"ETA is just under half an hour," Fredrick called back his eyes not leaving the horizon as he navigated the craft.

"Quick and clean people," Rex barked slipping his gloves on, "we do this in one shot, the redheads the only problem and I'll handle her personally," a sadistic grin on his lips.

Rising, "Possible is mine," Junior growled protectively as he approached the man defiantly.

Rex looked him up and down not bothering to get up, 'pups got a set on him after all,' his grin shifting the sight sent chills up Juniors spine, "if you want her you can have her…. rich boy," the last part coming out as a barley audible curse.

"Ok neutral corners all of you," Kim barked wedging her way between Ron, Will and Bonnie, forcing the three to the stone corners of the forge. Kim just shook her head as she watched the Earth Knight shoot the males dirty looks and cursed under her breath, I'd been two days since the incident at school and they were no closer to ending this nightmare than when she'd rescued the treed Ron from Bonnie. "Everybody just take a deep breath," pointing at Ron, "you come with me," and glancing back at Zita, Pyre and Monique, "keep those two away from each other," her voice calm as the Fire and Forest Knights exited the forge, closing the door behind them to create some semblance of privacy.

"How many ways can I say I didn't do anything?" Ron growled, having long since lost his patience with the situation. "Yes it was my idea to mess with the football team, but Will was the one that messed with Bonnie, I.."

"I know," Kim said cutting him off.

"You do?" a bit surprised.

Laughing a little, "I've known you a long time, I know your capable of a lot of things, that is not one of them." Looking up at the sky, "problem is convincing Bonnie of that."

"No Kidding," sitting down on the ground, "but she's made it pretty clear she's not going to take my word on it, besides even if she did that still leaves us with a guilty Will."

"We already know apologies aren't going to cut it with her, so maybe we can even the scales?"

Ron just raised her eyebrow at the suggestion, "ok I'd expect that from me not from you KP."

"I didn't say it was a good idea I'm just thinking out load here," dropping to the ground next to him.

"Who knew a simple exercise would end this bad."

"That was not a simple exercise Ron and you know it," shaking her head, "I can't believe you even did that, it's just so not like you."

"You don't see those guys the way I do KP," he growled, "those guys have made my life hell for years, I just wanted to get a little pay back for me and all the others guys they've gone after over the years."

Rolling her eyes, "yeah you really did that for all the little guys," she spat sarcastically, "honestly I thought you of all people had more sense than that."

"Meaning?"

"Meaning just that, I thought you were bigger than that, I mean come on petty revenge?"

"This was not petty revenge," he laughed a little, seeing the humor in the situation, "this was divine justice!" thrusting his hand in the air.

"Oh brother," laughing out load, "you can't be serious?"

"Of course I can I just choose not to be," a smile on his lips and he leaned back onto his arms.

Still laughing, "fine have it your way, but don't blame me when Fisk is beating you into a bloody pulp and you can't use your ax because it was taken away for abusing it."

"Ok, ok you have a point I'll cut it out," raising his hands in the air in mach defense, "but I can't say the same for Will, I think I got the years of abuse out in one shot, I'm not so sure he got a few days out with that little display."

"We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, but we still have to get Bonnie off your backs."

Closing his eyes, "I'd say chuck her off a mountain but I'm not sure that would work," chuckling, after a few seconds his eyes shot open as a sly grin spread across his lips.

"Fantasy or do you have something?"

Leaning forward and rubbing his hands together, "I got something, and it's just twisted enough to work."

"I'd say good, but the 'twisted' thing bothers me."

"It probably should," as he rose to his feet and went back in the forge, Kim on his heels a bit afraid of what he had concocted.

"Would you sit down," Monique hissed pushing Bonnie onto the anvil in in the corner.

"Ok," Ron barked clapping his hands, "we have a solution that should benefit everyone here, I've already apologized to Bonnie eighty-nine times, so I'm done trying to come up with something for me, Will on the other hand is going to strip naked, and have his body panted by Bonnie then streak the next pep rally in a football helmet," a broad smile on his lips as the others just stared at him dumbfounded, Will in particular had lost all the color in his face.

"Huh?" Pyre asked on Zita's shoulder.

"I'm with the dragon," Zita commented giving the Forest Knight a shocked look, "you can't honestly be serious Ron, that's… that's…"

"Can I paint anything on him I want?" Bonnie asked looking at Will cockeyed.

"I don't see why not," Ron shrugged

"And don't I get a say in this?" Willa asked a bit freaked out by the turn of events, his mind finally working again.

"You should've thought about before you made me a laughing stock," Bonnie hissed.

"No one knows it was you!" Will snapped, "we were blocking their view, Ron and I were the only ones who saw anything… and why aren't you doing this to?" pointing at the Forest Knight

"I'm the mascot, people would notice if I was gone."

Under her breath, "good one Ron," a smile on Kim's lips.

