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Henry Danger Reader Insert | Captain Man x Reader: SEASON 2

Episode 1: The Beat Goes On

~The Man Cave~

The elevator dinged and Schwoz stepped out, looking for his friends and carrying a sack full of mail.

"Hey, here's another sack." He said to Charlotte and (y/n), who looked at the bag with wide eyes. Captain Man had been receiving endless amounts of fan letters and gifts recently and the Man Cave was starting to fill up.

"No way, more fan mail?" Charlotte gasped, having already gone through about a hundred letters that morning.

"I get that Captain Man and Kid Danger are popular, but can't they just send an email or something? They keep sending us junk!" The young woman stated, pushing away one of the meaningful, but useless gifts someone had sent them. At least Ray gave her all the female stuff he was sent, like perfume and jewellery. Speaking of Ray, the man came down from the sprocket, wearing one of his signature brightly patterned shirts.

"Schwoz, I found another one of your diseased eggs in my tanning bed." Ray scolded the genius, holding up a pale pink, oddly-shaped egg. Schwoz loved to create mutants and monster creatures, but he always put them around the Man Cave to incubate and it freaked everyone out.

"It's not diseased...yet." The small man said carefully, as Ray studied and sniffed the egg.

"I know you're indestructible, but those tanning beds are lethal." (y/n) mentioned from behind her pile of mail. She hated that he used them, knowing that they were unbelievably bad for your skin.

"But how else am I supposed to get this sweet tan?" He winked at his friend, showing off his fake sun-kissed skin. In recent months, they had grown more and more attracted to each other and at this point, their romantic tension was bubbling over.

"Hey, what are you guys talking about?" Charlotte asked. She had never encountered any mutant eggs in the Man Cave and now she was worried that they were lurking around.

"Schwoz gets his jollies by blasting eggs with all kinds of weird radiation so he can see what happens when they hatch," Ray explained, giving Schwoz a knowing look.

"And yet you're still holding that egg." (y/n) smiled at him, making the large man hold the egg away from his body.

"It's fun to create mutants." Schwoz protested, even though his claims didn't carry much water.

"Yeah, must've been real fun for your mom, oooh!" Ray joked, sending his best friend into peels of laughter as Schwoz scowled.

"Hey!" He snapped as Charlotte held in her giggles unlike the woman next to her. Ray threw the egg back to Schwoz, the sound it made as he caught it hinting that it was mysteriously dense.

"I want that egg off this property." He told him, making (y/n) gulp as he took control of the situation. Boss Ray was hot Ray. Whilst Schwoz stroked his weird egg, Henry came from behind the secret door with a can of whipped cream in his hand. Weird.

"Hey guys, someone left this can of whipped cream in the weapons room." He said, making (y/n) and Schwoz titter as he carried it so casually. That was no can of whipped cream, that was a deadly weapon.

"No, no, no, be careful with that!!" The young woman cried as Schwoz dashed over to take it from the boy's hands.

"Why?" Henry looked puzzled. It looked like a perfectly normal, safe can of squirty goodness to him.

"Show him, Schwoz." (y/n) instructed, but she didn't expect him to test it on her best friend.

"Hey, Ray..." Schwoz smiled at his boss, who looked at him happily, not anticipating what was coming.

"Yeah, what's up?" He looked up from a fan's letter.

"Hey, I didn't mean—" (y/n) was cut off as Schwoz fired the can at him, causing him to shout in pain as his shirt burnt away. Henry and Charlotte laughed as he smouldered, but at least (y/n) felt bad for him.

"Dang dangit, Schwoz!" He yelled as the pain faded away.

"Relax, you're indestructible." Charlotte reminded him, but it didn't really help.

"Yeah, well, my shirt wasn't." He snapped and (y/n) mourned the loss of his shirt since it had been one of her favourites. It always framed his shoulders so well. Her inner thoughts of adoration were interrupted as Henry got a text and pulled his PearPhone out of his pocket to check it.

"Oh man, I'm late for dinner, I better get home." He said, dashing to the elevator after quickly skimming through the message.

"Wait, Henry. Do me a favour. Take this egg to your house." Schwoz whispered to him, the mutant egg rumbling and bubbling from the inside.

"This egg makes me nervous," Henry said, not trusting something that the mischievous man would give him, especially if it was one of his mutant creations.

"Just take it to your backyard and lay it in a boosh." He instructed the boy, quickly checking that Ray was still fawning over the letter in (y/n)'s hands. Well, fawning over that and her.

"Okay, I'll take it home and put it in a boosh." Henry conceded, turning to enter the elevator, but was stopped once again as Charlotte opened a box.

"Hey, guys, look! One of your fans sent you both a birthday cake." She smiled and turned the box to show (y/n), revealing a cake complete with candles and blue frosting.

