Amphitrite7

Heather Matthews, a lonely autistic girl, and her cat, Nancy, run away from her troubled lifestyle to find a more peaceful one. They both encounter a strange airport, which takes them and several passengers---another lost girl and her dog, an embittered, entitled princess, a party girl, a young truant, and a terribly immature teenage soon-to-be-mother---to a place of paradise..........

Or, at least that was the plan, until the girls run into a Shemiah, a wicked island witch, who kidnaps runaway from all over the world....

Will the girls ever find their way home, or will they remain forever in Shemiah's hands?

Characters:

Enemies:

Angel:

Island:

Emblems:

More Runaways: (who will be met at the temple, which at first seems like a hotel!)

(*Clair Francine Cochran is inspired of a best friend of mine, M. E. Cochran, who had inspired me to write, my fave fictional character, Clair Olivia Hanks-Huxtable, and Gilbert O'Sullivan's 1972 song, "Clair."*)

Back in the hotel........

"Say, Baymax, did you get any leads on that Julie chick?" Hiro asked, as he was playing Darkstalkers on his Nintendo Switch.

Pulling up some data on his screen, Baymax stated: "Gates-Gerold, Julie Hortensia. Age: 36 Weight: 80. Height: 4'6. Born to Joseph Allan Gates and Samantha Elspeth Jones on May 31, 1987. Younger sister, Francesca Penélope Gates-Hubbard. Graduated cum laude from the Holliday College with a major in nursing, and held the crown of Miss Hawaii for five years, until she was beaten by Tehani Alexandria "Candy" Moore, now a voluptuous African-Hawaiian sex symbol, actress, dancer, and singer, famous for her hit song, "Sexual Freedom." Now, Julie is current running the Pink Pearl Company, founded by the late Renée Roderickson."

"That explains the wand stuck up her butt," Hiro shrugged.

"She and her husband, Travis Gerold, are working with Hercules to destroy Miss Moore and Miss Prince," said Ememax.

"I knew it!" Hiro pounded the table with his fist in vexation. "I knew that piece of crap was the devil's spawn!"

"And here she is giving Diana's friends, especially Candy, that title," Emily said, reading the book, "Wicked."

Gogo, deciding to put a stop to these nugatory topics, walked over. "What are you lazybones going on about?"

"Nothing," Hiro stretched out his limbs, as Mochi jumped on the bed. "Just taking a hiatus from the usual vampire game, per Miss Diana's request. That means, no more feasting on Hiro-time!"

Gogo playfully shoves him away. "Shut up, stupid. Don't act like you didn't enjoy it."

"True," Hiro acknowledged. "But, there is a little part of me that gets a kick out of seeing the vulnerable side of Ethel Claire Tomago."

"Like to kick you," jested Gogo.

Diana, sitting on the couch and massaging Mochi, glared at Gogo. "Don't even go there."

Then, Megan also approached Hiro and Emily. "Speaking of kicking, how would either of you like to get your butts kicked on this game we're playing?" invited Megan. "Or danced on, anyway? I got on Just Dance 2024 Edition."

"Well, I say, 'Bring it on!'" Hiro accepted.

"Let's get the kicking!" Emily agreed.

When Hiro, Emily, Gogo, Diana, and Mochi left to join Megan, Abigail and Cass pulled Gogo aside. "You can only do your kicking on Hiro when a certain woman is out of sight, you hear me?" Aunt Cass said to Gogo, a teasing glint cast upon her face when she stared at Hiro dancing.

After nodding towards Diana, Gogo grinned. "Oh, the fun I will have......"

"Indeed," Abigail said.

Then, a voice said, "She'd better leave some for me."

Cass, Gogo, and Abigail turned around. All women's eyes rested upon Karmi. Gogo grins and invites her over. "Wanna cop a squat?"

"Don't mind if I do," Karmi smiled, as she sat down. "Would be fun to see Hiro slip and break his neck."

"I can hear you, Karmi," Hiro called out.

"I know," Karmi jested.

Then, as Hiro danced to the song, "This Wish," by Ariana DeBose, Gogo said, "I am so glad you came to visit."

"Anything to get away from Wasabi and Venus," Karmi breathed, sounding exhausted. "Those lovebirds make me sick, cooing over themselves and baby Ariel. I dunno why they volunteered to babysit her. And don't get me started about Fred and Dragonbat's love episodes. And the Black Dragon, Ramen, Lisa, Honey, Laine, and Reiji are all over the Vashti and the other pets. What's worse, they are whining about Kyubi and Patty!"

"Well, you can't blame Reiji and the girls, Karmi. I miss Kyubi, Patty, Sunny, and the others, too."

"Even crazy Gadget?"

"Even crazy Gadget. With Sky Blossom gone, it's hard for everyone...Kyubi, Patty, Sunny, Gadget, and especially Swallow...to stay committed to the Big Hero group."

"It was hard for Wasabi, Honey Lemon, Ramen, Esai, Hand Halle Joe, too. They loved Annie. Heck Venus was the closest to her. Always talking about "she and her Annabelle Leigh." But, she Wasabi, and Honey stuck around."

"Well, everyone has their own choices, Karmi."

"That's why I can't leave, Gogo, no matter what. You guys are my friends, and I have to support you through the thick and thin. If that Crusario incident taught me anything at all, it was that. Stick with your friends, no matter how annoying they may be."

"Same, girl. We need to stick together...." After a quick glance towards Diana, Gogo pulled Karmi to the side, "......once the shadow is gone...." The "shadow" meaning "Diana Prince," "...I want you to be by my side, while we dine on a certain Hiroshima Hamada...."

Immediately, Karmi began to grin like a Cheshire Cat.

"For fun and jokes, of course," interjected Cass.

Her smile shrinking a tad, Karmi nods in understanding. "Okay...any reason you two want a bite?"

"Well, seeing how Gogo Tomago has shown us the light about this little shrimp," Abigail said, "I say, why pass up this opportunity?"

"Yeah, let's get a taste while he's fresh," jested Aunt Cass.

"I STILL can hear!" Hiro yelled.

"Hiro, like the game says, 'Just Dance!'" Cass giggled.

Karmi grinned.

Diana rolled her eyes. "And I thought immaturity stopped at adulthood."

Then, Karmi grew serious. "Nah, but seriously, I'd been doing some research about Hercules and the Saiko Company."

Diana, Gogo, Cass, and Abigail looked alarmed. "You did?" Diana asked.

"Yep. Hercules plans to nab and kill Candy, Esai, and Halle Joe, per Julie's request."

Hiro stopped mid-game. Emily, Megan, Mochi, Diana, Gogo, Cass, and Abigail turned to Karmi.

"Kill them?" Megan asked.

"They can't do that!" Emily said.

"We gotta contact the others now!" Hiro said.

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"I don't wanna lose your love

Darling you are all that I'm thinking of

Let me say the words that you long to hear

My dear...."

Meanwhile, Esai, Halle Joe, Luna, Kat, Ken, Kiren, Peter, Georgie, Emerald Phoenix, Hitsuji, Kohitsuji, Sonya, Tanya, Diana, Leona, Denise, Tommy, Beatrice, Phillip, Thelma, Doug, Sam, Angie, Vivi, Matt, and Oliver were coming out of the movie room. They had just seen a double movie feature, The Kid With The X-Ray Eyes and Big Fat Liar. Even from the boy from the beach and his siblings and friends left the room, cheerfully.

"I love those two flicks," Esai smiled, walking with Halle Joe. "Justin Berfield and Frankie Mu؜ñiz are my faves."

"Oh, right!" Halle Joe said, after snapping out of her daydream. "Those two are cute. I wish I could have had those baby bunnies all to myself."

"Well, you'd better find another bunny, honey," jested Esai. "These are two grown buck rabbits----or jack hares, as Laine calls them---who have wives of their own. So, gotta move on...find some other leverets and cottontails."

