Season 1 Episode 1: New HQ, New Problems

Alright people this is it, first episode of my Infinity Legion series, I'm super exited to hear about what you guys think because I put a lot of energy and thought into this so I'd appreciate if you all would tell me what you mostly think of it, also I want to include some original content for the episodes so if you guys have any thoughts, be sure to PM me all your ideas and I'll see if their doable. Until then, enjoy this first entry of the series.

Episode 1 of my Infinity Legion series. After defeating the Darkentors and deciding to form their own team, the members decided to solidify it by finding their own headquarter somewhere in the are of Sherman as supplied by the united forces of G3, N-TEK, the Plumbers, Providence, Global Justice, and the Secret Scientists. Now, we shall see how their first outing as a team will go, but will this team break apart before it even begins?

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Amazon Jungle-11:57 P.M.

In the wake of the Darkentor invasion, G3 was tasked to collect any and all alien technology that were left over after the invaders were incapacitated and the threat had passed, Solomon sent out various operatives to the places where the Darkentors placed their war fortresses for clean up duty and presently, they were doing just that. The squad in the Amazon Jungle was loading a crate full of alien weapons onto a transport truck to get it back to the G3 headquarters for disassembly. "Alright people, this should be the last shipment." the squad leader declared as he oversaw the thorough cleansing of any Darkentor presence in the Amazon, he spoke into the communicator. "Bravo unit, report in." he got no response. "Bravo unit, do you copy?"

"Could they be out of contact range?" one soldier suggested.

"They know better." the squad leader argued. "You two, find the unit and report anything out of the ordinary." he ordered two sentries who complied as they wnet out to search for their fellow operatives.

One checked his screen to search for any life signals, which there were considering the five blips on it. "Hmm, scans show that Bravo unit is nearby, but how come they're not checking in? It's basic standard protocol to call in their present location, unless of course they ran into the any trouble but there aren't any other lifeforms for miles."

The second operative continued walking until he heard something that he kicked accidentally, he looked down and saw that it was a helmet that every field operative of G3 wore. "Hold it, check it out." he gestured to the dropped lasers and other gear that most G3 soldiers were knon for using. "Can that scanner pick up on any hostiles."

He did so, but the screen started to go static making him slam it with his hand. "Blasted thing, these are supposed to be up to date." then, an orb-shaped device was thrown to them. "What the heck is-AHH!"

Both soldiers were stunned by the electric burst caused by the orb which made them fall unconscious, with them disposed of, shadowy figures observed them and one took the communicator from the G3 soldier. "Sergeant do you copy? Did you find Bravo unit? Sergeant, please respond."

The figure pressed something on his throat. "Sorry captain, but we couldn't find any sing of the unit, only scattered remains of their gear, we'll head back to you and report this to Solomon."

"Acknowledged."

Once he ended the call, the figure stepped out of the shadows revealing himself to be an armored soldier wearing a black and grey uniform with a helmet mask obscuring his face. "It's done." he said, the voice distorted into sounding synthesized. "They won't expect a thing, now's our time to strike." he said to other similarly dressed militiamen. "Ready the launcher, fire on my mark." he ordered yo one who mounted up a highly advanced shoulder cannon and waited for the signal. "Fire!" the weapon shot out a projectile that was aimed at the G3 team, it caused an explosion which gave them the chance to go forward with their objective. "Attack while they're caught by surprised, move!"

This unknown group of soldiers went ahead to the G3 operatives who were scattered as a result of the attack, then a firefight ensued, both factions balsted each other with their firearms but these mysterious soldiers were better coordinated than G3 anticipated, their tech was advanced as theirs and tey obviously knew how to use it. "Get a message to Solomon!" the squad leader shouted to his comrades. "We need reinforcements."

"Sorry." the leader was blasted by the master of this group. "But we're on a time schedule, and Solomon's involvement would only complicate matters for us." he and his crew were able to defeat the operatives and looked at the stash of weapons. "Never ceases to amaze me how much alien tech can be found here and the general population are none the wiser." he looked to his underlings. "Dispose of all the bodies and make sure we haul every scrap of weaponry back to HQ and be sure to erase all evidence of us being here, even if Solomon does figure out it was us, by then it would already be too late." he said as they hijacked all the Darkentor technology along with the transport ship, taking it all for themselves and whatever purpose they had with them.

Intro:

23 Silhouettes stand together in a futuristic room as the lights begin to turn on.

Standing here, eyes on the horizon,

Side by side, the wind is blowing in our eyes (our eyes)

We're not afraid, we're breathing slowly

Images of villainous being such as Vilgax, Demongo, Van Kleiss, and other nefarious individuals are shown as they wreak havoc on various cities, endangering the populace.

This is home, this is what defines me

From right here, everything just looks so clear (so clear)

We're sheltered by the night

When we stand

Right here

Right now

The Claw glows orange, a magical sword is unsheathed, a wand glows with magical energy and entire being is glowing blue while a metal arm is shifted into a cannon, fire came out of a reptilian mouth, and we see an hourglass symbol. At the center is one with green eyes that was floating like some sort of ghost as his hands were balled into fists and charged with a green energy/

In this moment

Light years, from the ground

Soon, the entire room lights up and the entire Infinity Legion rush out for battle.

We can take on the world, the world, the world

We can take on the world, you and me

We can take on the world, the world

As long as we're together

We are Unbreakable

We now see the legion on many missions, Ben as Humungosaur taking on the Rock Elementor as Star backs her friend up with a narwhal blast to the ultralink monster. Jake shoots fire at the Pack of EVOs while Randy Cunningham, the Ninja, clashes his ninja sword against Beowulf's claws until El Tigre latched onto the wolf's face and flipped him over to get hit by Cat Noir's staff who then slashes him with his own claws. Ladybug uses her yo-yo to trap a ghost squid as Kim Possible delivered a solid kick to it, while nearby Ron dodged several lasers from Skulker who gets punched by Max Steel in Strength Mode.

Samurai Jack is engaged in a sword duel with Black Knight while Penn shoots at El Oso with a wrist blaster, then the near themed supervillain is attacked by Sashi as Boone shields himself from undead monsters who serve Sartana of the Dead while Zak Saturday swings by while throwing explosives to all the skeletons and Marco does several karate moves to Monkey Fist and his monkey minions, he opens a dimensional portal allowing Jenny and Rex to fly in and the robot girl fired her cannons at the villains while the EVO teen pummels a few of McFist's killer robots with his Smack Hands.

Ilana and Lance were in their Corus and Manus armors as they fired at Vilgax's ships with aid from Octus who sent various electric blasts to the ships while Ashi flew while blasting with her eye beams. Danny soared through to meet with Vilgax and used his Ghostly Wail against the warlord, which sent him flying and then a Way Bad shows up where the Galalunians forms Titan and both giants collide their fists together.

We are Unbreakable

All heroes stand outside their headquarters where the logo then appears:

Infinity Legion

Sherman, Illinois-12:03 P.M.

Solomon liked to think of himself as a patient fellow, but he was starting to get a little annoyed, he checked his watch for the umpteenth time and saw that it was nearly an hour and none of them had come just yet, leaving him along with Lance, Ilana, and Octus to patiently wait for them, but that patience was starting to wear thin a little. "Well, at least you three showed up on time, don't know how much longer we'll have to wait though." he said to the Titan trio as they were the first to arrive which was to be expected considering that this particular meeting was happening specifically in their Earth, they stood at the city limits where there were all terrain G3 vehicles.

"They're late." Lance declared with a glare, his arms crossed. "We wait any longer, and we'll have to assume they're not coming."

Ilana nudged him. "Come on Lance, we've only just formed this group. They're probably running a little late is all."

Octus, in his Newton disguise, agreed. "They are from parallel Earths after all, so some delay in their arrival to our own is to be expected, we shouldn't hold it against them.

"Still, if they're not reliable enough to be punctual then I doubt their reliability out in the field." Lance sardonically stated. "I still can't believe we're actually entertaining this whole team idea." he scoffed, voicing his doubt. "We have one outing at saving the world and suddenly we're like those so-called "best friends" in those high school shows you like to watch."

"That's not fair and you know it." Ilana admonished. "They all proved themselves when we all defeated the Darkentors together so you shouldn't judge them so harshly and FYI, those shows are fun to watch."

Soon enough, a portal opened and from it, a familiar half-ghost boy along with a dragon who was carrying a purple haired 14 year old high school freshman with a hoodie over a red shirt with black pants and shoes, beside them was a purple flying car along with a blue and white robot girl carrying a Hispanic boy of 13 years with a scar over an eye along with blue pants along with a yellow shirt with a black jacket. Once they landed, Danny Phantom turned into Danny Fenton, an average teenager with dark hair and blue eyes as opposed to white hair and green eyes, his appearance also changed from a jumpsuit to a white t-shirt, blue jeans and shoes while the dragon shifted into a short teenage boy with spikey black hair with green highlights who wore a red jacket with a little yellow, blue shorts and grey shoes.

From the car, a redheaded girl with a purple top and black cargo pants exited alongside her blonde boyfriend with a white bolero jacket over a black shirt and dark jeans with a naked mole rat perched on his shoulder. From the back were the disguised Cat Noir and Ladybug, the former wore a green beanie and dark shades covering his eyes while the latter was wearing a dark hoodie and purple shades. "Hey there guys." Danny greeted with a smile as Kim sent her car back to their home dimension.

"Danny, everyone!" Ilana went ahead to greet them all. "I'm so glad you all could make it!"

"Sorry for not coming sooner, Ilana." Kim apologized, speaking for everyone. "Since the 9 of us live in the same Earth, we thought it would be easier if we came together, but we all live in different parts of the globe so it might have took a while."

"That and Ladybug and I had to deal with a very angry owl yesterday, plus Ron took a minute to eat a light snack." the disguised Adrien cracked to his fellow blonde male.