"But it's not their birthdays." The woman frowned as she looked at the cake. It was one of her quirks that she remembered everyone's birthday so she could get them a great gift and sometimes, it was useful for other things too. Like when her friends got sent a mysterious cake.

"CHARLOTTE, (Y/N), MOVE!" Henry shouted at both of them as he noticed something moving on top of the cake. Charlotte dived to the side and Ray pulled (y/n) over the couch as Henry punched Schwoz out of the way. The kid grabbed the whipped cream can from the genius's hands whilst he groaned in pain. He fired the strong laser beam at the cake, destroying it completely, making Ray look at his sidekick in confusion as he protected the woman in his arms. What was wrong with him?

"Ow!" Schwoz yelled as he held his nose, very confused as to why Henry would punch him.

"Aw, I wanted a slice." (y/n) whined, her arms still around Ray's neck. Just because the danger was over didn't mean she had to let go, right?

"That cake was for both of us. You had no right!" Ray hissed at Henry, also reluctant to let his friend go. He could enjoy her embrace for just a few more minutes...

"I...I saw something on it." Henry told them, putting the can of whipped cream down and going over to inspect the remnants of the smoking cake.

"Why was I punched in the face?" Schwoz whined, his nose still aching.

"You just have one of those faces." (y/n) quipped, but everyone stopped laughing as Henry pulled some sparking circuitry from inside the sponge. There had been some foul play going on here.

"This was inside that cake," Henry said, passing it to (y/n) who looked at in shock with Ray.

"It's a wireless video camera. You know what that means?" The superhero breathed out and he took the small device from the girl's trembling hands. The explosion and now the fact that someone had sent them a camera made her nerves stand on end.

"That it doesn't require wires," Henry replied, misinterpreting what Ray had asked.

"No, it means that some asshole is trying to spy on us, here in the Man Cave." (y/n) clarified, shaking her head at the daft boy.

"I wonder who," Henry asked, him and Charlotte feeling uncomfortable at the thought of someone watching them. Ray was lost in thought and so was his best friend, meaning they were unknowingly drifting towards each other until they pressed their bodies together, her back to his front.

"I wonder why you punched me in the face," Schwoz shouted at Henry, breaking the couple's train of thought.

"Guys! We need to figure out who sent that cake with this video camera inside." Ray snapped at them. He was on edge. He lived in the Man Cave, his livelihood was in the Man Cave, she was in the Man Cave, and that meant that she could be in danger. He just needed to know which villain sent the cake...

~Lil Biker's Shop~

"Doctor Minyak! I was able to save a short video image from before the camera stopped transmitting." Nurse Cohort showed her boss. So they were the criminals behind this plot. They had made their base in a biker shop for little kids in downtown Swellview and had even tied up the owner and shoved him in a closet. Meanies.

"Good, show it to me." The villain said, peering at Nurse Cohort's PearBook. After his last showdown with Captain Man, he was more than ready to face the superhero again. And this time, he hoped to beat him, starting with the people he worked with.

"Hey, guys, look! One of your fans sent you both a birthday cake." Charlotte said onscreen, her face clearly displayed for the villains to see. The camera was turned around and then they saw a pretty girl swamped by fan mail, (y/n). Ah, geez.

"These girls must somehow be connected with Captain Man and Kid Danger. So, all we need to do now is find them!" The crazy man said enthusiastically like it was no big task.

"That's all we have to do?" Nurse Cohort asked dumbly, thinking that their plan seemed a bit short.

"No! First, we find them, then, we use them to destroy Captain Man and Kid Danger!!" Minyak revealed his evil schemes. Yes, Charlotte and (y/n) would be his minions, all he had to do first was capture them.

~The next day, Swellview Park~

Charlotte had met up with (y/n) after school as she made her way to work. The young woman had been tasked with getting ice cream for her and Ray and since she bumped into the girl, it made sense that they'd walk together. Taking a shortcut through the park, they were trying to dash back to the Man Cave before the frozen treat melted.

"Can't believe all I'm good for is fetching ice cream." She grumbled to Charlotte, who giggled at her. She knew her friend loved ice cream and Ray, so the job didn't irritate her as much as she let on.

"Gather around! Gather around, citizens of Swellview!" A magician called to the crowd in a small seating area, making it hard for them to get through. Having never seen the criminals in person before, Charlotte and (y/n) couldn't recognise the magician and his assistant, who were really Doctor Minyak and Nurse Cohort.

"Come experience the magical magic of Doctor Magico!" The nurse yelled, their act merely a ruse so they could kidnap the girls they had tracked to the park.

"And my assistant, Miss Direction!" Minyak added as the girls slowed down to briefly look at their act. A small show wouldn't hurt the ice cream, right?

"And now for my first trick, I shall need two volunteers!" He addressed the crowd of both kids and adults.

