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GINGERLOXX VERSUS THE ROTHBERG TWINS--PART ONE

It's a sunny afternoon in River City, and Bonnie Di Salvo, 23-year-old socialite and scholar is in

her downtown loft engaging in her favorite past time-billiards. The slim, red-haired beauty made

her living not only winning 8-ball and 9-ball tournaments, but also earning fellowships and

research grants in chemistry and physics for America's top companies. She was a prodigy whom

earned her Ph.D. from Brown University when she was only 17 years old. Unfortunately, there

are two secrets Bonnie keeps hidden from the public.

The first emerged shortly after Bonnie had received her Doctorate from Brown; in her hometown

of Providence, her widower father was revealed to be involved in one of the biggest accounting

fraud schemes since Enron with his company, Thurmond Associates. Disgusted by what her

father done, and hounded daily by the press, Bonnie moved away to River City. Once there, she

took a vow to secretly fight crime in all forms.

Using her knowledge, she developed gadgets like an assortment of gas bombs disguised as

billiard balls to stymie enemies. Billiards became a recurring theme not only because of her

adroitness in the sport, but because it was the one thing she felt connect her with her father

whom once was a one-time billiard champion himself. She quickly became skilled in several

forms of martial arts such as Karate, Jujitsu, and Tae Kwon Doe to name a few. The key to her

arsenal is an opaque footed body stocking of Bonnie's own design made with a synthetic nylon

polymer that is bulletproof, tear-resistant, and triples her strength, speed and stamina. The suit

is decorated with a red "G" on the front--much like Green Bay Packers' logo, and comes with

matching red anti-gravity boots that allow her to fly and scale tall buildings without the aide of

grappling hooks or other climbing apparatus, and a red eye mask. When she dons this costume

Bonnie Di Salvo becomes the Redhead Renegade of River City known as Gingerloxx! Nightly,

as she rides on her red Suzuki motorcycle, Gingerloxx patrols the streets of River City righting

wrongs, and protecting the innocent.

But on this warm afternoon, she embraces her first love, leaning forward on the right side of the

pool table, sizing up a difficult shot, but one she had made dozens of times before--a nine-ten

combination with a multiple bank shot. Bonnie was dressed in her home alone lounging attire--a

pair of white tights, a blue short sleeve leotard, and one of her father's old pink oxford shirts

(two sizes too big and left unbuttoned). One of her University of North Carolina blue clogs

gradually begins sliding off her tights-clad foot as leans further forward and balances herself into

the appropriate stance to make the shot. Suddenly, the Loxx Box--a loud buzz--sounded.

Bonnie clog dropped to the floor, and her cue on the table--nearly breaking it--after hearing the

sudden alarm. There was no time to waste. Duty Called.

Bonnie slipped back on her lost clog and rushed over to a bust of Minnesota Fats. Upon turning

the Fats' head at a 90-degree angle, a bare wall in the apartment turns over to reveal a secret

freight elevator to the basement garage. In the basement lies Gingerloxx's crime lab complete

with three changes of costume, the neatly arranged weaponry, Ginger's motorcycle, forensic

equipment, and the whole nine yeards. In a flash, Gingerloxx suited up and with the help of the

built-in radar sped to the scene of the crime.

"What seems to be the trouble?" Ginger asked a swat team member as she pulled up in front of

the River City Savings Bank. A flock of various police units had blocked off the area

surrounding the bank. Television news cameras had congregated outside the perimeter trying to

get live interviews with passers-by, shocked escapees, and policeman.

"Gingerloxx!" he exclaimed. "Thank God, you're here! A couple of magicians are holed up inside

the bank vault."

"So why can't you just go in and get them?"

"That's just it. They got unheard of powers. It's like they know ever single move we were gonna

make before were gonna make it."

"That sound like more of an inside job to me."

"We did too, Gingerloxx," an FBI agent interrupted as he flashed his badge, "Eldrick Coleman,

FBI, until we saw them performing the strangest tricks. All they had to do was just look at us

and guns started flying out of our hands. The shoved all the furniture in front of the doors and

blocked us out without even touching it. I only thought people like that only existed in Stephen

King books."

