So I was set on kicking this story up a notch but apparently I failed to do that, well you know what they say if you fall off the horse you've got to get back on. Read and Review of course.
Global Justice North American Defense Command
No sooner had Agent Du stepped out of the elevator when a massive steel door a few feet in front of it rumbled open. Out stepped a stereotypical nerdy looking scientist; white lab coat, thick glasses, thin neck, big honking nose.
"Welcome Agent DU." He extended his hand out to greet Will.
Will looked down at the scientist's hand and then he looked him straight the eye as if to say 'what are you doing'.
The scientist awkwardly put his hand to his side. "I see you're as friendly as ever. I heard that you congratulated Ron Stoppable, so I had assumed you'd have a change of heart."
Will checked to see if he had any dirt under his fingernails. "Todd, I show respect to people who earn my respect. You have yet to earn any from me. Now do you have good news or not?"
"Well Will, since you failed to trace the androids signal," he let his words dig in, "we've actually made significant progress on it." He motioned for Will to follow him. "Come on bubby, walk with me, talk with me."
So Todd led the way through the massively modern facility. As they walked through the security complex, Will Du glanced through the multiple observation windows where Global Justice scientists in large rooms tested out various equipment.
"Check this out," Todd said, as he pointed through one of the glass windows. "This is some high tech stuff."
Will watched as a Global Justice agent pointed a gun at a lone scientist. He stood a few feet away and aimed directly at the scientist's head, and fired. Will winced, he expected the scientist's brain to be splattered along the observation window, but that was not the case.
"He missed."
"No, he didn't," replied Todd, with a smile on his face. "Watch again and this time focus."
The Agent aimed again and fired. Will focused, and what he saw amazed him. The bullet sped forward towards the scientist's forehead and then briefly stopped in mid air before it suddenly veered to the left and downward, dropping harmlessly to the ground.
Todd pointed to the scientist. "You see that belt on him? Well it uses electromagnetic waves to create a magnetic field the blocks most metallic object…"
Will put his hand up. "Please spare me the technobabble, all I want to know is how soon can I get one?"
"Well it's a prototype but we should be mass producing it soon." He motioned again for Will to follow him. "Speaking of electromagnets…" They entered a hall-like laboratory room. The room was surprisingly warm, bright sunlight shone through the windows. Three other scientists milled around their respective desks working on various experiments, none of them seemed to mind the heat.
Todd reached into his desk and tossed Will an ammunition clip. Will eyed the clip. "What's this?"
"Field Agents usually use specially made rubber bullets right?"
He looked the clip over. "Unless we're facing a rare class S enemy, yes we do use rubber bullets."
"Well ever since your recent robotic adventure, Dr. Director has requested that the bullets now have electromagnetic cores."
"Which means?"
"They kill androids dead and it still break a couple of ribs if its target's a human."
Will opened his overcoat to reveal a weapon similar to a 9MM pistol, replacing his old clip with a new one.
"You don't mind if keep this for you?"
"Bubby, why would I deny GJ's number one agent. Think of it as a gift."
Will smiled. "Todd, you're starting to gain my respect."
"Starting to? Wait till you see this!" He introduced another weapon to Will. "Looks like an ordinary glue gun right? Wrong, it's actually a mine thrower and it'll stick to any surface. Pull the trigger to fire a mine, than push this button on the side to activate it. Works great against tanks or if a steel door is in your way."
"That's pretty impre…"
"Hey brain we've got something!" Someone called out in the room.
Todd turned to Will. "They call me The Brain around here, it's a term of endearment."
Another scientist approached them and handed him a sheet of paper. It was a map of the Atlantic Ocean. There was a large red circle around a tiny island off the Florida Keys "we've checked those android parts and the last signal it received came from this island."
Will recognized the island immediately it was one of W.E.E's private islands. "Goddamn, Gemini's got some huge balls to try and take me out," he said angrily.
"Gemini," Todd said skeptically. "That android didn't have the most advance A.I in the world but it was pretty sophisticated. Sophistication costs money last I heard W.E.E was broke."
Will shook his head. "I don't know how but that is definitely one of Gemini's islands."
He looked up just in time to see two figures burst through the windows of the laboratory.
"Get down!" Will throw his coat open, quickly removing his non-lethal pistol. Two quick shots to the head and the figures where down. They shook violently on the ground before lying perfectly still.
Will placed his pistol back in his coat as he leaned over their bodies; they wore black battle uniforms and light black body armor. W.E.E was printed in black and white on their chest. He checked the pulse of the closest body to him.
"Well I've got news for you Todd. Your bullets are one hundred percent effective."
How the hell did they get past our security?
He stood up and his eyes spotted something else through the window.
Jesus
"Run!" he screamed to the scientist. Just as every window in the room shattered into multiple fragments as, from a quick count, more than two dozen androids burst through them.
Alarms rang loudly throughout the base.
Will fired at the androids as they approached. "Todd, toss me the MT."
Todd threw the weapon to Will and quickly made his way to the exit.
"Tell everyone on this floor to get behind the steel doors, and into the elevators."
Will ducked behind Todd's desk and fired off a few more shots to keep the androids at bay, he managed to take down a few but there was too many to fight off. He took a deep breath before racing for the doorway himself.
The door slammed shut behind him, and he turned around, hoping to see that everyone on the floor had made it past the steel doors he gone through earlier.
God, I hope everyone made it.
He rushed down the hallway towards the elevators, but as he ran he fired off a mine into both sides of the wall. He looked back just in time to see a swarm of now around thirty plus androids chasing after him.
Will looked forward; he spotted Todd standing at the edge of the steel doorway waving him on. "Close the door!" Will screamed to the scientist.
