"Brian!  Can you come here for a minute?"  asked Kari.  She was working on her schoolwork in the hotel room when she got stuck.  Through the months she has been getting her lessons from the guys.  Howie with math, Brian with history, Kevin with science, Nick with English and A.j. with voice lessons.

"What can I do yeah fer little lady?"  said Brian in his fake accent.  Kari just smiled it off.

"I don't understand this question.  Can you help?"  she asked.

"Alright."  he began to explain the question.  Before he could finish Nick came into Kari's room.

"Hey, you two!  We just got a memo telling us to go down to the bus."  he said.
"Why?  Can't they see we're done for the night?"  asked Brian.

"Hey!  Don't shoot the messenger here! It just says to go down to the bus.  Not put on a concert."  explained Nick.
"Is it just for you guys or can I come down to?  I need a study break anyway."  asked Kari.

"Actually, the note says to bring you with us."  he answered.
"Really?  Man it's never done that before." said Kari.

"Come on.  Let just go down there and figure this thing out."  Nick opened in door and all of them walked out in the hall.

"Do you have a key?"  asked Brian.
"Yeah, I grabbed one on the way out."  she answered.

They took the elevator down to the first floor.  The person at the desk looked up and smiled at them.  She was pretty creepy to Kari.  With her blue hair and all.  They made their way out the front door with no problems.  They even got outside without and fans running up to them.  Then again, it was 9:00 at night.  The fans die off at 8:30.  They got to the bus and Nick started to look through his pockets.

"Brian, do you have the keys?"  he asked.
"Yep, here you go."  he answered.

They opened the bus door and went inside.  They expected to see the others but there was no one there.

"Huh, that's funny.  They left before I came and got you.  Why wouldn't they be here yet."  said Nick with concern.
"GUYS!?  This isn't funny!  Come out now!"  shouted Kari.  Nothing happened.

"Let just sit down and wait.  They might have had to chase A.J. from the girl at the front desk."  laughed Brian.

"Fine with me."  said Kari.  She went into the back for a softer seat when she let out a loud scream.

"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD!"  she yelled.
"What wrong!?  What happened?"  asked Brian.
"GET BACK HERE NOW!  I NEED HELP!"  she cried.  Both guys ran back there.  They found A.J., Kevin, and Howie all sprawled out unconsience.

"What in the world happened?" said Nick looking at the horrible scene.  Brian went over and checked all of them for a pulse
"It's o.k, their just knock out."  he finally said.

"O.k.?  How can you say its O.k. when we don't even know how they got this way?"  cried Kari.

"Well, lets just check.  If its really bad, we'll go in and alert the hotel manager."  said Nick.  They flipped Howie over and saw a red mark on the back of his neck.  Like he had been hit with something.  They all had that.

"Now i'm scared.  Nick, if you all saw the note before me and Brian, why would they be like this?"  asked Kari.
"Only if the person that did it was the one who sent it."  answered Nick with fear in his voice.

"Lets get out of here."  Brian began to back up when Nick and Kari heard a loud crack.  Brian dropped to his knees and was out cold.  There was a person behind him.
"Stay away from us!"  yelled Kari.  The person quickly ran behind Nick and before he could do anything, he crack him one in the head with a metal pipe.  Nick fell down next to Brian.  When the figure turned around, Kari had already ran out the door.  She ran into the road and down into an ally where she thought he couldn't find her.  She had no idea what to do.

"Come out come out where ever you are!"  The person was coming down the ally.  Kari held her breath.  Even though she could only see one person, she felt as if there was someone else there, trying to protect her.  She turned around to find no one behind her.
"Must be fear."  she thought to herself.  she turned back around to see the person was gone.

"Must have given up."  she whispered to herself.  She climbed out of her hiding spot.

"I have to help the guys!"  she said as she was walking out of the ally.  All of the sudden, someone grabbed her from behind and put a smelly cloth over her mouth.  She struggled all she could with no results  She began to feel weak and sleepy.  She stopped struggling and who ever it was put her down.  She tried to see his face but she couldn't.  She was out.
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"Where am I? How did I get here?" she thought to herself.  She knew what had happened but now she could see herself.  She watched as the kidnapper carried her body out of the ally into a truck.
"What do you think your doing!?  Come back!" she yelled with all her might.  They didn't seem to here her.  She couldn't be dead.  Her body ws still breathing and everything.  What was going on?  She began to walk back to the bus.  It seemed that everyone she passed couldn't see her.  She made it back to the bus to see if the guys were alright.  She went to go open the door when the unexpected happened.  Her hand went right through the door.

"Oh my god!  I really am dead."  she cried.  She walked through the door and into the bus.  The guys were still lying there.  It hurt her to see them like that.
"I'm so sorry guys.  I tried."  she whispered.

"Hey little lady!  What's all them tears fer?  Some vermit die or something?"  She turned around to see Brian standing beside her.  He was laughing and smiling the way he always did.  She looked down at his body and then back at him.

"You...there....what?"  she stammered.
"It's alright Karbear.  We're not dead.  It's just what some people call an out of body experience."  he explained.

