Surfs Up

(Part 2)

By Mark J. DeGregorio, a.k.a.- Lucky

Christmas Morning came, and the sound of two rubbery girls snaking down the stairs, in order to see what Santa had brought. As the twins elongated their necks around the purple tree, Carmen snapped, “When are you two going to change me back!”

Nonie’s head collided with Patricia’s, and both recoiled their heads. Patricia glared at Nonie and snapped, “Numbskull, watch where going!”

Carmen let out a sigh and shouted, “I said, when are you two going to change me back!”

Nonie turned towards the purple Christmas tree, which Carmen had been transformed into by Dementia, and smiled; “We’ll do it after New Years.”

“Yeah,” Patricia added, “we’ll need you like this until then.”

Stephanie was the next to come down the stairs. She strolled past the rubber-twins and into the next room. A moment later, she pulled out a drum set on a cart and wheeled it into the room. Then she went into the kitchen to get some coffee.

The rubber twins glanced at each other, then at the drums, then back to each other. “Alan’s going to shit himself.” Patricia smirked.

James and Penny started down the stairs. When they reached the bottom, James saw the drums and thought, oh great, a drum set. He made his way to the kitchen as Stephanie came out. “A drum set?” he sneered.

“Yes, a drum set,” Stephanie smiled, “I have my reasons.”

As James entered the kitchen, they heard the doorbell. “I’ll get it!” Nonie shouted, but Penny moved at super speed to the door.

“Haw-haw, Slow-poke.” Patricia mocked.

Penny opened the door, saw Beaker, and swiftly moved outside, closing the door behind her. “Did you get them finished?” she asked.

Beaker handed her seven gift-wrapped boxes and said, “Yes, there’re right here.”

Penny smiled has she took them in her hands and said, “I can’t wait to see the looks on their faces when they open these.”

Beaker went back to his car to get the gifts he brought as Penny went back into the house. As James entered the room, Alan made his way down the stairs, still rubbing the sleep from his eyes. Alan turned and stubbed his toe on the corner edge of the base drum. When he focused on the cause of the sore toe, he shouted, “It’s a DRUM SET!”

“What was your first clue?” Patricia laughed.

Alan noticed a card attached to the snare drum. He pulled it off and read the card out load, “Merry Christmas Lunk-head, Now keep your mitts off my car.”

Penny began to pass out her gifts Beaker had bought. Beaker came in carrying his seven gifts. Candi Kane, Nonie’s new friend, arrived as he was coming to the door. Candi didn’t get two feet into the door before Penny shoved a present at her.

Each opened their gifts, and found something similar, a costume. Stephanie held up a yellow and white outfit and snapped, “What the hell is this!”

As everyone opened his or her presents, Penny said, “It’s your super suit.”

“Oh Boy!” James shouted, “Mine’s purple with a cape!”

Stephanie dropped the costume back into the box, glared at Penny and grumbled, “I’m not going to play superhero!”

“But it’s fun.” Nonie smirked.

Stephanie turned towards Nonie and yelled, “Look! I have a real job! I can’t be taking off to go around playing superhero!”

James pulled out his cell phone, dial, and after a moment, said, “Luke, that thing we talked about, buy that company. Money is no object.”

After he hung up, Stephanie asked, “James, what did you just do?”

James placed his phone into his pocket, smiled, and said, “I just bought the company you work for.”

“YOU WHAT!” she screamed.

Patricia laughed, “James just bought the company you work for.”

Stephanie sulked, “Is this because of the drums?”

James smiled, “Only in part, but mainly, we’re going to need your abilities in battling the villains.”

“That’s low James, really low.” Stephanie grumbled.

Beaker passed out his gifts. They opened them to find they all received belts, which matched their costumes. “I added this belt to your costume designs, I hope you don’t mind.” Beaker said to Penny.

“Not really,” she replied, “but what are they for?”

Beaker explained, “These belts have a tracking device, communication device, an analyzer, an advance computer, and a few other things.”

“What if I stretch? Won’t it fall off?” Nonie asked.

Beaker answered, “Each belt is made to respond to each of your abilities.”

“This is nice and dandy, but I would really like to be change back now!”

Candi glimpsed at the tree and said, “I forgot that this tree was Agent 96!”

