Attention all former, current and new readers! This is NOT a standalone story; it is part of a faux story lineup I have written as part of a continuation of the TV series. If you have not previously read the stories, or chapters, that come before this one, I highly advise at least giving them a onceover. A list of the stories that I have written for the lineup can be found on my homepage here on this site. It lists the stories in their correct order. However, if you wish to continue, you may do so at your own discretion…you have been warned.
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Sorry it took so long to post this. I've actually had this chapter and the next one done for a week now, but I've been busy with work and jury duty and helping my mother after her foot surgery etc.
These next two chapters will be a continuation of the previous one, meaning that chapters 10, 11 and 12 were all once one chapter in the original version of this story. Anyone wondering when I'm gunna bring Danielle and Jazz back into this, chapter 13 will see them reappear. The reason for this being that the events that have happened in the last few chapters have all taken place on the same night, within just a few hours of each other. I haven't yet figured out whether they'll make a full chapter appearance or just a section of the chapter because I haven't yet started writing it.
Also, I have decided that for anyone wishing to read the previous version of this story, I will be reposting it as a separate story. Unlike Renegade Phantom and the Rouge Wave where I posted the previous versions at the end, this story will just be too long for that. So instead I will post it as a separate story. When it comes time for me to update A Trip Through Time, I will add those chapters onto the previous version story of A Twist in the Dimensions. I only have time today to post these two chapters though, so you'll all have to wait a bit longer before I post the previous version of this story, and even longer before the next chapter comes out I'm afraid.
Hope you enjoy this in the meantime.
A short while later; the hovercraft was soaring over a large body of water as it approached an island with a tall tower standing in the middle. KM had retaken her seat next to Danny; her glider no longer out as she had retracted it into the soles of her suit after it had been fixed. Danny had folded his arms and scowled in deep thought. He hardly noticed as they began to descend towards the island.
"Well, here we are," Drakken said as the hovercraft settled onto the ground. "GO Tower, like you requested," he said, turning to the teens in the back. "Care to tell us why we brought you here?" he asked of Danny in particular as he cocked an eyebrow at the teen.
"You'll find out if and when this actually works," Danny answered as his eyes refocused on the blue man. He then stood and jumped over the edge of the hovercraft before looking up at the tower before them. "Is it really shaped like the word GO?" he asked, cocking an eyebrow in confusion.
"Unfortunately," KP sighed as she came up beside him. "Not too original considering GO City can be seen right over there," she said as she pointed off into the distance where the glowing city could be seen in the setting sunlight. "And over there is GO Mountain," she added, pointing in a different direction towards a mountain in the distance.
"There people need to come up with more original names," KM sighed as she came up on Danny's other side, shaking her head in disbelief. "So what do you think about this rock?" she asked him in a hushed tone so no one other than Danny could hear, but KP was close enough to overhear anyway.
"If we can get our hands on that rock, we might have a fighting chance," Danny answered back in a whisper. "I won't know for sure until I see it for myself and examine it; but you know me, I don't really think that far ahead," he admitted with a chuckle.
KP furrowed her eyebrows slightly at the thought of them using the colored comet for purposes that didn't serve any of their needs. They had neglected to answer why they needed to see the comet in the first place. In fact, they became instantly curious about the rock upon hearing about it. It could be because they were just from another dimension, or perhaps they were just playing them all for fools, hoping to get close enough to it in order to steal it. Perhaps they were working with that Freakshow guy; he had intended to kill them but never did because he was perhaps hoping they'd steal the comet for him. All of these thoughts raced through her head in an instant. 'I'll have to keep an eye on these two," she thought to herself.
"Whoa!" Ron suddenly yelled out. Everyone turned to see him stumbling to climb out of the hovercraft. His pant legs had gotten caught on the side, so when he tumbled over the edge, his pants slid down around his ankles as he slammed his head into the ground. Rufus sat on the ground watching him with concern as he rubbed the top of his head where it had hit the ground. "Why did my pants have to come off?" he asked angrily.
Danny couldn't help but chuckle and KM blushed at the sight of the boy in his boxers before looking away quickly. KP only rolled her eyes as Ron managed to scramble to his feet and pulled his pants back up to his waist. "What happened to the belts you used to wear?" KP asked him with a slightly scolding tone.
"Hana keeps biting them in half," he answered as he secured his pants all the way on. "We think she's teething," he added as an afterthought.
