirlpool. With a burst
of rampage, she flew through the whirlpool's spin. Each time she was moved under
her own will by the force of the whirlpool, she got angrier until she could
contain it no more. She flew herself into the middle of the whirlpool where
the robot was. She struck it with a powerful blow with her enraged tentacles
and caused it to fall to the ground. The whirlpool stopped spinning and only
the machine remained. Kaleigh pounded it until it exploded. She flew back twenty
feet and landed with a thud. Nahum came to tend to the Acara, wary that she
could still have the Rampage.
"Kaleigh, are you alright?" Nahum asked. The
Acara opened her eyes to reveal they were their regular white with brown pupils.
"I think so," she panted. Capernaum, Aych, and
Dawson swam over to the two. The other Operation Neopia members were inside
the Spysub that was making it's way towards them. Capernaum kneeled down in
front of the Acara, and Dawson introduced him to her.
"Kaleigh, this Capernaum. He can help you. You
just need to do something for him," Dawson said soothingly. Kaleigh nodded.
She'd do anything to be rid of the rampage that plagued her.
"Time is of the essence, Kaleigh. You must describe
to me the moment you got the Acaran Rampage. Where you were, how you felt, other
events going on, things like that. If I can visualize that moment in time, I
came be there and alter it," Capernaum said revealing his power to the Acara.
"I was on the Redmaroo River Rapids in a little
yellow inflatable boat. I was white-water rafting, although I was only four.
I had my owner to help me learn how to do it. I felt safe but then we hit a
huge rock. I fell out of the boat and hit the water hard," Kaleigh said. Capernaum
waved his hand.
"I see it! I'm making my way there!" Capernaum
said, closing his eyes. "This is odd. Dawson told me you were only twelve. Why
must I travel so far back through time?" Kaleigh was shocked.
"I'm 12! I've had 12 birthdays I can remember!"
she said unbelieving.
"You can't remember every single birthday in
your life Kaleigh, but you do however remember your 34th through 46th birthdays,
no?" Capernaum said. "I'm still not there. All I see is darkness, like you were
asleep, maybe in a coma, for many years. That must've slowed the rampage's progress."
"I'm 46? I'm not 46! I'm 12! I'm twel-," she
said, crying. "What's wrong, Dawson? Why am I 46?" Dawson looked at the poor
pet.
"When you have the Acaran Rampage, you don't
age, only get older. You continue to live, but you're body stays the same as
it did when you got the disease," Dawson said. Kaleigh understood, but still
didn't like it.
"I'd rather age and not have the Acaran Rampage,
than never age and go mad every few days," Kaleigh said, more to herself than
to anyone in particular.
"Okay, I'm finally here!" Capernaum exclaimed.
"I see you. You're about to hit the rock. I'm moving it safely away." Suddenly,
all history was altered. Kaleigh was startled.
"Who are you? Where am I? Where's my Pink Poogle
Toy? I WANT MY PINK POOGLE TOY!!" Kaleigh wailed.
"Something's wrong, Capernaum! When you did
that, did you check the future to see the results of your actions?" Dawson asked
Capernaum. Capernaum shook his head.
"I always seem to forget, but don't worry, I'll
fix it," Capernaum said, regretting his mistake. History went back to normal.
"Hurry, Capernaum! My calculations show that
the next rampage starts in four minutes!" Nahum said quickly. Capernaum started
to fret.
"I don't know what to do! Wait! Dawson, I need
you to describe the first Acaran Rampage case to me. Read this page of this
book," Capernaum said handing Dawson a book entitled Psychology 101.
Dawson read the page. "Ye first Acaran Rampage
case happened in the olde year 13 BN." Dawson looked up at Capernaum. "You got
this book from the Turmaculus didn't you?" Capernaum nodded. Dawson sighed.
Meridellian was so hard to read. "There beith a young, yet brilliant doctor
forsooth, and heith beith upon hisith way to ponder upon ye olde strange occurrences
in one Acara, named WHAT?! What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a Meridellian name. Just read it please,"
Capernaum sighed.
