- The Take Over Begins.
"Waaah…" Angelica's yell was short-lived as the blonde made a gracious spin and landed effortlessly after Shego threw her the other side of the room. The green villainess dropped her battle stance and grinned slyly at the girl.
"Better; much, much better, Blondie," Shego complimented her, "not as good as my self, of course, but you had been the best working-out partner I've had besides Princess."
"Thanks… and, you have to call Kim 'Princess' all the time? It kind of gets on my nerves," Angelica panted as removing some sweat from her forehead.
"Hey, I call everyone by names; you do it all the time with that freckled boy."
"Yeah, but… well, I grew up with the guy."
"And I see Possible a lot more frequently than my siblings," Shego shrugged, "now, back to topic, I think you are now ready for the take over. My brothers or your companions had suspected anything? Contrary will surprise me, I assure you… especially with my brothers."
"No, they hadn't; Finster and my cousin had been a little suspicious because I had never been a sportive girl, but they know how stubborn can be, and since keep bossing them all the time, I'm close enough to normal."
It had been about a week and a half after Shego and Angelica's 'business' meeting, and even if the blonde was still afraid of the villainess, she now could stand her presence a lot better. As indicated, Angelica reported Chuckie and Tommy's progress at her, especially concerning the suggestions Shego made to the teen to make they improve in both their fighting style and use of their powers, the trio making a remarkable work in little time. However, Shego also insisted on keeping some of the tricks she taught Angelica as a secret between them, since it would be necessary sooner than Angelica wanted.
"So, Hego had told you when will have the 'field training'?"
"Tomorrow," Angelica sighed, "the whole thing will be just walking around the city and help people if needed. We'll wear the new outfits under our normal clothing."
"And how are Sparky and Geek naming themselves; Tango and Chango?"
"Believe it or not, your brother considered those names… and got the best embarrassed face I've ever seen when Tommy reminded him 'Tango' is a dance, and Mister Languages Finster mentioned 'Chango' is a Spanish slang word for 'Monkey'." Angelica rolled her eyes.
"And people keep wondering why I left the team." Shego slapped her forehead in annoyance. "Anyway, just play your role as we planned, and you'll fulfill your contract's part without any trouble."
"I know… don't mess with the plan and you don't mess with my life." Angelica nodded. "So… better go now and rest; I don't play Judas everyday… at least, not to this scale."
"Don't worry," Shego placed a hand on the teen's shoulder as walking her to the exit and handling her a little device, "moving from naughtiness to real evil is like eating chocolate; you know it's bad for you, but once tasting it can't stop."
"One classmate told me her elder sister heard a similar thing once, and now said classmate has three nephews." The blonde finally left, Shego stopping on her tracks when hearing the last line.
"Better start practicing my sarcasm; I like being the witty one."
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Hego, in his civilian identity, drove his regular car, a large van, with Mego, or, more precisely, Mike, sitting next to him, and the twins sitting at the back with the threesome. Since obviously they weren't on their superheroes identities, Hego finally had to reveal his real name to Tommy and company, Mike and Willy already done when they went town with Team Possible. Practically all of them wore loose clothing since wearing Team Go's disguises under the civilian outfit.
"I have a doubt, Mego… I mean, Mike." Tommy asked the shrinking hero.
"What?" Mike replied as politely as possible while looking at Tommy through the rearview mirror.
"Well, our powers affect stuff we touch… otherwise your clothes wouldn't change size, or Willy and Wendell's wouldn't multiply, right?"
"Yeah; you finally figured it out." Mike rolled his eyes.
"Okay, my doubt is why don't you shrink gadgets or stuff to put it in your pocket? That way you would be the team's gadget-guy or something like that."
"Tommy, my power is good enough to fight evil!" Mike got a slightly offended tone. "I don't need artificial help."
"Besides, Tommy," Harry interrupted to stop a scene, "our power only affects things when we consciously want it to happen; if Mike used that trick, he'd need a lot of focus to keep the gadgets small; besides, if trying to pass a lot of his power to a single object, Mike would drain his reserves and wouldn't have his full power for a while. The same would happen to any of us if doing it."
