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Chapter 25: Double Scotch Assault

At dawn three days later, Dexter appears on Holden's com as well as everyone else's to deliver some somber news.

"I regret to inform you all at this time that we have lost two heroes and good friends. Action Hank and Monkey were captured while investigating Leaky Lake but we will continue to look for any evidence of where they have been taken."

Dexter then signs off on everyone's coms, except Holden's, which leaves him widely perplexed.

Dexter sees this and states, "I need you go to Leaky Leak with Jack's friend, the Scotsman. He should be some assistance in tracking down whom or what is responsible for these heroes disappearances."

Holden frowns, he had seen the Scotsman before but never talked to him. "Where am I going to meet him, Dex?"

Dexter adjusts his glasses and then comments, "At Mount Blackhead. I've arranged it so a regular transport will be taking people back and forth there but for now, you have to get there on foot." Dexter then dismisses himself from Holden's com and hangs up.

Holden prepares himself for his outing and opens his door quickly to unexpectedly see Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup tumble into the room. They had been listening in on the conversation like they used to do when they were younger. He tries not to laugh at the sight of them tangled up in each other limbs, so he then looks out the window and sadly finds an unpleasant instinct over come him. He sees birds in the distance flying away the forest. The girls stop struggling and look at Holden.

"What's wrong, Holden?" Bubbles inquires inquisitively.

Without a word, Holden grabs his gear and takes off. Something is defiantly wrong at Mount Blackhead, and those birds are disturbingly the first signs of it.

Holden tries to call Numbuh 4, but all he receives is garbled static. Something or someone had jammed the communications with the base. Holden nears Foster's when the girls catch up to him.

Blossom floats in front of him so he can't go anywhere and then asks, "Holden, why did you take off like that? Is something wrong?"

Holden closes his eyes and responds, "Mount Blackhead is under attack. I can't get through to them at all."

Buttercup a sneaky smiles spread across her face and then she cracks her knuckles, "Alright some actions! Let's…"

Holden interrupts and says, "Not this time. Go tell Dexter what's happening and to get reinforcements up there. I'll do what I can until they arrive."

Blossom shakes her head and says, "One of us is going with you. Holden, I know you're going to argue about this, but just listen to me."

Holden realizes she wasn't going to let up and she did prove to have a good point, "Alright Blossom, which one of you is going to come with me?"

Blossom prepares herself to argue further with Holden but suddenly stops when she realizes Holden had agreed with her.

Buttercup cracks her knuckles again, punches Holden's arm and then says, "Like I was saying, I want to kick some fusion tail."

Holden nods amusingly and looks at Blossom to says, "Get those reinforcements to the jungle base as fast as you can."

Blossom nods and she and Bubbles zoom off towards Dexlabs. Buttercup grabs Holden's wrist and they fly as fast as they can through the woods.

As they pass the town of Prickly Pines, they spot it's residents quickly fleeing in to their homes. A few minutes pass as they fly over Camp Kidney to see Toiletnator and many of the SCAT members fighting a small groups of Cogfish. Buttercup uses her eye beams to give them some better odds while ignoring the small flying path that leads directly to Mount Blackhead and instead goes the long way around Leaky Lake.

There are rows of Clawdads, Striding Ells, and Great Ironjaws appearing out of new Terrafusers that hadn't been there on Holden's previous trip.

Holden takes out a few grenades, and explains his plan to Buttercup, "Buttercup, once I drop these, fly as fast as you can to the base."

Buttercup looks behind them and says, "HOLDEN! You better make it fast because we got some company!"

Holden turns his head and spots a squadron of Wild Stingers behind them. He quickly drops a few grenades he had in his arms and they plummet to the ground. They explode on impact and three of the seven Terrafusers he had seen are destroyed instantly. The others remain damaged and rapidly regenerate. The Stingers then lob attacks at them. Buttercup goes as fast as she can to avoid getting hit and eventually sees the base as it comes into view. As she approaches, she sees that some areas spurted smoke into the air because of recent fires. There are Stingers flying outside the base pelting it with goo Buttercup frowns since she couldn't do anything while carrying Holden.

