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Stone was holding Jamey by her neck. "What do you want!?" Jamey asked, trying to sound brave. "I'm in need of a genius." He replied. Goddard charged at Stone and tried to bite his arm. "Bad dog." Stone said swatting Goddard away deactivating the robot dog. "Goddard!" Jamey shouted. Stone hit Jamey in the stomach before dropping her to the ground causing her to cough up blood before slamming his foot on the side of her head knocking her out.
Stone took Jamey to an abandoned warehouse and after a few hours she finally woke up with a splitting headache. "What do you want with me, Stone!?" Jamey asked. "Nothing much, I just need you to make this work." Stone said gesturing to different parts of separate machines. "What do you want me to do with this junk!?" Jamey asked still tasting the blood in her mouth ."I want you to build me a Change Engine." Stone answered causing Jamey to look at his with wide eyes."You must be insane! Change Engines don't exist and even if I could theoretically build one from all this junk, I wouldn't!" Jamey explained. "I wasn't giving you a choice, girl!" Stone replied, turning his fist into a mace. "You're not going to kill me. You need me." Jamey said unafraid. "You know they're different forms of alive." Stone threatened. "Do your worst! I've got nothing left to lose." Jamey dared. "Very well." Stone agreed slamming the mace into her leg shattering it causing her let out a blood curtailing scream before Stone phased into the ground.Stone reappeared at Jamey's lab. He looked around Jamey's inventions. "There you are." He commented smiling.
At Black Creek Prison, at the mutant wing, old foes of the heroes were lounging around in their cells. "Can you please stop carving up the walls!" Sarah shouted to Monica. "I will when I find out what I'm drawing!" Monica shouted back. "Can you please keep it down!" Ian shouted trying to read a book. "Are the lady's interrupting your reading time stumpy?" Eric taunted. "Wow you're a jerk." Sarah commented. "And you're a teenage girl who was stupid enough to get herself locked in prison." Eric retorted. "If you all don't shut up, you'll be dead by morning!" Zupco shouted. At that moment the ground began to move, forming into Stone. The guards on duty pulled out their batons and charged at him, Stone simply fired two rock shards at their chests killing them. "Stone, you've come back for me!" Ian said excitedly.
"Not just you. All of you." Stone replied he pointed the device he was holding and fired a beam at Ian's, Zupco's, Monica's and Sarah's heads. "I remember." Ian said, shocked. "I remember everything." Monica commented "What did you do to us!?" Sarah asked. "They erased your memories to keep their secrets. With this." Stone said gesturing to the device. "I have given your memories back."
"Thanks but what do you want in return?" Zupco asked. "Only one thing. The thing you all want. Vegence against those heroes." Stone explained. "I'm in." Eric replied. "Me too." Monica replied with a psychotic smile. "When do we start?" Zupco agreed. "As long as I get to take that Sid bitch!" Sarah shouted. "If we're all in agreement." Stone replied smiling, he created multiple arms smashing apart the villains cell doors. The villains walked out of their cells. "As long as you're doing favors, how about you take care of the collars." Zupco said gesturing to the inhibitor collars. Stone did so and removed the collars. "What do you want us to do?" Eric asked. "Those heroes have split up, I want each of you to take your pick and take them out." Stone ordered. "I'll take the fat one." Monica commented. "Blondey's mine." Sarah commented. "Inviso girl's mine." Force commented. "Then I guess that leaves Estevez to me." Zupco commented with a sadistic smile. "Before you go, tell me your names." Stone ordered.
"Well I'm Sarah..." Sarah tried to say. "Not the names you had when you were ordinary." Stone interrupted. "The names that will make you extraordinary." The group thought for a moment. "Force." Eric replied. "Fear Monger." Zupco replied. "Parasite." Monica replied. "Ice Queen." Sarah replied. "And Hypno." Ian replied. "It's what they called me before."
"Good now go!" Stone ordered. The villains except Stone and Hypno left the prison. "What do you want me to do?" Hypno asked Stone. "I have a very special assignment for you." Stone replied with a sinister smile.
Jamey was still in the warehouse trying to find a way to escape but finding it difficult not being able to walk. "Come on Neutron, think of something. Cause one thing for sure no one's coming. Not now." She said to herself still not fully believing just how bad things had gotten in a short period of time. At that moment Stone walked in. "You're not trying to escape are you?" Stone asked sarcastically. "Of course I am." Jamey replied holding her injured leg. "Well time to get to work." Stone ordered grabbing Jamey forcibly by the shoulders hurt her more . "I told you I'm not going to help you!" Jamey shouted still trying to have strength in her voice but failing. "Your consent isn't a factor." Stone replied. Hyno walked in and Jamey backed away the best she could. "Get away from me!" Jamey shouted truly showing her fear. Hypno gave her a sadistic smile and opened his third eye hypnotising Jamey. "Order her to build the Change Engine! And the after to kill herself. Can't have her finding a way to stop me." Stone ordered. "Do as Stone commands!" Hypno ordered. Jamey did so and went to work.
The next day, at Elky's house Carl was hanging out with Elky. "Have you seen the new Cira music video?" she asked. Carl didn't hear her because he was thinking about what happened with the team. "Carl." She called out but he still didn't hear her. "Carl!" She called out again. "Ya, what!?" Carl said coming back to reality. "What's wrong?" She asked. "Nothing." He replied. "Something's bothering you, you can tell me anything." She replied. "Fine yesterday..." Carl tried to say. At that moment Elky's Mom walked in. "Hope you kids are having fun." She said, interrupting Carl. "Ya, Mom we're fine." Elky said, a bit annoyed. "You can go now."
