A/N: Last time, Jordan and Calla are now captured and brainwashed by the Sisterhood of the Alphas club, Friena! Can Itzal and Zeus save them in time and expose Duke in front of their superior? Let's find out!

Clubs and Cheats: Part 4

Back in the Mushroom Garden, Tina and Duke were still sitting at their table when Zeus, disguised as a waiter walked up with their plates of food.

"Your orders," Zeus said in an Italian accent as he looked at Duke. "So, sir, how is your-a date-a going?"

"Fine," Duke said. "I've got a really fine lady here."

"Oh I see. But is she the only fine lady you got?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, a handsome man such as-a yourself probably has other women on his hand."

Duke started to see what was going on. He grinned as he said, "Of course not, Tina's the only woman for me. Of course you wouldn't understand that…Zeus."

Right then and there, Duke grab Zeus, ripped off his fake mustache, and yanked of his chef's hat, exposing him to a shocked Tina.

"Zeus Starr, what are you thinking?!" Tina asked in anger.

"I'm sorry, Ms. Reyheart, but Duke is not the man you think!" Zeus defended. "I saw him, he's kissing another girl right in front of me and he's not even hesitated about it! He's cheating on you, Ms. Reyheart."

"I can't believe you! You're still jealous at Duke because he's dating me? Just because your my student doesn't mean you have to be jealous on him!"

"But Ms. Reyheart, I-"

"Enough, Starr. I don't want anymore accusations from you."

"But..."

"NOT ANOTHER WORD ABOUT DUKE!"

Seeing that she won't listen to a reason, Zeus sighs in defeat and says, "Fine, I won't. But I need to say this once: Although you dated Duke for 4 months now, I known you a lot longer than him. Even though it's still months for me, that still counts. You're the one who suggested me to play ULO and become a Runner. You're the one who let me never give up hope at the darkest of times. And even if you ordered me around without any explanation, I will follow. Why? Because I'm trying to repay the favor. Sure, go back with Duke, I'm good. But if you won't believe me about him…then maybe you'll believe his second girlfriend."

Almost as if on cue, Bren and Itzal walked over to the three with a woman, who happened to be the same teacher Duke had been seen kissing the other day.

"Hello, Duke," the teacher said, saying his name with anger and venom in her tone.

"Monica," Duke said in surprise.

"Who's Monica," Tina said in shock and suspicion.

"No one. Just a co-worker."

"And his other girlfriend," Bren said. "See, Zeus was afraid that his plan would backfire, so he called Duke's other girl to come down here so you could see it for youself."

"They've been going out for about a month now," Itzal said.

"Until now, when I found out he was already dating somebody," Monica said angrily as she took of several pieces of jewelry off and toss them at them. "And by the way, here's your necklace and bracelet back. I don't want them, don't need them…or you for that matter."

Monica then left the restaurant, leaving Duke stunned knowing that Zeus had gotten him busted.

"And the same goes with me too," Tina said, now also angry at the fact that Zeus was right all along about Duke.

"Now wait, Tina, I can–," he tried to explain

"Save it," she cut him off. "All those loving things you said to me were lies. You said I was the only woman for you, that no one could ever take my place. You lied right to my face, and messed up my head. What kind of man does that?"

"But–"

"Enough! We are FINISHED! And by the way, dinner's still on you!"

With that she grabbed his plate of fettuccini alfredo and dumped it

After that, Tina approaches Zeus and says, "Zeus, I'm sorry the way I acted. It's just, I thought he's my first real boyfriend. But your determination was able to lift my blindness away."

"I'm just defending your heart, that's all, Ms. Reyheart," Zeus said in a casual tone.

"So, do you forgive me?"

"I already did."

Just then both Zeus and Itzal's RunCom's beeped. They answered to find that it was a distress signal…from Jordan.

"Oh-no, Jordan's in trouble. We gotta go!"

Before they left, Itzal stops Zeus as he says, "Not so fast, Starr!"

"What's wrong, Itzal? Do you realize we need to save the girls?" Zeus asked in annoyance.

"Not in those clothes and that Italian accent you're not."

Noticing his current attire, Zeus realizes that he's right as he's still under the effects of Itzal's remote.

"I almost forgot about that," he said in embarrassment.

"Don't worry, I'll change you back later. Come on!"

With that, the boys left the restaurant as Tina looked on with a smile. However, she heard a noise and turns around to see Bren is trying to sneak away from the restaurant, but was caught by the head chef.

"Uh, table for one, please?" he sheepishly said before he was dragged into the kitchen by the chef.

Meanwhile, in the Alphas bus, Friena was giving out instructions for the next part of her plan.

"Okay Alphas, you're last assignment is to capture the Violets, the school's biggest most popular club and then it's onto sisterhood club world domination!"

