Chapter 74: Dark Plaza Part 1
That night as Nebula laid cuddled up to Rad, she began to toss and turn as images flashed into her mind. The first image was the plaza being destroyed, the next was, of Foxtail with P.O.I.N.T agents. After that was Ko with gold eyes, cyan wristbands, and a cyan headband. Before any more images could flash in her mind, she was shaken awake by Rad. She immediately bolted up and pant heavily. Rad then gently put a hand on her back and he pulled her in for a hug as he calmed her down. "Just what was that all about?" she mumbled as she was calming down. Once she was calm, she wrapped her arms around his torso. "Babe, do you wanna" Before he could ask her what was wrong, she fell fast asleep in his arms. "I guess we'll talk about it later" he sighed and he then went back to sleep.
Hours later, his alarm went off and he levitated it into the air and threw it against the wall. "Babe" he called groggily. He heard her groan as she snuggled up closer to him. "Babe get up, we're gonna be late for work" he said. She let out another groan and as she turned over, she ended up falling off the hammock. "You okay?" he asked as he walked over to his closet and got out his clothes for the day. Nebula still said nothing as she got up from the floor, grabbed her clothes, and went into the bathroom to get ready. When she came out, Rad was doing pull ups on the bar in his doorway. "Did you brush your teeth yet?" she asked and he nodded. She then reached a hand up and put it on his cheek. She then leaned up and gently kissed him. Rad then levitated himself to the ground and he put a hand on the back of her head as he deepened the kiss. "As much as I would love to make out with you all day, as you said, we need to get to work" she said and the couple went out the door and drove to the bodega.
When they got there, Carol, Ko, and Mr. Gar were making pancakes. "We should run late for work more often! Eating breakfast at the bodega is way more fun! Here you go Mr. Gar. Mommy and I made yours with lots of love!" Ko said happily as he handed Mr. Gar a plate of pancakes with syrup, strawberries, and whipped cream. Rad, Nebula, and Enid then rose up as if they were dogs begging. "Get out of here! Get!" Mr. Gar said as he took out a spray bottle and sprayed them. As they left, Nebula grabbed his strawberry. "Shoot! I forgot to check today's weather forecast!" Carol said. "Awh, that's okay mommy. 'Cause I just have this feeling that today's gonna be a beautiful sunshiny day!" Ko said happily. They then heard an explosion and the ground began to rumble and the plate that Ko was holding was dropped onto the counter.
They went outside to see dozens of construction vehicles that were being driven by P.O.I.N.T. agents. "Hey look!" Rad said as he pointed the very familiar vehicle that was landing. "It can't be!" Nebula gasped. When it landed, Foxtail and Elodie walked out. "I thought that we got rid of her back in New York!" Rad commented. "Cobsarnit! What are those confounded P.O.I.N.T loons doing back on my property?" Mr. Gar asked angrily as Elodie handed Foxtail a megaphone. Nebula quickly took out her phone and recorded her.
"Attention citizens! According to the Superpowers Act 1064-092, P.O.I.N.T forces have zoned the area for the complete and total reconstruction of Lakewood Plaza Turbo!" Foxtail announced and everyone gasped. Nebula quickly stopped recording and they heard the sound of a message being sent. "Reconstruction?!" Mr. Gar gasped as he fell back. "Shoppers, merchants, and hooligans alike, you all work for P.O.I.N.T now!" Foxtail announced. "What do we do?" Enid asked. "Mommy?" Ko turned to him mother. "Elodie, get phase one preparations in order" Foxtail ordered and Elodie nodded. "Foxtail, what's going on here? I thought protecting the plaza's power source was my mission" Carol asked as she approached her. "That's right, and I'd like to extend my gratitude for providing P.O.I.N.T with your services all these years! Thank you Special Agent Silverspark, you are now relieved of your command" Foxtail responded. "What?" Carol asked in disbelief. "Did she just say special agent?" Mr. Gar asked in shock. "I don't understand" Carol said. "Your work here is done agent! Thanks to all of your valuable intel, P.O.I.N.T Tech has finally finished development on my top-secret project! Converting Lakewood Plaza into a glorb-excavation plan so we can finally harvest the hotbed of glorbs that lie beneath it! With such a bounty of glorbs boosting the powers of our troops, P.O.I.N.T will be unstoppable!" Foxtail said and with a snap of her fingers, her drone showed Carol a hologram of blueprints. Mr. Gar became visibly angry so Ko and Nebula tried to calm him down and restrain him. "You know, I could use a hand overseeing the excavation agent. What do you say?" Foxtail offered. "For years we've protected the Lakewood tree from villains trying to harvest it's glorbs. And now you propose we do the same thing on an even more massive scale? Well I'd say that'd make us no better than the villains!" Carol protested. "It's make us stronger than the villains! Better equipped to protect the world from them! Don't you want that?" Foxtail asked. "Not like this!" Carol said sternly as she walked away. "Oh well. Life goes on" Foxtail said nonchalantly. "Elodie! Bring her in!" she said into her watch. A wrecking ball then fell from the sky with Elodie driving it. "Bodega clear for demolition!" Elodie yelled. "Not on my watch!" Mr. Gar said as he fell from the sky with his elbow on fire. Everyone gasped when he was hit by a ray gun and they all went to go check up on him. "Foxtail? Was that the orb that took away Doctor Greyman's powers all those years ago?" a soft voice was heard saying.
