Good day to you. I am the mighty and brilliant JAGOW general Dr. Cranken. I am a JAGOW elite, and the head of it's department of science and research. I have been experimenting with different animals and humans in order to create the ultimate fighting machine…but every time I got close to perfection, it turns out I had done it all wrong.

This formula was written wrong, I had used the wrong reactant, I had forgotten a necessary catalyst, I won't go into details. My scientific brain, as brilliant as it is, has been making far too many mistakes. Another Joe, Cameo Leon, the were-beings, my bestial creations…they cannot stop this fool. So it looks as if I will have to lay a trap, and then I will take care of Nick myself. He won't be able to resist the bait you see…

For I have captured something that is of the utmost importance to him…his mentors! His friends! Joe, Sylvia and Blue have been brought to my laboratory, and I will send out a messenger to tell Nick of just what I plan to do to them.

I wonder what I'll mate them all with…I've made some interesting new creatures that are able to have intercourse with humans…but it causes incredible pain to the human. Oh well. Only the strong survive, a lesson Another Joe learned the hard way. Now I must head back to my laboratory. If this all goes well, the great leader will reward me with incredible amounts of money that I shall use to continue my wonderful experiments!

"One…two…one, two three four!"

You look like an angel…

Walk like an angel…

Talk like an angel…but I got wiiiiise…you're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are, you're the devil in disguise!

You fooled me with your kisses…you cheated and you schemed! Heaven knows how you lied to me…you're not the way you seem!

You look like an angel…

Walk like an angel…

Talk like an angel…but I got wiiiiise…you're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are, you're the devil in disguise!

I thought that I was in heaven…but I was sure surprised! Heaven help me, I didn't see…the devil in your eyes!

You look like an angel…

Walk like an angel…

Talk like an angel…but I got wiiiiise…you're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are, you're the devil in disguise!

You're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are…you're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are…you're the devil in disguise! You're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are…you're the devil in disguise! You're the devil in disguise! Oh yes you are… the devil in disguise!

Nick clapped enthusiastically. "Frickin' A, man! Alastor, you have a great singing voice."

Alastor, smiled. "Thanks. You're good yourself, Nick. Really good!"

Nick just shrugged. "I'm getting better, I suppose."

Alastor, Cameo Leon, Nick and Rachel were all at their trailer, singing their favorite songs. Cameo Leon had already gone, having sung "Superman" by Five for Fighting, and Rachel had sung "Sister" by Icehouse. (Nick loved Icehouse, so he applauded the loudest.)

Nick was just about to sing, and he thought they'd really like the song.

"Elvis Presley himself would be impressed with your rendition, Alastor." "I can't compare to his voice, he was the one who thought the song up and all…it was really made for him and all that…"

"Hey Nick! What are YOU going to sing?" "Gee…hmm…I dunno. I'm not sure…I have a lot of favorites…"

Suddenly Rachel whipped around, and a moment later, so did Alastor. They stood up from their tree stumps, and turned to the north. "Someone's coming."

Cameo Leon was the next to hear it. "Wings…" he said, and jumped up. "I'll hide, and wait on top of the trailer." He vanished and Nick heard him jump up onto the trailer. Now he was lying in wait. Nick soon heard the flapping.

Whatever was flapping, it had large wings. Heavy too, from the sound of it. He waited and waited…

But he didn't have to wait long. A gigantic pterodactyl soared towards them, aiming low. It took one last flap and then landed on the ground. Then Nick got a better look. It wasn't really a pterodactyl, but a were-being, by the looks of one. Although it's head and its wings and talons matched a pterodactyl's, everything else was man-like. It was a dark greenish/blue, and it had unnatural red eyes. It had muscular arms and legs, and thick talons and claws. Its wings were at least twice as big as it was…and it was pretty big. It wasn't wearing any clothes, except for a little necklace around its neck that bore JAGOW's symbol.

For some reason, Nick felt that the doctor could have at least covered up the thing's privates, which looked WAY too much like a human's.

"I am Dr. Kranken's esteemed messenger, Lacertavis. I bring a message from the doctor to all of you."

Nick stepped forward, v-watch glowing and ready. "Yeah, well just say it and get lost." Lacertavis smiled in a nasty fashion, and that smile was hard to pull off, since he had a large beak.

