(I don't own Bittersweet Candy Bowl, and the plot for this second storyline is inspired by the classic Batman story, Dr. Hugo Strange and the Mutant monster, the Silver Sentinel also belongs to Blade100, and that character is just an alternate version of Mike, but unlike the version Blade100 uses, the events of December happened on this Earth.)

Alejandro Small and the Monster Men: Part 1

HILL HIGH SCHOOL, 4:00 AM

The Hill high school was abandoned in the 70s after it became the site of an infection with an alien virus, while the virus was purged people were too weirded out by the place and another one was built in its place.

The place was surprisingly intact, despite being a little rundown…but soon the school was about to be known for something else.

In an abandoned gymnasium stood several large metal cages, two of them had a homeless dog in each, but another one contained something horrible.

It was a cat but you couldn't tell that if you looked at it, it was twenty feet tall and had a lot of muscle mass, the hair was completely shaved off him and the creature was on a heavy amount of drugs and chains, so instead of being in a homicidal rage it was asleep.

Alejandro smirked as he looked on at his handiwork, "Heh, this is going be a blast" he chortled, referring to the plan Augustus gave him…

ROSVILLE MALL, Saturday: 12:48 PM

"You broke his knee?" An astonished Daisy said, referring to what Lucy had just told her in a story of what she was doing the previous night.

"The guy was asking for it" Lucy defended "The bastard was selling children into slavery; frankly he should have been glad I don't kill people."
Daisy had convinced Lucy to come with her to the mall; apparently she wanted to visit with her and while Lucy could normally blow these off Daisy said she checked Mike's schedule and promised that unless something extremely unforeseen happened, he wouldn't be there.

It had been a month since Lucy beat the Cryptic, and Daisy found out Lucy was the Ice Queen.

It had also been a month since Daisy learned why Lucy became the Ice Queen and what Mike did to her.

Despite Daisy's shock and outrage that Mike treated Lucy the way he did, Lucy convinced her to not tell Mike about this.

Lucy didn't want to put up with another fight with Mike, even though she'd become Ice Queen to deal with her pain she was still recovering from the trauma she'd experienced the previous year.

It may have been just a few minutes, but in those few minutes Mike had turned her life into Hell, and it'd take a long while to recover fully from the effects.

Still though, at least she had her friends and Longcoat was helping her recover from the trauma Mike had inflicted.

Back in the present, Lucy and Daisy were in the mall and sitting near a fountain, Daisy wanted to go shopping for new clothes and wanted to see if she could get Lucy something as well, the fact that Mike wouldn't be anywhere near them was a bonus too.

Daisy shook her head "True but you don't always have to beat people up within an inch of their life, look at Augustus."
"You know I didn't use enough force to throw him off."
"I'm talking about what you did before he fell, he might have murdered people but you actually resorted to brutally beating him, and then there was how you used me against him..."
"I know what trauma feels like Daisy" Lucy sighed "I hated to use you against him but I had to end the fight quickly."
"Because you wanted to stay away from…Mike" Daisy hissed out Mike's name, she was still mad about what Lucy told her concerning Mike, once this was done she continued "Is understandable, but he doesn't know you're the Ice Queen so you could have simply left after he appeared."
"That would have left too many questions, and if I left too often eventually he'd try to figure out who the Ice Queen is, and while he isn't smart enough to figure out who I am I doubt that who or what ever made that suit of his can't find me."
Daisy was about to say something when she heard something "Uh, Lucy? Am I the only one hearing something getting smashed?"
Lucy looked behind her and saw a very large cat in a loincloth; it was completely shaved and smashing up the mall entrance.

Turning back to Daisy, Lucy said "Oh trust me, you aren't the only one."
Daisy turned around and freaked out at the sight of the monster "OH MY GOD!"
"Daisy, run for your life, I'll try to get this freak as quick as I can."
"Can I-"

"No! I told you before that I'm not training you to help me; I don't want you or any of my friends to get hurt because of my alter ego, now RUN!"
Daisy quickly got up and joined the large crowd of people who'd began to run from the hulking beast that had been trying to tear the place up, Lucy however made a beeline for the women's bathroom.

Finding the room to be empty she entered a stall and used hammerspace to remove her costume, a quick change later and she was ready to fight.

Rushing right out she saw that the monster hadn't stopped smashing things and had just began to near the fountain.

Wanting to end this quickly, Lucy pulled out a hand gun and proceeded to soot at the mosnter's left knee.

Much to her surprise the beast didn't even feel the bullet, Lucy didn't think it'd have skin that hard, she didn't even see the bullet sinking into the flesh.

The monster proceeded to begin ripping the fountain out of its supports, however Lucy decided to bring out sterner measures and shot a rocket launcher at its back.

This didn't seem to do too much damage but it did hurt the creature enough to get its attention.

"So you can feel pain" Lucy thought aloud, however her face quickly turned to a look of 'oh shit' once she realized that now the creature just ripped out the fountain and threw it right at her.

Lucy lept out of the way of the fountain, the very tip of her tail feeling the massive hunk of stone and marble as it flew through the air and demolished the bathrooms.
No sooner had she got up on her feet again, when the monster proceeded to charge Lucy.

