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, 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
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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 05
Cory D. Rose -
Gordon Stevenson - Gordon304shaw.ca
(c) 2004
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Penny sped around the corner with a squeal of tires and accelerated down the street heading for Gina's place. She was nervous. That thing hadn't bothered her since she left the house and headed here and she didn't know why. Sure barely five minutes had passed since they left, just enough time to have an argument with Charlie about McDonalds and how there is a time and a place for everything.
Said girl was pouting in the passenger seat, with the large gun still held over her shoulder with a bit of sunlight reflecting off the polished metal. Penny swung around another corner and spotted a smoldering van by the side of the road and slowed to a stop to stare at it. Several kids were already poking a body on the sidewalk with sticks and giggling when it groaned in pain.
Forgetting that she was mad, Charlie stood up and looked over at the van. The movement caught the kid's attention and they all turned and froze in shock as they saw a girl with a massive gun held in her hand, looking at them.
"Run for it!" One yelled and the whole gang vanished down the street moving at warp nine.
"We should help those two poor people." Charlie said, pointing at the bodies.
Sure Penny wanted to help them, but she was driving a tiny little convertible. At two seater with no room left for anyone to sit. It was here, Charlie and one large gun that didn't even fit in the car. "Um, I'm not sure we can."
"But they're hurt!" Charlie whined, giving Penny 'the eyes'. Wide open, teary, and disappointed in her friend.
Grumbling, Penny gave in, got out of the car, and walked around the still smoking van and looked down at the two bodies. Charlie got out as well and started to look around, happy that her friend was doing the right thing. She grinned innocently. "Can we call those nice people in the white van to come? and help them?"
"Nice people the...oh, the ambulance drivers." Penny muttered, recalling what happened a couple weeks earlier, when Charlotte found the peanut stash and ate a fifty pound bag worth in about twenty minutes, shells and all. The girl's stomach had expanded as she ate to make it look like she was pregnant by the time Penny took the peanuts away, and then instantly developed a
stomachache.
Kneeling down next to the two bodies, Penny could tell that something weird was going on. The male had to be a teenager, complete with those baggy pants that they wore these days, the kind that always needed to be pulled up. What made the scene stranger than normal was the woman.
The girl was over seven feet high, and appeared to be wearing what was left of a very expensive suit of some kind. She had long hair, a sculpted body, and appeared to be asleep and not unconscious. Then Charlotte pointed said something.
"Penny, is...is this, blood?" The winged girl asked as she pointed down at a dark stain on the ground.
Walking over, Penny examined it. "Yeah it is, but other than some concussion burns, those two aren't hurt all that bad."
"They're not?"
"Nope, just unconscious. I also recognize this kind of blast damage."
Charlotte glanced around at the devastation.
"This as one of Brianna's Peebos." Penny explained.
"How can you tell that?"
Penny turned around and pointed at a charred Peebo shell under the van. "That was a dead give away."
"Ooooh!"
Resisting the urge to roll her eyes, Penny turned back towards the blood. "This is the first sign of a serious injury I've seen so far. I wonder who it belongs too?"
"Brianna might know."
"How do you figure that?" Penny asked, a little surprised her friend could come to the conclusion.
"Well, Brianna made the Peebo, didn't she?"
Grinning, Penny nodded. "Indeed she did. Good work."
Charlie beamed happily.
Penny took a couple of minutes to drag the two bodies over to a nearby lawn and lay them down, with Charlie's help of course. Whatever happened to them, they were down for the count and then some. The Peebo that did this must have gone off at its full power, a setting that Brianna didn't normally use against living targets. And even then it was against the super powerful monsters that couldn't be stopped by normal methods.
They were walking back over to the car, Charlotte re-shouldering the oversized gun, when they heard an explosion in the distance.
"What the heck?" Penny muttered.
Lifting off the ground, Charlie flew up into the air and looked around. "There's a big fight going on over at Gina's place. There are holes in the walls."
"What?!" Penny screamed.
"There is a..." Charlie started to say again.
"I heard! Get down here, we need to hurry if we want to help them out."
Nodding, Charlie fluttered down and landed in the convertible just as Penny started it up and peeled out, smoking the tires. They sped down the road, heading for the private drive that led to Gina's house. Then Charlie spotted a man hovering in the air, pointing in their direction and the air around was suddenly full of smoke as something flew from his arm.
"Oh no." Penny muttered as she hit the brakes. "Evade!"
After spending months practicing with Britanny, Charlie didn't even think as she jumped into the air, after grabbing Penny with her free arm, and quickly flew them over to a nearby wall and landed. They had a ringside seat as dozens of missiles slammed into the convertible and removed it from existence in a large fireball.
"My Car!" Penny gasped.
Charlotte sighed, they were safe now.
"My forty thousand dollar, gloss black pearl, Italian convertible!" Penny screamed and looked like she was about to cry. "Why didn't I use one of the other, less expensive, cars? I could have stole a car and been better off!"
"Penny, look at that." Charlie said, pointing nervously.
Looking over the edge of the wall she could see that thing she talked to in her lab just a few minutes ago. That thing was hard to forget and now it was wearing armor of some kind, hovering in the air, and responsible for blowing up her car.
"He is going to PAY!" She snarled as an aura of flames rose up around her.
"Eeeep!" Charlie cried and cowered down.
Never piss off a geek and break her toys.
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"Ichi, can you beat Ranko in a fight?" Gina asked as they eyed the robot slowly moving towards them and Penny's smoldering car just inside the drive. Her friend was safe, but there was no way she could just run over and see if she was alright.
The ninja nodded. "Of course."
"I certainly hope so, because IB up there seems to have completely taken her over. I don't see any of the old Ranko in her now."
"Hey, Ichi, didn't Ranko beat you just last night?" Brianna asked.
Glaring at Brianna, Ichi just nodded. "I didn't expect someone of her size to be able to move like that."
"Right." Brianna said with a smirk.
"This is a serious situation Bri." Gina reminded her sister.
"Maybe, but I'm not sure Ichi can take Ranko."
"Just you see." Ichi snapped. "If I had my swords this would be a very short fight. Instead I'll have to use something else."
"Sex appeal won't work."
"BRIANNA!" Gina yelled.
"Sorry, sorry." Brianna muttered, blushing a little.
Ichi yelled and ran right at Ranko, jumped into the air, and used the android's head as a spring board to launch herself behind the girl. Stumbling, Ranko managed to catch her balance and lash out with a nasty spin and drop kick, but Ichi managed to evade it easily. Then the ninja started running, leading the android away from the other girls.
Wishing the girl good luck, Gina turned to glare at IB again. If she wanted to defeat she would have to get to her lab and put something together. With Penny safe, there might be a way to finally take control of the situation. She turned to Brianna. "Sis, I need you to stop those two Peebo on the roof and the few stragglers that remain."
"Sure, but it's not like I have anywhere to hold my tools." Brianna snapped, reminding Gina that she was completely naked.
"Just find a way." Gina ordered. "I need to get to my lab at all costs."
"IB controls the house."
"I know, but I..."
"Um...I may be able to help out there." Said a voice.
The girls turned to look around and saw a person wearing a cloaking device of some kind stepping out from behind a tree. Up above them IB was still firing missiles into the car and laughing insanely, but the person ignored him as the cloak turned off to reveal Barbra Duncan carrying a bag. Dani and Britanny instantly lost it.
"YOU!" They screamed.
Barbra winced, but didn't try to defend herself as Britanny punched her across the jaw and Dani swept her feet out from under her. She collapsed to the ground with a grunt and let the girls beat on her for several seconds. Then the girls heard clapping and shuddered as they realized that IB was watching.
