Chapter 10: Chapter 10: Lucky Girl and the Scarlet Warrior
In another dimension far from Earth Prime, there was a glorious kingdom known as Cinnibar. Cinnibar was a kingdom that served as a haven for all warriors from across the multiverse. It was a technologically advanced city that served as the Disneyverse's prime capital of technology.
The capital of this kingdom was Cinnibar City, the epicenter of technology where some of the most fearsome and ruthless warriors from across the multiverse lived and trained. All of these warriors had one thing in common... membership to the Scarlet Army.
The Scarlet Army was one of four factions of a secret underground alliance known only as the Alliance of Heroes. What made this alliance interesting was that it technically didn't exist. They were covert and secretive and the missions they go on are only known to themselves.
In Cinnibar Castle located in the kingdom's capital Cinnibar City rested the queen, Scarlett Katherine Felchenerow, aka the Scarlet Warrior. She was meditating in her training room as she focused her magic running through her veins as she breathed in and out as she sighed.
"Lucy, give me the rundown of the whereabouts of the team?" Scarlett asked the castle's A.I.
"Cole McGrath and Elsa are on a mission in New Marais, Ryu Hayabusa is on an espionage mission in Outworld helping out Scorpion, and the rest are recuperating in here awaiting your orders," Lucy said.
"Boring," Scarlett said as she stood up as she went to her seat by her supercomputer and sighed. "Give me the rundown on Jennifer Tennyson's training?"
"Her powers are starting to manifest themselves. She's growing stronger every day. Since she discovered them, she's been practicing more and more trying to get control of them," Lucy said.
"The Master Anodite has charged me, Cobalt, Emerald and Violet with protecting each and every one of the components that will lead to her return. Jen Tennyson Prime is my charge because she's the component that represents her powers."
"Today, she and her family are visiting a museum known for collecting rare magical artifacts. Legend has it that some of them might belong to the Royal Family of Cinnibar," Lucy said. "There's a powerful magician who's visiting it in pursuit of the Charms of Bezel."
"Well, I know what I'm doing today," Scarlett said as she reached up, summoned her Keyblade and opened a portal with a sigh. "Wish me luck. It's time that we finally meet face to face."
The gang was checking out a museum that collected artifacts from history. Ben was looking through a shaman's mask on a stand before he smirked and walked to the rest of his family as they were checking out an exhibit that was being described by the museum tour guide.
"...and behind this impenetrable glass is the recently discovered and only known existing copy of the Archamada Book of Spells."
Little did they know that the tour was also being attended by a familiar young woman with blonde hair and blue eyes as she nodded her head in interest as Gwen started talking along with the tour guide on the book.
"It contains ancient witchcraft and rituals from the late 1600's."
The tour guide then noticed Gwen doing her job and following her hand gestures. "Maybe you should work here, dear," she said as she walked away.
"Don't let mummy face get to you," Ben said, nudging his cousin. "She's probably older than that spellbook."
Jen then spat out her tongue and made a funny face as her brother and cousin laughed.
Suddenly, there was a tremor that resonated through the museum as the woman gasped and ducked behind a pillar for cover. Everyone started levitating in the air, including the Tennysons before they finally hit the ceiling.
"Okay, something tells me this isn't on the tour."
On the ground, a red mist suddenly came out from a blue gem that resonated into a man who stood in front of the spellbook. He had grey skin with black tattoos on his shoulders. His attire is like that of a tribal or a nomad. He wears a red and black dress and hood, and black pants that are torn beyond his knees. He wears what appears to be some talismans under his neck. He also has long black socks that didn't cover his heels or toes. His face is painted white and black to resemble a skull. He has black fingernails and toenails. He also held a magic staff. This magician was named Hex.
"The Archamada Book of Spells. All of it's power will soon be mine!"
One of the talismans in his necklace started glowing orange and he said an incantation that caused an explosion that destroyed the glass and he levitated the spellbook into his hands.
"Impenetrable glass my-" Jen said as she shook her head before she and her brother dialed their Omnitrixes.
"Now might be a good time to go-" Ben began before Hex noticed them and used his staff to dispel his levitation enchantment, sending them all to the ground. "-hero!" Ben shouted as they all came crashing to the ground.
Suddenly, a gust of wind came from seemingly nowhere and blew an ancient shaman from under them as Ben slammed his Omnitrix and became XLR8 and quickly tied the two end ropes to two stands, catching all of the patrons safely as Jen used her telekinesis on herself to catch herself before she sighed.
"Where did that wind come from?"
Suddenly, from out of the pillar stepped the woman we all know as the Scarlet Warrior as she sighed unhappily.
"You know, the last time I met a sorcerer in pursuit of a spellbook, we ended up disagreeing."
"Who is she?" Jen asked. "She seems so familiar."
"Everybody out!" XLR8 shouted as the patrons all left the building with the exceptions of his family.