"Hey! Can we focus here?" Shego interrupted them. They looked at her and she seemed quite irritated. "We've got a clown to stop and if my brothers have something that can help, then let's just get it and vamoose," she growled as she began to hurriedly stomp up towards the tower.
"You heard the green lady!" Tim shouted to the others encouragingly.
"Let's get going!" Jim shouted in the same tone as they both ran to catch up with Shego and Drakken who had almost made it to the tower.
The group caught up with them just as they approached the metal door that was the entrance to the tower. There were no handles, but before Danny or KM could ask how they got in, Shego had placed her hand in a scanner next to the door. Her hand began to glow with green energy before the door opened up before them.
Danny and KM whistled with astonishment as they entered into a short corridor before coming into a large room with a circular table in the center. Around the table were five chairs; each colored blue, green, purple and two red. Above the table was a large screen monitor which was currently turned off. In fact, everything was turned off, even the lights. The place was covered with dirt and dust; it was as if the place had been abandoned.
"Did they fly the coop?" Ron asked, looking around the gloomy room.
"My brother's probably just slaked off for a little while," Shego answered with a growl. "They don't fight a whole lot anymore, so they tend to get lazy," she stated before someone was heard yelling as four men entered the room.
A large man with a blue suit similar to Shego's was yelling at a younger, skinnier man with a purple suit similar to Shego's as well. "All I am asking is that you take care of your share of the chores around here," the large blue man scolded him.
"Will you take it easy and wrap this around that empty head of yours?" the man in purple said to him. "I am responsible for cleaning the kitchen and you are responsible for cleaning the upstairs lounge. We have both done that. It is the Wego's responsibility to clean down here," he reminded him, indicating the two red-clad twins behind them.
They were both dressed in red costumes similar to the others and were much shorter in comparison. "Oh we'll get around to it eventually," one of them said.
"Yeah, it's not like we're gunna have company any time soon or anything," the other said before Shego cleared her throat to get their attention.
All four of them looked up and seemed quite shocked to see her standing in the room. She clapped her hands and the lights instantly came on before she folded her arms and glared at them. "Is arguing all you guys do now that I'm no longer here to babysit all of you?" she asked them angrily. "Good thing it's us, because if it was one of your enemies sneaking in here, they would have been successful at whatever they wanted to do, I guarantee that to you," she assured them.
"Shego!" the Wego twins, the boys in red, half yelled cheerfully as they threw their arms into the air over their heads.
"Sis, it is so good to see you again," Hego, the guy in blue, said as he rushed over and embraced her in his massive arms, much to her disgust.
"Get off me you worm," she threatened him as she shoved him to the floor.
"You still haven't changed that much from the old days, have you?" Mego, the skinny guy in purple asked her as he approached her. He then leaned in close to Drakken. "You'd think you'd have calmed her down a little bit since the wedding a few days ago," he whispered, but Shego heard him.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" she yelled as she tackled him to the floor.
"Whoa, break it up you two," the Wego twins said in unison as they each pulled Shego and Mego off from one another. Danny, Ron, Drakken and the two Kim's just looked on as the Wego twins struggled to keep their siblings from fighting one another.
"Ah, just like old times," Hego said with a happy sigh. He then turned to the others and greeted them. "It is nice to see you again, Kimberly," he greeted KP. "And you Ronald, you sure have grown…" he started to say but Ron cut him off.
"Taller, smarter, stronger, more handsome?" Ron asked in a self-gratifying tone.
"More annoying," Hego finished with an annoyed scowl. "So what brings you all to our humble abode?" he asked them, returning to his previous cheerful mood.
KP and Ron answered merely by standing aside so Hego could more properly see Danny and KM standing behind them. It was only now that Hego saw them and went wide eyed when he realized two teens he had never met before were here with them.
"Whoa," KM said with astonishment. "He's definitely the strong man of the group," she said to Danny as she looked the blue man up and down, examining his musculature. Being as big as he was, he must have possessed great super-natural strength.
Ignoring her amazement, Danny cocked an eyebrow as he looked the blue man in the eyes. "I hear you've got a rainbow colored comet that gave you powers?" he said, causing Hego's eyes to widen drastically.
"Wait!" Mego suddenly shouted, halting his attempts to attack his sister who also paused in her struggle to free herself from her brother's grasp. "How'd he find out about the comet?" he asked suspiciously.
