Dan Vs. The Demon Sisters
-Chapter Ten-
Kneesocks pounded her fists on the desk as she watched the three heroes climb through the portrait.
"We had them!" She shouted, her face turning to a bright shade of pink. "We had them and they slipped through our clutches like the rats they are!" She let out a scream of rage, and collapsed onto the desk in front of her. "We were so close..."
Scanty, however, didn't seem to be bothered very much by the escape of Dan, Panty, and Stocking. "You're blushing again, dear sister," she said teasingly. "And besides, you were talking about how much you wanted to deal with them personally. Frankly, I'm somewhat relieved that they managed to find our private elevator."
Kneesocks looked up at her sister in disblief. "Relieved?" She repeated. "We were almost rid of those angels that have caused us no end of stress and pain, and you're relieved?"
"You misunderstand me, Miss Kneesocks," Scanty explained, waving her hand. "It's true that I would have loved to see those angels burn, along with that mortal they've decided to drag along. However, you forget that we still have our little ace-in-the-hole. They won't be able to stop us, no matter how hard they try!"
A wicked smile crept onto Kneesock's face. "Of course," she uttered. "How could I have been so foolish?" She straightened herself back up and brushed her hair out of her face. "I do hope you'll forgive me for my behaviour, Miss Scanty."
"It's perfectly alright," Scanty said. She glanced over to the other end of the room, where a set of double doors for the elevator stood. She watched as the indicator above it drew closer to their floor. "Come, Miss Kneesocks, our guests will be here any moment." The two of them walked around from behind the desk and stood in front of it, watching as the elevator finally arrived at their floor.
The doors of the elevator slid open, and Dan, Panty, and Stocking all stepped out. Dan pointed an accusing finger at the Demon Sisters. "Alright," Dan said. "You two have been a lot of trouble to get to, but it's all going to end here, and now. You stole my home. You assaulted me without so much as a warning. You try to boil me alive in a pool of lava. At this point, I don't care that you're trying to unleash some giant horror unto the world. All I know is that you two have messed with the wrong man." He lifted his hammer up. "Now, I'm going to-" Dan stopped suddenly as he realized something. His hammer felt awfully light, almost as if it wasn't there.
Dan quickly whipped around, and saw the antique weapon laying on the floor of the elevator. The doors began to close, and he darted forward to attempt to retrieve it. However, he was too slow, and his face hit the dors shuts as they shut completely. Dan watched the sliver of light through the doors descend downward, all the while shouting "No no no no no no!" as he followed it down until he met the floor. Everybody in the room was staring at him with a perplexed expression on their faces. "Come on!" Dan shouted. "That thing costed be two thousand big ones! I didn't even get to use it!"
As Dan sat hunched over on the ground, cursing his bad luck, Panty and Stocking returned their focus to their enemies.
"So!" Panty shouted, to get their attention. "Are you two ready to finish that fight we were about to have in that restaurant? Because I've been itching to put a bullet right through your fucking eyes ever since we found you out here."
"Not just yet," Scanty said, much to Panty's surprise.
"Not yet?" Panty repeated. "Come on, how can you not be-"
"We just have one minor bit of business to attend to before we begin," Kneesocks explained. She casually walked back around behind the desk, Panty, Stocking, and Dan (having returned his attention to the Demon Sisters) watching her suspiciously. She opened a drawer on the desk, and rummaged around in it until she found what she was looking for. She slid the drawer shut, and walked back around to her spot in front of the desk. "Now, as you're all undoubtedly aware," she began. "We have been trying to be as discrete as possible with this whole business. Erecting this apartment building, purchasing Casa Paradisio through completely legitimate means, even hiring an actual demolition crew to take down the building. However, you all have been making that increasingly hard to do. So, Miss Scanty and I were talking last night, and I said to her 'Miss Scanty, do you really think we should bother with this nonsense anymore? Those angels and that mortal have been giving us no end of trouble.'"
"So I said to my sister 'You certainly have a point, Miss Kneesocks,'" Scanty continued. "'It would be so unfortunate if they thwarted us after all this trouble.'"
"Do you two have a point?" Stocking said impatiently. "Or are you just going to keep wasting our fucking time?"
"Now now," Scanty said. "We musn't rush things. Anyway, that's when we decided that we should have a Plan B. So, we placed an order in the Demon Catalogue, and within a couple hours, we aquired this." Kneesocks held up the object she had retrieved from the desk. It looked like a remote with a sinister gold and black colour scheme, and one large purple button in the center.
