Title: Falling Through Love?

A/N: Yes! Another update! Okay...Well, Horsebookworm, what do you mean by what what? I don't get it. Was it confusing or something? I'm confuzuled!...Okkaaayyyyy...Enjoy chapter 11! Oh, and his will only feature Carmen and her brother, but's its important...

Chapter Eleven: Confusion Rolling Over Sadness

" Oh, my God..."

That was the only phrase Carmen could utter before her mouth went completely dry. Her stomach twisted and her eyes seem to lose focus, her vision blurring from the shock. In front of her, the hall abd living room to her house, was completely torn apart. The two green, flower printed couches in the living room were torn apart, cut in half and just plain mutilated. Pictures that hung on the wall were broken, pieces of shattered glass lay scattered on the wooden floor. The television's screen had been cracked, wires in the back of it cut, with electric sparks flashing. Sheets of paper plastered the floor. A lamp's wire was wraped on a hook -with the lamp hanging- on the wall and she wondered how it had made its way up there. It looked like a scene from the movie, War of the Worlds.

" M-mom...", Carmen whispered, taking a shaky step forward. There was really nothing else she could say.

" Mom?" she yelled, her voice becoming louder. She ran into the kitchen only to be met with another horrible scene; olates lay broken, other dishes, the water in the sink was still running, and two of the legs on the kitchen table were broken, leaving it to stay lying on its side. Who the Hell could have done this?

She changed course, this time running toward the stairs, her feet scrunching on the glass. Her feet worked rapidly on the steps and she approached her brother's room.

" Richard?" she called. No answer.

She opened the door to his bedroom. Just like the rest of the house, it was destroyed. But that didn't matter to her. She needed to find her family. Carmen made her way toward her mother's bedroom and saw the door had been torn off. She stepped over it and looked inside.

" Mom?" she whispered. Again, no answer.

Carmen took a shaky kept taking shaky steps backwardss before she hit the wall. No matter how hard she tried not to cry, she couldn't stop the hot tears from slidding down her cheek to her jaw. Are they...de-No! Then...where are they?, she thought. Did someone hold an old grudge against her mother, or possibly, her father? But he was dead...And her mother wasn't that serious of a Hero...Then, who? Maybe Gwen, or her other comrades were seeking revenge on her and her friends. Wait? Were their houses like this? What if they were hurt, or worse...Panic arose inside her, along with sorrow.

Out of pure confusion, shock and anger, she slid down the wall and wraped her arms around her legs, sobbing loudly. She felt so weak and helpless. There was nothing she could do. Nothing...

A noise made her snap instantly to her feet. She could hear someone...crying? It was faint, but still close. She caustiously made her way toward the noise. Realization dawned on her when she could hear it coming from her brother's room.

" Richard!" she cried out. Quicky, she ran into his room and looked around. Sighing, she knew he was invisble.

" Richard, where are you?" she asked.

There was a long pause.

"...Right here..." he said. She turned toward the closet and watched as it opened slowly. Her brother then became visible. His cheeks were tear stained, while his eyes were puffy. She surveyed him, before finally kneeled down next to him, and hugging him fiercly. Reluctantly, she pulled away, but kept her hands on his shoulder.

" What happened?" she asked firmly, trying to keep her voice light. He wipped the tears from his eyes then looked at her with a horrible sadness that made her want to embrace him once more. She held the feeling back. What was important was the location of their mother.

"...Well...I was up here playing a game", he explained, motioning with his head toward the hooked up PS2, which now lay flat on its side."...Then, I heard this loud crash...S-so, I went to go see what it was... When I was about to go downstairs, mom came rushing up the stairs- she looked really afraid. She told me to become invisble, and hide in my room..." He took in a deep breathe.

" I asked her why but she whispered in a low voice to: Do what I say. So I did. I ran into my room then went into my closet, and became invible. Then there was more crashing as mom kept screaming stuff. Then...then...It became quiet. I heard foot steps so I thought-I thought it was mom. I was about to go out and see when this girl entered my room..." Girl? What girl would do this?, she asked herself.

" What did she look like?" Carmen asked, standing straight up.

" Um...She had black hair. I couldn't really see her, but I think she was about your age...But she looked really mad. I-I think she knew I was there. And stuff just flew everywhere as she walked...And...She kept calling for..." He stopped and hesitated.

" Yes?" she coaxed.

"... She kept calling...for you..."

" Me?" Carmen almost yelled out. What kind of girl, would tear apart her house, kidnap her mom and do it...Because she wanted her? Did this girl have a grudge against her?

" Well, what happened next?" she asked, confusion pulsing through her hair.

" She said stuff like, Where are you? and, Why won't you stop trying? and, Give it up, bi-" his voice broke off before he could say it. Her eyes widened.

" She called me a bitch!" It came out more as a yell than a question. She didn't even know this girl! Or maybe she did...She couldn't quite make out this feeling that she did know this girl. But, stop trying at what? Was there something she should be trying to do? Carmen began to feel the tears building up in the corner's of her eyes due to the amount of confusion and ache spreading through her body and mind.

