Chapter 3

Serena Thunderman yawns as she stumbles towards the bathroom, nearly running into the wall. Max grabs his sister and corrects her heading, thankful he had left an outfit for her in there. Phoebe's incarceration was up, much to the disappointment of her triplets and Nora. " Max, be careful and keep an eye on Serena. Phoebe will get even, we both know this. " Dr. Colosso says.

Max looks at the evil bunny, using his tk to gather his and Serena's school stuff up while also double checking their homework, " I know, Callista is always with Serena when I'm not seeing as how she can follow her the places I can't. "

" True. You need to be ready to retaliate. " Colosso points out.

" For Serena I always am. " Max says and that was when a loud thud is heard and a long string of Italian invectives follows immediately after.

Max was quick to reach the shared bathroom, he and Serena had no problems seeing each other in varying states of undress, " Ouch, you all right or do I need to help? "

Serena had slipped on the bathroom floor and slammed her left arm hard on the bathtub. Thankfully she was already dressed save for putting her shoes on, her teeth were brushed, face washed, make up, what little she wore, on. " I'm gonna say a yes on the help. Shoes and hair. "

Max helps her up and sighs, looking at her chosen outfit of a black baby tee with a purple jacket on over that, black skinny jeans with purple stitching, and her Eastern Style Dragon bling with purple eyeshadow, black eyeliner, and her nails were painted black as well. " Okay, I'm guessing you're going to be wearing your combat boots, right? "

" The ones specially designed so I can run in them, yep. " Serena says. Neither sibling had mentioned the fact that Ethan Caza was now in Hiddenville and Phoebe didn't know. She rarely hung out with the villain types and Serena had stated she was in between years ago. Neither hero nor villain, Max was firmly in the villain camp while Phoebe was in the hero camp even though she treated her triplet sister like dirt.

Once Max has her foot wear on he quickly gets her hair done, grabs their school bags, and they head upstairs. Serena managing to keep their parents from knowing about her arm. She was hoping to hell it would heal up by the time school ended. Max knew how fast she healed due to her Lunar roots and resolved to keep an eye on his sister. Max immediately places himself between Serena and Phoebe, knowing Phoebe would go after her as soon as she could. Phoebe narrows her eyes briefly, knowing Max would be even more protective of their worthless triplet.

Juuban, Hikawa Shrine:

Luna looks on in disgust as Hino Rei, Sailor Mars, and Kino Makoto, Sailor Jupiter have sex in plain view of the others. Aino Minako, Sailor Venus, was watching them closely while Mizuno Ami, Sailor Mercury, did so discretely while Chiba Mamoru has his way with Tenou Haruka, Sailor Uranus, in the corner, the once proud Uranian reduced to a broken shell of herself. Kaioh Michiru, Sailor Neptune, watches the rape of Haruka with a smirk on her face. Only Tomoe Hotaru, Sailor Saturn looked just as disgusted as the black female feline did.

The pair resign themselves to discussing the issues between themselves when Mamoru finishes with Haruka and makes his way over. Hotaru summons her glaive and aims it at his family jewels. He gets the message and decides to join the Martian and the Jovian. Hotaru and Luna leave and head for the park, " It's disgusting that every meeting essentially turns into an orgy. "

" I know, Luna-san. We cannot let the hime be brought back into this, let her become his toy. " Hotaru murmurs in Saturnian.

Luna nods at this, the young woman was right, the hime could not be dragged into this mess. They had to hope to hell some of the other senshi could keep her safe and away from all of this.

Hiddenville High:

Serena almost cries out in pain when Phoebe seemingly on accident slams her locker door shut on her arm, making sure it jammed. Callista was quick to prop her up so she didn't do more damage to her arm. Phoebe's best friend Cherry never noticed what happened. It was Ethan that found them first and he curses softly before slowly working the jammed door free. " Callista, I'm taking her to the nurse, go get Max. "

Callista nods and races off while Ethan carries the dazed Thunderman to the school nurse. Max pales when Callista comes running up before he meets her halfway. She spins on her heel and explains what had happened. Max made it to the nurse's office before the nurse and curses in Spanish hotly, " Eth, thanks for being there for her. "

" Hey, she doesn't shun me, Max. " Ethan says softly, " Only my mom even knows who my father is, other than me, so take care of that bunny of yours, Max, I'd like him in one piece. "

Max blinks, " Wait, Colosso is your dad? "

" Yep, Serena most likely suspects. " Ethan says as Max takes his sister from him.

Serena cuddles into her brother immediately, knowing she was safe now. The nurse shows up and examines Serena's left arm, she ends up putting it in a sling and calls for the principal. Callista informs the principal of what happened and shockingly enough the cameras caught the incident. Serena was still cuddled into her brother and it pained him to see her so vulnerable. " Max, take your sister home. Callista will gather up your things and assignments. "

" Ethan, can you turn in the rest of our homework, Callista will let you grab that. " Max asks.

" Sure thing, Max, take care of the good triplet. " Ethan says as he and Callista head out.

Max just stands up with his sister and starts the trek home, " Ah, sir, could you call ahead and tell our parents so I don't get in trouble? "

" Sure thing, Max. " the principal says.

Max sighs in relief, he did not need to be yelled at for doing the right thing. Damn Phoebe for doing this to their triplet. Max was going to have a come to Zeus talk with her soon enough. Until that happy occasion protecting his emotionally vulnerable sister had to come first. Looked like Phoebe wouldn't be having her family dinner with Cole that night. She may have tried to make it look like an accident but, her intent was clearly seen by everyone. Barb met them at the front door and tries to run her hand through her middle daughter's bangs only to have her flinch away.

Max sighs, " It's not you mom, she's feeling very vulnerable right now and sees me as the only safe person. "

" It shouldn't be that way. " Barb murmurs as Max heads for the couch and makes himself comfortable, Serena was not going to be letting him go anytime soon.

" It wouldn't be if Phoebe hadn't monopolized yours and dad's time when we were younger when you actually were home. " Max says.

Barb winces at this, " Honey, you're right, you and Serena got shoved to the side a lot of the time and you just learned to turn to each other. "

" That's not it, " Max murmurs, his attention on Serena. They hadn't really minded not getting parental attention, well positive parental attention anyhow. Max was controlling the emotions his sister would feel from him as their parents still didn't know everything they could do.

Eris giggles as she watches her best friend with her brother, oh, the chaos those two could cause and they had finally mastered the power dampeners, there was a bow for Nora, shoelaces for Billy, it had been really hard to come up with something that could withstand his speed, matching bracelets for Max and Serena, and a pendant for Ethan. They made nothing for Phoebe or their parents.

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