On Today's Episode: With Kyle Katz suffering from some bad luck, the spies keep up the chase in hopes of taking him down before anything else is stolen, though with Sam now angry at Clover for Blaine's supposed role in Mat's injury, maybe this won't be as easy as they thought. Can RiCO and Jerry figure out what exactly went wrong with the Boomerang Bazooka, and can the spies flush Kyle and his scheme down the proverbial toilet before any more Hawaiian treasures are pilfered?
Act 2: If Only You Were Lucky
5:21 P.M. – W.O.O.H.P. Datascape
Sector D
"All right, let's see if we can do some troubleshooting here," RiCO quipped as she and iCO stood in Sector D of the Datascape, RiCO holding the Boomerang Bazooka in her hands. "I was so sure I did enough testing, too..."
"Maybe there's something we missed," iCO replied. "The old saying is that it's always the last thing you expect it to be."
RiCO just nodded, holding the Boomerang Bazooka towards iCO. "Are you ready, sis?" RiCO asked.
"Fire away," iCO proclaimed.
With that said, RiCO started firing the Boomerang Bazooka, sending three boomerangs towards iCO. Two of them flew straight towards her and were batted away easily, but the third changed course and started flying in circles around iCO before she decided to just swat it down.
"That's what Blaine said it did," RiCO quipped, firing another boomerang. This one did fly on its intended path, until much like what had happened to Mat, the boomerang changed course and rocketed back towards RiCO. She was ready, though, blasting the boomerang down with a burst of blue light before it could hit her.
"Oh, for crying out loud!" RiCO shouted.
"Hold on, RiCO, I think I might know what the problem is," iCO stated as she walked up to RiCO and waved her hand to open up a data screen detailing what she'd figured out.
"...it's the tracking chip," RiCO gasped. "That's why the boomerangs were flipping out and flying all over the place, the tracking chip's malfunctioning!"
"We did use it a lot during testing," iCO admitted. "Maybe that messed up something in there."
"Get Jerry on the horn and let him know we've figured out what made it malfunction," RiCO proclaimed.
5:46 P.M. – Waikiki, Hawaii
"Any sign of him?" Alex asked as the spies continued their search for Kyle, Nick using his psychic radar to guide the team along.
When Nick picked up Kyle's thoughts to the northwest, he looked up...
...and saw a pretty funny sight.
Kyle Katz was just ahead on a nearby beach, upside-down and buried headfirst in the sand.
"Well, if that don't beat all," Bridget chuckled.
Nick did the honors of extracting Kyle by raising his right hand to snatch the villain in his psychic hold and yank him out of the sand.
"What's the matter, Kyle? Did you have some bad luck?" Nick taunted.
"Oh, real funny," Kyle shot back. "Now put me down this instant."
Nick obliged by psychically slamming Kyle back into the sand. "Well, he insisted," Nick teased.
"All right, then, 'Vile Kyle'," Britney proclaimed. "I hope you're ready to reap what you sow!"
"Couldn't have said it better myself, Brit," Alex quipped. "Now let's mess him up."
"Hey, this is not right!" Kyle Katz proclaimed.
"What YOU'RE doing isn't right, either..." Melissa growled.
On the side, Sam and Nick certainly knew to thank Mat for the message. In addition, Sam also noted that Katz had to return the lava rocks for the bad luck to go away.
Lucky Mat knows Hawaiian lifestyle, Sam thought to herself.
"And we wanted to come here for fun, NOT BUSINESS!" Haruka chastised as she lunged towards Kyle, anticipating that he would try to punch her.
And when he followed the 'script' and did just that, Haruka leaped over the punch, did a handstand on Kyle's shoulders, then dropped down and kicked him in the back of the head.
"Never underestimate the up-and-over," Haruka giggled.
"We're only getting started, pal," Bridget added.
"And I side with Haruka on this!" Alex remarked. "We'd rather be here for pleasure!"
"Time for you to answer to us for messing with one of us!" Britney proclaimed since she was seeing Mat, too.
"Oh, and what are you going to do?" Kyle taunted, a very unwise move since Britney had charged forward and kicked him in the chest, sending him stumbling.
May continued the combo by jumping towards Kyle and slamming her anchor into the ground just in front of him, kicking up a cloud of sand that obscured Nick flying in from above, allowing him to fire a flurry of psychic bolts that knocked him back down.