The door began to rumble as it steadily came to a close; Will continued to fire the mines in all directions, until he heard a click.
Out of mines
The door was only a few feet away from slamming shut sealing him away with the androids.
He smiled
This is why I joined Global Justice.
He pushed the activation button on the Mine thrower. Nanoseconds later the first mine he fired off ignited into a ball of fire, then as if part of a chain reaction every other mine after that ignited one after the other, creating a onrushing wall of fire and destruction that consumed everything in its path including the androids.
Will felt the heat on the flames on the back of his neck; the mines eruptions were catching up to him, and the door was almost inches away from closing. With the trail of flames at his heels he leapt forward, somersaulting as he hit the ground, and rolled through the tight gap of the closing door seconds before it snapped shut, stopping the walls of flames from moving any further.
Everyone looked at him in amazement, as Will got to his feet.
He stared back at them. "And that's why I'm number one!" he told them defiantly. "Is everyone alright?"
"Yeah, some of us already got on the elevator, the rest of us stayed to see if you need any help."
"Senior Agent Du." The Agent who had performed helped during the magnetic field experiment came forward. "We've got a serious problem." He handed Will a communicator. Another Agent was on the screen.
"To all available Agents the complex is completely surrounded. We've got reports of hostiles in the armory, and in north, south, and east wings of building A, B, C. We are at Code Velvet for safety reasons, all Agents are ordered to evacuate"
The armory; oh crap now they're armed.
"One more warning, do not exit from the north wing; I repeat do not exit from the north wing! Unless you are prepared to deal with these!" The screen changed to show a scene with a group of twenty feet tall cockroach inspired robots tearing down the walls of the facility. Their claw like antennas whipped back and forth smacking into the walls like wrecking balls.
This is bad.
Blam
They jumped back when the steel door erupted with domelike welts; something or some things were trying to get in.
Todd gulped. "We need to get the hell out of here pronto!"
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Middleton's elite were out in force tonight because of the award ceremony. And they were being joined by many high profiled celebrities. The Oh Boyz and they're entourage, Britina, Mr. Nakasumi and his translator Yoshiko; all of them gathered together at Middleton's biggest dining hall to pay their respects to the heroes who had at one time or another helped them greatly. While some bronzed themselves in camera flashes or dodged the shooters, Team Possible chatted with the party goers.
"Now back in my day, that's when they were real heroes"
Ron nodded to the crotchety old man who had managed to capture his ear.
"I mean, what are you dealing with now, evil geneticists? Please, we had to deal with real evil back then. Nazi's, Commies, Hippies, but did we bat an eyelash? No! Truth, justice and the American way, that's what we stood for. And that's why we're the greatest generation."
Ron continued to nod. "Aren't you the same generation that told people they could survive a nuke blast by hiding under a desk? A desk is practically kindling, you've got to admit that's a bit ridiculous. Who's stupid enough to believe that?"
The old man smacked Ron in the leg with his cane. "Don't sass me boy, I'm talking about days when men could be men."
"Men could always be men," Ron cried as he massaged his knee. "Look, it was great reminiscing with you but I've got to go." Ron slowly limped away as he began his search for Kim.
Meanwhile, Anthony secretly disabled the alarm on the emergency exit in a secluded part of the dining hall, and a moment later, Aaron stepped through the doorway.
"I never crashed such a swanky party before."
"Alright, just keep low profile," Anthony whispered.
"Keep a low profile? Excuse me but I'm a Global Justice Agent, just like you. I know how to keep a low profile."
Anthony nodded. "Fine."
"Oh my god, look at all the rich people!" Aaron called out loudly, managing to turn a few heads.
"Aaron, what the hell is wrong with you?"
Aaron laughed for a moment when something caught his eye. "Look, there goes my mom."
Anthony stared at Monique in the crowd. She was talking up a storm with some guy, seemingly having a good time.
"You know Maya really takes after her," Aaron said softly.
"Why don't you go talk to her?"
"Nah, that's all right." He paused for moment, then he snapped out of his trance. "Besides, what if I go over there and she falls in love with me or something. The last thing I want to do is break my own mother's heart."
Anthony sighed. "I didn't need to hear that. But that guy there is making a big push on your mom. I'd be kind of pissed if I saw that."
"What are you, a broken pencil?"
"What?"
"You don't get the point," Aaron answered. "It doesn't matter to me what my mother does at this point, because it won't affect my non future. Now let's go grab some food."
XX
"So," the man said to Monique, as he slithered closer to her, "guess what, I make more money than you can spend."
"What?" she exclaimed.
He got as close to her as possible and he stared down at her lips. "Can you feel it? There is some kind of sexual attraction. Can you feel it, too?"
Monique looked around. "Are you serious?"
The man put his hands up. "Alright, hold on, let me start over." He took a deep breath. "Hi, my name is Milk, I'll do your body good."
"Oh," Monique tried to keep herself from laughing her butt off, "oh milk, do you know where to find good milk? In BRAZIL!"
She said the last word loudly and the code was sent.
"Oh my god Monique, you look fabulous in that dress," said a voice from out of nowhere.
"No Kim, you look great in that dress."
"Thanks Mo! Monique, my mom has been asking for you all night." Kim turned to the man. "Can I borrow her for a moment? I promise I'll bring her back, thank you."
The man reluctantly agreed, so Kim grabbed Monique by the arm and pulled her away. Once they were out of earshot they started to laugh
"That was the worst," Monique groaned.
That's when Ron walked into their fleeing path. "That was so cold."
Kim rolled her eyes. "Oh please, hey why are you limping?"
"I unfortunately ran into the greatest generation."
Monique finally stopped her laughing. "Ron I hear you and your cousin had some brawl at Velocity a couple of days ago."