"You mean to tell me they're tele-kenetic?" Ginger asked.

"Please tell us you can handle these two," Coleman pleaded.

"Who are they?"

"Remember when I said we thought it was an inside job? Well, the girl has been identified as

Sylvia Rothberg, a teller at the bank. She has no priors and is a graduating senior on the dean's

list at RCU," Coleman said, opening a file folder with a picture of a nice-looking blonde about

Ginger's--maybe a little younger. "We've been interviewing her co-workers all morning and

found nothing to remotely suggest that she would be involved with anything like this. But when

we realized who her twin brother was, we realized who we were dealing with. Sylvester Rothberg

a.k.a. Mentro the Magician is wanted in four states for using his tele-kenetic powers for bank

robbery, kidnapping, extortion, the list goes on," Coleman said, after handing Ginger a second

file.

"So, you think he looked up Sis for a little family bonding?"

"Yep."

It looks like Ginger has her work cut out for her this time. How will she take on this latest challenge. Find out on Part 2 of our adventure...

Nice start, mistahgone! Sounds like Gingerloxx is in for quite a ride! Look forward to more! 8)

There was something about Special Agent Coleman that Ginger did not trust; using the truth-alizer built into her eye mask, she could tell that he was hiding something, but he wasn't lying about the Rothbergs or the danger they posed.

"Tell everyone to stand down. I'm going in alone," Ginger said.

"Alone?" Coleman said.

"Are you mad?" the SWAT Captain asked.

"If they're as dangerous as you say they are, blocking off the streets and sitting out here on your hands isn't going to do much good." Gingerloxx replied.

"She has a point, you heard the woman." Coleman said with a light smile curling his lip. "It's all up to you now, Gingerloxx."

"Hmmm..." she said.

Meanwhile, inside the bank, a duo in blue top hats, tuxedos and tails--the man in black slacks and wingtips, the woman in a black leotard and tan opaque tights--were swiftly emptying the vault. The woman was noticeably frightented, trying her best not to cry as she stuffed cash bundles into sacks using her telekenetic powers. The man had already moved on to gold bars with a confident sneer curling his lips.

"Get the lead out, Mindah!" Mentro demanded. "We should have been out of here a long time ago. Wait a minute, are you even bothering to scramble those up so they look non-sequential? Curse you, woman!"
He shouted, propelling one of the bars with brutal force toward her head.
Were it not for her own powers and cat-like reflexes, the bar would have certainly struck and injured her severely. "What's the matter with you? Do you want to get caught? They'll trace that money right back to us, if you're not careful. Is that what you want?"

"Look who's talking, Mr. Gold Fever!" Mindah exclaimed, easing the bar on the floor of the vault. "It doesn't matter where you got that from. They see you with that somebedoy will start asking questions."

"Me? What's all this me stuff?" Mentro asked using his powers to shove his sibling ten minutes his junior against the wall. "We're a team now, Sis? There's no turning back, like it or not."

"They'll find out you forced me to help you, Sylvester," Mindah gurgled as Mentro squeezed her throat reminiscent of Darth Vadar.

"How many times have I told you not to call me that when we're at work?" Mentro asked. "Besides, I told you, I have connections that will fence the bars for us. You just shut up and do your part. You hear me?"

"Sylvester, let me go. Please, your choking me."

"The Notorious B.I.G. was right, " Mentro remarked, releasing his sister, "Blood and Money don't mix like two--" Mentro was interuppted a faint thud on the vault door. "I'm going out the back door, you go see who that is."



WHO IS AT THE VAULT DOOR? IS IT GINGERLOXX? IS IT COLEMAN? IS IT THAT FENCE MENTRO WAS TALKING ABOUT? AND WHAT DID MENTRO MEAN ABOUT GOING OUT THE BACK DOOR? STAY TUNED FOR PART 3!!!

After removing a secret, hollowed out panel in the wall he had been digging for weeks, Mentro snatched up as many sacks of loot as he could carry.

