A free-for-all story. Just continue what the previous person started.

The war has just begun. Mwahahaha

The cave was dark and dank, only highlighted by the scented candles that were scattered around the place, lining the walls. The flames danced, creating shadows that moved around the walls, the shapes twirling and swirling around in a pattern no-one could understand. In the minimal lighting, pictures of two people were revelled, their image on every surface, like Hieroglyphs in Egyption pyramids. Several people looked to the images in adoration.

"Sparky," they would chant, in an incredibly high pitched voice, more a squee then an actual distinguished sound. It was their way.

A large table stood to the back of the cave, it was highlighted by a table lamp. A map was spread across the table top, a red dot indicating where the cave was in the area, and black sqiggles with crazy faces doodled next to it, were placed on the opposite side, the word 'Sheyla' scrawled across it, followed by 'ew'.

A figure sat in the corner, sharpening sparky sporks before she turned her head and grinned at her partner in crime.

"Look Crazy...it's shiney," she said, earning a grin in return.

"We'll get those Sheyla's...and their little dogs too," Hannah cackled gleefully, rubbing her hands together in a evil kinda way.

"Oh, we'll do much more than that," the person weilding the dangerous spork stated, her eyes still staring at the weapon she held.

"We'll convert them," Crazy sang happily, spinning around in circles along with Sparkly and Hannah.

"Have you got a plan Steph?" Hannah asked finally, after catching her breath from the sparky dance.

"Of course I have," Steph replied with a wicked grin before she brioke out in an evil laugh that made JM look innocent. The others joined in.

After the manic laughter faded, the cave became silent. Small figures watched from the shadows at the three girls in the middle of the room. The silence stretched out.

"Well?!" Crazy asked loudly, as was her way.

"Well what?" Steph replied with a question, seemingly innocent.

Crazy sighed and shook her head. Hannah hit Steph on the arm.

Crazy was about to ask Steph about the plan again, hoping for a proper response, when she paused. Hannah had turned around and was writing on something. Crazy nudged Steph and pointed at Hannah.

The Sparks in the shadows continued to watch with interest as both leaders drew breath.

"HANNAH'S PLOTTING!" They both yelled at the same time, grinning.

The chant of 'plotting' echoed round the cave, the many Sparks joined in with their leaders.

The voices of the group are interrupted by a shrill sound penetrating the cave and echoing from the walls. The leaders and their loyal companions turn to the source of the noise and observe the small figure who tries desperately to silence an egg timer. As Kuro succeeded in her task and raised her head with a smile of victory she noticed that the eyes of everyone is directed at her. She blushed and hurried out of the room mumbling some apology along but only to stumble over her own feet. The others chuckled or shook their heads in amusement at the typical clumsy behaviour.

Steph and Crazy's attention was drawn back to Hannah as they heared the scratching of a pen on paper. They looked over her shoulder and watched with interest. Hannah was moving the pen wiledly around the piece of paper totally absorbed in her task.

The two leaders shared a look and then shrugged. They continued to watch Hannah and tried to interpret the odd looking plan.

"Cookies!" announced Kuro who emerged with a big plate full of the hallowed sweet.

Everybody stormed politely forward and grabbed a bunch. Everybody except one.

"I'm done!" Hannah's voice stopped their eating and they all looked up at her full with anticipation.

But at the same time someone barged into the cave and screamed "They moved closer to the cave and their scouts are nearby!"

Steph's growl filled the cave, her eyes narrowing into slits as her hand tightened around the spork. With a battle cry she ran forward and charged out of the cave, her voice echoing throughout the cave as the others looked on in shock.

"You know, I actually almost feel sorry for the Sheyla's," Hannah stated simply.

"What?!" Crazy shrieked, gesturing wildly her eyes taking on a dangerious glint. Hannah shook her head and giggled.

"Crazy, I said almost. Steph is scary in the best of moods," she explained with a laugh. Kuro looked up from her plate of cookies as Crazy moved to the front of the cave with binocculars.

"Anyone want more cookies?" Kuro asked holding the plate out.

"I do, I do," everyone shouted at once rushing towards the plate. At that moment Steph strolled back into the cave a victorious grin on her face. A terrified looking Sheyla appeared behind her, in a trance like state.

"We don't have to worry about the scouts anymore," she laughed as she chained the sheyla in front of the Sparky wall shrine. With that, she cackled, stole the last cookie and demanded more of Hannah's fanfiction.

The tiny figure in front of the Sparky wall shrine seemed to shink in size as Crazy walked up to her; close enough to be intimidating, but not close enough for the Sheyla to touch her.

Crazy sat down on a chair that had seemingly appeared from nowhere, again causing the Sheyla to shrink against the wall.

Steepling her fingers together, Crazy continued to looked at the terrified figure before her. Only movement behind her caused Crazy to turn around.

"What exactly are you trying to do?" Hannah asked as Steph walked up.

"It's all about mind games." Steph explained, knowing exactly what her partner in crime was up to.

Crazy grinned. "Mind games." She growled.

The terrified Sheyla looked warily at Crazy who had a look of mischief on her face, not an uncommon sight but there was an almost evil look along with it at that moment. The Sheyla tried to shrink back into the wall as Steph handed Crazy several pieces of paper, Crazy began to read them, listing and describing every sparky moment in tortorous detail, barely needing to look at the papers in order to remember. When she was finished the Sheyla looked catatonic, mumbling incoherently. The sparks burst into maniacal laughter as Kuro once again handed out Sparky cookies.

Hannah went back to her papers, scribbling down more information and Steph turned to look at her "I thought you were done," she said questioningly.

"I was, now I'm adding to it," Hannah replied without looking up from the papers. Steph shrugged and went back to sharpening her sporks, stopping occasional to smile and gaze at the shiny weapons.

"So easily distracted," Crazy said only to find herself distracted by the shiny objects as well. Sparkly and Saphire were both sitting in the corner singing Sparky songs and making up new ones, arguing when they couldn't agree on the next line of their masterpiece.

The sheyla started to come around so Steph chuckled to herself and walked over to them, waving a sharp spork around in front of their eyes, taunting them with an evil grin on her face.

As another hour or so went by the Sheyla became more aware of its surroundings and looked decidedly nervous. The words of Sparkly and Saphire's songs echoed harshly in its head. And soon their masterpiece would be complete, a dangerous but uplifting Sparky song. Sparkly would ocasionally stand up suddenly with an exclamation of excitement and glance triumphantly at the Sheyla.

But the Sheyla was stubborn, and as it regained some strength it muttered words that caused the many Sparks to look sharply on its direction.

"You will not get away with anything you try. We have allied with the McWeir. And together we are much stronger than you."

But after a moment of silence Steph and Crazy burst into laughter while Hannah merely shook her head and went back to writing more sacred Sparky words. Sparkly and Saphire continued on as if nothing happened and Kuro went to get more Sparky cookies. This time she was making sure the aroma would torment the Sheyla to breaking. The rest of the good sparks chuckled lightly and murmured to themselves about how wrong the Sheyla was.

Then Crazy spoke, eyes flashing at the Sheyla, who once again shrank back to the wall. "We have allied with the Spanky, and we both know there's no winning a fight aganst them." And the maniacal laughter was back, filling the cave along with the clanks oh shiny weapons.

Skys could hear the commotion from out side the cave. She knew that a Sheyla had been captured. Her instincts told her so. Even though she was new to the Sparkys. She took a deep breath before entering, and a smile graced her lips when she smelled Kuro's cookies and heard Sparkly and Saphire's songs. She was home.

She had grown up with the Sheyla's and The McWeirs, for their clans had always been close, but something had never felt right. she had left the Sheyla's the day she turned 17, and had lived on her own for months before she had found the Sparkys. Crazy, Steph and Hannah had welcomed her with open are, as did the rest of them.

