'SILENCE! I WILL NOT HAVE MY STORY OF TRIUMPH TRIFLED WITH!'

What a drama queen, thought Vidyuta. Aren't supervillain monologues passe? Where is the fourth-wall-breaking and the Easter egg? Lame-o!

The Rubberer resumed his outburst. He still seemed to think he had defeated Vidyuta, having enclosed her in a Faraday cage of his making.

'You have broken the fuse of my plans too many times, silly Electric Girl!'

Vidyuta ignored his rant and bided her time by remembering her Mad Dad's story about how she had gotten her superpowers. She had got baby jaundice and so was admitted for overnight phototherapy.

In the wee hours of the morning, Mad Dad had been jolted awake by very very frightening thunder and lightning. Being the bohemian he was, he kept calm and approached the Neonatal ICU to check on her.

The staff were rushing to control the frightened babies, but Vidyuta wasn't one of them. She was bathed in a bluish-purple light, glowing from within as if plasma was bursting to get out of her skin and eyes.

Mad Dad noticed it just as the doctors and nurses converged on her.

He had recorded the im&meditate aftermath [M&M = Eminem plus Aftermath Records // I meditate]. Everyone was elated with Vidyuta.

After that, she had grown exponentially, both physically and mentally.

Over just six hours, she had grown as much as babies do in six weeks.

This rate of progression softened somewhat in the next months, but her growth amazed all, from her doctor to grandparents. Mad Dad rejoiced.

By the time she hit one year, she was trotting and talking along with him.

As the years went by lightning-quick, she gained her powers at age five.

By that time she was already familiar with how electricity functioned - it was just six weeks into her power realization that she learnt to control it.

Mad Dad helped her take charge and focus her control of charged ions.

On the rare occasions that she encountered an insulatory obstacle, they figured their responses to such situations to come up with alternatives.

That was why she was utterly unfazed / unphased by the Faraday cage surrounding her. Granted, The Rubberer had made some well-thought advancements to it, but the concept, like the song, remained the same.

She realized he was glowering at her through the force field of the cage.

'Oh I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were done! So what do you plan to do?'

The Rubberer was incensed at her cavalier attitude towards his plans.

'I'm going to electrocute the city's water pipes, is what I'm going to do. Say goodbye to your family and little friends and get ready to DIE, GIRL!'

'Oh right, right, a couple of your minions told me about that when I was dangling them over Parvati Dam yesterday. What made you think like this, anyway? I'm sure the prison therapist will have a field day with you.'

'What minions? My Electrocutors know nothing, like that Snow guy! My plans are mine and mine alone! They're just sub-circuits in my designs!'

'Right, right, that is why you had sent a couple of them to infiltrate the hydroelectric power project up the valley, because they knew not what they were doing in your grand scheme of things? God complex much?'

'Insolent girl! I don't care what they told you - I am switching on my plan right now, and you can watch as your city electrocutes itself from here!'

Vidyuta was almost bored to the point of just smacking him up like the Prodigial bitch, because she had all the recordings she needed to indict.

She wondered absent-mindedly about how the same groups of letters were said differently in words. What dictated indict to be said like light? Was there any indication about why indict did not rhyme with depict?

The Rubberer was gloating over his control panel, dimly lit by its greens and reds. He flipped a few switches, and glanced up at the screen. He only had time to register the white-blue reflection that came up behind him before he was grabbed by the scruff of his rubber suit and levitated.

Vidyuta had galvanized into action as soon as his mind was diverted, and had targeted the grounding connections with her magnetic fields.

Electricity and lightning loved her and did all that she told them to do. Whether it was creating nicely contained dazzling displays or highly destructive catastrophic discharges, nothing could stop her mind from making all charged particles dance to her mind's whims and fancies.

She air-carried The Rubberer from his deep-down lab to the surface, keeping him frozen by encasing him in a tight-knit Gaussian surface.

Mad Dad was waiting along with law enforcement, having received her signals as soon as she had disabled the Faraday cage. He beamed at her.

'Another one bites the dust! Way to go, my li'l Lightning Queen! BOOM!'

'Aw c'mon dad, people are watching! Plus, I gotta hold on to this dude.'

'He's not a dude. He's a despicable waste of talent. Why do these guys do this for a living? And more importantly, who gives them money for it?'

'We'll find out, dad, now let's go and help the team make a cell for him!'

Vidyuta, Mad Dad, and The Reluctant Rubberer went along with their escorting counter-villainy units. The sun came up on a beautiful day.

Vidyuta will meet & defeat more nefarious supervillains in future adventures!

I am Mad Dad, chronicling the adventures of Vidyuta: The Indian Supergirl.

If you are feeling Sherlockian, discuss what you deduce in the comments below!

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