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Dimensions of Power
Chapter 2: Team Up: Part 1
"What the juice?!" screamed Randy, his arms flailing wildly.
"WE'RE DEAD!" shouted Howard. "Cunningham, you better go ninja right now because it is waaaay past 'ninja o'clock' considering we're you know, FALLING OUT OF THE SKY!"
"No way, there are way too many people here!" said Randy. Sure enough, there was a muscular dude, a geek, a Goth, a tall girl with orange hair, and a kid with creepy icy blue eyes.
Howard was about to retort when two familiar voices asked.
"What do you mean Dandy/Randy 'better go ninja?'"
Howard and Randy spun around to see none other than Heidi and Theresa.
"Oh c'mon, this is totally wonk! How did you two even get here?!" demanded Howard. Randy gulped staring at the two girls before whispering to Howard.
"I'm going inside the Nomicon, so cover for me!" Randy whispered to Howard. Howard stared at the raven haired teen, his expression incredulous.
"Why in the name of all that is sane, would you decide to shloomp at a time like-" Howard said, cut off by Randy shloomping into the Nomicon.
"Of course, he decides to shloomp in mid-air!" Unfortunately, this didn't go unnoticed by a certain purple-haired cheerleader.
"What happened to Randy?"
'Shoot! I've gotta come up with something good!' thought Howard. "Err...Randy has a tendency to read…while unconscious…in mid-air?"
Howard didn't know whether it was their current situation or some stroke of luck, but Theresa stopped pushing the subject.
'Randy owes me an entire lifetime supply of McFizzles for this!'
Randy's P.O.V.
I have to say, being materialized into the Nomicon feels really, really weird. I mean it feels like I got a numbing vaccine, my molecules pulled apart and then, messily, reattached with glue and tape.
You know, reminiscing like that, I almost forgot my physical body was still hurtling from a thousand something feet in the sky down to the cold, hard unforgiving ground.
Almost.
"Hey Nomicon, are you home?! If you are I could really use some advice or some ninja mumbo jumbo stuff so that I don't die!"
Almost as soon as I had finished speaking, an entire Nomicon forest had already grown from the ground with a villager standing in front of a tree.
The villager picked up a ladder and began to climb the tree…until the rungs fell apart and the villager fell flat on his rear. The rungs of the ladder moved to form the words: A ninja must not use the necessary for the unnecessary.
Randy groaned. "Why does everything the Nomicon say have to be so wonk?!"
Gohan's P.O.V
"What the heck is going on here?!"
The last thing I remembered was falling through a dark void, the next thing I know there's a kid with purple hair and a hoodie, a orange haired fat kid, a slender red-head, an African-American kid with glasses and a red beret, a girl with all black clothes, a girl with orange hair, a boy with blue eyes and black shaggy hair, and a girl with purple hair.
"I must've I fell out of a portal...a very weird portal, but then again which kind of portal isn't weird?" I mused. I shook my head clearing my thoughts. "What am I doing, I better save those guys!"
As soon as I tried to go help them, I was distracted by something. "I'm getting some weird vibes of that kid," I mused. "Better save him first and question him later."
So I swooped down and grabbed them fast as I could. "Hold on," I told them to which they complied. Then, I flew down quickly and landed the group, and myself, safely.
The group looked at me with shock and awe except for the purple haired boy who was sprawled out over a book.
"How did you do that?!" asked the kid with blue eyes, his eyes narrowed.
As much as I hate to admit it, the kid's cold blue eyes were pretty intimidating, but after you get death glares from the prince of a planet slaughtering race, a ruthlessly, sadistic alien emperor that almost succeeded in taking over the galaxy, and an android created to be the ultimate life form and absorbed the two androids responsible for the apocalypse, you don't get that easily intimidated.
"I'll tell you how I did that later..." I trailed off.
"Fenton. Danny Fenton," replied Danny, still eyeing Gohan warily.
"I'm Son Gohan, what about the rest of you guys?"
"Howard Weinerman and the guy passed out on the ground is Randy Cunningham."
"Heidi Weinerman!"
"Sam Manson."
"Tucker Foley."
"Jazz Fenton."
"Theresa Fowler!"
"Alright, now that that's out of the way, do you mind telling me how you were able to fly and grab us so quickly!" persisted Danny.
