Veronica Star Sapphire
By Kid Zatanna
This fan-fic uses charicters that are owned by Warner Communications and Archie Comics. It is only for fun, not profit
As we have seen, Veronica kicks boy-butt. I orrigonaly wrote this story so that she could pound that self-centered archie into the ground, but somehow it never happened. I had to be satisfyed with Star Sapphire's responce to his come-on.
PART TWO
"Oooooo, PureHeart!" Veronica cooed. "You're so powerful!"
"How perceptive of you to notice, beutiful citizen," Archie responded, flexing a bicep.
"Thank you ever so for freeing me from that mean ol' sapphire," the black-haired girl simpered, cudleing up to him.
"Just doing my job, ma'am," PH said, slipping his arm around her slender waist.
"Is there any way I can repay you for saveing me?"
"Sorry, but a true hero never accepts rewards of money or property."
"But there must be some wayI can thank you," she purred, rubbing his mighty chest. "Some way to help you wake up!"
"Huh?"
"Come on," She said with a boy's voice. "Wake up!"
Just then something wet hit him...
"They're comeing around, Moose," Said the boy with the bucket.
"Uhh? Where's Veronica?" Asked PH.
"What happened?" EH muttered.
"Oh nothing much," Moose said sarcasticly. "Star Sapphire tricked you two into beating each other up, SuperTeen showed up, Star Sapphire changed her costume, pounded SuperTeen, got the cheerleaders and SuperTeen to join her, decided to take over the Earth and flew off with our girls and SuperTeen to the Lodge place. By the way: you were a lot of help!"
"Then there's no time to lose!" PureHeart announced. "It's off to the Lodge Mansion!"
"Not without EvilHeart, you won't!" Added Reggie.
"HOLD IT RIGHT THERE!"
Moose Mason's tone stopped them in their tracks.
"Listen, it's like I told my pal Archie," He continued. "You don't know what you're up against."
"And I suppose you do?" Sneered EH.
"As a matter of fact, I do," Moose said, holding an open book before their eyes.
"What the..." muttered PureHeart as they beheld a picture of a brown-haired man in a green and black costume fighting a woman who was dressed like Veronica had been!
EvilHeart took the volume and looked at the cover. It was black and green and there was a green circle with a bar at the top and bottom. In bold letters was the title: "The Green Lantern Cronicles. 1959 to 1976."
"Where did you get this?" He asked.
"From the comics shop," Moose told them.
"Comic books." the masked teen said, rolling his eyes.
"Yeah, comic books," Moose responded, takeing back his book. "That's how I know whats going on."
"OK, Moose," Said PH. "But can you tell us how Veronica become a comicbook charicter?"
Moose began, pleased that he could be 'the smart guy' for once.
"Our science teacher, Professor Flutesnoot, told us about the mutiple dimention theory. It's like diffrent channels on a TV set, they're all out there in space, but they use diffrent signals. Now our history teacher, Mr. Howitzer, once talked about how history could have taken a diffrent path and how things would be diffrent today.
"That's a much-used plot in these comics: there are many realitys, called 'Earth-One', 'Earth-Two', Earth-S' and so on. Each of these earths started the same, but somewhere in history, something happened to make it diffrent. Like in our reality, we have superheros like The Web, The Jaguar and you two. In this reality," He added, tapping the book. "They have Superman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern, who in our world are just charicters in comicbooks and movies."
"OK, I guess that makes scence," admited EvilHeart. "Now what's the four-eleven on Veronica?"
"She thinks she's Star Sapphire, or maybe she is. Star Sapphire is the queen of the Zamarons," he began, showing them a picture of some women in psudo-Greecian/Roman armor. "Remember? She kept calling our cheerleaders 'Zamarons'. They call their home 'The Planet Of Beutifull Women'."
"They sure are!" Said Pureheart.
"For once, I agree with you," added EH.
"Pay attention! Now the Zamarons are all immortal except for one: by law their queen is a mortal woman who looks like their first queen. When a queen is dieing or dead, they search the universe for her replacement. They chose Carol Ferris."
Here he turned to the begining of the comic story where 'Carol Ferris' was shown flying into the desert in 'Lady Carol', her late 1950s fighter plane. To the superheros astonishment, she looked like an older Veronica Lodge!
"They dressed her in one of their queen's costumes and gave her a gem that had great powers," He continued. "But Carol was in love with Green Lantern and didn't want to go. The Zamarons had her commit some fake crimes to draw Green Lantern out so she could defeat him and proove she was better. But Star Sapphire was defeated and the women left her to search for someone else. They left the sapphire behind--by accident or on purpose, I don't know--and Carol Ferris sometimes became Star Sapphire again to fight Green Lantern. Somehow Veronica found it and is trying to become the Zamarons' queen."
