44. Vesuvius

"No more secrets. I want to know what's wrong with Lincoln and i want to know now!" Lucy shouted. Lori, Luna, Luan and Lisa looked at her shocked. They had never seen her this angry. Normally they would blow it off but Lucy froze the door shut and froze them to the ground. So basically, Lucy ment business.

"Lucy just calm down." Lori said. "Let us go and we'll explain everything."

"No. You explain first and then I'll let you go." Lucy growled.

"If you insist." Lisa replied. "If you recall Ronnie Anne being captured by the Terror crew Lincoln went into a powerful fury until he got knocked out and had no memory of what happened. Same can be said with Revenants, Luna's encounter and the most recently the fight between Rubbor."

"Yeah." Lucy said. "I remember."

"Well during the encounter with the Revenants, Soothsayer had a vision of a figure burning the city to the ground." Lori continued. "That figure was Lincoln."

"What?" Lucy gasped. "He would never do that. Do you four really think he would burn the city to the ground?!"

"Honestly Luce, we don't know what think anymore." Luna tells her. "But after the whole mind control schtick, Lisa came up with a possible solution to our little issue."

"Yes an reactor that'll keep his flames from going out of control." said Lisa.

"Does he know about this?" Lucy asked

"We haven't told him yet." Lori replied.

Does anyone else know about this?" Lucy asked.

"No. Only us and Soothsayer." Luan answered.

"So you're telling me that you are keeping secrets from us since the first time he went full rage?" Lucy asked annoyed and the girls nodded. "Why didn't you tell us? What happened to no more secrets? Don't you trust us? Do not think we would want to help?"

"We didn't want Lincoln or anyone to panic or fear the worst." Lori said.

"Look Lisa just needs a few more days and then we'll tell everyone." Luna added.

"What makes you think i won't tell them now?" Lucy threatened.

"You wouldn't." Luan gasped.

"Try me." Lucy growled.

"You're not going to blackmail us are you?" Lori asked.

"Don'y Give her ideas." Luna warned her older sister.

"Look, Lucy please don't tell anyone about this." Luan begged.

"I'll think about it." Lucy tells them. She turns to the door and raises her hand and then lowers it. After she lowers it, the ice disappears. She then walks out of the room.

"We're literally doomed." Lori said and then Luna slaps her across the face.

"Don't panic we just need to keep an eye on her that's all." said Luna.

"Keep an eye on the jump scare maker? That'll be impossible." Luan said.

"Might i remind you that we are still frozen in place." Lisa pointed out.

"Crap." Lori muttered. "Ok, first get freed and then think of a plan."

"Right!" The other sisters said.

"Don't worry dudes." Luna assured them. "I got this. LINCOLN!"

Meanwhile at Royal Woods elementary, Lincoln is walking through the halls and opens his locker. "Another day, another boring day!" Lincoln groaned.

"Hello elder brother." Lincoln turns and sees Lisa approaching him. "I must thank you again for freeing Lori, Luna, Luan and myself from our icy imprisonment."

"No problem." Lincoln tells her. "So an experiment went wrong and froze you guys in place?"

"Yep." Lisa lied. "Again i thank you for freeing us."

Outside of the school a figure is walking to the school. She's a 13 year old girl with fair skin, long blonde hair that reaches her shoulders, she's wearing a crimson red bodysuit with orange lines on it, has bulky dark red gloves with orange lines and dark red boots. But on her face is a red mask around her face.

She walks towards the school and looked at the school. "So this is my target?" She asked.

She lets out a sigh and pulls a mask off and pulls out a old photo of three people. One was a tall man with fair skin, black hair with gray streaks on the side and wore a lab coat. Another was a slightly shorter woman with long blonde hair and was also wearing a lab coat. In between them was a little girl about eight years old. "How many years has it been?" She asked herself.

Flashback-5 years ago

In the ruin city of Pompeii, the two adults are studying the ruins and the people frozen in volcanic ash. "Looks like this man tried to shield himself." said the Husband.

"Yes and there were some earlier signs of the volcano's eruption such as the wells dried up and the sheep died from the smoke." said the wife.

"Mom! Look what i found!" A little girl called out.

"Go check on her Liz." The man said with a chuckle.

"I know Phil." Liz sighed. She walks off and heads to where she heard her daughter calling. "Bev! Where are you sweetie?"

I'm near the old pillars that used to be a place!" Bev called out.

Liz walks towards her daughter's location and she sees a 8 year old girl with fair skin, short blonde hair, wearing a blue t shirt, brown shorts, and black sneakers. "What did you find sweetie?" Liz asked.

"A big glowing rock." said Bev.

"You sure you're not making this up?" Liz asked.

"No really." Bev insisted. "It's big and it's glowing!"

