Disclaimer - All rights belong to Teletoon, Cartoon Network, and the creators of Total Drama. No profit is being made in the making of the fanfiction. This alternate-universe episode of TD contains stunts performed by written teens. People who try these stunts at home will be promptly slapped with a fish.
The Kobold Necromancer's Notes - The TDC/B wiki now has fancy badges for all those willing to contribute. It is like achievements! Oh, and new poll, but if you don't read these notes, it'd be kind of ironic to find out here. Also, seems most of you agree that Noah is best-suited as Cynic. Cool, that'll give me the excuse to spam that word.
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Chapter 44 - Lots of Stuff Blows Up, It's Fun
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(VR - Classroom City.)
The virtual citizens of Classroom City were walking around, minding their own virtual business. They ate virtual hot dogs from virtual stands. They went into virtual coffee stores and sipped their virtual half-caf, nonfat, no foam, sugar free caramel macchiato (even virtual people are super picky about their coffee).
An explosion from the park startled them all, causing virtual spit takes of caramel macchiato. They wondered what it could be, then louder explosions and thunder claps followed, scaring them out of their virtual socks.
Leshawna was firing burst after burst of lightning at Ezekiel and Heather, the former deflecting them with his hunting kukri and the latter using her instincts and speed to dodge. Trees were splintered, ground was charred, and ugly park states were demolished with the lightning charges. Leshawna dodged a slashing attack from Heather and leapt back.
"You're faster on your feet than normal, lard butt," Heather snarled. "Too bad your super powers cannot help that in real life!"
"Oh! Oh, you asked for it, skinny cat freak," Leshawna hollered back. She twirled her lightning lance over her head, generating a great deal of static electricity, and it shot out in wild directions. Ezekiel barely managed to deflect one with his kukri, and his hat had a hole burnt through from another. Heather suffered several shocks that knocked her back. A trash can was obliterated, a park bench was zapped to pieces, and a tree was burnt from several hot sparks.
Behind the tree, DJ hid and cried out in terror. The violence was too much for him, and he was really wanting a bunny to hold. The tree stood firm, even when it was delivered more shocks, a slash from Heather's claws when she missed Leshawna, and a major singe from Eviserator's fire breath. The activity, for a few seconds, seemed to die down when the explosions died down, and when the Pacifist peeked, an arrow from Dark Arrow impaled just a couple inches above his head.
This set off DJ and he screamed in terror as his super powers went into overdrive. A shockwave of pacifism energy burst from him and washed over the entire park. Leshawna, Ezekiel, and Heather were all hit, and felt so nonviolent that even the notion of standing seemed like a threatening stance. They all collapsed on the ground, staring up at the virtual sky.
"So… tranquil…," Heather muttered.
"At… peace…," Ezekiel murmured.
"DJ…," Leshawna said, "this… is… not… proper superhero style."
DJ was staring down her, looking concerned. "Um, can I get you something? Glass of water? Pillow since you're lying down?"
"Can you take care of the two villains over there, perchance?"
"Heavens no, mom would kill me if she saw me killing people!"
"Then, my dear man, you must get us out of here before they rise."
Soothed by Leshawna's calm response, DJ nodded and started to lift her. He quickly learned that she was an awkward person to carry, and he wasn't strong in this virtual world. After several embarrassing attempts, Leshawna lay on the ground with an annoyed grunt. "Not… one… remark."
"I wouldn't go there, Leshawna, you know that."
"Well then, get out of here. Don't worry I can take care of myself."
DJ was out of there before she started the second sentence, and she would have been annoyed if she didn't feel so tranquil. After he fled off a great distance, the supernatural pacifism wore off gradually on the three collapsed super people. Leshawna used her powers to, in a flash of light, transport herself away when she found the strength. Heather and Ezekiel tried to follow, but the pacifism that was preventing Leshawna from coming back to strike kept them nonviolent too. Eventually she pulled him up to his feet completely and hissed, "We… gotta head after them!"
"No, I think we should joo'st look fur the GPA," he suggested. "They're separated, we're together, we'll be able to take care of one if they come back, and we need that gem, eh!"
"I suppose you're right… but that pacifism is still affecting me, I don't like hunting and searching right now!"
"I knoo'… wanna go fur a paddle boat ride?"
"That sounds lovely!"
(Super Closet - I'm not done yet, mate. Not by a long shot.)
Heather - "Listen, I'm not a nerd, I don't get into that comic book nonsense! It was just… just the game, making me that into it! Honest! Ezekiel and I are perfectly normal, not-nerdy people."
Ezekiel - "And then I was all like, 'Black Arrow's Precision Shot,' and then Leshawna slashed it from the air with her lance, eh! Oh boy, that was fun! I gotta get back into my archery, I'll have to give it a name, maybe The Huntsman, eh!"
DJ - "That first fight I got myself into… oh man! It was like thunder, horrific lightning! The way they fought was frightening! Thank goodness I never get that aggressive, knock on wood. Sometimes I think I shouldn't have signed up for this show, there's gotta be better ways to try and earn five million dollars!"
*He pauses and looks around.* "Nothing… comes to mind right now though. Except stealing a dollar from five million places, but that'd be incredibly dishonest."
(VR - Elsewhere in Classroom City.)
Anita was busy checking her hand cannon, pushing a few buttons as she cycled through her choices. "Okay, I have spikey bombs, ice bombs, fragmentation rounds, flash bangs, and one that I think does electric damage but I'm not sure how that works."
Cody, leaning against the side of a building with her, peeked around the side. "I think we lost Izzy, but I cannot be too certain. She's a wily one."
"Indeed she is," Anita said as she pulled a thin roll from inside her glove. She unrolled it to reveal a map of Classroom City. "Okay, I think we need to take a left here, and that should get us to Evil Enterprises."
"Why do we want to go there?"
"I figured if anyone knows where the GPA is, the most diabolical villain would have the resources to find it."
"Surprising no one suspected anything with a name like that."
"I'll say. Okay, so we take a left here-"
"No, Anita, I think that's a river, not a road."
"Oh then, if we go around there…"
Anita turned to go around the building and resulted in walking into it. As she rubbed her nose and glanced down at the map, she muttered, "I don't remember that building being on this map."
Cody couldn't help but laugh. "You have a really bad sense of direction, don't you?"
"Not really," Anita said as she rotated the map around in her hands, trying to figure out which way she was facing. When she turned around to try and get some sense out of it, she became quite dizzy from the overwhelming sense of direction and collapsed. Cody raced over to help her up as she muttered, "Okay, yeah, I get lost in the mall."
A massive explosion sent both of them sprawling, as part of the building was obliterated by the impact. Izzy peeked through the destroyed walls and crooned, "He-lo-ohhhh! It's your friendly neighborhood destroyer! And I am going to… oh my!"
Explosivo stared down at the sight of Techno-Wizard lying on top of Bombshell Babe, him trying to get but still dizzy from the blast. Eventually they managed to stand up, all the while Izzy watching with impish enthusiasm.
"Explosivo approves of comical and sexy accidents," she declared, then grinned as she pulled a grenade launcher from her jacket and pointed it at them. "So suck on this!"
She shot a grenade at them, to which Cody created a force field that reflected the bomb. Izzy leapt out of the way and then noticed Anita was pointing her hand cannon at her. She braced herself, but it wasn't necessary, because Anita fired too soon, and the electric grenade bounced off the inside of the force field right back at the firer. Cody and Anita had a few milliseconds to glance down at the bomb before it exploded, shocking them both.
Anita fanned the smoke off her body and tried to smooth down the pillar of ebony that her crackling hair had become. "Oh, I always did have a nervous trigger finger," she whimpered. "Sorry, sorry! Gah! Even my eyebrows are standing up on end."
"It's o… k…," Cody was saying before he saw Izzy standing near them, holding a rather large sword in her hand; the blade had slight chips and charred parts, just like all of her clothing.
"I must say, this turn of events," Izzy said as she raised the sword, "has been rather sho-"
A laser beam fired from the sky knocked the blade right her hands, also melting the steel like a popsicle at the business end of a flamethrower. Izzy snarled and pulled out a flamethrower, but another laser shot from the sky hit the flamethrower, melting it like another popsicle.
"Damn these wretched lasers from the sky," Izzy exclaimed, and jumped back as a third laser shot almost hit her. She dashed off, pointing a new type of explosive launcher behind her, firing them as she retreated. The sticky bombs latched onto the ground and walls of the buildings, and she hid behind a nearby building. "Now, when that laser-firing twerp falls down, Explosivo will blow him back sky-high!"
She waited, and heard a whoosh of air, plus the temperature seemed to drop. She peeked again to see ice had formed all around the area she had laid sticky bombs. Chris, The Greatest Hero and Man Ever!, launched in the middle of the ice, shattering all of it and obliterating her sticky bombs. Snarling in frustration, she sprinted off, using an explosive vocabulary.
Cody and Anita looked over at Chris, The Greatest Hero and Man Ever!, who posed heroically. "How did that look," the host asked, his words a little muffled from the cheesy grin he was using.
"That was cool and all," Cody admitted, "and thanks for saving us!"
"It was nothing, tiny super heroes. You two are busy making out or something, that why the freak caught you off-guard?"
