"So, who wants to be with me?" the ghost-hunter, Skulker, asked no one in particular as all who were gathered within the dark structure scrambled to find powerful teemates. "Honestly," Shredder told Chairface Chippendale, "I don't see how that joker can be anything worse than what everyone else here has faced in the past." "Indeed indeed, my good man," the chair-headed criminal replied smuggly, "He can't be any better than that accursed Tick!"
"Pick Zim! Zim is I! Zim is ME! Won't somebody go with ZIM?" the irritating Irken called out as flahing neon signs ejected from his backpack. "I will, no one's coming to me." Skulker said walking over to the smaller freak. "YES!" Zim cried catching the attention of a few other bad guys and girls. One in particular walked over to them. "I guess I'll join as no one else wants me." Him told them hanging his face sadly. "What!" Zim cried with his eyes wide on the devilish man wearing a dress, "We need no clowns!" "I AM NOT A CLOOOOOOOWWWWWN!" Him yelled in a demonic voice and somehow appearing larger and more menacing causing the alien to zip behind Skulker as he took the slash from Him's claw tearing the ghost's chest up. "Ooo…" Zim said looking at the metal ectoplasmic figure writhering in pain, "You're in." "Goody!"
"So I says to em why put up with it all when you can just buy a monster from N.M.E.?" Fat Cat explained to Father, "I see, so this N.M.E. sells monsters then?" "Absolutely!" the gray cat replied enthusiastically. "Sounds like villains for hire to me." The intergalatic Zurg announced coming over to them, "I've heard of those monsters they sell, caused a real wreck back in the day when I was getting my empire started."
"Ahem, ahem, may I have everybody's attention please?" Dr. Jack Kite announced over a microphone. "The training shall be starting shortly, remember, you can work alone or in groups or whatever. Also our little brats-er-anoyances-doh-assistants, yeah let's go with that, will be calling you to the training room. Jake and Amy show yourselves!"
Immediately a boy with jet black hair and a girl with blond hair jumped up in a very happy mood and trying not to look at Jack's annoyed face. The boy had fingers just like Shadow and his companions whereas the girl had all four fingers like a normal person only the thumbs she had ended the vicious claws. Also take note that Shadow, his friends, and Jake and Amy had any fingernails. Niether of them looked like they had any muscles or looked fat. It was pretty safe to assume that they were teenagers as the girl had fairly big breasts and both kids were probably only five feet high or something. They were both looking over each and every villain with eagerness their eyes darting in different directions every few seconds as they sat on the stage.
Also the boy's hair looked like it had never been cut, went between his eyes and ended in a point inches forward from his head. No points could be found in it except for how It ended in back of his head and when it went between the eyes and away from his head. The girl's hair had two bangs that jutted out from the top of her head and a a pony tail in back that went down to her knees while the rest just swooped down to the sides of her head. And below those sat two gleeming faces full of joy.
"These two pests, as I told you will call you to face the Card Master soon enough, and feel free to back out at anytime you want. And also their names are Angel Amy and Jake Diabolical" Jack ended with a growl and then exited. The boy and girl then leapt down from the ten foot platform and land frog style on the ground below. "Father and anyone with him!" They both cried in usion.
Many of the boys there allowed their eyes to follow the girl's bouncing body into the hall as she led Father and his companions to an elevator and Jake Diabolical grinned at all of them darkly as his claws became more vicious. "She's pretty…"Gizmo moaned. "I guess." Jake told him looking away, "I doubt that those villains will beat Card Master though."
A few minutes later Father emerged from the door with his face in his hands and his red outline and fire all gone. Zurg and Fat Cat didn't come back, though. "What's wrong, did the human not pass?" Zim taunted. "I did," Father wept, "though I sort of wished I hadn't." "Zim, and anyone with him!" both Jake and Amy announced in usion and led the new team down the hall an to the elevator.
They were amazed as they zoomed down the shaft at sonic speed with a glowing gravity orb holding them in place so their insides wouldn't turn to goo when they stopped. "Have fun!" the duo told them as they stopped hundreds of miles below the surface of the meteor. With that the kids went along a hall around where the challengers were to enter.
"Welcome!" the jester clothed being in an echoing nonhuman voice said as the group entered hesitantly and he jumped down from the ceiling, "You are very brave to come before me but probably have no idea what you are getting yourselves into." "Enough talk!" Skulker cried as he threw himself at the mask. Very big mistake. The Card Master instinctively held up a card with a flaming dragon on it. The ghost hunter cried in agony as the dragon itself shot forth from the card and caught victim in its plasma teeth. It proceeded to wrap itself around all the other competitors and attempt to burn them to their demise.
