Disclaimer: Fanfiction of cartoonace's fanfiction called "N-Men '' which is based off the Nickeloadeon tv series "The Adtenvures of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius' ' by John A. Davis. Just a fan of a fan. Strictly using this as editing and writing practice I own nothing. This is for fun. Enjoy. https/s/13217034/1/The-N-Men
Saturday, at 19:21
Sid, Libby, Carl, and Brent were leaving the Retroville Mega Mall after having a fun time. "You were right Sid, a day at the mall is just what we needed after all the weird stuff that's been happening." Brent commented. "Ya, I figured we could relax here." Sid replied. Libby and Carl were walking behind them. "What did you get there, Carl?" Libby said while looking down trying to see into his bags. "Just some stuff for Jamey, she told me she's going nuts being stuck in her lab." Answered Carl. Libby had noticed Jamey getting a little stir crazy, but they all knew why to an extent as to why Jamey had to stay in the lab, but Libby was also happy to see that Jamey and Carl are getting close again. If Libby was being honest with herself she was kind of jealous because she will never have that kind of relationship with her brother. "What kind of stuff did you grab for her?" Libby asked curious as to what Carl got for her. "Well the last thing I'm gonna grab for her is a burger so it's still warm, but I got hair ties and some new shirts." Libby took a look at the clothes Carl had gotten for Jamey, this caused SId and Brent to stop and watch the scene. Libby pulled out three oversized shirts that would not fit Jamey whatsoever and they had clashing colors and a plaid design on one, and the others were cut in a way that did not look as though it would be flattering on Jamey. "You picked these out for your sister? Carl, these are way too big, the girl is tiny."
"I don't want to sound mean Carl, but those shirts could be better." Sid said, trying to be nice about it. "Ok look I'm not good at shopping ok." Libby realized that she might have sounded a little mean. "Hey look it's ok we can go back and find something else for her. Come on, I have a great eye for this sort of thing." Carl gave her a smile and mouthed the words thank you. "Hey Carl how come I've never met your sister if she is the same age as us?" Brent asked. Carl looked at the boy with a smile. "Oh yeah she's our age, but she is like a legit genius and graduated really early." This caused Brent to just freeze and look at both Sid and Libby to see if he was just making this up. The two nodded at him to confirm that Carl was telling the truth. "That's pretty cool. You got a picture of her?" Now it was Carl, Sid, and Libby turn to freeze. "I'm not sure we have a recent picture of her, right Carl?" Libby had interjected. Brent was very confused. They had been hanging out for weeks and there was no photo even from her brother. "You're hiding something. Come on, what is it? Is she ugly?" Brent said jokingly, but it was not recieved well causing everyone to try and not give Brent a dirty look. Sid was the one to finally speak up. "Look you remember that incident that happened a while ago how it changed the DNA of some people giving them powers?" Brent nodded slowly and then his eyes lit up like a light bulb turned on. Then Brent whispered like it was a great secret. "No way your sister got powers?" Carl looked less stressed at this point. "No. She didn't get powers, but it did affect her."
Brent was confused by this. "In what way?" Libby pulled out her phone and found a 'normal' photo of Jamey with Carl, Sid, and herself eating pizza. When she showed Brent the photo of Jamey he became a little less excited. He was kind of hoping to meet someone with powers. "So she's basically a human orange." Libby turned her phone back to her and Carl and slightly nodded in agreement. "Pretty much. Oooh, Carl, maybe we should get Jamey something with oranges on it that could be super cute." Brent looked at Sid who was just silently laughing at this. He then elbowed his friend and said. "Hey Sid. Jamey was pretty cute even as a human orange don't you think?" This did cause Sid to blush a bit and also this caught the attention of Carl and Libby who stayed silent, but gave knowing snickers. "Uhm yeah I guess…" Sid tried to say but was interrupted.
An alarm sounded off
The group saw mall security move out to stop it. Sid gave a quick sigh of releaf. "Wonder what's going on?" Asked Brent looking at the group. Sid, Libby, and Carl looked at each other. "Brent, I think you should get the car, just in case." Sid suggested trying to get this friend to leave the area as quickly as possible out of harm's way. "Got it." Brent replied, as he ran to where the car was. "So what do we do?" Libby asked Sid trying to figure out what the plan was. "I'll handle this." Sid answered super speeding off. "But I think we should work together." Carl tried to tell Sid but it was no use he was gone. "Come on Carl, let's contect Jamey and see if she has a better plan then Lone Ranger." Libby said to Carl as they ran out to a hidden place to contact Jamey. The robbers were running away from mall security. "This way!" One of the mall cops shouted, but the robbers climbed onto the roof evading the cops. "Dammit!" One of the cops shouted, the robbers continued to run along the roof until Special Guy supersped in front of them, Sid screamed. "Okay, put whatever you stole back and surrender." The robbers kept quiet and tried to run, Sid supersped in front of them again. "Look I really don't want to hurt you guys." The robbers tried to fight him, showing off impressive martial arts skills, she dodged them easily. "You really think those moves can stop me." He said cockily.
He grabbed one of them and threw one robber at the other. "Alright time for jail now." He said unmasking them, revealing two elderly citizens. "What the..!" Sid said to himself as the police arrived it was then that Special Guy supersped off. By this time Brent had finally brought the car over to where Carl and Libby were, they had called Jamey by the time Sid had caught up to the robbers. "Where's Sid?" He asked in a panicked state. "Well...Uhm." Libby tried to explain but was unsure about what to say. "I'm right here." Sid reveals himself at just the right moment. "Let's get out of here, before the cops question us." Commented Libby not wanting to draw any more attention to themselves.. "Why?" Asked Brent sinsing everybodies apprehension. "Because...That could take a while and I have a curfew." Answered Carl unsure if the lie would be good enough, but thankful it was enough to convince Brent that they should leave now. "Alright then. Let's go." Replied Brent as they headed towards his car so he could drive each of them home, while in the car Libby looked through the stuff Carl had gotten for Jamey. "Oh no we never went back and got new shirts." She mentioned knowing full well that that was not the most important thing on everyone's mind but it was a nice distraction till they could get back to the lab. "I'm sure it will be fine Libby." Brent said trying to ease her, but Libby still wanted to do something nice for her friend. "Hey Carl, give the shirts you got for Jamey, I think I can figure something out with them." Carl was very unsure what she was thinking, but did as he was told and not a moment too soon, because Brent was arriving at her house. Libby said her goodbyes and entered her home and went straight to her room knowing the drill to wait till after dark to sneak out to the lab. Libby knew that she had time to work some magic on these clothes. After a while they snuck off and went to Jamey's Lab.
