Chapter 4
Toxic Behavior
"Did you know there were two?" asked Ron, still holding onto Athena.
"Nope, that's new," said Athena, still holding onto Ron.
"Okay, new plan," said Ron, "We sneak out the back."
"But what about Spike?" asked Val, as Ron grabbed her hand.
"Have you two seen Jurassic Park?" asked Ron, they both shook their head, "You don't be involved in a raptor fight."
Half of the bikers had bailed, sliding out the doors, as Spike backed even more up into the three of them as the bigger one let out a loud yell and lunged at Spike. Ron dove, dragging the girl's with him. As he did so a chain flew by from Misty as she attempted to stall the new larger Raptor, she was on her cellphone now.
"Yeah, Eddie! I'm not joking, there are Dinosaurs about to fight at the bar and your cousin's kids are here with some kidnapping creeper," said Misty, she rolled her eyes and looked at Ron, "Yeah he's blonde."
"Hi Ed!," yelled Ron as he made his way towards the exit, but was blocked by the Raptors rolling in front of him.
"Yeah well, go find him and let him know!" snapped Misty into the phone, her chain wrapped around the larger Raptor, "Stoppable, right. Get the girl's out of here."
"I'm trying," said Ron, but the only other exit was being trampled through, Ron looked towards a window, "Athena, I need you too go out the window."
"That's easy," said Athena as she climbed out the window, Ron letting go of Val to help her.
"Ron..." muttered Val, Ron looked to see the raptors tussling towards them.
"Val, run," said Ron, he looked up, "Athena I need to you to jump."
"My shoes stuck," said Athena, she looked back in, "Jump!"
Ron grabbed on to the window and pulled himself up to avoid the rolling reptiles, Val had moved away and the large raptor landed next to her. Spike let out a loud roar and Val backed away from the scene, Ron was still hanging from the window, Val out of reach. Ron had a strange moment of clarity as he looked at the situation. It was clear that Spike was concerned about Val being near the other raptor, and it was in that moment that Ron had an 'Oh Shit' thought as the large raptor looked towards Val.
"Val!" yelled Athena as the large raptor snatched her up in his teeth but the back of her clothes.
It was instant, Val yelled and tried to get away from the larger raptor. Spike was letting out a panicked shrill noise, as the larger raptor... left. The larger raptor just... ran out of the bar, followed by Spike. Ron felt as if the world had slowed down. He had literally witnessed a Velociraptor fight, and one of the children he was watching, had just been kidnapped by one.
"Why?" asked Ron looking upwards.
"Okay, so here's the new plan..." Ron was cut off as Athena jumped in the front seat and buckled in, "Athena..."
"This is the least dangerous thing I've done all night," said Athena, she was on the phone, "Now hurry so we can catch my sister."
"Okay, we need to follow..." Ron was cut off.
"The blue dot, that's Val," said Athena, and she began ranting, her eyes narrowed.
For the next forty seven illegal maneuvers, Ron listened to Athena vent, some incoherent, some violent. He could see the blinking light as he drove, trying to figure out the situation. Why had the other raptor left and grabbed Val, it seemed to have just been after Spike at first. He was reminded of all the dinosaur movies he'd watched and came to the conclusion, the only reason it had take Val was for Spike to follow. But who needed another Velociraptor?
"Looks like Riley's on her way back with Drakken's Raptor," said Joss, or rather Toxiss as she'd come to call herself, watching a blinking dot on a monitor, "Our plan for our genetically enhanced raptor army seems to be falling into place."
"Oh, now it's "Our" plan," said Paulson, Dr. Pulse as he went by now, "You said it was stupid."
The two were in moderate sized mountain lair, large electrical cylinders gave off light over a cave waterway where Dr. Pulse was working on something holding a brilliant silver liquid. His dark red Drakken rip-off outfit, not replaced with a more modern spin on it; shorter and cleaner. His goggles more complex an updated from his old ones. Joss wore a black and blue version of the super suite Kim had once wore, save for being sleeveless. She rolled her eyes.