"But, how?"  she asked.

"I don't really know.  I guess when something really bad happens, you have one of these."  he answered.

"What about my brother and the others."  she asked with concern.
"You called?"  she heard A.J.s voice but she didn't see him.  She looked up to see him floating above her.
"Dude!  How did you get up there?" asked Brian.
"I don't know.  I just kind of fell."  he explained.

"Are the others up there?"  asked Brian.

"Yep, there still trying to pick out the get away car they used."  he answered.
"Get away car?  How would you guys know that there was a get away car?"  she asked.

"Well, you know when you felt if someone else was in that ally with you?  Besides that creepy guy?"  he asked.
"Yeah."
"Well, that was Kevin and Howie.  They went to try and protect you from him.  I guess it didn't work."  sighed A.J.

"Don't worry Kari.  We'll get you back."  said Brian just out of the blue.
"She's here?  Oh hey Kari.  Sorry about what happened back there.  Can't say we didn't try."  said Kevin who just came down with the others.

"So, we found the car.  Do we just chase after it?  I mean, look at us."  said Howie.
"Lets just get going."  said Nick.  He turned around to grab Kari but he accidentally smacked her.  She tried to keep her balance but fell over on Howie.  But instead of fall on top of Howie's body, the moment she hit him she disappeared.

"Hey!  Where did she go?"  asked Howie.  He looked down at himself.  he jumped back when he saw his own eyelids start to move.

"Guys?  I think we have a problem."  said Brian.
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"Oh great!  I fall over and I lose them again!"  She thought to herself.  She started to get up when she noticed something different.  She was a lot taller then she remembered.  Something just wasn't right.  She turned when she saw something move to the left of her.  All it was was a mirror.  But it was her she was seeing.  It was Howie.

"What the?"  She said out loud.  It wasn't her voice that came out.  It was way to deep to be hers.

"Oh no.  NICK!!  WHAT THE HECK DID YOU DO!?"  she yelled.  She couldn't see them but she could still hear them.

"I swear it was an accident.  Honest."  said Nick.

"You smacked me in the head.  I know that was an accident."  she snapped.

"Don't worry about it."  said Brian.

"Alright, now how exactly do I get out of here?"  she asked.  There was nothing but silence.

"To tell you the truth, we don't know."  said Kevin.

"You mean I could be stuck in this body?  Wrong answer guys."  she cried.

"Hey, its just as bad for me as you.  If your in my body, where the heck am I suppose to go?"  asked Howie.  It was very strange for him to be hearing his voice coming out of some place other then his own mouth.

"Hang on guys, this could be an advantage."  piped up Brian.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, Kari can drive the bus now she has her permit.  Not that it would be a problem driving now.  Anyway, we know where the get away car went.  She could drive there."  he explained.

"Why don't you guys get back into you own bodies and drive?"  she asked.

"Because if we run into those people that took you, we can scare them out of the place.  Plus it would be easier to fight them."  he answered.

"I don't even know how to drive the bus."  she whined.

"Don't worry about it.  Its an automatic.  It will be no different then driving a car.  Well, only if you don't drive like Brian." laughed A.j.  Brian didn't say anything but Kari knew he was probably giving them dirty looks.

"All right fine.  Just promise me that you would make fun of my driving."  said Kari.

"Scouts honor."  they all said at the same time.

Kari climbed into the drivers seat.  The petals were now very easy to reach.  She went to turn the keys and found there was nothing there.

"Guys, where are the keys?"  She asked.

"Right here."  yelled Howie.  All of the sudden, there were these floating keys next to her head.  She quickly grabbed them and turned the bus on.

"Hang on to your hats and your bodies.  Here we go."  she yelled as she pulled out of the parking lot.  She drove about one block from the hotel when someone came up beside her.

"You have to turn left here."  said Nick.  Kari jumped nearly a foot off the seat.

"Don't do that!  You know I can't see you!"  she scold him.

"Sorry, now turn right." he said.

She followed his directions for many miles until they came up to an abandoned warehouse.

"Are you sure i'm in here?"  she asked him.

"Yep.  I followed them here."  he answered.  She let out a long sigh and opened the bus doors.  She stepped out and looked around.  There was no one in site.  She thought Nick had brought her to the wrong place when she heard voices from inside.  She froze in her place.

"Guys?"  she whispered. "Lets go get my body back."
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She hide behind a wooden crate in the warehouse not far from where in voices were.  They were all standing in a circle.  She couldn't see the people but her heart sank at what she could see.  She could clearly see herself in the middle, tied to a chair.

"Do you think anyone knows it was us?" One of them said.

"No way homey.  I made sure that the random note was in news paper clippings yo!" said the one next to him.  One stepped into the light.  She now could clearly see his face.

"It can't be!  It just can't be!"  she thought to herself.  Standing next to her was the guys arch rivals.  Justin Timberlake.  All of the guys in *NSYNC had done this to her.  Anger boiled inside her.

"Let's just get the tattooing done before she wakes up!" said Lance, the wimpy one.

