Underfist

Chapter 1

Endsville was, for the moment, safe again, and that was ok by Irwin as he flew over the town as a bat. He swooped down and missed plowing into a light pole by the hair on his wing, only to crash into the side of Flab Burger with a loud and meaty sounding smack.

"Ow…. Yo" he mumbled, as his tiny bat body started sliding down the wall, leaving a greasy black streak for several inches before he was mercifully stopped by a pair of black gloved green hands carefully peeled him off.

"You ok dweeb?" Irwin straightened his crooked and broken glasses to find a long bulbous nose inches from his face. "That looked like it ruptured your spleen. Here let me fix you up."

Within seconds the crippling and blinding pain that encased Irwin's every fiber of his tiny half vampire half mummy bat body was gone and he felt his broken bones crunching back in place and his muscles reattaching themselves.

Sitting up, Irwin looked up at his rescuer and smiled.

"Thanks Mindy, I don't know what would have happened to me if you hadn't saved me yo" Mindy pointed down to where a vicious looking pack of wiener dogs growled and circled, waiting for the tiny bat to be dropped down for their lunch. "That's messed up yo."

"Very, now to repay me for saving you Irwin I need a favor" she said, as he flapped his wings and hovered beside the witch.

"You just name it Mindy and Irwin will provide!" he exclaimed, before winking at her.

"I-"

"Yes?"

"Need you-"

"Yes yes?"

"To find me-"

"I'll do it!" he shouted before taking off, only Mindy reaching out and grabbing him by his bat feet stopped him from flying into the wall again in his excitement to be useful to a girl.

"A wand. I need you to find me a wand" Mindy said, setting Irwin down on the front of her broom.

Irwin scratched his head with a claw and looked up at her with a look of confusion. "Did your broom run out of magic?"

Mindy rolled her eyes and smiled. "No Irwin, I can only cast magic with my broom if I'm holding it in my hand, and if I'm holding it I can't fly. Understand?"

Irwin nodded, before shaking his head no. Mindy resisted the urge to face palm, even though she was nice to everyone, being faced with an idiot irked her nerves slightly.

"If I can't fly on my broom when I do magic I'll fall out of the sky when I try. So, I need a magic wand to do magic."

Irwin looked down to see Mindy's feet planted on the edge of the building's roof, before his eyes light up, he knew exactly how to help Mindy. "I'll be right back yo!" he exclaimed, before zooming off quickly, leaving Mindy alone, for a few seconds before he suddenly popped back onto her broom and held out a gnarled black wand carved with strange purple symbols and a tiny skull head on the bottom on the handle. "For you"

Mindy took it in her hand and felt power vibrate up her arm then into her whole body. Looking at the wand she pointed it at a pigeon sitting on top of a car and a beam of purple energy shot out of the wand and zapped the bird in a bright flash of energy, revealing a large and dangerous looking monster with a deformed pigeon head standing on top of what used to be a four door sedan.

"Wow! Irwin where did you get this wand?" she asked, looking down at the beaming bat creature, and failed to notice the pigeon monster stomping off into a nearby alley and vanishing from sight.

"I got it from Grim's trunk yo" he replied, flapping his wings several times to take off. "It's real easy to get whatever you want from there, he never locks it or anything." Irwin flew up into the sky and waved a wing at the witch. "Bye Mindy, I gotta go check in with the rest of Underfist yo!"

Mindy waved back as Irwin flew off, before looking back at the wand after he was gone. "The power, is it me or this wand?" she muttered to herself. Setting the wand down carefully balanced on her broom Mindy felt the tingling leave her body, she brushed the wand with her fingers and felt them go numb slightly from the energy radiating from the wand. "What is this thing?"

In the secret base President Mandy allotted to Underfist, Jeff the spider hummed Scary Oh under his breath as he pulled on four pairs of oven mitts and pulled two trays of pony tear truffles from the oven. Turning around he was greeted with the sight of his best friend, the pudgy green elephant thing that was Fred Fredburger, eating a jar of paste "Fred! Stop!" Fred stopped moving mid motion of putting another spoonful of paste into his open mouth. After several seconds, he resumed moving and put the spoon into his mouth.

"I like this new flavor of frozen yogurt you bought Jeff yes, almost as much as the chocolate and mint yogurt Grim killed" at the mere mention of the yogurt Grim accidentally knocked to the ground that day he, Billy and Mandy took Fred out for frozen yogurt caused Fred to tear up and begin to wail loudly, before running from the room, spilling paste everywhere .

Jeff sighed good naturedly and, after setting both trays of truffles down, began to clean up the mess. As he wiped up a rather stubborn spot of paste the sound of the door opening caught his attention. "I'm glad your done crying Fred, wanna help me clean up this paste?"

Looking over his shoulder he was surprised to see Scarr, not Fred. The one eyed gardener was shirtless, and had a towel in hand. "how do I look?" he asked, wiping off left over shaving cream from his face. The spider looked at him closely.

