Chapter 11: Clash
It's just another day in Miracle City, that spicy cesspool of crime and coruption down south of the border. Cops chase, robbers rob, and super-powered heroes and villains clash in the streets.
Suddenly, however, something completly different happened. A mechanical shriek rang across the sky as bombers filled the air. Once they were positioned over Miracle City, they released their payloads, raining fire and explosions down across the city.
Then the robots came. Cartman has recently begun production of several new models of robots, intended to function as special forces, leading the standerd Cartmanbots and conducting special operations. Designated "Man" series, because of their humanoid apperance, each one has a different specialty, which is described in a single word placed in front of Man. They are currently leading squads of Cartmanbots into the city.
Outside of a bank that is currently being robbed by a gang of non-powered, armed thugs, a flame throwing robot in the shape of a zippo lighter (model designation "Heat Man") threw a fireball at a parked police car, causing it to explode!
Both the cops and the crooks immidatly stop what they're doing and open fire on the robots. Then they briefly stop, look at each other in confusion, then go right back to firing. They are, however, quickly overrun.
Meanwhile, a man in a white business suit is looking down at the city streets, now filled with rampaging robots. "This looks like a job for..." he exclaims while slipping on a mask and ripping apart his suit, revealing an identical suit underneath. "WHITE PANTERA!"
Meanwhile, across town, the semi-retired villain Puma Loco is cutting through a bank vault with a laser. He is suddenly interrupted by several robots bursting through the door. "Hey! Find your own bank to rob!" he exclaimed indingnetly.
The robot responded by shrieking "EXTERMINATE!" and opening fire. The rounds simply bounced off Puma Loco's armored suit. This only served to annoy the veteran supervillain, and he promptly retaliated with a missile.
After destroying the two, he stepped outside to see what was going on. After quickly realizing the city was being invaded, Puma Loco cried, "Nobody's gonna take over this city but ME!" and abandoned the bank robbery to join the battle.
By that same logic, the city's supervillains all decided on a temporary truce to defend their home. White Pantera found himself surrounded by robots, when a car suddenly came flying out of the sky and crushed them. The hero looked in the direction it had come from to see... "El Oso!"
"Don't just stand these, Pantera-man! We gotta stop these robots!" The bear themed villain replied. "When this is over though, I'm still gonna beat you up."
The combined hero/villain force was putting up a fight, but there are simply too many robots. All seems lost, when suddenly, lasers and bombs begin to rain from the sky, destroying vast numbers of the destructive machines as aircraft land in the streets and deploy hundreds of heavily armed child soliders.
The KND has arrived.
"Kids Next Door, Battlestations!" rings out across the city as operatives of all sorts join the battle, bringing aircraft and heavy weapons to the table. The police look down at the heavily armed children in confusion. "Aren't you kids a little long to be playing with weapons like that?" one of them asked.
"Yes, yes we are." A KND operative replied before blasting apart another robot.
The battle intensified all over the city. In one alley, a sqaud of operatives confronted a humanoid robot wielding boomerangs, designated "Quick Man."
Tossing several boomerangs in the time it would take a normal person to throw one, he knocked away all of the operatives's weapons. As he drew back his arms for another toss, this time aiming for the children themselves, when a lightning fast blur flew in front of it. In a split second, deep claw marks seemed to be have cut themselves across the robot's midsection, and it soon fell over, seperating into two pieces. The KND, having no idea who their saviour is, simply collected their weapons and continued to fight.
Elsewhere, the previously mentioned Heat Man is leading a squad of Cartmanbots through the streets, torching homes and vehicles left and right. Then, quietly, a pair of soda cans rolled out of the shadows into the middle of the formation. The robots stopped and stared at the cans, calculating what their purpose is. Suddenly, then both explode is a shower of sticky, sugary brown liquid!
The robots are covered in the sticky soda, causing their circuits to fry and their gears to seize up. Smoke rises from their metal frames as they shut down.
In a shadowy alley nearby, Numbah 83 and 84 high-five after seeing their attack succeded. Then a noise causes thme to turn around and view even more robots. "I can't believe I'm saying this," Numbah 83 quipped, "but I wish Harvey was here."