"In the words of the Mad Hatter from 'Adventures In Wonderland,' 'How true that is.' " After that statement, Halle Joe looked away.

Noticing the underlying awkwardness, Esai suggested, "Speaking of bunnies, if you want one, would you to see if Honey Lemon can buy us one of Miss Candy's bunny dolls?"

"Oh, sure," Halle Joe said. "I do love me some Miss Candy and her bunny dolls! But could you get Venus to do it?"

Esai stared at Halle Joe, askance. "Why not Honey?"

"Well, you spend a lotta time with them, so..."

"You're not jealous, are you?"

"I wish I weren't." Halle Joe sat down on the chair in the lobby. "I feel like you don't love me no more." She buried her face in her dress and cried.

"That's a lie!" protested Esai. "I will always love you, Harriet Jozefina. When you first arrived at the Lucky Cat Café, I believed that you would be the future wife of my kids! I mean, look at you. You are cute, funny, loving, kind, and a sweet older sister to Ariel. What boy wouldn't be lucky with you?"

"You really think so?" Halle Joe smiled, tears oozing from her face.

"Of course, Enriquita Josefina," Esai hugged the girl, "or Henriett Jozefina, in Hungarian. You are a diamond that I want to keep forever. That everyone wants to keep. Wasabi, Venus, Ramen, Kyubi, Gadget, Bubbles, Sunny, Patty, heck, Annie, R.I.P., loved you...protected you from anyone that crosses us...What, you are gonna forget the episodes of the wicked Lloyd, the pirates, the vampires...oh, we had a wonderful time...all the friends we made."

"And lost."

"True......but, would they want any of us to become separate? Let my new family come between what we have?"

Halle Joe looked down at her pink dress, then at Esai. "Nope."

"So, whaddya say we make the most of this, huh?"

"Okie-dokie...."

Then, at the same time, they stated, “After all, this is our final date.”

Esai and Halle then blinked in surprise. They looked at each other and say at the same time, “Did you say that at the same time as me?”

After a moment of long, exchanged looks, Esai hummed, "Uh, Harriet?"

"Yes, Esai?"

"How long have you felt like this?"

"Well, been this way since we'd quit dating.....on account of you being adopted. Feels pretty weird and implausible, don't you think? Dating someone who's a part of my family?"

Esai conceded that point. "I guess that thought never came up. But, you know, now that you think of it...sounds sort of plausible to me. I mean, it shouldn't be an issue since Laine isn't my blood and all. But, I do agree on the 'weird' part, being accepted in the Siemaszko family."

Halle Joe nodded, and the two sit there momentarily before Esai perked himself up, saying, “Hey, that doesn’t mean we can’t be good cousins!”

Halle Joe smiles, hugging Esai. "Oh, Esai! I couldn't think of a better cousin than you! Golly gee whillikers, it felt so good to let that out!"

" 'Golly gee whillikers?' " Esai tickled the girl. "You know nobody says that anymore, right?" After the tickling session was done, Esai said, "Halle Joe, I love you."

"Oh, Esai Godofredo, I love you, too."

This was a beautiful feeling betwen Esai Godofredo and Harriet Jozefina. The creepy feeling between them was over. However, this did not last long, as a robotic figurine spots them, and shoots some darts at Esai and Halle Joe’s neck. Esai and Halle Joe shouted, but they then felt dizzy, and before long, they were knocked out. The robot picks them up and disappears, without being seen.

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"You guys, slow down!" Catsith said, as he, Emerald Spider, Ruby Joy, Kigyo, Ndege, and Jedi ran down the hallways on the first floor of the Emerald Hotel.

"Catch up, Floyd!" Ruby Joy jeered. "We wait for no man!"

"Guys! Stop!" growled Kigyo. "We gotta reach our aunts before something happens!"

Soon, a voice shuddered, "Too late for that, Nephew."

It belonged to a frightened Josie. She, Jack, Zoe, Chloe, Ayumi, and Claudia have also encountered some danger.

"Tante Josie!" Kigyo hugged his aunt.

"¡Tía Claudia!" Jedi embraced hers. "Are you okay?"

"I wish to God we were," Claudia said, tears rolling down her cheeks.

"What's going on?" Catsith wondered.

Catsith's answer consisted of cries of "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!! SOMEBODY HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! OH, PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSEEEEE! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELPP!"

Everyone ran outside. The desperate cries for help came from Tehani Alexandria "Candy" Moore! She had been seized by Hercules' robots and taken to a van.

"AUNTY CANDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!" cried Ndege, attempting to fly after her. But, Jedi caught her. "LEMME GO!"

"Do you not see the guns in their hands, Jacqui?!" debated Jedi.

As Candy was being shoved in the car, she began to wail some more.

"JACQUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!"

But, her request was only answered by, "Be quiet, Tehani, or I will kill you right now!!!"

It was Julie!

Chloe's eyes grew big, when she and her friends had seen who the desinated driver was. "Oh, my Lord! JULIE!"

"YOU LET CANDY GO, RIGHT NOW!" Zoe called out to her.

Waving goodbye, she turned on the ignition pin and drove away with the poor, captured bikini beauty.

Ndege cried in Jedi's arms. "Oh, my poor aunt......my beautiful, beloved Aunt Candy.....they are gonna kill her....."

"No, they ain't, Jacqui," Jedi assured. "I'll see to that."

"We all will," Kigyo said. "I'm gonna call my girlfriend and we are all gonna take down Hercules together."

"And that buttmunch, Julie Gates-Gerold, too," agreed Emerald Spider.

"With those robots around?" asked Ayumi.

"How, pray tell, are you going to take care of those freaks?" Jack asked, his arms folded.

Grouping together with Ruby Joy, Catsith, Kigyo, Ndege, and Jedi, the Emerald Spider announced, "We are Emerald Hero 6!"

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(Baymax, Hiro, Megan, Gogo, Aunt Cass, Abigail, Karmi, and Mochi belong to Disney and Marvel

Esai “Indoraptor” Flores, Kiren, Laine, boy, robots, and the plotline belong to superkoola

Diana Prince belongs to DC

Ayumi Liễu belongs to KAynizo

Peter, Georgie, Emerald Phoenix, Hitsuji, Kohitsuji, Ememax, and Emily Emerald belong to wildcat513

Candy, Josie, Claudia, Zoe, Chloe, Catsith, Ruby Joy, Kigyo, Ndege, Jedi, the girl, Halle Joe, Luna, Ariel, Kat, Ken, Sonya, Tanya, Diana, Leona, Denise, Tommy, Beatrice, Phillip, Thelma, Julie, Doug, Sam, Angie, Vivi, Matt, and Oliver belong to me!)

"Guys, thanks for meeting us on such short notice," Diana said gratefully to Baymax, Hiro, Megan, Wasabi, Gogo, Fred, Honey Lemon, Venus, Emily, Ememax, Ramen, Reiji, Karmi, Lisa, Dragonbat, and the Black Dragon as they, Candy, Ayumi, Claudia, Jack, Josie, Zoe, and Chloe were waiting outside of the Rainbow Pavilion.

"Anytime," Dragonbat said. Then, cutting to the chase, she asked. "What's going on?"

"Remember that Hercules character I was talking about at the hotel?" Diana asked.

"How can I forget?" Fred asked.

Diana glared at Fred. "Not that I was addressing you---," Fred pouted. "---but, my friends and I had run into two of his cronies I saw earlier."

"You means the ones chasing Halle Joe the other day?" The Black Dragon asked.

"The same," Diana admitted.

"What did they want this time?" Gogo asked.

"What else?" shrugged Diana. "Murder, chaos, world placed in the hands of the evil Hercules...."

Shock was spread across the kid's faces. "Isn't Hercules coined as the 'hero' type?" Hiro asked.

