Notes - This side story takes place during the time that Ranma is visiting Jade and getting into a rather large mess. As such Ranma won't be in this story, but it will have the Ranko-bot, the Digger Girls, and the Ninja High School crowd, and a villain that fits this series to a 'T' It's written with the help of a friend of mine named Gordon Stevenson.
The villain Irving Bob was created by Dan McCllelan from when him and Gordon
used to role play using the character and used in this story with permission
C. Rose
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Disclaimer: Gold Digger and Ninja High school are notorious for cute girls running around with large guns and giving lots of panty shots. This story is not exception to that rule, so expect some lime scenes though I'll never move over into lemon territory, I might hint at it though.
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Golden Opportunity
Side Story - Pink Avenger Vs Irving Bob
Chapter 04
Cory D. Rose -
Gordon Stevenson - Gordon304shaw.ca
© 2004
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At over six foot tall Zane was a little hard to miss, even in a crowd. She had a body to die for, perfect hair, defined muscles, and a liked to flirt with every cute guy she could get her hands on. An Amazon in every sense of the word and then some. So there she was leaning against the van, parked a couple blocks from Gina Digger's house, with a young man standing nervously in front of her. She smiled suggestively down at him when she noticed he was staring right at her chest in a kind of awe, as if he'd never seen a finer pair.
She inhaled and arched her back a little and watched as his eyes got bigger.
"What can I do for you cutie."
"Pluglerilshaldkb skilkalip." He said with a silly grin on his face.
"Ah, that sweet, but I'm a little busy at the moment." She said, leaning a little closer.
He started to blush brightly. "Um...heh...I..." The boy drooled.
Zane grinned and watched the boy's knees tremble. This was the kind of power a woman had over a man, and she loved using it. Bringing her hand up, she lifted his face up so he wasn't staring at her heaving chest, and drew him a little closer. "So what can I do for you? Are you looking 'hard' for something?"
The boy's eyes rolled up into his head and he fainted with a nose bleed, collapsing to the ground with a rather high pitched whimper. Zane started at him for a minute before pouting. "All the men in this world are wimps." She muttered grumpily. "This one didn't even last five minutes. Now if I could just get my hands on that hunk Strype, my life would be complete."
She blushed as she remembered their first meeting as he waltzed into her office, instant lust, the full body scan...she drooled. Blushing even more, she shook herself out of a naughty daydream a few minutes later. She was breathing just a little harder than before and looked slightly flushed. It made her almost glow as she stood there on shaky knees.
Glancing down the block, to distract herself, she could see some kind of smoke rising from the house where the rest of the team was capturing Dani Carter. M had ordered her to stay by the van unless he called for her specifically. He mentioned something about backup, but for some reason she thought he might have some other reason to do it. After all the moron had sent Rabid, the felon of all people, to the house ahead of the rest of them.
Just by existing she knew that she was a better choice than a thug like Rabid. Normally she would've disobeyed, like usual, and wandered over to watch the fight anyway. But even she knew when M wasn't in a good mood and it was never a good idea to get between him and Dani Carter. For some reason M got a little irrational when her name came up in a conversation. Even Debra avoiding talking about the girl unless she absolutely had to. Those glowing eyes freaked her out as well. She shuddered.
Folding her arms, she leaned back against the van and pouted, cutely. A whimper at her feet made her look down in surprise, she'd forgotten all about her guest, but the teenager just fainted again. She gave him a weak kick in the ribs for being such a wimp and wasting her time. However, maybe she could get some use out of him later on. That is if he ever managed to form a complete sentence and stop drooling on her shoe.
"Eeeeww."
A few minutes later, just as she was getting bored she heard something and glanced around. The boy at her feet was still unconscious so it wasn't coming from him. It almost sounded like a small engine now that she thought about it. Stepping away from the van for a second she spotted something under the edge of the van.
"What's that?" She muttered out loud.
Sighing, she reached into her jacket and pulled out a pair of small glasses so that she could get a better look. She knelt down and looked under the van and three things happened at once. The boy woke up and got a full frontal view right up Zane's skirt and saw that she was wearing white silk panties. With a girlish scream he keeled over and did something young men that age did quite a lot of. This startled Zane as she spotted a little wheeled robot under the van, grinning at her with wide sparkling eyes.
"What are you?" She muttered, looking in confusion between the two.
"IB sends his regards cute stuff, oh and join the party when you wake up."
"Huh?" Zane muttered.
"Fire in the hole!"
"Oh poo..." Zane muttered.
The robot exploded, lifting the van several inches into the air. Zane, unmoved by the explosion, coughed up some black smoke and fell over onto the boy. Even unconscious he knew there was a good looking girl on top of him, he grinned stupidly as he repeated an earlier experience.
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"Penny?" Charlotte asked as they peaked around the corner and looked down the hall.
"What is it Charlie?"
"What is this thing? Why is it here?"
"I'm not sure, but I'm willing to bet that Gina is involved in some way."
"With the Peebo?"
"Yep, you know Brianna created those things and they're very unpredictable even at the best of times." Penny explained. "I can't believe she still allows those things to run around with no way to fully control them."
Charlotte just shrugged. She'd never seen any problems with the Peebos until now and wasn't sure what to think. "They're cute."
Penny sighed and resisted the urge to roll her eyes.
For the last several minutes the house had been quite as Peebri stopped blowing holes though the walls and ceiling for some reason. Though Penny figured the most of the first floor was a complete write off by now. There was a chance that if anymore major damage happened to the house things would start to collapse. She was not in a happy mood, her house had never come under attack before and it was making her angry.
"We need to blow this thing away."
"They're in your lab." Charlotte said innocently, her wings ruffling a little.
Penny glared at the girl. No matter how much time she spent around Charlotte the girl never seemed to change. Even after nearly being killed on more than one occasion and risking her life to save Penny. Her innocence never seemed to waver in the slightest and she wasn't sure just why. Penny seriously wondered if the girl would ever mature enough to take on some real responsibility.
"Uh...yeah. The problem is that it may take a while to get down to the lab. Once we get there, I can contact Gina as well. So long as she's in her lab at least."
Just down the hall they saw Peebri's shadow moving along a wall in an ominous sort of way that would have been scary with mood music. Pulling back they continued to hide in the small closet and hoped they would get out of this alive.
It always seemed to know just where they were even when they were hiding and Penny wasn't sure how it was doing it. She had a few ideas, but if they were true, then going to the lab would be a bad idea. Glancing over at Charlotte, she decided that they may have to risk it anyway. That thing that came out of Peebri earlier had her worried.
"Charlie, I need you to fly me down the hall."
"Okay!" She chirped.
A few seconds later Charlie was holding Penny by her waist and gliding down the hall, several feet off the ground and around the corner. She had calculated that the Peebo wouldn't be around by the time they reached this spot and so far she hadn't spotted it. Then winced as she heard it laughing and blowing out the large windows in the living room and a few other things as well.
"My TV..." Charlie muttered sadly. "Four feet of glorious programming."
