- Follow That Bird.

Present Day.

- Everwood City.

A Japanese 11 years old girl woke up and punched her alarm clock, reading 6 A. M. She normally woke up a little later, but had some homework left from previous day, so needed to do it before going to school. The girl went to the bathroom to wash her face, and then, still on her oriental style pajamas, walked downstairs, arching an eyebrow when finding someone already awake and working at the living room.

"Chuckie?"

"Good morning, Kimi. What are you doing up so early?" The 12 years old geek smiled at his stepsister. Despite the obvious changes he experimented through his growing years, the boy still conserved his most notable early childhood's features; freckles, nasal voice, little green eyes (perpetually covered by purple nerdy glasses), and messy reddish orange hair. The only main difference was his teeth; he had been using braces for almost two years now.

"I was about to ask you the same thing." Kimi looked at all the books and notepads her brother was using. "You also had homework left?"

"Not really. I woke up at 3, and, no matter what, I couldn't go back to sleep, so decided to advance some work; think I've made all my homework for the next month."

"Don't exaggerate; I mean, doing all that in just three hours?"

Chuckie chuckled nervously and scratched the back of his head.

"Actually… I did it in a couple of weeks." Kimi gave him a puzzled look. "This isn't the first time I have troubles for sleeping; I've been waking up extra early for almost a month now. At first I killed time playing cards or reading comics at my room, but then decided to start doing school work. By the way, I found your homework's notes on the living room's table; finished it for you."

Kimi grabbed her notebook and wide opened her eyes; her brother didn't just finish her homework but also rechecked her previous work to correct grammar and redaction.

"Whoa! Thanks, bro, but… why you didn't tell anyone about your insomnia problem?"

"Well, you know that, when I get very stressed or scared hardly sleep, so I thought it was just that, but the funny thing is that I had been fine lately, and even if sleeping less than usual I don't feel more tired than normal. Maybe is just a consequence of working at a café." Chuckie shrugged, referring to his dad's business, a cyber café he and Kimi helped with on a regular basis.

"But you don't drink coffee."

"No, but smell it all day. Maybe it works like second-hand smoking."

Kimi rolled her eyes yet said nothing. After all, knowing Chuckie's long list of allergies and medical problems over the years that theory wasn't as crazy as it sounded.

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That same morning.

-Go City.

"Stop right there, you stinky villain!"

Hego stood heroically at the middle of the street, with Mego and the Wegos alongside him (all heroes using masks and tights that had a different color, all of them combined with black), opposing to the man leaving the bank carrying a dirty sack. He was using a black and purple robe over his dark tights, and used a large Yosemite Sam-like hat on the same colors; the whole outfit was extremely dirty, fitting with the man wearing it; he was so covered in dirt he seemed to be darkly tanned, and his long messy blond hair and moustache had lots of bugs, mud, and similar stuff all over it.

"Ha! Look who's here; Mister Ego and his cartoonish assistants!"

"Hey, we're not his assistants!" Mego groaned. "And you know it, Eco Loco!"

"Well, maybe all that dirt is going to his brain." One Wego said as covering his nose.

"Yeah; when was the last time you bathed?" The other Wego asked.

"I only bath when the police send me jail; and not by choice, trust me!" Eco Loco frowned. "And now, if you know what's better for you, return to your, ugh, clean house and wash your tights while I escape with my dirty money."

"We'll not… okay, the part of washing our tights, yes, we'll do it later; however, first we must take out the garbage!" Hego pointed as both Mego and the villain slapped their foreheads in annoyance.

"You have to say that every time we fight Sir Stinko here?" Mego complained.

"We'll discuss that later; go, Team Go!" Hego commanded, and the twins obeyed, using their multiplying power (that made them glow red) to clone themselves several times, surrounding the criminal. Mego, using his violet glow, shrank to pass through one of the clones' legs, recovering his regular size behind his enemy. The twins then moved aside so Hego could have a place at the surrounding circle.

"Well done, Team Go; now, catch him." Hego pointed, but neither Mego nor any Wego moved from his place.

"Are you serious? I'm not touching this guy!" A Wego turned his face in disgust, the others and Mego doing the same a moment later.

"Neither I; I mean, maybe I'll catch a germ just by standing behind him! You always say you're the leader, Hego, so you get him!"

"Well…" Hego gulped, and then coughed as getting back his authoritarian tone, "As the leader, I order you, Mego, to catch him!"

