Suddenly the intercom crackled and a familiar tune began to play throughout the building.
"What…" Jack narrowed his eyes. "'The Final Countdown?' Seriously?"
"This is my jam!" Kim whisper-shouted, restraining herself from her usual moves.
Miss Mohindra stood again, wary.
"What subterfuge is this, Madame Riker?" She demanded, one hand on her gun.
The other woman was just as puzzled. "This is not my doing."
"I hate to break this to you…" Eddie was hesitant, but a mischievous smile appeared. "It's mine."
One of the clones, Celia, spun, shooting Miss Mohindra. The woman dove to the left but the bullet still hit her in the arm.
Eddie pressed a button on the tablet and the other clones dropped their weapons, holding their heads. The girls stared at each other in confusion.
"You fool," Miss Mohindra snarled, her uninjured arm holding her phone to her ear. "You've condemned your loved ones!"
"I'll be taking that," Ella appeared and snatched the device, crushing it under her foot. She winked at the others. "Don't worry. I got this."
The woman ran to retreat through the back door but found herself face to face with Jerry Martinez.
"You really thought a few crazy girls could get rid of me?" He quipped.
Despite her injury, she was still spry. She immediately attacked him, but he dodged and swept his leg under her. The woman leaped to her feet and rained down punches, kicks, and blows, but Jerry was able to block and counter until he punched her in the face, causing her to pass out.
Miss Mohindra crashed to the floor, totally K.O.'ed.
"Sorry!" He apologized. "Of course you were trying to kill us so, not sorry!"
Kim threw herself across the room.
"JERRY!" She hugged him. "You're alive!"
"Only thanks to me," Ella informed her before saluting Eddie. "Nice work," She told him. "Aella recovered Lela and Kela. Your family was moved to the secure location."
Jerry found himself engulfed in a group hug as Jack, Milton, and Rudy joined Kim.
"Guys…" He wheezed. "I can't breathe…"
They finally released him. "How did you escape?" Jack demanded. "Mohindra said they killed you!"
Jerry snorted. "And you believed her? Aren't I supposed to be the gullible one?"
Celia, Ella, and Madame Riker were gathered around Juliana. Eddie clasped Jerry's hand warmly before joining them.
"Can we stop it?" Madame Riker asked urgently. "Girls! Tech and bio personnel, now!"
Several of the clones joined her while the rest of the Wasabi gang were listening to Jerry's story.
"I saw Celia coming towards me with a branch and ran for it, but she wasn't mind controlled at that point," Jerry explained. "Aella was playing dead when Nella hit her with a pipe."
Milton sputtered. "She should've been dead!"
"Nella didn't hit her properly," He cut in. "But her back's really sore. Anyway, Nella took off after me, and Ella found us then. She told Celia to pretend to be mind zapped and gave her a jamming thingy so it wouldn't affect her. Afterwards she circled around and rescued me before," Jerry sliced his neck with his hand. "You know."
"Wait, wait, wait!" Jack interrupted. "So what happened to you afterwards?"
"Oh, Ella bandaged my ankle because I sprained it a bit and we hooked up the music," Jerry grinned. "We also grabbed some useful stuff too. Did I mention we sent Aella, Lela and Kela to rescue Eddie's family? I don't know how, but that girl's got an amazing sense of timing."
Ella was in the process of sorting out the "useful stuff" to try to stop Juliana's reboot as the epic BGM continued.
"Her migraines," she inquired urgently, concentrating on the gadgets. "Does anyone know what they were?"
Della frowned. "It was probably Branca's remote virus program, trying to hack into her system. I remember reading about it."
"Guys hurry!" Bella had connected a handheld monitor to a port in Juliana's arm. "We need to stop it before it resets her memory!"
Ella hesitated before deciding.
"Try this!" She held up a round, silver object without looking, focused on sorting the mess on the floor.
The clones hesitated and looked to Madame Riker. "I'll do it." The woman snatched the disc and pressed it against Juliana's neck.
The rebooting stopped abruptly and she began to collapse, but Eddie caught her before she hit the ground.
"Did we do it?" Ella voiced thinly.
