Chapter 21, Birthday Bash arc part three

If there was one thing the Teen's Rebellion gave the Villains, was their tenacity, but now was not the time when said Villains had their own downgraded rip-off versions of their old tech. What was most troubling was the rather large Mech, an offshoot of their W.O.L. but nothing like the original. Sure it was bigger, but the looks of it the thing was built to be slow but dangerous.

As Chad rode an aircraft among the crew CloudBurners, he directed several of the crafts to ram near the replica Mech while his own few aircrafts would fly in and attempt a landing on the Mech. The damn thing was almost as big as the stadium, but their anti-defenses were much to be desired. With a command to begin the descent, Chad could hear the HindCopters flying in to extract the children from the stadium. Out of the corner of his view, he could see as the HindCopters carriers deliver the TriTops and T-Dozers onto the battleground, a spare few getting shot down in the process but the rest making it down intact.

Chad moved towards the pilot of the aircraft, "Get us down there pronto!" He yelled over the noise of the battle, pointing directly at the large mech.

With a nod from the Pilot, the Aircraft zoomed downward to drop the teens onto the Large Mech.

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The extraction to get the children went smoother than expected, But Cree attributed the assistance of Abby and her friends alongside as well. It was better than the Kids Next Door being stubborn to acknowledge the Teens Rebellion help, so far they have been rather cordial. Cree chalked it up to the New Supreme Leader and Chad's quick talk when the Teen's Rebellion arrived.

"Move, move, move!" She ushered the kids into the HindCopters to get airlifted out, Cree looked to the other KND operatives assisting in the extraction. "This should be the last bit, we all need to exit out now!" She yelled over the noise of battle.

Wallabee gave her a glare, but she was not having any of that. "Our Artillery will be pelting this stadium, I doubt you'll be wanting to stick around for a hail of paintball shells." That shut him up, along with any other KND operatives sent in to rescue the children.

Hopping onto the nearest HindCopter, Cree held out her hand to Abigail to assist her onto the aircraft. There was some hesitation in her eyes, but one look in Cree's own face acquiesced her doubts on her sister. For once she gave her own sister a grateful smile, and grabbed onto the hand to hop on board. The rest of the Kids Next Door operatives were not far behind, and with the coast clear for takeoff the aircrafts flew out with their passengers to leave the soon to be pelted stadium.

Cree had to quickly call Stacey, with the stadium cleared of children, she was cleared for her Howitzers to begin their bombardment.

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Stacey was giddy with excitement after she received word from Cree for the go ahead, with a command to get her a HindCarrier, she needed to get into the air and command from above for her Artillery Division.

"Fire at will!" Stacey hollered through her radio piece as she was taken into the air, with a whir of gears from the Howitzers, the loud booms that accompanied the artillery shooting their rounds went off. Looking over to see the other side of the stadium as she was taken up into the air, Stacey could notice more Villains charging forward on foot and in their own battle vehicles.

"Get me over there with our TriTops and T-dozers." Stacey yelled over to the pilot, who gave a nod in response and began a flight path for said area.

Stacey Radioed once again through her comms, "This is Stacey of the Artillery Division, follow my lead with the new MilliTanks!" She hollered over the sound of the battle.

The concept of the MilliTank was a Millipede fashioned tank on many legs, the length of two school buses, several retractable cannons on the back, and capable of curling up into a ball and roll for a quick burst of forward motion. The cockpits were held on a gyroscopic track, would not want the drivers and gunners getting sick after all that rolling you know.

Stacey's airship landed not far from an approaching HindCarrier with a MilliTank being carried for an air drop. With the CloudBurners keeping the Villains on the front lines busy with their meteoric descents and deployments, Stacey's own artillery deployment behind them would have an easier time setting up after landing their vehicles.

Making a quick sprint to hop into the driver seat of the MilliTank, Stacey revved up the tank and honked on its horn. "Get in!" She shouted over to her squad.

Once the MilliTank was fully manned, Stacey could not help but grin with a gleeful smile. "Let's get this girl out there for her first fight!" She shouted before punching the gas and activated the rolling mechanism, "Hold on!" She giggled out as the MilliTank curled up and rolled out, with a few other of its brethren not far behind in a stampede of rolling MilliTanks.

