Please don't kill me! I know that this update is really late but I have been swamped with other activities! Anyway, here's the final chapter to The Haunting!

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Ace's eyes fluttered open to the sound of muffled voices. All he saw above him was a white ceiling. Suddenly, a face loomed over him. He could only recognize itas Tech.

"How ya feelin' chief?" Tech asked slowly.

"OK…What happened?"

"You've been in a coma for about a month now. The tower collapsed on us. Remember that huge explosion?"

Ace screwed up his face trying to remember. "The last thing I remember was us all sitting around the table eating pizza, and you and Duck were arguing over his obsession with Misty Breeze."

Tech gave a small smile. "Ace, that was five years ago. We're not in the year 2772 anymore, we're in the year2777 now."

Ace stared at him shocked. "But, you don't even look older." He protested.

Tech sighed. "Ace, you don't remember the Haunting at all? Days pass by as months. No one has aged a day. The only thing that's changed is the year we're in."

Ace stared at him like he had just sprouted two additional heads. "The Haunting…?"

"Yes, it was the biggest outbreak to ever reach Acmetropolis. I'm surprised you don't remember it. An ambulance from the next town came and took us down to their hospital. I was still sort of out of it, but you were talking the whole way down to one of the doctors."

"What was I talking about?" Ace asked still confused.

"I couldn't really hear you. I just know you were really out of it. You might've been going through some sort of hallucination. I just remember how you were talking about what a pretty blue the sky was…"

Ace looked at him. "What shocks me the most is I actually said something like that." He muttered.

Tech sat down. "Maybe if I explain what happened it might trigger a memory…

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Everything seemed to be moving in slow motion. Ace glanced over at Tech to see what his expression was. Ace had known that they were unbeatable when they used all their powers together, but he didn't actually think that the whole tower would collapse by using them all at once. All he meant to do was for them all to use their powers to break Alaizabel's life source that was keeping her alive. He didn't actually mean for it to kill all of them.

As the floor trembled, and the roof gave in, Ace could hear Alaizabel's screams, and the wails of those affected by the Haunting as they tried to escape their doom. As the roof collapsed on top of Alaizabel, he knew that she was dead. Everything went dead quiet except for the tower caving in. At least he would die knowing that the Haunting was over, and that the people of Acmetropolis were saved…

Ace awoke a few hours later. How long had they been here for? A day? A week? A month? A year? Ace stared at the surroundings of the tower which was now nothing but a pile of rubble. He wanted so badly to go back to sleep and wish all his worries away, but a noise stopped him. It sounded as if someone was moving underneath the rubble. A pink gloved hand emerged and Ace's heart stopped.

He crawled over to the form, noting that both him and her were the only ones conscious. He removed the rubble to show Lexi. She had a pained expression on her face. He looked down at the pool of blood surrounding her waist. He swallowed hard. He realized that the biggest pile of rubble that was on top of her, was holding her together.

"Hey Lex." He said softly.

"Hi Ace." She replied weakly.

"Do you feel any pain?" He asked as he tried to choke back tears.

"…Not much…"

"That's good." Ace whispered squeezing her hand. He knew that he would be the last one to see his teammate alive.

"Ace?" She asked weakly.

He glanced over at her.

"Tell Rev to always run…To run faster until he can't run anymore. To enjoy every moment of the feeling of racing faster than anyone. Tell Slam to always be strong, to use his strength and to be proud of it. Tell Tech to always use that big brain of his to get you all out of any situation. And Ace…always be the leader, always be strong for us. You have no idea how much we look up to you. And tell Duck to…"

Ace waited as Lexi tried to regain her breath.

"…to sail away…" And she slowly faded away.

Ace tried to think of what her last words meant. Why would Duck sail away? He tried thinking of it, but he ended up passing out instead. Blackness slowly came to welcome him…warm…and inviting…"

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Ace sat bolt upright to find himself back in the tower. What the heck was he doing here? Didn't the tower collapse? Then he remembered Tech explaining to him that over the past month the whole town had pitched in to rebuild the tower...But what else had happened? It was still all a blur to him...Like a dream he couldn't remember.

