Smashfancy and Electripixie
“Don’t say ‘dam’.”
Piranhaman had already destroyed most of Oak Hollow’s lakefront property. The 20-foot tall humanoid beast made of an angry school of piranha possessed by an evil alien spirit churned its way from the smoking ruins of a suburban Tudor house back into the lake. A young girl with wings, dressed in glowing pink magical rock candy armor and carrying a huge sledgehammer made of a rainbow-colored metal, fluttered over its wake as the thousands of angry fish disbursed into the water.
Smashfancy was not in a good mood. “He’s going for the dam!” she yelled.
The concrete dam was a half mile away and fifty yards across. On the steel catwalk running the length of the top of the dam, the air shimmered with electricity as another girl materialized. This one, in lavender robes with matching pigtails and dozens of ribbons, spread her arms, pulling static electricity from the surrounding air. This was Electripixie.
“Don’t say ‘dam’.”
Smashfancy stopped in midflight as the killer school of piranhas continued boiling their way toward the dam. “You did not just…”
“Don’t say ‘dam’.”
“But that’s not...”
“Mom said, ‘Don’t say “dam”.’”
“I know what Mom said…”
“Then don’t say ‘dam’.”
“But I didn’t…”
The school of piranha coalesced into a giant arm punching at Smashfancy. She dodged and swung the rainbow sledge into it with a mighty crash and pink fireworks, sending countless stunned fish splashing back into the lake. With her sparkling pink ponytail waving from the back of her sparkling helmet, she turned back to Electripixie.
“Why do you always do this? Piranhaman’s threatening thousands of people! You and I and that dam are the only things between him and all those innocent people! What is your problem?”
“You’re always breaking rules and Dad said I’m in charge,” Electripixie said while amassing two pumpkin-sized balls of crackling energy above her open hands. She scanned the water for signs of further threats. Smashfancy zoomed to the dam, confronting her sister.
“Dad said you were in charge of the DOG, and THAT was last week!”
Despite Smashfancy getting all up in her face, Electripixie continued scanning the water, trying her best to look right through her.
“Whatever.”
A huge pillar of fish and water erupted under Smashfancy, knocking her out of control. She spun into the lake as Piranhaman re-formed directly in front of Electripixie, extinguishing her energy balls with the torrential splash. Sparks and bolts of electricity exploded violently from her hands as she lost focus and the energy dissipated.
Smashfancy surfaced and took to the air like a rocket, slamming through Piranhaman from behind and bursting through his chest.
“Get off the dam, he’s right on top of you!”
The hole in Piranhaman’s chest immediately refilled with dozens of angry snapping piranhas. He pounded the dam with his fish fists. Electripixie teleported away just in time to avoid a direct hit. She reappeared at the left end of the dam, pulling in a fresh load of static.
“Don’t say ‘dam’.”
“AHHHHHHHHHHYOU’RESOANNOYING!!” Smashfancy screamed.
Spinning like an ice skater three times in the air, she drove the rainbow sledge downward into Piranhaman’s head. His entire body disintegrated into another flapping fish storm. Electripixie unleashed a blast of blue-white energy into the cloud of fish, which exploded high into the air. Piranhaman was gone.
“If you’d just follow the rules I wouldn’t have to keep reminding you about them,” she said.
“You’re so stupid!”
“You know I’m right.”
“You’re not right. If he’d destroyed the dam…”
“Don’t say ‘dam’.”
“STOP TELLING ME WHAT TO DO! YOU’RE AN IDIOT AND YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME! DAM DAM DAM DAM DAM DAM!”
“I’m telling.”
Electripixie teleported away.
Smashfancy howled and swung the rainbow sledge into the air where her sister had just been. She hit nothing. Then she swung again. And again. And again.
“OOH!!” she screamed. Then she zoomed away in the direction of home.
By this time, the school of piranha had fallen back from the sky, into the creek on the other side of the dam. Piranhaman coalesced and took a fighting stance, bracing for battle. None came. He turned and walked down the creek away from the dam. Thousands of piranhas grinned and licked their lips.
Next week, the story behind the story!