"And how do you know that it gave us powers?" Hego asked, just as suspiciously as he cocked an eyebrow in Shego's direction.
She merely chuckled as he glared at her. "You guys are gunna love this," she said with a delightful chuckle. "Just when you think all the wackiest things have happened in this world, something else comes along and makes things all the weirder," she stated before she turned towards the table in the center of the room and promptly took a seat in the green chair.
"We should all take seats," KP explained to the GO brothers who seemed more confused than anything as their guests made their way towards the table. "Explaining everything could take a little while," she informed them as she too made her way to the table.
At the table, Hego pressed a button in the side of it that opened up seven holes in the floor that produced enough chairs for everybody to have a seat. He took his own seat, the blue chair, and sat patiently as everyone else got situated. As they were, Shego decided to start things off.
"We just got done fighting this new guy with some very strange abilities that stunned even me," she explained to her brothers now that she finally had a chance to relax.
"Strange abilities?" Hego asked curiously.
"Powers that stunned you?" Mego asked with a snort, as if he wasn't buying into it. "What powers could a new foe possess that would stun even you?" he asked her mockingly.
"Powers that we all possess," Shego answered in irritation at not being taken seriously. "He possessed all of our powers; and more that I couldn't even explain."
"This guy was throwing us around like rag dolls," KP informed the GO brothers. "We only managed to get away thanks to Ron catching him off guard with his Monkey Powers," she explained, indicating Ron by her side who grinned with a cheeky smirk as he leaned back in his seat and folded his arms behind his head.
"Powers that we all possess?" Hego asked, stunned by the turn of events they had just described. "It wasn't Aviarius again, was it?" he asked, suddenly doubtful again.
"I said it was a NEW guy," Shego retorted angrily. "You brain-dead monkey," she mumbled under her breath as she folded her arms and leaned back in her chair.
"Not only did this guy have powers similar to yours, but he possessed a lot more that just aren't from this world," KP continued to explain.
"Power's from another world?" one of the Wego twins asked with eyes widened by shock.
"What world?" the other Wego twin asked curiously.
"Our world," Danny answered, drawing attention to him. "My friend and I are from a different dimension," he explained. "A different plane of reality," he added further.
"We are from a world where super-natural beings, simply known as "ghosts"," KM said with air quotes. "Are a real problem for us," she informed them. "They may not be real here, but they are in our world."
"And the guy that we just got done fighting possesses a weapon that allows him to distort the very fabric of reality itself," Danny continued. "He opened a hole between our worlds, which is how we came to be here," he added, indicating KM and himself. "We are here looking for my sisters, but he followed us."
"We currently have no way of combating him," KM continued. "My suit offers some protection, but it's not enough, especially when he has the power to take all of us on at once," she added, indicating the other Kim and Shego, as well as herself.
"I used to possess these powers as well," Danny continued. "With them, I might be able to beat this guy so we can go home. Otherwise, we're stuck here," he added, rather gloomily. "But a glimmer of hope has revealed itself to me by chance," he added, his mood brightening. "If this comet you possess gave you powers; then maybe it can return mine to me as well."
Everyone looked to the GO brothers for their reactions and found that all four of them looked so frazzled, their brains may have melted. Everything that they had just heard in the last few seconds had left them completely dumbfounded and utterly speechless. They eventually shook their heads to clear their thoughts so they could try to understand what they had just taken in.
"That was almost too much to process," one of the Wego twins said as he held his head as if he had a headache. His twin nodded in agreement as he too held his hand over his forehead.
"All this with being from a different dimension, and ghostly enemies," Hego said as he shifted his head and hands from side to side as if contemplating their reliability. "I mean, that's kind of hard to imagine."
"And a weapon that can tear a hole between the dimensional walls?" Mego scoffed, not believing any of it. "Please," he said with a snicker as he shook his head. "How could a kid like you possess any kind of spectral powers?" he asked, sizing up Danny's figure which seemed a bit wimpy with him in his normal form.
"I have to agree with my brother," Hego said defiantly. "And if you did have these so-called powers, then how would using the rainbow comet help you get them back if you've lost them?" he asked, becoming more and more skeptical with each passing second.
"Because you guys possess those same powers," Danny retaliated with an angered scowl. "At least some of them," he added, looking around the table at the five siblings.