"I just came to tell you a friend of yours is here." Her mother stated. "Who?" Elky asked, bunching her eyebrows. "Jenna." Elky's mother answers. Hearing the name Carl shouted. "We've got to get out of here fast!" He tried to grab Elky's hand when Jenna came through the door. "Why would we do that Carl." Parasite said walking in holding Elky's Dad. "They're just in time for dinner."
Sid was at the Candy bar drowning his sorrows in Purple Flurp. "Ease up kid." Sam commented. "Too much of that stuff is bad for you." Sid just simply replied. "It's just soda Sam, I can handle it." Sam just chuckled and let him be. At that moment the Ice Queen walked in shouting. "Special Guy!" Looking back Sid became annoyed. "You again!"
Sheen was at his house taking care of his younger siblings, his Grandmother walked up to him. "¿Qué pasa, Sheen?" She asked. "Nada Abuela." Sheen replied. "Sheen, sé cuando algo te molesta." She commented. "No te preocupes por mí, estaré bien." Sheen replied. Sheen's Grandmother nodded and went to sit down. At that moment a bullet flew through the window, Sheen noticed and went to go catch it and while he was running more bullets came flying into his house, Sheen used his speed to evacuate his family out of the house and into the backyard. "What just happened?" Sheen's younger sister Gracia shouted. Sheen shouted. "I'll explain lat..." He was interrupted by the sight of more bullets coming their way, he used his speed again to evacuate his family from their backyard to the street. "Do it again!" Sheen's youngest sibling Ricardo shouted. Sheen saw multiple men surrounding him. "Tired yet Estevez!" Fear Monger shouted walking up to Sheen and his family. Sheen glared and prepared himself for a fight.
Libby was at her home, on her phone looking at multiple pictures of her and the team smiling, she heard a loud noise coming from down stairs. "Mom, is everything okay!?" She shouted but she never got a reply. "Mom!" she shouted again. Libby walked downstairs to find Force telekinetically holding her mother in the air. "Hello, Libby, was it. Let's have some fun."
"Mutant!" Sid shouted, causing everyone in the building to run out. "Now that we're alone..." Ice Queen tried to say, before Sid punched him through a glass panel. Sid while walking out of the building ate one of his gumballs, blew a bubble and transformed into Special Guy. "Can you just shut up already!" Sid shouted.
Guess its over for you Estevez!" Fear Monger shouted. "You can come after me as much as you want! But nobody hurts my family!" Sheen shouted with a deathly stare, in literally a blink of an eye all of Fear Monger were down on the ground unconscious. "Unbelievable!" Fear Monger said, utterly shocked. "You want me Zupco! Come get me!" Sheen shouted.
"Let him go!" Carl shouted. "Why is he so delectable?" Parasite replied. "Jenna, why are you doing this!?" Elky shouted. "Stay out of this Jazzy, this is between me and lard ass over there." Parasite replied. "I'm not going to tell you again!" Carl threatened. "What are you going to do?" Parasite taunted. Carl fired a sound blast at Parasite's feet making her trip releasing Elky's Dad, he then fired another blast that sent Parasite through a wall. "Run!" Carl shouted going over to pick up Elky's Dad running out of the house with the girls following him. Parasite walked back in the room with her wounds quickly healing. "Let the hunt begin." She said to herself going to follow them.
"Let my Mom go!" Libby shouted. "You didn't say please." Force taunted. "Okay, please." Libby shouted, suddenly her mother went invisible. "How did you!?" Force shouted confused. "Didn't you know I can make other people and things invisible with my mind?" Libby replied. Libby launched a force field disk at Force; he deflected it into a wall. "I see you're full of tricks." Force commented. Libby and Force charged at each other.
Sheen super sped and grabbed Fear Monger by his collar. "Give up Zupco, you can't beat me!" Sheen ran around Zupco. "It seems you've forgotten about my power." Fear Monger replied, his eyes began to glow but for some reason it wasn't working on Sheen. "You done." Sheen commented. "Why isn't this working!" Fear Monger screamed. "It is, but rage is stronger than fear." Sheen replied. Sheen then spun Fear Monger around really fast and threw him into a car knocking him out. Sheen pulled out his gumball tube, ate some gum, blew a bubble and transformed into The Flash. "Nate!" He called out to his second oldest sibling. "Take Abuela and the others back inside and call the cops!" Sheen couldn't wait for his brother to listen. "But..." Nate tried to say. "Just do it!" Sheen shouted. Nate did as he was told and took everyone back inside. "Hope you know what's going on Jamey." Sheen said to himself super speeding off.
Libby was throwing force field disks at Force while Force was defecting them with his telekinesis. "Give up you can't possibly keep this up!" Force shouted. "You first!" Libby shouted back. Force began to telekinetically strangle Libby, she countered by creating a force field ring around Force's neck using it to strangle him, the two kept pushing, seeing who could hold out the longest. "What...makes...you...think...you...can...win!" Force gasped. "I'm...smarter...than...you." Libby replied, she created a force field ring around her neck to protect herself from Force's telekinetic grip, she then formed rings around Force's torso and legs preventing him from moving. "See ya." She said, levitating him off the ground, throwing him through a wall knocking him out. Libby ran to Mother. "Mom! Are you okay?!" She said, trying to wake her mother up. "Yes I'm fine." Francine groaned. "Good. Call the police, I need to go." Libby said, pulling out her gumball tube running out the door.