She entered the cave and saw Hannah in the corner writing frantically on a piece of paper. She had a plan. Skys' smile grew wider.

She looked over and saw the Sheyla propped up against the Sparky wall. The smile was erased from her face when she saw the Sheyla.

It was her sister.

Crazy got up to go and taunt the Sheyla again when she noticed Skys standing nearby; an ambiguous expression on her pallid face.

"You alright Skys?" Crazy asked, wanting to know the well being of her fellow Spark.

Skys didn't know what to do. How would the others react if she told them that the Sheyla was her sister. Skys knew that the Sparks wouldn't let the Sheyla leave, not after she had been in the cave this long; hearing who knows what about the Sparky Army. Would they somehow see her differently. They knew she'd grown up with McWeirs and Sheyla's but this was bringing it too close for comfort.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Crazy." She answered.

"Are you sure?" Steph had noticed how pale Skys had become. "You're one of us, you can tell us anything you know."

The cave seemed to go eerily silent. Sparkly and Saphire had stop their singing and Kuro had stopped walking around the cave, handing out cookies.

"Well, the Sheyla..."

Crazy's and Steph's eyes both flashed as their prisoner was mentioned. Skys gulped.

"She's...she's my...MY SISTER!" Skys yelled the last bit, terrified of what would happen now.

Not expecting what Skys had just said, Crazy and Steph blinked in confusion.

While Crazy and Steph continued to blink and stare at first Skys, then the Sheyla, the cave had once again become quiet. The Sheyla tentively spoke up.

"Skys? Y-you won't let them h-hurt me will you?" Her voice wobbled a little bit.

Skys had a look of despair on her face. When she had joined the Sparks, she had taken an oath. And part of that oath had been to never help a Sheyla unless in a life or death situation. And this was not a life or death situation. Just a sane or insane situation. But this Sheyla was her sister.

Saphire saw this despair on Skys face and saw a similar expression on the Sheyla's face. And being who she was, she did feel sorry for her, unlike Hannah who only almost felt sorry for her. Saphire knew that some of the things Crazy and Steph did to the Sheylas was pretty bad. And so did Skys, which was probably the reason for the look on her face. So she spoke up, trying to be diplomatic, "Why don't we just try to convert her in a nice way and not try to put her in a mad house?"

Everyone turned to Saphire with matching looks of disbelief on their faces.

"What?" Saphire defended. "It's her sister. We can just, have her watch the episodes and we'll point out every moment we can. Then we can have her read the shipper synopsis of every ep. And then we can make her read every story written for Year of the Spark. If that doesn't work, well, you know..."

"Don't you dare!" a male voice called out from near the entrance of the cave.

Everyone in the cave turned their heads to see a lone brown-haired male figure about 6'2" high approaching, and looking for all the world like he was landing on the beaches of the Philippines - sunglasses, pipe, and everything.

"There may be a way to resolve this peaceably," he spoke as soon as he reached the cluster of fangirls, removing the pipe from his mouth as he did so.

"What are you doing here Cody?" Sparky was the first to ask.

"Giving you people a way out before you hang this pour girl upside down over a tank of platypuses and rub her against a wall of penguins," Cody said, gesturing with his pipe.

"Huh?" the Sheyla inquired.

"What are you talking about?" Crazy demanded.

"We don't have to do this," he repeated, "We can simply just let the little scamp go."

Cody's brow furrowed at the cacophony of disapproving remarks that followed. "Whoa, whoa, whoa," he finally responded. "First of all: What's with all the wailing on the the Sheylas? I half expected y'all to be more ** with the the TayLiz and McShep shippers," he said, gesticulating with his hands and speaking 'McShep' with the kind of disdain he usually only reserved for the People's Republic of China.

"Uuuuhhhh," came the reply.

"Ho boy. You know what? On second thought, don't answer that question, not here anyways," he moved his head from side to side, almost as if he was expecting someone to flank him.

"Okay," Skies said, a bit uneasily.

"Anywho," he continued, "as I was saying . . ."

"Hey!" Steph yelled as she pointed at the retreating Sheyla. "She's getting away!"

"Don't worry about her," Cody reassured the mob as he held out his arms to hold them back. Much resist urge to scream in pain.

"What's going on, man?" Hannah demanded.

"Well, you girls had her distracted one of my agents came in and planted a tracking chip in her, she'll lead us right to the enemy base."

"How?"

"Did I mention that half my agents are ninjas?"

"Devious," Kuro observed.

"But doesn't she already know where our base is?" Saphire inquired.

"Yeah, about that . . ." Cody began before he ringing of a cell phone reverberated through the air. "Excuse me," he said as politely as possible as he put th pipe back in his mouth. "What's the 'sitch?" he spoke into the phone in an automatic response. "Yes . . . Great! . . . We'll be there ASAP," he said before shutting the cellphone off.

"Who was . . ."

"Sam."

"Whose Sam?"

"Eh, she's one of the kids of a pairing that's decided to ally itself with us."

"Which one?"

Cody paused for a second to relish the moment. "Camgo."

Practically everyone in the room ether groaned or whimpered.

"Hey, you fight a war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had."

"Was that a crack?"

Cody paused was several minutes, truly contemplating his answer, before answering with a simple, "No."

"Anywho, Sam called to say that the new base is done, and that we head on over."

"But what about the Spark Cave?" Saphire asked.

Cody raised an eyebrow at the name before simply taking a C4 remote detonator out of his pocket.

"Aw, but I liked the Spark Cave," Crazy whined in a downtrodden voice.

"I know you did, ma'am, I know you did."

The Sparkys where situate on a near by hill from where their beloved cave continue to crumbed from the after effects of the c4.

Kuro was handing out the last of the Sparky cookies, and telling everyone to ration the ones they had.There was no telling when she would be able to make more.

Cody was sitting on a rock not far from the rest, but far enough so anything he spoke into his cell was just incoherent mutterings.

Steph and Crazy where taking inventory of everything they had pull out of the cave before they blew it, and making note of what supplies they would need to re-acquire.

Hannah was still planning.

Sparkly, Saphire, and Skys were standing on the edge of the drop off, all watching little flames and collapsing rock swallow up the last of the Sparky cave.

Skys looked over her shoulder and saw Cody. She looked back briefly at the cave, then at Sparkly and Saphire, and she could see a slight tear roll down Sparkly’s cheek.

She turned on her heals and marched over to where Cody was sitting, and eagerly waited for him to finish his phone call.Even though the fury was growing by the second, she knew he was probably on the phone with Sam, and if he was, it was about their new base camp.

Out of all the Sparkys she knew him the least, but that didn’t deter her from what she was about to do.

Cody snapped the phone shut.He still wasn’t aware that Skys was behind him.

“What the H.E double hockey sticks where you thinking?” Cody just looked at her like she had just said the rock he was sitting on was alive.He opened his mouth to protest, “No, don’t talk,” she flung her hands up, palms facing him, “You had to do it the dramatic macho way didn’t ya.What do you think would have been easier, your way, the way it happens to be goin now, or sending me back to the Sheyla’s and McWeir, undercover since they didn’t even know I joined the Sparkys.Now they do, great job.” She couldn’t help that those last works were drenched with sarcasm.

She turned around and walked back towards Sparkly and Saphire, leavening Cody with pretty much the same look on his face as when she first spoke.Except now there was a slight tinge of anger in his eye.

Skys walked up next to Sparkly and put her arm around her shoulder, for the one tear she had seen earlier had turned into many more.Saphire was on Sparkly's other side with on arm around her sister too.

“It’ll be ok,” Skys said, “One question though,” Sparkly and Saphire looked up at her, “Where did you find that guy?” Skys asked gesturing toward Cody.

“He’s from the Teylons,” Saphire said.

“Ah,” Skys nodded with a smile.

