"Careful Patch, don't hurt my car!" Atticus warned before laughing at the speed.
"I won't!" Patch smiled as he enjoyed the speed.
Atticus laughed as they rode along to Bueno Nacho Headquarters.
"I feel like I'm gonna throw up!" Cherry screamed.
"I think I'd feel better about this if I had a super-suit too!" Ron cried out as he rode behind Kim on his scooter. "No? I'm just sayin'!"
They soon arrived at the headquarters.
"She's coming." Shego tracked down.
"Of course she is." Drakken grinned darkly.
They soon used their grappling hooks to get up on the roof.
"Okay, Wade, we're going in." Kim said.
"Check your backpacks." Wade smiled to them.
Ron did that and took out a small container in his hand before checking it out. "Knock-Out gas which looks like lip gloss... Which looks like lip gloss..." he then drooled as he was suddenly knocked out from the device in Kim's bag.
Atticus soon closed the knock-out gas so Ron wouldn't be knocked out anymore.
"Thanks, Atticus." Kim said before rolling her eyes at Ron.
"Is this some sort of coded message?" Ron took out papers and was confused on what they said.
"History Homework!" Kim smirked as she took the papers back.
"And this?" Atticus asked as he brought out what looked like a toy.
"Uh, Wade?" Kim then asked.
"ElectroMagnetic Scrambler." Wade informed as he then showed the schematics he used when it was a plain old toy before he modified it with his genius.
"So then, this can sabotage Drakken's signal?" Mo asked.
"It should shut the whole thing down." Wade confirmed.
"Awesome." Mo smiled.
And with that, they then moved out.
"Stay close, Colette." Patch told his girlfriend.
"You don't have to tell me twice." Colette said.
"That's a good girl." Patch smiled to her.
"Oh, I just love adventures with you." Colette smiled back.
"The original Bueno Nacho..." Ron sighed in nostalgia as he shined his flashlight on an old black and white photo. "Where it all started..."
"Nice." Atticus said.
"Guys!" Kim called sharply. "Keep your head in the game."
"Worry not," Ron replied coolly as he spun his flashlight. "I'm ready for anything."
Suddenly, as if on cue, there was a rumbling and an old face was running toward them with nun-chucks.
"Oh, great." Patch groaned.
"What is that?!" Colette yelped.
"Sumo Ninja." Patch told her.
The Sumo Ninja soon jumped down with his weapons as he glared at the teens. "I SHALL BE AVENGED!"' he then said in a squeaky high voice.
This caused for Cherry to laugh at how ridiculous the ninja's voice sound. This made everyone else laugh.
The Sumo Ninja soon grabbed Cherry and held her up in the air since she started it. "WHAT?!"
"Please, stop talking," Cherry laughed. "You sound like Iago on helium!"
"Yeah." Atticus nodded while laughing.
"I am strong like the mountain!" The Sumo Ninja glared. "I am swift like the wind! I am vengeance!"
"Cherry, catch!" Mo called out as she tossed her lip gloss to the perky goth.
Cherry soon caught the lip gloss and knew what to do. She then opened it up and held it out to the Sumo Ninja.
"Vengeance! Will be... Oy..." The Sumo Ninja glared before he was soon knocked out.
"And he is out." Cherry said.
There were soon green blasts which could only mean one thing.
"Shego." Atticus said.
"I'll handle this." Kim replied as Shego was her usual fighting against in these types of missions.
"You got it." Atticus said.
"You know what I really hate?" Shego rhetorically asked Kim.
"When somebody kidnaps your boyfriend?" Kim replied.
"When someone doesn't know when to quit!" Shego glared before blasting her.
Kim soon started to dodge the attacks. A force field protected her when the blasts were close to hitting her abd her hand soon became a weapon before she caught one blast and flung it right back to Shego.
"Wahoo! Go, Kim!" Mo cheered.
Shego soon blasted at Kim again which cut the suit's arm and showed blood.
"Oh, my God!" Atticus gasped.
"Oh, dear..." Colette frowned.
However, the suit seemed to heal the wound and patch it up so it was like Kim was never hit.
"Wahoo!" Mo cheered.
"You were saying?" Kim glared at Shego.