Carl was running with Elky's family when Parasite jumped in front of them. "Miss me." She mocked. "You recovered fast." Carl commented. "Whose powers did you steal this time?" Parasite just briefly smiled at him before responding. "No one's, this is just the fruits of munching on one hundred men." Parasite replied. "Gross." Carl commented. "You know what I mean!" Parasite shouted. Parasite charged at Carl, he fired a sonic blast, she dodged it by jumping over him, she ripped a door off a car and threw it at Carl knocking him down. She rushed over to him and grabbed his neck. "After I take your powers I'll kill your little girlfriend!" She said lifting Carl off the ground. After a few seconds Parasite realised she wasn't gaining any power. "What the!?"
"Fooled you!" Carl smirked blasting her into a car. "Why couldn't I absorb your powers!?" She shouted. "I manipulated sound to create a sort of barrier around myself." Carl answered. "Since when can you do that!?" She screamed. "Jamey and I developed it right after you attacked." Carl replied. Parasite charged at Carl again, he blasted her again with an even more powerful sound blast that sent her flying through a car knocking her out. Carl then pulled out his gumball tube and transformed into Echo. "Carl what's going on!?" Elky shouted. "I'll explain later, just call the police and go home!" Carl replied. "What about my Dad?" Elky asked. "He'll be back to normal in 24 hours." Carl answered. "Gotta go!" He said using his powers to launch off the ground.
Ice Queen was firing ice shards at Sid but they were barely fazing her. "Are you done." Sid said, annoyed. "I'll get you yet!" The Ice Queen shouted. "You know what I'll wait for. Give me your best shot." Sid dared.
"Your funeral." Ice Queen agreed, she began charging up an ice beam, Sid charged at Ice Queen and attacked her before she could finish. "You said you would wait." The Ice Queen groaned. "Ya, I did." Sid smirked. The Ice Queen passed out. "You guys can handle this right?" Sid asked the police around him, they nodded, Sid flew up heading for Jamey's lab.
Sheen was the first to arrive at Jamey's lab. "What happened here?" He asked himself. Sid arrived shortly after. "Sheen I was just attacked by a mutant." Sheen turned to him lightning quick with shock on his face. "You too, Zupco and his thugs just attacked me and my family." Sheen replied. "Was anyone hurt?" Sid asked concerned. "Thankfully no." Sheen replied. Libby then arrived. "Guys that Force guy just attacked me!" Libby shouted. "You too!?" Sheen said surprised. Carl then arrived. "That Monica girl just attacked me at Elky's house." Carl shouted. "Four super criminals attacking all of us on the same day. There's no way that's a coincidence." Sid commented. "We better ask Jamey what's going on." Libby commented. The group went into the lab and saw it deserted. "Where is she?" Carl asked. Sheen pulled out his phone and tried to call Jamey. "She's not answering." Suddenly Carl could hear a ringing and found Jamey's phone severally cracked but not broken enough to stop working. "Guys." Carl said shakingly showing them Jamey's phone.
"Sheen, let's do a speed sweep of this whole area." Sid suggested. The duo did so and came back into the room. "Did you find anything?" Libby asked. "No." Sid answered, getting worried. "I found something." Sheen replied. "Follow me." The group ran back outside and found Goddard. "What happened to him?" Carl asked. Sid went to go check. "Nothing severe, he's just been deactivated."
"Then turn him on." Libby commented. Sid did so and Goddard reactivated. The robot dog began running around in a panic. "Goddard, what happened to Jamey!?" Carl asked.
Goddard stopped, his chest opened showing the team a video of Jamey arguing with the general about the conversation with the team. They started to feel a little guilty seeing how much this was affecting Jamey, but that was short lived when Goddard got to the part where Stone captured Jamey. "Whoa! Who's that?" Libby asked. Sid had a shocked expression on his face. "This is bad." He commented. "Why?" Carl asked. "That mutant's name was Nathanel Saunders, he goes by Stone and he has a personal vendetta against my Dad, the fact that he's back after hiding for months means he's ready to make his move." Sid explained. "To do what?" Libby asked. "I don't know, but if it involves Jamey, it can't be good." Sid replied. "What should we do?" Carl asked. "I'm going to go save Jamey." Sheen commented. "Why?" Libby asked. "It was Jamey's dumb invention that caused all of this."
"It may have been her machine, but she didn't cause this, she's just a girl who wanted to help people." Sheen explained. "Sheen's right, as much as I'd hate to admit it, Jamey is a good person, so good in fact she took the blame for something my father did knowing fully well when people found out they would hate her for it." Sid agreed. "That still doesn't mean we should stick our necks out for her." Libby commented. "Libby, none of this was her fault but she took full responsibility anyway. Gave guys like me and Sheen second chances whether we deserved them or not, took a chance on you, a girl who only seemed to care about herself and was willing to save a man who actually let her take the fall for such a travesty. Jamey may not be perfect but she's a better person than anyone standing here." Carl explained. "Couldn't have said it better myself." Sheen agreed. "Guys, I just don't know." Libby said with a confused expression. "You can stay here but I'm going!" Sheen replied a bit disappointed in Libby. "Goddard take us to Jamey!" The robot dog followed Sheen's orders and flew up to the sky in search of Jamey. Sheen followed with his superspeed. "Let's go!" Sid said to Carl, he picked him up and flew off following Goddard and Sheen. Libby looked on and began to disappear and reappear without control. "Why is this happening again." She remembered the time when she couldn't control her powers.