"Yeah, they made a movie expressing that for a reason," Megan said.

"That's how it's advertised," shrugged Zoe.

"In E-E-English?" Ramen asked.

"With the strength that surpasses mine, a high IQ level, and the robotic remains he's been collecting," Diana continued, "he can over throw the mightiest of warriors. Of the gods of the Greek pantheon his strength is now slightly greater than his brother Ares. He is capable of withstanding high caliber bullets, falls from great heights, powerful energy blasts, and extreme temperatures and pressures without sustaining injury."

"Dude, that guy sounds like someone that even Superman would have a hard time with," Wasabi interjected.

"No kidding," Josie said.

"What does he even want with those torn scraps anyways?" Venus wondered.

"Maybe to build an army, or to rebuild some Greek empire?" Fred suggested, naively.

"Yeah, he's doing that....." Diana nodded, still a bit annoyed but pushing it aside. "Look, whatever his purpose is, we have to be on our guard for him."

"You know, Diana? Why don't you learn to mind your own business?!"

All heads turned to a cold looking Julie Gates-Gerold, standing behind the tall black-haired Amazonian.

"That is another reason why I never liked you," Julie proceeded. "You were always meddling in affairs that never even involved you."

"Look what the cat dragged in," grumbled Reiji.

Candy glanced at Reiji. "You know this devil, too?"

"We wanted her autograph or a selfie," Reiji said.

"But, with her attitude, she pretty much showed us her hand," Wasabi said.

"And her horns," said Karmi.

"Hey, doesn't a girl have a right to say 'no' to people?" asked Julie.

"Maybe, but she doesn't have a right to split up love affairs," Honey Lemon said.

"Let alone shooting people in their legs," Gogo added.

"What does that have to do with anything?!" Julie dismissed, not at all caring about her misdeeds.

"Don't deny it, Julie!" Diana snapped. "Candy and Chloe have told me about you working for that devil Hercules!"

"You're the reason Candy's lost Cullen forever!" Ayumi snapped.

"And Chloe's dancing career's been compromised," Claudia added.

Pretending that she couldn't hear well, Julie Gates-Gerold put her finger to her ear. "Sorry, my ears are deaf to things and people I don't care about!" Then, she turned to Diana. "Look, Diana, don't waste my time about talking about devils, okay? We all have our devils. What person doesn't? I just happen to prefer the one known as Hercules, to the ones you have as your friends, like Candy, Chloe, Cullen, and Mrs. Lucifer herself, Francesca Gates-Hubbard...."

"You still on her?"

"Francesca was already getting on my nerve, with her clingy ways. But, ever since you guys...." Julie pointed to Ayumi, Zoe, Chloe, Claudia, Jack, Josie, and Candy, "especially, Candy..the man stealer....had intervened in her life, Francesca's horns and pitchfork had grown huger and larger."

"Julie, I am sorry," said Candy. "I was a different person then. I wish I had never come between you and Delmar that day....."

Jack pardoned Candy. "You know what, Candy? That is irrelevant at this point."

"Yeah, the things you did are milk and cookies, compared to what Julie has done," Diana agreed.

Julie laughed. "You gotta lotta nerve calling yourself a warrior, defending people who are in the wrong. You defend the man stealers, the freaks of nature, losers so low on the evolutionary chart, that they shouldn't even exist."

"Julie, you laugh and tease Josie and Jack because of their looks! You beat Ayumi and Frankie up with bricks, leadpipes, cords, and whips! You do the same to Candy for even looking at Cullen, to the point where she almost loses her LIFE!!! And don't get me started on the death threats you give her!!!! You tried to manipulate me, Zoe, and Claudia to join your snobby club! And worst of all, you get Chloe shot for standing up for her friends! So...how, exactly, do you get to tell me what's right or wrong?!" Tears spilled from Diana's eyes, when she thinks about the times that Candy had been beaten up for falling in love with Cullen.

"None of which is my business!"

"My best friend, Candy, nearly died, because of you treating her like a punching bag, giving her death threats, blows, black eyes, marks on her body, and stealing the man that she'd loved......basically giving her a punishment that was worse than the crime she committed...

Chloe has to live the rest of her life ambulating with a metal leg, having to put up with a lotta people laughing at her.

And now, Frankie has one foot in the wheelchair, and the other in the grave...AND YOU ARE GOING TO TELL ME THAT NONE OF YOUR FREAKING BUSINESS?!?!"

"Just close the deal, Diana, okay? I don't even care about you! I never have, and I never will. I have a dinner date with Hercules, who is stronger and more alluring than even Delmar and Cullen had ever been!"

Diana eyed Julie suspiciously. "You must be screwing him, huh?"

"Get some business, Diana, or better yet...get a life." Then, Julie turned to the rest of the heroes. "And if you want to keep yours, you stay away from me! You act like you know me or something."

"Trust me, we don't want to, either, lady," Hiro said.

"Someone like you? Are you crazy?" Laine added.

"You know what, Julie?" Karmi thought. "Wasabi was right about you. The words 'arrogant, pontificating, sanctimonious, and disgusting' are very fitting for you."

"Keep talking," warned Julie, "By the time Hercules's done with you, you will wish Eve was still around. Greek gods and godlike beings are on a higher level than even the Rainbow Eagle...but, hey? It's your lives you guys are putting in danger."

As she walked away, Baymax turned to Hiro. “On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your dislike for this woman?"

"Try ten plus ten!" Hiro grunted. "She's like another Renée! I wish our robots could just freaking blast her."

“My programming prevents me from injuring a human being,” Baymax said.

"As does mine," Ememax said.

"I have a better idea," said Emily. Then, she turned to Baymax and Ememax. "Guys, I want you two to do a background check on this woman and that Jerkules character."

"Agreed," Ememax said.

"I'll go do the same," Diana said, as she walked away, her eyes fixed upon the disgusting woman walking to her car.

Then, Josie took out her phone. "I'll notify my nephew about this."

"Same with my niece," Candy said, following suit.

"I'll notify mine as well," Claudia averred.

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In Eric Greens' room, he, Ruby Joy, Jacqui, Dorothy, Floyd, and Henry, were getting geared up.

Eric Greens, or the Emerald Spider, wore a skintight cloth, most likely Spandex or something similar. The costume is mostly green with green gloves, boots, mid-section, and mask.

"Ruby Joy, what was so important that you stopped me from watching 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?!'" Floyd growled, placing a orange cat-shaped helmet on his head. Floyd, or else, Catsith, was wearing an orange mechanical suit with a yellow button in the middle and orange leggings. His bracelets were scarlet. Attached to his bottom was an orange cat tail. He wore scarlet boots.

"Would you like me to find some pallbearers for you, Floyd, to answer that question?!" Ruby Joy was dressed in a ruby armor (with yellow buttons), accompanied by what appears to be scarlet hot pants. Her jikatabi fashion also remained intact with her armor, though given white linings to accompany the red. Around her waist was a mandarin sash. On her head was a golden headset. On her feet were redboots.

"Will you two please stop it?!" Jacqui said. She donned in a yellow and green dress with a green hummingbird's tail, blue sleeves, blue leggings, black Mary-Janes, green gloves, an orange buckle. On her hear head was a pink helmet with red buttons. Attached to her back were pink and red hummingbird wings. She went under the alias of the Ndege. "We don't have time to mess around! My aunt Candy says that wants to see us right now. So, we need to hurry!"

"Butt out, Jacqui!" Ruby Joy objected.

"Állj! Jacqueline's right, you bohóc!" Henry, putting on his blue snake helmet, protested. Henry, or Kigyo, was wearing an blue mechanical suit with a yellow waistbad, navy blue arm covers, and blue leggings. His gloves were yellow. Attached to his bottom was an blue snake tail. He wore navy blue boots. "My aunt Josie's told me about this jerk who's been messing with Miss Candy. Diana, what's her name...."