I sighed. "You sure have a funny way of thanking people," muttered Gohan.
"I'm sorry but I still can't tell you that right now. After all, we all have our secrets, right?" I asked, looking pointedly at Danny.
His eyes seemed to widen a fraction before he turned away to look at the apparently more interesting ground.
"Anyways, does anyone know where we are exactly?" asked Howard.
Its funny how this entire time I never even decided to question where I'd landed, probably because I'm pretty much used to all this weird stuff.
"I'm not sure…maybe I could fly up and scout the are-"
"I think I can help with that!" a voice interjected.
Everyone's heads snapped upwards to see a guy in a white armor-like suit with blue accents and a 'M' on his chest as well as a 'M' shaped visor.
"I couldn't help but overhear that you guys were a bit lost. I was thinking you guys could come with me to N-Tek," called the guy. I could've sworn that his voice had a sort of echo to it.
"As much as I don't like to be that guy, what is N-Tek?" inquired Tucker.
His question was answered by a helicopter coming to a slow descent above them as a rope ladder dropped down in front of Tucker, swing slightly.
Tucker raised a brow, his upper lip twitching upwards. "Seriously? A rope ladder."
The armor-clad man seemed to roll his eyes. "It was Steel's idea not mine.
All of us looked at each other warily before shrugging and climbing on one by one. When we all got on the plane began its ascension into the sky. It was during this time all the questions the group had started spilling out at the same time.
"Who are you?"
"Where are we?"
"Do you always wear that suit?"
"Are you a robot?"
"What the heck is goin' on here?!"
"Are you a superhero?"
"Who's Steel?"
"Hold up! I can't understand all of you at the same time!" shouted the guy. "You can go first," said the guy pointing at Tucker.
"Alright, what is N-Tek, exactly?"
"It's sort of a...secret government organization...sort of..."
The dude answered question after question, revealing his name was Max Steel and that he was the superhero of Copper Canyon. I'll admit, I wasn't really listening to what the masked superhero was saying. It was just that I was trying to lock on to a certain energy I had felt.
It was something, no, someone familiar…
Suddenly, an alarm blared inside the ship and the entire interior of the ship was bathed in an eerie red light as a voice boomed from the transmitter.
"ALL FIGHTER JETS REPORT TO THE AREA JUST OUTSIDE THI! EXERT IMMENSE CAUTION!"
Max Steel seemed to groan at the command.
"That's my cue!"
And with that, Max Steel flew out the window and headed in the direction of the burning carnage.
As I watched his retreating form, I was suddenly able to place who I was sensing. And if that really was who I was sensing…
I bolted out of the window, leaving some stunned passengers.
Max's P.O.V
10 minutes later...
I had just landed at the location of all the destruction and boy was I shocked.
Copper Canyon was a mess…well a bigger mess than it was before anyway.
Cars were burning, energy blasts were leveling the landscape, people were running for their lives, buildings had been reduced to rubble with many people trapped under them, and the firefighters were trying to pull them out.
Meanwhile, the police were firing at the culprits which consisted of a man with a moustache shaped like an 'M', a green-skinned guy in a cloak, a man with a red cape that looked like a vampire, a...weird bug man like thing, Toxon, Exstroyer, all the Elementors, Naught and Dredd.
"Hey Steel, suddenly I'm not so sure that we've got this one..."
"You can say that again...MAX WATCH OUT!"
I jumped out of the way just in time before I got hit with a flaming rock. I turned back to the group of villains and saw the vampire-like dude charge up something pink energy and fire a pink ray which I nimbly dodged only to have to back flip to dodge an energy blast shot by the insect-like man.
I was then punched in the back by Toxon and was sent flying into the fist of 'moustache man' leaving me winded and sprawled out on the ground.
I wasn't given time to rest because of the green skinned guy shooting a green ball of mist at me, which I rolled under only to get hit in the face by one of the mustache guy's punches and let me tell you, that guy's punches HURT!
"I think we need to take a different approach, Steel. Let's go T.U.R.B.O, Speed!"
I raced towards Exstroyer and punched him in the abdomen repeatedly making him groan in pain, but before I could deliver the finishing move, Bug Man blasted me in the face sending me flying. Then mustache guy punched me again, but this time in the head causing my head to start ringing, spots dance around my line of vision and the metallic taste of blood to pool into my mouth as I struggled to stay on my feet.