Suddenly, Panty's phone began to ring. Looking at the display, she discovered that it was Brief calling her. She opened the phone and began talking. "I'm a little busy right now, Geek Boy!" she said.
"B-b-but Panty, this is important!" Brief said. "I found this wierd looking thing attached to the building, it's all black and gold, but they look like a bundle of dynamite!"
"What? Dynamite?" Panty said.
"Ah, it seems your little friend found them!" Scanty said. "Yes, we took the liberty of ordering a special explosive, in the event that our other plans were impeded. The instant we push this button, that building will be ripped apart by a demonic vortex, along with the ground beneath it. Where it will end up, I can't honestly say, but that's hardly the point. The point is, the Ghost beneath it wil be free, and we'll plunge this world into chaos the likes of which nobody has ever seen!"
"However, there's one last piece of business that we must attend to first," Kneesocks said, placing the detonator on the desk behind her, just on top of a stack of papers. "And that," she continued. "Would be disposing of you." She pointed at Dan.
"I'd like to see you try," Dan scoffed. "Even without a weapon, I can still take you two on with my bare hands. You ready, Panty? Stocking?"
"We've never been more ready," the Anarchy Sisters said in unison.
Fly away now! Fly away now! Fly awaaaay!
"O wicked spirit of a lost soul born in limbo;
recieve judgement from the garb of the Holy Virgin;
cleansed of worldy impurities;
return to Heaven and Earth.
Repent!"
Panty and Stocking stood in the middle of the room, each wielding their weapons; Panty with her handgun, and Stocking with her katana. Dan stood for a moment, trying to figure out what had just happened.
"...What was the point of all that?" Dan shouted at the two.
"What?" Panty said. "That's how we always get ready to fight."
"But you already had your weapons out when we were in the elevator!" Dan pointed out. "I've seen you take them out without all the poledancing and stripping and pop music before!" Dan buried his face in his hand. "Alright, you know what? Let's just forget about it. Let's just get going on beating these two to a pulp."
"Now we're talkin'!" Panty shouted. The three of them all dashed towards the Demon Sisters, who in turn ran forward to meet them head on.
It was absolute chaos. Gunshots rang out everywhere. Sparks flew as steel met steel. Both the Anarchy Sisters and the Demon Sisters were darting all around the room. Dan, however, was stuck standing in the middle of the room, unable to keep up with both his partners and his enemies. He would occasionally throw a punch out whenever either Scanty or Kneesocks got close, but they'd always be gone before he could land the hit. "Ugh! This is so stupid!" Dan shouted, getting progressively more frustrated with each missed punch. "How am I supposed to get my revenge if I can't even hit you?"
Just then, something on the desk caught Dan's eye. He turned around, and noticed the detonator to the Demon Sister's special explosives. "That's it!" Dan exclaimed, having thought of a plan. He darted over to the desk and snatched up the detonator. He then noticed a piece underneath it. He picked up the form and examined it. It was the deed to Casa Paradisio! He quickly grabbed it and stuffed it into his pocket, and turned around.
"Dan! Look out!" Panty shouted. He turned to see Scanty hurtling towards him, but he didn't have to move before she crashed into his chest and sent them both crashing through the window. As they flew through the air, they both had just enough time to see just how high up they were before they began to plummet toward the earth.
"Give me that this instant!" Scanty shouted as they fell. She was currently clinging to his shirt with one hand, and grabbing for the detonator in Dan's hand with the other. Dan was trying as hard as he could to push her away from him. He looked down behind him, and saw the awning of the Démon Arms' entrance coming up beneath them.
"I hope this works..." Dan prayed. The two of them landed on the awning, and promptly bounced off onto the ground. Both Dan and Scanty slowly rose disoriented, while several onlookers all stared at them, including Chris, Brief, and the workers they had led away from the building earlier. They seemed to have been in the middle of a heated argument regarding what Brief was doing with their tools, before they saw Dan and Scanty fall out of the sky. Dan looked up, and saw Panty, Stocking, and Kneesocks all leaping down from the window the two of them had just broken through. They all bounced off of the awning similar to Dan and Scanty, and they all rushed over to the pair. Kneesocks helped Scanty up, while Panty and Stocking did the same for Dan.
"Man, that was some fall," Panty said. "You okay, Shorty?"