"Prince. Diana Prince." Dorothy, or Jedi, was wearing a mechanical suit with brown buttons in the middle and leggings. Her gloves were black. In her hands was a blue sword. She wore silver boots. "I know. She's friends with Henry's, mine, and Jacqueline's aunts....long story. Look, let's hurry up and meet them!"

"Couldn't have said it better myself," the Emerald Spider said.

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(Baymax, Hiro, Megan, Wasabi, Gogo, Fred and Honey Lemon belong to Disney and Marvel

Catherine/Venus belongs to BrainyxBat

Laine and the plotline belong to superkoola

Diana Prince belongs to DC

Dragonbat belongs to Dragonauroralight

Lisa Hoshi belongs to SeteIsHere/(@the_og_sete on Instagram)

Ememax, Emily Emerald, and Emerald Spider belong to wildcat513

Ayumi Liễu belongs to KAynizo

Jack Wheeler belongs to Amtrakfan062

Reiji is inspired by Fuschia1600

Auden Haworth/Ramen belongs to smokelesseyes

Candy, Josie, Claudia, Zoe, Chloe, Catsith, Ruby Joy, Kigyo, Ndege, Jedi, The Black Dragon, and Julie belong to me!)

"He was a nothin'

A zero, zero

Now he's a honcho

He's a hero

He hit the heights at breakneck speed

From zero to hero

Herc is a hero

Now he's a hero

Yes indeed!"

In the living room of a fancy, Greek-looking mansion in Honolulu, a TV plays Disney's Hercules on the television screen. While it plays, a booming laugh echoes throughout the room before the TV is smashed by a huge alabaster fist.

The mysterious voice said in a cold, steel voice, “If only the ladies got to know the REAL me....”

By golly, it was Hercules! Contrast to the strawberry blonde, muscular man on the television, the man was very ugly, shaggy, and even larger than even some of the greater Titans and Grecian ogres.

"...these women will be singing a brand new tune," said Hercules. "These silly little movies such as this one is very telling of how unenlightened they are of yours truly. But, in time, they will find out what kind of man their "hero" is...."

As his servants pick up the TV and replace it with a new one, one of them complain, "If I may speak freely, sir, this is the third television you had damaged this week."

Hercules glared at the servant. "Be grateful that it wasn't your body. In fact, after you are done installing the new set, why don't you use it to track down the sexy Candy girl and her friends. They are in great alliance with a Diana Charlotte Prince. Understood?"

Leaving the men to their business, an indignant Hercules goes to his gym and begins to lift thousands of pounds with ease.

"Eat your heart out, Mitchell "Moose" Hooper," bragged Hercules. "I'd like to see you pull of this trick. All the women...like Julie Gates...would want to have me.....Julie Gates....the sexier of the two Gates sisters.....unlike her hideous younger sister, Francesca. If only I could have Julie...Josephine..Ayumi....Claudia....and the tantalizing Tehani......a wonderful harem. I'd really like to have Diana Prince in it...then again, who wants to deal with a Big-Stiff, such as herself? Huh?"

Soon, another servant ran downstairs. "Sir, we got a lead on Miss Moore and Miss Prince."

"Oh, really?" Hercules' interest whetted.

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The next morning, Diana and her friends, Candy, Josie, Ayumi, and Claudia were at the beach, near the Rainbow Hotel, relaxing.

Candy, now clad in her navy blue strapless bikini, her yellow lei, a white flower in her hair, and her pink, yellow, red, orange, and blue sarong, sang a little chant and pretended to do the hula for her friends. Many of the men, in a lustful manner, were panting, whistling, cat-calling, watching, and trying to touch Candy's libidinous body, sway her sexy hips around. One even kissed the back of Candy's neck, while she was singing this chant:

"In this world, a complecitus complicatation. In this world, a peculitous posilization.

In this world, a redonkulous rufuelization, there comes a time for.... relaaaaax...-ification.

Your life's full of boulders but shrug your sh-oulders just shrug your sh-oul-ders.....

Reeeeelax....."

Sitting next to Diana were her other old friends: Jack Wheeler, Zoe "Hurricane" Lane, and Chloe Evans.

Thirty-seven year old Jackson Eugene Wheeler was Diana's friend from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and a head doctor in the United States Army Nurse Corps (USANC), who had offered Diana a lot of solace in the most turbulent times. This timid young gentleman had light brown hair, glasses, Arabian, Danish, Lebanese, Dutch, Italian, Ashkenazi-Jewish, Indian, Portuguese, and Bosnian roots, and, if pushed to the edge, a chip on his shoulder.

"Oh, Candy's never lost her touch!" Jack, in his yellow and green boxers, stated, winking at Candy.

"So hot!" Ayumi, dressed in a white and blue halter bikini, clapped her hands.

"Well, they call her the biggest sex symbol for a reason!" acknowledged Josie, now in her black and red spaghetti strapped bikini.

"I can see why," Diana, in her red strapless bikini, declared. "She is beautiful, delicious, luscious, gorgeous......"

Zoe Andrea Lane, on the other hand, had an angry temperment. Actually it was a cognitive behavioral anger issue that she had been battling with for forty years. This is why the native from Newark, New Jersey was having a lot of trouble being calm in her nursing classes at the Holliday College. Not that she was another Julie Gates-Gerold any stretch of the imagination, but she also had a little jealousy towards Candy for being one of the hottest actresses in Hollywood. Scoffing, the Canadian-Czech red-head from New Jersey, grunted, "I can do better than this little scrawny wahine here...." She folded her arms in her chest, which was covered in an orange halter bikini.

Wearing a blue one and a white lei, Chloe Nancy Horton Evans, a Japanese-Colombian thirty-nine years, faced Zoe in an icy gaze. "Now, that just wasn't necessary, Hurricane," the blonde woman said in a British accent.

"Mind your business, Crazy Legs," Zoe grumbled, "before I blast your other leg!"

Knowing that Zoe was hinting at the fact it had been shot and has replaced by a robotic one, Chloe rose out of her seat to use it on the grumpy girl. Already placed in the Blood Hawk Military School, an all-women's correctional facility, for fighting, sleeping around with men, and setting someone's car afire, the native from Wolverhampton, England had developed a fiery disposition herself.

Diana stomped over to the women. "Girls, preschool days are over."

Reluctantly dispersing, Zoe and Chloe resumed to their positions. As soon as Candy was through with her song, Diana, Ayumi, Josie, Claudia, Jack, Chloe, and a hesitant Zoe clapped their hands.

"Candy, that was lovely," Claudia complimented.

"Still got the sexy moves, too," Jack winked, kissing and licking Candy's neck. "Sexy little hula girl...."

"Jack!" giggled Candy, as she joined her friends.

Diana glowered at Jack. "Jackson, heal."

"My bad," Jack said, as he rose his hands, in acquiescence.

"I gotta say, though," Diana said, "I'm really proud of us all. I mean, Candy is one of the hottest sex symbols, actresses, and singers in Hollywood and a CEO of the oxygenated flower company, Air Blooms, Ayumi the head nurse in the Queen's North Hawaii Community Hospital, Claudia owns Hooked on Books, a book shop in Honolulu, Josephine is one of the greatest stockbroker for Charles Schwab, Jack is the head doctor at Pali Momi Medical Center, Zoe one of the coolest NASCAR racers ever, and Chloe a dancer and an anime voice actress."

"And with families of our own, too," Ayumi put in.

"Not me," Zoe drew breath from her lips. "I just have a boyfriend."

"Same, dude," Josie said. "Families are extra."

"Yeah, all we need are our dogs and cats," affirmed Chloe.

Then Candy turned to Diana. "Say, girl, when do you think you'll have one of your own?"

