Thanks for the reviews! Here is chapter 2!
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"One to five years? We'll be stuck in here for one to five years? I'll be OLD then! Better yet, I'll get sick of you guys!" Danger exclaimed melodramatically.
"Gee, thanks a lot." Ace said glaring at him.
"You're welcome." Danger said smiling.
"Why can't you just teleport us out of here? Then we could go to Bahamas." Lexi said to Danger.
"The-Bahamas?-Can-we-Ace?" Rev asked excitedly.
"NO."
"Aw-why-not?-it'll-be-fun!"
"Because we have a serious situation, we can't be thinking about taking a vacation. Besides you can't teleport that far can ya Duck?"
"I've never tried it, that would be nice though…"
"Well what if, by some accident, you ended up teleporting yourself out there?" Ace asked skeptically.
"Never mind, let's stay here." Danger said quickly.
Just then there was a loud crash. All of the Loonatics whipped around.
"What was that?" Lexi asked.
"I don't know let's find out." Ace said. The group gulped and followed him.
They made their way down the hall. The noise was coming from inside the computer room. (AN: Actually it's the place where they talk to Zadavia, what do they call that anyway?)
Ace flung open the door to reveal three people in the room. They turned, and they had the plague. The blood red eyes, the frothing mouths, reaching.
Lexi and Danger both screamed.
"How'd they get in here?" Ace asked turning to Tech.
"I don't know. They shouldn't have been able to get in at all!"
"Well NOW what do we do oh great fearless leader?" Danger snapped while trying to hide behind Slam.
'We have to fight them!"
"Are you nuts?" Tech exclaimed.
"Well we can't just let them stay in here!" Ace retorted.
"Sure we can, make yourselves right at home fellas." Danger said.
Ace rolled his eyes. "Come on. Let's do this! Just don't get bitten, scratched or touched by them!"
They all looked at each other, and then they went in.
"LEXI! CAN YOU BRAIN BLAST THEM!" Ace yelled as he tried dodging the attacks and getting a clear aim at the diseased people.
"Lexi! We could use a little help here!" Danger said impatiently as he narrowly missed being scratched.
Tech whirled around. "Lexi? What are you looking at? Help us!" He said frantically.
"Hey-what's-wrong-with-her?" Rev asked zipping up to Tech.
"I don't know, it's almost like she's in some sort of trance." Tech said.
"JEEZ!-WATCH-OUT!" Rev screamed shoving Tech out of the way from getting hit by a swiping maniac.
"Whew!-That-was-a-close-one-wasn't-it-Tech?" Rev looked at him to see fear all over his features. Rev moved closer to his friend and then he noticed it.
Five red nail marks were dug into the back of his neck. He had been scratched.
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Voices rang around Lexi, coming all over the place. What surprised her was that each voice wanted to show her something, to take her somewhere.
Lexi reached out with her senses, and heard a young voice calling for help.
"I'm here." Lexi said reaching out to the young girl. They touched and she was instantly swept away into another time, another place.
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Lexi found herself in London around the year 1872. This is what she saw….
The young girl looked at the man curiously. Her long golden hair hung down in gold ringlets.
"James, you're not serious about going out there are you? It's not safe. You'd never survive."
"I have to Alaizabel, it's my job, I hunt creatures like this. I have to do it."
"You don't have to! If you got injured…"
"…You know that I'm cautious, I'll be careful. I promise you that I will come back." That was the last she saw of him as he disappeared out the door, until four months later.
Alaizabel lay on the bed holding her newborn child close, James had not been there.
Suddenly she heard the creak of a door opening and the sound of heavy footsteps on the staircase. She reached out for something hard to hit the intruder with when the door opened and there stood James.
"Oh James, you scared me. Look, this is your new daughter, isn't she lovely?" Alaizabel said proudly.
"Yes, she's gorgeous. Do you mind if I hold her?" James said.
"Of course!" Alaizabel said happily handing over the child.
Then she froze in horror as the baby began to scream and all of a sudden James seemed to transform. His eyes turned the blood red color again.
She screamed. "You've taken her!"
"Yes, and now I'll take you my sweet." He said reaching down and digging his nails into her skin.
"No." She said as it turned into a low moan. Then the family was gone, taken away by the plague.
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Lexi gasped as she was sucked back to where all the voices were. The girl still clutched tightly on to her wrist.
"You're…Alaizabel." The girl nodded. Lexi tried to pull away, but she hung on tightly.
"Please, I can't hurt you. I am only one of these many tortured souls. Can I show you another image? If I show you, it might help you to escape this horrible attack." Alaizabel pleaded.
Lexi looked at the girl's crystal blue eyes, and saw true kindness. She nodded before being sucked into another image, back into the world of 1872.
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A tired woman wandered the streets on London. She knew it wasn't safe, but it wasn't her fault that she had been let out of work late again. She worked wherever she could, no matter how bad the situation might be. She had six children, and none of them could feed themselves.
She wandered tiredly around the streets, wishing that her house wasn't on the other side of town.
Just then a carriage pulled up beside the tired woman.
"Excuse me miss, would you like a ride back to your home? I'll do it for free." The man said.
"Thank you sir. You're so kind. My house is on the other side of town. You can't miss it, it's a small brown wooden house." The woman said climbing into the seat.
The driver nodded before driving off. The woman must of nodded off, for when she woke up the carriage had stopped and the man was opening the door for her.
Instead of letting the woman out, the driver blocked the door and removed the hood he was wearing to reveal a sunken in face, stitched all around, with black bottomless eyes.
"Stitch Face." The woman said backing slowly away from the disfigured man. It was too late, the knife had been thrown into the woman's throat, and she was swept into a world of blackness forever.
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Lexi gasped as she came out of the scene.
"THAT was supposed to HELP me?" She exclaimed.
Then she realized she wasn't in the other world, she was back at her home. All of her teammates gave her weird looks.
"Did you defeat them?" She asked glancing at them.
"Actually, they sort of ran away once they did their job." Danger said.
"Did their job? What do you mean?"
They moved aside revealing a shocked Tech lying on the floor, still clutching the wound.
Lexi thought she was going to be sick. She wobbled a little, Everyone reached out to help her, and by touching her they were swept into the world she had just come out of.
That was when, they saw the most horrifying scene in their whole lives.
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Ooh! Cliffhanger! Please review to find out more of what happens to our superhero buddies!
