In downtown Hong Kong, Six was perched on a rooftop examining the people moving below as Rex and Roxie paced behind him.
Rex groaned disappointedly "I should've brought doughnuts."
"I don't know," Roxie sighed. "Do they even have doughnuts in Hong Kong? And since when are we cops, Six?"
"Since EVOs started becoming criminals."
And that was wen al the doors of the bank were blown, sending metal and glass flying everywhere as three EVO criminals started to make their getaway.
"Right," Rex said. "Think maybe we could've jumped in their before they blew up the building?"
"That would reuire knowing which one they were in," Six said, drawing his blades as he leaped dwon.
"He, logic," Roxie sighed as she and Rex lowered their goggles and leaped off the building as Rex built his Smack Hands as several Providence agents moved in.
"Providence?" one of the EVOs asked. "Quarry's not gonna like this."
"Lower your appendages! Nobody move!"
The trio then separated and started leaping away from the agents as they opened fire on them, bullets flying everywhere as Rex smirked and walked up.
"Try doing it like this. Freeze, suckas!"
The male twin quickly built up his Punk Busters and slammed his foot down, instantly sending a quake out that sent one of the criminals, an anthro grasshopper-like EVO, who quickly leaped away and gave a mighty uppercut to Rex, who was sent tumbling to the ground.
Six ran in and started slashing his swords at a mummy-like EVO, who used his bandage-like body to completely snare and dodge Six's attacks.
The third squid-like EVO ran in and used his armored skin to deflect all the bullets off of him... just before he was sent flying away by a rocket as Roxie smirked behind her rocket launcher. The grasshopper-like EVO tried to sneak up and lash her in the back, only for her to quickly turn around and smash her with the back of the weapon.
Rex attacked teh Mummy with his BFS in buzzsaw mode, when he accidentally sliced open one of the bags and looked up as hundreds of yuans started faling around them.
"Bank heist?" Rex asked. "You're EVOs! Step it up a little!"
The grasshopper EVO looked up shocked, when the squid EVO removed the hood from his jacket and gave a shout out, an ink smoke escaping from his maw and blinding everyone in the street. And in the confusion, all three robbers made their getaway.
"Man," Roxie coughed as she fanned the smoke away. "I don't even know what that stuff is."
"Split up!" Six ordered as everyone ran in separate directions.
Rex chased after the mummy EVO using his Rex Ride and rode after him with Roxie bounding overhead. As they moved forwards, however, their vision started to be compounded with an orange hue. They saw a fan spinning rapidly, a cat-shaped lantern swinging on a line above them and some type of configuration of wheels.
Regaining their focus, the twins suddenly stopped as Rex crashed into a wall and was sent spiraling to the ground.
Rex and Roxie then recovered as Roxie jumped down and the mummy EVO gasped as he ran to help Rex up.
"You alright?"
"Uh... do we know you?" Roxie asked.
"It's me, Tuck. I used to be your best friend. Remember?" the mummy EVO, now named Tuck, said. "You used to be two of us. Welcome home."
The twins only looked at each other before looking back at Tuck, confused.
"I knew you'd come back!"
"Uh, seriously," Rex said as he and Roxie stepped back. "Who are you?"
"You had another one of your memory things, didn't you?"
Rex and Roxie only gave a stunned look at how Tuck could possibly have known that.
"I can't believe all the new stuff you two can do- the fists, the feet, those wicked weapons that you can conjure out of thin air! So much cooler than when we jacked ATMs for cash."
The trio then heard a siren wailing, noticing two headlights flashing them.
"Got to go," Tuck said. "You know where to find us."
And with that, Tuck disassembled himself into bandages and squeeed through one of the cracks in the alley.
"Sirens? Really?" Rex asked. "That's nice, real subtle, guys!"
"We want to go undercover," Roxie said, sitting in a Providence tank as she and her brother took a look at Six.
"It's not undercover if they know who you two are, Roxie," Six reminded.
"You know what we mean," Rex said. "A solo mission. Turn off the heat and let us track these guys down."
"A surprisingly good tactical call, given its source," White Knight admitted.
"Just hear us out!" Roxie shouted. "I- wait. Did we just agree on something, White?"