The GO brothers all looked at each other as if they had been trapped in their own words, and Shego was enjoying it. She had already seen for herself what Freakshow was capable of, and she had fought side by side with the other Kim; so she knew there had to be some validity to their claims.
"From what Shego's told us, you guys got your powers from the comet," KM stated before they could find another hole in their story and exploit it. "Danny got his from a portal accident that infused his body with ghost DNA, turning him into a half ghost, half human hybrid with a wide arrange of supernatural powers that are growing off the scale."
"And we believe you guys share a few of the same abilities," Danny concluded. "I don't know what you call them here, but we call them "Ghost Powers" back home."
"And we can vouch for them," Drakken said, adding to the conversation to try and persuade the GO brothers that this was not a hoax. "That Freakshow guy recognized Shego's powers and even demonstrated the ability to not only replicate it on a much larger scale, but he replicated your powers as well as many others that we can't quite describe."
"He was only toying around with us," KM continued. "And that wasn't even at full power. Without Danny's powers, his sister is the only one that can take him on head to head, because she still has her powers."
"But she's young and not as experienced as I am, which is why we need to get me back my powers by any means necessary," Danny explained. "And I believe you guys possess the means by which I can do just that," he concluded, eyeing each of the GO brothers in turn as they glanced at each other again before they looked back at him, this time with a bit more understanding.
"You really possessed the same powers as us?" Hego asked, sounding more concerned than he was baffled only moments before.
"And many more," Danny answered with a nod. "You guys only seem to have grasped some of the basics though by our standards," he informed them.
"Basics!?" the Wego twins and Mego half shouted angrily as they stood from the table in protest.
"We've been utilizing our powers since before you were born, kid," Mego informed him as he pointed across the table to the raven haired teen who seemed not the least bit deterred by his sudden change in mood. "How could we only have grasped a basic concept if we've been honing them in for several years?" he asked, again sounding skeptical.
"Because some powers require the use of others or several abilities that you don't have," KM answered him with a scowl of her own. "You can't wall walk unless you know how to fly; you can't overshadow someone unless you can become intangible," she listed off on her fingers.
"Wait, flying?" Hego asked, flabbergasted as the three other brothers retook their seats. "Overshadowing, intangibility. I've never even heard of powers like that!" he said with a bit of shock.
"Well, like we said, you guys only have a basic understanding of just a few powers," Danny reminded him. "Now, I'm guessing that because you're the big guy, you have Supernatural Strength?" he asked the blue man.
To demonstrate, Hego grabbed the edge of the large table with one hand as it started glowing with blue energy. Then with little to no effort, he lifted the table into a vertical position so it nearly touched the ceiling before he lowered it back into position between all of them.
"I'm guessing that from the look of you, you have the ability to duplicate your form?" Danny asked as he pointed back and forth between the Wego twins who both seemed delighted at not only being acknowledged, but because he had accurately figured out their power.
"Twins that can duplicate their form," KM said, looking back and forth between them as if wondering if one of them was already a duplicate or if they were really just twins with the same power. "How ironic," she said, getting glares from them; but chuckles from Mego, Shego and even Ron, Tim and Jim. "So how many times can you duplicate?" she asked of the Wego twins.
They answered by standing from the table and began to duplicate themselves. Soon the entire room was filled to capacity with red-suited men, each with the same proud grin. "Wow," Danny exclaimed with some surprise. "I can only make four," he stated as the duplicate Wego's began to disappear until only the original two remained.
"Well it is a technique that you're still practicing," KM pointed out.
"And refining," Danny reminded her. "Vlad could make hundreds, but each one drained his power greatly."
"Couldn't he also change a duplicate into his human form in order to trick people into thinking they were different people?" KM asked him curiously.
"Still working on that variation," Danny answered her. "But these guys can push themselves beyond that even, by the looks of it," he pointed out before he continued. "Now we know that Shego has the ability to generate ecto-plasmic energy in her hands," he stated as everyone looked to her. She charged one of her hands with green energy before she shot a ray of energy out a nearby open window. "Which means you have Spectral Body Manipulation," he concluded, eyeing Mego, seeing as he was the final of the GO siblings whose power had yet to be addressed.
In response, Mego jumped up onto the table with a proud and impressed grin before his entire body began glowing purple. Danny and KM cocked their eyebrows with surprise as he suddenly shrank down to the size of an action figure, but with the same pose he had been maintaining. "That's it?" KM asked, sounding a little disappointed.
