Loonatics: United

Episode 32: Savage Dances

Heather was walking decidedly through a circular hallway which floor was covered with red carpet, then she arrived at the entrance of the club named "Golden Claw", a glowing, yellow sign let her know it was the correct place. Two guards were at the sides of the metallic door, they wore tuxedos, dark glasses and an earphone on their right ear, they were both male, akita dogs. Heather tried to enter casually but the dog at the left blocked her way by putting his hand in front of her.

"Your pass, ma'am." The dog said.

"Oh, sure, uhm…" Heather pretended to look for it inside of her coat, then lowered her shoulders with a false disappointment. "Silly me, I forgot it in the car." She approached him and put a hand on his cheek, then made up a pleading face. "Let me in, honey, I'm sure you don't want me to deal with all those stairs again, do you?"

The guard kept his face straight. "Sorry, no pass, no admission."

Heather sighed, then backed away from him. "Then you give me no choice." She pointed her hands towards the wall behind them and glitched it to make transparent, spike shaped figures to come out from it, with a few pieces of concrete floating on their composition, the spikes went through them, exiting from their chests, gasps of death had come out from their voices, they died instantly.

"Oh." Heather passed by the guard that denied her the entrance moments before and caressed his face mockingly. "It's a pity, you are kinda handsome." She opened the metallic doors with an aggressive kick then entered the club. Electronic music was sounding intensely, the colorful lights and lasers painted the club's young atmosphere, the rich and careless youth of Acmetropolis was reunited on the dance floor, dancing by the rhythm of the bass. Heather was walking hurriedly between the people next to the lounges, she didn't care to push them on her way to her next target, her gaze was focused on the big door that was being guarded by two armed men, who were using black uniforms and held machine guns, they were also male dogs, only that one of them was a german shepherd and the other a dingo. Heather got frustrated by the density of the mass of people she had to go through, she raised her hands and looked at the club's windows, she then clenched her fists and the glass of all of them shattered after a strong noise of explosion, the people got scared and started to disperse while running out of the club, except for some security personal and the canine disc jockey, who hadn't heard or seen the scandal because of the noise of his headphones and the attention he had on his laptop's screen, so the music was still sounding. Heather grinned as she had managed clear the path, then she ran towards the armed men who were still standing next to the door, they got distracted as they were speaking through the microphone of their earphones and didn't anticipate Heather's moves, she made one of them to hit the wall strongly by kicking his chest with both of her feet, she landed and took out her knife then punctured him on the neck, his comrade tried to load his machine gun but he was too slow, Heather punctured his torso several times and left him lifeless just as the other.

The door in front of her needed a code to open, thing she intuited by the numeric terminal she saw next to it. She put both hands over the cold metal of the door and then tilted them carefully, the door got deconstructed in three different pieces that kept floating before her, with gaps between them, she entered by one of the gaps easily and reacted soon enough to crouch at a shot from one of the many guards that were about to confront her in the large, white walled hallway, the lights on the ceiling were strong and dazzling, the guards were protecting an entrance that was behind them and were all dogs like the others Heather had taken care of.

"Stay down! Intruder!" One of the guards warned, pointing his machine gun at her.

Heather ran towards them, they didn't hesitate to fire their weapons at her, she evaded their attacks by sliding over the floor, she got her back against a wall and with a gesture glitched the environment to make a barrier to grow from the floor, it was like a big, transparent cube with pieces of floor floating motionless inside of it, the lasers from the men's guns disappeared when in contact with Heather's improvised protection, she leaned on it, trying to make up another quick plan.

Meanwhile, the jet was flying over the city's immense skyscrapers, wandering under the sky's darkness. "It can't be too long before we get updates on our sneaky target." Ace said, he was sitting on the jet's backside with his belt on, Rev, Slam and Duck shared the same state, different as Tech who was on the pilot seat controlling the winged vehicle, and Lexi was kneeling down in front of Rev, putting a bandage around his hurt leg.

