Wrote this in the last hour and am too tired to read it over for mistakes, so hopefully there aren't a lot of them. I know there are some words I used that don't quite make sense in the context they are used in, but I couldn't think of the words I wanted to use.


Round Four Part Two

The group got back to the lair later that day, Lupin hyper and unable to shut up as his body was filled with a vast amount of sugar from the fried-everything he ate at the boardwalk.

The others got to the point they could ignore him and went about their business.

The TV came on and a burnt up and bandaged Stan did his best to compose himself.

"Dan!" Lupin yelled. "We went to the boardwalk and there was this stand and it had honey buns and I thought of you and then we went on the rollercoaster and this kid in the front threw up and it went all over this old lady and she was so mad but it was hilarious and I laughed and she yelled at me in some weird language that I said was Latvian but Pycal said was Swedish and did you know they make deep fried ice cream bars because they do and they are really good and also the deep fried Snickers bars that I ate six of after I had the biggest cup of soda I have ever seen and then I-"

The others stopped everything they were doing as the silence was too much for them. They all turned and looked at Lupin as he stared off blankly.

Lupin, the sugar catching up to him, fell with a thud to the floor.

The others sighed in relief.

"Finally," Fujiko said.

"I thought you said it'd take a few minutes," Mamou said as he glared at Jigen.

Jigen shrugged.

Stan coughed. His cough was all for not as nobody noticed him. He coughed again. And again. And again, until finally someone noticed him.

"Oh, it's you," Mr. X said as he went back to the article he was reading.

"I want you all to know that Disco Ant found me because you allowed the Universal Superhero Supercomputer Telecommunications Device to be destroyed," Stan said, glaring at everyone in the room.

They paid no attention to him, no amount of concern in any of their bodies.

Stan got madder. "And now Disco Ant has plans for the Universal Intergalactic Super Ray!"

Fujiko yawned, licking her index finger and flipping another page in the fashion magazine she looked through.

Zenigata, the only one with a sense of duty to do what was right, stood in front of the TV with a serious expression. "Tell us what we need to do to stop Disco Ant."

Stan was happy that at least one person seemed to care. "Well, the Universal Intergalactic Super Ray needs three things to make it operational. It needs the Super Atomic Energy Tube, the Red Super Switch, and fuel."

The others looked up, finding it weird that there was no special name for the fuel.

"Fuel?" Jigen said.

"Not the Super Fuel of Doom?" Mr X asked.

"Or the Super Combustible Fuel?" Pycal said.

"Or the-"

"It's fuel," Stan yelled, cutting Mamou off. "It's just fuel, okay?!"

All except Zenigata and Fujiko looked down uncomfortably.

"Now," Stan said as he took a deep breath. "These items are all in three different locations. I will need for you to split off into groups and get these items before Disco Ant and his ruthless sidekick Metal Moth are able to obtain them and get the Universal Intergalactic Super Ray active and working."

A map came up on the screen, showing a block in the industrial area of the city. A bright red light flashed and pinged over a warehouse. Another flashed and pinged over an old factory. And the last one flashed and pinged in an old abandoned rail yard.

"Break off into groups and head to these locations," Stan said. "You must hurry. Time is of the essence."

The TV turned off and Zenigata looked back at the others. "Lupin, you're coming with me," he barked.

Lupin was still passed out on the floor.

"We're going to the factory," Mr. X said as he, Pycal and Mamou sat together.

Jigen and Fujiko were unhappy, the two glaring at each other.

"We're going to the warehouse," Fujiko said.

"No, we're going to the rail yard," Jigen yelled.

"Warehouse!"

"Rail yard!"

"Enough," Zenigata yelled. "You two are going to the warehouse!"

Fujiko stuck her tongue out at Jigen and crossed her arms over her chest.

Jigen tensed in anger.

All having their orders they left the lair, each group getting driven to their locations.

...

"I swear I didn't mean it, whatever it was I did," Lupin screamed as he ran down old rusted railroad tracks.

Zenigata chased after him, a sadistic grin on his face as he threw rock hard stale cookies in Lupin's direction.

Lupin winced in pain as the cookies pelted him. "I'm sorry," he wailed, running for his life.

He dodged in between the rotting train cars, weaving in and out as he snaked around large piles of wood and crates.

Zenigata kept up, the large parka not doing Lupin any favors as it was easy to spot from miles away.

A cookie slammed against the back of Lupin's head, Lupin stopping in mid-run before collapsing to the ground unconscious.

Zenigata laughed evilly as he ran up to the thief's limp body. "Now, to get my revenge," he said with an evil cackle.

"I'm afraid that I have the last laugh, you bumbling superheroes," Metal Moth said as he perched precariously on the end of a dilapidated crane, the metal creaking underneath his feet.

"Metal Moth," Zenigata growled as he glared up at the man.

"Looking for this?" Metal Moth laughed as he held up the red plastic gallon container, FUEL written on the side of it.

