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Chapter 8: Enemy after Enemy, part 1
The seven heroes continued their way through the airship. They entered a big room which looked like an arena. In the center of it, Kat was waiting for them.
"Fine, if you`re there that means 9-Volt, that loser gamer, has been defeated. Now I will stop you from moving on! One of you will fight against me. If he or she wins, you can all pass. However, if he or she loses, you all go back in your cell.
Ana approached.
"Sis, you said yourself there shouldn`t be any sisterly rivalry. It`s crazy, but I think I`ll try fighting against you."
"Ana, are you sure it`s your fight? Isn`t it supposed to be my battle?" Young Cricket said.
"No! But I can`t explain why."
"Is it because if Kat is there to fight you, Master Mantis must be further to be defeated?" Jimmy asked.
"That`s what I meant," Ana answered. "Let me fight here, I can defeat her easily, I`m better than her."
"Fine. But don`t die!" Mona shouted.
The battle began. Ana threw a few shurikens. However Kat avoided them easily. Kat threw a kunai, and it hit Ana. Actually, it was just a scratch, but Ana noticed her sister aimed better than before.
"What happened?" Ana asked.
"Master Mantis trained me, dummy. I supposed it was obvious!"
Being called "dummy", Ana threw a kunai but Kat avoided it. Kat threw two kunais and successfully hit Ana twice.
"We should stop that, Kat. You`re still my sister!" Ana screamed.
"Not anymore."
Hearing this, Ana rushed toward her sister, kunais and shurikens ready to attack. She was about to stab Kat when the other ninja hit Ana with a kunai, only leaving an open scar on a cheek, which began bleeding a little.
The other team members were watching without saying a thing. They were all worried the kindergartners would kill each other in this fight.
Ana avoided one kunai thrown by Kat, and caught the other right before it hit her on the belly. She threw it back instantly, and this one hit Kat`s left leg. Kat started having problems walking, which would help Ana greatly in this fight. Ana threw some shurikens, but Kat jumped in the air and avoided them. She landed back on het feet and ran toward her sister. Ana took out her last remaining kunai and prepared for a short hand-to-hand battle. Kat also took out her last remaining kunai and the two fought a little by sing their kunais as swords. Finally, Kat threw out the kunai from her sister`s hand.
"I guess I won," Kat said.
"Not yet!" Ana screamed. On this the young ninja kicked the kunai out of Kat`s hand. "Now we only have our hands and feet left."
The two girls fought. Kat punched Ana, but she avoided it and kicked her sister`s face. Kat fell, but she was holding Ana, so the two girls fell of the floor. They fought again a bit, until Kat couldn`t move anymore.
"I won," Ana said.
"Fine. You can pass. I can`t stop you from passing. I`m unable to move. Just answer this question before, Ana. When you noticed I could no more move, why didn`t you kill me?"
"Because no matter how evil you became, you`re still my sister. It`s not like this that the Ouch-he-was history ended, but whatever."
On this, the Elite Team passed by the door at the other end of the arena.
***
The next room was also really big. This time, it`s Red who was sitting in the middle.
"Red! You`re there!" Ashley shouted, running toward her little devil.
"Stop! Remember what you said? I recall: "I need you at all costs for my own personal profit." That time is finished now, witch."
Ashley noticed there were earphones in Red`s ears.
"I thought you had forgotten your Mp3 player in the mansion?"
"That one is an Mp3vil, witch. It got hard rock, heavy metal and gothic songs. If you wanna pass, you`ll have to defeat my powered up version!"
On this, Red pushed the Play button on the Mp3vil. A terribly loud music could be heard coming out of it. As soon as it began, Red began growing, his muscular structure grew bigger and his face changed. His horns grew as well on his head. His trident enlarged until being three meters long. The new Red looked like a Lucifer and he looked like a devil, now more than ever. He was a lot more humanoid, however he was now six meters tall and he could apparently control his powers better. From the Mp3vil, we could hear a speedy guitar solo followed by a "WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR???"
Ashley moved nearer the evil devil. Ashley turned to her friends and told them: "Don`t worry, I`ll survive. It`s the best time to use my gecko abilities." The Elite Team 2 remembered about Ashley`s past transformation and deducted that she still hadn`t totally reverted to normal. Her hands were still sticky, and her tongue was still stretching. The witch took off her shoes and socks, and the Elite Team 2 could notice her feet were as sticky as her hands.
