L-Force: Family Affair

Yay! Another one! 5th story! And it's an important one... Anyway, hope you like it, blah, blah, blah... Well, Zack's waking up a little too much evil. If you've read the past few stories (which I hope/assume you have), you'll know these facts (yay, recap!):

1: Deirdre, the leader of the Dark Side-the evil team-, has awakened an evil called Wake, who is an Oasis, a combination of every magic creature to have ever existed.

2: Zack killed Deirdre's brother Tyler (technically by accident) and awakened a dark force inside himself that causes him to turn evil every time he experiences pain and then back to normal when he receives another shock of equal amount. Deirdre and co. planted 3 bombs in the Loonatics' HQ and made sure they exploded while Zack was inside, putting him in a coma.

3: Cassandra, one of the Dark Side, is having thoughts that she's not meant to be truly evil...

4: One of the Dark Side's latest recruits, Claire, is a clairvoyant (get it?), a Witch, and has the ability to bring someone back from the dead in exchange for someone else's life, but she didn't get these powers from the meteor. In fact, she doesn't even know about the meteor...

And 5: A while back, the Loonatics and L-Force had split up and then gotten back together with the help of a new friend, Gail, who left, never to return...

Now, on with the story!

Chapter 1

Zack was sitting on a bench in Acme Park next to his sister. "I can't believe you're still hanging out with me after everything I put you through."

"Hey," Zara said, "You're my brother. My twin brother. It's the least I can do."

Zack smiled and hugged her. But while her eyes were shut, he got out a dagger and pierced her in the heart, letting her blood run over his hands. "Well, I really appreciate it."

Zack was really lying in a hospital bed, unable to wake up from this bizarre chain of dreams.


Wake lied on the floor of her room. Her eyes were closed, too. Suddenly, she shifted positions, opened her eyes, and smiled. "It's time. He's awakening. He will be ours."

Deirdre walked in. "The death-bringer's waking up?"

Wake sat up and looked at her. "Precisely. I didn't believe he would reawake so quickly. If he is to be my successor, you'd think he would've waited 1000 days at least for some sort of similarity between our rests."

"Been 1000 hours," Deirdre pointed out, "Of course, I guess 40 days is a pretty short coma."


"Zack's been out of it too long," Zara said, hugging a pillow against her chest as she rocked back and forth on the couch in the lobby of the hideout.

"Zara, I'll bet he'd wake up sooner if you stopped worrying about him," Kyra said.

Zara let her legs fall off the couch and put the pillow next to her, sighing. "You're probably right. There's no telling how much our 'twin bond' was strengthened by our mutant-ness. So when's that new recruit getting here?"

"No idea."

"Whoa, whoa!" said Duck, "'New recruit'? Singular? Last time we got 4!"

"Exactly," said Kyra, "Everyone with powers is already picking sides. Some of them are hiding because they don't wanna get involved in this. But I'll bet Ye Ol' Dark Side is fishing them out and turning them. And a lot of the rest of the mutants are actually going for 'Ye Ol' Dark Side'."

"Actually," Tech said as he came into the lobby to meet the group, "I have a…surprise arranged. And hint: it doesn't involve technology this time…well, maybe a little."

"You called in more new recruits?" Lexi asked.

"How did you guess it?"

"Hold it!" said Nathan, "Elliott's coming."

In came a blonde boy as Nathan imitated a fanfare. "Don't," Elliott said, stopping Nathan.

Kyra smiled as she walked over there. "Please excuse my…friend. He tends to get a little annoying."

"Hey!" Nathan said.

"She's not lying," Elliott said.

"How would you know?" asked Nathan, "You just met me!"

"I'm a lie detector and a truth enforcer," Elliott explained, "I would sense if she was lying…and sometimes if she's kidding."

"Well, now Duck can stop making our interrogate-ees wear my shoes and dance to disco music," said Lexi.

"Aw, come on!" Duck said, "Can't we still do that?"

Kyra smiled. "No. But she's right. Now we have a way to make sure no one ever lies to us. Take that, Dark Side!"


"Take that, Darth Vader!" Cheyenne cried, typing away on her laptop. She was playing a video game and using her super-brain to plow her way through each level. Her character's light saber sliced off Darth Vader's hand and he fell back. "Yay! I won!" Meredith came up and shut the laptop. "Hey!"

"Could you be any more childish?" Meredith asked, scoffing and rolling her eyes.

Deirdre came in. "Don't worry. All her childish games are about to be over…"


Zara looked at Zack. "Why are you doing this?"

"Come on, sis." He started advancing on her. "You think I need to depend on you to live? Twin bond or not, I'm my own person here…and you are insignificant."

"You're not a monster like this, Zack, and we both know it," Zara said as she backed away, "Your powers keep exploding."

"I don't think so. I'm moving on."

"To what? The Dark Side? Deirdre, Cassandra, and the Vamps? It's not worth it—"

"You heard their head Vamp, Zar. You have no idea what's coming." He grabbed her. "And I'm one of them." He snapped her neck and dropped her dead body on the ground. When she was gone, he smiled and started laughing maniacally…

Zack twitched on his bed in the hospital and his eyes opened. But they weren't their normal blue…they were reddish-black and not turning back…