"Pick me! Pick me! I love magic!" A little boy squealed from the crowd, but Minyak already had his sights set on the two girls who were about to leave.

"We only need two volunteers!" He yelled again, ignoring the kid in front.

"I'm one volunteer!" He said back, not getting why he couldn't be part of the act.

"Uh, perhaps, these young ladies can help us?" Nurse Cohort rounded up the pair as they walked past the group, startled at how they'd been dragged in.

"Whoa, us?" Charlotte stuttered as she shoved her phone in her pocket.

"Yeah, we're kind of in a hurry." (y/n) laughed nervously, eyeing the softening ice cream. She really didn't want to be in some amateur magic act, preferring the thought of going home and eating ice on the couch with her best friend.

"Miss, ma'am, pick a card. Any card." He shoved a deck of cards in their faces, some of them falling from his hands.

"Uh, like she said, we really gotta get to work." Charlotte tried to give them an excuse, but Minyak ignored it all the same.

"Pick a card!" He reiterated, fanning the deck out so they could choose one.

"Fine, dude." (y/n) sighed, taking a card from the deck and showing it to Charlotte.

"And now that they've chosen their card, we place the girls into the magical cans of trash!" Minyak smiled at the crowd, who all thought this was part of the show. (y/n) and Charlotte struggled against their captors, but Minyak had a firm grip on the woman's arms and even though she was a petite lady, Nurse Cohort was able to lift Charlotte into a blue trash can.

"What are you doing?" Charlotte gasped as the nurse slammed the lid shut and locked it. (y/n) panicked as Minyak pulled a small needle from his pocket. Of course, a child was easy to incapacitate, but a grown woman was different; he'd need a little bit of help. Dropping the ice cream in fear, she could hear the thumping of her friend on the sides of the trash can as the blood rushed through her head, and the doctor used her shock against her when he pricked her skin with the sleeping drug.

"Who the fuck are you--" (y/n) slurred as her eyes became unbearably heavy, the drug working alarmingly fast as she collapsed into Minyak's arms. With his assistant's help, he managed to shove her body into a green trash can, which they then wheeled into their van. They grinned cheerfully at the crowd, acting as though it was some sort of disappearing trick.

"(y/n)! (y/n)? Help!" Charlotte screamed as she felt her prison move and be roughly pushed into the van.

"And now, close your eyes..." Minyak instructed the crowd mysteriously, and with no one looking or suspecting something was wrong, he and Cohort scrambled into the van and made their escape with the terrified girls in the back.

~Back in the Man Cave~

No one suspected anything was wrong, after all, Charlotte regularly made that walk back from school to Junk-N-Stuff and (y/n) often went out for ice cream, so there was no panic amongst Ray, Schwoz or Henry.

"And here's my special guacamole." Schwoz smiled at Henry, who was just sat at the couch drinking some bubblegum Kool-aid and scrolling through his phone. Schwoz and Ray had gotten into another one of their silly competitions and with no (y/n) there to be the referee, it was getting pretty intense.

"Yeah, and here's my super-duper special guacamole." Ray ran over to the couch, being careful not to drop his bowl of the avocado dip.

"Now, which was one's better?" Ray asked the boy, who took a chip from the blue bowl in front of him and dunked it into Schwoz's guac first.

"Alright, now I'll try yours." He nodded at Ray after getting a good taste of the smaller man's dip. He took another chip and tested Ray's, instantly knowing which one he preferred.

"Okay, think about the way the flavour blends and y'know, the mouthfeel, the way it hits--" Ray tried to sway his opinion but Henry had already made up his mind.

"Schwoz wins." He deadpanned, ignoring any comments the large man used to influence him. Yeah, Ray's was nice, but Schwoz's had that little kick at the end that Henry really enjoyed.

"What?" The superhero spluttered, thinking for sure he had the better recipe.

"I win! I do better things to avocados!" Schwoz gloated, winding his boss up. They really needed (y/n) on standby to calm any of their childish arguments.

"No! This whole contest was...a--a...a avomockery! I want a second opinion, where's (y/n)?" Ray whined, realising that his beloved helper wasn't with them.

"You sent her to get ice cream, remember?" Schwoz told him, seeing how Ray was looking everywhere for the girl. He hated being apart from her, but at least he'd be able to enjoy some ice cream when she got back.

"All right, where's Charlotte?" He moved on to the next reasonable person he could ask for an unbiased opinion.

"Oh, she's not here either," Henry reported, dunking another chip in Schwoz's guacamole.

"She's late for work? Great! The one time we're doing something important." He growled, feeling tetchy at how he'd lost and how (y/n) wasn't here to tell him he made great guac. He grabbed a handful of chips and crunched them in his fist before throwing the crumbs on the table. He always was a sore loser.

