AN: Well, let's hope I'm not too late with this. Today is the release of the Resident Evil 3 Remake and my way to honor that very special occasion is to have the PJ Masks fight a villain inspired by the game's main antagonist, Nemesis!

Also dropping some Resident Evil references here and there, let's see if you can find them! If you've ever played them of course. Also you'll be getting your first look at Mahkra Correctional Facility for Underaged Supervillains in this chapter, which may will probably be axpanded in the future, as I'm planning at least one chapter to take place there.

Without further ado, please enjoy the newest chapter:

Chapter 4: Downfall! (Downfall)

School day was over and Connor, Amaya and Greg just reached Connor's house after their walk home.

"Are you up for another game of basketball, Connor?" Greg asked eagerly as they entered the door. "I've been practicing all weekend. There's no way I'll lose now!" he claimed confidently. Connor chuckled at his friend's antics.

"I would like to, Greg. But I have to finish my art project for tomorrow's class. I'm making a tiger model out of cutout paper, but I'm only half finished with it." he explained as they were walking up the stairs.

"Me and Greg could help with it." Amaya offered. "We're already finished with ours." Connor smiled back at her. Amaya was so caring and sweet it made him feel warm just looking at her offer help with a smile.

"Thanks, but I'd rather do it on my own. If you help me, then it's not really my work, is it?" he said. Amaya frowned in confusion.

"I don't agree. We could help a little with things like painting or cutting, but in the end, it's still you who does the main work." she suggested.

"She's right, you know. There's no shame in accepting help." Connor contemplated what they were saying as he opened the door of his room, but his train of thoughts came to a screeching halt as the trio shared a surprised gasp. Connor's room looked like a bomb had recently gone off: his closet was wide open and his clothes were thrown all across the room, books and toys were scattered everywhere and his sheet and pillow were torn off the bed. After a few moments, Connor was the first one to get over his shock.

"I would welcome your help with cleaning up this mess." he said. The kids started looking around the room to find what could have caused this.

"Did you throw some kind of party here?" Greg asked. "How come you didn't invite us?" Connor was still so dumbstruck that he didn't bother rolling his eyes.

"There was no party." he replied, but before he could say anything else, he tripped in something and fell over. Amaya walked over to check on him and help him up and Greg saw the object he tripped in. It was an umbrella with red and white stripes.

"What an odd looking umbrella." Greg mused as he picked it up. Connor took it from him.

"I've been meaning to get rid of this old thing for a while now. It's been nothing but trouble." he said, throwing it over his shoulder. "How are we going to clean all this up and finish my art project by tomorrow? My mom's going to ground me into the next decade if she sees this?" Amaya put a hand on his shoulder in support.

"Don't worry, Connor. We'll clean up for you while you finish your project." she offered with a warm smile.

"We will?" Greg asked, slightly dejected, earning a sharp glare from the girl, which swiftly uplifted his spirit. "Of course we will! Although, I'm more curious about what caused this in the first place." the kids started thinking, but they were interrupted when their wristbands started beeping.

"Someone is trying to break into HQ!" Amaya exclaimed. Greg narrowed his eyes.

"Connor's room looks like it's been ransacked and now HQ is under attack? That can't be a coincidence!" Connor nodded.

"Cleaning up will have to wait! PJ Masks, we're on our way…" he yelled extending a fist.

"...INTO THE NIGHT TO SAVE THE DAY!"

(PJ Masks transformation sequence)

Night in the city and a brave band of heroes is ready to face fiendish for villains to stop them from messing with your day!

Connor, Amaya and Greg looked out their windows and saw the moon was up. They got out of their beds and got ready.

Amaya becomes...

Amaya pressed her bracelet and the red energy engulfed her, transforming her into her superhero alter ego.

..."Owlette!"

Greg becomes...

Greg pressed his bracelet and the green energy transformed him into his superhero self.

"Gekko!"

Connor becomes...

Lastly, Connor's bracelet unleashed blue energy, which transformed him into his superhero persona.

"Catboy!"

The three young heroes were then transported to their HQ in the park in three colorful beams of light and landed in their central room.

"THE PJ MASKS!" they cheerfully announced, ready for the night's mission.

The PJ Picture Player came up and the heroes quickly went to see if there's been a breach.

"The Picture Player says there are currently five individuals in HQ." Owlette reported.

