A/N: hahaha. I luv the last line in this one!!

Disclaimer: no, I do not own it. If I did, the series would be soooo much better…

Julie's POV

I stepped out. Before me stood a massive warehouse. Brick walls. Pitch black tinted windows. In perfect condition compared to the one Kevin had used as a safe house. (I'd been told about it by Cooper. Good thing he filled me in on what happened back there). Perfectly paved parking lot that wasn't even needed. And the best feature yet: a limousine. Sleek ivory with more tinted windows and fancy lights lining every inch of it.

Kevin flicked a hand towards it. "Ignore that. He's just showing off now."

That tipped me off to the fact that Kevin's stepdad was probably a billionaire or something. He had to have the money to build the bomb and he had to have employees to build it for him. Letting it go, I commented, "Yeah, this would actually be a great place to shelter a bomb of that magnitude."

Onyx eyes dug into me questioningly.

"Good place to hide bomb," I translated.

Kevin just nodded and gave me a grateful smile.

Cooper came up behind us. "I've been looking over the schematics and if I loosen those valves there, shred the inner core of it and set up the wave projectors outwards instead of inwards, reversing it shouldn't be a problem."

Kevin nodded then, clearly understanding exactly what Cooper was saying. "Okay, so anything from Charmcaster?" He turned around in the driver's seat to look at her.

Her pink-ish purple eyes sparkled as I looked in through the window at her. Charmcaster hated that she agreed to this now. "Yeah, can someone take me home?"

Kevin's hand clenched the steering wheel tighter. Instead of doing anything about it, he stepped out of the car. "Come on. It's almost over now. He's just inside. From there, we reverse the bomb, take out the moron who started this, and then hope to God that we get out of here before he figures out that I'm not dead and that I planned all this."

"Then let's get going." I was ready to get this over with and get Ben back now. It'd been too long since I'd seen him and too long since we'd kissed and forever since Ship had pounced on me like a crazed puppy. I wanted them both back.

I heard him pop the trunk of the car and held one hand out to stop me. Kevin smirked. "You need to be patient. Forgetting that you're the weakest one here?"

In my defense, all I could reply was, "Look who's talking."

Crap. Did I really just say that?

His face looked stung, but guarded. Kevin always kept his hurt hidden. That was why he had an explosive anger. "Whatever." And that was his only defense mechanism without actually throwing enough punches to kill someone. The raven-haired teen retreated to the now open trunk.

Cooper looked at me, blue eyes soft. "We all make our mistakes."

"I forgot..." I admitted. My mind was on Ben and Ship, the past and possibly the future. But in the present, I had to survive dealing with Kevin and Charmcaster, keeping them from killing each other and keeping them from killing me. My only defense mechanism-

Kevin tossed me something that looked vaguely like a tennis racket. I barely managed to grab it before it hit the ground. Good thing for my quick reflexes. "Press the buttons. It's one of the nicest pieces of tech I got."

Cooper's eyes were wide. He shared Kevin's knowledge of alien technology. When his eyes were wide, it had to mean something.

I looked closely at the handle. Sure enough, a multitude of buttons lined it, each a different color and had a different inscription on the front. Pink would work for the first one. I pressed the pink button.

The head of the racket grew about twenty times it's normal size. "Woah."

Kevin just stood there nodding approvingly. "It's your skill. I thought I'd let you play to it."

I nodded and smiled. "I wish I had this during my matches!"

He bent over the trunk again. "And I," he began. "Get this lil' baby right here." Kevin hoisted a huge gun like weapon out of the rear of the vehicle. And then he pressed a button. It quadrupled in size, creating a weapon about as big as Jetray, but Kevin didn't even seem to stagger under the weight of it. All the muscle on him was real, not just stone.

Cooper's jaw dropped. For being a nerd, he was pretty awesome. It really left me questioning why Cooper and Kevin were even friends. Different ends of the social chain...

"Uh-huh," Kevin said with a chuckle as he saw the blonde boy's face.

Charmcaster had dragged herself out of the car. "Do we have a plan? Go in, slaughter someone, and get out, or what?"

I turned my gaze back towards Kevin. "Why do we need these anyways? It's just your stepfather."

He snorted. "That's exactly why we need them."

I wasn't going to ask any further.

"So just like Charmy said: get in, wipe out the bomb, destroy what we can, get out. Everyone good with that?"

None of us argued with Kevin.

"Cool." He pulled his gun over his shoulder and aimed it towards the warehouse for a moment before turning it downwards by a few degrees and pulling a trigger. Nothing came out of it that I could see at least.

Less than a second later, the limo exploded into a million bits. Shards of glass sprayed everywhere. Metal shrapnel rained from the sky as flames devoured the vehicle that was once a pristine work of art.

Kevin burst into laughter. "You guys don't even know how ling I've been wanting to do that!"

A/N: yes, I love that line! He's a funny boy! But he did just eliminate any element of surprise… Review!

~Sky