Her eyes glowed dark crimson, an unholy shade of red that strongly hinted at the violence that had suddenly been unleashed from within her. Advancing slowly towards the two other girls who were backing away in turn, she relished in their horror-filled gazes and obvious fright. But she felt no sympathy for them, for she was a member of the Sisterhood and was naturally obliged to oppose anyone who stood in its path.

"Sam, snap out of it!" a voice cried out. It was coming from one of the two girls, the one she'd formerly known as Alex, the one she'd once called a friend… but none of that mattered now. "We're your friends, Alex and Clover! Don't you recognize us?"

A terrifying scowl crept across her lips as she stopped short in her tracks and glared at them. "Enemies of the Sisterhood are no friends of mine," she retorted.

None of the girls noticed the cloaked figure who was watching the whole scene from a hidden crevice between the rocks in the background. His eyebrows raised slightly as he silently observed the brainwashed girl, Samantha, menacing the very members of her own spy team. Why couldn't she have done something like this earlier? he wondered to himself. It would certainly have made his task of eliminating them much simpler.

But as much as he wanted to take advantage of the current situation, he was concerned for Sam's safety. Being subject to the mind control techniques of Ariel, some batty woman who had returned to fulfill her ambition of taking over the world with wrestling, she was in no condition to look out for hazards. If her own fury overpowered her, one false step could send her tumbling off the edge of the cliff not far away from where they were standing.

Upon the thought of Ariel, Tim Scam chuckled and shook his head in exasperation. She certainly had lost her mind if she thought she could really overpower all the men and so-called 'weak women' of the world with her army of hypnotized woman warriors. Talk about a lame plan, he thought. Seeing Sam lunge at Clover, who then deftly stepped aside and left Sam to crash into the ground, he decided that now would be a good time to intervene.

"Oh great, of all the times he has to show up," he heard Alex mumble in frustration as she spotted Scam emerging from his hiding place. Clover struck her forehead with her palm and groaned audibly.

He didn't respond. Instead, he casually stepped in front of them so that he was standing between them and their brainwashed friend. Sam's glare grew more heated as Scam simply gave her an irreverent smirk.

"You're also an enemy," she hissed.

Scam's smirk grew deeper as a mischievous glint danced in his sea-foam orbs. "Glad to see you haven't forgotten that."

She growled in rage and threw herself at him in an attempt to trap him in a headlock, but was left stunned when he expertly turned her own move against her and pinned her to the ground. Sam's eyes widened as he kept her firmly positioned there, fully immobilized.

"In case you haven't already realized…" he drawled lazily, "biological differences between males and females make your goal of 'taking down everyone' impossible." He scoffed at the last part. She scowled again, but quickly had to resign herself to the fact that she was unable to move any of her limbs due to his body weight.

"Well, I never expected to say this… but… thanks a lot Scam!" Alex's slightly bewildered voice broke in. After a moment of awkward silence, she promptly turned around and shot off in Ariel's direction, grateful that Scam had at least spared them the trouble of having to get through Sam first. Clover merely gaped at Sam and Scam in a dumbfounded manner before she shook it off and ran to join Alex.

Thoroughly humiliated at this point, Sam seethed at the man who had his impassive gaze fixed on her as he arrogantly smirked. "For your information," she threatened, knowing that there was nothing else she could do, "I'm Samantha Simpson and I'm one of Ariel's Chosen Ones! I'm a Woman of Wrestling!"

Tim raised an eyebrow. "Wow, Sam, no offense but…" His smirk widened. "This mind-controlling thing must be really messing up your brain. Your threats are even sillier than I remember." At this, he threw his head back and laughed heartily.

Seeing that Scam had temporarily lost focus, Sam used the opportunity to push him off, pleased with herself when he grunted a little in surprise. She charged at him like an angry bull, wanting him to pay for his insults, but yelped when he grabbed her arm, spun her around, and pushed her to the ground once more. As he did so, he grasped the end of her Expandable Cable Bungee Belt and tied her up with her own gadget at a breathtaking speed.

Unable to speak, and sensing that Ariel's mind-controlling powers were starting to wear off thanks to Clover and Alex battling her some distance away, Sam gulped as she glanced into Scam's darkening eyes, knowing she had lost.

He gave her a deadly smirk as he leaned over her.

"I'm Tim Scam," he whispered sarcastically, mimicking the empty threat she'd made moments ago, "and not only was I also a top WOOHP spy, which you seem to be conveniently forgetting, I was named Most Valuable Player on the varsity wrestling team back in high school. We were undefeated for two years straight." The look in his sea-foam eyes was unmistakably evil as he leaned in closer and closer, till Sam could feel his warm breath tickling her cheeks.

"So much for being a Chosen One and all that other superstitious mumbo-jumbo."