At 20:40
Sid, Libby, and Carl entered Jamey's Lab. "Did you get my stuff?" Jamey asked. Carl handed her a bag of food that Jamey opened. "Thanks bud, I've been wanting a Krabby Patty for weeks." Carl just looked at her with a matter of fact look. "You should be thanking me, that cashier Woodward was a real donkey." This caused Libby to let a chuckle at his statement as she walked in right behind him carrying the other bag for Jamey; she had altered the shirts that should now not only fit the tiny scientist but also be flattering on her as well. "Here Carl let me work on some of the shirts he got but the plaid one I just could not do anything with." Jamey looked in the bag and saw the shirts Libby was talking about and took two out of the bag holding them up to her loving them. "Thanks Libby and Carl." Jamey looked at the last shirt that was in the bag that Libby was talking about. The button up plaid shirt made up of the colors of white neon yellow and mustard yellow. At the sight of the shirt Jamey almost got teary eyed. She went to hug her brother, whispering a thank you to him. Both Libby and Sid were confused as to why Jamey had this reaction to this hideous shirt. "How did you find this? It looks exactly like my dad's favorite shirt." Carl knew how much his sister missed her father unlike his own dad Jamey's dad was a really good man who had also been there for him when he was still alive. The night Hugh Neutron was killed he was wearing this exact same shirt and it was ruined by the killer and taken in for evidence. Jamey had been not so secretly looking for another one of those shirts with no success so when Carl found it he knew he needed to grab it for her.
"You don't talk about your dad much." Libby stated. "Yeah. He was a really great guy, one of the best. He treated me like his son even though he did not have to." Carl said. "He was so funny. He was so smart, but always made sure to be emotionally aware too. Most military scientists forget that. When he was home he'd always talk about ducks and pie. He loved pie." Jamey said with a smile and a giggle at the random little memories of her father. "It was a break-in that went wrong, right?" Sid asked. He was little when it had happened, but it was across the street so he had heard all about it from his parents. "Yeah." Jamey said sadly. Libby decided to go back to talking about the shirt instead of the depressing scene infront of them. "So this was his favorite shirt?" She was generally concerned about the answer. "Yeah. He did not really have any sense of style. What-so-ever." Jamey said with a weak smile. "Anyway, enough talking about memory lane. Thank you again Libby and Carl for my stuff. I love it. And I am so hungry, thanks again for bringing the burger." Jamey stated. "That cook, Bob, seemed really nice. Anyway, why didn't you just order take out?" Asked Libby. "They don't deliver." Answered Jamey before taking a giant bite of her burger.
Realizing that they have completely strayed from topic as to why they were here Sid thought to ask the needed question in the room. "Enough about the Krabby Patties, let's talk about those ninja old people I fought." Interrupted Sid was a little frustrated due to today's fight at the mall. Jamey finished the bite of the burger that was in her mouth and started to walk over to her computer and images of the elders popped up. "Robert and Margaret Brown, two former taekwondo champions. Case closed." Then took another bite of her burger. "Why did they rob the mall?" Asked Libby in a tone that made it sound like there was supposed to be more to that answer. "That is an interesting question cause according to these files, the happy couple has more than enough in thier 4O1K's, you guys go home I'll look into it." Answered Jamey as she rubbed the bridge of her nose trying to rid herself of the oncoming headache that decided to pay her a visit.
"Before I forget. Carl this is for you. Sorry it took so long." Jamey handed Carl a box. "What's this?" Asked Carl, knitting his eyebrows in confusion while looking at the box his sister just handed him. "It's your super suit. A special suit designed by me to absorb the excess sound waves you might unleash, the gloves are to help you better channel you power and the glasses have a neuron transponder built in connecting it to your brain, the dial is so you can control how high or low you want the frequency to be." Replied Jamey kind of proud of the work she had done on her brother's suit. "Wow, thanks Jamey!" Carl said excitedly, he really wanted to go try on the suit at that moment, but decided it would be best to wait for now. "He gets all that and I get glorified spandex." Libby said to Sid in jealousy. Sid knew Libby was mostly joking about that, because they all knew how much time and effort Jamey put into each of their suits to be tailored to each of them. Both Sid and Libby tried to hold back laughs at her statement about the suits, but were quickly cut off by Jamey who announced. "And tomorrow, I want to start team building drills."
"Why?" Asked Sid who did not think they needed any training. "You guys have been lucky lately and remember Sid, Stone's still out there." Replied Jamey full of concern when it involved the mutated astronut. "Who's Stone?" Libby spoke up confused about who they were talking about. "It's a long story." Sid replied not having soon forgotten about their first really big bad and everything that he had said to him. Which also reminded him that he needed to dig into the accident if he was going to get real answers, because he was pretty certain that he was not getting the truth. Sid was suddenly snapped out of his thoughts when Jamey started talking again. "I want you guys here around 14 hundred hours." Libby and Sid answered her swiftly before starting to head out and back to their homes to get some sleep. "Got it." Sid answered. "Sure." Libby answered. "Ahh..." Carl answered Jamey sighed "It means two o'clock Carl." Carl finally understood. "Oh, then I get it."
The next day at 14:26
Sid, Libby, and Carl came to Jamey's Lab as Special Guy, Invisister, and Echo. Jamey entered the room with Goddard eating a jar of pickles. "Alright Nerdtron we're here!" Sid announced hostile still thinking that it was a waste of time doing training drills. "Okay, follow me." She replied, grabbing a pickle from her jar. They all followed Jamey into a room causing them to now question how much space was actually down here. "Damn how big is this underground lab?" Commented Libby looking at Jamey who ate another pickle. "Welcome to the Neutron Virtual Reality Chamber!" She said proudly with her mouth slightly still full but not enough to be gross. "Enough with the announcements, get on with it!" Sid shouted to Jamey who ate yet another pickle. "Fine, basically this room creates realistic 3D holograms capable of touching you."
"That's cool." Libby commented, impressed by the technology that was infront of them. "First exercise is capture the flag." Jamey declared while eating another pickle. Everyone was now getting a little excited about the Training because if it was going to be something like the game they have all played, how bad could it be? "You guys are going to face a small army of soldiers and try to take the flag inside thier base." Jamey left the room and re-entered the main lab and watched them on the screen. "Alright, are you guys ready?" Sid and Libby were still into the idea of doing this train Carl on the other hand was not. "Ya." Sid answered pumped. "Totally." Libby answered willing to take a shot at this. "No." Carl answered not ready what-so-ever. "Let's begin!" Jamey responded, ignoring Carl. The room they were in changed, the white room became like a desert with few trees in the area, a large castle formed in front of them and finally hundreds of soldiers began to form, some on ground and others inside and outside the building, all holding RPG's and AK47's.
