Note: One last time, Garfield (aka the Caped Avenger), Odie and the Arbuckle household are all copyrighted by Jim Davis, so I'm writing this story with absolutely NO profit motive.
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Flying through the air at nerve-racking speeds, the Caped Avenger very soon reached the area directly over the source of the hypersonic transmission. "This sounds like the right area." the feline hero thought to himself as he started spinning at a speed that allowed him to become a powerful living drill and very quickly started burrowing downward to the source of the transmission. When he REACHED the source of the signal, however, he found himself surrounded by 1024 160-foot spiders.
"Hoo-boy. This time, I may have bitten off more than even I can chew." the Caped Avenger thought with a gulp, realizing there were quite a few too many giant spiders here for even HIM to defeat at one time. Still, the super-powered feline hero gave it his all, dodging web attacks with his hyper-reflexes, grabbing and throwing the monstrous arachnids two at a time into some of their own, peeling off the spiders' exoskeletons with his laser vision and bombarding a few of the eight-legged giants with tornado-like flurries of punches. Though he wasn't able to defeat all 1024 of the giant spiders surrounding him, the Caped Avenger WAS able to work his way through 128 of the monsters, giving himself JUST enough time and room to tunnel himself out of the remaining spiders' reach a split-second before eight of them could simultaneously trap him in their webbing.
After he finished tunnelling himself to safety, the Caped Avenger decided to focus his energies on tracking down the Arachnid King himself, using his hyper-sensitive nose to track the scent of super-mutated spider (being sure to follow the WEAKER scent because he knew the STRONGER scent would lead him back to the Arachnid King's subjects).
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Eventually, the Caped Avenger made in through to his first face-to-face meeting with the Arachnid King himself, who pressed a button that activated a device surrounding the feline hero with a very strong force-field bubble.
"I wish I could say I was more than half-surprised you made it this far, Caped Avenger but the way you battled up there on the surface showed that you are both very powerful AND reasonably intelligent, so I knew that, in spite of your ego, you wouldn't be stupid enough to think you could take my ENTIRE army all at once. However, my minions DID succeed in getting you overconfident enough to think you could take me one-on-one. Unfortunately for you, while I will admit to possessing a considerable degree of physical power, I prefer to rely on brains rather than brawn, a fact which hardly bodes well for YOU, my feline friend. I believe you've probably seen enough 60s spy movies to get the cliche`; I leave you in a seemingly fatal situation and gloat about having a world to conquer. Well, I DO have a world to conquer, but, unlike the villains of those 60s spy movies, I WILL stick around to witness your demise, Caped Avenger. After THAT, I'll focus on conquering the world, one city at a time. Naturally, I'll start out small. After all, why bite off more than you can chew? However, as my armies and equipment improve, I'll work my way up to bigger and better cities." the Arachnid King ranted as he switched on a device built into his force-field generator; one that caused the bubble to slowly, but very painfully, constrict around the super-powered feline hero.
Thinking fast, the Caped Avenger pushed to one side of the force field with all of his might and, though he couldn't break through, he WAS able to steer the force field bubble right into the force field generator, which caused it to shatter into 1, 000, 000 pieces and the force field trapping the feline hero to dissipate. However, just tired enough from his battles with the Arachnid King's minions AND from escaping that trap to be caught briefly off-guard, the Caped Avenger was left wide open for one of the Arachnid king's punches, which sent him flying through a good 40 feet of bedrock.
The Arachnid King rapidly made his way toward the Caped Avenger before the feline hero could recover from that sucker-punch and started webbing him up. This was the opportunity the Caped Avenger was hoping for. While the Arachnid King was spinning his webbing, the Caped Avenger destroyed his crown with a quick blast of laser vision, having figured out from its high-tech looking design and the fact that there was nothing else even remotely resembling a telepathy-enhancer device that THIS was how the Arachnid King could control those 160-foot spiders from so far away (as it turned out, the remaining 896 of the Arachnid King's troops were about twenty miles away at that point; five times further away than the Arachnid King could control them from without the crown).
With that, the Caped Avenger broke the Arachnid King's webbing, though it took every ounce of super-strength he could muster to break the webbing, and then threw one punch powerful enough to knock the Arachnid King out cold. However, the instant he fell unconscious, the Arachnid King literally vanished.
