Troy and the Captain of Ringdom

Welcome to Iowa

The quadruple of gallant warriors arrived at the crime scene in Iowa. The perpetrator of the crime scene was a young lady - she was probably the same age as any of Madonna, Cherry or Troy; at most, a year or two older. She looked really dangerous, wearing a skin tight jumpsuit filled with lots of treacherous weapons. Her most pronounced weapon was a long whip which was sparking with minor electrical currents. On one hand she had a number of Iowan civilians bundled together and bounded by a rope. On another, she had a big bag full of numerous denominations of dollar notes.

"Well hey losers. What brings you to Iowa?" The lady who had an eye mask strapped firmly to her face said.

"First of all! We're not losers, alright? We came first in a doomsday contest, ever heard of that? Second of all, who the hell do you think you are?" Madonna boldly exclaimed.

"Forgive my manners. I am 'Le Matador Sigiloso' " the lady said.

"What does that mean?" Mason asked.

"You'll find out soon enough" the lady said as she brought out her electrocuting whips ready for battle.

The lady jumped to an extremely high altitude and used her electrocuting whip to circle Troy. The electric shock shorted out the current in her biotech and Troy fell to the ground unconscious. The evil villain then performed two summersaults and landed on Madonna wrapping her legs around her neck. She choked Madonna by squeezing her legs tight and simultaneously punching her in the face causing her to become incapacitated.

It was now down to Mason and Cherry. The Blue Dynamite was about to zoom across to land a hit, but even with his super speed and time manipulation, the evil villain made a spectacular front flip to dodge his attempted efforts. On landing with a knee squat, she brought out a weapon from one of the compartments of her suit and shot out two pairs of cuffs which bounded his hands and feet, ultimately preventing him from using any of his powers.

Just as La Matador Sigiloso was about to turn to head out of the scene, Cherry gave her a ruthless sucker punch with her right hand which was already soaked in verdant colored flames. The villain was blown away as a result of the impact, but strangely landed on her feet like a cat. La Matador then attempted throwing her long electrocuting whip to wrap the Cherry in it, but the captain blasted the whip off her hands. Cherry then flew across and grabbed the whip before using it to strap her firmly so she wouldn't cause any more damage.

The villain acted like the electrocuting whip had made her unconscious but in actual fact it hadn't. Her suit was made of a modified plastic fabric which made it impossible for her to be harmed by her own weapon. La Matador's histrionics deceived Cherry into thinking that the duel was over.

Cherry turned back to call the cops, using a new feature on the communication lines, courtesy of Maddison.

"Hello, Des Moines Police Division. This is Captain Cherry speaking..." Cherry said being that they weren't mandated to keep secret identities any longer.

"Oh Captain Cherry! My mom's a big fan! Can I get your autograph later?" The voice said on the line. Cherry sighed heavily before responding to the officer.

"Alright! You will, just bring your officers over, we've got a terrible criminal captured here just outside the Bank of Iowa" Cherry continued.

"Is she captured? Cuffed? Incapacitated?" the cop asked.

"No she's..." Cherry said before turning back and realizing that the villain had escaped with her whip. Cherry was greatly surprised. At this point, Mason, Madonna and Troy started to get back to their feet.

"She's what Captain? Captain are you there?" the voice said on the communication line. Cherry then cut the call to go and free the civilians from the strangle hold of the ropes. Mason got back to his feet and the first person he could see as soon as he regained full consciousness was Cherry. Heads then directed his questions to her.

"What happened? Did we win?" Mason asked.

"No Mase. We didn't!" Cherry immediately responded.

"What about the hot-looking villain?" Mason continued.

"Seriously? Hot? That's all that's on your mind right now?" Cherry responded.

"Alright, I'm sorry but did we capture her?" Mason asked.

"No Mason! We did not!" Cherry yelled in anger.

The crime rate in some of parts of America and the rest of the world was still sky rocketing to the rooftops. It seemed as though everything was going well in Seattle but truth be told, a lot of violent and dangerous criminals were lurking around every corner within the multiverse with different agendas. Today's conquest only proved that their attacking technique needed a lot more work.

Madonna opened up another portal for the quadruple to teleport back to Maddie's laboratory where Maddie was checking a few news reports on her central high definition display screen.

"Maddie, what...I mean who did we just fight?" Cherry asked.

"I've been looking through all the databases for any bio data that could match hers but I can't seem to find anything" Maddison immediately replied despite the fact that she hadn't even turned to see their faces.

"That was a lady? I don't think so. Didn't you see the way she beat us all up?" Madonna bolted as if on impulse.

"She beat you guys, not me" Cherry said shortly after.

"Wow. Way to rub it in our faces Cher" Mason joined in.

"Guys!" Maddison exclaimed to cut their rising feud.

"...I think I found something" she continued.

