EVERYONE AGAINST THE GEEK.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!...
Chuck jumped out of the way of the bullets just in time to avoid them. Then he ran away through the next corridor, with all the villains in hot pursuit. He turned left in a divided corridor, and found a dead end. Looking at the corner, discovered an air vent near the floor, and smiled.
When the villains arrived at the corridor, they couldn't find Chuck anywhere, until Saavanah pointed to the vent, noticing something that looked like a red insect.
"He's there! He shrunk himself to hide on the vent!"
Sean and Tim shot to the vent, but Chuck was already inside, safe from the shots. Jean Claude removed quickly the vent's cover, and took a look inside the duct. It was too dark to see the little hero, and too small for any of them to follow him. Again, Coco took control of the situation calling for all the villains' attention.
"Listen to me, fools. I'll turn on the cooling system to the max; with some luck, it will be too cold inside the ducts, and the little plague will go out to escape freezing. I want all of you to spread through the mansion, and check every vent. The moment one of us find him, contact the rest by shooting or something... trying to hit him in the process, of course. Also, try to locate the girls; we can also force the idiot to give up if we have them as hostages." All the criminals agreed, and started looking each one by his/her own.
Tim entered a bedroom a few minutes later, searching for the vent. He was still a little dizzy because of Angelica's attack, but the anger gave him the impulse to keep his conscience. He started feeling a little cold because of Coco's plan, but this also helped him to locate the vent. Unlike the one Chuck used to escape, this one was located on the superior corner of a wall. He moved near it, expecting for a little red bug to appear.
"ColoRed Chuck…come out to play-ey-eyaay!" Tim joked, while keeping a devious smile.
At that moment, his wish was accomplished, but not the way he expected. The vent's cover exploded out of its place, and a full-sized ColoRed Chuck jumped out from the duct, falling on top of Tim. Since the thug was already injured, this was enough to put him out of commission for a while.
Chuckie placed his arms around himself, trying to keep himself warm, when he noticed that McNulty was under him. Chuck smiled, and stood up. From what he heard while he was on the ducts, Angelica and Kimi handled to escape themselves, so now he just had to worry about catching the criminals, one at a time.
"Hey! What was that?" Chuckie heard the voice of The Shark, coming from the corridor. He quickly hide behind the door, a few seconds the spy entered the room. The Shark leaned to check at the unconscious McNulty, and tried to make him react by slapping and talking to him.
"Come on, Tim. Wake up. What happened?"
"Something like this!" The Shark turned when heard Chuck's voice.
SKWEAK!
The Shark fell unconscious because of the attack with the Lumper. Chuck grabbed their guns, and dropped one by the window, but decided to keep another, just in case, even if he hated guns. He placed it on his yellow short pants, and grabbed a chair next to him. He exited the room, and accommodated the chair on the outside to block the door by leaning it against the doorknob, so the criminals inside couldn't escape if they wake up. Then, he ran through the corridor.
Chuckie decided that he against the four remaining villains was still a huge risk, so he took out his Union's communicator to ask for help, but it fell to the ground because of a fast hit with a whip. Chuckie turned to see Saavanah making fancy movements with her whip, and smiling deviously.
"So, my dear ColoRed Chuck, we meet again, eh? What do you think? Your Skweaky Lumper versus my little whip?" Saavanah challenged Chuck. He then looked down, and smiled.
"How about your butt against the floor, Catwoman-wanna-be?" Chuckie quickly leaned and grabbed the rug with both hands, and, before Saavanah could react, yanked it, causing the girl to fell on her back. She wasn't unconscious, however, and handled to call for back-up.
A few seconds later, Kill-a-Lot Kid appeared from behind Saavanah, holding his two guns, and shot at Chuckie twice. Chuck avoided the bullets, and grabbed his mallet before running again. Sean left Saavanah on the corridor, and started chasing him.
The mansion was a real maze, so Chuckie eventually ended in another dead end. When he was about to turn, he could hear Sean's mocking voice from behind him.
"Drop the mallet, Chuck. I got you." Chuck dropped his Lumper, and Sean continued. "Oh, I'm so going to enjoy this. You should never had messed with me, fool. It was because of you I got a 125 years-long sentence."
"Hey, at least it wasn't for life." Chuckie replied, still facing the wall. Carefully, he moved his left hand to grab the gun on his pants.
"Funny. Now, slowly, turn around. I want to see your silly face the moment I shoot at you." Sean said in an amused way. However, Chuck turned, not slowly, but incredibly fast, and aimed at the Kid using Tim's gun. Now the two of them were on a stand-still position.
"It seems I didn't count with your cleverness, ColoRed. But I always count with your morals. You are no killer. Give me that gun before you hurt yourself." Kill-a-Lot smiled, but kept his two guns with a strong grip. Chuckie sighed.
"Yes. You are right. I can't shoot you. Fine, take it." Chuck handled the gun to Sean. He was so impressed his words actually worked, he even laughed a little, and grabbed the gun. Then he realized something; he was holding two guns, and to grab the third one, he had to release both triggers to do it.
Before he could react, Chuckie gave Sean a good left punch right on the kisser. Kill-a-Lot dropped the guns, and received a series of fast punches on his belly and face. He tried to keep his conscience, but, by now, Chuck took advantage of his dizziness, and recovered his mallet. The Kid fell to the ground thanks to a well placed Lumper's hit between his eyebrows.
