Megavolt groaned, every-thing seemed fuzzy to him, the world was completely black, and for some reason he felt sore all over… he had no idea where he was, what had happened, only that he had difficultly finding out even his current position. "urhh." Megavolt groaned.
"HEY GUYS!" a voice sounded some-where above him, but even that sounded muffled at current time. "Look! He's waking up!" the voice exclaimed.
"What, all-ready?" another voice sounded. "It should have taken much longer for all of that ice even to melt! How is he?"
Annoyed Megavolt turned around, away from the voices.
"Well, he is definitely moving." The first sounded.
"Guys, let me see." A third one came and Megavolt felt himself being turned around. "Wow." The third voice sounded.
"What, what?" the first voice asked.
"He isn't even that cold, he should be shaking." The third voice told.
Slowly Megavolt opened his eyes and saw the person closest to him, the one who had commented that he should have been colder was a green blur, behind him and pretty close stood a more multi coloured blur, and even further away, keeping a blue one. "Hmm." Megavolt mumbled grabbing his head. "Where?" he asked.
"An ambulance." The multi colored blur spoke. "You were frozen into a huge block of ice, and I mean massive, it was like two meters thick and tall."
"Ice?" Megavolt asked. "Ice.." he repeated as the blurs came into focus and suddenly he realized, it was Bushroot standing so close to him, Quackerjack bouncing up and down with a worry on his face, and Liquodator standing in the back, looking genuinely worried. "How did you guys get me out of that?" he asked them.
"Urh.. we didn't." The Liquidator admitted. "Suddenly, the ice just started breaking, and you fell out." He admitted. "And I don't know how, I couldn't even go in there, the place was like a deep freezer."
Megavolt blinked, then looked down at himself. "I'm not even cold." He admitted flexing his hand in front of him.
"How's that even possible?" Bushroot asked.
"Oh of cause!" Megavolt snapped his finger so a spark escaped it all by itself. "Electricity, pure energy, it runs straight through my body, constantly." He explained. "I am charged with this energy and it held me warm, plus warmed up the ice from the inside so it broke apart." He stated. "Don't you see?" he asked the others.
"Makes sense." Bushroot admitted.
"Phew, how lucky." Quackerjack sighed as he dropped down. "All though.." warily he looked up at Megavolt. "How do you feel?" he asked.
"Now that I'm awake, I'm great." Megavolt told as he swung his legs off the bed, stretching his arms. "A little bit sore, and my head feels a little high-wired, but other than that."
The other three memebers were suddenly very quiet.
"Guys?" Megavolt asked. "What's.. what's wrong?" he asked.
"Urh.. Megs." Quackerjack spoke very quietly. "Do you remember how you got into the ice?" he asked.
"Urh." Megavolt squinted his eyes. "Lets see.. I was.. tracking. Sylvia." His eyes widened. "No, the ice-queen." He corrected himself.
"Megs don't you mean Is-." Quackerjack asked but was cut off.
"The ice-queen." Megavolt snapped as he cut Quackerjack off. "The villain who terrorized the city, hurt innocents, stole from Hartnell and wants to destroy the entire city, in one big swoop, not caring for the innocents that she takes with her."
"Megavolt, don't you think you are being a bit." Quackerjack asked.
"No, I think I am being perfectly fair." Megavolt snapped as he stood up with crossed arms. "She intended to leave me there, and bury the rest of the city under ice. So well, at least she was honest, she has no feelings. And no matter the case, we have to stop her." He stated.
The Liquidator nodded. "So where do we find this ice-queen?" he asked.
Megavolt frowned as he rubbed his chin. "She got all what she needs now, all she lacks to do, is striking. But when.. and where?" he asked. Then his eyes fell on the newspaper laying on the table beside him, and then picked it up, reading the front-page.
"Humantarian of the year, receives price and honorable today." Megavolt read out loud. "David Hartnell, true humanitarian, of the year, holds reception.. Friday. GUYS!" Megavolt looked up at them. "What day is it today?" he asked.
"Urh, Friday." Bushroot responded.
Megavolt threw the news-paper over his shoulder. "Then there's no time to waste, she's going to kill David Hartnell, and then move on to the rest of the city." He stated jumping for the door in the still moving ambulance, opening up.
"Why would she go there?" Liquidator asked. "If she intends to just freeze the entire city on the same time any-way?" he asked.
