In loving memory of my Aunt Muriel, who's memories will always be good memories - 21th March 1931 - 11th February 2018
It was the middle of the night, and at the Jump City shipping dock, there was a warehouse,
And inside the warehouse, the large, heavy doors were opened, as it's reveal that the person opening them was Julie, as she opens them all the way, and she and the rest of the team walking into the warehouse.
As they walked through the warehouse, where it was empty, and there was noting but cargo crates, some stacked on top of each other, scanning the area for the first sign of trouble.
Kaikaina had tired and bored expression on her face, as she walked, "Why are we here, again?" Kaikaina asked,
White Tiger turned her head to look at Kaikaina, "We're here because this warehouse is a special S.H.I.E.L.D. holding facility, which is used to store and hold for transport S.H.I.E.L.D. equipment and tech, and someone broke in, but for some reason, whoever broke in, disable the warehouse's surveillance system but not the security system, which active the silent alarm, so we couldn't see who broke in, but we know someone broke in." Tiger explained to Kaikaina, as they kept walking,
Metabee looked up at them, "So, who'd you think broke in? Hun... The Chung Pow Kitties... Spicer... The Syndicate..?" Metabee asked,
But A-Bomb looked down to look at Metabee, as he shook his head, "Nah, whoever did this tripped the alarm on propose, which means they wanted to get someone's attention, namely ours." A-Bomb mentions to him.
But then, as they go around a corner, they looked ahead and saw, going through a opened crate, were two figures, as they turned around and revealed themselves.
As the two of them were Red X and Black Velocity, as they stared down at team S.P.D.
A-Bomb, Metabee, Tiger, Julie, Kaikaina and especially Ninja, were shocked and surprised at seeing Red X,
Kaikaina quickly moves next to Ninja, as she looked totally confused and shocked, as a question mark and exclamation point appeared over her head. "Red X!? But..? You-ba... Ninja, I thought you were Red X!?" She said to him, as she turned to look at Ninja.
Ninja was just as surprised, seeing his old alter ego of Red X, now being worn by someone else.
But then, this new Red X narrowed his eyes at them, "Not anymore, Cutey..." Red X replied to her, as he lifted up both hands, aiming them at them, and fires two blasts of red energy Xs from the palm of his hands.
The energy Xs files towards them, and hits the ground, before exploding, causing them to quickly jumped out of the way,
When White Tiger lands on the ground, she looks up and saw Red X, in the air and thrusted his right foot out, to deliver a kick, but Tiger quickly reacted and lifted up both her forearms to block his kick, but then, Red X suddenly disappears, and all of a sudden reappears, behind White Tiger, on the ground, crouched down, and before White Tiger could reacted, Red X swings his right leg, swiping her legs, knocking her to the ground.
Julie and Metabee ran over to Black Velocity, where he stood there with his arms crossed, as Metabee aimed his right gauntlet at him,
"And who are you?" Julie asked Black Velocity, as she and Metabee had never seen him before.
"The name's Black Velocity, I'm new around these parts (!)" Black Velocity introduces himself, in a smug tone of voice, as he pointed his right thumb at himself.
"Yeah, well, to me, you're just a new target!" Metabee told him, glaring at the villain, as he fired his gauntlet at him.
But Black Velocity stood his ground, as the shot flies towards him but then, the shot goes through him, as he suddenly disappeared and the shot goes through his after-image.
Metabee and Julie looked surprised and confused, on seeing Black Velocity just disappeared,
"What? Have either of you ever met someone who can do what I do?" Black Velocity said, getting their attention, as they turned around and looked up, seeing Black Velocity sitting on top of a stack of crates.
And then Black Velocity disappears, leaving his after-image, and then reappearing, standing on the ground, as Metabee and Julie kept looking and turning around to try and keep up with him.
Black Velocity then disappears again, leaving another after-image and Julie and Metabee looked around to see where Black Velocity went now, but they couldn't find him.
"Where did he..?" Julie said, looking confused, as she kept looking around.
"Behind you..." Black Velocity's voice said, coming from behind Julie,
Julie then, quickly turned around and tosses her right fist to punch him, but Black Velocity disappears again, and she punches his after-image,
And Julie and Metabee saw Black Velocity, running away, and running at an extremely high speed, leaving a streak behind him, as Black Velocity reaches a wall and jumps on it, planting his feet on it, and ran on the wall, running across it, before jumping off it and ran towards Julie and Metabee, running so fast, he turns to a black and purple streak, reaching and hitting them, knocking them to the ground, as he kept running, before quickly stopping and turning around to look at his grounded foes.
Metabee and Julie were pushing themselves up, as they understood that Black Velocity had the power of super speed.
Meanwhile, Kaikaina was firing her two blasters at Red X, as he was in mid-air, flipping and dodging all of the blaster shots, until her reaches a wall, and plants his feet and jumps off it, and plants both hands on her shoulders and pushing her down, as her eyes goes Blank White Eyes, as he pushes himself off her, but Kaikaina quickly got back up, and looked annoyed, as she quickly turned around and chases after Red X, as he was jumping from stack of crates to another, as Kaikaina were chasing him from ground lever, firing her blasters at him.
Until he jumps off a stack, and turns upside down in mid-air and aimed both his palms at the sides of two stacks of crates that were opposites from each other, and fires a double blast of red energy, and both beams hits the sides, and just bounces off them, and goes downward, and when Kaikaina ran in-between them, the energy beams then moves themselves and hits Kaikaina, while forming an X and electrocutes her.
"GGGGGGAAAAAAHHHHH!" Kaikaina yelled in pain, as she shuts her eyes, until the blast ends and Kaikaina drops to her knees and falls to the ground.
Red X lands on the floor, and looked ahead and saw A-Bomb, charging towards to attack, but then Red X lifted up his right hand and fires an X from his palm, that flies towards A-Bomb, which causes him to stop, as the X stopped in midair, right in-front of him, as A-Bomb didn't know why the X just stopped and didn't hit him.
But then, all four edges of the X quickly extends out and each end, sticks on to four individual crates between A-Bomb, and then, the X then pulled in all four crates, causing them all crates to be pulled and smash into A-Bomb.
Red X stands there, until Ninja leaps in and tackles Red X,
The two of them tumbled on the floor, until Red X plants both feet on Ninja's stomach and pushes him off, as Ninja quickly recovered in midair and lands on his feet, while Red X plants the on the ground, getting back on his feet.
Ninja narrows his eyes at Red X, "Ninja Rings!" Ninja yelled out, as he tosses a Ninja Ring at Red X.
But then, before the Ninja Ring could hit him, Red X suddenly disappeared, vanishing.
Ninja looked confused, as the Red X suit didn't have the feature of teleportation when he wore it,
But then Red X teleports behind Ninja, immediately tossing his right fist, but Ninja quickly moves his head to the left, dodging Red X's fist, and Ninja quickly turned around to face Red X, as he tosses left fist out, but Ninja quickly drops to the ground, planting his back on floor and lifted his legs up, and grabbed Red X's left arm in-between feet, and swings his legs upward, tossing Red X into the air.
As Red X was about to hit the ground, head-first, he teleports again, and then teleports again and was lands on the floor, feet first.
Ninja then runs in and tosses his right fist at him, but Red X quickly shifted his head to the right, dodging his punch, as Ninja then tossed his left fist, but Red X catches it was both hands, as he then uses it to lift himself off the floor and throws Ninja to the ground, as Red X becomes airborne.
Red X then falls towards Ninja, extending his right leg, to deliver a kick to Ninja, but as Ninja was on the ground, on his back, he quickly manages to catch Red X's right foot, stopping the kick, and then used all his strength to toss Red X off of him, as Red X slams against a stack of crates, before Ninja quickly grabbed his face in his left hand, pushing him against a stack the crate, pining him against it.
Ninja had a serious scowl in his eyes, as he glared at Red X, "Who are you, and how did you get the Red X suit?" Ninja told Red X, demanding to know who he is and how he got his Red X suit.
"Let's just say, I'm a more deserving candidate to wear this suit (!) Red X replied back, in a mocking tone of voice, as he then lifted up his right hand and grabbed Ninja's left wrist, as his glove had electricity sparking from it, which electrocutes Ninja.