"Well what were you expecting?" Mego asked, as if insulted that they weren't impressed with his ability. "A contortionist?" he asked as he grew back to normal size and retook his seat.
"Well," Danny and KM said as they glanced at one another. "Yes," they answered in unison with nods.
"Several Ghosts, and even myself, have the ability to not only contort our bodies; but change our physical shapes altogether to do anything from stretching our bodies to dodge attacks, to changing our appearance completely so we are virtually unrecognizable," Danny explained.
"Now see, that sounds like a cool power," Ron pointed out, leaning forward in his chair. "What you've got dude, barely constitutes as a power," he said mockingly to Mego who seemed less than impressed.
"Well, some ghosts can physically change their size," Danny pointed out. "But I've only ever seen them get bigger, not smaller. You've got a variant that I've never encountered before."
"Huh, and to think that you possessed these powers and several others," Hego pondered to himself, now quite impressed; an accomplishment considering he didn't believe any of it only a few minutes prior. "I've gotta say, it all sounds very impressive. But perhaps we can get back to how the comet is going to help restore the powers that you lost," he proposed to change the subject back to why they were here in the first place.
"That is a good question, Danny," KM informed him. "I mean, if the comet is made of Ecto-ranium, then how are you going to get your Ghost Powers back? I thought it was an anti-ghost element?" she asked, sounding more concerned than confused.
"Wait, what's all this about ecto-what now?" Shego asked them.
"Oww, my brain hurts," Ron said as he rubbed away a headache. Rufus tilted his head in confusion at Ron's actions.
"Ecto-ranium," Danny repeated. "In our world it is a newly discovered element that has properties that allows it to be handled by people, but ghosts can't touch it because it is an anti-ghost element; they'll just end up getting the shock of their lives instead, or worse if exposed for too long," he warned drearily.
"Hey Hego," Mego spoke to him. "That would explain why after the accident, none of us could touch it without getting the shocks of our lives."
"Hey you're right," Hego figured with great surprise. "Ever since we obtained our powers we've only been able to handle the comet with gloves, or tools. We've never been able to physically touch it."
"That's the proof in everything I've been telling you," Danny said as he jumped out of his seat. "If you could, I need to see this rock for myself. The sooner we can figure out how to get my powers back, the sooner we'll be able to fend off Freakshow when he eventually finds us."
"Danny!" KM half shouted as she stood from her seat as well. "Are you even listening to yourself?" she asked him. "It's called an "anti-ghost" element for a reason," she reminded him. "Even I'm starting to doubt your plan now; I mean, how is it going to give you your powers back, when all it does is the complete opposite?" she asked him with a lot of skepticism of her own.
"Because, it does the complete opposite," Danny answered her as if it were just that obvious.
"I don't follow your logic," KM said with a confused cock of her eyebrow.
"It harms ghosts, but it's harmless to humans," he reminded her. "If it hurts, or even destroys ghosts; then for humans, it'll give them powers," he concluded. "Well, if the right conditions are met," he added as an afterthought and a shrug of his shoulders.
"Yes, but Danny, to do that you'd need to find a way to charge it with Electromagnetism and then change its polarity," KM informed him, still with concern over whether or not the plan itself would even work. "That would require a very large amount of power. Then there's the issue of getting you into position to receive the blast of resulting energy that could potentially kill you if it didn't work!"
"Well, half kill me, technically," Danny said with a grin as he folded his arms and looked towards the ceiling without any worry, only infuriating her further, although the news he was about to receive would change that.
"Well as suicidal as you may be, kid," Hego stated with a bit of concern. "We can't let you see the comet," he informed the teen.
"Why?" Danny asked with a scowl, his arms were still folded, so he gave a scolding appearance. KM merely stood aside and, as relieved as she was that Danny might not have to become suicidal just yet, looked at the large man with a look of confusion.
"We don't have it anymore," one of the Wego twins informed him.
"We sent it off for an experimental study," the other Wego twin added.
"Experimental study?" Danny asked, confused and slightly angered by the news he had just been given.
"If only you'd gotten here a few days ago, we wouldn't have had to send it off elsewhere," Hego said with a shrug of his shoulders. "Bad timing really," he admitted. "The question of how it gave us our powers has been bugging us for a while now."
