(I don't own Bittersweet Candy Bowl or the story that inspired this storyline, 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.)

Hill High School, 11:00 PM

Daisy knew Lucy didn't want her to follow her but she couldn't help herself.

Figuring out an excuse to give Paulo so he wouldn't be suspicious with her leaving the party, Daisy headed over the abandoned high school she was sure Lucy had went to.

That school had a very high concentration of clay around it, plus it was abandoned so it would make an at least alright hideout, Daisy was told by Lucy to not go but Daisy was worried and chose to go and see if she could help her friend.

After getting out of her Mom's car (her parents were eating out and what they didn't know wouldn't hurt them, so she 'borrowed' it to get to the school) Daisy walked over to the front door and found it was unlocked.

Slipping right in and noticing a suspicious lack of dust on the ground, Daisy walked through the school, though unlike Lucy she was rather scared.

Walking through the place she began to hear voices off in the distance and despite her fear, she pressed onward.

After a good deal of walking she found a double door with light coming out of the bottom.

She carefully poked it open a little and saw something disturbing, a cage containing a scared looking homeless cat, changing her perspective a little she also saw Lucy (in costume) tied to a chair.

Resisting the urge of shriek she closed the door and frantically tried to think of a way to free her friend, it was then she remembered something from her Mom's car and hurriedly sped off to get her plan into action.

Lucy's eyes cracked open as she finally recovered from the drugs Alejandro had used to knock her out, no sooner did she do so then she noticed a brown furred dog call over Alejandro (who seemed to add a hoodie to his outfit for some reason.)

Looking around she saw she was in an abandoned gymnasium, she also saw two other dogs, a yellow furred cat with an AK-47, and a lobster with a billy club.

Also in the room was a very large cage with a homeless cat in it, he was scruffy and looked like he hadn't shaved or bathed in months…not to mention the fact he looked scared out of his wits, Lucy was wondering why the cage would be for something about twenty times his size.

Next to that she could notice a table that was filled with lab equipment, it appeared to be distilling some bizarre green substance but Lucy couldn't tell what it was.

Her observations were cut short when she saw the sneering Alejandro walking over to her.

Standing directly in front of her he grabbed her jaw and held it up for him to see.
"Not bad, a shame you gotta croak or else I could toy with you before you die."
Lucy shuddered, knowing full well what the gangster meant by 'toy with her' and she was glad he wouldn't try to rape her.

"I gotta admit it got a lotta brains to find my new crib, but you won't be living to tell anyone about it."
He looked over towards the cage with the homeless cat before continuing "Let me explain what I'm going to do, I'm sure you've heard about the monsters…"

Daisy nervously put down the can of gasoline she'd taken from her mother's car.

When Lucy explained the plan she used to beat the Cryptic, Daisy said that she could have done better and that the plan was rather shoddy.

'Well this is ironic' Daisy thought as she removed the cap, realizing that she was in the same situation Lucy was in.
Daisy knew that her Mom (after an incident where she ran out of gasoline when her family went on a roadtrip) tended to keep two cans of gasoline in her car at all times, and she personally made sure they were filled whenever she got gas.

Daisy's plan was to try and lay out one can of gasoline as a makeshift powder trail and lead it right up to the second container, causing an explosion that could give Lucy enough time to escape (and probably wake her up for sure, though she didn't realize Lucy was already awake) whoever caught her.

Right now she'd placed one container near the door she'd seen and was beginning to slowly pour out gasoline in a trail leading back to her car.

Alejandro was about to get one Hell of a wakeup call.

"You see" Alejandro said, beginning his explanation for the monsters "When Augustus died" (Augustus told him to pretend he was dead, to further confuse the Ice Queen) "And yes I know he is, I chose to look through his stuff and guess what I found."
He grinned evilly as he pulled out a vial filled with a thick green substance from his pocket "Turns out the boy had somehow got his hands on a formula that turns people into massive mutated creatures with superhuman strength and durability, the problem with it though is that it reduces the mind of those who ingest it into a psychotic brute that can barely speak.
"Now obviously, I cannot take this drug myself and I wouldn't force it on any of my boys, plus I couldn't really control what they do either, however they provide the nicest distractions.
"That monster at the mall today, he was just a test of what it could do and while you were able to beat it that was just due to circumstance, plus you really only won by luck, so I'm sure my plan will work.
"Tonight, I'm going to release three monsters into the city and while they destroy shit me and my boys are gonna loot the banks in the confusion."
Alejandro's sneer grew even nastier "I've got three monsters already made but I haven't made my fourth and I'd like to demonstrate just what I got."
The homeless cat's eyes grew wide with fear when he heard this "NO! PLEASE DON'T!" He yelled out in pure fear.