"Alright let me take a look." Liz said with a sigh. Her daughter grabs her hand and drags her into the palace ruins where she sees a large glowing rock. "Bev, that's a meteorite!"

"Really!?" Bev gasped.

"Judging by the looks of this meteorite. It must of been here before Pompeii was built." Liz stated just when Phil walked in.

"Bev what did you find?" Phil asked until he later eyes on the meteorite. "A meteorite?"

"A glowing one." Bev replied. "And it's glowing brighter!"

"Is that normal?" Phil asked

"I don't know." Liz answered. "Let's get this to the lab to study it."

"Good idea I'll call a team ASAP!" Phil said.

Detroit, Michigan

Liz and Phil stood in the lab looking over the meteorite that was attached to their equipment to study it.

"This is amazing. It hasn't stopped glowing and it appears that it's glowing even brighter than back in Pompeii." Liz exclaimed.

"Not to mention the power is off the scale. It could have enough power to light Detroit for years!" Phil said while on a computer.

Another scientist then walks into the lab followed by two men. The first man was tall, had fair skin and was wearing a unzipped trenchcoat with a fedora and underneath the shirt was a white button up shirt with the top button not buttoned. The other man was slightly taller than his partner, had fair skin, black slicked back hair and was wearing a jean vest, a black t-shirt and cargo pants. On his left arm he had a tatoo that said fear the elements.

"Hello gentlemen." Phil greeted. "What can we do for you?"

"My name is Thomas Jackson and this is my partner Jaxon Moore." The first man said. "We are with the state. We recently received word that you aquired a meteorite from Pompeii am I correct?"

"Yes, we found this in Pompeii." Liz replied. "May I ask why?"

"Are you with the Government or something?" Phil asked.

"Or something." Jaxon answered. "All that matters is that we're with the state and we need you to hand over the meteorite."

"Why?" Phil asked.

"The meteorite is extremely dangerous." Thomas answered. "For that reason, we need to take it away."

"I'm afraid we can't do that." Liz tells them.

"Give us a reason why?" Jaxon asked.

"This is the biggest find of the century! I'm not going to let some people with the state take it from us." Phil said.

"Are you willing to put your daughters life at risk?!" Thomas asked.

"Our daughter's life is not at risk." Phil argued. "Now please leave.

"Sir I have a family too and I think it would be best if you followed our demands!" Thomas argued back.

"I'm sorry but we can't give you the meteorite." Phil presses. "Now i must ask you to leave." Jaxon then grabs Phil by the lab coat and pulls him close.

"Give us the damn meteorite." He growled.

"Jaxon. That's enough." Thomas said and Jaxon reluctantly released Phil. "There isn't anything we can do if they don't cooperate."

"Fine." Jaxon groaned. "But if they die it won't bother me none." The two men walk out of the lab and Bev follows them. "That didn't go well."

"Your telling." Thomas agreed. "But it's their own fault if they die."

"Agreed. You think Renso found a bar yet?" Jaxon asked.

"Yeah. Probably the cheapest one in Detroit and as far away from this place as possible." Thomas answered.

"Let's go before that meteorite blows up." Jaxon said before the two walk out.

"Blow up?" Bev whispered. "What did they mean?"

Bev runs to her parents and sees them alright and the meteorite glowing brighter. "Are you two ok? Who were those two?" Bev asked.

"It's hard to explain sweetie." Liz replied.

"All you need to know is they wanted the meteorite." Phil says. Suddenly, the computer screens start flashing red. The two run towards it. "Oh no. The meteorite is becoming unstable!"

"We gotta leave now!" Liz shouted. However, before they can, the meteorite explodes engulfing everyone in the lab. When Bev wakes up she sees that she's unharmed but sees her parents dead.

"No!" Bev screams in horror as she stretches her arm to reach for them but her arm suddenly becomes magma much to her surprise. "What's happening to me?!"

End flasback

Bev puts the picture back in her pocket with a sigh. After the accident, she spent the next five years living on the streets, stealing what she needed to survive and learning to control her powers. She learned that the meteorite explosion gave her the ability to create magma from her body as well as harden it to stone. It's rather useful. And now she was doing a favor for someone she owed. Andrew Tetherby. He's the reason she had everything she needed to control her powers. He gave her everything to survive on her own. The only payment he asked for, was a favor that he would ask for in the future. And just a few days ago, he asked to pick a fight with Firecracker to release this inner anger inside him. So, wanting to pay back the debt, she agreed. And now here she stands in front of Royal Woods Elementary to draw him out. Why this location she didn't know but she didn't ask questions.

"Ok. Let's do this." Bev said before putting her mask back on. "Time for Vesuvius to cause some chaos."

Lincoln is gym class playing dodgeball with his class against another class. "Look buddy I think it's best if you talk to someone about these rage moments you don't remember." Clyde said as he dodge a dodgeball.

