Zeronia the sex-changing hero has to go through his/her toughest adventure yet. In the last story Zeronia, Tak, and the Zeron Warriors escaped the Cosmic Order and ended up on the planet of Zeron while Zeronia was stuck in female form. They were met...
After we heard the storm pass Dark Seegnal showed me a quicker route out of the catacombs. The same one he had used when he stole the Quantum Device.
I tied the Quantum Device to my back with some rope that Dark Seegnal used for his giant marionettes. As I emerged to the surface I saw that the storm was completely gone except the orange sand was damp and the air felt dry.
I could see the top of the city's tallest tower in the distance. All I had to do was follow that back.
As I walked with the Quantum Device tied to my back I thought about what went on in the catacombs. I couldn't believe that I cried. WHAT AM I SAYING? I can't believe that I kissed Dark Seegnal! What was going on with me?
Anyway, I do think it was sweet of Dark Seegnal to give the Quantum Device back. Maybe he wasn't so bad after all. He was charming and kind of cute.
Wait! Did I just say Dark Seeknal was cute? What was happening to me?
It was the spirit of my Zeron Crystal, I decided. She must have done something to me to make me act all girly.
I pulled a knot on the rope and let the Quantum Device drop to the sand, then I took out my wand.
"Spirit of the Zeron Crystal," I called into the wand. "I need to speak to you."
Nothing happened.
"Please, spirit, I know you can hear me," I said as I shook the wand. "This is important!"
The Spirit Of the Zeron Crystal appeared before me.
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"You summoned?" she asked.
"Yes, I need you to fix me," I said.
The Spirit raised one eyebrow. "I beg your pardon?"
"I need you to fix me," I repeated.
"Fix you? I was unaware that you were broken."
"But I'm not acting like myself," I insisted. "I cried and I'm having strange thoughts! So, whatever you did to me undo it!"
"I didn't do anything to you," the Spirit declared. "You are just being a perfectly normal girl who is not quite used to her emotions."
"But I'm not a girl," I protested. "I'm a guy!"
"Your hormones would disagree."
"I don't care if my hormones disagree," I yelled as I shook my wand. "I'm a guy. I'm just stuck as a girl."
"You're not stuck as a girl," the Spirit said firmly.
I gazed at her. Was she making fun of me? I wondered. "I am," I insisted. "I can't change back. Tak told me that there was a malfunction in my wand and that was the reason why I'm stuck as a girl."
"But you did change back," the Spirit said with a sly smile.
"Only for a couple of minutes when I was in the women's bath. I don't know how that happened."
"Maybe it happened because at the time you wanted to be a guy again."
I stared at her. "What do you mean?"
The Spirit became more transparent as ripples ran through her as though she was made out of water. "I've been out of the crystal too long," she said. "I need to return."
"But what do you mean," I wanted to know.
"There is nothing wrong with your wand," the Spirit told me. "If you want to blame something for keeping you in girl form, then you can blame the same person you see each time you look in the mirror."
"That's a lie," I shouted.
"Believe what you want," the Spirit said as she became more transparent. "I need to return to the crystal." She faded away.
I did not know what to think. Could she be right that I was the one keeping myself as a girl? But that didn't make any sense. No, the Spirit had to have been lying.
I placed my wand into my pouch and just as I was reaching down for the Quantum Device I heard something that sounded like a sonic boom.
Thunder? I wondered. Could the storm be returning?
I listened carefully as I heard thundering from overhead. No, not thundering! It sounded more like the roar of rocket engines.
I gazed upward and saw something descending from the sky. A spaceship! As it descended closer to the planet I began to make it out. It was shaped like a cube. A cube? The Cosmic Order! They have found us.
I had no idea how they know we were on Zeron, but the ship was heading toward the city and I had to get there to help everyone.
The Quantum Device would have slowed me down so I left it in the sand. I could always come back for it later. I raced toward the city. I just hoped I could get there in time.
Judy/Rose Saber P.O.V
We were all waiting around inside the palace when a Zeron ran in and informed everyone that an unknown spacecraft was about to land in the city square.
The Queen ordered the Zerons to morph into their Zeron Warrior forms and their wands into weapons, then come with her to greet the visitors.
She never said that I and the others couldn't come with them, but no one tried to stop us, so we followed anyway.
As we entered the city square we saw the strange ship descending onto the cobblestone and judging by the ship's square shape it was easy to figure out who the occupants were.
"It's the Cosmic Order," I informed the others.
"But how did they know we were on Zeron?" Brian wanted to know.
"I'm afraid that may have been my fault," Laloc admitted as she hung her head. "They must have been tracking my ship."
The cube-shaped ship landed on the cobblestone. A door appeared in the side and out stepped to my horror, Zara.
"It's Zara," Debra cried in dismay.
"But how could it be?" Brian wanted to know. "She blew herself up!"
"That's obviously not the same Zara," Tak explained. "The Cosmic Order built another robot that looks like her."
Soldiers in silver helmets piled out from the ship and aimed their weapons at us.
"Where is the one called Zeronia?" Zara asked with her ever-present creepy grin.
"She isn't here," I answered.
"What a pity," Zara said. Her right arm split in half and began transforming.
"Her arm is transforming into a shrink ray," Debra cried. "I don't want to be tiny again!"
Instead, her arm turned into a cannon.
"That's not a matter-compressor ray," Tak declared. "It's a matter-disintegrator ray!"
Zara pointed the cannon toward us. "Now I must kill you all. I hope you don't take it personally." The next thing I saw was a beam of white-hot energy coming at me.