"Oh Bravo! I love a good cat fight! When does the hair pulling start?" He
asked excitedly.
Dani and Brit looked up at him and snarled. Brit dragged Barbra to her feet and seriously considered hitting her a few more times, but the girl didn't even look phased by the attack even though she wasn't transformed yet. Her suit was ripped to shreds and she'd recently taken a pounding, because there was blood on her chest, arms, and legs.
"Dani." She said sadly.
"I'll never trust you again!" Dani yelled in her ear.
"I-I understand." Barbra said and sniffled a bit and handed the bag to Dani. "I brought this for you, all the way from New York."
Dani glared. "What the &$# makes you think I'll take anything from you?"
"It belongs to you already." Barbra explained, opening the bag and lifting out a gloss red something.
Dani gasped and snatched it out of her hands. "How..."
"It's your extra one that you stored at my apartment."
"But...but...but..."
Britanny growled deep in her throat, just like a cheetah, and Barbra paled a little as she saw a pair of cat eyes staring into her own. "You will pay."
"N-now calm down, Cheetah..." She started.
"I don't want to hear it. I left Dani in your hands when I left New York and you betrayed her, not once, but twice, you will not get a third chance traitor."
Dani ignored them as she quickly pulled out her costume and started getting dressed. She didn't care if anyone saw her, at that moment she didn't think she would live out the day, but with her costume came her weapons. First came the gloss red body suit, black boots, utility belt, gloves, mask, and her trademark mask. After that she donned her cape and let it flow around
her shoulders.
For the first time in weeks she felt whole again, as if being Avenger was a part of who she was and not just an excuse to hide from the public. She grinned, reached down to her side and pulled out her baton.
"It's about time." IB said as she lowered down a little and hovered above her.
Avenger looked up at IB. "Why would you say that?"
"I orchestrated this whole situation to get my revenge. It's because of you that I died after all, though I will be paying Agent M back as well. I expected your friend there to show up hours ago with that outfit. I wanted things to be as they were when we first met, as even as possible."
"How could you know she would be here..." Avenger muttered under her breath.
"I've invaded every computer between here and New York searching for information on you and your friends, Avenger." IB said with a laugh. "It was easy enough to track what everyone was doing."
Avenger gasped, finally realizing how IB managed to track her all the way here in the first place. "Oh my god."
"Yes, bow down to my greatness."
Behind everybody, a group of Gina's Hurt Bots started to troop out of the house and form up into groups. They were all carrying weapons that hummed quietly and looked at the girls with blank faces. Gina couldn't stand looking at an emotionless robot or android, so she developed programs to make them more human. Under IB's control, those programs no longer dominated
the Hurt Bot's actions. They came to attention as IB glanced over at them.
"All of you will now stay right here with these guards and keep your mouths shut. This fight is between me and Pinky over here."
"My name is Avenger!" Dani snapped.
The Hurt Bots suddenly took one step forward and aimed their guns at the girls, all in one perfect motion.
"Do as I say, or I'll shoot you all." IB threatened them and turned to point at Asrial. "You, go and collect the witch and the dragon lady. Drag them inside the house and into the living room. After that just sit down and wait. I'll be dealing with you and the others shortly."
Asrial wanted to resist, but she knew that doing so now would not be a good idea. Nodding, she walked over to the two unconscious girls. She tossed them over her shoulder and headed for the house. The other girls, except Dani, were already inside and several Hurt Bots took up position on either side of the door. Then she heard a fight going on and turned to see Ichi and Ranko still going at it.
"Nearly forgot about them."
IB just watched the girls in amusement.
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Twenty hurt buts stood around the living room holding an assortment of weapons. They didn't move, breath, or even look nervous. Gina glared at them as she sat on the couch. She didn't like it when one of her creations was used against her like this.
At some point in the past she had anticipated her robots being used against her like this, but she wasn't sure if the command words she hard wired into their computer brains still existed. IB had proven to her that he knew how to reprogram anything to his needs. She glanced around to look at the other girls and could see that they were nervous. It wasn't often that they got into a situation like this.
Gina did feel a little better since Penny hadn't been brought in yet, but she wasn't entirely sure what her friend had in mind. It was a good possibility that she came looking for help herself and now the two of them were in even more trouble. Then she recalled that large gun Charlie was
lugging around.
The thing reminded her of something, but she couldn't think what it would be. Maybe something the two of them talked about at some point over the last few months as they studied the diverse uses for Beta Technology. Penny was wearing her Beta Castors though and that would help them out a lot if they needed to assault IB physically.
That was going to be hard if they had to do it that way. Being made up of electricity and still able to think made IB a thousand times more dangerous than a dragon. He could literally invade any house, building, or safe house on the planet undetected. Their weapons were useless against him after a couple of shots as well, though she had to admit that they hadn't got much
of a chance to even try that yet.
IB had them all right where he wanted them, no weapons, naked or nearly naked, and running out of options. The only time he seemed surprised at anything was when the Agency showed up and he'd adapted to that in seconds. The guy, thing, was smart enough to worm his way into her computers and take over everything.
"Gina..." Brianna started to say.
A hurt bot snapped his gun around and trained a laser tracer right between Brianna's eyes. "No talking!"
Growling in frustration, Brianna sat back and tried to think of a way out of the situation, but everything she thought of required one or more of her guns or Peebos. Britanny and Strype sat across from Gina and glared as they looked around the room. They could see IB in Asrial's battle armor and Avenger out the back window, they were sizing each other up.
Then Gina nearly jumped in happiness as she saw a silver remote control sitting on the table in front of her. She glanced around and saw that Brianna was giving her a strange look and nodded her head at the control. Then Brianna just grinned and nodded. It would only take a split second to grab the control and activate it, but the hurt bots would shoot them all long before that happened.
They needed a distraction. Gulping, Gina prayed the hard wired codes hasn't been taken out of the hurt bots after IB reprogrammed them into following his command. "Code sequence authorize: Gina, STANDBY MODE."
The hurt bots snapped around to look at her as some started to tremble as conflicting orders started to work through their limited computer brains. "No...no...t-talking...master says...Gina is ma-master..." They all said in unison and stared to have fits and drop their guns.
Brianna sat up, grabbed the control, and typed in a quick set of codes and hit the enter button just as Britanny and Strype realized that something was going on. Two of the hurt bots were going into fits, falling to the floor, and curling into a fetal position. Gina just smirked as all of them vanished in a flash of light.
None of them even noticed that Barbra wasn't there with them anymore. Britanny had been ignoring her as best she could and the others hadn't even bothered to acknowledge her existence. The hurt bots were staring at the insides of their heads while in standby mode, so they didn't have anything to say at all.
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Ichi jumped on top of the wall and bounded up to the roof of the house with Ranko following easily. Landing on the edge, she suddenly back flipped right off to catch Ranko in mid air and kicked the android in the head. Ranko slammed into the side of the house and fell to the ground as Ichi landed nearby.
She didn't want to give the android any time to do anything, so she was in motion before Ranko had time to jump to her feet. Slamming feet first into Ranko's stomach, Ichi used as much force as she could, hoping to break some of the internal pieces. Ranko's stomach was as hard as stone and just as unforgiving, forcing Ichi to change tactics and flip out of reach.
Ranko was on her feet in a second, a ball of energy formed between her hands, as it flew at Ichi. The ninja dove to the ground, rolled, and tried to sweep Ranko's legs, but it backfired. Hopping over the leg, Ranko almost casually snap kicked Ichi in the head and sent her tumbling back. Her head slammed into the ground.
