"Drex!" Captain Man pounded on the door, but it was sealed shut. He could hear Kid Danger screaming from the other side of the metal door, but he couldn't quite make out what he was saying. Honestly it didn't matter to the hero why the child was yelling, it was enough in itself just that he was in enough danger to be yelling in the first place that set Captain Man off. He didn't take well to failing to protect his sidekick, he considered the task to be his top priority at all times and lately he felt like he hadn't been doing a good enough job. "Let him go!" Captain Man growled, kicking at the door. "Let. Him. Go!" Captain Man yelled again, punctuating each word with a kick to the door. The heavy metal barely bent despite the force behind it. Captain Man paused for a moment, leaning his head against the cool surface of the door. How was he going to get Kid Danger out of there? The hero shook his head and looked up at the ceiling, an idea formulating in his mind as soon as he saw the air ducts. "I'm coming Kid." He promised under his breath before he jumped and caught the low hanging duct, shimmying his way through the tight space. He could hear his sidekick's screams getting louder and more frantic, the sound fueled the boiling rage Captain Man felt running through his veins.

"Any last words?" Captain Man heard Drex ask just as he kicked the grate of the air vent out. The hero's heart dropped when he saw the scene unfolding before him.

"KID DANGER!" Captain Man yelled, letting himself drop from the vent. He landed on his knee, but turned it into a tucked roll and immediately got up to run across the room to save his sidekick.

"Drop him! Captain Man got in!" Brad yelled to Drex, a hint of panic coloring his tone, they didn't come this far to trip at the finish line. Drex didn't falter in the slightest though, he didn't even bother to blink as he let go of Kid Danger's wrist and sent him plummeting four stories down. Kid Danger screamed the entire way down, quieting only when he landed on a torn up awning and hit his head on one of the metal bars keeping it attached to the building.

"KID!" Captain Man choked, reaching out in vain as Drex strode in and blocked the window along with Brad. The hero felt his breath hitch, he felt absolutely sick to his stomach and tears started to well up in his eyes, as far as the three of them knew, Kid Danger was dead.

"What's wrong Ray?" Drex asked nonchalantly, he was unaffected by the fact that he'd just thrown the young boy out the window. Brad smirked and crossed his arm, still partly visible thanks to the dust and particles of sawed wood that had landed on him during his fight with Kid Danger. "I thought you prefered to work alone… my mistake." Drex taunted, there was an underlying tone of animosity in his voice, but he kept his feeling off of his face. Captain Man growled and launched himself at Drex, landing with his hand at the criminal's throat.

"He was just a baby!" Captain Man screamed as angry tears streamed down his face, white rage coursing though him as he choked Drex. Drex gasped for air, reaching up to try and claw Captain Man's hands off of him.

"Enough!" Brad growled, ripping the men apart. Drex choked in air, holding his neck as he tried to breathe. Brad positioned himself between Drex and Captain Man, he was tired of waiting. "Do you remember what you promised me? Henry can't be Kid Danger anymore seeing as how he's splattered on the concrete down there… that means I'm your new sidekick." Captain Man didn't even have time to respond before a hoarse laugh sounded from the man sitting on the floor. Drex got what he wanted from Brad, he didn't need him anymore.

"On the contrary! There's been a change of plans!" Drex laughed, getting to his feet.

"What?" Brad turned to look at the other criminal, laughing a little to hide his confusion. Drex grinned, he looked truly sadistic standing there.

"Did you really think I did all of this so you could get to play superhero? You were nothing more than a pawn in the larger game I was playing." Drex finally admitted. "You were a big help though. I never could have gotten to this point so quickly alone… I would have had to follow Kid Danger around for who knows how long before I could either kill him or find out who he was. You just sped things up and made the process a whole lot easier. I don't need you anymore, I can destroy this one on my own." Drex's eyes flashed back to Captain Man's pained face then. "I'd be doing him a favor by the looks of it."