"Got it; sorry if offended anyone, but was curious." Tommy said politely before giving a fast glance at Mike, who was frowning slightly.
"I just hope we don't need to change to hero mode." Chuckie sighed, more than a little nervous. "I'm no longer so sure about my disguise; looked good on paper, but…"
"Cool down, Finster, it fits; if you do something right, you'll seem braver, and if not, the disguise goes perfect with a scaredy cat." Angelica said without losing sight of her window. Chuckie was about to reply when noticing her mood; last time she was like this was when Kim and Ron picked them up at Tommy's place; the geek guessed it was due nervousness.
After a while of driving downtown, Harry parked the car near an important avenue and addressed the group.
"Okay, Team, this is just a little walking around; no calling for unneeded attention unless your powers get needed. To do this faster and more efficiently, we'll split up in three groups, and keep contact by regular cell phone unless there's an emergency, in which case we'll use our communicators; Chuckie, you will go with the twins; Angelica, you with Mike; and Tommy, you and me."
The group agreed on Harry's idea, and a few seconds later Angelica was walking alongside Mike; usually, walking around looking at anything from the many stores she was passing by would be quite funny for Angelica, but this time she had another thing in her mind, and had to finish it as fast as possible.
"I'm telling you, Harry doesn't realize how worthy I am for the team! So, what if my power isn't so spectacular? It's great, and with lots of handy uses!"
While Mike continued his rambling, Angelica put a hand inside her pocket, finding not Team Go's communicator but the one Shego gave her.
A few blocks away, inside the stereotypical black van hidden at an alley, Shego and a couple of henchmen, checking several monitors, took out her own communicator.
"Hey, J and D, Blonde just sent us the signal; we have her location, and also a general idea of the other targets' one."
"Excellent, Miss Go… you know, this would be a lot easier if you just tell us how your brothers and those new kids look like!"
"No, thanks; as long as I'm the only one with that information, it makes me worthier and can charge some extra cash."
"Told you she wouldn't tell; still keeps secrets from me and I'm her employer!"
"The lady is smart; okay, Miss Go, our operatives will provide the distraction; just get sure Miss Angel do her job."
"Immediately, Mister J… you know, I'm better calling you just 'J' or 'H', because I just felt like another villain who isn't exactly my style." Shego shook her head and sent a signal back to Angelica. The blonde felt the vibration on her pocket and took a deep breath; any minute now.
"So, how much criminality this city has, aside the super crooks, I mean?" Tommy asked Harry as they stopped at a corner waiting for the green light.
"Well, not as much as larger cities like Chicago or New York, but still enough to keep cops busy, especially during the time Team Go disbanded and I was the only one around; super strength is great, but there were many times I could have used some extra hands or long-ranged attacks. You never know when evil will strike." Harry ended with a semi-heroic pose that got cut by an extremely noisy and fast vehicle releasing a massive dark smog cloud.
"Long live the dirt and smog!" Eco Loco laughed madly while driving a huge modified garbage truck, with two large pipes at the sides to release huge amounts of his toxic cloud.
"Tommy… -cough- are you okay?" Harry asked a kneeled Tommy, who fortunately ducked in time to avoid breathing most of the smog. Next to them, many peasants were coughing and either kneeled or in four, trying to catch their breath back.
"Yes… that was Eco Loco, right?" Tommy asked, finally getting his breath back. Hego nodded and took out his communicator.
"Team Go, alert! Eco Loco just passed us; we're at the intersection of Obvious Avenue and Trap Street. Go!" Hego said as he and Tommy started looking for a place to change to their hero clothes, dashing at a nearby alley. The other groups hurried up to do the same as them.
"Okay, Dynamo, let's get that polluting prison-meat!" A few moments later, Hego emerged on his Team Go's uniform and Tommy followed him. The boy's disguise had purple gloves and boots (the last ones with the metallic soles he already had tested), with a large black lightning at the torso over an indigo background. The rest of the outfit was indigo as well, except the mask, entirely black, with a stylish design that resembled a lightning volt as well. Tommy/Dynamo used his electromagnetic powers to levitate and follow Hego, who was using his super strong legs at top capacity to chase Eco Loco's vehicle.