Then it all came flooding back to him now. After Tech had explained the Haunting, Ace remembered some parts of it. He never did have any dreams about it though. Almost a week ago he came home, but he still had to be on bed rest. Everyone had been extremely helpful towards him. His mind was scrambled in some parts, and he hadn't even noticed Lexi was gone until that nightmare…

The door hissed open to reveal Tech himself walking in with breakfast and his medication.

"Hi Ace, how are you feeling today?" Tech asked.

"…I had forgotten…" Ace trailed off.

Tech turned and looked patiently at him. Ever since the explosion, Ace drifted in and out of where his mind was. Often drifting into his own little world, it became difficult for Ace to keep track of what day it was. He could remember how to do everything else, except he kept on going through short stages of memory loss, often wondering where he was and how he had gotten there. A few times Ace had actually dozed off in the middle of a conversation without even realizing it. This made him unable to return as leader.

Tech waited a few more minutes, realizing that Ace had drifted off again. "Ace? What have you forgotten?"

"Did you ever notice that every day looks brighter and brighter?" Ace asked.

There it was again. Ace often forgot what he was talking about, and he would move onto a different subject every few minutes. The rest of the team had learned to keep up with him by this time.

"Ace? You just said that you had forgotten something, what was it?"

"What? Oh, I said I had forgotten about Lexi…" Ace trailed off.

"…Did you have a dream about her?" Tech asked recovering from his sudden shock. The doctors had mentioned that bits and pieces of the explosion would return as time moved on. This was such a painful subject to talk about…

"Yeah. How did they find her?"

Tech was startled by the question, and he shifted uncomfortably from foot to foot.

"I don't know Ace. I just remember waking up and the doctors informing me that she had died. They said they found a huge pile of rubble on her and…"

"…It was holding her together." Ace interrupted.

"What?"

"I said it was holding her together. I almost moved it off of her, but I didn't. There was a lot of blood around her waist line. I knew that she had probably been cut straight through. The rubble held her together from being in two pieces. She talked to me for a little while and then she died…" Ace's eyes grew foggy at the memory.

Tech shifted uncomfortably. He never really was good at handling death. He really couldn't break down. It was almost embarrassing if someone saw him cry. Usually he would just go cold inside for a little while before finally coming out of it and moving on in his life. When the doctors told him about Lexi, it didn't even bother him at all. It was probably because his 'scientific' side knew that one day this wouldhappen toeveryone, and that's why death never really bothered him a lot. Still, the look on Ace's face, and that vivd picture in his mind was enough to make him collapse.

"She said something. Something about sailing…" Ace broke the awkward silence. Tech knew he was talking to himself and not him.

"Rev should always run, Slam should always use his strength, I should always be a good leader, Tech always needs to use his brain to help us out, and Duck should sail away," He looked up at Tech confused. "I don't get it. Why would Duck want to sail away?"

"She might have been hallucinating and she was probably seeing a flashback of something that happened a while ago. I could ask Duck…It might upset him though." Tech said lowering his eyes to the floor.

"Upset about what?" Ace asked.

Tech rubbed his temples. "Ace, you just went on for the past ten minutes about Lexi's death and her last words now you can't even remember!" Tech snapped trying to calm down.

"Lexi's death? Last words? Tech I think you've lost it. Lexi's standin' right behind ya."

Tech whipped around to an empty room.

"Ace, it's just us. Lexi's not in the room. She's gone."

It was too late. Ace was basically all ready carrying on a conversation with the wall.

"Lex, I had the weirdest dream. There was something called the Haunting and…"

Tech raced out of the room not being able to hear anymore of Ace's hallucinations that he got every once in a while.

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The door bell rang. Tech glanced up to see Rev, Duck, and Slam all staring at the TV.

He sighed, putting down his book, and going to go answer the door.

He was surprised to find a young teenage rabbit around the age of twelve or thirteen. She had golden fir, and emerald green eyes. She was wearing a purple sweater that read "Dance" in silver letters along with black jeans and high top sneakers. She smiled up at Tech.

"Hi, I'm Jenna Bunny. I'm Lexi Bunny's little sister." Jenna replied smiling at Tech.

