A/N: I decided to add onto this. Hope you enjoy this next chapter. Also, I included a few references from previous episodes, they should be easy to spot.

Now You Can Act

Phoebe could not believe she and Max had remained in each other's arms for this long. She had to laugh at the fact that they promised to never hug like this again after the whole Thunderman The Ride fiasco, yet here they were doing exactly that. She was a little embarrassed that she had cried for this long, but she had to admit it was nice to have Max comforting her the entire time. Still, she figured she cried enough for one day and so she slowly pulled away from her brother and he was quick to understand that he could remove his arms from her now.

"I think I'm okay now," said Phoebe as she wiped away the last of her tears from her eyes.

"Are you sure?" Max asked her.

"Yeah, I'm sure," answered Phoebe with a small smile on her lips.

The two siblings sat there in silence, not sure what to say next.

"Well, this just became awkward," announced Dr. Colosso, successfully breaking the silence.

Max and Phoebe agreed that the moment had become awkward. Phoebe then decided to try and fix it.

"So, since you're not going to take my powers…what are you going to do now?" Phoebe questioned to Max.

However, the moment the words left her mouth she cringed when she realized that she could have just made the situation even more uncomfortable for them both. And she was right. Max immediately became tense when he remembered his decision to not use the orb on Phoebe. He could picture all the things Dark Mayhem would do to him if he came back empty handed. Not being able to join the Villain League was the least of his worries now.

"I don't know," he finally admitted.

A twinge of guilt hit Phoebe again. Max was in a really tough situation all because of her. The worst part was that she had no idea how she could help him. Well there was one way and even though Max already said no, she felt she had to make the offer once more.

"You can still take my…"

"I'm not doing it Phoebe so just drop it already!" Max yelled with annoyance clear on his face.

Phoebe sighed in defeat at her brother's response, though inside she was amazed that he refused to take her powers for a third time. Nonetheless, she wished there was something she could do to help him.

Max was currently in his lair standing in front of his computer monitor. He stood there for a few moments before taking a deep breath and pushing the big red button on the desk.

"Calling Dark Mayhem," announced the female computerized voice.

It did not take long before Dark Mayhem's face appeared on the screen in front of Max.

"Max, I hope this time you're calling to tell me that you finally took Thundergirl's powers," he said with a bit of impatience in his voice.

Max let a smirk form on his face as he showed Dark Mayhem the power absorption orb in his hand.

"I did, her powers are right here," proudly stated Max.

"Excellent! Now that she is out of the way, the Villain League has one less superhero to worry about."

"So, does this mean I can join the Villain League now?" asked Max with a hopeful tone.

"Bring me the orb and then we'll discuss your future membership into the Villain League," the villain answered before abruptly ending the call.

Once Dark Mayhem was gone, Max went over to his bed with a grin on his face.

"Phoebe, you can come out now, he's gone," he said in amusement.

From under Max's bed, Phoebe crawled out of her hiding place with a surprised look on her face.

"How did you know I was here? I made sure I hid myself before you were going to call Dark Mayhem," proclaimed Phoebe.

Max responded by rolling his eyes as the grin grew on his face. "I caught you trying to sneak down here earlier. And I got to say, your sneaking skills could still use some work."

"Whatever," replied Phoebe with an eye roll of her own before a serious look crossed her face.

"If you bring Dark Mayhem the orb, he is going to know that you lied about taking my powers," worryingly said Phoebe.

All the humor left Max's face instantly. He glanced at the orb in his hand for a moment before looking back at his sister with an intense look.

"I have a plan…but I'm going to need your help," he told her.

"Ok, so what do you need me to do?" she asked without any hesitation.

Max was a bit surprised that Phoebe agreed to help him so quickly. Yet remembering what happened between them only an hour ago, made Max realize that his sister was probably still feeling a bit emotional right now. This only made him wonder what had been going on in her head during that time. He was tempted to ask her, but decided it could wait till later. After all, he had to deal with Dark Mayhem first.

"Alright, so here is the plan," began Max.

Max in his black villain attire, was in front of the Happy Fun Burger fast food restaurant. In one hand, he held the silver power absorbing orb and in the other was the end of a long metal chain that connected to metal cuffs that tightly wrapped around Phoebe's wrists. Max glanced at his sister who was in her hero uniform and spoke.