"Ouch! Careful, don't put it too tight or I'll feel pain and not too loose because otherwise it won't work…" Rev got interrupted.

"I'm doing the best I can, Rev! Now shut it for a second." Lexi secured the bandage with a plastic clip. "Is it okay? Or you want me to do it again?" She said sarcastically.

Rev sighed and understood he had overreacted a little. "Sorry, Lexi, is only that…" He groaned by an abrupt pain he suddenly felt on his wound. "This hurts terribly, remember when that hijacker damaged my arms permanently and now I have to use the stupid jetpack to fly just like you?"

Lexi nodded. "Yeah, I remember that."

"Well, this hurts like that time but multiplied by a very high number." Rev replied. "Maybe twelve or more."

"You'll be fine, you're just being a little too dramatic." Lexi patted his leg playfully.

"Yikes! Lexi!" Rev yelled angrily.

Lexi laughed sympathetically. "Alright, alright, you kinda owed me that one for your complaints."

Tech put the jet on automatic pilot by pressing a button on the console then stood up from the seat and went to the backside, he then stretched a little to reach for the small door that was over the seats where Slam and Rev were sitting on, he took a gray box and put it on the floor then knelt down next to it and opened its lid, he took out a blue bandage that glowed slightly.

"Lexi, he'll be better with this, is an experimental gauze I developed a while ago." Tech said while handing her the invention.

"Does that mean I have to undo the other one and work double?" Lexi said with complaint.

"It contains healing molecules, their effects are not permanent but they'll let Rev to run normally while his wound gets cured." Tech explained.

Lexi sighed. "Sure, I mean, that's what friends do or whatever." She undid the bandage and left it on the floor then put the plasticized, blue one Tech had handed to her around Rev's leg, the gauze secured itself automatically then its glow got even brighter.

"How do you feel?" Tech said as he stood up.

"Come on Tech wait some time before asking me that your inventions aren't that f…" Rev's eyes widened as he felt the pain on his leg was gone, he moved it back and forth and then looked at Tech. "Wow that was really fast not faster than me but it definitely matches the concept of fast."

Lexi coughed claiming for credit, she had stood up next to Tech. "Aren't you forgetting something? Rev?"

"Oh sure thanks Lexi I know I can drive people crazy sometimes but you really did a good job with this so thank you for aiding me with my leg." Rev added.

Lexi nodded with a grin of self confidence. "Your welcome."

Ace's wrist started to beep, signaling that there was a transmission incoming. "Ace Bunny." He said through his comm.

"Loonatics, we need your help, a woman came here and made a total mess she is fighting my friends and…" A male voice said.

"Calm down, okay? Where did it happen? Where are you now?" Ace asked rather impatiently.

"The Golden Claw Club, you better come here fast!" The man ended the communication.

"Her next target must be there." Ace stated.

"I know that place, it is not far from here." Duck said. "It's on the Glare tenancy."

"That's where you go when you vanish in the night?" Lexi asked.

"I need to have fun, Lexi, I'm not a machine, you know." Duck replied.

Ace activated his comm and contacted Matt. "We found her, she is in the Golden Claw."

"Where is that?" Matt said from the other side of the line.

"In, uhm, Glare, it is on…" Ace looked at Duck, who was sitting next to him to get more directions.

"Tallest building, tenth floor." Duck described.

"In the tallest building, Matt, I need you three to surveil it from the outside if she manages to escape again, are you cool with that?" Ace asked.

"Sure, we are heading there already." Matt replied.

"Thanks." Ace ended the communication.

A few minutes later, Anne and Matt installed a modest surveillance camp on the rooftop of a building that was in front of the tower where Golden Claw was, the helicopter was behind them as Peyton had landed it there, she was taking a nap in the pilot seat while Matt and Anne were sitting with their legs crossed near the edge of the rooftop, just glancing at the immense, glowing tower. The night was cold so they were both close to each other with a blanket with the A.R.M. logo covering them.

