The Fate Of Danger Part 1
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~Planes-A-Plenty~

"How could you not have any planes?" Drex asked the lady at the front desk of Plane-A-Plenty, "the name of your company is Planes-A-Plenty- and your slogan is 'We always have planes available!'"

Drex had taken Bella, Mary, Bose, Schwoz, and his cavemen to Planes-A-Plenty to try to get a plane to get the Memory Wiper mounted in the sky to work on the whole town. Bella and Mary were tied together, sitting on a nearby bench, and the cavemen were messing with the vending machine.

"Hey, while you're messing with the vending machine can you get me some Taki's?" Bella asked the cavemen, who only grunted at her.

"You like Taki's?" Mary asked Bella.

"Yes, who doesn't?" Bella retorted.

"I'm so sorry, it's pilot school graduation. All the students are celebrating one night in the sky," the lady informed Drex.

"That's a darn shame!" Bella called with sarcasm.

"Well, I guess you'll just have to give up, take us home, and buy ice creams on the way!" Schwoz smiled and Bella nodded with a smile.

"Chocolate!"

"I'm not giving up," Drex declared and Bella groaned.

"The determination is ugly."

"Good for you," Bose praised.

"Don't encourage him!" Mary berated Bose.

"I like watching people achieve their goals," Bose remarked before the two cavemen broke the glass on the vending machine and took the snacks inside. "Look at Gronk achieving his goals. Good for you Gronk."

Gronk cheered happily as Tork chewed on a piece of glass.

"Man!" Bella groaned.

"What?" Mary asked.

"I don't see any Taki's," Bella pouted and Mary smacked her leg.

"I need to get this thing in the sky," Drex told the lady, pointing the Memory Wiper at her. "So you better find me something. A helicopter, a hot air balloon, hang glider."

"A magic carpet, a motorcycle, tied to six hundred seagulls," Bose added on as the lady searched her computer for other large objects that could fly. "A floppy-eared elephant that can fly."

"Alright, that's enough, Dumbo," Drex interrupted Bose and Bella giggled.

"Haha, Dumbo..."

A blimp popped up on the lady's screen and she beamed, "we do have a blimp! Will a blimp work for your evil plan?!"

"A blimp is perfect! Let's go!" Drex exclaimed, tapping the desk.

"Great! I'll start inflating it now!" The lady smiled, walking over to the inflate machine and turning it.

"Start inflating it?" Drex asked with irritation and Bella, Mary, and the girl laughed.

"Haha! You suck!" Bella laughed and Mary blew a raspberry at him.

"We don't keep our blimps inflated all the time!" The lady laughed loudly, "Silly Billy!"

Bose and Schwoz joined in with the laughter as Drex stood there with irritation and anger.

"Who's Billy?" Bose asked in between laughter and Schwoz looked at his arm that was draped over him with confusion.
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~Mt. Swellview~

"And I'm taking karate lessons, I'm also learning how to ride horseback. How often would you say you ride horses while fighting crime?" Mika asked Kid Danger/Henry as she and he were walking on top of Mt. Swellview. Miles was trailing behind with a sack of weapons.

"Literally never," Henry replied.

"Right, right, but if you did have to?" Mika asked him with a giant smile.

"We'd call you?" Henry replied with uncertainty.

"Yes! Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" Mika beams with excitement.

Henry, Mika, and Miles went to Mt. Swellview in hopes of finding Captain Man, who was sent to past by Drex. Henry thinks Ray's at his punching stump, a stump Ray uses to punch when he's angry. So, after a decade or two of being angry and punching things, Ray will stop and wait for a hundred and one million years to pass.

Miles suddenly trudged his way into the scene with his sack of weapons and let out an exhale of exhaustion.

"Oh my god! I'm not walking up this mountain anymore!" Miles exclaimed and slammed the sack on the ground, "my path ends here!"

Miles fell to his knees coughing and wheezing.

"Well, your path ended right at Captain Man's punching stump so good timing," Henry mentioned.

"Okay, now what?" Mika asked Henry.

"Now, we just look around, I guess, and see if anything looks different," Henry explained.

