Kid Danger's pounding footsteps are what make Captain Man tense up. But his speed- Kid Danger's, not Captain Man's- is what enabled him to take a running leap and successfully jump on his boss's back before Captain Man could fully turn around.

"Good! Hit him! Fight!" Maddy practically yelled into her microphone.

"Calm down, Mads," said Derek. "We have to stay on guard!"

"I know, I know, shut the-"

"Focus and watch!" Dr. Minyak cut her off sharply and put a finger to his ear piece. "Is everyone still in position?"

"You bet." That was Spray Z.

"Beyonspray here."

"And T-Paint!"

Everyone else called in. PaintAbby and Van Del were the only Wall Dogs in the van.

"Keep watching," instructed Dr. Minyak. "Be ready."

Captain Man had been all ready to hit back- and he did. He clawed at his opponent, unaware of who he was fighting.

Until he grabbed the person off his back and threw him to the ground.

"Kid Danger?!" No matter what, Captain Man would always recognize his sidekick. He dang near started swearing, but then, without warning, Kid Danger broke the stare they had been holding- glowing red eyes to blue ones- and slapped him clear across the face. Shocked, Captain Man could only stare at his sidekick, who then retreated back into an alley- the same one he and Captain Man had searched earlier- at Maddy's orders.

Expect, of course, Captain Man didn't know about Maddy. Or anyone else.

Captain Man finally said something- no need to disclose what it was- and ran after his sidekick, only to find him gone.

Except he wasn't. Gone, that is. He had used his speed to make a few sharp turns and, after some running, was now in the middle of a Wall Dog circle.

Like, an actual Wall Dog circle. Spray Z, Beyonspray, T-Paint, Candace, Two Canz and The Sprayer has surrounded him.

Well, actually, it was really more of a Wall Dog hexagon. (Believe it or not, there was a slight debate about while Minyak was explaining the plan- circle or hexagon.) But whatever shape it was, they had really only gathered around him in case something went wrong.

Slipping through a pair of Wall Dogs- T Paint and Candace- a seventh figure that no one could see grinned… but they could see the can it was holding.

Obviously, it was Invisible Brad.

"Kid Danger," said Maddy into her microphone, "stand still."

The last order. For that night, anyway.

Invisible Brad lifted the can up in front of Kid Danger's face. He smirked.

"I wish I could say I've been looking forward to this. But the real fun comes later." Without waiting for a response (not that he was expecting one), Invisible Brad sprayed Kid Danger.

Everyone watched Kid Danger's red eyes close. They saw him sway a bit before falling to the ground. They stared at him.

"He's out cold," said Candace after a moment of silent staring. "Scram!"

All the circle/hexagon Wall Dogs- plus Invisible Brad- scattered to their respective places to hide out until they were to sneak back to the liar- it would be safer, Dr. Minyak insisted, to not have everyone go at once. (This had actually been Nurse Cohort's idea, but, naturally, Minyak stole it.) Everyone in the Van drive away to go straight back.

They all left Kid Danger there- all but one. T-Paint had been trusted with taking Kid Danger's tracker out of the box and back into his belt as fast as he could. Taking a deep breath, he did so, sprinting faster than anyone else had in order to get away, leaving Kid Danger unconscious.

Candace was right- he was knocked out. His eyes were closed, but, underneath the eyelids, his pupils had not the red glow and gone back to their normal brown.

The nighttime breeze messes with his hair, which, in spite of the gel, had gotten messed up already but the struggle with Captain Man.

Captain Man!

If Kid Danger were conscious, that would have been his next thought, followed by Where is he? and I need to find him.

As Kid Danger lie there, a frantic Captain Man was searching all over the general area for him, having thought of his own.

They were beyond Where is he? and I need to find him. He'd been thinking those thoughts for awhile by that point. Now they were more along the lines of What just happened?

He and Kid Danger have fought before, but in way different circumstances. Sometimes they were fighting about something stupid, but those were verbal fights, maybe with lasers. They fought against each other in the Man Cave sometimes, but for training purposes. They had fought by the Swellview sign in order to trick the Wall Dogs that one time, but that had been a whole set up.

Also- what makes him think he can fight me? I mean, yeah, I'm a good training partner, but that's because I can't be beat. This wasn't training, and it sure wasn't fake either- that was real.

