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Chapter 16 - Clearing Stages (05.02.05)
Accessing its targeting systems, the Freedom Eliminator was preparing to follow its master's orders and fire upon Professor Utonium.
"Fire!" Mojo yelled at the top of his lungs.
Mojo's newest creation responded instantly, firing a laser beam right at the professor's head! The beam hits its mark, causing a massive explosion that completely blinded the block with a bright light and plenty of smoke.
"Duck and cover, people!" Mr. Barkin yelled to everyone inside the school just as the light envelopes him and the entire building.
Mojo, Drakken, his henchman, and the Freedom Eliminator run for cover, as the after-effects of a successful beam strike proved to be more intense than they originally predicted.
After a few seconds, the bright white light had dissipated as fast as it had appeared. The edges of a two-feet deep, ten-feet wide crater began to develop as the smoke continued to billow from what was the impact point of the beam.
"Ha!" Drakken smirked, appearing from behind an overturned car. "I knew my weapon was capable of doing some damage... but I never imagined this! Now there's no Kim Possible around to ruin my evil schemes!"
"And no pesky Powerpuffs to impede my devious plots!" Mojo added with a sneer.
"Now begins the rule of Doctor Drakken!"
Mojo did a double take. "Excuse me? If any individual, human or otherwise, is to lead us on the road of domination, it shall be me, and only me, Mojo Jojo!"
"You couldn't dominate your way out of a paper bag!"
"And you couldn't lead an army capable of completing that task!"
Mojo and Drakken started glaring at each other. But then...
"Sorry boys..."
"Huh?" the two evil geniuses asked in unison.
The smoke around the center of the crater was finally fading away, and in its place was a giant, green spherical barrier being powered by Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup. The girls powered down, allowing the shield to disappear and reveal that Kim, Ron, Monique, and the professor were also inside, and were all okay.
"...but this battle's far from over!" the three Powerpuffs shouted.
Drakken started stomping his feet in frustration. "Kim Possible, you think you're all that... but you're not!"
Kim and Ron looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders. "But we didn't even do anything yet."
"Enough with the mindless chatter!" Mojo exclaimed. "Drakken... make those henchmen of yours do something already!"
"Fine," Drakken huffed, turning to his lackeys. "Get them!"
Drakken's army started charging towards the gang of heroes.
"Bubbles, Buttercup!" Blossom barked. "Get everyone out of the area! We don't want them in harm's way should Mojo's robot decide to fire its laser again. Kim, you're with me... we're gonna take that thing down!"
"Roger!" the other two sisters acknowledged.
"Let's go!" Kim smiled.
Bubbles and Buttercup flew into Pokey Oaks and began grabbing people and flying them a safe distance away. Professor Utonium and Monique ran over to assist Ms. Keane and Mr. Barkin for those escaping on foot. Blossom took off with a streak of light right towards the Freedom Eliminator, while Kim followed close behind on her rocket-powered skates.
But someone seems to have been forgotten...
"Hey, hey!" Ron shouted. "What am I supposed to do?"
Rufus started tugging at Ron's pants. "Uh, ug... trouble!"
Ron glanced around and noticed that he was already surrounded by some of Drakken's henchman.
"Oh, come on! Twelve-to-one isn't exactly fair, you know!"
Pulling out their energy-spewing jousting sticks, the hired help started unloading on the helpless Ron, who had to pull off some fancy footwork to avoid being hit.
"This isn't what I meant by needing something to do! Aaaaahhhh!" Ron screamed as he managed to dive under one of the henchman's legs and start running away from them.
"You'll be safe with me," Bubbles reassured the pair of classmates she was carrying.
"We've gotta get them to safety so we can help Blossom!" Buttercup said behind her, as Bubbles turned her head to see her black-haired sister was carrying twice her load.
The adults and teenagers ran out of Pokey Oaks in a hurry, all wanting to get to safer ground.
"Everyone proceed carefully!" Ms. Keane shouted over the panicky crowd. "No pushing! You're all perfectly safe!"