"Clyde I'm not going to Dr. Lopez." Lincoln said and threw a dodgeball at a student.

"We're trying to help you out." Clyde replied.

"I don't need help!" Lincoln shouted before throwing a ball at someone from the opposite team. Suddenly Principal Huggins runs into the gym.

"Everyone! We meed to evacuate the school!" Huggins shouted. "There is a meta outside firing magma at the school!"

"That sounds bad." Lincoln said. "I'll round up Lucy, the twins and Lisa. You try to contact the girls."

"Right." Clyde said before Lincoln ran out of the gym.

Lincoln ran and then Magma came out of the ground. "Holy marinara sauce!" Lincoln exclaimed.

"LINCOLN!" Lincoln looks and sees Lisa surrounded by magma. "I REQUIRE SOME ASSISTANCE!"

"Don't worry Lisa! I'm coming!" Lincoln assured her. He looks around and sees nobody around and flies over the magma to where Lisa is. He grabs her and flies back to where he was standing before. "You ok Lisa?"

"I'm fine. You have saved me from getting 3rd degree burns." said Lisa. "But by the looks of it, it could be a powerful meta."

"I doubt it. We need to suit up somewhere where no one can see us." Lincoln said.

"Guys over here!" Lincoln and Lisa look out the window to see Lana motioning them over. "It's safe over here!" The two nod and jump out the window where they see Lola and Lucy already there.

"Everyone ok?" Lincoln asked.

"Yeah we're fine Linky." Lola answered. "Lucy got us out."

"Good. Now let's suit up!" Lincoln ordered.

Outside the school, Vesuvius had her hand on the ground with magma coating her arms. "This should draw him out." She said.

"You certainly know how to get our attention." Vesuvius turned and saw Firecracker, Black Ice, Wildgirl, Crystal Princess and Prodigy landing a few feet from her with Wildgirl carrying both Princess and Prodigy as a pterodactyl.

"Firecracker, we meet at last." Vesuvius said.

"Indeed we do." Lincoln said before turning to his sisters. "Does anyone know who she is?"

"I never seen her before." Wildgirl said.

"She looks brand new." said Crystal Princess.

"I have no memory of this Meta." Prodigy said.

"Who are you!?" Black Ice demanded a answer.

"They call me Vesuvius." Vesuvius introduced herself.

"What the heck does that mean?" Crystal Princess asked.

"How would I know?" Firecracker shrugged.

Vesuvius groaned and decided to give them the answer. "I'm named after Mount Vesuvius, the volcano that destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii." Vesuvius said.

"If you have given me a minute i would've answered." Prodigy muttered.

"I would've gone with Ms. Magma." Wildgirl says.

"Same here." Firecracker agreed.

"Yep." Crystal Princess said.

"Uh huh." Black Ice nodded

"Indeed." Prodigy says.

"Well it's not your choice!" Vesuvius shouts.

"Well it's time for you to go to prison!" Firecracker shouted.

"Really? That's the best one liner?" Vesuvius asked.

"Gotta agree with her there." Wildgirl said.

"Well I'm not Ms. Appear who stays up late just to write one liners." Firecracker groaned.

"Can we just fight!?" Vesuvius shouts before launching a magma blast at them.

"Move!" Firecracker shouts causing everyone to jump out of the way.

"How can we take her down!?" Wildgirl asked.

"Can't you turn into that spitting dinosaur?!" Crystal Princess shouted.

"Black Ice cover me!" Wildgirl said.

"On it." Black Ice replied.

Black Ice jumps forward and forms a ice hammer but Vesuvius grabs it with a magma covered hand and destroys the hammer. Wildgirl goes Dilophosaurus and spits acid at Vesuvius who in turn throws magma at the acid.

"Ok let's try that again." Wildgirl said and spits out the acid.

Vesuvius fires magma balls at the acid spits. "You know that magma killed dinosaurs." Vesuvius said.

"That was never proven!" Prodigy points out. Vesuvius ignores her and throws a magma ball at Wildgirl but Crystal Princess jumps in and puts up a crystal barrier between them and the magma. Vesuvius lets out a growl and Black Ice jumps back in with a ice club and hits Vesuvius in the back.

"Did you forget about me?" Black Ice asks.

"Sorta." Vesuvius answers. She then fires magma at Black Ice who counters with a ice beam but the magma overpowers it and Black Ice is hit and launched back.

"Good thing i made sure out costumes were magma proof." Prodigy said. "More or less. Basically the costumes will be damaged but we will be fine."

"Well we have to hold her off until our older sisters show up." said Firecracker.

"I don't need the whole team I just need Firecracker." Vesuvius said.

"What do you want from me?" Firecracker asks.

"Not sure." Vesuvius answers. "But i was told that if i beat you down enough, something wakes up inside."

