In the magnificent metropolis of Superior City, a crowd gathers downtown, standing in the park across the street from the First National Bank.

"It seems that the word has gone out on the Net that the notorious 'Mad Molly' and her band of Misfits is planning to stage a special performance here at Memorial Park," reports Darla Dazzle of KSPR Channel-99 News, on the scene. "Wait. Something's happening. You can hear them all chanting...."

Just then, an explosion rocks the First National Bank, blowing out the front doors. Above the sounds of the alarms, there is the scream of guitars and a pounding beat, broadcast from speakers atop the nearby buildings. The crowd goes wild as a lone, sleek figure with big 80s-retro hair steps out of the smoke and holds up two green bags of cash (clearly marked with large conspicuous dollar signs). "Beat the system!" she screams through a headset, amplified over the speakers, and the crowd goes wild. A man in a trenchcoat runs past her, leaping into the driver's seat of an illegally-parked pickup truck, while members of her band (similarly possessed of 80s-style big hair and flashy attire) rush by. Even while the police sirens can be heard in the distance, Molly belts out a song for her admirers, and they pour out into the street, bringing traffic to a dead stop.

Across the street, there are some in the park who aren't quite so enthralled by Molly's performance. There's a man in the black and reflective-yellow-green uniform of a firefighter, though the hose he carries runs to a pair of tanks and a complex-looking contraption strapped to his back. Next to him is a skinny girl with wild white hair and strange red patterns marked on her face, wearing big rubber boots, and a fur-lined white rubber coat (marked with stylized red lightning bolts), despite the warm summer weather.

"I think a crime is taking place!" Fireman proclaims, provoking a roll of the eyes from Voltage. They are momentarily distracted by a manhole cover sliding away, near their feet, and the emergence of a tall, bulky man in a sewage-spattered trenchcoat and hat. What's visible of the man's face underneath the hat is distinctly green.

"Why, hello there, perfectly ordinary-looking man in a trenchcoat!" Voltage says by way of greeting.

Before they have a chance to make proper introductions, Fireman rushes forward, demanding that everyone stop impeding traffic. Heedless of all the lyrics of Molly's song, urging everyone to "Fight the Man" and "Rail against the System", Fireman claims that these good citizens should heed him, as he's a "civil servant". A few hooligans in the group suddenly decide that Fireman is the next best thing to a cop on the scene, and they surround him, taunting him with threats. All the while, Molly edges her way closer to her getaway truck, while her Misfits hop on the back (and even on top), raucously urging the crowd on, to the backdrop of recorded music.

Perfectly Ordinary-Looking Man in a Trenchcoat suddenly flings said trenchcoat aside, to reveal that he is none other than a six-foot-tall turtle-like humanoid with a colored cloth face mask (no doubt to disguise his true identity), armed with shuriken and a pair of nunchaku! The Turtle Ninja leaps up into a nearby tree, and from this vantage point flings several shuriken, puncturing the tires of the getaway truck. The truck suddenly lowers to the side of the punctured tires, causing Ashley (one of the Misfits) to lose her perch atop the truck, and to spill to the ground. When she gets up and looks about, she sees a gap where several of the hooligans in the crowd have dispersed. Poor Voltage has a microphone shoved into her face - and a camera lens almost as close - as she's asked for an interview by Darla Dazzle.

"Hey!" Ashley exclaims. "That's the chick with no taste who messed up my hair yesterday!" Ah, what terrible coincidence! Ashley immediately rushes across the street, pulling out a pair of large knives, intent upon doing untold horrors to Voltage's own hair - or worse.

Meanwhile, the taunts from the hooligans surrounding Fireman only get worse, as he tries with little success to get them to peacefully disassemble. "Oh yeah? Well, we'll peaceably disassemble you!" As poor Fireman finds himself pounded with rocks, skateboards and other makeshift bludgeons - and he sees a glint of a knife being drawn - he resolves that there is just no other way to deal with this but to give these fellows a chance to "cool off". So, he twists the nozzle of his portable fire hose ... and proceeds to blast back several unruly "Molly and the Misfits" fans, sending them sprawling across the pavement.