"Me? A family woman?" Diana scoffed, jestingly. "Diana Charlotte Prince settling down? Never!"

"What's the matter," jested Claudia. "Not interested?"

"Anything wrong with that?" Diana asked.

"Yeah, you'd better get interested, before all the good guys are taken," Candy said.

"Guys, I am fine living alone. It's drama-free, okay?" Diana protested.

"Yeah, not everyone is comfortable with the word marriage," Josie said, supportively.

"Sorry," Candy said.

"It's cool," Diana smiled. Then, she turned to Candy. "Besides I already have two kids to care for. An Esai Godofredo Lopez and a Harriet Jozefina Siemaszko. Speaking of family, Tehani Alexandria, how are you and that sexy Southern doctor, Cullen Warren Hopkins......"

Candy looked down.

Knowing the meaning of Candy's now despondent disposition, Diana shook her head in disbelief. "I'm sorry, girl. I really am."

"Yeah, me too," Chloe put her skinny arm around Candy's shoulder. "I know how much you two really loved each other."

"Cullen and I were made for loving each other. It's fine, though," Candy beamed. "He and I are the best of friends now. He's married to another woman and I to another man, and we both have kids. Plus, he's asked me and my husband to be the godparents to his children and vice versa."

"That is beautiful, Candy," Diana hugged her younger friend.

"Right?" Candy clapped her hands, joyfully.

"Par for the course, I'd say," Jack said. Then, his eyes rested upon some men who are pulling something out from their car. "I wonder what those guys are taking out?"

"Dunno," Diana rose from her seat. "I'll be right back. I'm going to check it out."

"Hey, grab me another 40, while you're at it," called out Zoe.

"You've had enough, Zoe," joked Diana.

As Diana walked away from the pavilion, she stopped and saw what they’re pulling out: a robotic hunk, similar to the one she destroyed.

"You think this will work on that Candy girl Miss Gates was talking about?" asked a man.

"Please, with this baby fully upgraded," said the other, "we will be able to wipe out her and her other friends, including the English blonde with the robotic leg."

"Man, Julie really had it in for those two," said the first man.

"Julie had always hated snitches," said the second. "Shame Julie had to blast off one of the crazy legs of that crane. Next time, she will keep her mouth to herself."

"Yeah, who Julie split up is none of her business," said the first man. "It's not like Cullen and Candy ever made a good match anyway. A white boy and a black girl? Seriously?"

Getting a closer look, she sneered at the men. Wow, she thought. Having Chloe's leg blasted off for trying to protect Candy's and Cullen's love. And Julie calls Frankie an ugly pig. Huh?

After her thought had ended, she peered, suspiciously at the men. "Hey, those are the Saiko psychoes who were chasing Halle Joe that day!"

While Ayumi, Candy, Josie, Claudia, Jack, Chloe, and Zoe subtly crept behind Diana, the man said, "Well, we'd better not miss with these robots, or they won't be the only things scrapped."

"Yes, number one rule, never anger the master," said the second man.

Growling, Diana approached. "Correction: Never anger Diana Prince!"

The men gasped and looked at her. They moved to flee, but Diana pushed them down, immobilizing them, no matter how much they struggled. If they tried to get up, Diana would either punch them or rip their heads off. Either way, they could not win.

"Now, before I rip you apart, and trust me, it is very tempting," Diana said, tartly, "would you guys mind telling me who your boss is?"

"You don't need to know, woman," said the first man.

Diana souciantly shrugged. "Oh, well. I would say that it's been nice knowing you. But, I'm not necessarily nice, and I wasn't really trying to get to know you."

"No!" Candy said, begging. "Diana, you mustn't!"

The second man's eyes were melting in sexual pleasure when he saw Candy's glamourous, alluring, and beguiling figure.

"Hey, it's Tehani "Candy" Moore!" he said. "Say, Candy, bae! I got your first album, 'Sexual Freedom!' Love it, girl!"

Irritated by his distraction, the first man turned to the second one. "What?"

"Dude, it's the buxom bikini babe, Tehani "Candy" Moore, hello?" replied the second. "One of Hawaii's greatest sex symbols and singers? And speaking of buxom....."

Candy covered her chest area with her hands. Diana blocked the men's view. "You want me to rip your eyes out?!"

Chloe ran over to the men. "Hey, you blew off my left leg!"

"Snitches get stitches, Crazy Legs Crane!" hissed the second man.

"You split up Candy and Cullen, too!" Ayumi protested.

"You knew those two had loved each other," Zoe, hugging Candy towards her body, growled.

"You got your nerve showing your faces here after that!!" Jack roared.

"Hey, we're trying to find more materials for our boss!" snapped the second man.

"You are the most subtle person I know, you know that?" grumbled the first.

"Materials?" Ayumi wondered. "What for?"

"Uh, lady, would you like to lose your leg, too?" threatened the first man.

Diana slapped him. "You lay one finger on any of my friends, and I will kill you both. Final time asking this: Who. Sent. You?"

"Why do you wanna know, son?" protested the first man. "Anything you have in store for us won't work on us! You ain't getting anything out of us! You hear me? You don't scare us!"

“Yeah, not like HercuoOAAAAH,” stopping himself from revealing himself.

However, Diana has a good idea who it is. "I believe I have all the information that I'm going to need. Thank you, 'gentlemen.'"

After the loose usage of the word "gentlemen," Diana knocked their heads against each other, knocking them out.

"You wanna tell me what the heck is going on?" Claudia asked.

"And why you was attacking these clowns?" Zoe added.

Diana thrust the men's bodies on the beach. "It's Hercules. He's gotta be stopped before he hurts anyone else, or worse yet, kills them. I'm calling Dragonbat."

"Good idea," Josie said. "I'm going to call my nephew, Henry. Maybe he and his friends will help."

"How?" Ayumi asked.

"You'll see," Josie said. "And so will the 'mighty' Hercules."

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(The men, servants, and the plotline belong to superkoola

Diana Prince and Hercules belong to DC

Ayumi Liễu belongs to KAynizo

Jack Wheeler belongs to Amtrakfan062

Candy, Claudia, Chloe, Zoe, Josie, Zoe, and Chloe belong to me!)

In the hotel room, Diana, Ayumi, Claudia, Dragonbat, and Halle Joe are hanging around in their hotel room. Halle Joe was in the separate room, finishing her favorite episode of "Adventures In Wonderland."

"Man, I love that show!" Halle Joe said, hugging her Crazy Legs Crane doll. "I wanna meet the cast someday!"

"Well, unfortunately, you're too late for the Red Queen, honey," Dragonbat shook her head.

"Is she dead?"

"Sadly."

"Oh, no! I loved her. She was my favorite."

"I like the Tweedles myself. Anyway, it's time to get ready."

"Yeah, I hear you have a date with a certain someone named 'Esai Godofredo,'" Diana, a teasing glint in her eye, cooed.

Halle Joe's eyes widened. "Esai? A date?"

"Yeah, so you'd better come on, then, and get dressed," Diana said. "He and the girls are waiting!"

Apprehensively, Halle Joe got up and complied.

The older women looked at each other. "Is Halle Joe a robot or something?" Ayumi inquired.

"I'm really getting worried," Dragonbat shook her head.

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As Diana, Ayumi, Claudia, Dragonbat, and Halle Joe went down to the lobby, they ran into Baymax, Ememax, Hiro, Gogo, Abigail, Cass, Emily, and Megan, who were returning from the beach.

Hiro's eyes rested upon the raven-haired beauty. "Hey, is that who I think I see?"

"I think it is," Cass said.

"It's right, you'd be," Ememax said.

Baymax scanned Diana, to the latter's chagrin. "What.....is this robot doing?"

