- [And welcome back folks to The Rejects Election; where you the viewers get to vote out each week one super individual competing to join this super heroic group. For those of you just tuning in for the first weekly election we remind you that the four judges will decide who of these twenty contestants is safe for another week and you the viewers will decide between the rest who goes and who stays for another week.
- As always we are your hosts, Donald
- And Diane, and to remind our viewers the Rejects are not a government sponsored superhero group like the Heroes or Super Squad, instead they do charity work, help the needy, and raise awareness for worthy causes worldwide. Originally founded by our three judges who had been rejected, get it, from joining the Heroes.
- That’s right Diane, and our judges again are, Cat Scratch a lovely lady with the power to make her fingernails grow, Pillow Fists a man able to inflate his fists into Nerf like balls, and Vinnie Vinyl who can play vinyl records from his mouth while holding them in his hands.
- And of course Donald all proceeds from this show that would go to our wonderful judges are going to charity. The save the whales, save the rainforest, and save the kids foundations.
- Oh here we go, the judges have just decided who isn’t safe this week.]
- Cat Scratch stands up and announces, “this week, the winner and safe from being voted off is…Slug Slime, thanks to his efforts at the children’s hospital fund raiser.”
- Donald speaks up [Slug Slime, ladies and gentlemen, the man who can produce a slicky slime from anywhere on his body and slowly…oh very slowly use it to climb up sheer surfaces. Well folks at home it’s time to decide between the other nineteen contestants who will be going home, so get out those cell phones or get online and vote in the next five minutes while we go to commercial.]
- Diane returns [Well, first week and we actually have a tie…a tie for going home granted, but a tie none the less]
- Donald: [Between who?]
- Diane [It looks like Palette Swap and Red Squid…oh a battle of the genders to decide who gets to stay and who is going home tonight.]
- Vinnie Vinyl stands, [In the event of a tie, we the judges have the final vote. Really did not see this coming first week but here we go. On the one hand we have Palette Swap, I can only guess the folks at home were just as put off by your color changing pranks as we were, like turning that white hospital sky blue. On the other hand we have Red Squid a relatively new and unknown hero on the scene, you are a bit naïve, especially with regards to your people skills, and don’t seem to know the limits of your own strength young lady. We will get back to you both after careful dilberation.]
- Diane, [and there they go, so its down to the man who can make colors change…color.]
- Donald, [and the humanoid Cephalopod who can crush cars in her hair….tentacles…and spit ink. I wander Diane do you think that is red body paint or is she actually red?]
- Diane: [I don’t know Donald, but she could use some more colors in her costume, a red painted one piece swim suit with red skin, those…tentacles, and a pointy red squid hat isn’t much a super hero costume if you ask me. Especially with her figure it just looks…wrong.]
- Donald: [Oh here come the judges.]
- Pillow Fist speaks, [We have decided, Palette Swap while your pranks are a big aggravating, you have shown a good heart and fixed them right away and with a little more self control we should expect to see you here more in the future. Red Squid, you are a bit young yet, clearly starting out, and sad to say you have not shown much in the way of people skills, which is the most important thing here; and with your powers and a bit more maturity you might expect to join bigger team and….awck!]
- Diane and Donald are silent as Red Squid spits out a massive spray of black ink right at Pillow Fist knocking him on his ass. She then bends down and leaps high into the air, a pair of red demon like wings shooting out from her back as she flies off.
- Donald [ I…uh….wow…]
- Diane [Since when can squids fly?...sorry I mean wow…maturity problem is right, what a sore loser. But then again she was the first voted off…]
- *click*
- The tv is turned off by Blue Supreme, the African American superhero leader of Super Squad who wears patriotic riot gear, for despite his speed, flight, super strength, and invulnerability aura, the one substance that can get through that aura is metal.
- “So that was last night’s episode of that Reject audition show.”
- Around the table are the leaders of a few different teams, The Badger a man with knuckle bones and current leader of the revised Evolutionaries, Galaxy Girl leader of the Galactic Guardians, Domi-Magic the disturbingly S&M themed leader of the Magick Masters, and Pizza Man the Pizza gadget/samurai/pizza shield themed leader of The Heroes a government sponsored team out of New York City.
- “How that girl even get on that show?” quirks Badger
- “Maybe she showed a better attitude during the audition?” offers Pizza Ma
- Domi-Magic taps her horse whip wand in her wand, “Hmmm, love the tentacles, and those wings…” she gets a far more serious look on her face and falls silent.
