Go Team Go 1: Origins
(A/N: Sorry for the wait, but Thursday's and Friday's aren't great days for me to post. There might be two chapters up today, depending. But two chapters are all I've managed to write since the last post.)
Aviarius
It was hardly a month before Go Tower had been constructed. Of course, that had had everything to do with their mysterious benefactor, Hench. Every time they arrived home after school, or in Hego's case after work, more and more work had been done on it. Now they gaped in awe and disbelief at the tower before them, completed in all its glory. "Wow…" Shego said.
"I don't like this. Jack Hench is being entirely too accommodating," Hego remarked. "He wants something."
"Maybe immunity?" Mego offered. It was a distinct possibility, they all knew.
"He can have it," Shego said, walking towards the tower with the Wego Twins. Mego and Hego exchanged knowing looks and followed their siblings. She looked at the lock mechanism, wondering how to open the door. There was a handprint. Could it be so simple? She placed her hand against it. Nothing happened. She frowned. Wait, maybe… She made her hand glow and the door whooshed open! She gasped. That was one sure fire mechanism. She exchanged looks with the twins and her two older brothers. They all walked inside and their mouths dropped.
"Wow…" the Twins said together.
"I don't trust this guy," Hego murmured to Mego, referencing Jack Hench. This seemed all too perfect, all too easy.
"Neither do I, but who cares? As long as he doesn't bug us, we don't have to worry," Mego assured. "Now let's just get settled in."
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They were all left in awe of the tower. Each of their rooms was individually tailored to their own unique tastes and likes. The kitchen was fully stocked, the living room complete with everything they needed. There was even a game room, study spaces, a conference room with a huge screen, and a training chamber that was combined with the landing dock for a jet, which, amazingly enough, was supplied! It was in the same colors of the Motor Boat and it was perched right below them in the hanger, literally sparkling! They could only gawk.
Meeting in the conference room, Shego exclaimed, "This place is perfect! High tech, leaves room for expansions, luxurious, comes with our own private jet and boat… Yep, I could get used to this." She put her feet up on the table and leaned back in her chair, grinning.
All at once the screen flashed to life and they gasped, turning quickly. There appeared Jack Hench! "It's Jack Hench!" Hego exclaimed.
"No, we thought it was Pop Pop Porter," Mego sarcastically bit.
"Just thought I'd check up on, what is it you call yourselves? Oh yes, Team Go," Jack stated, smirking.
"We're great!" Wego One exclaimed.
"Thanks for everything Mr. Hench," Wego Two added.
"No trouble, kids," Jack replied. "Now, let's get something squared away."
"I knew there was a catch!" Hego exclaimed.
"Not quite like that," Jack stated. "Which side of the fence are you on?"
"The side of good and right," Hego declared, putting his fist to his chest patriotically.
"Pity, I'd hoped to have a closer working relationship with you than simply your sending business my way. Oh well, I benefit regardless," Jack said.
"Are you going to be our contact?" Mego cautiously asked.
"Who me? Nah. Can't be bothered. The Mayor of Go City will be your greatest asset. Once you've made a name for yourselves, well, he'll take it from there. This will probably be the last time I speak to you crazy crime-fighting heroes, but who knows," Jack good naturedly declared. "I will, however, give you a tip. Get your powers controlled, because in the not too distant future an enemy will strike. Be ready for it. Ta ta, kids."
"Goodbye, Mr. Hench, and… thanks… for everything… But I still don't trust you," Hego stated.
"You're not as dimwitted as I thought. Never start to trust me. It'll save you and your family a lot of trouble," Jack replied. With that he signed off, chuckling.
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Months had passed; months of training and practicing their abilities, trying to master them. It was taking longer than they'd expected, though. Shego, currently training with Mego, threw plasma blast after plasma blast at her opposer. Mego, backing away in horror, shrank and grew repetitively, dodging the blasts. "Stop shrinking!" Shego yelled.
"Fat chance!" Mego replied.
"You're such a coward!" Shego yelled.
"You try having fire balls blasted at you over and over!" Mego argued.
"Rah, stand still!" Shego yelled, running at him. Mego dove to the side and rolled, shrinking. He ran at her and grew right beneath his sister, lifting her off the ground on his shoulders while he grinned. "Mego!" Shego screamed. She tried to slash him but he shrunk, dropping her on her back and running away.
He grew again, saying, "Served!" Shego scowled and leapt up to her feet. Mego gasped. She shot at him, striking directly. Mego cried out in pain as he went flying.
"Yeah, I don't think so," Shego replied. Mego shook his head and scowled at his little sister, who was grinning victoriously.
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Before a fight could break out, Hego and the twins appeared up on a catwalk above their launch pad slash training room. "You two have really gotten a handle on your powers," Hego praised, grinning.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, now let's actually do something with them," Shego insisted, getting impatient.
"I don't know. We haven't gotten complete control yet…" Hego uncertainly replied.
"We can do it!" the twins insisted. "We're good enough!"
"But we don't have mastery," Hego said.
"Why not a field test? Nothing huge, just a test," Mego compromised.
