Team Alphanumeric

Team Alphanumeric
Fantastic Phantasma
by SSJ04 Mewtwo

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Reviewer Responses

MaxJ1800: Clair...,ok, you've stumped me there, unless I'm thinking too narrow and she's not an attorney. Y'know, you've the only one who's pointed the Potter reference out. As of this season, she's fired. I've been watching all those five minute shorts and I've kept watching the re-runs they show during the week. Agreed, Tobey is just looking for attention any way he can get it. Phantasma...,now why didn't I think of that. Let me know how this season opener is.

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"Report." Gladiator barks to IQ.
"Our princess is starting what the humans call 'high school'. The criminal element has gone down to almost nothing." IQ reports.
"The Doc told me that you personally made those pills for her." Gladiator starts and then lifts the small Lexiconian up to look into his eyes, "You did factor in that the Decimalian is a super soldier didn't you?"
"Of course! Why would I not do that?!"
"You better have, for if she does get pregnant now, you'll be forced to come with the rest of us on your first field assignment! Do I make myself clear?!"
"Yes..,sir." IQ replies. He wasn't a field officer like the others. That prospect was scary to the small Lexiconian.

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Becky! Breakfast is ready!" Mr. Botsford calls in a sing song voice.
"Ugh, why does dad have to be so chipper in the morning?" she quietly asks. The smell of food wafting into her room was making her nauseous. Quickly grabbing up her clothes, she dashes to the bathroom. She opens the lid and kneels before the porcelain god, only to have her stomach growl at her for food. She stands puzzled at what her body was telling her.
'Stomach bug perhaps? But I should have thrown up. Better get ready for school. Don't want to be late for my first day of high school.'

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"Bye mom! See you tonight!" Tim Drakesford calls through the door to his mother, Clair Drakesford, and briskly heads off for the Botsford residence. He sees his girlfriend's father at the front door looking around for something.
"Morning Mr. Botsford, what are you looking for?" Tim asks.
"Good morning Tim, I'm looking for the morning paper." he answers still looking for the paper on the ground. Tim starts looking as well and spots it.
"it's up there." Tim replies pointing to the edge of the roof.
"Great blobs of play dough! That paper boy certainly likes playing pranks. Go on in Tim. I'll have to get the ladder." Mr. Botsford says and walks off to do just that. Tim Goes inside to hear the sound of bickering siblings.
"Oh, there you are Tim. Mrs. Botsford states from the kitchen.
"Morning Mrs. Botsford. How was Florida?" Tim asks. A month ago the Botsfords went down to the sun shine state for their summer vacation. That left the city in MathWiz's hands, but fortunately only the normal gun toting thugs were now left. Unfortunately, the Botsfords didn't get back until late Saturday and the family was too tired Sunday to do much of anything.
"It was wonderful. Sorry you couldn't go." Mrs. Botsford states.
"Mother's still a little overprotective. I doubt...," Tim says but is cut off by Becky tackling into him and she starts kissing him. Sally Botsford laughs looking at the two teens.

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"Well, well, what do we have here? MathWiz has gotten himself a girlfriend has he?" a female voice asks watching Tim and Becky walking arm and arm towards the high school. "I better go reintroduce myself to him and remind him that I know." she states and seemingly vanishes into thin air.