“THAT’S 69!” Carmen shouted.

“We’ll change you back, don’t sweat it!” Patricia snapped.

* * * * * * *

A week later, New Year’s Eve came. Carmen watched as these, heroes, was having their party. Oh, how I wish I was partying, she thought to herself. She had no idea that she’d spend the holidays as a tree.

If I were human again, I’d be at A.G.E.N.T.’s party, her mind wandered. She gazed around the room and watched them having fun and mumbled to herself, “This is all their fault I’m a tree.”

Then she thought, At least I’ll be turned back to normal by tomorrow. Then she continued planning what she’ll do when she’s back to being a human being again.

* * * * * * *

Now, it was the middle of January, and Carmen was still a tree stuffed into the garage. Alan and the rubber-twins entered the garage to set up for another band practices. They didn’t get three feet into the garage before Carmen gripped, “The holidays are over. When are you going to change me back?”

Patricia smiled, “Maybe in a little while.”

“CHANGE ME BACK NOW!!!” she roared.

The three jumped two feet into the air. Alan turned to the twins and said, “Maybe you should get started on changing Miss Loud-mouth back.”

“Yeah,” Nonie replied, “the sooner we do that…”

“The sooner we can get rid of her!” Patricia finished.

Alan stood back and leaded against Stephanie’s car, while the rubber-twins stood in front of the purple tree. The two held hands and chanted, “Carmen, 69… change from this tree…change her to an earlier form.”

The purple tree began to glow as it started to compress into a point, then expanded outwards into another form. She developed arms and legs. Her head formed on top of a torso. Then when the transformation was finished, Alan’s eyes enlarged two sizes and his jaw dropped opened.

The rubber-twins morphed similar expressions as they got a good look at Carmen. Agent 69 stood before them in her purple cat suit. She was sort-of human, if you disregard the fact that she was fat, hoofed feet, large pointy ears sticking atop of her head, and a snout nose. Agent 69 asked, “What are you gawking at?”

“Uh…nothing” Patricia said.

Carmen could tell they were lying, asked, “What’s wrong?”

Nonie answered, “You’ve been turned into, uhm, how do I put this…”

“Miss Piggy!” Patricia laughed, “That’s who you look like!”

“WHAT?” and Carmen held up her hands to her face and felt her snout.

She turned to face a mirror when Alan commented, “Hey, she even has a curly tail!”

Carmen turned to look at her big fat butt, and saw that she did have a pig’s tail. She glared at the twins and yelled, “You…you idiots! You turned me into a pig!”

“Hey, it wasn’t our fault that you were turned into a pig!” Patricia retorted.

“Yeah,” Nonie said, “You must’ve been a pig earlier in your life.”

Carmen’s face changed from a pig’s to a wild bore as she grabbed the rubber-twins, tying them into one big knot. Patricia gasped, “She’s a lot… stronger… now that… she’s a… pig!”

After Carmen had them knotted, Carmen dropped them on the floor. Agent 69 then jumped on top of them, and began to roll back and forth over them until their bodies were rolled flat. “Now you two look like a pizza.” She said.

The rubber-twins were flattened into a disc with both of their faces pasted on the topside. Nonie whimpered, “…And she’s a lot heavier than she was before.”

* * * * * * *

Stephanie droved her car to the comic book store to meet Penny for lunch. She entered and saw Penny working behind the counter and asked, “You ready to go get something to eat?”

“Yeah, just as soon as I get something from my office upstairs.” Penny replied.

As Penny started up the steps, Stephanie glanced at the comic books on the shelves. She shook her head and thought, how could that lunk-head, with his high I.Q., waste so much time on this crap. She pick up a stack of books, read each title, and dropped it back onto the counter.

“The Flash… The Uncanny X-Men… Gen 13… The Incredible Hulk… Spiderman…Green Lantern Corps…”

Stephanie was about to drop that book when she noticed a man wearing a green and black outfit welding light energy. She opened the book, glanced at it, and saw Green Lantern shaping the energy into solid matter. Stephanie thought, his abilities are much like mine…

Stephanie’s thoughts were interrupted when Penny came down the stairs. Quickly, she dropped the book, hoping Penny didn’t see her looking at it, and the two departed the shop.

