The Legion 1: Dawn Of Heroes

**Started July 11th**

**Finished August 4th**

**Line Count (Only Consistency is it’s always dropping)**

**Ozak - 309**

**Ripper - 276**

**Dynamo - 221**

**Cameron - 143**

**Neci - 138**

**Godson - 127**

## 1 - Bloodstain Part 1

In the dark of night, a sniper’s scope searches a building. An eye looks through the scope as it moves. The scope is pointing at a building’s clear glass wall. Many people are walking around with drinks in their hands. The scope stops on a man with a full beard and three drinks. The man moves around in the building. The scope follows his every move.

Red Ninja: Take the shot Genki.

Genki: He’s moving around. He’ll stop soon.

A man in blue ninja gear holds the sniper close. Five ninja stand behind him in the colors of red, green, yellow, orange, and purple. Their faces are covered by masks. The purple ninja is a cyborg. The man gives his friends the drinks. He starts laughing. The sound of a bird's tweet comes off of the gun. A bullet glides across the air smashing through the glass. The high caliber bullet pierces the man’s eye and forces his head back. The bearded man falls to the ground. Everyone stares at him terrified before they all run around like deranged animals looking for a way out. A bulky man in a black and red suit looks at the building. With a quick glance at the bullet hole in the glass he knows where the ninja are. He raises his arm holding a grapple gun. The grapple latches onto a building. The suited man flings into the sky and drops through the air. His heavy body lands on the ground like a boulder. All the ninja look at him.

Genki: The Ripper.

Ripper: It doesn’t take six to shoot a rifle. Why are you here?

Genki's feet tap on the ground as he runs over to Ripper. He takes a giant almost white sword off of his back. The sword slashes down. Ripper dodges to the side. The heavy sword cracks the ground.

Genki: Basilisk.

The red ninja jumps out from behind Genki and slams his ballistic staff down onto Ripper. The staff collides with Ripper’s gauntlets. The sound of the metal rings in Ripper’s ears. Genki slices his sword down Ripper’s back and Basilisk Kicks Ripper down.

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A golden light flew above the city. The golden light was a man with a golden suit on. He looked over King City as he moved through the sky. Movement catches his eye. He stops and looks down below. Ripper is fighting the ninja. The man descends from the sky like and angel. His feet hover barely above ground. Ripper is holding the wound on his back.

Ripper: Dynamo?

The green, yellow, purple, and orange ninja surround Dynamo.

Dynamo: You’ll need all four of you to take me down.

Dynamo glides across the ground and punches the yellow ninja. The force of Dynamo’s fist knocks the yellow ninja off the building.

Green Ninja: Ivory!

The green ninja palms Dynamo’s stomach. Green energy surrounds the ninja’s hand. Dynamo feels like all the air in his lungs gets sucked out. The purple ninja takes out his blade. The edge of the blade lights up purple. While Dynamo catches his breath the purple blade slices down his chest. Dynamo falls to the ground gasping for air. The purple ninja raises his sword above Dynamo. The green ninja grabs his arm.

Green Ninja: We can’t.

Genki swings his heavy sword. Ripper ducks under it and punches Genki in the chest. Genki almost falls down from the force. A staff slams on Ripper’s side. Ripper feels a stinging pain. He grabs the staff and pulls Basilisk close. Ripper throws a right hook for Basilisk’s jaw. Ripper’s fist collides with a red energy protruding off of Basilisk. The energy blasts Ripper ten feet and onto the ground. All the ninja jump off the building. Dynamo catches his breath and flies over to them. When he looks down onto the street they’re gone.

Dynamo: What kind of power do those ninja have? Who are they?!

Ripper: That’s Bloodstain. A group I’ve been tracking. They’re killers. They kill anybody they see fit.

Dynamo: No reason why?

Ripper: There is always a reason why. We just don’t know.

Dynamo: What about their powers?

Ripper: That was the first contact I had with them. Usually they’re in and out without a trace-

Dynamo: Like ninjas.

Ripper: …Why are you here Dynamo? Where’s that girl you were traveling with?

Dynamo: I was flying back to Arizona, but then I decided to drop by. See what the tall dark and face covered man was doing. I would say good thing I did, but I didn’t help much. They still whooped our asses like nothing.

Ripper: I’ll handle the ninja.

Dynamo: That’s a damn lie and you know it. I couldn’t even do anything against them-

Ripper: This is my city. I’ll handle it. Go back to Arizona.

Ripper stands on the edge of the building.

Dynamo: Let’s think about this for a second. You got beat by two of them. You have to take down six… I’m helping you.

Ripper: What exactly can you do to help me?

Dynamo: Let’s see.

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Dynamo and Ripper find a manhole cover.

Ripper: You think they’re using the sewers to get around town? Hm.

Dynamo: Do you really think I’m that smart? No, but that’s a good plan b.

Dynamo takes off the manhole cover. A black portal appears.

Dynamo: Jump in.

Ripper:...

Dynamo: Fine. I’ll go first.

Dynamo falls into the portal. Ripper follows.

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Dynamo and Ripper appear on a small grey spaceship with a giant window showing earth. A man in silver armor and a black cape stands at a control panel. His armor goes up the sides of his face and the back of his head. His head looks space black.

Dynamo: Where’s the famous trench-coat Ozak?

Ozak: I wasn’t cold. Why are you here Dynamo? Everytime you show up it’s because you need something.

Dynamo: Well I don’t need anything this time.

Ozak: Really?

Dynamo: I just need you to search for the group Bloodstain.

Ozak: Of course you do. Why is the Ripper here?

Ripper: I’m trying to take down Bloodstain. Dynamo showed up and decided it was a joint mission.

Ozak moves his hands around on the control panel. There is no keyboard. He is moving his hands on a screen. Ripper is confused about what he is doing. The window showing earth blacks out and becomes thousands of small squares for every camera in the city.

Ozak: Nothing.

Dynamo: What?

Ozak: There is nothing on them. No camera has picked them up. They are gone.

Ripper: How do you know what they look like?

Pictures of the six ninja appear on the screen.

Ozak: Is this who you’re talking about? The last place they were seen was fighting you. Only because I keep tabs on Dynamo.

Dynamo: For better or for worse.

Ozak: For better. You would have let your own city get destroyed if not for me.

Dynamo: Not let. More like unknowingly caused.

Ozak: If you need someone to look around for you I know a person.

Ripper turns around and walks over to the portal they came through.

Ripper: I don’t need anymore help. I can track them down on my own.

Dynamo: Just hear what he has to offer Ripper. Stop being a prick.

Ripper turns around and looks at the screen. Ozak brings up a picture of a kid with black hair and pale skin.

Ozak: This is Cameron Wood. He’s a sixteen year old-

Ripper: I’m not dragging a kid into this.

Ozak: He’s a sixteen year old kid who was wrongfully imprisoned. He has super speed. He could scout an entire city before you look through a building.

Ripper: Fine. Dynamo, break him out of prison. I’m going to find out more about Bloodstain.

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A muscular man in a white costume soars over the sky with a sword on his back. Cops have their guns out as they slowly walk up to a bank. The man flies down past the cops. He kicks the bank doors open. Five guys with pistols in their hands aim at the man.

Robber: It’s Godson! Shoot him.

Bullets fly through the sky. As they collide with Godson’s body, they bounce off. Godson moves so fast the robber’s can’t see him. He slams his shoulder into one of the robbers. The man is forced into the air and hits the wall unconscious. Two robbers stand next to each other shooting. Godson is in front of them in less than a second. He slams their heads together. The two collapse onto the floor. A bullet hits the back of Godson’s head. Godson throws his sword into the man’s gun. The gun is knocked out of his hand. He runs to the doors and into the cops outside. The last robber picks up a hostage. He puts the gun up to the hostage’s head. Godson’s sword flies into his hand.

Robber: Put the sword down!

Godson: Okay. Just calm down.

Godson puts the sword down.

Godson: We can talk about this.

Robber: I’m going to get-

Godson runs at the robber. In the blink of an eye, his hand is between the hostage and the gun with a bullet between his fingers. Godson punches the Robber. The robber falls to the ground. The hostage is frightened.

Hostage: Thank you Godson.

Godson: I’m just doing what needs to be done Ma’am.

Godson flies out of the building as the cops walk in and shoot at him. Everyone cheers for Godson and yells at the cops. One of the officers sees an envelope on the floor. The envelope has a symbol like two connected horns with a dot in the center. The officer opens the envelope. He reads the paper inside it.

Officer: Godson is…

He mumbles the rest of it.

Officer: Is someone tracking godson?

## 2 - Bloodstain Part 2

Cameron sits on the dirty iron prison bed. His orange prison clothes are just as dirty as the bed is. Only a thin layer of sheet is in between Cameron and iron. He sits in his prison cell alone with a collar around his neck. The collar glows red. Cameron tries to pull the collar off, but with the collar draining his powers, it’s impossible. The alarm buzzes and the prison doors open. All the prisoners step out of their cells. In a line they walk down to the cafeteria. Prison guards follow them around. Cameron stands in line for his food. He grabs a tray. As he walks past the food. A lady drops a scoopful of some unknown food onto Cameron’s tray. Cameron sits down at a table alone. Soon the other half of the table is full of people.

Prisoner: I’ve been here for years. I’ve seen people in and out. Mostly out. Not many leave a B.L.A.D.E. prison.

Other Prisoner: This prison is nothing compared to other B.L.A.D.E. prisons like The Raven’s Nest.

Prisoner: Didn’t that prison have a prisoner escape a few months back?

Other Prisoner: Yeah, lucky bastard.

They look at Cameron.

Other Prisoner: Kid, what are you in here for?

Cameron: Someone else blamed me for what they did.

Other Prisoner: Ah, I doubt it. You just trying to look better. Y’know, you might want to pick a better crime before people think you’re a pushover.

Prisoner: He’s a kid. We don’t fuck with kids here. He’s fine.

Other Prisoner: I’m trying to be helpful!

That night, Cameron is sitting on the bed again. He looks at the wall. A month of tally marks are indented in the wall. He walks up to make another indent in the wall. He hears the noise of a place above. The roof outside of his cell crumbles and falls to the ground. In the middle of the rubble, Dynamo stands. Cameron runs up to the bars.

Cameron: Who are you?

Dynamo: Your guardian angel.

Dynamo pulls the bars apart. Cameron steps out of the cell. Dynamo grabs Cameron's collar and crushes it. The collar falls to the floor.

Dynamo: Let’s go.

Dynamo grabs Cameron’s arm and soars into the sky.

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Ripper sits in his room with his helmet off. His black hair is matted from the helmet and his face is bruised. He sits in a chair with his computer on his lap. He looks over all of his pictures of blurry images of the ninja. He uploads a few pictures from his phone. The pictures are from his fight. They show all six of the ninja.

Ripper: I won’t find anything. I need to scout the city. Look for clues. Everyone leaves evidence.

Minutes later Ripper is running from rooftop to rooftop. He has the feeling that eyes are following him. He continues running across the rooftops. He can tell someone is watching him. Every thought in his mind tells him to turn around. He jumps down off of the roof and walks into a closed store. A few minutes later, a man walks into the store. The man is wearing full black clothing. He almost completely blends into the darkness. He slowly creeps around the aisles. Then Ripper walks out from behind a shelf and blasts the man with a fire extinguisher. The man gets covered in white. Then Ripper throws the extinguisher into the man’s head. He hits the ground. The extinguisher rolls on the floor.

Ripper: Untrained. Who hired him?

Ripper scavenges through the man’s pockets looking for a clue. He pulls out an envelope with a red seal. The seal has connected horns and a dot in the center. He opens the letter. The letter has an address.

Ripper: This is in Ironwood City.

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A beautiful woman with platinum pink hair and silver armor is high into the ground. Her white angelic wings keep her afloat in the sky. Her ears twitch as the sound of sirens gets louder. Police cars drive under her coming from an Adara Industries building. She follows the police cars from above. In front of the cars is the purple ninja on a motorcycle. The ninja’s robotics glow purple. His mechanical hand has a giant purple looking energy source. He twists the handle of the motorcycle. It speeds up with a purple trail following behind it. The cop cars are almost completely left in the wind. The woman looks in front of the purple ninja. A bridge is slowly folding up.

Neci: He’ll make the jump. I need to shoot him down.

Neci takes a giant bow off of her back. She aims the bow at the purple ninja the best she can. She feels the resistance of the bow string. Then the arrow zips off. Quickly the arrow is out of sight. Then Neci sees the purple ninja start to slide around.

Purple Ninja: Flat tire.

The ninja skids on the bridge, barely keeping control. The motorcycle launches off of the bridge like a ramp. Then lands on the other side. The ninja falls off of his motorcycle. A piece of technology falls out of his pocket. He picks it up and runs.

Neci: Where’d he go?

Neci sees the ninja run around a building. She flies over to him. When she gets there, he’s gone.

Neci: We’re at the edge of Altona. He must have been about to leave the city. I wonder if the other valkyries will spot him?

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Godson flies over the city. He looks down at all of the people below him. The smile and wave. Godson waves back to all the civilians. He flies over an Adara Industries building. His body stops moving.

Godson: Huh?

An orange energy surrounds his body. He feels like he is being pulled. His body smashes into the ground. The green and orange ninja stand above him.

Orange Ninja: Use your powers, Essence.

Essence’s hands are surrounded by green energy. Godson quickly gets to his feet and punches Essence in her chest. She crashes into a building destroying the brick wall. The orange ninja blasts Godson back a few feet with orange energy. Godson swings his sword forward. A slash of white energy flies off the sword and cuts into the orange ninja’s stomach.

Godson: Give-

Godson feels like the air in his lungs is leaving him. It feels like his body is being drained. The Essence is standing behind him. Green energy links Godson and Essence together.

Essence: Spirit, finish him off.

Spirit charges Godson. Ripper jumps off from a rooftop and slams his elbow into Essence’s shoulder. Her shoulder pops out of its socket and she falls to the ground. Godson takes a gasp of air. He kicks Spirit in her stomach.

Ripper: The green one is getting away.

Ripper runs after Essence. He sees her go into the sewer. Ripper stops at the manhole cover.

Ripper: Hm.

Godson runs up to Ripper.

Ripper: Why aren’t you watching the other one?!

Godson: I just-

Godson turns around and the ninja is gone.

Godson: How?

Ripper: They’re ninja.

Godson: I just punched her in the stomach. She should be gasping for air.

Ripper: Maybe you aren’t as strong as you think.

Godson: Who are you?

Ripper: Doesn’t matter.

Godson: Then why are you here?

Ripper: Somebody is watching you. I found a letter. It had this exact location in it. Watch your back.

Ripper holds his grappler into the air and slings away.

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Dynamo and Cameron walk onto Ozak’s ship.

Cameron: Uh, hi.

Ozak looks at Cameron.

Ozak: Hi. Did Dynamo already fill you in?

Cameron: On what?

Dynamo: I didn’t fill him in.

Ozak: We broke you out of prison because we needed your help. There are these… Villains that we need to take down. We have no idea where they are. We need your help to find them. Your super speed allows you to check over cities in the blink of an eye.

Cameron: I’m not all that fast.

Ozak: Faster than any of us are.

Cameron: I’m not sure. Being a hero is what got me in prison.

Ozak: You weren’t working with a hero. Real heroes help each other out. We’ll never turn you in. Here.

Ozak takes out a black costume.

Ozak: It’s not much for now, but it can hide your identity. What do you say?

Ozak puts his hand out.

Cameron: Sure.

Cameron shakes Ozak’s hand.

## 3 - Bloodstain Part 3

A man leaves the bar. He is walking down the street tipsy. He hears something land above him. He looks around. Nothing is in sight. His feet patter on the ground. The man is running down the street. He turns a corner down an alleyway and bumps into something.

Ripper: Boo.

Man: Don’t hurt me!

Ripper grabs the man by his neck and slams him against a wall. The man grabs Ripper’s hand. He pulls, trying to pry Ripper’s hand off his neck.

Ripper: You're on the street every night.

Ripper takes his phone out. The man looks at the phone. He sees a picture of the ninja.

Ripper: Have you seen them?

Man: N-no. I haven’t seen them.

Ripper: I meant, where did you see them?

Ripper slams the man against the wall.

Man: They’re everywhere. I’ve seen them go into sewers, run across buildings, leaving the city. They’re everywhere!

Ripper looks angry.

Ripper: Remember when you were stealing from people in this alleyway?

Man: I didn’t have a lot of money at the time. P-please-

Ripper kicks the man’s knee. They hear a loud crack.

Man: Ah!

Ripper drops the man onto the ground. The man looks up and Ripper is gone.

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Dynamo is flying around Stony Brook. His mind is dead set on finding the ninja. Fighting is in sight. Three criminals surround a police officer with knives in their hands.

Criminal: You think you can just put anyone in prison, pig! You got my cousin in jail for nothing!

Dynamo lands behind the criminal. He grabs the man by the back of his shirt. Dynamo whips his arm to the side and the criminal goes flying.

Other Criminal: Run!

The criminals run into an alleyway. A giant gold wall appears and they smash into it.

Dynamo: Learning to make gold faster was a good investment.

The gold wall disappears. Gold cuffs appear on all the criminals.

Policeman: Thank you Dynamo. How could I ever repay you?

Dynamo: Just tell your other police friends to give me some slack. They shoot at me on sight, it’s annoying.

Policeman: Of course.

The police officer runs away. Dynamo taps his ear.

Dynamo: Cameron, you f-

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Cameron is running around the city. The world looks like it is in slow mode. Birds barely move forward. People stand still. Cameron runs around with a black trail of lightning following behind him. He runs into an alleyway. Boxes on top of boxes are in his way. His body is close to the wall. One foot steps onto the wall. His body shifts. Cameron runs along the wall, avoiding the boxes. He sees a man pointing a gun at a woman. A bullet fires out of the gun. The bullet slowly moves closer to the woman. Cameron steps off the wall and stands between the woman and man. The bullet is moving towards him. He pushes the bullet to the side, away from him and the woman. Then he grabs the gun out of the man’s hand. His body slides over to the sewer. He takes off the manhole cover and drops the gun into the sewer. He puts the cover back on and runs over to the woman. Cameron picks the woman up and runs out of the alleyway. He drops the woman off and stops moving. Everything looks normal again. The woman is confused. Sparks bounce off of Cameron’s feet as he stops.

Dynamo: -ound anything?

Cameron: Nope. Just criminals running around.

Dynamo: Damn. Alright, let’s report it to Ozak.

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Ozak stands in the spaceship. A picture of Ripper and Dynamo are on the screen. Ozak is searching through thousands of files looking for Bloodstain.

Ozak: Neither of you found anything?

Ripper: People have seen them, but nothing more than that. No base, no specific way of moving.

Dynamo: Cameron has searched all of Stony Brook with me. Nothing.

An alert appears on Ozak’s screen.

Ripper: What was that?

Ozak: The old abandoned railroad in King City. People have been going in and out.

Ripper turns off his coms.

Ozak: Cameron. Get over there now. Help Ripper.

Cameron: Where is King city?

Ozak: Go north east.

Cameron runs off.

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Genki is standing in a giant room of the old abandoned railroad. The other ninja are standing around the room talking. Genki is in front of a desk with all the parts they stole from Adara Industries.

Genki: Intensity, help me build this thing.

The purple ninja walks up to the desk.

Intensity: I’ll do it. You’ll slow me down with questions.

Genki: Do it fast. The heroes will be here soon.

Basilisk: Heroes?! They’re the weakest heroes I have ever seen.

Genki: How? What other heroes have you seen?

Basilisk: We’ve been taking them down easily.

Genki: Tell that to Essence and Spirit that had to run away. She had to use her energy to heal her arm.

Basilisk: Why are we even on this mission? All we have been doing is letting them live.

Genki: Ask Ra’s Al Ghul.

Basilisk walks away.

Genki: We need to finish the drill, so we can get the stone.

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Ripper stops in front of a giant hole in the ground. He looks inside the darkness beneath the hole. Railroad tracks are at the bottom. Ripper jumps down. Dirt kicks up from beneath his heavy feet. Cameron runs up next to him.

Cameron: So… Where are they?

Ripper: Be quiet. We’re sneaking on the tracks.

Cameron: Oh, a stealth mission. Okay, I’ll shut up.

Ripper and Cameron walk across the tracks. A security camera watches them from above the tracks.

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Genki looks at his phone.

Genki: They’re here. Two of them. The Ripper is back and he’s with some guy in a black costume.

Basilisk: A sidekick?

Genki: Doesn’t matter. Basilisk, Spirit, and Ivory. Take the train.

The three ninja walk up to the train. They stab their swords into the train. They use their swords to stick to the trains. Genki pulls a switch. The train moves forward with the ninja on it.

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Ripper and Cameron are still walking to the tracks. In front of them they see a stop for the train. They hear the horns of the trains. The train is close. Soon they see the train coming down the train tracks. Everything slows down. Cameron watches the train slowly move forward. He grabs Ripper.

