KP All Grown Up v2.0: Future Stoppable for Team Tri Stoppable
AN: Things just have gone from bad to worse for the TTS and their help. Read on and you'll see what I mean but for those of you who remember Chapter 8, you'll know.
Chapter 58: Wild, Wild Teams!
(King Rat's Castle)
Karen says coldly, "You can not have her. We have our orders from King Rat."
Mindy says, "I don't care what your orders are, you are not keeping my sister!" She jumps at Karen who surprises Mindy with her flexibility by moving with fluid quickness and grabs her, tossing her to the floor hard enough to momentarily knock the wind out of her.
Mindy quickly rolls on the floor and using her hands she springs up onto her feet with her eyes glaring at Karen. She catches her breath after a moment and says, "I don't know how you did that but you're not the only one with a few surprises."
Mindy taps into her monkey power just enough to enhance her own agility and speed to try and catch Karen off guard but all it does is put them on level playing field.
As Mindy and Karen circled each other, looking for a weakness they could exploit the three others with Mindy flow into the room.
Ron Stoppable runs into the room with Hego charging into the room right behind him!
Hego flexes his muscles and says, "Give it up evil doers! Justice will prevail here today!"
Sam rolls his eyes and says, "Why don't heroes ever have anything new to say?" He then charges forward, going literally hand-to-hand against Hego and finding that he had a fight on his hands. He was surprised at how strong Hego was and he had battled against some of the world's strongest men and women in the world.
Arron runs up Ron getting in his way as he says, "Just where do you think you're headed?"
Ron balls his hands up into fists and says, "I am going to my daughter and dude, you better get out of my way if you know what's good."
Arron shakes his head and sarcastically says, "Sorry dude but you're not going anywhere. My team and I still have a job to do and we're not the kind to just back down."
Ron brings his hands up and begins to crack some joints before he looks angrily at him and says, "If you think you're stopping me… good luck. You're going to need it."
Arron grins darkly and says, "You're the one who needs it, and my specialty is attacking. What's yours?"
Ron says firmly, "Monkey Kung Fu and Saving the world."
Growling, they both charge at each other and they start to battle hard!
Arron does a lot of quick attacks designed to end the fight quickly and Ron, with his mastery of monkey skills evades or counters all of them.
Meanwhile, Karen is having difficulty with Mindy as for the first time in her assassin's life. She found that she was evenly matched with someone else in just about everything she tried. No matter how fast or agile her attacks were, Mindy had a way to counter the attack. The only consolation was that at least she could avoid or counter every attack that came her way.
Mindy couldn't put her finger on it but something about Karen was scaring her and on a level that was deeper than anything she had ever felt about a person and given all the dangerous missions that she'd been on, that was saying quite a lot!
Mindy could tell that Karen was mystically powered from the impossible speed and agility that she performing, that and the glowing eyes helped too but she didn't know what animal it was.
Karen frowns and hisses in her breath for moment as she tries to come up with something that would give her an advantage over Mindy before Cindy woke up but what? She pauses says, "Just how are you doing thisss?"
Mindy didn't know why but the hairs on her neck just stood straight up when she heard the last word from Karen.
Mindy says, "What do you mean? And who are you?"
Karen says, "I am Karen the assassin for the group and I mean how are you keeping up with me?"
Mindy raises an eyebrow in confusion and says, "The same way you're keeping up with me. Mystical powers of course."
Karen frowns in confusion, "I don't have mystical powersss…"
Mindy says, "Sure… then why are your eyes glowing like mine?"
Karen frowns and says, "My eyesss do not glow!"
Ron pauses in his battle to look at Karen and says, "Yup, your eyes are glowing."
Sam grunts as he manages to keep Hego from pushing him back any further and says, "Karen, I have seen your eyes glow just before you kill someone. They always looked so spooky and predatory-like."
Karen looks at Arron who just nods and says, "Yep, they're lit up like Christmas trees."
Karen hisses at Mindy and says, "You! You're responsible for this!"
Mindy looks at her doubtfully and says, "You've lost it if you think I am responsible for your mystical power."
Karen jabs at Mindy's throat with lightning reflexes and says as she is not surprised to see Mindy block it, "What mystical power? What are you talking about?"
Mindy says, "No big, you probably got it from some mission or a parent like I did."
Sam says, "But Karen's an orphan… she's never known them and as far as I know she was already like this when we formed the team."
