Captain Possible and The Centurion Legacy

Chapter Six: The Ferryman

It was the dead of night. A time that humanity used to sleep for hours on end. It used to be a time for people to rest, but as a DoomVee crawled slowly through the rubble of a now unrecognizable city, surrounded by synthodrones, there was never any rest for the people that they hunted.

"Whoa, there!" shouted a man as he stepped out in front of the DoomVee. The vehicle lurched to a stop and a dozen red spots appeared on the man as each synthodrone leveled their rifles at him. "Ah, ah..." the man grinned. "I'm reckon I be the one that'll be tellin' ya where the hero be, yep? A real can do anything type, goes by the name Possible?" The man seemed to be either suffering from insomnia, drunkenness, insanity, or all three. He stroked his greasy sideburns and winked his remaining eye at the collection of synthodrones, his other one covered by a patch.

An armored hatch flipped open and another synthodrone in black and fluorescent green popped out and glared at the man with glowing yellow eyes. "If you know the location of Kim Possible, you will divulge this information now!"

The man cowered for a moment before grinning. "You're a big one, ain't ya? I reckon you're at least a niner, yep?" the man said. "An important one. I knew you be the one, yep. A bargain to be made?"

"The only bargain to be made is your information for your continued survival!" the synthodrone said. The sounds of multiple capacitors charging amongst the synthodrone's rifles filled the night air and the man cowered again.

"Yep, yep. You're a shrewd one. Very well... Kim's Possible's crew..." he said, pointing to his right. "Are over there." The synthodrones all turned in unison to follow the man's gaze. "And over there..." he continued, pointing to his left, causing the synthodrones to turn the other direction. "And there's one more... right here." he said. Wade's holographic disguise fizzled and dissolved as he drew his pistol and fired, the two synthodrones nearest to him popping, their synthogoo draining onto the ground.

Joss had been lining up the higher ranking synthodrone in her rifle scope the moment it peeked it's upper torso out of the hatch. As Wade's disguise vanished, she squeezed the trigger and a streak of ionized magnetic particles shot from the rifle's barrel.

Synthodrone nine eight five leveled it's pistol at the armored soldier in front of the DoomVee. "Run him do..." it started to shout to the driver before a bright white, tangled beam of energy from a kilometer away struck it in the chest. Instead of popping however, the synthodrone twitched as white bolts of electricity engulfed it and it slumped over the ring of the access hatch it was standing in. The engine of the DoomVee revved and its tires squealed as the driver pinned the accelerator to the floor.

Kim and Rufus shot into the last few synthodrones as Wade tried to scramble out of the way of the accelerating DoomVee. "Ron!" Kim shouted, changing the head of her grapple to a grabber mechanism. Ron dived in front of the DoomVee with his aura blazing a bright blue. With one hand on the bumper and the other on the armored hood, his aura extended around the vehicle. Kim fired her grapple at the disabled synthodrone as Ron lifted the vehicle overhead. The grabber head latched on to the synthodrone's armor and pulled it free from the DoomVee's top ring as Ron brought it crashing down on its roof.

Wade smiled through his tinted face plate, taking the hand that Ron offered. "Thanks, Ron."

"Wade, grab the synthogoo." Kim ordered. "Rufus, cover him while Ron and I clear a path back to the Kepler."

"Got your back, KP." Ron answered.

"Sure! Stick us with the hard job." Wade commented, watching as Kim and Ron began the trek back to the Kepler. Rufus dragged the green and black synthodrone back beside the ruined DoomVee and Wade extended a nozzle from the empty vat he was carrying as a back pack.