Corona Bomb 2

Day One

The Deep End

Penn and Corona groaned, having woken prematurely, to the loud beeps and crunching noises of machinery. It was 5 in the morning. As it was, neither of the two expected the normally unreasonably loud neighbors to be up this early, so they certainly weren't expecting machinery this early either.

Penn groaned and got out of bed to look out the window, rubbing his eyes before taking a peek through the shades. There was a lot of construction equipment, along with a van that said "Pools N' Things".

Penn yawned, and headed back to bed. "Did the neighbors seriously have to set their pool construction for today at 5 in the morning?" he groaned.

"So much for sleeping in." Corona yawned, rubbing her eyes as well.

And then their ears got assaulted by someone who was very eager to ring the doorbell. Penn figured his aunt and uncle would get it-except, it seemed to last several minutes, which led him to the conclusion that they weren't. He groaned again and grabbed his shirt and pulled it over his head. He didn't care if the neighbors saw him in his pajama pants, he was too tired to look for his actual pants. He lazily headed downstairs, groaning as he went down each step.

He fiddled with the lock on the door, being so tired that he almost couldn't remember how to unlock the door, and then opened it.

His eccentric neighbor Audrey, with no clear volume control, was at the other side.

"Hey, Penn! Do you have any pool floaties? I need them for my pool. My pool that I'm getting today. Today's the day I'm getting my pool. Pool, pool, pool, pool, pool."

"No, Audrey, I don't have any pool floaties." Penn sighed. Could she say pool enough times? He was starting to get annoyed with the word.

"Oh…well okay, I'll be on my way then." Audrey cheerfully turned around and skipped away, chanting "pool" at least 30 more times.

Penn sighed, and shut the door, locking it behind him, and heading back upstairs. He collapsed onto the bed (with Corona still in it) and groaned louder than an elephant that stepped on a beehive.

Corona was slightly alarmed by her boyfriend flying onto her at full force, but was too tired to care.

Penn made an attempt to scoot up to her and snuggle. He fell back asleep. And dreamed of fucking swimming pools.

Hours later, he and Corona dragged themselves into the Odyssey, exhausted.

"Yikes! Did you two stay up all night watching scary movies again? Without me?" Boone asked, a slight offended tone in his voice on the last part.

"No. Not after last time." Penn yawned.

Corona stood in one spot too long, and fell to the floor, snoring loudly.

"My neighbor decided to build a swimming pool at 5 am. I TRIED to go back to sleep, but they seemed to keep going! It didn't even stop until we had to leave." Penn groaned.

Phyllis walked over to the teen heroes, and looked at Corona who was passed out on floor.

"What a shame Corona had to go like parents." Phyllis said in a deadpan tone, however she was completely serious about thinking Corona was dead.

"No, no Phyllis, she just passed out." Penn shook his head.

"Oh. In that case." Phyllis pulled a bucket of water out of nowhere and dumped it on Corona, who shot awake almost immediately.

Corona stood up and lazily walked over to the zap platform.

"Stay positive. Mission is in swimming pool world. Good luck."

Of course, at the mention of swimming pools, Penn and Corona groaned, as they got zapped in by Phyllis.

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Corona opened her eyes to see she was on the shallow end of the pool. "What on earth…Penn?"

"Yes?" he replied, from nowhere terribly obvious.

"Um…can you like…keep talking? So I can find you…"

"You already found me. Your feet are in me. I'm the pool." He replied

"Wait…what?" Corona stood up, and saw his face in the pool. "Holy crap, Penn!"

"Holy crap is right! I have no arms! Or legs! I can't move."

Corona hopped back the water, and waded over to where his face was, thank goodness it was still in the 4 foot area. She floated right above his face.

"Might I say the view is really good from where I am?" Penn smirked.

Corona splashed, since that was the closest she could get to playfully papping him in the shoulder, like she usually would at comments like that.

"I wonder where the others are…?" Corona continued floating on her back.

"I-I'm right here…Oh my god I can't control which direction I'm going in!" said Boone's voice, followed by his all-to familiar scream, as a bright pink pool floaty floated past Corona, spinning rapidly as he floated past.

Sashi swam over. "Hm. I must be an ordinary pool goer." She commented.

"Sash, can you not float over my face?" Penn asked

Sashi glared. "Maybe you should control your eyes." She snarked at him. Then she made the hologram appear on her specs. "Our mission is to keep the troublemakers from ruining the fun for everyone else. If all the pool-goers leave, the pool will be shut down. Forever."

"Hm. Seems a little…light for a mission? I mean, that can't be too difficul-" Penn spoke too soon.