Before she can say anything about it though, Holden looks up at her and states, "I know what you're thinking. Do what you need to do, I'll be fine."

Buttercup frowns and answers, "I'm gonna get yelled at for this."

She then lets go of Holden's wrist, making him drop twenty feet and barely grabbing a tree branch that is near him. He swings down to another branch but it breaks under his weight and falls to the ground just as he hits the earth on his side. Holden feels one of his ribs crack and tries to not scream from the pain. He picks himself up slowly and hobbles as fast as he can up the hill to the base while firing his pistol at a few Ironjaws.

Buttercup, in the meantime, had pummeled a Stinger into fusion dust and used her eye beams on another to protect his path into the base. At the crest of the hill, the Scotsman is using his machine gun leg when he spots Holden.

The Scotsman smiles as he greets him, "Ay laddie! It's good of ye to show up. Hopefully there'll be some reinforcements comin' our way, but ye look terrible!"

Holden grits his teeth and responds, "I got at least one cracked rib. I'll be fine for now thought."

They run towards the center of the base where Numbuh 3 is treating a minor wound of a fellow operative.

Her cheerfulness seems to return as they enter and says, "Holden, did you receive our message? You should have brought more people with you!"

Holden shacks his head. "No Koki, all messages are being jammed right now. I saw the birds flying away from this direction so I guessed there was trouble."

Numbuh 4 frantically runs up to them, "We're out of energy cells for our weapons! How the heck are we going to fire?"

Holden takes out five cells and hands then to Wally. "This is all I have. Hopefully, we can last long enough."

A green light then impacts near them. The trail ends just below the big tree and it happens to be Buttercup.

Holden runs over to her asking, "Buttercup are you injured?"

Buttercup stands up a bit unsteady but calmly says, "I'm alright, not like me crashing into anything is new. Those giant monsters really know how to go out with a bang."

Ed runs up to them with his arms flailing, "There're two fusions headed this way. Your king commandeth you to take them out ye verily."

Holden blinks and is confused. Buttercup groans and says, "Who tuned the idiot onto the dark ages station?"

Numbuh 4 shrugs and responds, "He's been like that since he got here when May was chasing him."

Numbuh 3 then says with worry in her voice, "What fusions are coming? It best not be a rainbow monkey one!"

Buttercup flies up to check with her excellent vision and then lands. She has a grimace on her face as she shares her findings, "Two versions of the Scotsman, both seem really bogus."

The Scotsman gives a grin and shouts, "We'll take them out lass, ye better go 'n protect the wee lad 'nd his bird friend. These two and myself will protect the front. Ye lad…" He points at Holden, "Go see if ye can lure one o' em Fusion Scotsman away." Holden nods.

A few minutes later, Holden spots found one of the Fusion Scotsman and throws a rock at it to capture its attention. It turns and runs after him and Holden starts to bolt down the side of base to the back. Holden's body begins to ache and his rib starts to hurt more, but he doesn't have a choice but to keep going. He stops, having run far enough and turns around. The fusion comes charging around the corner.

Holden fires but nothing happens, except for a little light that pops up saying, "No energy cell".

Holden groans since he realizes that it must have fallen out of the rifle when he had tumbled from the tree. He quickly takes out his pistol and fires, but the damage he inflicts is so minor that it doesn't slow the charging fusion down. Before Holden can take out a new weapon or react, the arm of the Fusion Scotsman turns into a blade and stabs Holden in the side. Holden falls to the ground wounded and grasping for air.

The fusion grins and proudly proclaims, "My master will want your soul, prepare for eternal torment."

Holden tries to get up but his body is heavy, barely allowing him to hold consciousness. The last thing he sees happen is the fusion being melted into goo with a Deimongo nano appearing, and it walking closer to com. Then Holden's eyes close…

The updated version of this chapter. I hope you like it and please review even if its bad. If you see something wrong please tell me.