Chapter 67: Dark Plasma
James returned to Chez Leisure, parking right outside where his mother stays. When he arrived, he noticed his mother was outside, waiting for him.
When he got out, he saw her approaching.
"Hey Mom. How's it-"
"Quick! Where did Kimberly Ann go?" She asked quickly.
"I… left her and her friends at a mansion for a mission. Why?" He asked, surprised by her sudden reaction.
"I need you to take me to her." She said.
James rose a brow.
"Uh… why?"
She had an uncharacteristically serious look on her face.
"Just call it a hunch…"
At the mansion, with the robots disguised in trench coats to act as bodyguards, the Seniors were looking around the area, trying to find something that could hint to the location of this jewel.
At the snack table, Junior was stuffing his face when his father fake coughed to get his attention.
"Junior, we may be crashing this party, but we must still have manners…" He chided.
"Father, all we had to eat for days was raw fish, and not sushi…" Junior whined.
"Senior?" The voice of Phillipe caught their attention.
Senior groaned before putting on a friendly face and turning around.
"Phillipe… lovely party…"
"One you were clearly not invited to, considering you were ejected from the Billionaire's Club two years ago." Phillipe said with a stern look.
"Indeed… but I had heard you have something I'm looking for, so I risked coming." Senior said while trying to sound charismatic. "A type of gemstone bought from Falsetto Jones."
Phillipe looked surprised to hear that, evident by one eyebrow raising.
"Exactly how do you know that?" He questioned with skepticism.
"I have my ways… how much are you willing to part with it?" Senior said.
Phillipe only scoffed as he started to walk away.
"Because I'm in such a good mood right now, I'll let you enjoy my party. Once it's time to end, please leave."
When he did go, Senior grumbled.
"Pompous fool…"
"Father…" Junior whispered harshly and terrified. "Those big lizards want their little toy… What do we do?"
Senior was about to come up with a plan, when he took notice of something and smiled.
"I think we will be alright…"
What he saw was Ron Stoppable at the other end of the table.
He was scarfing random foods while stuffing a few into his pocket, where Rufus ate it as well.
Only he knew of a certain invisible girl hovering next to him. She was looking at him sternly.
"Ron…" She whispered. "I'm pretty sure this is not what you should be doing right now…" She took notice of something and smiled. "I might look the other way if you hand me some chocolates…"
"No problem."
Ron handed her some chocolates. Not caring if anyone saw them hovering, she took them in her hands and scarfs them into her mouth.
Outside, Danny sat on the rooftop of the mansion, all the while looking out into the sky.
"No trace of anything big or scaly… yet." Danny said to himself. "Let's just hope it stays that way…"
He then rested his chin under his hand, looking bored.
I really wish I was with Kim right now… That suit was just so… tight…
He blushed at that. Then he shook it off.
"Come on… don't think that about her… There's more to her than her looks…"
He blushed harder.
That magazine…
He remembers that magazine saying a sign of love is constantly thinking about that person and wishing to be with them always.
"I am not in love with…" He said to himself before groaning and standing up. "Stay on the job!"
Inside, Kim found her way into a private study. There, she used the Kimmunicator as a metal detector to find the safe. She found it behind a bookshelf that she was able to pull out of the way from one side. She approached the safe.
"Okay… looks like I'll need to figure out the combination." She said to herself.
She pressed the side of her head into the safe as she spun for the combination.
No… no… yes.
She continued until finally hearing the safe unlocked.
"Bingo…" She opened the safe. There, she saw it. "That must be it…"
It was a large, green object in a diamond-shape, about bigger than a football.
She reached out and grabbed it.
Without this, that staff is just a toothpick for those monsters…
That's when she heard the sound of the door opening. She looked and, to her surprise, it was two men in trench coats.
She smiled.
"Let me guess, you weren't on the list either?"
The robots remove their fedoras and coats, revealing themselves to Kim.
Kim readied herself as she held onto the diamond.
The robots rushed her while Kim jumped over them.
The robots turned around and readied their weapons.
Kim readied for battle.