Jamey spoke to them through a speaker. "Alright guys, I've been working with Carl this last week and together we found out that Carl has a echolocation ability, here's the plan; Libby turns invisible, Carl uses his ability to detect where she is, through the coms you two communicate and protect her leading the soldiers away while she sneaks in, got it." They all nodded thier heads in agreement. "Oh ya, for those of you without bullet proof skin, these virtual bullets won't kill you but they will hurt like hell. Alright begin!" The virtual soldiers began to charge at the team, Carl and Libby followed the plan, she went invisible while he used his powers to detect where she was and relayed it back to Sid. "Libby's on the left so let's draw them to the right!" Unfortunately Sid was not going to listen to his teammates and decide to go head first into this. "No need." Sid replied as he raced right through the soldiers, a few tried to shoot him down but thier bullets were ineffective. As the bullets were flying around, Libby who was invisible tried to evade them was struck down, fell in pain, and reappeared. "Ahh!" She screamed out thinking that Jamey really wasn't kidding about how bad those virtual bullets hurt. "Libby!" Screamed Carl running over towards her and used his powers to defend her. He put up a good fight but was eventually shot down by one of the soldiers.
Sid made his way to the castle gates, a sniper from one of the towers shot at his head. "That just annoying!" He said to himself, he used his speed to quickly climb the tower. When he got to the sniper, he pulled out a hand gun and fired it at his eye. "Ahh!" Sid screamed before giving the sniper a vicious look. "Oh, oh!" The virtual soldier said to himself as Sid grabbed him throughing him away, he jumped off of the tower, and landed in the foya of the castle. More soldiers ran in front of him and began firing thier guns, but Sid stood still smiling, unaffected by the bullets. He raced through them and began tearing through the walls. He made it into the room where the flag was. "Easy." He said to himself extremely cocky. When he stepped in the room, the entire castle exploded. Carl and Libby watched the castle explode. "What happened?" Asked Libby. Carl shrugged his shoulders, and saw Sid flying through the air, landing next to them. Sid got up, all wobbly and said. "I'm okay." A big holographic banner came up with the words mission failed on it. The room went back to normal. Jamey came through it eating another pickle. "Well that was a complete failure."
"What, I think it went well." Sid replied. Everybody gave her a stern look. "Really the castle exploded Sid." Jamey commented. "You went off on your own and left us dead in the water." Libby added. "It's not my fault you guys can't keep up." Sid stated. "Sid, you do realize you have super speed and bullet proof skin!" Libby argued. "It's not my fault we failed, why the hell did the castle explode!?" Sid asked. "It's simple Sid, the virtuel general saw you enter his castle and decided he would rather lose the flag than have you take it." Jamey answered. "That's stupid." Sid commented not happy with the reasoning Jamey gave. "Actually I think it was a good idea." Carl commented timidly. "What do you mean?" Asked Sid. "Well if I didn't like someone and they wanted to take something of mine and I know I can't stop them, I would rather destroy it then let them have it, and two Jamey did tell us how to win, if Libby had infiltrated the General probably wouldn't have seen her take it and we would have won." Carl answered. "Well said Wheezer." Commented Libby. Jamey praised Carl jumping on his shoulders slightly. "Couldn't have explained it better myself Bro." Carl blushed from the appreciation. "You guys are just jealous of me." Sid said pridefully.
"Look Sid, you need to learn to trust your partners. Force proved that you can't do it all alone." Jamey added, causing Sid to stay quiet, but before anyone else could add to the discussion an alarm sounded off that caused the group to go back to the main section of the lab. "What's with the alarm?" Asked Libby covering her ears from the loud noise. "When the Browns were arrested they claimed that they didn't remember ever leaving thier house." Answered Jamey. "What does that have to do with the alarm?" Asked Sid. "Well I wrote an algorithm to search if anyone in the last few weeks have had any similar crimes." Answered Jamey. "You think a mutant is behind this." Commented Sid starting to follow Jamey's trail of thought. "Yes I do." Replied Jamey, nodding her head looking Sid right in the eyes. .
"What did you find?" Asked Carl. "In the last few weeks a string of robberies have been caused by regular civilians; In Coolsville it was a bank robbery by David Soleman, a teacher, In Crystal Cove, it was a break in caused by Tim Gordan and Melisa James, a young couple and in Uber Town a police officer Peter Declan….. shot himself." Answered Jamey with a little grief in her voice. "What do any of them have in common?" Asked Sid as he stood behind Jamey looking at the same screen she was. "Nothing at all." Answered Jamey as she rubbed her temples. "David Soleman had tenure and was making a decent amount, Tim and Melisa were on honor roll and the most surprising one of all Peter, he had a big house, three kids, a lot of family money, and no prior mental health issues, he had no reason to kill himself." Jamey was holding back a headache and tears, everytime something like this happens and someone gets hurt or killed because of a mutant that was made from her machine, she blames herself. Sid noticed this and knew what Jamey was thinking. He knew that she felt awful about all the trouble her work caused and that it wasn't fair for her to bury herself in guilt so he tried to distract her mind. "That's sad and all but like I said, what do these things have in common?" Sid asked, looking at Jamey hoping she would see some sort of connection. "Look at the screen." Jamey ordered, a map appeared showing the team a pattern. "They are happening in a straight line." Commented Libby. "That has led here." Sid added, pointing to the spot that Retroville was on the map. "And since the Browns failed, the mutant might try again." Commented Jamey.
Later that night, at 11:59
A group of thugs led by a red hooded individual ordered them. "Get those things in quickly!" They followed his orders and began moving faster without delay, a traffic camera was picking up thier movements. Jamey was working late in her lab with Goddard. "Jeez, finding this mutant is harder than I thought." She said to herself, rubbing her eyes. Jamey was pushing yet another all nighter and was extremely tired. "Goddard download all the video footage from the towns and search for a person who's been in all the towns in the last few weeks." Goddard looked at her shocked. "Yes I know it's a lot of data but we need it." Goddard began downloading the footage. An alarm sounded off on Jamey's computer. "A robbery at Mike's Electronic store." She said to herself quickly she contacted the team waking them all up speaking to them through the video feed on thier com watches. "What do you want!?" Screamed Sid. "Do you realize what time it is!?" Screamed Libby. "Yes llama. You can feed me some pie." Carl said in a sleepy daze. Jamey looked at him in shock. "I'll get back to that. Anyway there's a robbery at Mike's Electronic store." Sid looked at her with determination to prove that he could handle this. "Where is that!?" Asked Sid. "Your watches have the GPS coordinates down, they'll lead you there." Answered Jamey. "I'll get there in a minute." Sid commented. Jamey tried to say. "Sid, I think you should wait for Carl and..." Sid supersped off leaving his watch. "Libby." She continued realizing he left. "I'll get there as fast as I can." Libby said before logging off. Carl continued sleeping. "Carl! Carl!" Jamey screamed trying to wake him up.
Back at the robbery
The thugs were just about finished loading all the equipment. Special Guy raced in and quickly took down all the thugs. "So you're that Special Guy the news talks about." The hooded figure said, coming out of the shadows. He tackled him into a wall. "It's over for you." All Special Guy could hear for a moment was a disconcerting laugh. "You'd think." He replied, he unveiled his hood and revealed that he had a third eye. "What the..." He said surprised. A bright light flashed, Special Guy got temporarily blinded, he looked around and found the hooded figure was gone. Carl and Libby got there as the Invisister and Echo moments later. "Where's the mutant?" Asked Libby who looked at Sid who was rubbing his eyes.. "I don't know he must have gotten away." Replied Sid, still a bit dazed. "How did he get away from you?" Asked Carl. "I don't know." Replied Sid, still a little annoyed at the turn of the events. "Let's take you back to the lab." Libby suggested. They took Sid back to Jamey's lab, and she examined him. "There's nothing wrong with him." Jamey commented which was then followed by a yawn. "Then why did I freeze when I got the mutant?" Asked Sid not liking the answer.
