On a distant planet, far from Earth, flying down towards the planet's surface, was the Quinjet, as it was dodging some strange blasts of plasma that were coming from the planet.
The Quinjet quickly does a barrel roll and narrowly dodges a plasma blast, as it merely scratched the under-belly of the Quinjet,
Inside the jet, was team S.P.D., as Metabee was in the pilot seat, gripping the controls, as he had an amused look in his eyes. "Ha, bet that scratched the paintjob (!)" Metabee joked, as he turned to look at Julie, as she sat next to him.
Looking out the window, seeing the blasts of plasma was Ninja, "Real-time plasma geysers! So Bruce!" Ninja said, as he had a pumped up look in his eyes.
While White Tiger was standing behind him, as she was checking in watch, looking at the holo-screen, "Oh yeah, geysers that shoots lethal plasma, so awesome (!)" Tiger said, sarcastically, as she had an annoyed look in her eyes.
Julie was looking at the monitor, looking worried, "Rick, the distress beacon is coming from the planet's surface!" She told A-Bomb,
As the team was sent to this planet when S.H.I.E.L.D. received an SOS,
A-Bomb, White Tiger, Ninja and Kaikaina walks up to the front window, to look at the planet, with Julie and Metabee.
Kaikaina looked scared and confused, as she looked at the planet, "But look at that place, who would actually try to land there?" She mentions, wonder who would land on a planet that had plasma geyser.
A-Bomb had a serious look on his face, as he turned his head to look at Kaikaina, "I don't know, Kai, but whoever they are, they need our help." He tells her,
Now on the planet's surface, Metabee carefully lands the Quinjet,
The team as out of the jet, as Ninja, White Tiger, Julie and Kaikaina were in their Netsuits, as Kaikaina had her helmet on, while A-Bomb had his flight gear on, with his chest piece having a glass dome over his head.
A-Bomb looked at White Tiger, "Can you get a lock on the distress beacon, Tiger?" He asked,
But Tiger shook her head, as she was looking at the holo-screen on her watch, as she had a concerned look in her eyes. "I'm not getting anything, the plasma geysers are interfering with my scanners, I can't get a lock on the beacon." She told A-Bomb,
A-Bomb then steps ahead and turned around to look at his team, "Alright, I guess we're doing this the old fashion way, we're gonna have to split up, Tiger and Kai, look around at the East. Metabee, I want you to search the West, Ninja, you take the North and me and Julie will fly over the South." A-Bomb gives his team their orders,
Ninja, Julie, Metabee, Kaikaina and White Tiger all nodded, "Right!" They all said at once,
Then the team split up, White Tiger and Kaikaina went to the East, Metabee went to the West, A-Bomb and Julie flies up, with Julie using her jet-pack and A-Bomb using his flight gear, to fly south, while Ninja took the North.
Ninja was walking down a path, as it was near some geysers, which were still blasting; he was looking around the area, and only saw nothing but rocks and geysers.
Ninja had an unease look in his eyes, as he walked towards the edge of the path, which had a plasma geyser below. "Heeere... People in trouble... Heeere... People in trouble... Well, my job is done!" Ninja quickly said, with a glad look in his eyes, as he quickly turned around, and started to make his way back to the Quinjet.
As Ninja was walking, he passes something green and armored, "Oh, hey, Scorpion!" Ninja greeted, in a happy tone,
Bu then, Ninja quickly stops, as he just quickly realized who he just greeted and just saw!
He then quickly turns around and sees Scorpion!
But this time, Scorpion was wearing a fully-armored battle-suit that was green, with a mask still over his head, with yellow lens where his eyes are and a part of the mask that was cut open for his mouth, as there was a glass part that was covering it for he could breathe. His armor's hands had claws at the fingertips of each hand, and on his back was cybernetically-controlled, seven-foot mechanical tail, with a blade at the end of it.
The newly armored Scorpion glares daggers at Ninja, who looked shocked and scared at seeing Scorpion.
"H-Hey, Scorpion, is that you? Y-You look great, l-lovin' the new look, really screams you... H-How ya been..?" Ninja said awkwardly and sacredly,
Scorpion merely chuckled as he began to step forward to Ninja, "Oh, I've been good, especially since I've spent the last four months, ROTTING IN PRISON!" Scorpion yelled out in rage towards Ninja, as he hasn't forgotten that it was Ninja who put him there in the first place.
Ninja then quickly steps back, with a nervous look in his eyes, "Hey, you didn't have to rot; you could have used the time to work out on the weight-machines, study up on law or maybe playin' a little hoops on the yard." Ninja suggested, as he shrugged his shoulders, as he closed his eyes.
But then, Scorpion's mechanical tail strikes and wraps itself around Ninja, crushing him in its grip like a snake, restraining him, and making Ninja open his eyes in shock, as Scorpion pulls Ninja towards him, so their face to face.
"I spend all my time, thinking and plotting my revenge against you!" Scorpion told Ninja,
Ninja then closes his eyes, as he shook his head, "I would have spend my time forming a nice little book club, but that's just me.. (!)" He joked a bit,
But then Scorpion pulls Ninja closer, making him open his eyes, while Scorpion had nothing but rage on his face. "Do you know what consumed my every waking thought while I was imprisoned?!" He asked Ninja, really wanting him to guess.
"Uh... Why do Candy Bars cost more in convenience stores than in supermarkets...?" Ninja answered, taking a shot in the dark.
"WRONG!" Scorpion yelled in fury, as he swings his tail down and smashes Ninja to the ground, as the tail released him, while Ninja looked a bit dazed.
Scorpion began to walk away from Ninja, as he had a conflicted look on his face, "I thought and thought and thought why did I, the best martial artist and top student of Tiger Lily, practically Dororo's successor, could be so easily defeated by an inexperienced outsider like you!?" Scorpion told Ninja, as he turned and pointed his right finger at Ninja,
Ninja laid on his back, as he lifted his head up, to look at Scorpion, with a dizzy expression in his eyes. "That's a real mind-boggler, y'know that really keeps me up at nights..." Ninja replied, sounding dizzy,
Scorpion then turned to face Ninja, "I never stopped thinking of the humiliation of you defeating me, losing my honor as a ninja because of you! But now, fate has given me an opportunity to regain my honor and a chance to exact my revenge..!" Scorpion explained to Ninja, as he was slowly walking towards him.
Ninja was starting to push himself up, as he had a bit of a confused, "Uh, OK... Now do all of my enemies get this much embarrassed by just getting beat by me?" Ninja asked, with his eyes closed a bit.
Then Scorpion raised up his tail, as the tip of it then transforms into a drill, with four bladed tips around the cone, as it started to spin with great speed, and it moves towards Ninja.
Ninja widen his eyes in shock and terror as he sees the drill and saw how it was coming towards him. "GAH-HA, BIG DRILL, BIG DRILL WITH SHARP, POINTY ENDS! RAAAAHHH-HA-HA-HAA! RAAAHHHH!" Ninja started yelling in terror, as the drill was getting closer and closer.
Meanwhile, in another part of the area,
White Tiger and Kaikaina were walking around, looking for the distress beacon,
Until Tiger stops, as she moves her head to the left, as she rose up her left eyebrow, as she hears something, nearby.
'RAAAAHHHH..!' The sound of Ninja's screaming was heard from a far,
White Tiger's eyes widen in shock, as she quickly turned to look at Kaikaina, "It's Ninja!" She told her, as she and Kaikaina quickly started running to where Ninja's scream was coming from.
While Tiger lifted up her left wrist and presses a button on her watch, "Everyone, Ninja's in danger!" She said into her watch, alerting her other teammates about Ninja.
As she and Kaikaina kept running,
Meanwhile, back where Ninja and Scorpion were,
Ninja was still on the ground, as he was holding Scorpion's tail with both hands, trying to hold the drill back, as it was dangerously close to his face, while Scorpion was pushing his tail forward at Ninja.
Ninja had a look of struggle in his eyes, as he couldn't hold Scorpion's drill back forever, but Ninja opens his eyes, and he then had a look of surprise, as he sees behind Scorpion was the edge of the trail, that lead to a plasma geyser.
Ninja quickly got an idea, as his eyes then changed to a look of determination, as he grips the drill and mustered up all his strength, as he then goes Ninja Rage Mode, and pushes Scorpion back enough for him to get back on his feet, now on his feet, Ninja then begins to push back the tail, until it touches Scorpion's chest.
Scorpion looked shocked that Ninja was over-powering his battle-suit, as he sees that Ninja was starting to push him backwards, "Hey, what are you doing?!" He said, looking confused on what Ninja was doing.
Ninja was pushing Scorpion towards the geyser, with his feet getting dragged across the ground, "It's simple, I'm burstin' your bubble!" He told him,
As Ninja pushes Scorpion off the trail and into the geyser, which then blasts out a plasma stream, with Scorpion riding right on top of it, as it sends him flying upward to the sky,
"GGGGGAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Scorpion yelled out, as he flew to the sky,
Ninja comes out of Ninja Rage Mode, as he watches with amusement as Scorpion then falls back to the ground, into a canyon miles away from the one Ninja was standing in.
"Adios, Lobster-Boy!" Ninja told Scorpion, as he waves, while Scorpion falls and lands in canyon miles away.
"Ninja!" The sound of Julie's voice was heard, getting Ninja's attention, as he turned around and sees his teammates running towards him.
"What happened? We heard you screaming," Kaikaina mentioned, as they reached him,
Ninja looked at his teammates, "This whole SOS thing was a set-up, this guy I locked up a while ago called Scorpion tried to turn me into a human smoothie, but I manage to take him down for a second time!" Ninja explained to them, with an arrogant look in his eyes, as he was proud of himself for taking Scorpion down again.
A-Bomb and White Tiger then turned to look at each other, with this knowledge of the distress beacon was a trap set by an enemy of Ninja, it would made sense that it was a trap, as there wouldn't be anyone who would be crazy enough to try and land on a dangerously hazardous planet, unless it was a trap for someone.
"Well... I guess good job, Cunningham..." White Tiger told Ninja, as she crosses her arms, as she had a slight impressed look in her eyes.
"And if there's really no one in danger here, we should head back home." A-Bomb suggested to his team,
Everyone else nodded in agreement, as they all turned and started to head back to the Quinjet,
Meanwhile, in the canyon that Scorpion landed in,
The fallen ninja was crawling on the ground, with a look of pain on his face, while his battle-suit was still intact, there wasn't any damage to it, even from the plasma blast.
As he was crawling, Scorpion looks ahead and sees a pair of feet, causing him to stop, as he looked up and saw, standing and looming over him was Taskmaster, as he had his arms crossed, as he staring down at Scorpion.
"Get up, you pathetic waste of space!" Taskmaster told Scorpion, with voice filled with wrath,
Scorpion glares coldly at Taskmaster, as he then pushes himself up back on his feet, and stands before him.
"You had the Ninja in your grasp and yet he managed to use his surrounding to his advantage and over-powered you... I'm starting to regret breaking you out of prison, if you are actually incapable in killing a complete idiot, then it makes me think who's the bigger idiot, the idiot or the idiot who gets beaten so easily by the idiot (?)" Taskmaster told Scorpion, while insulting him, with a cold tone in his voice.
Scorpion got angry at Taskmaster, "I am a warrior of Tiger Lily, not some thug you can talk down too!" He yelled, as he rises up his tail and charges towards Taskmaster, to attack him.
But Taskmaster stood his ground; as he rose up his left gauntlet and presses a button, and then Scorpion immediately stops running, as his arms and tail just drop and he then fell to the ground, face first. Scorpion had a look of struggle, as he tried to move but he couldn't.
While Taskmaster walked up to the grounded Scorpion, with his hands behind his back, as he looks down at him, "You have immediately forgotten that my weapons engineers built that battle-suit, you may be wearing it, but I have the master override build into my armor." Taskmaster explained to him, as he rose up his left arm, showing his gauntlet.
Scorpion gritted his teeth, as he tried to move but his battle-suit was crushing him down to the ground.
"Now then, you had your chance to kill Ninja and failed; now we do it my way..." Taskmaster told Scorpion,
As Taskmaster turned and looked at, as he sees, from a distance, the Quinjet flying off the planet and into space.
Some hours later, now back on Earth,
At the Triskelion island, in the SHED, in the living room area, Randy was on his knees, as he was facing a holo-screen, that had Dororo on screen, as Randy was just finished explained to Dororo about Scorpion,
Dororo started rubbing his chin with his right hand, 'I see, that is troubling...' The Ninja master said to Randy, sounding worried and concerned,
"Yeah, and now he's got this new battle-suit and he's gonna go all 'Terminator crossed with Liam Neeson, with a vengeance' on me." Randy said to Dororo, looking a bit scared,
'Aside from Kaede, Scorpion was one of my best students, but his arrogances and anger were his greatest weaknesses, which led him to betray Tiger Lily and dishonoring himself.' Dororo explained to Randy, now with a more calm tone of voice.
Randy looked at him with plead in his face, "Sensei, what should I do, how do I beat Scorpion with his new suit that makes him more powerful?" He asked him, wanting wisdom from his master on how to defeat Scorpion.