Ignoring this Alejandro gave a motion to the dogs, understanding some secret code the gangbangers walked over to the cage and held the cat's arm out, rather hard as the poor devil tried as hard as he could to keep out of their reach but sadly he couldn't avoid their grasp.

As the arm was held out Alejandro walked right over to them and proceeded to inject it right into the homeless cat with a syringe he pulled from his pocket, after doing that he then hurriedly shoved the arm back into the cage, then proceeding to back off quickly (his goons doing the same.)
In about half a minute a horrified Lucy saw a gruesome change go over the homeless man, she saw the agonized face as he began to grow rapidly, his muscles ripping open and expanding to great sizes, his fur beginning to fall right out, and worst of all, despite the expanding body the cage could barely keep itself together.

Alejandro smirked 'Augustus sure knows his stuff' he thought inwardly 'this is better than television.'

Getting his thoughts back to reality he turned back to Lucy who was looking fairly horrified by what she was seeing.
This look quickly turned to one of great rage and for the first time since she'd been captured she finally spoke "YOU BASTARD!"
She probably would have spoken sooner but she was trying to use the small knife she hid up her sleeve to cut open the ropes binding her while Alejandro spoke, she'd still failed to cut them in time as she'd had trouble getting a good cut (in her defense she had her arms tied behind her back and couldn't figure out how to get the job done.)
She'd tried it slowly because she didn't want Alejandro to know she was cutting herself free, and was now wishing she'd hurried, if she had she might have saved that poor cat from what that…monster did to him.

Alejandro reached into his pocket and pulled out another vial, then pulling out another syringe.

"Well, since my mother was a whore you might be right, but regardless since you know my plan I can't leave you alive, and I really only need three monsters for my plan.
"And frankly, I'd like to see what happens when a lady gets filled up with this shit, and I've always wanted to see what happens if two of these beasts fight to the death…

Back outside Daisy had been slightly distracted by all the noise in the other room but now she'd finally gotten the gasoline rigged up and it was all set to burn.

The gas was laid so that it turned a corner and led right into the side entrance for the gym, Daisy silently prayed that her plan would work before beginning.

Calmly she pulled out a book of matches and lit one, taking a deep breath she was about to drop the match when all of a sudden she heard a voice behind her.
"Freeze bitch" growled an angry voice behind her.
Frightened, Daisy turned around and looked right into the face of a very angry looking cat, he was holding a shotgun at her face and looked rather mad that she was there.
So scared was Daisy that she accidentally dropped the match she held, and neither of them realized it at first.

So you can imagine the surprise of both parties when the gasoline caught on fire (Daisy was very glad she'd stayed just out of the fire's reach when it was lit.)
The cat hurriedly rushed into the side entrance where Daisy had lit the fire, while Daisy herself hurriedly rushed off a few feet away and hid behind a row of lockers for when the angry gangsters showed up.

Of course though, they had enough troubles of their own inside…

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Alejandro grinned to himself as he pointed the now filled syringe towards Lucy's arm (which was now frantically trying to break free) and was about to inject it when suddenly a scared looking cat burst in through one of the doors and yelled "SOME BITCH WITH A PEARL NECKLACE IS SETTING FIRE TO THE PLACE!"
Lucy's eyes widened when she heard this, she was pretty sure that the 'bitch' in question was Daisy, she knew that the fire was no accident and that it had to be there for some reason.

For once Lucy was glad Daisy had actually followed her along, especially since she'd finally cut her hands mostly free.

With rage-fueled strength she snapped what was left of her bonds and lept up towards Alejandro, punching him square in the face mid-flight.

The gang leader tumbled down from the force of the blow, at about the same time as this a large explosion appeared at another door (Daisy's gasoline went off) and spooked the other gangsters.

Alejandro managed to stand up even quicker than Lucy thought he could, and (despite the fact the building was caught on fire) yelled out "SHOOT THE FUCK OUTTA HER!"
The guards had somewhat more regained their nerve and got their guns ready to try and shoot Lucy.