"It must have been his powers, he or she could stop time or is a speedster like yourself." Jamey answered yawning again, forcing to fully stop in her tracks. "Don't worry Sid, we'll get him next time." Carl said, trying to reassure Sid who was still looking dazed. "Can I go home now? I'm really tired." Sid turned his full attention to Jamey who looked at the time and saw that it was really late or should she say really early and they all needed to get some sleep before tomorrow's very busy day. "Sure." Jamey answered, trying to hold back another yawn, thinking sleep was not a bad idea right about now. "You guys should rest until you have school in the morning." Who had started to shut some stuff in her lab down. "Okay." Sid replied. "Cool." Libby replied. "Sure. You too." Carl replied, gracing his sister's arm and looked her in the eyes, noticing how tired she was as well. He wanted to make sure she got some rest too. "Will do. Also earlier were you dreaming about eating pie with a llama?" Jamey asked her brother, but before she got an answer he rushed out of her lab as quickly as he could. With that she let out a slight chuckle and proceeded to shut everything down.
Later that morning, at 03:44
Sid was lying in his bed when he suddenly woke up and supersped out of his house.
A few hours later, at 06:12
Jamey called the team back to the lab. "What did you want, Nerdtron!? It's six am!" Sid asked, annoyed. "Last night three banks were robbed." Jamey answered a little annoyed herself with very dark circles under her eyes and some messy hair. The team saw that she was still in her pj's which was an oversized hoodie (from Retroville Advanced Institute of Science and Engineering) and pajama shorts. "How much was taken?" Asked Libby. "All of it." Jamey answered very bluntly. "What!?" Sid shouted which caused a very tired and a very annoyed Jamey to cover her ears. "The bank vaults were literally ripped out." Jamey continued. "How could anyone pull that off?" Asked Carl, placing a hand on her shoulder and speaking in a much lower voice. "Simple, the perp had super strength and superspeed." Answered Jamey in a very serious tone looking at Carl. "Like Sid?" Asked Libby not to accuse the boy. "No, it was Sid." Answered Jamey. This stopped everyone dead in their tracks to then turn to look at the boy in question. "What! I would never do anything like that." Sid said in his defense. "Look at this." Jamey ordered, she pulled up footage from the bank robberies with the assailant being Sid. "I don't remember doing that." Sid said in shock. "That mutant that got away from you yesterday must have the power to hypnotize people making them do whatever he wants." Commented Jamey, still frustrated, but now everyone realized that some of that frustration was aimed at herself for not catching it the night before and the rest was probably caused due to her being tired and being kept up all night due to the alarms from the bank robberies. "How do we stop him?" Asked Libby a little worried for Jamey who looked like she was forcing herself to not doze off. "Right now we can't. We just have to wait until he calls Sid again." Answered Jamey who was resting her head on her hands. "You guys go to school and be on standby." They nodded thier heads in agreement and left the lab to head to school, but before Carl left he turned to Jamey with concern in his eyes. "While we are at school go to bed." She nodded her head at her brother and went straight to bed to finally get some sleep.
Later that night at 01:57
Sid was asleep in his bed, his eyes opened and he supersped off. Carl and Libby were watching him in Jamey's hovercraft as their alter egos. "He's going, let's follow." Ordered Libby as she flew the hovercraft after Sid. "Why didn't we tell Sid we were doing this?" Asked Carl. "Because he's compromised right now, he might tell him about the plan." Replied Jamey on the coms. They followed her to a warehouse. He entered the building and met with the hooded figure. "Welcome back sweetheart." He said creepily. "Your next assignment is to go to the military base and get me a weapon's grade 3D printer. Do you understand." He nodded his head in agreement. The hooded figure was struck multiple times by the Invisister, while she was invisible. "Ahh!" He screamed. "You have the right to remain silent!" Carl screamed as Libby reappeared. "We're not cops, we don't say that." Looking a little disappointed Carl replied. "Oh." The hooded figure got up. "I see you brought friends my pet, take care of them and then go get the printer."
Sid speed rushed at Libby, instantly knocking her out. Carl used his sonic blast and sent Sid flying through the wall. He quickly rebounded and supersped towards him grabbing his arms. Carl tried to break free but couldn't, he tossed him aside into some crates knocking him out as well. The hooded figure walked up to Sid. "Good work. Now get my 3D printer." He obeyed and supersped off." Later that morning, at 10:30 am, Carl and Libby woke up in Jamey's lab. "You guys okay?" Jamey asked, extremely worried about the two. "Ya, just have a headache." Answered Libby. "Me too." Carl commented. "What hit us?" Jamey finally let out the breath she didn't know she was holding before answering. "Sid did." She walked to her computer and continued. "I got word from the base a while ago, last night Sid stole a 3D printer."
"To what, make whistles?" Asked Libby. "Not that type of 3D printer, a weapons grade 3D printer capable of making weapons." Jamey answered. "That's bad." Commented Carl. Libby gave a 'no duh' look before turning the look at Jamey. "Who was that guy controlling Sid anyway?" Asked Libby as Jamey began typing on her computer, running facial recognition when a picture came up Jamey's face became terror stricken. "Who's that?" Asked Carl noticing her distress. "His name is Ian Wong, he was one of the scientists that worked on the Neutron Chamber with me." Jamey answered still in disbelief. "I thought he had died, no one could even find his body." Libby and Carl saw Jamey's face and it looked like she saw a ghost, well maybe because she had. "What does he want?" Asked Carl. "I don't know." Jamey sighed as she began typing on her computer again. "And now he has the most powerful person on the planet under his control." Libby said frustrated. "What happened to Sid?" Asked Carl worried. "He didn't return home, so I don't know." Jamey replied looking as though she was going to throw up. For the record Jamey has a strong constitution, but all she has ever wanted to do was help people and to see how her work has turned into something catastrophic and the results are being used to hurt a lot of people and do a lot of wrong. It was safe to say it was all making her a little sick to the stomach just thinking about the fact that she was partly responsible for all of this. "Maybe Sid was right that we can't do this without him." Libby sighed as she plopped down on Jamey's sofa. "Don't think like that Libby, if Sid hadn't gone off on his own Ian wouldn't have gotten him in the first place." Jamey said, trying to reassure Libby as much as herself. "Then what do we do?" Asked Carl. Jamey thought for a moment and answered. "From the look of things, Ian controls his victims with that third eye of his, he verbally gives them commands, and his victims will do everything in their power to complete them."
