"SHIT!" Reed yells as we all charge forwards.

"Skwydd!" I scream, hand outstretched. Suddenly I can't run, I look down and watch in horror as the ink from the floor starts to trail up my legs binding it in place like-like as if it was alive! Glancing around I can see both Reed and Kenwyn in my position, struggling behind me, and upfront Rex had it the worse. He had been lifted off the ground with tendrils of ink and was being wrapped up in them, they were even starting to cover his face!

Skwydd is limping around, the stuff spewing from his mouth. He had no control over it. A wave of the stuff hit's Reed, Kenwyn, and I, sending us falling to the floor.

"This is so disgusting!" Reed cries out, struggling to get up as the ink holds him to the floor.

Rex transforms his arm into a sword and slices through the ink, tendril things. He races over and starts slicing at the tendrils holding me in place. He grabs my arm and lifts me up; transforming his legs into the Punk Busters, carrying me he rushes over to a dry part of the room near the entrance and sets me down. Then he runs over to help the others. He carries back Skwydd and Kenwyn, then goes back for Reed. Reed collapses to the ground, huffing. "Last? Really?"

Ignoring him Rex yells at the nearly unconscious Skwydd. "Skwydd, what are you doing?!"

Skwydd growls, shaking his head back and forth. His eyes were glowing a strange yellow colour. They shine brightly then he suddenly goes limp.

"That can't be good." I state, starring in worry.

"I don't understand…" Rex mutters. "Skwydd never been able to make his nanite ink solid before!"

"He's out cold." Kenwyn states checking his pulse. "We're not getting any answers out of him."

"Oh my god." Reed whispers in horror as I glance over.

"What? What?!" I say slightly hysterical.

"There are ink stains on my jeans!" He cries in horror, gesturing at his pants.

"Wha- YOU'RE JEANS ARE BLACK!" I shriek, throwing my hands into the air.

Kenwyn ignores us, instead deciding to lecture Rex. "Ya know when you need to talk to a suspect, there are methods of restraint that-"

"First of all, I didn't even hit him!" Rex defends himself. "It was like he was so amped up he burnt out! And second, he's not a suspect, he's a victim!"

"It doesn't matter." Kenwyn declares. "I'm making the call to White."

"Wait, what Skwydd did…something's not right." Rex frowns.

"I agree, the EVO's here are obviously a threat." Kenwyn states.

"No!" Rex whines. "I mean it doesn't add up! Skwydd was happy!"

I follow the two as they get up and start walking, ignoring Reed's whining about his 'ruined' pants.

"Okay it's Skwydd." Rex concedes. "Maybe that's an exaggeration."

"I'm not getting a signal." Kenwyn mutters after her phone doesn't work.

"But he was as happy as I've ever seen him." Rex continues as Kenwyn inspects the ink blocking our path."Why would he mess with that?"

"Maybe you're friend went a little loco." Reed suggests, waving his finger in a circle beside his head. Kenwyn was trying, and failing, to rip at the ink. I try to help her by also pulling it, but it was strong!

"Can you help with this?!" Kenwyn barks at the two.

"In a second." Rex mutters. "Look someone did this to Skwydd, probably same guy who made those threats."

I continue to pull at the ink but it wasn't budging, even Reed gives it a go, but same result.

"Rex! Stop stalling and help!" Kenwyn barks.

"I am." Rex replies.

"Suuuure." Reed mutters.

"White Knight want's answers." Rex continues. "Not questions. Trust me on this!"

Kenwyn pauses, then looks back at Rex. "The minute another civilian is in danger, we're making the call."

"Come on." Rex says smugly. "Nothing bad will happen, you got me here!"

I groan, still tugging at the stupid ink. "Help would be very much appreciated!"

Rex transforms his right arm into the sword again. "Well that's reassuring." Kenwyn mutters sarcastically.

I get out of the way as Rex easily starts hacking at the ink.

"Show off." Reed crosses his arms as we follow Rex out of the room leaving Skwydd behind.

"He'll be in there until he wakes up." Kenwyn says.

We peek out at the crowd, some of which were leaving as Atude panicks. "No, no everybody's leaving!"

"If this thing breaks up the guy who did this to Skwydd is going to get away." Rex glances back at us.

"Maybe that's good." Kenwyn replies. "No one else here will get hurt."

"But then there'll be nothing else for us to do but go home!" Rex exclaims. "And I haven't got my party on yet."

"The horror!" Reed yells sarcastically.

Rex shoots him a glare, and dives through a small hole in the wall that leads on to the stage.

"What is he doing?" I cry, peering through the hole.

"Let me see!" Reed whines, trying to stand beside me.

"Wait!" Rex yells out to the crowd. "There's been a small disturbance, but…everything's cool now! So uh…party on!" He strikes a pose.