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"Oh I wish you could have gone. TJ was such a pest when my parents had their backs turned."
"I tried, but Florida seems to be too far for...," but he's interrupted by a fire ball being thrown at them. The two hit the ground and roll away in two different directions from their attacker. Tim stands unconcerned about the attack, but Becky was biting on her lip hard.
"Four years and that's the best you can do? Throw a false fire ball at me?" Tim states calmly. "I thought you were more creative than that." he taunts.
"Sorry to disappoint you, MathWiz." she says hoping to get a shock from Tim's female companion. Becky glares at the stranger. She was decked out in all deep purple with a cape of the same color. Even her hair was the same shade of purple.
"Y'know, you're the only villain that knows that, but no one will believe you because of your illusionary powers." Tim states. Becky smirks realizing that their collective secret couldn't be revealed by someone who's powers were based on treachery to begin with.
"One day your secret will be revealed! You can't hide behind such a weak illusion." Phantasma states.
"Oh you have no idea what you've gotten yourself into." Becky says now standing beside Tim with a smile on her face. "Ready?"
"Raring." Tim replies.
"Team!" they both shout.
'What is this?" Phantasma thinks.
"Alpha!" Becky shouts and transforms into WordGirl.
"Numeric!" Tim finishes and transforms into MathWiz. Phantasma takes a step back realizing that she had been fooled.
"What? Another one!" she fumes out. "Not today!" and a white flash blinds them and she appears to vanish in a puff of thick, grey smoke.

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"You two were almost late." Scoops says seeing the pair heading towards there homeroom.
"Had to catch up." Becky says smiling. Scoops rolls his eyes.
"The school paper needs a sports statistician, interested?" Scoops asks Tim. Becky giggles, her boyfriend wouldn't be able to refuse this offer.
"Football I know like the back of my hand, baseball I'm pretty good with, but I'll have to do my homework on basketball." Tim replies.
"Good. I was worried you'd say 'no'." Scoops says smiling. Maybe that would free up some of Becky's time, he hoped . "Becky, care to continue to...,"
"Sorry scoops," she apologizes, "but I'm thinking of trying out for cheerleading."
"Cheerleading! You can't even dance nor less lead a cheer." Scoops states.
"Hey!" she complains, but the bell stops the argument.

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"Panic, terror, dread, fear! Run like the sheep you are!" Phantasma shouts as her illusionary powers make the patrons of the bank run in fear of what they thought they were seeing. It only took a good three minutes to empty out the bank. "That was easy. Now to help myself to all that lovely money."
"Hold it Phantasma!" WordGirl shouts as she and MathWiz come to confront her.
"Everyone has their fears or weaknesses. Now, let's se how you like this!" and her hands glow that same shade of purple and the two appear to be encased in a white box. MathWiz bites his lip. He knew this trick well. She had defeated him one time with it. If he knew what was about to happened next, then Becky better not open her eyes.
"Don't open your eyes!" MathWiz shouts, but the gasp she lets out informs him that he was too late.
"The words...,they're all misspelled and mis-defined...," WordGirl states. MathWiz bites his lip. If he didn't figure a way out of this his partner would go insane from the sight. That was how Phantasma defeated him, but it was math problems done incorrectly that drove him to the brink of insanity. Then he heard the sound of the illusion losing its power.
"Get off of me you crazed animal!" Phantasma shouts.
"Huggy!" MathWiz shouts as the monkey continues to pounce on Phantasma's head. She finally shrugs the monkey off and once again vanishes in a plume of smoke.
"Good work. She needs a heavy reference dictionary." MathWiz states. Huggy pulls out a pocket dictionary which MathWiz frowns at. "That'll have to do." he says and takes the dictionary and places it in front of WordGirl. Seeing the correctly spelled words and their corresponding definitions, she speed reads it to the end.
"Word up!" she shouts as her mind comes back to her. "Wha! What happened?" she asks.
"C'mon, let's head for our hideout." MathWiz states and the three take to the skies just before the police storm the building.

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"Well, looks like another freakish criminal has moved into the city." Sniper states.
"Uh Sniper, I think Huggy was on to something." Quick Strike states and he lets Sniper look at the readings. "Uh, I'm not good at anatomy, so could you tell me what that means?"
"If I'm reading this right, I think...,IQ, come in. IQ come in. IQ!"
"I'm dead. I'm dead." IQ states through the com-link. "Gladiator is going to kill me! I can't go out into the field!"
"Well, that confirms it." Sniper states biting her lip. Things were now hitting the fan. Gladiator was going to lose it.