"Perfect!" Mika beamed and made a face, "different from what?"

"Yeah, we've never been here before," Miles added.

"Okay, good point, good point. Check out this video," Henry told them and pulled out the video of Captain Man at the punching stump. Miles stood up and Henry played the video.

"Oh, punching stump," Captain Man sighed in the video, hugging his punching stump. "Sometimes I wish I could just crawl inside of you and live for one hundred and one million years."

Henry and Bella, who were secretly filming him, began to laugh before Mika paused it.

"Did you hear that?" Mika asked Henry, who chuckled.

"Yeah, that's me and my girlfriend laughing," Henry smiled. "Wait till we tell him to kiss it."

Miles laughed along as Mika shook her head.

"No," Mika denied and approached the stump. "He said he wanted to crawl inside that stump and live there for one hundred and one million years."

"Yeah, so?" Henry asked.

"So, maybe he's inside his punching stump!" Miles finished for his sister.

"There's no way somebody could be inside that stump," Henry objected, taking out his laser and using it on the stump. Miles and Mika moved back in the process and Henry slowly stopped the laser when he noticed something inside the stump. He walks closer to see Captain Man's face inside and Henry gasped.

"Oh my god! It's him! He's in there! I was right!" Henry chuckled with relief.

"Yay!" Mika giggled.

"I said he was in there," Miles corrected.

"Okay, yeah, good point, good point," Henry sighed. "Let's get him out of there, grab a laser."

The two kids ran over to the sack and each grabbed a laser out of it.

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Some time had passed, and Miles and Henry were laughing at the video of Captain Man at his punching stump, while Mika was on the ground, aiming their lasers at the stump.

"He actually kissed it!" Miles laughed.

"I know!"

"He and that stump are not just friends," Miles said and Henry laughed.

"Yeah, I should probably end the video right there," Henry mentioned, closing the video and putting his phone away.

"Captain Man must of known the amber inside the stump would preserve him perfectly for a hundred and one million years," Mika explained.

"Uh, I guarantee he didn't," Henry objected.

"But he couldn't have just stumbled into the perfect solution by accident," Mika reasoned.

"You should come on more missions with us," Henry suggested.

"Can I?!" Mika gasped with excitement.

"No!"

Two voices echoed in the distance and in ran Chapa and Terra, which made the lasers stop.

"You're destroying our kicking stump!" Terra exclaimed with anger.

"Chapa? Terra?" Henry asked.

"Hello?" Mika greeted.

"You can't own a stump, nature's for everyone," Miles reasoned with his arms up and Henry shoved his arm out of his face.

"And this is a punching stump," Henry corrected.

"No, it's our kicking stump," Chapa argued and Terra nodded. "T and I come up here, we think about the boy who stole our phones, and we kick it!"

Terra and Chapa yelled as they kick the stump.

"And then we both scream 'WHAT DID YOU STEAL OUR PHONES FOR?!" Terra finished with fury in her cloudy eyes and the two girls kicked the stump twice.

"You're both phoneless?" Mika asked with sympathy.

"Oh my god," Miles mumbled.

"Phonelessness is a big problem in Swellview," Mika added on.

"Yeah, do your part, let's just keep lasering and get Captain Man out of this amber," Henry ordered before Miles pulled out a large hammer.

"This is taking too long," Miles mentioned and turned on the hammer, activating it. "It's hammer time!"

"Miles! No no no!" Henry, Terra, Chapa, and Mika protested against him but he leaped into the air and whacked the stump with the hammer. All five of them fell back due to the explosion of the stump and Captain Man gasped for air, falling to his knees. The superhero breathed heavily, looking at his hands.

"I'm free," he exhaled. "How long was I in there?"

"A hundred and one million years and I can't believe you're still alive," Henry told him, approaching him slowly.

"Hey, listen, I've had a long time to think about our argument," Ray began.

"No, no, you know what, dude? It's over, okay? Don't worry about it," Henry assured him.

"No, let me just say this," Ray objected. "I was... a hundred percent right."

"Oh my god!" Henry remarked with disbelief.

