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Just as the largest of the dogs leaped, aiming straight for Tony's throat, Violet threw out a force field around the two boys. The dog bounced off, barely managing a startled yip before it crashed against the wall. With its tail curled up between its legs, it crept over and hid behind the guard.
With the leader of their pack out of action, the other two dogs stopped and sat down, clearly confused.
"Oh, you stupid dogs!" Syndrome aimed a kick at one of the Dobermans, who shot out of range with a terrified yip. "Grrr!" he muttered.
While he was preoccupied with trying to inflict serious damage upon the dogs, Violet turned invisible, snuck up behind one of the guards, and smacked him over the head with a metal rod that happened to be lying around, knocking him out. Mia followed suit and disposed of the other guard in the same manner. (No doubt the metal rods had been provided by the brilliant, wonderful, out-of-this-world author because she couldn't think of any other way to do it.) Anyway, by the time Syndrome had given up on the dogs, he was completely surrounded by the four teen supers.
He seemed surprised, but chuckled coolly. "You really think you can beat me? Think you can escape from this place just like that?" He lifted his arm, and, just for a demonstration of his power, threw Sam against the wall with his zero-point-energy beam. Groaning, Sam got up slowly. Syndrome laughed. "See? Why even try?" He began laughing evilly, but was cut off by a sudden wave of water from Tony.
The wave knocked him down long enough for Sam to shout, "Come on, let's go!" and race out the door, closely followed by his friends. They had almost made it to their boat when -
"Eh-heh-heh-heh-heh!" The evil cackle came from a very familiar looking evil villainess in a black and red supersuit. "We meet again, Team Dynamo!"
"Tempest!" gasped Violet.
"Yes, it's me, Tempest, with the Elements. We're back! And now, we will destroy you!" She shot a bolt of lightning at Team Dynamo, but thankfully they got out of the way just in time.
"You will never destroy us!" shouted Mia boldly. "We will destroy you!"
"Ha! So you say!" said Fuego, coming up to stand next to Tempest. He threw a fireball at Sam. It singed his shoulder, and Sam groaned and clutched it, but he managed to fire a laser beam at the Elements. They barely avoided it.
(AN: I'm sorry, but I'm just going to give a basic overview of the battle because I stink at describing fighting scenes.)
They fought long and hard, with the advantage bouncing back and forth from Team Dynamo to the Elements. Tony got injured from one of Fuego's fireballs and crawled behind a rock to recover. But the others held on bravely, and finally managed to drive off their enemies. The Elements disappeared into the jungle with one final cry from Tempest: "We'll be back! Someday, somewhere, we'll be back!"
"Whew!" gasped Mia, falling to her knees and attempting to catch her breath. "That was harder than anything I've ever done."
"Harder than talking to me after you ran into me at the track meet?" asked Sam jokingly.
Mia slapped his shoulder playfully. "Yes, in fact, it was harder than that."
"Well, we're all okay, at least - hey, where's Tony?" asked Violet worriedly.
"Last I saw him, he was hit by Fuego and crawled behind a rock over there." said Sam, pointing in the direction of said rock. Vi gasped and ran over to see if Tony was all right.
"Tony? Tony? Tony? Are you okay?" As she rounded the side of the rock, she came across Tony's motionless body. Violet screamed so loudly that, tired as they were, Mia and Sam rushed over immediately to help.
"What? What happened?" asked Sam anxiously. Then he saw Tony. "Oh my gosh! Is he all right?"
"I-I don't know." whispered Vi, trying very hard not to cry.
Mia knelt down to examine Sam. "Well, as far as I can tell, he's still alive. There's a pulse, and he's breathing alright."
Violet started crying out of pure relief. "Thank God!"
"He is unconscious though. We should get him to a doctor, just in case." said Sam seriously.
The three teens quickly constructed a stretcher of a giant leaf (AN: I don't know about you, but some of those plants on Nomanisan looked pretty big to me) and some branches. They had just made it to the boat with their fallen comrade when suddenly, Syndrome appeared in front of them, laughing darkly.
"Think you can get away from Syndrome, eh? Don't be so sure." He shot his beam at Violet and slammed her brutally against a tree. Fortunately, he let go of her before she actually hit, giving her enough time to shield herself with a force field and escape completely unscathed.
Before he could get off another shot, Sam fired a laser beam at him. It hit hard enough that Syndrome stumbled backward, over the edge of the boat (it was a fairly large boat), and fell into the water. The last Team Dynamo heard out of him was "AAAA-bbblug!" splash
"Nice work." congratulated Mia, high-fiving her boyfriend.
"Yeah, thanks." replied Sam. "But we have to get Tony to the hospital - come on!" They picked up the stretcher, boarded the boat, and roared off at full speed for Metroville. Sure, they had defeated the Elements and gotten rid of Syndrome forever, but would they get home in time to save Tony?
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Semi-cliffhanger (again!), hee hee! Have you noticed that I like those a lot? ;) Seriously, you can speed up the update by reviewing!