After some thought, El Tigre put a dark look on his face before walking up to José. Django, Frida and Zoe watched hoping El Tigre would do what they thought was right.
"José…" everyone was on the edge of their seat. "I'm in."
"Good choice, El Tigre." José congratulated, only to be drawn to the attention of Django calling El Tigre a traitor.
He was going to strum his guitar as his hand turned to dust. He and Frida were paralyzed by fear before being hit by two beams of energy created by someone in the shadows. They were dragged before the opposing side by four Doppelgangers.
"It's about time, witch." José told the figure as she walked out of the darkness to reveal Circe.
"Next time, you try to translate this four thousand year old spell book." The young sorceress retorted.
"What spell? What did you do to me?" Django asked furiously.
Both José and Circe laughed manically. "It's the spell of oblivion." Circe told the skeletal super villain.
"You see, when either your guitar or your nana's guitar is destroyed you get sent to the Land of the Dead. This spell truly kills you. No second chances, no hope." José explained. "And don't bother trying to escape, that blast she hit you with nullifies the powers you gain from your belt, Ms Suárez. Finish the spell" he told his spell casting girlfriend.
"No problem, Hun." She said with a wink before reciting the rest of the spell. As she continued to say the spell, Django slowly disintegrated. Frida stared in horror as Django turned to dust; the only thing that remained was his hat.
Frida cried at the loss of her friend as José turned his attention to El Tigre once again.
"Now to give you what you have earned." He told his new minion as he extended his hand.
"What do you mean?" he asked in return, grabbing onto his hand.
"Call it a signing bonus." El Tigre was told by his new master before feeling a painful surge of energy flowing through his body.
At first, it was unbearable, as he hunched over in pain he started to transform. His eyes turned from green to red, his neckerchief turned into a cape, his teeth sharpened into fangs and his claws became serrated. Otherwise, he looked like the original El Tigre. He then rose to meet his master eye-to-eye.
"Now was that so hard?" he asked.
"That was… unpleasant." El Tigre told him in a tone that Frida was scared to hear him use.
José smirked at this before getting back to business. "Now, there is one little flaw with this spell. You need to prove your loyalty to me, the way you have to do that is to destroy a symbol of your past alliances. Zoe had to destroy the Flock of Fury headquarters." He then walked over to the powerless heroine and faced El Tigre. "With your father and grandfather dead, there seems to be only one choice left." Frida's eyes met with El Tigre's. "Kill her." José commanded.
El Tigre walked over to Frida, who was now scared out of her mind and extended his claws. "Sorry Chica, its nothing personal." He said before taking a swipe at his former friend. She screamed as his claws met her face and neck. He walked back to his master, with blood dripping from his claws.
"Excellent." José said with triumph. "Come, its time to finish what I started." he walked out of the chamber with his generals.
The four Doppelgangers followed but were stopped by Circe. "Would you boys clean up that corpse? It's starting to stink in here." She told them before they started burning the remains of Frida Suárez.
Years later, Mega-Raptor sat upon his throne in Castle Apocalypse as a Perfect Raptor Doppelganger approached him.
"What news have you brought me?" he asked his soldier.
The Doppelganger kneeled before him before relaying his report. "Master, conquest of the planet is at ninety two point seven percent, with small pockets of resistance in India and Japan. They will be exterminated within the week."
Mega-Raptor got up and walked towards a balcony followed by his mechanical soldier. "And how is my family doing" Mega-Raptor asked leaning on the edge of the balcony, observing his empire.
"Your sister and brother-in-law have taken the strongholds in Alaska and optimised the output. Your niece and nephew have excelled in their studies." The Perfect told his master.
"And what of my wife and daughter?" asked Mega-Raptor turning towards the machine with his mirror image.
The Perfect told his master good news. "Mistress Circe is happily studying Sartana's private library, as for Mistress Scarlett…" it was interrupted by a young girl teleporting into the room. She wore a red shirt, black trousers and white shoes. She had somewhat pale skin, red eyes and had black hair with red tips.
"Hi, Daddy!" she giggled as the dark tyrant looked down at her.
"…She passed the first level of her black magic lessons with flying colours." The Doppelganger finished.
"I can see that." Mega-Raptor told his metal minion sarcastically. "That will be all for now." The android saluted before leaving the room. Mega-Raptor then turned to his daughter. "So, how were the lessons today?" he asked his daughter in a nurturing tone.
"I turned a funny man into a monkey." Scarlett told her father.
