Chapter 7: Cheetah
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In the gym, a girl with long blonde hair and an hourglass figure was preparing for her leap. This was Barbi Minerva.
Barbi sprints forward before leaping off the springboard, flips and sticks the landing causing all the other girls on the team to cheer.
"If you keep vaulting like that, we might actually win gold this year." A team member said.
"Well it wasn't me who fell on the uneven bars." Barbi said making her feel awful.
"Nice work, Barbi. Maybe your cleanest vault yet." Coach said.
"Good. Then, if it's settled, and I'm captain again, let's get one thing clear..." Barbi said confidently.
"Hold on, we still have one more girl, Diana Prince." The coach said looking at the clipboard.
"Ugh the new girl." Barbi said as they saw Diana take a knee across the room.
"Lift me, Boreas. Let your wintery breath keep me aloft." Diana said silently.
"Prince!" Coach said.
Looking up Diana saw the looks on their faces and stood up. Running as fast as she could Diana cartwheels onto the springboard and vaults over the team sticking the landing causing everyone except Barbi to cheer.
"Maybe we should have co-captains this year." Coach suggests.
"What?! Absolutely not!" Barbi said outraged.
"Okay. Congratulations, Prince! You're the new team captain." Coach said walking towards Diana causing Barbi to growl.
In class, test scores were being handed out and Barbi got 100 causing her to smile.
"Nice job, Barbi. Not too often you see a hundred percent in AP Calculus, is what I'd be saying if it weren't for Diana over here. A hundred and two percent. Incredible! That's a new school record." The teacher said handing Diana her test.
"You were right, doing the extra credit does help." Diana said looking to Sam who was behind her.
"Told ya." Sam said.
As everyone applauded her Barbi growled in anger again.
At the end of the day, Barbi pulls up in her car to the Gymnastics team.
"Hey girls! Pool Party at my house!" She said.
"Sorry, Barbi, we're gonna stay and help Diana decorate for the dance." A girl said as Diana walked over.
"Join us. There will be camaraderie and merriment." Diana said.
As everyone kept praising Diana, Barbi growls before screaming in anger and driving off.
Screaming all the way back to her mansion and up to her father's study where there was a sign marked private. "Nice try daddy." Barbi said kicking open the door before walking to the back where her father kept his relics. "Too quick, too human, too humorous." Barbi said before she noticed a golden cat artifact with glowing green eyes.
"Diana Prince, little miss perfect, well, I've got the perfect curse for the perfect girl. Woe to she in Cheetah's path, for she shall feel the Cheetah's wrath, by claw and fang, and with spite and hate, swift as wind, she'll seal your fate!" Barbi declares but nothing seemed to happen. Waving the artifact around nothing happened resulting in her tossing it to the ground. "Useless thing." She said walking out not noticing the green eyes glowing.
At the school, Sam, Marinette, Barbara, Karen, Kara, Zee, and Jessica were following Diana to the front door.
"It is with great excitement I anticipate sharing what the decorating committee has done." Diana said.
"And it is with great excitement I anticipate the dance!" Babs said excited.
"But I don't know how to dance." Karen said nervously.
"Fear not, young Karen, for I possess dance moves that are rich with fleek. You're welcome to study them." Diana said.
"Did you guys go to dances in your world?" Zee asks.
"Sorta but I never had anyone to dance with. I just sat around and talked with friends." Marinette said.
"Me neither." Sam said.
"Well don't worry guys because on Friday night we will tear it up!" Babs sang as she danced inside only to see all the decorations were ripped apart.
"Looks like someone already tore it up." Kara jokes as thunder echoed outside.
"That isn't funny Kara." Jessica said.
"Instead of cutting a rug, they cut the posters." Kara said.
"Lame." Marinette and Sam said.
"What? How about this. Maybe... Maybe the dance shouldn't have booked a band that shreds so hard." Kara said.
"This is worse than Cat Noir's puns." Marinette groans.
"No arguments here." Sam said as Diana walked up to a torn poster and saw it was ripped up by something with claws.
"Hmm." Diana said curiously.
Soon rain started to pour down as Diana made her way to her gym locker.
Opening it up she reached inside to pull out her uniform, but when she closed it claw marks appeared on the locker door causing her to gasp.
Suddenly she heard a soft growling noise followed by quick movements.
Outside the room, everyone else was cleaning up the damage.
"Guys we better hurry before people start thinking we slashed the ticket prices." Kara said.
"Enough!" Sam said.
"Please, no more puns." Marinette said.
"You've been saying them since we walked in." Jessica said when they heard Diana screams coming from the girls locker room.