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"Are you sure Abby?" Cree asked with a concerned look, her sister and the rest of her friends had insisted they come and fight the Adult Villains with the Teens.

Abigail shook her head and swiped her hand in front of her, "No way Numbuh Five is leaving you to fight Adult Villains without Numbuh Five."

Cree gave Abigail a grin, "Just like old times?" She asked while holding to her sister a super heated ghost pepper lazer gun.

Abigail smiled back at Cree, "Like old times sis." She stated while taking said weapon.

Cree looked to the rest of Sector V, "Make sure to check the safeties are off, and keep your hands away from the nozzle." She warned, and got a reluctant nod from them.

The airships received some turbulence, but managed to stay on its path down to the battlefield. As the HindCopter approached the ground, Cree gave them a counted down with her fingers. "Get ready to jump off in three!" She shouted over the battle noise, and after her final went down every operative hopped off with the Teens.

The frontlines were quite hectic, as beams and projectiles whizzed by in the air from each side's respective weapons. "Fire when you have a target!" Cree yelled over the noise, shooting her own weapon along with the other Teens.

They were not alone either, several other aircrafts had landed with Teens and KND operatives. Several more landing with just teens, while the Kids Next Door's own aircrafts were landing with their own squads and sectors.

Suffice to say, the area and land around the stadium would be left with quite the few landmarks after this battle.

Chapter 22, Birthday Bash arc part four

The Cake airships's bridge was abuzz with activity, as the henchmen that manned the controls were doing their best to stay on task. Suffice to say though, some had peek a glance as Father and Son stared each other down.

Benedict stomped towards William as he gave his son a seething look from under his silhouette, "I will make sure you will regret ever rebelling!" He states as he approaches his son.

William gave his father a challenging look, "You are too late to sow fear onto me Dad!" He declared as they were now only a few feet apart.

Standing at an even eye level, Father gave his son a withering glare while William simply gave his father a grin.

"Then allow me to plant that fear!" Benedict seethed with fury as he grabbed William by his shirt, in retaliation William simply gripped onto the offending arm.

With a burst of his own fire from his hand gripping the arm, William smirked into Benedict's shocked face. "The only thing that was planted was the Rebellion." He rebuked as William put a tighter grip on the arm and pushed it back along with Father.

Benedict looked almost stunned, before regaining his anger. "Whatever you have found out with that power, you are a little too young to beat me with that piddly form of fire." He challenged as he threw another ball of fire but on a larger scale.

As it approached William, his own son simply struck his hands out into a wedge towards the ball of fire, and split it in two. William gave Father a grin, "You were saying?" He challenged with a smirk.

With a nary a second, Benedict rocketed towards William, throwing a fire fuel punch to send his Son flying into the wall. William simply stood his ground, and took the punch to the cheek leaving him to take a step back to gain some leverage against the punch.

With a vicious grin directed at Father, William quickly grabbed the fist. "Let me show you a real punch, Old Man!" He yelled in fury.

Ejecting a jet propulsion from his elbow of his other arm, William launched his own fire infused fist directly at Benedict's face, angling the trajectory of the punch to send Father's face into the floor. With a loud thud, Benedict found his vision filled with metal and wires.

Making a grab for Benedict's legs, "This fight is far from over, get up and face your Son!" William yelled down at Father as he pulled and threw Benedict into his wrecked chair.

"William Cumberbatch Uno!" Father yelled in fury as he erupted in fire and anger, standing up and glowering down over at his son. "We will be having a long discussion about respecting your father!" He shouted as he launched himself at William.

William gave Benedict a heated look, "What is there to respect of a manchild that bullies children?" He yelled back as he erupted in his own fire.

Catching the fist directed at his face, William caught the other fist. As father and son began a struggle to overpower the other, William pulled Benedict in to attack with a headbutt. Leaving Father in a bit of a daze, William quickly ran around Father to get behind him and grapple him.

"How about a hug and a nap!" William yelled as he grabbed Benedict and performed a suplex, and unlike Sargent Pain, Father found his own head in the floor instead of a table this time. "I am not done!" He stated while pulling Benedict out by his legs, and throwing him into one of the consoles.

Giving Father 'a come at me' gesture, "I know you are far from done, so stop playing possum." William challenge as he allowed his own silhouette to cover him up for this fight.

