Revampfic: Jimmy Neutron N-Men

by B00kk33p3r

This is a fanfiction based on a fanfiction. Check out cartoonace to see the original fanfiction. In a world where girl genius Jamey Neutron builds a machine in order to help her fellow humans something goes terribly wrong. It explodes creating a new race of powered beings can Jamey and her new form team of misfits save the day from the new and up coming threats?

4. I See Fire

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

A Few Months Earlier

The night of the explosion Sheen had just run off leaving Shawn engulfed in flames. Before the cops had a chance to try and help him, the energy pulse hit the building breaking most of it apart. Shawn woke up handcuffed in a police holding cell completely uninjured. "What the hell!?" He groaned as he looked on to see the police department in complete disarray. The building was partially damaged and the cops were running around like headless chickens. He went over to one of his cellmates and asked. "What the hell is going on?" Looking at the scared little man. "Some weird thing hit town man! Like straight out of a sci-fi." The man said in a jittery voice. Shawn looked around and noticed that Sheen wasn't around. "Hey! Hey!" He called out to one of the officers. "What!?" The cop replied, irritated. "What happened to the guy I was with!?" Shawn said, looking for Sheen. "Don't know, probably got away." The cop replied bluntly. "What!?" Shawn screamed angrily as he began to freak out. "That Bastard Gets To Walk Free While I Rot Here!" The officer noticed this. "Hey kid, calm down!" The cop shouted. "I Will Not Calm Down!" Shawn shouted as he began to glow into an orangey red colour. "What the hell!" The cop shouted as Shawn began to burst into flames. "END OF DAYS, MAN! END OF DAYS!" The prisoner from earlier began to scream. From the distance all that could be heard were the screams coming from the RPD (Retroville Police Department) before it was completely engulfed in flames.

Present Day, at 20:34

The team was staking out the Retroville docks. "Are you sure they'll be here speedy." Libby complained. "We've been here for an hour!" It was very clear that Libby did not like Sheen. Still "Ya, I'm sure." Sheen replied through the coms wearing his super suit. "And it's The Flash not Speedy." With the remark Libby rolled her eyes. "I forgot the part where I should care." Really wishing Sheen would just shut up. "You two are like an old married couple." Sid commented with a snicker. "No we're not!" Libby replied irritated. "Come on, you can't deny the attraction." Sheen replied smugly, which enraged Libby. "You are so full of yourself!" Sheen let out a huff and retaliated. "And you're not!" Now Jamey was getting annoyed. "Can you guys please get serious!" Jamey commented on the com's from the lab. "Just leave them alone, Nerdtron!" Sid shouted. "Don't start with me, Vortex!" Jamey really hated that nickname. "Or you'll do exactly what!" As the rest of the team were arguing Carl noticed some trucks driving in. "Uhm guys." He said, trying to get their attention. "Guys!" Finally getting everyone's attention. "WHAT!" Everyone shouted in unison. "I think the bad guys are here." Carl said annoyed but calmly. A group of men got out of the trucks, one of whom had a snake tattoo covering part of his face and three wearing different coloured masks and cloaks. Regaining her composer Jamey asked. "Okay Sheen, what can you tell us?"

"The guy with the snake tattoo's name is Brandon Diaz, street name Snake." Libby clearlty unimpressed. "Snake. How original." Sheen however continued explaining. "Anyway. He is delivering a new drug called Barney." Sheen finished. "Barney!? Like the dinosaur?" Carl asked surprised. "Yup, it's made for kids to get them hooked on drugs early." Libby was now curious about something. "And how did you come across this info so quickly?" Sheen clearly was hiding something and Libby knew it. "Let's just say I've got my source's." Sheen stated. "Of course you do." Libby said, rolling her eyes. "What about the dudes in cloaks?" Sheen shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know but they shouldn't be a problem." Talking a deep breath Jamey ordered. "Okay team, you know what to do. Get ready." At the trucks Snake was speaking with his men. "Start hauling the load into the trucks." He ordered. Just as the thugs were loading the drugs they all heard an ear piercing sound which made them grab their ears. In that moment several thugs had been taken down by Sheen, leaving only Snake and the three masked figures. "And who are you supposed to be?" Snake asked calmly. "Hey nice to meet you. You can call me The Flash." Sheen replied smugly. The rest of the team came before Snake. "You know you could have saved a few for us." Sid commented. "I saved three for you." Sheen sniped back. Snake didn't so much as flinch at the sight of the superheroes. "You seem pretty calm for a guy about to get his butt kicked by four badass superheroes." Sheen commented, but Snake just brought out a cigarette and lighter and began smoking. "You see, ever since you freaks took down Zupco, the boss figured it would be a matter of time before we crossed paths again."

"So?" Sid said threateningly. "So. He thought it would be a good idea if we got some freaks of our own." He replied, taking in another puff of smoke. "Hey you mooks." He called out to the hooded figures. "Take care of these freaks." He said calmly, stepping out of the way. Sheen cockily stepped towards the one wearing the blue mask. "You honestly think these guys can take us down." In that instance the blue masked fired a blast of wind straight at Sheen that sent him flying into the building across the street. "Yes I do." Snake replied smugly. The yellow masked one's body began to grow in muscle mass and the red masked one's hands burst into flames. "Aww crap!" Libby commented, preparing to fight. The yellow masked one tackled Sid into one of the trucks, while the blue masked one fired another blast of wind at Carl, which he countered with his own sonic blast, while Libby turned invisible avoiding fire blasts from the red masked one. After a bit of a struggle Sid was thrown out of the truck. "Is that all you got! Little boy." The yellow masked one chuckled as he walked out of the truck. "No. I was just humouring you." Sid replied smugly, enraged the yellow masked one charged at Sid and punched him several times in the face which barely phased him. On his final strike Sid caught his fist easily. "Say goodnight." He said smiling before punching him back into the truck, knocking him out, Carl and the blue masked ones' blasts clashed against each other in a struggle for dominance. The blue masked one's wind blast seemed like it was gaining ground on Carl. "Is that all you've got! Tubby!" He screamed.

"No way!" Carl shouted back. "Whoa! déjà vu." Carl said to himself noticing a similar thing happened earlier. Carl let out a loud cry and increased the power of his blast overpowering the blue masked one sending him flying into the same truck as the yellow masked one. "Now it really feels like déjà vu." Carl chuckled as he walked up to and fist bumped Sid, seeing the situation for what it was, Snake snuck away, Libby was still dealing with the red masked one. "Where are you hiding!?" The red masked one shouted. "You'll never know." She said laughing in the shadows, suddenly Libby started experiencing a sharp and painful headache, reappearing.

"There you are." He shouted, firing a fire ball straight at Libby, but before she was struck Sheen got her out of the way with his super speed. "You okay?" He asked. "Ya." She answered before passing out, Sheen turned to the red masked one. "Let's see what you got nightlight." The red masked one fired multiple fireballs at Sheen which he easily dodged. "That's all you got?" Sheen said cockily, before he could react, Sheen speed punched the masked figure away, knocking him down. "Had enough." Sheen said cockily, the figure stood up preparing for a second round, igniting his hands for battle, and at that moment Sid and Carl ran towards them. "Flash!" Sid shouted, Sheen got distracted and looked back, without a word the masked figure launched off the ground and flew away. "He got away." Sheen said frustrated.

Back at the Lab

"So you're saying that you just suddenly got a headache and passed out?" Jamey was examining Libby. "Ya." Libby answered. "As far as I can tell you're completely fine." Jamey said, walking over to her computer. "Are you sure, Nerdtron?" Sid asked not wanting another hypno situation like the before. "Which one of us has a PhD." Jamey replied. "I thought that was in engineering." Carl commented with a small smile. "Humans, machines, same diff." Jamey said, sitting down. "All in all, a good job team. We prevented a dangerous drug from roaming the streets of our city and apprehended two out of three mutant criminals. I call that a goodnight. Anything anyone else wants to add." Si d raised his hand drawing everyone's attension. "Ya. I think we need to thank Sheen for helping us take this operation to the next level." Happy to have a real change to make a difference. "Ya, I honestly didn't know how bad things were in the city." Carl commented. "You guys don't need to thank me, I don't deserve it." Sheen said humbly. "You sure don't." Libby said to herself walking off to change.

The team left Jamey's Lab.