"Gah!" Ninja yelled out in pain, as his grip on Red X's face loses grip,
As Red X lifted up his left fist and punches Ninja in the face, sending him flying and smashing into some crates,
Red X straightens up, as Black Velocity quickly runs up and stands next to him, as the two of them stared at team S.P.D., as they all helped Ninja.
"I was hoping for a real fight..." Black Velocity said, sounding really disappointed,
Red X turned his head to look at Black Velocity, "Forget it, we've got what we came here for." He told Black Velocity, as he reaches his right hand to his belt and takes out a component.
Black Velocity nodded, as he then speeds off, immediately leaving the warehouse, as Red X turned around and began to run off,
White Tiger and Kaikaina sees this and both of them sprints off after Red X, chasing him,
"You're not getting away!" Tiger told Red X as she and Kaikaina chases him,
But then, Red X quickly turned around and aimed his left palm and fires an X from it, as it flies towards White Tiger and Kaikaina, as it extends and grabs both of them, wrapping itself around them, and tying them up against each other tightly, causing both Tiger and Kaikaina to fall to the floor.
As Red X stopped, turned and looked down at the tied up Tiger and Kaikaina, as the two of them struggled to get free. "Better luck next time, girls." Red X told them, mocking, as he puts the component on his bet, as he then presses the X on the center of his belt.
He was about to teleport away, but then, his belt malfunctions, and he remains there, to his shock, "What? Not now!" Red X said, widen eyed in shock, as he looked at his malfunctioning belt, and he looked up and sees Ninja, sprinting towards Red X, causing him to turn and run.
Red X leaps on top of a stack of crates, that reaches to the warehouse's glass roof and leaps through the open window, and makes it to the roof, where with Ninja, right behind him Red X kept running, as he turned his head to look over his right shoulder and sees, behind him, was Ninja, still chasing him, with a serious look in his eyes.
Red X then looked at his malfunctioning belt and then punches it with his right fist.
"Rah!" Ninja yelled out and he leaps out, to tackle Red X, but unfortunately, he jumps up and dodges Ninja,
In mid-air, Red X turned to look at Ninja, "Later, kid," Red X told him, before teleporting away, escaping.
Ninja stands up, looking up at where Red X teleported away, as the rest of the team made it to the roof.
Then, Julie slides in next to Ninja, as her eyes were Blank White Eyes, and just stared at Ninja, with a look of blankness on her face, before her expression changes into a suspicious look.
As she then started to poke Ninja's right arm, with her right index finger, and repeatedly poking him, making Ninja turn his head to look at Julie, with a confused look in his eyes.
"Ow, hey, Julie..." Ninja said, as Julie kept poking his arm, until Ninja grabbed her hand with his left hand, stopping her from poking him. "... That hurts!" He told her, now looking annoyed.
Julie's eyes then goes back to normal, as she had a bit of disbelief on her face. "Then, you're really Randy, and not some kind of robot or hologram or something..?" Julie asked, looking hopeful.
Ninja then let's go of Julie's hand, as he had a look of annoyance. "No..." He tells her,
Julie hears him say it, but Julie didn't fully believe him, as she raised her right eyebrow and had a suspension look on her face, as Julie turned SD and continue poking Ninja, as multiple SD Julies' began to appear and poked Ninja as well, to a lot of Ninja's annoyance.
"The only person who wore the Red X suit was you, Randy, and this new Red X managed to mimic your movements and skills perfectly when you wore the Red X suit, which he used it as if it was made for him." SD Julie told Ninja, as she and her multiple shelves kept poking him, until Ninja was completely covered with SD Julies' poking.
But then, Ninja immediately blasts all the SD Julies' off him, looking angry and annoyed, as fire appeared behind him. "JULIE, KNOCK IT OFF!" Ninja yelled out, with total annoyance,
As Ninja immediately stands straight, looking annoyed, as all of the SD Julies' falls next to him, stacking on top of each of each other, all of them fuse and morphs together and changes back into normal Julie.
Julie had a glad and happy smile on her face, as she closed her eyes and rose up her right index finger, "Randy isn't a hologram!" She said to everyone, happy that Ninja wasn't a hologram or fake, and that he wasn't that Red X.
But Kaikaina had an unconvinced and suspicious look on her face. "But he could still be a robot..!" She mentions, extremely unconvinced that Ninja was the real Ninja, as she turns to look at an unemotional A-Bomb. "Check 'em for batteries..." Kaikaina told A-Bomb,
As A-Bomb then lifted up his right hand, while snapping on a surgical rubber glove, to prepare to give Ninja a rectal exam to see if he was a robot double. And he pointed his large right finger at Ninja, wanting him to remove his pants, to begin.
But Ninja goes Blank White Eyes, as he looked completely and absolutely terrified; not wanting to get a rectal exam from A-Bomb's VERY LARGE FINGERS!
Ninja steps back, holding both his hands up, "Hold it! Hear me out!" He yelled, begging them to stop and let him talk, "That Red X wasn't me, I promise!" Ninja said, with completely honest and scared look in his eyes.
Ninja then sighed, as he closed his eyes, as he then opens them again, and had a serious look. "... Putting on the Red X suit was a mistake..." He told them, as he turned around and walked away.
Leaving White Tiger, A-Bomb, Kaikaina, Julie and Metabee standing there, watching him leave,
Some time passed, and in the depths of space, Taskmaster fleet was flying across space, and in the main flagship,
Walking down the hallway, towards the bridge, were Red X and Black Velocity, as the Vanguards walked towards the doors, as they opened automatically, and they walked through, entering the bridge, where they see Taskmaster, as he was standing on a platform, with his back was facing them, as he was staring at the observation window, looking at the void of space.
While there were some operators working on the controls for the ship,
As Taskmaster turned around and sees Red X and Black Velocity, as Mistral, Giganta and Nico Robin walks in and stood aside from Taskmaster, as they watched Red X and Black Velocity walking towards Taskmaster.
"I sense that you've returned with the device, without dealing with any complications..." Taskmaster said to Red X and Black Velocity, as he turned his head to the right a bit to acknowledge them.
"If you call that little slap fight S.P.D. gave us a complication (?)" Black Velocity said, as he mentions the fight they had with team S.P.D. was boring to him.
Red X then walks towards Taskmaster, as he turned around to face him, as Red X reaches his right hand to his belt and takes out the device and holds it up, and Taskmaster takes it.
"Excellent, you both have done an exceptional job," Taskmaster told Red X and Black Velocity, as he gives the device to Giganta. "Take this to the main science bay." He gave Giganta an order.
As Giganta takes it, and nodded at him, "Yes, Taskmaster," She replies, with a smile, as she turned and walked out of the room.
Taskmaster then turned to look at the Vanguards, as the main doors opens, and walking into the bridge, were the Syndicate, as the team of evil teens and sees Red X and Black Velocity.
"Oh, look who's here, Taskmaster's pack of show dogs (!)" Black Velocity joked, insulting them, as he crosses his arms.
Killer Frost steps forward, as she was angered by that comment, as she raised up her right fist up at Black Velocity, "Get stuffed, Helmet-Head! Unless you wanna know what full-body frostbite feels like..!" Frost threatens Black Velocity, as some cold mist emanates from her fist.
"We were the big bads before either of you two mooks, were stretching on your spandex!" Harley Quinn told them, steps in behind Frost, pointing her left index finger over her shoulder.
But Red X crosses his arms, as he chuckled, "Please, both of us have been trained by Taskmaster himself, trained to be much more component source of skill and potential that matches with his level, unlike any of you (!)" Red X mocked them,
As Killer Croc, Harley, Frost and Toad got angry at Red X and Black Velocity and their mocking,
"Why you..!" Croc said, gritting his razor sharp teeth, and was about to jump and attack them,
But then, a powerful blaster shot was fired and hits the floor between Croc and the Vanguards, immediately stopping Croc from moving.
As he and the rest of the Syndicate all turned to where the shot was fired, and they see Taskmaster, holding his blaster in his right hand, as he was aiming it in the direction where the shot was fired, as the end of it was smoking.
"Enough!" Taskmaster yelled out, ordering them to stop bickering. "Red X and Black Velocity are speaking the true, they managed to complete their mission, while managing to handle team S.P.D., while you six haven't been able to fully succeed your giving missions, or even been able to destroy them!" Taskmaster told Felix, Croc, Harley, Poison Ivy, Frost and Toad, in complete seriousness of the Syndicate's less than successful progress.