'The sense of power is but an illusion, Randy; the true power is that of one who believes in the inner strength within themselves.' Dororo tells Randy, with a sagely tone of voice,
But Randy looked more dispirited then inspired, as he was hoping Dororo would just tell him how to beat Scorpion, instead of just giving him some masterly advice.
Randy closed his eyes, as his nose disappears, as he gave Dororo an awkward smile on his face, as a sweat-drop appears on his head, while his head lowers a bit. "Thanks... for the advised, Sensei..." Randy said to Dororo, awkwardly, as he bowed in respect to his master.
Dororo then bowed his head, as he then hangs up and the video-call ends, with the holo-screen switching off.
Randy then gets back up, looking annoyed as he sighed, "(Sigh) Why can't ninja masters ever just give a straight answer, instead of cryptic, sagely words of wisdom..." He said to himself in annoyance.
"Hey, Randy!" The sound of Metabee's voice was heard, making Randy turned to see A-Bomb, Metabee, Julie, Kaikaina and Ava, standing before him.
"Come on, we've got school today." A-Bomb mentions to him, as they were going to head out for school.
Randy looked a bit hesitant look on his face, until he shook his head and slaps on a small smile on his face, "Uh, yeah, comin'..." Randy said, as he walked up to them.
Some time passed, in Jump City High,
Within the library, Julie, Ava and Randy were sitting around a table, as they were doing some studying,
While Julie and Ava were reading up on some books, Randy was staring at his opened book, with a slightly unease look on his face; Julie looked up and noticed Randy, as she looked concerned.
"Randy, are you still worked up on this whole Scorpion thing?" Julie asked Randy, as she set her book down.
Randy looked at Julie, "Yeah, a little bit..." He said,
Ava kept reading her book, as she had a serious look on her face, "I don't get why you're so worked up about, a good amount of the bad guys we've locked up, swore revenge against us all the time, what makes this Scorpion guy any different, Cunningham?" Ava asked Randy,
Randy shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know... I mean, in a way, me and Scorpion are two sides to the same page, we're both one of a kind and we both walk the path of the ninja, but he reminds me of what I was when I betrayed ya'll." Randy explained to them, as Scorpion reminds him of what he was when he joined up with Mandarin and betrayed them.
"Randy, you shouldn't compare yourself to a creep like Scorpion, your way stronger than he is." Julie told Randy, assuring him that he's nothing like Scorpion,
Ava then lowers her book to look at Randy, "Yeah so quit belly-achin' and get on with your studying." Ava told him, as she lifted up her book to continue reading.
Julie then continued reading her book, as Randy watches; he then looked at his opened book,
'OK... Julie and Av are right, I can't let Scorpion get in my head...' Randy thought to himself, as he kept looking at his book.
'... I'll get my mind off this by studying on my favorite subject...' Randy then turned the page of his book, which reveals a opened swimsuit magazine with the pages having full-page photos of gorgeous female models, wearing revealing and skimpy swimsuits.
'... Geometry (!) Heh heh hee...' Randy smiled, with a huge grin, as he had his eyes closed, and held the book up, as he hid the magazine in the book when no one was looking, as he planned to check out some sexy pictures instead of study.
"He's in here," The sound of the librarian's voice was heard behind Randy,
Randy then opened his eyes, with his face looking annoyed, "Hey, would ya keep it down, I'm checkin' out some figures over here." He said to the person behind him, as he turned to look back at his magazine, with his big, pervy smile on his face returning.
But then, behind Randy...
"THIS IS A PLACE FOR HIGHER LEARNING!" Centorea was behind Randy, yelling at him with so much fury, fire spat out of her mouth, with her head enlarged, her nose disappearing and her eyes going BWE (A/N: Short for Blank White Eyes)
As Centorea was obviously furious at seeing Randy reading and also bring a adult swimsuit magazine to school, as Randy jumped and yelled in terror from Centorea's yelling, as he falls off his seat and to the floor.
Ava and Julie lowers their books and looked at an angered Centroea, while Randy was getting back on his chair,
Randy turned to look at the furious Centorea, as her head was normal sized, and her eyes and nose goes back to normal, but there was a fiery aura around the centaur.
"Ah, Cerea, you're looking beautiful today, and before you say it, this isn't what it looks like, I was just happily doing my studies, but I then became a victim of circumstance, after some hooligan hid this frivolous and sexist magazine, which is absolutely demeaning to women, within the pages of one of the library books, I am just as outraged as you are!" Randy told Centorea with a calm smile, telling lies, just trying to save his skin on the whole 'Bring a swimsuit magazine to school' thing.
But Centorea was still glaring at Randy with fury in her eyes, "Firstly, on school grounds, you will address me as Ms. Shianus or Principal Shianus..." Centorea tells Randy, deadly serious,
Reminding him that it's alright to address her by her first name when their off school grounds, but when their on school grounds, he will address her role as the school's principal.
Randy's smile then disappears and was replaced by a scared expression towards Centorea,
"... Secondly, if you actually think that I am some air-headed blond, who doesn't know you, and who would be stupid enough to believe all those lies that spurted out of your mouth, than you were sorely misdirected, Mr. Cunningham..." Centorea told Randy, angrily and bitterly,
Randy then quickly turned to look at Julie and Ava, as Julie had a look uncomfortable look, as she shook her head, while Ava just stared at Randy, with an unemotional expression, and Randy then turned to look at Centorea again.
"... And thirdly, I know that magazine belongs to you, because I have an inside source." Centorea told Randy, as she shifted her eyes in a direction, before shifting back to glare at Randy.
Randy looked confused, as he turned around to look at the direction where Centorea looked, and he sees the direction pointed at Ava, who lowers her book to give Randy a mischievous smile, as it totally indicates that she's Centorea's inside source and that she told her about the magazine.
Randy looked shocked that Ava told on him to Centorea, "Why..?" Randy uttered to Ava, wondering how she knew about magazine.
"Did you really think that I wouldn't suspect anything when you went into the library with us, willingly, and where you readied a book that didn't have pictures scantily clad women and was educational?" Ava explained to Randy,
Randy just stared at her, looking betrayed, and then, Centorea reaches her right hand over and grabs Randy's left ear and pulls it, as Randy's face gets a look of pain, as Centorea pulls Randy of his chair and then begins to drag him by the ear, to her office.
While Julie and Ava watches Randy get dragged off, until Julie turned to look at Ava, with looks of annoyance towards her.
"What, the library is my own personal inner sanctum, and we already see Randy being a idiot pervert back at home." Ava told Julie, as she lifted and continued reading her book.
A few minutes later, in the hallways, outside of Centorea's office,
Randy opens the door and walks out of the office, into the hallway, as he looked annoyed, as Centorea gave him two weeks of detention for being that magazine into school.
Randy had a very dour frown on his face, as he turned and began to walk down the hall,
"Randy!" The sound of Alice's voice was heard behind him, quickly getting his attention, as Randy turned around and see Alice, as she was quickly walking towards him, while she was holding her books in her arms, and held them against her chest, while she wore a backpack.
Randy then quickly puts a smile on his face, as he sees Alice, as she reaches him, "Hey, Alice," He greeted her,
Alice looked a bit confused, "Why were you in Principal Shianus's office?" She asked him, wondering why Randy exited from Centorea's office,
Randy then puts on a cool expression on his face, as he shrugged his shoulders, and puts his hands behind his head, "Ah, just got busted doin' somethin' 'Bad Boy' related, score myself two weeks in detention, but that's the price ya pay for bein' total hard-core, y'know what I'm sayin'..." He lies to her, trying to impress her by acting like a bad boy.
Alice smiled back at him, "I've actually been looking for you." She told him,
Randy then quickly drops his cool guy look for a look of surprise and gleefulness at hearing that, "Really!?" He asked, smiling brightly, but then quickly realizes how excited he sounded and quickly slaps on a cool and brooding expression on his face. "I mean, really..?" He said, trying to sound cool.
Alice couldn't help but laugh a little at Randy trying to act tough, "There's a floral art show at upper-Jump City, tomorrow night, I want to see, but I kinda need a guide as I don't know where to go, so do you think you could take me?" Alice explained to Randy, asking him if you could help guided her to it.
Randy looked speechless, as his eyes started to twinkle, at hearing what she was proposing. "Y-you mean... Like... A date..?" Randy asked her, in disbelief of Alice asking him on a date.
Alice then looked surprised at hearing Randy claim it to be a date, as she puts her closed right hand over his mouth, as she looked down at the floor and started to blush. "Uh... Well, I-I o-only need someone to make sure I get there and back... I-I wouldn't really s-say it would be a d-date..." Alice tried to say, as she was really nervous, as she looked at Randy,
"So, you would say it's just two friends, just hangin' out?" Randy asked her, suggesting that it wasn't a date but just friends hanging out.
Alice removes her hand, as she now had an awkward smile on her face, as she kept blushing, "Well... I guess that would be alright, just friends... hanging out..." She said, sounding less nervous at the sound of that.
"Uh, if it's just that, then I would be alright with takin' you to this show," Randy tells Alice, now with a gentle smile on his face.
Alice then beams up with a happy smile, as she was happy to hear that, "Really? That would be great!" She told him, as she was still blushing but she kept smiling.
Randy chuckled a bit, as he had an awkward smile on his face, while he had his eyes closed and rubbed the back of his head with his right hand.
Alice then took off her backpack and opens it, as she puts her books in her backpack and then went through it, until she takes out a notebook and a pen.
Alice puts her backpack on the floor near her feet and started writing in the notebook, and after she finished writing, she then rips a small piece of the page she wrote in, and then hands it to Randy.
Randy held up the paper in his paper in his left hand and took a look at it; he saw what was written was a phone number on it, 'ALICE'S' phone number!
"Wow... A girl's phone number..." Randy smiled, completely amazed that a girl gave him their phone number,
Alice then picks up her backpack and puts it back on, "I'll meet you after school, at the entrance tomorrow, and we'll go from there." Alice explained to him, giving a gentle smile.
Randy was still in disbelief on the phone number, but he turned to look up at Alice, with a happy but speechless smile on meet tomorrow.
Alice turned around and began to walk away but she stopped and turned to give Randy a happy smile, "I'll see you tomorrow, Randy." Alice said to Randy, as she really appreciated what Randy was doing.
Alice then turned around and continued walking away,
While Randy just stood there, still looking speechless and happy, still having a smile on his face, as he watches Alice walking away.
As he couldn't believe on what just happened, Randy Cunningham was gonna hang out with Alice...
And Randy then lifted up his left hand stares at Alice's phone number, it was official; Randy quickly forgot about Scorpion and the three weeks of detention and focused all his attention at him and Alice.
A few hours later, after school finished, and on the Triskelion Island,
In the SHED, in the living room area...
Metabee had a dead serious look in his eyes, "There comes a time in every Medabot's time, where they come face to face with their greatest challenge and labour..." Metabee said, in a serious tone of voice,
As it's revealed Metabee standing on top of a stack of boxes, as he was standing in front of an ironing board, with a huge, tall stack of laundry on it, while Metabee had a look of shear seriousness and he held up an iron, as he was prepare to iron Randy, Julie, Kaikaina, Ava and A-Bomb's laundry.
Sitting on the couch, was A-Bomb, as he was eating a bowl of popcorn as he was watching a movie,
As Ava was on her knees, at the coffee table, reading a book,
While upstairs, in Julie's room, Julie was sitting on her bed, with Chomp resting on her legs, while she watches Kaikaina, as she was modeling in her new clothes.
Kaikaina was wearing a turquoise colored shirt with a small skull with bunny ears on the chest of it, with dark blue jeans, as she was wearing an opened dark green high-collar jacket ended at her navel, with short sleeve that ended at her biceps, and blue sneakers.
(A/N: I felt that Kaikaina's appearance was less than desired for, so here's her new look, enjoy)
Then, entering the SHED, was Randy, as he was walking in with a happy and smug smile on his face,
"Hello, beautiful friends, what are all of you doing, oh, wait! I don't care, cuz I've got a date tomorrow!" Randy told them, immediately throwing out the fact that he's got a date tomorrow night.
Ava, A-Bomb and Metabee quickly stopped what they were doing and turned to look at Randy with a look of surprise at hearing that Randy has a date, even upstairs, Kaikaina and Julie quickly walked out of Julie's room, and looked over the railing to look at Randy, as they heard that he's got a date.
"Date... As in date date, as in a date with a female?" A-Bomb asked Randy, completely in disbelief on what he was hearing.
"You're messin' with us, right?" Metabee said, raising his right eyebrow at Randy,
"Cunningham, spending detention with Ms. Ethel, doesn't count as a date." Ava told Randy, having a bored looked on her face, as she didn't believe Randy having a date.
But then, running down the stairs like lightning, was Julie, as she ran up to Randy, with a huge smile on her face, and a sparkle in her eyes, while having little sparkles flying around her.
"A date! Tell me everything! Who she is, where are you going, do not leave out any detail!" Julie told Randy, really wanting to know who Randy's going on a date with, as her eyes sparkled as she puts her hands together and held them up, as she smiled at Randy.
But Randy had a bit of a nervous smile on his face, while having Julie really up to his face, and Randy was hesitant on telling Julie about it,
As he remember what happen when Julie caught him and Alice in the janitor's closet, if Alice didn't intervene, Julie would have smashed his head into the ceiling, and Randy knew if he said that he was going out with Alice tomorrow, she was gonna freak!