"Hey, if you knew me as well as KP does, Cat then you'd know that I have my early Bueno Nacho always in the morning." Ron retorted. "I got no regrets."

"So, is there a reason Solomon told you three to let us know about something going down here?" Randy asked.

"Yeah Octus, what's the situation?" Jenny questioned as well.

"Randy, Jenny, all I can tell you is that it pertains to our official formation as the Infinity Legion, it would be better for everyone if we were to wait until the others arrive."

As if by cue, another portal opened up and a brown haired teen with green eyes arrived, wearing a black and green t-shirt with the number 10 on the middle, brown pants and white shoes, and most notably, the Omnitrix on his wrist, with him was another teen with black and white hair wearing and orange and black shirt with a serpent on the center with green pants. "What's up?" Ben Tennyson casually said as he was sipping on a Mr. Smoothie as always.

"Ben, Zak, great to see you again." Danny said, shaking hands with his fellow teenage hero.

"And what took you, watch boy?" Adrien smirked.

The universe famous hero shrugged. "I don't know, saving the universe or something."

"You're drinking a smoothie, Ben." Randy pointed out.

Marinette walked up to the young scientist. "Hey Zak, how's it going?"

"Same old, had to promise mom and dad to be careful on a parallel universe." Zak Saturday replied with an embarrassed smile. "So who's left?"

With another portal opening, the EVO youth wearing a red and orange jacket with blue pants with grid lines on it along with goggles on his head named Rex Salazar flew in with the Boogie Pack. "What's happening, folks?" he smirked as he landed down. "Sorry I'm late, had to take care of some business with Providence."

"Rex, dude!" Ben clasped hands with him. "Ready to bust some baddies?"

"Ohm you know it."

"Next time, don't keep your teammates waiting." Lance sternly told him.

Rex narrowed his eyes. "Great to see you too, Lance, I guess you don't have enough money for stick removing surgery."

Before the corporal could retort, a tear was opened in the fabric of the universe and out came the red hoodie wearing Marco Diaz along with Star Butterfly only unlike last time she was wearing a teal sleeveless short dress with striped colors on the chest, light sea green jeggings and a skirt with a bear on it, the young princess smiled when she saw the team. "Hi guys!" she then happily hugged Ilana. "Hey there, princess sister!" she then started hugging everyone else, the last being Randy and Jake. "I'm so exited to be here!"

"We can tell, Star." Randy said, his voice being strained by how tight she was hugging them.

"Oxygen beginning to leave." the American Dragon groaned.

"Star, remember our talk about boundaries." Marco told his best friends which got her to let go, he was then slapped on the back by Rex which nearly made him fall over.

"Marco, my amigo, how's it going?" Rex smiled while Manny came up.

"Hope you're pumped like we are." the young boy said.

Clearing his throat, Marco composed himself. "Uh yeah sure, I'm definitely Mr. super excited. Heh." he chuckled, a little nervous but he didn't want to show it. "In all honesty I was lucky I finally got my dimensional scissors to tell the difference between alternate versions of the Earth or it would have taken us like ages to get here."

In a blue zap, Penn Zero, a curly red haired boy along with his girlfriend, the bespectacled Sashi Kobayashi and their portly friend, Boone Wiseman showed up for the gathering. "Sorry we're late folks, it took a while for Boone to pick out the flip flops he wanted to wear for the occasion." Penn pointed to his best friend.

"Even though each pair are exactly the same." Sashi glared, annoyed by the so called wise man's ditzy behavior as usual.

"You know flip flops are my thing." Boone retorted.

After them, a portal opened and the married couple of Jack and Ashi arrived. "Greetings my friends." the samurai Ronin greeted them with a respectful bow.

"It's great to see you again." Ashi smiled.

Rex chuckled. "Well, if it ain't newlyweds, and here I was thinking that you two would be too busy with your honeymoon or something." he teased in a playful manner.

"We already had that taken care of, Rex." Ashi coyly smiled to her husband who blushed a little.

Solomon took note of each arrival. "Okay, that just leaves-"

From another portal, Max Steel in his flight mode came and the blue eyed superhero shifted into his casual wear which consisted of a blue jacket with Steel's insignia on it along with black pants and white shoes. "Aw man, you see Max? I knew we'd be the last ones to make it." his alien robot best friend Steel told the brown haired teenager.

"Come on Steel, we had to make sure neither Toxzon or Extroyer weren't up to anything too bad." Max pointed out.

"And besides, you weren't gonna start without either you or Max." Ben said to them.

"You could've gone with us." Danny gestured to himself, Randy, Jake, and the rest. "Copper Canyon isn't that far from Middleton."

Solomon cleared his throat, getting everyone's attention. "Well then, now that you're all present and accounted for, now we can get down to business." he gestured to the vehicles behind him. "If you would all please enter the mountain runners, we can begin our little trip, I can assure you that you will be quite pleased." he said in his usual cryptic tone that left most of them wondering what he meant by that. But even so, they were nonetheless curious so they all went in the vehicles, as they drove, they couldn't help but notice the construction in the city, no doubt rebuilding was taking place due to the massive invasion it had recently been subjected to.

They all drove past the city limit, wherever this surprise Solomon had in store for them was it must have been in a place hidden from the rest of Sherman which may actually be beneficial in their case, but even so it was sort of a long ride and it didn't take long for there to be some complaints from the members who weren't exactly known for their patience. "Uhhhh, are we there yet?" she asked, he was in a vehicle with Marco, Marinette, Adrien, Max, Zak, Ben, and Jake with her.

Ben nodded in agreement. "Seriously, how far is this mystery surprise anyway? We're burning daylight in these rides."

"Hey, you want rides that take too long, Ben? Try taking a New York taxi." Jake commented.

"Besides, can't be worse than riding in the same vehicle with Rex and Lance." Marinette cracked.

True to her word, those two were both in the same transport along with Boone, Sashi, Penn, Manny, and Jenny. The corporal kept his eyes close shut and waited until this whole thing was over and largely ignored the presence of his so-called "teammates", but then he felt his seat bump making him look back at the passenger behind him with a glare. "Could you go a whole 5 minutes without doing that?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." Rex calmly replied with his arms on the back of his head.

"Right, so it wasn't you who was kicking my seat since the beginning that we took off." Lance deadpanned.

"Hey man, all I've been doing was just relaxing, right Penn?" he asked the red haired teen.

"Please don't bring me into this, I already to deal with these two." the Zero boy gestured towards his girlfriend and best friend.

Sashi took a whiff and saw that Boone was eating a bologna sandwich with his mouth open. "Eating inside a government vehicle, really Boone? Couldn't have waited until the ride was over, huh?"

"These happen to be my favorites snack to pass the time, Sashi. If you were a bit nicer, I would actually share this delectable meat with you." Boone told her as he continued to eat like a slob.

All Lance could do was sigh in annoyance at the antics of the peoples he was going to fight alongside with from here on and wondered why he couldn't have driven with Ilana and Octus.

Speaking of, they were with Danny, Jack, Ashi, Randy, Kim, and Ron. "I wonder what Solomon has in store for us." Ilana said, barely containing her excitement.

"That guy really knows how to keep secrets, doesn't he?" Ron couldn't help but say out loud but then covered his mouth. "Wait a minute, these cars aren't bugged are they?" he darted his eyes nervously, hoping that the enigmatic man didn't catch what he said.

"It is alright Ron." Octus told him. "Solomon may be secretive, but it is to be expected considering his position as head of G3, though I too am curious as to what he's hiding from us."

"To seek the truth requires one to be patient, if you can't find yourself to be so then wanting that truth will only be prolonged." Jack advised with a stoic look.

'Huh, sounds like something the Nomicon would tell me.' Randy thought, looking at his satchel which hid the 800 year old journal of ninja wisdom inside the contents of the pages.

Ron just stared at him. "Did you get that from a fortune cookie?" he asked, making Rufus face palm.

Danny turned to Kim. "He's a keeper." he remarked.

All of a sudden, each vehicle that held the team then began to shift unexpectedly, the wheels went inside hidden compartments but instead of falling and crashing, the cars hovered and traveled over a body of water. "Okay, what the juice is going on?" Randy asked.

"Look, up ahead." Ashi pointed to an island where they were going to, the vehicles drove until they stopped at their destination, they landed down and the doors opened automatically, allowing them to exit.

What they saw astounded them.

Standing before them, was a huge tower that reached up to touch the sky, it was a well-built complex made of indestructible metal alloy with various floor there was even a highway near the entrance for them to exit when necessary. Next to it was a cargo building made to house any flying vehicle, and after that was an area that resembled a public pool, on top of the tower were the initials IL, signifying that this whole place belonged to them and only them. "Infinity Legion." Solomon began as he stepped out and stood in front of the tower with a light smile. "Welcome to your new headquarters, Legion Tower." he presented to all of them who all stared wide eyed at their base, being pleasantly surprised.

"Cool..." Manny breathed, wishing Frida was here to see this.

"Oh yeah, I can work with this." Ben grinned.

"Ditto." Max agreed, fist bumping with him.

Adrien whispered to his partner. "So what do you think? Best day ever?"

She nodded, still glued to the tower. "Totally."

"So honking Bruce!" Randy cheered.

"Impressive." Jack admitted with a look of approval.

"Breathtaking." Ashi smiled as she looked up.

Ron placed a hand on Kim's shoulder. "KP. We're home." he nearly wept.

"Keep it together, baby." Kim said with a chuckle but was also amazed.

"Steel, Octus, are you seeing the specs on it?" Jenny questioned her fellow inorganic comrades.

The disguised robot hummed in agreement. "Indeed Jenny, the structural designs seem adequate along with advanced technology involved in its making no doubt."

"Definitely saving this in my central cortex." Steel said, making a camera noise.

Star started grabbing Marco and shook him back and forth. "Marco, this is our new place!" she squealed.

