Finale (The Longest Chapter)

Finale (The Longest Chapter) is the twentieth and final (and longest) chapter in the Wombles Six.

Meanwhile in a seedy South London backstreet called Bird’s Nest Close, Bungo and Batman were warily approaching an abandoned swimming pool factory.  They reached the back door as Bungo was going to walk in but Batman insisted on climbing the wall.

Up went Bungo and Batman. Several minutes later Steed and Shansi walked through the open doorway.  Several seconds later they wished they hadn’t.  The floor gave way and fell into a net with Harriet Cooper. The net lurched down very close the nitrogen bath.  A second later Gambit and PMW joined them in net which dipped into the nitrogen. Luckily Harriet Cooper was underneath them all and they had only frozen her.  Nobody else was hurt.

Batman suddenly realised he had killed the person he came to save.  He slapped his forehead.  The others all formed a queue to slap it.  Slap!  Slap! Slap!  Slap!  Batman crumpled to the floor and the Penguin waddled up to give the unconscious caped crusader to Poison Ivy who wasn’t sure what to do.  She wanted to kill him or kiss him?  In the end she tried both.

Nobody knew if Batman was dead so Mr Freeze put him in the fridge in case he was.  Steed was about to apprehend the Penguin when Katy Perry walked in with her evil crew.  Everything went black.  The heroes woke up in a big room with metal walls and no doors.  Katy’s head poked over the top then her arms.  Lots of little creatures landed in the metal room with Steed, Gambit, PMW, Shansi and Bungo.  They were weevils.

Next came Face.  Nobody knew if he was dead or not so the guess he was and ignored him.  Katy’s voice came booming through a speaker at them.

“Welcome to my fans room!” she crooned.  “Because my fans usually have crush on me, I thought I’d return the compliment and crush them!”.  Now the walls started moving in towards them with room getting smaller.  Katy’s songs were playing loudly.  They didn’t know it but the Penguin was dancing to it.  Katy saw him.  “Are you a fan?” she asked.  “Quack!” he replied  with a smile. Katy suddenly through him in the fan’s room as well.

The Penguin landed on Face who woke up.  They were almost about to be crushed when something unexpected happened.  Four enormous bubbles floated in.  Face tried to run away, but he ended up inside one. The same thing happened with Steed, Gambit, and Batman.  The four people floated up very high.  They came out of a chimney.  Then they floated down.  Slowly. Very slowly.  Face got annoyed with it being so sssssssssssssssslllllllllllllllloooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, so popped his bubble.  That was a mistake.  He fell rapidly to the ground and landed flat on his face.  Hours later, Steed landed on top of him.  “That’s what you get for kicking me unconscious!” he said.  Then Gambit landed and just stood there surprised. After that Batman landed and called an ambulance.

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Cathy suddenly knocked out Mal randomly.  Then she stood there confused.  She hadn’t done it.  Or at least, she hadn’t meant to.  Then a load of hard bowler hats fell on her.  Now she was unconscious.

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Cathy woke up in a trampoline park.  She was bouncing a lot.  Bungo and Shansi were there too.  They were also bouncing a lot.

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Cathy bounced over three trampolines at once.  She narrowly avoided breaking her bones on the metal between each trampoline.  Then she bounced to a bouncy swimming pool.  There were tiny little square trampolines on it.  Mal was bouncing on them.  She tripped and broke her ankle, fell over, and then her foot came off.

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“Oh no!” moaned Mal,  “What am I supposed to do?”  Cathy told her that she should probably rest.  Mal looked at her like she was mad.  “What’s resting?” she asked, confused.  Cathy responded like it was a perfectly normal thing not to know:

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“Well, first you lay back…”  Mal leaned against a metal pole that was behind her.  “Now relax.”  Cathy put a white fluffy sheet that came out of nowhere on her.  “And now go to sleep.”  Mal did.  Suddenly Bungo bounced up.  He said something about Alderney and Shansi, but Cathy didn’t quite make out what it was.