"No, you catch him!"

"Come on, you're using gloves; just catch the man!"

"No, you do!"

"Ehem! Excuse, remember about me, the super villain?" Eco Loco pointed at himself, more than slightly annoyed.

"You're not exactly 'super', man." A Wego said.

"Yes, you lack spectacular gadgets or skills… unless counting that smell; it can knock out a skunk!" Another Wego joked, making the others to chuckle; even Hego and Wego got a little laugh.

"Why, thank you, kid," Eco Loco smirked, "but I got something every super villain needs."

"What, an evil laugh? You already have one, and isn't that good." Hego folded his arms and got a smug face.

"My evil laugh is good, but I was talking about another thing." Eco Loco grinned evilly, "A henchman."

"A hench… MMMGH!" Hego's talk got cut by a large chunk of green slime sticking to his face, his brothers turning to see the attacker emerging from the bank.

"Actually, he's more like a hench-fish!" Eco Loco laughed as well as the humanoid green merman-like creature holding two more money bags.

"YIKES! What is that thing?" Mego gulped.

"Let me introduce myself; I'm Gill, and, like Stinky here said, I'm his new assistant. Had my doubts about his plans, but must admit I'm really earning my paycheck here." Gill chuckled as getting a fight stance, more green slime slowly forming on his clawed finned claws.

"Okay, since our fearless leader isn't helping us, I'm taking command of this team!" Mego got a heroic posture, and pointed at Gill. "Alright, Wegos, let's fry that fish!"

"And you complain about Hego's speeches?" A Wego rolled his eyes but all of them obeyed and charged against Gill; even with his super strength, Hego was having problems to remove the slime from his face, and arguing Mego wasn't a good idea at the moment.

Gill shot several sludge balls at his attackers from his arms and mouth, trapping most of them, but five Wegos handled to jump over him. However, Gill was both far stronger than an average man, and his scaly skin very slippery, so removed the clones from him with ease, and then, before could multiply again, trapped them in his slime.

Mego, realizing his brothers were in trouble, shrank in an attempt to pass Gill's defense and surprise from behind, one of his most used attack maneuvers, but got covered in a thick dark cloud. He recovered his regular size, coughing and his eyes covered in tears due irritation, but still handled to see Eco Loco holding a large can of spray.

"Forgot about me and my Smog Spray, Violet Kid?" The villain laughed evilly, and then moved aside so Gill could attack the hero, throwing one of the Wegos against him, knocking out Mego.

"Argh! I'll need some mouth wash later!" Hego exclaimed as finally getting rid of the slime on his face, and then gasped when realizing his brothers were either trapped or unconscious.

"Alright; is back to the junkyard to you two, Dirty Devils of Doom!" Hego glared at the duo.

"You know, that one wasn't half bad." Gill said to his employer.

"What can I say? The guy has moments." Eco Loco shrugged. "Now, Gill, give that Soap Lover a lesson!"

Hego and Gill charged against each other. The hero attempted to punch his enemy several times, but Gill was far faster plus pretty agile; when Hego finally managed to get him in a bear hug, Gill's skin saved him again, allowing him to slip away from the grip, and then attack Hego with another charge of slime, this time covering his chest and arms. This time, however, Hego was ready, and crossed his arms before getting covered; then, he tensed his muscles and extended his arms, using all his blue glow's power, breaking apart the sludge layer. Gill tried to attack again, but Hego was faster this time and practically rammed the fishy villain, sending him the other side of the street.

"Ha! Get ready to prove the awful taste of defeat, villain!" Hego repeated his ramming maneuver, ignoring Eco Loco taking out a weird looking gun.

"Good thing I improved my Slipping Pistol." The criminal smirked as shooting several charges at Hego's feet; the pistol was modified to shoot grease balls and banana peels, all covered with motor oil. Because of his super strong legs, Hego could reach a very high speed on a short distance, so couldn't stop from slipping and changing his collision curse, smashing against a building instead of hitting Gill. This caused a large section of the wall to fall over Hego, covering him in bricks and debris.

"Time to go, Gill!" Eco Loco cackled as taking out a remote and pressing a button; a moment latter, a large trash can with some sort of dirty umbrella on top and several pipes at the sides (all of them throwing a lot of smoke, of course), appeared from the sky. Gill shook his head to recover from last attack, and then grabbed the two money bags he left at the bank's door; Eco Loco waited until his own bag and the other sacks were dropped at the can, and then jumped inside. The can wasn't large enough for Gill fitting on it as well, but by covering his hands and feet on slime, he could hang from it without problems.

