Kihonne: Okay guys, I'm back. Thanks for being so understanding about the HIATUS thing, I appreciate it, and to show you my gratitude, here is a rocking new chapter of Love and War! But first, it's shoutout time!

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SzymonS: Thanks for being so understanding about the HIATUS and everything. I'm so glad you enjoyed the fight scene from the last chapter. As for Dr. Wrath, he will be coming in very soon. Not this chapter, but probably in the next one.

MayLeaf2001: Really, don't worry about being late, and thank you so much for all the support you've shown me with this HIATUS. Yeah, I'm pretty sure we were thinking the same thing for Alivia and Lily…seriously Liam, you gotta work on your timing. Alan and Rani's choices are going to be big ones, though we'll get to see a big one on Rani's part in an upcoming chapter. As for Gulliver, I guess you'll have to wait and see. As for Liam…well, you're going to see him next chapter, unfortunately. To answer your questions, I will still be doing the one-shot story, but I don't know when. As for if we'll see the characters of this story in the future, the answer is yes, we'll see at least most of them in the future, but I can't say when or why or how without spoiling. Anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter.

Layla: Maybe ;)

AlienGhostWizard14: Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the chapter.

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Kihonne: And on with the chapter!

Alan: Kihonne doesn't own Mighty Med, Elite Force, or anything else you recognize from the series. She only owns this story, all the OCs, and anything else you don't recognize.

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Alivia's POV

"Damn it, Alan." I muttered, running through the halls, trying to locate the idea before he got us both killed. I wasn't sure why I was surprised by his behaviour – highly aggressive and impulsive had always been key parts of his personality – but it still annoyed me to no end.

I dropped back a step, hiding in the doorway to one of the empty interrogation rooms as a pair of henchwomen trotted down the hall. Pressed against the hall, I bit my lip as I waited for them to pass by.

This was a bad idea, and I knew it. Going after Alan was reckless and likely to get me caught, but we'd been friends for a long time, despite the many ups and downs to our relationship.

But this, this wandering the halls in hopes that I'd find him soon, it wasn't working.

Taking a deep breath, I focused on the cells that made up…well, me, feeling them begin to split and multiply until two identical copies of myself were staring back at me. We all shared a smirk, then my two duplicates disappeared down the hall I'd just come from, my subconscious sending them to search different floors to speed this up.

We wouldn't stop looking until we found the idiot and dragged him out of here, kicking and screaming if we had to.

Rani's POV

"C'mon Gully, where are you?" I muttered to myself, racing through the halls as fast as I dared. I didn't want to get caught, but my brother's screams had ceased mere moments ago, and I hadn't yet decided if the silence scared me more or less than the screaming.

I had to find him, we had to get out of here. I couldn't let him down, not again. The first time we'd tried to escape, that had been my idea, and that had ended only in tragedy. My brother captured, Chaz…Chaz was gone. I still wasn't sure where I'd gone wrong, but I knew that whatever it was, it had been my fault. Without Chaz, Gully was all the family I had left, and say what you will about me, but I was loyal to my family.

Sighing, I stopped in the middle of a hallway. Enough. "Gully ubi est." I murmured, raising my hands and casting my magic into the air. A moment later, I felt it pulse back to me, like a ping on a sonar. Two halls to the left, first door on the right. Okay, sure. Easy as pie.

I found out very quickly that it would not be that easy.

I turned the corner of the last hallway maybe a little less cautiously than I should have, and found myself face to face with four guys. The first two I recognized – they were Rodney and Patrick, some of my fellow students when I went to Villain University – while the other two remained a mystery to me. The moment I stepped into the hall, they stopped mid-conversation to stare at me.

"Hello boys." I gave them a seductive smile. My charm had always been one of my assets; maybe it would work on them.

No dice; Patrick charged at me first, his super speed carrying him forward far faster than I could have dodged. Behind him, Rodney followed, his fists engulfed in black, sinister flames. Patrick barrelled right into me, his combined momentum and body weight knocking me to the ground. The moment I hit the floor, however, I rolled to the left, remembering all the lectures Dr. Wrath had given us on tag-teaming against your enemy. Sure enough, I narrowly avoided being scorched by Rodney's dark pyrokinesis attack.

I spun around, twisting my legs under me to give me more leverage as I pushed myself to my feet. I didn't give them another chance to attack – another one of Dr. Wrath's lectures that came to mind was the one about speed being better than strength in some cases – and immediately called the shadows in the hall to my side. Before either one of them could even blink, I sent the shadows crashing into them, slamming them into the ground so hard that it knocked them out in a single, massive blow.

I turned my attention to the larger of the remaining henchmen, and raised a hand, commanding his own shadow. His shadow wrapped himself around its owner's neck, cutting off his oxygen supply. The henchmen gasped and choked, his large hands swiping at his neck in hopes of dislodging the shadow, but it was to no avail. I tightened the shadow and watched the henchmen slowly lose consciousness. The moment I was sure he was out, I released him, letting him drop to the floor.

