L-Force: Solo Battles

Chapter 1

Wake stood at the dock, her dark hair and cloak-like dress flowing in the wind as she stared out at the roaring ocean lying beneath the purple sky. So much has changed in this world. No matter, I shall rule it regardless of these 'Loonatics' and young Deirdre and Cassandra will stand at my side along with anyone else willing to join me.

A young girl came up next to her and looked out at the water.

Wake stopped her thoughts and turned to look at the girl, smiling as she realized she was sensing power. She looked around and saw that no one was there for nearly half a mile. "What are you doing here all alone?"

The little girl looked up at her. "I'm not supposed to talk to strangers."

"3 things: 1, you're already talking. 2, you shouldn't wander off either. And 3, I'm not a stranger."

"Then what are you?"

"An Oasis."

"A what?"

"Let's just say I'm about as powerful as you."

"You're weird." The girl turned to leave.

Wake started singing and the girl stopped before she could take one step. "Such a young child," she said, kneeling down next to the girl, "So powerful, yet so helpless. I can change that." Her face changed and her eyes turned golden and red. "I can help you." She scooted the girl's hair away from her neck. "You have 3 choices: 1, give your power to me. 2, become my servant. Or 3, let me…bring you back. Of course, technically speaking, you're gonna die no matter what, so just pick something."

The girl looked at her. "Bring me back, mistress, I wish to serve you."

"Now that's more like it." She bit deep into the girl's neck. After she had taken enough blood, she dropped her onto the ground and turned back to normal. "When you wake up, your power will be increased tenfold and you'll be just as bloodthirsty as me. Of course, you'll just be a Vampire and a mutant, nothing else." She heard someone coming and used her body to block the dead girl from view.

Deirdre Palmer came up. "So what'd I miss?"

"Oh, it's you." Wake moved over to reveal the girl. "Just doing a little recruiting."

"'Recruiting'?" Deirdre asked, "She's dead!"

"Wait for it…" Wake's body glowed for a second as the power of the girl's soul went into her and the girl woke up to reveal herself as a newborn Vampire.

"Oh, well, that makes way more sense." Deirdre went over to them and helped the girl stand up. "As long as she doesn't bite me, I'm cool with it. But how did she rise so fast?"

"An Oasis changes their victims differently than a normal Vampire," Wake explained, "Then again, I'm the first and only Oasis, so maybe I should say 'the'."

The girl changed out of her game face and into her normal form. "So what's the plan, mistress?"

"To crush the spirits of the very brats that stand in our way."

"Why crush their spirits?" asked Deirdre, "Why can't we simply crush them?"

"Patience, Deirdre," said Wake, "They're weaker apart. It'll be easier this way. I have a plan."

"Let's jet, Loonatics!"

"L-Force, move out!"

The 6 anthros and 4 humans flew out of the tall tower. They landed in Acme Plaza.

"'L-Force'?" Lexi Bunny quoted.

"New team name," said Kyra, the leader of the 4 humans, "What do you think?"

"It's better than the last one," said Nathan.

"One question," said Danger Duck, "What's the 'L' stand for?"

"Loonatics," Kyra answered, smiling.

"Makes sense," said Duck.

"So where's the Big Baddy?" asked Zack.

Just then, a dragon landed in front of them.

"OK then."

Lexi brain-blasted the dragon. Ace laser-blasted him. Duck threw "eggs." Slam smacked him really hard. Tech threw whatever metal thing he could. Kyra called forth a bunch of animals. Rev made a cyclone to distract him [and suck away the oxygen so that he couldn't breathe fire]. Zack tried to figure out what his worst fear was [and if his power worked on monsters and animals and stuff, which I'm surprised they didn't know already]. And Zara kept trying to grant any wish she thought would help.

The dragon held his tail out and grabbed Rev, throwing him at Zack. When Rev hit Zack, he stopped moving and fell on the sidewalk, but Zack was launched into a wall and landed on a pile of boxes with various items inside (mainly flour).

Tech caught sight of the boxes and noticed a very sharp knife come out. He used his power to levitate it and then launched it into the dragon's heart.

The dragon roared in pain and then fell on top of Slam as he died.

Slam got out. "Ow."

Zara looked around. "Zack? Where are you? Are you OK?"

Zack wrestled his way out of the boxes, now covered in flour. "Yes. Here. And no." He went over to them and shook himself off. "Now I'm fine."

"Really?" Kyra asked.

"No!" Zack yelled. No one seemed to notice his eyes had turned reddish-black and then faded back to their normal blue. "Why didn't anyone help me?"

"Get-a-hold-of-yourself," Rev said.

"Says the bird that smacked into me," Zack said, crossing his arms at them, "Speaking of birds, Kyra, why didn't you bring in another dragon or something?"

"Because a dragon's a monster not an animal," Kyra said, "and are, therefore, not birds."

"Yeah, I know," said Zack, "I was talking about you."

Kyra slapped him and his eyes flashed.

"Whoa, what happened?" Zack asked.

"You know what, Zack?" Tech said, "You really put things into perspective for me." Everyone stared at him, wondering what that could mean. "I QUIT!"

"No way!" Lexi said, "I was going to quit! Now everyone's going to think I copied off of the smart coyote!"

"Whoa, whoa, wait," Duck said, "Maybe I quit."

"No quit, Duck," Slam said.

"Slam's-right-Duck-we're-a-team-we-can't-split-up-I-mean-we're-nothing-without-each-other," Rev said.

"Yeah, don't care," said Duck.

"And I guess since we're not a team anymore," said Ace, "that leaves me free to quit, too!" He left and Lexi followed shortly after. Tech went the other direction.

"Well-Slam-I-guess-it's-just-you-and-me," said Rev.

Slam shook his head. "Me quit, too."

"WHAT?" Rev said as Slam walked off, "Does-this-mean-I-have-to-quit?" He sped off after the devil.

Duck looked at Zara and she looked back at him, sadly. "Sorry, Zara. Guess you guys are on your own." He started to walk off. "Good luck, L-Force!"

Zara, Zack, Kyra, Nathan all looked at each other.

"What just happened?" Kyra asked.

"I think our base of operations just quit," said Zara, "I can't believe they'd do that to us. They know we can't survive on our own!"

"You really think that?" Nathan asked.

Zara then realized what she'd said. "Oh…no, Nathan, I didn't mean it like that."

"It's OK, Zara," said Nathan, "I understand.…I quit, too." He walked off.

Kyra looked at the twins. "Sorry, guys. There's nothing left." She walked off.

Zara almost cried as she and Zack just stared at each other. "Please don't quit on me, too."

Zack shook his head. "No, Zara. Real friends don't quit."