"The message is simple. Ah-hem…"Dynamic Nick, I, the brilliant and amazing Dr. Cranken have managed to capture your little friends. Viewtiful Joe, Sexy Sylvia and Captain Blue are in my laboratory, at my mercy. They were easy to catch, since they had no v-watches." And then he starts gloating." Lacertavis made a "and so-on and so-on" motion with his hand. "He just starts gloating and gloating and gloating and gloating about how powerful and smart and wonderful he is for about ten whole minutes. The point is, he's captured your friends and he's going to experiment on them unless you have the nerve to rescue them."

Nick's eyes narrowed and his brow furrowed. "What does he plan to do with my friends?" he growled. Lacertavis shrugged, but he was still smiling. "I don't know what he'll do…with Joe and Blue anyway. Sylvia is mine to deal with. I'm looking forward to our little…"date". I should enjoy it quite a bit." Nick's eyes widened. "The doctor's gonna do what Hojo tried to do in Final Fantasy Seven? Get a beast to mate with a human? That's freaking SICK!" He pointed an accusing finger at Lacertavis. "Don't you DARE rape my friend! She's a lady, you know!" "I've already picked out the candles." Said the smug were-pterodactyl. He then flapped his wings and took off into the air.

"If you want your friends back, you'd better go save them. Oh, and as for the three traitors…my master is going to take each of you apart and feed you to his new creation. See you then…and good luck getting into the doctor's compound in the first place, fools!" He waved cheekily, and then took off. Nick flicked the prehistoric bird the bird, and then turned to the others.

"Well we'd better get going-I KNOW it's a trap, don't say anything Rachel. But I have to try anyway. I am NOT going to let my friends get raped by a freak with wings, eaten by some unknown beast or otherwise hurt by a freak who has an octopus head."

Rachel just nodded. "I was actually going to say…how are we going to get in?"

Nick blinked for a few minutes, then smiled and yelled to the heavens, "Let's ride, Six Machine!"

Six Machine touched down near Nick. "Rachel, Alastor, I'm gonna go in and do an aerial assault. You guys try to find another way to sneak in. Rachel…you're in charge." "What the…why HER?" Alastor asked.

Rachel couldn't make a facial expression, but Nick was pretty sure that she if she COULD, she would be smiling right now.

"Because she's more mature than you." Nick said, trying not to laugh at the pouting face Alastor was making.

"She is nooooooot!" Alastor whined, jumping up and down. Nick grinned and hopped into Six Machine flying away.

In a few minutes, Nick was soaring through the air towards the nefarious doctor's large laboratory. It was a huge dome-like structure, with smaller, square labs littered around it. Tunnels seemed to connect all of the other buildings to the central dome. A large tower was sticking out of the top of the dome as well.

And of course, there were laser cannons everywhere, and many missile launchers. They sprang from the ground and from the tower, all bristling and ready to destroy the minute Nick got within half a mile of the facility.

Nick crouched down in Six Machine and just grit his teeth. "Okay…here we GO!" He dove towards the tower, with Six Machine's laser guns a-blazing.

"YAAAAAGGGHHAHAAA!" He screamed as he ducked and wove through the air, firing at the laser turrets. Their purple lasers whizzed past his ship, but thanks to Nick's quick maneuvering, he was able to dodge them. Then he activated SLOW and REPLAY. Thanks to slow, his large red laser blasts built up power, and the small beams of energy became large, fireball-style blasts of plasma which flew towards the turrets, blasting them to pieces.

"Woohoo!" Nick punched the air in joy. "I did it, I did-ARGH!" an explosion suddenly struck his ship, and he went veering to the left, heading down. He quickly yanked the controls, and flew back up. Looking in his rear-view mirror, he saw what had struck him…the remains of a missile were partially stuck in Six Machine's armor. "Aw man…I won't be able to buff THAT stuff out." He turned around, firing MACH SPEED lasers rapid fire at the missile turrets, blasting the missiles out of the sky, and soon the turrets were destroyed.

Nick smirked. Now he could zoom in an-Oh crap! Dozens of enemy Verdy-Biankys were flying towards him, riding on jetpacks and sporting black laser guns. "Verdys! I HATE Verdys!" "We hate you too!" one shouted back, as he flew past one. He whipped his ship around, guns a-blazing, meeting the swarm of baddies head-on.