"Ben, be careful. We don't know what we're dealing with here."
"It seems that this woman does and she's on our side," Jen said as she dialed her own Omnitrix and slammed down the core in a bright pink flash.
The watch sank into her wrist as her skin spread a light pink color from the wrist up as she closed her eyes and two antenna grew out of her head. Her clothes morphed into a pink one-piece outfit with the Omnitrix symbol on her belt and two large deep pink butterfly wings with purple and red tones grew from her back and she flapped them rapidly as the transformation ended and she glared at the sorcerer as she started hovering in the air.
"Hey, skull face! If you want a book, the library's right down the street!"
Hex glared as another one of the talismans on his necklace lit up and he chanted another spell. "Berdi Moro Nata!" A blast of fire escaped from his staff and struck the banner above, instantly igniting it and sending a wave of flame straight for the three of them. Scarlett then crossed her arms and generated a red forcefield around herself to protect herself while XLR8 ran vertically up the wall and jumped off of it and Battlefly flew upwards.
Hex thrust his staff again, sending out a flurry of red crystals at Battlefly as she flew around to avoid them and the crystals exploded once they hit the wall.
Scarlett dispelled the forcefield and ran towards the magician with her sword drawn as she shouted out a battle cry. Unfortunately, he sent out a flash of light from his staff that temporarily blinded her and caused her to lose her footing, crashing into some artifacts as XLR8 ran towards her and helped her up.
"Thanks," she said as she smiled at him.
"Who are you? Why are you helping us?" Battlefly asked, flying over to her.
"Introductions? Fine," Scarlett nodded. "I am Scarlett Katherine Felchenerow, Queen of Cinnibar. I'm with an interdimensional protection organization known as the Protectors. I've been assigned by my superiors to watch over you two as your guardian. I'll always be there to help the both of you in your times of need."
"Cinnibar? I've never heard of it," Battlefly said.
"Of course you haven't. It's not in this dimension," Scarlett said. "There will be plenty of time for explanations later, but for now, we have a villain to stop."
"This guy's tough," Battleflysaid as she flew towards her.
Suddenly, Hex was hit by two garbage cans that Scarlett caught with her telekinesis and set on the ground once they bounced off her.
"How are you doing that?" Battlefly asked.
"Magic," Scarlett said simply.
Hex turned around angrily as he saw Max and Gwen looking at them angrily.
"I guess we got his attention," Gwen said.
Hex growled at them, furious.
"I kinda wish we hadn't," Max deadpanned.
Hex widened his eyes as he used his telekinesis and sent the pair of them flying backwards and into the wall. Unfortunately for him, while he was distracted, XLR8 ran around him rapidly and punched him without giving him time to react. He then stopped and slid backwards as Battlefly moved her arms slowly and trapped him in a tornado.
Scarlett then saw her opportunity as her eyes started glowing white and she thrust her hands forward, letting loose a magic energy blast that struck him in the chest. Once it struck him, one of the talismans was sent flying off of his necklace and was sent clattering on the floor as Scarlett smiled and blew the smoke from her hand, proud of her work.
Hex was left unconscious in a smoking crater as XLR8 lifted his visor and smiled. He then walked over to the talisman and picked it up with his claw and Battlefly walked over and put a hand on his shoulder.
"Nice job, you three," he said.
"Just doing what we do best," XLR8 said.
"Keeping it low-key," his sister smiled proudly.
Scarlett then smiled as she put her hands together and gave out a chant as she thrust her hands upwards and all the damage done to the museum was instantly undone as she smiled and turned to the others.
"Wish I could stay, but I've got something important that I need to do," she said.
"But wait, will we ever see you again?" Battlefly asked.
"I'm going to make sure of it," she said as she reached into her pouch and produced a badge that bore the red dragon-black tiger tattoo on her bicep and placed it in Battlefly's hands. "This can allow you to contact me at any time. If I'm not available I can send one of my soldiers from various dimensions to help you. This I promise you. And when I promise something, I never break that promise. Ever."
Battlefly nodded with a smile. "But just who are you?"
"The less you know, Jen Tennyson... the better," Scarlett said as she conjured a portal using her Keyblade and Ben vanished into it before it closed behind her.
"She's strange," XLR8 said. "I like that."
The cameras flashed as Battlefly and XLR8 smiled and waved at the cameras as Battlefly blew kisses to the paparazzi and XLR8 flexed.
"Who are your heroes?" Battlefly asked.
"We are!" XLR8 said as they continued to applaud as the unconscious Hex was loaded on a stretcher into an ambulance.
Gwen scoffed and looked away as the ambulance pulled away from them.
The Rust Bucket pulled away from the city as Ben and Jen smiled at their collection that they had amassed over the summer. The photos they had collected from Sparksville, the photo of the Kraken, Dr. Animo's transmodulator and Rojo's cannon among them.