* * * * * * *

Beaker switch on a monitor and began scanning and area. He created a new surveillance system and wanted to test it to see if it was working correctly. James entered the room and looked over Beaker’s shoulder and asked, “How’s the system doing, is it working right?”

“Yes, it’s working better than I thought possible.” He responded, then moved a lever to zoom-into a small area of a hundred foot radius, and added, “I can even get closer than this.”

James smiled and then asked, “So, how did you get that satellite into orbit?”

Beaker smiled and turned towards James, and said, “Well, I didn’t exactly send a probe into space, I sort-of tapped into a satellite already in space.”

James frowned, “I see you’ve been taking lessons from Alan.”

Beaker grinned his fang filled mouth and whimsically replied; “We also can get all the movie channels on this thing.”

James never heard him make a joke before, thought, he’s been hanging around Alan Foster too long, and it’s rubbing off on him. “Not funny Beaker.”

Getting serious, Beaker responded, “If I had not done that, we would not have this system up and running for at lease two more years.”

Beaker waited for James to respond, he noticed an expression on his face of concern. Beaker turned to see what he was looking at. The satellite was focused on the California State County Fair. Two familiar figures strolled into view. The woman had pink hair wearing black, and the man had on a laboratory outfit. “Well, I see that Dr. Zan and Flexine finally showed themselves again.” James muttered.

“Should we go after them?” Beaker asked.

James looked at his friend and answered, “You stay here and keep me posted.”

He moved towards the exit and stopped, turned and asked, “Who’s all here right now?”

“Just Alan and the rubber-twins.”

* * * * * * *

Carmen was tapping her hoofed foot as the rubber-twins were looking through the spell book that their father had left for them. Alan was working on his skycar, re-building it after the rubber-twins destroyed the first one.

“How long will this take?” Carmen gripped, “I need to get back to A.G.E.N.T.”

“Well, if you would stop asking that, it could go much faster!” Patricia sarcastically snapped.

Carmen continued to pace around the garage. The sound of her hooves clacking around the garage was just as annoying as her gripping. James entered the garage, paused at seeing the new and unimproved version of Agent 69, and asked, “What the hell happened to her?”

Alan poked his head up from under the hood of the skycar and said, “The rubber-twins tried to change her back…”

“It’s not OUR fault that she was a pig at one time!” Nonie protested.

Carmen snarled her snout, “Do you want me to flatten you again?”

James interrupted, “We have a sighting on Zan and Flexine, the others are not here right now, so it’s just us right now.”

As the began to change into their super costumes, Carmen said, “Wait, what about me? You’re not leaving me like this, and besides, this is a job for A.G.E.N.T.”

“Look, this isn’t about you.” James retorted, “Dr. Zan and Flexine are dangerous people. To tell you the truth, I don’t think you’re A.G.E.N.T. can handle those two.”

“And you think you can deal with them!” Agent 69 shouted, “I’m not going to sit around here waiting for you people to come back, just so you can change me back into a human!”

James glared at the huge pig dressed in purple and said, “Alright! You can come, but remember, I’m the team leader, understand!”

“Like I said before, I take my orders from A.G.E.N.T.” she gripped.

“And this is what it got you,” James argued, “Turned into a pig! If you are not going to help, then just stay the hell out of the way!”

Carmen and James turned and saw Alan, Nonie, and Patricia sitting in folding chairs, eating popcorn, which the twins had conjured up with magic, and watching the floor show. “Go on, don’t stop on account of us.” Alan said.

* * * * * * *

Dr. Zan and Flexine strolled a crossed the fair ground and stopped at the newest tractor in a line of tractors. The evil doctor smiled and said, “Ah Flexine, there it is, the Bennington model BT-735 turbo drive tractor.”

Flexine sighed, “So, are we taking up farming now?”

“No Flexine,” Dr. Zan laughed, “we are going to steal the turbo drive gear from this tractor and use it to finish my wave machine, and with it, I shall hold the coast of California at my mercy…”

Oh god, I had to get him started again, when will I stop doing that, the rubbery woman thought.

“…And if they don’t comply, I shall release a enormous tilde-wave to destroy the coast of California, Baw-haw-haw-haw!”