"Three of those are obviously us, one is PJ Robot, but who is the fifth one?" Connor asked. "Someone actually got into HQ during daytime?"

"As well as your room. They must be the master of unlocking." Gekko mused. They looked around and saw the giant mess the intruder made in the central room. "And even more astoundingly, they stayed all afternoon to wait for us."

"Well then, let's find him!" Catboy said. "It's rude to keep a guest waiting."

As if on cue, they heard the elevator coming up and they turned to see a badly damaged PJ Robot float out of it before it fell on the ground and shut itself down. They all gasped in horror, but before they could go to check on their robotic assistant, something came burst through the elevator door and landed in front of the heroes.

The heroes stepped back in shock. In front of them was a giant robot, about 10 inches taller than them. It had a rough brown paint job all over it, a semicircular head with glaring red eyes and what appeared to be a mouth with long, thin, pencil shaped teeth, which gave the robot of the appearance of an angry scowl. It had large cylinder shaped torso with two long, metallic arms hanging on each side of it and large fists at the end of them. And lastly, it had two long, humanly legs which raised it into it's intimidating size. The Masks couldn't even utter a single word as they laid eyes on it. Gekko was the first one to speak up.

"I think that's going to take longer to clean up than your room." Catboy didn't bother responding. The robot scanned the heroes in front of him and received three matches for the only three targets it had in it's database. It's eyes lit up with dark red light directed at the heroes.

"PJ Masks..." the robot growled on a low, raspy voice as it slowly took a step towards the trio. They slowly started backing away.

"Looks like Romeo has been busy." Owlette said on a shaky voice.

"Romeo's at Mahkra! How could he have made this?" Gekko asked. Catboy narrowed his eyes.

"We'll ask him when we deliver the scrapped head of this thing to him on a visit later tonight. For now, Gekko, please take out the trash!" Gekko nodded.

"Gladly. Super Gekko Muscles!" he yelled, charging at the approaching machine. He pulled back his fist and threw a punch at it, expecting the robot to fall apart upon impact. However, he was shocked to see that it only stumbled back a little when he punched it. He tried to do it again and again, but the only thing he achieved was that his fists started aching. When he could no longer keep it up, the robot raised one arm and opened up the fist at the end of it, it grabbed Gekko and raised him into the air.

"Gekko!" Owlette yelled in panic as she flew forward and yanked the boy out of the machine's grasp. Fortunately, it didn't grab him too tightly yet. She put him down on the ground then turned back to robot.

"Owl Wing Wind!" she yelled, sending a wave of wind at it. While it was quite powerful, the robot didn't even flinch. It kept advancing at the two, despite Owlette's most powerful attampts of blowing it back. It was only inches away from them when Catboy finally intervened.

He ran around the robot in circles and wrapped his Super Cat Stripes around it's legs. He then tries to yank it's legs from under it, but he was nowhere near strong enough to do it. Owlette and Gekko grabbed one stripe each and joined in, but even their combined strength wasn't enough to send the machine to the ground.

The robot finally reached them and raised it's arms to grab them, but Owlette reacted in time and grabbed the two boys by their necks and flew up with them.

"What is this thing made of?!" she asked frantically.

"Relax, there's no way it can catch us up here." Catboy reassured her, but he was very quickly proven wrong. The robot locked in on their position and raised it's arms up towards them. The robot balled it's hands into fists, which made the hereos realize what was coming.

"You just had to say it, didn't you?" Gekko deadpanned. The robot shot it's fists out at the heroes and since Owlette was holding the two boys, she couldn't move in time evade them. They hit Owlette pretty hard and caused the heroes to fall out of the air. Gekko landed on his butt while Catboy managed to land on his feet. He looked up to see Owlette falling towards the ground and quickly ran to catch her in his arms.

"Good thing cats always land on their feet, huh?" he smiled down at her and Owlette smiled back sheepishly with a deep blush. But their moment was quickly interrupted.

"PJ Masks..." the robot growled, walking towards the heroes once again.

"Quick! To the Cat Car!" Catboy yelled, pointing towards his vehicle. They quickly ran to the car and got into their seats while Catboy ignited it.

"I don't think your furballs will work on this thing." Gekko noted as he bucleld up his belt.

