O-kay, peoples! Let's put a stop to ole Gunkan!


Chapter 53: GUN's Last Stand

The Quads' House

"Breaking news update regarding the recent established Anti-inhuman Revolution!" the news reporter on the TV spoke. "The infamous family of quadruplet psychic siblings has finally been captured!"

"That's right, Bob." the anchorman replied. "Earlier today, the girl known as Morgan Catherine was caught harassing a group of students dismissing from school."

"After a long and cost-expensive battle at the school grounds, the bounty hunter Boba Fett was finally able to capture the family of freaks and have them arrested by GUN." the anchorwoman recapped.

"The Quads have been taken to GUN's top secret headquarters, to most likely have their heads taken apart and examined. I will now reveal the location of the headquarters in which said procedure will take place." Reporter Bob said. He then pressed his hand to his ear as he was receiving a message via earpiece. "Oh! I have just been informed that if I reveal their location, I will be taken apart and examined. Back to you, Ted."

"Oh, this is awful." The Quads' mother, Natsume said after watching the broadcast with Father. "How could they lock away such innocent children? They treat 'em like animals."

"Hehe. Talk about seeing things from my point of view." Father joked.

"Ben!"

"Sheesh, I'm kidding! But don't worry, Natsume, they're still our kids. Uno kids. An Uno never gives up. Sure that may have been a downside on Malladus's end, but these kids are different. Nigel and Monty could fight their way out of any situation, and so can they."

"Mmm… I hope you're right."

G.U.N. H.Q.

Within the confines of the GUN base, the storage chamber to be precise, rumor had already spread through the base that the family had been captured. The figure that waited within the box realizes he's waited long enough. He threw the crate off of him and stood straight up. (Play "Theme of Tara" from Smash Bros. Brawl!)

A military man dressed in silver armor, packed with all assortments of weapons, tightened a gray headband around his forehead, his brown hair a mess as he fixed an armored glove on his right hand, afterwards smoking a cigar in his mouth with a nine-o'clock shadow around it. "Kept you waiting, huh?" he said to the camera before facing the door ahead.

Stage 48: G.U.N. H.Q.

Mission: Rescue the metahumans and stop the Commander!

Act 1

The man stepped out of the supply closet, the guarding trooper totally unaware as the agent approached and snapped his neck from behind. Two more GUNs down the hall spotted this and started shooting the man, but he stylishly rolled toward them, kicked the left soldier clear in the nose and KO'ed him, then took his gun and shot the other soldier. Another squad of soldiers came running down the hall around a corner, guns firing as the man whipped out a sword, rolling over and slicing any soldier he could. Two men grabbed his arms from behind, but he flipped behind and bashed the two's heads together. He snatched one of their guns and started shooting at other soldiers that came his way.

His gun was suddenly forced away and stuck into the wall by a knife that came hurling his way, looking over at another trooper with a machinegun. "This'll just take 3 seconds!" The troop began rapid-firing at the spy, but he dashed up the walls and ceiling before landing behind and twisting his neck.

"Hm. Three seconds." he counted. He then saw dozens of GUN robots firing from behind, so he immediately started running as he switched on a wristwatch communicator, showing the face of a thin woman with blonde hair in a ponytail and a blue jumpsuit. "Samus, where are they keeping the metahumans?"

"About 30 meters ahead, and 20 meters down on your left. Just be careful, David."

"I told you. The name is Snake." The man stopped for a moment and faced the readers. "Solid Snake." The man passed into another room, finding a bunch of GUN battle mechs, the robots launching missiles that Snake rolled and dodged, drawing out his own missile launcher and blowing the robots to pieces. He kept running down to a hall where defense lasers were making a wall, the man swiftly leaping over them, then quickly dodging before a security camera could fire bullets.

More GUNs came his way after exiting the hall, the agent continuing to swipe their guns and kick them unconscious. A squad of GUN Rhinos were speeding toward him, but he leapt over the vehicles and shot a missile their way, blowing them up. He looked ahead and saw swarms of GUN Beetle sentries flying his way, but he jumped, grabbed, and swung past the robots, throwing them into each other and exploding them. The halls started to blink red as doors ahead of him began closing, so the Snake dashed ahead and flipped through the tiny cracks that remained open before they closed, the robots trying to chase, but ended up crashing in the doors and exploding.