Bug Man then took a stance low to the ground then cupped both hands at his sides.
"Ka...Me...Ha...Me...HA!"
A giant blue energy attack came rushing at me as I closed my eyes and I crossed my arms in front of me to brace for impact...but it never came.
I slowly opened an eye slowly to see one of the breachers with his right hand stuck out to the side, and later I heard an explosion off to the right when the realization dawned on me.
'This guy deflected the blast!'
The dude, Gohan, as I remembered, just looked on straight at the villains...no not the villains...he was just looking at one in particular, the Bug Man!
"So you're still alive, eh. Guess I'll have to fix that!"
Gohan charged at the Bug Man and began his fierce onslaught. Gohan punched at Bug Man's head but Bug Man just tilted his head away from the punch. Gohan later launched a roundhouse kick at Bug Man's side but the bug caught it and spun Gohan around in a circle again and again before letting him go and sending him careening into a building causing it to collapse.
"Hey Max, as much as I love watching fights, we've got a problem heading our way!" informed Steel. I turned to see Exstroyer, in gorilla form, throwing a punch at me which I ducked under and gave him a swift uppercut to the jaw, dazing him, before racing backwards to gain some distance.
"Let's go T.U.R.B.O, Strength!" A blue sphere surrounded me, pushing Exstroyer back as I transformed into my Strength Mode.
I grinned cockily, popping my knuckles in anticipation.
"So...who wants to go first?"
No One's P.O.V
Gohan flew out of the rubble and charged Cell. Gohan threw a right hook that Bug Man ducked under and landed a punch to Gohan's gut, doubling him over. Gohan threw a jab at the android's head but he just tilted his head back and let it sail over him before shooting his foot outwards, catching Gohan in the stomach, and later sweeping him, sending him face down into the dirt.
"Is this the best you can do, son of Goku!" sneered Cell.
Gohan slowly got back to his feet and scowled. "Don't get so cocky just yet!"
Gohan powered up straight into Super Saiyan Two and charged at Cell. He delivered a flurry of strikes which Cell easily avoided before pushing Gohan away.
"Is that all you can do Cell! Are you too cowardly to take an attack head on?!" taunted Gohan.
"Alright then, I'll let you get on free hit. However, it would hardly be fair with your powerful Ascended Super Saiyan form, right? After all, even in the worst case scenario, you'll just die like your weakling father!" mocked Cell.
That pushed Gohan over the edge. "Don't...DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK THAT WAY ABOUT MY FATHER! MASENKO, HA!"
Gohan fired the yellow energy beam and it hit home, nailing Cell square in the face. Smoke began to form, obscuring what Gohan thought to be the charred remains of Cell.
"That's why you don't talk about my family, you filthy machine!"
Gohan began to walk away from their battlefield until he felt something odd speeding behind him.
Gohan narrowly managed to sidestep the blast before it zipped clean through his back but the heat of it managed to just barely singe his GI.
Gohan spun around to see bio-android walking out of the dust cloud unscathed and grinning, widely.
"Bravo, Gohan, you're even more powerful than you were at the Cell Games! This might actually be a pretty good warm up!" taunted Cell.
Gohan was shocked beyond disbelief. Cell, the same guy he'd beaten without a sweat. Cell, the same guy he'd kicked SO HARD he threw up Android 18. Cell, the same guy he'd completely atomized took his anger fueled masenko NO SWEAT!
It was impossible to believe that this was the same person yet here he was as condescending and annoying as ever.
"I won't stand for this! My father bestowed onto me the job of protecting the earth and even though this may not be my Earth...I'd be damned if I let you terrorize it!"
Gohan charged Cell yet again but this time he fazed out of sight right before he was going to hit Cell. Gohan reappeared behind him spamming Cell with energy blasts, all the while Cell leisurely walked towards him.
"It's useless Gohan...I am now at a level that is so unimaginably above yours that it's not even funny. I'll tell you what, I'll give you three lives; three chances to fight me. You've already used up one of your lives and should you fail the third time...I will kill you without hesitation!"
Gohan's face showed utter despair until it switched into a cocky smile.
"What's got you so happy?" asked an annoyed and slightly curious Cell.
"Well, for starters, you underestimated me and for that...YOU WILL PAY DEARLY! HA!"