"You waxed your head?"

"No"

"You brushed and flossed?"

"No" Scarr replied, pointing to his upper lip.

"Oooohhhh I see!" Jeff said. "You trimmed your nostril hair."

A large and rather angry vein popped out on Scarr's temple as he gritted his teeth and his face turned red from anger. "My mustache and goatee! I shaved my mustache and goatee off you eight-legged simpleton!" Scarr turned around and stomped off, as he went out Hoss Delgado came in.

"Nice to see Scarr finally trimmed his nose hair" he said, as he sat down at the table and pulled out a copy of Pride and Prejudice, and then proceeded to start eating it. "Hopefully this book goes down better than War and Peace did."

"Hoss, you do know that people read books right? Not eat them?" Jeff asked.

The one eyed, one hand, and one footed monster hunter looked at him. "When giant brains from outer space invade and make everyone stupid I'll be immune to their mind control because I'll have gotten too smart for them by digesting the greatest books ever written." taking another bite Hoss chewed and swallowed. "Tomorrow I'm eating What's Eating Gilbert Grape."

"But that's a movie, not a book" Jeff said.

"I know, I'm eating the script," he replied, taking another big bite from the half eaten novel, causing several pages to fall out onto the table and floor.

A loud blaring alarm began to fill the room as a red strobe light began to flash. Hoss spit out the rest of his novel and flipped the table. "Its go time!"

After quickly dressing the four member of Underfist, minus Irwin, stood in front of a large computer screen as Jeff rapidly tapped at the keyboard with four hands.

"What's the emergency Jeff?" Scarr asked, stepping up beside him.

"I can't tell," Jeff said, before he stopped typing. "The keyboard's broken."

Hoss punched the keyboard, driving his metal hand through it, causing the screen to turn on and show several green, and very attractive women attacking the city. "I knew it! Alien babes from Saturn on the hunt for boyfriends!"

"What's the plan boss?" Jeff asked, while Fred rolled around on the ground trying to pull his zipper up.

"You and Fred stay here. Scarr and I will handle this" Hoss said, as the two of them headed for the door "You got your wallet?"

"Yes, why?"

"It'll take a lot of money to attract those alien beauties," Hoss replied. "Besides, its ladies night down at Merkle's so we have to actually pay this time."

Fred, finally zipped his uniform up, stood up and saluted. "Ready to watch movies about robot monkeys! Or movies about monkeys, or movies about robots and monkeys." he said.

"That sounds like a great mission!" Jeff said before the two ran off towards the TV room.

Mindy flew over Endsville, watching as the full moon rose. Firing a magic blast of energy at a nearby bunny she watched as the magic changed it into a large bipedal bunny with long sharp fangs and sharp talons, it howled at the moon before quickly digging a hole and vanishing underground.

"This wand is so powerful! I could never do anything like that when I used my broom" she said, holding the wand up over her head. "With this wand I can finally be a real witch!"

She began to cackle as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed, before stopping abruptly and looking around.

"Where did all that come from?" she asked herself as the urge to use the wand for evil retreated into the deep recesses of her mind.

"So, you want to be a real witch do you?" Mindy turned her broom around to see a beautiful women wearing a short purple dress, green and purple stripped socks and black boots riding a broom. "I think I can help you with that."

"Who are you?" Mindy asked.

"Me? I am Enchantra," she replied, as a black cat hopped up onto her shoulder from behind her and then jumped onto the front of her broom. "I am a real witch. I can teach you all I know, so what do you say Mindy, want to learn how to be a witch?"

Enchantra held out a long dark green wand that ended in a snakes head on the end. Mindy looked at it before reaching out and touching the end of her wand to the other witches, causing a flash of green energy.

"What was that?" Mindy asked, looking at the tip of her wand as the green glow slowly began to encompass her wand before it began to cover her with a tingling feeling like she got riding a rollercoaster.

Seeing Mindy was distracted, the dark haired witch waved her wand, releasing a wave of energy that began to spread until it covered the whole park. Down below a little red headed boy was frolicking with a group of bunnies. "I'm so happy to have all my bunny friends back!" Pud'n said, picking one of the fluffy animals and hugging it. He didn't notice the green energy as it came down and covered everything. The bunnies all began to shift and change, growing bigger and more vicious looking with every passing second.

Mindy watched as Pud'n was surrounded and hadn't even noticed anything wrong. "Pud'n run!" Mindy's shout snapped the boy out of his bunny hugging daze and he immediately felt his pants grow warm and wet when he noticed almost all of his bunny friends were now hulking, hideous monsters.

Clutching the unchanged bunny to his chest Pud'n tried to run away, but; the bunny he had clutched to his chest finally started to change and grew quickly, causing the boy to fall down from the sudden added weight and by then the monster bunnies were upon him and preceded to beat the snot out of him. Mindy, finally seeing enough, fired a bolt of green energy that caused a flash and a loud bang that startled the monsters, sending them retreating and leaving Pud'n safe for the moment.