Numbah 84 just nodded in agreement as they continued to fight.
Up in the sky, back onboard Numbah Infinity's ship, Dib takes one last look at the readout of the battle. Though the KND have evened the odds a little, there are just so many machines. Dib knows his friends will be hurt if he dosen't act. Making his decision, Dib rushes over to where G.I.R is still playing with his rubber piggies, and scoops up an armful. "Hey, those piggies are mah friends!" G.I.R. exclaims, but quickly forgets about it.
"Dib, what are you doing?" Infinity asks, concerned and bewildered.
Dib takes a deep breath. "Saving my friends." he states before throwing the first piggy into the Temporal Vortex.
Suddenly, the boy doubles over in pain as time rewrites itself, adding a rubber piggy into Dib's early years, knocking him off his tricycle and sending him painfully bouncing down the asphalt. In the present, a burdening oxygen tank suddenly appears on Dib's back, having just been added yet having always been there.
Despite the burning pain, Dib picks up another piggy and hurls it in. The pain shoots through him yet again as he has fallen from a radio tower in the past. His knees nearly giving out beneath him, Dib notices his right hand is now a metal pincer.
Barely able to stand up anymore, Dib uses his left hand to throw yet another piggy into the folding of time and space. The agonizing pain is blinding as he feels a cold metal lump form within his chest, a mechanical replacement for some ruptered organ, no doubt.
No longer able to see, Dib hurls pig after pig into the vortex, each time magnifying his pain 1,000-fold. Numbah Infinity is yelling something, but Dib cannot hear. Pain has overtaken all his senses. The only thing the agony has not yet claimed is his resolve.
"I..." Dib mutters quietly, his lungs having turned to steel. "Will..." he throws another pig. "Save..." more pain as his big toe becomes iron. "My..." He finally collapsed to the floor, after tossing one final piggy. "Friends..."
For a long, agonizing moment, Dib lay silent upon the floor, even his heart fell silent. Then, the slow and steady beat began again, as a massive mechanized shell, riddled with weapons, came into apperance around the shattered body. In the past, Professor Membrane announces the creation of a life support exosuit for his broken son.
Then, with a roar of unrestrained agony, the new Dib jumped from the floor and charged for the wall, before smashing through the side of the ship, free falling into the battle below. He landed directly on top of a Bus Walker, punching a hole clean through it, then he punched through a leg, causing it to crash to the ground. Dib then unleashed all the power of his repired body on the enemy.
Back in the Executive Bus Walker, Cartman is preparing to head into the city when a messanger runs up to him. "Master Cartman! The KND are taking a heavy toll on our forces, we're getting ripped apart out there! At this rate, we won't have enough troops left to hold the city!"
Cartman sighed. In reality, he had no intent of actually occuping the city, and only attacked so he could reach the Macabra Skull. In recent days, he had become filled with an illogocal need to posses the artifact, and would go to any length to get it. "Fine, move in groups two and four vis the flanks." he replied before leaving.
In the dusty desert outside the city, a massive formation of enemy units began moving in. A similar force was on the opposite side of the desert, mimicking their actions.
Suddenly, however, a salvo of laser fire and grenades rained down on the legion from atop a mesa. It's the Foster's friends!
After escaping the destruction of the Home, every last one vowed that Mister Harriman's sacrifice would not be in vain, and vowed to bring down Cartman no matter what. Although Mac was the only real kid among them, the KND never the less supplied them with all the weapons they'd need.
"For Harriman!" Mac yelled. "For Foster's!"
"FOR FOSTER'S!" the rest of the friends replied before resuming the barrage. Many of the friends were able to hold multiple weapons, or machines designed to be operated by a team, due to their fantastical forms.
Cartman's army responded, but their targets were simply too far away and too scattered apart to do any real damage. One stray beam, however, grazed Eduardo's shoulder, causing him to drop the massive gatling laser he was using.
"Ed's hit!" Frankie cried out as she ducked down behind a rock to reload her soda can grenade laucher.
"GOO! ED'S HURT!" Mac yelled out, currently trying to get a good shot on a bubble spraying robot.