"We're running for our lives, not going to a picnic!" Barkin chided. "C'mon, people! If you wanna live to see tomorrow, get moving!"
"Don't you guys ever learn?" Kim asked.
"Waaaaaaa!" came the battle-cry from the henchmen as they charged at the teen hero.
Not even waiting for them to get to her, Kim leapt into the air and used a flying kick to the stomach of the first man, knocking him off balance and bumbling into a few others behind him, knocking them all of their feet. She then danced and contorted her body out of the way of several energy blasts from all directions, in the process backflipping right into another henchman, taking him down as well.
Then, as one henchman snuck up on her from behind, another charged right at her. Quickly leaping up, she somersaulted backward, managing to catch the first guy by surprise. With one well-placed kick to the back, she knocked him into the approacher, resulting in both men touching jousting sticks, and shocking themselves unconscious.
"You guys are slipping... I haven't even broken a sweat yet!"
"You're going down!" Blossom announced, diving in on a direct course towards the Freedom Eliminator's head.
"Shoot her out of the sky!" ordered Mojo.
The robot raised his beam rifle and aimed it directly at Blossom. It then fired a lone shot at the Powerpuff, who easily dodged it.
"You'll have to do better than that!"
Blossom soared in and socked Mojo's robot with a mean right hook, making its head spin around several times.
"You can't shoot her down with one shot!" Drakken said to Mojo before turning to the robot. "Fire!"
"Wait!" Mojo warned. "It hasn't compensated for the scrambling of its target vectors yet!"
The Freedom Eliminator was staggering about, with its targeting system indeed on the fritz after that hit from Blossom. But, having heard a command to fire, it obeyed the order even though it had yet to readjust its vision.
Suddenly, a laser beam comes flying out of the robot's gun. This one completely misses Blossom as it moves nearly perpendicular to the ground, practically straight up into the air.
"Gotta derail that thing before it actual hits something!" Blossom said aloud, swooping in for another attack.
"Quick!" Drakken yelled. "Fix it, fix it!"
"It still has its brute strength, remember?" commented Mojo.
Sure enough, the bot's hand-to-hand fighting program didn't rely on the targeting system, and thus, it set itself into a defensive fighting position.
"I'm tired of running! You big lugs have bothered me for the last time!"
Now a block away, Ron found himself getting ready to fight against his would-be attackers, as the group of henchmen that had been chasing him were preparing to surround him once again.
"Heh heh..." one of the henchmen chuckled. "And what are you gonna do about it?"
"Hwaaaa ai yi yi yi yi!" Ron screamed as he charged forward.
Blossom and the Freedom Eliminator were swinging punch after punch at each other. But Blossom was using her speed not only to dodge every single blow the robot was swinging at her, but to make sure every one of hers hit its mark. Despite that,
the robot's body seemed to be holding up pretty well, with only a few small dents developing so far.
Still, Drakken was beginning to worry heavily.
"Do something, Mojo! She's turning our robot into scrap heap!"
"First off, it's my robot, not ours! Second..."
Mojo turned towards the Freedom Eliminator and yelled...
"Activate Energy Field!"
In an instant, a blue ball of energy bursted out and formed an encapsulating shield and the robot itself. In the process, the force resulting from the immediate deployment of the defensive weapon sent Blossom flying backwards towards Pokey Oaks at an incredible speed. In fact, it was so fast that she could not stop in time, and she crashed head-first into the building, causing more than half of it to collapse right on top of her.
"Blossom!" Kim yelled, before her lack of attention in her own battle cost her after she's knocked off her own feet by a sweeping roundhouse.
Kim quickly found herself surrounded by Drakken's henchmen before she could get back to her feet. She then heard clapping as Drakken, Mojo, and the Freedom Eliminator broke through the gathering, mockingly applauding her efforts.
"Haven't you heard, Kim Possible?" Drakken smirked. "Teamwork is overrated."
"Exactly," Mojo added. He then turned towards his robot and said, "Now... we've already gotten rid of one world saviour... why don't we eliminate another?"
Cliffhanger'd!
Find out what'll happen to our heroines as the finale continues... next week!