Episode 10: Underworld Takeover
Disclaimer: read chapter 1
It's Saturday in Ancient Greece. Hercules was at Phil's place, and just finished his training. He received a note given by Hermes, and was now reading it:
Hercules, please come quickly! I'm injured, and need your help!
Your loving Pop.
Hercules was now panicking, and he called out for his flying horse, "PEGASUS!"
Pegasus was sitting on a tree, but left when he heard Hercules's call. He flew towards Hercules, who hopped on his back. They were now flying towards Hercules' foster father's place. "Faster Pegasus!" Hercules cried.
After five minutes of flying, they finally made it to a cottage, where Hercules' foster parents live. Hercules hopped off of Pegasus, and barged in the cottage, already prepared for action. "POP! I'm..."
Hercules paused and said weakly, "Here." He saw his foster dad, Amphytryon, lying on a bed and drinking hot coco.
"Hello son," Amphytryon said, "Glad you could make it. Help yourself to coco."
Hercules kept his composure, and cried out dramatically, "I've come to wreak vengeance upon the SCUM, who injured you!"
"Truth is I stepped in a gopher hole," Amphytryon said showing Hercules his cast.
Hercules looked at it, and became disappointed, "You said it was urgent! I've rushed over to wreak vengeance."
"Well, it is urgent. What I need isn't exactly vengeance." Amphytryon got out of his bed, put on his hat, and took Hercules out to the field. At the field, there were dozen of sheep walking around. "What I want you to do is watch the sheep for me."
"Sheep?!" Hercules cried in shock, "You want me to watch the sheep?"
"Someone has to tend the flock, until I heal up. I just hope you can handle the responsibility."
"Oh, come on, Pop! I'm a hero-in-training, remember?"
Amphytryon raised a brow, not looking convinced, "Uh-huh. And do you remember the last time, you've looked after the flock?"
Flashback...
The sheep were jumping like they had too much caffeine; and some were even on top of the trees. Chaos was everywhere. Amphytryum stood there in shock; while Hercules stood there clueless, "I swear I only looked away for a second!"
Reality...
"I-I changed!" Hercules cried, "Hero Rule number LXV: A hero is responsible! I'll watch your sheep, Pop! Like they've never been watched before!"
Ten minutes after Amphytryon left, Hercules stood there like he was proud of his job. Unfortunately, he grown bored with boring sheep. He groaned and mumbled, "Some hero."
Natalie was sitting on the chessboard, watching Dance Moms on TV with Pain and Panic. "Quick question, Nattie," Panic asked, "Why did the dance teacher lie about her student's age? She could've won the solo by putting her student in the right age category."
"Because she wants to beat Abby and her student." Suddenly, the TV was turned off. Natalie and the imps turned around, and saw Hades behind them with the remote.
"Hey, we were watching that!" The imps cried.
Hades gave them a death glare, "Pardon me?"
The imps turned back around, and didn't say a word.
"They said we were watching that," Natalie said, "I thought you left to go to that stupid meeting."
"I did, but I left my keys in here. Then I found out that my little raven was watching TV, after I told her last week that she's grounded."
"C'mon, Hades, I haven't watched TV all week, and I already did more chores than you want me to do. I also wore that stupid slave costume!"
"That's what you get for pranking me."
"And it was worth it!"
"Well, news flash: I'm taking the remote with me. I don't trust you to be alone with the TV."
"Well, I'm officially offended."
He smirked, "Thanks, babe." He snapped his fingers, and the remote disappeared and so did he.
The imps groaned. "So much for finishing the episode," Pain said. He turned to Natalie and said, "Thanks a lot, Nattie."
"Hey, I didn't know he was going to be back!" Natalie cried.
"So what are we going to do?" Panic asked.
"I don't know," Natalie said. "I guess I should find something else to do in my room."
In Mount Olympus, every god and goddess were gathered around the table for the meeting. Zeus was talking, "The committee will consider Artemis' request to designate the Caledonian board endangered." Zeus turned to Hermes, "And now what's next on the agenda, Hermes?"
Hermes got out a clipboard, and answered, "Well, today supplicants, is a demi-goddess and Underworld enchantress! Deities, I give you... Hecate!"
Hades wasn't paying attention to the meeting, and grown bored; until Hermes mentioned Hecate. He looked up, and said, "Huh? What the?"
