"Why do you have to leave?" her former second in command protested.
Cat looked down to the ground in shame. "My mom got a promotion which requires us to move."
"You can just stay with me." Jaycee, the second in command whispered desperately. "We're nothing without you, Cat."
Cat laughed sadly. "I'm only fifteen. I have to go."
Jaycee scoffed and kicked the ground in anger. The impact caused a wheel on her Air Treks to crack. Cat looked at the wheel and pictured it as her heart. The desperate look in her best friends eyes only caused that crack to grow.
'Keep your cool.' Cat thought to herself. 'You are a demon. Demons do not cry.'
Tears slowly dribbled down her cheeks as she thought this. Jaycee looked on in surprise. She had never seen Cat cry ever.
"Are you crying?" Jaycee asked.
Cat threw a glare towards the girl. "No! I just got dirt in my eye."
"Sure you did."
Cat huffed. "I did! I swear it!"
"You're crying because you love us."
"No, you are merely my tools of victory. Demons do not love anything."
"Except that one guy. You remember at theā¦"
Cat hurriedly grabbed her friends throat to silence her.
"You said you wouldn't ever speak of that again." she hoarsely whispered to her friend.
Jaycee merely nodded in agreement. She sighed in relief when Cat released her death grip.
"Now, down to business." she said in a serious tone. "We need to discuss the future of this team."
"Shouldn't we call everyone here first?" Jaycee asked quietly.
"I already did that a while ago." Cat replied. "I just wanted you to be the first to know."
Jaycee's eyes began to fill with tears. "I'm sorry. I really never belonged on this team. I'm such a crybaby."
Cat slowly wiped off the stray wetness from Jaycee's cheeks. "If I really thought that, do you really think you would be second in command?"
Jaycee smiled as she shook her head. Soon, the rest of the team began to fill the abandoned railroad station that they used as a hideout. Des, the team's mechanic, approached first.
"What's goin' on?" he asked sleepily. "I was right in the middle of a nap."
Cat looked at him sternly. "News. Big news."
The sound of excited whispers filled Cat's ears as she prepared to tell everyone the news. As if Jaycee could read the frustration in Cat's eyes, she yelled, "Quiet!"
"Thanks." Cat whispered to a triumphant Jaycee.
She cleared her throat and looked at the twelve members of her team.
"As Des might have told you, I have some big news to tell you." She began. "I'm leaving the team. You see I-"
The roars of anger drowned out the rest of her sentence. "What?" Why?" You can't just abandon us!"
Cat's calm about the situation finally snapped.
"Shut the fuck up!" She screamed. "You think I want to leave the best thing that's ever happened to me? My stupid mother got a promotion and the company is forcing us to move to Japan! I have to go!"
Tears of rage began to fall from her eyes as she screamed this. All of the team was finally quiet after their leader's outburst.
"I'm sorry." Cat sobbed, as she turned away from her team.
She wiped the tears from her eyes and continued. "I don't want this team to disband. We have worked way too hard to get where we are and I cannot just let you all throw it away."
"That's why I'm making Jaycee the new leader of this team."
A collective gasp came from the team. Cat just smiled and drug Jaycee to the front of the station.
"Why me?" she protested angrily as she drug her hot pink Air Treks into the ground.
"Keep it up and that rear wheel of yours is going to break." Cat whispered in her ear.
"Hmph." Jaycee scoffed as she crossed her arms in a childish manner.
"Say hello to your new leader, kittens!" Cat yelled into the crowd. "And don't be jack asses or I'll personally kick the shit outta you!"
Jaycee looked at the team nervously. Most of them were either busy picking their noses or glaring at her enviously.
'Stupid Cat making me leader.' she thought angrily. 'I should just kill her now.'
Cat fiercely punched her in the side. "Focus."
"Alright." Jaycee began. "Well, as your new leader, I think that we should remain the same. I don't want Cat's leaving to affect us in any way at all. We are still Prowess. We still rule the west coast!"
"Yeah! We still are the best!" the members of Prowess cheered.
"Des, Come here!" Cat shouted.
The blonde looked up and nodded before getting out of his seat. He slowly glided to the front of the room, thinking the worst.
"I-if this is because I didn't stand up and cheer, then I-" Des rambled, only to be interrupted by a punch to his face.
"Shut it, you moron!" Cat hissed. "That's not what I'm talking about. As my last act of leader, I'm appointing you second in command of Prowess. You're one of the only people on this team I would trust my best friend's life to."
Des took in the words slowly, his mouth gaping.
"Hey Des, trying to catch flies?" Jaycee asked with a giggle.
Des shook his head and quickly closed his mouth. "I've just been appointed your second in command."
Jaycee looked at him. "Really?"
"Yes, really." he replied.
Cat stood in the shadows and watched her team. They truly looked happy, despite the major changes that seemed to fall on them.
"They are in good hands." Cat whispered to herself before she took off into the evening.