"I think you're forgetting a couple of things," Nick replied as he hurled both lava rocks at Kyle Katz.
He remembered Mat's relayed message courtesy of RiCO concerning the lava rocks that Katz stole.
"Oh, what's this..." Katz sneered, seeing Nick was supposedly letting him have the lava rocks back.
"Wait a minute..." Clover started before Katz immediately got away.
"Well, what was that about?!" May chastised.
"RiCO sent us a message courtesy of Mat," Nick told them. "Seems Mat can still help us even when he's out of commission."
"What would we do without him?" Melissa giggled.
Sam, on the other hand, was very disturbed at Mat being harmed by the gadget; she seemed to be glad that Blaine was pulled from the mission, but she still gave Clover a few dirty looks, which Clover certainly noticed.
"Hey, Sam, I had nothing to do with what Blaine did..." Clover reminded her.
"Sam, I know that had to hurt, no pun intended," May added. "But blaming Clover or Blaine isn't going to get anybody anywhere."
"Totally, Sammy," Alex replied, trying to come between the two of them.
"Look, some of us may disagree with Blaine's actions, and that he panicked, but like May said," Nozomi quipped. "Blaming anybody won't get us anywhere!"
"I'm in agreement," Dawn added. "Besides, stopping Kyle Katz is our number one priority; this 'blame game' is down at the bottom."
"I just hope Mat's going to be okay," Britney commented. "Even though it was a shoulder, that can be a body part that can hold you back for sure."
In the meantime, everybody was checking their X-Powders to see what RiCO's message from Mat had said.
"Stealing the lava rocks is bad luck?" May wondered.
"No wonder you let Kyle Katz have the lava rocks back," Bridget stated.
"I think I speak for all of us when I say I would never have guessed that," Haruka commented.
Nobody disagreed there.
"Mat's the one who used to live here, after all," Melissa quipped.
"And Alex is the one who dreams of coming here," Sam giggled.
"Plus, Mat's said there's things you can do only in Hawaii," Alex added, laughing.
"I have to admit," Nick remarked. "I might be interested in learning Hawaiian culture after this..."
7:21 P.M. – W.O.O.H.P. Headquarters
Jerry's Office
"I got it to them with time to spare," RiCO told Mat.
"Oh, good," Mat sighed in relief.
Jerry came in the room with Mat, and Blaine was with him with a substantial amount of guilt on his face.
"Jer, let it go," Mat stated right away as he saw Blaine. "I don't think anyone would have predicted something like this would happen..."
"For what it's worth," RiCO chimed in. "iCO and I have determined the issue with the Boomerang Bazooka. Blaine, you are totally not at fault here..."
Blaine was surprised at that.
"Basically, the bazooka itself was completely fine, but there was an issue with the boomerangs' tracking chip," RiCO explained. "The chip itself must have gotten a little rusty from all my testing in the Datascape, and that's probably why the boomerangs went all wibbly-wobbly."
"Mat, are you able to return to the mission?" Blaine wondered.
Jerry checked the medical report on Mat's shoulder.
"Well, Mat got lucky – no serious damage," Jerry stated with a sigh of relief.
"Oh, it appears Kyle Katz is going to attempt another robbery!" RiCO told the others.
She pulled up the viewscreen for Mat to see, and there were not one but TWO landmarks that stood out to him for where Kyle Katz was going to attempt his next heist.
"That's the King Kamehameha statue, which is behind the Judicial Building," Mat gasped. "And across the street's Iolani Palace. That's a place that's FILLED with history!"
It was clear that Mat's roots ran deep in Hawaii. RiCO immediately knew that she had to send another message to the spies.
7:59 P.M. – Hawaii
It was already too late for hitting the many beaches in Hawaii, so Sam and the others opted to at least patrol certain parts of the state to find Kyle Katz.
Nick and Alex were on patrol together as they came to the King Kamehameha Statue, in which it held a spear in its hand. That's when Nick and Alex heard the message from RiCO on their X-Powders, and after looking at a map, they realized they were smack dab on the scene of Kyle Katz's next heist.
"Gee, maybe we should have more missions in Hawaii if we're going to be this lucky," Nick remarked.
"And look!" Alex proclaimed. "Kyle Katz is atop that giant building!"