"All I'm saying is that you two didn't take down that weirdo sorcerer all by yourselves today," Gwen said. "I helped save you two. And that super cool warrior sorceress was there too. If it weren't for her, you two would be doomed. I help you two constantly, but does anybody notice me?! No!"
"Hey," Jen said as she dropped the talisman into the box. "Being a hero isn't all about getting attention."
"What happened to you two being all 'Who are your heroes!?" she asked as she slumped in her seat.
"I noticed you, Gwen," Max complimented.
"We're related, so that doesn't count," Gwen said.
"No offense, Gwen, but you threw a trash can at the guy," Ben said. "That doesn't exactly make you a hero. Unlike us."
"Hello, wake up! The only reason you two are big heroes is because of those watches and your powers, Jen. If I found one of them instead of you or had your powers, I'd be the one getting all the attention and all the cool souvenirs." She then looked out the window disappointingly.
"...You're right," Ben said as he fished the talisman out of the box and handed it to his cousin. "Here, take it."
"Really?" Gwen asked.
"Yeah, we got tons of other stuff," Jen sighed.
Gwen took the talisman and smiled.
"Gwen," Max said from the front seat. "Don't you have something you want to say to your cousins?"
"You know this doesn't change the fact that you two are just plain lucky, but thanks."
"Your welcome," the twins stated as their cousin smiled.
The ambulance that carried Hex rolled through the highway as the doctor checked his vital signs.
Suddenly, one of his talismans lit up and his eyes shot open. "My destiny shall be fulfilled."
The back doors of the ambulance blasted open and it screeched to a halt as the driver looked to see the patient levitating away in a cross-legged position.
Later at a restaurant, the family were sitting at a four-seated table as Jen sipped her Pepsi cola. By this time, Gwen had fashioned the talisman into a necklace. They looked and there was only one crawfish left on the plate.
"I've been counting," she noted to the twins. "You've each had six crawfish to my five."
As she said this, the talisman started glowing as it did before.
"Well, I guess that it's time to make it an even seven," Jen said as she picked up her fork before Gwen slapped it away.
"I don't think so."
Suddenly, the fork went sprawling before the tong-side landed on a waitress' foot.
"Youch!" the waitress shouted as she went to grasp her foot, dropping her plate with a glass of water, which was sent flying up into the lampshade hanging from the ceiling and spun on it before going flying into the kitchen, where it landed on the chef, surprising him and sending him backing up into a cart with a bowl full of live crawfish, which backed away into the dining hall. When it finally came to a stop, the bowl was sent flying into the air where it landed on a very shocked Ben.
Jen looked down in shame while Gwen munched on the last cooked crawfish.
"Okay, now I'm full," Gwen said, satisfied.
"But they're not," Jen noted as one of the crawfish slithered down her pants. "Eek!" she gasped as she went sprawling down, causing her family to laugh at her misfortune as Gwen looked down at the talisman, which stopped glowing, giving her a suspicious look.
Back at the witchcraft museum, Hex trashed the place once again, looking for the Archamada Book of Spells. When he didn't find it on display anymore, he levitated the helpless security guard's face to his own, clearly not happy.
"The Archamada Book of Spells!"
"We locked it in the vault," the security guard whimpered. He pointed to the vault, which Hex walked to, levitating the shelves out of the way as he glared.
"Lata Avidimona Lata!" he chanted as the vault suddenly dismantled itself, sending the door flying off of the hinges. He then levitated the Archamada Book of Spells to his hand before flipping it to the page he desired. "Yes. Soon my power will know no limits!"
A yellow energy flowed from the book into him. Suddenly, the incantation stopped itself before he looked down at his necklace and gasped in shock.
"One charm is missing! Of course! The battle with that speed creature and the butterfly. And that meddling sorceress."
The Tennysons walked into a festival downtown as they took in the sights and souvenirs that decorated the booths.
"You know, in all my travels, I never saw a crawfish crawl down someone's pants until today," Max chuckled before rubbing a blushing Jen's hair as she sighed in embarassment.
"Glad I could make your day, Grandpa," she said.
"By the way, thanks again for the charm, you two," Gwen said before walking over to a hot dog cart. "Two please."
"Help!" an old lady called out. "They stole my purse!"
Three thugs ran up with the woman's purse in hand as they smirked before Max got in their way, putting his hand up.
"That's far enough."
The leader of the thugs smirked as he slung the purse over his shoulder.
"Yeah, and who's going to make us? You, Pops?"
"Actually, him and his personal friend, Diamondhead," Ben said as he ducked behind the cart before he started to fiddle with his Omnitrix.
The thug pulled out a pole from his pocket as he twirled it around.
"Come on, work!" Ben said, struggling.
"Hey, that's a nice necklace you got there, little girl," the thug said, reaching for the necklace around Gwen's neck.
Max stepped in front of them as Jen's eyes started to glow pink before Max shook his head at her.