Crazy looked up from the few obfects the Sparks had left and sniffled, hugging a sparky photo to her chest. Her eyes glanced to her partner in crime and she took a step back. Steph was eerily calm, her face not betraying any emotion.

"Steph?" She asked shakily, missing the cave more very second. Steph stared at the few things at her feet before meeting Crazy's gaze.

"Yes Crazy," she replied neutrally, her eyes glazed.

"Uh oh..." Crazy whispered, dropping ehr things and running to where Hannah was reorganising her plotting papers, some of them chared from the explosion. "Hannah, Hannah, Hannah," she whispered urgently, shaking her arm.

"What?" Hannah asked, her eyebrows creasing in curiosity.

"Steph's...Steph's..."

"What about Steph? Wait a minute...where is Steph?"

"What?!" Crazy shrieked, spinning around to face the now-empty air. She was gone.

She had held herself together for a while, helping Crazy to organise what little they had left. But it had all become too much for her.

Crazy had collapsed to her knees as soon as the cave had been destroyed. Steph felt for her younger partner in crime and she knew she had to do something.

After Crazy had gone over to Hannah, probably to warn her of Steph’s strange mood, Steph had walked over to Cody, who was still sitting on a large rock near a cliff edge.

"You've gone too far, Mr Fett." Steph spoke softly; indicating to those who knew her that there was going to be a problem. “Too far.”

"But don't you see the bigger picture. The Sheyla hasn't been harmed, she can't lead her army to yours and you now know where their base is." Cody was confused, since none of the girls had thanked him for his deed.

"That was our HOME!" Steph hissed.

By now, Crazy and Hannah had noticed where Steph had gone. They joined her, one of either side, still wary of Steph's calm mood.

In a controlled voice Steph spoke again. "We've always known where their base was. Skys grew up round there! This isn't some Kim Possible mission to take out the bad guys. We don't *kill* each other! The worst we've ever done to a Sheyla is taunt them with Sparky moments!"

Sparkly and Sapphire had walked up to their three leaders; Skys and Kuro followed just behind them; all four wondering what was happening.

“We just want to know why? You seem to be a relatively good Sparky fan. This has hindered more than helped. Why did you do it?” Hannah asked.

Cody stood up and was about to reply when Steph jumped up, something shiny glinting in her hand. Crazy, the first to notice, screamed at her friend, but dared not to tell her it wasn’t worth it. They all knew it was. Before anyone knew what had happened, both Cody and their leader had gone over the cliff edge.

Both Crazy and Hannah screamed her name...

"Steph!"

Sparkly watched in horror as the two tumbled over down to sharb rocks and bushes holding threatening thorns. She turned to look at her sister and the two shared a brief look of grief before turning to Skys and Kuro who looked just as distraught. They all hugged each other without saying a word, trying to give the support a fellow Spark always gives.

"Maybe-" Crazy started to speak but was cut off as a sort of grappling hook shot up on the cliff catching a rock that jutted out.

They all stared at it for a few seconds before there was a mad rush for the edge of the cliff. As they knelt down carefully their frowns turned to grins as they saw Cody hanging onto Steph below, holding onto some sort of hair-dryer looking thing. The two made ther way up and when Steph was on the ground all the Sparks rushed to hug her. When they were done from almost falling back over the cliff, Saphre turned to Cody.

"Thanks for saving her." she said sincerely. The others nodded their consent.

Steph however, eyed him warily. "Don't think you're forgiven now!" And with that she turned and stalked away back to her sharp weapons.

"Allright that's enough everyone," Hannah said, holding her slightly charred papers in her hand. "I won't have us all fighting amongst ourselves, that's what the enemy wants. Right now we need to get to this new base, wherever it is. Cody, lead the way but don't think for a minute you're off the hook for blowing up the cave, Steph, Crazy and I will be having words with you later, for now, let's get out of the open."

With that said the group began to move out, following Cody to their new base, their new home. Everyone spared a glance back at the collasping sparky cave, each knowing how much they were going to miss it.

"I had cookies in the oven," Kuro said sadly, Sparkly and Saphire stood at either side of her, each with an arm around her as they walked.

"I can't beleive the cave is gone," Crazy said quietly so that only Steph and Hannah could hear her, she knew the others were all upset and didn't want them to see how much one of their leaders had been affected by the loss of the cave.

"At least I saved some of my sporks," Steph stated, carrying a backpack full of weapons.

"And my plan is here," Hannah added, lifting the papers "It may be missing a few words since they got partially burned," she continued with a glare at Cody's back. "But they're mostly here."

"Are you going to tell us what the plan is yet?" Crazy asked and Hannah smiled and shook her head.

"Not yet Crazy, not yet."

Well, Cody thought to himself after several minutes of walking through the woods near the cliff face, that went better then expected.

"How far away is this new base anyway?" Sparky asked as she and Saphire continued to carry Kuro.

Cody paused for a second, wondering if he should really tell them. "Several thousand miles."

Sparky immediately dropped Kuro, who promptly dropped to ground, taking Saphire with her. "No way, there's no way you can be serious about that."

Cody shifted uncomfortably for latest time that day. "Well . . ." he began before being cut yet again by the sound of his cell phone ringing. He yanked the offending device out of it pouch, and starred at it intently. A fairly large grin spread across his face as he read the caller ID: MJS.

"Yes?" he inquired, answering the phone as he did.

"Look besides you," a cool female voice said over the line.

Cody's eyebrow shot up as he stared at the phone in surprise. He slowly started to turn around as the air suddenly filled with the loud whine of multiple jet engines, eventually turning a full 90 degrees to see a black and green D77H-TCI Pelican Dropship (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/D77H-TCI_Pelican_Dropship) rising up from behind the cliff-face, a smiling dirty blond-haired young woman at the controls.

"Nice timing."

"Thanks," she replied before swinging the Pelican's tail around so that it would land of the cliff and that the entrance to the 'blood tray' would facing the Sparks.

Cody began walking towards the back of the Pelican even before the hatch had opened, as soon as it had a young woman about 6'0" high with mint-cream skin, hard forest green eyes, shoulder length dirty blond hair that was done up into a ponytail and had a thin green streak going down the middle of it's left side, and wearing attire similar to Cody's stepped out and began marching towards him. They met half-way and began sizing each other up for several seconds before embracing the other in a fairly back breaking hug.

"It's good to see you, Mira," Cody said, using the affectionate version of the Sabra's name.

"It's good to see you too, Cody," she replied before adding in a far more hushed tone while nuzzling his neck, "OPERATION: SERENITY is on schedule for completion. We can enact it at the end of the summer."

"Excellent," he whispered back.

"Ahem," Crazy interrupted, drawing attention to her and the rest of the Sparky Liberation Front (SLF). "Care to introduce us, o' master of the universe?"

"Ah, yes," he said, breaking away. "Mira, these are the Sparks. Sparks, this is Miranda Joan Stop . . ."

"Charmed, I'm sure," Crazy interrupted, distrustful already of the young woman.

"Hey," Cody said, hoping to stop a fight before it began, "transport's here. Why don't we get into that and to the base before we start killing each-other."

"Deal!" Crazy and Miranda replied at the same time.

"Jinx!" Miranda said a split second later. "Y'all owe me a soda."

"Hey," Crazy complained, "that's not fair!"

"OK," Cody said, picking Crazy off the ground and moving her towards the Pelican, much to her fussing, "into the dropship."

"Hmm," Miranda mused to herself as Hannah, Sparky, and Steph rushed after Cody and Crazy, before noticing that Saphire and Kuro were still on the ground. "You guys need some help?" she asked.

"Yes," Saphire moaned.

"Alright then, hold still," Miranda said as her body became enveloped in a blue free-flowing energy field. "This might tickle a little bit," she continued as she held out her hand towards the two females, causing them too to be enveloped in a similar energy field.

