Juliet: Chapter two! And I'm still not too good at fight scenes yet but I'll get better.

Again I do not own Static Shock!

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Gear and Static just got back from patrol, they we're hoping to see Juliet again. But no luck. The both landed at the gas station and walked inside.

"No sign of her." Static mumbled as he sat on the couch.

"She's bound to show up sooner or later." Gear said as he took off his visor and placed it on his work desk.

"But you know, I was thinking." Static said as he took of his mask. "Didn't Juliet look a little like Jewel?"

"Yeah, but there's no way that Jewel is Juliet." Richie said as he sat down in his seat.

"No think about it Rich, when we picked up Jewel yesterday, she was wearing the same exact outfit, and her hair was the same too."

~Start Flashback~

Richie hung up his cell phone and put it back into his pocket. He sighed.

"What's up?" Virgil asked.

"Jewel left the house and she wants me to get her on the way home." Richie explained as he made a turn towards the park.

"Oh, well, is she ok?" Virgil asked, getting slightly worried as he followed Richie.

"Yeah she's fine. She's waiting outside of the park." Richie said looking over at Virgil who let out a sigh of relief. Richie smirked and nudged him in the arm. "Hey, you better not be starring at her again when we get there."

"Wh-What?!" Virgil said, He tried his best to hide it. Bu then again Richie was the smartest out of the two of them. He needed to think of an excuse. "Why would you say something like that Rich?"

"Oh come on V. I saw you starring at her during class and at lunch." Richie laughed slightly as he said this.

'Busted.' Virgil thought. "Look, a lot of people were staring at her at school! She was new after all." He defended himself as they came close to the entrance of the park.

"Alright, alright bro. No need to get defensive. I'm just looking out for my new sister." Richie said.

"Wait, sister?! I thought she was just coming to live with you for awhile." Virgil asked confused.

"Well, My family sorta had to adopt her." Richie said. "Her parents died earlier this week." He said looking down. "They already had their will written out. And my family are supposed to be her new guardians." Richie explained and Virgil looked at him.

'This would explain a lot..' He thought as they stood outside to entrance of the park.

Richie looked around. "If she moved again I swear-"

"Relax! I'm over here!" They heard Jewel call, interrupting Richie's sentence. Virgil and Richie walked into the park. After a few feet they saw Jewel sitting on one of the bench's. But the weird thing was, she was wearing the exact same outfit as they had just seen Juliet in! But instead of her hair being in one ponytail, she had then in her normal two pigtails and her eyes were teal, not red.

"Hey Jewel. What's with the new outfit?" Richie asked, also noticing the similarities between the two outfits.

"I dunno. You know how I tend to wander. I must have got it on my way here." Jewel said standing up.

"It looks cool though." Virgil said smiling and Jewel felt her face heat up.

"Th-Thank's Virgil…" she stuttered

"Right, now let's head home shall we?" Richie said before they all walked out of the park.

~End Flashback~

"Yeah, but could have just been a coincidence. She has a knack for wearing odd clothes. Plus, she wasn't even at the big bang. She couldn't have gotten powers."

"A really weird coincidence." Virgil said. "And what did she mean by I tend to wander?" he said, getting a little off of the subject.

"Well…She has a mental illness." Richie said.

"Really, do you know what it is?" Virgil asked, now curious.

"Split Personality Disorder."

"Isn't that the one where there's like, two people in the same body?" Virgil asked.

"Yup. She's had it for a while know. I'd say around 7 years." Richie explained. "Sometimes her other personality takes over and just wanders around. Most of the time she goes shopping or gets Jewel into trouble with someone. That's why she was home school."

"Richie! That's it! What if Jewel doesn't have powers, but her other personality." Virgil said.

"There's still no way she would have powers…oh man! I am so stupid!" Richie said slapping his palm against her forehead.

Virgil looked at him. "And you said we were a super genius." He commented, smirking slightly.

"Very funny V. Anyways, she was here on the day of the big bang! She was visiting my family for the night, she snuck out and didn't come back for a few hours. I found her not far from the docks."

"So that's means that her other personality must have been in control when she got hit by the gas." Virgil said, acting feeling smart. "So Jewel didn't get the powers, just her other personality."

"Looks like we were both right." Richie said.

"Yeah, the question is, should we tell Jewel?"

~At the Foley house~

"Mrs. Foley, could I go out for a little bit?" Jewel asked as she walked into the kitchen, where Mrs. Foley was making dinner.

"Alright, but be back before dinner." Mrs. Foley said as she faced Jewel. "And call Richie and tell him the same ok?"

"I will." She said as she ran towards the door, grabbed a black jacket and ran out of the house.

Jewel walked down one of the busy streets of Dakota, heading towards the mall. "Hmm, I still have a little money left over. I should buy some new clothes. Or a game or two." She said to herself as she entered the mall. She walked around the large mall, she had never been in a place so big. Mainly because her control freaks of parents never let her outside due to her condition. "Where to go first…." She mumbled to herself before she heard a series of screams from a nearby store. Jewel turned to see people running out of a video game store. Her curiosity got the best of her and she inched towards the store. She looked into the store it see a purple haired teen stealing money out of the register, along with a few games. 'At least he has a good taste in games..' she thought, and she was about to turn and leave when she saw a small boy in the corner near her. She couldn't just leave him there, so she sneaked into the store. "Don't worry, I'll get you out of here…"she whispered as she came up to the boy. The boy looked at her with a fearful look on his face, but nodded. Jewel picked up the boy and was about to leave when the purple haired thief turned towards her and saw them.

"Well, well…What do we have here." He said as his arms suddenly turned to two purple swords.

"Curiosity killed the cat.." She mumbled before starting to run towards the door with the boy in her arms.