"I don't know. I was leery about you the whole "Lets have an army of Velociraptors!" at first, but with this little thing and your serum," she held up a brilliant silver and green charm, "At least we have control over it. Though, how are we going to make more of them again?"
"Well, there's is male and ours if female," she watched as he seemed to get flustered as he began gesturing incoherently.
"I'm sorry, you want to talk through this?" asked Toxiss with a smirk, he glared, she picked up the vials.
"Hey! You know the rules, no touching without proper equipment," he indicated to a dark lab-coat on a coat rack.
"Seriously?" she asked as she grabbed the thing, she attempted to pull it on, "What size is this?"
"You said extra small, I got extra small," said Pulse with a groan as he worked on other things, "I wish Drakken's writing was a little less sporadic."
"Yeah about that, when are you going to start making your own stuff?" she asked, she groaned and yanked off the coat, "This is way too small. Oh my god, Max this is XXS."
"I'm sorry! It's like I only have one good eye," snapped Pulse, pulling off his goggle and showing his one red eye, "Sorry if I miss read a label and stop leaving this laying around."
"So demanding," smirked Toxiss as she grabbed the stone and put it in the coats pocket and hung it back up, shrill yells came from the entrance, "Look whose back."
The large raptor sprinted in, carrying a small form in its mouth. Spike came racing after as a cage dropped down on him, he let out a loud yell as Riley, the other raptor sprinted towards a large platform that looked like it's bed and dropped whatever was in it's mouth.
"Good job, Riley, good girl... oh my god!" yelled Toxiss, she glared at Pulse, "Your freaking velociraptor, has a kid in it's mouth!"
"What?!" yelled Pulse.
"Ow," said Val, pulling at her now ripped coat, her hair a wild mess and goggles wrapped around her neck, "Aw, my coat."
"I thought you said their kid's wouldn't be home!" yelled Toxiss at Pulse, "You said they were in Scotland, that the house would be empty, then why is their kid here?"
"Oh no," said Pulse, a look of horror in his eyes as he sprinted to the farthest reaches of the area, "Get her out of her, Joss!"
"Max?" asked Val looking at the now cowering man, "Max!"
"Joss, get her out of here, get her out. Get her out!" Toxiss looked confused at the little girl and then to Pulse.
"Are you serious, it's a little girl," said Toxiss, she looked sweetly at her, "Hi there. Listen, sorry about all this, but don't worry we're not going to hurt you."
"Okay," said Val a deadpan look on her face, she raised a brow, "You kind of look like Kim Possible."
"... alright she has to go," snapped Toxiss with a glare as she stood up, "We'll just drop her off somewhere and call them to get her."
"Yeah... yeah," said Pulse, he jumped on the desk as Val ran over towards the area, "What is she doing?"
"Max, Daddy said your a villain now," said Val, she looked at the cylinders, "Are those energy servers? Oh, what's this... oh wow."
"Joss, get her... get her," said Pulse, as he stood on the table, Toxiss gave him a dark look, "Contain her, you don't know what she's capable of."
"Annoyance," said Toxiss, but she snatched Val by the back of her coat.
Ron groaned as Athena stepped on his head to climb through the small opening into the mountain cave wall. Ron rolled his eyes as the scene played out in front of him. He wasn't exactly sure what had happened, but Toxiss was covered in water, and had locked Val up with Spike, Dr. Pulse was currently trying to fix a bunch of stuff on the floor.
"Is that Max?" asked Athena in a whisper.
"You know him?" asked Ron, though it dawned on him Dr. Pulse had once been Drakken's Assistant.
"He used to watch us before the Daycare was added," said Athena, she gave him a concerned look, "What's with all the red."
"It's a theme, apparently," sighed Ron as they began climbing down the cave walls.