Alan flew his skycar with the rubber-twins sitting in the passenger seat. James, as Atomicman, flew Carmen to their destination. After Atomicman set Agent 69 down, he flew to where Dr. Zan and Flexine stood, pointed at the villains and said, “Alright Dr. Zan, you and Flexine’s plans are over!”

“What! Who are you? How do you know our names?” Zan grasped.

Alan popped open the canopy to the skycar and he and the twins jumped out of the car to join Atomicman. “What? More heroes?” the evil doctor sighed.

Flexine scowled at her employer and said, “Look, Dr. Zan, don’t you recognize them?”

Zan looked them over and replied, “No, I don’t recall ever seeing them before.”

“They’re those heroes who we fought before, the fish-boy here is that boy genesis, Alan Foster!”

Zan rubs his chin as she continued, “Surely you remember these two rubber band girls, and the over grown muscle-head!”

“Hello,” Elasticity said waving her hands, “we’re standing right here.”

Carmen ran up to them and shouted, “You just left me back there!”

Flexine gazed at the six-foot pig, smiled, and laughed, “Oh, this is new.”

Carmen turned towards the two villains and continued, “As a member of A.G.E.N.T., you two are under arrest.!”

“Is that so?” Flexine smiled.

Before Agent 69 could pull out her weapon, Flexine flattened her body out and wrapped herself around the unsuspected agent. She then stretched her neck around and mocked, “Oh look, a pig in a blanket.”

Dr. Zan laughed, “That’s a good one, now keep them busy while I steal the turbo drive gear.”

Flexine, still holding Carmen, shape-shifts herself into a cannon and said, “You’ll stop us when pigs fly.” then she took a deep breath, and blew Agent 69 out.

She flew a cross the fair ground and landed by three pigs waiting to be judged. Carmen sat up, shook her head and saw the judges approached. They looked over the three pigs and then Carmen. The judges conversed for a moment, then announced, “We have made our chose for this years best pig…goes to… Zeb’s pig, Oinky!”

“What! I’m not first!” Carmen shouted.

The head judge placed the blue ribbon on Oinky, then announced, “And this years second place, goes to Ziek’s pig, Curly.”

Carmen shouted, “What! I didn’t even place at second!”

The head judge placed the red ribbon on Curly, and announced, “And this years third place, goes to Clem’s pig, Snot.”

The head judge placed the white ribbon on Snot as Agent 69 glared in dismay, then snapped, “What about me! Didn’t I place at anything!”

The three judges conversed for a few moments, the tall one said, “She sure is a fat pig, but I think she’s too fat.”

The short, fat judge said, “Of course, she’s big enough to feed the entire Waddleton family, and they have over fifteen youngings.”

The head judge rubbed his chin, then said, “Well, we should, at the very least, give her something.”

They turned to Carmen and said, “Alright, for the first time, we’ll award you with this special ribbon.”

The head judge placed the ribbon on Carmen. She turned it around so she could see what her special ribbon was. “LAST PLACE!!!”

The head judge replied, “Well, it’s obvious that you are a very unusual pig.”

“But you’re a mutant freak of a pig!” barked the tall judge.

As the three judges walked off, Carmen held up the ribbon and sighed, “I can’t even win as a pig.”

* * * * * * *

Dr. Zan worked frantically to remove the gear while Flexine battled the heroes. She stretched an arm, grabbed Atomicman by the ankle, and began to whirl him around, knocking down the others. Flexine then threw him some distance away. Alan got up and began to charge directly towards Flexine. She stretched herself out to ensnare him, but was surprised when he had transformed into water and slipped down past her.

“Whoa, what just happened here?” She gasped.

“Something like this.” Elasticity spouted.

As Flexine turned to face her rubbery adversary, Elasticity stretched out her hand, shaping it into an iron, cried, “Now!”

Plastrica had shaped her hand into a huge iron as well, and the rubber-twins smashed Flexine between their hands. When they pulled back, Flexine stood before them flattened out. She turned towards her employer and shouted, “I really wish you would’ve brought some of your goons to help me out here!”

“Why, you’re doing well without them.” Zan answered, as a puddle of water oozed next to him.

