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"In the lab of Dr. Two-Brains, a sinister plot is about to be unfolded to our brave hero..", the Narrator introduced.

Wordgirl struggled in the mousetrap Two-Brains had secured her into. The lab was far darker than usual. Only a lamp flickered dimly above her head. Another one flickered on soon as Two-Brains stepped closer.

"Aw, what's the matter Wordgirl? Is my latest metallic fusion too tough for your super strength to break through?", Two-Brains walked up to her, still mostly shrouded in the darkness of the abandoned warehouse. He threw his head back and cackled at her. "Bwa ha ha ha ha! Struggle all you want, kiddo, but even I can't chew through that!"

"Dr. Two-Brains. What evil plan is it this time?", she asked in annoyance. "Because I'm still pretty busy today."

"I'm glad you asked Wordgirl..", he said with a smirk. He tossed a remote control in his hand. "Cause we're gonna play a little game. I'm gonna ask you a question. And I advise you to give me the right answer, cause if you lie, this precious, seemingly ordinary family's lives will be on the line!"

The light flickers over head as a spot light flickers on, revealing a bound and gagged Botsford family dangling by rope-cheese. Wordgirl gasps, seeing her family and best friend Bob, in peril as they hand over a large vat of something boiling. She scowls down at her foe.

"What do these people have to do with any of this?", she growled, struggling to break free.

"Ah-ah-ah! I'LL ask the questions here!", Two-Brains interjects. "What...is your name?"

Wordgirl gave an unamused look at Two-Brains' knowledge of movie quotes but simply answered, "Wordgirl.."

"What...is you favorite color?"

"Red."

"What...is your destiny?"

"To uphold justice and correct use of words."

"What-"

"Can we skip the Holy Grail and just get to the bottom of this?", she scoffed.

"Aw, what's the matter? Not having fun?", he smiled.

"No.", Wordgirl answered truthfully.

"Well too bad, cause I've still got a few more for you! Ha ha ha ha!", Two-Brains cackled at her. "What's your favorite smoothie? I stocked up on some and wanted to make sure I remembered right."

"...Mango.", she rolled her eyes.

"That's what I thought. I still personally like the strawberry.", he nodded. "Alright, finally, what's your secret identity?"

"It's Be- Wait, WHAT?!", she exclaimed.

"Darn it, I was so close to just getting you to spill.", Two-Brains snapped his fingers. "Oh well, you have no choice! Tell me your secret identity, or watch the Botsford family take a little dip in my boiling hot cheese!"

"I'll never tell you a THING!", she struggled in her trap to break free.

"Oh we'll see about that.", Two-Brains sneered before whirling around and pressing a button on the remote. In an instant, the rope began to lower and the Botsfords began to scream.

"Is that...nacho cheese?!", Wordgirl asked, finding it hard to believe what cheese her foe would waste.

"That's right! Nacho cheese! Boiling at a soothing, 200 degrees Fahrenheit! Aha ha ha ha ha haaa!", Two-Brains cackled.

"Wait! Stop!", she pleaded.

The trap suddenly stopped and Two-Brains smiled back, waiting.

"You wouldn't!", she exclaimed.

"OH wouldn't I?", Two-Brains began before stepping closer to her and quietly adding, "Becky?"

Wordgirl stopped cold and Huggy's jaw dropped. Their eyes widen.

"That IS your name, am I right?", Two-Brains asked, smiling more at their reactions.

"N...No!", Wordgirl denied.

"Well, suit yourself!", Two-Brains shrugged and he began to lower them. "I'm sure they'd like a scalding hot bath!"

"No stop!", Wordgirl pleaded again. "Please! These people are innocent!"

"Then what is your REAL identity Wordgirl?!", Two-Brains asked, pointing at her. "Just one word and I could either make this drop faster, or slower. Are you or are you NOT Becky Botsford!?"

Wordgirl looked between the mad scientist, her best friend, and the rest of the family who all stared at her with wide eyes.

"I...!"

"YEEEEES?"

"I-I'm...!"

Bob watched in shock and horror as finally Wordgirl lowered her head, tears coming to her eyes.

"I am.", she admitted quietly.

Suddenly the Botsfords stop just inches away from the splashing of the cheese.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you past the screams.", Two-Brains smirked before cupping a hand to his ear. "What did you say?"

"..I am.", she said a little louder.

"Louder!", Two-Brains urged. "Not getting younger you know!"

She groaned before shouting, "I'm Becky Botsford!"

"THANK YOU!", he began to laugh evilly. "Ha ha ha ha!"

