Superkids: Missing

Superkids: Missing


	"Anyone home?", Pedro Chavez asks, knocking on an old wooden door. He is at the ruins of Graceland, a museum dedicated to a famous rock star that is in a city that was known as Memphis in the days before the Nuclear Apocalypse. Pedro is looking for Felix Blitzer, Sally Blitzer, and the rest of a team of Superkids who recently foiled an attempt by aliens to invade the planet. Pedro is a Superkid too. This means he was born after the Nuclear Apocalypse, and possesses unusual powers or abilities.

	"Anyone here?, Pedro reiterates, knocking on the door. After he knocks, the door opens but no one is there. He walks through the door and feels a hand on his shoulder accompanied by an ominous feeling, but there's no one there. Pedro scoffs and shakes off the ominous feeling, and the ghostly hand.

	"Marcus! Mavis! If you sent one of your ghost buddies to open the door and try to jump-scare me, it didn't work", Pedro yells. There still isn't any answer. Pedro makes his way through the house, but finds no one is home. In one room, he finds a suspiciously large collection of dolls.

	"This must be Molly's room", Pedro ponders, "These dolls give me the creeps". Pedro quickly leaves the room. Realizing everyone is gone, Pedro leaves the building. Almost immediately, a big net is flung at him.  A tall, muscular man steps into sight.

	"My employer has offered me a huge bounty to eliminate you Superkids", the man reveals. Then, he realizes his net is empty. He lifts it up only to be tripped by an invisible kick. Pedro flees out through the open gate and then closes it before turning visible again. The man is not deterred and leaps over the gate with a single jump. He lands on the other side of the gate with a thud so hard the sidewalk under him cracks and shatters. Pedro has already vanished.

	"You can't escape from me Superkid. They don't call me Bountymaster for nothing", the man shouts.

	Remaining invisible, Pedro flees through the city. Abandoned cars are everywhere. Pedro picks one and jumps into its driver's seat.

	"Good thing I have my Omni-Key", Pedro remarks. He pulls what appears to me a thin metal slip out of his pocket and holds it to the keyhole. The metal slip instantly shifts its appearance to a form where it fits perfectly in the keyhole and the car starts up. Pedro zooms out of the city. On the off chance that Bountymaster is still following him, Pedro uses his powers to make both himself and the car invisible.

	Elsewhere, a woman in a skintight black bodysuit is sneaking through a building that she believes to be a villain's secret lair. Her spy phone rings. The face of her son, Pedro, appears on the screen.

	"The Superkids are missing. I went to their most recent location in Memphis, and no one was there. This creep who called himself Bountymaster jumped me and said he'd been hired to eliminate the Superkids. I managed to escape from him and I'm heading north", Pedro informs his mom.

	"I'll see what I can do to help", His mother replies back. She hangs up from the call and then places another call, this time to her boss at the D.A.N.G. base located in the ruins of Peru.

	"This is Agent Maya Chavez reporting in. I just got word from my son that the Superkids are missing", She informs her boss. Distracted by her phone, Maya doesn't see three thugs come up behind her. The thugs attack her from behind and knock her out. Maya's spy phone falls to the floor and rolls into another room. The thugs drag the unconscious spy out of sight.

	Pedro continues heading north, unsure where to go next. He hears what sounds like someone fumbling around in the backseat. Pedro looks back and realizes he made whoever is back there invisible when he made the car invisible. Pedro quickly makes everything visible again, revealing a girl appearing to be about 13 or 14 sitting in the backseat. She has long brunette hair, and is wearing a blue and white skirt and ruby red Mary Janes.

	"My name's Daffney", the girl identifies herself before Pedro can even ask her to, "I'm a friend of Sally's".

	"I'm Pedro", Pedro responds, "Are you a Superkid too?".

	"Yes", Daffney answers. Pedro pulls up the Superkid files on his spy phone and searches for a "Daffney".

	"Daffney Loran Versand, can make her hair grow or shorten at will and can shape it into various constructs", Pedro reads off.

	"Yeah. I know", Daffney responds, "Weird power". She promptly makes her hair grow out rapidly until it fills the whole car, then makes it shorten back down until there's just enough to cover her head. She looks like a boy with her hair so short. Daffney makes it grow back out to its original length.