"But he didn't give Sid any commands when they first met, how did he control him then?" Asked Libby. "I'm not sure, he must have implanted some kind of post hypnotic suggestion or something." Jamey answered. "Then how do we stop him?" Carl asked. "I don't know, my best guess, knock him out." Jamey replied. "And how do we do that with the blonde zombie guarding him." Libby asked. "I have a plan, but if it's going to work you guys are going to need to work together." Jamey continued making Libby and Carl look at each other and agreed. "You're right, what should we do?" Libby asked. "Right now the only thing we can, wait." Jamey answered.
Later that day at 14:36
Ian was talking with someone on the phone while Sid was standing, still in a trance. "I know I'm behind schedule, but I procured the General's son, all's going according to plan." He said in a nervous state. The phone call ended and Ian sighed in relief. "Thank God that's over." He walked towards Sid, his third eye opened up again. "Bring me another 3D printer, this one located at Ceasar Labs, vault 37." Sid followed his orders and sped off.
Back at Jamey's lab
Jamey and the team were finalizing the plan. "So we're in agreement, right?" Jamey commented. Carl and Libby nodded their heads in agreement. Then suddenly an alarm sounded off, Jamey ran to her computer to check it out. "There's a break in at Ceasar Labs, you guys got to get there quick." Libby and Carl gave Jamey a confident smile and left the lab. At Ceasar Labs the corridors were filled with unconscious guards and scientists, Sid was standing in front of a giant metal door labeled 37. He ripped the door off its hinges and threw it aside. He looked over at the printer and picked it up. In the room no more than a few steps away from Sid, Libby was sneaking around, invisible. Sid superspeed off while Libby ran out the room avoiding the police who had just arrived. She met with Carl who was in the hovercraft in an alleyway a few blocks from the lab, she got into the craft and called Jamey on her coms watch. "I put the tracker on the printer, and I got to tell Jamey this plan of yours is exactly like the one that just got us knocked out."
"Don't worry, just follow the plan and everything will be fine." Jamey replied. Sid brought the printer to Ian, he opened his third eye again and flashed him. He took out his phone and made a call. "Sir, I've acquired the last component...I'm positive he wasn't followed this time...I'll be waiting for your arrival." The phone call ended and Ian gave another big sigh. "That guy's going to give me a heart attack." He then walked over to the printer. "All this trouble for money and tech." He noticed a small device on the printer. "What the!?" He grabbed it and screamed. "You have got to be kidding..." Before he could finish Jamey walked into the building and screamed smugly. "Ian how've you been, you don't call, you don't write." Clearly not happy to have been found out by his academic rival. "Neutron! What are you doing here?" Ian replied grimly. "Well you've been using innocent people to do your dirty work and I've come to stop you." She answered confidentiality. "And by the way that little device that was on the printer was also a miniature EMP, basically that thing's worthless now." Ian gave Jamey an angry panicked expression. "You do not know what you've done, if he finds out..."
"If who finds out?" Jamey interrupted looking at him curiously slowly realizing that this was more than just elaborate petty thefts. "That doesn't matter." He replied as he ran towards Sid and opened his eyes again and commanded. "Kill Neutron!" Sid obeyed and rushed at Jamey grabbing her neck lifting her up off the ground. "Try to break free. Fight him." Jamey tried to say, but she could barely breath and she was now starting to see spots as she was clawing at Sid's hand trying to free herself. All she did manage was to cause her nails to bleed because of his invonuable skin. Sid started to squeeze tighter, choking her to the point of passing out, but before he could break Jamey's neck they were blasted across the room by Carl's sonic attack. Sid was about to get up, he was blasted into the wall with such force it began to crack, Carl kept firing at him effectively pinning him against the wall. "Ah crap!" Ian screamed, he thought for a moment and realized. "Where's the other one!" He looked around in a panicked frenzy, but before he knew it something latched onto his neck. "What the!?" Libby appeared before him with a confident smirk. "What is this thing!?" He asked, trying to pull the device off. "Inhibitor collar." She replied smugly. "Oh...Oh." He said worryingly. "Oh...Oh, is that right." She replied with a smile and proceeded to attack him with a flurry of punches and kicks then knocking him out with a roundhouse kick. "Echo, you can stop now." Carl tired from all the blasts painted. "Thanks, don't know how much longer I could do that." Sid woke up with a ringing in his ears. "WHAT'S GOING ON!?"
"We'll tell you later." Libby answered. "WHAT!" Sid screamed. "I'm not doing this." She said to herself as she walked over to an unconscious Jamey with Carl. When Sid saw Jamey laying there he was worried at what had happened to her. "WHAT HAPPENED TO JAMEY?" Sid screamed as he saw the thick deep bruises that were already forming around her neck. Libby just looked at him and replied. "I'LL YOU TELL BACK AT THE LAB!"
Back at Jamey's Lab.
"Gotta say I'm glad she created that thing." Sid said leaving the pod being able to hear again. "Ya, she's a real genius." Carl replied, Sid walked over to Carl and Libby feeling really guilty. "Guys, I'm sorry I went off on my own and got captured." Sid then looked over at the pod where Jamey still was unconscious feeling really guilty for almost killing her. None of this would have happened if he had just listened to her and his team. "It's cool." Libby replied calmly. "Ya, everyone makes mistakes, I did technically try to kill Libby last week." Carl replied joyously. "I guess it's almost a right of passage to be in a deathmatch with a teammate now?" They all turned to see Jamey leaving the pod, but her voice was still a little horse. "Thanks guys, I promise I won't go off on my own anymore, we're a team." Sid commented happily seeing that Jamey was ok. Jamey was still in a bit of pain but it was no longer life threatening. She was rubbing her throat when she thought back to the events earlier tonight "By the way what happened to that third eyed freak." Jamey slowly sat down and replied. "Don't worry Hypno won't be hurting anyone again."
"So that's what we're calling him, okay." Libby commented jokingly. "They just brought him in, and thanks to some anonymous tips backed with hard facts, his victims are being discharged as we speak." Jamey answered trying really hard not to let anyone else know that her throat still hurt.. "Then we have a happy ending, let's get some fro-yo." Carl screamed happily. "Hold on Carl there's just one question, who was Ian working for." Jamey commented. "What do you mean?" Asked Sid. "Someone has had Ian stealing money and various pieces of tech, the last two are the most interesting." She continued. "The 3D printers." Carl commented. "Yes, the one he stole from the military base was a weapons grade 3D printer and the one he stole from Caesar Labs was a Bio 3D printer." Jamey continued. "What's a Bio 3D printer?" Asked Libby. "A printer capable of creating organs." Sid answered anxiously. "What would he want with those things?" Carl asked. "That's the million dollar question, buddy." Jamey replied.
