L-Force: Recruiting

Chapter 1

Kyra banged her head on the wall of her friends' old tree-house.

"Kyra!" Zara snapped, making her friend stop, "Careful! You could break the walls and the whole thing could fall out!"

"Sorry, but I get bored!" Kyra yelled, "Things have been no fun for the past 2 months all because L-Force was disbanded."

"Hey, it was Zadavia's choice," said Nathan, "Ace and Lexi thought that we just weren't living up to our full potential. Maybe they were right."

"Or maybe we weren't able to because of that year that our teams were split up," suggested Zack.

"I'm done talking about this," said Zara, "It's time for us to move on." She left the tree-house and the other 3 followed closely behind.

"Zara," Nathan said, "It's just the 4 of us now! What do you think? You're gonna just step onto the sidewalk; bump heads with some new friends, making you fall to the ground; and they say that they have powers and want to join the team so that we can un-disband?" BOOM! 2/3 of that exact thing happened. "I spoke too soon."

Zara got up. "I'm sorry."

The girl she'd bumped into got up. "It's cool." She looked at them to reveal her appearance: reddish-brown hair, deep blue eyes, and light-colored skin. "Hey, you're that…L-Force that was helping out the Loonatics 2 months ago!"

"Yeah, that's us," said Kyra, "I don't suppose you have powers and wanna join the team so that we can un-disband?"

"Yeah, me and my 5 friends."

"Wow, you're good, Nathan."

The girl called forth her friends from down the street. "I'm Sandra." 2 girls and 3 boys came up. "This is Lindy, Arra, Byron, Darryl, and Jake."

"Hey, Arra rhymes with Zara!" Zack pointed out.

"I know, right?" said Arra. She had fire red hair, light blue eyes, and pretty much the same skin color as Sandra.

"So what can you guys do?" asked Kyra out of curiosity.

Sandra closed her eyes and the clouds blocking the sun disappeared to reveal a blinding source of light called the sun (but since the planet had been thrown off its axis, it wasn't as bright). "Weather manipulation. And I can sense stuff." She took out a dagger and went over to Kyra. "Throw this at Lindy," she whispered.

"What?"

"Just trust me on this. And don't let her see you!"

Kyra took the dagger, hid it behind her back, and then, when she was sure Lindy wasn't looking, threw the dagger at her.

Lindy, fast as a lightning bolt, whirled around and pounded the dagger so that it went flying in a completely different direction and enlodged itself in a post of a nearby picket fence. "Oops." She went over to the picket fence, pulled the post out of the ground, carefully removed the dagger, and then put the post back in its place. "Reflexes. Comes with some minor super strength, too. And I have an enhanced memory, so I hardly ever forget things."

"You said 'hardly'," Nathan pointed out, "It still happens."

"But not often. Like once a year."

"Oh."

"Which helps with my power," Arra said, "I can scan other people's memories and possess the person."

"Talk about mind control," Zara said, stepping back.

"Oh no, I can just control what they say and do while my astral, or spiritual, form is inside them," Arra explained, "I can't completely manipulate their brain patterns. They would revert back to their normal self after I leave, but with no memory of what they did while I was in there. And there's kind of a 24-hour time limit."

Byron scoffed. He had brown hair, brown eyes, and slightly darker skin than Sandra. "Big deal. I can walk up and down walls. And duplicate."

"Great, double the idiot," Arra snapped back. Lindy had to struggle not to laugh at that.

Darryl was a brunette with green eyes and the same color skin as Byron.

Oh, and I forgot to describe Lindy. She was dirty blonde with light green eyes that were slightly tinted blue and her skin was just a few shades tanner than Sandra or Arra.

Anyway, Darryl stepped in front of Byron as if to say "My powers are better! Na na na na na na!" "I can resist any attack and manipulate time!"

Jake had dark hair and light eyes…and he was a wolf. "Last but not least, drum-roll, please…" He shrunk. He was just the size of an ant. He waved at them and then turned back to normal. "I'm a shrink, but I'm not a psychiatrist. And I have atomic manipulation."

"What's that?" Kyra asked.

Jake held out his hand and a nearby mailbox changed color and changed in size. He was scrambling the atoms. Finally, he turned it back to normal.

"Oh, that's what it is," Kyra said.

"And to top it all off," said Arra, "Lindy, Byron, Darryl, and I are all Witches and Warlocks."

Kyra considered the idea. "You know, I think we've got an idea here."

Lexi bumped into a wall. Well, not so much "bumped" as "was slammed". She looked at the Vampire who'd attacked her and brain-blasted it.

"Looks like the Fang Gang's been at it again," Duck said.

