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"I can't believe these two days have gone by so fast!" exclaimed the platinum blonde telepath known as Psyche. Her words were punctuated by a cheep from her "seeing eye" bird Amaterasu. Psyche was blind. She and Kali hugged.

"Yeah. I'm gonna miss you guys." Kali exchanged a few more hugs with the black-winged Darkangel, white-clad Eos, and speedster Dodger.

"Wellyouknowhowtoreachusifyouneedsomeonetotalkto," Dodger reminded, speaking quickly as she always did. "Youknowbesidesthecrazypeopleoverthere."

"Hey! Watch it! I'm one of the 'crazy people over there', too, you know!" Kali cried, feigning an indignant tone and expression. Eos chuckled and put a hand on Kali's shoulder.

"Don't we know it. Now I think your boyfriend wants to say his goodbyes, too." She shoved Kali toward Ruben, grinning. Kali grinned back and stuck her tongue out at her friends, giggling when they responded the same way.

"Hey." Kali felt Ruben's arms encircle her. "You're leaving me now?" Kali turned to face him. "I'm so hurt."

"I'm sure you are." Kali returned the embrace, then let go. "I'm going to IM and E-mail you AMAIC."

"'AMAIC'?" Ruben asked, eyebrow raised.

"As Much As I Can."

"Ah."

"I'm going to miss you so much, Ru." Kali looked ruefully up at Ruben, who was at least two inches taller than she was.

"I'll miss you too," he said, kissing her forehead. "You've still got the necklace I gave you?"

"Yep." Kali held the charm up from around her neck.

"Think about me whenever you wear it, ok?"

"Ok." Kali smiled. "I'll wear it every day." She hugged him again. "Bye, Ru."

"Bye, Kali." Kali waved to him as she walked away backwards, and watched him until she reached the doors.

"Ready to go?" Dylanne asked when Kali stepped outside.

"Yep. You?" Dylanne nodded.

"We're only waiting on Rajani." Kali snorted.

"Figures."

"Don't you start this again!" Dylanne cried. "We don't need a war on our hands!"

"Ugh. Fine." Kali sighed, then stood straighter as Rajani strode out of the Sanctuary's front doors a moment later.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry," she grumbled. "Fenrir and Jericho were being clingy."

"I'm sure," Ink said absentmindedly. "Now, is everyone here?" He looked around, lips moving silently as he counted. "Got the List, Logan?" Kali held up the deep blue marble.

"Yeah."

"Good. Let's hit the road!"

And the two groups were off. They'd made it about halfway to the train station without too much sniping (AN: to me, this means arguing) when Ink's comm began to beep. After the teams ducked into an alley, he picked up.

"Hello?" Pause. "Hi, Mar'i." Pause. "He is? Where?" Pause. "Yes, we'll take care of it. G'bye." There was a peeved look on his face as her put the communicator away.

"So what'd Mar'i want?" Gabriel inquired. Ink gazed around at everyone.

"Magnon's been sighted downtown. Think we can handle 'im?"

"No duh!" Finn exclaimed.

"What he said," Gabriel put in.

"So we're up for this?" Ink asked, a serious look on his face. Receiving impatient nods from everyone, he let out an, "Ok, then. Let's do this!"

Almost simultaneously, everyone voiced the word "dissimulo". In a moment everyone was clothed on their trademark costumes. Kali, known as Wicca in costume, wore a uniform modeled heavily after what her grandmother had used to wear. Sekhmet had on the all black clothes of a ninja, and had a katana in a scabbard strapped to her back. Delusion was dressed in all black, and wore had a cape and a top hat as well. Ink wore shorts and boots only; all his visible skin was covered in tattoos. Phalanx had on a blue and silver uniform, along with light body armor. Cronos' outfit was, basically, pants and a tee with ragged edges that were emblazoned with symbols so alien not even the resident sorceress could tell what they meant.

Kali did a teleportation spell (AN: like in Ch.2), bringing them all to Mar'i's coordinates. As soon as they arrived, they had to scatter to avoid being crushed by falling I-beams. Looking up, everyone found who thy were looking for. A man levitated six feet above the ground, laughing, raising an arm to bring more metal into the air. Ink brought his griffin tattoo to life and sent it up at Magnon. It attacked him, screeching. The man yelled and brought the metal poles down onto the griffin's head, knocking it away. Sekhmet hurled a razor-sharp throwing star at Magnon; he stopped it with a wave of his hand and sent it back at her. She dodged just in time. Finn paused time for a moment so Phalanx could get out from under more falling debris Magnon had thrown at him. Kali muttered constantly under her breath, trying to bring Magnon down to earth with a spell.

The levitating man began to descend, slowly at first, then faster. He panicked and tried to regain altitude, but couldn't do it. Sekhmet leaped at him, katana drawn. Magnon managed to twist the metal away before the ninja could slash at him, but even without her sword, Sekhmet did some damage. She punched him, breaking his nose. Phalanx split up into four, surrounding the fallen villain. Still Kali chanted, keeping the man from getting back into the air. Cronos, Ink, and Delusion moved in closer. By the intensity of Delusion's stare, she was apparently weaving an illusion around Magnon, perhaps making him see more of them than there were.

All of a sudden, despite the blood pouring from his nose, Magnon began to laugh. The group exchanged glances.

"What's so funny?" Cronos wanted to know.

"This!" came a growling voice from behind him. Before anyone could tell what was going on, the boy was lifted high into the air and then dropped. He landed in a heap and didn't move. The two teams spun around.

There, behind them, were the other member of the SS2: Fear. Loathing. Omega. Sixth. And to Kali's horror, Geno-Maxx.

"Happy to thee me, Whith?" he lisped in his annoying, squeaky voice. The other members of the SS2 grinned maliciously. They then attacked.

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Meh. Not happy where this chapter ended, but my sister is screaming for computer time. Oh, well. I'll start working on the next chapter tonight! That is, if my sister's off by then.

Peace and Oreos, Onyx