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"Hey, guys, check it out. A package was sent here for the team, but there's not any return address." Kaz spoke up while entering the penthouse with a sealed cardboard box in his hands as he moved over to the kitchen counter and set the box on top of it.

"It's not anything explosive." Chase confirmed after using his bionic eye to look at the contents in the box. "So, open it." Kaz opened the box then as we all gathered around to see what was inside of it. "Huh."

"It's puppets- which looks like all of us." Oliver replied, picking up the 'Oliver' puppet in his left hand and held it up as Kaz picked up the puppet that looked like him also.

"This is weird. Why would someone send us puppets that look like us?" Skylar questioned, holding her puppet in her hand as everyone but me held their puppet.

I carefully pick my own up and look it over. "And who even has the time to make them look exactly like us?" I remark while Justin, Kaz, and Oliver made their puppets fight each other.

"Look, there's a note." Reece pointed out after looking inside of the box and then picked up a small sticky note and read it aloud, "Dear Elite Force, hope you enjoy the puppets I made. It took some work to create. Enjoy. Z." She glanced over at me and then Chase questioningly and asked curiously, "Who's 'Z'?"

Bree looked at me pointedly, her hands now on her hips, starting in slight suspicion,  "Des, could this be Zelda?"

"No, no way. It's not possible." I answer her quickly and began to move over to the hyperlift after taking the note from Reece. "I- I'm just gonna run some tests and see if I can find out the identity of this person."

"I'll help." Chase offered and followed after me into the hyperlift. We were down in mission command in an instant and moved over to the cyberdesk.

"What if it is Zelda? How could she have escaped?" I began to wonder aloud, glancing over at my boyfriend and back down at the cyberdesk.

"If it is your commando app, Des, then we'll figure out how to stop her. You stopped her last time and you can do it again." Chase answered, his hand over my hand that was on top of the desk.

"Last time, though, I almost died..." I murmur and let out a small sigh. We begin to get to work on finding out who had sent this package to us and why.

*Third Person's POV*

"Hey, guys? Has anyone seen Kaz?" Oliver questioned while walking into the main part of the penthouse from the hallway. "I haven't seen him since that package with the puppets came here."

Skylar looked up from her magazine that she was currently flipping through and looked over at the boy curiously and admitted, "I haven't either. That's actually the last time that I saw him today, too."

"I'll help you look. Come on, Oliver." Reece offered while standing up from her spot on the couch beside Skylar and moved over to Oliver as did Skylar who added, "Me too." The three of them began to search around the whole penthouse then.

Bree was sitting beside Justin, her legs draped across his lap, as both of them sat on the couch while playing on their phones. "He's probably just playing with his puppet." Bree lightly remarked, looking up from her phone and at Justin who looked at her and smiled in amusement also.

"Kaz, stop!" Oliver exclaimed in the hallway, dodging his best friend's punches. Kaz continued to attempt to attack, his eyes distant and soulless. "Why are you attacking me? This isn't you!"

Bree and Justin ran into the hallway to see Kaz continue attacking Oliver. "Kaz, buddy, what's going on?" Justin started, trying to calm the fiery superhero down. He turned and blasted Justin back with his fire power.

"Justin!" Oliver and Bree exclaimed as Bree rushed over to the now hurt superhero and knelt beside him while Oliver faced Kaz again. Bree looked back at Kaz and repeated, "Kaz, stop!"

Kaz shot fire out of his hand towards Oliver who put it out with his ice power. The two of them started to fight as Bree shook Justin, trying to wake him up, letting out, "Come on, Justin, wake up." 

Bree stood up and super speeded over to Kaz and knocked him out as he fell to the floor also while starting, "What's wrong with him?"

"I don't know. He just came out of nowhere and started attacking me!" Oliver explained just as Justin woke up and groggily stood back up. 

Justin glanced over at the still unconscious Kaz and suggested, "We might want to restrain him before he wakes up and tries attacking us again."

"Good idea." Bree and Oliver agreed as the two guys carried Kaz into the dining room and set him in a chair, tying him up securely, while Bree stood by, her hands on her hips. She asked the question on their minds first, "So, why did he attack us?"

"I don't know. Maybe mind control?" Oliver answered.

"Well, Kaz isn't upstairs-" Skylar started while coming down the stairs. Reece also added, stepping back into the penthouse from the hyperlift, "And he's not in mission command-" The two of them both noticed Kaz restrained to a chair and unconscious and asked in unison, "What happened to him and why is he tied up?"

"He started to attack us, so Bree knocked him out and Justin and I tied him up, so that Kaz won't attack us again when he wakes up." Oliver simply explained.

"Why did he-?" Skylar started.

"We don't know yet." Justin answered her question before she could even finish asking it. He noticed two of the puppets sitting on the dining room table and narrowed his eyes a little. "Isn't it a little weird that we get a box with puppets in it and no return address or idea who sent it on the same day that Kaz decides to attack?"