A split-second after the villain disappeared, a recording started playing with the Arachnid King's voice. "If you are listening to this, it means I've been rendered unconscious, in which case my automatic emergency teleporter had already kicked in and sent me to my alternate hideout, the location of which I shall not disclose at this time. Here, I will recover from whatever knocked me unconscious and wait patiently, planning for my NEXT campaign. In the meantime, however, I suggest that you have OTHER concerns besides tracking me down; namely stopping my now-completely-out-of-control minions from wreaking havok on your precious city." the recording said, finishing with a cackle.
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Semi-grudgingly, the Caped Avenger flew after the remaining 896 160-foot spiders, deciding that as much as he hated to admit it, the villainous super-arachnid was right about saving the city being more important than capturing the Arachnid King. Fortunately, just as Odie figured, without the Arachnid King controlling them, the giant spiders were pretty easy for the Caped Avenger to pick off one-by-one and those spiders were all subdued within a half-hour thanks to a series of carefully-planned individual sneak attacks. After that, it was all over except hauling the spiders to the surface, which the super-powered feline hero did four-by-four.
After ten minutes of this, the exhausted by triumphant Caped Avenger had all the subdued spiders carefully placed in a neat pile and flew back home.
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Epilogue One: Arbuckle Household.
"For the first time in weeks, I'm glad for my self-regenerating energy. That means I'll be back up to full energy after just a half-hour's nap; LONG BEFORE midnight." Garfield thought as he changed out of his Caped Avenger costume and headed for bed.
"Oh, you mean your meeting with that female Russian Blue you saved today." Odie telepathically thought back with a good-naturedly smirk on his face.
"Hey, that's one of the reasons I'm sticking with this super-hero stuff, old friend; it's a good way to impress gorgeous female cats." Garfield admitted with a half-embarrassed grin on his face.
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Epilogue Two: 1492 Ocean and Blue, midnight:
The Caped Avenger flew over to Empress's house and saw the gorgeous female Russian Blue he saved earlier that day open one of the front windows. "I'm glad you decided to accept my gratitude, hero." Empress communicated with a seductive smile.
Returning her smile, the Caped Avenger flew in, closed the window behind him and, let's just leave the rest to the imagination, okay?
The End
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As aforementioned, Garfield (aka the Caped Avenger), Odie and the Arbuckle household are all copyrighted by Jim Davis. Therefore, I wrote this story purely for entertainment purposes.
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Flying through the air at nerve-racking speeds, the Caped Avenger very soon reached the area directly over the source of the hypersonic transmission. "This sounds like the right area." the feline hero thought to himself as he started spinning at a speed that allowed him to become a powerful living drill and very quickly started burrowing downward to the source of the transmission. When he REACHED the source of the signal, however, he found himself surrounded by 1024 160-foot spiders.
"Hoo-boy. This time, I may have bitten off more than even I can chew." the Caped Avenger thought with a gulp, realizing there were quite a few too many giant spiders here for even HIM to defeat at one time. Still, the super-powered feline hero gave it his all, dodging web attacks with his hyper-reflexes, grabbing and throwing the monstrous arachnids two at a time into some of their own, peeling off the spiders' exoskeletons with his laser vision and bombarding a few of the eight-legged giants with tornado-like flurries of punches. Though he wasn't able to defeat all 1024 of the giant spiders surrounding him, the Caped Avenger WAS able to work his way through 128 of the monsters, giving himself JUST enough time and room to tunnel himself out of the remaining spiders' reach a split-second before eight of them could simultaneously trap him in their webbing.
After he finished tunnelling himself to safety, the Caped Avenger decided to focus his energies on tracking down the Arachnid King himself, using his hyper-sensitive nose to track the scent of super-mutated spider (being sure to follow the WEAKER scent because he knew the STRONGER scent would lead him back to the Arachnid King's subjects).
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Eventually, the Caped Avenger made in through to his first face-to-face meeting with the Arachnid King himself, who pressed a button that activated a device surrounding the feline hero with a very strong force-field bubble.