Zenigata reached for a cookie, but found he had used them all on Lupin.

Metal Moth laughed, nimble feet leaping from the crane to the ground, the man in the odd Moth costume running as the crane collapsed behind him, the dust obscuring him from view.

Zenigata growled in anger. He had failed because of Lupin. 'Will it always be this way?' he wondered as his outlook on life turned dour once again.

He had no answer, just the raging impulse to kick Lupin, which he did over and over until he pulled a muscle and had to limp back to the car.

...

"We're going this way," Fujiko growled. She had never wanted to kill a person as much as she wanted to kill Jigen at that moment.

"No, we're going this way," Jigen yelled as he grabbed her arm and tugged her to the room he wanted to search.

"We were already there!" Fujiko tugged her arm until it hurt, the more she struggled the tighter Jigen's grasp got.

"And we're going there agai-"

Fujiko, now free, looked on in pleasure as Jigen doubled over in pain from the swift kick she gave his nuts.

"You bitch," Jigen said, his attempt at being angry failing as he gasped for breath.

Fujiko laughed and skipped off.

The room she wanted to search was large and dark, the perfect place to hide something as small as a Red Super Switch.

She crept forward, looking around cautiously, never seeing the large box as it crashed down on top of her.

"Ahahaha," Disco Ant laughed loudly as he jumped on the splintered wood covering a knocked out Fujiko and jumped up and down on the debris. "You will get in my way no more!"

Jigen limped into the room and was just barely able to make out someone in a familiar outfit jumping up and down.

"And as for you," Disco Ant said as he pointed at Jigen.

Jigen didn't see the attack, but he felt it, the large metal pulley on a chain swinging with great speeds and colliding into his crotch.

Disco Ant jumped with joy as Jigen fainted from the pain. "And now I am one step closer to complete madness and mayhem," he laughed as he held up the Red Super Switch, bringing the simple red plastic button on a small square box to his lips and kissing it.

He scurried from the warehouse, giggling the whole time.

...

"You have been defeated by Lupin twice," Mamou said to Pycal. "And so I think I should lead on this mission."

"You were beat by him twice, as well," Pycal growled.

"We were all beat by Lupin twice," Mr. X yelled.

"Hmm, you're right," Mamou said as he stared off in thought.

"Rock, paper, scissors?" Pycal wondered.

"Too simple," Mr. X said.

The group was silent as they thought.

Although they had arrived at their location forty minutes prior, they hadn't gotten any farther than the front door, their discussion on who should be the leader on the task beginning when they all said they were going to open the door.

"Eenie meenie miney moe?" Mr. X suggested.

"What are you, two?" Pycal scoffed.

"We could draw straws," Mamou shrugged.

"There's only three of us," Pycal said. "Too easy to cheat."

"What if we had a bunch of straws?" Mr. X said. "That way it wouldn't be as easy if we just had three."

"That would work," Mamou nodded.

They had all agreed on a way to choose their leader when they looked around and realized their was nothing to use as straws in the area.

"Musical chairs?" Pycal suggested.

"No chairs," Mamou sighed.

"What about a dance-off?" Mr. X said.

Pycal and Mamou glared silently at him. They weren't about to make fools of themselves in some silly competition.

They then looked at themselves, realizing they already were.

"Your costume is ridiculous," Pycal sneered to Mamou. "It makes no sense."

"And yours does?"

"Of course it does! It's perfectly fitting!"

"Of what? A circus clown?"

"I'm afraid that circus clowns aren't as ridiculous looking as you three are," Disco Ant said as he smirked at the group.

The three looked up at their enemy and his sidekick as they stood on the roof of the factory.

"I fear that you idiots have wasted too much time on your silly discussion," Disco Ant said.

Metal Moth laughed as he held up the Super Atomic Energy Tube, which looked like a fuse, but a foot in length.

"You have all failed and now I have everything I need to make the Universal Intergalactic Super Ray operational!" Disco Ant twirled in joy while laughing. "Death and destruction awaits!"

The three only stared as the two villains ran off. The two now nowhere in sight the three focused their gazes on each other.

"This is all your fault," Pycal growled to Mr. X.

"My fault? Don't be ridiculous! This is because you-"

"You're both idiots," Mamou yelled. "If you would have let me lead then none of this would have happened!"

"Let you lead," Pycal scoffed. "We'd probably be dead by now if we did something so stupid."

Mamou puffed in anger.

"That is why I should have led," Mr. X said.

Soon the three were talking over each other, their voices raising with every word as they got nowhere in their arguments over why one was better than the others.

...

Meanwhile, in Disco Ant's secret underground lab, the Universal Intergalactic Super Ray was complete, the machine buzzing as it warmed up.

"Our time has finally come," Disco Ant said.

Metal Moth grinned while rubbing his hands together in an evil fashion.

Disco Ant began to laugh, Metal moth joining as loud maniacal laughter soon filled the lab.