"If only we were this lucky on other missions," Nick commented. "According to Mat, that's the Judicial Building, and across the street is..."
Nick had a hard time pronouncing Iolani Palace, but all he knew was that they were first on scene, and he had to radio the others.
Up above, Kyle Katz saw that Nick and Alex were already there.
"Damn you meddlesome spies!" Katz growled as Nick and Alex took to the skies via their Jet Pack Backpacks.
The next nearest spy was Britney, who was outside the State Capitol; Haruka was with her. That's when they got the notice from Nick and Alex that they spotted Kyle Katz.
"Wow," Britney commented. "As Mat said, 'it's a small island – word gets around'."
"Let's get there!" Haruka proclaimed as they took to the skies themselves.
"Stop following me everywhere, you insects!" Kyle shouted as Nick, Alex, and Britney continued to tail him.
"That's kind of our job, nutball," Alex taunted.
"Now get off of there unless you want us to knock you off," Nick proclaimed as he landed on the roof of the Judicial Building to confront Kyle.
"Oh, but where would the fun be in that?" Kyle chuckled as he aimed a pistol for Nick.
"...really, dude? You honestly think a pistol is going to faze me, when you know exactly what I'm capable of?" Nick replied, raising his glowing hand to emphasize his point.
"Wasn't going to shoot you, buddy boy," Kyle quipped, instead aiming for Nick's wrist and firing off a grappling hook from the pistol. The grappling hook instead yanked something off of his wrist, and when Nick looked back at Kyle, he was holding a bracelet topped off with a cone-shaped hair decoration.
"Hmm... what, pray tell, could this be?" Kyle cackled. "You definitely didn't have this the last time we crossed paths."
"You'd better let that go, Kyle, or else," Alex proclaimed.
"Ooh, so it is important to you, huh?" Kyle laughed. "So... what would you do if, say, I smashed it?"
Before Kyle could even clench his fists, he suddenly found himself blasted off of the Judicial Building's roof by Alex and her Sonic Disintegrator Boombox.
He landed in a bush on the outer edge of the building, so he was all right, but Nick quickly flew down to face him, obvious anger in his expression and his normally golden-yellow psychic aura now mixing with a bright neon-pink color.
"You didn't listen," Nick growled. "That bracelet, and the decoration on it, is all I have left of someone who was very special to me. Now hand it over."
"Why so testy, my dude?" Kyle laughed. "It's just a dumb hair decoration, really."
Kyle would quickly stop taunting when he found himself lifted into the air by Nick.
"I said, 'give it back right now'," Nick snarled, reaching out to yank the bracelet out of Kyle's grasp, then tossing him backwards just as the rest of the spies arrived on the scene. "I warned you."
Before Kyle could think of anything to say to weasel himself out of this, Nick blasted him towards the other spies with a Final Shine Attack, one that was neon-pink in coloration, much like Anya's had been.
"I'd get up if I were you," Sam proclaimed. "You've got a lot to answer for, after all."
"I'd rather not right now, considering my luck," Kyle chuckled as he retreated, throwing down smoke bombs to cover himself. "This isn't over yet, spies!"
Nick just scoffed before re-attaching the bracelet to his wrist.
"Wow, you sent him running, huh?" May quipped. "What'd mister fake charmer do that got you so riled, Nick?"
Nick just showed everyone his bracelet, and they understood. It was the only piece of Anya that still remained.
"To be fair, Kyle probably has no idea what happened in the Forgotten Land, but still, even he should know better," Bridget chuckled.
"On that note, does anyone know where Kyle shuffled off to?" Clover asked.
Nick did a quick scan with his psychic radar, and glanced off towards the nearby Iolani Palace. "He didn't seem to go far, because I can sense him inside Iolani Palace," Nick responded.
"Wait, why the heck is he going in there?" Melissa asked. "I mean, besides the obvious."
"Regardless of the reasons, I think we need to get in there and yank Kyle out before he messes with anything in there," Haruka stated.
That was met with a unanimous decision as the spies all booked it for Iolani Palace.
8:26 P.M. – Honolulu, Hawaii
Iolani Palace
"All right, so what's so interesting about this palace?" Clover wondered as the spies started exploring Iolani Palace for any sign of Kyle. "Not exactly a knower of all things Hawaii like Mat is, after all."