"You're...almost...making me...barf...!"

Ilana addressed her ally. "Solomon, where did you find time to build all this?" she couldn't help but ask.

Danny wanted to know as well. "Seriously."

Thus, the head of G3 began his tale. "In the aftermath of the Darkentor invasion, I saw that all of you were intent on sticking together and fight the good fight, so I figured you needed someplace to better coordinate your actions, a meeting ground for you to operate from away your home dimensions. Lance, Ilana, Octus, you remember when I asked to study your dimensional transport device?" they nodded. "It was for the purpose of making my own so that I could travel to each of your Earths, I knew that this little project would require more than just G3 resources, so I consorted with the likes of Maxwell Tennyson of the Plumbers." Ben's eyes perked up at them mention of his grandpa. "Commander Forge Ferrus of N-TEk." Max and Steel turned to each other in surprise. "Dr. Betty Director of Global Justice." Ron's jaw dropped while Kim put a hand to her chin. "Doc and Drew Saturday along with the Secret Scientists." Zak took note to talk to them later. "And White Knight of Providence."

"Hold on." Rex put his hand up. "You're saying Knight helped cook this up?" he skeptically asked. "Doesn't sound like something he'd ever do."

"Ask him yourself when you have the chance." Solomon lightly smirked. "As I was saying, together we designed this base for you and you alone, think of it as a reward for your service., it's built with the technology from each organization as some of you may come to realize, we made it so that it would bee the perfect HQ to fit all your needs."

"Getting our own tower for stopping an alien invasion?" Jake smirked. "Man, I could get used to this."

"If you'll follow me, we'll begin the tour." Solomon guided them to the main entrance then turned to the halfa. "Danny, step up a little closer."

Curious, Danny did so then a blue light scanned his entire being and a female computer voice called out.

"Recognized Authorization: Danny Phantom."

The doors opened on their own, surprising them. "We arranged for the tower to only be accessible to those with proper clearance, which of course means you, any intruders will be met with an advanced security system."

"Nifty." Marinette complimented as they went in the main lobby.

It was swanky looking and they followed Solomon into an elevator, the first stop was an empty room with enough space for a decent brawl. "Here we have the training room. It's where you'll learn to perfect your fighting ability or spar with each other." he activated the room to have a robot drone appear out of thin air. "It can make holograms with solid matter, and as a bonus." he activated the environment settings to make the room appear to look like a beach. "You can train in any sort of environment of your choosing."

"Hmm, not bad." Lance admitted that this was indeed impressive.

They then went to a level where there were a lot of computers along with scientific labs that had an array of equipment. "Here, we have the lab, you can collect and store data in the main computer and if you wish, we have enough supplies for any form of science for anyone who does experiments, you can make any sort of tech you want here."

Zak smiled at this of which he shared with Octus and Steel, oh yeah they were gonna have fun with this place.

They then made a stop at a level where it involved a large window sill that gave them a clear view of the vast ocean not to mention the whole city as well along with a couch big enough to fit all of them, to put it lightly it was a recreational area, nearby was a kitchen as well. "This includes a holographic screen." he turned it on, showing a cartoon which depicted a bunny and duck then turned it off. "The tower includes an armory to store your gear, there's also one to keep any vehicles you may have and one that houses separate bedrooms for you to sleep in. Jack, Ashi, since you're married you'll have a shared one."

Jack nodded in thanks. "Much appreciated, my friend."

"Hey guys, check out the view." Marco said as he sat on the sofa, from there one could see the ocean along with the entire Sherman area. "You can see the whole city from here."

The rest joined soon after and enjoyed the sight, all except for Lance. "This is all impressive, but I fail to see how we can be better coordinated here."

"Aw come on Lance, lighten up already." Cat Noir said. "We got our own fancy HQ, don't rain on our parade."

"Yeah, you big parade rainer." Star spoke up as well.

Solomon gestured to the elevator. "Perhaps one of our final stops will interest you." they got back in and they all went down, way down. They had to hold onto something as they went pretty fast, and then saw that they were going through a pipe underwater, they watched fish go by which amused Star and Manny. They arrived to the underwater room where a large locked door which resembled a safe was waiting for them, Solomon put the access codes in and they saw the inside which included a holographic map of the entire world along with a few weapons on standby and finally as large round table with a total of 23 seats for them. "This is the subbasement, here you can meet and discuss important matters, it's also where you'll receive emergency alerts or missions myself along with the aforementioned higher ups would have for you."

"Good enough for you, now?" Ilana lightly teased to her bodyguard.

"Now, if you'll join me up top."

Going back to the outside, Solomon showed them the aircraft field where there were parking spaces along with a building, he made the doors open to reveal a familiar aircraft only now it was in blue and white colors and had a more shinier paint job "Hey, that's the same ship we used to rescue Danny." Manny recalled.

"We've made some modifications to it, along with a new name, the Quantum. it's capable of traveling up to high speeds, can travel to both space and other dimensions, has quarters for the crew, and has an updated communications system." Penn gave Sashi a smirk which made her punch his arm playfully.

Then Solomon put his fingers on his ear as he got a message from one of his subordinates and got a troubled look, but remained professional for the sake of the team. "Well, I should leave you to it then." he began his way out..

"You're not staying?" Ilana questioned.

He turned back to the princess. "This tower was made for the Infinity Legion and last time I checked I wasn't a member but just so you know, if you need anything, G3 will be willing to supply you with anything, same with the other organizations that helped make all this possible. Also, you might find other aspects of the tower that may please most of you. As you were." a G3 ship suddenly landed and then it took off into the sky.

"So, what now?" Marco couldn't help but ask.

"I'll be in the meeting room." Lance walked away without another word.

"I should go with him." Ilana said. "To keep him company."

"Doesn't look like that guys prefers company." Rex muttered. "Well, I think we should explore this island a bit, Solomon told us that there'd be some surprises, why not look around? Any takers?"

"Got nothing better to do." Jake shrugged.

"I'm game." Ben spoke.

"Count me in." Manny joined as well.

"Hope there's room for one more." Max said as the group made their way to the forest area of the island to see what's in store for them here.

"Better make that two." Adrien went as well.

"I want to take a crack at that science lab." Zak said, eager to get to work in it.

"I'll accompany you." Octus went with him.

"Wait up." Jenny followed suit as well.

Penn turned to his girlfriend. "So, I take it you're going to the training room?" though he already knew the answer.

"Oh yeah." Sashi wasted no time in taking out her own MUHU colored pink, which once connected to her chest, activated her battle armor and dashed ahead to get first dibs.

Danny had similar ideas. "You know, I could go a round in there, see if it's as good as it sounds."

"I was thinking the same thing." Kim smiled.

"Then shall we?" Jack said as he along with Ashi went with the two.

Star then felt her stomach rumbling. "Think we can go to that kitchen?" she asked.

"Really?" Marco shook his head. "You just ate strawberry muffins before we left."

"Yeah, but now I'm hungry again. Why don't me make me some of your nachos? They are super tasty and while you're at it, why not try some yourselves guys?" she looked to the others. "Marco makes the best nachos."

Ron's interest instantly piqued when he hard the sound of his favorite snack food. "Seriously? Well put on an apron, Marco 'cause I gotta eat!" he practically drooled with Rufus rubbing his pink belly in anticipation.

"He won't stop until you say yes, Marco." Kim warned the hoodie wearing boy.

Marco scratched his hair modestly. "Well, I wouldn't say they're all that great, I mean I try my best but I don't know if you'll all like them."

"Can't be any worse than what they serve on Tuesdays at my school." Randy remarked, he really should make a complaint to the school board about roadkill being mixed in with the food.

"Heck, we could all eat." Penn shrugged.

"Great, now let's go!" Star pulled Marco with everyone following them.

Venturing into the woods to find anything worthwhile was undoubtedly a challenge since there was too much forest in this island, some of the guys were starting to get a little fed up with us. "Jeez, you'd think Solomon would've given us a heads up about this secret surprise for us, or something." Jake slapped a few bugs away. "Not to mention the pest control problem."

"Who wants to bet that he was just pulling on our leg?" Adrien questioned.

"Didn't get a joking vibe from him." Max replied. "In fact, it's hard to get any vibe from that guy.

Rex nodded in agreement. "Yeah, kind of like someone I know from home." he instantly thought of Agent Six. "Plus Lance." he muttered mostly to himself.

"Too bad we can't finish this faster." Manny spoke.

Ben looked to his Omnitrix and got an idea. "Actually kid, I can help with that." he scrolled through the wheel which detailed the icons for every one of his aliens and stopped at the perfect guy for the job, he slammed the core down and in a green flash, he became the humanoid blue feline alien that was Fasttrack. "I'll be right back." he ran off in super speed, then came back very soon after. "I found something, follow me!" he ran away once more, leaving them in the dust.

"Okay, now he's just showing off." Adrien said as they followed his trail.

Eventually, they found Ben back as human and behind him was a basketball court. "Woah, didn't think he'd include this." Manny had to say, yet was still nonetheless pleased.

"Well, most of the members of our team are teenagers, you guys included." Steel pointed out. "Makes sense when you think about it."

Rex then gained a smirk. "Hey guys, who's up for shooting hoops, Super Style?"

Everyone else grinned as they understood what he meant.

It was a 3-on-3 match Rex, Ben, and Max Vs. Jake, El Tigre, and Cat Noir with the latter two having transformed into their superhero personas and Ben becoming Kickin' Hawk and Max in Turbo Speed Mode. The humanoid hawk alien ran, while dribbling the ball to the other hoop, but Cat Noir intercepted him by sliding his leg under the hawk's feet. "Too bad, bird brain." the Parisian hero jumped and was close to securing a point for his team, but then Max Steel grabbed the ball from the cat's claws before he could even blink or even react. "What the?"