Mindy flew down and grabbed him by the back of his jacket and as she pulled him up a clawed hand burst up from the ground, and the monster rabbit Mindy had created grabbed Pud'n by the foot and yanked him screaming down into the ground. "Pud'n! I have to do something!" she flew around in a circle trying to think of a plan. "I got it! Underfist!"

Enchantra watched Mindy fly off before she began to change from a beautiful woman to a humpbacked green skinned, horribly ugly witch. "Soon I'll finally get the wand of Morgan Le Gross for myself and rule the world!"

Irwin slowly and awkwardly shuffled his way into the kitchen. "Ow ow ow! All this cool stuff I can do but Sperg still picks on me" he'd tried turning into a bat to scare the larger bully but; Sperg only grabbed him and twisted and shaped Irwin's tiny body until he was round before popping him in his mouth and chewing him up for a minute or so before grabbing a straw and spitting Irwin at Billy like a spitball. He made himself a PB&J and a glass of milk and sat down at the table.

He'd barely taken a bite before a crashing sound from the other room caught his attention and Mindy flew in and crashed into him. "Irwin you have to help! A monster rabbit took Pud'n!"

"What's going on? We heard a crash and-" Jeff was cut off by Mindy grabbing him by the collar and shaking him.

"Pud'n has been kidnapped by a monster rabbit!" she exclaimed, before quietly adding under her breath. "That I created."

Irwin stood up and dusted himself off. "What happened to Pud'n?" he asked the witch.

"Ok, I was out practicing with my new wand and accidentally created a were rabbit, I didn't think much of it since it went underground but; when I tried to save Pud'n from a pack of mutated rabbit's the one I created grabbed and dragged him underground! You have to do something!"

"I like bunnies that talk with Brooklyn accents and eat carrots and sometime they mess with hunters and greedy ducks yes" Fred said as he came into the kitchen.

Irwin looked at Fred, before realizing what was happening. "We have to save Pud'n! Underfist Assemble!" he shouted, transforming into his mummy form. "Hey, where's Hoss and Mr. Scarr yo?"

"They're already out on a mission," Jeff said. "I guess its just you, me, and Fred to save Pud'n Irwin."

Irwin narrowed his eyes "It will be enough"

Pud'n awoke to find himself in a rabbit den. Sitting up he looked around to see the monster bunnies over on the other side of the den fighting over carrots like wolves. He gulped when one of them noticed he was awake, and roared so loud that everything began to shake and rumble as the whole group charged him. At the last second another bunny leaped in front of them, this bunny was more lithe and quick than the hulking brutes, he recognized it as the thing that grabbed him earlier.

"Pud'n friend! Give tasty carrots and hugs to bunnies!" it growled in an almost human voice. "keep Pud'n safe! Protect Pud'n from witch!"

The other bunnies drew back away from the speaking bunny before they realized what and who Pud'n was. They came over and sniffed at the shivering boy before one by one they game him a hug. "I knew you remembered me!" he exclaimed happily.

The whole den began to shake and rumble as a huge drill burst through the wall and a large vehicle pulled into the den. A door opened and out jumped Irwin, a giant spider and a green elephant thing. "Underfist save Pud'n!"

"Witch friends! Protect Pud'n!" the bunny shouted, leading the whole pack into a charge.

Jeff grabbed Irwin and Fred before releasing a web line and pulling all three of them up to the ceiling before making a small web and sticking Fred to it. "You stay here Fred and provide support" Jeff said, before he and Irwin jumped down to fight.

Fred watched as Irwin flew around as a bat, keeping the monster bunnies distracted allowing Jeff to fire webbing at them, tying them up. Reaching into his pockets he pulled out several bricks painted orange with green felt glued to the tops of each one and began dropping them with his trunk. "What's up doc, yes! What's up doc, yes! What's up doc, yes" he said as the bricks knocked several of the bunny creatures out cold.

Irwin dodged a slash from a bunny monster and spotted Pud'n. flying over he grabbed the boy by the hair and carried him towards the carrier. "I got him! Let's beat it yo!" he shouted, as he tossed Pud'n inside while Jeff retrieved Fred, and they retreated back the way they came.

"We did it!" Irwin exclaimed after they'd reached the surface. "We saved Pud'n all by ourselves, and we did it without Hoss and Mr. Scarr!"

"Pud'n is so happy he's crying tears of joy!" Jeff said, pointing to the boy, who had broke down into hysterical sobbing.

"Jeff, shouldn't we go tell Mindy we did good? Yes" Fred asked.

"You're right Fred, let's go tell Mindy!" Jeff replied, as the three jumped by into the Underfist transport and sped off, leaving Pud'n alone to cry.

End Chapter 1