Within several minutes, Ed and the others returned to the scrap yard. Lo and behold, there was no sign of Kim or Ron.
"I told you dipstick!" Ember shouted.
"No way bro, where the heck could they be, seriously?" Ed asked, "my trap was foolproof."
"Obviously not, since you're clearly a fool" Kim said.
The villains turned and noticed Kim, now clad in her supersuit, standing not far away.
"Nice duds Red, too bad they won't help you against us, seriously" Ed replied "get her dudes, seriously!"
Gearhead ran forward and tried to punch Kim, but she avoided the blow and kicked him in the midsection.
"Perhaps some living metal will change your tune" CF said, aiming his control at a nearby scrap pile.
But Rufus jumped into his coat and began tickling him; "ha ha ha, stop that!" he said, dropping his control in the process.
"I'll take that" Ron said, grabbing it off the ground, "Hmm, I wonder how many channels this baby gets?"
"Give that back, it's very precise and delicate!" CF said, in between fits of laughter.
"I'll get it, jeez you are such a loser" Ember said, floating over towards Ron. "Okay blondie, give him back his remote or else!"
"You don't scare me" Ron said "actually, I'm lying, you terrify me a great deal."
Before Ember could do anything to him, however, Kim stepped between them.
"Protecting your geeky boyfriend?" Ember asked mockingly "that's sweet, but extremely stupid!"
Ember let loose with a blast from her guitar, but found to her shock that it had no effect on Kim.
"Impossible!" she shouted.
"Anything's possible for a Possible" Kim said calmly "see, when I escaped from Motor Ed's little deathtrap, I had Wade modify the suit to allow me a little more of a fair fight."
"Too bad I don't fight fair!" Ember said, going intangible and diving straight for Kim.
"KP!" Ron cried out, but it was too late, Ember had overshadowed her; or had she?
"Like I said, now it's a fair fight" Kim replied, making herself solid again, "sorry Ember, but your concert's been cancelled, permanently!"
Angrily, Ember fired a blast from her guitar, but the suit simply absorbed it.
"Back at ya" Kim said, releasing the blast and knocking the evil ghost rocker for a loop.
Satisfied, she turned her attentions to Ed, "I hope this wasn't your whole revenge, because if it was, it's pretty lame."
"Curse you Red!" Ed said "one of these days, I'm totally gonna get you for this, seriously."
"It'll have to wait till after your next prison stay" Kim said.
"Not happening dudette, seriously" Ed said, "me and my bros, we're checking out. But we will meet again Red, and next time, you're so gonna be scrap metal, seriously!"
With that, Ed turned and ran, with Gearhead close on his heels.
"At least we can take in the fat guy" Ron noted.
"Not happening" Ember said, "he may a disgusting oily slob, but he's my teammate too."
"Thanks, I think" CF replied.
Ember said nothing and kicked Ron into Kim, then grabbed the remote. "Here's your stupid remote thing" she said "now let's blow this place."
She grabbed CF and went intangible, but turned to look at Kim before she left.
"You and I have a score to settle" she said "and when we do, you won't have your little battlesuit to protect you!"
And with that, she flew away with the still intangible CF.
"That was freaky Kim" Ron commented "and what was with all that 'we have a score to settle' stuff? Do you really think we'll see her again?"
"Maybe" Kim replied, gazing into the sky "just maybe. I'm more worried about the new allies Motor Ed has found. I barely beat them before, and if he attacks again, with more…"
"Relax KP, you creamed those guys" Ron said.
"Only because of the supersuit" Kim explained "if I had to face them again, who knows how I'd fare?"
"Uh, you can do anything Kim" Ron said, "remember, it's like your motto or something."
"You're right, I'll worry about that if the time comes" Kim said "in the meantime, let's try to enjoy the sights while we're here."
"You think Britina will hook us up with recording contracts while we're here?" Ron asked, "cause 'the Naked Mole Rap' totally needs to go platinum."
"Platinum" Rufus added, as they walked away.
A few hours later, Ed and the others had reported back to Bean Brigade HQ.
"I totally cannot believe my plan didn't work" Ed complained "it was foolproof, seriously."
"Don't look at me" Ember said defensively, "I did my part just like you told me."
"Well I'm gonna seriously figure out what went wrong with this plan, and set up another one that will definitely put an end to Red."
"Count me in when you do" Ember said "I owe her."
"You owe a lot of people" CF noted.
"Cram it fat boy!" she responded angrily.
CF didn't have time to come forth with a witty retort, as Hannibal interrupted the proceedings.
"I don't know where y'all were, but that isn't important right now" he said. "I need ya to get ta the meeting room, on the double. It's time ta put my new plan into action."
"What new plan?" Ed asked.
"Y'all will find out when ya get to the meeting room, now move it!" Hannibal ordered.
The villains simply made their way down to the large council room, with Hannibal close behind, having little idea they'd be in for the biggest caper of their careers.
Next Time:
Hannibal enacts his most ambitious plan to date: travelling to the future to stockpile futuristic weapons so he can take over the present. The only ones standing between him, and total domination are a familiar quartet of shelled heroes, who just happen to be in the future. Can they stop the Bean Brigade, or will Hannibal succeed in his diabolical plan? The answer to this and more awaits in the next story "Time's Up pt. 1"