FAIR WARNING: THIS CHAPTER HAS A BIT OF HARSH LANGUAGE! READ THIS CHAPTER AT YOUR OWN RISK!*
*STORY START!*
"Hey, wake up!" A feminine voice forced harshly as the young girl's body was still unconscious. The voice kept getting louder as the black fog Mallory's mind started to fade, her vision becoming clearer as she started to open her eyes to a dim light. "I told you to…wake….up!" The voice yelled louder in her ear as Mallory's eyes suddenly snapped open, a startled gasp of air coming into her lungs as her eyes were wide with confusion. "Finally, your awake. You know Mallory, it's pretty rude to keep people waiting. I swear, those "heroes" must not be teaching proper manners." Mallory's vision became clearer as she could see three figures in the room, two male and one female. Mallory finally looked strait in front of her as her eyes went wide, her body jolting from surprise and shock as she tried to back away from the cold stare she was being given by the mysterious girl known as Death Master.
"Who are you and why'd your lackey have to bring me here in the first place?" Mallory exclaimed as she shifted in Fuse Rex's direction who gave off a growl of anger from being called a "lackey"; he was way better then that. Death Master laughed humorously as she walked towards Mallory slowly, the clicking of her boots heels loud as the clicked against the floor.
"First of all, he isn't a "lackey"; he's one of my best friends as is Fusion Ben. I also hear that you are friends with Rex and Ben as well, weird how coincidences happen like that. Second, I am the ruler and creator of all Fusions, Death Master."
"I don't care if your name is Death Master or whatever, just take me back to my friends!" Mallory yelled angered as she pulled her body against the chains, the metal only gripping harder against her skin.
"I'm sorry but I am afraid I can't do that. While you were knocked out, I decided to go and pay your little friends a visit."
Death Master had now reached Dex Labs as red sirens could be heard blaring from the outside of the base. Death Master only laughed as she could see soldiers of Providence and robots line the entrance of the base, blocking it from her path as they all advanced towards her. With her claws sharpened, she began to slash and claw at any of the robots or guards that dare got in her way, leaving the entire battlefield in fire and bloody heaps of what used to be bodies. Death Master laughed evilly to herself as she saw the "cavalry" arrive; the "cavalry" consisting of the Cartoon Network Heroes.
"Finally, I was wondering what a person would have to do to get your attention! Now if you all don't mind, I need to go talk to someone that's in that building." Death Master casually said as the heroes kept their ground.
"Where's are friend?" exclaimed Zak exclaimed as he took out his Claw, his eyes glowing as his powers were running on a rampage within his body. The other heroes exclaimed the same thing, demanding to know where their friend and fellow leader had gone that night. Death Master scratched the back of her head as if she was bored, listening to the pathetic cries of the heroes.
"Now when you say your friend, you'll have to be a bit more specific! I've killed so many people that any of them could have been one of your friends." Death Master could clearly see that the so called heroes were losing their patience; that was her goal and she was gonna finish it. "Now if your talking about that girl with the long brown hair then you just missed her. She was giving me so much lip about how I should be staying inside at night or Fusions may get me, that she didn't even realize that I was a Fusion myself. The only way I made her stop talking was killing her and boy, did that take me awhile." The groups' eyes widened as they heard what Death Master had said; Annoying her about the Fusions was so idiotic that she had to just go and kill her…..and she was even bragging about it.
"No…no, that's not true! Mallory is alive and your just telling us all of this to mess with our heads!" Finn exclaimed as he shook his fist in anger. Death Master just looked at the group of heroes; they were going to need a lot more convincing in order to truly deal with them.
"You don't believe me; well I can't blame you, you've all just learned about me. Well heroes, here's your proof!" Death Master exclaimed manically as she pulled out something from her dress pocket. Everyone's eyes widened in horror as they saw what Death Master had taken from her pocket, Mallory's gold sealed locket with six crystal heart shaped diamonds covered in fresh blood. Bubbles looked away as she held onto the Professor's lab coat as she cried, Blossom and Buttercup clenching their fists in anger and anguish. Everyone's hearts were now breaking; they had all now just lost a brave comrade and a great friend. "Now that you have your proof, who wants a shot at me?" An enraged scream was heard from the heroes, everyone turning to see Ben using his Ultimatrix to change into Swampfire as he ran at Death Master with burning fireballs coming right at her. Death smiled as she blocked the fireballs with ease, quickly summoning her scythe as she threw slices of Fuse energy towards the base, already a quarter of it in shambles and flames. The others heroes soon followed suit as they all charged at Death Master with rage in their hearts. However Death Master was too powerful for them and had easily won the fight, disappearing into the night as Mallory's bloody necklace lied on the ground.
