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"So what's up Six?" Rex spoke into his comlink.

"Looks like there was an explosion in Colorado." Six's monotone voice answered.

"Just an explosion?" Rex snorted. "Why are we going to check out an explosion?"

"It was at an N-juice lab." Six added.

"Oh." The magnitude hit Rex. "How bad is it?"

"Several people were exposed and have gone EVO." Six stated. "The area has been quarantined."

"Is it safe to go in?" Rex questioned.

"It might not be for me but you can." Six said. "And Bobo."

"Well Bobo?" Rex asked.

"Uh, not this time, chief." Bobo's voice came into his comlink. "Don't want to get my sensitive tootsies bruised."

"Right." Rex sighed.

They arrived fairly quickly. Rex rescinded his Boogie Pack and landed on a billboard overlooking what use to be a building.

"Wow! That must have been some explosion! There's nothing here but a crater." Rex marveled. "Where's the EVOs?" He was knocked off his perch and into the adjacent building. "Nevermind. I found one." He groaned as he sat up from the debris.

A pterodactyl looking EVO screeched. Rex formed his BFS and Sky Slyder. "Here birdy, birdy, I got something for you."

Rex came close to the EVO and swung his sword. The EVO dodged it and kicked Rex in his chest.

"Ooph!" He flew several feet back but regained control. Gritting his teeth, he formed his Bad Axes. "Try dodging this!" Rex yelled swinging his axes. The EVO managed to avoid both attempts. It then swooped down and grabbed Rex by his shoulders. The EVO rammed Rex against the side of a building. Rex made his Block Party to soften the impact. The Block Party shattered as Rex crashed through the wall, rolling to a stop inside the building.

"Man, that's a tough bird. I guess I need to tenderize it!" He formed his Funchucks. The EVO stood at the mouth of the hole Rex had made. The EVO was smacked back by one of the Funchucks. "Take that!" Rex formed his Boogie Pack and went after it. "Hey, birdy! Want a Hertz donut?" He asked chasing the fleeing EVO. He swung his Funchucks knocking it into a building.

"Hurts don't it?" He grinned at his own joke.

"Hey, you stole that from me." Bobo grumbled into his ear.

"Rex." Six's voice said with a touch of impatience. "Stop playing with it and subdue it."

"What? I'm not playing. This is playing." Rex snatched a flag from a pole hanging off the side of a building. "Torro, torro." He taunted the bird EVO. "Hey torro!"

The bird EVO squawked angrily and charged him. Rex lifted the fabric and the EVO flew into nothing. It stopped in midair and came back at Rex who baited it. The EVO charged and this time when Rex lifted the cape the EVO crashed into a power unit. Electricity coursed through it. The EVO fell to the ground. Rex landed and placed his hand on the EVO. Blue lines spread over the EVOs body and a half dressed man lay on the floor.

"Easy peasy." Rex said smugly until he was blasted back by another EVO. It was a warthog EVO shooting energy blasts from its snout.

"Oh come on!" Rex groaned. "How many are there?"

"Rex, we said several people were exposed." Six informed him.

"Yeah but several like 2 or several like 50?" Rex queried.

"Several." Six repeated.

"Gee, you're a fountain of helpful information aren't you?" Rex asked sarcastically. "Got any more?"

"Watch your back." Six warned him as Rex lurched out of the way. A fireball whizzed past him hitting the hog EVO. A large lizard EVO with fire dripping from its mouth snarled at him.

"Man, its getting crowded down here." Rex complained. He made his Sky Slyder to get away when an energy blast knocked him down.

He crashed to the floor.

"Rex, are you all right?" Six almost sounded concerned.

"Oh fine. I enjoy smashing my body against concrete." Rex answered derisively.

"Well, you better move unless you also enjoy being trampled too." Bobo added.

"You know, I can use some help here." Rex complained.

"I haven't gotten the ok from the science team monitoring the area yet." Six explained.

"My sensitive tootsies." Bobo reminded him.

"Tell them to hurry up." Rex had his Block Party up fending off blasts.

"It doesn't work that way, Rex." Six said.