Techno-Wizard blushed at this comment and scratched the back of his head, and while Bombshell Babe was blushing too, she was more annoyed with the host. "You seem like a giant ripoff," she declared, looking at Chris's blue costume with a "C" inside a triangle logo on his massive chest. "Laser eyes, icy breath, flight, strength… is there anything separating you from him?"
"Of course there is! My major weakness is not kryptonite."
"Well, I suppose that's fair-"
"It's bad hair gel! If I am near some cheap knock-off, I start to become faint all over."
Anita pursed her lips as she glared at the copycat host.
(Super Closet - They're going to have to glue you back together… in hell!)
Anita - "I suppose I could have been grateful, but to be saved by Chris Maclean is like… well, it's hard to say what is worse than owing that egomaniac a favor. It's still hard to imagine him as a superhero."
Chris Maclean - *He blows on his knuckles and grins.* "I'm just so good, aren't I? Seriously, why have I not been approached by one of those comic book series? I've got the looks and star presence for that nerdy crap! Haha!"
Izzy - "What makes Izzy a good Explosivo? Well, to all ya fine dandies so proud, so cock-sure, prancing about with your heads full of eyeballs! Come and get Izzy, Izzy say! I'll be waiting on you with a whiff of the old boom-boom brimstone!" *She laughs hysterically and pulls out some dynamite of her own, tossing it behind her as she leaves the closet.*
Chris, The Greatest Hero and Man Ever!, was striking many poses as Anita continued to stare at him disapprovingly. She glanced over at Cody and whispered, "Should we go now, look for the GPA?"
"Maybe if we stay with Chris, he could defend us!"
"Do you really want to stay near Chris?"
Cody glanced over at the host, who was still flexing and kissing his arms ("Oh yes, what beautiful weapons, that's beautiful right there! And there!"). The geek winced and nodded at Anita. "You're right, we could probably handle ourselves."
"Okay, I promise I won't blow it anymore."
Anita giggled, her face flushed nervously. Before Cody could say something comforting, a blast of energy hit Chris from behind as he was flexing his butt cheeks. His gluteus was unharmed, as most of the blast hit his head and slightly frizzed his hair. He shrieked as if in terrible pain and tried to pat it down. "Gah! The horror! My hair, my beautiful hair! Must find me some awesome hair gel!"
He took off into the air, despite Cody and Anita calling out for him to come back for help, and was gone in a couple eye blinks. As the two heroes fumed over their leader ditching them, both were nearly hit by another blast of dark, crackling energy.
"Nice shot, loser," Mandy scolded Colin as the two walked towards the two startled heroes. "Try actually hitting them, that actually hurts them."
"Shut up, or I'll hurt you!"
"Will you stop saying that," the villainess declared, shaking her dagger at him. "Not only is it uncalled for, but it's lame!"
"Shut up, or I'll hurt you!"
Mandy groaned, and looked over at Cody and Anita. "Well then, mortal fools, come and get us, if you can!"
Anita nodded and tossed a salute to the cultist, then took a combat stance with her hand on her arm cannon. Power began to charge around a bomb that was at the tip now, making it glow brighter with every passing second. Cody was using all of his technology and magic to block Colin's pain spells and Mandy's dark arts.
The growing bomb of power that Anita was forming made Mandy start to panic, and thus cast her spell, "Hold Mortal!" Demonic, transparent hands reached up from the ground around Cody, grabbing at him. Cody managed to swat them away with his mechno-arms for a few seconds, then they grabbed him, holding him in place.' "Now," Colin shouted as he charged an incredible amount of agony energy, as Mandy conjured an orb of shadow and darkness, "taste some pain!"
Both fired at the same time, just as Anita fired her bomb. As the spells and weapons raced at each other, Anita jumped towards Cody, grabbing him and putting herself between him and the attacks. She attempted to jump and pull him out of the grasp of the monsters, but all the attacks collided before she could.
As the eruption of energy and bomb ripped the area apart, sending debris flying around, Colin was sent flying through the air, screaming, "Ohhhh wow… I'm flying! Wheee," before he crash-landed on a nearby building's roof. Mandy was also thrown off her feet, sent sailing down an alleyway until she skidded to a stop. Anita and Cody were thrown down another alley way.
The Cultist Chick shook her head as she sat up. She tried calling out to him, but couldn't even hear her own voice with how bad her ears were ringing. Shaking her head in disgust, she thought to herself, "Bah, I don't need that jerk anyway, I'll find the gemstone myself!"
Cody and Anita were far, far away from where the two villains were catapulted to. He was on top of her, groaning as he shook his head, trying to get the ringing out of his head. It was stuck, like an add-on he couldn't fully remove from his phone. "Man, that was one heck of a blast," he muttered. "But I'm all right… you, Anita? Anita?"
As he pulled himself off of her, he noticed she wasn't moving. The Bombshell Babe was barely breathing, the impact of the major explosion hitting her back and the painful, blackened effects spreading around her sides and limbs. "Ouch," she said. "Good thing I cannot feel pain, because I'm sure… this mortal wound would really hurt."
"Anita, don't worry," Cody said, fumbling with his gloves. "I… I think I have some healing spells! Oh wait… no, I traded that in for a reduction of damage from dark magic! Stupid, I'm so stupid!"
"No," she muttered as she glanced up at him, "you have far more potential than you know. I know… you doubt yourself a lot… but trust me when I say… you're a wonderful guy. Just… believe in yourself…"
She took a deep breath and closed her eyes, now virtual dead. Techno-Wizard placed his hand over his heart, then bowed and walked away. "Rest in peace, Bombshell Babe."
(Super Closet - Let's go practice medicine?)
*The janitor's closet has been hit with an explosion, and almost everything in there is destroyed. When the door opens, the ash flutters around and Cody walks around. He gapes at the destruction, then notices the Fame Town CD is untouched. He straightens it and smiles, then faces the camera.*
Cody - "Poor Anita, she really seemed to like the Super VR challenge, shame she died so soon into it. But then again, to die saving someone, to go out with a speech like that… that was awesome! She's a fine gal, despite having a nervous trigger finger and a bad sense of direction!"
Colin - "I think that should be my new catchphrase! 'Shut up, or I'll hurt you!' Hehe, I'll try it on the next person I hear!" *Someone knocks on the door.* "Shut up, or I'll hurt you!"
*The door slightly opens and a grenade rolls in. He screams like a little girl and bolts out, and Groucho the Duck walks in.*
Groucho the Duck - "Stupid civilian, it was a dummy grenade, with the pin still in. No one, and I mean no one, gets in the way of my closet confessional time!"
(VR - Another place in Classroom City.)
Xander brushed his bangs away from his facial scar, staring down at Yoshi and Gwen down the road. "Looks like our two living nightmares are hellbent on killing us."
The Soulless Blade shouted, "Energy Blade Slice," and swung his sword, an energy arc slicing through the ground and chewing through it like a hot knife through butter. Crystal used her powerful magic to summon a giant heart in front of them, stopping the attack and causing it to dissipate. The magic heart then burst into a million tiny hearts and then popped into nothing.
Gwen floated towards the two heroes, holding her scythe up for a downward slice. When she swung, Xander leapt back and grabbed a metal lamp post. He ripped it up from the sidewalk, twirling it around his head. Scythe and lamp post slices and sweeps ensued as the two parried and swung their weapons, neither one getting the edge.
Yoshi was swinging his sword at Crystal, growling as he attempted to lay a blow. "Heart Stab," he exclaimed as he thrust his katana forward. Crystal flew backwards and avoided his attack. He shouted, "Eye Piercing! Organ Gouge! Stab!"
All of the attacks were easily dodged by Crystal, who used her powers and flight to avoid attacks. She wondered how someone who seemed so goo with sword combat in real life would be this slow in the game. The problem was, her ability to change to emotions in people and the distraction dust were not working on the supposedly soulless villain.
Yoshi leapt back, staring at Crystal with those emotionless eyes of his. The swordsman held his katana up in a defensive stance and uttered, as the blade started to burn with dark red energy, "Destructive Violent Heartbreaking Death Blow!"
He slashed out at her as she conjured another shielding heart, and the dark red slash shattered the shield. Crystal was knocked back, falling down as she suffered a numbing on her stomach that implied injury.
Gwen had managed to slice through Xander's lamp post, and attacked with a blast of death magic. The rebel conjured his motorcycle and hopped on. With a loud revving, he sped towards her. Gwen powered up a blast of death energy and fired, as Xander leapt off his bike and pulled a couple magnum revolvers from his jacket. The death magic hit the motorcycle as Darkcycle opened fire on the Grim Reapette.
The large bullets stun the villainess of death, knocking her back. Xander would have fired more, but then he noticed Crystal struggling to stand up. As he raced over to help her, he saw Yoshi standing in position again, the dark red energy forming around him. He was chanting in a voice growing in volume, "Aggressive… Annihilating… Horrific… Dragon Blood…"
Darkcycle lifted the Matchmaker to her feet, and she declared, "Xander, it's his words! It's like a manga, the longer the title of the attack, the more powerful it is!"
"Really? That's kind of weird but cool," he said, pulling his magnums out again.
"Well, it fits him. You should get out of here!"
"No way, my British romantic, I'm taking them down!" He pointed his magnums at Yoshi and shouted, "Eat lead, swordsman!"