"I wish I could say I was more than half-surprised you made it this far, Caped Avenger but the way you battled up there on the surface showed that you are both very powerful AND reasonably intelligent, so I knew that, in spite of your ego, you wouldn't be stupid enough to think you could take my ENTIRE army all at once. However, my minions DID succeed in getting you overconfident enough to think you could take me one-on-one. Unfortunately for you, while I will admit to possessing a considerable degree of physical power, I prefer to rely on brains rather than brawn, a fact which hardly bodes well for YOU, my feline friend. I believe you've probably seen enough 60s spy movies to get the cliche`; I leave you in a seemingly fatal situation and gloat about having a world to conquer. Well, I DO have a world to conquer, but, unlike the villains of those 60s spy movies, I WILL stick around to witness your demise, Caped Avenger. After THAT, I'll focus on conquering the world, one city at a time. Naturally, I'll start out small. After all, why bite off more than you can chew? However, as my armies and equipment improve, I'll work my way up to bigger and better cities." the Arachnid King ranted as he switched on a device built into his force-field generator; one that caused the bubble to slowly, but very painfully, constrict around the super-powered feline hero.
Thinking fast, the Caped Avenger pushed to one side of the force field with all of his might and, though he couldn't break through, he WAS able to steer the force field bubble right into the force field generator, which caused it to shatter into 1, 000, 000 pieces and the force field trapping the feline hero to dissipate. However, just tired enough from his battles with the Arachnid King's minions AND from escaping that trap to be caught briefly off-guard, the Caped Avenger was left wide open for one of the Arachnid king's punches, which sent him flying through a good 40 feet of bedrock.
The Arachnid King rapidly made his way toward the Caped Avenger before the feline hero could recover from that sucker-punch and started webbing him up. This was the opportunity the Caped Avenger was hoping for. While the Arachnid King was spinning his webbing, the Caped Avenger destroyed his crown with a quick blast of laser vision, having figured out from its high-tech looking design and the fact that there was nothing else even remotely resembling a telepathy-enhancer device that THIS was how the Arachnid King could control those 160-foot spiders from so far away (as it turned out, the remaining 896 of the Arachnid King's troops were about twenty miles away at that point; five times further away than the Arachnid King could control them from without the crown).
With that, the Caped Avenger broke the Arachnid King's webbing, though it took every ounce of super-strength he could muster to break the webbing, and then threw one punch powerful enough to knock the Arachnid King out cold. However, the instant he fell unconscious, the Arachnid King literally vanished.
A split-second after the villain disappeared, a recording started playing with the Arachnid King's voice. "If you are listening to this, it means I've been rendered unconscious, in which case my automatic emergency teleporter had already kicked in and sent me to my alternate hideout, the location of which I shall not disclose at this time. Here, I will recover from whatever knocked me unconscious and wait patiently, planning for my NEXT campaign. In the meantime, however, I suggest that you have OTHER concerns besides tracking me down; namely stopping my now-completely-out-of-control minions from wreaking havok on your precious city." the recording said, finishing with a cackle.
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Semi-grudgingly, the Caped Avenger flew after the remaining 896 160-foot spiders, deciding that as much as he hated to admit it, the villainous super-arachnid was right about saving the city being more important than capturing the Arachnid King. Fortunately, just as Odie figured, without the Arachnid King controlling them, the giant spiders were pretty easy for the Caped Avenger to pick off one-by-one and those spiders were all subdued within a half-hour thanks to a series of carefully-planned individual sneak attacks. After that, it was all over except hauling the spiders to the surface, which the super-powered feline hero did four-by-four.
After ten minutes of this, the exhausted by triumphant Caped Avenger had all the subdued spiders carefully placed in a neat pile and flew back home.
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Epilogue One: Arbuckle Household.
"For the first time in weeks, I'm glad for my self-regenerating energy. That means I'll be back up to full energy after just a half-hour's nap; LONG BEFORE midnight." Garfield thought as he changed out of his Caped Avenger costume and headed for bed.
"Oh, you mean your meeting with that female Russian Blue you saved today." Odie telepathically thought back with a good-naturedly smirk on his face.
"Hey, that's one of the reasons I'm sticking with this super-hero stuff, old friend; it's a good way to impress gorgeous female cats." Garfield admitted with a half-embarrassed grin on his face.
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Epilogue Two: 1492 Ocean and Blue, midnight:
The Caped Avenger flew over to Empress's house and saw the gorgeous female Russian Blue he saved earlier that day open one of the front windows. "I'm glad you decided to accept my gratitude, hero." Empress communicated with a seductive smile.
Returning her smile, the Caped Avenger flew in, closed the window behind him and, let's just leave the rest to the imagination, okay?
The End
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As aforementioned, Garfield (aka the Caped Avenger), Odie and the Arbuckle household are all copyrighted by Jim Davis. Therefore, I wrote this story purely for entertainment purposes.