"And I will accept your apology in the form of a handwritten letter or you let me be the best man at yours and Bella's wedding," Ray added on and Henry gave him wide eyes.

"Dude! Stop!" Henry shushed him and the three kids were confused by who Bella was.

Ray noticed the four kids and walked up to them, "speaking of Bella, you guys got kids now?"

"Who's Bella?" Mika asked him.

"Just to let you know, your father's a quitter," Ray informed them. "And I'm your grandfather. Woah! I'm old."

"Who is this Bella person?" Miles asked and Terra began to think about something.

"I'm not a quitter, okay? And these are not my kids," Henry quickly corrected and glanced at the four kids. "I'm not a quitter. This is Mika and Miles from the escape room. You know them."

"Mmm, oh yeah, yeah yeah!" Ray nodded, remembering the twins, and looked at Chapa and Terra. "And Tammy and Tessa, right? Ever find those hamsters."

Terra clenched her fists in anger, "it's Terra."

"And Chapa! And you know we've been looking for our phones-"

"You know what? Give me your laser!" Terra interrupted, grabbing Henry's laser, but he shoved her away.

"No! No! No!" Henry protested and she snarled at him.

"Give it!" Terra exclaimed and Chapa pulled the blind girl back.

"We've got bigger problems!" Henry called and Terra huffed, folding her arms.

"Like what?" Ray asked.

"Like how Drex is gonna use an airplane and the memory wiper to erase the whole town's memory of you," Henry explained and Ray groaned.

"Is that still going on?"

"It just happened today!" Henry exclaimed.

"It feels like forever again," Ray muttered.

"You know what, dude? Let's just get back to the Man Cave," Henry suggested with a sigh.

"We're going to the Man Cave?!" Mika gasped.

"No, we are," Henry corrected.

"Want us to just meet you at Swellview Airport?" Mika asked.

"Drex is probably trying to rent something from Planes-A-Plenty," Miles reasoned with his sister.

"They're probably right," Ray mentioned.

"YES!" Mika beamed.

"Wait!" Henry protested.

"Let's go!"

"No!" Henry protested again.

"What is your problem?" Chapa asked Henry.

"He's a quitter," Ray whispered.

"My problem is that Captain Man and I need to get back to the Man Cave to get to the Omega Weapon to defeat Drex, save this Bella person you know and her mother-"

"Oh right!" Ray gasped, "Mary-"

"Dude!" Henry exclaimed and Terra made a face, remembering those names. "And you four, you need to go home, okay? Go home!"

"Oh, family argument, imma head out. Call Bella for help," Ray mentioned and Henry groaned.

"Bella is the one who needs help!" Henry called as Ray walked away, "and they're not my kids!"

Mika reached for them, but the duo was gone and she turned to the others.

"We're going to Planes-A-Plenty, right?" Miles asked.

"Does a bear belong to the Genus Ursus?" Mika asked the three, who were confused by her question, "the answer is yes! It does!"

"Is she always like that?" Terra asked Miles.

"The answer is yes, she is," Miles nodded before Chapa walked away.

"I hate being blind and stupid," Terra muttered as she followed her best friend.

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~Planes-A-Plenty~

Blowing up the blimp took longer than everyone expected, most of the group ended up falling asleep except for Bella and Mary. Bella was asleep for about five minutes until Mary woke her up, mentioning that this is their chance to escape. Drex, Bose, Schwoz, and the cavemen were fast asleep, nothing was waking them up.

"Have any ideas?" Bella asked her mother, "you didn't wake me up for no reason, did ya?"

"No," Mary denied. "Maybe you should use your power to help?"

"I can make plants which is that not helpful here," Bella remarked.

"Can't you make like energy or something?" Mary asked her and Bella sighed.

"I have to be really angry to make those," Bella told her. "And I don't have the energy to do that right now."

"Can't you use one of your vines and cut this off?" Mary asked and Bella thought for a moment, before looking at her fingers.

"No, but I can do this," Bella said and curled her fingers in for a second. "I did this once."

Slowly, but surely, little thorns grew out of Bella's fingernails and she began to saw her way free of the ropes around her wrists.

"That's disturbing," Mary said and Bella nodded.