"Nor do I. But that's not what I'm planning." Catboy replied. "Hang onto your seats!" he then floored the gas pedal and drove straight at the approaching machine. The robot raised it's arms in front of itself and actually managed to stop the car, but it was still pushing it back ever so slightly. But what happened next shocked the heroes. The robot grabbed the sides of the car and raised it over itself! It then started violently shaking it.

"PJ Masks..."

"It's definitely not Romeo's smartest creation." Gekko remarked. "At least as far as vocabulary is concerned." Catboy had to act quickly. He ejected himself and the others from the vehicle and ran up to the picture player. He then used a switch to open the door of the second floor of HQ and signaled Owlette to get them out of there. The red costumed girl flew up and grabbed the boys by their necks and flew out of HQ with them. The robot was still too busy trying to pick apart the Cat Car to find the heroes to notice what they were doing, but when he turned it over in the air and saw the empty seats, it started looking around for them, just in time to catch a small glimpse of them exiting the open Catboy symbol door.

Owlette and the boys landed in front the totem pole to catch their breath.

"What the dang was that thing?" Owlette gasped frantically?

"Another robot of Romeo's. What else?" Gekko replied.

"I saw that, genius! But how could he made something so powerful?" Before Gekko could answer, they heard Catboy shout.

"LOOK OUT!" he screamed as he used his super speed to yank his friends away from something they didn't notice falling towards them. Catboy pulled them away so suddenly that they all fell to the ground and they only looked up when they heard a huge crash. They saw the Cat Car on the spot they were just standing a few moments ago.

"Gasping Geckos!" Gekko exclaimed. "Thanks, Catboy! That was way too close!"

"No kidding!" Catboy agreed. "We were almost a PJ Sandwich!" Owlette and Gekko shot an odd look at Catboy for the use of this strange metaphor, but before they could address it, the robot dropped in from above and landed in front of them, making huge cracks in the pavement. The heroes screamed and took off running. The robot tried to follow them, but for all of it's strenthgs, it wasn't very fast.

Instead, it raised it's arms and shot out it's rocket fists at the heroes again. But this time, Gekko, who looked over his shoulders and saw what it was doing, wasn't about to let that happen again.

"Oh, not this time, rust bucket!" he then stopped and turned around, activated his Super Gekko Muscles and just before the rocket fists reached him, he jumped up into the air and kicked them back towards the machine. The robot didn't have time to react. The fists crashed back into it's body and they made it stagger back and fall onto it's knees. Gekko smirked in satisfaction, but still hurried to join his friends running away. He had a feeling the robot won't be down for long.

While Gekko's feeling ended up being correct, his little stunt bought enough time for the hereos to lose their pursuer and hide in an alley. They leaned back against the wall, panting heavily. After they caught their breath, Catboy peeked out from behind the wall. The other two kids didn't even dare to breath while they were waiting for him to confirm if the coast was clear. They half expected the robot to just jump out from around the corner and resume the chase. But to their indescribable relief, Catboy gave them the thumbs up.

"What are we going to do now?!" Owlette panicked. "That thing is unstoppable!"

"No, it's not." Catboy replied. "Didn't you see what Gekko just did?"

"I was slightly occupied with running for my life. Didn't really have time to spectate Gekko." Owlette deadpanned, earning an annoyed stare from Gekko.

"Then I'll explain. I managed to throw it's rocket fists back at it and it made it fall over. It isn't invulnerable. We'll just need to find something stronger than the material it's made of and hit back." Gekko explained, smacking his fist into his palm. But Owlette saw some flaws in this plan that prevented her from sharing his enthusiasm.

"Look, I wouldn't rain on your parade for the world, but even if we had a way to analyze what it was made of, we'd have to get up close to it and seeing as how relentless that thing is when we're around it, I don't think we'd have two seconds to take a sample without it unleashing an army's worth of firepower on us." this was a solid point that did cause the two boys to start thinking. After a while, Gekko snapped his fingers in realization.

"Maybe we won't have to!" he blurted out loudly, startling Catboy and Owlette, who then turned to him curiously. "More likely than not, this thing was built by Romeo. If anyone knows how to stop this thing, it's him." Catboy and Owlette stood silently for a while, then Owlette reached inside her cape and pulled out a dollar bill and handed it to Catboy.

"Here." she sais dejectedly. Gekko raised an eyebrow.

"Is there something I don't know about?"

"It's a little game between me and Catboy. Whenever you have an idea, I give a dollar to Catboy if it's usable and if it's rubbish, he gives me one." Gekko's eyes widened.