Flashback
After the battle with Force Jamey was running tests on Libby. "What's wrong with me?" Jamey just looked at her with no concern on her face. "Nothing." Jamey replied bluntly. "Then why can't I control this!?" Libby shouted. "Your problem is psychological not physical." Jamey replied. "What does that mean?" Libby asked again. "Well in lame mans terms, the more you try to be something your not, the less control your going to have." Jamey explained. "What do you mean?" Libby asked. "This whole egotistical rich girl facade is what's messing with your powers." Jamey replied bluntly. "I don't know what you're talking about." Libby replied.
"I think you do. I know what you told Sid but that is not the complete truth, you're not doing this just for your family and friends you're doing this because you're a good person and you want to help people." Jamey explained. "Keep believing that." Libby scoffed. "I will." She gave her an annoyed look. "Just saying if you act more like the Libby who selflessly went to save Sid than the Libby who's a complete jerk you'd have more control over your powers." Jamey explained. "What makes you think I'm a good person?" Libby asked. "I'm a great judge of character." Jamey answered smiling before walking away. Libby was left thinking about what Jamey said.
End of Flashback
Libby regained her composure. "Their right." She formed a force field disk under her feet and flew off to follow the team. Jamey was finishing up the Change Engine."Is it finished?" Stone asked, getting impatient. "Answer him." Hypno ordered. "Yes." Jamey answered by picking up the device revealing a giant metal cube with two metal bands on top of it. "What are those?" Stone asked. "They're needed in order for the transfer." Jamey replied in a dazed state. "Excellent!" Stone said taking the bands, he put one on his head then went to a capsule in the middle of revealing his deceased wife Lilly. "Soon Lilly we'll be together again." Putting the band on her head. He walked back up to Jamey. "What else do I have to do?"
"You have to take the Change Engine to the highest point in Retroville to get optimum results." Jamey explained. "Excellent." Stone replied. He grabbed the Change Engine and the capsule and began to phased through the ground. "Oh and Hypno, finish Neutron." Stone ordered before leaving the two. Hypno did as he was told, hypnotizing Jamey to killherself, but before he could make his escape Sheen super sped in and knocked him out. "I don't think so bub." The team arrived shortly after. None of them saw that Jamey had headed over to the table of tools and had grabbed a knife and was about to slits her wrist. Jamey had only managed to apply slight pressure before Hypno had knocked out and was coming out of her daze knife still in hand. Still in a daze she unintentionally sliced her arm and blood was now dripping down. "Jamey!" Sid said as he and Sheen raced over to her to get the knife away from her and steady her so she didn't fall when they noticed something wrong with her leg.
Jamey began to come back to reality. "Sid. Sheen." She said dazed. "Are you okay bro?" Sheen asked. "Ya, I'm fine." Jamey answered before all the pain came rushing back all at once. She forcefully leaned into Sid to balance herself as she grabbed her bleeding arm. Jamey then let out a scream as Sid supported her. Sid tried his best to set her down with out hurting her but Goddard ran up to his master, knocking her down, and began licking her. "Easy boy." She said, pushing Goddard off as they both inspected her arm. "Lucky it's only a flesh wound I can wrap quickly." Jamie said as she tore her pant leg to wrap her bad arm; she then looked up feeling beyond happy. "I'm glad you guys came."
"It's what friends do." Libby commented, helping Jamey up. Sid and Libby supported Jamey as they walked over r to the table to try and fix her leg. Jamey could only return a smile towards the girl. A very genuine one. "Where's Stone?" Sid asked as he sat Jamey down on the table to look at her leg. It was bad Stone had had Jamey walk on a broken leg and it looks really bad. "Ok this will hurt." Sid said about to reset her bone. "No don't!" Jamey shouted. Sid huffed. "It needs to e set." Jamey gave him an annoyed look. "I know but if Libby uses her force fields there is a lesser chance of my leg getting ripped off." Sid couldn't argue he wasn't sure if at the moment he could control himself enough to not hurt Jamey even more so he and Libby switched places. Once Libby was in place Jamey lay down waiting for Libby. The moment Libby set her force field around Jamey's leg without thinking Jamey grabbed Sid's hand and squeezed it. If she was being honest she was scared and since this whole mess started Sid has been by her side and has become a sort of comfort to her. Not the she realized this. Sid just looked down at his hand and crouched over telling her that she'll be alright. "Ready?" Libby said not sounding too sure of herself. But before Jamey could reply Libby reset the leg and Sheen wrapped it up in a splent and getting her crutches
When the pain of her leg hit Jamey let out and tear jerking scream and made it hard to watch. The pain made her remember what just happened with Stone. Sid saw the look of fear still on Jamey's face. "Hey it's ok it's over." Jamey shook her head violent. "This is bad, we have to stop Stone before he kills millions." The whole team looked at Jamey in shock. "What!? What do you mean?" Libby asked, shocked. "Stone used Ian to hypnotise me into building him a Change Engine." Jamey explained clearly starting to shake. "What's a Change Engine?" Sheen asked. "It's a device that can absorb and transfer life energy." Jamey explained as she began to wipe a tear from her eye. She was trying with everything she had to not go into a panic attack. "What would he want to do with something like that?" Carl asked walking up to his sister seeing her distress and grabbing her shoulders to give some form of support. "He's going to absorb the life force of countless people to not only give himself a new human body but also bring his deceased wife Lilly back to life." Jamey explained. "How much life force would he need to accomplish that?" Sid asked.