Snake made it past the concealing hallway and looked at his watch, indicating the prison compounds just up ahead. He instantly faced ahead and kept running. (End song.)

G.U.N. Laboratory

Gunkan and Rainier watched as the scientists in the lab locked Mew and the Hulkified Chad inside separate chambers connected to a machine as Emily and Violet watched. The two had their hands cuffed behind their back as they sat on their knees. "Will it work?" the General asked the men.

"If we can extract the Bang Gas from Chad's systems and mix it with the powers of the Ancestor Spirit, we should have the antidote we need to reverse the Bang Baby process. And with the extra power added with this Chaos Emerald we found off that cat girl," he held up the red gem, "this should be a piece of cake."

"Excellent. Begin extraction now."

"Yessir." The men pulled a switch down as the machine alit with electricity.

"MEW MEW MEW! !" Mew screamed in pain.

"AAUUUCK!" Chad cried.

A treadmill that was coming out of the device moved along, carrying small vials of some kind of light-purple liquid. Brett walked over with a syringe and dipped it in one of the vials, filling it with the liquid. "Release him." he ordered, the men opening Chad's chamber and leading him out. The GUN Commander approached the green-skinned monster and stuck the needle into his arm, the potion flowing in.

"AAAAUUUUUGH!" Chad cried in pain, gripping and shaking his head as he felt the painful sensation. Slowly, the muscly teen started shrinking smaller and smaller, his skin becoming its normal color as his muscles died down. The boy panted heavily once he was back in his regular form, his clothes ripped and torn.

A scientist then stepped over and studied him with a scanner. "Not a trace of inhuman inside him, Sir."

"It worked!" Brett exclaimed.

"Let's not celebrate yet, Sir." a scientist told him. "Remember, Chad was a newly-born. We can't guarantee it'll work for people who've had the curse for a while."

"Alright. Then we'll test it on one of these guys. The cat girl will do." At this, Violet looked up in horror as the General approached her. She tried desperately to break free of her cuffs, grunting and failing terribly as Gunkan held the shot up, ready to stick it. "Sweet dreams, Kitty." But just then, the entire place started blinking red. Violet was relieved when the man turned his attention away as a soldier ran in and saluted.

"Sir! There's an intruder in the lower wing! He's on his way to the prison compounds and he's trying to break them out!"

"What?"

"Sir!" another soldier ran in and saluted. "The Star Wolf Team is on their way here with three psychicbenders and two girls that are friends with The Quads! They're planning to attack us, Sir!"

"Grrrr!"

"Sir." a scientist called. "We've received an incoming message from someone named… 'Darth Genious'?"

"What? Let me see that." The General stepped onto the platform and moved the scientist aside, answering the call as Brain's form appeared on the big screen.

"Hello, Brett."

"Huh? Who are you?"

"Don't you recognize me, Brett? We knew each other since childhood. I was quite the prankster back then."

Gunkan's face immediately froze with shock. "R…REVAN? ?"

"I should thank you for the treatments you are performing against us metahumans. Your efforts have proven quite helpful in raising my new apprentice."

"What are you talking about, you traitor?! What are you doing?!"

"Your time is at an end, Brett. Soon, you and your precious military will crumble before our might."

The transmission ended at that, and the Commander faced down, at a near loss of what to do. "Sir! The bounty hunters will be here any minute! What do we do?" a soldier asked.

Brett faced back up with a serious look. "Move ALL troops into position! Lock down all entryways and ready all weapons and robots. Mobilize Diablon 2.0!"

"But Sir! It's not ready yet!"

"I DON'T CARE! We have no other option! We must stop the metahuman scum from getting free. I don't want anyone resting until those intruders are captured DEAD OR ALIVE!"

The soldier followed his order and quickly ran off. "What should we do?" Rainier asked as Gunkan got his needle containing the antidote ready.

"Get Mew, Rainier. I've got more tests to perform. I'll teach that traitorous Boba a lesson he won't soon forget. Same for those wretched Quads." With that, the Commander walked away as the 13-year-old grabbed the injured Firstborn and followed.

"Mew Mew…" Mew only held his sad expression.

Aboard the Wolfens

"Where is the base located?" Khryssa shouted through the rough winds as the five ships flew at high speed over a forest.

