In this chapter, Spiderman is going to give Honeybee some advice once again. Hopefully she can beat Professor Squid this time. She's the honorable Honeybee! Besides, this fanfic is going to get depressing if she can't win.
Chapter 10: Rematch
The day after Honeybee had fought against Professor Squid had lost, our comic book superheroine was beginning to wonder if she should continue her career. If she couldn't beat Professor Squid, how could she handle the supervillains? Sure, she was able to beat Psychotic...but that was probably a one-time fluke.
Of course, considering that crime would most likely go on the rise, maybe she should be more hesitant to take off her superhero costume.
But on the other hand, it would be nice to resume her normal life BEFORE she became a superhero. Life would probably be less stressful if she wasn't trying to be two different people at once.
At that very moment, she spotted Spiderman, who was hanging from a tree. Luckily, since he had spider-sense, he never ended up crashing into buildings or trees...but since he was the spectacular Spiderman, that would only be a minor annoyance anyways.
"Hey, Spiderman..." said Honeybee unenthusiastically.
Spiderman raised an eyebrow as he noticed Honeybee walking down the street.
"Hey, Honeybee. You look glum..." remarked the hero. She seemed so cheerful whenever she fought against evil. And yet, not today.
"That's because I lost to an evil professor...well, he's not necessarily evil so much as tragic...but he's been causing a lot of trouble." remarked the heroine. Was she just going to have to sit there and let him do what he wanted?
"Yeah...I remember the day that I lost to Doctor Octopus...I was questioning being a superhero too...I was wondering if I could take him on and fight evil like I had before..." noted Spiderman. Those metal tentacles of him were decent weapons. He gave armed and dangerous a whole new meaning.
"Maybe you were in over your head..." stated Honeybee. Unfortunately, she had not prepared for fighting Professor Squid in advance, and he managed to squirt ink into her eyes. It stung.
"Well, I wasn't nearly as experienced as I am now...I suggest that you keep trying..." stated the man. Maybe she would get lucky and be able to bring the professor to justice.
"I suppose you're right." agreed the superheroine. Besides, her encounter with Professor Squid could have probably gone a lot worse. If she ended up getting killed, there would be a lot of people attending her funeral, that was for sure. And of course, her civilian alter ego Mary Jane would be on the back of a lot of milk cartons. And she loved milk.
Still, she wondered how she would be able to stop him from getting away this time.
She then remembered something.
"Wait, can't I just rip off his tentacles?" questioned Honeybee. Sure, they would simply regenerate after a while...but Professor Squid would be vulnerable while he was regenerating them. Without them, he would just be a normal man...except for him being a brilliant scientist (not to mention a crazy one) of course.
That would probably be a good opportunity to strike.
Immediately, she decided to have her bees search for Professor Squid. Where could he be? She sure hoped that she didn't have to search the entire city for him. She was planning on going shopping once she took off her superhero costume and lived life as Mary Jane again.
Oh wait, that's right. He was trying to make a cure for his condition. He was likely at an abandoned laboratory of some kind.
She decided to have her bees search for Professor Squid. They were bound to find him sooner or later.
"Where could he be?" questioned Honeybee.
According to the bees, there was an abandoned laboratory on a deserted island somewhere. Honeybee wondered what exactly Professor Squid was doing on a deserted island.
It occurred to her that perhaps that since Professor Squid was ashamed of his condition, he had decided to hide himself somewhere away from the rest of society. Somewhere where people wouldn't have to look at his fearsome tentacles and scream like small children.
Well, he had picked a good hiding spot, especially since nobody had visited the island in years...but he was apparently going to have a hard time hiding from her. She basically had eyes everywhere.
"You know, maybe if being a superheroine doesn't work out, as I was worried about earlier, I could probably just become a spy of some kind..." remarked Honeybee.
Immediately, she flew towards the deserted island. Apparently, this was where the professor had stashed away all the chemicals that he had stolen from all the other scientists.
Sure enough, there were signs of activity inside the laboratory. If Honeybee pressed her ear against the door, she could hear the sound of bubbling.
She had a feeling what he was doing in there. Wait, was he trying to turn people into frogs? She was a bee heroine, not a frog heroine. He had better not think about doing that to her.
Professor Squid was currently mixing several chemicals inside. What exactly was he making in there? Maybe she should consult the laboratory formula books.
He was smiling and humming to himself as he did so. Of course, he was starting to wonder if he could do more than simply cure his condition. People did say that he was a really brilliant scientist.
He decided that he would try making something out of himself once he got rid of those inhuman tentacles. Those were just plain horrifying. He was starting to look like a horror movie monster.
Then again, comic books could be rather horrifying too. At least he was living in New York City, not Gotham City. Gotham City had that mutant Poison Ivy growing plants everywhere and bringing the city to its knees.
Oddly enough, Honeybee noted that Professor Squid had not noticed her outside, even though she lacked the stealth that Spiderman possessed. Perhaps he was too busy engrossed in his research to notice her.
Well, she decided that since she was trying o bring Professor Squid to justice, the least she could do was let Professor Squid know before she went after him.