"I'll get it replaced."
"But my soap operas?!."
Penny rolled her eyes. "You'll see it tomorrow or the day after that. Right now we need to get to the lab. Please get us as close to the door as you can before you set me down."
"Okay!" Charlie said as she flapped her wings a couple of times, instantly forgetting about the giant screen TV Penny built for her.
The entrance to the lab was actually a large door set beneath the stairs. As they landed Penny moved over to a code pad and typed in a code. The doors opened to reveal an elevator. "Finally." She muttered.
"Shouldn't we take the stairs?"
"No, I think those are being watched. I actually don't use this too often."
Penny hissed as the doors shut and they started down.
"But..." Charlie muttered.
Nodding, Penny noticed that the elevator was slowing to a stop. "Anyway, we're here. Let's move."
Charlie shuddered a little before stepping in front of Penny.
"What are you doing?" Penny snapped.
"I'll go first."
"My lab is perfectly safe." Penny snapped.
"Maybe, maybe not." The winged girl said with a gulp. She didn't like being brave, but she would do it for Penny. Britanny had explained the rules to her several times already. She had to have to protect Penny no matter what.
Penny gaped at her and nodded, silently pleased with Charlie's reactions for once. "Fine, just be careful."
Pushing Penny to the side, so that they wouldn't be seen when the doors opened. The instant they opened about a foot, lasers suddenly lanced through the doors, slicing the inside of the elevator to pieces. Charlotte screamed in shock and cowered in the corner as Penny backed up in shock and realized that things were much worse than she thought.
"Ah &$#." She muttered.
"See!"
"Alright, I see your point!"
Charlie whimpered and ruffled her wings, dislodging a few feathers.
Quickly turning to the control panel, set into the wall beside her, Penny tapped a button and an access panel popped open. She reached inside and yanked out some wires, using her teeth to rip the plastic coating off the ones she wanted. Charlotte watched her for several seconds trying to figure out what she was going to do, then Penny glanced over at her when she took two wires and got ready to press them against each other.
"Remember where to closest door is?"
"About f-fifteen feet away, on the right..."
"Correct, except it's the door on the left side of the entrance. Once I touch these we will have about five seconds to make it to that door."
The winged girl looked confused. "Why?"
"It's the labs power supply room." Penny said patiently.
"Oh! Right!"
"Ready?"
Charlie nodded and Penny touched the two wires, they sparked and welded together as the lights around them flickered on and off. Then Penny jumped up and kicked the doors open just enough to get through and ran for it. Just a few steps behind her Charlie used her taller body to make sure that nothing could get to Penny as they ran.
Suddenly the lights flickered on and she could see weapons point at them from the walls, the barrels glowing as they charged. "Ah crapolla."
"Run!'
"Naughty naughty Penny!" IB at them from a nearby speaker.
Penny grabbed the door handle, yanked the door open, and the two of them dove inside just as several lasers fired. They dove to the floor as the beams sliced through the door and punched holes though the large machines inside the room. She hadn't been expecting it, but Penny grinned as the power to her lab suddenly destabilized and the things started to short out.
They could hear IB cussing over the loud speakers.
"Come on, we need to get to the other side of the lab. I have some weapons there that we can put to use."
"What about Gina?"
Penny stopped for a second, she'd completely forgotten about calling her rival. "I have a portable phone in one of the cabinets. We'll grab that, some weapons, and some armor."
"Okay."
Then Penny crawled over to one of the machines, opened another panel, and yanked out a couple of cards. She quickly hid them in a nearby cabinet behind several items. "IB won't be able to get things working without these."
A few seconds later they carefully stepped out of the room. The emergency lights were on and a little smoke filled the air from where breakers had blown. The ventilation system wasn't working either so there was no way to clean the smoke out of the air. Penny headed across the short hall and stopped in front a pair of large swing doors.
Gina liked to keep her labs for specialized uses, but Penny liked things big and expensive, so her lab was huge. It contained a section for each one of her ongoing experiments. The only area that was self contained was the weapons lockers on the other side of the room. They ran across the lab as quickly as they could.
The silence that filled the room was kind of eerie because at any other time Penny was conducting one experiment or another and they always made noise. Since the power was offline for some time, Penny didn't bother to enter a code into the locker control panel. She turned to Charlie instead. "Charlie, I need you to rip the doors off."
The girl gulped, but nodded as she reached for a locker. Gripping the handle, she easily ripped the flimsy door off the wall to reveal Penny's newest weapon, the Beta Caster. She quickly reached inside, grabbed the gloves, a heads up display unit, a belt power pack, and the Beta Caster's themselves. They quickly came online as she put on the display goggles.
Hovering on each side of her thighs, the Casters charged up and she grinned as she took the two hand held remote fire controls in her hands. "Perfect."
"Charlie, please grab that belt, those gloves I designed for you, and the large weapon in the locker there."
"This thing?"
Penny nodded.
After pulling another door off its hinges, Charlie quickly pulled out a massive gun of some kind. Penny had her lean it across a table and quickly inserted a large cylindrical device and the mini computer built into the weapon came on line.
A tiny key board opened up and Penny took a few seconds to type in some codes so that the weapon would actually work when she needed it. Once that was done she quickly secured the key board, locked it in place, and let the gun start cycling through some diagnostics programs.
"Now it's time to kick some ass."
"What does this thing do? I've never seen it before." Charlie asked as she shouldered the large weapon.
"I developed that a while back, when I was really mad at Gina, I was going to use it on her house, but I eventually changed my mind."
"YOU WERE GOING TO HURT GINA?!"
"I CHANGED MY MIND!" Penny snapped.
Pouting, Charlie followed after her friend as she took a second to grab the portable phone. "Um...Penny?"
"What?"
"Are we going to go to Gina's house?"
"Yes." The girl snapped.
"Can we stop and get a happy meal?"
Penny fell over. "CHARLIE!"
"But...but, I'm hungry!"
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Agent M was getting angry. Normally he rarely went past irritated and even then all he ever did was yell a lot and threaten people. He didn't get angry very often these days, his job demanded that he keep a cool head at all times but this whole situation was pushing his stress levels through the roof. Dani wasn't doing what he wanted her to do.
On one hand he'd come here to arrest the little vigilante and to make the world a safer place, but that was proving to be a study in feints and attacks. No matter what he did someone was constantly getting in his way. He could remember when Dr. Diggers worked for him a few years before and how the man fought him over every decision.
The man's daughters were just as arrogant and stupid as their father ever was and he didn't like it at all. Now he was facing the other half of the problem, a disembodied entity that Dani Carter was claiming to be IB, or Irving Bob according to his dead body's fingerprints. The man was dead, stone cold dead. What was left wasn't IB as far as he was concerned, even if that thing was using the robotic body of Ranko. One of Gina's advanced robots.
The thing was firing a Vulcan cannon at him in one long stream of bullets, M was able to easily slap the bullets out of the air and into the ground at his sides. The Vulcan cannon was one of the most dangerous guns in the world and this one seemed to have an endless supply of bullets, but the thing had to run out eventually.
