Beth arrived at the motorbike, but halted and called out, "Alright, enough! I know what's going on, and I believe someone was watching me!"

The cloth flew down to the ground, and she added, "I was right. Someone was watching me, since I traveled to the middle of nowhere. Why? Clearly I'm alone. I just came here, all alone, but I can't shake the feeling that someone is there…"

She held up the cloth and threw it up in the air. She said, "Damn my heated imagination… Must be trickery, in this hot climate."

The cloth rustled and blown in the air, as the man held up his knife, from inside the cloth. He lunged at Beth, but she noticed the shadow. She rolled out of the way, avoiding the blade.

"Well, well," a man in black hair spoke in a German accent, "I see that you know my every move. Clearly that was an exact kill, which is why I used stealth on you."

Beth shouted, "Why the hell are you following me? I've got no business with you!"

The soldier said, "Oh, I've got nothing against killing you. I was only following orders, and now am the ability to capture you. Our army would like to ask you questions about Tohka Yatogami, Beth Nevins!"

Beth asked, "Tohka? Why would you be interested about her? And what do you mean Your Army?"

Episode XII – Chapter 2: Doom of the Species!
The Stone Woman Awakens!

Beth said, as the soldier was perched on his feet on a cactus, in the middle of the desert, "Judging by your accent, horrid as your smell, you're a German. I'd like to know what your business is, about Tohka, Speedwagon, or Auntie Michelle!"

She prepared to fight, "But if you're not able to answer me, I'm liable to beat those answers out of you!"

The soldier said, "You think you can best the murderous Commander Donovan with your bare hands, little girl? I'm not for that kind of violence."

He held his blade and shouted, "But since you insisted, I'm happy to oblige!"

He lunged at her, as she shouted, "Great! But how about I give you back your flea-ridden magic rag?"

She threw the sheet into him, and he suddenly hid into it. Beth punched at the rag, and suddenly screamed in pain, on impact. She screamed, and winced, holding her left hand, covered in cactus pins.

"AAAGH! What gives? Ow… Cactus needles…"

Donovan emerges and lands a knee to Beth's head, knocking her out. He placed his boot on her head and laughed, "VICTORY! I thought I would be given more of a challenge, little girl… I expect you to give me more than that. Repeat after me, I've never expected such a challenger, herr Donovan."

"How about NO?" Beth moaned, "You gave me enough time to recover!"

Beth's head was lying by the cactus, as Donovan's boot was pressed onto the side of her skull. Suddenly, her psychic energy brimmed from her and absorbed into the cactus.

Donovan smirked, "Oh? You can't recover. What can you do now, since you're a weak little girl?"

Beth replied, "Why don't you look forward?"

The cactus started to bulge, as he asked, "Wait a sec. What is wrong with this cactus?"

Beth smirked, "You'll see."

SMASH!
The cactus exploded, as a huge chunk of cactus and stray needles pierced all over Donovan's body. He screamed in pain, as Beth laughed, getting up. She kicked him down and stomped his head with her foot.

"That cactus was my goal, all along, Herr Donovan," Beth said, pressing his head down, "Cacti are known to have at least 85% water inside. And cacti are made into fabulous conductors for Hamon. Now repeat after me, I promise to tell Bethany Nevins everything."

Moments later, Beth was told about everything that occurred. Beth was lightly in tears, on the motorbike, as she was completely happy.

"He told me about Miss Speedwagon and Auntie Michelle. Miss Speedwagon was taken somewhere in Mexico, while Auntie Michelle is back in Germany. That means they're safe. I can't wait to tell June and Mother the good news."

She thought, as she was lost in thinking, "Regardless, how the Germans are treating them badly, I can't explain it to them. So, I can keep it within me. I can just bring them home… and June and Mother will be happy."

She drove off, as Donovan cried out, "WAIT! DON'T LEAVE ME HERE!"

Beth left Donovan in the cactus, hanging upside down, covered in needles, and tied-up in rope. Apparently, she doesn't want Donovan to go free.

XXXXX

Meanwhile, back in Germany, the woman on the stone pillar was beginning to crack. One soldier called out, "Frau Kosuri! The pillar girl! She's beginning to crack!"