"It wasn't a brawl Monique, it was a just a minor scuffle."
"Really, that's not what I heard. So who sent the android anyway, Dementor, Drakken, some other freak?"
"We don't know," Kim answered. "The android's body was stolen from the police evidence room. Now, counting the one that attacked you, that's two androids in just a couple of days."
A hush fell over them just as waiter brushed past Ron briskly. "Do the workers here seem weird to you? I saw one bump into someone rudely earlier, didn't even bother to apologize."
"Enjoying your party?" Dr. Director asked.
"Oh yeah I'm digging this fiesta," Ron told her and Kim nodded in agreement.
Dr. Director checked her watch. "I think it's just about time you guys took the stage. So the party can get started officially."
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Will Du and his party braced themselves against the walls of the vent and slowly made their way down. A few minutes ago, Will had decided to stop the elevator short before it reached its destination, just in case the androids had taken over the top floors. From the roof of the elevator they had access to the many vents in the elevator shaft.
"We've got to get in touch with Dr. Director and let her know the base is being invaded," Will told them.
A second later he came up to the end of the vent. He smashed trough the grille with his foot and dropped down to the floor below.
Will watched carefully as the three scientists and one Agent dropped down behind him.
"All right we should be safe here."
Boom
Will had spoken too soon, as the door of the room burst open and a squadron of androids rushed into the room with their Global Justice brand machine guns blazing.
The machine guns, equipped with rubber bullets, were an effective use of crowd control, if used correctly. They were used by Global Justice to restrain unruly criminals but if they are fired from close range and aimed too poorly (or too accurately) they can often maim or kill.
"Scatter now!" Rubber bullets raked and ricocheted off the floor around Will's as he ran.
The machine guns buzzed as they unleashed wave after wave of bullets after them. Will's group rushed into a nearby fire escape. The fire door slammed shut behind them.
"Down, go down," Will screamed.
Suddenly, the roof above them collapsed. Will dove down to the ground he looked up to see a rope drop through the hole in the roof.
The top floors have been completely overrun.
"Go down the stairs now!" Will fired a few shots up at the hole to keep the androids at bay.
Click
He had run out of ammo. He looked up to see the three machine guns aiming at him.
Oh shi…
He rolled a second before a deluge of bullets smacked hard onto the concrete of the staircase, creating a small crater.
Unfortunately, by rolling away, he tumbled right down the stairs. Somehow, by the grace of god, his fall had not broken his neck. He leaned against the wall to pick himself up. He felt blood on his face, he had a large gash on his forehead and he was pretty sure he had broken a few ribs.
The base alarms continued to blare.
"To all Agents, evacuate the building immediately, do not bother fighting back, the base has fallen. Evacuate immediately," cried a voice over the PA system.
The sound of heavy boots on concrete focused Will's mind.
I've got get out of here. The underground hanger, yes I've got to make it to the hangar.
He ran quickly down the stairs, it didn't take long for him to catch up with the rest of the group. The scientists had gathered around as the unnamed Agent drastically pulled at a fire door. They were trying to access the sky bridge that led to the east wing of the complex.
"Wait!" Will cried.
The Agent yanked the door open, a heartbeat later he was screaming in horror. Will watched as a clawed tentacle grabbed the Agent and pulled him through the door.
"No!" Will screamed as he rushed to the door.
But what he saw behind it shocked him even further. Not only had was the sky bridge gone but the entire east wing, the largest part of the building was gone, completely destroyed.
A cold breeze hit Will in the face as he watched dozens of the large cockroach robots continue to trample down on the crumpled remains of the east wing. One of them had grabbed his fellow Agent, using their antennas.
As if they were following a trail of his thoughts, two of the robots turned and looked directly at Will.
"What do we do?" Todd asked nervously.
Will laughed; now he was sure they had noticed him. "We run."
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The crowd clapped as the montage of Team Possible's greatest achievements came to an end. The video had had been featured on a large screen in the middle of the stage.
Anthony clapped along, not even trying to hide the pride that he was now feeling. He looked around the table, at the rest of his immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. Possible, the twins and the Stoppables. They were enjoying the moment as much as he was, that was when he decided to find a way to spend more time for them.
His grandparent's on his father's side he had never met. He was told that after his father's death, they had just disappeared. For years he had accepted that as fact, who knew what the truth was. Now on his mother's side, James Possible, being one of the few scientists who had not pledged allegiance to Janus, was practically forced by what remained of the U.S Army to create weapons for the 'war effort', and since they couldn't a afford him falling into enemy hands, he was pretty much under lock and key. Of course, his wife had joined them. Jim and Tim, well their genius also made them a valuable 'resource'. Anthony was sure he hadn't talked with them face to face more than ten times since he was born.
Yes, I've got to spend time with everyone.
"Excuse me are you done with that plate?"
Anthony looked at the waiter. "Yes I am."
The waiter picked up the plate and walked away. He couldn't help but feel there was something odd about the waiter. He had a weird look in his eyes.
Anthony's chain of thought were broken as Dr. Director took the stage and approached the podium. "Tonight we're here to honor two very special people." She called Team Possible to the stage. "These two have…"
She felt a vibration coming from her watch; she looked down at her arm to see it flashing red.
The emergency signal.
She clicked a few buttons and spoke into the watch. "Talk to me."
The crowd began to murmur as they watched Dr. Director talking to her watch.
"No… but how?"
Abruptly the big screen came to life, on the face of the screen was a very happy man.
"Sheldon," Dr. Director seethed
"People of Middleton, and of course my dear little sister Betty, there comes a time in every era where a great man makes him mark upon the world, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great, Napoleon. These men did not wait for the world to hand them anything, they reached out and took the world itself. Today, the world shall add a new name to the list of greatness. That name is Gemini!"