"This is not my lucky day," Ben said as the thugs approached.
Suddenly, the talisman started glowing again as Ben stepped in front of them, pushing Gwen back.
"Let me handle them!"
"Hey!" Gwen shouted as she stumbled into the juggler, who lost control of his bowling pins and fell off his unicycle. The unicycle was sent flying into one of the thugs, knocking him unconscious and the clubs fell on the leader's head, causing him to stumble back into Max's hold as he detained him. The final thug approached the twins as they glared.
Gwen then stood up and ran towards them to help, stepping on a mustard bottle, which squirted right into the vendor's face, causing him to blindly kick his cart towards the thug and knocking right into him.
As the first thug was starting to regain consciousness, the thug and cart were knocked into a wall, causing a flower pot to fall from its perch and right on top of his head, knocking him out again.
Gwen, shocked, looked down at her necklace, which stopped glowing.
"Cool."
A crowd gathered to watch the scene unfold, including an officer who was standing next to the old lady who's purse was stolen as she smiled at Gwen. "This young lady's a hero, officer."
"Who, me? Just lucky I guess," Gwen smiled as she then spied the masquerade mask stand and smirked to herself.
Early the next morning, the twins were groaning in their beds as they heard Max's loud snoring as Ben covered himself with his pillow to drown out the noise, to no avail.
"Hey, Gwen? You got a mega-sized cork on you?" Ben asked as he looked down at the second bunk as his sister gasped.
"Gwen?" Jen asked as she got down from the top bunk.
Outside the Rust Bucket, Gwen was playing basketball in a nearby court as she dribbled the ball and tossed, it, going nowhere near the hoop. But then, it bounced off the Rust Bucket before it was slung back by the antenna and landed on a nearby power line, bouncing off the frames briefly before it rolled down the line and landed squarely in the net.
"Nothing but the bottom of the net again," Gwen smirked before the talisman stopped glowing as the twins walked out, stunned.
"Okay, we are definitely not playing Horse," Ben said as Jen picked up the ball.
"Give me the ball," Gwen said, grabbing for it as Jen pulled it away from her.
"Not until you tell us how you did that."
"What can I say? I'm charmed." She then admired her necklace. "It's like every time it glows, everything just goes my way."
"Nothing like a good night's sleep," Max said, as he walked out of the Rust Bucket. "Who wants breakfast?"
The kids gulped as they knew what was coming.
Suddenly, everyone heard a crash from the nearby construction site as the scaffolding started to destabilize. The rope holding the workers up broke and the platform stumbled, causing the workers to fall before they grabbed onto the poles, hanging on for dear life.
"Time to watch a real hero at work," Jen said as she dialed her Omnitrix.
"Yeah... Me!" Gwen said as her necklace started glowing again. "I'll be right back." She then ran off to who knows where.
Jen shrugged as she activated her Omnitrix and slammed it down as she was enveloped in a pink light.
Jen's watch started surging with pink energy then covered her whole body with a pink energy surge, and she float in the air as she spun around then curled up as her body got wrapped by multiple lava-like silks until she was conceal within the lava-theme pupa then changed to orange crystal form. The pupa start cracking then a long insectoid arm with three claws, spikes on the arm and coated with orange exoskeleton smashed of the pupa then her long legs with long thin talons and finally her head, which she matured to a young woman with a light-orange exoskeleton and wore crown-like horns on her head, has C-cup breastbones, very large abdomen with light-like orb at the bottom tip and a pair of large skin-like wings and her body itself stretched into a more insect-like structure. Her clothes consisted of a one-piece pink and white bodysuit with wholes for the legs. She is now a humanoid firefly-like creature with the watch symbol on her forehead. She floated around gracefully as she open her eyes, revealing her black needle-like pupils with green sclera as she gave a elegant smile, threw a kick in the air, spun around and float gracefully as she finished her transformation.
Firefly glared at the falling structure as she sighed. "Why do the queens have to get their hands dirty?" She then flew up towards the structure.
"Over here! Somebody!" a voice shouted out as Max and Ben saw a man trapped in his truck underneath a fallen beam from the structure.
Then, from the corner, Gwen stepped out, looking completely different. She was in a black catsuit that hugged her body in all the right places with a cape tied around her waist and black gloves and boots as well as a cat-themed masquerade mask that she had picked up from the stand earlier as well as her necklace as she stepped into the light.
"Gwen?" Max asked, shocked.
"It's Lucky Girl, Grandpa," she said before running into the action. She looked around and saw a stand with a loose board with some other boards on top of it on it. Her talisman started glowing and she ran up and jumped onto the loose board, sending the boards on top flying into the crane, breaking through the windshield and putting the clutch into ignition, activating the wrecking ball which fell on top of the beam that was pinning the trapped truck down flying away and it smashed into a button, sending the structure's elevator upwards as Firefly flew forwards as she spotted the construction workers hanging from the destroyed platform and smiled to herself as she rubbed her hands together.
