A hero and a Weapon

A Hero & a Weapon
Battle in the Skies
by SSJ04 Mewtwo

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WordGirl was doing her normal patrolling of her city. The criminals were being quiet for once and that was good news for her. It was hard to be a sixteen year old girl and a super heroian. The hairs on the back of her neck tingle and she feels as if she needed to move. she does and a sonic boom rings in her ears. she tries not to go careening out of control from the back wash the slip stream caused. Regaining control of her flight and checking to make sure Huggy was there, she starts looking around for the source of that disturbance.
"Your flight pattern is random. It makes it difficult for anyone to predict where you'll go next. Good for keeping anyone from tracking you." a voice says from above. Huggy bites his lower lip. There was only one race that spoke like that. The pair look up to see a male figured clad in body armor. WordGirl didn't recognize the symbols, but Huggy knew exactly that this being was from the planet Decimal.
"Who are you?" WordGirl demands.
"I thought that monkey would told you about my race." the Decimalian retorts.
'He said 'monkey'. No one gets it right on first meeting Huggy.' WordGirl thinks and Huggy pipes up. "Decimalian?"
"The monkey is correct. I'm from the planet Decimal. Princess Zaniah, you're coming with me."
"I'm WordGirl, not 'Zaniah'," she growls.
"Whatever name you go by doesn't matter to me. You're still coming with me."
"I'm going nowhere with you." WordGirl returns.
"I figure it wouldn't be willing." he retorts and attacks.

***

"Leslie, are you seeing...,what I'm seeing?"
"Yes, sir."
"Why is she having trouble with him and who is he?"
"It's not that she's having trouble, sir, it's that he's matching her."
"Uh...,"
"When WordGirl is fighting us or any of the other villains she is holding back."
"Holding back?!"
"Yes, she has been trained to only use enough of her strength to take us down."
'Now who could have done that?"
"The monkey," Leslie offers.
"How could that monkey...,"
"He's the one with the fighting ability. If she's not holding back then the one she's fighting isn't from Earth."
"Someone else from her world?"
"No, he's got a far different stance than WordGirl has been taught. Plus, I think that two aliens that have vast vocabularies wouldn't in gage in fighting."
"They would talk each other to death then."
"Yes, sir. This one is willing to fight her."
"Rival planet.
"Your guess is as good as mine."
"We must discuss this at the next meeting of the association."
"Noted, sir."

***

"Why don't we fight on the ground?" WordGirl suggested. She didn't want to show it, but fighting in mid-air wasn't her strongest forte.
"Nope," he answers and attacks. Huggy leaps off WordGirl's shoulders and onto the Decimalian's back. He wraps his arms around the Decimalian's neck trying to cut off his air supply. He thrashes about as he starts to lose altitude. Eventually his feet hit ground as his air passage was blocked. He falls to the ground passed out.
"Good work Huggy, you need to teach that to me sometime. What do we do with him?" she asks and Huggy starts dragging him into an alley.
"You sure?" she asks and the monkey nods. The Decimalian wouldn't be out for long and they needed to get back to the ship.

***

"Alright, what are Decimalians and why did he call me 'Zaniah'?" WordGirl asks. Huggy sighs to himself. He had been trying to put this off for as long as possible, but it appeared that He sighs and explains about the long standing war that Decimal and Lexicon had been in since before her birth. 'Zaniah' was the name her Lexiconian mother gave her. The war had been going on for so long that neither side remembered why they had started in the first place, but the two worlds had the same goal in mind. Lexicon and Decimal both wanted to control all the known knowledge in the galaxy. Huggy explained that Decimalians, unlike Lexiconians, were extremely gifted in the sciences and mathematics. It wasn't that Lexicon was weak in the sciences, it was just that Decimal had 1,000 times the experts in those fields.
"Why has the war gone on for so long then?" she asks. Huggy explains that due to the two worlds' abilities to over-analyze everything, it took either world at least half a year to come up with a combat plan for the next engagement, then another half year to analyze the outcome, and then cycle would begin all over again. WordGirl closes her eyes feeling the beginnings of a headache coming on. She reverts back to her civilian clothes of Becky Botsford and the two head for her house. She had homework to do.

***

"Activate healing tank," the X weapon says after materializing back on his craft. He strips out of his armor revealing his lean frame. He was bruised all over and his neck was throbbing from that choke hold the monkey had but him in. He climbs into the tank that was filled with X weapon DNA and the breathing mask goes over his face.
"Start implementing the incursion plan. I shall take on this identity of 'Tim Drakesford.'" he says and falls into a deep slumber.

***

"Are you sure you saw what you saw, Mr. Big?" Granny Mae asks.
"Yes. She was fighting this alien in some strange armor. And he was matching her. The only reason why he lost was because he wasn't watching out for that monkey." Mr. Big explains. The others mumble the agreement about the monkey being a reason why WordGirl always beat them.
"Then we shouldn't let an alien take over the city!" Two Brains exclaims. Mr. Big winces. He was hoping to use mind control on the new come, but Two Brains had more sway over the association than he did.
"Agreed, I say I use my yarn to wrap him up and dump his body into the ocean." Granny Mae states.
"Sounds Wham to me!" the Whammer shouts and the others agree. Mr. Big sighs to himself. Maybe he'd get a chance to use mind control later. He really needed to become leader of this group.