"You're a fool if you think I'll let…"
"Please dear sister, don't be rude," he said smugly. "I'm not finished… as of today, W.E.E declares war on the war on the world. And Middleton, you should be honored, you will be the first to witness our display of power, starting with this little party."
It was then that Dr. Director saw some of the waiter's line up in the room, ten of them standing in a straight line.
"Now," Gemini ordered.
The crowd gasped as the waiters tore off their uniforms, revealing the dark clothing underneath.
"Oh, by the way Betty, if you're still alive when this is all over, I have a little surprise for you outside."
Downtown Middleton, the people at the party were missing a terrific sight. A massive airship appeared overhead. Some would say it came from above the clouds, other would say it materialized out of nowhere. But they would agree that it looked anything but friendly.
On top of that very airship Judah stood with an air of regality, as the wind caused his robe to flap furiously around him. Tonight, he was very pleased. It took some pleading but the council had allowed him to make first contact. He had been given the privilege of initiating part one of the awakening.
He shivered. "Oooh, I'm getting goose bumps."
Two androids stood behind him, the most advanced ones that Gemini had managed to create in his rush to destroy Global Justice. They weren't exactly high quality but they would be good enough for him.
The android on the left held up a small amulet with a snake image in the middle.
"You remember how to use it?"
The android nodded.
"Then please go get them."
In a whirlwind of darkness, the android was gone. The other android spoke up. "Gemini has ordered us to begin."
Judah smiled at the landscape of Middleton below him. "Let's get this started off on the right note."
A row of speakers came up from the floor.
"You know, the bad thing about being an Android is you can't appreciate music." The faint sounds of music flowed through the speakers.
"Music, like Mozart's Requiem; Mozart wrote the Requiem mass in 1791. It was perhaps one of his most powerful and recognized works."
Judah closed his eyes and swayed to the music. He raised his hands up as the opening movement began. "The least we can do is bring these people some culture as they die in a blazing glory."
The vocals and violins hit and he began to move his hands around rapidly like he was the maestro of an orchestra. Smoke rose from the airship as dozens of missiles screeched through the air, hitting various buildings.
Judah continued his imaginary opera. "Isn't it beautiful, more missiles, more destruction, more music, and more beauty."
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Once, when he was young, Will Du had a nightmare where he was stuck in a claw game, and hideous monsters were trying to win him as a tasty prize. Years later he would never have guessed that his nightmare would become a reality.
The claw antennae ripped through the roof as he ran down the stairs. Luckily the claw missed its mark and grabbed nothing but air, then retreated back through the roof.
"Keep moving, don't stop!" Will screamed to the scientists ahead of him. Another claw burst through wall in front of him, he rolled under and then continued rolling until he was back on his feet.
You never knew exactly where the next one was coming from, up, down, left, right, the antennae's came from all directions.
From the left an antenna came at Will like a torpedo. He managed to dodge it by inches as it tore through the back of his coat.
"Agent Du, are you…"
Before the scientist could finish a claw blasted through the wall, clamped down him, and pulled him through the walls.
"Frank!" Todd called out to his fellow scientist.
"I said don't stop!" Will grabbed Todd almost lifting him off his feet. "There's nothing we can do."
There were only three of them left, and Will was determined to protect the other two with his life. A moment later, they finally reached the entrance to the lower levels. Will pushed them through the door and they spilled into the room.
For a brief moment, they thought that was all it would take for the enemy to be upon them. But nothing happened. They picked themselves up in silence, their emotions running on high.
"We need to get out of here," said Todd, "as soon as possible!"
"Why?" Asked the other scientist. "Maybe we can hide out here."
"No," Will replied, "the self destruct sequence will start soon, that's if it hasn't started already."
"Self destruct sequence?"
"We have a lot of secrets here. Things our enemies don't need to know. If the base becomes compromised, then it's triggered to explode."
"Oh jeez…"
"My thoughts exactly," said Todd.
"We've got to get to the underground hangar, there's a secret tunnel there that leads outside. The hanger is on the lower level, so if we're lucky, maybe we can get there without running in…"
H stopped talking when the wall beside him exploded into hundreds of pieces, and the force of the explosion knocked them into the air.
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Pandemonium
That's what happened when the androids began to attack random people at the party. People ran in terror only to find that most of the main doors had been locked.
Dr. Director was the only real Agent there, and she cursed herself for not adding more security.
"Dr. Director, are you alright?"
She broke out of her daze and looked at Kim. "I'm fine luckily…" she reached into her purse and pulled out her own pistol, she winked at Kim "…I always remember to bring protection."
She jumped off stage just as an Android leapt at her. She picked it off in midair, the android's body crashed to the floor as it slowly convulsed.
"I'll get everyone out," Ron told Kim before he jumped off the stage.
Kim spotted Mr. Nakasumi being attacked; she kicked off her high heel shoes, jumped off the stage and landed on the nearest table. She leaped from table to table until she reached Nakasumi's. The android took its eyes off Nakasumi and his translator and swiped at Kim with his hands. She blocked the attack with a swift movement of her right foot, and then kicked the android in the face with his left foot. She dropped down on the table and kicked it in the face again, this time with both feet.
"Mr. Nakasumi, please hurry towards the exits." Nakasumi and Yoshiko bowed to Kim before running away. Kim turned towards the android just as another joined it. "You guys ruined a beautiful night, now I'm pissed."
XXX
"The front doors locked," Britina screamed at Ron, as he pushed through the crowd.
"Alright everyone, back away." Ron put some distance between himself and the double doors of the entrance. He took a deep breath. "Here we go… Flying kick!"