Cameron: Ugh! So heavy!

Cameron drags Ripper over to the train stop. Time speeds up and the train flies by on the tracks. The train blocks them from going back on the tracks. The three ninja jump off of the trains.

Basilisk: Genki’s not here. Now we can kill you.

Ripper taps his coms.

Ripper: We found three of them.

Basilisk charges Ripper. Ripper puts his hands up. Basilisk’s staff swings through the air. The staff bangs against Ripper’s gauntlet. Basilisk feels the kickback of the staff. He drops down to the ground and sweeps Ripper’s legs. Ripper holds his stance. Basilisk’s leg doesn’t move Ripper’s feet. Ripper front kicks Basilisk’s face. Basilisk rolls back, avoiding the kick. He rolls to his feet and pushes himself off the ground thrusting his staff forward. The staff feels like a blade as it hits Ripper’s stomach. Ripper grabs the staff and pulls. Basilisk lets go of the staff and hits Ripper’s jaw with a right hook. Ripper stumbles back and Basilisk swings his left arm. Ripper grabs his arm and throws him into the wall. Basilisk’s body hit the wall about five feet above the floor. He falls to the ground and small rocks from the ceiling fall onto him.

Cameron: Maybe I should get popcorn.

Cameron watches Ripper’s slow motion fight. He turns around and spirit is almost still. She holds her sword up. The sword is slowly lowering to slash Cameron. Cameron takes the sword out of her hand and kicks her back. He watches her body change motions bit by bit. Cameron slashes the sword across her torso and throws the sword across the room. Ivory Is running up to him with Sai. Cameron walks over to Ivory and punches her in the jaw. A yellow energy comes off of her jaw.

Cameron: Shit!

A barrier of yellow energy blasts off of Ivory. Cameron is pushed back by the blast. He feels his back hit a wall. His eyes open and he is on the ground. Cameron looks up at Ivory running at him. Spirit is picking herself up off the ground holding her slash wound.

Ripper: Cameron! Get up!

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Neci lands on a rooftop in King City. Another Valkyrie is standing there waiting for her.

Neci: Did you see the ninja?

Valkyrie: Yes. I followed him to the train station. He was jumping across rooftops. How did you lose him?

Neci: He knew I was there. Maybe he didn’t see you.

Valkyrie: Finish up quickly. This city is a dump of crime and corruption.

Neci: Even more of a reason to help the city.

Valkyrie: They have a hero, and even he is a murderer.

Neci: Thank you for following him.

Neci flies off.

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Intensity: It’s done.

Genki looks up from his phone. He sees a miniature drill that looks somewhat like a jackhammer. Genki walks over to a spot.

Genki: Dig here.

Intensity lifts up the drill. Genki moves out of the way. Intensity puts the drill down.

Genki: Essence. Keep lookout.

Intensity: How long should it take to dig down?

Genki: With this drill, about a minute.

Intensity starts the drill and Genki starts the timer. The drill is loud. The concrete breaks like a gram cracker under the drill. Dirt kicks up. Genki moves behind Intensity to keep away from the dirt.

Genki: And… Stop!

Intensity turns off the drill. Genki crouches down and moves dirt away. They look at the blue stone.

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Dynamo is flying as fast as he can. He enters King City. Ozak talks with him on coms.

Ozak: Black Mask is down.

Dynamo: And Ripper.

Ozak: Fine for now. Get there as fast as you can.

Dynamo goes silent. All he hears is the sound of the air hitting his helmet.

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Ivory runs at Cameron and slides. Cameron gets up and time slows down. Ivory’s hand is touching his leg. He moves away from her and stomps on her stomach. Cameron runs at Spirit. A yellow aura surrounds his leg. It feels like his leg is being stabbed. He stumbles and falls to the ground. His body rolls and crashes into the wall. A piece of concrete from the ceiling falls on Cameron, pinning his legs down.

Ripper: Cameron!

Basilisk: Focus on yourself!

Basilisk jumps up. His arms are surrounded in a red aura. He slams his arms down onto Ripper. Ripper rolls to the side. Basilisk’s red arms crack the concrete below them. He looks at Ripper. Ripper hears movement behind him. A sai stabs through his back. He forces his elbow behind him. His elbow hits Ivory in the chest. She falls to the ground leaving the sai in Ripper. Ripper rips the sai out of his back. He feels his back bleeding. Spirit and Basilisk run at Ripper. He throws the sai in the middle of them. They both move away from each other and the sai goes in between them. Ripper takes out his sai.

Ripper: Ozak, I- I need backup, now!

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Dynamo is levitating in the sky above the train station.

Dynamo: Ozak, where are they?

???: Who are you?

Dynamo turns around. He sees Neci floating in the air. She is aiming her long bow at him.

Dynamo: Are you working with the ninja?

Neci: Are you?

Dynamo: I’m here to stop them. Why are you here?

Neci puts down her bow.

Neci: I tried to stop a purple ninja. He got away. I tracked him down here.

Ozak: They are one mile to your right.

Dynamo: Follow me.

Neci: Huh?

Dynamo flies off. Neci follows behind him.

Ozak: Your above them!

Dynamo stops. Neci stops behind him.

Dynamo: They are below us.

Dynamo drops down from the sky. He crashes through the roof and lands on the ground. Spirit and Basilisk are running at Ripper. Gold ropes wrap around Basilisk and Spirit’s legs. Dynamo pulls the ropes and they fall down.

Ripper: I had it.

Neci lowers down through the hole in the ceiling. Basilisk and Spirit are getting up. Ripper looks Basilisk in the eye.

Ripper: Let’s kill them.

The train is coming to an end. Three ninja stand on top of the train. Genki, Essence, and Intensity jump off the train and land on the concrete ground. The train disappears down the tracks

Genki: Take them out and no killing!

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Ozak stands in his ship.

Ozak: The other three arrived. They need backup. Ozak walks up to the portal. He disappears. In the dark abyss. He reappears on top of a manhole cover. Ozak flies into the sky.

Ozak: Ironwood City.

He flies around looking for something. Then he sees Godson moving through the air. A black energy appears in front of Godson. Godson stops moving. He looks at Ozak.

Godson: Who are you?

Ozak: My name is Ozak. You met Ripper. He was the man in the dark suit. Those ninja you fought. There’s four more of them. A group is trying to take them down, but they can’t do it alone.

Godson: Of course I’ll help.

Ozak: Then follow me.

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Intensity unsheathed his sword. His sword’s edge becomes purple. He flips his sword so that the blade is against his arm. Dynamo creates gold rocks that fall on top of Intensity. All of the rocks split in half and fall to the ground. Intensity doesn’t stop pushing forward. He slices Dynamo’s torso. Dynamo creates a war hammer and blocks the sword. The sword drags against the staff of the hammer. The staff slices in half. Dynamo throws away the extra stick and holds the hammer with one arm. He swings his hammer into Intensity’s stomach. A purple energy wave blasts his hammer back. Intensity slashes his sword up Dynamo’s stomach.

Neci: There’s six of them.

Essence stands in front of Neci. She takes out nunchucks. The nunchucks spin around her body so fast all Neci can see is the after image of the weapon. Essence swings the nunchucks. Neci puts her arm up. The nunchucks smack against her arm and she grabs the nunchuck’s chain. Neci throws a right cross punch. Essence stumbles back. Ivory jumps into the air. She points her sai down as she is above Neci. Neci gets low to the ground and brings out her bow. She draws an arrow back. The arrow glows yellow and fires out of the bow. The arrow pierces Ivory’s stomach. The blast from the arrow sends her back. Neci hears the slash of a sword. She feels the blade quickly slice her back. Spirit kicks Neci in her wound. Neci falls on the ground.

Ripper: Are you the leader?

Genki holds his sword up.

Genki: Only for this mission.

Genki runs at Ripper. His sword slashes through the air. Ripper is shocked. Genki’s swinging the blade like it’s normal. Ripper puts up both his arms. The blade cuts through his gauntlets slicing Ripper’s arms. Ripper kicks Genki back. Before Ripper’s foot makes contact, Genki disappears. Ripper looks around. Genki reappears on Ripper’s right side. He swings his blade. Ripper jumps back, but the long blade hacks into his stomach. Ripper holds the wound in pain. Genki jabs his sword into Ripper’s wound. Ripper falls to the ground.

Genki: What’s that noise?

Something moving faster than a bullet breaks through the ceiling and slams on the ground. The concrete below the thing breaks into pieces. The ceiling starts to implode. Rocks are falling down all around. Godson stands up and looks at the ninja. The ninja charge him. Genki swings his blade at Godson. Godson grabs the blade and uppercuts Genki in his stomach. Genki is sent off of the train stop and onto the tracks. Basilisk’s hand turns red. He punches Godson in his jaw as hard as he can. Red energy flies off of the collision. Godson moves his face to look at Basilisk, forcing Basilisk’s hand back. Godson grabs Basilisk by the throat and slams him into the ground. Basilisk is knocked unconscious. The giant rocks are now falling from the ceiling. Dust from the rocks is everywhere.

Genki: Run! The station is destroyed!

All the ninja run onto the tracks and disappear into the dust. Dynamo grabs Ripper.

Dynamo: I’ll get him out of here.

Dynamo, Ripper, and Neci fly out.

Cameron: Help! I can’t get up!

Godson runs over to Cameron. He lifts up the rock and throws it.

Godson: Can you walk?

Cameron: No, the rock broke my ankle.

Cameron gets on Godson’s back. Godson flies out of the train station.

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Everyone stands on a rooftop. They watch as cop cars drive over to the train station trying to figure out why it collapsed.

Dynamo: And you thought you didn’t need help with them Ripper. We’re lucky the white knight showed up.

Godson: Call me Godson.

Dynamo: Godson. That name’s kinda dope.

Ripper: I’m leaving.

Ripper walks away.

Dynamo: Wait. What if this happens again? The ninja are still out there.

Ripper: Are you trying to get me to join a team?

Dynamo: Well...

Godson: I’m in. Sounds useful. If we could help more people then why not.

Cameron: A superhero team. That’s pretty cool. Like those Sentinel movies.

Neci: I’m part of the valkyries, but I’ll come around from time to time.

Dynamo: Come on Ripper. You're the only one.

Ripper: I’ll call you if I need to.

Dynamo taps his com.

Ozak: Yes, you can use my base.

Dynamo: Great. We can use Ozak’s ship as a team base. He’s in too.

Neci: Ozak?

Dynamo: C’mon, we’ll show you.

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Kai is sitting on his throne in Nanda Parbat. League of Assassin members stand beside his throne. Genki walks up.

Kai: Did they get the letters?

Genki: It’s a lot harder to secretly drop letters than you would think, but yes. I believe they did because now they’re a team. Why’d you want them to be a team anyway?

Kai steps off of his throne.

Kai: Someone is going to return. I can feel it.

Genki hands Kai the blue stone. Kai and Genki walk over to a wall. Kai pulls down a torch on the wall. The wall slides open. Stick stands at a desk next to a portal. Kai hands Stick the stone.

Stick: That took you far too long. I’ve been waiting for weeks.

Genki: We had to make sure the team got together. Everything had to be perfect.

Stick puts the stone into a makeshift gun. He points the gun at the portal. He fires a blast. The portal disappears. Stick anxiously waits. Then the portal reappears.

Stick: Damn.

## 4 - Power, Money Part 1

Down at the bottom of an Adara Industries building, workers are building a reactor. In the middle of the room is a giant circle full of blue energy. Wires and cords are attached to the reactor. Workers walk around and install new wires into the reactor. Guards stand at the door. Two scientists are working on a computer checking the diagnostics of the machine.

Scientist: Elias, this will be a new form of energy. All those people complaining about global warming, solved! Everyone will come to us for power.

Elias: I know. If I had that kind of power then I’d be rich. Look at this. It’s a technological masterpiece!

An alert comes up on the screen.

Scientist: E-

Elias: I see it. Some of the matter must be escaping. I’ll go inside and see what the problem is.

Elias walks over to the machine. The scientist turns off the power. Elias puts on a hazmat suit. He walks up to the machine and puts his key in the lock. He turns the key. The lock clicks open. Elias takes a step inside. He walks around looking for a place the matter would be going. A piece of glass is overlapping another piece of glass.

Elias: It’s not sealed.

Elias takes out a welding torch. He puts the flame to the glass. The glass melts together. He takes out some device. A cold air hits the glass. The glass instantly hardens.

Elias: It’s done!

The computer starts making noise. The scientist looks at it shocked.

Scientist: Get out of there! The reactor is starting!

Elias runs up to the door. He scrambles to grab his key. A wave of energy blasts him.

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Ozak is in his spaceship. He is controlling the monitor. His eyes look up and down at a building. Ripper is watching Ozak

Ripper: What do you do in this spaceship?

Ozak: I’m like the earth’s designated lookout.

Ripper: What does that job entail exactly?

Ozak: Nothing much.

Ripper: What do you actually do? You look a lot, but I’ve never seen you leave this ship.

Ozak: Are you asking what I do, or why have I never helped you before?

Ripper: I’m asking you a lot of questions.

Ozak: I handle events that cause a problem for earth. Something that can’t be solved by heroes or the police. I’ve never helped you because your problems mean nothing.

Ripper: Why help us with Bloodstain then?

Ozak: Because you asked… Look.

Ozak zooms in on a picture of an Adara Industries building.

Ozak: All the members of Bloodstain stole from the same company. They all stole from Adara Industries. I looked into the company and found out they were building some sort of way to create new power.

Ripper: What do you need power for?

Ozak: Keep this a secret from the rest of the “team,” but I’m working on a new base. This ship is useful, but I need something more powerful. Something bigger. The problem is, that thing needs a lot of power. Quite a lot of it.

Ripper: You want me to help you steal from this company? We just fought Bloodstain to stop them from stealing and now-

Ozak: You stopped Bloodstain because they were a threat. I know you. You could care less if they stole from a big company.

Ripper: You must not know me very well. I’ve broken a petty thief’s legs for stealing a few bucks.

Ozak: Are you going to help me or not?

Ripper: I’ll help you, but I don’t trust you.

Ozak: You don’t trust me? You're like a pitbull on a weak leash. You never know when it’s going to be let loose and kill someone.

Ozak presses a button on the console.

Ozak: Let’s go.

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Ozak and Ripper appear on top of a sewer. Ozak flies onto a rooftop. Ripper uses his grappling hook to fling himself to the top. They both look at the Adara Industries building.

Ripper: Do you have a plan on how to get in?

Ozak: I’m not new to this. I’ve done a lot in my lifetime.

Ozak takes a set of binoculars off his belt. He looks through them. He flips a switch that turns on an x-ray function. He looks up and down the building. He finds the reactor on the lowest level. His hand grabs Ripper’s shoulder. They puff into black smoke. Then appear at the bottom of the building. Ozak and Ripper are standing on top of giant crates of materials. They crouch down and watch as the workers build and regulate the machine.

Ripper: You can teleport?

Ozak: I can do lots of things.

They sit in silence and watch everyone.

Ozak: Why did you say yes to Dynamo? You don’t seem very excited to be part of the team. You’ve actually just been brooding about it ever since you joined. I don’t even see what you bring to the team.

Ripper: I wasn’t the one trying to force everyone to be part of a team. That was Dynamo.

Ozak: Did you succumb to peer pressure? You're a killer, not a teenager. We’re talking about being part of a team, not trying beer for the first time. You can say no.

Ripper: What if I’m here for another reason then?

Ozak: Are you keeping an eye on me? If I saw you as a threat you’d be dead.

Ripper: I’m shaking. The space hermit threatened me.

Robots break through the doors. The guards shoot the robots. Their bullet’s bounce off. Ozak and Ripper jump down from the crates. The workers run and the robots walk around.

Ozak: I’ll watch the workers. You just focus on killing them.

Ripper takes out his sai. He charges the robots. His sai stabs into the first robot. He rips out electronics from the robot. The metallic arm hits Ripper in his jaw. The hand dent’s Ripper’s helmet. Ripper stabs both his sai into the robot’s head. He sees electrical sparks. The robot falls to the ground.

Ripper: You just have to take out enough of the parts.

Ripper runs into the crowd of robots. He puts both of his sai out to his sides. As he runs past two robots he slices their stomach’s open. The robots walk over to Ripper. Ripper throws his sai into their heads. The robots fall to the ground and Ripper pulls the sai out of the robot’s eye’s.

Ozak: Everybody behind me!

The workers keep panicking.

Ozak: You all listen well!

Ozak sees a robot chasing a man. He teleports in front of the robot and punches through the robot’s head. He pulls his arm out of the robot.

Scientist: Th-Thank you!

Ozak: Tell your friends to come to me. I’ll keep you safe.

The scientist runs around calling to his friends. All the people run behind Ozak.

Ozak: Ripper. Lead the rest of the robots over here!

Ripper looks at all the robots following him. He runs over to Ozak. All the robots slowly walk over to them. Ozak moves his hands. A black energy surrounds everyone’s feet. Ozak creates a tiny black hole in his hand. He throws the black hole into the center of the robots. The robots get sucked into the black hole. Papers and objects fly over to the portal. Ozak closes it before any of the objects get sucked into the portal.

Ozak: Who knows about this place?

Scientist: I don’t know! Those were Adara Industries Robots. How can we repay you for saving our lives?

Ozak: Give me a blueprint of your new reactor.

Scientist: We can’t.

Ozak: Okay.

Ozak walks over to the table and grabs the blueprint.

Ozak: Thank you.

Ripper follows Ozak. Ozak hands Ripper the blueprint.

Ripper: Why am I holding this?

Ozak: I need to grab one of the robots parts.

Ozak grabs the remains of one of the robots Ripper killed.

Ozak: Let’s go back to the spaceship. We need to study this.

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Ripper and Ozak stand in the ship. Ozak is taking the robot apart. He looks at the robot’s electronics to decipher how it works.

Ozak: It doesn’t have a power source. This thing has no battery. There must be something new to the design I’ve never seen before. This piece must be the power because I’ve never seen it before.

Ozak points to a dark circular piece. Ripper looks at the reactor blueprints. It shows a top down picture of the reactor. Ripper puts the blueprints on the table.

Ripper: It’s a miniature reactor.

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A door opens. A man with blue skin and hair that looks like pure blue energy walks inside a room. A hundred Adara Industries robots stand perfectly in rows without power.

Elias: My army.

Elias walks by the robots. When he touches each robot, the robot's reactor starts glowing. The robots open their eyes.

## 5 - Power, Money Part 2

Ozak: It’s dark because it has no power. The robots are using a reactor for power. Is this what the company is trying to use their power for?

Ripper: I don’t know. You’re the only one that looked into Adara.

The monitor lights up. Alarm sounds go off. Ozak stands up and walks over to the computer terminal.

Ripper: What’s happening?

Ozak: Bank robberies. A ton of them are popping up all over the west coast.

Ripper: Do you think it could be the robots? We don’t know how many are out there.

Ozak: Check it out. I’ll call Dynamo and Cameron to help.

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Cameron is running around. He sets his sights on a bank. When he runs inside, robots are holding people at gunpoint and stealing cash. Cameron stops and taps his com.

Cameron: How do I take down the robots?

Ozak: Their power supply is in the middle of their chest. Attack them there.

The robots turn and shoot at Cameron. A wave of bullets are fired at Cameron stopping him from moving forward. He runs over to a different side of the bank. He grabs a desk and runs back over to the bullets. The desk stops the bullets like a shield. Cameron puts the desk down. Then runs over to the robots. In less than the blink of an eye, Cameron is behind all the mechanical beings. They fall down with hole’s in their chests.

Cameron: The vault!

Cameron runs over to the vault. Two robots are collecting money in slow motion. Cameron punches his hand through the robot’s backs. Time speeds up. The robots fall down. Cameron taps his com.

Cameron: Why are robots stealing?

Ozak: Keep moving. There are many more robberies.

Cameron runs off.

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Dynamo flies into a bank. The robots look up at him and fire their guns. The bullets fly through the air. As they move, gold forms around the bullets. Before they reach Dynamo, the bullets stop in air. All the bullets scatter and pierce the robot’s power sources. Dynamo lands on the ground with his hand over his ear.

Dynamo: These robots aren’t too powerful, Ozak.

Ozak: No, but these are only prototypes.

Dynamo: How do you know?

Ozak: I studied the robot. It has a label. Prototype - 15. Some robots may be more powerful.

Dynamo walks up to the vault, creating a golden lance in each hand. The two robots fire bullets as soon as Dynamo turns a corner. The bullets bounce off Dynamo’s armor. He stabs the robots through their power source.

Dynamo: Next robbery.