He looked over and saw a goddess, who was like the female version of Hades. Accompanying her was her two flying wolf minions, Canis and Lupus. Hecate made a great entrance by flying on a dark cloud of smoke, thunder noises from the background, lightning strike, and her wolves were howling.
"Eh, babe," Hermes flew to her, ruining the mood, "The winged pooches are too nutty, babe; but no minions. Policy babe."
Hecate snapped her fingers, and her wolves began speaking. "I respect that," One wolf said. "Policy is a policy," the other wolf said as they were flying out of Mount Olympus.
Hecate smirked, "Hello, darlings!" She began kissing up to the goddesses, "Aphrodite, lovely as always. Oh, Demeter, the spring is your freshest yet. Ares, I love what you have done with Sparta. It is so... Spartan."
Ares smiled, "Ha! You hear that, sis?" He asked her sister, Athena.
"Oh, go polish your spear," Athena snapped.
Hecate turned to see Hades looking like he didn't want to be here. He didn't really want to be here to begin with, especially when Hecate was around. She smirked at him, "Oh, I'm not talking to you."
Hades gave out his fake smile, "You're on my list." He gave her air kisses, and as soon as she walked pass him, he mumbled, "Witch."
Hecate went to a bunch of graphs, "Mighty Zeus, gods and goddesses." She got out a pointer.
Hades groaned, "A magic pointer, oy."
She showed them a line graph that was going downhill. "As you can see, the Underworld is UNDER-performing, UNDER-achieving, bottom line it's UNDER-whelming. Now I don't want to point fingers, but-"
Hades turned bright red, and zapped at her stick that turned to ashes. "Listen, I gripe! I moan! But hey, I run one, TIGHT Tartarus! Never had a costumer complaint. Got it?" He turned back to blue.
Hecate floated to Zeus, "He's old news. He's been doing the same way since time in memorial. Simply put, I can do better."
"Uh, Hecate, dear," Zeus began, "Queen of the Night is a very responsible position. Be a team player, huh?"
"Oh, I get it. He's your brother, and I'm just a witch."
"Now there's nothing wrong with being a good witch."
"I am a GREAT WITCH!"
"You understand I-I call everyone babe, babe." Hermes said.
Hecate went to Ares, and mumbled, "I don't care what Athena says. Sparta rules." Ares turned to Athena with a smirk, while she frowned at Hecate. She went to Hades and asked, "No hard feelings?"
She hugged him, and Hades just shrugged, "Please! What? You gave it a shot, but hey- you came up short." Hecate secretly got out a crystal, and took a little bit of Hades' flame hair. He released her, and Hecate put the crystal behind her back. "Boom, done. Will do lunch."
"Can't wait," Hecate said sarcastically.
"Good. Have your minions call my minions."
"Thanks all. Your the mightiest. Toot-ta-loo. So long!" She disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Hades shrugged, "Eh, what can I tell ya? When you own your own market share, you always gotta watch your back... Is it a little drafty here?"
"Alright! Fine. Fine." Zeus turned to Hermes, "Now where were we? Ah! New business!"
Ares stood up and cried out, "I say it's time to recognize Sparta as capital of the Greek world!"
"Athens has wisdom and reason," Athena said, "What does Sparta have?"
"Battling rounds and flame throwers! That's what!"
Zeus groaned, "Oh, I hate these meetings."
Meanwhile Hercules was alone with the sheep, still being bored. "Not the most exciting job in the world. Huh, Pegasus?" Hercules looked over to see Pegasus asleep. He shrugged, and petted a sheep, "It's okay, little guy. You can't help it if you're boring."
BAAH!
Back in the Underworld, Natalie was taking a shower; while the imps were playing a game of Table Tennis. They used Hades' chessboard as a table, and the Fates' ball as their tennis ball. They kept hitting the ball to each other, until Pain missed his shot. Pain rushed to the eyeball to get it; but before he could catch it, someone else beat him to it.
"Nice shot," a woman said as she picked up the eyeball. The woman wasn't Natalie, it was none other than Hecate, herself. Pain screamed with fright, as she floated pass him.
"H-Hecate?! What a surprise," Panic said nervously.
Pain jumped on top of him, "Hades isn't presently in right now."