Alan emerged from the puddle and grabbed Dr. Zan. The two struggled for a moment before Dr. Zan turned towards Flexine, after re-forming herself, and shouted, “A little help here Flexine!”

“Why!” she snapped, “you’re doing well without me.”

“HELP ME NOW!!!” Zan screamed.

Flexine, grinded her teeth and snapped, “Oh alright!”

She stretched herself to where the two were struggling and grabbed Alan, pulling him off Zan. Atomicman was approaching by air and Flexine decided to throw Foster at his comrade. Alan collided with Atomicman and both flew back twenty feet and hit the ground.

Elasticity and Plastrica grabbed hands and began chanting when Agent 69 came running over to join in stopping the villains. The twins finished their spell and a bolt of magical energy shot from their fingers of their free hands. Flexine stretched herself thin and out of the way of their blast.

“Haw, I heard about your magic!” Flexine taunted.

The bolt of magical energy shot past the villainess and hit Agent 69. Her body glowed with magical energy and she began to take on a very large transformation into an Orcas.

Carmen plopped to the ground helpless, gasping for water. Plastrica turned towards her twin and began to hit her on the head several times and yelled, “Nonie you idiot! You goofed up the spell!”

“Why is it MY fault?” she protested.

Dr. Zan Held up the gear and shouted, “I have it, come on Flexine, get us out of here.”

“Coming,” then she turned to the rubber-twins and said, “Oh, I think you’d better get you friend to water now.”

Flexine shaped herself into a wyvern, flew to Dr. Zan, grabbed him by the shoulders with her feet, and flew off. Dr. Zan shouted, “Ta-ta, better to save your friend then to come after us, until next time!”

Atomicman and Alan ran over to the twins. Atomicman looked at the Carmen killer whale and then at the escaping villains, then at the rubber-twins and said, “You really got things fouled up.”

Atomicman ran over to the purple whale, lifted her into the air, and flew her to the coastal water. He dropped Carmen in and flew back to yell at them again. “Now how are we supposed to find them again?”

Alan smiled and held up a tracking device, “With this.”

The three looked at him, then Atomicman asked, “How, when did you get a tracking device…”

“When Dr. Zan and I were fighting, I slipped a tracker on him.” Alan answered.

Atomicman thought, he’s been hanging around Beaker too long, and it’s rubbing off on him, “I see you’ve been taking lessons from Beaker.”

* * * * * * *

Carmen was now transformed into a purple killer whale. She was dropped into the Pacific Ocean, and not even close to being human. Nothing could make this situation any worse, or at least that is was what she had thought.

A pod of twenty-eight alpha-males swam by, caught a glimpse of Agent 69, and swam towards her. “I wonder what they want.” Carmen asked herself.

Then she could smell a familiar scent, screamed, “Testosterone! Oh no!”

Carmen quickly turned and began to swim as fast as she could to out run all twenty-eight overactive whales. She screamed, “When I get my fins on those pointy eared rubber girls…”

* * * * * * *

One of Dr. Zan’s goons was waiting for them on a pier. When the two villains arrived, they boarded a mini submarine and proceeded to his underwater lair. Dr. Zan began his villainous ranting, shortly after stepping aboard. Flexine quickly threw on a set of headphones in order to drown it out with her iPod.

“Ah Flexine, just think, when the world bows before me, I’ll be king of the world.”

Dang, I can still hear him, she thought and cranked up the volume. “Just think, when the world crumbles at my wave machine…” Zan ranted, then noticed Flexine, and said, “You’re not even listening to me, are you?”

When he didn’t get an answer, he gripped, “You want a raise?”

Flexine pulled off the left earphone from her head and said, “You say something Doc?”

“I thought that would get your attention.” He replied, and started over with his villainous ranting. Flexine sighed and replaced the headphones, then cranked up the volume more on her iPod.

* * * * * * *

Atomicman, Alan, and the rubber-twins boarded a cabin cruiser. Nonie smiled and shifted her outfit into a Japanese sailor suit, struck a pose, and said, “Look, I’m a sailor-puff girl!”

“A puft-headed girl is more like it!” Plastrica teased.

“Knock it off you two, we have to find Zan,” Atomicman snapped, then turned to Alan, “Which way?”

Alan glanced at the tracker and said, “That way, sixty-two degrees north west.”