"Hong Kong command seems to think these EVO punks are part of a bigger game: a mob boss named Quarry. Find them, gain their trust, take them down."
"These guys say they know us," Rex said. "We have to know if it's true."
"It could be a clue to our past," Roxie nodded.
Six nodded in understanding at the twins' proposition.
Later, Rex and Roxie walked down the street, looking for the EVO thugs with a determined look on Roxie's face. Unfortunately, they separated and looked all around for them, in all the shops and all the streets they could find and came up with nothing.
"'You know where to find us,'" Rex mocked Tuck. "Yeah right."
"How are we even supposed to find a cheeseburger in this... town?"
A vision then flashed in front of Roxie's eyes, seeing tons of birds going crazy in their cages, a train running down the tracks and Roxie suddenly recovered as Rex put a hand on her back.
"Another vision?"
"Yeah," she said. "It's so weird."
And then, Rex and Roxie heard some shuffling in a nearby street and turned around and a vendor at a shop next to them spoke to them in Cantonese.
"Do not go in there. EVOs."
"EVOs, huh?" Rex asked. "Then that's definitely where the two of us want to go."
"Whoa," Roxie said as she put her hand to her mouth. "You understood that too?"
"Yeah. We can understand Chinese? How?"
The vendor only shook his head as the twins departed.
The twins continued on their path until they were confronted by the grasshopper EVO, named Cricket, and the squid EVO, named Skwydd from the crime scene and finally, Tuck arrived on the roof above them.
"Want to finish what we started?" Rex asked, building up his Smack Hand as Roxie conjured her swords and gave a mighty pose with them.
"Go right ahead," she nodded.
Tuck hopped down to them and walked down to the twins, before putting a hand on Roxie's shoulder.
"I really thought we could rattle you this time."
"Yeah? Well being cornered in a dark alley by Bug Girl and Tentacle Boy isn't exactly a pee-your-pants situation for us," Rex smirked.
"I want to make sure it's really Rex and Roxie," the squid EVO said. "Show us your arms."
The twins held out their right arms.
"No, the other one," Tuck said.
The twins stuck out their left arms.
"Pull up your sleeves?"
The twins pulled thier sleeves up and Tuck nodded.
"Ink check."
And that was when a tattoo in a certain design appeared on the twins' wrists, causing their eyes to widen in shock.
"What the?" Roxie asked. "How did you?"
"Voice activated nano ink," Tuck said as Cricket moved her hair to reveal her tattoo on her neck, Tuck's on his shoulder and the squid boy on one of the tentacles that made up his hair. "You came up with it."
"We had a problem with a shapeshifter once," Skwydd explained.
The twins could only look as the tattoos disappeared.
"Wow," Rex said. "We're just full of surprises."
"You live here?" Roxie asked as the group took shelter in an hollowed out water tower that housed all kinds of luxuries.
"I know. It's not exactly paradise," Tuck said as he climbed up on to his bed as the grasshopper and squid EVOs took their places.
"What are you talking about? This place is awesome," Rex noticed. "Where did you guys even get this stuff?"
"We lifted it," the squid EVO said, folding his arms.
"Since you two probably forgot, that's Skwydd and that's Cricket," Tuck introduced, pointing to the squid and grasshopper EVOs respectively.
"Look," Rex said. "You guys all seem like perfectly nice... criminals, but we're having a hard time buying that we would ever hang out with you."
"You didn't just 'hang out,' Rex," Cricket said, taking a photograph to the twins. "You were our leaders."
"What?" Roxie asked as she took the photo and her eyes widened at the undeniable proof before her and her brother.
"Don't you guys still have your book?"
"We only read on our phones," Rex said.
"You kept a journal," Tuck said. "Uploaded everything. That way, when sooner or later, you two would blink out, at least you'd know who you are... or used to be."
"How many times have we-" Roxie began.
"Lost it? Never with us. But before, I think it was a lot."
Cricket gave a smile and brushed her hair back, not escaping Rex's notice.
"Why is she looking at me like that?"
Tuck only gave a sly smirk.
"Oh... really?" Roxie asked, giving a sly jab to her brother.
