By mutual consent the three went to Zita's house to plan their next move, in part because Zita wanted to put her trident away, and going to Ron's house would prolong that goal. It was pretty obvious the moment Ron walked through the door that there was no way in hell he was going to be allowed in Zita's room behind closed doors, hell he doubted open doors would satisfy her father.

Ron had come face to face with many frightening things in his life, but the man who had helped created Zita put them all to shame. He wasn't that big, nor was he that mean, but he radiated an aura that said 'you go near my little girl, and they'll find parts of your body all of the city by morning.'

They ended up setting up shop on the kitchen table, using the pretence that they were planning an assault on a castle in the Everlot expansion pack, and they wanted their strategy planned out ahead of time..

"I didn't think that was going to come out for a few more weeks?" eyeing over his daughter piecing apart the lie.

Thinking fast, "That's true daddy, but .."

"Doesn't mean things haven't been leaked," Ron piped in covering his partners back. Pulling out his kimmunicator, after pushing a few buttons, he placed it on the table blue-green light forming a hologram of a castle lay out.

Looking over the display, then looking at the two, the older man relented, and left but lingered outside the kitchen door frame just out of site for a time just to rest his mind.

"So I'm thinking we scale the back wall," Ron said fully aware Zita's father was within ear shot, "then through the window."

Catching on, "No way, the guards will see us before we get up the wall, I think I saw a drainage ditch on the right side....." And so it went for several minutes till Ron sensed the older man leave, flipping the hologram from the castle to blue prints of Bonnie's house.

"Was I seeing things or were those blue prints from the last expansion pack," her voice low

In an equally low tone, "Yep, I didn't think he'd know the difference," a bead of sweat running down his face

"So why do you have blue prints of Rottweiler's house," spiting the nickname Bonnie had earned from some members of Middleton High.

"Lets just say this isn't the first time I've planned do to something to Bonnie, only this time it doesn't end with her running into the night screaming," more than a little anger in his voice.

Raising an eyebrow, "Do I want to hear this?"

"Bonnie's done a lot of things to me over the years, if I didn't have some way to release some of the anger I probably would've done something illegal, borderline sadistic to her a long time ago. Lets just say it's a good thing that there's a difference between planning and doing, or I'd be in a lot of trouble with the law. When this is over I might share a few of the old plans," grinning at her a bit, trying to come out of the darker side of his mind

A bit of a dark grin on her face, "I might take you up on the that offer, but back to the problem at hand, how are we going to do this." Not for the first tie wondering what was happening to her life, a few days ago her biggest worry had been getting the expansion pack, now she was about to commit burglary all for a real life magic weapon. She was kind of amazed as she listened to Ron's plan it was simple, but there was a good chance it could work, but she still had one nagging question.

"OK assuming this plan works, you forgot how exactly are we getting in?"

Blushing a little and scratching the back of his head trying to stall, "Yeah about that you may not like it very much," telling her his idea, her eyes going wide.

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Ice had been quite clear in the message, Lightning Bat had to find the weapons of the other Knights, the Knights of Forest and Water were in position to be a threat, they could not allow the others to rise as well. It had taken a great deal of his resources but he had finally found one of the weapons.

"It is time to redeem yourself in the eyes of your brothers," sneering, "sister."

"Keep speaking Lighting Bat, we will see who has the better host body," Sea Serpent hissed looking over here brother, her keeper once again. Since her 'rescue' in the sewer, her brother had kept her locked away behind closed doors, away from the others in the compound. "What is it you want me to do?"

"Simple retrieve the Terra Mace, and nothing more."

"When do I leave," grabbing her also recovered coat.

"Tomorrow, we believe the weapon may have been moved, the second it is found you will leave, be ready, little sister."

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Wednesday

Ron had already checked in with Wade, Kim was still in London, and seemed to be getting close to tracking down the psychos responsible for the case.

But there was little he could do about that, he had his own case to deal with, and it had it's own inherent dangers. It wasn't long before he spotted Zita at the front doors of the school.