"Could be just a coincidence." Oliver shrugged.

"You might be onto something. Whoever sent it, they could planted something in the puppets to mind control us." Skylar replied in agreement with Justin.

"Not exactly but fairly close." A familiar female voice spoke up behind all of them as they turned around to find Destiny but with purple eyes, her hands behind her back.

"Des, what's going on?" Oliver asked.

"And why are your eyes purple?" Skylar also asked.

Justin and Bree exchanged a wary look and moved their gazes back on Destiny. "That's not Des, that's Zelda, her evil commando app." Justin answered, the two of them immediately standing in defensive stances.

Zelda smirked, saying, "Very good, brother." She moved her hands out from behind her back to reveal two puppets that were identical to Bree and Skylar and held them up. "Now, ready to have some fun?"

"What're you gonna do with those? They're just puppets who looks like us." Skylar questioned suspiciously while also standing in a defensive stance.

"Aw. I'm so glad that you asked." Zelda commented, both of the puppets' fake eyes glowing as Bree and Skylar began to glow. Bree was now glowing pink and Skylar was glowing a teal color as their auras/souls were sucked out of them, the auras of them drifted over to the puppets and entered the dolls then.

Skylar's and Bree's bodies stood there, their eyes emotionless and blank just like Kaz's. Zelda smiled in satisfaction and shook puppet-Bree a little as the puppet let out a small groan and spoke up, "How? Guys, help us!"

Justin and Oliver started to move forward while soulless Skylar and Bree faced the two of them in defensive stances. "What's a little fun without a little bit of chaos?" Zelda simply remarked as Bree super sped over to Justin who began fighting one another, though Justin was pulling his punches and blocking her punches and kicks.

Skylar began fighting Oliver who continued to avoid getting hit by her, not wanting to hurt her. Puppet-Skylar spoke up, "What's your plan here exactly?"

"Oh, no, first I tell you my plan, then you stop it from happening- no, no way, not happening!" Zelda answered, walking over to the hyperlift while still carrying the two puppets in each of her hands and leaving Justin and Oliver to defend themselves against soulless Skylar and Bree.

Before Zelda left to go down to mission command, she untied the rope off of soulless Kaz with her telekinesis as he stood up and joined in the fight against the other two boys and Reece. She entered the high-tech elevator and was sent down to mission command in less than a second.

Zelda stepped off of the hyperlift and moved over to the cyberdesk, placing the two puppet girls on top of the console beside a puppet Chase. "How did you escape? Des said that you were basically locked up." Puppet-Chase questioned, trying to move but couldn't because he's literally just a puppet now.

"Oh, I was. I was locked up in the deepest part of her mind where all of her fears and nightmares lie. Des was focusing so much in keeping intruders like Hive from entering her mind that she wasn't using all of her strength in keeping me a prisoner like she had intended." Zelda admitted.

"So, what did you do with Des?" Bree demanded.

"Locked her where she had me locked up in." Zelda answered, tapping the side of her temple with a small wink, "Right now, your friend is experiencing every single one of her most darkest nightmares."

"Bring her back!" Puppet-Chase, Bree, Kaz, and Skylar started as Zelda simply laughed as she remarked in amusement, "And why would I do such a thing like that? I'm finally free."

Soulless Chase entered the room as Zelda looked over at him, her speaking towards him, "Where's Spike? Reveal him." Soulless Chase activated his commando app and was now Spike as she smirked, saying, "Welcome back, Spike. Go finish off my brother and Oliver for me." 

Spike smirked a little after looking over at the three puppets on top of the cyberdesk and nodded at her, now exiting mission command.

"Des, if- if you can hear us, you need to take back control!" Bree desperately started, trying to reach Destiny inside of her mind, "Fight even harder."

Zelda laughed a little and lifted her now glowing hand near the puppets but her hand then stopped abruptly. "What- is- happening?" She questioned, struggling to move her hand but failed to, "I can't move."

"It's working." Skylar commented, "Keep talking to Des."

"Come back to us, Des. We need you." Chase also started desperately.

Zelda stepped back a few feet from where the puppets were still laying at on top of the desk, closing her eyes. She entered the astral plane of her mind and saw Destiny fighting back as she blasted a percussion beam her way and knocked out Destiny for the time being.

Zelda smiled in satisfaction and amusement a little and reopened her eyes. "Time to start the show." She remarked, glancing over at the three puppets once more, "Don't worry, your dear Des is only asleep for this, so she won't see you guys get killed."

Spike and soulless Kaz entered mission command while both of them dragged Justin and Oliver who was both currently knocked out; Soulless Skylar and Bree followed behind them, dragging Reece behind them, as they stopped beside Zelda. 