"From my best guess, the minimum number of casualties would be about 100,000 lives." Jamey explained. "How do we stop him?" Sid asked. "The only ways to stop the Change Engine are either a manual shut down or..." Jamey answered. "Or what?" Libby asked. "Or a small nuke." Jamey continued. "Clearly we're going with option one. What do you need from us?" Sid asked. "I just need you guys to keep Stone off my back for a while." Jamey explained. "How much time do you need?" Libby asked. "As much time as you can give me." Jamey answered. "What are we waiting for!?" Sheen commented. "First things first, Sheen." Jamey said, gesturing to Hypno. "Got it." Sheen replied, he picked up the villain and super sped off, a second later Sheen returned. "Just dropped three eyes at the prison." Finally calmed down Jamey ordered. "Okay, let's go."
At Retroville Tower the town's people were enjoying their mundane lives until Stone phased out of the ground creating a mass panic. Soon the police showed up and pointed their weapons at the villain. "Listen here freak! Surrender before we put you down!" The head officer shouted. Stone ignored his demands and walked towards the tower. "Light him up!" He shouted. The police began firing their weapons which didn't even faze Stone's rocky exterior. One of the bullets hit Lilly's capsule cracking the glass. Stone looked back and with a simple stomp of his foot caused stalagmites to burst from the ground killing the officers present. "Nuisances." Stone commented as he continued to walk to the tower.
The team went back to Jamey's lab where she found a device of hers that should help her walk until she could proper attend to her leg and the team joined for a briefing. "I won't lie to you guys, this is bad if we fail, hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions will lose their lives." Jamey explained. "Wow, great pep talk Nerdtron, really inspiring." Sid commented sarcastically. "I didn't finish. We can stop this, because if there's anything this last year has proved is that, when we work together there's nothing on the planet that can stop us." Jamey continued. "Gotta admit feeling a little inspired." Sid whispered to Libby who snickered a bit. "So why did we come back to the lab? Thought time was of the essence." Sheen asked. "We came back so I could give you these." Jamey replied, handing each of the heroes bracelets. "Stylish but what do these do?" Libby asked. "Just in case I can't shut the Change Engine down before it activates, these will protect you from its effects." Jamey explained. They just looked at her all feeling a little touched, but Libby didn't notice one for Jamey herself. "If that's all, let's go!" Sid ordered.
The team went outside. "Come on Nerdtron! Hurry up or we'll leave you!" Sid shouted. "Sorry, I just had to get something that might come in handy later." Jamey said running out putting on her backpack. "So who are you riding with; me, Sid, or Libby?" Sheen asked. Jamey smiled. "Got my own ride." Jamey's backpack sprouted two rockets from its sides. "Gotta blast!" Jamey gave them a solute and shouted flying off. "Aww! How come she gets a jetpack? So unfair." Sheen said super speeding off. "You have superspeed, how is that unfair?" Sid commented following the speedster. "Hey, jet packs are cool!" Sheen replied. Libby made a force field disk big enough for her and Carl to ride and followed their teammates.
At Retroville Tower, Stone was setting up the device. "Just wait a little longer Lilly, in only a few minutes we will be together again." Stone looked up to see the team heading towards him. "Just a second my sweet." Stone said before activating the timer on the device and jumping to the ground. "Stone! You have to stop this! I can get you a cure. No one has to die!" Jamey shouted. "This is the only way I can have my wife...the life that Vortex stole from me, and even if I have to kill everybody on this damn planet, I will get what I am owed." Stone shouted. "I understand how you feel." He just looked at her like the rest of her team unsure where Jamey was heading with this. "You remember AJ?" There's that name again. When Stone slowly nodded his head yes she continued. "When we were working on trying to turn you back into a human we heard the alarm say that the chamber was malfunctioning. We headed straight towards the chamber room without hesitation to try and turn off the machine. I was the one who was heading towards the chamber to free the general's test subjects, but AJ beat me to it and told me to try and shut down the machine manually." Everyone was now listening closely, no one really knew what actually happened. "I tried to shut down the machine while AJ freed everyone, which he was successful, but something went wrong and the chamber's door shut, trapping him inside. I knew I couldn't shut the machine down in time so I tried to free him." The team was looking at her in horror. They knew that she was there for the accident but they didn't know just how close she was. "The machine blew sending me flying through bullet proof glass turning my skin orange and hair green. And when I saw the ruins of the chamber I looked for AJ. Do you know what I found?"
At this point everyone was scared to hear the answer even Stone who knew that the man had died just not in detail. "There was nothing but ash and blood. AJ was my boyfriend and he died trying to protect me because it should have been me in the chamber not him." The whole team was looking at her in a new light, one filled with pain and loss. "I lost someone I love because of someone else's actions and no matter how much I want to, no matter how much it hurts, or how much I wish that I could, I can not bring him back. And I know that he wouldn't want me to. He'd want me to move on. It's not too late for you. You can stop this. Would Lily really want this?" Stone looked ready to murder her. Sid saw this and zoomed in to get Jamey out of Stone's reach. "Guess the appeal to his humanity plan failed, time for plan B." Sid commented charging at Stone.