"Don't worry, we're gettin' close." Boba told them. "They cleared out a chunk of this entire forest just to set it up." Right away, they were flying over a barren field of the forest, looking completely lifeless. "Ah-ha! Here we are."

"Boba, there's nothing out here. It's just an empty wasteland." Khryssa replied.

But right then, the area before them became all wavy as they passed through some kind of cloaking device, seeing the enormous base littered with searchlights and army vehicles. "Guess again!"

Alarms from the base immediately roared through the sky as swarms of jets and GUN Beetles came flying out. "It looks like they're already on to us." the psychic fox figured.

"Okay, team. Show these inhuman haters who's the king of the guns!" Boba declared, and Star Wolf charged in for attack. (Play "Encounter" from Smash Bros. Brawl!)

Act 2: Breach

The four other ships scattered as Boba charged ahead, dodging to the side as lasers were shot at them. As Beetles passed by his ship, Khryssa swiftly swung her light-green lightsaber and knocked the sentries out of the sky. "Al-halright!" Boba cheered. "Oh yeah, Ah'm thinkin' this belongs to you, too." He held up the blue lightsaber.

"Keep it." she told him. "You still bested me in battle, so it's yours."

"Really? Well, okay then." Khryssa held on as the ship flew down, nearly ramming a control tower before it shot back up, doing a somersault and firing lasers down at the base's rooftop turrets. Mika and Lucario stood on Wolf's wings as they both charged Aura and Psycho Spheres (respectively), launching them at the firing jets and exploding them, the soldiers hopping out just in time and floating down with parachutes.

As a squad of jets chased Leon in his ship, he smirked and said, "Watch this," and activated his cloaking device. The confused pilots searched around for the Wolfen, and Leon smirked when he appeared right behind them. "Say cheese!" The chameleon blasted the jets in one hit for each one, the troopers floating to the ground.

Noah held tight to Jake's armor as the blonde-haired rode the snake across the skies, chased by firing GUN Beetles. "Uh, anytime would be nice." Noah told him, nearly getting shot.

"Keep yer pantiesss on, Girly. Jakey's gonna handle this left 'n' right." The rattlesnake opened his tail cannon and launched bombs back at the pursuing sentries, wiping them out. "Hey, grab that shotgun." He told Noah, who noticed a shotgun, with many other weapons, attached to his armor. She ripped it off and took careful aim as she fired at incoming jets, blowing them up.

"Hey, this is pretty neat!"

Panther studied his own stunning visage in his rearview mirror, smiling at himself while the GUN Beetles followed closely behind. "Don't worry, darlings. Panther promises to go easy on you. Growl." The self-loving cat flew straight upward, barrel-rolling as sentries fired at him. He was coming back down as he switched on the barrier around his ship, easily flying through the swarm of Beetles and knocking them all away. As he was approaching one of the control towers, he shot his powerful laser and wiped it out in a second. "I'm sorry. Perhaps I was a little too hard." he remarked smoothly.

As another swarm of Beetles chased Wolf's ship, Lucario leapt high up and started kicking the robots away, grabbing one and shooting back toward the ship. He landed and stabbed it in the wing before crushing and shattering it, making the craft shake. "What are you doing to my darling Wolfen?" Wolf yelled.

"Ah, forget about yo' Wolfen." Boba told him. "We gotta get into that base."

"O-kay." Noah said. "Carry me over the ground, Jake." The snake did so and started flying away from the base so that they were over the ground. She pushed her remote as her Camaro immediately sped through the invisible cloak, Noah gracefully leaping off the snake and making a solid land into her driver's seat.

Noah sped straight toward the huge metal front doors and stomped her foot to the gas pedal, the car gaining more speed as it drew closer and closer. It finally came in contact with the massive door with actually enough force to break through. This drew immediate attention from the soldiers and robots as they all ran in to attack. The rest of the bounty hunters plus psychics landed outside the doors and charged in, Jake firing his tail-machinegun all around and wiping soldiers out while Boba and Khryssa sliced robots to pieces with their sabers.

Noah kept speeding through the long, wide hallway, running over any GUN crates or sand sacks in her way. The car stopped before a GUN Big Foot, the robot standing tall and firing its powerful machinegun. Lucario sped down the hall and started running around the place as the bullets chased him, going up the ceiling and kicking down at the robot's cockpit, knocking out the soldier inside and making the robot topple.

