Superman: The Animated Series 'Fan Fiction Story'
By Tayla Drago
Episode # 10 – Two's a Crowd
Things look bad as the SCU surrounds a house. Maggie Sawyer calls up the inhabitant of the house and she and Professor Hamilton try to coax him out of the building. As both Helen and Jake arrived at the scene first, they both know that rushing inside would be a very bad idea to do.
"Good thing you're not the type of person to stop the bad guys to beat up and ask questions later, huh Helen?" Jake said to make a joke.
Helen pats Jake on the back a bit hard to be acting silly as well.
"Ha, ha, Jake. Very funny!" she then sees through her x-ray vision from the building. "Okay, that dude's still inside. And I don't think he'll be playing around with anyone of us."
"Earl Garver, I wish this would've never had come to this if he just didn't make the weapons we didn't allow in Star Labs."
With Hamilton explaining that part to Jake and Helen, they were dealing with an ex-scientist to lose his mind completely. For Maggie try to get Earl to talk, but he won't listen to have Dan step in now with both Jake and Helen would be ready to go.
"Dan, its your turn to make a move." she said. "Jake. Helen. Get ready to follow."
"Its show time, people! Let's do this." said Dan.
He refuses, forcing the SCU to attempt a raid. For Jake got his wand ready and Helen to some type of smoke to make on her own. However, the house is barricaded with steel walls and automated weapon systems. For Helen to break through a bit to do a bit of damage alone from smoking Earl out was no good there; and to Jake trying to cut through the steel home to have no luck on that either. As another gun pointed at Dan to hurt his knee and for her to push back the weapon as she tries to slow it down.
"Not good...! Jake! Get Dan and the other officers out of here!"
All attempts to enter into the house are met with failure.
"Dan!" Jake helps him out.
"This is nothing really."
Now what can anyone do since Helen couldn't stop Earl on her own. Superman shows up and asks about the situation.
"Jake. Maggie. Hamilton." said Superman. "What seems to be the problem?"
The man in the house is Earl Garver, a former employee of S.T.A.R. Labs who has stolen a radioactive isotope from S.T.A.R. and made a bomb that can destroy three miles of the city. The lead-encased bomb is set to go off unless Garver gets paid fifty million dollars in ransom.
"I think he's going to do it if we don't stop Earl and fast." said Maggie. "And with Helen holding up, she could use your help now."
"I'm on it. I'll get Earl to change his mind." he takes flight. "Jake, cover us."
Jake does so to create a shield for Superman.
"I'm right behind you!"
Superman makes his own assault on the house for Helen helps him out now since the Man of Steel has arrived.
"About time, Superman." Helen absorb the blast from the gun to back Superman up to punch and break down the steel doors. "Basics!"
Inside the house, Superman and Helen find that there are more defenses, such as electrified walls to break down and a powerful gun for Helen to break with her bare hands in seconds.
"You're getting good using your super powers similar to mine, Helen." he said. "A lot to take in during a fight."
For Clark/Superman to say that to Helen makes her feel better about fighting a lot by her friend and Jake's side.
"I know, right? Not bad for a half Kryptonian like myself. (I'm use to finding my own destiny anyways.)" However, they both manage to overcome even these defenses and confronts Garver. "Hello?!" Helen break in with Superman. "Anybody home?"
"Where's the bomb, Garver?" Superman demands to know.
"Like I'll tell you, its covered in lead and already ticking." he said. "I want my money. Where is it?"
"We don't play those games."
For Superman and Helen to move in a bit closer, there was nowhere for Garver to run or hide now.
"Better talk, or I'll make you if Superman allows me to beat you up a bit." said Helen to be ready to fight.
Cornered, Garver activates a hydraulic press and attempts to crush Superman, but finds his enemy is far too strong. Superman pushes back the press for Helen to help him out with a steel arm now and crushes it, but a large cable knocks Garver out, giving him a concussion that will render him unconscious until well after the bomb will go off. Jake comes in to see what was happening.
"Helen! Superman! You two doing alright-?" he sees that things have gotten from bad to worse. "Oh..." Jake checks on Garver. "Yeah, he's alive and breathing...but he probably won't be waking up for a while. Should we take him to a hospital?"
"Like we got a choice?" Helen said. "(This is really bad...! We still need to stop the bomb.)"
There is far too little time to find the bomb, and without knowing its location, even Superman cannot stop it. Realizing they do not have much of a choice, Hamilton makes a rather bold suggestion.
"I might have an idea..."
For that 'idea' the five went to see one prison to have the power to read Garver's mind while he was out cold...Parasite himself. I knew we would be seeing him again.
"Parasite?!" shock Jake and Helen.
"A risk we have to take, you two." said Superman. "A bad idea, but its something we need to use to stop a bomb. Although from Rudy, it could be counted for 30 more bombs into one."
Well, they go with it.
"Its the chance we do need to take." said Maggie. "We might as well be careful with this one."
Superman, Hamilton,Jake, Helen, and Sawyer head off to visit the Parasite, hoping to use his ability to absorb people's thoughts to get the location of the bomb from Garver.