On the rooftop, Danny hears the sounds of something directly underneath his feat.
"Are they square dancing or something under me?" He asked. "May as well take a look…"
Danny looked through the roof with intangibility and saw what was going on.
He saw Kim fighting robots.
"HEE-YAH!" Kim shouted as he kicked one of them to the floor.
"Okay… not square dancing…" He saw one of the robots about to blindside Kim. "Not a chance!"
He landed in the room, turning tangible and tackling the robot on the floor.
This got Kim's attention.
"Danny?"
"Heard from above. Don't suppose you want a partner in this tag team?" He asked.
"Not complaining." Kim said as she and Danny stood back-to-back.
The robots approached each one. Kim put the diamond in her suit's pouch as they went on the offensive.
Danny threw one punch. Kim jumped and kicked one in the head.
Both of them kept at it, fighting off the robots as best as they could.
However, as Kim was pushed into the wall by one, someone reached into her bag and pulled the diamond out.
"Father! I have it!" Junior said as he ran to the doorway, where his father is. "I took the diamond!"
"Excellent, Junior." His father praised. "Now let us go ensure our freedom from those beasts…"
The two of them made an escape through the door as the last two robots came in the room to cover for them.
"They're getting away!" Kim shouted. "Can you go after them?"
"No… but I gave Danielle a Fenton Phone in case this happens…." Danny pulled out a Fenton Phone and put it on as he ducked from a punch from one of the robots. "Danielle?"
Downstairs, Ron was still scarfing foods with Rufus as Danielle was behind, invisible, eating chocolate.
"Danielle?" She heard Danny's voice from the Fenton Phone she was given and placed in her ear.
Look around, she flew into the air and answered.
"Yeah?"
"The diamond's been taken. The Seniors are gonna be making a break for the exit. Look for two Hispanic looking men with a family resemblance."
"Got it." She answered. That's when she descended and whispered to Ron's ear. "The Seniors got what we're looking for…"
Ron stopped his snacking and looked around.
"On it!" He said with his mouthful.
Rufus saw the two they were looking for and tapped Ron's shoulder and pointed.
"Over there!" He chirped.
Ron nodded.
"Let's go!"
The Seniors were reaching the doorway when two of the guards blocked their path.
"Excuse me, gentleman…" Senior said with the diamond in his coat. "My son and I were just leaving…"
"Really, Senor Senior Sr?" The voice of Phillipe caught their attention. He was right behind them, now circling to look them in the eye. "So soon… no attempt to buy that diamond you mentioned?" He questioned.
"Ah, I realize that it is in bad form to crash your birthday party…" Senior claimed.
"Is that so?" Phillipe was unconvinced. He raised a hand. "Search him." He snapped his fingers.
The two guards do just that. One of the pulls the diamond out of his coat.
"Oh ho ho…" Senior went with an affable tone. "How do you suppose that got into my coat?"
"Don't play dumb with me, Senior." Phillipe Bullion said with an annoyed look. He then motioned for his men. "Take them away!"
On response, Senior used his cane on that guard's shin, causing him to let go of the diamond and steal it back.
"Come, Junior!" He shouted.
He and his son ran past Bullion and his men.
"Stop him!" Phillipe ordered.
However, as they got out, Senior held up the diamond.
"I have it!"
That's when a portal opened.
Ron and an invisible Dani bore witness when they caught up with what's going on.
They also saw the portal had a figure coming through. It was big, black, and armored in gold.
Thirorex stepped out, the portal behind him closed. He looked down at the two and smiled.
"Finally…"
Phillipe and his men stared with jaws dropped.
"Actually… you can keep it!" He said as he ran back into his mansion with his guards.
The sight of the large dragon outside caught the attention over everyone in the building. In response, they all began running outside from the other side of the mansion.
He knelt down to grab it, but then sound of something hitting the ground behind him.
Inside the mansion, Danny and Kim stood in the room that had three robots now destroyed on the floor. One was left. With one charged punch, Danny destroyed its chest. Once it hit the floor, Kim took notice of those sounds.
