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Evil Janet · Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 4:33 pm Post subject: In Which Evil Janet Gets Eviller

Part 3 of 4... I seem to have more free time atm Smile

The Best Damn Grav Dom in Town

Grandville.

Home of Lord Recluse.

City of hope; city of dispair.

It all depended on your point of view.

Newly free of her shackles and the ties that bind, Evil Janet knew that she had done all she could to harness and hone her gravity control. She was the zenith of dominatory villainy, but she wanted more.

Just as when she had been a project manager back at Gravitron Technologies Inc she needed to push herself, to be the best, no matter what it was she was doing. So now she needed to move on. She remembered the words of Kalinda more than half a year ago, “if you succeed then there may be more tasks and more tasks will prove you worthy of service to the great Lord Recluse.”

Well she had accomplished many tasks at the bidding of many masters. Now it was time to pay Recluse himself a visit and to do that she needed to do to get into Spider Tower and ascend to the top. The Arbiter at the door seemed to think otherwise.

“Lord Recluse will not speak with you yet,” said Arbiter Rein scornfully. “First you must prove yourself worthy in the service of one of his Lieutenants and only then may you approach the Great One!”

“Lieutenants?” queried Janet. “You mean Ghost Widow, et al?”

“Yes, her,” replied the Arbiter with a discernable shudder, “with the other three being Scirocco, Black Scorpion and Mako.”

Janet mused. She had had run ins with Ghost Widow a few times but the other three she knew only vaguely and she knew she would need to learn more. The Great Hall at the base of Spider Tower proved an invaluable reference zone and eventually she chose…

Scirocco.

The man born Imad Malak, possessor of the djinn Serafina and a magical scimitar by the same name. Now Scirocco of the Four Winds, mad with power, commander of the legions of Mu Mytsics.

It seemed the right choice. Though a woman of science, her repeated clashes with the Circle of Thorns had made her aware of “other powers” and she wanted those too. Scirocco could help her harness those powers and would ultimately be her key to Lord Recluse and the inner sanctum of great power!

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So she roamed through out Grandville and occasionally back to her old haunts to carry out the bidding of her new “master” and it was on one such occasion that she met a beleaguered robot MM fighting against the odds in a rogue Arachnos base.

“You need help old man?” she asked, shoving her Singularity (named Polly) between herself and the advancing mobs.

“I’m not old!” came the reply.

“What?”

“I said I’m not old, I’m 27!”

“I’m sorry, but from behind…” started Janet, but a bot exploding silenced her and allowed the man to interrupt.

“I am, however, not getting any younger, so yes, your help would be appreciated.” He extended a hand as he pressed a button on a controller and a new bot appeared out of seemingly nowhere. “Johnny Sausage… mastermind for hire and co-leader of the Anti-Spandex Corps.”

“Johnny Sausage?” sneered Janet at the name.

“It’s a long story. Now if you could just hold those night widows back for me…”

“Sure,” she whirled on the team of night widows and thrust out her phenomenal powers to halt them in mid-stride. “Hey night widow, I think I’ve got a crush on you!” She already had her catchphrases worked out. Then she blasted each of them with energy bolts, knocking them further back.

“Nice,” said Johnny trying hard not to look impressed, “I like space to work in.” He grinned as the largest assault bot Janet had ever seen lumbered around the corner and into the fray.

Soon the base was smoking with alarms going off everywhere and the mission was accomplished. It would be the start of a new era.

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“And this,” said Johnny, indicating a short hirsute man in a Russian army uniform, “is Yuri Blastin, glorious founder and co-leader of the ASC.”

“Vot?” said the diminutive chief. “Zu have brought her here, vy?”

“She is a hard working grav dom of exceptional power,” said Johnny and cautiously added, “perhaps even more powerful than yourself,” for Yuri was a grav dom too.

“Un vot es et zu vant to achievee?” said the former Red Army major to Janet, who waited in the ASC base’s lobby impatiently and on full alert. The little dom would be no problem, but if the MM joined in she would have to take him down swiftly, before he had deployed too many bots. She had been in the Rogue Isles only six months, but already she knew to trust no one.

“To rule. To lead,” she then had a bright idea, “whilst serving the needs of a great and powerful alliance.” She had worked in PR for a few years in her early career.

“Zhen velcome to ze ASC,” said Yuri, though not making any sign of welcome other than nodding his head. “Verk hart un zere vill be vevards.”

Janet did work hard. In the alternative dimension of Recluse’s Victory, she fought heroes, claiming her first victory on the notorious Mr Nice, though he would repay in kind as often as not and in those days they often crossed swords so that for Janet she thought him an Arch-nemesis.

She recovered the Malleus Mundi, rescued Wretch, defeated Serafina and the Goddess Hequat. She rose to be the trusted lieutenant once again, but this time of Johnny Sausage and Yuri Blastin.

More importantly, she was trusted by Scirroco, who took her into his inner circle. He allowed her to use the time portal in Spider Tower and she saw the future of Recluse’s Victory and the ultimate destruction it would bring. It would be a pyrrhic victory, at too great a cost to be of any worth, sending the whole world back to a dark age. Lord Recluse would finally be ruler of all, but at what cost?

