Chapter 6
The DCFDTL were ready to take on Sector V and Mr. Antonio, even though their machine now had 5 legs instead of 6, which caused it to have to lean to the right and arrange the right legs just right to maintain balance, which wasn't easy because of the machine's weight.
While Sector V and Mr. Antonio were still right in front of them with a dying Nick Antonio lying on the floor, they knew they had to get the Recommissioning Device from the DCFDTL in order to save Nick, who somehow was gradually facing death after the DCFDTL used one of the Decommissioning Modules on the machine they were riding.
Nigel suddenly said, "We have an advantage, we simply need to take out the 2 remaining legs on the side of the machine, it should cause the machine to tip over, and the Delightfuls to be unable to move."
"Si, I can already see how that can work," Mr. Antonio said in agreement, he then turned to Kuki and asked, "You're Kuki Sanban, Sector V's medic, right? You know chest compressions?"
"Yep! You got it!" Kuki answered cheerfully.
"Since Decommissioning only affects a person's brain and Nick appears comatose, getting some blood flowing in Nick's head should help slow down whatever's killing him." Mr. Antonio told Kuki.
"Good thinking," Nigel agreed, "Numbuh 3, you tend to Nick, Numbuhs 4 and 2, cover her and help her move Nick if the Delightfuls start to come her direction. Numbuh 5, you're with me."
"As am I," Mr. Antonio added, as he picked up Nick's s.c.o.p.e and quickly searched his jacket to find only 2 potatoes were left for the weapon. Mr. Antonio quickly load one of the potatoes into the s.c.o.p.e as Kuki started doing chest compressions on Nick. Mr. Antonio thought about how it was a stupid mistake to have dropped his Ice Cream Blaster before he charged at Father, but figured he was too busy containing his anger toward the thought of Father coming after his son to have noticed.
The DCFDTL fired their machine's Decommissioning Modules at the 3 attacking Operatives, but Nigel, Abby, and Mr. Antonio all rolled forward out of the way of the attack. Mr. Antonio quickly fired Nick's s.c.o.p.e at one of the 2 right legs, knocking it off. The DCFDTL's machine ended up wobbling insanely from the loss of weight balance. The DCFDTL were panicking with no way to move the machine without causing it to fall over. Abby then fired her f.r.a.p.p.e at the last right leg, freezing it. Nigel then shot the frozen leg with his s.c.a.m.p.p, shattering it and causing the DCFDTL's machine to, you guessed it, fall over.
"Wow," Abby commented, "That was quick."
"Nick's skin in getting paler!" Kuki cried, "Hurry! He's running out of time!"
Nigel, Abby, and Mr. Antonio all gasped in shock, Nigel quickly jumped on to the DCFDTL's machine and fired his s.c.a.m.p.p at the cockpit's glass dome, but it had no effect.
Mr. Antonio quickly loaded the last potato into Nick's s.c.o.p.e and shouted to Nigel, "Nigel! Switch with me!"
They both tossed each other their weapons, Nigel jabbed the s.c.o.p.e's gun barrel onto the glass dome and fired it, causing the glass dome to shatter, and the DCFDTL to fall out of the machine along with the Recommissioning Device. Nigel jumped down and grabbed the Device.
"Hey! You give that back!" The DCFDTL shouted as they tried to approach Nigel.
"Don't, you, move!" Mr. Antonio coldly, yet firmly commanded as he pointed Nigel's s.c.a.m.p.p at the Delightfuls, who found themselves frozen as they saw Mr. Antonio look at them with eyes that they could tell were filled with passionate rage, despite the fact that Mr. Antonio wasn't at all shouting or showing many signs of anger aside from the look in his eyes and the cold tone he was speaking. The DCFDTL saw this as the exact opposite of the sort of rage Father usually unleashes, yet they found it just as nerve-racking.
Kuki, Hoagie, and Wally quickly move out of the way as Nigel used the Recommissioning Device on Nick, the device fired a beam of light that caused Nick to float briefly before landing back on the floor, this caught Mr. Antonio's attention and caused him to turn away from the Delightfuls to come to his son, who tried to run off only to turn and see Abby pointing her f.r.a.p.p.e at them.
"And just where do you think you're going?" Abby asked.
Mr. Antonio went over to Nick, who was waking up, if appearing slightly groggy.
"Nick, are you alright? Do you remember me?" Mr. Antonio asked, showing more and more signs that he's clearly worried, as if he was about to emotionally burst.
"Babbo?" Nick asked, "Wha- what just happened? The Delightfuls fired that plunger head at me and the next thing I knew I'm lying here." Nick turned his head to see the DCFDTL and their brought-down machine, "Did we win already?"
"Oh, Nick!" Mr. Antonio started shedding tears of joy as he picked up his son and started hugging him tightly as if Nick was a teddy bear, at this point Mr. Antonio was showing no emotion restraint, "Praise Zero you're alright! I wouldn't know what to do with myself if we failed!"
Suddenly, a slight booming sound came from the doorway that Sector V and Nick came in from, this distracted Abby along with the rest of Sector V as The DCFDTL saw this as a chance to run off and escape, which they did.
