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A/N: Ha, updating twice in one day. Do I rock or what? Iknow I just updated, but I really want to do it again! Yay for me! And you guys, too, I guess. Once again, thanks to Fargol for making me write more! Thank her, you hogs!
I command you to read. And if you disobey me...then you don't read. HA!
Chapter Nine: Back from the Dead
"You know what to do!" Red X cried to his last two remaining teammates. His suit was torn and dried blood was still visible on his unmasked face. He sneered at the enemy. "No second chances!"
"No second chances!" echoed Mammoth and Jinx. Mammoth was now shirtless, his chest completely exposed. Yellow muscles jutted out, revealing many bruises and cuts. Jinx looked basically the same, except she now had a scar running down her cheek, scarring her otherwise pretty face. Her body was badly burnt.
And yet, there they stood. All three of the Reforms. Back from the dead. The three had just appeared out of the sewers, and come face to face with Gizmo, who had ordered an army of robots to come to his aid. The coward.
The bald midget was now in the back of about thirty white and red robots, all dressed in Chang's...er, unique style. They wielded various types of weapons, but all were charged with Zinothium. That was fine with X. Fight fire with fire.
"This ends here, Gizmo!" Jinx cried, running at her former friend. As Gizmo grinned in excitement, he ordered the robots via handheld device. As he did so, they all sprung to life and attacked. Jinx was the first to get hit. Not that it stopped her.
As dozens of robots fired their Zinothium lasers, Jinx danced between them in her own style. As she spun and twirled, robots struck themselves and missed targets altogether. Jumping in the air, Jinx began to twirl around madly. As she did so, her body began to glow with pink energy. The energy rained down among the robots, striking their vital packs. The Zinothium spilled out, hardening and zapping a nearby street lamp.
The huge fight that was just unfolding took place right in the middle of Cactus City itself. Four streets converged her, causing this to be a very dangerous place to fight. Cars had long been abandoned minutes ago, once the drivers ran out, fleeing for their lives. So, now there were dozens of cars laying n the street, abandoned in fear. Street lamps and buildings riddled the center.
Perfect fight scene, huh?
"Hurgh!" mammoth grunted as he picked up a nearby robot and chucked it into some others. The group fell down and crashed, creating a huge Zinothium explosion. The yellow giant lumbered over to a nearby car angrily, picking it up as if it were cardboard.
"Yo, Gizmo!" Mammoth cried in rage. "Catch!" Spinning the car like a discus, he threw it at the bald midget, who cried out in fear. At the last minute, Gizmo's spider legs ripped the car apart, saving the mechanic villain from an untimely death.
"Don't think you're out of the fire just yet!" Red X cried, destroying a nearby robot. Turning invisible, X threw a large amount of X's at the nearby robots furiously. Many simply exploded, while others were trapped under giant red bands. Several more were simply ripped through by razor sharp blades.
X ran at Gizmo, still invisible. The trained mercenary stared straight ahead, while gizmo scanned the area. His goggles should be able to pick him up, even if he was invisible. At the last moment, Gizmo spotted Red X. Just as the rogue hero was punching him in the face.
Gizmo cried out and fell backward, a large bump on his now red face. Screaming in rage, the midget fired a series of missiles, all of which hit their targets. Red X was hit several times, and fell back. The wiped the blood off his mouth. His gold tooth was killing him. And his scar too.
Just as the missiles were about to hit Jinx, Mammoth leaped in front of her. Holding up a huge car, the missiles struck the automobile. Mammoth was using it as a shield! The automobile commenced to exploding, but it still protected the two former HIVE students.
"Thanks," Jinx said, breathing heavily. Mammoth just grinned in return.
"No problem," he said, getting back up. His chest was now bleeding, and his lip was swollen. "Friends gotta stick together."
"Right," Jinx said, grinning. It was just like being back in the HIVE. With people watching over each other. Except this time, they were saving the city, not attacking it. They were heroes, not villains.
"Let me return the favor!" Jinx cried, raising her hands up. Her entire body glowed pink as the magical energy flowed through her. Aiming at the oncoming robots, she released it all into the ground beneath them. The ground opened up and swallowed the robots whole, making the sewers below splash loudly.
"Need more robots!" Gizmo cried, sending more and more into the fray. He just ordered a back up team of fifty to come, and they were very close.