Between them Janet and Scirroco hatched an audacious plan to strike at Recluse. Not here and now, for he has at the peak of his power in Spider Tower, but rather, 15 years in the future, just after his devastating victory. When he had trampled all, that would be when he would least expect it.

Janet sought other villains to help her and she was able to find ample help from the Sisterhood of Hades, who sent Angel’s Death, Angel Seed and the one they named mother, Harriet West. Also there was King of Toys, Paulus, Dark Java and a white-haired German she knew she had seen before. It was her cell-mate, Dr Zweisteiger.

“ZWEISTEIN!!!” spat the cantankerous old scientist. “Gott im Himmel! I should haf zeen to you in zee Zig!”

“But you didn’t did you?” Janet smiled ironically, “because as I remember it we got on rather well.”

“You are still alive, are you not?” replied Zweistein as if that answered everything.

“Keep me alive for the next half hour and our place will be inked in the annals of villainy,” retorted Janet as she strode one last time towards the time portal. “Let’s be bad guys!”

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Lord Recluse was never going to die easily… ready or not!

King’s force-fields held off much of the damage and his bots kept Arachnos minions at bay; Harriet brought forth wave after wave of undead servants intent on her bidding whilst using her dark arts to restore the team’s failing health; Dr Zweistein aided in the healing and used her radioactive powers to weaken Lord Recluse. Dark Java, Angel’s Death, Angel Seed and Paulus all pounded away at the master of Arachnos, now Lord of the World.

But Recluse had not become de facto supreme villain of the world without proving himself in battle. He was awesome to behold with an array of devastating powers in his arsenal. His mechanical claws swiped mercilessly at those who came too near, powers burst forth from him, damaging the attackers further a field and he constantly summoned more and more bane spiders to come to his aid.

The battle was turning in Lord Recluse’s favour. King of Toys had only his assault bot in any condition to fight and Harriet’s summoned corpses were less than animated. Zweistein was visibly tiring and Paulus had taken a wound in his side that affected his speed. Janet threw her gravitational holds constantly at Recluse, but they rarely stuck. With so many doms in his service, the one formerly known as Stefan Richter made sure he was practised in evading their holds.

However, there was one last weapon in Janet’s arsenal that could turn the tide. All doms revealed in the infliction of their power on others and as she tried more and more, the domination rose in her until it suddenly flashed full. The domination power suddenly burst forth.

She looked Lord Recluse in the eye and he laughed at the pitiful woman who stepped forward with arms held out.

“Who are you to oppose me?!” he snorted. “Bane spider’s, assist me!!”

“I don’t think you realise the gravity of the situation,” grinned Janet, cast her hold and Recluse stood immobile and helpless. In the brief instant between the power fading and the next hold fixing firmly in place his face changed from smug triumph, to horrified realisation of his doom. The whole team pushed forward their advantage.

“Grav dom in effect with total dominance!” said Janet with a wry smile, and on that day, many years in the future, Lord Recluse fell.

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She showed Lord Recluse his own severed head from the future. It was agreed that he should take Janet directly under his own tutorlage. For now, that was enough for her and she made her way back to the ASC base to boast of her victory to her supergroup leaders.

Yet when she entered there was no one in the council chambers where Johnny and Yuri could usually be found and so she made her way back to her own office, somewhat disappointed at missing the opportunity for point scoring.

But here she did find someone. The aged German scientist Dr Zweistein… how?! She summoned Polly instinctively, but held him in check for now. The she saw the label on Dr Zweistein’s costume that identified her as one of the ASC.

“Hold fast!” said the teutonic corruptor. “As you vill zee I am von off you.”

“And you are here,” said Janet accusingly, “but Johnny and Yuri are not?”

“Indeed, zey haf left,” agreed Zweistein. “Unt I am here. I haf long been verking for ze ASC in zecret unt I knew zat zoon vud kommen sie time vhen zey vud leaf. Zey haf gone Janet.” To Janet’s surprise, the German looked genuinely upset. “Unt ze left you zis message…” She clicked a control in her hand and a hologram of Johnny and Yuri appeared between them.

“The time has come when we must seek our destinies separate from the ASC,” said Johnny Sausage matter-of-factly, “as we could not be this self-seeking and yet leaders of the ASC.”

“Da!” chimed in Yuri. “It vod not be vair, ve could not be giving za ASC our full attenzion!Zo ve pass ze mantle ov leadership to you un ze Dr Zweistein. Vair well un lead visely. We hav neit reason to belief uvervise, goodbye un dos vedanya!”

The hologram shimmered off and Janet raised her eyes to see a smug smile on the scientist’s lips. Zweistein’s one good eye glinted in the iridescent light from the flickering torches in Janet’s office.

“Und zo!” said the rad corr. “How about it zhen?” she proffered a hand.

Janet took it and shook it. Together they would doubtless lead the ASC to great things. It was the end of one era and the beginning of a new.

So ends part 3 of 4… to come Janet’s Final Battle?

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