"It feels disturbing."

Once Bella was free, she was able to remove the rope around her ankles and the one around her waist that was connecting her to Mary.

"I'll get you," Bella said, but Mary stopped her.

"No," Bella stood there with confusion. "Go."

"What?" Bella asked, "why?"

"I don't wanna leave Schwoz and Bose here to deal with Drex themselves," Mary explained to her. "I have to be here to protect them."

"But, mom-"

"No, Arabella," Mary protested. "Go and find the others and save this city."

Bella sighed, shaking her head. "Mom, I can't leave you here."

"Yes, you can. You have your feet to walk, honey," Mary told her and Bella chuckled.

"You sure?" Bella asked and Mary nodded with tears forming in her brown eyes.

"Yes," Mary said.

Bella remembered something Drex said and shake her head, "mom, can I ask you something?"

"Anything."

"It's stupid and Drex is probably just in my head," Bella began and Mary gave her a worried look. "But...Was I replaced by Violet?"

"What? Bella, why would you even think that?"

"Because parents love their own blood more than someone they found off the street," Bella said, feeling her throat get tight and tears fall down her cheeks.

"Bella," Mary sighed and leaned in to kiss her forehead. "I love you so much. I saw you as a daughter the moment I met you. Families are created in many ways and blood has nothing to do with it. I mean, do you see Drex as family."

"I see him as a disappointment," Bella told her.

"Yeah," Mary told her and Bella sighed, looking down. "I see Ray, Charlotte, Jasper, Piper, Henry, and Schwoz as my own family. You don't need to be related to be family, okay? Family is the people you bond with and choose to share your life with, not worrying if you share the same blood. I wake up every day and remember that I'm your mother, which is what helps me get through the day. No one is being replaced, you, Eden, and Violet are irreplaceable."

Bella had started crying and Mary kissed her head, allowing her to cry silently.

"I love you, Cookie," Mary said and Bella smiled at the nickname.

"I love you too, mom," Bella said, lifting her head and the two smiled at each other.

"Now get out of here and save the town, you crazy kid," Mary said through her tears and Bella nodded with an exhale.

"Stay safe," Bella told her mom, who nodded.

"You too."

Bella gave her one last smile before she ran off and Mary sighed.

"That's my girl."

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~Man Cave~

At the Man Cave, things were going crazy. Charlotte was trying to finish building the Omega Weapon, Jasper was asleep and fighting off the caveman while speaking Spanish, and Piper and Kris were trying to fight off the cavemen while keeping Violet safe. Jake went down to the tenth Man Cave to get the Shellgon crystals from the right tube pad, but that probably won't go well.

Bella got shot down the tube and noticed the chaos happening. She immediately ran down and went over to Charlotte, dodging the cavemen.

"Charlotte!" She yelled, "what's happening?!"

"Oh, hey, Bella!" Charlotte greeted, not realizing it was her. Moments later, she gasped and turned to her. "BELLA! YOU'RE OKAY!"

Charlotte hugged Bella, who laughed and hugged her back.

"Yeah! I am!" Bella laughed as they pulled away and Charlotte was so happy to see her.

"BELLA!" Piper beamed and hugged the brunette with excitement, "how are you here?!"

"Bella?" Kris asked and hugged Bella gently, which left Bella in confusion.

"Kris?!" Bella asked, "what? How? When?!"

"We'll explain later, but right now I have to finish the Omega Weapon and we have to take care of these cavemen," Charlotte told Bella, who noticed Jasper fighting for cavemen while asleep.

"I think Jasper is taking care of that," Bella pointed out right as Jasper knocked out a caveman. "Wait! Did the audiobook actually work?"

"Apparently!" Piper remarked, "where's Mary?! Did she escape with you?"

"No, she told me to go without her. She wants to protect Schwoz and Bose," Bella explained. "But we'll save her!"

"Obviously!" Charlotte and Piper agreed and Bella noticed Violet in Kris's arms.

"Vivi!" Bella beamed and took her sister in her arms, "I'm glad you're okay."

Violet hugged her, giggling happily.

