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Sorry this one took a little longer. I was having severe writers block!! ;P

Chapter 4

This was getting annoying. My only consolation was that this time she beat Ben too.

"Well, if there was any doubt that she was your sister before, it's gone now." Ben said, rubbing his head as we woke up, still in the shack.

"Why? Because she can whip you too, just like I can?" I replied, going to help Gwen up.

"Thanks." She said, smiling.

"No problem." I said, getting that distracted again. Gwen had a habit of doing that. I shook my head, "We need to find her again. Gwen, you can track her right?"

"Too easy, but we need a plan first. Not having one kind of backfired on us." She looked pointedly at Ben, who was still in a daze from being electrocuted. I nodded.

"So what is this plan? I would love to hear it." Ben said.

"And I would like you to actually help with this, instead of being useless in the fight, in finding her, and in offering helpful suggestions!" I exploded. Ben looked surprised at my outburst, which was really thick of him, because he knew my temper. "This is my sister," I continued, "It's important to me, and more than that it's important to my mom. She needs her daughter, and I know that you would do the same if it were you so quit being such a cynical jerk!" He looked away, then looked at me with a pained expression

"I'm sorry. It's just easier to be cynical than it is to be helpful." He said. I nodded,

"I know the feeling" I said "But we need to have a plan now…

"Sure it'll work?" I asked them. Again. They both rolled their eyes at me.

"Yes, Kevin it will work, just like I said the last thirty times." Ben said. "Our plan is great." He thought that only because he played a big part in it. Ben and I go in alone, 'looking' for Megan, then when we're fighting, Gwen traps her but in an actual box, so she can't shock us. It was a pretty simple plan, the way I liked it, but I had a bad feeling. I mentally shook myself. I was just nervous; I mean she had beaten me twice. But (I was really just making it sound less bad than it was) it was only because she was able to absorb energy and knock me out.

Only reason. At all.

I mentally sighed as I followed Gwen. This girl was really a pain in my butt. And what were we even going to do when we found her? We couldn't make her talk to mom and John. I shook my head, trying to clear these bad thoughts from my brain. If I talked to her long enough she would listen to reason and come home.

We pulled up in front of a computer warehouse. Ben and I got out and walked inside as Gwen levitated up to the roof where she could watch what was happening and choose when to intervene. She said that she would get as close to the spot where Megan was hiding as possible, without giving herself away.

As soon as we got close to where she was it was show time. Megan appeared before us on a stack of boxes.

"Wow, you guys really won't give up will you?" she asked rhetorically. I still answered.

"Not until you listen and come home. Streets are dangerous. Especially for a girl your age." God, I was such a hypocrite. I was younger than she was when I was gone and I didn't let anybody talk me into going home.

"Good thing I don't care then." She replied before jumping over us. When we turned around she was made of the cement on the floor. I glared at her as I absorbed the metal desk next to me. Then, to my other side a flash of green light told me that Ben was reared up to go too. I risked one glance to see that he had changed to Chromastone, and then I zeroed in on Megan.

She didn't waste any time either. She put her hand on an outlet right next her and, by the looks of the sparks on her hand, absorbed enough energy to take out me and Ben in one swipe. We had to be extra careful. She extended her hand towards us.

"Which one goes first?"

Ben didn't let her get an answer, because he ran at her shoving her into a million boxes. Megan grunted in displeasure and sent a jolt of electricity at him, but to her surprise, he just took it in. Then dished it back out to her.

"What the hell are you?" she growled angrily. Chromastone/Ben grinned at her.

"I'm a conductor. Blasting energy won't work on me." he replied. Then he took a leap at her the same time I did. We had to keep her down while Gwen got the box around her. She struggled against us, trying to get loose while she executed electricity all over her body. I gritted my teeth as the stinging threatened to take me down.

"Gwen hurry up!" I muttered as Megan introduced her boot to my gut. With the air knocked out of me I took a second to recover as she and Chromastone/Ben continued to fight. Just when he got her into a headlock a giant pink box captured them, throwing out Chromastone/Ben and trapping Megan inside. She began to shriek in fury and hit at the walls. Gwen stepped down from her levitating disk right next to me.

"Nice work, but you couldn't have done it any faster?" I asked, keeping my eyes on Megan this time.