"Did you hear that?" Kim asked.
Danny turned around to see her, looking out towards the window.
"Yeah… what was that?" Danny walked towards the window. His eyes widened when he saw it. "Say, Kim? Did you ever see giant robots fighting giant monsters?"
"Uh… no. That's more Ron's thing."
"Well…" He pointed outside. "You're about to live out one of those movies."
Kim approached and looked outside. What she saw made her gasp.
"Are those…?"
Two years ago, one of Kim's missions involved stopping Drakken from building a giant robot. While it was before she had her first mission with Global Justice, she knows they like to keep an eye on her. It's likely they studied the plans and remains of said giant robot.
Because now there a blue-colored version of it approaching Thirorex.
One of those inside the robot is the leader of the trio, contacting via a speaker.
"Attention, Thirorex! We are Team Impossible!" Dash Dumont declared.
"Global Justice has been developing this just for you!" Crash added.
"Based on my calculations, odds of victory rose by 45% for us." Burn used his calculator to do that analysis… "Let's send this thing back to extinction!"
Thirorex only scoffed.
"Your toy means nothing against me!"
Thirorex than charged at the robot, using his claws to try and slash it.
Meantime, Danny carried Kim to join Ron and Dani. There, they observed what was going on with the rest.
Somehow, the robot managed to dodge and sent a blast to the evil Terakon.
What happened next was a scene that would have been amazing to any monster movie fanatic, as a large dragon was in battle with the large robot as the latter pushed the former into the mansion, destroying the front.
"This would be so cool if it were movie and not happening in front of me..." Ron muttered in horror.
Kim and Danny however just nodded to each other.
"Then it's time to cut this scene..." Danny said as his eyes glowed brighter and Kim pulled out her grappling hook hair dryer.
"No need!" Dash was heard shouting via speaker. "We've prepared just for this monster!"
As he shouted this, Thirorex pushed the robot off him.
"Away from me, tiny imbeciles!"
He then unleashed his red fire breath, but the robot braced itself for protection.
"We can handle this…" Crash said. "Right Burn?"
Burn tried to maintain a stoic look, despite the sweat on his face.
"Personally, right now I wish my folks named be Jim instead of Burn… Phew…"
"Let's make a bag out of this lizard!" Dash ordered.
The robot started walking to its target, still bracing. Once the flames ended, Crash pushed a button.
"Now!"
Dash made the arms aim at Thirorex, then fired cables.
They wrapped around their target.
The van driven by James Possible and his mother arrived to the mansion.
Once close enough, he braked, seeing the king of Terakons for the first time.
"What in the world?!"
He saw Thirorex, with large cables wrapped around his arms from the robot, rendering him unable to escape.
His mother inched closer and took a look at the creature.
"Hmm… there is something oddly familiar about that beast…" That's when she took notice of something.
Namely, the dark crystal on one of his gauntlets. It made her gasp in horror.
It can't be…
"Dad?! Nana?!" Kim said as she saw them arrive. "What are you doing here?"
"Your Nana insisted on it…" James said as he was getting out of the van. "Is that the dragon thing you've been dealing with?"
"Same one…" Kim said.
Meanwhile, Thirorex was trying to break out of the cables, but with minimal success.
"What is this?!" He questioned with annoyance.
"These cables are titanium alloy, chromium, and metals that the public doesn't even know about!" Burn shouted into the speaker. "It'll take a lot of force as we've analyzed from what Phantom and Possible told us… you can't break free from this…"
However, that's when Thirorex gave a toothy, evil grin.
"Not yet…" He was inching one arm to the other, reaching for said dark crystal. "You gave me an excuse to finally use this thing…"
Nana Possible gasped when saw it glow upon his touch.
"The Anti-Light…"
That caught her granddaughter's attention.
"What?"
"We have to go!" She shouted to them. "If that's what I think it is, then-"
Then a growl, one far more guttural and monstrous came from the king of the Terakons.
It caught everyone's attention. He looked almost in pain. The black crystal, which he pressed on, seemed to have dissolved before a piece fell to the ground.