"According to my database, Iolani Palace was the royal residence of the rulers of the Kingdom of Hawaii beginning with Kamehameha III under the Kamehameha Dynasty in 1845 and ending with Queen Liliʻuokalani under the Kalākaua Dynasty in 1893," RiCO explained. "After the monarchy was overthrown in 1893, the building was used as the capitol building for the Provisional Government, Republic, Territory, and State of Hawaii until 1969."
"Spot on, RiCO," Mat quipped.
"Mat-honey, are you doing okay?" Sam asked.
"There wasn't any serious damage to my shoulder, thankfully, and the medical team's gonna run one last check on me to see if I can return to the mission," Mat answered.
"As for what happened with the Boomerang Bazooka, the tracking chips in the boomerangs were futzed up from overusing them during my testing," RiCO responded. "So that one was my bad, guys. We're gonna fix that while we're here, and we'll give you a holler when Mat and Blaine are on their way back, 'kay?"
"Roger on that, RiCO," Sam proclaimed.
"Well, now that that's been taken care of, let's start exploring this place before Kyle fudges anything up," Bridget stated.
"I'm with you on that one," Nick responded.
"Guys, make sure nothing's damaged in there," Mat replied before Nick or Sam could close their X-Powders. "I don't think I need to say why when it comes to Hawaiian history."
"Say no more, bro," Nick replied. "I have that taken care of."
"Your psychic powers can prevent things from being broken?" Clover wondered.
"That's the beauty of psychic powers, Clover," Nick quipped as he spread his arms out to scan the area, then snapped his fingers to surround all of the palace's exhibits with a psychic barrier.
"I admit that queen had some... exquisite taste," Clover commented at some of the attire in the rooms.
"I'm not going to waste any time trying to pronounce that name," Bridget groaned.
"Mat's the only one who can without a problem," Sam quipped.
"I admit Hawaii's my dream destination," Alex commented. "But all these names... I would probably need a good two days or so to get it right."
"Well, we'll have to worry about that later," Nick remarked.
"And hope that Mat can return, too," Haruka added with a legitimate amount of concern.
On the subject, Clover was also breathing a sigh of relief that Blaine was not fully responsible for what happened with Mat, too.
"Come on, Kyle Katz, it's time for you to come out and answer to what you tried to do!" Melissa called out.
"We'll see to it that you come away empty-handed regardless, Katz," Sam growled.
"I have to admit that a lot of the stuff in here is VERY old-fashioned," Britney commented.
"Well, obviously, since it IS from fifty to a hundred years or more ago," Nick deduced.
"Right," Britney added.
The spies split up and went through every room possible inside the Iolani Palace. Britney and Bridget looked through some rooms until they found a room with a lot of blue furniture; it was appropriately called the Blue Room.
"I have to say this would certainly be your forte, Brit," Bridget commented.
Britney nodded in agreement.
Dawn and Haruka checked out the Grand Hall and made extra sure to not break anything.
"Well, Clover was right about one thing," Dawn commented. "That queen has great taste herself."
"Tell me about it," Haruka chuckled.
Nick and Alex had checked out another room called the Music Room, but there was no sign of Katz anywhere.
"I have to admit this swanky palace makes our beach house look like small potatoes," Alex commented.
"Tell me about it," Nick quipped. "You could possibly have several families live in here."
Nozomi, Clover, and Melissa were checking out the bedroom that belonged to Queen Kapiolani.
"You're right, Clover," Nozomi stated. "This queen had CLASS!"
"Tell me about it," Sam replied over the ear-ring communicator.
She and May were checking out the library – naturally for Sam, of course. The library specifically belonged to King Kalakaua.
"I sense him nearby," Nick told the group through the ear-ring communicators.
The spies followed Nick's signal from his X-Powder.
"Where are you guys?" Bridget wondered.
"It looks like the Throne Room," Nick told them. "That's closest Dawn and Haruka."
He could see Kyle Katz had just gone into the Throne Room near the Grand Hall. Alex noticed Dawn and Haruka coming and motioned for them to be quiet.
"Now, this is what I call worth stealing," Kyle Katz sneered as he approached a glass display of two royal crowns that belonged to King Kalakaua and Queen Liliuokalani.
"Don't even think about it, Kyle!" Alex growled.
"You spies are becoming a major PAIN!" Kyle complained.
He hadn't even gotten his hands on the glass display before Haruka stormed up to him and grabbed him by the collar of his black jumpsuit.
