Ace stood over Lexi and Matthews eyes flashed white, as did Aces. Ace tried to turn away, but Matthews control was to strong.

Ace, as a last resort, bent down and whispered in Lexi's ear

"Run!" she looked up at Ace, he was the leader so she did as she was told. Ace knew what he was doing, she hoped.

Ace fell to his knees and Lexi skidded to a stop.

What was she doing?

She felt a grip on her shoulder and looked up to see Revs pleading eyes looking down at her.

"We-have-to-move-Lex-we'll-lose-them-all-if-we-stay!"

Lexi stared at Rev "What happened to 'if you take one you take us all' what happens to our TEAM Rev!"

Lexi breathed and nodded and tried to remember the others, they were safe. They wouldn't be able to fight. She started to run next to Rev. Rev stayed at the same pace so Lexi would not be alone. Rev looked at his friend, he wanted to stop and hug her, tell her it's all alright, but she wouldn't believe him.

All that ran through her mind was the last sight she saw of her friend, her leader, Ace.

Rev always tried to look on the brighter side, but to this there didn't seem to be a brighter side.

They were approaching a set of white doors ahead of them. They burst through the door and turned a corner and saw the Loonatics, stood at the main door. Waving and shouting. A set of perhaps twenty robots were coming at them from an adjoining corridor. Lexi leaped and flipped over them, while Rev sped past them unnoticed.

They joined the others.

"Where's Ace?" Tech asked.

Lexi looked at him. "He's erm... he's gone." She said and with that she sped down the street on her bike. She knew that if she allowed herself to stop, the tears that were blurring her vision would pour onto her face. The others watched her disappear towards HQ; she took a sharp turn at petrifying speed and almost fell. She didn't care, she didn't care about anything, well, there was one thing.

When they got back to HQ, the five Loonatics sat at the couches, debating their losses.

Lexi and Rev were happy to have them back after working so hard to save them. Tech went to the lab, to see if there was any way of reversing Matthews control over their fellow team-mate.

Lexi walked over to the kitchen and brought a plate heaped full of food and placed it in front of Slam. Slam pushed the plate away and shrugged.

Duck was fidgeting about, not really normal behaviour.

Lexi sighed. 'They'll be OK by morning'

She told herself. Not sure whether to believe it.

She got up and went to her room. Rev was trying to pass some time. The others weren't up for saying much so he started to play air hockey with himself. But as he zipped around the table, something caught his attention.

There was a sound coming from the rooms. Rev went to investigate. He stopped outside Lexi's room. He heard her. She was crying. Rev couldn't make out much, but eventually, her cries faded in silence.

Rev went to open the door, but shook his head. Then nodded his head and pushed in the code to open the door, the door opened.

Lexi was sat in a chair facing the window. When she heard Rev she wiped her eyes and smiled. Her bottom lip quivered, she was trying to hide her sorrow, but evidently failing.

"Hey Rev." She said as Rev leaned on the wall next to her.

"It's-sort-of-dark-in-here-don't-you-think,"

Lexi looked at him "Thank you, captain obvious." She smiled.

Rev sat next to her and hit her shoulder softly.

"So-what's-up," He chirped.

Lexi sighed and her smile vanished. "I failed Rev, I wanted to get the others back and I failed."

Rev looked at his friend. "Sure-you-ain't" he scoffed "You-got-most-of-them-back,"

Lexi giggled at her friend's ability to see a bright side through all this. She liked the way he always saw the bright side when something went wrong.

"Get-some-rest-and-the-others-will-be-fine-by-tomorrow," Rev walked out, smiling as he left.

"It's not the others I'm worried about," She sighed

"It's-Ace, isn't-it?" Rev said, staring out of the open window.

Lexi nodded slowly.

"The only reason he's in there is cos' he tried to help me," Her voice became strained and shaky.

"Ace-wanted-to-help-you-Lexi-he-knew-what-he-was-doing," Rev smiled softly at her.

"Ya think," Lexi's eyes were still staring through the window.

Rev nodded, "Yup," He said, closing the door and exiting the room.

Lexi shut the window and climbed into bed. She then went off into sleep.

Lexi woke in the middle of the night. She looked at the window, the rain hit it and, to her sonic hearing, it was extremely loud.

She got up and put a jacket on from the back of a chair. She walked out into the main room. Here the place was silent. Lexi looked around, no-one was up. She grabbed a book off the table and lay on the couch. She was asleep within minutes.

Meanwhile, Matthew still had control of Ace and sat in a black car in front of HQ.

"Now, I want you to kill your little friends, I don't care how you kill them of who you kill first. Just do it!"

Ace stood and walked towards HQ. His eyes glowing. He knew what he was doing, but was unable to prevent it.

He entered the main room and looked around. He spotted Lexi sleeping on the couch.

"No!" Ace said as he tried to turn away.

But Matthews control was too strong and Ace couldn't help it. He stood over her and closed his eyes tightly, as some sort of effort to release Matthews's control. Ace heard Matthews voice in the back of his mind.

"That's it, kill her," Matthews words echoed in his ears.

As he looked down at Lexi, a tear came to his eye. He wanted to tell her to run, tell everyone to stay away. Lexi's eyes blinked and she saw a dark figure stood over her.

She panicked and kicked out at her 'attacker'. Ace backed off, against Matthew's control. He saw her shadowed figured through the dark and held the guardian strike sword down by his side.

There was a crash and the doors to HQ opened. Matthew stood peacefully in the doorway.

"Oh, you haven't killed them then, well, maybe I should help you with that," Matthews's harsh tones whipped through the silence on HQ.

Once again Ace's eyes flashed white and he brought the sword forward.

Lexi didn't even see what was coming through the darkness as the sword penetrated the skin on her shoulder; Aces' eyes flashed yellowed and returned to normal, he saw something, the figure of someone in front of him. At the end of his sword.

Ace retracted the sword and the figure dropped. Ace's hand shook and he dropped the sword.

"What the... Where am I?" He asked, his optical enhancement lightening the room.

Matthew laughed, "You're home,"

Fear shot through Aces mind as he realised who the figure was, he didn't want to turn around, he didn't want to see her hurt.

He held his breath and turned on his heels. He stepped back as he saw Lexi, crimson red staining her fur on her chest.

No,

He ran to Lexi and knelt down next to her. Tears covered her face and soaked her fur. Ace held her shoulders and looked towards Matthew, who was still stood in the doorway.

Ace ran at him, and the collided. They both leaped to their feet. Ace jumped back, Matthew didn't follow.

Lexis' eyed blinked open slowly, she saw someone crouching next to her and from his silhouette, she knew who it was. Ace.

He looked at her in shock.

"Ace, is that you," She said quietly,

Ace grabbed her hand, "Yeah, it's me Lex, you gotta stay awake okay, hold on,"

She shook her head. "I-I c-c-can't," She stuttered.

"Sure ya can Lexi, come on, you're gonna be alright," Ace tried to help her, but her grip on his hand was loosening.

She went limp and her hand slipped from his grip. He looked at her chest and saw she wasn't breathing. He placed a finger on her neck. Nothing.

Ace lowered his head "No,"