Atomicman started the engine and piloted the boat in that direction. After a half hour, Alan told Atomicman to stop the boat. When it was halted, the four looked out the port side. “It's right here.” Atomicman asked.

They all searched the area, “So, where the hell is it then?” Plastrica questioned.

The four looked at each other, and then down at the water, “It’s never easy.” Atomicman sighed.

“So, how do we get down there?” Elasticity asked. Alan drove over the side of the boat, “Oh, like that.”

Since James was an alien, and had a different physiology, Atomicman didn’t need any special breathing apparatus. However, he did need a mask to see underwater.

Elasticity and Plastrica don scuba gear, and joined Atomicman and Alan in the water. A pack of dolphins passed by and Alan got them to get them to Dr. Zan’s layer.

They were about twenty-three fathoms when Alan pointed at an underwater base and said, “Look over there, that must be where Dr. Zan has set up shop.”

“Blurb…blurb…blurb…”, Elasticity tried to talk, then thought, how come he can talk underwater and I can’t.

The dolphins swam them to an electronic airlock, and Alan thanked them for the ride. Atomicman asked, “So, how do we get in?”

Hey, no fair, Elasticity thought, he can talk underwater too. Alan studied the control panel, smiled, and then said, “Like this.”

Alan concentrated on the panel, the buttons lit up, and the airlock opened. The four heroes entered the airlock and swam up to a large room in Zan’s hideout. They pulled themselves out of the water and made their way across the room. Atomicman said, “We need to spread out and search for Zan and Flexine.”

Elasticity walked to an air vent, flattened herself and said, “I’ll go through here.” Then she slipped herself through the narrow space between the louver panels, followed by Plastrica doing the same.

Alan transformed into water and entered a pipe. Atomicman didn’t have any special abilities to allow him to move around in stealth, he had to do it the old fashion way, sneaking around the layer.

Dr. Zan had finished installing the turbo drive gear into his wave machine. He turned to begin his villainous ranting. Flexine was sitting at a console with her feet up, doing her nails. The other thugs and goons were goofing off as well. One was reading a comic book, one was scratching his ear to get the wax out, another was playing a hand held video game, another was staring out the window daydreaming, and two others were watching a football game.

Dr. Zan scowled at the very sight of this, groaned, and then yelled, “Why am I paying you people for sitting around and goofing off!”

Flexine glanced at him and asked, “So Doctor Z, what would you like us to do?”

“Anything, check the security systems, get the weather report, I don’t care, just do something!” he snapped back, “At least try to look busy!”

Flexine flicked a switch on the internal security system and saw Atomicman skulking though the complex. “Ah, Doctor Zan, the big green muscle-head is here in the complex.” She said.

“WHAT!” Zan shouted, “How can that be?”

Flexine smiled, shrugged her shoulders, and smirked, “Gee, I guess we should’ve been keeping an eye on the monitors.”

“Yes, you should’ve! If he’s here, then those other fools are here too.” Zan yelled.

Dr. Zan went to a weapons locker, pulled out six strange rifles, passed them to his goons, and said, “Take these goo-guns and stop that hero before he ruins my plans!”

As they moved out of the control room, Zan asked, “Now where are the other ones?”

The six henchmen of Dr. Zan waited in the corridor for Atomicman. As soon as they saw him, they began shooting at him. Atomicman saw the guns and knew bullets would not harm him, and then realized they were using something else. One struck him in the chest and stuck fast to him. He tried to get it off when another hit him. Then to his surprise, they began to expand. When Atomicman turned to escape, he was hit in the leg and arm, sending him to the floor. The henchmen started to shoot him repeatedly until he was almost completely covered with the expanding substance. One of the henchmen held up a communicator and said, “We have him Doctor Zan, what do you want us to do with him?”

Now where are the other ones Dr. Zan had asked, and Flexine knew what those two rubbery girls would do. “Bring that muscle-headed fool to the control room.” He ordered his men.

Flexine elongated her ear up to the air duct and heard the two bickering with each other. She stretched an unusually large evil smile, extended her arm into the duct, grabbed Elasticity by her wrist, and began to pull her out. Plastrica grabbed her sister by her ankles, and pulled her back. Flexine placed her foot against the wall and pulled as hard as she could, and both Plastrica and Elasticity were squeezed flat through the vent’s louver. “Oh look, a couple of paper dollies,” Flexine joked, “Whatever shall I do with them?”

