- Color Your World.
"How far are we from the intersection's site, Wade?" Kim, riding The Sloth, Team Possible's modified car, asked Wade through the vehicle's computer screen.
"Drive ten more miles, and then decrease speed to 60 miles per hour to make a safer connection." Wade informed.
"Any news about Aviarius?" Ron asked.
"I have his location; apparently, his new base is 50 miles away from Everwood City's limits, or at least, that's where his ship landed. Also, the satellite detected three flying objects leaving the city and approaching that place as well. I already told Team Go."
"Thanks, Wade, you rock. I see the Go Jet ahead; talk later." Kim said as looking at the superheroes' jet flying right over The Sloth, and she de-accelerated as Wade instructed.
To make the travel faster, Kim and Hego agreed on meeting on their way to the city instead of her, Ron and Rufus waiting for Team Go to pick them up at Middleton. Just like The Sloth, The Go Jet had several modifications, including vertical launching and landing options, and the capacity to equal a land vehicle's speed, something necessary for high-way chases.
"Okay, little buddy, connect auto-pilot."
"Connecting!" Rufus saluted Ron before stepping on a little blue button. Then, Kim pushed another button to open the roof, and sent a command to the car's computer to return Middleton and close back the roof exactly two minutes later.
"They're right under us; okay, Wegos, drop the ladder." Hego, piloting the jet, told the twins, with a frowning Mego sitting next to him.
"And why I can't fly the jet once in a while? It wouldn't kill you, you know."
"Your last crash landing says otherwise."
"I told you, that truck appeared from nowhere!"
As the argument continued, the Wegos dropped the ladder, and Kim and Ron (Rufus in his pocket, as usual) grabbed it. Then, the twins gave Hego a signal to gain height, and Team Possible started climbing the ladder.
"And you really think is a good idea to go get Aviarius with Eco Loco and his thug at home? If I was the leader, would first handle the villain we already fought and then move to the other one." Mego frowned.
"We don't know where Eco Loco is hiding, Mego, while having a good idea about Aviarius' whereabouts. Besides, I have a bad feeling of this; two villains at the same place and time is never a coincidence." Hego pointed before saluting Kim and Ron, already on board.
"What's up, dudes?" Ron high-fived the Wegos before sitting at one of the jet's spare seats.
"Same as usual; Hego trying to make this team to work again, kicking bad guys' butts…"
"… and your camp buddy kicking ours," the other Wego finished, getting a slight frown.
"Yeah! Why's one of your villains working alongside one of ours?" Mego turned at Kim and Ron, clearly annoyed.
"You think he has a contract with us or something?" Kim arched an eyebrow at the violet hero.
"And seems it's your villain who looked for our. Remember, cartoonish bad guys are your territory, James Bond villains-like our, and bank-robbers, giant robots, and the occasional alien invader are common property, as well as mutants, so you guys can keep Gill if want to." Ron pointed.
"I don't even like goldfish, much less a monster like him!"
"Focus, guys. We have to concentrate on catching Aviarius now, and later on that Eco bad guy and Gill." Kim interrupted the coming argument, much to Hego and the Wegos' relief.
"You're right, Miss Possible! Hang on, everyone, because I'm not stopping this bird before finding the criminal one!" Hego said in his usual heroic-like tone, making Mego to fold his arms and sink on his seat.
"You had to take her side, right?"
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Angelica shook her head, recovering conscience inside a large bird cage hanging from a very high ceiling. Like Chuckie and her cousin, even if the metallic birds bruised them a bit when grabbing their prey, she was mostly unharmed. The trio fainted due the capture's shock and the logical lack of air secondary to fast and high flying, but the girl seemed to stand it a little better than the boys, especially Chuckie, who tossed his cookies a few minutes after the birds caught them, much to the misfortune of a truck driver who was passing right below the birds at the moment.