She groaned and tried to sit up, but Ranko was already there and slapped her across the face a few times, knocking Ichi out almost instantly. Relaxing a little, Ranko ran a couple of scans on Ichi's body and determined that the girl wasn't faking before she picked her up. "The master will want to talk to you as well."
She started for the back of the house just as something dropped down out of the sky and landed on her head. Ranko crashed to the ground, plowing her head into the dirt, and was relieved of Ichi's body before she even had a chance to understand what was going on. Though she did hear a voice above her a half second later.
"Sorry about that."
The android slowly climbed to her feet and turned to chase after whatever had hit her when she heard Gina's commanding voice inside the house. Ranko felt something inside her shift, her brain was much more advanced than the average hurt bot, so instead of shutting down she shorted out. Access ports on her head sparked and electricity shorted out her body, forcing many fail safes to activate.
She dropped to her knees and flopped around for a while, before going still while on her back. Images started to flow through her brain and she screamed silently. Up on the roof, Charlotte held Ichi in her arms and looked down at Ranko guiltily.
"Um...oops."
Looking around, she made sure no one witnessed anything, then spread her wings and launched off the roof, carrying Ichi back to where Penny had retreated. She flew over the property and came down in front of the garage and carried Ichi inside and sat her down against the wall.
"I got her."
"Excellent! What about the other one?" Penny said as she emptied boxes on the floor next to the big gun Charlie was totting around earlier. Most of it was junk, but she had managed to find a couple of things that would come in handy if she had time to modify them.
"Not yet, I was just dropping this one off."
"Did you have any problems?"
Charlotte looked guilty for a second. "Nope!" Then ran out of the garage and flew out of sight.
Penny hadn't heard that tone of voice from Charlie in a while, but she knew it meant that she did do something she wasn't proud of.
Up above the house, Charlie landed on the edge off the roof and looked down at Mimi and Debra, wondering just who they were. She knew that one of them was a dangerous and the other one was on Gina's side, but she really couldn't tell which one was which. She was about to glide down and grab both of them when Asrial came into sight and walked over slowly.
"Asrial?"
The blonde spun around and looked up at Charlotte. "Charlie?"
Nodding, the winged girl glided to the ground and grinned. "Which one is which?"
Asrial nodded at Mimi. "She's a friend. IB took these two out a little while ago, he ordered me to bring them back to the house and wait with other girls."
Nodding, Charlie picked Mimi up. "Penny is in the garage working on something, let's take them there."
Glancing down at Debra, Asrial was tempted to just leave the girl there. Then she just shrugged and picked her up. Flapping her wings a couple of time Charlie lifted into the air and realized that Asrial couldn't fly. "How?"
The blonde shrugged. "I'm not sure actually. Let's just try going around the front of the house that way IB won't see us."
Charlie grinned and nodded. "Okay."
A few tense minutes later they arrived at the garage. Penny was sitting behind the car with a gun of some kind pointed in their direction, which she put away as soon as she saw them. "Good work Charlie, I didn't think you'd bring this many back."
"IB seems to be getting us out of the way so he can punish Dani." Asrial said and frowned at her...slightly disassembled car. She turned a glare on Penny and folded her arms.
Penny ignored her and nodded. "I wasn't sure, but I was thinking the same thing as well."
"I've been making weapons. They aren't fancy, but I wasn't sure what we would need. Since IB is made out of electricity I've been trying to find a way to contain him."
Looking impressed, Asrial decided that sacrificing her car was a small price to pay. "Good idea, he's been keeping us to busy to do anything but run and hide."
"Oh, and why is everyone running around in their underwear?"
"IB thought it would be a good way to keep us from leaving the area I think." Asrial said and turned around to point at the IB on her bum. "He's been mucking with things all weekend, even made these clothes me and Ichi are wearing. We didn't know at the time."
"I was wondering about that. How did he pull it off?"
"Well he herded us out of the house with the security system just after dawn this morning and has kept us running round ever since. Then he started reprogramming Peebos and building weapons down in the lab area."
Penny nodded and pointed at Ichi. "Was that what happened to her?"
"No, that red headed robot slapped her a few times." Charlie said.
Looking a little sick, Asrial quickly checked her friend/rival over for any damage. "She should be awake in a while. Ranko is being controlled by IB. She was laid out on the ground a few minutes ago, so Ichi must have taken her down at the last second."
Charlie looked innocent as Penny glanced over at her.
"I need to get my hands on some tools, my gun here got damaged when IB took out my car a little while ago." Penny explained.
"There are tools in the trunk of my car." Asrial said.
"Oh thank God!" Penny snapped and ran over to look "I hate working under these primitive conditions."
Someone coughed and Asrial and Charlotte spun around to see a girl standing at the entrance to the garage. Asrial glared at the girl. "Barbra."
"Things are not as they appear Asrial."
"We've never met."
"You are an alien living on this planet, it's part of the Agency's job to know about you."
"I see." Asrial growled. "Dani told us you betrayed her, again."
"You're Barbra?" Penny asked curiously.
"You've heard of me?"
"Yeah, though it was several years ago." Penny explained. "Something about someone blackmailing you into hurting one of your friends, permanently."
Barbra winced. "I'm here to help."
"I don't trust you." Asrial growled. "You seem to change sides at the drop of a hat. Have you no honor at all?"
"I can help. Dani is my friend, I won't let her fight this monster alone."
The three girls looked at each other and shrugged.
"We will see." Penny said. "Grab some tools, we have some repairs to do."
Barbra nodded meekly as Asrial and Charlotte glared at her.
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"Well Miss Carter, where shall we begin? I'm all powerful and you are wearing a red suit and have a stick as a weapon." IB said with a smirk. "You don't stand a chance."
Dani glared at the thing that seemed to be cause of all her problems lately. "You aren't so tough, jerk."
Laughing, IB flexed an arm made of electricity. "You can't even touch me without being electrocuted to death. I have the advantage there and this time you can't kill me to win."
She paled a little. "You are still around, so you didn't die."
"My body is rotting away back in New York, yet I'm here." IB said. "I'm dead, maybe even undead, and you will pay for that."
Dani crouched down and slowly pulled a baton out of her boot and spun it around a couple of times, actually thankful that Barbra brought her a spare uniforms. Her cape fluttered around her as she moved, almost as if it had a life of it's own. "I have fought super powered jerks like you before, don't think I can't defeat you."
"Maybe, but how many of them had the advantage of knowing everything about you? It took me all of ten minutes to know everything that was in The Agency's computers and I've been learning ever since. I know everything, where you went to collage, your first boyfriend, even the number of times Mister Miracle has tried to recruit you."
"I don't care." Dani growled. "You are going down once and for all."
IB posed and looked her in the eye. "Then let's see what you can do Pink Avenger."
"It's just Avenger now. I don't wear pink anymore dirt bag." Avenger growled, she was somewhat pleased to be tossing hero/villain banter back and forth.
IB sneer. "Then die."
Yelling, Dani ran forward and tried to slam her baton through the chest plate of IB's armor, but he stepped to the side, grabbed her hair, and tossed her over his head. She yelled out as she suddenly went airborne. Spinning around in mid air she landed with a little bounce, used that to her advantage, and launched a second attack.
Blocking the baton with his arm, IB just grinned and slammed his fist down into her shoulder. She fell to her knee in shock. "How?"
"Oh didn't you figure it out? I've still got my strength even in this rather odd form and I plan to smash you like a bug!" IB yelled and tried to slam her head into the ground with an over hand smash.
Dani rolled out of the way, gritting her teeth in pain, and gasped as the ground IB's hands impacted seemed to implode. She could just see him at the center of a small crater and tried to think of a way to stop him. Grounding him seemed like a good idea, but he wouldn't go down as Tyrant did. She would have to find a trickier way to pull it off.
