BWARK! So this is 777's little space pocket? Eh, I've seen better. Is this on? SQUAWK! This is Sergio.

777 doesn't seem to be home right now. So I think I'll do him a favor and put up the next episode. Pretty sure we left with Rosa getting caught in a trap by Ernesto Estrella. So let's see how Ronnie Anne and Carlota handle this...


They're five kids on a mission
With powers and determination
Standing on the edge of an endless game
Their chaotic lives will never be the same
In a dangerous world they do all they can
They're Guardians
Guardians

The heart of their powers within them
No force will make them give in
When one's backed into a corner of
uncertainty
The rest will protect to the next degree
They are more than heroes, they're a family
They're Guardians
Guardians

(Guitar solo plays as their names are called out and their hero names appear on screen)
Ronnie Anne! (Relay)
Bobby! (Glacier)
Carlota! (Glamor)
C.J.! (Captain Command)
Carl! (Supernova)

They're Guardians
Guardians
Guardians
Guardians!

...

Episode 3: Chaos in the cards.

[PART 2]

"I won't let this tyranny stand! Flora and fauna are meant to grow freely. Not in these confined spaces! I will see this society of pollution is completely destroyed!"

"Mam, are you aware of what the right to remain silent is?" A police officer asked rudely as he shoved Eco into the back of a cruiser. Once the super villain was in the back seat, sitting on her cuffed hands, the officer climbed into the driver's seat and looked out onto the sidewalk towards Relay and Glamour. Both super heroines were covered in leaves and twigs from the battle prior. "Thanks for helping us get her under control you two." The officer thanked. Relay gave a thumbs up while Glamour waved him off in a cute and bashful manner.

"Aww, we're just doing our best. You sure you can handle her?" Glamour asked slightly concerned. Relay looked at her cousin and shrugged.

"You'd be surprised how effective some of the police's power suppressing equipment can be." She remarked. The police officer tipped his hat to the pair of them and began to drive away, the cruiser's siren starting to fade out as the distance between them grew. Looking around for cover to turn back into their normal attire, Relay spotted a large bush and practically dragged Glamour into it with her. They ducked into it, and in a quick flash of light, their costumes were gone. "You know, that was actually a lot faster than I thought it was going to take." Ronnie Anne remarked.

"I know, we still have the whole afternoon to ourselves." Carlota added. "Hey, maybe we should call Abuela and see how her meeting with Estrella is going?" She suggested as she reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone. Carlota tapped away on the screen and put the phone on speaker. After a brief dial-tone, Rosa's voice came through.

"Hello?" Rosa asked.

"Hey Abuela, it's us. We took care of the problem a lot sooner than we thought." Ronnie Anne explained. "We were wondering how…"

"OH, GRACIAS A DIOS!" Rosa shouted suddenly, catching the girls by surprirse. The phone making a lot of crackling sounds as she yelled. "Listen, you two. Ernesto is…" *CRZT* The phone started to break up through a series of static noises. Ronnie Anne and Carlota exchanged nervous glances.

"Abuela, are you okay?"

"No! Ernesto…" *CRZT* "I…" *CRZT* "Trapped. Dark and cold…" *CRZT* "Be careful! They…" Rosa was unable to finish as the line went completely dead and the call dropped, leaving only a droning dial tone. Both girls stared at the phone in shock.

"That doesn't sound good." Ronnie Anne admittedly sheepishly. Carlota hung up the phone and took a deep breath as she put it away.

"Alright, let's stay calm. Our grandmother and her favorite celebrity fortune teller have been kidnapped. And we have no clue where they could be. It's no big deal." Carlota said in an increasingly hopeless attempt to not freak out. Ronnie Anne tapped her chin as her cousin's statement stuck with her.

"Well if we don't have a clue, then let's go look for some." She mused as she grabbed Carlota's arm. "Come on, let's get back to the performing arts center!" Ronnie Anne and Carlota soon found themselves running through the city, rushing past large crowds of people on the sidewalk. Eventually, they reached their destination, but stopped dead in their tracks by a large crowd surrounding the entire building. The mob was frantically cheering and screaming at the top of their lungs.

