The Supervillainy Saga | Book 8 | Tales of Supervillainy [Cindy's Seven] by Phipps C.T

Author:Phipps, C.T. [Phipps, C.T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superhero Fantasy
Publisher: Crossroad Press
Published: 2022-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

The Wedding Party of the Stars (Of Villainy)

Diabloman.

Shit.

That was a complicated collection of emotions right there. Diabloman was the former center of Gary and my trio. We’d only been together a short while before things went to hell, but he’d been a fatherly figure to us both. A Satanic luchador, he’d been a big villain in the late Eighties and Nineties before time and black magic had taken its toll on him. Gary had rescued him from obscurity, and he’d guided us through a lot of pitfalls that we’d otherwise had fallen prey to.

Then he’d betrayed us. Mandy had gotten herself turned into a vampire and a soulless killer of evil. Which, you know, wasn’t great for me. I mean, I didn’t self-identify as evil, but all the murder and robbery could conceivably convince someone I qualified. Diabloman participated in a grand deception where his sister, the former superhero known as Spellbinder, had possessed Mandy’s vampire body. For months, maybe years, she’d impersonated Mandy and been a friend as well as lover to us. I felt unclean just thinking about it.

Eventually, it had all come out and Diabloman was lucky that Gary got to him first because I wouldn’t have just kicked him out of our home. Unfortunately, Gary had reconciled with him (somehow) and now Diabloman was married to Gary’s sister, Kerri. No, I don’t know what is with this family and rhyming names. Seriously: Cindy, Mindy, Mandy, Kerri, Gary, it’s damn weird. I keep expecting a third lovechild to show up named Mary or Jerry. No, that wasn’t a suggestion, God.

Where was I? Oh yes, Diabloman’s presence here was decidedly unwelcome. Unfortunately, I wasn’t about to cause a scene that might result in us getting thrown off the island before I could kill its owner and rob him blind. Still, Diabloman made me uncomfortable, and I hoped Gary had invited him on this heist or I was going to have to kick both off this team.

“Hello, Diabloman,” Gary said, reacting somewhat reserved and without much in the way of friendliness. It was funny that he was wearing a white tux and black bow tie with his black cloak that made him look like he was cosplaying as Sean Connery’s Bond. Perhaps I’d overestimated just how much they’d reconciled.

“What the hell are you doing here?” I asked, stepping into the conversation.

“I am attending the wedding of two dear friends,” Diabloman replied, opening the hatch to the Nightplane II.

“Really? You’re friends with Adonis and Achilles?” I asked, lowering my opinion of both men.

“No,” Diabloman replied. “I get the impression that I was invited not as a person they genuinely respected but because they wished to avoid giving me slight.”

“Ah, the Malificent invitation,” I replied, getting that. “You’re right. Better to have a supervillain not show up than feel the need to blow up the place. I mean, it would be absolutely crazy to not invite any women, for example, and they curse all of the guests to be transformed into pigs.

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