Mistral then walks up to Taskmaster's stand, walking up behind him, as she puts her arms over his shoulders, resting on them, as she moves her right hand and begins to rub her palm on Taskmaster's helmet cheek.
"I believe what Taskmaster is saying is that the moment he brought all of you together and created the Syndicate, it was to surpassed and destroy S.P.D., but instead of living up to your purpose, you have been either overpowered, stopped and humiliated by them, and the reason why Red X and Black Velocity is here, is to be more of what you have failed to be." Mistral told the Syndicate, coldly, as she gave them a gentle but devious smile.
"Enough banter, Mistral, take the Vanguards to the examination room for their treatment." Taskmaster ordered Mistral, as he turned his head to the right to look at her.
Mistral smiled with pleasure at her lover, "Yes, Taskmaster." She said to him, as she removes her arms off his shoulders and walked towards the exit, as Black Velocity and Red X followed her.
But before he left the bridge, Red X stopped and turned around to look at Taskmaster, before turned back to follow them, exiting the bridge.
Robin notices Red X, and had some what; suspicious look on her face, on what that look was about from Red X.
Poison Ivy and Harley were looking at the door Red X and Black Velocity exited through, while Ivy leans in next to Harley.
"I know we suppose to hate them, but this new Red X is just scrump-diddlylicious!" Ivy told Harley, with a flirty smile began to curve on her mouth, as she was feeling an attraction to the new Red X.
Taskmaster then turned to look at the Syndiate, "Now then, I have a mission for you six," Taskmaster told them, as Felix, Croc, Harley, Ivy, Toad and Frost all looked at Taskmaster.
Meanwhile, at the Triskelion Island, inside the main building,
In the debriefing room, S.P.D., along with Jaime, Kaede, Flash, Aquagirl and Cyandog, were in the room, with Washington and Centorea.
Julie, Ava, Jaime and Centorea were standing in-front of a large holo-screen on the wall with an image of Red X on it, while A-Bomb, Metabee, Cyandog and Flash were sitting around the large table, as everyone else was standing.
"But who is he..?" Jaime asked, greatly wondering who the identity of the new Red X is, as he turned to look at them, "If Randy is the Ex-Red X then who's this new guy?" He said, looking curious,
But then, a blackboard on wheel glides in and knocks Jaime out of the way, as it's revealed to be Kaikaina pushing it, as she stops it and spins it, before stopping it, and reveals some crudely drawn Ninja drawing,
Kaikaina looked at everyone, with a serious and suspicious expression on her face. "OK, if this Red X isn't Randy evil clone from another dimension, than he's so obviously has to be an evil, cyborg, monkey sent from the future to extracts DNA from Randy!" Kaikaina told them her totally far fetch and moronic theory of Red X's identify.
But Ava, Julie and Centorea all crosses their arms, while giving Kaikaina the coldest, unemotional glares in history, as they did not find that theory at all plausible and found it to be the most idiotic thing they have ever heard.
Ava then walked over to the blackboard, grabbing on to the edges and then pushes it downward causing the board to spin and catches Kaikaina, spinning her along with it, at great speed, as she goes Blank White Eyes.
"Yah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah!" Kaikaina yelled out, as she spun around, until the blackboard launches Kaikaina into the air and across the room.
And Flash looked up in shock, as he quickly stands up and catches Kaikaina, carrying his girlfriend, bridal style, Flash smiled at Kaikaina, as she puts her arms around her boyfriend's neck, as she smiled lovingly at him.
"A-hem! If we can drop the romance and focus on the matter at hand!" Washington told Kaikaina and Flash, sounding annoyed, as he was looking at him.
Ava narrowed her eyes, as she began to rub her chin with her right hand, "All that we have to go on is that this new Red X could be anyone, anyone who's smart enough to steal the Red X suit from the S.H.I.E.L.D. Maximum Security Vault, and who's stupid enough to put it on for a joyride." Ava tells them, as she turned her head to look at Julie and Centorea.
Aquagirl turned to look at A-Bomb and Metabee, "And what of this new enemy, this... Black Velocity..?" She mentions, adding of their newest enemy, Black Velocity.
And then, T-AI appeared, and looked at the team, 'I've already performed a full search of the S.H.I.E.L.D. criminal database, but found no connections or information of this Black Velocity, no information of his true identity or where he came from.' T-AI explained to everyone, as the holographic AI looked curious.
"But all we know is that when a super villain steals some kind of component or machine part, we know that Taskmaster is pulling the strings." A-Bomb told his team, as he had a serious look on his face, as he stood up, knowing that Taskmaster is behind Red X and Black Velocity.
Julie then turned to look at Ava, "And the fact that Taskmaster is going to use those things to build whatever it is he's building, that what really grabs my attention." Julie mentioned, as she looked worried, but also suspicious of Taskmaster's goals and what he's building.
"As if we didn't have already have enough trouble with the Syndicate, but now we've gotta deal with Taskmaster's newest interns (!)" Metabee said, looking annoyed, referring to Red X and Black Velocity.
But Kaede turned to look at him, with a mild expression on her face, "But you gotta admit, their costumes are pretty hardcore lookin'..." Kaede mentions, as the ninja girl shrugged her shoulders, pointing that out.
Jaime stands up, next to her, as he gave her an annoyed look, as his nose was gone. "Complementing bad guys... Really not helping..!" He told her, as her giving complains to Red X and Black Velocity's costumes,
Centorea then turned to look at Randy, as he was up against the wall, leaning his back on it, with his arms crossed, and having a grim frown on his face. "Randy, you were the first one to wear that suit; don't you know how it operates and what its weaknesses are?" Centorea asked him, having a look of hope that Randy would know something about the Red X suit that they can use to defeat Red X.
But Randy shook his head, with a look of regret, "No, when Taskmaster gave me the suit, I didn't look over on how the suit worked or it's weaknesses." Randy said, as he regretted not looking at the Red X suit when he still had it.
"We maybe able to shed some light on the situation," The sound of Dr. Grey's voice was heard in the room, as everyone turned and sees, entering the room was Dr. Grey, with Blukic and Driba on both her shoulders.
Dr Grey walked over to the holo-screen, as Dr. Grey turned to face everyone,
"When we still have the Red X suit in holding, we took the liberty of study the functions of the suit..." Driba tells them,
"... And just found somethin'... Less motivating to share..." Blukic added,
"We found out that all of the suit's functions are completely powered by one chemical substance..." Dr. Grey said, before turning to look at the holo-screen, as the image changes to a molecular structure, that was red and in the shape of an X. "...Xenothium..." She revealed,
Then, Julie gasped in shock, while Metabee and A-Bomb looked horrified,
"No..." Wash said, in horror of this,
But Kaikaina was walking towards the door, as she was SD and had a look of irritation.
"Man! How come very super dangerous and important thing gets said; I'm the only one who doesn't get it!" SD Kaikaina said, annoyed that she know that what their saying is important but she doesn't understand how important.
And then, now SD, Ava was in a white hoop, in some kind of box, looking shocked, "XENOTHIUM!?" She yelled out, in shock and outrage, as SD Ava turned to look at SD Randy, looking annoyed, "THAT SUITS' POWERED BY XENOTHIUM!" SD Ava yelled at him, waving her arms at SD Randy, as an X appears on him.
SD Ava then moves and appears in another hoop, "ANY SMART AND SANE PERSON WITH A THIRD-GRADE EDUCATION WOULD KNOW THAT XENOTHIUM IS THE MOST DANGEROUSLY UNSTABLE CHEMICAL COMPOUND KNOWN TO MAN!" SD Ava yelled out, as another SD Randy appears, as another X appears on him.
SD Ava then moves appears in another hoop. "PLEASE TELL ME THAT TASKMASTER WASN'T CRAZY ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY GO MESSIN' WITH IT!?" SD Ava yelled out, as a line goes through the row of hoops left by SD Ava, as it turned into a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.
Randy then goes back to normal, as he takes a deep breath, as he had a look of dread on his face. "Like I said, putting on that suit was a mistake..." Randy told them, as he turned around and walked out of the room,
While the team watches Randy leaving the room,
Julie turned to look at everyone, "Maybe we should lay off Randy, none of this is his fault, and he's taking this whole 'Red X' thing, the hardest." Julie tells them, looking concerned for Randy,
"I think it would be best if all of us go to bed, it's been a long day, and besides it's a school night." Centorea suggested to everyone, with a gentle smile, thinking that a night sleep would be good for the team.