"Listen hear robot, I've just about had enough of you and that gun." M snapped.
Behind him Debra's battered body was quickly healing as she sat up and made sure everything was in working order. She groaned quietly. That attack had caught her completely by surprise, but it wasn't strong enough to kill her though. She gaped at the huge hole that ran from one end of the house to the other, right into the back yard.
IB laughed as he kept his finger on the trigger, the roar of Vulcan cannon filling the air. "Bring it on ya wimp! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
"Sir, he's not quite sane anymore."
"As if the thing ever was." M growled. "Get yourself fixed up and go and finish arresting Dani Carter."
Debra blinked in surprise. "Are you sure, something is going on here..."
"ARREST HER!"
"Yes sir." Debra snapped. Her healing abilities were quite impressive and one of the reasons she was such a good fighter. She knew that in just a few more minutes she'd be back up to full strength again. "This time I'll remove her from the area."
"Just do it." M growled, he was starting to get tired of slapping bullets, but he had to protect Debra while she healed.
"Sir, I can take it from here." Debra said.
M glanced over at her and nodded as they jumped out of the way of the bullets. The move caught IB by surprise and he stopped firing, stood up, shouldered the Vulcan cannon, and smirked at them.
"I have to say, Mister Miracle, you are quite a surprise."
"DO NOT USE THAT NAME!" M bellowed.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! I think I will, this is too much fun to pass up!"
Growling, Agent M considered blowing the robot to tiny little pieces. Stepping in front of M, Debra held up her hand and fired a bolt of energy from her hand. It flew out and slammed into the roof, blowing a giant hole through the material even as IB jumped into the air, flipped to the side, and landed easily. He was ginning at them.
The Vulcan Cannon suddenly flared with light and vanished from sight. "Well Well well, there is more to the skirt than meets the eye, and I thought all you did was cast spells and bat your eyelashes at the M&M here."
"I will blow you to computer chips." Debra snapped.
IB made as if he was grabbing for something in the air and with another flare of light he had a weird looking gun in his hand. It was about three feet long, gray and silver, and had four tuning fork like objects projecting from the barrel. "I just got done designing this baby with a little help from the boys down in the lab. All those girls in back gave me the wickedest idea."
Debra turned to Agent M. "Sir?"
"This whole situation is getting out of hand. Contact Zane and send her into action." M commanded.
"Yes sir." She sent a telepathic call out for Zane. "Sir, Agent Zane is currently unconscious or dead. I can't tell which."
"WHAT?!" M screamed.
IB laughed. "I can hear you. That hot mama over by your van was just standing around. I recognized her from my little walk through the agency computers a few weeks ago. I sent her a present."
"What did you do?!" M yelled in shock.
"Why Agent M, eMmy, emster, the big M, why would I need to harm one of your agents? Now let me think, it's coming to me, hold on, hold on..." IB muttered, then slapped a fist into his palm as if realizing the answer. "Because you MADE ME WHAT I AM YOU &$# WANKER!"
"Ah crap." M muttered as IB swung the weird gun towards them and fired.
They dove to the side and tried to avoid the laser, but the gun fired a continuous beam, so it didn't take him long to redirect his aim. Debra screamed as the beam hit her in the back. She hit the ground and rolled several feet before rolling back to her feet. She glared at him and stood up, forming a large ball of magical energy in her hands.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Looks like I caught you with your skirt down." IB yelled and fell over laughing.
Blinking, Debra realized something felt off and looked down. She was completely naked, not a stitch of clothing on her body. She could see M looking at her from where he landed as well, looking a bit shocked. She lost her concentration and the ball of magical energy vanished.
Then she screamed.
IB, still laughing to himself, moved higher up on the roof and looked into the back yard where the rest of the girls and one guy were talking amongst themselves. He brought the gun around just as they realized that someone was screaming, aimed, and fired.
The beam struck Brianna right in the back and washed over her for a brief second, making her gasp in shock, and stumble forward as her clothing disintegrated off her body. Brianna and the rest of them could only gape in shock at the sight. Then Britanny suddenly fell over laughing, pointing at Brianna.
IB was just taking aim at Gina when he suddenly stopped what he was doing, one of his split off bits, the one the went over to Penny Pincer's house had a problem and requested some help. "Do it yourself moron, you're me after all."
He sighed a few seconds later and Ranko's body went limp as IB left it. Really, it wasn't one of his brightest ideas, though he did set off the next section of his plan to keep the girls occupied while he was cleaning up this mess. In the underground garage hundreds of little lights lit up, as if they were eyes. Then they began to move.
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Seething in anger, Debra covered herself as best as she could with her hands. It was quite a feat considering her assets. A dark green aura was swirling around her body, her eyes glowing a bright white color, and her hair waving around because of her aura. She growled and stared at the roof. Off to the side Agent M looked quite amused as he realized what IB did to his partner.
"Debra."
"I'll kill him."
"We need to find you something to wear." M said mildly.
"That thing you and those scientists created is going to die in the most horrible way possible." Debra snapped. A nearby section of the lawn suddenly burst into flame for no apparent reason, though it was apparent that Debra was getting angrier by the second.
"Calm down Debra, you can't..."
Her head snapped around and he gulped slowly. "You will turn around NOW!" She snarled, with a true dragon's growl. Her teeth were starting to extend as her body increased in size and muscle mass.
"Debra calm down this instant!" M ordered.
Instead of calming, Debra rose off the ground several inches, and relaxed, stopped covering herself, and simply folded her arms under her chest. At over seven foot high, her body had gone through several major changes. She could now compete with Zane in looks, her purple hair was a mess of angles down her back, and her eyes were still glowing brightly.
Agent M could feel her aura growing as he stood there, but he knew that along with the slight shape change, she no longer cared about what the humans thought about her. She went through some mental changes when she took on human form, but the dragon was always just below the surface and it didn't take much for it to rise up and bit whoever was closest.
"I am calm." Debra said, her voice laced with suppressed anger.
"Good, now we need to finish this. Can you tell me what happened to Zane?"
Debra took a second look, this time by simply rising into the air high enough to look in the direction of the van. "It appears that she was blown up."
"Is she dead?" M asked in surprised. It wasn't that uncommon for an agent to be killed in the line of duty, but Zane was a hard woman to kill.
"I can't tell, but I don't think so. Her suit is ruined and the van is in pieces, but she appears to be in one piece."
"And Ms. Duncan?"
"I can not detect her life force anywhere nearby."
M frowned, that wasn't good news at all. "If she's gotten loose we may have a problem."
"Ms. Duncan will not threaten us. She knows that we are stronger than she is and will not interfere in this situation." Debra said coldly, and then saw detected something else. "Agent Rabid is down as well. He's tied up to a tree in the back yard."
"The simpleton!" M yelled. "This ends now, I will not let this farce go on any longer, I've got two agents down. No more."
Turning, Debra saw a flash of light next to Ranko's body on the roof and looked down to see a small robot of some kind on Ranko's back. It was looking up hat her almost happily. "What is that?"