"WHOA!" Kuro exclaimed as they were lifted off the ground and into the air.

"Oh, just relax," Miranda chided as she lifted them into the Pelican's blood tray.

A few seconds after Miranda had entered the back hatch of the Pelican closed and the dropship lifted off the ground before flying away.

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A few hours later the Pelican was flying smoothly over the ocean.

"Now, can I deliver, or can I deliver?" Cody asked rhetorically from the cockpit's co-pilot station as he pointed to the fast approaching island. It was big, no doubt about that, it had a massive pillar of a mountain in the center, and said mountain was entirely topped with a large, oddly designed, building.

"Kinda thematic, don't cha think?" Kuro asked.

"I thought that was the point?"

"It's a lair!" Crazy observed.

"So was the cave!" Cody shot back.

Everyone in the dropship except for Miranda - who was piloting - and Sparky - who was staring at the island - turned to glare at the lone male.

"Ho boy."

"Hey, you know . . ." Sparky said, stopping Cody's imminent beating, "that lair kinda looks like . . .

"Don't say it!" Cody exclaimed. "It was ether this or a lair that looked like Joe Flanigan's head."

"Why couldn't you have gotten the head?"

"Yeah, why couldn't you have gotten the head?"

"Head-shaped lairs are expensive, and this one had already had some cult living in it."

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"OhyeahletsbearJohnShepperdsbaby," the hooded figures chanted over and over again as they bowed in front of large picture.

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"Besides, just because the previous owner's plans kept getting foiled by some redheaded cheerleader does not mean we'll have the same problem. I've taken special precautions to see that we don't . . . Hey, none of you girls are cheerleaders right?" Cody asked tentatively as the Pelican began to land in the hanger.

"Uuuuhhhhh . . ."

Crazy winced slightly and muttered, "This better not be the blue guy's lair."

Sparkly, Sapphire, Kuro, Skys and many of the other Sparks seemed to be taken with Cody. They'd seemingly forgotten the fact that he'd blown up their home only so many hours ago.

Steph, Crazy and Hannah hadn't. Steph sat glaring at Cody. If looks could kill, Crazy thought, hugging her favourite Sparky picture to her chest. Hannah still refused to let anyone see her plotting papers.

The Pelican landed with a slight thump, jolting poor Kuro out of her seat. Skys helped her up.

"Come on then ladys, out we go." Cody said, walking out of the drop ship, expecting the others to follow.

Crazy spoke quietly as everyone filtered out of the ship. "I don't like this guys, something's not right."

Steph and Hannah both nodded. Steph's hand twitched slightly, desprately wanting to get out a spork.

Mira was a few metres away, talking in hushed tones to Cody. Crazy glared at the woman but walked over regardless. "So, what do we do now. From the looks of it, the only way off this island is by air or sea. How the hell are we meant to capture Sheyla's now?!"

Cody and Mira just smiled.

"Two ways," Cody began.

"The first . . ." Miranda continued.

". . . Is this," Cody finished, pointing to a fairly large black and green aerospacefighter (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Longsword) that swooped into the hanger and began hovering before shooting out a Wraith capture beam and depositing a large load of fish into a tank that had been moved into position below it. The tank was moved out of the way, and the fighter pivoted around and landed without a hitch.

"And the second . . ." Miranda continued.

". . . Is for you guys . . ." Cody gestured to the SLF members.

". . . To actually take . . ."

". . . Ether the Pelican here . . ."

". . . Or the yacht . . ."

". . . Down in the sea hanger . . ."

". . . And actually go out . . ."

". . . And capture one yourself . . ."

". . . We would have had . . ."

". . . Minions to do that kinda stuff . . ."

". . . And the robberies . . ."

". . . But unfortunately . . ."

". . . There wasn't enough funds . . ."

". . . To hire any . . ."

". . . So y'all have to . . ."

". . . Do most of the legwork yourselves . . ."

". . . But on the bright side . . ."

". . . This will give y'all some great . . ."

". . . Hands-on experience . . ."

". . . In this field of work . . ."

". . . And about all the work . . ."

". . . Y'all are going to have to do on that front . . ."

"I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry," they finished in unison.

"Jinx! You owe me dinner!" Miranda called out.

"Oooh, not again," Cody fake-whined.

"Um, excuse me," Crazy said, drawing attention to herself. "But why didn't you have enough funds to hire any henchmen? Just how much did you spend for all of this?"

Cody shifted uncomfortably before pulling out a fairly large white-board and writing on it. Thirty seconds later he handed her it.

Crazy's jaw hit the floor has soon as she saw the number written on the board. "WHOA!"

"That's a lota digits," Skys commented as she and the other Sparks saw the number.

"Now," Miranda said, "we did have enough funds left in the budget for 'villainous attire', so if you wanted, you could get fitted for that."

"Indeed," Cody agreed. "But, truth be told, that kinda stuff bores the crap outa me. So if y'all will excuse me, I'll take my leave to go secure dinner. Carry on," he finished before walking out of the hanger.

"So," Miranda asked, "whatiya girls want to do now?"

The sparks all sat together together discussing the recent turn of events, Hannah had disappeared from their new base several hours ago, taking her plotting papers with her and no one had the slightest idea where she'd gone.

"I hope she wasn't captured by Sheyla's," Sparkly stated.

"Are you kidding, Hannah would kick their asses if they even got near her," Steph replied with a laugh just as Hannah walked back into the room, she was scribbling something down on her papers and muttering to herself, seemingly oblivious to the stares of her fellow sparks.

"Where've you been?" Crazy asked, finally drawing Hannah's attention.

"Busy," Hannah said, offering no further explanation.

"Are you going to tell us what you were doing?" Kuro questioned.

"In a minute," Hannah stated, she had yet to look up from her papers. The others lapsed into silence, waiting for Hannah to finish whatever she was doing and finally tell them what was going on. "Alright, now I'm done."

"So..." Crazy said expectantly.

"Well, since we're so far away from the Sheyla base now I decided we would need a way to keep a close eye on them... an outpost," Hannah told them all. "This place can be our main headquarters and the cave I found can serve as an outpost, we can see what the Sheylas and McWeirs are up to. Some of us can move in there so we'll have eyes on them all the time."

"That's a good idea actually," Crazy stated "Where's this cave?"

"A few miles from the Sheyla base, it's hidden in a small area of mountains, they'd never find us," Hannah informed them. "So now we just need to decide who's coming with me."

Crazy jumped up from where she'd be lying on the floor. She bounced on her toes like the five year old she mentally was and ran over to Hannah.

Momentarily forgetting that she was a Sparky Army leader, Crazy yelled, "Ooh me! Pick me! Please!! I wanna go to the cave!"

The sparks laughed at Crazy's immaturity and Hannah easily agreed to show Crazy the cave. Steph also wanted to go but opted to stay, sporks at the ready in case anything untowards happened in the lair.

Kuro also asked if she could go so she could look for a new place to bake her famous and well loved Sparky cookies. It was too creepy in the lair she said, it made the cookies less tastey.

"Come on then!" Crazy said loudly and excitedly.

The three of them walked (or in Crazy's case, skipped) over to the drop ship.

"Er, Hannah?" Kuro asked uncertainly as Hannah plonked herself down at the helm. "Do you know how to fly one of these things?"

"Well enough." She said, grinning mischievously.

Crazy sat down excitedly in the co pilot's seat, eyes bright like a young puppy. Hannah could just about see the Sparky designs that were flowing through Crazy's head, ready to decorate the new outpost with.

The drop ship took off, slightly unsteady at first, but then Hannah gained control and the three Sparks were on their way.

“Where the hell are they going!?!” Cody burst into the room when he heard the fighter take off.

