"Guys, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore" said Freddy, looking at an overturned dumpster where his newsstand should have been.
"Heck, even Gotham's more cheerful than this place." Added Billy. "But what happened?"
As they approached the tower, they received another shock. In front of what appeared to be a major entranceway, they saw at least a dozen heavily armed guards.
Except these guards weren't human.
They appeared to be large burly tiger men, something straight out of a science fiction film.
"Guys, I don't like this!" said Mary. "Where are we?"
At that moment, she noticed an old newspaper blowing towards them. After quickly examining it, she showed it to the others.
"FAUCET CITY?!" said Bill.
"And look, it's today's date!" said Mary.
"We need more information guys, this is getting weird! I thought I saw a library not far from here, maybe we can find out something." Said Freddy.
Unbenownsed to them, as they went toward the library, a black van was following them.

At the library, the kids made some more startling discoveries.
"Hey, check this out!" said Mary reading a history book. According to this, during World War Two, it was the AMERICANS who invaded the Japaneese naval base at Pearl Harbor!"
"Your kidding!" said Freddy. After looking at the book, he concurred. "I don't believe it, and get this, at the time, the president was Al Capone, and his Vice President was John Dillinger"
As the two were talking, Billy was reading through some recent periodicals, trying to find out more about that weird building, and the energy shield. Finally, he came across an article which grabbed his attention. TERROR FAMILY IMPOSES NEW TAX ON SHIELD. It came with an accompanying photo, which included those tiger people he saw earlier. This time, they seemed to be flanking…
Him?
Before he could indicate to the others, one of the librarians stormed over to their table.
"Alright, pay up!" he said angrily.
"Um, excuse us?"
"You know the rules, what do you think this is, a free library?" he snapped, indicating to a sign.

LIBRARY RATES
30 MINUTES = $1
ADDITIONAL HALF HOURS = $2.50

"C'mon, pay up!"
"Alright, I'll take it guys!" said Mary reaching into her billfold. "Will this do?" she said, handing him some bills.
As the librarian examined the bills, his eyes widened. "WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO PULL?" he said throwing the bills back at Mary.
"But I thought..."
"Don't give me that!" he said pushing her.
"Hey, leave her alone!" said Freddy moving to her side.
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!" said the librarian. He then kicked one of Freddy's braces from under him, causing to fall.
"FREDDY!" wailed Mary, rushing to him.
Freddy, on the floor, and in pain, glanced angrily at the librarian.
"Captain Marvel" he muttered under his breath.
At that moment, the lightning transformed him into CM3. Noticing the commotion, the other patrons noticed the azure figure rising above the floor, arms crossed, near the now worried librarian.
Billy, covering his forehead with his hand, said his own magic word.
"Shazam."
"Shazam." Said Mary in unison.
As the lightning bolts transformed the twins, the people started to panic.
"Captain Terror!"
"It's Bloody Mary! I'm out of here!"

A few seconds later, the librarian was on his knees.
"M-Major Terror, I'm sorry, I didn't know..."
"What did you call me?"
"Um, Major Terror, sir?"
"It's Captai- uh, CM3" said Freddy. "How could you kick a cripple?"
"I didn't know, honestly, with these new taxes and fake bills, I didn't know…"
"What do you mean, fake bills?" interrupted Mary.
"Please, don't hurt me... I have a wife, kids... HURT THEM!!"
"What?!" said Mary in disgust. "What kind of person are you?"
"Guys, I hear sirens, lets get out of here." Said Cap.
"But we didn't do anything wrong!" said CM3.
"How about causing a disturbance?"
"But where will we go? What's happening to us? Where are we?"
***Marvel Family*** said a voice in their heads.
"W-What was that?" said CM3.
***Only you can here us. Please make haste. Go to the alleyway out back. You will find us there."***
The three heroes heeded the mysterious advice, and left the confused librarian, still kneeling, right where they left him.

A few seconds later, the trio went out to the back alley, to see three figures near a black van.
"We must hurry!" said one of the figures. "The Tawny are already on their way!"
"Tawny, as in Mr. Tawny?" said Mary.
"Quickly! Into the van!" the man said. "There isn't much time!"
As they entered the van, Cap asked "Who are you guys? What's going on?"
"All will be explained soon, Captain Marvel. For now, we must avoid the Tawny."
"Why?"
"For if they are here, Captain Terror cannot be far behind."
"Captain Terror?"
Out of the shaded window of the van, Cap saw that they were passing by the front of the library. From their vantage point, they saw more of those tiger-guards trying to control the rioters.
Then, they stood at attention when, from out of the sky, a solitary figure flew down.
As the being turned to asses the situation, Captain Marvel received another shock.
"He looks just like you!" said Mary.
"That, is Captain Terror!" said the man who helped them.

Captain Terror arrived as soon as he heard news of this riot. If this was another pathetic uprising, heads will roll, he thought as he entered the building.
He approached a pair of Tawny who were interrogating a librarian.
"Report!" he ordered.
"We have monitored a videotape of the incident, and have found something most curious, master." Said a Tawny. "Observe."
As the tape played, he saw the events of half an hour unfold. It then reached the incident in question, when noticed something unusual.
"What are Freddy and Mary doing here? And what's with the crutches?"
That's when he noticed the third figure.
Then Freddy's transformation.
"What the..." he sputtered as the third figure on the screen mumbled something under his breath, and transformed…...
"We also found this, Master." Said another Tawny, handing him the bills Mary had dropped.
Examining them, they looked like regular bills, then he noticed the front...
Benedict Arnold was missing.
Terror looked at the screen again, and noticed that "he" was talking to a librarian.
The same one that was in front of him, on his knees.
"What happened?" he said icily.
"Please forgive me, I didn't know it wasn't..."
"WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED" he said lifting him up by the collar.
"I didn't know, I mean they didn't pay, and I didn't know they weren't you..." the librarian sputtered.
Terror looked at the monitor again. "You saw him change."
"You mean the other boy? Yes I did. I mean, I didn't know he was. um... Mr. Batson... But that would mean…"
"You know." He said calmly. "Bad news for you." He grinned.
"But I have a wife, children. Please, take them!"
"But they don't know my secret, now do they?" he said as he snapped the librarian's neck.
The Tawny looked at Captain Terror expectantly, as he dropped the twitching body.
"Bon appetite!" he said as he flew back to WIZZ tower.
The Tawny, already drooling, hunched over the corpse and started to dig in.