"BIRDIE!" It yelled and spun around a couple of times.
"Wha..."
Peebri, recently teleported from Penny's house using the light gate system, backed up, aimed its weapon, and fired. A beam of bright green energy twice the size of the little robot launched from the back mounted weapon. Debra gasped in shock and brought her hand around to block the energy blast.
It slammed into her shield with enough force to shove her back several yards before she could regain control. She was astonished at how powerful the weapon was. As a dragon, she could survive things that would kill others easily. This weapon seemed to be made just for people that could shrug off normal stuff.
She resisted with everything she had, but the magical shield was slowly buckling under the continued fire of the little robot. Growling, she strained her muscles with all she had and physically forced the shield to hold in place. Sweat started to trickle down the side of her face as she strained.
Down on the ground Agent M looked up at the roof and realized he could feel the heat for the blast over twenty feet away. "What the hell is going on here?" He muttered to himself.
With a yell and a flare of energy, beams suddenly fired from Debra's glowing eyes and lanced through the roof of the house, sending pieces flying everywhere. Peebri didn't stop firing for a second, IB made sure of that, instead it was modulating the beam strength and slowly pushing through the magical shield.
"I will take you down bad little birdie." Peebri muttered, its eyes started to glow.
The situation was collapsing with ever passing second, almost literally, so Agent M was about to help Debra by taking out the little robot. He moved to get into position and fly to the roof, but he caught some movement out of the corner of his eye. He turned to see what it was just as Mimi Masters stepped around the corner of the house and slapped something against his forehead.
"Wha...?"
"Cevrem!"
"No! Not now!" M yelled in shock.
The red headed witch just ignored him and watched as he vanished with a flare of magical light. She looked inordinately pleased with herself before turning to face Debra with a smirk.
"It's just you and me now."
Debra was a little busy with defending herself against the little robots' energy beam so there wasn't much she could do except watch and hope M was alright. Her shield buckled a little more just as a naked Brianna and still clothed Britanny landed on the roof and startled Peebri.
It stopped firing and turned to look at them just as they picked up Ranko's body and headed for the back yard by jumping off the roof. This gave Debra the seconds she needed to recover and regroup. She straightened up and glared down at the little robot as it turned away and rolled up the roof and looked into the back yard.
Lowering to the ground, Debra saw that Mimi was waiting for her. They glared at each other for several seconds before running at each other with twin screams of rage. Magic swirled between then as they threw spells in mid step, setting off a backlash of destruction.
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As the two girls were jumping off the roof, Brianna noticed that one of her Peebo's was there, one of the new 'special' versions she was working on. The one in fact that she had been repairing after an ill fated trip to the park. The poor thing had been the victim of a bunch of birds. She could still remember finding thing just covered in bird poop and angry as a hornet.
She shook herself out of her memory and noticed that the thing was about to fire on them. Brianna wasn't sure how, but IB had managed to finish rebuilding her and updating her armored body. One of the prototype versions she had been working on the day before in the lab.
"Stand down Peebri!" Brianna yelled and hoped the proper codes had been installed in this one, but the little robot ignored her as the gun that rose out of its back extended out over its head and fired at Britanny's back while in mid leap.
"No!"
Brit couldn't dodge in mid air, although she gave it her best shot, yelled out in shock as the blast hit and washed over her body. The glow quickly faded as Brit seemed to hang there for a brief second before falling again. Strype rose up into the air and caught his wife before she was hurt by landing wrong.
Brianna barely managed to land while still holding Ranko's heavy android body. She still managed to get her down to the ground without hurting herself. She glanced over at Britanny to see how she was doing.
Steam rose off her body and she could see that several burns ran along her back and sides. She also smirked a little, even as worried as she was, as she noticed that most of the werecheetah's clothing was gone and that Strype had noticed. About the only thing left was a fine layer of ash that clung to Britanny's fur, nothing else was covered. He blushed, a little, as he touched the ground.
"Brit?" He asked quietly.
The werecheetah moaned, shifted around, and Strype started to blush again as she suddenly started to snuggle closer to his chest. He could feel the girl's watching him as he tried to revive his wife. "This is getting ridiculous."
Gina and Asrial moved to help Brianna as she examined Ranko to see if there was any sign of IB still present. "What the heck are we gong to do with her. I forgot she weighed so much. IB managed to get full control over her and if he comes back we might be forced to destroy her." Brianna muttered.
"I don't know yet." Gina said as she knelt down to examine the robot. "If only I could get to my lab."
"Well we can't! Think of something else to do, something that will work!"
"I'm the best trained ninja of my clan, I can get to your lab easily." Ichi told them. "Just explain what you need and I can get it."
"No it's too dangerous, Ichi." Gina said and shook her head. "My security system is still active in there and IB is waiting for us, no matter how many different directions he's spread himself in."
They all fell to the ground as the whole side of the house suddenly detonated and sent debris flying above them. Then they heard a scream of rage and two girls cussing at each other in several different languages. Asrial's ears flicked a couple of times as she listened in. "What's got Mimi so riled up?"
"MY HOUSE!" Gina yelled as she came out of her shock induced paralysis.
"That's Mimi?"
The two Quagmire residents nodded. "Mimi is usually quite docile and easy to be around, except when she's pissed. Then you need to duck and cover, because that's when she pulls out the big spells."
Gina and Brianna nodded in understanding. "That sound kind of like dad, except he's more subtle and wouldn't wreck the house unless it was a life or death situation."
"Can we do something about clothes?" Brianna muttered. "I'm all for the natural look, but not while I'm in public. This isn't a beach either. What are the neighbors going to say?"
"I'm wondering why the police aren't here." Asrial said, glancing at the rising pillar of smoke rising into the sky.
Gina, looking a little pale, nodded. "They always show up when something odd
happens here. Ah..."
"What?"
"Agency Zero, they are federal agents, they told the cops to back off I'll bet, so they probably won't even show up."
"Oh lovely." Brianna muttered, glanced over at Strype, who still holding Britanny's body in his arms. "Hey lover boy, please quit looking at my sisters body and let's go and see what Mimi is fighting."
"Brianna, she might be hurt." Strype said.
"And I can see that your lower half has other things on it's mind." Brianna said with a grin and rubbed up against him a couple of times.
Strype closed his eyes and blushed a solid red. He'd never gotten used to girls just coming onto him like this. "Stop that."
"Oh Brianna..." Brit sang out.
Said girl jumped back five feet and laughed nervously. "It's not what it looks like."
Suddenly Strype is enveloped in a beam of light and he staggers forward a couple of steps in confusion, but as it fades away, what's left of his clothing disintegrates. All the girls gaped at the sight, then looked down in unison, blushed, and smirked a little. Strype wondered what god he offended to have this happen to him. He lowered Bitanny a little to cover himself. "Gina." He said flatly.
"Ooops." Gina muttered and little huskily and tried to hide Ranko's gun behind her back. "I was just examining it!"