"Where is Ernesto?"

"Read my future!"

"MARRY ME, ESTRELLA!" The cousins groaned in frustration.

"Well, I think it's safe to say what happened to them. One of these fans was a little unhinged and couldn't wait for a second show." Ronnie Anne remarked. Carlota shifted her balance so she was standing on her toes so she could get a better view of the crowd ahead. At the very end of the crowd, there was a large team of security guards in black suits blocking off the perimeter.

"Well we may not be able to get inside as easily as the kidnapper did. They're blocking off every entrance." Carlota pointed out. Ronnie Anne looked upward and smirked as she started to form an idea.

"Not on the roof. Come on!" Ronnie Anne waved her arm over her shoulder, motioning for Carlota to follow. The duo went past the mob of crazed fans and went into a nearby alley. Ronnie Anne grabbed Carlota's hand and glanced up at the sky above the building. Closing her eyes, Ronnie Anne focused on the destination, and in a brief flash, both she and Carlota were on top of the performing arts center's roof.

"Nice thinking, Ronnie." Carlota praised her cousin. Behind Ronnie Anne, Carlota spotted a door leading down into the rest of the building. Walking over to the door, Carlota turned the handle and miraculously, the door opened. The stairwell in front of them was dark and poorly lit. "Come on, hopefully the kidnapper left something we can use to track them down." The cousins started running down the stairwell and deeper into the building. Eventually, they reached the bottom and found another door. Opening the door, they were greeted with a red hallway.

"I think we're backstage." Ronnie Anne noted. Carlota nodded and gave a small grin.

"Well, let's get looking." The cousins began walking down the hall, looking in every room they passed for any clues. As they searched, Carlota felt a little nervous. "Why are there no guards here? Was it really that bad outside?" She asked out loud. Ronnie Anne paused and soon found herself consumed by the thought.

"Yeah, you're right. In fact, do they even know what happened? Were they just outside the whole time?" Ronnie Anne wondered. Suddenly, she was pulled out of her pondering by a noise coming from somewhere nearby. "Hold on!"

"What?"

"I thought I heard something." Ronnie Anne explained. She raised a hand to her ear and began walking to the source. Ronnie Anne stopped in confusion when she realized the sound was coming from Ernesto's room. The cousins became silent as they listened closer.

"Ha ha. I still can't believe this worked. I'll be honest mi senora, I was afraid that this plan of mine was going to fall short." The girls gasped as they recognized the voice as Estrella himself. "Fortunately, those bodyguards are as easy to manipulate as the flock of sheep I call my fans. Hopefully you understand that magic and show business are both cut-throat worlds. Especially when mixed together." Estrella lamented before quickly laughing again "But seriously, the amount of stupidity that I've seen puts my magic to shame. The masses come to the show and give me a pick of the lot to choose from. Then I tell the guards a fake fortune and get them all out of earshot. Then, as the grand finale, I trap you inside my magic talisman for me to drain mana from you like a battery."

Ronnie Anne and Carlota both felt their anger boil over as they heard Estrella's gloating. They gave each other a quick nod and activated their watches and transformed. As they did, Estrella continued to brag. "Don't cry in there, Rosa. You should feel honored to be the first person to have their mana taken by me. If it makes you feel better, I could give you a few guests to keep you company." Suddenly, Estrella's door was kicked down. The astrologist turned to see Relay and Glamour standing in the doorway.

"Highly doubt it, Ernesto!" Relay spat venomously as she pounded her fists together. Estrella smirked before clapping in a menacing manner.

"Well, I will give you credit for finding out my little scheme. Though that doesn't mean I can be stopped now. Especially by some children who are in over their heads." Estrella taunted. Glamour rolled her eyes at Estrella's remark.