"Let's do th-" she was suddenly struck by the elevator rising and she was sent flying to the ground as she gave a girlish shriek.
Lucky Girl then looked upwards to see her cousin falling to the ground. "Uh-oh."
Firefly then thrust her hands forward and shouted out as she fired her heat rays at the beams that sent planks of wood hurtling towards the ground.
"Gwen- I mean Lucky Girl! Move!" Max ordered.
Lucky Girl then ran away as the wooden planks fell around her. She then ducked for cover inside a cement truck, but her hand accidentally hit the clutch, sending it into reverse and knocking the pipe chute right below the workers before it struck the resting Firefly and knocking her into the wet cement as she struggled.
"Why is Gwendolyn's fortune my misfortune!?" she whined as she struggled inside the cement.
"Slide down the chute!" Max shouted up to the workers, who let go of the platform and slid down the chute and onto the mat to safety as Firefly shook off the wet cement from her as she snarled at Lucky Girl.
"How did you pull off this amazing rescue?" a news reporter asked Lucky Girl as she smiled to the camera.
"With style, of course. Who's your hero!?" she shouted in the same style that Ben did earlier as he walked up to Firefly who shook her head.
"You heard it here first, live," the news reporter said.
"I'm thinking some very unladylike things right now, Benjamin," Firefly stated plainly.
"She's totally stealing our shtick."
Hex levitated through the town as he glared, searching for his missing charm as he pushed past all the passersby when he heard an announcement coming from the television sets in a store he passed by.
"...an exclusive on-the-scene interview with our city's very own:"
"Lucky Girl," she said, proudly.
Hex then looked down at her necklace and recognized it as his missing charm. Nothing could stop him now.
As the Rust Bucket drove down the highway, Gwen was on her laptop, researching her charm as her cousins stood by her side, annoyed.
"I cross-referenced the Archamada Book of Spells with dark magical charms and look: it's part of a set called the Charms of Bezel. This charm is Luck." She said, showing her charm up. "There are also charms for Fire, Lightning, Telekinesis and Reincarnation."
"Whoa," Jen said, recognizing the charms from earlier.
"Those are the charms that Mr. Freak at the museum wore when XLR8 and Battlefly kicked his butt," Ben realized.
"That's why he wanted the book of spells," Gwen said. "But it says that all the Charms of Bezel must be used for the spells to be at full power. Oh well. His loss was my gain."
"I'm afraid more like was," Max warned. "We need to turn that charm into the museum."
"No fair!" Ben and Gwen said at the same time before looking at each other. "Not before I-"
"-try it," Ben finished, twirling the Lucky Girl mask.
"-use it again!" Gwen finished, snatching the mask back. "The world needs someone with the power of Lucky Girl."
"News flash!" Ben said. "My sister and I are the only ones here with powers."
"Well you can make that 'two til now," Gwen shot back.
"All that stuff you did? It's not you, it's that charm."
"Well it's not you either. It's those watches."
"Jen's powers are more impressive than anything you can do with that. You're just jealous of us!"
"Am not!"
"Are too! Times ten!"
Jen sighed as she sat back on the seat. "Okay, you two aren't going to like this, but I kind of agree with Grandpa."
"What?" they both asked as Jen sighed.
"That magician needs that charm for the spells in the book to be at their strongest. He will stop at nothing, and I mean nothing, to get it from you, Gwen," Jen stated plainly. "We have to get it to the proper authorities before he gets it from you. If we don't, he can and will kill you if it means getting that charm back."
"But this allows me to be a hero. I could help you two when you're facing the bad guys."
Jen sighed before she put her hand on her cousin's shoulder, concerned. "Gwen, you really have to think these kind of things through. After what happened to your sister?"
Gwen gasped as a tear came to her eye as she hugged her cousin and Jen hugged her back.
"I'm sorry, Gwen. I know how hard it was for you when Becky disappeared. Imagine how I would feel if I lost Ben, or you. You're too important to me to risk losing over a magic trinket."
Then, they heard an announcement over the radio.
"And in the news of the weird, reports are coming in that the city's famed Haunted History Mansion has come alive, trapping dozens of visitors inside."
"Grandpa," Ben said.
"On it," Grandpa said as he drove towards the mansion.
"I think we're going to need some help for this," Jen said as she took the badge from her drawer. "I'm calling Scarlett."
"Good call," Ben said, remembering how she saved them back at the museum.
Back in Cinnibar City, Scarlett was sitting at her supercomputer as she sighed as she sipped her cola and sighed before an icon came up.
Recall Scarlet Army? the icon read with a Yes or No button read on it.
Scarlett sighed as she contemplated pressing the Yes button.
"Scarlett, you know that you can't do this," Lucy stated as her blue holographic avatar appeared next to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "You know just as well if not better than anybody that recalling the Scarlet Army's soldiers back to active duty comes with great risks and consequences. You have violated too many of Time Patrol's rules over time. The Violet Act clearly rules that any Scarlet Army activity is considered illegal and punishable by stripping of your power."