Molly and her Misfits abandon the truck, and begin to work their way down the street, as a couple of muscle-bound bruisers part the excited crowd for her. Voltage, seeing Molly and Company getting away, tries unsuccessfully to get away; she vaguely answers a few questions, but Darla just will not be satisfied. Finally, as her hair rises and her body crackles with sparks, she cries out, "Go AWAY!" With the amplified power of static electricity, poor Darla is blasted backward, where she bounces off of a tree, and slumps to the ground, microphone spilling from her hand. Her loyal cameraman catches the whole thing live, on camera.

Molly grins, and pauses a moment in her rushed exit, to call out, "You, in the white coat! This one's just for you!" And then she belts out another number, full of violence and rage ... and Voltage just can't seem quite to control herself. Her power seems to be going out of control, and as she turns about - she blasts the cameraman, sending him careening into a nearby tree as well, and collapsing with his shattered equipment. Before Voltage can fully digest what has just happened, she turns in time to hear a scream of rage from Ashley, who comes rushing at her with knives drawn! Fortunately, Ashley's attack goes wild, and Voltage gives her a boot backwards ... whereupon the retro rocker spills back into the park fountain. With an angry cry, she comes out - and her hair is most assuredly ruined again, as all her carefully gelled spiked hairdo falls into dripping clumps, half-obscuring her eyes, and her heavy mascara runs down her cheeks.

The Turtle Ninja leaps down from his tree, and rushes over to help Voltage ... but Molly sends out another "dedication", this time singing a special song for Mr. Big Green and Handsome. Her song seems to have a mesmerizing, confusing quality, and as he tries to fling a few shuriken to knock the weapons out of Ashley's hands ... instead he finds himself flinging the throwing stars at Voltage instead! The stars imbed into her white coat, and she lets out a cry of pain. The Ninja Turtle cries out as well at his own mistake, and shakes his head clear - then flings another couple of shuriken Ashley's way, catching her high heels, and sending her tripping and falling onto the grass. She knocks against the pavement, her eyes roll back, and she lies there, unconscious.

"Whose side are you ON?!" demands Voltage, and the Turtle Ninja just gives her an apologetic shrug and an embarrassed grin, before returning his attention to the fleeing miscreants.

Fireman valiantly hoses down hooligan after hooligan, and Voltage rushes to his rescue, but a thug with a crowbar sneaks up on him from behind, and bludgeons him. Despite his helmet, he falters. Voltage lets out a vindictive blast of electrical energy, and the rioting thugs collapse to the ground, stunned. The Turtle Ninja witnesses one of Molly's thugs shoving aside another manhole cover, and then they all clamber down the hole, one after the other. Instead of pursuing them, however, he rushes over to help Voltage (or, as he calls her, "Sparky") with the prone Fireman. Hearing the sounds of police sirens drawing closer, and the shouts of more angry fans, they decide that discretion is the better part of valor: they make their exit into the sewers as well, Voltage hauling Fireman in a fireman's drag.

Down in the Superior City Sewer System, Fireman slowly regains consciousness, and groans when he awakens to noxious fumes. A wide stream of unpleasant material flows by, and they decide that they're not terribly keen on wading across, even if two of the heroes have rubber boots, and the other one seems to have a natural knack for leaping across such things. They pick a direction, and start heading that way, hoping for some sign of the Misfits and the stolen loot - or perhaps just a way out, so they can avoid any further trouble. Along the way, they introduce themselves to each other. Turtle Ninja says that he's a tourist, come to Superior City ... to get away from his brothers. He says that his brothers don't take him seriously, and he's always getting into trouble and getting bailed out by them - or at the very least, any time he'd try to head out on his own, his brothers would always come after him. So, he has decided that he needs a vacation - one where he'd go far away enough that his brothers can't try to "bail him out" again.

