Arnold, Rhonda, and Gerald were crawling around in the vent systems as they neared Mr. Freeze and Ferris Boyle.
Arnold was in front of the two as they were above their location. Arnold lightly pushed on the vent cover with his leg. "Follow my lead." He violently pushed off the vent cover as the three immediately got out and hid.
The vent cover landed loudly as Mr. Freeze immediately shot ice at it, freezing it. He then froze the empty vents. The room was just around negative temperatures, the air was filled with cold air as ice covered certain areas.
"Victor, let him go." A voice said from a corner.
"I'm taking my wife, you can't stop me!"
"Victor, we know the truth!" Arnold and the others appeared from the corner. "We know the truth, and so will the police. Boyle will face judgment for his crimes."
"It- It was all an accident! You three don't know what you're talking about!" Boyle said, agitated. Mr. Freeze looked over at Ferris as he immediately broke him out of the ice he was stuck in, grabbed him by the neck, and tossed him into a container. He immediately shifted his attention to the three as he shot his ice beam at them. They all jumped out of the way and hid in different directions.
"Nothing matters. Do you understand? Nothing but my Nora!"
"Victor, you've endangered lives all over the city. Nora would never have wanted this!"
"No… She wants to live a long life in the warmth of the sun, her hand in mine…" Mr. Freeze looked over at his frozen wife. "But because of him… all she feels is the cold touch of a man whose emotions run as cold as the blood that runs in his veins!"
The three grappled up to gargoyles as Mr. Freeze demanded his thugs there.
"We made a deal. Get in here and find those super-zeroes!"
"Guys, you'll need to find the control panels of the cryogenerators and disable them! There are three in the room, you three take one each and get the job done faster! He can't shoot three at once. Now hurry!" Phoebe said over the earpiece.
"Boyle is the real criminal here! Help me get my wife out of here and nobody else needs to get hurt!"
"Alright team, listen up! We attack each panel right after one of us disables the previous one. We have to throw them off, and keep going fast! Don't worry about the thugs, got it?"
"Got it!" Gerald and Rhonda replied. "Let's move it, team."
Gerald spotted one of the three control panels. "Found one." Gerald dropped down as he held the control panel and heated it with his thermal gloves.
"He's at tank two!" Mr. Freeze advised the thugs.
Arnold and Rhonda were ready at the next two panels.
"Warning. Containment breach in cryotank two." A female computer voice said as Gerald destroyed the second panel. Mr. Freeze immediately shot an ice beam at Gerald. But he immediately escaped as he grappled onto the gargoyles. "Arnold, you're next."
Arnold dropped down as he held the control panel and heated it. "Warning. Containment breach at cryotank three."
"One of them is at tank three! They're trying to throw us off! I need three of you to look over tank one! I CAN NOT afford to lose that tank! HURRY!" Mr. Freeze ordered the thugs.
"Rhonda, there's some heat coming your way, and I don't mean sun heat." Arnold said through the earpiece. "I got it." She replied.
She immediately dropped on one of the thugs, breaking her fall. She tugged on one of their guns and whacked the other thug in the face with it and finished the final thug with a spin kick to his jaw. Rhonda immediately went to the control panel as it started heating up.
"Warning. Containment breach at cryotank one."
As an alarm started sounding, the cryotanks started to break and fail as gas hissed around the place.
Rhonda immediately dropped to a lower part of the place as she looked up.
"Let's see how well you three perform when the air FREEZES in your lungs!" Mr. Freeze then enabled a freeze ray that froze the three in their tracks.
Arnold and Gerald dropped to a lower point but made it easier for him. They were all frozen but thankfully the Thermo XP suits kept their body temperatures controlled.
"I will end anyone who stands in my way!" Mr. Freeze dropped down as he walked up to the three. They all broke out of the encasing ice as they all immediately scattered to throw off Mr. Freeze. Arnold and Rhonda grappled up while Gerald hid above Freeze.
"Guys, the room is filled with ice formations up on the ceiling. Use them to your advantage!" Phoebe informed the three.
"Search the area! They couldn't have gotten far!"
While they were all busy inside, the snowstorm outside was far worse than expected. Temperatures were in the negatives as power lines were starting to get hit and struck down.
Phoebe was back in the lair, struggling to keep control of the Hyperjet with its remote pilot. "Who would've thought a snowstorm could get… this bad?!" More trouble came as Spinelli radioed in.
"Phoebe! We got a problem! The Quinjet got hit with an ice shard and now one of the propellers is damaged! And core temperatures of the engine are starting to drop!"
