Underworld Takeover part 3
Disclaimer: read chapter 1
"Uh, five... six... seven," Hercules was now counting the sheep in a cave, where Pain hid them. "Eight, nine, ten... uh. Alright, all present, and accounted for."
"That's it, Wonderboy!" Pain cried, "Happy reunion is over!"
"Time is up the essence!" Panic cried.
Hercules used a cane, and led them outside the cave, "Let's go!" The sheep were running out of the cave, and ran over the imps.
"Whoa! Hold it!" Panic held up his time out sign, "I don't think so."
"The stuff-balls stay here!" Pain cried.
"I'm responsible for these animals!" Hercules explained, "If they stay, I stay. If I go, they go."
"Fine!" Panic cried, "Whatever! They're your problem! Just move it!" Panic was pulling Hercules' cane; but Hercules yanked it back, and walked out of the cave. As he left, the imps looked over to see a fat sheep walking slowly.
Pain was growing impatient, "Yeah! Step lively, Pokie!" He began pushing the fat sheep out of the cave, "We're in a hurry!"
In the Underworld, Hecate gather all of Hades' minions: the Fates, Cerberus, a fury, and a monster named Menmon. He's this orange dragon-like monster, who wanted to please Hades a lot. Natalie didn't like him, because he's a kiss up.
Hecate was analyzing the minions, and Natalie was standing next Hecate, writing stuff down for Hecate. Cerberus was now growling at Hecate, maybe she reminded them of Hades; and they were paid by Natalie to mess with him. "SIT!" Hecate cried, but they didn't move, they kept on growling. "I SAID SIT!" Hecate cried again, but they didn't obey.
"Allow me," Natalie shoved the clipboard at Hecate, and got out three doggie biscuits. She lifted them high, and cried out, "Cerby, SIT!"
They immediately sat down. Natalie smiled at her satisfaction; so she rewarded them with biscuits, "Good dog." She tossed one biscuit to each head.
"Thank you," Hecate said, "And could you tell them to obey me?"
"Ooh. Sorry, Hecate, but they always obey me. I trained them that way. If I tell them to obey someone else, they'll get real confused."
"Well, Allie! Why don't you tell them to sit up straight!"
Natalie rolled her eyes, and turned to Cerberus, "Cerby, sit up straight!" Cerberus sat up, and their heads were leveled.
Hecate smiled, "Better. Now you all are probably wondering why I gathered you all together."
"WE KNOW!" Clotho shook Atropos' head, and her real eyeball came out. It tossed into Lachesis's hand, and bounced back in Clotho's eye. "We know all! You want to share your plan for Underworld domin-"
Clotho's mouth was covered by Hecate, and she said, "Let's not spoil it for everyone." She growled at Clotho, "OKAY!" Clotho's eyeball bounced out of her head to Hecate's hand. Hecate tossed it to Lachesis, who got the eyeball now. "Congratulations! You are all getting in on the underground floor of the NEW, IMPROVED UNDERWORLD!"
"Uh, Hecate," Natalie began, "There's something I don't get. Why in the world do you want this dump?! Why can't you be like Hades, and be after Olympus. I heard it's like heaven up there."
"I'm getting to that, Nally," Hecate said.
"It's Nattie."
"Whatever." Hecate flew up in the air, and continued, "Unlike some Lord of the Dead, I don't care a wit about Mount Olympus! My focus is on making this the best Underworld it can be! Our primary purpose increase new admissions! Let's start with... EVERYONE ON EARTH!" She made a wicked laugh so loud that it was getting on Natalie's nerves.
"Oh great, another annoying laugh," Natalie groaned. "Oy." Hecate was laughing loudly, until Natalie ruined the mood, "Hecate, I hate to break it to you, but... It's not going to work."
Hecate glared at Natalie, "WHAT?!"
"Look, you can't kill everyone on earth! It's not possible. Even if it is, somebody is bound to stop you there."
"What is with you, Mat?! You are not being supportive!"
Natalie chuckled, "Okay, first of all: it's Nattie! N-A-T-T-I-E! Nattie! Second: I said I was going to treat like I treat Hades. Being the best un-supporting henchwoman I can be."
"But you said your job is to be supportive!"
"Did I?"
Hecate began growling, and that made Natalie smirked a little.
In the Underworld, the imps, Hercules, and the sheep arrived. Panic was standing next to the sign that said: In order to ride, you must be THIS tall... and DEAD! Panic checked his height; and when he saw that slightly pass the arrow, he sighed with relief.
"Hey Panic," Panic looked over at the river to see Charon rowing the boat, "Undead tails are wagging. You guys really blew it!"
Panic chuckled, "Ha! Real funny!" Panic whistled, and that's when Pain, the sheep, and Hercules, who was carrying a load of sheep, were walking down the steps.
"HEY!" Charon was trying to stop them, "WAIT A MINUTE!" It was too late, everyone jumped on the boat, and it was now crowded. "Hecate is not going to like this."
"Maybe you like to explain that to Hades, hm?" Panic asked.
"Yeah!" Pain was coughing up wool, that was in his mouth, "He should be back any minute."
Charon began to panic, "Wait now! I don't want any trouble! I just row the boat."
In Olympus, Hades looked like he was about to pass out. Most of his flame hair is gone except a little, and becoming weak. "Well, Sparta has gotta great new motto!" Ares and Athena were still having the same argument. Ares continued, "Come for the discipline! Stay for the cartridge!"
