Ch. 5: Secret Revealed
The next day at Tori's Laundromat, she is having lunch while contemplating what Stacey said last night. Then, Colleen comes into the place with her mom, Drago, Neeta and Ice, who are very concern about her.
"Hey, Tori," Colleen greeted, "Ice told us about the latest argument you had with Stacey. We're sorry for letting her hear us. Are you okay?"
"No," Stacey said as she swallowed her sandwich, "It seems like all we ever do together is fight. I just feel like a horrible mother to her. Iggy and I are happy with our new lives while she is miserable being pulled out of the only home she had ever known."
"Tori, you know as well as we do why she had to be pulled away from her dad," Neeta reminded her, "He runs a smuggling business and you never want your kids to have that kind of life. Stacey needs to learn that life is full of changes even the bad kind."
"Neeta's right," Katie agreed, "I think it's time you and your ex tell her the truth about why the divorce happened."
"I'll give him a call and see when he can come."
"Speaking of truth, could you tell us where Stacey is now?" Colleen asks as she holds Drago by the ear, "Drago owes her an apology."
"Apology? For what?"
"Stacey stained his shirt yesterday, so he lost his temper and told her off, saying her spoiled behavior is the reason you and Mr. Valmont broke up."
"You WHAT?!" All the moms yell.
"It was a slip of the tongue!" he says in panic, "I swear!"
"That excuse is not gonna get you off the hook until you apologize to her," Colleen reprimanded.
Then, she gets a call from on her cell phone.
"Hello?" she answers.
"Colleen, it's Black," Captain Black responds, "We need you at Section 13 pronto."
The teens arrive at Section 13 and meet Captain Black in the Briefing Room.
"Last night, there was a robbery at the Jacy's department store in the mall," Capt. Black briefed them, "Witnesses describe a creature matching Bai Tsa's description except with a human face making off with a set of jewelry and a designer dress."
"Gotta be our last Demon Mutate," Colleen said, "but why would she be so small time with robberies?"
Captain Black shows a picture on screen of the items stolen, including the dress Stacey wore today, shocking the team.
"That looks like the stuff Stacey wore yesterday!" Colleen gasps.
"And that incident at the boys' locker room happened after I yelled at her in cafeteria!" Drago said.
"You don't think…?" Cody said with wonder
"I better get home to make sure," Ice said as he runs back home.
Ice makes it back home. He sees his sister in his room and points his compass at her. It glows and points both to her and to the trigram of water.
"Oh no," he whispers to himself, "She must have kept her power under check all this time."
At that time Stacey is on the phone with someone.
"I'll Muir free in no time," Stacey says on her phone, "First I have to scare off my mom's new boyfriend, and then I have personal business with someone who cost me a whole summer."
Ice realizes who she means.
"She's gonna go after Colleen for somethin' I did," Ice gasped, "I gotta warn her and Mom."