Voltage reveals that she's something of a technical wiz, with a natural aptitude for machines and gizmos. However, she's not particularly forthcoming about just how she attained her remarkable powers to zap people silly. She seems more inclined to bemoan the likelihood that the media is going to be "out to get her" ... while at the same time seeming terribly satisfied for zapping Darla Dazzle after all.

Fireman claims to be what he appears to be - a firefighter who, when he's off duty, loves going around and doing good deeds. And, just in case he comes across a fire, he's got his own portable extinguisher, thanks to the wonders of modern experimental technology.

As they head along, loudly exchanging stories and talking about what they'll do next - finding their way primarily thanks to Fireman's flashlight, and Voltage's "will o' wisp" trick - they fail to notice several suspicious-looking shadows. Suddenly, there is a flash of light, and several shuriken start flying out from the recesses of the sewer tunnel! Our heroes, standing in line on a narrow ledge, are caught in the crossfire of an ambush by a troupe of ninjas, led by a mysterious Red Ninja, and a warrioress also clad in red. "You don't belong here!" is the only explanation our heroes get, as they protest that they mean no harm. Poor Turtle Ninja takes the brunt of the initial attack, and though he throws down some smoke grenades to try to provide cover for a retreat, he takes several more hits, and slumps, unconscious, falling into what can only charitably be called the water. Voltage stuns the warrioress in red with her static touch, and then bravely tries to rush out into the "water" to get to the red ninja on the other side ... but several more strikes, and she falls unconscious as well. Fireman is the last one standing, desperately spraying this way and that with the hose, until he finally manages to hose down the Red Ninja. At the loss of their leader, the remaining ninjas toss down smoke grenades. When the smoke clears, they and their fallen comrades are gone, leaving Fireman to rouse the others and pull out a first aid kit to bandage their injuries.

Bruised, battered and heavily bandaged, our heroes make their way along the ledge. There is a grate in the wall to one side, dripping with sludge. Turtle Ninja, curious, goes up and sticks his head in the grate. They hear a rumbling, and Voltage and Fireman wisely leap back. Turtle Ninja looks to them and exclaims, "What?" Then, suddenly he's hit by a gush of sewage that spews out of the grate and into the main channel.

Voltage and Fireman do their best not to snicker.

They press on, come to an intersection, and turn right - again. Voltage suggests that if they make any more right turns, they'll just get back right to where they started, but none of them are very keen to go wading in that mess any more than they have to. They find another inlet grate, but this time wisely opt not to stick a head in to see what's there. Turtle Ninja takes particular interest in a baby alligator swimming in the sludge. "So it is true!"

At last, they reach another intersection, but there is a large pile of debris, including a floating crate, that allows the possibility of leaping across to the other side. Ninja Turtle does so, and finds evidence that someone wearing high-heeled shoes must have leaped across at this same spot. There's also a ladder leading to a manhole back to the surface. They consider pressing onward ... but they observe that there are several large metal drums, marked with hazardous waste warnings, that are drifting down the cross-channel, occasionally bumping against the debris, and then moving onward. Fireman grabs one, stopping the flow of barrels, while Voltage gets out some tools and pries off the lid to get a look inside. Inside, there is a bunch of glowing green goo that clearly lights up the immediate area. They hear someone call out, "Hey! The barrels have stopped!" Voltage hastily puts the lid back on, crimping it back into place, and Fireman lets it go, and the other barrels drift after it.

"We must stop this affront to our ecosystem!" Fireman declares, and they decide to give up the chase of Molly, and instead see where these barrels are floating.

They carefully make their way downstream, with Turtle Ninja in the lead. Up ahead, they can see a makeshift dock, where a crane is being used by a black-garbed ninja to haul toxic barrels out of the sludge, and up onto a raised platform. Other ninjas mill about, helping to roll the barrels up a ramp and around a corner, out of sight.

"Bwa-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!" laughs someone with a deep voice, echoing through the tunnel. "Only a few more, and we will have enough. My doomsday weapon will be complete!"

Our heroes, upon hearing that, figure that just about seals it. So ... they leap into action! Turtle Ninja leaps to the other side, and creates a distraction, while Fireman moves into position and hoses down several of the ninja! It seems to be off to a decent start, until the ninjas recover, and start flinging shuriken at our heroes with frustrating accuracy.