A second soldier said, "It's currently holding the blood of five prisoners! We still don't know what it's for, but feeding it anymore would cause a breaking point in the safety zone."

Kosuri smiled, "Hmm… Kosuri was curious to know how you did manage to get the blood. NO, WAIT! I don't want to know. Kosuri can imagine how you came up with it, in different ways."

She turned to Michelle, bound in chains, on a chair, as she was astonished. Kosuri said, "Oh, Miss Nevins… Are you surprised? I'm curious to see you face, when you get to experience what she does."

Michelle yelled, "WHAT THE HELL! YOU'RE MAKING A HUGE MISTAKE!"

Kosuri said, "Do not fret, old woman. The test chamber is impenetrable. The iron bars are 20-inches thick. It has machines guns, explosives, and flamethrowers built-in, if needed. I shouldn't be surprised that all your courage doesn't even add up to what I have in my one little finger! YOU COWARD!"

Michelle shouted, "STOP BEING SO ARROGANT!"

She leaned towards Michelle, "You want to know what I think, Nevins? Kosuri thinks it's nothing more than dried-up caveman bones, or a dead corpse of an innocent peasant girl, lost in the ruins! And it's wasting my time!"

The statue started to spout out blood, as one soldier cried, "Major! It's erupting!"

They gasped, "Wait, WHAT?"

The blood that it took was spraying out everywhere in the stone woman, from the cracks and crevices. Kosuri activated the sprinkler system, when suddenly, as the water was showering the pillar, the stone woman was split into half, from the head up to below. The severed woman statue opened up, revealing a woman in long mahogany hair, wearing only bra and panties, made with wrapped bandages. She dropped to her knees and hands, as everyone was shocked. Her skin began to regain flesh color, and her hair changed from mahogany to wisteria. She started to get up, as Kosuri laughed, "Yes… Yes! She's alive! But since I'm her new godmother, Kosuri will name her, other than this Stone Woman."

She named the woman, "Kosuri will name her after the winds of ice. I dub her, Helaviento!"

She was struggling to stand up, as Kosuri begs her to stand. But the woman suddenly slips in the water, falling to the ground. She sniffed the water, and then stood up. She stretched her arms.

Kosuri laughed hysterically, laughing at the way Helaviento slipped, "OH, MAN! DID YOU SEE THAT? This woman should be in show business, rather than the army! What do you think, Miss Nevins? This is nothing more than a primitive woman! She just sniffs around, like a feral beast!"

She then grinned, "This is a farce! Let's just move on and assume that she made the jewels that were from Mount Fuji. You there, open the door to the next chamber, so we can begin the experiments on her."

The soldier said, "Yes, ma'am!"

Michelle gasped, as she thought, "No… Mio… She's the one that did it… Not this abomination!"

The chamber opens, showing a muscular man with vampire fangs, wearing only a loincloth.

"Is that what supposed to be?" Michelle cried.

Kosuri said, "A prisoner. Well, not really. Kosuri implanted one of the gems that was in this stone pillar, and placed it onto his chest. Once, he was a feeble toothless man with no life left to live. But after the gem implant, he has become a bloodthirsty creature! Such a transformation!"

Michelle whispered, "No… A vampire?"

Kosuri smiled, "Of course, he hasn't been fed for days, so my guess is that he's still thirsty! Who will win? I can hardly wait!"

The vampire lunged at her, and impaled into her shoulders, with his razor-sharp claws. Kosuri was stunned, "What? That's all? She's not fighting back! She's nothing but an ordinary girl…"

One scientist said, "We have no other prisoners, Major."

Another scientist added, "But we knew this would come to this, and we implanted explosives inside him, in case anything goes awry!"

Kosuri boomed, "AGH! Fine!"

The vampire bit into her neck, sucking her blood. However, Helaviento remained calm, and the vampire went into the body of her. Michelle and Kosuri gasped in horror, as the vampire was trapped inside the woman, with his head and talons sticking out.

"WAIT! Rescind that order! What's happening to the vampire?" Kosuri cried, "His Jaw! What is going on with his jaw?"