"Well I guess that could be okay," Hego uncertainly replied, thinking it over.
"Great. Tonight we stalk the streets and keep watch," Mego declared.
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"Bueno Nacho is putting fewer beans in their burritos," Mego remarked while looking disdainfully at his order. Team Go was sitting on the roof of a building. After Hego had gotten off work the siblings had met up, changed into their superhero outfits, and prepared for a long night of staking out the streets.
"In order to make room for more cheese," Hego stated.
"I like more beans," Wego One said.
"I like more cheese," Wego Two argued.
"Guys, focus!" Shego shot, frowning. She'd been watching the alley below with binoculars, and it looked like something was happening. "Down there, take a look." She handed the binoculars to Hego who peered.
"By golly you're right, sister," Hego said, handing them to Mego.
Mego glanced and said, "He doesn't look so tough. Who breaks into an aviary?" Mego handed the binoculars to the twins.
"We can take him!" the twins exclaimed as they watched.
"Hey, hey, focusing. No talky. We're sneaking, remember?" Shego said.
"Sorry," her brothers replied. She rolled her eyes in exasperation and leapt nimbly down. Her brothers followed silently, keeping up with her.
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Team Go slunk into the aviary and watched from the dark as the person approached the bird cases. "At last, I've found the legendary Giant Condor Egg! Aviarius will rise to victory and take revenge on all those who have wronged me. He laughed evilly and took hold of the egg.
"Not so fast, fiend!" Hego exclaimed, leaping into sight with his siblings, standing in triangle form.
"Ooh, very good. A typical goose flight pattern," Aviarius complimented. "Now who dares interfere in Aviarius' plan?!"
"We are Team Go!" Hego exclaimed.
"And we're here…" Wego One began.
"…to kick your butt!" Wego Two finished.
"I think not! Do you know who I am? I am Aviarius, the Dark Master of the Winged World!" Aviarius stated.
"No duh," Mego said.
"You only said your name like three times," Shego added, rolling her eyes. This guy was going to be a pushover. She immediately lit her hands, scowling. Mego began glowing along with the twins. Hego's hands lit up.
"Who are you?" Aviarius growled lowly, holding a staff tightly, prepared for anything.
"Team Go!" Hego exclaimed.
"He meant our names, you big dolt," Mego shot.
"Oh. Well I'm Hego Go, these are my siblings, Mego, Shego, Wego, and Wego," Hego remarked.
"Your parents weren't very creative, were they?" Aviarius incredulously asked, looking namely at the twins.
"It's a Dr. Zeus Sing One and Sing Two thing," Shego explained, though honestly she was in complete agreement. Her mother was asleep after the birth of the twins and in a bad way. It had left their father to name them, except Shego was fairly sure their father had gotten into alcohol that night. The names had never gotten around to being changed.
"Leave our parents alone!" the Wego twins screamed angrily, sadness crashing down around them.
"Our parents… they recently passed away," Hego sadly said, looking down.
"Ooh harsh. Oh well! Team Go will never stop me," Aviarius declared confidently. "Exploding hummingbirds, attack!"
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Almost immediately a flock of robotic hummingbirds shot towards the five heroes. They gasped and dove apart, dodging. That was mistake number one; separating. The hummingbirds turned back, diving at them each in groups. Shego scowled and lit her hands, blasting the flock pursuing her. Hego looked around, spotted a counter, picked it up, and held it in front of him. The hummingbirds crashed into it and exploded.
Mego stood against the wall, wryly comparing himself to a soldier who had been sentenced to death by firing squad, waiting to be shot. As the birds neared, however, he suddenly shrank and ran. The birds crashed into the brick wall and were demolished. He barely managed to get out of the blast radius. The Wego Twins immediately cloned themselves, sending the copies all over the place and dividing the remaining flock of mechanical birds up so that each copy had one chasing him. Each one of the Wegos, both originals and copies in turn, spun and managed to destroy the hummingbirds one by one.
Team Go regrouped, grinning victoriously. "Let's end this!" Shego exclaimed, loving the rush of adrenaline. Team Go immediately sprang at Aviarius.
Aviarius scowled and suddenly shouted, "I call on the eagles! Attack, my feathered friends, attack!"
All at once eagles dove through the skylight, attacking Team Go. They desperately tried to bat the large birds of prey away, avoiding talons and beaks whenever possible. "Come on, people, use our powers!" Hego insisted, managing to grab one of the eagles and spin it around. He threw the eagle into a wall. It collapsed to the ground, though still alive. Dazed, the bird just stood there, looking blankly around.
Mego looked back and forth between two more eagles. They were flying at him from both sides. He shrunk just as they were about to reach him. The two birds crashed into each other and fell to the ground, stunned. A still tiny Mego raced towards Aviarius, unnoticed. Meanwhile, the twins dodged the talons and beaks desperately, sending out their clones to distract the birds while they crawled through the chaos, avoiding serious injury.