"So your just arbitrarily deciding my fate just like that, what about democracy, what about freedom, what about my ability to kill you sixteen different ways with a toothbrush?"

Ron jerked his head back to Kim, "he has a good point there," a nervous laugh cracking in his throat, "now I remember why I hang out with him."

"Aside from the fact that you have no other friends outside this room?" Bonnie quipped.

"Hey," Ron growled taking offence, "there's Felix, Jim and Tim and…. um…..," his mouth hanging open, then closing it and looking at the floor and covering his eyes. "You've won this round Rockwaller, you will not win the next," in a mach military voice.

"So does this mean I'm off the hook?" Will asked hopefully.

"Not a chance air boy," Bonnie growled a hint of a giggle in her voice, "so what do you want on your body 'Bonnie's Slave' or 'Run like the wind' or the classic 'Second most painful moment of my life'?

"Oooo, and we can paint him purple and blue, maybe add a little pink and gray here and there."

"Your not helping here Zita," Will barked at the Water Knight, "we don't need to give her more ideas!"

"Oh brother," Pyre groaned hopping off Zita's shoulder and running over to Ron and running into his pocket, "staying out of this."

"Good plan," Ron said softly enjoying the insanity, glad he was finally out of the crossfire.

"What happened to team work," Will barked, "what happened to unity? We'd never turn on each other like this at Global Justice."

"What we're unified," Zita laughed, "we're just unified against you."

"Think of it this way Will," Monique piped in, "this is pretty much the first thing I've seen them agree on since we were pulled into this mess."

"I'm working with mad people," Will groaned dropping to the ground and hanging his head in shame.

Kim tapped Ron on the shoulder as Bonnie, Monique and Zita started discussing their plans for Will, a quick head nod was all it took for the message to get across and he followed her outside, unnoticed by the others.

"In retrospect that might not have been my best idea ever," he whimpered sheepishly and scratching the back of his head.

"I don't know," a little smile on her lips, "this might be what we needed, those three have been going a little nuts since the Sentinels disappeared from the radar, and this might just be the perfect way to vent some frustration."

"I'll remind you of that when Will has us all strung up by our toes."

"Oh yeah," Pyre added pocking his head from Ron's pocket.

"Hey with the exception of Will none of them are really use to the kind of stress this job produces, and who knows this might end up being a good thing."

The blond smirked, "once more, I'll hold that to you later."

"Care to place little wager?"

"Loser buys lunch," folding his arms.

"Well given that if your right we end up dead, sure."

"What," Ron coughed processing the flaws in his plan

"I'm thinking some place with a dress code, maybe French…"

Cutting her off, "Ah KP no, that's not…." turning his head as he heard something, a quick glace over told him Kim had heard it as well, her eyes scanning the sky. "I don't suppose that's just a lost low flying plane," he growled his every instinct telling him something was very wrong as the low hum grew louder..

"With our luck I doubt it," her eyes glued to the sky.

"Getting the others," Pyre growled hopping out of Ron's pocket and scampering into the forge.

After a few seconds the pair saw the source of the noise, a low flying black jet approaching them, it didn't take a genius to tell the plane had been rigged for stealth flight, as close as it was it wasn't putting off enough sound to alert people unless they knew what to listen for. After a few moments it stopped and hovered near the forge."

"Did Wade forget to tell us he bought us a plane?" Ron asked hopefully looking at the vehicle ready for whatever came next, "And what's taking the others so long," he growled as an after thought under his breath.

"Somehow I doubt it," Kim growled as the back hatch on the plan opened and five silver objects dropped to the ground, landing with hard thuds on the ground, the plane lifting into the sky a moment later.

"And here I thought we were through the hard part of the day," Ron growled as the five before them turned and approached them, it becoming obvious they were either humans or robots based on a knight theme. "Well so much for the stress of waiting for another attack," Ron growled focusing his mind to make the cuff change, the object glowing a soft green his wrist, only to stop the change as he got a better look at the five as the crimson visor of the lead warrior went up.

"Junior?" Kim's voice filled with disbelief as the large man's image was revealed, the shock of seeing him weakening her guard for a moment.

"Hello Kimberly," the younger Senior greeted, his voice cold and professional, his gaze one of steel as he gazed at the Fire Knight. For a brief moment he remembered his former desire for the young woman causing a small smile to play at the corners of his mouth, enjoying the warm ember he still had for her, only to forcibly push it aside and regain his composure, all his thoughts on his father and his condition.

"Something you want," she asked warily looking the five individuals over, something about the armor striking her as familiar, but why was just beyond her reach.

Ron didn't need to look to know the others were gathering at the door, he just hoped Will had enough of a reign on the others to keep them where they were. 'Be smart guys, don't cause a scene, KP and I can handle this joker.'

"You know what were here for Kim, just give it to us and we'll leave."

