Chapter 5
Mighty's HQ
Nack awoke, jolting up. His hands went to his gun holsters, but found that they were missing. He looked around, finding he was in some kind of cell.
"Good to see you awake, Hotshot." Bean chuckled from across the room. He was looking over his back to the weasel, leaning back in his chair.
"Bean, you dirty rat, what're you doing working for Mighty?"
"Well, the pay's good, full health and dental, the works."
"That's not what I meant." Nack growled. "How can you work with these heroes?"
"Because they're my friends now. They might not have the same glamorous lifestyle that big time crooks may live, but at least they don't have to live with the feeling that they've thrown their life away. That's why Bark and I joined."
"You've gone soft, Bean."
"Maybe, but I'm not the one in the jail cell." he laughed.
"Fine, crack your jokes, duck, but I know you're not happy here. You can't help but remember those days when you blew up whatever you wanted. You miss that."
Bean stared at the weasel for a minute, before getting up from his chair and heading out of the room.
Station Square
Mighty slowly rose to his feet, spitting the sand out of his mouth. Thanks to one of the catapult bombs Bean had been working on, the armadillo, along with Bark and Ray, had been launched away from the ship before impact. Mighty looked out top the sea, seeing the smoke still rising as the ship sank. He growled, filled with anger towards whatever had attacked. He looked to his friends. "Are you guys ok?"
"I got more than enough padding, Might." Bark said, hitting himself in the chest lightly.
"I think Bean's new bomb could still use a little field testing though." Ray said, coughing up a puff of smoke.
"Good. Let's go find that look a like."
"Oh, don't worry, Mighty, I've come to you." the three looked up the beach a little bit to see the scaly armadillo like Biomighty walking towards them. "I figured that beating up on that chameleon friend of yours would get your attention."
"What the hell are you?" the red shelled mobian said through gritted teeth.
"Come now, Mighty. That's no way to talk to your brother of sorts."
"Don't even try saying we're related."
"Well, let's look at the facts. I have your DNA in me, so I suspect that means we're related."
"DNA? No." Mighty's mind flew back to the needle, the one that had pricked him. It had extracted his DNA.
"It's all coming to you now, isn't it" Truthfully, the needles were supposed to capture you, keeping you trapped on the ARK and in that room forever. However, one needle got all that was needed to give me life. So now, it is my job to eliminate the original."
With that, Biomighty shot forward, balling up just before he slammed into the armadillo he had been born from. Mighty was thrown back towards the ocean, but Bark caught him, the force of impact knocking him to the ground. "This guy's pretty strong."
Bio caught Ray by the throat as he tried to attack. The creature turned its gaze to the squirrel. "Did you expect that to work?"
Ray, clawing at the being's hand, coughed out, "Retrospectively, this is starting to seem like a very bad idea, yes."
"Well since you've seen the error of your ways, I'll let you live a few more seconds." Biomighty chucked the squirrel high into the air, landing in the crystal blue water as he fell. The reptile-like creature turned his gaze back to Mighty. "I hope you don't think I'm to mean, but I'm just doing what needs to be done."
"Please, that line's so old." Mighty jumped to his feet and charged at Bio, who jumped over him. As he fell, he rotated, shouting, "Egg Barrage!" the bubbles rocketed from his hand, colliding with the armadillo hard. Mighty quickly recovered, running at his copycat. This time, he jumped as Bio did, punching him in midair. The leathery creature was sent back a little, but he stayed in the air, his jet boots activating.
"You might as well give up, Mighty." Biomighty chuckled. "I'm everything that you are, and more. You can't beat me."
The armadillo glared at his counterpart. "I don't think so." Mighty kicked up a large cloud of sand to hide himself from Bio. The mechanical creature only smiled. As the mobian shot at Biomighty's side, the latter raised his jet boot, which Mighty rammed into hard. He fell to the ground, rubbing his singed face.
"You know what, Mighty, I actually feel sorry for you. So I'm going to do you a favor. I'll give you a week to try and train yourself a bit. However, if anyone other than your current team is brought into this, your old friends will be? mismatched."
"What!"
"Peace out, Mighty." Biomighty shot off.
Station Square- Chaotix Detective Agency
As the trio ran up to the building, or what was left off, they all stopped dead in their tracks. The building had been ripped apart. They figured out what Biomighty had meant earlier. He had taken the members of the Chaotix hostage.
To be continued...
Sorry for this being my only chapter tonight, but I haven't been able to type Battle Netwarriors or Smash Prelims' new chapters yet. I have been out of town since last night, because I went to King's Dominion. Volcano was sweet. Anyway, I'll have 'em by tomorrow