"You guys do this behind my back?!" he yelled. Catboy raised his arms defensively.

"I just wanted to get her to have more faith in you!" he defended. "Although, in the current situation, I feel like I should be the one paying you." he told Owlette. "Going to Romeo for help? Are you nuts?!"

"He's right, though." Owlette said. "Who's better to tell us how to destroy the monster than it's creator?" Catboy waved her off.

"We don't need help from a villain!" he declared firmly. Owlette raised a brow at him.

"This again? Why do I get the feeling there is more behind your refusal of help than you're willing to admit?" Catboy narrowed his eyes at her.

"Well, you can feel however you want! We can put an end to this on our own and..."

"Uh, guys!" Gekko interrupted his little rant. He was looking at the streets with a very worried look on his face. "I hate to interrupt your private time, but..." his friends walked up to him at the corner and leaned out to see what he was looking at. Just as they feared, the machine has returned. It was stalking the street, knocking over trash bins, benches and even cars looking for the hereos. It made them quite nervous to say the least. But it also gave Catboy an idea.

"I don't think we'll need to hit hit it." he said with a cocky smirk. "If we somehow make it fall, it will be crushed by it's own strength." His friends looked at him questioningly.

"And just how do you plan to make it fall?" Owlette asked.

"We may not have been strong enough to pull out it's legs from under it, but maybe if we set a trap, it's own weight will do the job!" Catboy specialized and just before the robot was about to walk past two lamp posts, he sped past his friends and quickly set a trap by tying his Cat Stripes around the posts. The machine walked into the stripe, but instead of tripping in it, the stripe merely tightened and it ended up pulling Catboy off of his feet. The robot sensed the scream the feline hero let out when he was yanked off of his legs and turned to see him flying towards it. Catboy crashed into the robot and fell on his back, groaning in pain. The robot grabbed his stripes and started twirling him around in the air before slamming him into the ground. It then pulled him over it's head and slammed him into the opposite site. It then started repeating this process over and over again as Owlette and Gekko watched.

"Nice work, Catboy!" Owlette cheered. "Keep the robot busy while we visit Romeo and make him help us!"

"I don't think that was his intention." Gekko said.

"I know."

(Owlette Symbol Scene Transition)

Mahkra Correctional Facility For Underaged Supervillains was not as special of an institution on the outside as it was on the inside. It may have been a prison for superpowered criminals who weren't even 10 years old yet, but from an outside view, it looked like a perfectly ordinary school. Except for a few tiny enhanced security features, most noticeably the 10 meters tall concrete walls topped off with barbed wires. It was the insides that contained the real wonder.

The facility had a small security force, because even though most of the inmates were powerless without certain items they possessed, they were still rather dangerous and unpredictable individuals. But Gekko hasn't seen many of them since they got there. He himself hasn't been to this place many times - and he couldn't be more thankful for it as he looked over the interiors. They were currently being escorted by a guard to Romeo's dorm and he was slightly unnerved.

"How do they keep this place in order? Where are the other guards?" he found himself asking.

"Most of them are stationed in G Wing." Owlette told him. "That needs the most attention. It houses some of the more... exotic inmates."

"Like the Wolfies?" Gekko asked curiously. Owlette shot him a grim look.

"Trust me, the Wolfies are just the tip of the iceberg." she said ominously, making Gekko shudder. Owlette just sighed. Part of the reason she was always so hard on Gekko was to toughen him up. He was the one who joined the team the latest and before he came along, she and Catboy saw some things that effectively destroyed their childhood innocence. And most of them resided in the underground G Wing. She prayed Gekko never had to face things like that, but she knew better. And he had to be ready.

"Here we are." the guard said as they arrived at a door. "Can you handle yourselves in there on your own?" he asked as he pulled out the key and unlocked it. Owlette nodded.

"Yes, thank you. Just stay outside and watch door." she told as she and and Gekko entered the room.

Once inside, Gekko switched on the lights. The dorm Romeo resided in was fairly normal. It had a closet for his clothes - which consisted of only seven labcoats, one for each day of the week, a desk with several papers on it, which once Owlette shot a glance at it realized features some scribblings of what appeared to be inventions he hasn't used yet, Owlette made a mental note for herself to inform the guard about those, a window which looked at the courtyard and the bed the evil genius was currently sleeping on.

