"Billy move!" Nora shouted. Billy hesitated at first, but managed to move right before a plant vine ripped through the ground where he was standing. He ran over to stand next to Nora.
"Something's wrong. My Jamie would never try to attack me."
"Either way, we need to stop him here and now." She replied and a vine shot right at them. "Get behind me." She shut her eyes and fired her lasers, which split the vine right in half, both sides catching fire. "Woah,"
"Your powers really did grow stronger. Unfortunately, it won't be enough to help you." James said in his mind controlled state, bringing up more vines from the ground.
Billy and Nora both took a step back. He commanded the vines to attack from all sides boxing them in, when Chloe teleported in with Max at her side, who acted quickly and telekinetically pushed the vines up and off their path. James's eyes narrowed when he saw Max had entered the battlefield.
"Sup Greenthumb?" Max said, taunting his brother's boyfriend.
"Cute, hope you enjoyed that joke of yours, since it'll be your last."
"Chloe, get Nora and Billy out of here."
"Max, we're not leaving you." Nora said arguing.
"It's not safe here for you guys." Max insisted.
"We left mom when it wasn't safe and now she's gone. We're staying right here with you." Billy said with more confidence than usual. Max looked at their sisters who both nodded in agreement.
Looks like everyone's growing up. Max thought to himself.
"Just let me get it close, I think I might be able to snap him out of it."
"If you say so Billy, we can try." Max went to one side while Nora stood to the other. James raised an eyebrow as he watched the heroes took formation. Everyone stood still in a stand off to see who moved first. At the first site of the plants twitching, Max and Nora dashed forward, freezing and blasting every vine that came near them. Once they successfully cleared a path, Billy sped forward. Right before he could reach him however, a giant root came out of the ground and flung Billy upward.
"You thought that would work? My brother's a speedster, you think I wouldn't know how to fight one?" James asked, smugly. Chloe thought quickly though, teleporting in the air and grabbing ahold of Billy before porting him down next to James. Before James had time to think Billy grabbed ahold of him and kissed him hard.
"That's your plan?!" Max yelled from down the street. He had actually had faith in his brother for once and all Billy could think of was; "kiss James?" Billy broke apart from the kiss and looked at his boyfriend's face carefully, studying his expression. James opened his eyes slowly and Billy was delighted to see James's eyes were once again a beautiful emerald green. Did that seriously work? Max thought.
"Run." James said before his eyes faded back to purple. Billy grabbed Chloe and bolted down the street with a bunch of giant venus fly traps snapping at the thunderman kids.
"There's too many of them!" Nora stated, trying to blast as many away as possible.
"There's no such thing as too many, we can do this." Max said confidently, even though he was just as worried, if not more, than the others.
One of the plants came down to strike, the Thundermans when it was blasted away buy something behind them. They all looked behind them to see the barrel of a blaster poking out the side of...the Thundervan? It was soon joined buy the barrel of another blaster which fired at the plants on the other side of them. They looked at the van in confusion when Cherry and Allison stepped out carrying the two blasters.
"Hey Max." Allison said.
"Hi? What are you...how are you…" Max had so many questions.
"No time," They all looked over and saw a familiar face step out of the driver's side of the van.
"Colosso!" Billy cheered in excitement. Colosso walked over to the kids and look down the street.
"How long has he been in that state?" He asked, gesturing to James.
"Not sure. We've been fighting for about fifteen or twenty minutes now."
"Ah, then this should be simple. Clear the plants." The girls walked forward and began blasting away at them. Max and Nora stepped back, tired from using their powers so much.
"Hey Doc? These things are growing back to fast!" Cherry called back.
"This is why we brought the kid." Harris stepped out from the back of the van and Colosso put a necklace on him. "I highly suggest you all stand back." They did as instructed and all moved behind Harris who held both of his hands in front of him and what started as a small flame, quickly grew into a large frie that spread over all the plants in front of him.
Colosso hand a small device to Billy that had a suction cup on one side of it. "You're gonna wanna attack this to James's head." Billy nodded, taking the device in hand. He waited for the flames to die down enough before he sped through the now clear path and right up to his boyfriend and stuck the device to his face. James started to twitch before falling over, with Billy, of course, being fast enough to catch him.
All of them let out a sigh of relief with it being over, for now at least. "So Colosso," Max began.
"Time for an explanation, I know."
"Can we get lunch first?" Billy asked as he reached the end of the street.
Back at the mansion, the kids had all gathered to listen to Colosso's story. Max was with Allison while Billy was back on the couch next to the still unconscious James. He was also chowing down on a burger to get his energy back up from using his speed alot that afternoon. Nora was strangely enough getting very close to Harris while Cherry was texting Phoebe to get her back.
"So, once I deduced that it was, in fact, Dark Mayhem that not only got his hands on my ray gun, but also managed to get it to work, I knew I had to do something. But in my rabbit body, I could only do so much. When your mother wouldn't turn me back, my only option was to trick young Chloe and then *ahem* borrow your parent's van."
"Buy borrow, he means steal right?" Billy asked. Nora gave him a questioning look. "I just wanted to make sure." Billy added, quietly.
"I did return to my old lab, as well as Villain High's lab. I did my best to recreate what you called my 'mind control gun.' So then I could accurately build a device, that device the boy is wearing which could break the ray's hold over the victim. However, the longer the victim is under the gun's affect, the longer it'll take to fix their brain wiring."
"So, that's what it really does." Max commented. A smile slowly grew on his face as if he was plotting something.
"Don't." Allison told him without looking at him.