"Are you kidding me?!" Brad yelled, he was absolutely livid. "You double crossed me!"

"That's what Drex does best." Captain Man spat, glaring at the man standing just a few feet away.

…

When Kid Danger finally regained consciousness his head was pounding and his vision swirled, his entire body ached. It took a few moments for him to remember what had led up to his being in this position: Drex dropped him because Brad had warned him Captain Man had made his way into the room somehow. The two criminals were trying to kill him and Captain Man probably thought they had succeeded; it was a miracle that they hadn't. Taking a shaky breath, Kid Danger carefully leaned over to look over the edge of the awning he was sitting on, his stomach doing flips due to a combination of the movement and the height. Even slower than before, the boy shifted his weight back to the middle of the tarp. The material protested under his weight, the sound of groaning metal and tearing fabric resulting from Kid Danger's change in position letting the boy know it wouldn't be able to support him for much longer.

"Captain Man?" The boy squeaked out, cringing when he heard more of the fabric giving under the stress of his weight. The awning was holding on by no more than a few stubborn threads and the rusted bars didn't look like they would last much longer. "Captain Man! Help!" The boy croaked out a little louder, dizzied by the amount of effort it took to yell. "Please help me..." He whispered choking back tears. The boy wanted so badly to just ignore the danger he was in and just close his eyes for a little while, but he knew if he did that he would probably never get to open them again. Between the week he'd had and the events that had led up to this moment, the child was completely drained. Kid Danger frowned, leaning his head against the side of the brick building as he summoned what little strength he had left and looked up to the window he'd been thrown out of. There was no way he could have climbed back up even if he was in better condition, besides that it was too windy to attempt it. The boy frowned again when he realized that the wind was probably drowning out his cries for help, he needed to think of another way to get Captain Man's attention but his head was so foggy.

…

"Did you hear that?" Brad asked, some out of place sound distracting him from what he'd been saying. "What's beeping?"

"Beeping?" Drex scoffed, he didn't notice anything beeping, but just as he was about to accuse Brad of trying to stall, Captain Man brought his wrist up to eye level and flipped the top open to reveal a hologram of his sidekick.

"Kid Danger?" Captain Man whispered, unable to believe his eyes. "Kid! You're alright!" He exclaimed, blind to the precarious situation his sidekick was in because he was so relieved he wasn't dead.

"Please..." Kid Danger choked out, only allowing himself to take short, shallow breaths as he felt more of the fabric separating from its metal skeleton. "... please help me!" He begged, his lip quivering as a single tear slipped down his cheek. Captain Man's smile immediately faded into a frown when he realized something was really wrong with his sidekick. Kid Danger squeezed his eyes shut, holding his breath as the last few threads finally let go and he dropped another inch; his life was literally resting on the will of a few rusty metal rods. Captain Man's eyebrows knit together as he tried to figure out where the boy was, his eyes widening as he realized.

"Kid!" He yelled, running for the broken window to make sure his observations had been correct. His heart dropped a little when he saw the boy trapped on the side of the building, he was still dangerously high off the ground and there was no guarantee he could survive a fall even from that height.

"I don't think this is going to hold me for much longer.." Kid Danger choked out, he tried to open his eyes and look up the building at Captain Man, but he ended up closing them again when another wave of nausea coursed through him. The hero couldn't argue, he could see a gap forming between the building and the plates the bars had been mounted onto the bricks with.

"Kid, listen to me." Captain Man said firmly, trying to keep calm for the boy's sake. "Stay as still as you possibly can, I'm coming to get you. I promise you everything's going to be okay. Sit tight." Captain Man told him as he pushed himself away from the window and closed his watch. The hero's legs felt like jelly, but he forced himself to move.

"Where do you think you're going!?" Drex asked, trying to get in the way and prevent Captain Man from leaving. The criminal had used the time Captain Man took to talk to his sidekick to revise his plan of action, but he underestimated the strength seeing Kid Danger alive gave the hero. Captain Man clenched his teeth, he wasn't going to be too late to save his sidekick a second time.