Zan’s men brought the immobile Atomicman into the control room. Dr. Zan smiled and said, “Place him in the electrical energy restraints.”

Flexine dropped the flattened girls and grabbed Atomicman. As the rubber-twins started to reform themselves, Flexine placed the restraints on both of his arms and legs. Dr. Zan released the goop, which encased Atomicman, and activated the energy restraints. “That should hold you.” He gloated.

Elasticity extended her arm to the controls to shut it off, but Flexine grabbed a heat blaster gun of Dr. Zan’s and blasted her, then Plastrica. The rubber-twins’ bodies commenced to melt into puddles of glutinously mess. “Ah-ah, mustn’t touch Doctor Z’s toys.” She laughed.

“Okay, three down, one to go.” Dr. Zan said.

“You know,” Flexine commented, “if you could change into water, wouldn’t you travel through the pipes?”

One of Zan’s henchmen turned on the faucet at a sink, and Alan emerged from it. Flexine smiled and said, “Oh look, we have a drip coming out of the sink.”

Before Alan could act, Flexine blasted him with the heat blaster, causing him to become dehydrated. She walked over to him and said, “Nice try Aqua-dope, but this heater also works on you like it did on your rubbery girlfriends over there.”

Alan could do nothing but lie there gasping for water as Dr. Zan approached the controls to his wave machine and began to gloat, “Haw, you thought you could stop me, but no you can’t! Start the count down!”

One of his henchmen sat at a control panel with his finger over a large green button, started counting down, “10…9…8…”

Flexine glanced out the window and dropped her jaw open and said, “Ah, Doctor Zan, I think you should…”

“Not now Flexine, I’m doing my villainous gloating here!” he snapped and continued, “but not you or anyone can not stop me, Doctor Zan, from…”

“I really think you need to see this Zan!” Flexine pleaded.

Dr. Zan glared at Flexine and said, “Can’t it wait until I’m through with my taunting?”

“Say, you know what…SCREW you!” she snapped, and dashed out of the control room.

“Now what’s gotten into her?” Zan asked and turned towards the window.

A forty foot purple killer whale was rapidly approaching the control room’s window at ramming speed. “Oh snap.” Zan muttered.

The henchmen got up and ran out of the control room, leaving Dr. Zan and the heroes behind. Carmen smashed through the thick glass, flooding the control room. Dr. Zan started to wade through the water to escape the raising water, as Carmen shouted, “Do you have any idea what you put me through!”

Other than flooding the room, the water also did three other things, cooled down the rubber-twins so they could reshape themselves, submerged the dehydrated Alan bringing him back into action, and lastly, shorting out the electrical energy restraints holding Atomicman.

“I had to mate with twenty-eight alpha-males! I want to tear you rubber girls apart!” Agent 69 shouted.

Atomicman broke off the manacles from his hands and feet then swam over to the girls. The water was now five feet high, Atomicman grabbed the elastic girls and pulled them through the door.

The henchmen made their way to docking bay one and quickly boarded a submarine and exited the complex. Dr. Zan ran to bay one and saw the sub pulling away, shouted, “What are you doing? I need that sub! Come back here!”

Now the water washed over Dr. Zan, sending him against the airlock door. He pulled the lever and popped open the door as he shot out of the complex.

Alan swam to Carmen and said, “I don’t know how to say this, but…you saved us, you’re the hero here.”

This seemed to calm her down. Agent 69 did save the day, and it was the first thing that went well for her all day. Carmen looked at Alan and said, “When I was swimming by, I saw a second submarine on the south side of this base.”

She then turned and swam out of the hole that she created. Alan turned and swam out of the control room entrance to catch up to the others. The water was now over six feet high, and the rubber-twins had to extend their necks above the water. They only had three more feet until the area was completely fill with water. Alan shouted, “Come on, there is another sub at the south side of the building.”

The four quickly made their way to docking bay three and got into the sub. Water began to fill the sub when they opened the hatch, but only a foot deep before Atomicman slammed the hatch shut.

