Chapter VI
"Oh great, it's T.K.O. again!" Rad exclaimed in a miffed tone. Rad was tired of having to deal with T.K.O. every single day, trying to escape from everyone, punching the other heroes, and always hanging out towards the Sestium stalagmites at the back of the bodega.
"What about T.K.O.?" Dendy asked him questioningly.
"He's escaped again!" Rad told her, clearly afraid of the safety of himself, the unconsious Enid, and K.O.'s best friend from school.
"No worries, Rad. I got this!" Dendy got out her super hi-tech computer backpack and opened it, where she pulled out a wire that at first seemed unconnected to anything, but when Dendy took it out further, Rad found out that it was. She then took out three helmets, one for her, one for Rad, and one for T.K.O.
"What is that thing?" Rad asked Dendy.
"It's a psychological transitional service unit, or PTSU. I can use it to get inside T.K.O.'s mind, save K.O. and we'll have at least one dilemma solved!"
Rad didn't understand a word Dendy had just said. It's weird how a 6-11 year old was smart enough to be an aerospace engineer/technician, while all Rad was good for was winning wrestling matches or mopping up floors.
Dendy sighed. "I used it so you three could get inside Mr. Gar's mind and conquer his fear in that arcade game" she explained to Rad.
"Ooooh, I called it a brain teleporter!" Rad suddenly realize.
Dendy found T.K.O. hanging around the Sestium rocks, likely to absorb its energy to become stronger.
"K.O.! Hello!" Dendy cried out to him, waving the cord to the PTSU all around her.
"Hi, Dend..." T.K.O. started, but he started to struggle. There was still a K.O. in there, fighting for every last bit of freedom from this evil monster.
Dendy took advantage of this. She ran over to him, grabbed a helmet off the ground, and snapped it on his head. T.K.O. instantly fell to the ground, but he was still talking.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? LET GO OF ME!" the muffled cry of T.K.O. could be heard underneath the helmet.
"Rad, put the helmet on!" Dendy shouted over to him, who put a thumbs up in agreement, and put the helmet on as Dendy did. She plugged the main helmet, the one that held T.K.O. captive, in using the very long cord she had and both of them collapsed on the floor like T.K.O. had done.
"We are gathered here today, in the year 201X, to honor the life and legacy of a beloved vegetable. Though his life was short while it lasted, some remarkable achievements that one with a long, boring life would be unable to consummate. A girlfriend, whom he would've, and have, spent his entire life with. Family members, who were there until the last beat of his heart. His friends, who cared about him even after his death.
"It's very sad to see him go this early, but we know one thing for sure...Colewort will always live long in our hearts, even when we are all dead as well."
Rad and Dendy soon found themselves in a vast, dark world. It was a place that they have never been before, and now, looking at it, they wish they'd never have.
K.O.'s mindscape is a lot darker than it seemed.
K.O. was locked in the cage, slamming his fists against the cold, metal bars and crying. T.K.O. was doing some warm-up karate to get ready for another possible battle against K.O. and the rest of the plaza.
"K.O.!" Dendy and Rad ran over to him, arms out wide, ready to help and comfort him...
"NOT SO FAST!" T.K.O. spotted the duo making their way over to the cage.
Rad used his levitation beam on T.K.O., but stepped to the side as the beam stretched for what seemed like a mile, until Rad felt something in the beam. He brought it closer and closer with him, faster and faster, and...
CRASH!
It was a grand piano.
"How...did...y..y..you...do t..that?" Rad, now beaten up very badly from the piano attack, mustered.
"Are you that dumb, Rad? This is MY brain, and I can do whatever I WANT in here!" T.K.O. chuckled evilly.
With this said, Rad tried to think of something to knock T.K.O. out and get back into his cage where he so rightfully deserves. But all he could think of was pain pain pain pain pain.
"You're too soft, Rad. Join me, and we can end this dispute once and for all! I'll even let go of your friend K.O. But if not, then I'll have to kill him, and you will have to keep on fighting me 'till the very end!" T.K.O. offered to Rad." Mr. Venomous will be very proud if I have a new acquaintance under my control!" he spoke under his breath so that Rad couldn't here him.
"RAD, DON'T DO IT!" Both K.O. and Dendy cried out.
Rad was silent for a while. He could unleash his evil alter-ego, something he's never done before (and wants to do), but that would mean hurting K.O. or Dendy. But if he doesn't do that, then K.O. dies. He'll be fighting T.K.O. in this already brooding mindscape for eternity.
I know what I have to do! Rad thought to himself. He got up weakly, still hurt from T.K.O.'s piano, walked up to him, who had his hand extended, waiting for Rad to shake it, and shook it.
"It's a deal!" T.K.O. said happily.
"NOOOOOOOO!" K.O. and Dendy cried out.
"Now!" T.K.O. stated excitingly, rubbing his hands together. "How 'bout you transform into your Turbo form and we can agree to a settlement?"
They're still my friends, Rad thought as he began to transform into his form.
They're still my friends. K.O. and Enid are still my friends.
Right to the very end.
He continued to repeat this while his body began to glow. His legs were as muscular as his normal arms, and his arms were now twice as large. His skin was a darker shade of green, and he became more goth than usual.
They're still my friends.They're still my friends. K.O. and Enid are still my friends.
Right to the very end.
They're still my friends.They're still my friends. K.O. and Enid are still my friends.
Right to the very end.
"What are you saying?" T.K.O. asked Rad as he finished changing into his evil alter ego.
"Nothing, master," the new Rad replied, and K.O. and Dendy gasped in horror at his new form.
But then Turbo Rad did something unusual. He winked at K.O. and mouthed the words "I got this!"
"Why did do that?" K.O. asked. "Isn't he evil and working for T.K.O.?"
"Precisely, K.O. But he repeated over and over as he was transmogrifying that he had several friends and that he will be their friend until the very end. He even put it in a poetic stature!"
Dendy has the power to make even simple things sound very complex. K.O. appreciated that.
" , your first order of business is to take these useless children," T.K.O. pointed to where Dendy and K.O. were, "and take them to Mr. Venomous. He'll tell you what to do with them."
"So it's possible to have you and K.O. in the same dimensional plane, master?" asked him.
"Yes, but I am a representation of his bottled-up anger and hurt feelings. So if he dies, I die, too." T.K.O. responded. "SO FOLLOW MY ORDERS, NOW!"
"Yes, master!" said, ready for action. He ambled over to where K.O. stood in the cage and Dendy was standing next to them. He picked them up using his huge biceps and continued walking in the same direction, until they found themselves out of T.K.O.'s mindscape and back to the real world.
Dendy was the only one still lying down on the ground when she took her helmet off. Rad, now , picked K.O. and Dendy up again, and this time, he got into a weird position, like a sprinter running a marathon, and took off high into the sky with a loud BOOSH! that made Enid wake up from her coma and Mr. Gar look out the window from the main lobby of the bodega.
"I wonder what Professor Venomous is going to do with us, Dendy?" K.O. asked her as they were flying, farther and farther away from the plaza, and even past Boxmore.
"I don't know, K.O. I don't know," she replied sadly.
And then, all of a sudden, she kissed him, on the lips.