"…Idiot!" I mutter, Kenwyn and Reed nod in agreement.

The crowd wasn't convinced, Rex tries again. "Come on, it'll be cool!" He changes his hands into the Smack Hands.

Kenwyn facepals. "What does the word undercover mean to him?!"

"Nothing. Absolutely nothing." I sigh.

"That's all he got?" I hear a crown member yell out. "I'm out of here."

"Tough crowd." Reed mutters.

Rex wasn't done yet though. He changes into the Boogie Pack and soars up, we all strain our necks to see where he's going. He transforms his arm into the sword and slices a giant stalactite and it falls towards the audience.

I gasp but Rex catches it with his smack hands, landing back on to the stage. He places the stalactite, flat side down, on to the stage. The crowd cheers. Rex pulls his goggles down over his eyes, guess he was getting serious. He transforms back into

the giant sword, and then turns the top part into a buzz saw, slicing the stalactite into different pieces as the music pumps louder.

The end result is a sculpture of him, with Smack hands clenched into fists. He starts bowing dramatically and even blows a kiss as the crowd cheers louder.

"Egotistical much?" Reed comments.

I elbow him. "You should not be talking!"

We run out of our hiding spot as Rex walks back into the tunnels via a different route, as we quickly meet up again.

"Nice!" I exclaim, high fiving him.

"Eh, you need to work on you're flying a bit." Reed shrugs, I roll my eyes.

"I guess it's safe to say you just blew our cover." Kenwyn grumbles.

"Or," Rex argues. "We showed up with a talking monkey, I'm kind of world famous, and wearing that outfit you totally blend." He says sarcastically.

Oooh. He had a point there, I guess. But still…oooh!

"Haven't you ever heard of dressing for success?" Kenwyn shoots back.

"It's a good day when I can find my socks." Rex mutters. "So, what's next?"

Kenwyn groans, then starts typing on her phone. "If we're going to catch our guy, we need to start interviewing suspects. Most important thing is to isolate them first, so they can't run when-"

"Hey Thump!" Rex waves at Thump who I just notice is hiding behind a piece of rock near another tunnel. Instead of answering Thump quickly darts away, and Rex tales off after him.

"Or we could just do it your way." Kenwyn grumbles, racing off after him.

"Uh…what just happened?" I mutter.

"We just got left in the dust. Again." Reed sighs, throwing his hands in the air. "Come on…"We chase after the two down the tunnel, and arrive in a more open part of it. Rex and Kenwyn had Thump surrounded, but right when it looks like they might talk there suddenly electrocuted!

"Over there!" Reed shouts, pointing as a figure runs off down a different tunnel.

"Wasn't that-"

"Mouse?!" Kenwyn interrupt me, racing after her.

"It's always the furry ones!" Rex growls, racing past Reed and I on his Rex Ride. It was so hard to see it was freaking dark in here!

I hear what sounds like gun fire and Rex yell in pain. When we get there Mouse is shooting at Kenwyn with some sort of laser gun as Kenwyn tries to dodge.

I spot Rex lying on the ground, "REX!" I scream as I dart behind a piece of stone, Reed dives to the ground as a shot almost hits him.

Kenwyn leaps at the wall, then kicks off, somersaulting towards Mouse and kicks the gun out of her hands.

Okay, cool!

Mouse falls to the floor and Kenwyn leaps at her and knocks off her…head? The mouse head rolls off revealing a women's face underneath, she looked kind of old-ish and had grey hair. Maybe in her fifties?

Kenwyn pins her down to the ground and Reed runs over to them as I dart over to Rex.

"You okay?" I ask, grabbing his arm and helping him to his feet.

He rubs his head but nods. "I'm good."

"She's no EVO." Kenwyn announces.

"Of course not." She replies. "I'm the furthest thing from an EVO, I am a human being." She says in an incredibly snotty voice.

"Oh lovely, things just got a thousand times more complicated." Reed groans as Kenwyn ties her up. We start leading her down the tunnels as she rants.

"It's disgraceful what you're doing here, EVO's and humans should not mix!"

"Lady, you tried to shoot us!" I argue. "That's disgraceful!"

"You're responsible for Skwydd, weren't you?" Kenwyn asks. "What did you do to him?"

"Just shining a little light on how dangerous his kind can be." She declares.

"By juicing his powers?" Rex exclaims. "What were you thinking?"

"Most inorganic material explodes when given that kind of molecular jolt." She explains as we pass by a few confused looking party people. I hope no one got the wrong idea and thought we were kidnapping grandma. "But not nanites, they convert the energy into power that amplifies a EVO's abilities to uncontrollable levels."

"What are you? A science teacher or something?" Rex asks.

"I prayed, twenty five years."

"Huh?" Both Reed and I glance at each other, equally baffled at her answer.