~Lil' Bikers Shop~

(y/n) had stirred from her unconsciousness, blinking in confusion when she saw that she and Charlotte were in some weird tanks of liquid, in some weird shop. She couldn't remember how she'd got there, only that she'd been getting ice cream for Ray and there had been a magic act in the park and...hey!

"Hey! Hey!" Charlotte shouted at Doctor Minyak as he set up his experiment around them. With the girls captured, all he had to do was brainwash them so they would obey his every command.

"Yes, you have a question?" He asked in a slow tone, focusing on tweaking the machine's controls.

"We have a lot of questions, dickhead!" The older woman growled as she flailed her arms and legs in the purple water. Normally, she'd limit her cursing in front of kids, but she was beyond angry at the situation she found herself in.

"Starting with, who are you, people?" Charlotte added, equally baffled and pissed off.

"And why have you stuck us in these huge tanks of fruit punch?" (y/n) finished, glaring at the man and woman.

"You know who I am and I know that you know that I'm Doctor Minyak because I know that you know Captain Man and Kid Danger. This video proves it!" The doctor rambled on, flicking his video of them in the Man Cave together on the screen.

"Okay, so what do you want from us?" Charlotte asked, knowing that there was no use in denying it since the video showed the Captain Man logo in the Man Cave.

"I want you to destroy Captain Man and Kid Danger." He seethed, clenching his fist at the thought of the heroes that screwed him over last time.

"Oh, yeah, let us out of these fruit boxes and we'll do it right after we get home." (y/n) snarked, trying to give Minyak as much attitude as she could muster.

"What a feisty little thing you are. Oh, I'll release you soon, after I take control of your minds through the use of musical brain-warping." He told them, which amused Charlotte and concerned (y/n).

"Musical brain-warping? That's not a thing." The teen scoffed, thinking the villain was bluffing.

"Yes, it is, which is very bad news for us." (y/n) whispered to her, struggling to get free from the box.

"You see, by playing the right combination of musical chords, combining the keys of F minor and D Flat, backed with the right funky beat, the human mind opens up like a thirsty sponge, into which I can place instructions through clever rap lyrics which I have written myself," Minyak explained, smirking at Nurse Cohort as he bragged about writing a rap song.

"So, you're gonna take control of our brains by rapping?" Charlotte asked, not taking the guy seriously.

"Oh, I won't be rapping, but I've hired the unknown hip-hop artist, Lil Biggie." He snapped his fingers and a little boy came out from the back of the shop. Well, he definitely looked like a rapper.

"Earplugs!" The doctor ordered, so he, his assistant and the boy all plugged up their ears so they wouldn't be affected by the music.

"Now, Lil Biggie. Rap! Let my lyrics flow!" Minyak directed the little boy as he played the musical combination again.

"Get up, go on, get outta this place, go find Captain Man and bust his face. Then take a little walk, don't talk to strangers, then pick up and club and whack Kid Danger. Yeah, little girls, you know the plan. Go smash Kid Danger and Captain Man. Destroy 'em both, then come on back to the songwriter, doctor-doctor Minyak, hee hee!" The boy sang, making (y/n) and Charlotte twitch and convulse as their brains were overtaken. He finished with a little spin, his work complete as the girls were motionless and ready to follow Minyak's every command.

"Where's my 75 bucks?" Lil Biggie asked the doctor, who made Nurse Cohort pay the kid his money.

"So, now that you have taken control of their minds, they're going to go and destroy Kid Danger and Captain Man?" The woman asked her boss as he fiddled with the machinery next to the fruit punch tanks.

"Not yet. First, I must amplify their physical strength." He replied, and switched on the machine, making the purple liquid glow.

"Now, my young friends, I give you both 4.9 million nuclear gigavolts of girl power!" The man chuckled in excitement as the punch started to fizz and bubble. The process made the girls grimace and jerk, but Minyak was too happy to care. His plans had never gotten to this stage successfully and now he was ready to end his enemies once and for all.

~Back in the Man Cave~

With still no sign of (y/n) or Charlotte, Henry, Ray and Schwoz were lounging around the couch, still eating the guacamole.

"Mmm, so good." The boy complimented Schwoz's dip, loving how its zesty flavour worked so well with the chip.

"You see, I mush up the avocado, then I add onions, cilantro, the garlic, and then my secret juices..." Schwoz smiled at Henry, but he had no time to reveal his secret ingredient because the elevator doors opened and the two brainwashed girls stepped out. To give them a more menacing look, Minyak had dressed them in black t-shirts and jeans, a leather jacket each and dark sunglasses.

They walked out silently, their faces void of emotion.