"It's like Mat said, pal," Haruka growled. "It's a small island... word gets around fast!"
As the other spies approached the display, Haruka threw Kyle backwards, right into the path of Sam, who jump-kicked him in the face.
"Why is it always the face with you people?!" Kyle shouted.
"Maybe because that's where all of the crap you spout comes from?" Nick taunted. "What better way to stop that spouting, am I right?"
"Oh, you're a real jokester," Kyle groaned. "How about you stop interfering with my heists?"
Kyle made another break for the crowns, but Nick stopped that by surrounding the display case with a psychic bubble.
"Yeah, I don't think so," Nick shot back.
"Nick, can you handle putting so many bubbles around everything in here?" Sam wondered. "I don't know if that's a drain on your powers or not..."
"It's really no trouble, but I still suggest we get Kyle out of here before anything else gets broken," Nick responded.
Nick snatched Kyle in his psychic hold and dashed back the way they'd come, retracing their steps until they were outside of Iolani Palace, then throwing him back into the sand nearby.
"You know, you're really starting to get on my last freakin' nerve," Kyle growled.
"Good," Nick retorted. "That can only mean we're doing our jobs."
"And now, we believe that you're overdue for a lesson in pain," Nozomi stated.
"How about we take that honor?" a voice from above called out.
Sam was the first to look up when she heard a familiar voice, just in time to see Mat dropping from the sky and pouncing on top of Kyle. Just as Kyle shook Mat off and attempted to vamoose, he was met with three boomerang shots to the chest, courtesy of Blaine holding a fixed Boomerang Bazooka.
"Stay right where you are, buddy," Blaine proclaimed.
"This just isn't my day, is it?" Kyle sighed before picking himself back up and throwing down more smoke bombs to cover his retreat. "I assure you, we'll be picking things up again real soon."
When the area was calm again, the first thing that Sam did, naturally, was run over and hug her fiancée.
"Mat, are you doing all right?" Sam asked.
"Pretty much, all things considered," Mat answered. "Thankfully, nothing was damaged, and my shoulder's really just a little sore, but the medical team cleared me to return to the mission."
"See, we knew you wouldn't stay down for long," Britney giggled.
"Yeah, look at what you've already been through," Melissa quipped, leaning over to kiss Mat on the cheek. "You're one tough cookie, Mat."
"And Blaine, sorry if I ever suspected you of anything," Sam stated.
"I know how off-putting it must have looked, really," Blaine responded. "And honestly, I was more scared of your wrath than anything else, Sam."
"Good, that means I'm being a good fiancée," Sam giggled.
"Back to the topic at hand, we should probably keep going after Kyle before he gets any other ideas," Dawn quipped.
"Yeah, let's keep taking advantage of his bad luck," Haruka giggled.
As the spies all gathered to discuss a plan of attack, all of a sudden, a loud THUMP caught their attention.
"Wait, did he just come back and save us the trouble?" Nozomi gasped.
Nick was the first to glance behind them and notice a strange figure clad in futuristic sci-fi armor, their face covered completely by a helmet that looked like a cross between a space shuttle helmet and a knight's helmet.
"...um, can we help you, mister?" Clover asked.
The figure reached behind them and pulled out a laser pistol, surprising everyone.
"Ythsa bhlia m drt plw atym!" the figure shouted before opening fire on the spies and forcing them to scatter in different directions.
"Hey, buddy, watch the merchandise!" Melissa shouted.
The figure decided to just ignore her and continued to fire at the spies until Nick managed to destroy the laser pistol with a Final Shine Attack. This didn't discourage the figure, however, who clenched their fists and, to everyone's surprise, sprouted razor-sharp claws from its hands.
"Oh, great, is everyone Wolverine today?!" Alex shouted.
May quickly used her Emergency Gadget Transporter to summon a pair of Cat Fight Gloves to her hands, causing the figure to take a step back.
"Yeah, you wacko, I can do that, too!" May exclaimed as she rushed in to duel the figure, their claws clashing against each other multiple times.
Eventually, though, the figure got the upper hand and slashed the Cat Fight Gloves' claws clean off.
"Well, nuts," May quipped as the figure rushed to attack her.
Nick was over there in a flash, flying forward to nail the figure upside the head with a flying kick that cracked the helmet's glass slightly.