"You're the one over your head. There's two of us and one of you. Just come quietly and we can wrap this up without anyone getting hurt." Glamour demanded. Estrella laughed and raised a hand up.

"But you're missing one detail, senorita." Estrella's jewel once again started to glow. "I have magic on my side." Ernesto thrust his arm upward and a purple cloud swirled above him. From within the cloud, a large swarm of bees appeared and descended upon the heroines. They screamed and dropped to the floor, ducking under the insects as they buzzed past them and out the door. Relay growled and lunged for Estrella's feet, only to miss as he began to float in the air. "Ah ha ha! It's been so long since I've shown others the full extent of my power." Estrella laughed. "Honestly, I could just turn you into a pair of cucumbers for my next spa treatment, but I want to see just how far my new power extends."

Estrella's gaze shifted over to the vanity mirror and a mischievous smirk spread across his face. "Perhaps, I should take a moment to reflect on my past choices." Estrella then flicked his finger and sent a small sparkle towards the mirror. As it made contact, the mirror began to shake, glow an ominous purple, and started to suck everything in like a vortex. Relay and Glamour tried their best to resist the pull of the object's newfound gravity but eventually, the wind around them swept them off their feet and pulled them into the mirror as they screamed and began spiraling through a strange tunnel of swirling colors.

Their screaming came to an end when they landed on a hard, rocky field. Relay groaned as she picked herself up. "That guy is so gonna get it." She moaned. Relay and Glamour took a moment to examine their surroundings. The ground was a cold blue stone and the sky around them was an eerie black. The only sources of light came from distant twinkling lights, almost like stars, as well as a giant pane of glass behind them.

"Wherever we are, that's where we came from." Glamour stated pointing to the glass. "But, where's Estrella?" As if he heard Glamour's question, Estrella let out a laugh that echoed around them and flew through the glass pane behind them.

"I'm right here, senorita. And we are inside my dressing room mirror." He stated proudly as he raised his arms to the sky. "Quite an impressive locale, eh?" Relay was reaching her limit with the sorcerer's constant taunting and growled. In a quick flash, she teleported in front of Estrella and tried to punch him in the face. As she swung, Estrella split apart into five copies. "Not so fast, little one." All five Estrella's spoke in unison. Chuckling as they all threw their arms upward and created a sparkling cloud of stars. "Your fortune doesn't look so good." The gem around his neck began to glow again as the stars fused together and gave off a bizarre, black glow.

The aura faded and revealed a figure wearing a black cloak and wielding a scythe. It let out a guttural growl and raised its weapon upward. Relay gasped teleported out of the way of the cold steel blade. She then reappeared behind it and gave a kick to the figure's head. It groaned angrily and tried to slash at her again, but Relay warped a few inches closer to the attacker's face. Unshaken by the skull staring her in the face, Relay tackled it to the ground and made it drop the scythe. As Relay and the reaper were wrestling, Estrella couldn't help but laugh.

"You shouldn't be so reckless as to fight against destiny." Glamour scowled upon hearing the mocking remark and started to conjure light in her hands.

"Call off your little friend, weirdo!" She shouted as she fired a couple of beams at Estrella and his copies. Two of them passed through the copies completely while the others missed. The attack succeeded in getting Estrella's attention as he and the clones turned around.

"Did you truly think you could beat me with something so pitiful?" Electricity gathered in the hands of one of the clones. It surged around him as violently as the necklaces of all the Estrella clones began to glow a bright yellow. "I'm truly SHOCKED!" The copy thrust his arms forward and a large blast of lightning flew out at Glamour. The teen was barely fast enough to create a wall of light to block the electric stream, groaning as she struggled to keep the barrier up.

As Relay continued with her battle against the reaper and pinned him to the floor, she glanced over to see how her cousin was doing. Examining the current situation, Relay couldn't help but feel that something was amiss. She squinted as she tried to put her finger on it. 'The way his necklace is glowing… Must be what's giving him his power. But there's something else.' Relay glanced at the floor as she tried to figure out what felt strange. As the lightning grew more intense, Glamour let out an angry yell and thrust her shield forward before firing more beams of light at Estrella's body doubles.

