A/N: Hello, again! Chapter 7 is here, the one with a little more seriousness. When we last left off, Nova was taken to the Citadel of Bone by Skeleton King. How will she fare? YOU'LL HAVE TO WAIT FOR CHAPTER 8 FOR THAT! Right now, we see how Senya and Ivy are doing.

Senya wandered around for a couple of hours, thinking. As she did so, she heard a pained groan, and ran over to the source (behind a rock). When she got there, she found Ivy. The meerkat had been unconscious since landing.

"Are you okay," Senya asked her, reaching down to help her up.

"Ow," was all that Ivy could manage to utter. Apparently, the landing was incredibly hard, and was enough to shatter her left arm. Too bad for her…she was left handed. There was also a good sized gash on that shoulder, caused by hitting that rock dead on. To top it all off, she had a headache equivilant to that of a bulldozer.

"W-what happened," she asked, finally able to form full sentences.

Senya explained the situation while taking care of the broken arm. While she did this, Ivy flinched several times and broke Senya's concentration.

"Okay. I guess my healing power isn't working, then. I wonder what other powers aren't working."

So, she ran a systems check and discovered that everything else worked, except for her pyrokinesis. 'Great,' she thought. 'Just great.' There were a few minutes of silence. Finally, Ivy ventured to ask a question.

"How is it you know the team?"

"Huh?"

"C'mon. How do you know them?"

"Well, I was created by Skeleton King and was programmed to destroy the Hyperforce, but I didn't want to. He shut me down and set it up so that the team would find me. They did and over time I became part of the team, after Gibson reactivated me, of course. Then, one night, Skeleton King forced me to try and kill Chiro.

"They all accused me of betraying them and kicked me out. After I left, Skeleton King took me back and forced me into doing what he said. He lured the team to him by almost killing Gibson, and he wanted me to destroy them. With Gibson's help, I regained control. The team accepted me back, and after this whole mess with this girl named Candy, and that incident with Sal and Malo- erm, let's not talk about those: those are completely different stories- I decided to do some travelling, and I came back here. So, how 'bout you?"

"Me"

"Uh-huh."

"Okay. First off, I haven't always been a meerkat. I used to be human. I was born a twin, to the Stoppable family. At the same time, the Sangretti crime family was having a girl of their own. Well, in the nursery, their baby died. The doctors didn't want the mob to whack 'em, so they took some other random kid. Guess who the 'lucky' one was. Yeah, me.

"Flash forward to three years later. My so-called parents were fighting again, and I was stuck in the middle. Well, one thing led to another and madre picked up a gun, shot at padre, and I got hit with the bullet. She left and who else gets blamed but me. After recovering from the abuse, I looked for a lawyer, filed a lawsuit, and lost. I tried again, got a better lawyer, and had a 10 year restraining order put on padre.

"At 13, he tried to force me into the family buisiness. I refused and went through a modern concentration camp, then the black market slave trade. After that, he just piled on the abuse. Amazingly, I don't have the scars from it anymore.

"Three years later, about a year ago, me and my boyfriend were out. Our car was hit by a train, but survived. Then, once we hit that tree, it all happened so fast. Some schizo busted through the windshield, mutilated my boyfriend, and set the car on fire. I should have died, but that was when my powers began to manifest.

"I left and found Middleton, and my brother. But the mob was looking for me. I couldn't put my real family at risk, so I tried mixing up something to remove all Sangretti DNA from my system. It turns out I'm no good at chemistry and, well, you see what happened.

"So, I moved to Africa, then Megakat City, then here. I met the team by accident and was stuck to Nova for a full 24 hours. It's hard to go through that without getting to be friends."

Silence. 'That explains a lot,' thought Senya. 'It's no wonder she's like this. It's surprising she's not insane. No, wait. Scratch that. Criminally insane.'

"Ivy," she began. "I think we got off on the wrong foot."

No response.

"Ivy?"

"Hey, I ain't disagreein' with ya. I think so, too. But, heh, I think padre would get along really well with Skeleton King, don't you?"

Senya laughed, "Actually, yeah, I think so!"

"Both are evil, narrow minded, and they bug the crap outta me," laughed Ivy. "Plus, they aren't very attractive!"

They both spent much time cracking jokes on this very topic.

Ending Chapter 7…now. That explains a lot about why Ivy's the way she is, huh? Well, next week, we join up with Nova, who makes a very important discovery. And Ivy and Senya decide on an idea to save Nova. Will Chiro be found? And will-

Ivy: Will I set my boss on fire for being a royal pain and torturing me!

Beastfire: You better hope not!