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Suddenly Cathy and Mal woke up back where they were.  They looked confused at each other.  “Why are you wearing a bowler hat?” asked Mal.

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Charlie was trying to get back to Grand Steed Manor.  Evie was trying to get back to Auradon.  Neither were succeeding.  They just bumped really hard into each other and fell unconscious.

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They woke up walking up a hill with a load of other people in a town called Ashby De La Zouch.  They suddenly stopped and there was a massive announcement.  Suddenly Venus poked her head out of a tiny tent, and said, “Yay!”

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A bit later, Venus ran up to Charlie and Evie, and said, “I’ve found him!”  Then she dragged them to a weird marque with loads of cupboards in it.  She started opening them all.  There were weird tiny purple and pink elephants in all of them. Then she opened the last one. There was a yellow and green one. Venus told Charlie and Evie not to tell anyone.  Then they both woke up.

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Nicole struggled.  She still wanted to know where David was.  She quickly found out, because David fell through the ceiling with Puppy, untied her, and ran off with her whilst Puppy arrested the witch and their cat and put them in a weird digital prison inside a temple inside a tree.

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Lady Diana was now walking into every building she found. She walked into a place called Costa. She took a panini and a Tango, put some money where they were and walked out. Unfortunately, this got her banned from going in there so now she hated Costa.

Lady Diana walked into Subway. It turned out to be Costa. She hated Costa even more.

Lady Diana walked into Tesco. It turned out to be Costa. She hated Costa even more.

Lady Diana walked into Morrisons. It turned out to be Costa. She hated Costa even more.

Lady Diana walked into the Cooperative. It turned out to be Costa. She hated Costa even more.

Lady Diana woke up. She was very confused. “Huh?”

“Where I am?” she asked. “Costa” said the Barista.  “No!” shouted Lady Diana.  “Yes!” shouted the Barista.  “What would like?  On the house!” added the Barista who looked familiar.  “Okay I’ll have a flat black please” replied Lady Diana.  The Barista gave her a flat back cap.  Lady Diana put it on and tried again.  “Flat white?” she asked.  A white cap was presented.  Lady Diana gave up and threw the hats in the air.  The Barista took off her uniform.  Now Lady Diana could see it was Batgirl.  “Why are you in Costa Batgirl?” asked Lady Diana.  “I’m not” came the reply.  Lady Diana looked at the sign.  Now It Bud’s Diner.  A man came looking suspiciously at her fingers.  “Who are you?” asked Lady Diana.

“David Vincent” replied the man now satisfied that her hands were not suspicious.  “Flat white to go” asked David.  “Have mine” replied Lady Diana putting the cap on his head.  She wore the black cap.  They walked out of the Diner.  Batgirl was there looking confused.  David looked at the diner.  It was deserted like nobody had been there in years.  The sign said Kelly’s Diner.

The last thing they remembered they were running for the door. But there was no door.  They looked around.  David, Lady Diana and Batgirl were all in hospital gowns in beds on trolleys. David wore a black cap.  Lady Diana a white cap.  A scary looking nurse arrived.  She looked familiar to Batgirl.  Suddenly Batgirl remembered.  “Harley Quinn!” she shouted but it was too late Harley pushed the beds and they were hurtling downhill towards a cliff edge.

They screamed as the beds rolled over the edge at speed.  They feinted.  When they woke each of them was holding a big balloon floating gracefully down to trampolines.

Next they saw Batman, Steed, Gambit and Face doing the same. “Harley Quinn!” said Batman grumpily. “I called an ambulance and the Joker was driving it!” he added.  “Oh I see” replied Batgirl.  “Same for us but we were in Costa, a diner and the wreck of a diner.” She added that they the trampolines now seemed to have spikes coming out of them.

They all blew really hard at their balloons.  Now the balloons were getting bigger and bigger.  Next they floated into each other.  Everybody feinted.  When they woke it look familiar for some.

