“Thank you all for agreeing to this meeting.” Isabella Quentin says as she folds her hands and places them on the table in front of her.

 

The rest of Team IQA was right next to Isabella with Bellows and Urchin to the left of her and Gloriosa and Nebulon to her right.

 

Further down the entirety of Team Prism were also in attendance with Pythia, Ezmeralda, and Pat sat on one side of the table with Francine, Ilma, and Thomas across from them.

 

Further down near the end of the table were Rick McMann and  Alexandria Aleric with the Central Hero Society’s leader, Juanita De La Primera, taking the head of the table on the  opposite side of Isabella.

 

Before Juanita at the end of the table were two other previously unintroduced heroes.

 

To Juanita’s left was a man with oily black slicked back hair, a white shirt with black slacks and suspenders, white gloves, and black dress shoes. He also had completely white skin and features that made him look like a 1940s cartoon character including black ‘Pac-Man’ looking eyes and all the colors on him being only black and white and somehow appeared to be occasionally and seemingly randomly covered in TV static.

 

To Juanita’s right was what appeared to be a feminine robot. Her head was a sphere that had a screen on the front that looked like an old video game screen made of black and pink with pixelated dot eyes, had floating robotic wings behind the back of her head that seemed to be trying to  simulate two pigtails, and a pink metallic looking crop top and skirt. Her color scheme was overwhelmingly white and pink.

 

“I’m sorry, but since I’m relatively new here…” Tommy says as he slowly raises his hand. “...Do you mind introducing me to the heroes seated next to you, Miss Primera?” 

 

“Mind introducing yourselves, Sergeant Rick Squadron?” Juanita asks as she gestures to the heroes beside her.

 

“Yes Mam!” Rick says with a salute.

 

“No need to be so formal Rick.” Juanita says with a stern expression.

 

Rick stops saluting and places his arms behind his back.

 

“I am Sergeant Slick Rick McMann, the new leader of The Sergeant Rick Squadron, formerly The Dream Team, at your service!”

 

“...Sup…I’m Alex…” The goth viking girl says as her arms are folded behind her head as she leaned back in her chair.

 

“We're doing full introductions, Miss Aleric. Put your full effort into it!” Rick lectured as he gave his teammate a noticeable glare even though he was wearing sunglasses.

 

“...Ugh…Fine!” She says as she stands up with her arms down at her sides. “...Alexandria Aleric…Visi-Goth if you wanna use my hero name…Just Alex is fine though…” The redhead shoots a glare back at Rick. “Are you happy now, Sergeant Slaughter?”

 

“I would be happier if I wasn’t being sassed by a subordinate!” Rick shouts back.

 

“...Whatever…” Alex says with a roll of her eyes.

 

“Howdy!” The cartoony man says with a small wave. “They call me Bobby Inkblot! Nice to meet the lot of ya!”

 

He holds out his hand as if expecting a handshake even though Tommy was a ways away from him on the table.

 

“...Uh…how?” Tommy asks as he cocks his head in confusion.

 

Bobby then stretches his arms over the table and towards Tommy with a noticeable trail of black ink spilled underneath its path.

 

Tommy gives an awkward smile and shakes the living toons hands, but has to shake ink off of his hand right afterwards.

 

“Greetings humans!” The robot girl also introduces herself with a wave, but hers was a lot more mechanical. “I am Bionica! It is nice to make your acquaintance!”

 

“Now that we’ve introduced ourselves, let’s get to the matter at hand.” Juanita says as she pushes her glasses back into place. “Pythia filled me in on their encounter with Elizabella’s Chess Pieces. It seems like she has been sending some of her subordinates to SUPER in multiple failed attempts to assassinate some of the students there. I am aware of how powerful Elizabella and the Chess Company are, but I find this blatant misuse of power to be unacceptable. Something must be done about this otherwise she is just going to push the limits of what she can get away with further and further until she feels like she could do anything she wants without repercussions.”

 

“Even though I agree and am willing to help, do you think that we have the numbers to pull off something like this?” Isabella asks her superior.

 

Juanita chuckles as a small smile appears on her face.

 

“Our numbers shouldn’t be an issue.” Juanita says as she snaps her fingers as two copies of herself materialize behind her. “Do you remember who you’re talking to?”

 

Tommy raises his hand with another question and Juanita nods.

 

“...I know you can create a lot of clones of yourself, but how many can you make? Like, what’s your limit?” Tommy asks as he scratches the back of his head.

 

Juanita snaps her fingers again as her two copies walk over to the window and open the blinds.

 

“...Woah…” Tommy says in awe as he glances out through the window.

 

“Does this answer your question, Mr. Boyd?” Juanita’s hundreds of copies say in unison.

 

Tommy gives a small nod as he continues to be impressed by what he just witnessed.

 

Juanita snaps her fingers again as all of her copies disappear.

 

“Even though I think that this display did prove a point, knowing an exact number would still be optimal as we develop our battle strategy.” Bionica says in a robotically monotone voice.

 

“If we were in a cartoon it probably would’ve taken a while to draw all of that!” Bobby says as he chuckles.

 

“Let’s just say there is a good reason why she was chosen to be the leader of the CHS.” Isabella says as she takes a sip of her tea.

 

“I’ve always wondered why you weren’t chosen to be the leader of the CHS, Isabella?” Pythia says as they turn their attention towards the pink haired magician.