"Not so fast!" The thief said before charging at them.

Jewel quickly put the boy down outside of the store. "Run!" She said to him and he did as he was told and ran. Jewel smiled then turned around to see the thief standing there.

"You're not getting away." He said as he walked closer to her. Jewel took a step back every time he came closer, until she was against a wall.

"Damn it…" she mumbled. The thief stopped and took a good look at her.

"Jewel?" He asked, turning his swords back to his normal hands.

"Uh..Do I know you?"

~With Virgil and Richie a few minutes before~

"Backpack's picking up metahuman activity!" Richie said as Backpack's alarm went off. "It's at the mall."

"Then what are we waiting for?!" Virgil said putting back on his mask. Richie put back on his visor and they started to fly towards the mall.

After a minute or two, they arrived at the mall where the police were stationed outside. Static and Gear landed next to them.

"Ah Static, Gear you're here." The police chief said as he looked at them. "Shiv's inside robbing almost all the stores."

"He's been busy." Static started. "Don't worry, we'll get him." He said before him and Gear flew off into the mall. They came to the scene, Shiv was standing in front of someone, not attacking, just standing. But Static and Gear both could tell that he had just robbed the store next door to where he was standing, it looked torn up, windows broken, stuff thrown everywhere, stuff like that. They got closer to Shiv and the person he was standing in front of, though that's when they both realized who it was. It was Jewel that was standing against the wall!

"Shiv!" Static yelled as he sent a ball of electricity towards Shiv.

Shiv barely dodged the electricity ball, he then changed his arms back to swords. "Static! What are you doing here?!"

"I wanted to get a new game, what do you think?" Static said with a smirk on his face. Shiv growled at charged at Static.

Gear on the other hand flew over to Jewel. "Are you ok?" he asked as he landed next to Jewel.

"Y-Yeah I'm fine." She said as she turned towards Gear. "Gear right?"

"Yup that's me, now you should get out of here before you get hurt." Jewel nodded and began to run the opposite direction of the fight.

"Was that really Shiv? He's changed…" Jewel thought as she headed towards the exit of the mall.

"Yeah he has…Let me talk to him Jewel." Jewel heard Juliet say from the back of her mind.

"Alright Juliet, it's your show." Jewel said as she felt everything go black. Juliet had taken over. She looked around. "I can't exactly go back dressed like Jewel…" She said aloud then saw a clothes store with a black shirt and purple pants in the display window. "Well, Jewel did want to go shopping." She said as she ran into the store.

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"Man, since when was Shiv this tough to beat?" Gear said as he got up from where he was slammed against the wall a few moments before by one of Shiv's attacks.

"I don't know. But t looks like he's getting tired out." Static said as he noticed that Shiv was panting and breathing hard. Static charged up another attack, but was cut off by a jet of water coming towards him. He quickly moved out of the way and saw Juliet standing not far from them. Instead of wearing the outfit that she had the last time, she was wearing a sleeveless black shirt with dark purple baggy pants.

"Sorry Static, I need to speak with Shiv…" She said walking towards Shiv.

"uh…h-hi Juliet…long time no see…" Shiv said nervously.

"Wait, you two know each other?" Gear asked.

Juliet turned to face Static and Gear "Yeah…It's a long story…" She said before turning back around to face Shiv. "So you've become a thief? I have to admit even for you that's low." She said folding her arms.

"Listen Juliet, it doesn't concern you." Shiv said rudely, bringing up his sword arms.

"Oh come on, you go after Jewel and you say that it doesn't concern me?" Juliet said putting her hands in front of her, after a second fire surrounded her arms.

"I didn't know it was her!" Shiv said as he got in a defensive position.

"Yo Shiv, looks like you're in a bind man." The group heard someone say. They looked around and saw Ebon come out of the shadows behind Shiv. "We're leaving." He said before grabbing Shiv and disappearing into one of his darkness portals.

"Dang it, they got away." Gear said before Static stood next to Juliet.

"You have some explaining to do Juliet." Static said. Juliet turned to face him and Gear.

"Later, right now I'm too tired." Juliet said yawning.

"No, you're going to tell us now." Static said. Then he saw Juliet fall over, as if she had passed out. He quickly caught her and looked at her, yup, she had been knocked out cold. "Ok…maybe not."

"This doesn't make since V." Gear said as he went over to them. "How did Shiv know about them?"

"I don't know, but that's a question we'll have to ask when she wakes up. But we should be getting home." Static said, picking up Juliet bridal style and got on his flying disc and flew out of the mall with Gear close behind.

'What happened Juliet?' Jewel asked as she started to wake up, not opening her eyes though. She did however feel a pair of strong arms pick her up and hold her in a protective hold.

'Open your eyes and find out.' Juliet said.

Jewel did wait Juliet said and slowly opened her eyes. She then saw that she was flying through the air, being held by the one and only Static. A blush creped across her face, how did she end up in Static's arms?!

"Oh good, you're awake." She heard Static say as he looked down at her. Jewel nodded then looked down, seeing how high they were in the air. She let out a small 'eek' and wrapped her arms around Static's neck without realizing. "Calm down. It's alright, you're safe now." Static said as he felt his face heat up, his partner found this funny and started to laugh. Static shock a glare at him.

"Wh-What happened?" Jewel asked, looking at Gear then Static.

"Shiv attacked the mall. You were caught up in the middle of it all. Do you not remember?" Static asked as they landed not far from the Foley house.

"Sorta…Th-thanks for helping me…" She said as Static placed her on the ground, both of them still blushing.

"It's no problem. Just get home safely alright?" Static said before him and Gear took off. Jewel watched them leave then walked home