TJ exclaimed his surprise, though muffled by the gag.

"Rrr! How could you possibly know my secret identity anyway?!", she growled at the doctor. "You were hit with the amnesia ray!"

"Becky, can I call you Becky? You don't think it takes a multi-brained genius to figure out what went wrong with a simple scheme?", he sneered back at her scowl and moved on to explain. "One moment I'm in a car, outside your house. The next minute, I'm in my lab, with no clue of what happened. But I saw your family, and I saw you! Triumphant! It was easy to put two and two together. I played dumb and waited for you to leave! You would never arrest a man that you thought to be innocent! Aha ha! I swear I was sure you would find me out, I made so many slip-ups while feigning innocence, the theater was never my forte... But enough rambling!"

"Y... You faked it? But it was so convincing!" She yelled in reply.

"Aw, how sweet of you, I'm flattered!", he said sarcastically.

He giggled a bit more as Wordgirl struggled more in her trap, mostly out of anger and spite. She felt like such a fool for not seeing it before. For letting her guard down. She really should've arrested the man then instead of letting him get off. Not like she hasn't arrested him between times though. And now her family will always be in danger because now he knows.

Suddenly a new horror fell over her and she looked up at Two-Brains with large, worried eyes though she tried to keep her face and tone still stern.

"Who have you told?" She demanded

"No one. Consider it...", he paused to choose his next words right as he smiled at her. "..a favor from an old friend..."

He chuckled more, which soon developed into mad, ringing laughter at his triumph and her fall. Wordgirl was filled with both relief and distress, remembering the days when she would talk with Steven Boxleitner, rather than the mad man that stood before her now. She felt the same chilling pain that befell her when she first lost her good friend. But soon it disappeared as a burning hatred for the mad man that had kidnapped her family, that had made her look foolish, that will forever crawl under the mazes of her skin and irritate her.

She struggled in the trap once more, determined to break free.

"When did you find time to get them anyway?" She demanded as she struggled.

"Oh, when you were busy with Mousezilla. I sent the henchmen off to fetch them." He said with a sneer.

"Yeah boss, it wasn't hard neither. They literally let us in the front door." One of them said proudly

"Well! Since we're all here, and you're so easily ensnared in my trap, I might as well go on to explain my brilliant plan!"

"Um.. Boss? Before you do that, could you please define what 'ensnare' means?", the henchman asked.

"Oh, yes, of course.", Two-Brains smiled friendly but then looked back at Wordgirl. "...Or should I let our good guest BECKY...define today's word?"

Wordgirl felt her blood almost literally boil. It wasn't right hearing him say her name. Seeing her scowl, Two-Brains simply chuckled again and turned back to his henchmen.

"Ensnare. It means to be caught. I've caught Wordgirl with my trap. I, ensnared her."

"Ohh! So much clearer now.", the henchman nodded and smiled.

"Right, so with the plan.", Two-Brains started to walk off to another part of the lab. "Since now that I have you, Wordgirl, as well as a captive audience, I want the Botsfords being the first to watch history in the making! Henchmen, move the monkey over to Wordgirl as well! I wouldn't want to break up the team."

"Yes, Boss.", the henchman said, coming over and carefully working out Bob from the rest of the trap.

Still tied up, Bob was carried over and placed next to Wordgirl, in his own small mousetrap. Bob struggled in his bonds and tried chattering at Wordgirl for a plan to get free, but she wasn't even listening. All she could do was stare at the ground in dismay. Bob chattered, more out of concern.

"Um.. You okay?", the Narrator asked.

Wordgirl sniffled and for once, a tear fell from her face.

"Of course I'm not okay..", she said finally as more teared welded up and fell down in time to her grief's rise. "I've failed. I've failed as a superhero and allowed my secret identity to be revealed. Normally, I can fix that, but now I can't and my family's in danger. They'll always be in danger as long as he knows and now I don't even know what Two-Brains is gonna do. I can't even break free of this stupid trap. ...I lost."

Bob chattered, trying to be of comfort, but there wasn't much help in it.

"Aha! here it is!", Two-Brains called out from the darker corners of the lab.

He came back out and with his hands behind his back, he smiled wickedly at the prisoners and said, "So, here is the thing. For winning our little game, how would you like to join me in a villainous partnership?"

"Never.", she argued, glaring back at him as tears continued to pour.

"Yeah, you don't have a choice in the matter kid." He said as he pulled out a black ray gun with a blood red handle, and a pair of bat wings coming out of the sides of it. He pointed it at her and Huggy.