It looked like he was on fire. A dark, evil-looking black fire. Soon, his entire body seemed to have engulfed in these flames.
Then his yellow eyes opened. And a very evil looking grin appeared before the flames disappeared.
"Behold… the power and might of the Dark Plasma!"
"Uh… KP?" Ron asked as everyone else just stared dead-eyed. "Is this… a thing he always does or-"
"No… this is new…" She explained.
Then, to Team Impossible's surprise, he immediately broke free of the cables.
"WHAT?!" Burn questioned loudly as he went over his notes. "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! HE'D HAVE TO STRUGGLE EVEN MORE TO GET OUT!"
"No matter!" Dash said as he readied the robot. "This thing can handle anything!"
"Let's test that theory!" Thirorex took the challenge.
Then, in an instant, he flew to the robot and struck with his claw. It broke straight through the upper body. Then, with his other claw, he pulled the entire upper half apart, causing both sides falling to the ground.
"WHAT?!" Dash shouted.
"That's impossible!" Crash shouted.
"Statistically speaking… he had a 10% chance of doing that so quickly!" Burn added.
Thirorex saw the two in their cockpit and rose his arm.
"To the skies!" Dash ordered.
Pressing buttons on their chest straps, they activated their jetpacks and took the air.
"Now what?" Crash questioned.
"Go for the eye! They're the most sensitive part of any body!" Dash ordered.
However, Thirorex smirked and simply inhaled to prepare to blast them.
Realizing what's about to happen, Burn calls out.
"MOVE! MOVE!"
They scattered before the large dragon could unleash his flames.
They then flew towards his stomach and threw punches.
However, the impact seemed to have broken their hands and made them realize it didn't work.
Thirorex only smirked at them.
"Pathetic little mammals…"
Recognizing they're not gonna survive, Danny decided to step in by flying towards his foe's face.
"Back off, Hot Breath!"
He threw a kick into the large beast's nose. However, to his surprise, it did nothing. It didn't even affect his foe in any way whatsoever.
"Begone, insect!"
Thirorex simply backhanded Danny.
To everyone's surprise, the backhanding made enough of an impact that sent Danny shot miles away.
"DANNY!" Dani shouted.
However, Danny was shot into the nearby woods, all the while Thirorex laughed heartily.
"Excellent… I feel stronger… Dark Plasma is working!" He declared proudly. "Now… for that diamond…" He looked down and saw the object he was looking for. "Ah… perfect…"
As he knelt down for it, both Kim and Dani made their move. Kim ran up his arm while Dani flew towards him. They both aimed for his eyes.
Nana Possible gasped and tried to call out to her granddaughter.
"KIMBERLY ANN! NO!"
Too late. Both girls threw punches into his eyes.
However, to their horror, it did nothing.
He scoffed.
"Fools…"
He shook his head, knocking them off. With that, he grabbed the diamond carefully and got up, observing it. Smirking, he extended his wings and flew away.
"He's getting away!" Ron shouted as he pointed at Thirorex.
"Seastorm!" Thirorex shouted as he flew. "Open the portal!"
The portal did as he commanded, and he entered if from the air.
Once it closed, Dani ignored this and looked to where Danny went.
"I gotta find Danny!"
She flew after him, all the while Kim was stopped by her grandmother when she tried to join the smaller girl.
"Kimberly Ann!"
"Nana…" Kim was about to argue.
"I need to tell you something… about that dark power that thing used…"
That caught Kim's attention.
Dani flew through the woods, cupping her hands around her mouth to amplify her voice.
"Danny?!" She shouted. "Where are you?!"
"Up here!"
She looked up from the nearby tree. She saw him there.
Danny was on a branch, in human form, looking a bit hurt.
"You okay?" She asked.
"Sort of…" He said weakly.
He morphed and phased out of the branch, descending to meet with her. One he landed, he groaned and straightened his back.
"Okay… I've never actually seen you guys fight that thing off but… does it usually go that way?"
