And Now, A Special…

Shorty Episode
“Hello, hellooo, heeeeeeelllllllllllloooooooooooooo! Welcome ladies and gentleman, to the greatest show on earth!”
Deep beneath the Flan-I Temple is an old series of caverns and tunnels. Home to various bats, rats and bugs, the tunnels also house a gigantic scientific complex owned and operated by the Flan-I Master, Avatar.
The half-masked Flan-I had overcome death thanks to magical skittles, invented devices capable of breaking into alternate realities and managed to be the only mad scientist trope in the show who was a good guy. He might have been a pyromaniac and a bit deranged, but ‘HA’ as he was known to friends was a champion of Teh City.
HA had been busy all night inventing a new weapon that came to him in a dream. He had forgotten it in another dream, but managed to remember it again while eating cheesy soup. In a matter of hours, he had invented a piece of technology that mankind could not perfect in decades and called his boss, Flan-I Council leader Crystal Rose down to see the new device.
Kimi and Sama were also there, because they’re the stars.
“What in the name of Kismet are we doing here?” Kimi demanded, crossing her arms. It was a Saturday morning and she would much rather be watching cartoons than sitting in a dark, scary laboratory.
The three stood in the middle of his ‘testing lab’. The natural cavern floor had been reinforced with metal and steel beams held the ceiling in place to prevent a cave-in. (Explosions were not a rare sight).
Avatar strolled over to his three guests, brandishing a futuristic raygun. “Mwa ha ha! Wessup guys? I have something to show you! I’ve invented a device for killing bugs!”
Crystal’s eyes lit up. “That’s cool! The less bugs the better.”
“Noooooooo~!” A voice rang out as footsteps echoed in the chambers. Tazzy came running down the stairs, holding something in her hand. She jumped in HA’s face and held aloft a small cicada.
“Bugs are adorable! You can’t really want to hurt this lil’ guy, can you?”“Oh geez…” Crystal sighed, shaking her head. She reached over and stole a pen from Sama’s jacket pocket. “Tazzy, look!”
Tazzy, still arguing with Avatar, glanced over at the pen and forgot about the bug-zapping radioactive gun. “Peeeeeeeeeeeeen~!”
Crystal tossed the pen out the window, and Tazzy took off running to go find it. Sama pouted at the loss of his pen, while Avatar wondered why he had a window in a secret underground laboratory.
“Anyway!” Avatar shrugged off the questionable architecture and held up the raygun. “This is the Super-Duper Bug Zapped 9001. Do you know what that means?” HA paused with a grin. “That means it’s over—”
“No.” Sama interrupted, crossing his arms. “Don’t say it.”
“… You suck.” Avatar growled, but his mood could not be dampened. “Anyway, what kind of bug should I blast with this baby as a test?”
A new voice – a magnificent voice – echoed through the lab. “Shoot the badgers! They stole our hopscotch!”
The four blinked in mute curiosity as all heads looked to the left of the room. Two figures stood not far away, one in a green jacket and one with a spike for hair. They wore very thin, Robin-like masks to obscure their identities.
“… Who are you?” HA asked, blinking.
“I am Super Voice! And this is my sidekick, Brooklyn Boy!” ‘Super Voice’ announced in his super voice.
“Nyeh.” Brooklyn Boy nodded.
Sama made a whimpering noise and slapped his own forehead. “Man… if we keep stealing internet jokes, people will think this show has no originality.”
With a roll of her eyes and a smirk, Kimi spoke up. “Oh, I’m sure no one would accuse this show of unoriginal writing… but let’s ask our friends what they think. I can call Roy! Or Winry. Or Ed. Or Al. Or Jeremie. Or Lum. Or Ataru. Or Blackfire. Or Bender. Or Red X. Or Rouge. Or Eggman. Or Jack Spicer. Or Captain Crunch. Or The Cookie-Crisp Dog. Or--”
“OKAY.” Sama growled.
While Kimi continued teasing Sama, and Crystal giggled at their antics, Avatar began questioning why he had ever invited any of them to his lab. Shaking his head, the half-masked Flan-I spotted a spider on the wall and zapped it.