“Hooray!  Back at Grand Steed Manor!” shouted Steed. Gambit was pleased but the others were confused.

Cathy was just walking around. There was a bunch of people there. They attacked her and knocked her out. An escaped prisoner rescued her but got knocked out and taken back to prison. Now Cathy was in hospital. She decided to get out. There was a woman with a high ponytail was singing.

“Comin’ out

Even when it’s rainin’ down

Can’t stop now

Can’t stop so shut your mouth

Shut your mouth”

Another person, who was wearing a police outfit, captured Cathy. They took her to a very black place full of small cages which was underneath another building. They took her through a dark hallway (which was more like an alley) and through a grey door which was marked with writing on a thin gold rectangle. Inside, it was very white and there was what appeared to be a hospital bed with no bedding. It was surrounded by syringes and strange liquids. The person in police clothes, who was only pretending to be the police and was actually a known criminal, and their team wrestled Cathy onto the bed. They knocked her out .The not-police person injected Kryptonian DNA into Cathy.

Cathy’s body started jumping up and down. Not-Police Person looked cunning as they stopped. “Well,” she said. “It appears we are dealing with a metahuman.”

For a few weeks, Cathy was screaming while people injected with strange liquids. Once, when she wasn’t screaming, whimpering or unconscious, she overheard a conversation about how the organization was expanding their imagination to destroy all people with powers and also do weird things with them. Afterwards, she was really weak and choking a lot.

Mal, who had been captured more recently, got out of her cage (the room had become a special place just for metahumans) and found the door. She creeped in and saw Cathy. She was shocked. “Cathy?” she said, sounding breathless. She quickly undid all the equipment that had been connected to Cathy and rescued her.

Cathy woke up in another very black place on another hospital bed with no bedding. She got up in a frightened way, clearly trying to get out. Mal lightly pushed her back down. “It’s OK. It’s OK. You’re not in that place anymore. You’re in another place. You’re gonna be OK.” She paused. “But since you’re a metahuman, what’s your power?” “I don’t know.” Said Cathy, confused. “I had no idea I was a metahuman.” “Oh.” Said Mal. “We better find out.”

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A few minutes later Venus walked in.  “What are you doing here?” asked Mal.  Venus started singing.

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“I woke up underground not knowing who I was,

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I asked a random stranger waiting for the bus

He said I should know, I was Venus Smith!

But hang on you’re dead? Do you need a lift?

So he led me to his car and we got in

He drove me to the Isle and threw me in the bin!

I met some strange creatures known as Bin Weevils!

One of them told that man was evil!

He was Edward Bruin, Mr Teddy Bear!

But I said, “You know what? I don’t care!”

I went and found him and joined his side!

I wanted revenge on Steed and Cathy for stabbing me in the side!

So now I’m a member of SKAR again!

And I’ve come to kill you Cathy, but not Ben!”

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“Who’s Ben?” asked Cathy.  “I meant Mal!  I just needed to rhyme it!” replied Venus.  “Anyway…” The next thing Cathy knew was that a sword was flying at her. But strangely extremely slowly. And everybody seemed to have stopped moving.  Cathy looked confused and dragged Mal out of the building with her.  Then she saw David Vincent, Gambit, Batman, Face, Lady Diana, Batgirl and Steed looking confused in front of Grand Steed Manor. David Vincent was getting out a book very slowly.  After half an hour Cathy got fed up and took the book out of his bag for him.  It said, “BEI”.  She quickly read it and did what it said.  She slapped her forehead.  Grand Steed Manor turned red and disappeared.  “Aaaaaaaannnnnnnn iiiiiiiinnnnnnnnvvvvvvvvaaaaaaaaddddddddeeeeeeerrrrrrr!” said David Vincent.  Cathy blinked and suddenly everything was going at normal speed again.