Black Creek Prison, at 02:36
Ian was sitting in his cell staring at the wall. When he heard an all too familiar voice. "So Mr Wong you've failed me." Ian jumped up in fear and began to look around. "It wasn't my fault! It was Neutron and his freaks!" He screamed like a frightened child. "Excuses, excuses." The voice calmly stated. "Where are you!?" Ian screamed, panicking. "Right here, Mr Wong." The voice replied then suddenly the walls in Ian's cell began to melt and move as if they were alive, taking form, revealing to be Stone. "I needed every last material to build myself a new body Mr Wong, you have failed me and I don't take failure lightly." He said disappointed, shaping his arm into a blade. "No! No! I can still be useful to you, remember my power." Ian screamed crying like a child. "You could be right." Stone replied, Ian gave him a relieved look. "Then again, you need a reminder of what will happen to you if you fail again." Stone commented, he swung his arm cutting off Ian's left hand. "Ahhhhh!" Ian screamed in pain. "Put some ice on that, I'm sure you'll be fine, I'll return for you one day, and if you fail me again I'll take more than your hand." Stone threatened then left the room walking through the walls and said to himself. "If Neutron wants to fight, I'll fight."
Monday, 09:48
Sheen Estevez was standing on a rooftop, watching the bank across the street through a pair of binoculars, waiting for his moment. When the bank vault opened he raced into the building with near invisible speed, within a second he was back on the rooftop holding a sack full of money, with a smug grin on his face he super sped off. Sheen supersped to the entrance of an old condemned building. "I got your money, Zupco!" He screamed as he walked in. A tall muscular bald man stepped out from the shadows with a pack of thugs. "I see, Mr Estevez. Take the bag." He ordered. One of the thugs grabbed the bag from Sheen and gave it to Zupco. He counted the money inside. "You're still short, Estevez." Sheen just looked at the man and said. "Don't worry I'll get the rest." With a snicker the man responded. "I know you will because if you don't...Well I don't have to tell you what I'll do." Sheen agreed and left the building.
At 13:45
Sid and his mom were walking down a street. "This is nice, we don't get to do this anymore." Susan commented. "Ya, I've just been so busy with school and working with Jamey and the team." Sid replied. "Oh, her." Susan replied crassly. "She's actually really cool Mom, she didn't mean for any of this to happen." Sid said in Jamey's defense. "But it still did." Susan argued before adding. "Look, I know she is helping you, but that doesn't change the fact that she is dangerous, not to mention a little freak even before that machine went off." She added that last part under her breath forgetting that Sid had his superhearing. "Mom! She is no more a freak than I am." Sid was not happy at the hostility she had towards Jamey. She was his friend and she was doing everything she could to help. "You know what I mean." Being very vague that Sid actually did not know what she meant, but he decided to pick his battles. The two were met with a long awkward silence, until Sid saw an ice cream truck. "You know what we need, ice cream." Wanting to break the tension; Sid knew that Jamey was responsible for building the machine that blew up causing all of this, but the more he got to know her the more he realized that she had only wanted the best for people and would never do something like this intentionally. Or even by accident and when that thought enters his mind he is brought back to the conversation with Stone about who really caused the accident. Sid was brought out of his thoughts when he heard his mother talking to him. "I think you're right. I'll go get us some." Susan replied, then walked over to the truck.
When she walked back to Sid, a driver lost control of his car, it turned over and headed straight for her. Using his superspeed Sid raced towards his mother. In a flash, a blue blur passed him, moved his mother out of the way and ran off. Sid stopped when he reached his mother. "Thanks baby, I would've been a goner if it weren't for you." Still in a bit of shock because he knew something she did not. "It wasn't me." Sid replied, completely shocked. Susan looked around in a panic. "What's wrong? Are you hurt!?" Sid was worried for his mother, wondering if she didn't avoid getting injured. "No, my purse is missing."
At Jamey's Lab
Carl and Libby were having a sparring match. "Jamey, are you sure we have to do this?" Carl asked. "Definitely, you guys need more combat experience, remember no powers." Jamey answered a little excitedly, ok look she may be someone who tried to prevent harm, but it did not mean that she was nonviolent and hated a good fight. Not that she'd ever show or admit it. Carl timidly lunged at Libby, she caught his arm and flipped him over. "Oww!" Jamey rushed over to her brother. "You okay, bro?" Carl looked at her a little dazzed. "The only thing that hurts is my pride." That comment made everyone in the room laugh a bit as Libby helped Carl backup asking. "You wanna go again?" In which Carl briskly replied. "No." Causing everyone to let out another laugh. Sid walked into the lab in a huff in which Jamey noticed. "Oh look who decided to grace us with his presents." Sid was not in the mood for jokes at the moment. "Not now, Nerdtron. My mom was in an accident." This caused everyone's smile to drop and look at him with concern. "Oh no! Was she hurt!?" Carl asked. "No, she's fine. She was saved by someone who could move as fast as me."
"Another mutant!?" Carl asked. "Ya, and whoever it was stole my mom's purse." Sid replied. "Wait, you couldn't see them? I thought the world moved in slow motion for you." Jamey commented heading towards her computer to try and pull up some video footage of what happened. "Compared to them, it felt like I was standing still." Sid answered, coming up behind her and leaning on her chair looking over her sholder. "Oh, I've got to see this." Jamey said on her computer. "A little hack in traffic cams and...Here we go." Jamey showed the team the video all they could see was the car turning over and a couple of blurs. "I didn't see anything." Libby commented, as Jamey rewound the video to try and see what they missed. "Let's watch it again in super, super, super slow motion." The team watched the video again, this time spotting Sheen. "There he is!" Sid commented. "Who is he?" Libby could not place this feeling that stirred inside of her.
"Looks kind of familiar." Libby commented. "Let facial recognition answer that." Jamey replied typing on her computer. "Sheen Estevez." She said, a bit shocked. "Do you know where he is?" Sid asked, missing the shock in Jamey's voice. "He's been dark for the last couple of months, but if he stole your mom's credit card then maybe...got it." Jamey replied while searching on her computer. "What?" Sid asked, trying to look at her screen. "He's at the Four Masters hotel." Jamey answered. "Okay, let's get this guy." Sid shouted. "Are we arresting him or asking him to join?" Carl asked, Jamey looked at Sid expecting an answer. "I guess we'll find out when we meet him. Suit up." Sid, Libby, and Carl went to change into their alter-egos. At the Four Masters hotel Sheen was enjoying a fancy gourmet meal in a hotel robe. "Haaa...This is the life." He sighed in relaxation. Sid, Libby, and Carl busted into the room as their alter-egos. "Sheen Estevez, you need to come with us." Sid ordered. "Ya, I don't think so." Sheen said using his superspeed to change into his street clothes. "I'll be gone before you guys can even blink."