"Denied!" Max sped along and with no problem, he made a slam dunk.

El Tigre pounced for the ball. "We're not out of this yet." he may be on the short side, but that didn't mean he wasn't fit to make a score, he was able to incredibly slip past both Max and Kickin Hawk, but there was still one last obstacle in his way.

"Sorry little buddy, but this is your stop." Rex said as he used the Blast Caster to grab the ball, but El Tigre launched his claw to counteract it, the young hero jumped on top of Rex's head and used him to launch off in order to score fro his team. "Jake, over to you!" he threw the ball over to the dragon who flew over to go for the score.

"Uh-Huh! Can't touch this fools!" Jake then tossed to the only other cat themed superhero. "All yours, Cat."

Cat Noir was sure he was going to win this for sure, if not for some timely intervention from Ben who then switched to a living body of slime called Goop. "Sorry Cat, but this one's mine.

While he was annoyed, Adrien could not resist the urge to cringe in disgust. "Ah sick dude, you look like a walking booger."

"You call it sick, I call it useful." Goop stretched his limb to throw the ball in then he turned human. "And that my friends is game point."

Jake however, wasn't pleased. "I call rematch, Ben."

Max swiped his forehead to get rid of the sweat. "You know we could invite some of the others for some action, we may be a team of superheroes but we can still have fun."

"I can tell you right now to don't expect Lance to say yes." Rex remarked. "He'll probably go all 'Sorry I'm too busy brooding in a dark corner and worrying over a princess I'm definitely crushing on but won't make the first move because I probably don't understand dating'." he adopted a dark glare in a poor attempt to imitate the corporal.

"What do you have against Lance, anyway?" Ben couldn't help but question. "I mean, sure he can be bit of a jerk but I think he just needs to give this team a chance."

"That's the thing, I don't think he will." Rex stated. "Come on, you've seen how he acts, the dude prefers to fly solo and only accepts help from Ilana and Octus, plus he doesn't really seem to be as pumped as we are about working together."

"Maybe, but I think he just needs to know us better." Max countered. "I mean, it's not like he's talking smack about us right this second."

"So to sum up, most of this team's members are comprised of gung-ho reckless amateurs who never stop to think before blasting things with no restraint." Lance reviewed as he stood behind a screen that showed the various cons of some of the people who are gathered in their new HQ, the soldier couldn't help but point their faults to provide examples to Ilana that there could me many problems in the future. "Seeing this, can you honestly say that we'd be qualified to handle any situation thrown at us? We may have defeated the Darkentors together, but that was only by pure luck, can't say for certain if they'd be reliable for other missions."

If there was one thing that bothered Ilana, it was Lance's intense criticism in many subjects, not to mention his reluctance to trust others, she's known him long enough to understand that underneath that cold exterior he puts up there lies a beating heart, he just has problems proving that. "Look Lance, it's too soon to judge them so quickly, we haven't even gone on a mission yet and you're already coming to conclusions."

"For good reason." Lance insisted. "We barely know anything about these guys other than the fact that we can't be sure about their dependability on the field, which you should also be concerned about." he then sighed and adopted a more softer look. Look, I know you're excited by the prospect, Ilana, but no matter how you look at it, we just can't trust them just yet, especially one in particular." his thoughts went to a certain machine boy who doesn't know the first thing about restraint.

"That's the whole point Lance." she told him. "We may not know each other that well now but give it time, I guarantee that we'll be a close-knit group that than can rely on one another, that's the whole point of a team like this, to help each other grow as people and become better than we are now I have hope for the Infinity Legion, maybe you should too if not for me or Octus than for yourself."

Lance had to agree with that sentiment but he still had his doubts unfortunately. "Maybe so, but I don't think we can understand each other if we're cooped up in this island."

Instantly, a light bulb went off in her head. "That's true..." she rubbed her chin in thought.

He couldn't help but be wary. "What are you thinking?"

"Yes mom, I'm perfectly safe. No, there aren't any errors in my systems, I think I'd know that." Jenny Wakeman sighed in aggravation as she heard her mother speak through the phone line that could transcend dimensions, it's no surprise that Nora Wakeman was able to figure out a way through that just to check in on her daughter. "Yeah, alright I love you too, so bye." she hung up on purpose before her creator/mother could finish and she rubbed her metal head. "Man, is there no place safe from her?"

Zak was in a seat as he was looking through the science materials though looked up from his work. "Trouble with parents?"

"Trouble with A parent, but yeah." Jenny confirmed. "I gotta ask Zak, do you have folks who are unnecessarily overprotective even though you can handle self pretty okay?"

At that, the young secret scientist looked back to past memories and he just had to answer. "You have no idea. Can't say I blame them though, you should've seen me when I was about 11, I used to get into all kinds of trouble with my brother, Fiskerton. I've improved since then but they're still my mom and dad? What are you gonna do?"

Octus who was scanning the area, chimed in on the conversation. "Obviously Jenny, your creator who acts as a maternal figure to you just wants to make sure that no injury or any kind of distress befalls upon you in another dimension, it is a natural and typical characteristic when it comes to parental units. I sometimes have to express the very same concern when I'm in my dad disguise."

"Dad disguise?" Zak and Jenny questioned.

The robot demonstrated by shifting from Newton to dad then back again. "It's part of mine, Lance's, and Ilana's cover as an average family in the suburban area."

"Clever." Jenny complimented.

"I guess you have a point, Octus, truth be told they're advice always helped me out in the past. Speaking of my parents, I have to thank them for making this place, especially the lab here. It's just like the lab back at the airship but coupled with all this other dimensional technology, I could whip up some sick stuff for us to use, like an unlimited fuel source for the ship, or maybe new gear. Seriously, this is some quality material, we could even fashion some upgrades, though we might have to test them out before using them on missions, not to mention the long hours I might have to wor-" he stopped as he realized something. "I'm rambling, aren't I?" Zak blushed in embarrassment.

Jenny chuckled. "Little bit, yeah."

"Heh, that's what I thought." the young scientist scratched his nape. "But can you blame me? This whole setup is every scientist's dream."

"Agreed." Octus said. "Your ideas sound very compelling, perhaps I could assist along with Steel as well, perhaps the three of us can supply the team with technological advancements that in turn could support us in the field." he then froze. "I am getting a message from Ilana."

Zak and Kim soon got the same message on their transport devices. leaving them curious to what the Galalunian princess wants.

The training room was as impressive as Solomon told them as Danny, Jack, Ashi, Kim, and Sashi have figured out for themselves once they started entered in and began the program, Danny Phantom flew above as several flying drones blasted at him but he turned intangible to avoid their range of fire, once he turned solid he sent multiple ecto-blasts to them, making them disappear into nothingness. Down below were the others, Kim ran as she charged at 3 practice dummies with staff weapons, she carefully dodged each blow and kneed one in the chin and took its weapon as her own, she struck at more of the dummies who all disappeared into bytes once she was done with them. Jack had been trading sword clashes with one that was four armed and had a sword in each hand, the samurai blocked each strike that was meant for him, and swiftly, he sliced one limb off, and then the last three and in one final attack, plunged his sword through the chest, making the opponent disappear. His wife, Ashi, was met with a hulking juggernaut who charged at her but the half demon slipped past its clutches and extended her fists to super size to catch two fists and tore the computer-generated arms off, making it go away. Sashi dashed through the room as orb projectiles were fired at her but she used her energy blades to slice and dice them at every step in almost record time.

"Not bad, you guys." Danny complimented as he landed down. "You pulled it off pretty great."

"So not the drama." Kim shrugged, twirling the staff like a baton then throwing it aside where it vanished into data. "You should see Ron and I when we're on missions."

"I must say, this area would be satisfactory in keeping everyone at their fullest." Jack honestly spoke.

"Anyone else wondering if the others are doing well?" Ashi inquired.

"I'm sure they're fine." Sashi answered with a shrug. "There's no big emergency so they're probably goofing off, I know Boone is."

Danny then couldn't help but think about something, which Jack picked up. "Is something troubling you, Danny?"

"Nothing major." the halfa promised. "But I just can't help but notice that even though we have our own name and our own place which pretty much makes us official, but we can't just unite together to only fight off alien invasions, not downplaying the victory, I'm just proving a point. I've known Jake and Randy for a while now and Jake teamed up with Kim and Ron before but I didn't even know about Jenny, Manny, Cat Noir, or Ladybug before now and they live in the same Earth as me. What I'm saying is, I think if we're gonna be good team, then we need to learn to be a bit more...close."

Jack put a finger to his chin. "Hmm, you make a very compelling point. When I was a child, my father would always tell me stories about the most powerful of kingdoms whose strength did not come from just the size of their numbers or power but from their reliance on each other along with their close bond which won them many victories over invading forces."

"So what? You saying we should get together for sleep overs?" Sashi rhetorically remarked with a slight snarky tone.

"I don't know, Sashi, Danny has a point." Kim said before turning to the samurai's wife. "What do you think, Ashi?"

Ashi found it hard to answer at first. "Well, um...I guess only time will tell." thankfully for her, she got a message. "Did anyone else just received a message from Ilana?"

"Yeah." Danny confirmed. "Says to meet at the lobby, guess we should go check it out."

It was fortunate that the kitchen was already stocked with enough cooking ingredients for Marco to use, otherwise it would have taken a long time for him to make nachos for everybody. "Alright guys, there aren't that much so try to take small pieces at a time and don't be..." he had no time to perfectly explain as everyone made a fast move to get as much as they can, especially the mystic monkey master. "...selfish. You know what? Never mind, go right ahead, it's not like I can make more."

"Oh quit complaining." Star told him. "They love them, see?"

Sure enough, the others were quite pleased with the food. "Dude, these are the cheese, literally." Randy said as he dipped his in cheese and ate more.

Penn hummed in agreement then he noticed his best friend doing something. "Boone, why are you only eating the cheese?" he asked, noting that the so-called wise man was just stuffing his mouth with nothing but cheese but left the nachos alone.

