- Rescue Mission.
That same night, Hench Co had more activity than usual. Jack, alongside Drakken, Shego and Golden Angel, was at his office, monitoring all the personal from there and giving the last touches to the trap.
"It's quite simple," Hench commented to his companions, "since the whole place is practically sealed, Team Possible will need using the specific route we had cleared for them, guiding them to a heavily shielded and isolated room, where we already have several of our best henchmen ready with the right weaponry to handle them."
"Good plan, Mister H, but I honestly doubt Possible will fall for it so easily." Shego commented.
"As much as I appreciate your opinion, Miss Go, there's no way Miss Possible can find an alternative route."
"That's exactly what I've thought several times in the past; and every time, that cheerleader and her buffoon find a way in and destroy my lair!" Drakken groaned.
"I don't doubt it, Doctor, but this time she also has two rookies that, powers and all, might mess with her stealthy style, so can't use creative solutions and use an alternate route."
"Unless those 'rookies' are used to get in and out of problems, powers or not," Angelica mumbled to herself, being unheard by her companions.
"Anyway, once they enter, we'll need your help to handle our two newest recruits with minimal damage to them and my property, Miss Angel." Jack turned at Angelica, "Since they obviously wouldn't use their whole power against their friend, you're the best option to use these."
The man handled Angelica a little box; she opened it, finding several darts like the one used against Mego, but all of them were plastic-made (including the needle) and one dart had an orange tape around it.
"We made these darts with plastic materials so your electromagnetic friend can't use its power to attack us with them, and the orange one, of course, was especially prepared for the fast-healer; the tranquilizer on it is so powerful it would knock out the whole Dallas Cowboys, cheerleaders and all, therefore it will be enough to take him down for a while. Can't risk them dodging or destroying the darts, so use at close range."
"Sure, no problem," Angelica grinned as putting the darts inside her outfit's pockets.
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Meanwhile, at the fifth floor of the same building, a little vent started shaking, covered by a bright spark. Then, after a few seconds, the vent simply popped out from its place, descending and landing softly; Tommy, in his Dynamo, suit, slowly moved his head out from the air duct he currently was, spotting a surveillance camera, and then shot a little electric blast at it to ruin the image with static. Right next to him, Rufus gave Tommy the thumbs up before jumping down the vent; Ron had given his pet to Tommy so the mole-rat's instincts and experience could guide him through the ducts. The boy jumped down the vent, and dashed to the closest window, a very large one with an extremely resistant glass.
"Breaking this would make a lot of noise; time to use Kim's gadget." Tommy whispered at the rodent as taking a little lipstick tube, actually a disguised mini-laser, out from his pocket, and then used it to make some little cuts at the window's metallic frame. The boy then used his magnetism to remove the frame, glass and all, as silently as he did with the vent, and then moved aside.
A couple of seconds after Tommy finished, two grappling hooks were shot through the open window, hitting the ceiling right over Tommy's head. With the lines secured, Kim, Ron and Chuckie/Feline (who was hanging from Ron's back) climbed inside the place a few moments later.
"Nice job, Tommy." Kim whispered at the boy while she and Ron retrieved the hooks and lines. The girl turned on her Kimmunicator to contact Wade.
"Wade, we're in; can guide us?"
"Sorry, Kim, but it's useless; Hench Co's computers have a very good security system, and the building has a cloaking device that blocks thermal readings. I can communicate with you, but nothing more; breaking the system would take me hours."
"Is okay, Wade; we'll do it the old-fashioned way." Kim said to her techno friend before turning off the Kimmunicator. "Okay, here's the plan; Rufus, you go scouting in front of us, and tell if there's a camera or alarm ahead so Tommy can deactivate it."
The little rodent, now standing in front of her humans, saluted the girl and moved ahead of her. The group started following Rufus at a safe distance, the mole-rat motioning them to stop whenever spotting a camera so Tommy could create a minor magnetic interference and they could pass undetected.
"How are we going to find Angelica and Team Go?" Chuckie whispered to his companions.
"We'll need to catch a henchman and interrogate him." Kim replied before Rufus, who had turned right in a corridor, ran back in a panic, followed by five large henchmen.