Sector V saw Poldi bash through the wreckage that was blocking most of the doorway as he entered the doorway along with Ling, Cassie, and several other KET Operatives. Mr. Antonio noticed Poldi enter the room as well and regained his calm, cold demeanor as he stood back up, still carrying Nick in his arms.
"I'd have thought you of all people would be eager to come by to lend me a hand against Benedict." Mr. Antonio said to Poldi.
"You'll have to forgive my tardiness," the German KET Teen said to him, "When we arrived I saw Sector V faced with a group of Teen Ninjas lead by Cree Lincoln herself, given how your son here enlisted their help to rescue you and how they had previous experience with Benedict and his Delightfuls in the past, I figured they'd be more than adequate help in saving your nearly burnt hide along with your team. Besides, we've already managed to apprehend Cree and all the Teen Ninjas with her for our efforts."
A while earlier…
Poldi was still with Ling, Cassie, and several other KET Operatives in the room where they helped Sector V get away from the teen Ninjas, who were now fighting with the KET. Poldi was standing in front of Cree, both the 2 teen commanders were readying themselves for their fight with each other.
Cree was first to attack, as she fired her wrist laser at Poldi, who swiftly blocked the laser blasts, using his electric guitar as a shield and charged at her. He then charged at Cree, ready to swing his guitar once he got close enough. Cree tried to fire another laser only for Poldi to jump over the attack and start falling toward her. He swung his guitar at Cree only for her to quickly jump away from the attack.
"Impressive," Poldi complimented, "It's been years since I last fought a foe that can actually pull his or her weight in battle."
Cree said nothing and pulled out her Teen Ninja staff, she span it around briefly before swinging it at Poldi, who parries the attack with his guitar. The 2 teen fighters at lightning speed exchanged attacks and blocks for well around 6 seconds before they ended up unleashing their strongest blows simultaneously, resulting in a weapon lock between the 2 fighters. Poldi used this to swing his guitar to the side, taking Cree's staff with it and leaving Cree's head open, Poldi then had his left hand let go of the guitar and used it to unleash a powerful backhand smack and Cree's face, knocking her to the floor and causing her to drop her staff.
Cree briefly cradled the spot where she got hit and felt something on her lower lip, she wiped it off to find it was blood. Cree growled at Poldi, who tossed aside his guitar and went into an unarmed fighting stance, silently offering to settle the rest of the fight through hand-to-hand combat. But Cree stood up and, thinking she has him off-guard, quickly activated her wrist laser and attempted to fire it at him, but he was close enough and he was able to swiftly grab her wrist and twist her arm to her back, putting her in an arm lock. He then grabbed the wrist laser with his free hand and uses it to tear off the wrist laser from Cree's gauntlet. Poldi then released Cree's arm and kicked her in the back to push her away, causing her to trip and fall to the floor, she quickly got up, turned to Poldi, and started charging at Poldi with only her bare hands, causing the 2 teens to engage each other unarmed, as Poldi wanted after he disarmed Cree.
At first, it seemed Cree had the upper hand, she unleashed a rapid volley of punches, fast enough that Poldi could only raise his arms in front of his face to shield it, and ended up moving backwards, giving ground. But then, Poldi quickly ducked under where Cree was punching and tackled her, holding her with his arms around her waist, running her across the room, and slamming her onto a wall. He then grabbed part of Cree's cuirass with one hand and repeatingly punched Cree in the head with his other hand for a few seconds, but Cree managed to kick him off of her, causing him to fall to the floor. He however quickly got up and merely went into a fighting stance, as if he was waiting for Cree to make her next move.
Cree couldn't believe who she was facing, obviously she didn't expect she'd fighting another teen, much less an ex-KND Operative like her, she was just as surprised that she found someone who's at least equal to her in fighting.
"Just who are you? Really?" Cree asked.
"If you must know, I am Poldi Adalbert, back in the KND, I formerly had the Operative Numbuh of 957," Poldi answered, pacing left and right while looking at and talking to Cree, "I was in the KND at age 4, before you or Chad were even born, it was there I learned about the glory and thrill of battle. During my career I have faced odds that would make your Teen Ninja friends here wet themselves in terror, even adults villains by the time I was finished with them, was the time they fell on their knees, begging for mercy. There were villains that thought of me as a demon, the Global Command back then considered me a psycho fit only for brutish operations, while those within the KET, however, see value in my resolve, in my methods, as I am second only to Commander .067 in leading the military might of the KET, behold!"
Poldi pointed Cree to the other KET Operatives fighting the Teen Ninjas, many of the KET Ops were showing to be extremely brutal and ruthless toward the Teen Ninjas, some of them were hitting Teen Ninjas that were already struck to the floor whenever they tried to move and some didn't hesitate to give Teen Ninjas hits below the belt or even biting at them. Only some Teen Ninjas who quickly surrendered as soon as they realized what kinds of foes they were up against and those that did were merely handcuffed with some KET Operatives escorting them away from the fight and to their KET transports. Cree found this insanely alarming.