Meanwhile, at another alley…
"Hurry up, Feline! The criminal isn't going to wait for us!" A Wego playfully teased Chuckie to make the geek leave the alley and follow the twins.
"Now I really look like a living toon… good thing at least made it comfortable." Chuckie, who was sure by now Angelica told Monique he was a scaredy cat, finally emerged from the alley; his suit resembling a tiger pattern, with large black and orange stripes all over it. His mask, that had the protective goggles incorporated, was totally black and quite similar to Team Go's regular ones, but his gloves (one orange, the other black) were considerably thicker because of the extra clothing Chuckie used to make them more resistant. The whole concept of the disguise was the fact the geek's power was the equivalent of having nine lives or more, plus being the most agile of the trio. Chuckie/Feline ran behind the twins, knowing he would outrun them in a second if wanted, but since had no idea about where to go decided to stay a few feet back.
About the same time this happened, Mego was finishing with his suit, him and Angelica being the last ones to find an alley to change, the man showing his back to the girl to give her the privacy she requested.
"Are you done, or are going to apply make-up?" Mego was about to rant when feeling an acute pain at the base of his neck. A couple of seconds later, the man was knocked out at Angelica's feet; her outfit looked a lot like Uma Thurman's in the first 'Kill Bill' movie, yellow with the black lines at the sides, but used black boots that almost covered half of her leg, and black gloves that reached her elbows; plus, her mask was thinner and more styled than her companion's, almost as if had been painted instead of put on. She also had a stylish drawing at her chest that, when standing up, looked a lot like a wings-extended angel on stood position, and, when flying, would give the illusion of a bird of prey looked from below.
Angelica looked down at Mego and then at the tiny dart at his neck, the one she took out from the secret compartment Shego told her the communicator had. The blonde then turned on the communicator to call the green villainess.
"First active appropriated; waiting for instructions."
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"Out of my way, soap-lovers!" Eco Loco crashed several cars, the truck resisting the hits perfectly. A patrol tried following him, but the smog was just too much for the cops and forced them to stop.
"If you think that was polluting enough, wait to get a full dosage!" Eco Loco pushed a button to release a larger smog cloud, but nothing happened, and, a few seconds later, the smog stopped completely.
"What the… hey, stop messing with my pipes!" The villain turned to see a hovering Dynamo using his electromagnetism to bend the pipes and cut the smog. The boy allowed the truck's mass to pull him, so could follow the vehicle at top speed without problems.
"If you think this was bad, wait to see what's in front." Dynamo smirked at Eco Loco, who looked back at the road just in time to see Hego standing on his way.
The blue hero held his ground and wide opened his arms to receive the vehicle. The collision was brutal, but Hego still resisted, practically sinking his feet at the pavement, making large chunks of concrete to jump aside until the blue hero stopped the truck for good; Hego then lifted the truck a couple of feet and waited for Tommy to move aside the vehicle.
"Dynamo, get the tires!"
"I'm on it!" Tommy threw some electric balls at the vehicle's tires, ruining them, so Hego could put down the truck. The Wegos and Chuckie/Feline arrived at the scene a few moments later.
"Oh, we missed all the fun!" The twins complained.
"Not really, Team Ego… this is just starting. Let me introduce you my new partner and our pets." Eco Loco whistled and the sides of the truck opened, revealing Ram holding a pair of large vicious looking dogs with two thick chains; Chuckie gulped as looking at them and then at his own outfit, the less adequate when mad canines around.
"No junkyard is complete without some guard dogs!" The Ram grinned evilly before releasing the dogs that charged at Feline and the Wegos. Tommy used his magnetism on the dogs' chains to restrain them, but Eco Loco surprised him with a little smog bomb, so Dynamo had to release the animals.
"So you now are working together?" Hego growled as he and Ram circled each other.
"Well, it was about time we did something about you do-gooders and the whole strength in numbers' thing." Ram grinned evilly at the blue hero, "By the way, do you know where the rest of your team is?"
"Over here, Losers!" All the heroes looked up at a nearby building, and gasped when looking at Gill holding two sacks; Mego's head was visible popping from one, and the other, even if the head wasn't totally visible, showed some bright blond hair.
