"Meanwhile, at the far edges of the city, Tobey is hard at work on his robots design in Mr. Big's Big Manufacturing Corporation..."
It couldn't be denied. Tobey was exhausted. He sighed and leaned back in the chair, staring down at the blueprints before him as he tried to calculate battle strategies for this plan. He could still hear the faint workings of Mr. Big's factory a few doors away from where they were and every louder clang made his nervous-system feel like it was jumping in his skin in so painful of a manner. He shook off the feeling and hunched over again. He had to get this written to finish his part and get Mr. Big to start manufacturing the robots. The numbers seemed to pop off the page and make his eyes criss-cross as they danced around and swam through the air...when did he stop writing?
Chuck and Mr. Big couldn't help but smile at each other, seeing the boy genius slumped over the drawing board.
"Poor guy, this whole thing means a lot to him.", Chuck said, making Mr. Big chuckle.
"Yeah. Let's leave him to sleep.", he took out the pen from the boy's hand and put it back on the desk. "Makes you wonder why he wants to do this in the first place."
"Yeah, the rest of the time he's all about destroying the city and stuff. I guess he wouldn't want Wordgirl to take that away from him.", Chuck shrugged, completely oblivious to other motives the boy genius could have.
The two walked off, each to his own mind as they wandered around the factory.
'Hm.. I wonder what sort of mind-control he does have?', Mr. Big began to ponder. 'Certainly not one cataloged. That would make it too easy for him and she would be so much more mindless. Now that I come to think of it, I wonder how it'll be when she wakes up out of it? Typically when I hypnotize someone, they would be a bit confused when waking up. And even after that, then what? Would she arrest us for our crimes when she was evil? If she's actually self-aware of what she's doing, I wonder if she'll just go back to being evil, thinking it's a hoot.. Maybe she does have fun being evil.. I know I do but.. Gosh, if this keeps up, even without being under Dr. Two-Brains' control, what then? How would we be able to stop all of this?'
'I really hope this was a good idea..', Chuck was thinking to himself while he walked about. 'I mean, I'm surprised we made it this far, but what happens after we get into a fight with her? What if when we tried to rescue Wordgirl, something happened and everyone blamed me for starting it in the first place... I just don't think I could handle that sort of pressure... Maybe..maybe I'm just heading us for disaster, thinking we could pull this off. I mean what if we're...Um.. Wh..Shoot, I can never think of the right word!', he sighed to himself and sat down somewhere. 'Maybe Wordgirl's right... Maybe I'm just a stupid villain.. Wonder if Butcher feels the same way?'
"Hmmm...", The Butcher hummed to himself as his mind churned. "...I wonder if Wordgirl will marry Tobey?"
"Um... WHY would you ask a thing like that?", the Narrator asked.
"Hey, it's just a curious question.", Butcher shrugged, looking up at the Narrator. "I mean, IF, IF it happened...It's curious. You know?"
"Well I guess that's just it.. I already know!", the Narrator stated proudly.
"Really? What about me? What about me?", Butcher asked excitedly like a little kid, hoping for someone like Dupey.
"I'm sorry, I'm not allowed to tell.", the Narrator teased.
"..Aw man!", Butcher groaned. "Oh forget it, Just cut to the next scene.."
"Gladly.", the Narrator said pleasantly. "Later that day, Tobey finally stirs from his slumber.."
Tobey slowly began to wake up and as soon as he did, he gasped and looked at the clock.
"NO! I've gotta hurry to get this done!", he began to scribble away as fast as possible. "I have to hurry before it's evening!"
Once finished, he ran off with the prints to Mr. Big to get the factory churning out robots. But when he came to the break room that everyone was seated at, he stopped, and looked around at their worried faces in confusion.
"Ahh... I've got the designs written out.", Tobey said, breaking the silence.
Mr. Big looked up, though he only shrugged.
"Well.. I guess you can give it to Leslie...", he looked away again.
"...I didn't mean to sleep so long..", Tobey finally said, more and more confused and worried as he looked around at everyone. "But.. Apparently I missed something.."