"Athens is the central of culture!" Athena argued back.
"Yackedy-yack," Hades mumbled, "Can we break for naptime? What do you think?"
"OH YEAH?!" Ares argued with Athena, "My warriors can beat up YOUR WARRIORS!"
"OH YEAH, PAL?!" Athena yelled back, "Well, Athens rules; and Sparta drools!"
"Oy, too much talk," Hades said as he laid his head on the table, "Nyah-nyah. And too LOUD! OY!"
Back in the Underworld, Natalie was in the throne room with Hecate and Hades' minions. She officially didn't like Hecate's idea of the Underworld improvement. She didn't even like Hecate at all.
"Psst," Natalie turned around to see Clotho, who got her eyeball back from Lachesis.
"What?" Natalie asked.
"You might want to take a look at this," Clotho gave Natalie the eyeball; and she saw it glowing into a vision. Natalie saw Hercules, the imps, and some sheep rowing through the River Styx.
"Mandy?" Hecate called out for her.
Natalie immediately tossed the eyeball to Clotho, without Hecate looking. She walked towards Hecate, "What?"
"Your right about one thing, this place does look gloomy. These windows need some curtains. So, I need your opinion. Which color is the best? Purple or light blue?"
"Hm... Light blue."
Hecate smiled, "Purple it is!"
Natalie rolled her eyes, and muttered, "Witch."
Hecate glared at Natalie, with a stern look on her face, "What?! Did you just say?!"
"You heard me. I said... WITCH! You are the Wicked Witch of the Night! What are you going to do?" Natalie realized that was a stupid question, she's dealing with a witch for crying out loud.
"That is totally impolite!" one wolf cried.
"Not polite at all," the other wolf agreed.
"Yes," Hecate smiled, "I like that. I like someone who is rude and evil!"
Natalie groaned again, Hecate reminded Natalie of Hades. He always took insults as compliments; Hecate was definitely a copy-cat of Hades. But the only difference was that Hades didn't like it when Natalie used that smart mouth of hers, when she's being unsupportive.
Charon was rowing the boat; Hercules was annoyed by the imps, when they were pushing and shoving the sheep to get more room. "Back off, pal! You're crowding me!" Pain cried as he pushed a sheep off his head.
Suddenly, the boat bumped into a rock, and the boat was rocking back and forth. Pokie, the fat sheep, fell on top of Panic. "Out of my face, Pokie!" Panic accidentally pushed Pokie out of the boat, and into the river.
BAAAH! Pokie cried while treading water.
"OH MY GOSH!" Hercules cried as he stood up, "Hang on, Big fella!" Hercules jumped into the river to rescue Pokie.
"Guess he's taking a sheep dip," Pain said.
"OH LEAVE HIM!" Panic cried to Hercules, "You're here to help us, not the stupid sheep!"
Hercules was swimming to Pokie, who was grabbed by a couple of souls. Hercules managed to hit the souls, and grabbed Pokie, "It's okay! I gotcha!" He was swimming him and Pokie back to the river boat. He lifted Pokie up to the imps, "Grab him!"
The imps were disgusted from the sheep's smell, so they were holding their noses and cried out, "EW!"
"Hey, these sheep are OUR responsibility, remember?"
The imps paused for a moment, then pulled Pokie in.
When Hercules was about to pull himself him, he saw something green swimming in the water. His eyes grew wide in fear, and began to panic. The thing came up from the water, and it was none other than a sea serpent. Instead of climbing back in the boat, Hercules started swimming far away from the creature. It came straight at Hercules, and attempted to eat him.
Big waves came in, and everyone was holding on to the boat. Panic looked over, and saw Pokie giving him a goofy look. He frowned, "What are you looking at, Pokie?!" Pokie licked Panic's face. "HEY!" Panic was about to push him away, but as soon as he touched Pokie's wool, he smiled. "Ooh, soft."
Meanwhile, Hercules was holding on to the serpent's tongue, and punched it in the mouth. Hercules let go of the tongue, and started falling back in the boat, "AAHH!" Luckily, the sheep were there, because the landing was soft. Pain was underneath the sheep, and was in pain because of the weight.
Five minutes after that, Charon finally took Hercules, the sheep, and the imps to their destination. "Remember, I just row the boat," Charon said as he rowed away. They all began to walk up the steps. Hercules was leading, while the sheep and the imps followed. Poki, unfortunately, was slowing down.
"Hurry, Poki, you can do it!" Panic said from behind, giving Poki encouragement. Pokie began leaping up the steps, Panic's encouragement really helped him.
Pain stood there, glaring at Panic being suspicious. "You and that sweater-shedder are becoming awfully chummy."
Panic stood there smiling sheepishly.
A few minutes later, everyone finally made it up the steps. "If anything happens to those sheep, while I'm gone, the deal is off!" Hercules said.
"Trust us," Panic reassured Hercules.
Hercules walked away from them, and headed to the door. He used his super strength to lift up the door, and walked right in.
Once Hercules entered, he was tackled by Hecate's wolves. Hecate appeared, and laughed wickedly, "Welcome to the Underworld."
"Under new management," the wolves added.
Hercules was glaring at Hecate, angrily; while Hecate was smirking down at him, "I'll be happy to bring you in... permanently."
"HERCULES!" Hercules looked over, and saw Natalie standing behind Hecate.
His eyes grew wide in shock, "NATTIE?!"