"Just you wait William, your old man has more than enough tricks to put you in your place!" Benedict said as he stood up while patting himself off and looking directly at his son.

William gave his father a welcoming gesture, "Then let round two commence" he challenged with a smile.

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-Cake aircraft loading bay-

The area was hectic as every employee was doing their best to do their duties, but in the midst of all that there was a dull sound that began to get closer to the area. The ceiling began to glow red, making the employees look up as they noticed the occurrence. The dull thuds began to become crashes as the sounds were approaching, and not a minute sooner a laser beam of fire along with a body was sent hurtling down at an angle and into one of the airships in the loading bay.

After the figure had crashed and sent up smoke from the incident, the person began to cough as they stood up. It was William as he waved his hand around to wave away the cloud of smoke, "Forgot he had that" he wheezed out

Walking out with some debris on him, William brushed his hair out with his hands and shook the remaining debris out. "You guys will want to leave, Father and I are having a little fight here." William stated as said man floated down through the hole he had made in his attack.

Shifting into a stance, William gave Benedict a smile. "I doubt you had to fight like this before" he challenged

Landing on his feet and walking till he was a few yards away from his son, Father gave him a less heated look. "I raised you and assumed you would never develop your own fire, but I was a fool to believe you would ever develop anything like this."

Giving him a challenging look, "Like Uncle Monty, I have a father to rebel against." William stated before his silhouette form began to light up in static, the fire changing into lightning and static. The sudden change in element left Father stunned, "How.."

With the flat of his palm directed at Benedict, the sound of a charge whirring up and electricity forming into a ball. "You think you can dodge lightning!" William asked his father.

One second Father was standing across from his son viewing an unthinkable scene, and the next he found himself planted into the wall of the loading bay. His chest was numb and he could faintly smell…. Burnt toast?

"Round two has just begun Dad!" William yelled over, leaving Benedict to angrily seeth and regain his senses.

Getting out from his indent, Father exploded into the strongest fire he could summon without detriment to the surroundings. "Then let me teach you some lessons then, errant son of mine!"

Chapter 23, Birthday Bash arc part five

The hangar of the Cake airship exploded in bursts of fire and lightning, said bursts could be seen leaving the opening of the hangar from the outside. A bolt of lightning went through the backside of the airship, leaving some areas of the flying cake to explode into flames. An evacuation was made as a great fireball exited out from one of the engines, leaving the airship to begin listing and the evacuation horn to begin blaring.

Inside the hanger, Father and Son were exchanging blasts of fire and bolts of lightning respectively. Benedict had just thrown one of his attacks, while William had deflected it with a static covered hand. "Enough!" Father yelled in anger before launching himself in a fire engulfed form towards William, the speed of which was faster than the son anticipated and received a punch to the stomach for it.

Bending over from the attack, William wheezed out before snapping his head up at Father with a wicked grin. Making a quick grab onto the offending fist, "Nothing is enough till Adult Villainy is gone from this world!" He yelled in fury before launching his own fist into Benedict's stomach, with his elbow expelling a jet flame to increase the blow.

As Benedict bent over from the attack, William lifted his father from his waist and proceeded to jump into a piledriver. "A child may fear you, but can you put the fear into a teen?" He asked as William stood back up, only in the form of Benedict's body igniting into an explosion, sending William careening away and into one of the ships.

Father was upon William the next second, laying down several of his fire-fueled punches into his son's face. A face that simply took the punches and rolled with it and grinned, "Come on, stop trying to hit me and actually hit me like you mean it!" William yelled before quickly grabbing the fists of Father and pulling him into a headbutt, leaving Benedict to stumble back and give William some room. After quickly bounding back up on his feet, William leaped towards Father and drop kicked him with a fire burst kick sending Benedict to the other side of the Area.

As the airship began to list more, the ground they fought on was less even now and the ships and cargo began sliding across the floor. With a burst of an electrical filled silhouette, William tackled Fathers body into the other side of the wall. The son kept charging though, taking both of them through countless rooms until they crashed into the main engine room. With a large explosion and taking out the main engine, the cake airship was left in a free fall.

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As the Teen's Rebellion and Kids Next Door fought side by side against the Adult Villains on the ground, Many of them noticed the falling Cake Aircraft. As the Airship made landfall, the ground and dust was kicked up from the crash. As the battlefield began to get covered in a dense fog of debris, The Teens had to switch onto their visual aid from their helmets. The Kids next door were offered aid if needed, but thankfully they came prepared with their own goggles.

