Chuck comes into the story! YAY FOR CHUCK! Since when do Chuck and I act exactly the same? Who knows? YAY! FOR RANDOM AND HIS HUGE CLAW! Ok, enough of that now. This will probably be the last update for a while but I'll try and catch up, I just remembered, I need a disclaimer...

I don't own Ace Lightning; if I did things would be very weird indeed. I don't know who does own it but good for them, I'm just making the characters dance, DANCE MY PRETTIES! DANCE! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. (Whoops, I mean their pretties.)

WARNING: Strangely enough this chapter contains minor spoilers for 'House on Haunted Hill' I love that movie! Best horror movie ever!

'Random, don't you remember? You're a Lightning Knight, we're on your side,' Ace tried to reason with Random after they had found him trying to attack two small children who had been throwing stones at cars in the junkyard.

'Shut up weaklings!' he yelled as he tossed Sparks aside with his claw. Sparks hit one of the cars with a loud 'CLUNK.'

As Sparks picked herself up Ace aimed his wrist canons at Random, 'Ok Random, I'm sorry, but you're out of control,' Sparks and Ace both aimed there weapons at Random, and the spirals of energy hit him in the chest. He roared in anger but soon he was hanging lifelessly like a puppet with his strings cut.

Ace sighed sadly for his old friend, he wanted to help him but his evil side was too strong, he was a danger to both them and the mortals. They had tried to return him to the 6th Dimension once, maybe they could try again.

Sparks also looked sad, she rubbed her side where she had hit the car, ' Ace, I know this sounds a little unkind but there are some chains over there and I was thinking...' she trailed off, but Ace knew exactly what she meant.

'Are you sure that's necessary? We've never needed to do it before.'

'Well there weren't as many kids before,' Sparks retorted, and she was right.

'I know,' Ace mumbled solemnly, 'Mark mentioned something about economic growth or something like that, whatever that means.'

Sparks decided to compromise, 'Maybe...maybe we could just make it harder to get into the junkyard, there are enough things to block the entrance.'

Ace smiled, 'Yes, that sounds better.'

Mark ran his fingers over the spines of the DVDs, but he was at a complete loss knowing what Kat would like.

He heard a familiar voice, 'Hey dude, why are you in the romance section? The REAL movies are on the horror shelf.'

Mark smiled as he saw Chuck, 'I've got a dinner date with Kat tonight, well kind of, actually it's more like pizza and a movie at my house. On a second thought that's exactly what it is...'

Chuck gave Mark a funny look, 'Gee love has made you weird dude. Not me though, Jess and I have been going out for...' he started counting on his fingers, '...well we've been going out for a while in a happy and steady relationship and I haven't changed a bit,' he crossed his arms smugly.

Mark rolled his eyes, 'Well Casanova, if you're such an expert on relationships and girls perhaps you could help me pick a DVD.'

Chuck looked thoughtful for a second, 'Well...Jess loves "House on Haunted Hill," there's this really cool scene where this dude swings this other dude's chair around and the dude has his head hollowed out!'

'Er, Chuck I was thinking something light and maybe a little romantic.'

'Um, "Starship Troopers?"' Chuck suggested.

Mark had a huge urge to bang his head up against the wall, 'Chuck, isn't that movie about giant alien bugs ripping people apart?'

'Yeah dude, but it still has romance in it, set against a background of gore!' said Chuck happily.

Mark decided to approach this in a different manner, 'Chuck, what's the worst you've ever seen?'

Chuck rolled his eyes, 'Once my mom made me watch "Sense and Sensibility" with her. Man is that an experience I don't want to relive!'

Mark signed with relief, 'Chuck, you're a genius.'

Chuck blinked, a little confused, 'Er...anytime dude.'

Kilobyte dropped from the ferris wheel and looked around his new 'kingdom.' The other minions appeared around him from their respective areas, besides Lady Illusion and Rick. Lady Illusion spun into existence rather gracefully, while Rick formed from a collection of 1's and 0's. Rick patted his body down in disbelief, and then quickly ran into the house of mirrors and laughed in joy, 'I'm real again!' he cried. 'I'm real!'

Kilobyte's tentacle followed him in and wound around his arm, pulling him out violently, 'That's enough of that now,' he growled. 'See it as a reward, one that can easily be revoked. Now on to more important matters, do you have her?'

Rick nodded, 'Have you thought of what you're going to call her?'

Kilobyte shook his head, 'No but it will be something fitting.'

Rick flinched, 'You're not going to call her "George" are you?'

Kilobyte frowned, 'What in the name of the sixth dimension gave you that idea?'

'Have you read...oh never mind,' Rick sighed.

A buzzing sound met their ears, and though the darkness of the night came an enormous insect, too huge to even be a freak of nature. It landed in front of them. Kilobyte beamed, 'Ah, Fred, I knew you'd come to me,' he rubbed the monster on the head as if it were a dog. 'Now once she's activated my 'family' will be complete. He smiled sadistically, and Rick thought it best to back away.

Duff sung along to the radio as he counted is monthly earnings, 'MONEY! MONEY! MONEY! Must be funny, in a rich man's world...'

Although the radio was on full blast, he heard something over the noise, coming from outside, laughter, manic laughter. His stomach turned over as he realised what this meant, the cartoons had returned once again.