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Ripper stands on top of the bank. He looks down through the roof’s windows. The robots are walking around aimlessly. They look like characters in a video game. They walk around like they are waiting for orders. Ripper jumps down through the window. The glass shatters, following him down to the ground. Ripper lands on a robot and stabs it through the power supply. The other robots turn to Ripper and fire their guns. Ripper rolls behind a desk. He turns the desk on it’s side. He stands up from the desk and throws his sai into two robots. The robots fall to the ground. Ripper takes out his butterfly knife and runs out from behind the desk. A bullet tags his shoulder. He stabs the robot in the chest. The two robots run out from the vault with bags of money. They fire. A bullet sticks into his stomach and Ripper falls to the ground. The robots walk forward and stop. Their eyes blink blue. They walk over to Ripper and grab his arms. They drag Ripper out of the bank.

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Ozak is looking at everyone’s vitals from the ship.

Ozak: Ripper is down! Cameron, follow him!

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Ripper wakes up tied to a chair in a dark room. The only thing in the room is the door that stands tall in front of him. The door creaks open. Elias walks in and the door shuts. Elias’ blue skin is the only source of light in the room.

Elias: I didn’t think a superhero would fall so easily. All it took to capture you was a few robots.

Ripper: You won’t be that lucky with the rest. A few robots won’t do anything to them.

Elias: That’s what I said about you too, but everything seems to work out. Maybe I should give myself a name if I am going to defeat your hero team. When my name goes down in history I want it to be the name I choose.

Ripper: Your name will never go down in history. Maybe as the smurf that died in jail.

Elias: I was thinking more like Reactor. You should stay close to your roots even if you're rich and famous.

Ripper: You're getting ahead of yourself. You’re not rich or famous.

Elias: Not yet. You just wait there. Soon, your friends will join you.

Elias leaves the room. When the door closes Ripper wiggles in his chair. He moves back and forth. The chair starts to tip and then fall over. Ripper pushes his ear against the ground turning his com on.

Ozak: Ripper, are you alright?

Ripper: Fine. He just tied me up. He’s power hungry, he won’t try to kill me. You can track the com right?

Ozak: I started as soon as you turned it on.

Ripper: Tell the others.

Ozak: Neci’s close. I’ll call her for back up.

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Cameron is running on the road.

Ozak: Do you know where Altona is?

Cameron: Of course I do. It’s the city Neci lives in.

Ozak: Ripper is in the city’s steel warehouse.

Cameron runs to Altona. All anyone sees is the trail of black lighting that moves through the streets. Cameron runs inside the warehouse. Robots are lined up inactive. Cameron stops and his feet slide. Sparks fly off of his feet.

Cameron: There are so many...

The robots activate and start marching. They scan Cameron and aim their guns.

Cameron: Crap!

Everything slows. Cameron ducks and bullets move over his head. He stabs his hand through robots’ chests over and over again. Before he realizes, He is surrounded by robots. He peeks through the robots. Elias runs out of the door. Cameron feels bullets push up against his skin. He grabs the bullet and throws it into a robot.

Cameron: I can’t get to him.

Cameron hears the sound of someone land.

Cameron: Yes!

Cameron gets hit in the back by the butt of a gun. Ripper kicks the door to his room down. Cameron looks at Ripper.

Cameron: There’s too many!

Ripper spins the butterfly knife in his hand. He stabs it through a robot's chest. Cameron looks determined. He stands up and starts fighting.

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Neci is outside. She blocks Elias from getting away. Neci unhooks her axes from her side.

Neci: I’ve never seen someone run from a fight. Where I come from, dying in battle is an honor.

Neci runs at Elias. Elias puts up his hand frightened. Energy blasts Neci in her stomach. The energy stops her. She throws her axe. Elias jumps to the side, dodging it. Elias looks up and Neci is above him. She swings her axe down and her arm feels like it’s burning. She pulls her arm back. Elias stands up.

Elias: Radiation. You can’t touch me!

Neci takes out her bow. She draws an arrow back.

Neci: The arrow can still touch you.

Neci fires an arrow. He stabs through Elias’ arm and pins him to a wall. Neci fires another arrow that pins his other arm to the wall.

Neci: You are a coward. You use robots to get whatever you want, and when you need to fight to keep it, you can’t.

Dynamo lands next to Neci.

Dynamo: Where’s Cameron and Ripper.

Neci: Inside.

Dynamo and Neci run inside. Cameron kills the last robot.

Dynamo: Guess you didn’t need any more help.

Cameron: They were nothing!

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The heroes meet back up in Ozak’s ship.

Dynamo: Neci, you're telling me you don’t know anything? You used to be a viking. How old are you?

Neci: I’m 20. Why would I be old?

Cameron: Vikings aren’t around anymore. Vikings were around like a thousand years ago!

Dynamo: We need to teach you some shit. I bet you’ve never had a burger!

Ripper and Ozak hear Dynamo, Neci, and Cameron talking on the other side of the ship. Ozak and Ripper stand at the terminal.

Ozak: I know the robots didn’t beat you. It would take a lot more than one bullet to take you down. Why did you do it?

Ripper: No one else would. We needed to find out where that guy was.

Ozak: Isn’t that extreme?

Ripper: That’s what I bring to this team. Everyone else here are heroes. They won’t risk anything but getting hurt to stop someone. I put everything on the line to catch a criminal.

Ozak: I think we’re a lot alike Ripper.

Ripper: We might be. I still don’t trust you. You sit here watching over everything deciding who to help like god. No one should have that power.

## 6 - Giants In Midgard Part 1

Neci is breathing heavily. Her body slightly moves up and down as she breathes. Her axe raises above her head and she swings it down. Blood spills out of the cut.

Neci: Damn you frost giants!

Neci’s axe lays in a 15 foot tall frost giant's neck as Bloodstains her axe. She rips her axe out of the giant’s neck. The other frost giants swarm around her holding spiked clubs made of ice. They grunt and roar at Neci.

Neci: Bring it on you blue bastards!

Neci swings one axe up and between a giant’s legs. Her axe cuts into the giant’s crotch. Her other axe swings down onto the giant’s stomach. The wounds pour blood and the giant falls over. Neci pulls her axes out of the giant. She turns around and another giant is running at her. She can’t react in time. The giant stops mid run.

Neci: What?

The giant lifts off the ground. Neci hears the sound of a sword. Then the giant falls down with a slash mark on it’s back.

Godson: What up Neci?

Neci: Watch out!

A giant swings his ice club down on Godson. The ice shatters. Godson kicks the giant back. The giant falls down and rolls on the ground. Godson lands next to Neci.

Neci: How did the ice shatter?

Godson: I don’t know. I have no idea what these things are.

Neci: They’re frost giants.They aren’t from this realm. I have no idea why they’re here.

Neci puts away her axes. She takes her bow off her back. The wood sounds like its cracking as she pulls it back. Two arrows are fired in quick succession. The arrows pierce two giant’s hearts. The giants fall down to the ground dead.

Godson: Why are you killing them?

Neci: They aren’t like humans. They live to die.

The last Three giants run at them. An arrow slices through one of the giant’s eyes. The giant falls down dead. Godson flies over to the last two. He takes out his sword and slashes the giant’s legs. He uppercuts them in their guts. As they bend over from the force, Godson smashes their heads together.

Neci: Those were just grunts.

Godson: So, why are you killing them? We don’t kill humans. What makes this different?

Neci: They aren’t human. You showed up. I didn’t ask for your help. This is an Asgardian matter. The Aesir have been in a war with these giants for thousands of years. Death is on both sides.

Godson: You just slaughtered them.

Neci: Like they do our people. I tried to let a baby wolf live. That wolf grew to be 50 feet tall and tried to kill the gods. This is what the valkyries do.

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Five valkyries are huddled together. Their backs are against each other. They hold out their spears keeping frost giants at bay. The giants are at least 20 feet tall. 10 giants holding clubs look at the valkyries spears. A giant roars. In unison, the giants grab the valkyries spears and slam their clubs on the valkyries. Three of the valkyries get their heads bashed in. The other two roll out from the giants.

Valkyrie: Ragna! Leave! Warn other valkyries!

A club stabs through the valkyries stomach. Ragna flies up into the air. The giants shoot their bows at her. An arrow goes through her calf. She doesn’t stop flying.

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Neci and Godson are flying through the air. She hears the voice of a valkyrie in her head.

???: ‘I need to warn you…’

Neci: Follow me. I heard a valkyrie call.

Godson: Really? I didn’t hear anything.

Neci: Only valkyries can hear it.

Godson: Oh, that’s pretty cool. Do you have any other powers?

Neci: I don’t know. Freya doesn’t teach us much.

Neci and Godson land on a building. Ragna cuts the back half of the arrow off. Then pulls the rest of the arrow out of her leg.

Neci: Ragna, what’s going on?

Ragna stands up and limps over to Neci.

Ragna: I had a team of four other valkyries. We could have taken maybe seven giants, but we were attacked by 10. I was the only one who escaped.

Neci: Did you see anything else?

Ragna: One valkyrie called us in for backup. When we showed up she was standing in front of a green portal. When we all went to see, giants appeared.

Neci: Thank you for telling us. I’ll figure out what’s going on.

Ragna walks over to the ledge.

Ragna: I have to warn the others before the giants attack them.

Ragna flies off.

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Ozak stands in his ship looking at the monitor. The monitor shows earth. He watches as small blue dots appear on the west coast of the US. Ozak brings up data on the activity.

Ozak: Power surges.

Neci and Dynamo walk into Ozak’s ship. Ozak doesn’t notice as more and more data floods in from the surges.

Neci: Ozak.

Ozak looks startled.

Ozak: What?

Neci: We need you to help us.

Ozak: Does it have anything to do with portals?

Godson: What do you know?

Ozak: 50 portals just appeared on the west coast.

Neci: Frost giants are coming through the portals.

Ozak: Frost giants? Why are they on earth? That's Asgard’s problem.

Neci: I don’t know.

Ozak: I’ll call Dynamo and Cameron to help take down the portals.

Neci: If they’re going to stop giants then we should too.

Neci runs through Ozak’s portal.

Godson: Do you have any idea where the source is?

Ozak: One area has more energy coming off of it. That’s where I sent Neci. Hopefully that’s where the problem is.

Godson: Then I’ll help her.

Godson runs through the portal.

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Neci soars through the skies scanning the area.

Ozak: A new portal appeared near you. Fly west.

Neci changes directions and moves west. Soon she sees a portal with giants still coming out of it. Neci lands on the ground. A man with long red hair is next to the portal. He turns and smiles at Neci. Neci looks furious.

Neci: Loki.

Loki walks into the portal. Godson lands behind Neci.

Godson: What’s going on?

Neci runs at the giants. She takes out her axes and slices the giant’s sides. They swing their clubs at her. She rolls under their clubs and jumps into the portal.

Godson: What?

Ozak: Don’t go through that portal-

Godson flies past the giants and into the portal.

Ozak: Dammit!

## 7 - Giants In MIdgard Part 2

A frost giant is running at Dynamo. His club is far above his head. The giant stops and looks down. A layer of gold cements him to the ground. He tries to pull his feet out of the gold. Dynamo jumps into the sky holding a warhammer. He swings his hammer down and bashes the giant’s skull. The skull spins around like an owl’s head. Dynamo taps his ear.

Dynamo: I’ve taken care of another one of these surges.

A flash of black lightning appears in front of Dynamo. Cameron is standing in front of him.

Cameron: I just took down a few surges too.

Ozak: Those surges are portals. Neci and Godson just jumped into one.

Cameron: What?!

Dynamo: We kind of need them right now Ozak!

Ozak: I can’t stop them from a ship that’s thousands of miles away from them. There is nothing I can do. You two will need to keep them at bay.

Dynamo: When will Neci and Godson be back?!

Ozak: I’ll tell you when I know.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Godson feels nauseous. He sees flashy blue lights all around him. The lights look like they are moving forward. Godson feels himself being pulled, but can’t tell if he is standing still. Neci is in front of him. He tries to speak, but words don’t come out of his mouth. The blue lights disappear and Godson falls onto snow.

Godson: Ugh… I’m gonna throw up.

Neci: You’ll get over it.

Godson stands up.

Godson: Where are we?

Godson holds his hand out. A snowflake lands in his palm.

Neci: Jotunheim. The land of the frost giants. We need to find out where they are coming from.

Neci walks off. Godson follows her. Each step he takes his leg sinks a few feet deep into the snow. Godson finds Neci crouched down looking at a frost giant camp. Most of the buildings in the camp are huts. One building is ginormous. The door is over thirty feet tall.

Godson: What-

Neci: Shh.

Neci’s eyes look all around. She sees Loki walking along the stoned path of the village. Loki stops. He turns around and winks at Neci. Then keeps walking. Neci looks angry.

Neci: Loki…

Godson: Do we go in then?

Neci: We can’t just walk in. We need to sneak.

Neci’s wings start to move. She rises into the sky. Godson follows her into the air. The giant doors open from the longhouse. A fifty foot tall blue frost giant with viking armor stands tall. He wears a helmet covering the top of his head and over his eyes. Two ice horns come off of the side of the helmet. On the giant’s lower back rests an axe with the blade made out of pure ice. He stands tall and angry. As he breaths, so much white air comes off of his mouth it creates winds.

???: ARGH!

The giant charges Neci and Godson.

Godson: What the hell is that?!

Neci: I don’t know!

Neci flies to the side. The giant grabs her. She is covered by his large hand. He throws her into the ground. His giant foot slowly rises and stops down on Neci. The foot almost crushes her. Godson holds up the giant’s leg.

Godson: He’s so heavy! Move, Neci!

Neci rolls out from under the giant’s foot. Godson moves back and the giant’s foot stomps on the snow. Snow flies up and covers Neci and Godson. Loki is standing on top of the longhouse. He watches the fight in anticipation of what will happen next.

Loki: What a good father. I should thank Farbauti after this.

Loki laughs. He watches Godson fly into the town. Farbauti swings his axe. Godson dodges. The huts in town are sliced in half.

Loki: This simply won’t do.

Loki moves his hands around. Something green starts to form under Farbauti.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Ozak stands in his ship. A giant alert appears on his screen.

Ozak: A new power surge. This one has the most power of all of them. Dynamo, Cameron, get to Altona City now!

Cameron: I’m on it!

Dynamo: As fast as we can, Ozak!

Ozak looks at the terminal. He connects a cord from the terminal into his phone. It uploads data. Ozak unplugs the cord and runs into the portal.

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Farbauti, Godson, and Neci fall through a green portal. They appear in Altona City. Farbauti stands up. Godson punches him in the jaw. Farbauti stumbles back and slaps Godson onto the ground. Farbauti’s giant axe swings down to the ground and slices Godson’s stomach. Farbauti picks Godson up and crushes him in his hand. An arrow slices through Farbauti’s arm. Neci is standing on a rooftop. He roars and throws Godson into a building. Neci fires an arrow into Farbauti’s stomach. His stomach bleeds. Farbauti front kicks Neci. Neci flies above his leg. The building crumbles under Farbauti’s foot. Neci flies around Farbauti’s head like a pest firing arrows at him. He opens his mouth and breathes out ice. Neci tries to dodge the ice. She moves left and right. The beam of ice follows her. As soon as it touches her wing, her wing is covered in ice. She falls out of the sky shivering.

Neci: I-It’s so cold.

Cameron runs along the side of a building and catches Neci. He puts her on the ground.

Cameron: What’s going on?

Neci: I don’t know.

Neci puts away her wings. The ice breaks off as her wings disappear.

Neci: Help the people. I’ll fight the thing.

Cameron runs off. Neci watches as Cameron moves people away from the chaos. Neci runs near the giant. He looks down and roars at her. She shoots an arrow. The arrowhead pierces Farbauti’s knee. Farbauti drops down to one knee. Neci slides on the ground and aims. Right before the arrow fires. Farbauti punches Neci’s back. His giant hand feels like a train colliding with her. She crashes into a building. Her body breaks through wall after wall. Then she hits stones. A few stone are knocked out of place and she hits the ground.

Neci: I need to get back in there.

Neci runs through the holes in the walls she made. When she looks at Farbauti, Dynamo punches him in the chin. He stumbles back a little bit.

Dynamo: What is this thing?

Farbauti grabs Dynamo. A gold ball appears around him. Farbauti crushes the gold ball in his hand. Spike appears on the gold ball and stab Farbauti’s hand. The ball drops to the ground. A golden door appears on the back of the ball. Dynamo walks out of it. The door turns into a chain. Dynamo grabs the chain and spins the ball around. He throws it into Farbauti’s chest. Farbauti falls onto his back. He grabs the ball and throws it away from them. He stands back up. Dynamo holds his hand out. Trying to pull the ball back.

Dynamo: C’mon. C’mon!

Farbauti kicks Dynamo into a building. Ozak watches from the rooftops. Cameron moves the last person away from the fight. Godson lands next to Ozak.

Godson: I need to help them! Why did you call me here?!

Ozak: Follow me.

Ozak flies over to the battle. He stands in an alleyway.

Ozak: Stand in front of me.

Godson moves. Ozak puts his hands on the ground.

Godson: Are you praying?

Ozak: No. Wait.

Purple starts forming on the ground. A giant purple dome appears around the fight. Ozak is on the outside of the dome.

Ozak: I can’t move or else the dome will go away. This will protect the people from anything you might do. Take that giant down!

Godson flies into the battle as fast as he can. He uppercuts Farbauti. Then punches Farbauti in the chest. Farbauti falls into the dome and gets his balance back. Godson takes out his sword and slashes. Farbauti blocks Godson’s sword. A small piece of his axe chips off. The energy from the sword slash hits Farbauti’s cheek.

Godson: You can’t block my blade!

Godson slashes again. Farbauti turns his axe. The whole blade of the axe deflects the sword. The energy of the sword shatters the axe’s ice. Farbauti drops the wooden handle of the axe. He grabs Godson’s sword and pulls. Godson holds onto his sword. He tries to pull it out of Farbauti’s hand. Farbauti punches Godson back. Godson falls through the air. Cameron catches Godson.

Godson: Without my sword, I can’t use my powers!

Cameron puts Godson down.

Cameron: You’ll get it back when the giant falls.

Godson: What? Y-

Cameron runs away.

Godson: You won’t be able to… He’s gone.

Cameron runs around the giant's legs. As he runs around, he punches Farbauti’s feet. Farbauti feels winds creating around him. He can’t move without feeling pain. A flicker of light blinds him. He looks around for the light. A spec of light is on a building.

Neci: Dead.

Neci’s eyes are glowing yellow. She fires a glowing yellow arrow. The arrow is followed by an enormous beam of light. The arrow carves through Farbauti’s forehead. He falls to his knees. Then to the ground.

Cameron: The giant’s dead!

Buildings are crushed under Farbauti’s body. Godson runs up to the giant's hand. He grabs his sword. Cameron runs up to Godson.

Godson: I-It’s dead.

A green portal appears below the giant. The giant falls into the green portal and disappears.

Godson: Loki…

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Everyone is on the ship.

Godson: I didn’t know you could do stuff like that Ozak. Actually, I don’t know anything about you.

Ozak: I have more powers then I care to explain.

Ozak stands at the terminal still looking at the monitor.

Dynamo: Not even a small break. C’mon Ozak!

Cameron: Hang out with us.

Neci: No, he’s right. Loki will never stop until he’s killed. Someday he’ll need to be stopped.

Dynamo: Today though? He just did something. He’ll take a break. While he does, we can take a break.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Farbauti’s body lies just outside of the frost giant camp. Loki stands around him with many other frost giants.

Loki: I can’t believe those humans killed my father.

Loki walks through the town. Giants stand on the sides of a carpet. Loki walks down the carpet and sits on Farbauti’s giant throne. A frost giant walks up to Loki and puts a crown on his head.

Loki: Since he’s dead. I will rule as king of the frost giants!

## 8 - Man From Mars Part 1

Ozak: Criminals are holding hostages in a bank. You two got this.

Neci: Yeah, I’m almost there.

Cameron stops in front of the bank. His feet slide as he taps his com.

Cameron: I’m here.

Ozak: Don’t go in until-

Cameron watches as a fire bursts through one of the bank's windows.

Cameron: We have a problem.

Ozak: I see that. Cameron, run in and get the people out of there.

Cameron watches as the flames growing slow down. He runs up to the bank's door and kicks it down. Fire is everywhere. Cameron can feel the heat on his skin as he moves through the building. Burnt pieces of the bank are falling down. Cameron runs through the building. A group of people sit on the ground tied up. Their screams are muffled by the duck tape around their mouths. Cameron stops.

Cameron: It’s gonna be okay. I got you.

Cameron taps his com.

Cameron: The criminals are gone.

Ozak: Focus on the civilians!

Cameron grabs the people one by one and drops them off outside the bank. Ozak switches cameras. Neci is flying over the bank. She watches as people pile into a truck behind the bank. The truck moves like the driver doesn’t know what he’s doing. Neci follows the truck.

Neci: I found them. They’re driving away.

Ozak: Take them down before they get away.

