Billy, Mandy, and Grim huddled together in a makeshift bunker in Washington D.C. They looked out on the city as spiders wreaked havoc.

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Velma could be heard calling in the distance. "Come out and surrender the earth to me, puny apes!"

Billy, lying catatonic on the bunker floor, quivered a bit more when he heard the spider woman's voice. Mandy just stared out at the captured city with angry eyes. Grim stood next to her, bored as could be.

"I still don't see why I can't just go out there and reap them," Grim grumbled.

Mandy rolled her eyes. "The title of the show is Underfist, not–"

"Yeah, yeah, I read the fourth chapter too," Grim said. "This just stinks, that's all! I mean, I have the power to end this plot immediately, and instead what am I stuck doing? Hiding in a hole with you two brats while the main characters get all the screentime!"

"Now you know how I feel," Nergal Jr. said.

"What the–how did you get in here?" Grim asked, completely confused.

Nergal Jr. shrugged. "Apparently my introduction was 'tasteless' and 'totally unprofessional,' so the producers wanted me to watch how a 'real professional like Extra 61 does things.'"

Mandy rolled her eyes. "Just go home, Junior."

Nergal Jr. left the bunker, and Grim and Mandy resumed staring at the battlefield. Spiders trundled past and over the bunker, ignoring it completely. One of them passed by, carrying Harold.

"Hey, guys!" Harold yelled, spotting them. "Help me! Help me! C'mon, I'm Billy's dad! You know me! Help!"

"Should we help him?" Grim asked boredly.

Mandy shrugged. "Nah. It's not in the script."

"What is in the script?" Grim asked.

"Apparently, Extra 61's line is coming up right about now," Mandy said.

"Good," Grim said. "Maybe then we'll see some action."

Another few minutes passed. Grim and Mandy grew more and more impatient.

"A real professional, my bony white–" Grim started to grumble.

"Don't worry, guys!" a voice behind them declared. "I'm sure Underfist will arrive at any moment to save our bacon!"

Immediately after Extra 61 made this proclamation, the Underfist spaceship crashed through the roof of the bunker and landed on top of him. A door opened in the spaceship, and Irwin hopped out.

"We're here to rescue you, yo!" Irwin said proudly. "Now how about a kiss?"

Irwin puckered up. Mandy punched him in the face, sending him flying backwards. He bounced off the spaceship and fell to the ground. The walkway unfurled onto him, and Irwin groaned as Mandy boarded the spaceship. Grim followed, carrying Billy with him. The walkway rewound itself, and Jeff shot a web out to pick up Irwin and pulled him into the spaceship. The door shut, and the flying saucer took off into the sky. Once they had ascended a few hundred feet, it shot forward for a few miles and then stopped, hovering over a battlefield.

On the battlefield below, zombies and spiders were fighting for supremacy. Although the spiders were more dextrous and faster, the zombies had the advantage of being almost unstoppable. From above it appeared to be a stalemate, because the zombies were taking heavy casualties but always getting up while the spiders were taking only small losses but these losses turned into all new spider zombie enemies. As the passengers on the Underfist ship watched, they noticed the spiders slowly getting pushed back.

"Wow," Mandy said. "The spiders are really under pressure."

"Yeah!" Grim said. "Nice job, guys! Although those zombies look awfully familiar..."

"No thanks are necessary, citizens," Hoss said. "It's all in a day's work for Hoss Delgado!"

"And Fred Fredburger!" Fred chimed in.

"Sure," Hoss said flatly. "And Fred Fredburger."

"Don't forget me," Skarr said. "I got us the army."

"Hey, yeah," Mandy said. "How did you get that zombie army, anyway?"

"Oh, we made a deal with the Mars Reaper," Irwin said loftily.

"YOU WHAT?" Grim screamed.


On the ground, the spiders found themselves getting hemmed in by the zombie forces.

"We're in trouble here, sir!" Velma's general screamed.

"Keep fighting!" Velma said desperately. "We can't lose now! Not now! Not when we're so close! And not to some zombies!"

"Keep fighting, troops!" the general commanded.

On his ship, Morg laughed as the spiders launched themselves into the breach again. "Fools! It is time to release the TVC 1-5!"

The Martian zombies on his ship pressed some buttons, and the bottom of the spaceship opened so that a giant TV set could be dropped onto the battlefield. The set landed with a massive crunch, crushing several spiders, and then wheeled itself towards the remaining spider troops. The spiders tried to fight it, but the television began devouring the spiders.

"NO!" the general screamed.

"Keep it together, Iggy!" Velma commanded.

"My girlfriend is in there!" Iggy the general screamed. "Sir! It's no longer safe here! Run! Save yourself! I'll hold them off until you can get to safety!"

"No!" Velma said. "We can still win this!"

"We can't win this battle!" Iggy said frantically. "Run!"

Velma skittered away towards the outskirts of the city. Before she left the field of battle completely, she looked back in anger.

"You will lose," she muttered to herself. "Oh yes. This planet will one day belong to Velma Green."


"That guy is a menace!" Grim ranted. "A maniac! A madman! A monster! No offense."

"None taken," Irwin said.

"Plus, he's gonna totally try to take over the world again," Grim said.

"And that's my job," Mandy said. "So now, you knuckleheads are going to fix the mess you created."

"How are we supposed to do that?" Jeff asked.

Mandy pressed a button on the ship's control panel, and the floor opened up beneath Underfist. They fell towards earth, screaming all the way.