"If this wasn't a top priority mission, it would make a great date." Matt opined.

Anne chuckled and leaned her head on his shoulder. "And why can't it be both?" She kissed his cheek briefly.

"Well, I've been reading articles of the Weekly Merc Magazine and…" Matt got interrupted.

"Oh come on, is that a thing?" Anne asked.

Matt chuckled at her question. "Yes, I know we are not that kind of agency but hey, it's been helpful."

"So, what have you been reading on your weird magazine?" Anne cuddled with him a little bit.

"Well, I read that one has to separate personal stuff from, uhm, the duty." Matt explained.

Anne hugged him. "And where is the fun in that?"

Matt leaned his head on hers gently. "Yeah." He kissed her forehead. "I guess that's a good point."

Anne continued the conversation. "What about Praise? She has been improving her skills, you should give her a chance."

Matt sighed. "I don't know, hon, she is too young and honestly I don't see her on the field, she is more of the artistic type."

Anne nodded. "Yeah but, I've been practicing some fighting moves with her and I can say that she is already keeping up with me."

Matt chuckled briefly. "You even gave her a bodysuit like yours." He touched her arm on the part of the suit that had the red details printed over. "In every aspect."

Anne giggled. "It's just that, I want her to trust me." She said.

Matt nodded. "That could be of help, but is not that easy, specially when she hasn't had anyone to trust in her life."

Anne shook her head. "She needs a family, Matt, and we can be that for her." She took his hand.

Matt looked at her with comprehension. "And I'm all in, hon." He kissed her briefly. "I'm in."

In the meantime, Tech was landing the jet over the heliport of the tower where the Golden Claw was, he managed to land it right on the center, then they all got off the jet and reunited. "Rev, locate her." Ace ordered.

"Sure boss." Rev focused on his global positioning power, he saw blurry images of Heather dodging and blocking the lasers that came from the weapons of the hordes of guards that were confronting her in the hallway. "She is in the club already." He said with a moderate speed in his voice. "Tons of guards, they're fighting her, I can see an office, yeah she wants to enter the office, who is that? A husky, of course, he wears a black suit, the man is scared, that red tie is a little bit much but I guess..."

"Bruce." Duck said, interrupting Rev.

"Do you know who is he talking about?" Ace inquired.

Duck nodded. "He is the club's owner."

Lexi gasped, then looked at Ace. "He is the target."

Tech shook his head with a premature sense of defeat. "She'll kill him." He added.

"Not on our watch." Ace looked at Rev, whose mind was fully back with them. "Can you find a way to reach Bruce before Heather does?"

Rev nodded. "I saw a window with a great view of the city on the office."

"There is it." Ace said then thought briefly, he nodded as he had come up with a plan. "Slam, Lexi, we'll enter the club and deal with Heather while the rest of you reaches the husky from the outside and get him out of there."

"From the outside?" Lexi raised an eyebrow. "But Ace, our jetpacks are toasted."

"It's the only way, if she beats us at least you'd have gotten the man to safety." Ace explained. "And you won't need the jetpacks, there are harnesses and wires in the jet, right Tech?"

"That's correct boss". Tech answered.

"Rev, that window you saw, from where can you three reach it?" Ace asked.

"Oh it's right down here." Rev walked towards a corner of the rooftop. "We can install the gear here and rappel."

"And that's exactly what I want you to do." Ace looked at Tech. "Take out those wires, Doc., Rev will help you install them." He commanded, Tech just nodded and walked towards the jet to get what Ace asked him for.

"Wouldn't this be more easy if I just teleport there? I mean I could just take the guy and end of story." Duck suggested.

Ace put a hand over his chin, thinking about Duck's proposition. "That's actually a good idea, Duck." He smiled at him. "I'm kinda impressed to be honest."

Duck crossed his arms. "I don't know if I'm flattered or offended."

"No time for that, teleport there and take Bruce out of his office, Tech and Rev, the plan is the same for you, just in case Duck can't comply his task." Ace ordered.