"Oh, what a shame," Hecate smirked as her wolves appeared.
"Bad timing," One wolf said.
"And timing is everything," the other wolf added.
"Well, as long as I've come all this way, I'll just wait," Hecate said.
The imps were blocking her way. "No! No!" Panic cried, "Not possible! Nobody is aloud in this room while Hades is gone. Sorry."
"But you're in here," Hecate said.
"Yep. That doesn't seem proper," one wolf said.
"Mm-hm," the other wolf agreed, "That's a total violation of prodigal."
"W-W-Well, we were just doing a..." Pain was panicking just like Panic, "A security check of the premises, and uh-"
"But if you would be doing that, we wouldn't have got in," Hecate floated pass them, and headed straight towards Hades' throne.
But Panic ran pass her, and trying to block her way; and Pain was sitting on the throne to keep her from sitting there. "Not his chair!" Panic cried, but Hecate ignored him and sat on Pain and the chair.
Hecate smirked and got out the crystal that had the Hades' flame inside, "As the flame within this vessel grows-" She released the crystal and it was floating in the air, "-Hades' fire will end and slow."
While she was speaking, Panic tried to pull Pain, out of Hades' chair. "Not a spell!" Panic cried, and as soon as he pulled Pain out, they fell down the stairs.
Hecate continued, "Until his godly powers dim, and I can do way with him."
Pain began to panic, "Oh boy."
In Mount Olympus, Hades was shivering cold, while Ares and Athena were arguing. "Athens?!" Ares scoffed, "HA! Athens is a geek retriever egg-head!"
"Oh?! And we were just supposed to just surrender to your barbarians?!"
Hades turned to Artemis, who had a long, brown ponytail with leaves stuck in her hair, tiny antlers stuck in her head, muscular arms, and had olive skin. He kept on shivering and asked, "Hey, backwards! Is it- is it cold in here? Huh? Do you feel a little draft in the neck kinda thing? I would've give for a fur coat!" Artemis gave Hades a death glare, that made Hades nervous. "Nobody you know! Foul fur."
Artemis scooted away from Hades, while he was rubbing his arms.
"Seriously!" Hades said, "Did Zeus forget to pay the heating bill or what?!"
Back in the Underworld, the imps stand before Hecate, who was still sitting on Hades' chair. Natalie still hadn't show up, and the imps were a hoping she'll come soon. "Refresh my memory," Hecate asked the imps, "Exactly what purpose do you serve here?"
"Um... uh..." Pain paused to think.
"We're Hades' go-to-guys," Panic answered.
"Well... consider yourselves DOWNSIZE, and out sourced," Hecate said.
"Excuse me?" Pain asked.
"You're fired," Hecate snapped.
The imps immediately screamed and scrambled when Hecate's minions flew after them. They were running all over the throne room, still screaming.
In Natalie's room, Natalie just came out of the bathroom with her dark blue/black robe on. She was towel drying her hair, but froze when she heard the imps screaming. "What the hell?" She went to her closet, got out some modern clothes, so she could check on the imps.
Meanwhile, Hecate's wolves captured the imps, carried them out of the palace, and dropped them in the River Styx. The imps were coughing up, and started panicking when dead souls were after. "AH! Dead souls! Dead souls!" the imps cried as they were swimming to shore. They finally made it, and trying to get the souls off them.
"Are there any on me?" Panic asked.
Pain was grossed out, when he saw a soul holding on to Panic's back. "I got it!" He grabbed the soul, threw it back in the river, and was still grossed out from the souls.
"What are we going to do?! What are we going to do?!" Panic cried in panic. "I know! Let's go find Nattie! She'll know what to do!" As Panic was about to run, Pain grabbed his tail.
"We can't!"
"Why not!"
"Because if we go back there, that witch's wolves might put us back in the River Styx again!"
Panic turned around and saw the souls moaning, and attempted to grab him. He whelped, and jumped in Pain's arms, "You gotta point." Pain dropped him to the ground. "So do you have a plan?"
"Hm..." The imps paused for a moment then cried out, "We gotta tell Hades!"
A/N: So what do you guys think? How would Nattie react when she sees Hecate take over? Please review and don't forget about the poll. Thanks.
P.S. The Dance Moms episode, the imps and Nattie were watching, is from season 2 episode 2.
