"Just hold on Nigel, it's gonna be okay." Fanny kept telling her companion with a stern face seeing his white one. During the battle before the operatives had gotten their Number 1 had been fighting bravely like he had said only it wasn't good enough. He had been stabbed multiple times by both the Vendrite's tails and normal infecti's teeth. A lot of blood had been sucked from his body, which Number 2 miracously was able to pump more blood into, and a few bones had been beaten pretty bad. "Hold still Number 1, try to think of something nice or happy," the mechanic of the team was telling his leader as he put a few bandages around his leg to keep his wounds tied up.
He mearly moaned as he knew he couldn't do anything about what was happening. "So," he hissed in agony, "How's it been going down here these past few days?" "Well," Number 86 began, "Today was the worst, this afternoon when we found you. It was horrible, we went from twenty to eight and two police women to six and now we're at seven including you." "Yeah, it's been awful Numbah 1, we're just glad you showed up with those weapons when you did, you're lucky to be alive ya know," Hoagie said closing the first aide kit and getting up, "I'm gonna check out the pipe down there where Number 4 is kay?" "Sure sure Number 2, thanks," Number 1 confirmed and layed back looking up at the red haired girl.
"You know it is worse than I imagined," Fanny told him, "I thought that this thing only affected men, but with how it has spread it doesn't look like it can be stopped unless…" "It will have to be done, and we'd better be out of here when it happens. It looks like it might be the only way to stop the infection," Nigel told rolling over a bit to get comfortable, "And if we don't do it either the Shadow Corp. or the government will. King Shadow may be evil but he's not dumb ya know. Before he lost his body he worked on his home island silver with Jack and Shelaunda all of them had IQs of 290 while working on the immortality research project. Those nine years ago."
"It's rather unbelievable that one man and his friends could have turned this villainous and still no one has caught them. They even have a city they practically run in Canada! It's also unbelievable how they've been able to strike fear into everyone's hearts on earth with their things. Jack's a homocidal candy addict maniac that goes insane when he has too much and hates rapers, Shadow's his best friend and vice versa that's literally a shadow, Shelaunda's a female scientist mechanic person, Masks is a 300 year old magician, and they are all bent on ruling the world! I can't even remember how this all got started!" 86 was complaining to her comrade.
"Well let me clue ya in then," Number 1 moaned with a smile, "1. We're not the only ones trying to put a stop to the Shadow Corp. 2. It all started nine years ago on the island, Silver. Three extraordinary scientists, King Shadow the astronomer of the group with a V shaped hairstyle, Dr. Jack Kite the candy addict mechanic, and Shelaunda the blond female mechanic. The final member was their old collage teacher, Masks, the three hundred year old man who is quite athletic and constanly wears that freaky clown mask (Check, Under the Head of a Shadow for a full description). Oh yeah, that last man with green hair and a point that was formed at the top of his head, Mutiest the father of Mutant Kid. They all had three fingered (Two fingers and a thumb) claws as all Silveronians do.
"Anyways, the scientists decided to try and create an immortal being which they came extremely close to doing on some occasions but never really succeded. The Yopas were near to invicible but if you shot them in the mouth they would die and the Noctos would die if treated badly. Well one night the group was at a bar/strip club where Jack was admiring a very pretty candy machine while Mutiest was making a bet and the others were drinking (Alcohol doesn't affect Silveronians). No one knows how Masks consumes things with his mask on he just does. Two stripper girls were waving seductively at Jack who was getting quite irked at the attention they were giving to him. Jack has black sonic-the-hedgehog-like hair and razor sharp fangs. He just wanted to be left alone with his candy but no, they kept waving so finally he walked up to them and knocked them out. Shelaunda finally dragged Jack away from the candy and sat him down at a table with them.
"Finally they left for the night and had a party back at their lab where many odd things happened. They all looked into Mask's crystal ball at one point and saw they're supposed futures. When it was over they all headed down the hall and Shelaunda kept commenting on how grumpy Shadow was that night. Eventually he spun around and slammed his fist into her nose breaking it. Jack immediately tended to her and Masks looked at Shadow oddly then headed to his room. A few days later the group was busy at their jobs after failing at another specimen. Suddenly the alarms went off and all the employees and them except King Shadow and Mutiest.
