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Chapter 14: Contact and Corruption

Later, with Sora and Omimi… Gamma Star: Training Room

Sora and Omimi walked into the room to see Tamama looking a bit exhausted, as if finished training. "I can't believe we got lost on this ship…" Omimi admitted. "Man we really need to get a map one of these days."

"Hey there Tamama!" The Brunette called out, ignoring the tadpole's comment temporarily.

"Huh?" Tamama said, but this time, he looks…normal this time. "Ah, Sora! Omimi! You guys are okay, desu!"

"Huh?!" Both the two blurted out in surprise as –Just wondering- starts to play.

"Huh? Is there something wrong, desu?" Tamama asked with a confused look on his face.

"Uhh…yeah, sort of." Sora responded. "Omimi here can explain it a bit better."

"Well…the truth is that…well…" Omimi began to say, but finding it a bit to describe. "It was just that…you were acting weird earlier- like you were all tired and…emotionless or something. You were like a Zombie for a reason."

"Tama? Zombie, desu?" The Private second Class parroted with a weird look. "I'm not sure what you're talking about earlier, desu."

"…Something's NOT right here." Sora admitted before to walk up to the boy and picked him up. "Are you sure that you're you?"

"Of course I'm me! Why would you think I'm someone else, desu?" Tamama asked before the other male gives an odd look.

"Well…okay." Sora said before he felt the strange sensation again and looking at the dark colored tadpole. He then gave a bit of a look at him but accidentally dropped the individual while giving out a quick 'whoops!' But the strangest thing occurred is when the startled Tamama hit the ground…and a loud squeaky noise was heard, startling the two. In a jinx, the two exclaimed "What the?!"

"Uh oh." The black tadpole said, sounding like he broke character for a brief moment.

"D-did you just hear that?" Omimi said, showing traces of confusion. "Tamama-kun I must ask, are you sitting on a squeaky toy or something? Because when you landed, we just heard loud…squeak."

"...Err…you see uh…" Tamama tried to say while sweating a river behind his head before Keroro comes walking in. "Ah, Gunso-san!"

"Sora-dono, is that Tamama-nitouhei with you, de arimasu?" Keroro asked.

"Err…I'd like to say that it's Tamama, but we're not entirely sure." Sora explained while scratching his head.

"Weird… then who is this one here, de arimasu?" Keroro said as shown Tamama…who appeared to be like before- tired and somewhat emotionless.

"HUH?!" Both the two exclaim before Omimi looked to the one Keroro has and the other one until she said, "There's TWO Tamamas?!"

"This Tamama-nitouhei is acting…quite the opposite of his normal ways, de arimasu." Keroro said while pacing around going towards the other Tamama. "I noticed it when he Kururu souchou shown us that he is seen in his room in a depressive, tired state. Dororo-dono, Pururu-chan and I figure that he doesn't seem to be acting like his usual self and we discovered a second Tamama-nitohei aboard the ship...and Bariri Juni vanished without a trace. And that's when Mois-dono called us and to warn us about something-" He then made a bit of a face and said, "Bariri Juni just arrived on Pekopon TODAY and he had no clue that he delivered the Gamma Star, de arimasu."

"Wait a second…" Sora said, now getting what's happening. "So the Bariri that's here is a doppelganger- a fake?"

"Of course, de gozaru." Dororo said as he enters the room with the remaining members on the ship, minus Bariri…or rather there wasn't a Bariri on the ship to begin with. "The one who infiltrated our group was under the guise of Bariri at first, and then changed into the Tamama we know. Normally I would identify the individual as the spy, but I felt it was necessary that we find out this individual's intentions. But it all seems to be that this individual is to cause trouble, or to test the tension in our group, although to Kururu…'he' was practicing with spells, de gozaru."

"So that Tamama we have… is he the doppelganger or is the other one is?" Sora asked.

"The one we have is the real deal. The one you two have…is the Spy, better known as the Prism Keronian, Puriri." Kururu answered.

"Puri…ri?" Sora parroted before looking towards the doppelganger of Tamama as the theme ends.

"…You know who am I don't you, desu?" 'Tamama' replied but the next line the doppelganger spoke, it was a young woman's voice. "Puripuripuripuri… I should've figured that I would be discovered one way or another. Well, the cat's out of the bag." Just then a white light with a rainbow-like aura shimmered around the fake and when it was uncovered…its appearance is heavily altered. It is now a white Keronian with grey eyes similar in shape to Pururu. It has a swim hat and tadpole markings and tail. It bears no symbol on it. This tadpole is actually quite short- as short as Omimi and perhaps just a touch shorter than that, but wearing a couple of high-tech stilts shaped to look like legs with prism-like apandages attached- making her height the same as Tamama's until she stepped out of them. "I'm Corporal Puriri, a Spy from the Keron army hired to look out for you guys!" The Keronian said with the aforementioned voice. "Of course I'm better known as The Prism Keronian!"

"A Spy?" Sora parroted while looking intrigued. He then points out the size with a different assumption; "But you're just as young as Omimi here!"