"Uh... Well, I wouldn't really call it's a date..." Randy said, nervously and scared, as he had a nervous smile on his face.
"So you lied about having a date and you're really just full of it." Metabee told Randy, with a bored look in his eyes, as he went back to doing the ironing.
Julie looked confused, as she then leans in closer to Randy, "Randy, what are you talking about, you really sounding enthusiastic about having a date, it really sounded like you were for real about, so just tell me, who are you going out with?" Julie asked him again, really wanting to know who.
Randy was extremely hesitant to say anything, but he knew Julie would freak out, but he knew that she would wheedle it out of him in one way or another, so he should just tell her anyway.
"Well... I'm gonna be going on a completely, strictly, non-date related, meeting with a friend... named Alice..." Randy tells Julie, quietly as he braced himself for what Julie was going to do.
Julie stared at Randy, with a bit of a look of blankness, as she was processing this, "You're... going on a date... with Alice..?" She asked Randy, quietly and unnervingly calm tone of voice, as she was beginning to walk towards Randy.
This quickly made Randy step backwards, walking away from her, with a look of terror, "It-it's not a date, she just wants me to escort her to the floral show, cuz she doesn't know her way around town, so it's just a friend helping another friend, not a date..." Randy explained to Julie, with fear.
As Randy kept walking backwards from Julie, as he turned his head to look at A-Bomb, Metabee, Ava and Kaikaina (Who walked downstairs to join up with them), hoping they would intervene, but all four of them shook their heads at Randy, with A-Bomb, Ava and Kaikaina mouthing 'No...', as they weren't gonna help him.
Randy then hits his back against the wall, as he quickly turned to look over his shoulder and see the wall, as he just cornered himself, as he then turned to face forward to look at Julie, who was now face to face with him.
Julie stared at Randy, with a straight face, which made Randy really scared of what she was gonna do or say.
But then, Julie closes her eyes, as she then puts a smile on her face, and smiled at Randy, with a happy face. "Well, if it's only just you showing her the way there, I guess that's okay..." Julie told Randy, in a happy and cheery tone of voice.
Randy was surprised at Julie's change of emotion, which made him feel more calm and relax,
Julie kept smiling and had her eyes closed, as she then leans her face closer towards Randy, "... But, Randy, if you do anything to scare Alice off and make her not want to be our friend anymore..." She said to him,
And then, Julie grows and transforms into Gorem, as she looms over Randy, with a shroud of darkness around her upper body, as the ceiling suddenly turns into a night sky, and her red eyes glowed much brighter.
Randy immediately goes SD, as he shrunk in terror of Gorem,
"... THERE WON'T BE ANYWHERE ON EARTH, OR IN THIS GALAXY WHERE I WON'T FIND YOU AND HURT YOU IN WAYS YOU CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE!" Gorem threaten Randy, in a dark and threatening tone of voice, as lightning struck above her.
SD A-Bomb, SD Ava, SD Kaikaina and SD Metabee all stared, completely speechless while watching Gorem threatening and scaring Randy,
SD Randy's eyes were widen, as he was sweating and he was pressed against the wall, in terror of the threatening Gorem.
And then Gorem shrinks back down and changes back into Julie, as the night sky at the ceiling and the lightning disappeared, as Julie was now standing in front of Randy, as she had a happy smile on her face again, as she smiled at Randy, before turning around and walking away.
Leaving Randy, A-Bomb, Ava, Metabee and Kaikaina staring at Julie, as she walked away, all of them looking speechless from what Julie just happened, how she went from sweet and understanding to terrifying and dominating, back to sweet and happy again.
Meanwhile, in the depths of space,
Taskmaster's battle fleet was cruising through the stars, and in the main star-cruiser.
Taskmaster was in his office, as he was sitting at his desk, as he was facing a holo-screen on his deck, with the image of Jack Spicer on the screen,
"... I don't want excuses, my teams have provided the components for the device, if this is too complicated for you, I can assign someone else more competent to complete the device..." Taskmaster told Jack, in an angered tone of voice,
Jack looked confused and insulted, 'Who?' He asked, looking annoyed,
"... Anyone!" Taskmaster told Jack, extremely coldly, as he leans forward towards the screen, saying that anyone can be more competent than Jack in building and completing his device.
Jack then held his hands up, as he had a nervous look on his face. 'Look, look, I know that I said I can build you your machine, but the schematics and blueprints you gave me to work with, it's all fragmented, there's parts of it missing, and plus, you want this machine to be the size of the Moon, so completing it gonna have to take it's sweet time.' He said, defending himself and explaining the drawbacks of the construction of Taskmaster's device.
"I'm fully aware that the scale of the device will take a good amount of time, but I don't want to hear the head of the construction complaining, I expect results, I will call for progress reports, and if you call again, just to complain, I'll leave you, floating on a lone asteroid in space!" Taskmaster yelled at Jack, making the goth evil genus to flinch in fear of Taskmaster.
Taskmaster then presses a button on his deck and the holo-screen disappears, as he now signs in frustration.
But then, a knock came from the door, getting Taskmaster's attention,
"Come in," He said,
And then the door slides open automatically, revealing Nico Robin, as she wasn't wearing her hat and coat, as she was holding a chart on a clipboard in her right hand, and she began to walk to Taskmaster.
"Here are the latest results of Red X and Black Velocity's physical test in the training room," Robin said to Taskmaster, as she reaches his desk and hands the chart to him, which he takes and began to read it.
Taskmaster finishes reading the results and puts the clipboard on his desk, "Getting better, but there's more room for improvement, have the physician double the tests, I want them to be pushed beyond their limits." Taskmaster told Robin,
Robin had a bit of a complex and hesitating expression on her face, before she asked Taskmaster, "Sir, don't mind me asking, but I've been observing the sessions Mistral has been doing to Red X and Black Velocity, and I have to say, that it seems a bit too... psychology tortuous." She explained to Taskmaster, pointing out the ways Mistral has been doing to Red X and Black Velocity has been psychology tortuous.
"You can't get good soldiers without breaking some mental restriction; they have shown to be more suited for covert and espionage, a good tool in war." Taskmaster tells Robin, as he leans on his chair,
But Robin had a bit of a less convinced expression, "Having a strategic advantage over our enemies is a good thing, but should it be at the cost of the mental health of our own?" She asked him, pointing out that even those Red X and Black Velocity are Taskmaster's soldiers, they are still living, breathing people, and not like his army of Taskbots.
Taskmaster then turned his chair and stands up, "If you have any concerns, Miss All Sunday; then address them to Mistral, but as long as their able to follow my orders and complete their mission, no matter the cost, I couldn't care less." He told Robin, with seriousness in his voice,
Taskmaster walked around his desk, and walked passed Robin, as he headed towards the exit. "Have someone ready my ship." He told Robin, as he exits his office,
Robin was left there, as she was facing the exit, with a bit of a concerned and unsure look on her face.
The next day, back on Earth, it was the afternoon in Jump City, and in the busy upper part of Jump City.
Walking up the stairs to the underground subway systems was Randy and Alice, as they had just finished school for the day and Randy were taking Alice to the floral show.
After exiting the subway, the two teenagers were walking down the street, walking passed some people.
As they were walking, Randy turning his head and looked at Alice,
"So, you're into flowers?" Randy asked Alice, asking about her interest in flowers.
Alice turned her head to look back at Randy, as she gave him a gentle smile, "It's more than an interest, I love how there's many kinds of flowers, there's actually 400,000 different flowers in the world, each more different than the last." Alice explained to Randy, with a passion in her voice.
Randy's attention was grabbed, as he looked at her with interest,
"... Someday, I hope to become a florist and my own flower shop back in Russia." Alice told Randy, telling him about her hopes and futures.
"Wow, your dream sounds just as Bruce than my dream, my dream where I open a bikini -themed amusement park." Randy tells her, as he smiled, closes his eyes and held his right hand up, dramatically.
Alice started laughing, as she covered her mouth with her left hand and closed her eyes, as Randy opens his eyes and turned to look at Alice, as her laugh was pretty cute, and he looked at her with a calm and generally happy smile on his face.
Alice then stops laughing, as she opens her eyes and turned to look at Randy, and noticed that he was looking at her, Randy sees Alice looking back at him, with a confused look on her face, wondering why he was staring at her, and he quickly drops his smile and turned his head away from her, as he had an awkward look on his face, as he was blushing.
The two of them kept walking, until they finally reached the floral show, in an art gallery,
Randy and Alice took a good look at the gallery, before Randy turned to look at Alice. "Well, we're here." Randy said to Alice,
Alice turned to look at Randy, "Thanks again, Randy, I'll call you when I'm finished." She tells him, saying that she call him for when she wants to be picked up.
Randy nodded, as he gave her a small smile, "Alright then, I'll see you in a few hours." Randy said to her,
Alice smiled back at him, as she gave him a quick nod, "Mm,"
Randy smiled before turning around and began to walk away, leaving Alice watching him walking down the street, her smile slowly turned into a slightly sadden look on her face, before she turned to walk into the gallery.
Randy kept walking down the sidewalk, before he turned and entered an empty alley and walked down it, before stopping at the center of it.
Randy then looked around the alley and sees that it was empty and no-one was here,
With no-one in the alley, Randy puts his left hand into his jacket pocket and takes out his Ninja Mask, with Randy knowing that he can burn a few hours going on patrol for crime around the city as the Ninja.
Randy puts on his mask and transforms into the Ninja, and he then leaps upward, toward a wall and plants both his feet on it.
"Ninja Wall-Sprint!" Ninja yelled out as he quickly started to sprint up the side of the building, towards the rooftop, when he reaches the roof, he leaps over the edge and lands on the roof.
Ninja then walked towards the edge of the roof and looked over it, and scanned the ground, looking for trouble.
Ninja had a bored look in his eyes, as he looked down below, "I spy with my little eye, a peaceful and crime-free town..." Ninja said to himself out of boredom.
Ninja then turned to look at another part of the street, "I spy with my little eye-" Ninja then stopped mid-sentence, as his eyes widen in shock at what he saw.
Down below, sitting outside of a coffee shop, were three teenage girls, sitting around a table just outside the shop.
The first girl was a 16 year old, as she was Caucasian, as she had gold eyes and light gold hair that's lightly permed in the back and curled into spirals over her shoulders. She also has her hair in two small buns on both sides of her head held by red ribbons.
She was wearing a violet blouse, with a purple collar; she was wearing a maroon skirt and brown boots, while she was wearing a light brown coat.
The blond girl's name was Saki Tenjouin, a classmate of the team and the school's queen bee.
Another girl was 16 year old, and was Caucasian, with brown eyes and hair, which she has a ponytail with a blue scrunchie, as her face was married with a emotionless expression. And she was wearing a brown shirt, dark blue jeans and dark brown shoes and she was wearing a white sleeveless vest.
The girl's name was Rin Kujou, Saki's friend/bodyguard.
The last girl was 16 year old, and was Caucasian, and had long blue hair and purple eyes which are rarely seen through the big round lenses of her glasses. She was wearing a green dress, with a dark green bow tied around the waist.
Her name was Ayako Fujisaki, or just Aya for short, Saki's other friend.
Back on the roof, Ninja's surprised look in his eyes, quickly changed into a sly and over- confident look. "-Three sexy classmates, who are gonna love a certain ninja!" Ninja finished, as he had an idea.
Saki, Rin and Aya isn't fond of Randy Cunningham, but maybe they'll be singing a different tune when they meet the Ninja, a full-time superhero, and as we all know, a girl can't help but swoon over a superhero!
Down below, at the coffee shop,
Saki, Rin and Aya were sitting around the table, as Saki and Aya were laughing, while Rin was drinking her tea, while there was jug of water on the table.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" The sound of Ninja's voice was heard, getting their attention, as they turned and saw Ninja, as he was hanging upside down from the side of their table's parasol, as he was staring at them with a cool and flirty look in his eyes.
Aya looked surprised at seeing Ninja, but Rin stood up and picks up a sword, made out of bamboo, which was called a 'Shinai', as she held it at the ready, as she thinks Ninja was some kind of crook, and she was going to protect Saki and Aya.
Ninja then flips off the parasol and lands on his feet and turned to face them, as he held his hands up, with a calm looking in his eyes. "Hey, hey, I come in peace, don't get switch off by the mask, I ain't no gang banger or nuthin' I'm just local, loveable superhero!" Ninja explained to Rin, to calm her down and to not have her attack him.
Saki took a good look at Ninja, before her face was hit with a unimpressed look, "You're a superhero..?" She asked him, not believing Ninja was a real hero.
Ninja closed his eyes, as he leans back a bit as he crosses his arms, having a arrogant look. "I ain't one to brag, but I've saved the world a couple of times, I'm, uh, pretty famous around these parts..." Ninja explained to them, as he opens his eyes to look at the girls. "... The name's Ninja... The Ninja..." He introduced himself.
But Rin sat back down, and had an unemotional and unimpressed scowl on her face, as she looked at Ninja. "Never heard of ya..." She replied back to him,
But Ninja had a surprised look in his eyes, as he looked at Rin, "What you talkin' 'bout? I'm a legend, girl!" He tells her; with an over confident look in his eyes, as he held his hands up.