Karen shouts, "Oh? Then WHY didn't anyone say anything about it?"
Arron says calmly, "Because we all figured it was obvious and that you didn't want to talk about it."
Karen knew that she was a private person but to hear it put like that was just… just ridiculous!
Mindy can see the confusion and says, "You mean… you didn't know that you had mystical powers? I mean how could you not know?"
Karen hisses at Mindy dangerously making all the hair on her body stand on end in fright before she says in a low, angry voice, "Because I never was all into that mystical-mumbo-jumbo! Why would I? I grew up in an orphanage with little in the way of books or anything else truly educational. When I was eighteen, I was kicked out without so much as a "Keep in touch!" and left to fend for myself!"
Mindy could see the pain and anger in Karen's eyes as she told her tale and says, "I am so sorry about your pain but…"
Karen lashes out, twisting and striking with the speed and precision of a king cobra to which all Mindy could do was block one and leap back with great speed to avoid the rest that would have gotten through her defenses.
Karen's every breath is a hiss at this point and her eyes glow brighter, with her starting to move about but where Mindy's was like it was being hit by air or pulled at by monkey hands (whichever one preferred to think of). Her hair was lifting up by the tips and starting to flow about in the air not unlike how Medusa's hair was usually drawn as.
Karen had never felt so angry, so powerful and so focused before. She didn't even realize that she was starting to glow and that her glow was had caused everyone, including her own teammates to stop and just stare at her because she had a glowing form around her that resembled a huge snake!
Karen hiss-shouts at Mindy, "I am going to destroy you!"
Mindy was frozen in fear; she saw the big snake surrounding Karen and that was ALL she could see! She was still extremely afraid of snakes, had always been since little but she had always had someone to help her and now… she had a great big snake telling her that it was going to destroy… maybe meant (loud gulp) eat her?
Mindy had had many nightmares about such things and here in front of her was seemingly her worse nightmare coming true!
Mindy lets out a blood-curling scream of fear, "SSSNNAAAAAAAKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!" and bolts from the room even as she too powered up to full monkey-glowing power around her in an desperate attempt to have it help her flee even faster from her nightmare.
Ron cries out, "Mindy!" He knew Mindy was not going to be thinking clearly at all. She would bowl over anything and everything to escape and it didn't help matters any as soon as Mindy had taken off, Karen had gone after her to possibly keep her promise to destroy his daughter.
Arron says, "That's one down…" as he strikes out to catch Ron off guard and take him down next but his hand was caught in a blue, glowing hand that had seemed to erupt from nowhere.
Ron turns his attention back to Arron and says, "She is SO NOT going to destroy my daughter!"
Arron whiningly says, "Aw man… you have that mystical power crap too?"
Ron nods and lets the blue glow spread over Arron for a moment before he tosses him up into the air like a rag doll and does a powerful kick that sends him flying through the castle wall into the next room! He can hear a soft groan that told him that Arron was unconscious but ok.
Ron then says quickly, "Hego! Take care of Cindy, I have got to go help Mindy!" He leaves the room so quickly that it seemed as if he had been flying to Hego.
Sam smirks at Hego and says, "Looks like it is just you, me, and Mary who is keeping watch over Cindy."
Hego glances over at Cindy and did not like the vibe he was getting. He turns back to Sam and says, "Your evil ways shall never prevail! Not when I have Truth!, Justice, and the…"
Sam interrupts him when he says, "Do you ever shut up? I swear you sound like something out of a bad superhero comic book."
Hego frowns and says, "The comic books are a wealth of information about how to provide a proper foundation for forming a good hero team."
Sam laughs derisively and says, "You mean there is a team of you miserable suckers out there?"
Hego blinks and thinks, "How does he know what our team is like?" He frowns and ignites his power, enhancing his strength.
Sam is shocked and says, "Does everyone have powers these days?"
Hego picks him up over his head easily and says, "I do not know but everyone in my family has powers and we all use them for good." He then throws Sam hard enough through the wall next to where Arron went, sending him to land on top of him in the same unconscious state.
Hego turns to where Mary and Cindy is supposed to be but they were both gone. He sighs and says, "Now where did they go to?" He looks around for a moment before he is convinced that they are both gone and says, "Ronald isn't going to be happy about this."
Meanwhile in the castle hallway, a very terrified Mindy runs so fast that she bumps into King Rat, knocking him down to the floor off-guard.