Stone increased his size and slammed Sid into the ground with such force it created a miniature creator in the ground. "Don't think you can get me with the same trick twice! And Jamey, it doesn't matter what she wants. Lily deserves to be here, not me." Stone commented. Carl jumped in and blasted Stone with a sonic attack that began to break apart his body, suddenly Stone began to regenerate faster than Carl could break him apart, Carl increased the decibels of his blast but still Stone's body was regenerating faster, Stone then began to walk towards Carl, Carl tried to push him back by increasing his power again but Stone kept coming closer, after a while Carl stopped from exhaustion. Stone came in and picked Carl up and threw him into the sky.
Before Carl hit the ground Sheen caught him. "If power isn't going to cut it, pure speed will." Sheen raced towards Stone. Stone tried to attack him with his hammer hands but Sheen dodged all of his attacks. Sheen then ran in the opposite direction of Stone then came back charging at full speed crashing into the villain. When the dust settled Stone was still standing and Sheen was on the ground. "I'm going to feel that one tomorrow." Sheen groaned. "Too bad for you there won't be a tomorrow." Stone replied, picking Sheen up and throwing him into a car. Libby threw force field disks at Stone that cut off his right arm, left leg and a section of his torso. Stone simply regenerated his body parts as if nothing happened. Libby then created a dome around him, Stone struck the dome repeatedly causing Libby great mental pain which eventually caused her to faint, dropping the force field.
Using the team as a distraction Jamey tried to fly up to the top of the tower, Stone noticed and stretched his arm catching Jamey's undamaged leg throwing her back to the ground. Before Jamey hit the ground Sid jumped out of his creator and caught her bridal style. "Thanks." Jamey said. "No problem. How are we going to stop him? I hate to admit it but he's a lot stronger than last time I fought him." Sid commented as the others ran up to them. "You guys need to stop attacking him one at a time and start attacking him together, he might be more powerful than any of you but he's not more powerful than all of you." Jamey explained. "You might be right." Sid agreed, smiling at her. "Then let's do some combo moves, like in training." Sheen suggested. "Sheen! Maneuver 14." Sid shouted. Sheen grabbed Sid's arm and began to spin him at super speed, throwing him into Stone knocking him into the tower. "Now's your chance!" Libby shouted.
Jamey launched off the ground and flew to the top of the tower. "No!" Stone shouted, stretching his arms towards Jamey. Libby quickly threw a force field disk at Stone's arms, cutting them off before they could reach Jamey. "If you wanna get to her you gotta get through us!" Libby declared. "That can be arranged!" Stone shouted viciously, firing rock shards at the team. Libby created a force field wall to protect the team from the shards, Sid flew over it and rammed Stone into the ground, Stone grabbed Sid's head and slammed him into the ground. Carl fired a sonic attack that sent Stone flying. "I'm going to crush you like a nut!" Stone shouted to Carl which made him gulp.
Jamey flew to the top of the tower. "Alright Neutron time to save the town." Stone charged at Carl and tried to crush him with his mace hands, Libby created a force field to protect Carl from the attack. Sheen raced in, grabbed Stone's arm, spun him around really fast and threw him into the air. Sid flew in and tackled Stone back to the ground. Jamey was desperately trying to dismantle the machine. "I really wish I remembered how I built this thing in the first place." When suddenly the device activated sending out energy waves throughout the city. "That's not good." Jamey commented. The energy wave hit causing the civilians in the area to collapse to the ground. "What's happening!?" Libby asked. Stone burst out of the rubble and looked on with joy. "Finally!" He shouted. "Come on Nerdtron what are you doing?" Sid said to himself. Jamey managed to remove a panel from the Change Engine and came across a choice. "Okay two wires, one green, one yellow. If I cut the right wire the machine will short circuit and explode and if I cut the wrong wire the machine's transference will rapidly accelerate killing everyone instantly, so no pressure." Libby was throwing force field disks at Stone body while Carl was firing a sonic blast, breaking apart the villains body faster than he could regenerate. Stone punched the ground creating an earthquake that caused the duo to fall, he then fired rock shards at them, Sheen raced in and moved the pair out of the way before they could be hit.
Jamey was trying to figure out which wires to cut. "Green or yellow, green or yellow, green or yellow." Sid was thrown through a wall. Sheen ran around Stone creating a vortex around him. "Trying to suck away my oxygen, newsflash I don't need to breathe!" Stone extended his arm and somehow managed to catch Sheen throwing him into Sid. Stone's hand began to transform, looking more human. "It's working!" He shouted. "What the hell is Jamey doing up there!" Sheen groaned getting up. "Don't know, but we need to keep buying her as much time as possible." Sid replied. Jamey finally made a choice. "Sorry to everyone in advance if this goes wrong." She went and cut the green wire, the machine began to spark and malfunction, Jamey jumped off the tower before the machine exploded.