Sheen stopped Libby on her way home. "Are you sure you're okay?" He asked gently, guiding her shoulder so she was looking at him. "Ya, I'm fine!" She replied rudely. "What's your beef with me anyway!?" Sheen was clearly tired of Libby's attitude towards him and would like to know what he apparently needed to apoligize for. "It doesn't matter." She said walking off, just when Sheen tried to stop her a fireball fell from the sky. "Look out!" Sheen shouted as the ball hit the ground in between them knocking Libby down. The red masked figure descended to the ground ready for a fight. "What are you doing here!?" Sheen shouted. "Getting payback!" The masked figure shouted as he fired multiple fireballs at Sheen who grabbed Libby and easily dodged the blasts. "You okay?" Sheen asked Libby. "Ya." She said, disappearing, so Sheen could charge straight for the masked figure but he somehow managed to dodge by flying up. He began firing fireballs at Sheen again, but Sheen still easily evaded them. "I think I'm going to knock the wind out of you." Sheen joked by running around fast in a circle creating a whirlwind that sucked the masked figure in, sending him plummeting to the ground then the masked figure began to recover, Libby chose to deal with him with several invisible strikes. "You better stay down if you know what's good for you." She said reappearing, suddenly Libby started experiencing another painful headache, falling to the ground. The masked figure ignited his fist and prepared to blast Libby but hesitated for some reason, Sheen took this opportunity to quickly punch the masked figure to a car, managing to get some of his blood on his hand and went to check on Libby. "Are you good?" Sheen asked. "Ya." Libby answered, regaining her composure. "What happened to the living candle?" She asked. "He..." Sheen tried to answer by looking around for the masked figure. "Got away." Sheen and Libby went back to Jamey's Lab, and found her sleeping on her computer. Libby looked at Sheen for a moment and he shared the same thought. They hadden't left the lab that long ago and she fell asleep working even with all the noise they made outside just now. How many late nights has she been pulling?

"Jamey!" Sheen shouted, having absolutly no tact. "What...Where!" Jamey screamed in shock as she woke up almost falling out of her chair if it wasn't for Libby who helped steady her. "Libby had another headache and we were just attacked by the masked freak with the fire powers." Jamey was becoming more awake and quickly looked at Libby with worry. "Let me take a look at you." Jamey reexamined Libby and came up with similar results. "So what's wrong with me?" Libby asked. "I just don't know what's wrong with you Libby. Medically you're in perfect health." Jamey answered confusedly, still looking over the results trying to figure out what she was missing. "How did that masked guy know who we were?" Sheen said out loud. "Are you sure your army pals mind wiped Zupco and his men?" Hoping that this wasn't the case. "Ya, I gave General Vortex my Neutron Mental Scrambler, as soon as they were taken into custody the general took special care to use it to keep your identity a secret." Jamey answered, trying to figure out what the problem could be. "What's its range?" Sheen asked. "Only 24 hours but that should've been enough." Jamey noticed what was on Sheen's hand. "Is that blood?" Sheen looked at his hand and noticed it too. "Aww man! I got some of his blood on me, better wash it off." Now fully awake and grabbing his arm. "No!" Jamey shouted wide eyed, stopping him. "That could give us the identity of the masked guy that attacked you." Jamey took Sheen over to his DNA scanner and waited for the results after a few minutes, there was a hit. "Got it!" Jamey said excitedly before gaining a horrified look from Sheen and Libby. "His name is Shawn Collins."

"WHAT!?" Sheen and Libby shouted in unison. "How do you know Shawn!?" Sheen asked Libby. "He's my brother." Libby answered. "Whoa bombshell. So he's your brother?" Jamey commented, surprised. "I can't believe he's still alive." Sheen commented sitting down. "Why!?" Libby said, getting angry at Sheen's last comment. "The last job we had together, let's just say things got a little crazy. Long story short, before that weird glowy thing hit town Shawn was on fire and I was being chased by the cops." Sheen explained. "Interesting the energy pulse, seemed to have saved his life by infusing the flames with his DNA giving him pyrokinetic powers." Jamey commented. "So you abandoned him!" Libby scolded. "Your brother liked to play things fast and loose, it's not my fault he literally got burned." Libby glared at him in anger. "Look, I don't have time for this. I'm gonna find out what Shawn's beef is." Sheen said walking out the lab. "I'm coming." Libby said the following. "No, you're not." Sheen replied super speeding out of the lab. "Tell me where he is." Libby ordered staring at Jamey. "How would I know!?" Jamey asked, confused, holding her hands up in defence. "You're a scientist, and we're basically your science projects. I know you have some kind of way to track us. So I'm going to ask you again where is he." Libby said getting serious. Jamey sighed walking over to her computer. "He's at a bar called Krusty's. If you take the hovercraft you should be there in a few minutes. Also Libby, you all are not science projects to me. You're my friends." Jamey said while holding her keys out to Libby causing her to give Jamey a thankful look before taking the hovercar. Once the two left, Jamey settled back down at her desk to continue her nap.

Sheen walked into Krusty's dinghy run down bar where the worst of the worst hung around. He walked over to the bartender. "Cyrus, where's Gobby?" Sheen asked in a rather serious tone. "What, no hello Sheen? That's not how you greet your friends." Cyrus replied calmly. "Fine, sorry. But I really need to find Gobby." Sheen apologised and gave the man a tired but serious look. "He's over there." Cyrus pointed at a sketchy looking man wearing a sleeveless jacket, Sheen walked over to Gobby. "You got a lot of nerve coming here Sheen." Gobby greeted him. "Save it, Gobby." Sheen replied. "I want to know where Shawn is?" Gobby looked Sheen in the eyes and asked. "And why should I tell you?" Sheen threw a rolled up stack of cash at Gobby. "That's why." Gobby continued taking the money. "After that thing hit town, Shawn came back different with some weird fire ability." Sheen pressed his lips together tightly. "I know that much." Sheen replied. "After seeing what he could do, Brick made him one of his enforcers." Gobby continued. "What does that have to do with me?" Sheen asked, still not understanding. "Apparently after your last job with him went south, he wanted a mad pack back. But since you were a top earner for Zupco, Brick forbade it." Gobby explained. "Shawn would still listen to Brick even with his powers?" Sheen asked, confused. "If you really knew Brick, then you would know no powers would make a difference." Thinking about it for a minute before nodding his head in agreement. "I get it. So, Shawn got the green light to terminate me after Zupco got locked up."

"Yup." Gobby answered. "Where is he?" Sheen asked. "Sorry kid. There's no amount of money that would make me cross Brick." Gobby said calmy. "Fine." Sheen said walking off, but at that moment Gobby and a bunch of other thugs got texted. "Sorry kid." Gobby said, stopping Sheen, pulling out his gun. "We have orders to take you out." The other thugs pulled out their guns and aimed at Sheen. "Any last words?" Gobby asked, but Sheen stayed quiet. "Very well." Gobby fired his gun, Sheen used his superspeed to slightly change the trajectory of the bullet to make it look like it missed. "What! Kill him!" The thugs began firing as well, Sheen ran as normal as possible to the bathroom subtly changing the direction of the bullets with his superspeed, at that moment The Flash raced into the building. "Heard there was a party and I was late." Sheen said jokingly. "It's one of those masked freaks! Get him." A random thug shouted, they all began to fire at Sheen. Using his superspeed he caught all the bullets with one hand and dropped them in front of the shocked criminals. "Anyone else wanna try!" Sheen shouted as a bunch of the thugs ran out of the building. "Ya, that's what I thought!" Sheen went over and grabbed Gobby. "I heard you got some info I might need." Sheen said in a threatening voice, while he was distracted a thug got his gun and prepared to fire. He was stopped by being struck by a floating chair, Sheen turned back to see what was happening. "What the..!?" Sheen said, shocked as Libby appeared before him as the Invisister. "You missed one." She stated in a smug tone that said 'I knew you needed me,' but she did say that. Sheen was grateful either way. "Thanks. Now where were we." Sheen said to Gobby slamming him against the wall. "There's a new player on the street. Has fire powers. Where can I find him!?" He said in a threatening voice, but all Gobby did was smile. "I ain't saying nothing hero boy. I know your type all bark no bi..." He was interrupted by Sheen super speeding him to the roof, dropping him and catching him before he hit the ground. "You were saying?" Sheen said seriously. "Okay, okay! I don't know for sure but I heard somewhere at the old saw mill. That's all I know I swear!" Libby could only watch in horror at this interaction. "I believe you." Sheen replied which caused Gobby to sigh in relief, before Sheen punched him in the face knocking him out. "Why did you do that?" Libby asked. "I tend not to like guys who shoot at me." He answered, turning to her. "What are you doing here anyway?"