Jesse at the time of King Rat's knocking down had been in the middle of an intense battle and actually doing better than he had the last time around. Despite the fact that he found himself unable to use any of his time powers, his healing powers remained amped up more than last time so each and every blow King Rat delivered had been healed almost instantly but there was one thing that he was still vulnerable to and that was the good old choking.
King Rat had been chocking Jesse with him pressed up against the wall and even without Mindy's help, he had been about to push off the wall and knock King Rat down.
King Rat says, "What knocked me down?" He misses Karen moving past him at high speed and finds himself being lifted up off the ground by Jesse.
Jesse says, "I am so tired of you threatening my best friends Cindy and Mindy. Just what do you think gives you the right to do as you please?"
King Rat glares at him with utter hatred and says, "I am a KING, foolish boy! You are a worthless commoner with no mystical powers. She doesn't deserve a powerless idiot like you whose only ability is to heal! She will be better off being the mistress to a King and raising as many mystical-powered babies as I deem fit!"
Jesse uses both his hands on the back to start spinning him faster and faster as he says, "Royalty is a privilege, not a right! You leave my Cindy alone!" He lets go at that last part, tossing King Rat right at a wall and slamming him into it with enough force that it half-sends him through it!
Jesse storms towards King Rat, as he says, "Just because you have powers doesn't mean you understand that with great power comes great responsibility! You see having powers as the mean to push everyone around and do what you will!"
King Rat mystically powers up to full power, having a glowing rat form around him as he dislodges himself from the wall. He stares angrily at Jesse with enough glowing power to make him gulp.
If there was one thing Jesse knew, and that he was staring at the Rat's equivalent of Monkey Rage and if it was going to be anything like the Monkey version. He was in for a WORLD of hurt! It didn't matter that he could probably heal from anything dished out, he still felt pain and he did not have anything he could do stop or even slow him down. Trying to outrun him would be useless, as he knew that even without being fully powered, King Rat was extremely fast.
King Rat chitters angrily at Jesse before he zooms across and with a single, powerful punch sends Jesse flying through two walls!
Jesse groans as he heals quickly, "Ohhh… that one really hurt." He could tell that at least half the bones in his body were broken and it was only by his amazing healing ability that he was even able to stay conscious at all. By the time he was fully healed, King Rat was there and picking him up. He says, "Let go of me!" as bravely as he could.
King Rat does a light toss up into the air before doing a very quick spin that sends Jesse flying again even HARDER than before through three more walls and cracking a fourth one as he slams into it. He hears a female voice say, "Damn! Where'd you come from?"
Jesse focuses on healing his eyes so he can see Mary with a Cindy that is waking up. His eyes meet hers and he can see the pain, the sadness of seeing the one she loved in a beaten pulp and yet, he still had the fire within to focus on healing super-fast so as not to leave himself in such a state in front of her for any longer than necessary.
Unfortunately just as Cindy fully woke up, with Mary unawares as she had been preoccupied in watching Jesse heal so rapidly from what should have been fatal injuries. That was when King Rat appears and slams Jesse into the ground, sending him through the floor as he shouts even as he sounds very much like a rat, "Die! You worthless child! Die!"
Mary finds herself flying and slamming into a wall suddenly as what felt like an enormous blast of energy kicking her. Before she falls unconscious from the blow, she looks at where the blast had come from and sees an extremely upset Cindy with a large glowing monkey form around her. She thinks, "So that's what happuhh…" even as unconsciousness welcomes her.
AN: Well everyone, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. A lot happened in it and I hope that you will all hang in for what is sure to be a wild, WILD ride! I am planning on writing a third "All Grown Up" story if anyone is interested. Yes… this means this one is coming to an end soon. Thoughts or feelings on this are appreciated. Now, for the questions. What did you think of Karen and Cindy's battle and little revelation that Karen was a holder of mystical power as well? Did anyone remember that Mindy's greatest fear was snakes? (As shown in an early chapter when they met Animal for the first time.) I'd say this marks the beginning of perfect foes wouldn't you? Lol! What did you think of Ron versus Arron? Of Sam versus Hego? Do you think Ron will be able to catch up to Mindy and Karen? Any thoughts on what will happen when that happens? What do you think of the beating Jesse got from King Rat in FRONT of Cindy no less! Was that a bad move or what? Any thoughts or bets on if there will even BE a castle left when all of this is over?
As usual all reviews, votes, ratings, ideas, thoughts, feelings, and more are always welcome.