"She had a crush. You never noticed. Or at least, you pretended not to. You two saved her from a pretty bad situation- all of us, actually."
"Didn't we try to cure you?" Rex asked. "We can do that, you know."
"A few got lucky," Tuck said. "They're long gone. But it's not so bad now. Quarry makes sure we get everything we need."
"Yeah?" Roxie asked, hands on her hips. "Well, do we have bad news for you. You've got Providence on your backs now and they won't stop until you're gone."
"You guys have got to quit, walk away. Come with us," Rex said. "We can help you."
"You don't walk away from Quarry, Rex," Tuck sighed. "You get carted out in pieces. When you two were here, we did whatever we wanted. No one messed with us. But things are different now."
"Whoever this Quarry guy is, we're gonna take care of him," Rex said, slamming his hand into his fist.
Suddenly, without warning, a giant hulking EVO burst into the water tower, blowing the doors off its hinges.
"Hello, children," he said before smashing a pipe and cornering the EVO trio. "I got a special message from the boss. That was an easy job. You choked."
That was when the behemoth smashed a tank of water and turned to Tuck, Cricket and Skwydd.
"Next time, it'll be your worthless skulls."
And that was about the time that Rex and Roxie had enough and stepped up to corner him.
"Who are you two?"
"Your new best friends," Roxie smiled as she shouted out and slammed her fist into the EVO, sending out her nanites to absorb his, instantly reverting him back into his weak human form.
"Now we've got a message for your boss," Rex said. "These three are done working for Quarry."
Quarry's enforcer ran away, now helpless as the trio cheered for the twins.
The enforcer ran into Quarry's base of operations and entered Quarry's meeting room with two bodyguards on his side.
Quarry was an EVO wearing a casual shirt and tie and was entirely composed of a blue mineral with the left side of his head broken in.
"She cured me, boss. She just reached out and cured me!"
"Good for you, Knuckles," Quarry said, leaning forward. "But the name, it doesn't really suit you anymore, does it? That's a shame."
"Why's that, boss?"
"Because you're worthless to me now."
Quarry snapped his fingers and his monstrous bodyguards walked forwards and cornered Knuckles, causing him to scream out in terror.
"Rex and Roxie are back."
"Want me to take care of them, boss?" another of Quarry's henchmen offered.
"Are you kidding me? They'd eat you for breakfast. No, no, they'll come to me. And we have plenty of catching up to do."
The five EVO teens ran across the rooftops of Hong Kong, doing some wicked parkour moves before Rex gave Cricket a lift on his Rex Ride and Roxie had her hoverboard flying above them.
"Whoa," Rex said as he and the others regrouped. "We did these roof runs every night?"
"Every night except Tuesdays," Tuck said.
"Why?" Roxie asked. "What happens on Tuesdays?"
"Arts and crafts," Skwydd answered.
"What's down there?" Rex asked as he noticed Tuck looking down.
"A warehouse. It's where Quarry keeps his toys."
"Really?" Roxie asked, a sly smirk forming on her and her brother's faces.
Entering the warehouse, Tuck turned to them in concern.
"This place is seriously off limits, you two. Nobody messes with Quarry's things."
"I thought we told you not to worry about that guy anymore," Rex said, turning on the lights to reveal a large collection of vintage cars.
"No way!" Roxie said.
"Yeah," Skwydd said. "And guess who had to steal most of them?"
"Quarry can't even drive," Cricket noted. "He just keeps them here, gathering dust."
Then, the EVO trio noticed the twins dialing on their phones.
"What are you guys doing?" Skwydd asked.
The twins said nothing and only gave a wink.
And later, all of the cars were towed away by the police, leaving the twins smiling at their achievement and the EVO trio laughing.
"I can't believe you two called the cops," Tuck said.
"Well, they were stolen," Rex noted.
"Oh man," Skwydd lamented. "When Quarry finds out..."
And that was when the shattering of glass was heard and three of Quarry's monstrous guards dropped in.
"I think he just did," Quarry said.
"We'll handle this," Roxie said.
"Hey, yeah. I know. You look a little surprised," Rex said. "See, my sister here and I figured since no one was actually driving them, maybe the cars should go back to their owners. You got a problem with that?"