"Gina, I'm going to..." He started to stay.
"Look out!" Asrial yelled and suddenly dove to the side as a broomstick nearly ran her down as it flew by. The girls watched as it flew right through the center of the house using the holes Debra made a few minutes before.
"What the hell, Mimi's using her broom?" Asrial muttered as she stood back up. "I thought it was stuck in the trunk of my car?"
"She never goes anywhere without it. I remember her putting it in the trunk too, but I wonder how she got it out of there." Ichi said her. "Remember what she did with it the last she was using the thing."
Laughing, Asrial nodded. "I've never heard that cat of hers scream like that before."
"Let's go and see if Mimi needs some help, and prevent the two of them from damaging anymore of the house." Gina said. "This will take me a week or so to repair as it is."
"Just have the insurance take care of it." Ichi said with a shrug.
Gina laughed. "As if an insurance company would even let me get within ten miles of a contract. I'm a high risk client."
"They won't insure you?"
"Nope, if I want something fixed I have to do it myself."
Britanny, snuggling against her husband, was looking a little hot and bothered right then, but it wasn't to last. She barely had time to enjoy herself as another explosion rocked the house, shook the ground, and blew out some more windows. Gina whimpered as she added up the cost of more windows for the house. Bounding away from Strype, she ran over to the edge of the house and looked around the corner to see what the two girls were really up to.
A wave of light went off on the other side of the house and flowed around the house along with some curses that don't need to be repeated. Brianna was there beside her in a second, but they didn't stay as the light seemed to increase until it was to bright to see anything. They were forced to turn away and close their eyes. Then it vanished, the ground rumbled, and they heard more fighting and yelling.
"Just what are those two are up to?" Britanny asked. "I know they don't like
each other, but this is a bit much..."
Brianna shrugged. "We can help, but considering that we're both naked, we might need to take that into account."
The werecheetah shrugged and smiled. "I don't mind who sees me."
"Humph." Brianna grunted. "Well I do, Genn and Séance haven't been around
for a while. Ranma..."
"Like you actually ever did anything with him." Britanny said. "I know what you really did."
Brianna glared at her sister. "You do not."
She just grinned, evilly.
Turning pale, Brianna pointed around the corner. "Look at that!"
Britanny turned and looked up just as two shadowy forms bounced over the house, one in mid jump and obviously naked. The other one was higher up and floating above the house standing on a hovering broom, her red hair waving around her head as she held a ball of magical energy between her hands. The light from the fireball reflected off Mimi's glasses as she glared at Debra. She yelled as Debra landed on the ground several yards from the other girls.
"DEBRA!" Mimi yelled and threw her hands forward to launch the fireball. It streamed from her with a burst of light that shifted the air about her face.
The transformed dragon growled and straightened up, forming a shield around her body as she glared at Mimi. The fireball impacted the shield and exploded, making Gina and the other girls dive for cover as the heat washed over them. "What did you do with M? Where did he go?!" Debra screamed, not even bothering to acknowledge the attack.
"I sent him on a little trip, fang face!" Mimi yelled. "How about I send you to the same place?"
"AGHAAAAAA!" Debra screamed, her aura flared, and she fired a beam of energy from her eyes. "Vampire spawn, I'll kill you!"
"Ha! You can't even tell the difference between a vampire and a human can you?" Mimi mocked her as the broom slowly lowered them lower to the ground. "That great honking nose of yours not working anymore? Perhaps you need a bit cut off to clear it out."
Debra's teeth ground together as she launched a pair of whitish green balls of energy from her hands. With a wave of her hand Mimi countered them easily and sent another fireball at Debra. Both girls seemed to be evenly matched and it was impossible to see who was stronger. Then Mimi threw her hands to the front and a bolt of lightning launched arched out and hit Debra's shield.
Laughing, Debra's shield only wavered a little under the onslaught.
"Pathetic! Dragon's are immune to such low level elemental attacks!"
"Then lower your shield, geko!"
"G-geko..." Debra sputtered and growled low in her throat and hissed. "You will pay for that."
"Ha! You can't even fight without the great Mister Miracle telling you what to do. Oh the shame of it all, a GEKO, enslaved to a HUMAN!"
"AGHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Debra screamed and wave of power formed around her and
launched at Mimi.
Still standing on her broom a few feet off the ground, Mimi reacted instantly by raising higher up into the air and quickly dropping down and sitting on the broom. She did a quick spin in mid air and accelerated. At the same time she twisted around and threw another large fireball to the ground at Debra's feet. It streaked down on a tail of flame.
The dragon growled dangerously, stepped forward, and slapped it out of the way. Right at the girls just a few yards away. Gina and the others dove out of the way as it flew by and landed next to the house and detonated. The wall next to the kitchen shattered under the force of the explosion and a number of sprinklers quickly put the fire out before it could spread.
Gina screamed as more of her precious house was damaged. "Noooo! My baby!" Gina cried in shock as her house took even more damage. "Why does my house always suffer?!"
No one really paid attention to Asrial running for the house, and those that did notice, didn't have time to think much of it. Rising into the air, growling in rage, Debra started to transform again, this time taking on her full dragon form. Her body extended out and growing to ten times her size. She glared daggers at Mimi.
"You are dead, little witch."
Mimi just snorted from where she was hovering in the air. "Bring it on
&$#."
oooooooooo
With a flare of light, Agent M appeared in mid air, hovered for a second as the spell dissipated, and suddenly fell into the coldest water he'd ever touched. Being the professional that he was, he quickly stopped moving, and located the surface of the water. With the use of his powers he quickly flew through the water and broke the surface in a geyser of water. Seconds later he stopped moving about a half a mile up and looked around the area for the first time.
He'd lost his glasses in the water, but they were only for show anyway. Therefore, he was able to tell almost instantly that he was at the north pole, near the edge of the ice shelf. Fighting magic users wasn't new to him, but fighting one that could teleport him a quarter of the way around the world was entirely different. He normally wouldn't let one get close enough to even do such a thing to him. The situation back at Digger's house wasn't what he would have liked either, he wasn't in control. That would have to change.
Growling in anger he knew he would have to get back to Atlanta as quickly as he could, before something bad happened. He could sense that Debra wasn't in a good mood now that he wasn't there. He briefly wondered just what else could go wrong with the plan. Then he recalled that Barbra wasn't with them. Her strength would have been very helpful.
Seconds later he rose higher into the sky and flew into the distance with a burst of speed. He soon passed the speed of sound with a sonic boom. It echoed over the waves of the water below, startling a penguin something ferrous. His mind went back to Barbra as he lowered himself closer to the waves to make sure that any radar systems didn't detect him.
oooooooooo
Back at Penny's house, IB was quickly rerouting the electricity from the main power lines still connected to the house to bring the lab back online. He brought the entire network online as fast as he could and used the security system to pin her down behind a table. Even after getting her weapons she had been surprised when the laser guns popped out of the ceiling and walls and started firing at her.