Aya adjusted her glasses, as she looked at Ninja, "You don't look like a superhero?" She said to him, as she is finding it hard to believe that Ninja's is a real superhero.
Ninja then leans forward, towards Aya, as he gave her a cool and flirty look, "Well, looks can be deceiving, I'm actually on patrol, just looking for trouble..." Ninja said, until he quickly turned his head to look at Aya, with a serious look in his eyes. "... You haven't been naughty, have you (?)" He asked her, raising an eyebrow.
Aya pulled her head back, away from Ninja, as she had a really uncomfortable look on her face, as that question made her feel uncomfortable.
But Ninja then pulled back, as he started laughing, while throwing his arms, "Yo, I'm just messin' with ya, girl!" He tells her, laughing at his joke,
Saki and Rin both turned to look at each other, as both of them are not believe that Ninja was an actual superhero, and also with a name like 'The Ninja', isn't he suppose to be sagely and honourable, instead of acting like a womanizer, while talking like an urban rapper.
Ninja then closed his eyes, "So, you girls wanna take a ride in my Ninja-Mobile?" Ninja offered, as he opens his eyes to look at Saki, Rin and Aya,
As Ninja does a casual lean on the table, he brings his right palm down flat and plants it in the centre of their napkins by mistake and then his hand slides away through the napkins; causing him to loses his balance and comes down hard and bangs his chin on the table edge.
The impact then jarred a jug of water, which flies into the air and lands upside down on his head.
Saki and Aya laughed at the bumbling Ninja, as Saki, Rin and Aya then got up and the three of them leaves,
Ninja stood and wobbled a bit, as he had both hands on the jug and tried to pull it off his head, when he manages to pull the jug off his head, Ninja looked at the table and saw that the girls left, leaving him there.
Ninja now had an annoyed look in his eyes, as he just blew it with Saki, Aya and Rin... Not that he actually had a chance to begin with...
A few hours later, it was now dawn, and exiting the gallery, was Alice, as she then walked down the sidewalk, as she takes out her phone, and held it in her right hand, and called Randy.
Alice stopped walking near an alley, as she held her phone up against her ear,
'Hey, Alice,' The sound of Randy's voice came out of her phone,
Alice smiled, "Hi, Randy, I'm finished with the show." She said into her phone,
A few miles away from the gallery, standing on top of a building,
Was Ninja as he was holding his phone up against the left side of his head,
"Alright, I'm just on my way and I'll be there in a few minutes." Ninja said back to his phone, as he turned and ran towards the edge of the roof, where he leaps off it and lands on the roof of the building next to the one he was on.
As he was heading towards Alice, to meet her,
Alice smiled, but unknown to her, in the dark alley; something was slowly creeping towards Alice,
"The show was really great; there were so many different floral pieces." Alice tells him,
'I'll bet...' Ninja say,
"So, what have you been doing?" Alice asked him, wondering what he's been doing while she was busy.
Then the shadowy figure gets closer towards Alice, as a familiar mechanical tail emerges from the shadows, stalking towards the back of Alice.
Ninja was running across a rooftop, before leaping over to another one,
"Aw, y'know, just shootin' the breeze..." Ninja replied,
The tail gets closer and closer towards Alice,
"Well, I appreciate you doing this for me, I know that it's a bit of a chore to go back and forth just so I could go see a show, but I just want to say thank you for being such a good friend-" Alice was telling him,
But she was cut off, while the tip of the tail tapped her on her left shoulder, making her stop mid-sentence, as she turned to see who tapped her shoulder, when she turned, her confusion was met when she saw a tip of a tail facing her.
But then, the bladed tip of the tail opens, revealing a nozzle, which then sprayed a green gas into Alice's face, quickly causing her to flinch back, pulling her head away from the gas, but she started to feel dizzy, as her eyes got heavy and her knees got weak.
Alice then fainted, as she drops to the ground, but the tail quickly moves around her waist, catching her and lifting her off the ground, as the unconscious Alice drops her phone, and it hits the ground, while Alice was carried into the shadow by the tail.
On Ninja's end, he stops on a rooftop, as he had a look of confusion, as he hears what happened at her end.
Ninja listens to the silence on Alice's end, "Alice? Alice, are you there? Alice!" Ninja said, as removes his phone from his ear and looked at the screen, as it readied that Alice's phone was still online.
The phone was still on, but Alice suddenly went silent, with a sound of the phone hitting the ground.
Ninja quickly knew something was wrong, he had a look of concern and worry for Alice, as he knew she was in trouble, Ninja then quickly sprinted off to Alice's pick-up point.
A few minutes later, at the alley was Alice wait at, Ninja quickly lands in the alley and ran towards the sidewalk, but stops when he looks down at saw Alice's phone laying on the ground.
Ninja bends to pick it up, and holding it up in his right hand, staring at it, as he had a horrified look in his eyes, "Oh no..." He whispered, as Alice was kidnapped.
And then, the sound of tires screeching was heard, not far from the alley, this quickly gets Ninja's attention, as he turned to where the screeching came from, he knew that tire screeching was from the vehicle that has Alice.
Ninja quickly puts Alice's phone in his belt, as he quickly leaps upward towards a building and ran up the wall, towards the roof.
Driving down the road at high speeds, passing other cars, was a brown colored van, driving it were two thugs.
While one of them was driving the van, while the other one was sitting shotgun, as he was laughing.
"Ha-ha-HA! Easy money we've ever made!" He told the thug who was driving.
But then a voice came out of the radio, and it wasn't a radio station,
'Not so fast...' The sound of Taskmaster's voice came from radio.
Somewhere, in an office, Taskmaster was sitting in a chair, as he was facing hundreds of monitors, as they had live footage of the van, with the aid of Taskmaster's camera-bots.
And Taskmaster also sees Ninja on screen, as he was running across rooftops, at great speeds, as he was chasing the van below.
"... The Ninja is on your tail." Taskmaster told the thugs,
The thug who was driving had a serious look on his face, "Not a problem, we'll just-"
"Eat lead, Freak!"The other thug yelled out, as he stuck his head out the window, looked behind the behind and held his machine gun, as he started shooting like a mad man at Ninja.
Ninja then jumps off the roof and tosses his scarf at another building, as it grabs on to it, and he swung from it, Ninja's scarf the lets go of the building, as Ninja performs a back-flip, as he dodged the bullets fired at him, Ninja held his hands out, and grabbed on to a street light, and swings off it, as he then threw his scarf out and swings from another building.
The thug kept shooting at Ninja, trying to hit him,
But Ninja kept dodging, as he lands on top of a street light and jumps off it, towards another street light where he grabs on to it with his right hand and swings off it, and he then jumps off the side of a building and lands on another street light and he then jumps off that one, Ninja then tosses his scarf and swings towards a building, where he lands on it, and quickly began to run across it, running from the bullets, as he performs dashes and flips to dodge them.
When Ninja reaches the end of the building, he quickly grabs hold of the corner of the build and swung himself to the other side, in the opposite direction.
The gun-man stopped firing, as he sees that Ninja was gone, he then pulls himself back into the van and looked at the driver. "Where'd he go?" He asked him, wondering where Ninja went.
But then both thugs looked ahead and to their shock, they see Ninja, as he was swinging from his scarf, towards them, as he adjusted his body and tucked in his legs...
"NINJA KANGAROO KICK!" Ninja yelled out, as he shot his legs forward and smashing the front glass of the van, and goes inside of it.
The driver then loses control of the van, and it swerves and flips over, crashing and tumbling on the road, until it stops on its side, on the sidewalk.
Meanwhile in an unknown location, in a very hi-tech facility,
As a door opens, revealing Scorpion, as he enters a large room with many of electrical equipment.
Scorpion stops walking when he reaches the center of the room, as he looks up and sees an upper observation deck.
Scorpion stared at the deck with a serious look on his face, "Taskmaster, the package is secured." Scorpion said,
While behind him, now in a barred cage that was hanging from a chain on the ceiling, was Alice, as she was still unconscious, as she lying on her front.
Meanwhile, on the Triskelion Island, in the SHED,
Ava, Kaikaina and Metabee was watching TV, while in the kitchen, A-Bomb and Julie were making dinner.
Julie was peeling potatoes, while A-Bomb was boiling a pot of water, as he stood in-front of the cooker.
While she was peeling the potatoes, she turned to look at A-Bomb, "Where's Randy? He was supposed to be home, half an hour ago." She asked A-Bomb, as she was wondering where Randy was.
A-Bomb turned to look at Julie, as he had an awkward look on his face, "Jule, not being mean or anything but Randy is a grown guy, and you're kinda acting like a mother... or Centorea." He tells her, telling her that's she's a little protective.
Julie looks offended on being called an overprotective mother, "I am not overprotective over Randy... I'm overprotective over Alice from Randy." She corrected him, saying that she's worried of Alice with Randy.
A-Bomb looked confused, "Alright... Why, I ask?" He asked, wondering why she's so protective with Alice.
Julie looked down and just shrugged her shoulders, "You know how Randy is, Alice one of the few friends we have who doesn't have super powers or is some kind of agent who actually looking after us. And Alice is a really great, she's caring, she's... normal..." Julie explained to A-Bomb, as he now had a but of a sadden look on her face.
A-Bomb now understood why this was important to her, "You should really have some fate in Randy, he's seen how much she's bonded with each of us, you know Randy wouldn't do anything to hurt that." A-Bomb tells Julie, as he turned away from the stove and walked to the table, to look at Julie.
Julie looked at him, before she sighed, as she knew he was right, "(Sigh) I know, but looking at how normal some people are, it's just makes me look at my life, I know we have an amazing and exciting life as heroes, but it just makes me feel like the 'Normal' in my life is slowly slipping away. Sometimes, when I compare myself to others, it makes me feel like I'm a big freak..." She explained to A-Bomb,
But A-Bomb stared, speechless until he started laughing at that 'Freak' comment, Julie looked surprised and confused on why A-Bomb was laughing, only to then realize that he was laughing at the 'Freak' comment as he found it funny that she thinks she's a freak.
When A-Bomb is a 6'6 feet tall, with blue, armored skin and spikes, and had only three huge fingers on each hand, hulk, weighting 680lbs and wears nothing but shorts.
A-Bomb was the only one on the team, whose appearance just screamed 'FREAK',
"Okay, okay, I get it," Julie told A-Bomb, as she had an annoyed but amused smile on her face.
A-Bomb kept laughing, before stopping for a bit, "No, you're right, you're a total freak, I mean- (Chuckles) - You're lucky I let you be seen with me (!)" A-Bomb joked, as he laughed,
As Julie started laughing along with A-Bomb, and when their laughing died down, the two of them stared at each other, both having a deep smile on their faces,
"Rick!" The sound of Ava's voice entered the kitchen, with a sound of urgency in her voice,
A-Bomb and Julie quickly snapped out of it and turned to the exit and Julie got up and the two of them stood up and quickly walked out of the kitchen.
When they were out of the kitchen, they see, at the hanger doors, they were opened a bit, where there was a strange, egg-shaped orb that was floating off the ground, with Ava, Kaikaina and Metabee near it.
Ava quickly tied her hair into a ponytail and presses a button on her watch, and her clothes changes to her costume, as she puts her mask on,
As Kaikaina presses the device behind her ear, making her helmet materialize, as she takes her two blasters out and aimed them at the orb, at the ready,
Metabee narrowed his eyes at the floating orb, "What is that?" He asked,
"No idea..." Kaikaina mentioned, as she shook her head,
A-Bomb walked up to the orb, with a suspicious look on his face, as he lifts up his right arm and reaches towards the orb, as his finger touches it, the top of the orb then separates in two, and opens a top, when the top was opened, a light shined out of it, and then a hologram of Taskmaster appeared, as he was facing the team, with his arms crossed.
"Taskmaster!" White Tiger yelled, as she looked angered, along with everyone else.
'Spare me the threats and heroic dialect and let's just get to the business at hand, I need something and S.H.I.E.L.D. is the only one who has it, and you're going to hand it over to me.' Taskmaster explained to them,
"Yeah, and who do you think you are, a lovely neighbor who comes by to ask for sugar (?)" Metabee joked, as he crosses his arms,
Julie steps forward and points her left index finger at the hologram, "What would make you actually think for a second, that we would ever do anything for you, Taskmaster!" Julie told him, looking serious, as they would never help their enemy with anything.
But Taskmaster laughed a bit, 'Heh-heh-heh... I knew you were gonna say that, so that's why I had the help retrieve something that might change your tune.' He tell them,
As the hologram image of him changes into a hologram image of Alice, in her cage, still laying on her front.
Metabee, Kaikaina Julie, White Tiger and A-Bomb all were shocked at seeing Alice, now held captive by Taskmaster,
"No!" Kaikaina said in shock,
"Alice!" Julie yelled, with a look of shock,
Alice slowly started to stir as she woke up, as she pushed herself up and looked around, seeing that she was in a cage, she had a look of confusion and fear.
'Wh-Where am I..? Hello... Anyone..? Hel-' Alice hologram was cut off and was changed back to Taskmaster, as he still had his arms crossed.