“Prince, Diana Charlotte. Age 39. Weight: 100. Height: 5’0. Born to Hippolyta, Queen of the Amazons, and Zeus, the mightiest of the Gods of Olympus. Brothers, Jason and Ares, and sister, Eris. Although she was raised entirely by women on the island of Themyscira, she was sent as an ambassador to the Man's World, spreading their idealistic message of strength and love.”

Diana growled. "Freaking stalker!!!!!"

As she went over to injure Baymax, Hiro blocked the way, "Chill, lady! Leave my robot alone!!!"

Baymax simply replied. "I am a robot. I cannot be offended."

"I wonder if it will be offended if I call it a weirdo."

"Him, actually," corrected Megan.

Gogo, entranced by Diana's rough-hewn nature, smiled. "She seems cool."

Cass apologetically came to Hiro. "Sorry about my nephew's robot. This is Baymax. He and his robot wife, Ememax, are equipped to be a littly nosy."

"Okay, whatever." Diana gave Cass a wry glance.

"Anyways, my name is Cass Hamada, and this is Hiro, and his friends, Megan, Emily, Abigail, and Gogo."

Diana's eyes turned to Gogo. "Ethel Claire Tomago."

"Guilty."

"Heard about you. Your no-nonsense approach, agility, tough-as-nails attitude says it all, which I, frankly, like, because some people need some head-knocking."

Gogo grinned, and they fist-bumped, with Gogo whistling as she felt Diana’s fist. "You bones are tough, too."

"That's what being an Amazonian will do for a girl," Ayumi smiled, her arms folded.

"The last of her kind, too," Dragonbat smiled.

The others frowned. "Last of her kind?" Abigail asked.

"It's fine," Diana assured, warmly. "I mean, it is what it is, ancient history----" She stopped and frowned at Hiro, who was looking at her. "Uh, what is this guy doing here? Isn't that the same kid who tried to make a pass at a certain woman, namely Olivia Patricia Harding?"

Hiro blushed.

"It's 'Kelekolio,' now," corrected Dragonbat. "Fred and Wasabi told me ever since Olive had gotten married and had a family, Hiro's crush on her.....ancient history."

"Besides," Hiro said, as Megan came to him. "Megan and I are a thing now."

"What?!" Diana squinted her eyes.

"Yeah?" Megan said, offended by Diana's attitude. "Hiro and I are in love."

"Just like Baymax and my Ememax," smiled Emily.

Diana nodded. "Fine." Then, she towered over Hiro. "Better treat her right. I don't want to hear of you mistreating her...In. Any. Way. Are you and I on the same page here?"

Hiro, slightly intimidated by her posture, even though she wasn’t threatening him in any way, nods as he holds Megan close to him.

"Yeeeeeah" was Hiro's answer.

After holding her contemptous glare upon Hiro for a while, Diana turned then to her cell phone. "Hey, it's my other friend, Candy!"

"Candy?" asked Halle Joe.

"Yup, as in Tehani "Candy" Moore," smiled Diana. "She attended the Holliday College with Ayumi, Candy, and me!"

"Of course," Ayumi stated, "her major was botany. Who would have guessed that beautiful island girl would be a CEO of Air Blooms, a company who sells flowers that produce oxygen bubbles, never mind one of the sexiest women in Hollywood and in the Broadway world?"

"Didn't she play Christine in the Phantom of the Opera, in the Lenore Shiramoto Theatre?" Hiro asked. "Even though many people were, for reasons that elude me completely, flipping out about a black lady play a princess?"

Diana glared at Hiro. "Uh, duh!" she snapped and walked away.

Dragonbat whispered. "Word to the wise, dude. Don't get on the wrong foot with her."

"Yeah, she's enough trouble trusting men and boys, due to a bad history with them that led to her kind being nearly extinct," added Claudia.

"I see." Hiro understood.

Emily then looked at her phone, too. "Hey, babe, where are you? You are where? Oh, I know where that is! Lemme find ya!"

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Wasabi, Venus, Ramen, Fred, Honey Lemon, Laine, Karmi, Black Dragon, Lisa, Jacqueline, and Reiji are with Jacqueline's aunt, Tehani "Candy" Moore and her friend, Josephine Caroline "Josie" Schwartz, going out of the hotel's club, Hawaii Vice. With them were Eric Greens, Emily's boyfriend, Ruby Joy Antonov, Floyd Montalbán, Henry Pallache, and the arrogant Dorothy Muñiz.

"Wow, those hip hop dances will make a brother sore," declared Wasabi.

"Same with a sister," Jacqueline rubbed her back.

"I'd been telling you, Wasabi, dancing is a serious business," Venus said to her husband.

"And Jacqueline, darling, I'd been a dancer for many years," Candy told her niece. "You'd seen me limp from time to time from my hula lessons. Dancing is work, baby."

"How true that is," acknowledged Jacqueline.

The beautiful Tehani Alexandria Moore, a part-Gambian, part-Cuban, and part-Hawaiian girl from Honolulu, Hawaii, is the favorite aunt of her niece Jacqueline. At age 19, she was one of the hottest dancers in Hawaii and in San Fransokyo, much to the disgust of her parents and younger sister. In the Lenore Shimamoto Theatre, Candy was cast as Christine in the play, "The Phantom Of The Opera," and the Cat in the Hat, in "Seussical." Candy had even attended to school at San Fransokyo Arts Institute with Abigail Callaghan (even though, like Honey Lemon, she had taken some classes at the San Fransokyo Arts Institute.) Now, at twenty-nine, she is very cheery and outgoing, like Ayumi, Diana's best friend. Candy been crowned Miss Hawaii in 2009, but has a sweeter disposition.

"Man, I can't believe we are with one of the hottest starlettes, Tehani "Candy" Moore," Honey Lemon clapped her hands with joy.

"And a great friend of Drs. Cullen Warren Hopkins and Bernardo Mauricio Vega," beamed Wasabi.

"Gnarly to the max, dude!" The Black Dragon stated.

Candy turned to Wasabi. "Hey, those two gentlemen are wonderful friends of mine! Where you know them from?"

"We'd t-t-t-toured the R-R-R-Redwood Magical School," responded Ramen.

Dorothy Lake Muñiz giggled. This fifteen-year-old femme fatale usually doesn't get along with other girls, so she can barely stand Emily Emerald and Jacqui Wambui very much.....hardly likes Ramen, either.

Hearing this was her more civil boyfriend, Henry Barry Pallache, who shot her a disapproving glance. This sexy young eighteen-year-old was in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, and raised outside of Orlandeiro, Florida. Henry, as his parents are, is very well-versed in the Hungarian and Portuguese languages, and can speak either to confuse his friends and foes.

"Um, got a problem?" Henry asked.

"Wh-Wh-Wh-What d-d-d-d-does i-i-i-it s-s-s-sound l-l-l-like?" teased Dorothy.

"Dorothy, já chega," Henry chided. "Cool it."

"Yes, that's enough," Josie, Henry's aunt, interjected. This Ashkenazi-Jewish woman is cold towards her friends, thanks to her wicked mother bullying her, saying she is unattractive. The thirty-two-year old Josephine is even distrusting over the friends she's got....counting Tehani.

"You know how I feel about r-r-r-r-retards," Dorothy stood her ground.

Ramen felt tears brimming in her eyes.

"Retards?!" Lisa grunted. "Oh, my gosh, kid!"

"That is so insensitive!" Laine growled.

"Seriously, lay off her, okay?" Fred stood up for Ramen.

"Yeah, Dorothy, let her alone," Floyd Tunney Montalbán said, tartly. "Talking about her like that." This sexy young nineteen was in Brooklyn, New York and raised outside of Dayton, Ohio. Ever since his parents died in a car crash, Floyd's right eye was wounded and his right leg lost. Though many girls, counting Jacqui, find him red-hot. Floyd is a good friend to Henry, but an enemy to Dorothy.