"Enough!" Him declared angrily as he sucked the dragon into his mouth and blew the creature back at its master. "Ha, I guess you aren't going to be as easy as the others after all." Card Master announced as he appeared behind Zim, "That's good to know." Zim could only cry in his head as the freak lifted him up by his neck. "The objective," Card Master explained to them, "is for all of you to leave here."
"Don't just do something you fools, stand there!" Zim managed to choke out and then realized what he had said, but couldn't say anything else. "Sayonnara." The Card Master sneered in its weird voice as it pulled out another card which had a symbol of a ghost on it. "Perfect!" Skulker shouted getting his weaponry ready for combat.
"In no time at all millions of spirits with gaping mouths were swirling around the stage while Skulker blasted them and Him tried grab Zim. "Hurry up, I don't know how much longer I can hold these creeps off!" the metal ghost ordered. "Give the runt to me you freak!" the now demonic Him hissed while levitating towards the Card Master and its captive. "No!" came the stern reply it held up a card picturing a sword. Immediately a long sword appeared in its hand and struck Skulker in the back knocking him forward unable to hold off the spirits any longer, "But you will make a nice meal for my friends!"
"What?" the devilish villain said, his mouth small and his arms at his sides, not noticing the spirits coming from behind him. Finally he turned around but was far too late. One spirit was already grabbing him around the neck, putting its gaping mouth on his head, and beginning to suck. Soon the other twenty or so followed and he was soon enveloped by the impish monsters. Only curses cries of agony could be heard now and eventually the spirits started flowing into one spot where Him would be and disappeared as he they went into the hole. "Stop it you fiends!" Skulker yelled blasting them as much as he could, but nothing phased them at all. Eventually they were all gone along with Him.
"Once the Kigiri have formed so that they are next to eachother," the Card Master began to explain as it reached for another card, "they create an unpenetratable field with the bodies. The last group was doomed before they even started. Fat Cat was definitely the first to go as he was scared stiff when he saw the Kigiri and then Zurg went out with a bang protecting his ally. However Father fought to the very end with determination and to his fullest therefore I struck a deal with him which allowed him to remain within this world."
"Hiyah!" Zim yelled as a laser blasted the Card Master in the mask causing it to let out an unearthly cry of agony as he disappeared, "this monster shall not take Zim's soul for his deck!" "Was that it?" Skulker asked looking around and lowering his weapons. "Not even close." Came the awful reply from above him as the Card Master held out its next card which had a mouth drawn upon it.
Upon command a huge freakish stuffed animal monkey head with bald spots appeared in the center of the arena, looked around, and started chasing Zim and Skulker like a huge pac-man. Unknown to them, behind the black windows surrounding the room were Jake and Amy hugging and laughing their heads off at the performance. "Look Jakey, he's using the Monk Head Card now!" Amy cried joyfully. "Oh, they are so dead!" Jake added as the hysteria continued.
"Little Irkin!" "Skulker said. "Eh," Zim replied looking up at the ghost. "Split up, use that Laser Cannon on your side and I'll use all my weaponry on my side!" "Got it!" "Interesting," the Card Master muttered getting another card ready as he viewed the two from above. Diving off to the sides Zim and Skulker spun around and loaded the head full of plasma and lazers. Within seconds it was a ball of flames that smelled like rubber bands being burnt and the sizzled into ashes. "Whoa!" Jake and Amy cried excitedly their eyes wide. "I love watching fireworks with you Jake." Amy sighed resting her head on his shoulder. "They sure are something," he replied happily.
Too bad the Card Master had already drawn another card resembling spears. Ouch! He wasn't going to let the companions have any moment at all to rest it looked like "Ahh!" the two cried helplessly as spears of energy and plasma imbedded them at all sides. "Aim for his mask!" Zim told Skulker because he was already out of ammo himself. "Right!" Skulker told him as he attempted to raise a rifle into the firing postion. Bang! Almost immediately the spears stopped as the Card Master let out another groan of pain and disappeared.
"Be ready!" Skulker whispered to the green being who was eyeing the arena cautiously. They thought they were ready for anything back to back with eachother when suddenly the Card Master came up from their shadows, knocked Skulker down and threw Zim a few yards away allowing him to hold up a very lethal card. "In honor of my master!" it cried revealing the card to be the head of V shaped head of King Shadow. "Uh," Jake began. "Oh," Amy finished as they hugged eachother tightly.
The two evildoers were astounded by what happened next. The Card Master's shadow detatched itself from his feet and rose upon a black sword, "Try taking two of me out!" With this the Card Master then levitated in the air while firing exploding cards at his oppenents while at the same time they had to deal with its now deadly shadow as well. "You take the shadow while I block the cards," Skulker commanded as he started blasting the projectiles. "Come here you imitation of life!" Zim cried as he launched himself at the shadow only to phase through it.