'Teenagers; always getting into the worst of situations (!)' Taskmaster joked,
"Put her back on!" White Tiger yelled at Taskmaster, demanding,
'Don't bother tapping into her phone's GPS, she's in a secure facility of mine, and don't even think about calling Fury for help, you'll only do more harm for your friend than help.' Taskmaster explained to them,
A-Bomb clenches his fists and gritted his teeth in rage, "Listen to me, Creep, if you hurt Alice, I will-" He threatens Taskmaster, with fury in his eyes.
'I say can you spare me the threatening and just get to business.' Taskmaster told him, cutting him off, as he wasn't afraid of A-Bomb.
A-Bomb got even angrier, before White Tiger puts her left hand on A-Bomb's right shoulder, making him turn to look at her, as she had a calm but serious look in her eyes.
"What do you want?" Tiger asked him,
'There are some files in the S.H.I.E.L.D. archives that are kept under lock and watch in the Triskelion's Athenaeum.' Taskmaster explained what he wanted from them, and where it was kept.
Metabee steps forward, with a serious look in his eyes, "Forget it, that vault has hundreds of classified files, dossier, blueprints and schematics for S.H.I.E.L.D. weapons, devices and vehicles." He told Taskmaster,
'I already know what's in the Ateneaum, but what I want isn't a weapon plan or a vehicles blueprint, what I want is few old S.H.I.E.L.D. files from a few years ago.' Taskmaster explained to them,
White Tiger crossed her arms, as she looked at Taskmaster, "Still, to get a file from the Athenaeum can only be accessed to someone who's a high-ranking S.H.I.E.L.D. operative and has clearance. We couldn't get those flies, even if we tried," She explained a flaw in what he wanted them to do, as none of them has clearance to access the Athenaeum.
'Oh, I think you can, with the right help, and proper motivation.' Taskmaster told them, reminding them at the fate of Alice's life hangs on what they do.
As then, from the orb, a compartment opens, revealing a flash drive and an earpiece.
A-Bomb sees the items and reaches and grabs them in his left hand,
'Just insert the drive into one of the computers and it will locate the flies I need, all you have to do it take the drive into the Athenaeum and when the drive finds the flies, they will be transferred back to me. It's really that simple.' Taskmaster explained to them,
A-Bomb, Kaikaina, Tiger, Metabee and Julie all hated this, forced to do what Taskmaster wanted, but if they didn't, who knows what he'll do to Alice.
'I'll give you one hour to decide, I'd chose wisely, I doubt you're little friend can handle having her legs broken (!)' Taskmaster told them,
But then, a fist flies down and punches the orb, cutting the transmission off, as the orb is punched into the ground, getting smashed to pieces, as it the right fist that belongs to Julie, as she had absolute fury on her face, as her teeth were gritted, as she smashes the orb with blinding rage.
Kaikaina's helmet then dematerialize, revealing her worried and scared face, "What are we gonna do!?" She said, as turned to look at Metabee,
But Metabee had a worried and concerning look in his eyes, as he looked at Kaikaina, as he didn't know,
"We can't let him get away with this!" Julie turned to look at White Tiger,
But Tiger had a confused and conflicted look in her eyes, "I... I don't know..."
"We gotta do something!" Metabee said, with a serious look in his eyes,
"What can we do?" Tiger turned to look down at Metabee, with a annoyed and frustrated look in her eyes.
"ENOUGH!" A-Bomb yelled out, quickly making everyone stop talking over each other and turned to look at A-Bomb, with surprise, as he looked angry, "I need to think..." He told his team, as he walked over to the couch and sat down, as he leaned and puts his hands on his head, to think.
Julie, Metabee, Kaikaina and White Tiger (Who removes her mask), looked at A-Bomb, all with looks of concern for A-Bomb,
"Rick..?" Metabee asked, concerned for him,
A-Bomb was in a deep train of thought, as he tried of think of what to do, he couldn't refuse Taskmaster, knowing that he'll hurt Alice, but if he does it, who knows what Taskmaster will get from the files and who knows what it is and it may be extremely dangerous.
"... We've don't have a choice... If we don't, he'll hurt Alice, no matter what he wants from the Athenaeum, it isn't worth putting Alice's life on the line for it..." A-Bomb told his team, with a sad but angered frown on his face, as he didn't like submitting to Taskmaster.
Everyone looked shocked at hearing what A-Bomb just said,
"But we can't, we've gotta tell Wash and Fury!" Metabee told A-Bomb, telling him another option.
But A-Bomb shook his head, frustrated, "Taskmaster said that if we go to Wash or Fury, he'll hurt Alice, we're on our own." A-Bomb explained,
Julie steps forward, looking at A-Bomb, with a worried look on her, "So, we're just going to do what Taskmaster wants?" She asked,
But A-Bomb stands up and shook his head, as he had a serious look on his face, "No... I'm going to do what Taskmaster wants." He corrected her,
Ava, Kaikaina, Metabee and Julie were shocked to hear that, knowing that A-Bomb was going to get those flies by himself.
Ava had a look of defense, as she looked at A-Bomb, "Rick, you can't..." She told A-Bomb,
"Av, our friend is the hands of Taskmaster and we have the one thing he wants, and I'm the leader of the team, so I have to make a call, I'll be the one who gives him what he wants, so when things go South, and they will, I'll be the one who takes the rip, and none of you guys will." A-Bomb explained to them, wanting to do this alone, so when and if Fury or Wash find out, then he'll take the fall and none of them suffers the consequences.
"But, Rick..." Julie look concerned, not wanting him to do it alone and takes the responsibility of it.
"No 'buts', Julie, my mind is made up, it's one of those moments where the leader had to put everyone else ahead of himself." A-Bomb told Julie, standing by his decision, on being the one who will take the fall for his action.
Ava and Julie both turned to look at each other, with worried looks on their faces.
Kaikaina turned and looked down at Metabee, looking concerned, "Randy was with Alice, where is he?" She asked him, wondering where Randy is.
Meanwhile, back in Jump City, back where the van, Ninja chased after and chased,
While the van was still on its side, on the sidewalk, one of the thugs that were in the van was tied up to a streetlight, unconscious.
And on the roof of the building in-front of the crashed van, was Ninja, standing on the edge of the rooftop, as he was holding the other thug over the edge, by holding him by his shirt.
Ninja glares with a dead serious scowl in his eyes, as he stared at the thug, "I ask you one more time, where's the girl!?" He demanded him to tell him where Alice was.
But the thug had a brave and non-scared smirk on his face, as he wasn't afraid of Ninja. "Or you'll do what, Pyjama-Boy (?) You talk big but you can't really dish it, can you?" The thug mocked Ninja, knowing he wouldn't just drop him.
Ninja narrowed his eyes, as he then let's go of the thug's shirt, dropping him off the roof and down to the ground.
"AAAAHHHHH!" The thug screamed, as he falls towards the ground,
But then, he was stopped and hanged upside down, as he looked at his feet and sees Ninja's scarf tied around his left leg, as Ninja was still standing on the rooftop edge, holding his scarf in his right hand, while he glares down at the hanging thug.
The thug smiled mockingly at Ninja, "Ha, what'd I tell ya, you don't got the moxy!" He told Ninja; as he knew he wasn't gonna really send him falling to his death.
But then, Ninja's scarf then unwraps itself off the thug's leg and he drops and falls towards the ground again.
"OOOOAAAAAAAHHHH!" The thug yelled in terror, as he plummets closer towards the ground,
But then, Ninja's chain scythe flies down and quickly wrapped itself around both the thug's legs, stopping his fall, as he now had an completely terrified look on his face, as Ninja was kneeing down, holding the other end of his chain scythe with both hands.
"This is as far as I can reach you, so I'd pick your next words really carefully if I was you, unless you really wanna go splat on the sidewalk." Ninja threaten the thug, as the next he drops him; he won't be able to save him.
The thug looked at how high he was, and fearing that Ninja will drop him again, "OK, OK, I'll talk, I'll talk!" He said to Ninja, as he'll tell him where Alice is.
Ninja narrowed his eyes, "Good boy..." He told the thug, still in a serious tone of voice.
A hour later, back at the Triskelion Island, in the Triskelion building
A-Bomb walks through the automatic doors, and walked across the lobby area, towards the elevators, as he was now heading to the Athenaeum.
A-Bomb had a serious look on his face, as he had the earpiece in his right ear, as he entered an elevator, filled with some S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel.
'You're doing good, A-Bomb, your little friend is halfway home...' Taskmaster told A-Bomb, through the earpiece,
As the elevator closes,
Meanwhile, back in Jump City, at the city's waterfront,
Ninja was standing at the edge of it, staring at the water, as the thug told him that the place where Alice was being kept was in the water.
"That creep's directions better be right..." Ninja said to himself,
Ninja then leaps off the edge and dives into the water and swam under the water.
While swimming, Ninja's eyes widened, 'Ah ha, cold, cold, cold, really cold water!' Ninja thought to himself, as the water was extremely cold.
As he swam deeper and deeper in the water, Ninja comes across an underwater lair, he swam towards it, swimming at the underbelly of it, where he found a hatch and turned it, opening it and Ninja then swam in to it.
Now inside the underwater base, Ninja emerges out of the water from a small pool of water, in a small room, gasping in the air, as he quickly got out of the freezing water and hugs himself, as he tried to get warm.
Ninja then removes his hands from his arms, and balled them into fists, as Ninja briefly goes Ninja Rage Mode to warm himself up.
Unknown to Ninja, in a monitor room, Taskmaster was watching a live-feed of Ninja.
Taskmaster then reaches his right hand towards the control panel and presses a button.
"Scorpion, the guest of honor has just arrived (!)" Taskmaster said into the microphone near the button.
He then moves his hand and presses another button, "By now, A-Bomb..."
Back at the Triskelion, inside the Athenaeum, it was an extremely large room, that had hundreds of mainframe computers in rows, while there was a large computer in the centre of the room, where there were two S.H.I.E.L.D. personnel, operating the computer system.
Entering the Athenaeum was A-Bomb, as he walked across the large room, towards the computer.
'... You'll have reached the Athenaeum...' Taskmaster instructed him,
A-Bomb reaches the computer, and puts on a smiling face, "Agent Darron, Agent Haley... Uh... Given monitor duty again, I see." He said to them,
Agent Haley chuckled a bit, "Yeah, dullest assignment in S.H.I.E.L.D. (!) She joked,
But then, a thunderous boom, that shook the whole room, this quickly gets they attention, as Agent Darron quickly presses a button on the panel, and the screen changes to a live-feed, to where the explosion came from, it was just outside of the Triskelion.
Outside the building, flying on a hovering platform which resembles a buzz saw, it was Whiplash, as he was flying low, with both his energy whips out, as he was attacked the base.
"Let's see just how secured the Strategic Homeland is!" Whiplash yelled out, as he swings his whips strikes and hits some parked Quinjets, causing them to explode.
As Whiplash kept flying around, attacking the base,
Back in the Athenaeum, A-Bomb, Agent Darron and Haley were watching this on the screen.
A-Bomb quickly moves forward, towards the control panel, "I'll call it in," He said, as he was going to call in an alert.
But Agent Haley held her hand out, stopping him, "We'll handle this, Rick..." She told him as she then turned to look at Agent Darron, "Darron, go." She told him,
As Agent Darron got up and quickly ran out of the Athenaeum,
Agent Haley then pressed a button on the control panel, "All security personnel, we are under external attack!" She said, into the speaker microphone, calling in an alarm.
While she was distracted, A-Bomb had a bit of a hesitant look on his face, as he knew that Taskmaster sent Whiplash to attack the island, as a distraction
'External attack... They got that right...' Taskmaster joked,
A-Bomb then lifted up his left hand, which was balled up into a fist, as he opens it, revealing the flash drive that Taskmaster gave him, as he checked to see if Agent Haley was looking, and A-Bomb then inserts the flash drive into the computer's USB port.
As a light turned on, on the flash drive, and with the drive inserted for a few seconds, A-Bomb then quickly pulls the drive out, without Agent Haley noticing.
'Nicely downloaded, A-Bomb...'
But in Taskmaster's underwater lair,
Taskmaster was sitting in-front of his monitors, as about 67 files were being transferred from the Athenaeum to Taskmaster's servers.
"My virus is managed to find and transferred all the files I need, all that's left is one schematic file, it'll be kept in Athenaeum's shadow servers." Taskmaster instructed,
Meanwhile back outside, Whiplash was flying towards a small group of S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers, who were armed with weapons, as they were firing at Whiplash.
But Whiplash blocked and deflected their shots with his whips, and sours down towards them, and swung his whips at them, but the soldiers quickly retreated as Whiplash flies over them, just missing their heads.
Back in the Athenaeum,
Agent Haley was watching Whiplash's attack on the screen, "Look, Rick, maybe I picked the wrong time to be hostile, but..." She was saying, before she turned and sees that A-Bomb was gone.
Unknown to Agent Haley, A-Bomb had snuck off to the upper lever of the Athenaeum, as he was now heading towards Athenaeum's shadow servers.
Meanwhile, back in Taskmaster base, in the large room that had the cage that was holding Alice, that was held off the ground via a chain to the ceiling.
Alice had a scared and worried look on her face, but behind her, lowering himself down to the cage, it was Ninja.