The brainwash club members including, Calla and Jordan all cheered as they chanted.

All: We promote acceptance and bondage

And most of all, sisterhood!

Unknown to everyone else, Jordan drop her smile as she whispers, "If I mean "all right", I mean that I rather be dead than to be brainwashed!"

As everyone is heading to their destination by bus, the club members are keep chanting the same jingle as the brainwashed Calla does the same, which Jordan secretly removes her button from her tank top.

"Yeesh, broken record much? They really need to update their jingle," she said in annoyance as she quickly drops the button and crushes it with her foot, freeing Calla from mind control as she groggily asks, "Oh, what happened?"

"We're on our way to make a surprise ambush to the biggest club on Fils-Ame Moffit," Jordan explained to her best friend as she crushed her own button next. "You're lucky I was able to free you before we got there."

"But I don't understand, why aren't you being mind controlled like the others? Do you have the same resistance thingy as Itzal's?"

"No, but remember the item I used before we logged out of ULO? It's a temporary resistant spray capable of resisting -Mind-Warp Flu-, not found in the current client until the next patch update. I used it from Ms. Reyheart's coding from the paper I found so I can prevent Friena's mind control from getting in me. Plus, the fact the mind control chips are stolen, I kinda got crazy prepared."

"Wow, you ain't kidding about being a gamer girl. But what about the other girls and my cousin? She might-"

"We'll save the others later. Right now, we need to get to the club first before the Alphas does," Jordan said in a serious tone.

"But how do we get out of here?" Calla asked in worry.

Thinking for a second, Jordan realizes something and pulls out the same heel from earlier.

"Maybe this might help. I got it from Ms. Reyheart after she's done with it's analysis," she explained.

"So?"

"The heel tip is solid diamond, which it can cut through glasses."

"Now I see what you're getting. Then bring on the bling!"

With that, Jordan uses the heel to cut the glass window near them and sneak out of the bus to prevent anyone from knowing. When they did, they landed on the road in the process, but they are unharmed.

"Well, that solved our problem. But how are we going to get to the Violets now?" Calla asked.

"Even if we get a taxi or a bus, it will still be too late," Jordan said.

"Then how about a motorcycle?"

Hearing Itzal's voice, the girls turned around to see him and Zeus in their Runner forms on their -VersalCycles-, who were able to respond Jordan's distress signal on time.

"Sorry we're late, we're kind of stuck of a cheating situation," Zeus sheepishly said.

"Save it, Z. We'll talk about your ditching after we get to the Violets pronto," Jordan said as she got on her -VersalCycle- that Itzal was able to materialize.

Calla was about to jump on Jordan's cycle, until she was stopped by Itzal as he says, "Sorry, Calla. You're not riding that one."

"Why? I'm a Runner now, so I get to join in!" she said in anger.

"I know."

Pulling out another card, he throws it near Calla and it transformed into another -VersalCycle-, which is decorated with yellow wind-motif decorations.

"That's why I'm giving you your own -VersalCycle-," Itzal said with a smile. "I asked Jordan for the design on the cycle and put it on auto-pilot, just in case."

Seeing her new cycle, Calla starts to tear up a little, realizing that they now wanted her to join in as a Runner as she says, "Thanks, guys."

After Calla jumps onto her cycle, Jordan then says, "Come on, we got a school club to save!"

With that, they started their cycles and race off to stop Friena and her brainwashed club members.

A few minutes later, Friena and her brainwashed club members arrived at the Violets Clubhouse.

"Okay my puppet members, ready to pick some Violets?," she asked. The girls all screamed in brainwashed agreement.

"Good, cause after this, initiation is over, and you'll be full-fledged Alphas. Now let's go have some fun, girls!"

Friena and her brainwashed club members then kicked down the door and entered the clubhouse.

"Hiya girls, are you ready to–," Kani said. But she stopped as she and the others saw there was no one there.

"Well that's just rude," Lena snorted.

"Yeah, how can we attack if there's no one home to attack?," Sierra agreed.

"Actually, somebody is home."

Hearing that voice, everyone turned around to see Jordan, Calla, Itzal, and Zeus at the stairs.

"You! What have you done to the Violets?!" Friena angrily demanded.

"Send them packing, so we can have all to our selves," Calla said to her.

Then Zeus steps in and said, "That's right, you have done enough damage to our school, Friena Alphalus!"

"So I wish you surrender or we'll make you!" Itzal threatened.

"Well, be careful what you wished for. Alphas, ATTACK!"

Following Friena's orders, the girls start to charge to the Runners.

"Hey, Calla. I think your RunCom might be now connected to ULO, wanna give it a whirl?" Jordan asked as she raised her RunCom.

"It will be my pleasure," Calla replied with a smile as she shows her new RunCom.

"Okay, just follow my lead."