"But if you're not an EVO, how did you do that to Skwydd?" Kenwyn asks.

"Oh I didn't do it, sweetie." She replies. "My partner did."

"Partner?" I mutter, glancing up as a strange sound starts echoing off the walls. Through a hole I can see on stage strange beams of light shooting at the long neck EVO from before. The light was coming from somebody's hands, the EVO from the beginning, the one who could make things explode!

The other EVO howls, his eyes glowing. People start to panic and run, streaming by.

"We have to get these people out of here!" Kenwyn cries out as Atude runs towards us, and Rex charges to the stage. I take off after Rex as Kenwyn gives the old women to Atude, under orders to hold her tight.

Poor Atude was baffled. "Who are you?"

Rex tackles the EVO, and it roars and struggles it's weird tentacle thing waving about. It knocks Rex off and Reed and I jump at it, trying to pin it down. Kenwyn runs to the crowd trying to get them out of the cave, yelling at them to exit in a orderly manner. They ignore her.

I struggle to hold the thing's right arm down while Reed grabs the other, I quickly duck as the tentacle thing nearly bites my face off. "Grab it!"

"You grab it!" Reed yells, staring at the thing in disgust.

Suddenly the thing roars and the next thing I know Reed and I get flung back and go crashing to the ground. I slide past Rex who get's up and charges at the thing with his smack hands but stop when we hear a loud boom.

I don't know what had happened but somehow part of the cave's ceiling was crashing down on top of the people trying to get out! Rex changes into the Boogie Pack and flies over. He then quickly changes back into Smack Hands and tries to catch the falling rocks.

"No!" I gasp, dust rises up and all I can see is a mountain of rubble dividing Reed, Kenwyn, and I from the others.

Kenwyn tries to call for back up but it seems there's no signal.

"Rim, eyes on the EVO!" Reed yells and I look back to see him trying to once again tackle the out of control EVO.

I get distracted when I hear a buzzing noise and Rex bursts through the rubble using the smack hands combat drill.

"RIM!" Reed yell again and I stare in horror as the EVO passes by Reed and instead goes after a couple of civilians.

"Oh no you don't!" I scream running after it. I jump on it's back pounding on it's head. "Leave them alone!"

Reed pauses unsure what to do as another EVO, the one that explodes stuff, was charging at Atude and the women. He spots Rex flying over to help me and goes to help Atude with Kenwyn who is already running over.

I curse as the EVO ignores my pounding and runs down a tunnel after the other teenagers, I lose sight of the other. I hold on tight trying not to get thrown off. "As plans go this was not one of my best!" I scream.

The thing pauses in a larger part of the tunnel, with porta potties on either side. I spot Bobo and try to warn him. "Bobo! RUN!"

"Huh?" He chokes out as the EVO grabs him with the tentacle thing and lifts him into the air. "WHOOOAHH!"

It starts whipping him around and I do get thrown back. "AAA- oof!" To my surprise Rex catches me, and settle me back to the ground.

"You all right?"

"I'm fine, but he's not!" I exclaim, pointing at Bobo.

"Do me a favour, will ya?!" He yells. "HIT HIM!"

"I don't wanna hurt the guy, it's not his fault!" Rex argues. One of the porta potty doors open and I spot a blond guy who was very confused poke his head out. He glances at us then turns around and sees the crazy EVO. He shrieks and slams the door closed as Bobo get's smashed into it. A second later he opens it again and takes off.

"What do we do?" I ask, panicking.

Suddenly the EVO get's electrocuted, yellow tendrils of electricity crawling up him and hit's Bobo who screams in pain. The EVO collapses, dropping Bobo to the ground.

"He'll live." I turn to see Kenwyn at the other side, holding a gun. Nice! "If any of us do."

"Let's get the hell out of here, there's a freaking living ticking time bomb!" Reed yells as something explodes behind them and they run towards us, an EVO after them.

"Now that he's amped himself, he's gonna explode." Kenwyn explains, referring the EVO that could explode stuff. "And take everyone here with him! That's what mouse wants!"

"Oh come on!" Rex cries. "That nutjob makes her big villain speech and leaves that part out?"

"Enough chatting, more shooting!" Reed yells as the EVO walks towards us.

Kenwyn shoots but it seems to have no affect, he does something to himself, not totally sure what, but he seems to bulk up!

"Oh fabulous." I mutter as it comes towards us. "Anybody have a plan?"

"Punch him till he drops." Rex states, transforming into Smack Hands.

"Is he always so… smash-y?" Reed asks.

I sigh. "Yep."

Rex punches at the EVO, but his fist breaks and he gets thrown back. He lands on his feet and charges it again, except this time with the giant sword. He hits it right in the face, and where it got hit lights up and Rex once again get's thrown back, his sword breaking.

"You okay?" I ask as he groans and get's up.