"Fine!  Joey, hand me the needle thing."  He handed Justin a object hooked up to a motor.  A.J. would know what it was.

"What shall we make it say boys?"  asked Justin.

"Oh oh!  Lets make it a flame with *NSYNC in the middle of it!"  yelled J.C.  Justin smiled.

"That will have to do."  he said.  He began to lower it to her skin.

"STOP!"  she cried as she jumped out from where she was hiding. "DON'T YOU EVEN DARE!"  All of them turned around.  Chris got a big goofy smile on his face.
"Well well well, isn't it our good friend Howard Dorough.  How we doing Howie?"  he smirked.

"Fine.  And it's not Howie."  she shot at him.  They all looked at him funny.

"If your not Howie, who are you?"  they asked.

"Right body, wrong person inside.  I think you already know who I am."  She said coldly.  She motioned towards her body.

"No way.  You can't be Kari." laughed J.C.

"Yes I can.  Some people call it an out of body experience.  I fell into Howie's body by mistake.  By the way, the others are somewhere in this building.
"You liar!  Grab him!  Tie him up next to her."  Order Justin.  Before they got there, they all tripped and fell.  All of their shoelaces were tied together.

"What the?" said Joey as a chair next to him began to lift up. "SUPERMAN! HELP!"  he yelled.  It came crashing down on his head and he was down for the count.
"Always go for the easy ones first!" laughed Brian.  He must have been the one to do the chair thing.  The others began to chase the members around with other things.

"No no no!" screamed Lance as he began to lift up into the air.
"Aw poor baby, afraid of heights?" asked Kevin.  Lance nodded " O.k, I'll let you down!" he dropped him from the air and he fell to the ground.

"MOMMY!!!!"  he cried as he ran out of the warehouse.
"Wait for me!" yelled J.C., Chris and Joey.  Justin was by Kari's body.  In his hand was a long knife.  Kari ran towards him.

"Take one more step and I'll make sure you never get out of Howie's body!"  he held the knife to her real throat.

"Please don't!  I'll do anything you want!"  she cried.  She didn't want to see her own death.

"You have to come live with us.  Have the Carter's disown you or something.  Then, we'll adopt you and our careers are saved!"  he laughed.
"Oh yeah, very original.  The guys are even more popular then you guys, so you kidnap me thinking i'm the main popularity streak?"  she said with her eyebrow raised.  "That's the dumbest thing i've ever heard."

"Well, sorry you think that.  Say good-bye to your body! Everything was happening in slow motion. He raised the knife over his head.  Kari started to run at him.  All of the sudden, he stopped as if something hit him.  The knife clattered to the floor.  Justin looked up.
"WEW!  That was a close one.  Don't you think so Kari?"  he asked.

"What?"  she asked in confusion.

"Don't worry, I've got everything under control.  He's fighting me but I kicked his little white gangster wanna-be butt!"  he laughed.

"A.J.?  Is that you?"  she asked, still confused.

"That's my name, don't wear it out!"  he laughed even harder.

"But, how?  someone else is still in there."  she said.

"You better believe it.  He's still putting up a pretty good fight.  Now, let say we get you untied. Shall we?"  he explained.  Kari just shrugged and walked over to her body.  It felt very strange to be helping herself.  She went to pull her hand out of the ropes when something happened.  When she touched her own hand, she felt as if she was beginning sucked from Howie's body.
"A.J.!!!!!!!!!!!"  she yelled.  Howie's body fell to the ground.

"Kari!"  He went over a took a look.  As he was doing so, the real Kari woke up.  She looked down at her body.
I'm back."  She whispered.  A.J. looked up and smiled.  "Don't do that!  You look very creepy!"

"Hey, this guy is pretty creepy! he laughed with the voice that wasn't his.  Kari began to wiggle in the seat.

"Ah, A.j.?  If its not to much trouble, i'd like to be untied."  said Kari.
 

"Oh, yeah sure.  Hey Howie!  I could use a little help over here!"  Kari saw something move next to her.  She turned to see Howie standing there.

"Where's that knife?"  he asked.  A.j. pointed to the ground.  Howie went and picked it up.  He cut the ropes and Kari was free.

"Where are the other guys?"  she asked, rubbing her wrists.

"Right here!"  she turned to see them all back in there own bodies.  Kevin and Brian were carrying A.j.'s.
"Come on out A.j.. Time to deal with the little SOB."  said Kevin.

"All righty then, coming out!"  he laughed.  Justin's body went suddenly still.  His eyelids flickered and then the opened again.  A.j. returned to his own body.  They all surrounded the hideous person known as Justin.  He looked up at them with frightened eyes.

"Please don't hurt me!"  he said sobbing.  He looked like he was about to pee his pants.
"Oh, we're not going to hurt you."  said A.j..  "You just have to leave this place and never speak a word about this.  Got it?"

"YES SIR!"  he yelled and ran out of the warehouse crying.  Kari and the guys just laughed at him as they were walking to the bus.  They knew that he would never cross paths with them again.
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*NSYNC were now broken up and BSB were the most popular group ever to live.  With goes to show you, 'Often imitated, never duplicated.'