Alan jumped into the pilot’s seat and started the sub. Plastrica noticed the door to the sub bay shut and asked, “How are we going to get out through a sealed door?”

Elasticity gazed at an attractive red button with a yellow and black striped boarder around it and said, “Oh, what does this button do?” and she pressed it.

There was a rumble as a torpedo shot out of the sub and blew up the bay doors. Alan turned towards Plastrica and replied, “Maybe, something like that.”

The rubbery brunette glared at her stupid counter-part and said, “Don’t touch anything else! Do you understand?”

Alan piloted the sub out and to the surface. Atomicman popped open the top hatch to see daylight. The rubber-twins stretched their noggins out the hatch to see the blue sky. Atomicman climbed out and Alan followed. Elasticity saw something floating on the surface, pointed, and shouted, “Hey! Look over there!”

Alan and Atomicman looked at what she pointed had at. Dr. Zan was hanging onto a piece of wreckage from his stratum. He saw the heroes with the submarine they stolen from him, shook his fist at them and shouted, “I’ll get you for this!”

“Finally,” Atomicman smiled, “something easy.” Then he flew over to where Dr. Zan floated and grabbed him. He then lifted him into the air and said, “You’re going to jail this time!”

“Flexine!”, Zan shouted, “Save me!”

As Atomicman disappeared from view, Flexine poked her head out of the water, formed her fingers to make a “L” over her forehead and muttered, “Later loser.”

Then Flexine dove under the water as a fishes tail appeared behind her. She had transformed herself into a mermaid to escape capture once again.

* * * * * * *

“Why didn’t you wait for us?” Penny shouted at James.

“You and Stephanie were nowhere to be found, and we had to moved fast to catch Zan!” James retorted.

Penny frowned and demanded, “The next time you go on a mission without me, it’s the couch for you.”

Changing the subject, James said, “After this mission, I strongly suggest having everyone to learn how to use their abilities.”

“Are you talking about opening a school for superheroes?” Penny questioned.

“Not exactly,” James confessed, “we should start a training program for you, Steph, Alan, and especially the rubber-twins.”

“Hey! Why do I need to go to school?” Penny gripped.

James smiled at his wife and replied, “You want to be a superhero; you have to train to be one.”

* * * * * * *

The rubber-twins entered the garage and saw Candi sitting there still waiting for band practice, asked, “Where were you guys, I been waiting here for over three hours.”

The twins were still dripping wet from saving the California coastline, completely forgot about Candi and the band practice, and muttered, “Oops.”

Candi Kane did not need to wait for an answer, she was a telepath. She read their minds and knew what they had done, but was still mad at blowing her off. After a lengthy discussion, they re-scheduled the rehearsal for Tuesday afternoon.

* * * * * * *

Alan was in the bay with Carmen, trying to let her know that she’ll be restored back to human form as soon as the girls find the right spell. Agent 69 told him about the mating with the whale pod, said, “I’m pregnant.”

“What?” he gasped.

“That’s right,” she repeated, “I’m pregnant. And I’ll have to wait until I give birth before I can be changed back to human.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yes,” Agent 69 said, “If I get changed back before, I may windup still giving birth to a whale, and that’s something I’m not going to do.”

* * * * * * *

Stephanie was in her office doing some work when a mailroom clerk entered her office with a package. He handed it to her and said, “Here is the things you had me pickup for you Ms. Foster.”

“Thank you.” Then she took the large mailing envelope and placed it on her deck.

She then, opened the deck drawer and reached into her purse, retrieving a twenty-dollar bill. Stephanie held it out and said, “Here’s twenty, you are to completely forget everything about this, it never happened.”

He took the money and asked, “So, I’m not suppose to tell anyone about the contents of this package?”

Stephanie smiled, “What package?”

He nodded, smiled, and said, “Right, what package.” then exited her office.

As soon as he left, Stephanie locked the door. She then walked over to her deck and sat down. As she opened the package, she thought, if Alan or anyone else ever found out about this, I’d never live it down.

She pulled out twelve issues of Green Lantern comic books and started to flip through them. She came to a part where he created a huge claw. She then created a mini force field ball, then reshaped it into a cube. I’m going to have fun with this, she thought.