The guards said nothing and slammed the twins into the ground with no effort.
"I think they have a problem," Skwydd joked.
Rex and Roxie grunted out when they were saved by Cricket, who slammed their guards in the head with her great jump attack. The guards growled at her, cornering her, only to be slammed into the ground with Rex's Smack Hands.
"Options: leave on your own or with a little help. What's it gonna be?" Roxie asked.
The guards grunted and shook their heads, soon to be sent flying out the glass ceiling by the twins' immense strength.
"Hasta luego!" the twins shouted in Spanish.
"This is not going to end well, guys," Tuck said.
"Those were some of his top enforcers," Skwydd said.
"Really?" Roxie asked. "Then taking down this Quarry guy is going to be easier than we thought."
"It isn't a joke, Roxie," Cricket said.
"And we're not laughing," Rex said. "Look, I may not remember how we got out of this business, but we did."
"And you can too, starting right now. It'll be fine. We promise."
Cricket and Skwydd shook their heads, unimpressed, before walking off.
"They don't look convinced," Rex sighed.
"You two made a promise like that once before," Tuck sighed before he joined his comrades.
Later, the group of EVO teens walked towards the hideout.
"I've always wanted to join the circus," Skwydd said. "If I'm a freak for life, I might as well get paid for it."
"I just want to go far away," Cricket said. "Someplace new."
"You can do anything you want now-" Roxie said...
...And then she was interrupted by the hideout going up in a fiery ball of destruction, sending debris raining all around the group as a panicked Tuck turned to the twins.
"You see?!" Tuck shouted. "This is why you don't cross Quarry!"
"Well put," Quarry's voice said as everyone turned to see the smirking EVO crime lord and his monstrous bodyguards appearing around him. "The disrespect I've been shown today? Tsk, tsk, tsk. Simply unacceptable."
Rex and Roxie simply stepped up to face Quarry, who only smiled evilly upon seeing them.
"I've missed you two. Been seeing the news of you all over the world. Providence. That's a big step up from these streets."
"We don't remember you," Rex said simply.
"We don't even know who you are, Quarry," Roxie agreed. "But what we do know is that you just brought yourself a whole truckload of sorry."
One of Quarry's bodyguards rushed forwards and Roxie simply stuck her hands out and conjured her warhammer before giving a wild swing, sending him crashing into the adjacent building and falling to the streets below.
"You may have forgotten me, Roxie. But you haven't changed a bit."
"Forget the tower!" Rex shouted. "We're even!"
"But as far as these guys go, they don't owe you shit. Are we clear?"
"And who's gonna look after them, hmm? See that they can live as they please without Providence or the local cops hauling them away? You two?"
"You got that right," Rex said.
"Oh? I wouldn't believe a word they say. It was Rex and Roxie who gave you to me in the first place."
"You said what now?!" Roxie suddenly shouted, stunned.
"That's a lie!" Tuck shouted.
"Oh? Need to jog a few memories, do we?" Quarry asked, pulling out a black book.
"It's your journal."
"Fork it over. Now!" Rex shouted.
"Lose the attitude, Rex. You both gave this to me. After all... you were my top lieutenants."
"Adios, freeloaders!" Rex's voice sounded from the journal.
"Yep. We finally convinced Quarry to take these leeches off our hands," Roxie's voice agreed.
"You said it, sis. He gets some new lapdogs, we get to walk away."
And at that moment, everything just came together. All of the memories of the twins' past life in Hong Kong with the trio and the deal with Quarry came absolutely flooding back to their minds. They felt like they were going crazy as Roxie felt her heart stop and she ran over to the edge of the roof and then just emptied the contents of her stomach in a flash.
"Ai, dios mio!" a green-faced Roxie exclaimed as she slumped against the edge, feeling absolutely sick to her stomach as her brother was sucker-punched away by Tuck.
"We trusted you two!" Cricket shouted. "Why?!"
"We don't know!" Rex insisted. "But I promise that even if it was us, we're not the same people we were then! If it were now, we never would have done it!"
"I never would have blamed any of you," Quarry said. "The twins can be very convincing. Offering you a new life. A way out. There is no way out for you. Only me. Of course you're forgiven."