Tech's heart stopped, and his mind froze. This was Jenna? The last time he had seen Jenna was in that flashback Alaizabel had thrown at them. Jenna had only been one at the time…

He looked down at her smiling face and started sputtering. "Tech…Tech Coyote. I am so sorry about your sister…I can't even imagine what you must be going through…I swear I didn't do it though…It wasn't my fault…I mean with the death of your father and everything I'm sure this is the last thing your family needs right now is another death in the family…"

"Whoa. Calm down. Death? Lexi's death? What are you talking about? I came to tell you that Lexi wants to see all of you in the rehab hospital." Jenna said confused.

Tech stared at her. "Wait…Lexi's alive? She died, about a month ago. I just heard it from one of our teammates. He said so himself she was basically torn into two pieces. Ace is hallucinating right now but his mind is pretty clear whenever he gets a flashback like that…"

Jenna gave a sheepish smile. "I'm sorry that one of your teammates thought that. Lexi was practically in two pieces. She was cut up pretty badly. When they found her body they almost couldn't lift her, she was so fragile. We did find your teammate lying right next to her. I thought she was dead at first too. Her eyes were wide open. It turns out…that she had gone into a coma, come out of it, and then gone into one again. Her mind was giving her the impression that she was going to die because she was in so much pain." Jenna said.

"So…So…where was she taken?"

"To another hospital where they had better equipment to help her, do you want to just see her by yourself first? She's very much alive. All though she is still weak…" Jenna didn't even have a chance to finish her sentence as Tech raced out the door ahead of her.

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Somewhere at a rehab hospital…

Lexi looked up as she heard a knock at the door. She sat up slowly, putting down the magazine that she had been reading.

The door opened slowly, and her sister's head popped in the doorway.

"Hey, Lex. One of your teammates came to see you." Jenna said.

Lexi looked at her blankly. "Teammates…?"

Jenna's smile faded. "Remember Lexi? You joined a team called the Loonatics? They helped to protect Acmetropolis?"

Lexi merely stared at her sister, her eyes blank. "There's no such thing as the Loonatics." She finally said monotonously.

Jenna gave a frustrated sigh, knowing that she was keeping Tech waiting. "Lex, they're not dead. I know you thought that for the longest time, but they're not."

There was no reply.

Finally, Jenna gave up, and just ushered Tech into the room.

Lexi looked at Tech for a long while.

"How are you feeling?" Tech asked awkwardly.

"I don't know. I feel sort of dead, I suppose you could say."

Tech gave a small attempt at a smile.

"Why didn't you ever come to see me?" Lexi asked.

"We all thought you were dead, we had no idea that you had survived the Haunting…" Tech trailed off.

Lexi gave a small chuckle. "You fool! The Haunting can not simply disappear…It still lives on…You just can't see it. Did you really think that you could beat me? Did you?" Lexi exclaimed, her voice changing to a hiss.

Tech's eyes widened in shock. "A…Alaizabel? That's impossible…You died…We all watched you die…"

Lexi/Alaizabel laughed. 'Now you will suffer for every cursed thing that you have brought down upon me!" She shrieked. Tech felt Jenna grab both of his arms, as Lexi raised a knife, high over her head.

Tech screamed.

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Tech sat up bolt upright in bed, and gave a shuddering sigh. He looked at the clock that read 2:30 in the morning. Tech got up and gazed out the window at the stars.

This had been the third night in a row that he had had that dream that Lexi was alive, and then she turned out to be Alaizabel, coming back to get her revenge.

He sighed again. The Loonatics were forever broken, and forever scarred. Their one true leader was in no condition to fight, due to his coma. Danger never spoke, Slam seemed to have stopped eating, and Rev had lost the heart to run. Even Tech himself had given up his love for creating new inventions. It was almost as if, when Lexi died, a part of the rest of the team had died with her. Although the Haunting may have been destroyed, they were all scarred. How could they be happy, when this event had taken so many people from them? Especially a teammate that they had loved the most? Everyone felt that they would never be happy again, and they probably wouldn't at the rate they were going.

Tech glanced up at the sky, one last time, and finally allowed the tears to come.

"Goodbye Lexi…" He whispered, before disappearing into his room again.

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So…Did everyone like it? I hope so! It was hard for me to actually end this story! I've been thinking of creating a sequel, if you'd like to have one, please say so in your review. So…On that note…Please review! LOL! I really hope everyone enjoyed it, and I hope you liked how I put a slight twist on things in the story. :-)