A-Bomb had a look of agreement, as he looked at his team, "She's right guys, we should hit the hay, we'll keep at this tomorrow." He told everyone, dismissing them,
As everyone agreed, as Julie, Ava, Jaime, Kaede, Aquagirl, Flash, Cyandog, Kaikaina, Metabee and A-Bomb left the room, heading to the SHED to go to bed.
As T-AI's hologram disappears,
Leaving Washington, Dr. Grey, Blukic, Driba and Centorea there, Centorea, Dr. Grey, Blukic and Driba was about to leave but Centorea stopped and turned, as she noticed that Washington was still facing the holo-screen, as the image was changed to the item that Red X and Black Velocity stole.
"Wash..?" Centorea said, looking at her partner, looking curious on what he was doing.
Wash was rubbing the chin part of his helmet, as he stared at the item, "If Taskmaster is building something with all this high-grade stuff with his cronies to steal it from us, I've a hunch that there's more to than just stealing stuff from us. Don't forget, Taskmaster was a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent..." Washington told her, as he turned to look at Centorea, as he had a feeling that their more to this than just building some... What purpose was the thing was going to do...
The next day, in the afternoon, in Jump City High,
Randy was walking down the hallway, walking passed some of the other students, as he had a grim look on his face, as he was gripping on the straps on the backpack, as he couldn't stop thinking about Red X, feeling guilty, as he felt that he should have destroyed the Red X suit when they still had it, and now, there's some manic parading around in it.
"Randy!" The voice of Alice was heard, as Randy stopped and turned around and sees Alice, as she was quickly walking towards him,
"Hey, Alice..." Randy said to her, as he looked depressed, as she reaches him.
Alice sees that Randy was upset, and look concerned, "Randy, are you OK..?" She asked, concerned,
Randy then quickly changes his expression to surprised, "Oh, yeah... Uh, I'm just little... I, uh... didn't get enough sleep last night... I'm just tried, I'll be fine..." Randy tells Alice, lying just to assure her that his fine.
But Alice looked unconvinced as she knew that there was something bothering Randy greatly, "Randy, please don't lie to me, I know when someone is saying that their fine when they're really not. What's wrong, Randy?" She asked him, as she wanted him to talk to her about what was making him upset.
Randy stared at Alice, as he knew he couldn't tell her about Red X, but he thought of a way to say what was brothering him but also evade from saying Red X.
"Uh... Something happen last night... somebody stole something of mine... and a big part of me feels regret..." Randy told Alice, looking depressed again.
Alice looked confused, "I don't understand; why do you feel like that?" She asked him,
Randy just shrugged his shoulders; thinking that he should have destroyed the Red X' suit when he had the chance, and now it'll be used to hurt and endanger the lives of people. "... It was something... dangerous, and the person who stole it... I know he's going to use it to hurt people, and I've been saying to myself that I should have gotten rid of it... And I know that if anyone gets hurt or worse... It's my fault and it's on my head forever..." Randy explained, managing to avoid saying anything more of Red X and everything, but enough to vent off from.
Alice contemplated on this, before gently grabbing on to Randy's backpack strap and pulling him into the empty janitor's closet, and closes the door.
With both her and Randy in the closet, Randy looked confused on what was going on, don't get the wrong idea, Randy had always dreamed of being alone with a girl in a closet, just read his wish list, that sucka is HUGE!
But right now, Randy didn't think of it, as he was just confused on what Alice was doing, as she looked at Randy with a gentle but serious look.
"Randy, I understand that you feel more guilty than upset, and yes, if you had something so dangerous, you should have gotten rid of it, and just having it stolen and it would make you worried of everyone else, and that it would make you feel this way, I understand completely, but feeling guilty for something that was out of your control, is something that you shouldn't feel guilty for, I know that you would never mean to hurt anyone and feeling complete and utterly remorse for the wellbeing of every others is a sign that you are a good person..." Alice explained to Randy, as she gives him a down to earth smile.
Randy stared at Alice, with blankness on his face, as what she just said reached out at him.
"... So give yourself a break, you are a good and honest guy, Randy, I know it..." Alice finished, as she puts her right hand on Randy's shoulder, and smiled at him.
Randy looked at Alice's hand on his shoulder, before turning to look at her, seeing her smile at him, Randy felt a bit more better, having Alice say that he should lose faith in himself and reminds him of his strongest trait, his trait of protecting his fellow man, he felt that he needed to hear that, as Randy began to smile a bit.
Randy sighed with relief as he puts his left hand on top of Alice's right hand on his shoulder, and smiled at her, "Alice, you are the Russell Westbrook of pep talks... Thanks..." He said to her, smiling,
Alice closes her eyes, as she smiled back, and then opens her eyes, and she and Randy gazed into each other's eyes, as both their stared at each other.
But then, the door opens, revealing Julie and Metabee, which immediately snaps Randy and Alice back to reality, as they turned to look at them, as Julie and Metabee looked surprised and confused on what they were seeing.
"What... Is this..?" Metabee said, as he raised up his right eye up, wanting to know what Randy and Alice were doing in a closet together.
Randy and Alice just stared at Julie and Metabee, with both of their eyes going Blank White Eyes, as they noses disappears, as they couldn't manage to say a thing, due to how this looked.
"Uh..." Randy said, until he turns and noticed that his hand was still on top of Alice's hand, which was still on his shoulder, as he quickly it back, while Alice quickly does the same.
Metabee looked confused, but, behind him, the background was dark, while a Julie-shaped silhouette slides in, before a pair of glowing red eyes opens with a look of anger in them, aiming at Randy.
And then, Julie quickly charges in and grabs Randy's shirt and lifted him off the ground, and began to violently shake him around like a ragdoll.
"RANDY, WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING?! YOU PERVERTED CADE; I WILL NOT LET YOU SCARE AWAY ALICE BECAUSE OF YOUR LADY-KILLER ATTITUDE! FLIRTING IS TOLERABLE BUT TRAPPING ALICE IN THE JANITOR'S CLOSET IS CROSSING THE LINE, YOU PERVY NINJA!" Julie yelled at Randy, as she kept violently shaking him back and forward, with him being up against a wall, and the shaking makes the behind of his head smash against the wall.
Then, Alice slides in, with a nervous smile on her face, as she had her eyes closed and was in the shape of an arch, while waving her hands. "Oh, Julie, it's not what you think, I only took Randy in here only to talk, I just wanted to talk privately because I noticed that he upset, so I just wanted to help him cheer up, that's up." Alice explains, nervously, hoping it would make Julie stop smashing Randy's head against the wall, before he gets a concussion.
But hearing that, Julie's angry, red glowing eyes and sharp teeth quickly changes to a happy and calm expression, as she had a gentle smile and had her eyes closed, as she turned to face Alice, while she was still holding Randy up, as his head was tilted, as his eyes were spiral, with his nose disappears, dizzying from the shaking.
"Oh, is that all..? Then I guess I overreacted a little bit, sorry!" Julie apologised for overreacting, while Alice and Metabee had nervous look on their face, while their eyes were closed, and Alice have an awkward smile.
Now in one of the empty homerooms, Randy, Julie, Metabee, Kaikaina and A-Bomb were all sat down at separates desks, all facing Ava, who was next to the main board.
"I pulled up some of the security footage from the Maximum Security Vault and saw how the Red X suit got stolen." Ava tells her teammates, as she looked serious, as she presses a button on her watch, and then security footage appeared on the main board and started playing.
The footage had the image of the Security Vault, as there was hundreds of cargo crates filled illegal weapons, tech and items.
Sitting in the center of the vault was a large thin and heavily fortified container, which was the container that was holding the Red X suit.
But then, phasing through the wall, and in a burst of speed, a blur speeds through and in a blink of an eye, the container was opened and the suit inside was gone, along with the blur.
"Is this one of those 'Point the Difference Out' games..?" Kaikaina asked, as she had a smile of obliviousness on her face.
Ava had an annoyed look on her face, as her nose disappears, before it reappears as she turned to face the screen, as she was tinkering with her watch, and watches the footage rewinds before stopping to where the blur was on screen, as the image enhances, clearing it up, as the image reveals to be Black Velocity.