"I know," Scarlett said as she shook her head. "You're right." She then looked to her side and saw several pictures of her with her agents of the Scarlet Army. There was Cole McGrath, Ryu Hayabusa, Bayonetta, Kratos, the Council of Princesses from many kingdoms in the Disneyverse, Eddie Riggs, Sora, Kairi, Ryu and many more. But one of them was more important to her than the rest combined. She picked up the photo of her in battle with her best friend and cousin on her mother's side, Sofia the First, Princess of Enchancia.
"I know you miss them, my Queen. But we can't risk breaking any more time laws."
Scarlett bowed her head before pressing the No button.
She then heard her badge ringing as she grabbed it and pressed the speaker button as Jen's red hologram appeared on it.
"Jen Tennyson. I didn't think you'd need me this soon. What's the situation."
"That magician we faced against wants revenge. He wants the charm that we took and he's going to kill Gwen for it. We need your help."
"I'm on my way," Scarlett said as she snapped her fingers and summoned a portal back to Ben and Jen's dimension and walked through.
The Rust Bucket drove up to the mansion and stopped in front as the door flew open as Ben and Jen started dialing their Omnitrixes when Lucky Girl ran out, wearing her outfit and zipping past them.
"I'll handle this," she said.
"We're the real heroes here!" Jen said as they followed her into the mansion.
The Tennysons rushed in as the place was in absolute chaos. The tourists were screaming and running everywhere and out of the building, the chandelier and balconies were shaking back and forth, seemingly on their own, with the tourists still on them, meaning they couldn't get off. They were clearly scared.
Gwen looked in shock as the camera zoomed in on an open window that Hex suddenly appeared from out of thin air.
"I knew you couldn't resist... Lucky Girl."
Hex activated his staff and the stairwell and balconies in the foyer started shaking even more violently, causing the tourists to panic even more.
"Help us!"
"I'm afraid of heights!"
"This thing is gonna crash down!"
Lucky Girl pushed past the twins, who were dialing in their Omnitrixes as she smiled proudly. "Everyone stay calm! Lucky Girl's in the haunted house!" She then ran towards the tourists, completely oblivious to Hex standing at one of the windows.
He activated the Leviation Charm of Bezel and the telekinetic field caused the stairs to shoot out towards Ben, Jen and Max as they ran for cover. Jen surrounded her arms in an energy field and broke the stairs with one punch as they broke the wood and she ducked for cover as she stood behind Ben.
"Luck isn't everything, bro," Jen said as she dialed in her Omnitrix. "You need to have the skills to back it up.".
Ben nodded as he dialed in his own Omnitrix and the two slammed them down in a flash of green and pink light.
As Lucky Girl ran up the stairs, the balconies finally caved in and started flying around the room, the tourists still on them and screaming intensely.
Hex was in the center of it, levitating everything in the room as he glared at the charm around Lucky Girls' neck.
Lucky Girl grimaced and groaned as she held on for dear life as she held on to one of the flying floorboards. Her grip finally gave out and she was sent flying. Fortunately, the Luck Charm started glowing and she corrected herself as she fell safely onto a column. She stumbled a bit, correcting her balance.
A woman lost her grip and fell off of one of the levitating balconies, screaming all the while. Fortunately, Max ran up directly underneath her and caught her. He then avoided the leg of the column and was sent flying... into the clutches of Four Arms and Diamondhead as they groaned as they grabbed the legs to try to stabilize it.
"We've got it!" Four Arms said.
Lucky Girl then noticed the tourists still on top of the balcony and her eyes widened.
"But who's got them?"
The column Lucky Girl was on suddenly broke and was sent stumbling forward. Lucky Girl saved herself by jumping onto the chandelier hanging from above and swung back and forth before landing on the balcony and using her legs to stop her momentum.
"Everybody grab hold!"
The tourists leaped off and grabbed onto the chandelier as it swung backwards with them on it.
Four Arms and Diamondhead suddenly let go from the sudden jerk backwards and were sent flying into opposite sides of the room.
The cable holding the chandelier broke from the weight of all the people on it. Lucky Girl screamed before the Luck Charm glowed again and the cable suddenly stabilized as the tourists got off and ran out the door with their lives safely intact.
As Lucky Girl let go of the chandelier, the doors suddenly closed and her hands were suddenly enveloped in a yellow energy. She screamed as her body was suddenly lifted up towards Hex and he smirked at her. He tossed her away from him as she grabbed onto a curtain. The curtain broke off and she landed safely on the ground before running off.
"Give me my charm!"
Hex landed as the curtain covered him and he stumbled into a suit of armor due to his lack of vision, which fell on top of him.
"You should have said please!" Lucky Girl teased before running off into the hallway.