	"Can you stop somewhere in the next town? I need to find a bathroom", Daffney asks.	Pedro notices he crossed the border into Kentucky and pulls off at the first exit he sees, which is the remains a town his phone identifies as Franklin. Pedro parks the car in front of an old gas station. Daffney rushes off to relieve herself while Pedro checks the GPS on his spy phone.

	"Bowling Green is just north of here. That's where the twins Marcus and Mavis live. Maybe the Superkids are at their house", Pedro wonders. A bunch of shadowy figures appear from out of nowhere and surround the car. Pedro is yanked out through a window. He realizes the figures are ninjas. A semi truck pulls up and Bountymaster climbs out of the cab.

	"Throw Pedro in the trailer", Bountymaster barks at the ninjas. He tears open the back of the trailer. While the ninjas drag Pedro towards the semi, Bountymaster reaches back into the cab and pulls out a bazooka.

	"I'll deal with the girl myself", Bountymaster declares. He fires a rocket at the gas station and blows the store to smithereens. As Bountymaster starts laughing at the sight of the destroyed store, a giant hairball rolls out from where the bathrooms had been and plows into Bountymaster, sending him flying. As it rolls towards him, Pedro notices that the hairball is brunette. The ninjas drop Pedro and scatter. The hairball stops right near Pedro and its hair retracts, revealing Daffney inside it. Pedro and Daffney climb back into their car. The wreckage of the store is beginning to flood, as the toilets and sinks in the bathrooms were blown off the floor causing the pipes to rupture. Bountymaster recovers and rushes towards the car. Daffney rolls down the window and her hair shoots out and grabs Bountymaster. Daffney lifts Bountymaster up and tosses him into the wrecked store, right where it is flooding. Bountymaster lands headfirst in one of the toilets that is still in tact. Before he can recover, Daffney uses her hair to pull the handle and flush it. The ninjas return to the scene, but Daffney grabs them and tosses them in the trailer of the semi truck. After shutting the trailer's door, Daffney then makes her hair strands razor sharp and punches holes in the truck's tires. After that, Daffney retracts her hair and rolls the window back up. Pedro starts up the engine and they zoom away as quickly as they can.

	"While I was in the bathroom, I tried to call Sally and got no answer", Daffney reveals They decide to head north to Bowling Green, now more worried about the missing Superkids then ever.

	"That was really cool. Your hair is amazing", Pedro shouts. He's all abuzz with excitement.

	"It's invulernable too", Daffney adds, "that's how I survived Bountymaster's bazooka blast. I made my hair long enough to surround me like a force field".

	"I don't think Bountymaster is gonna try and come after us again for a while", Pedro remarks, "I think you embarrassed him pretty good back there.

	"Especially with that "swirly" I gave him", Daffney adds.

	"What's that?", Pedro wonders

	"it's an old-school term for when you stick someone's head in a toilet and then flush it", Daffney explains, causing both of them to burst out laughing.

	Pedro and Daffney arrive at the abandoned car museum where Marcus and Mavis live, and find it as abandoned as Molly's house was. They find a giant robot abandoned outside the museum. Pedro and Daffney decide to check out the robot. Pedro climbs up into the robot's head and finds a keyhole. using his Omni-Key, Pedro starts up the robot. Daffney climbs in beside him. Pedro hits a button marked "flight mode" and the robot sprouts wings and takes to the sky. Pedro and Daffney decide to head for Peru and check in with the D.A.N.G. base there to see if they found out anything about the Superkids whereabouts.

	As Pedro and Daffney fly over the ruins of Mexico, three jet planes appear from out of no where and begin shooting at the robot. Pedro pushes a button and the robot shoots a missile out from the palm of its left hand. The three jets dodge the missile. Pedro hits a second button, and detonates the missile. One of the jets is caught in the blast and shoots out of the sky, crash-landing in the forest below.

	"I think we've over the Amazon right now", Daffney realizes, "It covers much of the continent known as South America. We should be close to Peru."

	"We need to lose these other two jets. I don't know why they are shooting at us, but it tells me one thing: they sure aren't on our side. I don't wanna lead these guys to the base", Pedro suggests.  One of the jets flies up to the robot, getting close enough for Pedro and Daffney to glimpse it's pilot, who happens to be a woman with jet-black hair. The woman notices them as well.

