Rock, Paper, Scissors
We follow Urchin, Slick Rick, Ash Burns, and Candi Kane as they walk down a corridor. Rick kicks down a door which leads to a small clearing.
Three people were standing in the room they just entered.
Standing right in a row from left to right we have three members of the Shadow Union. Joan Grace, Pierre Papyrus, and Billy Gardener.
“Alright men!” Rick cracks his knuckles. “Let’s show these sorry sons of bitches who’s boss.”
“...Actually, I’m a girl…” Candi says as she points at herself with a confused look on her face.
Rick ignores her and continues taunting the three villains.
“Urchin, you handle scissors. Kids, take on the tea drinker.” He points at Pierre. “I’ll take on Mozart.”
“My name is Pierre Papyrus you American swine!” He puts his bow on the strings of his violin at the ready to play. “I’ll show you a symphony of despair!”
Pierre started to play his violin. As he did so, papers covered in sheet music started to fly and circle around himself.
He pointed his bow at Rick and the papers flew towards the soldier.
Rick uses his stretchy powers to easily evade all of the paper projectiles.
“Alright fancy pants! Let’s dance!” Rick says as he springs himself towards Pierre before launching an elastic fist directly into his face.
“Aie! Why does everyone always aim for my beautiful face?” Pierre says while checking to see that his right eye was now bruised. “Engarde, you brutish barbarian!”
He continues to play as he sends more papers towards Rick.
Urchin walks towards Billy while extending his claws.
“...You seem familiar…what is your name…” Urchin says while analyzing his opponent.
“...Shears…” Billy says with a monotone voice.
“...Not one for conversation are you?” Urchin asks.
Billy doesn’t say anything in response. He just separates his scissors into two blades.
“...Fine by me…” Urchin says before lunging towards Shears.
Spyke’s claws clash with Billy’s blades as sparks begin to fly.
Billy pushes Spyke back and slashes at him with his scissor blades.
This attack leaves a gash across Urchin’s chest.
“Gah!” Urchin cries out in pain.
Billy walks towards him while spinning a blade in his left hand.
“...Time to get rid of the weeds…” He says as he immediately runs towards Urchin for another attack.
Ash and Candi approach Joan Grace.
“Nice outfit!” Candi compliments the villain.
“Thanks mate.” Joan says as she cracks her knuckles. “You lot wanna see something wicked?”
“Sure!” Candi enthusiastically answers as Ash rolls his eyes.
Joan crosses her arms as her skin starts to quickly become more pale. Cracks start to form on her new gray skin as wings start to take form on her back.
“My name may be Joan, but I’m better known as Punk Rock, the gargoyle!”
Ash puts a hand on his chin and analyzes his opponents before noticing something.
“...Hey…wait a second…you’re made of rock…the violinist is using paper…and the other guy has a…giant pair of scissors…”
“...Yeah, yeah…” Joan says as she rubs the back of her head. “Laugh it up while you still can.”
“I’m not making fun of you guys.” Ash responds. “I actually think that the cohesive theming is really cool.”
“...Oh…” Joan blushes slightly. “...Thanks…I suppose…”
“Don’t worry about it.” Ash shrugs. “Now, let’s fight!”
Ash slams his fists together and sets them ablaze.
Candi eats the small slice of cake out of her pack.
She bolts towards the gargoyle as Ash sends a barrage of fireballs her way.
Candi quickly dodges behind Joan as the fireballs pelts against her rocky skin.
This creates a large cloud of smoke around the villain.
“...Did…we beat her?” Ash questions.
They suddenly hear laughing from inside the field of smoke.
“No yah blokes! We are just getting bloody started!”
Joan suddenly rises out of the smoke. She is using her stone wings to fly.
Ash and Candi ready themselves as she starts to fly towards them.
“Let’s rock!” She yells out before swooping down towards the heroes.
Ash and Candi dodge as her stone claws slash the ground.
Ash launches a few fireballs at Joan as Candi runs behind her and sends a flying kick towards the back of her head.
Joan turns around and grabs Candi’s leg and throws her directly at Ash. Both heroes crash into a nearby wall.
“Ready for an encore?” Joan says as she puts her hands in her pockets and slowly saunters over towards the heroes.
Ash uses his thumb to wipe some blood off his nose as he slowly gets up. Candi gets up, but kneels over and coughs up a little blood.
They both get up and get ready to fight again.
Joan shoots them a psychotic grin before taking off into the air.
Visi-Goth, Violet Newton, and Takeru Takao are walking through the hideout.
“I know that this place should be crawling with guards, but we haven’t seen anybody for a while.” Violet questions as she follows Visi-Goth.
“Hey Visi-Goth.” Takeru asks before he is cut off.
“...Ugh…that name is so lame…my real name is Alexandria…” Alexandria Aleric responded.
“...Wait…if you don’t like it why do you use the name…” Takeru questions.
“...It’s my stupid dad…He says that he wants me to continue the family tradition…” She says the last part mockingly. “...Such a drag…”
“…Alexandria…” Violet says before she is cut off.
“...Too many words…” Alexandria groans. “...Just say Alex…”
“...Okay…Alex…” Violet continues. “You don’t seem to match the rest of your team. Is there a reason for this?”
“...As I already said to neon green over there…it’s my stupid dad…” Alex says while crossing her gauntlets.
“...So…I guess you two don’t have the best relationship?”
“...Yep…”
Violet decides not to push the issue further.
After walking for a while longer the heroes finally find someone else in this place.
They see the Shadow Union’s Piper O’ Possum leaning against a wall. She is holding a bat that was covered in nails and carrying a duffel bag.
As the heroes enter her field of vision she grabs something out of her bag, throws it into the air, and swings her bat at it.
This causes the object to fly towards our heroes.
*BOOM!*
The object in question turns out to be a bomb.