To KPKrazy400: Down girl! (You are a girl, right? I'm basing this entirely off your AOL screen name) You'll get more. In fact, here's more right now!
To phoenixgirl1992: Yeah…uh…no. Maybe I'll let you be a governor. I'll let you have someplace like New Zealand…or the Philippines…or Ohio or something. Yes, you can build your winter palace in Ohio, and I'll build mine in Puerto Rico.
To Spice of Life: Okay. That makes much more sense now.
I don't know if you'll enjoy this chapter or not. It certainly gave me an adrenaline rush when I was writing it.
Yeah. I own everyone and everything in the entire world…except Disney, those little upstarts.
Chapter Five
"All right," Steve said, as the door buckled even further. "For a quick review: don't bite him, don't go near his mouth, and don't say anything about his name."
"Gotcha!" Ron said.
The door gave a final shudder, before falling inside the room. Project IAGO stood in the smoldering ruins of the doorway, holding what was apparently a sword with a red laser in place of a blade.
"What is that?"
"That is an experimental laser sword we've been working on. I just happen to have three more." Dr. Director tossed a green sword to Steve, a blue one to Ron, and kept a radiant purple one for herself.
"Cool," Steve said, looking at the sword in his hand. "I feel like I should have pointy ears or something."
With a very bear-like roar, Project IAGO launched himself into the room, and the battle was on.
The ambient music changes to Prince of Persia fight music.
"Hmm," IAGO mused, as he looked at the sword in his hand. "I didn't notice this button before. I wonder what it does?" He pushed the button, and a second laser came out of the other end of the handle. "Nice."
With his newfound second blade, IAGO fought like a madman. In spite of being attacked from three sides at once, he was able to evade or block every single blow.
"Whoa!" Ron said. "How did he learn how to fight like that?"
"Well," Steve said, between breaths, "from what I understand, he was one of the choreographers in The Mask of Zorro."
"You're tiring. I can see it. Too bad you don't have ostrich DNA, like me. Those guys can keep it up for a long time."
Dr. Director thrust her sword at IAGO's midsection. IAGO pushed the blade of her sword down with his own. "All too easy." Then, he raised his sword and swung it in a wide arc towards Dr. Director's head. Naturally, Dr. Director brought her sword up to her head to block the blow. But at the last possible second, Project IAGO shifted his weight and, using the other blade, sliced Steve's right hand clean off his wrist. The laser cauterized the wound, so there was no blood, but Steve was still without a right hand, which meant he could no longer hold his sword. And, he had lost his right hand, which in of itself is a bad thing.
With a lightning fast flick of his tongue, Project IAGO snatched Steve's hand from the floor and swallowed it whole.
Steve's arms dropped limply to his sides. "He…ate…my hand. He cut off…my hand…and…ate it…in front of me!" His eyes rolled back in his head, and he passed out from the shock.
"There's no going back now." Dr. Director said to Ron. "We've passed the point of no return. Now that he's tasted human flesh for real, there's no hope of reforming him. The only way to stop him now is to kill him."
"Kill me? I don't think so. You cannot kill Project IAGOOOOOWWWW!!!"
Somehow, in spite of all his superhuman senses, Project IAGO had failed to notice Rufus standing right behind him. The naked mole rat had taken Kim's laser knife from her pocket prior to her arrival at GJ, and had now stabbed it straight into IAGO's Achilles tendon.
IAGO turned his head, pulled his foot back, and sent Rufus flying across the room. His eagle eyes gave him the perfect view of the rodent land in a crumpled heap on the floor. He let out a quiet, malicious laugh. A laugh that lasted just a split second too long.
The pain worsened for IAGO when he felt his right arm become much lighter. He opened his eyes to see his sword clatter to the ground, his hand still clutching it weakly. He turned to see Ron, holding his own sword in a fighting stance, and breathing very heavily.
"That's for what you did to Steve."
Numbed by the pain, IAGO's catlike reflexes failed to kick in as his other hand was severed by Ron's sword. "That's for what you did to Rufus."
Ron picked up Steve's sword and pointed them both at the monstrosity before him. "And this is for Kim!!!" With that, Ron thrust both swords into IAGO's ribcage. Project IAGO let out a very loud yowl that was clearly derived from the mountain lion in him, and fell to the ground, dead.
Dr. Director just stared. "Ron Stoppable. You…you were…you were…vicious! What happened?"
"He cut off Steve's hand, kicked Rufus, and nearly killed Kim! All that added up to one adrenaline-induced rush of blind fury, I guess."
"That was very insightful of you. I'm surprised."
"Don't worry. I won't let it go to my head."
Dr. Director picked up Steve's unconscious body. Ron scooped up Rufus. "Come on." Dr. Director said. "Let's get these two fixed up."
Whew! But it's not over yet. There are still a few loose ends left to tie up.
