Super Ninjas [3]: Spydia
Title: Super Ninjas 3: Spydia
Rating: G
Summary: One of the strongest beast on Craze island is released on the city, the Spider Woman, Spydia. Once again, it’s up to the Super Ninjas to save everyone.
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Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Not intended to represent any real persons, places, events, or things. This story is copyright Dawn Kelley and all rights to these characters belong to me.
Morning Dawned on Craze Base. Hypnotica stretched in bed beside Dr. Craze. She heard her children already up and other voices arguing in the next room. Proably Julie’s children, she thought, Julie and her husband Jake had some horrid little brats. Julie had just given birth to the sixth Dufus child, Little Jake Dufus Jr. Despite thier Rugrat Brigade, Julie was actually foolish enough to think she could steal her husband. She wasn’t even his type.
Hynotica got up from bed and walked over to the vanity where she brushed her long hair and admired her green scaley reflection in the mirror. How beatiful it was, she thought as she hissed and saw her posioness fangs. Her claw like fingers moved as delicatly as a manicure hand and her body, she thought as she stood, no man could resist it’s sway. She laughed and walked into the nursery next door.
Ms. Dufus was trying to control her screaming children. Jane was the oldest and almost as tall as her midjet mother. July and Joan were twins, each was fighting over the same toy. Jessica was next, she was pulling on her younger sister’s, June’s hair. Little Dufus Jr. laid complacently in a crib.
Her two children sat quietly at a table coloring. Her boy was eight and her girl was six. Craze Jr had a large head that held two brains. He was inferior to his three brained father, but superior to an adverage man. And especially to the Dufus kids, no risk of overthrow there. Her girl was still a question. She didn’t seem to have any special qualities. Her son was the one who would carry on, her pride and joy. She rubbed his odd shaped head as she passed and then she turned to Ms. Dufus who was refereing a fight between two of her children.
"Doin’ a great job Julie," she said sarcastically.
Ms. Dufus grumbled under her breath. She hated Ms. Craze’s voice. Why had she been chossen to have all the womanly traits. The only thing she had outdone her in is children, what good were they?
"Mom!" one of the Dufus daughters screamed as Hypnotica exited the room.
Hypnotica made her way to the elevator and went down to the basement. She yawned as she heard some of the howls, screaches, cries and screams of the beast Craze kept down here. Hypnotica walked over to the cage that held Spydia, who sat knitting a scarf. The giant Half Spider woman looked pale and sad in the dim light of the basement. Eight long black spider legs suported her spider body. The waist of a woman began where the spiders head should have been and continued on to the head. She too had venom filled fangs.
"Hello Spydia", Hypnotica said.
"Sister," Spydia replied tuning toward her. "Have you tired of that dreadful Dr. Craze?"
"Actually, I was hoping you’d join him."
"Ha!" Spydia laughed. "Join Dr. Craze. The man repulses me, He’s even worse than his father."
"He takes care of us, and so did his father."
"His did this to us," Spydia said pointing to herself. "We’re freaks?"
"We’re ten times better than all those so-called humans. Look at me!" Hypnotica said morphing herself into a different form using her camelion blood. She changed into her sister, then into Ms. Dufus and various other minions in her home. "What human can do that?" She said as she turned into her original form.
"Well I just want to be like everyone else?"
Hypnotica scoffed. "Everyone else is weak. One day my husband and my son will rule this punny world."
"And your daughter?"
"My daughter is annoyingly normal," Hypnotica said with a sigh. "But I’m sure that can be remedied with time."
"Don’t force her into this. If she wants to be you when she’s grown, it’s her choice, but don’t just do this to her."
"You disappoint me sister. Not to see the gift that you have. We are a so far above those mongrels who call themselves humans."
"Were mistakes, experiments gone wrong."
"Sister you are so blind," Hpnotica said as she walked to the elevator.
Neither had noticed Ms. Dufus, who had left her simpleton husband with the kids. She now hid in the dark basement watching the exchange between the sisters. The anomosity Spydia held for her sister was beautiful. What would she do to Hypnotica if her pure rage was let lose.