Shego snarled as she got ready again once her hands began to glow with her dark power given to her as a child along with her brothers, though she used them for evil while they used them for good and where she was going to lose since good always won. Brad snuck up behind Cherry and whisked her away after knocking her out with chloroform in a napkin and took her to where his brother was kept as they were both hiding something from both her and Kim. Unfortunately for him, he had set off Patch's and Colette's senses.
"Do you smell that?" Patch asked.
"Not sure how to describe it, but I don't like it." Colette growled.
"If my hunch is right I believe we might have smelled Brad or Erik." Patch growled as well.
They both growled and barked as they went to follow after their senses while Kim fought Shego.
"You can beat Shego! Right, Cherry?" Mo asked.
Atticus and Forte soon noticed this as well.
"Guys, I don't know what happened to Cherry!" Mo frowned.
"She couldn't have gone too far." Forte said. He then began to sniff for Cherry as he had a hidden sense for her.
"What are you doing?" Atticus asked Forte out of confusion.
"I'm going to find Cerise with my senses," Forte replied. "I may not be a dog, but I can track her down."
"That's good." Atticus said.
Forte began to try to track Cherry down before it would be too late.
"Wow, didn't know you cared that much about me." Erik's voice said as he saw Kim defeat Shego.
"Erik, you're okay!" Kim beamed as she ran to him and hugged him instantly.
"Kim," Erik said before hugging her back. "Actually here, I'm known as SynthoDrone #901." He then smirked evilly as he stroked her hair.
Kim was shocked to hear this both mentally and physically. She was soon weakened by Erik as he revealed his true self to her. Ron ran in to try to help Kim only to get elbowed by Shego which then knocked him out. Atticus and the others soon heard this. Brad soon came up behind them and then shocked them as well to knock them out.
Soon enough, they all blacked out and when they woke up, they all appeared to be tied up, but Cherry was still missing.
"Join us, Cherry," Brad grinned darkly to the perky goth. "You'll get what you've always wanted. Never will you be pushed around during adventures."
That was exactly what Cherry wanted.
"Well, what do you think?" Brad asked. "Do you have any questions?"
"Just one: What do I have to do?" Cherry replied as she joined the dark side.
"Tie them up." Erik said.
Cherry seemed to do just that. "These better be strong enough." She then said, knowing how Atticus was in hostage situations. She soon saw a picture in his pocket. She darted her eyes as she looked around before taking it out as he was knocked out cold. "You don't mind if I borrow this? No? Thanks..."
Atticus of course did not answer as even he was knocked out cold while Cherry examined the picture and where it was the picture of the day when they became friends.
Cherry's eyes seemed soft at first as she held the photo before a memory came back to her.
We are shown the orphanage back when the two were much younger.
"And this is where I sleep..." Atticus showed his room to Cherry. "You should visit before Light's Out."
"Are you the boy who keeps crying in his sleep when it rains?" Cherry asked.
"Only during thunderstorms." Atticus shivered.
"They make me sleepy..." Cherry replied.
"I keep seeing something..." Atticus told her. "My bunk mate is no help, he just says he'll beat me up if I wake him up again."
"And I will if you scream tonight!" Atticus bunk mate glared.
Atticus yelped as he hid behind Cherry.
"Don't be mean to your bunk mate." Cherry glanced at Atticus's bunk mate.
"What're you gonna do about it?" The boy scoffed before shoving Cherry on top of Atticus on the floor.
Atticus didn't mind the weight on him, but what his bunk mate did made him angry. The bunk mate laughed at him until he gasped to turn to see the orphanage caretaker.
"You, my office, ten minutes," The woman glared before softly looking to Cherry and Atticus with a small maternal smile. "Oh, you two are quite a pair... You know, we don't often have children of the opposite sex share a room together, but... Maybe it would be best for you two."
"With someone like him as a bunk mate, I totally agree." Cherry said.
"Can I trust you two?" The caretaker asked.
"Yes, ma'am." Cherry and Atticus replied.
The caretaker smiled, these two were rarely any trouble for her on their own and she then decided to have them share a room together. After that day on, the two of them were now friends and to celebrate that day a picture was taken to remember that day. The memory soon ended from there.
Cherry closed her eyes as she hugged the picture before seeming to sniffle. She soon heard Atticus and the others waking up. She then hid away before they could see her and she winced slightly from the model cactus prickles.
"Is this Heaven?" Ron asked as they were surrounded by Bueno Nacho merchandise.
"Not exactly." Atticus said.