"Y-You told all of my friends I was dead; how could you!" Mallory exclaimed as small tears were forming as she struggled against the chains once again, Death Master watching amused from the girls actions.
"It's all their faults for not letting me go into the base. I had to talk to someone in their and they blocked my path. Besides, you're the real reason that I'm doing all of this, so you better not try to run or there will be hell to pay." Death Master said darkly as she walked out of the room, quickly whispering something to Fusion Rex and Fusion Ben as they both nodded, closing the door as they both stayed in the room to keep an eye on Mallory.
Holiday, Gwen and the Professor were back at the crime scene where Mallory had disappeared; the abandoned stage. They wanted the Powerpuff Girls, Rex, Ben and Kevin all to be there to help them but discarded the idea, they were all too depressed to help conduct the search. The Professor was currently taking notes on any sign of a struggle or fight as Holiday was taking samples and analyzing them. Gwen came back from looking around the area to see that the two adults were still at it.
"I haven't found anything. The Fusions have this weird ability to block their signatures, and since they've been near Mallory I can't detect her." Gwen said sadly as Holiday walked over to Gwen.
"It's alright Gwen, you did an excellent job helping us. Why don't you go back to the Base, you look tired. Besides, the Professor and I can handle this ourselves." Gwen nodded as she used her powers to teleport herself back to Base as Holiday turned to the Professor.
"Professor, do you think Mallory's," Holiday took a breath as she looked at the scientist, "Well…alive? It's been three hours and we still haven't found any proof." The Professor stopped taking his notes as he looked at Holiday truthfully.
"I'm not entirely sure. Seeing her necklace with the blood, it shook me up a little. But I always remember this," The Professor said as he walked up to Holiday and put a hand gently on her shoulder, "We can't give up hope, not while we're waging this war."
Holiday smiled a she thanked The Professor, the two getting back to work. Holiday thought for a moment as she reached into her pocket, taking Mallory's bloody necklace out her lab coat. The only way she got it was to get it from Rex and when she meant "get" she meant telling him to force it over to her no matter how much he didn't like it. It had to be scanned sooner or later, and right then and there was as good as ever. She took a sample of the blood and started to analyze it, her patience thinning as the process took longer then necessary. When the scan was complete Holiday gasped in surprise, she checked the blood sample again to make sure she wasn't dreaming, she wasn't. Mallory was still alive, and she's still out there somewhere waiting for them. Holiday beamed as she ran over to the Professor with the sample's analysis.
"Professor, I took a sample of the blood on Mallory's necklace and there are key components from her DNA that are missing. The blood's fake and she's still alive! We have to get back to the Base and tell everyone so we can send a rescue team." Holiday exclaimed as the Professor got up holding a small bag with a clear vial in it.
"I've found something too. We can analyze it back at the Base with everyone else." The Professor and Holiday then rushed as fast as they could to the Base to inform everyone of the news.
"Your positive that Mallory's alright?" The voice of Drew Saturday echoed throughout the Main Computer Room. Holiday looked at Drew seriously as she brought up a scan of what the blood consisted of, the Cartoon Network Heroes looking at the diagram interest.
"This is the blood that was on Mallory's necklace. As you can see, it has all the normal components of a regular human being." Holiday explained to the heroes as she stopped the lecture there, confusing some of the leaders.
"I don't get it, it has the same stuff as a human, so what?" Zak asked confused, Fiskerton agreeing with Zak as he muttered nonsense to Holiday as well.
"That's the whole point Zak, it's a regular humans' blood. There should be wiring, circuitry, mutations, traces of nanite activity but there isn't; she's still alive and we have to find her before it's too late." Holiday said as everyone's faces showed surprise except for Six of course, his expression was still the same but showed a bit of surprise. Dexter quickly walked over to the computer and put up a surveillance of the Fuse's Base.
"Since we've confirmed that Mallory's alive, we have to get her back before she's gone for good. Six, I want you to hire up a team that you can rely on to get into the Fuse's Base and get her out."