As if that were not enough, the owner of that deep voice appears. He's a tall, muscular man, dressed in a black uniform, his face hidden by a breath mask, with hoses leading to a device on his back. Almost effortlessly, he picks up one of the toxic barrels and hurls it at Fireman and Voltage. It hits, and explodes in a flash of green fire, knocking Voltage to the ground. A woman in oriental dress appears out of thin air next to the muscular man, and starts directing the ninjas. Turtle Ninja is the next to fall ... and then there is only Fireman. The woman vanishes and reappears next to Fireman. She lays a hand on his shoulder, and coos, "Perhaps you should come with us." Fireman, undaunted, turns the full fury of his fire hose on her - and, with an angry scream, she flies backward, into the stream of sewage!

However, he hasn't long to savor this victory. Flash grenades and flinging shuriken come down on him in a merciless barrage. His senses begin to cloud, and finally he slumps, unconscious, falling beside the prone body of Voltage.

"Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haaa!" he vagely hears, while his consciousness slips away. "I think I may have a use for these foolish intruders!"

Fireman wakes, groggily, and finds that the world is hazy and upside-down. Or, rather, he's submerged, upside-down, in a tank of some sort of clear, viscous fluid, with tubes running to a mask covering his face. Outside the tank, he can see that the Turtle Ninja is strapped down on some sort of mechanized operating table, where mechanical arms bearing nasty-looking sharp implements are descending upon him. Voltage floats in a hazy energy field suspended above another device, while a scientist in a lab coat keeps examining readings and remarking, "Fascinating!"

Across the huge chamber, there stands their nemesis from before, flanked by the oriental woman (and a younger companion) on one side, and a thickly built man in a pinstripe suit (with what looks like a female bodyguard) on the other. In the center of the chamber, a mass of tubes and pipes reaches from a multitude of machines and tanks, to the body of a collosal vaguely humanoid creature of muscle and steel.

"Mwa-ha-ha-ha-haa!" comes the familiar cackle of the madman apparently at the head of this crazy operation. "With your secret shipments from The Factory, Mister Big, we will soon be ready to unleash our greatest weapon upon the unsuspecting populace of Superior City. Oh, the irony, that their very own waste should be used to power the means of their destruction!" This is followed by yet another characterastic laugh.

"And you, Madame X - your mental powers shall prove invaluable in controlling the savage brain of this cybernetic marvel. As promised, we shall see that you become ruler of Little Tokyo, before the rest of Superior City falls to our combined might - and then ... the WORLD!" And yet more cackling from the madman, joined by the laughter of his partners in crime.

"Well, Colonel Chaos," Mister Big growls, "if dat's all youse needs to start it, den I thinks I'll be takin' a little vacation, so's I can watch da Doomsday Machine do its doity woik, from a nice safe distance."

And so, the group of villains began to break up, with Mister Big and his bodyguard - and then Madame X and her companion - taking their leave through a pair of very sturdy-looking blast doors. Little did Fireman know - or Colonel Chaos, for that matter - that there was an unwelcome intruder watching ... one who was small enough to crawl her way through vents and tubes down into this secret laboratory. A little girl in a black dress lightly hops down from a high duct opening, and traipses up behind one of the cackling mad scientists at the controls of the machine that is sapping Voltage's energy.

"Pardon me, mister!" she says, rocking back and forth, clutching a bouquet of black roses. "Would you like to buy some Girl Scout Cookies?"

"Ah?" The scientist is taken aback. "How did you -- ah ... Why, yes, sure I would! Just wait here just a moment, while I find my wallet." Even now, Colonel Chaos is making his way to the exit, giving one of the ninja guards instructions to report to him if anything "unusual" should happen. "Psst! Guard! Over here!" the scientist loudly whispers. "GNK!" he suddenly groans, as he falls to the floor, a long-stemmed black rose sticking out of his back, strategically pinching a nerve, rendering him unconscious.