"But how did the gem get here from that other world?" Asked Archie/PureHeart.
"Forget that," snapped EvilHeart. "It's here and that's all that matters. I want to know how we get our Veronica back!"
"I don't think you can. No, listen," Moose told them, cutting off all argument. "Green Lantern used his power ring to cut Carol off from the sapphire's energys and you don't have a power ring."
"Do you have a better idea?" Reggie sneered.
"No. And I don't think anyone on our earth has that kind of firepower."
"Well it's simple!" EH said, throwing his hands in the air. "We just fight our way past a squad of super-cheerleaders, defeat that turncoat SuperTeen and take out Star Sapphire who has enough fire-power to take on the whole football team. No sweat!"
"Well aren't YOU just a bundle of sunshine?" PureHeart sneered.
Before they could start fighting again, Coach Cleats called to them, waveing Archie's cellphone.
"Hey you, Pureheart! Somebody named 'SuperTeen' want's to talk to you!"
"She probobly wants to discuss surrender terms." EvilHeart said as PH took the phone.
"Wait! He said SuperTeen," Moose pointed out. "Not SapphireTeen as Star Sapphire renamed her!"
"Then she's still on our side!" Reggie said excitedly.
"SuperTeen, where are you?" Archie asked.
"No, I don't want to talk to your supervisor, I want the director of programing!" SuperTeen replied.
"What? Are you feeling OK? This is PureHeart!"
"Perhaps I should make myself clearer," Betty continued. "I'm here at the Lodge Mansion with Star Sapphire, the future benevolent ruler of the Earth. She would like to make on announcement on your cable station and we would very much like for it to be on before the evening news. This is, after all, very important and I would like to discuss the situation with your bosses."
"That's the stuff," Veronica said as she pondered her various outfits.
"SuperTeen," PureHeart said quickly. "Moose seems to know about this Star Sapphire and says that if we can sperate her from the sapphire, we'll get Veronica back!"
"I see. Yes, that would be fine...Um hmm...Now as I said, we're at the Lodge Mansion and I want you to get busy on this and stand by for instructions. I'll keep you posted on any changes...Gooood. Bye-bye."
"That's telling him, Lady SapphireTeen; when dealing with underlings, be polite, but firm," Star Sapphire said, as if quoteing from 'The Queen's Handbook'.
Betty stepped forward, thinking about how she can get the gemstone. Amazeingly, Veronica sat at the vanity and removed her mask so she could brush her hair! ST moved cautiously forward, meaning to grab the mask and jewel before flying out the open balcony doors.
"Oops! Drat." SS muttered as she knocked the hairbrush off the table.
Here was the chance! SuperTeen set her feet, ready to spring, but Veronica reached out and the brush floated up into her hand! BLAST IT!
"Err, how far away can you control your gem, my queen?" ST asked.
"Only thirteen paces. Why?"
"Oh...no reason. I just didn't know that you could. Here, let me do that," the heroine offered, takeing the brush. "A few dozen strokes to bring out the sheen in your OH MY GOSH!"
"What? What is it?"
"Split ends!"
The villianess gasped, looking in the mirror. This is the chance that Betty had hoped for!
"Now, don't panic. This is not a problem," She said soothingly.
"Don't just stand there! Do something! Get some scissors, trim it!"
"No, this is a job for a professional. We'll go to Millie's Pamper Parlor , she takes walk-ins."
Veronica breathed a sigh of relief, Millie was one of the few people she trusted with her hair. SuperTeen made another call to "the Cable Station" and the two super-beings were soon flying off, the two heros following as secretly as they could.
Another super-powered teen was there already. Cricket O'Dell had used her powers of sniffing out money to find a fifty dollar bill and was useing it to get a new hair style. The doors were open in the corner shop, bringing in a cooling cross-breeze and suddenly it brought in something that only Cricket could detect. She knew that money-scent, it was her friend Veronica Lodge. But there was something strange about it, there was a hint of...jewlery? Just then two costumed girls landed outside and hurried in.
"Oh good," said the blond. "You're not busy. Veronica, I mean, Star Sapphire is going to appier on TV and she needs the full treatment; hair style, shampoo, manicure, pedicure, everything."
A full treatment ment the possibility of a big tip, so the women started preperations. As the queen-to-be settled in the chair, Cricket sniffed the air gently. The masked girl smelled like Veronica, but Cricket wasn't sure...
"What are you doing?" The raven-haired girl snapped as an attendant reached for her mask.
"I...I have to remove your mask to work on you," the startled woman said.