Neci aims her bow. An arrow fires out and pierces the truck's wheel. The truck spins out and flips over into the middle of the street. People start pouring out of the truck. They have scrapes and bruises all over them. Neci lands on the ground. Five criminals stand before her.

Neci: How will you get away without a car?

The criminals run at Neci. Police cars swarm the area. Cops pull out their guns and the criminals put their hands up. Neci flies into the air. The cops shoot at her as she flies. Neci lands on a rooftop. Cameron runs up next to her.

Cameron: That was awesome. We’re a hell of a team!

Neci: Ozak, are there any other crimes around?

She gets no response.

Neci: Ozak?

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Neci, Cameron, and Ripper are in Ozak’s ship. The ship looks untouched. Cameron and Neci watch as Ripper walks around the ship.

Ripper: There were others here.

Ripper drags his fingers on the ground. He lifts up his hand and looks at the red dust on his fingers.

Ripper: Ozak doesn’t leave this ship.

Cameron: Not until now.

Ripper: I meant he doesn’t normally leave this ship. He wouldn’t track in some red dust.

Neci: One of us could have?

Ripper: Do you remember stepping on something that would create red dust? No, because this isn’t from earth.

Cameron: Really? Is it like some moon dust or something?

Neci: How do you know if it’s not on earth?

Ripper: I don’t.

Dynamo walks through the portal.

Ripper: That’s why I called him.

Dynamo: Ay, what is everyone doing h- Where’s Ozak?

Ripper: Gone. Does this ship have a scanner?

Dynamo walks over to some type of device.

Dynamo: I think this is the scanner. Only Ozak knows every corner of this ship, but I’m pretty confident in what I know.

Ripper: Get some of this red dust and scan it.

A gold sweeper appears. It sweeps dust into a gold dust pan. The dust pan floats over to the scanner and dumps the red dust into it. Dynamo presses a button and the scanner turns on. A few seconds later something pops up on the monitor.

Ripper: It’s from Mars.

Dynamo: Holy shit. Did Ozak get kidnapped by Martians?

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

A ship lands on mars. The ship almost looks like a submarine turned into a white and grey spaceship. Two plasma cannons sit on each side of the ship. One part of the ship comes down and forms a ramp. Green martians with blue and red armor walk out of the ship. In front of them stands Ozak with handcuffs on. They lead him onto the red sand of Mars. Everytime Ozak slows down he gets pushed by a martian. A long trail of footsteps in the sand. They stop in front of a mountain. A door opens up and they walk inside. The mountain is completely hollow. There are buildings filling up levels of the mountain.

Martian: We’re going to the top.

They walk over to an elevator near the door. Only two guards walk in the elevator with him.

Ozak: Not afraid of me?

Martian: What are you going to do? Start fighting martians in the middle of a martian city? You’ll be slaughtered.

Ozak: Not if I killed you before we left this elevator.

The elevator stops at the top level. They walk through a small section of large important buildings. In the center of the level is a palace. The Martians lead Ozak up the palace stairs and into the throne room. A martian with an expensive looking purple and white king’s gown.

Ozak: King M’azz N’is.

King M’azz: You are being tried for the destruction of Old Mars.

Ozak: That’s correct.

King M’azz: What do you plead?

Ozak: I figure in this court it doesn’t matter what I plead, but I plead guilty.

King M’azz: Then you’ll enjoy a cell for the rest of your life.

Ozak: If that’s the punishment then I’ll take it.

The Martians lead Ozak away.

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Dynamo stands at the terminal for Ozak’s ship.

Neci: Do you even know how to fly?

Dynamo: Sure I do. I’ve never done it, but that doesn’t mean I can’t learn.

Ripper: He has a better shot then you or I Neci.

Cameron: What about me?

Ripper: Can you drive?

Cameron: Uh, no.

Ripper: Then what do you think?

Dynamo starts moving his hands around. The terminal shows him where he is and where the other planets are on a map. Dynamo turns the ship around and starts moving it forward.

Dynamo: Jeez, it’s like learning how to drive again.

Ripper: Learn faster. Unlike driving, someone’s life wasn’t on the line.

Dynamo: You don’t know. Maybe they are having tea.

Ripper: Tea?

Dynamo: I don’t know. We don’t know anything about Ozak! He could have gone there willingly for all we know about him!

Spaceships fly by Ozak’s ship.

Dynamo: Space traffic?

Ripper: They’re going to earth.

Neci: Should we turn back?

Cameron: Godson can handle it. He can handle everything.

Ripper: I hope you’re right.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Two Martians slowly walk up to Godson holding up their guns. The alien handguns shoot small beams. The beams collide with Godson and do nothing more than burn his clothes. His suit regenerates soon after the blasts.

Godson: What are you aliens?

Godson flies up to an alien. He smacks him into a brick wall. The alien lands on the ground unconscious. He looks at the other martian and kicks him in front of a moving car. The car bumps as it drives over the martian. Godson walks up to the Martian and checks his breathing. He takes a sigh of relief.

Godson: Thank god. They seemed durable, but I thought he would have gotten back up.

Godson picks up the two martians. He flies away and drops them off in front of a police station. Godson looks up into the sky before he flies. Two spaceships fly over his head. Godson takes out his sword.

Godson: More aliens?

## 9 - Man From Mars Part 2

Ozak sits on the cold prison floor. His back pushed up against the wall. He looks around at the cell and stands up. He walks around and drags his hand against the wall. His fingers drag along indents in the wall. Ozak looks at the marks.

Ozak: There are years of markings on this wall.

Ozak taps a part of his suit. The darkness over his face disappears. His skin is pale. His hair is short and wavy. He sits back down on the cold ground and looks at every one of those markings with his blue eyes.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Ozak’s ship lands on mars.

Dynamo passes everyone oxygen masks off of the wall.

Dynamo: Everyone put these on so you don’t suffocate.

Everyone puts on the masks and walks off of the ramp.

Cameron: Oh, so all spaceships have these ramp things. I thought that was just movies.

Dynamo: No, they’re necessary.

Neci: Where are we going?

Ripper: I don’t know. We’ll split up.

Dynamo: Me and Cam got this. We’ll find Ozak like it’s nothing.

Cameron: With my super speed, it’ll be easy.

Ripper: You go south of the ship. We’ll go north.

Cameron runs off. Dynamo flies behind them. Neci and Ripper begin walking.

Neci: I’m surprised you let them make their own decision.

Ripper: Doesn’t matter who goes with who. Wherever they took Ozak could be anywhere.

Neci: Why didn’t we all split up then? You missed two directions.

Ripper: Unknown territory. If we all split up we’ll get taken down like nothing.

Ripper and Neci walk aimlessly.

Neci: It might help if I fly us around.

Ripper: No.

Neci: This is taking too long. We’re just walking-

Ripper walks off.

Neci: Are you walking away from me? You’re not the leader just because Ozak left.

Ripper: Tracks.

Neci walks up to Ripper. She looks at the footsteps in the sand.

Ripper turns on his cop.

Cameron: We haven’t found anything!

Dynamo: This is a red desert! There is nothing here.

Ripper: I found tracks.

Dynamo: We’ll be right there.

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Ozak sits in his cell. King M’aaz bangs on the iron bars.

King M’azz: Do you enjoy your friend’s cage?

Ozak: It’s fantastic.

King M’azz: I bet it is. While you lay here, we’re going to take over earth.

Ozak: What?!

Ozak stands up and walks over to the bars.

King M’azz: You destroyed our colony. We’re going to destroy yours.

Ozak puts out his hand. Nothing happens.

King M’azz: You can’t use your magic. We’ve drained the area of it. There is no connection to that realm.

Ozak: It doesn’t matter. My friends will stop you. Yeah, I’m not the only one protecting earth.

King M’azz: We’ve killed your friends before. What’s one more time?

King M’azz walks away with a smile on his face. Ozak sits back down in his cell. He spaces out looking at the markings.

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A younger Ozak walks around on Mars. He is wearing just a black cloak. He uses the hood of the cloak to keep dust out of his eyes. He stumbles upon Old Mars. Buildings are set up on the sides and bottom of a canyon. Ozak rests his eyes on the beautiful architecture of the city that stretches for miles. Ozak descends down through the air. When he reaches the bottom of the canyon the martians walk past him as if he isn’t a stranger. A martian looks at him.

Martian: What planet are you from?

Ozak: Who are you?

Martian: I am Jinn T’renzz.

Ozak: What is your place on Mars Jinn?

Jinn: I am just a martian peasant.

Ozak: Then I have no time for you.

Jinn: Wait! Why are you here?

Ozak: To meet the king and learn about your species.

Jinn: I can teach you. I’ll show you around.

Jinn walks off. Ozak reluctantly follows him. Jinn stops at a food stand. He buys two shishkabob looking items. They have some type of giant fried roach on the stick. Jinn starts eating it. Ozak looks at it for a second and tries it.

Ozak: It’s alright. I’m surprised your people eat insects as a main dish. It isn’t common for insects to be a primary food.

Jinn: Hide!

Jinn runs behind the food stand. Ozak flies above a building. Martian soldiers walk through the streets. A bloody martian runs up to the soldiers.

Bloody Martian: Please! I need help!

One of the soldiers fires off their gun. A bullet flies through the bloody martian's head. The soldiers keep walking. Ozak lands on the ground once the soldiers are out of sight.

Ozak: Corruption?

Jinn: I need to show you something.

Jinn runs behind a building. He takes off a manhole cover.

Ozak: You use the sewer to get around?

Jinn: It’s secretive. No one would expect it.

Jinn jumps down. Ozak flies down into the sewer. They move through the dirty mucky underground of Mars. Jinn turns right. He leads Ozak into a giant room underground. Many martians like Jinn are standing around.

Jinn: This is the resistance!

Ozak: You all fight the corrupt king?

Jinn: And we want you to join us.

Ozak: I can’t.

Jinn: Why not?!

Ozak: I’ve only come here to learn. I am not here to stand up in political matters. I wish you the best of luck, but you’ll have to fight back against your king on your own.

Jinn: We need help!

Ozak: Find it in your own people. The ones who live in mars.

Ozak flies away.

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Years later, Ozak is flying above mars. He lands on the Palace’s doorstep. Guards push open the giant doors. The king sits on his throne.

King M’azz: Get on with it. There are many more to kill.

Martian soldiers behead peasant after peasant. The peasants stand in a line waiting to be killed.

Ozak: The King of Tennion has sent you a request.

King M’azz: Does he know I’m busy killing all the peasants that revolted against me?

Ozak: I’m just here to give you the message as a favor for King Najo.

King M’azz: It’ll have to wait. We’re about to burn the leader of this revolt. Let’s watch.

Guards bring out Jinn in chains. He is thin to the bone and soaked in oil.

Ozak: Wait-

The guards throw a torch to Jinn. Jinn’s body explodes into giant flames.

King M’azz: I starved him for years. He starved everyday that there was still a rat in my kingdom. Death is mercy.

Ozak: This is my fault. I should have helped the resistance when I first came here. Tell me this M’azz. Does anyone like you as a king?

King M’azz: What does that matter? I’m their king whether they like me or not. Now get out of my kingdom unless you’re going to grovel at my feet.

Ozak: You arrogant-

Ozak flies into the sky. His body breaks through the roof of M’azz’s palace. He stops above the canyon. His arms turn black. A dust storm emerges. He bites down as a tsunami of sand and rock falls into the canyon. Filling the canyon until it looks no different than the rest of mars.

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In the present day, New Mars’ ships are taking off in the hangar.

Soldier: Commander, we are sending out all our ships as fast as possible.

Commander: Faster, in bigger groups. We will destroy the earth.

Soldier: How many martians can we send? How many ships can we waste?

Commander: All of them.

Ships start up. Lights all over the ships turn on. Blue energy propels the ships forward. Together, the ships fly into the air.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Godson flies over to a sewer. He takes the manhole cover off. Nothing shows up.

Godson: What? How do I get to Ozak?!

Gusts of wind smack into Godson's face from ships flying overhead. Godson hears a ship. He turns around and a cannon is charging up. Godson lifts off the ground and flies at the ship. The cannon blasts him back with a beam of blue energy.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Ripper, Neci, Dynamo, and Cameron stand in front of a mountain. Ripper is dragging his hand against the mountain.

Dynamo: The tracks lead to a dead end Ripper. They tricked us.

Ripper: How did they know anyone was coming?

Neci: The Martians aren’t Loki. They aren’t that smart. There must be a reason for the tracks stopping.

Cameron: I can look around the mountain like-

Cameron snaps his fingers.

Cameron: That!

Ripper: Why are you still here then? Run around.

Ripper stops walking. He pushes his hand in. A piece of rock moves back and a door opens.

Dynamo: Luck.

Ripper: Partially.

Cameron stops next to them.

Cameron: You did it!

Ripper: C’mon.

Everyone walks inside. They gaze upon the marvelous New Mars. Everyone walks around in the dirty pathways of the bottom level. Martian guards walk through the street.

Soldier: Aliens! Get them!

Dynamo makes a small gold wall in front of him. He hides behind the wall as he creates something else. The soldiers slowly walk up to the wall. Dynamo stands up and rests a gold minigun on the small wall. Gold bullets fly out of the minigun and the martians fall. Ripper, Neci, and Cameron run over.

Dynamo: It was nothing. I took ‘em down.

A man in a dark cloak comes out from the shadows.

Man: Follow me! More are coming.

The heroes follow the man through the dark alleys of New Mars. The man opens a door to a rickety old building. Everyone runs inside. The man locks the door.

Ripper: What’s going on?

Man: You just fought the martian soldiers.

Ripper: Who are you?

Man: I am the leader of the resistance. I am B’rinz T’renzz.

Ripper: We are looking for our friend Ozak. Tall, dark face, wears a suit of armor.

B’rinz: He was brought to the King's prison.

Neci: Take us there.

B’rinz: I’ll try, but I won’t go inside. My father spent years there. I never want to see that place.

B’rinz leads the heroes to the elevator. They all walk in and the elevator slowly rises.

B’rinz: We’re going to the top level. One of you will have to sneak inside the palace Everyone else will hold off the guards.

Ripper: I’ll sneak in. What way do I go to get from the palace to the prison?

B’rinz: The staircase is on the left side of the palace. It’s the only staircase down.

Ripper: Then this is where we split up.

The elevator stops. Everyone runs out. When they look around, Ripper is gone.

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Ripper: That’s the palace.

Ripper looks upon the biggest building in the city. He looks around.

Ripper: There are guards everywhere. How do I even get around here without being seen?

Ripper looks at a tower.

Ripper: That’s how.

He shoots his grappler at a tower and swings over to the palace. The hooks lets go. Ripper falls down and rolls in front of the palace.

Ripper: Shit.

Two guards at the door run at him with spears. Ripper blocks the first spear with one sai. He stabs the martian with the other. The other guard thrusts his spear into Ripper’s helmet. The spear tip breaks. Ripper grabs the guard’s collar and smashes his helmet against the guard’s skull.

Ripper: Guards are coming.

Ripper runs inside the palace. Down a long hallway to his left he sees stairs. He runs over to them. The guard's voices ring in his ears as he moves down the stairs as fast as he can. No guards are down there. He looks confused.He walks through the prison. All cells are empty until he sees Ozak. He stares at the tally marks on the wall.

Ripper: You're blond?

Ozak: What are you doing here?

Ripper: I came to get you out of here.

Ozak: I’m not leaving. I deserve to be here.

Ripper: Why?

Ozak: I destroyed Old Mars. I killed thousands because I was mad.

Ripper: You think that the best thing for you to do is go to prison?

Ozak:...

Ripper: Criminals go to jail because they don’t regret it and can’t do anything to make up for what they’ve done. You could save thousands outside of this cell. You live in a prison everyday carrying the weight of regret, but nothing gets done until you leave this cell.

Ripper destroys the lock on the cell door.

Ozak opens the door and walks out.

Ozak: We need to go back to earth. They want to destroy it.

Ripper: We need to get the others.

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Dynamo’s shooting gold guns at soldiers, Neci is firing her bow, and Cameron is running around punching people. Ripper and Ozak run out of the palace to see the fight happening. B’rinz is gone.

Ozak: Fall back.

Cameron grabs everyone and brings them over to Ozak in the blink of an eye. Ozak creates a portal.

Ozak: Move!

Everyone jumps into the portal. Ozak goes in last. As he walks through the portal. It closes. The heroes appear outside of the mountain.

Ozak: How did you get here?

Dynamo: I flew your ship.

Ozak: I never taught you how to fly the ship.

Dynamo: But I did.

Ozak: Where is it?

Ripper looks at the tracks then runs off. Everyone follows him.

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The heroes find Ozak’s ship. They get inside. The ship slowly rises off the ground then blasts into space. As the ship moves through space, they see a long line of martian ships heading to earth.

Ripper: They’re waging one hell of a war.

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Alien ships are shooting Godson. Their bullets and lasers bounce off of him. He swings his giant sword. Energy waves move above Ironwood City destroying fleet after fleet. Ten alien ships get together. They blast Godson back with their cannons all at once. Godson is sent flying through building after building. His costume has a giant hole in his chest. He smashes into a steel bar and lands on the ground.

Godson: I feel so weak. I'm so tired.

Godson is breathing heavily. Bruises and cuts are on his body. He looks through the holes in the buildings. Neci and Dynamo fly into the sky. Godson’s bruises and cuts heal. The hole in his shirt is repaired. He stands back up.

Godson: Let’s take down some aliens!

Godson flies through the buildings. His body moves through the ships destroying them as he flies. Neci takes out her axes. Charging ships and slicing through them. Dynamo concentrates for a few minutes and creates a giant gold fighter jet. He sits in it and flies around shooting down alien ships. Cameron runs on the ground knocking out martian after martian all over the city.

 - - - - - - - - - - - -

Ripper and Ozak stand in the ship.

Ozak: The Martians won’t stop coming.

Ripper: You live in a ship above the world. You can’t do anything to stop this.

Ozak: I have one thing?

Ripper: What?

Ozak: An emp I can release over the city, but I’ve never used it. It’s too dangerous. It won’t just shut down the Martian ships but all other technology in the city.

Ripper: Will the technology be destroyed?

Ozak: I don’t know.

Ripper: Use it. Either the martians will destroy the people, or the EMP will destroy the technology.

Ozak presses a button. A shockwave is released across the city.

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Godson, Neci, Dynamo, and Cameron look at the blue energy wave. All the martian ships turn off and fall out of the sky. Just before the martian ships hit the ground. New ships land as Martians run to the ships for safety. Godson taps his com.

Godson: It’s over! The martians are fleeing.

Ozak: What about everything else?

Godson looks down at the cars on the streets. Their alarms are going off.

Godson: Car alarms are going off.

Ozak takes a breath.

Ozak: They aren’t destroyed.

## 10 - Dead Man Walks Part 1

Cameron runs around town. He takes a deep breath of air. Black lightning zipping off of him. The wind on his face. Each foot in front of the other. He can feel gravity keeping him in place. People stand around, stuck in between motion. Cameron watches as a man slowly falls down. Still in the air the man stays while Cameron runs up to him. Cameron fixes the man. The still man stands up straight. Cameron grabs the coffee out of the air and puts it in the man’s hand.

Cameron: Perfect.

Cameron continues running around. Cameron feels his back shiver as if someone was watching him. Gleaming eyes of someone with a purpose. Something that will hunt him down until it catches its prey. Cameron turns a corner nervously. Attempting to avoid whatever is trying to catch him. The presence gets closer. Cameron hears the sound of lightning, but this lightning isn’t his own. It’s different. A red light glares in the corner of his eye. Next to him, a monster in a black suit. Red lightning sparks off of the creature. It’s mask only covers the top half of its face. The creature’s body is rotting. Greenish skin falls off of it’s face. The monster turns and looks at Cameron. It’s giant dead white eyes stare at Cameron.

Cameron: What the fuck!?

Cameron runs as fast as he can. Cameron can feel the lightning coming off of him. The monster’s red lightning starts absorbing Cameron’s black lightning. Cameron trips and falls to the ground. He rolls on the rocky pavement of Red Lake City. He gets up and sees a manhole cover. The monster stands on the other side of the alley. Cameron takes off the manhole cover as the monster runs at him. He jumps inside the portal and puts the cover back on. The creature looks around trying to find Cameron. It runs away.

Cameron: Ozak!

Cameron stands on Ozak’s ship. He looks around. The place looks like a ghost ship. No one is there.

Cameron: Again?

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Ripper stands on the edge of a rooftop like it's a perch. The bright moon shines down. The moonlight isn’t enough to brighten the dark grimey King City. Ripper hears the sound of banging. Two men are beating up a guy. The guy is knocked unconscious. They steal his wallet out of his pocket. Ripper jumps down from the rooftop. One man looks up. Ripper falls down from the sky, blocking the moonlight. He lands on one man and turns to punch the other. A flash of black lightning appears in front of him. Ripper looks around. The other criminal is tied up.

Ripper: Why are you here Cameron?