THe trio then turned to Quarry.
"You're not taking them anywhere!" a passionate Roxie shouted, only to be pushed back by Tuck.
"You're right. He's not. We're going willingly."
"What?!" the twins shouted.
"At least we know who he is."
"Leave the sewers to us rats," Quarry ordered, walking away. "You two go back to Providence. It was good to see you again, Rex, Roxie."
The twins set off to follow the group, only for Skwydd to let loose a cloud of ink smoke that blinded the duo as the twins only looked down, unable to blame them.
"They want to be with Quarry?" Rex asked, pacing the remains of the hideout the next morning as Roxie sat by, looking disheveled, her eyes bloodshot and her hair in a mess. "That's fine! I mean, we gave them a first class ticket right out of here, apparently. If they want to be idiots, they can go right ahead. We'll just take them all down."
"Well, if we really did what that journal said we did, who could blame them?" Roxie asked, tear stains visible around her eyes.
"I mean, we don't owe them anything, do we, sis?"
As the leftover smoke from the bomb finally cleared, the twins looked up to see the undamaged picture of themselves with Tuck, Cricket and Skwydd.
"Apparently, we do."
"Great, Rex. You had to look down at the old picture. Real original!"
"Rex, we can't just let Quarry hurt them. If we really sold them off to him, then now we have to redeem ourselves. Who we were before no longer matters. What matters is who we are now. And who we are now is superheroes."
"Okay. You're right. Let's go."
Roxie smiled as she summoned her hoverboard and Rex built up his Boogie Pack and both took off into the sky after Quarry.
Later that night, some of Quarry's minions were playing cards, when suddenly, Rex busted the door down with his Punk Busters as Roxie held her swords in hand.
The red-skinned EVO rushed towards them as the twins smirked and nodded to each other as Rex gave a wicked kick, sending the EVO hitman flying into a bunch of crates. The other EVO rushed forwards as Roxie shouted out and leaped forwards, slicing at the EVO's arm, stunning him as Roxie gave a wicked bicycle kick to the head, knocking him to the ground as she held his head under her boot.
"We want Quarry."
"I have no idea what you two are talking about."
Roxie only lowered her sword down near his neck with a look of fury. "How about now, punk?"
"I'm not that far up his food chain, okay!"
"But you can get a message to him, right?" Rex asked.
"M-maybe?" He stopped when he saw Roxie lower her foot more. "Yes!"
"You tell him that Rex and I are coming for him... and we want our book back."
Later, one of Quarry's hulking bodyguards along with the trio of the twins' former friends, burst out of a restaurant, carrying all the loot they could carry, not noticing the twins looming overhead as they followed them in the sky.
Later, the twins took notice as they entered what was obviously the entryway to Quarry's hideout. They then ran down as they used their nanites to manipulate the door into opening. However, once it did, they were greeted by an entire pack of EVOs, who looked down at them fiercely. Not even a little bit deterred, the Rexbuilt up the Smack Hands and Roxie summoned her warhammer and both of them and dodged and smashed at the EVOs, laying absolute waste to them as the scene went into slow motion like something out of The Matrix.
After approaching and curing all of the EVOs, the twins approached the final henchman and gave a strong dual punch to him, sending him flying into through the back doors and the twins glared.
"Quarry!" they both shouted as they saw Quarry along with their old friends.
"You're not changing our minds," Tuck said.
"We're not here to," Rex said as he and Roxie stepped forwards. "We clearly made a mistake and now we're here to fix it."
"You can do whatever you want to us after."
"Ooh! How loyal of you two. Ooh, it makes you feel all warm and happy inside, doesn't it?" Quarry said. "But do you two want to see what real loyalty looks like? Take them."
Tuck, Cricket and Skwydd rushed forwards towards the twins and they nodded to each other as they split up. Cricket tackled Rex, only for him to get onto his back and kick her off of him as he turned to Tuck, who sent a lashing arm at him and he dodged as Roxie leaped in and activated her hoverboard, flying at Tuck and Skwydd, dodging his tentacle arms as she grabbed them both and knocked their heads together before giving a javelin toss to the wall, sending them collapsing in a crater.
