Angela and Kayla walked out to the street outside of Polestar Preschool
"That's the two houses of the inventors over there," Angela pointed out, "Orange Boy and Apple Boy."
"They still live there?" Kayla asked.
"No," Angela said, "Apple Man as he is now lives with Jeff Andonuts in Winters, and no one really knows where Orange Man is. People say their heard a lot of shouting coming from his house last year and an explosion. He hasn't been seen since."
"Weird," Kayla remarked, "But anyway, I guess we need to start heading for this Chaos Central place."
"Yeah, not really sure what to expect with that," Angela admitted, "I guess this Mr. Torch guy doesn't have PSI or Paula's father would have mentioned it."
"Still could be dangerous," Kayla cautioned.
"Well, like I said before," Angela said, "We did pretty good against most of Pokey's cyborgs. I think we can handle these guys."
"Hope you're right," Kayla said lowly.
They walked up the street from Polestar and turned the corner. Looking down the next road, they could tell that things were not normal in Twoson. The street was completely barren. Everdread Park was empty of the usual vendors that fill its paths. The panting of happy dogs was unheard.
"This is awful," Angela commented, "This guy's completely sapping the life out of Twoson."
"Hopefully we can stop him from doing this, and get more information about Michael," Kayla said.
"Do you really think this guy could be connected to all this?" Angela inquired.
"I'm not sure," Kayla admitted, "But I really hope so."
"That would be really cool if you have the gift of premonition just like Paula," Angela commented.
"I guess," Kayla said distantly.
As the girls approached the end of the road, they could begin to make out Chaos Central, and the view was not very inviting.
"It's heavily guarded," Kayla noticed.
"I guess it would be hard to just walk right in," Angela retorted.
"Yeah, too hard," Kayla said, "We can't risk causing that much of a scene."
"We could use your Tornadogenesis," Angela suggested.
"I can't keep that going forever," Kayla said, "Once they come back down, those who aren't hurt will just come right after us. We'll walk in there with who knows how many guys on our tail. It'll be a massacre."
Angela nodded though she couldn't really see any other solution if they aren't able to get near the place. She wondered what Ness would do.
"Mr. Polestar said that the northern neighborhood was completely under Mr. Torch's control," Kayla pointed out.
"Yeah, so?" Angela asked.
"Well, we can create a diversion up there," Kayla said, "Use our best moves and cause a lot of chaos, pun intended."
"Oh, so then all these goons will probably head up there and leave the place unguarded," Angela realized.
"Right," Kayla said, "Which means we can rush in there, find Mr. Torch, and hopefully defeat him before his thugs realize they've been tricked."
"Wow, that's a good plan," Angela complimented, "I didn't know you had a general inside you."
"It's just altering the business personality I've inherited from my parents," Kayla answered, "The business world isn't much different from this."
"Let's do it then!" Angela whooped.
The two got closer to Chaos Central, but they cut off the road and headed into the trees near Chaos Central. They followed the trees north until they saw the neighborhood that Mr. Torch was running. As Mr. Polestar had said, the streets were littered with more mobsters patrolling the homes.
Angela looked into a nearby house window and could see a family sitting down for dinner, but none of them looked very happy to be eating. Her heart ached again. She hated seeing people in misery. If there was one thing she wanted, it was to help spread happiness around the world, and now it looked like she finally was having her chance.
"Okay," Kayla said, "I say the best course of action is to storm in there firing whatever we got. I'll use Tornadogenesis to tear up some small trees or plants and knock some guys around. You use your Wave Beta and flood the area."
"Got it," Angela said.
"Let's go," Kayla said.
She quickly ran out from the trees and up to the street.
"PSI Tornadogenesis Beta!" Kayla cried.
A tornado instantly sprang up from where she stood and took off down the street. The mobsters noticed, pointed, yelled, and cursed.
The tornado quickly tore up grass, plants, and mailboxes and tossed them all over. The mobsters did their best to avoid the flying debris, and some wound up getting caught up in the tornado themselves and being thrown down the street.