Cameron: Where’s Ozak?

Ripper: He took a break after the Martian invasion. He didn’t tell you?

Cameron: No. I need help, Ripper. Something is following me.

Ripper: Do you know what it is?

Cameron: Something dead, but it’s as fast as I am. Faster even! The thing had red lightning.

Ripper: Something dead?

Cameron: It’s skin was green and peeling. It looked like a horror movie.

Ripper: Do you know where it came from?

Cameron: No, it just showed up!

Ripper: Go back home and hide. If it's after you then you shouldn’t be out in the open.

Cameron: I don’t have a home.

Ripper: What? Where do you sleep?

Cameron: Ozak’s ship. Dynamo broke me out of prison, remember? I couldn’t go back to living at my old house.

Ripper: Then we’re going to Winnsboro.

Cameron: Dynamo?

Ripper:...

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Ripper and Cameron are outside of an apartment building.

Ripper: I’ll keep a lookout for the monster that chased you. Until then, stay with Dynamo. He’ll be able to protect you against a speedster better than I can.

Ripper puts his arm up. A grappling hook fires from the gun. He slings into the air and disappears into the darkness of the night. Cameron walks up to the apartment building. He knocks on the door. A man with blond hair, a white t-shirt, and black sweatpants opens the door.

Cameron: That’s what you look like?

Dynamo: Yeah man, I forgot you didn’t know what I looked like. Come inside before the creature of the night gets you.

Cameron: You don’t want to see that thing. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Dynamo: I bet that monster scared the shit outta you.

Cameron and Dynamo walk up into an elevator. They stop on one of the many floors. Dynamo leads Cameron to a door and unlocks it. Dynamo opens the door. They both walk in.

Dynamo: Now we can have some fun.

Cameron: What do you have?

Dynamo: Video games man. Video games.

They both sit down. Dynamo turns on the console and hands Cameron a controller. They both start playing.

Dynamo: Ah man, your trash.

Cameron: I don’t play a lot of games.

Dynamo: You were a sports kid, lame.

Cameron: You weren’t? I thought you would be. Since you're a superhero.

Dynamo: When I was a kid I got beat up. The only way I would feel better was playing games. Then I got my gloves and flying in games wasn’t as cool as flying around in real life.

Dynamo clicks a few buttons on his controller.

Dynamo: And destroyed again. You can’t play characters with stupid names.

Cameron: Why?

Dynamo: Wait, that’s what you need.

Cameron: What do I need?

Dynamo: You need a superhero name. You’ve got Ripper, Godson, and me Dynamo. You don’t have a name.

Cameron: Neci and Ozak don’t have names.

Dynamo: Ozak’s not his real name.

Cameron: Really?!

Dynamo: I have no idea. Never thought to ask. What could your name be? Something like Rushhour, Slow-mo, The Black Bolt!

Cameron: Um…

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Ripper stands on a rooftop with his hand on his ear.

Ripper: Cameron said he found a monster. Its just as fast as him so watch out. We don’t need an unstoppable evil speedster running around killing everything.

Godson: I’ll keep a lookout.

Neci: I will get in touch with other valkyries and report back if I find anything.

Ripper takes his hand off of his com. He turns around. The monster is in front of him. It’s dead face looks at him. Ripper looks at the monster. It’s suit has a red lightning bolt symbol on its chest. He looks like a dead superhero. In a glimpse the monster is gone. Ripper puts his hand on his com.

Ripper: Cameron-

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A man is flying above a city. His body looks like it's made of iron. A green cloak drapes over his body. Green lightning flickers off of him. He lowers down to a palace and walks inside. His voice sounds distorted.

???: Prove to me your planet is worth keeping.

King: Please Spectre. We are making improvements. We really are. It’s-

Spectre: I asked you to prove to me why your planet would be worth keeping. Not why it will eventually be better. If you have nothing to convince me, then your planet dies.

King: No!

The Spectre flies out of the palace and into space. He holds his hand out towards the sandy planet. The planet explodes in front of him. A shockwave blasts him, but he doesn’t move. A flicker of red lightning shocks him.

Spectre: The Black Flash.

He flies off.

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Ripper: -The monster’s in Winnsboro!

Time slows down around Cameron. He looks around. Dynamo’s golden gloves are sitting on the counter. Cameron runs over and grabs them. The black flash phases through the apartment wall. Cameron moves over to Dynamo and puts the gloves on him. The black flash punches Cameron in the back. Cameron and Dynamo slam into a wall. The black flash runs forward and punches again. Cameron rolls to the side and the black flash’s fist slams into his helmet. The helmet almost caves in. Cameron runs out of the apartment. He runs over to a wall.

Cameron: ‘If he can phase through then I can.’

Cameron runs through the wall. He gets outside and runs down the side of the building. He runs through town with the black flash behind him. He sees Ripper standing above a sewer with the manhole cover off of it. Cameron runs through the portal and puts the manhole cover on. The black flash stops at the sewer. He looks around.

Ripper: You can’t follow.

The black flash runs away. Ripper walks into the portal.

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All of the heroes stand on Ozak’s ship.

Ripper: The only one that can fight that thing is you Cameron.

Cameron: I can’t fight him. He is so much faster than I am. Everytime he finds me I have to run away to the sewer.

Ripper: Do you know any other speedster that can help you fight him?

Cameron: No. The only other speedster I knew disappeared.

Ripper: Then there’s nothing we can do.

Something flies past the ship. The ship shakes. They look around. Ripper turns to the monitor showing earth. They watch as a green light moves closer to earth.

## 11 - Dead Man Walks Part 2

A man in a formal old fashioned grey suit and black tie walks down the street. He walks with a stride of happiness and pride. He taps his cane on the ground as he walks. His feet stop as he sees a homeless woman sitting on the side of the street.

???: How are you, M'lady?

Homeless Woman: As good as I could ever do.

???: Why aren’t you in the homeless shelter?

Homeless Woman: All I hear there is who died. I couldn’t take it anymore.

???: Life is not separate from death. To an onlooker it only seems that way. What do you believe?

Homeless Woman: Believe?

???: Do you believe in religion?

Homeless Woman: I used to when I was younger. I don’t know now.

???: Then you don’t know what’s on the other side. Immigration, death, both are moving, but no one cries about immigration. Everything revolves around death my dear. Have a good afterlife.

He taps his cane on the ground. The woman looks down at a needle in her arm. She disappears. The only thing left is her body. The man continues on. Happy as ever. His shoes tapped. His cane clicking.

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Dynamo is flying around town. His helmet has fixed itself. He watches as a green thing moves faster than anything he has ever seen. It smashes into the ground. He taps his coms.

Dynamo: Something green just landed near me. I’m checking it out now.

Ripper: We’re coming.

Dynamo flies over to the area. He sees a green cloak in the middle of a crater. Dynamo lands on the ground.

Dynamo: Who are you?

Spectre: I am the Spectre. An onlooker of galaxies. The judge of the multiverse.

Dynamo: So what have you come to do?

Spectre: Kill.

Dynamo: Then find somewhere else. This is earth. Many people protect it. It won’t be as easy as you think.

Spectre: Everything is easy.

Dynamo makes a golden hammer and flies at Spectre. Spectre watches as Dynamo stops moving. Green lightning moves off of his body as he walks up to Dynamo. He walks around Dynamo looking at him.

Spectre: Magic gloves.

The Spectre takes the gloves off of Dynamo and walks back to his spot. Time speeds up. Dynamo hits the ground rolling.

Dynamo: What-

The Spectre drops Dynamo’s gloves on his face. Ripper and Cameron run up to the crater.

Cameron: Dynamo!

Cameron runs at the Spectre. Lightning surging through his body. The Spectre looks at him. Cameron’s body is still. He walks up to Cameron green lightning surrounding him.

Spectre: A speedster.

The Spectre flicks Cameron in the stomach. Cameron's whole body jerks back. The Spectre walks over to Ripper.

Spectre: I can’t even touch you without killing you.

Everything speeds up. Ripper looks at the Spectre standing in front of him.

Spectre: Have you come here to die?

Godson and Neci fly in. Neci fires an arrow at Spectre. He catches it and snaps the arrow. Godson swings his sword. A slash of energy slams into Spectre. He looks unaffected. The Spectre disappears. Godson and Neci look around frightened.

Spectre: Boo.

The Spectre stands behind Godson. Godson turns around. The Spectre punches him in the stomach. Godson lays on the Spectre’s fist, incapacitated. The Spectre moves his fist away and wipes it off of his cloak. The Spectre looks at Neci. She swings her axe. It slices down the Spectre’s torso. There is no wound on his body.

Neci: Wh-

The blade of the axe breaks into little pieces. The Spectre grabs Neci’s leg. He drops down to the ground and lets go. The force of his descend slams Neci into the ground. Ripper looks at the Spectre.

Ripper: You’re playing with us. You didn’t kill anyone. Why are you here?

Spectre: To kill the Black Flash.

Ripper: Which is?

Spectre: A monster.

Ripper: We can help each other.

Godson wakes up and spits out blood. Cameron gets back up.

Cameron: You know what he is? Why is he after me?

???: Look at this. You almost had me believing I needed to be here Spectre.

Spectre: Death…

Death walks over to the Spectre as happy as ever.

Death: At your service. Well, I’m never really at your service, am I Ray?

Spectre: Not for me, no. Why are you here?

Death: To explain to Cameron why the Black Flash has come here to kill him.

Cameron: Why?!

Death: I created you Cameron. That black bolt of lightning. It was me. I am the reason you have powers. I created you to kill Ray, one of the Spectre’s universal doppelgangers. You didn’t. So I sent the Black Flash to kill you. You no longer have a purpose.

Cameron: Why didn’t you send the black flash after him?

Death looks over at the Spectre.

Death: This guy would have come after stopping the Black Flash, and Ray has a certain je ne sais quoi that always gets him out of bad circumstances. I thought a new tactic would kill him. It didn’t. Now you will die. It was the deal I made with the speedforce. I give you it’s powers for a limited time and kill you so there are no problems.

Spectre: I’ll kill the Black Flash. No one is dying.

Death: Will you? Will you kill your best friend as he stares at you with his lifeless eyes? You couldn’t even if it wasn’t your friend. The Black Flash is unstoppable.

Spectre: Why did you come to tell us?

Death: So I won’t have to explain it after Cameron dies. Well, chip chip cheerio as you humans say.

Death disappears into a black portal. Cameron looks defeated.

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Everyone stands in Ozak's ship. Godson is sitting down holding his stomach.

Spectre: You’re fine. Get up.

Godson: My ribs are still broken. You broke all my bones and damaged all the vital organs in my stomach.

Spectre: Only cause you could take the punch. Man up.

Ripper: Spectre, Death said the Black Flash is your friend?

Spectre: He has the body of my friend Kaz. When a speedster dies, they become the Black Flash.

Ripper: Can we trust you?

Spectre: I need to kill him. To help him.

Cameron: How can we beat death?

Spectre: Simple. We go somewhere that you can really run on. Lots of open space. You run back and forth. The black flash shows up, and I’ll stop him.

Cameron: Okay. We can try it.

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Cameron stands on the beginning of an airport runway. He crouches down and takes a breath.

Spectre: You ready?

Cameron taps his com.

Cameron: Yup.

Cameron runs as fast as he can across the runway. He reaches the end in seconds and turns around. He hits the beginning of the track and restarts the pattern. Everybody is watching from the end of the runway. The Spectre sees red. The Black Flash is running behind Cameron. He slowly catches up. The Spectre runs at Cameron. He sees the Black Flash and Cameron standing still. He sees a portal appear behind Cameron.

Spectre: Time to meet the speedforce Cameron.

The Spectre pushes Cameron into the portal. The Black Flash runs at the portal. Spectre puts his arm out and closelines him. The portal closes and the Black Flash hits the ground. He runs away and The Spectre chases him.

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Cameron wakes up in Red Lake city. His mother stands over him with her hand out. He takes her hand and she helps him stand up. The sky is a mix of yellows, whites, and blues. The city looks distorted. Almost like a blurry screen.

Cameron: What is this place?

Mother: You have appeared in the speedforce. The speedforce is time. It’s what gave you your powers.

Cameron: Why are you trying to kill me?

Mother: You have black speedforce. The speedforce should never be mixed with death.

Cameron: I don’t want to be mixed with death! You chose this for me.

Mother: Then choose your own path.

Cameron’s mother waves her hand towards a purple temple.

Mother: Become part of the speedforce.

Cameron walks up to the temple. Inside the temple are scriptures of a man taking over armies. Cameron walks through the temple looking at all the man's accomplishments. The last scripture shows the man uniting all the armies. In front of Cameron is a floating yellow orb. He hears a whisper telling him to touch the orb. His hands rest on the orb and a surge of lightning moves through his body. A portal appears behind him and he’s sent through it.

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The Black Flash and Spectre are running around. The Spectre punches the Black flash in the back of his head. He grabs him by the collar. His hand starts phasing. The Black Flash watches as all of time stops for him. Even the Spectre isn’t moving. He punches the Spectre in the stomach and time speeds back up. A portal appears. Cameron falls out of the portal. The Black Flash runs up to him. It stares at him for a minute and then runs away.

Spectre: Damn it! That thing is unstoppable. Why didn’t it try to kill you?

Cameron looks at his hand. Yellow lightning flickers off of him.

Spectre: He picks his targets using their speed force. Your speed force changed. So he won’t hunt you down. You're useless to me.

Cameron: Thank you Spectre.

Spectre: I am a judge of the multiverse. I do what I can to help.

Spectre flies away.

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Ozak and Ripper are talking on Ozak’s ship. Cameron is sitting in the corner.

Ripper: Ozak, can you make a gun that creates ice?

Ozak: Yeah, why?

Ripper: I need it.

Ozak: Fine, I’ll make it.

Ripper walks through the portal. There is a moment of silence.

Cameron: I’m tired of sleeping on this ship, Ozak. It’s so small and grey. I miss having a real place to call home. I’ve been sleeping in a sleeping bag for weeks now.

Ozak: Perfect timing too. Do you want to see why I took a few days off?

Cameron: Yeah.

Cameron follows Ozak into a portal. They walk into a giant space station.

Ozak: I call it The Beacon. It’s still grey, but you have a lot more room. Even your own room.

Ozak leads Cameron to a room.

Ozak: The door only opens for you.

Cameron walks up to the door. It opens. He looks at the room. On top of the bed is an outfit.

Ozak: I figured it was time you got an outfit and not just some old black clothes to wear. Try it on.

Cameron looks at the suit. In a second the suit is on him. The mask is open on the top. The top half of his face, sides of his head, and chin are covered by a black mask. His outfit is black with a red stripe along his arms and shoulders. The clothes look like a track suit with white lines down the torso.

Cameron: It’s amazing!

Ozak: This ship has a ton of rooms. Maybe the others will become your roommates.

Cameron: How did you build all of this?

Ozak: Help.

## 12 - Happy Thoughts Part 1

A woman is running through a temple. A brown cloak covers her body. The hood on the cloak hides her face. She takes out an orb from in her cloak. The orb shows her something, and she puts it back in her cloak. Her feet patter on the floor as she runs through the temple. She slides on the ground. A blade spins out of a wall. The blade barely swings above her. She stands back up and continues running. As she is running, she picks a rock up and throws it. The rock lands on a pressure plate. Arrows fly out of the walls for a second and stop. She runs through once the arrows stop. An open doorway stands in front of her. She stops in front of it. Her foot taps on the ground past the doorway. She takes a step back and the floor falls down. She stays on the other side of the doorway where the floor is stable. Only a few pieces of flooring are still holding up. The woman jumps across the floor tiles. She jumps through another doorway. When she hits the ground she rolls into the next room. There are scriptures all over the walls. The woman starts reading the scriptures mumbling.

Cloaked Woman: Grab the…

She sees three stones in the ground. She walks up to the stones and turns all of them to the right. The stones rise out of the ground and become podiums. In the center of the room. Another podium rises. A necklace lays on top of the podium. The woman walks up to the necklace and takes it off of the podium. She takes her hood down. Her long brown hair flows down onto her cloak. She puts the necklace on. A noise comes from behind her. Water flies through the air and lands on the ground becoming a new entity. A muscular man with short brown hair looks at the woman.

???: Nahla. You’ve been a real pain in my-

Nahla: What have I done? You betrayed us, and now all you do is grow stronger Milo.

Milo: Yes. To kill you and that bastard Santino.

Nahla: Why?

Milo: I need to corrupt this world. That is my purpose. My only purpose. You two stand in the way of that.

Milo slashes his arms forward. Spikes of water fly at Nahla. She dodges to the side and holds her arm out. Flames fire out of her hand. Milo turns into water and charges into her flames. The flames dissolve as they touch the water. Milo slams into Nahla. The water slices her arms and torso like knives. Milo appears behind her. He takes out an axe and slashes it down on her. A gust of wind blasts against Milo’s arm. He can’t move the axe down. Nahla moves her arm. A rock pillar comes out of the earth and slams into Milo’s stomach. Milo’s stomach turns into water and creates a hole for the pillar to go through. Milo moves his other arm and decks Nahla in her jaw. Nahla falls to the ground.

Nahla: Why isn’t this necklace doing anything?!

Milo: You never know how to use your trinkets.

Nahla: I know how to use magic.

A portal appears below Nahla. She falls into it. Milo turns into water and flies at the portal. Only a small droplet of water falls through before the portal closes.

Milo: Damnit! I will find you.

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Dynamo is sitting on his sister’s couch. His gloves sit beside him. His sister walks into the room and sits down on the couch. She passes Dynamo some tea.

Zoey: You're part of a team now?

Dynamo: Is that all over the news?

Zoey: Kind of. Superheroes from different towns got together and started fighting bad guys. It’s definitely a story.

Dynamo: Were like a music supergroup. You just get a bunch of great people together and everybody's wildest dreams come true.

Zoey: Tell that to the people. They’re scared. B.L.A.D.E.’s been telling people that they’re going to take you down.

Dynamo: B.L.A.D.E. hasn’t even touched us. I’m sure they’re more bark than bite. They’re just overly confident because they took down the mutants years ago.

Zoey: As long as you don’t get hurt… Why did you come back? Didn’t you decide to leave Winnsboro?

Dynamo: My gloves were causing a threat. Then when I left I found a way to make them safe. So I came back, but I did something douchey to change the gloves.

Zoey: What could you have done?

Dynamo: The gloves attract monsters. If the change messed up. The gloves could have brought hundreds of monsters to the city we were in.

Zoey: Why would you take that risk?

Dynamo: I didn’t really think about the risks. I just wanted to not be forced to move around all the time.

A portal appears in the middle of the air. Nahla falls out of the portal and lands on the ground. The portal disappears and she stands up.

Nahla: Santino, Milo’s back!

Dynamo: Uh, Zoey, can I talk to you later?

Zoey: Of course. Your both welcome to stay if you’d like.

Dynamo: No, we’ll go back to my house. Thank you though.

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Nahla and Dynamo stand in Dynamo’s apartment.

Dynamo: Nahla, I didn’t think you would come back-

Nahla: We need to talk about Milo. He has gotten much stronger since the last time you saw him.

Dynamo: Even if he was a lot stronger he still could take me down.

Nahla: He could now. He’s been going around absorbing corruption.

Dynamo: Like his own corruption pond?

Nahla: Yes. Every pond is just as powerful as he was when you fought him. He gets more and more powerful every pond he absorbs. I have been trying to stop him.

Nahla grabs her necklace.

Nahla: I even got this necklace, but I don’t know how to use it.

Dynamo laughs.

Dynamo: Of course you don’t.

Nahla: I just got it. It’s supposed to get rid of corruption.

Dynamo: I might know someone who can help us. I’ve joined a team. A few of them have artifacts like us. We’ll meet them in Ozak’s ship.

Nahla: That guy. Why? I thought he didn’t like you.

Dynamo: No, we’re best friends. Him stomping on me was just a little set-back in our friendship.

Nahla: How do we get to his ship?

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Dynamo, Nahla, Ozak, Godson, and Neci stand in The Beacon.

Dynamo: Nice ship. Definitely an improvement.

Ozak: What’s wrong, Dynamo?

Dynamo: Remember Milo.? The guy you came down and beat up when he was wearing my gloves.

Ozak: Of course I do.

Dynamo: He’s back and more powerful. I called Neci and Godson here to help us figure out how to use the necklace Nahla is wearing.

Nahla: The necklace can destroy corruption, and Milo is made of corruption.

Godson: I don’t know how much I can help. My artifact just kind of came down to me. It took more work to learn my powers then to learn how the artifact turned on and off.

Neci: I have a bow. I do nothing more than pull back the string for it to work.

Ozak: I’ll scan the device. We’ll see if it even has any magic.

Ozak puts his hand out. Nahla is reluctant, but gives Ozak the necklace. He walks over to a scanner and puts the necklace down. The scanner turns on. A beam of light moves over the necklace.