Dan looked down in his hand, and saw that the detonator was still firmly in his grip. "Never better," Dan said, somewhat dizzily. He looked over to the Demon Sisters, who had apparently lost their weapons when they came down. Panty and Stocking, however, still had theirs, which were now pointed towards the villains.
"Listen up, bitches!" Panty shouted to them. "We've got your last bargaining chip right here, and you don't have any weapons. Now, I'm gonna give you one last chance to pack your shit up and leave. So what's it gonna be?"
The Demon Sisters both looked mortified that they had let this happen, but they eventually admitted defeat. "Alright," Scanty said. "We'll leave. But don't think that this is the last time you'll be seeing us! Thing will be different next time, you can be certain of that." She turned to her sister. "Come along, Miss Kneesocks, let's let these peasants have this victory." She turned around and walked back to the building, while Kneesocks stood and glared at all of them. She followed her sister after a moment, and a secret entrance rose out of the ground in one of the alleyways. As they dissapeared into it, Panty turned to Dan.
"Well that was easy enou-" Panty stopped as she realized Dan wasn't standing there. She looked around, and eventually found Dan running from his building to the Démon Arms with something in his hand. He tossed whatever it was down into the secret entrance, and quickly ran away from it. He returned to the angels' side.
"Watch this," he said with a gleeful tone. They watched as the Demon Sisters' limosine flew out of the entrance, with something stuck to the front of the vehicle. Once it was a short distance down the road, he pressed the detonator. Suddenly, a red and black vortex appeared where the limo was, which quickly swallowed up the vehicle, along with a portion of the road. It closed up just as suddenly as it disappeared, and everybody stared at the spot in utter disbelief. Eventually, Panty and Stocking started cracking up.
"Oh my fucking god, that was excellent!" Panty howled.
"They never even saw it coming!" Stocking laughed.
As the two angels rolled on the ground laughing, Dan walked over to Chris. "So," Dan asked. "How'd everything go with you?"
"Well, okay, I guess," Chris said. "We arrived back a little earlier than expected, and I didn't get a chance to tell Brief. These guys spotted him and asked what he was doing, and the whole situation kind of escalated from there."
"Whatever, I don't really care, I was just being polite." Dan said. He turned to the workers. "Now, as for you all. I take it you're not going to demolish my building now?"
"'Spose not, seein' as how our employers just got sucked into that black hole thing," The foreman explained.
"Good, now get off my property before I sue you all," Dan said, waving the deed in his face.
The next day, Dan, Chris, Brief, Panty, and Stocking were all back at Chris's house, celebrating their victory over the Demon Sisters.
"That was some adventure, huh Dan?" Chris said.
"It was okay, I guess," Dan replied. "I'd probably rate it somewhere in the top ten of all my revenge schemes."
"Well, it was great meeting you all," Chris said to Panty, Stocking, and Brief. They stood by the door, each clutching a piece of luggage. "I hope we can see each other again sometime."
"Yeah, that'd be great!" Brief said. He pulled out a pad of paper and a pen. "What're your email addresses, maybe I could keep you up to date on what we're doing."
"Email address?" Dan asked. "Is that, like, my PO Box or something?"
Everybody looked at Dan. "You know," Chris said. "An email address? On the computer?"
"Oh!" Dan said. "No, I don't have a computer. Never saw the need for one."
"You don't?" Chris said. "That's it, once Elise gets back from her trip we're taking you out to get a computer."
"But I don't need one!" Dan whined. "And I don't want to turn into a giant geek like him!" Dan pointed at Brief.
"Hey!" Brief shouted. "I am not a geek!"
"Oh, shut up, Geek Boy." Panty said. She turned to Dan and Chris "Alright, so, I guess we'll be seeing you guys some other time."
"Oh, yeah, see you later." Dan said. Panty, Stocking, and Brief all picked up their bags and walked out the door. Dan watched them load their bags into See-Through, and they climbed in and took off down the road. Once they disappeared from view, Dan turned to Chris.
"I need you to give me a lift home," Dan said. "I want to sleep in my own bed for a change."
"Alright, alright," Chris said, picking up his keys. The two of them walked out the door, leaving Chris's house empty. There was no indication that there had ever been a pair of angels in the house, planning an assault on a pair of demons. Nothing, except a photograph of three friends watching a blonde woman and a short, dark haired man getting into an argument over something trivial.
The End
Atuhor's Footnose: Well, I hope you all enjoyed this isn't last chapter, though, so stay tuned, because there's an epilogue to come soon!
-EverSoNitro