Megavolt turned around looking at the three. "Because she wants to make sure that this one really died for good." He told. "She wont leave any chances. So are you people coming or what?" he asked. "We are busy, the time is off the essence!" he stated and then jumped out of the van.
The three remaining heroes looked at each other. "Well." The liquidator shrugged. "You heard him, the city is in danger."
"COME ON PEOPLE!" Quackerjack exclaimed jumping out of the van himself. Closely followed by the other two.
"Thank you, thank you." Hartnell spoke as he stood in his richly decorated launch, on the top of one of his big buildings, with view of all of Saint canard through the big glass walls.
In front of him, the room was filled with people, honorable guests, TV-people and journalists, even police protection. And Among them, Taurus Bulba whom sighed deeply.
"This sounds like pure propaganda sir." The younger officer beside him whispered.
"I know." Bulba muttered. "But, it brings the city hope, so just hold out." He stated. "All though, please let it be over soon." He asked as he rubbed his eyes.
Hartnell didn't seem to notice any-ones discontent and as he continued with his sleeshy speech. "I honestly hadn't seen this coming." He spoke in a very fake laughter as he held up a glass of champagne. "For me, it's all about the people." He told lowering the glass. "No one should ever suffer, man woman and child, we ought to take care of all of them." He told. "Stop cheating stop lying." He smiled broadly at the tv-broadcaster in the room. ."I intend to set an example, for what is good, to care for my fellow humans, I don't wish to gain, I just wish to be." He smile raising his glass. "Only to give, so all can be satisfied and happy, never hurt. That is my goal." He stated in a broad smile. "To fairness for all!" he almost laughed, and was just about to drink, all though in that moment, the window right behind the cat shatterede and Hartnell was cast forward and landed on the floor as several splinters of glass rained over him.
"DAVID HARTNELL!" a deep voice sounded.
Scared the buisness man, the grey cat turned around and looked wide-eyed at the window, where there was a big monster, as tall as the building itself.
"What.. what is this?" Hartnell asked. "WHAT IS THAT?" he yelled.
"SO YOU DON'T RECOGNISE AN OLD FRIEND, YOUR OLD PROTÉGÉ, YOUR PRIVATE GENIUS, BRINGING YOU SO MANY RICHES?" the big voice of the monster asked, so the voice sounded all over the building, and all the guests screamed as they covered their ears for the massive voice, and then fell to the ground, scared of the shaking building. "WELL, I SUPPOSE IT WOULD BE HARD TO RECOGNISE ANY-ONE BEHIND ALL THIS ICE, BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE, SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE." The voice boomed, and then the mouth opened wide, almost seemed to bend over backwards, until it suddenly revealed a smaller figure standing inside, a young woman, a white mouse wearing a long white dress, then the monster tipped forward so the woman could easily step from her position and walk over in the building. "Recognise me now?" the woman asked.
"No! No it's impossible!" Hartnell exclaimed crawling backwards. "You're dead!" he exclaimed.
"OBVOIUSLY NOT DEAD ENOUGH!" The woman shouted and moved her arm so suddenly the ice picked up Hartnell and threw him back-wards. "But I am not going to make the same mistake you did, when trying to kill some-one. MAKE SURE THAT PERSON IS DEAD!" she stated and raised her arms so ice came up from the floor where Hartnell was and threw him away again.
"GUARDS DO SOME-THING!" Hartnell yelled. "THIS WOMAN IS MAD! I'VE NEVER SEEN HER BEFORE!"
"YOU THERE!" Bulba yelled as he drew a gun. "FREEZE WHERE YOU ARE!" he demanded of the woman as he pointed a gun straight at her.
Without even looking without even wavering, the ice-queen simply lifted an arm towards them, and immedatly ice grew up around the police officers, covering them, and she lowered her arm again, just looked at Hartnell whom laid helplessly in front of her feet's.
Hartnell was helpess on the ground, his suit messy, his always perfect hair out of place, even his sleek permanent smile now completely washed off.
Then the Ice-queen drew forward a hand and suddenly ice starting to appear around him, it lifted him from the ground and froze him in just one position, the ice-queens face didn't change, just looked at him as the ice started to cover him, all of him.
"Ple-please!" Hartnell stammered as the ice grew and grew. "What ever you want Isa, I give it to you! I beg!"
