Polar Opposites

Disclaimer: I don't own "Sky High"...I do own the sucky plot line though!

Author's Note: Yes, I know, it took me forever and a day to update. I hadn't seen the movie in forever, and then I rented it with my friend and we watched it and I decided to update this story. You know what's sad? I forgot how hot Lash was. I was also busy watching "The Hills". And, I was just being lazy.

Part III of III. Zach and co. find Speed and interrogate him for information. Elizabeth and Lash flirt. Like crazy. And something else happens between the two of them...

Summary: Warren Peace's younger sister arrives at Sky High. Chaos ensues.

Chapter Eight

Zach looked around again.

"Okay, chill! She's not here!" Layla snapped at Zach.

"I'm her boyfriend. I think I'm allowed to be concerned about her disappearing," Zach replied.

Layla rolled her eyes. The only people left in the hall were her, Zach, Ethan and Will.

Will looked at Layla. Layla looked away. Will looked away. Layla looked at Will. Layla looked away. Zach looked at both of them like they were crazy.

"All right, we need to find someone who might know about where she is," Ethan said. There was a blur of orange, blue and black racing in front of them.

"Speed?" they all murmured.

"Why is Speed here? I thought everyone involved in the Royal Pain fiasco last year was sent to jail on a double-life sentence," Ethan said. Layla got hit with an idea. She touched a real tree next to a door, and made the branches grow long enough to catch the colored blur.

Will and Zach walked up to Speed, trying in vain to get out of the branches.

"What are you freshies doing here?" Speed sneered.

"We're NOT freshmen!" Will yelled. "I think the question should be, what the hell are you doing here?"

"As if I'm going to tell you."

The branches tightened around Speed's body.

"Okay, okay. Magenta paid the police to let me and Lash free."

"Magenta?" Layla repeated. Speed nodded. She walked over to Speed.

"Where are Warren and Elizabeth?" Layla asked. Speed looked away.

"Where are Warren and Elizabeth?" Layla repeated, louder, with tears forming in her eyes. Speed looked at her, almost apologizing with his eyes.

"They're in the basement of the school. But the only way to get down there is through Powers' office. She's gone on her vacation, so it's locked."

The branches wilted, and Speed was dropped to the ground.

"I'm sorry," he said quietly, before walking off. Layla stood in a corner. Zach, Ethan and Will shrugged. Sometimes, it really sucked being the only girl in a group.

"Elizabeth," Magenta hissed.

"What?" Elizabeth snapped.

"Look up here," Magenta demanded.

"No," Elizabeth replied simply.

"Lash!" Magenta called.

"No," he replied in the exact same tone as Elizabeth. Magenta sighed.

"All you have to do is tilt her head up so she's looking at me."

Lash rolled his eyes. He leaned over the balcony, stretched his arm, tilted Elizabeth's head up, and kept his hand there.

Magenta smiled. "Better. Now, Elizabeth, tell me...why would you try and kill your own brother?"

"Kill. Kill is such a strong word...temporarily injure, maybe. Kill, no," Elizabeth replied.

"Shut up!" Magenta growled.

"Make up your mind."

Lash looked at Magenta, searching her face for any sign of annoyance, causing his hand to move from Elizabeth's face. She whimpered at the loss of contact with him, and looked up at him. He took pity on her and placed his hand on her cheek.

"Elizabeth!" Magenta shouted, eyes clamped shut, nostrils flaring in exasperation. Elizabeth looked to Magenta innocently.

"What?"

"Stop hitting on him!"

"Why?"

"Because!"

"That's so cute! You like him!"

"I don't like him. I like Zach. I like Warren. I don't like Lash."

"Hey!" Lash protested. "I don't feel loved." He pouted. Elizabeth patted his hand lightly.

"Poor baby," she replied.

"I know."

Elizabeth opened her mouth to say something, but quickly stopped when she felt Lash's thumb start to stroke her cheekbone. Warren cleared his throat.

"Right, my brother's here."

Magenta rolled her eyes, and smacked Lash's arm.

"You still haven't answered the question, Elizabeth," Magenta snapped.

"We're brother and sister. It's in our blood to fight."

"But, you could have killed him!"

"I would've stopped before it got that far."

"No you wouldn't have."

Magenta tugged on Lash's ear.

"We're going down there."

"What if I don't want to?"

"You don't have a choice. I can get you right back in jail."

Lash brought his hand up to his ear.

"That really hurt."

Magenta rolled her eyes, and went down the stairs that led from the platform to where Elizabeth and Warren were. Lash started going down the stairs, then stopped halfway down.

Magenta glanced at Warren, and then walked towards Elizabeth.

"Stand up," Magenta demanded bitterly. Elizabeth slowly rose to her feet.

"You took my boyfriend from me...and now..."

Magenta stopped talking, and shoved Elizabeth against the wall. She gripped the side of her neck with one hand, and hit her head on the wall with the other. Elizabeth winced in pain, but didn't make a sound and didn't cry.

Magenta placed both hands on Elizabeth's neck, and pressed the thumbs of both hands against her windpipe. Elizabeth didn't struggle or even move. Even when she felt herself rise off the ground a few inches, she didn't do anything.

Suddenly, Magenta was hit in the arm with a fire ball. She let go of Elizabeth to nurse her burning limb, and Elizabeth fell face down onto the ground.

While Magenta was clutching her arm and crying in pain, Lash jumped over the railing, and dashed over to Elizabeth. He checked the back of her head to see if it was bleeding (it wasn't). Elizabeth slowly made a move to push herself up. She just didn't have the strength to do it, and before she could fall again, Lash caught her.