"Well.. We were talkin' see? And um..", Chuck stammered and tried to put their thoughts clearly. "We're...having... We're having doubts."
Tobey raised his eyebrows in slight surprise.
"Doubts? To what?", he asked, walking in and sitting on a chair as well.
"Well.. No offense kid, but exactly how would this work?", Butcher asked. "I mean, sure, you've got Wordgirl busy, but first off HOW do you get her attenteation, and where do WE fall in?"
"Hm.. Well firstly I think you mean 'attention', not 'attenteation'. Secondly, you raise excellent points.", he started to doubt himself now. "I have yet to think it through."
"Well see, that's how Two-Brains got away with it.", Chuck chimed in. "He must've thought very carefully about how to turn Wordgirl evil. And he has two brains."
"Technically combined, we have four. Twice as much..", Tobey pointed out and stood up. "I'm sure with some thought, there's something we can do."
He began to pace, as he always did, diagonally across the room as he thought about it.
"Well, YOU'RE supposed to take on Wordgirl, where as I'M supposed to fight Dr. Two-Brains.", Mr. Big put in. "We've got that much, but...What about that hairy sidekick? Who's gonna fight him?"
"Don't look at me.", Butcher raised his hands as if it would shield him from the glances. "That hairy guy's always eatin' up all my meat. He can chow down, what I dish up."
"Really? you have that much trouble with him?", Chuck asked, somewhat surprised.
"You don't?", Tobey asked, now curious, and stopped in his pacing to look at Chuck.
"Well, he does eventually eat through the mayo, but it takes him a good while.", Chuck said with a slight shrug and half a smile.
"Well that's brilliant! Cause from what I've read, regular people have quite a difficult time escaping your meat, right, Butcher?", Tobey smiled back at the Butcher.
"Yeah. Why?", Butcher asked, not quite seeing it.
"Dr. Two-Brains is bound to still have those bumbling idiots that work for him, hanging around. I'll distract Wordgirl. Chuck freezes the monkey. Butcher holds off the henchmen. And the way is clear for Mr. Big to find the mind control device!", Tobey explained, gesturing to each villain as he addressed them.
"Yes! Now THAT, is a GREAT plan!", Mr. Big stood up with a wide smile.
"Yeah! We'll get Wordgirl back in no time!", Butcher cheered, also standing up.
"ONE question.", Chuck cut through, making everyone paused and look back. "And-and really it just came to mind but um.. How do you plan to-", he paused, groaned a bit as the word suddenly escaped him. "Wait.. Th-the word.. That you just said.."
"Distract Wordgirl?", Tobey asked.
"Yea- Aw, geez it's just- Thank you.", Chuck stammered, shaking his head, feeling like an idiot for never finding the right word.
Tobey pondered this a moment before a previous conversation struck him.
'..so who knows? I might just let you have a day with her.', Two-Brains' words echoed back to him.
Tobey didn't say anything as the plot began to unfold before him. But the others did take notice of his long silence as slowly a smile pulled at his lips.
"Tobey? You have an idea?", Chuck pried.
"Hey, why's he smiling?", Butcher asked. "Kinda creepin' me out.."
"I guess...he has a plan?", Mr. Big guessed.
"Oh I have a plan alright..", Tobey said, his tone low and mischevous, his grin being wide and malicious like a teasing Cheshire Cat, while he drummed his fingers together in his scheming.
The next day, Wordgirl was laid back in the air, holding cards in one hand lazily, and reading an old dictionary in the other hand, Huggy held his hand, though seemed bored, and the other henchmen dragged out their turns. Dr. Two-Brains continued to gnaw away on the massive piles of cheese, rather noisily to himself. Suddenly the doors burst open and a man came running in.
"HEEEELLLLP! DR. TWO-BRAINS HAS TAKEN OVER THE CITY WITH AN EVIL WORDGIRL! NO ONE CAN STOP HER AND NOW ALL THE PEOPLE ARE BEING FORCED TO MAKE CHEESE AND I'M ALLERGIC TO CHEESE! ALSO TOBEY AND ONE OF HIS GIANT ROBOTS ARE HEADING THIS WAY! HEEELLLLLLP!"
