Chelsea's POV

"Hawk." I gasped. "What happened to you? You're…a monster!"

"You noticed! I'm touched." Hawk laughed, his voice dripping with sarcasm.

"Wait- you know him?" Rex looked at Hawk, then back at me. "But…how? I mean… he's…an EVO…ok, can somebody please explain to me what's going on here?" Rex yelled, annoyed that he was being left in the dark.

"How did you become an EVO?" I demanded, ignoring Rex.

"Oh, I just made a deal with a guy from this dimension. He came over to my house one night and told me that if he gets to turn me into a monster, then I get to wreak havoc on his world, while he destroys mine. Isn't it great?" he laughed maniacally.

"No." I scoffed angrily.

"Who'd you make the deal with?" Rex asked hesitantly.

"Oh, just a fellow named…Van Kleiss."

Rex gasped.

"Ah. So you two have met. How nice."

"Who's this Van Kleiss guy? And how does this have anything to do with us?" I asked.

"Hello, he's destroying both our worlds! Of course it has something to do with us!" Rex replied.

"The cat-girl has a point, boy." Hawk rumbled.

"Will you stop calling me that?" I growled.

"The reason you're a part of it is that you are the only two who can stop us. So, we all had to destroy you, so we can carry on with our plans."

"What do you mean, 'we all'? Oh, crap…"

Over the skyline behind Hawk, a massive wall of flying EVOs emerged. There appeared to be thousands of them, all with scales, multiple eyes and large, ugly heads. The swarm gathered behind Hawk, and he grinned, showing his long, sharp fangs.

"They should keep you busy for a while. Tearing things apart is their specialty. They're all clones of me, by the way. Aren't they handsome creatures?" Hawk threw his head back and laughed. Then, he threw his hand forward, pointing at Rex and I.

"Attack!"

The EVOs began assailing us from all angles, their forked tongues and fiery breath keeping us at bay, while all the others who could not reach us flew down into the streets, tearing up buildings and causing chaos.

"We have to stop that guy! He's controlling them somehow!" Rex screamed over the horrible sound of the EVO's screams.

I slammed away a particularly huge EVO with a metal baseball bat that I had conjured my hand into.

"Well, first we need to save our own butts, then we can talk about stopping him!"

Back to back (Or, wing to jetpack, I should say), Rex and I batted off the EVOs- me with my bat and my wings, and him with a huge orange sword that came out of his arm.

"I will never understand how that's possible." I grumbled as I turned my other hand into a chainsaw and slashed at an EVO that was trying to bite my head off.

"I could say the same for you. I mean, you're not even an EVO!"

Suddenly, a huge red shot of energy blasted away the EVO nearest to Rex.

"Thought you might need a little assistance." We both looked up to see Six and the monkey standing in the open side door of the jet.

"You didn't desert us!" I cried out happily.

With the added help of the monkey's guns (and Six's katanas) we beat off the EVOs a lot more easily, but there were still thousands more.

"Look!" Rex shouted.

I glance where he was pointing and saw Hawk, accompanied by at least a hundred of the monsters, flying towards the center of the city.

"He has to be up to no good!" I cried.

"No, duh!" Rex yelled.

Rex's POV

"I'm going after him! Can you hold up on your own?" I yelled over the buzz of Chelsea's chainsaw and the blood-curdling screams of the EVOs.

"I'll be fine! Just go! And Rex, wait!" she grabbed my shoulder as I was about to fly off.

"Yeah?"

"Please stop him. He killed my family. I don't want him to hurt any more people." Tears were welling up in her eyes as she said this.

"I will." I grabbed her non-chainsaw hand and squeezed it. "Don't worry."

"Hey, lovebirds! Get your lazy butts in action!" the monkey yelled at us, interrupting us. "If you hadn't noticed, we're in the middle of a fight!"

"Right, Bobo. I'm on it. And we're not lovebirds!" I let go of her hand and soared out of the thick of the fight, batting away EVOs with my sword hand. I could see Hawk straight ahead of me, his swarm of EVOs diving down to attack the people on the streets.

What is he doing? I wondered. Then, I remembered the news article Holiday had shown me-

Unlicensed particle collider found in Denver Warehouse.

For once, I was glad Doc made me read the news sometimes.

He's probably after that! Those are those things that can make black holes, right?

"Hey, you!" I called out to Hawk.

Hawk turned around, a smirk on his face.

"Yes, robot-boy?"

"Stop destroying the city!" I yelled, activating my smack hands and punching him in the chest as hard as I could.

Hawk recoiled, clutching his stomach and snarling.

"You're gonna wish you hadn't done that, kid." He said, raising his fists.