The curtain was suddenly enveloped in a yellow glow as it and the armor levitated off of an obviously furious Hex, who followed the young heroine.
Lucky Girl ran down the corridors of the mansion and she then stopped once she reached a room with many different exists.
"Which one?" she asked herself.
The Luck Charm glowed and she stumbled before she knocked over the head of a statue, which lifted back to reveal a button. She pressed it, resulting in a wall lifting up, revealing a stairwell which led to the catacombs. She then cautiously went down the stairs, hoping for an exit.
Max and the twins noticed the hallway they ran down as they nodded.
"They must have come down this way. Come on."
Hex followed her and smirked as he noticed the stairwell to the catacombs. He had that charm now.
Lucky Girl ran down the secret tunnel, scaring off some rats as she ran for safety. She ran until she couldn't anymore and had to stop to catch her breath.
Little did she know, Hex was on the other side of the wall and he heard her breathing.
He then actviated his spell. "Eterla Morbulus!"
On the other side of the wall, the Luck Charm glowed once again as Lucky Girl rested against a brick, which pushed forward and fell out on Hex's side of the wall.
Suddenly, his section of the catacombs lost their stability and the heavy boulders came crashing down around him as Lucky Girl stumbled back into a skeleton and she screamed as she noticed Hex protected himself with a forcefield. She ran away as Hex levitated quickly after her.
"I'm doomed!" she screamed as a portal suddenly opened right in front of her.
Scarlett suddenly rushed out and her fists lit up in fire as she shouted out and thrust her hands forward, sending out a huge flamethrower that hit Hex dead on, sending him stumbling backwards.
"Come with me if you want to live," Scarlett said to her as she nodded.
They then ran towards a dead end as Scarlett held her hand in front of her to stop her. She then rubbed her hands together as she gave out a battle cry and slammed her fist directly into the wall, causing it to shatter and she then summoned a red forcefield and crashed against it, causing the wall to cave in as the two ran through the cemetery as Hex recovered and followed them as they ran for cover behind the trees.
"Let me handle this, Gwen," Scarlett whispered to her. "I'm the only one of you guys strong enough to take on a sorcerer that powerful."
"But my Luck Charm-" Lucky Girl began and Scarlett shook her head.
"Luck is a factor in every battle, little one. But luck runs out."
Suddenly, the plants came up around them and they gasped as they were wrapped up by the plants and were lifted up into the air as Hex levitated the vines around them and broke the Luck Charm right off of her neck.
"No!" Lucky Girl shouted as Hex took the charm from her and teleported away.
Scarlett groaned as she focused and her eyes glowed white and she fired them at the vines that held her and burned them off. She then took her sword out and sliced the vines off Gwen and groaned.
Max and the Twins ran up to them as Scarlett helped Gwen up.
"Thanks, Scarlett," Lucky Girl said.
"Where is he?" Diamondhead asked.
Scarlet then looked up and saw Hex levitating in the air. He levitated the Archamada Book of Spells and the Charms of Bezel glowed around his neck and he smirked.
"Time to turn this city into an old memory! Rava Eelartas Gallametroy!"
Storms gathered in the sky directly over the city and lightning crashed down onto it. The civilians screamed as they started to be lifted up into the air along with the cars and street signs.
Diamondhead and Four Arms jumped up and slammed directly into the deranged sorcerer, causing him to lose his focus and the storms dispersed, saving the city.
Scarlett leaped down to the scene as she brought out her Keyblade and spiked shield with a glare as Gwen and Max ran down.
"Stay back!" Four Arms said. "Without that charm, you're helpless.'
On top of one of the graves, Hex levitated his staff to his hand again as he glared at the three in front of him.
"You dare challenge me!?"
"We dare alright," Diamondhead said as Scarlett glared.
"The Archamada Book of Spells must never be used by sorcerers like you."
"Gargelia Vortium!" Hex shouted as a scarlet-colored smoke escaped from his staff and was absorbed by the gargoyles, whose eyes glowed red as they advanced on the three heroes as they glared.
"Let's do this," Four Arms said as they all went into battle.
A smaller gargoyle grabbed onto Four Arms' face as he glared and tossed it to Diamondhead as she glared at him. A larger gargoyle whipped its tail at him as he glared and grabbed his tail before he bit his shoulder as he shouted out.
Diamondhead tossed her crystals at the flying gargoyle as she missed him and formed her hands into blades and started swiping at it, missing every time.
Scarlett advanced on the larger gargoyle as she held her Keyblade in her hand and lit it on fire as she blocked every one of its attacks with her shield as she shouted out in effort as she slammed her shield against its face and slammed her Keyblade against him before charging up an energy kick and slammed it against him.
While the heroes were busy, Hex went back to work and activated the storm again. Suddenly, he was hit in the leg with a rock as he groaned out in pain as he saw Gwen tossing another rock in her hand.