"Beg?" Isa asked. "How I longed for you to beg, feeling how I felt as I begged you, but being left with the same outcome." She told. "Begging, the last resort good people have a time turning down a begging man, a man who hasn't anything else left. But I have no compassion, you were the one to take it from me, so my answer should be rather obvious." She told still not shifting. "Look at me, let me see your hard despair. Revenge, it is though, ever so sweet." She told folding her hands for the final blow, for the final suffocation that would for sure, kill the man.
As suddenly lighting thundered right into her back and kept on going making Isa scream as she fell to the ground and had to let go. "Then try justice." Megavolt stated grimly as he stood in the door with spread legs and arms ready to firing. "It's ever so bitter." He told bitterly.
For a moment the ice-queen laid on the ground, then she raised herself up form the ground and stood up looking at Megavolt, without showing any emotion, She merely took a few breaths, with each of them cold icy fog escaping her mouth, then straightened up and slowly her emotionless blue eyes meet Megavolts hard black ones. "How?" she simply asked without any emotion in her voice.
"You can't deep freeze me for that long." Megavolt told. "Pure energy is always causing through my body, in a constant flow, energy is warmth, my natural inner body heat melted the ice and kept me warm." He told raising his hands.
"You stroke me down." The ice Queen commented without any emotions in her voice.
"Yes." Megavolt acknowledged.
"Are you going to do it again?" Isa asked.
"Are you going to lay down and willingly come to jail?" Megavolt asked.
"No." The ice-queen told.
"Then yes." Megavolt told and then without warning raised his hands and send a blast as Isa.
Without much of an afford The ice queen raised her hand and thus a shield of ice. "I don't see why you are fighting me Megavolt." The ice queen told. "I am going to end this! All of this misery for all of us, today."
"But you don't care who will be getting in the way!" Megavolt shouted sending lighting in her direction which repelled on the shield. "Children, people you don't care for any of them any-more! Not even the ones he that helped you!" he shouted and with each admission he send new lighting at the Ice-queen.
"MEGAVOLT!" finally the three other heroes came to his aid.
Liquidator held back, looking at the icy terrains. "Uf." He managed to say.
Only for the Ice-queen to make a slight circle with her hand, and suddenly he was frozen completely to ice.
Bushroot frightened looked at him.
"He'll be fine!" Megavolt stated over his shoulder. "He just need to un-freeze."
"You don't get it do you?" The Ice-queen asked as a platform of ice started to rise under her. "I am stronger than all of you combined, you don't even have a chance!" she stated and sended both Quackerjack backwards, so they stumbled into the people, then she raised a hand making a ice-cage around them, and around Megavolt. "You can't even hurt me!"
"Not true." Megavolt stated. "There's one thing that can hurt you!" he stated.
"And what's that?" The Ice-queen asked.
"ME!" Megavolt shouted and with one blast he broke the entire cage. "I run on energy!" he yelled. "And guess what energy is, warmth!" he stated. As his own electrical charge stated to fill up the room, even make several things start to melt. "And what happens when ice and warmth mix?" he asked. "THE ICE MELT!" he yelled and send all the electricity right at The Ice-Queen.
Immediately the Ice-queen raised her shield, but the electricity smashed right through it, splintered it to pieces and then hit the Ice-Queen right on, sending the woman flying across the room. "NOOO!" The white mouse yelled as she tumbled across the floor, then raised her arms, which seemed to be dripping with water, as if she herself was melting, and suddenly her carefully constructed emotionless façade cracked as she grimaced. "NO!" she shouted in a voice filled with rage. "YOUR RUININING EVERY-THING!" she shouted and then send an ice-beam straight at Megavolt whom jumped aside. "HE MUST PAY! I MUST DESTROY HIM!" she shouted sending beam after beam after Megavolt, but he avoided every-single one of them, now sending a smaller electric shock at the Ice-queen whom hit her straight on, making her scream again.
"Oh come on! Now we have emotions all of a sudden." Megavolt asked as he rolled his eyes.
"YOU DON'T KNOW!" The Ice-queen thundered as she spread out her arms and a storm of ice suddenly filled the room. "HE USED ME!"
"Know what that feels like." Megavolt snorted.
"HE TOOK EVERY-THING!" Isa yelled as tears suddenly started to fall down her cheeks. "My work! My hopes, my believes, my dreams, my life! Every-thing I ever did while being there, he used to hurt people!" she yelled. "AND HE'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO DO THAT AGAIN! And the city he created, IT'LL GO DOWN WITH HIM!" she stated.