"Charlotte, (y/n)! Glad you're both here! Now, Charlotte, I don't know if you're a guacamole fan and I know (y/n) is, but I made this pretty awesome bowl of my own--" Ray sauntered up the girls so they could try his food. All they could see though was Captain Man walking up to them in a red haze, and their minds were telling them to kill him. Taking the bowl of guacamole from his hands, Charlotte threw it to the side, causing the green dip to smash all over the floor, much to Ray's horror.

"Hey! You don't want to try my guacam--" He was cut off again as (y/n) kneed him in the crotch, making her friend scream from the excruciating pain. If she kept that up, they'd never have any kids. Henry and Schwoz winced at the sight, knowing the agony he was going through. With the superhero not moving, Charlotte grabbed him by the shoulders and used her new super-strength to fling him upwards so he hit the ceiling and then fell back down with a thump.

Ray scrambled to his feet, feeling dizzy from the unexpected attack from his friends of all people.

"I'm okay." He reassured Henry and Schwoz in a strained voice, feeling more hurt by the fact that the woman he loved had attacked him so cruelly than the injuries themselves.

"Uh, guys. Little help here." He walked backwards as the girls stalked towards them, (y/n) going for him and Charlotte aiming for Henry.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Charlotte, what's wrong with you? How come your--" Henry was cut off as the dark-haired girl easily picked him up and threw him across the room. Henry cowered next to the elevator door as he shivered from the fall.

"Okay, Schwoz, you talk to them." He said, not wanting to be hurt again. (y/n) kept walking towards them and her only thought was that she had to destroy Captain Man and Kid Danger. Seeing her approaching, Schwoz yelped and got on the floor, his hands and feet in the air like a dead animal.

"What are you doing?" Ray panicked as (y/n) kept moving. She was his best friend, why would she have any reason to hurt him?

"Shhhh! I want them to think I'm dead." He whispered, but he wasn't their target. The woman walked past his body and cornered Ray.

"Whoa now, (y/n/n), no need to walk toward me." He stammered as he backed into the supercomputer. With nowhere to go, (y/n) grabbed him by the throat and lifted him into the air with her new strength, his toes dangling as he choked for air.

"(y/n), please, what are you doing?" He groaned hoarsely, wanting to fight back, but he couldn't since he would never be able to bring himself to hurt a single hair on her head.

"Hey, Charlotte, (y/n), you wanna fight someone, come and get me!" Henry opened the door to the elevator with a plan in his head. Seeing their other target on the other side of the room, the girls switched heroes and started to creep towards the teen. Ray gasped for air as his throat was released from her iron grip, but his concern switched to his sidekick since the kid now had both brainwashed girls moving towards him.

"Henry..." He warned him hoarsely, his eyes widening at the danger the boy was in.

"I got it. Come on, come on, yeah.." Charlotte and (y/n) reached out their arms to choke him too, but he was too quick for them and he grabbed their arms and shoved them into the elevator. With the door sliding shut, he turned to Ray and Schwoz, who had only just gotten up from the floor. Coward.

"Hurry. Kill the power to the elevator." He instructed his boss, who swiftly jumped into action and pressed a few buttons on the computer's control panel, trapping the females in the elevator.

"They're in a really bad mood." Henry whimpered as they had a moment to breathe.

"It's worse than that. (y/n) would never hurt us, neither would Charlotte. Something's happened to them. And it's not good." Ray swallowed, his heart aching at the idea of someone torturing or twisting his girl into something she wasn't. His darling (y/n), she would never hurt him, and he swore revenge on the person who had taken her sweetness away from him.

"Well, at least we're safe for a--" Schwoz tried to catch his breath, but the elevator door was suddenly ripped from the wall as Charlotte and (y/n) punched through it. The boys jumped onto the sofa in fear; the assassins were free again. Ray tried throwing some chips to ward them off, but it did nothing.

Being indestructible and completely in love with her, Ray decided he'd be the one to talk to (y/n) as she walked towards the group.

"Now, (y/n), sweetheart---" His honeyed words were lost on her controlled mind. She grabbed the wrist of the hand that he tentatively placed on her cheek and bent in downwards, the funny angle causing him great pain.

"Ow, ow, ow!" He yelled as she squeezed even harder. Charlotte walked forward to grab him, but Henry stopped her before she could kick him down.

"Charlotte, what's happened to you..." Henry's words ran out as he turned her around and yanked off her dark glasses. Her eyes were ruby red, freaking the boy out as they seemed to pierce his soul.

"Ah, geez." He whimpered, so Ray overcame the pain in his arm and took off (y/n)'s aviators, her usually (y/e/c) orbs glowing scarlet. His stomach dropped when she glared at him, making him long to see the radiant smile that she so often gave him.

"Oh, sweetheart, what have they done to you?" He breathed out, feeling guilt sit in his stomach as he got the feeling that this was meant for him. Using his best friend to kill him, how cruel.