"He got Angel and Mego!" Feline, who luckily was ignored by the dogs when the Wegos multiplied (so the animals were now trying to choose a prey among several possible ones) said in both anger and fear.
"Come and get me, fools!" Gill cackled before started jumping from a rooftop to another carrying his prey. Hego then noticed Eco Loco was fleeing away, and had to take a quick decision; Hego obviously couldn't allow Gill to leave with two team members, but someone had to stay and fight Ram before he could escape like the polluting criminal.
"Dynamo, Feline, you two handle Ram and the dogs! The Wegos and I will get Gill!"
The Wegos, dodging the dogs' attacks, nodded at his brother and absorbed back their clones, confusing the animals. Hego then forgot about Ram and grabbed the twins, and, after taking some impulse, jumped to the closest rooftop to start chasing Gill.
"So, it's me and the fresh meat… this will be fun." Ram charged against Tommy, who threw a strong voltage attack at his enemy's helmet, but unfortunately it was perfectly isolated so Ram got no damage at all; Dynamo barely could move aside to avoid getting stomped. The boy then used his magnetism on any metallic objects Eco Loco might had at the garbage truck to use them as a weapon, but most of them were so small they made no damage on Ram when throwing them against him.
"Down, doggies… nice doggies…" Chuckie did his best to calm down the dogs, without any success, as he found himself running circles around the truck with them in hot chase a few moments later. The geek then noticed the problems Tommy was having with Ram, his whole outfit designed to stand both strong impacts and high voltage.
"Hey, Dynamo, do you care if we change?"
"No problem!" Tommy levitated to escape Ram's grip, and then started shooting some minor electric attacks at the dogs, just to get their attention so Feline could escape them. Dynamo then used his electromagnetism on the chains and tied the animals to a hydrant.
Feline, on the meantime, charged at Ram, who didn't took him seriously until receiving a sharp punch at the guts. The villain then tried punching Chuckie, who avoided all the attacks with a minor effort and then surprised Ram by jumping at his back and holding from the helmet's horns.
"Hey, get down, you pesky cat!" Ram roared as trying to get rid of Feline, even impacting his back against the garbage truck, but Chuckie's orange glow healed him immediately from that hit and kept on his place. The villain then looked at the building in front of them, and smirked.
"Let's see if you can stand this!" Ram charged at the building at top speed, ready to crush the wall and his enemy at the same time, but right before reaching the wall, Chuckie handled to remove the helmet and jump down the villain's back.
CRACK!
"That must hurt." Tommy commented to his friend as moving next to him, both boys looking at the now unconscious Ram and the half-wrecked wall.
"Better go with the others to help Angelica and Mike." Chuckie whispered to Tommy, who shook his head as summoning all the metallic objects he could to put over Ram, just in case.
"No; we don't know where they left, and even if the hard-skull guy here is out, need to stay and keep an eye on him until police arrives. Just hope Hego and the twins can handle that fish dude."
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Gill finally found his destination, a large warehouse; instead of breaking though a window or the roof, the mutant simply jumped in front of the main door, a thick metal one, and opened it, giving a fast look at the buildings around, finally spotting Hego and his brothers approaching.
"You fools and Team Possible aren't the only ones who can set up a trap." Gill said to himself as entering the warehouse and then covering the door with his slime from the inside to make it harder to open. Hego and the Wegos were in front of the door a few moments later.
"I don't know, Hego," a Wego said, "this looks like a trap."
"Indeed, so we'll act intelligently; I'll give you two one minute to go the sides of the warehouse and enter through a window or another door; then, I'll make my own entrance." Hego said in his heroic tone; the twins nodded and split up to cover both sides of the building.
Exactly a minute later, Hego used his super-strength to take down the door, while the Wegos, by using their human pyramid's system, entered the building by reaching a window each. Soon, the three heroes re-meet at the warehouse's center; the place was practically empty except for a sack at the middle of it.
"Mego!" A Wego rushed to check his brother. "He's okay; just sleeping."