The vampire was slashed wide open from the chest, screaming in pain, as Helaviento grabbed his head. She then pushed his head into her bosom, absorbing him inside. The vampire became nothing more than idle junk for Helaviento, who ate up the demonic being, from inside her chest and waist.

"Impressive stunt!" Kosuri cried, "That man we created was nothing more than fodder for her! She absorbed his entire body, without swallowing! So… All is not lost! What a marvelous creature! She can absorb the prey's every single life force, down to the last drop!"

Everyone was in disbelief and fright.

One soldier cried, "She ate him! The woman ate the masked man!"

Another soldier yelled, "How is that even possible?"

Helaviento flexed her arms, showing her muscles. She started to grow bigger, as Kosuri said, "Do not worry. She just ate, so that means she's gaining weight. Kosuri is in amazement! This being is all-powerful!"

Michelle asked, "Her intelligence! What about her intelligence? What level of thought is she capable of?"

Kosuri gasped, and then turned to the woman in the chamber. Helaviento spoke, "Major… von Stroheim…"

Kosuri gasped, "WHAT? But how did she-? How does she even know Kosuri's name? She's not supposed to be able to hear me, from behind this wall! This chamber is soundproof, heatproof, and foolproof! So, how does she know my name?"

Helaviento stared down, as Kosuri was stunned. The evil woman's eyes locked onto Kosuri's.

Meanwhile, in Mexico, Beth viewed a huge base from far away.

"I see…" She said, "From the information that my dangling cactus friend, Donovan, gave me, this must be their base of operations. The underground facility is in there. If he's telling the truth, then Speedwagon or Auntie Michelle could be here. So now… How am I supposed to get in there?"

She remained by the rock, thinking of a plan to get in. She viewed from her binoculars, as she saw two soldiers in green, frisking and being perverted men, towards innocent girls in colorful dresses, from patting their butts, to letting them show their panties, for their pleasure. Beth smirked, "I get it…"

XXXXX

Minutes later, the two soldiers were waiting by the front gate, as Beth appeared, taller than her normal height (at about 4'8"), and was wearing makeup, in a flowing pink, blue, yellow, and green tequila dress. She also has huge breasts, which are actually coconuts.

"Hello, boys~!" She said in a sweet voice, "I have something to show you, you darling gentlemen… I'm not hording anything."

The soldiers were annoyed, but were not aroused. Beth held up two bottles of tequila and said, "Here, you can have it! I'm sporting tequila, and I know you're going to party over it."

They aimed their rifles at her, as the first soldier in a bulbous nose hissed, "Nice try, brat! Hands in the air, or we shoot you dead!"

The other soldier, in squinty eyes and a creepy smile, added, "Now drop the booze, kid!"

Beth raised her hands up and shook her huge chest, "Oh, come now! Don't hurt me, you hairy animals!"

The first soldier barked, "Like you're going to fool us, you little brat?"

Beth cried, "OKAY! DON'T SHOOT! I'll talk! Can't you guys take a joke?"

She snarled, as she confessed, "Okay, fine! Damn it, that was a swell disguise! How did you not find me attractive? You Germans are so smart!"

The first soldier said, "Are you nuts? We know you're a beautiful lady… but you're ugly as hell!"

The second soldier barked, "Even my sister isn't uglier than you, and we used her to plow through the fields, every day! She was an ox, by the way. You should be at home, playing dress-up, in front of a mirror, you little sissy!"

Beth was livid, as she roared, "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"

They prepared to fire, but Beth's ESP Perk kicked in, again, as her energy flowed onto the tequila bottles she was holding. The bottles started to shake, and Beth aimed upwards, over the soldiers.

"ESP PERK HAMON!"
BANG!
She fired the corks from the bottles, as they flew upwards to a coconut tree. The corks knocked off two stray ripe coconuts, and they fall onto the soldiers' faces. The coconuts smashed onto their faces, as Beth lands a lethal right kick to the perverted men.

"OH, JEEZ!" They croaked, slamming to the ground, bloodied and beaten.

Minutes later, the two soldiers were behind a wall, as Beth removed their uniforms. Beth grumbled, "Well, that was disappointedly easy… If I can fit into this uniform, I can easily sneak in."