"You want me to go into this guy's mind and try to find out where the bomb is." Parasite said. "No skin off my nose. But I want something in return."
They have to hear what Parasite wants if he does this for them.
"What's that?" Superman asks the villain.
"Something to help the time go faster in this dump... And not a bunch of boring books either. I want cable and the premium channels." He seems uninterested, but then makes a deal with them: he will do it in exchange for having cable TV, premium channels included.
I think for Maggie can make something for the man, for Jake and Helen whispers to each other to come up with a backup plan 'just in case'.
"Jake, listen. Can you use your magic to feel out Garver's mind on the location on where he hid the bombs at?"
With Helen asking Jake that question, he might have something up his sleeves.
"I can do that. But if I did, I have the leave the rest to you and Clark to handle on your own." he said.
"I understand. And what if something happens to both Garver and Parasite?" she asks her brother again.
"Hmm..." Jake was thinking of something in mind. "I think I can come up with a few more magic tricks while I'm at it. Just tell Clark to leave this part to me and you two to do the rest."
And with that, they'll give Parasite the TV channels in return to help them out.
"(I can't believe I'm saying this...But whatever.) Parasite, you got yourself a deal." Helen tells the bad guy.
For Helen to tell Clark/Superman on what Jake was doing, everything was all set now. Parasite goes to Garver and touches him. Unfortunately, something goes wrong and Garver takes over Parasite's body.
"Something's not right!" Hamilton tells the others.
Oh, really...?
"Rudy? Can you hear me?" Maggie checks on him. "Did you find out where the bomb is?"
But it looks like Garver was in Parasite's body, not good.
"I know where it is alright...But you still have to pay."
Garver insists that he still get paid for the bomb to be stopped.
"Sounds like Garver?" shock Maggie.
"What the heck happened?!" shock Helen.
Jake uses his wand to try getting some answers.
"Hmm...From the looks of it, Garver's thoughts are that strong, strong to mess with both Parasite's body and mind to have his thoughts go into another one's body like so." he tries to help them out. "I need time to get Garver out of Parasite, but it might be a while. I'll get to it, just get to the bombs."
Lucky for Jake's magic would protect him from Parasite's touch. Superman points out that Garver may go with the bomb if it goes off, and, seeing there is no other way out of it and at the urging of Parasite, he reluctantly tells where to find it.
"If what Jake's saying is true, then Garver does have a strong will to overpower Rudy like this." said Hamilton.
"But how?" confused Maggie.
"Look, Garver, tell us where the bomb is or you'll both die together." Superman tells Garver that.
And from Rudy/Parasite telling Garver that, he tells them.
Superman, Helen 'using her water powers from her arm', and Sawyer go towards Metropolis Harbor and search an abandoned ship.
"Once you find it, Superman, I can disarm it." said Maggie. "See anything?"
Superman and Helen. is unable to see through the debris, so they have to go inside to search.
"Hard to tell, there's too much debris." he said. "Helen, stay close to me. We go in deeper, maybe we can find the bomb."
She follows Superman with her powers of water to lend him a hand.
"I sure hope you're right."
As Garver talks to Rudy to make a deal with in the mind to trick the villain, I think a terrorist can be very bad than a man with deadly powers himself. Don't trust that man, Rudy! Jake, hurry up and free Garver from Rudy's body and fast...! Eventually, Sawyer realizes the bomb isn't there. Superman claims that Garver is just buying time and heads back to the hospital. Trying to get out of the boat to start to sink.
"We better get out of here!" Maggie said to be pushed out ot safety first.
As everything was coming down on them and Helen tries using her water powers to fight back, only to get caught with her helmet breaking to lose some air. Not good...! As Superman uses his air tank to save Helen's life to have her mouth to mouth for a quick CPR thing, to have her push back, save Maggie, fly on out for Helen to hold on from the back of Superman, and they got out just in time.
"Easy there, Helen, you'll be okay." he helps her out. "Deep breaths."
Helen coughs out all of the water.
"I think without your air, I would've drown. I'm still human after all." Helen said to get angry next. "Stupid loser! Garver tricked us...!" she then panics to realize something else. "(Oh, no!) Knowing of Garver's dirty games...Superman! Maggie! We have to head back to the hospital! He's going to use Parasite's body and hurt others like Jake! Come on!"
Back at the hospital, Superman and Helen's suspicions turn out to be true. Garver attempts to escape from his restraints and finally convinces Rudy he can find a way to make the Parasite's drain permanent in exchange for his help, reasoning this could be his last chance for freedom and power. Rudy joins his will and strength with Garver's and the two manage to destroy the hand restraint. Jake tries to restrain them with everything he has.
"Hey! Don't you dare-! Aah!" but he gets drained to then become Parasite and Garver's hostage. "Help me...!"
Garver then calls in the guard and steals his strength as well. With his increased might, he manages to escape his bonds and takes the life force of many members of the hospital staff. And kidnapped Jake, they were too late.
