The next Saturday, The drama club had its first practice.
"Good morning, Wendy of my heart." Guy said, placing his elbow in the blonde's shoulder. He was wearing a black and pink t-shirt that made some resemblance to SheZow's costume, which was the reason that he owned it.
"Step off, Hamdon." Wanda hissed.
"Alrighty, my fellow actors!" The teacher entered the room smiling as usual. "Ready to know which character you will be interpreting for the play?"
The whole room burst in cheers, and the teacher gave a paper pile attached like a coverless book, to the members. "When I get to three, you will flip the script to see which roles you got."
Guy felt a shiver down his spine and smiled. When the teacher shouted three, the sound of the paper flipping filled the room, followed by whispers and shrieks. When Guy flipped his script he smiled wide. "I knew it!" He said staring at the title of the script: Belle.
Wanda on the other hand, let out a gasp. "Why am I Beast?!"
The practice went well, Guy was indeed a good actor, and made a surprisingly good performance. Wanda didn't complain that much while acting 'in love' with the hero, and it was a new (and fun) experience for the club to have a boy to play Belle and a girl to play Adam, aka Beast.
After almost four hours of practice, the teacher decided it was over, and with a bow, he dismissed the class. The members of the club started to walk out, and Guy decided it was a good time to make a move on Wanda. He walked towards her and struck the most 'handsome' pose he could make.
"Hey, I had this idea-"
Wanda raised an eyebrow.
"Have you ever watched Victorious? In one episode, two girls had to act like lovers but hated each other, so they went to a 'fake' date to make the acting more convincing. What if we do that?"
Wanda laughed. "Are you actually using the play as an excuse to convince me to go on a date with you?"
"I don't know, is it working?"
"Sorta. Listen, I accept just because I care about my role, so don't get all clingy after that."
"Amazing! Do you like bowling?"
"Yeah, I'll pick you up at eight, ok?"
Guy looked at the blonde confused. "uh, YOU will pick Me?"
"Well, since we are acting as the opposite gender, I thought: if we are going for stereotypes, I have to pick you up."
"Clever, I like it. See you at eight then." Guy winked at her.
Once Guy arrived home, he felt adrenaline through his whole body. He was going to have a date with Wanda. He threw himself to the couch and stretched, but as soon as he got ready to take a good 'beauty' nap, Kelly popped from behind the sofa and coughed to call his twin's attention
"I know you might be tired from practice, but you have to go to the league of villains and check on it," Kelly said. "I know it's relaxing, but I have a bad feeling about their silence."
Guy got up and walked towards his sister. "Yeah, me too. I think they are onto something big, it's been haunting me lately." He sighed.
"Exactly, go check on it and if there is any problem, call us."
"You go, girl!" As soon as Guy finished the sentence, the pink S that was his logo surrounded the teen, and with pink light, he turned into SheZow. "I'll look around and be back right before my date." She said (mostly to herself than her twin), and with a wink, she flew off the house.
It took her almost a minute to get to the villains not-so-secret lair and got her first complication when she was unable to open the door, which was odd because it was normally open (The villains weren't very smart). She sighed and took out her Laser Lipstick to cut a hole through the door, though she knew that would get unwanted attention.
Luckily for her, inside the main room, there were no villains, just the TV in a cooking channel. SheZow supposed that they just left and felt relieved that they might attack the city so everything would go back to normal. But when she was ready to leave, the hero heard voices in another room. SheZow walked towards the noise carefully.
"How long will it take to finally finish this piece of garbage?" A voice almost roared, alarming her. It was Mega Monkey's voice.
"It's almost done, but we need to keep gaining power from you and the others." A second voice spoke, a voice that SheZow couldn't recognize.
"Isn't it enough with that green witch?" Mega Monkey said.
"Do you want to win?" The unknown voice was cold and rough, and the hero couldn't help but feel threatened.
"Of course! But it's dangerous, how will we be able to fight?"
"Well, when it's finished, we-" The voice stopped, and SheZow got pale. Did the stranger know that she was there? Instinctively she covered her mouth tightly.
"What's wrong?" Mega Monkey asked.
"There's someone behind the door."
SheZow smothered down a scream and started to look for vanishing cream in her belt desperately. As she felt the steps coming closer to the door, she gave up and prepared for plan B: Fight. Her main goal was avoiding a fight and just collecting information, but she had no choice whatsoever. The hero struck a fighting pose, but when the door opened, nobody was there, just Mega Monkey in a chair, quite far from it.
"What is going on in here, Mega Monkey?" SheZow said, and started to walk towards the villain. But he started laughing, and suddenly, the hero was unable to move forward. Something was stopping her, like an invisible wall.
"What the SheZow is happening here?!"
"Oh, SheZow, what a delight. Do you like our new acquirement?" The monkey started to walk towards her.
"I might like it if I could see it." She said, touching the invisible wall in an attempt to find an entrance she knew was not there.
"Well, no need to see it, when you can simply feel it."
The hero was about to make a pun like she usually did when she got punched in the stomach by thin air. The teen let out a loud cry and started to gasp for air. SheZow tried to find the source of the stroke, but there was nothing she could see.