"Now I'm sure I'm offended." Duck rolled his eyes, then got out of their sight by teleporting.

"Slam, Lexi, come on." Ace commanded then went to the staircase that led to the inside of the tower, followed by them both.

Tech put the gear on the corner where Rev was. "Okay, this is old school so I might need to…" He stopped talking as Rev had installed the wires and put his harness on in a split of second with his super speed. "Read the manual." He completed the phrase anyway.

Rev handed him his harness. "And that's what I did some of the instructions were in Alumian so that's why it took me a little bit more to do it."

Tech chuckled and put on his harness. "You're always one step ahead, bud."

Bruce was yelling at five of his guards, scolding them furiously. "She is massacring all of you! For what I pay you she shouldn't be a problem any more!" Bruce slammed his fist on his wooden desktop.

One of the guards, an english shepherd lowered his head. "Boss, she is one of those freaks, there's nothing more we can do."

"Come on! Just burn her blasted head with your weapon, that's what you do!" Bruce walked and stood right in front of him.

"It's not that simple." The guard gasped as Bruce put his gun next to his face.

"I'll show you how simple it actually is!" Before Bruce could even think of pressing the trigger, Duck appeared in front of them.

"Bruce!" Duck exclaimed.

Bruce sighed then put down his gun, relieving the guard he had planned to kill. "You too? What do you freaks want from me!" He exclaimed with nervousness.

"Calm down, I'm here to rescue you." Duck said.

Bruce took his gun again and aimed at him, the five guards did the same with their respective weapons. "I don't believe you, this must be some kind of plot, you are with her, you want my money!"

Duck growled and raised both hands. "Just hear me out for a second, we want to take her out of the game, believe me, but now I must take you to a safe place." He tried to get closer to them but Bruce fired his gun at the carpeted floor.

"Don't move!" Bruce said.

"She wants to kill you! Just let me…" Duck teleported behind Bruce and took his arm, one of the guards hit his belly with the tip of his machine gun, preventing him to use his power and making him to fall and groan over the floor.

Bruce knelt down next to him. "My men have this under control, you and your freaky friends have nothing to worry about." He stood up. "If you behave, I might consider sparing your life, I'm not in the mood for a battle with the other morons."

"You would end up losing anyway." Duck said, still rubbing his aching belly.

"Behave!" Bruce kicked his stomach forcefully, making him to gasp with anguish.

On the meantime, Ace, Lexi and Slam were approaching the entrance of the club, they all gasped at seeing the two guards Heather had killed. "Keep moving." Ace said, entering the club followed by the others. The electronic music was still present, same as the lights.

"I hear shooting." Lexi said, having heard Heather's battle with Bruce's guards with her power. "There!" She hurried towards the hallway where the battle was taking place followed by Ace and Slam, they all practically ignored the other two corpses that laid on the floor before the entrance.

"Heather!" Ace yelled, the group of guards recognized him and they all decided to leave the matter to him and the other two heroes at his sides, so the horde of armored dogs just ran to get in the office.

Heather had been hiding on another barrier she had built, she snarled then got out of cover, standing up a few meters ahead of them. "This is not of your business!" She glitched the floor and made two semi-transparent, solid spheres with parts made of the floor's material to float in front of her by moving her hands upwards then she threw them towards the three Loonatics.

Ace pulverized one of them with his laser vision. "If people get harmed, then it's our business!"

"You are so righteou…" Heather got interrupted by a hit of one of her own projectiles as Slam had caught it earlier and threw it at her, she gasped while hitting a wall then fell to the ground. Slam growled with a tone of achievement.

Lexi rushed rapidly to the entrance that led to the office to block it so Heather couldn't get there. "Face it! You've lost!"