"Well if you want my brother you have to go through me." Prodigy said before throwing a school bus at Vesuvius who destroys it with her magma.

"Don't forget us!" Vesuvius looks and sees Wildgirl as a gorilla with Crystal Princess sitting on her shoulders. Crystal Princess then covers Wildgirl in crystal armor.

"This should protect you from the magma." Crystal Princess says to her twin.

Wildgirl roared and charged towards Vesuvius and slams her down with her fists. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape!" Vesuvius shouted then harden her fist into molten rock and punched Wildgirl in the face.

Wildgirl turned back to human and sat up. "I don't know what hurt more. The punch or the insult?" She said.

"I'd go with the punch." Crystal Princess said from underneath Wildgirl. "Also, GET OFF ME!"

"That's three." Vesuvius said. "So nerd, want to try again?"

"Your powers I will admit fascinate me." Prodigy admits. "You can not just shoot magma but also harden it. While that is impressive, I must take you down!"

"Couldn't agree more." Firecracker said before flying forward. He throws a right fire fist while Vesuvius throws a right magma fist causing the two to collide and force the two back. "Not bad. But magma can't beat fire." Prodigy comes up and and taps him on the shoulder. He bends down and whispers something in his ear. "Really?" Prodigy nods. "Huh. Well that sucks. I guess magma is stronger than fire."

"Yeah and you know what else can I do?" Vesuvius said as she stomped the ground and two sprouts of magma come out of the ground. "But wait there's more!"

"Keep your guard up elder brother!" Prodigy warned

Vesuvius raises her hand and swings it to the right, sending the magma straight towards Prodigy who is hit. "And then there was one." Vesuvius says.

"What do you want?" Firecracker demanded.

"Like I said, I'm not entirely sure." Vesuvius answers. "All I was told was to try to awaken your anger and try to wake something up."

"Well you already woke my anger!" Firecracker shouted and tackled Vesuvius.

Vesuvius pushes Firecracker off of her and turns her arm to magma. "Sadly I don't think that's the anger i was looking for." She fires her magma at Firecracker and grabs him. "Why aren't you waking up?!" She slams him onto the ground. "You know, I feel like I wasted my time with you. But i still want to awaken that inner anger. But I'll do it a different time." She puts her hands on the ground and magma spouts out. It then covers Firecracker completely and Vesuvius opens her hand closes it, hardening the magma and trapping Firecracker underneath it. "See you around Firecracker." Vesuvius said before running off. After she was gone, Black Ice, Wildgirl, Crystal Princess and Prodigy run to the hardened magma.

"Firecracker!" Crystal Princess shouts.

"Wildgirl, try to sniff for him." Black Ice ordered.

Wildgirl turns into a bloodhound and sniffs her older brother. "He's still alive!" Wildgirl shouted.

"Hang on Firecracker!" Crystal Princess shouted and hold a Crystal hammer in her hands.

She starts slamming the hammer onto the ground trying to break. However, the hardened magma wasn't breaking that easily.

"We must hurry!" Prodigy prompted. "He's going to run out of air soon."

"Guys what's going on?" The four turn to see Parkour had arrived. "Clyde said there was a meta and i got here as fast as i could. Where's Lincoln?"

"He's trapped under this magma!" Crystal Princess answered.

"What?!" Parkour shouted and ran towards Lincoln. "Hang on little bro!"

She stands over the spot where Firecracker is buried and slams her hands into the ground and tries to feel around for him until she gets hold a something. She grabs it and immediately pulls out to reveal a unconscious Firecracker.

"You got him!" Wildgirl cheered. Parkour places him down and Prodigy immediately runs over and looks him over. She then slams her little elbow down on his stomach and Firecracker immediately sits up taking a deep breath.

"Holy crap." Firecracker exclaimed. "What was that the third time i almost died?" He looks at his costume and sees parts of it burned off. He sees his sisters' in similar condition. "And we need Leni to fix our costumes." He turns to Parkour. "Lynn when did you get here?"

"I got just got here when that meta attacked your school." Parkour said.

"This meta is named after a volcano and she can control magma." said Firecracker.

"Fire isn't stronger than magma isn't it?" Parkour asked.

"You are correct Parkour." Prodigy said.

Vanzilla pulls up and Lori, Leni, Luna and Luan run out. "Are you guys ok? Luan came and got us while Lynn went to help you guys." Lori explained.

"Been better but the meta ditched us." Wildgirl told them.

"Ok, let's head to base for a debrief and to fix your costumes." Lori said.

Meanwhile at the Metahuman wing of Royal Woods prison, there is one prisoner that sits on his bed and it was Hydro. Lincoln's enemy from his former life and current life. His face had been bandaged around his nose. His left shoulder had been wrapped up and his left arm is in a sling.

