Hello, folks. It's time for another episode of TSLAMH where 90 minutes determine the fate of Metropolis as the intensive game of combat soccer does just that. Thanks for reading the fanfic and reviewing. Anyway, I don't own anything in this fic. Let's get it.
=======Chapter 10: Strikers Charged- Part 2======
Where we last left our heroes, Wonder Woman led the team for the ball with Ivy trying to slide tackle but missed as the Amazon gets the ball down the field. Soon, Kid Cabra charges after the Amazon with a headbutt but WW hears BJessica call out for the ball. The Amazon passes it to the Lantern. However, Jessica heard a shriek while going down the field towards Giganta. Star Sapphire dashed after the Lantern in a fit of rage punching her with a bat construct.
"That oughta teach you not to mess with my Hal! And stay down while you're at it!", SS screamed as she dashed down the field with 7 other villains in tow.
"They're coming! Lobo! Hunter! Sapphire's coming in your direction!", Diana shouted as Hunter and Lobo went after the villainess.
"Hey! Gem Girl! Wanna piece of me?!", Lobo yelled as he tries to spear her but SS used her gem to shoot energy beams sending the Zarnian flying into the force field shocking him but got dazed as SS smirked.
"Hot wings!", Lobo said groggily as Hunter glared at Sapphire.
"Come and get some, bra! Here it comes!", Hurricane yelled as he ran at full speed at Sapphire but was whacked across the head by Harley with a mallet. The air rider saw Tweety birds as Harley laughed silly with Carol smirking to her teammate thanking her.
"Bye-Bye, Air Dork!", Carol teased as she ran down the field towards Supergirl. Batgirl and Flash helped Hurricane onto his feet as Zatanna cried out to them.
"Hurry up! Star Sapphire is heading towards the goal to score! Hurry!", the magician said as Flash yelled out to her.
"We're coming, Z! Hunter here took a nasty whack on the noggin!", the speedster said as Hunter rubbed his head.
"No time to sit around, guys! Kara needs our help!", Batgirl said as the boys shook it off and hurried down the field.
Kara spotted Sapphire running towards the goal as she readies herself. Diana and Bumblebee tried to tackle SS but Carol passes it to Cheetah who in turn passed it to Livewire. Lobo now conscious ran at the DJ girl but was nearly rammed by Kid Cabra.
"Get baaack heeere!", the goat yelled as Lobo fought him near the force field. Livewire tries to charge the ball to shoot but Jessica and Flash try for a double team only to get tied in vines by Ivy and was thrown into Lobo and Cabra.
"Hurry up and shoot! Now's your chance!", the plant girl said as Livewire charged up until she jumped in the air with the ball smirking at Kara.
"Give it your beest shot, Sparky! I dog dare you!", the blonde challenged with a smug look as Livewire laughed with electricity surrounding the ball.
"Oh, Supergirl! I thought you'd never ask! You're in for a shock of your life! Take this!", Livewire said as the ball splits into 4 balls with Kara's eyes wide as saucers as did the other girls. But Flash, Hunter and Lobo knew what was coming.
"Oh snap!", the three boys chorused as the heroes watched hoping that Kara blocks the megastrikes coming her way.
Kara saw the first one coming to thee left and blocked it then the next one on the right. However, the last two balls whizzed past her successfully into the goal giving Ivy's team the 2-0 lead.
"Whoo-hoo! Way to go, Sparks! We're right in the lead!", Harley said with a giggle as Kara threw a fit. As she did so, she threw the soccer ball out of frustration hitting Zatanna across the butt making her yelp in pain. The heroes chastised the Kryptonian to calm down.
"Kara! What was that for?! Calm down!", Z yelled rubbing her butt as Diana marched up to Kara.
"There's no time for tantrums, Kara! We're still early in this game! Don't let your temper cost us the game Do you understand?!", Diana glared as Kara huffed. Hammerhead grew impatient as he shouted at the group.
"Hey, buttsniffers! We got a game to do! Hop to it!, mate!", the shark said as the heroes were offended.
"Hey, Jaws! Who the -dolphin chirp- are you calling buttsniffers ?! It's you guuys who are the -seal bark- sniffers!", Hurricane said as Ivy grew disgusted.