Wordgirl gasped seeing the ray and she began to struggle once more, more in panic than anything.

"N-NO! I won't become evil! You can't do this!"

"Oh yes I can! Cause this ray will not only turn you evil, but also place you under MY control for all eternity!", he exclaimed triumphantly before shoving it to her forehead, making her flinch in fear. He leaned close, lowering his voice as his pink eyes pierced through her brown ones. "Say goodbye to your last moments of volition, Wordgirl!"

"NOO!"

There was a bright flash and suddenly everything grew black for the hero. She fell limp in her trap and Two-Brains stood up with a wide, malicious smiled etched into his face. The trap was released and she fell like a rag doll to the floor.

"Ha ha ha ha ha!", Two-Brains cackled in triumph. "Boys, hit the Botsfords with the amnesia ray. I don't want a single person but us, Wordgirl, and Captain Huggy Face, to remember what's happened here.", Two-Brains commanded.

"Why Boss?", the henchman asked curiously as he and Charlie sat up the ray.

"Because, if they know her identity and what we've done, who's to say they won't try to find a way to reverse everything? To make it right because they're her family and they love her and blah blah blah.", he rolled his eyes as he mocked their talking with his hand. "We need to eliminate that possibility from ever happening!"

"Alright Boss. If you say so.", the henchman pressed the buttons and soon the Botsfords forgot everything.

"I... I guess this really is the end of Wordgirl!", the Narrator said in disbelief as Two-Brains proceeded to do the same with Huggy. "With Wordgirl's identity revealed and Two-Brains winning over her, is there no one in the city left to stop him? What evil will befall our fair city now?!"

"Oh-ho just wait and see!", Two-Brains exclaimed. "Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!"

Within seconds, alarm bells were ringing, banks were being robbed, the jewelry store's clerk was held against his will, the police were left unprepared as villains started running rampant. Even Amazing Rope Guy stole things with no one to stop him. Butcher's meat flew, Chuck's condiments spread. A giant robotic foot came crashing through town followed by several others as Tobey stood atop the leading one. He poised his robots perfectly over City Hall, waiting for just the mere press of a button to destroy. Tobey smiled to himself and looked around.

"Now, Wordgirl shall arrive in five...four...three..", he was looking at his watch, tapping the air in time. "...two...one.."

He closed his eyes and waited for Wordgirl's strong, clear voice cut through. He could practically hear it already. But...nothing.

Tobey opened his eyes and looked around in confusion.

"Wait.. Wait wait. Where's Wordgirl?", he asked aloud. "She should be here, stopping crime and destroying my robots!"

"So it wasn't just me wondering where she was?", Ms. Question asked as she flew by on her question mark. "Doesn't it seem odd that we're all on a rampage and she's no where to be found?"

"Yes, exactly! Where could she be?", he looked around in slight desperation.

"Candy store?", Ms. Question asked.

"No.. course not!", Tobey looked at her as though she was crazy. "Why would she want to be in a candy store when the city was in danger?"

"Well how about the library?", Ms. Question asked.

"No. See, Wordgirl wouldn't hold back from doing her duty. She always arrives right on time.", he explained.

"...So you think she's at the jewelry store fighting someone else?", she continued to inquire.

"I wouldn't know!", Tobey began to feel frustrated with the conversation. "I mean! Wouldn't saving City Hall from being demolished be more important?"

"Who would know?", Ms. Question shrugged. "What exactly would Wordgirl's priorities be and where would she strike first?"

They pondered for a moment in silence until Ms. Question broke it in simple curiosity.

"So...are you gonna destroy City Hall or can I rob it first?"

Tobey sighed, bringing a hand to his forehead, finding the whole question-thing to be too complicated for a villain.

"I... Oh whatever, do as you wish.", he shook his head.

He sighed again as she flew down, he started to feel foolish standing there, waiting for Wordgirl to show up as robots poised, ready to strike.. Suddenly there was a loud screech from feedback and everyone looked down at City Hall to find Two-Brains standing there with a megaphone. He cleared his throat a bit and double checked.

"Is this thing on? Check, check..", he called into it.

"What on earth..?", Tobey leaned over, trying to see what he was doing.

With a press of a button, he was lowered down and soon others gathered around. Two-Brains cleared his throat and smiled wickedly at the group. Tobey knew it had to be something pretty big for that maniacal grin.

"Dear people of the city!", he called out. "I, Dr. Two-Brains, command that you hand over every last morsel of your cheese immediately!"