"Auurgh!" Rex yelled as he was thrown up by the tusks of the pig EVO. He landed rather ungracefully on the floor behind the EVO.

Rex formed his Smack Hands. "You're going down!" Rex growled as he charged the EVO. The hog EVO ready its tusks. The two clashed. Rex pushed with all his might. He could feel his feet slipping backwards.

Then he noticed that the lizard was starting to charge them. Thinking fast he clamped down on the porcine EVO and lifted it up. He then threw it against the lizard. They struggled to get up. Rex quickly put his hands on both EVOS. They shrunk back to people. Groaning, they held their heads.

"Who's awesome? I'm awesome!" Rex smirked. From the corner of his eye he saw something dart down the alleyway. "Hey, get back here." Rex was sure it was another EVO. He chased the shadow down the side streets until he came to a dead end. Rex skidded to a stop. There was nothing there even though he was sure it had gone this way. Scanning the area he saw something move. He made his Smack Hands just as something smashed into him. But the Smack Hands immediately fell apart.

"What the…?" Rex looked dumbfounded at his hands. He looked up to see something that looked similar to a sand sentinel but darker in color.

"Wait a minute." Rex gaped. "I haven't seen you since..." The sentinel's arm jutted out and punched him.

"Well, two can play at that game." Rex growled. Rex pulled his giant metal hand back. But before it could even reach the sentinel, his build fell apart. "Huh?" Rex managed to get out before being smacked back. Another sand sentinel had appeared.

Rex flew back and slid along the floor. He struggled to get up. He tried to make another build but couldn't. "What's going on? Zag-RS is gone… isn't she?" The two sentinels attacked Rex who was having a hard time fending them off without his builds. One sent him flying backwards into some garbage cans.

"Rex! Rex!" Six's voice came into his comlink. "What's going on? Holiday says your biometrics just dropped."

"I'm having a little crisis here." Rex panted.

"I'll be right there." Six said in a tight voice.

"Hurry." Rex said as one of the sentinels towered over him. Just as the sentinel was about to grab him, Rex saw something shiny flash through the middle of it. It paused a second before it began to split in half. Before Rex's eyes it fell apart. Behind it, Rex could see someone holding a sword. The shape just flipped backwards over the other sand sentinel. A flash and the other sentinel was sliced in half.

"Six?" Rex asked uncertainly. It was too dark to make out any features. The person didn't stay, however. "Hey! Wait!" Rex scrambled to his feet. The mysterious person disappeared around the corner. Rex chased after it only to run head on into Six. They both fell to the ground. "Six! Did you see a person with a sword run past?"

"I only saw a flash of red run me down." Six growled.

"Oh, sorry. But Six, there was this… ninja person, and some sand sentinels, my builds were falling apart around them…" Rex babbled.

"Hold it. You aren't making any sense." Six held up a hand. "Let's secure the area first and you can tell me later."

"Six, it was weird. I mean that person can really fight." Rex kept talking. "I mean they were using moves I've only seen you do."

"There's two more EVOs down this way." Six said as if Rex never spoke.

"Six, seriously, that person could have been you… or trained by you." Rex persisted.

Six turned around and looked at him. "I haven't trained anyone but you, Rex. Now let's go." He pointed down the street.

Rex heaved a deep sigh and went where Six directed.

0o0

"That was close. He almost saw you." Kenji said to Jade. The three of them stood a top of the only building not damaged in the quarantined zone.

"Yeah, well you try saving him without physically showing up." Jade snapped.

"So we know Zag-RS is here." Violeta interrupted them. "But she wouldn't just send sand sentinels, right?"

"She said she sent her emissary… whatever that means." Kenji closed his eyes remembering.

"Well, sand sentinels can only exist with Zag-RS near-by." Violeta noted. "Or her emissary."

"And they were less sandy are more dirt-y." Jade interjected. "Zaggy can only use whatever's on hand to make her sentinels. Not too much sand around here."

"We need a way to figure out who her emissary is." Kenji scowled into the distance.

"Maybe Jasmine can rig something up." Jade suggested.

"Good idea. Let's get back to Providence and see what they came up with." Kenji nodded.

"Guys," Violeta said in a small voice. "I don't feel very well."

