Here's the next installment. I didn't think I'd get it up so soon. My cousins were over and I didn't think they were leaving 'till like an hour beforeI had leave. I'm going to have Lash and Rihana talk in the next chapter. I won't get it up until Monday I think, so 'till then: Enjoy!
It was now Thursday afternoon and Mrs. Spex thought I was healed enough to go back to class although she had already called my parents to let thme know she was keeping me over the weekend. Not like I could actually go back anyway. With all the homework I had, I'd be lucky if I could get it all done.

"Bye Mrs. Spex," I said as I was walking out the door.

"Come by if you feel anything bothering you around your rib cage," she said as she waved.

"Okay," I said turning around and waving. Not the best idea since someone was behind me. I turned around quickly to see Desta. "Oh, hi Desta."

"I was just going to see if were up yet."

"Yep I'm up and moving. So...gym's next?"

"Yep," she said and we started heading that way.

Like usual gym consisted of "Save the citizen" and as usual Lash and Ace were still undeafeated.

Apparently Ace was feeling better and decided to come back to school. I hadn't seen Ace yet, but Lash came and told me that he finally arrived.

The first thing I heard as Desta and I entered the gym was Boomer telling the last heros how bad they did and why they weren't able to save the citizen.

"Ace, Lash? Hero or villian?"

"Villian," replied Ace, or I'm guessing was Ace. He was about a head shorter than Lash with dirty blonde hair and gray eyes.

"Why am I not suprised?" asked Sonic Boom to his clip board. "Who do you want to go against?"

The boys scanned the risers looking...searching for their prey. "We take," said Lash, still scanning the risers, "Loki?" he asked in suprise.

I looked where he was looking and saw a red head who was a little taller than me waving at the guys.

"Okay," said Boomer inpatiently. "And who else?"

While Lash was in shock of seeing his...what was Loki to him and why was he so astonished to see her? They hadn't been going out, had they? Were they still going out?

While I was lost in my thoughts I hadn't heard who Ace had picked until Boomer got to me. "Stronghold, get down here!"

I looked around dumbly ot see who he was talking too. That was until I saw eyes on me.

Great, more unwanted attention...

I glanced at Lash who was looking hatefully at Ace.

Interesting...

It started out that Lash stretched from one side of the gym and grabbed hold on a poll that was about three quarters of the way to the other side of the gym. Ace backed up into it using it as a slingshot. He shot out and sped right into me.

"Geez, give a girl a heads up before you do that!" I shouted. I tried to teleport away, but, boy, Ace was fast! He slammed me to the floor repeatedly. Then he stopped for a second.

Boy, maybe I wasn't as good as I thought. I was leaning against the side to catch my breath and make sure my sides didn't hurt as much as they did when I left the Mrs. Spex's office. I looked over because I felt eyes watching me, to see if I was alright or to see if I was going to attack, and Lash was looking at me. Although, I'm not sure if he really was or if my eyes were playing tricks on me, because as soon as I looked over Lash looked away.

"Why should we give you a heads up, huh?" sneered Ace. "We're on opposite sides. We shouldn't have to!"

This kid was really going to get on my nerves. I was about to teleport and attack when a huge gust of wind came out of nowhere and tossed him in to the other side of the gym.

Just then striped arms came out of nowhere and bound Loki to the poll.

"I thought we were tight, you and me, Loki. I thought you said you wouldn't attack," whined Ace on his knees on the other side of the gym.

"She has her reasons to attack, Ace," said Lash. "She is on the opposite side."

"I believe what I said during summer was 'I wouldn't attack you for no reason'," she pointed. "Besides, 'We're on opposite sides. We shouldn't have to!'," she mocked as her arms caught on fire and singed Lash. Then she also sent a gust of wind at him and threw him, hard, into a wall.

Oh, how I wanted to go see if he was alright, but I already had a mission: Save the citizen.

Ace glared at Loki and the now unconcious Lash. I decided to take this as my chance to attack. I teleported on to one of the ceiling rafters and used the move I used on Boomer during power placement, but I obviously wasn't going to catch him after he fell.

After he hit the ground, I teleported over to the 'citizen'. How was I supposed to get it? I looked at it. Something that I said to Desdemona went around in my head. "I'm a telep--kinetic."

"That's it!" I whispered to myself. I concentrated as hard as I could on the task before me: Saving the citizen within the next...how much longer? Oh well. No matter what, I was going to get it. I concentrated as hard as I could and fell to my knees to conserve some energy.

My head started pounding, threating to explode if I concentrated any harder. The next thing I knew, the buzzer went off and I heard cheers. I swear I saw the rope snap and the citizen fall over to side of me before I blacked out.


Ree seems to blacking out a lot huh? Well, hope you liked it and I hope you have a fantastic summer, my readers.

And thank you to all my reviewers.

And if you ask me, we need more LashxOC fics. There's not a whole lot out there.

Rihana