"Black Velocity manage to sneak into the Vault, by vibrating his molecules to phase through solid matter, nearly slipping passed the Vault's security without dictation." Ava told them,
"Wait, he vibrated his molecules to run through wall..? That sounds far-fetched." Metabee mentions, as he leans on his chair and crosses his arms, kind of seeing the implausibility of phasing through solid matter.
A-Bomb then leans in to Metabee, holding the back of his left hand at his right cheek, "Just roll with it, Bee, saves everybody from trying to explain it..." A-Bomb whispered to him,
Ava then presses a button on her watch and the image switches off, "A guy with the power of great super speed, only truly shows up that Taskmaster is getting more serious."
"And here I thought a guy who wears a skull-mask, has his own fleet of warships and wants all of our heads on a pike couldn't get more serious..?" Kaikaina mentioned, as she tiled her head to the left, as she looked confused, as a question mark appears over her head.
But Randy stood up, as he had a look of seriousness on his face, as he held up his right arm, curling his hand into a fist, while looking at it. "I don't care if Taskmaster is steppin' up; we'll just step up our game more, cuz' right now, nothing else matter to me than taking Red X down!" Randy said, with fury, determined to take down Red X.
Ava walks over to Randy, as she had her hands up, "Take it down a notch, O' Vengeful One (!) I get that you want to take Red X down before he hurt someone, but wanting to take the fight to them without a plan is just plain stupid." She told Randy, as she had a calming look on her face, as she puts her right hand on Randy's shoulder.
A-Bomb then stands up and looks at Randy, "She's right, Randy, we've gotta be smart about this, as much as I hate to admit it, but even with the six of us, the two of them managed to take each of us down like we were a bunch of amateurs. But we will take Red X and Black Velocity down, but we just gotta be smart about it." A-Bomb explained to Randy, with a reassuring look on his face.
Randy stared blankly at him, before turning to look at Julie, Metabee, Kaikaina and Ava,
But then, Ava's watch immediately started beeping, quickly getting the team's attention, as Ava quickly checks her watch to see what was happening.
Ava checks her watch before looking up at teammates, "We've got trouble." She told them, looking serious.
A few hours laters, now at Ticino, Switzerland, around the Contra Dam,
In the forest area around the dam, at a good distance away from it, was team S.P.D., as White Tiger was holding a pair of binoculars, as she was scanning the area.
"What are we lookin' at?" A-Bomb asked Tiger,
"The Syndicate high-jacked the whole Contra Dam, getting rid of all the operators and workers in there," White Tiger tells him, as she lowers the binoculars, as she had a serious look in her eyes.
"What could the Syndicate be doing at a Contra Dam?" Julie asked, looking confused, as she looked down at Metabee, as he looked up at her.
"Giant dam with an insane amount of water, plus gang of evil, insane bad guys that loves chaos equals big watery disasters." Tiger mentioned,
"Alright, game plan, we split up into two teams, me, Julie and Metabee, we'll take the main entrance, while Ninja, Tiger and Kai will sneak in around, find somewhere to sneak in, when we find the Syndicate, first priority is them all of them out and away before their do anything to damage the dam." A-Bomb told his team, giving them their roles.
Metabee, Kaikaina, Julie, White Tiger and Ninja all nodded to their leader, as they all split off into their teams, and went their separate ways.
Sneaking into the main room, where there was a row of hydro-power turbines,
Going around a corner on upper rail, was Ninja, Tiger and Kaikaina, as the three of them was sneaking in, (As Kaikaina had her helmet on)
As they quietly walking, they stopped as they looked down below and saw Harley and Toad walking, unaware of Ninja, Tiger and Kaikaina's presents above them.
White Tiger narrowed her eyes, as she was a bit confused, "Just Harley and Toad on watch duty..? I was expecting-" But then, she was cut off, when two familiar large claw like hands, reached from behind Tiger and Kaikaina, grabbing them and pulling them away from Ninja.
Ninja quickly turned around and sees, Killer Croc, standing before him, as he had his massive arms around Tiger and Kaikaina, holding them back. As then, walking around Croc was Felix, before Ninja turned his head to look over his right shoulder, and sees Killer Frost and Poison Ivy, standing behind him.
Ninja was surrounded, as Felix then lifted up his right fist and aimed it at Ninja, as he fires a blast of energy that hits Ninja, sending him flying off the railing and hitting the ground below, where he lied on the floor.
"Ohhhhh..." Ninja groaned in pain, as he slowly opened his eyes as he sees, now walking around and surrounding him was Felix, Frost, Ivy, Harley, Toad and Croc (As he was still holding White Tiger and Kaikaina)
Felix looked down at Ninja, as he chuckled a bit, "I didn't even need to use a full blast to take you down; you're sturdy as a piece of wet tissue paper (!)" Felix mocked Ninja,
Poison Ivy crosses her arms, as she smiled smugly at Ninja, "Even if Taskmaster's new Vanguards made you look like fools, we'll topple over them once we kill Taskmaster's most hated enemy." Ivy tells him,
Until Ivy then closes her eyes, as her noses disappears and puts her hands together, as some sparkles appeared around her, "And maybe after you and your friends are gone, the new Red X will be interested in asking me out!" Ivy said, extremely happy and in love!
While Tiger, Ninja and Kaikaina looked confused on why Ivy was like this, while Toad, Frost and Croc had looks of annoyance on their faces, as sweat drops appears on their heads,
White Tiger turned to look at Toad, "What's wrong with her?" White Tiger asked him,
Toad turned to look at Tiger, "Greeny's got the hots for that new Red X." He told her, telling them of Poison Ivy's crush on Red X.
Kaikaina tilted her head in confused, while White Tiger had a look of disbelief, "Seriously..." She said,
But then Harley slides in and had loving smile on her face, "Ooooo, I ship them so much!" She said, happy that Ivy has a crush, and roots for her and Red X.
Felix then stomps his right foot down on Ninja's chest, pushing him down to the floor, "I don't like the guy but this new Red X is a much better has shown to be a better candidate for the hardcore simulacrum if the suit." Felix mocked Ninja,
But Ninja looked at Felix, with not an angered look, but an amused look in his eyes, "Y'know something Felix, you're really the talker, you just know how to grab everyone's attention when you talk." Ninja said, actually complementing Felix.
"Heh, heh, heh; flattery will get you nowhere," Felix told Ninja, as he then aimed his right fist at him, as he was charging up for a energy blast.
"But the problem is that you never know when to stop talking, especially when one of you haven't noticed that we came here with the whole team." Ninja mentions, in a smug tone of voice.
As then, on the upper railing, A-Bomb, Julie and Metabee ran down it, as they stopped and stared down at the Syndicate, as they all turned around and saw them above them, saw Metabee pointed his right gauntlet at them.
"Drop 'em, or I'll drop you!" Metabee told the Syndicate, threatening them,
Then, Killer Frost quickly swings her right arm, blasting a ice beam from her hand, up at them, but A-Bomb leaps upward, jumping over it and dodging the blast, while Julie and Metabee both ran across the railing, running away from the ice beam, as Julie quickly grabs and picks up Metabee, holding him under her right armpit, as she then jumps off the railing, managing to evade the beam.
A-Bomb then fall towards Felix, where he quickly aimed his right fist at A-Bomb, but before he could fire, A-Bomb tackles him and the two of them tumbles in a brawl,
White Tiger and Kaikaina both turned to look at each other, nodding and then both then lifted up both their right legs up and strikes them down, as the two slams both their heels on Croc's toes.
"GAAH!" Killer Croc yelled out in pain, as he lets go of Tiger and Kaikaina, as the two of them, quickly turned around and both delivers a power punch to the face, with Tiger punching him with her right fist and Kaikaina with her left.
Julie and Metabee charges towards Toad, Harley and Killer Frost, as Toad and Harley charges towards them, as Harley swing her mallet at Metabee, swinging it down at Metabee, as he quickly jumps out of the way, and her mallet smashes it into the ground, Metabee then leaps up and performs a spinning, helicopter kick, but Harley quickly lifts up her mallet and blocks his kick with the mallet's long handle.
Toad was hopping around Julie, as she stood her ground and Toad jumps off the wall and towards her, and his tucked in his legs, and then delivers a double kick at her, but Julie quickly side-steps to the right and dodging his kick, and Julie quickly grabbed Toad's right leg with her left hand and pulls on it and tosses him to the floor, as she lets go of his leg and then Julie pulled her left fist up and tosses it down at him, but then Toad quickly rolled away and Julie fist smashes into the ground. Toad then quickly gets back on his feet and spits out some slime, as it hits Julie's right fist that was still in the ground, causing it to get stuck in the ground, to her surprise as Julie tried to pull her fist out of the ground, but the slime kept it stuck in the ground.
