"Funny..." said Thor. "You'd think we'd actually run into Mr. Big, Mean and Ugly somewhere in here. But then we probably might have to fight him to get to the exit."
"Are you talking about me?" A sharp voice asked right behind them.
"Actually, yes!" Thor smiled. "Wait... Who said that?"
King Sombra grinned as he stepped out from the darkness.
"Erm... H-H-Hello there, Uncle Sombra..." Atticus said to him.
"Your timing is impeccable," remarked Lionel as he cracked his knuckles. "I been waiting for a chance to finally square off with you... And I got plenty of frustrations that I've built up."
"I'm sure you do," King Sombra smirked before he grabbed Cherry by her collar. "Hello, Cerise."
"Please stop touching me." Cherry begged.
"Hahaha... Never..." King Sombra told her darkly.
"Get off of her!" Atticus glared. "She's my best friend!"
"So you say," King Sombra smirked before shoving Cherry against Drell. "Let's settle this with a little duel."
"Uh-huh," Lionel replied as his eyes glowed red. "NEVER touch her like that EVER again." He stepped forward, and let out a furious, primal roar.
King Sombra chuckled. "You sure are interesting."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Cherry rolled her eyes.
"So, your precious little boyfriend is gonna try to stop me," King Sombra smirked. "It amazes me of how someone like you could find a special somebody."
"Oh?" asked Lionel. "This coming from the fool who is so pathetic that after one girl rejects him, he immediately decides, 'Oh, hey, if I can't be happy, then nobody can! I'll just curse this random girl with misfortune since she befriended my heir, since her life isn't possibly bad enough'! How childish can you get?!"
King Sombra soon shot a magical blast at him with dark crystals coming up from the ground.
Lionel somersaulted over the crystals and vanished...only to deliver a spin-kick to Sombra's face. "And there's plenty more where that came from!" he remarked. "I need some fight music!"
"Hmm... Okay..." Thor said as he poofed up a radio with his magic. "Phew... It worked..."
"You got lucky, Shorty." Drell replied.
"Hmm... Eye of the Tiger?" Thor offered.
Lionel pondered. "I got it..." he then took out a CD and put it in, then turned it on: the song "Phat Planet" by Leftfield began playing.
"Uncle Sombra, it doesn't have to be this way." Atticus frowned.
"You had your chance," Sombra glared with beady red eyes. "Unfortunately it wasn't a very good one."
"Some uncle you are," snapped Lionel. "You think ruining the lives of others and driving away your nephew's best friend will get him to follow your evil plans! Then you're not just pathetic... You're as dumb as a slug."
Just then, Sombra looked upwards, only to see a grand piano come crashing down on his head. Lionel cracked his knuckles and played a few notes with one finger. Patrick and Emily held onto Atticus as they watched this.
"Who is that?" Emily asked.
"Ah, that's Lionel Schwartz from the 5th Dimension, and... Well... He can tell ya when he's done with Sombra." Drell replied.
Sombra growled as he shakily came out while shooting dark magic from his horn at Lionel. Lionel yanked his midsection upwards, downtown, left and right to dodge a few of the magic blasts until one nicked him in the back. He turned towards Sombra, his eyes now glowing a solid blood-red, and a guttural growl in his throat. Cherry turned away a bit as she felt a little uncomfortable. Drell looked to her, he reached out, but hesitated a few times until he finally decided to hold her to comfort her. Lionel arched his back and lunged at Sombra like an angry cat, resulting in a whirlwind of a fight cloud. Eventually, Lionel leapt back out, leaving the evil unicorn covered head to hoof in bleeding claw marks, bruises, scrapes, and a black eye.
"Is it over?" Cherry muffled.
"Uh, yeah, it's over..." Drell said with wide eyes as he looked a bit surprised. "Jeez, Louise, Lionel!"
"Hopefully we can rest off the shock back home before we have to do anything else?" Atticus suggested as he held Mo who seemed to be emotional from the quite literal blood bath.
"Awesome..." Thor whispered with amazement.
"What?" asked Lionel. "Don't act like he didn't have this coming for a long time!"
"Sorry, Lionel," Mo said softly. "I just don't like a lot of blood."
"...I apologize," replied Lionel. "Though he pushed my buttons. I simply pushed right back."
"Lionel, I have to say, that was both amazing and scary," Drell smiled a bit. "I'm really impressed."
Lionel took a bow. "Now let's get out of here," he stated. "Our mission is finished."
"Mom, Dad, we're going home." Atticus smiled at his long-lost parents.
Patrick and Emily smiled back happily.
Back at Atticus's house, Jessica paced around as she waited with Skippy who watched TV in the background. The doorway to the Other Realm opened up, and the group returned, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Fudo, as well as Spyro.
"Special delivery~!" Lionel sang as he slammed the door behind him.
"Spyro, is that you?" Jessica smiled at the purple dragon.
The dragon seemed to beam at her before flying out into her arms and licked her face like a dog.
"Down, boy, down!" Jessica laughed as she hugged him.
"So... You guys have a pet dragon?" Atticus asked his parents.
"Well, it was really hard when you were taken from us as a baby," Patrick frowned. "One night, I came to check our garden because I heard something when we were asleep. Being in the Gray Area of the Netherworld was not easy, especially with how everything was not as it seemed. I couldn't find who or what had eaten our crops, but I found a big egg left behind."
"We were about to eat it for breakfast, but we heard a heartbeat and decided to raise the egg until it would hatch," Emily added. "Eventually, Spyro was born and we decided to teach him to be like a guard dragon and family pet. He couldn't feel the deep, aching empty hole of losing you, but we loved him like family."