"Gorilla Fist… Hell's Fire…"
He fired, but Gwen was in front of him, creating a black hole in front of him. The bullets were all absorbed into the nothing. Crystal shot magical hearts and the fires of passion, but it all was absorbed too. Xander snarled and conjured his motorcycle again, getting on and speeding at them. He raced over to the side of the road, ripping another lamp post from the sidewalk. When he raced at them, he leapt off his motorcycle and swung the lamp post down.
Gwen's black hole sucked in the motorcycle, which consumed the rest of its energy. Yoshi finished his chant with, "Vengeful… SOUL SLICE!" He swung as Gwen vanished in a puff of black smoke.
The blade's energy projection, dark red and crackling violently with energy, sliced through Xander and his lamp post, scorching him from the inside. The super attack also blazed to Crystal, and she threw up a large heart shield, but the shield and herself were slashed through by the attack.
Yoshi's Soul Slice obliterated a small building at the end of the road and finally dissipated. Xander and Crystal both fell on the ground, both utterly defeated. Gwen appeared behind Yoshi with a puff of black smoke, twirling his scythe around as it glowed from the energy of having claimed two souls nearby.
Without saying a word between them, Yoshi and Gwen continued to walk down the street, which looked like a dragon had made it its scratching toy due to the Soulless Blade's abilities, leaving Darkcycle and Matchmaker's bodies behind.
(Super Closet - Have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
Xander - "Man, I'm really off my game. I have to admit, being told by a girl that she doesn't want to go out with me is rather off-putting. I feel… off. Like riding a poorly paved road, I just have to drive until I get off it. But it's sure making me irritable."
Crystal - *She pokes her fingers together and then riffles through her notes.* "I know I hurt Xander, but I can sure pair him up with someone who'd be good with! Let's see… Carol? Mandy? Gwen, Bridgette, Leshawna? Oh wait, they're taken. Man, it's hard to do pairings when so many people are paired already!"
*She giggles and claps.* "I can be such a pairing nerd! I sometimes go with what's not natural, like Trentney! Or Chris-23! Oh, but none of you would get that, I think." [1]
Yoshi - "Being soulless has its perks, makes it easier to have a real fight where you're not shouting smack talk. Also prevents one from making bad jokes like they do all the time in comics."
(VR - Random location in Classroom City.)
"This is MY world," Carol shouted as she opened fire on Tyler and Lindsay with her riot shotgun. "You are not welcome in MY world, bimbo!"
Tyler and Lindsay ducked behind the side of a large dumpster. Super Sporto nodded at the Head Cheerleader, and she nodded back. Just like they rehearsed, Tyler jumped out and started tossing javelins at Carol and Geoff, shouting, "Don't you call my girlfriend a bimbo!"
"I didn't mean her," Carol admitted as she reloaded and jumped away from a javelin tossed at her. "I more so meant yo-YIKES!"
Lindsay had picked up the large dumpster, her super strength made it looking so light. She chucked it, and Carol leapt out of the way in time. Geoff conjured a disco ball in front of him, and when the dumpster hit it, the street and alleyway seemed to explode with flashing lights and loud disco music. The heroes and villains, sans Geoff, were covering their ears and eyes.
Party Bash was now ready to bash some heads, and conjured a whole bunch of records in his hands. He began flinging them at Tyler and Lindsay, the former taking a couple of them slicing him with their razor edge while the other ducked a phone booth. When one of the records sliced off the top of the phone booth, Lindsay squeaked in terror and threw her pompom at Geoff. This did nothing except make Geoff blink in confusion; the Head Cheerleader had forgotten that her pompoms were not part of her super powers.
Lindsay used her super agility to deliver a kick to Geoff, sending him sprawling out on the street. She also knocked Carol's shotgun from her hand, and begun fist-fighting the cop on the street. Carol snarled and let loose a flurry of kicks that Lindsay matched on her own.
"I'll defeat you yet, Cammy," Lindsay shouted.
"My name's Carol, Dumb-Li," Carol retorted.
Eventually, Bad Cop pulled out her taser and blasted the cheerleader with it, sending her sprawling back into the alleyway. As Carol recovered from the blows she had received, Lindsay used her healing powers to rejuvenate herself and Tyler, who was still suffering from records imbedded in his chest and leg.
Super Sporto and Party Bash recovered at the same time, and stared each other down. They produced records and discus in their hands, and become playing what could really be called Extreme Ultimate Frisbee. As they chucked deadly projectiles at each other, Carol noticed and got a little carried away; she pulled out her shotgun and shouted, "PULL," blowing some of the discs and records out of the air. Lindsay cheered on Tyler, jumping around like the cheerleader she was.
The fight was suddenly stopped when a bus drove by the fight at full speed, and Geoff's clothing become hooked on it. Screaming as he was pulled off, flapping like a kite in the wind, he managed to let out the message, "Keep partying, dudes!"
Carol gnashed her teeth, then stood in the middle of the road. When a car hit the brakes in front of her, she ran over to the driver's side, dodging a baseball thrown by Tyler with enough force to imbed into a brick wall on the other side of the road. The Bad Cop punched through the driver's window, yanked him out shouting, "I'll need this, citizen, and you don't deserve it, you don't use your blinker," and then hopped in the car. She sped off with Tyler and Lindsay chasing after her with their incredible athletic speed.
As they raced by the park, Ezekiel and Heather were already running out of it, and Carol couldn't stop on the brakes fast enough. Ezekiel had no time to react before he was hit, rolling up over the windshield and on the top of the car, finally landing in a wreck behind the car.
Carol jumped out at the car as Heather approached her boyfriend's side, and he, despite the awful state he was in, muttered, "Oh, the hunter has become roadkill, what are the odds?"
"Carol, you idiot," Heather shrieked, "watch where you're driving!"
"Hey, I was, you two came barreling out! Jaywalking too, that's illegal!"
"We're villains!"
"Doesn't mean we cannot have some respect. I suppose you litter on the highways too!"
Heather was about to retaliate when a foot connected with her head, sending her skidding across the street. Ezekiel and Carol looked to see Lindsay clenching her fists and Tyler rushing up to her side. Super Sporto looked down at Black Arrow, and cringed at what he realized needed to be done.
"Sorry dude, I really am," he said to Ezekiel, who was struggling to stand up, "but I really want to take Lindsay out to that special dinner if we win!"
"And I want to take Heather 'oot too," the hunter home schooled said. He lifted his bow, but saw it had been broken in the car accident. Tossing it aside, he lifted his kukri and cast a salute to Tyler. "So let's do our best for our ladies, eh!"
"Of course," Tyler said as he conjured a metal bat for combat.
The two fought with massive swings and cleaves. Ezekiel was badly injured, but his ability to parry was keeping Tyler's strength and bat at bay. Carol pulled out her night stick to fight, but Lindsay was again kicking at her, and she had to use her weapon to defend.
"Have I mentioned how much I hate cheerleaders?" Carol snarled.
"Really? You seem like you would be really good at it!"
"Really?" Bad Cop asked, stopping the fighting for a second. "You think I'd be good?"
"Yeah, of course," Lindsay insisted, smiling at her opponent. "You have the agility and spirit, and you'd be great for the pyramids and stacks, since you're so light!"
"I never thought of it that way! Maybe I'll-"
They were cut off when Heather slashed at Lindsay, making horrid scratches across the cheerleader's side. "Stop talking to her," Eviserator shouted, "and kill her!"
Carol nodded and pulled out her pistol, firing at Lindsay who leapt away while healing herself. One shot almost hit Heather, and she parried with her claws. "Watch it, you moron!"
"Don't call me a moron, you're the criminal, those claws are concealed weapons! And what's more-"
Lindsay delivered a somersault kick to Heather, dazing her. Carol flinched as she quickly tried to reload, while Head Cheerleader grabbed the car Carol had hijacked by its bumper. Lifting it up, she slammed it down on Heather, crushing her underneath.
"Now that's spirit," Lindsay declared, pumping her fists. She looked over at Tyler, who had knocked Ezekiel's weapon from his hand and finished him with a blow to the noggin. The two exchanged a grin of victory before turning to the final villain. Or more realistically, where she was last standing.
"Gangway," Carol shouted as she sprinted away from the two heroes, wading into a crowd of people and pushing through to get away. "Coming through! Geronimo! Banzai! Err… go about your business, nothing to see here!"
"Should we chase Cammy?" Lindsay asked Tyler.
"No, too many innocent people could get hurt, and not worth the time. Let's look around for the GPA some more."
(Super Closet - Last one alive, lock the door!)
Geoff - "Funny how a fight gets me out of my funk, when I'm not a violent guy at all! Carol's been really helpful, I was glad to be her partner. That is, until a bus took me for a ride that I didn't pay for… I always wanted to try that, it was pretty fun!"
Carol - "That was an amazing killing spree there… by the other team! Drat, I gotta pick up my A-game! But it's impossible to be a villain when I want to make everyone obey the law! I knew I should have been a hero, I'm just too good to be a villain!"
Lindsay - "Being a cheerleader is a wonderful thing, really! When I practice my routines, Tyler does nothing but look at me! I must have some incredible skills for him to watch me nonstop!"
Tyler - "I find it hard to believe I hit my best friend with a baseball bat to get a special date for my girlfriend. But hey, she deserves it after that wonderful cheer she showed me the other side." *He clicks his tongue and gives a sly, winning smile to the camera.* "Awww, yeah."
(VR - One place or another in Classroom City.)
