Chapter 75: Dark Plaza Part 2
"Well Nebula, what did you find?" Ko asked. "Ice Queen is still trying to get control of P.O.I.N.T but Commander Bushy Tail has everything under lock and key. I also found these two trying to hide from the guards" she said. She then motioned to a female with purple skin and purple hair and a male with brown fur, cat ears and long, black hair. "Azra, Puck! Good to see that you are alright" Ko greeted. "Good job Nebula" he praised and she nodded at him before she sat on a crate next to Rad. The video of Foxtail came on again and Nebula growled and threw a nearby rock at it. "Now then, Crinkly Wrinkly! Have you secured the blueprints for the plaza?" Ko asked. "Darn tootin'!" he responded and an arm grew out of his mouth holding a flash drive. "Beautiful! Dendy! Load up that drive" Ko said as he jumped off of his makeshift throne. "Affirmative!" she said and she plugged the drive into the table device. A hologram of a dancing banana in a top hat holding a cane then appeared. "Hold on, does something sound funny to you?" Enid asked. "You're right! That song sounds weird" Nebula agreed. "Ah of course! It's morse code!" Dendy said happily as she typed something in.
A hologram of Mr. Gar then appeared. "Hello! If you're watching this then you've found my top secret blueprints to the plaza, you sly dog! Have fun!" it said before it disappeared and showed the blueprints to the whole plaza. "Interesting. When I pull up the source code, it appears that the plaza is already equipped with a self defence system. I don't have access to override the system from here however. It needs to be manually activated" Dendy pointed out. "That's it? Well I'll just hop on and flip the dang thing on" Ko said. "What about all the agents? Don't you think that Foxtail would have her dozens, if not millions of guards on watch twenty-four seven? Especially for you. You are the son of Carol aka Silverpark and she's enemy number one to them since she refused to help" Nebula pointed out. "Good point. But the troopers aren't the only ones crawling around up there" Ko responded slyly as he looked to Nebula and she smirked at him. "Everyone! Gather around and listen up! Cause I got a plan" Ko announced and he began to tell them his plan.
"Tonight on the surface, Enid will meet me by the big sign and cast a shadow jutsu. From there, we'll sneak past the guards at the main gate, right under their noses! A little further in, Enid will hand me off to Rad. He will then walk through the biosignature detector and beam me up over the checkpoint. As I close in, Sparko will give the lock a zap so I can finally sneak inside and Nebula, while Colewort does his thing to fog up the security cameras, you need to sneak in through the secret passage that Mr. Gar showed you months ago. Your job is to secretly follow me and take out any of the guards while I run through unnoticed. Red Action, your job is to put me in your arm cannon and shoot me right through the back room's door. "Ginger will catch me, give me a treat, and get me towards the back of the room and gently toss me where I'll be caught and pulled up through the vent by Chameleon Jr. and he'll then get me to the battery room. RMS, Brandon, Azra, and Puck, I need you guys to stay here and defend the hideout" he then finished his plan once he had arrived at the battery room. "I'm in" he said into his communication device. "And how convenient. The power switch! Nebula is on her way to your location so be on guard until then" Dendy responded. "Let's save the plaza!" Ko said as he flipped the power switch.
Meanwhile, Nebula was sneaking around, being careful not to get caught. She quickly knocked out the guards and hid their bodies. She heard a few guards running her way so she put a hand on an orb that was on her belt. "Here goes nothing" she said as she threw the orb at the guards. They were then trapped in an anti gravity bubble and when they tried to yell for help, their voices were muted. Nebula then rounded the corner and she spotted a guard handcuffing Ko. "Oh cob!" she mumbled. Before she could help him, he turned into Turbo Ko and broke the handcuffs. He then attacked the guard and the helmet flew off to reveal Miss Mummy.