A blue motorcycle then came zooming in and the driver removed their helmet to reveal none other than Bianca. "What in the name of snow are you doing? Why are you doing all this? What did you do to El- I mean Mr. Gar?" she asked worriedly. "To make this word a better place, I am harvesting the glorbs from the Lakewood tree. Imagine how much more powerful our agents and perhaps even Solana will be when we use the glorb's energy!" Foxtail responded and Bianca gasped and shook her head.
"Don't you dare try and bring my daughter into your twisted plan! This isn't right Foxtail and deep down, you know that! Rippy handed P.O.I.N.T back to you after the whole New York incident and this is what you are choosing to do? And with that red orb, didn't you say all those years ago that you wouldn't wish a powerless life on even your greatest enemy?" Bianca asked and Foxtail then began to explain the ray gun that she used. Bianca sighed and turned to Mr. Gar. "Are you okay? It's a good thing that the effects are perminant" she said softly. "Ice Queen?" he asked in confusion and she nodded. He then looked to Nebula and she held up her phone. Carol then put a hand on his back to help him up and he swatted her hand away in anger. "Please, let me explain" she pleaded. "I was so happy that you and I were finally a team again. But this whole time you were secretly working for those plaza-wrecking bullies!" Mr. Gar said clearly hurt and it began to rain. "Gene, I didn't know! I would never-" Carol pleaded. "No it's fine 'cause I surrender! Take the stupid plaza! I don't want it anymore!" he said and everyone gasped. He then walked off with Carol chasing him. "Mr. Gar you can't go!" Ko pleaded. "Don't try and stop me Ko. I'm a broken man" he said sadly as he walked off. Nebula clenched her fists and she fired a ray of ice at his feet. She then ran over and hugged him. "Please don't leave! We need you!" she begged with tears streaming down her face. He patted her head and he broke the ice and walked off. She then sunk to the ground and Rad rushed over just as her hair and skin were becoming darker. He quickly pulled her into a hug and she cried in his arms.
"Finally, soap opera's over! Resume the demolition!" Foxtail ordered. "No!" Ko cried as he clung to Foxtail's leg. "Please Miss Foxtail. The plaza's our home! Why are you ruining it? Aren't you supposed to be a great hero?" he cried. "Sometimes heroes have to make decisions they don't always like for the greater good. Maybe someday you and your mother will understand that" she explained softly. She then jumped out of Ko's grip and took off. Ko began to scream and purple lighting began to form around him. Before he could become T.K.O, Carol restrained him and held him close. "There's a time and place for fighting, and now's not it" she explained softly. "But just know that when that time comes Ko" Enid said. "We've got your back!" Rad said. "And we always will. No matter what" Nebula said. Everyone cried and screamed in terror as Elodie used the wrecking ball to destroy the plaza.
Two months later, the plaza was turned into a glorb excavation site and everyone was in uniform as they worked to harvest all the glorbs from the Lakewood tree. "Harvest the glorbs! Troopers, it is our duty as the powerful to guard and protect the powerless! Glorbs are power and the more glorbs we harvest, the safer we all are! There's no need to worry, we will control the power!" Foxtail was heard saying on a holo video. Suddenly, a P.O.I.N.T agent then entered the underground hideout where the others who refused to serve Foxtail were residing. The agent removed it's helmot to reveal Crinkly Wrinkly. "Wow! The glorb tree is getting worse fellas! P.O.I.N.T's not gonna stop!" he announced and everyone looked to Ko. "Dang! Enough is enough! We've been biding our time but things have just gotten worse! Mr. Gar is gone, my mom is in hiding, and instead of hanging out at the plaza, we have to come here every day! And it's up to us, the resistance, to take a stand! Today we take back the plaza from P.O.I.N.T'!" Ko declared and everyone cheered. "About time! It's starting to remind me too much of the future around here" Red Action said. "Yeah! I'm sick of working for those P.O.I.N.T jerks!" Real Magic Skeleton said while Brandon complained about the uniform. "I just want everything to go back to normal" Colewort said. "Agreed. There's nothing I want more than for everyone and everything to go back to the way it was" Ko said sadly at the end.
A girl with blue hair in a punk hairstyle, with dark makeup, fingerless gloves, and a belt that had orbs on it entered the hideout. She also had a black upside down triangle on her cheek below her eye like everyone else.