"I'll take you all on at once!" he shouted, and flipped a switch on Six Machine. Then, pressing a button on his control stick, he launched a cluster of missiles at the Verdys, sending some of them falling to the ground, scrapped. But everyone else in the swarm just scattered, so Nick took off after a smaller group that had grouped together. He squeezed his trigger, and fired, fired, fired at the Verdy swarm.

"Take that!" he yelled triumphantly, as every single one got shot down. He cheered, but then he had to duck, because a laser beam suddenly shot right across his jet. He looked to his left and saw a Verdy aiming it's laser gun right at him. Taking a more up-close approach, he rammed his ship into the Verdy, knocking it's jet off and sending it plummeting to the jungle below.

Continuing his aerial assault, he dodged and ducked all over the air, flying around the tower a few times to dodge Verdy assaults. "Hold still you dickheads!" he yelled out, and blasted away. Although he was chipping away at the defenses, Nick couldn't keep this up forever. He decided to end it, and flew right towards the glass window of the tower, blasting his guns. The lasers blew the glass apart, and Nick grinned. Then he jumped out of Six Machine, kicking its controls and sending the jet heading off in another direction.

He soared through the air, cape fluttering in the breeze as he headed for the window. After he'd passed through the broken-up window, Nick rolled on the carpet of the room that the window belonged to, and then jumped up, heading for the door. He quickly shut it and raced down the stairs just as lasers tore the door apart. He jumped down the steps and headed down as fast as he could towards the ground floor, where he could hear animalistic growls and cries for help. The lab was obviously at the very bottom of the tower, in the big dome.

A sturdy-looking wooden door blocked his way. One good SLOW/REPLAY punch later and the door wasn't sturdy but in pieces, and Nick had rushed into the laboratory.

It was staggeringly amazing inside. From inside the dome you could see outside, but nobody could see in. One-way glass or something, Nick guessed. Thousands of boxes, crates, cages and other containment objects were placed around the dome, and many had freaky animals inside. Large, human-sized capsules all lined up in a row on the far left of the dome. On the right was the doctor's experimental equipment, foreign and unusual. Nick hadn't the slightest clue what any of it did, and from the looks of most of the equipment, he didn't want to find out.

He walked towards the capsules and looked inside. Eww! Were-beings, not quite born yet. They weren't human, but weren't animalistic either. They looked like large, freaky fetuses from hell. He backed away, feeling creeped out just by looking at them. "I can't stand it when people try to play God on such a large scale…and on sentient beings…that's just fracked-up! This isn't science, it's just plain sickening!" A deep, educated voice spoke. "Geniuses and true artists are NEVER respected in their own time." Nick whipped around, flicking off the speaker. "Not until they're dead! And in a few minutes, you're going to be EXTREMELY dead!"

It was Dr. Cranken. He had on a large lab coat, with white pants and plain black shoes. He had white gloves on his right hand, and his left hand was a large purple tentacle with many suckers. His head was like an octopus or a squid's, but it was purple in color. He also seemed to have a robotic brain, with many blinking lights and several small switches. Little dials and displays were scattered all over it. When people said that the doctor had a big head, they meant it both ways. He was also wearing a white glove on his normal hand and had a stick that had a golden skull on the top, which the doctor gripped. He was pointing at Nick.

"You've caused me a lot of grief boy." Nick just shrugged. "That's what superheroes do…cause villains grief, save the world, get the girl, do good deeds. All in a day's work." "You think you're pretty powerful, but you're NOTHING in comparison to MY creation…and to myself, for that matter." Nick just rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard it all before. "I am the mighty Doctor Cranken, and I have come to dominate the world with my brilliant scientific achievements!" I know your villain type." The doctor suddenly turned a reddish-purple, and Nick realized he was blushing. "You actually said that "I am the mighty doctor" stuff? Ha! I can read you like a book!" He started laughing, but then the doctor pointed his stick up into the air, and a hatch opened from the top of the cane. A bolt of lightning zoomed out, and before Nick could react, he was struck down. He fell to the ground, conked out. Dr. Cranken loomed over his body, smug. "So can I, child. So…can…I."

Nick woke up on a large experiment table that reminded him of science fiction movies. He sat up…or at least tried to. But he found that he was chained to the table, and that his v-watch was hanging from a hook above him. "Can't reach it, can you boy?" said a smug Dr. Cranken from an observation booth just to Nick's left. Nick was in some strange lab outside of the dome, and a large grate covered all exits. The laboratory looked like a cross between an examination hall and a Roman coliseum.