"This involves my brother and I'm sure as hell not going to stand on the sidelines." Libby replied. "No, it's too dangerous." Sheen tried to say as he was walking away. "Didn't I just save your life? It doesn't matter how fast you are if you can't see it coming." Sheen then turned to her, really not wanting to admit that she was right. "You're right. So am I carrying you or..." Libby held out the keys to the hovercraft. "We're taking the hovercraft." She said walking over to the vehicle. "Jamey actually let you drive it?" Libby tried not to take offence to that, she had driven the hovercraft before. "You want a ride or not?" Sheen zoomed to the hovercraft before Libby could leave without him. While flying to the old saw mill Sheen asked. "Is what happened to your brother the reason you hate me?" Libby just huffed at him while driving towards their destination. "What!? I don't hate you." Libby said nonchalantly, but Sheen didn't believe her. "You don't think I don't notice the way you look at me. I'm a speedster, every second for you is like a minute for me." Sheen explains the downside of his powers to her. "All I know is, you're here and he's not." She said emotionlessly, Sheen was needing more than that and Libby noticed. "My brother wasn't the best guy but he only hung around guys he could trust. Heck I would bet he would die for someone he trusts, the fact that you're sitting here with me means you broke his trust and abandoned him." Sheen knew Libby was right and she did deserve to know the truth of wha treally happened. "Can I tell you what happened that night."

"Sure, why not." Libby said acting like she doesn't really care even though she was a little curious as to what exactly happened. "It was a standard job, in and out, we'd done hundreds of them before. We were going to steal some copies of the new Ultra Lord video game. It would have sold for a lot on the black market. We'd taken enough to get a decent cut of the profits but this time was different, Shawn got greedy. He tripped the perimeter alarm and the cops were there in minutes. I suggested we leave the games and run but Shawn wanted to go down fighting, he pulled out a flamethrower and decided to duke it out with the police. One of them shot his canister and it exploded leaving him on fire. I had a choice to stay, try to help Shawn and inevitably go to jail dooming my father or run so my family still had a chance for survival. What would you have done if you were in my predicament?" Libby kept quiet. He was right, what would she have done? "Whether you believe me or not, I didn't want things to go the way they did Libby, but I had to make a choice whether it was the right one is debatable but I made it and I can live with the consequences." Libby continued to stay quiet until they got to the saw mill. "We're here." She said as if she had a lump in her throat. They got out of the hovercraft and walked into the building and saw it was abandoned. "Guess that creep lied to you." Libby commentedbut before they could turn back to the hovercraft a dozen men and women came out from the shadows with Shawn in his mask at the centre. "I was wondering when you would get here, Sheen. Was hoping more of you would be here but if that's it let's get started." Shawn said with all his thugs lifting up their weapons. "Shawn! What are you doing!" Libby shouted, tearing up. "Stay out of this sis! This is between men." He shouted, igniting his fist. "Why Shawn!? Why are you doing this!?" Libby screamed. "To get respect." He replied, removing his mask. "Is this what it's all been about! Respect! You have things most people only dream of and you're doing this all for respect!" Sheen shouted. "Yes." Shawn answered coldly. "The life I had was cushy. I had never wanted for anything in my life but I never really had power. But now I do and I've never been happier."

"You make me sick Shawn." Sheen said disgustedly. "Like I care." Shawn replied. "Attack!" Sheen used his superspeed to extract Libby out of the building. When he reentered he spun himself incredibly fast creating a tornado, Shawn flew himself out while the rest of his crew were sucked up. Sheen stopped sending all the thugs crashing everywhere in the building knocking them out. Sheen raced out searching for Shawn. A ball of fire came from the sky which Sheen easily dodged. Shawn landed infront of Sheen. "Round three!" He shouted. He fired a stream of fire at Sheen with his hurricane arms. Shawn prepared to fly up but Sheen punched him to the ground before he could launch off. "Not this time." Sheen said smiling. Shawn immediately got up and began firing fireballs at Sheen which he easily dodged with his speed. "You can't beat me Shawn!" Sheen shouted. "That maybe true." Shawn agreed, he looked at his sister and smiled. "You may be fast enough to avoid being hit but are you fast enough to save her!" Shawn fired a fireball straight at his sister, seeing the trajectory of the ball Sheen raced to save Libby, he just managed to push Libby out of the way but wasn't fast enough to avoid being hit himself, knocking him out. "Sheen!" Libby shouted. "Pay back's a bitch isn't it bro." Shawn said, walking towards Sheen and Libby. "Shawn stop this!" Libby said, running infront of Sheen. "Get out of the way Lib or burn." He threatened, but Libby stood tall. "Fine. I warned you." He said before firing a burst of flames at Sheen and Libby, with a loud cry Libby ran into the flames. It seemed as if Libby was engulfed in flames but when Shawn stopped it was revealed she was protected by a violet coloured force field. "What the!" Shawn shouted in shock as he began attacking the dome but nothing was going through, when he stopped Libby dropped the dome and made two other force fields on the palm of her hands in the shape of discs. She threw them, Shawn tried to counter with his fire balls, but the discs cut right through, he managed to dodge them both but one of them managed to slightly cut his face. "Shawn, please stop this." Libby begged her brother she couldn't lose him again. Shawn grabbed his cheek and looked at the blood. "This isn't over." He said flying away, Libby got on knees and began crying while Sheen got up and said. "Don't worry about it."

"How can I not worry!?" Libby shouted, she just lost her brother again. "One day we'll bring him back to the light. It will just take time." Sheen and Libby went back to Jamey's lab where she was waiting for them. "How did it go?" Jamey asked not feeling confident that they had good news. "We found Shawn and he got away." Libby answered. "So this was a loss." Jamey said disappointed and feeling bad about the situation with Libby's brother. Thinking about how the situation with Carl could have turned out similar to this. "No." Sheen replied which caused Jamey to give hima curious look. "Libby got this new force field power." Sheen had a wide smile on his face when he said this while keeping his hands on Libby's shoulders to give her support for the day they've had. "Really!" Jamey said, surprised, but was all for taking a win. "Ya, check it out." Libby said a bit more enthusiastically. She demonstrated her new powers to Jamey who looked as though she was finally putting all the pieces of a puzzle together and stated excitedly. "That's what your headaches were about. Your body was entering another stage of metamorphosis granting you a new ability. I can't believe I didn't see it before." Jamey was smiling to herself at this new scientific discovery. "Does that mean every mutant has the potential to develop new powers?" Sheen asked a little concerned about what that meant to the bad guys with powers. "Yes. We need to do some tests now that I know what I'm looking for." Jamey said excitedly.

After going through a few tests Libby and Sheen left Jamey's Lab. On their way out Libby stopped Sheen. "Hey Sheen." She called out. "Ya." Sheen looked at Libby who could barely look him in the eyes. "Look, I wanted to apologize for everything." Now Sheen was a little confused because he felt as though she was perfectly justified at being mad at him for what happened to her brother. "Why?" She was now looking him in the eyes. "I misjudged you. You're not a bad guy at all." She apologized. "Don't even worry about it." He said, reassuring her. As Libby began to walk off before turning back like she had forgotten something "Oh ya." She gave Sheen a kiss on the cheek. "Thanks for taking a bullet for me." As Libby walked home Sheen smiled and touched the place on his cheek that Libby had kissed.

At an unknown location

Shawn was having a meeting with Snake and his superior Brick. "Shawn, do you realise how many men I've lost because of your little vendetta." Brick calmly said as Shawn tried to explain. "Yes, I know it looks bad..." But before he could he was interrupted. "Looks bad!" Brick shouted, losing his composer. "It is bad! Not only did I lose a costly shipment of drugs but I also lost a third of my manpower!" Continued on shouting at the pyromaniac. "But sir..." Shawn tried to say. "Get out!" Brick shouted, Shawn obeyed walking out. "And Collin's." Brick called out. "As far as I'm concerned your vendetta with Estevez is over. Are we clear?" Shawn tried with every bit of self control and power he had inside him to not yell back. "Crystal." Shawn agreed begrudgingly walking out.

At 13:34

The team was heading for the beach for some relaxation. "I don't see why I have to be here!?" Jamey groaned in the car feeling really self conscious as she crossed her arms over her chest. "Come on J." Sheen said while driving the car. "You've been stuck in your lab for months, you gotta get some sunlight." Everyone in the car who all were wearing their swimsuits all agreed with Sheen's statement. "Aghh! Fine but what are we gonna tell people when they see my orange skin and green hair." Jamey complained. "We'll just tell them you got a bad tan and you dyed your hair green." Libby suggested hopefully to see if that would improve her friend's mood. "This is going to be a long day." Jamey complained wrapping her arms around her body and she sat in the back window seat.