"I guess we'll find out later," Celia said wearily. "Her brain might need some time to reconnect."
Ella stood again, looking at the other girls who shared her face.
"It's different from hearing I have clones and actually seeing it," She muttered in amazement.
"Do you still not remember?" Della asked with concern.
"It's a bit blurry, but…" Ella's brow furrowed before her head snapped up. "We should destroy the labs. Personally I don't think any of us want Branca to rebuild."
"What about our mental conditioning?" Ola shuddered. "How are we going to remove it?"
Ella smirked. "I know someone," she said confidentially. "Once this place is destroyed, she'll be happy to help."
The Wasabi gang headed back to the warehouse with Juliana and Madame Riker while the clones happily demolished the complex.
They entered and collapsed on battered furniture, exhausted. Madame Riker took Juliana into a bedroom to recover, closing the door behind her.
"Good thing we got all the humans out," Jerry muttered, yawning. "Except for Mohindra."
Miss Mohindra had been left behind while they'd moved people out of the buildings before the clones' romp of destruction. When they'd returned for her unconscious body they'd discovered she'd vanished, leaving behind only a few drops of blood.
"Won't we get in trouble since she's working for the government?" Jack wondered.
"Actually, Rani Mohindra has been exposed as working for an independent party," an unfamiliar voice called out. "The government has denied all ties to Branca Corp and Interpol is working to arrest its operatives."
Everyone jumped back to their feet in alarm, but Eddie was the fastest. He sprinted over to the figure that just entered the room.
"Violet!" He hugged the shorter Jamaican woman. "You made it!"
"Wouldn't miss it for the world," Violet spoke warmly, her accented voice deep and musical. She wore a blue hoodie that was somewhat familiar to the others.
"Wait…" Rudy realized. "It was you that day in the park!"
Violet bowed slightly. "I'm honoured you remember me."
"Eddie, explain," Milton groaned desperately. "My head's gonna explode."
Eddie revealed Violet had risked her life stealing the Anarchy Code and smuggling it to him. Though Ella had stolen the papers, she in turn had it stolen from her by Branca before she deduced what it was.
Violet had approached him the day their dojo was attacked to offer him a proposal, one he'd previously refused. She was prepared to wipe Branca from the face of the earth, but needed his help. Though Eddie wasn't sure if he could trust her, especially since he was doubting Juliana. He'd decided to risk everything and join her plot.
Violet had given him a white envelope containing a message from Miss Mohindra, who schemed to manipulate him.
Eddie pretended to go along with Mohindra's goons, who'd arranged to help him disappear that day. He infiltrated Branca and learned Mohindra had taken his family hostage. The boy contacted Violet about it and she'd promised to keep them safe. In return, he would have to get ahold of the mental controller for the clones.
Eddie succeeded without difficulty, as Miss Mohindra took sadistic pleasure in forcing him to enable the clones' "killer" selves. Violet had also met with Ella and assigned her part, telling her about her clone duplicates and warning her about Mohindra's endgame. Ella had pretended to be unconscious when Juliana attacked her.
Fortunately, Violet had deduced their opponent's moves perfectly, and when Ella ran into Jerry, she decided Jerry would be useful and recruited him for the stratagem, as well as Celia.
The pair had awoken the unconscious clones with smelling salts and sent them to secure the Jones family. They'd texted Ella once they'd done so, and that's when the two of them turned on the music. The Final Countdown was Eddie's cue that his family was safe so he could deactivate the link between Branca and the clones. Violet had also told Ella where she could find the scrambler to stop Juliana's reboot, though the girl had grabbed a few "other" things along the way.
"Wait, so why are you here?" Kim viewed her with suspicion.
Violet hesitated. "My daughter was Juliana's friend," Violet spoke carefully. "They played cricket together."
Milton's eyes widened. "That's her voice in the video! She doesn't have an accent though."
Violet shrugged. "Canadian father. Her name is also Violet, but she goes by Vi now. We heard there might be trouble, and—" She hesitated. "I came to help."
"You come to clean up," Madame Riker's voice was reproachful. No one had noticed she'd exited Juliana's room. "You don't help."