"Who was the funny man?" he asked sitting on his throne and putting her onto his lap.
Scarlett looked up, trying to remember. "He called himself Dr Chipa- Chipé-…" she was struggling to say the name of Dr Chipotle Jr.
"It doesn't matter then. Now that you have finished the first part of your lessons, are you ready for something more challenging?" the father asked to be replied with a smile and nod. Mega-Raptor snapped his fingers, signalling a group of Hunter Doppelgangers to bring in two women that wore police armour. They were bound at the ankles and wrists and were positioned to kneel before their enemy. "This is Nikita and Anita Suárez, a pair of resistance commanders that tried to stop my conquest of the planet. I will turn one to stone, and you will do it to the other. How does that sound?"
"Go ahead!" Nikita yelled.
"Do your worst!" Anita followed up.
The young girl in the supervillain's arms nodded, Mega-Raptor then got up and carried her over to the two prisoners. He set her down and put his hand on Nikita's head, she screamed as she slowly turned to stone, her sister watched in horror and Scarlett smiled as if she was watching a violent cartoon. When the spell was finished, Nikita was now a glorified gargoyle, she was smoking a little after the transformation.
"Now you try." Mega-Raptor told his daughter.
She walked over to Anita who was begging for mercy, she put her hands on Anita's stomach, with a slight red glow, stone started to spread over Anita from that one point. The process was slower than her sister's was but came out with the same result.
"I knew you can do it kiddo." The proud father told her daughter. She smiled back at him and started to yawn. "Looks like its time for bed, little missy." She raised her arms before being picked up, she was then taken to her room. It was what you would come to expect with a six-year-old girl, pink wallpaper, stuffed animals lying about and a big soft bed. She was tucked in by her father, received a kiss on the head, and fell to sleep. Mega-Raptor left to room to meet his wife, Circe.
"How's she doing?" asked the mother.
"She seems ready for the tougher stuff, in fact she may be more powerful than her cousins." Replied her husband.
"Well that's what you get when the tow most powerful beings on the planet have children." She said, wrapping her arms around her neck. "The offspring will be stronger."
"So, what will happen next?" Mega-Raptor asked.
"Well, the world is nearly yours. You have no one to oppose you and you have a demonic bundle of joy in the other room. I'd say you focus on crushing the last of the resistance and finally take what is yours." his wife told him.
They both shared a kiss as they were approached by two Perfect Doppelgangers. They saluted before relaying a message they had been given.
"Master, Generals Cuervo and El Tigre request you attention in the field." One of the Perfects told Mega-Raptor.
"They have laid waste to hundreds of strongholds, why do they need my assistance?" the dark lord asked.
"The enemy seems to have an unknown device that keeps our forces at bay." The other perfect explained.
"Fine, I'll give a little help." Mega-Raptor said. He then kissed his wife and teleported to the battle taking place in ShogunCity, he approached The Black Cuervo and her husband, El Tigre who were leading their respected sub factions of Doppelgangers.
"How hard is it to destroy one threshold?" the Tyrant asked his generals
"Don't you see that force field covering it" asked The Black Cuervo pointing out a blue bubble of energy covering a skyscraper that was untouched compared to the wasteland.
"You have to admit: Toshiro has improved over the years." Her husband commented.
Mega-Raptor sighed. "If you want something done right, do it yourself."
He then stepped forward and charged up a jet-black sphere of energy that had a deep red hue and fired lightning of the same colour into the sky. As he continued this action, it came back down and pierced the buildings defences and destroyed it with little to no effort. The Cuervo and Tigre Doppelgangers stared in awe as their lord and master turned their obstacle to ash.
Two Perfects, each from their respected sub factions, approached El Tigre and The Black Cuervo. "Master, Mistress. You presents is requested back at Castle Apocalypse." said The Tigre Perfect.
"Antonio and Maria have destroyed another one of their 'nannies'." The Cuervo Perfect followed up.
"Go ahead; the Doppelgangers don't need any assistance with the final steps of the takeover" Mega-Raptor told his Generals. They saluted to him before activating a portal that took them back to Castle Apocalypse. After they left Mega-Raptor took out a picture of his father who died by his hands years ago.
"And you said that I would never amount to anything without you." He told the picture. "Well look at me now, pop! I rule the world. I never resorted to using my spawn as a weapon. And I promise that my little Nightingale will have the world at her fingertips once she is ready, once she has become the most powerful being on the planet." He then burned the picture in his hand. As it slowly reduced to ash, his eyes glowed red with power. "This I swear!"