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Milo walks through the trees. His liquid arms become blades. He slices down bushes that stand in his way. A pond of corruption stands before him. Water minions run out from the pond. Milo slices the air. The water flies off of his arm and slices through all the minions. The water comes back to Milo like a boomerang. Milo runs over to the water and jumps in. He opens his eyes. His feet stand in the dark water. Everything around him is made out of dark water. Someone looking just like him stands ten feet in front of him.

Milo: I’m going to absorb everything that you are.

Dark water: This is my pond. You have no power here.

Milo: I am here. Which means I have all my power.

Milo turns into water and flies over to the dark water person. He thrusts his blade arm into the dark water. The dark water dodges to the side. Milo sticks out his long arm and grabs onto the dark water. The dark water screeches. The whole area starts to shake.

Milo: I said I was going to absorb you.

The water slowly becomes part of Milo. Then Milo blacks out. He wakes up underwater and swims to the surface.

Milo: More power.

Milo walks out of the water and pushes forward.

## 13 - Happy Thoughts Part 2

Cameron and Ripper are in Winnsboro.

Cameron: How do you like the suit Ripper? Don’t you think it’s awesome?

Ripper: It’s great…

Cameron: Why did we get paired up for this mission?

Ripper: We are looking for some watery being. You can search far and wide. I can track someone down.

Ripper brings out his phone. A map comes up.

Cameron: What’s on the map?

Ripper: Ozak scanned for all the corruption in the US. That's what’s on the map. He sent it to you too.

Cameron: I’ll go fi-

Ripper: One place of corruption disappeared. Check it out Cameron.

Cameron: I’m on it.

Cameron runs away.

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Ozak looks at the scanner. It finishes scanning.

Ozak: Nope. It has no magic.

Nahla: How?

Ozak: It’s just a regular old necklace.

Dynamo: Yeah, but it’s not on anyone. My gloves probably seem useless until I use them too. Can the scanner find magic if it’s not in use?

Ozak: Maybe not.

Dynamo: Then the necklace could still have magic.

Ozak: Maybe. Unlikely. I wouldn’t put all your efforts into this necklace.

Dynamo: We have to try something. How else can we beat corruption?

Ozak: We’ll watch for Milo.

Dynamo: Nahla, Do you know where we could find info on artifacts?

Nahla thinks for a second.

Nahla: The only place that would know about artifacts is the adventurers guild, but that place is dangerous. I don’t know if everything was destroyed.

Dynamo: Will it have information?

Nahla: Probably.

Dynamo: Then let's go.

Dynamo and Nahla run into the portal.

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Dynamo and Nahla stand before the adventurers guild. The building is a ghostly green. Nahla speaks in tongues. A purple glow comes off of Nahla and Dynamo.

Nahla: A protection spell. Hopefully we don’t run into trouble. I don’t know what’s in there.

Dynamo opens the door and Nahla walks inside. The area is green. They hear weird distorted sounds everywhere. They walk down a long hallway. Nahla opens a door into a giant library. Books are everywhere.

Dynamo: This seems like the sort of place we were looking for.

Nahla: Look for any book that talks about artifacts.

???: My artifacts…

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Cameron runs up to a pond holding Ripper. He stops running and Ripper looks around.

Ripper: That was awful. How do you run around like that?

Cameron: Feels different when you’re the one running.

As Ripper behinds over feeling like he is going to throw up, he sees footprints on the ground.

Ripper: Follow me.

Ripper runs forward. Cameron follows him. They run for a few minutes. Then they see Milo. Cameron runs up and punches Milo.

Ripper: Ozak, we found him.

Milo’s head dissolves and Cameron’s punch misses. Cameron slips on water and hits the ground. Milo turns his arm into a blade and stabs the blade down. Ripper kicks his arm out of the way. Cameron moves out of the way as the two men trade blows. He takes out his sai and stabs Milo in the stomach. Water flies off of Milo as Ripper stabs him over and over. Ripper stops. All the water absorbs back into Milo. Milo throws a right hook for Ripper’s head. Milo’s punch bounces off Ripper’s helmet. Cameron runs at Milo and pushes his hand through Milo’s watery body. It does nothing.

Cameron: Does electricity not hurt you?!

Milo: Nothing does.

An glowing yellow arrow pierces Milo’s stomach.

Milo: Urgh!

Neci: Magic hurts you.

Milo: Damn.

Milo sends a shock wave of water off of his body. Cameron and Ripper are blasted back. The water absorbed back into Milo. Neci fires another arrow. Milo dodges it. He moves his arm forward. His arm grows in length, rapidly getting closer to Neci. Neci flies up. Milo’s arm changes course and follows her. It grabs onto Neci’s leg and slams her into the ground. His arm comes back to him like a stretched out slinky. A wave of white energy slices into Milo’s back. Milo can feel some of his water get destroyed. Godson stands behind Milo.

Milo: How many of you pests are there?!

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A ghost of an old man floats in the air.

Nahla: Walter Churchill?

Walter: You trapped me here. The relic turned me into a ghost. Now you’ll be trapped here with me.

Ghosts all float into the room. Walter disappears. Dynamo makes a golden vacuum. Nahla uses magic to allow Dynamo to manipulate air. He holds the tub in one hand sucking up all the ghosts.

Dynamo: Find the book Nahla. I’ll keep them busy.

Nahla climbs up and down the book shelves.

Nahla: Artifact, Artifact, Artifact.

She finds a book labeled “Known Artifacts.” She opens up the book and reads through it.

Dynamo: We don’t have time for you to read a full book.

Nahla: “Artifacts are triggered by all different means. The categories are split up into what causes the artifacts to work.”

Nahla scrolls through the categories. Nothing fits. Then she finds emotions. Nahla reads through the pages.

Nahla: It’s triggered by pure thoughts!

Dynamo: Good, let’s get out of here!

Dynamo points the tube at the ghosts. They all run away.

Nahala: There is one last thing I have to do. You run outside.

Dynamo: What do you have to do?

Nahla: Change this place back to normal.

Dynamo: I’ll follow you.

Nahla runs into a room she remembers well. A glowing green cube floats on a podium. Nahla walks up to it. She puts her hands out and speaks in tongues. The cube glows even more green. All the green energy slowly drains into the cube. The ghosts fly out of the wet vac and into the cube. Everything is absorbed into the cube and then it breaks. The building looks normal.

Dynamo: Why did you do that?

Nahla: I caused this. I had to change it back. Even if I couldn’t save Walter.

Dynamo: Let’s go find Ozak. Then we can figure out we can beat Milo.

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Dynamo and Nahla walk through the portal. They step on The Beacon.

Dynamo: We figured out how it works!

Ozak: Good. Everyone else is fighting Milo. How does it work?

Nahla: You need to think pure thoughts while wearing it.

Ozak: Give it to Godson. He’s our best hope. Now go down there and help them.

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Godson’s sword slashes through Milo. The sword cuts through him like butter. Milo is unaffected. He punches Godson back. Dynamo lands with Nahla on his back. She gets down. Dynamo hands Godson the necklace.

Milo: That thing will never kill me.

Dynamo: Think only pure thoughts.

Godson puts on the necklace. Milo charges Godson. Dynamo creates something gold around Milo. Milo tries to fly out of the open top. A gold top slams down before Milo can get out. The top has a blade like thing coming down from it.

Nahla: Is that a-

Dynamo: A giant golden blender.

The top spins around.

Dynamo: I bought you a minute Godson. Figure out how to use the thing.

Dynamo feels Milo pushing against the top of the blender to get out.

Godson: I don’t know. It’s just not working.

Dynamo: Think about saving some puppies or helping old people cross the street.

Godson looks down at his sword. It’s glowing a light he has never seen before.

Godson: Let him out of the blender.

Dynamo: Have you figured it out?

Godson: Just let him out.

Godson gets ready to swing his sword. Milo flies up from the blender and Godson slashes his sword. A holy energy blasts out of the air and burns Milo.

Milo: Ah!

Milo feels parts of himself dying as the blast moves through him. He lands on the ground, weak. Godson walks up to Milo.

Milo: You can’t kill corruption. I’ll come back. Maybe different, but I’ll be back.

Godson slashes Milo’s head off. All of the dark water dissolves.

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Everyone is standing in The Beacon talking. Dynamo walks into a quieter room with Nahla.

Dynamo: I wanted to apol-

Nahla: It’s fine. I’m over it. I overreacted when I learned how dangerous it was.

Dynamo: That doesn’t make it any better.

Nahla: No, but no one got hurt. And I know that you would have fought to protect those people if anything did go wrong.

Dynamo: Still friends?

Nahla: Of course. I never said we weren’t friends. You can call me anytime.

Dynamo: Then I’ll see you around.

Nahla leaves the room. Godson walks in.

Godson: C’mon, why are you sitting here still? Even Ripper is talking more than you.

Dynamo: Godson, how do you always think good thoughts? You’re never selfish or arrogant. How?

Godson: Who’d you hear that from? I have bad thoughts all of the time. I just don’t act on them. No one is perfect. I’ve made mistakes. Now get out here and stop moping.

## 14 - Man Of Steel Part 1

A giant nine foot tall man walks through a red sand desert. The wind blows dust into his half iron face. Most of his body parts are robotic. The focal point of his face, his jaw, is made of pure steel. In one hand he carries a flag. With determination to push onward he keeps a keen eye on the flag. The flag never touches the ground. Through the dust, dark shadows appear. The man assumes the shadows are building. The dust clears up. He finds himself in a town. He sticks the flag in the ground.

???: This is my town.

The townspeople turn to him. They sneer, charging the man. All of them are ready to fight.

Man: I’ll kill the iron giant!

The iron giant pulls one arm back as if he is charging it up. His fist propels forward. The man’s jaw cracks as he feels the cold iron of the giant’s fist. His neck breaks from the force. Another man jumps at the giant. He grabs the man by the neck. The giant feels the weakness of flesh as the man’s neck snaps under his force. The people start running away. One man gets cocky and takes out a flimsy pistol. The pistol fires blue bullets traveling at sonic speeds through the air. The blue bullets flash as they bounce off the giant’s skin. He slowly walks up to the man. His anger grew with each step. The man tries to run. He feels a giant iron hand grab his arm. A fist sticks through his chest. The giant pulls his Bloodstained steel arm out of the dead man’s chest. People were still falling over each other to get away from the giant’s wrath. He takes a large rifle off of his back. The rifle glows a light green color. His eye glows green as he aims the gun. Green lasers fly through the air. One after another a man goes down. One bullet misses the chest, and pins a man down by his leg. He looks at the giant, terror in his eyes. The iron giant looks at the bullet hole in his head.

Iron Giant: For the realm.

The Giant walks around the town. With a greed to scavenge any parts he can find. Not much is there. He walks inside a building. Looking at anything he can reshape. He finds a machine. The machine's terminal is black. A long cord runs from the terminal to a circular device. The Giant taps the black terminal. It turns on with the text “Y-062.” A blue portal appears in the circular device. The Giant’s looming curiosity captivates him. He steps inside the portal. The machine turns off and the portal disappears.

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Ripper is running across the rooftops. He takes out his grappling gun. The rope fires off. He hears the click of the hook. His body launches into the sky. He swings through the air and lands on another building. Anyone below him can hear the crash of his heavy armor land. A man comes down from the sky like an angel. Ripper feels annoyed as he hears the sound of flight.

Godson: Why are we in Keeseville?

Ripper: You mean, “why am I in Keeseville?”

Godson: We’re both here, aren’t we?

Ripper: You followed. No one asked you to come.

Godson: You're always so lonely. I thought you could use a friend.

Ripper: Fine. Don’t do anything stupid.

Ripper sets his eyes on a laboratory down the street. He jumps across a few buildings. His grappling hook fires off again. He swings into the laboratory, breaking a window. He rolls, saving his landing. Godson flies through the window.

Godson: Is this a secret mission? Do we have to hide it from Ozak?

Ripper: You think you can hide anything from Ozak? He tracks everyone of us.

Ripper looks through all the chemicals. Some of them are on shelves, others in boxes. His eyes dart around glancing over everything. Nothing grabs his attention. He feels like he stepped in a puddle. He crouches down, observing the substance under him.

Ripper: Yellow…

Godson: Does that mean something-

They hear the crash of an explosion. Godson flies out of the broken window. Glass slides against his skin and shatters. He looks as the Iron Giant is walking through the street. A car crashes into him. The car crushes against his body. He picks it up and throws the car into the air. Godson flies over and grabs the car. He sets it down on the ground.

Godson: Hey! Who are you?!

People are screaming as they run away. The Iron Giant grabs one man. He starts to rip the man in half. Godson slashes his sword. A blast of energy collides with the Giant’s stomach. He throws the man into a wall and jumps into the sky. Godson rolls back. The Giant lands on the ground where Godson was. His heavy body makes a small crater.

Iron Giant: This is my land.

Godson readies his sword.

Godson: I think you’re in the wrong town.

Godson slashes up the Iron Giant’s stomach. The screech of metal against metal hurts Godson’s ears. The Giant punches Godson in the face. His fist is larger than Godson’s head. Godson’s body flies back hitting the ground over and over again like a skipping stone until he drags to a stop. He looks up. The Giant’s huge arms are falling through the air. Godson puts his sword up to block. The giant’s arms collide with the sword. Godson’s sword instantly pushes up against his body. The Giant pulls back both of his arms. One after another the Giant hits Godson with heavy blows. The blade only blocks the connection. Godson can feel the Giant’s force through the steel.

Ripper: Ozak.

Ripper watches from a rooftop.

Ozak: What are you two doing?!

Ripper: Godson is being beat up by a giant cyborg. We need back up.

Ozak: Everyone is busy. It’ll be a minute before they can get there.

Ripper: We don’t have that kind of time.

Ozak: Get him out of there.

Godson can’t move. He’s pinned down by the Giant’s large iron body. The pain makes him lose grip of his sword. The Giant hits Godson with blow after blow to the head.

Ripper: Godson, play dead.

Godson’s arms fall down. His body becomes still. The Iron Giant gives him one last heavy punch to the chest and walks off. Ripper jumps down from the rooftop and helps Godson up. Ripper carries him to an alley. Godson lays on the ground as Ripper lifts off the manhole cover. He helps Godson into the sewer and jumps in after him.

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Godson is sleeping in the Beacon’s medical bay. His body is bruised and bones are broken. Ozak walks out of the bay. Everyone is looking at Godson through a window.

Dynamo: What the hell could have done that to Godson?!

Ripper: A 10 foot tall cyborg. Godson couldn’t keep up with his strength or durability.

Neci: I want to see this thing. It can’t be as strong as the beasts I’ve seen.

Ripper: Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. Either way, you weren’t the one to kill those beasts, were you?

Ozak: I want more of a study of this man. I have never seen anything like him before. He wasn’t human.

Dynamo: He was a cyborg.

Ozak: More than that. He was an alien cyborg. I don’t know the technology he has or the feats his species are capable of.

Ripper: We can’t study that thing. We can’t even get close. It’ll kill us.

Ozak: I didn’t mean study him. He’s from a different universe.

Dynamo: Wait, what?

Cameron: Alternate universes are real?

Ozak: Yes. He is from one. A portal opened up around Ripper and Godson. A minute later they were fighting.

Ripper becomes furious.

Ripper: Why didn’t you tell me?!

Ozak: If I told you about every portal that showed up then the coms would never be off. People constantly come in from different places and universes.

Ripper: Do all of them happen not even a block away from me?

Ozak: Of course they do. The thing is, you never know… If anybody leaves the station, go with a partner. If you run into this cyborg alone, you’ll die.

Ozak walks back to the terminal.

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The Iron Giant walks the streets. Cars avoid him. People run at the sight of his giant iron body. A few police cars show up. The cops get out and hide behind the car doors aiming their pistols. One cop has a radio in his hand.

Police: Stand down!

The Iron Giant progresses forward. The police start firing. The Giant is confused by the bullets. He stops and blocks. The bullets bounce off of his skin. He puts his arm down and runs at the cop car. He jumps into the air and lands on the car. The police roll away from the car. The police car is smashed thin by the Giant’s heavy body. The police don’t stop firing. The Giant grabs a police man in each hand. He slams them together, crushing them between his giant hands. He hears the noise of their bones cracking. The police fall to the ground. Another car pulls up. A man steps out with an rpg in his hands and a B.L.A.D.E. logo on his shirt. The missile flies off at the Giant. It explodes on contact. He feels nothing and runs at the B.L.A.D.E car.

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Ozak stands at the terminal. He watches as the Giant destroys the B.L.A.D.E car.

Ozak: Everybody, get in here!

Ripper, Cameron, Dynamo, and Neci walk over to Ozak.

Ozak: You need to get out there. He’s killing everyone.

Ripper: We can’t stop him.

Ozak: I’m not asking you to stop him. Go down there and distract him. Save as many people as you can.

Everyone runs away. They disappear into the portal. Ozak nervously watches as the iron giant takes down man after man.

## 15 - Man Of Steel Part 2

The Iron giant walks up to a man laying on the ground. The man tries to crawl away terrified, but he can’t escape. The Giant pulls back his arm, and an arrow pierces his iron elbow. He rips the arrow out of his arm and turns around. Neci is standing with her bow readied. The Giant jumps into the sky. A giant gold hand comes down from above and punches him into the ground. The gold hand lets out a fury of blows. The Giant is unphased, almost annoyed. He sees flashes of yellow lightning all around. He gets distracted for a second. He looks up and the gold hand comes down for another hit. He grabs the gold hand and crushes it. He jumps up. Dynamo is above the golden hand. The Giant punches Dynamo in the stomach. Dynamo’s armor shatters under the force. The Giant grabs his legs and throws him into the ground. Dynamo can’t get up. His gold armor slowly regenerates itself. The Giant hits the ground like an asteroid. He looks around for his next target. An arrow sticks into the side of his head. He puts one hand on the arrow and pulls it out. He looks furious. He turns and Neci swings an axe down on his head. The axe shatters. The Giant’s arm pulls back and like a piston launches forward and hits Neci with more force than a train could create. Neci’s body is sent flying out of sight.

Ripper: We need to get him out of the city.

Ripper sees a man trying to start up his motorcycle. He jumps down from a building and knocks the guy off his bike.

Ripper: Superhero business.

Ripper throws his sai at the Giant. All it does is get his attention. Ripper starts up the bike and kicks off the stand. He drives away. The Giant follows him.

Ripper: Cameron, protect the people while I lead him out of the city.

Ripper drives the bike through the town. The Giant jumps after him. He jumps from building to building, smashing through the walls. Flashes of yellow light can be seen moving people out of the buildings before the Giant lands on them.

Dynamo: Neci, are you okay?

Dynamo struggles to stand up. He has one hand on his com.

Neci: Yeah, I can still fight. I’m flying back.

Dynamo takes to the skies and flies after Ripper.

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Godson wakes up in the medical bay. He pulls tubes out of him and gets off the bed. He limps out of the room and walks over to Ozak.

Godson: What’s going on?

Ozak: Everyone is fighting the cyborg.

Godson: I need to get down there. No one else can fight him.

Ozak: What are you going to do? Get beat up again? Your half dead, don’t kill the other half.

Godson: I need to do something.

Ozak: Heal. So that when he becomes a problem again, you can help.

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Ripper’s bike slows down as he drives on dirt roads away from the city. He hears trees getting knocked down behind him. He keeps focus on driving away as fast as he can. Then he feels the wind of the Giant above him. A flash of yellow light, and Ripper is behind a tree.

Ripper: ...Didn’t think when I said save the people I was talking about me.

Cameron: I’m gonna try to take him down myself.

Ripper: No-

Everything slows down. Cameron runs over to the Giant and punches him. His hand brakes.

Cameron: Ah. I need more speed.

Cameron runs as far away as he can. Then he runs back. He uses everything he has, all of his speed. He punches the Iron Giant in his jaw. The Giant’s jaw cracks under Cameron’s fist. The Giant is pushed back and falls to the ground. Everything speeds up. Cameron is breathing heavily. The Giant stands up.

Iron Giant: I’ve killed every man that could test my strength. You will be no different.

Cameron: Who are you?

Iron Giant: I am the Iron Giant.

Cameron watches as Neci secretly grabs Ripper and flies away.

Cameron: Well you’re not going to kill me today.

Iron Giant: No one escapes me unless I let them.

Dynamo flies in and grabs Cameron. They soar into the sky.

Cameron: Faster, he’s coming!

The Giant jumps into the sky. He grabs Dynamo’s leg dangling off.

Dynamo: Do that phasing thing!

Cameron: I can’t! He’s holding onto you!

Iron Giant: You can’t escape.

Cameron grabs the gun off of the Giant’s back. He points the gun at the Giant’s head and he lets go. Falling hundreds of feet downward.

Dynamo: Let’s never fight that guy again.

Cameron: I don’t think we have a choice.

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Everyone lays around The Beacon. Ozak stays looking at the terminal.