She wasn't sure how IB pulled it off with the main generators down, but she would have to deal with it anyway. Figuring out a way to defeat her own security system would not be easy and Charlotte didn't really understand just what kind of danger they were in.
The goggles she donned earlier were showing her a small screen with a set of cross hairs right in front of her eyes. Off to the side of that was a small screen that listed a bunch of information, including a computer hook up was being probed. Cursing under her breath she reached down to her side and quickly removed the computer cable from the guns so that thing couldn't take control of the guns.
She did not like the idea of firing them manually, but there weren't any other options available. Setting off the gun Charlie had was a one time deal too, after that the circuits would fuse and render the weapon useless because it was not immune to its own attack.
The goggles, though designed to function with the computer, could still work on a lesser level without the control computer directing them. She just needed to look at what she wanted and press the firing button. Rolling out from behind the table she looked at the laser in the ceiling and blew it away before it could tracker her, then rolled back behind the table and gasped for air.
"I've got to get in better shape." She muttered.
"That was so cool!" Charlotte said happily and ruffled her wings. "What's next?"
"I'm not sure, but we need to take as many of these lasers out of commission as we can." Penny explained.
She had to do that again then brag about it to Gina the next time she saw her rival/friend. Then she looked around to find her next target when a new laser lowered down from a different part of the ceiling behind them and charged up. She paled in shock.
"Uh oh, fiddlesticks..."
"Penny?" Charlotte muttered as she noticed two dozen similar lasers lowing down from the ceiling all over the lab, swinging around, and aiming at them. Penny hit a button on her belt and suddenly lunged at Charlie as a bubble of energy formed around them. The lasers reflected off to the sides and blew holes in the floor, walls, and several desks.
"&$#." She yelled, suddenly glad that she 'borrowed' one of Gina's force field belts.
Charlie used her wings to unconsciously try and shield them as well, spreading them out to cover both of them. After several seconds the barrage of laser fire died and silence returned to the room. The only thing left was a slight glow from the force field, and a room full of smoke. Penny slowly sat up and looked around, amazed to be alive at all.
"Why did is stop?" Charlie asked nervously.
"I'm not sure, they only fired a few dozen times and shouldn't even be warmed up yet."
"Then what's going on?"
"Um..." Penny started to snap.
Then something amazing happened, or frightening, as electricity started to rain down from the ceiling just a few feet from her. Instead of acting like normal electricity though, this kind quickly started to form into a human form crackling with power. Within seconds it was fully formed and a pair of eyes were looking down at her.
"Quite impressive Miss Pincer." It said. "These laser can't shoot you through that field, but I can still get you."
"Who are you?"
"Irving Bob, or IB, whichever you like better." He said with a bow.
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because I can."
"That isn't good enough for me." Penny snapped. "You are destroying my house."
"What was yours now belongs to me, all your machines, all your notes, and even your house. I will do what I want with it."
Penny glared at him. "You are so going to die, you know that don't you?"
"Gina couldn't stop me and I found you through her, just like I used every computer between here and New York to find Danielle Carter." IB said with a smirk. "I am all powerful, your pathetic weapons can't stop me, and no one can. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAH!"
"Y-you won't hurt my f-friend..." Charlotte stuttered as she stood up, shaking. She hated fighting bad guys, but Penny was always in trouble these days.
IB laughed. "You're even worse than her! At least she had enough guts to fight back, but you haven't done a thing!"
Penny frowned and glared at IB. She didn't like it when her friend was insulted either.
"You're a-arrogance shall be your undoing." Charlotte said with only a little frightened stutter. If it was good enough for TV, it was good enough for her to use in a situation like this.
"We shall see who wins this." IB said as he formed a ball of electricity in
his hand. "See this stuff, I can manipulate it anyway I want and it's even
part of my body. Water can't stop me, walls can't stop me, and nothing in
this room can stop me. You belong to me now..."
With the flick of her eyes, Penny changed the setting on the Beta Tech Casters and hoped they didn't blow up in her face. She slowly glanced at Charlotte, who was still lugging the large gun around on her shoulder. "Charlotte, it's time."
"But Penny." Charlie whined.
"Girl, do you think that pathetic pop gun can stop me?" IB said. "I've already said, you can not stop me, no one on this planet can stop me! I'm to powerful for you and your pathetic technology! I am a GOD!"
Penny rolled her eyes mentally. Yep, he was a villain with an over inflated picture of himself. "Oh I don't know, you seem to keep making lots of mistakes." Penny said. "You certainly didn't expect me to damage my power generators and you didn't think to give that Peebo upstairs enough intelligence to track us down here."
IB stopped ranting and glared at her.
"Now you seem to think you have us trapped with no way out." Penny said sarcastically. "You're smart I'll give you that, but really not very bright."
"Why you!" IB yelled and threw his arm forward just as the two girls vanished in a flare of light that IB instantly recognized at light gate technology. "WWWHHHAAATTTT???!!!"
Penny and Charlotte appeared in the garage next to a small glossy black convertible and quickly jumped in, started it up, and squealed the tires as she backed through the garage doors. They collapsed around the car even as she was shifting gears, stomping on the break, and turning the wheel to spin the car around to face the right direction. Charlie screamed, though she was still holding on to the gun..
"Hold on, Charlie! We need to get to Gina's place and figure out what is going on!"
The car peeled out as she raced down the driveway out onto the main roads. Penny glanced in the mirrors as they moved away from the house, but was silent and nothing seemed to be following them. Even that Peebo had vanished. Penny didn't know what to think about it. She needed to talk to Gina about this before she made any major decisions.
"Charlie, relax, it should only take us a few minutes to get there."
"I know, but this is scary."
Penny rolled her eyes and concentrated on the road. "There is a small bag of peanuts in the glove compartment."
Charlie squealed like a teenager, let go of the gun, and dove forward.
"The gun, the gun! Don't' drop the gun!"
Charlie gasped and made a grab for the large gun as it nearly slid right off the back of the car, barely managing to save it. "Got it."
"Charlie..." Penny growled.
"Sorry Penny."
"Be more careful next time." Penny said as she shifted gears again.
"Next time?" Charlie squeaked and shivered a little as her eyes focused on the glove compartment. She started to drool a little. One could almost see little peanuts dancing around her head as her eyes glazed over.
Penny swore she would work harder to cure the girl of her addiction, she really would. Shifting gears they sped down the road, skidded around a corner, and shot into the distance with no sign of anything behind them. Her house had several large holes in it and someone was going to pay.
oooooooooo
Asrial headed around the side of the house and dove into the garage, heading for what was left of her car. The earlier pounding by the laser system had dented the hell out of the driver's side of the body. As she stepped around the corner, she skidded to a stop as she nearly ran into a large robot.
Gasping, she backed up a few steps so she had room to fight back, and then realized it wasn't moving towards her. As carefully as she could, she side stepped around the thing and over to the trunk of her car. She frowned as she got a good look at what was left of the trunk and decided that Mimi needed to be taught a lesson about damaging other people's cars.