A part of her mind reminded her that since was made of electricity that it just might kill him, but she needed to find a different way to stop him. Running across the yard, Dani spotted a hose and grinned. She grabbed it up and quickly turned the water on IB. Suddenly a force field formed around him and stopped the water.
"Ah, nice try, but this armor has many advantages." IB tutt tutted her with a smirk.
Tossing the hose to the side Dani grit her teeth. There had to be a way to stop him and she searched around frantically. She ran forward, jumped into the air, only to land in front of him and try and sweep his feet out from under him. Instead he just took a blow to the legs and slammed a fist down on her head.
"Idiot." IB mocked as she collapsed to the ground. "I have pow-ers, repeat after me now, p-o-w-e-r-s! You are a human with no powers! Therefore I am better than you are!"
Dani was unconscious, and so wasn't able to reply.
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"Where the hell are we?" Britanny asked as she looked around the small room full of computers.
Gina was moving from computer to computer and taking them out of standby mode. "I set this place with Brianna's help a couple years ago, just after we got done dealing with Peachbody."
"So?"
"He was able to beat us and trick us at every turn until the end there. I didn't like being vulnerable to attack, so I set this place up as a kind of fall back. It's about a mile below the mansion and the only way to get down here is by light gate."
"We can get weapons down here?" Brit asked.
"Yes, I also have access a second computer core with all my notes. I come down here once a month and update the system. There is no way IB was able to get to this system, it's completely separate from the one I use in the house."
"Brit, we have lots of weapons down here, but they will only be useful against IB if they can effect him. At the moment he's made up of electricity, we have to disrupt that somehow." Brianna said. "Most of the weapons down here are all computer controlled and completely useless against him."
Gina nodded. "I'm going to have to construct an EMP gun."
"You've used those before." Brit said. "Let's get a move on, I need a shower, and some clothes."
"Don't we all." Strype muttered.
Of the four of them, Gina was the only one still wearing anything at all and she was shaking her head. "I tried to think of everything we might need if I ever had to use this room, a change of clothes never came up."
The others groaned.
"What about that old bubble gun of yours?" Brit asked. "The one you used when those Beta Phantoms were saving us?"
"Nope, it's not down here, its in one of the cars for when we might need it while on an expedition."
Opening up a nearby locker, Brianna pulled out a golf bag full of weapons and slung it over her shoulder. "I've got what I need here, though I've never actually fired a gun naked before. It shouldn't matter that much."
Strype wondered why all of them kept reminding him that they were naked. It was taking everything he had not to look at the bits he wasn't supposed to see. Then Gina finished with the last computer and moved over to another locker and pulled out some drop cloths. "I was going to use these on the computers, but I think we need them more."
Sighing in relief, the girls quickly made some basic alterations and soon sported togas. Strype was not about to admit that this made not looking at them even harder, but at least his own toga was long enough to cover his naughty bits up. Then Gina turned to Brianna.
"Bri, what are we going to do about that Peebo army of yours running around trying to blow us up?"
The girl shrugged as she loaded a large hand gun with explosive blue stripped shells. "IB reprogrammed all of them."
"I know that." Gina growled. "How do we stop them?"
"We shoot them."
"Bri, you don't shoot mobile explosives with explosive rounds."
Her eyes glinted. "You just need to shoot them at the perfect time. It'll be a beautiful explosion."
Gina sighed. "Well you three get yourselves prepared..."
The computers suddenly went dark and a spinning 'IB' appeared on the screens. "BWHAHAHAHA! Thanks for using the Light Gate generators!"
"Oh pooh." Gina muttered crossly just as all four of them vanished in a flare of light.
"Gina!" Brit yelled just before they vanished.
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The small card slid into place and Penny smiled as the little light turned on. The rather large gun she'd been making Charlie lug around since they left the house was back in order, even though she was forced to use parts from her Beta Casters, their sacrifice would not go unnoticed. She glanced up at Asrial as the girl finally stopped pacing and looked at her.
"It's ready."
"About time, we can't give him time to regroup."
"The damage was easy to find, it just took a few minutes to fix it is all." Penny said with a shrug.
"Then let's get it into position." The Salusian princess said, reaching for the gun.
"Charlie, we need you to help with the gun."
The winged girl looked up from where she was playing with an old glow in the dark yo-yo. "Okay! Where should we set it up?"
Penny frowned. "Well I was originally going to just fire it from my convertible, but the jerk effectively took care of that."
Charlie pointed at the rather beat up wreck of Asrial's car. "There's a car, there's a car." She was bouncing from foot to foot excitedly.
The girls glanced at the wreck.
"It's so perfect!" Charlie squealed.
"I don't know Charlie." Asrial muttered. She put a lot of time into building her car, but didn't think it was up to firing the gun.
"It flies! You said so yourself."
Shrugging, Penny looked the car over. "Well it is all we have to work with."
"No way, It's falling apart!" Asrial snapped.
The bumper fell off with a loud clang.
"See!"
Barbra looked up from where she was sitting next to an unconscious Ichi against the wall. "Well I think..."
"Not now!" Asrial and Penny snapped.
Sighing, Barbra remained quiet she didn't even feel like transforming to be more comfortable.
Then Asrial sighed. "Give me a few minutes to get it a once over. All we need to do is get to the end of the drive and aim the gun at the house. I'm pretty sure the car can do that at least."
Charlie jumped behind the wheel and pretended to be driving, humming happily to herself.
Penny rolled her eyes. "I'll get the gun mounted while you check the car over."
"No problem." Asrial said as she picked up a screw driver with a glint in her eye. "This should only take a few minutes."
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IB stopped dragging Dani's body by her foot and let the leg fell the ground. He glanced inside the house to see his hurt bots laid out on the floor like a bunch of toppled dominos. A couple were trying to get up, but it was as if they didn't know how as they pushed their upper bodies up, strained, and then fell over with a thump.
"Those girls are a pain in my ass." He muttered and glanced down at Dani. She had lost her hat during the fight, her mask was askew, and her cape was in tatters. "This is your fault."
He growled and accessed the house's computer system and quickly found the girls down in the emergency room. He hadn't really bothered with it when he found it earlier, listed in Brianna's armory notes. His trap had worked though and the girls were all down in Gina's lab, in one of the isolation rooms.
The only thing he didn't like was that some of the girls were missing and he wasn't sure where they were. He hadn't been paying enough attention to the house since he started to harass Penny. He accessed the house cameras and quickly flashed through the ones that still worked and didn't see anything. Then he checked the house map that listed where everyone was currently and noticed several 'unknown's in the garage.
"Got you, now to play a little while." He muttered.
For a second he considered sending the android after them again, but he wasn't able to access her computer anymore and figured she was offline. So he accessed the Peebo controls and quickly found several of the things still active and grinned.
"Perfect, though they will need a bit of back up."
Holding out his hand, electricity started to form a ball of light in his hand, then fired it into the hurt bots at his feet, quickly reprogramming them and resetting their computers. They quickly climbed to their feet and took up positions around him.
"Status?"
"Working at 85 efficiency." One of them said.
"How was Gina able to escape."
"Unknown, Master."
IB nodded. "Go out into the garage and kick the ass of whoever is in there."
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A few minutes earlier, Penny finished mounting the gun to a car, so that it lay length wise down the center of the car. Asrial's car was actually in pretty good shape. All the damage was to the body of the car, along the doors and side panels. Everything that it needed to run seemed to be in working order, though the headlights no longer worked.