"Where the hell am I?" "This is testing facility Ceta. I am here to test out my creations, to determine how strong they truly are…to determine how strong YOU are." Suddenly the chains snapped! A laser had cut through them, extended from the top of the booth. "There. Take your little accessory, and see what good it will do you against my creature."

Nick stood up and grabbed his watch. He put it on, and shouted out "TIME TO ROCK! HENSHIN!" and transformed once more. Striking his signature pose, he pointed at the mad scientist.

"Okay doctor…let me out!" "Or you'll what, boy? I think I'M in charge of the situation here. You'll fight my newest creation! Oh…he's activating."

Activating? Nick turned around to see one of the grated exits left up its large, steel grates. The exit was no longer barred, and Nick could escape…or something could get in. Unfortunately, the second option happened. Something very large entered the "arena".

It was a large, freakishly so, dog. It had huge claws, and an anaconda for a tail. It had sharp teeth, and midnight-black fur. It's reddish eyes glowed menacingly, and it's three heads all turned and looked at Nick, grinning in a sick fashion. It was Cerberus, the guardian hell-dog of the underworld.

"Holy shit!" Nick shouted. He jumped down from the table, mouth agape…but only for a moment. Then he took up a fighting position. "Time for some old-fashioned obedience training then!" Cerberus wasn't in the mood for talking. It howled, and rushed at Nick, lunging at him with claws drawn, extended to their fullest. Nick used SLOW and ducked underneath the jumping dog, and then executed an uppercut punch to the pooch's exposed belly as it passed over the hero. It went flying into the stands, but soon jumped back up, growling menacingly. It jumped down at Nick, and this time it tried to crush him beneath it's weight, but Nick rolled to the side with MACH SPEED, and it slammed down on air.

Cerberus roared, and the anaconda that was it's tail whipped towards Nick, who ducked just in time. Then Nick grabbed the anaconda/tail thing and pinched it hard…using REPLAY to triple the pain. The guardian dog of hell yelped, and retreated to the end of the arena, crying pathetically. Nick felt sorry for the pup, he didn't like beating up an animal…but then it whipped around, all six of it's eyes glaring hatefully at him.

"I suppose I will have to provide aerial support so that my creation's extension can destroy you more easily." Cranken flipped a switch, and the roof of the arena/lab opened, flooding moonlight into the laboratory. It was night already? He'd been out for at least 6 hours? Nick mentally slapped himself, but soon he had to duck, because a swarm of angry Verdys came swooping in, firing lasers. Nick did several cartwheels out of the way, and narrowly missed them all.

Cerberus, however, didn't like the extra help. Nick had only just landed back on his feet when he heard several screams coming from the end of the arena. He looked up and was pretty shocked to see that Cerberus was snapping its jaws at the Verdys. All three heads reached out in different directions, snapping and growling, trying to catch the green robots that continued to fly all over. The Verdys were suddenly more afraid of Cerberus than they were of the doctor's punishment, and instead of attacking Nick, they began to weave around the room, trying to escape…but the doctor had closed the roof. "I SAID KILL HIM!" screamed the doctor, but to no avail.

Suddenly Cerberus's anaconda/tail hissed, and it's gleaming red eyes narrowed as it stretched out, and in a single fluid motion, grabbed the head of a Verdy with it's mighty jaws. Nick could hear the robot screaming, as the anaconda/tail gulped it down. Nick saw the robot slowly be swallowed, and saw the form of it go down the snakes neck and into it's belly…and then down into the body of Cerberus, who began chuckling. Chuckling? Jeez, it was smarter than it looked! The other Verdys desperately tried to escape, but this proved to be useless. Another Verdy, in a futile attempt to end the threat, dive-bombed the big dog, but in a moment it's middle head snapped up, and it's jaws enclosed around the robot. It squealed as the dog gulped it down, swallowing it up a moment later. The two other heads watched as the first head swallowed the Verdy up, and they chuckled as the form of the devoured Verdy slid down the middle head's throat and into Cerberus's belly. All three heads turned to face Nick, and each face grinned.

"You'll get your turn…" "Soon enough…" "Dynamic Nick." "No need for me to hurry." "I've got nothing but time." "And I haven't been fed in so long…" each head spoke, much to Nick's surprise.

