Episode 1 A New Villain Rises
On the top floor of Hench C.O., Jack Hench sat his desk. He was a man with a mission, and right now that mission involved waiting.
Right on cue, a brown-haired man in a red and black jumpsuit blasted open the doors. The doors flew apart, hitting the wall next to Jack.
"You'll pay for what you did to me. And all the others like me!" the man yelled, his hands glowing bright orange. "I'll blow up this whole building if I have to!"
"I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Eric," said Jack calmly.
"Well, who's going to stop me?"
That was when Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable dropped down through the ceiling. "We're going to stop you, Eric," the superheroine said.
Kim high-kicked Eric. He blocked her kick and burned her leg. If it wasn't for her power-suit, Kim would have been poisoned by the radiation from Eric's hand.
Ron ran up to the desk. "Mr. Hench, you've got to get out of here!"
"I made a call to GJ. Take this, Mr. Stoppable," Hench handed Ron a gun.
"You want me to shoot him with this?" Ron demanded in surprise, turning to see Eric blast Kim before she went flying into a wall.
Eric's whole body started glowing bright orange, alive with nuclear fire. "This ends now!" Eric yelled. As he did so, his body glowed brighter.
"Shoot him, Mr. Stoppable!" Hench started to panic.
"Hey, Eric?" Ron aimed the gun and fired.
A dart hit his chest and Eric fell to the floor, his body no longer glowing. Ron helped his partner Kim get to her feet. "Are you hurt, Kim?"
"No, I'm fine Ron. Thanks to the power-suit. Is Eric dead?" Kim asked.
"Nah, he's just out cold." As an anti-climax to the show, GJ troopers burst in the office with their rifles pointed at Eric. "Well, better late than never…"
Will Du and another GJ agent handcuffed the prisoner, after they lifted him up by his arms off the floor. But then something unexpected happened…
Eric opened his eyes, still groggy and disoriented and unable to focus. "You won't get away with this, Jack," he whispered.
"Take him away," said Jack dismissively.
Will and the GJ agent handed Eric over the GJ troopers. Ron watched them take Eric away.
At the last moment, Eric turned his head to look at Stoppable. "Ron, you're one of us - don't let them get away with this! You must stop Hench C.O.!"
"That's enough from you, pal. Come on, let's go," one of the GJ troopers said.
Ron was secretly conflicted - he wanted to help Eric out, but he knew he'd be killed along with him if he did. { Oh yeah, I know what Hench C.O. has been doing to people with powers. They tag us, hunt us down and even use a virus to kill us. Too bad Kim has no idea what Hench C.O. really does, } Ron thought to himself sadly.
"Thanks to you, Miss Possible, my life and my company has been saved," Jack Hench said magnanimously.
"It's no big, Mr. Hench. Come on, Ron, it's time to go," Kim said over her shoulder as she walked out of the office.
"I'm coming, KP." Ron handed Mr. Hench back the tranquilizer gun without a word and left.
The GJ troopers put Eric into the armored truck and closed the metal doors. The guards in the armored truck locked chains to Eric's arms and legs and around his neck securely.
As Ron and Kim got to the front doors, the flock of reporters came up to them. As usual the reporters never paid Ron any attention.
{Not like I care or anything. In fact, these days I prefer it that way,} Ron thought as he watched the armored truck drive away. He sighed after seeing the armored vehicle proceed down the street. {Sorry, Eric.}
Kim talked with the reporters and got her picture taken. Always the hero, never the sidekick of course.
Ron looked at his watch, which had the words SYLAR on the clock face. {Oh, shit, I'm going to be late for work! } Without saying anything to anyone, Ron got on his motorbike and took off. Kim didn't even notice that he'd left.
{ I do what I do best, helping people and saving the world, } she thought to herself as Kim smiled at the cameras. They lapped it up, naturally. But after the reporters left, she looked around for Ron and finally noticed that he wasn't there anymore. Feeling troubled by this, Kim walked to her car.
Far away, Ron parked the motorbike in front of 'Clock Works'. His new job paid a lot better than the last one at Smarty Mart, if he did say so himself. Cursing at the time, Ron got off the motorbike and went inside.
A black-haired man wearing glasses looked up from his work, repairing an old German pocket watch. "Out saving the world, Ron?"
"Yeah, I guess you could say that. Sorry I'm late - has it been busy around here, Gabriel?" Ron asked the dark-haired man with glasses.
"No, not really," Gabriel Gray replied. "Well, you know what to do."
Nodding, Ron pulled up a chair and started fixing a broken clock. { Hmm, this looks kinda complicated… }
The door opened, and Dr. Chandra Suresh walked in. He went to the main table and said, "I'm here to pick up my watch?"
Gabriel gave Dr. Suresh his watch with barely a glance upwards. "Good as new."
"Thank you, Mr. Gray." Dr. Suresh left after paying the man.
"Who was that?" Ron asked out of curiosity.
"Dr. Suresh? He's a scientist, the author of this book called 'Activating Evolution'," Gabriel replied.
"Really? That's cool. Maybe next time when I go to the bookstore, I'll pick up the book," Ron said vaguely, not wanting his employer to get the wrong idea about him.
After work, Ron went home. He opened the front door and went into the living room. The young man then turned on the TV, sat on the couch and watched a movie. The perfect image of…normality.
What he didn't know was that in a warehouse four months ago, a powerful villain named Logan Moore had met a rather sticky end.
Logan had taken people's powers to add to his own power. Which was the power to regenerate. He had been around for 800 years, and had gone by many other names over the centuries. But the problem was Logan couldn't control his powers anymore.
"I came this close to becoming a god!" Logan had cried out as his body began to glow green. "NOOOOO!"
Logan had then exploded, as the warehouse burst into green flames. Hench C.O. had found what was left of his body after the inferno had died down.
The man named Wesker had sighed at the sceen. "Someone got a little too power hungry. Send the body parts to the lab."
"Are you sure about this, Wesker?" the blonde woman named Elle had asked with a worried look.
"She's right, you know," Noah Bennet had added in his two cents. "This can't be good, the body could be infected with God knows what..."
"Let Hench C.O. worry about that," Wesker had said with an evil grin, and that was that.
Anyway, back in the present, Ron finished the movie and went upstairs to bed. He let out a yawn, got dressed for bed and turned off the light.
Sleep came quickly, but then something unexpected happened.
The fact was, Ron Stoppable had once had an evil alter ego, the creature with his face named Zorpox. And Ron had somehow trapped Zorpox in the World of Dreams.
"I will get out, Ron! BOOYAHAHAHA!" Zorpox said, looking like Freddy Kruger.
To Be Continued…
