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Chapter 1

The Turbo Plaza, the main location for our story. But what is this story? It's the story of changing hearts, newfound inner demons, new characters, new adventures, dire plots, and fatal consequences of the characters we love. Who'll survive this tale? Who will fall at the hands of the enemy, never to rise again despite the thousands of tears shed in their name. Our story begins at Boxmore where the evil Professor Venomous. He's been sealed away in his lab/office for days on end never stopping to talk to Fink or anyone. Whenever Fink requested him, he just sent her new toys to play with, new weapons, and gadgets to distract her. But she didn't want them, all she wanted was to hear the praise of her boss, to know she still mattered. Recently its seemed Professor Venomous has changed, blocking everyone off. What's weirder is all the robots seemed to be dormant, not attacking the plaza at all. Not to mention Boxman has been busy himself constructing new machines. Mystery shrouds the building as all its inhabitants are pushed to new bounds never reached before.

Professor Venomous groaned tiredly as he raised his head from his desk. Bags under his eyes as a hand ran through his disheveled hair. He looked on at the countless papers scattering the surface of his desk as he rubbed the back of his neck.

So stiff.

He wondered what he's been doing lately that's made him this tired, so stiff all over his body. He found the answer when he looked more closely at the papers he saw, with countless nights of work taking the place of sweet sleep.

"Oh, right. This." He said to himself as he picked up a stack of papers flipping through them. "Its beyond me how Boxman was able to replicate POINTS disempower ray. I wonder if I modified it correctly."

Professor Venomous has been working around the clock tampering with this device. Switching its primary function to that of an empowering ray to boost the strength of villains all over the world. It would tip the balance of good and evil in the world with ease, crushing the plaza, POINT, and all heroes of this world to their whim.

He picked up the tinkered weapon from the corner of his desk seeing the open panels revealing a mess of wires, lights and other do dads. He needed to test it on someone, it was the only way to know if it truly works. At that moment a small creature scurried into the room. A mess of green hair came to the side of the Professor's desk. The hench minion Fink looked up at the tired face of her boss as he shifted some papers around while holding the modified ray gun in his hand. She looked at him wondering if he was any better from last time they spoke. After her failed mission of attacking the plaza he's seemed different. Always tired, lashes out at small things, and worst of all hasn't given her any of the attention he normally gives his favorite minion.

"Whatcha up to, Boss?" Fink asked him curiously, though she did so carefully after he lashed out at her several days ago after her battle with the hero KO.

"Just a pet project, nothing you need to worry about." He answered her as he rubbed his temples setting down the ray gun. "Why don't you go play with one of your new presents, I just got you some yesterday."

"Well, I like the presents, but I was wondering if we could something together." She asked hopefully, wondering if today would be any different from last time she asked him. "We could attack the plaza together, o-or bake those cupcakes we talked about."

The professor only groaned, not knowing when the last time he's seen a bed. "Not now Fink, I need to work on something else now." He said raising from his seat to another door opposite of the room. Fink was following in tow, wanting to help whatever way she could in order to get back on his good side. Wait, is she on his bad side if he's acting like this? Fink twiddled her thumbs as she looked up at the sliding doors open upon their arrival.

"What's the project?" Fink asked darting her eyes around the room. "What are we-oof!"

Professor Venomous stopped her right outside the door, "Sorry Fink, but this is top secret for my eyes only. Go play with one of the Darrel bots."

The doors began closing behind him, as Fink was shocked with horror. It wasn't at what he said to her, but what she saw inside the room. A giant glass cylinder in the center of the room with a small humanoid suspended in an unknown liquid. It was all she could see as the doors finally slammed shut.

"Another… minion?" She thought to herself nervously. "Why is boss making another minion? Am I not enough anymore?! It's always been just us until Boxman and his bots joined us."

Fink grew more worried by the second, her mind running rampant with thoughts of Professor Venomous replacing her with some new lab experiment. Her thoughts shifted as a light got shined in her eye. She looked to see what it was, seeing the modified ray gun sitting on the table as light bounced off it into her tiny eyes. She curiously approached the desk reading the papers.

"Empowering ray." She read aloud. "Will greatly boost the strength and capabilities of whoever is shot by it."

A light bulb went off in her head as she quickly snatched the gun off her Boss's desk.

"Hehehe, this will show 'em!" She cheered as she turned the ray gun on herself. She took a deep breath before pulling the trigger.

(At the plaza)

KO was happily taking out the trash when he heard a loud explosion. He panicked running for the front entrance expecting to see the plaza under attack. With his fists ready he was confused to see it wasn't the plaza exploding, but Boxman's factory.

"Huh, guess one of the robots blew a fuse." He shrugged it off as he went to join his best friends inside as a pillar of smoke rose from the opposite building.

(Back at Professor Venomous' office)

Fink laid on the ground with scratch marks and soot from the small explosion. Sprinklers went off at the presence of smoke in the building soaking all the papers on the desk as a worried Professor Venomous rushed into the room.

"Fink, what happened?!" He asked in a state of alarm. His eyes shot wide open upon seeing Fink on the ground not moving. He rushed over to her trying to shake her awake. "Fink, what happened? Are you okay? Where did-" He stopped as he looked at his partially blown up desk and ruined research. "NO! My research!" He quickly threw his coat over the papers trying to save them from the water, but it was already too late. He turned his attention back at Fink who was starting to stir awake. "Fink, what did you do?!" He asked in a mix of panic and rage.

Fink slowly rose to her feet as she weakly explained herself. "I-I'm sorry boss, I tried using your empowering ray on myself. I-I-I ju-just wanted to be stronger so-"

"You WHAT!?" He screamed nearly breaking the non-shattered windows around the office.

The young girl flinched as he raised his voice in what was clearly anger at its highest peak. He was livid. "Do you have any idea how dangerous that was?! It wasn't even tested yet. That was completely careless, unsafe, and worst of all weeks of my research is ruined by this damn water!" He punched the wall, breaking it in an instant causing the scared Fink to flinch. He yelled at the top of his lungs causing the rat child to huddle into a ball of sorrow.

"I'm sorry boss, please, I'll do anything to make up for it!"

Professor Venomous pinched his brow, a headache coming as veins began popping out of his head. "Fink, I'm sorry but the past few days hasn't been the best. You wasted countless glorbs in your fight with that KO boy, and you didn't even win! You've been nothing but a bother as I've been working sleepless nights on my project which you just carelessly destroyed! You could've died!"

Fink was speechless. Professor Venomous has been upset with her in the past sure, but never showed this much rage in one of his outbursts. She felt tears well up in her eyes, a lump in her throat too hard to swallow as she felt sadness course through her body down to the bottom of her heart. If she wasn't already on her knees, she would've already broken down to them in a crying fit.

"I'm sorry Fink, but with these recent actions of your behavior I have no choice but to…*sigh* fire you." He spoke with a bit of hesitation in his voice.

If it wasn't broken already, Fink's heart certainly was now.