Ko stopped in his tracks when she held out a ray gun to him. "I'm sorry Ko' she said. Before she could pull the trigger, her hand was frozen in a block of ice. "Sorry about that sweetie, but this madness needs to end" a soft voice was heard saying. Ko and Nebula looked over to see Ice Queen. "Ko, do what you need to do, we've got your back" she said. Laserblast then came running in and firing lasers from his visor. Miss Mummy gasped and ran out. "You okay Ko?" Nebula asked. "Yeah. I lost control for a minute there" he said. "We gotta hurry. She probably went to go inform Foxtail" Laserblast said. "And who knows how much time we'll have before she arrives and puts a stop to all this. We can probably stall her but I don't know for how long" Bianca said. Ko nodded and he got into the power source chamber. Once he nodded, Laserblast closed the glass and Ko began to use his energy to power the battery. His friends were heard cheering as Nebula showed them what was happening. "Laser, I need you to go stand guard. I'll be there in a moment" Bianca said and he nodded and left the room. "I like the new look" Bianca said and Nebula nodded. "Look, now isn't the time to get all mushy. We need to stop Foxtail and take back the plaza" Nebula said sternly. Bianca went silent and she left the room to go stand guard with Laserblast. "System charged. Insert key" Mr. Gar's voice was heard saying. "Huh, I don't remember Gar mentioning a key" Enid was heard saying. "Isn't the plaza's key the one that Colewort for the Plazalympics?" Nebula asked. "Oh yeah!" Rad was heard saying as he and Enid remembered the event. "Hey Rad, remember what happened after we all went out to celebrate?" Nebula said and Rad was seen getting red out of embarrassment.
The ground then started to shake and the plaza began to transform into a giant robot. "Woah! So Crinkly Wrinkly's story was right?" Nebula gasped as she went through a secret passage and onto Plazamo's right shoulder just as Rad levitated himself onto it. "Glad to see that you could join the party" she said. She then kissed his cheek and put a hand on his shoulder. "Now let's kick some butt" she said seriously and he nodded. "That's Foxtail and Elodie's ship" Enid said as the ship began to fire lasers at Plazamo. "We can't-no we won't let them take back the plaza" Nebula said determinedly. "Plazamo, block those lasers" Rad ordered and Plazamo used her arms to block the lasers. "Plazamo, can you try a counterattack?" Enid asked. Plazamo then began to fire the counters from the store section of her. "I think she meant if you have any weapons" Nebula said. "Counterattack" Plazamo said and she turned her hands into missiles and fired them at the ship. Just as the missiles were going to hit, the ship was surrounded in a forcefield. "The missiles bounced right off that forcefield" Rad exclaimed. "Then we need to break it" Nebula said. "Plazamo, advance" Enid instructed. "Capture that P.O.I.N.T ship!" Rad, Nebula, and Enid said in unison and Plazamo then began to run towards the ship. Foxtail then same shooting out of the ship and she punched Plazamo. Plazamo swatted her away as if she were in insect. "Nice try! But it'll take a lot more than that to take her down" Nebula said and Plazamo fired more missiles at Foxtail only for her to avoid them. When the smoke cleared, they saw that she was gone. "We got them cornered!" Rad exclaimed happily. "Plazamo now!" Enid and Nebla yelled. "We got them!" Enid cheered as Nebula and Rad cheered as well as Plazamo trapped the ship in her hands."Good job" Nebula praised. A reddish light began to glow from inside and the ship broke free. "That shield is too strong!" Enid exclaimed. "We'll never get a hit in till that force field goes down" Rad said. "But how do we take it down?" Nebula asked.
A large ray gun then came out of the ship and they all gasped. "The Disempower Ray!" Nebula exclaimed. "If that hits Plazamo, we're done for!" Ko exclaimed. Before the ray could hit them, Mr. Gar came shooting out of the sky with his old mask on. "Mr. Gar is going for the ship" Rad exclaimed. "Can he really break the shield all by himself?" Enid asked. "Guys, I have a feeling that he isn't alone" Nebula said. Just then, Carol came shooting out of the sky after him. She had a silver cloth wrapped around her waist and the trio cheered. The two then joined hands and destroyed the force field. "Alright! Shield's down!" Enid said. "But look, the Disempower Ray is still charging" Rad pointed out. "No!" they all yelled as the ray was fired. A dark fore field then surrounded Plazamo. 'Way to go Ko!" Nebula cheered. The force field then broke and the blast was fired back at the ship and it was sent plummeting down to the ground. Plazamo then helped the trio onto the ground.