"So long, bunch of losers! Even a coward sidekick was a better challenge than you, fools!" Gill laughed at Team Go as placing a hand on his forehead and making the 'L' signal, while his boss pushed a few buttons and grabbed a little steering wheel inside the can to make it fly away while dropping several smog bombs to cover the escape.

Once the smog dissipated, and Hego emerged from under the debris, he helped his brothers, using his strength to remove the slime from them. The Wegos returned to being just two, and helped Mego stand up.

"Okay… that wasn't our best moment." Hego rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!" Mego snapped at his brother. "That's why you wanted to reform the team? So a loser villain like Eco Loco could kick our butts?"

"Well, Mego, to be honest…"

"Eco Loco. Kicked. Our. Butts." Mego repeated through clenched teeth. "Next to him, a regular shop lifter seems as dangerous as Dementor, and we lost! He's the villain whose worst successful crime was painting graffiti at the city hall's wall!"

"Come on, Mego, he wasn't exactly helpless." A Wego said.

"Yeah; that fish guy is pretty tough." The other twin nodded.

"Certainly, he's a dangerous opponent. We must look for information on this new enemy; from the way he talked and fought, seems he already has experience as a criminal." Hego rubbed his chin. "We'll use all and every available resort to find out all the information about the Fiendish Fishy Foe!"

"Or we can just call Kim Possible's friend, Wade, and ask him to do the research for us." A Wego shrugged.

"Well… yes, if you want to do it the easy way." Hego rubbed the back of his neck, "Okay, let's go, Team Go."

Hego and the twins started walking away, with Mego following them a moment later while mumbling something very offensive under his breath, none of them realizing a familiar caped figure was on top of a nearby building aiming at them with a little device.

"What a waste of super powers! Without their sister, this team is as junky as Eco Loco's bed." The villain chuckled, and then re-checked the device's lectures. "Oh, well, not everything is lost; now I have registered their glow's wave length, all the powers will go to someone who deserves them better… Me!"

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A few hours later, at Middleton High, now with 50 percent more Math (according to the school's sign), a certain blonde was groaning in annoyance as well as his naked pet when getting some news from their techno-guru friend, contacting them through the computer placed at the boy's girlfriend's locker.

"Oh, come on! Gill escaped again and has his powers back? The super villains have a get out of jail card, or what?"

"Not fair!" Rufus groaned, agreeing with his human's complain.

"Are you sure it was Gill, Wade?" Kim asked her friend, more than slightly worried; Gill, just like Monkey Fist, was more a Ron's enemy than hers, and she knew how far the fish boy would go to get revenge on her boyfriend.

"The bank's security cameras got him, and Team Go's description fits. Besides, he introduced himself." Wade nodded; half of the computer was divided, with Wade and his room on one side and Hego's face at the other.

"Wade told us you two have experience dealing with this villain."

"Yes; he's someone Ron met at summer camp many years ago." Kim said.

"Ugh! That evil place!" Ron shook his head. "I still have nightmares of that summer!"

"Anyway, Ron here is the one who usually fights him; to be honest, most of the time I'm on ringside whenever Gill appears because he usually traps me on that sticky slime so can't help Ron, but he always bests Gill at the end." Kim gave Ron a proud look that changed Ron's expression to a more relaxed one.

"Great! We got defeated by a fool who gets his fins kicked by a cheerleader's sidekick and his pink hamster!" Mego's voice got heard, making Hego to slap his own forehead and Wade to roll his eyes.

"Mego, they can hear you." Hego said to his brother as noticing Ron and Rufus's frown and Kim's glare.

"You had to say my name?" Mego complained, making Hego to sigh in resignation.

"Anyway, who's this Eco Crazy?" Kim relaxed her glare a little bit so Hego could explain.

"One of our villains, Miss Possible; he has the whole dirt and pollution theme stuff."

"All the other good ones were already taken?" Kim arched an eyebrow.

"Anyway, we usually can handle him with ease; sometimes even played who could take the man down the first. To be honest, the hardest thing about facing him is throwing the first blow because, well, nobody wants touching the man; his prison cell has no roaches because they leave when he arrives! This is the first time he defeats us, but of course, this is also the first time he uses a super powered henchman; normally he acts on his own or with one or two regular thugs he can hire… and they're usually just guys who sleep at the junkyard and do dirty job for a sandwich."

