by Fahrenheit 451, HERO!, Vulpixjoe, Kristogar Velo and JTFree
The battle raged on.
Flintlock: "Vulpine Joe, come over here!"
Vulpine Joe ran over to him. "What's up?"
Flintlock: "We need a plan to kill the Boull efficiently."
Vulpine Joe: "Well... they are vulnerable to fire."
"Okay." Flintlock took out his flamethrower and started killing Boull aliens.
Hero: "Wait, that's not original."
Vulpine Joe: "Okay, wood. No, I know! How about acid?"
Nowhereman: "But isn't everybody...?"
"Quiet!" Flintlock handed out little acid-spraying devices to people. As he reached Shock-Headed Peter, he turned to Hero and said, "Even him, too?"
"I'll give it to him." Hero took the acid gun from Flintlock, afraid to ask where he had pulled it from. He took the gun to Shock-Headed Peter and slowly handed it over.
Shock-Headed Peter: "What's this for?"
Hero: "Vulpine Joe says the Boull will fall to this."
"Acid?" said Shock-Headed Peter. "Well, doesn't every--?"
Flintlock, shouting from a distance, said, "Never mind that! Just use it!"
Disco Stave: "Look alive, folks. Here they come!"
Dragnet Zero, Beer-Drinking Lad, and the rest of the MBLers there received acid guns from Flintlock. As if a tidal wave, the MBL and IBG raced forward in such a destructive force that the earth below them began to shake. Unseen to anyone, a small fissure began to expand, forming a crevice, which slowly crept its way to the pawns in the great battle. How long would it be before the ground gave?
Vulpine Joe: "Is it just me, or does anyone else realize that the ground is kind of shaking? Ah, it's probably my imagination." He turned around and continued to spray acid.
Marv Velo finally had an idea as to how to beat the aliens, or at least get the upper hand in the battle with the Boull. Too much brute force, he thought. We'll wear down before they do.
He shouted, "All MBL gather! I have an idea!" In one way or another, everybody stood around Velo. This was the first time since he'd been in the League that he had shown even a hint of the leadership skills that he knew he was capable of.
"All right, now for all of you new reinforcements that Cadet brought, in a few seconds, you're gonna feel yourself being taken away to another area. Just relax and don't struggle. It'll be Speck. You'll feel queasy for a moment, maybe two, but over all, it won't affect you. The rest of you, follow my lead!"
All of the other heroes that Cadet brought, the group of former MBLers and allies, disappeared in a second. The Boull made a full-frontal assault. Velo turned and fled. The others hesitated, then followed him. When Velo started turning around and shooting the Boull on the run, the others who could started doing the same.
"Well, fearless leader," Beer-Drinking Lad asked Velo, "exactly what are we doing here?"
"It's called a feigned withdrawal. I should've thought of it sooner, but I was thinking too much from my experience as a solo crime fighter, not working with a team. We're taking out as many as possible as we get back to the others, and when we do get to them, some of them will fight them head on, others from behind and all sides. They're not expecting it... I hope."
The ground finally gave. A few heroes almost fell in, but they each managed to escape. Dozens of the Boull weren't able to do the same.
"Um... Marv," Nowhereman asked, "was that part of your plan?"
"Well... no," Velo replied. "That's an unexpected advantage. Keep pressing on!"
However, when they got back to where the others were supposed to be, they found them all unconscious. A masked man was standing over them.
"Hi," he said. "I'm New Champ City's resident villain."
"Oookayyy," Disco Stave said. "What now?"
Velo couldn't think straight. "Um... Take out our acid-spray things?"
J.T. Free entered the woods and approached Beer-Drinking Lad. "Hey, I'm like done saving my home town and stuff. What did I miss?"
Beer-Drinking Lad: "A whole lot."
J.T. Free: "Care to fill me in?"
Beer-Drinking Lad: "Here, take this acid gun and start fighting. I'll explain as we fight."
J.T. Free: "Um... Okay."
Beer-Drinking Lad: "So, this is what happened..."
Vulpine Joe: "Okay, we've been blasting these acid sprayers for an hour now. Is it even working?"