"They should arrive any second," Chang said through his communicator. "And Terra will be there as well."
"Great," Gizmo grumbled. Suddenly, the fell back as a pink flash of light struck him in the chest. Jinx had found him. The pink haired girl was standing over top of him, her fist glowing a threatening...pink. The magic flowed around it like electricity.
"To think I ever liked you," Jinx said, disgusted. Just before she was able to finish the job, a great blast of Zinothium struck her, knocking her back. The reinforcements had arrived. The fifty robots had just come onto the scene, defending their master's apprentice.
Gizmo growled as the stood up again. He activated his spider legs again, rising him into the air. Doing so, he reached down with a pair and picked up a huge Van. Raising it into the air, he threw it at Jinx in anger.
Just before the lethal automobile could kill her, Red X appeared out of no where and teleported Jinx out of the way. The van crashed against the pavement, exploding. Gizmo repeated tthis attack many times, grabbing random cars and chucking them into the crowd, trying to strike his former friends.
"Have some fo your own medicine!" he cried, chucking a taxicab at Red X, who was knocked backwards. The genius blasted Jinx with another laser and he approached X. The vigilante was pinned underneath the taxicab, luck to be alive.
"Just where I want you!" Gizmo said, laughing. Red X couldn't reach his teleportation button as he was now. Gizmo readied a deadly blast of electricity. He was going to kill Red X.
"Yo, Gizmo!" Mammoth cried. The small one turned around in frustration, ready to face Mammoth. Instead, he faced a ten-ton school bus, hurtling through the air towards him. Gizmo only had enough time to whimper in fear before the bus struck him head on.
BOOM! (Imagine this in about 30-font and you get the idea!)
The bus struck and knocked the small genius through a nearby building, knocking it over entirely. The bus exploded and caused the entire building to fall in on itself. The building, which was about fifty feet high to begin with, and made of steel, fell down on top of Gizmo, who cried out in fear.
The building collapsed with another huge boom, and dust overtook the entire block. As robots continued to fire, Red X readied one of hs special X-bombs. Throwing it into the air, he grabbed Jinx and teleported. Mammoth ran as fast as could, punching robots as he did.
Just like last time, the robots readied for the explosion. Just like last time, the explosion never came. And just like last time, the robots dropped their defenses to stare at the 'failed' bomb.
It explode seconds later, wiping the entire block clean of robots and cars. The X-bomb extended on the ground, going in four directions, and becoming wider. All within the red markings were vaporized instantly.
Red X landed and let Jinx fall from his shoulders. Mammoth was fine, just bruised. All three of them were badly hurt, but not mortally or wounded in any way. They just had the crap beaten out of them, that was all.
Just as the three began to relax, another explosion could be heard. And seen. A huge red blast of Zinothium shook the block. Everyone looked to where Gizmo had fallen to see a huge red blast erupt into the air, mushroom cloud style. The radioactive element shook the buildings, vaporizing the fallen building.
Red X, Jinx, and Mammoth looked away from the blinding red light. The explosion was so bright, it was as if night had turned to day. The three were finally able to turn to look as the explosion cleared away to reveal a single figure in its midst.
Gizmo.
The young psychopath was still alive! Gizmo walked slowly out of the ruble, stumbling along on his small, weak knees. How he had survived, no one knew. But he sure looked dead. His head was actually cracked open, and bleeding heavily. His suit, what was left of it, was torn and bleeding as well. His chest and most of his charred skin could be seen.
And he was grinning. Somehow, despite all the immense pain he must have been in, Gizmo was grinning! As the dust faded away, the three heroes stared at him in wonder. He merely held up his handheld device.
"You think you won!" he cried, laughing like a child. "Think again! I just ordered a massive invasion that'll overrun this entire city in no time flat! Think you pig-sniffers can handle that!"
"Think you can handle this?" came a voice behind him. As the three wounded Reforms looked on, a huge pillar of rock came out of no where and struck the midget. As he fell to the ground, he looked up to see Terra floating over him on top of her boulder.
"Hey, you missed them!" Gizmo said, pointing to the three weakened Reforms.
"Who said I was aiming for them!" Terra said, angry. Her eyes glowed yellow with anger as she raised her hands above her head. A huge stalagmite rose out fot he ground and shot right at Gizmo.