Heather stood up and ran towards her then tried to punch her face but Lexi dodged the attack, she then brain blasted her shoulder, making her to scream with pain, Heather didn't stop there and slid her leg to hit Lexi's, she gasped but didn't let the kick to slow her down, she kneeled Heather's side with strength, Ace had approached them so he jumped and took Heather down with him using his own weight. "Hey! Hey that's mine! No!" Heather expressed as she felt Ace trying to take the earring from her ear with his hand, as they were both laying on the ground, Heather took Ace's free arm and started to hurt it with both of her arms, Ace gasped as he felt his arm was breaking and let go Heather's ear, she stood up quickly and kicked his face, leaving him dizzied, she knew Lexi was behind her so she turned around and glitched the wall behind her, getting her trapped with glitched, floating concrete.

Lexi started to shoot her brain blast at her rough prison, Heather tried to attack her to prevent her from getting out of there eventually but she was caught by Slam from a leg.

Rev and Tech were descending carefully with the rappelling gear, they held the cables attached to their harnesses tightly, specially Rev, who looked far more nervous than Tech. "How many floors are left? My neck is aching man." Rev said, he gazed upwards continuously.

"That would change if you lowered your sight for a moment, I mean you are a bird you shouldn't be afraid of heights." Tech replied.

"I'm not the fly type and you know that and I know what your answer will be and that's that I fly with you all the time with the jetpack but wait our jetpacks are not functional now so if we make a single mistake we might end up crushed all over the street like tomat…" Rev got suddenly interrupted.

"Shut up, Rev! Do you always have to be that graphic?!" Tech started to tremble a little bit. "Thanks for the fright, by the way!" They kept descending after letting go the conversation.

Rev decided to lower his gaze a little bit then gasped at seeing Bruce kicking Duck through the great window. "That brat!" Rev said, as Bruce and his guards were watching over Duck, they didn't realize Tech and him were right behind them, hanging at the other side of the glass.

"Break it." Tech commanded, Rev nodded and put both hands on the glass then started to move them really fast, the glass trembled briefly then exploded in pure dust, the noise of the explosion got the immediate attention of Bruce and his men, Tech and Rev quit the cables from their harnesses then hopped to the office, landing graciously after a somersault, then stood up and looked at them, they remained with their harnesses on.

"What now?!" Bruce aimed at them with his gun, the guards mimicked his action.

"He likes to do that a l…" Duck's commentary got unfinished as one of the guards kicked him with no warning.

"Stop hurting him!" Rev demanded. "He wants to help you!"

"We'll take you out of here, like it or not." Tech added.

"Well, make me!" Bruce exclaimed. "Besides, those friends of yours are already handling her as these idiots don't think they're 'capable' to attend the situation." He said to the guards who were at the other side of the room, making them to rub their arms with shame.

"Well I'm sorry to say that they won't be able to stop her for so long." Tech replied.

"Sooner or later…" Rev ran fast towards Duck and carried him, then left him laying on a corner far from Bruce and the others. "She'll come and she'll kill you." He had returned to his previous spot.

"Wha…" Bruce looked back briefly then glared at them again. "You are just weirdos with tricks, that is everything you are, no less no more!" He said while pointing at them with his index finger.

Tech growled at the comment and took a few steps to the front to get closer to him. "We have clear orders, now move or we'll force you to do so!"

Heather was still dealing with Slam, she had managed to free herself from his grasp, but found difficult to keep evading his constant punches which destroyed a part of the floor each time he tried to attack her, Heather glitched the ceiling and formed a solid, partially transparent structure that she then lowered rapidly, putting it right over Slam, caging him completely. Slam roared inside his confinement, he started to punch its inside, aggressively, with notoriously slow effects.

Heather turned and got rapidly in the office, having dealt with the three Loonatics she left neutralized on the hallway. Tech, Rev and Duck, who had recovered and got into his feet saw her from their respective spots, she didn't even let them react as she glitched the glass of the remaining windows and by moving her hand slightly to the left the composition of the glass turned more malleable, with a fast gesture she divided the modified, floating glass in three individual spheres which then threw towards them and got the three of them trapped on the splatted masses of glass, she clenched her fist and with that turned the glass to a full solid state again, getting the remaining Loonatics trapped too, their torsos where totally covered with the transparent matter, Rev tried to run fast to get out because his legs were uncovered, but it was useless as he was strongly adhered against the wall, Tech didn't even try anything.