"No…" Danny said. "It never went like that… I mean, we never actually win but we at least do some level of hurt… Something was obviously different."
Dani remembered something.
"It might have been that weird crystal. But… he called it… the Dark Plasma…"
"Really?" Kim asked.
"Indeed…" Her Nana said. "I learned of it during my time with the Shaolin Monks."
She has just explained to Kim in private as her father, Ron, Rufus and Team Impossible were observing the destroyed remains of the robot.
"Did the robot have a cool sword too?" Ron asked.
"It took us weeks to get the approval of the sword…" Crash said before he looked to almost break into tears. "We didn't even the chance to use it!"
Ron was already breaking into tears.
"NOOO!"
Rufus also broke into tears from not seeing such a thing.
Crash, however, held his tears back.
"Stay strong, Crash… stay strong…"
"Burn!" Dash ordered as he ignored those in tears. "What happened? I thought your calculations suggested we had a chance to win."
"We had a 75% chance of winning…" Burn said as he went over his notes. "Somehow… it went straight to 0% when he touched that… thing."
"That black crystal thing, right?" Dash asked.
"You mean that?" Ron pointed to something on the ground.
It was a black rock-like gen, glowing a rather sinister purple color.
James Possible blinked his eyes before walking up to it and taking a look.
"Huh… never seen anything like this before."
"Neither have we…" Dash said as he approached, reaching for the gem. "We'll take it to Global Justice, maybe someone there can-" That's when he touched it. "ACK!"
He immediately fell to the ground on his back, grabbing his hand and hissing in pain.
His teammates surrounded him, trying to help him up.
"Dash! You okay?!" Crash asked in concern.
That's when both Phantoms returned, and saw what was going on. Once Danny landed, he saw Team Impossible helping their leader get up. "What happened?"
"That… thing!" Dash said as he pointed with his hand, now that it no longer stings.
Approaching the crystal, Danny looked down at it with a confused look.
Danny said picked up the crystal and yelped.
"Ah!" Danny shouted as he dropped it.
"Danny, are you okay?!" Kim asked as she approached him and put hand on his shoulder.
"Ouch... it felt like I touched a blood blossom..." He muttered.
"A what?" Burn asked.
"Long story…" Danny said as he quickly shook his hand to soothe the pain. "Is that the weird thing Thirorex touch to turn all mega powered?"
"Possibly…" Burn said as he closely examined the rock. "I've never seen anything like this before." He pulled out a small yellow bag. "If we could get it in this thing, we can take it with us for GJ to analyze."
Kim reached for the stone.
"Lemme try…"
Suddenly, everyone tried to tell her not to touch it. Then, to everyone's surprise, something happened.
She held it up in her hand.
Granted she did hiss in pain a bit, but she was able to place the hazardous rock into Burn's small bag.
This left everyone, save for her Nana, staring in surprise.
"Kimmie-Cub?"
"Yeah Dad?" Kim asked as she blew on her hand.
"How…"
"HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!" Ron interrupted him with the same question, to James' annoyance.
"I don't know… gloves?" Kim suggested.
"You're wearing a suit made with advanced opera gloves…" Danny pointed out. "You should've been hurt more than I was…"
Kim just shrugged.
Minutes later, Kim got her usual mission gear back at her Nana's home.
As she walked out, she stopped to give her Nana a hug.
"Thanks for telling me, Nana."
"No worries, Kimberly Ann. Just promise me you'll give that prehistoric hooligan trouble…" She asked.
"I promise." Kim said.
Danny was observing this from a distance and smiled. That's when her two brothers approached him.
"Hey Danny." Jim whispered. "Are you our sister's boyfriend now?"
Danny blushed and looked surprised to hear that.
"Uh… no."
"We can invent a love ray if you want." Tim offered.
"After the last love spell she was under? Not a chance…"
"Okay everyone." Kim called out. "Let's meet up with Team Impossible so they can give us a ride back."
As she headed towards the parked jet, while Ron scarfing a bag of potato chips with Rufus, and Dani was drinking a can of soda, Danny saw Nana Possible approach him.