Thump
He jumped kicked the door but it didn't budge. "Ow… my leg!" He fell to the ground, clutching his knee. "Stupid do…"
From the floor, he watched in amazement as the door slowly slid open. "…alright, I did it!"
The mass of people didn't bother thanking him as they rushed out the door. They also missed the fragments of metal on the floor, the pieces of the steel pipes that had been used to keep the doors shut. They were now in shattered pieces on the floor.
"Oh yeah, the Ron man representing with the kung fu skills." That's when he heard the explosions. He stepped outside to see a wave of people fleeing in the streets, some of them were pointing to the sky. He looked up to see the massive airship continue the bombing of downtown Middleton.
"Oh this is really bad."
XXX
Monique peeked from underneath the table to check and see if everything was clear. Suddenly a fist broke through the table, scaring the living daylights out of her. She screamed as the android lifted the table off the floor, and proceeded to throw it over its shoulder. It made a move for her.
Aaron tackled the android away from his mother. He jumped on top of it and pounded away at it.
"You stay away from her."
Abruptly it grabbed him by the throat.
Damn I should have thought this out more!
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The android lifted Anthony up and dropped him down hard on the table. Its hands reached out to strangle him.
Anthony heard Ron's mother call out his name. The Possible and Stoppable family were still here.
"Run!" Anthony screamed at them as he continued to struggle with the android. "Mr. Possible, Mr. Stoppable, I'll hold him off, please just leave." The two men quickly escorted their respective families toward the exit.
With his family gone, Anthony could concentrate on the android. He reached along the table until his hands fell on a fork. He gripped the fork in his hand and jabbed it the androids eye. It immediately released its grip on Anthony. Before it could remove the fork, Anthony punched it in further and it broke through the other side of its artificial skull. Anthony pulled the fork from its eye socket as it slumped against the ground.
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Android #1 threw a punch at Kim, but she caught it by the wrist and twisted it. Android #2 tried to attack with a kick, but she blocked that with a kick of her own. She pulled #1 by the arm and sent it crashing into #2.
"It is really hard to fight in a dress so I hope you appreciate all this attention."
#1 charged at her with a flurry of punches she blocked and dodged them as best she could then she countered with a flip kick, knocking # 1 backwards.
"Now that was especially hard to do in dress."
The androids began to regroup when Kim heard two shots being fired. They stopped moving and dropped to the floor.
Kim turned around. "I could have handled them."
Dr. Director smiled. "I know but these bullets are new." She replaced her clip with a new one, seven shots, seven androids down. "I just wanted to test them out."
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The android pinned Aaron beneath his foot.
"Hey jerk. You might want to look behind you."
The android turned just in time to see Anthony's foot make contact with its face. The blow sent it spinning into the wall. Before it could recover, Anthony was already on top of it. It swung at him, and he ducked under it. Coming back up, he smashed the fork into its eye. With his open palm he pushed the fork further into head, and knocking it back to the wall.
It slid down the wall motionless; stabbing them in the eye seemed like an effective way of destroying them.
"Aaron, you ok?" Anthony called out as he caught his breath.
"Yeah man, you know dude you have to teach me some of those moves."
"You should probably check on your mother."
Aaron nodded and left without another word. That's when Anthony caught a movement through the sides of his eye, it was the final android.
He took a fighting stance as it charged at him.
Ok if it comes with a left I block with my left and counter with my right, but if it comes with the right I can either block with the right or duck underneath and either come up with a…
Bang.
The androids head shifted unnaturally to the side and its momentum carried it forward for a few more steps before it collapsed to the ground.
Anthony turned to Dr. Director as she pretended to blow the smoke off the barrel of her pistol.
"KP!" Ron rushed into the room.
"Ron, where did you go?" she asked.
"I escorted our folks to their cars just in case… you know. But we've got a serious problem here. W.E.E is bombing Middleton to the ground."
"What?"
The group was unaware of the small cylinder as it rolled into the dining hall. It rolled across the floor and came to stop before exploding loudly, releasing a bright light followed by a powerful shockwave.
A second later, from the ground, Dr. Director opened her eyes just in time to see a whirlwind of darkness disappear from the room.
She rubbed her eyes and scanned the room. Team Possible was gone.
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The sonic canon, Will wasn't sure exactly how it worked but he knew that it packed a huge punch. He'd seen a fully charged canon fire a sonic ball that created a huge crater on a tank while simultaneously disabling its electronic equipment. Now, there were sonic rifles that could knock an average man out for days, and break all his ribs. The sonic canon was almost five times as powerful as a sonic rifle. Needless to say, no man can survive being a hit by a sonic canon.
As they flew backwards along with the fragments of the wall, he knew that only a sonic rifle could have packed such a punch. They landed hard on the ground. Will got up on all fours and coughed up blood into his hands. He looked through the wreckage for the two scientists. They were further away from the wall, so they should be all right.
Through all the dust, he saw the two men get to their feet. He picked himself too; he turned to the android that held up the cannon on its shoulder. It stared at them no emotion on its face.
"Move," he called out and they ran, it seemed like that's all they did tonight.
The main weakness of the cannon was that it took awhile to charge. That's all they had going for them.
The came up to an intersection. "To the right," Will screamed.
A noise similar to a sonic boom filled the air. They turned the corner of the intersection just as the sonic ball sped past, smashing into the nearby wall, blowing it outward.
"We're almost to the hangar."
They pushed through the door into the massive hangar. Hundreds of vehicles, ranging from helicopters to dune buggies, lay before them. Agent Du stopped for a moment and pointed to the far end of the cavernous hangar.
"The secret tunnel is behind that wall."
The air around them became awash with swishing bullets. They ducked behind a large van, it bounced left and right as it was pelted with hundreds of bullets.