"Jake! Jake!" Helen couldn't find her brother anywhere. "They both got away with Jake!"
Superman and Helen had to find them, Jake, and stop the bomb right away.
"And we will, Helen, don't worry. Garver has Jake as a shield to try to stop us. At least everyone else will be fine." Superman said for the people to start recovering slowly. "We only have twenty minutes left."
"He'll call." Maggie hears a ring to answer the phone. "Yes?"
With only twenty minutes left before the bomb goes off, Garver calls up and demands his money to stop the bomb and release Jake unharmed, but this time Superman and Helen must bring it themselves.
"If you don't hurt Jake to give him back, we'll come." said Helen.
"You got a deal."
With Superman saying that too, they'll do as Garver asks them to do.
"Very good, you two." he said. "Don't worry, I've no attention of hurting the child, I just needed him to escape. I'll give him back once you both arrive at the old abandoned rail tunnel."
As Garver tells them on what to do, they do it. For both Helen and Superman bring in the money to an abandoned rail tunnel, following a set of audio instructions, and discovers a pit so deep even they can't see the bottom. Near the pit, they find the bomb and deactivates it with Jake all tied up with his wand to be on the floor and unable to reach it.
"Superman! Helen! Get me out of here!"
Helen uses her steel arm to break the i-beam that was tying Jake up in half to freeing him first.
"Got you." Helen grabs her brother. "Okay, Superman, turn off that bomb."
However, it turns out to be a trap, as the Parasite grabs him.
"Get back!" Superman pushes Helen and Jake away to get drained instead of them.
Garver reveals he wants not only the money but Superman's powers as well; along with both Jake and Helen's powers too.
"It was a trap! (No, Clark!)"
"Helen, be careful!" Jake gets his wand back. "Its going to take more than Superman's help to stop Garver from using Rudy's body."
The two struggle and seem to be evenly matched.
"You, children, come here so I may nimble on your powers." Garver approaches to Helen and Jake next. "Who wants to get drained first?"
Helen grabs a i-beam to throw at Garver to hold it up to whack it right back at Helen like a baseball bat for her to try blocking it.
"Cheap move, loser!" she hangs in there.
Jake then comes in to fire a big shot beam at Garver.
"And now for my latest trick...Shamoo! Can do! (Wow! I didn't know I can do that. Awesome!)" he was happy. "Helen! Superman! Did you two see that?!"
Helen liked it.
"Not bad, little bro!"
Another new spell for Jake to control however he wanted. Nicely done. As Superman almost gets drained to push back against Garver.
"The longer this goes on, the weaker you'll get." he said.
"Then we'll have to do this the hard way now." said Garver. "I will get your powers, Superman, by any means."
Knowing he will soon lose his power, Garver reactivates the bomb, changes the deactivation code, and demands that Superman gives him his powers, unconcerned about whether or not it goes off—his body is lying miles away in an ambulance, and won't be harmed.
"Rudy, can't you see that Garver's using you? To take control and lose his own body?" Superman talks some sense into Parasite. "Fight back! Fight him, Rudy!"
Superman calls to Rudy and turns him against Garver, but in the end, Garver's will proves stronger.
"Superman!" Jake uses his spell to push Garver out of Parasite's body. "I got this, you and Helen stop the bomb!"
Time runs out and Superman throws the bomb down the pit. Helen uses some goop to hold off the bomb as she and Superman get rid of it.
"Let's do this, Superman! Bombs away!" she aid her friend to throwing the bomb down below.
As Jake loses control, Garver attacks but both he and Superman fall into the pit with the bomb.
"Superman!" Jake and Helen watch in horror from above.
The bomb goes off and defeats the Parasite 'for Helen to have the goop to stick the villain to pull him right back down and out of the explosion, but Superman manages to escape unharmed.
"I'm okay." Superman said to the two.
Jake does the spell to save Garver's soul in time with his wand.
"Rudy's going to be fine, and for Garver's mind to finally go back to his real body."
"And to serve justice too." and Helen. "I think I can deal with powerful villains sometimes than a terrorist madman."
You said it, Helen. Outside of the tunnel, Jake places Garver's mind back to his body and wakes up in an ambulance and finds Superman flying him over Metropolis.
"Ah, the best laid plans..." he said in defeat.
Garver is taken to prison and finds his old 'partner' the Parasite laughing and enjoying himself as he watches his new big screen TV with cable.
"Now that's what I'm talking about."
For Superman and Maggie carry Garver to his cell, Helen and Jake see how happy Parasite was to have his channels as promised, for them to leave the villain be and hopefully not run into the real Rudy again.
"Say, Helen, were you serious about dealing with terrorist people than the villains with deadly powers?" Jake asks his sister.
For Jake to ask Helen that question, she was sort of saying that, to still stop all the bad guys in Metropolis.
"Ah, a little in between, Jake. But we have to bring them all to justice. So yeah..."
And for this, Parasite didn't do anything bad this time – Garver was to blame to use the man, but he was beaten at least.