"My ship! It's ruined! You're gonna pay for this" Foxtail exclaimed. Nebula smirked and threw one of her anti gravity bubbles at her. She then snapped her fingers and Foxtail was thrown onto the ground as the bubble popped. "Forget is Foxtail! We reflected your Disempowering Ray right back at you!" Ko said. "So, how does it feel to be powerless?" Bianca said as she walked and stood next to Ko. Foxtail hung her head and Ko gasped. He then slid down into the hole and he tried to comfort her. "I am the leader of P.O.I.N.T! Without me, everything can fall apart in a moment! I've lost good heroes that way" she said sadly. The older heroes gasped and Carol followed Bianca into the hole. "Oh Foxtail" Bianca said softly. "If I'd been a more powerful back then…I need those glorbs girls. How else can I keep the world safe?" she said softly and Carol and Bianca then hugged her. "You can't keep the world safe by yourself. What you need isn't power, it's support" Carol said. "And I'm sure no one blames you for what happened to him and Carol has long since forgiven what happened" Bianca comforted. "They're right" Laserblast said as he and Mr. Gar joined them. "She and I learned to depend on the people who depend on us. None of us have to carry the weight of the world alone" Mr. Gar said. "That's why all this power was never enough" Foxtail sighed. "Y'all can have your plaza back, and all the glorbs. I'm so sorry for the damage I've caused" Foxtail apologized. "Miss Foxtail, I'm really happy that you're a great hero after all" Ko said as he took her hand. "Me too kid" she said and she gently ruffled his hair.
Boxman's evil laugh was heard as he used his desk to carry the large crate of glorbs that was collected. "Surprise! You heroes spent so much time fighting each other, that you forgot about me! These are my glorbs now" he gloated. "You got this sugar cube?" Foxtail asked Ko. "We got this! Can you lend me a hand?" Ko asked and Foxtail picked him up with one hand. "Even without my powers, I still got a pretty good arm" she said and she launched Ko at Boxman. Ko punched Boxman and he was sent flying back to Boxmore. Rad and Nebula then quickly caught the large crate and the crowd gasped and the coupe gently lowered the crate to the ground. Ko then fell into the crate and he cheered. "So Nebula, now that all the fighting is over, what happened after we all went out to celebrate? Rad went all red when you brought it up" Enid asked. "We were making out in his van when he dropped me off and one of us hit the horn and it woke up all of my now old neighbors" Nebula said with a laugh. They then heard Foxtail making Elodie the new head of P.O.I.N.T and Bianca was cheering. "As your new leader, I say it's time for us to go back to our roots as individual heroes! Without the silly uniform" Elodie announced. She then ripped off her uniform to reveal her old hero outfit and Foxtail did the same as well. "It's nice to see you back in your old outfit" Bianca commented. She then looked over to Nebula who was praising Ko with Rad and Enid. "Bodegamen!" Mr. Gar yelled. "Sir yes sir!" the four of them saluted as they went back to their original outfits. "At ease! Today you've proven yourselves to be the new generation of heroes. You're ready for the real stuff" he said and they all looked at him with anticipation. "You mean?" Nebula asked. "Yes Nebula, I do mean. You're real heroes now and I you four can now go with me on my secret missions" he explained. Nebula cheered and hugged him as she constantly hugged him. She then pulled away and hugged Rad. "Hear that honey, we're officially real heroes now!" she said gleefully and she kissed his cheek as they cheered. "Ko look! Our POW cards!" Dendy exclaimed as they watched as their POW cards leveled up. "You guys! Check your POW cards!" Ko announced and everyone watched as their cards leveled up as well. "Alright! Level Six!" Nebula cheered.
Bianca walked over to Foxtail and put a hand on her shoulder. "Foxtail, now that you know what it's like to be powerless, even if it's temporary for you, I believe that you have someone that you need to apologize to" she said and Foxtail nodded.
Nebula saw that the sun was about to set and turned to Rad. "Hey Rad, what do you say we end this thing right?" she suggested. Rad smirked as he put his hands on her hips and pulled her close to his body. "I love you Nebula" he said and she smiled and put a hand on his cheek. "I love you too Rad" she responded and they then shared a sweet and tender kiss as the sun set.