Nobody knew the kid's name. Nobody knew what the kid looked like, or even if the kid was a boy or a girl, but all they knew was that the kid was the most luckiest and unluckiest kid in the world, and whoever brings in the kid, to the exact location at the exact time would earn 100 million dollars. Which is why five people had teamed up to find the kid, trap the kid and then bring the kid to the 24-hour café in the middle of nowhere where they were sitting in right now.

The 24-hour café was small, no larger than a college room dormitory, but no smaller than a large walk in closet. A tiny row of cheap seats that look comfortable but are actually as hard as a rock lined the wall as well as tiny tables that looked like they had been overcleaned by the bored staff. A tiny kitchen can be seen from the tiny serving window, and as an afterthought a tiny potted plant and a giant mirror were placed in the corner, that stood right behind the largest table, which is where our five people are sitting in right now.

The café was practically empty, except for the five people, two members of staff that acted as if their customers were invisible and, in an oversized dog cage, was the kid, tied up, gagged, and wearing a ridiculous dog disguise.

"Why does the big man want this kid so much?" One of the men asked. The man's name is Dr Ridder, and only a few years ago he had made a super plankton that made fish gigantic and can temporarily turn people into fish, but his plan was foiled by Billy and Sheena Deep and their Uncle Dr Deep. But he is right now in need of money, and when he found out about the bounty of the kid, he was all in. One thing led to another, and he had teamed up with four other people who also want the kid for various reasons.

"I honestly have no idea" the other man said. "But if he hadn't given the instructions of forbidding to harm or kill this kid, I would have killed the kid on the spot." This man was abnormally tall, he had coal black eyes and a thick moustache. His name was Big Al, and he had a personal score to settle with the kid. "Ever since this kid had destroyed my carnival twice, I was hoping that this kid's luck will run out! And now it has! Luck will always run out! HA HA HA!"

The two men and one woman laughed on leaving Dr Ridder highly discombobulated. "I'm sorry am I missing out on something?" he asked.

"Oh yes you are!" A wax sculpture called Sybil Wicked cried "This kid had escaped from my wax museum"

"This kid had destroyed my career!" Dr Eek cried.

"And mine!" bellowed Professor Shock standing up suddenly "This kid, as far as I know has had 40 adventures!"

A soft murmur from the cage can be heard from the cage. The kid was awake and listening to the villains.

"50 adventures!?" Dr Eek said in disbelief "I do not believe it! Is this kid a superhero of some sort? You certainly have been busy. And I find it hard to believe that out of all of your 50 adventures the only bad thing that happened to you is that you are now a werewolf, that you got from your last adventure am I correct?"

Dr Eek was right about what he said about the kid. The kid is most certainly a werewolf, it had failed to find a cure, and the kid had most defiantly had been on 50 adventures, dealing from things from a haunted carnival ran by Big Al, to an enchanted twister, to a vampire poodle, to a even exploring the multi verse in an elevator. But Dr Eek and the other villains hadn't seen what the kid had seen. From where the kid was placed, it can see under the floor boards, and under the floor boards it can see five green lights, and the instant Professor Shock stood up, one of the lights immediately turned red. It was at that moment the kid knew what was going on, whoever this person is whoever is trying to get them alive, is going to kill these five people, four of which were previous advocacies theirs. But do they really deserve to die in this way?

Dr Ridder stood up to turn to look at the kid inside its cage. "Well, whoever you are I hope that this man treats you horribly, but I don't care. We are going to be splitting the money evenly. 20 million for each of us, and you are left to fate"

The kid saw another of the lights turn from green to red suddenly, but the instant the marine biologist sat back down, it turned back to green. The kid continued staring at the lights as if it were a barrel of a gun pointed at their head.

Sybil looked at a clock, she was clearly getting frustrated at every moment, "He should be here by now!" Sybil said annoyed. "1:13 AM, at the café outside of Horrorland, where is he?"

"I am right here" A hoarse voice cried out of nowhere. All five of the villains gasped as they turned around to see who was there.

Inside the mirror they can see a tall figure, wearing nothing but black. He wore a large black coat that went all the way down to his feet, and he wore a large black top hat, that gleamed in the light. "So you have him?" The man asked impenitently, going straight to business. He sounded like he never drank water and there was a hint of longing in his voice as if something that he wants is within his grasp, but almost out of reach. He looked down to see the dog cage, and moving as fast as the speed of light he picked it up, and stared at the terrified kid, gazing into it's horrified, but experienced eyes.

"It's the kid!" The figure in the mirror said in a tone of pure joy. "Now I can continue with the convergence with the most luckiest-unluckiest kid in the world involved!"

Then he threw the cage behind him as if it were a pebble and the cage and the kid vanished from sight.

"Where is our money?" Dr Ridder said rudely and abruptly. The sentence came out of his mouth before he can stop himself. The figure chuckled.

"Ha ha ha ha ha! The money oh yes the money." The figure said in a mocking tone, he made a hand gesture and suddenly a giant black briefcase was in his hand, he tossed it onto the table, where it landed perfectly on the centre. The case flew open to show piles and piles of neat, and almost new bank notes. It was the most amount of money that the five villains had ever seen, but still not enough.

"Getting the kid is one thing." Big Al said, mustering the courage he thought he never had. "But our silence is another..."

The figure scowled "You are already getting payed $100 million dollars."

"Yes." Professor Shock said in a monotone voice "But I know who you are. You are the Menace. You are the owner of Panic Park. I know because I been there"

"And I have a very good idea on what your convergance plan is, since I am from the fear…" Sybil said but she was interrupted, when the figure held up a hand "How much for your silence?" it was another voice, an almost monstrous, animal like voice.

"2 million each" Big Al blurted.

The figure looked as if he was expecting this, and then as if by magic, four small brief cases appeared in his hands, as he tossed the cases to the villains.

He deliberately missed, going for the other end of the café, but all but Dr. Ridder stood up to get their money. Under the floorboards, 4 of the 5 lights went red,

"Good day" The figure said "I hope you don't burn all the money all at once." And then he was gone.

Dr Ridder turned to the wax sculpture, who was returning to her seat, and she handed him his case "What were you about to say? Something about the fear something" He inquired, but Sybil laughed "I was bluffing, anyway lets…HANG ON!"

Sybil was looking at the bank notes when she saw it, the $100 notes, they didn't have the picture of Ben Franklin on it, but instead it had the picture of a clown on it. "THEY ARE FAKES!" She screamed. Suddenly all 5 of the villains jumped up in pure anger and rage, about to shout every curse word in the dictionary, when all 5 lights went red, and the bomb blew up.

The explosion from the café light up the night sky like a supernova, and the sound deafend everyone in a ½ kilometre radius. Nothing was left from the café.

The inferno raged on, burning the shell of the café. Everything inside it was destroyed. When the fire department arrived, it found nothing left. Only the destroyed foundations and shell of the café.

The Menace now had everything he needed to intact his plan and his plan of revenge. But he needed four things completed, and he knew that the first will come his way in less than an hour, the second is 25% complete, and the third and fourth when complete, will make him ruler of the universe. He knew that this time he will not fail, this time the world, is his, the universe is his. All he needed to do is wait 96 hours. In 96 hours, he will have everything, and the kids? They will try to stop him, but by the time they realized what's truly going on, it will be too late.

As the five villains had said, luck does run out, and just in case they do find out what he had planned, they will need all the luck in the universe in order to survive.