Kim rolled her eyes as Drakken charged her with his Banzai yell, bo staff in hand. “Please,” she scoffed. She ran at him and almost yawned as she casually attempted to punch him - but he suddenly ducked the punch, stepped out to her side, and spun around, bringing his bo staff slamming into the middle of her back with enough force that it sent her sprawling onto the ground. Kim realised Drakken wasn’t joking now. Barely staying still after the attack, Drakken ducked Shego's attempt to punch him, locked her arm up against his chest with the bo staff after she attempted to punch him again - making sure her green energy-glowing hands couldn’t point towards him at all - then threw Shego forcefully onto her back, right next to where Kim was sprawled out on the ground. Shego’s face was one of utter dumbfoundedness. Ron made the next move, running at the wall behind him and jumping off it, using it as a springboard to launch a vicious midair roundhouse kick, which almost caught Drakken right in the lip - until he spun backward, grabbed Ron's foot, and hurled him against the opposite wall.
Ron crashed onto the ground next to Kim and Shego, landing hard on his side. “OW! Oof… Okay - so Drakken can fight now,” he muttered.
“Yeah,” said Shego, getting up. “Who’d have thought?”
Kim was absolutely infuriated as she got up. “It doesn't matter - he's goin’ DOWN!” she screamed. “HRRAH!” The clawed gloves flashed as if sunlight had struck them in the dimly lit cavern as Kim dove towards Drakken in her fit of pure rage, slashing and slicing away at the villain. Drakken seemed to be suddenly overwhelmed as he backed up and continuously blocked Kim's new furious attempts to be the can opener for his neck with the bo staff. Kim jabbed for Drakken’s eyes, but he ducked and rolled under her legs out of the way, swinging the bo staff at her back again as he came up out of the roll – but instead of connecting with Kim’s spine, the bo staff was caught by Ron. Startled a bit by the abrupt stopping of his weapon, Drakken looked around for the culprit of the stopping action – and POW! Shego viciously drilled her green energy enhanced fist right smashing into the bridge of his nose.
CRACK! Cyborg reeled backwards from a punch to the face from Brother Blood, which also sent him sliding back on his feet a little bit. He looked at a sparking joint on his neck, growled, and fired both of his sonic cannons back at Blood – who quite easily dodged the blasts from both weapons. Blood smirked. “Oh, do give up now, Cyborg. You couldn't defeat me the last time we fought, why think you can do it now?”
“Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!” Raven formed hundred of little individual ‘bullets’ of dark energy and launched them right at Blood - but when the attack actually hit him, the dark energy bullets harmlessly broke up against him.
Blood scoffed. “Silly girl. You didn't think Warp was the only one to take advantage of that dark energy shielding from the future, now, did you?” Then Beast Boy, as a grizzly bear, finally caught him off guard, tackling Blood from behind. Blood wrestled with the green grizzly for a moment before he kicked Beast Boy in the legs and threw him off of him. Blood didn’t doesn't even bother to look behind him as Cyborg swung fist after fist at the back of his head and he casually dodged each of them, one by one. As Cyborg kept - unsuccessfully - attacking him, Blood fended off a simultaneous attack from Beast Boy and Raven. Finally, after looking quite bored, Blood sent a lightning-fast spin kick directly into the middle of Cyborg's chest. Cyborg slammed onto the ground, but instantly got up - only to find his chest plating sparking - and quite badly. “Cyborg-” Blood walked towards him, “I took your blueprints, remember? I know every detail of your internal structure. You can't win.”
“Yeah, well, detail THIS! RRAAHH!” BAM!Cyborg sent a devastating punch into Blood's chest. When the villain doubled over from the gut check, Raven wasted no time. She picked up a boulder with her dark energy and smashed it over Blood's head - and Beast Boy added more insult to injury as he turned into an Iguanodon and struck Blood with his powerful tail.
SCHINGSCHINGSCHINGSCHING! Starfire hurled a line starbolts at Slade - who dodged every one of them and sent a punch right into her jaw, laying her out on the ground. Faster than light, he spun and had his bo staff out to block Robin's swing of the batarang sword behind him - then he jumped up and backflipped out of the way as about forty of Red X's red X-shaped shurikens whistled through the air at his head. The shurikens lodged into the rock behind Slade just a millisecond too late. Slade landed, and turned on his heel. “I see that you've once again quickly turned a former enemy of yours into a precious member of your team, Robin.”
