Chapter 14

"Lexi!?" Ace gasped in shock. "But why!?"

A pink light glowed on top of Lexi's ears and a laser blasted across. Ace dived out of the laser's way and instead; the laser blew a hole in the wall. Ace stood in his karate stance as he faced Lexi.

"Next time, I won't miss!" she growled.

"Well this has gone on far enough Lexi! Stop it now!" Ace shouted.

He was about to take a step forward to run when he stopped. His eyes focused on a tear from Lexi's eyes, rolling down her cheek. Ace stood in a normal stance.

"You're... you're afraid aren't you?" he toned the volume of his voice down. "You're just freaked out and confused and you don't know what to do with yourself. That's why you're doing this!"

"Shut up!" the girl rabbit snapped as her eyes welled up with tears.

"No! I won't shut up! Inside, you're a really nice person! You were completely the opposite to the way you're behaving now!"

"I have had it!!!" Lexi screamed as the glow on top of her ears glowed really bright. There was a sonic wave that knocked Ace down to the ground, taking a bit of energy out of him.

Lexi then approached Ace, as she stood over him with hot tears running down her cheeks.

"I only wanted to be liked by people, people to appreciate me for who I am." she mumbled. "But then strange things started happening to me after the meteor crashed. Now I'll never have any friends!!!"

Then she broke into tears as she fell down to her knees.

"I'll never have any friends..."

She then felt Ace putting his arms around her. She buried her face into Ace's hug and quietly cried as Rev slowly got up.

"It's okay Lexi." the roadrunner spoke. "You were just confused and overwhelmed about the fact you received your powers."

"Yeah." Ace agreed. "When I first discovered my powers, I was scared that I might hurt someone with them because I felt that they were so dangerous. But... now that I have found others like me, I feel almost safe."

"And the other girl outside, she's okay. And we're not that badly injured." Rev piped up. "And most people would assume that the ghost did this and not you."

"It's going to be okay." Ace reassured.

"No!"

The owner of the defiant outburst was an angry Duck, with a badly bruised head.

"Even if she was scared, we can't let her off that easy! She did attack some people and that's not acceptable!"

"So you're saying she should be punished?" Ace argued.

"Well she did do a lot of damage here, and we can't just let her off lightly! And as I stand, her punishment should be-"

"To work with us as a superhero." Ace finished.

"What?" Lexi said in confusion.

"Yeah! She should work with us! After all, she is one of our partners, right?" Rev exclaimed.

"But, I don't know how to be a superhero!" Lexi whined.

"Well, with your athletic ability and your brain blasting powers, you'll be a great superhero." Ace said. "Well? Do you?"

Lexi froze on the spot for a while. She then gave a brave frown and nodded.

"Yes. I do want to help you. I'll join and help you guys as an apology for my destructive behaviour." she said in determination.

"What!?" Duck shrieked. "She's working with us!? She should at least do some community service! Or at least fix up the hole she blew in the wall!"

But everyone else ignored Duck's ravings as they walked across the gym to exit through the hole that Lexi created so they could find the girl that was found at the front of the school, to make sure that she was alright.

END OF CHAPTER 14.