The Sparks that were left at the main base simultaneously stated looking at there feet then at the walls.

Sparkly started humming one of her tunes, and Skys started whistling ‘It Just Comes Natural’ by George Strait.

Steph was in the corner giggling while she was polishing the sporks.

Cody walked up to Steph, “Well,” he said with a stern face and that little tinge of fire in his eye again.

Steph’s eyes met his, and she burst out laughing hysterically.This did not help Cody’s mood.

He turned to the rest of the Sparkys, “WELL!!?”

Sparkly stopped humming for it was becoming way too hard to do that and hold in the laughter that caught in the back of her throat.

Saphire was looking at the floor mumbling over and over to herself, “Just breathe, just breathe.”

Skys looked at Saphire and Sparkly with a mischievous smile on her face.She spoke up, “I know where they are.”

“Where?” Cody asked as he walked over to her.

“Sorry, we not allowed to tell.” Skys had just got those sarcasm soaked words out of her mouth when she and the rest of the Sparkserupted in laughter that echoed all through the building.

Steph stalked through the lair restlessly, her hands gesturing madly as she spoke to someone only she could see. Sparkly and Saphire eyed her curiously, throughly amused by her crazyness, before they decided to cover the lair with sparky drawings, lyrics, pictures and quotes.

"Gah! I can't take this anymore," Steph yelled to herself glaring at the unseen person she was speaking to.

"Uh, guys?" skys asked, joining Sparkly and Saphire at the new sparky shrine. "Who is she talking to?" she asked in confusion.

"It could be one of many, many people," Sparkly responded, handing skys a pen and gesturing towards the wall. Skys shrugged and started to draw 'the hug'.

"I need to know what's going on," Steph stated, quickly glancing to her bag that lay crumpled in the corner. She danced over to the bag with a giggle and spilled it's contents onto the floor. Reverently picking up her secret hand held computer.

"What's that?" Cody demanded, frustration clearly evident. "I want to know what's happening too!"

"Are you a leader of the SA? Do you have any authority over me whatsoever?" Steph questioned not even looking up from her computer, a grin on her face. Cody went to speak but Steph jumped in before he could. "The answer is no!"

Sparkly, Saphire and Skys all giggled and watched in amusement.

"Now, you may be taller -okay, so miles taller- than me, but you are in no way scarier, crazier or more intimidating than me...especially when I have sporks."

Steph looked towards the sporks and almost got distracted. She shook her head to clear it.

"I am the General of this army and I can court martial you if I want to," she sulked. "Now, either sit down and chant like a good little sparky or I'll make what I do to Sheyla's look...kind."

Cody stepped back slightly under the onslaught of her rant, but held it together well. Steph gazed at him in admiration.

"You really are brave. I like it, as long as you don't do anything behind my back again. I like to be kept in the loop," she grinned before turning back to her task.

"Can I know what's happening now?" Cody asked with a sigh.

"Hannah and Co went to the outpost," Steph replied, holding her hand out to forestall any protests from the others. "It's ok guys. Let's forgive the newbie, I admit I miss the cave, but I've got to admit this lair is pretty cool. Besides...I have other caves," Steph explained with a smirk.

"Well...what are you doing?" Cody asked, as the others bounced up to surrounded their leader.

"I'm connecting my computer to the Satallite I placed above the Sheyla camp. Oh, and I'm connected to the outpost. Hannah already has her computer set up there. At that moment a beep sounded from the computer.

"Steph...Steph, do you read me?"

"Loud and clear Hannah. The sat link is on the go!" With that Steph laughed manically before dissolving into a coughing fit. "Anyone got any strepsils? All this cackling is killing my throat?"

"Here," Cody said, handing her a lozenge.

"Thanks," Steph responded as she took the pill. "Hmm, that's good. Hey, how did you get this so quickly?"

"Eh, the guy who used to own this place laughed evilly a lot, there's boxes of that stuff lying all over the place, I guess he just liked to stay prepared, which is probably why all the halls are roundabout too," Cody mused.

"Why's that?" Sparkly asked.

"Makes it harder for someone to catch you if you're being chased I guess," he responded, pointing to the parts of the walls that had been scorched long ago. "But truth be told it probably wouldn't do didly against these," he said as he pressed a button on the wall, causing an arms rack stocked with MA5B assault rifles (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/MA5B) on one side and M90A shotguns (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/M90_Close_Assault_Weapon_System) on the other to deploy out from the wall.

"WHOA!" Steph yelled as the other Sparks all hid behind her, "WHAT ARE THOSE FOR?!"

"These?" Cody said nonchalantly as he pointed to the guns. "Oh, these are for when Kelly gets into the kitchen."

"Kelly?" Skys asked tentatively.

"Kelly: red hair, brown eyes, freckles on her nose, about 16 years old, dragon tattoo on her neck, usually wears a black gi: Kelly. You run into her eventually," Cody said as he expounded is statements by gesture to different parts of his body.

"And you want to shoot her?" Saphire asked worriedly.

At that Cody chuckled. "Oh, heavens no. These aren't for shooting her, they're for shooting the food."

"Say what?"

"Lets just say that it probably wouldn't be a good idea to eat whatever she's made, ever," Cody said seriously, as though it was a matter of life and death.

"Okay," Steph agreed uneasily.

Meanwhile, in the Sparky outpost...

"Hannah? Hannah? Hannah? Hannah? Hannah? Hannah? You do realise I could go on forever don't you?" When Crazy got no reply she continued in her sing-song voice. "Hannah? Hannah? Hannah? Hannah? Hannah?"

"Okay what?!" Hannah sighed, giving in.

Crazy grinned. "I'm hungry."

Hannah only just managed to stop herself from hitting Crazy when Kuro suddenly appeared. "Cookies anyone?"

Crazy threw herself up and took at least half the cookies from the tray. "Hey, how'd you bake these without an oven?" She asked, stuffing half of the cookies she'd grabbed into her mouth.

"I have my ways." Kuro smiled. "So what are the Sheyla's up to?"

"Steph gets more information downloaded to her computer, but from the looks of it, nothing much. They're not even watching *that* scene from Conversion." Hannah shook her head in confusion.

"I have a bad feeling about this. Maybe they're plotting." Crazy thought aloud.

"I do NOT plot!" Hannah yelled.

"She meant them, not you." Kuro giggled.

"Oh..."

And the three sparks burst into a fit of giggles.

Saphire, Sparkly, and Skys were sitting down together in a corner of the lair.

"I wonder what the Sheylas are up to." Saphire said.

Sparkly and Skys just shrugged. "Well Hannah, Kuro, and Crazy will contact Steph if they do anything important." said Sparkly.

"Yeah, I guess that's true. I'm still worried though." The three lapsed into silence.

"I want some of Kuro's cookies." Skys said suddenly.

Saphire giggled. "That was kinda random."

"Maybe we can make some. There's a kitchen here." Sparkly suggested.

Skys and Saphire exchanged nervous glances. "What about that girl? Kelly? What if her...food is in there?" Skys said.

The hopeful look left Sparkly's face. "Oh yeah. And I really wanted cookies, too." She sighed.

"Well...let's go ask Cody." Saphire said. "He can tell us if it's safe. And I want cookies as well."

The three Sparks stood up and walked over to him.

"What can I do for you, ladies?"

"Um...Well, we were wondering if it's safe in the kitchen. You know, if Kelly's food was in there or is it only not safe when she's actually cooking?" Saphire asked him.

"As long as Kelly's not there, it's safe."

"So is Kelly there?" This question came from Sparkly.

"No."

"Then can you tell us where the kitchen is please? We want to go make cookies since Kuro's not here."

"Sure thing ladies."

He gave them intructions and the three left the room.

"Hey maybe, we can come up with another song while we bake."