"I don't know. I can blink pretty fast." Sid replied, demonstrating his own super speed. "Oh...Let's see if you can keep up blondey." Sheen challenged as he ran out the room, Sid immediately followed him. They raced around the city, Sid drew closer and closer to him with each step, he thought he was going to catch him until Sheen turned his head, gave him the most cocky smile ever and accelerated himself to the point where he couldn't even keep up. Too tired to carry on Sid stopped and panted. "Never thought I would ever need to catch my breath again." He raced back to Libby and Carl. "Did you catch him?" Asked Libby. "No, he was too fast." Sid answered, still panting. "What now?" Asked Carl. "I don't know." Sid answered. The team went back to Jamey's lab. When they walked in Sid said. "Nerdtron, we lost him. Do you have any other way to track him?"
"I don't think that's going to be a problem." Jamey answered as the team walked in, seeing her with Sheen. "You!" Sid screamed charging at Sheen with his speed. "Sid, wait!" Jamey screamed trying to stop him. Sheen dodged his attack easily with his speed, he missed going straight through a wall. He quickly rebounded, attacking Sheen with multiple punches; Sheen dodged them as well. On his final punch Sheen grabbed his arm, spun him around in a vortex and threw him through the roof and out the lab; Carl began to fire multiple sonic blasts at Sheen who dodged them by running along the walls and roof of the lab. "You done?" Sheen asked when Carl stopped just as he was about to respond, Sheen ran up to him, grabbed his arms and spun him around like a top. Too dizzy to carry on, Carl passed out; Libby snuck around Sheen, invisible holding an inhibitor collar, but sensing something was wrong, Sheen rotated his arms at high speeds creating a powerful wind blast that sent Libby flying, knocking her down. Sid raced back into the lab, Sheen charged at him with a speed tackle, like a ball to wall he bounced off of him upon impact landing on the floor, he quickly grabbed him by the throat and lifted him up. "Jeez! What are you made of blondey!?" Sheen groaned. "Sugar, spice, and everything nice." He replied in a sarcastic stern voice. "I highly doubt that." Before Sid could deliver the final blow, Jamey screamed, grabbing everyone's attension. "That's enough! Goddard initiated Gentleman's Dreadnought." Goddard activated a program that activated various power dampeners in the room. With his strength gone Sid dropped Sheen like a stone. "What happened to my powers?" Sid asked, confused. "A little something I whipped after that Hypno situation. Every corner of this lab has a power dampener, just in case someone gets mind controlled again. Now enough destruction, everyone calm down, and talk."
"Okay fine." Sid agreed, he went to check on his teammates. "You two okay?" Libby looked at him, grabbing his hand. "Ya." Libby answered, getting up. "I think I'm gonna puke." Carl answered, getting up. "Sorry about that." Sheen said as he went to help Carl up. "What is he even doing here!?" Libby asked. "Okay, full disclosure, Sheen and I went way back. He came here a few minutes ago asking for my help." Sid felt this strange sense of jealousy at the fact that Jamey was friends with this guy. "Why didn't you tell us you knew him!?" Sid asked in an aggressive tone marching towards the speedster to try and intimidate him as much as possible now that he couldn't run away. "Jamey, you really need to control your boyfriend better." Sheen said a little defensive as he tried to back up a bit and put Jamey between him and the angry blond wall. Sid then gave an angry look towards the speedster. "That's not important right now." Jamey said to Sid, placing a hand on his chest to stop him and hold him back from Sheen. Sid looked down at Jamey and stopped advancing on Sheen, she then looked at the speedster in question. "Sid's not my boyfriend, but what is important is what did you want from me, Sheen?" Jamey said, now walking towards her old friend. Sheen gave a massive sigh. "A few years ago my Dad got money from a loan shark, Hannibal Zupco. This guy was bad news, he threatened my Dad's life and things looked bad for him until I offered him my skills"
"What makes you so great?" Libby asked. "Well, like my orange friend over there, I'm also a genius." Not believing this. "You're joking?" Sid commented, still having completely ingonored the whole boyfriend comment. "No, he's a genius. He just suppressed it with cartoons, video games, and comics." Jamey replied, causing Sheen to lower his head at her commits. "Thanks for that Jamey." Sheen replied sarcastically in which she just gave him a snarky smile. "But there was still enough of a genius in here to be useful as a thief. For the last few years I've been pulling jobs for Zupco, slowly paying off my dad's debt. If I pull one more it will be over."
"Then why are you here?" Libby asked. "I've pulled so many jobs. Security all over the city is tight." Sheen said in a matter of fact tone. "Why not use your superspeed? It seems like it'd be useful for someone like you." Sid asked tauntingly. "I have had the last couple jobs, but I don't want to bring too much attention to myself. Something tells me if Zupco found out what I could do, he would never let me go." Libby was finally starting to catch on as to why he was now here. "So that's why you're here. You want Jamey to help you on your next job." Libby commented. "That was the idea." Sheen replied. "Sheen, I'm not going to do that." Jamey said, sitting down a little upset that he would even think she would consider doing such a thing. Sheen then ran to her, forcibly turning her to face him. Jamey was a little surprised by the action and Sid looked as though he was about to punch Sheen through the wall. "Please Jamey. I really need your help." Jamey tried to pull out of his grasp, but to no avail his fingers started to dig into her skin, but she looked him straight in the eyes and in a firm and final voice told him. "No Sheen. How long have you known me? What made you think that I would ever even agree to something like that?" Sheen was getting a little more desprit and squeezed her shoulders a little too hard which you could tell by the look on her face. The rest of the team was getting a little worried now for Jamey's safety. "Come on Jamey! Just one job. No one gets hurt." Libby scoffed, which drew Sheen's full attention to her. "Except the people you steal from." Libby added, it was this comment that distracted Sheen long enough to losen his grip on Jamey so she could escape from him. Once she was free she slid past him and headed towards the others in which Sid took a protective stance in front of her by guiding her with his arm to go behind him. Sheen hadden't noticed any of this and continued to answer Libby. "Look I try to steal from people who won't be financially hurt."
"Then what? You pretend like nothing ever happened?" Sid asked, still acting very aggressive towards the speedster clearly not liking him. "Ya, I will." Sheen snapped back also not liking Jamey's not-boy-friend. "Figures." Libby said out loud. "What would you have me do, ignore Zupco and protect my family for the rest of my life." Sheen said agitated. "With your power, that wouldn't be too hard." Carl commented having recovered. "Zupco could attack my family at any time! I may be fast but I can't be everywhere at once!" Sheen shouted. The group remained quiet. "Look, this was a mistake. I'm out of here. If you're not going to help me then I'll have to do this the hard way."