"How dare you call us that?! How rude! Make a move or forfeit!", Ivy hissed as Kara rolled the ball to Batgirl.
"Come and get me!", the Gotham hero giggled as she ran kicking the ball near the midfield.
"After her! Don't let her get away!", Ivy barked as Catwoman and Harley chased after Babs. Bumblebee and Diana surveyed the field running alongside Batgirl. However, confetti bombs hits Babs tripping her as Hammerhead ran with the ball.
"See ya later, Little Sheilas!", the shark teen said as he runs towards Kara only to get punched by Hurricane's wind laced fist. The air rider ran with the ball down the field as Diana called for a pass.
"Hunter, I'm open! Pass it to me!", the Amazon said as Hunter tries for a pass only to get rammed by Kid Cabra.
"You're not going anywhere, Sonic Dweeb! It's my ball now!", the goat teen laughed as he got tackled by Lobo.
"No it isn't, geek! Time to take it to the basket for the Main Bro!", the Zarnian teen said as Ivy trips him up.
"That's basketball talk, imbecille!", Ivy taunted as she dribbles the ball with her feet and was about to clear it only to get tackled to the barrier shocking her by Babs.
"Take that, Ivy!", Babs said but catwoman clotheslines her to the ground stealing the ball.
"Harley, here it comes!", Catwoman said as Harley received the pass.
"Thanks, Kit Kat! Now to score more points! Hee-hee!", the jester said with a grin as she tries to run down to the heroes side of the field but when she was near shooting distance, Bumblebee tries for a Beeline tackle only for Harley to pass it to Cheetah. The catgirl smirked as Kara narrowed her eyes at Bumblebee.
"karen! Hurry and catch that cat! She's going to score!", the Kryptonian bellowed as Cheetah taunted.
"What's the matter, tough guy? Afraid I'll score on you losers?", the catgirl said as she hisses. Kara braced herself as Cheetah kicks the ball to the goal only for Kara to block it. The ball then bounces off towards Cheetah and tries for a charge shot launching it far left catching Karaa off guard into the goal making the score 3-0. Kara again threw a tantrum and tosses the ball at Karen hitting her in the head.
"Owie! What was that for, Kara?! First, Z and now me!", Karen said glaring as she rubs the area the ball struck her at. Diana screamed at Kara as she ran over and grabbed the Kryptonian by the collar with anime veins on their faces.
"Will you stop doing that?!", Diana hissed as Kara growled. Hunter ran over and split the girls apart.
"If you girls are done, we got a game to play here! And Kara, stop taking your anger out on Karen and Z. In fact, throw the ball at the villains' head instead.", Hunter suggested with Diana glaring at the air rider.
"Don't give her any ideas, Hunter!", Diana hissed as Hunter smiles.
Kara rolled the ball to Jessica to the right and the Lantern ran with the ball towards the middle where Carol evilly waited for her prey to crossover. SS and GL were in a battle across the villains' side as blasts from the Power Ring and Power Gem were exchanged. Carol's blast nearly hit Livewire as the DJ yelled.
"Hey! Watch it, girl! You nearly blasted me out of the stadium!", Livewire hissed as Carol sheepishly grinned. Jessica took advantage and shot a blast sending Carol to the ground.
"That'll keep you out for awhile! Flash, over here!", Jessica said as she passed the ball to the speedster.
"Here goes nothing!", Flash ran quick with the ball as Kid Cabra tried to ram him only to miss and hit Hammerhead sending them to the ground.
"You're too slow! C'mon, step it up!", Flash taunted as Lobo yelled at the speedster.
"Heey, geek! Stop using that hedgehog's Brawl taunts!", Lobo said as Flash ignored him. The speedster ran within shooting distance where Giganta smiled evilly.
"All right, speed geek! Your luck's running out! You know how I get when I get angry! You don't like me when I'm angry.", the giantess said as she readies to pounce on the speedster.
"Fat chance!", Flash said as he zipped to the far right of the goal befor zipping into the net by accident with the ball crossing over with him cutting the lead by 2. (3-1)
Giganta like Kara, threw a tantrum launching a ball hitting Cheetah square in the face. The catgirl yowled in pain as Giganta stomped in anger. Cheetah then got into the giant's face arguing.
"Look what you did to my beautiful face, you big cow! What was that for?!", she hissed as Giganta growls.