She gave Ron a quick sidelong look before focusing back on the armor clad man, "I'm not sure what your talking about."

"Yes you do," he glared as his visor slid back over his face and pulled his sword fro his back, the blade glowing red after a second. "Find what we came for, do whatever is needed, but only kill as a last resort," he growled throwing a punch at Kim, the redhead easily dodging the strike and back flipped putting some distance between herself and the others.

Ron was doing much the same thing as he put some distance between himself and the attackers. "You know just once I'd like to have a normal problem, no wackos trying to take over the world, no robots, no spies, just a normal problem! I'd kill for my biggest concern to be a zit"

"Sorry all I can offer is untimely death," Rex bellowed punching at Ron only to miss as Ron side stepped the man in brown and watched as Rex's arm embedded in the ground half way to his armor clad elbow.

"Whoa," Ron's eyes growing large at the sight, "what kind of steroids are they feeding you?"

"If you live maybe we'll tell ya!" Samuel barked landing a glancing blow to Ron's back sending him skidding across the ground.

Kim watched the sight as she jumped and caught man yellow armor with her hand and hand sprung over him and darted to her partner who was groaning softly his hand on his back. "Tell me your ok," she growled falling into a defensive stance ready to protect him.

Ron's reply was lost as a loud clang filled the air as Will landed a jump kick on Samuel's back, but instead of the armored man dropping it was Will who fell on his back. "I saw that going differently," he wheezed scrambling out of the way as Samuel tried to pummel the Air Knight with his mace, landing a blow where Will had just been. The earth around the two fractured as the sonic generator took effect leaving a large indention on the ground the shock wave slightly rattling Will.

"That was different," Kim hissed as Ron pulled himself to his feet next to her.

"Any bright ideas KP?" he coughed watching Will avoid a spear thrust.

"Just one and I'm not sure we can use it," she growled wanting to call her sword and armor.

"I recognize this one, if he's here the others might be here as well," Fredrick barked still trying to impale Will with his, "and there's only one place they could have come from," glancing at the forge.

"Back off," Will warned darting in and grabbing the spear and tried to pull it away from the armor clad man, only to meet considerable resistance. Fredrick's grip held firm and he almost laughed at the younger mans attempt and violently jerked his body to the right, the armors servos making the move easy as he tossed him to the ground, the spear coming into contact with a tree, the bark freezing on contact with the blade and shattering from the momentum. That one missing piece was enough to offset the tree making it collapse to the ground, separating the forge from the two men approaching it.

"Ok these guys are on more than just steroids," Ron growled, more than a little ticked off that one of his favorite trees was gone.

"That may be the understatement of the day partner," Kim hissed moving him out of the way as she side stepped Juniors sword strike, trying to keep her body between the two attacking men and her partner till he was ready for one of his own.

"This can be over quickly if you just give it to me," Junior snarled.

"I don't know what your talking about," Kim growled trying to keep her eyes on both Junior and his partner.

"Just hand it over little girl," Rex roared charging in with the sledge hammer he called a fist. His strike never connected as Ron dove low and caught him under his knee, the twin momentums being enough to trip the larger and bring him to the ground, his chin connecting with the dirt at Kim's feet.

"Your timing is perfect partner," Kim hissed under her breath as she freely dodged Juniors punch and darted away from the man.

"I'm not going to ask you twice Kim give the weapons to me, and do so now," Junior roared

"Like the man said years ago," Zita barked standing on the fallen tree, Bonnie behind it, "you want it you got it, Water Around Me," he arm cuff glowed blue, water emerging from it incasing her, then falling away leaving her in her armor, her trident in her hand.

"So much stealth and secrecy," Kim growled.

"The old man was right they really are magic," Maxwell yelled in disbelief, till that moment not believing the rumors the others were spreading. "Lets see how good you are," pulling his bow from his back and firing the weapon emitting a blue-white energy arrow at the Water Knight hitting her just beneath her breasts and sending her flying into the sky.

After a second she hit the ground a few feet from Bonnie, coughing, "somebody get the number of that bus."

"Of course this couldn't be easy," Bonnie moaned looking back to the fight, only to see Samuel's metal cover feet on the tree.

"Come on girly give me a something' to work with," he growled hefting his mace in the air and swinging it at her. The strike missed her head as she scrabbled back, but he hit the tree, the wood shattering between his feet as it exploded towards the other fighters spraying Maxwell with splinters.

"Who am I to refuse a request, Earth Beneath Me," her bracelet glowing as her body became a statue and then it shattered and fell away leaving her in her silver, gold and brown armor, her chain mace in her hand. "How about a little mace to the face," she growled spinning her weapon and firing a rock at his skull, the stone connecting with his visor sending him sailing off the tree and on to his back.

When Samuel pushed the rock off his face he could clearly make out the long cracks in his gray visor, growling her tore it off in frustration giving him a total range of vision and got to his feet.