Metabee was firing a rapid fire from his left gauntlet at Ivy and Frost, as Frost quickly creates an thick ice shield that block all of Metabee's fire, then when Metabee stops firing, Killer Frost then shatters the shield into pieces and then fires all of the ice shards towards him, but Metabee quickly stared running around them, narrowing dodging the shards, as he circled around them and begins shooting his right gauntlet at them, but Killer Frost quickly creates two ice swords and with quick reflexes, Frost deflects all of Metabee's fire.
Killer Frost then charges into to fight Metabee, while Poison Ivy then takes out her thorn whip and was about to fight Metabee with Frost, but before she could run in, an familiar red scarf comes in and ties itself around Ivy's right wrist, and then she gets pulled in, and then gets caught by Ninja, as he held her close to his face, while he was giving her huge flirty eyes.
"S'up baby, free Friday night?" Ninja asked Ivy, hoping she was.
But then Ivy gritted her teeth at him, as she puts her hands on Ninja's chest and shoves him away from her, and now with some distance from each other, Ivy then swings her whip in her right hand, at Ninja, but Ninja quickly jumps and flips and dodges the whip, as it cracks against the floor, Ivy got more annoyed, as she quickly tosses some small seeds and the hits the ground that was around Ninja, he looked down at the seeds with confusion, before the seeds quickly grew into vines that grabbed Ninja, grabbing all his limbs and lifting him up, off the ground, Ninja had a look of struggle in his eyes, as the vines then begin to pull his limbs in four different directions, Ninja clenched his eyes in pain, as the pulling was getting more and more violent.
Poison Ivy had a dark and amused smile on her face, as she watches her vines slowly try and rip Ninja's limbs apart,
Ninja still had his eyes closed, as he was concentrating, and then... "NINJA RAGE MODE!" Ninja yelled out, as he goes into his Ninja Rage Mode, as the fire and heat he was giving out, immediately incinerated the vines, freeing himself and he then drops down to the floor.
"My babies!" Ivy yells in horror and heartbreak as she watches the charred and burnt remains of their vines falls to the floor, then Ivy's eyes then glowed bright green, gritting her teeth in rage, as she was now angered beyond imagination.
But then, Kaikaina jumps in and in mid-air, she delivers a spin right kick, hitting and knocking Poison Ivy away, as she lands and charges at her, to fight, while Ninja turned and sees A-Bomb and Felix fighting.
Felix tosses a right punch to A-Bomb's face, and then delivers another punch with his other fist, and then another and another, but when he tosses his right fist again, A-Bomb catches it in his left hand and held on to it tightly, as A-Bomb then delivers a powerful right punch to Felix's stomach, knocking his feet off the ground, as A-Bomb lets go of his fist and then quickly delivers a swift left punch to the head, knocking him back a few feet.
Felix then regains his footing; he looked at A-Bomb, as raised up both his fists, as they both started glowing bright red, and then he fires a beam of energy at A-Bomb, but then, Ninja jumps in front of, holding his sword and held it up, as the beams hits the blade of the sword, but the power of it was too much, and causes the sword to get knock out of Ninja's hands, the sword flied through the air, until it hits and jams one of the hydro-power turbines, stopping it's movements, as electricity was sparking from it.
White Tiger was still fight Killer Croc, as she jumps and flips over him, as she dodges his right fist, as it smashing into the floor, Tiger then lands behind him and jumps up again, just when Croc turned around, as he sees Tiger, as she quickly performs a mid-air left kick to the face, knocking him away from her.
White Tiger sees Ninja's sword was jamming the turbine, which causes her to widen eyed in shock, "Ninja, get your sword outta that turbine or it'll overload and blow us all to kingdom come!" White Tiger told Ninja, as she sees Croc charging in and swings his right arm, as she quickly flips backward, dodging him.
Ninja turned to sees his sword in the turbine and quickly ran to it, as he grabs the handle with both hands and tries to pull it out as fast as possible,
"Hey, need a hand!" Harley's voice was heard, as Ninja quickly turned and sees, charging towards him, and holding her mallet up, was Harley, as she swings her mallet upward, and hits Ninja under the chin, sending him flying across the room and hitting the wall.
Standing next to the exit was Toad, as Felix was running towards the exit, only to stop to grab Toad by the shirt, "Keep them busy!" Felix ordered Toad, as he shoves him back, and ran through the exit.
A-Bomb sees Felix was escaping, "Everyone, cover me!" He told his team, as he starts running, going after Felix, but stops before going through the exit, "And someone get Ninja's sword out of that turbine!" He mentions, as he kept running,
But then, Ninja sprints towards the exit as well, going after A-Bomb and Felix,
Julie, Metabee, Kaikaina and Tiger sees this, while fighting Frost, Ivy, Harley, Croc and Toad.
"Ninja, where are you going?!" White Tiger yelled out,
Now outside of the dam, at the bottom base of it, and running out was Felix, as he ran over to a wall corner and crouches down.
Running out of the dam as well, was A-Bomb, as he sees Felix, "Felix!" He yelled out, as he saw the Felix was facing the dam, as he was holding a rocket launcher and aimed it at the wall. "NO!" A-Bomb yelled out, as he quickly charges to stop Felix.
But unfortunately, Felix fires the rocket launcher before A-Bomb could stop him and the missile flies and hits the dam, exploding on contact, and this causes a hold to be created and the water began to shoot out like a geyser.
A-Bomb saw in horror, as he then turned around and sees Felix, who then aimed his rocket launcher at A-Bomb, and before he could fire...
"Ninja Sneak Attack!" Ninja yelled out, which immediately gets Felix's attention, as he turned his head to the right and looked up and sees, Ninja, as he leaps upward and held his sword over his head, as he reaches him and swings it down, slicing Felix's rocket launcher in two.
Felix steps back, and then, charging in was A-Bomb, where he delivers a swift and powerful left punch to Felix's stomach, sending him flying off the railings and down to the water below.
A-Bomb turned to look at Ninja, as he gives him a thumbs up with his right hand, as he smiled, "Great job on the assist." A-Bomb told him,
"It's all about making an entrance." Ninja replied, with a proud look in his eyes.
"I'm gonna back to help the others, see what you can do about fixing the dam." A-Bomb told Ninja, as he now had a serious look on his face, as he turned around and ran back into the dam, to help the rest of the team.
Ninja had a bit of an unsure look in his eyes, "Yeah... OK... Sure..." He said, as he looked up at sees the damaged hole in the dam, Ninja then ran towards the ladder on the wall, and quickly begins to climb it.
But unknown to Ninja, over the railing, with his fingers dug into the wall, was Felix, as his helmet's visor was glowing red.
Meanwhile, back inside the turbine room,
Metabee and Kaikaina were shooting their blasters and gauntlet at Killer Croc, as he charges towards them, as the blaster shots were bouncing off his tough skin, then, when he reaches them, he grabs both of their hands and then, with a swing, he tosses Kaikaina and Metabee across the room.
Just when A-Bomb enters the room, he sees Kaikaina and Metabee fly over his head, A-bomb then sees Ninja's sword that was still jammed in the turbine causing the turbine to begin to overload, as a bolt of electricity fires at A-Bomb, as he quickly ducks and dodges the bolt.
Back outside, Ninja was climbing the ladder that was just next to the hole, as the water kept shooting out.
When Ninja was now halfway there, but then, a familiar left hand grabs Ninja's left ankle, stopping him from climbing,
"Careful, the ladder can be pretty slippery; it would be safe if you had some supervision (!)" Felix told Ninja, as he looked down and sees his enemy.
And then, Felix pulls on Ninja's leg, causing him to lose his grip on the ladder and falls, but he quickly manages to grab on to the ladder again, but he was now underneath Felix, and just when Ninja could manage to get his grip, Felix didn't hesitate to step on Ninja's fingers to make him drop.
"I always thought that you had to be pretty tough if Taskmaster actually wanted to make you his apprentice but now I see that you only act like a big time hero, you're not even worth blastin' to smithereens!" Felix told Ninja, as he kept steps his feet on Ninja's fingers, as he tried to hang on.