"oh shut it, fur rug! That red guy cut our lead by 2!", Giganta roared but Ivy angrily stopped the bickering.
"Giganta, that was not even necessary to do that! We're still in the lead! Now get to your post or I'll have you clean the hideout! And Cheetah, you get to yours or you join her in the cleanup duty!", Ivy barked as the two girls did as they were told.
"Way to go, Flash! Righteous!", Hurricane said giving the speedster high fives but Z interrupted.
"I hate to interrupt but we're down by 2.", the magician said as Hurricane smirked.
"Not to worry, Z. All we gotta do is score 2 more to tie and 3 more to lead. Easy-peasy.", the air rider said as Giganta yelled at the players.
"Can you posers hurry up?! We want to finish clobbering you!", the giantess bellowed as the heroes went to their side of the field. Giganta rolls the ball to Hammerhead as the shark goes towards midfield.
"This is going to be a piece of cake!", the shark teen laughed as he went to midfield. However, smoke bombs from Batgirl landed in front of Hammerhead stunning him. Batgirl then steals the ball dodging Catwoman trying to clip her. Diana yelled for Batgirl to pass it and luckily she did for Kid Cabra was about to ram her. The Amazon ran down the field with Cheetah and Ivy double teaming her.
"You can't escape from us now, Wonder Dork!", Ivy mocked as she trips the Amazon as Cheetah tries to get the ball but Bumblebee does a Beeline tackle getting the ball back.
Bumblebee tried to pass it to Z but Livewire shocked her and stole the ball. The DJ ran diagonally dodging Batgirl and Diana's tackles. Livewire lobs it to Cheetah who passed it to Ivy who is in shooting distance. Kara growled hoping that Batgirl can hurry up.
"Need help over here!", Kara yelled as Ivy charged the ball. Sonic Hurricane tried to run and steal but Kid Cabra butts him against the barrier shocking him. Lobo was no help either for he got tripped by Hammerhead and Star Sapphire. Batgirl ran to Ivy but she was too late for the plant girl used her vines to split the ball into 4 balls. Kara glared at Batgirl as the balls start flying at her. The balls whizzed past the blonde but caught the last one of the four making the lead 6-1 villains.
"Yes! I scored on you runts! You're going to be part of my army to take Over Metropolis! Hahahahaha!", Ivy cackled along with Harley. Kara angrily looked at Batgirl and screams in anger throwing the ball at the Gotham heroine hitting her in the face.
In comical fashion, Batgirl had her lower lip in a quiver before wailing as Diana gritted her teeth at Kara. Flash and Hurricane glanced at each other watching Diana drag Kara to the side for a serious talk.
"Kara is definitely the Kritter of the team.", Hurricane said as Flash.
"Yep. Totally.", the speedster said as the two heroes went to Batgirl to calm her down.
After Diana knocked some sense into Kara, the heroes were on the defensive as the villains gave them a run for their money. Harley whacked Lobo to the ground with her mallet and passed it to Star Sapphire. SS went face to face with Jessica as their Gem and Ring clashed for the ball but the storm blast from Hurricane sends Carol flying into the barrier peppering her with electricity. Jessica smirks as she went down the field dodging Ivy's vines and passes the ball to Hurricane who was within striking distance. Giganta taunted the air rider as he went closer.
"Your luck's run out, Air Dweeb! Time to send you packing!", Giganta threatened as she tried pouncing on the air rider but misses as he passes it to Bumblebee who quickly shoots the ball into the goal making it 6-2.
Bumblebee cheered as Giganta smirked.
"Don't celebrate just yet, Bumblebee and Air Dweeb! We're still in the lead and we're almost at halftime!", Giganta boasted as the clock read 43:00 minutes on the clock. The heroes and villains ran the clock out as halftime commenced. Diana yelled for her team for a meeting as the villains smirked and taunted.
======Halftime Meeeting=====
The 9 heroes had burnt marks from the barriers, bruises, scrapes and some lumps courtesy of Kara hitting Bumblebee, Zatanna and Batgirl with the ball. Diana gathered everybody and spoke about their situation.
"We're down by 4 points! It's still anybody's game and lucky for us is the time! We need to play harder and smarter!", the Amazon said as Lobo let one rip.
PBBBT!