"One Acara named Farethyuianewdret Ghertyiqupotylioner.
Phew. Ye olde doctor trippith uponith an Uggatrip on the way and didn't makith
it. Ith," Dawson finished exhausted. Farethyuianewdret Ghertyiqupotylioner??
"Capernaum beith ye, I mean are you there yet? Are you with Faretheyuian something
or other's doctor?"
"Yes. It took a while, but I'm here," Capernaum
said. He looked around his landscape. It looked a lot like Meridell in 13 BN.
The Bluebells made their lovely ringing sounds and the Mordongos floated a little
bit off the ground. After a long time of looking, he saw the doctor. It was
a Gelert. It seemed many doctors were Gelerts. He looked at his feet. An Uggatrip
was right in his path. Now something was odd about this moment in time. An Uggatrip
in 13 BN Meridell? Meridellians had never heard of Tyrannia at this time, nor
had Tyrannians ever even seen Meridell. Someone had put it there to stop the
doctor from reaching what's her name, but who? There was only one person Capernaum
knew of.
"General Hyreum," was all that escaped Capernaum's
mouth. Now was the time to rewrite history. Using only his mind, he removed
the Uggatrip from 13 BN Meridell. Suddenly, it felt like Capernaum was going
through a time warp. He found himself back in Maraqua.
"So what's the cure for Acaran Rampage?" Capernaum
asked Dawson. Dawson laughed.
"You don't know! It's been taught through every
school in all Neopia since 4 BN and you don't know! That's really funny, Capernaum!"
Dawson busted up laughing. At least it worked, Capernaum thought to himself.
Aych swam over to them. "Kaleigh needs the medicine
to cure the Rampage now. I'll get Len now," she said. She boomed, "LEN! LEN!
LENEKIA GET OUT HERE NOW!" A gloved red Kougra, wearing the same mask and tanks
as all the others, rushed out of the Spysub.
The name Lenekia resounded in Cody's mind. He
had heard that name before when he was young. Lenekia. Where had he heard that
before?
"Yeah, what is it Aych?" Len asked.
"We need a Neezles Jab, but change the Neezles
Juice to an Acaran Rampage Coolant," Aych ordered the red Kougra. Lenekia nodded,
rushed into the sub, and came out with the Neezles Jab.
"This will only take a moment," Lenekia said,
bewildering all the others except Aych and Capernaum who knew very well what
Len was about to do. After pulling off his gloves and placing both hands firmly
on the Jab, the liquid inside turned light blue, then red, then green, then
dark purple, and finally a striped liquid with all four colors on top of each
other. "Done! Here's your A.R.C!" Len handed it to Capernaum and put his gloves
back on.
Cody was mystified. How'd he change the Neezles
Jab into an Acaran Rampage Coolant? "What did you do?" he asked. Len looked
at him.
"You're Cody, right? Codisu Hausu?" he asked
in shock.
Cody nodded. "That's right, Lenekia. You would
know that, being my first brother and all." The other seven of Operation Neopia
were all stumped. His first brother? Weren't Samuel and Tony his first brothers?
All except Timothy, who had heard Cody's story in STARTS.
"His first brother was when he was still a slave
with his cruel owner and he escaped, leaving his two brothers and sister behind,"
Timothy explained.
"Yeah. It's been a long time since we've seen
each other," Cody said. "So how long have you been with Spyworks?"
"About a year now," Lenekia said.
"So you're telling me, all the time I was locked
up in the pound, you were having fun with Spyworks?" Cody asked. Len raised
an eyebrow.
"We have a LOT of catching up to do. I never
knew you were in the pound at all Cody," Len said. Aych whistled for their attention.
"It's a very touching reunion, but can we get
back to the task at hand please?" Aych asked the two brothers. They nodded.
Aych stabbed the medicine into Kaleigh forehead.
Kaleigh suddenly had a tingling sensation all
over her body. Had it worked? Only time would tell.
To be continued...
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