"Shut up, Floyd," objected Dorothy. "or I'll take out your other eye and break your other leg!"

"How about you all shut up," Ruby Joy grunted, "before you all lose your parts?! How about that?!" This sexy brunette tomboy used to be a girlfriend of Tadashi Hamada, until his death. Ruby is the only member from San Fransokyo in her group. Ruby is a good friend to Emily, Jacqui, Floyd, and Henry, but an enemy to Dorothy.

Soon, a voice called out to a boy. "ERIC!"

Eric Gunther Volodymyr Greens, the oldest of his group, turned to an enthusiastic, felicitic Emily Emerald, reaching her hands out and running to him. The twenty-one year old hugged her and kissed her.

"EMILY!!!!!!" Eric Greens kissed the woman, with joy.

Wasabi, Venus, Fred, Honey Lemon, Laine, Ramen, Black Dragon, Karmi, Lisa, and Reiji looked at each other. Candy, Josie, Jacqui, Ruby Joy, Floyd, and Henry surrounded Eric and Emily. Dorothy, however, remained aloof.

"Another reunion?" Karmi asked.

Ramen shrugged.

Fred took it upon himself to speak. "Um, Emily, do you know Eric?"

Emily turned to Wasabi. "Oh, yeah! Eric is my boyfriend."

"A boyfriend?" Laine asked.

"Aw, I didn't know Emily had a sweetheart," cooed Honey.

"That makes two of us," said Laine.

Then, Emily turned to Jacqueline and Candy. "Jacqui? Miss Candy? Ruby Joy?"

"EMILY!" cooed Jacqueline, hugging Emily.

"Oh, it is so good to see you!" Miss Candy kissed Emily's cheeks.

As Emily returned the displays of affection to Jacqui and Candy, Dorothy rolled her eyes. Ruby Joy elbowed her in the ribs. "Hello?"

"No?" Dorothy sassed.

Impatient, Wasabi asked, "What's going on here?"

Eric said, "Sorry, guys. Emily is our friend from Orlandeiro, Florida."

"Orlandeiro, Florida?" Wasabi asked.

"Rio de Janeiro and Orlando fused into one," explained Lisa.

"We all went to the Orlandeiro Technical University together," said Jacqueline.

"Or, A Universidade de Tecnologia de Orlandeiro," bragged Henry.

"I think I know that place," Venus said.

"Yeah, 50 years ago, that place was founded by a Brazilian woman, Emilia Ribeiro," Reiji said.

"Yes, it is," Josie said, impressed that Reiji knew about that school.

"Say," invited Emily, "Hiro and the others are going to an after party! Wanna come?"

Ruby Joy's eyes widened. "Hiro? Hiro Hamada?"

"What other Hiro is there?" grumped Karmi.

"Oh, stop it, Karmi," snapped Venus.

"Yeah, if we are going, we had better hurry, man," the Black Dragon said, "before the crowds build up."

"Yeah, I don't wanna miss the sexy men!" Lisa said.

Dorothy laughed. "Wait, what? You with a sexy man?"

Floyd pulled Dorothy away. "You know what? You are done here!"

Jacqui pushed her forward. "Yeah, always messing with people."

"Whatever!" Dorothy snapped. "That's my job!"

"Ah, shuttup!" Eric and Emily herded the cold girl.

Wasabi, Fred, Venus, Honey Lemon, Laine, Ramen, Black Dragon, Karmi, Lisa, Reiji, Candy, and Josie looked in shock, as Eric, Emily, Jacqui, Ruby Joy, Floyd, and Henry pushed Dorothy inside the club.

"What a terrible girl," Honey Lemon said.

"Totally uncool," said the Black Dragon in agreement.

"I'd say 'Mrs. Lex Luthor,' evil," Fred winked.

"You know something, Karmi?" Wasabi asked. "That girl makes you look nice."

"Shut up, Wasabi," grunted Karmi.

"I'm just saying," Wasabi laughed, in frustration.

Josie pardoned the girl. "You'll have to excuse Dot Muñiz here. She's a little rough around the edges."

"We'd kind of taken note of that, Miss Josie," Venus said.

"But, what is her deal, though?" Lisa asked. "Why is she such a grinchy-grouch?!"

"Sugar, if you was witnessing your parents had dying at the hands of some butt-munch named Hercules," explained Candy, "you'd be a grinchy-grouch, too."

"Hercules?!" Venus exclaimed.

Watching Candy Moore from a bar was Julie Hortensia Gates-Gerold. She grabbed her cell-phone. "Sir? There are some nosy nerds talking about you..and the worst part is that my rival from the beauty pageant, Miss Tehani "Candy" Moore, is among them.....alright, how do you want me to handle this?"

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"Here comes the night

Once again

I'll be feeling lonely

Oh if only things could work out like you plan

Where can love be

Tell me why it's so hard to find somebody

Who will stand by me

And take the time to understand

And so may love again..........."

That evening, Diana took Esai and Halle Joe to the Pippu Cola Booth where they could get some ice cream floats. At a table far from the kids,' Diana sat down, texting her friend, Candy.

"Candy is at the Hawaii Vice club with her niece and friends...hmmm....," Diana said. Then, she looked at the kids, then texted, "I'm sorry, Candy, but I am watching my friend's son and his buddy. Let's have you, me, Claudia, and Ayumi hang out at the beach tomorrow, huh?"

Then, Candy texted her affirmation.

"Cool! See you then! I can't wait to catch up with you! Miss you!"

After the exchange of sweet parting words, Diana closed her phone. "Man, that Tehani Moore! She is one of the best, sweetest, and most seraphic friends I had from school. Too bad Julie bullied the crap out of her...tried to kill her, even...and for what? Having had darker skin than she and we did? Fortunately, Frankie was nice enough to invite her in our circle of friends. Shoot, she had even protected our Candy girl from that psycho! What a cherub. Speaking of....."

Meanwhile, Esai and Halle Joe, sat at a table, hardly speaking, hardly looking.

"So, how've you been while I was away, HJ?" asked Esai.

"Cool, just the same old, same old, ya know?" Halle Joe answered.

"See any good movies?"

"No."

Noticing the tension between Esai and Halle Joe, Diana came over. "Man, you guys are totally talkative," said the woman, sarcastically. "Anything I should know about?"

Esai and Halle looked at her and shook their heads. "We're cool," they both said.

Diana remains suspicious but decides not to pursue this. Then, changing the subject, Diana asked, "Um, Esai, I was wondering....did Dragonbat ever inform you or the two women about anything?"

Esai, looking awkward, shook his head. "No....why?"

"Well," Diana replied, "I see you three playing that crazy vampire game sometimes. Same with Hiro and his friends. Worse than that, from what I'd heard, that game has grown prevalent in that Magical School."

"Point being?"

"Point being, I don't find that game to be appropriate...in front of me, with those women, the other guys...just, period!"

"Any reason why?"

"How's this?"

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We then get a flashback showing Diana walking around the streets, a bit impoverished, before she walks into a place called, Rina's Diner. There, she met a lovely woman, named Rina, who bore a striking resemblance to Sarah Hawkins from Treasure Planet.

"Have some moqueca de camarão, dear," Rina invited. "It's on the house."

Gratefully, Diana grabs her spoon, and eats the shrimp soup. As Rina gives her some lemonade, Diana glance up at her. "Thank you so much for this meal, Miss......"

"Azulão. Rina Azulão."

"Miss Azulão, I was wondering is this place hiring right now?"

"Oh, interested in working here, huh? Well, ask and ye shall receive. When can you start?"

"Imediatamente."

"Oh, speak my language, hey? Cool! Welcome to Rina's Diner!"

"Gracias!"

After her employment, Diana gets to become fully acquainted by Miss Rina and her son, Afonso Verne Azulão, who was 2 at the time. Afonso was comforting Diana, who was totally wiped out from her first three months.

