Written by: Savaga Feedback to:cona2000@hotmail.com CHAPTER ONE Aaron lay in his bed silently relaying the events of the day. The day’s schedule had been heavy with a press conference, a photo shoot, tutoring, and recording. He was happy to finally be on his two month break, and on top of that tomorrow was the first day of his summer break from tutoring. No tutoring meant more time to lounge around and vegetate. He sighed. This was going to be wonderful, and Nick was going to come at about 3 AM to stay over his two month break too. Aaron’s mom always made sure that his schedule coincided with Nick’s so that they would be able to spend their time off goofing around together. The word ‘together’ made it nice. But for now no one was home. Aaron drifted off to sleep. His dreams were interrupted suddenly but he didn’t know why. Once he was awake, he could hear the noise of two people walking about the hallway leading to his bedroom. Their voices were unfamiliar to him. Quickly, he sprang out of bed to look for a place to hide. The only one he could think of was underneath his bed. He dove underneath it and tried to silence his heavy breathing. He silently listened to their hushed conversation. “Which one is it?” “I don’t know. Just select the one closest to where the amulet was located.” “It was in the room next to this one.” “Then in that case, we will take him.” Aaron could hear them coming into his room. ‘Just stay quiet and they won’t find you,” he assured himself. He realized he was wrong when he felt a jolt pass through his body leaving him paralyzed. Soon, he passed into the world of unconsciousness from the shock. ************************** Nick was happy to finally be home. He slipped his amulet off and hid it under the keyboard of his computer in the office. The office was the room across from his and was also located next to Aaron’s room. Nick figured that the electromagnetic waves used in the scanners that were employed to find the precious amulet would not pass through the wires in the keyboard. He was correct to some extent, but he did not consider the possibility of the waves going under the keyboard. Thinking the amulet was safe, he dragged his exhausted body into his bed and fell asleep. He awoke to an unusually quiet house. Aaron had this ritual that at the beginning of his vacation he would wake Nick at exactly 10 o’clock and they would run around the house screaming “We’re free! We’re free!” Nick expected it to be like that, but it wasn’t. He looked at the clock which read 11:14. ‘Strange,’ he though. ‘I wonder if he’s sick or something.’ Nick went into Aaron’s room and found that he wasn’t there. He went to get his amulet after searching the house worriedly and finding nothing to see if his heat vision goggles on his ninja suit could help him find Aaron. Unfortunately it wasn’t there. ‘Oh no,’ he thought, ‘Could Zator’s goons have taken the amulet and Aaron thinking that he was me?’ Nick ran back into Aaron’s room and looked everywhere. When he looked under the bed for some sort of clue to what happened, he found an old teddy bear that was glowing green, indicating that there had been a Zophacian stun gun involved. It temporarily impaired the movement and feeling in his hand, further proving the use of a stun gun. He immediately ran to a phone to call the rest of his band. ********************************** Aaron awoke tied up in a corner of what looked to be a cell with a tall bald guy in red armor looming over him. “Hello Nick. Have a nice sleep there?” the guy said smirking. ‘Nick?’ Aaron was confused about what to do. If he told this guy that he wasn’t Nick, then he would probably kill him and then go after Nick. However, if he didn’t tell him, then he would probably be killed because the guy thought he was Nick and then once the guy realized that he wasn’t Nick, then he would go after Nick. Aaron decided to do the second option because if the guy didn’t find out that he wasn’t Nick, then he would spare Nick. “I assume that you were wondering where this was,” the guy said holding up what looked like a necklace that had a big disk on it of a metal that Aaron could not identify. In the middle of the disk was a reddish sphere-shaped gemstone. Even though the lighting was dim, the gem seemed to radiate light. Aaron had never seen anything like it before. “I’ve never seen anything like that before in my life,” he said. The guy grinned evilly. “You lie very well, Ninja Man,” he spat. ‘Ninja Man?’ Aaron thought, ‘Does this guy have a nick name for my brother?’ “You can keep that stupid necklace for all I care,” he said, “And I still don’t know who you are.” “Do you not remember me? I am the Dark Side Emperor, Zator.” Zator said, “I am also your girlfriend’s father, whom I might add is locked up in one of my cells at the moment.” “Why would you lock your own daughter in a cell?” Aaron said, shocked that anyone could do such a thing. At that point, Zator left. CHAPTER TWO Nick paced back and forth in his living room, waiting for his friends to come. He was so worried about Aaron. If Zator thought that Aaron was him, then he may decide to kill Aaron. Nick shuddered at the thought. Also, the only way to get to Zator’s ship was to go on a spaceship. To go on a spaceship, they would need Zenell to come. Zenell was Zator’s rebellious daughter who stole the amulets from her father and gave them to the Backstreet Boys. Nick sighed at the thought of her. The doorbell interrupted Nick’s daydreams. When he opened the door, Zenell stepped inside. She looked surprised and happy at the fact that he was actually there. “Hello, Nick,” she said, “I thought that you were kidnapped by Zator. I’m glad that you are alright, but I thought I would meet your comrades here.” “No, they are supposed to be here any minute,” Nick replied. “Then who is on my father’s ship?” Nick sighed. He knew he would have to tell her about Aaron, but he did not want to. It caused him too much pain. “My younger brother,” he said, “What I can’t understand is how they got us mixed up.” Zenell replied, “Zophacians use only 90% of a person’s DNA to identify someone. This is for safety reasons. Apparently, your DNA and your brother’s DNA were exactly the same according to the scanners.” As soon as the words left Zenell’s mouth, the doorbell ran again. ***************************** N*sync were shock to find that the walls of the cell’s were not sound proof. They had heard Zator talking to Nick earlier. However, Nick seemed to have amnesia, and they were also alarmed to find that Zenell had been kidnapped. “Maybe Zator’s trying to trick us into thinking that the Backstreet Boys are alive, because they obviously aren’t.” “Why would he do that? If anything he would be trying to make us think that there is no hope of rescue. Maybe they are still alive.” “How is that possible? I saw them about to go into the Daori dimension,” Justin countered. A faint voice could be heard through the wall. “Who’s there?” Aaron said. “N*sync,” N*sync replied, “Who are you?” “This is weird because I’m Aaron Carter.” N*sync were just shocked. Was this guy joking or was he really Aaron Carter? He sounded like it. If it was Aaron Carter, what was he doing on Zator’s ship? There was no reason for it unless Zator knew that they were brothers and kidnapped him to get the BSB to give up the amulets like he did with Brian. This meant that the BSB were still alive, but how? How could they have escaped out of the Daori dimension? It was possible, but unlikely. “Why are you here?” they asked him. “I think that some guy named Zator thinks that I’m my brother.” “You mean he’s still alive?” “Of course he is! Actually, I could hear my kidnappers debating on whether to take him or me. Why do you ask?” Aaron was confused. Why did they think that Nick was dead? Unless Zator told them that or something then there was no reason to think that Nick was dead. “Well, last time Justin saw them, they were about to go into another dimension to rescue Brian.” ‘What?’ Aaron thought, ‘Why was he in another dimension?’ “Why was Brian in another dimension?” “Um… we kind of were the ones who kidnapped Brian. Zator sent him to the Daori dimension and almost sent me as well. I ran away right before the BSB were going to go after him,” Justin said. “You guys kidnapped Brian?” “Zator told us that he was going to conquer Earth, and we were stupid enough to believe him. Lance still did until Zator told us otherwise.” “I saw Brian a week after he returned home from the tour he was on when he was kidnapped. I don’t think that he is in another dimension.” “But I saw him get pulled in!” Justin exclaimed This was a lot for Aaron to comprehend. Ok, so N*sync kidnapped Brian because they thought that he was going to take over the world, and Zator told them that. Zator sent him into another dimension and the BSB were going go after him, but how did the BSB know Zator? Why did Zator want to kidnap Brian in the first place? Why did Zator want to kidnap Nick? And what did that necklace have to do with it? BACK NEXT |
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