The trunk, already covered in dents all along one side of the car and bent out of shape had a large hole right in the center. Right where, say a flying broom, had punched through on its way to Mimi's hand. She fingered the hole for a second to see just how much work it would take to fix it, then shrugged.
That didn't matter though, because what she wanted was right where it was supposed to be a little deeper in the trunk. She reached deep into the back of the trunk, pulled a metal box over to her, and grinned. She always kept a spare armor around for emergencies.
At the same time she made sure the robots weren't going to turn on her by watching them out of the corner of her eye. So far not one of them seemed to have moved an inch. Whatever IB was up to had him distracted enough to let her work in peace. She hoped it stayed that way as well.
Turning back to the box she tapped a button and it beeped, opened up, and released a blast of air to the sides as it depressurized. It quickly opened up like a flower spreading out across the bottom of the trunk as power systems came online for the first time. Grinning she reached in and started to pull items out and put them on as quickly as she could. With IB around, she knew this was taking a chance, but knew jut by looking at the immobile robots that the risk was worth it. IB had something planned.
Hopefully it wouldn't cause them too many problems, but with the way things were going for them so far, she kind of doubted that. They were tossed out of the house, IB had free reign to do what he wanted in the labs, and over half of them had been reduced to their birthday suits. They had to stop this thing as quickly as they could.
As she pulled the final bit of armor from the trunk she wished its design had included an automatic dress feature that ported the armor right onto her body. As backup armor she hadn't really considered it before. She finished pulling on a helmet and letting the armor cycle through a quick diagnostic. One by one the weapon systems came on line and she took a second to arm each of them for the upcoming attack.
The last compartment in the box flipped up to reveal a pair of large handguns ready for instant use. She grinned as she slid them out and placed them in the built in thigh holsters, letting the armor finish charging them. She wanted to laugh evilly, but that might alert IB that she was there. It was to soon to reveal herself just yet and she needed to set her plan into motion.
"Let's get this show on the road." She muttered as she sauntered around the car and headed back outside.
Then she turned around, used her heads up display to aim a shoulder mounted laser as it rose out of the shoulder assembly, and fired it into the garage to slice the immobile hurt bots to ribbons. They clattered to the ground sparking and smoking from the laser damage.
She smiled as they clattered to the floor, piled into heaps of melted scrap. It wasn't much of a challenge really, but it was better than fighting them all at once. Gave her a chance to warm up the weapons as well. There was nothing like targets that didn't move or fight back. Heh.
Then a noise made itself known, like an electronic growl, and she turned around to see hundreds of little peebos flooding out of the underground garage. Brianna's Peebos came in several different basic designs. One of the most basic was the type in front of her right now. Small reddish pink robots filled with an explosive gel and a programmed desire to blow up on command.
Several of these sat at her feet and glared at her.
She blinked and took a couple of nervous steps back as more and more of the
things came out of the house. Glancing at the lead Peebo it smirked at her
looking like a cute robotic toy, with a rather destructive secret. "Um..."
"Well pardner, it looks like we have us a sit-u-ation on our hands." The lead Peebo drawled.
Asrial sweatdropped and decided that Brianna was absolutely insane.
"Yep, I'd say it looks that-a-way." Another one said.
"COME ON BOYS, LETS SHOW HER WHAT A REAL ROBOT CAN DO!" The first one yelled
and started forward, a laser popping out of its back.
"AILLLIIIEEEEIILL!" One screamed out in a high pitched yell and the whole group shot forward with a weird look in their eyes.
Jumping back several times, using the jump jets of the armor, Asrial dodged the sudden barrage of laser blasts as the Peebos opened fire on her. She used an arm shield to deflect a few off to the sides, where they blew holes in the ground. Her eyes tracked a couple of Peebos and the shoulder mounted laser twitched to life and fired back. Reducing a couple of them to slag as the rest of them dodged.
"Ah &$#." She yelled and started jumping again.
"Yheeee Haaa!" One yelled as it shot forward and exploded right at her feet as she jumped. Blowing her several yards into the air on a cushion of hot air and a ball of fire. She quickly controlled her movement with a flip in mid air and activated her flight system.
Two metallic bars snapped to the sides from her back and Asrial and the flight pack came to life. She quickly rose above the explosion below her. Several laser blasts lanced out of the smoke as she looked down to see hundreds of Peebos moving around the yard like ants. She had to twist and dodge to make sure they didn't do any damage.
The arm shield blocked several of the blasts as well, though these were more powerful than the first few. She brought her arm forward and fired off a series of mini-missiles, launched form the forearm mounted device on her arm. She couldn't keep up the missiles for long though as it overheated quickly.
"Scatter!" Several Peebos yelled.
"Get her!"
She smirked as Peebo after Peebo started to explode below her. "Come and get it!"
"Aghaaa!"
Asrial laughed as the whole yard in front of her went up in an explosive chain reaction. One Peebo would explode from one of her missiles and it would set off a nearby Peebo, and so on. This drew the attention of the others as they quickly turned and saw what was happening. Asrial's jump jets flared as she landed in the middle of the devastation and fired off several shots from her shoulder laser.
Across the yard she could see Dani and Britanny entering the fight. Britanny just ran at them and just kicked them into the air as they were about to explode. At the same time Dani did something similar, although she was just picking them up and tossing them into the air or at other Peebos.
Brianna, looking a little pale, yelled commands at the Peebos to try and get them to listen to her. They didn't even seem to her though and Asrial was forced to continue firing at them. Using up a good amount of her ammunition quicker than she expected.
The problem with armors like hers was that even though some weapons could be recharged, like the laser and the hand guns, others required ammunition that was usually used up way to soon. The mini-missile system was designed for use in space where the cold would keep it from over heating. Used on the ground like this it wasn't as reliable.
Unable to properly defend themselves against the constant stream of Peebos coming from the house, the girls were quickly overwhelmed. Strype, ignoring his nakedness, ran forward as the artifact in his arm started to glow and started throwing blasts of fire at the little robots.
Asrial rose into the air and quickly gave him some covering fire as he quickly reduced their numbers, melting them to little piles of charred plastic. She also made sure they couldn't surround them anymore, quickly setting off dozens of Peebos. Smoke and fire filled the yard as they fought, quickly loosing sight of each other.
Asrial started to land again, using the flight jets in her wings to lower herself to the ground a few minutes later. Being a hundred feet over the house gave her a good view of the battle though as she fired a few more missiles. She watched as Brit raced around the yard stomping on Peebos, having long since given up kicking them into the air. Even Dani and Brianna were on the defensive as explosion after explosion went off.
She could also see Mimi and Debra throwing blast after blast at each other as they tried to kill each other. Smoke rose into sky above the house as the two battles quickly leveled everything in sight. Asrial acknowledged all of this, but in a situation like this she couldn't allow herself to be overwhelmed by what was happening.
Trees around the house were blasted into pile of burning wood, a good portion of the drive way was made into a large crater full of rubble. She was charging up her shoulder laser for another barrage when her heads up display told her that something had locked onto her. She gasped just as a beam fired from the roof of the house hitting her in the back.