"Wow. Look at him sleeping. He looks so peaceful." Gekko said in wonder. Owlette just scoffed.

"Not for long." she replied, nudging Romeo on the chest. "Get up, Mecano! We'd have a few words with you!" that did not wake him up, so Owlette picked up the half filled glass of water she saw on the desk and poured it's content on the sleeping villain's head. That instantly did the trick.

"What the..." Romeo yelled as he looked around for the source of the rude awakening. His gaze eventually landed on the two heroes glaring at him angrily and growled in annoyance. "It wasn't enough that you had me thrown in here, now you came just to rub it in my face, didn't you?"

"We wouldn't bother coming all the way down here just to do that." Owlette replied. "We wouldn't be here if we didn't need to talk to you."

"This'll better be good, PJ Pinheads. I don't appreciate being waken up so late." he snapped rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. Owlette merely hardened her glare on him.

"Well, we don't appreciate being harassed by another of your mechanical monsters, Romeo, so consider us even." Romeo was not the least interested in what the heroes had to say up to that point, but that last one made him look up.

"What are you talking about, feathers? I haven't bulit a new robot in over a month."

"Then how do you explain a giant robot invading HQ, throwing us out, almost flattenning us by throwing the Cat Car at us and chasing us through the enitre city?" Owlette questioned. Romeo put his finger on his chin in thought.

"I can't. But it looks like it has it in for you. What's it like?" Owlette and Gekko looked down, eyes narrowed in thought.

"Well, it's large."

"Has an expression like it constantly has to listen to you."

"It chants 'PJ Masks' over and over."

"It can lift and throw cars like ragdolls."

"It can use it's fists as rockets." that last one got Romeo's attention.

"Rocket fists?" he whispered in intrigue and something that Owlette thought to be a slight hint of fear. "What else do you know about it? Anything unique?" the heroes thought for a moment before Gekko came to a realization.

"I recall seeing something distinguishing on it when I fought it at HQ. A word was printed on the side of it's torso."

"What was it?" Owlette asked curiously.

"Downfall."

Romeo's face went pale when he heard that, which didn't go unnoticed by Owlette.

"You've got something to tell us Romeo?" she asked with her hand on her hips. Romeo eventually gave in.

"Downfall supposed to be my magnum opus. A perfect, unstoppable weapon with the sole purpose of finally getting you out of my way."

"I take it that didn't work out." Gekko snarked. Romeo glared up at him.

"It did. Far too well, unfortunatley. It's relentless. It stops at nothing. And because I didn't finish it properly, it doesn't even obey me. It only listens to it's programming which contains just one order: Capture you." Owlette studied Romeo for a while, taking in what he said.

"You're afraid of it." she deduced. "How do we stop it?"

"You can't. Not without me."

"I had a feeling this was coming." Gekko said under his breath.

"Make no mistake, I still don't like you. But Downfall is an abomination of technology. I never used it because even I found it too dangerous. It has to be stopped." Owlette raised an eyebrow.

"You never used it? Then how is it coming after us?" Romeo thought for a

"My best guess is someone has found out about it and is now using it against you. Many villains did that with my inventions in the past." the two heroes looked at each other. This was true after all.

"So what would you suggest we do?" Gekko asked after a few moments.

"As you no doubt noticed, there's not much that can physically hurt it. Obviously you didn't try a more tactical approach." the heroes rolled their eyes. "It takes a genius like me to consider something other than smashing things. All we have to do is erase it's programming. Without it's programming, even the most powerful robot is little more than paperweight."

"So how do we do it?" Owlette asked.

"Well... that's the tricky part. I can make device to do the task, but it can only be done from up close. And it will be a lenghty process." the villain explained.

"We can do that." Owlette said. "Just make sure the device works."

"Please, remember who you're talking to." Romeo replied smugly. "By the way, where did you leave the cat?"

"He's keeping your robot busy while we're talking with you." Gekko answered.

"Alone?" Romeo asked in confusion. "Don't you think that's a little too much for him?"

"Please, remember who you're talking to." Owlette replied smugly, making Gekko chuckle.

"Yeah, he's been through far worse. He can handle himself."

(Gekko Symbol Scene Transition)

Catboy was currently hanging from a lamppost by his Super Cat Stripes and he was waving back and forth as Downfall was using him as a punching bag. He was going at it for a while now and when he finally stopped, Catboy got his spinning head straight and looked at it.