And now Nick was surprised, because the broken shards fell away to reveal the face of a man not much older than them, but with the same kind of green-furred cat ears that Momo had.
The figure quickly stumbled backwards, activated a device on his wrist module, and vanished in a flash of dull green light before the spies could wring any answers out of him.
"Okay, what the hell was that all about?!" Clover gasped.
"Did that guy have the same cat ears that Momo did?" Alex asked.
"Yeah, but this guy was instantly hostile," Sam replied. "Unlike Momo, who actually listened to us."
"And now I'm starting to think of reasons why Momo might be here on Earth," Nick quipped. "We should ask her about this when we get back to Beverly Hills, but for right now, let's go find mister 'charmer' and smack him around some more. RiCO?"
"Never fear, Nick, I always come through," RiCO giggled as she triangulated Kyle's destination. "Kyle's been spotted near Bishop Museum in Honolulu."
"Of course he'd go there," Mat sighed. "Well, then let's get moving and head him off!"
"Your roots really run deep, Mat," Alex commented.
"Well, Hawaii has a different lifestyle and history that separates it from the continental U.S.," Mat replied. "Or as Hawaii residents like to call 'the mainland'."
Melissa hummed at hearing that term.
"And as I said before... you can take me out of Hawaii, but you can't take Hawaii out of me," Mat added.
"No doubt about it," Nick replied.
9:00 P.M. – Bishop Museum
"Geez!" Clover sighed at the museum's outside.
"The museum named for Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop," Mat clarified.
Sam, Melissa, and Britney nodded at knowing Mat's roots in Hawaii WERE deep.
"Well, let's hope that Kyle Katz hasn't gotten far in," Bridget replied.
"Totally," Haruka remarked.
Nick used his psychic radar to get a reading on where Kyle Katz may have gotten to in the Bishop Museum.
"He couldn't have gotten far," Nick told the others.
"Well, guess we'll have to split up again," Nozomi deduced.
Nick used his psychic powers to get everybody in undetected, and not do anything malicious or whatnot. He then used his psychic powers as a makeshift flashlight. The Bishop Museum was FULL of exhibits, and everybody but Mat were taken aback.
"Holy DAMN!" Nick commented.
A lot of the exhibits were model ships, shark models, and objects that were heavy for the average person to lift.
"I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say there's nothing that Kyle Katz can steal here on his own," Sam presumed.
"That's a good bet," May replied in agreement. "Some of these exhibits probably require at least three or more people to heave out on their own."
"More importantly, he's a jewel thief to be exact," Clover added.
"That's a good point," May replied. "There's no jewelry in here... at least not yet."
"Something tells me we might've taken out Katz' best shot at a jewel heist back at Iolani Palace," Mat deduced.
"You don't know of any other landmarks that Kyle could target?" Alex wondered.
"No," Mat remarked. "Not off the top of my head, and I know this state like the back of my hand."
"As a former resident, I'm not going to doubt that..." Bridget quipped to Mat.
"I'm at a loss for how people made a living back then," Blaine commented.
Nick was still using his psychic radar to pinpoint where Kyle Katz was at.
"One thing's for sure," Haruka added. "Hawaii is much more than beaches and warm weather year-round."
"Ain't that the truth," Clover replied.
"Especially when any temp under 70 is considered 'cold' by Hawaii standards," Mat added. "And since the Hawaiian Islands are in the Pacific, the natives didn't have much clothing on, as you can tell by some of the outfits here."
"Anything else you want to tell us?" Nozomi chuckled.
"Other than using nets to catch fish for food, two people do share a breath after knocking foreheads," Mat added. "As per Hawaiian tradition."
"...I have several questions," Nick chuckled.
"It's probably a Hawaiian thing," May replied.
Before Nick could answer that, he sensed something nearby. "I'm getting a reading this way," Nick told everyone.
Nick's reading led them to a part of the museum that exhibited sharks.
"Oof, sharks of all things!" Bridget chastised.
"Yeah, they're scary," Mat replied. "But to Hawaiians, the shark is sacred – what Hawaiians call an ʻaumakua – or family god or guardian."
"Not gonna try say that..." Clover commented.
"But you better be taking mental notes, Alex," Mat reminded, knowing full well that Hawaii is Alex's dream destination.
"Oh, you bet I am," Alex giggled.