"Psst!" Ninja whispered quietly, getting Alice attention,
She turned and smiled at seeing Ninja, "Ninja!" She said, knowing she's saved.
Ninja had a gentle look in his eyes, "Don't worry, Al-... Uh, A girl whom, I've met before, I'm gonna get you outta here." Ninja said to her, while acting like he didn't know her, to protect his identity.
But then, a familiar metal tail flies in and strikes Ninja in the stomach, knocking him to the ground, as Alice looked shocked, Ninja then tumbled on the floor, before he looked up and sees Scorpion, standing before him, with a serious and vengeful scowl on his face.
"You're finished... Outsider..." Scorpion told Ninja, as he lifted up his right foot, over Ninja's head, as he was going to stomp his head in.
But then Ninja quickly rolled over, on to his back, as he quickly tucked his legs into his chest, and placed both hands on each side of his head, and bent his back and kicks his legs out, delivering an double kick, uppercut, hitting Scorpion under his chin, catching him off-guard, and knocking backwards away from Ninja.
Ninja quickly lands on his feet and stands back up, as he quickly turned, and sees Scorpion, as he was charging towards Ninja, with his right fist up, and then threw it at Ninja, but he quickly threw his left hand inward, knocking Scorpion's fist away, Scorpion quickly threw his left fist at him, Ninja then quickly steps to the right, as he spun and delivers a right side kick towards the left side of Scorpion's head.
But Scorpion quickly moves his right hand over his left arm and catches Ninja's leg, stopping it from hitting him, Ninja's eyes widen in shock, as Scorpion then pulls on his leg and spun Ninja around, before letting go and tossing him around the room, but Ninja quickly recovers in mid-air and lands on the wall, and pushes off it, launching off it, back towards Scorpion, as he flips around and tucked in both his legs.
"Ninja Kangaroo Kick!" Ninja yelled out, as he kicks both his legs, towards Scorpion, but Scorpion moves his tail in front of his body, and Ninja's feet hits his tail, Ninja quickly shifted his feet upward, and he then jumped over Scorpion, landing behind him, but Scorpion quickly started to jab his blade tip at Ninja.
But Ninja quickly moves to the side, dodging the blade, "Ninja Dodge!" He then dodges another strike, "Ninja Dodge!" He dodges another strike, "Ninja Dodge!" And he dodges one more strike, "Ninja Dodge!"
Scorpion then crouched down and spun around and swings his tail, to swipe Ninja's feet, but Ninja jumps up, dodging his tail, as he performs a spin, and kicks his right leg out...
"Ninja Kick!" He yelled out, as he delivers a kick to Scorpion's face, knocking him away.
As Ninja lands on his feet, while Alice was at the bars of her cage, holding the bars with her hands, as she watches Ninja and Scorpion's fight.
Scorpion glares daggers at Ninja, while Ninja reaches both hands into his belt-sash and takes out his dual-welding sais, at the ready.
Scorpion then charges at Ninja, and strikes him with his tail, but Ninja steps back and blocks the blade tip with both his sais, Scorpion pulls his tail back, and then strikes his right palm at him, but Ninja quickly blocks it, using the back handle of his left sai, Scorpion then strikes him with his left palm, but Ninja quickly blocks it again, with the handle of his left sai, Ninja then flips his right sai with the blade upward, and he then jumps up and he strikes his sai downward, but Scorpion quickly grabs Ninja's wrist, wrapping around like a snake, and he then turned and tosses Ninja across the room, and he hits the wall.
Ninja sat up against the wall, he rub his head with his left hand, and when he looked up and he sees Scorpion running towards Ninja, to attack him.
Ninja's eyes widen, and quickly got back up on his feet, "Ninja Wall Run!" He yelled out, as he quickly turned around and began to run up the wall,
Scorpion leans out and drove his claw-like fingers into the walls and crawled up the wall at great speed, chasing after Ninja, Ninja almost reached the ceiling, before he jumps off the wall, as Scorpion leans after him, and then swings his tail downward, as the blade tearing across the ceiling, as it inadvertently slices a electric cable on the ceiling, as the slice cable falls and swings towards Alice's cage, as the sparking end of it hits the metal cable and the electricity travels down the cable to the cage.
Ninja lands on the floor and looked up, and sees the electricity, and sees Alice was holding on to the bars, he had a look of shock in his eyes, "No, Alice, let go of the bars!" Ninja yelled out to her.
But it was too late, as Alice didn't let go in time and the electricity shocks her, "AH!" She cried out, as she falls to the floor, as the electricity knocked her out.
Ninja looked in horror and then turned to anger, at seeing Alice get hurt. "NOOOOO!" Ninja roared out in fury, as he turned to face Scorpion, as he then goes Ninja Rage Mode and leaps out at Scorpion, as he was going to make him pay for what he's done.
But Scorpion swats Ninja away, with his tail, sending him flying and smashing into a wall, making a small crack in it.
In Taskmaster's monitor room, Taskmaster was facing the screen, with a live feed of Ninja and Scorpion's fight, as he had just saw Ninja smashing into the wall, and he noticed the crack in it now.
Taskmaster then pressed a button on the control panel, "Scorpion..." He said, in a serious tone of voice,
Back in the room,
Scorpion was walking towards Ninja, who was still on the ground,
'... Take your revenge, somewhere else!' Taskmaster said, through the speakers, cautioning him that his base is underwater and a structural breach will cause a flood and the water pressure will cause it to fall apart.
Scorpion stopped walking, as he looked up, looking angered, "You freed me from prison to kill him, stay out of it!" He yelled out,
Ninja goes back to normal, as he had a look of realization, as he knew that voice on the speaker was Taskmaster. "Taskmaster... It's always Taskmaster..." Ninja said, with rising rage in his voice at figuring out that Taskmaster was behind it all, breaking Scorpion out of prison and giving him that battle armor and kidnapping Alice.
Meanwhile, back in the Triskelion's Athenaeum,
A-Bomb opens a door to the Athenaeum's shadow servers,
Ninja slowly got back up, as he had his right hand against the wall, while glaring at Scorpion, as he was getting closer.
Ninja narrowed his eyes at him, he then leaps up, towards Scorpion, as Ninja lands in-front of him and tosses his right fist at him, but before his fist could hit Scorpion, Scorpion's tail quickly grabs and wrapped itself around Ninja's wrist, stopping his punch, and then pulls it upward, leaving Ninja opened, Scorpion then delivers a right side kick, hitting Ninja's side, as Scorpion pulls his leg back, he then delivers a barrage of powerful punches to Ninja's stomach, before giving him a powerful uppercut to his chin, knocking him off the floor and falls on to his back.
Ninja had his eyes closed, in pain, as he sits himself up and looked up and sees Scorpion standing before him, glaring down at him, but had an arrogant smirk on his face. "I was expecting more of a fight, especially due to your friend, but I feel that her greatest downfall, was putting her fate in you..." Scorpion mocked Ninja, as he raised his tail up and aimed the bladed tip at Ninja.
But Ninja had a look of anger towards Scorpion,
Scorpion then strikes his tail at Ninja, but Ninja quickly catches the blade in-between his palms, stopping it and pushed against it, Scorpion smirk then changed to a look of shock at seeing Ninja catch and hold back his mechanical tail.
Ninja narrowed his eyes at Scorpion, as he kept the tail back, as he then pulls the tail towards him, and the bladed tip is driven into the ground, just next to Ninja's left side of his head, Ninja then lets of the tail and he then began to delivers a barrage of punches to Scorpion's face, with his face getting knocked side to side, before Ninja then plants both feet on Scorpion's stomach and then kicked them out, sending Scorpion flying backwards, as his tail gets pulled out of the ground.
Scorpion then plants his hands and feet on the ground, grinding the floor as he slows himself down, he looked up at Ninja, gritting his teeth in anger, but his face then changed to a look of surprise, as he sees Ninja, as he went into Ninja Rage Mode, as he had his fists clenched, as he concentrating.
Then Ninja's right leg started to burn brighter than his whole body, as it went from red to bright yellow, until a layer of molten rock appeared and covered his right leg, which started at the knee and ended at his foot, as Ninja looked up at Scorpion.
Scorpion was confused on what this was, but he wasn't intimidated by this and charges at Ninja, with his tail's blade out, to strike him, but Ninja then charges at Scorpion, sprinting, and when they were closer enough, Scorpion strikes his tail forward at Ninja, but Ninja jumps up and kicked his molten leg out, as it and the bladed tip collides, but Ninja's foot tears through Scorpion's tail, completely destroying it.
Scorpion stepped back, as he looked at his destroyed tail, with complete and total shock, until he looked at Ninja, who does a back flip in mid air and plants his right hand on the floor, and the does a fast 360 turn, as he swings his molten leg around and clashes into Scorpion's left side, with great force, as his body was knocked off the ground, and sent flying across the room until he clashes into a large monitor in the wall.
Scorpion laid inside the monitor, as he had his eyes shuts, as he was in a great deal of pain, until his destroyed tail, touches some sparking wires, the electricity travels through it and electrocutes Scorpion with high voltage.
"GGAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Scorpion yelled out in pain, as the electricity stops and his body goes limp and his eyes closes, as he gets knocked out and lays there unconscious.
Ninja glares at the KO Scorpion in the busted monitor, as he goes out of Ninja Rage Mode, at his right leg goes back to normal, as the molten rock falls off his leg.
"That was for Alice..." Ninja said, dead serious, as he turned to look at the still unconscious Alice in her cage, and ran to get her out of there.
Back in the Athenaeum's shadow servers,
A-Bomb has holding the drive in a server, before removing it,
'Good uploading, A-Bomb, now insert the drive into any other computer, I'll have my file and you get your friend back.' Taskmaster told A-Bomb,
A-Bomb walked over to a computer, and was about to insert the drive in, but stopped, as he had a serious look on his face, as he looked at the drive in his right hand, before clenching it into a fist. "I wanna talk to her." He told Taskmaster, wanting to talk with Alice.
Back in Taskmaster's underwater lair, he was in his office, sitting at his monitor,
"This is not the best time to demand things, A-Bomb, if I need to remind you, you're not in the best position to have demands." Taskmaster told A-Bomb, as he reminded him that he holds the safety of Alice in his hands and A-Bomb really does not want to test him.
'Spare me the threatening (!) I'm not gonna do anything more until I know she okay.' A-Bomb told Taskmaster, making it clear that he won't move a muscle until he hears Alice and knows that she's safe.
Taskmaster turned to look at one of his monitors, and sees a feed of Alice's cage, and climbing down the chain was Ninja, Taskmaster knew that Ninja defeated Scorpion.
"Your friend is... resting at the moment-" Taskmaster said, until he was cut off by A-Bomb,
'Either I hear from Alice or you don't get anything...' A-Bomb threatened Taskmaster, standing by his decision, as he won't be Taskmaster's puppet.
Taskmaster growl with fury, as he turned to look at his monitor that had the image of all the flies A-Bomb transferred to him, it was all he need, and he'll get that one file another day.
"(Sigh) Fine..." Taskmaster said, darkly, as he presses a button on the panel.
Back in the Athenaeum,
The earpiece in A-Bomb's ear started smoking, as A-Bomb quickly noticed it and quickly takes it out, and drops it to the floor, as the drive then starts smoking as well, making A-Bomb drop it to the floor as well.
A-Bomb watches both earpiece and flash drive self-destruct,
And then, bursting in the room was Washington with a few S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers, making A-Bomb turned to look at them, looking shocked.
"Wash, what are you doing here?" A-Bomb asked him,
"T-AI detected a virus in the Athenaeum file database and a transference to an unknown location, but I think the question I wanna know this, what are you doing here, Rick?" Wash told A-Bomb, wanting an answer to what A-Bomb was in the Athenaeum's shadow servers.
A-Bomb looked down at the destroyed earpiece and flash drive, before looked up at Wash, with a bit of a speechless face.
Back in Taskmaster's underwater lair,
Taskmaster stands up and turned to walk over his office observation and looked down into the large room, as he sees Ninja climbing down the cage, before he turned to where the smashed monitor was, and sees the unconscious Scorpion laying inside.
Taskmaster growl in annoyance, "Useless..." He said, annoyed that Scorpion failed to kill Ninja, Taskmaster then turned and walked towards an elevator. "... If you want something done right..." He said, as he entered the elevator and the doors closed.
Back in the room, Ninja was hanging from the side of Alice's cage, as he held his left hand near the bars, as his hand goes Ninja Rage Mode and melts the bars, until there was a hold through it.
Ninja then climbed in and picks up Alice, holding her bridal style, and he comes out of the cage and climbs up to the top of it, Ninja then looked at the unconscious Alice, with a look of concern and worry.
"Ohh..." Alice moaned, sounding woozy,
"Don't worry, Alice, I'm gonna get you outta here." Ninja assures her as he will get her out this place.
But then, from out of nowhere, something tackles Ninja, grabbing him by the face, and he gets pushed off the cage, as Alice drops to the top of the cage,
The thing smashes Ninja into a wall, making a huge crater it, as Ninja was being held against the wall by the face, as the thing was Taskmaster, as he was using his boot jets and holding Ninja by his face in his right hand, as he was starting face to face with him.
"You just can't rely on anyone these days," Taskmaster told Ninja, in an annoyed tone of voice, as he pushed him against the wall.