"A pleasure to meet you, Daniel." She said.
"Likewise." Danny said politely.
"Keep an eye on my granddaughter…" She then whispered to him. "Between you and me, Ronald might have a bigger shot."
Danny blushed and looked baffled.
"Uh… what?"
Nana only chuckled lightly.
"You're a good boy. I hope for your sake things go well between the two of you…" She said before returning home.
Danny was left a bit confused, namely bringing up Ron.
Ron? Bigger shot? That's when a thought came to him. Does she know I'm interested in Kim?
"Danny!" Kim's voice caught his attention as she was at the ship's door. "Let's go!"
Danny snapped out of his thoughts and followed her to the ship.
On the jet taking them back to Amity Park, Team Impossible set the auto pilot on as they turned their seats around to speak the to four sitting behind them.
"So, I take it your grandmother said something regarding this mystery element, if I'm not wrong?" Dash asked.
"She did." Kim answered. "Apparently, it's something she encountered when she studied with the Shaolin Monks. They called it the Anti-Light."
"Really? Thirorex called it Dark Plasma…" Danny pointed out.
"I guess it has more than one name?" Kim theorized. "Anyway, she said the last time she saw someone used it, it made them drunk with power and almost get themselves killed."
"How? Touching it hurt me and Phantom." Dash pointed out.
"Supposedly, the person my Nana described was already kind of a bad egg. Maybe you have to already be a nasty enough person to use them?"
"Well… wanting to commit human genocide to rule over the planet does sound like he hatched from a bad egg…" Ron rationed.
"Hmm…" Dash got to pondering. He looked to his teammates. "Do searches for Anti-Light or Dark Plasma… Maybe we can find something there."
As his teammates got to typing, Danny leaned in his seat, which was when he saw a book on the counter where Team Impossible have their drinks in a minifridge underneath. A book with a drawing of animals on it.
Curious, he pulled it out and read the cover.
"Animology 2.0…"
"Animology?" Kim questioned with an amused smile. "I remember taking that… Long story short, it thought Senor Senior Junior was my soulmate."
"I don't wanna talk about that…" Ron said with a grumpy look and his arms crossed.
Danny and Dani were both confused, but Kim clued them in.
"He wasn't fond of his sign. I'm a Blue Fox…" She answered them.
"Huh… okay…" Dani said, not really that interested.
Danny however, had something else on his mind.
Soulmate?
He looked to the book and ideas flowed through his head before something else did.
"Why 2.0?"
"They updated with new animals and color combinations." Burn answered.
"And why do you have a book geared towards teenagers?" Kim questioned.
"Crash wanted to find a girlfriend…" Dash muttered with an eye roll.
Crash looked offended.
"I don't wanna do this forever, you know! I do want to be a dad someday!"
Danny, however, was more interested in something that brought a smile to his face.
This could tell me if I'm compatible with Kim…
Once the coast was clear at Phillipe's mansion, both Seniors lifted the lids of the trash cans they were hiding in.
"Ah… excellent." Senior said. "We have evaded that evil lizard." Calmly, he exited the can and began walking away. "Come Junior…"
"But father…" Junior said as he beginning to tear up while shuttering in disgust from banana peels and apple cores all over his clothes. "I am covered in garbage! Why did we hide in here?!"
So, for the longest time I tried to find a name for the element. I decided to go with a new one, Dark Plasma. The name has a double meaning, as we'll find out later. It's going to play a bigger role later.
Next chapter is going to be a lighter tone for a bit as it involves Animology.
Special Thanks to Flower Princess11 for her assistance on this and next chapter.
Also thanks to qazse and Invader Johnny for name ideas. Sorry I didn't go with them.
Jebest4781: Thank you for the suggestions.
Guest (1): Thank you.
qazse: Sam may need to learn to cool down. Also, Ron's probably going to try and shut up from now on.
Guest (2): Thank you.
Luiz4200: Bernice is a recurring character from the series who gives Kim a ride via aircraft.
Leonardo: Good guess but no. Although Yori may be coming to them.
