Captain Marvel and the Mystery Metal

By Floria Tosca

Author's Note: This was written a bit hastily, but if I mull over my fics too much I never get them done. Please read and review, but don't flame. This takes place during the Marvel Family's Golden Age years.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters. The Captain Marvel crew all belong to DC.
Rating: Five Stars! Rated G


"Shazam," Billy Batson cried. "Now that I'm Captain Marvel, I can stop Sivana from taking over the
world! He must be planning to use his new metal Evilplannium for something really awful!" He looked at the note Dr. Sivana had sent him:

Dear Big Red Cheese:
I have created a new metal called Evilplannium, which will enable me to do any evil thing that I wish. If you wish to try to stop me and get horribly defeated, come to my laboratory at 12:00 noon tomorrow.


Worst Wishes,
Dr. Sivana

"Sivana is up to something. He must think that I'd be dumb enough to show up at when he said, when he'll have whatever nasty surprise he's planning for me ready. If I arrive soon enough, I can catch him unprepared. I wonder what Evilplannium can do?"

Inside his laboratory, Dr. Sivana gloated over his latest creation. "With Evilplannium, even the entire Marvel family can not defeat me. I will be able to do anything I wish! I will be able to take over the universe! And all the other universes! Wa ha ha!" The mad scientist picked up a shining silvery bar of the metal. "This is, unquestionably, my greatest creation. Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, even Dr. Franken-Furter think that they're all so great because they make robots and space rays and artificial hunks. But I have omnipotence itself. Wa ha ha ha ha!"
"Think again, Sivana!" Captain Marvel shouted as he hurtled into the laboratory from a convenient open window.
"Curses, you big red cheese! Don't you know that it's impolite to arrive earlier than you're invited! I'm ready anyway, and you shall be punished for your rudeness!" Sivana picked up a bar of Evilplannium and screamed, "Captain Marvel has a horrible cold, his boots are too tight, and he moves 20 times more slowly than usual." It was so.
"Why is this happening?" Captain Marvel thought. "That metal seems to be able to grant his wishes. How could this be?"
"You aren't so mighty now, are you, you big red cheese. Now, what should I do to you next? Make you lose all your powers? No, that's overkill. Call Shazam up and kick him in the teeth? There's an idea: if he hadn't given you your powers, you wouldn't be fouling up all my evil schemes. Make your costume intolerably itchy? That's a start."
While Sivana was planning his next move, a slowed-down Captain Marvel crossed the room, picked up a bar o Evilplannium, and bopped the mad scientist on the head with it. Dr. Sivana fell down unconscious, and Captain Marvel used the Evilplannium to undo the evil scientist's wishes. Then he called the cops. While he was waiting for the police to arrive, his twin sister Mary flew in through the window.
"What happened, Billy? Mystery metal again?"
"Yeah. This one was truly mysterious. I can't see how it could work."
"Why don't you ask Shazam? He's all-wise, so he should know."
"Good idea."
"I have to go now. I have a date with Freddie. See you later." Mary flew back out the window. Sivana didn't wake up until the police had arrived and taken him to jail. Captain Marvel changed back into Billy Batson in time for his afternoon broadcast, and the rest of the day passed uneventfully.