"You know what? I'm willing to discuss a draw." Apparently the robot wasn't happy with the offer, as it raised it's left arm and started spinning it around it's shoulder, preparing for another punch. Catboy started closing his eyes to brace himself, but before he did, he saw a sudden flash of bright light appear on his left. He and the robot both turned their heads towards the light source at the same time and saw Romeo's lab speeding towards them.

The lab collided with the robot at full speed, which was enough to push it back a little. But it managed to put it's feet back on the ground and put it's arms around the lab and stopped it, engaging in a clash of thrust with it. Romeo and the other two heroes were sitting in the cockpit and they saw the mechine looking up at them with it's eyes reddening when it saw Owlette and Gekko.

"PJ Masks..." Downfall started pounding the glass of the cockpit aggressively to get to the two hereos.

"Quick, Romeo! Use the device!" Owlette yelled.

"Don't boss me around, bird brain!" he yelled back, but did as he was told nevertheless. "You lose, big guy!" he said as he pulled out a handheld device with a small screen on it. Romeo pressed a few buttons on it. Downfall's schematics appeared on the screen and the device started running a jamming signal to erase the machine's programming. But it wasn't working.

"It's still punching the glass!" Gekko shouted in panic.

"Thanks, Captain Obvious!" Romeo snapped back, frantically pushing the buttons on his device. "The signal's not strong enough. We need to be directly next to the robot for the remote to work!"

"You're about to get your wish!" Owlette yelled, pointing at the robot as it's fist finally broke through the glass and tore it apart from the inside. It first grabbed Romeo and pulled it out of the cockpit. It ran a scan on him and realized him as it's creator, but that information was insignificant. It's only directive was the PJ Masks. It threw Romeo over it's shoulder casually and went back into the wrecked cockpit to get the hereos. Romeo wasn't amused in the slightest.

"How could you treat your creator so shamefully? You really are a rotten egg!" Romeo yelled, angrily shaking his fists at it. The robot paid him no mind. Unlike someone else.

"Romeo!" Catboy called out. The cat themed hero has pulled himsellf together after ths distraction their friends created and marched up to Romeo. "What are you doing here?!" Romeo glared back at him.

"Unlike you, I'm trying to stop this monstrosity!"

"Did the others drag you here?" Catboy fumed. "Seriously! I told them we didn't need you!"

"Well, it doesn't look that way to me." their dispute was interrupted by a scream from Owlette. They turned to see Downfall pulling the two heroes out of the lab's cockpit and holding them up firmly in their grasp. Catboy gasped.

"Don't worry, guys, I'm coming!" he was about to take off, but Romeo pulled him back.

"Wait, you'll need this!" he tried to hand him the remote, but Catboy firmly pushed it back.

"I don't need anything. Especially from you!" he growled at him before speeding off into battle. Romeo scoffed after him.

"Have it your way. Might use some extra tuning anyway." he muttered as he went back to adjust his device.

Meanwhile, Downfall opened up it's chest to reveal an empty tank and placed the squriming Owlette inside. He was about to do the same to Gekko, but Catboy interrupted it. He ran up to it and successfully pulled Owlette out of the robot's chest. In response, Downfall kicked him away and he crashed right back into Romeo, sending the two rolling down the whole street. Downfall then put Gekko inside the tank and closed it's chest.

"Gekko!" Owlette screamed and tried to instinctively fly at the machine to help her friend. before remembering what happened the last time and realizing that Romeo's device was the only hope to save him. She followed the two boys down the street until they finally came to a halt and were now trying to untangle themselves.

"Watch it, you feline fool! You almost broke the only thing that could save your sorry tail!" Catboy glared at him.

"Owlette, what is he doing here?" he asked. "Didn't I tell you we don't need him?" Owlette narrowed her eyes at him.

"Sometimes, I really want to give you a sobering punch in the face! Exactly how much progress you made in stopping the robot since we left to get Romeo?" she admonished. Catboy looked down in shame. "I thought so." Owlette continued. "What is wrong with you tody, Catboy? What's your problem with admitting that sometimes we need some help?" Catboy stared down at the ground for a while before answering.

"BECAUSE THAT'S LIKE I'M NOT GOOD ENOUGH!" Catboy blurted out, making Owlette step back in shock. She wasn't expecting that.

"What?"