"Estás bem, Senhorita?" Afonso wondered. "Are you okay?"

"Just beaten, Afonso," replied Diana. "But, if it would keep me off the streets, then, no complaints. Gotta work to live you know."

"That's what my mom always tells me. By the way, I am glad you and Mãe are such good friends."

"Same. Were it not for her, I'd probably be dead right now."

Afonso hugged her. "I don't want that, Senhorita Prince. I don't want that. I want you just to stay....and stay...and stay......"

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Unfortunately, Afonso's wish did not come true.

On Afonso's fourth birthday, Eve showed up and turned San Fransokyo into a nightmare.

In a trailer right behind the diner, Diana woke up to screaming and snarling, and she went to find Rina biting her Afonso's neck, draining him dry of his blood.

"THIS IS MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO YOU!!!!!!" Rina roared.

Running to the woman, Diana bellowed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!"

"I still can see Afonso's look of betrayal, hurt, and horror in his eyes as his mother...the same woman who birthed him four years ago.........drained him," Diana, in the current day, narrated.

Then, Rina squeezed the neck with her teeth, crushing it before tossing the body to the side and looking at Diana, a sadistic smile on her face.

"Come to share my treat, mortal?" invited Rina.

Diana kept her chilling gaze upon the lady.

"Or maybe, you would like to become one yourself? Oh, well....it may have been my son's birthday, but you know what? I'LL BE GETTING THE GIFTS!!!!!!!"

Diana gasps as the vampire rushes to her. But being a very powerful being and skilled fighter, Diana easily stopped her and killed her by ripping off her head. However, she looks at the two bodies and whimpers, tears streaming down.

"I gave you my friendship, Rina," sobbed Diana. "I let you and your son in my world...I trusted you, completely......and this is how I'm repaid....you kill your son, on his fourth birthday.....and you try to kill me now.....? Why?! WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!"

Diana cried outright.

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Back in the modern day.......

"I couldn't find a proper place to bury the bodies, and thus, they were left to rot as I fought as many vampires and other demons as possible to save as many lives as possible...." Then, she glared at the teary-eyed Esai and the sobbing Halle Joe. "Now, you see why I don't like you guys playing like that."

"I'm so sorry, Miss Diana," sputtered Esai. "We didn't know."

"Please forgive us," Halle Joe said. "We'll never play like that again."

Diana hugged them. "I know you didn't know, guys. I know you saw it as a harmless game. That is why I am telling you now."

"I guess we took it a bit too far."

As Diana pulled back and placed her hand in his cheek, she smiled, "Guys, I am not trying to spoil your fun. All I want you two to do is be more sensitive to others’ feelings and do these games privately. Can either of you do that for me?"

"Oh, we can," Esai, nodding, whimpered like a puppy.

"We promise," Halle Joe clasped her hands together.

Diana then giggled softly.

Halle Joe hugged Esai, and kissed him on the cheek as well. "You are so cute when you cry."

"Oh, wow!" Esai laughed, wiping the tears from his eyes.

Diana stands up but sees Esai still wiping tears. Then she remembered Afonso from earlier and how she always comforted him whenever Rina was not around.

Deciding to cheer Esai up, she picked him up out of nowhere, making him gasp. "Have you ever flown before?" she asked.

"Not that I recall," Esai said, after pondering that for a while.

"Well, you and Harriet Jozefina are in luck! I'm gonna give you two a first flight on the Prince Airlines!" Diana grinned and picked up Halle Joe before jumping high into the air, making them gasp.

Then, Diana began to fly around, using her flight powers to fly around into the air. They fly over several pools and buildings, and Esai and Halle cheer as they feel the wind pressing against them.

Then, Diana faked a crash-landing in the middle of the woods, with Diana shielding them as they tumbled about. But the two kids and Diana laugh as they relax.

Halle Joe looked at Diana. "Why do I always forget you can fly?"

"Welcome to life of the most unique among the Amazonians," Diana bragged. "Remember, Baymax did point out that I am the daughter of Hippolyta and Zeus."

Then, after they giggled and hugged each other, Diana looked at the two kids, lovingly. "Man, it is soo cool to meet you guys...especially you, Esai. Remember what a fun time we had in...what's it called, Wonderland?"

"Wunderstadt," corrected Esai, laughing. "Man, the dances, the tea party, the residents....priceless!" Then, as Diana sets Halle Joe down, Esai said to the latter, "You should have been there, Halle Joe. You would have had a whole lot of fun."

"Minus the blood and gore," smiled Diana.

Halle Joe shook with fright. "Hope our date is more normal than our adventures!"

"Oh, they will be," Esai cooed, flirtatiously. "I am going to treat you like a lady."

Diana looked at Esai. "I can tell. There something about you, Godofredo, that tells me that you are going to be different from all the other men I have met."

Esai crimsoned with shyness. "That's so sweet, Miss Prince....you know, not all men and boys are bad. Look at Hiro, Wasabi, and Fred. They are like big brothers and father figures to me."

Diana frowned, but conceded that point. "It's true that Fred, Wasabi, and even Hiro seem to be decent....they actually remind me of a friend of mine that I had worked with, Jackson Eugene Wheeler....when I was an army nurse, he was a head doctor, who had always comforted me when times got hard. He treated me like a human, even though he was hot for me. I hope he is still alive.

Now, his friends.....it was a non-stop episode of 'Touch me, feel be, take it off!' Grr....It was a 24/ headache. Even, Hercules, who wanted me as his wife, would tell me that my body was a baby-making machine and nothing else! That is why I was conflicted with most guys...counting Hiro."

"Well, I won't be like that."

"Are you, Mr. 'I-Love-To-Check-Out-Mermaids?'" Diana trenchantly asked, referring to the time he had ogled Allene, one of the Wunderstadtian mermaids.

"Trust, Miss Prince," assured Esai, fearfully. "I am positive."

"Well, you'd better be," Diana whispered, her eyes cold on Esai. "Because, if I am on old woman, God willing, and I catch another replay of Shane's mess, I'm going to screw you up...no matter what Laine or Honey say or do......capische?"

Esai shivered a bit but nodded as he understood. "Kaposh!"

"Danke schön." Diana’s stern gaze then softened, and hugged him. "Man, you are tough cookie, but I enjoy being with you."

"The feeling is mutual, and delivered to Harriet Jozefina, too. Speaking of........"Then, she picks up Halle, who was looking at some flowers and not paying attention to their conversation and hugs her.

"Miss Diana," laughed Halle Joe.

"Stop whining," jested Diana. "I have a friend who has better looking flowers, anyhow! You two are gonna meet her tomorrow!"

"Oh, I would love to meet her!" Halle Joe beamed.

"Alright!" Diana said, kissing the girl's cheeks. "Now, shall we be off?"

"Allons-y!" the kids cheered.

Witht he kids in her arms, Diana flies into the friendly skies.

(Neither of them realized that a small robot was watching them…)

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(Baymax, Hiro, Megan, Aunt Cass, Abigail, Wasabi, Mochi, Gogo, Karmi, Fred and Honey Lemon belong to Disney and Marvel

Catherine/Venus belongs to BrainyxBat

Esai “Indoraptor” Flores, Laine, Rina, Afonso, and the plotline belong to superkoola

Diana Prince belongs to DC

Dragonbat belongs to Dragonauroralight

Lisa Hoshi and Emmy belong to SeteIsHere/(@the_og_sete on Instagram)

Ayumi Liễu belongs to KAynizo

Reiji is inspired by Fuschia1600

Auden Haworth/Ramen belongs to smokelesseyes

Ememax, Emily Emerald, and Eric Greens belong to wildcat513

Candy, Claudia, Dorothy, Henry, Ruby, Floyd, Josie, Jacqui, and The Black Dragon belong to me!)