"Zim, how you holdin' out… Zim?" Skulker asked as he kept firing and decided to look back. Slash! "Ah!" the ghost cried as he fell to the ground from the shadow's weapon while the explosive cards came towards him. "Take this slime ball!" the Irken cried grabbing one of Skulker's rifles and blasting the rest of the cards before they reached his injured companion, "Skulker fire any concentrated light or energy weapon on the shadow you might have!"
"Right!" he cried getting out a particle beam and blowing the shadow to kingdom come. "RYARHH!" the Card Master cried in agony as he disappeared again. "Being part of him," Jake explained to Amy who kept a constant hug on him, "when it is destroyed that part of him is destroyed thus decreasing his health incredibly." "So that's why we hurt him when we got rid of the shadow." She said wincing at the memory of their own battle with the monster, "Then we know what will come next…"
"You insolent pieces of filth!" the Card Master's voice began, "How dare you, only the best have ever damaged me this much and resisted all those cards! Now I shall show you what true terror is! FEEL MY WRATH!" It was then that the Card Master appeared again and threw all of his cards in the air and the very atmosphere seemed to become deadly.
All at once the monkey head appeared, the shadow detatched, spears of energy and plasma alonged with explosive cards rained down on them, the Kigiri spirits began to zoom towards them, and the Card Master wielded his own sword. It was chaos. "Okay, we have to keep this under control!" Zim cried in fear taking a few firearms from Skulker, "You blast the ghosts and cards while I take care of the monkey head and the shadow, and any chance you get blast that demon!" "ROGER!"
And so they set about their tasks. Skulker had trouble firing at both the cards and Kigiri especially when they went after Zim, but finally the assaults subsided for a few seconds and got quite a lot of shots at the Card Master's mask. Screaming in agony it figured it should visit the other side of the room to see how the other enemy was holding out against the onslaught. "Come on you freaks!" Zim said as he ran. Unfortunately he bumped into the real thing instead of the shadow which swung an even more dealy sword at him than the shadow would have. "Take this!" Zim cried loading a round of plasma into the stage mask. The Card Master's agonizing scream became muffled as the monkey head devoured him.
Almost a second after, though, the head imploded and both the Card Master and its shadow were after the green being with their swords. Not knowing which way to go, Zim scurried over to Skulker, spun him around, and they switched places. "Aw crap." Skulker said seeing the torture that awaited him, "Well, come on!" With Zim blasting the cards and Kigiri and Skulker masacring the two Card Masters they eventually had only one threat left, the Card Master himself. About to draw out his final card Zim and Skulker both took this oppurtunity to load both of their weapons into the mask. Zim first shot the glove weilding the sword, though, which withered away into nothingness. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" the Card Master's scream echoed throughout the the whole entire floor as his other glove, elf shoes, juggler's hat, cape and shoulder pads vanished leaving the mask to fall to the ground with a clang!
"Whoa!" both Amy and Jake said in usion approaching the two battelworn warriors, "We didn't even come close to that!" "Well, you definitely pass, Amy get Masks down here to revive the Card Master, and you two," Jake said pointing to the two villains, "are definitely the material Shadow's looking for." On the elevator ride up they stopped at one floor to let Amy off and talk to Masks. With a parting kiss Jake and Amy seperated and Jake continued to ride up with the two champions. "Here." Jake said giving them pills, "Eat them and they'll restore your health."
Zim and Skulker exited with happy faces and grinning at eachother as they went to sit down at a table and get something to eat while Jake called, "Negaduck and anyone with him!" "Can't be that hard if these two beat him, though I thought there was another." The villainous bird sneered as a crew of villains including Man Ray followed him to the elevator. Zim and Skulker shared a hearty laugh as they drank to their victory.
Well this chapter was definately longer and better than the first and hoped you all liked it, remember just tell me any villain you might want put in and I'll see about it. I hope you are getting a good picture of what everyone looks like, I make comics and pictures about my characters all the time and hope you like the story so far again. The Card Master I made up a while back to test all abilities of a certain person and to guard the Shadow's old base on earth, Shadow castle (It has to do with him and his friends' pasts but I'm not revealing that yet). Just to let you know Jake and Amy are 14 and just mischievious fun loving kids. They live together on an abandoned government airbase which is huge and cool and Amy a lot of times sleeps with Jake at night (sleep as in resting not what all of you are probably thinking about). I may reveal there pasts in a later chapter as well for it's very interesting. They are not related and have no parents. Jake might not have ever had any parents and you're probably going to wonder how that is possible. And lastly if you like this please review and tell me what you think :)