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embarrassing. Whatever shall we do?”
    Midknight grabbed two nightsticks from holsters on his legs. “Might as well get it over with,” he said with a grin. He ran across the wing of the glider and leaped onto the roof of the train. The other heroes and sidekicks all followed close behind.
    “Allegra and Jack, find out what’s in the last car,”Midknight ordered. “Secure that cargo and don’t let Speedrazor get out of here with it! Everybody else,” he added with a slight shrug, “take out some bad guys already.”
    Skerren didn’t need to be told twice. Jack could tell he was itching for action, as always. He’d already matched himself up against Backstab. The beautiful but deadly ninja drew herself up into a fighting stance, cutting quite the imposing figure as Skerren approached. Backstab wore a dark crimson leather suit and mask. Her sharp, clawlike fingers glowed bright white and crackled with psychic electricity. Skerren spun his swords with dizzying brilliance and settled into his own ready position.
    “Impressive, boy,” Backstab said. “But all that swordplay is just that. Play.” She lunged at Skerren with her claws, and he crossed his swords in front of his body, blocking her attack. Her white-hot claws stopped inches away from his face. “They don’t let you kill in that school of yours, do they?” Backstab asked with a sinister smile. “Your blades are nothing without the will to truly use them.”
    Skerren pushed the villainess back and went on the offensive, thrusting his swords at her. “I don’t have to kill you,” he said, swinging away. “I just have to distract you.”
    Backstab dodged each of Skerren’s blows and then connected with one of her own, knocking Skerren to the floor. “Distract me?” She laughed. “From what?”
    From his knees Skerren swung one sword out across his body, moving Backstab back. He brought his other sword down to her left, forcing her to the right. She dodged the blade easily before slamming right into a large cactus that was growing out of the canyon ledge. She caught it right in the face at one hundred fifty miles per hour.
    Skerren laughed. “From that.”
    Half a train car away, Fugazi bent the moonlight through his body to create five more images of himself to guard the injured Backstab. Jack blinked, and Skerren was surrounded, mostly by mirages. With no way of knowing which Fugazi was real, Skerren fought them all, swinging his swords through illusions instead of pressing his advantage against the evil ShadowClan ninja.
    Meanwhile, Ricochet and Blue headed after Pain, who was working his way back to the last car on the train. Jack and Allegra followed after them, trying to beat the bad guys to the last car and the train’s mysterious cargo. Jack went slowly as they moved across the roof of each car. Hewas still using his powers to control both halves of the
Knightwing
, which took a lot of concentration, especially with the train going so fast. Jack wanted to get a closer look at the engine and figure out why he couldn’t do anything to slow the train down, but he had enough trouble trying to fly Midknight’s ship and pay attention to the superfight at the same time. As a result, he nearly got cut in half when Speedrazor ran up the side of one of the train cars and rushed by him with his claws out. Jack fell back and grabbed the top rung of a ladder that ran down the side of the train car he was on. He held on tight as Speedrazor ran by him again. That time Jack would have been a goner if Allegra hadn’t gotten in front of him and formed a shield.
    “Don’t worry, Jack, he’s not getting through me,” Allegra said.
    Jack breathed a sigh of relief. He didn’t even see Speedrazor coming, but he knew he was safe as long as Allegra was there with him. Her shape-shifting Valorian body had saved his life before, and she was a lot better at being indestructible these days.
    “Stay out of this, little girl,” Speedrazor warned Allegra.“Me