"Dude, who says's 'Smithereens' anymore?" Ninja said, as he tried to dodging Felix's stepping feet.
Then, Felix lifted up his right foot and then throws it down, but then Ninja quickly grabs onto his ankle and then manages to jumps up and climbs on Felix's back, making him try to shake him off him, he does but Ninja quickly grabs on to the ladder and now the two of them were next to each other.
Ninja narrowed his eyes at Felix, as he lifted up his right fist and throws it, but Felix catches it in his left hand,
"Why are you even trying, you can't beat me, in a few minutes, the nearby town with be a mile underwater, along with the inhabitants!" Felix told Ninja, as he had an iron grip on Ninja's fist.
Ninja struggled to get his fist free, but then he sees the water falling down next to them, and then had an idea, as he looked at Felix, "You're right about one thing, Felix, I can't beat you, only because you're gonna be too busy." Ninja told him, with a calm look in his eyes.
"Ha-ha! I'll be too busy... Doing what?" Felix asked, laughing as he just wanted to know.
"Working on your dive!" Ninja yelled out, as he then, pulled Felix's arm towards him, where he delivers a right knee to the gut.
"GAH!" Felix yelled in pain, as he was caught off guard from that, as Ninja then swings his arm and tosses Felix off the ladder and sends him down to the water. "DAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Felix yelled, as he plummets to the water below, and hits it, making a pretty big splash.
Ninja held on to the ladder, as he had a proud look in his eyes, as he stared at the water that Felix falled in, "Good form, a little shaky on the landing, I guess he'll just have to settle with bronze this year (!)" Ninja joked,
Meanwhile, back in the dam turbine room,
A-Bomb had both hands on the hilt of Ninja's sword, as he was pulling on it, trying to pull it out of the turbine.
But the turbine was still overloading, and the electricity shocks and blasts A-Bomb away, sending flying and smashing into a wall.
Then Julie steps backwards, and turned her head to look at A-Bomb, "Great idea, A-Bomb!" Julie told A-Bomb,
A-Bomb then gets back up on his feet, as he was rubbing the top of his head with his right hand. "Thanks... Wait, what idea?" He asked, he looked at Julie, with confusion on what she meant by that.
Then, Poison Ivy and Toad runs towards Julie, and Ivy swings her whip, while Toad shoots out his tongue, at her, but Julie held up both her hands and catches both Ivy's whip and Toad's tongue and she then spins her body around, pulling on both of them, pulling Ivy and Toad along with them, and Julie then lets go and tosses Ivy and Toad into the overloading turbine, where they both hits it, and gets electrocuted and blasted off and both of them flies into a wall.
Ivy and Toad both sat there, with both of their noses disappearing, as their eyes were now spirals, as they had their mouths opens, as the two of them were dazed from that electric shock.
Then, Killer Frost and Harley charges towards Julie, with Harley hold up her mallet and Frost holding two ice swords in each hand.
But jumps in-front of them was Kaikaina and White Tiger, as Kaikaina grabbed on to the handle of Harley's mallet and then pulled on it, as she drops onto her back, as she rolls and puts both her feet on Harley's stomach, pushing and launching Harley upward, while White Tiger ducks and dodges Killer Frost's right ice sword, before she swings her right leg and swipes Frost's legs, knocking her off her feet, as Tiger then reaches out her left hand and grabs the front of Frost's costume, as Tiger pulls her close, where she delivers a punch to the face, sending her flying.
As Harley and Frost both flies and hits the turbine, and gets electrocuted, before getting blasted away across the room.
And on the rails, Metabee was fighting Killer Croc, as Croc tosses his right fist down at Metabee, who jumps up and dodges the fist, as he smashes into the grated floor, and Metabee lands on the back of his hand and then starts running up it, towards his head, where he jumps up and slams both feet against Croc's face, jumping off it, going over him and landing behind him.
Croc then turned around and Metabee then fires his horn missiles at Croc, and they hits him, exploding on contact and blasting off the railings and flies towards the turbine, where he hits it and gets electrocuted, before blasting off it.
Then, A-Bomb runs in and grabs the sword, and tries to pull it out of the turbine again, pulling as hard as he could, until, finally he pulls the sword out of the turbine, managing to fix it and the electricity to stop.
With the sword out, A-Bomb, Tiger, Julie, Kaikaina and Metabee all turned to look at Harley, Toad, Ivy, Croc and Frost, as they were standing by the exit, while Croc looked around the room, as his vision was blurry from being electrocuted.
"You'll never take us live, losers!" Harley told S.P.D., as she and the rest of her teammates ran out of the room.
But team S.P.D. was about to chase after them, but White Tiger had a look of realization, as she turned to look at A-Bomb, "Doesn't that lead too..?" She asked A-Bomb,
While A-Bomb smiled, as he looked at her. "Oh yeah," He said, as he nodded, as he and the rest of the team runs out of the room, chasing after the Syndicate.
Now making it outside,
Ivy, Frost, Toad and Harley runs out of the dam, only to stop at the guard rails that lead over the edge to the water.
"Where's Felix with the ship!?" Frost yelled out, as she and the rest of them looked around; as Felix was suppose to be here with the ship for their escape.
But running towards them, was Killer Croc, running towards them and wasn't stopping as he couldn't see where he was going, and then, when he reaches them, he knocks him, Harley, Toad, Frost and Ivy over the edge to the water.
"YAAAAAAAHHHHH!" The five of them all yelled out, as they fell and splashes down into the water,
Now having their heads over the water, as the current was carrying them away,
Toad looked disgusted at seeing himself wet, "Eww, I touched water!" He said, as he hated getting wet and losing his natural smell.
Ivy and Frost turned to face Toad, with piercing red eyes, as their heads were enlarged and their noses were gone. "WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" The both of them yelled at Toad, angered by their watery defeat and not wanting to hear Toad whine about getting wet.
As The Syndicate was floating away, Team S.P.D. makes it to the area, and turned around to face the dam.
"Ninja!" Julie yelled out, as she and the team all looked up and sees Ninja, climbing the ladder to the hole in the wall, as the water was still blasting out.
Ninja then lets go of his right hand and reaches it into his belt, as he then takes out some Ninja Glue Balls, and then tosses them into the gushing water, and then all of a sudden, the water immediately stop as it's revealed the Glue Balls were now expanded and covered the hole in the dam, completely covering and plugging up the hole, preventing any more water from coming out.
"Good job, Cunningham; that should hold long enough til' the repair crew gets here." White Tiger told Ninja, as A-Bomb and Kaikaina gives him an thumbs up.
Ninja had a proud look in his eyes, as he bows to them,
Some time passes, back on Taskmaster's main warship,
Walking down the hallway towards the main bridge, was The Syndicate, who each was completely soaking wet, as they were annoyed or angered on their defeat.
Reaching the bridge, as the main doors opens, and walking towards the main platform, where Taskmaster had his back turned from them, as he was facing the main observation window.
"I see that you've returned after a humiliating defeat..." Taskmaster told The Syndicate, as he turned around and faces the team of evil teens, immediately knowing that they were defeated.
Ivy crossed her arms, as she turned her head away from Taskmaster, "We can neither deny nor confirm the matter." She replied, as she had her eyes shut and had a look of annoyance on her face, as she didn't want to talk about it.
Taskmaster began to walk down the steps, as he kept look at them, "It doesn't matter if you deny it or not, what's important is that you completed the mission." The skull-masked man told them,
"Yo, whaddaya talkin' about, we got our butts handed to us." Toad mentions, looking confused,
"The mission was a fail, we didn't destroy the dam because of S.P.D., Taskmaster." Croc told him, looking ticked off.
Taskmaster reaches the end of the steps and stands before them, as he crosses his arms, "The mission was to take over the dam, but I didn't say to try and destroy it, despite your defeat, the real mission completed." Taskmaster explained to them,
"Huh?" Harley said, confused,
"Real mission behind it..?" Killer Frost said, with a suspicious glare on her face.
"I sent you to the dam to cause as much damage and chaos as possible, as I knew that S.P.D. will have gone and fought you, giving them a good distraction from what I assigned the Vanguards to carry out the real mission." Taskmaster told them, coldly,
"What..?" Felix said, with a rising rage in his voice, at what he was being told.
