Dawn. The sun rose up in the sky over Kim’s house.
Kim woke up as the warm light from rising sun rolled over her.
After getting dressed, Kim bounded into the kitchen. As she came in, Mr. Possible, Mrs. Possible, and Jim and Tim were heading out the door. Mrs. Possible leaned back into the room before shutting the door. “Bye, Kim! We're off to the Rocket Expo!”
“Oh. Bye,” said Kim indifferently, as she wasn’t really paying attention.
Mrs. Possible frowned as she closed the door behind her. Kim poured herself a cup of coffee while the sound of car doors opening and closing seeped through the walls of the house.
KA-BOOM!
Kim woke with a start, sweating. She looked around. She was cuddled with Shego – and she was still in The Cage. Apparently, Shego had felt the breeze of Kim moving. She stirred. “Kimmie?”
Kim turned around and hurled herself in Shego’s arms, bawling her eyes out. “Oh, Shegee! We're getting out of here, right? TELL ME WE'RE GETTING OUT OF HERE!”
“I - Kimmie - I don't–”
Shego never finished the sentence. A tear began to form in her eye as she pulled Kim closer to her body, soothing and petting Kim's hair, trying to calm Kim down while Kim sobbed in her arms.
In a massive underground control room, hundreds of henchmen monitored thousands of security camera feeds - all of them trained on the room The Cage was housed in. Just above it all, Slade, Dr. Drakken, Brother Blood, and Aviarius oversaw everything.
Then - FWIPFWIPFWIPFWIPFWIP! Every single camera feed went static at once.
“What's going on?” asked Slade, in a surprisingly calm tone of voice.
“I don't know, sir!” the #1 henchman replied.
“Well, don't just sit and gape like a bunch of idiots - GET THE HELL IN THERE AND FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON ALREADY!” Brother Blood bellowed at him.
“Yes, sir!” The henchman motioned to a separate group of henchman waiting nearby, and they followed him out the door – heading straight towards the room with The Cage in it.
“Does nobody listen nowadays?” Blood muttered to himself.
“So. Wade missed an ally.” Slade thought to himself. “I don't blame him. He's got a lot to coordinate.”
Aviarius suddenly remembered: “Why did my heat-seeking hummingbirds not attack?”
“Uh, Mr. Aviarius, sir?” A henchman looking at a monitor that had somehow come back online said it.
“What?”
“You might wanna have a look at this.”
“Huh?” Aviarius strode over and looked at the monitor the henchman was pointing at. The monitor was trained on his heat-seeking hummingbirds – except that now they were covered head to claw in red goo. “WHAT?”
“Stay calm, Aviarius.” Aviarius looked back at Slade – who pointed at the henchman. “You there - send some of my robots in as reinforcements for Drakken's men.”
“Sir!” the henchman replied, turning back to his console and doing just that.
“Drakken, Blood?”
Dr. Drakken looked up. “Huh?”
“Yes?” asked Blood.
“Stay in here to coordinate the defensive. Aviarius?”
“Huh?”
Slade’s voice seem to fill with a slight glee. “ We'll wait for them outside.” Upon hearing this, Aviarius’ face twisted into a sneer of delight. Slade continued: “There's only one person this could be.”
“And - who would that be?” asked Drakken.
Slade didn't answer for a long moment. “Only one person this could be…” he muttered to himself.
Drakken looked at Brother Blood with the equivalent of “Huh?” on his face. Blood shrugged.
“Yes.” Slade finally finished. “Only one person this could be: Red X.” He glared at the name.
Shego had calmed Kim down a lot. She looked into Kim's eyes. Smiled. Though, she knew it made no difference. They were in the main area of The Cage. Ron and all the Titans had joined them in the room. At the moment, Beast Boy was in the middle of telling a joke to Ron.
“-and so then the donkey tells the man-”
KA-BOOM! A wall of The Cage exploded with a heavy red tint. “Holy Shit!” Shego cried, ducking over Kim. That was not a method of deterring an escape attempt - was it? Shego squinted as the smoke cleared--
“You guys just gonna stand there and gape? Or are you gonna come with me?”
The smoke cleared -- and The Cage wall had been completely breached. A figure stood next to the huge hole. Nice mask, Shego thought. Then she realised the Titans were slack-jawed. They knew this guy?
“Red X?” Robin asked.
“’Red X?’” Kim was confused now.
So was Shego. “Red X?”
And of course, Ron was too. “Who's Red X?”
“Long story. Don't have time,” said Raven.
“C'mon, ladies, I haven't got all day,” X said.
“Well, I'd rather follow him than Slade,” Cyborg concluded.
“Yeah, I'd agree with that one,” added Ron.
“C'mon!” Robin motioned.
They bolted out of The Cage's breached wall. They passed through the laser grids, the beams of which had been deflected upwards by contraptions w/angled mirrors placed underneath them. The optical-tripped sensors were all completely covered in red goo. They reached the room's end and ran through a tunnel-like door. X looked at Robin. “One thing, Kid - you can't just knock out henchman and all that crap like you did when you were Hero Boy. The only way you're gonna survive from now on is to-”
While they were talking, Drakken henchmen, unseen, leapt from the corners at the two--
“HRRRAHHH!” Kim & Shego's feet slammed into the goons’ faces, twisting their necks with the most sickening CRACKs ever heard. The henchmen fell, dead, to the ground. The two women landed delicately in front of the surprised X and Robin - both women’s eyes absolutely burning with rage. “Kill?” Kim snarled, menacingly flipping her hair back. Everyone was bug-eyed - except, of course, X.