"Okay, don't be mad. Do you wanna go get some ice cream or--" Henry tried to calm his friend down, hoping a bribe would work, but his offer went down like a lead balloon. Charlotte grabbed his shirt collar and forced his head into hers, stunning the boy as a dull pain erupted behind his skull. Seeing that Henry needed help, Ray used his superhero strength and prised (y/n)'s fingers from his wrist, trying to avoid blemishing her skin with any bruises.

"Charlotte! Now, you listen to me, right now!" He snapped at the girl, who turned around and gave him her evil stare. Gaining (y/n)'s and Charlotte's attention made Ray back off, his confidence suddenly gone as they switched targets again.

"Or you know what, I'll send you a text!" He screamed as he ran away from them, leading them into the backroom and then into the main one again.

"Schwoz, drop the tubes!!" He cried out as he dashed down the steps, two murderous ladies on his tail.

With (y/n) and Charlotte stood in the perfect spot, Schwoz followed Ray's instructions and lowered the tubes, trapping the girl's in their places. Sprinting over to the tube controls, Schwoz filtered energy into them, causing a blue force field to surround the girls.

"Uh, w--w-what'd you do?" Ray stuttered, still feeling his adrenaline running high.

"I flooded the tubes with neurone neutralising particles." He explained as Henry struggled to overcome his head injury. He'd have a nasty bump in the morning for sure.

"So, they can't move?" Ray asked, hoping his best friend was all right.

"No." Schwoz replied, breathing a sigh of relief.'

"Kid, you okay?" Ray looked at his sidekick, who was still swaying.

"Yeah, I just think I need a--nope." He tried to get steady on his feet, but the room was spinning and his head was throbbing, and he fell over. He groaned in pain on the floor as Schwoz picked up one of (y/n)'s scanners from her toolbox and ran it over the tubes so he could read their vital signs.

He looked at the data on a screen that was showing both of their brain waves, as Ray stood around nervously. Henry finally got to his feet and joined his boss in waiting for the results. Ray couldn't live without (y/n) by his side, so if Schwoz couldn't help them, he wasn't sure what he'd do. A gasp from the little man told him he'd found something, making Ray pale in worry.

"Their brains have been warped!" The genius exclaimed, confusing Henry who had never heard of such a phenomenon. The large man next to him looked at his girl in her tube, his heart breaking as she glared at him. He should've never let her go out alone.

"Warped? How?" Henry asked.

"With music," Schwoz told them, making Ray put a hand over his chest as if the action would make his heart hurt any less.

"You mean, musical brain-warping?" He questioned, even though the answer was pretty self-explanatory.

"I said their brains had been warped by music, what else would I mean other than musical brain-warping?!" He shouted at Ray, who backed off. He was too distressed to fight back, choosing to keep his heartache to himself and wishing that he could just hold (y/n) to his chest so he could protect her from the world and all its evil. If he could just think of a way to help them...

"So, you're saying that there's a song stuck in their brains that's making them wanna hurt me and Ray?" Henry frowned at the thought. To see (y/n) filled with so much hate towards him, Henry knew that Ray must be feeling completely wretched.

"Exactly." Schwoz nodded as an idea popped into his boss's head.

"Hey, is there a way you could extract the song from (y/n) and Charlotte's brains?" He asked the little guy, knowing that he was the only one smart enough to save his helper and the girl.

"Yeah, sure, why?" Something like that was easy-peasy for a genius like Schwoz.

"'Cause if we have the song she heard, we could play it backwards...this is my idea," Ray explained, stopping Henry from saying it at the same time as him. He needed to tell (y/n) that he had been the one to save her and Charlotte, that way she'd be all cute around him and he'd feel like her knight in shining armour.

"I said it first," Henry smirked.

"No, you did not! Who said it first?" The superhero snapped back, looking at Schwoz to back him up.

"Henry." He answered simply, making the boys fall into a fight as Ray tried to grab Schwoz.

"You just want to rescue your girlfriend." Henry giggled as he pulled Ray back, making the man calm down and back off with a red face.

"She's not my girlfriend." He mumbled bitterly. He had moved past the denial stage by now and was certain that he loved her completely. He was also sure that she'd never go for a guy like him, so as always, he repressed his love for her and waited with dread for the day she fell into another man's arms and promised her love to someone else.

"Tell her how you feel and she will be," Schwoz stated in a sing-song voice as he started to search Charlotte and (y/n)'s brains for the song. So many memories.

"Just look for the damn song!" Ray hissed as he grew flustered from their teasing. Tell her? Not a chance.

"Wait, where's the blob?"

"Raymond!"

"Give me a job here!"

"Jerk never showed up."

"Can you find the song in their brains?" Henry asked Schwoz as he flicked through their memories from the past year. So much had happened since then, meaning there was a lot to sort through.