Noah decided to leave her car as they all proceeded down a snaky hall, the girls grinding a rail over a river of electricity while the others just jumped platforms across, fast enough to keep up. The soldiers on the other end pulled a lever and made the last bit of platforms sink into the electric, the group stopping before they could fall in. Mika used her psychic to make the platforms come back, allowing them to get across as Lucario punched and knocked out the men.

"Mr. Yuji Naka is alright." a soldier ahead said as three Flying Dog robots came down. They fired machineguns, but the lightsaber-wielders spun their weapons and defended as Jake shot up and smashed his head through the cockpit window of one, biting the soldier's head. Leon and Panther kicked off the wall and reached the robots, smashing the cockpits open and throwing the troops out, taking control of the machines their selves as they proceeded ahead.

The soldiers down the hall ahead pushed buttons and sealed the halls with massive doors with "G" symbols on them, but Leon and Panther used the commandeered robots and blew the doors down. Other soldiers shot them, but the psychics jumped over and sliced the guns before knocking them out. At the end of the hall, they found another hall beside them that seemed to lead further down the base, GUN Rhinos riding up.

The group ran down as Wolf and Lucario flipped and kicked the robots away while Boba caught them on his sabers and hurled them at other Rhinos. At the end of the downward hall, there was another one beside them that led further down as GUN Hawks were flying up, firing lasers. The robots fired down at them as they headed down, Khryssa leaping up and slicing them while others flew right past, but Wolf took aim and shot them down with his gun.

They finally reached the end of the last downward hall and kept going, turning a corner to a hall that was protected by laser barriers. The group was able to leap said lasers, but a security camera took aim and fired, the group ducking behind boxes that the bullets quickly destroyed. Wolf smirked and stepped closer to the camera, switching on his deflector shield and sending the bullets right back, destroying the camera. They turned down another hall and ducked again as a camera fired bullets, but Mika dashed over, jumped, and sliced the camera right off the ceiling.

"The prison wing is down this way." Boba pointed.

"Let's go." Khryssa said, and they all ran ahead. (End song.)

The Foster's Friends and the many other metahumans sat in depression in their cells, but looked up at the sound of beatings and gunshots. A soldier fell in front of a cell as the stowaway agent walked in. "Who are you?" Manny Rivera asked.

The man took out a gun and shot all the terminals by the cells, switching off the barriers and releasing them all. "WE ARE FREE!" Eduardo exclaimed, running over and embracing the man in a hug as tears fell from his eyes like waterfalls. "OH, thank you, thank you, Señor Stranger Man! Muah! Muah! Muah! Muah!" Snake's face was engulfed by his smooching big lips.

"Augh, get off!" he yelled, breaking free. "Now all of you get yourselves out of here. I'll take care of the Commander." The mutants nodded and retreated down the hall. Snake noticed Scarlet approach him first, the spy tinkering around with her cuffs before they fell off. "There you go."

Scarlet rubbed her sweaty hands, airing them out from the heavy holders. She spared one last glance toward the soldier before rushing after the others. "It's just down this way!" a country voice yelled down another hall. Snake spared a quick glance down that way as he looked for a place to hide.

When the hunters and psychics arrived at the prison wing, they stopped and studied the now-empty cells. "They're gone." Khryssa observed.

Lucario used his Aura Sense and saw tons of auras retreating down the hall beside them. "They're all escaping. Someone must have set them free."

"Then we gotta keep goin'. The research lab is further ahead." Boba told them as they ran the opposite direction of the non-humans.

"Wait." Lucario stopped them when he noticed a lone box sitting in the corner of a cell. He closed his eyes and sensed an aura within the box. He walked over and gently lifted the box up, the crouching Snake looking up at them with an "!" above his head.

Boba and Mika switched on their lightsabers, but Khryssa said, "Hold on," and walked over to help the man up. "This is that friend I told you about. He must've set them free."

"The name is Snake. Solid Snake. Khryssa and I are members of the Revolutionary Army, a secret army of both benders and nonbenders that fight for the freedom of all people."

"He stowed away in one of GUN's supply crafts in order to infiltrate this base and saved the metahumans." Khryssa explained. "And it looks like he's done a fabulous job."