"Consider it an alternative, by stuffing my mouth with cheese then stuffing it with the nachos, I don't have to dip it first. Pretty genius, right?" as Boone continued, the cheese started to drool from his lips and stain the floors.

Watching this, made Marinette cringe in complete disgust. "Gross, do you even see the mess you're making?"

Rufus chirped happily on top of his owner's shoulder. "This is good, dude." Ron admitted as he continued to eat. "But it's got nothing on anything Bueno Nacho can cook up. Hey, you guys should come to Middleton sometime and we can hangout there, it serves the best for its customers. And with any luck, I can order us up some sweet nacos for everybody, on the house."

Marinette raised an eyebrow. "What are nacos?"

Chuffing his chest out in pride, Ron explained to all of them. "Something of my own design, listen well children as I tell you the deliciousness that is the naco. Now, we all know the nacho and the taco are tasty enough on their own, but one day I asked myself; what would happen if these two foods were combined into some super-food? And it was thus I created the naco, the perfect combination between the two and quite popular if I do say so myself."

"Uh-Huh." Rufus nodded.

"Wait a minute, Ron." Randy had to hear that one more time. "You saying that you actually made a fusion between a nacho and taco? Better not be teasing us, dude." he warned. "A buddy of mine has been dreaming of something like that since or kindergarten days and you better not be pulling on our legs because that would not be cool."

"I tease you not, young ninja Randy." the boyfriend of the girl who can do anything promised. "I guarantee you that one bite will open your eyes to a whole new world of flavor that will leave your taste buds begging for more."

Before Randy could respond, he saw an eerie red glow coming from his satchel that made him inwardly groan and wondering why that book has to act up now of all times. "Um, hold that thought guys, I gotta use the can real quick." he made a b-line for the nearby boys bathroom that they found beforehand and thankfully, there were stalls. He sat on the toilet seat and took out the Ninjanomicon, the 8 centuries old chronicle filled with the wisdom and knowledge collected from past ninjas. "Alright Nomicon, this had better be good. I'm about to learn about a revolutionary snack food and I don't wanna miss out." he opened the pages and promptly passed out as his consciousness became absorbed by the ancient book.

Randy screamed as he fell into the various pages, passing by many illustrations of ninja warriors along with mythological creatures of Japanese lore, he landed hard on a rocky surface, making him rub his sore head. "Ow! That was easily the most painful schloomp." he then witnessed a grand shogun standing with various other warriors and above them was the book's latest lesson.

"Rely not just on yourself, but on the team you stand with, only together will victory be assured." the teen read, which made him scratch his hair. "What? You're saying that the legion aren't that close. That's just crazy, I mean we were able to stop an alien invasion. I honestly like our chances as a group." the warriors face palmed and in an instant, Randy was thrown back to the real world. "I gotta find a timer for this thing." he then jumped when the door started knocking.

"Hey Randy, you decent in there?" he heard Marco ask.

The purple haired boy hurriedly put the book back in its bag. "Uh, yeah just about finished, Marco. What's up?"

"Ilana just sent out a mass message through our transport things." Boone said next. "She said to meet at the lobby, must be pretty important."

Curiosity filled the atmosphere as the whole team were gathered in the main entrance lobby after receiving the mass message sent by the Galalunian princess, she was standing with Lance who had his hands in his pockets and had an unenthusiastic expression as opposed to the cheerful grin his best friend had plastered all over her face. "Alright Ilana, I'll bite, what did you call us here for?" Max asked as Steel floated next to him, they and those who went to the basketball court were the last ones to arrive due to being away from the tower.

"Yeah, we were in the middle of wiping the floor with these fools." Jake gestured to the team that opposed his.

"Pretty sure you have that backwards, Jake." Steel countered.

Ilana cleared her throat to get all of them focus their attention on her as she began to address what she wanted to talk about. "Okay guys, the reason why I called you all here was because I've been conversing with Lance and I've come to realize that of we're going to be working as a group then we need to socialize with each other that doesn't have to involve any sort of invasion. Which is why I think it's only fair that we all have a little outing in the city itself, a way to show you all what it's like when it's not under attack."

"Seriously?" Sashi inquired with a skeptical look. "That's what you called us out here for, Ilana? Last I checked, this team wasn't a social club, princess."

"Not necessarily." Octus conceded but brought up another point. "But Sashi, you must admit that this could provide beneficial to us all. I have recorded that social interaction is an important team-building exercise."

Marinette spoke next. "Yeah, I mean we are going to be working together from now on, what if we have a mission in one of our hometowns, it could help us get a lay of the land, or something like that."

"Then are we in agreement?" Jack asked and got a series of nods as his answer. "Then we shall move forward with your suggestion, princess Ilana." he moved to go but was stopped by her. "Is something the matter?"

Ilana smiled nervously. "Not to be offensive Jack, but your choice in clothing isn't exactly...up to speed."

"Dude, she's right, you really play it old school." Jake added.

"It would attract some unwanted attention and take my word, it pays to keep a low profile." Danny also chimed. "But you can still keep the sword, just keep it locked in."

Jack looked at his white gi in a confused manner. "Then, what do you suggest I do wear?"

"I have just the thing for you." Ilana smiled.

Minutes later, the team waited as Jack changed into a new attire that Ilana picked out herself to better help him fit in with the era, he eventually came forward wearing blue sports pants dark blue shoes, and a white shirt covered by a blue jacket. "Wow, that's not a bad look for you Jack." Marinette complimented.

"Looking fly, bro." Jake gave him a thumbs up.

Jack accepted the compliments but took a moment to look at his new clothes. "Hmm, it feels odd not wearing my gi, during most of my travels I always brought it with me and it was rare for me not to use it. It is the signature for a samurai."

"First time for everything. Plus, I think it looks slimming on you." Ashi smiled, kissing her husband on the cheek.

'By the way, Ashi, I didn't get anything for you to wear." Ilana informed the half demon.

Thinking of a way to remedy this problem, Ashi concentrated hard as the black mass surrounding her body began to move and shift into clothing of her own choosing, the mass shifted into a short hoodless jacket over a red tank top and biker shorts with dark boots. "Does this look well, Jack?" she asked the samurai who could only stare.

"Uh...g-great." that was the only thing Jack could say as he found her mesmerizing in that outfit.

Rex whispered to Star. "And I thought we were the teenagers." he remarked as he snickered with her.

Randy then turned to the robot girl. "What about you, Jenny? I mean, we can't just say that you're a really pale girl with dyed blue hair."

Nora Wakeman's greatest creation smirked. "I thought ahead, Randy." he gears started transforming as a shell formed around Jenny's metal body, she now looked like a regular teenage girl with red hair tied into pigtails wearing a blue dress, black shoes and white socks. "I had mom work this "human" shell in case I need to disguise myself for a mission."

"Smart."

"Okay!" Ilana clapped her hands. "Now, we just need some transportation."

Going into the Quantum with Lance in the driver's seat, the legion flew to Sherman while in stealth mode as to not cause any form of panic among the masses, they already went through enough when the Darkentors attacked their city, plus that would completely undermine their goal to be akin to that of saviors to them. "Man, I knew that this place was hit hard with the alien invasion and all, but I didn't think there'd be this much damage." Star mused as she looked at all the reconstruction. "Is it the same as the places we went to when we split up to attack all those alien fortresses? she couldn't help but ask the Titan trio.

"Indeed, Star." Octus nodded. "So far, things are progressing smoothly in the repairs to all the cities that were hit the hardest but it's still a long way from being restored."

Tapping her chin, Star's wand then began glowing. "I got it! I can use my magic to fix everything!"

"Uh, you sure that's a good idea, Star?" Jenny questioned. "Most of your spells are mostly for blowing stuff up than fixing stuff."

"Plus, every time you try to use it to fix stuff it kind of only makes things worse." Marco reminded her.

Star gasped in appalment. "I do not."

"Remember Otis the opossum?"

Beat.

"Okay, fair point."

"Hope you don't take offense to this guys, but I think it'd be best if we all don't use any of our powers." Danny told them all and once he saw their surprised expressions. "Look, we're in a whole different universe, one where it's not used to some of the stuff we've seen save for aliens but still, not sure how'd they react if they saw us and our...gifts."

"On that, we can agree." Lance spoke, keeping his eyes on the sky. "This city has already been through enough, the last thing the people need is to worry about a bunch of kids who use their inhuman abilities with no restraint, you might as well flush this entire Infinity Legion plan down toilet so don't do anything crazy."

Kim looked to a few others. "You know, he could just say don't mess up the whole 'tough soldier' act is kind of much."

"And how come he gets to drive?" Manny complained.

The Possible girl ruffled his hair. "Pretty sure you might need to be as tall as him and have a license, Manny." she chuckled playfully making him pout a little.

"Prepare for landing."

The Quantum landed on the roof of an old abandoned building and everyone descended down to the sidewalk of the street, this was an area of Sherman that had since been perfectly rebuilt at least for the most part, there were still a few buildings closed off from the general public, other than that things went on as of it were normal. "Alright, so I think the best place to go is right there." Ilana pointed to a building that was indistinguishable to that of a shopping center, otherwise knows as...

"A mall?" Ben questioned. "Seriously? We're gonna hang out at a mall? Isn't that kind of cliché for most of us?" he gestured to the teenage members which was almost all of them.

"What are you talking about? This is perfect!" Marinette grinned widely. "We can totally get to know each other here, it's the best choice I can think of!"

"Better than nothing." Zak shrugged.

Soon, the Legion went inside where Ilana guided them to a map of the place. "Alright, we can maybe go to the..." she surveyed to see anyplace they would all like to go. "Hmm, the best I can gather is the food court, that way we can all be together."

"I don't know." Marco said. "Some of us just ate nachos back at HQ."