Stray beams and projectiles flew through the dust fog, each finding their targets as the Villains struggled to cope without any aid as they fired blindly through the fog.

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Fighting on that big mech was less trouble than he had expected, Chad supposed he should chalk it up to the Adult Villains not expecting an airdrop onto the mech. "Charges are set sir! Primed for thirty seconds!" One of his demolition boys hollered over. Giving him the go, Chad ushered out everyone. "Alright, let go! Move move move!"

With the big mech finished, every teen made an exit back to their airships and blasted off down to the battle. Making an aim for viewable land zones, Chad and his squads had to land all the way in the back lest they land into friendlies.

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As William stood up from the wreckage, he noticed Benedict was lying down unconscious. "Either you get up, or this battle counts as my win!" He hollered over, steadily walking over with a wince on his face.

Lifting head to glare at his son, Father gave him a withering glare. "Dinner at seven, we will have a long talk afterwards." He managed out though through a weeze before lying his head back down.

William let out a breath as he began his leave, "See you at home dad." His voice carried out from the distance as he left.

Father could only let out a wistful sigh, "Is this how you felt Pappy? Is this what it was like for you and Monty?" He asked the thin air in front of him, lying on his back to think back on his day. Never would he have expected his own son to grow up like this, but he supposed Rebellion really does run in the family. He could not punish William like he would a child, his son was sixteen. The teen was practically an adult within a few years, and Benedict had no experience in fighting an adolescent of William's calibre.

One thing was for sure, His son was preparing for more than him. As Benedict sat up with a minor wince, he struggled to think of why his son would raise such a large force around the world. Sure, there were powerful Villains around the world, but the sheer magnitude that the Teen's Rebellion worked at made no sense compared to the Kids Next Door. It was as if his son saw some greater danger than himself or even the possibility of Pappy coming back …. He would have to put a pin on that thought there.

As Benedict stood up and began walking out from the wreckage, he could see the remnants of a dust cloud clearing up and every force retreating. He supposed he could not blame his forces, his Cake aircraft had just fallen and he himself was in it. It was back to the drawing board then, now that he had a scope of how organized and powerful the Teen's Rebellion was. He doubted that if William was taken out the rest would follow; the Rebellion was no doubt decentralized with commanders.

As Benedict made his way home, he made a call for his chafour to pick him and the Delightful Children up. He will have to lay down some ground rules on the way home to keep them from attacking William in the house.

Chapter 24, An awkward dinner with father

The clang of dishware rang out within a dining room of a particular mansion, and the occupants of said room were in the midst of eating. It was lasagna night, with a side of steamed asparagus

Father was out of his cloak for once, but I assume he does it out of politeness and his own way of table manners. The pseudo siblings across the table from me ate their own dinner, but with a petulant glare at me. That's almost adorable, but no dice kids.

"How are your studies, William? Last I checked your grades are the best amongst your class." Dad inquired after finishing a bite of his dinner.

My grades better damn well be ahead of everyone else, I've already went through school once before. It is all the same song and dance, only I am pretty sure this form of education is worse than my first reality I've been through.

The teachers barely put any effort into their work, pretty sure it does not help the pay is crap for both worlds, and they expect everyone to be listening to their monotonous tones. Come on folks, I know you are teaching next to no listening kids, but I'm sure that's the fault of you given up.

Rant aside, I responded back to father after finishing my own bite and cleaning my mouth of any food. "Every thing is coming along nicely, advance algebra and calculus are giving me some hiccups but I will iron that out with some good book studying."

I never had trouble with math in general, it was only retaining the knowledge that screwed me over in my first life. So it was a breath of fresh air of relearning fractions and onwards into math, that was the one thing that did not completely bore me in school this time around.

"How has your own work been dad? Any hiccups?" I asked before resuming my dinner, only pausing to drink when needed and listen.

Father narrowed his eyes at me, but did not rise to my question. "A rather big hiccup, but hopefully it will be ironed out soon, very soon." He answered with a rather suprising look of calmness, bravo dad you can be adult at times after all.

Finishing up my plate of dinner, I cleaned my mouth once again and excused myself from the table. "And I hope all works out for you then Father."

