"How'd you get in here?" Ash snarled as she took up a fighting stance, Joseph and Troy following suit, as Ricky hid in the shadows, his broken arm preventing him from joining the fight.

"Endgame is capable of anything, as you will soon find out, especially you Ashley Reynolds." Keith mocked as he fired a lightning bolt at the trio, only to have Ash and Troy run forward and slide under the attack, as Joseph ran forward and front flipped over it, delivering a powerful dive kick to Keith chest, and sent him flying backwards and unto the passageway entrance to that lead to Arizona, and Keith activated it and jumped into it, and Jospeh followed suit, taking his battle with Keith to Arizona, leaving Ash and Troy behind.

"Looks like your down a man, it's now two on one, you still want to fight?" Troy mocked as he prepared an energy blast for Jacob.

"I can still take you both!" Jacob snarled as she shot a rapid fire series of lightning bolts at Troy and Ash, which made them dance around all the incoming fire, and occasionally fired back with an energy blast of their own.

"Keep dancing all you want, your luck will eventually run out." Jacob mocked as he picked a spot and fired a lightning bolt at where Troy was about to be, and struck him in the chest, and Troy dropped to one knee.

"Troy, you'll pay for that," Ash roared as she leapt at Jacob, "Super Kick!" Ash yelled as a swirling ball of energy formed on her right foot and she kicked it at Jacob, her aim was true as it struck him in the face and he was knocked backwards, but the attack didn't phase him for long.

"Nice try Guardian, but I'm just getting warmed up!" Jacob snarled as he clapped is hands together and a purple shock-wave erupted from his hands and it crashed into Ash, and sent her sailing backwards where she crashed into a wall, and lay there groaning in pain.

"We've already poisoned you once, I wonder how you'll take a second dose!" Jacob laughed darkly as a black aura formed on his right hand, and he prepared to finish off the female Guardian, only for Troy to grab him by his waist and supplex him to the ground, and Troy rolled into a fighting stance.

"Impressive, I actually felt that," Jacob mocked as he took up a karate stance, "but not impressive enough." he said as he raised both fists and fired a purple energy beam that struck Troy in the face as he tried to activate his shield, and Troy went down like a sack of bricks.

"Foolish Guardian, Ash barely survived the poison, let's test your breaking point." Jacob mocked as the same black aura formed on his right hand and he approached Troy and prepared to poison the Korean-American Guardian, but before he could, the passageway to Arizona opened and Joseph walked into the HOK.

"Did you miss me?" Joseph asked as he tossed Keith's unconscious body to the floor and began walking towards Jacob, and the two began circling around each-other.

"You can't beat me." Jacob mocked.

"That was when you had help before, you don't have help this time." Joseph snarled as the two ran at each-other, and drew back their right fists, and the attacks collided...

"Tua, you alright?" Ish asked as he knelled down next to Tua, who could be found laying on the ground, after being thrown back into a semi truck by Endgame.

"I'll live." Tua whispered as he tried to stand, only to fall back towards the ground.

"Stay down Tua, Marty and I will take care of her." Ish said as Marty was sent flying backwards and collided with Ish, who then collided with Tua, as all three of them laid there in a heap.

"You three are no challenge." Endgame laughed as she picked up an abandoned parked car and prepared to throw it at the Guardians, only for Ish to rise with surprising speed and fire an energy blast that hit he cars gas tank, exploding it instantly, and covering Endgame in a raging fireball, and Ish dropped to one knee to catch his breath, only for a lightning bolt to come flying from the raging inferno and striking him in the chest and sent him flying backwards into another parked car, as Endgame walked from the inferno, without a scratch on her metal body.

Suddenly her wrist began beeping and she pressed a hidden button, "Report." she ordered Jacob.

"Message has been delivered, ready to pull out." Jacob reported, and that made Endgame smile as she cut the communication line, threw a smoke bomb unto the ground and diapered into the smoke.

"I'm getting really tired of getting my butt kicked." Joseph moaned as he lay there on a hard light bed in the HOK, his friends on their own individual bed, being observed for their injuries, for Ish, Tua and Marty had arrived from the bowling alley, and had limped their way unto their hard light beds.

"Your not the only one," Ish moaned as the tables holographic display showed his vitals, and his heartbeat was steadily accelerating as he thought about the beardown he had endured again by Endgame, "there has got to be a way to beat her, there had to be, isn't there?" Ish asked as a jolt of pain went shooting through his whole body, and he let out a hiss of pain.