Ozak: Ripper, that was a good plan. Now that city is safe for at least a little while.

Ripper: Only a little while. He could take over the whole world with strength like that. Who could even fight him?

Godson: I’ve never met a person so much stronger than me.

Dynamo: My armor can’t do anything to him. He rips through it like paper.

Neci: One of my arrows went through his head and he just pulled it out.

Cameron: I could hurt him.

Ripper: Oh yeah. You knocked him down. He’s not unstoppable. Godson, did you ever punch him?

Godson: It doesn’t matter. I get all my power from the sword. It did nothing to him. I’m going to rest. Tell me if he attacks.

Godson leaves the room.

Ozak: Watch the monitor.

Ozak follows after Godson. He catches Godson in the hallway.

Ozak: What’s wrong?

Godson: I’m supposed to be the muscle of this team. I can’t do anything to this guy. Ripper outshined all of us by driving a motorcycle.

Ozak: You may not be able to match the Iron Giant in strength, but who said all you have is strength? You don’t know what that sword is capable of. All you know, is how hard you can punch or how fast you can fly. Why Ripper does so well in different circumstances is he knows he can’t always rely on strength. He finds another way. You need to do the same.

They walk back to the monitor room.

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Everyone is anxiously watching the monitor for a sighting of the Iron Giant. Cameron taps his foot. Ripper sits in silence. Ozak keeps busy by monitoring. Neci messes with her weapons. Godson taps zones out. A giant alert pops up on the screen.

Ozak: He just attacked a camp.

Everyone stands up.

Ozak: Go.

They all run through the portal.

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The Iron Giant is in the middle of a frightened crowd of campers. They all run away. He takes out his gun and fires off bullets that kill man after man. He doesn’t spare women or children. Then something faster than a bullet flies into him and continues to push him through the forest. Once the Giant gets his recognition back. He realizes Godson has punched him. Godson stops flying and the Giant continues to fly back.

Godson: I have help this time.

Dynamo and Neci float next to Godson. The Giant walks out of the trees unscathed.

Iron Giant: Your frail companions don’t intimidate me.

The Iron Giant jumps at them. Dynamo makes a golden wall. The Giant’s body breaks through the wall. Everyone moves back. A green bullet flies into Dynamo. The bullet breaks a small piece of his armor. It quickly heals back. The Giant throws a right hook at Neci. Neci drops down under his large arm and punches his iron stomach. The Giant slams his arm down on top of Neci. Godson grabs his arm and Neci dodges out of the way. The Giant readies his other arm and uppercuts Godson in the stomach. Godson can feel the shockwave of his punch. Cameron runs in at speeds no one can comprehend and punches the Giant in his stomach. Pieces of the Giant’s iron armor fly off. Godson falls to the ground and gets up. Cameron stands by his side.

Ozak: They need you there Cameron. Make sure they don’t get hit.

The Giant stands up. He looks at his somewhat broken stomach and gets pissed. He starts running at Cameron. Godson flies over and punches the Giant in his stomach. He sees the Giant’s fist. Then he appears twenty feet away with Cameron beside him.

Godson: Not even my punch hurts him. I need to try something else.

Cameron: We’ll keep him off of you.

Cameron runs off. Godson watches everyone fight with the Giant. He holds his sword in his hand.

Godson: I need to get rid of him. I need some way to send him back. Get rid of him!

The Giant turns to Godson and jumps at him. Godson slices his sword. He tears a rip in the air. The Giant falls in it. They can all see through the rip.

Ozak: That’s a rip in reality. Close it now!

Godson looks at his sword in amazement. A giant hand sticks through the rip in reality. Cameron runs away.

Iron Giant: I will claim your land.

In seconds he comes back running as fast as he can. He sees the Giant climbing out of the rip. He punches the Giant in his head. His hand lets go of the rip. Godson slices his sword along the rip and it closes.

Godson: What can I do?

## 16 - Follow God Part 1

Neci flies over the rainbow. Nearing the end of the rainbow she lands on the colorful pathway. Many other valkyries are flying and walking around. She blends into the crowd. They all walk through the portal at the end of the rainbow. On the other side of the portal, Heimdall watches as all the valkyries come through the portal and fly off to the golden gates of Asgard. Neci watches as valkyries fly off to report back to Freya. Neci flies over to Valhalla. Vidar is waiting on Valhalla’s steps.

Vidar: Did something happen? Why are all the valkyries flying in?

Neci: Freya wants reports.

Vidar: Of course she does. She must not have realized taking all your soldiers out of an area makes the area unguarded.

Neci: But you won’t tell her that, will you?

Vidar: Of course not. Odin’s too busy rebuilding Asgard to care about what she does.

Neci: Odin’s busy with building? I can’t imagine him building anything.

Vidar: He’s busy watching the einherjar build. Now that Ragnarok has passed he believes the einherjar aren’t just useful for fighting.

Neci: I saw Heimdall has recovered after his fight with Loki.

Vidar: Balder recovered well too. Vali and Frigg won’t leave him alone.

Neci: Asgard doesn’t even seem like the same place. Everything is changing.

Vidar: I’d imagine it’s still more familiar than Midgard.

Neci: It is. Midgard always has some villains, but it has its charms.

Vidar: That’s all you’ll tell me. I wasn’t looking for charming. Come in. It’s almost lunch time. You haven’t had a Valhalla meal in quite some time.

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A blonde haired man is walking around King City with a black sweatshirt on and plain clothes. His hands are hidden in his sweatshirt’s pockets. As he walks past people he gets stares. With all his might he avoids eye contact. His eyes focus on the ground. He looks at a restaurant. He walks inside. The host looks at him.

Host: Where are your parents?

Blonde Man: I’m 23.

Host: My apologies. You look so young.

Blonde Man: I’m here with a woman. She already sat down.

Host: Right this way.

The host leads the blonde man through the restaurant and to his seat. A beautiful woman with dirty blond hair sits in front of the man. The host leaves.

Blonde Woman: You’re never late Theo.

Theo: Well, I got stuck in traffic and I got stopped by every red light. I had to get out and walk. I swear the universe is out to get me, Lily.

Lily: You're overreacting. It’s just one bad day.

Theo: Not everything was bad. I got these two tickets to the new light show. Want to go?

Lily: Of course. You always find cool things to do Theo. You're like the little brother I never had.

Theo: Yup, that’s me…

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Theo waves to Lily as she gets in her car and drives away. Theo looks angry. He hears two people talking in an alleyway. He walks into the Alley.

Man: Who the fuck-

Theo punches the man in his nose. He stumbles back. The other guy’s fist slams into Theo’s jaw. Theo falls to the ground. The two guys start pummeling Theo. Theo hears a swoosh. Ripper lands behind the two guys. Theo is almost out of it. All he sees are a few flashes that almost look like blurry pictures of what’s happening. The last thing he sees is Ripper standing above him.

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Ozak, Cameron, and Dynamo are standing in one of The Beacon’s many bedrooms. Dynamo is unpacking his stuff.

Cameron: We’re gonna be roommates!

Ozak: Not really.

Dynamo: Close enough Ozak. Don’t be a buzzkill. So can anyone just move in here?

Ozak: Any of us six, yes.

Dynamo: Sweet.

Ozak: Why did you move in here Dynamo? You have your own apartment.

Dynamo: Yeah, but… rents a bitch. So, free is free.

Ozak sighs.

Dynamo: How did you build this thing?

Ozak: I wasn’t the one that built it. I just created the plans for the ship.

Dynamo: Who built it then?

Cameron: You’ll never get an answer. I’ve been asking him since I moved in.

Ozak: Why do you care? Free is free, remember?

Ozak walks away.

Dynamo: He’s right, but I still want to know.

Cameron: We’ll never know.

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Neci and Vidar walk into the dining hall and sit down. Vali looks surprised.

Vali: Miss Midgard has returned. Are you a new woman now?

Neci: I think I’m the same.

Vali: Nope, don’t believe it. You probably can’t even take down a hundred drinks anymore like a true viking.

Neci: You’re not a true viking Vali. You're just a viking wannabe.

Vali: Lies! Nobody wants to be a viking. I’m a viking faker. You’ve probably been experiencing the luxuries of Midgard’s people seeing you as a holy spirit.

Neci: Says the man with one of the fanciest rooms in Valhalla.

Vali: You think so? I knew it was great, but I didn’t want to sound boastful. Tell me how great it is again!

Neci laughs. She looks to Logrel’s seat. Her smile fades.

Neci: Did they ever find his body?

Vali: No…

Vidar: Most of the viking’s that died on the bridge were knocked off. None of their bodies are in Asgard anymore.

Vali: He shouldn’t have died. He didn’t deserve death.

Vidar: He fought for what he wanted to protect. If the einherjar didn’t fight, then all of Asgard would have been lost.

Neci looks around at the dining hall.

Neci: Asgard doesn’t feel the same anymore. It’s lost its magic. This place doesn’t feel like home anymore.

Vidar: It lost it’s magic because it is your home.

Neci finishes her food.

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Theo wakes up in a hospital bed. His face hurts. He feels his headache pounding. A nurse walks inside the room. Theo sees a flash of the Ripper.

Theo: I need to get out of here.

Nurse: Are you sure? You’ve been beaten up-

Theo: I’m fine. Just a little headache.

Theo stumbles out of the hospital room. He walks through the labyrinth that is the hospital’s hallways. Eventually he makes it out the front doors. There is only one place on his mind to go. He walks down the street determined to make it to the church. He finds a church and walks across the street. No cars stop for him. He has to dodge for his life. He opens the doors to the church and sits down in one of the wooden chairs. He sits down and prays. His mind struggles to keep together thoughts.

Theo: ‘God, this is the only way I know how to work on something. I’ve always been one with no luck, but there is one thing I want. I want to be a superhero like the Ripper. I think it’s something I could really do. I could help a lot of people. I just need your support.

???: Of course you can have powers.

Theo opens his eyes.

Theo: God?

Theo sees a man made out of pure green energy.

???: Absolutely. I even have the color of God. Green.

Theo: God’s white light-

???: Are you questioning god?!

Theo: Sorry.

???: Damn right. Call me EOL. I don’t like being called god. People might get the wrong idea.

Theo: What?

EOL: So! You asked for powers, didn’t you?

Theo: Yes, to help people.

EOL: Why the hell do you want powers to help people?

Theo: Isn’t that a good thing?

EOL: Fuck no. I can tell you suck at parties. You don’t want to beat a bunch of people up, or get a bunch of pretty girls. The first thing you think of is “helping people.” You’re a nerd. I don’t give powers to nerds.

Theo: Wait! I guess… I won’t help people.

EOL: Damn right you won’t. I have a job for you to do. I’m going to give you powers and you have to fight people. Do a bunch of cool shit. Test your powers. I’ve never given someone powers before. I’m testing it.

Theo: Aren’t you god?

EOL: Don’t question god! You now have the powers of 3 forces.

Theo: Really? Just like that?

EOL: What do you think you have to do? Go on a perilous journey to get the powers you’ve always dreamed of? Stop reading books. They’re bad for you.

EOL walks off.

EOL: Adios!

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Neci and Vidar are walking on the bifrost bridge.

Vidar: You’re not going to report back to Freya?

Neci: I got Brunhild to tell Freya everything.

Vidar: Are you just going to return to Midgard?

Neci: I was, but since you were so interested in what Midgard was like. Why don’t you come?

Vidar: Sounds fun. Where are we going?

Neci: First, The Beacon.

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Neci and Vidar walk through the portal onto The Beacon.

Ozak: Who is that?

Neci: Ozak, this is Vidar. He’s a friend from Asgard.

Ozak: He’s not going to be taking a room here, is he?

Vidar: No. I’m just here to see what Midgard looks like.

Ozak: Good. Sorry, I’m just on guard. I have a feeling Dynamo is going to try to use this place as a hotel.

Dynamo and Cameron walk into the main room.

Dynamo: A viking!

Cameron: Is he from Asgard Neci?

Neci: Yes. He’s from Asgard.

Cameron: Is it really like Neci said? Is everything made out of gold?

Vidar: It was, until everything was destroyed during Ragnarok. My name is Vidar.

Cameron: Cameron.

Dynamo: You can call me Dynamo. It’s nice to meet you.

Vidar looks out the monitor at space.

Vidar: What is that?

Ozak: Space.

Neci: It’s like a giant open area. There are planets and other things there, but most of it is nothing.

Vidar: Asgard is nothing like this.

## 17 - Follow God Part 2

Ripper is prowling the streets. The sounds of fighting caught his ear. He follows the sounds as best as he can. When he finds the source of the sound. He hears nothing. Men lay on the ground incapacitated. One blond man stands in the middle of them. He kicks an incapacitated man in his ribs.

Ripper: I saved you. Am I going to regret it?

Theo: You did save me. In more ways than one.

Ripper: What are you? A hero?

Theo hears voices in his head. He sees flashes like visions.

Theo: No… I guess I’m a villain… You have a very complex mind Ripper. What should you do? Throw a sai, rush in, call for backup. I wanna know what you’re going to do. Make a decision. Let’s see how it plays out.

Ripper: You’re reading my mind.

Theo’s visions start to become less and less until he sees nothing and hears nothing but faint meaningless voices.

Theo:...

Ripper runs at Theo. His mind is clear. He throws punch after punch. Theo dodges his punches one after another. Ripper’s anger grows. His arms swing, but he never feels a connection. Theo punches Ripper in the stomach. His fist feels the hard iron of Ripper’s armor. Ripper’s gauntlet bashes Theo’s head. Theo falls to the ground.

Ripper: You can read minds, but at the end of the day you’re still just a human.

Theo crawls back. His arms start to glow orange. Ripper looms over him like a giant. Theo punches Ripper in the stomach. Ripper’s iron armor cracks. He stumbles back. Theo runs away.

Ripper: Is he normal?

Ripper aims his grappling gun for Theo’s leg. He fires it off. Theo gains a trail of red lightning. His running gets faster. The grappling hook can’t catch up. The rope hook drags back into the gun. Ripper taps his com.

Ripper: Ozak.

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Everyone is still talking on the ship.

Cameron: So is Thor actually badass like in the stories?

Vidar: Just like the stories. He lifted the world snake up and threw it off of Asgard.

Ozak: Neci! You should bring Vidar to earth. He’ll see more there than in this satellite. You can tell Cameron and Dynamo all the stories anytime.

Ripper: Ozak!

Ozak presses a button.

Ozak: I hear you Ripper.

Ripper: I found a superhuman. He has telepathy, superhuman strength, and super speed.

Ozak: What levels?

Ripper: His arms glow orange. He had a trail of red lightning. I don’t know much about his telepathy, but he dodged every move I threw at him even though my mind was clear.

Ozak: Dynamo, Cameron, and Neci are coming down.

Ozak turns off the com.

Ozak: You three, go.

Neci: Vidar can help.

Ozak: I don’t trust him.

Neci: I trust him. He can fight.

Ozak: Fine.

Ozak walks up to Vidar. He hands him a com.

Ozak: Put that in your ear. Press on it to talk.

Ozak walks back to the terminal. Cameron, Neci, Dynamo, and Vidar all run through the portal. They all appear in King City. The team splits off in different directions. Vidar follows Neci.

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Dynamo flies over King City. He sees a blond man standing on the rooftop looking at him. Dynamo lands on the edge of the roof walking forward.

Dynamo: You're the man that fought Ripper?

Dynamo taps his com.

Theo: Well if you need a name… Call me Prophet. God did give me my powers.

Dynamo: Don’t care.

He flies over to Theo. Theo dodges Dynamo’s punch. Dynamo turns to the side and kicks. Theo ducks under Dynamo’s leg. He takes a few steps back.

Dynamo: You really are a pest.

Theo rolls to the side. A giant golden fly swatter smacks down on the ground. Theo moves dodging the fly swatter before it even moves. Theo hears the sound of a cannon ball fire. He turns to the side and a cannon ball collides with his stomach. His arms glow orange. His body slides back, but he gets a handle on the golden cannon ball.

Theo: You focused on the fly swatter to hide your thoughts of a cannon.

Red lightning surrounds Theo’s feet.

Theo: That won’t happen again. I’ll listen to all the voices. No matter how faint.

Theo runs at Dynamo. His arms glowing orange. He punches Dynamo in the stomach. Cameron runs in. Theo sees cameron and runs away. Soon they’re out of Dynamo’s sight.

Dynamo: I hate super speed.

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Theo runs away from Cameron as fast as he can. His speed is no match for Cameron’s. Cameron catches up to him in a matter of milliseconds. Cameron punches Theo in the back. Theo loses control of his speed and crashes. Cameron slowly walks up to Theo. Theo puts his hands to both of his own temples. Cameron feels his head throb. He can’t tell if his head is being split in half or if it’s a trick. Theo runs away while Cameron falls to his knees in pain.

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Neci and Vidar see red lightning running around the city. Neci and Vidar follow him. They see Theo run inside a building. Neci lands on the ground. Vidar follows her inside a closed drug store.

Vidar: What is this place? It’s dark and there are things all over the shelves.

Neci: The lights aren’t on and those are tradable items. You give money to get the things on the shelves.

Vidar: Hm.

Theo turns around a corner.

Theo: Neci. My favorite of the superheroes. Y’know, we’re very alike.

Neci: How so?

Theo: We’re both servants of God. God came to me and gave me these powers. He bestowed them upon me with a mission. You, too, are also a follower of God. Just by a different name. You call him Odin.

Neci: We are not the same. What God told you to become a criminal?

Theo: One that has bigger plans in store. What God told you to kill a wolf cub?

Neci: They aren’t the same.

Theo: Why don’t you think you feel at home there? It’s because you aren’t one of them. You aren’t god. You are a follower, a servant. We do what God tells us we must and no more. I used to think I was the most unlucky person on the planet. Nothing went my way. All I had to do was trust god. You should join me. All gods want the same thing, a better world.

Vidar: Even Odin doesn’t get everything right. We have faith in Odin because he is a god and the wisest among them. Odin has made mistakes. He almost died to Fenrir. To never question a god is foolish.

Neci: I’m not just a follower of Odin. Otherwise I would have never joined with the heroes of this realm.

Theo: I tried.

Theo runs at them with super speed. Vidar takes out his sword. He flips it in his hand and slashes at Theo. Theo dodges under the blade and punches Vidar in the stomach. Neci swings her axe up. Theo moves to the side and kicks Neci in her ribs.

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Ozak: Cameron, they are in the drug store down 45th.

Cameron turns around.

Cameron: I’m running there now.

Ozak: Make sure you’re ready to finish him.

Cameron runs off

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Neci and Vidar work in perfect sync. Slash after slash of a sword or an axe. Theo’s super speed makes him untouchable. He slides past the blades. Small cuts on Theo’s arms makes him focus even more. He jumps back.

Neci: You have super speed, but you're not nearly as fast as our speedster.

Theo: Doesn't matter. No one can beat God. No one can beat me!

Ozak: Neci, Vidar! To the side!

Neci jumps right and Vidar jumps left. Cameron runs in between them. A forcefield of lightning surrounding him. He can feel the power behind his fist as it rams into Theo’s face like a truck. Theo’s body starts moving back. Cameron runs around his body and puts his arm out. Theo’s body hits Cameron’s hand and falls to the floor. Theo is incompacitated.

Cameron: I may be the fastest speedster around. I could run circles around him.

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Everyone is back at The Beacon.

Vidar: I thank you all for your hospitality, but this isn’t my home. People spewing about God like they have never met Odin. I would rather enjoy the comforts of Asgard.

Neci: That’s not normally how people are.

Dynamo: All the criminals are just as crazy. If he was smart he would have already left.

Neci: Goodbye Vidar. Can you get home?

Vidar: Yes, there are more ways to Asgard than just flight. You valkyries just don’t care enough to learn.

Vidar leaves.

Dynamo: If you were like him, Neci, you never would have joined. He ran with his tail between his legs after like an hour.

Neci walks up to Ozak.

Neci: You're right. I’m not like Vidar. Ozak, I want to officially join the team.

Ozak: Pick any room you want.

Cameron: Another roommate!

## 18 - Test Your Luck Part 1

Ripper is in his gym. He holds a punching bag while a young woman is throwing her all at it. The girl resembles Ripper. She has dark hair that’s a little lighter than his.

Emily: You’ve been training me for months. I can’t learn anymore with a punching bag!

Ripper: If someone pulls up on you, you’ll wish you trained more.

Emily: I’m not giving up on training. Can you spar with me? Wouldn't I learn more like that?

Ripper: Not if all you do is get your ass kicked.

Emily: C’mon!

Ripper: Fine.

Ripper takes the punching bag off of the ceiling. He throws it onto the floor.

Ripper: Show me why you need a sparring partner.

Emily runs at Ripper. She throws a punch. He moves to the side and pushes Emily. She stumbles and turns to him. She throws another punch. Ripper catches her punch and pushes her back again.