"ENOUGH!" The Delightful Kids of his yelled, slamming their fists on the table and making a mess of things. "Father, why do you let William go unpunished after today?" They whined and glared at me.

Father shot a passive glare at me before addressing the kids of his with a scornful look, "What did I say about elbows on the table and yelling at dinnertime?" He spoke with a heated tone but barely a yell.

The children looked too scared to answer, and thus went back to their meal. Dad shot me a look, "We will speak later William in my study."

I gave father a nod, "Give me an hour from now, I need to finish my Math project that is due next week."

Dad hurrumphed, "At least you are still a model student, I can not punish you for that." He dryly added before going back to finish his own meal.

I left the room, and indeed went to finish my homework. ... what? Just cause the way things are now does not mean I should put down everything in my rebellion, sheesh, gotta have some stability in my life.

With the hour up and passed, I had walked myself to Father's study. If there is one thing I can appreciate about dad, is that he can pull the plotting villain looking over the fireplace schtick quite well.

With only his hands and forearms visible from my view, I suppose he is trying to set an intimidating vide. You are too late to seem scary dad, I have long since passed having to fear anything from you.

I walked till I was able to stand to the side of his chair and see him fully, his eyes were still on the cackling fire place till he turned his head towards me. Giving me a rather heated look, dad pointed towards the wooden chair at his desk of the study room and pointed rather sternly to the other side of the fire place.

Catching the silent parental order, I wordlessly did so and pulled the chair over to sit by the fireplace. Once I sat with a minor creek from the chair, father resumed his glare at the fire within the room that crackled and popped once every minute or so.

"I fed you, I raised you, I clothed you with the best intentions a father could in my situation." Dad spoke after several minutes of silence, I did not say anything yet as it felt he had more to say.

Father looked towards me with a glowering looking, "Imagine to my shock that my own son, flesh and blood would rebel against me. After so many years of a behaving child, and some teen years, you slap everything I have given you back into my face."

"Stop right there dad." I shot back with a glare of my own, he looked to about to retort but I beat him to the punch. "No, no, you will listen now, and I will talk. No more bull crap, no more facade of ours to put up, so take off that damn cloak for once and listen."

Dad stood up from his chair with the most pissed off look I have ever seen, "Young man, I'll wash that mouth of your so hard you'll be tasting soap for a week!" He roared in fury with his flames to match his temper.

I remained in my chair, but I sent my own heated look before snapping at dad. "Sit down and listen for once!" I yelled with my own fire erupting and dark silhouette overtaking my body, before receding as I tried to reign in my anger at the man in front of me.

With a bit of reluctance, Father sat back down and let his own silhouette recede. I let a minute pass by with both of our glares shooting at each other, pretty sure the tension in the air could be cut and make a sandwich at this point.

I sighed and looked towards the fire within the room, "On what grounds and authority do you have to punish children that are not yours?" I asked of him.

Dad clenched his hands in anger, "I am an adult, it is my given right to punish children." He gritted out

I snapped my head at him with a scornful look, "Your children, emphasis on 'YOUR' children. Y-O-U-R children. You have every right to punish your own misbehaving children, but not other kids that are not even related to you."

Father raised an eyebrow at that, "You are only a teenager, you have no say in how I do things." He bit out angrily.

I slammed my fist on the arm rest of the wooden chair, ironic given what powers my family have. "I am a sixteen year old that views the world inherently wrong with how the way adults act. Especially adult Villains that stick their noses into affairs that should be left to the parents of the children that they 'punish'. "

I must have given a good argument, cause dad looked like he was struggling to come up with a rebuttal but could not find one. "Children can be snot nosed brats, yes, but its merely a passing phase, much like teenagers." I continued with my arguement.

Dad seethed annoyance, "But it never stops, there will always be more children and more. Baby's, children, teenagers, it never changes."

"Of course it will never change, but that does not mean you have to make life miserable for them. You are an adult, act like one and ignore it." I reasoned out to him, with a pointed finger at him.

"If you can not take it, then you never deserved to be adult in the first place." Leaning forward to look father straight in the eyes, "look, I am very thankful that you raised me as a single dad, and don't ever believe you failed. I am merely doing what I believe is right, and what is better than a boy growing up into a man following his own beliefs?"