Atticus beamed at that. "That's pretty sweet."
Patch and Spyro looked to each other as they sniffed each other a bit.
"Oh... Who's this...?" Emily asked.
"That's my dog, Patch," Atticus smiled. "My dad-... Erm... Clark let me adopt him sometime after I found out about Atlantis with Aquaman."
"Atlantis..." Emily sighed softly as she put her hands together in memory. "Oh, my favorite sister Athena."
Atticus hugged his mother quietly, gently patting her on the back.
"Mom... Dad... It's good to see you again." Jessica smiled.
"I'm glad you made it out of that barrier to go see your brother," Patrick smiled back. "We were worried about you, especially since you rarely use your Wiccan magic."
"I was keeping a low profile," Jessica replied. "Making sure nobody outed me for having magical powers."
"Very good, we taught you well." Patrick approved.
"I was glad to do it," Jessica smiled as she ruffled up Atticus's hair. "Especially with seeing this little stinker again."
"Aw, Jessie." Atticus chuckled bashfully.
"Well... At long last, the prophecy is fulfilled, and the Fudo family is whole once more!" Thor proclaimed.
Lionel nodded in agreement. "I do believe this calls for a celebration." he replied.
Skippy made an excited looking face.
"Aw, Skippy, you haven't changed a bit." Patrick laughed from that.
LJ, Zofia, Felicity, and Terry looked to each other from afar.
"Don't we have work to do?" Felicity sighed.
LJ sighed. "Sadly, yes," he replied. "Cosmic Boy is still missing, and the Fatal 5's other members are undoubtedly on the run."
"It's just a little party," Terry said to them. "They got what they wanted."
"Terrence, this is serious." Zofia replied sharply.
"Hey! Cool it with the Terrence stuff, alright?" Terry replied defensively.
LJ sighed. "Zofia is right. We can join in later." he replied as he got up.
"We can't waste time," Felicity said. "Happy day for Uncle or not."
Terry groaned a bit. "All right... We'll get to work." he then said with defeat.
And so, reluctantly, the quartet set off in search of their missing comrade... As well as the three criminals.
"Hopefully they haven't gone too far." Felicity said as she led the way.
"Not to mention CB's medication," replied LJ. "How's he supposed to get it if it doesn't exist yet here?"
Felicity sighed. "I'm deeply unsure."
LJ saw and hugged her gently.
"Sorry," Felicity said with a small smile. "I guess I'm just a little worried about the future."
"As are we," LJ replied.
Just then, Terry's flight ring began beeping. "Good news, guys. I got a lock on Cosmic Boy." he stated.
"Alphanumeric!" exclaimed LJ. "Where is he?"
Zofia looked over the tracker. "Apparently he's being held at Justice League headquarters." she replied.
"Looks like we're headed on a field trip to the Hall of Justice." remarked LJ.
"Let's go then," Zofia said. "Let's not waste any time. Despite how primitive things may look around here."
"She's right." Felicity agreed.
LJ nodded. "Crankshaft: MAXIMIZE!" he exclaimed, as his body formed into a sabertooth tiger with a metallic coating. "Let's burn rubber, guys. Time to switch to Maximal mode!"
"Right!" The others agreed.
Felicity and Zofia changed into panthers while Terry began to look like a wolf-dog. Once they were set, they dashed off to the Hall of Justice.
Meanwhile, in the city, Tharok (the cyborg guy), Mano (green guy), and Persuader (dude with the axe), were overlooking the scenery.
"She's here somewhere..." growled Mano. He turned to Persuader. "Flush her out."
It seemed to be a happy, normal day in the city so far, but of course, that would change very soon. Persuader soon jumped out and chopped at a tree with his axe which made a man yelp out and run off as that had startled him. The man rushed off as Persuader then kicked a parked car out onto the road just as a woman drove down the road to see that. Eventually, the woman crashed in front of the car and some other cars crashed against her, colliding them together. Mano destroyed a car with his corrosive touch, and the guy stumbled out, bumping into Tharok.
As Tharok turned his hand into a plasma cannon, the guy made a run for it, and Tharok blew up a hot dog stand and then continued his assault on the town and its people. People ran all around in horror as their city was being attacked and invaded by these terrible three. Eventually, word got out about this whole mess which led to an emergency news broadcast.
"We're getting reports of gunfire and multiple explosions near a food cart pod downtown," said the reporter. "The chaos appears to be the work of at least three costumed assailants with high-tech weaponry and body armor."
A girl with black hair was shown to be trying to eat a cheese sandwich until she heard the news, so she put it down as she had a job to do. "I can do this." she told herself calmly.
Atticus kept celebrating with his friends until they saw the news as Thor accidentally sat on the TV remote.
"Guess we better 86 the celebration," said Lionel. "Before that creep squad slags everyone in sight!"
"Sorry, Mom... Sorry, Dad..." Atticus told his parents. "See you later?"
"Oh, you're a superhero, Atticus?" Emily asked.
"It's a long story, and I know you might worry about my safety, but trust me; it'll be okay." Atticus replied calmly.
"He's right," agreed Lionel. "Jerks like this come crawlin' outta the woodwork on the daily, but they're not much problem for us."
"Hmm..." Emily pouted as she was a mother and it was her job to worry.
"I'll be fine, I promise," Atticus smiled. "We'll do some family bonding later."
"Well... Okay..." Emily said.
The kids soon bolted off and changed into their hero guises as it was, well, hero time.