He hears someone approaching his cell and he lets out a groan. "What are you coming to finish the job Andrew!" He calls out in annoyance. However the person that stopped in front of his cell wasn't who he expected. It was a girl about thirteen years old. "And who might you be?"

"Names Vesuvius." The girl said. "Are you the one they call Hydro?"

"Maybe." Hydro answered. "What the hell do you want? An autograph? A picture? To waste my time?"

"No, to break you out." Vesuvius answers.

"Pass." Hydro said.

You're kidding right?" Vesuvius asked. "You would Rather rot in here?"

"Yep." said Hydro.

"You don't want to help me take down Firecracker?" Vesuvius asked.

"Nope." Hydro answered.

"Why?" Vesuvius asked.

"Two reasons." Hydro replied. "One, Firecracker is MINE to kill. If anyone us going to kill him it's going to be me. And helping you kill him wouldn't be as satisfying. Besides, i don't do team ups anymore. I work alone."

"And the second reason?" Vesuvius asked.

"Simple, because I know your employer." Hydro answered darkly. "He doesn't respond well to failure or betrayal. He came to my cell not long after the myself and the rest of the Revenants were locked up. He wanted answers. I wouldn't give them to him. So he beat the hell out of me. First he punched me in the face and threw me into the wall for betraying him. After that he wanted to know everything I knew. But i was too prideful and kept quiet. So he punched me in the stomach and threw me too the ground. He asked again, and i didn't answer so he pulled my arm back til i heard my shoulder separate. And then he asked one more time while stepping on my arm. So I gave in and told him. And how does he show gratitude? He slams his foot down right on my arm! So if I were you, i would think twice before continuing to work for Andrew Tetherby because he doesn't tolerate failure."

"I'll keep that in mine. But then again I'm not hiding behind a prison cell like a coward." said Vesuvius.

"I rather rot then work with him again." Hydro said.

"Suit yourself." Vesuvius says before she starts to walk away.

"One more thing." Hydro called causing her to stop. "If you kill Firecracker, I'll kill you."

"I like to see you try." Vesuvius said and walked away from Hydro's cell.

Back at the base, Lincoln, Lucy, the twins and Lisa were filling in everyone about what happened.

"This villain can create magma from her hands?" Luna asked and Lincoln nodded.

"If this Vesuvius girl can encase people in magma imagine what she can do to a city." Sam said.

"Possibly similar to Pompeii." Lisa pointed out.

"But there is something i don't get." Lincoln said.

"What is it Linc?" Luan asked.

"Well she went to the school just to get our attention." Lincoln explains. "But why? Why go to the school? And how would she know that we would show up?"

"Good questions young Lincoln." Soothsayer says.

"Maybe to prove that she's stronger." Lynn suggested.

"Doubt it." Lisa said. "She seemed unsatisfied when she left after she beat us. She must've wanted something else."

"Question is what?" Bobby said.

"Maybe to recruit?" Sam said.

"No, she kept something come on wake up." said Lincoln.

"More like she kept saying how she wanted to release Lincoln's anger." Lucy said.

"Go figure." Ronnie Anne groaned.

"I'm surprised that Surge and Armor didn't show up." said Lynn.

"They probably had better things to do. Besides we need to learn more about this magma girl." Bobby said.

"Those two are never around when you need them." Lola said. "But what did she mean by releasing Linky's anger?"

"I don't know." Lucy said. "Maybe Lori knows. Our all mighty leader knows everything."

"Dang it." Lori thought.

"Oh crud." Luan whispered.

"I thought Lisa knew everything?" Leni said confused.

"She does." Luna said quickly. "Look, let's just focus on finding this Vesuvius chick."

"Yeah and give her a beating!" said Lynn.

"I'll check if there's any news articles on Vesuvius." Lisa said.

"You do that while I have a little talk with Lucy." said Lori,

"Ok." Lucy said with a shrug. She and Lucy head outside and after Lori makes sure nobody can hear them, she flashes a glare a Lucy.

"What the hell are you doing?" Lori growled.

"Whatever do you mean?" Lucy asked innocently.

"You know what I'm talking about!" Lori said. "We can't let anyone know what's going on with Lincoln."

"And why shouldn't they know!?" Lucy fired back. "They're his family too. And I'm surprised you care! I know the stories. As soon as you turned thirteen you stopped hanging out with him! Next thing you know, you start threatening to turn him into a human pretzel! And now all of a sudden, you suddenly care! Yeah right. Like I'll believe that."

"It's different. I'm doing this for everyone!" Lori said.

"Then why don't you let us help instead of keeping it a secret?" Lucy asks before storming off. Lori sighs as she watches Lucy storm off.

"Looks like somebody messed up." Lori turns to see Cliff lying on a nearby crate. "Want to talk about it?"

"I guess it wouldn't hurt." Lori said before joining the cat on the crate.

"Now tell this old cat everything." Cliff tells her.