"I'm getting close." The small man said as he zoomed in on a newer memory. Selecting it and playing it louder, the brainwash song began to play in the Man Cave, making the girls' eyes glow an even brighter red.

"Got it." He reported, keeping the song on his PearPad.

"Put it on hologram," Ray instructed him, ready to see what the girls had gone through. A hologram of Lil Biggie appeared in front of the guys, as they stepped back to see what would happen.

"Now, play it backwards." Ray and Henry said together, irritating the other by stepping on each other's words.

Charlotte and (y/n) twitched and convulsed like they had done back in Minyak's hideout out and Lil Biggie rapped in reverse, his words sounding like gibberish.

"Okay, Henry, raise the tubes," Ray told the boy, who took out his remote and said the command. They all leaned back in fear as the backwards rap took effect, they couldn't be sure if this would work or not. Schwoz turned off the track as the lyrics played out, Ray and Henry walking up to the girls as they shook their heads and blinked.

"Charlotte, (y/n), y'all right?" Henry asked them carefully as he and Ray each supported a girl.

"Yeah..." Charlotte slurred, her eyelids still feeling heavy as she tried to walk.

"I don't feel so good--" (y/n) trailed off as the two of them collapsed, their super strength disappearing along with the mind control. They were free but their strength had been sapped by the process, leaving them feeling floppy.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy." Ray quickly scooped his girl into his arms, carrying her bridal style as Henry put Charlotte's arm around his shoulder and helped her to the couch. He had never been so happy to have her with him, her body feeling weightless as he carried her across the room. He sat her down on the couch's back, next to Charlotte as he kept one hand on her shoulder and the other on her cheek so she would look at him in the eye.

"Now, tell us what happened," Ray said to her and Charlotte, making them squint as they tried to remember.

"Well, we were over there, then you guys helped us walk over here..." Charlotte garbled, her brain feeling sluggish.

"To this couch." (y/n) smiled at Ray like she was drunk, thinking that she'd given him the answer he was looking for. She giggled as he gave her a sympathetic look, her dreamy eyes looking at him like he was an angel in front of her.

"No!" Henry groaned, hating how slow the usually intelligent girls were being.

"Sweet girl, before that," Ray whispered, stroking the rough pad of his thumb over her cheekbone, which seemed to ground her as his sweet nickname sunk in. He had never called her that before and it was like a bucket of cold water over her head.

"Oh, it was...what was his name, (y/n)?" Charlotte rubbed her temple as she struggled to get her brain up to its normal speed.

"Oh, uh...Doctor Minyak!!" The woman snapped her fingers as the name illuminated her mind, causing Ray to gaze at her in shock and guilt.

"Yeah, he musically brain-warped us," Charlotte confirmed, as Ray looked away from his friend in shame. His nemesis had done this to her? Because of his hatred of him?

"Doctor Minyak?" Henry gasped.

"And his sidekick Nurse Cohort?" Ray growled as (y/n) put her hand over his, leaning her cheek into his touch. She wasn't used to such tenderness, not from him and she was relishing it.

"Yeah, they, uh, were in a shop." Charlotte shook her head as the details escaped her grasp.

" I think it was some motorcycle shop for kids." The young woman patted her hand from her place on the back of the couch, not wanting the teen to push herself too far.

"Lil Bikers?" Schwoz asked them, lighting up Charlotte's face as she remembered.

"That's it!" She confirmed, making Ray let go of (y/n) and fumble for his gum tube. He was ready to kick Minyak's ass for what he had done.

"Well then. Henry, I think you know what to chew and blow." He told his sidekick who started to chew a piece of gum too.

"I think I do. You mean the gum, right?" The kid asked, just to make sure they were on the same page.

"Yeah, I mean the gum." Ray looked at him like he was crazy.

"Well, I was just checking." The boy quickly said before they transformed into Captain Man and Kid Danger. Schwoz and Charlotte nodded in approval, but (y/n) seemed to be a bit lost in thought.

"Let's go," Ray said to Henry and they ran to the tube area and slapped their belts.

"Wait, wait, wait!" (y/n) suddenly yelled, looking like she'd seen a ghost.

"What?" Ray breathed out, believing she'd remembered something horrific about her experience.

"I dropped the ice cream." She whimpered, recalling how Minyak made her drop their dessert when he grabbed her. Ray chuckled breathlessly at her panic; only she would think she could get into trouble after being kidnapped.

"Sweet girl..." He laughed, making Henry roll his eyes at their interaction.

"Up the tube!" He called out, sending them out of the building before they could be gross again. Left with the girls, Schwoz turned to them so he could spark up a conversation.

"So, you like Taylor Schwift?" He asked them in his thick accent, confusing Charlotte and (y/n).

"Uh, sure," Charlotte said, not really knowing how to respond.