"Jack was going to run back down and get Shadow but Masks stopped him. Meanwhile Shadow found Mutiest setting up a time bomb at the core of the labs and attempted to stop him. Mutiest then told Shadow that he had set it to blow up after they had all left. Apparently the night he was betting he kept losing and finally the bet from the cloaked opponent was to blow up the laboratory if he lost. Well unforetunately he did lose but decided to let everyone live. The better wasn't so merciful and after he saw the people leaving from atop a cliff set off the bomb himself. Mutiest was immediately incinerated but Shadow decided to get behind a door.
"Shelaunda and Masks just looked away but Jack, being Shadow's best friend and knowing him since childhood leapt into the destroyed labs. Masks and Shelaunda quickly followed him and they searched for hours. Eventually they heard some rubble crumble about and stuff as a dark figure sat up painfully. "SHADOW!" Jack exclaimed joyfully and hopped about over to him then stopped looking at him in dismay. What was there was not their good friend but instead a shadow of him. "What happened?" Shadow asked looking around at the shocked faces of his companions and Jack held up a mirror. People say you could hear his scream for miles but finally shadow as he began to phase through the rubble beneath him. He had somehow gained the ability to go through things like a ghost could and take over bodies of other things.
"Shelaunda decided to leave for a while before turning to crime like her friends did but joined back eight years later, one year ago for us. The others immediately began their villainous career and quickly climbed to the top of all countries except Hungary's most wanted lists. At first they just were evil to get things to make a new body for Shadow but over time Shadow decided he liked the way he was, got gold armour, a red cape, and became the crime lord of all villains world wide." Number 1 finished. "Wow, and you remember all that from memory?" Number 86 asked. "No, inflight movie aboard my ship when I crashed, pretty interesting stuff, a lot better than I described." He replied smiling and rolled over again. Just then they heard screaming.
"Hold him still! Please stay back miss!" Number 4 was yelling to Number 2 and a busty blond girl who had thumb claws. The boy they had caught and was trying to get out of their grip had pitch black hair and claws like a Silveronian would have. "Let go of me!" he yelled angrily as the girl he was with was being pushed away from him. The two looked to be about fourteen years old and looked like pretty normal kids. The boy's hair came to a point between his eyes where it extended a bit from his face, was very thick, and was like Mario's hair sort of at his neck. Most girls would probably think of him as extremely cute (I draw them sorta anime, but it's my own style really) as well as the girl. The girl had bangs that extended from the middle of where her hair started, thick eyelashes, and a ponytail in back.
"HIYA!" the girl screamed slamming her foot into the operatives freeing the boy who stumbled into her with a hug. They hugged tightly and held their claws at the operatives' throats. "Stop right there!" Number 86 shrieked and shot them down with a stun beam. The two were paralyzed as the group recovered. "Geez, why the heck was the girl helping him out!" Rachel asked rubbing the back of her own head. "Well let's see why," Number 1 told them stumbling forth with a gun and pointing it at the two's heads. They mearly smiled doubtfully and held hands. "My lord," he said, "These two are Jake Diabolical and Angel Amy!"
The smiles faded as the boy figured out who they were and instead gulped in fear of what would happen to them. "Those two traitorous teenagers!" Kuki asked surprised with a grin, "How foretunate that we meet up here, wonder what Shadow has them doing this time." "Please don't kill us," the said simultaneously. "And what reason do we have not to?" Number 2 asked, "You guys nearly got us killed a few times! Sure ya look like kids, but deep down you're like every other teenager out there!" "Geez," Amy sighed, "We weren't ever really with you guys even back when we were kids. You know Shadow isn't just after kids, he's after everyone." "Yeah, at least Jack's not in charge or everyone would be dead. But this time we really are here to help!" Jake told them laughing a bit, "We've been watching you guys ever since you crash landed and can see that you are probably our only way out of here and beating that monster!"
"Oh, you talking about big, old, and gruesome? Tons of mouths and what not?" Abby asked leaning them against the wall as the effects of the paralyzation wore off a bit. "Yeah we do!" they exclaimed. "What could you possibly have against him, why not just leave," she questioned curiously. "Well," Amy began, "It's all Jack's fault. You guys know how he hates it when Shadow assigns us to work for him right, cause we always mess up, well we got Jack so ticked off at us that he sent us straight to Necronomia for research. Roachester decided to have us shipped off to Dr. Phendrite back before the outbreak for testing."