"I was having to much fun seeing your baby sister pound on you and Ben." She replied as Megan tried to break her prison with a bolt of energy, to no avail. I rolled my eyes.

"Don't try breaking it, your wasting your time. That's pure Anodite energy. Too strong to break." I said. Megan stopped pounding and bolting and got a curious look on her face.

"Ano-what what?" she asked. I smiled a little

"Anodite energy. Alien stuff." There was more confusion on her face, so I elaborated. "Yeah, there are aliens. You and me are half aliens probably, and our dad was like us. He was this intergalactic police officer, or a plumber. Anodites are just one of the species of aliens out there. Look, this is pretty involved so why don't we go talk about it somewhere more," I glanced around "hospitable. Like home?"

Megan scoffed. "Yeah right. I'm not going anywhere and you can't make me do anything or talk to anyone." I opened my mouth to interrupt but she continued. "So your freaky girlfriend did this? And it's energy? Freaky alien energy?" there was something in her eyes that made me suspicious. And what she said made me annoyed.

"Alright, A) Gwen isn't freaky and she's not my girlfriend, B) Yes, it's alien energy, and C) Why are you so curious about it?" this didn't feel right. The feeling that this was about to go very wrong settled itself into my stomach. She smirked a little bit, reinforcing the feeling.

"I'll show you." She said. Then she reached out and touched the wall of her prison, and it started to shrink. Megan let out a cry and fell to her knees as electricity began running all over her body. But she kept absorbing. The box finally dissolved and I started to run over to her, but Megan got up her entire aura pulsated with power. I looked to my left to see that Ben (now normal) and Gwen were just as shocked as I was. (p.s. I'm not metal anymore and neither is Megan)

"Gwen! What's happening?" I yelled. She quickly shook herself and answered,

"My energy, she's absorbing it. It's what she does, remember? Anodites have the strongest energy in the universe…I should've known that it would given her enough power to incinerate everything in her path." We looked back at Megan, and she looked…scary. Her hair had fallen out of its ponytail and was standing on end, with her currents running along her skin and electricity crackling around her. Her clothes were flapping around her, restless. She looked like she was enjoying it too. There was a maniacal grin on her face and her eyes where bright with immense power.

"Kevin, you have to stop her!" Gwen yelled. I nodded. I ran towards Megan, and her grin widened.

"Back off, big brother. Your girlfriend just gave me enough power to get anything I want and burn anyone in my way." She proved her point by sending a little shock my way. I dodged it by centimeters, and continued toward her. She let out a frustrated breath and said, "I mean it back off!" but I kept walking. "I'll burn you to cinders if you don't leave me alone!" she raised her hands above her. But I went right up to her and grabbed her wrists.

"No you won't" I said. Megan snarled at me and released a bolt down my arms. It hurt like hell but I kept my hold on her.

"You don't know me, or what I'm capable of! You were gone my whole life!" she screamed.

"I know, but you have to let this power go. I know you more than you think. You thought the world would reject you so you withdrew from it. Then you decided that since you were given this power, you had a God-given right to take what ever you want." I could see that my words were taking effect on her because she bolted me again. I shuddered but continued, "You try to put off that you have to feelings or concern for anything, and that it's the worlds fault, but I know what it really is."

"Shut up! No you don't! No one does, no one can!" she screamed again and squeezed her eyes shut, but I still saw the tears start coming down her face.

"You're scared." Another jolt down my arms told me I was hitting home. "You're scared that if you let anyone help you, they'll turn on you. Scared that if you go back, they'll turn their backs and say 'Good riddance.'" As I finished she sent yet another shock down my arms.

"So? So what if any of that is true?" she yelled "What am I supposed to do? I can't go home! Who would help me? Who could I trust? I can't trust them! They lied to me my whole life! About you, about my real dad…"

"Me. You can trust me. I'll protect you, I promise." Megan stared at me for a few seconds, looking like she was deliberating. "I'll never leave, and I'll never judge. If they make you leave again, then I'll go with you."

"But what about this!" she meant her powers. Her energy sucking.

"You have to let it go. Now." She paused for a moment,

"How do I know I can trust you?" This time I paused, then let go of her wrists. I wrapped my arms around her, surprising her so much that she automatically shocked me. But I held on until, slowly, the power started to drain out of her.

When it was all gone, she put her arms around me and sobbed. I rested my chin on her head, stroking her hair, and let her cry.