The engines died as the crew came upon the familiar warehouse. Axel stepped out of his ride and took off his helmet tossing it on the inside. Lioness jumped off her bike and did the same laying her helmet on the seat and began to walk next to hawk who landed nearby. King appeared on her other side and the four stood side by side looking at the warehouse. A sunrise was beginning over the river shedding light on the team but their faces were serious and hard. The wind tossed by picking up some of lioness' hair. They all stood looking at the building, the one that brought back harsh memories. Hawk was the first to walk forward followed by axel, then king. Lioness held back a little and did a half turn towards the empty road. She tried to catch a glimpse of an approaching shark but an emptiness filled the space instead. She heard someone call her name and she quickly jumped back into reality. Jogging over to kings' side she clenched her fists and put her hands behind her head.

"Shark better hurry up and get here, or the fun is going to start without him," king said flicking a piece of dirt off his shoulder.

"Shark will be fine, for now we are just going to have to handle things by ourselves," axel replied stopping at the front door.

There was an eerie silence and axel looked at everyone before grabbing his tag blaster, (with the others following) and gently pushed open the door. The team scurried inside staying close to the rotten wood walls. Lioness held her blaster to her chest and glanced back at the door just before it closed. Shark still wasn't there. There was a creak along the floor and the team held their breathe. It quickly passed and they crouched running through the empty hallways. Hawk went ahead and looked into the open assembly room. Turning back he shook his head and axel straightened up.

"Alright team first priority, find Paine. We'll have to split into two groups and search the ware house." Axel stated when a rush of air passed over them. The team raised there arms to block their faces from the dust and closed their eyes. Lioness looked up as the dust began to disperse and saw flesh, spydah, and Paine standing in the ware house.

"I guess we won't have to," lioness remarked and Paine smiled at them.

"Nice to see you again manning," was all Paine said as the two glared down at each other.

Axel grit his teeth and rushed forward. Paine stood still while spydah and flesh jumped away from his sides to confront the team. King went after flesh and hawk and lioness went for spydah. A metal leg came flying towards the two, hawk dodging to the side and lioness back flipped out of the way. Doing a series of flips lioness got closer and kicked spydah in the face followed by a jump kick from hawk. She grinned but turned her head to the side and saw a metal leg in front of her face, and some of her hair falling to the side. Hawk suddenly grabbed lioness on her side and pushed her away from another leg that pierced her pervious position. Meanwhile king stood moving his fingers while flesh sort of growled and did the same. Running forward the two meet hand to hand pushing towards the other. Sweat dropped off kings' face while flesh brought around a leg kick forcing him to break away. King dodged a few attacks but it seemed harder than before.

"Where is that fool shark?" king said while rolling out of the way of a foot.

"He should have been here by now," lioness said while holding a rather powerful metal leg from her chest.

Back at the river

Shark sat leaning up against his yellow bike with arms folded on his chest. He placed a foot on the ground and took a deep sigh. Somehow or another he had managed to be within sight of the warehouse but he was on the other side of the river.
"dude I just made a complete circle," he told himself leaning forward on the handle bars arms crossed.

Shark sighed again and placed a foot on the accelerator, revving the engine once again. He sped up the bike sending up a wave of dirt and turned around in place. Placing both feet on the bike he took off in the right direction.

"By the time I get there it's going to be over already!" he told himself turning down a street corner. He noticed a sign for an alternate route for getting over the river and let out a chuckle.

"Finally,"

With a right turn he popped a small wheelie and went under a tunnel losing the signal from the communicator.

dun dun da

sorry the line thing wasn't working when I tried to upload this and I didn't want to make you guys wait any longer.

I am EXTERMELY sorry for the late update. School just started and with homework, school, dinner, parents, and a sister it is kind of hard to get on. I absolutely love the reviews though! You guys make me feel so special that I write more! I should start working on my other sharkness stuff but I haven't gotten around to it lately.

I promise the next chapter will be up a lot sooner than this one, being a junior is hard work! I hope you enjoyed it!

you know, I started writing this after I saw the third episode of A.T.O.M. I thought i would just let you know! Just a fun tid bit of information.I believe it was the first fanfic about it.