"So you ready for this Zita?" as they walking into the school together

"If I said no would it make a difference?"

"Only if you can think of a better way inside her house."

"Hold her ax point, grab it and run," a dark grin of her face

Laughing g a bit, "Let me rephrase, a good plan to get inside her house?"

"Spoil sport," looking ahead to where Bonnie was, "there is no way this is going to work."

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"How the hell did that work?!" Walking with Ron to Bonnie's house.

A grin on his face a mile wide, "It's like I told you, gratuitous mindless overblown sucking up will get you anywhere with Bonnie," laughing.

"But how can she believe I want to be a pom pom waving..." as Ron grabbed her arm roughly stopping her rant.

"Zita my best friend's one of those pom pom wavers, keep that in mind before you finish that thought," doing his best not to sound aggravated.

"Right sorry," blushing a bit, wishing she could take back the words.

"Just keep it in mind, now swallow your pride," seeing Bonnie's house coming into view, "It's show time."

Bonnie was a bit surprised when instead of one loser walking towards her house she had two, one of which was probably the biggest in the school.

"What are you don't here Stoppable, this is cheerleading business," watching the two approach.

"I heard what was going on, called Kim, she asked me to be here so I can fill her in on what happened so she can be ready when she gets back."

"Like I can't tell her," rolling her eyes

"Do you have a direct line to her, I don't think so, I can always call her up and you two can discuss it."

Not wanting to deal with little miss perfect Bonnie relented, "Whatever lets just get this interview over with, you pass this you move on to the try out, you pass that, well let's see if you pass this first." Opening her door letting Ron, Zita and a hidden Rufus follow her into the living room.

"Nice place you have here Bonnie, It's not quite what I was expecting." The house was simple but elegant, pictures of Bonnie and her siblings were here and there, the decorations had a vintage look about them, heirlooms and antiques here and there. The place was defiantly not designed for younger people to be here, and the visitors couldn't help but wonder what it must have been like to grow up in a place like this.

Sitting down on a rather ornate couch Bonnie asked, "so why do you want to be a cheerleader?"

"It's something to put on my transcript."

"Is that the only reason," feeling her time had been wasted on these losers.

As Zita kept Bonnie distracted Ron did a quick scan of the room for the chalice, not that he really needed to, it was in plain sight. On the down side it sat on the table right next to the couch Bonnie was on, leaving the find-distract-grab plan gone, but on the plus side they no longer had to hunt for it.

"No, I could use the exercise," a major lie, on Zita's part.

"Those aren't very good reasons, and we have very high standards, it takes commitment, desire, natural talent to do what we do..." Bonnie's little sermon was cut off as a something started roaring out side, to the girls the sound was unknown , but to Ron and Rufus the sound was familiar, and probably bad news. Walking over to a window Ron wasn't surprised to see the Helicopter, the passenger on the other hand was someone he could have gone the rest of his life with out seeing, the Sea Serpent of Tamra, not so long ago named Adrena Lynn.

"What the hell is a black helicopter doing outside, I thought life flight's were white?" as Bonnie pushed him aside, "and who the hell is that woman, I swear I've seen her some place before?"

Zita moved in next to Ron, "This is bad, this is very bad, you are carrying right?"

"Always," as Ron patted his backpack, "get Bonnie out of here, I'll try and deal with her," motioning his head towards the Sea Serpent.

"Excuse me, this has something to do with that loser Possible doesn't it. Well you can forget this, get them off my..." she never finished as Zita grabbed her by the back collar of her shirt and started pulling her to what she hoped was the back door..

"I got news for ya princess," slightly pissd off as she grabbed the chalice, "you are in no position to tell that lady anything. Ron does this for a living we don't, so we run, he fights, and if your lucky your house will still be standing when they're done," pulling the girl through the house and out the back door.

"Rufus," taking the mole rat out of his pocket, "follow them and keep them safe, if I can't stop her you're their last line of defense till Zita gets her trident."

"Right," jumping to the ground running after the two girls.