Will caught the exchange between Bonnie and the other mace wielder and that alone convinced him what he had to do, "These guys are ready for us so it's time we stopped disappointing, Air Above Me," his ring glowing as a tornado encased him then vanished leaving him in his white and gold GJ uniform style armor. Fredrick just snorted at the change and thrust his spear with every intention of freezing him solid, only to miss as Will ducked under the weapon and brought his crossbow to his chest.

"Have a nice flight," firing the crossbow sending the white and silver clad mercenary into the sky, propelled by winds that would kill a less prepared individual, as is was the armor was the only thing that saved him the shot and landing that came later after several long moments.

"I'd say they already made the call KP," Ron barked ducking Rex's punch.

"In which case, Fire Within Me," Kim's necklace glowed as fire leapt from in and covered her body then faded leaving her red and gold, her sword in it's sheath on her back.

"Forest Before Me," Ron snarled as his body covered in leaves then fell away leaving him in green, brown and gold, his ax in his hand.

Rex laughed as he saw Ron's weapon, "mines bigger," pulling his ax from his back, the weapon easily dwarfing the Forest Knights.

"Biggers not always better," Ron snapped brining his hands together, "twin timber ax's," causing his a second weapon to form.

"We'll see," as Rex charged Ron, gripping his ax with both hands and brought the blade down intent on splitting Ron's head. The blow never came as Ron stopped the strike with his longer hilted second ax and pulled it locking the double bladed ax between the smaller ax's hilt and blade. Rather than trying to hold the blow Ron rolled with it pulling Rex from his feet, not wasting the moment Ron brought his other ax between them and raked it across Rex's armor firing a full blast into his armored midsection, everything together shot Rex over Ron at the apex of the roll and sent him flying off, his ax still locked into place by Ron's weapon.

"Your move," Ron growled rolling to her feet, flicking his wrist dropping the bigger weapon to the ground.

"That all you got," Rex grunted getting to his feet and activating his glove making the ax twitch then leap into the air and into his glove.

"Of course," Ron groaned shifting into a fighting stance.

Sparks flew as super heated metal met it's flaming mystic forbearer, "just give it to me," Junior growled a little afraid that Kim wouldn't be able to handle the heat that was being produced by the weapons, immortality might be one thing, but common sense said the heat alone should have knocked her out.

"Well if you'd just say please," she hissed trying to keep the mood light, turning away from him moving his sword with hers and thrusting her butt into his body forcing him down, using her free hand she grabbed him around the neck and hip tossed him to the ground.

'Have to talk to father about this armor, I don't think it's quite living up to it's hype,' Junior thought looking up from his back at Kim before rolling back on to his feet and bringing his sword to bear, "this is far from over Kim," he growled as he activated a relay in his helmet connecting it with the plane in the sky activating a prearranged sequence.

On the plane a panel on the underside of the hull slid open and dropped a large silver colored metal box, as it fell panels on the box began to shift and change. Within moments the box had changed in to a silver robotic dragon, loosely modeled after Pyres dragon form, however where Pyre was rounded this this was largely constructed of hard edges. The main differences between the to being weapons attached to it's body, on it's wrists were twin missile pods, on it's hip sat a larger pair of missile pods, and between it's wings were additional missile tubes.

"No way," Ron yelled pointing at the artificial dragon as he side stepped Rex's ax strike, "that is copyright infringement and we'll sue!"

"Yeah," Pyre growled by the forge firing off a jet of flame into the air hoping to get the attention of one of the others.

Seeing the flame, "you want a dragon I'll give ya one," Ron barked tossing one ax into the air and pulling his dragons breath dagger.

That was all Pyre needed as his transformation began and he took his dragon form and took to the sky eager to teach the cheap copy a lesson.

"Hope you enjoyed that thing while could," Kim grinned getting a glimpse of Pyre flying though the sky, "cause it won't be there in a few minutes."

"That's the best weapon of destruction money could buy, it won't lose," Junior growled charging at Kim.

Bonnie just hissed under her breath as she dodged Fredrick's spear, her time training with Zita paying off.

'She shouldn't be this good,' Fredrick thought to himself, he never doubted she'd have some skills, 'she seemed to understand how to navigate a fight that involved weapons capable of generating subzero temperatures, the real question is how.' Shacking off his doubts he trust at her, as before she side stepped, something her was ready for as he shifted his stance and swung upward with the back of the spear, the metal colliding with her head bringing her to the ground face first. Readjusting his hands he jabbed the weapon at where Bonnie was only to miss as she rolled out of the way and froze the ground into a large sheet of ice.