"You speak! That's…that's weird." Cerberus just shrugged slightly. "Possibly…" "But talk is cheap…" "So my actions will speak for me." He suddenly snapped up another Verdy, and swallowed it in a single gulp. "Now then…" "To get back to my feast…" "I'll save you for last." One by one, it leapt at the Verdy's, swallowing them up with it's anaconda/tail, gulping it down with a snap of it's jaws, or seizing it in it's clawed paws and popping them, screaming, into it's wide maws. In about twenty minutes it had finished, and it marked each Verdy's passing with a large fart and several burps. "Disgusting." said Nick, who was trying very not to puke. "Now then…" said the beasts left head. "I suppose…" said the right. "That you're going to be my dessert." The center head spoke last, and it suddenly lunged. Nick jumped to meet it, activating SLOW and REPLAY.

"Take THIS, you rotten mutt!" He drew his fist back, and punched.

KRUNCH!

Cerberus's middle snout let out a sickening crunch and it flew into the booth that Doctor Cranken was in. The doctor screamed as the beast fell in front of him. It slowly staggered up, shaking it's heads. "Ugh…" they all said…and then they turned to face the doctor. "You!" the hell-dog guardian's eyes narrowed, and the doctor didn't even have time to scream as the dog's jaws tore him apart. Every head got a little piece of doctor to call a meal. Soon there wasn't anything left of the freak who had tried to play God. Nick sighed. Cerberus turned around and shook all of it's heads. "That was not the doctor…" "It was merely a clone…" "The true doctor is still out there…"

"What?" Nick blinked. "Then where the fuck is he?" The dog just sat down and began to drift off into sleep. "Hey! Wait! I got quest-oh forget it." The three-headed dog snored loudly, and didn't wake up. Nick just shrugged, and headed for the only exit left…the large hole where Cerberus had entered the arena from. Perhaps the mad doctor was here…

Nope. Not here. But what WAS here was a long, creepy hallway that was silent and cold. Nick shivered a little as he walked through it. Nothing was here…

No…wait! The doctor was here after all! He was running to the exit, puffing. "Damn it!" he was saying. "I can't believe I lost control!" Nick ran after him with MACH SPEED, and soon caught up to the doctor, grabbing the jerk by the arm. "Hold it, you sick bastard!" He flung the doctor against the wall, and the mad scientist slumped to the floor.

"So…you've got clones?" "Yes…in fact, I am a clone myself! The REAL doctor is waiting at the end of the hallway…but you won't reach there!" "What makes you think I won't? You're weak." "Oh no I'm not…I'm not 100 Cranken clone. I have an extension…in me…" "Huh?"

Suddenly the doctor began to shudder, violently. Nick stepped back, taking up a fighting pose. He had a bad feeling as to what was going to happen…

And sure enough, it happened. The doctor's body burst, and a freakish creature suddenly grew from it's pulpy, bloody remains. It stepped out onto the floor, with large taloned feet. It had an insectoid face, with large pincers and antennae. It had four arms, all with hands made up of three claws. It was three times as large as a human, and looked twice as strong. It had a large tail, with a stinger at the end. You could see inside the stinger's stalk, and strangely colored venom swished around inside the stinger. The insectoid frightened Nick, who normally wasn't afraid of bugs…but this, was an exception. It growled, and all eight of it's eyes blinked menacingly at Nick, glinting gold against it's black body. A second mouth on it's belly uttered a roar. It looked like the Kraken's mouth.

Nick took another step back, ready to fight for his life. The creature rushed him striking with it's claws, but Nick ducked and kicked the creature in the face, sending it reeling back…but suddenly it jumped up, and kicked off the wall. It zoomed towards Nick, and with a mighty blow knocked him to the ground. Nick groaned in pain, and tried to get up, but suddenly the insectoid's claws pinned his arms to the ground, and it's taloned feet pinned Nick's legs. It's second mouth drooled over him, and then the beast hoisted Nick up, to face the creature.