"Hey yeah!" Number 86 said, "Why the heck isn't Jake here crawling all over you?" "Well," Amy responded with a smile, "Even though I would greatly enjoy it if he did, he doesn't get affected by viruses like other people do for some reason. He's not a Silveronian but he's not entirely normal either, like me, I'm a space pirate, but no one knows what he is." Number 4 just rolled his eyes and said, "Hey look, do you got anything interesting for us to hear or can we just leave ya here?" "No," Jake replied, "Unless you don't know how or where the outbreak began." This immediately caught everyone's attention and Kuki commanded slyly, "Then tell us."
"Well it all started about a week ago when we were being tested yet again," Jake started, "Dr. Phendrite was cheerfully watching us be injected with Phendrite and watching our affects. Amy had been resisting greatly and growling in pain so they finally gave up and move onto me. I was resistant to the airborne form of the virus but after having two cups of it injected into my system I started acting up but not like a normal boy would. My claws began growing sharper and I broke out of my restraints and became sort of monstrous and broke Amy out of her restraints. She went and hid under a table as I attacked the doctor. He pushed me off of him and tried to escape but I, in my rage, slammed the rest of the Phendrite into him. He took in two liters of it before wrenching it out of himself and throwing it into Amy's side. She immidiately started foaming at the mouth and I rushed over to her turning back to a normal person after a few seconds and began sucking the stuff out of her mouth."
"Man, that hurt like heck," she commented getting up and stretching. "Anyways, as I was saying, I began sucking it out of her while Dr. Phendrite went on a beserk rampage smashing open jars of the airborne virus while mutating. We couldn't see him very clearly but he had grown about eight feet tall and had mouths connecting his enormous arms to his body which was also a mouth now." Jake finished. "So that monster is!" Numbers 86 and 1 said together as Jake and Amy finished, "Dr. Phendrite." "What! Then there's no cure that's gonna be found!" Number 4 shouted. "Relax, you guys aren't infected," Amy said, "The airborne virus wore off in about two days unknown to everyone else in the city besides us. But an instruction for the cure was made by some scientists, and your pal looks like he has it pretty bad." Everyone looked at Number 1 who was growing ever more pale as he fell over in pain.
"Number 1," the group yelled as they rushed over to their leader to steady him. Jake and Amy meanwhile finally became free of their paralyzsis and joined the group in helping up the child leader. "Why are you helping us?" Kuki asked in Amy's face who mearly grinned at the younger female. "As we said," she responded smiling, "You guys are our only way out we believe, and besides we can show you where the instrustions are for the cure. Your pal said that physical contact is the way it probably gets around now and I'm sure getting blood sucked through their teeth and tail is physical contact." "Amy's right ya know." Jake agreed and took Nigel up on his shoulder.
"Well then we need to get going!" 86 yelled as splashing could be heard in the sewers as they got Number 1 to his feet again. "We need to get out of here," Rachel told them and climbed up the manhole to the surface as the Vendites approached. "Get him up there," Jake ordered throwing his hand out and Amy finished, "We'll hold these creeps off!" Kuki and Wally hurried up and 86 and 2 helped Nigel up while the other three held the Vendrites off. Finally Abby headed up as Amy and Jake assured that they could handle things. With one last set of kicks Amy and Jake leapt up to the surface and slammed the manhole down on an emerging Vendrite.
Well now you people know more about the outbreak and King Shadow and his people's story. This was basically just to inform you guys about my characters hope it wasn't too boring. Now you know where and what Dr. Phendrite is also. Jake and Amy seem like they'll be helping the group out hopefully, in case you didn't know (As you shouldn't) Jake and Amy have run into them a lot in the past while working for Jack Kite and no Jack is not gay he just doesn't have any desire for any sex related things, just sugar and machines. Hope ya liked this gotta get working on the next Chapter. Oh here's a preview by the way!
"That was disturbing," Abby commented as they veiwed the overhead projector's diary on screen. Suddenly a shadow flashed across the wall in a hunched over manner and a sharp sickle-like tail. "Oh man!" Number 4 hissed, "A Vendrite!" SHRISS! Some gooey substance splashed into the head of the projector melting it eliminating all the light in the labs. "Oh man!" The black creature crept closer and closer until finally Kuki spun around and screamed as the black Vendrite leapt in the air.