"Okie dokey!" the kooky girl replied, gracefully dodging lasers, grenades and rockets to reach the wounded. The friend in question was trying to hold back tears as he gently rubbed the singed fur. Goo put her hands to her head and concentrated, and suddely a floating roll of bandages with eye poped into existence and quickly wrapped itself around Eduardo's wound.
"Oh, gracias Goo." he thanks her.
"No problemo!"
Back in the city, Sector V has gotten separated in the fighting, and now Numbah 1 is facing down an Ice Man, a Crash Man, a Bomb Man and a squad of regular Cartmanbots. Things seem pretty grim, but suddenly a missile flies out of nowhere and blows up the Ice and Bomb Man, and then Dib jumps in front of Numbah 1 and opens fire on the Cartmanbots, riping them to shreds. He then grabs Crash Man and tears him in half, yelling "Leave my friend alone!"
"Dib, what happened to you?" Numbah 1 asked, amazment at his power turning to horror when Dib faced him, revealing the damage to his body.
"I'll explain later, after every last robot is scrapped!" Dib replies before ripping into another group of machine, aided now by Numbah 1.
By now, more then just the KND were in the fight. The Power Puff Girls were going after the greatest threat, Jimmy Neutron attacked with his rocket, Johnny Test and his sisters were using battle mechs, even Dexter had crawled out of his hospital bed to drive a tank. Yet it seemed like the robot horde would never end.
Up in the sky, Jimmy grouped several high powered bombs onto the advancing robots as Black Cuervo protected him from fighters. One warplane, however, evaded the notive of both, only becoming seen when it unleashed a salvo of lasers at Jimmy.
It seemed like the end for the boy genius, but suddenly a square blue object flew directly between Jimmy's rocket and the lasers. It must have powerful shields, because the lasers reflected directly off the blue object and destroyed the fighter. The mysterious aircraft then flew directly into the heart of the city below, leaving Jimmy confused.
"Was that a... blue phone box?"
In the streets below, the blue box makes a successful landing in a corner, unnoticed by the war machines. Then, a young looking man in a short brown coat with a cool bow tie steps out. "Alright here we are Battle of Miracle City!" he speaks quickly while waving to someone inside the box. An impossible number of people, most of them kids, rush out of the box while the strange man shouts, "Alright remember: be safe, good luck, be back before dark and don't do anything that could destroy time and space as we know it!"
Meanwhile, Numbah 4 has found him self devoid of a weapon and cornered by a Metal Man. As the machine readied a serated metal disk to throw, a sound filled the air.
"PSI Rockin' Alpha!" A burst of wild bright lights in geometric patterns burst from the air and annihilated the robot, shortly followed a boy about Wally's age wearing a striped shirt, shorts, and a ball cap landing in front of him. He then turned around. "You okay?
Although he normally didn't like being asked that question, Wally felt kinda odd around this kid. Not that something was wrong about him, just... weird. "Yeah, thanks. Name's Wally, Wally Beatles."
"I'm Ness." the boy responded. Suddenly a laser shot over their heads.
"Save the cruddy small talk for later, we got a battle to fight!" Numbah 4 exclaimed. The weird feeling has passed, and he was back to his normal, aggresive self. Then he realized he had no weapon, and noticed Ness holding a base ball bat. "Hey, uh, you got a spare bat?"
"Sure!" Ness replied, and pulled a wooden one out of his backpack, then handed it to Wally. "Say, do I know you?"
Wally took the bat. "No, but I feel like I should." Another laser shot overhead. "Less talking, more fighting!" he exclaimed, and the two joined the fray.
Elsewhere, Johnny Test is taking cover behind the wrecked remains of his mech suit while a horde of robots advance. He's holding them off with a laser pistol, but they'll be upon him soon. It all seems hopeless, until...
"Sword of Storms, Wind!" Suddenly a mighty gale fills the air, sweeping the Cartmanbots into the sky, most of them smashing to bits when they hit the ground.
"You okay kid?" someone asks. Johnny looks up to see four teens. A short Chinese boy with a round head, a tall guy dressed as a cowboy, a Japanese girl, and a Brazilian boy with a sword.