"It's called Vanishing Cream." Mega Monkey said. "A gift from our dear SheZap."
"She is working with you? I thought-"
"No, honey." A voice sounded in the room, loud, cold, and rough. It was the stranger's voice. "I am."
"Who are you?!" The teen got up, hardly, just to receive another hit, stronger and more painful this time.
"I'm the villain that will kill SheZow once and for all."
The hero looked at nowhere and felt an ache in her chest: fear. "Oh, yeah? How are you planning to do that?" She got up hesitantly, acting more confident than she felt.
"That, impostor, is a secret." The stranger hissed as the cream was losing its effect, showing a person on a black cloak.
"Ha! I'm not scared of you! Heavy Handed Super She-Slap!" As her hand was getting bigger, the villain started to run toward her, and before she could slap them, the stranger tackled her and the hero flew off the building.
SheZow landed at a bus stop. She supposed her hair was ruined because she felt a terrible pain in her whole body, and incredibly dazed, she heard voices in the distance and saw figures running towards her, but she wasn't able to figure out who they were, because she fell unconscious.
When SheZow woke up, Kelly was by her side and so was Maz.
"Where-?" She whispered.
"You are in the SheLair, so you can de-transform now."
The hero let out a weak "She-yeah." And the pink clothes turned into a black and pink shirt and a pair of jeans. He felt way better than he did when he landed.
"What happened? How did you get to the bus station?" Asked Maz, placing his hand on Guy's shoulder.
"Huh? I landed at the bus station?" He tried to remember. "That's impossible, the villain lair is in the middle of nowhere."
"I- So you were not around there? That means that whoever you fought with kicked you harder enough to get you to the bus station by the forest." Kelly thought out loud.
"Yeah, they were fu-" Guy paused. "Very strong."
"They? Wait, what are the villains plotting then?" His twin asked.
Guy explained what he understood, about a new villain that was scaringly strong, and that the league had kidnapped SheZap and were using her tools. He skipped the 'killing SheZow' part and just finished the story with the final strike that got him to his last destination. Maz and Kelly looked at each other, pale. This was bigger than them, and even though they didn't say it, Guy knew it was bigger than SheZow.
He felt an anxious feeling rise from the bottom of his chest and he tried to think about something else, he looked at Maz, and then he remembered.
"I have a date!" He shouted getting up from the floor where he was sitting in before.
"What? You just got attacked by a villain, we don't know anything about them, and you think about a date?" Kelly complained.
"It's important! What time is it?" He asked his friend.
"it's 7:50 PM, so you better get dressed if you want to get to your date on time." Sheila said before the teen could answer.
"Right! Thank you, Sheila!" Guy ran to the SheLair exit, and into his bedroom, leaving the other two teens behind.
"How did you know at which time he has his date?" Asked Maz with amazement.
"I don't, but 93% of dates happen at eight, so I just guessed and got it right, I believe." The computer smiled at the older teen and would have winked at him if she wasn't just a pair of lips.
"Sheila, did you heard about this unknown villain?" Kelly asked, walking towards the computer with annoyance in her voice.
"Yes, I did, and you must be wondering why I didn't stop Guy from going to his date."
"Well- Yes." The ponytail girl sat in front of the computer and crossed her arms.
"SheZow has a level of stress that she can go through before having a breakdown, and Guy was getting close to his limit. Last year he exceed the limit and had a She-SP crisis."
"That's what happened to him? He had a breakdown?" Maz seemed more interested now.
"Yes, exactly. If he goes to the date, he might forget about the possibility of an unstoppable villain and therefore avoid a breakdown that might weaken his powers in such an important time. Maz, go with him while Kelly and I search about someone with the characteristics of our stranger danger, would you?"
The sidekick nodded and got to the exit of the SheLair while Kelly got to work. When he arrived at Guy's room, he knocked lightly and heard a: "Come in!" from his friend.
"Hey, dude. You aren't naked, are you?" Maz said, entering the room with his eyes closed.
"If I were naked, I wouldn't have told you to come in." Laughed Guy.
The taller boy opened his eyes to find his best friend with a pink buttoned shirt and a pair of white jeans. "Woah, Guy, you look shemazing!"
Guy laughed loudly. "Close your mouth, you are drooling." He joked, and his friend rolled his eyes as a response.
Maz sat on the hero's bed, wondering who was the person he was going on a date with. He was not sure if he could ask, but his face said enough. The hazel eyes of the younger teen moved towards his friend's constipated face.
"It's Wanda, I will go bowling with her."
"What? Holy shit! That's unbelievable, she actually accepted!"
Guy looked at him for a second an laughed. "Yeah, I was surprised too."
Suddenly, they heard Wanda's voice downstairs, and Guy frowned.
"Aight, you have to leave."
"Right, I came from the lair, the door isn't really an option." Maz commented.
Guy walked towards his window and opened it up. "Have a good night, my fellow homie."
Maz laughed and patted him as a goodbye. "Have fun, and be a gentleman, m'kay?" He joked before making his way down from Guy's window, using the already settled ivy that crawled through the wall.
The younger teen smirked and closed the window, ready to go to his date.
Note:
Double chapter because the last one was kind of short! Hope you like it.