"You were sent to distract them, keep their attention away from Red X and Black Velocity mission of stealing a prototype particle accelerator from a lab that was stationed in Switzerland." Taskmaster told them,
As a holo-screen appears, with video feedback of one of the warships' cargo hold, as there was a large metal crate, which was being lowered, while there were some Taskbots signaling the lowering of it,
Felix got angrier, as he then violently takes off his helmet, showing his scarred and disfigured face, with rage on his face.
"Is that what we were just a distraction, only something to keep them occupied, as it didn't matter whether or not we beat them, all we did was just to keep the heat off of your new favorite Show dogs, is that what you've demoted us to, the cannon fodder... Expendable goons!" Felix yelled out with rage, gritting his teeth and having anger in his right eye and in eye-lid-less left eye was still bloodshot.
Taskmaster crosses his arms, as he looked at the angered Felix, "Only because Red X and Black Velocity have shown to be more competent to fulfill their missions and proven that they are more valuable assists. So yes, Red X and Black Velocity succeeded their mission and you manage to complete a mission that meets the level of my dependence on each of you... And that goes especially for you, Isaac..." Taskmaster told The Syndicate and Felix, with a calculating and cold tone in his voice.
Felix got angrier, as Harley walks over to him, and puts her right hand on Felix's left shoulder, to comfort her boyfriend, but Felix aggressively shook her hand off him, causing Harley looked shocked and scared.
As Felix turned around and walked out of the room, in a fit of rage, leaving Taskmaster and The Syndicate,
And when he gets out of the bridge, Felix stops and turned his head to look over his right shoulder at the now closed doors, "... Your level of dependence... I'm not expendable, Tasky..." Felix said, silently, with hate on his face for Taskmaster, as he kept walking.
The next day, in Jump City High,
In the cafeteria, sitting at their table, was A-Bomb, Julie, Metabee, Kaikaina and Ava, but Randy wasn't there.
"OK, we managed to stop Felix and the others from blowing up dam, but we didn't even manage to interrogate them on the identity of Red X and Black Velocity." A-Bomb mentioned, as he looked at his teammates.
"We shouldn't think that yesterday was a fail, we saved a lot of lives, and one day we'll find out who they are." Ava tells A-Bomb, with a gentle smile on her face.
"Hello, guys..." The sound of Alice's voice was heard, getting the team's attention, as they turned and sees her, standing before them.
"Hey, Alice, pull up a seat." Metabee greeted her, as Alice pulled up a chair and sat down with them.
"What's up?" Kaikaina asked Alice, with a smile on her face.
"I just wanted to see how Randy was doing, he seemed sad about the thing he was dealing with, and after the talk we had, I just wanted to see how he was doing. I thought he'd be with you..?" Alice explained to them, as she looked around and didn't see Randy.
Julie had a look of worry, "Yeah... Now that you mention it, we haven't seen Randy all morning, you think he's alright?" Julie asked Ava, as she was hoping that Randy's absence isn't due to Red X.
Ava and A-Bomb both looked at each other, as nether of them knew,
But then, walking up to the table, getting the attention of everyone, was Randy, and he looked grim and serious.
Metabee, Kaikaina, Julie, Ava, Alice and A-Bomb all sees this and looked concerned,
"Randy, you OK, buddy?" A-Bomb asked Randy,
But Randy hung his head down, as a shadow hides his eyes, as he looks completely grim. "No... I'm really not, Rick..." He replied, in a tone so cold, it makes Ava look like Julie.
"Randy, what's wrong?" Alice asked him, looking worried for him.
"I'm... distraught..." Randy said, darkly.
Julie then gets out of her chair and walks over to Randy, as she puts her hands on his shoulders, as she looked really worried for Randy. "Randy, tell us what's wrong, I know that we can help." She told Randy, worried that Randy still upset about Red X.
"I'm distraught 'cuz..." Randy said, until he quickly pulls his head up, as his head enlarges, nose disappears and had an overly angry and annoyed look on his face, as tears were steaming out of his eyes. "... I'M SO CHEEZED OFF THAT IVY'S FALLEN FOR HIM!" Randy yelled out, in frustration, holding his fists up, as Julie quickly pulled back her hands.
Everyone's heads' enlarged, as their noses disappears, and their eyes goes Blank White Eyes, with them having surprised and confused looks on their faces, seeing that Randy isn't upset, but anger and annoyed.
Randy's eyes were glowing bright red in rage, as he gritted his teeth in fury. "I WAS WEARING THAT SUIT BEFORE HE WAS, IVY SEEN ME IN THAT SUIT AND YET SHE DOESN'T BAT AN EYE, BUT WHEN THIS NEW GUY SLAPS ON THE SUIT, SHE'S ALL OVER HIM LIKE A FLY TO SUGAR, THAT SO UNFAIR!" Randy yelled out,
Everyone then goes back to normal, as A-Bomb, Julie, Kaikaina, Metabee, Ava quickly puts it together that Randy is angry that Poison Ivy is crushin' on the new Red X and didn't so much as look his way when he wore it.
Of course Randy would get this fiery-mad over a girl, as A-Bomb, Julie, Kaikaina, Metabee, Ava all looked annoyed as Randy made them worry for nothing.
Alice looks confused, but seeing how annoyed and how much he was whining, she knew that he was alright with what he was dealing with, as she couldn't help but laugh a little at Randy's fit, she saw that was in a better state than yesterday and it made her glad.
Meanwhile, in the void of space, at Taskmaster's fleet, and in the main warship,
Nico Robin was walking down the hall, near the science bay; she almost passes the door to the higher grade room but stop when she's sees something that gets her attention.
Looking through a window in the door, she sees, inside the room, there was a bunch of scientists operating some equipment, while stilling in a chair that was in the center of the room, was Black Velocity, as his wrists were in restraints that was in the arms of the chair, while his ankles were in restraints in the foot of the chair.
He had his helmet off, but was wearing some high-tech helmet, that coved his whole head, covering his eyes, but his mouth and nose, revealing some Caucasian skin, as the helmet was wired and hooked up to some machines.
Mistral was standing before him, observing Black Velocity, as she watches an scientist walked over and puts a mouth guard in Black Velocity's mouth, before she turned to look at a scientist who was standing at the machine that was hooked up to the helmet, as she then nodded to him, the scientist then actives the machine, and powered up the helmet.
Then, Black Velocity, was gritted his teeth, as his body jumped and tensed up, as he was roaring through the mouth guard in pain.
As Robin watches, with confusion of what Mistral was doing to Black Velocity.
Meanwhile, in the Triskelion,
In Washington's quarters, he was on his computer, going through the S.H.I.E.L.D. archives,
He kept typing, until he stops as he finds something that gets his attention, as his screen readied 'Project Next'
Washington now had an unnerving feeling in his gut of what he might have just stumbled upon...
(Author's notes - This one... Really got away from me... But I was not in the best place to write, so far I've been so busy with family matters and work, I know that I said that I would focus more on Secrets of Terra, but I assure you that the next chapter will be up soon, an I thank you for your patiences and I appreciate it.
Side-note -I would really appreciate some more feedback, comments and reviews, cause I noticed that a lot of you haven't given some of your feedback on the chapters, I'm not telling any of you to just write on the spot, I'm just asking that I would really appreciate the feedback, wither it's positive or negative, when I write a chapter and nobody gives comment or feedback, it makes me feel the chapters I write isn't good enough, and I already have enough self-doubt. So please, give feedback, comment and review, thank you)
(I do not own any rights to the characters I have just used; they are characters from their own respected franchises)
Randy Cunningham/Ninja - Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja
A-Bomb - Hulk And The Agents Of SMASH
Ava Ayala/White Tiger - Ultimate Spider-man
Julie Hayward - Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Kaikaina Grif - Red Vs. Blue
Metabee - Medabots
Blue Beetle/Jaime Reyes - Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Aquagirl - Young Justice
Kaede Nagase - Negima!?
Flash Thompson/Agent Venom - Ultimate Spider-man
Cyandog - Medabots
Agent Washington - Red Vs. Blue
Centorea - Monster Musume
Alice Gehabich - Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Red X - Teen Titans
Black Velocity - OC
Felix - Red Vs. Blue
Harley Quinn - The Batman (2007)
Toad - X-Men: Evolution
Poison Ivy - The Batman (2007)
Killer Frost - Justice League Unlimited
Killer Croc - The Batman (2007)
Taskmaster - Ultimate Spider-man
Nico Robin - One Piece
Mistral - Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Giganta - Justice League Unlimited