"We're not done yet. They've taken a few metahumans down to the testing labs. And I haven't rescued those psychic kids of yours, yet."

"Then we haven't much time. Let's go."

They hurried down the hall and arrived at the testing lab just in time to see Emily and Violet hurriedly running from the scientists. "Hold still!" one yelled, grabbing and holding Violet down and about to give her a shot of the antidote. But Wolf shot his gun and knocked the man out as they all went around to take out the other scientists. While the two holding down Emily watched this, the half-ghost flipped back to her feet and kicked the men out, afterwards stomping and shattering the antidote shot.

When all the men were out cold, Boba and Khryssa took the time to slice the binds holding the metahumans' hands. Boba also released Emily's ecto collar, allowing her to revert back to ghost form. "Suh-weet!"

Lucario noticed the empty chambers and immediately felt Mew's presence. He noticed one of the scientists barely awake and walked over, angrily holding him by the shirt collar. "You! Where is the Firstborn?"

"Th-They've taken him! The Quads, too!" he responded with fear. "The Commander took them into his weapon testing lab. O-Over there." He pointed to a hallway just behind the machine.

Lucario dropped the man and said, "Pleasure to have your services." Afterwards, he conjured an Aura Sphere in his hands and threw it, totally obliterating the machine in an instant.

The lead scientist just fainted unconscious as Em and Vi came over and held Chad's head up as he lie unconscious. "I hope he's okay." Emily said worriedly.

"He'll be fine." Lucario told them. "The two of you get him out of here. We'll take care of things." The two nodded as Emily became a ghost and flew them out of there.

Gunkan and Rainier stood in a square-shaped field surrounded by the electric river inside a room as The Quads were forcibly kneeling in the center, Gunkan sharpening his antidote. "Time to see if this works on benders, too."

"Hold on." Rainier stopped him. "Quit stalling. I've waited around long enough. I want my parents set free."

Brett sighed and gestured for a couple soldiers to lead the handcuffed couple into the room, throwing them to the floor as Rainier hurried over. "Mom. Dad."

"Rainier…" his mother weakly spoke.

Gunkan then stepped over and held his antidote ready. "We'll set your parents free. I'll just test the antidote on them."

"Hey, wait a minute!" Rainier stopped him again. "You never said you would take away their bending."

"Rainier, don't you know? We can't let any metahuman scum roam this Earth. It's only safe to set them free if we take away their bending."

Rainier exchanged hesitant glances between his parents and Gunkan. He finally shot the General an angry glare before swatting the antidote away. "No!"

The Commander gritted his teeth in anger as the two soldiers grabbed him by the arms. "I knew you were just like them." he stated, getting ready to strike with his darksaber. The soldiers were suddenly shot and KO'ed, the two turning and seeing the heroes entering the doorway. "Rainier!" Mika shouted.

"OOF." Brett grunted when Rainier kicked him in the crotch, then proceeded to drag his barely conscious parents away.

"Get them out of here." he told Star Wolf, who nodded and carried them away. The rest of them turned to face Gunkan.

"Bah!" the angered general pressed a remote, immediately summoning a massive, high-tech silver robot from the ceiling. The robot had a cockpit in his stomach, laser turrets on its shoulders, tank wheels for feet, a missile compartment on its back, and glowing red eyes. Brett pushed a button and launched an anti-gravity ray at The Quads, levitating them to the ceiling and holding them there.

"Brett! Ya can't do this! Metahumans are people, too." Boba tried to tell him.

"Don't try to trick me! It's because of people like them and your alien friends that this world is falling apart. Since the beginning, these kind were always traitorous scum. Try to be friends with them, and they'll end up double-crossing you. I'll never forgive what that despicable psychicbender did to me years ago."

"Did to you? What are you talking about?"

"THIS!" The group's mouths dropped as the Commander started transforming. Brown roots crawling through his skin as he hunched over, his eyes glowing red as the hideous mutant tree-stump appeared on his back.

"You're…You're a mutant, too! !" Rainier exclaimed.

"That's right." the stump replied. "And I swore revenge on them all for what they did to me."

"Gunkan. You're clearly holding onto past grudges. You must let them go. Not all metahumans are bad." Khryssa tried to reason.

