Brittney quickly introduced Bella to the restaurant her father worked at, which Bella remembered used to be a hot dog restaurant.

"The old boss thought it wasn't keeping up with modern times, so we hired different chefs to make an appealing menu," whipping up a bacon, egg, and cheese for his daughter, and carbonara in about ten minutes.

Bella prayed before eating.

"Sorry, I don't always eat meat, so when I eat food, I thank the animals sacrificed to make it."

"Oh, that's pretty cool."

After the two finished, Bella offered to take pictures of the place with Britt, but offered to share them online another time. For now, the whole kidnapping situation put her in a bad mood.

"Anyway, you said you wanted to talk to Blizzard earlier. Let's go."

She brought her to her house, and room. Bella was impressed by the tech she had about despite the small space.

"So, should we start the interview? No cameras this time?"

She nodded. "There was a part I'd cut the video anyway. Do you know anything about the origins of our powers?"

"Not really," giving her the knowledge she knows. They were born the same year Chaos Energy was released and their city happened to be the epicenter. She almost mentioned the strange woman who offered her powers. The only thing she didn't bring up was the devices she sold off.

"You too? Was, how do I phrase this? I think I knew this person. When I was younger, I played met. It was almost like she came from a different world. Yet it felt like I was the only one who knew she existed. Mom took me to a scientist who went through something similar, but after I met him, he vanished off the face of the earth. And when I transformed, she was there. Except there was a promise I made to her, and I can't remember what it was other than to protect animals. I thought Wizard, Blizzard, you could help me."

Brittney apologized though Bella didn't blame her one bit, promising to help her figure all of this out. The latter pointed to the time machine, surprised at Brittney's explanation.

"That's insane. How the heck are you gonna power it?"

She unveiled a new machine, a wheel that would generate kinetic energy. Just then, some mice creaked out from a floorboard, startling her. Britt was about to grab a bunch of hot coco to burn them alive when Bella started talking to them, asking them for help.

"How, what the, you can speak to animals?"

Bella put her finger to her mouth. "You can keep a secret. Alright," transforming into Biome. "Let's power this bad girl up!"

Biome canceled her transformation after minutes of running, falling to the floor as much as the mice.

"I can't go on anymore. We need someone worth way more stamina."

" I have an idea! Let's recruit Bern!"

"You sure? Bern's not exactly a talkative person."

"Come on! She's the reason I was able to reach you in time. We could be like a sisterhood of superheroes. The Liberty Trio! The leader, the fun one, and the tough one!"

"Wait, I'm the fun one right?" Britt eagerly nodded. "Well if you insist. Well how do we get her to join us? She's strong, but I doubt she could solo someone like Volgo one v one."

"Didn't we both get our powers from the same means? We both came in contact with a mysterious spirit person, an object of ours allows us to transform and we could've been turned into monsters but didn't. Let's get Bern to repeat the process!"

"I get it, but can we really just repeat the process just to get her powers? We can't fake a monster attack to stress her out and hope it works out."

Britt raised a finger, and widened her mouth. "Good point," slumping.

"I'm sure we'll figure out something." Bella called all the mice out, resulting in about a dozen she claimed lived in the apartment, while the red head climbed up the chair, ready to ice them. "I'll find a home for them."

"Before you go, a question."

"I don't wanna talk about Jacob."

"No, I wasn't-wait do you like him?"

"Blegh, we were friends once, that happened and he's held a grudge since. Anyone who'd fall for that person has to have the patience of a fish."

"Oh," brushing her hair. "Right. Anyway, I was gonna ask you, are we friends?"

She took a deep breath. "You were there for me when the people I thought would, weren't. Right now, it feels like you're the only friend I have now."

"You mean that? Okay, I'll be the best friend you could ever ask for."

Bella smiled, transformed, and was about to head out the window until she stopped. "Britt, a question. Your parents, you're not adopted, right?"

She shook her head. "Dad and mom didn't get together but had me. She died before I was born."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"It's okay. I'm sure she'd be proud of me. See you tomorrow?"

Bella winked and flew away with a tear in her eye.

"Wow, it almost felt like I had a sister."

Later that night, Volgo tinkered with his gear, licking his wounds at his secret lair.

"Huh, fitting lair for a chimp," a feminine, dark voice purred, witnessing the mechanical jungle of grass and hardware around different champions.

"Who dares break into Volgo's secret lair?"

A snake haired beauty with snake white skin, snake-teeth shaped claws, and poison colored boots made her debut.

"Gorgon Siren, at your service. Calm down, Mr. Volgo, I'm here to help."

"Volgo doesn't need help from anyone!"

"I dunno," swinging her head left and right. "You failed with animals, robots, how about a human touch for once?"

"Volgo doesn't trust any humans," sniffing. "Have we met before?"

"I get that a lot. But, here me out if you want to deal with your new red and blue nuisances."

The next day, Brittney ended up being blasted in the air by the fire hydrant and landing on the roof of the bus. This time she briefly transformed to make ice locks to keep herself steady and broke it off once she arrived at the school.

When she opened the app Bella was on, the first video had Bella talking about what happened to her...and Biome showed up next minute, engaging in an interview. The comments seemed interested in Biome, asking about meeting the two metahumans, and if Bella was okay, calling her other friends scum for not showing up.