The guards started to shoot at her with their machine guns, she manipulated the environment surrounding each one of the lasers that went towards her and made them to vanish on the transparent capsule-like structures she had covered them with. She backed both hands and glitched the wall behind her, she grinned by the good streak she was having, then made the mix of concrete and solid ambient to form a big sized hammer, she adopted a position as if she was about to hit them with a real one then just hit them with the floating, improvised weapon and left them unconscious over the floor, she dropped the giant hammer and started to walk towards Bruce who was kneeling down behind his desktop, looking at her terrified. "I've known men who really like to put conditions just for a date, but you Bruce, you are the worst of them all." Heather said.

"Oh shut up with your smart comments." Bruce stood up slowly, trembling and rubbing his hands anxiously, but trying to show braveness nonetheless. "That won't make me pay you." He said with a tone of pride.

"Oh, sweetie, didn't they tell you?" Heather slid over the surface of the desktop and got right in front of him, she then grasped his neck and started to choke him. "I always get what I want." She smashed him on the floor and got him laying on his back, she was kneeling next to him with her hand still grabbing his neck. "You gotta have money hidden here, somewhere." She glitched a small part of the floor next to his ear with her free hand and made a thin cable made of the floor's materials to form by her glitch, she then started to introduce the cable slowly inside his ear.

Bruce moved instinctively by feeling the cable touching his ear. "What the heck?!" The cable started to get deeper, hurting him as she had begun to move her fingers in a way that the cable caused him extreme pain. Bruce started to scream, grabbing her arm to try to free himself from her grasp but she was stronger, he emitted gasps and yells of suffering repeatedly.

Duck was on the hallway throwing orbs at the structure that was holding Lexi, as he had teleported there when Heather got distracted. "I can hear a crack already." He kept throwing the orbs until the structure broke in several pieces, freeing Lexi.

Slam growled from the inside of his own imprisonment, letting Duck know that he also needed help.

"Yeah I'm right on it big guy don't need to rush me you know." Duck started to throw orbs again, this time at Slam's prison, he got immediate help of Lexi, she was brain blasting the structure's surface.

Ace began to stand up, he leaned briefly on one of the walls, looking at the floor trying to undo the dizziness he still felt. When he managed to recover, he saw Lexi and Duck destroying the structure, he joined them and started to shoot his laser vision towards it, seconds later the structure got successfully destroyed by them, getting Slam free, he then growled with thankfulness.

"It's nothing, man." Ace said, then looked at Lexi. "Where's Heather?"

"She is with Bruce." Duck responded.

Ace's eyes widened. "With Bruce?!" He exclaimed, then sighed with disgust and hurried towards the office, followed by Duck, Lexi and Slam. "You should've stayed there fighting her, what were you doing with us?"

"Well, helping you, your welcome, by the way." Duck replied while running next to his boss.

"If you are told to stay with a group you stay with that group no matter what!" Ace scolded him. "Follow orders!"

Duck snarled. "Okay then! Next time I won't help you, in trouble or not, are you happy with that?!"

Ace sighed. "I didn't sa…" They all stopped running when they finally arrived at Bruce's office.

"Under the desk!" Bruce exclaimed when he couldn't stand the pain anymore. "The money is under the desk!"

Heather raised an eyebrow while grinning at him, she took out the cable from his ear. "See? Was it that hard?" She stood up and pushed the table, dropping it carelessly over the floor. She noticed that a part of the carpet was cut in a perfect square and discovered it was a little door as she kneeled down and touched its corners, a laser from Ace prevented her to try to open the door, it burned a piece of carpet.

