Beastfire: Hey! Here's the twelfth chapter! Now, to answer reviews...or I would, if not for some reason I won't mention.
Chapter 12- Maternal Instinct
While Mandarin, Bloodstone, Lorena, Naithair, and Tony came toward the Super Robot, a fireball was sent as a greeting, along with the incantation "Otserra ocouf!". The fireball was bright blue, yet cold as ice. It trapped Bloodstone within its frozen flames and dissipated, leaving the monkey as a solid block of ice.
"Oh, so the mutant's a witch now, huh?" Lorena mocked.
Ivy said nothing except," Erazzilibommi!"
The mutant hunter fell to the ground, unable to move. She could see the smirk on her sworn enemy's face. Mandarin, Naithair, and Tony broke the block of ice and Tony ran up to Ivy. He picked her up by the throat and pinned her to the outside of the Super Robot.
"You think you're so smart, you little puttana!" he screamed in her face, his grip on her tightening.
Ivy would have replied with some sort of comeback had she been able to breathe. Just as she thought her life was over, Tony dropped her. Luckily, she caught herself on her own flight ability. The man looked down to see his ankle bleeding and Frus wiping the blood from his claws with a smirk on his face. The smirk soon became an expression of pain when his tail was stepped on with a spiked heel. Frus looked up to see that Lorena had returned to her normal self.
"They just don't write spells like they used to, I'm guessing!" Frus said.
"You said it!" replied Ivy.
The team came outside and surrounded Tony.
"Listen," said Chiro, "As annoying, loud, obnoxious, idiotic, insane, violent, and alcoholic as Ivy is-"
"Hey! Are you defending me or insulting me?" Ivy demanded.
"A little of both. ANYWAYS, you can't just do whatever you want with her! If you don't get away from her right now-"
"Oh, I'm so scared!" Tony laughed. "Fine! I'll just grab someone else!"
He went after Frus, who rolled out of the way and jumped to his feet, hissing with claws at the ready.
"Is that the way you want it? Okay then…Naithair! You know what to do."
The snake nodded and darted inside. Before he could be stopped, screams were heard. Frus and Ivy's eyes grew wide as they realized what it was.
"THE KIDS!" both shouted.
"That's right!" said Tony with a laugh. "What's more important to you? Revenge? Or the lives of your children?"
"Okay," said Ivy, sounding defeated. But can I say one last thing?"
"Like what?"
"Arutazzorts!"
Tony began choking.
"New deal!" Frus shouted. "You give us our children, and you'll be able to breathe again!"
The man looked desperately at Naithair, who dropped the triplets. Luckily, Frus was able to catch the three of them. As the team began to fight Mandarin, Bloodstone, and Lorena, Naithair looked at Ivy.
"Remember our deal?" he asked menacingly while beginning to coil around her.
"E-eraripser!" Ivy stuttered, fear evident in her voice.
Tony was able to breathe again, but Naithair refused to release her.
"Just like old times, huh, fresh meat?"
A growl was heard and both looked toward the source. Frus had just summoned his Phoenix Talons and was holding Gaia in his hands.
"Put. Her. Down."
The snake dropped Ivy and went after Frus, while Tony went for the children.
"Mommy!" one of them yelled.
"Dylan!" shouted Ivy, then she hovered over with the angriest blue glow in her eyes.
An aura of blue flames formed around the meerkat as she came after her and her family's attacker. She pulled Tony's hands open, picked up her children, and set them down effortlessly. She had Tyr and Dylan shield themselves and their brother with some metal, then went back after Tony.
"Hey, Padre," she said in an unnatural, almost demonic voice. "You can abuse me, try to hurt my friends, threaten my boyfriend, even attempt to destroy my life, but if you ever, and I mean EVER even think of considering of even LOOKING at my kids again, I will tear out your fingernails, use them to claw out your eyes, feed both of them to you, cut out your internal organs, feed those into a meat grinder, and burn the rest of your pathetic body! Capisce?"
Everyone was staring at her at the end of her very graphic threat.
"You wouldn't do that," Tony mocked. "You're too much of a good girl."
He was met with a glare, then was picked up and thrown in a judo style. Ivy hovered over to where he landed.
"Did she just do that with her bare hands?" asked Otto.
"Yes," replied Frus.
"Since when did she develop these new powers?"
"Those aren't new powers, Otto. That's maternal instinct kicking in."
All they could do was watch in amazement as Ivy beat the tar out of the Sangretti crime family's patriarch. After a while, Nova and Sprx noticed how distracted Mandarin was and beat him easily, knocking him out simply by hitting him on either side of the head. Bloodstone was taken out by Otto breaking his nose and Chiro knocking his teeth out. Antauri and Gibson defeated Lorena by hitting two of her pressure points at the same exact time, knocking her out. Frus slashed Naithair's biggest artery, causing the snake to bleed to death from his own heartbeat. By the time Ivy was done with Tony, the man had lost six pints of blood and his right eye.
"Leave my kids alone," Ivy told him in the most frighteningly even tone he'd ever heard.
"Y-yes…of course. If I even think about them, you'll kill me?"
"That's right."
Beastfire: Here is where I leave you! Next time, in the final chappie, is the aftermath, in which Seamus has a question. Who will answer it? Find out in the epilogue!
Ivy: Now Don Tony knows not to mess with me!
Frus: At least we never have to worry about Naithair again.
Beastfire: See? I can be nice sometimes! Now…who wants to hit the Tony piñata?
Tony: (hanging from the ceiling from a rope) I'm not a piñata!
Beastfire: So, who wants the first whack at him?
Ivy and Frus: I DO!
Ivy: There's only one way to decide…(both do rock paper scissors; Frus wins) Aw, crap.
Frus: (snickers as he picks up the stick and Beastfire puts the blindfold on him and spins him around)
Tony: Oh, (bleep)…
Frus: (swings the stick and hits Tony in the censored place, then lifts up the blindfold) Did I get 'im?
Tony: (voice high and squeaky, yet in pain) Yes…you got them…
Beastfire: Ivy, you get a free, unobstructed swing, as he abused you as a kid.
Ivy: YAY! (takes a swing and hits him in the same exact place repeatedly, laughing hysterically the whole time)
Beastfire: Please review! Anyone who reviews may take a swing at the Tony piñata if they so choose in their review! Tyr, you're next!
Tyr: (goes through the same procedure as with Frus, but hits Tony in the nose)