"Hey, I see you caught the interview," greeting her with an arm to the neck.

"Bella?" She lowered her voice to a whisper. "Doncha think you should keep our ID's on the DL?"

"Relax" waving her hand. "I was the helpless victim. Biome's the super cool hot new thing attracting everyone to my channel. The only one who knows is monkey man, and I thought he'd have a reason to expose me."

Brittney wasn't sure whether to agree with that logic when Bern stopped in front of them.

'The broadcast cut off, so I wasn't sure if you made it in time. Glad you two aren't dead at least. That weird monkey guy didn't do anything too weird?"

Brittney shook her head. "There's something we have to tell you," teen-napping her to a quiet part of the fifth floor with Bella following up to the bathroom. The three ended up in the same stall.

"Um, I'm flattered but I'm not really into girls."

"That's a shame", Bella joked, while Blizzard introduced herself, explaining everything in a matter before reverting back to the nerdy bizarre girl.

"Whoa. That's both a lot and a little to take into."

"So you'll help us out?"

" I don't know. My winning streak in life hasn't been the strongest," pulling out a medal. " if anything happens, I will try my best," promising to keep it a secret."

As they left, the trio witnessed Ming being held up in the air by another male wearing a karate gi.

"Kale, stop it!"

The man let her associate go. "Surprised you didn't ditch her like she did the rest of us. Bern, how does it feel being a washout like the rest of us?"

"Tch, it isn't like that and you know it!"

"For you to lose to a bunch of dumb comments, your father would be ashamed of you."

"Shut it!"

"Make me," rushing in with a kick that Bern countered with one of her own. Kale walked away.

"Power is all you're good for, nothing else."

Bern crumbled her arms in range when Ming hugged her from behind.

"The others won't get it. You were trying to keep our dreams alive."

She quelled her rage. " I hope you understand that one day."

Brittney fawned. "I wish I had a boyfriend like that one day.

"He's my ex," clarifying.

For the rest of the day, Brittney was concerned with her green clothing friend's condition. During a session she came across Jacob researching her finding articles calling her a monster, and the beast on the stadium.

"You're worried about her too?"

The young male jumped out of his seat. "Someone should put a bell on you," quickly apologizing for such a response to regain his older disposition. "But yes.

She showed him her P-Tector, scanning Bern not too long ago. "She also has a high level, doesn't she?"

He nodded. "But not once has she snapped, so I wanted to find out why. I know the cause but not the effect," offering her to look to get the former at the very least.

She read some of the articles in question, including one that accused her of starting a fight with another player and the referee, almost blaming her whenever she messed up. The last several contained her quitting the junior tennis league and various sites attempting to diagnose, determine, and decide her course of actions.

" I think I got it now," clicking back to an earlier article. She hasn't given up on what she loves, under something, telling her to not give into that risk."

"You sure?"

"Yep, sometimes I do the same to remind myself that there's more to love about life. I need to talk to an acquaintance first, thanks Jacob!"

He covered up his face and waved her goodbye.

The next period she found Ming, asking to talk to her alone and claiming it had nothing to do with wanting to ask him out, earning her questions about her intentions she swore was not in mockery.

"Bern made a promise to all of you, but the pressure got to her, and she couldn't continue?"

"It's a lot more complicated than that," darting back and forth, "but that's the basics. We all sorta had a pact to be sports superstars but one by one, we all just fell short. Had a coach and everything too. She was the last one standing."

"And anytime it looked like she messed up, people made a big deal out of it, and hurt her, didn't it."

"Don't tell her I said anything to you."

She nodded. "I wanted to ask her for a favor, but I can't put her in that position just to help myself."

"Huh?"

"You've got a cool girlfrie-um, ex-gir-, uh, friend. And I want to make formulas to solve any of my friends' problems," with a wink. "Speaking of which, I need to ask another favor," getting giddy.

Ming talked with her for a few minutes before they went off in different directions while Bern opened up the bathroom doors with ambivalence.

When school ended, the opportunistic one found Belladona in a dead heat with her entourage.

"Why did you call us out on your stream?"

"Why didn't you even consider coming to get me yesterday. All he asked was for one person to come and you rejected? Don't deny it, you forgot to hang up!"

"Let it go."

"No, we're through!" She spotted Brittney and grabbed her away. "Don't know whatever I saw in those girls."

"A superficial means of like minded behavior and ignoring obvious red-flags," teased Jacob, drinking tomato juice.

"Here to make fun of me," Bella asked?

Jacob shook his head, with a fiddly wave to the red head. "Someone inspired me to check up on a former friend, that's all."

Meanwhile, Kale began out of the school, clutching his leg.

"Even after all this training, why is it backfiring on me now?"

A woman wearing a traditional school uniform approached him.

"You're having a bit of performance anxiety. I have a way of helping you alleviate the stress, if you want."

"Tell me, what can I do to regain my fighting spirit!"

She giggled. "Just form this little contract with me."

He accepted. She rejoiced and her hair morphed into snakes with white fangs, boosting him with Chaos Waves.

"Now, achieve your Halo Evolution!"