Chuckie grabbed all the guns and hide them in a nearby plant pot. Again, he ran away looking for the remaining villains, and hoping he wouldn't find him first. After a few minutes, he found the stairway, and walked down the main room of the mansion. The moment he placed a foot on the floor, he heard Coco's venomous voice. He turned around to see her aiming at him with a gun, with Jean Claude and Saavanah at her sides, holding their weapons as well.
"Well, my dear red guest, you always manage to surprise me. I thought that you would be an easy prey with all my little friends helping me, but you still handled to give us some troubles, right? Unfortunately, the party is over for you." She then directed to her assistant.
"Jean Claude, cut his legs. Then Saavanah will strangle him a little before yours truly and the rest of the gang finish him using that yellow heart as a practice target." Jean Claude smiled, and walked towards Chuck, with his sword ready to strike. Coco talked to Chuck again.
"Oh, and if you try to avoid Jean Claude, well, you should remember I'm a good shooter, and can finish you in a moment if you try to run. So, what will be, Chuck? The sword, or the bullet?" Coco laughed.
"How about none of them?" Kimi appeared from behind them, and yelled at Coco while charging against her. A moment later, they were both struggling for Coco's gun. Saavanah and Jean Claude turned to see her boss, but she just snapped at them, while continuing her struggle with Kimi.
"Help me, Sneaky! Jean Claude, get that idiot with antennae! Don't let him escape!"
"My pleasure!" Jean Claude replied, and charged with his sword against Chuck. He blocked the first blow with his Lumper, and jumped on his place just in time to avoid another directed to his legs. Jean Claude started chasing him around the room, while Chuck avoided his attacks by mere inches.
Saavanah, meanwhile, prepared her whip to attack Kimi, but Angelica jumped on her way, placing herself between the criminal and the two fighters.
"If you want to enter that fight, you first have to pass over me, sister!" Angelica challenged Saavanah, who just smiled and threw an attack with her whip, directing it against Angelica's face.
However, it never made contact. Angelica blocked the whip with her arm, who was covered with some clothing she ripped from a curtain on the next room. Then, she yanked the whip, starting a struggle of her own against Saavanah. It was a trick she learned from Tommy when she saw him practicing with his own whip once.
Meanwhile, Chuck and Jean Claude were now fighting on the stairway, slowly moving to the upper floor. Even if Chuckie was quite fast, and all his clumsiness disappeared in this kind of fights (thanks to the quick reflexes caused by fear or anger), he was getting tired, while Jean Claude was as fresh as a lettuce. The moment they reached the next floor, Chuckie was panting and holding his Lumper with both hands. Jean Claude glared at him, and smiled.
"What's the matter, ColoRed? Are you already tired of our little game?" Jean Claude mocked Chuck. The hero looked behind his enemy, and got a desperate idea.
"Yes... I want to try another game...and I always liked the slide!" Chuck said, and, moving as fast as he could, charged at Jean Claude, or it seemed that way. The villain tried to slice him, but Chuckie avoided the attack, and reached his real objective, the stairway. Chuckie jumped on the handrail, and slide all the way to the main room, just like a little kid would do it. Jean Claude groaned in frustration, and turned to run all the way down.
Standing in front of the stairway, Chuckie aimed at Jean Claude, and then threw his mallet right at the pirate's legs. Jean Claude, since he was running, couldn't avoid tripping, and fell through the stairway, from one of the top steps, until he landed face-first next to Chuck. He fainted after a few seconds of angrily staring at him.
"That happens when you run in the stairways. Your mom never told you?" Chuckie talked to the unconscious criminal. Then, he grabbed his Skweaky Lumper and turned to help Kimi and Angelica, but noticed he wasn't needed.
Saavanah was getting frustrated with her little rope (whip) war with Angelica. The blonde seemed to be just as strong as her, if not more, and couldn't manage to release the whip from her.
"Release my weapon, imbecile!" Saavanah finally snapped. Angelica shrugged and obeyed. It was so sudden, Saavanah couldn't stop herself from hitting hard the wall behind her. Saavanah rubbed the back of her head, and then turned her attention to Angelica again. Before she could do anything, Saavanah received a powerful punch that made her lose a couple of teeth, and fell to the ground, totally defeated. Angelica stood next to her, with her left fist on her hip, and raising her right one in victory. Chuckie walked towards them, and after taking a look at the knocked girl, turned to see Angelica, truly impressed.
"Hey, when I go to your Union's meetings, I don't just chat with the heroines about fashion and stuff. Learned that punch from Kim Possible." Angie smiled proudly.
A few feet away, Kimi had already disarmed Coco, throwing the gun away. The pirate then took out a knife, but Kimi made her release it with a karate chop. Coco, furious, started throwing a series of punches and kicks to Kimi, who dodged and blocked them almost without effort. The pirate gasped in fear. Kimi cracked her knuckles, and adopted a fighting stance.
"I had been the Police's Martial Arts Champion for the last two years. Want to be my punching bag for a while, Miss LaBouche?" Kimi smiled. Coco noticed then that both Saavanah and Jean Claude were out of the fight, and decided to use the best part of courage. She quickly took out a second blade, and threw it against Kimi, who avoided it by a few inches.
Approaching that moment, Coco ran away heading to the nearest window. She jumped out of the room, and prepared to escape, when she noticed the whole mansion was surrounded by cops.
"Attention, the people inside the house! This is Commander Pangborn. We have the whole place surrounded. Give up now, and walk out with your hands up!" The Commander's voice was heard from the crowd.
Coco yelled, furious, and fell on her knees, defeated.