Angelica looked at the cage's sides, realizing it was hanging right between other two, the one at her left containing Tommy, and Chuckie at the other. They seemed to be inside a huge cavern, with a large metallic door at one extreme, and, when looking down, the girl saw several birds similar to the ones that caught them.
"Hey, Tommy, Finster, wake up!" The blonde yelled at the other captives for a minute or so before they finally reacted.
"Ugh… I barely feel my head." Tommy commented.
"You're lucky." Chuckie shook his head; oddly enough, despite his digestive accident and posterior vanishing, he was slowly feeling better, at least physically.
"Ah, you're finally awake!"
The trio looked down, getting puzzled looks at the man looking at them… or they guessed it was a man. He was using a red outfit, consisting on mask (with a yellow fake beak-like nose on it), tights, wings-resembling cape, and a mohawk hairdo mimicking feathers.
"Uh… is that a red parrot disguise, or what?" Angelica arched an eyebrow while questioning herself if this was just a nightmare, or had finally gone crazy due having Dil as a cousin.
"No, is a chicken, a giant chicken." Chuckie rubbed his eyes under the glasses (that miraculously hadn't fell during the flight) since he couldn't believe them as well.
"Enough of that! Who are you, and what do you want with us?" Tommy said to the man, trying to sound as brave as possible.
"Ah, my little pigeon is curious, uh? Don't play dumb with me; you know very well why I kidnapped you, the canary and the woodpecker!"
"Okay..." Tommy gave his companions a fast glance, they having puzzled and nervous expressions as well. "Why don't pretend nobody know a thing, and tell us?"
"Yeah, right, as if you kids don't know I'm the great Aviarius, master villain, and this is one of the many lairs I have all around the country; never put all the eggs in a single basket, that's what I say."
The trio looked at the villain in silence for a few moments until Aviarius noticed they really had no idea of who he was.
"What do you kids learn in school these days?" Aviarius snapped at them.
"Sorry; we'll not study losers on wacky costumes until High School." Angelica replied.
"Angelica, call me crazy, but insulting a lunatic that has us on his mercy doesn't sound as such a good idea." Chuckie whispered to the blonde.
"And next thing you three will say is that you weren't impacted by a comet ten years ago and gained extraordinaire abilities!"
Silence.
"Uh… excuse me, Mister Big Bird…"
"AVIARIUS!" The criminal yelled at Chuckie in anger, making him to gulp and pale.
"Hey, nobody scares that geek but me, Daffy!" Angelica snapped at the villain. He then glared furiously at her, but the girl replied with an equally raging glare; after a few moments, the villain had to turn, actually feeling a little intimidated by the blonde.
"Look, Mister Aviarius, really, we have no idea about what powers you're talking about, I mean, if we had some sort of power, would use it to escape." Tommy explained as calmly as possible, trying to cool down the maniac.
"Well, you have a point." Aviarius took out his weird looking device and pointed it at the trio. "Certainly, the power development seems to be on early stages, but there's no doubt about you having it… and soon, I'll be the rightful owner."
Aviarius called one of his birds, who gave him a large staff, the villain getting an evil grin immediately.
"It wasn't easy to duplicate my previous staff, but this is far better. I can even drain three powers at the same time, and that's exactly what I'll do."
Aviarius pointed the staff at the trio, cackling as it started glowing.
"Why I think this will hurt?" Chuckie gulped as moving to the other side of the cage.
A moment later, a large energy beam surged from the staff, engulfing the trio. As Chuckie guessed, it was quite painful, he and the others feeling as if being torn apart from the inside out.
"Oh, yeah! Come with daddy!" Aviarius laughed loudly, not noticing the stealthy figure about to shoot a grappling hook against him.
KTANG!
"Argh!" Aviarius yelled in pain as his staff fell to the ground, and the energy beam disappeared, much to the prisoners' relief.
"It can't be! Team Go wouldn't find me this fast!"
"Duck-shaped planes are exactly subtle, Aviarius!" The criminal turned to see Kim Possible jumping from an air vent at the cave's top.
