The forcefield falls.
The curtains rise. Here is where Dolly led her revolution against the human world. The revolution that is only being aided by her best effort.
Snow falls as the local police head onto the premises with their big guns. Now, it's showtime.
Dolly rises to her feet and holds the video camera up from the table to her face. Her mask smiles for her and she begins. "Good evening, America, and Happy Holidays. You likely don't know who I am, so let me introduce myself to you. My name is Dolly and I'm a metab-being with the- uh, epic power to control the mind. I have lived and I have died. That makes me a god. One who is over humanity. Which is why I will be killing some of its worst, live on television." She turns the camera to face her oligarch opposition, held at gunpoint by several dozen Agents. "Look at them. The rich, the greedy, the powerful. All friends and associates of the Agency of Metahuman Containment. All complicit in their crimes. All who will die. Consider this a wakeu-"
BRRRING BRING . "A- uh, wakeup call to-" BRRRING BRING . She mutters under her breath, "Fuck", and answers her phone. "Wassup- Hey, calm down, Tangi… Ouch, your LEG? Wait, who's 'they'? Victoria Chase ate your leg? The DAWGS ate your leg?! Wowser. Uh, can you run away? No? Hold them off then." In a rage, she tosses the phone aside and tells the camera, "So, in short, fuck humanity, I'm a god." She sticks her tongue out for the camera with a peace sign held up in the air.
She turns the camera back onto the audience, and also onto the sudden arrival of Victoria and Kate into the theatre. Spotting the villainess, Kate yells with an outstretched hand, "Dolly, stop!"
"No." Dolly sets the camera back on the table and goofily waves goodbye to her. "Bye bye, kill them all."
The Agents prepare their weapons and the oligarchs hold one another as things seem bleak for them. Victoria angrily mutters to herself, "Shit."
Seeing no time to lose, she dashes towards Dolly. The sounds of bullets flying into the air as Hawt Dawg Men attack the Agents flood her ears. Another sound, a panicked cry from her parents, rings louder than any other sound. They call to her in fear: "Victoria!"
Victoria climbs onto the stage as Dolly hovers into the air. She sees what she must do and grabs onto one of her legs to hold her down. In a rage, Dolly shrieks, "Ack! Get offa me!" To further repel her, she blasts straight up into the air, tearing a hole in the ceiling. Still, Victoria refuses to let go.
Gaining a better hold on her, Victoria demands of the villainess in a pissed off growl, "Where's Montrose?!"
"Closer than you think!" Seeing the battle unfold between her controlled Agents and the SWAT team, the Doctor, the Jumper, the Hawt Dawg Men, the prisoners and the liberated Enforcers, she zips down to earth and crashes into the ground, knocking Victoria off of her in a plume of debris.
Dolly rises to her feet once more and dusts herself off. But, just as she prepares to retreat to her lair, a metal tendril wraps around her body and pulls her to the ground. "Been a while, Miss Derrick."
Dolly looks at the Doctor in frustration and hisses at her (quite literally, for some reason), "Hisssss. That's not my name!"
The tendril's grip tightens as she shoots back, "It is. You're just too scared to face the truth." Another tendril, one of wool, enthralls Dolly. It's Lord Laundry, pissed at her usage of him for her menial plot.
Suddenly, a blade tears through the entrapments, freeing Dolly. "I said GET OFFA ME!" She pushes herself to the ground and knocks everyone away from her in a psionic shockwave. Setting her sights on Victoria, she tells her, "You know where to find me, Victori- AGH!" She loses her grip on control…
… And Montrose speaks. "Miss Chase!"
"Montrose?"
"She's using my body as a vessel! You must stop her!"
Victoria looks at Elmer in confusion and he explains, "Yeah, that's what I was gonna tell ya. Sorry."
"You can stop herrrgh…" He clutches his head in pain…
… And Dolly hops back into the driver's seat. "Come and get your butler, Vicky! And if I get the idea that anyone else is with you, he's deader than the Dodo!" And without any hesitation, she flies off to her lair.
As the battle dies down, the Jumper tells Victoria, "The Theatre is secure."
She rushes back into the Theatre where Kate is comforting Victoria's parents. "Mom, Dad, are you two alright?"
Hugging their daughter, Colin explains, "Our brains feel a little loose. She went through our memories or something. But besides that? A-okay."
Victoria lets out a sigh of relief and tells them both, "Oh, good. I'm glad you're both safe." Cracking her knuckles, she adds, "Now, I'll go save Montrose."
Zara holds her daughter's hand and tells her gently, "Victoria, you can't go alone."
Victoria ponders to herself, " Sorry, mom ", and looks at Kate with a knowing smirk on her face. "No, I must. Katie, stay right here with them and don't go anywhere." Kate swiftly sprinkles light into their eyes so that Dolly won't know what is coming her way; namely, the two of them. "I love you guys." Kate disperses into light and Victoria runs out of the Theatre.
Marching towards the Northwest Surveillance Tower, Victoria mentally prepares herself for the final confrontation. She knows that this will be it for Dolly one way or another - as her powers of pseudo-Spidey-Sense have deemed it so - but she also doesn't know how it'll all end for Dolly.
Or for Montrose for that matter.
Or why she's suddenly thinking about Blackwell Academy's security protocols regarding a dead Prescott in the bathroom and getting to Kate's aid before-
No. That's neither here nor now. Though it does trouble Victoria. Oh god. What does that mean? Why would that- No. That doesn't matter now.
Here is the Northwest Surveillance Tower. Now is when she steps through the empty, almost ghastly lobby into the stairwell. She takes the stairs up three flights before finding her destination.
The entrance to Dolly's lair is guarded by several Agents. They wear reindeer hats and hold Christmas presents. Victoria puts up her fists and the Agents… sing.
" Feliz Navidaaad! Feliz navidaaad!
Feliz navidad, próspero año y felicidad!"
Another Agent, armed with a guitar, slides in front of Victoria and continues:
" I wanna wish you a Meeerry Christmas!
I wanna wish you a Meeerry Christmas!
I wanna wish you a Merry Christmas,
From the bottom, of my heaaaaart! "
Rolling her eyes, she steps into the Surveillance Room where Dolly stands and Sean Prescott lies.
Here (on this side of the country anyways), it is Christmas Day.
Now is the time to stop Dolly once and for all.