"Sooner we get her out of here..." Pulse began, but Toxiss got a dark grin, "Now what."
"Better idea. Drakken has a cloning machine, right?" asked Toxiss.
"We could buy one..." said Pulse, wide eyed, obviously fearful of her idea.
"Henchco discontinued it, I tried once," sighed Toxiss, she grinned, "We have Dr. Drakken's daughter. I don't think he'll hesitate to give it to us. Instead of worrying about an organic way of creating our army, we can fast track it and make an army of Riley's."
"Ohm, well. I'd rather just, get her out of here," said Pulse, nervously, "You don't know what she's capable of. At least her sister's not here."
"Really Joss, holding children hostage, that's low," said Ron as he slid down the rock wall a bit to land on the ground.
"Ron Stoppable," said Pulse he looked around, as if waiting, "And..."
"Hi Max," said Athena as she stumbled next to Ron, fixing the jacket she was still wearing.
"Ahhh!" Pulse dove behind his desk and Toxiss scoffed as she smirked at Ron.
"No, Kim today?" asked Toxiss, she looked around and then raised a brow, "Wait, are you babysitting."
"Yeah, I am," said Ron, confidently.
"He's doing a terrible job," said Val from her cage with Spike.
"Thanks," said Ron with a sigh, "Listen, how about this. I take Val and Spike off your hands, and we pretend this never happened."
"Hmm," Toxiss looked up from her phone, "I was working on my ransom note, what did you say Ron?"
"Really, Joss," glared Ron.
"I don't really have anything to extort from Kim, so, you could probably just leave," said Toxiss, "How about I take over babysitting for a little while."
"Well..." Val began, but smirked as Ron rolled his eyes.
Today was just not going well at all for Ron as he dodged a kick from Toxiss. Pulse was currently dealing with Athena, who had bullied him to let out Val and Spike, mainly by just advancing on him. Ron had to wonder what had occurd a the Day Care. He kicked out, and Toxiss flipped back and missed her landing, hitting her leg as she did so.
"Pulse, how about some help," snapped Toxiss, she hissed as she got up.
"Kind of busy," said Pulse, who was currently being cornered by an angry Spike.
"For the love of... switch," snapped Toxiss, who with a whistle, Riley had woken up and had lunged at Spike.
"I thought you said you had this," said Pulse as he rolled out of the way.
"Yeah well, he knows my moves," snapped Toxiss.
"I mean you did rip off Kim," said Ron, though he jumped back as Pulse flexed his arms, and new plasma blades shot out, "You know, those are bigger than before."
"Bigger is better," smirked Pulse as he swung at Ron, who dodged.
"That's not fair, he has weapons," said Athena, as she looked around the desk.
"Alright you brats, back in the cage... Ahhk!" Toxiss screamed as Riley was thrown into her.
"Sorry, did you say something?" asked Athena, she looked to see Val looking at all the papers on the desk, "Val?"
"So, they want Spike so they can make an army of mind controlled raptors," said Val, looking at the cylinder of silver liquid.
"I don't think Spike likes theirs," said Athena as Spike smacked Riley with his tail back into the water.
"That's not... an.. option," groaned Toxiss as she grabbed the collars of Athena and Val, "Call off your dumb Velociraptor, now."
"Ow!" said Athena, "Hey, lady, let go."
"It's Toxiss," snapped Toxiss, dragging the two to the cage, she yelled as Athena tripped her.
"Okay, I'm liking these two less and less," said Athena, fixing her collar, "They kidnapped Spike and ruined your jacket, we should ruin some of their stuff."
"No!" said Val, as Athena grabbed a device off the table.
"But..." Athena looked disappointed.
"Daddy says you never ruin someone else's experiment," said Val, Athena looked at her, "Well, unless it interferes with yours."
"Okay, fine," said Athena as she leaned against the table as Val continued reading the stuff, watching Ron, "Still not a fair fight."