- “Not what a meant,” says Badger, “those Rejects are always about weird powers that don’t work in the big leagues…makes them more …relatable to the public.”
- He extends the bone blades from his knuckles, “punks tried to recruit me once, thought different after they found out I could slice through a truck door with these babies.”
- “So she’s too powerful,” says Blue Supreme, “my thoughts exactly. Two hundred supers auditioned for this show, twenty were picked.”
- “So what we had like a hundred and eighty Galaxy Girls or something who didn’t make it?”
- “She has hypnosis,” says Domi-Magic confidently.
- “So she uses it on the regional judges,” says Pizza Man, “but not to stay on the show?”
- “Public voting,” says Galaxy Girl, “you can’t hypnotize people you can’t see right?”
- “With normal techniques you might,” says Domi-Magic, “but not if your hypnosis is magic based.”
- “I wander…” murmurs Galaxy Girl, “I have something to check on.”
- With that she vanishes in a blue flash.
- Blue Supreme shrugs and says, “So, onto the reason we are actually here watching this reality show. Any thoughts on the other contestants? Namely on recruitable individuals?”
- “Something tells me,” says Badger, “Galaxy Girl already has eyes for one.”
- Domi-Magic eyes Badger and taps her horse whip wand while in deep thought turning towards the tv screen where Blue Supreme has brought up pictures of the other contestants.
- ******
- On the ledge of a building sitting beside two gargoyles Red Squid sits, and as her wings retract and vanish into her back she takes the pointy squid hat off her head and crumples it in her hand. Her eight tentacles sway about on her back and two whips that had been in front of her ears now retract and split apart into numerous smaller curly tentacles filling in for bangs. The eight on her back split up into numerous red smaller more jelly fish like tendrils.
- “Stupid contest,” she says almost in tears, “stupid idea anyway.”
- She stands up and throws the painted squid hat off the roof and rips the one piece swim suit off her body revealing her scale covered abdomen and chest. She throws it to the side on the roof.
- “Super hero…” she says as she sits down, knees to her face about to cry, “get on tv…make the people love you…be a super hero…whatever…stupid, stupid, stupid…*sniff*…okay they don’t want me fine…whatever…”
- “Did you really want to join a group called The Rejects?” asks Galaxy Girl floating above her.
- “What…how…how’d you…”
- “So I was right,” says Galaxy girl landing, “about what you really are I mean…now that I see you in person…with my own eyes…”
- Red Squid’s wings shoot out and she prepares to fight, “What of it? If you people really want me to be the bad guy?”
- “I want to recruit you,” says Galaxy Girl
- “Wha…what?” asks Red Squid
- “The human wasn’t wrong,” says Galaxy Girl, “you are young, and naïve, but I can teach you how to be a super hero if you really want to be one that is.”
- “I…I do,” says Red Squid, “more than anything, but they…”
- “Its reality television,” says Galaxy Girl, “it doesn’t mean anything.”
- “Aren’t you just a kid too?” asks Red Squid.
- Galaxy Girl shrugs and says, “look into my eyes.”
- Red Squid looks and sees the twin swirls of galaxies and “hears” a language no mortal could ever comprehend without their brain rupturing in the process.
- “Woah,” says Red Squid, “why…why are you a superhero?”
- “I also have a living black hole, a cosmic juggernaut, a high level sorceress, and higher planes ass kicker on the team too…we don’t call ourselves the Galactic Guardians for nothing.”
- “I…” Red Squid looks down at the studio lot she just left, “I’ll give it a try, and that’s all.”
- “Okay,” says Galaxy Girl in a very chipper tone, “now that, that’s arranged, we need to find you a good costume. No offense, but naked with scales might work in the movies, and…I don’t know what the deal was with that other outfit.”
- “I got the idea from an anime,” says Red Squid.
- “Oh…well no offense but with your womanly figure, skin tone, and power set I think I know someone who can really get you a banging outfit.”
- “Banging?”
- “Banging, like boom, pop, you know she can kick ass, outfit.”
- “Sounds like fun.” Says Red Squid
- Red Squid smiles as she flies following Galaxy Girl.
- ******
- Oh also this totally happened around Halloween…well mid November, what? She’s a fricken Cthonic monster who wants to be a super-hero so sue me. Anywho, next Halloween is when the action begins
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