Ninja puts his hands on Taskmaster's arm, while glaring at him,
"I had that armor built for Scorpion, in means to kill you but yet you managed to beat him, with only your strength of will, no matter how many times we've fought you still find ways to surprise me." Taskmaster said to Ninja,
But Ninja had a amused look in his eyes, "Oh, you just startin' to get to know what I'm capable of!" Ninja mocked Taskmaster.
But then Taskmaster pulled Ninja away from the wall and turned around, and tosses Ninja down to the ground, but Ninja quickly recovers mid-air and plants in feet on the floor, landing safely, as he quickly started sprinting towards Taskmaster, as he flies down and lands on the floor, as he stands his ground, Ninja reaches him and throws his right fist at him, but Taskmaster blocked his punch by slapping it away with his right back hand, Ninja then tosses his left fist but Taskmaster catches it in his right hand and then pulled it, which pulled Ninja with it, where Taskmaster then delivers and powerful right knee to Ninja's stomach, which knocked the wind out of him.
Taskmaster then let's go of Ninja's fist and Ninja steps backwards a bit, but quickly recovers and crouched down and swings his left leg out, to swipe Taskmaster's legs, but he quickly lifts up his left leg up, and Ninja's leg swings under it, Ninja then kept spinning and jumps up, and kicks out his right leg, but Taskmaster catches and grabs Ninja's leg in his right hand, and he then swiftly delivers a high right kick, kicking Ninja and sending him flying and tumbles on the ground.
Ninja was lying on his front, as he pushes himself up, as he turned and glares at Taskmaster, who was walking towards him,
"You've shown that Scorpion wasn't even a good challenge for you, you've already fought against me in a fight, and in every fight, I come out as the better fighter, what makes you think that this time will be any different?" Taskmaster asked Ninja, in an intimidating tone of voice, as he was getting closer.
Ninja narrowed his eyes at the skull masked wearing villain, "Cuz' lookin' back at thoses fight, none of them ended with you really beating me, they ended with you running away with your tail between your legs (!)" Ninja mocked Taskmaster, as he gets back up.
Ninja then charges in at Taskmaster, as with a savage spinning left kick, but Taskmaster dodges it easily, and Ninja then follows the kick up with a right punch, only for Taskmaster to dodges it and steps backwards from Ninja, Ninja then found himself on the defensive, Taskmaster went on the offense and move in and started throwing punches left and right, but Ninja was quickly dodging them, as he jumps up and dodges one final punch, and lands on his hands, as he performs a back flip, away from Taskmaster, and Ninja then runs up and throws a charging left punch, but Taskmaster catches his fist in his right and turned his body around and hurls Ninja against a wall, but Ninja rebounds quickly and tries a right punch, that Taskmaster dodges.
Ninja throws one more punch after another misses its mark and Taskmaster, at the end of it, he lands a powerful left kick that staggers Ninja very badly, but Ninja was soon on his feet and fighting back, but his punches are blocked and he takes one that bowls him over again, when Ninja gets up this time, he had a Ninja Ring in each hand and tosses them, as the both of them fly towards Taskmaster, but he stands his ground, arms crossed in front of himself; there is a quick flash and clang of metal on metal, both Ninja Rings in turn smash into a wall.
The cracks begin to crumble, which caused water to begin pouring out, and in the lair,
Taskmaster then actives his boot jets and flies towards Ninja, at great speed, as he grabs him by the neck in his right hand and flies near the floor, where he smashes Ninja into, tearing the floor against him, Taskmaster then spun around and tosses Ninja, as he flies and smashes into a wall, and drops to the floor.
Ninja slowly got back up, as he looked dizzy and in pain from that toss, but when he looked up and sees Taskmaster, as he flies in and delivers a powerful right punch to Ninja's stomach, which slams him back into the wall, cracking the wall more, Taskmaster then began to deliver blow after blow to Ninja's stomach, each more devastating and powerful than the last.
When Taskmaster stopped, Ninja clenched his stomach with his left arm, but he quickly looked up at Taskmaster, and tried to throw a right punch, but Taskmaster quickly delivers a fast right uppercut and punches Ninja's chin, Taskmaster grabbed Ninja's shoulders and shifted his body around and tosses Ninja, and he tumbled on the floor, where the water was rising, Ninja was lying on his front, face first in the water, Ninja was slowly and struggling to push himself back up.
But then, Taskmaster's right foot comes in and stomps on Ninja's head, pushing his face back into the water, pressing down on it with full force,
Taskmaster stared at Ninja, "You think I'm some kind of coward, some punk that runs from real fight!? I use any strategic advantage I have to get the better of my enemies, and if you think I can't take on someone like you in a fist fight, then your gravely mistaken!" Taskmaster told Ninja, with absolutely fury in his voice, as he presses his foot down on Ninja's head with more force.
Ninja had a look of pain and struggle, as he gets pushed down, as the water was pooling around.
"... There was something interesting Scorpion shared to me, something interesting about you, Ninja or should I call you... Randy Cunningham..?" Taskmaster asked, calling him by his real name.
Ninja's eyes widen in shock of what Taskmaster say, saying his real name, quickly figuring out that Scorpion told Taskmaster about Ninja's alter ego, he knows who he is!
Taskmaster pulls his foot off, before immediately slamming back down, stomping Ninja's head again, "I saw potential in you, saw a chance to mold you into my own image, but now I see that your nothing more than a deluded kid who puts on a mask and thinks he's the big, strong hero who beats the evil villain..." Taskmaster told Ninja,
Ninja opened his right eye to look at Taskmaster, with struggle in his eye,
Taskmaster then puts more and more pressure on Ninja's head, "... This is where you belong, Ninja! Under my heel..!" He told Ninja, with anger in his voice.
Then Taskmaster lifted his foot off Ninja and he then turned Ninja over and grabbed him by his chest and lifted him off the ground, holding him up with both hands, as Ninja had a look of pain in his eyes, as he was too hurt to move.
But before Taskmaster could do anything, the sound of creaking metal got his attention, as he turned his head and looked around, as water was bursting from the walls, as all the fighting made too many cracks and hull breaches and the water pressure was now crushing the lair.
Seeing that his lair was now falling to pieces, he knew that he didn't need to kill Ninja, so he turned to face the hurt Ninja and pulled him closer to his skull mask.
"It doesn't matter; I've alright got what I wanted, with the aid of your friends..." Taskmaster told Ninja, as he tosses him to the floor, splashing the water.
Taskmaster then walked passed Ninja, as he was heading towards a side platform, where there was three large hatches opened, revealing a cockpit, as they were escape pods, Taskmaster actives his boot jets and flies up to the platform, as he lands and walks towards one.
Only to stop as he turned around and stared at Ninja, who was crawling on the floor, on his front, in pain, Taskmaster then looked up at the ceiling and saw, just over Ninja was a large and heavy piece of machinery.
Taskmaster then reaches his right hand to his holster and pulls out his blaster, as he fires it and the top of the machinery, causing it to tear off, falling towards Ninja, as he turned and looked up, and his eyes widen in shock, as he quickly gets up on his knees, but it was too late, as the machinery crashes down on top of him, crushing him and causing a huge splash of water.
Taskmaster then puts his blaster back in his holster and turned to enter one of the escape pods, as the hatch closes when he was inside.
Outside the lair, the escape pod that Taskmaster was in, detaches and began to moves quickly away from the flooding lair, and to the surface.
Taskmaster was sitting in one of the chairs, as he was facing the front glass, as his escape pod soars away.
Back in the flooding lair,
Ninja was trapped underneath the machinery, as a stream of water was pouring on his head, as he was struggling to get free, but to no avail, as the water rising as it was now knee high.
Ninja shuts his eyes tight, as he lift the machinery off him with his shoulders, but couldn't as it was way too heavy for him.
"No... Good... Won't... Budge..." Ninja said in his mind, as he stops trying to lift it and his shoulders drop.
Ninja opened his eyes as his head drops and he had a look of struggle in his eyes, "The water's so cold... My muscles are stiff as a board... Gah..." Ninja now had a look of acceptance in his eyes.
"So... this is it... this is how it ends... You fought the good fight... Had a good run... You gave it your all... No-one can ask anymore..." Ninja said to himself, accepting his fate and wasn't afraid to die.
"Ohh..." The sound of Alice's voice was heard, getting Ninja's attention, as he looked up and sees the hanging cage, and sees Alice, still laying on her back, as she was beginning to stir.
Ninja had a look of realized, as he is reminded of what he was fighting for, it wasn't to stop Scorpion or beat Taskmaster, it was to save Alice.
"Wait a minute, no, what are you talking about, Cunningham, you can't just quit now, not when Alice is counting on you..." Ninja said to himself, as he had save Alice.
Ninja then had a look of determination in his eyes, as he puts his shoulders on the machinery and tried to lift it off him again, Ninja shut his eyes tightly, as he pushed with all his strength, but to no avail.
"Come on... Julie makes it look so easy, come on!" Ninja yelled at himself, as he pushed more and more.
Ninja opened his eyes and looked down and saw his reflection in the water, he is then remembers what Dorora said to him, 'The sense of power is but an illusion, the true power is that of one who believes in the inner strength within themselves', it's more than power of the body, it also requires the power of will.
He has to believe that he's strong enough to save Alice...
Ninja had a serious look as he then moves his arms and places both hands on the machinery and pushes, Ninja struggled as he pushed more and more.
"Come on... come on... Go Ninja..."
Then the machinery is then lifted up a few feet,
"... Go Ninja..."
Ninja began to stand up, lifting the machinery higher and higher, as he held it up with his arms, Ninja kept lifting and lifting, until he lifted it to where he managed to stand up completely and held it up.
"GO-O-O!" Ninja roars out, as his costume gets tears on his left bicep and a huge one on his chest,
And with one final lift, Ninja tosses the machinery off him, tossing it over him and the machinery falls behind him and makes a huge splash.
Ninja nearly falls over from exhaustion, as he pushed his body beyond his limits, but he managed to keep his footing, as he looked up and sees Alice.
Ninja tosses his scarf and swings upward, Ninja gets on top of the cage, getting on his knees, as he lifts her up back her shoulders, as he looked worried and concerned.
"Alice, wake up!" Ninja told Alice, as he shook her shoulders a bit,
Then Alice's eyes opens, as she gasped, when she turned and looked at Ninja, as he had a relaxed and glad look in his eyes, as he was relieved to see Alice was OK.
"What happened?" Alice asked Ninja, wanting to know what happened after she was zapped.
But then more water burst out of the walls, and the water was rising faster, Ninja and Alice sees this, and Ninja turned to look at Alice, with a nervous look in his eyes.
"Long story, really not the best time to tell it." Ninja tells her, as Ninja looked around and sees the escape pods, a chance to get out of here. Ninja then looked at Alice, "Hold onto me," He instructed her, as he and Alice stands up and she wraps her arms around Ninja's neck, holding on to him.
Ninja tosses his scarf and he swings himself and Alice over to the escape pods, Ninja was in too much pain to walk, so Alice puts his right arm over her shoulders and helped him walk to the escape pod.
Ninja removers his arm from her and Alice walks in the pod, she turned around and sees from across the room.
"What about him?" Alice asked Ninja, as he turned to look where she was looking, and sees as she was looking at the still unconscious Scorpion, inside the smashed up monitor.
Ninja had an annoyance and dreary look in his eyes, as he knows in his best judgement that he can't leave Scorpion to die, even if he may deserve, that's not Ninja's style, but he knows that saving Scorpion was gonna bite him on the butt later.
Ninja then jumps off the rails and tosses his scarf and swings towards the smashed up monitor and enters it and he grabs him and puts carries him on his right shoulder. Ninja then swings himself and Scorpion back over to the escape pods, as Ninja was carrying Scorpion in, as he places the unconscious villain in the corner, as Ninja quickly tosses some Ninja Glue Balls, sticking on Scorpion, just a little insurance if Scorpion wakes up and attacks him.
Ninja struggled to walk over to one of the chairs and sits down, while Alice quickly moves over to the panel and looked frantically looked to see which button to press, until she sees a button on the panel that readied 'Emergency Disconnect'.
Alice then presses it, and the hatch of the pod closes and the escape pod then disconnects from the lair, and quickly jets away from the lair, as the whole underwater lair falls apart and collapses to pieces.
And the escape pod jets back up to the surface, with all three of them inside,
Back at the Triskelion Island,
Whiplash was still attacking, flying around and swinging around his whips,
'Whiplash, the mission is complete, return back to base.' The sound of Taskmaster's voice came from Whiplash's coms.
Whiplash sighed a bit, "Aw and I was just starting to have fun..." Whiplash said, disappointed, as he retracts his whips in his robotic arms, and turns his buzz saw platform around and flies away from the island, returning back to base, under Taskmaster's orders.
A few hours later,
After Scorpion was taken into SHIELD custody and Alice was safely taken home,
Now inside Nick Fury's office, A-Bomb was facing Nick's desk, as the director of S.H.I.E.L.D. was sitting at it, looking serious and angry as he scowls at A-Bomb, while Washington and Centorea were standing at both sides of the desk, with Wash having his arms crossed, as Centorea looked concerned.