"Schwoz, you know she's my favourite singer." (y/n) knitted her eyebrows together wondering where he was going with this.

"Yeah, lot of catchy songs." He noted, making them nod awkwardly.

"Maybe you could have one of her love songs at your wedding with Ray, sweet girl." Schwoz teased (y/n), him and Charlotte laughing as the woman's mouth dropped open and she fell backwards onto the couch's cushions so she could hide her face. Their teasing was mortifying, yet she couldn't help but let their words spark a fantasy in her head. They continued to giggle and fall into more conversation as she imagined their vows, their first dance, their honeymoon and their promise to love each other forever.

~Lil Bikers shop~

Having forced their way into the motorcycle shop, it was fairly easy for Ray and Henry to subdue Doctor Minyak and Nurse Cohort. Ray was fuelled with rage and let out his anger as he roughly tied the criminals together.

"This is for hurting the woman I love, Minyak." He growled ferociously as he grabbed the doctor's pale face, his fury threatening to break free. He squeezed the villain's jaw with a fierce grip, Henry being too busy with his microphone and the setting up of the music to notice. Minyak let out a small squeak of pain as Ray released his head, the velocity from his hold making his skull go back in Nurse Cohort's. The pair winced in pain, but Captain Man didn't care. In his mind, they were getting everything they deserved.

Stepping up the DJ booth, Ray put in some earplugs with Henry and turned the music up loud. Sauntering up to Minyak and Cohort, Henry held the microphone up to his lips. This was for Charlotte and (y/n).

"Hey, yo, listen up, you're stuck in this place while Kid Danger raps and Captain Man pumps the bass." Henry spat out the lyrics, getting up in their faces as he rapped.

"Yeah, p-p-p-pumping up the bass!" Ray added in the background as he scratched the records.

"We'll turn you loose, here's the plan, whack yourself in the head with a frying pan!" Henry jumped as Ray tried to sound as cool as he did.

"Yeah, frying pan, yeah." He said, missing the beat a little.

"You better listen to what I'm saying and respect my rhymes as whack yourselves in the head, ninety-five times." Henry finished with a high-five from Ray as the music died out.

"Okay, I'll untie them." He told his sidekick as he threw down his headphones and earplugs.

"I'll get the frying pans," Henry added, handing Minyak a red frying pan and Nurse Cohort a black one once they were free from their bonds.

"I wonder if it worked," Ray commented, hoping he could teach them a lesson for messing with his closest friends.

"Yeah, I guess it depends on whether or not the music--" Henry was cut off as they got their answer. The doctor smack the frying pan into his forehead and his assistant did the same, causing the metal to ring loudly after it collided with their skulls.

"See, that's nice." Ray smiled, glad that their plan had succeeded.

"It, really is." Henry sighed with happiness too.

"Y'know, at some point we're gonna have to wipe their brains, so they have no memory of Charlotte or (y/n)." Ray said after they had taken a moment to admire their work as the criminals walked around and whacked themselves with the pans.

"Yeah, then, we should probably take them to jail." Henry agreed, knowing that it was their duty to hand them over to the police.

"You wanna do that now or...?" Ray seemed a bit reluctant to end their fun so quickly.

"Nah, I think we should let them do this for a while." Kid Danger couldn't see any harm in letting them carry on for a bit. Ray agreed, enjoying the sight of Minyak and Cohort too much to let it go so easily.

"So, you've got a new name for (y/n)." Henry introduced the new topic as the villains started to hit each other.

"Wha-so?" Ray spluttered, hoping no one had noticed his pet name for his best friend. He couldn't help but call her that, it was everything he felt for her in two simple words. She was sweet, like honey and sugar, and he craved the rush she always caused in his veins; and she was his girl, the one he wanted with every fibre of his being, but couldn't hold onto for fear of being selfish. She was wonderful and he was...just Ray. The guy who stayed back when she went looking for a boyfriend, the guy who looked for the same kind of feeling with other girls but could never find it. Being Captain Man had never dazzled her as it had with everyone else, so he was just left to be himself around her. A normal guy.

"Earth to Ray. Dude, snap out of it!" Henry waved in his hand in front of the man's face as he spaced out. Must've been dreaming about (y/n) again.

"What?" Ray looked at him in confusion as Minyak and Cohort kept hitting themselves.

"If you think about her that much, ask her out! You never know, she might say yes." Henry almost begged him, tired of seeing his boss and his friend constantly mull over their feelings.

"Just go get the memory-wiper from the Man Van!" Ray instructed him, pushing the suggestion to the back of his mind. Henry groaned in annoyance, but complied, knowing they had to shift the criminals before they went home. Still, he had set a niggling question off in the back of Ray's mind, that had started to slowly work its way to the front of his consciousness.

If he asked, would she be his forever?

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