"Diana!" They all gasp.
They were about to run in when Marinette stops Sam. "Hold up Sam."
"What? What's wrong?" Sam asks when Marinette points to the sign that said Girls Locker Room. "Oh right."
"Stand guard for us." Marinette said as Sam turned around and watched the door.
Inside the girls ran to see Diana on the ground with a slash mark on her sleeve.
"Diana what happened? Who did this to you?" Jessica asks as Tikki flew out of Marinette's bag.
"I don't know. Something knocked into me. It came from nowhere." Diana winces causing Babs to gasp.
"Don't you see? Clearly, someone is suffering from having their status quo upended by Diana's arrival in Metropolis, and their crippling insecurity most likely caused by absentee parenting, and a lack of proper modeling in childhood, has unleashed a horrible ancient curse that has manifested itself in the form of some weird cat beast that's now stalking the perceived enemy which is Diana!" Babs said.
"So wait does this mean you know who's behind this?" Tikki asks.
"Not a clue." Babs said.
"Uh then where did all of that come from?" Marinette asks.
"This sounds like a Hawk Moth victim when you say it like that." Tikki said.
"Not Hawk Moth! Monster! There's a monster on the loose!" Babs corrects.
"If it's after Diana we should get her someplace safe." Jessica said.
"It's not Diana who needs protecting." Kara said.
"Kara's right, we need to get everyone out of here." Marinette said.
"But we must do it without causing distress." Diana said but Kara pulled the fire alarm causing all the students to run out screaming.
Opening the door Sam and Faang peeked their heads in.
"Who pulled the fire alarm?" Sam asks and everyone points to Kara.
"What happened to no distress?" Jessica asks.
"It worked didn't it?" Kara asks.
"Alright long story short boys, we have a monster loose in this school and we need to catch it." Zee said.
"Well then we better suit up ladies." Sam said as they all transformed into their hero forms.
As all 8 heroes emerged from the locker room something slashed the power causing all the lights to go out.
"Oh boy this isn't good." Ladybug cringed.
"We have much territory to cover. Let us split ourselves." Wonder Woman suggests.
"You mean split up?" Kara asks.
"Yes that." Wonder Woman nods.
"Wait!" Silver Claw said. "We're all stronger in groups."
"Silver Claw's right. Let's split up into teams of two. That way we'll always have someone to watch our backs." Ladybug agrees.
"Safety in numbers, a wise strategy." Wonder Woman nods.
"I'll go with Batgirl." Green Lantern said.
"Sweet. Bat and Lantern duo!" Batgirl grins.
"Um Ladybug can I come with you?" Bumblebee asks.
"Of course." Ladybug nods.
"You know darling you and I could probably be a good team." Zatanna said moving towards Silver Claw.
"You think so?" Silver Claw said nervously.
Narrowing her eyes Ladybug pulls Silver Claw towards her. "Sorry but if that thing is going after Diana then Silver Claw should probably be with her for this one.
Zatanna was about to say something when Supergirl walks over.
"Lucky you, that means you get a front row seat to watch me wipe the floor with this monster." Supergirl grins.
"Great." Zatanna mutters as they all went their separate ways.
In the library, Batgirl and Green Lantern were walking through it nervously.
Creating a flashlight, Green Lantern shined it around.
"See anything?" Green Lantern asks as Batgirl was looking to her screen that showed a red dot in the same room as them.
"Something's in here." Batgirl said taking out a batarang.
Both girls were on edge when they heard a soft meow.
"Oh thank goodness, it's only a cat." Green Lantern sighs.
"Guess it must've wondered in to avoid the rain." Batgirl said.
"Come on out little kitty." Green Lantern said getting on one knee when from the darkness a shadow came out of it.
"Uh Green Lantern that's not a little kitty!" Batgirl screams as the shadow leaped at them growling before they were silenced.
In the cafeteria, Zee was nervously walking through the room when thunder echoed causing her to jump.
"Wow, you are such a scaredy cat." Supergirl mocks.
"And you're not?" Zatanna asks.
"No way, if anything whatever is in here should be afraid of me." Supergirl said when they heard a noise.
"What was that?" Zatanna asks in fear.
"Forget it whatever you are. I have infared vision sucka." Supergirl said as her eyes glowed and saw something running around them at an incredible speed.
Zatanna panics as she fires multiple magical blasts but they all missed.
"You think you're fast? Well so am I!" Supergirl said flying after it.
As the two of them raced around the cafeteria, Zatanna fires a blast but at the last second the creature leaps up and Supergirl gets blasted instead freezing her in place.
"Uh oh." Zatanna gulps as the shadow rises over her and she sees sharp claws before letting out a scream.