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Aviarius, grinning, didn't notice Mego until too late. Mego suddenly grew behind him and seized him roughly. Aviarius cried out in alarm and quickly realized what had happened. "Oh no you don't! Aviarius will not be so easily defeated!" All at once the villain struck backwards with the staff. Mego cried out in pain as it connected to his kneecap, losing his grip on the man. Aviarius spun and swung at Mego. Mego gasped and tried to shrink but couldn't! He was too distracted by pain. Mego cried out as the blunt end of the staff struck his head with a crack. Mego fell to the ground dazed, gasping, and at the villain's mercy.
"Mego!" Hego exclaimed. He instantly charged ahead.
"Hego, look out!" Shego exclaimed, realizing with a chill that Hego had thrown caution to the wind. That mistake could cost all of them! Aviarius had just sent out another flock of hummingbirds! Hego screamed in pain as they struck him, exploding and sending him flying back into the wall. He was burnt and bleeding, but his body was healing itself quickly. However, yet another flock flew at him. He tried to call out his glow, but he couldn't!
"Help!" he cried. An instant later he was penetrated by numerous birds and feeling his flesh burning again.
"Whoa, back off!" Shego exclaimed, beginning to let loose with her plasma. Aviarius laughed and raised his staff like a bat, hitting it back at Shego. She gasped and paled but didn't move fast enough to avoid being scorched by her own fire. She screamed in pain, stumbling back, still unused to this sensation. She tried to fling plasma again but her hands wouldn't ignite! "Oh, this is bad," she said. Another blast hit her, knocking her down with a scream of pain. Gods, she hated when Hego was right. She hated it. He said master their powers, they refused. Now they were paying for it. They were losing to a birdman, for Pete's sake!
The Wego twins gasped, rising on seeing their siblings fall. "Shego, Mego, Hego!" they both screamed. They scowled and raced towards Aviarius. Mego was in the most danger, after all, practically at the villain's feet. If Aviarius had a mind to, Mego knew, all the man would have to do was raise that staff of his and either run him through with the pointed end or bring the blunt and heavy part down on his head. Luckily, murder didn't seem to be in Aviarius's plan.
"Eagles, attack the twins!" Aviarius ordered. The eagles immediately converged upon the two little boys, making them both shriek in terror and pain as talons finally met their marks, tearing at the flesh of the two children, ripping it off in strips.
"Wegos!" the three oldest screamed.
Immediately the Wego clones leapt into action, attacking the eagles and driving them away. The twins, shivering, looked in horror at the blood on them. They saw the wounds healing in front of their eyes, though, and gasped. They wished it would heal faster. It hurt so much. "Until we meet again, Team Go!" Aviarius called out, flipping his cape and racing out, leaving the five injured heroes alone, their egos and prides deeply wounded.
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The five siblings regrouped, the Wego twins stumbling towards their older siblings and obviously in a great deal of pain. Hego gasped and fell to his knees, pulling the two into a tight hug. "Are you two okay?" Hego worriedly asked.
"We hurt…" Wego One began.
"…all over," Wego Two finished in a whine.
"Ugh, this is all your fault, Mego!" Shego shot.
"Excuse me?!" Mego demanded.
"Yeah, you! If you hadn't been taken down, we wouldn't have gotten distracted!" Shego snapped.
"Since when do you care what happens to me?!" Mego shot. "Face it, you just can't control your powers."
"None of us can, Mego. I told you so," Hego sang. "I said master our powers but no, you just couldn't wait."
"How did you lose control of your powers anyway, Hego?" Wego One demanded.
"Yours are easy to control," Wego Two agreed.
"You think super strength is easy? Are you kidding?" Hego demanded.
"You should have been able to protect us!" Wego One shot as he nursed a cut that was healing slower than the others, attacking a weak point of his brother's. Hego visibly reacted, shrinking down with eyes widening and filling with guilt.
"Shego didn't do any better!" Wego Two accused, glaring daggers at his sister.
"Probably because I don't care!" Shego retaliated, offended by the statement and not a little wounded in pride on realizing Wego Two was right.
"You care about little else but hair and nails," Hego shot.
"Ugh, you and your goody two-shoes plan. I knew this hero thing wouldn't work, I knew it!" Mego said.
"It will work. We just have to get better control over our powers and start working together," Hego insisted.
"I don't need to work on my powers. I control them just fine!" Mego insisted.
"No you don't!" the other four yelled at him.
"You're just jealous!" Mego replied.
"Of your shrinking ability?" Wego One scoffed.
"Get real, Mego," Wego Two agreed.
"Ugh, I hate my powers," Mego grumbled.
"All right, everyone calm down! We need to take a break," Hego said.
"Forget this! I'm out of here!" Shego yelled furiously. Angrily she turned and stormed out of the building.
"Shego!" Hego called after her.
"We're going home," the twins said. Quickly they left as well.
Mego and Hego, left alone, exchanged looks. "If you say I told you so…" Hego warned seriously.
"Oh please. None of you are worth the effort it would take," Mego said. "I have full control over my abilities."
"Then how come you couldn't shrink under the staff?!" Hego demanded.
"He caught me off guard!" Mego insisted. Angrily he stormed off, Hego sulkily following, cursing himself a thousand times over. He hated fighting with his siblings.