"With or without mayo?" Ron asked, but everybody ignored the question.

"We'll help your team at anything we can, Hego." Kim pointed. "Wade, can you…"

"…check the satellites monitoring Go City and see if there's any clue about these two's whereabouts?"

"Please and thank you."

"I'm on it." Wade started typing, and got a curious look. "Okay… uh, oh."

"What's the sitch?"

"I just got a police report. It seems another villain escaped jail a few nights ago, but the cops wanted to keep it secret until now."

"They have cards, KP, I tell you." Ron groaned.

"And it seems this guy was at Go City until recently; I don't have clues about Eco Loco right now because his smog covered all the satellite's shots, but I have one of a crazy looking aircraft leaving the city just ten minutes after Team Go's fight."

"What do you mean with crazy looking?" Hego asked.

"Its silhouette looks like a duck's."

Teams Possible and Go got silent for a few moments.

"The Sloth's tank is full, Ron?"

"Just like mine after Naco Night, KP!"

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"I know the reason of your insomnia, Chuckie."

"Dil, please, don't start with another alien abduction theory." Tommy said to his little brother as they, alongside Chuckie, Kimi, and other two close friends, Phil and Lil, the DeVille twins, walked out from their school.

Tommy's baby baldness was now replaced by short spiky purple-toned hair; the color wasn't exactly a surprise since it was a more or less common feature from his dad's side of the family. Also, Tommy's love for adventure and leadership skill were unchanged from his baby days, except he now was little more cautious, something he had to do to compensate his brother's hyperactivity and wacky ideas, evident to any casual observant thanks to a trademark Sherpa hat with toy teeth hanging from it.

"But it has sense, Tommy! How else can you explain Chuckie wasn't breathing hard after P.E. as he usually does, especially if he barely slept last night?"

"He has a point there, Tommy." Lil, who had medium length brown hair, with a pink dyed strain at the front, turned from Tommy to Chuckie, "As long as I know, that kind of health problems don't disappear overnight."

"I know. At first I was kind of glad for this, but now it's scaring me." Chuckie confessed.

"Well, if you have problems to sleep, why don't you run a few laps around your house or do some exercise at your room? That always leaves me exhausted." Phil, who also had brown hair like his sister but long at the top and kind of shaved at the sides, suggested his friend.

"I thought about it, but working out at my room might wake up Kimi or my parents, and running around the house at 3 A. M. when it's still dark… no, thanks!"

"You're still afraid of darkness, Finster?"

The six pre-teens turned to see Angelica, alongside her best friend Susie, a very nice and talented Afro-American girl, and Harold, her red-haired goofy sidekick, approaching them.

"Don't start, Angelica. This can be serious." Susie, who was also very close to Kimi and the others, and therefore knowing about Chuckie's problem from his sister, frowned slightly at the blonde before turning at the geek. "Why don't you ask my mom to give you a check up? Maybe she can prescript you a sleeping pill or something."

"Or, if you still have problems to sleep, try recording the Math class and then hear the tape at night. My teacher always makes me sleep, and I have the grades to prove it." Harold shrugged.

"Already tried that, Harold; aced my last exam but got no sleep." Chuckie confessed.

"Well… if this insomnia thing is actually a good thing, maybe you can do some extra homework to keep yourself busy." Angelica got her trademark mischievous smile.

"Yours, right?" Lil arched an eyebrow at the blonde.

"Hey, if Finster finally has a useful talent, why not helping him developing it? Besides, better doing homework than watching infomercials," Angelica chuckled.

"Or, you can help me with my alien-looking research; only God knows all I miss when sleeping. Just point a telescope at the sky when waking up, and then call me if spotting an UFO… or a two-headed bat." Dil proposed.

"Come on, guys, let him breathe." Tommy silenced both his brother and cousin. "Look, Chuckie, if you're actually feeling fine, let's skip this as something weird yet harmless, like Dil's ability to talk to fish, and don't do a thing unless starting feeling bad; or, if you feel safer, ask Dr Carmichael to perform some tests on you."

"Sounds like a plan." Chuckie smiled.

"And, on the meantime," Angelica handled Chuckie her Biology book, "I need a report; pages 130 to 145."