"Sometime I feel like I'm just not good enough for all of this! And being able to do things right is the only way to prove myself otherwise! And if I have to ask for help... than it's not really me who gets things done, is it?" Owlette studied him for a while, taking in everything he just said before finally approaching him.

"Catboy, there is no shame in accepting help." she told him gently, placing a hand on his shoulder. "We may be superheroes, but we are still human. And a human's strength comes not only from brawn or intelligence, but also from his allies." Catboy looked up at him with a weak smile.

"Even reluctant ones, like Romeo?" he asked jokingly. Romeo scoffed at him in the background.

"Yes." Owlette replied with a chuckle. "It doesn't make you any less, Catboy. In fact, admiting you need help takes even more strength than doing everything by yourself." Catboy smiled up at her tenderly.

"Thank you, Owlette. I don't know how I ever deserved you." he said, taking her hand into his own.

"If you kiss, I'm gonna throw up." Romeo butted in from behind them, making them jump apart with huge blushes on their faces.

"Anyway..." Catboy started sheepishly. "What is your plan to stop this thing, Romeo?" Romoe rolled his eyes.

"Oh, so now you're interested in my genius?" Owlette sent him a threatening glare.

"Don't push your luck." she warned, making Romeo nervously gulp.

"Uh... okay." he held up the remote. "I named this thing the Synthetic Tracker And Reprogramming System." Owlette thought about this for a few seconds.

"'S.T.A.R.S.'?" she asked. Romeo shrugged.

"Yeah, 'S.T.A.R.S.', if you wanna have fun with acronyms. Anyway, this can erase the programming of any computer or robot, but it only works from very close. You have to get as close to Downfall as you can for it to work." Catboy snapped his fingers as an idea crossed his mind.

"I know just how we can do that!"

"That's good, because it caught up with us!" Romeo shouted, pointing at the approaching figure of Downfall. Catboy smirked.

"Right on time." he said, cracking his fists. "It's time to be a hero!" he then turned to the other two.

"Romeo, get your remote ready so it'll only need one button push to shut the robot down. Then give it to Owlette. I'll get the attention of the robot and when I give the sign, throw it." he instructed.

"To you?" Owlette asked. Catboy smiled.

"You'll know where, trust me. Now get out of here. Leave the rest to me." They didn't know exactly what he was up to, but did as they were told. Catboy then turned to the robot.

"Alright, you big, ugly trash bin, you want me? Come and get me!" Downfall locked in on him.

"PJ Masks..." it raised it's fist and fired it at Catboy who dodged it with ease.

"Is that the best you can do? I can't see why Romeo was so proud of you." even though insults - much like everything else - flew over the machine's head, it started chasing Catboy at a slightly increased pace. Although Catboy still didn't need his Super Speed to keep his distance. The machine eventually got tired of this and it actually leaped into the air and came crashing down exactly where Catboy was just a second ago. He barely managed to dodge in time. "Okay, now I'm starting to get it. It's time to step on it! Super Cat Speed!" he then sped off towards the direction of HQ.

(Catboy Symbol Scene Transition)

"Are you finished yet?!" Owlette asked inpatiently as they were hiding in the bushes around HQ. Romeo was still trying to calibrate the remote and was getting more and more frustrated with her constant nagging.

"You can't rush perfection, feather face. Now put a worm in it and let me work."

"Owls don't even eat worms! Some genius you are!"

"Whatever. Just shut your beak."

"Do I need to remind you that this whole mess is your fault to begin with?"

"Do I need to remind you that without me you would already be robot toast?" Before Amaya could respond, she heard a whooshing sound which made her ralize that Catboy was on his way there. He saw Owlette and Romeo hiding in the bushes and turned around to see Downfall arriving at the gate of the path leading to HQ.

"PJ Masks..." it growled as it once again fired it's fists at Catboy again, who was getting tired by now and was having more and more trouble with dodging it's attacks.

"I'M NOT GETTING ANY YOUNGER HERE, Guys?!" he urged them.

"Almost done!" Romeo called out pressing a few more buttons on S.T.A.R.S.. "Keep it busy!"

"What do you think I'm doing?!" Catboy stopped for a moment to yell at Romeo and that was a mistake. Downfall leaped into the air and landed next to him with such a force that it knocked him off of his feet. It's fists were reattached and it picked Catboy up, grabbing him tightly.