He suddenly stopped and looked around while everyone stared at him.
"...Uh-"
"Get out.", Wordgirl snapped.
"Ye-aah!", the man jumped back and then took off running once more. "HEEEELLLLP!"
"Doc?", Wordgirl looked back and then zipped over. "Want me to go take care of Tobey's robots?"
"Hmm.", Two-Brains stopped to ponder this. He then chuckled. "No no, Wordgirl. I'LL handle this one."
To be honest, it did throw Tobey off a bit, seeing Dr. Two-Brains emerge from City Hall rather than Wordgirl. It just wasn't the same at this point. Dr. Two-Brains wasn't just some mad genius wanting to steal cheese. He was the mastermind of Wordgirl's actions and dictator of the city. But nevertheless, Tobey put on his best act as his one robot lowered him.
"Well well well, what have we here?", Two-Brains began, leaning back on one of the railings to City Hall. "Have your robots rusted already?"
"Oh what can I say, Doctor, you knew I wouldn't stay away from Wordgirl.", Tobey smiled, finding it all to weird to be talking about any of this.
"Well I guess I can let her off the hook for a day. I mean, as long as you two don't go destroying any of the buildings that people are making cheese in.", Two-Brains chuckled.
Tobey laughed a little too, trying to seem like he was agreeing.
"Of course not. Not your cheese.", Tobey nodded. "No no. Just, you know, a casual stroll around town. Maybe destroy the library."
"Alright then, I'll call her out.", Two-Brains headed back inside.
In the short time he had for himself, Tobey quickly readjusted his bow-tie and tried to steady his breath, though his heart was pounding madly in the nervous tension. He wondered breifly inside what Wordgirl was thinking of all this.
"Oh come on, you've gotta be kidding me.", Wordgirl scoffed as she continued to float where she had been before. "TOBEY?"
"Now Wordgirl, it's just for a little bit. I mean, really, you DO know the kid's got a schoolboy crush on you the size of Texas."
"Disgusting as that is..", she muttered to herself.
"It's not even really a date, what since you guys are ONLY 10 years-old. Besides, you were just complaining this morning about how boring a game of cards would be. I don't really have any work for you to do, so why not?", Two-Brains shrugged.
"Well... I guess a walk around town would be better than this stupid card game.", Wordgirl admitted.
She folded and flew out. Huggy then chattered and laid down his hand.
"What?! I thought you were bluffing!", the talking henchman exclaimed, seeing the hand.
Huggy laid back with a smirk on his face while his hind feet brought in his haul of chips.
"Aww...", the henchman groaned while Charlie pouted.
Wordgirl flew out and stopped, short of just a few feet from Tobey, making him flinch.
"Whoa! Oh. Wordgirl.", he tried to smile. "How-how good to see you."
"Hey. Haven't seen you around town much.", Wordgirl shrugged.
"Oh, I-I was wanting to uh..", he tried to find an excuse to move here away from City Hall. "Well don't get me wrong! I was wanting to destroy stuff, as always! But I...wanted you to come along with me. If you'd like, that is."
He offered his arm and she shrugged and floated past him. Tobey sighed in dejection, stepped onto the robotic hand and they were lifted up.
"What first?", she asked. "The library or are you gonna say we should get ice cream?"
"Oh! No no. Destroy the library. Yes, that's a brilliant idea.", Tobey smiled more, and commanded his robot to go there. "Funny, I would think at the least you would want to steal the books from there first."
"I've already done that. They're in my lair.", Wordgirl cracked her knuckles, remembering all the trips she had to made to empty the large library. "It's cleaned out now, except for what books I didn't care for which, I'm sure neither of us really would like."
She chuckled a bit and Tobey shuddered internally to hear it, but forced a chuckle as well. He looked back at City Hall. It was still in sight and they were nearing the library already. If maybe he could take her a bit further away but where? Maybe they don't have to destroy. He doesn't want to encourage evil with her right now. He just needs to get her as far out of sight of City Hall as possible.
"Tobey?", her voice cut through, making his heart leap for a moment.