"Will you ever stop bossing me?" Chuckie frowned yet grabbed the book.

"Will you ever stop being… well, yourself?" Angelica retorted.

"Nice reply; who wrote it for you, Shakespeare or your cat?"

"You're hopeless!" The geek and the blond said at the same time, their friends looking at them in silence, some of them covering their mouths to hold laughter.

"And you forgot your camera." Phil jokingly whispered at Tommy.

"No, I didn't. I've been having troubles with the battery so left it at home." Tommy whispered back as the argument continued until Chuckie sighed and placed Angelica's book inside his backpack.

This kind of quarrels were common between them, especially since the geek started fighting back once in a while; at the end, Angelica always convinced him (it was hard arguing with the school's Debating championess) but, oddly enough, when Chuckie was the one needing her help, she usually accepted as well… on her terms, of course.

"Just don't get used, okay? If this insomnia thing disappears just like it came, I'm not losing resting time to do your stuff." Chuckie pointed, and then paused as giving Angelica a fast look. "Hey, are you using a new shampoo? You hair looks brighter than usual."

"Too late, Finster; flattery only helps before closing a deal, not after doing it… but thanks anyway." Angelica moved a hair strain from her face as getting a discreet smile.

"Fine, if the soap opera finished, let's go." Phil complained. "You guys know I hate being here for more time than needed."

"You hate being here. Period," Lil joked, causing her and Kimi to chuckle a little bit as the group started walking away. Normally Angelica tried to avoid being seen in presence of the 'tweens', as she called them, but it was getting late and most of the alumni, including the popular crew she always tried to fit in, were already gone, so her reputation wasn't risked by the possible popular guy spotting the girl by accident.

Unknown to the group, three large hawk-resembling flying creatures flew over them. The animals, that were actually robots, had big bright sensitive eyes, and were currently looking at the gang, as they had been doing with all the students leaving the school. This time, however, they stopped hovering and dived, their sensors finally finding what their master wanted.

Back at ground level, Dil noticed the three growing shadows right over him and his friends, and looked up.

"Hey, guys, look! Up, in the sky!"

"Superman?" Harold grinned as doing as Dil.

"No, birds… very large ones," Dil said. "Maybe they're condors!"

"Hope they hadn't eaten a heavy meal!" Kimi said as covering her hair.

"And I think they want eating us! Run!" Susie yelled as noticing the birds diving against them. The creatures were now close enough for everyone noticing their mechanical and frightening features.

"Tommy, your dad is doing flying toys again?" Lil, running next to Tommy and Dil, asked him.

"No, and besides, these ones are actually working!" Tommy replied as trying to avoid one of the birds heading against him and Lil. "Duck!"

"No, they're more like hawks, Tom…" Dil was cut by his brother pushing him and Lil away from the bird, but the purple haired boy wasn't that lucky; the creature caught him with its talons, and then soared up in the skies with its captured prey.

"Tommy!" Lil's yell got the attention of the others that had started dispersing when the birds got closer.

"Hey, overgrown canary, get back with my cousin… YEEEAAGH!" Angelica was caught as well; Harold tried to save the girl by grabbing her leg, but the bird was just too strong and the chubby guy fell flat on his stomach.

"Angeli… YIKES!" Chuckie's angry and scared yell was replaced by a full scared one when the last bird caught him. Kimi and Phil, who were right behind him, tried jumping over the bird, but it was just too fast and escaped, so the gang could only see their friends disappearing in the sky.

"Hey! Get back with them!" Dil yelled at the birds, trying to get their attention, without avail.

"You can keep Angelica, but drop the others!" Phil received a sharp slap at the back of his head courtesy of Kimi.

"We have to go get help!" Lil exclaimed, pale and sweating cold.

"And what are we going to say; that three uber-sized birds kidnapped our friends? It's so crazy nobody will believe us without proves!" Susie shook her head.

"Welcome to my world." Dil sighed as looking down. He always dreamed with being abducted by aliens himself, but he had a feeling these creatures weren't aliens, or at least friendly.

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And now, a quick author note; Ron... (I'm on it! Eco Loco isn't Ramiro's character; he is a classic Mexican TV villain we are using here as part of Team Go's rogues gallery; in our series, they only have like, 3 villains, and R-man here thought it would be a good idea giving them a few more enemies for the fic.) Thanks, Ron. See you guys next chapter!