Zachary swung his chains around, them glowing from heat. He swung them in lashing cleaves at Alfred, but the gonzo was parrying with his fire axe. Hot Metal Gangsta and Zombie Survivalist were slashing, whipping, and taunting each other with exclamations like, "Loser," "Waste of flesh," "Pansy white boy," and "Dorky dork!"
Valerie shot lasers and beams at Sadie, but the Lemur was too fast, leaping and bounding around. Soon, the Pink Politician lost her temper and shouted, "Try fighting me instead of leaping around like a ninny!"
"I'm not a ninny, I am a lemur," Sadie corrected, wagging her tail as a taunt. "C'mon, I'm a friendly furry fan! Lemurs are awesome!"
"What makes you the expert?" Valerie shouted. "If I get into office, I am banning lemurs as a pet!"
"They're not kept as pets either way!"
"Doesn't matter, I'm doing it anyway!"
"You're not nice for a hero!"
"The little, stupid people don't understand true politics, which is why I have to resort to some methods to get the job done! Like this!"
She shot an energy projection at Sadie, who dodged it. The blast ricocheted against a glass window and went wild, hitting one of Zachary's chains. The heated, swinging chain reflected it too, and it hit one of the legs of a water tower. It shook but didn't tilt; that is, until Sadie left on it.
"Missed me, missed me, now you gotta kiss me," Sadie sang, spinning on the damaged leg with her tail. Valerie snarled, building up a large blast of energy that glowed bright pink, and fired. The Lemur leapt out of the way, and the energy obliterated the leg.
As Zachary and Alfred swung their weapons and met face to face, snarling viciously at each other in their fury, both were startled to hear some loud grinding of metal. Both glanced over to see the water tower start to collapse, falling down towards them.
"This is bad," Zachary whimpered.
"I'll say," Alfred added. "Water towers collapsing are getting so cliché…"
The four supers were not hit by the tower, but the sudden gallons of water hit all four like a tidal wave. The water washed them down the street, until it hit a fork in the road. Three were washed down one way, one the other.
Zachary was the other, and he crashed into a bus stop. Using his chains, he managed to keep himself from being washed away further, pulling himself up to the seat. "Oh wow," he groaned. "That was one sick flood! Now Sadie… Sadie?"
He looked around, then groaned. "Should have known that fat chick would have just sunk!"
Sadie had not sunk, but she was soaking wet and her fur felt heavy with such water logging. She shook her head out, bonking the side of her noggin to knock water out of her ear. She heard a groan and saw Alfred picking himself up, spitting out water. "Oh, what a wild ride," he said.
"I know, right?" Sadie said in agreement, nodding.
They exchanged a smile, then realized their place. Alfred took his crowbar and swung it at Sadie, and she yelped in terror, bounding away. Coughing and hacking, the Zombie Survivalist recovered and stood to his feet, then he saw Valerie struggling to get up. He also noticed that her clothes were clinging around her form, and he had to remind himself that he was a hero, not a pervert. When he helped lift her up, she almost threw herself at him.
"Oh, thank you," she said, cooing happily. "You're so kind!"
"Sucker will fall for a girl like this any time," she thought as she snuggled him. "Still… nice snuggly chest!"
Alfred eventually managed to pull her off him, and she beamed up at him. Before she could do anything more, the buildings shook from a tremendous impact, and both flinched. Not wanting to deal with another fight, both hurried off away from the source of the attacks.
Courtney kicked Harold again, sending him crashing into a building. The Uber-Nerd grit his teeth as he pulled himself away from the wrecked hole in the building. She followed up with a leaping kick, but he parried with the blunt end of his katana blade. When he slashed at her, she kicked it out of his hands.
"This is pointless," Courtney shouted at him as he prepared a couple yo-yo weapons. "You know I'm a better combatant, and my powers match yours!"
"I don't believe in giving up," Harold said, smirking as he started to twirl the yo-yos around. "You should know better than anyone that I never quit."
"I can respect that, Uber-Nerd, but I chose something that has all kinds of abilities," she shouted as she made a sweeping kick, and the feelers on her leg slashed the cords of the yo-yos. Harold blinked at his destroyed weapons, and then snarled.
"Time to bring out a very big, nerd weapon!"
"Bring it on!"
Harold pulled a hilt from his scabbard, a hilt with no blade. He pushed a button on the hilt, and then a sword that was taller than him and wider than his waist. When he swung it down, it cut into the street like… well, you've heard it before.
Courtney was really beginning to wish she hadn't dared Harold to bring it on, and then she went on the evasive, trying to avoid his very large strikes. As the chase game continued, they ran by the entrance down to the subway, where another battle was taking place.
Belinda and Arthur were fighting along the subway, as the cars raced by both ways from time to time. Civilians were standing behind the red line, trying hard to ignore the very violent fight; however, it wasn't easy if Arthur would grab one and hold it in front of him as a shield, as Belinda wouldn't use psionic blasts if it would hurt an innocent.
"Why are you sssssso lawful?" Arthur hissed, twitching his large toe talon as he eyed her. "They're virtual people, not real. You could kill them all and nothing bad would come of it."
"It's just the feeling of being a hero, you don't want to do it," Belinda said. "Shame you weren't a hero, you would understand."
"I wanted to be a hero! But no, because I was ugly to them, they made me a villain! Is that right?"
"Nope, but it's not my call to make," Belinda said. She then concentrated her psychic powers on a random civilian, and chucked him at Raptor. Arthur chuckled as he dodged, watching the man hit the people on the other side.
"I thought you just said you didn't want to kill civilians!"
"I didn't kill him, he's fine over there. And I didn't like him, he cheated on his wife and wouldn't flush at public bathrooms."
She used her psionics to hurl a woman at Arthur, and he barely managed to duck in time, but his velociraptor reflexes were handy for such a projectile. Starvoyant merely smirked and said, "She wore awful perfume that'd irritate people, and rose hell at coffee shops over minor details."
Raptor growled and lunged at Starvoyant, and she hovered away from his attack. He clawed and snapped at her, and she hurled more people at him, listing awful characteristics as excuses to still be a hero. The villain was struck by a couple briefcases, and one umbrella stabbed into his side. He managed to pull it out, and his regeneration kicked in to heal his wound. With another lunge, he hurled himself at her, and she not only dodged but used her powers to carry him further than he meant to, and he slammed into the wall.
Without him being able to resist due to his dazed state, Belinda threw him on the rails of the subway cars. Arthur recovered and looked up to see a car come speeding at him. The psychic heroine couldn't sense his presence after the car sped by, but couldn't tell if it was death or escape. The people were now swarming around the subway, just like panicking citizens usually do in the case of a super fight.
Above on the service, the Human Cricket was using her kicks to parry Uber-Nerd's ginormous sword. Finally, she managed to kick the sword from his hands, but he was close enough to use his martial arts and deliver a blow to her chest that knocked her back. She struck the feelers on her legs together, and the supersonic sound caused glass to shatter all around, including Harold's glasses. The nerd was practically blinded.
Harold had another pair in his case and quickly fished them out, but Courtney knocked him down. Her left leg on his legs, right foot on the arm that had the glasses case clutched in his hand, and her left hand holding down his other arm, she now had him pinned down. "I am going to finish you off now," she snarled, balling up her fist. "Or I just might snicker-snag on you, nerd!"
"Oh, how mature, gosh!"
Courtney swung down at his face with her super fist, but it stopped inches before striking. Harold wondered if she had a change of heart, but saw the glow of a psychic grip around her fist. Then it spread around the Human Cricket and lifted her up in the air.
"No one," Belinda said, as she raised her hand and held Courtney in place to finish her statement, "snicker-snags on my nerd friend."
She flung Courtney into a building, through it, and then through another building. By that distance, she couldn't detect her anymore, so she was either too far away to sense or defeated. Starvoyant took a deep breath as the effort of using psionic powers to hold a powerful villain like the Human Cricket was quite a strain; however, she still had the strength to help Uber-Nerd back up on his feet.
"Thank you, m'lady," he said, bowing politely to her.
"You're welcome. Now, we have to actually find the gemstone, let's go hunting."
(Super Closet - Oh my gosh, who touched my gun?)
Harold - "I could have won that fight if I wanted to. But I still don't feel right about hitting a woman so much, you know? So I only gave it about ninety percent effort, and if I had used that extra ten percent, Courtney wouldn't have stood a chance! That's how important ten percent can be… look at milk, two percent is too much for some people!"
Courtney - "I still cannot believe I was made a villain! I'm a good girl, I do good things! Like this!" *She shoves a push broom and starts to sweep, but the ash in the room makes her sneeze and hack; frustrated, she breaks the broom over her leg.*
Arthur - *trips over the broken broom* "Who left this here? Sheesh! Well, I just wanted to make it clear that I wouldn't normally harm civilians, that was just the aggressive state the game put us in. I wouldn't harm random people, even Chad from Accounting."
Zachary - "I really preferred it when I was away from Sadie. She talks too much and is so annoying… I hope Valerie doesn't make me pretend to like her much longer, I cannot stand her!"
Sadie - "I have to admit, I love lemurs! I may be a lemur person at heart. I…" *She sniffs and wipes away a tear.* "I want to pet all the lemurs! I know you can't pet all the lemurs but…" *She sobs more, crying until she manages to collect herself.*
"I'm… I'm sorry! Now…" *She wipes away a tear.* "Lemurs… hehe! Now about the Super VR-" *She stops suddenly, and then burst into tears.* "Lemurs! Oh boo hoo hoo, they're so cute!"
