Separate Ways

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"How long has it been this bad?" Anita asked her son before telling him "You should've come to me."

"You?" Marcus asked surprised. Anita nodded "Yup."

"Hmm! Don't you remember what your generation was like when we took over?" Marcus reminded her. Anita was going to retort but stopped herself and said "Good point."

"Mm-hmm." Marcus mused.

Anita sighed "Well, I guess it's up to the kids. The next generation is always more... powerful, more..."

"Evolved?" Marcus asked her.

"I got it!" Tech-No yelled.

"What? You figure a way out of here?" Miracle Guy asked quickly.

"Oh... no. I figured out how to switch on these security monitors. Surprisingly intuitive." Tech-No noted.

Miracle Guy just glared "What?"

"At least now we can watch something instead of sitting around yelling at each other." Tech-No explained "Wait, what's this?"

"A Capella?" Ms.Vox asked

"Rewind?" Red Lightning Fury said

Crimson Legend was surprised "Fast Forward?"

"Are those our children?" Flower Power asked. Storm turned to Tech-No and asked "Why is your son holding my Daughters hand?"

Tech-No shrugged and all the parents watched.


IN THE CORRIDOR

Missy turned to Wheels "Wheels, how much time do we have?"

"Eighteen minutes." He told them.

"Then we need to hurry if we want to stop the takeover." Grace said pulling Wildcard after them.

He snatched his hand out of her grasp surprising her "Us?" he asked "Are you nuts? We have to go free our parents and let them handle it."

"No! There's no time for that!" Missy told him "By the time we get there, they..."

"No! I'm through listening to you." he yelled "When I woke up, everything was perfect, then you come along and everything's a mess. If Little Miss No-Powers is who you want as a leader, fine, follow her straight into Alienville. But Face maker and I are gonna go get our parents."

"We are?" Face maker asked

"Yes." Wildcard said grabbing his hand "Right now." the two of them stormed off.

"Guys, we have to stick together." Wheels yelled "Guys!"

"What can you do?" Missy said with a shrug "Some people are just..."

Grace snapped out of it "Forget him. We need to get to the rocket so we can stop it before it launches."

"How are you so sure you can do that?" Missy asked him.

"Because everything the aliens build is super intuitive to use, almost like it was designed for children to operate. Get me close. I'll turn it off." Wheels explained.

IN A DIFFERENT CORRIDOR

"I don't understand. Why did we split up? Where are we going? How do you know our parents are this way?" Face maker questioned constantly.

"Okay, this is good." Wildcard muttered to himself.

"What do you mean, "This is good"?" Face maker asked confused.

Wildcard glared at him and loudly announced "Are you questioning my authority?"

"Uh... I don't even know what we're talking about." Face maker told him honestly.

"Really? The confused thing? That's what you're going with?" Wildcard asked and he began shoving Face maker.

IN THE CONTROL ROOM

"Just as I suspected" Granada said "Falling apart at the seams. Hmm..." she pointed to Wildcard through the screen "We need to get that one. He has so little control over his powers, he's liable to blow us all up by accident. Let's go."

WITH GRACE AND THE OTHERS

"That's it there!" Wheels said pointing to the door in front of them

Grace watched and saw some alien guards emerge from the corner "Uh... guys?" she said making everyone pause in surprise.

"What do we do now?" Rewind asked. Wheels noticed Missy's calm expression and asked her quickly "Missy? Why are you so calm?"

"Because we have something they don't know about, a secret weapon." Missy told them

"We do?" Wheels asked her confused.

"Yeah. Teamwork! Alone, our powers are special, but together we're unstoppable!" Grace nodded in agreement as Missy ordered "Slo-Mo, attack! A Capella, eardrums! Rewind, take them down!"

Grace ran round the corner and saw Guppy sat on the floor cross legged "Guppy? Guppy? Guppy? Guppy, what are you doing?"

"Staying calm." Guppy explained.

"Well, not now!" she grabbed the little girl by the shoulders and looked at her smirking "Guppy, listen to me. Shark frenzy."

Guppy smirked and put on her glasses before charging everything in her path "Everyone stand back!" Grace called out in warning.

"Whoa!" Noodles said narrowly avoiding a Shark Frenzied Guppy.

"Noodles, chin-up bar!" Wheels ordered. Wheels pulled himself up and sent his wheelchair flying into some alien guards knocking them over. The wheelchair zoomed back and Wheels lowered himself back down"

"Go. Great job, Wheels!" Missy said proudly. Grace joined the fighting and she cheered for A Capella "Go, A Capella!"

"Ew! Ew!" they all commented when the guards used there tentacles to bring themselves up.


WITH WILDCARD

"Focus on super strength!" he said running into one door "Ugh... Focus on teleportation." again the power failed.

Granada and the guards smirked at him "Hmm... Nice try, kid. Take him to interrogation."


WITH GRACE AND THE OTHERS

The aliens managed to chain all there hands together "Rewind!" Missy ordered.

He tried to send them back but he couldn't "I can't."

"We can do this." Grace told them. He looked at her "How?"

"We work together." Fast-forward told her twin "I'll help you." They managed to work together and go back.

"Noodles, get those shackles out of the ceiling! Now fast forward, quick!" They chained the aliens hands but one of the guards waved the keys.

"Uh-oh..." A Capella said.

"Again!" Missy yelled. The guard reached for his keys only to find them in Missy's hand. "Looking for these? Great job, Fast Forward. Excellent work, Rewind. Excellent work, Rewind."

Rewind laughed "I just like hearing her say it."

"Excellent work, Rewind. Excellent work, Rewind."


IN THE PARENTS CELL

"Did you see their teamwork?" Crimson Legend said to his wife

Red Lightning Fury nodded and held her husbands hand proudly "Just like their parents."

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