"Come on, it can't be that bad." Sid said, trying to cheer her up. "Yeah, I know big crowds were never really your thing before the accident, but you might actually have fun." Carl added, Libby was looking at her from the passenger's seat trying to figure out what else was bothering her. Libby noticed how she was trying to cover herself up and realized what it might be. "Girl even with the orange skin and green hair you look great there is nothing to worry about." This caused Jamey to freeze up before looking at Libby to give her a bug eyed look as the guys were trying to figure out what Libby had meant, when at that moment Libby had a devious idea. "Sid doesn't Jamey look great. Tell her that she has nothing to worry about." Sid was looking back between Libby and Jamey and was a little scared to answer. "Libby shut it." Jamey was getting very flustered at Libby's comments. "Come on, you already told Brent at the mall that you thought she looked cute." Now Sid was turning a bright red giving Libby an I'm gonna kill you look. "When was this? I thought this was one of the first times Jamey has been out of the lab?" Sheen asked finding the situation funny. "It was before you joined and Brent wanted to see a picture of Jamey, but as far as he knows she just looks like a human orange." Jamey wanted to kill everyone in the car, but before Jamey could make a comment back at any of them the team drove under the bridge when a girl wearing a uniform looking physically drained was walking dazedly on the road. A driver saw her and panicked driving into one of the pillars causing the bridge to break apart. Noticing what was happening the team stopped and got out of the car. "What are we going to do? We don't have our suits!" Libby shouted. "Don't worry, I thought something like this would happen." Jamey replied. She gave everyone a tube containing gumballs. "What's this?" Sid asked, Jamey tried to explain. "The Neutron..."

"There's no time for that!" Sid interrupted. "Just chew the gum, blow a bubble and you'll be in your suits." Jamey continued in a deadpan tone. The team did as they were told and like Captain Man and Kid Danger they transformed into their superhero personas. "What happened to the clothes we were wearing before?" With the same snippy fashion. "No time for questions. Flash gets all the civilians to safety." Jamey ordered. "Got it!" Sheen agreed speeding away. "Invisister create a platform for Special Guy to stand on, while Special Guy you use your strength to hold up the bridge." Jamey ordered. "Got it." They said in unison, Libby created a platform with her new force field power for Sid to stand on while he held up the entire crumbling bridge with his immense strength. "What should I do, Jamey?" Carl asked. "Sorry bro. Your powers would do a lot more harm than good in this situation." Jamey apologized knowing that he really wanted to help. "Oh. Okay." Carl said, a bit disappointed, things were moving smoothly with the team until a piece of concrete broke off of the bridge and directly under was the drained girl. "No!" Jamey shouted. "Flash!" Sid shouted. "I can't." Sheen said already holding multiple people, just before the girl could be hit a blur passed Jamey and Carl saving her life. "What the!?" Jamey said, shocked, it was revealed to be a beautiful redheaded girl. "Who's that!?" Sid asked, surprised.

"Don't know." Sheen replied, having gotten his civilians to safety. "But she's fast." Sid looked around and asked. "Are there anymore?" Sheen gave him a thumbs up and she let go of the bridge causing it to collapse, the team then went towards this new stranger. "Who are you?" Libby asked. "And are you single?" Sheen asked flirtatiously, an action that led to Libby hitting him in the shoulder while the girl answered excitedly. "I'm Monica Brown and you guys are those costumed heroes that have been appearing in town."

"Guilty." Sheen said, flexing his muscles. "How did you do that?" Sid asked. "I got these strange powers after that weird thing hit town a few months ago." Monica replied. "Well thanks for the assist." Sid said, shaking Monica's hand which made her smile in surprise, the drained girl looked at Monica and immediately fainted. "What's up with her?" Carl asked. "This has been happening to students at my school for the last few weeks." Monica replied.

"How about we leave before emergency services show up." Jamey suggested. "Will you come with us?" Libby asked. "Sure." Monica replied with a devious smile which Carl noticed. "Guys are we sure we should take this stranger to our secret hideout?" Carl asked. "We did with you and Libby, and that worked out well enough." Jamey commented. "Then let's go." Sheen commented, but before they left Monica looked down at Jamey and finally noticed that she was in her swimwear causing Jamey to become embarrassed. Libby noticed this and decided to push them all in the car before things got more awkward, the team made it back to Jamey's Lab where she had put on some overclothes so she was covered and was now examining Monica. "Well her body has been physically enhanced. Not to the extent of Sid or Sheen but still very impressive." Jamey commented. "Thank you." Monica said a bit nervous. "Gotta say girl you were amazing." Libby commented. "I mean how you just rushed into action. It took me a pep talk to do the same."

"Thank you, you're so sweet and I love your shoes. Where did you get them?" Monica complemented Libby. "Thanks. I got them on my last vacation in Paris." Libby gloated. "Really!?" Monica said surprisedly, while Monica and Libby were talking Carl looked on skeptically. "Hey Sheen." He called out to his friend. "What bro?" Sheen asked. "Do you get a bad vibe from that girl?" Carl asked. "Well I get some kind of vibe." Carl noticed that he was obviously not thinking the same thing he was. "Dude, I'm serious." Carl stated. "Fine, maybe she's a bit excitable, but that doesn't mean she's bad right?" Sheen replied, trying to reason with Carl. "Well maybe."

At that moment an alarm went off.

"What's that!?" Sid asked as Jamey ran straight to her computer and he followed close behind her. "Its word from the base, the Eco terrorist cell the Green Fist has taken hostages and planted a bomb at the Retroville Mall." Jamey turned to the team to explain the situation. "We gotta get there!" Sid stated. "Ya, and I'm coming." Jamey stated getting up to grab a bag of some things that she would need for the mission. "Not like you to go on the field J." Sheen said surprised. "Unfortunately I have to because none of you know how to diffuse a bomb." Jamey replied as she finished grabbing her things. "What about her?" Carl asked. "I don't know." Sid replied, walking up to Monica. "So how about it? Want to take down some bad guys." Monica smiled and answered. "Definitely." Shaking Sid's hand, the team then changed into their costumes with Jamey and Monica wearing black hoodies and masks.

At the Retroville Mall the Green Fist was making their rant to the police.

"This "Mall" is an abomination on Mother Nature's precious rock." At that moment the team showed up, Sid went to one of the officers and asked. "What's going on?" The officer turned to Sid a little surprised but mostly concerned as to why he was standing there. "I'm sorry sir but you can't be here." He replied, before an army representative appeared before them. "Stand down, these ones have special clearance." She said pointing to the team, the officer then answered Sid's question. "They have over a hundred hostages in there."

"Don't worry we'll handle this chief." He said as the team walked through. "I'm not the chief." The officer replied, Jamey told the team the plan. "Sheen, you go through the back and get all the hostages out." Sheen looked at her and nodded. "Sure." Sheen replied before Jamey continued. "But be careful I don't want to test the full extent of your speed under fire. Sid, Libby, and Carl you guys to focus on making noise, draw them away from the bomb."

"And me?" Monica asked. "You stick with me, I'll need protection." Jamey stated since she has no powers. "Maybe, I should be your protection." Carl suggested not trusting this new girl with his sister's life. "No need bro. I need you to take out those terrorists." Jamey replied, Monica smiled at Sid and said. "Good luck." Touching his shoulder, inside the mall the Green Fist were keeping their way and in an instance one of the hostages just vanished. "What the!?" One of the Green Fist's men noticed. And in another instance more began to suddenly vanish. "Sam! Sam! You gotta come here." He shouted, calling one of his fellow soldiers. "What!?" She shouted walking over to him. "I saw some hostages just disappear." He stated. "They ran! Where!?" She asked. "No, they just flat out disappeared." He replied, more of the hostages began vanishing at a faster rate. "Boss!" She shouted running towards a man next to the bomb. "We have a problem."

A loud piercing noise enveloped the entire mall causing glass to shatter and everyone in and outside to grab their ears. At that moment Sid, Libby, and Carl came in. The terrorists pulled out their guns and began firing. Everyone took cover and began their attacks; Carl blasted a few of them away with a sonic attack, Libby created a force field to protect herself from the bullets and Sid went to challenge the biggest guy in the room. Sid went in and tried to punch him, but his strikes barely phased the Goliath. "What the!?" He said to himself, the behemoth punched him once in the face which sent him flying, when he got back up to find he was bleeding from the lower part of his mouth. "That's impossible." He said in shock, the man pulled out his gun and said. "Guess this is it for you." He pulled the trigger and before the bullet could hit him, Sheen raced in and moved him to safety. "Are you okay? Normally you would have turned that guy inside out." Sheen asked, concerned. "I don't know, I suddenly feel weak." Sid said in a dazed state. "You stay here and we'll handle the rest." Sheen said super speeding off.

Carl took down more terrorists with his blasts while Libby was letting the ones she was facing finish their ammunition, when they finally ran out she asked. "You done? Great." She created a dome around the terrorists trapping them. "Now don't go anywhere." She joked, but the leader was staying by the bomb when Jamey and Monica showed up. "You bastards stay there or I'll blow this place to hell." He shouted. "Will you now." Monica said sadistically, she went to grab the detonation remote from the man moving faster than she did before, grabbing his wrist breaking it forcing him to accidentally activate the bomb. Jamey saw that she did not have much time and ran towards the bomb. "How much time do we have!?" Monica asked. "About thirty seconds." She answered, in that moment Jamey had everybody biting their nails with only 2 seconds to spare and she disarmed the bomb. "That was close." She said, collapsing to the ground as her heart was beating uncontrollably, Sheen then rushed Jamey out of the danger zone with Monica hot on his heels.