"Move!" Captain Man demanded, shoving the man away. "He needs me!" The man snapped, starting to move once again. Drex tried to follow him, but Brad intervened, dropping the man to the ground.

"Go. We'll settle this later, I have a few things to say to Drex for now." Brad called to Captain Man, wiping some of the dust and dirt off of his body so he was almost completely invisible again as he turned back to Drex. Captain Man didn't fully understand what Brad's motivation was here, but he didn't let himself question it. As quickly as he could, the hero tipped one of the tool racks against the wall so he could use it as a ladder to get up to the air duct he'd entered the room through. He hurried through the vent as fast as he could manage and sprinted down the stairs three at a time, moving as fast as he could to find his sidekick. There had to be some sort of window underneath that awning, otherwise it wouldn't make sense for it to be hanging from the side of the building.

"Kid?!" He called loudly a couple of times when he found a lofted balcony with a window in the center of the wall.

"I'm here!" A soft voice called back. Captain Man sprinted into action as soon as he heard the tiny voice, climbing up the five stairs it took to get to the loft in only a few seconds.

"Hold on Kid, I'm here!" The man yelled, booting the pane of glass out of the window with one swift kick and made his way up onto the windowsill. Captain Man swallowed hard as he looked down, he was by no means afraid of heights, but he knew that one wrong move would kill the boy stuck on the bars a few feet up.

"AH!" Kid Danger screamed as the remaining metal rods lurched even further down towards the ground. "Ray! Please help me!" The boy begged, not bothering to distinguish between calling him by his real name and his superhero name.

"I'm going to help you." Captain Man promised, extending one arm up to the boy, holding tight to the window frame with his other. "Lower yourself down. I promise I won't let you fall." Henry nodded hesitantly, the motion making his aching head swim.

"I… I don't know if I can." The boy whispered, flinching at the sound of the groaning screws starting to give out.

"You have to." Captain Man answered, locking eyes with the boy as he finally managed to look down at him. "I'm right here… trust me Henry." He offered his friend a reassuring smile even though he was panicking on the inside. The boy pursed his lips, forcing himself to swing his legs down and grasp the bars in his hands so he could carefully slide down the wall. "That's it, just a little furth-"

"AHH!" The sound of metal snapping cut Captain Man off and Kid Danger's screams pierced the night once again. Without hesitating for even a second, the hero reached out, managing to grab his sidekick by the shoulder strap on his vest as he dropped.

"Ugh!" Captain Man coughed, losing his breath as he slammed into the windowsill. The man lost his breath for a moment, but it only took another second for him to recover. Kid Danger looked up at him with terror-filled eyes.

"Ray!"

"I have you." Captain Man told the boy firmly, reaching down towards him. "Give me your hand." The boy frowned as his fingers tightened around Captain Man's. Kid Danger felt his heartbeat speed up as Captain Man shifted his other hand off of the strap on his vest and grabbed his other hand. The image of Drex standing above him as he dangled by his wrists flashed through the boy's mind; he knew Captain Man would never ever try to hurt him the way Drex had, but still he couldn't help being afraid. "Alright, here we go." Captain Man said, pulling his sidekick back in to safety.

"Thank you." Kid Danger choked out, burying his face into Captain Man's chest as he sobbed. The hero wrapped him up tight in his arms, not letting him go as a few of his own tears streamed down his cheeks, he was so relieved this boy, the boy who was more like a son to him, was safe.

"It's okay. You're safe now, I've got you." Captain Man whispered, holding him until he stopped shaking. "I'm so sorry Henry." The hero felt so guilty and responsible for what had transpired that night, he wouldn't have blamed the child if he decided to give up his gum now and never look back.

A/N: I couldn't leave you guys in suspense for too long! I hope you liked this chapter, I felt like the story could use a little bit of drama. I'll be posting another chapter soon so be on the lookout for that!

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