Most others laughed, especially the other villains, and Tobey rolled his eyes. What force could he have to make such a demand? Two-Brains scowled, of course, but then he gave a wicked smile and continued, more composed..

"Oh, I'm sorry. Allow me to clarify.", he said calmly before his wicked grin returned. "Or instead, I'll allow a good friend to, instead!"

Suddenly the doors to the back of his truck flew opened and a bright light flashed out. It zipped around, catching everyone's attention and then slowly made a decent to land right next to the mad scientist. Tobey's blood ran cold and several others gasped as they watched her float down. She wore a green jumpsuit with Two-Brains' mouse-logo on the front. A darker green cape billowed behind her and a green hood hid most of her hair as Wordgirl stood there. A scowl was deeply ingrained on her face. But what was weird, wasn't the outfit, or the expression. It was her face, entirely. The once, warm glow that Tobey often saw in her was now gone. Something about this new look, it just seemed different. She had more of an intention to intimidate and terrorize than to save and define words. Typically, it was mostly an authoritative look, like she knew what she was doing, but not this time. Now she looked frightening, but also...under a control, in a manner of speaking. More robotic, and Tobey knew his robots very well.

"Submit to Dr. Two-Brains all of your cheese or watch me turn the city to RUBBLE!", she commanded. "And to define, rubble is bits and pieces of rock."
Everyone was gasping and murmuring to each other, unsure of what to do or say.

"Thanks to me, I now have complete control over the new and evil Wordgirl!", Two-Brains gloated.

"WHAT?! But-! But that's impossible! You can't seriously have control over her!", Tobey called out in dismay.

"Yeah!", Mr. Big stood up to agree. "Evil mind control, is MY business!"

"Wordgirl!", Scoops suddenly exclaimed, coming out from the crowd and up to the lost hero. He shook her by the shoulders in all desperation. "You can't POSSIBLY be joining up with Dr. Two-Brains, could you?! I mean, you're Wordgirl! You're supposed to PROTECT the city!"

"Not anymore, Scoops.", Wordgirl said for herself, her eyes narrowing into a cold and cruel look as she took his wrists and pushed them off her. "I'm working for Dr. Two-Brains now, so you better get used to it."

"But-! But-!", Scoops wasn't sure what to say.

His eyes shimmered with tears as he looked back into the cold dark brown eyes that once held his dear friend. Not just Wordgirl, but Becky too. He turned his head away, feeling crestfallen.

"...And to think..I was just starting to get to know you..", he took off his hat and clutched it close, looking back at her.

"Oh, Scoops. You barely know anything!", Wordgirl scoffed and pushed him back at arm's length. "Just look at me! So much more has been opened to my eyes! So much more to be seen!", she began to hover over him. "I'm an alien! With the strength and brains to help my real friend, Dr. Two-Brains, to take over the city that we so rightfully should control! I'm ten times smarter than all of you and only a mere girl!", she scowled at everyone in the city.
"Every time one of you didn't know how to define a word, or say it right, or even talk more than a few stupid phrases and babble, do you know how much I wanted to scrape my brain in all the agony!?", she suddenly flew close to Scoops again and he backed up a few steps in fear. "He's unlocked everything I've ever held back from all you dimwits. So get to writing, SCOOPS.. There's a new villain in town, and she's not gonna hold back anything!"

She flew back to Two-Brains side as he alone applauded her speech.

"Ha ha ha ha! Well said!", he chuckled. "Well said indeed, Wordgirl! Villains! On a more personal note, don't think of this as me taking over what you already hoped to accomplish, but that rather instead you really can accomplish anything you want now, as long as it doesn't interfere with me, and with no Wordgirl to hold you back!"

The villains smiled and cheered, feeling excited in their sense of freedom. Everyone soon cleared out, some to commit crimes, some to bring their cheese in fear of Wordgirl, and Two-Brains stepped down from City Hall to a discouraged Tobey as he stood there, watching the heroine flying around.

"Oh Tobey, don't think too badly about this.", Two-Brains smirked. "She's still Wordgirl, so who knows? I might just let you have a day with her."

Tobey only scowled back at the doctor over his large round glasses as anger flared within the span of a second.

"...When my robots begin to rust!", he spat back and stormed away.

Tobey began to head home, Two-Brains' words still digging into his mind, nagging at him like an annoying song that wouldn't leave your head. A taunt, is what it felt like.