The people in the homes rushed to their windows when they heard the commotion. They stared in awe at the tornado that seemed to have a mind of its own.
"Good show!" Angela called.
She ran between the houses and stopped at the middle of the street.
"PSI Wave Beta!" she yelled.
Two pillars of water came rushing out of her hands and rushed down the street. Angela quickly then turned around to face Kayla's tornado.
"PSI Wave Beta!" she yelled again.
The water rushed into the tornado and was thrown in all directions.
"Ha ha!" Angela cried in triumph.
It was always a pleasure to count the money.
Flipping through the pile of hundred dollar bills always seemed to have a way of calming whatever nerves Mr. Torch might have.
Mr. Torch reached over and grabbed his beer sitting on his desk. He took a sip, put it down, and continued counting the money.
Mr. Torch hated being interrupted while he counted his money, so it was no surprise that his anger rose violently when his assistant came barging into the office.
"Wilson!" Mr. Torch raged, "How many times do I have to tell you not to bother me when..."
"It's an emergency, Mr. Torch!" Wilson gasped, "Someone's attacking our guys up by your houses!"
"WHAT!" Mr. Torch shouted, "Who would dare!"
"I don't know, sir!" Wilson whimpered.
"Well, don't just stand here!" Mr. Torch snapped, "Send help up there right now! Send them all! And find me the fools who are doing this and bring them to me!"
"Yes, sir!" Wilson cried and ran out of the office.
Mr. Torch grabbed his beer and threw it across the room. It shattered when it hit the opposite wall.
A rustle came from the bushes outside Mr. Torch's window. His eyes darted over to the bushes with a look of fear. He gripped his money tightly and slowly sat down.
"It's working," Kayla said.
She and Angela ran back to their hiding spot in the trees and could see a lot of mobsters running up from Chaos Central.
"We have to hurry," Kayla said, "It won't take them long to figure out what's up."
Kayla and Angela ran as fast as they could back down towards Chaos Central. Like they hoped, all the guards were gone from the entrance. They quickly ran inside.
A tall, thin man wearing a suit was pacing around the lobby.
"What?" he gasped, "How did you... oh, the boss won't like this!"
"PSI Freeze Beta!" Kayla yelled.
A freezing mist surrounded the man and and he fell over, too cold to move.
"That door over there was where the manager's office was when this was Chaos Theatre," Angela said.
"Let's hurry," Kayla said.
They ran over and stormed in.
"Well, well, well," the stocky man inside answered, "When I, Mr. Torch, heard it was little girls causing this ruckus... Well, I just wasn't entirely sure what to think, but what to do? Oh, yes, I know what to do."
With that Mr. Torch raised his hand and swung it down, which caused a chair to soar across the room and crash into Angela. She cried out in shock and fell to the floor.
"Angela!" Kayla gasped.
"Now..." Mr. Torch said, "Want to explain why you're here?"
Brian and Mako walked slowly to the door of Grande Saturn's hut.
"You understand then," Grande Saturn said, "What I have asked of you?"
"Yes," Mako said, "We will go and liberate your underground cavern of the madness animals that have invaded it."
"I wish you all the luck," Grande Saturn, "And I hold the highest hope that you will return and the truth will rise up."
Brian and Mako nodded and left Grande Saturn's hut.
"He said the entrance was about 100 yards north of his hut," Mako said.
"Right," Brian answered.
"Are you frightened?" Mako asked.
"What?" Brian stuttered.
"I couldn't help but notice your hesitation inside," Mako said, "Are you sure you're ready for this?"
"Guess I'm as ready as I'll ever be," Brian answered nervously.
Mako accepted that much for now, and the two headed north from Grande Saturn's hut. Soon, they reached what looked like a hole in the ground. They could see a rope ladder hanging down from it.
"This is it," Mako announced.
"Uh huh," Brian said.
They climbed down the rope for what seemed like a long time and finally touched the floor below. As they looked around, they could first tell how poorly lit the place was. There was some lanterns here and there still burning, but not very well. Obviously, the animals haven't tried to keep up the caverns at all.
Brian moved forward down the first passage a ways. He never saw what was coming.