The team went back to the lab to celebrate their big win. "Bring out the premium purple flurp Carl we need to celebrate!" Jamey shouted, the team began to have a little party, Carl went up to Sid and asked. "Are you okay, you seemed pretty out of it." Jamey, who had not known about Sid's little powerdrain, was listening curiously. "Ya, it was weird. One second I was completely fine, then when we got into the mall it felt like all my strength had disappeared. Then when we came back here I felt fine again." Sid explained. "Would you say you felt drained after Monica touched you?" Carl asked. "I guess so." Sid answered. "Thanks." Carl said going straight for Jamey. "Dude, I think we need to keep a closer eye on Monica."

"Why, she did fine on the field." Jamey replied wanting to see if she needed to take a look at Sid to make sure he was alright. "It's just there's something off about her." Carl stated. "Carl you really need to get off of this, even if Monica has some kind of quirk, this team is all about second chances. Remember I trusted you even though you tried to kill Libby and those people." Jamey explained. "Maybe you're right." Carl agreed. "But it also helps that you're my brother. How about this? I check out Sid's vitals and if I find something there that's out of the ordinary then we will be cautious with Monica. Deal?" Carl gave her a nod thinking that it was at least fair to find some real proof before accusing someone. "Hey Sid let me give you a once over to make sure you're ok. Why didn't you tell me that you felt off during the mission today?" Sid was not happy that Jamey found out about his little mishap but he compiled all the same. They went over to the med center while staying a little back in the shadows. Jamey checked his vitals, everything looked normal, but he still had a little bit of a nasty bruise on his lower lip that he had managed to hide until now. "I'd say you would need to put ice on that, but it being you that would be a pointless comment." Sid gave her a small smile at her comment before Monica started to get the attention of everyone at the party. "Hey guys even though this place is bangin'. There's an even better party at this place I know, you wanna come?"

"Sure." Sid replied. "You bet." Sheen replied. "I'm in." Libby replied. "Why not." Jamey replied, actually having some fun for once. "Maybe next time, I have something I have to do." Carl replied. "Aww, is there nothing I can say to change your mind?" Monica asked Carl. "No, not really." He replied. "Fine if you change your mind, here's the address." Monica replied, writing the address on a paper and giving it to Carl.

At 20:45

Carl went to the hospital to see the same girl that caused the accident earlier. "May I have a word?" He asked slowly entering her room. "About?" She asked back cautiously. "Monica Brown." Carl answered in a very serious voice. "Who?" She asked a little lost, Carl then pulled out his phone and showed her a picture of Monica. "I don't know who this Monica person is but that girl's name is Jennna Johnson."

"What can you tell me about her?" Carl asked intriged. "Well nothing really, she mostly kept to herself but something weird started happening with her." The girl stated. "What?" Carl asked. "She suddenly started being good at everything she did." The girl told him. "How's that weird?" Now it was Carl's turn to feel lost. "Well the thing is she used to suck at everything. She wasn't that smart or athletic then, like overnight she suddenly became a superstar." She started to explain. "Really!?" Carl asked, shocked. "Ya, and funny enough all the top students in our school started getting really sick, as if all their strength was drained." She continued. "Is that what happened to you?" Carl asked. "Well I wouldn't say I'm that good at anything but I am a decent cheerleader. I suddenly felt really drained after practice with Monica, but now I feel fine as if..."

"Nothing ever happened. I see. Thank you for your time." Carl said walking away, he knew Monica or Jenna felt off. He had to tell the team, but before he could make his way out the door the girl got his attention again. "You know you're kind of cute. Here's my number." The girl said, handing Carl a paper with her number. "Uhm, thanks." He replied, taking it nervously. At an abandoned factory Monica took the team inside. "Let's go!" Monica shouted excitedly, pulling Sid. The team entered the building and saw it was completely deserted. "Are we fashionably early." Libby asked. "No, we're right on time." Monica answered. "So where's everybody?" Jamey asked starting to feel like maybe she should have listened to her brother. "Is anybody hungry?" Monica asked. "Dude, I'm getting a weird vibe." Sheen whispered to Jamey. "Me too." She whispered back at him. "Because I'm famished." Monica stated, suddenly Sid began to groan in pain and fall to the ground. "What are you doing!?" Jamey shouted, rushing to Sid to try and help him up. "For weeks I've been munching down on third rate losers, taking their skills and abilities." Monica stated. "You steal peoples powers!" Libby shouted shocked. "Yup, in a sense you could say I become them, I can do everything they can, I even have their memories. Unfortunately it only lasts a few hours and my victim will slowly recover." She continued. "I had to keep taking more and more, I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to be satisfied until I met him." She said raising Sid up. "The Pièce de rèsistance, Special Guy."

"Guys get her!" Jamey shouted, Sheen supersped straight at Monica, using her new superspeed reflexes she managed to catch Sheen. "To slow Flash." She said starting to drain his powers, causing him to groan in pain, tossing him aside when she was done with him, Libby created a dome around Monica. "You're not going anywhere!" Monica began to hit the dome causing Libby to groan. "What's wrong!?" Jamey shouted. "Every time something hits my force fields, it feels like I take the hit in my head." Libby replied, Monica kept hitting the force field until Libby couldn't handle the pain anymore and dropped it, Monica super sped towards Libby and proceeded to drain her powers. She then slowly walked towards Jamey who tried to find something in her bag to help but was too late and grabbed her, draining Jamey's abilities. "Woah, you pack a bigger punch than I expected." Monica went and chained the group to a pillar. "For the first time in a long time, I'm sated."

"Don't worry guys Carl will save us." Jamey stated having full faith in her brother, until she was cut off by Monica laughing. "That lard ass, with the power I'm packing no one can defeat me." Carl was trying to get a hold of his friends on his phone. "Come on, why aren't they answering." He eventually got a call from Jamey.

Carl: Dude you have to get out of there, Monica's...

Monica: Hey, Carly.

Carl: You! I know what you are!

Monica: Too little too late. I've already had my fill with your friend's powers now I want some desert. How about your sound powers, Carly.

Carl: Like I'd do that!

Monica: The way I see it. You don't really have a choice. If you care about your friends you'll come here to try and fail to save them, if you try to bring anyone else they will die. So what are you going to do?

"Carl don't." Jamey groaned in the background. "She'll steal all your abilities."

Monica: Oh, she's talking again, dinner time.

Monica cut the phone call. "She steals a persons abilities." Carl said to himself, he thought for a moment and had an idea. Back at the factory Monica was getting impatient waiting for Carl. "Come on I've been waiting an hour. Maybe he decided to do the smart thing and run." Monica complained. "Carl wouldn't do that." Sheen barely said in Carl's defense. "Ya, will see." Monica replied, at that moment Carl walked into the building. "So you're here." Monica stated. "Ya, with my secret weapon." Carl replied. "Oh ya." Sheen shouted. "Let her have it. What did you bring; a gun, poison." Carl pulled out a glass jar of peanut butter. "Where doomed." Sheen groaned, Carl threw the jar as hard as he could and blasted it mid air with his sonic attack, breaking the jar and splattering the peanut butter on Monica. Jamey suddenly realized what he was doing and tried to reach into her pocket to grab his epipen she always had on her. "Ahh! My hair! What was that supposed to do?" She asked. "You'll see." Carl answered cryptically, he went on to attack Monica with his sonic blasts, she used Libby's force field as a defense, when Carl began to tire out, she used her superspeed to grab him. "A fifth course, no I couldn't, maybe just a nibble, I have been a glutton today." She proceeded to drain Carl's powers. "You taste divine." She complemented, tossing him aside like trash, with a smile on her face she began her rant. "Now with all your powers coursing through me I can...I can..." She tried to say gasping for air. "W...what's happening to me?" She asked as her face began to swell. "It worked!" Carl chuckled. "What worked." She asked. "I figured if you get our abilities as a meal then you might get our weaknesses as a side dish and I'm severely allergic to peanuts. It's so severe that If I'm even in contact with them, I might as well be a dead man."