With a touch of the secret app icon, the girls shouted, "Run Convertion! Log In!"

With a bright flash of blue and yellow lights, Jordan and Calla are now in their avatar forms, ready to fight the club members. Before they did, Calla pulls out the spear she got from her e-mail earlier, the -Double-Edged Spearblades-, which Itzal and Zeus are surprised at the weapon's appearance.

"So that's your main weapon?" Itzal asked.

"That's right. Now let's kick Friena's butt!"

"Wait!"

The Runners turned around to Jordan in confusion as she asks, "Should we have a battle cry for this?"

"And what do you suggest?" Zeus asked.

"This. LET'S GET ONLINE!"

With that, the Runners charged into battle with the Sisterhood of the Alpha members. Jordan then fights the members with her sword, trying her best not to hurt them with it's blade. However, two of the members picked up some fireplace irons and tries to strike her with it. But Jordan blocked them with her sword, clashing and locking their weapons in the process.

Three other girls charged at Zeus with pots and pans in hand. Zeus ducked as tow of the girls lunged at him, causing them to crash into each other. He then parried the third girl's attack with his katana, then back-flipped and kicked her in the jaw, sending her falling back to the floor.

For Itzal, he not wanting to hurt the girls, just kept flipping them and pushing them away.

"No way am I hitting a girl, even if she is mind controlled."

As for Calla, she tries to fight them with her spear, but she was hesitated when she is face-to-face with Kani along with the other club members.

"Give it up, cuz. You're outnumbered," Kani said.

"Snap out of it, Kani! You don't have to do this!" Calla pleaded.

"Sorry, but if I don't, then the Alphas will never rule the school."

With that said, Calla tries to run as she was about to get tackled by them, but was blocked by other members. As she braced herself, she felt a strange wave in her body, causing all around her to go in slow motion. Like she is in a trance, she silently runs away from the girls, which the vision became normal, she is suddenly disappears without a trace, causing the girls to fall into a heap. After that, Calla reappears behind them, which she became shocked at what she did.

"Did I... just do that?" she asked in disbelief tone.

Jordan, who witnessed all that, was also surprised and became excited upon it as she says, "You can disappear and reappear just by using super-speed? Cool! It's your first day as a Runner and you already come up with a special ability! What do you want to call it?"

Seeing that she unknowingly created a custom ability that her friend mentioned back in ULO, she thinks for a second until she answers, "How about "Flash Step"?"

"-Flash Step-? I like it!"

Before she can congratulate her, more club members try to charge in on the girls, but they were able to dodge on time.

"Calla, can you able to create more custom skills in 5 minutes?" Jordan asked to her best friend.

"Well, I think so," Calla said, who is little unsure.

"Well, can you do it right now?! We need some back up over here!" Itzal called out to the girls, which he and Zeus are having trouble in their end.

As Calla thought, she noticed her -Double-Edged Spearblade- was glowing with a long yellow light string was connecting the two blades of her weapon, like a bow.

She then pulled the string and aimed at the girl who what by now surrounded the boys. She then released the string sending multiple arrows shooting out of the bow and onto the girls who were knocked away.

"Thanks, Calla," Zeus said.

"No problem," she said. "Now that's an -Arrow Storm-! I like it!"

Just then one more girl lunged at her with a fireplace shovel.

With that Calla twirled her spear around, and used the spinning wind to block the blow and send her flying away.

"That one's my -Tornado Break-."

Two more girls suddenly grabbed her from behind. Before the knew it however, they were blow off by tornados that had sprouted out of the palms of her hands.

"-Vortex Palm-. Cool!"

Then five more girls attempted to surround her. She hen twirled her spear so both ends of it gave off two energy waves that knocked them all into the walls.

"-Whirlwind Slash-, baby!"

Then, in the corner of her eye she saw Jordan being bombarded by a large number of girls. Wanting to help her, Calla did a wind elemental double slash attacks with her spearblades, throwing the girls to the other side of the room.

"I think that's my -Double Sky Slash-."

Then, one of the girl ambushed her from behind. Annoyed, she strikes her down with her spear, then using her -Flash Step-, Calla ambushed her by shooting an arrow in a melee attack.

"And that one I call the -Gale Ambush Strike-, named by yours truly."

However, despite her new skills, the Runners are still overwhelmed by the Alpha club members as they continue to attack them.

"Okay, I had it with these girls, it's time to break those pins!" Jordan declared in anger as she continues fighting against the club members, including Lena.

"I have a WOOHP spy gadget for that, but I'm currently tangled up here," Itzal said as he was pinned down by the brainwashed girls.

"Me too," Zeus said as he was also pinned down. "We need to incapacitate them somehow."

As Calla helplessly watched her friends fight, she gets an idea as she says to them, "I got them, I pray it won't destroy the school for this."