"Isabel Queen, don't you understand?" Megavolt asked as he stood up. "It's over he stated raising his arms, you are never going to walk out of this building free, you are never going to push the button on the machine you build, you lost." He stated.
"What makes you think I don't have people pushing the button for me?" The Ice-queen asked.
"No, you would do it yourself." Megavolt stated in a shake of his head. "You wouldn't leave it to some-body else, but as I said, you aren't even going to go away from this building, except in chains. It's over!" he stated
The Ice-queens eyes faltered as she seemed to realize, she was indeed loosing, her powers seemed to grow weaker, and then her face retrieved in a terrifying grimace as she shouted. "NOOOO!" and all the windows blew up in ice, the shock-wave send all the people back, all except Megavolt whom raised an electrical shield around him. The Ice-queen breathed heavily in and out, her otherwise so perfect face seeming to have been caught in a permanent demented grimace. "So maybe I lost the city!" she hissed. "BUT HE WONT MAKE IT OUT OF HERE ALIVE!" she stated and then without warning, as if she was some kind of an animal threw herself after Hartnell as he laid on the scream, and screamed.
"NO YOU WONT!" Megavolt shouted and threw himself after Isa and pushed her aside in a big crap.
"WHY?" The Ice-queen yelled as she hopelessly struggled in Megavolts grip.
"Because it's not the way." Megavolt hissed, and then send electricity from himself, and directly into the Ice-queen caught in his arms so the both lithe up the room.
"ARRGGHHH!" The ice-queen screamed, and suddenly the whole place seemed to melt, it dripped from the walls, from the ice-cages, from the ice Hartnell was caught in, and the Ice-queen herself, was dripping water, until at last Megavolt let go of her.
So completely beaten, the ice-queen fell the floor. "No." she cried in big sobs, though clearly unable to move. "No no no." she cried in big sobs.
Megavolt turned away from her, and then raised his arms at all the people captured in ice, then easily melted all of it using his own powers, even liquidator get to reform and wide-eyed looked around, then looked at the sobbing ice-queen on the floor.
"Thank you Megavolt. You are a true" Hartnell sighed relieved as he stood up from the floor, and started to dust off his suit, as if nothing had happened. "Good to know there's good people out there to look out for us."
Megavolt stepped up to Hartnell and then sneered grimly at him. "Bite me." He said shortly then turned to Taurus Bulba. "This man in one single night destroyed a life, but even before that, he helped destroy a hundred more, young lives and here's the evidence." He told shortly stuffing the tape with Isa's tragedy imprinted in it unto Bulbas hand. "In some ways, this guy is worse than Negaduck." Megavolt told stiffly before angrily turning around, he shortly glanced at the shaking Isa, for a mili second his eyes turning soft but then twice as hard as before before he walked past Hartnell and stopped by his ear. "If I were you I would thank god to be locked up some-where with lots of guards, if she ever escapes there'll be no stopping her." He told grimly. "Hell! A prison wall would hardly be enough to stop her wont you say?" he asked glancing at the now beyond terrified Hartnell. "Good night." Megavolt muttered. "Humanitarian!"
The three other friendly four team members stood back, looking wide-eyed at Megavolt and then the sobbing Isa Queen. "Come on guys." Megavolt addressed them. "We are leaving." He stated.
And Megavolt almost succeeded in getting all the way out with his team mates behind him as Bulba caught him, softly Bulba asked. "You want to say some last words to miss Queen?" he asked. "We are going to secure her some-where very safe and secluded, probably even secret."
Coldly Megavolt looked at the shaking white mouse on the floor. "What difference would it make?" he asked. "She doesn't have any emotions to respond with" he told And turned around walking away.
And any-one who was still watching Isa saw her crumble even more together her eyes shutting tight together and over her chin rolled a tear, all though it was frozen to ice before it even reached the floor, none of her many tears had hit the ground, all of them every single one, had turned to ice.
They could see him up there, the three members of the friendly four who wasn't Megavolt, he was sitting very height up above, some-how he had found up on top of the green house roof, and just sat there, starring out on the landscape seemingly without seeing a thing and in his hand, he turned around a single white Rose.
"Why does he keep sulking like that!?" Quackerjack angered. "She was a bad egg from the start! It's a relieve to get rid of her!"
"Quackerjack." Liquidator frowned sourly. "Be quiet, and don't go bother him! A broken heart takes time to mend."