She tried drop out of the blast, but it followed her movements.
"Noooooooooo!"
Her systems started to go wild for several seconds as she lowered closer to the ground, and then her armor ejected her ten feet from the ground. It pulled away from her body like a cracked egg, dropping her, and then slammed back together. She landed hard, but managed to get her feet under her and spun around to get a look at what happened above her.
Her head snapped around to see what had fired on her and spotted a couple of Peebos. On the roof of the house Peebri and Peegi sat side by side firing what looks like a lightning bolt into the armor. Even from this distance she could feel the energy in the air as it arced over their heads.
"Ah &$#." Brianna growls as she gapes at the destruction of the yard. "I can not believe this!"
"Asrial, are you alright?" Gina asks as she runs over to see if she is injured. "Where did you go? You knew what IB could do if he gained control of the armor's computer."
"We needed some weapons, I was hoping my alien technology wouldn't be able to be taken over by that jerk."
Gina nodded. It was a reasonable assumption. "I'd thought about that, but you've incorporated too much Earth technology into it for that to work."
"Oops, I hadn't thought about." Asrial said and blushed.
"That's alright, we seem to have managed to draw him out anyway."
Britanny appeared beside Gina and gasped for air. "I can't keep this up forever Brianna, those Peebos are destroying everything."
Looking worried, Brianna nodded. "They won't respond to the stand down codes."
"We've dealt with worse." Gina told them and looked up at the armor hovering above them. "I'm worried about that now."
The girls nodded.
They could see the electricity taking a near solid form inside the armor, slowly spreading to fill out a set of arms, legs, and finally a head. It flexed its 'arms' a few times before completely taking over the armor and looking down on them for a few seconds before rising up into the air to see Mimi and Debra fighting.
A little dish rose out of the armor's shoulder and lit up. Debra stopped in mid attack and started staggering around holding her ears as the dish did it's job. Above her, Mimi was also having problems concentrating and several seconds later fell off her broom still holding her head. Then IB fired a missile and blew up Mimi's broom before turning back to the other girls below.
"Thank you for getting this wonderful device out of the trunk, my dear, I'd completely forgotten about it."
"GET OUT OF THAT ARMOR RIGHT NOW, I COMMAND YOU!" Asrial screamed in
frustration. She was not about to let some scumbag use her armor to hurt her friends. IB turned the sonic attack off and the girls all sighed in relief.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" IB laughed. "No way, this armor is almost as good as that android I was using and this way I don't have to walk around in that female body. I can be a Man again!"
IB landed several yards from then and Gina gasped as she got a good look at IB for the first time. Electricity seemed to flow up and down the armor continuously as he moved around, it even arced from the armor to the ground as well. She started to pay more attention as the rest of the girls came over to see what was going on, but not before IB pointed at the robots on the roof.
"Those little dears are a godsend Brianna dear, a marvel of technology." He said with a grin. "I've even uploaded some schematics to their little brains that will allow them to fire my clothing disintegration gun."
"Being naked isn't going to stop us." Brianna growled.
Ignoring her, IB turned to look at Ranko and the android came to life and slowly rose to her feet. Her eyes were completely blank, holding nothing of the life like qualities she normally used. She walked over and stood beside IB, her eyes looking through them as if she didn't see them at all. Patting her butt, IB grinned at all of them.
"Now this one is a marvel. Possessing her is quite hard, but worth the time, but using her like this is quite easy. I've already reprogrammed over 90 of her CPU and isolated the original template personality. It's embedded in the programming and can't be removed, but layering programs on top of it is easy. She's the perfect little slave now."
"Let her go..." Gina growled.
"Make me Miss Diggers. I control everything inside your house, every computer, weapon, and even the appliances. You can't stop me." IB rose into the air again, but not before turning to Ranko. "Play with them will you."
"Yes master." Ranko slurred and started moving forward and brought her hands up to form a ball of energy.
Ichi growled and grinned a little as she realized that she had a chance to fight the android again. "I've been wanting to kick this one's ass for a while now."
"We can't hurt her." Gina said. "Ranma will be mad..."
"Who cares?!" Brianna snapped. "We can always rebuild her."
"I agree." Britanny said. "Break her now and fix later. Just like when you first brought her home."
Dani didn't say anything, just looked up at IB hovering about fifteen above them, like some kind of god. "We need to find a way to stop him and then we won't have to worry about hurting Ranko."
Gina suddenly started to grin. "We need to get to Penny's place, it's just a few miles away. She has a lab and all the equipment we need to top IB."
The naked girls started to look nervous.
"I may be able to help." Strype said.
"How?"
"I can fly to Penny's house."
Britanny glared at him. "Not like that you aren't."
"Huh?"
"We're too exposed." Brianna said wistfully and earned a glare from Britanny.
The others just nodded and Strype blushed a little as he remembered that he was running around starkers. He really wanted to get his clothing back, but there wasn't a stitch of clothing in sight. Nothing that he could use anyway.
"What's he doing up there anyway?" Asrial asked, still trying to think of a way to make him out of her armor.
"I'm not sure, it's like he's doing something else that requires more of his concentration." Gina muttered.
IB snorted and looked down at Gina. "I can split myself up into as many pieces as I want to. Controlling this armor is easy, as easy as it is to control your house. I can do it all at once."
Gina glared at him and wondered just how true that was.
"What kind of weapons does that armor of yours have built into it, Asrial?"
Brianna asked.
"Mostly the basics, some missile launchers, shoulder mounted laser, that sonic attack, a shield system, and the flight pack of course which can be used to power a one time use weapon."
"That's all?"
"Well it's just a standard armor, though this one is able to affect the amount of damage each of the weapon systems can do. The sonic attack for instance has over two hundred different settings."
"Crap, I was hoping we could use some weakness against it."
Asrial shook her head. "It's designed to get me through anything that might try to hurt me. Father insisted on it."
"What about contacting Penny?" Britanny asked. "Strype mentioned her earlier, I think she could help us quite a bit."
Gina nodded. "We need her lab. The house is too dangerous at the moment, so we need to contact her."
"Now what's he doing?" Dani asked and they all looked up as he faced away from them, out towards the front of the house and aimed his arm at something.
The girls all turned around to see a convertible speeding down the street and Gina groaned.
"What?" The girls yelled.
"It's Penny and Charlotte, I'd recognize that car anywhere."
"We also have to deal with that." Brianna said as she watched Ichi and Ranko face off against each other.
IB started to laugh as a swarm of missiles flew into the sky heading right for Penny's convertible.
"No!" Gina yelled.
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To Be Continued...
Notes: Well I've got everything written up for the side story now. Even the rough drafts for the next two chapters are finished. I'll be posting them here pretty soon. I'll toss up ch 5 of this story here in a week or so, then I'll be posting the next chatper 13 and possibly 14 to Golden Opportunity, then a week or so after that i'll post the final chatper to this story.
Apologies about the long wait between chapters lately, I just haven't had much drive. Till next time!