"What?! Oh um.. Yes?", he jumped and then smiled sheepishly. "Sorry. Umm. Wh-what were you saying?"
"I was asking a penny for your thoughts.", Wordgirl explained, somewhat annoyed. "You're quieter than usual."
"Oh. Well a-actually I was thinking..", he began. "You.. You honestly don't want to destroy the library do you?"
She shrugged. Not really sure how to answer it. Her most favorite places to be in the world were libraries and bookshops. But she had nothing to hold her back from demolishing buildings for fun.
"Have something else in mind?", she asked.
"...Well see that's what I've been pondering.", Tobey nodded his head back and forth, as if juggling it mentally. "It would be nice. You know, a change of pace, but I've yet to decide."
"Well we're almost to the library so make up your mind fast.", Wordgirl sat on the robot, waiting.
"Hm..."
Tobey thought over his mental map of town. Ice cream and bookshops and movie theaters weren't exactly a good deal away. A thought finally came to mind, he pressed a few buttons, and in an instant, the robot walked faster, turning away from the library.
"Where to, Captain?", she asked as he sat down with her to keep from falling off.
"Oh I know a charming place, I'm sure you'll like it.", Tobey smiled.
Within a few minutes, they were outside of town and past the suburbs. Wordgirl watched as quickly her neighborhood came and gone. Soon they stopped, far outside of the area in an old parking lot starting to become infested by weeds as an old store with broken glass stood in the center.
"...A book store?", she asked.
"Yes, I found it only last week.", he said, lowering them. "The glass was already broken, be sure of that, so it was easy to get in. It's been abandoned for sometime now."
"Wow..", she breathed and for a moment, she sounded like her old self. Neither evil or good, by any means, but just..Wordgirl. In the few occasions when they would talk more casually, he could pick up the tone anywhere. Like the mask of justice and heroism or villain and malevolence was gone and she was just being herself. "Are there any books in there?"
"I'm unsure. It's dark and dusty, so I didn't really care to stay for long. Not until I had you to come with.", Tobey explained.
They walked in, the doors still left unlocked. After a moment of kicking up dust and a few coughs, a light switch was found and the place still turned on. Obviously it was old with inch-thick dust covering everything and cobwebs galore. And every wall, and in between the walls, taking up as much space as they could, from the floor to the ceiling, were large black bookshelves crammed with books of all kinds. Ladders clung to the rails of each bookshelf, wheeled on the bottom to make it easier to move. Near the back wall was a small desk with an old-fashioned register and stool.
"Whoa...", they both gasped together.
The looked at each other, realizing how quiet they tried to be and each holding their breath. They laughed a little, finding it funny to act so silly in an old store.
"This place is amazing..", Wordgirl finally said, flying up to some of the books on the higher shelves. "And I've never heard these titles before. Oh. No wait. There's one. Moby Dick. I guess these are all just really old classics no one bothered to buy."
She fingered each of the leathery old binders that lined the shelves until her hand came to a stop near Tobey's face which was smiling lovingly at her.
"The ladders are still stable and working.", he noted.
They smiled at each other and continued to look around.
Meanwhile, in the city, the doors burst open to Two-Brains' office. Dr. Two-Brains sat up, nearly choking on some Swiss, and turned to the door.
"Wh-?!"
"Dr. Two-Brains! We're here to turn Wordgirl back!", Mr. Big announced, as he, Chuck, and Butcher made their appearance.
"Back? Why on earth would you wanna change Wordgirl back?!", Two-Brains asked in confusion. "Boys! Think about it!", he pulled out the small black ray gun. "All thanks to this ray, we can have whatever we want!"
"No! YOU can have whatever you want! The rest of us are sturggleing with our vocrabulary!", Butcher argued.
"Yeah! You're eating all the cheese and we're left being laughed at cause Wordgirl can't help us out!", Chuck accused.
"Aw, you guys, I had no idea you all had it so hard.", Two-Brains said, standing up, seemingly caring about what the others are going through before he scowled. "DEAL WITH IT! I have Wordgirl under MY control unless you pry the ray gun from my hands! Boys, Huggy, get 'em!"