"This just gets better and better, they've got a rail gun."
The rail gun fired hundreds of rounds of bullets at once, it was only to be used in extra dangerous missions.
"Tim shut up," cried Todd with his head in his hands. Then his eyes opened wide. "There, that humvee over there."
"What about it?"
"Will, that's our ticket out of here."
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The two androids scanned the area as they held up there rail guns. The last thing they saw when they turned the corner around a dune buggy was a large stinger missile that exploded on impact.
"Whoo," Todd screamed, "now that's what I'm taking about!" From the passenger seat, Todd high-fived Tim, the other scientist. "Thank god for my genius, missiles in every vehicle, that's my motto."
Will, who was now in the drivers seat, turned to Todd. "You designed this humvee?"
"Hell yes! This baby is packed with all kind of features…"
"Uh… guys do you hear that?" Tim asked.
Will Du adjusted the rearview mirror. "Crap, it just won't end."
Todd turned around in the seat to see a Black Hawk helicopter rushing towards them. It didn't take long for the helicopter to open fire.
Will hit the gas and the humvee shot off, the squealing tires echoed throughout the large hangar. The helicopter, as expected, followed them and opened fire again. The back and side of the humvee were pummeled under the heavy fire.
"Oh god, I swear I'll stop smoking if you let me live," Todd cried, as the rear window exploded into million of pieces.
Will gripped the steering wheel. "Todd, I'm trying to concentrate here, so shut the hell up!"
"Oh no, look!" Tim pointed forward.
"I see him," replied Will.
About a hundred yards away stood the android with the sonic canon on its shoulder. It stood directly in their path. It aimed and fired. The sonic ball came at them with incredible speed.
Will reacted quickly and pulled the steering wheel hard to the left. The humvee swerved, leaning to the left so much that it almost rose up on two wheels. The very air rippled as the sonic ball passed right by the driver's side window and continued forward, before smacking into the Blackhawk helicopter. The impact blasted the helicopter into a shower of broken glass and twisted metal.
Will positioned the vehicle at the android with the sonic canon. "Take this you son of bi…"
The humvee smacked right into the android sending it flying across the hangar.
Will drove the humvee through the phony wall of the hangar, and they were finally on their way out.
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Ron was awakened by the pulsating sounds of some kind of symphony. He sat up, thinking that he had fallen asleep at the opera again. But he soon realized that he was not at a concert, in fact, he was no longer on the ground. He was on the top of the airship, and someone was up here with him. The man in the green robe didn't seem to notice that Ron was there. He continued to sway to the symphony.
Ron got up to his feet. "Hey, where I am?"
Judah kept his eyes closed. "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam, ad te omnis care veniet. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis" he sang.
"What are you saying?"
Judah opened his eyes. "Those are the lyrics to the first movement. Grant them eternal rest, Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them. You are praised, God, in Zion, and homage will be paid to you in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer; to you all flesh will come. Grant them eternal rest, Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them." He smiled at Ron. "It seems that you are not familiar with the works of Mozart."
Ron put up his fists. "Are you with W.E.E, because if you are, I'm about to lay a serious beat down on you, for what you've done to Middleton."
Judah turned his back to Ron. "They say lions push their cubs off cliffs so as to foster independence." He bowed slightly. "I hope in time you will forgive my actions."
Judah disappeared before Ron's very eyes. "Where did he go…"
Suddenly an elbow struck him in the face knocking him backwards. Before Ron could react, there was a knee crashing into a gut, causing Ron to spit up blood.
Judah performed a jump kick; Ron blocked the attack with his elbow. His arm screamed in pain, it dazed him long enough for Judah to uppercut him in the face. The punch knocked Ron upwards; Judah snatched him out of the air and brought him crashing down to the ground.
Judah stood over him. "Here's the deal, if you beat me, I'll stop the bombings."
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Anthony awoke in half a daze, but he was coherent enough to realize that he was in what looked like a storage room.
Judah didn't bother even tying me up. He's still playing games with me, Judah you bastard.
Anthony found a sword lying next to him. "Is that what you want Judah? Fine, I'll give you what you want."
He broke the door to the storage room down with his foot as he gripped the sword in his hand. Then he heard banging from another door besides the room he was in. Anthony broke the door down, to come face to face with his mother.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Yeah I'm fine but I've got a bad feeling about Ron."
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Ron could taste the blood in his mouth as he put his hands up to block Judah's attack. Judah punched Ron in the arm, and the punch broke through his guard, hitting Ron in the mouth. Judah pounded on him with a combo of rights and left. Then he snapped kicked Ron in the chest.
Ron groaned from the pain.
"What's wrong, you're the only one who can save Middleton; the bombing won't stop unless you win."
Ron threw up a weak punch that Judah batted it away easily. "That's not good enough!"
Ron gritted his teeth and punched again, Judah caught the punch with his right hand. Ron strained as he pushed the punch forward. Judah tightened his grip around Ron's fist, pushing it back as Ron pushed forward.
It was a test of strength.
Suddenly, with no warning, Judah smashed his knee into Ron's face.
Ron flew backwards, his body spinning in the air in the air for a moment before he landed on the ground.
Judah winced as he checked his palm; it was now bright red and badly bruised.
"Amazing," he said he walked over to Ron, "and you've had no training whatsoever."
He paused as he stood over Ron's body. "But unfortunately, you don't have what it takes to save Middleton. Plus, your beloved red head is trapped in the bowels of this very airship, and I'm afraid I may have to kill her."
Ron began to stir slightly.
"Oh well, that's how the world is I guess, it's so cruel and uncaring. Don't you just wish that you had the power to just change the world and make it just like you wanted?"