"Don't look so surprised, Cree," Poldi told her, "I think you and I both know almost all these so-called Teen Ninjas are just whiny babies trapped in the bodies of teens, they think their age and tech makes them superior to the KND despite the fact they got almost nowhere campaigning against them. It was only because you and Chad joined them that any legitimate amount of progress was made in fighting the KND, and it's not because you had vital KND intel to give out, whatever the Decommissioning Squad or Global Command might say. It's because you and Chad are, like all KND Operatives, professionally trained soldiers; thoroughly disciplined, properly groomed physically, mentally, and psychologically in the aspects of war and combat, in short everything those 'Teen Ninjas' are not. The KET in ways used to be barely different; former KND Operatives who fancy themselves as a successful anti-decommissioning rebellion, but when I came to them they proved to be a bunch of cowards too cautious with the slightest matters to properly get anything done, but I dealt with the issue personally, I formed drills, created more effective tactics for fighting the Decommissioning Squad, I shaped these rebels into troops better disciplined and organized than even the KND, who I know are still even today are a far more respectable fighting force than these jokers of teammates you got now."
Cree scoffed, "you know what? Never mind, I don't care who you and your buddies think you are, you're going down and there's no way you're gonna beat me."
"Says the 'apprentice' of the cowardly creature who claims superiority yet hides behind a silhouette and flames, showing no true strength to back up his claim," Poldi said, "I bet you can rip those stupid black pajamas off him and find him to be nothing more than a mere man with little combat experience and almost no actual training, does that sound like a foe that can defeat the KND? Now that I think about it, I'm actually surprised you don't consider him beneath you."
"What! ?" Cree exclaimed, finding Poldi's remark offensively absurd, she furiously charged at him, she tried to punch him, but Poldi was able to take advantage of Cree's lack of a cool head and caught Cree's fist and quickly moved it aside, He then grabbed Cree by her cuirass and left arm, lifted her up over his head, and threw her across the room. Cree landed on the floor, but quickly stood back up. Cree then charged again at Poldi and tried to kick him, but Poldi caught her leg, grabbing it by the ankle. He then punched Cree's lower leg with tremendous force, which caused the bones in Cree's lower leg to break and Cree to cry out in tremendous pain. This caught the attention of both the remaining Teen Ninjas who were still fighting and the KET Operatives, both groups found what Poldi did very disturbing.
Cree fell to the floor and at this point was unable to get back up.
"What a beautiful scream!" Poldi cheered, "Those never get old! I must say, you're good, but unfortunately for you, my 14 years of fighting, training, and meditating have proven me to be the better warrior." Poldi then turned to Ling and Cassie, "You two! Bring Cree here to a KET transport, she is our prisoner now, so make sure she stays that way."
As Ling and Cassie came by, grabbed the injured Cree by her arms, and started to drag her off, Cree shouted to Poldi, "You're gonna regret this! When I escape, no amount of training or experience is gonna save you from what Father will be sending your way!"
"If he proves to me that he is far more than just fire, dirty tricks, and lots of shouting, I'd believe you," Poldi replied, "But he claims superiority when all he has are these powers of his, yet not once has he actually defeated the KND, making it clear his supremacy claims are but hollow, so I don't see that happening, not one bit."
Back to the current time,
Mr. Antonio turned his attention to Nick and asked, "Nick? You dragged Sector V into this?"
Nick said nothing, but turned his head away in slight guilt, his dad could tell his silence speaks volume.
"I see," Mr. Antonio said, "But we can talk about this later, right now we need to get out of here."
"Wait," Poldi said, seeing a silhouetted foot sticking out from under a large pile of wreckage, "Isn't that Father under all this junk? We should clear this pile and take him our prisoner! That would cripple all the Villain factions in a heartbeat, might even give Global Command a very good reason to toss Decommissioning aside."
"Numbuh .957," Mr. Antonio said, "We don't have the means to properly imprison Benedict, and neither do the KND, his powers make him too difficult to contain, and even if we could contain him, Benedict called for enemy reinforcements just minutes earlier before Sector V came to my aid, they are coming even as we speak, by the time this pile of junk is cleared enough to get him out, we'll all be up to our shoulders in Ice Cream Men, even you cannot take on such numbers."
"Fine then," Poldi scoffed, "But what about Sector V? they already know too much about the KET."
Mr. Antonio turned to Sector V and said, "They will be coming with us back to T.H.E.R.E, I want to hear about how they truly found out about us anyway."
All 5 members of Sector V gulped, they figured this was not gonna end well.
(Author's note: whew! finished, sorry if I took so long, that SOPA thing had me worried, so I had to delay my writing for afew days until I was sure it would be something to worry about, turns out, SOPA was tossed aside, so I went back to writing as soon as I found out. Also, I hope no one interprets Poldi defeating Cree as a Mary Sue thing, as I don't think an OC defeating a canon character count as being a Mary Sue as long as there's a legitimate reason that OC is able to win and as long as that OC has to put decent effort into his or her fighting. Anyway, hope you enjoyed it, please review if you want the next chapter.)