The Earth Knight rolled away and onto her feet, "I was told there'd be days like this but I never believed it," she growled tossing her mace into the sky and flipped towards her attacker, she used her hands to propel her on to his shoulders and jumped up, a combination of the armor and the icy patch beneath him slowing his reaction time. Midway in the leap she met her mace and grabbed it and turned her body into a spin and fired off a boulder the size of a small car at the spear wielder. Fredrick dodged the attack but wasn't ready as Bonnie used the momentum of her fall to add power to her strike as she slammed her mace on the ground sending a shockwave along the ground. The tremor forced him to the ground and rattled him inside the armor knocking senseless for a few moments enough time for Bonnie to leap and release another bolder at the man, crushing his body into the ground.

Landing gracefully, "and that's why no one messes with a cheerleader," a smirk on her face as she looked back as the entombed opponent.

Will had caught enough of Bonnie's display to send a jet of fear through him, 'note to self never tick her off again,' he though as he dropped down and knocked the legs out from under his opponent, Samuel's mace creating a medium sized indention in the ground as it struck the ground and creating a small shockwave in every direction. The motion did little to Will, his training with Bonnie having made his balance immune to most minor tremors. A grin spread across his face as an idea formed in his mind and he hopped back letting his opponent find his footing.

"You should have pressed the attack," Samuel growled preparing to charge and cave the younger mans head in.

Pointing his crossbow as the man in silver and gray, "that's the thing about a storm it's wrath is unpredictable," Will chuckled menacingly as he fired his weapon. The tornado like winds were controlled as it struck him straight in the chest, the jet forced him off the ground and kept him from attacking as the rest of the winds created a vacuum around his body and tore off his breast plate and bits of other pieces of armor. After a second the winds died down and Samuel fell to the ground, followed a moment later by Will falling to his knees, exhausted from the mental fatigue of controlling such a complicated wind anomaly.

"Little brat!" Samuel roared hefting his mace in to the air, only to have a bowling ball sized stone strike him in the ribs and knock him to the ground.

Will looked up as Bonnie ran to him, "thanks," he groaned out of breath.

"By the time I'm done with you you'll wish he had killed you," she quipped looking down at the Air Knight.

Zita growled as she caught the energy arrow with her trident, the impact forcing her back several feet. She panted when she stopped and glared at the man in silver and yellow, 'this is getting ridiculous,' she thought bitterly, since his first arrow she hadn't been able to mount a decent counter attack. 'I can't get close and he just avoids my blasts,' she though darkly as she clicked off options in her mind.

"To easy," Maxwell hissed as he kept a bead on his target and waited for his moment to fire, a bit taken aback by her latest movements, she'd moved her weapon behind her back and began spinning it in circles in her right hand, the triple blade popping over her head on every revolution, after a few turns she seamlessly moved it into her left other hand and continued spinning it, the weapon gaining speed and slipped it back behind her back to her right hand where it ended up in front of her body, a blue energy trail following the blades. All the while she kept her body moving keeping him from gaining a clear shot. Between her movements and the spinning trident she was taking on a ethereal look, her body cloaked in blue light, her weapon becoming almost a blur, whatever her plan of attack was Maxwell couldn't read it, and it was making him nervous.

'I have no clue what I'm doing,' the thought had been popping up in her mind since she started spinning her trident, trying to remember everything Ron had taught her about handling a staff weapon. "When all else fails improvise, that's how I've lived this long," she quoted the Forest Knight under her breath, wishing his teaching style hadn't included the story of how he'd torn all his close off when he'd learned how to use these types of weapons in Japan. 'If your in there Ivar I could use some help,' she though hoping the sprit could hear her, after a few seconds she realized two things, one he wasn't going to answer and two she couldn't control what she was doing much longer, she could feel the speed and balance of the weapon starting to become unstable.

"Screw it," Maxwell growled firing the energy arrow at her, just needing her to stop, and it wasn't like he couldn't make another.

When Zita saw the flash of light of the arrow everything came together in her mind and she darted in side stepped the energy attack, her control over the trident increasing as her mind became focused. She was ready when he reacted and fired another few shots and she leapt into the air the blasts passing harmlessly under her feet as she spun the trident behind her back as she slipped into a midair flip. The second her feet hit the ground she shot off like a rocket and shot past him and used her free hand to turn into a sliding turn. Just as she'd planned he was in the midst of turning to meet her when she was facing him and jumped in, her trident spinning behind her back, the glow almost blinding. Instinct told her when the weapons hilt would be over her shoulder, it was all a flash as she grabbed and slashed the triple blades in front of her, the weapon slashed through the bow and into his armor, carving right though the metal like a hot knife through butter.

The blue glow blinded Maxwell, but he knew something was very wrong as he felt his body sail through the air and came to a sliding halt on the ground.