Saphire didn't want to keep on arguing with her sister though and she knew they would if they made up any more songs. "How about we do something more fun instead and do some plotting?"

"Ooh! Yeah. We should do that." Skys agreed. And they continued on their way to the kitchen.

Sparkly, Saphire and Skys all headed to the kitchen, but not before Saphire grabbed her portable DVD player and the most treasured possessions of the Sparky's, the disk with the episode ‘Long Good-bye’.Skys grabbed a colt .45 out of the gun cabinet just in case they ran into Kelly or any of her food.

Sparkly started mixing the batter for the cookies, Saphire was getting some more ingredients, and Skys was pre-heating the oven.All quite content at there tasks with the sounds of the DVD in the background.

“I’m sorry, and I’m going to try to say this in the nicest way, but Cody’s getting on my nerves.” Skys spoke up, “I mean he’s treating us like we’re helpless and defenseless little girls, and I am NOT gonna sit home and knit while he decides to pull some sort of heroics!”

Saphire and Sparkly stared at her in shock. They had never heard her talk like that before.

“What, sorry.”Skys replied and an embarrassed smile crept up her face.

“Not a problem,” Sparkly said as she pat her on the back with a flour covered hand, and a smile on her face, “I kind of agree with you.”

“Oh my gosh, I just had a brilliant beyond brilliant idea!” Skys exclaimed cause Saphire to tear her eyes away from the DVD player.

“Sorry I watched ‘The Parent Trap’ one to many times, anyway, maybe we should do some damage control.”

“What do you mean?” Saphire inquired.

“Maybe we should do some undercover work.As in me and one or both of you come back with me to the Sheyla’s.” Skys had a smile on her face, but the other two where not too sure.

“I don’t know Skys,” Saphire said, “I mean really, your sisters probably told them all about us, and you, and that idea well it’s a little crazy.”

“When have you guys been against crazy!? And really that’s the whole point; it’s so crazy it just might work!” Skys smile grew wider, “I have an in with them, they still might believe that I was doing undercover work here, and you guys are my converts.”

“I sort of like the idea Saphire,” Sparkly looked at her sister with a maybe-we-should-do-this glare.

“Can we at least ask Steph?” Skys asked and the timer for the cookies went off.

At the Sparky Outpost.

Hannah was sat in the corner still writing on her plotting papers whilst Crazy and Kuro sat together eating cookies and discussing sparky. It was late at night and the three sparks were beginning to get tierd, Hannah finally looked up from her papers with a tierd sigh.

"I think we should all get some sleep," she stated, Kuro and Crazy looked like they were ready to protest but Hannah cut them off. "You both look ready to pass out, you can continue discussing Sparky in the morning."

"Okay," Kuro said and Crazy nodded too, they both cleaned up the mess from their cookies as Hannah stood up and walked toward her bed, papers held tightly against her chest. They were all just settling down when Hannah suddenly sat up again, her eyes darting to the entrance of the cave.

"What is it?" Crazy asked.

"Something's going on outside," Hannah replied.

"Let's check it out," Crazy said, standing up and walking toward the entrance, Hannah and Kuro followed her, all of them approaching the opening in the cave carefully. They left the cave and walked down the mountain and around several corners, dropping down behind some large rocks. From where they were they could see the Sheyla camp in the distance, could just about make out the shapes of people running back and forth in the small amount of light cast by the fires in the camp.

"They're up to something," Hannah said quietly, though there was no reason to keep her voice down, the Sheyla's wouldn't be able to hear them from here if the just talked normally.

"Maybe they know where we are," Kuro replied nervously.

"No, that's not it, they'd be heading over here if they knew," Crazy stated, putting a hand on Kuro's shoulder.

"I'm going to contact the others, stay here and keep an eye on things," Hannah said as she turned around and headed back to the cave.

While Hannah returned to the cave to inform Steph and the others about this new development Crazy and Kuro sat silently behind the rocks that seperated them from the Sheyla camp and observed the suspicious movements there.

"Stop that," Kuro hissed to Crazy.

"Stop what?" she asked.

"You're moving...I mean..just sit still."

"Oh, I'm sorry I'm so excited because we're so close. We've fought so long against them and never gotten so close and I'm just tempted to attack them," she glanced over to Kuro who had raised an eyebrow. "I know, I know we have no chance but if the others...," she trailed off and Kuro nodded understandingly.

It became silent in the camp and someone speaking up caught their attention.

---

Hannah hurried into the new cave and over to the device to contact the others in the headquarters. "Come on!" she pressed several buttons and tried to calm her breath. The screen flickered for a moment until she saw the face of Steph.

"Hannah!" she greeted her joyfully. "You have a perfect timing, Sparkly, Saphire and Skys just wanted to tell me about a plan they-"

"Sheylas!" Steph was silent and wore a baffled expression just as the other three in the backround. Hannah let out a sigh. "We found a Sheyla camp near the cave and it seems that they're up to something. Crazy and Kuro are observing them at the moment," Hannah saw how the expression of Steph changed into pure anticipation and she bet that the leader was clutching to her sporks.

"We're on our way!" Steph said in a singing voice and shoved the three girls away.

---

"It is a long time since this war against the unbelievers who follow the path of the Spark, the wrong path started. We had to suffer defeat but had greater victories and today was a day of victory!" the crowd around the female who stood on a rock began to cheer she raised her arms to silence them and turned around to gesture someone to come to her side. Crazy and Kuro were surprised as they saw a familiar figure, Skys' sister.

The female leader of the Sheylas continued to talk but Kuro was paying less attention she had a bad feeling and looked around. "What's wrong?" Crazy asked her.

Kuro took another look around and shook her head. "Nothing," she turned to Crazy who looked concerned. "It's just a feeling but I'm sure it's nothing."

"Due to her we are now able to place pictures to the yet unknown faces of the Sparky Army. It may be a small victory, just a little intel but if we use it the correct way and we will, we're able to achieve antoher victory!" the crowd cheered again and the two girls behind the rocks shared a concerned look.

"This is not good," Kuro nodded.

"But I've never heard such an amount of nonsense," both chuckled.

"Inde-" a cracking sound startled both and they turned around only to be faced with four Sheylas.

"Get up!" they did as they were told still in shock. Running was out of the option so they just could follow the orders of the Sheylas and be guided into their camp where they were greeted with jubilance for their captors as they recognized the two Sparks.

Kuro was behaving quite well for the Sheyla's knowing that antagonising them wouldn't make it any better, Crazy of course was giving them hell.

"You let us go you drugged out, insane, shipper wannabes!" Crazy was twisting madly so that three of the four Sheyla's had to hold her, the fourth holding Kuro, just in case.

Kuro tried not to smile at her friend's actions. Some liked to remain passive, others seemed to take the Jack O'Neill approach to life, and Crazy was one of them!

Fortunately for everyone involved, the six girls managed to make it to the Sheyla camp without any serious injuries. One Sheyla was probably going to develop a large purple bruise on her face from where Crazy's flailing fist had hit her cheek and Crazy herself seemed to bit a bit worse for wear but Kuro didn't know why exactly.

Loud cheers echoed through the camp as the four victorious Sheyla's brought in their prisoners. Crazy thrashed about some more and even Kuro seemed to test the strength of the Sheyla holding her.

One Sheyla, maybe their leader, stepped forewards. Before she had a chance to speak, Crazy spat at her feet and then winced as if expecting a blow to her head. When the Sheyla looked at her in confusion Crazy explained.

"The bad guy always hits the good guy if they aren't respectful." She said as if it was obvious.The Sheyla's all seemed to glare at this, obviously believing that Crazy and Kuro were the bad guys.

"Chain them up." The leader commanded and Crazy and Kuro were dragged towards a wall. Their wrists were clamped with shackles but their legs remained free.