So the car was currently hovering a foot off the ground with Asrial behind the wheel making sure it stayed in place. Penny and Barbra had removed the trunk hatch and placed Charlie in the trunk, at the trigger of the gun. While Penny was making a few last minutes repairs to the gun. Barbra was using her super strength to bend the metal into place so that the gun wouldn't budge when fired.
"You about ready there?" Asrial asked. "There's something going on inside the house."
Penny glanced up and nodded. "I know, we've been here much to long. We need to get into position."
"Then let's go!" Asrial snapped.
"What about them?" Charlie asked and pointed at the girls on the floor.
Ichi, Mimi, and Debra were out cold and didn't have anything to say in the matter. Penny sighed. "We need to take them with us of course. Barbra, can you pick them up and place them in the back seat?"
The woman nodded. "No problem."
Just as the girls were loaded in the back seat and buckled in to keep them in place, the door suddenly shattered as the lead hurt bot burst through the door. Reaching down beside her, Penny grabbed one of the Beta Casters and fired a quick shot. The lead hurt bot's chest seemed to implode as the bolt of energy shredded it with a loud bang.
Even as it fell to the ground the others were aiming their weapons and firing at them, filling the air with bolts of laser energy. Asrial ducked down as best she could and stomped on the gas. The car, which was still hovering shot forward as Penny continued to return fire. They few out of the garage and sped down the drive with the bots in pursuit.
In the trunk, Charlie was hiding as best she could and holding on with all her strength. Penny continued to fire back as lasers slammed into the ground around them. She didn't stop to wonder why the bots were firing so erratically. Instead she just picked the off one by one as they flowed out of the garage.
"Asrial, get us into position, we need to fire the gun now!" Penny yelled.
"We're nearly there, just another few seconds!"
"Hurry!"
Charlie curled up in the corner of the trunk and whimpered as the car swung around, it's back end lifting about four feet in the air and came down facing the house. Then Penny spent several seconds taking out several more hurt bots, blowing holes in their chests, and removing their heads. Asrial sweatdropped as Penny spun the caster around and looked smug.
"Now Charlie, you're in position, fire the gun at the house."
Shivering a little, Charlie rolled out, shouldered the back of the gun and grabbed the pistol grip, and aimed the gun.
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Images similar to a kaleidoscope swirled around as Ranko lay on the ground like a puppet with its strings cut. Slowly as the minutes passed her vision stopped spinning around as emergency programs slowly came back online.
At first her fingers started to twitch a little, then her whole arm as long buried programs that Gina wasn't even aware of went into action running diagnostic tests and proceeded to make repairs while scanning all the new information in her computerized mind.
Several minutes after that her body arched for a second and her eyes snapped open, the glowing blue orbs staring into nothingness. Then they blinked and she sat up and groaned, holding her head as if she was in pain. Staggering to her feet, she looked around and wondered why she was in the yard.
Inside the house computers flickered on in the girl's bedrooms and information suddenly started to trickle into her brain. Billions of bytes of information filled her and she absorbed it all unconsciously. Smirking a little and suddenly feeling a little better, Ranko noticed that she was
wearing a skin tight red outfit of some kind and looked down at herself in shock.
"What the hell?" She muttered.
Tugging on it told her that it was made of a dense weave of plastic fibers that she didn't recognize. Normally she would be wearing her loose black pants and red silk shirt just like Ranma did. Then she noticed that her hair was undone as well and flicked it back over her shoulder in an annoyed manner. She'd have to do something about tying it back when she had a
chance.
Her computer told her that she was running at 89 efficiency and that repairs were in progress. The last several hours were a complete blank and she had no idea how she ended up here, only that the repair programs activated about ten minutes earlier. She glanced around and gaped at the large hole in the side of the house. It appeared to lead clear through to the other side of the house.
Feeling a little dizzy she slapped her head a few times, but it didn't seem to work. So she leaned against the house until the dizzy spell faded. Whatever was fixed had brought her up to 91 efficiency. Then she heard world war three start on the other side of the house, near the garage. She jumped to the roof and took the direct rout towards the sound, stopping on the edge and crouching down.
In front of the garage she could see Penny and several other girls fighting off Gina's hurt bots, blowing them to pieces. She wasn't sure what was going on, but she knew that Gina would never send the hurt bots after Penny. It only took a second to access the computer in Gina's room and scan through the information.
She felt the computer doing something to her as she scanned it and blasted that part of the computer with a virus. Whatever it was died almost instantly and she finished scanning the computer, breaking through security codes and ciphers as if they were simple three letter words. The fact that she wasn't programmed to do things like this didn't even occur to her, she
just did them as if it was second nature.
Then an alert message flashed across her field of vision and she glanced at the car as Charlie aimed a big ass gun at the house. She gaped at it for a second as the computer analyzed the energy readings, gasped in shock, and ran across the roof as fast as her android legs would move.
She flashed from one end of the roof to the other in less than a second and launched off the edge in a spectacular jump that carried her to the roof of the nearest house and kept going.
"Jinkies! Why the hell would she have that thing here?!"
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"I'm getting pissed off Gina." Britanny growled at her sister.
They were in a small room, barely big enough to hold all four of them. Gina, who was sitting in the only chair in the room, looked defeated. "What do you want me to do Brit? My one plan failed and I can't do anything while the power is on."
"What is this place?" Strype asked. He was looking a little flush as well, though Brit sitting in his lap may have had something to do with it.
"It's an isolation chamber." Brianna explained. "They're designed to keep people inside them."
"We placed Daishi in one of these a few weeks ago." Gina said.
"Oh yeah, but why did IB put us in here?"
"I haven't been able to figure that out."
"He just wants us out of the way while he kills Dani." Brit muttered. She'd already tried to rip the walls, but even that failed.
"I don't think so." Gina muttered. "He's got something else planned."
"How can you tell?"
"He could have killed Dani while she was asleep with the lasers in the ceiling, but he didn't do that. Instead he herded us out of the house."
Brianna was frustrated, she didn't like being defenseless, that was why she liked to make guns and armor. As only half a werecheetah she had speed and abilities that made her unique, but all of them were useless sin this situation. "Is it possible for us to make some kind of weapon out of the devices in here, something we didn't think of earlier?"
"Maybe, but the two of us tried to make sure that was supposed to be impossible."
Sighing, Brianna muttered under her breath.
"What was that?"
"We're doomed."
"What about the floor?" Brit asked. "What's below us?"
"Solid rock." Gina and Brianna muttered.
"You're kidding."
"Naw, we needed solid ground under the chambers to keep them solid. There are a lot of very delicate electronics in the walls that make this place escape proof."
For the next several minutes they sat there in silence, brooding over the situation. Then Brianna sighed. "I suppose we can play twenty questions to pass the time."
Britanny rolled her eyes. "No."
"Ah come on, I'm bored."
"Me too, but I'm not in the mood for Fred Perry questions."
"Spoil sport."
"Then tell us what you really did to Ranma in the VR room?" Brit asked with a smirk.
Blushing, Brianna turned away and shrugged.
"I know you didn't actually have sex with him, but he thinks you did. So what's the story?"
Sitting up, Gina looked interested in the question too. "What did you do to him?"
"Well, I didn't want to have him unwillingly, that would be wrong." Brianna muttered.
"Oh like the way you did with Genn and Séance." Brit snapped.
"I always give them a chance to say no." Brianna snapped back.
"Yeah, and now they are starting to get interested in each other."
Brianna grumbled.
"And you're not getting the 'satisfaction' you need from them." Brit smirked.
"Well, the game was a turn based VR game, where he had to fight monsters and people."
They nodded.
"Well every time he won a match I'd slink on over and kiss him as a reward. It was part of the prize for winning."