Her eyes widened as she saw what seemed wrong. On the floor beneath them, only one of the Estrella clones had a shadow. The rest had light simply pass through them. Relay couldn't help but smirk as an idea started to take shape in her head. Relay let out a sharp whistle. "Hey, wise guy! Your little friend was barely a warm up." Estrella scoffed at Relay's taunt as one of the clones casually created a large star, and casually threw it at Relay. The purple wearing child teleported out of the way and left the star to explode and destroy the reaper. Relay reappeared next to Glamour and laughed.

"You know, I think he's gone blind staring at all those stars for so long." Relay nudged Glamour in the arm as she fired a few more blasts of light at Estrella, the sorcerer not even caring and continuing to toy with them. "How about you give him a bit of a hand?" Glamour was momentarily puzzled with her cousin's request, but quickly figured out what she meant.

"Alright, I'll give him something that will really dazzle him." Glamour remarked. Taking a deep breath, Glamour closed her eyes and began to glow a very bright yellow. Light completely surrounding her whole body. Estrella looked at her and chuckled.

"You can make those little beams as strong as you want, but they don't hold a candle to the power I draw from the cosmos itself." Estrella bragged. As the light grew brighter and brighter, Relay closed her eyes as well and crossed her arms. Glamour groaned and seemed physically strained as she continued to build up energy. A vein becoming visible on her forehead, Estrella didn't think much of it and yawned. The astrologist looked at all of his clones and shrugged. "I'm getting kind of bored. You guys just want to wrap this up?" He asked.

"Agreed."

"Yeah."

"Terminarlo."

"Alright then, let's get rid of…" Estrella was cut off when Glamour suddenly let out a loud roar.

"RRRAAAAAAAAA!" As Glamour screamed, all the light around her erupted in a large, blinding blast. Estrella groaned as his vision was overcome with the piercing rays. Relay opened her eyes and looked down at the ground. She spotted the Estrella that casted a shadow and smirked as she teleported right behind in front of him Relay then wasted no time in grabbing onto his chest, ripping the gemstone off of him, and teleporting away again.

The blinding burst Glamour had created quickly began to fade and Glamour collapsed onto her knees, gasping for breath. Estrella and his clones growled in anger as their vision returned. "Are you proud of yourself, chica? You made me mad." All the Estrella's boomed as the thrust their arms forward. However, nothing happened. Every one of them paused and began looking around in confusion.

"Missing something?" Relay's voice rang out. Estrella gasped as he saw her holding the talisman in her hands. The sorcerer was quickly flooded with an immense sense of terror as he flew towards Relay in a desperate attempt to get back. Relay glanced down at the jewel and saw her grandmother fade into view inside, a relieved smile on her face. "Let me guess, break it?" Relay asked. Rosa nodded in confirmation as Relay lifted the jewel up above her head.

"NO! DON'T!"

Estrella's pleas fell on deaf ears as Relay threw the stone to the ground and shattered it into several tiny pieces. A wave of blue energy swept over the area as Estrella's clones vanished in clouds of smoke. In the center of broken crystal, Rosa stood unharmed. The woman slowly becoming more overjoyed as she came to terms with her regained freedom. Rosa turned to Relay and without saying a word, instantly wrapped her in a bear hug. "Thank you so much for saving me, pequeña." Rosa stated happily. Suddenly, the moment was broken when the world around them started to shake. Fearing the worst, everyone looked towards the pane of glass they entered from. Sure enough, the gate appeared to be closing.

"Less talking, more running." Relay barked out as she grabbed her grandmother's arm and rushed towards the pane of glass. Rosa felt something was amiss and came to a halt.

"Wait. Where is Glamour?" The pair looked behind them and saw Glamour trying to run towards them and the exit.