Robin glared. “It must be my stunning charisma,” he deadpanned, his voice never giving any sign he was trying to be humorous. He threw some of his freeze discs at Slade, but the villain deflected them with his arms, and they ended up freezing one part of the cavern wall up. Starfire, meanwhile, had recovered. She picked herself off the floor and instantly went to defend Robin, sending another brutal barrage of starbolts screaming at Slade - who almost came across as a cheerleader himself with the moves he made as he dodged every single one of them. But it was Red X who got the first hit, however, when Slade spun out of the way of the last Starbolt – and right into X’s waiting fist. The hit sent Slade sliding backwards across the ground, but he recovered quite quickly, and re-collected his bo staff before Robin could snatch it up away from him - then he parried Robin's batarang sword again and delivered a pummeling kick into the Boy Wonder's chest. Robin went soaring into the frozen part of the cavern wall, shattering it upon impact and sending shards of thick ice flying in about every direction.
“Hmmph.” Slade walked over to him. “I thought this would be harder. Maybe I sent one too many armies at you. You've gotten incredibly tired.”
“Maybe…” said Robin, “Maybe NOT! ARRRAHHH!” He sprang up and plowed the handle of the batarang sword into the direct center of Slade's mask, knocking Slade off his feet. Slade, startled, checked his mask for cracks in midair - which allowed Red X to catch his feet with red rope and launch him higher into the air – whereBOOM! Starfire greeted Slade by hurling a smaller version of her big nuclear starbolt straight into his side at point blank range.
A blast of Shego's green energy exploded a chunk of the wall behind Drakken out after Drakken - who had a bit of blood dribbling from his broken nose - nimbly dodged the attack. “Stay still, damn you!” Shego yelled. “Your nose ain't gonna be the only thing bleedin’ after the three of us get done with you!”
“Yes, well, I intend not to have the three of you “get done with me,” mind,” Drakken retorted. Kim came roaring in from Drakken's left - but he calmly stepped back, in time to avoid her slashing his face clean off with the clawed gloves, but just a second too late for Kim to recover herself and land properly. He grinned sadistically as she painfully ate the dirt – unfortunately, in the literal sense as well. Kim got up, and spit out some of the gravel, plus about two or three teeth. She looked at the green-and-black jumpsuit. To her surprise, it hadn’t a rip in it – but it was horrifically stained with dirt, sweat, and various persons’ dried blood. Oh, this was going to be hell to clean after she’d finished with Drakken, and Wade, and Slade…Mother of Christ, Shego would probably have to get another one custom made after all this shit was over. Oh, that was it. This was all just fueling her fire as she narrowed her glare at Drakken. Drakken looked at her, perplexed that she wasn’t talking. “Whatsa matter?” he asked her. “Rocks got your tongue?”
“Dude, that doesn't even make sense!” said Ron.
“I know! That's why I'm finding it randomly hilarious right now!” Ron barely had time to backflip out of the way of Drakken's incoming bo staff. He threw Rufus at him right before he stuck the landing - but Drakken just yawned and simply used the bo staff like a baseball bat. THWACK! Rufus sailed through the air and slammed into Ron's face. “Ooh! Strike one!” Drakken gloated. “Dr. D. is in the HOUSE!”
“Okay, Rufus?” Ron pulled the naked mole rat off his face. “Prepare-” He glared up at Drakken. “This roof’s gettin’ raised tonight…”
CRASH! Drakken jumped and juked himself out of the way as rock exploeded from the cavern walls via Shego's furious attempts to hit him while using the blue super-strength power. Drakken kept dodging her flurry of attacks, though – which caused Shego to only get more irritated and determined to hit him as shed continuously punched through more and more of the cavern wall. Then - CRACK! Kim finally punched Drakken, drawing blood with the clawed gloves. However, she didn’t shred his face up as she had intended to do, much to her dismay.
Brother Blood pulled himself out of the small crater in the cavern wall Iguanodon Beast Boy's tail had smashed him into. He looked up - to see his eyeballs were less than millimetres away from Cyborg's sonic cannon - which was charging up. Cyborg glared with melted steel in his eyes. “It's over, Blood.”