"Lobo! What the hell?! Did you have to do it in here?!", Jessica yelled as Lobo grinned.
"Dude, my nose is burning!", Hurricane said waving the stench away. However, he smirked as Z and Bumblebee grew confused.
"Why are you smirking all of a sudden?", Z said crossing her arms as Hurricane explained.
"Hey, Lobo! You can use your farts as a secret weapon to knock Ivy's crew off balance! That's the smell of victory right here!", Hurricane grinned as Flash and Lobo high-fived each other.
"Geez. Those three love to fart.", Bumblebee said gagging as Kara huffed.
"Just play harder or else I'll hit all of you with the damn ball.", Kara said but Diana overheard that.
"And another thing. Kara, stop taking your anger out on us with the ball. Thanks to you, Babs has a bruise on her face.", Diana said as Batgirl pouted at Kara.
"Yeah! I look like a weasel thanks to you, Kara! And you hit Z and Karen upside their heads with the ball too!", the Gotham heroine said as Kara huffed.
"So? I have to let out my frustrations somehow.", the blonde said as Diana puts her hands on her hips.
"Well can you use your rage in a good light by playing better and winning the game? Something that doesn't involve giving us black eyes.", Diana said as Kara groaned. After the team had their say in the matter, they head out for the field.
=====Time Skip======
25 minutes into the second half was at a standstill as neither scored but they played harder and smarter. Lobo now with the ball ran down the field with Hammerhead ready to tackle him only for the shark to suffer a huge fart cloud from the Zarnian hitting the sensitive nose.
"Crikey! What did you eat, mate?! AUUUGG!", Hammerhead grunted as Lobo punched him to the barriers peppering him.
"You smelt it, ya dealt it!", Lobo said as he ran down the field as Flash called for the ball with Lobo passing it to the speedster. Kid Cabra noticed this and tries to magnetize the ball from the speedster only to get sent flying into Cheetah by Sonic Hurricane's wind blasts.
"Serves ya right, Goatmeat!", Sonic Hurricane yelled as Kid Cabra and Cheetah saw Tweety birds. Giganta and Ivy glared at the speedster who passed it to Diana.
"Oh no you don't!", Ivy said tripping Diana but Batgirl came in with exploding Batarangs stunning Ivy and clotheslines her to the barriers. Diana smiled at Babs as Giganta growled.
"Hey! Fur Rug! After that Wonder Dork!", Giganta screamed as Cheetah shook off the daze and went after Diana. Kid Cabra tried to follow suit but Lobo let one rip in the goat teen's face.
"BAAAAAAA! That's NAAAAAAASTY!", the goat teen gagged as Lobo smirked.
"More where that came from, geek! -PBBBT!- Ooooh, spicy!", Lobo said letting out another fart with Kid Cabra passing out.
Diana charged the ball to an orange color and before Cheetah can pounce did the Amazon jump in the air with the ball spiking it down into 5 balls with Giganta bracing for impact. The four balls whizzed past the giantess with the last ball in her hands.
"You stupid fur rug! Take this! RAAAAA!", Giganta bellowed hitting Cheetah square in the head with the ball and threw the second one at Kid Cabra still unconscious. The game was now tied with 35 minutes on the clock.
"We're tied up now! Those clowns won't know what hit them!", Batgirl said cheering her leader on.
"You losers think you're going to win this fight? Well you're sadly mistaken! We're ten minutes away from taking over Metropolis!", Ivy sneered as Sonic Hurricane huffed.
"You're so backwards, bub! We're going to free the innocent right here, right now! And your poor excuse of a goat is knocked out by the smell of victory!", Hurricane said as Lobo grinned. Ivy and Harley grew tired as they commanded Giganta to roll the ball to Harley.
"Talk is cheap! Time to bring this baby on home!", the jester cackled as she ran down the field as Zatanna and Batgirl double teams her only to get whacked by the mallet sending the duo to the ground. Harley spots Jessica and Flash coming at her but the jester smirked passing the ball to Star Sapphire with the mallet.
"SS smirked as she dodged Bumblebee's stingers and Hurricane's slide tackle heading for Kara. The blonde got ready for a block as the villainess shoots one to the far right but Kara dives in for the save.
"Yes! I got the ball!", Kara boasted as Lobo yelled for the Kryptonian to pass the ball.