"You received a message from Taskmaster, not informing us, and you chose to give him classified files... I have a good half a mind to lock you in the deepest prison cell we have." Nick told A-Bomb, in a furious tone of voice, enraged of what A-Bomb did, even if it was to try and save his friend, he snuck into the Athenaeum and gave S.H.I.E.L.D. files to their enemy, and he had to face his actions.
But A-Bomb wasn't nervous, as he was at ease at knowing that Alice was alive and safe, that was all that mattered, but there was a part of him that was angry at the fact that Taskmaster used him by threatening Alice and forcing him to give him those flies.
It also made A-Bomb unease on what Taskmaster is going to do, now that he had those files.
A-Bomb had a straight face, as he looked at them, "I know what I did is inexcusable and I'm ready to face the consequences." A-Bomb tells them,
Centorea turned to look at Nick and Wash, with a concerned expression, "I understand that what Rick did was unforgivable, but he only did it to insure the safety of Alice, we can't overlook the motivation for his actions." Centorea reminding them of the reason and not just the action,
Wash steps forward, breaking his crossed arms and pointed his right finger, "Even if it was for his friends, he snuck into the Athenaeum and handed 67 flies to a terroristic maniac, there's no excuse!" Wash told her, in a angry tone, as he doesn't want A-Bomb to get off something this big, scot-free.
A-Bomb kept his face straight, as he was still prepared for what he was going to be given.
A few hours later, in the SHED,
Inside the living room area, Julie, Kaikaina, Ava and Randy were sitting at the couch, while Metabee was sitting on the coffee table,
As Julie, Kaikaina and Ava were in their pyjamas, as Julie had her hair down, while Randy was in his, but he had arm bandages wrapped on both his arms, and had a head bandage wrapped around his forehead and had a bandage on his cheek. As Randy was now in recovery from his fight with Scorpion and Taskmaster,
"So let me get this straight, it was Taskmaster who broke Scorpion outta prison, and who gave him that armour, and he had him kidnap Alice, in the means for luring you out and have Scorpion take you out, and also have us be force to give him those flies." Metabee asked Randy,
Randy was lying back on the couch, as he gave Metabee a half-smile, "That's the gist of it..." He said, with a sound of pain in his voice.
"And not only did you discover a new ability, which you used to beat Scorpion, you managed to lift a 4,000lbs piece of machine off of yourself." Julie asked as well, with a look of disbelief that Randy actually did that.
Randy turned his head to look at Ava, "I already have all the bruises and pulled muscles to prove it..." He joked,
Ava then crossed her arms and looked at Randy, as she raised her right eyebrow, as she had a mildly impressed smile on her face. "I'm impressed, Randy, aside of the fact that you could have called us, instead of going all solo-hero against not only Scorpion, but also Taskmaster as well, that was a fault on your part, but you did manage to save Alice, so still, good job." She tells Randy,
Randy smiled at Ava, "Thanks, you know it doesn't hurt as much as you think." He mentioned, as he is hurt but not that hurt.
Kaikaina smiled brightly, with her eyes closed, as she moves close to Randy, "That's our Randy, get pummeled and he'll just bounces back!" She said, as she rose up her right hand and gives Randy a smack on the back.
SMACK
"AHAHHAAA!" Randy yelled in pain, as his muscles were extremely sore and painfully sensitive,
Julie had a smile, as she looks at Randy, "You saved Alice, Randy, you should be proud yourself." She tells him,
But Randy turned to look at her, with a slightly disappointed face, "Yeah... But now Taskmaster knows who I am, I just know he's gonna go after my family and loved ones." He said, worried that now that Taskmaster knows his identity, he'll come and hurt Randy's loved ones, just to hurt him.
"Don't worry, Randy, we're alright got S.H.I.E.L.D. security at the ready for your family." Ava tells him, assuring Randy that his family will be safe.
Randy turned and smiled at Ava, "Thanks..."
And then, Randy's phone, which was sitting on the coffee table, started ringing, getting their attention, as Metabee picks up the phone and looked at the caller ID.
Metabee then looked at Randy, "It's for you," He tells him, as he tosses the phone towards Randy, and the phone lands and hits Randy in the chest.
"GAH!" Randy yelled in pain, as Kaikaina picks up the phone, and presses 'Answer' and holds the phone at Randy's left ear, as he then tilts his head to the left and rested his ear on his phone, while resting it on his left shoulder.
"Hello?" Randy answered, with some pain in his voice.
'Randy?' Alice's voice came from the phone,
Randy's eyes widen in surprise at hearing Alice, "Oh, Alice, are you OK? When I couldn't find you, I was really worried." He tells Alice, acting like he didn't know what happened to her and to push away suspicion from his identity as the Ninja from Alice.
Alice was sitting on her back, in her bedroom, in her pyjamas, as she held her phone up to her right ear, with a smile on her face.
"I'm fine, Randy, don't worry." Alice tells Randy assuring him that she was alright.
'You have no idea how relieved I am, I was so scared that something would have happened to you.' Randy said to her,
Alice laughed a bit, "Well, you should be thanking the Ninja, he was the one how saved, I wish you could have seen him, he was amazing, the way he was moving, how he fought and he jumped around the room, as if he was flying..." She explained to him, detailing Ninja with a tone of great interest.
As Alice then falls over and lies in her back on her bed, with a deep smile on her face.
Randy had an amused smirk on his face, as he knew that Alice was taken by the Ninja, "Really, girl? Man, you're right, I wish I was there, tell me everything." He said,
While Randy was talking, Julie turned to look at the doors, and she had a bit of a concerned look on her face, as she then stands up and grabs the blanket on the couch arm and wraps it around herself and walks to the door, walking out of the SHED.
Now outside, Julie looked around the base and sees, standing by the shore, facing the ocean, as the Moon was leaving a reflection in the water, was A-Bomb.
Julie then walked over to him, as A-Bomb had his arms crossed and had a bit of a sadden look on his face, Julie was now standing next to A-Bomb, as she turned to look at him, with worry on her face.
"Rick, are you okay?" Julie asked him,
A-Bomb turned to look at her, and gave her a small smirk on his face, "Well, considering the fact that I'm standing here after getting chewed out by an erupting Nick and Wash, I'd say I'm doing good (!)" He joked, as he shrugged his shoulders.
But Julie didn't find it funny as she knew that A-Bomb was just joked to mask how he was really feeling. "I've never seen Nick or Wash look so angry before, so what'd they say?" She asked, wanting to know what A-Bomb's punishment was.
A-Bomb looked at her and his smile then turns to a sad frown. "I'm now probation, meaning I'm grounded until Fury decides when I've been punished enough, and it also means that I won't be allow to go on missions with you guys and I've gotta wash a ton of S.H.I.E.L.D. uniforms, wax the Quinjets... And I've temporally dismissed as the leader of S.P.D." A-Bomb tells her, as his title of leader has been taken away from him.
Julie looked shocked at hearing that Nick took A-Bomb's role as leader away, "Rick, that sucks, I'm so sorry." She said,
But A-Bomb gave Julie a small smile, "Aw, don't worry, Jule, it's a better alternative to a prison cell, and besides its only temporary, and until I've worked off the damage, Ava's gonna be in charge." A-Bomb assures her that the team will still have a leader, it's second in command; Ava.
But Julie then moves around him and looked at A-Bomb with a deep look, "But the whole 'On probation and not the leader anymore' isn't what's bothering you, is it?" She said to him, seeing that A-Bomb was upset by something else.
A-Bomb's smile disappears, as his arms dropped, "(Sigh) I just can't stop think about if what I had to do, won't come back and hurt us or anyone else in due time." He explained to her,
"But you don't regret doing it, because you know it was to protect Alice..?" Julie guessed, having a feeling that A-Bomb may hate what he had to do, but never regret protecting his friends.
A-Bomb looked at Julie, before his mouth curved into a smile, which made Julie smile back at him, before she looked at A-Bomb and noticed at he wasn't wrapped up, and it was really cold.
"Aren't you cold?" Julie asked him,
But A-Bomb shook his head, "Nah, that's one of the advantages of having armoured skin, you don't feel the cold..." A-Bomb said, with a smile,
But then, from out of nowhere...
"ACHOO!" A-Bomb delivers a sneeze, which makes him go SD, which catches Julie, off-guard.
SD A-Bomb stood there, with a runny nose, which made Julie giggle a bit at seeing this, before she takes off the blanket she had wrapped around her and puts it on A-Bomb, putting the ends on both his shoulders, as she knew he might need it more than she does.
A-Bomb goes back to normal, as he looked at Julie putting the blanket around him, as Julie looked up at him and get a heart-felt smile.
A-Bomb and Julie gazed into each other's eyes, before Julie noticed that her hands were still holding the ends of the blanket, and quickly let go, as she and A-Bomb turned their heads away and blushed a bit, as they smiled.
Julie then looked back at A-Bomb, reaches her right hand and taking A-Bomb's left hand, as she pulls on it, "Come on," She said to him, smiling, as she and A-Bomb began walking back to the SHED.
Meanwhile, in the depth of space, Taskmaster fleet was flying thought the stars, and in Taskmaster's main flagship.
In Taskmaster's office, Taskmaster was sitting at his desk, with a holo screen on it, as he was checking through every last of the flies A-Bomb gave him.
"You're a fool..!" The sound of a dark voice was heard, getting Taskmaster's attention, but it didn't make him turn away from the screen.
"I got what was needed; you should be a little more grateful." Taskmaster told the voice, as he kept looking through the files.
And then, from the shadowy corner of his office, was a strange cloaked figure, with a hood over their head and the shadow it made hid the person's face and identity.
Outside of Taskmaster's office, Nico Robin was walking towards the door, she was about to open it, until she heard voices on the other side.
'What you did, nearly exposed the operation to your enemies, the Master will be displeased with this action you have taken.' The hooded-being said to Taskmaster,
Robin's attention was grabbed, as she leaned towards the door, holding her right ear near the door to listen better, as she's never that voice before, who was it that Taskmaster was talking to and who's the 'Master'?
Taskmaster then looked up from the screen, and sees the Hooded-being was facing in front of him,
"You tell him that there are necessary risks that need to be taken in order to move forward." Taskmaster told him, in a serious tone of voice.
Then the Hooded-being's cloak opens, and what emerges from the shadows from inside, was a hand, which was wearing a black glove, as the hand then pointed at Taskmaster. "I'd be cautionate with how lenient you're means are, Taskmaster, the power you see before you is that beyond you or anyone in this universe can comprehend, and the Master is not merciful, remember that..." The Hooded-being warned Taskmaster,
But he crossed his arms, as he wasn't afraid,
Back outside, Robin had a look of complete suspicion and curiosity, what was the guy talking about,
She wasn't going to just stand out, Robin then straights up and opens the door, casually, and putting on a straight face.
But as the door opens, Robin sees, in the office, there was only Taskmaster in the room, and the Hooded-figure was gone, Robin walked in the room, as she looked around the room, to see where the person with the voice gone, but there was only Taskmaster and herself.
Taskmaster kept sitting at his desk and looked at Robin, as she walked up to his desk,
Robin looked at Taskmaster, "You called me up?" She said to him, as Taskmaster called her up to his office for something.
"Yes," Taskmaster said, as he presses a button on his desk and then a flash drive emerges from out of the desk, and Taskmaster takes it out and holds it up to Robin, as she takes it in her left hand. "Take this to Spicer; it'll have all the blueprints and schematics that'll help with the construction." Taskmaster told her.
Robin nodded, "Yes, Taskmaster," She said, as she turned around and began to walk to the door, but she stops mid-way as she turned to look at Taskmaster, with feeling of unease. "But don't mind me asking but what are you having that quack of a genius build?" Robin asked Taskmaster, curious to know what Jack was building for Taskmaster.
Taskmaster stared at Robin, "Your question will be answered in due time, Miss All Sunday, but right now, it's best not to ask about my business." He cautioned her, as he opens up his holo-screen and began going through some work.
Robin looked at Taskmaster, with a hesitant look on her face, before looked down at the flash drive in her hand, and decides to keep quiet and turned to continued walking, until she left the office.
Now alone, Taskmaster kept working, until he stopped and then turned his chair around and looked at the large window behind him, that had a view of space, and he stared at the stars, with a brooding feeling.
(Author's notes - JESUS CHRIST, THIS WAS A PAIN! I had bad writers block, kept getting distracted with work, home, health problems, and I've been working on some new stories, but I think the episode turned out beautifully, enough action, story progression and character development, I'm proud of myself, I've been thinking a lot about some new stories, which I had an extremely influential conversation on story and world building, with my dad, I'll be working on some two new stories in the future, I don't know when, but when I got a good grip on what and how I'll be writing those, and also, thank you for your patient, I honestly don't know when I started writing this episode but thank you. 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/The 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
Alice Gehabich - Bakugan Battle Brawlers
Centorea - Monster Musume
Agent Washington - Red Vs. Blue
Nick Fury - Ultimate Spider-man
Dororo - Sgt. Frog
Scorpion - Ultimate Spider-man
Taskmaster - Ultimate Spider-man
Nico Robin - One Piece
Saki, Rin and Ayako - To Love Ru
Jack Spicer - Xiaolin Showdown
Whiplash - Iron Man: Armoured Adventures