"Guardians, I am currently analyzing the footage from both battles, and am working on a way to upgrade the safe zone, so that Endgame can no longer come into Canton at will," RZ said as a holographic display appeared before him, and he began making some quick calculations, "but until the Safe Zone has been upgraded, I want you all on full alert, I'm allowing you to all go home for the night, but keep your communication app on at all times, we must be ready in the event of another attack." RZ said wisely, and that earned head nods from all of his Guardians.

"RZ, I'd like to stay at the HOK," Ash said, and the surprised everyone, "every time I fall asleep I have terrible nightmares, only when you use that brain beam on me am I able to get a peaceful night sleep, so can I please stay here?" Ash asked her leader.

"Ash, as much as I want to allow that, your father and step-mother surely miss you," RZ began and that earned a sad sigh from Ash, "however in my spare time I have developed a medicine that should hopefully counteract the effects of the poison, make sure you take one pill at night before you go to sleep, and please let me know when you need more, before you run out." RZ said in a joking manner, and that made the red haired Guardian smile for the first time in hours.

"Ashley, are you alright?" Ash's father Charles asked as soon as Ash walked in th front door of her house.

"Depends on how you define 'fine.'" Ash joked as she took a seat on the couch, as her father adjusted his glasses and took a seat next to her.

"I saw the fight from New England, how are you?" Charles asked his daughter in a concerned tone.

"I'll live, not the first time I've gotten my butt kicked." Ash joked, which earned a smile from Charles, but that faded when he noticed the pill bottle in her left hand, and Ash could see where his gaze lied.

"It's nothing, just a preventative measure-." Ash began as Charles raised a hand to silence his daughter.

"A preventative measure for what, are you injured?" Charles asked in a now concerned tone.

"Not physically," Ash began, and with a sigh she decided to explain, "the new threat is named Endgame, and she did something to me, but like I said, she did something to me mentally, and this medicine will hopefully counter whatever she did to me." Ash said cautiously, making sure to leave out the fact that Endgame had poisoned her.

"Make sure you take it then." Charles said in a serious tone as he left the room, as Ash left the couch and went up to her room, and sat on her bed, and laid down, just staring at the season, and without meaning to, she drifted off to sleep.

'Not this place... not again'

The familiar dark surroundings went as far as the eye can see and the eerie almost deafening silence filled the air. The only sound that could be heard was the sound of her heavy breathing and her heart beating against her rib cage.

She was surrounded one again by the deceased bodies of her former friends. Necks bent at odd angles, bones breaking through the skin allowing blood to flow out, spines snapped and a burned body with smoke emanating from it.

'How did this happen?' Ash thought to herself.

"You did this..." an unknown voice whispered in her ear.

"What?"

"It was you... you killed them"

"No... No, I wouldn't..."

"But you did"

"Who are you?!" she demanded "Why are you doing this?"

"I did nothing... this is all your doing"

"It can't be"

"But it is... look"

Suddenly, a mirror appeared in front of her and she didn't recognize her own reflection. Her uniform was once again covered in blood, but her mask/helmet was gone revealing her blood covered face. She gasped in horror at the sight of herself, seeing blood; her friends blood covering her face along with every inch of her body.

"No... this is impossible"

"It is very possible..."

"you killed them..."

"all of them..."

"Your closest friends"

"NO!"

Ash awoke with a start, sweat one again running down her face, and her heart racing a million miles a minute as her dad burst into the room.

"Ash, what's wrong?!" Charles asked his daughter.

"I don't know." Ash said as she clutched her chest, as he chest was filled with pain, and that made her dad put a hand on her shoulder.

"I think I should take you to the hospital." Charles suggested.

"No!" Ash suddenly yelled, and that surprised them both, as unseen to Charles, Ash's eyes turned purple for just a millisecond.

"I'll be fine," Ash said as she composed herself, "I didn't mean to fall asleep, I just forgot to take my medicine." Ash said as her father exited the room, leaving Ash to ponder the sudden out burst of anger, as she sat their on her bed, unaware of the true danger she was in...

I once again want to give credit to my amazing girlfriend for writing that nightmare scene, also I'd like your opinion, what do you think is going on with Ash?