"What'd you find?" Troy said as all four of them walked towards where she sat. Apparently, Maddison had found a theory which could help them realize the evil warlord's identity.

"Do you remember that stuff about opposite multiverses?" Maddie asked.

"Yeah I heard about it a couple of times. What about it?" Cherry responded.

"This person you just fought against was from a direct opposite multiverse in the galaxy" Maddie explained.

"For real? Opposite multiverses exist?" Troy asked.

"I thought they only existed in movies" Mason added.

"Well they do exist and this opposite multiverse isn't anywhere near any of the three multiverses we know of"

"Wait a minute, do you mean there's another multiverse, excluding the whole Zeppelin fiasco?" Madonna asked.

"Exactly! Only Mason can get there with the aid of his super speed but the rest of you can't, except with the aid of a specialized space jet" Maddison explained.

"What are you saying? We don't have specialized space jets. Where could we even get that?" Troy said before everyone in the room gave her a baleful look, most likely suggesting that her father was more than capable of purchasing the jet.

"Hold up! I know you're all thinking that I could tease my Dad into buying the stupid jet which is a very dirty thought by the way, but even if that was going to happen, where on earth are we going to buy a ready made space jet or even find the tools to build one?" Troy said.

"Leave that to me, I can look that up in a couple of days. Once I'm done I'll give you all a rough estimate of how much it's going to cost" Maddie replied.

Troy's father - Mr Willows would give anything to make his daughter happy and he counted himself lucky to even have the financial enablement to do so. Apart from owning a gigantic mansion in Seattle that looked akin to Disneyland, the business tycoon who's net worth ran into billion of dollars, had a large number of properties and profitable businesses all around the world. Although, some private news agents often question his charitable acts to the society.

The opposite multiverse was a myth for centuries, but the attack of Le Matador suggested otherwise. Le Matador had auburn hair just like Cherry. Maddison could stake a claim that the evil villain who attacked them was a direct opposite of Captain Cherry. Le Matador was from a planet in the opposite multiverse called 'Inversia'. On Inversia, a complete opposite of every being that existed within the galaxy could be found. The planet which is spherical like many others in the galaxy is home to over fifty billion species. On this absurd planet, anyone who was good in actuality was found to be evil and vice versa. Inversian beings could do things that the actual beings couldn't have imagined they would do. What remained untold was the reason La Matador came to steal money - Inverse beings didn't believe in materialism.

Mason called for an emergency meeting of the fabulous four. The meeting was to hold in a conference room at the Willows Mansion. It was unusual, majorly owing to the fact that the fabulous four had never had a meeting where they only discussed issues pertaining to the team. The 'meeting' was to take place the following morning, which was a Saturday. The announcement came on the communication lines late at night.

Cherry had worn her pyjamas, getting ready to retire for the night. The captain was just scrolling through her mobile phone. She spent the day getting ready for the resumption of schooling activities on Monday, so she could have the whole Saturday all to her self. As she sunk into the couch and simultaneously battled to keep her eyes open, Cherry's old granny walked into the scene with her rickety old alpenstock.

"Cherry dear, aren't you going to bed yet?" Old Ms Davies asked.

"Not yet, I'll retire in a couple of minutes" Cherry responded. Ms Davies then joined Cherry in the sitting room before collecting the remote and switching the channel to one of Joyce Meyer's good ol sermons. It wasn't long after when Cherry ignited another conversation.

"Grandma, do I have a brother?" Cherry asked after she had turned off her mobile phone to focus on her granny. Ms Davies initially acted like she didn't hear her granddaughter's question. She was forced to provide an answer when Cherry repeated the question while blocking her perfect view of the television. Ms Davies then told her to come sit beside her.

"Alright, you do have a brother" Ms Davies said.

"How come no one's ever told me?" Cherry asked.

"No one told me either! I just found out by..." "By what? You weren't eavesdropping were you?"

"No I wasn't eavesdropping! I was just...passing by and...I heard your parents talking and...it doesn't matter. That was over a decade ago"

"Whatever. I know his name is Ainsley and he lives in Warsaw and I think I have an idea of what he looks like, but I really want to know what he's doing in Warsaw"

"Well I don't know"

"Grandma!"

"Okay, Okay...Ainsley wasn't born by your mother. Your father spent a lot of money settling Ainsley and his mother in Poland where they could start a new life"

"I don't understand. Why couldn't he move them to Quebec or Arizona or even Buenos Aires? Why Warsaw?"

"I really don't know!"

"Grandma!"

"Alright! Alright! Your father wanted you to see him as a responsible and loving father. He didn't want you or your mother to rebuff him. He loved you..."

"Hell no he didn't!"

On making her final statement, Cherry got up and went to her room without even telling her granny a good night. Ms Davies could hardly tell if her favorite grandchild was angry, sad or disturbed. She'd have to wait till Saturday morning to find out.