"I...gotta...get...out...of..." She desperately tried to say, collapsing to the ground. "Aww, poor baby, was it something you ate." Carl gloated. "And now it's time for a nap." He said going to sleep. "Carl! Carl! You forgot to untie us!" Sheen shouted but Jamey was more concerned at the fact that she could see his allergie starting to take effect. Jamey was trying to figure out why to squeeze out of the chains. "Everyone I need you to press as close as you can to the pole." Figuring that Jamey had a plan they listened without question. Jamey began to turn her head and relax her shoulders and began to shrug them while sliding down forcing her way out and under the chains and now that she was out the chains were loose enough for everyone to get out. Once they did they all noticed Jamey running towards Carl with something in her hand. When she reached him she applied the epipen and his swelling started to go down. Jamey plopped down next to Carl still feeling the effects from Monica, but at least Carl was safe. "Did you know what his plan was?" Sid asks a little out of breath. "Sort of. I know that he has a severe peanut allergie so severe that I just got into the habit of always caring an epipen wherever I went even if we weren't together. Like when I was in college. I'll usually have one on me so he knew that if he brought peanut butter to take her out he'd still be ok." Everyone just nodded and dragged themselves over to the hovercraft and called the General to pick up Monica. The next day the team had recovered from Monica's power drain. "I think we're all at a hundred percent guys." Jamey said to the team, everyone agreed, testing their powers, Jamey walked up to Carl and apologized. "I'm sorry I didn't listen to you."

"Ya, you had that crazy chick pegged from the start." Sheen agreed. "Guys it was nothing." Carl blushed. "No Carl it wasn't. You felt something off about Monica from the start and you found a way to defeat her with the limited data you got. You have great instincts Carl and I should have trusted them." Carl smiled at Jamey. "Ya, guess there's a lot more to you than meets the eye." Sid complimented. "Yup." Libby agreed. Carl continued to blush from the praise. "Ah, guys I might have good instincts when it comes to bad guys but I might need your help with something." They looked at him curiously. "What?" Libby asked. "You see this girl gave me her number..."

"What?!? That's awesome Carl!" Jamey was so excited for her brother. "Don't worry I'll tell you exactly what you need to do." Libby interrupted. "You!" Sheen said, shocked. "I doubt you've ever even kissed anyone." Sheen teased. "I have!" Libby argued. "Never mind her, bro if you ask her out, the first thing you do is plan three dates." Sheen explained. "Three!?" Carl asked, confused. "Ya." Libby agreed. "For sunny, cloudy, and rainy weather." Sheen cut Libby off and then continued. "And make sure you have at least ten stories." Sheen continued. "Why?" Carl asked. "So that you seem interesting." Libby answered as she now cut Sheen off, while Libby and Sheen were giving Carl tips, Sid walked up to Jamey. "You know you caused a lot of damage when your chamber exploded." She signed knowing full well of that fact. "Tell me something I don't know." Jamey replied, as she messed with the front part of her hair which she only did when she was stressed. "But this." He gestured to the rest of the team. "This is nice." Jamey smiled at his confession. "You might be right, Vortex." She walked up to the rest of the team. "Hey Carl, how about I run a background check on her."

At Black Creek Prison

Monica was in her cell carving up the walls with a spoon drawing images of Carl. "Why do you keep drawing that?" Her cellmate asked. "I don't know, but what I do know is I absolutely hate it." Monica replied. "Why do I always get stuck with the crazies?" Her cellmate commented. At an unknown location Stone was building a strange looking machine.

The Night of The Explosion

After finishing her performance Nick met with her girlfriend Sarah. "That was amazing babe!" She said going in for a kiss, but Nick rejected it, backing away. "What's wrong?" She asked. "Look Sarah, I didn't want to do this today, but I want to break up." She explained. "Why?" She asked. "You've been smothering me, we've only been dating three weeks and you're the last person I see when I go to bed and the first person I see when I wake up, you came to all my play rehearsals and have seen every show. I need my space!" Nick explained. "I'm just being a devoted girlfriend." Sarah tried to explain. "No you're obsessed with me, and I'm done!" Nick shouted walking away. "You'll regret this Nick I swear!" Sarah cried running away, she ran to her parents' restaurant. "Hey honey." Her mother greeted her, but Sarah ignored her mom and went into the freezer to get some ice cream. "She thinks she can break up with me, well she'll see!" Sarah shouted out loud and at that moment the energy pulse hit the building.

Present Day at 09:34

Sid was walking with Brent to school. "Glad we're finally hanging out." Brent commented. "I feel like we hardly see each other anymore." Sid smiled and agreed. "I know, I've been so busy lately." The two boys entered the school when Nick walked past them, Sid looked back in wonder. "Who's that?" Sid asked, elbowing his friend. "That's Nick Dean, she's like the most popular and prettiest girl in school. How could you not know her?" Brent explained. "Well I've been distracted lately." Sid replied and Brent thought that maybe the distraction was a mystery genius named Jame, but his thoughts were cut off when Nick started to walk over to the duo and both guys instantly froze.

"You're Sid right?" She asked. "I...ya...I am." Sid replied, stuttering. "Do you wanna go out tonight?" She asked, Sid was so shocked he couldn't even reply. "He would love to." Brent answered in his place. "Cool, I'll pick you up at eight." Nick replied walking off. "I can't believe it, the hottest, most athletic girl in school just asked you out." Brent screamed excitedly. Sid was in such shock he didn't even say a word. "Wait, sorry dude I didn't just make things weird between you and Jamey did I?" Worried that he might have messed things up for his friend, but Sid was brought out of his shock at this statement. "What? Jamey and I aren't together." Brent was glad that he didn't make a mess of things. At another part of the school Carl was texting with the girl he met at the hospital Elky.

Carl: Gud luk ur test 2day

Elky: Thanx u were a big help

Carl: So r u doing anything 2nite

Elky: I dnt know wat do u hve planned

Carl: Well I was thinking dinner

Elky: Pick me up 8

Carl: We'll do

Carl smiled and put his phone away. He heard the bell and went to class.

At 18:45

The team was finishing a good afternoon of training. "Great work team see you tomorrow." Jamey congratulated having changed into her graphite grey pantsuit and black heels with her hair pulled up into a bun. "Really, so early and you look fancy." Sheen said surprised with Libby adding on. "Ya girl you look good but no makeup? Not that you need it just asking." Libby tried to back track quickly realizing how that last comment sounded. "Ya, I have a meeting and those two have plans tonight. Plus not a lot of makeup options when it comes to my skin tone." Jamey replied pointing at Sid and Carl as she mumbled that last part more to herself than to anyone else. "How did you know about my date!?" Both Sid and Carl shouted in surprise. "You have a date!" Sheen said surprised to Carl. "With who? That Elky girl you've been texting." Taking a guess. "Ya." Carl answered. "I'm so excited for you!" Libby said, hugging Carl. "Me too Carl." Jamey said before she had to gather her things for her meeting. "You know I'm going out with Nick Dean." Sid said, trying to get attention. "Ya that's great." Libby said ignoring Sid. "What are you going to wear?" Libby asked Carl. "I don't know this." Carl replied, gesturing to what he was currently wearing. "No, no, no. We need to fix this." Libby said to Sheen. "You're right." Sheen agreed. "Carl, what time's your date?"

"I made reservations for eight at Sam's." Carl replied, Libby looked at her watch. "That doesn't give us enough time, Sheen." Sheen raced Libby and Carl out with his super speed. "Well I'll be going." Jamey said heading for her hovercraft. "Does anyone care that I'm going out with the hottest girl in school." Sid shouted to himself when he noticed a large package on the side table that was slightly opened and on the side it said AJ's Stuff. Who is AJ? Sid knew better than to look in the box, it was someone else's stuff, but he decided to go with the flimsy excuse that he was checking to make sure that it was safe from any attack. When he opened the box the first thing he saw was a polaroid with a black guy around his age who was kissing Jamey in the picture. Sid realized that AJ was her boyfriend that had died in the accident. She must have finally gotten his stuff back, without realizing he put the photo in his pocket, closed up the box, and left the lab.

At Carl's house

Libby and Sheen are trying to find the right look for Carl. "No." Libby said, looking at Carl's outfit, Sheen used his super speed to change Carl into another. "No." She said again, Sheen used his speed to change Carl again. "No." She said once again, but just before Sheen could change Carl again. "Can you stop doing that! It's starting to get weird!" Carl shouted in frustration. "Dude we're just trying to help." Sheen replied. "I appreciate that, I really do but right now you guys are smothering me. I can handle this on my own." Carl said walking out. "He can't handle this on his own." Libby commented with Sheen agreeing. "We better follow him."

At the military base

Jamey and Goddard met up with General Vortex and some other important figures. "Good even Jamey. Do you have the report for us?" Jamey answered. "Yes I do. Goddard activate holographic display." Goddard's back opened up and holograms of the entire team were shown. "Subject 1." Jamey said, revealing Sid's Image of. "Name Sydney Arron Vortex. Codename Special Guy. Abilities; subject has enhanced strength capable of lifting about 100 tons. Maximum load, unknown. Enhanced speed, subject can move at speeds faster than 500 miles per hour, subject also has superhuman reflexes. Enhanced Durability, subject is extremely resistant to damage, capable of surviving, gun fire, falls from great heights and explosions."