“Is it?” Blood asked – then he leapt to his feet and knocked away Cyborg’s arm just as Cyborg fired. The deflected sonic cannon’s beam tore up the rocks on the cavern wall behind him. Blood's eyes turned red - then sparked into some wicked red lightning, which he collected into enormous energy spheres in his hands. Raven and Beast Boy tried to stop him - but the red lightning had already grown too fierce, and shocked Raven and Beast Boy until they passed out. Blood grinned as he gathered more of the red lightning into the energy spheres. The lightning started striking Cyborg, too - who fell to his knees as the incredibly high voltage raced through his systems. “Remember this attack, Cyborg?” Blood asked as Cyborg struggled. “It only didn't work on you in my underwater headquarters because your little friend Bumblebee was there to interfere with me,” he growled, remembering the searing hatred towards Cyborg that incident had deepened in him. “But now Bumblebee is dead, your little friends here are knocked out, and with the help of your technology - which, by the way, I still must thank you for - I will be able to finally finish you off - and PERMANENTLY, at that!”
Cyborg reached up with his left hand, using all his strength fighting the lightning, as Blood fired the energy sphere at him – but instead of being destroyed, Cyborg caught the sphere. Blood was stunned. Cyborg looked at the energy sphere as it crackled in his hand, then held up his hand as he smiled at Blood. “Upgrade. HRRAHH!” THOOM! He threw the energy sphere back at Brother Blood. The sphere smashed Blood backwards into the cavern wall, lodging the villain in yet another crater of rocks.
As Slade fell from Starfire's attack, she swooped down and suddenly grabbed him by the throat. She hurtled him towards the cavern wall in a rage not typical of her at her. She ended up driving Slade deep into the rock as she choked him furiously, her eyes crackling with excess green energy. “You have murdered our friends and families! You ordered the destruction of MY HOME PLANET! Even in Tamaran's courts, the law was clear: The end of the criminal's life is the ONLY worthy punishment for a crime as heinous AS THOSE THAT YOU HAVE COMMITTED HERE!” she screamed, tightening her grip on Slade’s throat as he struggled for air. Slade looked at Robin and Red X. Neither moved to stop her. So he produced the button trigger for the activation of the cancerous agent in the virus Wade had infected all the heroes with.
“I – egh - would – agh - I would – ghh - release your grip on me, Starfire…” Slade choked. “Unless you want to end your life and the – urgh - lives of all your friends - at least – grah - those who yet remain.”
Starfire saw his fingers were about to press the button - and - clearly against all of her will – released his throat. Slade immediately coughed like crazy and wheezed like hell as he got his breath back. He did, however, have some trouble with his ability to unlodge himself from the cavern wall, a testamant to exactly how far deep into the rock Starfire had driven him like a human drill in her searing burst of rage.
“As you can see now, I’m a much different person from the time you last encountered me, Drakken sneered.
“It doesn’t matter.” Kim snapped her fingers to crack her knuckles, and green plasma energy flared up around the gloves. The blood that she hadn’t scraped off with the towels burned off, and Kim inhaled the scent with a grin. Soon she would know what Drakken’s blood smelled like after she got through with him – and the thought of burning Drakken blood sparked up even more determination inside her. “You let Wade turn.”
Drakken chortled. “What?”
“YOU GAVE THEM WADE!” Kim bellowed. “You could’ve stopped him.”
Drakken nearly doubled over in his amusement. “Oh, oh, yes, Kim –” he laughed, “Thank you for that most amusing retort. It’s funny, really – the fact that you would even think I - somehow, in any way possible, wanted to stop the ten year old kid who worked with my enemy and helped drag my best sidekick away from me turn against you and become an apprentice for another enemy of yours. Am I sure you’re Kim and the Buffoon isn’t the one who switched bodies with you?” he cackled.
“Oh, that is IT!” Shego had seen and heard enough. She used the purple power to SHRINK herself as Drakken, hearing her, lunged for her. Then she used the red power while shrunk to make about twnty copies of herself. She fused the green and blue powers in her and all her copies’ fists - and then they all leapt into the air - past Drakken's face - and came down punching the ground with all of her pent-up rage. The impact was so fierce, the ground caved in once again, just like the cliff top had when she’d killed Aviarius. But it didn’t stop there. No, Shego was much too angry for that. The shockwave from the impact ripped up the cavern walls, causing the ground of the two caverns above them to cave in as well.
Wade was about to hand Mrs. Lipsky what looked like a tiny amount of red Kool-Aid when the ceiling suddenly collapsed and everybody fell into the new cavern in one big massive heap of bodies. Wade shielded his face as the dust cleared. Then he looked up.
And found himself eye to eye with an enraged Kim and Shego.
END ACT TWO