WHAM!
Brian was knocked to the ground quickly and Mako noticed the large mole which ran into him.
"PSI Flash Alpha!" Mako yelled.
For an instant, the caverns were lit up by a bright light. It stung the mole's sensitive eyes and tears began flowing out. Mako quickly ran towards him, spun around, and delivered a hard kick to its chin.
The mole's head snapped back and he fell over.
Brian recovered from his attack and pulled out his bat, which he quickly used to knock the mole out of commission.
"Okay," Brian gasped, "I guess I'll keep my eyes open more."
"We never know what may come out at us," Mako said, "Better keep that bat out. We don't want to use too much PSI if we can help it."
"Right," Brian agreed.
The pair continued down through the twisting passages, encountering other moles, slugs, ants, bats, and even a few more dangerous bears, which Mako had to use PSI Freeze Alpha on while Brian distracted it with his bat.
Several times they took wrong turns and wound up at dead ends, but luckily the animals seemed to thin out some as they moved deeper within the caverns.
"This whole place is unnerving," Brian commented, "I can't believe the Chosen Four used to go through this all the time."
"I think it was a lot worse than this," Mako said, "Which makes me wonder what we have yet to face."
"Watch it!" Brian yelled.
As they turned the next corner, a small army of ants charged at them. Trying to smash all of them with his bat wasn't helping very much, so Brian cast a PSI Fire Beta which weakened them enough to where he and Mako could catch and eliminate them.
"They seem to just keep coming and coming," Mako said, "Where does this all end already?"
"Mako..." Brian said, "What is that?"
Mako noticed Brian looking a bit up and he followed his gaze. Across the way was a risen level of the cavern and there was an entrance to another part of the cavern, but the part that caught Brian's attention was the sphere in front of the entrance. The sparkling sphere of light with a voice chuckling within it.
Frank Fly shut his briefcase and locked up his desk. The day had come to an end and he was anxious to get home to his wife and children. It was another typical day in Town Hall, and as mayor he had little amount of affairs to attend to. It was almost boring in ways, but Frank was mostly glad nothing too serious was happening. He actually smiled a bit as he wondered what it would be like if he had to deal with a gang like the Sharks, which he hiimself led all those years ago.
Frank left Town Hall and began heading up the street towards his neighborhood. It was a nice, warm day out. The skies were clear and the sun still shone brightly as it was beginning its late afternoon descent towards the horizon.
It was while Frank was just reaching the entrance to his development when he noticed the peculiar man heading his way. His face was pointed downwards and he seemed to be mumbling to himself furiously. Frank could pick out parts of what he was saying such as "Lost all of them..." and "gotta get those girls back".
"Excuse me?" Frank called, "Are you all right, sir?"
The man stopped and looked at Frank in shock. Frank could tell the man wasn't expecting anyone to come across him.
"Are you lost or anything?" Frank asked, "Can I get you some help?"
Instead of answering, though, the man suddenly ran towards Frank with his fists clenched. Frank was very surprised that he was suddenly being attacked, but he managed to bring his briefcase up in time to block the man's punch, but the force of the punch knocked his briefcase out of his hand.
Frank gasped and shot a glance at his briefcase which had a huge dent in the side now. Frank looked back at the man and that's when he noticed it. Most of the man didn't look like a man at all. He looked part machine.
"Oh, my God," Frank stammered, "Who... what..."
"That's what most say," the man answered with a grunt, "Few ever figure it out in time!"
With that, the man quickly punched Frank across the face. Frank flew back a few feet and landed hard on the ground. He was soon picked up by the man and hurled into a nearby tree.
Frank moaned in pain and sank to the ground. He hit his head hard on the tree and he could already feel blood coming from a wound. His vision was clouding up. He knew he would be losing consciousness soon. That's when he heard the man speak again.
"No," came the agitated voice, "No, I don't think I want the death to start with you. The first one to die in this town today is going to be that stupid pig's butt. Yes, that is how it's going to happen today!"
Frank heard his footsteps run away. As he realized what the man meant, he passed out.