Team Alphanumeric

Team Alphanumeric
Day Four
by SSJ04 Mewtwo

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Reviewer Responses

MaxJ1800: Fan boy are we? Yeah, her mother probably would try and get her a contract if Eileen couldn't on her own. Who should be featured in day five?

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"You are the Leader of Team Alphanumeric. It must have been difficult going from being the single super hero to a duo with MathWiz to what the team has become now." Scoops starts.
"If I were still that ten year old girl I would probably have trouble sharing the spotlight with another hero. Had it been another girl, I might have gotten more jealous, but MathWiz and I seem to click. Oh sure, we've got different styles of fighting crime, but it's worked so far."
"Your home world attacked our planet along with MathWiz's. We know about the Root, but why was your world after you?"
"On Lexicon, I'm known as Princess Zaniah. When I was no younger than three, my parents were murdered in a coup that left Lexicon under the rule of a group of vicious warlords that wished to finish off Decimal. When they found out that I still lived on Earth, they decided to come and kill the last remaining member of the royal family."
"If you're a princess, then why have you decided to remain on Earth?"
"Earth is my home now. I could never leave it. Lexicon from what I've heard is doing just fine without me."
"So that's why the Predicate guard took over for you while you were gone."
"The guard, while competent, don't have the subtleties that I've learned. they would rather kill a threat than throw them behind bars."
"Lexicon and Decimal were warring worlds, why have you and MathWiz seemingly beat the odds and become such a successful couple?"
"We were raised here. We didn't have the hatred for each other's races like the rest of our fellow Lexiconians and Decimalians. I love him and that'll never change." WordGirl says and then she hears a 'bang' and she hits the concrete. She looks up to see a shadowy figure with a sniper trained on her taking pot shots.
"Word reflectors!" she cries and the reflector parts of her costume appear on her. the next bullet impacts on the wrist reflectors. She takes off and lands on the roof of the building. Scoops clambers up the fire escape and takes a position where the camera could catch everything, but he wouldn't get hurt himself.
"I'm looking for that fool who stopped me that day on the bus." the shadowy figure states.
"It's...,you! Well, you'll just have to deal with me." WordGirl says with conviction.
"Don't think so." he growls and fires the gun off aiming for her feet. WordGirl dodges and tries to attack him, but the gun keeps going off. He quickly re-loads and continues firing.
"I've brought enough ammo to take on a small army, bitch. Now, where's that calculator!" he shouts.
"Right here." MathWiz growls and the shooter fires off another shot, but the bullet bounces off the reflectors.
"I'm going to make you pay for sending me to a federal dump site!" he shouts and continues to fire the sniper rifle. Unfortunately, he had turned his back on WordGirl and the gun is kicked out of his hands. He pulls out a nine millimeter and has the gun pressed into WordGirl's cheek.
"I shot a pregnant teenage girl, I've got no problem shooting you!" he shouts. This, however, triggers MathWiz's hyper soldier' mood. In a blur of motion that the camera could barely keep up with, he tackles the shooter to the ground and begins pummeling him. The sound of bones almost breaking could be heard.
"MathWiz!" WordGirl shouts and wraps her arms around her lover. "Snap out of it. You know you can't stay in super soldier mode!" MathWiz seems to snap out of it and he starts breathing hard and coughing as if he had been in a marathon. Police cars surround the building and swat-teams climb up the fire escape and cuff the shooter.
"Is he alright?" Scoops asks.
"He'll be fine. His 'hyper soldier' mode is taxing. It's an all or nothing part of the X weapon make-up. It can kill him if he doesn't come out of it quick enough. I thought I could take him down before MathWiz heard the gun shots."
"Who was that guy?"
"He tried to hijack a bus and MathWiz stopped him."
"Is that when he took time off for the summer?" Scoops asks.
"You could say that...,anyway, that creep ended up shooting a pregnant teenage girl and MathWiz hasn't been completely the same since." WordGirl explains.

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"Grandma, how come mama doesn't want to see her interview?" Carina asks Clair.
"It happened a couple of summers ago, sweety. Your dad stopped a bad man from trying to go to Washington D.C. and shoot up the place. Unfortunately a pregnant girl got shot and that's probably why your dad was so protective of your mother while she was pregnant with you." Clair states.
"Dumb...," Caelum begins and cuts himself off, "he's a fool. He shouldn't have pointed that gun at her."
"Nice job toning it down, Caelum." Mr. Botsford compliments. Caelum mumbles something under his breath and Emma laughs.

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"Shhh," Becky soothes as he rubs Tim's back.
"Why can't I get over this?" he whimpers.
"She was shot right in front of you. You were just talking to her no less than five minutes ago. It's probably the hardest lesson for a hero to learn...,you can't save everyone. I don't think any super hero can learn that lesson easily."
"It was because of that I was so protective of you while you were with Carina. I knew I should have been less protective since you're a super hero, but that day haunts me to this day. Some nights...,that girl is you." he whispers the last part at the end and Becky tightly holds him.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"It didn't start until you were pregnant with Carina. Plus you had too many problems to deal with without dealing with mine. You came first and I could deal with whatever torment I was going through by myself. I wasn't going to burden the mother of my child with something else."
"Oh Tim," she lovingly says and rolls so that she is now laying on top of him and kisses him. She holds him there and the two fall asleep with Becky holding Tim possessively and protectively.