Contrary to most beliefs, Tobey wasn't usually full of hatred and spite like other villains. Unless the TV station started to play "Robots, robots, robots", he would get mad. But on the whole, The Narrator and even Two-Brains, knew he wasn't really evil. He didn't have an emotionally scarring backstory to support his "love" to destroy things. He didn't despise the city. Heck, he grew up there! It was all he ever knew. Okay, so it was a little fun once in a while. Like knocking down a tower of building blocks. But he didn't live for it.

This, however, was enough to make his blood boil and for once, he could think of so many ways he would want to make Two-Brains pay, to make him hurt, for turning his beloved, evil. Only then to add the extra insult of setting up a date with her!

"I...Thought you would want that.", The Narrator cut through his thoughts.

"NO!", Tobey shouted, looking up at him. Soon, his scowl crumpled and he looked back at the pavement. "Well.. Yes... Sort of.. I-I want to be with her! But not if she's just some sort of, mindless evil puppet to that mutated mad man! It wouldn't be the same!"

Tobey sighed. His anger simmered into despair once more. What could he do? Wordgirl always demonstrated how easy it was to defeat him. It's not like he alone could do anything to change what has happened.

As if for dramatic affect, the clouds began to hang heavy over the city. Lightning crackled in the darkness above as Tobey headed home. He wasn't the only one upset by Wordgirl's change.

Mr. Big stared down at the city, his bunny sitting aside, lonesome, on his desk. Just then Leslie came in, a somewhat pleasant smile on her face.

"Sir? Because of the new mind control devices, sales have gone up by 30%.", she reported.

"Mmm..", he grunted, somewhat indifferent.

"And about 35% of the city's population is under mind control..", she continued to list. "Though we're having some trouble against Dr. Two-Brains. It seems that he's countering us with anti-mind-control pulses from his latest invention."

Mr. Big simply pressed an arm on the window and leaned over on it with a heavy sigh.

"And the new...", she noticed the lack of response and finally looked up from her clipboard. "...bunny.. Sir? Are you okay?"

"Oh, Leslie, how CAN I be okay?", Mr. Big groaned, tightening his hand into a fist. "I mean look at this city!"

Leslie walked over and shrugged.

"The city's still the same, Sir.", she said.

"No, take a good look."

Leslie leaned further and saw Wordgirl's flashy stream bouncing from one end of town to the other, but aside from that, nothing.

"Well what's wrong, Sir?", she asked.

"It's Wordgirl!", he growled. "Watch her down there, zipping around. I may be an evil villain, but that Dr. Two-Brains has stepped into MY territory of villainy!"

"How so, Sir? I mean, there's been plenty of other villains to use mind control.", she said indifferently.

"Well yeah but HIS villainy is supposed to be...I dunno! Something CHEESE related or something like that! Now he's stepping into MY business! Stepping into it! He stepped over the line, Leslie!", he had walked away from the window and was now pointing warningly at her. "Him! Stepping! Stepping everywhere!"

"Maybe he's a good tap-dancer.", she said dryly.

"I don't care what kinda dancing he does. He is giving MY business, a bad reputation! If anyone uses mind-control in this city it's ME! It's MY company!", he stomped his foot, acting very much like a child. "I don't want him using mind control! and what's worse! It's BETTER than mine!"

"How so, Sir?", Leslie asked.

"Wh-b-sh-Pfft! Just look at her!", he walked back over to the window and gestured to Wordgirl. "She's not at all acting like the zombies my mind control devices create! She actually has spirit! She's still authoritative AND in...in..", he paused. "Wait..what's... I heard it earlier. Like.. Scary. But strong.."

"Innntimidating?", The Narrator threw in.

"See?! The whole town's going crazy!", Mr. Big fussed. "Now I'm starting to sound like that Chuck-whatever-kinda-guy and where's Wordgirl? Hm?! Where is she, when we need a word to be defined?!"

"Well, Sir, what can you do about it?", Leslie asked. "If Wordgirl is under Dr. Two-Brains' control, are you going to wallow in all the money we're collecting from unsuspecting citizens? Or are you going to do the right thing and break her of it?"

"Oh heavens, no I wouldn't wanna do the right thing!", Mr. Big scoffed. "Why would I wanna do something like that? It's just..upsetting. I know power, Leslie. Power from being the biggest business, can be maddening. Look at what happened to you when I left for vacation!"

"...yes, Sir.. I remember.", Leslie looked down.

"Just the idea of having Wordgirl under his control ohhhhh yes! I can see it all now. That kinda power will get to his head! And as if everyone didn't already know he was crazy at times, he'll get even more so! I swear it!", he looked back at Leslie, more seriously than ever before as his eyes narrowed. "Just watch him..."

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