While Zeke and the girls had been going to where Chrissy was taking them, deep somewhere in the city lied the lair (actually building) of the mad scientist known as the dastardly Dr. Nightingale and his cyborg minion; Larry. Their mission? World domination.
"At last! It's finally done!" Nightingale said to himself "A year of planning and it's finally ready! My greatest achievement ever; the Brain Buster! Larry! The camera"
"Right here, Dr. Nightingale" Larry said as he held up the camera "Smile!"
Larry then took a picture and a photo of Nightingale came out. The doc then picked it up and looked at it.
"I look fat in this one, burn it at once" Nightingale said as he threw the picture to the floor.
"Yes sir" Larry said as he grabbed the picture.
"Larry, how long have we known each other?" asked Nightingale.
"Fifteen years, boss" Larry replied.
"And what has been the one thing that's been on my mind for that long?" asked Nightingale.
Larry thought for a second "I'd say that'd be world domination"
"Precisely!" Nightingale snapped his fingers "One blast from this Brain Buster will turn every citizen in all of Bay City into mindless zombies, leaving them under my control! An army at my fingertips and then...world domination! Mwah, ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Mwah ha ha ha ha ha!" Larry manically laughed with his boss.
"Power up the machine" Nightingale immediately stopped laughing.
"Indeed sir" Larry nodded.
Not too far from Nightingales building (a block away to be exact), were our main protagonists, arriving at their destination.
"Here we are guys" said Chrissy "My cousin's shop"
"Fancy sign" Bridget remarked.
Ping looked up and saw some dark storm clouds "Gee, looks like it's going to rain. Maybe we should come back some other time"
"Stop being such a spaz, Ping" Chrissy told her friend "Let's go inside"
"Right behind you" Penny replied "Come on, Brain"
"Ruff!" Brain barked.
While the others walked inside the store, Ping and Zeke stayed outside for a bit.
"Is it true, Zeke?" she asked him "Am I really a spaz?"
"No Ping" Zeke shook his head "You're perfect just the way you are"
"Thanks" Ping giggled and blushed.
The gang then all got into the shop. Brain then started barking.
"Brain, what is it, Brain?" Penny asked him.
"Bark! Bark!" Brain barked towards something.
Just then, another dog stuck its head right out of a curtain and started running towards Brain and the two started barking at each other.
"It looks like Brain has found someone" Chrissy remarked.
Just then, some tall guy came out "Chill out boy, it's okay"
The dog stopped barking at Brain.
"Adrianne" Chrissy exclaimed as she ran over to him and they hugged.
"Chrissy, great to see you baby" said Adrianne "Aren't you going to introduce me to your mates, here?"
"Oh right" Chrissy grinned "Cousin Adrienne, these are my friends; Mackenzie or 'Mac' rather, Ping, Zeke, Penny and Bridget"
"And this is my dog, Brain" Penny introduced her dog "I see he and your dog have gotten well acquainted"
"Ping, Mackenzie and I have come here for some styling" Chrissy explained "And I think Penny and Bridget would like some stylings too"
"Well I don't need one, but Penny sure could have her hair done" Bridget said as she touched Penny's pigtails "I mean, she's been wearing her hair the same way her whole life. Why don't you hook Penny up with something new?"
"Why that's not a bad idea, Bridget" said Adrienne "Your friend does look like she could use a new do"
Penny sighed "Fine. I've always wanted to see what I'd look like with a different style"
"What do you say, Napoleon?" Adrienne asked his dog "Can we make these girls fly?"
"Ruff!" Napoleon barked.
"Well then, follow me girls" said Adrienne.
"Bridget!" Penny glared at Bridget.
"No need to thank me, Penny" Bridget smiled "I'd do anything for my best friend"
"Oi vey" Penny rolled her eyes.
While the girls and Zeke followed Adrienne into the salon, Napoleon and Brain walked up to each other.
"Hi there, I'm Brain" Brain told Napoleon.
"Nice to meet you Brain, the name's Napoleon" said Napoleon "What brings you to Bay City?"
"My owner's are here for a seven week exchange program, so we're staying here with Chrissy for the next month and a half" Brain explained.
"Cool" Napoleon exclaimed "It's gonna be great to have a fellow canine around the shop"
"So, you like playing ball?" asked Brain.
"I sure do" Napoleon nodded "And what do you like to do?"
"Well, I like to go on adventures with Penny and Bridget" Brain replied "It's pretty cool"
The two dogs then walked into the other room, where the girls, Zeke and Adrienne were. Zeke then saw something in a blender.
"Hey Adrienne, what is this stuff?" he asked the stylist.
"It's my special drink, babe" said Adrienne "Would you like to know what's in it?"
"It's just a fruit smoothie" Chrissy giggled.
"Whatever" Adrienne shrugged "Now, let's get fabulous!"
Meanwhile over at Nightingale's building, the mad scientist and his cyborg henchman were ready to activate the Brain Buster.
"We're ready, Larry" said Nightingale "Activate the Brain Buster"
Larry plugged the machine's plug into the socket and Nightingale pressed a green button, which opened up a hatch on the roof and the machine extended up to the outside of the building.
"Goodbye Bay City! Hello world domination!" Nightingale shouted.
The machine zapped a laser beam into the dark clouded sky, but the dark clouds started to grow faster, thanks to the electrons in the laser beam and vapor in the clouds.
"No! No! That's not supposed to happen!" Nightingale panicked.
Meanwhile back at the salon, the girls were sitting in their chairs and their heads were in the dryer things you find on salon chairs, whatever you call them. At that same time, Napoleon and Brain took a look at Zeke's tail on his mascot costume.
"Hey Brain, watch this" Napoleon whispered.
Napoleon barked, ran to Zeke and started tugging on his mascot tail.
"Hey! Let go!" Zeke tried to pull his tail back "Let go mutt!"
Napoleon kept tugging on Zeke's tail until he let go and caused Zeke to slam up against the wall. Brain and Napoleon then started to laugh.
"And the crowd goes wild" Brain slapped Napoleon's front paw.
"Stupid dogs" Zeke mumbled.
Adrienne then served some drinks to Chrissy, Mac, Ping, Penny and Bridget. They grabbed the glasses.
Chrissy raised her glass "Here's to the championships and our new friends!"
"Yeah, it feels good to get away from Metro City for a while" Penny remarked.
The girls then clinked their glasses together.
At that same time, the dark storm cloud was getting even bigger by the moment the Brain Blaster was zapping it.
"The energy is getting too intense" said Nightingale "We have to shut it off"
While the two mad villains tried to shut the machine off, lighting emerged from the cloud and it struck three loiterers and a worm, which started to undergo a strange transformation and crawl right into a sewer.
Just then, a huge ball of lightning blasted right through the salon door and struck the hairdryer's that the girls were sitting under, also zapping them in the process. This caused them to float right into the air and they started to transform. Into what? You'll have to wait until the next chapter.
Author's Note:
It looks like some lightning has struck the place and our heroines. Wanna see their transformations? Stay tuned for the next chapter.