(VR - Area of certain Longitude and Latitude in Classroom City.)
Eva and Clive were walking down the street, getting funny looks from everyone they refused to greet. Those they did greet and asked if they knew where the GPA might be ran in terror from Eva. Clive also tried to ask, but being around normal civilians would cause them to fall down sobbing, saying, "What's the point?", "What's it all worth?" and "I cannot believe you're going out with that insect girl-AWK!" (the last comment was Eva hitting them for insisting upon that).
Sebastian and Sakaki were also asking people. Well, he was, Sakaki hid behind him and peeped over his shoulder. This was so adorable to the people they asked that they cooed more so than answered his questions.
Then both teams rounded the corner, and Eva and Sebastian started talking.
"Excuse me, do you know anything about the GPA?" Ant Woman asked.
"Sure, study hard, you might have a very successful one," said Dreadlock Kick.
"Haha! Well played! But seriously, do you know where it is?"
"Nope, sad to say."
"Shame. Well, we must be going. Oh, and one more thing?"
"Oh, what's that?"
"DIE!"
Eva swung at Sebastian, who leapt back and countered follow-up punches with his powerful kicks. She managed to grip his hair and tried to yank on the dreadlocks, but they were indestructible, even with her incredible strength. Clive, horrified by this sudden fight, let his emotional powers let loose. Random citizens fell down crying, Sakaki clung to a wall sobbing, "I'm feeling so depressed," but the two fighting carried on throwing kicks and punches with tears rolling down their eyes.
"I'm gonna *sob* rip you apart," Eva sob-roared as she swung at him with a lamp post. "You and your *sniffle* stupid hair!"
"I won't let *sob* you do such a thing," Sebastian choke-taunted as he parried with a kick, breaking the metal lamp post in half. "You villains *hiccup* will never get the GPA!"
"This is getting out of control," Clive exclaimed. "All this crying is starting to get me down, more so than normal!"
"Oh woe," Sakaki blubbered. "Oh horror! Oh sad and depressing life! Boo hoo hoo! Waaaaah! Ugh… *sniff* … lemurs!"
As Doom 'n Gloom and Scaredy Cat were too distracted by emotion and trauma to deal with fighting, Ant Woman and Dreadlock Kick eventually got over their sorrow and fought full-force. Eva ripped out two lamp posts and was swinging them around like a furious berserker in a fantasy game. Sebastian was countering the rather odd but dangerous weapons rather well with his kicks.
Both were rather surprised when a grenade rolled between them, and both only had a second to try and leap back, but the explosion sent them flying back more so. Sakaki and Clive were flung around as well.
"Haha," Izzy shouted from a rooftop, holding two grenades in each hand, pulling all the pins. "Explosivo make boom-boom! BOOM-BOOM! ALL OVER!"
She threw them down at Sebastian and Sakaki, but it's hard to throw four grenades at once (not that we've tried, only Izzy would try that). Eva used her burrowing powers to go underground, shouting, "You're on your own, Emo Boy!"
"Doom 'n Gloom," Clive corrected, and then used his shadow magic to turn into black smoke and glide away.
"Run, Sakaki," Sebastian shouted as he kicked one of the grenades back at Izzy. "Get out of here!"
Sakaki was too scared and sad to reply, but she nodded and bolted with her incredible cat speed. The explosions were far behind her when she was off in full-sprint, and she prayed Sebastian would survive his encounter with Explosivo.
(Super Closet - Oh dear, I've made quite a mess.)
Sakaki - "Izzy's really nice deep down, but when she's eccentric, she gets really unpredictable and wild. Which is the majority of the time, actually… you think under all that wild, there's a little girl who likes it quiet, like me?"
Izzy - "Pop rocks and soda fountain for your viewing pleasure!" *She dumps three packs of pop rocks into her mouth as she holds her head back, and pours in a whole can of soda. It comes out in a fountain as she says, with crackling frenzy, then she gags and spit takes all over the wall.* "Ooo, that spit take looks like a…"
Sadie - *looking at the spit take image on the wall* "A… a lemur!" *She bursts into tears again, gasps, and then wipes her eyes.* "Well, I… I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this challenge and…" *She sobs again, and carries on crying.*
Sebastian - *glances at the wall* "Interesting. Now then, I have to say, being a super hero was fun. … That's all I really have to say."
Eva - "What's the deal with lemurs, anyway? I mean, they have a cute face… look, I don't gush over cute animals, I'm not a girly girl! Is that wrong?"
Clive - *staring at the spit take of a lemur* "Cute…"
…
…
…
"I'm marveling at a splatter of saliva and sugar forming what could look like a furry animal. What's wrong with me?"
(VR - A lemur-less part of Classroom City.)
"You are all weak," Carol was shouting as she fired her pistol at Valerie and Alfred. "You are all bleeders! I'll make you do time for sure!"
"That," Alfred said as the two heroes hid behind a building, "is one bad cop!"
"I heard that! Come out here and say it to my face!"
"Yes, go out there," Valerie said to Alfred, nodding encouragingly. "Show her up!"
Before Alfred could, an explosion nearby sent someone flying over several buildings and flying down in the middle of the street, hitting Carol and sending her crashing away. Sebastian stood up and shook his head, looking around for Izzy. "Where'd she go?" he asked aloud.
"Hey buddy," Alfred said, heading out from his hiding place. "Glad to have you along! Let's get that bad cop!"
Bad Cop was standing up and trying to aim her gun, but a blast from Valerie's energy shot knocked the firearm from her hand. Carol stepped backwards, eyeing the three heroes approaching her.
Then she suddenly wasn't alone. A puff of black smoke, and Gwen was standing next to her. Yoshi walked from behind a corner, then eyed the heroes with his soulless eyes. He started walking towards them, sword raised for combat.
"Oh dear," Valerie muttered. "We're in trouble!"
Izzy walked up to the edge of the top of a building, looking down at the three heroes and three villains. She cackled and pulled another grenade out from her pocket, and pulled the pin. "Hey, Sebastian! I got one more of those babies for you!"
The explosion-obsessed girl chucked the grenade down at the heroes, and Sebastian kicked it away, sending it careening towards the three villains. Carol jumped in front, brandishing her night stick and shouting, "I got it, I got it!"
"Evil… Cleaving… Beheading…," Yoshi was chanting as he approached the heroes, deflecting Valerie's energy shots with his glowing sword.
"Take this," Carol shouted as she hit the grenade with her nightstick and it went flying to the side, rolling under a gasoline truck. Time seemed to stop as Carol whimpered, "Oh whoo-"
She didn't finish it before a massive explosion ripped apart the whole street, buildings caving in, and splashing everything around with burning gasoline. Izzy was sent flying high into the air, laughing with wonder and amazement.
Carol and Gwen were thrown back as the Grim Reapette used her powers to absorb some of the explosion. Valerie made a forcefield to protect herself and her allies, but was sent sailing back, crashing into a mattress store for a soft landing.
When everyone's ears stopped ringing, they tried to get their whereabouts. Sebastian sat up on a very soft and nice mattress, one that he made a mental note to get for his home. Valerie and Alfred were on the same mattress, and she purred affectionately as she hugged him in celebration of being alive in one piece, while he tried to push her off in fear Mandy was watching.
Carol and Gwen were shaking their heads, the former swearing nonstop and the latter wordlessly shaking the soot from her hair and cloak. When the Grim Reapette fully recovered, she saw the body of her partner, the Soulless Blade, lying nearby. He faded out fast when she approached his side, saluting his departure. Then she used her powers to absorb his soul, increasing her own potential.
"Sorry about that, warrior boy," Carol said. "Well, we must get going, right Gweneth?"
Gwen's cold eyes twitched as she was called that, and gave Bad Cop such a glare that she realized following alongside Gwen would be a bad idea. Without a word from the Grim Reapette, she hovered away from her fellow villain, who walked away in another direction.
(Super Closet - If you were from where I'm from, you'd be dead!)
Valerie - "Boys are so easy to manipulate at this age. That's how I got elected as student president at my high school. And when I'm swept into office, I'll sell our children's organs to zoos for meat! AND I'll go into people's houses at night, and wreck up the place! MWAHAHAHAHA-… ha… oops."
*She clears her throat and glances to the side.* "That, um, was a joke. Just a joke, I promise you."
Alfred - "Look, I don't want to sound arrogant, but I'm very good at girls. So that's why at first, I thought Valerie was interested in me, but she comes on too strong, I think."
*His eyes light up as he thinks of something from his past.* "My buddy Keith, he once had this girl coming onto him so she could get his notes for chemistry, and he was so enthralled that he was gonna do it, but when he was stapling the notes together for her, he stapled his fingers together, and then he couldn't give her the notes because they were attached to his hand. Took forever to get those out of his digits, but he still brags about it, that he got to read off his hand for the test."
Gwen - "Being a grim reaper in action felt really unusual. It's like those God-awful Final Destination movies, or as I like to call them… *HEAVILY CENSORED* piles of *ALSO CENSORED*. Those movies can suck it, no one tells me when I have to die! Death is not a picky bitch! Just like I wish I wasn't at times…"
(VR - Evil Inc., Classroom City.)
