Author's Note: Sadly, the story is getting nearer to the end! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR LOVELY REVIEWS! Without them, I would never finish this story! When the story is done, I would still do shout outs by posting a "chapter" called shout outs! Here it is!

Chapter 21: You earned it

There was only darkness that surrounded the mysteriously object. It slowly opened, seeing the darkness being ripped apart as the bright light entered in.

"Sam…" A soft voice said. However, the vision was oh so very blurry as it faded into darkness once more…

Voices…

One voice sounded like it was crying.

"Is it… defeated?" Sam asked, weakly.

"Oh my God! Sam!" A familiar voice rushed towards the weak girl. Sam's vision was still blurry but she managed to make out who was the blonde-haired girl.

"C-Cathy?" Sam slowly stirred.

"I can't believe you! Why would you do such a thing that could you literally kill you!" Cathy shrilled as tears brimmed her blue eyes.

"Hey… at least, I made it. Besides… I couldn't bear to see my friends' dead…" Sam answered, still weakly.

"For your earlier question, yes… it got defeated. We think that when you stepped in, we believe that the attack backfired it." Chris explained.

Sam nodded before the darkness took over her…

-Later-

Sam headed her way to the clubhouse, running. The three friends told her that they have to tell her something and it was important.

At last, she reached the familiar Clubhouse, entering in.

"Hey guys! Sorry I was late; my mom got me detained." Sam apologized.

"It's alright." Cathy reassured her. "Really glad to see you alive!" Cathy hugged the young girl.

"So… what's the news?" Sam asked, after breaking apart.

"Congratulations, Sam!" Chris congratulated her before tossing something to her. She caught it but her other hand covered the object.

"For what?" Sam asked, puzzled.

"You earned it." Chris said as Sam revealed. In her hands was-

"A V-Com!" Sam breathed, looking at the yellow V-com then at the three. "Y-you guys are… serious?"

Danny nodded. "After helping us to defeat many aliens, you proved that you can be an MBC member. Consider yourself an official member!"

"I-I don't know how to thank you!" Sam replied who looked like on the verge of crying. After hugging Chris and Cathy, she came to a halt, facing Danny.

It took a moment before Danny replied:

"Welcome to the MBC." Sam threw herself to hug him even though it was off-guard for Danny; the other two smiled. When Sam broke apart, a voice startled Danny who fell to the ground.

"Woah!" Danny shrieked in startle, falling down to the ground.

"Oh Commander… I didn't expect you to show up." Cathy said.

"Well now you did. Danny… why are you on the floor?" Commander asked.

Danny couldn't answer, a rather sarcastic answer because Cathy was giving him a don't-say-a-thing-or-you-will-regret-it look.

"I fell." Danny answered, glaring at Cathy.

"Anyways, I just want to say that I am so sorry for banning you from the MBC." He apologized as Danny got up.

"Oh it's noth-wait you what?" Danny asked, dumb-founded. Did he hear right?"

"I'm sorry for banning you from the MBC." He repeated, "After seeing what you did, I had re-considered that… you are now unbanned from the MBC. Welcome back, Danny!" Suddenly, something was on his wrist. He slid his sleeve to find that his familiar red V-com was back.

"Alright! I'm back on the team!" He cheered, happily while feeling the power surging through his body.

"Oh… congratulations on making the team, Sam!"

"Thanks, Commander… I-I mean Sir." Sam stuttered.

"Feel free to call me Commander. If you say Sir, it makes him feel old." The four had to laugh at that then he disappeared.

"It feels good to join you guys!" Sam breathed, looking at her shiny V-com.

"Yeah; we now no longer have to keep secrets." Chris smiled. Just then, an alarm reacted.

"Alien at Town Square!" Chris quickly reacted.

"MBC: POWER UP!"

"Come on Danny! Just like good old times!" Sam said. "Race ya!"

"Nobody can defeat 'The Danny'!" Then, they took off.

"You okay there, Cathy?" Chris asked.

"Yeah; I realized that you can't change them, no matter how much you want to. Them being competitive just makes them who they are. Everybody's different and that's why I'm glad to have best friends like you guys." Cathy said as Chris smiled.

"Something tells me that we will be seeing them being so competitive for a long time." Chris said before the two took off…

Author's Note: YAY! Sam made the team, Danny got back his V-com and everybody is happy! But if I didn't make Sam alive, you guys will kill me… look out for the epilogue!