Melody glared at Anna from across the room, "I can't believe you told them we would go live with them!"
"I had to do it."
"Why? It was just a stupid dream."
Crystal shook her head, "Melody, you know better than that. Anna's dreams have always shown shadows of the future. Remember the time we got ourselves trapped in that cave, before we got our telepathic powers, when we were ten? Anna, who was home sick, had a dream that showed where we were?"
"Ya, well, did it have to be them?"
Stella rolled her eyes, "What do you have against the loonatics?"
"I don't know. It's just there so new!"
"Well, so are we," countered Anna.
"In the superhero community yes, but we've had our powers since we were twelve. That's our super superpowers! We've had our normal ones since we were five!"
"Yes, superpowers, you can't really classify them as normal Mel."
"You know what I mean Anna!"
Crystal walked out of the room and into the hallway, "I'm going to go talk to Tech. If we're going to be staying with these guys, we might as well get to know them."
Anna hurried after her, "Right behind you."
"Well I'm staying here."
"I'll watch her," said Stella. "Have fun with your new boyfriend Anna."
"WHAT!" shouted Anna, as the door closed. "Why I ought to…"
"Let it go Anna. She's just having fun."
"Ya, I know, but boyfriend! I hardly know the guy!"
"That's why were going to get to know him! Now move!"
Rev turned around as the door opened. There in the doorway stood a very upset roadrunner and her coyote friend. The coyote smiled brightly, "Since we'll be staying with you we decided we might as well get to know each other."
"Okay-then-as-you-know-I'm-Rev-Runner-but-I'm-afraid-I-don't-know-your-names."
"I'm Anna, she's Crystal. Nice to meet you, bye." She said then turned toward the door, but Crystal stopped her.
"Anna!"
"I'm just going up to the bridge."
"That's-okay. I-was-just-going-to-make-dinner-anyway. So-what-do-you-guys-like?"
Crystal shook her head, "No, no, no, Stella, the Tasmanian Devil, will make it. After all, she is a universally known chief!"
"She-is."
"Well, her recipes are. She posted them on the intergalactic web. People loved them so much she wrote a cook book under an alias and, well, business is booming so to speak."
"Wow. I-bet-she-and-Slam-will-get-along-great."
Anna rolled her eyes and headed out of the room, "You two can talk okay? I'm going to meditate."
"Anna! Why are you being so rude! You're the reason we're here in the first place!"
"I don't know it's just. I guess Stella's comment went to my head. Don't worry I don't blame her. I just need some time alone to concentrate."
"All right then, have fun."
Rev watched as Anna went out of the room, "Does-she-hate-me?"
"Na, she just needs to chill for a bit. Stella got her riled up by accident, but even normally she's a real loner."
"Oh."
Better radio Stella over the com system. I don't want these guy to know we have telepathic abilities just yet. "Why don't I radio Stella now? She'll be thrilled to know she gets to cook for a new audience!"
Anna closed her eyes and crossed her legs, letting her mind flow into the wind. She saw every corner of the ship, every being on board, but quickly moved beyond that, out into space. Not much wind existed out there other than the wind created by their engines, but that was enough. As she trailed along in the wake she sighed blissfully. Ah, now here is something I could do all day! But she turned back to the ship, speeding along, back toward her body. As she entered the room where he being rested she was surprised to find that Tech was in the room. Reentering herself she opened her eyes and stared at the green Anthro. "Sorry I didn't realize you were here. Can I help you?"
"You meditate?"
"Yes," she said, giving the coyote a weird look.
"Sorry, it's just that I'm so used to Rev telling me I should be more active and not meditate so much. Seeing another red roadrunner doing it kind of startled me."
Anna smiled, "I'm the only one on my team that does it. As for the red roadrunner bit, I can change that. After all you obviously know enough about our team to know that we can shape shift."
"Ya, Zodavia did mention that. So what do you really look like."
"Well, if I told you I might just be lying."
"Okay then just turn into whatever you want."
Anna smiled and closed her eyes. In a flash of white she turned into a white roadrunner.
"So is this the real you, or another disguise?"
"Believe it or not, this is me."
"You really are a roadrunner then. That just seems so weird to me, but then again Rev is the only roadrunner I've ever know."
"How did you ever meet him?"
"Huh? Oh, unlike all the other loonatics Rev and I have known each other since fifth grade." Why am I telling this to her? It's completely illogical. I don't even know her. Besides that I've never even told the other loonatics! I guess it's just she seems so much like me.
"Wow, that long huh?"
"Yep, I still remember it. As you can probably guess I was the smartest kid in the class. Because of that I was a prime target for bullies. No one liked me and so I really was a prime target, but one day just as a gang of four of them were about to 'teach me a lesson' Rev showed up out of nowhere. Apparently all four knew Rev's older brothers, so they backed off. We've been friend ever since."
"I'm guessing your not the only one who got something out of this arrangement."
"Well, let's just say Rev never got anything less than an A ever again."
"So that's why you and Rev get along so well."
"Ya, so what's you and that other Coyotes story?"
"Her names Crystal and I'm Anna. Anyway, believe it or not our story's the exact opposite of yours. I'm the brainyack " Why am I telling him this? I've never told anyone this. Not even Mel and Stella. He's just so similar to me.
Tech laughed, "You're joking."
"No, you see both me and Crystal are orphans. We don't know who our parents are or were, or where we come from."
"I'm sorry."
"It's okay. I know it would be a big deal for most people, but Crystal is all the family I need. She's like the sister, I don't remember having."
"So how did you two meet?"
"Like I said we both lived in an orphanage. Crystal and I were both new kids. In fact the orphanage was on Freling, your leaders home planet. Anyway, Crystal was such an outgoing girl that she fit right in, but I was all alone. I was different from the others. I knew thing that they couldn't even begin to comprehend. Because of that they shunned me. I don't know if I scared then, or if they were just jealous. I guess I'll never know. Anyway one day a bunch of the girls in my dorm cornered me, they pushed me around and started to force me to do their homework, chores, anything they could think of. I was scared to tell anyone because they were all so nice to everyone else that I thought it was my fault. One day Crystal found then yelling at me because I had gotten one of the problems wrong on the one girls paper. I was so scared, but she told them to lay off. She treated me like I really belonged. I never fit in as well as she did with the others, but it defiantly got better. I helped her out with her homework so much that she was second in the class. I always let her make the stuff in the lab because she likes the indoors better than me, but in reality I'm the one who is our groups egghead."
"Wow. I thought I had it bad."
"It wasn't so bad. It's not like I have many scars from it. Please don't bring it up though. It's not exactly something I tell everyone," she said blushing. "I don't like people to pity me for the past."
Before Tech could reply Stella's voice came over the intercom system, "Hey guys dinner is served."
Well lets go," said Anna standing up and heading out the door.
Tech stared after her for a second before following down the hall
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