Rather than kill the spider, it grew twice its normal size in a matter of seconds. The teasing and laughing turned into horror as Kimi, Sama and Crystal all yelped and backed up. The gigantic spider jumped across the room, landing on HA’s face and biting him.
“… Huh. This is uncomfortable.” Avatar blinked as a shoe-sized spider repeatedly chewed on his head. He shrugged, stabbed the giant bug with his flansaber, and then looked to the others. “… Well, that was a failed experiment! You guys can go home now. I, uh, think I need some antivenom…”
Crystal blinked. “I finally see where this story is going…”
Despite being chewed on by a giant radioactive spider, Avatar was relatively fine. The bug bite vanished in a matter of hours and while he had received no first aid, HA felt fine as he settled into bed that night.
Merely three hours after first falling asleep, though, HA awoke with a start covered in cold sweat. He was panting heavily and felt strange. He groaned, pushed himself out of bed, and stumbled around in the dark trying to get to his mirror.
Finally his brain switch from sleep mode to active and he realized he could turn on the lights with a wave of his hand, letting the Flan push the switch on the wall. As soon as the room was illuminated, HA got a surprise – he was crawling around on the ceiling.
“… Holy crap! It seems that radioactive spider bite has somehow given me super powers! … Never would have guessed.” Avatar coughed with a wink, jumped down from the ceiling and ran to his closet.
As it happened, he had
a suitable suit hanging in his closet already. He could not remember how he had acquired it or for what purpose, but decided that such a trivial point was unimportant in a universe where an overabundance of plot holes had once been a plot point.
Jumping onto his window ceil, HA jumped out into the nighttime. He suddenly had an urge to fight crime.
“WOooooooooooooooHOoooooooooo!” Spider-HA cried out as he jumped from building to building, swinging on lines made from a spiderweb like substance. He had, years ago, developed web-shooters on a spur-of-the-moment idea and found that the old inventions were perfect for this new endeavor.
“Hahahahah! I love being the center of a parody for once! Now, if only I had some suitable crime to fight!” Spider-HA mused to himself as he landed on a rooftop.
Suddenly, he felt a prickling sensation on the back of his neck. It was like an electric jolt to his system, as if he had just punched a Pikachu. He looked around, and listened intently as a soft rain fell through the night. He picked up the sound of metal grinding against concrete and he web-slung his way down the block.
[…]
“Hmm… invention number six-seventy-two works!”
On Coincidence Avenue, another of Rapid Island’s notorious mad scientists was field testing a new invention. Professor Spork was strolling down the street, but not walking on his own two feet. He had a strange harness on his back with four mechanical octopus arms jetting out from it.
“Mwa ha ha! Excellent, with something like this in my arsenal, it’s only a matter of time until I prove to these wretches that my way is the only way this city will have any kind of future.” Spork adjusted his goggles and prepared to head back to his new secret lab.
As he turned around, he suddenly found himself face to face with Spider-HA, who was hanging upside down from a street lamp.
“Yo Sporkola! … Hmm, or should I call you Spork-Ock? Ha ha. Spork-Ock…. Spock? No, wait, I think that one’s taken…”
Spork uttered a small, non-amused sigh. “Oh good, a Flan-I… and you’re dressed like… um… some kind of red pastry?”
Spider-HA groaned and fell off the street lamp. He shook his head as he got up. “I’m not a freakin’ pastry! I’m Spider-HA, a champion of justice, a secret super hero who battles against crazy people like you while acting like a sarcastic bastard!”
Spork-Ock paused in contemplative thought and then nodded. “Okay, I’ll give you that one. Still, you’re in my way, and I don’t want the ‘so-called heroes’ to know about my new toy, so you’ll have to be… silenced.”
Suddenly, Spider-HA jumped to the side as if he was dodging something. Spork-Ock blinked.
“Um… what, what was that?”
Spider-HA rubbed the back of his neck. “Sorry, when you said ‘silence’ I thought you were going to cast some magic, so I dodged. Yeah, sorry.”