"I am your death. I am the death of all life. I am Cimex. You will be enjoyed greatly as a meal." Its pincers suddenly reached out and seized Nick's head, and it withdrew its clawed hands. The pincers lifted Nick into the air, above the wide open maw of Cimex. The beasts arms were spread apart from it's body, as if it was thanking some sick god for this meal. Then Nick felt himself being shoved into the wide maw of the beast, being slowly gulped as the pincer's shoved his body down, down, deeper into it's mouth. Soon his feet vanished, and Cimex gulped. It rubbed it's belly with all four of it's claws, and it's eight eyes closed in ecstasy. "Delicious." It said. It laughed loudly and deeply, with both mouths.

Inside, Nick felt himself being drawn up…towards the stinger of the beast. Suddenly he realized why the stinger's venom had looked so strange…the beast's venom was it's digested prey! He was going to be slowly digested and later used as poison to prey on some innocent victim, his last remains flowing into the body of someone else, as they slowly died, all because of this freaking BUG!

He was NOT gonna be digested by an overgrown beetle!

Nick kicked and punched, but nothing seemed to work. The beast's muscles continued to move him towards the digestive chamber of the stinger, and Nick began to lose hope…until he remembered.

ZOOM!

Of course!

Duuuuuh!

He spun around and around and around using ZOOM, and the more he spun, the more he could hear Cimex's armor cracking. The beast soon found that his meal was becoming a major tummyache…and soon it became an ulcer…and then it happened. Nick spun so fast inside the beast that his entire body became engulfed in razor sharp VFX energy, just as if he was doing a slam onto Cimex instead of rolling around really fast. It cut open Cimex's body from the inside, ripping the beast in half. Cimex screamed, and fell to the ground as Nick stepped out, wiping guts and blood off of his suit.

"Gross!" Nick said. "I am NEVER doing that again…" suddenly a snarl! Cimex had leapt up with it's upper body to finish Nick…but this time Nick got the upper hand, and he whipped around, punching Cimex in the face, shattering the beast's head. The remains fell with a sickening PLOP, and Nick let out an "ugh" of disgust. "He deserved it." he told himself, and Nick headed for the end of the hallway, towards the doctor's hiding place.

Nick stepped through the doorway, and into a dark room. "SHOW YOURSELF, DOCTOR!" he screamed. And then, a spotlight turned on. The real Dr. Cranken stepped forward, bowing. "So you beat my creature's extension and my clones. Impressive. But you will fall before ME!"

Nick just flicked the mad scientist off, and then pointed at himself with his thumb. "Doctor Grey is in, his prescription…one good, healthy ass-kicking! Let's get this party started, doc." The doctor reached up to his robotic brain, and flicked a switch. Theme music began to play.

"Very well. Let us begin!"

BGM: Mad Scientist (Mad Cyber Scientist Dr. Cranken's Theme)

Nick took up a battle pose, and ran up to the doctor, fist drawn back. "RAAAHHH!" He screamed a battle cry, and his fist slammed into the doctor's chest…doing jack-diddly. "What the?" Nick was suddenly backhanded by the doctor's large tentacle, and he fell to the floor. He stood back up, and decided to go for a SLOW kick. He whipped around, and activated SLOW, striking the doctor with a roundhouse kick to the chest. But nothing happened! In fact, Nick's foot now stung like hell!

He grabbed it, and jumped up and down, rubbing his sore foot. "Ow-ow-ow!" He yelled out, as the doctor chuckled. "You cannot possibly hope to beat me!" The doctor extended his skull cane/thingy to the sky and it shot lightning at Nick again, but this time Nick leapt to the side, and he launched himself at the doctor, striking the doctor's brain. Dr. Cranken fell to the floor, spluttering in rage. His brain let out steam from two different ends, and the doctor's face turned red with anger. "Why you…"

The doctor suddenly ripped of his shirt with his tentacle, revealing a strong-looking metallic chest. Then he ripped off his pants, which made Nick want to immediately look away. But seeing as looking away and being killed because of it was worse than seeing someone's freaky dick, he took a look.

Phew!

No willy. BUT the doctor's legs were artificial, made of metal as well. "I am now 65 cyborg! Only my arms, hand, tentacle and large head still contains traces of organic material." "What about that metal brain?" "It's not really my brain…it just happens to be connected to it. It accelerates my thinking…my actions…LIKET THIS!" He suddenly stretched his arms wide, and his chest opened up, revealing little holes. Nick knew what was coming next. He had to SLOW dodge as dozens of tiny missiles burst all around him.