Was it? Did he have to fake a fight? Holy- Captain Man was beginning to panic as a bunch of imaginary scenarios ran through his head. Oh, no, Henry was Kid-Danger-napped. Oh, God, Henry had to fake a fight for someone. Oh, sugar-honey-ice-tea, Henry actually turned against-

Don't you dare finish that thought, Ray! He wouldn't do that- just focus on finding him.

If Captain Man hadn't been raining before, he certainly was now. He whisper-shouted Kid Danger, Where are you, etc., not daring to raise his voice too much.

Amazing how three to five minutes can seem like five to six hours. Finally, after what seemed like forever, a flash of red caught Captain Man's eye as he ran past the spot Derek and Maddy's van had been.

"Kid?" Captain Man Dan over to where Kid Danger was lying. "Kid Danger?!"

Unsure if it would work or not, Captain Man smacked his face a couple times. Coincidentally, Kid Danger has started coming to right as he was getting smacked.

"Owwwww, cut that ouuuuuut."

"Kid? You okay?"

"I dunno, what happened?"

Captain Man started at his sidekick. "Whaddaya mean, 'What happened?'?! You disappeared on me and then tired to fight me!"

Kid Danger stared up at his boss. "What?"

Captain Man wasn't sure what was going on. "Wha- it happened, like, today!" A thought crossed his mind. "Did you hit your head, or something?" He finally noticed the bruise across Kid Danger's face. "Where'd the bruise come from? I didn't slap you that hard."

Kid Danger shrugged. "I… I don't know."

"Okay, we are getting nowhere." Captain Man was trying to think when his cell phone rang, startling them both.

"What is it, Schwoz?"

"Hey, nice to hear from you too. Henry's signal came back."

"Yeah, and I'm sitting right next to him."

"Oh. Well, we found him, so that's good."

"Ray found him?" A voice in the background yelled, loud enough that it got Kid Danger's attention.

"Was that Charlotte?"

"Give me that!" Captain Man and Kid Danger heard Charlotte wrestle the phone away from Schwoz. Captain Man scooter closer to his sidekick so they could both hear her. "Henry, we've been trying to find you! Are you okay? What happened?"

"That's Kid Danger to you," said Henry, attempting to make a joke.

"Yeah, he's fine," said Charlotte, mostly to herself. She seemed to calm down a little. "What's going on?"

"I don't know, can I just come back to the Man Cave now?"

"Good idea- oh, and your parents think you fell asleep while cleaning the basement and I didn't want to wake you. Jasper called them to confirm it."

"Cool. Is he there?"

"No, he left, his mom wanted him home so he could help her with her foot medication."

"I did not need to know that."

"Me, neither," added Captain Man.

"Just come back." There was someone talking in the background. "Schwoz says that if you don't know what happened, check for suit for trackers or something to make sure no villains planted one, or something."

Good God. He hadn't thought of that. "Okay, I will. See you later."

"See ya."

"Can you stand?" Captain Man offered a hand to help his sidekick get up. He seemed steady… mostly.

Kid Danger patted down his suit and belt. "I think everything's there. Whatever happened, I didn't think it occurred to them to use a tracker.

"If there's a them at all," he added quickly, getting nervous.

"Wait," said Captain Man. "What about your normal tracker? What if it got hacked or something?"

"I thought Schwoz said it couldn't be hacked." Kid Danger dug out his tracker, unaware of what it had gone through.

"Maybe we should destroy it," said Captain Man after a minute. "We have more that we can activate."

Kid Danger nodded. "Better safe than sorry, I guess." He dropped the ball and crushed it under his boot. He winced. "We should've let Schwoz and Charlotte know we were doing this."

"Yeah." Sure enough, Captain Man's phone rang again.

He answered with a curt "We'll explain later, we're both still here, we're coming" before hanging up.

"Where's the Man Van?" Kid Danger asked. His boss looked at him. "What?"

"The Man Van. We drove here in it."

"Uh… I sorta went back to the Man Cave to try and locate you and then just ran back here."

"Oh, great."

Captain Man and Kid Danger weren't exactly jazzed about walking, but, even though they didn't know it, they had a small victory: Dr. Minyak and his team hadn't thought about bugging his tracker, of his cell phone, and they hadn't noticed the Wiz Watch yet.

Happy Mother's Day to any Moms out there!

Ciao, and Happy Reading!

P.S. Easter Egg.