I'll be switching from their names to their Scout names a lot so just try and follow along if you can!

The next day at Lakeline Mall...

The girls including Chloe tricked Alex into going to the mall the next day so I could talk things over with him and get him to be cool with me fighting evil. It wasn't going to take up alot of time to do so but it's why we're doing it as soon as we can because we don't have a lot of time left.

"No," he started, shaking his head franctically. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no! No way, Carrie! There's no way! Nuh-uh!"

I rolled my eyes as he kept shaking his head. "Alex, just listen please."

"There's no way, Carrie!" he repeated, walking away from me. "I'm not letting you!"

"It's not your decision to make," I argued, following close behind him. "It's my destiny. I can't throw it away. I can't give it up."

"Nope!" he said sternly. "There is a way and I'm going to find it!"

"Good luck!" I replied in sarcasm. "Just accept this, Alex. I'm one of you."

"Heck no!" he said. "You are not one of us. Your cat got it wrong. She got confused with another Carrie or someone who looks like you."

"Then why do I have this unexplainable powers?" I asked. "The same ones that Sailor Galaxia possesses?"

"It's just your imagination," he said in a pathetic attempt to try to get me give up my destiny.

Can you do that? Give up something that was given to you? Something that can change the world? I don't wanna give it up. I like my powers and even though the fate of the world does rest in my hands, I don't care. It's powers, dude! Who would wanna give them up because of something stupid like that?

"Don't make this anymore harder than it already is," I begged.

"I'm not," he argued. "Just tell me you won't fight and everything will be fine."

"You're being selfish or wahtever it is you're being!" I spat.

"No! You know why I don't want you fighting!" he reminded. "Why won't you listen to me?!"

"Because I'm a big girl, Alex!" I reminded him. "I don't need your protection 24/7!"

"I know you're a big girl, Carrie," he startedm his voice softening. "It's not that. It has nothing to do with that-"

"Then why are you being such an -ss about this?" I asked. "What's you number one reason? Please tell me."

"I don't want you fighting and I'm being so protective of you because you're like my little sister and I'll never forgive myself if something happens to you," he said. "It may not seem like it but you're my responsibility. It's how I feel and the way I think."

I stared at him as he placed a hand behind my neck but I pulled away and a worried look overtook his face. "What if I prove that I can do this?"

He stared stared at me, begging me to give up.

There was no way I was going to let that happen. "If I can kill the next creature the Negaverse sends, then I get to fight with you guys."

"Hurry up and make your decision, Alex cause uh that time's come," Cassie said nervously.

We looked in the direction she was looking in and saw a mass of people screaming and running towards our way. We held our stance.

"Fine."

I looked at Alex as he stared back.

"Prove to me with this one and I'll let you. But if not, you stay away," he said.

I half-smiled and mouthing a "thank you", getting out my transformation charm. "Galaxia High Power!"

The girls and I transformed as did Alex and we were all line, standing before this blue-skinned creature with clothing on that still had the tags on them.

"I'm the Shoplifter and it's time I teach you Scouts a lesson!" she sneered, shooting a hanger at us, which acted like a boomerang.

"Look out!" Moon yelled.

We all dodged it when we could see it coming for us but it came back and took Cassie, Allie, and Jessica by surprise and they went down in pain. Jacey and Alicia came to their rescue while Liz and Michaela went to fight off the creature.

"Uranus World Shaking!"

"Neptune Deep Submerge!"

"Pink Sugar Attack!"

Shoplifter shielded their attacks with shopping bags but it not only shielded them, it repelled back to them.

"Aaaaaaaaaaahhh! Ugh!" Liz, Mich, and Chloe went flying back into the Coffee Beanery, disappearing behind the counter.

"Chloe!" Moon yelled.

"Supreme Thunder Dragon!"

"Silent Grave Surprise!"

Shoplifte did the same but Saturn decided to fight fire with fire.

"Silent Wall!"

Their powers reflected off of her shield and went straight back to Shoplifter where the powers were took quick for her to dodge and she went flying backwards. "Nooooooo!"

"Now!" Jupiter yelled.

I looked at Moon and she looked at me, both of us nodding and we looked back at Shoplifter who was getting up and trying to regain her energy.

"Moon Spiral Heart Attack!"

Like Homecoming last night, I did the same with my Staff. "Galaxia Evaporation!"

Our two powers betwixt together and Shoplifter went bye-bye. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh!..."

Miranda rushed over to Chloe's aid, Jacey to Jessica, Cassie, and Allie, and Leesh to Liz and Mich. I looked over at Alex. He stood with his back against the wall and his arms folded. I slowly approached him with a blank expression, the same one he was giving me. "Well?"

Behind his glasses, I couldn't tell what his eyes were doing or how they looked like. His lips and body were still. "I love you and I trust you, Carrie."

I nodded, still listening,

"And it looks like you don't need my protection when it comes to the Negaverse," he said.

I smiled as he pulled me into a tight hug.