"NEVER! You monsters killed Rourke… and ruined our lives. The ramifications of your actions will be severe." The Commander stepped over and entered the cockpit of the robot, pushing a button that opened the machine's chest, exposing Mew.

"MEW MEW MEW!" the spirit screamed from painful shocks.

"And now…" The Commander started the Diablon 2.0 up, "Time to PAY!" (Play the "Hag 1" Theme from Banjo-Tooie.)

Boss fight: Brett Gunkan

The massive robot crouched on its tank-wheel feet, and the team scattered as it started chasing and trying to run them over. Boba spun and deflected away laser shots with his lightsaber as the robot chased, Khryssa flipping over the bounty hunter and striking the robot's head. The upper half spun and threw her off, nearly throwing her into the electric river, but she grabbed the ledge and pulled up.

Lucario attempted to jump and kick the stomach, but the robot's hands kept smacking him away. When he attempted the third time, Diablon 2 grabbed the fox in his hands and started to squeeze tight. As the other hand was about to drill him, Mika jumped on and used her psychic to hold the drill back, redirecting it into the stomach.

"AUUGH!" Brett screamed as the drill pierced his chamber, an explosion forcing the General out. The mutant got back on his feet and drew out his darksabers, starting to push against Boba's. Brett swung, but Boba leapt back as Snake ran and tried kicking Gunkan from the side, the mutant grabbing his foot with his muscular arm and starting to crush it. But while his guard was down, Mika ran over and dealt several blows against the man with her sword, Gunkan tossing Snake at her, but she ducked and swung at his legs.

The Commander recovered and retreated back to his robot, starting it up as it crouched down and held its arms out, spinning rapidly as bullets fired all over the place. The psychicbenders grabbed the bullets and were able to shoot them back at the robot, slowing it down before Snake drew out his missile gun and shot him clear in the stomach. The robot stepped back from the impact, but then extracted the missiles from his back. The missiles locked onto Snake and Khryssa and fired away, the two able to dodge them as they hit the ground, but were knocked over when the missiles scattered into mini rockets that came and blew up.

Khryssa grabbed another one before it hit her and sent it at the robot's left foot. Mika did the same and grabbed a missile, sending it at the other foot and knocking the robot over. Brett opened his chamber and came out, flipping over with sabers drawn as Mika and Khryssa immediately ran over to strike him, swinging at them from behind while they defended. Snake ran and wrapped arms around the man's neck, Gunkan using his strength to haul him overhead before his mutant tree-stump started to gnaw at him.

The General was knocked away when Boba began shooting his stump head, then rolled forward before slicing his gun with his darksabers. He pulled out his own gun and tried to shoot Boba, but Mika jumped in the way and defended with a psychic shield, then jumped and landed several blows upon him. Brett recovered and back-flipped to his robot, getting back in the cockpit before helping it stand up.

"Hold STILL, you bastard!" Gunkan shouted at Boba as the robot's hands became drills, switching on rockets in his back, then flying straight up and coming down. Boba nearly dodged before the robot burrowed beneath the ground. Rainier and Noah were flung away when the robot shot up from below them, landing back on the floor. Mika then noticed a couple electrical circuits in its legs and neck, seeing little openings.

"Rainier, girls, get ready." she told them. She and Khryssa then used Psycho Shrink to minimize them all, Khryssa levitating Noah to the openings on its knees while Mika lifted Rainier to its neck. The two kids made their way inside the internal compartments, cutting wires and pulling out any bolts they could.

"H-HUH?" Gunkan's eyes widened when the robot started to shake uncontrollably. "AUUGH!" The robot crumbled to pieces in minutes as the barrier holding The Quads switched off, setting them free.

"MEWW!" Mew happily cheered, flying around after being set free.

With a furious visage, Gunkan gave another angered cry, standing and running to slice the siblings with his darksabers. Boba and Khryssa instantly got in their way, holding him back with their sabers. Brett jumped back, but looked to his left when Lucario shot down, too late to react as the fox kicked him away. Gunkan stood up as Rainier and Noah ran toward him, punching the General in the eyes simultaneously, right before Snake ran over and stomped his foot right on his gut while he was on the ground.