 

“I have almost the exact same power as my father and while that power is strong, some villains have probably devised counters to it over the years. That means that these potential strategies would have also more or less applied to me. Even though I love the spotlight, this didn’t make as much sense to me strategically.” She says as she uses her powers to add a cube of sugar to her tea and stir it with a spoon. “Even though just defeating the leader of an organization doesn’t destroy it as a whole it would still throw it into disarray for a brief period of time. That being said, even a little bit of time of disorganization would be enough for some villains to cause an overwhelming amount of damage to us. Having a leader with a different power would have these villains have to revise their entire strategies. I was actually nominated for the position, but I declined it for these reasons.”

 

“...Oh…that makes sense…” Tommy says as he places a hand on his chin.

 

“I’ve already discussed this plan with Isaac, but I thought that it’d be pertinent to tell all of you as well.”

 

“...Can we hurry this up?” Alex says with a hand on her chin as she leaned her elbow down against the table. “...I’m getting bored here…”

 

Rick shoots her another glare as she rolls her eyes.

 

Juanita sighs.

 

“Fine, a more brief explanation would probably be easier to remember anyways.” Juanita stands up and walks over to the blackboard on the wall of the room and picks up a piece of chalk.

 

She wrote visual representations of these strategies as she spoke.

 

“Elizabella is probably expecting a counter attack at this point, but if we outnumber her we could have a chance at beating her. It is true that her army has numbers in the thousands and ours only has several dozen, but I have an idea to even the playing field. I’m going to be making up the bulk of our army to try to match our numbers to that of hers. With that being said the more I duplicate myself the weaker each individual copy becomes. I should be able to deal with most of her basic infantry, but I think I’ll leave her and her Chess Pieces to you and the teachers of SUPER.”

 

Juanita snaps her fingers and hands the piece of chalk to her copy as she looks towards the rest of the group as she continues the explanation of her strategy.

 

“We are still planning a surprise attack and I don’t plan on using my copies unless our covert strategy of getting Elizabella by herself and asking her to surrender fails. If this first strategy fails then I will use numbers to overwhelm her forces. As for the rest of you, you’ll be divided into your teams and fight Elizabella’s forces at the entrances of her castle here, here, and here.” Her copy gestures to three of the walls of the castle that she drew on the board. “If everything in phase one otherwise went according to plan and everyone is properly in position Team IQA will invade from the back, the Sergeant Rick Squadron will invade from the left, and SUPER’s faculty will invade from the right. We will then push her forces to the middle of the castle and…well…force her to surrender.”

 

“Do you mind going into more detail with the original plan?” Francine asks. “I feel like that should be the more important part.”

 

“Yeah, since the backup plan is as easy as punching whoever is trying to punch me, which I personally don’t mind, but I agree with my girlfriend. An explanation of the first plan would be good to know” Ilma says as she puts an arm around her girlfriends shoulders.

 

“Very well.” Juanita says as her copy erases the board and prepares to write again. “I will attempt to pull Elizabella to the side with a fake business proposal and lure her to her throne room as Team Prism sneaks into said room to help me force a surrender out of her. If this fails Isaac and Isabella will be able to tell that the plan failed and psycicly inform the rest of our forces that we can proceed with the second plan.”

 

Juanita snaps her fingers and despawns her clone as a piece of chalk clatters against the floor of the meeting room.

 

“Any questions?”

 

Pat clears his throat.

 

“What if that also doesn’t work?”

 

If push comes to shove, I will have Isabella and Isaac evacuate our forces from the castle and the three of us will face off against Elizabella by ourselves. If this also fails, we’d be in checkmate and Elizabella would claim victory over us.”

 

“...That’s not…reassuring…” Pat says as he crosses his arms.

 

“It’s the best plan that we have.” Juanita responds.

 

“And that has been scientifically calculated!” Bionica says with the friendliest voice her robotic vocals could produce.

 

“I think that this should go well.” Pythia says with a smirk on their face.

 

“It is a relief to hear a person who can see into the future say that.” Ez says with a small blush on her face.

 

“Now that’s reassuring!” Pat says as he hugs both of his partners.

 

“With a strategy like this, victory is assured!” Rick says with a hearty laugh.

 

“Let’s not underestimate our opponents.” Urchin says with a scowl. “Being so sure of our victory that we get sloppy would lead to our defeat.”

 

“Well, if things end up going poorly at least we will all enter Valhalla!” Bellows says with a grin.

 

“Don’t say stuff like that!” Gloriosa says as she covers Nebulon’s ears. “We aren’t going to die!”

 

‘Nebulon!” Nebulon says as they chew on the piece of candy that Gloriosa just gave them.

 

“Alright, if there are no more questions, then this meeting is over.” Juanita says as she watches the other heroes file out of the room before leaving herself.

 

After everyone has seemingly exited the room and the door is closed, a person seems to appear out of nowhere in the back corner of the room.

 

“Did you get all of that?” A man with shaggy red and black hair and glasses who was wearing green robes, green pants, a white undershirt, and a tall green diamond-shaped hat says into a small microphone attached to his earpiece.

 

“Yes, I heard everything. Good job Bishop.” Elizabella replies.

 

“That’s good to hear, your majesty.” Bishop says with a devious smile.