"What?" Hissed Rayne, finally saying something.

"You killed mom? How? She didn't even know where you were!" Byrn asked amazed.

"She found me," was all he said as he sat back down trying to regain composure.

Terra didn't say anything. Her body was numb. Her father had killed her mother…it didn't matter if it was intentional or not…he killed her mother. She loved her mother a hell of a lot more than she could ever love this…man before her. All of a sudden she felt dizzy, from anger, confusion, and hurt. There was a dangerous sensation of rage building in her chest. Her eyes felt heavy and the floor started shaking violently.

"Ohmigod, she started one," was the last thing she heard from Gail before she lost her consciousness.

Zach tapped his pencil nervously, that bad feeling was growing worse. He hadn't seen any of the sisters all day…it was almost time to leave school. Were they okay? Did they visit their dad? Maybe it was a fantasy but he really hoped it was nothing but fuzzy reconciling feelings between all of them.

"Zach, do you have Parkinson's?" Magenta turned around and whispered annoyed.

"Nuh-uh," he jumped.

"Then stop involuntarily kicking my seat," he demanded. He willed his leg to stop jumping around. Finally the bell rang and he jumped up and was out the door in a flash.

"Wait up!" Will shouted, seeing his amigo was not all well, and hadn't been all day.

"Dude, something is totally wrong. Can you feel it?" Zach asked, wild-eyed touching nothing but the air. Will thought maybe his friend was loosing it. Zach was loosing it. Big time. Layla hopped down to join them and saw Zach's hypnotized, worried stare into nothing. She gave Will a look. Will gave a look back saying 'Zach-is-losing-it-big-time.'

Magenta and Ethan joined the group shortly after getting their books out of their lockers.

"Is he okay?" Ethan asked concerned.

"He has Parkinson's," Magenta teased.

"Not likely since that develops around later years of life, " Ethan pointed out.

"Guys, I gotta go to the prison," Zach snapped out of his weird silent moment and turned on them. He ran straight into Warren. Warren was having a good day. Why was Warren having a good day? Zach looked at the fiery lad and saw that he was holding hands with Crystal. They must have decided to end their 'break.'

"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Warren asked.

"Jail,"

Warren looked doubtful.

"I mean, I'm going over to the jail because I have a feeling Terra is in trouble,"

"Are you kidding me? Do you have some sort of psychic connection with that chick?" Warren mocked, jeez Zach was more obsessed with Terra than he thought.

"No…they went there today to see him," Zach explained.

It didn't take long for his instincts to be correct, of course. There was a sudden darkening of the sky and no one thought it was just an unexpected thunderstorm. The mass of thunderhead piled higher and higher over the city a couple miles away. Being up in the air, all could see where the clouds were settling over. The State prison.

"Holy," Ethan breathed. Lightening cracked and struck the grounds.

"We have to get over there," Will decided and was about to take off.

Zach followed, even though the looming thunderhead was definitely a product of Rayne, and he was still traumatized by her previous threats. If Terra was in danger though, he'd risk being traumatized all over again.

They all fought the mass of hail and wind that surrounded the entire outside of the prison. One thing they wanted to know was why their parents hadn't showed up?

"Dude, where's your parents?" Zach screamed over the whistling wind, his blonde hair being thrashed about, and into his face.

"I think they went to a conference in Japan! You know how they always have those Godzilla-like creatures attacking in that part of the world! They were trying to figure out how to cut down on the attacks!" Will screamed back, fighting as hard as he could against hail. Layla was busy making the weeds in the crack of the sidewalk grow and wrap around her to anchor her, and then just continue up the road in that manner. Warren and Crystal were struggling along like Will and Zack. Magenta must have turned into a guinea pig and taken an underground way. Ethan just oozed along with them all.

With all the low hanging rain clouds and the wind blowing everyone's hair into their faces, they could hardly make out what direction they were headed. Will's foot hit something soft and he jumped back startled. A body lay before him. Kicking into to hero-mode he quickly bent over to check if the person was dead. It was a prison guard, and they were not dead but out cold.

"What's that?" Zach asked coming to Will's side.

"A guard of the prison," Will stood back up and turned around. The hail was pea sized so it wasn't hurting the kids, just overly annoying when it hit them in the heads.