"Been better." He mutters as the EVO roars. "If I hit him, he blows up my machines. If he hits me, he'll make my EVO powers go berserk!"

"Oh shit, that would be bad!" I blurt out.

"I know! I can't do anything!" Rex cries.

"But since I don't have those problems, I can!" Kenwyn announces.

"Say what?" Reed yells as she charges forwards and slides under the EVO, she darts up a large boulder and jumps off, kicking at it's face.

"AWESOME!" I yell, fist pumping.

She darts from wall to wall, dodging the EVO's attacks. She kicks large rocks at it, sending them crashing into it's face. It stumbles to the ground and we cheer, Reed even whistles.

But we stop when the thing gets right back up, growling.

"I think she just pissed it off." I comment as it outstretches it's arms; it's hands turning into claws.

It sticks his claws into it's self and it starts to grow larger into a giant mass of….it.

"It's gonna blow!" Rex yells and we all run away, Kenwyn right behind us.

In the corner of my eye I see to my shock Skwydd wraps ink tendrils all around the EVO. We all fall to the ground when it explodes, knocked by the shock wave, but unharmed. Skwydd's tendrils had taken the worst of it.

"Nice timing." Rex high fives Skwydd as he get's up. "Guess we should thank him for making you able to do that."

"Uh, how about no?" I cross my arms and glare at the unconscious EVO as Kenwyn inspects it.

"Yah, too bad I can already feel it fading away." Skwydd says as he glowing eyes start to dim and the ink starts to turn to black-ish fog.

"You owe me new pants!" Reed growls, pointing at Skwydd.

"Huh?"

A large crowd walks towards us, at the front is Atude leading Mouse. When he spots Skwydd he rushes forwards. "Oh thank you, thank you!" He hugs him and even tries to kiss him on the cheek.

"Alright, woah, woah! Easy on the man kisses!" Skwydd protests trying to get out of his hug of steel.

"Ugh!" Groans Bobo, waking up, the other EVO was starting to wake up too, back to normal…well not exactly normal since he was still an EVO but…

"What happened?" Bobo mutters, rubbing his head.

"Well let's see." Rex glances around. "An EVO and human were working together to prove that EVO's and humans can't work together!"

Kenwyn is already typing into her phone as she walks around observing the damage.

"But then, humans and a EVO working together,stop them." Rex finishes.

"That's sweet." Comments Bobo. "But what I was really asking was, what happened to me?!"

"Oh. She did." He points at Kenwyn who looks up from her phone, and winks.

Bobo facepalms.

We all start to leave, heading back to headquarters. I trail behind feeling a bit exhausted from the whole thing. I look down at my skirt and groan when I notice there's a bunch of dirt stains on it.

"What's wrong?" Rex asks, slowing down to walk beside me.

I sigh. "Nothing, just sleepy I guess, and my new skirt got some stains."

"Oh, too bad, it looked good on you."

I look up at him in surprise. He blinks, realizing what he said, and starts to blush. "I-uh, I meant, um…" He rubs the back of his head nervously.

I laugh. "Thanks."

He nods, and doesn't say anything, just blushes even brighter.

He looked cute when he blushed.

Now it was my turn to be surprised. Woah, where did that thought come from? Wow I really needed some sleep.

oOoOo

"Rex did what?!" White Knight exclaims. We were back at headquarters, I was in my usual jeans and shirt, and Reed and Kenwyn were back in Providence uniforms. We were trying to explain what happened to Knight but he kept interrupting.

"Like I said in my report, he did everything by the book." Kenwyn lies.

Reed snorts but I elbow him. On the way back we had gotten our stories out straight so that no one would get the fall for any destruction that happened.

"I'm very…surprised by that." Knight says suspiciously.

"Me too." Rex agrees.

"Well, that's my report sir." Kenwyn concludes.

"Is it now? Then you are leaving me no choice Agent Jones, but to make sure you all team up again."

We all glance at each other, and I sigh. "I don't totally hate you anymore, so…" I gesture to Reed and shrug.

"I'm delighted." He mutters sarcastically. After our mission he had seemed to cool with the flirting bit, thankfully.

To be totally honest, Reed and I hadn't done all that much. Well Reed had helped take out one of the EVO's while I tried to get the other long neck one, but we had both needed Kenwyn and Rex's help. But, eh. What can you do? In the end everything went okay, so I guess we couldn't have been all that terrible.

"I'm actually cool with that." Rex shrugs.

"Me too." Kenwyn agrees.

"Woah, woah!" Bobo interjects. "Where does that leave me?

"If I have to guess, with a lot less to do." Rex shrugs.

"Oh, in that case, welcome aboard." Reed and I both duck as he tries to throw his arms around us, and instead get's Kenwyn and Rex.

He even kisses her cheek, to her horror. Poor Kenwyn.