"And now I'm in the mood for some pizza." Ron tapped his stomach. "Plenty of room in here for some more."

With that, the team went to the food court where they were able to get a table to hold all of them while Max, Marco, and Marinette went to order on behalf of the group. "Alright, that's 3 boxes of pizza, plus soda drinks and fries, that'll be $60.95." the cashier told them.

"Shoot, I don't have that much money." Marinette lamented looking inside her purse. "Max, what about you?"

The half-Tachyon hybrid pulled out his empty pockets. "Sorry, I'm cleaned out."

But then they were surprised when Marco handed the cashier a huge load of cash. "This should be enough." the employee left to get them their order, and the hoodie wearing boy noticed both of his friends were giving him stares making him a little nervous. "Uh, what's worng."

"Marco, where did you get all that money?" Max asked him, still stumped.

The Ladybug miraculous holder nodded. "Seriously, that had to be more than 80 dollars. Your parents must give you a huge allowance."

"Allowance?" Marco averted their gazes a little. "Uh, yeah sure that's how I got my money, definitely no other explanation." he hoped word of 'Turdina' never gets to the Legion, otherwise they'll never let him hear the end of it. Tapping his fingers on the counter, he then decided to change the subject very quickly to avoid more inquires to the source of his fortune. "Sooooo, what's it like being both superheroes and high school students?"

Marinette shook her head. "Honestly, it couldn't be more frustrating, always having to keep secrets from your friends and family and not to mention all the times Cat and I have to deal with the supervillain of the week, so yeah, it's not exactly the world's most perfect job. Part of me wonders how I got this far without messing up."

"For me, it's kind of easy. My folks have been in the hero gig since before I was even born, plus it pays to have friends in a planet protecting military organization, doesn't mean it's easy to hide your secret identity from some of the more nosy and clever kinds of friends." Max looked to Marco. "What about you? What kind of adventures do you and Star get in?"

At that, Marco chuckled a little. "The crazy kind." he answered. "We're not exactly people with double lives but that doesn't mean we haven't fought our fair share of shady characters who are after Star's wand. Other than that, we just travel to any dimension to have some fun, until something life threatening happens to us."

Meanwhile, the others were waiting at the table and conversed with each other. "So you've had that watch device to transform in various species since you were only 10 years old, Ben?" Octus asked.

"Yup." Ben responded with his arms at the back of his head. "The whole hero thing sort of came natural for me."

"And yet, it was meant for your grandpa and not you. Sort of makes it all an accident." Sashi smirked.

Ben cleared his throat. "I prefer fortunate accident, Sashi."

"Accidents aren't all bad." Danny supported. "How else do you think I got my ghost powers?"

"So exactly how many aliens can you turn into?" Ron asked.

"It started out with only 10 when I got the prototype, but I unlocked may more over the years so I'd say about 50." the alien hero shrugged.

"50?!" Star exclaimed. "Ca you turn into one right now? Pleaaaaase?"

Zak nudged her. "Remember the thing about low profile?"

"Oh yeah, Mr. Mind Reader? Then how do I know you're not using those psycho tricks on me?" the magical princess narrowed her eyes.

Ron's eyes widened. "Zak, she has a point."

Pinching the bridge of his nose, the secret scientist clarified a bit more clearly. "Okay first, you're thinking of psychic. Star. And second, I can only read the minds of cryptids, can't even imagine how reading human minds is like."

"I don't think I'd appreciate someone just rummaging through my head." Kim added with a frown.

Adrien was chatting it up with the Norrisville ninja. "So in your hometown, there have been way more ninjas before you, Randy?"

"Pretty much." he nodded in confirmation. "It happens every 4 years, a freshman is chosen to carry on a legacy of protecting the town of Norrisville from the forces of evil and all that."

"Huh kind of the same with me and LB, there've been other Miraculous holders before us." Adrien looked to his black ring.

Randy then brought something up. "You know Cat, I don't get why you and Ladybug won't tell us who you are underneath those masks, it's not like we're blabbermouths. Jake, Danny, and I know our secrets and you don't see us posting them online." he reassured his fellow crime fighter.

Cat scratched his nape. "It's not that we don't trust you guys, it's just our secret identities are pretty serious, we don't know each other's and believe it or not it works great for us. After all, ladies do love a mystery."

"Riiiight..."

"Heads up folks." Max and the other two walked up, carrying all of their refreshments. "Pizza coming all around." they placed the boxes and the drinks all across the table, allowing everyone to open them up, revealing each having 9 slices for them all, not to mention the refreshing beverages that they all took and each took a slice.

Except for Jack and Ashi. "So that's food?" the half demon tilted her head at the odd appearance of the pizza.

"I admit, it's not like anything from the future where I was trapped in." Jack said as he looked to the cheese filled food.

Penn chuckled. "It won't bite, you two, just taste for yourselves."

The married couple shared a look and took 2 slices, and slowly ate a couple bites, whatever reservations they had before was replaced with content as they felt their taste buds dance with joy. "Mmm, this is...amazing." Ashi smiled.

"A bit too much of the ingredient you call cheese, but the dough helps balance it out." Jack said as he took more bites.

Rex even saw Jenny eat the pizza. "How can you swallow that? Won't it mess up your metal wiring or something?"

She winked playfully. "I have my ways."

"Where does the food go when you eat, Octus?" Jake asked the robot.

He stayed silent until answering. "That's a good question."

Ilana smiled at how they were all getting along and nudged her bodyguard. "You see? I told you by having one outing together with no emergency is perfectly-"

BOOM

Screams filled the area as a huge explosion was heard nearby, the team instinctively got into action and ran to investigate what was going on, they saw as various armored soldier-like people with highly advanced blasters swarmed out of one shop with one carrying a box-like canister, they started firing but only to scare the populace out pf the mall. Mall cops attempted to intervene but these guys had far superior technology at their disposal, and they shot electric net launchers that trapped them. "We have what we came for." one who seemed to be in charge spoke into a wrist mounted communicator. "Have the transport ready."

The team watched as they moved to go to the exit but they weren't gonna have none of it. "Well, guys it's hero o'clock!" Randy took out his ninja mask.

"Please tell me that's not our catchphrase." Cat Noir said, voicing his displeasure.

"But aren't there security cameras?" Marinette reminded them, fearing her secret may be discovered.

"Already got ya covered." Zak said with the Saturday Crypti-pedia in his hands. "I've disabled them all and by all counts, every civilian has evacuated by now. We're good." he pressed a button on the device as around his body, the Saturday armor formed around him and he took out a the Claw. "Let's go!"

Marco sweated. "Shouldn't we leave this to the-"

"Goin' Ghost!"

"Dragon Up!"

"Hero Time!"

"RAWR! El Tigre!"

"Plagg Claws Out!"

"Tikki! Spots On!"

The group of soldiers were ready to leave until an ice blast froze one of them. "I take it you guys aren't here for the 50% off deal? Too bad, because I hear they sell fedoras in your color." Danny Phantom remarked as he flew in. Surprised by his interference, the masked strangers opened fire on him but the blaster fire phased through him harmlessly. "Heh, that tickles." he blasted the rest as his teammates followed his lead.

Aside from him, the Ninja and an alien creature that looked like a humanoid blue jellyfish swung in using a chain sickle while AmpFibian flew while sending electric blasts.. "Ninja surprise drop-in!" he kicked one to the ground and took out his twin blade weapons. "If you're gonna play guns then take it outside!" he sliced some of their weapons before incapacitating them.

Ben absorbed each blast and redirected it as electricity. "These guys are way too easy."

Everyone else went along with the big brawl, Rex used his Block Party shields to protect himself from the blaster fire and then punched them away with a right Smack Hand hook. "Finally, something I can love about the mall, busting up creeps like you! Ron, Kim, Penn let's show them the business." Penn returned fire to stun them into unconsciousness along with slicing their weapons to pieces. The martial arts master charged forward with his Mystic Monkey Power blue glow as he dodged their fire and punched them repeatedly, one used an electric-powered tonfa but Ron had blocked the strike before elbowing him in the gut. Soon enough, his girlfriend jumped from his shoulders delivered an axe kick to the arm, injuring it, then she gave him a blue ball.

"Later." she saluted as the ball exploded into a strong adhesive substance that trapped him in his place.

A sniper aimed at her but then Jake with a fire ball that knocked him back. "No one's blasting my pals, fool!" but then he flew to the sightlines of another sniper that sent a stun blast at him, making the dragon fall to the ground. A group aimed their blasters at him, but a dimensional portal opened up and Marco with his hood up jumped out hitting them at pressure points that made them fall in a frozen manner. "Dude Marco, that was sick!" Jake said as he heled him up.

"Thanks, that actually felt pretty cool." Marco admitted, he then looked up as he saw Ilana blasting a few with her laser from the headgear of her Corus armor. "Hey Ilana, who are these guys?!" since this was her Earth, she might have a clue.

Ilana flew down to put up a force field to shield them from oncoming. "I don't know! We've never seem enemies like these, but something about them seems all too familiar!"

Cat Noir used his batons to strike one goon repeatedly before head butting him. "Let's just focus on beating them, then we can ask questions!"

Max Steel flew above in Flight Mode. "Hey Max." Steel spoke from the torso. "I got a special new trick we can test out, hold your hand out and focus on one of your Turbo weapons." he instructed, his friend did so and in an instant, the Turbo Sword appeared in his right hand.

"Woah! The turbo sword?!" Max exclaimed in shock. "I don't remember packing this."

"You can thank me." his robot companion answered. "I just came up with a way to summon all your weapons in your arsenal with just a thought and a little ounce of Turbo energy."

"Sweet." Max flew and used the sword to send energy slashes at them, and decided to use some more firepower. "Alight, go turbo blaster!" the sword was then replaced by a firearm weapon and sent powerful blasts here and there. "Steel, link to it!" the ultralink connected with the blaster's interface to give the weapon some more power. He saw Sashi fight off more with her superior fighting style, but was then surrounded by a large number of them, but were blasted away.

