Chapter 6 – Whoa, Nelly! Gnarly girl

 

One week later 

 

Thatti sat back on the bleachers of the outdoor field where a Powerball game was about to unveil, Jel and Caleb sat with her.

Petal stood off to the side, waiting for the rest of her team to assemble. While she waited for Diane and Nef to sit, she came over with an iced container and leaned down. "Here you are you three, you darlings must be so thirsty." She took out some cold drinks from within and handed them one by one. Caleb was on high-alert. "W-what the heck are you doing?! You think we'll just accept gifts from the enemy?"

He snapped back, holding his own water bottle in front of his body. "Never gonna happen! You're the worst spy Petal-sensei~!"

"Calm yourself." Thatti said. "Hey, you guys. Ready to tell me about your treachery? Or do I have to beat it out of you again?" She struck them a taut look.

"Sister T-Tatti!" Neffy said, rushing to Thatti's side. She hugged her with her shoulder, burying her head in until Thatti's head was buried in her breasts. "Glad you could make it for the sports, Ne-Tatti!" She said as Petal went to Diane, who was also burying her head into Petal's chest. "And of course, thank you for the icepacks and drinks and everything. Petal smiled gently. "Just because we're enemies, doesn't mean we cannot be civilized now does it."

"The freakin civilized type that bites girls heads off!" Caleb yelled smug.

 

"She's looking pretty fine these days, dunno about you Cal-boo.” Petal pat his head.

Diane threw her the middle finger.

 

"Icepacks and drinks." She sighed. "Well... I'm happy you're all safe. And I'm happy you're all getting along well with each other." She said as Nefriset held Caleb and Jelena's hands.

Soon Caleb and Jel snuck away, rushing as the female cheerleading team arrived on a nearby bus. "C'mon, this is going to be great."

"What are you two up to?" Thatti got up and followed the two. They soon ran into the closets and to the uniform closet, the two taking some strange powder. "This stuff is going to make the rival Orchid cheerleaders itch down to their very soul!" Jel smirked. "They'll be so itchy, they'll throw off their clothes in no time, and their panties will be exposed for all to see. It'll be glorious." Caleb bragged. "You two." Thatti smirked. "You two want to make our enemies sweat through their faces, do you? This is all a great big game to you." She laughed. "Not bad. Let me show you the real deal." She pulled her out wand, uttered an enchantment and then let a blast of strange clear-colored goo spread through the wardrobe. Soon they were squeaky and shiny. "Rubber, crinkles tight. It'll be so tight they'll never get these uniforms off"

"Nice!" Jel gave Thatti a high-five.

 

"Wait, Thatti no! The point is they take their CLOTHES off!" Caleb complained.

 

Thatti gave him a long look. "What? You don't want to get naked? Hmm? You like looking at naked girls?"

"What?! No, that's crazy!" He looked back at the clock. "Ugh, they're late. The game's probably already started."

The sound of multiple explosions were heard from the field. Thatti was startled and ran out, facing the commotion of Echostar's entire team already practically devastated.

She rushed over to the spectators stands, where the Xi team had beaten and bruised their Orchid rivals minutes into the match. Thatti jumped onto the field, and with her wand unveiled a powerful aura of light around her body. A few of the Xi girls leapt up in shock and fear, but as her aura of light enveloped the field, they were immediately overcome by her divine energy.

They all froze and fell to the ground, their bodies petrified and stuck, and their eyes glued to Thatti. She had turned the entire Xi-Orchid game into an audience of her own.

Jelena stood among the Xi girls, all of whom turned their heads towards Thatti. "Tha-thatt- tttttiiiiiiiii~" Jel called, pointing over to the culprit on the opposite side. The Xi's Powerball champions.

 

 

 

One stood about 6' 9" with a red leotard, large fist gauntlets, shoulderpads, a crystalline dome overtop their head with a Mohawk poking out, navy-blue shades and a mohawk, whose tanned body stood firm. Next to her, a shorter, rounded pudgy girl with mint-green skin. The former had two gems on her hands, the latter a gem on her shoulder.

"More gems." Thatti readied her wand.

 

Thatti looked to the red-leotarded girl. "Hey, who are you? You’re that girl who fought Caleb way earlier weren’t you?"

"I'm Pyra." Pyra said. “And calling what we had a ‘fight’ would be overly generous.”

 

The girl next to her pulled out a whip. "Maisma beeeeetch!" She called out.

 

"Leave your mark, God's Spark." A horizontal wave of light left her wand, slid down her and changed her body and appearance fully.

Maisma leapt on Thatti and shot a web-whip, which caught her offguard and trapped her body. She used her whip to drag her close before Pyra smashed a punch onto Thatti, smashing the

mint girl to the ground. "This might seem cute, but I don't like cute." Pyra punched the ground, breaking the surface.

"We're the Xi Powerball team's official enforcers, gonna get in our way?" Pyra said, looking down at her. "Hand over that wand to the Sins, and we'll walk away." She said, pointing her finger at Thatti.

"You think you could beat me and steal my wand by yourself? Are you that strong?" Thatti asked, holding up her own finger.