"Well after the whole rage attack Lisa has plans to create a reactor that keep his flames under control. But we discovered that his rage is getting more out of control." Lori explained.

"I see. Continue." Cliff says.

"At first Lisa and I kept it a secret but then after the Mercer incident we told Luna due to her being the second leader." Lori continued. "But with the Terror Crew, it just got worse and then Luan eavesdropped on us about our plans so we included her. We were planning on telling everyone soon but Soothsayer had a vision about Lincoln burning the city to the ground and i didn't want everyone to panic."

"So you guys kept it a secret until Lisa could finish the reactor." Cliff finished. "How dud Lucy find out?"

And now she is subliminally blackmailing you." Cliff said.

"I don't know what to do." Lori sighed.

"Well that's the price of being a leader." Cliff said. "You have to make the tough choices. Sure not everyone will agree with the ones you make but in time they'll realize that you made those choices to protect them. Lucy will understand eventually but for now, don't worry about the choices you make. I'm sure everything will turn out fine."

"Thanks Cliff." Lori said before stroking the cat's back. "So can i trust you to keep this a secret?"

"Sure. Besides, all us pets know already." Cliff tells her.

"You do?" Lori asked. "How you and the other pets been spying through the vents?"

"Nope." Cliff answered. "We just love you kids too much for our own good. We know when something isn't right. Besides, did you forget that the walls are paper thin?"

"Yeah. But you haven't told anyone?" Lori asked.

"Nope. It's not our place." Cliff tells her. "We know you'll tell them eventually. When the time is right."

"Yeah. When the time is right." Lori agrees. Suddenly Charles runs outside.

"Guys, you gotta come quick!" Charles says. "Vesuvius just broadcast a message to Lincoln!"

The rest of the team all ran to the computer and see Vesuvius in the Woods.

"Greetings Firecracker I'm sending this message for your eyes and your eyes only." Vesuvius said. "I want you to come to my location so we can face off. And you're wondering what happens if I say no? Well I'm going to make another erruption the same type that destroyed Pompeii."

"She's bluffing isn't she?" Lynn aksed.

"Doubt it." Lisa said. "Seeing how she was willing to attack an Elementary school, I'm pretty sure she isn't bluffing."

"If you are wondering where I am, I'm currently upstate." Vesuvius continues. Everyone stares at the screen with a blank expression. "If you don't what that is, it's the Rock Estate."

"Ohhh."

"Be here within a hour and come alone." Vesuvius says before pulling a bound and gagged Jenny Snart into view. "Or she dies. If you are wondering how i got her, i kidnapped while she was doing a news report about the Rock Estate. Trust me, i made the right call. See you Firecracker." The screen goes static.

"Question, how much do we care about Jenny?" Lynn asks.

"Well she made us start that who's better arguement." Leni pointed out.

"True but she did help us get known to the public." Luan pointed out.

"Ok I think we should save her." Lincoln said.

"But only Lincoln was asked to show." Lori reminds them. "So here's the plan, Lincoln you distract Vesuvius while we rescue Jenny from possible henchmen."

"Good. But you girls should be careful she managed to take us all down without breaking a sweat." said Lincoln.

"We'll be careful Lincoln." Lori said.

"You be careful too Linc." Lynn says. "So you fly ahead and distract Vesuvius. After we free Jenny, we'll back you up."

"Right." Lincoln says.

"Alright. L-Crew suit up!" Lori shouts. She is met with stares. "Look, shouting something before putting on our suits seems awesome."

"Then think of something that doesn't suck." Lana says.

"Let's just go." Lori sighs.

Vesuvius is at Rock estate checking her watch. "Where is that knock off human torch?!" Vesuvius asked.

"Looking for me." Firecracker glared as he landed on the ground.

"No the pizza guy." Vesuvius answers sarcastically. "Yes I've been looking for you!"

"Well I'm here!" Firecracker says. "Where's Jenny?"

"Do you even care?" Vesuvius asks.

"Yeah I care!" Firecracker said, "Now where is she?!"

"In her van." Vesuvius answers. "All nice and tied up. I wasn't going to gag her but she said some really hurtful things to me. But enough talk. Time to die!" Vesuvius then uses her magma to launch herself forward with Firecracker flying to meet her. The two clash but Vesuvius overpowers him and Firecracker is forced back. He is then hit by a magma punch sending him into the woods. "I ain't done yet!" She then goes after him. After she's gone, the L-Crew come out of their hiding spot.

"Coast is clear." Ms. Appear reports.

"Good, let's get Jenny out of here before things heat up." said Speed Queen.

"Leave the puns to me." said Ms. Appear.

The girls run to the van to free Jenny. Outside the estate, Tetherby sits in his limo watching. He then pulls out his phone. "Stuart, Vesuvius needs more time. Send in the bots."