Noah was busy filing his nails, using his psychic powers instead of his hand to move the nail file around. He was really getting bored while waiting for his minions, and supposed this was how his character turned evil. As he waited, his intercom buzzed to life.
"Mr. Evil?"
"Go ahead, Alicia, and try to use smaller words than normal, I'm feeling impatient."
"A member of your employees has discovered the location of the GPA!"
"Fantastic! Put me through!"
He picked up the phone and listened to all the details that his faithful servant gave him. "Uh-huh, uh-huh, good," Noah concluded with his minion. The Evil Overlord laughed and said, "Well done, you get a gold star, and four hours off. You'll be paid in full, thank you!"
Noah pushed the receiver button and said, "Give Minion #27 a bonus, Alicia."
"But as an evil overlord, shouldn't you be cruel and-"
"It's one of my rules, don't lose necessary minions. Treat them well, they won't help the hero, they won't ditch you, and there's no harm in paying them extra if you're going to rule the world."
He grabbed a helmet on his desk, one with glowing antennas, and put it on. Fine tuning the gauges on the side, he used his specially crafted helmet to be able to broadcast a telepathic message to all the villains of Classroom City, one eavesdropper, and a paranoid guy with a powerful ham radio in his basement (there's always one).
"Hey, all of you fellow villains, stop your wild killing and prowling, and listen up, all of you alive that is," Evil Overlord thought to the thirteen other super villains. "I have discovered the location of the GPA, so avoid those blasted heroes and follow these directions…
"Go to the Classroom City's major bookstore and get in the elevator. There's a button that says twenty-seven, and it transports you down to the area where the GPA is kept. If you're wondering why it would be hidden there of all places, well, I personally think it's fitting that the GPA would be under all those books. Now get going, we have us a fancy dinner to win!"
As he thought-spoke, there was a reconnaissance hovering right outside his office window thirty-five stories up, featuring one of the eavesdroppers. Belinda, the only non-villain to overhear the projected conversation, and Harold, using a spy agent's jet pack, were right outside the window, trying to get in. He was using his katana to cut open a hole in the glass, and she was using her powers to muffle to sound.
Noah chucked as he started to take off the helmet, he could sense two people outside his window. Since Evil Inc. used minor psychics to scrub the windows and no scaffolds, he knew it couldn't be any good. Sure enough, Harold leapt into the room with his katana brandished. The Evil Overlord threw a metal vase at him with telepathy, and the katana slice was blocked.
Belinda hovered into the office and shot blazing bursts of psi at Noah, but he matched them perfectly with dark psionic bursts (something he called Impure Thoughts). Harold was deflecting the psychic shots with his katana, and charged at Noah with his jet pack giving him more thrust. The corporate CEO used a quick blast that sent Harold hurtling back as his katana was wrenched from his hand, slamming him against the wall and making his jet pack fall off.
The fight raged on, and Noah's office was destroyed, his desk obliterated in the process. Belinda was throwing pieces of it at Noah when he delivered a blast of psychic energy to her head, scrambling her mind and powers. Dazed and dizzy, she slumped on one knee and tried hard not to faint.
Evil Overlord approached her, picking up Harold's katana as he walked to her. "I would give a lecture and a speech," he said as he lifted up the deadly blade, "but a good Evil Overlord doesn't waste time before he kills-"
"NINJA!"
Harold leapt on Noah's back before the villain could slash down on Belinda. For all his martial arts training, Harold was limited to bonking the villain on the head. Much thrashing and yelling ensued ("Fool!" "Noob!" "Insect!" "Insects are actually very amazing, the ant can lift-" "Oh shut up, mouth breather!")
Belinda slowly recovered, and used her powers to throw the largest thing at Noah: Harold's jet pack. The flying instrument slammed against Noah's chest, and Uber-Nerd fastened it around his waist. Telekinesis finally threw Harold off Noah's back, and he stomped on his chest, preparing the katana.
"Death by your own sword," Evil Overlord said as he lifted up the katana. "What a way for a samurai-wannabe to go!"
He thrust down, but only hit thin air. This was because Belinda had used her powers to turn the jet pack on, and Noah was sent rocketing up into the ceiling. After he bashed his head against the roof, the jet pack sent him bouncing around the room, until he crashed through the window. The jet pack ran out of power, and he was sent plummeting thirty-five stories. Too dizzy, banged up, and having received concussions from the wild ride, Noah couldn't focus his psychic abilities as he fell. Only one thought of, "Note to self: don't explain I won't lecture, just don't do it," before the rather messy conclusion.
Belinda was helped up to her feet by Harold, and she took the helmet that Noah had used. "Shall we let our friends know?" she asked rhetorically, smiling at him.
"That we overthrew Evil Inc.'s CEO, or we know where the GPA is?"
"Why not both, my clever friend?"
(Super VR - Sentry down!)
Noah - "The problem with being an evil overlord is that you are trying to prove how you're different from the other moronic overlords, and thus talk too much. Now I know why James Bond villains rant so much to Mr. 007."
Belinda - "Mind over matter in that case. But for poor Noah, it was mind all-a splatter." *She mimes a rimshot and chuckles.* "Oh, I'm a bad girl."
(VR - All around Classroom City.)
Both good and bad heard the messages of Belinda and Noah, and were now racing around the city, trying to find the bookstore. Heroes would implore to innocent civilians, villains would interrogate them.
They kept running into each other, but most fights were avoided. Carol was one of the most eccentric, shooting at everyone who were blitzing across the street. Her anti-jaywalking attitude almost put a hole in Clive's head.
"It's not enough you have to rattle my brain in the morning with your shouting," the emo villain exclaimed, waving his hands around in a call to desist, "but now you're trying to blow it out altogether."
"Sorry, my sad friend," she said cheerfully as she embraced him in a hug. "Now, shall we find that bookstore?"
"Wait for me!"
Sadie came bounding over to them, and clapped her hands in excitement. "I found some new partners, this is going to be, like, so great!"
Carol nodded as Clive moaned, and the three started to walk off together. Then Sadie erupted into the Lemur Song.
"They're Lemurs, Lemurs / kicking it down with mankind
Lemurs, Lemurs / they really do shine!
Lemurs in the front seat / lemurs in the back seat
Lemurs are so great!"
Carol was holding her taser up and seriously contemplating jamming in her own ear to stop the sounds from getting in. When she realized she still had one, she had her mace up and tried to psych herself up to do it. Clive wanted to outright kill himself, more so than usual.
They walked along a bridge, where Bridgette and Rodney were underneath hiding to avoid confrontation. The mermaid heroine was covering the boy soldier's ears to prevent him from being scarred for life.
"ARE THEY GONE?" Rodney shouted after a couple minutes, and Bridgette shushed him.
"Yes, they're gone," she assured him. "Now, we need to find that bookstore."
"I'm sure I can do that! I love books so much, I have a bit of a radar," he said cheerfully, then he tapped his wrist. "Oh, and I have a radar around my wrist, can program it like a GPS!"
"Excellent," Bridgette said as she stood up. "C'mon, let's get from underneath this bridge, and-"
She was cut off as Izzy's head popped down from the side, grinning wickedly on her soot-covered face. "Hello, heroes," she cackled, then procured a stick of dynamite, lit, and grinned. "Wanna play?"
"Run!"
Bridgette and Rodney retreated as Izzy chucked the dynamite at them, the explosion knocking Rodney into the water. Dolphin Woman stopped running immediately and jumped in after him. She transformed into a mermaid with a dolphin fin as soon as she hit the water, giving her great speed and agility down where it was wetter. She grabbed Rodney and started to swim to the surface when Izzy splashed in, holding a block of C4.
"Waterproof," the villainess said, though it was muffled by a bunch of bubbles. She chucked it at them and then pulled out a trigger device, waving good-bye at them. Bridgette lashed out with her tail, sending the explosives back at Izzy, but they exploded right in-between them. The surfer heroine covered Rodney from the blast as she was blasted through the water, a dizzying ride that dashed her off the side of the river.
Rodney was knocked out of her arms and splashed on the shore line. He gasped as he pulled himself up, looking around to see where Bridgette was, and instead saw Izzy getting out of the water, holding a shotgun in each hand, cackling.
"Boom sticks go boom boom," she exclaimed, pointing them at Rodney. Soldier Kid swallowed in terror and left behind some boulders as the shotguns blasted at the side of his natural protection. He pulled a fragmentation grenade from his belt, pulled the pin with his teeth, and chucked it in her general direction. After the explosion, he heard her laugh and shout, "What are you trying, widdle baby kid? I'm the explosion expert!"
She approached the rock, reloading both shotguns. "Explosivo will eliminate you, tiny soldier man! Death to all heroes, because they get in the way of my explosive hobby!" She started to walk around the boulder, holding both shotguns up.
Bridgette leapt at Izzy, in mid-air transforming into a mermaid and slapping her upside the head with her fin. Izzy dropped her weapons, startled but still cackling, and spun around at her other opponent. Returning to full human when she landed, Bridgette conjured water in her hands and shot water in Izzy's face. Izzy blocked the blast with her hands, and then charged at the heroine, knocking her down. The two wrestled as the villainess clawed and slapped her around, then pulled out a firework from her jacket.