“Kim - you're scaring me now,” Ron backed away from her.
Kim was still seething with rage. “I'm scaring myself, Ron.”
“That's great - CAN WE GET A MOVE ON?” Shego bellowed, reminding everyone of their present situation. Everyone realised and hastily resumed their running, with Kim & Shego taking the lead as they raced down the corridor.
“I like these new girls you've got, Kid,” X chimed. “Sexy. Tough. My kind of woman.” Shego & Kim, overhearing – though X had probably meant them to - sneered as they hightailed it down the corridor.
Cyborg’s arm sensor beeped. “Oh, jeez - gettin’ massive life signs - all of em running towards that door ahead of us!” he cried to his teammates in front of him.
“Isn't there another way out?” Ron, running behind everyone else, called out.
“Nope!” Cyborg answered. He looked at his arm sensor again. “Oh, crap! Reading a shitton of robots converging behind the life signs!”
Red X and Robin joined Kim & Shego at the front of the group.
“Think we better drop back, Kimmie.” Shego grinned.
“Yeah - let the boys handle this one. They owe us,” Kim agreed, dropping back behind the boys.
“You okay with killing, Kid?” X asked as he produced many red, x-shaped shurikens using the suit.
“No.” Robin produced a large number of birdarangs from his belt. “But if I have no other choice-”
The door opened - and heads of Drakken henchman went flying as the red shurikens and birdarangs sliced through their targets.
While Robin and Red X leapt straight into the crowd of henchman, Kim and Shego - perfectly coordinated - ran up the sides of the curved rock wall and backflipped over the crowd, going from the flips straight into some vicious spin-kicks, driving them into the faces of the third row of henchmen.
A second later, the two women found themseves back-to-back in a circle with Robin and Red X while hordes of henchmen circles them. “Oh crap,” was all Kim could say.
BLAM! SLICE! SCHINGSCHINGSCHINGSCHING! A sonic cannon blast wasted the henchmen on one side of the circle. A roaring green male lion slashed through two sides of the henchmen circle. And a barrage of Starbolts took out the last group in the henchmen circle. “Thaaank you,” Shego sighed as Cyborg, Lion Beast Boy, and Starfire pressed ahead with them.
Raven was just behind them. “Azarath, Metrion, ZINTHOS!” She wrapped some of the remaining human henchman in dark energy and hurled them backwards, as if she was some weird Jedi.
Ron, still running at the wall of henchmen, narrowed his eyes. Kim, Shego, Robin, X, Cyborg, Beast Boy, & Starfire had pretty much plowed through all the human henchmen. “Okay, Rufus –” Ron said – though he was more talking to himself. “-This is it. It's time to go all Monkey Kung-Fu on their asses!”
One of the last human goons, catching his breath, looked up - as Ron's foot came driving into his face. He fell - dead. “What?” a nearby henchman gasped at the sight of Ron opening up a can of whoop-ass. “They said this kid was a cowardly buffoon and couldn't fight worth shit!”
Ron’s eyes narrowed again. “Oh, really?” Going into crazy monkey mode – even making the monkey noises – he proceeded to waste the remaining human henchmen in seconds – save for one.
Ron looked at Rufus. “You sure you’re okay with this, buddy?” Rufus glared and angrily nodded. Ron shrugged, then stood over the henchman who'd called him a cowardly buffoon. He sneered – quite evily, actually. Even his voice had turned very villainous. “I know Monkey Kung Fu,” he said triumphantly. Rufus ran down Ron’s arm onto the henchman’s neck. “And Rufus likes to watch vampire movies.”
“Huh – AHHHH!” the henchman screamed as Rufus’ teeth slashed into his jugular.
Rufus ran back up Ron’s shoulder and Ron ran ahead, catching up with the rest. He looked at Rufus. “Ok, that was a little overboard, Rufus. I’m not gonna let you do that again.” Rufus, agreeing, nodded.
Up ahead, everybody else mowed through the Slade-Bots. Kim and Shego sent the final two robot heads through the air, and Cyborg fired his sonic cannon at the robot’ bodies just to make sure they were destroyed. His arm sensor beeped again. “Oh, holy – I’m pickin’ up an army heading for us!” he yelled.
“This way!” Red X ducked into a side corridor. Everybody followed him. “There! My car!” X pointed. Up ahead, there was a indeed a car, parked next to a deep underground river.
“Your car?” Shego asked.
“Seats up to 12, hotcakes.”
“Then Shego and I are sittin’ in the back,” Kim scoffed.
Cyborg groaned. “Whatever, just GET IN!” Robin chucked some explosive discs behind all of them as they loaded into the car, and the explosions sealed the entrance to the corridor.
Robin jumped into the car a X took the wheel. “Hang on - we're goin’ swimmin’.” He gunned the engine – and drove straight into the water.
“What-” began Beast Boy-
“This is the way I got in - it's the way we're gonna be gettin’ out of here.” X drove on through the water.
Slade and Aviarius were outside on a cliff top.
“They've disappeared, sir!” came the henchman’s voice from Slade’s comm speaker.
“DRAT! Those fiends shall pay for this treachery – and not just for getting away, but for also incapacitating my best heat-seeking hummingbirds as well!” Aviarius wailed to the sky.
Slade sighed. “Do calm yourself, Aviarius. Wade has planned for this situation - luckily.”
END ACT THREE