"Lucy only gets you so far, Grandpa," she echoed Scarlett's words before she tossed another one rock at Hex's face, knocking him unconscious as he fell off the grave.
Max picked up a discarded pole with a cinderblock on it as the flying gargoyle flew up to him.
"Going... going... gone!" he then hit the pole directly onto the gargoyle, smashing it and Diamondhead tossed a flurry at it, destroying it.
Four Arms then tossed the middle gargoyle into the grave, causing it to cave in on it. He then picked up a large sword as the gargoyle noticed him and Scarlett walked up to it as she held her broadsword in hand as she glared.
Four Arms gave a 'bring it on' gesture as the middle gargoyle ran at him and he dodged his blow before he struck him with the sword as Scarlett slammed the ground and levitated a boulder up into the air and slammed it towards the final gargoyle smashing it forward before she tossed two fireballs at it, destroying it.
Gwen knelt and picked up Hex's necklace of charms curiously as Hex recovered and noticed it missing and that his nemesis was holding it. He ran forward to stop her before he was grabbed by Four Arms who just smirked.
"Time for the magician to disappear," he said as he tossed him into a grave and Max and Scarlett covered it with the lid as she smiled. The young queen then picked up the Archamada Book of Spells with a smile as she held it under her shoulder.
"This book is coming with me where it can't harm anyone ever again."
The four then looked to Gwen who smiled at the charms. "I could fly, shoot bolts of electricity, bring trees to life... I'd be unstoppable! Or, I guess I could just be me."
She then placed the necklace on the gravestone and smashed it with a shovel, destroying the charms and sending a mystical blue mist into the skies as the others watched as the Omnitrixes timed out.
The cops uncovered Hex's grave and arrested him.
Scarlett smiled as she looked to the others with a smile. "I must be on my way. My kingdom needs me."
"Will we ever see you again, Scarlet Warrior?" Jen asked.
"Guardian angels are always with you, Jen Tennyson," Scarlett smiled as she activated the portal again, book in hand, and left the family as they walked to the Rust Bucket.
"You three make a great team," Max commented.
"Made," Gwen reminded him. "My power's history. These two are the heroes now."
"Hey, you did the right thing, destroying those charms," Ben said, reading a comic.
"I would've done the same thing. You did good, cuz," Jen said as she looked through the window, still daydreaming about the Scarlet Warrior.
"So, Ben. Now that you and your sister are back to being the only heroes around here, could you just do me one favor?"
"What is it?" Ben asked.
"Just admit that I did a good job?" Gwen asked.
"*sigh* Gwen, you did a good job," Ben said with a smile. "Happy?"
"Definitely," Gwen said.
"Good. Because I'm never saying it again!"
"You don't have to," Gwen smirked as she held up a tape recorder and pressed play.
"Gwen, you did a good job," Ben said over the tape.
"No!" Ben shouted.
"I am never going to get tired of that," Gwen said as the Rust Bucket drove off.
Scarlett walked through the portal and sighed as she walked to her lab as her royal steward, Colette, walked up to her.
"Colette, did anything happen while I was gone?"
"Not much. The Protectors are having a meeting tomorrow. They want you and your cousin Sofia there, my Queen."
"I'll be there."
"Other than that, everything's pretty much fine in Cinnibar."
Scarlett sat down and sighed as she put rubbed her forehead as the option to recall the Scarlet Army popped up again and she rubbed her fingers on her forehead and pondered it. She then looked to her right to see a picture of her and her grandmother, the Amazonian known as Hestia as she sighed.
"Never see the world for as it appears to be, little one," Hestia once told her. "Dare to see the multiverse for what it could be."
Scarlett smirked. "I was never one for following rules anyway."
She then pressed the button and the image disappeared.
Then, a projection of tons of worlds throughout the universe popped up and pictures of several of Scarlett's old friends and soldiers appeared next to them. There were too many to count.
"Establishing agent connections," Lucy said as she sent out a signal to all of the communicators and she smiled proudly.
The names scrolled across her screen as she smiled to herself. Kratos, Bayonetta, Cole McGrath, Ryu Hayabusa, Avatar Korra, Dante, Virgil, Queen Elsa, Princess Anna, Caitlyn of Cinnibar, Sona, Ahri, Katarina, Mulan, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Sora, Kairi, Riku, Aqua, Eddie Riggs. They just didn't stop coming as Scarlett smiled. It suddenly stopped on one name in particular. Princess Sofia.
"Connection established," Lucy said as the call activated.
"Scarlett?" an 18-year-old Sofia asked as she smiled. "Is that you, old friend?"
"Indeed," Scarlett said.
"It's been too long. 5 years."
"I know. Now onto why I'm calling you. I'm bringing the Scarlet Army back together. The multiverse needs the Scarlet Army. And the Alliance."
"You don't even need to say it," Sofia said. "The Protectors can do what they want to overturn the Violet Act."
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