"It seems you'll get out of here empty handed." Ace said while walking towards her. "I bet you'll still do business on Acmetropolis' prison." Lexi and Duck headed towards Tech and Rev to aid them with their situation.

Heather ignored Ace's comment then aimed her hands at the hammer and took it remotely by manipulating it again, she stood up then hit Ace right on the face with a quick swing, Ace hit the wall then fell down, knocked and weakened by the strength of the hit, Slam growled and tried to smash her with both of his fists but she stopped them with her hands after dropping the hammer, she moved her thumb and suddenly a tiny, glitched spike came right from under Slam's foot, puncturing it, he growled with pain while jumping with the unharmed foot, rubbing and checking the wound on the other.

Lexi and Duck had freed Tech and Rev with success. They got closer to Heather, who was trying to open the door Bruce had revealed. "Enough! Last warning!" Lexi readied her power menacingly.

Tech cornered her from the other side followed by Rev as Duck stood next to Lexi. "You've lost! Face it!" Tech exclaimed, he got uneasy at seeing her finally opening the door.

Heather growled and put both hands on the floor. "You talk too much, Loonatics!" She glitched the floor under their feet and started to make a thick, crystal clear barrier to form, she moved her hands effortfully away from the floor to make the barrier bigger, she made sure to keep Ace and Slam on the other side as well, her hands were fully raised and she started to gasp, exhausted by the task, Lexi was firing her brain blast towards the growing wall but it was too thick, Duck's orbs didn't do any damage either.

Heather lowered her arms rapidly, gasping and looking at the Loonatics from the other side, she let out a chuckle of mockery. "Try to stop me now." Her comment made Tech to punch the transparent wall strongly, furious and with a feeling of impotence, she started to put the money inside her coat, along with some jewelry that occasionally appeared between the wads.

Heather finished emptying the compartment and stood up with her coat full of money, gems and other kind of valuable stuff. She walked towards Bruce who was still laying over the floor and grasped his neck again, he gasped softly with Heather's action as the torture he suffered had left him almost voiceless because of the intense screams, she lifted him and started to walk towards the edge of the room where there was no window anymore, she got the tip of her boots barely beyond the floor, Bruce moved his legs with desperation while seeing the far street below his feet then started to yell at her, having recovered that ability by the fright he was feeling, falling from that height was a more than sure death. "No, no, no, no! Please Heather I beg you! You got your money just let me live! Please!" He exclaimed with struggle as Heather tightened her grasp.

Heather laughed. "I could stay hours here listening to your pathetic pleads, but I got to go." She looked briefly at the Loonatics who were witnessing the whole act with worry, Ace and Slam had got again into their full senses but were also behind the thick wall.

"Heather, don't do it!" Tech exclaimed in a desperate attempt to save the man's life.

Heather grinned and turned her gaze back to her victim. "It was a pleasure to do business with you." She brought him closer to her and kissed his cheek then just let go off his neck, Bruce started to scream with his hand uselessly trying to reach her, his final scream could be heard all the way down to his death, she stood there for a moment then glitched some concrete from the inferior area and made it to float and get right in front of her feet, she got over the piece of concrete and kneeled down over it, with her hands she started to move the made up vehicle away from the building, getting out of their sight eventually.

Ace hit the wall the same way Tech had done, he activated his comm to speak with Matt. "We lost her again, Matt, tell me you man…"

"We are right behind her tail already, she is heading to the Entrepreneur District." Matt replied, he and his team were on the helicopter chasing Heather.

"Thanks, don't lose sight of her, we'll catch up later." Ace said then started to take deep breaths to calm himself down. When he got through his emotion, he glared at the team. "To the vehicle, now." He commanded.

"We'll get her this time." Lexi approached him and put a hand over his shoulder reassuringly, secretly sharing the same feeling of unending defeat.

Ace sighed. "I hope so." He looked at her, trying to hide the unrest in his eyes. "I really hope so."

"That's all we need." Lexi looked at the rest. "You heard him, get moving."