"What did you do when he lost?"
"He only did that a few times. That boy does not like to lose. He considers it a personal insult or something. Anyway, whenever he lost he had to remove a piece of clothing. The object was to make it through the game with some clothes left."
Gina blushed as she imagined a topless Ranma. "How far did it go?"
"Well, like I said, he took it as a challenge and the moron kept pushing himself to insane lengths to win the battles after I got him out of his pants. That's why he couldn't walk when he left the VR room."
"No sex?"
Brianna shook her head and grinned, blushing a little more. "Though I must have kissed him about two hundred times. Every time I did it his pig tail would stand straight up and he'd freeze with this silly little grin on his face."
Gina scooted off the chair and sat next to Brianna, her glassed fogged up a little. "Did, did you get pictures?"
"Of course, I have the whole thing recorded."
A weird laugh came out of Gina. "I want to see ...him."
"I thought you said you were to old for him." Brit reminded her.
"Humph! He is just a teenager..."
"With the body of a god." Brianna said.
"...right, but I can still look." Gina said, folded her arms, and nodded with a little smirk.
Britanny rolled her eyes. She really didn't see what they saw in Ranma, but then again, they weren't married to her man, the hunk, Strype.
"But why's he think you had sex?" Gina asked.
"It seems his father, the retard, never explained just what sex was. He doesn't have a clue, as far as he's concerned, when we kissed, we had sex."
They gaped at her.
"It's true!"
"He's not that bed...bad!" Gina said.
Brianna just smirked. "Oh yes he is and you know it."
"No one is that dense."
"Ranma is."
Brit pointed a finger at Brianna. "I knew it! You're still not telling us everything."
With a huff, Brianna folder her arms and muttered a few things under her breath.
"What was that?" Brit asked.
"Well I might have done one or two other things."
"Like what?" Gina snapped.
Brianna blushed a bit. "One can only kiss so much."
"True, but that still doesn't tell us anything."
"I'm not saying. A girl doesn't run around telling stories. That's how one gets a reputation."
"BRIANNA!"
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Lasers slammed into the car as over a dozen hurt bots continued to fire at the hover car. Asrial's windshield, though heavily reinforced, was still taking a pounding. The rest of the car was slowly being shot full of holes by the lasers. Growling, Asrial reached out and tapped a button on the
console of her car and a little computer screen flipped up. "I'm tired of these things shooting at us!"
"Charlie, you can fire at any time." Penny muttered to her 'bodyguard' still sitting in trunk aiming the gun.
"But..." The winged girl muttered and looked worried.
"What is it?"
"I might hurt them." She whined.
"FIRE THE &$# EMP Gun!" Penny screamed.
Charlie cringed a little, aimed the gun at the house, and closed her eyes just as she pulled the trigger. "YAHHH!"
The gun's computer started to charge up, little lights started to turn on and off in a row all the way down the barrel of the weapon. For several seconds the gun didn't do anything but whine louder and louder. Charlie could feel it vibrating as she held it in position.
Asrial finally finished tapping buttons on the screen. One of the headlights slowly pulled back into the engine compartment and a gun barrel took its place. She grinned a little as she used the mouse 'ball' to aim a set of cross hairs on the computer screen right at the center of the hurt bots.
She ignored the gun and pressed a final button. "FIIRREE!"
The gun lit up like a mini-Vulcan cannon tearing into the lead hurt bot into a pile of swiss cheese in less than a second. Penny just smiled as she watched, glad they had managed to get the one decent weapon on the car working. She glanced over at the gun and saw that it was nearly fully
charged.
"Blasted safety precaution."
"Give it time, you said the gun couldn't hold a charge permanently." Asrial said as she reduced a second hurt bot to swiss cheese. "Just hurry, I don't have much ammunition left."
"We're at 70, nearly there."
"Good!"
Charlie still had her eyes closed as the gun suddenly split down the middle and opened up like a tuning fork, started to thrum with power, and energy began to arc between the two pieces of the gun.
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A red headed android dropped to the ground beside the shed and knelt there in the shadows for several seconds. She twitched, smirked a bit, and stood up. Inside the house the computer in Brianna's room started to upload information again and Ranko opened the storage shed as quietly as she could.
The shed was full of basic yard tools, mower, a few ladders, a rake, and a few boxes near the back. She reached over to the side and pushed her finger against a screw sticking out of the wall. In reality it was a button. With a loud 'thunk' the floor shifted below Ranko's feet and she slowly lowered into the floor as the hidden elevator activated.
Still smirking, a few seconds later she found herself in the middle of a large underground room full of guns, swords, and ammunition. Just as she was about to go and grab a few guns, she stopped in mid step as she realized that the floor was covered with Peebos, all of them silently glaring at her.
"Intruder, you have invaded Queen Brianna's vault. You will pay." A Pink one said arrogantly. Which is hard to do when you're pink and cute.
Ranko folded her arms. "What do you think you are doing, #334?"
The Peebos gaped at her as they heard Brianna's voice coming out of Ranko's mouth. The android glared down at them. "I'm here to grab some weapons."
Confused, the Peebos moved out of her way as they recognized Brianna's maniacal gleaming eye as she pulled a large rifle off the wall and quickly loaded a couple of large bullets into it. "This will do I think."
"That is a very good choice, fake Brianna. It can put a bullet through it's target at a quarter of a mile easily and still have enough power to embed in the wall behind the target."
Since the gun, one of Brianna's older ones, fired actual bullets, there was no way that IB could use it against her. Unlike about ninety five percent of Brianna's other guns. She couldn't even use the PeeBees like she wanted to since IB had control of the computer core. As she was about to leave she spotted something over in the corner of the room, something that shouldn't
have been in the room at all.
Hooked into a computer monitor was a baton, like the police used, and she gasped. Brianna and Gina thought along the same lines usually, but Brianna had a tendency to take a more up front view of situations. Where as Gina would try to think her way out of most things. Hence Brianna's weapons collection.
Beta Tech was still in its experimental stages, at best, but even Penny had taken the time to design a couple of weapons. Gina hadn't gotten around to doing that as she spent most of her time trying to find the Beta Tech's secrets, unless you count the Phantom Ring she created to fight the Beta Phantoms.
After one use, where it destroyed a mountain, and itself, Gina put it away for further study because Britanny would never use it again. At least that's what Ranko thought, but it seemed Brianna put the left over bits to use and designed a baton. She pulled the baton from its socket and held the device up for inspection.
She could feel the baton vibrating in her hand as tiny little lights around the handle blinked on and off. Spinning it a few times, Ranko tapped a couple of buttons on the computer and quickly read Brianna's notes to see how it worked. The device was completely redesigned from its original beginnings and could do things that it never could before.
Nodding, she shouldered her rifle and headed for the elevator with the baton in her other hand. She had a plan in mind, but she would need to distract IB before she implemented it. Using the baton she used it to press the screw again. She just hoped that Penny didn't fire that gun for a few more minutes.
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IB tossed Dani on the couch as they entered the house. After beating her unconscious he just didn't feel satisfied with his victory. The girls were out of the way and there was no one left that could stop him.
'phlipil'
Looking down IB saw that a black glue like substance as it attached itself to his armor's arm. He glanced to side where Avenger was smirking at him from the couch, a line of the glue appeared to be coming right out of her baton. He didn't even remember her having it as he dragged her towards the house.
"I got you now." She muttered, her voice slurred. Then she twisted the base of the baton and the glue surged out and sprayed him.
Gasping in surprise, he stumbled back as it covered him from head to toe. "You little bitch!"