The henchmen quickly advanced and Huggy jumped from his spot, ready for action.
Everything was happening at once. The moment Butcher, Chuck and Mr. Big confronted Dr. Two-Brains, Huggy and the henchmen leap to their feet. Chuck aimed at the monkey while Butcher threw his pastrami, but Huggy was quick to dodge and swallowed the meat before it hit Charlie while the other henchman blocked Mr. Big off while he tried to run past to get to Two-Brains. Chuck then hit the first henchman as Butcher threw Huggy back with an onpour of sausages. Mr. Big skidded by the henchman then, and Butcher immobilized Charlie with more pastrami and Chuck finally hit Huggy with mustard just as the chimp was about to swallow the last. Two-Brains took to running, but was soon cornered while the other three advanced.
But out in the bookstore, Tobey slid up to her once more while she sat there in the air, flipping through an old dusty book.
"You know, I've always liked the smell of old books.", she smiled.
"Indeed.", Tobey agreed. "Almost as fragrant as the scent of roses."
Wordgirl nodded in agreement and added, "Leave it to you to think of romance in books and flowers."
"Leave it to me, to think of you.", Tobey said.
With that he produced a small black rose from his vest. The petals were in full blossom. Wordgirl stared, surprised by the sudden gift. She smiled and took it. Though it was black, the petals were still well alive and real as she felt over them.
"Where did you steal a black rose?", she asked.
"My mother's garden.", Tobey chuckled. "I had it sitting in black-colored water to get it so dark."
"Clever.", she complimented. "A secluded, dark book store with an old, darkly-written book, and a pretty black rose to match our evil. You are indeed a man for creativity in malicious manners."
Tobey blushed, of course, being so flattered and gave a weak chuckle to show his lack of ability to deal with such things.
"W-well what can I say?", he stammered out with a meek shrug and smile. "I've come to rather like this newfound evil within you."
"Really?", Wordgirl asked, a little doubtful, but still smiling some.
"Oh, yes, indeed.", he said, a little more bold. "I mean, you know, it took a while to adjust, but to think about it, it's definitely becoming of you!"
"Funny, all this time I-"
"AAAH! Wordgirl, help!", Dr. Two-Brains scream suddenly echoed to Wordgirl, causing her to turn sharply to the city.
"What's wrong?", Tobey asked, noticing just as fast her mood swing.
"Dr. Two-Brains is calling. I need to go.", she said, setting the book and the flower down.
Tobey's eyes widened and he quickly grabbed her wrist, surprising her, as he quickly stammered, "No! W-wait, I-I'm sure he.. He probably doesn't really need you. I-I mean, what if he's just-"
"Wordgirl! Geddoff Mr. Big!", Two-Brains' voice was calling.
"Give us that ray!", Chuck's voice also rang out.
"Whoa-whoa, watch it with that shrink ray!", Butcher warned.
"Tobey, he's being chased by Chuck, Butcher, and Mr. Big, I've gotta go.", she said sternly, yanking her wrist from his and starting to back away and down to the floor.
"NO no no no Wordgirl-!", Tobey lunged out to keep her there as long as he could, but accidentally started to fall off the ladder.
She had only backed up enough so when he fell off the ladder, the two soon collided, arms wrapped, lips locked for a split second before both pulled away in startled embarrassment. Eyes wide and cheeks red, Wordgirl quickly slapped his cheek and dropped him on the ladder before starting out. Tobey only had a split second to regain himself and he quickly pulled out his remote and pressed a few buttons.
Wordgirl flew outside, glancing over her shoulder, trying to shoot daggers at Tobey's now invisible form. So she didn't see the foot of the giant robot she struck hard as she tried to leave. She clutched her head, as the strike had made her quite dizzy. Looking up there seemed to be a hoard of robots, though she was unable to focus on any of them. She blinked and rubbed her eyes and focused... but to her surprise the group was still there.
"Wh-What?", she gasped in surprise and was off the ground in an instant, ready to fight off the familiar collection of bland, identical robots.
"Wordgirl, you can't leave!", Tobey authoritatively stated, emerging from the book store, clutching the remote for the robots tight in one hand.