"Oh, guys, I thought you were all down for the count!" Ron looked relieved.
"Why couldn't I see that he was a fake?" Kim groaned, referring to Erik.
"Well, there's nothing more fake than a SynthoDrone." Mo said.
"Yuck!" Ron cringed as he realized what that meant for Kim. "You kissed a SynthoDrone!"
"I never kissed him," Kim looked down slightly. "But I wanted to."
"Okay, too much info, so, what's the plan?" Patch asked Kim and Atticus.
"Um..." Atticus sounded lost for the first time in his life.
"Guys, I... I got nothing..." Kim soon bowed her head in lostness.
"Same here." Atticus sighed.
This shocked everyone including Cherry.
"That's my line and what's worse, that's quitter talk!" Ron glared.
"Drakken finally won," Kim sulked. "I should've stuck to babysitting."
"And I should have just stick with trying to be an ordinary guy." Atticus sighed.
"I should've have become a familiar..." Colette pouted.
"Maybe I should've stayed on the farm..." Patch sighed.
"Aw, Patch..." Atticus frowned to his pet.
Cherry couldn't believe her ears.
"Okay, guys, this pity fiesta is over," Ron motivated the others. "Drakken has not won, he played you! Now, it's payback time, it might be already too late for Cherry. And KP, ya know, there are guys out there who are better for you than Erik... Guys that are real for one thing..."
"Even if there's a guy out there for me?" Kim asked him.
"Out there... In here..." Ron replied nervously.
"Oh..." Kim said, understanding where he was going with this.
Cherry decided to come out to show that she wasn't a lost cause.
"Cherry!" Atticus looked over. "What happened to you?"
Cherry soon told them all what happened.
"So, are you joining the dark side?" Atticus asked once she concluded.
"I'm tired of being humiliated..." Cherry turned away while bowing her head in bitter sadness.
"You don't always get humiliated." Atticus told her.
"Pretty much..." Cherry sulked.
"Aw, Cherry..." Atticus frowned.
"Sometimes I think being bad would be easier than being good..." Cherry stared out into the darkness. "After all, I'm never happy... You said so yourself... Only on Halloween or my birthday."
"Cherry, I'm sorry." Atticus said before he wiggled out a present.
"I don't want your pity..." Cherry turned away before she narrowed her eyes at the present. "You got me a present? What for?"
"An early Friend-aversary present." Atticus said before wiggling the present all the way out for Cherry to catch.
Cherry then caught the present after Atticus tossed it the best he could. Atticus gave a small smile to her. Cherry shrugged before opening the present to see what it was, she expected a simple book.
"It's a book for you to start your stories." Atticus explained of why the book was totally blank, but it wasn't exactly a journal.
"My stories?" Cherry repeated.
"Yeah, I know that you are very creative when it comes to dream-bending and creating stories." Atticus said.
"Not me..." Cherry smiled bashfully.
"You may not be a Wiccan like me or Thorn," Atticus began. "You may not be born a merperson like my mother and Aunt Athena, you may not be Sailor Moon like Darla, you may not be strong like a god like I am, but you're only the best you that you can be."
This seemed to be enough for Cherry to help them get free before she saw Rufus. "Rufus." She then said.
"Rufus?" the others asked at first.
"Rufus, you can save us!" Kim beamed.
"No way, I got this," Atticus smirked until he tried to get the others out of the ropes. "What the...?"
Cherry turned away nervously and innocently.
"What kind of ropes did you use?" Atticus asked his best friend.
Cherry sighed as she looked back. "Some special magical rope that I borrowed from Drell's spell book."
"YOU HAVE DRELL'S SPELL BOOK?!" Atticus's eyes widened.
"Brad, or SynthoDrone #900 might've given it to me for revenge." Cherry smiled nervously.
"Well, let's hope this special magic rope can be cut or chewed through." Atticus said.
Rufus tried to chew through the ropes, but they were too tough for his teeth. Cherry then checked Kim's backpack with Rufus.
"Use the lipstick, Rufus!" Ron smiled to his pet.
Rufus soon came out wearing lipstick while holding the wrong lipstick.
"The other lipstick." Kim told the naked mole rat.
Rufus then took out the laser lipstick which freed them all from the ropes.
"Looks like lasers is the answer against magic." Atticus said.
Kim and Ron were now back in action and ready to stop Drakken's plans.