"Yeah, I'm okay." Johnny replies. "Who are you guys?"
"I'm Raimundo, the short kid is Omi, that's Clay, and she's Kimiko. We're..." Raimundo informs him, but before he can say anything else, Kimiko interrupts him.
"...not supposed to say anything else, right Raimundo?" she reminded him. "Remember what The Doctor said about destroying Space and Time?"
"Oh, yeah, right. Well, we should probably get back to the fight..."
"Can I try that?" Johnny asks while pointing to the Sword of Storms.
"Sure." Raimundo answears while handing it to him. "Just say, Sword of Storms." he explains.
"I do not believe that this is a wise course of action..." Omi speaks up.
"Sword of Storms!" Johnny yells, activating the Shen-Gong-Wu. He underestimated its power, however, and it sent flying into the air, screaming.
"Well, I'd reckon you'd best go and help him."
Now we shift to Numbah 3. After getting separated from her team, she came down with an awful headache, and is wandering around Miracle City's empty streets in a daze. A Cartmanbot spots her, however, and yells "EXTERMINATE!" while readying its weapon.
Kuki goes stiff with fear. There's no cover to hide behind, not weapon to shoot back with, no Wally to save her...
Just as she braces herself for the attack, Numbah 3 hears a gentle humming sound fill the air. This noise somehow causes the Cartmanbot to sizzle, spark, and short-circuit. "What a cheap knock-off. Dosen't even have sonic shielding..." a voice mutters in a British accent.
"Hello? Who's there?" Kuki asks as the strange man appears from the shadows. Turns out, he was the one from the flying phone booth earlier.
"Oh, hi there! I'm The Doctor!" the man exclaims jovually. "You don't look too good." he adds in a quieter tone after looking her over.
"It's really nothing, I just have a bit of a headache..." Kuki states.
"Still best let me have a look at it." The Doctor replies while readying a stethoscope. "In my experince, the nothings never turn out to be nothing."
"Well, alright!" Kuki replies chirpily, starting to like this 'Doctor.' He bends down to place the round metal circle up against her forehead.
The Doctor seems confused by what he is hearing. He pulls the instrument away, removes a metal stick with a green light on the end from his pocket, points the stick at the stethoscope, and presses a button, causing the same gentle humming to fill the air.
"Huh, that's weird. Psychic range finding bond, trying to draw her to a specific place by inducing headaches in the wronge direction..." he mutters to himself while standing back up, holding the sonic device outward and spinning around in a circle, making Kuki giggle.
"It looks like something is drawing you..." The Doctor concludes while sticking a finger in his mouth, then pulling it out to check the wind. "That way!"
"Oh, um... thank you." Kuki replied nervously. "Would you walk me there?"
"Well sure thing!" The Doctor exclaimed. "In fact..." he added while scooping the KND agent up. "I'll even give you a piggy back ride!"
"Yay!" Kuki squelled in joy, and the two set off, laughing all the way.
Up in the sky, Black Cuervo continues to blast away at the swarm of fighters and bombers. The swarm of aircraft is becoming thick, however, and the young villainess is finding herself overwhelmed...
Thankfully for her, twin streams of billiard balls suddenly cut through the air, ripping dozens of fighter craft apart. The mysterious pilot known only as Ace swoops by in his custom made aircraft, winking suggestivly at Black Cuervo.
The villainess is momentarily distracted by this, blushing and waving back awkwardly. This prevents her from seeing the incoming fighter spraying lasers in her direction. She is hit, and goes plummiting towards the ground. Ace is horrified, and blows apart the fighter before swooping down after her.
Meanwhile, outside the city, in the vast field of Bus Walkers slowly inching their way towards the city, an inconspicous bush suddenly sprouts a thin pair of legs and walks to the nearest Walker. An arms suddenly emerges, gripping a remotely triggered explosive device. A mass of sticky notes are attached to the bomb's flat bottom, and the arm pushes it forward and attaches it to the leg.
As the saboteur moved onto the nexto one, they caught someone's attention. "Hey, you!" screamed out a short kid with three long hairs.
