Practice Area

Valor took the elevator down to the 40th floor. The doors opened up, and Rick Dicker stood right in front of Valor.

"What's up old man?" he joked. Rick Didn't flinch at all. Valor continued. "Uh, okay, why did you call me over here?"

"Did you hear the news?" questioned Rick.

"Uh, what news?"

"The news about you and your sister Invisigirl fighting each other in public?"

"Oh. . . that. . . well. . . I. . . you see. . . it. . . . well. . ." Valor stammered. "Okay old man. I know you are probably going to kill me, call my parents, arrange a conference, but whatever. I'm having a very bad day, and I just wanna get my punishment over with."

Rick didn't say a word. Then, he turned and walked away. He glanced back at Valor. "Come with me please Valor."

Valor was puzzled, but followed Rick. He went down a long hallway. At the end of that long hallway, there was a silver door. Rick and Valor went through the door. Inside, was a very large gym area.

"Uh, can you tell me why are we in the Practice Area Rick?"

"Son, in all of my years of being in the NSA, I never thought I would use the words "Valor fighting Invisigirl" in that same order. Here, I'll start up the control center for the Practice Area. We'll talk soon enough."

Rick walked over to the control center and started up the Practice Area. Valor stood in the middle. Suddenly, the lights went out and the entire room became dark. then a spotlight shown down on Valor. The swordsman Super transformed his hands into his Fire Swords and prepared for combat.

(Notes: Think of this as the Danger Room in the X-Men comics)

"So Valor, tell me how all this happened." echoed a voice. It was Rick, speaking through a microphone.

"Well, I guess it all started when Violet and I were foiling a robbery." Valor replied. He turned and slashed a creeping robot from behind. "We were dominating. Then the leader of the gang. . ." Valor thrusts his Fire Swords into two charging robot, resulting both machines to erupt in flames. Valor withdraw his Fire Swords then reverted them back to his regular hands. ". . . started to elude the scene. I followed after him, but thanks to Violet. . ." Valor turned and pulled out his V Sword. He sliced the head off of a attacking robot. "I crashed into a building, and almost got killed. By the way, can you turn the level up a little bit? This is all to easy."

Rock turned a dial on the control center. "So, what else happened?"

After slashing a series of robots with his sword, he replied. "Well, we later apologized. The next day however, we saved a bunch of people from a dangling bus." Valor slashed at more attacking robots. He swiped one of it's legs off before slicing off the arms, legs and heads of the other robots. "After that, Mastermind appeared out of nowhere and took mom, dad, and Dash. Violet and I. . ." Valor turned and delivered a series of slashes to a oncoming robot. When he was finish, all that was left of the slashed up robot were many sheets of sliced up metal. ". . . we argued whose fault it was and we sort of got into a physical brawl. Speaking of which. . ." Valor slashes at more and more robots. He ruthlessly slashes every aggressing robot in half. Aggressively, he skewers two robots with his V Sword. Valor lofts them off the ground then slams the two robots back down to earth.

"Valor, I saw your fight with on the news. I remember when Invisigirl was on the ground, wailing in pain in the fetal position. I can also recall you raised you sword, ready to deliver the final bow. Why didn't you?"

Valor froze. He didn't know what to say, let alone the answer to Rick's question. Suddenly, a punch from a robot to the face made the swordsman Super recoil. Valor rabidly slashed the robot in half. After it fell to the floor, Valor spun his saber around before sheathing it. At once, the Practice Area faded away.

"Uh. . . well. . . yeah. . . that part. . . I uh. . ." he stammered. "Why are you asking me this? We made up our minds, and we even told each other we hated each other.

"No you don't"

"What are you talking about? Of course I do! I don't love her anymore."

"Son, don't say things like that, you know you do." guaranteed Rick. "I mean, when she was being completely overwhelmed by Senator Bernard Pine's troops, you came back, even though you were extremely angry at her right?" Valor was absolutely silent. "And remember when Nightmare was about to kill Invisigirl? Was it you who stopped him before she died at his hand? And remember. . ."

"Okay, okay I get it. But what is the point you are trying to make?"

"Remember Valor, a family is not determined by the strength of the relationship, but by the measurement of how far you are willing to go to show you really care for the people you care about most.

Valor was touched by Rick's philosophy but answered, "Um. . . okay. Well I can see that you are a very big help. Let's get something straight. I don't love Violet, I hate her, I hate her, I HATE HER!"

And with that, Valor stomped out of the room. Rick sighed, he knew he was right, but Valor is a stubborn person. It take a while before he listens to other people.