Afterwards, Rainier grabbed him by the feet and swung him around, hurling him into Boba and Khryssa, who caught and held him up as Gunkan saw Mika run over. He broke free of the two and drew his sabers as he started to clash against Mika's, swinging rapidly at the Filipino while she countered all strikes. Afterwards, she jumped far back above him as a brightening pink aura appeared around her body. She shot straight down at the GUN boss with her saber pointed directly at him, coming in contact and creating a huge cloud of dust. "AAUUCK!"

The smoke cleared away as Gunkan was seen barely holding himself up by the right saber, panting heavily as Mika smirked. "Don't mess with the Mew." she said victoriously, twirling and switching her saber off as she sheathed it. (End song.)

"Aw-haw, YEAH! Boba kicked ass, Baby!" Boba Fett cheered.

"Boba Fett?" Morgan questioned as The Quads recovered from their fall. "You came to save us?"

"He's changed now." Khryssa told them. "And he won't be the only one."

They all approached the weakened Commander, who looked up and faced them. "N-NO!" He waved them off, still panting. "I must… defeat… the scum… and save the world."

Boba put his weapons away as he stood straight up, beginning to explain. "You know, Brett… Ah think Ah finally understand, now. Why we hunt these metahumans. It ain't because they're monsters… and we ain't afraid of them either. It's the unknown we're afraid of. There are just some things in this universe… that are just too great for human eyes to comprehend. And we just automatically assume the latter and lock 'em up. But it doesn't have to be that way. We don't have to treat 'em like criminals. Because…" he glanced at The Quads before turning back, "they just like us."

Gunkan looked to his left when he felt Mew's tiny, gentle paws touch his shoulder. The spirit bore a look in his eyes that said he didn't mean harm. "Mew…"

The mutant general faced back at the others, slowly starting to realize that… maybe they were right. He caught a bit more breath before finally standing straight up, his mutant tree-stump retreating back into his body as the crew smiled. "AHH!" The Commander screamed when his stump forced itself back out, making him hunch over again as it started to take over.

"NO! I will… destroy… the mutants…" The Commander tried desperately to fight the evil stump, but the beast proved much stronger.

Morgan suddenly noticed the shot containing the antidote which Rainier smacked away moments ago. Right at that moment, she grabbed the object with her psychic, aimed the point directly at the mutant stump, and launched it straight at the monster's eye.

"AAAAHHHH!" The stump cried in pain, his screaming becoming more high-pitch as he shrank away. "UWAAAAHH! WAAAAHHH! OHHHHhhhhhh…." The green eyes faded as the mutant broke itself from Gunkan, shriveling into complete nothingness in a few seconds.

Gunkan panted some more after the experience, Boba walking over to hold him up by the arm. "You okay, Brett?"

"I…I am." He panted. "Thanks, Boba."

"Ahem." Rainier spoke up, Mika turning to face him as Mew floated beside him. "Isn't there something you need to do?"

"Mew…"

Mika suddenly remembered the main reason for this whole quest, whipping out her Spirit Ball and getting ready to capture. "Herrre GOES!" she tossed the ball straight at Mew, the playful spirit becoming light and going inside.

The ball fell back into Mika's hands as it started to shake and beep. The ball floated into the air, erupting a bright white light and beginning to glow Mew's color as it fell back into Mika's hand. The girl raised her sphere in victory.

Mika captured a FIRSTBORN! We're only halfway there! !

Rainier approached Lucario afterwards and asked, "So… no hard feelings?" The ninja fox responded with an immediate punch to his gut. "OOF."

Bowser's Castle

Lord Gnaa smirked as he entered the chamber of tiny trapped children, listening as all the cries for help fueled him. "Ha ha ha… excellent! The power of these kids' fear will have me fueled in moments!"

King Bowser stomped toward his master and laughed. "GWAH HA HAH! I never aim to disappoint, Lord Gnaa! So whatcha gonna do now?"

"Hmm… first, I must clear up any loose ends. I feel that Rachel's and Sector W's love for this wretched vessel is making it weaken. I must act fast, and destroy them all. PHANTOM!"

His loyal shadow came out and kneeled. "Yes, My Master?"

"Tell those impudent brats to come to Playground Ruins. I have an important message for them."

"Yes, My Master." With that, the loyal phantom soared out of the castle.

G.U.N. H.Q.

