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Switch Part 6

'Well, I still can't understand how I got here, but helping out the Chasers is the only option I can accept until I find a way home back to my universe,' Carl thought about it as he dressed in Tori's clothes.

He wasn't used to wearing a commoner outfit, but at least it was a good fit.

As he folded his clothes neatly to store them for safe-keeping, he went out of the bathroom to find Donha holding Tori's activator and cards.

"Here. You're gonna need these for the upcoming mission ahead."

"Th-thanks Donha." Carl was a bit anxious about the difficulty ahead of him, but it was the only choice until he could return home.

"All Chasers report to the center. Especially you Carl. You're now a member of the Tai Chi Chasers. Hak has picked up a signal in the forest."

Sena sounded like serious business when Carl was introduced.

"Well, here goes," Carl said to himself as he attached Tori's activator and cards to his waist and followed the rest of the members to the main room.

As Carl arrived at the scene, Hak had noticed something different about Tori.

"Hey Tori, what happened to ya' hair? It looks like ya' still have a bed-head," Hak spoke with curiosity mixed with confusion.

"Hak this isn't Tori, this is Carl Clover from another dimension and he'll be filling out as our temporary 'Tori' until we can find a way to get him back to his dimension as well Tori will come back here," Sena had informed Hak with the recent news.

"Carl Clover. That sounds like a punny name for a kid in high class."

"Well, an alliterating name wasn't what I suspecting, but both my mom and dad had given me that name since they... cherish... me."

When Carl said "cherish", his voice went dark and wasn't audible to anyone else except to Hak.

Hak knew something was bothering Carl, but a tickle on his cheek from Carl made him forget about it.

"Well, now that the introduction is done, let's go find the missing Tai Chi everyone!"

Everyone had agreed (excluding Hak, who had to look after the ship and Komorka, who always stayed in her room) and left the ship to find the Tai Chi signal.

As the Chasers had arrived in the forest, Sena ordered for the team to split up.

"Rai and Finn, you come with me looking this northern and eastern part of the forest."

"Carl, stick with Donha as both of you look in the southern and western of the forest as Donha is gonna protect you from the dangers beyond since you don't know how to control the cards' power."

Carl accepted to stick with Donha at all times and the team split up to two as they went to retrieve the Tai Chi.

The duo had searched most of the southern part of the forest and headed off to the west.

"So Carl, what happened to Tori when he was in your universe?" Donha had wondered about the time passed from the disappearance.

"Well..." Carl had trailed off as he told about Tori's experience exploring his universe, his history, and how his universe looked like.

When Donha had heard Carl's past, he had felt the same way Tori felt when he heard his past; miserable.

"Let me guess. It's my family's past that's distracting you."

Carl already knew that since he experienced Tori with the same emotion.

When both of them arrived in a clearing of the forest, many Dragonoid robots leaped out from the trees and surrounded them.

Donha and Carl went back-to-back each other as the robots got closer to them until they stopped a few feet away.

The one who commanded them to halt was the mischievous Dragonoid, Ave.

"Well, well. You Tigeroid twerps have fell into our trap! I'll take your Tai Chi when I'm done with you." As Ave said that phrase, his skinny finger pointed at the troubling duo and the Dragonoid robots attacked; coming toward Donha and Carl.

Just by a few inches, Donha took out his activator and sliced the Tai Chi into the slot of his to summon Seok*.

"Tai Chi Seok! Stone!"

The large stone broke into many bits and flew at the sea of robots; knocking down or disabling them.

All that Carl can do was stay behind Donha since he never used such magic before.

The army of soldiers have shrunk down, but Ave summoned out the Multiply* Tai Chi and doubled the army into hundreds which made it harder for Donha to attack.

The robots were piling up above them and the duo became trapped into the sea of the army.

Ave simply smirked as this was going to be an easy victory, but a huge force had flew the robots everywhere and forced Ave to go to hold on to a nearby tree that had uprooted due to the force.

The one that stood out was Carl with Donha laying on the ground next to him and walked toward Ave with a stern look on his face.

"H-how is that possible?!"

Ave took out his whip in frustration from his sleeve and struck it toward Carl.

The young lad dodged every whip attack Ave could throw at him, until the whip wrapped around Carl's leg and made him fall on the ground.

"What's wrong? You can't use your Tai Chi? Well, I'll just have to finish YOU!"

As Ave was about to strike, stones flew at the Dragonoid and knocked him out into the pile.

As Carl knew who could do such an attack like that, he turned his head to the left and saw that Donha still had strength after that army pile.

Carl ran up to Donha to see if he was alright. 'A bit of bruises here and there all on his body, but otherwise, he'll be fine.' Carl thought he tried to lift Donha with all of his strength.

Disappointedly, Donha was too heavy for Carl as he rested to regain his strength.

At that moment, the rock pile exploded as Carl shielded his face with his arms to reflect most of the debris. As expected, Ave had came back in his Dragonoid form and summoned Pyun.

"Tai Chi Pyun! Whip!" His cackling didn't help at all as he motioned his whips to Carl.

Carl, now with his head tilted down with his stern look, simply said, "Allow me to show you... what they call a virtuoso."

"Laetabilis Cantata!"

Massive gears summoned in front of Carl and destroyed Ave's whips like no problem at all. They disappeared into thin air as Ave couldn't believe what happened.

"W-wha!? Y-you're not the little Tigeroid brat that I'd expected!" His shock in the speech didn't surprise Carl at all as he gave a cunning smile at Ave.

"Even though you're not what I'd expected, I'm still going to take you down! Tai Chi Pyun! Whip!" Ave motioned his whips again at Carl as he had nothing to lose.

Carl had a trick up his sleeve. Well, a flag at least. And some chess pieces.

Carl and Ave both went toward each other as one can only survive.

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The fight was over and Ave had been defeated.

"You little twerp! You think that this is over, but I'll be back!"

He summoned his Smoke Tai Chi and disappeared into thin air.

"Glad that's over."

Carl fell to his knees to catch his breath.

"I hope sometime later that Dragonoid will learn I'm not Tori."

The rest of the Chasers had arrived to where Donha and Carl rested by each other.

As expected, the Chasers lifted Donha and Carl back to the ship as their mission was completed.