"Lo siento," she whispered as Rex grabbed Cricket and tossed her to her friends with a Smack Hand to the head. "Sorry."
The twins both drew their blades as they approached Quarry.
"Come on, guys," Quarry said, holding the twins' journal. "We both know this is what you really want. So go ahead. Take it. Walk away! Show them who you really are."
The twins stopped and turned to the trio as they regrouped.
"You were always great at taking care of yourselves. Why should now be any different?"
Suddenly, Roxie sliced the journal in half with her sword as she glared at Quarry.
"Whoever we were back then, it's not who we are now."
"Not anymore," Rex agreed, causing the trio to perk up.
"Your choice."
Quarry leaped forwards and punched at the ground, causing the twins to jump back to avoid him and Roxie dropped her swords and summoned a large shield to block Quarry's strikes.
Rex ran up with his BFS and slashed at Quarry, only for the blade to get stuck in his arm and it broke off and Quarry kicked him to the floor. Quarry then took the blade off his arm and tossed it to Rex, who dodged it before building up his Slam Cannon as Roxie conjured her warhammer and Rex sent a ball of debris at her and she swatted it to Quarry, who simply punched through it.
Quarry growled and grabbed Roxie, tackling her through several pillars as the trio only watched as their boss tossed her to her brother, sending them both in a heap. They watched as the mafia boss EVO charged towards them only for Tuck's arms to snare outwards and wrap around him, restraining him. Elsewere, Skwydd slashed through a pillar before Cricket ran up and kicked it towards Quarry. The attack however, barely even phased him and he dusted off his shirt.
Suddenly, Rex leaped up with his Smack Hand, activating its drill function and Quarry was soon sent barrelling into the ground, sending up a nasty cloud of dust and soon, Quarry was left in a crater, completely unconscious.
"Fight's over, Quarry," Rex spat. "You lose."
Quarry only smirked at them.
"Look at you two. Still fighting so hard and you two don't even know who you are."
"I may not remember who I was," Roxie answered. "But I know who I am."
A little later, Quarry was detained and led into a Providence tank for imprisoning as the twins stood by, proud before lookin at the trio behind them as White Knight called them.
"So you two got the fish. What about the minnows?"
"...They got away," Rex sighed, prompting bright smiles from Tuck, Cricket and Skwydd. "...But I don't think they're going to be a problem anymore."
The next morning, the crew looked at the remains of the hideout with a look of disappointment.
"I hope you donn't expect us to thank you," Skwydd scoffed.
"No. Just don't blow this," Rex said. "Providence won't be a problem unless you do something stupid."
"We would like you to join our team at Providence but... you're not exactly their favorite people right now," Roxie said. "It's not safe for you there."
"We'll be fine," Cricket said before kissing Rex's cheek. "Thank you, guys."
"Don't forget about us, okay?" Tuck asked.
"That may be a promsie we can't keep," Rex said, lowering his goggles as Roxie then suddenly jabbed him in the shoulder.
"We swear we won't forget you."
The twins then built their Boogie Pack and hoverboard before flying off.
"It's gonna happen again, isn't it?" Rex asked as Holiday examined the twins' eyes. "The amnesia thing?"
"We're gonna blank out again?" Roxie asked. "How long do we have?"
"I don't know, guys," Holiday said. "It's likely only triggered by a specific event. Something traumatic."
"So we only have to wait?" Rex asked.
"No," Six said. "You just have to live. Life is full of unknowns, Rex. It'll happen when it happens. And when it does, we'll still be here for both of you."
"Yeah," Roxie said, standing up. "And we'll have no idea who you are. Who we are."
"We won't remember things like Holiday wearing red shoes on Friday or Six keeping one of those weird tasting mints in his right coat-side pocket."
"That's why we got you both this," Six said, holding up what was clear to the twins. "It's a journal."
"Wow," Roxie said, flipping through the pages. "This is real paper. Kinda old school, Six."
"That's how I roll."
"I don't know how much of our past we want to remember now," Rex said. "But this life, here... It's pretty good. Thanks."
"Could we borrow a pen?" Roxie asked as Six pulled a pen from his jacket and handed it to them. "How about a mint?"
"Don't push your luck, kid."