She was wearing one of the NubMench's uniforms, with her sleeves baggy, since she's small.

She snuck into the building, and headed underground. She began to look around, as her baggy uniform was waving around a bit. She thought, "Now… I'm certain Miss Speedwagon is here… including Auntie Michelle. I wonder how June and Emily are doing. Certainly that they may have found something."

XXXXX

Meanwhile, in New York, June was in the AAW labs, with Emily, as Emily was typing in Michelle's whereabouts. Emily said, "I may not look it, but I'm a great whiz in computers. This is too easy."

She grumbled, "Except this is a computed crock. I can't believe that this was used by (BEEP). And I don't mean the terrorists."

June said, "No. Apparently, you don't know Archer and his friends. They're my Mom's friends."

Emily sighed, "It's ridiculous… I wonder what they're up to."

"They're in Los Angeles. My Mom and friends are not here, possibly during a mission, somewhere. Though, I kinda wished they'd tell me."

"Secret agents. They can't tell you anything."

"Actually, they're more like detectives."

Emily finished, and typed in Michelle's last known whereabouts: Rio Dada.

"Huh?!" Emily whispered, "Rio de Janeiro?!"

She looked closely and read that Michelle's last known whereabouts were hazy, but she landed in a shore, near Mexico. After that, nothing. Michelle explained to Kosuri about her grave adventures, but led to her being kidnapped by Kosuri, and beaten alive.

June said, "You don't think… Wait, didn't they usually signal her last location, like a GPS?"

Emily said, "Michelle's not a fembot!"

"No, but she has a left eye of a fembot."

"Eh?"

"Her eye is false, since she lost it in a mission, not too long ago. Maybe it still works."

"Yes, but that's impossible. For all we know is that the robot's eye is broken. And Michelle was badly hurt, in which she had the eye broke. But a robotic eye, working like a prosthetic? Doubt it…"

June said, "It wouldn't hurt to try."

Emily did a scan and said, "Alright… I'm going to search Miss Nevins, again, and then I'm gonna go home. This is ridiculous. While we're on the subject, where's Izuku?"

June said, "He said that he's going to stay in Dad's dojo, until Beth returns."

Emily said, "You better let me hang with him, for a while. With you girls, in psychic powers, you're batty."

She hit ENTER, as they found Michelle's location – Germany. Emily gasped, "Oh, my… She's in-."

June said, "Okay… Coordinates… I see… Right! Emily, tell Izuku he stays in my dojo! We have to save Auntie Michelle!"

Emily cried, as June grabbed her hand, "WAIT! JUNE, HOLD ON!"

June didn't listen, as she dragged Emily with her to go to Germany, in hopes to rescue Michelle.

So, now we have an issue: Beth is locating Speedwagon, while June & Emily are rescuing Michelle. What does it all mean?

Meanwhile, back in Germany, in the lab, the men were in complete shock, as Helaviento has vanished from the chamber.

"It's… It's impossible! The chamber is foolproof!" The scientist gasps.

Another scientist said to Kosuri, "Major von Stroheim, you saw it, too, did you? I never expected for you to witness what we saw."

He reached for a cup of coffee, but Kosuri swatted the coffee away. She shouted, "PUT THE COFFEE DOWN!"

"It was for only a moment. I mean, I was turning away for a second… and suddenly…" The scientist was losing it, as he explained what happened to Helaviento. "We had no idea, but this unbelievable! We had no idea what happened! The chamber… it's all penetrable, where there is NO ESCAPE! But the woman… Our test chambers are unstoppable and foolproof, BUT THAT WOMAN SOMEHOW MANAGED TO ESCAPED!"

Kosuri shouted, "I don't care what you found! I want her back here, NOW! Keep in mind that she may have conceived herself, somewhere inside that chamber! Cut off the oxygen. She'll turn up, when she decided that she can't breathe in there."

Another soldier in green boomed, "The recording is set up for you, Major!"

Kosuri said, "Great! Set it up!"

Minutes later, they set up a film projector, in which they are observing the woman's actions, during her test.

Be sure to tune in to the next exciting chapter, and find out what happens next…

To be continued…