[CENTER][sup][h1][center][img]https://files.catbox.moe/9zn4ux.png[/img][/center][b][center][color=blue] C A P T A I N   M A R V E L[/color]
[color=red]C A P T A I N   M A R V E L[/color][/center]
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[color=silver][sup][i]"Say it backwards!"[/i][/sup][/color][/CENTER]

[h1]General Techtronics Labs, New York[/h1]

The Staff stood in the middle of the room, upright, the 3 of them staring at it. Boyd was crawling around on the glass of his cage, staring at the light shining from the staff's crystal. His head twitching back and forth in an insect-like way. Bailey sat on a chair. [color=6ecff6]"So, it's a magic staff. Kinda looks like the one Shazam had."[/color] There was a loud boom from outside as a lightning bolt struck the lightning rod on the roof. [color=6ecff6]"I need to stop doing that."[/color]

[color=39b54a]"Feel free to go nuts, kid, it's doing my electric bills the world of good."[/color] Simm replied. [color=39b54a]"But the question then arises... What's the point of the staff?"[/color] He asked. [color=39b54a]"You're already more powerful than a locomotive, a weapon seems a little pointless."[/color]

[color=ed1c24]"Maybe it's not a weapon."[/color] Christina chimed in. Simm began rubbing his temple for the inevitable migrain her suggestion would cause. [color=ed1c24]"What if it's something for you to focus your magic with? I mean, you're doing alright, but you can only do it as Captain Marvel? Maybe this is to help you become a wizard like Shazam?"[/color]

[color=6ecff6]"But i don't know any spells..."[/color] He replied.

[color=ed1c24]"Well, it's a good thing i do."[/color] Christina smiled, getting her phone out, she pressed a few buttons, before turning the phone around to reveal an older Livestream. Simm raised an eyebrow.

[color=39b54a]"There's a magic user... Who livestreams?"[/color] He asked. Christina rolled up her sleeve to reveal a "Zatarafam" bracelet. [color=39b54a]"And you believe him?"[/color] Christina pointed at Bailey, then at the staff.

[color=ed1c24]"I MET A GREEK GOD AN HOUR AGO AND I MAY OR MAY NOT BE DATING HIS SON!!! MAGIC IS REAL!"[/color] Simm took a sharp inhale through his nose, before rolling his eyes.

[color=39b54a]"Alright, i can't argue with that."[/color] He resigned.

[hider=The Livestream][quote=@Azure Bubbles]> LMAOOOO
> PROFESSIONAL BTW
> REVERSE IT ZACH
> SPEAK THE WORDS

Zach huffed, cheeks flushing. [color=darkviolet]“Fine. You want backwards? You get backwards.”[/color]

He snapped his fingers at the lone card spinning above him and spoke with all the dramatic flare of a boy desperate to reclaim his dignity. [color=darkviolet]“Edivid dna ylf sdrac”[/color]

The card froze.

Not fell.
Not fluttered.
Froze.

Then it glowed.

“…uh,” Zach whispered, leaning back.

The single card split—once, twice, ten times—until dozens of identical cards orbited him in a ring of violet energy.

His heart stopped.

Chat lost its mind.

> THAT IS NOT CGI
> WTF IS THIS
> META AWAKENING LIVE ON STREAM
> BRO WHAT DID YOU JUST DO[/quote][/hider]

[color=ed1c24]"You got a deck of cards?"[/color] She asked. Simm sighed and walked to his desk and grabbed an old and battered looking deck of cards from a drawer and put it on top of the desk. Bailey and Christina looked at the deck, then Christina looked at Simm. [color=ed1c24]"You play Sorcery: The Congregation?"[/color] She asked. [color=ed1c24]"CONERDUGH!"[/color] She coughed. Simm's eyebrow twitched at her.

[color=39b54a]"Get the staff, lets see what it can do. Repeat the words he said."[/color] Simm commanded. Christina played the video back several times. Bailey then looked at the deck of cards and put his hand out over it.