"Right. Ben, Rex, Kevin, and Saturdays all come with me." Six said simply as they all followed him towards the Hanger Bay where they would set off towards Fuse.
"What do you think we should do with her?" "Don't know, maybe we should just torture her to get some fun out of it." "Nah, too easy. Maybe we should just make fend for herself against strong Fuse." The banter between Fuse Rex and Ben was endless, Mallory in the background listening to the whole thing.
"Ummm, yeah I can kinda hear everything your saying." Mallory said annoyed as the two copies turned to look at her.
"So," Fuse Rex started, "Why should we care if you listen or not. Either way your going to meet your end so why don't you act like a good girl and shut up." Mallory heard those words and scoffed, her personality getting the better of her as she started to get bolder.
"Your such a push over, you know that? The Rex I know wouldn't act like that towards people, our army will destroy Fuse and you can't do anyth-" Mallory speech was suddenly halted as a familiar orange colored blade was shot towards her at a tremendous speed, Mallory quickly turning her head to the side as she waited for the blade to quickly slice her. She felt no pain, but a breeze of wind slide on her cheek as her eyes opened, widening when she saw that Fuse Rex's blade had missed her head by a mere three inches. Mallory's body started to shake as she tried to calm herself, only to have her short, brown hair be forcefully pulled on by the Fuse copy, pulling her towards him in a menacing demeanor.
"You can bad mouth Lord Fuse all you want," Fuse Rex said as he pulled out his sword from the wall, leaving a huge cut in the wall as he slowly brought the edge of it towards Mallory's neck, "But there is no way in hell that you talk to me like that. I'm way better then that pathetic excuse of a hero will ever be." Fuse Rex saw the young girls' fear and smirked, letting his blade push against her neck delicately as his smirk grew wider, pulling harder on the young girl's hair resulting in a painful shout. Fuse Rex kept going, his lust for blood and pain overcoming him as he was suddenly pushed back by Fuse Ben, letting out a disappointed growl as he transformed back, giving Fuse Ben a scowl. "Now why'd you have to go and ruin my fun, huh?"
"You heard what Death said, no one's allowed to harm her, not even us." Fuse Ben said threateningly at Fuse Rex, the two having a deadly stare down until a knock was heard at the door. The door opened to see Fuse Julie in the way, her face scowling as she let herself enter the room.
"You two, Lord Fuse wants to see you two immediately," Fuse Julie said quickly as she walked out back into the door way, "Oh, he also said to bring the girl. He wants her and him to meet and have a little chat." The two Fuse copies nodded as Fuse Rex reached down and grabbed Mallory, "Now you be a good girl and maybe I won't have to hold you down." Mallory however was not pleased with the idea of being blindfolded and dragged somewhere so she did the only humane thing left, she reached her head forward and harshly bit Fuse Rex's arm. He yelled in pain as he ripped her off of him, his temper flaring as he forcefully smashed her head against the wall, Mallory gasping in pain as she closed her eyes to make the dots in her vision to go away. Fuse Rex laughed as he watched the human girl groan in pain.
"That's what you get for biting me, bitch." Mallory tried to see but was then quickly blindfolded as she was then lifted by an unknown source, heading off to Lord Fuse himself.
The team consisted of The Saturday family, Six, Rex, Ben and Kevin. They were all now going over a plan to infiltrate the Fuse's base so they could easily enter, retrieve Mallory, and get out quickly and safely. The team had taken some trackers incase; who knew what could be inside their fortress. Ben and Rex stood together as the Providence jet advanced towards the Fuse's Lair; the sickly green color of Fusions could be seen for miles.
"You ready?" Ben asked Rex as they both looked at each other with determination in their eyes. Rex held Mallory's necklace tightly in the palm of his hand, the fake blood washed of as the crystals shined brightly in the full moon's light.
"Yeah, let's get are friend back." Rex gripped the necklace tightly as the jet landed on the ground softly; Fuse's Lair was right up ahead where the mysterious girl was that attacked them, and Mallory. "Let's do this."
*Sorry it was so short. Well to me it felt kinda short, I don't know really. Anyway this was only a part of the chapter, there will be a part 2 just to let you know. I actually didn't put a lot of bad language, only a few words but that's it. I will update as soon as I can because of finals! -.-'. I really don't want to do finals! Bye Bye!