"Professor Squid, you're about to be brought to justice for robbing laboratories!" bellowed Honeybee.
"What?!" exclaimed the professor. He recognized that voice. In fact, he had heard that voice only yesterday.
Professor Squid came outside the lab, shutting the laboratory door behind him. He didn't want Honeybee making a mess out of his laboratory after what had happened last time.
"You again? How did you manage to find me?" questioned the scientist. It appeared that Honeybee wasn't going to leave him alone until he was brought to justice.
Well, it looked like he would just have to get ready to fight again. It was rather frustrating really. It seemed like he was just about to finish.
"Alright then, let's get ready to fight, shall we?" questioned Professor Squid.
"I'm already ready." answered Honeybee. She wasn't going to fight Professor Squid without a plan this time.
"So am I." nodded the professor.
Immediately, Professor Squid lunged at Honeybee with his tentacles, hoping to grab her and maybe toss her into the ocean. He would like to hear the splash.
However, that was exactly what Honeybee wanted him to do.
Suddenly, she grabbed onto the tentacle and yanked it clean off. Professor Squid's eyes widened in surprise upon realizing what Honeybee had done.
"Hey!" bellowed Professor Squid. Now his tentacle was on the floor. He was going to have to clean that up.
She then ripped off the other tentacle as well before Professor Squid could resume the fight.
"Don't you realize already? They'll just grow back!" exclaimed the mad scientist. Honeybee was just wasting her time...or so he thought.
"Well, obviously...but I don't think you'll be able to fight me until then, right?" quesitoned Honeybee.
It occurred to Professor Squid at that point that he was in trouble. How exactly was he supposed to wrestle Honeybee when she had superhuman strength and was even stronger than Spiderman?
Immediately, Honeybee started punching and kicking Professor Squid.
"Ow! Ow! Ooh! Oof! Aah!" bellowed the professor. If only he had that kind of punch and reflexes. Maybe he should have spent less time in the lab and more time in the gym.
Well, it was too late to do something about that now.
"Normally, I wouldn't hit someone that was wearing glasses...but let's face it, you ARE a mad scientist." noted the heroine. She wasn't going to hold back like that.
Professor Squid passed out on the floor. Honeybee was simply too tough for him to handle in hand-to-hand combat. Perhaps having combat tentacles wasn't so bad after all.
After realizing that Professor Squid had lost this time and that he hadn't managed to retreat for him (of course, considering that this was apparently his main lair, where else would he run?), Honeybee began to smile.
"Alright! I did it! And it only took me two tries..." noted Honeybee. Perhaps she just needed to get some more knowledge about her opponent before she battled him.
Of course, she wondered how the police were ever going to get to Professor Squid's laboratory so that they could bust him. He was in the middle of a deserted island!
Oh wait...she could simply take Professor Squid to the police station so that they could arrest him from there.
Immediately, she picked up the unconscious Professor Squid and took him directly to jail.
"Hey! I've got a present for you!" exclaimed Honeybee.
"Thanks..." said the police officers. One less supervillain on the street. Now that they thought of it, didn't Spiderman bring in Doctor Octopus rather regularly? Apparently Honeybee did the same but with a different tentacled adversary.
They locked away Professor Squid in a cell, who woke up as they were doing so. He quickly realized what was going on.
"How did I not see this one coming?" questioned the professor. Where did they even keep the keys?
Honeybee shrugged. It looked like the professor was about to do some hard time.
After straightening out Professor Squid, Honeybee decided to watch TV.
Immediately, she changed back into her human counterpart, Mary Jane.
Unsurprisingly, Honeybee was on TV once again. She had managed to defeat Professor Squid...as she already knew. It looked like the crime rate was in decline.
"I wish that I didn't have to resort to that...but I don't think I had much of a choice." remarked MJ.
Suddenly, she noticed something else on the news.
Apparently, her archenemy Psychotic had managed to escape from prison.
"What?!" exclaimed MJ. It seems that she wouldn't be able to keep her in a cell for long. She was going to have to fight her again.
"Well, I suppose it has been a while since I fought against her, hasn't it?" questioned the superheroine. She did say that she was going to be her archenemy.
"So, what are you going to do now that you've busted out of jail?" asked the news reporter.
"I'm going to go out and have some fun with my psychic powers...and maybe kick the butt of that idiot, Honeybee!" exclaimed Psychotic. That would feel pretty sweet.
"I like my butt." complained MJ. She was tempted to wiggle it in front of Peter Parker. She just hoped that she didn't end up being arrested for that.
Well, it looked like she was going to have to fight evil once again. That was basically her life now.
But for now, she decided that she was going to draw pictures of Peter Parker since he was so cute. It was a shame that Flash had broken up with her since she was now a superhuman freak (at least, he thought that she was a freak), but at least now she could draw pictures of him without Flash getting jealous.
"Maybe I'll draw pictures of him without his shirt on...eh, I don't want to creep him out too much." remarked MJ.
And Professor Squid has been defeated! Now I guess we'll just have to wait until another supervillain shows up. Since it's a comic book version of New York City, that probably won't take too long.