"You got it." Stuart said.

Back at the van, the girls had just finished untying Jenny.

"About time you showed up." Jenny grumbled.

"Your welcome by the way." Parkour says sarcastically.

"She seems so much nicer on T.V." Wildgirl whispered to Crystal Princess.

"You're telling me." Crystal Princess agreed.

"Ok, let's go help Firecracker." Speed Queen says. Suddenly, several metal pods fall from the sky and surround the L-Crew. The pods then transform to human-sized robots with lasers. "Or not." She then sighs. "Let's take these bots out quick girls!"

"As long I can to smash these tin cans!" Parkour shouted and tackled a robot.

"Right behind you!" Wildgirl shouts before going ankylosaurus. She lets out a roar and swings her tail at the robots.

Crystal Princess forms diamonds blades and slices the robots. Amplfier charged up her hands and fired an electric blast from her hands.

"Let's get these tin cans girls!" Muiltipe Girl said to four of her clones.

"Yes ma'am!" The clones say before running towards the robots. Black Ice throws several ice daggers at the robots before creating two ice gauntlets.

"Let's go." Black Ice shouts. Prodigy smashes the robots together while Greenthumb smsshes the robots with giant stalks. Ms. Appear and Speed Queen stand back as Ms. Appear has forcefields on her fists punching nearby robots while Speed Queen his quick speed kicks.

"This is getting us nowhere!" Speed Queen shouts.

"You're telling me!"ms. Appear shouted.

"We need to help Firecracker!" Wildgirl shouts as she goes grizzly to slash another robot.

"I hope he's ok." Crystal Princess said.

In the wooded area around the Rock Estate, Firecracker and Vesuvius continued to battle through the woods. Firecracker threw a fireball but Vesuvius swatted it aside with magma covered hand.

"You are really starting to make my mad." Firecracker growled.

"Bite me." Vesuvius shouted. She fires a stream of magma at Firecracker who barely dodges but is hit by a magma fist, knocking him out of the sky.

Firecracker lands on the ground, and he gets back up and glares at Vesuvius. "So taht's How you wanna play huh." Firecracker shouted and threw fireballs at her.

"You don't learn." Vesuvius sighs as she holds up a magma hand to block the fireballs. As soon as she puts her hand down, she is hit by a right hand from Firecracker. "Clever little punk."

"Yeah but I'm just getting started." Firecracker smirked. He then flew towards Vesuvius and punched her in the face. Vesuvius grabs Firecracker and threw him to the ground

She then lands on his back and slams his head into the ground. She then stands him up and magma crawls up him to his shoulders. She closes her hands causing the magma to harden.

"And look at that no one to help you out." Vesuvius said

Firecracker struggles to free himself but no dice. "So what now?" He growled. "Gonna kill me?"

Vesuvius chuckles and starts walking around him, rubbing her hand on his cheek. "Maybe, or I can have some fun while you watch." She grabs his head forces him to look down on the city. "Do you see that? Royal Woods. Do you know what I have planned? I'm going to give it the Pompeii treatment. I'm going to destroy everyone in it." She then walks behind him and moves towards his ear. "And I mean everyone. Everyone you care about will die. Your parents, grandparents, friends, and your sisters. Each of them will die and you'll be able to do is watch."

Firecracker struggled to break free as Vesuvius walks away from him. "In the end there will be nothing by smoke and ashes." Vesuvius smirked.

"The only thing that'll be ashes is you!" Firecracker shouted in dark and violent tone.

Suddenly, a massive inferno erupts freeing Firecracker from his prison.

"What!?" Vesuvius shouts shocked. Firecracker then hits her with a kick to the face, knocking her off her feet. Vesuvius tries to hit him with a magma punch but Firecracker dodges tackles her, causing them to roll down the hill. When they to the bottom, Firecracker gets up and grabs Vesuvius by the hair and pulls her up.

"Well, well, well." Firecracker says. "What's is happening? The magma user needing to learn her place."

"Please Firecracker!" Vesuvius begged. "Your a hero. You don't kill!"

"Very true." Firecracker responds. "Firecracker doesn't kill." He leans closer to her ear. "But Firecracker isn't hear right now." He then starts to repeatedly punch her in the back. "Tell me Vesuvius, does it hurt?"

Vesuvius groaned in pain as a gear streamed down her face. "Yes!" She cried out.

"Good, because it's going to get much worse." Firecracker replied.

He slams her to the ground and turns her over. "Please stop." Vesuvius begged.

"No, I'm going to make you experience a whole new type of pain." Firecracker glared and began to beat the living daylights out of her. He punches Vesuvius in the face, breaks her right arm as she screams in pain.

"My arm." Vesuvius groaned in pain. "You broke it."