Pyre roared as he avoided the machines missile assault, almost enjoying himself as he skillfully caught up drafts or spilled some air from his wing to drop some altitude to avoid the projectiles, then fired off a quick jet of flame to destroy them before they could damage the surround area, very much aware that while the others could protect themselves, Monique was still hold up in the forge, unable to do anything at the moment. And of course if any one of the missiles or his flame bursts hit the ground it would create a forest fire that would attract unneeded attention, which would lead to questions the others didn't need to answer from various authority figures, 'of course the same could be said of me,' the Rufus side of his mind clicked out.

"All you got," the red dragon/mole rat growled as he came in range of the artificial construct and slashed at it's metal neck with his claws, at first the metal held, then gave way leaving a large spark spraying gash in the machine. "Ok this might be tough," Pyre growled in amassment as he raked his claws along the metal hull of it's head, leaving long indentions in the alloy. Growling he kicked sinking his claws into it's body and tore down leave a larger hole in its body.

Something resembling a laugh emitted from the machine as it moved it's right arm into Pyres chest and fired a missile salvo into his chest sending the red dragon away from the machine and toppling in the sky till he managed to catch a head wind and regain some aerial control. A growl welled up in Pyres throat as he looked up as the metal creature and watched as it fired off two missiles from it's back. A quick fireball took out the first and he flew to the other on a collision course, a quick shift of his wings sent him sailing above the projectile allowing his claws to imbed in the weapon and redirect it. The weapon just flew on and exploded harmlessly behind him away from anyone else allowing the Fire Dragon of Dare to turn his attention to the metal monstrosity. The Rufus part of his mind forced it's way to the surface as he approached, his acute vision letting him see the internal damage he had done thanks to the hole his toe claws had made. In the darkness of it's belly he could make out what might be a power source, highlighted by the occasional blink of neon lights. With a roar Pyre thrust his hand into the creatures hole and tore the heart out of the metal creation, after a second the beast's movements slowed then stopped.

"Gotta," Pyre growled flapping his wings and taking t the sky, his claws digging into the metal as he used all his strength to tear the metal neck in half and let the body fall to the ground as he tossed the head and neck into the sky and released a jet of flame that collided with it, after a second the superheated section exploded in the sky a primal roar escaping Pyres mouth as he relished in the victory, for a brief moment fantasizing it could have been Tyrune.

"This is ridiculous," Ron snarled rolling out of the way as the double bladed ax flew over him then once more changed directions to follow his movements. "Come on man play fair," Ron barked diving to the ground.

"Why don't you be a man and make me," Rex barked enjoying watching him run like a scared rabbit.

'Come on Ron think of something,' the Forest Knight prodded trying to get his brain to kick out an idea as he slide on his side, the flying ax slashing a swath of land from where he had been. Scrabbling to his feet it hit him as he took off in a dash to the tree line.

"Where are you going you little puke!" Rex roared as he watched Ron run.

"Anywhere but here," Ron screamed, a great deal of fear in his voice.

"Spineless piece of shit," Rex growled following him his ax flying into his hand, it only took a few steps for him to enter the trees, his visor automatically shifting it's visual range so he could see in the dim light. "Where'd you go you son of a bitch," he growled not worried about being heard, confident he could take him. For several minutes Rex stomped through the woods without finding a trace of his blond opponent, 'it's like he vanished,' Rex thought angrily before pushing the thought from his mind unwilling to accept that he might have been pulled into a trap. He activated a relay in his helmet shifting his visor to pick up body heat and continued the hunt, brandishing his ax ready to strike at the first warm body he came across.

Ron sat in the upper branches watching his target, 'Probably should have thought this through a little better, I mean now that he's here what am I going to do with him?'

Every few steps Rex could feel a his panic level rise a little more, he had no problem wading into the middle of a fire fight alone with nothing to protect him but his fists without blinking an eye, so why was this one kid making him react this way was a mystery to him. Then he heard it, a rustling in front of him, without thinking he threw his ax as hard as he could hoping to impale Ron with one shot. The path of destruction caused by the ax kept it in sight but hit never connected with anything but plants, after a few seconds he called the ax back since he wasn't picking up any thermal readings.

'Calm down,' he yelled at himself not believing he had been spooked by a twig snap, 'he's just a kid, he's not a threat,' as something bounced through the woods behind him. Again out of reflex he threw his ax, not bothering to check the thermal readout.

Ron didn't let the ax come back to it's owner as he pounced on him from above driving him to the ground, "welcome to my world," he hissed on top of the mercenary as he fired his ax's in tandem at his back, the more powerful blast visibly making his opponent jerk on impact. Ron shifted his vision after the shot in time to see the ax coming back and struck it dead on with his arm guarded ax and sent the larger double bladed ax flying off to his side, even with the armors resistance he felt the impact of the weapons resonating in his arm, 'not doing that again,' he growled internally.