She gave a glare that could kill. Before she could follow up on the threat her eyes were giving, he pressed a quick series of buttons. Wordgirl flew straight for the young genius, when a metallic hand came down in front of her. She smashed into it, denting it, but not breaking through. The fingers curled tight around her, pinning her limbs. "Tobey, you rat!", she growled, struggling in its grasp.
A robot lifted Tobey up to her level to inspect the work.
"So the new exoskeleton does work better! I need to make a note of this..." Tobey murmured to himself.
"This won't hold me forever!" She hissed and struggled in the hold. With one fluid motion the fingers were broken off in one burst of incredible strength and she gripped the uneven stumps that used to be fingers and swung the robot into a group of his companions, with enough destructive force to render them useless. The two robots nearest to Tobey acted automatically, shielding them with a hand each and backing away, with a wall of robots moving in between him and the super being.
"I don't need forever!" Tobey replied snidely. Wordgirl growled and smashed through a few of them, trying to beeline for Tobey.
After having knocked down a few in a row, however, multiple hands grabbed at her, stopping her in her path. She easily slipped free of the grouped grasps and spun them around by their grip, sending a few flying in all directions and the ones that managed to stick together were sent upwards, out of sight. The last dozen or so charged her, but she weaved between their spaghetti-like legs. Hands followed, grabbing for her.
She had managed to come out the other end, and the robots, who were never meant to bend so far, fell over onto their heads in a shower of sparks and stopped moving. She glared up at Tobey who was now looking quite pale, more so than usual. She let out a near feral growl.
"Toooobey!" She yelled and cracked her knuckles menacingly.
Tobey quickly pressed the buttons on his remote. In a loud crash, all the robots jumped up. Hundreds of them surrounded her, and she looked at them all helplessly. Tobey laughed some more, feeling for once, like things were just as they used to be. He'd surprise her with robots and she would fight. It did him some good.
"WHOA.. When did you-? Ho-How many-?", she stammered to ask while she warded off the robots attacks on her.
"Surprised, Wordgirl? Thanks to my good friend, Mr. Big, I've created a large enough army to keep you busy for a long time!"
"Busy?", she stopped and her eyebrows furrowed together. "Why keep my busy?"
"Destroy all my robots in time to find out!", Tobey offered.
She smashed into the head of one of the robots, sending the head flying off its shoulders. The robot fell to its knees as she struck hard against the chest of the other, sending this one on its back. Tobey fell, the ground coming up to meet him. He was stopped inches from the hard ground, a fist clutching the front of his shirt. Her usually peaceful and somewhat smug face had been twisted into an ugly scowl.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't pound you into the ground!" She shrieked with anger.
"W-Well... You see... I..." He stalled, pressing a button on the remote frantically, hidden from her view behind his back. It should not take this long!
Wordgirl, fed up with waiting for him to stammer out an excuse that would never really mean anything to her anyway, she raised her fist. The death blow shot forward and connected with a loud smash. Tobey struck the floor hard, clutching his jaw and letting out a weak cry. Blood dripped down the side of his face and he could only see through one eye since one of the lens were shattered. His cheek was bruising a deep purple and feeling his jaw, he thought for sure it had to be dislocated. He couldn't feel anything yet, there was too much adrenaline pumping through his system, but he knew that wouldn't last forever.
Wordgirl stood over him, glaring. "So, that didn't kill you." She stated darkly and began walking towards him. "What I get for pulling back on my own strength. Or maybe you're not the spineless, weak, and pathetic piece of garbage I always assumed you were."
Tobey crawled backwards as best he could, never taking his eyes off the dark form of the former hero. "No-Now Wordgirl, I'm s-sure that's just the ray talking.."
"You should have just died. You wouldn't be in this situation now."
She gave a swift kick to his stomach and sent him flying back another few feet.
There was a dull throbbing from the two spots. Already whatever adrenaline he had was fading. Her form was shadowy over and his vision was beginning to fade. She raised a boot over his head and gave a smile, a dark, mocking smile.