Then, she raises her arm and starts to conjure up a tornado from her hands, causing some of the girls to fly off to it. After that, she shoots several arrows up to the ceiling, which they start to flew down to ground as the tornado is manipulating their landing. Seeing the arrows, the clubs members try to avoid them, causing to release Zeus and Itzal from the heap.

"What's going on?!" Friena asked in shock as she helplessly watch her brainwashed minions fly away due to the tornado.

"What's going on is that I'm disbanding your club, Friena!" Calla said in a serious tone as she charges her spear with a wind from the tornado, giving off a yellow aura around it. "This is for Kani!"

With that said, she charges on Friena as she shouts, "Hurricane..."

The aura from the spear glows even brighter as she raises it to Friena.

"...Arrow..."

Seeing the arrows are surrounding Calla, Friena starts to scream as she knows what happens next.

"SLASH!"

Shouting her skills, she strikes her with her wind and arrow-charged spear, causing Friena to faint from her attack. As her spear's aura disperse, she calls out to her friends, "Punch it, guys!"

Hearing this, using one of the secret apps to materialize the WOOHP gadget resembling a sound recorder from his hidden pockets from his casual clothes, Itzal activates it as he says, "Time to bring down this party!"

Itzal then activates the gadget, causing the brainwashed club members to stop in their tracks.

"Excellent, Itzal. Crank it up," Jordan said. Itzal did just that, and sure enough, the sound waves caused the pins to fizzle out, breaking the mind control over all the members. They, all dazed, looked around trying to figure out what happened.

"Like, what is going on?," Lena asked. "Did we made it to the mall?"

"I dunno," Sierra said, "but somebody could use a mall hairstylist."

"You're one to talk, frizzy!"

"Calla, guys," Kani said as she walked up to her cousin. "What's happening?"

"Well, it's a long story cuz," Calla said. At that moment, Friena, realizing her plan was ruined, attempted to slip away, but was quickly tackled to the ground by the other Runners.

"Oh, no you don't!," Jordan said she slapped cuffs on Friena.

"Don't worry, Friena," Calla said as she walked up. "I think you'll definitely enjoy all the perks of prison, such as the orange jumpsuits, the substandard food, and the hard metal cots for beds!"

"No, NOO! This was supposed to be different this year!" Friena shouted in anger while the Runners watch her breakdown, knowing that her evil club is now officially disbanded.

The next day at CodeX United, the Runners, along with newly appointed S-Runner, Calla, are in Tina's office as their superior says, "Congratulations on a job well done, Runners. As for Ms. Calla Gale, you determination and your skills confirms one thing: you are now an S-Runner and I'm assigning you to the team near you."

"You mean, I get to join Jordan and my friends?" Calla asked in shock, which Tina nodded in approval. "Oh, thank you! Thank you!"

"Well, looks like you're officially one of us now," Jordan congratulated her best friend.

"But what will happen now to Friena, Kani, and the other club members?" Calla asked in confusion.

"The former Sisterhood of the Alphas club members, along with your cousin, have their memories erased of what happened at that evil club," Tina explained. "As for Friena, she'll be doing time in juvenille prison, as well as community service. In addition, she also been indefinitely suspended from school, and from what I hear, banned from all clubs and extra-curricular activities for the next three years."

"Well, maybe she will learn how to make friends, the hard way," Itzal quipped.

"Yeah, but what about our school club problems, guys?" Calla reminded them. "Although I'm only auditioning, we still can't decide on the clubs we need to join."

"Hmm... I think I got some ideas. But you need to try to finish the secondary class quest in ULO if you want me to spill the beans," Jordan playfully said to Calla. "I have a feeling that bow option on your new spear might not work inside the game unless you have Sniper as your sub-class."

"Okay, Ms. Tutor. I'll try."

"So since you just dumped Duke after I was able to snap you out of your lovestruck, what are you going to do now?" Zeus asked to Tina.

"I'll take a break from dating for now. Besides, doing some paperwork can heal a broken woman's heart," Tina said as she checks on some folders.

"Or maybe you can go with us for some smoothies," Jordan suggested. "Calla's got some connections to get you the best cappuccino flavor smoothie."

"Hmm... Well, we'll see," Tina said as she stands up from her desk and drops the folder on it, now interested at their invitation. "You better escort me to this cafe, you three."

"I'll be happy to," Calla said as she and the others left the office. "And BTW, Ms. Reyheart, it's an desert shop."

"Well, it's a start," Jordan said.

As they laughed at this happy moment when they left the office, we see the contents inside the folders, revealing profiles about Kani Kimura and Bren Revie.

A/N: Yeah! Everything's back to normal and Friena is sent to jail! However, why is Tina holding some profiles of Jordan and Calla's cousins? Try to find out later in the series! Review and stay tuned for the next episode!