Ron was momentarily distracted by the pain and wasn't ready as Rex forced himself up sending the Forest Knight onto his butt, a condition that didn't last long as he rolled back and onto his feet and delivered an ax blast to Rex's protected neck, but even protected Ron could tell it had an effect and he darted to the side and jumped, his foot gripping bark as he propelled himself into a flip and delivered a downward front kick to the mans protected helmet. By the time Ron's feet hit the ground he had united his ax's and stashed in the loop at the back on his belt and continued moving darting back onto another tree. Bouncing from one to another then back to Rex and round kicked him the face, the impact causing the metal coated man's body to jerk around. Not letting up Ron shot back onto a tree and propelled himself upward and bounced on a branch, gripping it with his hands he did a two quick spins to gather momentum and released firing back down both of his feet connecting with Rex's helmet, and bring the man down.

Ron rolled off him and took stance that would let him get back into the trees if he needed to, after a few moment it became clear, that wasn't going to be necessary, his opponents wasn't going to be moving for a while.

Kim growled blocked Juniors strike and tripped him sending him to the ground, she wanted to end the fight and check on Ron, less out of fear than curiosity, training had shown if you put Ron in a tree your chances of beating him dropped drastically.

Junior pushed himself back to his feet and panted, he knew Kim was good, but she had never possessed this level of skill before. Shaking the doubts from his mind, 'I won't fail you father, I will defeat them and bring you their weapons,' as he charged at her wielding his blade with both hands and striking downward. Kim just growled growing frustrated with the game as she caught his blade with her own and kept the blade over her head, her hands on each end of the sword. Juniors continued to push his blade down as it connected and rather than waste it Kim released her grip on the ground and let him push her down allowing her to slide between his legs. From the slide she shot back onto her feet in to defensive position, ready for the inevitable random back swing from her opponent. On schedule it came right into her trap as she caught the strike with her blade behind her head with one hand then shifted into a leg sweep bring him down and gripped the hilt with both hands and brought the flaming blade down across his chest, the blade digging into his armor, but unable to melt the specially treated metal.

"You realize your not going to win this right Junior," Kim inquired hopping away from her opponent.

"I know what I have to do my fox, and I know I can't let you stop me," he growled clutching his chest, his fingers running along the scar on his armor.

'Defiantly something different about him this time,' as Kim noted the new conviction he seemed to carry, whatever this was about she doubted it was his usual stupid plots.

'I have to end this now,' he growled internally, for all the help his armor was giving him, Kim's superior mobility was killing him, the speed on the servos and the design of the armor just wouldn't allow him to keep up with her attacks, she was just a tiny bit faster and that was what was beating him.

Breathing deeply Junior feinted an attack with his sword making Kim block a strike that wasn't there and opening up her face for a direct hit from his free hand that sent her rolling to the ground and back onto her feet. Junior didn't let up as he jumped and leveled a downward punch where Kim was only to hit nothing but grass and dirt as his fist penetrated the earth as Kim hopped back, but he was ready and used his free hand to lash out with his sword. The sword missed her ankles but the metals heat caused the grass to burst into flame. This wasn't the first time it had happened, in the course of the fight, small fires had broken out all around them, but Kim had managed to reach out with her powers and quash the blazes, this time she left it burning as something new came to mind. A quick spin brought her up to the fire, the flames flickering across her free hand, coming back to standing position she caught Junior coming at with her peripheral vision, and used the spin to launch the ball of fire forming in her hand at his face, the ball leaving a long trail from her hand straight into his visor blinding him. The Fire Knight slipped the sword of Kells back into it's scabbard and leapt at the blind man catching his shoulder with one hand and turned on it bringing her feet onto his back and flipping past him, the impact sending him to the ground while she landed gracefully on her feet and pulled her sword and slashed it across her body firing an arc of flame at the man knocking him further along the ground.

"Get up Junior," Kim growled checking her chin grateful that 'armor' went beyond everything that was covered in cloth, "your friends are getting their tails kicked, your not doing much better, and that machine of yours is ready to be recycled.

"I won't stop," he groaned pushing himself on to his knees, "not till I get what I came for," the anger rising in his voice as he threw his sword at her.

Kim read his movements and knew what he had planned before he threw the sword and brought her blade to the ground and made a half circle with the weapon in front of her leaving a trail of flame in front of her that leapt up from the ground and hid her in a wall of fire. By the time Juniors weapon approached her she was no longer visible and the weapon shot into the wall of flame and vanished from sight.

"Got her," Junior couched rising to his feet only to be answered as the sword of Kells punctured the flaming wall in the middle, as it passed the fire distorted and wrapped around the metal forming a twister of fire hurtling al him. The flaming vortex hit him dead in the chest and threw him back into the air enveloping him, as heat resistant as the armor was he could still feel the pain of the fire flicking across his body. After a few seconds Kim felt he had had enough and pulled the sword away the flaming tower coming with it, the fire flickering as it dissipated as did the rest of the fire around her as she reached out with her power and quashed the various blazes including Juniors body and flaming trail it had left on the ground when he landed.