Stone heard the explosion and looked up. "No! Lilly!" He shouted, he looked at his hand as it went back to normal. Jamey flew in and landed in front of the villain. "You! You did this!" Stone shouted. "No Stone. I stopped this." Jamey replied. "I'm going to kill you!" Stone shouted charging at Jamey, before he could attack Sid flew in and punched Stone to the ground. "I don't think so." He commented. "Stone you have nothing left to fight for, your machines gone, your wife's ash, just surrender and let me help you." Jamey commented. "You're right, I don't have anything left to fight for. The only thing I ever loved was taken from me. So I'm going to end it all, me, you, this whole bloody state, I'm going to blow it all to hell!" Stone shouted. Stone shape shifted into a ball and a strange energy began to build up in his core. "What's happening?" Carl asked. Jamey pulled out a scanner and faced it towards Stone. "This is bad!"
"What!?" Sid asked. "I don't know how he is doing it but Stone is channeling all the cosmic radiation in his system to his core turning himself into a bomb!" Jamey explained. "How bad a bomb are we talking about?" Sheen asked. "From the way Stone was talking, I say pretty bad." Jamey answered. "What are we going to do?" Carl asked. "I'll move it to the desert." Sid answered. He picked up the villain but was barely able to move a few feet with him. "He's too heavy." Sid painted. "We need a plan B and fast." Libby commented. Sheen ran up to Jamey and began shaking him. "Come on Jamey, if there was ever a time to use that big brain of yours, it would be now!"
"Okay just give me a sec." Jamey said, pushing Sheen off of him. "Come on Neutron think, think, think." Jamey said, trying to concentrate, in a spark of brilliance Jamey had an idea. "Brain Blast!" They all looked at her for a panicicked moment. "What have you got?" Sid asked. "Alright first, Special Guy I need you to hit the ground as hard as you can." Jamey ordered. "Got it." Sid replied as he struck the ground with such force it created a gigantic creator. "Now Echo let's go in there with him." Jamey ordered. Carl jumped into the hole with Jamey. "Now Flash, I need you to create a whirlwind around the creator and Invisisterl, I want you to create a funnel shaped force field around the vortex to keep it contained." Jamey explained.
Sheen ran around the creator at an incredible speed creating a huge tornado while Libby created the funnel shaped force field to contain it. "Tell us what to do before we run out of air!" Sid shouted. "Special Guy pick Stone up and throw him straight through the vortex!" Jamey ordered. Realizing what Jamey's plan was. "So that's your plan." He said smiling. Sid picked up Stone and threw him straight into the Vortex. "Echo! Fire the biggest sonic attack you can muster straight at Stone!" Jamey shouted. Carl did so and fired the blast straight at the villain, the chain reaction caused Stone to shoot out of the vortex like a bullet straight into the stratosphere. Stone exploded irradiating the town in a strange glittery energy. Sheen stopped running and went inside the creator with Libby. "We did it!" Sheen shouted, hugging his friends.
"What exactly did we do?" Libby asked. "Well in simple terms it was physics, risky physics." Jamey explained. "Can you dumb it down just a little." Carl asked. "Sure, in short I basically made you guys a giant cannon, stone was the cannonball. Your combination basically fired him so far he wouldn't be a threat to anyone." Jamey explained, chuckling in relief. "Ohh!" Carl said understanding. Soon a group of people ran up to the young heroes and surrounded them. A reporter stepped forward. "Trisha Thompson here, you are the heroes who have been appearing in Retroville these last few months. Can you tell us what happened here?" She asked. Just as Jamey was about to answer Sid said. "Basically the rock guy was a supervillain with an evil plan and we stopped him." Jamey just looked at him with appreciation at avoiding bringing her name up. "Interesting. Do you young heroes have a name?" She asked. Just as Jamey was about to answer, Sheen stepped forward. "We are the Fantastic League of Justice Bringing Avenging Men!"
"Excuse me!" Libby commented. "And two girls." Sheen continued. "That seems like a long name." Trisha commented. "But you can just call us the N-Men." Jamey said, pushing Sheen out of the way. "What are your names?" Trisha asked. "Special Guy." Sid answered. "The Invisister." Libby answered. "Echo." Carl answered. "The Flash." Sheen answered. "And you?" Trisha asked Jamey who froze for a moment. "You can just call me Professor N." Jamey answered. "Nice name." Sheen commented, causing Jamey to smile. "Now we must be going." Jamey said, flying off with her jetpack. "See ya." Libby said, creating a disk for her and Carl to ride. "Adiós." Sheen said super speeding off. Sid simply smiled and flew away. Trisha turned to her cameraman. "Well there you have it. The N-Men, Retroville's very own superheroes. What will they do next?"
Back at the military base, Jamey had managed to fix her leg with the pod and she and the team met up with General Vortex and his colleagues. "Congratulations team, you have finally defeated Stone." Sam said happily. "Gee, thanks Dad. That means a lot coming from you." Sid replied sarcastically. "Anyway, I also want to also congratulate you on recapturing the mutants Stone set free and I look forward to working with all of you in the future" Sam continued. "About that." Jamey replied. "What?" Sam clearly was not happy at where this was going. "Our working relationship is going to change from now on." Jamey stated. "What do you mean?" One of the generals asked. "While we will work with the government." Jamey tried to explain. "We won't work for it." Libby interrupted. "We want complete autonomy." Jamey continued. "You can't be serious. You're just children." Another General shouted. "Children who just saved the entire town without your help!" Carl shouted. The General then glared at him. "Sir." Carl said timidly. "You children are acting like you have a choice in the matter." Another General commented. "Thing is, we do." Sheen replied. "You guys are laughably outgunned, if you lock us up, what hope would you have to stop future mutant threats." Jamey explained. "So in short, get on board or get out of the way." Sid commented. The council looked at them sternly.
