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  • Left Leg - Purple - Zoe

    Chapter by smatster · 21 Oct 2025
  • Stacey learns about Zoe & gains more power.
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  • The bond with Hannah solidified something in me. The power wasn't just about fighting monsters; it was about connection, about weaving these girls into my very being. With Chloe as my steadfast leg and Hannah as my devastating fist, I felt asymmetrical, powerful but unbalanced. I needed my other leg. I needed Zoe.

    Zoe, our Purple Ranger, was our quiet mystery. She moved with a fluid, almost hypnotic grace that set her apart from the squad's sharp, American-style cheerleading. I'd always suspected there was more to it.

    I found her after practice, stretching alone in the fading gymnasium light. Her movements were different—low, sweeping, grounded, her body flowing like water. It wasn't cheerleading. It was Capoeira.

    "You never told me you were a dancer," I said, leaning against the mats.

    She didn't startle, just completed a slow, beautiful ginga, the foundational sway of the art. "It's not dancing. It's a fight disguised as a dance. My avó taught me." She smiled, a rare, unguarded expression. "It's about deception, rhythm. Making your opponent think you're playing when you're actually attacking."

    A thrill went through me. Deception. Rhythm. It was perfect. "Show me," I said, my voice soft but firm. It wasn't a request.

    Her eyes met mine, and she saw the command there. For the next hour, she did. She guided me through the basic steps, her hands correcting my posture with a gentle but sure touch. My body pressed against hers as she showed me a sweep, her back against my front, her scent—sandalwood and sweat—filling my senses. It was an intimacy more subtle than lunch with Hannah, more deliberate than casual friendship with Chloe. It was a sharing of a secret self.

    "You're a natural leader, Stacey," she whispered as we moved together, her breath warm on my neck. "You have the rhythm for it."

    "And you," I whispered back, my lips close to her ear, "are going to be my rhythm."

    The monster that challenged us that weekend was a perfect test. A lanky, disjointed creature made of screeching feedback and distorted sound waves, its Planet Fitness minions screaming about "the noise of progress!" It attacked with disorienting sonic blasts that threw off our balance and timing.

    We struggled. Our attacks were clumsy, out of sync. But when we finally landed a combined blast from Hannah's arm and Chloe's leg, it began to grow into a skyscraper-tall tower …
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