Down the hall, Bumblebee heard that scream.
"Zatanna!" She gasps.
Following the noise Ladybug and Bumblebee walk into the gym with Bumblebee on Ladybug's shoulder.
"See anything?" Ladybug asks.
"No not…wait something's coming." Bumblebee said as she jumped up onto the support beams.
Looking down Ladybug waited as a shadow entered the gym.
"There's our monster." Ladybug said.
"I'm nervous. I don't know if we can do this." Bumblebee said.
"You can do this Bumblebee, time to be a hero." Ladybug said.
"You're right." Bumblebee said taking a deep breath. "ATTACK!"
Flying in Bumblebee fires her stingers at the creature but stops when the creature shakes off the needles and growls at her.
"Bumblebee!" Ladybug gasps as the creature attacks her little friend.
Ladybug throws her yoyo at the shadow but it grabs it and pulls Ladybug in before punching her in the chest sending her crashing into the bleachers.
"Get away from them!" The shadow turns to see Silver Claw and Wonder Woman.
"Come out you—" They both gasp to see the figure emerge from the darkness to be what looked like a Cheetah but one that could stand on its hind legs. "Cheetah?"
Cheetah spits Bumblebee out causing the little bee to fall next to Ladybug
Growling Cheetah lunges at them but they jump out of the way.
Charging towards Silver Claw, Cheetah swings her claws trying to slice him in half.
Using his sword, Silver Claw deflects the attacks before ducking under and slicing her hip causing Cheetah to growl in pain before Silver Claw kicks her in the chest.
Skidding back Cheetah growls looking to Silver Claw who glares her down.
"Come and get it kitty." Silver Claw glares.
A grin appears on Cheetah's face as she licks her lips before charging forward and both of them clash sword and claws before they locked weapons.
Growling both of them look each other in the eyes before Cheetah backflips kicking his sword out of Silver Claw's hands before throwing him into the wall.
Cheetah was about to move in when Wonder Woman got in front of her.
"I am your opponent now Cheetah." Wonder Woman said taking a fighting stance.
Growling Cheetah attacks Wonder Woman.
Using her bangles Wonder Woman deflects Cheetah's slash attacks before using the gymnastics equipment to avoid her.
Cheetah follows after but Wonder Woman leaps in and grabs her tail to try and slow her down.
However Wonder Woman forgot cats hate getting their tails pulled.
Cheetah ran as fast as she could forcing Wonder Woman to let go being unable to keep up.
Turning around Cheetah and Wonder Woman locked eyes before they both charged towards opposite springboards and leaped into the air to attack each other.
When they met in the middle only Wonder Woman was standing while Cheetah fell to the ground.
"Well Cheetah it appears cats don't always land on their—" As Wonder Woman turns around, she saw Cheetah had disappeared.
Gasping she ran to the exit to see Barbi laying on the ground groaning in pain. Acting quickly Wonder Woman switched back into her normal clothes and ran in.
"Diana, stay away. The monster." Barbi said.
"The Cheetah is gone, Barbi. You're safe now." Diana said.
"Oh, Diana, this is all my fault. I released the Cheetah." Barbi said surprising her.
"You, why?" Diana asks.
"Because…I was jealous of you." Barbi admits.
"You needn't be. One person's success does not preclude another's. Jealousy is a green-eyed monster that will consume you if you do not let it go." Diana said.
"You're right Diana, I'm sorry." Barbi said when they heard a noise.
"The Cheetah." Diana said.
"Go, Diana. I'm fine. Just go." Barbi said as Diana ran out.
Switching back into her Wonder Woman outfit she saw Silver Claw and Ladybug holding a still frozen Supergirl while Green Lantern was helping up a worn out Bumblebee and Zatanna and Batgirl were barely standing.
"Supergirl!" Wonder Woman said running over.
"She can't hear you we've tried." Batgirl said.
"She'll be fine, in about 7 hours." Zatanna said.
"What happened to the monster?" Ladybug asks.
"She's escaped for now but surely we will face her another day." Wonder Woman said determined.
"I almost had her back there." Silver Claw growls.
In the locker room, Barbi winces as she stood up and walked towards the sink. Reaching to her side there was a cut across her hip. The same place Silver Claw slashed Cheetah.
"Let go of the green-eyed monster, eh, Diana? And why would I ever want to let go of this?" Barbi asks as her makeup ran down her face to reveal the same pattern on the Cheetah.
Looking to the cut on her side, Barbi grins with glowing green eyes before licking her lips. "Congratulations Diana, you're not my prey anymore. I want that wolf now."