To GuenZhenXuan2020: Glad you enjoy it! I've never seen Sailor Moon and don't know the theme song at all. Jagged Stone's song is entirely my own creation.

To anonymousfriend27: Cliffhangers are fun, aren't they? And they are definitely going to have to record that song together!

The explosion knocked the Owl to the ground as Guitar Hero and Anansi were thrown in opposite directions away from him. The wind was knocked out of the Owl's lungs when his back slammed into the hard pavement. He blinked owlishly and waved his hands in front of his face to disentangle his cape as he struggled to force air back into his lungs. The pavement under his back shuddered and groaned. His ears rang from the explosion, but he still heard the metallic clang from the far end of the block. On instinct he rolled over to look at the source of the sound.

"Fear before Mecha Man!" bellowed the figure barreling down the street toward them. He wore a metal exo-suit that fully encased his torso, with struts and supports running down his arms and legs. Gripping claws mounted on his arms extended beyond his hands. A helmet covered his head, with an attached visor shield protecting his face. A group of men with baseball bats trailed in his wake. Mecha Man leapt into the air again, covering the remaining distance between him and the heroes in a single bound. At the apex of his leap, he launched another rocket from his back-mounted rocket launcher. This rocket missed the heroes but slammed into a parked car between them. On instinct the Owl pulled up his cape to shield himself. The car exploded, sending debris in all directions and bathing the intersection with orange light.

Anansi was already on her feet before the Owl had even begun to process this strange turn of events. Mecha Man sailed over her head, past the remains of the car, to land between her and where the Owl and Guitar Hero lay. Anansi turned toward them and shouted something to the Owl that he couldn't make out before she turned away and charged into the crowd of thugs with a bellowed roar. The Owl quickly lost sight of her in the scrum, and Mecha Man blocked his view.

"I am Mecha Man, greatest enforcer in the Paris underworld!" declared Mecha Man, voice amplified by his suit. "All must tremble before my power or be squashed under my boot!"

The Owl shook his head to chase the cobwebs from his mind and force his ears to stop ringing, and lurched unsteadily to his feet. Opposite Mecha Man from him, he could see Fang nudging a dazed Guitar Hero with his snout and licking his face. "Ugh," Guitar Hero moaned, rubbing his face. "I had the strangest dream, Penny, love. I dreamed I was running around Paris playing superhero when the world caught fire and some loony calling himself Mecha Man started blowing things up and threatening us. Pen–" He opened his eyes to find himself face-to-snout with Fang, and looked past him at Mecha Man in shock.

"This is no dream, my friend," called the Owl. "It is all too real, and we must face this threat together!"

"Right, mate." Guitar Hero, who had landed facedown, grabbed his mercifully-undamaged guitar and used it to push himself to his feet. Mecha Man started rotating his exo-suit toward Guitar Hero, who was still blinking and swaying on his feet.

"Hold, villain!" shouted the Owl, fists clenched and knees bent. "We do not fear you! On the contrary, all the forces of evil shall tremble before Guitar Hero and the Owl! Hoo hoo!"

Mecha Man stopped and turned to face the Owl, who gulped and blanched at the sudden attention. "So, 'Owl,' is it?" taunted Mecha Man. "Let's see what you're made of, old man! How far do you think I can throw you? I got €20 that says you'll make it to the Louvre!"

Mecha Man lurched forward, reaching out with one of his clawed hands. The Owl dropped to one knee as the claw clamped shut above him, grazing the top of his cowl and nearly removing one of his owl ears. He rolled to the side, out from under the claw, as Mecha Man slammed the claw into the ground. The Owl crouched low, watching Mecha Man maneuver his suit around to face him once more. He backed away a pace, leading Mecha Man away from where Guitar Hero was still trying to regain his balance.

Mecha Man bounded forward and reached to grab him again, but as the claw reached forward, a long black cable snaked around that arm, caught it fast, and tugged it backward. It was Guitar Hero.

"This is totally rock and roll, Owly!" Guitar Hero crowed, bracing his legs and tugging back on the microphone cable with all his might, his guitar strapped to his back next to the amp. Mecha Man glanced back at him before he abruptly stopped trying to grab the Owl and instead let his arm swing backward. The cable fell slack, and Guitar Hero stumbled backwards, off-balance from the sudden lack of resistance. Then, faster than the Owl could blink, Mecha Man spun his torso around, pulling Guitar Hero off his feet and into the air.

"Ahhhhh-wwwwlllll!" Guitar Hero screamed as he flew around Mecha Man, eyes squeezed shut tightly. "This is totally not rock and roll!"

"Hang on!" the Owl shouted, dropping to the pavement an instant before Guitar Hero flew over his head. He army-crawled toward Mecha Man, even as Mecha Man reached the limits of his spin and twisted to swing Guitar Hero back the other direction. The Owl breathed a sigh of relief. Mecha Man was entirely fixated on Guitar Hero. He was paying no attention to what the Owl was doing.

"Any time now!" Guitar Hero shouted as Mecha Man swung him back around, laughing maniacally the whole time. "I'm going to be sick and it's all your fault! Faaaang! Heeeeelp!"