He grabbed Ron by the back of his hair. "Too bad no one has that kind of power." He shrugged. "This is what's going to happen, you're going to die and so will everyone you know."
"No," Ron said weakly.
Judah shook his head. "I'm sorry this is how it has to be, because, well… you kind of suck at fighting."
A small hatch opened in the middle of the roof of the airship. Kim pulled herself up from the hole, Anthony followed.
Judah smiled when he saw them. "Listen closely my little cub, to attain the power to protect or to destroy. The first thing you have to learn is how to survive.
Without batting an eye Judah grabbed Ron by the shirt and flung him off the side of the airship.
If fate has designated you as the chosen then you will not disappoint.
"Ron!" Kim screamed madly she rushed to the side of the airship and jumped off without thinking twice.
"Whoa!" exclaimed Judah. "I did not see that coming, she just jumped right off, now that is love." Judah turned to Anthony who had his eyes closed and he was breathing heavily. "Aren't you worried?"
"They'll be fine," Anthony said between breaths, as he fought back the tears in his eyes.
"I think you're in denial."
"No! They'll be fine, they… my family… we can do the impossible."
"Really?" Judah snapped his fingers and his two assistant androids appeared. "Make sure it's not too easy for them."
The androids dove off the side of the ship.
"Damn you Judah," Anthony said through his teeth.
That's when Judah noticed the sword in Anthony's hand. "Oh, you got my gift?" He put his right hand to his side, and a dagger instantly fell out of his robe into his awaiting palm. "Good, I wanted to play with you a little more."
"No, this isn't a game Judah, my objectives are clear and if I have to send you screaming into hell to send the Brotherhood a message, then I'll do it."
"Let's make this interesting, I'll give you the same deal I gave your pops. If you beat me…" He disappeared.
Anthony used the sword to block his left side. Blade struck blade and sparks flew into the air.
"…I'll stop the bombing." Judah tried to impose his strength on Anthony's sword, but it wouldn't budge.
What the hell?
Anthony body began to glow with a blue aura. "I'm done playing your games Judah. I've already made peace with myself… I will kill you."
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Kim straightened out her body vertically, noting she was catching up to Ron's unconscious body. She extended out her hand to grab him when two objects caught her eye.
Android # 1 and #2 had caught up with her. They were now parallel to her as they all fell rapidly towards the earth. Android #1 was on her left and # 2 was on her right.
Android #1 kicked her towards #2 who punched her in the stomach. He jabbed at her face but she blocked his attack, and sent an open palm attack to its face. The attack didn't faze the android, again it swung at her, and she deflected this one too. They traded blows upside down in the air until the android grabbed her by the waist in a vice like grip.
Suddenly she realized that were moving away from Ron. She looked down to see android's plan. They were rapidly approaching the Middleton tower, one of the town's tallest sky scrappers. At this rate, they would smack right into the top of the building.
Kim tried to break free from the android but it wouldn't let go. She punched it in the face again and again but it kept its grip on tight. She looked down as the roof of the building rushed up towards them with shocking speed.
She gathered all the strength she could muster and continued to hammer at the android's face until finally, with her knuckles bleeding, she managed to shatter its skull, its face dented inward and it automatically let Kim go.
They were seconds away from hitting the roof.
She grabbed it by the shoulder, placed her feet on its chest and she pushed off the android, she spun through the air as she slowly turned her body back to a vertical position.
She overshot the ledge of the roof by mere inches, android #2 however wasn't too lucky its body exploded upon impact with the roof. Back in a vertical position Kim was soon catching up to Ron's body. She reached out and grabbed him by the shirt and pulled herself to him.
"Ron!" She stopped herself. Maybe it was better if he didn't wake him up, they were at a point of no return. She had no idea how they could be saved. She cradled him against her body and laced her fingers between his.
It was the end for them; there was nothing anyone could do about it now. Kim rested her head on Ron's shoulder as tears leaked from her closed eyes.
She gave his hand a squeeze. "I love you Ron."
At least they would be going together.
"Kim?" The words trickled softly from Ron's mouth and his eyes snapped open. Suddenly a blue aura began to emanate from Ron's body that grew and grew until it enveloped them both.
Android #1, seeing a brand new turn of events, positioned itself beside them. It reeled back and threw a vicious punch at Ron's face. But its punch was stopped short, as the blue aura wrapped itself around the android's fist. Then the aura shot forward pushing the android away with an unbelievable force. The android struggled against the unknown force to no avail. The aura pushed it into the wall of a nearby skyscraper, and then it retracted back to Ron and Kim and encircled them.
They now resembled a giant blue meteor rocketing down towards the earth. They hit the ground with a loud explosion.
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Judah swung at Anthony; the attack would have taken off Anthony's head but he rolled under it until he rolled to his feet. Anthony attacked furiously, he parried, cut, thrust, slashed and blocked. He used everything he had but Judah wouldn't give him an opening. Judah swiftly swiped at him, cutting him lightly on the shoulder. Anthony pushed the pain away and continued to fight with everything he had.
Their blades connected again, creating a hiss in the air. Judah backed away, spun and swung his dagger at Anthony again. Anthony blocked but the blow knocked him backwards.
Judah shifted to an engarde position. "I thought you were going to kill me. I guess you can only go so far with diluted blood."
Judah attacked, and Anthony switched to the defense, relying on his foot work to dodge Judah's thrusts.
"You are so lucky you inherited power just by being born. You were given something you did not deserve."
Judah swiped at him again; Anthony did a back flip to avoid the edge the blade. "Now your father he was the power to change the world, what do you have?"
Anthony tried to force the offensive, Judah blocked his attack. "Wrong move Scion." He used his free hand to smack Anthony hard. Anthony flew backwards and landed on his back, he opened his eyes suddenly to see Judah coming down at him from above his dagger pointed downward.