Ashley ran toward the left wall and stuck her hands to it. She then climbed up, and stuck her feet to it. Ashley climbed the wall until she was at a good height. However, Redevil was trying to attack her with his giant trident. Ashley unstuck herself to the wall and fell on the weapon, but stuck her feet to it so she would not fall off. She ran on the trident until she reached the giant devil`s arm. Now in the Mp3vil, she could clearly hear: "KNEELING ROSES DISAPPEARING INTO MOSES` DRY MOUTH!" She approached the left ear and noticed the earphone had grown at the same time as Red. Wait a second… maybe that was it! Maybe she had to put the earphones out of her Red`s ears! Red was trying to catch her with his right hand. Ashley hurried in putting the earphone out of the left ear. However, se got caught by the giant devil`s right hand. Red threw her away. Ashley was about to hit the back wall when she extended her gecko tongue and stuck it to her past friend`s arm. She balanced for a short while until she finally fell back on Red`s right arm. She could hear another singer now. And this one was singing "And it`s so easy when you`re evil…"
However, Red saw the witch approaching the earphone too much and decided to throw electricity at her when she was about to unplug the second earphone. Ashley succeeded in putting off the earphone but Red had put on the other while she was doing that. The battle seemed lost, when Ashley hung up to the right earphone and balanced herself with it like some kind of female Tarzan. She landed on the other shoulder, and put the earphone out of it, and then she destroyed the cord with a spell. That earphone was now useless, and Red didn`t have time to put back the other earphone. Red reverted to his normal self.
"Wow… you defeated me… Good job. You can pass."
"Are you OK Red?" Ashley asked.
"I`m evil, I`m still with Mario. However, I am way too tired to even try stopping you."
Ashley threw something to Red: it was his good Mp3 player with the relaxation music. Ashley took care of stealing Red`s Mp3vil player. The Elite Team 2 moved on.
***
In the next room, there was Dr. Crygor. On each side of the room there were tables on which there was a stock of junk.
"Welcome to the great Invent-O-Tron! I will need someone super creative and intelligent. Maybe you, my supposedly niece."
Penny Crygor knew her uncle was talking about her. She approached the weird scientist.
"Here are the rules. You see the stuff on each table? The deal is to create something that works and does something, and this in ten minutes. We got that junk at Diamond City`s junkyard. There`s electronics, plastics, everything. We each have the exact same stuff. After ten minutes, each one will try the other`s creation, pushing all buttons on the remote control. Let`s go!"
Penny left for her table, while Crygor reached his table. They hid from each other with a curtain. Behind the curtain, Penny looked at the stuff. "That won`t be easy. Huh? Wait a minute..."
Ten minutes passed. Penny had made some kind of robot. She looked at the result. The robot`s remote control was anything but great, however after a few tests the robot was working well. Dr. Crygor came out of his own curtain, and announced that the time had passed. The curtains opened. Penny saw that Dr. Crygor had built a robot as well.
"Go first, maybe-niece."
Penny moved towards the robot built by Crygor. However, she turned to her uncle and said:
"Elders go first."
On this, Crygor seemed to shiver.
"Are you afraid? My robot hides nothing that can be dangerous."
Crygor took the remote control of Penny`s robot. He played with the buttons until he noticed a button right in the center. To better see the robot`s reaction, Crygor moved closer. He pushed the button, and BOOM! The robot exploded. Dr. Crygor was sent flying away by the explosion. It sure was something to see. The scientist laid there, unconscious, having hit the opposite wall.
Penny went a few steps further from Crygor`s robot and played with the remote control. She pushed a button and the other robot exploded as well.
"I knew Crygor became evil. I also knew he wanted to kill me after our encounter in the sewers. I noticed with the material that an artisanal bomb could be made out of it. Crygor said we had the exact same pieces, so his goal was to make a bomb, make me fiddle with his robot first, and kill me. So I used his technique against him. However, despite his intelligence, my uncle still fell in my own trap, another bomb."
"That`s smart, Penny!" Young Cricket said.
"I don`t know if my uncle is conscious right now, so we`ll just move ahead. We`ll see what else await us."
As the gang was passing through the door, Crygor woke up and whispered in a walkie-talkie:
"Send the Master. Not you, Mario, but the Sensei."
***
The next room was another huge arena. When I said it was a Giant Airship, I was not lying. It was really humongous. It was longer than five Boeing 747 put one after the other, and larger than three Boeing 747 put aside. Now that the details are explained, we can continue.
The Elite Team 2 entered another huge room which reminded Young Cricket of his Dojo. Master Mantis fell from the ceiling, right on his hands.
"Hey people! I`m gonna challenge any of you, if you lose you can`t pass, if I win then you go on. Got it, folks? Hey, I`m unbeatable!"
Young Cricket couldn`t believe his ears. Usually Master Mantis is always neutral when he talks, he always thinks what he is going to say and he always uses long words as much as possible. That brainwash sure had transformed him. Young Cricket faced his master.
"Looks like it`s the young cricket against the master mantis… I have no choice but fighting against my own sensei. Well, I guess I have nothing else to do."
In next chapter: The battle between Young Cricket and his sensei, Mike defies Jimmy at a memorable dance-off contest with an even harder song, and Mona racks her brain in a huge quiz against Orbulon. And they`ll finally reach the Boss, if they can really reach him…
Author`s notes: Wow! I can`t believe I have written three chapters (6, 7, 8) in less than half a week! Yes I still posted them one per week, but I have written them in the week-end between the 4th and 8th of September. I never ever thought I could go that far. With that, I could finish a chapter of my original story (PM me to know about it). I think I wrote about ten thousand words that weekend.
Well, that`s it. If you guessed where are the song lines from, then you`re okay. If you could find some hidden references, I mean ones that are really hard to find, then you`re excellent. I still haven`t calculated them.