The Owl found a handhold on the brace on Mecha Man's leg and pulled himself up, taking an Owlet from his utility belt as he did so. He crouched behind Mecha Man's back and scanned the suit back carefully. "Aha!" he shouted in triumph, spotting his target. "Unhand Guitar Hero, you fiend!" He stabbed the Owlet's blade into a servo motor on the back of Mecha Man's suit. The suit immediately jammed in place, with Mecha Man facing forward. Guitar Hero's swing stopped immediately, and he fell to the ground, groaning, in a crumpled heap.

Movement on the far side of intersection caught the Owl's eye for a moment. Anansi was still on her feet, fighting no less than fifteen of Mecha Man's minions singlehandedly, but she appeared to be struggling, falling back under the force of their overwhelming numbers. "I must help her!" the Owl determined. "But… I cannot leave Guitar Hero to face this miscreant alone, dazed as he is. What can I do?"

A low rumble emanated from a spot a couple meters from the group around Anansi. Fang had picked his way around the wreckage and now waddled into the crowd, growling ominously and waving his tail back and forth. The first two thugs he came across buckled as the tail struck their legs, falling to the ground. Like the parting of the Red Sea, the crocodile waded through the crowd, until he was standing alongside Anansi, growling and knocking criminals aside left and right with his tail. The Owl shook his head in disbelief, withdrew a pair of Owlets, and launched them in the direction of the melee.

He couldn't watch the result of his efforts, however, as Mecha Man slowly turned his suit around to confront him. As Mecha Man came around fully to face him, the Owl raised his gauntlet and hit a button. Mecha Man screamed in pain and surprise as the stream of fire suppressant shot under his helmet's visor and into his face. He raised his hands to try to wipe his eyes, but couldn't get his hand under the visor far enough to do more than smear the foam around.

The Owl dove to the side and rolled up to his feet, narrowly avoiding Mecha Man's blind stomping fury. "Can you not see?" he taunted. "Good thing owls can see in the dark!" He quickly realized his mistake, however. His eyes widened as Mecha Man lumbered around to face him and lurched toward him, clawed hands outstretched. He sidestepped away from Mecha Man's blind charge, aiming wildly with his grapple gun and shooting the grappling hook. The hook looped around one of Mecha Man's legs and caught fast on the support strut.

As Mecha Man lurched around to face him once more, the Owl ducked under his claws and ran around him, wrapping the grappling hook cable tightly around Mecha Man's legs, over and over. He pulled the cable as tight as he possibly could. His legs wrapped up, Mecha Man could do little more than shuffle in place.

"Oi, Mecha Square!" Guitar Hero shouted from behind Mecha Man, who slowly rotated to face the new sound. Guitar Hero stood on the sidewalk, guitar in hand and one foot resting on his portable amp which he had placed on the ground in front of him. "This new song's dedicated to all the criminals out there tonight: Super Guitar Solo to the Face!" He windmilled his arm and struck a chord as hard as he could.

The Owl's jaw dropped. He dropped the cable and reached up to jam his fingers into his ears an instant before Guitar Hero strummed the strings. Even so, he still felt his brain melting as the massive sound wave slammed into both him and Mecha Man at the same time. He dropped to the ground, curled into a ball, and gritted his teeth. He could feel his fillings vibrating in his mouth. Despite covering his ears, the noise was still as loud as if he was standing in the front row of a rock concert, directly in front of the amplifiers. He couldn't tell if he was only hearing the guitar, or if he was hearing his own voice screaming in pain.

Mecha Man, blinded by fire suppressant as he was, had no warning before the wall of sound struck him. Despite the guitar's volume, the Owl could plainly hear Mecha Man's scream of pure agony. He tried to cover his ears with his gauntleted hands, but could not bend his elbows and shoulders properly to reach his head. His helmet's visor shattered as the guitar struck its resonant frequency. Mecha Man stumbled backward and overbalanced due to the cable wrapped around his legs, falling to the ground with a crash that even still could not be heard over the deafening roar of the guitar. The ground shook as he landed. Glass windows shattered up and down the block.

Only when Mecha Man was on the ground, rolling around in agony, did Guitar Hero's "Super Guitar Solo finally end. In the deafening silence that followed, the Owl heard car alarms in the distance, alongside the sound of police sirens, all drowned out by a low humming noise he couldn't quite place, but which refused to go away whether he covered his ears or not. Guitar Hero sauntered over to the Owl and reached down to help him to his feet. He opened his mouth and said something, but the Owl couldn't understand it over the ringing in his ears.

"What?" The Owl yawned to pop his ear drums, hoping it would help.

"–I said that was totally rock and roll!" Guitar Hero shouted, perilously close to the Owl's ear.

"I prefer neo-Classical!" the Owl hollered back. Yawning did nothing to help his ears.

"Not cool, mate!"

"WILL YOU TWO STOP SHOUTING!" bellowed Anansi, suddenly clapping a hand on both their shoulders and shaking.

The Owl blinked and looked around. Mecha Man was still lying on the ground at his feet, wrapped up in the grappling cable. A trio of thugs lay over where Anansi had been fighting, struggling feebly to move as Fang lay stretched across them. And up and down the street windows were flying open as angry Parisians stuck their heads out to see what was happening on the streets below.

Guitar Hero grinned up at them and raised his guitar over his head in triumph. "Bonsoir, Paris!"

Bonsoir is French for "Good night"