The sun started to rise over the military base as everyone cleared outside, the metahumans free and leaving the premises. "So, I guess that's the end of the Anti-inhuman Revolution." Rainier figured.

"Mm-hm. Now that GUN's changed for the better, metahumans won't have to worry about hiding." Mika replied.

"Mika… I'm sorry about betraying you. I just-"

"Don't worry about it." She smiled. "You did what you thought was best to help your parents. You're still our friend, Rainier." And she walked over and planted a kiss on his cheek, giving him a blush.

"Uh, eh hehe."

"Well, Chad, sorry about your short time as a mutant." Emily said, watching the sunrise with Chad.

"Forget about it. After this experience… I realize I really am better off as a regular human."

"Oh, really?" she chuckled.

"Yup. You may have the cool powers… but we have the nicer skin."

"Oh, that's it!" With that, Emily tackled the boy to the ground playfully.

"H-Hey! Stop it! That tickles!"

"So where do your parents work, anyway?" Mika asked Rainier, curious.

"Actually, my parents run a Benders' Training School up in China." Rainier explained. "A lot of benders fly there from different regions to train. That's why they were captured, and GUN shut the school down afterwards. But hopefully they'll open it."

"Yeah. It'd be nice to see other benders!"

Sector V C.O.O.L.-B.U.S.

"Phew!" Hoagie sighed in relief as they all started flying away from the enemy city. "Boy, that coulda gone better. Let's stop by at our treehouse or somethin' and think up a plan to rescue our friends."

Nigel noticed Rachel glumly pressing her forehead to the window. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "Are you okay, Rachel? What's wrong?"

The blonde sighed and turned to him. "It's about what Ghirahim said. When I think about it, my leadership has caused quite a few operatives… to quit. I banished Yuki for accidentally freezing my brother, I sent Nolan and Sector Q on a dangerous mission in your stead … heck, you even left for GKND because you thought I didn't care about you. And don't even get me started on Harvey."

"That wasn't your fault, Rachel. I decided to go on my own. I didn't really know how much everyone cared about me. Heh, even Harvey. But you shouldn't feel so upset because of these things. Every leader makes mistakes, even big ones, and you're no different. The important thing is that you learn from them. But you're still a great leader, and the sweetest one yet. And lots of people look up to you, especially Harvey. If he was just reminded what kind of bond you two shared, he'd snap back to his senses in minutes."

Rachel looked up and faced him with a smile. "You really think that, Nigel?"

"Positive." He smirked. "Otherwise I never would've been able to keep my spirits up."

"Ha ha ha!" she giggled lightly.

"Hey, what's that!" Kuki shouted, sticking her head out the window as a black shadowy smog approached the C.O.O.L.-B.U.S.. The operatives gasped when the shadow shot inside, becoming the devious Phantom of Gnaa as he gave his wicked grin, facing Rachel and Sector W.

"Rachel McKenzie and Sector W… I come bringing an important message from my Master. He wishes to make your acquaintance at the lonely Playground Ruins. If you wish to see him, you will come to the ruins with no one else. Lord Gnaa eagerly awaits to see your lively faces…" The shadow made maniacal cackles as he became a cloud of smog and soared away.

"Hmm…" Rachel began to think.

"Rachel, it's obviously a trap." Nigel said. "If it's the Dark Master himself, he'll steal your hearts, too."

"Nigel, that isn't just the Dark Master. It's Harvey. You said it yourself, if he just remembered, I could snap him back to his senses. We need to take this chance now. Otherwise, Harvey may be lost forever."

"But Rachel…" Rachel just shot him the glare that Nigel knew all too well she made up her mind. "Well… alright. If you feel confident enough, I shouldn't try to stop you."

"Yay!" Angie cheered. "Let's go show that Gnaa-head not to mess with our Harvey!"

"I flew past these Playground Ruins before." Hoagie said. "I'll fly by and drop you guys off. If you're successful, just give us a call and we'll pick you right up."

"Ya really think you're up for this, Lass?" Fanny asked in a concerned tone.

"I've waited long enough, Fanny." Rachel replied with a determined look. "I'm going to get my baby brother back…"


Ah, but the Freedom Saga isn't over, yet! And as you might've seen, Brain and Gunkan had a little… past conflict. So next time… we will go against… you guessed it: NEGATAR GNAA! ! ! Heh heh, see you then! ;D