"Are you ready?" he asked calmly though Phoebe could tell he was somewhat nervous.

Phoebe herself was anxious about the whole thing. When she first heard Max's plan she did not know how to feel about it. She knew that if the plan failed, they would be in serious trouble and may not come out of it alive. Yet, if the plan succeeded then Max would finally be the villain he always wanted to be. And truthfully the later scared her more than the former. If Max became an official villain, then everything would change.

The Hero League would probably see him as a real threat and try to take him out. He might get kicked out of their family and house since they could not afford to have a villain living with them. But for Phoebe what scared her most was the likelihood that Max would be her enemy and that they would have to fight against each other.

As soon as that thought hit her, Phoebe discarded it quickly.

No, that won't happen. Even if Max becomes a villain he already proved that he would never do anything to really hurt me.

"I'm ready, let's do this," declared Phoebe as she felt more assured than before.

Max gave her a brief smile before replacing it with a firm expression.

"Yeah, let's do this," agreed Max.

Max then opened the doors to the restaurant and walked inside with Phoebe following behind him in chains.

Phoebe had to admit that Dark Mayhem was more imitating in person. With his hulking figure, long black robe, white mask, and glowing green eyes, just his appearance alone could make any hero quiver in fear.

"So, not only did you take Thundergirl's powers, but you captured her as well. Impressive," Dark Mayhem complemented to Max.

Dark Mayhem then turned his sights on Phoebe and she gulped with nervousness. The villain stared at her for a moment before focusing back on Max.

"Max, are you ready to become a member of the Villain League?" he asked seriously.

"Absolutely," replied Max in an eager tone.

"Good, your final task will be to destroy Thundergirl," announced Dark Mayhem.

Phoebe could not help the gasp that escaped her lips. She subtly looked at Max and caught the brief look of shock that flashed across his face. Phoebe was starting to panic at the unexpected turn of events. Both her and Max believed that Dark Mayhem would want to finish her off himself. They did not expect him to ask Max to do the deed for him. Phoebe realized that their plan would not work if Dark Mayhem was keeping his eyes on Max, so she said something both brave and most likely stupid.

"So not only were you too weak that you had to get my brother to take my powers, but you can't even destroy me yourself? I guess you're not as powerful as I thought," taunted Phoebe.

Phoebe noticed that Max was now looking at her as though she lost her mind. When Dark Mayhem's eyes glowed even fiercer and his hands started producing green energy spheres, Phoebe figured that she had just made a bad move.

"I'LL SHOW YOU JUST HOW POWERFULL I AM!" shouted Dark Mayhem as the green energy balls in his hands grew three times their size before he launched them right at Phoebe.

Phoebe's eyes widened in shock at the attack heading straight for her. Yet to Phoebe's surprise and relief, the green energy balls suddenly stopped in mid-flight before being redirected right back at Dark Mayhem. The villain was too stunned to avoid the attack and was immediately knocked down to the ground when he was hit by the green energy balls. Phoebe took a brief glance at her brother to see his hand come down from its outstretched position, which made Phoebe realize that Max just used his telekinesis to save her from Dark Mayhem's attack. She could not help but send a grateful smile his way and Max despite himself ended up smiling back.

However, Dark Mayhem was coming back to his senses and was starting to get up. Yet before he could, Phoebe was quick to use her own telekinesis to throw the villain back down to the ground and hold him in place. When Dark Mayhem saw the Phoebe still had her powers and saw the smirk on Max's face, it was easy for him to put the pieces together.

"You dare betray me!" the villain shouted angrily at Max.

The smirk on Max's face grew as he walked a bit closer to where Dark Mayhem laying on the ground. "Oh, I dare. I also dare to do this," he said mischievously before taking the power sapping orb in his hand and pointing it at Dark Mayhem.

With Phoebe keeping the villain immobile, he could not stop the orb from sapping away his powers. The green beam of light that represented Dark Mayhem's powers left his body and entered the silver orb.

"You'll pay for this!" screamed Dark Mayhem.

"Yeah, I doubt it," confidently stated Max before turning to Phoebe. "Ready to finish this guy off?"

"You bet," Phoebe said with just as much confidence as her brother as she released her hold on the villain.