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~Planes-A-Plenty~

Back at Planes-A-Plenty, everyone was fast asleep, including Mary. The lady at the front desk was waiting patiently for the blimp to blow up, which took a very long time.

The computer beeped, meaning the blimp was done and the lady smiled. "Okay! Mr. Stinklebaum!"

Mary slowly woke up along with the rest of the group and she heard Drex's last name, which made her laugh.

Drex hopped onto his feet with excitement and smiled.

"Who?!" Schwoz asked.

"What's the good news?" Drex asked.

"Your last name is Drex Stinklebaum?" Schwoz asked and Mary snickered.

"Bella lucked out," Mary said.

"It's Stinklebaum!" Drex corrected and Schwoz chuckled.

"Arabella Ruby Stinklebaum," Mary said aloud. "It sounds pretty and then just ends ugly."

"Well, that's not much better!" Schwoz laughed, standing up.

"Just shut up, Schwoz, and go put this on the blimp," Drex ordered Schwoz, who was just laughing nonstop as he grabbed the Memory Wiper and headed toward the blimp. Drex looked behind him and noticed something different. "Wait... where's Bella?"

"Uh...." Mary said and shrugged. "Bathroom?"

"She was tied up, she can't," Drex said and approached Mary, grabbing her shirt. "Where is she?!"

"I don't know! I was asleep and she must've escaped!" Mary said, feeling her body shake and fear enter her body. "I swear!"

"You better not be lying to me," he snarled at her and she shook her head.

"I'm not!" Mary said back and Drex let her go, which made her exhale with relief.

"I'll find her again," Drex said and Mary looked up at him. "I always do."

Hiding behind a bunch of crates and barrels in the distance were Chapa, Terra, Mika, and Miles.

"That blonde guy must be Drex," Mika said and Terra shrugged as the other two agreed.

"Sure."

"Drex Stinklebaum."

The four turned to find Bose hiding behind them.

"Who are you?" Terra asked, feeling the vibrations of another kid behind her.

"Name's Bose. Drex took me hostage," Bose greeted, scooting closer to them. "You guys hostages too?"

"What? No!" Chapa denied.

"I'll bite his hand off if he took me," Terra threatened and the others gave her a wide-eyed look. "Just telling the truth."

"Well, you want to be? I'll put in a good word for ya," Bose offered with a smile.

"No, we don't want to be hostages," Miles protested.

"We're here to stop Drex," Chapa explained.

"Oh, can I come with you?" Bose asked.

"I don't-"

"Yes!" Miles interrupted Terra, who sighed. "Fate has intertwined our destinies today."

"Great! I love twine!" Bose grinned.

"Okay, here's the plan-"

"LET'S GOOOO!" Bose shouted, standing up and interrupting Mika.

"I GUESS WE'RE GOING!" Miles shouted, standing up as well. Drex walked away from Mary and slowly approached the kids behind the barrels and crates.

"THIS IS STUPID!" Terra yelled, standing up.

"WE SHOULD'VE MADE A PLAN!" Mika shouted as well, standing up and Chapa joined in too.

Drex let out a scream and the lady ran off as the kids and Drex ran at each other. Mika and Terra held into his legs as Chapa climbed on his back and Bose and Miles stood around him to punch and kick him. However, Drex was unharmed and just stood there acting like a punching bag.

"Go down you blonde freak!" Chapa scolded and Terra began to bite his ankles.

"I'll bite your ankles off!"

"I think we're winning!" Mika smiled.

"Alright, that's enough," Drex said and shoved Miles down, threw Chapa off his back, rolled Mika and Terra off him. He looked at a scared Bose and yelled at him, which made him crawl into a fetal position.

Mary clapped for the kid's effort from behind the desk as Drex laughed, "nice try! A for effort kids!"

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~Man Cave~

"This is oddly mesmerizing," Kris pointed out as she, Piper, and Bella watched Jasper beat up the caveman. Bella was holding Violet, who had eventually fallen asleep, which relieved Bella.

"Right?" Piper agreed and Bella nodded.

The elevator doors opened and in walked Captain Man and Kid Danger. Bella gasped, sitting up at the sight of seeing her father and boyfriend again.