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“Cathy?” said Steed, getting up.  “How did you get here?  I just saw a flash of lightning and then David’s book was gone and so was Grand Steed Manor?”  Cathy looked very confused and ran off back to where Venus had tried to kill her, taking Mal with her.  Nobody saw her leave.

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Katy and her team were busy taking turns to stab the Penguin. Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze had joined them.  The Penguin had been killed three hours ago, but they were still doing it anyway. Robin suddenly fell through the roof holding two swords.  He landed on top of Katy and turned around.  Peacock got out a wrench.  Tara got out a dagger.  Mrs Peel got out a machete.  They all launched at him.

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Poison Ivy played some dramatic music as the battle commenced. Mr Freeze did the commentary. “Peacock launches at the Boy Wonder rapidly!  Does she even know where she’s going?  It seems not! She’s fallen into the Nitrogen with Harriet Cooper!  What’s this? Mrs Cooper is alive?  She has Peacock’s wrench!  She running into the battle!  It’s now two against one with Robin, Mrs Cooper, and Mrs Peel!  Mrs Peel’s machete is going wild!  But so are Robin’s swords!  I think he’s winning!  He is!  Mrs Peel has been thrown through the ceiling!  Now there’s only one on the opposite team!  Tara King!  She leaps in the air with her dagger!  Too high!  She’s been caught in a net!  She’s stuck! Team Robin have won!  But what’s this?  Poison Ivy in the battlefield?  And Catwoman too!  AND Katy Perry!  Ooh, here comes luck!  Mr Chips just walked in!  Say what you see!  I see him blasting potato powder at his opponents!  They’re all unconscious!  Or are they dead?  He’s won whichever way!  But now he needs to catch me!”

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Mr Freeze raced out on Catwoman’s motorbike, with Robin in hot pursuit on the Bat-Bike.  The Batarang shot threw the air and clanged against the frame.  A rope was tightening from it.  Lightening struck threw the air showing a dark, forboding silhouette.  He had risen!  Batman was alive.

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Robin was suddenly very worried about taking the Batbike but rode on fast so Batman didn’t crash. Another bike joined the chase.  It was Bungo on the Bungomobile closely followed by Shansi on her bike.

Mr Freeze spray ice behind him.  The heroes skidded out of control.  Batman unhooked himself in midair and rapidly latched onto a passing jet.  He swung onto the cab and smashed his way in. “Bond!” he shouted.  “Commander Bond” retorted the pilot.  Suddenly the sky filled with green and purple gas. They could see nothing so had to land.

Screams rang through the air as they landed on several people.  The Penguin didn’t mind as he had already been stabbed a few times but the others were not so pleased.  Batman and Bond leapt out to find everyone either laughing hysterically, unconscious or dead.  Mr Freeze had gone but the Joker and Harley Quinn stood before them.

They were next to a large green and purple ambulance.  Harley had a giant hammer slung over her shoulder.  Joker had pipe that connected to the back of ambulance.  He sprayed Bond in the face.  Immediate the Commander starting laughing like the others. Most of them were now unconscious.

“And finally the last laugh goes to you!” giggled the Joker in his creepy way.  Batman leapt at the Joker then everything went black.  He woke up in a strange round silver room with people wearing green overalls.  A large chair was across from him.  “Join us!” shouted the familiar sounding voice from the chair.  The man had his back turned.  Batman tried hard to remember where he knew that voice.  Then the chair turned.  “I am the leader of the Invaders!” said the man.  “David Vincent?” replied Batman.

Down on the ground Steed, Gambit and Purdey woke up to see three people looking at them.  Beast bowed, Wolverine growled, Cyclops shouted aloud and Mystique snuck off to join a crowd.  “We’re taking you home!” said Beast with a grin.

Down in the depths of the sea a host of criminals were waking up in their pitch black cells.  A scream was heard in one of them.  “You will all join my army!  I will make all of you Katy Kats!”  Up above the Wombles sailed by in their holiday yacht blissfully unaware.