Nodding, Spork said: “Ah, yeah, I can see where you might think that. I wasn’t, though… I mean, you don’t really use magic so…”
“Yeah, yeah, I wasn’t thinking. It’s probably because I have radioactive spider toxins in my brain right now. You know, throws off the old noodle.” Avatar coughed.
“Ah, well, yeah…” Spork nodded again, rubbing his neck. “Sooo… are we going to fight, or…?”
“Hmm? Oh, yeah, yeah!” Avatar nodded.
One of Spork-Ock’s metal limbs shot at him, trying to wrap itself around his torso and crush him like a (non-evil Spaniard) can of soda. Spider-HA dodged it with his superior speed, rolled across the ground and came up at Spork-Ock, trying to throw a super-powerful punch into his stomach.
Another of Spork-Ock’s mechanical limbs smashed into Spider-HA’s head, sending him flying backwards into a nearby building. Spork-Ock ran at him, moving super-fast thanks to the long strides his robot octopus legs could take. He shot both of his free metal limbs at Spider-HA, trying to crush his chest like a tomato beneath a steamroller.
Despite his love of crushing things, Spider-HA rolled out of the way. He shot a glob of webbing into Spork-Ock’s eyes, blinding the mad scientist as he used a second dose of web to lift himself off the ground and back onto the street lamp.
“Ack! Gross, I have spider-web in my eyes! It’s like being in an old attic or something!” Spork-Ock complained.
Spider-HA jumped down onto his shoulders and started punching him in the head. Spork-Ock felt dizzied, but managed to grab Spider-HA around the chest with one of his robotic limbs, pulling him around and holding him up. Spork-Ock applied enough pressure to make Spider-HA short on breath as he felt his lungs painfully struggle for oxygen.
“I’ll admit, you were more bothersome than I expected… but you should have stuck with the Flantom theme, my old foe.” Spork-Ock grinned in triumph. He watched Spider-HA struggle against the metal limb, but the half-masked hero could not break free even with his new strength.
“Forget it, Spider-HA! I reinforced these robotic limbs with SCIENCE! Delicious, magical science!” Spork-Ock cried out in glee.
Spider-HA groaned and grunted, yet he failed to force his way out of the metal limb. “Ugh… you’re right, I can’t break these, even using the strength of a SPIDER! … Which, I guess, wouldn’t be enough to defeat metal.”
Spork-Ock nodded.
Spider-HA, however, suddenly gave a grin beneath his mask. “You forgot one thing, though! … I also have flansabers.”
There was a flash of light as one of Avatar’s emerald colored sabers slashed right through the metal limb. Spork-Ock gasped, but was suddenly kicked in the chest with full force as Spider-HA made a webline, swung on it and brought his feet into his enemy.
Spork-Ock crashed into the ground, and Spider-HA quickly used webbing to cement his octopus arms to the ground. While they struggled to break free, Spider-HA slashed them all with his saber, bringing a frown to the Spork’s face.
“… Damn, those were hard to make! Urgh… forget this, I’m out of here.” Spork jumped up and ran down the street. Spider-HA started to give chase, but Spork snapped his fingers, summoning his Keyblade. He blinded the new superhero with a darkness spell and managed to make his escape.
Spider-HA sighed in losing the new prey, but grinned at his powers. He shrugged, kicked the broken octopus harness into a nearby manhole (because properly disposing of dangerous scientific weapons was boring) and headed off into the night.
Spider-HA stood triumphant atop a building, posing dramatically.
“… Well, only one thing left to do! HIT IT, JOHNNY!”
“Spider-HA, Spider-HA,
Does whatever a Spider-HA does,
Spins a web, any size
Catches food mascots, just like flies.
Lookooooooooooooooout! He is a Spider-HA!
Is he strong? Listen bud,
He’s got radioactive blood.
Can he swing from a thread?
Yes he can, he’s a HA.
Hey there! There goes the Spider-HA!
Spider-HA! Spider-HA!
Disgruntled, insane Spider-HA!
Wealth and fame, he’s ignored.
Being badass is his reward.
Spider-HA! Spider-HA!
He’ll kill you, with the fire,
Especially if, you are Sire,
Loooooooooooooooooookout!
He is a Spider-HA!”