Anthony rolled sideways a split-second before Judah's dagger impaled into the ground. Seizing the opportunity and using everything he had Anthony swung his sword in a blinding arc directly at Judah's body.
The sword made contact.
Anthony griped the sword tightly and pushed it through Judah's body. He could feel the sword cutting through bone and flesh.
"I have the power to change history, remember that that when you're burning." Judah's body was split in half, the top half dropped to the ground.
But something was wrong… there was no blood.
Judah's body exploded into grains of sand.
"What?"
Someone started to clap, and Anthony turned to see Judah walking towards him.
"Beautiful, I really underestimated your strength; you really took out that sand clone."
"Sand clone?"
"Yeah, sand clone, I got tired of getting the stench of blood on my body."
Anthony felt like he was going to faint, he fell to his knees.
"Members of the Brotherhood dabble in a little thing called magic." Judah stopped walking a few feet away from Anthony. "Why do you look so glum, you beat the clone? Yes, it contains only half my power, but it fights exactly as I would. So take that for what its worth. Now, I'm a man of my word, I'll stop the bombings. There's an escape pod at the far end of the ship. You might want to use that because the ship is going to explode any minute now."
He pulled the sleeve of his robe up to check his watch. "Three minutes to be exact. End the night with a BANG, you know what I'm saying? Well, it's been a BLAST, but if I don't get eight hours, I'm just going to be cranky all night."
He turned his back to Anthony and started to walk away. "Oh, and speaking of sleeping, things are being set in motion that you couldn't possibly comprehend. But things aren't going to happen the way you think they are. The Brotherhood learns from its future mistakes. But don't let that keep you up at night."
Judah howled with laughter as he disappeared in his whirlwind of darkness. Anthony picked himself and silently made his back to the open hatch.
Three minutes later he watched the ship explode from the safety of the escape pod.
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Twenty minutes after Agent Du and his party entered the secret escape tunnel, the Global Justice base self-destructed, creating an explosion that vaporized everything in a two hundred yard radius of the base. Obliterating W.E.E's entire invading force, and any unfortunate Agent that could not escape in time.
Four hundreds yards away, Will Du rested by the side of the road as Todd Smith attended to his wounds.
"Todd, did you hear that? The base just self destructed."
"Will, we need to get you to a hospital."
Will's mind flashed back to the first sonic canon attack, he was the closest one to the wall. All that flying debris, it made sense that he would be nicked up pretty badly.
"How bad is it?"
Todd looked up at him. "You've lost some blood, but I think you'll be ok."
Will laughed. "You're lying."
"What?"
"You're lying… I can see it on your face. I didn't realize it was that bad."
"Nah its not so ba…"
Will interrupted. "We've got to get in touch with Dr. Director."
"Yeah, Tim's contacting her right now. Luckily, I was enough of a genius to have the humvee come with a satellite phone."
"Good." Will was starting to zone out, why had it gotten so cold all of a sudden.
"Will, you saved us back there. You know that, right?"
"Please, I was just doing my job. Nothing personal, but if I didn't take my job seriously, I wouldn't be Global Justice's number one Agent."
Todd smiled. "You are one arrogant ass, aren't you?"
"Yeah, I know," he replied, before his head slumped to the side and his body went limp.
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A few hours later; Middleton General hospital;
Staring out of the hospital window, Kim watched the moon fade into the horizon, it looked like the sun would be coming up soon. She popped a couple of pain killers into her mouth and washed them down with a cup of water.
Her mind recalled her fall off the airship. Common sense said she should be dead, but she was very much alive. The doctors said that she and Ron had been found in a large crater downtown, her body lying on top of his. She didn't really remember exactly what had happened, there was this blue light and then…
Beep
The steady beeping of Ron's heart monitor continued, and every beep just fueled her anger. She couldn't bear to see him this way, bandaged all over his body and breathing through a tube.
Kim put her hand over her mouth to keep from crying out loud, she didn't want to wake up his folks, who were asleep in the room.
Be-beep…
She answered the Kimmunicator before it could finish beeping.
"Do you have it Wade?"
He looked at her with concern on his face. "Are you sure you shouldn't be getting a little rest? What about your injuries?"
"I'm a little banged up, but I'm fine, unlike Ron."
Wade sighed. "Alright, the island is off the coast of the Florida Keys, your ride will meet you on the roof in two minutes."
"Thank you Wade."
"Be careful Kim."
"I will."
She put the Kimmunicator back into her pocket and slung her backpack over her shoulder. Kim silently moved over to Ron's bed and gently kissed him on the forehead.
"Someone's going to pay for what happened to you Ron. I'll make sure of it!"
A minute later Kim stepped onto the roof of the hospital.
"How is he?"
Kim turned to see Anthony sitting on the ground his back leaning on the ledge of the roof.
"How is he?" she repeated. Certain words and phrases the doctor had said popped into her head. Phrases like medical induced coma, stable condition, and possible brain damage.
"He'll be fine… Ron, he's a lot stronger than he looks." She changed the subject. "Thanks for stopping the airship, you saved Middleton."
"You don't need to thank me, just let me go with you."
"Who said I was going anywhere?"
"Ron, he's my family and I'd like some payback just as much as you do."
Kim stayed silent.
"I can help."
She reflected on the situation as the sounds of an approaching helicopter filled the air, the wind from its blades kicked up dust all around them.
"Fine… Ron asked me to trust you, so I will. Just don't get in my way."
"Works for me." He reached behind him, revealing a very large backpack of his own.
"What's in there?"
"In here? Just a gift I'm dying to return."
Yeah that was pretty long, but I was kind of on a mission. Next chapter should be really good, so stay tuned. R&R