"Kim Possible… shouldn't be somewhere else chasing a psycho golfer?" Aviarius glared at the teen hero.
"What can I say? I like variety." Kim smirked at him as getting a fighting stance.
"And I like birds, especially the ones who can tear apart my enemies." Aviarius took out a remote, sending a command to his creations that quickly surrounded Kim.
"Talking about your enemies… you don't think I came here on my own, right?"
WHAM!
The cave's entrance door fell down thanks to a mighty punch courtesy of Hego, the rest of Team Go and Ron right next to him.
"But… my alarms should have warned me!" Aviarius got a shocked look.
"The ones powered by those cables?" Ron pointed at one wall, where Rufus (who had entered with Kim) was currently holding a munched little cable.
"I could have done it… can't believe it, a rat replaced me!" Mego complained.
"Enough of that; let's kick this bird back to his cage! Go, Team Go… and Possible!" Hego lead the charge, snapping Aviarius back from his shock.
"Lunch time, birdies!"
The mechanical birds started attacking the intruders immediately. Kim rolled on the floor to escape a bird's talons and then made a back flip, landing on top of a low flying robot; the girl focused all her strength on her hands and double karate-chopped its neck, deactivating the robot. She then jumped down from it and gave a sharp kick to another one. On the meantime, Hego grabbed another robot's talons when it attacked him, and made an Olympic toss-like move, smashing it against another bird, right in time to punch another attacker, breaking it.
Aviarius looked around for his staff, brightening when finding it. He dashed to grab it, but Mego, who had sneaked through the battle undetected due his small size, was faster, and the villain suddenly found himself facing a violet hero growing to his regular size holding the staff.
"You're not using this thing, Aviarius… and I'll get sure of it!" Mego smirked before impacting the staff against his knee. "OUCH!"
"I made this one more resistant; noticed it?" Aviarius mocked Mego, who had dropped the staff to grab his knee in pain. The criminal leaned to grab the staff but this time Ron, closely chased by a bird, was the one stopping him; the blonde literally tripped with Aviarius, but, thanks to experience, rolled and stood up immediately, this time picking up the staff, which was a good thing since now had a weapon to fight back the bird attacking him.
"Alright, time for the mad fu skills!" Ron's martial arts ability came on at the right time, using the staff as a bo stick, Monkey Kung Fu's trademark weapon, to hit the robot's wings and then pin the bird against the floor. "Booyah! The Ron-man is at home!"
"Are you guys looking the same I am?" Tommy asked his cousin and friend as slowly recovering from Aviarius' device's effects.
"If you mean a crazy fight between a bunch of robot birds, some guys on tights, a naked ferret, a blonde with a stick, and a red haired girl using an outfit that would look great on me, yes, I am." Angelica replied, stunned.
"Good; we can share the same asylum's cell." Chuckie shook his head in disbelief before the Wegos, who had just dispatched a bird by jumping over in large numbers, called for the trio's attention.
"Hey, guys, hang on, we're going to save you!" A Wego exclaimed. A moment later, they multiplied several times and formed a human pyramid under each cage to reach the captives.
"Whoa! Cool trick!" Tommy said, amazed, as one Wego finally reached his cage's gate.
"Aviarius did a good job on these cages. Can't open it," The Wego trying to open Angelica's cage said as trying to force the gate, the other Wegos having similar results.
"Wait, I have an idea." Tommy checked his pants' pockets, and brightened when taking out a screwdriver. "Yes! I didn't lose it!"
"A screwdriver?"
"Some kids carry their baby blankets." Tommy shrugged as tossing the screwdriver to the Wego helping Angelica. "Save them first."
The Wego made a fast job on the gate's lock, and opened it, tossing the screwdriver a moment later to the duplicate helping Chuckie.
"Climb down us; we'll help you." Wego said to Angelica before giving her a flirty grin. "And… do you have a boyfriend?"