"Goodbye, Tobey." As her boot came down a giant metal hand struck her hard in the back and sent her flying away from the young boy.
Tobey shook from head to toe, somewhat in relief and fearfully wondered, 'What is taking them so long? If I keep this up, I'll be dead before they turn her good!'
Back in City Hall, things weren't any better. Between Mr. Big and Chuck, Two-Brains struggled to keep a firm hold on both his shrink ray and his mind-control. Butcher was already shrunk by accident, and hiding from the chaos. Finally Two-Brains pulled well enough on Chuck's arm and the shrink ray, to free both his hand and the ray. But in doing so, he stumbled back, and accidentally let go of the mind-control which flew from Mr. Big's hands as he also stumbled back. Everyone struggled and panicked, trying to catch it, warning to be careful and not set it off, as multiple hands reached for it. Pushing and shoving and eventually tripping, everyone watched in horror as the ray fell and time slowed as it broke on the floor.
"Wh...What..", Two-Brains finally pushed himself up, though shaking. "What have..", he walked to the remains and fell to his knees. "YOU IDIOTS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!"
"Um...", was the only grouped answer.
Two-Brains turned back on them, scowling.
"IT TOOK ME FOUR MONTHS TO MAKE THAT!", he continued to yell. "NOW thanks to you bumbling idiots, it's destroyed!"
"...Which meeeaaaaaannnns?", Chuck asked slowly.
"I DON'T KNOW!", the doctor finally admitted, now beginning to pace as the math quickly flew through his mind. "There's a possibility that she could still be evil, but the ray's main purpose was to not only draw out and double her evil, but also to obey ME. IF my calculations were correct the other day, I hadn't sat a limit on the ray gun. Therefore she would continue to become more and more evil uncontrollably, far worse than all of us put together!"
The others gasp.
"And if the ray broke and I LOSE control over her, then she'll run rampant! That means she'll run like crazy, following whatever she thinks is best! She could turn into the FBI'S most wanted for MURDER or something!"
They all flinched and then Mr. Big thought.
"But..is there a possibility she'll turn..good?", he asked.
"I.. I don't know..", Two-Brains shook his head. "...She MIGHT... I.."
Suddenly a loud screech rang through City Hall and all the villains and henchman jumped and turned to the source. Huggy thrashed in his mustard cocoon, screeching and chattering insanely. Everyone watched worriedly and slowly glanced at one another, understanding that what the monkey was going through, more than likely, Wordgirl was too.
On the outskirts, Wordgirl wrestled with the sea of robots when she felt a pang deep in her stomach. Something burning and painful. A flood of emotions and memories that she had forgotten the last few days crashed down on her. She struggled and fought with herself, with these conflicting desires. She was thrown this way and that, spinning here and there. Her eyes rolled around in her head as if there was nothing to hold them there and she was giggling quietly under her breath. Back and forth, back and forth, she felt her body fly through the air, as if something was shoving and pulling on her. She suddenly grabbed hold of a building, trembling as she tried to gain control. Tobey backed up with a gasp, seeing her like this.
"W...Wordgirl?", he asked quietly.
"Stop...", she uttered, almost begging. "S-stop...Stop talking! SHUT UP! I- No! Get out of my head!"
She grabbed her head and shook it back and forth, as if something was attacking her.
"No I'm-! Benevolence! Justice!"
She flung herself back, still shouting.
"Never! Malicious! Spiteful! I can't...", tears were pouring down her face now. "Demolish.. I want to demolish everything! STOP! STOP IT!"
She doubled over, trembling violently as she clutched her ears, trying to stop the ringing in them.
"Stop! Please..!", she cried out weakly. "Stop...h-hurting!
Wordgirl clutched her head, ears ringing loudly. She could not see, could not hear, could not feel. She was in darkness, pure darkness with only that ringing to keep her company. Her head went back and she screamed, a scream that shook the entirety of the city on its foundations. Her flying faltered slightly... and she dropped to the soft dirt, head spinning, eyes heavy. She could see Tobey... when had he come? Speak up, there is too much ringing... Her vision began to fade... and she slipped into unconsciousness.
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