"Good work." Zelda spoke, picking up the puppets that looked identical to Oliver and Reece and transferred their auras out of their bodies to the puppets like the others. She placed Puppet-Oliver and Puppet-Reece with the rest of team on top of the cyberdesk. 

Justin began to wake up then and struggled in Soulless Chase's and Kaz's arms as they held onto him tightly. Zelda picked up the last puppet, the one that looked like her brother, and moved over to him who continued to struggle.

"Des, come on, wake up! It- It's me. I'm your big brother. You have to come back to me. Please." Justin started, grabbing Zelda's hand tightly as she tried to pull away while he used his new power, telepathy, to enter inside of her mind with some difficulty. 

He looked around to find a dark place as he now stood on a grey cobblestone pathway, letting out, "Des! Come on, sis, where did she hide you?"

Justin super speeded down the pathway that he was on and searched through her mind, passing horrible nightmares along the way; Some of the nightmares consisted of Hive, Death, the prophesy, the end of the world, her family dying, and so on. "Des!"

"Justin!" Destiny's frightened voice yelled out as he ran and found him standing in a shadowy room with a cell inside of it. He noticed a little girl around six years old behind the bars, tears on her cheeks and her brown eyes watery.

'Oh, Des," Justin breathed out in relief and then broke the bars of the cell and pulled the small girl out and held her in his arms, his hand on the back of her head reassuringly. 

"Don't worry, you're okay." He assured the six year old girl that was actually his sister, Destiny. "You need to wake up now, okay? Zelda's free and is harming our friends. It's up to you. You can do it. I believe in you."

"She's too- too powerful..." Six year old Destiny cried out, "I can't do anything right. I just mess things up-"

"Hey, no you don't. Okay? You're stronger than her. What's her power is your power. You defeated her more than once and you can do it again. You just have to remember who you really are, Des. Come on, Frosty. You're not a scared little girl anymore." Justin replied, being pulled out of his sister's mind then. "Remember who you are and fight back!"

A tornado swooped down and dragged him away and kicked him out of her mind mentally. "Justin!" Destiny exclaimed and then all of her memories came rushing back to her and she remembered. "Zelda."

Outside of the mental war, Zelda raised Justin's puppet close to him as its eyes began to glow; Justin began to glow a dark green color as his aura appeared outside of his body and started to drift over to the puppet. 

Zelda's hand that was currently holding onto the puppet twitched, making her drop the puppet as it fell to the floor. "Destiny." She muttered.

Zelda stepped back as her hands glowed orange while she started to chant a spell, "Souls of my friends transferred into puppets, now empty buckets, their power be transferred-" She was cut off by the whole room now trembling from tremors, which made Zelda squeeze her eyes shut and fall to her knees.

"Leave my family alone!" The tremors came to an abrupt stop as Destiny looked up, her eyes brown again. She stood up and picked up two puppets at a time and transferred her friends' auras back into their own bodies. 

The seven members of the team fell to the floor then as Destiny waited for them to wake back up.

Chase was the first one to wake up as he stood up quickly and noticed his girlfriend and rushed over to her, spinning the girl into a relieved hug. They both smiled at each other just as the rest of the team woke back up and stood up. 

"What happened to Zelda?" Kaz inquired.

"For now, she's locked up in here." Destiny answered, tapping the side of her temple lightly, "I'm gonna get Douglas and Big D to help find a way to disable this commando app- or at least modify her into a less evil alter ego of me."

"What do we do with these puppets?" Reece asked curiously.

"Destroy them, they're creepy anyway." Bree answered with a shrug.

Destiny moved over to her brother and hugged him. "Thanks for bringing me back to my rightful state of mind, for helping wake me up." She started as he nodded, softly chuckled, and then lightly murmured, "I always got your back, Des." 

She smiled cheekily and nod, "I know, big brother."

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I notice Bree looking her puppet over once more as she sat on the couch in the living room; I move over to her as she tossed the puppet onto the cushion beside her and looked at me. "Thought you wanted to destroy them because they're creepy?" I begin with an amused smile.

"They are creepy and I am gonna destroy these puppets." Bree simply shrugged.

"Don't worry, I won't tell the team that you still like to play with dolls." I reply, sitting on the couch beside her but still facing her.

"Says the girl whose commando app was the one who created these puppets in the first place." Bree pointed out.

"Touché, girly, touché." I laugh as she laughed too. Bree looked down for a second, her hands in her lap. "What? What's wrong?"

"Nothing's wrong. I- I just never apologized to you for all of the hurtful things that I've said to you in the past. I really didn't mean those things and... I'm really sorry, Des." Bree replied, her eyes watery, "Can you ever forgive me?"

"Forgive you for what?" I comment with a small smile, "Girly, we're going to fight. That's just how siblings are. We fight. There is nothing that will make me not forgive you. Okay? You're my sister and I love you."

Bree grinned also and we hug each other, "I love you, too. Thank you for being my sister."

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