Avenger staggered to her feet and gave her baton a yank, trying to dislodge some of his stolen armor pieces. The electricity of his body flared as the glue touched him, slowly burning it.
Then he gave his arm a yank and pulled Avenger right towards him. Suddenly the window beside him imploded and something hit him in the side of the head, causing the front of his helmet to explode and send him flying across the room. The armor went dead instantly and fell to the floor in a pile of unresponsive parts. Staggered, IB barely managed to keep himself together under the sudden assault.
Growling, he turned to glare as the rest of the window imploded under a second attack. This time it took him in the chest, the bullet itself didn't do anything to him, but the vacuum vortex left by the bullet nearly pulled his chest out even a large hole appeared in the wall.
"That wasn't very noice." He muttered and slowly reformed his body. "They are going to pay for that."
"I would advise you to simply give up."
He whirled around to find a rifle pointed at his head and Ranko glaring at him. "You belong to me android."
"Not anymore $$hole." Ranko said with a smirk. "I've been enlightened as to the situation."
"You are no match for me!"
Off to the side Avenger, with no weapons to use, decided to get out of the way and let Ranko fight the guy. Though covered in her baton's paste, she knew that it would barely slow him down. She just hoped that Ranko could stop him before he actually hurt anyone. Then a piece of the ceiling cracked and fell, striking her across the side of the head.
IB just laughed.
Ranko pulled the trigger and watched happily as the bullet nearly unraveled his head as it passed through, blowing a large hole in the ceiling. Staggering back, IB struggled to pull himself back together for the second time in less than a minute. On the couch, Dani groaned and slowly sat up holding her head.
"Anyone get the number of that bus that hit me." She muttered.
"WHY WON'T ANY OF YOU STAY DOWN?!" IB screamed angrily.
"Cause you're an evil scumbag?" Ranko mocked as she brought her gun up for a third shot.
"No matter how many times you shoot me with that thing I'll always reform." He hissed.
"I know and I get to keep shooting you over and over again. It's like a dream come true for me." Ranko said evilly, then her other hand, the one no one was paying attention to, flashed out and tossed the baton to Dani. "That baton can hurt him too Dani."
She caught it easily and stood up twirling it around a few times. Then it hummed to life for a second and suddenly changed from gloss black to a deep red color that matched her costume. She could just see a hint of black fading into the red at each end of the baton. "It can, cool? That makes my day after what he did to me a little while ago."
"Let's tag team him."
"No problem."
IB blinked, unable to follow what was going on. Every time he took out one of them, another would come along and take their place. It didn't seem to matter if he'd taken one of them down earlier either, they just got up and came back. It was staring to annoy the living hell out of him and he wasn't going to put up with it anymore.
"Alright, no more Mr. Nice Guy." IB snarled.
He lunged for Ranko, but she just twisted to the side and dodged as Dani leaped across the room swinging the baton for his head. Ignoring her attack, there was no way a baton could affect him, he formed a ball of electricity in his hands and threw it.
Ranko jumped back to dodge, but IB managed to get her rifle, it burst into flames as the electricity completely ruined the thing. "Baka!"
The Baton slammed into IB's head, but instead of injuring him, he froze in place as it passed through him. Dani staggered and nearly fell over in shock, the baton didn't work. Then she heard Ranko start laughing and glared at the girl.
"You're playing jokes?!" She screamed.
Laughing, Ranko pointed at IB.
Turning around, Dani glanced at IB, all three feet of him gaping at his new body shrunk down to its new size. "Wha..."
"I d-didn't expect it to do that." Ranko gasped out between laughs. "Hiya shorty."
Looking down, Dani could see the baton sparking with energy and realized that the thing absorbed energy. "Well, now that is an interesting weapon."
"Let's try something else." Ranko said, still giggling a little. She held her hands up and concentrated for a few seconds as a ball of blue energy formed between her hands. "I haven't had a chance to use this yet."
IB crouched down and quickly looked to the sides, he needed an exit as quickly as possible. He didn't quite know what was going on, but he needed to find a way to beat these girls thoroughly enough that they wouldn't bother him anymore. At the same time he started to pull himself out of the computer system and growing back to his full size. "You two are dead. DEAD!"
Dani and Ranko just grinned.
"I think its time for you to leave Irving." Dani snapped. The red baton held before her like a shield. She was going to make him pay.
Ranko and IB reacted almost instantly, each throwing an attack at each other in the blink of an eye. The two attacks didn't hit each other, instead they seemed to flow around each other. Ranko got hit in the chest, and knocked back as the electricity fried her clothing, destroying a good portion of it and revealing a lot of skin. At the same time IB took Ranko's Ki blast in the side and his body flared with pain as the energy invaded his body.
Electricity flared around him and exploded out ward in a wave of energy that ripped a nearby chair to pieces. By the time it stopped IB looked completely different. Instead of a humanoid storm of electricity, he now looked a bit like he used to, only glowing blue with sparking eyes. He had his arms crossed in front of him as he gaped at Ranko in amazement, surprised that he
wasn't dead. "Whar..."
Growling, Dani spun her baton and slammed it into IB's stomach and grinned as it really connected with a solid object. He doubled over and fell to his knees, coughing and in pain. Ranko took a step forward and kicked him in the head with everything she had and launched him clean off the ground and into the wall across the room.
"Now we can get some payback!"
Nodding and grinning, Dani adjusted her Avenger mask and walked over to IB as he struggled to stand up. "I'm going to enjoy this."
"You bitc..."
Dani snarled and slammed the baton into the top of his head and it sparked just as it hit, making IB scream as his body flared. He dropped to the ground again, but she kneed him in the chin and sent him sprawling to the floor. "Not so tough now are you?"
He surged up to punch her, but she twisted to the side and figured the he was still as strong as he was earlier. Whipping back around Dani decked him as hard as she could and got a little satisfaction out of watching his head snap around after the impact. Ranko was there in a second and hit him with a five hit combo so fast that she couldn't even follow it.
All she saw was IB being hit hard enough at the end that he lifted off the floor and was sent spinning through the air to land in a heap against the back wall. Ranko slowly relaxed after the powerful kick sent him flying and smirked a little as she reached behind her and pulled out a hand gun. "I smell a free for ALL!"
Laughing loudly, Ranko started firing a barrage of bullets at IB and making him dive for cover with a curse. Dani ran at him from the side and jumped at him just as he was coming down, she knew that Ranko wouldn't shoot her. Just as she connected she twisted her body and used their momentum to flip him over her head and slam him into the floor hard enough to break the floor
boards.
"YEAH!" Ranko yelled. "Get out of the way and let me finish him off!"
Rolling out of the way Ranko fired several bullets right into his back, but they just bounced off and rolled to the floor harmlessly. Then IB's head came up and he glared at her. So Dani just hit him over the head attain with the baton, causing another spark of energy, he screamed, and fell to the floor.
"We need to find a way to contain him."
Ranko looked out the window and saw that Penny was beating on the large gun with a rock. "We may not have to wait to long."
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Brianna blinked a few times and started to curse in six different languages. The other turned and gave her funny looks until she calmed down and started to bang her head on the wall of the chamber.
"Problem?" Gina asked.
Brianna cussed some more this time in a seventh language.
"Well?!" Britanny yelled.
"I'm a moron."
"Well we all knew that." Brit muttered. "I don't see why you are just realizing it."
"Why would you think that?" Gina asked.
"My old weapons storage room would have given us enough weapons to remove IB from the house in a matter of minutes." Brianna muttered.
Gina gaped at Brianna for a full minute. "YOU ARE A COMPLETE AND TOTAL IDIOT!"