"Hey, we only need one!" Ron gasped before ducking to avoid a henchman's fist.
Once Team Possible and company reacted, the battle lasted less than five seconds; Kim surprised two henchmen with a double kick at their faces, while Rufus bite the ankles of other two men to distract them, giving Ron and Chuckie the chance to knock them out with a fast punching series, and Tommy stopped the last one with a little electric ball right at his enemy's chest.
"This one looks conscious enough." Kim leaned to grab a stunned henchman by his collar and slam his back against a wall. "Okay, friend, I don't know how much you get paid, but trust me, it doesn't worth what I will do if not cooperating; where are the prisoners?"
"You don't scare me, girl… as angry as you are I know wouldn't attack a defeated foe." The henchman replied as smoothly as possible, his expression changing when Kim threw a punch a couple of inches next to his face, denting the wall.
"I know sixteen Kung-Fu styles; want to see how much I can hurt someone before sending him to E. R.?"
"Y-you aren't serious…"
"If she's not, we are!" Chuckie snapped at the man, giving him a terrifying glare, while Tommy's hands sparked, the purple haired boy with an extremely serious look.
"T-they are at the basement… our most secured cells!" The henchman finally cooperated. Kim smirked and gave him a little karate chop at his neck, nothing serious but enough to knock him unconscious.
"I thought the routine was 'good cop-bad cop', not 'bad cop-even worse cops'," Ron commented to his companions as they started moving again.
"We're re-inventing the genre." Tommy shrugged. Unknown to the group, one of the other henchmen started recovering conscience, and took out his communicator.
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"What? They're at the fifth floor and running downstairs?" Jack Hench gasped as receiving the message. "That's impossible!"
"No… that's Kim Possible; God, I hate that words game!" Drakken groaned in annoyance.
"This is not good; the trap was set at third's floor eastern wall… and they arrived a lot sooner than expected!" Jack growled as activating the intercoms, "we'll need to move everyone or the plan will be ruined!"
"You don't have any other security system to delay them?" Shego commented while reading a magazine, Angelica sitting next to her.
"Of course I have; but still, I hate when a good plan needs last-moment modifications." Hench immediately started giving orders to his employees, ready to catch his last two 'products' no matter what. "Oh, and Miss Go, please go check if Eco Loco and Gill hadn't left the building; might need some extra help here."
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Two henchmen fell over their backs as Kim punched them on her team's way downstairs. The building was designed so the stairs connecting each floor weren't connected between them, so anyone running up or downstairs had to go to a different door to do it, this being an obvious measure to delay any intruder, so now Kim and company were running at third floor trying to find next stairway.
"Dynamo, we have a tail!" Feline told his friend as noticing three henchmen chasing them.
"I got them!" Dynamo shot several electric beams at the chasers, knocking them out. At that moment, an extremely large henchman appeared from a corridor, attacking Kim and Ron with a cattle prod, the teen heroes avoiding it by mere inches; Feline then jumped and kicked his back, stunning the henchman so Ron could finish the job with a swift kick and punch combination.
Another group of henchmen emerged from the very same corridor the other one did, all of them with cattle prods; Dynamo shot his electric beams at their weapons, disarming the men immediately so Kim could attack them, the girl throwing punches, chops and kicks so fast she was practically a blur, taking down three henchmen in a few seconds; two of them tried to avoid her and attack from behind, but Chuckie had the idea of grabbing the first henchman's weapon and used it to shock one of them while Tommy gave the other an electric punch, both villains falling unconscious immediately.
Rufus, on the meantime, found the next door and whistled to his humans to follow him; Ron tried to take down the door, but it was perfectly locked and extremely resistant.
"Hey, Dynamo, need a little thunder here!" The blonde said as moving aside.
"I'm on it!" Tommy shot a powerful electric beam at the door but it resisted well; he then tried using his magnetism to remove the door, but it was useless.
"This door must be isolated or something!"
"Obviously they know where are we going and took some measures," Kim then looked at her feet, "Dynamo, my lipstick; hope the floors aren't as resistant as the doors."