"…Actually, I'm a bit of a shortie in Keronian standards." The white Keronian answered as she brought a Keronian ID. "In Pekoponian age, I'm actually 17."

"…MAN, you're short." Omnini admitted as he looks to the ID and then to the individual. He lets out a bit of a snicker as he admitted in his thoughts, ('Finally someone shorter than I am! I guess I don't have to worry about being shorter than Omimi.')

"Er, Pekoponian?" Sora parroted with a confused look while looking at Donald and Goofy who shook their heads in confusion. "What are you guys talking about?"

"Tell me about it. My guess it's something probably genetics related. Besides, how would you like it if you were as short as I am?" The spy admitted with a cheeky look to the tadpole who gave an annoyed growl. She then looked to the human. "Anyways, to answer your question Mr. Keybearer, a Pekoponian is what we aliens refer to a resident of the planet they come from. But you being called as such doesn't mean you are from the planet- you're from the worlds."

"You heard the name Pekopon earlier when you were interviewing me, Sora-dono! You even asked me about it!" Keroro said in a fit. "Pekopon is a PLANET! And the inhabitants are natives to it, de arimasu! Mo-ke-ke!! Are you that thick skulled?"

"Hey, I was listening!" Sora yelled back at Keroro before looking back. "I was sort of…sent off track. But what did you mean by that anyways? Are you talking about age?"

"Of course you dummy!" Puriri exclaimed with a huff. "In Pekoponian age, you would be 15. And Omimi just turned 10."

While the conversation played out, Tamama, while still looking like he was earlier- emotionless and tired, finally commented, in a rude manner, "Aren't you idiots focusing on something else?"

Everyone looked to Tamama and remembered what they were doing before the spy's explanation, before summoning their weapons…well anyone who does have a weapon. But someone notices the behavior of the male's line; "Well, that was a bit rude to say, Tamama Nitouhei." Pururu commented upon noticing Tamama's line with a bit of a bored crossed with an angry look.

Everyone but Tamama looked at Puriri as she said, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! I'm not the bad guy here! I'm under orders. Besides…" She then gave a silly smirk as she said while glowing with light attempt to blind them temporarily with the group shielding their eyes, "You can't catch what you can't see! Vanish!!" She then vanishes with an aura and vanished.

"Dororo- can you find her?!" Keroro exclaimed. "We can't let her get away, de arimasu!"

"No good- her presence had disappeared. She must've utilized a Vanish spell, de gozaru." Dororo commented while looking around.

"…Seriously? There's such a thing as that kind of spell?" Omnini commented with a bored look.

"You should have a more open mind, runt." Kururu commented while aggravating the younger tadpole with the eminence tadpole nodding, at least to the open mind comment. "Invisibility spells could've existed during ancient times, so it's no surprise that it exists now. And Vanish is a useful spell- not even someone like Dororo could detect someone under its veil- the Heartless and Nobodies are no different. It's like that one time we had the Super Anti-barrier attached to us during one incident, only it's a more guaranteed to prevent someone like Dororo to detect his friend. Ku ku ku!"
"So Puriri may have escaped under that light?" Sora commented, sounding disappointed. "Ah man…"

Giroro surveyed the area as he said, "She may of rendered sight useless, but we can still hear her or smell her out. Vanish is a spell that renders sight useless, but not the others." Everyone looked around as if to try to listen for anything, as the invisible Puriri carefully tried to sneak around, making as little sounds as possible.

"That's added that Dororo does have a higher 6th sense than everyone here. Vanish or an outside force is jamming it as well." Kururu said. "...Problem is,there's obviously a stronger presence here that's overshadowing hers.
Tamama on the other hand looked in a random direction before shimmering with an odd aura, approaching the direction before reaching out and grabbing something…before the light shown Puriri in a hold on the neck with the spell deactivating. Several vine-like markings appeared on the body of the spy's captor with it glowing grey in color, with the belly symbol beginning to morph as it begins to change into a distorted symbol of certain enemy symbol until he said "I got you now…you little pest."

"Meep!" Puriri squeaked with the others exclaiming in surprise. "H-how did you know?!"

"Tamama, what are you doing?!" Omnini exclaimed with an angry look. "Let her go! We caught her!"

Giroro was about to summon one of his guns with Dororo stopping him when he saw something zipped right past him, and he gave an intrigued "Hm?"

"Time to say good night." Tamama said, but this time with an aura and second voice- sounding like someone familiar. He threw the usually colorless tadpole into the air and was about to throw a fist when someone comes charging towards him. The tadpole noticed this and exclaimed, "What!?"

"NO!!" Sora exclaimed as he summons the Keyblade before knocking the black tadpole with a swing of his weapon. The fist and weapon clashed against each other, and it was clear that the keybearer had the upperhand with the Private second Class being sailed backwards from the collision right into Omimi. The girl slammed her head against the ground as she held her head in pain while crying a tiny bit while groaning 'Ow…'. The black tadpole managed to roll onto his back, but then noticed a VERY cross male brunette.