Gohan thrust both hands to Cell's head and released his blast, point blank. Gohan dropped out of Super Saiyan Two with a smile of immense satisfaction gracing his face. "And that's a wrap!"
That was when the android's laughter rang out through the battlefield.
"Hahaha! That's rich, you actually thought I was dead! Although, I do feel kind of bad for destroying your hope so quickly...ah I'll get over it!" mocked Cell.
Gohan dropped to his knees, overtaken by despair. "H-how is this possible?! I hit you point blank with my full power!" Cell merely grinned and pulled him up by the throat.
"You want to know I survived? All I did was simply deflect the blast! Face it, you are but an ant while I am perfection." Cell grinned to himself before his eyes brightened in mad glee.
He turned Gohan around and made him look at a now damaged area with smoke rising from it. It took a while before the realization dawned on him, but Cell was already talking.
"Gohan...in your anger you have injured and possibly killed so much of the people you strived to protect. It's quite ironic actually."
Gohan looked down at Cell and met his eyes, eyes filled with mad glee and amusement. Eyes that clearly wanted nothing more than to see the world burn just for the heck of it.
Suddenly, Cell dropped Gohan, putting two fingers to his forehead, and teleported away.
It was only then Gohan realized that he'd been lacking air so he gratefully took in large gulps of it. Gohan slowly and shakily stood up, resolve destroyed.
He was left to wonder just how he was going to defeat this unstoppable phantom of his past he wished he could forget.
"Geez Vlad, I think you're losing your touch!" taunted Danny, narrowly dodging an ectoblast.
Danny and Vlad had been doing battle for a long while with Vlad, slowly, gaining the upper hand…only to lose it after an offhanded comment by the snarky ghost kid.
"Would you stay still?!" shouted Vlad, sending another ectoblast Danny's way. Danny turned intangible and let it pass through him.
"Seriously, fruitloop, you're this bad at target practice yet you think you can nail my mom!"
Vlad was seething as he charged Danny and passed right through him because of his intangibility. Danny took advantage of this and clocked him in the back of the head, causing him to crash into the ground.
"Don't worry I was disgusted by that joke, too, like seriously I am really regretting it, but you of all people should know it's not polite to attack loved ones. People tend to get slightly put off by that."
Vlad shot of the ground, growling with his fist cocked back ready to strike the younger halfa down, but Danny just turned intangible again letting a surprised Vlad pass through him.
Danny spun around and grabbed Vlad's right leg before spinning him around and around before releasing him to fall to the ground.
"I must commend you, Danny, you are a master at angering your opponents, but I will no longer fall for your tactics!" announced the vampiric ghost as he got to his feet, brushing the dust and gravel off his cape.
"Sure!"
Danny flew towards Vlad, his fist enhanced with ecto-energy, and drove a heavy punch at Vlad's face which he caught and answered with a roundhouse kick that sent Danny flying into an empty building.
Danny looked up and Vlad was already in front of him, a sneer evident on his face.
"Well, Vlad, I really got a kick out of that one. You can tell some really good jokes when you're not obsessing over my mom, trying to kill my dad, and make me your apprentice and son, so I'll return the favor! I'm sure you'll love the punchline!"
Vlad's eyes widened in realization but it was already too late. Danny landed a solid right hook on Vlad's jaw, hurling him out of the building as Danny dashed after him.
Vlad stopped in mid-air, surprising Danny and socking him in the face sending him skidding along the ground.
"Geez, tough crowd..." Danny muttered.
Vlad walked up to Danny, guard completely dropped.
"You cannot win because I'll always be one step ahead of you, Little Badger! And soon I will wed your mother and kill your buffoon of a father once I get out of this blasted dimension."
Danny muttered something inaudible under his breath, causing Vlad to scowl. "What was that, Little Badger?"
Danny slowly lifted his head to reveal a victorious smirk. "Oh, I'm so sorry Vlad, I really should speak up. Ghostly Wail!"
Green, powerful, sonic waves emanating from Danny's lips hit Vlad head on knocking him into a building...and knocking the building over in the process leaving nothing but rubble and a battered Vlad.
"Hey, Vlad...did you hear...me that time!" panted Danny.
The rubble, of the once standing building, shifted to reveal Vlad sluggishly rising back up, unfortunately not Dracula style, causing Danny to scowl.