He placed his hands on either side of her face.

"Are you okay?" he murmured. Elizabeth, nodded, her eyes slowly opening.

"I think so."

"Thank god. If you weren't, your brother would beat the shit out of me."

Elizabeth grinned. Not her usual "ha-ha-I'm-better-than-you" smirk, but a genuine, happy smile. Lash touched the back of her head again.

"Regardless of how many times you check, Lash, it probably won't be bleeding."

He smiled, and brought his hand back to her face. Their lips were inches apart.

"Let go of her."

Lash glanced towards where the voice was coming from. Zach, Layla, Ethan and Will stood in the doorway of the small room.

"Let go of her," Zach repeated. Lash raised an eyebrow, but let her go. He stood, and crossed his arms in front of his chest. Elizabeth glanced from Zach to Lash, and back to Zach.

"If I ever catch you messing with Liz again, I'll..."

"You'll what? You can't do anything that Stronghold hasn't already done to me."

Zach grabbed Lash by the collar of his black vest, and pushed him against the wall.

"I'll kill you," Zach growled.

"Zach..." Elizabeth called from the ground.

"I swear to God..."

"Zach." Elizabeth was getting impatient.

"I will kill you."

"Zach!" Elizabeth cried.

Zach finally turned to look at his girlfriend, who had somehow managed to stand up. She was using the wall for support.

"Let him go," Elizabeth said through clenched teeth. He hesitated, but let go of Lash.

Layla, who had been temporarily distracted by the Zach situation, ran over to Warren and threw her arms around him.

"Warren...thank God you're alive!" she exclaimed. Warren returned the hug. Layla was the only person that Warren actually enjoyed talking to. He felt like she was an intellectual match to him...as opposed to the rest of the morons in the school.

Warren sighed, and buried his face into her red hair. He smiled. It smelled like strawberries.

"Zach, I am so sick of this!" Elizabeth practically screamed at him. "I'm sick of your insane jealousy and I am sick of your stupid threats to other people!"

Zach blinked at her.

"Remember last week? When I was talking to Gary about a science project and you practically chewed his head off? Or, the week before that when I told off Mike, and you threatened to cut off a very important part of his anatomy?"

Zach still didn't seem to register, Layla and Warren were still hugging, Elizabeth was ready to beat her head against the wall, and Lash was watching in amusement.

"Zach...we're over. Whatever the hell we had, is done."

Magenta, who everyone seemed to forget about (possibly because she turned into a guinea pig), growled. Elizabeth was on a roll. First, getting in a fight with Warren, then stealing Zach, and then BREAKING UP with Zach. Elizabeth was still leaning against the wall. Magenta approached from behind, her hand ready to hit her. Lash saw Magenta coming towards Elizabeth, and quickly stretched his arms, and pulled her to him. Magenta ended up almost hitting the wall, but stopped.

She glared at Lash.

"Why the hell are you doing this, Lash? I got you out of jail so you could help me do this. And now you're trying to stop me?"

"I can't let you kill her, Magenta."

"Why the hell not?"

"Because, the reasons that you're mad at her are juvenile and they're hardly worth getting upset over."

Lash still had his arms protectively around Elizabeth.

"Maybe so...but she still deserves to die."

"You just don't get it do you?"

The door slammed open again. 3 armed policemen burst in, and surrounded Magenta. One snapped handcuffs onto her wrists.

"You're under arrest for the kidnapping of Warren and Elizabeth Peace," another officer proclaimed.

Principal Powers stood in the doorway. She stopped the officers.

"Magenta...I am very disappointed in you. I always knew you weren't completely innocent...but to kidnap two fellow students?" Principal Powers shook her head. The police continued to usher Magenta out the door.

"Is everyone alright?" Principal Powers asked everyone. Everyone nodded. "Well, once you're done doing all the hugging, please come upstairs to my office." Everyone nodded once more. Powers turned and left the basement.

Layla let go of Warren, and hugged Elizabeth. Elizabeth looked surprised, and tentatively patted Layla's back as the older girl sobbed. She glanced at her brother and mouthed, "She's a basket case".

10 minutes later, after everyone had hugged each other, they went upstairs to Principal Powers' office.

Powers' was waiting for us behind her desk.

"First of all, Elizabeth, Warren, it's a miracle that you two are still ok," she said. "When Will phoned me and told me what was going on, I thought for sure you would at least be a little scratched up."

Elizabeth and Warren looked at Will, and Elizabeth mouthed, "Thank-you."

"Actually, Principal Powers..." Lash started. "Elizabeth's head is bleeding."

Elizabeth tentatively touched the place on her head where Magenta had hit it. Sure enough, there was blood trickling from the small wound.

"Lash, take Elizabeth to Nurse Spex."

Lash nodded, and they left.

"Will, Layla, Zach, Ethan...do you mind me asking how you got in my office?"

Layla smiled sheepishly. "W-we...pickedthelock."

"With what?"

"A clothes hanger from some girl's locker..."

Powers' raised an eyebrow.

"Normally, I would give you a detention, but since it was to help your fellow school mates, I'll let it go...this time. You can go now."

The 5 left the office.

"I need food," Warren whined, and went off in the direction of the cafeteria.

"I'm actually pretty hungry, too," Layla said, and ran off after Warren.

Author's Note: OK, the chapter is long, and the ending is lame, so that's totally unfair to you, but, hey, I finished the story, right? Damn straight, I'm DONE! After, like, a year hiatus, I'm frickin' done! I'm so happy! Now, review, dammit!