Spydia retrieved a book from the shelf in her cage. Hypnotica looked back at her sister and shook her head. What a waste.
Julie Dufus stared at Spydia. Craze adored power and had always loved Spydia more than anyone, even his wife. If she could control Spydia, she could get Craze’s attention and become more than just a glorrified nanny. She removed a syringe from her pocket. Her husband was a simpleton, but he made better things by accident than Craze made on purpose. It had it’s advantages and it’s disadvantages. Dufus’ repressed anger formula would work wonders on Spydia. Under all that complacentness, thier had to be pent up furry.
Spydia put down her book when she thought she was alone and allowed her mind to reflect back on childohood. Craze’s dad had been like a dream come true. Thee sisters had run away from the orphanage when they discovered they were to be seperated. He found them sleeping on a park bench. Craze’s father always told them how special they were and gave them all the things the orphanage they lived in never could. He’d promised the sisters would never be seperated from each other again. Unfortunatly, after being turned into thier present forms, they were seperated in the worse way, in thier hearts. Hypnotica, her baby sister, was seduced by her new powers. And like Craze, it became the center of everything. Hypnotica lived on little Craze’s coatails. Spydia’s best friend had then been Lisa, Craze’s sister, but she’d run away to find a way to stop her brother. She’d heard that Lisa was responsible for these Super Ninja guys that had defeated Zues. Why hadn’t she gone with her? Because she wanted to save her sister, that’s why. Maybe there was no saving her.
Night arrived at Craze base. Ms. Dufus fumbled with the numbers on the keypad as she creaped into the elevator. If she succeded, she might replace Dufus as Craze’s right hand. Let Hypnotica top that.
She snuck down into the dark dreary basement, it was hard to belive the more intellegent beast down here prefered this to working with Craze. Especially Spydia.
"You have got to learn to be a better sneak," a familiar voice vibrated from the shadows, followed by a hiss.
"Hypnotica, how did you know?"
"Well I had plans of using that formula myself. So I went to that stupid husband of yours, well not too stupid, he wouldn’t tell me at first. However it didn’t take much to convince him different. Now let an expert handel this."
Hypnotica took the needle from Mrs. Dufus. Spydia slept peacefully. Hypnotica slinked over to her with the syring. Holding her sister’s arm, she injected the needle’s formula into her.
"Spydia get up, Spydia. It is I, your sister."
Spydia’s eyes fluttered open and she looked at her sister. Her eyes turned bright red as Hypnotica smiled at her. Spydia, with anger in her eyes, lept at her sister. Pulling out some kind of stunner, Hypnotica stopped her before her move was completed. Numb, Spydia fell flat on her spider belly.
"My sister, you attack me, but I am just like you. I know what those petty humans think of us and I’m just going to show you. Humans hate what’s different, because they fear power. Remember how they treated us when we were orphans. Do you? They tossed us around from place to place like garbage. they’re the enemy."
"Yes I remmeber," she said softly.
"We were always different," Hypnotica said circling her colapsed sister. "It’s not me you want to attack, it’s them. You’ll see."
Dr. Craze joined them, followed by his minion twins, Bazoka and Triple gun. "Mrs. Dufus it’s long past the children’s dinner time and you know how Dufus is, please take care of it."
Hypnotica exited the cage and met her husband outside the door. "She’s ready," Hypnotica said.
"Prepare the transport vehicle," Dr. Craze said giving her a soft kiss. She smilled and he watched her sway out the door. Craze then entered the cage where Spydia lay helpless on the floor.
"I seem odd to most, even you. The thing is, most people have a thing for pin up models, and me, I think true beauty runs hand in hand with power." He brushed Spydia’s face with the back of his hand. "And you my dear Spydia are power. Your venom can distroy almost anything, anyone. You would be a true threat to those who would dare oppose our order. We’re better. faster, stronger, smarter than all those foolish humans you wish to look like. I hope you will discover that you belong with us and not against us. Sleep." Dr. Craze gave her another injection and with slow steps exited the cage. Sydia’s eyes slowly drifted close.