"Getting tired, Stoppable," snapped Pulse as his blades landed near Ron's legs.
"Nope," said Ron, he looked at the girl's and saw Toxiss behind them, her first raised, "Girl's!"
"What... Ahh!" yelled Athena as Toxiss punched the table, a small burning hole forming.
"Cage! Now! Or you wont have to worry about your precious raptor anymore," she grabbed the green charm and Riley pulled herself out of the water and pinned Spike, "Move it!"
"Told you!" said Pulse, indicating to the girl's as he jumped back from Ron's kick.
"Athena, I change my mind," said Val, her eyes narrowed, Athena smirked.
"Awesome," Athena's smirk turned into a devious grin.
"Change... what?" asked Toxiss, but before she could react, Spike had taken the lead in the fight Val had began throwing stuff off the table, "Stop it! You little monsters!"
"Sorry, can't hear you," said Val as she began kicking stuff, as Athena picked up a discarded metal rod.
"Ron! Catch!" yelled Athena as she threw the metal stick towards Ron.
Ron stared at it for a second and smirked, watching the girl's vandalize all of Pulse and Toxiss inventions as raptors wrestled. He rolled and grabbed the rod, swinging it around just as Pulse's blades came down on it. He shoved back, remembering his training again. He blocked another attack and spun the stick, nearly dropping it. He made a mental note not to get overconfident, that always backfired on him. He and Pulse began a more equal fighting stance.
"He's pretty good," said Val, Athena grinned.
"Go Ron!" yelled Athena as she tossed a bright green stone in-between her hands.
"Give that back!" yelled Toxiss as Athena held the stone in her hand, she tossed it, "You brat!"
"Val, now!" said Athena and Val hit a button, a cage falling down on Toxiss.
"Ron, you almost done," said Val as she casually spilled the silver liquid on the copies of Drakken's work she looked at the discarded lab-coat, "Cool."
"Yeah," said Ron as with a swift swipe, Pulse fell into the ravine, "Let's go girls!"
"Spike!" whistled Val, and the raptor swiped the other with it's tail and followed them out the exit.
"There monsters," said Toxiss angrily as Pulse pulled himself out of the ravine.
"I told you," snarled Pulse as he panted and looked for the device to open the cage, "It's broke."
"Yeah well, bigger problems. I can't find the stone and the other one was in that coat," snapped Toxiss, she glared as Riley climbed out of the water and let out a shrill sound, "Unless you want to be Dino-snack, call the henchmen!"
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" asked Athena excitedly, "Mommy says bow staff fighting is hard."
"Yeah it is. I did a semester in Japan, long story," said Ron, he groaned as a tail almost hit him as he drove.
The passenger seat was reclined to they could accommodate Spike, which was very hard with his long tail. It kept wagging, as his head reclined on Val's lap in the backseat where she was petting him. Ron looked at the clock and groaned, it was nearly ten, passed their bedtime and probably another thirty minute drive minimum before he got back to the house. If there was anymore delays, there was a chance Drakken and Shego might make it back before them. His mind was wreeling with how to explain everything to their parents, when something caught his eye, a bright green color.
"Val. Athena. What do you have?" asked Ron, glancing as the girl's were looking at glowing green stones.
"I don't know, they really wanted these," said Athena, she shrugged, "I like the color."
"Mine was in my new coat," said Val proudly as she smoothed the collar up to her less ill fitting over-sized long jacket.
"Well, don't play with them until we know what they do," said Ron, both girl's shrugged and put them away.
"Ohm, Ron," said Athena, looking out the window, "I think we have a problem."
"What?" asked Ron, but he was looking at the nearly empty gas gauge and upcoming traffic.
"I think we're being followed," said Athena, and Ron glanced in the mirror to see bright red vehicles speeding towards them, just as a grappling hook hit the car, "Definitely being followed!"
"Of coarse," groaned Ron, this night was never going to end.
To Be Continued