"Sheen, wait. Do you honestly think this will end once you give Zupco all that money?" Jamey asked not realizing she was rubbing her forearms. "I have to try." Sheen answered in a serious tone. Sheen immediately supersped out of the lab. "What are we going to do Jamey?" Carl asked as Jamey walked back to her chair staying quiet trying to think of a solution, sighing, throwing her head back. It was then when Sid noticed the massive bruising on Jamey's forearms. He ran as fast as he could with the dampiners still in play to her. He gently grabbed her wrist careful not to cause any more damage and rolled up her sleeves. Jamey looked down to see what Sid was doing to finally notice the injuries she gained from Sheen. Libby and Carl also noticed and came rushing to the two. "What the? Jamey are you ok?" Libby asked as she tried to see the full extent of the bruising. "Yeah I'm fine. He didn't mean to do this." Jamey tried to defend Sheen, but Carl interrupted her. "Doesn't make it right." Sid was beyond furious at the fact that someone Jamey considered as a friend hurt her. "Jamey, we need to bring him in. He's dangerous and a crimeinal." Sid went off to get her some ice packs for her arms and Jamey was close behind him. "So was Carl and the same could be said about Libby and you. People have always assumed the worst when they don't fully understand something." Sid was not happy that she was arguing about this. "But this is different. We do know what is going on and some of what he is capable of if the bruising on your arms has anything to go by." Sid led Jamey to an area where he and Libby could help wrap the ice packs around her arms. Carl stood there watching. "Jamey even if we did decide to try and help Sheen get out of this situation. Do you even have a plan to do so?" Jamey looked down at her feet, because no she didn't at least not yet.
Sheen raced around the city looking for a place to steal from, he eventually ended up on a rooftop. "What will you do Sheen?" He asked himself, Sid supersped to the rooftop. "How did you find me!?" He asked a little off guard. "Jamey put a tracker on you." Sid answered. "Of course she did." Sheen said, annoyed. "Sheen, she asked me to try and convince you to find another way. Even though I tried to tell her that you were a lost cause." Sid said, getting closer which made Sheen to just look at him getting more annoyed. "I mean after the way you were so desperate for her help that you hurt her and she still wants to help you find another way out. I just don't understand." Sheen was now a little confused. "What are you talking about? I didn't hurt Jamey." Sid was not happy with the man in front of him. "Yes you did! When you wouldn't let go of her you left bruises all over her arms." Sheen looked down a little horrified at what he had done to his friend, he then looked up at Sid with a sad smile. "Are you sure you're not her boyfriend?" Sid felt his face grow a little warm, but decided to ignore his comment. "She wants to help you find another way." Sid was more gentle with his tone towards Sheen knowing that if it was him in this situation Jamey would still do anything to help him, any of them so why not give him the chance. "I told you, there is no other way!" Sheen said, backing away. "At least let us try." Sid said sincerely. Sheen looked down and then onto the horizon.
Zupco was sitting at his desk when he got a call.
Zupco: Ah, Estevez, what do you want?
Sheen: Zupco. I've got your money. Where do I meet you?
Zupco: So soon. Good for you. Meet me at the same place.
Sheen: Got it.
Sheen entered the building again with a bag full of money. Zupco came out of the shadows with his thugs. Sheen threw the bag on the ground. "It's all there Zupco. The debts paid. We're done." He said walking off. "I don't think so, Estevez." Zupco said, stopping him. "Why?" Sheen asked with almost venom in his voice. "You're a good earner Estevez. With the interest I gave your father there is no way that debt could have ever been paid. But here you are."
"What of it?" Sheen asked. "You honestly thought I would let you go." Zupco said, waving his arm signalling his thugs to ready their guns. "You can't do this. Brick would never allow it." Sheen protested. "I'm not afraid of Brick anymore." Realizing what was happening, Sheen used his superspeed to disarm every thug in the room, everyone was stunned except Zupco who just grinned. "What!? Ya not scared!?" Sheen asked. "You know what my street name used to be, Estevez?" Zupco asked calmly. "What?" Sheen asked, standing firm. "Fearmonger." He answered with his eyes glowing. Sheen began to feel dizzy suddenly Zupco and his thugs began to turn into terrifying beasts. He was so frozen in fear he couldn't move a muscle. "Take care of him." Zupco ordered. His thugs began to beat Sheen savagely. "You see Estevez. You're out when I say you're out." Zupco's thugs continued to beat Sheen. Suddenly a piercing sound entered the building causing everyone to grab their ears. A blurr zoomed in, knocking two of the thugs to a wall. "Right on time." Sheen said to himself smiling. The blurr was revealed to be Special Guy. "Need some help?" He asked picking him up. "Get them!" Zupco screamed while running away, but was stopped by a swift roundhouse kick by Libby who was invisible. "You're not going anywhere." She said reappearing, Zupco used his power on her causing her to panic. "Get away from me!" She screamed and ran away, Zupco got past her and ran out the door, but Sheen saw him get away and asked. "Can you handle these clowns?"
"Definitely!" Sid answered with a smile, Sheen raced out of the building and speed punched Zupco to the ground. "Had enough!?" Sheen asked to a still conscious, Zupco used his powers again causing Sheen to panic again. While Sheen was in his panicked state Zupco pulled out his gun and got ready to shoot him, but before he could pull the trigger Zupco was sent flying by a sonic blast knocking him out. Carl as Echo came out of the shadows and helped Sheen up. "You okay?" Sheen answered smiling. "Ya." They met up with Sid and Libby who had finished taking down the thugs. "Let's round them up and call the cops." Sid suggested; after the cops showed up to apprehended Zupco and his thugs the team and Sheen went back to Jamey's lab. When the team walked in and met Jamey. "I take it things went well." Jamey commented. "Ya, Zupco won't be hurting anyone for a very long while." Sid answered, Sheen walked infront of everyone and said. "Look, I wanted to thank you guys for saving my bacon there and I wanted to apoligize Jamey for hurting you." Jamey just walked over and gaver her old friend a hug. "Just some minor buising nothing to lose sleep over." That did cause Sheen to smile slightly, returning the smale hug. "I know a better way for you to thank us. You could join the team." Carl suggested. "That's a great idea Carl." Jamey complimented looking at Carl then back at Sheen. "I don't know, guys he's still a criminal." Sid added. "And Libby's a bully and I'm an attempted murderer. None of us are perfect." Carl argued. "Fine I'm for it." Sid agreed lightly, laughing. "What do you think Libs?" Libby rolled her eyes. "If everyone's for this then I am too."
"I don't know what to say." Sheen said gladly. "Thanks for letting me in. But if we're going to do this we could do better." Jamey looked at him a little confused. "What do you mean?" Sheen continued. "This city was hurting long before mutants showed up. We could be guardian angels to the people of this city saving them..."
"In a flash." Jamey interrupted. "Flash, that would make a cool name." Sheen complimented. "Then it's decided your codename is the Flash." Sid said jokingly causing everyone to laugh except for Libby. When everyone was going home Libby stopped Sheen. "Look I don't trust you and as far as I'm concerned you're a selfish bastard who only cares about himself. I don't know why Jamey is friends with you, but if you make her regret her choice for backing you. If you do anything to hurt anyone on this team I promise you won't live to regret it." She threatened before walking off to join the others. Sheen looked on with a worried face barely able to let out a nod.
Later that night in Jamey's lab after everybody left
Stone broke into it by phasing through the ground. He went to one of Jamey's inventions and said to himself. "Soon Lilly we will be together again."
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