The villain in question merely pushed a button on his control and a force field appeared around him, protecting him from the stalagmite. But ti shorted out quickly. In retaliation, Gizmo once again rose into the air on his metal bat wings.
"Now you're betraying ME?" Gizmo said, disbelievingly. "You really are a traitor aren't you?"
"I don't care what you think!" Terra cried angrily. "You–aren't–my–friend!" And with that, Terra threw herself at the boy, boulder and all. The rock struck him and Terra jumped off, onto another one. "You hear me, Gizmo? One way or another, this ends tonight!"
"Fine then!" Gizmo cried back. Pushing a button on his bloodied control, he set up a barrier around the remaining Reforms. The three jumped in surprise and tried to escape, but they couldn't. They were trapped. And Gizmo and Terra were alone.
"Bring it on!" Terra cried, throwing a barrage of rocks at him. Gizmo's missiles struck all but a few, which he quickly dodged on his bat wings. Gizmo grinned as he pushed yet another button. He has a lot of buttons!
"Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah Nyah!" Gizmo cried as he activated his hologram projector. Suddenly, there were two dozen Gizmos flaying around, all taunting Terra. They sped around, making her dizzy, and not sure which to hit.
"Betrayer! Traitor!" Gizmo cried, zooming around. "You're filth! You can't even pick a side, you lame-o! You're nothing but a little girl, afraid of doing something wrong!"
"I may be a traitor..." Terra said, crying openly. "But I am not so little anymore!" And with this, Terra smashed her arms to the ground. As yellow energy burst from her body, the ground rose and melted into three great shapes. Three huge creatures, made of pure earth, stood before her.
"Attack!" she cried. At once, the three earthen beasts rushed forward and attacked the Gizmo copies. The creatures smashed the holograms, completely unharmed by the lasers the real Gizmo was firing. Finally, one of them struck its hands into the ground, and they spread through it like putty.
The arms reached under the ground and came up a few yards away, grabbing the real Gizmo. The creatures all locked onto him and made their attacks. The baldy was pummeled by the creatures, through and through. By the time the earthen beasts were through, Gizmo definitely had some broken bones.
"This ends here!" Terra cried, raising her hands into the air. As her body glowed yellow, she spread the power into the Earth around her. At once, a huge hole began to form underneath Gizmo. The bald nerd quickly activated his spider legs to escape the hole.
"That's it!" he asked, laughing madly. His spider legs extended around the ole, supporting him. His body was still directly over the crater. "A stupid hole? You're even weaker than I thought!"
And for the first time in a day and half, Terra smiled. "You really are an idiot, aren't you?" she said, grinning. "That isn't a hole genius!" she said as the ground began to rumble and shake.
"It's a volcano!"
Gizmo's eyes widened in shock. As he looked down, his pupils dilated in fear. The 'hole' he stood over was glowing a deep red and orange. Before he could move out of the way, the volcano activated. The last thin Gizmo did was let out a horrifying scream before the volcano erupted.
As Gizmo's scream rang out through the night, a huge pillar of fire and lave burst fromt the hole, consuming the thirteen-year-old whole. His body couldn't even be seen through the massive eruption of fire and magma.
After a full minute of constant eruption, the volcano turned off. Terra closed the hole as Gizmo's spider legs fell to the ground. Their master was gone, vaporized completely. There was nothing holding them together.
Terra sighed as she landed on the ground. Her energy was gone, all of it. She began to breath and pant deeply as Gizmo's barrier dissipated. Red X ran over to her as Mammoth helped Jinx stand.
"Terra!" he cried, wrapping his arm around her to help her stand. "Are you okay?"
Terra looked up at him. This was the first time she had ever actualy seen him without the mask. His face was tanned, and a long scar ran along his face. His forehead was swollen, and much of his black hair had been burnt. His mouth was bleeding, and his gold tooth looked like it was about to fall out.
Amd he couldn't have looked any better to Terra at that moment. He was salvation to her.
"Are you okay?" he repeated, worried.
Terra finally looked up at him and gave him a small smile. Reaching up, she kissed him lightly on the lips.
"I am now."
A/N: Ah, so sweet. And what a fight! It took me days to figure out how to kill Gizmo, and I think I did so very well. Man, that was fun!
And don't worry, there will be two chapters after this one. That's right, a total of eleven chapters! You guys owe me for this!
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