"Ok, time to get down to business," pulling out his ax, "Forest Before Me," changing him into his armor. He never got to the door as it exploded around him the result of Seas Serpents energy blast.

"Somehow this doesn't surprise me," Sea Serpent sneered walking into the house, "I come looking for a knight's weapon only to find a pale imitation of the real thing. Hand it over and I promise to make your death quick."

"Cheetah quick, snake quick, mongoose quick?" Ron was doing his best to stall for time giving the others a better chance of safety, a chance for Zita to get her armor and weapon. He also wanted to keep Sea Serpent in the hallway as long as possible to ensure her weapon couldn't be brought into the game.

Not bothering with witty banter Sea Serpent threw a right hook at Ron making him move back a step and counter with a right from his ax. A smile on her lips as he fell for her ploy, her whip in her left hand, she quickly looped his wrist with the cord, side stepping him adding her strength to his momentum throwing him off balance and sending him flying behind her, allowing her to continue on her way.

"This is going to be a long night," as Ron got to his feet

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"That's enough!," Bonnie finally yelled jerking her hand away from Zita, they'd been running for several minutes and Bonnie had finally had it. "What ever you and Stoppable are involved in I'm not part of it, I'm going home, then I'm suing your asses off for what ever damage you've done to my home, and this," grabbing the chalice, "belongs to me."

She only walked three steps before the fire erupted in front of her face.

"No run danger," as always Rufus used few words but they were enough to get his message across.

"Where's Ron," despite her self Zita's words carried the edge of fear

Looking from where he came, "Fighting."

Picking Rufus up, "Look princess here's the deal, the lady back their she wants the cup and there's a good chance she'll kill anyone in her way to get it, somehow this is all tied up in Kim's latest job, all I really know is, we have to keep going. If you want to go home fine," grabbing the chalice, "but this is staying with me.

So what's your call?"

Throwing her hands up in frustration, "Fine, whatever, Possible is getting an earful when this is over."

It took some time but they managed to make it to Zita's house.

"Good no one's home," as the three walked in and locked the door behind them.

"This is your plan! Hiding behind closed doors, have you never watched a horror movie? This has never worked, EVER!"

Rolling her eye's, "No kidding princess, just keep following me." Taking her up stairs and recovering her trident from her room.

Turning to Bonnie, "Here's the deal, you stay here, I'll try and keep the crazy lady away from you if Ron fails," looking at Rufus, "I'm counting on you to protect her fireball if we don't succeed."

"Ok," Standing up saluting

Bonnie wasn't sure how to deal with this, "So your part of this too? One of Possible's little helpers"

"You could say that," closing the door, after a few steps wispering, "Water Around Me."

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After getting up, it became clear to Ron what was happening, Sea Serpent had no real interest in him, she was either here for Zita's trident or the terra mace, and if it was the mace, then they were both in big trouble. Every time he tried to stop her, it would only divert her attention from her path momentarily, a violent counter assault, then a continuation of the search. It had only taken her a few second to realize the mace was gone and follow the trail left by Zita, Bonnie, and Rufus. Somehow in the course of the fighting no one in the neighborhood had noticed what was occurring, or if they did they didn't run outside with cameras to record it. It was becoming clear to Ron were Sea Serpent was heading long before he saw Zita's house, but he was grateful when he saw his partner waiting for him ready to stop the possessed woman.

"So this day might be interesting after all," as Sea Serpent looked over Zita as she got closer, "but I really don't have time for this, I came here for one thing, and if it were under different circumstances I'd love nothing more than to kick your tail's all over the place I have something more important to do, so get out of my way."

She didn't waste a moment sending a blast of purple-black energy at Zita, mid way to the mark it was intercepted by the blue energy of Zita's trident.

"So you've learned a few tricks, they won't save you hydro-slut," as Sea Serpent charged. Ron readied himself to fire off his ax's hitting her in the back, but was caught off as Sea Serpent jumped spinning in mid air sending the whip around her body emitting a huge black-purple wave of energy at him. A quick shift in his weapon position allowed him to take the brunt of the attack on the flats of his ax's, just as he had done when fighting Zita the day before.

