"You have to let me explain!" Metrocity shouted, speeding past Bernard as they raced through the skies. To any normal citizen it would look like just another battle between the teenage villain and hero, but both knew it wasn't true. After the last month, nothing could ever be the same. Not after Bernard had learned Metrocity was a person. Not after Metrocity had realized Bernard's deepest secret. Not after they had broken each others' hearts.

"I don't have to do anything!" he called back, grabbing her up by her collar, high, in the fashion of her father's. "Besides throw you in JAIL!" And with that, he tore her from her motorbike and threw her down. She landed far below, skidding on asphalt, and lying there on the ground. Bernard didn't bother to fly down and make fun of her. As the police arrived, she did something she'd never done in front of people before; she cried.

***Break***

"Metrocity, what's wrong?" Roxanne asked, sitting beside her daughter on her bed. Metrocity refused to answer. Everyone in the house was beginning to worry about Metrocity. She hadn't eaten or even left her room in three days. It wasn't like Metrocity to be inactive in any way. She was always the one with one scheme or another, who had plunged into evil when she was little and had loved it so much it worried even her father.

Metrocity was her father's daughter, from the clothes she wore to the smile she bore when fighting Metro Boy, or once in awhile, when she was helping her Dad with Metro Man. Now, though no one knew it, she had finally done something her father would disapprove of, and it was the worst thing she ever could have done.

She had fallen in love with the son of his nemesis.

"Metrocity, we can't help you if we don't know what's wrong!"

"If you knew what was wrong," Metrocity spoke for the first time in days, her voice hoarse, "you wouldn't want to help me."

"Metrocity, you know that isn't true! There's nothing you could do that would ever make us stop loving you!"

"There's always something to do to make someone stop loving you!" Metrocity said forcefully, angrily. For a second Roxanne looked confused, but then it dawned on her, the horrible, ugly truth.

"Oh Metrocity, you didn't—you did, didn't you?" she asked, taking her daughter in her arms as the girl began to cry.

"I didn't mean to!" Metrocity sobbed. "I really didn't! It just...happened!"

"I know Metrocity, I know," Roxanne soothed, stroking her daughter's hair to try and comfort her. They sat there, Metrocity crying and Roxanne comforting, for a long time before Metrocity was able to speak again.

"I just don't know what to do," Metrocity told her mother. "Lord Floatiness hates me, and if Dad knew...I don't know what I'd do, let alone him." She shut her eyes and pulled away, her knees coming back up to her chest.

"I can't tell you what to do," Roxanne told her daughter. "I think it's easier to realize you love someone when you're the one in denial. When I realized I loved your father, I broke him out of jail and announced it to the entire city. I don't think it would be so easy to convince Metro Boy that evil is—"

"And what if I don't want to be evil anymore?" Metrocity demanded, standing up. "What if I want to be a good guy?" Metro City's Incredibly Daring Mistress of all Things Villainous looked up at her daughter with pity in her eyes, and it made Metrocity's toes curl.

"It isn't that simple, Metrocity. It's easy for good to turn evil. But it's impossible for evil to turn good. If it wasn't, your father and I would have taken that road a long, long time ago." Metrocity glared at her mother before stomping out the door and down the stairs.

"Maybe it was impossible for you," she muttered, grabbing a machine off the couch and turning on her disguise as she walked out the door. "But it doesn't have to be that way for me."

Author Comments:

Uh-oh. Metrocity, no, DON'T BLOW HIM UP IT WILL ONLY END BADLY! XDXD, Care to see what happens next?