"Hey, I had that, Max!" Sashi shouted.

"You're welcome, Sashi." Max rolled his eyes.

But then the sidekick inspected the firearm that was dropped by one of the mercenaries, it looked strikingly familiar. "Hey, these kind of look like the guns G3 uses." she observed.

Zak used the Claw as bo-staff to hit a blaster upsides so that a goon he was fighting could miss his shot and then used the grapple function to grab onto another soldier to collide him with the one he was fighting while Jenny fired heavy blue orbs from two cannons above her shoulders that were hard enough to take them down, while Boone blasted with wrist blasters and used one hand to shield himself. The scientist heard what Sashi said and decided to do a full scan of the weapon. "She's right." Zak noted. "They're exactly like G3's weapons right down to the nuts and bolts."

"Maybe they shop at the same blaster store." Boone suggested.

"Yeah, we'll keep that in mind, Boone." Jenny responded.

Star fired one spell at a group of them. "Petrified amber prison!" she encased them all in a crystal prison, then saw El Tigre claw their armors to pieces and got an idea. "Hey Manny, I got an idea!" she summoned a catapult. "You're up little buddy!"

The young hero mounted on the catapult and was launched across the sky to crash into one's gut. "Come on you guys, it's the best you got?" he was then targeted by laser pointers as mercenaries aimed at him. "Uh, I was just kidding." he put his hands up until black tentacles grabbed them all and threw them aside, his savior was the half demon member of the team. "Whew, thanks, Ashi."

"Next time, don't act with such impulse, Manny." she chided as if she was reprimanding her own child, it felt odd but right.

Back with Star, she continued to blast rainbow fists at all of them, but she accidentally stepped into a metal plate that trapped her in a net, cuasing her to drop her wand in the process. "What the-Hey!" she gasped in alarm when they aimed their weapons but then Lance as Manus fired a capsule that created a smoke which blinded them until the corporal to slice them away with his sword, but their armor protected them from any fatal injuries.

"Oh, that was sweet of you Lance." Star smiled up to the armored young man.

"Wanna repay it, Star? Don't blindly step into traps like an amateur." he sternly told her as he fired upon more of them.

The Mewman picked her wand up and used it free herself. "Pfft, moody." she glowered a little.

Jack took care of most of them without so much as breaking a sweat as evident when he sliced his sword against them with ease and dodged each blast, his powerful sword couldn't be broken by their ammo and they were cut to itty bitty pieces along with various injured foes down on the floor. But then robot drones were activated and started firing rapidly on him making him run for cover, he was aided by Ladybug and Octus as the former used her Yo-Yo to wrap one drone and smash it to the floor while the more heroic robot sent an EMP blast to them. "Jack, are you alright?"

Unknown to them, there was one drone sneaking up behind them but with a swing of his sword, the samurai dealt with it. "I am well." then he noticed the sound of tires screeching. "What is that?"

Octus heard it too and zoomed in to the outside of the mall. "Incoming!"

A black van crashed through the entrance. "Transport's here!" the leader told everyone. "We have the package, let's leave the rest!" he ordered as a few them left most of their own behind and mounted onto the back of the van and it promptly drove off.

"They're getting away!" Ron exclaimed.

"I got this!" Rex formed the Sky Slider.

"Rex, wait-" Danny tried to stop him but he already took after the van.

Lance deactivated his armor. "Fool. He can't hope to catch them alone."

"Exactly." Danny turned to some of the fliers. "Max and Jenny, let's back him up. Everyone else, make sure these guys are ready for pick-up when the cops show up."

They went after Rex as they saw the van drive past the speed limit, a mercenary gunner went topside to keep them off their trail but Danny blasted an ecto ray that destroyed the gun. "Steel says that at the end of this road is a dead end, they got nowhere left to run!" Max confidently said, but then the van's wheels went in and the vehicle hovered to the sky and then thrusters popped out and at top speed, the van blasted off far away from them. "Or not."

Danny looked down and saw that the one who was using the gunner was thrown off when he blasted the van, Danny encased him in a green bubble to prevent his escape. "I believe we have some questions for you."

After the entire mess at the mall, the Legion decided to go back to their headquarters in their meeting room to regroup and compare some notes with one of their benefactors on the matter, but they first waited until the 4 members who went after the van to return and eventually, they came back but with less than pleased expressions. "Judging from your looks, I guess the bad guys got away." Adrien inferred.

"You'd be right, Cat." Jenny replied, slumping on her chair. "The only upside is that we managed to catch one but a group of Solomon's troops came in and hauled him away."

"So even though you made pursuit, you couldn't catch them. What a surprise." Lance droned.

Rex glared his way. "Well I didn't see you doing anything besides standing there like a stiff."

"Enough." Jack stopped them before more could be said. "What matters is that no innocents were harmed, we should be thankful of that alone. We also got a message from Solomon, it appears he has information about these dangerous new foes."

"Speaking of which, I'm not the only one who noticed that they were using the same technology as G3, right?" Sashi asked.

Ilana shook her head. "No Sashi, you weren't which is troubling."

Kim rubbed her chin in thought. "So there might be a connection between G3 and these guys, let's hope Solomon can give us answers."

"As a matter of fact, I do." the recognizable voice of Solomon was heard as he went through the elevator entrance. "I came the minute I heard the news, and I actually do have an idea on who attacked the mall." he went to the console of the table and typed in to show them a screen of their new enemies that have revealed themselves. "They call themselves, S.A.R.S. Strategic Advanced Recon Soldiers, a enigmatic group of mercenaries that reasons we can't seem to get their hands on advanced technology that almost seems alien in origin. For the past few months, they raided various G3 bases and made off with the tools they need for whatever purpose they have."

"How come we were never informed of them?" Ilana asked, gesturing to herself, Lance, and Octus.

"You three already had enough on your plate." Solomon answered. "We didn't wish to worry you."

"I got a question." Danny asked. "Why were they attacking a mall?"

"For this." Solomon showed them a canister, the very one the S.A.R.S soldiers stole. "Inside is an energy source that acts as a power source for G3 headquarters or other bases, we stashed several of them in various other hidden locations around the globe, places that most would never think to look."

"Like a shopping mall." Zak realized.

"Precisely. However, we underestimated how efficient and coordinated they can be, we theorize that they have skilled actors in their ranks that have been able to crack our firewalls, more importantly, I'm afraid they've moved up their boldness." he showed them what remained of the fortress in the Amazon. "After you stopped the invasion, I had my people clean all the Darkentor fortresses that you managed to occupy, however I received an alert that the one in the Amazon Jungle had been raided and all its weaponry, stolen."

"It was S.A.R.S. wasn't it?" the head of G3's silence was a good enough answer for Penn. "So we're dealing with a group of mercs who are packing alien firepower. Great."

"I've seen the kind of damage that can be done when crooks get their hands on alien tech." Ben referred to those such as the Forever Knights and Fisttrick just to name a few. "Trust me, it's not pretty."

"Alright, then we can just hunt them down and take them down." Sashi pounded her fist with a palm. "Hard."

"That would be a negative." Solomon told them with a stern tone. "S.A.R.S is a G3 matter and will be treated as such, we already have one of their men in custody and you've all done enough for today, so take a breather." he left the room to discuss what to do next with his organization.

"So that's it? We're benched?" Randy said, not pleased. "He may have given us this place but I don't remember putting him in charge."

Marinette shrugged. "I don't know, maybe he has a point, we weren't able to stop the bad guys from getting away with the goods and who knows what they'll do with it."

"No one gave us permission to fight the Darkentors." Rex pointed out. "We made that choice for ourselves, they shot first and I say we fight back."

"How?" Ron inquired. "We don't know zip about where they might be."

"No, we don't." Zak admitted but then adopted a smirk. "But I bet I can find out. He began typing in the console to access the G3 database but got an ACCESS DENIED. "Wanna bet?" he typed more and then the emblem on his uniform appeared and broke through all firewalls. "Done and done."

"Woah." Manny breathed. "Zak, how did you..."

The scientist shrugged. "They're using the same system as my parents' airship, I cracked that when I was 8."

"You're hacking into G3 files?!" Ilana realized with panicked eyes. "Zak, Solomon won't be happy with this!"

"Maybe not, but he might appreciate us doing his work." he gestured them to look at the images detailing S.A.R.S. "Says here that while S.A.R.S is pretty big on the low profile, they do seem to have a distinct pattern, so far they've been quiet for a while but after the Darkentor invasion was stopped, they waited until they got their chance to raid the places with the most alien tech, that being the fortresses."

Kim pointed to one image. "Check it out, all but the one in Egypt were cleared out of anything Darkentor, the one in the Amazon was almost cleared until S.A.R.S came in."

"I see." Ron nodded.

Boone leaned in. "You get what they're saying?"

"Nope." Ron whispered back. "But I'm nodding to make it look like I understand."

"Smart."

Luckily, Danny cleared it up for them. "So Egypt is their next target, it's the only other place that hasn't been cleared out yet, so we gotta take care of this problem now."

"Solve G3's case before they do, that would be poetic justice." Lance summed up.

"Hey, this team is all about justice." Max replied. "So what do you say, Lance? You in?"

The corporal looked around and saw their determined faces that screamed them wanting to do this.

What do you know? He has something in common with them after all.

Egypt-7:57 P.M.

It was the last shift for the G3 operative that was driving a transport truck filled with enough weapons for an army, but as the driver drove along the desert road, the truck had activated a S.A.R.S trap, two pillars sprang up and mini-guns fired upon the tires, making them blow out and the car stopping once they were out of air. He got out of the vehicle and suddenly got ambushed by S.A.R.S mercenaries who aimed at him, making the operative put his arms up to signify his director. "Check the truck for anything worthwhile." the leader ordered which they did so, they saw all the weapons but also procured something extra.