[color=6ecff6]"Edivid dna ylf sdrac!"[/color] He called. The cards did nothing. Simm looked at him.

[color=39b54a]"I said get the staff. I would guess that your human body doesn't conduct magic the way Captain Marvel's body does."[/color] Simm replied. Bailey walked over to the staff and picked it up. It looked rather heavy, but even with his small body, he picked it up with ease. It felt like it weighed nothing. He was just about used to that feeling when he was Captain Marvel, but as Bailey... Frankly, it gave him nostalgia for his former spider powers. He walked over to the deck and held the staff over it.

[color=6ecff6]"Edivid dna ylf sdrac!"[/color] As he said the words, lightning erupted from the end of the staff and began zapping the cards, which began twitching, before exploding in every way imaginable, shooting and ricocheting over the walls. [color=6ecff6]"STOP! STOP! STOP!!![/color] He yelled. One perfectly pierced straight through the glass of Boyd's cell. It didn't shatter the glass or anything, simply leaving a slit in the glass that the card had perfectly passed through. The cards now stuck into the walls all over the place.

[color=ed1c24]"Say it backwards!"[/color] Christina yelled.

[color=6ecff6]"Oh yeah, POTS!!!"[/color] He yelled as a shockwave erupted from the end of the staff. Everything stopped and fell silent... Eerily quiet... Perfectly quiet... Bailey looked around to see Christina and Simm perfectly still, Simm was mid-leap to avoid a card. [color=6ecff6]"NO YOU STUPID STAFF, NOT STOP THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!!"[/color] HE groaned, shaking it. [color=6ecff6]"Alright, i've got to say it backwards... Stop is pots, so... Og?"[/color] He ordered as the chaos unfroze and the whirlwind of cards continued to blow. [color=6ecff6]"No, i've gotta stop just the cards... Pots eet scadr? Oh POTS!"[/color] He yelled as everything stopped again. He walked over to the desk and grabbed a piece of paper, writing "Stop The Cards" on it. He then flipped the paper and held it up to the light for the light to shine through. [color=6ecff6]"Alright..."[/color] He tucked the staff between his armpit and the back of his hand, his arm wrapping around it so he could hold both it and the paper up to the light. He took a few breaths. [color=6ecff6]"Alright, Og!"[/color] The chaos restarted again. [color=6ecff6]"SDRAC EHT POTS!"[/color] He yelled as the cards suddenly stopped and fell to the ground. [color=6ecff6]"That was terrifying, i'm never doing that again."[/color] Bailey replied. Meanwhile, Simm walked over to the phone and grabbed it from Christina, watching what Zatara was doing.

[color=39b54a]"Ok, here's the problem. That kid has a magic wand. You are using a staff forged by the very gods themselves and imbued with the power of their sorcerer-king. What you did is the equivalent of trying to putt a golf ball with a 3-wood."[/color] Ge replied.

[color=ed1c24]"And for those of us under the age of 300 who don't play Golf?"[/color] Christina asked. Simm grunted.

[color=39b54a]"Fine, you just tied to perform sensitive surgery using a Claymore."[/color] Christina nodded.

[color=ed1c24]"Explosives based surgery? Yikes, that's not going to end well for anyone involved."[/color] Christina grunted.

[color=39b54a]"I was talking about the sword, but your enalogy works better."[/color] Simm sighed.

[color=6ecff6]"So... Is it too dangerous?"[/color] He asked.

[color=39b54a]"It's a staff forged by the gods, i should say so... But it'll be perfect for Captain Marvel to use."[/color] He replied. [color=39b54a]"Mind if i keep it here for study?"[/color] He asked.

[color=6ecff6]"Well, i can't exactly take it back to F.E.A.S.T. can i?"[/color] Bailey sighed. Simm pressed some buttons on his control panel, before looking at Bailey.

[color=39b54a]"Before you go..."[/color] He pointed to several of his cards still imbedded in the ceiling a hundred foot above them. Bailey nodded.

[color=6ecff6][h1]"SHAZAM!"[/h1][/color]