" Okay..." she breathed, trying to remain calm." I'm going to call my friend and have them help, and by help, I mean by my friend's parent, okay?" Richard nodded.

" Come with me", she said. Richard followed his older sister, stepping over rubble, as she made her way toward the phone. She got near the phone in the living room and quickly pulled it to her ears. Nothing. She looked under the table the phone lay on, and saw how the wires had been destroyed.

" Dammit..." she whispered. Quickly, she made her way toward another phone. She sighed in frustration at the sight of its broken phone hanging on the wall. Her irration, and anxiety grew. As she made her way up the stairs toward the last phone in her house, her brother spoke up.

" Is mom okay?" he asked, his voice a low, sad whisper. She stop and looked at him. It was most likely that she was alive and just abducted, but there was a slight chance...No!, she screamed in her head. This girl probably is using their mother as bait...for herself...

" Yes...She's okay", Carmen told him, giving him a weak smile.

When they found the last phone, it too, lay in fragments of plastic. Carmen inhaled heavily and prayed that her cell phone was unharmed so they had some chance. She stepped gingerly into her room and looked over at the table next to her bed; ignoring the damage. She growled. The table had been torn apart, thus, so did the cell phone.

" Right, um...Richard", she said, turning toward him. Her eyes were full of determination, now." We're going to walk to my friend's house, okay? Just stay close to me. I promise, I won't let anyone hurt you." He nodded and stepped closer to her. She locked her left arm with his riht arm, and they walked slowly down the stairs and out of the house. A rush of cool air brushed against her face, sending shivers down her spine.

As they walked silently toward Layla's house, Carmen was spinning with confusion and bewilderment. What girl would go so far as to kidnapping her mother -almost her brother, too- and destroying her entire house, all because she wanted her? Maybe this had to do with her memory and headache problem. Maybe she knew something that was important-valuable, even? Carmen's throat tightened. Was this girl planning on killing her, because of the facts she knew? Dread, and alarm shot through Carmen look a bullet. Did she have any chance against this girl? Richard did say that objects flew out of her way...Maybe the girl was doing it? Telekinesis, maybe...Okay, think Carmen, think! Black hair...Telekinesis. A menacing stare...Then it hit Carmen...hit her hard...

She fell to her knees, clutching her head. She could vaguely make out her brother's desperate cries. Her vision blurred again, but this time, it made her head fuzzy. A burning fire blazed in her head, sending violent waves of pain screamed in her head. So...much...pain. Her brother's yells for help died, and all she could hear was the buzzing flashing in her mind. Memories, ones she didn't know she had, slammed back into her mind with a painful howl. She was aware that she was actually lost in her own mind, seeing the memories that had been ruthlessly, and sloppily shoved angrily back behind forgotten memories. With a shock, a memory was revealed.

" Together, we'll rule over this world."

" I need to find a way to bring my brother back..."

" He was only five..."

With a jolt she was back on the sidewalk, flat on her back. She turned and saw her brother staring over her and crying. No one seem to notice from their houses; no one came out to see what the comotion was. All that could be heard was the cool wind brushing against the tall trees and the birds singing with a high chorus of chirps. Carmen then sat up with a jolt.

" Richard", she said, pulling him closer so that he would calm down. The old her was back, the one that knew the girl's secret. The girl was Victoria. She had raided her home, destroyed it. Rage knotted in her throat.

" Richard", she said again. He calmed and sat up. She stood on her feet." Okay...What just happened is that I got some memories back. But right now, that's not important. We have to hurry..."

He nodded and they, once again, went toward Layla's house. She needed to get toward an adult soon, someone who could contact someone like Principal Powers. Maybe she could help. There's no way Victoria could elude the Super-heros. Or maybe she could? After all, she seemed intelligent enough. Then, she stopped and her breathe caught. Maybe she had taken her mother as a warning. A warning, that is she told any high supreme being in the super-hero world, any super-hero...that her mother would be killed.

Her brother had also stopped and starred at her apprehensively. " What's wrong?" he asked.

" Mom...", she whispered, then her eyes flashed with new alarm." Michael!"

She had forgotten all about him. He was absent today. Victoria needed him to bring back her brother.

" Together, we'll rule over this world." The words repeated in her head. If she had Michael, then maybe Victoria's brother had already been revived. But how was she going to be able to get rid of all the super-beings? Unless...was Victoria's brother that powerful?

" Are you alright?" her brother asked, looking up at her with his large, brown eyes. Even kids like her younger brother were in grave danger. Her friends. Everyone...

" No..." she whispered. Then she shook her head and blinked. Her eyes narrowed, and new anger pulsed through her. Standing here and feeling helpless wasn't going to stop Victoria. Crying like a child wasn't going to hault Victoria.

Carmen brushed her brown hair nehind her hair and grabbed her brother.

" Let's go..." They started walking again. Time to fight back...

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A/N: Oh, brother. Them be fight'n words:D. Okay, okay...See, I updated in one day, givin you 2 chapters! See, I'm nice...Sometimes. If u review, I'll update faster. And u LashxOC fans will be pleased ;D...OoOoOo. Sorry for any spelling/grammar errors.