"So I did." Firecracker says with a smile. "I'm sure you can fix it with your powers right? But you won't get the chance." He forms a fireball in his hand. "Open your mouth. Let's see if you can survive a fireball down your throat."

"FIRECRACKER!" Firecracker turns and sees his sisters running towards the scene.

"Stay out if this!" Firecracker shouts. He then createa a ring of fire around him and Vesuvius. "Now where was I?"

"He's going full rage!" Speed Queen shouts.

"Not only that, I think he's trying to kill Vesuvius!" Prodigy adds.

"Have mercy!" Vesuvius begged.

"Mercy?" Firecracker asked. "I'll show no mercy!"

"We gotta stop him before he puts that fireball down her throat!" Parkour exclaimed.

"I can't watch!" Wildgirl says.

"Me either!" Crystal Princess agreed. The twins proceed to cover each other's eyes.

Right before Firecracker deliver the final blow he gets strucked behind his back and then he falls to the ground. Vesuvius looks and sees that it was Black Ice who saved her life from an ice blast.

"I had no choice." said Black Ice.

Vesuvius backs away, gets up and runs off holding her arm. Parkour is about to give chase but Speed Queen stops her.

"Let her go." Speed Queen orders. "She is no condition to continue." Parkour sighs and nods. The girls then approach their brother after Black Ice puts out the fire. "Lisa, check him."

Lisa walks up to the unconscious Firecracker. "He's fine." Prodigy said. "He's still breathing."

The girls hear groaning and they see Firecracker start to come to.

"He's waking up." Ms. Appear says. Firecracker sits up and sees his sisters staring at him.

"Ugh, what happened?" Firecracker asks. He looks around. "Where's Vesuvius?"

"She ran away when you tried to kill her." said Parkour.

"Wait what?!" Firecracker gasped.

"You went full rage!" Speed Queen said.

"No way. I couldn't have." Firecracker stammered. "Did I hurt any of you?"

"No we're fine." Amplifier answers. "Better question is are you ok?"

"I don't know." Firecracker responds. He looks at his hands. "I almost killed someone."

"It's going to be alright Lincoln." Speed Queen said.

"I almost killed someone." Firecracker whispered as if Speed Queen hadn't spoken. "I almost killed someone."

"Maybe it's time we went home." Multiple Girl suggested. "Linky doesn't look so good."

"Good idea." Speed Queen says. "We'll grab the pets and go straight home." Everyone starts to walk off but Speed Queen grabs Black Ice. "Good job out there. Stopping Lincoln and all that."

"I only did it because I care about him and I don't want us to have a bad name." Black Ice said.

"If you had a heart it would of been in the right place." Speed Queen replies.

Black Ice looks at Speed Queen with a small smile before frowning while looking towards the direction the rest of their family walked off. "I've been thinking about what you said and you're right." Black Ice said. "Just seeing his reaction that he almost killed someone made me realize that keeping him and everyone else in the dark was probably the better call."

"So you won't tell?" Speed Queen asks.

"I won't." Black Ice promises. "But you have to tell everyone as soon as that reactor is finished. They deserve to know what's going on."

"I promise." Speed Queen said.

"But what do we do about him now?" Black Ice asks.

"Just give him time." Speed Queen answers.

When they arrived to the base, Lincoln still hadn't spoken. None of them thought Lincoln was in the right state to fly so Luan carried him. After they gathered the pets, Soothsayer called Lori to the side.

"What's up Soothsayer?" Lori asked.

"Time is running out." Soothsayer answers seriously. "Today's rage was far worse than ever before. You must get that reactor finished within a few days or all is lost."

"I know and you're right." Lori says. "I'll tell Lisa to finish it up. But Soothsayer, what do we do if the reactor doesn't work?" Soothsayer looks at her with a grave look on his face.

"You already know the answer child." Soothsayer answers. "Go. Join your family. Remember, be strong for them."

Lincoln enters his room and lays down on his bed. But after a few seconds he gets back up and looks in the mirror.

"What's wrong with me?" He asks his reflection. "The girls keep saying that I'm going nuts. Is it true? Am I losing control?" He stares at his reflection for a few more seconds when the reflection's eyes turn red, shocking Lincoln that he falls backwards. "What the hell!?" He gets up and slowly approaches the mirror to see his reflection normal. "That was weird. I'm going to bed." He turns to walk towards his bed when, unnoticed by Lincoln, his reflection turns around and looks at the viewers.

"I'm coming." The reflection says before going back to normal.

Zachlor16: Zachlor16 here. That's right. It's finally going to happen. Trust me, its going to be good. Also, these vs. matches I'm giving you are just for fun. They aren't for any future chapter. Yet. But i got a new matchup for you. We all saw the little conversation between them earlier, so i want to know, who wins: Hydro or Vesuvius. Let us know in the reviews. Also continue to make omakes and fanart and we'll see you in a few weeks. Peace.