Phoebe couldn't do anything since the Hyperjet's control was too weak for the strong storm. She then remembered that the Hybrid was stored in the Hyperjet.
"Land that bird! It's too weak against this snowstorm, I'm sending over the Hybrid! It's strong enough to pull through, sending it now!"
The Hyperjet's cargo area opened up as the Hybrid raced out and landed on the thick snow. The tires were specially made to withstand any weather condition. And enough to withstand the snow so it could go at high speeds without losing control.
"Search the area! They cannot escape!"
Mr. Freeze stood next to a weak wall as he looked around. "Where are you?!"
"Now!"
Gerald punched through the weak wall and tossed Freeze to his knees. He quickly heated a device on his back, causing his suit to get unstable for a moment. He immediately grappled up.
"You imbeciles! He was right here!" Freeze stood up. "You're resourceful, I'll give you that."
Arnold saw some ice formations. "Flush them out, I'll deal with the rest!" Two thermal missiles were fired as it melted part of the ice formation, and dropped onto Freeze. "Your technology is inferior, super-zeroes!"
"Remember guys, can't take him head-on unless it's through a weak wall." Arnold reminded.
Arnold dropped down and took down two of the thugs by yanking their heads back and slamming their faces against the icy floor. "He's over there, imbeciles. Move it!"
Mr. Freeze headed to Arnold's location, but Rhonda slowed him down with an ice shard. "You want to stop me? Then come out of the shadows!"
"Over there!" Gerald immediately got out of the corner he purposely wanted to be found at. "You imbeciles!"
Mr. Freeze looked over at the corner. "Search the area! He couldn't have gone far!" He stood next to another weak wall as he froze several gargoyles. Rhonda dropped towards that weak wall and punched through it and tossed Freeze to his knees. She then damaged the device on his back, causing the machinery to start failing. Machines hissed as several building alarms sounded.
"Warning. Cryogenic containment failing. Prime subject, Nora Fries, in danger."
"You have FORCED me to do this!" Mr. Freeze immediately started programming something on his freeze ray. "Let's see how you three do after the air freezes inside your lungs!"
The three dropped to a low level as a bunch of freezing air swept through the room. All of the thugs were all frozen, while the three were still alive.
"Warning. Containment failure in capsule one. Prime subject, Nora Fries."
"I should have just killed them all. Boyle and those three." Mr. Freeze worked quickly to save Nora.
"Gerald, we need a quick distraction. Rhonda and I will take him from below." Gerald nodded. Arnold and Rhonda soon moved into position, under Freeze.
Gerald shot several missiles, catching Freeze's attention. He walked over the weak ice floor. Arnold nodded to give the signal. Rhonda and Arnold immediately punched through the flooring and dragged down Freeze. Rhonda threw Mr. Freeze through a wall as she let Arnold finish him. Arnold's suit lit up with the orange heat lines as he punched Freeze right on the helmet he wore. Freeze laid there, unconscious.
"Why thanks, you three, for doing the heavy lifting." Boyle began as he had an evil grin. "But you shouldn't have stuck your noses in my business!" Ferris enabled a few switches.
Arnold looked up. He quickly reacted and pushed Freeze out of the way as he tried getting up. Freeze rays encased most of Arnold's body in ice. "I would try if I were either of you." Ferris warned.
Gerald immediately flew towards Ferris but was soon encased in ice. "Young lady, I suggest not trying anything, wherever you are." Ferris gave an evil laugh. "And here I thought I was gonna have a hard time, trying to explain what happened with your lab! I mean, the police are never going to look at me after what you did!" As Ferris kept going, Rhonda snuck up behind Arnold and implanted a melting device on the ice so it could get Arnold free enough. "And with these three super freaks dead, there won't be anyone left to accuse or say anything about me otherwise!"
Freeze crawled towards his direction as the cryogenic containment was slowly failing. "Nora!"
"And that just leaves you."
"Please - you can save her. You just have to bypass the-"
"NO! She dies, Victor! And I'll leave you alive LONG ENOUGH to WITNESS her death!" Boyle ripped a tube from Freeze's ray gun and started beating him with it, like an animal getting abused.
"I can't get to him in time! Rhonda, you'll have to do it!" Arnold partially broke free as he grabbed her hand and launched her right at Ferris. Rhonda tackled Ferris straight into the ground. She turned him right onto his back and punched him in the face and pounded her fist into his face, hitting his head against the floor.
"Take a seat… humanitarian." Rhonda gave a disgusted look at a knocked-out Ferris. She then looked at Nora's cryogenic container. She walked over to it and soon restored the container levels.