Then the doctor got down on one knee, and pulled his kneecap open. His left knee suddenly shot out a grapping hook, which grabbed Nick's leg. "Wha-yargh!" Nick was rudely whipped towards Cranken, who struck Nick across the face with his stick. Nick fell to the floor, sporting a bloody nose. He wiped the bloody off, and jumped up.

"Have a dose of MACH SPEED!" He ran right at the doctor, and began rapidly punching the doctor's face over and over, smashing hard. When the assault was over the doctor collapsed on the ground, bleeding profusely. Nick wiped his nose again and walked off. "You've lost, doctor…oh no." Nick suddenly heard laughing…the doctor was laughing madly, getting back up. "That won't stop me, child!" He held his stick high up, and lighting whizzed towards Nick again. Nick ducked, and ran towards the doctor, but this time the mad scientist was ready, and his chest opened, revealing the missile launchers again. They zoomed towards Nick, striking him all over, and sending him flying into the wall.

"ARGH!" Nick slowly fell to the ground, hitting the hard metal floor. He slowly staggered up and grit his teeth, fighting back the pain. "I need a plan…what can take him down…I can't stay in one place for too long, and I can't get close to him for long either…I need a distrac-that's it!"

Nick jumped into the air and dodged a lightning bolt. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his whistle. The gift from Lupus Magnus! "Perfect! He said I could call for help…and I sure need help!"

He put the whistle to his lips and blew hard…no sound came out. He landed on the floor, and tried again. He succeeded in sending spit flying everywhere, but no sound came out. The doctor laughed. "That whistle is obviously broken! As you will be soon!" The doctor suddenly ran right at Nick, and before Nick could react, he was kneed in the stomach, and he spat out blood as he slumped to the ground. The doctor stood over him laughing. "Now…to begin my experiment on you." He picked Nick up and carried Nick over to an experimental table, throwing him down hard. Nick didn't even have the strength to raise his head. The doctor took out a knife of sorts from a desk drawer with his tentacle and chuckled. "Let's see what's inside you…"

Suddenly a shout. "BASTARD!" The doctor was grabbed around the neck by a long, slimy, pink tongue, and was thrown into the wall. Then a familiar form jumped down. "Cameo Leon…you came!" "So did I, Dynamic Nick!" Rachel stood right behind Alastor who nodded and said "I wish you'd put me in charge, but...we're here to help." Cameo Leon uncorked a bottle of water and poured some into Nick's throat. Nick spluttered and gasped, but the liquid refreshment did go down his throat, soothing and cool. He slowly sat up, and rubbed his throat. "Th…thanks, guys." He hopped down from the table and faced them. "So the whistle called you guys?" Alastor raised an eyebrow. "Naw, we snuck in like you said. We didn't hear any whistle." "Than what the hell does it…"

Suddenly the glass windows burst, and from the hallway flooded in the entire were-tribe! Lupus Magnus, holding a huge spear, lead them all. He went down on one knee in front of Nick, smiling. "We heard, and we came." "Ohh! It's like a dog whistle, then. Cool! Now then…PILE ON THE MAD SCIENTIST!" Nick pointed at the woozy-looking Dr. Cranken, who suddenly stood up, horrified. "You…impossible, how did you…"

"Get him!" roared Lupus Magnus, and the tribe rushed at him, spears, swords and clubs drawn. The doctor pressed a button on his stick, and suddenly an army of Biankys popped down from the ceiling, falling towards the tribe. A fierce battle began to ensue, and the doctor began to sneak away in the confusion. He headed towards a back door, and ran through another hallway, heading for safety…

Only to be knocked to the ground by a well-aimed flying ZOOM kick. "I'm not finished with you yet, you freak!" Nick grabbed the doctor by the arm and then slammed him into the wall, head-first. The doctor screamed, and his metallic head region shattered into pieces. He slumped to the floor, and the light went out of his eyes. He had finally been defeated. His arms slumped to the floor, and his leg gave one last twitch before he died. Nick wiped sweat off of his forehead and powered down. "Phew! Finally…he got what he deserved. Nobody who can create such sick life deserves my pity."

(Theme music ends.)