"There are a lot more!" They heard Layla's faint voice even though she was only a couple feet ahead.

Ethan reformed into a solid human and said, "If these are guards then where is the prison?"

"We're in it!" Warren shouted, they couldn't see him but traveled over to where he was. There were the remains of a concrete block wall. The prison was 50 feet tall and the now devastated wall was only as tall as Will.

"What happened to it?" Magenta suddenly appeared next to them.

"It was destroyed somehow," Ethan filled her in.

"What did you find underground?" Will asked.

"I thought I was in the sewer to the prison bathrooms, but when I popped out of the pipe, there was only hail and wind, and there are a lot of people collapsed. They need help but the ambulances and cops can't get onto the premises because of all this damn wind and hail." Was Magenta's answer.

"Right. Ethan, Magenta, Layla, and Zach, you guys start trying to help whomever out of this hailstorm. The rest of us will find out what's going on," Will took action.

They agreed…well most of them but Zach suddenly stepped further into the chaos. "No, I'm going to find Terra."

Will stared at his friend surprised; Zach wasn't one to question the 'plan'. That is, when Will ever came up with one.

"This isn't a time to play hero to your little girlfriend, Zach. She's probably gone off and is the cause of this lack of prison!" Warren yelled.

"You know what, we don't know. You might need me and I'm coming!" Zach sassed back bravely.

"Fine then. We're wasting time, lets get in there," Will shouted and continued on. Zach and Warren glared at each other but then followed. Magenta, Layla, and Ethan started hauling bodies back towards the clear zones.

The wind was getting stronger and the hail was increasing in size as they went further into the torrent.

"Stop!" Warren shouted all of a sudden.

"Why!" all of them asked at the same time.

"Something is on fire and it's not my fault!" Will smelled smoke, now that he took notice.

Zach couldn't see any of his comrades, he looked around furiously and took some more steps in the direction he thought they were but suddenly the wind and hail were gone. It was like he just stepped through an invisible wall. Facing forward, what he saw made him retreat a step back a foot into the weather mess. Felix Cordis was in the middle of the pocket of calm with his arms out. He was strained Zach could see because his four daughters were surrounding him, with those scary glazed over looks in their eyes. Bryn was waving her hands in all sorts of directions, fighting his fire with hers. Rayne had her arms raised over her head as chucks of ice tried pelting her father but he was dodging that as well. Gail's winds were swirling around but not in here. Somehow, he was counteracting their powers with his, creating a safe pocket but a mess everywhere outside of it.

Terra was sitting on the ground with her hands on the floor, staring at her father.

Zach, had the urge to go to her but a chunk of hail hit him in the head.

"OW!" he yelled and rubbed it. That broke everyone's concentration.

Felix looked up sharply at the blonde boy and for a split second, and in that second, Rayne's hail penetrated the shield they were in and went directly for Cordis. He was slammed multiple times, backward into the ground.

"STOP!" Zach cried. The sisters were catatonic, and ignored him.

"Zach?" He heard Will's voice as his friends finally found the point of origin.

"They're gonna kill him," Zach pointed.

Will ran forward and grabbed Rayne to pick her up but he was slammed by more hail. Byrn threw her hands at them and fire exploded in front of their faces. Crystal reacted by freezing it. Warren threw some fire Bryn's direction.

Felix was on the ground. Not showing signs of movement. Zach hopped over to his side while Will and the other two battled the sisters.

"Felix. Felix my man, wake up!" Zach shook his shoulder. Felix grumbled and slitted his eyes open.

"My daughters are doomed," he gurgled.

"It's going to be okay, they'll snap out of it." Zach tried o reassure, mostly himself though.

Felix managed to shake his head, "And how many will die before they do?"

That line hit Zach with a dose of sad reality. He looked up and saw Will being thrashed about by Gail and Rayne. Warren and Crystal were both trying to take Bryn out but it was far from working.

Terra was staring at Zach and Felix, sitting, not moving at all.

"Did Terra do anything yet?" Zach wondered aloud and Felix heard.

"The prison. She took it out, the walls fell onto many people and the other criminals escaped. She then took a seat and looked in stupefied wonder as her sisters ganged up around me and tried to destroy me. " Felix gasped, his breathing getting heavy. Was he dying? He checked Felix out, with his x-ray emission, and found that the hail had slammed Felix's ribs out of alignment. Damn.

