When Last we Left our Heroes
Part 2
Anyway, like Ally had said before, you really couldn't blame all of this on her.
If Arthur hadn't stolen whatever it was that he'd stolen, then they wouldn't have been captured by Rose Thorn and his friend, The Tomato Bandit. If he would just stop being stubborn and turn to the side of good already then things would be so much easier…
But…But, this was no time to be pointing fingers! That wasn't what heroes did. No, she only needed to focus on getting out of here before Rose Thorn and the Tomato Bandit returned from wherever they had disappeared.
Which was easier said than done, as it was hard to concentrate when your dude in distress was very noisily struggling against the ropes firmly binding him to his chair—which happened to be behind hers and probably facing in the opposite direction—angrily cursing every few seconds. "Git. Bloody git. When I get out of this mess…"
Now, usually this escape would be incredibly simple. After all, she not only had the totally sweet ability to fly, but she also happened to have super strength… Normally she would just break free of the ropes that were binding her to her chair, strike a heroic pose, beat up the bad guys (but not too badly, because that was like police brutality which was a big no-no), and then swoop down and rescue her dude in distress!
Then they'd fly away into the sunset and he would repent of his evil ways and they would live happily ever after!
Or, you know, something like that.
Unfortunately, it wasn't going to be that easy to escape. Because—and this had sent a momentary panic through her mind when she'd first realised it—her superpowers weren't working for some reason.
Which meant that Rose Thorn must have done something evil and diabolical to her in order to steal her superpowers. And now she was stuck in the evil villains' evil lair (or what she assumed was part of their evil lair; they were currently just locked in an empty room with blank cement walls and one door) without any obvious escape routes.
But she couldn't despair, because superheroes never gave up!
If she was going to figure out a way out of here, though, then she was going to need some help from her future sidekick—it'd be good practice for him anyway. So she turned her head in his direction and hissed a quiet, "Artie! Hey, Artie!"
Arthur didn't respond, though; he probably couldn't hear her over his own annoyed cursing and his struggles against the ropes binding him to his own chair.
"Arthur?" He was struggling way too loudly and also way too violently. As she suddenly realized when she noticed a feather suddenly drift into sight. A white feather with the quill tinted red…
"Hey, Artie!"
And that shout finally managed to get his attention. His chair scraped against the floor, as if he'd jumped. Probably could have gotten his attention in a slightly less-startling way, but…
"Dude, don't hurt yourself." Ally couldn't have her dude in distress/future sidekick hurt himself in a fruitless attempt to escape from their captors. That would totally be not cool! "Captain Justice Girl can handle this!"
He snorted in response. "You can handle this… Git, you're the one who got us into this mess."
"Did not." And she totally hadn't. "If you hadn't stolen whatever-it-was that you stole…" Now that she thought about it, she actually had no clue what it was that he'd taken. "Anyway, so this is totally your fault. I was being heroic and then you had to go and be all villainous."
Although this really really wasn't the time to be pointing fingers. They had to think…
Unfortunately, she didn't have the chance to do much thinking, as the door to their cell suddenly slammed open. The light from outside almost blinding her.
"Bonjour, Mademoiselle! I hope that we are not interrupting anything!"
And two figures were standing in the doorway, thankfully blocking some of the light… Still took a minute for her eyes to adjust, though. She watched as Rose Thorn stepped through the door and casually made his way toward her seat.
"It took longer than I expected for you to wake up." She could see the smirk crossing over his lips as he stopped in front of her, peering down at her with a villainous expression. "But no harm done, oui? Now, I'm sure that you would like to get home as soon as possible so we shall make this quick. Now, where is the Shallot Diamond?"
Huh?
Was that what Arthur had stolen? She'd never heard of it before...
Which was totally reasonable, by the way! Heroes had to worry about saving people and helping the police and things like that. They didn't have time to be super good at remembering names of jewels or when the Battle of Gettysburg happened or what was the atomic number of Magnesium. Stupid things like that...
Her confusion must have shown on her face, though, because the villainous Rose Thorn frowned for a moment before he leaned back and glanced toward Arthur. "Or did you fail at retrieving it from our cher little thief?"
"Hey, dude, I totally didn't fail! I was just keeping it out of your evil clutches!"
Rose Thorn ignored her—like the evil villain that he was—and instead walked over toward her future sidekick. Which may give her a chance to escape...
Ally hurriedly turned her head toward the door at this thought, squinting toward the figure who was still standing there. The Tomato Bandit, of course. Standing there to make sure she couldn't escape, leaning on a long pole that ended in something very shiny and very very sharp.
Yeah, she wasn't getting out that way. While the Tomato Bandit was usually one of her nicer archrivals, he did have this really uncool tendency to switch personalities without much warning. He'd go from his usual happy, mild-mannered personality to a complete raging psychopath... A raging psychopath with an axe, just to make everything worse.
You know, let's just say that Ally had never been happier to have the power to fly than she had been during that one fight...
