"You're going down, Mocktopus!" SheZow let loose a super-heavy-handed she-slap. The overgrown octopus let out a shriek, and barrelled into some stacked boxes of fish. Still faintly flailing tuna spilled out all over the board walk in a swish of seawater. Not to worry. The cops could clean that up.
Guy grinned. He was fighting Mocktopus near Megadale's pier. And he was winning. Of course. He was SheZow! It would've been nice if Maz had been there, but his friend was a little bit slower, seeing as today he had decided he would be 'bowling ball bruiser'. Didn't exactly make for a quick sidekick.
"Laser lipstick!" Guy whipped out his laser lipstick and brandished it with a maniac grin. "How about we make some sushi, huh, Mocktopus?"
"Hello?! What do you think I'm here for, seriously? I just wanted some sushi, I don't see why you have to be so mean," Mocktopus cried shrilly, waving a couple of tentacles up into the air.
"I'll show you 'mean', toots."
Guy whirled around at the sound of the voice, holding up his laser lipstick, muscles tensing. "SheZap? What do you want?"
SheZap stood, hands on hips, right behind him. He stepped back and held up his hands. "Whoa, easy there, girlfriend. I'm just here to help."
Guy's eyes narrowed, and he lowered his laser lipstick ever so slightly. "Help? But you're a villain, SheZap."
SheZap rolled his eyes. "I'm your opposite, SheZow. That doesn't necessarily make me a villain. I mean, you're not exactly a cut and dried hero."
Guy bristled. "I am too!"
SheZap gestured around at the sopping wet board walk. "Really? Look at the mess you made."
"It's not that bad…" Guy drew in a breath, and caught a whiff of the fish that were now strewn all over the place. He fanned a hand in front of his face. "Whew. Okay, point."
"So," SheZap grinned. "I'm here to help." He whipped out his curling iron, and then hurled the sizzling hot appliance at Mocktopus.
"What are you… eeik!" Mocktopus leapt up in flurry of tentacles as the iron landed in his lap. "Ow, ow, ow…"
"SheZap!" Guy rolled out of the way as Mocktopus' flailing mass tumbled past. Mocktopus crashed off the board walk and into a car park. The two cars he landed on bounced on their suspension, and their car alarms started to wail.
"Ow, hot!" Mocktopus rolled onto another row of cars, setting off more car alarms. A flurry or honks and screams from nearby vehicles accompanied the racket.
"And here was I thinking this was going to be easy." Guy flew into the carpark and grabbed at one of Mocktopus' tentacles.
"Ow!"
"Come on, I'm trying to help you…" And the half dozen or so cars Mocktopus had already smashed the tops in on.
"It burns…"
"Here…" SheZap flew in and grabbed another tentacle.
"SheZap, let go!" Guy hauled back, dragging Mocktopus towards him.
"No!" SheZap dragged the sea monster back.
"Ow!" Mocktopus was now strung out between SheZow and SheZap. He went cross-eyed.
"I said let go!"
"Fine!"
SheZap let go. Mocktopus' rubbery tentacles contracted like a rubber band, and he snapped back, nearly taking off SheZow's head, and slammed into a car parked illegally on the sidewalk behind them. He let out a little moan, and slumped down, unconscious.
Guy looked at the still wailing mass of cars in the carpark, and winced.
"Wow," said SheZap, landing next to Guy and putting his hands on his hips as he too surveyed the damage. "Nice job."
"SheZap, what were you even doing? I can take care of Mocktopus by myself."
SheZap frowned and stuck out his bottom lip. "Maybe, but I wanted to help. You seem to have so much fun being a superhero, I thought I should give it a try."
"You trashed all those cars, that's not what you're supposed to do…"
SheZap bristled. "Oh, yeah? You do this sort of thing all time, SheZow. How is this any different?"
"Because…" Guy let out a huff. "Because! You're not a hero, SheZap."
"I bet I could be a better superhero than you, SheZow. How about we have a little bet, huh? We both help people, see who can be the best hero…"
It was a tempting offer. It could be a hell of a lot of fun. But then… Guy looked at the trashed cars, and winced. "I don't think Megadale could handle that bet."
"You scared or something?"
"No."
"Yeah, you're scared…"
"No, I'm not!" Guy balled up his hands into fists. "If I see you around, I don't care what you're doing, I'll stop you, SheZap."
SheZap's eyes narrowed. He took a step towards SheZow so they were nose to nose. "You know what, if you don't want to play, how about I take you out of the equation, huh? Then I could be a superhero all to my heart's content, and no one could stop me."
Guy held up his laser lipstick. "You want to take me down, sister? Okay, no more Mr Nice Girl."
"SHECOW!"
The voice brought both of them whirling around. Mocktopus had slid off the final car he'd crushed. Turned out it was parked so casually illegally because it was a cop cruiser. Boxter stood beside it, hands bunched into fists at his side, and his face red.
"She-it," Guy whispered.
"So sorry, Officer Hamdon," said SheZap, actually adding a curtsy onto his address. "But SheZow here is causing a mess as usual. I can promise you if I ever was a superhero, like her, I wouldn't cause you so much trouble."
Boxter just looked between the two of them, then groaned and his shoulders slumped.
Guy blinked. Okay, no scolding then. Didn't mean he couldn't tell off SheZap. I mean, only he was allowed to make a mess for his Dad! "You were the one who made the mess, SheZap. And you're not a superhero."
SheZap winked. "Well see, toots." Then he melted into the shadows.
A/n: I wanted to write another SheZow story. Not exactly sure where this is going to go yet, but its going to have SheZap, and DudePow, and as much AU gender-swap as I can cram into there. I thought I'd post up the prologue/first bit to start with, just to see how many people were interested. Drop me a review if you want to see more. :)