Disclaimer: I don't own Static Shock! How many times do I have to say that!
It'd been about a week since that fateful day. Duke and I had taken care of a few misdemeanors. You know, robberies, break-ins. That kind of stuff. Of course, it's been kind of tiring because we don't have any way of knowing when something's going on so we have to patrol the city and despite it's name, Smalltown is pretty big. It's about half the size of New York City. Duke had been pretty upset lately for some reason, I'm still not entirely sure why, but he says it has something to do with Bang Babies. I think he wanted to fight some Bang Babies, but I told him that we couldn't yet because we can't exactly control our powers yet. I mean, we'll practice for at least three hours a day. But for some reason our powers will freak out. For example, one day I was sitting on the john and….well, I'm sure you can figure out the rest. Let me just say it's not fun crapping a glacier. Anyways, Duke was slowly getting used to the whole secret identity thing. It's hard and he's never been good at keeping secrets. One day he and I were sitting in the junkyard just relaxing when all of a sudden we heard footsteps. They were unbelievably loud. I motioned toward Duke and he slipped his mask on and I mine. I heard someone shouting, but I couldn't tell exactly what they were saying. All I heard was, "Hey, Kangor! Where you goin'?" Kangor. I had heard that name before, but I couldn't remember where. Duke looked at me and whispered, "Hey, isn't that the name of one of the Bang Babies in Dakota?" He was right. It was one of the Bang Babies from Dakota, but what was he doing here? Right now I didn't care, because to be honest I was excited about fighting a Bang Baby for the first time. From my hideout of old broken toasters I saw him. He was about six feet tall and kinda skinny. He wore a blue beanie with his dreads hanging out and a red jacket. His feet were huge! I mean, they had to be at least a size….well, thirty. With each step he left a footprint in the ground.
Behind the pediatrist's nightmare walked a skinny little creepy guy. He was hunched over and he kinda scuttled. His lanky arms were folded over his chest and he was panting from exhaustion. "Listen, Kangor, I think we should leave. I mean I hear there are superheroes here like in Dakota." Kangor looked down on the rodent-like guy and sneered. He wasn't too happy from what I could gather. He spoke in a deep Jamaican accent, "Listen, Ferret, I'm not too happy about bein' here either. I mean Static threw one of those pesky little tracers on you and Gear's probably already tracked us down using that machine on his back." My eyes grew wide and Duke let loose a squeal of excitement. Kangor and Ferret stopped and looked in our direction. I hit Duke on the back of the head and motioned for him to shut up. Ferret sniffed around a little while he spoke, "And I'm not just worried about superheroes, I'm hungry too and there's…" "Oh shut up! You're starting to sound like Carmen!" Ferret stopped just a few feet in front of us and sniffed some more. "What you find?" The rodent creep sniffed some more and spoke, sniffing in-between words. "It smells like old cheese sandwiches covered in mud and frozen." I looked at Duke and he was eating! Of all times to eat, he chose now. I yanked the sandwich out of his hand and sniffed it. Cheese sandwich. I hit him on the back of his head again and this time he yelped in pain. Kangor jumped and landed just a few inches in front of us. I looked at Duke and nodded. He held his hand out and a red glow surrounded it. Just as Kangor spotted us Duke threw his hand up which sent the rock that Kangor was standing on soaring into the sky. As the rock flew up Ferret stood there with a look of complete fear on his face. I held my hand out, but he leaped out of the way of my Ice Stream. Kangor jumped from the rock and landed with a loud thud on the ground right in front of Quake. I looked back to see Quake being kicked by Kangor's giant feet. "Quake!" I ran toward Kangor with a club of ice in my hand and thrust it at him. He grabbed it and kicked me into the fence. He walked over to us laughing and reared his foot back to deliver a final blow to our faces when all of a sudden I heard that nails-on-chalkboard voice scream, "Static!" Kangor looked back only to be struck by a bolt of electricity. "Normally I would say freeze, but I think that's his line." The zoom of electricity floated overhead and on it rode Static Shock! Then my ears heard the sound of rockets blasting. It was Gear! "Good one, bro!" Static looked back at his sidekick "Thanks." As he turned back to face Kangor the giant feet struck him in the chest and sent him flying into a tower of cars. When he hit it the tower began to rock back and forth. I reacted quickly and held my hand out, creating a path of ice on the ground. I skated across it and grabbed the electro hero just as the cars toppled.
Quake let loose a barrage of rocks at Ferret while Gear threw a tiny ball that released metal tendrils, holding the rodent Bang Baby. Gear landed and to my surprise and his gave Quake a high five, "Pretty good." Quake was too enraptured by the moment to say anything so he just prattled. I heard a groan and I looked back. Static was stirring and he was grabbing his head in pain. Gear walked over to him and looked over him. "He looks like he'll be alright, but I'd better make sure." He turned to the spider-like machine on his back and spoke a command into it, "Backpack, scan for any damage of any kind." A beep escaped from the machine and walked over to where Static was lying. A little eye thing looked all along him and then retreated back to Gear's back. "Nothing more than a little concussion, which was easily fixed by Backpack." He looked back at me and smiled, "You saved his life." Gear stood up and held his hand out, "The name's Gear." I took his hand and shook it, "I know. My name's Cold Front."