I looked up to see the last of the four henchmen standing near the back, looking terrified. He was only fifteen, the same age I'd been when Gully and I had come to Villain University. Damn it, he was just a kid. "Look, I was Dr. Wrath's favorite student for a reason. Now get out of here," I warned him, "before I make you."

He took my warning to heart, scampering out of there as fast as he could. I sighed, glancing down at the three unconscious henchmen. Some time ago, I wouldn't have even hesitated to kill them, but now…now I was letting them live. Those stupid heroes must have rubbed off on me, despite my best efforts.

I took a deep breath, then pushed open the door to the room where my brother was supposed to be being held. I had expected a fight going in there, but what I found instead was even more surprising.

Alan's POV

I smirked to myself as I used my telekinesis to throw one of the henchmen through a nearby door, the fight ending as quickly as it had started. I was making slow progress on my way to find Dr. Wrath, but it was progress nonetheless.

"Alan!" I sun around, prepared for another attack, my fist already flying towards the enemy. She caught my wrist with ease, stopping the blow just as I realized who my 'attacker' was.

"Easy there, Turbo." Alivia teased gently, releasing my hand. "It's just me."

"Sorry." I apologized breathlessly. I'd been fighting my way through the second floor, but it wasn't getting any easier as I went. I looked past Alivia, but was surprised to see that she wasn't alone. "Where are the others?"

"I told them to go back to our base of operations." She told me. "Alan, we need to get out of here."

"What? No!" I protested. "Call them back, we can still win this!"

"No, we can't." She insisted sternly. "We're outnumbered and outgunned." I opened my mouth to object, but she shook her head, cutting me off. "I already had to recall one of my duplicates because things were getting too heavy for her, and the other one is currently fighting off five guys on her own. If we don't leave now, we aren't going to walk away from this."

"If the team had stayed-" I began, only for her to stop me again.

"Then they'd be fighting for their lives. Alan, it's better to live to fight another day than die a pointless death, trying to accomplish the impossible." She told me. I sighed, recognizing the truth in her words. "Please, let's just go."

"Alright." I agreed reluctantly. She grinned, then turned to leave, only to stop short.

"Crap." She muttered. Turning, I saw exactly what had gotten her so upset; twelve henchmen and henchwomen were lining up to take us on, all looking like they were excited for the fight.

Huh, maybe Alivia's idea to leave wasn't such a bad one after all.

"C'mon." I called to her before shapeshifting into my favorite animal form – a tall, muscular lion. I leapt into the crowd of hench-people, pinning two to the ground. I had to remember not to hurt them too badly – heroes didn't kill, after all – but just enough that it would keep them down. It wasn't easy; many of them had superpowers and though some of them couldn't compete with me in this form, many of them still tried. Two in particular, a cryokinetic guy and an electrokinetic girl, were giving me a harder time than the others, tag-teaming me to keep me down and away from the others.

As for Alivia, she was on fire, not even bothering to create another duplicate. She'd always excelled at hand to hand combat, had even offered to train me on the side, but the way she was going from one opponent to the other was just ridiculously amazing. For a moment, things looked like they were going our way.

Which is why the universe chose that moment to strike us down.

I growled at one of the other henchmen, about to attack him, when I heard Alivia gasp loudly, the Irish superhero jerking back violently, away from her opponent. Her skin, already a fairly pale shade, went as white as a sheet as her eyes popped, her expression a mask of horror and pain.

For a moment, I was confused as to what had happened – she looked unharmed, as far as I could tell – but then I remembered something that had happened a few months back. It had been back when we were on our way to grab Spotlight and the Scarlet Ace in Canada when we'd gotten in a bad fight with Slaughter Master and a couple of other villains. It had been a bloody fight, one that had led to the death of one of Alivia's duplicates. She'd reacted the same way, going into a similar state of shock for several hours before Barry was able to shake her out of it. Luckily, Crossbow had been at her side during the fight, able to cover her long enough for us to take out the villains.

Unfortunately, I wasn't close enough to reach her. One of the henchwomen, a petite girl with ridiculous amount of super strength, slammed her elbow into Alivia's ribs, the bone-crushing blow knocking the red-head back several steps as she struggled to recover from what must have been the death of the duplicate she'd mentioned earlier. The henchwomen was relentless though and before I could reach either of them, she grabbed Alivia by the arm, swinging her around and slamming her into the nearest wall. Out team's leader hit the wall with a painful sounding crash, then crumpled to the ground, unmoving.

I started towards her, only to have twelve, superpowered hench-people turn on me. Twelve against two had already been fairly stacked odds, but all of them against me…there was no way I could beat them alone. So, I did the only thing I could think of.

I ran.

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Kihonne: Oh, Alan…sigh. Alright, so I know I promised you guys a double update, but due to limited computer access (my laptop had to go in for a warranty check) I was stuck between either giving you a regular update today, or waiting another week or so to give you the double one, and I figured you'd all appreciate something rather than nothing. Anyway, don't forget to review, and I will see you all next Monday, on the 24th of July!