"Wait for me." She called out, clearly exhausted from her earlier gambit. Glamour was breathing heavily as she ran, but let out a shriek when she felt a hand grab her pony tail from behind. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw an angry Estrella holding onto her. "What is your problem?"

"You and your little friend took both my power and my fame from me. That's my problem." He snarled. "No one crosses Ernesto Estrella and gets away with it. I swear, I will have my revenge! Your tears will flood the earth. Es tu…" Estrella was unable to finish as he was quickly struck in the face with a black shoe which rebounded off his face and into Rosa's hand. Relay and Glamour could only stare in awe as Estrella fell down in a daze and Rosa casually put the shoe back on her foot. The grandmother noticed her super hero grandchildren staring at her and raised an eyebrow.

"What are you waiting for? Vamanos!" Not needing another reminder, Glamour quickly ran over to the others and all three of them proceeded to jump through the portal back just as it closed. Upon crossing through to the other side, all three of them screamed and wiped out on the floor of the dressing room. Rosa held her head, in a slight daze from everything that transpired. "Are you two okay?" She asked concerned. In response, Glamour and Relay quickly hugged her from both sides.

"We should be the ones asking you that." Glamour asked jokingly. As the heroes embraced their grandmother, they heard the sound of tapping on glass. Turning towards the vanity mirror, they saw Estrella angrily pounding on the mirror from the inside. Glamour felt a little nervous with Estrella's enraged expression. "Should we be worried about him breaking out?" She asked. Relay waved her arm dismissively at the notion.

"Nah, I doubt he'll be getting out anytime soon." She stated confidently.

"What the heck is going on?" Everyone turned to see a security guard standing in the middle of the doorway, staring at them all in confusion. Glamour cleared her throat and began to speak.

"Sir, I promise that we can explain everything."

The family had soon made their return to the apartment, sitting on the outdoor steps. Rosa let out a sad sigh as she lamented about what happened. Ronnie Anne put a hand on her grandmother's shoulder. "I'm sorry that Ernesto turned out to be a Class A nut-job, Abuela." She apologized in an offer of sympathy.

"It's okay, novia. I'm just glad my phone was able to work inside his jewel. Otherwise, I don't think I ever would have seen you again." Rosa stated. "Besides, Ernesto wasn't the only person in the world to get a horoscope from. There are others." She reassured.

"Well, I'm just glad this whole mess is all over." Carlota exclaimed. "But there's still one thing I'm hung up on right now." She confessed as she tapped her chin.

"And what's that?"

"What are the police going to do with Estrella with him trapped in the mirror?" Upon hearing the question, Ronnie Anne and Rosa couldn't help but look upward and contemplate the thought as well. After a few seconds, Rosa simply shrugged.

"Well whatever it is, I'd say it's too good for him."

"This is an outrage!" Estrella cried out angrily. The vanity mirror that he was trapped in was suddenly covered in spit.

"Ah, shut up, fancy pants." A large felon in an orange outfit commanded as he wiped the tooth paste out from the corner of his mouth. Estrella groaned in anger as he looked out of the corner of his eye and saw a prison guard from beyond a wall of bars.

"Do I have to be held prisoner in a manner like this?"

"Maybe we'll put you in the employee bathroom as a reward for good behavior." The guard reasoned, earning an upset sigh from Estrella.


BWARK! Looks like Ernesto didn't see that coming. Heh, the Loud girl isn't the only one that can crack a joke.

Hello, what's this... BWARK! This is Allanarcher777's story plans!

Well, a quick peak won't hurt... Oooo, seems he has a couple projects planned for February. One about The Sound Barrier and the other is some kind of one-shot.

Yeesh, both of these have some romantic element to them. BWARK! I know it's the same month Valentine's day is on. But what is it with him and the concept of love?

Who are you to judge you little thief?

BWARK!

And the power of love is a beautiful thing! Who are you to judge what I write about? But more importantly, what sick satisfaction do you get violating other's privacy?

Uhh... ADIOS!

Oh no you don't, you dirty bird. GET BACK HERE!