After an ending like that here is an alternative ending for you all.

And so MAL began his dreadful countdown.

"20, 19, 18, 17,..."

Captain Planet, knowing that time was of the essence, soared into the night sky.

"...16, 15, 14, 13,..."

He could detect the distortion of dormant radioactive material. There it was. It was was inside a large truck. It wandered aimlessly within the streets of London, waiting for the sinister detonation.

"...12, 11, 10, 9, 8,..."

He flew onto the truck. Using the power of fire he burned his way through the outer metal hull and saw the timer which would activate the bomb.

"...7, 6, 5, 4, 3,..."

Captain Planet ripped out the timer console thus rendering the bomb a merely inert and of no danger of being detonated.

"...2, 1, 0."

MAL paused, surprised that there was no deafening explosion. MAL and Dr. Blight were silent, waiting for the fulfillment of destruction.

MAL's disguised robotic driver, being surprised that the bomb had not detonated, stopped the truck and exited the car. Before it had any chance of confronting the obstacle with its gun Captain Planet jumped to the ground, ran up to the robot, and with a swift right hook smashed his fist right through the robot's body. He took his arm out of it and it insensibly dropped to the ground with a loud clang.

The crisis was over.

"MAL!" Dr. Blight shouted, pointing an accusing finger at MAL. "What the fuck's going on! I swear if you messed I'll upload the excruciating pain file into your stinking system and then delete you! I mean it you little piece of shit!"

"Doc...Doc...Doctor. I'm sure the bomb will soon detonate."

She looked out the view. She could see the Geocruiser approaching her blimp. Then she saw the blue form of Captain Planet approaching the Geocruiser. It was then she knew she had failed.

She turned his furious face towards MAL and shouted, "You useless fucker!" She charged at MAL's monitor.

"NOOOOOOOOO!" MAL uselessly yelled. It was too late.

She slammed her fist right into the monitor, MAL's face splintered as a thousand cracks were made in the monitor.

She then turned her attention to the keyboard. Her fingers tapped away deftly. and with a few swift keystrokes destroyed MAL forever.

"What are you doing!"

"Giving you the wages of failure you waste of space! I'm going to delete and end your sorry excuse for existence."

"No! Don't do this. Havn't I always been your faithful servant throughout the many years we have worked together? I can still be useful to you."

"Shut your useless trap! I'm deleting you and that's that!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!...ffzzztttt...NOO!...ffzztt...NOOOOO!, click."

Accompanied by a cacophony of ailing and violent static MAL existence ended with a humble click. And MAL was no more.

"Well, well, Dr. Blight." Captain Planet spoke to her as he re-entered her blimp "Looks like your plan wasn't full proof after all."

"Go to hell! I hate you! You disgust me!"

"Now listen..." It soon became apparent to him that she would not stop to listen, but feeling that he should at least try to inform her he proceeded to say: "I'm going to take you to the Scotland Yard and hand you over to the authorities. The Planeteers are coming here to land the blimp safely. But you won't be seeing them except behind bars."

Dr. Blight continued shouting invectives and shrieking at him. It was highly doubtful that she had heard him at all. So once he finished his piece he proceeded to restrain her over her loud protests then took her out into the sky and handed her over to Scotland Yard and explained the situation to them and she was promptly arrested and secured in prison. The Planeteers landed Dr. Blight's blimp with little trouble. The authorities soon secured the truck with the deadly payload and carted it away to a safe place.

While the Planeteers were watching the authorities secure the truck and collect the remnants of Dr. Blight's robot the Planeteers spoke among themselves and Captain Planet.

"I know we've had some bad run ins with Dr. Blight," Gi commented, "but even I can't believe she would do something so wildly destructive. It just freaks me out that Dr. Blight very nearly nuked London."

"Imagine all those who would have died," Linka mused, "all those relatives, people who would have lost loved ones..."

"Well, we don't need to imagine, babe," Wheeler interrupted. "Captain Planet saved the day again."

"We can all breathe a great sight of relief that we won't have to think about all that," Kwame interjected into the conversation.

"Well, I'm glad to be of service," Captain said speaking to them. "I have to admit I was quite concerned over this situation. Especially when I was at the truck. I only stopped the timer with three seconds to go."

"Thankfully Dr. Blight seems to have been quite conscientious about insuring there was no contamination," Ma Ti said, commenting upon the situation. "She must not have wanted to be detected until it was time to detonate it."

"I am glad to have been of service and put an end to this terrible plan. In seeking to heal the Earth it is not just a matter of sustainable management of resources, we also need to combat and resolve feuds of the hearts. And remember, in this matter, as in most others, The power is yours."

And so Captain Planet returned to the five rings.

"Come on, Planeteers," Kwame said to the rest. "Let's go home." And so after providing detailed statements to the London authorities about the night's affairs the Planeteers went into the Geocruiser and flew home.

The End