The girl began to run backwards and hurriedly pull out another rocket launcher from hammerspace, once accomplishing this (and dodging a trashcan the monster threw at her) she proceeded to shoot a rocket right in the creature's face.

The monster was hurt a good deal by the rocket but continued charging, Lucy had been slowed up by the rocket firing enough for the monster to backhand her.

The force of the blow sent Lucy flying a good forty feet through the air and right into the glass door of a department store.

Lucy barely had the time to recover before the monster charged right at her, stomping forth on all fours.

Lucy turned around and began to run away from the charging beast, it was clear that she didn't have anything that could stop him but she saw a fuel truck outside the mall and she had a plan that might just stop him.

Running as fast as she could, dodging clothes racks (and sometimes knocking them over) she ran to the far end of it, where she could clearly see an exit.

Pulling out an uzi she proceeded to shoot out the glass and run right through and into the parking lot.

A quick sweep showed that about twenty feet away lay the fuel truck she was looking for.

The monster burst through the wall about then and Lucy decided it was time to stop this rampaging beast for good.

Quickly Lucy lept on top a parked car and began running on them until the fuel truck was right behind her.

The monster, as she expected, had followed her and was smashing up cars in his wake.
"C'mon you idiot" Lucy muttered "I want you to do it, c'mon, hit me."
The monster roared and continued to rush towards her, its mind gone mad with hate.

"Hit me!" Lucy growled.

The monster was right up to her, the hot breath of its horrendous maw being unbearable.
"HIT ME!" She yelled.

The monster proceeded to draw back one of its meaty fists back and tried to smash Lucy with it, and in the split second before the blow Lucy lept right out of its way.

The monster was mad and tried to move up, however the fist had smashed into the truck and was stuck, it could have moved the truck but it would take it a little bit.

Lucy backflipped backwards several feet and whipped out a bazooka, now all she had to do was fire into the truck and the resulting explosion should have knocked out the creature.

Just before she was about to fire she realized something and facepalmed.

She just remembered an easier way to take out the beast, and boy did she feel stupid for forgetting it.

As she reached into hammerspace however somebody else was approaching from above…

Mike had heard a police report of a giant, shaved cat tearing up the Roseville Mall, he'd been hunting down a supervillain called Bloodlust at the time and (as the Silver Sentinel) had flown down there to stop the beast.

And he was very surprised at what he saw there, the beast was in the parking lot with a fuel truck on its right arm, there were two large holes smashed into the walls, and a female cat in grey clothes was pointing a rocket launcher at the monster.

"Legacy, what is this?" Mike asked the AI that powered his suit.

"I am not sure, the cat appears to have punched it's fist through a mobile tank of flammable substances, the being also appears to be heavily mutated, but I cannot identify how it was."
As the computer was talking Mike saw the girl with the rocket launcher drop said weapon and throw some kind of item at it.
"Oh crap, she's going to kill it!" Mike exclaimed in shock.
"Unlikely" the computer said "she appears to be throwing a bomb that contains a gas designed to make sentient beings loose consciousness."
"You mean she's knocking it out?"
"Precisely" the sentient computer replied.
Below, the gas grenade did it's work and knocked out the raging monster.

Sensors within the suit picked up hearing the young vigilante mutter "I can't believe I didn't think of that sooner."
The young girl instead started to walk over to the beast and began trying to use a chainsaw on the beast's arm.
"Odd" Legacy said "I cannot seem to detect any heat signatures or a heart."
"What do you mean?" A confused Mike asked the computer.

"There is something on her clothes that seem to make it impossible for me to sense heat or a heart, but I positive that the girl down there is not a machine."
The girl had now put the chainsaw behind her back, where it suddenly disappeared and just after she did that she placed a small chunk of flesh she cut out of the monster's left arm into a plastic bag, which she also placed behind her back.

"What should we do Legacy?"
"The best idea is to try and find out who this girl is and whether or not she's a threat."
However as the computer finished saying this and the girl put the bag wherever she put the chainsaw, she turned around and saw Mike.

"Oh Hell no" said the mysterious girl, quickly she pulled something else out and threw it at Mike.

A bright light filled the air and blinded the young cat.
"A flash grenade!" Mike thought aloud.

"Adapting to new weapon" Legacy said, after a few seconds the lights dimmed and the girl was nowhere to be found, he did though notice an open manhole.
"Why did she do that?" Mike wondered.
"Whoever she is, she must be very fast to have gone down that manhole" Legacy said "with her clothes it would be very hard to find her down there."
"Then I'd better hurry" said Lucy's former friend, then proceeding to fly right down it and try to find the girl he thought went down there.

However when he left, he didn't notice the girl had slipped out from beneath the car she was hiding under and pull an armored motorcycle out from behind her back.

To say Lucy was pissed would be an understatement, she wanted to stop the monster but she didn't want Mike to even see the Ice Queen.

As she sped off on the motorcycle (not wanting to be anywhere near there when Mike realized she wasn't in the sewer) she let out a groan: "Great, if the monsters weren't a big enough problem, now I've got to put up with Mike again. This is gonna be a long night…"