"Always like to have fun with pretty booms with the destructive booms," she explained as she lit the fuse with a lighter, despite Bridgette trying to make her stop. Dolphin Woman and Explosivo wrestled and tried to get it to point at the other; however, when the fuse burned into the firework, it exploded instead of rocketed. Both girls were flew back, burnt by the powerful but colorful burst. Izzy recovered unsteadily and saw Bridgette lying by the riverside. She, wobbling from how dizzy she was feeling, grabbed one of her shotguns and walked up, preparing to finish the heroine for good.
There was a painful-sounding clang, but not from one of Izzy's weapons. Rodney had leapt from the boulder and brought his E-tool down on her head. Explosivo made a funny gurgling noise and then collapsed on the ground, unconscious and defeated. Rodney let out a relieved sigh, and then saw Bridgette, not moving. He rushed over to her side, shaking her and pleading for her to get up.
"Medic! Oh, we're alone… Bridgette, Bridgette, please get up!"
(Super VR - Medic! Medic! MEEEEEEEDIIIIIIIIIIC!)
Rodney - "I hate to say this, but now I want my own entrenching tool! They feel really nice, I wouldn't even mind digging in our lawn with one of those! My dad once said kids my age are usually more interested in digging holes in the backyard, but I didn't really get that."
Bridgette - "I have to say, I never thought I would get so physical, nor Rodney. That improved aggression they put in the VR made all us a lot more violent! Well, maybe not Izzy."
Izzy - "I'm a grim bloody fable, with an unhappy bloody ending! MWAHAHAHAAAAA!"
*She grins and bounces on her feet in front of the camera, then she suddenly frowns, and bursts into tears, crying intensively. She wipes her wet, bloodshot eyes, shaking, and then looks up at the camera.* "Sorry… I was… thinking about lemurs!"
(VR - Not near the bookstore of Classroom City, but close to near.)
Chef Hatchet looked around the neighborhood, noticing people staring at him as he walked down the middle of the street. Sometimes, he would get annoyed with the stares and throw revolting food at them. They screamed and fled, to which he would chuckle darkly.
"Bookstore, bookstore," he muttered to himself. "Heh, suppose I could pick up a cookbook or two, learn how to ruin a new recipe. When I find that GPA, I'll use my powers to make all food taste like crap! The same crap I have to deal with every day! They all deserve it, maggots! Worms! Great rolling thunder!"
He was not cursing for the last one, just declaring what he was seeing approach him. The ball of lightning (Chef was wrong, thunder is heard and not seen) slammed down into him, knocking him down the road. Leshawna materialized in front of him, lifting her lightning lance. "Not so fast, sugar," she declared. "The bookstore is right nearby here, and I'm not letting you get the GPA!"
"I'm the leader of all the villains," Chef Hatchet declared, pulling out a meat cleaver big enough to be a battle axe, "what makes you can stop me, ya filthy maggot-worm!"
"This is gonna be revenge for all the crap you cooked for us two seasons ago," Leshawna declared, walking towards him. "Don't think you can tango with me, babe, I'm a force of nature!"
"I chop up nature and make it my dinner! Just like I did with Mr. Coconut!"
"Then this is for Mr. Coconut, you gorilla in an apron!"
She shot lightning from her lance at him, but he deflected it with his grimy cleaver. Charging and bellowing, Chef Hatchet slashed out at her, cleaving the lance in two but not harming her due to her reflexes. She ducked from a horizontal slice as she charged electricity in her fists, and slammed her palms into her chest, resulting in an explosive impact; however, the blow didn't phase Chef in the least.
"Special plastic apron," he explained. "Better than kevlar, fireproof, and doesn't conduct!"
He swung his fist, hitting Leshawna in the temple. A head bash from him knocked her down, but she kicked him when he approached, right in the main dish (if you know what I mean). "Too bad you don't have anything there," she remarked, and kicked again.
"Oh, right in the chef's specials," Hatchet declared, and pulled a hatchet from underneath his apron. He chucked it at Leshawna, and she blasted it away with her electricity. On her feet in the blink of an eye, she charged herself and rammed him against a building. "Ain't no one putting little Leshawna down," she declared. "You cooked your last meal, Chef!"
"And you're the delusional one, thinking you're little, giant feast," he shouted. As she twitched in rage, the main villain pulled out his most lethal weapon: a cast-iron frying pan. He chuckled darkly as the instrument began to glow, then wicked flames licked around it. "Flambé dish, maggot! Get ready to perish!"
He lifted it and began to swing, and Leshawna zapped it with a ray of electricity. Naturally, the pan conducted electricity and shook Chef Hatchet wild, seeing his skeleton a few times as he blubbered from the stream of shocks. When Lightning Lancer stopped, the villain stood there, smoking and groaning.
"Even you yourself smell bad when you cook yourself," Leshawna scoffed. "You seriously cannot do anything right, can you? Shame you don't have any non-metal cooking instruments!"
"Au contraire," Chef said, developing a bad French accent, and then revealed a wooden tenderizer that looked more like a sledge hammer. "Prepare to be mashed potatoes!"
"No one messes with Shawnie's potatoes," she shot back, then paused and muttered, "whichever part of the body that is I'm remarking on and-GAH!"
She leapt from an incredible overhand swung of Chef, who smashed the road like a wrecking ball, scattering street all over the street. A mighty wide swing from Chef almost took off Leshawna's head, but her super speed was fast enough to help her dodge it. She tried to blast the instrument, but it was so grimy from grease and other unrecognizable stains that it couldn't even catch fire.
He continued to swing until he accidentally hit a fire hydrant, water gushing up like a wild fountain from the sidewalk. Leshawna conjured another lance, and then used the bladed end to spray water all over Chef. He spluttered and then winced in terror as Leshawna swung the lance, generating electricity and shot another ray of electricity.
The blast practically fried the main villain, sending him catapulting back and slamming into a small donut store. Groaning, he grabbed a donut and chowed down on it before he stomped out. Now brandishing a gigantic, plastic spatula, he bellowed, "I'm gonna squash you like the electric eel that you are! Now where are you?"
He looked around, and missed the burst of static that was made when Leshawna moved quickly. Her voice hovered around her as she said, "Do you know what happened to a bad cook who gets hit by lightning?"
Then he felt her hand grab the back of his head, crushing his little hat in her grasp as the electricity held him in place until she was done charging. Leshawna chuckled and said, "He gets fri-erd!"
A booming thunder clap echoed around the city, and Chef's charred husk of a body was sent flying through the air until he crash-landed in a green waste bin, covered in melon rinds, rotted meat, and eggshells among other revolting products; he had virtually died as he lived in real life.
Leshawna chuckled and spun her lance around. "I've created quite a storm. All the sizzling ladies, all the sizzling ladies!" She laughed to herself as she walked up the street, and almost walked into her fellow super heroes.
"Ororo," Lindsay said in celebration, hugging Leshawna. Tyler and Sakaki were also nearby, Scaredy Cat having met the sporty duo earlier.
"Not even close on the name, sista, but good to see you," Lightning Lancer said, hugging back. "Look, we have to hurry, Belinda warned us that the villains had already been notified of the GPA, we need to find that bookstore."
"We already did, Sakaki found it," Tyler explained. "It's just over yonder, but we were startled by the thunder."
"Then let's hurry! The villains might already be down there!"
(Super Closet - Next time, pick on someone your own tiny-baby size!)
Leshawna - "And that is how you do it! I tell you, that felt good… maybe I enjoyed it a little too much. Harold is right, the life of a super hero is amazing!"
Chef Hatchet - *grumbling very bitterly to himself* "Eliminated at the halfway mark… beaten by that pushy girl… and the closet is a mess again. I am NOT cleaning this up, fools, no way!"
Chico the Raccoon - *blowing around a half-burnt feather* "lolz, dis cud be mah new playce 2 leeve en!"
(VR - Bookstore, Classroom City.)
Someone, like Leshawna had surmised, had already made it in the bookstore. Carol, Clive, and Sadie, who had moved the quickest because the first two wanted that song to end as soon as possible, had made it there very quickly after the message had been broadcasted. Mandy was also there, due to the fact that she had been very close to the bookstore ever since she split up with Colin. The four villains walked into the bookstore, entered the elevator, and hit the floor button for twenty-seven.
The elevator headed down, and as it went there, the floor number changed from numbers to a small message. "Only someone," it said, "who focuses on removing the GPA can achieve this feat!"
"Is that important?" Mandy scoffed.
"I guess it just means," Carol said, "that you have to concentrate to get the GPA, and thus cannot let anyone be attacking you."
"That sounds lame."
"You're lame."
"No, you're lame!"
As the two girls fought and Sadie kept them from attacking each other, Clive was the first one to step out of the elevator when it opened up. The room looked like a giant cavern mixed with a giant ribcage. What looked like a ribcage spanned down the rounded room, completely circling the room. At the back was an altar that was decorated with many books, candles, skulls, and iron-cast instruments.
"Cool," Mandy said as she shoved past Carol and made a beeline for the instruments. "These could really help out my magic powers!"
As the villains all stepped off, the elevator dinged and headed back up, though they didn't may much attention to it. Mandy was fishing through all the items, tucking more and more into her robes, as the other three looked around for the GPA.
"I don't understand something," Clive said out loud as he peered into a skull. "The GPA is supposed to be a neutral device. Why is it in this obviously evil area?"
"Because it was an evil being that helped create it," Mandy explained as she looked through a conveniently placed book. "It was something like one of my Old Gods, a being that was hellbent on destroying on Earth, but those heroes up there stopped him, and his body sank into the ground from the force of the final blow. And this GPA, it gave him the incredible power he had to almost wipe out the Earth. What a wannabe."