"Hey, blondie! Over here!", Lobo said as Kara rolled the ball to the Zarnian. Lobo ran towards the midfield area as Cheetah and Catwoman waits for Lobo to cross over. However, the two villains suffered another fart attack making them gag.
"Ewwww! Disgusting!", Cheetah said in a coughing fit.
"Revolting!", Catwoman hissed as Lobo laughed with Wonder Woman deadpanned at the sight before her.
"Great Hera! That's gross!", Diana said as she readies for a pass. She received the pass and ran down the field with Babs calling for the ball. The Amazon spots Kid Cabra coming in towards her and quickly lobs it to Batgirl with the goat teen missing the mark.
Batgirl came face to face with Ivy as the villainess smirked.
:You're not going anywhere, rodent!", Ivy sneered as Babs glared.
"Oh yes I can! The game's over, Ivy!", Batgirl said throwing smoke bombs but Ivy used her vines to knock them away. Babs quickly ran to the left to avoid Ivy. However, Livewire caught her by surprise to shock her but dodged her shockwaves and kept going. Ivy tried to trip Babs with vines but the Gotham heroine jumped over the vine and kept going towards the goal. Ivy however wasn't giving up so easily as she ran beside her prompting Batgirl to engage in a fistfight with Ivy. Batgirl spots Z and launches the ball at her and resuming the brawl.
Zatanna spots Hurricane nearby signaling her to pass it quickly. The magician dodged a mallet attack from Harley and passed it to the air rider.
"It's now up to me. With 2 minutes left, I can do this!", Hurricane said as Giganta smiled evilly. However, deep down Giganta crushes on the air rider as she blushes.
"Hey, Giganta! Here he comes! Get your butt into gear, Sheila!", Hammerhead said as he fought Lobo and Wonder Woman.
"All right, Sharkbait! As for you, time to settle the score with you!", Giganta said as Hurricane huffed.
"Not a chance, Red! Come and get me!", Hurricane said as he charges the ball with Giganta running at full speed. The giantess almost tackled him only for the air rider to jump up with his eyes glowing. The air rider hiked his foot up with wind energy and blasts the ball towards Giganta. The balls of 4 traveled at moderate speeds as the giantess caught three balls but unfortunately for her did the last one hits the mark with the time expired giving the heroes the victory.
The stadium's horn blew as Sonic Hurricane's friends congratulated the air rider on that winning goal. Flash and Lobo bro hugged Hurricane, Z and Jessica squealed with joy, Supergirl boasted with a satisfied smile to Hunter, Batgirl and Bumblebee giggled and hugged the air rider while Diana glomped him kissing him making Hunter blush. Giganta seeing that, growled in anger as the villains lost the game.
"That air runt! I'll make him mine!", Giganta muttered as Kid Cabra threw a tantrum ramming into the barrier shocking him in comic fashion.
Diana marched up to the villains speaking on behalf of the team as the others glared at Ivy.
"Now that we are victorious, I suggest you humble yourselves and release the citizens immediately! By the power of Zeus—"
"What she's trying to say is that you hold your end of the deal or we'll make you!", Batgirl said crossing her arms as Ivy's team surrendered.
"You win this time, Super Losers! We'll get our comeback soon enough! Come on, guys! Let's free those peasants and be on our way!", Ivy said as she returned the citizens to normal. The giantess glanced at Hurricane as she blushed quickly blowing a kiss at him.
"Let this be a reminder, Air Dweeb. I will clobber you one day.", Giganta said leaving with the other villains.. The crowd seeing the heroes cheered as Lois Lane took a snapshot of them.
In the shadows, a woman with purple hair with earrings wearing a formal dress being purple with shades on smiled in the Skybox.
"Interesting. That Amazon and her motley crew are a joy to see. Let's see how they handle this.", the woman said chanting a spell with a pink cloud following the heroes as they head to Sweet Justice lair. She even used another to follow the Sweet Revenge Squad.
"Perfect.", the woman said laughing while sipping on a cocktail.
A/N: That's the end of the two-parter folks. The heroes saved the citizens but they're going to feel something tomorrow. Who is this mysterious woman in the Skybox watching the game? Find out in the next chappy. As always, LilMancub out and I'll see you all in the next one.