Landing once more facing Zita, a quick snap of the whip sent it flying towards Zita, Reading herself for another energy wave, Zita was surprised when the actual whip wrapped around her trident. Before she could register the move Sea Serpent jerked the whip pulling Zita from the ground, a quick body shift sent the whip wielder into a spin, Zita following on a larger arc. A quick flip of her wrists and the whip came loose from the trident sending Zita sailing into the air landing across the street with a thud.

Bonnie didn't really understand what was going on outside, only that she was seeing something bigger than herself. Those two were down there fighting to save her life, armed with weapons more powerful than anything she had ever seen, and what's worse they were losing.

'If I had just given the woman the cup none of this would be happening, no one would be getting hurt because of me.' She watched with grim fascination as the whip caught Ron square in the chest knocking him back on to the ground, and for that brief moment things became clear to her, opening up Zita's window, something she attributed to static hitting her as she touched it.

"You want this damn thing, take it," hurling the chalice out the window, bring the attention of the three to where Bonnie was and where the chalice was heading.

The second the chalice hit the ground, the earth shook slightly then the ground rippled like a shock wave straight for Sea Serpent launching her into the air. Zita wasted little time, bring her trident to bear firing her three streams of lighting at her sending her higher into the air.

When she finally hit the ground, Ron had composed himself, his ax's ready to fire.

As Sea Serpent got her feet, realizing that the situation had changed dramatically, "Screw this," cracking her whip slicing a fire hydrant in half, it's stream directed directly at the two knights, forcing both to the ground. Pulling out a communication device the same black helicopter that had dropped her off appeared again to retrieve her.

A few moments after Sea Serpent left the hydrants water began to disperse in different directions allowing Zita and Ron to get to their feet.

"So should we call the water company or the fire department?" As Zita shook some excess water from her body and wishing hydrant would stop spewing water. And just like that the water slowed then stopped rocketing from the hydrant.

"Nice timing, to bad it didn't start sooner," Ron said wiping his hair back.

"Ron, I think I did that," Zita said looking at her hands

"What?" Looking at her as he picked up the chalice.

"Well I am the knight of water, maybe it's a benefit,"

Looking at her, going over his conversation with Fin Verra in his head looking for something that might indicate that idea "Yeah, maybe," he finally said looking at the chalice, what it had done and who had done it, fresh in his mind. Looking up at Zita's window "Damn it, why did she have to be the Knight of Earth, what's next Shego the Knight of Wind, and Drakken the Knight of Fire. Damn it somebody give me a doughnut I don't need this today!"

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'She has failed,' Lightning Bat continued to type to Ice, 'if she had simply killed them none of this would have occurred.'

'Because I have other plans for the knights of Forest and Water, they will die by my hand , and mine alone. But perhaps you are right, they are a risk, especially now that Earth has joined them, I think it's time we stepped up our time table a bit. Prepare your men, as soon as Rock Wolf is found their end will come.'

'Sooner than you think brother, I have already found the Wolf Fang Claw, procuring it should be a simple matter.'

'Excellent send me the information where to locate it, I will tell you who to send it to.'

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Authors note 1- yeah I got my muse back, I'm sorry if the end doesn't seem quite as good as the beginning of the chapter, but I was struggling with how to do it, and all things considered I don't think it turned out that bad.

Authors Note 2- Yep as Wander 3 said Rock-wellar earth knight what are the odds, I just couldn't resist the pun

Authors note 3- How the weapons work part 1- in the show each weapon had to be earned by their respective knight by over coming some personal challenge, Garrett had to ask for help, Deidre had to be willing to sacrifice herself, as so on the same it true in this story each Knight must be willing to over come some challenge. Ron over came his fear of being alone in his fight with Monkey Fist, Zita faced her fear of Closterphobia, Bonnie thought about someone other than herself. Coming next chapter how did they get their armor.

Authors Note 4- anyone else noticing how hard it is to get these weapons around, well Zita's anyway, I do plan on dealing with that, but no till after Wind and Fire are in the story.