Thinking fast Lucy made a dive towards the cat with the shotgun and punched him square in the jaw, once she'd knocked the guy down and took his gun, she rolled to avoid gunfire from the AK-47 wielding dogs.

Once she had the shotgun she took careful aim (only pausing once to punch the yellow furred cat in the jaw again) and shot the dogs just so they'd drop their weapons.

Alejandro had quickly had enough of this and yelled out the one word most generals hate to use.
"RETREAT!"

At this the cat and dogs (plus lobster) began to run off towards one of the two entrances that didn't happen to be on fire, Alejandro didn't seem to run though.

Lucy tried to take aim at the fleeing criminals only to get hit by a brick, Alejandro had pulled one out of his pocket and hurled it at her in order to make her drop the shotgun.

As she did exactly what he wanted her to do, Alejandro ran off to the cage before she could recover.

Looking back at her he smirked one more time before yelling "Enjoy your new sparring partner, Ice Queen!"
With strength that the Ice Queen found surprising, Alejandro ripped the lock right off the cage and then ran off to join his men.

It took the monster a few seconds to realize that the cage was free and no sooner did it realize that, it proceeded to burst through the door and Lucy knew she was in for a fight.

While trying to figure out what to do with it Daisy burst in through one of the doors that wasn't currently on fire.

"Hey Lucy" she yelled, having seen Alejandro's gang run out of the building "Are you still- OH GOD!"
She got one look at the monster and freaked out (had the circumstances been different, Lucy probably would have chuckled at the way her tail frizzed out), the monster caught on to this and charged at the scared cheerleader.

Lucy hurriedly pulled out her grappling hook launcher and used a special hook to grab onto Daisy's fur, then proceeding to pull her over and out of the monster's path.

Retracting Daisy over to her she grabbed her arm and told her one simple word.

"RUN!"

Lucy wasn't sure if it was worth it, but that monster was innocent and had been forced into Alejandro's plan.

As such, she felt it would be horrible to just leave it to a blazing demise, she decided to lure it outside and knock it out before calling the authorities, and then hope he could get a cure.
The two began to run off towards the door Alejandro and his goons used to leave, while running Lucy pulled out a hand grenade and threw it towards one of the burning doors.

Now the monster was following her and Daisy, but Lucy had a plan to get out and that was using the exit Alejandro used but the monster stood between them and the exit.

Lucy's idea was that since the brain had devolved into something very stupid and feral, so she figured it'd take a good sight of fire to distract it.

And so as the raging beast neared her, she hurled the hand grenade at one of the burning doors and continued leading her and Daisy over to the exit she selected.

The explosion opened up the door and fire burst right from the entrance, the monster stopped charging a second and looked on in surprise at the bright fire that showed up.
Just as she herded Daisy out the door Lucy pulled out a magnum that contained armor piercing bullets and shot the monster in the arm.
The bullet incurred enough pain to attract the beast's attention, and it began to chase after the teenaged crimefighter.

As she ducked out she hurriedly caught up to Daisy, who was pointing down a nearby corridor in the hallway, despite not speaking, the circumstances plus her frightened and excited mood, gave Lucy reason to believe she'd seen the way out.

Heading up she saw Daisy was pointing towards an opened emergency exit, no sooner had Daisy showed this however, the monster burst through the walls of the gymnasium.

Grabbing the stunned Daisy, Lucy ran right out the exit and turned around to see the monster burst through the exit (and leave a large hole in the wall to boot.)
Lucy however had Daisy get behind her and in the blink of an eye she quickly pulled out a gas grenade and hurled it into the monster's face.

The creature, motivated by pure, blind hate tried to resist the gas, but it didn't take too long for the gas to take effect and the beast fell just an inch from Lucy's feet.

Daisy, having finally regained enough of her bearings to speak again asked Lucy "What are we doing now?"
"Now?" Lucy said "Now I'm going to tie this guy up with steel cables and then I'm going after Alejandro, the other three superheroes in town can handle the monsters but they won't know you planned the whole thing.

"I want you to give an anonymous call to the police and tell them that this place is on fire, also make sure they know that there's one of the monsters here and that it's tied up, do not mention me at all and make the call as short as you can."
"I can do that" Daisy said, swallowing a little nervously.

"Thanks, oh and Daisy?" Lucy added.
"Y-yes?" asked the cheerleader.

"Thank you for coming to save me, I'll be keeping this in consideration for later…"