Mrs. Dufus watched the operation knowing her glory was being ripped away. This wasn’t over, she would be more cunning next time.
Spydia awoke in a deserted alley. Dawn was placing the first of her fingers on the city. "Oh god," she said in disgust, "What have those monsters done to me? I feel all this RAGE! I have to control it. I can’t act like I look."
Meanwhile, somewhere downtown, the mayor’s son Johnathan, and his little brother, Chip, sat fidgeting in thier new suits as they prepared to do a commercial for thier father’s relection campaign. Chip, a toddler, pulled on his tie. He felt his brown face was gonna turn purplr from the pressure. The busy adults around him weren’t paying attention anyway.
"Lil Fats, don’t do that," Johnathan said pulling his hands away from the tie and straighting it. "We be out of here in a little while."
"I wanna go home fatty," Chip said.
"We will soon," Fatty replied. His brother had called him Fatty when he first started talking and the name had stuck. So one day he said, if I’m Fatty then you little Fats, and that’s how the little brother had got his name. Thier father never used these names, but he didn’t know them that well. The boys were strangers to him.
"We’re ready for them," some crewman called and a woman retrieved the boys and took them to the outside set. Lil Fats was still fidgeting with his tie when thier father began speaking. They cut twice, trying to get the child to stop. Finally they just took the tie off. Things were moving along slowly when a loud scream was heard and thousands of people began rushing toward them.
On the set, a security guy with a blow horn moved foward telling the people to stay calm, but he froze midspeach when he saw the object of thier distress, the spider woman. "Oh my God," he said as he dropped the blow horm and joined the group of runners. The commercial crew rushed away. Someone grabbed Lil fats, from Fatty’s hand as the crowd approached.
"I don’t want to hurt you, I just want to talk," the spider woman scretched as she approached. Fatty stood still, frozen by fear and curiosity. He was the only one who heard her words above the screams. His father, brother, and the commercial people had disappeared from sight. And the other crowd was fading fast. The next time he looked around the streets were deserted. Overhead he heard a helicopter, he looked up and saw the big words NEWS printed on the side.
Spydia roared, angry at the fleeing people. A long shot of venom escaped her mouth landing on a nearby building. Plants dried up and died instantly and the side of the building melted. Fatty stood paralyized by shock. Spydia’s raged filled eyes turned toward him. Now he was ready to run. But before he could turn around, she reached him. In one swipe, she snatched him into the air with her claw like hands.
"Who are you?"
"The mayor’s son," Fatty mumbled out.
"Think your so pefect, don’t you human."
"Perfect? Me?" Even though this was a monster in front of him, the words surprised him. "Look at me."
"What about you human?"
"You think it’s bad being a spider woman, try being the fat kid and then having a name like Fatty."
"At least people don’t scream and run the second they see you."
"No they do worse, they smile in your face and then make jokes in little whispers. They pick on you when your weak, because they think your to scared to use you size as advantage. And if you do use your size, they run like those people did from you."
My man was a petty creature, Spydia thought. Did they pick apart everyone? The words of this little boy caused some of Spydia’s rage to melt away. She couldn’t hate someone who felt so like her. Fatty didn’t know where the words had come from, but seeing the rage fade he was glad they found a way to his lips. He had seen what that venom could do and he didn’t want it done to him.
"I remmber when me and Angela was young like you. People treated us like dirt, because we had no home and no mommy and daddy. Do you have a daddy or mommy?"
"A dad"
"Why are you guys such monsters? You run from or laugh at the littlest differences in each other. That’s why I had to take care of Angela, she was my little sister. She needs me, only me," Spidia gripped the boy tighter as the memories flooded in.
"Spydia I can’t breath," Fatty said through gasps.
