'Don't screw up', the cream coloured rabbit told herself as she walked into the centre of the sports hall and took up her starting position. The music started and she flipped over, landing on her hands and walking forward towards her assessors, who smiled. She pushed off the floor and flipped, she stopped and spun, leaped up once more and landing in the splits, her hands raised above her head. She stood and looked at the three people (one woman in the middle, two men on either side of her) in front of her. One of the men looked at the young rabbit and smiled. "You know, she's amazing, she may be better than you" he said to the woman sat next to him. The woman returned with an annoyed look on her face, she then turned her attention to the female anthro rabbit in front of her. "That was such a cute routine Lexi, but unfortunately you don't fit the bill, we are looking for cheerleaders not street performers." Lexi sagged and looked at her shoes while the other auditionee's moaned. Then the doors at the top of the sports hall lit up and where flung open with great speed. Papers flew everywhere and Lexi was knocked to the ground. The other people in the sports hall had gone and Lexi was all alone. She covered her head with her arm and squeezed her eyes shut as her vision faded to nothing.
"Lexi, Lexi, can you hear me, Lexi." Lexis eyes focused and the girl stood over her came into vision. "We thought we lost you for a minute there" the girl said as Lexi stood up and shook her head, trying to figure out what was going on. "Whoa, what happened?" Lexi said as she saw the mess the sports hall was in "its ok," the girl said "but I think you need a glass of water or something, you look terrible." There was a pause "no offence!" "It's alright. None taken" the girl passed Lexi a glass of water, Lexi took a sip and then felt the pain in her head and placed the glass down. "You ok" the girl said, looking worriedly down at Lexi "erm...yeah, but I think I'm gonna head home and get some rest. I'll see you tomorrow." Lexi headed towards the exit when the girl's voice was heard again, "Ok Lex, take care, get well soon!"
Lexi looked at her shoes as she walked down the streets of Acmetropolis, her head was pounding and her thoughts were muddled. Then she heard the loud honk of a horn as a white van came swerving out of control right in her direction...
Lexi dived out of the way just in time before the van hit her; she rolled along the floor and came up in a crouch. She felt slightly dizzy, but it was bearable. She saw the man climb out of the van that had drove into a nearby lamppost, he looked injured. She ran into the middle of the road and signalled the oncoming traffic to stop, but they didn't notice. "STOP, YOU NEED TO STOP!" she screamed. Then Lexi felt her ears lift above her head and her body went rigid and started to tingle then she saw the road in front of her crumble and she screamed, her head burned and the pain brought her to her knees, smoke cleared and then Lexi saw a yellow and black motorcycle turn off a side street at speed and continue towards the hole in the road, unable to stop, the bike went down on its side and the rider spun off along the floor, stopping near Lexi. He didn't move. Lexi wanted to shout to him, but all that came out of her mouth was a whimper. There was a crowd gathering around them and then, against all the odds, the motorcyclists hand reached out and he pushed his way up. He unclipped his helmet and removed it from his head, gasping in air. Lexi now realised that he was not a man, that he was an anthro, like herself, he was a grey male rabbit and he had his hands over his face "Get Away!" he said weakly, Lexi stepped towards him. "I SAID GET AWAY!" he repeated, his hands were shaking but Lexi did as she was told and backed off. Blood started leaking between his fingers and he screamed, hitting the floor, hard. He took his hands away from his face and a red laser shot from his eyes, the crowd immediately scattered and Lexi had to flip over a piece of rubble to dodge it. She sat behind the rubble, leaning against it, obscuring her from his view. She peeked over the rubble to see him sat on the floor crying. She got up and walked over to him. "I'm sorry, for that." He looked at her, she didn't know what to do, and she ran. Pushing past a coyote and road-runner as she went.
She came up to a forest on the edge of the park and bolted into it, and then she heard it, the sound of a motorbike behind her, gaining. She looked back and fell over a tree root, the dizziness she had felt earlier came back to her, but this time she felt weak. She put her head on the ground and shut her eyes, just in time to see the grey anthro rabbit running to catch her up.
Moments later she opened her eyes and blinked a few times before her eyesight came back to her. She was lay in the same position that she had gone into slumber in and she saw the grey rabbit, lay on the floor, leaning against a tree. Lexi groaned. The rabbit ran over to her and looked down at her, "So your alright, thought I'd lost ya for a moment there." He smiled. Lexi smiled back. "It wouldn't be the first time today." The rabbit looked at her and pulled her up off the floor, she leaned against a tree to stop her falling over. "Erm... I'm Ace, by the way." The rabbit, Ace smiled and held out a hand to her, Lexi shook it, "Lexi." She smiled. It was then that she noticed Ace looking over her shoulder, looking puzzled. Lexi spun and saw the blonde haired woman in a red robe looking at the pair of anthros. "Hello." The woman said "Hi" Ace said, rather uncertainly. "You haven't been acting yourselves, have you?" The woman said. "Follow me; I may have some answers for you both. Come." Lexi and Ace looked at each other and shrugged, then they turned and followed the woman out of the forest.
After walking in silence through Acmetropolis, the three stopped at a tall needle-shaped tower with a green globe glowing in the top of it. The woman opened the door and ushered them in, Ace turned to Lexi "Should we trust her, I mean, we don't know her." Lexi turned back and faced him "Where else have we got to go. Ace, you saw the mess we left the road in, no-one is going to help us." Ace sighed. "Ok, but I ain't sure about this"
Lexi felt something brush against her leg and turned to find it was the woman's robe that had touched her. "Is there a problem?" she asked. "What are we doing here?" Ace said as they walked into an elevator."Well, today at 2:40, a meteor struck Acmetropolis, the planet should have been destroyed, but I managed to slow it down before it hit, it did however, cause a radiation that wiped out the cities power and gave you your enhanced abilities, but there are others out there that were affected and may not used their powers for good." She paused "I need you to help me find them before they cause any damage, the only way to stop a super villain." She sighed, "Is if you would help me fight them..."