"Wh..what the hell?!" Manson screamed at the giant creature before her made completely out of snakes.
"Ohhh, if it isssn't Mrsss. Manson! Lassst I saw you I wasss getting thrown into a sslammer! Kind of my dad to bail me out! The sssame dad you're trying to ssssteal from me!" The creature screamed, glaring at her and smiling wide enough to reveal his large fangs.
And his voice sounded so familiar to her...
"Wait... that voice, it sounds like..."
As she recognised him, he began to laugh, and beneath all the hissing and slitehring of the snakes that covered him, she could still detect s voice within...
"That delinquent Snek.. What the hell? I thought you went steady!"
"Asss you can see that didn't work out so well." Snek said, still laughing.
"What are you doing here? What would your father think?" Manson shouted, getting ready to draw out her gun.
"He'sss not here and he doesn't know it'sss me! And he won't ever know once I get rid of dear old ssstepmom before she tells him! Plusss, I'll get to remove the bitch who thought she could replace my mom!!"
"Oh Snek! That's not why I..."
Snek sent his giant snake-composed fist hurtling towards her and, in a split second, the fist hit the ground, crushing her, three of her nearest men, and her police car in the process.
That is, if the trio hadn't gotten them out of the way.
Jake held her in his arms as he zipped away with his super speed. Zack and Stacya did their best to save the others.
"W..what the hell are you doing, you freak?" Manson asked when she realized she was in the hands of a super.
No, a vigilante...
"Helping you." Jake said calmly as the trio set the policemen down and directed their attention to Snek.
And as the other policemen directed their firearms at the heroes.
"You two have some beef, huh?" Jake asked Manson jokingly.
"That's none of your business, freak."
"Well, stopping him before he hurts himself or others is my business, and I can't do that with your men pointing guns at me or my friends."
Manson then looked around and motioned for the officers to direct their attention to the literal giant man made of snakes.
"Thanks, officer," Jake said, getting only a strange look from the chief.
"Okay... Za... I mean... uh... What was it again?" Zack stared at Jake for a moment before realising Jake forgot his name. He wanted to correct him, but it looked like Jake was figuring it out soon.
"Ah! Expander! You got a plan to beat this thing?"
He wasn't.
"It's Expanding Man! And if we target the outside, we'll surely get bitten, so..."
"We target the meat within," Stacya said with childlike glee.
"Ok, great idea, but how the hell are we supposed to get inside him? The only hole is his mouth and every other crevice is surrounded by snakes. Ones that can take you down in one bite, Sta..I mean Sharkwoman. "
"I appreciate the concern, that's why you'll be the catalyst for my plan."
"Plan?"
Stacya then held Jake and Zack together to tell them her plan. Soon after the trio got out of sight before Manson could ask any questions.
As soon as the policemen began firing at Snek, he hissed loudly once more and a green liquid started forming in his giant mouth.
And Manson just noticed it.
"Men! Watch out!" Manson screamed so her men would move out of range. But with no designated target in sight, she realized she was too late.
As Snek sprayed a wave of deadly venom on all the policemen surrounding him.
"What have you done Snek?!"
"What I'm about to do to you!"
"No, Snek! You really don't want to, do you? It's the mutoxin talking. You have to resist it!"
"I'll admit it isss the mutoxin telling me to do this, but how is that a problem? would've taken thiss ssshit earlier if I knew it'd be my ticket to getting rid of the bitch intending to ssssteal my dad from me!"
"You know very well that's not true! Your dad and I are together because he lo..."
"Oh ssshut up!" Snek said as he prepared another venom splash.
Until he got a strange smell.
A smell of policemen. Living policemen.
But they were supposed to be dead.
That was weird. He could've sworn he killed them all.
That's when he received a shot to the side. Once he turned to find who shot him, he received three more to his back.
They irritated him at best, but he preferred not to be irritated at all.
As multiple shots kept getting fired at him, he remembered what Mr. E told him before getting his own special dose of Mutoxin.
In a small white room, he heard the behemoth of a man talking to him from behind...
"Remember, my child. Take this and no one will ever irritate you again! Not your school. Not your dad. Not your stepmom. Not your rivals in your gang. Not anyone. With this, you will rise to the top of the food chain..."
And now was the time to do those words justice. But first, he needed to find the source of that gunfire.
"Wow, you are one ugly son of a gun up close, aren't you?"
Snek turned around to see Jake standing on a half-melted police car.
Snek sighed.
"Hey man, I'm giving you a chance to essscape here. Lemme kill the cop, sssnag that tech, and get out of your hair..."
"Is there a way we can add in going to court, paying for your crimes, and giving that woman some respect?" Jake said, annoyed he would even suggest that.
His annoyance only grew stronger the more he thought about how Snek was treating Manson.
From what he got from observing, like it or not, she was his mother and she wasn't giving up on him, so he had no right to insult her like this...
Especially when his own mom completely gave up on him long ago.
"What the hell do you know about my life, you cossstume-wearing freak?"
"Oh? The giant snake man thinks I'm the freak? And why does everyone have a problem with the costume? I think it looks pretty good..."
But before Jake could finish his sentence, he was melted by a spray of venom.
At least, that's what Snek thought.
"I mean, it's a bit tacky for my taste, but the symbol looks nice. I wonder what it's supposed to mean, though," Jake said, standing behind Snek and referencing his weirdly heart-shaped symbol.
Snek turned around and shot venom at him.
But he disappeared.
Snek shot another blast, but Jake disappeared before it even reached the ground. Suddenly, he received several shots to the back and realized:
Jake had placed all the policemen in the buildings around him. Something Snek wouldn't have known if the mutoxin didn't crank his survival instincts to eleven.
"Maybe in those metaphorical type deals, right? Who cares anyway?"
Snek felt more shots reach him, but he still kept firing blasts at Jake. He'd deal with them later. He needed to focus on the speedster. Who knows what scheme he's cooking up?
He fired another blast at him, but all his blasts were doing was missing him by small margins.
But he fired another anyway.
"Right now the only thing that matters is me."
And another.
"And you."
And another.
"Ssshut up!"
And another.
"Just ssshut the hell up!"
Snek raised his arm to strike again but realised he was gone. Completely gone.He looked around to find the street completely devoid of life.
His instincts still drilled danger into his head.
Something was wrong...
That's when Snek realized what that little man was.
A distraction.
Once Snek sniffed out the location of of his friends, he turned to see them standing on a nearby rooftop holding something large.
Before he could do anything, he received a giant concrete ball to the face.
A ball that sent him flying out of his snake armor and made it collapse into a mountain of snakes.
Soon after it quickly disappeared.
It was over.
Snek had lost.
From the building, Zack and Stacya hugged each other in celebration.
Her plan worked.
Shark Woman's ability allowed her to change the physical state of inorganic matter and bend it to her will, so by changing the concrete of a nearby building to liquid, she was free to mold it into any shape she wanted.
Like a giant ball.
And what good is a giant ball without a giant hand to throw it? Luckily she had that thanks to Zack's ability to expand us body parts.
Snek woke up minutes later to see several blurry images before him.
And no memory of what happened.
Some guys in weird costumes talking to the cops.
Some cops looking in a van that had just crashed.
And some cops dragging him to a police car.
But the sight that caught him off guard was his stepmom.
"Mrs. Manson? What's going on? Where are we?"
"Don't worry, kid. I'll explain on the way," she said as she gave him a solemn smile, put him in the police car, and sent him off.
But now there was the matter of the three vigilantes helping her out.
And the guy hiding on the van this whole time...
Oh, and of course, the electric sparks emanating from the van...
To be continued...