Suddenly Britanny was holding Gina in place as she tried to grab Brianna and strangle her. "Ah, ah, calm down Gina."
"&$# $#& $#&!!!!" Gina screamed, showing off her own language skills and lunging for Brianna again.
"You tell it girl." Brianna muttered as she hid behind Strype and looked over his shoulder. "Now calm down sis, it's an honest mistake."
"&$# $#& $#&!!!!"
'Really, sitting in a room with three half naked girls is not a good thing.' Strype thought as he pictured a game of baseball, and what would happen to him if he relaxed for even a moment. His future was not looking good at all. Did his wife have to stay in her hybrid form all the bloody time?
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"Well, well, what do we have here."
Aloysius looked up from where he was hiding and saw two shapes slowly moving through the shadows. He was under the house, in the crawl space at ground level. Gina didn't like leaving an area like this untouched, so instead of dirt and pipes, it was made out of concrete and tubing. He'd still managed to find a few spiders, but they didn't frighten him in the least.
They made better snacks. He glanced at the shapes. "Who are you?"
A pair of Peebos rolled forward and the hair on his neck stood straight up. He'd seen what these could do earlier and didn't want to be near one of them when they were ready to fight. These two especially, since they caused so much trouble earlier.
"Peebri and Peegi." Peebri said with a smirk. "You aren't a little birdie."
"Um...nope."
"You still might be able to fly."
"I say we have a little fun." Peegi suggested. "He's a wimp and wouldn't last five seconds against us."
Aloysius hissed. "I'll have you know..."
"You may be right Peegi, so far he's not even looking dangerous." Peebri said as a mini gun lifted out of her back. "Lets see if he can dance."
As the tip of the gun lit up Aloysius scrambled on the smooth floor and ran for it, his claws clicking on the concrete as he ran. "HELP!"
"WE GOT A RUNNER! LET'S HEAD HIM OFF AT THE PASS!" Peebri yelled in a cowboy drawl and moved after the cat.
At the same time Peegi turned and headed in a different correction and vanished around a nearby set of tubing.
The cat high tailed it through the darkness under the house, spotted some light in the distance and poured on the speed. He needed to get out side so he could maneuver properly. The space under the house just didn't leave him enough room to do anything. Suddenly he heard a sound and jumped to the left just as Peebri's weapon fired a beam of energy at him.
It missed by scant inches, but lit up the area in front of him enough to see that Peegi was blocking the way out. He glanced behind for a second before he suddenly made a quick turn and headed down a side path and laughed as he heard Peebri cursing loudly. A second beam lanced after him, but it hit a tube and melted it.
"Gotta do better than that!" He yelled as he made couple of quick turns and headed back the way he'd just come. Then he turned a third corner and made for the exit in front of the house. Something was going on, he could hear a loud gun firing as he entered the yard, but didn't have time to think about.
The yard was full of hurt bots, some of them in the process of being gunned right before his eyes. Yelling out, he dodged between their legs and prayed that none of the bullets hit him. They were being fired from the headlights of a nearby car hovering about a foot off the ground. His master was also there, he could sense her presence now that he was close enough.
"Mimi!" Aloysius yelled. "Help me!"
Suddenly a pair of lasers nearly removed his tail and he tumbled to the ground and rolled, dashing for the car. Peebri and Peegi raced after him seconds later. He started to use the hurt bots for cover as he ran and the two Peebos lasers took down several hurt bots before they adjusted their aim.
"Get over here cat!" Asrial yelled from where she was sitting in the car. A black girl behind her nodded as she held a large rock and examined a dented gun that looked like it was about to fire with a glare.
He didn't need to be told twice. Running for his life, Aloysius closed his eyes and hoped the two Peebos wouldn't get a lucky and hit him. Then something unexpected happened, the girl hit the weapon with the rock again, and it suddenly fired. A beam of bright green energy shot out from between the prongs on the gun and slammed into the side of the house.
Then Aloysius over shot his mark and raced under the car with the two Peebos right behind him about to shoot him again. He barely noticed as something in the air seemed to change as the gun fired, but as he shot out the other side of the car, the whole thing came crashing down on top of the two Peebos.
"AHHH!" They yelled as their little bodies started to spark.
The cars engine also quit and a giant cloud of smoke escaped from under the hood of the car. Aloysius, panted for breath for a few seconds as he realized that the Peebos were out of commission before he started to grin.
"I'm the MAN!" He yelled, strutted around a little, then ran over to the car and jumped into Mimi's lap. The girl was still unconscious. "You would be out like a light the one time I do something heroic."
"Shut up cat." Asrial snapped. "My poor car is a total loss now."
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As the gun fired Ranko and Dani were still fighting IB in the living room and he was holding his own against the two of them even with Avenger's glue slowing him down a little. No matter how many times the two of them hit him, he just wouldn't go down. They would hit him hard enough to kill a normal fighter and all he'd do was get back up and wade back in for some more. His
dirty mouth didn't help matters either.
Ranko knew what the gun was now that she had a chance to examine it a little closer. So she decided to take a chance coming back to the house to help Dani out. She'd hoped to get in and out before Penny fired the stupid thing, but she could tell that it was nearly ready to fire. Penny was as good at designing equipment as Gina was. In that area they were nearly equal, though
Penny tended to work on a grander scale while Gina went for simplicity.
An EMP gun. Gina had a hand held one she used to carry around, but hadn't used it in a couple of years at least. As Gina's rival, Penny would make one too, but the fact that it was ten feet long and looked like something out of a Robotech did come as a surprise. Dani had noticed what was going on out in the front yard too, but IB was to busy cussing at them to see it.
Ranko nodded, communicating with her eyes that the gun would work against IB even in his current form. She cocked her gun and flicked a switch to alter the cartage ammunition to something she'd been saving. "Time to end this."
"&$#& if you think shooting me, again, is going to stop me any time soon, you need to be reprogrammed." IB snarled.
The baton on Dani's hands suddenly lengthened out into a short staff. "Stopping you will be easy, I can tell you are losing energy and size every time we hit you."
IB snarled and electricity arched across his body and surged out of his eyes, or what would have been his eyes. It was a little hard to consider him human when he was bright blue and made out of solid electricity. Even his teeth.
"Are you ready Dani? Remember plan 'D'?"
She gave Ranko a weird look as she nodded. "Yeah, lets hit him a few more times and see if he begins to shrink again. Little-IB was so cute." Dani said with an evil smirk. She would figure out how Ranko knew about 'D' later.
Running forward, IB tried to hit Ranko, but she raised her gun fired it right into his chest. Instead of the usual bullet, it fired out something a little different. The impact took IB right in the chest and flung him across the room. With a deft spin of the staff, Dani used the momentum of IB's flying body to alter his direction and send him crashing out the front door. Then not half a second later they heard Penny yell in triumph as the EMP gun went off.
IB screamed as his body suddenly ripped itself apart.
Ranko screamed as her systems suddenly shorted out and she collapsed to the ground. Throughout the house appliances shorted out, TV's and computer monitors went dead, and hundreds of wires and computer chips ceased working in an instant. Dani barely had time to register it all as she witnessed IB's end on the front lawn.
She fell to her knees and gasped for air.
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To Be Continued...
Notes: There are so many characters is this side story that it would be easy to get lost like I accidentally did with the Jade Saga over in the main story. Instead of doing that I've just been touching on all the characters to make sure everyone is accounted for. Crush for instance hasn't had much time in lime light, but she could easily take over at any time. Any of them could really.
This is the second to last chapter. The next one will be ch 6 and an epilogue tacked onto the end. I should have it up soon, it's 80 finished, but I have to do some major editing to it because of recent events in the GD comic over the last three months.