"Broken hearts." Quackerjack snorted as he rolled his eyes. "He's acting like the world is coming to and end."
"Have you ever been in love?" The liquidator asked.
"No, what about it?" Quackerjack asked.
"How then could you possible know what it feels like?" Liquidator asked back.
With crossed arms Quackerjack rolled his eyes looking rather sour. "She was still a bad person! It is for the better! Why can't he see that! And he's usually the most rational out of all of us!"
"Quackerjack, love doesn't need any reasoning, love is madness." Liquidator told. "It becomes your world, overwhelms you completely, changes your priorities for seemingly no reasons other than just insisting upon being, there is no reason, that what's makes it so terrible."
Puzzled Quackerjack looked at the cannine, his features softening slightly. "That bad huh?" he asked.
Liquidator nodded. "Every bit that bad, every single time it happens. And there's no controlling it." he told sadly. "But it will get better, give him a little time, and it will be better." he told.
Quackerjack nodded his eyes lifting up to Megavolt again, and then it happened, the white rose which had been laying so loosely in Megavolts hand, was slowly let go off, and then it started falling, three pairs of eyes followed the rose's journey all the way down to the ground where it landed in the mud, loosing a good number of petals by the impact, looking up again at their friend he did some-thing none of them could ever have imagined him doing, which was some-thing he himself never would do.. Before now, he pulled out his little black book, the diary, the one thing ensuring he would never loose his firm grounding with reality, and he tore out several pages, straight out of the book, crumbled them together and threw them away.
Especially Quackerjack looked pained as his eyes followed the torned pages, and then with lowered head, without saying a word, Quackerjack turned around and slowly walked outside and away from the sad scene.
"What a mess." Liquidator sighed sitting down in front of the only actual mature and rational person who had as usual busied himself with his own small plant projects.
"It's over now." Bushroot reminded. "I feel sorry for her though."
"How can you not?" Liqudator asked.
"To think that one person could be hurting that much." Bushroot muttered fingering with a leaf. "So much she convinced herself that she doesn't even have emotions.. without emotions you can't be hurt. But it was a lie."
"She made her decision." Liquidator told a little snappy before glancing up at where Megavolt was sitting, or not any-more, he was gone now. "Then it's better he does think she didn't have emotions, as you said then you can't be hurt. If he things that, then he will have a way easier time getting over it."
Bushroot sighed deeply looked very tired as Liquidator. "I think he knows though." He commented in a heavy voice just in time for the light food steps of Megavolt as he had swung down from the tree.
"What was I even doing up there." Megavolt mumbled as he walked past them scratching his head in a frown.
Liquidator blinked a little stunned. "It's fine you know, we understand." He told Megavolt.
Megavolt stopped right in his steps. "Understand what?" he asked turning around looking puzzled at Liquidator.
"We all been there." Bushroot shook his head. "So really it's okay."
Megavolt blinked now looking really confused. "Sorry I don't follow." He told.
"What we are just saying, what-ever you feel about Isa we are behind you." Liquidator told.
"Who?" Megavolt asked looking stunned at them.
Bushroot blinked. "Isa queen." He hesitated. "The ice queen."
"Ice queen?" Megavolt asked. "That's the dragon thingy we just fought, what about it?" he asked sincerely. "I don't know any Isa Queen, doesn't ring a bell." He shrugged lightly. "I don't know why but I feel a little tired." He yawned deeply. "Talk to you tomorrow, kay?" Was Megavolts last greeting as he kept walking away waving slightly over his shoulder.
Stunned Bushroot and Liquidator looked at each other.
"Okay now I am just really worried." Bushroot stated.
"A person who just decides she doesn't feel and the other deciding just not to remember." Liquidator groaned. "This could really end up coming back to bite some-one later."
"But how can you just decide to stop feeling or remembering?" Bushroot asked confused.
"You can't! that's the problem!" Liquidator hissed. "Kids." He then muttered. "Well, maybe with a bit of luck it really is over now."
"Only." Bushroot hesitated. "Since when du we ever have any kind little luck in anything?" he asked. "And.. do you realize, apparently Hartnell had some sort of connection to a place experimenting with mutation and.. children. I erh.. weren't the only clues we had about your son that…"
Liquidators face darkened. "I realize that." He admitted. "Unfortunately Hartnells connection is now closed, but it's not the end of it, I swear to it."