"Wait a minute?" Mindah asked. "Where the hell did that come from?"

"Must I tell you every intricacy of my plans? Jesus Christ!" Mentro growled, rolling his eyes. "Now get the damn door!"

But Mindah already knew who it was, and realized it was now or never to foil her twisted brother's plans. Sylvester was right about one thing: her life as Sylvia Rothberg, citizen,may have been over, but she would be damned if her life as Mindah the Magician, sidekick to one of the world's deadliest criminal's would begin. All she had to do was play her cards right.

Slowly she opened the vault door, and called out, "Gingerloxx! Gingerloxx, I know you're out here! Show yourself!" Cautiously, she looked around the oustide of the vault, taking baby steps. "Gingerloxx, where are you? I don't have time for games! Ahh!" She gasped as her tan-tights-clad left foot hit a green billiard ball. "Really clever, but I don't have time for...'S?' That stands for..." Mindah tried to throw the billiard ball away, but it was too late. The smoke bomb exploded the second she pulled her arm back.

As the blinded Mindah choked and coughed, Gingerloxx emerged from underneath an abandoned desk and tackled the helpless blonde to the floor, pinning her hands apart. "I don't have time for games, either, Sylvia! Where's Mentro?" Ginger asked the wheezing woman. "Where is he?"

[i]"You don't understand? He made me help him.[/i] Mindah pleaded using telepathy as she continued to choke from smoke inhalation.

"What are you doing?" Ginger asked labrously. "Get out of my head?"

[i]"Please, I'm telling you the truth. He blackmailed me and when I ran out of money he threatened to kill me.f I didn't help him rob the bank. I had no choice. Please, you have to stop him. I know that doesn't excuse me from what I've done, but I know there's somebody else on the inside. He won't tell me who it is.[/i]"

"Oh My God? You're both telepathic, too?" Ginger asked, letting Mindah up, after her scanner indicated that she was telling the truth.

"Just me, but Sylvester doesn't know. It makes my telekentic powers weaker than his. He just thinks it's because he's older and he uses them more."

"So where is he?"

"Aha, you traitorous little snitch!" Mentro roared, sending Mindah flying into the desk. "I leave you alone for three seconds, and you start tattling like the goody two-shoes you always were."

"Mentro!" Ginger exclaimed. "Give yourself up, it's over."

Mentro laughed scornfully. "If it isn't Gingerloxx, River City's Resident Georgia Bulldog's Fan!" Mentro scoffed using his power to tear the red "G" logo off the chest of Ginger's body stocking and forced it to sail into his hand. "I heard they won the SEC this year. Good for them. I'm surprised the University hasn't sued you trademenark infringement ye--"

"Stop it, Sylvester!" Mindah intrupted as she stood up slowly.

"Oh, good. You're awake. Help me finish her off!" Mentro sneered.

"No," Mindah said flatly.

"WHAT?!?"

"She said no, Rothberg," Ginger said and tossed a red billiard ball marked "N" on it

"You stupid broad," he remarked, coolly holding out his hand and stopping the spinning the ball in mid-flight. "Have you forgotten what I can do?"

[i]"Now, Sylvia."[/i] Ginger thought, hoping Mindah could hear her. "Oh no, I haven't forgot anything."

Suddenly, the ball began hurtling toward Mentro again, and spinning at a faster speed than it was before. "W-w-w-wait a minute? What the hell is going on here? Why did it start up again?" The ball exploded, and a steel net spread over the flabergasted felon. "That's impossible. How did you master my powers?"

"I didn't," Ginger said. "I just waited for you to show them off, and let Mindah do the rest."

"Please, Gingergloxx, I've had enough of being called Mindah for one day," Sylvia said. "Hell, enough for one lifetime.

"TRAITOR!" Mentro snarled in fury. "TRAITOR!"

"Okay, guys you can come in and take him away," Ginger said.

"I guess that's my cue," Sylvia said and held out her hands together as officers converged into the bank. "You'll put in a good word in for me, right?"

