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A teacup smashed. The personal minion to Dark Shadow quickly swept it up. Dark Shadow growled. His eyes flashed red.

"The Knights have been properly trained. Well, we'll just have to see how much they've learned…"
He cackled, and lightning flashed across the gray sky. His minion cowered and raced out of the room, eager to get as far away from his master as possible. And he had really good reason…

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"Agh!"
Shego nearly lost control of the plane. The force of the hit had the Knights tumbling out of their seat belts, hitting their heads hard on the ceiling and/or the floor of the plane.

"What happened?"
Monkey Fist asked irritably. Shego grimaced.

"It looks like…a tornado; it's in our way. It's growing bigger by the second, so we can't get through. But it's not gathering any water."
Sierra nodded.

"Well, if a tornado is off of the surface of water is it over, it will not gather water, and therefore will not become a typhoon, or a funnel."
Everyone stared at first Shego, and then Sierra. Shego shrugged.
"I told you she read too much."
Kim grimaced.

"But, to get to the point, this is obviously a test Dark Shadow set up for us. We have to stop the funnel from getting too large and destroying anything."

"Including us!"
Ron pointed out, and began to cower away. Rose grabbed Ron before he could escape.

"All right, Ron, we're going in—er, out."
Ron took one look outside and shook his head.

"No, way! I am not going out there! Are you crazy?"
Rose laughed.

"Yes. Besides, doofus, we have control over the elements."
Ron raised an eyebrow.

"But my element is wind. Why are you coming out with me?"
Rose smiled.

"My element is pure energy, and this counts as energy. I can control it, too; I can control any kind of energy that exists."
Ron sighed.

"Fine, let's go. But how can we guarantee that we don't get swept away or anything? I mean, we're going to be safe, right?"
Rose grinned.

"Oh, sure, sure…"

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"THIS IS NOT WHAT I CALL SAFE!"
Ron screamed as he and Rose catapulted out of the plane in an air force field held up by both Knights. Rose laughed and helped Ron move the force field over to the funnel.

"Okay, on three! One, two—"
"Wait, do we go on three, or on go?"
Rose glared at him.

"Ugh, three! Who said anything about go?"

Ron laughed nervously and rubbed the back of his head.

"Uh, yeah. Anyways, as you were saying?"
Rose sniffed.

"Indeed…As I was saying, one, two, three!"

Both Knights unleashed energy, trying to rip the funnel apart, diminishing its threat. They grunted, sweat dripping down their foreheads as the energy took its toll on their bodies. The funnel began to break apart, howling less and less. Rose and Ron let loose one last burst of energy and ripped the funnel apart. They somehow managed to force the force field back into the airplane. And then they collapsed in a heap.

"Ron! Are you okay?"
Kim exclaimed, propping Ron up. Ron smiled weakly.

"I'm all good, KP. We've had bigger problems than this before. It's nothing I can't handle."

Kim chuckled.

"That we have…"

As Rose tumbled in, another rushed to aid her.
"Rose!"
Monkey Fist said, helping Rose sit up. Rose smiled.

"Thanks. That took a lot out of me."
She said, standing up and stretching with Monkey Fist's help. Her face turned slightly red when she noticed a small detail. "Um, Monkey Fist," she coughed, "you can let go of my hand now. I think I can walk by myself." Monkey Fist quickly let go, turning a bit red, also. Kim, seeing their embarassment, quickly broke the awkward silence.

"Well, let's head through. Dark will probably be mad, so we should move quickly before anything else happens that might slow us down."
Shego grinned and sat up straight in her seat.

"Quickly, you say? I'm on it."
And the plane took off into the now clear sky, practically ripping the flesh from their bones, it was accelerating at such a fast speed.

"NOT THAT FAST, SHEGO!"

"SLOW DOWN!"
Shego smirked and slowed down. And Sierra laughed at the looks on the other Knights's faces.

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"NOO!"
Another teacup shattered, and the poor minion quickly swept it up once more. Dark Shadow fumed.

"Those meddling Knights! They will regret the day they dared to mess with Dark Shadow's plans!"
The minion nodded again, nervous sweat dripping down his forehead.

"If I may be so bold as to ask, Master, what is your next plan of action?"
Dark Shadow smirked.

"You shall see…you shall see…"

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Shego dipped the plane down a notch.

"We're almost there. Strap your seatbelts, because we're coming for landing at Middleton Airpor—Hey!"
Everyone looked up from strapping themselves in. Shego had been thrown off course by a large stone cliff bursting out of the ground. It had hit the plane in the nose; they were currently spiraling down to the ground, out of control. Ron reached out with the wind and softened their fall a bit, but they still crashed into the ground hard. Everyone tried to pull themselves out through the emergency door.

"Ugh…"
"Ow! That was my head you stepped on!"
"Make room!"
"Ow, ow, OW!"
Finally, after much effort, everyone managed to free themselves. They fell back when another stone pillar rose out of the ground near them and fell over them. Monkey Fist raised his hands and pushed the stone up and away. Earth after all, was his element. The pillar fell, and a rumbling sound echoed through the landing strip. The ground began to shake.

"EARTHQUAKE!"
Ron screamed, and began to run away. Kim held him back by his collar.

"We need to stop it!"
She declared. Monkey Fist stepped forward.

"I believe that this is my field of expertise. UGH!"
He slammed his hands to the ground and began to try and gain control of the earth, to push it back together. A large crack began to rumble towards him.

"Hurry, Monkey Fist!"
Sierra shouted. Monkey Fist grunted, and beads of sweat fell from his forehead to the ground. With a last effort, he squeezed the earth together and the crack stopped an inch from his foot. Everyone breathed sighs of relief.

"Well, that was a close call."
Rose muttered.

"Let's get inside before anything else happens; for now, at least."
Monique suggested, and everyone agreed and followed her into the airport. That, of course, wasn't the last of their tests…

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