"Yup." Pyra said, clenching her fist and pointing at her.

 

"No." Thatti answered, putting her hand over her arm and tossing Pyra far to the ground, before leaping back. Maisma ran forward and lashed her whip at Thatti, catching her, then unleashing the whip to spin her for a twirl before Pyra charged and punched her in the face.

"We did this in the name of Xi!" Maisma said. "We're gonna get beat, aren't we?"

 

Pyra looked to her. "Ugh, you're such a twit! She's not defeated until we take her wand, Maisma. She can heal herself completely with it." She held out a fist, ready to fight again. "Beat her down good, Maisma. We gotta finish her for the crowd."

 

 

 

The girl stood up, spitting out a slick of blood. "I call upon the stars, Angelic Virtue! Code 9: Pink Bloom" Suddenly the air around her aura became surrounded by a strange pink mist. The particles charged into shape around her body, forming 4 delicate wings, an extra pair of arms, a flowery floating skirt and long sleeves and shoulderpads. "I call upon the stars, Sinister Wickedness! Code 8: Diamond Lightning" Suddenly elbows were covered with brightly-glowing gauntlets shimmering like diamonds, electrical currents and a dense aura surrounding her fists. The electricity insulated her body from all friction, levitating her at ballistic mach speeds. She

couldn’t do this quite as blindingly fast or furious as her mother, but out her lips came an utterance that put her into the mindset of a merciless blitz. “Whisperwind.” A blast cone of air erupted from where she was.

 

 

 

Pyra and Maisma , blinded by her torpedo launch in all directions looked at each other and smirked. "So we're gonna get the wand back now? You think you've seen worse than us, huh?" Pyra said, Maisma smiled.

"This is gonna be funnnnn~" Pyra began to dance, her and Maisma's gems glowing. "Let's show you our Greed. Blossoming: Maiyra Fight! Iggy Azalea."

 

 

 

Pyra and Maisma held their hands to the sky and spun themselves, and soon their auras around their body began to grow and grow, forming a larger and larger form and auras around their body, soon merging and dwarfing Thatti in stature. Their merged form grew two additional arms, 3 additional eyes, extended sharp teeth, and a mane of long spiky, green hair behind them. They roared, and the 2 girls merged into one. Thatti barely came up to Maiyra's ankles.

 

 

 

The Xi team's cheerleaders looked on, all entranced by the show and wonders they were experiencing.

 

 

 

Thatti was stunned, looking up at the enormous gems on Maiyra's hands. "Why'd you get so big?"

Maiyra bent down on her knees, smirking. "To keep being the best."

"What the heck's the best about?"

 

Maiyra shook her head. "You'll understand later."

 

 

 

 

She said, and leapt upwards. She struck Thatti like a fly and slammed her into the ground.

 

"You see?" Maiyra said, pointing at her. "I told you you'd lose." She reached forward, ready to pluck Thatti's wand from her hand.

"I call upon the stars, Angelic Virtue! Code 10: Divine Retribution." Her opponent said, bursting into a rapid flare of light and richocheting through the field.

Maiyra, now enveloped in a bright yellow aura of light, roared and punched the ground, causing massive waves of light to blast through her and her opponent. "I told you to leave the wand to us. It's too late."

"I know how to fight too. I can win too." The girl said, her own aura glowing rich yellow as she sped up, dancing around Maiyra like a rapid pinball to fast to catch or strike.

Maiyra, taking advantage of her clairvoyance followed Thatti in all directions at once. “The Domina’s signature trick. Not even close to as extravagant though.” Nowhere near fast enough.” She boasted, her 5 eyes rapidly following Thatti through the skies and in each direction, future sight catching up until the girl was virtually in slow motion to her despite being a whirlwind of fury to the rest of the crowd. She finally zoomed towards Maiyra’s face, all 5 eyes on her, Thatti’s fist swinging towards her forehead.

Maiyra reeled backwards dodging. She leapt back and punched back, Thatti slipping in through the gap in the gems reactions and slamming back her hands, grabbing the arm with a grapple. As the gem recoiled, Thatti spun, grabbing her fist and twisting the arm in a lock, before

jumping and leaping off with the arm in tow and using a twirl of the body to strike a powerful elbow jab towards Maiyra's face. Maiyra was punted in shock, falling back into the ground. Her precognition was going off like a thousand flipping channels, she saw the girl striking her from every angle at once. You may be able to follow my location, but that little power of yours means nothing if we’re faster. The girl thought. Maiyra got up, dusting herself off and rubbing her shoulder. She was going to get a hold of herself, and get a hold of Thatti. "Tch. It's all right, I should've known. You have a pretty good reputation in fighting."

"Yeah? Well, I'm more." She said, turning Headhunter into a giant scythe, striking Maiyra in the face and slamming her to the ground, dragging her massive form through the field.

"Yo this girl is about to get smashed up!" Maiyra's gauntlets began to emit an electrical discharge, and while still carried on the ground started throwing her fists. Every swipe she made sent a lightening bolt, the shocking strikes like flashes of voltage whipping her way.