"Sir, you might want to come look at this."

The leader looked inside and saw 3 G3 operatives only they were wearing white uniforms with HAZMAT suits. "G3 technicians, they might know a way on how to unlock the canister, take them along but don't harm them." he told other mercenaries as they took the technicians and placed handcuffs on them all and placed them into their vehicles alongside their weapons, the leader socked the driver in the gut. "You're lucky we're leaving you alive, scum. But we want you send a message to your superior, Solomon; there's no stopping S.A.R.S. And we're coming for him next."

With nothing else keeping them here, S.A.R.S drove off, leaving the driver behind but had they stayed they would have seen the image of him disappear into a familiar robot. "They took the bait." he spoke in the communicator. "And those 3 are in."

"Copy that, Octus." up above was the cloaked Quantum, Danny stood beside Lance who sat as the pilot while the others were seated behind, save for 3 members. "We're seeing them going to their base through Kim's hidden camera."

"It shows that they're travelling about 50 miles from here." Steel observed. "

"Randy, has someone found you out?" the Galalunian princess asked, concerned.

"I'm not called the Ninja for nothing, Ilana."

On the top of the S.A.R.S vehicle was the Ninja himself who had snuck onto the vehicle with no one noticing, he looked through the window and saw the 3 captive technicians, tapping on the glass, he made them look to him and gave them a thumbs up of which they nodded in response. He then saw the driving towards a an empty field until they drove past a cloaking field that hid a compound which served as their base of operations and discreetly, the Ninja had to whistle. "Fancy, guess everyone has killer HQs." the vehicle drove to the entrance where there were more of them waiting, the 3 technicians were forced out then one tapped his pocket which made a familiar pink rodent scurry to where the shadow warrior was. "Alright Rufus, let's see if you're as good as Ron says." as he saw it run off he mused to himself. "Rely not on yourself, but on the team. I guess I never could do this on my own."

Rufus saluted and went off, he bit off the tip of a pole and went inside where there were a lot of wires and proceeded to chew away, creating tiny sparks and weakening the security system, back with the captives they were brought before the canister. "If you don't want us to execute you three, the you will open this canister."

"Here's option B." one of them said as he glowed blue and broke the cuffs apart and punched the ones guarding him away, while the other jumped and kicked two in the face and picked up the key with her feet to undo the locks, then did the same with the other and then took the HAZMAT mask off, allowing her red hair to flow behind her back.

"This is Kim, now or never." she spoke into the communicator.

A loud explosion destroyed part of the ceiling where Danny, Rex, Jenny, Max Steel, Ashi, Octus, Ilana, Jetray, and Jake flew in and attacked the base while a dimensional portal opened up with the rest arriving as well. Cat Noir used his staff to flip one's blaster away while he grabbed Sashi by the hand to spin her around so she could kick him. Danny swooped in and punched many of them with ecto-powered fists while the Ninja made his presence known as he threw smoke bombs to distract a group as he took out two nunchucks "Ninja wild chucks!" with no trouble, he smashed his weapons against their helmets making cracks and wrapped it around one's arm to fling him across. Octus tackled them which made them crash into several computers and avoided shots being fired and created electric balls that took them out. Ilana fired her lasers at the weapons that were dropped when the explosion happened so that they would be destroyed, Ashi then proceeded to land down and with her mace-hands, she relentlessly attacked them, all while grabbing many of them with black tendrils sprouted from her back.

El Tigre fired two chain claws at grab two blasters leaving their former owners defenseless as he jumped and clawed them across the chests followed by slamming the two heads together. "Hey Ladybug, on your left!" the Parisian hero wrapped her Yo-Yo around one's neck right before he was about to shoot her and yanked him away to a wall.

"Thanks for the heads up, kiddo." Ladybug smiled to El Tigre.

Rex withdrew the Boogie Pack in favor of the Fun Chucks and wacked a mass of them away, but then saw Lance fight a few away but there were those with electrified staffs and he jumped up with the Punk Busters to land down, blowing into the pavements once he landed down. "How was that for an amateur?"

Lance didn't answer, instead he activated the Manus armor and blasted a drone before it could fire at the EVO teen. "You're getting there."

"Careful, that almost sounded like a compliment." Rex smirked.

"Shut up and fight." though inside the armor, Lance had his own smirk as he fired with his cuff guns followed by taking out an axe to attack these S.A.R.S goons.

Zak used the Claw as a staff and joined with Cat Noir in smashing away at the mercenaries and made their way to another entrance where it opened and Rufus was waiting with a hard drive. "Hmm, not a bad find. Nice work, little guy." Zak patted the naked mole rat's head.

"Hey look." Cat Noir pointed to another door opening revealing one S.A.R.S merc operating a mech suit with an array of weapons. "Seriously?!"

"Go Turbo! Strength!" Max Steel used his enhanced strength to punch the mech suit in the face but then it fired with a concentrated laser blast that pushed the turbo hero back but he was supported by Jetray as he sent neuro-shocks behind the S.A.R.S machine only to have to fly away as missiles were launched from the back.

"Time for a new game plan." Jetray transformed into the plant-like alien, Wildvine. He stretched two arms to trap it in place then yelled to his teammates. "Give it all you got, guys!" Max took the right arm and ripped it clean off, while Ashi sliced the left arms and then Wildvine threw grenades at him, forcing to the S.A.R.S mercenary to eject as the suit exploded.

Kim trapped one in between her legs and flung him to the ground then activated her rocket skate shoes to dash across and placing various disks on a lot of mercenaries and then with a flick of the switch, stunned them until they were sleeping on the ground. Jenny used crab arms to grab others and smashed them to the ground and then fired with a chest blast along with a solid kick to them. Jack, now back in his trademark white gi blocked a staff strike and slashed the weapon in half and hit the guy on the head with the butt of the handle, with Boone levitating oncoming mercs with his wrist mounts and put them in Star's crosshairs.

"All yours, Star!"

She grinned. "Dagger Crystal Heart Attack!" many razor sharped hearts were flying towards them, leaving a lot of slashes marks on their armor followed by, "Mega Starfish Tsunami!" a tidal wave filled with starfish flushed them away and defeating them. "I love this hero thing!"

Marco back flipped multiple times until he jumped and kicked one straight on the chest and then created a mini-portal to punch the image of another goon without him realizing it, he then focused hard and sent a stream of fire from the daggers which transported the soldiers in his path to the outside and no longer fit for combat. "That was...awesome." he panted with a smile.

Penn rode on Jake as the latter sent fire balls to the vehicles to prevent others from escaping but the former noticed a few had gotten on one and tried getting away so he decided to intervene. "Jake, fly me in closer." once he did so, Penn jumped and landed on the top and plunged his sword down at the hood, surprising the driver and making him swerve the car but Penn jumped out once the vehicle was grabbed by Jake and with his strength lifted it up and shook it until the mercenaries were thrown out. "Hey bozos." Penn kneed one, then he pointed one with his sword. "I'd stay down if I were you."

"Or don't. More fun for us." Jake gave the soldier a toothy grin.

The leader blasted at Ilana and Danny but the halfa was unfazed by the fire and levitated the gun away. "It's over. We've taken over your base and all your cronies are down." he told him.

"Surrender and we won't hurt you." Ilana gave him the ultimatum.

But the leader was not in the mood to be captured. "Sorry princess, but not today." he took out a heavy artillery-weapon that made Ilana gasp.

"That weapon..." she instinctively pushed Danny out of the way as soon as the leader fired giving him the chance to escape through a secret escape hatch.

Danny looked down with a glower. "He got away."

"Fret not my friend, the day is ours." Jack announced as the Infinity Legion gathered around.

"Now, we just need to explain all this to Solomon." Jenny dreaded.

Minutes later, G3 had gotten a message from Octus about them securing S.A.R.S's base and Solomon had a few words to say to the team. "So you hacked G3 files, impersonated officials and made a fake report about a recent changing of shifts, and you went on your mission even when I told you not to." he said as he faced them with his arms folded.

"That's about the gist of it." Danny nodded with a sheepish smile.

Surprisingly, Solomon smiled. "Nice job." his words of praise shocked all of them. "G3 may be one of many who will assign you to missions but that doesn't mean you explicitly work for G3. You showed your independency and that shows character, you also provided us with intel." he held up the hard drive. "All in all, you did good work here tonight."

"Boo-Yah!" Ron pumped his fists and slung an arm around Kim. "This calls for celebration, who's up for party at the tower?"

She kissed his cheek. "Play your cards right and there'll be an after party."

Marco smiled. "Hey, I can make us all some nachos."

"Didn't know you could cook Marco." Ben said as they walked back to the Quantum.

Ilana smiled at them celebrating as she was proud of everyone's performance and turned to her bodyguard. "Well?"

Octus nudged his arm, making Lance sigh. "Okay I admit, they performed better than I imagined." he then noticed her take a troubled look. "Something wrong?"

Rubbing her arm, Ilana answered. "The leader that got away, he had an weapon that wasn't of G3." What she said next shocked them. "It was Mutraddi."

With the base having fallen, the now former leader had to retreat to a hidden bunker, this wasn't good, those S.A.R.S. people might have been human but they were still useful so this could halt the plans, he needed to report this, he took off the mask revealing himself to be a white haired young man, then activated a hologram communicator. "Master, I'm afraid I've encountered some unexpected problems, princess Ilana seems to have found herself new powerful allies that may prove a problem in the long run, our human puppets got captured and they got most of the technology."

"Ah Baron, you did well to call my young pupil. This a minor setback, our plans for her, Earth, and Galaluna will still proceed as scheduled, in the meantime remain on Earth. I will contact you later on and I assure nothing that princess can do will ever stop what I have in store."

"By your wish, General Modulla."