"A wannabe who is still keeping it hidden from us," Carol said, then started throwing everything around, breaking the demonic decorations until Mandy tackled her to get her to stop. As Carol and Mandy slapped at each other, Sadie saw something glowing behind a bookcase. She pushed it away, and imbedded in the wall was a red skull. Hovering inside the skull's mouth was a glowing gemstone, glimmering every color known to the human eye.
"Wow, that's pretty," Clive said as Sadie clapped joyfully.
"I know, right? I like, so wanna sing the lemur song again in celebration!"
"That's not pretty. Let's just take it and win this contest, shall we?"
Sadie nodded, then started to reach at the skull, but retracted her hand. "I don't wanna stick my hand in there! In a skull's mouth? That's icky!"
"I'll do it," Clive said, glancing over at Mandy and Carol wrestling around, "because I obviously am the only one who cares to."
As he reached in and wrapped his hand around the GPA, he tried to pull it out but it stayed in placed, and he stared in amazement. "There's… some kind of force holding it in there."
"You think that's what the elevator meant?" Sadie asked. "That you have to focus hard and pull on it."
"I suppose that's to keep someone from just snatching it and winning in a heartbeat. Give me a minute, I'll focus and pull it out."
"Are you sure you can focus when you're, you know, emo?" she asked, cocking her head as she looked at him. "Not that that's bad, I mean, you be who you are, even though I think you would look a lot cuter if you didn't put effort into making yourself look so gloomy-icky…"
"I think I could focus a lot more," he said, his pale face blushing under his hood, "if you would stop embarrassing me."
The elevator at the other end of the large room dinged, and the doors opened. Leshawna, Tyler, Sakaki, and Lindsay stepped out, looking around the room then at the villains.
"Oh crap," Sadie squeaked. Carol and Mandy stopped fighting and looked over as well.
"Hell's bells," Mandy grumbled.
Carol clicked her tongue as she reloaded her gun and muttered, "Son of a-"
"Emo boy is getting the GPA," Lindsay shouted. "One of you stop him quick!"
Tyler and Leshawna reacted fast, throwing a fast ball and shooting a burst of lightning at Clive. He let go of the GPA and used his shadow magic to absorb the hits. Lindsay let out a cheer, as did Sakaki but from behind the cheerleader.
"This is so not good," Carol muttered. The elevator dinged and started to head up. "And that's worse. More are coming!"
"There's no way someone can get the gemstone as long as they are all here," Clive said. "We're gonna have to fight them, and get rid of them quickly."
"We won't have to," Mandy said. "I'll summon a bunch of minions to do the job!"
With a swish of her hand, components in her robe vaporized as she created shadowy zombies, gargoyles, and succubi. She cackled as the demonic beings charged at the heroes, and cringed as Tyler, Lindsay, and Leshawna swatted them aside with their super powers.
"Nice going, Satan skank," Carol snarled. "You succeeded in mildly distracting them."
"First off, I am not Satan's skank, I hate that devil," Mandy hollered as she clasped her hands. "Second off, I am going to summon something so powerful, none of them will be able to fight it!"
All of the components Cultist Chick had on her and around her vanished as she chanted a spell. Leshawna and Tyler shot more projectiles at her, but Clive blocked them all. "Do it fast, Mandy," he shouted back at her. "They'll swarm us!"
"Oh, there's one more thing about this spell I should mention," she admitted.
"Just do it!"
"It requires I sacrifice three allies to summon him."
"Fine then, just… wait, what?"
Clive stopped when he felt something creeping up his leg. Shadowy mist was surrounding Mandy, and it was spreading towards him, Carol, and Sadie. Carol and Sadie both screamed, Clive swallowed and said, "Oh well, worse ways to have gone." Then, as if a puddle was underneath the mist, the tendrils and hands of mist grabbed Doom 'n Gloom, Bad Cop, and the Lemur, and pulled them down into nothingness.
"That's…," Lindsay whimpered, really creepy.
Mandy only chuckled as her eyes were now shining bright red, and the mist surrounded her. Then a large, squid-like creature started to rise from the mist. The being's eyes were cold, a dark gray that seemed to radiate hate and evil. Tendrils ran down from its head and it spread its bat-like wings. It stood up straight on clawed feet, extending its claw-like hands. Mandy stepped out from behind the being and cackled.
"I have summoned… Cthulhu Jr.!"
"Junior?" Leshawna exclaimed, staring up at the monster, which was about twenty feet tall.
"Of course, Cthulhu is far larger than this, he is practically the size of a skyscraper! This is just a miniature version of him in all his glory. The real Cthulhu would take sacrificing the whole city and then some, and I only escaped sacrifice because of all the components I had.
"But it matters not. This is a being of incredible power and wonder, and it is totally under my control," Mandy exclaimed, rubbing her hands together. "Cthulhu Jr., use Tackle!"
"Cthulhu," the demonic being cried out, and began to charge at the heroes. Tyler scoffed, leaned down in a racer's starting position, and charged at the approaching enemy.
"I've got the speed of an Olympic sprinter," he declared as he ran at Cthulhu Junior, "and the crushing power of the best quarterback! I'm gonna make sushi out of this freak!"
The two forces of good and evil collided, and the heroes had to duck as Tyler was sent flying back at them, slamming and practically imbedding the wall. He fall out of the Tyler-shaped imprint, completely defeated.
Mandy cackled as she saw the looks of horror on the other heroes' faces. "I am now an Old Gods master, and for the little people, well, I've gotta kill 'em all!"
"CTHULHU," her summoned demon bellowed as it eyed the three heroes and charged again for another attack.
(Super Closet - You just got dominated, Bulbo Buttons!)
Mandy - *grinning wickedly* "That's right, that's just a preview of what's going to happen when I summon Cthulhu and take over the world! It will all be mine! Every nook and cranny!"
*Something falls from one of the shelf's crannies, and she leaps back and yelps. Chico peeks his head out and waves, giggling as he prepares his little bed up there.*
Mandy - "This is one crazy closet… when I control the world, all closets will be this crazy! It amuses me! That way, it'll always feel like a party when I come out of the closet!"
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Will Mandy and the villains claim the GPA for themselves? Or will the heroes manage to fight through and take it for themselves?
Who will be voted off at the upcoming voting ceremony? Will it be dramatic or hilarious?
And what other attacks does Cthulhu Junior know? Water Gun? Thunderbolt? Apocalypse Ending With the Death of All Earthlings?
Heroes Alive - Chris Maclean, Lindsay, Leshawna, Sakaki, Cody, Belinda, Harold, DJ, Rodney, Valerie, Alfred.
Heroes in Peril - Sebastian, Bridgette.
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Villains Alive - Mandy, Gwen, Geoff, Colin, Zachary, Eva, Cthulhu Junior.
Villains in Peril - Courtney, Arthur.
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• Heroes
Leader - Chris - The Greatest Hero and Man Ever! Basically, a rip-off of Superman.
Cody - Techno-Wizard. Mechanical suit with electric and fire attacks.
Rodney - Soldier Kid. Weapons and skills of special forces, unlimited ammo.
DJ - The Pacifist. Cannot attack, makes opponents not want to hurt him.
Harold - Uber-Nerd. All the nerdy powers and flight, but has a jet pack because it's cool.
Alfred - Zombie Survivalist. The weapons, ammo, and stamina of a zombie survivalist.
Bridgette - Dolphin Woman. Aqua powers, communication and control of marine life, flight, mermaid form.
Lindsay - The Head Cheerleader. Agility, restoration, and strength.
Valerie - Pink Politician. Energy projection, flight, lights.
Leshawna - Lightning Lancer. Electric powers, speed, summoned lances.
Sakaki - Scaredy Cat. Speed, agility, long extendable claws.
Belinda - Starvoyant. Psionics, flight.
Sebastian - Dreadlock Kick. Incredible martial arts, indestructible hair.
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• Villains
Colin - The Hurter. Causes pain and numbness, weapons of pain, strength.
Geoff - Party Bash. Noise, lights, distractions, explosions, disco ball bash.
Arthur - Raptor. Long claws, regeneration, speed, intelligence.
Zachary - Hot Metal Gangsta. Chains, strength, fire powers.
Courtney - The Human Cricket. Agility, noise, martial arts, detection.
Gwen - Grim Reapette. Shadow powers, giant scythe, flight.
Eva - Ant Woman. Incredible strength, speed, tunneling and bashing skills.
Mandy - Cultist Chick. Shadow and fire magic, summoning.
Cthulhu Junior - C-Jun to his friends (though he has none). Inhuman strength, flight, aqua powers, under Mandy's control.
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Janitor Closet's Decorations to Date - Explosion residue and char on the walls and floor, bits of the items scattered around, pink spit take in the form of a lemur on the wall. The Fame Town CD is still on the shelf, next to Chico's paw-made bed.
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[1] - Trentney is the Trent/Courtney couple, and Chris-23 is the pairing of Chris Redfield and X-23 in the -awesome- game Marvel Vs. Capcom 3. And both have been done by the wonderful NayaaseBeleguii on DeviantArt. Go look at his work, just like I demand you all to go see Cid-Vicious and many others! They deserve it!
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Next Up - Good vs. Evil, with more twists than a winding stairwell!
