Screwed up Sandiego

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and read last chapter)

"We have to get her out of there." Carmen's palms were sweaty and she was trying her best to keep her breathing steady.

Ivy looked like a doll. A small plastic smile on her face, a pair of glassy green orbs, no movements at all. But that would change soon. Carmen knew it would change any second now.

"Boss?" Al asked surprised at the veiled panic in his boss's voice.

"She's not there. She's in a flashback or something and this won't end well." Carmen said swallowing heavily as she stood up and began to move towards the caged in ring.

"Oh fuck." Sara breathed out seeing the look in Ivy's eyes just as Carmen had.

"How are we going to do this?" Hannah asked looking confused and alarmed but always willing to follow Carmen's lead.

"Well…I'm Carmen Sandeigo. A world renowned thief. How about we just steal it?" Carmen asked keeping her eyes locked on Ivy who was not responding to Dara asking if she was alright.

"This should have them in a tizzy." Sara said dryly but she was already thinking of what different things she could summon via remote from her nearest lab to help and what things she could make to help with what she had right off hand.

"Especially since we're going to say screw subtility before she hurts or even kills Dara." Carmen agreed as she vanished to change into her iconic outfit, being back in just a few seconds.

"Al…think you can lift it and carry it outside or to an empty spot where we could put it?" Carmen asked the strong man who looked at the cage for a moment and then nodded slowly.

"Yeah. I won't be able to move very fast but I can do it." Al said as he stood and began making his way down to the ring side seats.

"Good when I distract them, just grab it and started getting out of here. Hannah if Ivy attacks before I get that cage off of her I want you to be on standby to pull her out of the ring. Sara be ready for an emergency escape and possible hospital trip." Carmen ordered making the others nod their heads as they slowly carefully got into position while she moved towards a nearby wall and made sure no one was looking at her.

About half a minute later, Sara and Hannah made their way close to the ring at the side where Dara was eyeing Ivy and nervously approaching. Al was already ready to jump over the rope and grab the cage.

Now all they had to do was wait for Carmen's signal.

"Well isn't this quite the interesting day? I never thought I'd see Ivy in a MMA tournament where the officials are apparently complete idiots." Carmen said her voice mocking and scathing all at once as she dropped down from the rafter and landed on top of the cage.

"Carmen?" Dara asked alarmed and surprised at her boss's action as she glanced up at the woman startled, although Ivy didn't move a muscle yet.

"What are you- SECURITY!" The referee yelled causing Carmen to tut slightly as the crowd began to murmur about her appearance out of nowhere, the ACME agents standing up and moving to grab her.

"Dara. Don't make any hostile moves towards Ivy at the moment. She's not there." Carmen said making Dara frown up at her boss confused but look at Ivy. Sure there was something unsettling about the girl right now but for Carmen to warn her not to try something?

"I'm not scared of her." Dara said although her voice trembled just a little bit as she moved towards Ivy again, her face set into a scowl.

"No Dara!" Carmen yelled just a second too late, her eyes widening as she apparently got too close to Ivy. Dara didn't even see the younger woman move before she was kicked away hard enough to crash into the cage hard enough to make it shake. The referee gulped audibly as he looked at the knocked out woman and stuttered out about Ivy being the winner but no one cheered.

They were all either staring at Ivy shocked or at Carmen. A few were even looking horrified and worried about Dara.

"Al!" Carmen called out for the henchman who leapt over the rope separating the audience from the ring and grabbed the cage. Giving a grunt of effort, Al lifted it up and up and up as Carmen jumped from the top of the cage and landed perfectly inside of the ring next to the referee who was ashen white at the display of strength from the blond man.

"You idiots should have known to ask a detective if they had any triggers. The cage sent her into a flashback." Carmen said her voice ice cold as she talked to the referee who was sweating as Ivy's blank gaze settled on him and Carmen.

"Hannah! Sara! Get Dara out of here!" Carmen called without moving her gaze from Ivy who still wasn't completely there.

"Don't get killed." Sara said making Carmen snort slightly as the two of them grabbed the downed and just now coming around woman and moved her as gently as they could from the ring. If there was one thing you could say about Sara, it was that nothing kept her down for long and she was sturdy as all hell.

"I made it this long." Carmen said without looking away from Ivy. If she did then there was a high chance that the girl would attack her.

"And I still don't know how." Sara said with a snort of her own as she worriedly began to examine her co-worker.

"Ivy…look Ivy the cage is gone. Whatever you're seeing it's not there. It's not real anymore." Carmen's voice was surprisingly gentle as she stepped just a little closer to the girl whose entire body was relaxed. That didn't fool Carmen though.

The girl knew several martial arts styles and if her body was relaxed then she could slip into any single one of them in an instant.

"Ivy it's Carmen. Whatever demons or monsters you're seeing right now aren't real. They're all in your head. In the past." Carmen's voice stayed gentle even as she heard the muffled thump of Al setting down the cage quickly over the ACME detectives that were rushing towards them. Hannah and Sara were still trying to see how bad off Dara was.

Carmen's sharp gaze noticed how the thump earned a reaction from Ivy but not a good one.

"Ivy. It's alright. Remember? You're at the MMA tournament. You were fighting with Dara and we learned how stupid officials could be. You're in the middle of a flashback and we need you to come back to your senses now." Carmen said her voice gentle as she took another step towards Ivy, a slow carefully measured step to see how close she could get.

"Carmen what are you doing to my sister?!" Zack yelled from in the cage making Ivy flinch backwards a bit, which Carmen noticed.

"Zack. Shut up." Carmen said without looking away from the red head.

"Ivy. Ivy it's alright." Carmen gently resumed trying to sooth the red head and bring her back around.

"See? No weapon or anything, you know I don't like guns or anything anyways." Carmen said raising her hands to show that they were empty, but this seemed to be the wrong thing to do.

In an instant, almost too fast for Carmen to realize what was happening, Ivy was almost on top of her.

Carmen swore as she leaned back just enough to avoid the kick aimed at her chest and then her arms were up and she began to deflect the rapid fire fists of fury aimed at her. She saw what one kick had done to Dara who was much more durable against most physical attacks than Carmen was.

"Ivy calm down! It's me Carmen! I don't want to have to hurt you." Carmen said earning a snort from the ACME boy who gave her a bad feeling earlier.

"Like you could." The boy called to her with a smirk on his face as he grabbed the bars of the cage.

Carmen let out quite a few swears in quite a few languages as the boy called out something that had Ivy being much more vicious.

Carmen was confused however when Ivy seemed to be more focused on attacking the boy than she was on attacking Carmen.

"Ares! Destroy your enemy!"