I leaned back and viewed the fire once more, letting the silence and cackling fire noise fill the room.

"I just wish you followed my own beliefs in one form or another." Dad uttered out

I let out a dry chuckle, "Since when has any wish ever been fully fulfilled, life has always taken the piss on human life."

Father gave a smarmy look, "On that, we can agree on." He spoke before frowning, "you are grounded for a week."

I shrugged, "I better going to bed then, I still need to get up early and study at the library if thats Alright with you "

Making a shooting motion towards the door, "We'll discuss the matters tomorrow of your grounding, make sure to send in the kids once you are out there. I know they have been eavesdropping, little brats"

With our piece done of banter, I exited the room. Sure enough the children were standing outside with looks of a deer looking into headlights before sending a smug look at me, "You're in trouble~" they chorused at me

I leaned towards them, making them lean back in fear. "It is impolite to eavesdrop, but I doubt I'll be the one to teach you about that." I jerked my head towards father's study, "he's waiting." And with that done my awkward night was over, for now at least. God only knows what the future holds now.

Chapter 25, Dreaded paperwork

My week of punishment was rather benign after the battle, being grounded I suppose was the only thing Dad could do to me at this point. You do not exactly spank a teen, hell I have never heard in my first life of a teen receiving a spanking. Sure I received an earlier curfew during that week as well, but I was sure everyone needed a break after that battle. Thankfully the Villains that took part in that battle took the week off as well, it gave everyone some time to breathe.

I find myself now back at the Homebase, going over future plans going forward. From what I have read in a few reports, Jonney's own projects have come along nicely, especially the orbital elevator. It would not be long before we can start up the ship yard in outer space, now we just need to get some form of instant space travel. I am in a cartoon after all, so any science fiction form of travel could work I suppose.

Thinking on the subject of space travel, perhaps I can have the eggheads in R&D come up with wormhole travel. Create a hole in space that takes you directly to your destination, like folding a paper from end to end thus bending time and space for ease of travel. Just hope eezo does not exist, for obvious reasons, or god forbid the warp.

While Wayne Stark has been very helpful in finances, I am going to need to keep investing in more ventures. I could take Chester and have him set straight, the dude practically created Virtual Reality gear. Dude, forget being a villain, you already have the golden goose there. The applications of that headband are endless! Perhaps I'll take Wayne and Jonney with me to meet with Chester, show him he's better off not being a villain.

Shuffling through a few more papers, I noticed a report of an apprehension of one Margie and the sacking of her school. A few males were transformed, but luckily the females of the team were able to subdue her. Thankfully the timeline was saved, and so were the boys once the R&D reverse engineered the girlifier raygun. Margie's parents have been notified of what their daughter has done, and the Teens have asked them to teach Margie the ramifications of her actions. Their daughter is currently being on watch, with some help from a few visitors of the female teens.

I think the girls of the Rebellion wanted Margie some better companionship against her brothers, kinda like those big brother/big sister programs back from my world. Shuffling through some more papers, there was one in particular from the Kids Next Door. It was an invite for a peace summit, to have a formal truce and recognize each other as a separate entity. The paper had a list of topics to discuss such as transference of their soon to be teens over to keep fighting the good fight, that's gonna be quite the talk on e that comes up in the peace talks.

I can imagine many Kids were on the fence with Teens, but after the Birthday Bash I am sure many had their opinions changed. Not once has the Teen's Rebellion been antagonistic towards kids, and the Kids Next Door could no longer ignore a potential good ally.

As I went through a few more documents from the Research teams, I noticed the one paper that needed the approval for a new battle Mech. Letting out a hum through my mouth, I studied the look of the mech and noticed many new features. One glaring feature was the head, it practically looked like an octopus was placed on its shoulders. Reading up on its capabilities, this BattleMech Octo was able to shoot laser beams of hot Carolina Reaper sauce from the head's tentacles. … cool. On its back were launchers for shooting our warheads, one we had unleashed upon Sargent Pain's Academy.

Putting the paper aside to read for later, I let out a sigh of relief as the pile was smaller now. A particular report caught my attention with the name Leona on it, the paper reported as unable to find her after she entered the bathroom. One paper afterwards reported suspicious activity from the Delightful Children tailing Leona, letting out an aggravated sigh I made for the doorway. While I know everything works out fine in the end from what I know from the shoe, I wanted to test something from that fountain.