Tommy handled Kim her laser-lipstick, and the girl started making a circle at the floor with the beam; then, when finished a big enough one, she and Chuckie kicked the floor with all their strength, making the material inside the circle to fall, leaving a good-sized hole. When jumping down at second floor, Kim repeated the procedure so they didn't had to search for the stairway.
However, when reaching first floor, the group found themselves surrounded by a group of henchmen, ready to pounce over them.
"These guys get cloned or what?" Ron asked to nobody in particular before he and his companions were forced to defend themselves again.
Tommy covered his body with an electric field, shocking the henchmen trying to catch him; Kim made a sliding-kick move to take down two enemies attacking from different sides while Ron dodged an attack and threw Rufus at an enemy's face to distract him from a punch at the stomach, and then the rodent jumped at the face of the henchman who attacked his human first, biting his nose before jumping down so Ron could elbow and kick him; finally, Chuckie got a one-on-one fight with another henchman, knocking him out with a dashing uppercut, the geek silently congratulating himself for the idea of reinforcing his own gloves, but he didn't notice two henchmen appearing from nowhere and grabbing him tightly from his arms and head.
"Okay, nobody move!" The largest man roared at Kim and company, "We got him, so better give up or we're breaking his neck!"
Chuckie's friends froze at the spot; as much as they knew the geek's power protected him, they had no idea if was enough to heal him from a deadly injury. Chuckie noticed his friends' state and growled as tensing his muscles and resisting his captors.
"What the… how can this kid be so strong?" The other henchman said through clenched teeth, as Chuckie struggled to escape, and then, in a sudden, practically shook the men away.
"I thought the blue guy was the powerhouse!" The largest henchman exclaimed, stunned, before Chuckie jumped over him and hit his chin, making him lose conscience and two teeth, and then the geek made a dashing move at the other enemy, kicking his belly and sending him the other side of the corridor.
"Coolio!" Ron congratulated his friend while Kim and Tommy sighed in relief and started working on the floor's hole, "But they have a point… how do you…"
"I use most of my non-sleeping time to train, remember?" Chuckie shrugged.
"I don't think that's the only reason, Feline," Kimi commented, "You see, after checking your progress Wade and I made a little research and found something interesting we didn't told because weren't so sure if it would be the case with you; a regular person normally doesn't use more than 10 percent of his/her muscular power because a normal body wouldn't stand a larger effort; with training, a human can use up to 50 percent of said muscular power for a certain time, and maybe a little more; but, someone whose body can stand and recover from extremely severe muscular stress in practically no time…"
"I can use my whole capacity… the 100 percent!" Chuckie said in realization; so, this meant that, with the right training, as he had been doing lately, the boy could increase his strength tenfold, at least temporally.
"In other words you're a one boy army… or at least, a well-fitted gang," Tommy half-joked before using his lightning-like attack on the floor after Kim finished weakening it, creating the access to the basement.
"Now, which way, KP?" Ron asked his girlfriend the moment the group jumped down at the basement.
"We'll need our 'hound' for that." Kim said as giving Rufus a knowing look; the rodent started sniffing the air, and got a wide grin when finally getting a familiar scent, pointing at the direction he got it from.
"I'm so going to ask my parents for a pet mole-rat." Tommy smiled as the group started running through the corridor. Then, out of nowhere, two large henchmen appeared; unlike the others they had already faced, these ones had Skimo-like clothing, and were carrying some weird looking devices at their backs that somehow resembled fire extinguishers.
"Freeze!" The henchmen said before shooting a large amount of cold mist against the intruders. Soon, the full corridor was filled up with the mist, and Team Possible was on their knees, trembling and hugging them selves to conserve heat, Rufus jumping inside Ron's pocket to escape the cold.
"I really like this freezing stuff." One henchman said to his companion.
"Yeah; nobody can resist it."
"Guess again, fools!" The henchmen gasped when seeing Dynamo glaring at them, the boy covered by his sparking aura, which succeeded on heating him up. The thugs were about to run when finding an orange glowing boy on their way; Chuckie's power didn't make him immune to cold, but his resistance to the low temperature was far enhanced. The geek started fighting the henchmen while Tommy placed a hand on both Kim and Ron's shoulders, sending a light electric current through their bodies.