At Sid's date, he and Nick were at the pier playing games. "How about we go there?" Nick suggested pointing to the strength tester. "Sure." Sid agreed. "Step right up, step right up. Beat the machine and win a prize! Only five dollars!" the announcer shouted. Nick picked up the hammer and slammed it on the machine, the ball went up but failed to hit the bell. "Hard luck, try again." He said. "How about I try." Sid suggested. "Sure." Nick agreed, handing Sid the hammer, he hit the machine, the bell went flying up and shot the bell off, the announcer looked in disbelief and handed Sid a teddy bear. "Congratulations." He said, shocked. "Whoa, you're strong!?" Nick commented surprised. "Is that a problem?" Sid asked nervously. "Nope, I like a guy that can take care of himself." Nick replied. "So want a hotdog?" Sid agreed, smiling. "Sure." From a distance Sid and Nick were being watched by a cloaked figure.

Back at the base

Jamey was still giving out her report. "Subject 2." Jamey said, showing Libby's image. "Name, Liberty Danielle Folfax, Codename The Invisister. Abilities; subject has the ability to camouflage with her environment with such effectiveness she appears invisible. Subject also has the ability to create violet coloured force fields in any shape that she can think of."

Carl was walking up to Elky's door and in the bushes hiding behind him were Libby and Sheen. "He looks like he's doing good." Libby commented. "Ya he does...oh I just realized he forgot something!" Sheen shouted. "What!" Libby asked. "He forgot flowers! What are her favorite flowers!" Sheen asked, causing Libby to pull out her phone and search on Elky's social media. "It says here, yellow roses." Libby answered, Sheen raced off with his superspeed, as Carl knocked on the door. "Just a second." Elky called out, just as the door began to open Sheen raced in, put the flowers in Carl's hands and raced off. Carl looked back to see Libby and Carl in the bushes, he gave them a look and turned around to see Elky wearing a beautiful dress with sneakers. "Whoa, you look amazing!" Carl said, infatuated. "Aw, thanks. Are those for me?" Elky asked, pointing to the flowers. "Yes!" Carl nervously gives Elky the flowers. "Yellow roses are my favorite." She said with a smile. "I see you do your research." She commented. "Ya, I do." Carl replied nervously, as Elky took Carl inside to meet her parents. "Just stay here for a sec, I'll be back." She said running upstairs with her mom, Carl went in to shake Elky's father's hand. "Nice to meet you sir, I'm Carl." He greeted.

Elky's father simply glared at him and went to sit down. "What are your intentions son?" He asked. "Well...sir...I'm going to take her to Sam's for dinner and maybe some dancing and then have her home by nine." Carl explained. "Good, because if you're even a second late I'll kill you." Elky's father replied. "Nice joke sir." Carl replied nervously. "Who's joking, I'll kill you, and I know how I'll get away with it." Jasmine's father continued, Carl began to laugh nervously until Elky came downstairs. "Ready." She called out. "Ya." Carl answered walking up to her. "Have fun honey." Her father said, kissing his daughter's cheek. "And Carl remember our talk." The two left the house. "So what was the threat he gave you?" She asked. "He said, if I'm even a second late bringing you home he'll kill me." Carl answered. "Aw, he must like you. The last three guys I went out with got way worse threats." Elky replied. "Lucky me." Carl laughed nervously.

At the base

Jamey was making her next report. "Subject 3." She said, revealing Carl's image. "Name, Carlton Ulysses Wheezer. Codename, Echo. Abilities, subject has the ability to manipulate sound, highest recorded sound blast about 200 decibels."

Sid and Nick were enjoying their hotdogs. "How can something be so gross and so delicious at the same time." Sid said, eating the hotdog. "That's Sticky Joe's for you." Nick replied. At that moment the hooded figure walked up to them. "Can I help you pal?" Nick asked. "I can't believe you did this to me!" the hooded figure screamed. Recognising the voice Nick said surprised. "Sarah!? What are you doing here!?"

"I came to stop you from making the biggest mistake of your life with this bitch!" Sarah shouted, removing her hood. "Excuse me!" Sid said, walking up to Sarah. "You heard me." Sarah challenged. "Look, Sarah. We broke up months ago, you need to get over it and leave me alone." Nick said, moving Sid out of the way. "You still love me. It's just he's making you say these things." Sarah replied. "Look crazy girl." Sid said, walking up to Sarah. "Get away from us!" Sarah shouted, firing a beam that froze Sid in a block of ice. "What the...!?" Nick shouted in shock. Sarah's hair began to turn white and her skin became pale. "You love me Nick. You just don't know it but I'll make you." She said, grabbing Nick, launching off the ground with her ice beam. The block of ice Sid was in began to shake, cracks began to form and in an instant he broke out of the ice. "Nick!"

At the base

Jamey was giving another report. "Subject 4." She said, showing them Sheen's image. "Name, Sheen Juarrera Estevez. Codename, The Flash. Abilities, the subject's body vibrates on a molecular level, allowing him to run at superhuman speeds. Top speed unknown."

Carl and Elky entered the building and met the concierge. "Do you have a reservation?" He asked. "Two for Wheezer." Carl answered, the concierge checked and found their names. "Ah, yes this way." He replied, taking them to their table, from behind them Sheen and Libby followed. "Do you have a reservation?" The concierge asked. "Yes we do." Sheen answered. "Two for Estevez." The concierge checked and found their names. "Ah, there it is, this way sir."

"You made a reservation?" Libby asked. "No, I just wrote our names in there with my superspeed." Sheen answered. "Whoa, you are fast." Libby commented surprised. "Didn't even see you move." Carl pulled out Elky's chair. "Guess chivalry isn't dead." She commented with a slight chuckle, Carl sat down and their waiter came with their menus. "I'll have a burger." Carl ordered. "And I'll have the spaghetti." Elky ordered, the waiter took their menus and went off, Carl and Elky stayed in silence for a while, Sheen and Libby looked on to see the awkward situation. "Dudes bombing." Sheen commented. "He needs some help." Libby agreed, she checked Elky's social media and found some of her interests, she wrote something on a napkin and gave it to Sheen. "Give that to him." Sheen used his superspeed to put the napkin in Carl's hand undetected. "What was that?" Elky asked, feeling the breeze. "Must be an open window." Carl replied, as he looked at the napkin and it said, SHE REALLY LIKES SUPERHEROES. "Anyway, what do you think about that superhero team that's been saving people all over town?" Elky excitedly started. "Don't even get me started. They're just so cool. I mean they can do things we can only dream of right!?"

"Ya, they're pretty cool, who's your favourite?" He asked. "Well I think all of them are great. My favourite has to be the guy with sound powers." Elky replied. "Why?" Carl asked, beginning to smile. "He's potentially the most powerful one. He could manipulate sound waves to allow himself to fly, modify his voice, the possibilities are endless." She said, getting more excited. "Really?" Carl said surprised. "You must think I'm a giant nerd." Elky commented as she nervously tucked her ear behind her ear while blushing. "No I don't, you're just a girl who's really passionate about something she loves." Carl replied, this cause Elky to smile and the two continued their conversion laughing and beginning to loosen up. Sheen and Libby looked on to the success and began smiling.

Sarah had flown Nick into a forest. "Now that we're alone Nick, we can find a way to rekindle our relationship." Nick looked at her ex like the crazy person she clearly is. "We only dated for three weeks, there wasn't much of a relationship." Nick protested. "Don't worry, you'll see the truth or die trying." Sarah commented. "Wait what!?" Nick said shocked. "If you won't be with me, you won't get to be with anyone." Sarah explained. At that moment Sid supersped in and punched Sarah into a tree. "Sid!? How did you do that!?" Nick asked, shocked. "I'll explain later. Let's just g..." Sid tried to say before being blasted by a freeze ray freezing him again in a block of ice, he instantly broke free and went in to attack Sarah, but she dodged by using her freeze ray to propel herself up she then blasted Sid with ice shards pinning Sid to the ground. "I've had enough of you!" Sid shouted getting up, he clapped his hands creating a powerful shockwave that sent Sarah flying into a tree knocking her out and sent Nick flying off of a ledge. "Nick!" Sid shouted, he jumped off of the ledge and dived straight for Nick. He caught her and as they were heading to the ground they suddenly stopped. Nick opened her eyes to see them levitating. "Whoa! We're flying!" Nick said, astonished. "We are!?" Sid replied surprised, he looked and saw they were floating mid air. "We are!" He said again, even more surprised. "You can fly!?" Nick commented. "Apparently." Sid replied, still shocked, but he flew back to Sarah but crashed to the ground while landing. "Guess I need a little practice." He commented. "You'll get the hang of it." Nick replied dusting herself off, she then looked at Sarah. "What are we going to do with her?" Sid is trying to figure out the very same thing. "I need to make a call." Sid replied.