"Cryogenic containment restored." The hissing stopped.
Rhonda walked over to Arnold as he had finally broken free from the ice along with Gerald. Arnold and Rhonda then walked over to Freeze, who only laid on the ground. Arnold kneeled down to Freeze. "I'm sorry, Victor. We can't give you peace right now." Arnold pulled out a little container. "But we can give you justice." Arnold inserted the container into Freeze's suit. The little container restored all power to Freeze's suit.
"Nora…" Victor looked at Nora's chamber as he tried reaching over. Arnold and Rhonda looked over at her chamber. They looked at each other as they felt extremely sorry for Victor.
Half Hour Later
The snowstorm outside had gone away shortly after Freeze was taken down. Arnold, Rhonda, and Gerald were all on a rooftop that overlooked the Boyle Industries building. Police and paramedics were on the scene as they took in the two criminals, while most thugs were killed during the fight after the freezing air entered their lungs.
Ferris kept trying to make up excuses on how he was 'innocent' when the police already had all the evidence they needed. "Get this scumbag towards a cell!" Goodell ordered.
"I'll meet y'all in the lair, alright?" Arnold and Rhonda nodded as Gerald soon left the two alone.
Arnold put an arm over Rhonda. "Well, that wraps up tonight's case file, no?"
"Indeed it does. Though, I feel bad for Victor. All he wanted was to save his dying wife… Arnold, isn't there something WE could do?"
"We'll soon figure something out so he can get out of this crime life. He never intended for this to happen. So Rhonda, how about we patrol this side of the city and head home?"
"Actually, how about we run a diagnostic on the Hyperjet, THEN we patrol and head home."
"Sounds great." Arnold smiled. Rhonda un-did her facemask and kissed Arnold on the cheek. "Wish you un-did your facemask so I could give you a proper kiss." Rhonda smirked. Arnold merely chuckled as he took off his facemask. Rhonda then gave a long kiss on his lips. "Arnold, thanks to you and Phoebe, we wouldn't have survived those freezing temperatures. Thanks, honey." Rhonda kissed his lips and nose.
"Is it getting hot in these suits, or is it just me?" Arnold blushed. Rhonda giggled. "Alright c'mon, my honey bun!"
As the two went to check on the Hyperjet, Spinelli and Nadine managed to get Quinjet running again once the snowstorm stopped.
"Now this is something for the history books!" Spinelli said as the Quinjet soon took off. "If this isn't history, then I don't know what is!" The two high-fived.
"Another successful mission. Way to go, team!" Phoebe congratulated all of them. Olivia soon came up. "Hey uh, Phoebe? How come they don't have a team name?"
"Well… I truly don't know actually." Phoebe shrugged. "Any name suggestions, if you'd like?"
Olivia thought for a moment. "How about… The Avengers?" Phoebe blinked in confusion. But she liked it. "Hmm… That could be a good name but I don't know… we'll see soon, ok?" Phoebe ruffled Olivia's hair. She only smiled.
Minutes Later
The Quinjet and Hyperjet both arrived at HQ as the two jets landed.
"Great work, guys!"
"Aw yeah!"
"Mom! Dad!" Olivia ran up to her parents. "Olivia!" Arnold and Rhonda smiled at their daughter. Olivia was about to hug them but felt their suits were extremely cold. "I think that hug can wait until you two get some proper clothing on." Olivia nervously smiled. Arnold and Rhonda laughed. "Don't worry, Princess. We'll meet you in the living room." Rhonda told her as she took off her face mask. "Actually, we'll see you in your bedroom. It's around three-ten in the morning." Arnold replied.
"Alright." Olivia soon headed up toward her room.
"It's been a long night, let's settle down?" Arnold asked as the others agreed.
Ten Minutes Later
Arnold and Rhonda were back in their proper clothing, in pajamas, as the two went and tucked Olivia to bed. They kissed her goodnight as they both went towards their bedroom.
"Quite a day, huh Arnold?" Rhonda started as she snuggled up with Arnold. "It's been one of those days. Oh, and one more thing."
"What's that, sweetie?"
Arnold kissed Rhonda's forehead. "Merry Christmas, Rhonda my sweetheart." He smiled. Rhonda smiled back as she kissed him. "Merry Christmas, Arnold. I love you with my whole heart."
"And so do I, my sweet."
The two kissed each other good night before letting sleep overtake the two.
I LOVE how this chapter turned out! So much I love about it, anyhow, catch you in the next!