//------------------------------// // Chapter 10 // Story: Equestria Girls: The Mare-Do-Well Returns // by Time Agent pony //------------------------------// "The moment is almost upon us," Superior Octopus gloated, still absorbed in his fantasy. From their vantage point, Trixie, Jubilee, Spoiler and Batgirl observed the situation between the two villains unfold. After a while, Trixie began miming her plan to the others, when she noticed that Superior Octopus had caught sight of the four of them. "Am I interrupting you?" he asked. There was a long silence. "Run!" Trixie cried, finally. "Get them!" Superior Octopus said, as the four ran in different directions, "they must not be allowed to interfere with my plan." Molten Man obeyed and began dishing out flaming projectiles at the heroes as they tried to evade. "I hope this plan of yours works," Spoiler stated, as she dodged Molten Man's attacks. "Trust me," Trixie replied, "It will." She turned to Jubilee, "distract him," she ordered. Jubilee nodded and fired one of her pyrotechnic energy blasts at Molten Man, blinding him. "Jubilee, Princess of Pyrotechnics," she declared, "commands you to cease your actions immediately!" Molten Man stumbled around in his blind state, firing wildly, causing the whole building to shake and groan. One of his blasts hit the vat with the Nth Metal in it, causing it to fall and get buried under melted remains of the vat. "NOOOO!" Superior Octopus cried, as the metal was swallowed by the mushy ground. Before he could react, Spoiler and Batgirl tackled and restrained him. "It's over," Trixie declared, "Justice is served, that wasn't so hard." Superior Octopus laughed, "You've made a grave mistake," he smiled. Suddenly, Superior Octopus's tentacles began moving on their own, because of the neural interface he had installed. Before Spoiler and Batgirl could do anything, they were grabbed by the tentacles. Trixie while surprised, kept her head in the game. She readied herself for another battle, the tentacles dropped Spoiler and Batgirl, in order to be able to free their master. "You and your hero friends have ruined months of work and planning," Superior Octopus growled, as his tentacles reattached themselves to his back, "I have faced multiple humiliations at the hands of Spiderman, but I will not allow myself to be humiliated by a nobody like you!" "I am not a nobody," Trixie responded, "I am the Great and Powerful TRIXIE!" Before Superior Octopus could react, Trixie throw one of her smokebombs, the ones she used in her magic show, then she pulled out her Magician Scarf, and used it to lasso the villain and pull him towards her for a quick uppercut, knocking him down. "You'll need more than feeble parlour tricks to stop me," Superior Octopus said, as he stood back up, "my genius cannot be stopped by an insignificant ant like you." He charged at Trixie, tentacles posed to attack. But before Superior Octopus could even reach his target, a nearby wall exploded. "What could it possibly be this time?!" the villain groaned, as he turned to hole in the wall that the explosion had made. Through the hole, stepped Sportsmaster, Tigress, Doctor Polaris, Thundra and Batroc the Leaper. "Remember us? Traitor," Thundra snarled, brandishing her chain weapon. "You thought you could get rid of us that easily?!" Batroc said. Superior Octopus seemed unfazed by the villains sudden entrance, "You all were nothing," he stated, "a means to an end." "In that case," Sportsmaster responded, nodding to Doctor Polaris, "it's time to take you out to the ball game." Before Superior Octopus knew what was happen his tentacles were forcefully wrenched from him, by some invisible force, which was Doctor Polaris using his magnetic powers. Next Sportsmaster produced a baseball bat and one of his explosive baseballs. As Superior Octopus tried to retaliate, Thundra wrapped her chain weapon around him, preventing him from fighting back or fleeing. "Batter up!" Sportsman cried, as he batted the baseball at Superior Octopus, which exploded. The villain was thrown backwards, fortunately his suit took the brunt of the explosion. While the villains gave Superior Octopus his just comeuppance, Trixie and her team looked on, unsure wether or not to intervene. "Should we do something?" Jubilee asked. Batgirl was about to answer, but was interrupted by the building around them, it was starting to give out from all the stress of the battle taking place. "We need to move!" Spoiler cried, "this whole place is coming down!" "But we can't just leave them here," Jubilee insisted, "they'll get crushed!" "I'll take care of that," Batgirl responded. She produced one of her electric batarangs and threw it at a puddle of water that the villains were about to stumble into. Seconds later, the villains stepped into the puddle and ZAP a powerful shock passed through all of the villains, shocking them unconscious. Next, Batgirl took out her grapple gun, removed the rope and used it to bind the villains to prevent them going anywhere. After that, Trixie and the others made their exit with the captured villains, as the building finally began to cave in. Outside. "That was close," Trixie remarked, after she and her friends were a good distance from the steel mill, "all in all I think that went pretty well." Just after Trixie finished her sentence, the steel mill collapsed to the ground. "Well," Trixie stated, "we're in trouble." "No need to worry," Spoiler replied, "the steel mill was in the process of being torn down, we just helped with the demolition, pretty sure we just saved Filthy Rich a lot of money and resources." "So," Jubilee said, motioning at the still unconscious villains "what do we do with these guys." "Leave them here," Batgirl replied, "I've got a friend who's involved with the police department and the Justice Force, they've been after these guys for a while." "Good work team," Trixie smiled, putting her hand out for a group hands in, "thanks." "Sure, what are friends for?" Jubilee responded, putting her hand in the middle. "Anytime," Spoiler nodded, putting her hand in the middle too. "That goes double for me," Batgirl agreed, her hand was the last of go in the middle. Now everyone had their hands in the middle, Trixie, Jubilee, Spoiler and Batgirl threw hands in the air in celebration. "You guys wouldn't mind doing this whole team-up thing again?" Trixie asked.