A head wearing a sock hat shot out of the bush. "Eddy?"
"Double D?"
"Eddy! How can you be a part of this rampaging, paramilitary nightmare machine!" Double D demands, outraged that his friend would stoop to such a level.
"Double D, I have got it made as part of Master Cartman's group! I'm his right hand man!" Eddy defended. "You know, you could be a part of that. You and me and lumpy, we could finally have the lives we've dreamed of."
"Your great 'Master Cartman' has forced me to dirty my hands with despicable acts of wanton violence! He has turned science into an abomitable weapon of war and misery!" Double D countered. "Now get out of my way, I have more of these infernal bombs to prepare!" he added while storming ahead and pushing Eddy aside.
"D...Double D." Eddy speaks up in a shaky voice. Double D turns around to see that his old friend is nervously pointing a laser pistol at him, sweating profusly while his body is racked with tremors. "I...I can't let you mess up the new life I have. I'm finally somebody Double D. I'm not gonna let you take that away from me!"
Double D just narrows his eyes. "Go ahead then, shoot me. The final act of your corruption. Go on, do it. You want respect, don't you? The only way to get respect from a monster is to be a monster so do it!" Double D taunted. "GO AHEAD AND SHOOT ME!"
And he shot.
Back to Kuki and The Doctor. The two were nearing their destination, as Kuki's headache had almost vanished. Unfortunatly, they had a problem.
Five Cartmanbots were blocking the only way forward. Though they could try to turn back and go another way, The Doctor had a sense that whatever is ahead is urgent, and that that strategy would take too much time. The Doctor kneeled down in front of Kuki.
"OK listen, I have a plan, and you're gonna need to trust me on this, OK?" he explained. Kuki nodded. "I am going to run out there like a madman and draw them away. You just run ahead once they have left. Don't stop running until the headache is completly gone. Alright?"
Kuki nodded again. "Will we ever get to play together again?" Numbah 3 asked sadly. She had really come to like The Doctor. Despite being an adult, he was funner and more playful then some children she knows.
"Of course we will!" The Doctor replies jovully. "In fact, I'll even bring you a Rainbow Monkey from outer space! How does that sound?"
Kuki wanted to scream with joy, but contained herself to avoid giving away their location. "OK! Let's do this!" Numbah 3 spoke, back to her usual eager self.
"That's what I like to hear!" The Doctor exclaimed before waltzing out into the open, immidiatly catching the robots's attention. "HEY LOOK AT ME I'M A TARGET!" he shouted while running down another street. The robots readied their weapons and gave chase, although one of them was quickly destroyed by a blast from the sonic screwdriver.
Numbah 3 let a minute pass before sprinting across the intersection and racing ahead. She only had to run down two empty blocks before her headache stopped. When she looked ahead, she saw both the Miracle City Museum of Natural History, and her reincarnated Honor Guard.
"You got drawn here to?" Kuki asked the other three girls.
"Our ship got shot down, and Sonya got separated from Lee." Rachel explained while gesturing to Fanny, indicating they had been on the same aircraft. "We decided to wait and see if you'd come."
"Alright then, let's do this!" Kuki exclaimed excitedly.
"Um, Numbah 3? Your backpack is glowing." Sonya pointed out, causing Kuki to reach inside and pull out the Rainbow Wand, which was the source of the light.
"Let's all touch it and vow to try our best!" Kuki exclaimed.
"That sounds like a fine idea lass." Fanny replied, and the other two girls gave similar approving comments.
The moment all three laid their hands together around the wand, a bright rainbow light washed over all of them, and they suddenly found themselves in the color coded uniforms they were in when they first touched the wand. Unsure of what to make of this, but still determined to fight for what's right, the four girls rushed in to face their destiny.
A/N: Probably the most epic crossover thing I have or ever will write. For anyone who really wants to get an epic sense of sacrifice from the part with Dib, go to Youtube and search for "The Clouds Pass." I listened to that while writing that section, and you may want to listen to it while reading it.
Will the world be saved? Can Dib get back to normal? What will happen to Double D? Tune in next time to find out!
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