"Romeo!" Catboy screamed as Downfaall opened it's chest to toss Catboy in next to the trapped Gekko.

"GOT IT!" Romeo shouted and handed the device to Owlette. "Your turn now. I hope for your friends' sake that you won't mess it up." Owlette narrowed her eyes at him.

"I hope for your sake that it works." she hissed, taking the device and flying up, when Catboy saw this, he signaled.

"NOW!" just like Catboy promised a few minutes ago, Owlette knew exactly what to do. She threw the remote to Gekko inside the robot. "Press it, Gekko!"

Gekko raised his hand and brought his finger down on the switch. "Game... over." he said as the device activated and Downfall's movements came to a sudden halt and it's body started twitching. Gekko hurriedly jumped out on the hole in the machine's chest and joined his friends in front of the twitchitng robot as the light slowly fading from it's eyes.

"P... J... Maaaas..." it never finished that final grunt as the lights in it's eyes died and the once mighty machine fell forward and crashed into the ground with an almost deafening sound. The three hereos studied the robot for a while until they finally convinced themselves that it was down for good.

"It's over." Owlette muttered, almost afraid to believe it. This had to be one of their most dificult battles so far.

"It is." Catboy assured, letting out a sigh of relief. Gekko was the only one who didn't look completely relieved.

"Uh... guys, where's Romeo?" the heroes looked around, lookind for the villain, until they heard a loud engine roar and saw him in his lab at the gate.

"Well, it was fun, but if you don't mind, I'll be taking my leave now. Thanks for getting me out of Mahkra." the heroes looked completely dumbfounded. How on earth could they allowed this to happen?" You can keep the robot and S.T.A.R.S. as a souvenier of tonight. They're of no use to me anymore. See ya next time! And next time, I will win and rule the world!" he then drove off, laughing his signature laugh, leaving the three embarrassed heroes behind.

"Gasping Geckos." Gekko said. "I have a feeling Warden Mahkra won't be too happy about this." Catboy just waved it off with a smile.

"Don"t worry, Gekko. The good thing about villains is there's always another chance to get them."

"That's true." Gekko agreed. Catboy looked over at Owlette and saw her looking over the downed machine, deep in thoughts.

"What is it?" he asked her.

"I was just thinking. Romeo said he never used this machine. How do you think it came to life then?" Catboy and Gekko looked at each other in concern.

"He said it himself." Gekko answered eventually. "Must have been another villain. It happened before."

"Yeah, but when that happened, the villain responsible always reveled himself. Always owned up what they did. This time... it's different." she explained.

"We'll look into it later. But right now, I think we should call it a night." Catboy suggested. Getting rather tired herself, Owlette agreed.

"PJ Masks, all shout hooray..."

"CAUSE IN THE NIGHT WE SAVED THE DAY!"

Unknown to the heroes, from a nearby lamppost, a pitch black raven was watching them and the entire battle as well. After the heroes victory cry, it narrowed it's eyes at them, turned around and flew off into the night.

(Scene transition to daytime)

Amaya and Greg were back in Connor's room, finishing the final touches on cleaning up the room after the mess Downfall made while seaching for them. Connor was sitting at his desk finishing his art project.

"It's done!" Connor announced cheerfully. "How are you guys doing?"

"We're done as well!" Amaya replied, tucking the sheets on Connor's bed in.

"And now that we are done, you can't escape from our basketball rematch, Connor." Greg said cockliy, picking up the basketball from the corner. "See you at the park!" he then ran out laughing. Connor turned to Amaya.

"Hey, I think I'll need some help with this. With all his enthusiasm!" he told her. Amaya just chuckled.

"Well, I'm sure you'll appreciate my help more than a villain's." they both laughed at this and ran after Greg outside.

AN: Well, hope you liked it! Thanks for reading it and please leave a review.

I'll get back to Mad Cat following this, but I already have this story's next chapter planned out: After paying homage to one of my favorite video game series, the PJ Masks will pay tribute to everyone affected by the COVID-19 phenomenon, by taking on a villain who is a walking virus factory! And also, it's time for Gekko to finally have a chapter, so it'll be his turn!

Next time on Bad to the Bone:

Gekko in Quarantine (Germia)

A new villain in town is making everyone sick. Gekko is eager to take them down, but he has to learn that sometimes the indirect approach is much more effective.

See ya next time! Stay at home, stay healthy, stay awesome!