| After receiving an experimental radiation care, Phantashia
is well enough to resume her exploration of the city at Seattle Center.
She is exploring the Cult of the Mouse (also known as the Disney Shoppe).
She is surprised by another ghostly warrior of the Scourge of
Fendahl. Reasonably reluctant to fight it at close quarters,
she travels outside in hero ID and blasts it. This causes a minor panic
in the crowd, but what can you do?
Up above, in the Space Needle’s Top of the
Tower restaurant, Sydney (Mist) Todd
is out for dinner with her beau, Dominic Fortune, when
Golden Glider breaks in and announces a robbery.
As the Glider travels among the crowd of diners, getting goodies for
her sack, Mist changes clothes under the table as Phantashia travels
upwards. When the heroines confront her, the villainess gasses them
with her trick gloves and knocks them out cold.
Golden Glider resumes her looting spree, made a little difficult by
the fact she also gassed forty-two patrons, and uses her seduction skill
on Dominic.
The heroines recover from their gassing and Mist confronts Golden
Glider while Phantashia sneaks around the ceiling to get the drop on
her. Glider coyly suggests Dominic bash Mist over the head with a chair,
and Mist is forced to shoot him with her Mist blast.
Glider ties up Mist with wire, but Mist simply turns gaseous and it
drops off. Glider decides to run, and gets away far enough until she
notices Phantashia. She spins and attacks, hitting Phantashia with a
special gem that saps her endurance so that even to remain aloft she
takes damage. Mist has entered the fray by this time, and Glider finds
herself in a battle she really didn’t want. The heroines are getting
tried and get to the Needle to get some needed recoveries, but Glider
needs to rest, too, and is too far from other buildings to land anywhere
but the Needle.
Glider re-enters and tries to fight her way out again. She turns off
her flight to simply fall away, faking an accident, but Phantashia telekinetically
grabs her again and again. Finally Mist dive-bombs the villainess and
smashes her through the gift shop at the tower base and very definitely
puts Glider on ice.
UNCLE asks the two heroines to help transport Glider
to SISRS and they agree.
Dominic suffered a few broken ribs, and Mist flies him down. The other
patrons say thanks, we’ll walk, even though Glider shorted the
elevators.
Also—earlier that day, Mist had been recruited by the Knights
of the Light by a man known as Robert. The
SMASH people tried to get her this time, too.
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