If Grandfather was able to transform others into Senior Citizombies, I wanted to know if I could harness my own chrono powers in almost the same form. A counter acting power if you would. With the mountain's ability to mess with someone's own aging, I wanted to try and dip a finger and see if I could get a feel of any semblance of what Pappy has. Why did I not do this earlier? Running a Rebellion is busier than you think, especially when you have a double life.

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I was later than I realized, but I was thankful I made it time to follow Sector V from the shadows. It is where I find myself now, as everyone has reached the fountain and found Leona as an old woman. After freeing her up, they assisted the three hundred year old woman towards the fountain of youth. They were cut off though in their path as the Perpetrators came onto the scene. "What's the rush Kids next Dim?" They taunted

Abigail gave the Delightful Children a glare from under her hat, "What have you freak done to Leona?" She spat out

Giving Numbuh 5 a nonchalant shrug, "You haven't figured it out yet? Regardless, now that she's led us to the fountain, she's all yours." The Delightful Children answered with a cruel smile.

Pointing a shaky finger at the Children, "What do you want with the fountain?" Leona asked with a lisp.

With a point towards the fountain from all the Delightful Children, "To destroy it of course!"

I'll need to stop them there, "I am afraid you can't do that right now." I said while walking out from behind a pillar, I received a shocked look from everyone and took a bit of satisfaction from seeing their faces. Especially the Delightful Children's.

The children gave me a scornful look, "William, stay out of our business!" They shouted at me while I walked up towards them.

I shook my head at them, "I'm afraid I can't do that, you see while I can agree this fountain is an affront to aging, its powers are needed for a future project of mine" I stated as I approached the Children, who did not take kindly to my presence. Before they could aim one of their weapons at me, I quickly extended out one of my hands to knock them out with my lightning.

As I made my way over to the fountain, I could hear the others approach as well. The old Leona gave me a rather odd look, "What do you need from this fountain? Are you trying to be a kid again?" She asked shakily.

I turned to look at her, "Jump in first, I'm sure those three hundred year old bones are aching already." I smirk at her shocked look, among the others as well.

As Leona was dunked into said fountain, I gave the others a look. "You might wanna back up, she might attack." I warned, only to receive a blank look.

As Leona emerged and the kids repeated from what I remember of the show, I had to act quickly as Leona reached under water for her water gun. I suppose she had forgotten I could use lightning, and you don't wanna be in water when messing with electricity.

I received complaints of course but, I had to point out she was going to de-age them. I was surprised though when Leona managed to get back up, well I did hold back after all

She gave me a suspicious look, "How, how did you know?" She asked

"Leona, you are a prisoner to this fountain." I gestured towards said object, "But at the same time its unknowing custodian."

I leaned forward and gave her a stern look, "For good or for ill, you have to trust some people otherwise you'll be lonely for as long as you are able to live off from this fountain." I pointed out with a soft look.

It must've hit her there, as she begrudgingly came out without the water gun in hand. "It does get rather lonely." She sighed with a sorrowful look before giving the Delightful Children a glare.

As I leaned down towards the fountain, I moved to test the water with a finger. "Wait, don't you know that water will.." Leona trailed off as she witnessed me pull out my finger.

It was slightly younger, but I could feel the effects of what caused it. Gauging my finger as it reverted to its normal age, I gave Leona a sideways look. "I do not intend to stay young, I merely wish to study the effects of it." I reasoned before taking out a jar and capping some in.

Looking towards Sector V, I gestured towards the Delightful children. "Mind helping tie them up?" I asked before turning to Leona.

"The pathway to here has been destroyed, but I am sure you have other ways to stay young." I stated with a wink, Leona could only sigh in relief. "Yes, there are some spots I know of."

I gave her a grin, before frowning as the place began to shake. "We need to Hightail it outa here!" Abigail shouted, before everyone made a dash out for the exit with the Delightful Children in tow.

-scene-

Back at HomeBase-

Looking through the jar as I sat in my chair, the water had quite the sparkle to it. Much like training my other powers, this de-aging stuff will be needing careful handling. I wanted to see if I could replicate what Pappy could do. If only for the sake of countering his own powers, I do need answers after all from him. I'll probably need to give a few drops for the Bioscience division to look at, just need to warn them not to waste it.