Another Sheyla came over to the two girls but stopped as Crazy called out, "Do you want me to kick you? No? Then I wouldn't recommend coming any closer then."

Crazy's words and glare, thankfully intimidated the Sheyla enough and Crazy and Kuro were left alone.

"I don't think you should annoy them so much, Crazy." Kuro said softly. "You don't know how bad they could get with you."

Crazy just grinned. "Have no fear, Steph will soon be here! Hannah's bound to have realised we're missing and Steph will be on her way." She said, having complete faith in her partner in crime.

Suddenly, Crazy blinked and shook her head. Kuro tilted her head slightly in confusion. "Are you alright?"

"I don't know...my head feels fuzzy. I've had the strangest feeling for a while now. Ever since I started struggling against the Sheylas..." Crazy trailed off as her eyes seemed to roll back and her body went limp.

Kuro gasped.

For a moment Kuro stared at Crazy in shock. "Crazy, wake up," she said but got no reaction. "Come on, it's not the time for your beauty sleep." Still nothing, Crazy just barely stood there leaned against the wall and her head resting on her chest. "I promise you, I will bake cookies only for you if you wake up," she desperately said.

She tried to reach her with her foot and nudged her leg in the hope that this maybe had an effect on her but it didn't do anything. "Crazy!"

Kuro turned her head to the Sheyla camp anger filling her eyes. Yes, they were at war and trying to convert the others to their side was just normal but using those methods was just gutless and sneaky. "Hey, what did you do to her?" she screamed at the Sheylas but no one was paying attention to her. She saw barely some Sheylas and the others just sat here and there and were running around following their business.

"You sneaky bastards!" Kuro was furious and sent more swearwords in their direction and some Sheylas looked at her but just grinned amused. "You're all some gutless shippers. Why don't we fight like real people, face to face?!" She took a small step forward but the chain stopped her and she shook at them while she continued to provoke them. Then she started to sing the Sparky songs Saphire and Sparkly had composed.

Kuro's voice stretched across the camp causing the Sheyla's to wince in horror. Skies sister rushed forwards, her glare intensifying as Kuro only sang louder.

"Shut up!" She hissed dangerously, threatening Kuro with a Sheyla picture. Crazy stirred.

"Don't you dare!" A strong voice came from the entrance to the Sheyla camp as a figure strode forward out of the shadows. She marched forwards and was followed byfour others. The Sheyla's gathered around each other, going on the defensive as their leader stepped forwards with a glare of her own.

Crazy giggled as she finally came to. "You are so, so, so dead now."

"Sparkly, Saphire, would you mind watching the exit. We don't want any of these...delusionals to try and block our way out." They nodded and eyed the Sheyla's threateningly. Sparkly stuck her tongue out at the leader.

"Steph, I'll help Crazy and Kuro," Hannah stated, earning a nod from Steph. The Sheyla's leader gestured with her hands quickly and in an instant five Sheyla's blocked Hannah's path, each holding Sheyla sporks, pictures and recorders. Hannah snorted.

"You think that's going to work? Ha! You are so deluded," Hannah mocked before lunging for the nearest Sheyla, taking her picture and ripping it up in front of her. The other four Sheyla's charged grabbled hold of Hannah, who struggled fiercely.

"Stop," Steph hissed, and for some reason the Sheyla's paused giving Hannah a chance to shake them off. Steph marched up to the leader and stared her down.

"Go on Steph!" Crazy yelled before cheering, Kuro joining in before they started singing.

"Sparky rules!" Sparkly and Saphire yelled as the Sheyla's growled. The two enemies standing-off ingnored it all. The Sheyla flinched. Steph smirked.

"You know who I am, what I am capable of and you still face up to me. I've got to admit you have some guts, ever considered joining the sparky army?" Steph asked with a grin, watching with amusement as the leader turned red with anger.

"I will never be one of you," she spat with disgust, freezing when Steph's face went emotionless.

"Hannah, go get our girls," Steph said without looking away. "I suggest you let them go. I don't want anyone to get hurt...again." Steph eyed the group of Sheyla's. "Do they know you were worshiping our Sparky shrine?"The Sheyla's gasped and were distracted enough so that Hannah could run in and free Crazy and Kuro form their restraints. Kuro ran for Sparkly and Saphire and tackle hugged them. Crazy kicked the closest Sheyla before her and Hannah stood behind Steph. The Sheyla's looked shocked at the change in events. Steph snorted.

"You couldn't even recognise a diversion," she raised her eyebrow," And you call yourself an army."

"Yeah, an army of delusional, sick people," Hannah muttered, scrunching up a random piece of paper she had with her and throwing it at the Sheyla's. It bounced off one of their heads. Crazy ponited and laughed along with Hannah as they clung to each other for support. The Sheyla's started to advance but Steph help her hand up.

"Sis, please stop this," Skies begged, not anting to see either her sister or friends hurt in an all out shipper fight. She knew her sister was wrong, but...she was family.

"No...I can't. I have to defend my ship," she stated strongly.

"Admirable," Steph began, " but so totally wrong. Here's what's going to happen; you are going to let us leave here without getting in our way, your never, ever, going to touch a member of this army again, and you are going to hand over any weaponary you took from my fellow sparks. Is that clear?"

"And if we don't," she retorted, forcing herself not to step beck as Steph advanced.

"I won't be as...'nice' as I'm being now. In fact, you know what, I'll let you keep me hostage and I'll recite every single Sparky scene, every touch, bits of friendship, scenes with eye-sexing and lack of personal space, fanfiction, and I'll sing every sparky song ever made up so much that you will sing them in your sleep. Everytime you say something remotely Sheyla I'll turn it around into Sparky. Then I'll repeat it all again, over and over, just before I move onto Spanky. Believe me, I have so much more amunition then you it is unreal. You do not want to cross me."

Crazy sniffled, "That's the most beautiful thing I've ever heard." Hannah nodded.

"The we'll do the same," Hannah told them as the others shouted their agreement."

The Sheyla's remained silent, but looked about to disagree.

"The Rising. When Elizabeth enters the gate room, John smirks and his eyes shine with affect..."

"Wait. Stop." The leader whispered, lowering her head in defeat. "You can go."

"I thought so," Steph stated smugly before turing to her fellow Sparks with a huge grin. "Come on girls, let's go home."

"I've got cookies ready," Kuro said with a smile as she lead the way through the exit. Skies gave her sister a small wave before chasing after Kuro, the cookies much to tempting.

"Cody's waiting at the perimeter, he's got wheels and will drop us off at the cave. Oh, and it's covered in John and Liz pictures." Steph sang happily. The sparks squealed and quickly followed Kuro, all of them chanting cookies. Steph, Crazy and Hannah stayed back, Crazy ranting about the hiddeous Sheyla camp. Just as they were about to cross the exit the leader called out,

"Steph." The Sparks paused and Steph slowly turned to look over her shoulder. "You may have won the battle, but you haven't won the war," the Sheyla stated with confidence. Steph just smirked and shook her head starting to walk away. "I will get you back, and when I do you will beg me to be a Sheyla." Crazy and Hannah both spun around intent on giving the Sheyla a piece of their minds, but Steph stopped them, holding them back with her arms. She stared at the Sheyla neutrally before a small smile formed.

"Bring it on," Steph said simply before turning and walking away. Hannah 'pfft' at them and grabbed Crazy's arm to stop her from attacking.

"Please Hannah, just let me get one of them," she pleaded, anticipation shinning in her eyes. Hannah wavered slightly, but remained firm. Just before the both left Hannah stuck a picture on the wall - The Long Goodbye, John and Lizzie kiss. Crazy giggled gleefully.

“Steph, you officially rule, and as for my sister, after that little escaped, war is war, there are casualties.” Skys said with a saddened shake of her head, but a smile on her face.

“How true how true,” Sparkly said giggling while she munched on one of Kuro’s cookies.