"Can it, Romeo." Angelica said as slowly descending. Chuckie's gate got opened a moment later and started doing the same, not noticing two large birds approaching them.
"Angelica, Chuckie, watch out!" Tommy warned, but it was too late. One of the birds hit Chuckie, making him to fall, and all the Wegos to land on top of him, and a similar thing happened a moment later with Angelica and the Wegos helping her and Tommy, with a major difference; the duplicates fell, but she didn't.
The fight came to a pause as everyone gasped at the sight of the blond girl. She was suspended on thin air, a bright yellow glow covering her forming a thin aura; nobody was more amazed than Angelica herself.
"I am… flying?"
"Her power… my staff triggered it when the draining procedure got interrupted!" Aviarius snapped. "Somebody get that canary!"
"Canary? This guy needs therapy." Kim noticed the two birds causing the falls returning to get Angelica, "Hey, girl, run… I mean, fly away!"
Angelica finally reacted, and made a fast dive, avoiding the birds, and then flew all around the cave with those particular two on hot pursuit, while the rest of the remaining ones kept fighting Teams Possible and Go. The girl was so focused on escaping the robots she barely realized how well she was actually flying, as if being born to do it, despite this being her first time.
The fallen Wegos started moving and fusing back into two, a procedure that somehow helped them recover faster from pain and minor wounds. Then, one of them dashed next to a moaning Chuckie; the geek was badly bruised, and probably had a concussion and even a fracture or two.
"Hey, look, he's glowing too!" Wego pointed to his twin. As said, an orange aura formed around Chuckie, his bruises disappearing and him slowly regaining conscience.
"That hurt…" Chuckie complained as holding his head, and then got a surprised look. "But no more! What happened… and Angelica is flying? Maybe I hit my head harder than I thought."
Tommy couldn't believe his eyes; his best friend and his cousin, two persons he had known since he was on diapers, displayed supernatural abilities right in front of him! The kid then remembered the villain's speech, realizing the man, even if obviously crazy, wasn't wrong, and that meant…
"Okay, Pickles, if you have a power, is time to use it." Tommy held the gate's bars, closing his eyes and concentrating as hard as possible, "Super strength, laser eyes, speed, morphing… talking to birds would come handy now!"
"Don't want to pressure you, cousin, but hurry up!" Angelica flew around the already open cages, trying to avoid the birds, when getting an idea. The girl flew right in front of the cage she was held captive, and called a robot's attention.
"Hey, Tweety, I'm over here! Come on, move those wings!"
The robot extended its talons to grab the girl, who jumped over the bird on the last moment, while it collided with the cage, the gate practically slicing its wings when entering.
"One down and one to… GAAAK!" Angelica got caught by the second bird. Unlike the first time she got captured, Angelica's flying ability allowed her to actually resist the bird, but it was obvious the robot had the advantage.
"Let her go!" Tommy yelled at the bird, not noticing the sparking purple glow surging from his hands until the gate practically exploded away from the cage, impacting against the bird's back and breaking the wings, making it to fall and releasing Angelica.
Tommy looked at his hands in disbelief, both with remains of sparking energy.
"Electric powers?" Tommy finally reacted, a little smile slowly turning into a large one as the sparking aura covered his body. The boy then climbed out from the cage and stood on top of it, getting a good position for his plan.
"Who wants fried chicken?" Tommy exclaimed before shooting an electric blast against one of the few remaining robots, making it to malfunction and fall to the ground, with the boy repeating the attack several times to get rid of the rest of the birds.
"Mmm… fried chicken… nice phrase, kid," Hego directed to Tommy when noticing the boy finishing the battle.
"And it's also my cue to leave." Aviarius groaned as trying to sneak away, his escape route cut by Kim standing in front of him. The villain tried to run the other way, but Mego, Ron and Rufus were already there.