He began to head back to the battle, hoping to help his friends, when he heard a voice call out from the exit…

"Nick…Niiiick…" He turned around…and saw a shadowy form. His eyes widened. It was a humanoid robot that seemed to be composed of living shadow. "I am the doctor's finest creation ever. I created those extensions that you fought, Cimex and Cerberus. I am Deus Ex Machina." "Your name is "God from a Machine"? That's blasphemous…I think." The form just shrugged its shoulders. "Those beasts were part of me, and I have to admit…I owe you a debt of thanks. You destroyed my weak creator, and I'm grateful. However, you also destroyed one of my extensions." "I had no choice. I wasn't going to let you eat me." "The extensions are not truly me, but…they are a part of me. In any case…I am unsure as to what to do with you." "What do you want outta life?"

D.E.M blinked. "What?" Nick smiled coyly. "I saw that in a video game. What do you want outta life?" It blinked again. "I suppose I want to have a purpose…" "Well what can you do, besides create life from a part of you?" D.E.M thought. "I…I DO have complete control over the entire facility, I know where everything is." "Every-THAT'S IT! Do you know where the prisoners Joe, Sylvia and Blue are kept?" "Oh, yes. The doctor sent them to different regions of Movieland, to be watched over by special guardians…or he sent out Joe and Blue, anyway. He decided to let Lacertavis have some fun with Sylvia before she was sent off." "How would he send them off?" "He invented a teleporter machine." "Cool…but there's no time to waste, so take me to Sylvia, and then show me where the teleporter is…please?"

D.E.M nodded. "Since you said "please", I will."

Nick followed D.E.M back through the hallway, and rounded up Alastor, Rachel and Cameo Leon. The battle had been won, the were-beings victorious. Lupus Magnus listened to Nick's description of the doctor's end, and he smiled. "Finally, we are free from his influence forever." "Yeah, but I gotta go rescue Sylvia from being raped!" "She's at the other end of the laboratory complex. Hold on!" D.E.M closed it's eyes, and stretched out it's fingers. Suddenly, everyone became enveloped in darkness…

Only to find themselves just outside of a larger lab building, that wasn't connected to the dome. "She and the teleporter machine are in there." D.E.M said. Nick nodded. "Thanks…I gotta run. What are you going to do, though?" "I think…I'm going to try some things with gardening…" "No man eating plants, though, right?" "Of course not." D.E.M said. "Besides, that's so cliché. I'm going to make new strains of roses instead." "Well good luck." Nick said, shaking D.E.M's shadowy hand.

Then he and the others busted down the door, and ran inside, just in time. Sylvia, half naked, was crawling backwards, away from an approaching Lacertavis, who was grinning nastily. "Now, now, hold still…you'll enjoy this!" The evil being cackled. Nick pointed at the were-pterodactyl and spat out "BACK OFF!" Lacertavis whipped its head around, squawking angrily. "YOU! But I thought…" suddenly Sylvia leapt up, and kicked the jerk in his balls. He grabbed them and fell to the floor in a fetal position, screaming and squawking noisily. Nick rolled his eyes. "Sheesh! You hit hard, Sylvia. I don't care if he IS a fat bastard, you don't kick a man in the balls, it's just not cricket." "That's from "Austin Powers 2", isn't it? Well this jerk isn't a man, so it doesn't count. Let's get going, I have to save my daddy and my fiancé!" Nick nodded. "Well, where's the teleporter-?"

"You're STANDING on it!" Nick looked down. The whole room was one big glowing white pad…except for a patch of floor where Lacertavis was standing on, it contained the teleporter controls. He pressed some buttons and threw a switch. "So long, suckers!" Nick was quick enough to push Alastor and Rachel out the door, and Sylvia pushed Cameo Leon out as well, but the two of them were stuck on the pad. Suddenly it flashed brightly, and the teleporter pad activated. Alastor tried to reach for them, but then they were gone, as if they'd never been there at all. He gulped.

"That's not good…where could they be NOW?" Cameo Leon said. Rachel rubbed her metallic chin. "They could be anywhere in Movieland…I have no idea where the were-being sent them." Alastor had grabbed Lacertavis and was punching him over and over. "Where-did-you-send-them! Where-did-you-send-them! ANSWER ME!" The were-being grinned. "I don't know myself…but they've both gone off in different directions, that I DO know. You'll NEVER find them!"

Alastor screamed and raised a fist high…

Meanwhile, Sylvia and Nick screamed as they felt themselves being PULLED and STRETCHED, hurtling through a bright tunnel towards an unknown destination…