She grinned. "Not going to happen Gemmy." Once Maiyra was dragged a safe distant away, she flew high up and pointed Headhunter down until it became a gigantic cannon 15m long.

"Megaton Detonator Tonnage. Xi uses these on Highfleet Scavenger payloads." She let out a scream, ready to strike. She charged a massive blast of energy and screamed as she unleashed her enchanted missile from Headhunter, which struck Maiyra in the face and sent her reeling into the ground with a groundshaking boom. A small mushroom cloud appeared over to witnesses at the field.

She ran towards Maiyra, and with her hands together and screamed, and with her scream launched a missile of the same magnitude as her first into Maiyra, the second blast sending her into the ground, and the field shaking a second time.

Maiyra soon rose, looking wobbly and defeated. They threw one last fistbolt of electricity at the girl flying above them, which missed and they fell over. As their body reverted to light, they split back into Pyra and Maisma once again undoing their fusion.

"GG dude." Maisma said.

 

Pyra however stood undeterred.

 

“Pyra! Be careful, she’s on red alert right now!” Petal yelled concerned.

 

"Not. Finished." She called out, pointing her finger at Thatti. The girl flew down, Headhunter becoming the diamond gauntlet again.

"Wanna have a bet? Your speed or my foresight. Which do you think can win out?" Pyra said, smirking.

"No need to bet, let's try and see.

 

Pyra spun her body around, spinning her body quickly around to avoid Thatti's fast fist attacks. Thatti couldn't keep up, but Pyra couldn't keep up. The two locked in a frenzy of fist- shield, fist-dodge, fist-block until they both were exhausted. Thatti panted. "Okay.. not bad.

Pretty solid." She got up, spinning her head. "But I got something better. See this?" She pointed Headhunter. "Aimed at you." She said, holding up her glovewand.

"Thought were going to have a fistfight. Cheating are we?"

 

The girl sped and grabbed onto Pyra's shoulder so she couldn't dodge back. "Yeah, sorry." With a fling, Headhunter changed form, becoming a toy boxing-glove attached to a spring. The glove went BOIIIING and knocked Pyra's lights out, cracking her shades. Thatti held up her hand, and the giant spring in her hand became small. "This is actually a real boxing glove with a spring on the inside that compresses itself, when you throw a punch, it gives you a boost to

power through." She said. "I mean, it's just a dumb toy actually. But my girl really likes her toys." She started to walk away. "I won. 1 on 2 wasn't fair, but what can you do."

Pyra slowly pulled herself together. "Tch. Liar." "What did you say?" She said.

"I said, you're a liar. It was.. 2 on 2 wasn't it?"

 

Thatti laughed. "Oh I got a bet for you. I got you." She held up her hand again, and Headhunter began to expand until it was a heavy bag of weights. "See I got other tricks up my sleeve." She said, clenching her fists. "I could keep doing this for a while." She said, spinning the sandbags and wacking Pyra with them repeatedly. "Hitting you till you drop, gem trash."

"Not gonna happen." Pyra spat, holding up her hands in a cross. From them, a cross-shaped beam blasted Thatti far away. With enough time, Pyra grabbed Maisma's slumped body and slung her over her shoulder.

Soon Diane, Petal and Nef surrounded her, each of them on a single side with Pyra behind her.

"You got beat up?" Diane asked. "You could've asked for help!" She said, before looking back at Pyra. "Fuse with me next time!"

"Shush you. You're no better. She was just one girl, and that's all. It's a no-contest."

 

Suddenly Diane got a call on her phone. She took it out and stepped away. "Oh hey sweetie.. uh huh.. yeah yeah.. we're working on it. Yes she's right here, we almost-" She turned every few moments, and Thatti deactivated her transformation. "Wait a second." She said. "I recognize that voice- that's!!" She ran to try to tackle Diane, only for Petal to shield her with her staff. "MY EX! Did he put you up to this? I'm going to, errr!"

Diane raised her hands. "Babe I'll call you back." She hung up. "Alright, everyone take 10. It's been a long afternoon." The group of 5 began to head towards the exit.

"W-what? You're just going to, leave just like that?"

 

Diane turned around. "You planning on running away anytime soon?" Thatti grit her teeth. "I, guess no?"

"Then you'll be here for us anytime we plan." She took a step towards Thatti, pointing a finger at her. "It's just going to be like this from now on. You're on our hitlist."

Maisma soon stepped away from Thatti and began to dance, twisting her hips and chest as she twerked away. "See you soon, twerp."

Nef stepped away from Thatti and walked away, clenching her fists. "I guess we'll find out who can beat who next time Ne-Tatti!"

The girls all walked away, leaving Thatti to herself.

 

Caleb and Jel caught up to her soon, having gotten their kicks watching the cheerleaders itch in latex uniforms as the carnage was going on.

"You haven't found out anything from them yet, have you? Sorry it didn't work out, friend." He said.

She looked at him. "They're not going anywhere either. I've beaten, every single one of them now!" She held up her fist. "I'm not afraid to take them out."

"Okay okay.. we didn't mean to upset you." Jelena said. "So what are we going to do now?" Thatti shrugged. "What do you guys do for fun around here?"