"Sorry, Aviarius, but you'll be nesting in a nice prison cell." Kim smirked as placing a hand on the villain's shoulder, making him to groan in annoyance yet offered no resistance. On the meantime, Angelica flew next to Tommy, who no longer was glowing.
"Watch those hands and I'll take you down. Nice shooting, by the way." The blonde smirked at her cousin as grabbing him from below his armpits.
"It just came natural… it was that, or all those hours playing videogames finally paid on."
Angelica and Tommy descended slowly, her stopping glowing the moment they touched ground right next to Chuckie and the Wegos.
"That was amazing, guys! And guess what? I have a power too; fast healing!"
"You'll save your parents a fortune in doctors and medication, Finster." Angelica smirked but then got a gentler and slightly worried look. "Are you sure are fine? That fall had to be painful."
"Yes, thanks for asking." Chuckie smiled at the girl, and then the trio looked at the heroes that came to their rescue. There was silence until Angelica cleared her throat to address the tall blue and black outfitted one.
"Nobody is going to hit that guy?" The blonde pointed at Aviarius, held captive by Ron and Mego.
"Sorry, miss, but, as much as some of us would like that, heroes don't hit villains once they're caught."
"Heroes can't… how about the people he held hostage?"
"Mmm… I'm not sure if that rule applies." Hego confessed.
"Enough for me," Angelica marched in front of Aviarius and gave him a sharp kick to his shin, making the villain to yell and grab his leg in pain.
"That's not fair!" Aviarius growled at Angelica but got silenced by her snapping back.
"Go lay an egg, freak!"
"Didn't know Bonnie had a mini-clone," Ron whispered to Kim while Tommy talked to Hego.
"Excuse me, sir, but… have a cell phone we can use? Our parents must be worried sick."
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Worried sick was a gentle way to say it; at Tommy's place, his parents, uncles and grandparents, as well as Chuckie's family and his friends' parents as well had gathered to discuss what they'd do about the trio's disappearance.
"My poor baby!" Didi, Tommy and Dil's mother, cried at the kitchen's table, with Betty (Phil and Lil's mother) trying to comfort her, while Charlotte, Angelica's mother and former vice president of a large company, cell phoned all her contacts that could help her locate the boys and her daughter while Lou, Stu's parent, tried to calm down the kids alongside the rest of the adults, except Chaz, Chuckie's dad, who was pacing back and forth with his wife, Kira, Kimi's mom, trying to calm each other.
"Are you kids totally sure about this?" Stu, Tommy and Dil's father, and a toys and various machines' inventor, asked his son and company for what seemed to be the hundredth time. The teens (Susie and Harold) and the kids, sitting at the living room, had all anxious and worried expressions.
"Dad, trust me, I wouldn't invent a story about this; we're talking about my brother, cousin, and one of our friends' lives here." Dil exclaimed, visibly altered.
"I know it sounds crazy, Mister Pickles, but we saw those birds grabbing Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica right in front of us." Lil said, almost at the verge of tears, just like Kimi right next to her.
"I know, Lil, but we have to be reasonable here, even if it's difficult right now." Lucy, Susie's mother and a famous Californian doctor, tried calming down the kids. "Nobody will believe this, and we can't lose time trying to convince the cops."
"Then let's call the Army, or the Marine… call Adam West if he can help, but let's do something!" Phil exclaimed, extremely desperate.
"I have some friends left at the Army," Lou commented, "maybe can call them for help."
"And tell them three kids got kidnapped by rejects of a sci-fi convention?" Betty groaned, hating the impotence feeling she had right now, "I doubt they'll send a battle jet to help us."
ROOOOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRR….!
Everyone at the house dashed outside when hearing a powerful roaring motor, and gasped in surprise when a jet landed at the street. A few moments later, Tommy, Chuckie and Angelica emerged from the air craft, followed by Kim and Ron, and Team Go right behind.
Dil was the first one to react, looking at his brother and grinning widely.
"Tommy, Mom doesn't like us accepting rides from strangers… but glad you did it!"