"And so, when the opportunity to have the comet examined on a more scientific level surfaced, we jumped at the opportunity," Mego added.
"Obviously we now know what the unknown element that composed the comet is," Hego continued. "And you've managed to answer a few of the questions we've had about it."
"But it's being tested tonight," one of the Wego twins added. "When they're done, there unfortunately won't be anything left of it."
"A major setback and the loss of a magnificent artifact from space," the other Wego twin added. "But at least the scientific community will have discovered a new element when it's over," he said on a brighter note.
"Too bad they'll destroy the element in the process of figuring out what it is," Hego said with a pout as he folded his arms. "It was a sacrifice we were willing to make though in order to better understand ourselves and our powers," he said before looking at Danny and KM who seemed horrified that their last remaining hope had been shattered. "I'm sorry, but we will be unable to help you in your quest," he sincerely apologized.
"Wow, that really is a major bummer," Ron said in an apologetic tone. "So how do they plan on figuring out what element the rock is made of anyway?" he asked more casually.
"They use Sub-Atomic Particle Accelerators," Tim answered him.
"They can also be referred to as Hadron Colliders for short," Jim added.
"It requires a large amount of power to run the thing," Tim continued.
"They charge the suspect element with enough Electromagnetism to reverse the polarity," Jim continued.
"Then they release the charged particles into the accelerator, where they crash into each other in a gigantic collector," Tim continued.
"The collector reads the remaining subatomic frequencies of the collision of the particles to determine what they are," Jim concluded.
"Too…many…big…words," Ron mumbled as he rubbed his fingers against his temple as if he had a major headache.
"A particle accelerator?" KM said out loud as she began to ponder to herself.
"You have any idea what that it?" Danny asked her, still sounding gloomy and depressed over his idea not falling through.
"Not a whole lot," she answered. "I come from a family of computer programmers, not nuclear physicists," she reminded him. "But an electron collider, like they described, might just be the thing we've been looking for."
"What do you mean?" he asked, confused, but delighted that all hope may not have been lost after all.
"I mean, that if we can figure out where this experiment of theirs is taking place, then we can get you your powers back at the same time that they're doing their experiment," she informed him, a grin spreading across her face. Deep down, she still resented the idea of potentially sending Danny to his death; but she also knew deep down that if they didn't try something, and soon, they wouldn't be able to fight Freakshow and they'd never make it home. This was their only shot. "The conditions would be perfect! They'll charge the Ecto-ranium comet with Electromagnetism, reversing its polarity before they release an energized beam of energy into the accelerator. When it collides with a separate beam in the collector, enough ecto-energy should be released to give you back your powers; if you can get there in time to receive it."
"Kim, you are a fricking genius!" Danny half shouted with delight, making her look away and blush slightly. "Does anyone know where it's happening?" he asked, looking around to the several others that were looking at them with worry, doubt and uncertainty. Only KP seemed to be looking at them suspiciously.
"Not a clue," Mego stated as he folded his arms behind his head and leaned back in his chair.
"And even if we did; I'd feel uncomfortable letting you go off to kill yourself," Hego added with a scowl.
"Well then, we'll just have to figure that out on our own then," KM said snobbishly as she held up her arm.
She pushed one of the buttons on the control panel of her suit. Instantly, her suit retracted itself into a golden bracelet on her wrist; leaving her standing in her white graduation gown which she had been wearing under her suit the whole time. She then proceeded to pull it up and over her head, taking it off and placing it on the table before her.
"Why are you dressed up all fancy?" Danny asked her when he noticed she was not wearing her usual attire under the gown. Instead of her blue shirt with red trim and red pants with a white belt; she wore a regular light-blue t-shirt under a long-sleeved light-purple shirt over it that was partially buttoned at the top in the front. It covered her normally bare midriff and the tops of a pair of mint green jeans that covered the tops of a pair of all white sneakers.
"It was a graduation ceremony, Danny," she reminded him with a bit of irritation as she grabbed her hair and threw it over her head in front of her face. She then proceeded to tie it up into a long pony tail using her head band before she threw it back over her head and let it hang down her back. "Even though you couldn't see, they made everybody dress up nice. Now then, about that collider," she said to remind herself as she reached for her side where her PDA hung, attached to her waist.
She removed the stylus and began typing away at the screen as the others watched on. "Hey, doesn't that look a lot like the Kimmunicator?" Jim asked his twin who nodded in agreement.