"Why would I do that?" Ginger asked

"Come on, I only saved your life and help you catch my psycho brother. If that doesn't warrant a good word from a super heroine, I don't want does." Sylvia pleaded as the officers hauled the netted Mentro away.

"Yeah, you're right, an accomplice would deserve a break under those circumstances," Ginger replied. Sylvia's sigh of relief was interrupted by Ginger saying, "but you don't."

"What? Why not?"

"You're not an accomplice. You're my new partner."

"PARTNER? YOU MEAN IT?"

"I had a close relative who was a criminal, too. It's never really easy to cope. I think it's best that people like us stick together. What do you say?"

Sylvia threw off her top hat and tore the white dickey and blue bow tie off her costume, and asked, "When do I start?"

"Right now," Ginger said. "We have to find Coleman. I think he knows more about what happened here than he let's on."

"You mean Eldrick Coleman?"

"Yeah, why?"

"I read Sylvester's thoughts when we fought him. He's the fence."

WHERE IS ELDRICK COLEMAN? IS HE REALLY AN FBI AGENT? HOW DOES HE KNOW MENTRO? FIND OUT IN PART FOUR!!!!!!

Very nice! Gingerloxx gets a new partner and we get a new crimefighting team! Kewl!! :-D Looking forward to more! Great story! 8)

With Mentro safely subdued in a steel net at the River City Jail, Gingerloxx knew that now was as a good time as any to interrogate him. Instructing Sylvia to remain behind the two-way mirror, Ginger entered the room as Mentro continued to punch, grunt and grumble obscenities under his breath trying penetrate the webbing of the construct of the confining constriction.

"Mentro stop struggling," Ginger said. "The more you fight, the weaker you'll get. Besides, I know you didn't act alone."

"Go to hell!" he snarled, trying to concentrate his power on Ginger, but only ending up levitating himself and the net. "Whoaaaaa! Ooof!" He screamed, then grunted when he stopped and the net dropped down. "Okay, fine. What do want?" he asked wearily.

"Where's Special Agent Coleman?"

Mentro hissed, shaked, then went into a fit of convulsed, derisive guffaws. Still encased inside the net, he pounded his fists on the table, and laughed for what seemed like minutes, "Special Agent Coleman, you said?" he asked breathlessly between cackles, "Oh, God!"

"Yes, where is he? Stop laughing and answer me! I already know he was lying about being a special agent, if that's what so funny!"

"It threw me for a loop when he told me who he really was himself. Now, sis, I got a good feeling you're back there, so listen up! This is some crazy Maury Povich-Melrose Place-Young and the Restless-stuff I'm gonna lay on you. I was gonna save it for when we got away, but you blew it. That guy is our REAL FATHER! Can you believe it? We are the offspring of the legendary criminal mastermind Simon Kellerman! Cool, huh? HA, HA, HA, HA, HAAAAAA! Who's the black sheep now, Sylvia?!?" Mentro asked, looking up at the mirror.

"Where is he, Sylvester?"

"You're the superhero, you find him," Mentro replied and laughed maniacally.

Gingerloxx left the Interrogation room defeated, no closer to finding Coleman aka Simon Kellerman. To make matters worse, she now had a traumatized partner to comfort who met her right outside,

"Sylvia, I..."

"Take me to your lair, I have to change," Sylvia said flatly.

With only a few alterations made to one of Ginger's spare costumes--on the black bodystocking the G" logo was black and gold like on the Grambling State Univerity Tigers helmet, and the eye mask and boots were also were a matching golden yellow. Upon donning the mask, Sylvia proclaimed, "I am GOLDENMAYNE!"


With the new duo officially formed, their first assignment was now set in stone...TO CAPTURE SIMON KELLERMAN.

BUT WHERE HAS HE GONE? HAS HE RECRUITED NEW ACCOMPLICES TO COMMIT NEW CRIMES? STAY TUNES FOR THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF GINGERLOXX AND GOLDENMAYNE TO FIND OUT!!!!

Nice update! I'm looking forward to seeing Gingerloxx and Goldenmayne in action! 8)