"You know Vlad, I think you really need to chill!" Danny blasted Vlad with one a large ice blast freezing his entire body.
"Ugh, that was annoying!" groaned Danny flying away.
"Come on guys, I thought you were gonna bring your A game on this one!" complained Randy as he weaved through the combined attacks of McFist and the Sorcerer.
McFist threw a punch which Randy, easily, sidestepped before returning one of his own nailing McFist square in the nose. Randy ducked under a magical blast and used his momentum to uppercut McFist, sending him skyward and then down with a crash.
"Come on you guys, I thought you could do better than this!" taunted Randy, popping his knuckles.
The Sorcerer looked at Randy with disdain.
"What has made you become so arrogant to think that you can defeat me! I can kill you in many ways you wouldn't think possible! No ninja in 800 years has been able to kill me! Not even the first ninja could defeat me!" bellowed the Sorcerer.
That was when the Sorcerer's face was almost split by his nasty crooked grin.
"Allow me to show you why."
The Sorcerer hit Randy square in the chest with a green mist-like blast, causing him to land flat on his rear. Aside from a slight burn mark, Randy was, otherwise, unscathed.
"Is that really all you've got? Alright then, it's time to show you why I'm the brucest ninja to ever-"
That's when it happened. Randy saw Norrisville being burned to the ground, blood raining down from the sky with the Sorcerer sitting on his throne flanked on both sides by stanked people, while the Sorcerer gazed lovingly at the Sorceress. People were dying, the streets were burning, people were getting stanked left and right..
Randy tried to move his body to stop this madness but he was completely frozen. All Randy could do was helplessly watch people run and, unsuccessfully, try to escape only to die left and right.
Randy was positive his heart had stopped when he spotted one of the fleeing civilians. It was Theresa.
She was being chased by a beast. She was getting some distance until she tripped over a fallen brick. The beast was upon her, and it picked her up in its mouth.
"NO!"
Randy dropped to his knees drenched in sweat, breathing heavily. Randy's scream got Theresa's attention and it made it all the worse.
"Randy, help me! I don't want to die!"
It was too painful to watch so I looked away and with a sickening crunch, her pleas for help were silenced. Tears streamed down my mask and my body was racked by my sobs.
"Now time to finish you!" The Sorcerer zapped Randy and the Nomicon causing it to open and seal Randy shut as it closed with a loud BOOM!
And with that, the Sorcerer turned and walked away with McFist trailing behind, Nomicon in hand.
Max got punched hard in the face by Dredd, crashing through a building while Max's enemies calmly walked towards him.
"So what should I take from the great Max Steel. Oh, I know...I should take his Ultra-Link and all his T.U.R.B.O. Energy!" mocked Dredd.
"No...stay...back!" protested Max, weakly. Dredd's fingers drifted closer and closer to Max's chest, ready to take his Ultra-Link and siphon his unique life-sustaining energy...that is until he got sent flying by a punch to the face. Max followed to fist to find...
"Gohan!"
This time, Gohan actually turned to acknowledge Max with a faint smile before turning back to his opponents. Naught was about to launch some missiles but he ended up getting hit in the back with a green ghost ray.
Danny faded into existence, hands lit with ghost energy. "So, does anyone else want a go at us?!"
"We'll leave for now..."
All of the villains looked at Dredd incredulously, but only Naught dared to question him.
"What do you mean?! Surely we can beat them, I mean we have enough pow-" Dredd raised a hand to stop Naught's rant.
"You impudent fool! Don't you see that Gohan boy is out of our league! No, we shall regroup and fight another day...so long Max Steel!"
A plane dropped down and the villains began to board it. Max and Danny tried to stop them only to be held back by Gohan, which, of course, was met with protests.
"What are you doing we have to stop them!"
"C'mon we can still beat them!"
Gohan just shook his head and replied, "Trust me, you shouldn't attack your opponent once they retreat. We can get them later."
With that, the plane zoomed off taking the villains with it. For a moment all was silent…until the minds of the heroes realized what the heck just happened.
"This is one seriously messed up city you've got here," said Danny.
Max chuckled while dusting himself off.
"Welcome to the utter chaos that is Copper Canyon!"
A/N: Thanks for reading guys! The next chapter should be coming up 2 weeks from now.