	"You two Superkids humiliated my husband back at that gas station, and now you're gonna pay", the woman shouts, loud enough that Pedro and Daffney can hear her. The woman rams her plane into the side of the robot, parachuting out of it. The explosion leaves a hole in the side of the robot, which the woman floats right into. She climbs up to where Pedro and Daffney are.

	"My name is Captura. Together with my husband, Bountymaster, I hunt whatever pays the most. Right now, a certain crime lord is offering a small fortune to anyone who can bring him any and all Superkids, dead or alive. While I won't tell you my employer's name, I will tell you he has your friends hostage. The two you of you will soon join them, but first i'm gonna make you pay for what you did to my husband", the woman explains. She pulls a double-barrel shotgun out of the bag on her back and aims it at Pedro. Daffney flings her hair in front of Pedro as Captura fires. Her invulernable hair stops the bullets cold. Daffney flips her hair around and sends the bullets back at Captura, knocking the bounty hunter off her feet. Captura stand back up, revealing a bulletproof vest around her chest. Pedro turns invisible as Daffney stabs Captura with razor-sharp strands of hair, punching holes in her vest.

	Pedro climbs down to where the hole is in the robot. The other jet plane is hovering outside. Still invisible, Pedro leaps down onto it, climbs inside and knocks out the pilot with a series of punches before becoming visible again. he takes the jet's controls and flies it up to the robot's head, where Daffney can see him. Daffney presses a button that makes the robot's head fly off, exposing the control room. Pedro opens the door of the jet and Daffney extends her hair so she can grab the jet. she begins pulling herself up her hair towards the jet. With no one controlling it, the robot falls out of the sky. Captura grabs onto Daffney's hair and begins pulling herself towards Daffney. The unconscious pilot falls out through the open door. Daffney ducks to avoid the falling pilot, but Captura isn't so lucky. The pilot slams into her sending both him and her plummeting to the forest below. Daffney pulls herself up into the jet and shuts the door. A short time later, they arrive in Peru.

	Sally Blitzer awakens and stands up. The last thing she remembers is being hit by something that stopped her powers from working. She looks around and finds herself in a darkened room with the only light coming from a barred window. She notices Felix, Marcus, Mavis, Norman, Julie, Michael, and Penelope are in the room with her. Sally quickly wakes all of her friends up.

	"I'll get us out of here", Michael declares. Even though he doesn't have his dragon armor, Michael Drayran still possesses superhuman strength. Like a quarterback running for a touchdown, Michael runs at the wall and busts right through it. The Superkids climb out of the room to find themselves in some kind of ruins atop a mountain.

	"I know this place", Michael realizes, "It was called Macchu Picchu and its a D.A.N.G. base now".

	"Why would someone hold us hostage in a D.A.N.G. Base?" Sally wonders. They notice a jet plane heading for the base, and watch as it lands nearby. The Superkids sneak up to the jet and wait to ambush whoever steps out of it. The moment someone steps off the jet, Sally spins around and punches them as hard as she can.

	"Ow!", a female voice yells, "what was that for?".

	"Daffney?", Sally asks.

	"Sally?", Daffney asks back, "I'm glad to see you're okay". Pedro climbs off the jet behind Daffney. The two of them notice all of the missing Superkids are with Sally, except one.

	"Where's Molly?, Pedro asks.

	"She teleported away when we were ambushed and captured. She's probably gone into hiding somewhere", Felix explains.

	"We don't know who was holding us hostage, but they were holding us here, in the Peru D.A.N.G. base", Sally explains.

	"That would be me", a sinister voice calls out. A man in a tuxedo is approaching them, flanked by several men with firearms. Pedro recognizes the man.

	"You're the guy my mom works for. Why would you kidnap the Superkids and send bounty hunters after us?", Pedro wonders.

	"I'm not who you think I am", the man sneers, he rips off his tuxedo, mustache, beard to reveal someone else Pedro knows. This person, Pedro is far less thrilled to see.

	"Don Overkill, the infamous crime lord, and the murderer of my father", Pedro declares.

