Chapter 19: Attack of the Villains

Alex's POV

"Okay, we just gotta wait for Frankie to come back." I said as I paced nervously back in forth in Frankie's living room. "That's all we can do."

"I just hope it's before her parents get back." Pearl worried. "I can't believe they're coming back today!"

"Here's hoping Frankie doesn't get mad at us for not telling her about this newest change in plans." I said.

Well, turns out that Frankie's parents changed their minds about staying upstate an extra day with Ty. There was a nasty storm coming up their side, and it would've made traveling too dangerous, so Frankie's dad thought it would be best to not stay an extra day and come back that very night. Frankie was still stuck in an alternate world where Disney characters and movies are their own worlds, and we didn't know what to do.

We tried calling Frankie to see how far away she was from getting home, but when we called the number of the place she was staying at, some deep-voiced grouch named Kirby said that Frankie had left after she called us the day before trying to get back home. We didn't know where Frankie now was, she wasn't back in our world yet, and her parents were about an hour away from the city. Clearly, things could not get any worse.

Just then, the Gay Vortex appeared in the living room once again. Pearl hopped off the couch and stood next to me as we hoped Frankie would come walking out of it, but the sight of black smoke and the smell of sulfur, saltwater, and some kind of burnt meat made me have second thoughts about Frankie coming out of the portal. And those thoughts were proven right when one particular villain came through the portal and into the living room.

"Mortals," Hades told us in a booming voice. "On your knees and bow to my magnificent evil!"

"Alex, I think I'm having that dream again." Pearl whispered to me as she practically drooled over the sight of Hades in Frankie's living room.

"Unless I'm also in that dream, I don't think this is your hot dream." I whispered as I slowly pulled her away.

"Oy, why do I even try?" Hades muttered before he introduced himself to us. "Hades, Lord of the Dead. How you doin'?"

And just like that, Pearl swooned and fell onto the couch.

"Pearl, you okay?" I asked as I helped her up.

"Better than okay." she said dreamily as her lovestruck gaze was still on Hades.

Great, she was smitten while we were about to probably get enslaved by a Disney villain. Could things get any worse?

"Well, you're not one for dramatics, are you, my liege?" a voice purred as another person entered through the vortex.

The universe just loves proving me wrong, doesn't it?

Our heads turned to see an elegant woman step out of the portal. Well, elegant in the way she walked, not so elegant in the fact that she had a pair of black horns on her head and a nasty scratch mark on the side of her neck. Those last two were more creepy looking than anything, but Hades looked at Maleficent with interest as she walked into the room.

Hades gave her a slight scoff. "And you could do better, babe?"

"Just watch me." Maleficent told him.

"Uh, Frankie never said anything about this over the phone." Pearl whispered to me.

"Frankie?" Hades repeated that name as his flames flickered from blue to red. "You two know Frankie Cole?"

I shook my head as I thought of a lie. "Only Frankie we know is Frankie Donkeybrains."

The two villains all looked at me with arched brows.

"Frankie Donkeybrains?" Hades repeated.

"Uh, yeah." I said. "Guy runs a bar in Philadelphia."

"We mustn't waste time with these two." a third voice said.

Two more villains stepped out of the portal. The tall, dark, and sinister Jafar and the ever-so fabulous Ursula stood with Maleficent and Hades. Okay, so what I've gathered is that they somehow managed to steal that spell thing Frankie had and allowed them to come to our world, and Frankie more than likely pissed every single one of these villains off when she ended up in their worlds. I was starting to worry that Frankie made more enemies than Pearl and I thought.

"Remember, we have a whole world to divide and conquer." Jafar told the other villains as the portal closed behind him.

"You all can split the world; all I want is dominion over all the oceans." Ursula told them.

"Perhaps it's time we make our public debut?" Maleficent suggested.

The three other villains agreed with her, and with a snap of Hades' fingers, they all disappeared in a puff of smoke. Leaving Pearl and I still in Frankie's apartment with confused and nervous looks.

"Frankie Donkeybrains from Philly?" Pearl asked me with cynicism to break the silence. "Really?"

"It was all I could think of!" I defended myself.

"Listen well, all of you!" Maleficent's voiced boomed from outside.

Pearl and I opened the door to the apartment's terrace to see that the villains were now making their public debut right in the middle of the street. A crowd of civilians stood there like a bunch of idiots as they all were recording the villains on their phones, and not a single one of them realizing just how screwed the entire city of New York was now in.

"How y'all doin' tonight? Ya havin' fun?" Hades asked them. "'Cause we are."

"There are going to be some changes in this city." Jafar told everyone. "We're in charge now, and you all shall obey us."

"This is fake, man." Vincent -some lame hipster no-it-all from school- said as he just waved off the obvious threats while standing on the sidewalk. "It's just some dumb advertisement."

"Fake you say?" Maleficent eyed at the crowed as her eyes started glowing green.

"Oh, you've made her mad now, angelfish." Ursula chuckled as she showed off Maleficent transforming into her dragon form.

The crowd started backing off at the sight of the dragon, but apparently when that wasn't an obvious threat, the moment Jafar turned into his giant cobra form, Ursula grew into her giant self, and Hades made himself as tall as the Empire State Building, that's when the crowd all realized that the villains were all very much real, and just how bad things were about to get. Yeah, things had gone from bad to worse in a manner of minutes for pretty much everyone who wasn't a magical, evil, megalomaniac.

"Okay, not fake!" I heard Vincent scream as he ran away from the villains. "Definitely not fake!"

"This is our world now!" Jafar laughed wickedly as he and the other villains started terrorizing New York City like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters.

"Scale of one to ten, how bad is this?" Pearl asked me as we watched as the giant dragon, cobra, sea witch, and Greek god wreaking havoc.

"11." I gulped.

"C'mon!" she told me as she grabbed my baseball bat and baseballs. "We gotta stall 'em 'till Frankie gets back!"

I nodded and grabbed myself some unused paint bombs and slingshot. The two of us then started to run out of the building so we could try to stop the villains before they took over New York, or worse, the world.

"Please hurry, Frankie." I muttered under my breath.