Later that night, the team made it back to Jamey's lab. "I can't believe they actually agreed to that." Jamey stated. "Well, it's not like we were giving them a choice." Libby commented. "Today has been a long day, I'm ready for bed." Sheen stated. "How about a little celebration before that." Jamey suggested. "You know what I think I have just enough in the tank for that." Sheen replied. The team commenced with a small party. "I am not looking forward to tomorrow. I left Elky and her family after that Monica girl attacked." Carl stated. "Same. Left my family with a bunch of unconscious criminals." Sheen agreed. "Ya, kinda left my mother with a violent psychopath so ya not looking forward to tomorrow either." Libby agreed. "Well then let's enjoy tonight!" Sid shouted.
Sid walked up to Jamey with a question that has been on his mind for a while now. "Hey, Nerdtron, I have a question." Jamey just turned to him. "Shoot." Sid looked Jamey straight in the eyes. "Why did you take the blame for my dad when we first met?" This got the attention from everyone. They were also curious too. "I didn't do it for him." Now everyone was confused. If she didn't do it for the general then why would she willingly put herself infront of all the hate? "His original plan was to blame it all on AJ." Sheen piped in. "Your boyfriend who died." Libby then jabbed her elbow into the side of Sheen's ribcage for his bluntness. "Yeah. AJ had no friends or family and he was someone who died working on the project. He was the perfect fall guy. But I couldn't let the general drag his good name and reputation. Everything AJ sacrificed and worked for would be thrown away, because he couldn't defend himself." Sid never felt more sick to his stomach than he did right now. "The general deserved every bit of blame but I knew he would never take responsibility, so I gave him a fall guy or in this case a fall girl. At least I can defend myself. If everyone thought AJ was responsible and heard he had died as a result then that's all he'd be remembered for and people will say that he got what he deserved which was not true." Jamey was now at the point of trying to hold back tears which caused Libby to go in for a hug.
"I'm sorry my dad put you through all of this." Sid could not think of anything else to say. "It's not your fault and you stood up for me against Stone. Honestly that's more than I thought I deserved." Jamey admitted. Sheen was not gonna have any of this. "You deserve better than what you got." Jamey just smiled at him. "I kind of like what we have now. So it kind of all worked out for the most part." Now it was Libby's turn. "I'm sorry about AJ." Sid remembered the box he saw a few days ago and raced towards it. "Is this his stuff?" Jamey saw what was in his hands and quickly went to grab it. "Yeah. Like I said I was all he had so the government sent all his stuff that wasn't classified work to me and I still need to go through everything." Carl put a hand on his sister's shoulder and said that maybe tomorrow they all could go through it together. "I'd like that. You know it's nice to feel like I got my life back. Thanks to all of you." With that they went on with celebrating their victory.
Jamey decided to turn on the news and their story was on "Hey guys check it out." The group came and saw how the news was idolizing them. "We look so cool." Carl stated. "I wish my hair wasn't such a mess." Libby commented. "Your hair! Look at mine, there's gravel in it." Sid stated. "We're real superheroes now! This is so awesome! Sheen shouted. Just at that moment a breaking news broadcast came from the military base with General Vortex at the stand. "What's your Dad doing?" Sheen asked. "Don't know." Sid replied. "Quiet, I want to hear this." Jamey stated.
"General Vortex, Seven months ago a strange energy wave came from this base, what was the cause?" One of the reporters asked. "After a lengthy investigation we have finally determined the cause. It was a miscalculation on the part of the scientist in charge." The General answered. "Who is this scientist?" Another reporter asked. "Her name is Jamey Ismay Neutron." The General answered. The reporters in the room began to go crazy asking questions.
Back at Jamey's lab the team looked stunned at what they just heard. Sid looked ready to deck his father. How could he do that to her? Carl looked ready to murder this man and Libby and Sheen could not look at the screen praying that they did not just hear the general right. Please tell me that he did not just say Jamey's name. As if all at the same time every member of their team's eyes went directly towards Jamey filled with deep concern and loss. Not knowing what to do or what the future now held for their friend. "Jamey, are you ok?" It was a stupid question Sid knew, but didn't know what else to ask or say. What do you say in this situation? When they all looked from Sid then back at Jamey and noticed something was not right with her.
Ignoring them Jamey could not hear any of them. The only thing she heard was that ring of the general's words in her head. Replaying over and over and over again. Jamey looked on the verge of a panic attack. The first moment in months where she felt as if everything was actually gonna be ok was taken away from her as quickly as it came. As of right now Jamey Neutron's life was practically over.
General Vortex was driving his car to an unknown location. When he arrived a man wearing a robe met him. "Did you do it?" He asked. "Yes, I wish I could've done it sooner but I had to make sure Neutron took care of Saunders first." Sam answered. "Then can we finally commence with phase 2?" He asked.
"Yes." Sam answered. Sam put on a robe and went inside a building with the man. Inside there were armies worth of robed men and women standing. When the General stood before them they all bowed, chanting. "Hail Savage! Hail Savage! Hail Savage!" Sam looked on with a sinister smile on his face. Somewhere in the desert a single fragment of Stone remained slowly growing in size.