"I won't, I promise."
"And one can never be too careful, so i picked up some of the friends you guys have made over time. If all the villains have banned together, we're going to need all the help we can get." Colosso finished up his story.
"They have, trust me." Everyone turned to face James, who was slowly sitting up on the couch. "And you're right Doc, it ain't pretty. They got this new freak that dresses like a samurai. Is my head supposed to hurt this badly?"
"I'd imagine so." Colosso told him.
"Jamie!" Billy exclaimed as he attack hugged his boyfriend.
"Hey BillBill,"
"You're back! You're really back this time! I thought you were in trouble so we all wentaroundthecitylookingforyouandthenyouwereallevilandIkissedyouandyouweregoodbutnotforlongandthenyoukeptonattackingusand-"
"Babe, slow down. Take a deep breath." James said cutting Billy's rambling off.
"Hey, how come when I kissed him, he turned good for a second?" Billy asked Colosso.
"Like I said, they ray gun rewires the victims brain, when you kissed him, it must've reminded his brain of how it was supposed to work. I imagine that if we can get close enough to your parents and do a similar action, we can get them calm long enough to free them. But it's just a guess."
"Any theory, is a useful one." Phoebe said walking in with Link behind her.
"Phoebe!" Cherry cried, running over to her.
"Hey Phoebe, you seem pretty calm there. Wanna know what we did today?" Max asked sarcastically.
"Not really, but I'm guessing that wasn't a ques-"
"We were fighting plants! Oh it was great, you should've been there! They were growing through the buildings, spitting acid!"
"I didn't make acid spitting plants." James pointed out.
"I know that, they don't have to!" Max whisper shouted.
"Trust me, when you find out what we found, you'll forget all about that fight." Link told everyone.
"Better be good." Max muttered still annoyed.
"We found the Villain's secret base." Phoebe said proudly. Everyone's jaws were hanging open at a loss for words.
"So, who's ready to storm the castle?" Billy asked, being the first to speak up.
"Well, if you're interested in dying, we can go now. That place is crawling with every villain, minus the three you took care of." Colosso explained.
"And we just fought James, we're not really ready to go in, guns blazing." Max said, following up.
"When I don't come back from the attack they sent me on, they'll realize that you found a way to free me from the control of the ray gun, they'll be on high alert for sure." James told the rest.
"It's best that we save up our energy and come up with a plan." Phoebe said returning to her room with Cherry and Link.
"So Allison, want me to show you around the city?" Max said, standing up.
"That sounds lovely right about now." She said taking his hand as the two of them walked out.
"Is there anywhere I can work around here?" Colosso asked.
"Follow me, I'll show all the stuff I managed to salvage from their house." James said, leading Colosso back to his room with Billy going with them.
Harris and Nora sat in silence not really knowing what to say to each other. Nora did notice that Harris was pretty cute though. "Hi, I'm Nora." She said scooting closer.
"I know," he responded quietly, nervously and without looking up. "You were at my birthday party, I think." He added.
"Oh yeah. So, why did you decide to help us out?"
"Well, Link's helping and Phoebe's my friend, so it's the least I can do since my dad's eyepatch enhanced my powers."
"Makes sense. My power's evolved not too long ago actually." She said proudly.
"Really? That's cool." He said, finally looking up.
"You really don't talk much do you?" She observed.
"No. I've been pretty sheltered so, sorry if I'm quiet sometimes." He told her.
"It's ok, Billy was kind of like that when he was little, so I'm used to it." He looked up at her again and smiled this time, she smiled back and blushed a little.
"Wow, everything here is so big!' Allison exclaimed.
"You've never been outside of Hiddenville have you?" Max asked, while chuckling a little.
"No, didn't you say you grew up here?"
"Well yeah, right up until a year before high school. Until a prank went wrong and accidently gave my parents enough to retire."
"So you were never really good at being evil to begin with?" Allison asked, rhetorically.
"Guess not." Max said with a sigh.
"Hey, look on the bright side, if that prank worked, we'd never have met." She said, flirtatiously and wrapping her arms around him.
"When you put it like that, it's my best failed prank ever." He smiled back as the two began to kiss.
"You know, when I said, 'I'll show you what I found,' I didn't mean, 'take everything.'" James said annoyed lying down on his bed.
"Well, you really shouldn't be working right now anyways. You did just wake up from being mind controlled." Billy told him, snacking on some fries.
"Do you really need to eat that much?" James asked.
"Hey, my metabolism's as fast as I am." Billy said, sounding a little hurt.
"I'm sorry BillBiil. I just really wanted to work with Colosso ever since I was a kid and then he just shows up and takes all my work."
"He's been a rabbit since I was little, just let him tinker around. You need to rest anyway."
"Oy vey, fine. If it'll make you happy, then I'll do it." The two shared a quick kiss before Billy left the room and James lied down to attempt sleeping.
"And no sneaking out this time!" Billy said popping his head back in before leaving James alone for real.
Meanwhile at the villain hideout the Samurai entered Dark Mayhem's quarters. "My lord, the boy has yet to return to us."
"They wouldn't kill him, the must've found a way to contain him. Or…" His voice trailed off.
"Sir?" The samurai asked questioningly.
"They found a way to break the effects of the ray gun. We need to move faster. Soon, they may find us and if our plan isn't in the stage we need, all of this will be for nothing."
"I will make sure our allies pick up speed, my lord."
"Excellent. Leave me." Soon. Mayhem thought. Soon, my master plan will be complete and these so called heroes will realize all their effort will be for nothing.