"I wonder…. what she's thinking," Felix said. Zach looked at Terra and wondered what she was thinking too. Then he realized Felix lay limp and his life was gone. He really was the most tragic man that ever lived.

How was this all going to stop? Zach thought as he stared at Terra, staring at him. She had said that all it took was for one sister to snap out of it and it would end. That's right, all he had to do was approach her and snap her out of it. He crawled up to her and sat directly in front of her. If she knew he was there, she didn't show any sign.

"Terra? Terra? Snap out of it Terra. People are getting hurt, and your dad is gone," Zach tried to talk to her.

Will and the others were loosing quickly to her sisters' wraths, he had to resolve this as soon as possible.

Zach sighed. "Terra, I love you. I wish you didn't have such unstable powers, but…you do. I'm not one to try and make people change but I'd really appreciate it if you would stop looking at me like a zombie. It's really creeping me out. " He smiled, wondering if she was even listening, but continued nonetheless. "I've never met a girl like you before, and I won't met another ever again so PLEASE, please just say something."

He could make out the Sunny D, Tropicana, and Minute Maid orange of her eyes through the pale glaze.

He sighed again, realizing that even if this did end now, there was nothing to keep it from happening again.

"I can't. do. anything," Terra's voice penetrated his thoughts. Her voice was raspy and sad and tired all in one.

"Terra!" he instinctively grabbed her hand. She wouldn't hold though.

"No,"

"What's wrong?" he asked…then thought about it and decided that wasn't the right question to be asking since everything was wrong at the moment.

"Kill me," she demanded. There she was, giving permission to kill again.

"Hell no!"

"They will die if you don't,"

He looked back to Will, Warren, and Crystal, and they were losing big time.

"Isn't there another way?" he asked desperately, tears of anxiety forming in the corners of his eyes, obscuring his vision.

"If you loved me, you would kill me," Terra spoke, chillingly because her face showed no emotion as she talked.

"That doesn't make sense!" Zach argued.

Will cried out all of a sudden and dropped to the ground under Gail's heavy wind and Rayne's chunks of hail.

"Then so be it,"

Zach's heart broke right about then. His brain was in a tizzy. He was obligated to save his friends and the city, but he LOVED her.

He took Terra into his arms and held her to him. Stroking her hair from her face, he let out a choked sob before he bent over and kissed her. It was amazing and yet horrifying. He could feel the pressure of her power. She would not send a tremor through him; she was fighting as well as he was. He willed his mind to concentrate and locate the exact kind of ray to put a stop to it all. As he kissed her started to glow brightly, the light broke through the mile of chaos. The population of the city, who were standing around the border of the mess saw the light and wondered what the hell was going on in there.

He kissed Terra and thought of all the good times they had and how wonderful she was.

It was a full minute before he unlocked his lips from hers and he screamed in anger and pain and what he had just done. Terra lay in his arms without movement. The hail, wind, and fire had dissipated because the Matters sisters were all lying, motionless on the ground.

"What the hell just happened?" warren asked in bafflement.

"They stopped," Will sat up gingerly and said in a strained voice.

Layla, Magenta, and Ethan showed up then, to ask what had happened. They, for the most part, had gotten all the unconscious victims to the outside of the mess and to the ambulances that had been waiting there. Then the storm stopped suddenly. They all stared at Zach who was staring at Terra with his tears free flowing. He had to do it. He knew now, how Felix had felt after destroying his ladylove. It felt terrible; to end the one you loved.

Crystal kneeled down next to Zach and poked him the shoulder gently, "What happened, Zach?" she asked barely a whisper.

"Gamma rays," was all he said, sniffing and sniffing his tears back. "If you stop one, then you stop them all."

Layla realized what he meant and started crying, Magenta grabbed her and tried comforting her.

"For what it's worth, you're a hero," Will tried to lighten the atmosphere.

But the atmosphere could not be lightened. The cops and ambulance's sirens moved closer and surrounded them. Everyone thought Zach was a hero, that's what he would be called in history. He had stopped the damages that the sisters had created.

But he knew he would never feel like hero as he held her lifeless body.