"I'm back, now where's Drex?" Ray asked as Jasper knocks out a caveman. The three girls motioned the duo to be quiet.

"Jasper's fighting while he sleeps," Piper whispered to them right before Jasper took out two more cavemen by head bonking them together.

"Ohhhhh!" Ray said.

"While he sleeps," Henry said.

"La canción de mi puño hace temblar a mis enemigos con miedo," Jasper spoke in his sleep and knocked out a caveman that was approaching behind him. Kris, Piper, and Bella moved as Jasper trudged over to them and stood at the edge of the couch.

"Buenas noches mis amigos," Jasper told them, before falling onto the couch. Bella smiled at Jasper, applauding him.

"Okay, I've got some questions, but first-" Ray began and looked at Bella. "Bella!"

Bella ran over to her father, who hugged her tightly and she smiled.

"Hi, dad," she greeted and he kissed her forehead when they pulled away.

"How'd you escape Drex?" Henry asked his girlfriend, who couldn't help but smile at the sight of him.

"I used my power to cut myself free," Bella explained and Ray gasped.

"Where's Mary?!" He asked and took Bella's arms, "where is my wife?! Where is she?!!"

Bella moved away from him, "still with Drex. She thought it would be smart if she stayed so she could protect Schwoz and Bose."

Ray sighed, feeling guilty.

"Hey, don't feel bad," Bella told her father. "We'll get her back."

"We always do," Henry added on and Ray nodded with a sad smile, but it formed into a bigger one when Bella handed him, Violet. Henry and Bella's eyes found each other and instinctively, Henry hugged her, which Bella gladly hugged him back.

"I'm glad you're okay."

"You too."

Henry pulled away and went up to Charlotte, "how's the Omega Weapon coming?"

"Almost done, just waiting for your dad to get back with the Shellgon crystals," Charlotte explained to him and this shocked Henry.

"My dad?"

"Yeah, I know-"

"You sent my dad to get Shellgon crystals?" Henry asked her.

"Yeah, it's been a big day," Charlotte exclaimed to him.

"Woah, woah, woah! Wait, wait!" Ray paused, "the Shellgon crystals? The ones that are under the right tube pad? Right next to the iridium crystals under the left tube pad."

"Yes," Charlotte nodded.

"But Schwoz always told me," Ray paused and impersonated Schwoz's voice. "The iridium crystals regulate the power source of the tube system that runs all of the Man Caves. If they get removed..."

"Could be bad?" Charlotte asked.

"Real bad," Ray nodded and cleared his throat. "Real bad!"

"Like how bad?" Piper asked.

"It could cause a chain reaction that could blow up every single Man Cave," Bella explained.

"And you sent my dad?!" Henry asked Charlotte.

"It's been a big day!" Charlotte protested and this caused everyone to argue over each other at once.

"You could've sent Violet instead!" Bella exclaimed over the yelling, "better option!"

The doors suddenly opened and Jake walked out and Henry noticed first.

"Here he is, here he is."

"Anybody order some... crystals?" Jake asked, showing them a green crystal and Bella held her breath, which made Henry take her shoulders.

"Where did you get those?" Charlotte asked him.

"These little guys?" Jake questioned, "from the right tube pad."

Everyone sighed with relief and smiled that Jake didn't kill them all. Charlotte chuckled, taking the crystal from him

"Maybe I underestimated you," Bella chuckled over everyone's talking.

"But I also took these little girls from the left tube pad as well," Jake added on and Bella held her breath again, covering her mouth when she saw the iridium crystals.

"Never mind," she mumbled and Henry slowly pulled Bella into his arms as an alarm began to blare.

"Run! Run! Run! Run! Run!"

The monitor flashed the word 'RUN!' on the screens, repeating it over and over again.

"Should we run?" Kris asked with fear.

"Yeahhhhh," Henry said and Kris and Jake ran toward the elevator with haste. They both went inside, freaking out and flinging their arms around as the doors closed on them.

Bella looked at the screens again, before turning in Henry's arms and hiding her face in his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and held her close, allowing her to be scared.

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