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ACT TWENTY-EIGHT - Guardian Arc: Healing Wounds

"Ericka," Kristen noticed that Ericka was mopping in her bed.

Robin entered the room from taking her shower, she was drying her hair with the towel she had and noticed Ericka still where she left her. Ericka was under her blanket mopping. Kristen glanced over at Robin, Robin just shrugged her shoulders. Either girl knew what to say.

"Ericka," Robin said, "We're gonna go hang with the others. Wanna come?"

Ericka shakes her head and says nothing.

Kristen sighs, "Come on, Ericka."

Ericka turns around to face them. The two girls sees the tears in her eyes. Her eyes were red and puffy.

"Ericka?" Robin spoke.

"I- I just want to be left alone." Ericka said and turned back to be hidden by her covers.

Robin nods, "Alright."

The two girls leave Ericka to be alone in their room. Ericka held onto her blanket tightly and continued to sob.

-HEROESOFLEGENDS-

"Bentley isn't taking this well." Morgan said to Wes.

Wes and Morgan were walking to meet up with the girls. And apparently Bentley is reacting the following day the same way as Ericka is handling the reveal. Wes shrugs his shoulders as he doesn't seem to really care about them or that crap.

"They'll get over it," Wes said kind of coldly.

Morgan turns to Wes, "Like you'll get over Miles spilling our secrets?"

Wes turns to Morgan, "That's different."

Morgan stops, "Look. Yesterday he showed up and apologized. He handed a memory stick, we all watched the footage. I think you should forgive him or at least think about it." Morgan said.

Wes frowns.

-FLASHBACK-

The gang were in the library leaving the basement, and were ambushed by Miles.

"Please let me explain first-," Miles said.

Wes glares, "There isn't anything to say."

Robin placed a hand on Wes' shoulder, "Wes,"

Miles frowns, "I- I know. I screwed up- I'm so sorry."

Tears began to slide down the side of his face. The others were shocked about that.

"I- I really cared about her. I thought- she was normal." He said.

Morgan decides to stop being completely mad, "So why did you do it?"

Miles looks directly at Morgan, "I- I was under a spell." Miles said.

"How can we be sure?" Kristen asks.

Miles pulled out the memory stick, "It's footage from the roof. Apparently Mal- they met up there a lot so they hacked into the school's security and this is the raw footage." He said.

Miles looks directly at Wes, but Wes wasn't looking at his friend. Instead Wes was trying to find ways not to look at Miles. Robin reached forward and took the memory stick. Miles and Robin shared looks at each other.

"Guys," Robin said, "Let's go check this out."

The others look at her. Miles watched as they slowly left him to head to the elevator, he then took this to leave. Upon getting to the basement again, Claudia was gone but that didn't stop them from going to the monitor and plugging in the memory stick. Appearing on the screen was Mal, Ulrich, and James. Bentley and Ericka looked upset seeing those two on the screen but at the same time they felt something else seeing them on the screen. They weren't sure what but they knew that they did indeed missed them.

The screen shows Mal appearing in her civilian apparel to the guys who also looked like normal people on the roof. Mal walks over, and puts her head on James' shoulders which seemed to gain a lot of attention for the two guys. Mal told them she needed a moment and not to call her Mal while she looked different. Then after a few seconds she snapped her fingers and transformed them into their villain looks. Mal had changed her expression completely from one of sadness to evil in seconds.

"I got dirt on the rangers," Mal spoke and let the boys read her list.

Ulrich looked from the list and said, "That makes sense with Ericka," He then added, "I could just smell child of divorce from here."

James kicks Ulrich's foot, "Like we could smell the scent of fish from you all the time, Fish Bait."

Ulrich rolls his eyes.

"So what do we do with this, Mal?" James asks.

Mal smirks, "We hurt them where it hurts."

That is when that footage had a static screen for a second then replaced with the three villain children were on the roof of the same building. By the date on the screen it was a day later. The three of them were dressed as villains but weren't nearly as social as prior.

"If my mother knew what you two told me-," Mal stopped and turned around, "We can't.

James frowns, "I know we aren't suppose to have feelings, but the second I made that connection to Bentley- I don't know."

Mal walked over, "We can't- we are not allowed to fall in love." She said.

Ulrich looks at Mal, "Why can't we?" He asks.

Mal tried to keep her composure, "Love is weak."

The other two looked at each other before looking back at Mal.

"Fish Bait," Mal started, "Don't forget to hack into their systems. We can't allow them to have our enemy to know who we are." She said.

Ulrich nods, "On it, Mal."

The video ends and the rangers are left speechless, Wes turns to Miles. He was looking down at the ground but wanting Wes to say something, anything. But instead Wes just storms out of the room. Robin chased after him.

-FLASHBACK OVER-

"It's different," Wes repeats to himself.

Morgan ignored Wes' repeats in his statement. The two guys went to go meet up with Kristen and Robin.