At Sam's

Carl and Elky had finished their dinner. "So what do you want to do now?" Carl asked. Elky heard music. "I want to dance!" She said excitedly. "Did she just say dance!" Libby shouted shocked. "How are we supposed to help him now?" Libby asked very panicked while Sheen thought for a moment. "Okay, here's what we're going to do. You use your force field power and control his arms and legs while I subtly move him with my speed." She nodded, starting to see the plan Sheen had come up with. "Got it." Libby agreed, but at that moment Carl and Elky rushed to the dance floor and to Sheen and Libby's astonishment Carl was an exceptionally great dancer. "I can't believe it!?" Sheen said in shock. "I'm with you." Libby agreed, the music began to slow down and Elky pulled Carl close and they began slow dancing, Elkyleaned in close and kissed Carl, Sheen and Libby looked on while slowly dancing themselves. "Our boy did it." Libby commented smiling. "I told myself I wouldn't cry." Sheen said, tearing up a bit. Libby and Sheen continued dancing ignoring what Carl was doing. "You know we make a great team." Sheen commented. "Yes, yes we do." Libby replied smiling.

Back at the base

Jamey's superior's were speaking with her. "Your in-depth report on your team was very interesting Miss Neutron but you refrained from telling us your contingencies to stop them if they ever went rogue." One of them asked. "I didn't feel like it was necessary." Jamey replied feeling this pit in her stomach grow. "These mutants of yours are more powerful than the ones that have been captured. This council is ordering you to make failsafes to stop them. If you feel if you are not up to the task then we will remove you from this project and assign someone else who will be." Another said, Jamey ramand her composure and sighed. "Fine, I'll get right on it." Jamey walked out of the building with General Vortex. "I can't believe you want me to make a failsafe for your son!" Jamey shouted. "I was out voted Jamey." The General tried to explain. "Not good enough Vortex! We're in this mess because of you! These people have no reason to help us but they are, now you want me to betray their trust by doing this!" Jamey shouted. "What would you want me to do Jamey?" The General asked. "Try harder to make this whole situation easier. Because its all your fault." Jamey answered walking to her hovercraft. Once she got in she finally allowed the tears she had been holding bak that day to fall. First she got a package filled with all of AJ's belongings that she still needs to go through, but now she is put into an impossible situation because of the general. Today was just too much for her to handle right now. But she knew that right now she had to do whatever it took to protect her team. NO. Her friends.

After the cops took Sarah away, Nick walked Sid home. "Sorry this was a weird date." Sid apologized nervously. "Why are you apologizing, it was my crazy ex that attacked us." Nick replied feeling like it was more her fault than it would have been Sid's. "You're not gonna tell anyone about what you know!?" Sid asked, really nervous to have it secret out. "Your superpowers naw, if I did that I probably wouldn't be able to take you out next week." Nick replied, Sid smiled and they continued walking.

Carl walked Elky home.

"Thanks for the fun night and...well...the kiss." Carl said shyly. "Don't mention it." Elky said, opening her door. "Text you later." Carl commented. "Sure." She said, smiling, closing the door, Carl sighed in relief then straightened his face. "I know you're out there." He called out causing Libby and Sheen to jump out of the bushes. "Thanks for the help." He said walking away, Libby and Sheen smiled, going to follow him. "Dude! I didn't know you could dance!" Sheen commented. "I can also sing and play the drums." Carl bragged. "When did you learn how to do all that?" Libby asked. "When you spend most of your adolescent years alone you pick up a few tricks." Carl explained. The trio continued walking and having a good time.

The next day at 06:45

The team was walking to Jamey's Lab. Libby met up with Sid. "So how was your date with Nick?" Libby asked. "Like you care." Sid replied. "Look, it's not that I didn't care about your date, it's just that Carl needed our immediate attention and I knew whatever came your way you could handle it. You're Sid Vortex." Libby explained. "When you say it like that. I kinda get it." Sid agreed. "So, you forgive me?" Libby asked. "Sure." Sid replied, hugging his friend. The two met up with Carl and Sheen and entered the lab. They walked in to find Jamey who looked like she had been crying all night and was sick to her stomach arguing with the General who was waiting for them. "What are you going to do? I can't risk losing them to someone who's gonna treat them like machines. I am trying to protect them!" Jamey was practically screaming at the taller man who was not having any of it. "What do you think I am trying to do!" General Vortex said, slamming his fist on the table dangerously close to Jamey who flinched back at the noise. "I honestly don't know." Jamey muttered as she noticed the audience that had arrived. She turned away trying to wipe the tears off her face.

"Dad, what are you doing here? Is Jamey alright?" Sid asked unsure what was happening, he just wanted to race towards Jamey but was stopped by his father holding out his hand. "She's fine. I came here to tell you all the truth." The General answered, forcing Jamey to avoid eye contact with everyone; she most definitely was not fine. "About what?" Libby asked. "The energy pulse that hit Retroville seven months ago was caused by a machine called the Neutron Chamber exploding." The General explained. "Wait did you say Neutron Chamber!" Libby said shocked. "Are you telling me you caused all this Jamey!" She shouted, grabbing Jamey's collar, Libby was too angry to worry about the fact that Jamey at the moment looked like a scared child. "Libby, let her go, it was an accident." Sid commented trying to calm her down. "Wait, you knew about this!" Sheen shouted. "It's not like they told me. I found out from another mutant." Sid replied. "I just can't believe I trusted you." Libby shouted to Jamey letting her go. "It wasn't her fault." The General commented, causing everyone to turn their attention to the general. "What!?" Sid asked. "I said it wasn't her fault." The General repeated. "It was mine." Sid felt like his world came shattering down. He knew something wasn't right that maybe there was more to what Stone had said, but he had hoped that his own father didn't lie right to his face.

"No, no, no! You looked me in the eye and told me it wasn't you!" Sid shouted. "How?" Sheen asked the General. "Jamey warned me, I didn't listen." The General answered. Jamey was shaking with fury all she could do was look at him before finally letting out everything she had been holding back since that day. "Warned you. No, I begged you not to do it. That the machine wasn't ready that it needed to be a temporary solution and not a permanent one. But instead you went behind my back and caused this mess." Jamey was on the verge of tears but nobody cared they all just felt betrayed by the lies. "I… I ALOMST DIED TRYING TO SHUT OFF THAT DAMN MACHINE…. A….. AJ did….." Jamey's breathing suddenly stopped as she tried to stop herself from crying that she could not finish her sentence. She tried with everything she had to hold herself together, but tears began to fall without her permission, no one understood or maybe they didn't care, but the trauma from that day was still there and when it looked as though Jamey was about to bolt the general firmly grabbed her shoulder holding her in place.

"You know, I thought joining this team was a good idea, guess I was wrong." Sheen commented. "Sheen, wait..." Jamey tried to say, but Sheen ignored her and super sped off, while Libby kept quiet and left the room. "Carl..." Jamey tried to explain, Carl kept silent and walked off. "Sid, son I can explain!" The General tried to say. "No! No more lies!" Sid replied super speeding off. "Why did you tell them?" Jamey asked, wiping a tear away. "It was the only way to keep them safe Jamey, by telling them you won't be able to analyze their weaknesses properly, preventing you from creating failsafes for them." The General explained. "And now we've lost our team of super powerful mutants, and by the way, isn't Stone still out there and I still lost their trust. Because of you I lost the love of my life, my friends, and possibly even my family. Sometimes Sam I question your ability to make a good decision." Jamey said, finally walking off. "You have to trust me Jamey." The General yelled at her. "That's the thing, I don't!" Jamey shouted at him.

Later that day at 16:56

Jamey was leaving her lab when suddenly the ground beneath her began to move forcing her to the ground skinning her knees. Stone revealed himself and lifted Jamey off the ground by grabbing her neck. "Hello Jamey. You and I need to talk." Jamey was absolutely terrified, because she honestly thought that for the first time since this whole thing started, that she was on her own. After the events of today she probably was.

Hope you enjoyed this new addition in the original fanfiction. In the next chapter we should be reaching the end of the first session of the story. These chapters seem long, but I have doubled them up so the first five chapters will be about the first eleven in the original fanfic. If I am being honest the ending of this chapter did break my heart a bit, but we are reaching my favorite part of any story, the climax where our characters are in a heartbreaking moment that will ultimately decide what they will do to affect the outcome. Now we rise to the Falling Action, the best part where we see if our characters will choose either the right or left path leading to overcoming the problem or running from it. I mention this because some might say this is just angst or whatever but it is a defining moment that will affect the outcome of the ending of this moment. What would you do after you reach your climax in the story of your life would you run to or from it?