"CANNONBALL!" said the very nasally voice that could only be Jane Mason, as the short, but still fairly heavy woman threw herself into the pool, causing a ginormous splash, that splashed at least 10-15 pool-goers, 5 of which left just because they hadn't actually planned on going in the pool.

"OUCH!" Penn reacted in pain. Apparently it hurt him in pool form to have people throwing themselves into him.

Jane laughed as she swam around, until she got back to the edge. She pulled herself up the edge and out of the pool.

Corona narrowed her eyes at her older sister. Jane was still laughing.

Rippen walked over. "Ah, Penn Zero. You won't beat us if you can't even move." He laughed.

"Um, Mr. My Older Sister's Boy Toy, I'm a hero too." Corona pointed out, crossing her arms.

Rippen laughed. "What can a 13 year old girl-"

"I'm 16" Corona gritted her teeth. She knew he was only saying she was 13 because of her height. Which was ridiculous, being that Jane wasn't any taller than her.

"Okay." Rippen rolled his eyes. "What can a 16 year old girl do to beat me, a grown man? Nothing."

Corona was clenching her fists. "Listen here, bucko, I don't like your condescending tone. I'm going to kick your butt, grown man or not."

"I'd like to see you try." Rippen crossed his arms and walked off, to start trouble.

Corona was really mad. Angry bees mad.

Corona followed after Rippen. She was going to correct anything he did.

"I have a bad feeling Corona is going to do something stupid." Sashi crossed her arms.

"Sash, have at least a little bit of faith in her!" Penn replied

"I don't know. She's looking…really spiteful." Sashi narrowed her eyes. "A little bit too much like her sister."

"Just trust her Sash."

"Fine. But don't say I didn't tell you so." Sashi waded over to the edge and took a seat.

Corona continued to follow Rippen around, like a shadow. And Jane noticed.

She grabbed Corona's arm. "Just what do you think you're doing? You're not defeating us today, sister." Jane growled a little at Corona. "Especially since you're precious little Zero Hero is a swimming pool" Jane laughed

"Ugh" Corona groaned at Jane. She shook Jane's hand off of her arm, and continued walking.

Rippen was about to push a person into the pool. Corona reacted by blowing her lifeguard whistle, startling the person, causing them to fall into the pool.

"Darn it!"

Rippen laughed. "You make this too easy!" He continued walking on.

Corona muttered curses to herself, and followed him. She had to figure out how to stop him. There was a way, she knew there was.

However, things were starting to look pointless. There were 3 people left. If Rippen scared them off, then the pool would have to close. Forever.

Corona's anxiety began to take over. She got in the pool.

"I-I don't know what to do, Penn…" she said, crossing her arms, in a nervous fashion, biting her lip as well.

Penn frowned, and slightly sighed, causing a bunch of bubbles in the pool.

"I really wish I could help. I wanna give Rippen a huge what-for, but I'm stuck here." He groaned.

"Stuck…Stuck! Wait, that's it!" Corona smirked. She ran off.

"I wonder what her-WHOOOA!-Idea is!" Boone floated past Sashi, still spinning rapidly.

Sashi grabbed Boone, to stop him from moving.

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it."

Corona had set up 3 chairs.

The villains walked over.

Corona smirked and crossed her arms.

"Girl, you are absolutely mad if you think you can beat us." Rippen laughed. "Getting these last 3 people to leave will be too easy."

"You're right. I give up. But you know, you three look really tired…maybe you should just take a 5 minute rest. I even set up chairs for you." She gestured at the chairs.

"Hm. How nice. I suppose I could rest for a few minutes. Restore my energy, to beat you do-gooders." Rippen sat down, and Jane and Larry did as well.

Corona laughed.

"What's so funny? You won't be laughing when I beat you and Penn Zero."

"Good luck with that."

"What?" Rippen tried to get up. It turned out he was glued to the chair. So were Jane and Larry.

Jane screamed.

Corona smirked. "Now to get the other pool-goers back…" she climbed up the life guard's tower with a megaphone. "ATTENTION EVERYONE IN THIS GENERAL VICINITY." She said "POOL PARTY, RIGHT NOW. FREE SNACKS. COME ON IN!"

And with that, many, many people ran in. Music started. Corona smirked and climbed down.

"YOU MAY HAVE BEATEN US TODAY, CORONA, BUT OOOOH, ME AND RIPPEN WILL GET YOU GOOD NEXT TIME!" Jane yelled

"Sure, Jane." Corona rolled her eyes. She walked back over to the pool, and hopped in, and waded over to Penn's face.

"You did it." Penn smirked.

"Yep."

"Hm. Good job." Sashi seemed fairly surprised.

Corona smirked. "I guess I just had to get unstuck! And then…get the villains stuck-You get it."