"Either he went back to sleeping at job, or was drugged." Hego frowned, "And where's Angel?"
"Yes, and why Gill would drop our brother and keep her if he got them both on first place?" The other Wego pointed.
At that moment, the warehouse got engulfed by a white thick mist, illuminated by lots of white lights, a second steel door appearing to cover the destroyed one, and then, a few feet behind Team Go, a dark ninja-like figure about the twins' size, jumped from above.
"Who are you, and what's your relation with Gill?" Hego said in his best authoritarian tone, but the newcomer kept total silence. "This guy isn't collaborating, so guess we'll need to make him do it! Go, Team Go!"
The Wegos multiplied to catch the ninja, who avoided them with a series of impossibly high jumps. Hego calculated the place his enemy would land to catch the ninja, but the attacker surprised him with an incredible strong punch that actually stunned the hero, feeling as if been hit by a taxi at whole speed.
While Hego recovered, his brothers tried again to catch the enemy, but found them selves moving a lot slower than usual, and finally noticed temperature was quickly dropping.
"This mist… is some sort of freezing stuff!" A Wego said through clenched teeth. His twin nodded, as all the clones got affected in a similar way. The only reason they could still move was their outfits' extra protection, and it wasn't helping that much.
The ninja, who seemed to be quite comfortable, made another impossible jump, and then dived down with a stomp, so powerful it sent a shockwave through the whole warehouse, taking the Wegos and Hego out of balance. The twins, already in a bad condition trying to fight while their bodies shivered, fused back with their clones by mere instinct, both to keep warmth and recover faster from the vibration; the ninja lost no time and, moving at high speed, kneeled a Wego and punched his chin to knock him out, and then turned at the second twin, grabbing him by the shoulders and then throwing him against his big brother, the impact stunning Hego slightly and taking the other Wego out from the fight.
Hego, more than slightly angry, charged at the ninja, who dodged all his punches with such easiness it seemed like a game for the enemy, Hego's speed already affected by the temperature's drop as well. Then, the ninja intercepted Hego's attack and grabbed him by the wrist, throwing him the other side of the warehouse as easily as with Wego. Hego stood up ready to fight when feeling the ninja grabbing him from behind, and then, in a sudden, Hego found himself rocketed up to the air, his head smashing against the warehouse's very tall ceiling, and then felt as if weighing a ton before diving back to the ground at an amazing speed.
BOOOOOM!
The ninja released Hego a split moment before power diving him against the warehouse's concrete floor. When dust cleared, Hego was unconscious at the middle of a large crater.
A few seconds later, the lights went back to normal, and a specially built air duct sucked away all the mist. Gill, who was hidden behind a secret door the whole time, emerged with a huge smile on his fishy face and holding the other sack.
"Very impressive, girl! Of course, I've handled these losers before, but for a rookie, you did it quite well." Gill laughed as finally dropping the sack, revealing a blond-haired dummy inside.
"I would take that as a compliment if not coming from Nemo's ugly cousin." The ninja finally removed the mask, revealing Angelica in her Golden Angel's disguise. "But yeah… they didn't even suspect it was me."
Despite her success, Angelica still couldn't believe she was able to take down Hego and the twins, especially with the lights to dissimulate her glow, and therefore they fought her like any other villain. Of course, she had some help with the mist to make them slower –as Shego predicted, her aura gave the girl some limited protection against cold temperatures- and the newest trick she and the green villainess practiced, increasing her and other people and objects' weight for a few moments; when hitting Hego the girl had increased her weight so much the impact was too much even for a super-strong guy, and applied the same trick when smashing him against the floor. The backside of this trick was that Angelica couldn't rise when using it, being too heavy to fly, so it had to be employed only for diving attacks and, occasionally, very fast punches and kicks.
At that moment, a man in black business suit entered the warehouse, clapping calmly; Gill got a little smirk while Angelica got a wary expression.
"Even with those advantages, you did a very remarkable job, Miss Angel. Guess it's finally time to allow you a more active… participation on this operation."
"And you are…"
"Jack Hench, Hench Co's CEO; we'll talk a little more at my office, Miss Angel. We'll get the last two assets later; for now, must discuss your future."