"Wonder how advanced it is?" Tim wondered out loud as he stroked his chin.
"Shush!" KP shushed them angrily as the other Kim continued typing away on her PDA. "I'm still trying to get a good read on their intentions," she reminded them in a hushed voice so only the twins and Ron, who sat directly beside her, could hear.
"You guys get internet access here?" KM asked the GO brothers, though none of them in particular as she was still typing away on the PDA.
"Yes, but's it's a secure system," Hego answered with a scowl as he folded his arms and leaned back in his chair puffing out his chest.
"Our enemies were easily able to hack into it so they could spy on us," one of the Wego twins informed the girl.
"So we upgraded the system, adding in extra security to prevent unauthorized access," the other Wego twin added.
"It's locked with a 24 digit pass-code," Mego said with a triumphant grin. "You're not getting in," chuckled mockingly.
"If it were a fifty digit pass-code, then maybe it would have been safe," KM responded with a grin, never taking her eyes off the PDA as she continued to type away. "But I bypassed that security code ages ago," she informed them with a mocking chuckle of her own.
Then to demonstrate, she pressed one final button on her PDA, turning on the monitor that hung on the wall. It came to life, showing a view of all of them in the room situated around the table. She pressed a few more buttons to change the channel on the TV, switching back and forth between different security camera angles of the tower. The upstairs lobby, the front door they had all come in through and even a view of a bathroom stall. Ignoring the last view, the GO brothers all dropped their mouths open in astonishment as she maneuvered herself through their tower's security system, gaining access to the internet in the process.
"Ok, so explain how you plan on finding this place?" Danny suggested so he could understand what she was doing.
"Well," KM responded as she pressed a few more buttons on her PDA. "In our world, there are probably only a few dozen particle accelerators on the planet," she explained to him. "I'm hoping that there isn't a big difference in their numbers here. Once I pinpoint the ones that have the capabilities that match our needs, I need only search for one that is along a similar latitude as us," she explained.
"And how do you know it'll be along a similar latitude as to where we are now?" KP asked skeptically as she cocked an eyebrow and put her hands on her hips.
"Well, you guys said it was happening tonight, right?" KM asked of the GO brothers who all nodded to confirm her question. "Well, it's almost night for us right now, meaning that if it's happening at some point tonight, then it should be on this side of the planet, at the very least," she explained.
She pressed another button on her PDA before a thin beam of light began to emit from the top of the PDA. It extended out and stopped above the middle of the table before it began to grow into a ball that expanded to be several feet across. Everybody was stunned when a red hologram of the Earth appeared in front of them. Tim and Jim whistled in their own astonishment. Drakken's jaw nearly fell off as it dropped. His eyes widened from the shock alone; this was technology far beyond anything he could ever build.
"And doing the experiment at nightfall seems ideal," KM continued as she placed her PDA on the table as it continued to emit the hologram of the planet. She looked up at it with everyone else, but moved it around by sliding the stylus across the touchscreen. "Considering that they need a lot of power to run this thing, they'll probably need to suck power out of the surrounding power grid to make it work. And night is the ideal time to do that because people tend to use less electricity when they're sleeping," she admitted with a chuckle.
She pressed another button on her PDA and several blue dots appeared across the surface of the hologram Earth; pinpointing the locations of all known particle accelerators. A green dot showed their current location in Central US, and there was a blue dot not too far from them to the South. A solid black line ran from the North to the South Poles as it gradually moved West at a very slow pace. It was only a short distance from their current location.
"It'll be nightfall in less than an hour," KM informed the group as she pointed to the black line. "And this one nearby is unfortunately the only one along our latitudinal plane," she said as she slid the stylus across the touchscreen in order to zoom in on their current location.
The hologram of the Earth expanded and dissipated until their location could be seen much more clearly. The green dot showed their location on the outskirts of GO City. The blue dot was no more than fifty miles away to the South, on the outskirts of…
"Middleton!?" everyone gasped with surprise.
Yes, Kim can use her PDA to hack into computers. She's not as good as Tucker though, who could hack into almost anything given enough time. Kim grew up into a family of computer programmers, her father and brother, so why wouldn't she know a thing or two about how to hack into them?
Like I stated at the beginning of the chapter, the next chapter will be a continuation of this one, them having once been apart of the same chapter and all. Luckily, you won't have to wait to read it because I posted them together.