"It's not nice to tattle!" the girl chides.

"Little girl!" Voltage cries out from the field she's suspended in. "Pull that cable over there. Plug that over there!" She calls out directions, and the girl swaps a couple of cable hook-ups ... and suddenly the machine, instead of drawing energy out of Voltage, sends it surging back in. The field collapses, and an alarm sounds. Voltage rushes over to the operating table holding Turtle Ninja, and, with a touch against the security keypad, overloads it, and the bindings pop open.

Ninja guards rush to the scene. Colonel Chaos curses under his breath - as he was just about to head out the door - and he rushes back, calling out, "STOP THEM!"

Mayhem ensues. Shuriken fly. Voltage grins, unleashing electrical energy at the charging ninja. Turtle Ninja, still weakened by the torture, nonetheless rises, and flings shuriken of his own at some of the doctors - rushing at him with syringes filled with none-too-pleasant-looking substances. The little goth girl leaps to a ledge atop another blast door, and flings roses - downing a nurse who was about to start a "release sequence", and another hitting a button that overloads the control terminal next to the "suspension tank". The tank shatters, and Fireman spills out onto the ground. (Conveniently, all his gear is piled up nearby.)

The operator of a crane uses it to fling a barrel of toxic goo in the direction of Voltage and Turtle Ninja. It explodes in a burst of green fire, and sends Voltage sprawling, while Turtle Ninja leaps up to a defensive position next to the little goth girl. Fireman hoses down approaching ninjas, but he is still weakened, and at last he falls to their onslaught. Colonel Chaos arrives, lifting up a huge crate, preparing to fling it at the goth girl and the Turtle Ninja. The Turtle Ninja springs onto the crate, and over it, bouncing onto the shoulder of the huge, toxic-waste-powered collosus that dominates the center of the room. Colonel Chaos, undaunted, tosses the crate, and it knocks the goth girl from her perch. "That wasn't very nice," she says with a pout - and she unleashes a barrage of sharp-stemmed roses, which imbed themselves, one after another, into Colonel Chaos's coat, puncturing the hoses leading to his face mask, and letting out strange fumes. He staggers backward ... then falls into an open shaft.

"AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Colonel Chaos disappears from the scene.

Turtle Ninja knocks the crane operator out, and, seeing their leader taken out of the action, the remaining ninjas decide to flee the scene.

Turtle Ninja drags Voltage back over to the energy device, to "recharge her", and it actually succeeds, returning her to consciousness. The goth girl dumps some clean water on Fireman, and slaps him conscious. He recovers his senses (and the rest of his gear), returning to his feet. Meanwhile, alarms are blaring, and a computer screen mentions a countdown of some sort. Turtle Ninja hits some buttons to abort a "release sequence" for the "Doomsday Device" ... but there's still the "Self-Destruct Sequence" in operation. At a loss for how to possibly override that particular computer function, he advises everyone to "Run for it!"

Fireman uses a firefighter's drag to pull one of the unconscious ninja to the door ... and then pries the ninja's eye open to use for an ocular scanner to get the blast door to open. It does so, and he drags the ninja through, with Turtle Ninja right behind him. The little goth girl just waves "goodbye" to everyone, and crawls through the same vent shaft she arrived in. Meanwhile, Voltage loots a few expensive-looking gizmos and devices from the unconscious scientists, and follows Fireman's lead - grabbing a downed scientist and holding his face up to the ocular scanner to get out of the other door.

So, as our heroes rush out of the base of Colonel Chaos, taking their various exits, the ground trembles beneath their feet, and they can hear the echoes of explosions rocking the underground laboratory of evil.

What a harrowing adventure for our heroes! Is this the last that they will see of Colonel Chaos - or, for that matter, Mister Big or Madame X? Will Mad Molly and the Misfits get away with their mayhem? Will Darla Dazzle hold a personal grudge against Voltage (aka "Sparky")? Will the name of the mysterious little goth girl ever be revealed?

Tune in next time, for the continuing adventures of our heroes in ... Superior City!