...So they definitely weren't getting out that way.
"Now, mon cher," Rose Thorn was now talking to Arthur, his voice lower than when he'd been speaking to her. "We know that you stole the Shalott Diamond. And it would really be in your best interest to just hand it over."
You know, maybe she could wriggle her hands free or something, untie herself, and then make a break for it. Once she was outside of this room, her powers would probably come back and she could heroically handle the Tomato Bandit and Rose Thorn and rescue her dude in distress.
And then get him to give her the jewel so she could return it to the rightful owner.
She could just imagine how awesome that would be. The Tomato Bandit would notice her escape first and swing at her with his mighty axe. But he would be much too slow, as she would easily leap over the deadly blade. She would jump onto the axe handle mid-swing, use it to push herself off, do a somersault over his head, land with a perfect ten... Then she'd knock him out with a single blow—it wouldn't hurt him, of course, but it would knock him out until the police arrived. Then she'd run into the room and dodge Rose Thorn's darts with her superheroic reflexes. Another karate chop to knock him out. And then she and British Angel Dude would escape and fly off into the sunset!
Awesome!
"What makes you think that I stole it?" Arthur's voice was layered with sarcasm. As usual. "Everyone wants that jewel. Besides, last I heard, you three had it."
"We did have it, until Antonio gave it to Lovino..."
Lovino, another dastardly villain; the leader of an organization of lesser criminals. He was better known as 'El Chigi.' Or, at least, that's what she called him. Since she seemed to be the only one in this entire city who understood the importance of secret identities.
"And then un hombre estupido stole it from Lovi!" the Tomato Bandit now chirped in, sounding surprisingly happy about this fact. "I made sure to show him how very very bad that was, though. So everything is okay now~!"
Yeah, definitely not going out that way.
"Anyway," Rose Thorn was starting to sound annoyed. "We know that you stole it. Just tell us where it is and we will let you and your amour go..."
But Arthur didn't have a chance to respond to his threat—not that he needed to, since Ally knew that her future sidekick would never give the Scallop Diamond to the bad guys—by a sudden shout coming from outside of the door where the Tomato Bandit was still standing.
"Dude, when are you guys coming out? Awesome's getting bored here!"
And if Allison had been a less heroic superhero, she may have gasped in shock at that voice. But she didn't, because she'd totally known that she would be here.
She. Also known as the most evil supervillain in the entire city… Possibly the entire county. And maybe even the entire state! The super creepy, weird-looking, and evil mistress of evil, Doctor Unawesome. (She may call herself Doctor Awesome, but everyone knew that the title of awesome was reserved for the good guys).
And now she suddenly appeared in the doorway, her evil tomato-themed minion moving aside like the evil minion that he was.
And her red eyes immediately glinted at Ally like pools of red blood and she grinned with teeth that Ally knew were pointier than normal teeth. And dude, if that wasn't a sign of her evilness, then nothing was, because you could not have bloody-coloured eyes and pointy teeth and not be evil. That went against like all rules of superhero/villain-dom.
No matter what Mattie said.
"So, we meet again, Captain Unawesome Superhero Girl." And she was now leaning against the doorframe with a slouch of villainy. "Why don't you and Artie here come out and join us? And we can discuss some rather important things all together like an awesome little family!"
Ally was vaguely aware of the sound of Arthur groaning and saying something about "gits," but she didn't allow him to distract her. Because this was the most important part of their adventure. Because now was her chance to face off against her ultimate archnemesis.
And only the bravest and most heroic hero could survive!
A/N: So, this isn't going to be two parts obviously... Yeah. It'll be three. Because Gill needs her own chapter, apparently. (More like Ally needs to shut up in her little head xD). Ah well. Yay! I'm sort of back at least! I've missed y'all... I'm at school now. And I'm twenty now! Had my birthday four days ago... Craziness. I feel old.
Other notes, so one of you recognised who Francis was dressed as. Although a lot of you were sort of close. He is dressed as Arsène Lupin, a famous thief in French literature. Who is almost completely unknown in the US, sadly. I've never met someone in the US who knew who he was who I hadn't told about him... Sad day. But a lot of you actually mentioned the tuxedo dude from Sailor Moon (whose name I don't know because I don't think I ever actually watched Sailor Moon, lol). Who was actually based off of Arsène Lupin. As were many other characters in anime/manga (aka: just about every gentleman/phantom thief in any anime/manga) because Lupin is famous in Japan for some reason that I've never actually understood. So, you guys can all have some internet cookies. And random knowledge that I enjoy sharing because I've spent, so far, three summers of my life researching this sort of thing because I have no life and have a tendency to obsess over weird things that no one else cares about. Wee~
Also, because I totally forgot to say this before. Francis's name was taken from a fanfiction on the kink meme. So I didn't come up with it. Not sure what the title was, but I know you can find it on the Hetalia tvtropes fanfic recommendation page somewhere. Not that that helps much. xD