They were still on their way to the new base of operations.

“Why did Cody have to pick something so far away?”Saphire said getting a little inpatient.

“I know it seems like we’ve been flying forever!” Skys exclaimed then look out one of the windows.

“We should be there soon, very soon.” Steph replied with an evil smirk on her face.Everyone knew instantly, it wasn’t just from her resent victory.She had a plan!

Back at the lair

Sam smiled to herself as she wiped the engine grease off her brow. It had taken a good 12 hours, but the yacht's turbine engines were finally up to snuff. OK, she corrected herself, it was technically an old WWII-era Fletcher-class Destroyer that had been significantly modified to bring it up to the standards of 31st century Clan tech, but the simple matter of fact was that yacht sounded more villainous and less threatening.

"Mitchell," the voice of Miranda Joan Stoppable said through the comm channels to her half-sister. "You got that thing up and running yet?"

"Yep, just got done with it," Sam answered back. "Though is any particular reason you're calling me by my last name?" Miranda had always had a face like a glacier, but this was taking it t a new level.

"Command regs," she answered back, as though it would answer all of her sister's questions.

"Excuse me?" Sam responded, dumbfounded.

"Cody left a note, said he was bogged down on my father's website. Sends his regards. He left me in his place."

"Lovely," Sam said simply after she had shut down the comm. "Wonder what the Sparks will have to say about this."

Still on the ship flying back to the lair.

“You should have seen Crazy!” Kuro exclaimed recanting Her and Crazy’s time at the Sheyla camp, “it was like Jack O’Neill possessed her or something?”

“Awesome!” Skys managed to say through fits of laughter.

“Crazy’s awesome!” Sparkly said, still giggling.

“And so is Steph for that stunt!” Saphire patted her on the back.

“And let’s not forget Kuro, she was there too, and did an awesome job!” Hannah said smiling brightly from the pilot seat.

“We’re all awesome!” Steph exclaimed, “and Sparky rules!”

“Here, here!!” All the Sparks cheered.

After the cheering had died down, Saphire spoke up, “has anyone contacted Cody?Maybe we should let him know what’s going on.”

“Yeah, I’d better do that,” Hannah said, then she clicked the radio attached to her ear.

“So,” Skys spoke up, “is it just me, or does Cody and his ‘girls’” she made quotations with her hands, “think we’re some porcine dolls or something?Like we can do anything for ourselves, and if we do, we will break?” Skys looked around at the girls questionably.

“Eh that’s just Cody,” Kuro said as she passed out more of her cookies.

“yeah, and I know I don’t know that guy as well as you do, but seriously, I left my whole family behind, and what Steph just did was well..” Skys started to chuckles as did the rest of the Sparks.

Steph had a pleased smile on her face.

“all I know, is if he, well…” Skys trailed off.

Steph looked at her, the smile was gone, “what’s a matter?” she asked Skys.

“All I’m saying, is if he calls me a trader for being a former member of the Sheyla’s again, I’ll deck him.He may be somewhat taller than me, but I’m almost 5’9”, I can take him. I am NOT a trader to the Sparks, OR Sparky!”

Steph smiled at the new Spark’s enthusiasm.

"Hey Cody!" the sparks all greeted in unison as they arrived back at the lair, Cody greeted them all with a smile as everyone sat around to talk about the confrontation with the Sheyla's.

"You should have seen it Cody, it was awesome, we all kicked ** over there," Skys exclaimed cheerfully, a gleeful smile on her face at the memory of their victory over the Sheyla's. The group continued to talk for another hour before Crazy stood up.

"I think it's time to head back to the cave, wouldn't want to leave the Sheyla's unobserved for too long, especially after today, who knows what they could be planning over there," she stated and Hannah and Kuro both stood up to join her.

"Whatever it is, we'll defeat them besides they've got nothing on our plotter," Sparkly said glancing at Hannah who despite everything that had happened was still carrying her plotting papers with her.

"We'll contact you guys in the morning," Hannah said and everyone said their goodbyes before the three girls made their way out of the lair, taking one of the ships back to the cave where all three of them went straight to sleep, it had been an exhasuting day.

Steph drooled onto her pillow as she dreamed merrily, her mind filled with images of Sparky Apocalypse Tanks happily reducing Sheyla cities to rubble while she laughed and bathed in the ashes of her enemies. Yes, it was indeed a happy dream, and there would indeed be many happy times to come. Yes, everything was going great.

BOOM!!!

"HOLY FRAK!!!" Steph streamed as she lurched up in her bed, only to find the heavy-duty Israeli-made blast door that was the entrance to her room embedded in a crater in the far wall - aqua green fire still roaring across it.

"Steph!" Miranda roared as she advanced into the room and grabbed the Spark by her neck before pinning her against the wall and off the ground - the whole maneuver taking less then a second. "Where's the Longsword, Spark?!" the mint-hued blond spat.

"What?!" Steph gasped.

"The Longsword. Aerospace-fighter; big as a 747; armed to the teeth; can't miss it," Miranda growled, the two females' faces just inches away from eachother now.

"Oh . . . that . . . We might have left it back on the mainland," Steph answred sheepishly.

"You did WHAT?! Do you have ANY idea how much those things cost?!" the Spetnaz-trained super-soldier bellowed.

"Hey!" Steph yelled back, finally getting some courage to retort. "Why are you doing this anyway?! Cody's in change of the base, shouldn't he be asking these things?"

"Cody hasn't been here for some time, he left me in command in his stead."

"What?! What are you . . ."

"Hologram," Miranda said simply, answering Steph's question before she had said it.

"Hologram? But I just high-fived him a few hours ago."

"Tight-packed photons," the Sabra answered quickly.

"Like the Doctor on Voyager?" Steph asked quizzically.

"Essencially."

"Why in the world would you create something like that?"

An awkward pause engulfed the room soon after the words had left Stephs mouth.

" . . . Oh," the Spark said glumly.

"Hey, a girl has needs you know," Miranda retorted, somehow keeping a straight face the whole time.

"Oh! Oh, that's disgusting!"

"Not those kind of needs! Oh dear Gott, what could possibly make you think that?!"

"I don't know!" Steph balked. "It just seemed obvious."

"Yeah, well, it didn't happen," Miranda said, only to be followed by many more seconds of awkward silence.

"Uh, hey," Miranda and Steph quickly turned their heads to see Sam standing in what was left of the doorway. "Am I interrupting anything?"

"No," Miranda answered, finally releasing Steph from her grip and letting her fall to the floor. "Was there something you needed trooper?"

"Uh, yeah," Sam responded, still a little uncomfortable being in the room. "I was just stopping by to tell you that I have to go away for a few weeks on an errand."

"You're our head engineer . . . our only engineer," Miranda reasoned.

"Oh, don't worry, I got a temp to fill in for me, she should be here in a day or two. Until then you girls can handle yourselves. Right?" Sam questioned nonchalantly.

"Of course," Miranda responded quickly. "Just tell us who we should look out for."

"You can't miss her, she'll be the Affirmative Action Girl ( http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AffirmativeActionGirl ) with the chrono-tech."

"Affirmative Action Girl? But we're all female already," Miranda asked curiously.

"Trust me, you'll know her when you see her."

"OK then," Miranda answered hesitantly.

"Good. Then with that, I bid you ado," Sam finnished before walking out into the hall. A large blue and white flash occured a few seconds after.

"Well then, that's going to be interesting," Miranda stated to herself. "And as for you!" she said, spinning around to face Steph - who was trying to open the window. "You and me are going out tommorow to find that Longsword."

"Aw, do I have to?" Steph whinned.

"Do you really want to argue with me?" Mthe green-eyed teen asked coldly.

". . . No," Steph sighed, after spending a moment comtremplating the door that was stuck in her wall.

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