Operation: Monsters Be Gone!
Nick was creeping slowly through the lab searching for his uncle's power gem. Then he saw it, a shining blue with a topaz like shape to it. Nick smiled and grabbed the gem. Just then, a monster swooped down and whacked Nick, knocking him back several feet. Nick shook his head and groaned with disdain. He put the power gem into his backpack and took out his fireblade. The monster came back for a second go, but Nick was ready this time. He slashed at the monster's neck and it flew off, body twitching senselessly. Nick heard clapping and turned around to find Freakshow with a blood red vile. "Very well done Nick Fox," He started. "I must say you're a nuisance in my operation." "Yeah, well you give me the creeps Freakshow," Nick replied. "Mutating a bunch of civilians isn't exactly the most neighborly thing to do." "You may have taken the teasing well," Freakshow added. "But I didn't! Because of that stupid machine and one small miscalculation, I ended up like this!" Nick sighed, "And that's why you go and do this? Why don't you just give those civilians the antidote and forget any of this ever happened…" "…If you came earlier," Freakshow muttered, "then maybe I wouldn't have done any of this, but it's too late now!" Freakshow popped open the vile and drank every single drop of it. He then started to bulge into a monster. His furry tiger arms grew into vicious muscles with deadly claws at the tip of his paws.
His crocodile mouth growing bigger and more bone crushing, and his entire body burst into a vicious yellow monster, hungry for Nick's blood. He stomped towards Nick with incredible speed. Nick didn't have time to move when the monster grabbed him and started squeezing the life out of him. He screamed as he felt his body crushed by the incredible strength of the monster; and he blacked out.
I thought at that moment that I was a goner, I followed the operation as planned, but I never knew Freakshow would do this…I guess I should tell you how this started…
At the hideout, Nick and the others were listening in on Jerry's plan. "Alright guys, thanks to Nick, Sly and Serena's efforts," Jerry started, " we're ready to go on with Operation: Monsters be Gone!" "First off, Brutis and Murray will distract the guards by destroying the five laser defenses," He continued, "for Bentley and me to get to the security defense system. Once inside, we'll hack into the system and disable it for Nick to grab his blue power gem." Nick nodded, "What about Freakshow? Wouldn't he be on to us?" Jerry smiled, "That's where Sly comes in. He'll distract Freakshow long enough for you to get at your family's heirloom." Sly grinned, "Finally I get to see just how tough that mad doctor is…" Serena limped over, balancing on her blade. "What about me?" she asked, "I want to help too!" Jerry shook his head, "Sorry, but you're still injured from fighting that beast." Serena groaned and clenched her stomach in pain, almost falling over from the injected poison.
Murray and Brutis were heading for the turrets, ready to destroy the laser defenses. They lifted the heavy lever and hopped on the double turret. "I'll take the right end." Brutis said, "You'll take the left side." Murray nodded and they started blasting away at the defenses. Brutis took out one, then another, leaving Murray to finish his side. Murray blasted one, but the lasers blasted back and damaged the turret. Murray took out the final three and he sighed. "Good job there you two," Bentley said with a hint of joy. "You two certainly make a good team!" Jerry and Bentley were creeping towards the computer. Jerry pointed towards an oncoming guard. Bentley took out his crossbow and launched a sleep dart. The guard spun around twice and collapsed into a deep sleep. Bentley dashed over and dropped a bomb on the guard. There was an explosion, there was a splashing noise as the guard fell into the mutant shark moat and a frightening crunch. Jerry was already hacking the computer. He blasted through firewalls and disabled the systems. Jerry gave a sigh of relief, "Finally we can get back to the hideout. The rest is up to you two Nick and Sly."
Sly was inside Freakshow's office, he looked around, but no doctor. Then Sly heard a low growl from behind and he turned around to find a vicious shadow lunge for his neck. Sly ducked and was shocked to see a mutated Carmelita and right behind her, Johnny Wolfstone. "It was a trap…" Sly muttered. "That Freakshow is smarter than he looks…" Nick was going through the maze of doors and finally found the laboratory. He crept through the lab and the rest is history.
Nick weakly opened his eyes to see he was still in the monster's grasp. Nick saw his sword on the ground. But he felt a sharp pain go through his arms. Shoot! My arms must've been fractured, Nick thought with growing frustration. His anger went to fear when he saw the jaws open wide ready to devour him whole. He heard Freakshow speak, "This is going to be a pleasure tasting your flesh Nick!" Suddenly a shuriken star was thrown into his eye. Freakshow screamed and dropped Nick, who carefully got up. He then saw Serena panting with exhaustion. "You leave him alone!" She shouted. Freakshow growled at Serena. "You shouldn't interfere with people's business. Now let me eat this fox's flesh…then I'll devour you." Serena smirked and leaped into the air and landed on his back. She stabbed deep into his back, which left him crying out in pain.
Freakshow snapped his jaws at Serena, only to get his teeth smashed into pieces by her blade. Then she gave a strong kick to Freakshow's head and he collapsed. Nick stared in astonishment, Serena grinned. Then Nick noticed her fox ears were replaced by cat ears and a long cat tail. "Um…what happened to your fox ears and tail?" he asked. Serena sighed.
It went something like this; Serena was lying in her bed resting when Jerry came in wielding the antidote to her poison and her mutation. He placed a drop into her mouth and she winced. It tasted horrible. Her fox ears disappeared and her tail shrunk away. She woke up feeling one hundred percent better. "Hey! I feel better now!" she said with glee, "Plus the mutation has worn off!" Jerry had a face of confusion, "Serena, was your mother or father a cat demon by any chance?" Serena turned around, "My mother, why do you ask?" Jerry pointed to her cat ears and her cat tail. Serena looked in the mirror and then she growled. "This was going to happen to me at some point." she muttered. "My mom told me her cat genes would kick in when I was thirteen or fourteen…"
Serena picked up Nick and helped him walk towards the hideout. Once they got there, they found Sly, bruised and carrying Carmelita and Johnny. "Those two put up a challenge…" Sly grumbled rubbing a bruise on his head. Then he stared at Serena's white cat ears. "Don't you dare say a word about them." Serena growled clenching her blade. Sly stopped staring and waited for the others to give the civilians the antidote.
Once Jerry got all the civilians back to normal, everything was back to normal. Although Johnny Wolfstone and Carmelita weren't all too happy about being mutated and put the doctor, who reverted back to his human state behind bars for life. The Cooper gang decided to stick with us to help get rid of the remaining five members, which pleased the others very well. We decided to let Serena stay since she had nowhere else to go. It looked as though Serena was happy with her cat ears and tail. She actually had more flexibility now. We decided to take a break at the village before heading towards our next mission.