-HEROESOFLEGENDS-

Bentley remain in his room, struggling with his broken heart. He laid on his bed frowning at the ceiling. He had stopped crying, he was done with the tears. Now he was just upset and a bit angry. He laid there, alone. Newt had left to go to class, and Bentley decided not to go.

"I- I can't believe he wasn't who I wanted him to be," Bentley frowns.

Bentley closed his eyes and let out a sob, but tried to push himself from crying. He shakes his head, he wanted to be done. He wanted to be done with the broken heart. Bentley gets up from his bed and walks over to the mirror in his dorm room. He looked into it seeing his reflection.

"This isn't fair," Bentley said.

-HEROESOFLEGENDS-

"Ericka didn't want to leave the bed," Robin told Wes and Morgan.

Morgan nods while frowning, "Bentley isn't answering his phone."

Kristen frowns, "They- they just got their hearts broken. They need time." She said.

Wes crossed his arms on his chest, "But they need to get over it soon," He said.

Everyone looks at him.

"Wes," Robin said, "They are hurting. Are you seriously saying they need to ignore their feelings?"

Wes shakes his head, "No- ugh what I am saying is we are in the middle of something bigger." He said.

Kristen looks at him, "You need to cool it. Since the reveal with Miles' part in all of this, you've been a jerk." Kristen said.

Wes went to say something but Robin stops him, "She's right. You need to talk to him."

Wes looks at his girlfriend, "Robin,"

"I mean it," Robin said, "Talk to him."

-HEROESOFLEGENDS-

Miles was in the newspaper club, he wanted to hide from everyone but mostly the rangers and Wes. He sat there reading over the articles for the latest paper, he wasn't really paying attention to it. His mind was going everywhere but the article. Then the door opened which startled him.

It was Wes.

"Hi," Wes said not looking at him.

Miles looks at him, "Hey."

Wes walks into the room further and placed his hands into his pant pockets. Miles even stood up, looking at his friend. Wes and Miles were now standing a few feet apart and weren't looking at each other, well Wes wasn't. Wes slowly made his gaze meet Miles' gaze.

"Working on the paper?" Wes asks.

Miles awkwardly smiles, "Would if my mind wasn't in a daydream."

"You okay?" Wes asks.

Miles looks at Wes in shock, "This is the first time you've asked me that since-,"

"I know," Wes said, "I- I'm still mad."

"I know you are," Miles said looking down, "You can stay away from me if it will help. I'll give you and the others some space."

Wes frowns, "That would be ideal. You being my best friend in the whole world, the person I've known since I was in grade school, the person who was there for me when my dad died. You betrayed me by revealing personal things about not only me but my friends to strangers who ended up being the enemy."

Miles frowns standing there.

"Of course avoiding you would be easy and ideal," Wes said but then looks at his friend, "But I can't write you out, Miles."

Miles looks up, "What?"

"As angry as I am for what you did. How it ended up getting Kiki kidnapped and how things could've gone worst- you still had my back at the end of the day. I've made mistakes in my life and you know them, Miles. You were there for me when I got caught trying to prank that jerk Bobby Wilson." Wes said.

Miles smirks, "Bobby deserved that though," Miles said, "The exploding paint was genius."

Wes had a small smirk on his face, "Yeah. You stayed in those detentions with me, even though you did nothing wrong. So I feel like, even though I am still mad at you, I am not going to abandon you." Wes said.

Miles looks at Wes with a smile, "You mean it?"

Wes nods, "It'll be some time before I can- trust you like normal."

"I get it," Miles said.

Wes looks at Miles, "You mean too much to me to be angry at." Wes said.

Miles nods, "You too, buddy." He said.

"So," Wes changes the subject, "Let's look at this article you want to approve. It's probably trash."

Miles nods, "This person misspelled five words in one sentence."

"Send them back to first grade," Wes said as he snatched the paper of the table Miles was at.

From outside, Robin peaked in. She sees her boyfriend and his closest friend, standing there laughing at some poor kids article who couldn't spell words well enough. Robin smiles and she closed the door quietly behind her.

(A/N: Hey sorry for the long delay. I mentioned on Jurassic Surge that I was having writers block and also there was school just overwhelming me. I am near finals and the holidays are coming up so maybe I'll get at a more stable updating schedule. I had part of this chapter finished a while ago, but never had the motivations and the creativity to know what to write next. Hope you enjoy.

This chapter is the filler before going into the main plot of finding the guardians. It needed to be addressed that Bentley and Ericka would have broken heart since they were falling for Ulrich and James, so it would be nature they'd feel what Miles felt. Also, I didn't want Wes to stay angry at Miles. It wasn't like he did those actions by choice, but that doesn't excuse what had happened, damage had been done to the friendship between Wes and Miles. But like Wes said, Miles is an important person to him and Wes would never risk loosing anyone who really knows him.

Again hope you enjoyed it. Until next time. -ICrzy)