"And it's come back to bite us," Ace said, making a pun. He zapped the thing with his laser vision, but it ducked.

The Vampire then picked up some boxes and threw them at the team, knocking Tech and Rev into the wall and pinning them there. It then proceeded to dodge Duck's fire eggs and kick him Slam the stomach, knocking him into Ace and Duck and pinning them to the wall. It then grabbed Lexi.

Ace pushed his way out from behind Slam. "Lex!"

The Vampire leaned in for the bite...and let go, throwing himself into the boxes.

"Huh?" Tech pondered this strange behavior.

Suddenly, Arra came out of the Vampire. "Ha!"

The door burst open to reveal Lindy on the other side after she'd kicked it down. "Nice job, Are."

Arra flared her skirt. But the Vampire came up behind her and kicked her in the back, knocking her down.

Before the Vampire could attack again, though, a herd of deer ran at him and trampled him, completely avoiding Arra and revealing Kyra not far away.

"KYRA?" the Loonatics cried.

"And us!" Nathan said, coming up behind her with the twins.

Lexi went over to them. "What're you guys doing here?"

"Eh, and who's your new friends?" Ace asked.

"Introductions later, saving your lives now," said Zara, going over to him and pulling Slam off before healing them both, "Where's Duck?"

"Back here." Ace got off the wall, fully healed, to reveal Duck stuck to the wall behind him.

Zara healed him and helped him out of the wall, healing him as she did so. "Are you OK?"

"Just peachy."

"Uh, guys?" Sandra said as more Vampires came for them, "It looks like Bitey Boy brought buddies. Huh. Try saying that 5 times fast."

"Don't start it, Rev," Zack quickly added.

"We got this," Jake said. He went over there (flipping just to look cool) and kicked one of the Vampires. He atomized one of the boxes and made it disappear and reappear above one of the Vampires (kind of like Duck's power did with Duck), crushing it and staking it.

Lindy shrugged and kicked one of the boxes, smashing it into planks that they could use as stakes. She picked up one and threw it at a Vamp, hitting it directly in the heart and dusting it.

Darryl started to go for a Vampire, but it bit him...and did nothing. He looked at it, gloatingly, and staked it. He massaged his neck and the bite marks disappeared because he'd resisted the attack.

Sandra closed her eyes and focused. When she sensed a Vampire coming for her, she quickly grabbed a stake and whirled around, dusting it.

Byron took the last attack by duplicating, making each duplicate take a stake, and staking each one of the last Vampires before returning to normal, dropping all the stakes on the floor.

"Wow," said Lexi, "I see a long introduction is needed."

"And, furthermore," Tech said, looking at Kyra, Nathan, and the twins, "I think L-Force is coming back."

Kyra and Zara looked at each other, squealed, and hugged excitedly, jumping up and down.

Across town, in an abandoned warehouse, Wake's eyes were closed as she pinpointed who could be her next victim. She didn't find a victim, though. She found L-Force reuniting. She stood up as she took note of the events occurring and went over to the wall. When she got there, she opened her eyes and punched a hole in the wall.

Meanwhile, the Dark Side was on one of their raids. They had come to a group of teenagers and attacked them. Deirdre pierced on girl with a dagger. Loraine, Astrid, Meredith, and Josephine all bit their victims. Roscoe "porcupine'd" and pierced his victim.

Deirdre stood up, holding the dagger in her hand. Then she heard a clapping behind her and turned to see a young man behind her. "Who are you?"

The guy stopped clapping and sighed. "Well, that one sure went well. Good teamwork."

"What do you want?"

"Oh, sorry." The guy walked over to her. "Name's Jeff. I wanted to join up. I even know a few people who might be willing to help 'ye old Dark Side' as well."

Deirdre half-smiled and scoffed. "Alright then, show me what you got."

Jeff scoffed. "I already did." He waved his hand and the dead teenagers disappeared.

"Illusion?" Astrid scoffed.

"Creation and de-creation," Jeff corrected, "It's like a mix of illusion and imagination."

"And what about your friends?" Cassandra asked.

Jeff smiled. "You'll see."

Wake saw all this going on. She half-smiled. "Tie." She went back to the center of the room and laid down. She looked up at the ceiling and closed her eyes. In her left eye, she saw the Loonatics and the newly reunited L-Force. In her right eye, she saw the Dark Side as Jeff walked away. She smiled and opened her eyes to see that the ceiling had turned into a stained-glass version of her illusion. She pointed to the left. "Duck..." She pointed to the right. "...duck..." She picked up a rock and threw it at the left side, smashing the Loonatics and L-Force and banishing the illusion. She smiled. "...goose."