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"Monica...... We should have told her....." Tsuki looked up at the moon and pet her ribbons whispering something. "I'm going to go look for her. It would be bad if she got in a fight alone." And with that Tsuki dashed after Monica.

Monica had had enough. She'd been tricked into this whole TEAM business in the first place- some random girl from her school invited her to a club, and before you know it Monica was risking her life on training for something that might not have existed. The girl had turned out to be Jenny.
All this time, for the past ten months- all this time, Ricky had been the one causing chaos in the city.
And all this time, she'd thought Madman was actually someone she didn't know.
She heard Tsuki scampering behind her, and something snapped. She drew her string and created a form she was unused to- Lightning.

Unsure of how to use it, she snapped the string figure and released all of the lightning at once.
The lightning spread out, attacking the ground and different places. The uncontrolled built-up energy screamed through the night. Monica was blinded for several seconds before something stung her body painfully, and the world went black.

When Monica awoke, she was in her room in the TEAMTower. Electric burns covered her body, she ached all over, and ashes covered the floor. She wasn't alone; someone else was with her.

Tsuki stood outside Monica's room and signed. She was worried. Worried about her wounds and how she felt. "I hope she's alright. Shush you." She looked like she was talking to herself but actually she was speaking to her ribbons. Alot of people thought she was strange for talking to her ribbons. Only she could hear the voices. In a sence, the ribbons were alive from the power she has stored in them in the past. "Please let her be ok....."

Tsuki looked at Monica and sighed. "I knew you would be mad when you woke up." She walked over and sat next to Monica looking a tad scared but more so worried. "I... I'm sorry about this, you being tied up and all. I told them not too and I would de-brief you and all when you woke up. But anyways. What do you want to know first."

((I think you should let someone else have it, also LG may be the oldest member and closest in age to Ricky, but he was much closer to Monica than you think and still has a soft spot))

"The first thing I want to know is why I'm tied up with my own weapon. The second thing I want to know is why nobody told me the biggest havoc-wreaker in New York City, the third thing I want to know is did I complete my assignment last night?" Monica fought back tears; she didn't want anyone to know how broken up she really was.

"First, it's because they thought you would use your string to hurt someone. Second, honestly I didn't know I just over heard Lavagirl and the chief talking as I was walking by and heard Madman and what he looked like basicly and thrid, Yeah. But more so are you alright? When we found you, you had these burns all over you." Tsuki took Monica's string off of her wrists to show her the burns.

(( I only wish to use him to advance the plot a bit, If some one wants him or Ricky I will give one of them up willingly.))

Ricky sat in his room and stared at a wall of photo's most were of him and the one girl he cared for but the more recent ones where of the girl alone. "Kitty if only you could understand what I intend to do." He muttered to himself as he looked at the photo's running his hand gently over her beautiful face. Kitty was a name he only called Monica, and he was the only one ever allowed to call her that.

"then why Don't you do it?" A voice with a think European accent spoke. It came from all over the room, from every shadow. Slowly a body formed through the shadows as if they were melting around him. "It wouldn't be to hard to get her to come here Non?" He asked his accent slowly dropping away. "Such a young girl, her blood would be so sweet to taste." The vampire boy spoke as he walked over to the pictures only to be repelled by a fire that Ricky could not control. To turn the fire off he shut his invention down.

"She is not a snack, she is mine, and with her at my side we will raise the new world." He said as he tryed to put out the fire on the edges of the pictures. "First you need to convince her, second you need to learn how that fire works, and third you need an army to take on TEAM." The vampire said with a smile. "I don't need anyone's help." Ricky said back as the vampire started to vanish. "Call me when that fire girl turned her powers on you." He said with a laugh as he vanished. Leaving a single Ricky alone in his room looking at the pictures of his girl friend. He quickly whipped up an invention that would lead Monica to their old spot, a small alcove in the forest, he sent it out with a note.

Kitten I know you must be confused, but I can explain everything. Meet me where I kissed you the first time but don't tell the TEAM, they will try and stop you. Above all Else do not trust LavaGirl.

((It is also my fault for not telling you about the idea in the first place, if I had none of this would have happened.))

Ricky waited at the spot his blond hair sitting loosely around his face. He was in a pair of jeans and a blue t-shirt. Next to him sat the Vampire and the two were talking. The truth is they had been friends for a while, and Ricky knew the truth about VG.

Lava Girl returned to the real HQ on her bike and made her way in to the training room. the ends of her hair had caught fire and her body temperature matched that of the core of a volcano. Something was wrong and every one knew it. She was pissed every one stayed clear of the oldest member of TEAM and just watched as she entered the only place that could contain her. A place Ricky had made that was called the coll down room. Its walls could handle all the heat and pressure, while the pipes above her would lightly sprinkle her with water to slowly cool her down.