Kenji and Jade looked with dismay as Violeta started to fade in and out.

"Violeta!" Kenji went to his cousin.

"I… I think something is going to happen to dad." She said weakly.

"I'm on it." Jade stepped onto the ledge.

"What are you doin?" Kenji snapped. "You can't let them see you."

"I'm not an idiot." She snapped back. She tied a handkerchief over the lower half of her face. "Jade is out. Peace." She dropped backwards.

"Jade!" Kenji ran to the edge. He should have know she would be okay as she had landed on a fire escape and was now effortlessly leaping down to the ground. She was trained by their father. Kenji turned his attention back to Violeta. "Don't worry, squirt. I'm here."

0o0

"So how do we get in?" Angel asked looking at the formidable walls.

"Well we can't waltz in." Jasmine stated. "We need a map of their security system which I happen to have." She pulled out her mini-computer and accessed her files.

"Hey, you have the layout of Providence too." Rafael said as he looked over her shoulder.

"I've been doing a lot of filing for mom." Jasmine said by way of explanation.

Jasmine studied the screen for a few minutes. "Okay, here. There's a series of secret tunnels called the King's Road that Uncle White had built. This one here…" Jasmine pointed to the area near the loading docks. "If we can by pass the security code without anyone knowing we can access those tunnels."

"Okay, now what?" Angel asked.

Startled Jasmine and Rafael looked up. A panel from the side of the door was missing. Wires stuck out wildly. Angel had rewired it and the door was now wide open.

"How?" Jasmine gasped.

Angel shrugged. "Mom showed me."

Jasmine shook herself out of her stupor. "Come on, then."

Jasmine peeked in to make sure there was no one around. Luckily, it was noon and most people were at lunch.

"Hey! How come the door's open?" Jasmine immediately pulled her head back. She motioned for the boys to follow her. They crawled next to the ramp. Two grunts came out to investigate. As the men looked at the open panel, the kids snuck in. Quietly, they made it to the opening of the secret passage.

Jasmine searched for the control pad. Finding it, she opened it. Seeing a slot for a card, she pulled a generic card with a magnetic strip from her belt. Passing it through a slit on her computer, she then slid it through the slot. Praying that it worked, she stood back and waited. It took a few seconds but the door slid open.

The three of them went in. The door slid close behind them. Lights flooded the area.

"This way." Jasmine checked the map. She led them down a series of halls, finally arriving at a large metal door. Jasmine passed the card through the slot. As the door opened, they were confronted by a large blaster.

"You kids better have a good reason for invading my base." White Knight wearing his pressurized suit growled menacingly.

"Uncle White!" Rafael cried happily before jumping on him for a hug.

"What?" White looked at the kid hanging on him as if he was a disease.

"Uncle White. It's a long story. But you have to keep an open mind because it's a little crazy." Jasmine said trying to calm the agitated man down.

White looking disdainfully at the kid hugging him answered, "Can you get him off of me first?"

"Raffy, come here." Jasmine yanked her cousin back.

Angel had pattered off looking at White's office. "What's this?" He asked touching a paperweight on White's desk.

White spun around. "Don't touch that!"

Angel frightened by White's command accidently pushed the object onto the floor shattering it. "Ooopsy."

White gritted his teeth.

"Angel!" Jasmine grabbed him by his hand and pulled him next to her. "What did we tell you about keeping your hands to yourself?" She hissed.

"You never said that." Angel looked at her innocently.

"Well, I'm saying it now. Don't move from this spot!" She told him.

"Mom says positively framed commands are better for my psyche than negatively framed ones." Angel told her.

"How's this? You stay in this spot or I will kill you." She snapped at him.

Angel thought about it. "You should say please."

"Oh for crying out loud!" She face palmed.

"I got him." Rafael volunteered. He took Angel's hand. "Stand next to me, mijo."

"Fine. Now that you've wrangled the cats, you better start talking." White interrupted blaster still aimed at them.

Jasmine sighed. "It started with our summer vacation."

"I better sit down for this." White groaned.

If you're curious what summer vacation Jasmine is talking about it's all in the story Generator Rex Generation Next: How I Spent my Summer Vacation.

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