"And there's Kyle Katz!" Sam gasped.
Katz heard Sam's voice and was immediately annoyed.
"Can't I get a clean break from you people?!" Katz complained.
Nick immediately took that as his role to protect the shark exhibits in the room.
"Well, when you're trying to steal priceless Hawaiian treasures, you're kinda not entitled to a break!" Nick shot right back. "Now step away from the sharks and face the music!"
("Take Over" by Lyn Inaizumi plays)
"Oh, you'll have to make me first," Kyle laughed.
"Okay, buster, we can arrange that," Mat responded, firing his Expandable Cable Bungee Belt to snatch Kyle and yank him closer to the rest of the spies so they could go on the offensive.
Alex was the first to strike, ducking under a roundhouse kick from Kyle and rolling behind him so she could kick him in the back, sending him stumbling towards Sam and Mat.
Naturally, Sam and Mat took advantage, jumping to either side of Kyle before clocking him with a forward punch, followed by four different punches and kicks in perfect sync before knocking Kyle into the air with an upward snap kick, and finishing by jumping into the air after him and slamming their fists into his chest. This final attack sent him spiraling back to the ground.
"Still love doing that," Mat chuckled.
"Hope you don't mind that we basically stole your combo, Haruka," Sam giggled, knowing that the Accel Dance had originally been Nick and Haruka's favorite combination.
"Nah, you two do it better than we ever could," Haruka responded.
May quickly summoned her anchor and prepared herself as Kyle picked himself up.
"You wouldn't dare," Kyle quipped. "You know a lot of these display cases most likely won't withstand getting hit by an anchor."
May just smirked and threw her anchor towards Kyle, and even though he dodged it, the anchor stopped in mid-flight, surrounded by a golden glow, and flew right back towards Kyle.
Kyle continued to dodge the flying anchor as best he could until Nick was able to move it faster than Kyle could dodge, clocking him in the chest and sending him crashing to the ground.
"Never underestimate what a psychic can do, buddy," Nick taunted.
While Kyle attempted to swerve around the spies and attack the exhibits, Clover was already on him, grabbing him by the wrist and power-slamming him into the floor.
Sam quickly rushed in as Kyle was getting back up, sliding across the floor to kick him in the face.
"STOP IT WITH THE FACE ALREADY!" Kyle exclaimed.
"Then maybe stop being a jerk and give it up already," Britney shot back. "You know we're going to keep beating on you until you're back in containment."
"And considering how your luck seems to have been going since you took those lava rocks, I'd just surrender while you still can," Mat proclaimed.
Just then, a beep came from a device strapped to Kyle's wrist. He looked down at the readout on the device, then smiled wickedly.
"Well, spies, I think my luck's about to turn around," Kyle chuckled. "I'll see you around."
Kyle threw down another smoke bomb, and when it dissipated, he was gone.
"I'm getting really sick of him doing that," Alex groaned.
"It doesn't seem like he's here anymore," Nick quipped after doing a psychic radar scan of the area. "So, everything in here's safe."
"That just begs the question of where he's off to now," Melissa answered. "And what he meant by 'turning his luck around'..."
"He's most likely talking about his secret weapon," Nozomi stated. "We'd better hurry."
"I agree on that," RiCO proclaimed from Nick's X-Powder. "It looks like Kyle's heading back towards the King Kamehameha statue!"
"Because of course he is," Mat sighed.
"Well, then, let's make this his last attempt," May proclaimed.
That was all they needed to head out of Bishop Museum and towards the King Kamehameha statue in hopes of stopping Kyle from stealing it, the statue, or whatever he had in store for them.
To be concluded...
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Sam: Did we make it in time?
Mat: I think so. The statue's still intact, and the spear's still in its hand.
Britney: Hey, there he is!
Melissa: Wait, what in the hell is he piloting?!
Kyle: I take it you're surprised, spies?
Nick: Yeah, surprised that you're piloting something that looks as dumb as that.
Kyle: Oh, you'll be eating your words once you see what my magnificent machine is capable of!
May: Well, readers, it's time for the final battle, and boy, is it a doozy! Don't miss the thrilling finale, next time on the final act of Totally Spies: Sentimental Showdown, "Sentimental Scoundrel"!
Haruka: Is it me, or are the special effects guys on set getting better and better with each season?
Nick: To make something like that, they'd better be.