She loosened her grip on him, but he still hovered in the air. Fatty felt sorry for the spider woman, she was obviously heart broken. Lost in a tracne of memory, She began to sing:
"Little angel don’t you cry. Little angel don’t ask why. Big bad people ship us all around around. Cause me and you will always be family, Kasey and Angie. Good night my little Angel."
"Where is your sister?" Fatty asked, Spydia’s eyes glowed with rage as the trance was broken. "I have a brother, he’s only a toddler, our mom’s dead, he needs me, please don’t kill me."
"Your mom’s gone, so, your father’s the mayor."
"Yea, and he cares about it more than us. Mommy left him when I was little," Fatty explained. "But they got back together. Lil Fats, that’s my brother, he was born. Then Mommy got real sick and left us. I promised to watch over my brother."
There was something abut the boy that supressed her anger just when it was ready to peak, she couldn’t hurt him. She couldn’t hate him.
"Watch your brother good, there are predators like Dr. Craze just waiting to warp little minds."
"Does he have your sister?"
"Yes, she’s his wife."
Suddenly spinning legs knocked into Spydia’s arms and Fatty fell to the ground. The burning red flames egnited in Spydia’s eyes again, as the owner of the legs SN2, landed in front of her. SN1 appeared his partner’s side.
"The Super Ninjas," Fatty said in shock.
"Let the boy go," one of them said.
"The Super Ninjas, Lisa’s golden children. She dare send you after me. I thought she was my friend." Spydia scretched and let out a stream of venom. In twin formation, The Super Ninja’s flipped out of the stream’s flow. Then flew back toward Spydia in a flying kick. Spydia knocked them both to the ground, but they quickly recovered and were soon exchanged in a blow for blow battle with the Spider Woman.
"This is wrong," Fatty said to himself. The spider woman didn’t really want to hurt anybody. "Stop it," he holared, but no one heard him. He too, had to jump qiuckly to avoid shots of venom. "Stop it, listen to me," he shouted again. He felt like he was at home and trying to tell his father something important during one of his bussiness meeting.
"Super Ninjas, this is Lisa. Stop now," a loud blowhorn said from the sky. Recognizing thier gardian’s voice, they stopped and so did Spydia. Lisa, who was floating on a hoverboard, landed right in front of them. The dwarf sized woman walked inbetween them.
"Lisa, she works for doctor Craze."
"I do not, I would never work for that monster," Spydia rose her fist in anger ready to punch the Super Ninja.
"What are you doing?" Lisa questioned. "You never use to act like this."
"I don’t know. And what do you care, you left me to him."
"You stayed, for Hypnotica."
"I was locked in the basement. While you skipped off to dreamland I was locked up like an animal. And maybe I am, that’s what people see."
"I don’t see it," Fatty said, finally heard again by the others. The flame inside Spydia’s eyes started to dim again. "You just wanted to take care of your sister. Your not a monster, your more human than my own father."
"Who’s he?" Lisa asked.
"My friend Fatty," Spydia stated. She smiled and the fire in her eyes broke completly.
Lights broke out in the sky and a jet cycle apppeared. It speeded down toward the group, but the lizard woman wasn’t seen clearly until she landed. She hoped off the cycle in a natural furry that matched the artificial one brought out in her sister.
"How dare you interfere in my family affairs Lisa McMiss," Hypnotica shouted. She walked up to the dwarf and slapped her to the ground. The Super Ninja’s started to attack, but Sypdia stopped them.
Sypdia then grabbed her sister and lifted her to eye level. "What kind of monster have you become. Your annoyed because your daughter is normal, you push around little people, you drug your own sister. I’m the one who loved you more than anyone."
"Love, you call this love. Sideing with them, siding with Lisa against me when we were little."
"No I sided against Doctor Craze, but I braved that basement with the hope I could change you."
"Change me into what? A weakling like you?"
"Little Angel is gone Spydia," Lisa stated. "She was gone a long time ago. Let it go."
Spydia looked at her sister, struggling to get free of of her grasp. She tried to match the freckled red-head girl with this green scaley woman, but no match could be made. "Little Angel," Spydia’s voice craked as she dropped her sister. The lizard woman shook her head.
