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Part 20:command a god!
Buffy delivered a hard right to Fortunato's jaw! But with her strength dwindling and being converted to her costumed persona Zatanna's power, it wasn't nearly enough! As he slapped her down the demon thought, 'I am in deep trouble! I don't have enough power left to handle them all unless some of them succumb to their persona's and soon!' At that point Piper was saying "Here's the spell I thought up," but she was cut off by Prue!
"Zatanna use your magic! Supergirl and I will do the close in fighting!" Prue ordered.
"Sure thing Wonder Woman!" Phoebe replied and attacked with her heat vision as Prue moved in for hand to hand combat!
There were two very different reactions to this turn of events. Fortunato breathed a sigh of relief and thought, 'At last! After their persona's weaknesses then their powers converted and now their identities! I may yet survive!'
"AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!" Piper screamed and thought 'What a time for this to happen! Now the only sane ones are me and Buffy. And once our powers convert we will be nuts too!'
A few minutes later the demon was holding his own against the four heroines. Piper thought, 'My powers are changing to Isis's and neither mine nor hers are enough to do the job! Buffy will soon think she is a super heroine then I'll be next!' Stepping back she thought out loud, "How can I get them to listen to me?"
"Get Captain America out of that tunnel." Said the now conscious but very weak Cole/Captain Marvel from the floor.
"How will that help?" Piper inquired.
Wincing in pain he replied, "Captain America's charisma, leadership and moral authority are so great, everyone follows him and they are proud to do so! He has a voice that can even command a god! Thor god of thunder that is!"
'It's worth a try!' Piper thought and using her explosive power and Isis's elemental ones soon freed Leo! Pointing to Prue and Phoebe said "Help me! I need those two to follow my plan to defeat him!"
Smiling Leo/Captain America said, "Well you are the magic expert Isis so I'll do my best." Rushing over to Buffy he said "Give it all you have and whip up something to stop him for little while!"
Buffy now thinking herself Zatanna used the heroines backwards magic and said, "ezeerf nomed!" And as Fortunato was encased in a huge mass of ice Buffy collapsed from the strain of the spell!
'Hmmm, someone else whose powers are a lot less than the costumes.' Piper thought as she heard,
"You are getting nowhere fighting separately. Follow Isis's plan! She is the expert in this field and I trust her with my life, as should you all!" Simple words but backed by the charisma of Captain America the two obeyed!
"Repeat after me!" Piper said and began the spell:
"Demon of fiction no more lives will you quell!" "We amplify the power of truth with this spell!"
(Around the rapidly shrinking ice we see the faux lasso of truth drawing in and glowing ever brighter!)
"By the power of we sisters 3, we sisters Halliwell"
Prue and Phoebe look confused at this and start to object, "Sisters?" Halliwell who's that?"
But at a look from Piper the voice of Capt America commands "Follow the plan and now ladies!!"
Momentarily persuaded the two continue with Piper.
"Increased a hundredfold let it fill your every cell!"
"Let the power of truth ring through you like the tolling of a bell!"
The ice melts away and the lasso constricts around the demon who is glowing a bright gold and his body pulsing!
"Let that power reduce you to an empty shell!"
"Let this magic return you to the pits of hell!"
The spell complete, light begins to pour from Fortunato's eyes nose and mouth and he just seems to melt from the inside until there is nothing left but skin and then nothing at all!
"Whew!" Piper breathes a sigh of relief.
Shortly thereafter in the mansion entrance upstairs."The demon cast that spell on these crystals in that chandelier." Willow explained as the crystals glowed with the light cut off. The demon having gloated of his plan to his slave girls earlier Willow continued, "So it was strongest here and affected the men who were here longer first. Of course since their characters had no weaknesses to convert they succumbed really fast. You lasted the longest Piper because you are the most powerful."
The next day after Buffy and company have left the sisters are watching a security tape from Fortunato's mansion. The part where Cole proclaims himself to Captain Marvel proves quite popular much to Cole's dismay! 'I am never going to live this down!' he thought and was really embarrassed when Phoebe smiling asked, "about that Stamina of Atlas thing!"
The end!