Dark Mayhem did not even have a second to try anything before the twins quickly used their freeze breath on him together. Just like what happened with the Green Ghoul, when both freeze breaths hit, Dark Mayhem was solidified into stone. With the villain now frozen as a statue, Max went to his sister and took out the key to the chains. He unlocked the shackles from her wrists which made Phoebe glad to have them free. She then looked at the statue before turning back to her brother.

"So, what do we do with him now?" she asked.

"Smash it," he said as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.

A knot formed in Phoebe's stomach at the suggestion. It was one thing to stop a villain, but it was another to kill them. She knew that despite Dark Mayhem being a statue, destroying him would be the same as killing him. Phoebe was not sure she could do that.

As if sensing Phoebe's thoughts, Max placed a comforting hand on his sister's shoulder. "Listen Phoebe, Dark Mayhem has killed many people and I'm not just talking about heroes either. I looked up to him for a lot of reasons. But…I admit when it came to some of his victims, I felt twitchy at times. I mean I get him getting rid of heroes…yet innocent people, not so much," confessed Max.

He then looked straight at Phoebe with seriousness clear on his face. "Phoebe, if we let him live, I have no doubt that he would find a way to get revenge and then more innocents could get hurt or worse. Do you want to risk people getting hurt in the future if you spare his life? Could you really live with yourself if one day he ended up killing our family, friends, or anybody else when it all could've been avoided if you had ended him now?"

Max's words had a scary truth to them that Phoebe knew she could not ignore. She realized that her brother was right, Dark Mayhem was too dangerous to leave alive even as a statue. With her mind made up a determined look crossed her face.

"You're right, we need to end him once and for all."

Phoebe could not help but feel proud of Max in this moment. Even though she should be completely against what was going on and should have probably stopped things from getting this far, Phoebe instead was happy for Max. After all this time, her brother finally achieved his dream of becoming a villain and not just any villain, but the actual villain leader. Phoebe continued to watch in admiration as her brother was already making plans and giving our orders.

Admittedly, Phoebe had been worried that the other villains would put up a fight against Max becoming their new leader. However, when the villains found out that the Thunder Twins singlehandedly defeated Dark Mayhem, the villains became fearful of the twins. Realizing this, Max had seized the opportunity to assert himself as their new leader. If any of the villains had any objections, they did not dare say them out loud. After all, none of the villains wanted to end up as a pile of broken rubble on the ground like Dark Mayhem.

So, Max was now the official leader of the Villains League and did not waste a second in beginning his reign of villainy. The first order of business was the League's headquarter situation. Max was quick to point out that there were still plenty of vacant and unused buildings available in Metroburg that they could renovate that would not cost too much money to fix, especially if they all used their powers during the remodeling. When someone brought up the issue regarding their lack of funds, Max had a solution to that as well. Listening to Max explain that there was an old abandoned coal mine just outside Metroburg that they could use in order to make the coal into diamonds, Phoebe's mind was briefly brought back to that last Christmas in Metroburg. She did always wonder where Max got the coal that he gave them, yet she thought that Max did not know that their dad had turned the coal into a nice sized diamond. But apparently, he somehow found out about it and that most likely gave him the idea to help the villains make money.

As Max continued his newfound duties to the League, Phoebe simply stayed out of the way. She knew this was Max's time to shine and she would not do anything to ruin it for him. Again, she was hit with the notion that she should be stopping this, but she immediately squashed it down. Phoebe refused to let herself give in to doubt now, she had to believe that this path for Max was the best for him.

Besides, what did she really have to worry about? He had chosen her over villainy once already and deep down she knew that he would not hesitate to do it again if he had to. It was then that Phoebe realized something important. She smiled to herself

I guess I really trust Max now.

A/N: Yeah, I think Max should've at least been an anti-villain like Magneto. We know Max has a good heart, he just likes doing things in a villainous way. At the same time, I could also see Phoebe becoming an anti-hero since she is known to do questionable things to get her way. I also believe that because she cares so much for others, she would cross the line if it meant protecting people. So, this chapter is setting Max's beginning as an anti-villain and Phoebe's into an anti-hero.

Let me know if you agree that Max would make a good anti-villain and Phoebe an anti-hero.

Also, there will probably be another chapter after this. We'll see if it will be the last chapter for this story or not.