"T-t-thanks, b-b-buddy…" Ron finally got heated enough to talk to his friend while Kim gave a fast look around, spotting an air vent.
"D-dynamo, use your c-c-current on that one." The girl pointed at the vent, Tommy understanding her idea immediately. The boy released his friends and shot an electric beam at the vent, reaching the fan inside and activating it; a few seconds later, the vent sucked all the mist, temperature rising to normal level almost immediately. On the meantime, Chuckie finished the fight by throwing a henchman over his shoulder and smashing him against his companion, who was already stunned by some very strong blows.
"Guess this means we're on the right track." Kim said after recovering and thanking Tommy. The group then heard a very familiar voice calling for help from the very distant end of the corridor.
"Somebody, please, help me!"
"Angelica!" Chuckie practically jumped when hearing her voice and dashed in its direction. "We're coming!"
"Hey, wait for us!" Ron's yell got ignored as he, Kim and Tommy ran behind Chuckie, the geek overrunning them almost immediately so Tommy had to use his electromagnetic-hovering trick and Kim and Ron made their fastest sprint to follow his pace. A few henchmen appeared on their way but Chuckie disposed of them almost effortlessly, his friends barely needing to throw a punch, kick or blast while he was on the lead.
"Is my imagination, or he really misses her?" Kim slightly smirked, Tommy, Ron and Rufus doing it as well after a few moments; the girl couldn't help but compare Chuckie's behavior to Ron's full-mission mode, when he got extra serious about something and focused so much his clumsiness and fears practically disappeared and showed his full capacity. Chuckie didn't stop until reaching a large steel door blocking his way.
"She must be behind this door." Chuckie thought out loud, his companions finally stopping next to him. Tommy was ready to use his magnetism on the door when noticed the classic combination keyboard panel next to it.
"Boy, if the superhero thing doesn't work for me, I have a great career ahead as a locksmith." Tommy said before placing his hand over the device, sending a light current through it, and, after a couple of seconds, the door opened.
The group got inside the room that actually looked like the bottom of a large pit with some platforms on top.
"What kind of room is this; the ball-dancing one?" Ron thought out loud.
"Actually, yes, we use it for that at times," the group looked up at the platform, where Jack Hench and Drakken were standing alongside several henchmen. "But normally we use this room for massive battle training."
"Drakken? You're in this too?" Kim asked her blue enemy as taking a battle stance.
"What can I say? Mister Hench made me an offer couldn't refuse." The blue villain said as taking out a remote control and pressing a button, closing the door at the heroes' back.
"Okay, Scarred Smurf, where are our friends?" Tommy directed to Drakken in his best authoritarian tone.
"Well, if by friends you mean the blond girl, I'll be more than glad to help you." Jack said as snapping his fingers, and then a second door opened, Angelica walking out of it.
"Angel!" Chuckie and Tommy exclaimed in happiness, luckily remembering to call the girl by her alter-ego name. The boys ran and hugged her, the girl returning the embrace a moment later.
"My… you guys really missed me?" Angelica asked them, a large grin on her face.
"You have no idea!" Chuckie replied with his widest smile as he and Tommy broke their embrace on her. Despite the happy scene happening in front of her, Kim got a wary eye on Angelica; she appearing that way wasn't exactly normal in a hostage situation.
"How nice!" The group looked up at the platform again, with Shego, Gill and Eco Loco standing next to Jack and Drakken. "No hugs for us, Princess?"
"Shego." Kim growled under her breath, forgetting about Angelica for the time being as the green villainess jumping down at the pit a moment later; Gill then grabbed his employer and followed her.
"I'm so going to enjoy this, scweeb." Gill grinned evilly at Ron while cracking his finned knuckles.
"I'm terrible at Math, Gill, but guess you're even worse if not noticing we have the numbers' advantage." Ron said smoothly as he, Kim, Tommy and Chuckie got fight stances, none of them noticing Angelica sneaking behind her cousin and taking something out from her pocket.
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AN: Hope you guys liked this chapter. I'll have next one soon; it will be kind of dramatic at some parts.