"Weak, all that power and your nothing but a weakling," Hypnotica said jumping on the hover cycle.
"Fatty, go find your brother. And make sure he never becomes that," Spydia stated sadly. The eleven year old boy looked at the spider woman. He ran up to her and hugged her.
"Your human Spydia," Fatty whispered, then he ran off.
"Spydia, are you coming back to power base?" a Super Ninja asked.
"No, I don’t want to be near Craze Island. If I were thier, I would always think of the base on the other side of the island, the place that took away little Angela."
"Is thier another place for her," a Super Ninja asked.
"Yea, I think thier is."
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Micheal and Kim, out of thier Super Ninja Uniforms, and Lisa stood on a deserted island with Spydia. The place was filled with Caves.
"I might get lonely Lisa," Spydia said looking over the island.
Lisa pulled a device from the brief case she carried. "Solar communicator with Battery back up, you can talk to me anytime. And, I figured a puppy was inappropriate, so I bought you this. She want to the jet plane that had brought them to the island and brought out a screching bundel that looked somewhat like a baby. She unwrapped the bundel, Micheal and Kim gasped.
"It’s one of those flying monster monkeys," Micheal shouted.
"Aren’t those things vicious?" Kim asked.
"In the wild yes, but raised up properly it could make a good pet. This baby was hurt trying to fly. I planned to release it, but I thought it would make great company for you.
Spydia took the baby Flying monkey. His little harmless claws stretched toward the sky. Spydia cuddled him. "Come on Angel." Spydia walked into her new island holding her baby monkey. The Super Ninja team waved good-bye and departed.
At Craze base, Mrs. Dufus laughed knowing Craze would have it out with his wife for her failure. What else could he do? Hypnotica walked in and Craze approached her with a scowl. She looked up into his eyes and the scowl changed to a grin. They kissed on the spot.
"Poor baby," Craze said. "We should have never used a Dufus plan."
Fowled again, Mrs. Dufus thought. Ah well, another day, another chance to prove herself.
"Mom," one of her daughter’s cried in complaint and she went to inspect the problem.
Perhaps a week had passed when it happened, Fatty showed up in thier school. Micheal and Kim watched him for a few days. Micheal’s ex-bully, Stevie, quickly made Fatty his new victim. They were sitting at the lunch table with Billy when Stevie knocked Fatty’s lunch tray from his hands.
"That’s enough," Micheal said. He lifted from the table to help Fatty. Kim followed.
"Steven go back and appologize," Micheal said approaching the bully and his laughing friends. Fatty looked up from the floor where he was cleaning up his spilled lunch."
"This isn’t your concern."
"Well I’m making it my concern," Micheal stated. He still remmebered a time when he, a sixth grader, wouldn’t have stood so tall against the bull-faced sumo-sized eight grader.
"I’m making it mine too," Kim said from behind him.
Billy decided to join his friends, though he didn’t know why they were defending the boy.
"And me too," Billy said joining them.
"I ain’t appologizing. Ain’t no point in bothring with him anyway. He’s to weak," Stevie stated as he ran from the caferteria.
"He use to mess with me too," Micheal said to Fatty, "I’m Micheal. This is Kim and Billy."
"I’m Fatty," Fatty replied. "But my real name is Johnathan."
"Fatty, you wanna sit with us?" Kim asked. Something seemed familiar about the pretty Korean girl and her skinny black friend with the wire glasses, but he couldn’t put his finger on it. After getting a new lunch, he joined them at the table. Before lunch was over, Fatty had three new friends.
Somewhere in the sky a bright commet like object spinned toward earth. It crashed somewhere deep in the tropical forest sorounding and seperationg Power Base and Craze Base. But it was not a commet, it was a small shuttle. It popped open a a green face peeked out. A baby alien cooed on the inside. A small wave caused the baby to floated up out of the shuttle. It looked around, giggled and floated back into the shuttle. It yawned. The baby drifted back to sleep.
