Our heroes were no match for these supervillains. The dogs, the rat and even the robot were all quaking with fear as they were encircled. One of them even accidentally let off a little bottom squeaker…
PFT!
…but it was hardly the time to begin arguing about who had done it.
Dr Stench opened her mouth wide and breathed a green cloud of putrid gas over them.
WHOOSH! 
The Ice Queen reached out her icy finger to freeze them forever.
“GET AWAY FROM ME!”
Mighty Mind swam around in his bowl like a jellyfish.
“I am just thinking of something particularly evil! Give me a moment!”
The Tickle Monster stretched out his long arms towards them, ready to tickle them to death.
“NOOOO!”
The Masked Honker turned round and shot a fireball at them.
WHOOMPH!Hammerhands clonked her giant hammer hands together menacingly.
CLONK!The Chocolatier opened the biggest box of chocolates you had ever seen.
“Help yourself! Just beware the coffee-flavoured ones!”
“No! NO! Not the coffee-flavoured ones!”
The Two-headed Ogre was too busy arguing with itself.
“I am going to destroy them!”
“No! I am!”
“I’ll destroy you in a minute!”
Professor Squid lunged towards them waving his arms, ready to fire black ink into their eyes.
SQUIRT!
The Politician, who was covered in dust and cobwebs, was waffling on about something or other.
“At the end of the day, when all is said and done, what this once-great city of ours needs is… BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!”
“ZZZZ! ZZZZ! ZZZZ!”
It was all but impossible to stay awake!
Big Bad Bob thumped the ground with his giant fists, causing a mini-earthquake.
RUMBLE!The Wicked Headmistress stepped forward, holding a pile of exercise books.
“I want this homework handed in first thing in the morning, or you will all be held in detention until the end of time!”
“NOOOOOOOO!”
The Giant Worm didn’t really do anything, but it didn’t have to. It was a giant worm, for goodness’ sake!
“We’re outnumbered! Our only chance is to outwit them!” said Robodog.
“Well, it’s been nice knowing you all, but I have to scarper,” whispered Scarper.
“I wish I’d stayed in bed,” muttered Gristle.
“What does ‘outwit’ mean?” asked Plank.
“I know I am the biggest and strongest of us all,” began Ratty, “but this time I am with Robodog all the way. We have to use our brains!”
“Our what?” said Plank.
Being such a small creature, Ratty had always had to use his wits to survive. His brain was spinning with ideas, until he arrived at a particularly brilliant one.
PING!
One he was sure would get the better of these baddies.
“HISS!”
The baddies all took a step closer to our heroes and loomed over them, arms outstretched.
Ratty put his paw up. “So sorry. I hate to be a party pooper, but I have a quick question, Velma!”
“WHAT?” demanded the cat.
“Well, when you said you are going to rule the world, did you mean just you?”
“Well,” began Velma, “I will be in charge, obviously, but…”
“But you are just a cat!” said Gristle.
“How dare you!” thundered Velma.
“He does dare! He does!” added Scarper.
“Sorry,” interrupted Mighty Mind from his bowl. “I am so clever, and my brain is so big, that I do speak Cat, Dog and Rat. I must say, the dogs and the rat have a point. I mean, it would be a bit embarrassing if I, the greatest criminal mastermind the world has ever known, was taking orders from a mere moggy!”
There were murmurs of agreement from the other supervillains.
“I don’t mind!” said one of the ogre’s heads.
“I do!” said the other.
“SILENCE!” ordered Velma. “I freed you all from jail, remember? I deserve to be in charge! I, and I alone, will rule the world forever!”
“Oh! Now it’s forever!” said Ratty. “Totally and utterly BANANAS!”
“I will translate the cat’s speech!” said Mighty Mind.
As soon as he had, all the baddies burst into life.
“I loved it in jail.”
“Three hot meals a day.”
“Scrabble night on Thursdays.”
“Me and my second head didn’t even get a chance to settle in before we were sprung out!”
“And I’ve been digging a tunnel to escape. Ten years it took me! Now that turns out to have been a complete waste of time!”
Velma was fuming. The round window on her washing machine super-suit steamed up. A little windscreen wiper began shuffling left and right to clear it.
SQUEAK! SQUEAK!
“HISS!” she hissed, spraying some spit on to the window.
The little windscreen wipers made their pitiful sound again.
SQUEAK! SQUEAK!
“Just about this whole ‘who is going to rule the world’ thing,” continued Mighty Mind, “as the baddest baddie of all the baddies, I feel I should do it. All those in favour say ‘aye’. AYE! That’s settled then!”
The supervillains were in uproar.
“NO!”
“NEVER!”
“NOT YOU EVER!”
“I WILL RULE THE WORLD!”
“NO, ME!”
“ME!”
“WHAT THIS COUNTRY NEEDS…BLAH! BLAH! BLAH!”
Hammerhands was a woman of few words, so instead of speaking she banged her boss’s glass bowl with her hammer hands.
CRACK!
The bowl shattered and then broke into a billion pieces. The mega-brain slurped out on to the ground.
SPLURGE!
“NOOOOO!” he cried.
Hammerhands ran over to try to scoop Mighty Mind up, but her hammer hands were no use for that.
The brain disappeared down a drain.
GURGLE!
“HELP!” called out Mighty Mind. But it was too late. He was being swept away on a river of gunk in the city’s sewer.
Hammerhands burst into floods of tears.
“BOO! HOO! HOO!”
She lifted her hands up to her head in anguish and managed to knock herself out.
CLONK!
Hammerhands toppled to the ground with a mighty THUMP!
“So, who is the baddest of all the baddies?” asked Robodog, giving a wink to his fellow dogs. He knew this would wind them up something rotten.
“I AM THE BADDEST!”
“NO! I AM THE BADDEST!”
“I AM THE BADDEST OF THE BAD!”
“I AM THE BADDIE ALL THE OTHER BADDIES, EVEN THE REALLY BAD ONES, AGREE IS THE BADDIEST BADDIE THAT EVER BADDIED!”
Voices were raised. Baddies sized up to baddies. There was even some pushing and shoving and a bit of poking.
“There’s only one way to settle this!” piped up Plank. “FIGHT!”
“Genius, Plank!” shouted Robodog. “FIGHT!”
Immediately, the biggest brawl broke out between the baddies.
AND FIGHT THEY DID!
Professor Squid’s ink was squirted in eyes!
“ARGH!”Great balls of flaming farts were fired from the Masked Honker’s bottom.
WHOOMPH! WHOOMPH! WHOOMPH!
A huge deadly cloud of green gas from Dr Stench made all the baddies cough and splutter.
“EURGH!”
The Wicked Headmistress began throwing exercise books at everyone’s heads.
CLONK! CLONK! CLONK!
“HOMEWORK! HOMEWORK!” HOMEWORK!
The Ice Queen turned the Giant Worm to ice! It now looked like a giant ice pop!
CRACK!
The Politician was forced to eat one of the Chocolatier’s coffee-flavoured chocolates and fell to the ground, frothing at the mouth.
“GURGLE!”
The Tickle Monster tried to tickle Big Bad Bob to death.
“HA! HA! HA!”
But all that happened to Big Bad Bob was that a little bit of wee came out.
As for the Two-headed OgrE, it fought itself.
“TAKE THAT!”
THWACK!
“NO! TAKE THAT!”
KAPOW!
The baddies’ brawl was so big that the goodies all took their chance to slink away into the night.
Now they had to rescue their fellow dogs!