Kim was slightly startled when she heard a whistle some distance behind her, and did a quick look back to the tree line, grateful to see Ron dragging his opponent there, "that's one more reason I'm never ticking you off," the Forest Knight yelled to the redhead letting his opponent slump to the ground.

"Ah man," Pyre groaned as he flapped down to Kim, his pride hurt by the teens display, hanging his head down in shame.

"Sorry big guy," as Kim tried to sooth the dragons feelings somehow sensing his inadequacies, "but you know your still our heavy hitter right," scratching his belly.

He answered her with a rumble coming from his throat somewhere between a growl and a purr and ducked his head down and rubbed it against hers.

"That's almost touching in a freaky kind of way," Bonnie smirked her mace around her neck as she walked up to the teams flamers, Monique a few steps behind her, looking back and forth every few steps visibly nervous about being out in the open.

"I have got to learn how to use that book," the mystic in training hissed under her breath feeling a little useless but pushed the thought from her mind, "now that girl was stylish," she called to her friend.

"Well that was subtle Possible," Will chided laughing in spite of himself, the slight of the fire setting off something primal in his mind.

"If someone said I'd see that it real life I'd have told them they were crazy," Zita called a slight spring in her step, "very cool Kim."

"So," Bonnie asked reaching the Kim, "do you have any clue what the hell this was about," throwing her arms out her body shacking a little in rage.

"Well," Kim started but was cut off as a shadow appeared over them, a quick look up revealed the jet Junior and his boy had come in on hovering over head, Rex was already half way to the plane as it flew over them Junior following shortly followed by the others and the torso the mecha-dragon, each of them lifted by a powerful magnet.

"Crap," Will hissed leveling his weapon, only to be stopped and Ron put his hand on the crossbow and lowered it.

"And your expecting us to do what with them?" looking up at the jet as it flew off. "If we lock them up triple S will just buy them out or have them broken out, right now their less of a danger then if they were incarcerated."

"You have got to be kidding me, that the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, all threats must be contained before they can spread, that's one of the first things we're taught at the academy."

"This isn't GJ Will," Kill said walking in front of him, "Ron and I have dealt with the Seniors enough times to know any trial would end up being a joke and a waste of money."

"We won, they lost, and they know it, they're not coming back for a while and we have bigger things to worry about."

"Like the anagrams of our weapons," Will spat darkly earning a blank stare from Ron.

Zita laughed a little at the Forest Knight, "it means clone Ron," slapping him on the back.

"Well sorta," Kim said giving a little hand wave, "it's more like…"

"FOCUS," Bonnie yelled bring the attention back to her, "Does anyone know what the hell that was about?"

"Not a clue," Kim shrugged, "we just know he wanted something."

"Oh come on, they didn't do the big speech about why they were her?"

"Not a movie Zita," as Ron gave the Water Knight a aggravated look, "then again," scratching the back of his head, "we do hear that a lot, especially from Drakken," as he started back to the forge, the others following him.

"Well if nothing else it proves we're getting better," Kim said the now mole rat Pyre on her shoulder as she changed back to her normal clothing, "but it's going to take a while to get everything back to the way it was," looking over the damaged field.

"It is a little worse than what we normally do isn't it," Ron commented as his armor vanished as a pile of leaves.

"I don't suppose we can handle it later?" Zita asked water splashing her feet as her armor fell away.

"Well we can't, Ron, Bonnie and I have practice," Kim half growled not looking forward to doing cheer routines at the moment, her mind heavy with what Junior had wanted and he'd been so prepared for them.

Snapping her fingers, "that's we still have a pep rally to prepare for," Bonnie snickered putting her arm around Will, "we're celebrating the gym finally reopening."

"Damn it," the Air knight cursed under his breath before looking up at Ron who had a rather wide grin on his face causing an idea to click on in his mind, "you realize no one knows who's under that stupid head when it's on don't you?" he sneered.

It barley took a second for understanding to register with Bonnie and Ron, the blonds face shifting into a mask of horror, "traitor," was the only thing the Forest Knight could say as he realized he once perfect idea had betrayed him.

Authors note 1- another chapter down and one more to write sine I already have the last in he can. The more I work with Junior the more I realize I need to do more with him, well I'll have to save that for another story, cause this ones purpose is wrapping up.

Authors note 2- yeah the fight style has shifted from the first story, I'm still trying to figure out how to balance a fight style with these weapons along with the speed and agility style fighting that's so prevalent on the show, let me know if it's working.

Authors note 3- For those still trying to get the Rescue Ranger reference in the last chapter it was in Monique's little rant- Foxglove is a one shot RR character (good time, bat time) that at one time had a major following, still does if you look in the RR section of this site. Now try and find the Darkwing Duck reference in this chapter.

Anyway please review and I will try and have the last 2 chapters up by Saturday (that's not conditional that's just where the line ended up)