	"If you must know, It isn't you Superkids I'm after. It is D.A.N.G. that I want to eliminate, but I had to get you Superkids out of the way first", Don Overkill explains. He signals and his armed goons take aim at the Superkids. Michael punches the ground and causes a tremor that knocks the goons off their feet. Norman adds in his powers to amplify the tremor into an earthquake. the ground cracks open and all of the goons fall into the crack. Don Overkill makes a beeline for the jet.

	"Just so you know, Pedro, I took your mom and her boss hostage too. They are still inside this D.A.N.G. base and I planted a bomb in there too. You have five minutes left before this place is blown sky high", Don Overkill reveals. With that, he climbs onto the jet.

	"I can defuse the bomb if I can get to it", Penelope suggests.

	"I can get you to it", Sally confirms. She grabs Penelope by her arm and runs into the building, carrying Penelope with her.

	"I'll go rescue your mom and her boss", Daffney tells Pedro. She too rushes off into the building.

	"I'm going after Don Overkill", Pedro declares, and rushes up into the jet. Norman, Julie, and Felix follow him up into the jet.

	"We'll go let D.A.N.G. know what's going on", Marcus and Mavis decide. They hold up a signaling device and their spirit board-shaped airship zooms to them from out of nowhere. Marcus and Mavis board it and fly off. A few minutes later, the jet also takes off.

	"It's over, Don Overkill" Pedro declares. He is fighting with the crime lord for control of the jet. The jet continues flying forward and is soon flying over the Pacific Ocean. Felix morphs into a cat and sinks his claws into Don Overkill's back. The crime lord lets go off the controls and begins trying to knock Felix off of him. Norman reaches for the controls, but the jet starts shaking and he falls down. Julie conjures two beams of light, one from each hand. The beams of light form hand shapes and Julie uses them to grab the controls. Don Overkill finally manages to fling Felix off of him. Felix hits a wall head first and is knocked out, reverting to his human form.

	"That's one down", Don Overkill declares.

	Norman starts to get angry and conjures a tornado around the jet. This makes the jet shake even more violently. With the tornado keeping the jet from going anywhere, Julie lets go of the controls and lashes out at Don Overkill. The crime lord pulls out a pistol and tries to shoot Julie, but she dodges the bullets. One bullet shatters a window, while a second hits the door. Pedro delivers a swift kick to Don Overkill's chest, causing him to let go of the pistol, which is sucked out through the busted window. Norman becomes even angrier at the sight of his sister almost getting shot and as his anger builds, the tornado strengthens. Julie is flung to the side of the jet and happens to look out a window just in time to see a shark that was swimming nearby get sucked up into the tornado.

	"Norman, your tornado is so strong now, its sucking up SHARKS. You need to calm down", Julie insists. Pedro delivers a series of punches and kicks to Don Overkill, slamming him into the jet's door. The door flies open and Don Overkill is sucked out through it. He falls down into the tornado and right into the mouth of the shark that Julie saw get sucked into the tornado. With the bad guy gone, Julie runs over to her brother as Pedro takes the jet's controls.

	"It's over. You can relax now", Julie insists. She embraces her brother in a hug and the tornado disappates. Felix recovers and notices Don Overkill is gone.

	"What happened to the bad guy?", Felix asks

	"let's just say...he jumped the shark", Julie remarks. Pedro turns the jet around and heads back to the Macchu Picchu D.A.N.G. base. Felix looks out a window and notices a shark swimming away from where they just were.

	Pedro lands the jet outside the D.A.N.G. base to find his mother and her boss waiting. Pedro, Felix, Norman, and Julie climb out of the jet and Pedro gives his mom a big hug. Penelope walks up to them holding the defused bomb and hands it to Pedro's mom's boss.

	"You might wanna dispose of this", Penelope recommends. Sally and Daffney run up to Pedro too.

	"We pulled those goons out of the crack in the ground and cuffed them. They won't be causing any more trouble. This D.A.N.G. base is D.A.N.G.'s once again", Sally reports. two more D.A.N.G. agents approach Pedro's mom and her boss.

	"We searched the Amazon, but couldn't find Captura's body anywhere. We did recover the dead pilot's body", One agent informs them.

	"We lost track of Bountymaster too. Both he and his wife are likely still at large", the other agent adds.

	"We'll worry about them later", Pedro's mom assures, "right now, let's all head inside and get something to eat. I'm starving". All of the Superkids and D.A.N.G. agents have a laugh and then head inside for a big feast.