"I'll take that," SuperTeen told her. "we can't be too carefull, you majesty."
Star Sapphire closed her eyes with a smile as another woman removed one of her boots; it was so good to have a conciencious secritary like SapphireTeen looking after her interests. Suddenly she sat up, pushing away the beauty specialists' hands.
"Wait a minute, something's wrong," she looked around and saw Betty backing towards the door, the sapphire-embedded mask clutched to her chest.
"Give me that!" Veronica demanded.
"Now boys!" ST cried, spinning around.
Eveilheart and PureHeart dropped down before the doors from their hideing-place on the roof. The blond superheroine flung the mask to EvilHeart who was closer.
"Get it away, fast!" She told him and ran out the door to PureHeart's side as EvilHeart flew off.
"What the holy heck is going on here?" Shouted Veronica as she hobbled out, pulling on a boot.
"Veronica, is that really you?" asked PH.
"Well of course it's me! Where's the she?"
"Where is who?" Asked ST.
"The Zamaron sapphire I wore. Where is she?"
"Uhhh, EvilHeart has it," Pureheart told her, confused that she spoke of the gem as if it were a liveing thing.
"Well I hope he doesn't try anything funny, because if a MAN tries to use her..."
They were interupted by the sight of a body flying down the street accompanied by the sound of a kettle drum being hit by a pick-up truck and Reggie's scream. He bounced to where the three friends were standing and Star Sapphire's mask fell from his hand.
"...THAT would happen," Veronica concluded.
She picked up the mask and placed it on her face. The heros braced themselves for another fight, but the girl smiled at them.
"Shall we stop for ice-cream? My treat?" She offered in her normal Southern accent.
EPILOG
The crisis was over and the heros (Except Betty, whose costume had been changed by Star Sapphire) were back in their ordinary clothes. Pop tate cast another glance at the four friends seated at the booth and shook his head. He didn't know why Betty and Veronica were dressed in superhero suits, but if those two trend-setters ran around like that, it was a safe bet that half the girls in the high school would soon be wearing such costumes!
"The sapphire contains the memories and skills of the two women who wore her before me," Veronica was saying. "That should be usefull to me as a superheroine."
"Wait, you can't be serious!" Archie said. "You tried to take over the world!"
"And I have the bruises to proove it," Reggie added.
"That was Betty's idea," Ronnie countered.
Betty almost pointed out that both Veronica AND Star Sapphire seemed to relish the idea of ruleing the world, but kept quiet for fear of her head going "bouncey-bouncey" again.
"Anyway, that was all a silly mistake," the brunette continued. "The trip through the dimentions kind of scrambled the Star Sapphire personality; that's why I kept switching from Star Sapphire to Veronica and back again. I guess we have EvilHeart to thank. You see, the blast he took set Star Sapphire back in order. And since I not only LOOK like the Zamaron Queen, but also have a personality simular to Star Sapphire's, she's stableised and can be called upon anytime I need her,"
"Aren't you forgetting that Star Sapphire got you kicked off the Cheerleading squad?" Archie pointed out hopefully, knowing how much Veronica loved cheerleading.
"Oh, there's no need top worry about that, Archie. I'll be re-instated when the other cheerleaders threaten to go on strike."
"Why would they do that?" Reggie asked.
"Yeah, why would we do that?" Betty wondered.
"Alright, tell me this: whohired that choriographer to help us with our routines? Who chipped in for uniforms when the school cut off our funding? Who paid Jane and Kathy's expences to Cheer Camp?"
"You did," Betty admitted quietly. "I'll call Miss shapely when I get home."
"Now don't worry about Star Sapphire, she's all right once you get to know her," here she paused with a thoughtfull expression. "Yes, It would be mean not to let you out on occasion. You deserve a holliday now and then." She took a spoonfull of icecream into her mouth. "Mmmm, I can see why this is Veronica's favorite treat!"
The instant change startled her friends, but Archie saw an opportunity. He reached for Veronica's gloved hand.
"You know, you're new in town and I'll be glad to escort you around and show you the highlights of our fair city," Ron couldn't get mad, he reasoned, since she and Star Sapphire were the same person.
"Remove it, or lose it, peasent," Star Sapphire said sweetly.
"Yes ma'am."
At that moment the cellphone in her purse beeped "Swan Lake" and she switched back to answer it.
"Hello. Oh hi, daddy!...I'm at Pop Tate's. Archie, Betty and Reggie are with me...no, there's nothing special going on. Why do you ask?"
"Oh, no reason," he answered, clenching his fist. "It's just that there are a bunch of cheerleaders here who say that they can't let me into my own house without permission from THE QUEEN!"
THE END