Emily: This isn’t fair.

Ripper: Imagine how it would be in real life. Everytime that punch doesn’t hit me, you get stabbed, punched, or shot.

Emily: Isn’t that why we are training?

Ripper: So you can protect yourself from that.

Emily: I want to be like you. I want to fight crime.

Ripper: No.

Emily: You’re with that team of heroes.

Ripper: We help each other out. I’m not with them. I’m not like them.

Emily: Don’t you help people too?

Ripper: I kill as many as I help. Half of them wouldn't kill a fly.

Emily: Why do you kill?

Ripper: It’s necessary. What do you think happens to all the criminals we beat?

Emily: It’s all over the news all the time. B.L.A.D.E. complains about having to clean up your messes and put away the criminals you beat up.

Ripper: We’re lucky they are still in jail. Those people are superhumans. All we do by leaving them here is give them another chance to kill more innocent people.

Emily: And normal people?

Ripper: Consequences.

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Dynamo, Cameron, and Ozak are sitting at a table playing cards.

Dynamo: Shouldn’t you be watching? Making sure the earth is safe?

Ozak: If something happens I’ll get an alert.

Cameron: Then why do you stay at the terminal all the time?

Ozak: What happens if I leave the ship? If something goes wrong I’ll have to rush back. Usually there is no reason to wander around The Beacon.

Dynamo: There will be even more to do in The Beacon if the other team members move in.

Ozak: Ripper? Moving in?

Dynamo: Just a thought. Yeah, he won’t ever move in. What about Godson?

Ozak: He has a child.

Dynamo: What?!

Cameron: Godson has a kid?!

Ozak: Do you two even know anything about the other teammates?

Dynamo: Nah, we hang out with each other. Godson doesn’t even show up sometimes, Neci is boring unless she’s talking about her crazy viking stories, and Ripper broods. You're cool though Cameron. I’m glad I broke you outta prison.

Cameron: Thanks.

Ozak: What about me?

Dynamo: You're the boss. You're also getting destroyed in cards. Both of you are.

Ozak: Really? I’ve been watching you cheat for the past 30 minutes.

Dynamo: Prove it!

Ozak shakes his head and stands up.

Dynamo: The fates just aren’t in your favor. Lady luck loves me.

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Godson flies high above King City. He looks at all the buildings as he passes them. He descends out of the sky. He lands on a building with enough force to make a crash. He feels the air around him fight against him as he lands on a 12 story building.

Ripper: Are you following me?

Godson: Of course not. I asked Ozak where you were and went there.

Ripper: Why?

Godson: I figured it was time you joined the team. You call the team just as much as anybody else.

Ripper: I’m not joining.

Godson: Why? Do you have a reason?

Ripper: I don’t need to explain myself. I’m not part of your club. I never will be.

Godson: You’re so damn broody. “I’m not part of your club.” Who’s club are you part of? You use the club, you come by the club. The fuck you think you are?

Ripper: What are you going to do? Throw me off this building?

Godson: I might.

Ripper: And then you’ll catch me. If I were you, I’d let me fall.The all american man. Even the people in your city like you. Last time I checked, heroes were hated.

Godson: Maybe they wouldn’t be if heroes helped.

Ripper: What do you think we are doing?

Godson: You know they only hate heroes because they hate mutants.

Ripper: What do you remember of the war? I was there. You were what?

Godson: I was two.

Ripper: I was 10. They like you, because they don’t realize you're just like all those mutants.

Godson: They started a war.

Ripper: What will you do?

Godson: You’re more dangerous than I am. What’s your body count now, hundreds?

Ripper: I can’t wake up one day and just decide to destroy a city.

Godson: Anyone can. If I do it, it just takes less effort.

Ripper: What do you not understand? That is the fucking point. A regular man has to find a way to destroy a city. You walk around every day with the power to do whatever you want.

Godson: Your a fucking lost cause. Why did you half ass join us if you don’t want to be part of the group and hate the members?!

Ripper: Because you might be the most powerful group in the US.

Godson: To watch us?

Godson flies up to Ripper and grabs him by the throat.

Godson: Watch me. Look at that.

Godson drops him.

Godson: I could have killed you. For someone talking down to me. You can’t even muster up the same restraint. You are the reason people still hate heroes. They put your “hero” next to your name. You're not a hero. You’re a monster that tries to do good.

They hear the sound of police cars.

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Four guys are walking in an old warehouse in full black gear. They put on clown masks and grab assault rifles. Two men grab license plates and a screwdriver. One guy grabs a ring saw and explosives. Another guy grabs two duffle bags. They walk out of the warehouse in silence. Two men get in the front seat. The other two replace the front and back license plates. Then they get in the back of the truck. The truck drives off. Everything feels like it’s going in slow motion. They feel every bump and shake of the car as it drives down the endless road. They stop in the back of a bank. Everyone gets out of the car and walks around the bank. Two guys kick open the bank doors and fire off two shots.

???: Everybody down! Now! Nobody tries to be a hero!

Two guys ran to the back of the bank. Far in the back of the bank is a giant vault door. A man puts a small device on the vault door. The two criminals step back and cover their ears. The device explodes and the lock breaks. They pull the door open. A giant safe sits in the vault. The man takes out his ring saw and walks over to the back of the safe. He starts cutting the safe.

???: If you don’t move. You’ll all survive. Nobody has to die.

The man walks around while everyone is on the ground scared. A man jumps on the criminal. The criminal throws the man off of him. The man falls to the ground and the criminal flips his gun around. He starts beating down on the guy with the gunstock.

???: Almost done?

The man finishes cutting out the back of the safe. He takes off the metal back and looks at all the money in the safe. He puts down the ring saw.

???: It’s open. Gimme one of your duffle bags.

The criminal gives him a duffle bag and they load up all of the money.

???: Let’s go.

One criminal runs away. The other joins back with the two in the main room.

???: C’mon. He’s at the back.

The three men run to the back of the bank. They see a door wide open. They hear the sound of a car starting. The three of them get in the car. They drive off onto the main road. The sounds of sirens come from downtown.

???: How much did we get?

The driver throws his bag of money to the guys in the back. They start counting.

???: 600,000.

A man stands in front of their car. He is wearing brown clothes and a red mask that covers the top half of his face. His hair is mostly brown. One patch white hair falls down onto his mask. He holds up a gun with the serial number scratched off of it. He fires off two shots. A bullets go through the heads of the driver and passenger in the car. Before the car hits the brown haired man, it skids to the right and crashes into a building. The man walks up to the crashed car and opens one of the rear doors. The two men in the back are unconscious. Two shots are fired off. The brown haired man grabs the two duffle bags and walks off. A car pulls up. He throws the duffle bags in the back of the car and gets in the passenger seat.

???: Not a scratch on you Fortune.

Fortune: I’m the luckiest man in the world brother.

The car drives off.

## 19 - Test Your Luck Part 2

Ripper and Godson run over to the crashed car. Ripper opens the doors.

Ripper: All of them dead. One shot to the head for each. Nothing else is here.

Godson: This place is right next to a bank. You think that had anything to do with it?

Ripper: It could. No reason to kill these men otherwise. They must have had incentive and money is a very good incentive. We still don’t know enough. It could have been anything.

Ripper aims his grappler gun up high and slings away. Godson follows him into the sky. They both land on a tall building.

Ripper: If the cops find us next to a car of dead people, they’ll put the wrong clues together.

Godson: Neither of us use guns.

Ripper: Doesn’t matter how logical it is. Two powerful people looking like they’ve murdered someone is enough proof.

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Cameron loses another game of cards.

Dynamo: Man you suck. You can’t touch me!

Cameron: Now I’m sure that you’re cheating.

Dynamo: How?

Cameron: We are playing war and you win every round! It’s random!

Dynamo: Don’t be mad lady luck hates you. That’s your problem. You know the rules. You lost, you gotta buy me a donut and coffee from Donut Empire.

Cameron: Really?

Dynamo: Yes. Rules are rules. I would have done it for you.

Cameron: You have money!

Dynamo: Get a job and come back with the donut and coffee.

Ozak walks over and hands Cameron 20 dollars.

Ozak: Just buy him the damn food so he shuts up.

Dynamo: I’ll text you the coffee I want.

Cameron: Fine.

Cameron runs through the portal.

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Cameron runs through King City looking for the Donut Empire. He stops when he finds it. Then he walks inside. Everyone is walking around normally. Cameron stands in line as the line slowly shrinks. A man walks inside. He has long brown hair that rests on his shoulders. As soon as he steps through the door, the workers in the Donut Empire start tripping, burning food, and running out of food that they thought there was plenty of. The long haired man trips and falls to the ground as he is walking to get in line. Cameron helps him up.

Cameron: You okay?

???: Yeah, it happens all the time. I’m used to it by now. I’m just one of those clumsy people.

Cameron walks up and orders three donuts and a coffee. He reads the text Dynamo sent for the coffee. He gets his food after the workers try a few times. Then he sits down. The long haired man orders his food. As soon as he steps out of the door. The workers go back to normal as if nothing ever happened.

Cameron: What the hell?

Cameron leaves the Donut Empire.

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The long haired man gets in the driving seat.

Fortune: Really, Karma?

Karma: I got you a donut too. I’m not a bad brother.

Fortune: Right after a job you need to get food while the bags are still in the car?

Karma: Your luck will protect us. We should test it on those heroes people are talking about?

Fortune: You should be glad my luck is more powerful than your unluckiness or we’d be fucked. We’re not testing against the heroes.

Karma: But you love me so much you keep me around.

Fortune: Just drive so we can count the money when we get home.

Karma starts driving.

Karma: That was one job. We’ll blow through that cash like nothing. What’s the next job?

They hear sirens.

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Ripper is walking home. Godson is following him.

Ripper: I’m going home.

Godson: Oh yeah. Secret identities and all that.

Ripper: Are you going to argue about that now too?

Godson: Not today I won’t. Arguing with you doesn’t lead to anything. I’d rather just go home then stay and try to convince you of something.

Police cars rush by them.

Godson: What is it about today?!

Godson picks up Ripper and flies off. They follow the cop cars. They see one car leading all the other cop cars. The brothers sit in the car. The brothers turn left, right, left. The cops lose the car. Godson keeps on the brother’s tails. The brothers stop at the criminal’s old warehouse. They run inside. Godson lands on the ground and puts Ripper down.

Ripper: We don’t know what these two are capable of.

Godson: No, but we know they’re inside.

Godson and Ripper walk inside the building. Ripper sticks to the walls, peeking around corners. Godson walks in without much care. Godson breaks open a door. The two brothers stand in the room holding guns. They fire a barrage of bullets at Godson. The bullets bounce off of him. He takes out his sword and swings it. The energy blast goes up to the ceiling. Godson backs up around the corner of the door.

Godson: My energy blast didn’t touch him? Somehow it missed.

Ripper: Try again.

Godson flies into the room. Bullets spray all over the place. Godson hits the ceiling and falls to the ground pissed. He stands back up and grabs Karma. Karma lets out the whole clip point blank into Godson’s stomach. Godson throws Karma into a wall. Karma lands on a pile of clothes. Fortune takes out a grenade and puts his hand on the pin.

Fortune: I heard you're a real good guy. Not like Ripper. You won’t let me die.

Godson stands still. Ripper walks in.

Ripper: What's going on?
Godson throws a guy and he lands on clothes. Godson’s never missed an energy blast and today it was way off. What’s your power?

Fortune: We’re different from other heroes. We have the power of luck. Well, I have the power of luck. My name is Fortune. I’m able to give luck to anyone I see fit. My brother, Karma, gives unluckiness to everyone around him. Including himself. My luck overpowers his unluckiness. We’ve been called the twins of fate.

Ripper: You forgot what you lack. You may have all the luck in the world, but you don’t have the raw power to back it up.

Godson flies at Fortune so fast he can’t pull the pin out. Godson puts his hand over Fortune’s and grabs the grenade from him. Godson punches Fortune into the wall. Fortune loses focus. Ripper sees Karma getting up. He fires a bullet at Ripper. Ripper puts up his gauntlet and blocks the bullet. He punches Karma in the jaw. Karma falls back and Ripper takes out his sai and stabs them through Karma’s heart. He rips the sai out and Karma falls to the ground bleeding.

Godson: No! You can’t kill people!

Fortune: That was my brother!

Fortune runs at Ripper. Godson grabs the back of Fortune’s collar and throws him into a wall.

Ripper: We need to kill them. They’re too dangerous. With luck, they can do anything.

Godson: You killed his brother in front of him?!

Ripper starts walking over to Fortune.

Godson: You’re just going to kill everybody? What if it was your brother?! Would you still kill him?!

Ripper stops. He puts his sai away and leaves the room. Godson looks at Ripper shocked.

## 20 - Bloodstain Part 4

In New York City, a man gets out of a limo. He has short curly brown hair, a tall muscular build, and mixed skin. His looks are deceiving. He looks much younger than he is. His grey suit is fitted and looks expensive. He was inside the building with an unparalleled confidence. When he walks inside the building, the workers change their disposition. They go from unmotivated to smiles. The man walks through the building with the pleasantries of a “How are you” or “Looking good.” He messes with the ring on his wedding finger. Everytime he looks at it bad memories are brought up, but he can’t get himself to take it off. An elevator door opens. The man walks inside it. He is almost spared of the awkwardness of another person in the elevator. Luckily a man he knows steps inside the elevator before the door closes.

Kai: Max.

Max: The king of New York is back?

Kai: I wouldn’t call myself a king.

Max: Just a billionaire, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and superhero.

Kai: I’m also a father. Nobody ever brings that up.

Max: Do you even know where your kids are?

Kai: Of course I do. Genki lives with me. The twins go to… College. If you want kids you gotta get on that shit. It takes a lot outta you. Especially bad kids.

Max: What have you even been up to lately?

Kai: The normal. Trying to save the world as I always do. Just a different setting. Unsurprisingly, same old enemies.

The elevator stops.

Kai: Try showing up to work on time Max. I come in for meetings. You’re a few hours late.

Max: Who needs to come in when I can do all the work from my computer?

Max walks into the room first. Kai fixes his tie and steps into the meeting room. The shareholders are all sitting down. Kai walks to the other side of the table. A device sits on the end of the table. Kai taps the device and a hologram of the reactor projects out of it.

Kai: This is a reactor designed to create unlimited energy. The way it works is, two atoms are mixed together.

He taps the device. A hologram of atoms colliding pops up.

Kai: The atoms in the reactor collide. The collision infinitely generates power. I call it Eternal Energy. Eternal Energy can be used for anything.

Kai taps the device again. A gun pops up. He slides his hand left over the hologram. The hologram scrolls through different electronics Adara Industries makes like suits, mechs, robots, phones.

Kai: Charging will be a thing of the past. Phones will infinitely be at 100 percent. Our guns using energetic bullets, unlimited ammo. Eternal Energy has limitless potential! Does this sound like something we need to develop?

The shareholders all agree on Eternal Energy.

Kai: Then it will be implemented into everything.

Kai walks out of the meeting smiling.

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Kai gets in his limo. Genki is sitting on the other side of the limo.

Genki: Why do you even go to meetings? Aren’t you the majority owner?

Kai: It’s good to keep people happy. Wouldn’t want a problem.

Genki: At least the league is benefiting from the company's tech. Right now Bloodstain is the strongest part of the league by far.

Kai: Mutants are powerful. Not much I can do about that. They will forever be more powerful. Even if I get more technology, they will also have the tech. You're always so formal with them. You’ve all been together since you were teenagers. They are family.

Genki: They didn’t live in our house. They just came by for holidays. Mom was never happy about it.

Kai laughs.

Kai: Remi wanted to knock me out everytime I brought them to the house. They deserved to have family around them during holidays. I didn't raise weapons. Your mother never understood how much it meant to them to come by for the holiday. They never had a family before us.

Genki: I think she did. What I think is that she was mad you were mixing your two lives.

Kai: We’ll never know what she thought. Now life has changed though. My life is more League then family, but on the other hand. The League is family.

The limo stops. Kai opens the door.

Genki: Really, Bibble and Sip.

Kai: If we’re going back to the League then I’m getting a coffee before we leave. Best coffee ever created.

Genki: Is that why you bought the place?

Kai: Yup, and now I can enjoy free coffee all I want.

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Ozak stands at the terminal looking as determined and focused as ever. Ripper stands near him looking at the monitor.

Ozak: You don’t believe me?

Ripper: I didn’t say that. There isn’t enough evidence to put together their motive.

Ozak: Bloodstain is a group of assassins. Who hires assassins and tells them not to kill?

Ripper: Didn’t they steal too? All from Adara Industries. Maybe it was a rival like Kunai Industries?

Ozak: And they would take that job?

Ripper: You’re grasping at straws. What made you even think about Bloodstain?

Ozak: I went down to work on the reactor. There was something wrong with it. We were still getting power, but less power. The obvious answer was something broke. Nothing was wrong. I realized nothing war broke, I used the wrong part. One part messed everything up. I realized we were missing information on Bloodstain. We think that they are just a group of assassins, but what if they were more than that?

Ripper: All of that is just a different outlook. We still have nothing more to go off of.

Ozak: I have the most powerful surveillance system ever created. We will find more to go off of.

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Shadows run around the dark of yesterday’s night. From building to building. Rooftop to rooftop. The shadows travel fast and efficiently. The shadows move in unison as if they are one. The shadows catch an unexpected eye. A valkyrie flying just below the clouds barely manages to spot the shadows movement. She follows the shadows. Her eyes struggle to focus on the shadows in the darkness of the night. The shadows stop on a building. Then they disappear. The valkyrie descends from the cloud onto the rooftop. She hears the sound of struggling down below her. She looks at a window just below her. She flies down and looks through the window. A ninja in black clothing stabs his sword through a man’s chest. He kicks the man off of his sword. Then he flicks his sword. All the blood flies off. The ninja looks at the valkyrie. He throws a shuriken through. The shuriken slices through the glass like it’s air. The valkyrie puts up her arm and the shuriken bounces off of her gauntlet. A ninja jumps off of the rooftop, his sword aiming down. He lands on the valkyrie. She falls out of the air and lands on the cold streets of the city. The ninja’s sword doesn’t cut through the valkyrie’s armor. She grabs the sword and snaps it. She pulls her legs up and kicks both feet into the ninja’s chest. The ninja hits the ground. The valkyrie starts thinking.

Valkyrie: ‘Ninja have appeared in my city. They’re well trained. I may need back up’

The valkyrie looks up at the window she had already seen through. The window is open. A breeze hits her arm and the sound of a sword slash comes down from behind her. She takes out her spear and blocks the ninja’s strikes. He slashes countless times, but every swing of the sword is met with the steel of the valkyries spear. The valkyrie grabs the ninja’s sword. He can’t pry it from the strength of her grip. She moves her wings. The ninja is sent back by a gust of wind. The valkyrie drops the sword onto the ground and aims her spear. She throws her spear into the ninja. His movements stop. The valkyrie pulls her spear from the ninja’s lifeless body. Blood cover’s the tip of the spear. She turns around to her own dismay. Another ninja is walking up to her. He’s different. On the right of his chest lays a circular blue device. He pulls his sword out of his sheath slowly. The edge of his sword is a pure blue energy.

Assassin: Your luck betrays you. Now you no longer fight an old ninja, but something new.

The ninja runs at the valkyrie. Her movements are much faster than what the ninja can muster. The tip of her spear collides with the ninja’s body. A blue shield flashes over his entire body. The tip of the spear stops before it touches him. The valkyrie is stilled by the shock. The ninja swings his sword for her neck. She puts her arm up to block the sword. The blue edged blade slices through her arm and decapitates her. The valkyries body drops to the floor.

Assassin: Two men down. One dead. A valkyrie attempted to apprehend us. She’s dead.

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The morning after, a group of valkyries are standing above the valkyrie’s dead body. Neci is one of the women standing there.

Neci: What happened to her?

Valkyrie: She called out for help. Saying ninjas attacked her. She said they were well trained and she might need back up.

Neci: No regular ninja could kill us. Their weapons are too weak.

The gleam of reflecting light catches the corner of Neci’s eye. She walks away from the group. A shuriken is on the ground. She lifts up the shuriken. The symbol of two interconnected horns with a dot in the center is engraved into the middle of the shuriken.

Valkyrie: Neci, what did you find?

Neci: A shuriken. It has a symbol on it.

Valkyrie: Maybe other valkyries know of the symbol?

Neci: I have a quicker way to learn of the symbol.

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Neci walks onto The Beacon. Ozak is standing at the terminal alone. He looks at Neci.

Ozak: What do you have in your hand?

Neci: Someone killed a valkyrie.

Ozak: Loki?

Neci: Ninjas. I found a shuriken with a symbol on it. I wondered if you knew anything about it.

Neci hands Ozak the shuriken.

Ozak: It’s familiar, but I don’t know. Let me scan it.

Ripper walks by.

Ozak: Ripper, come here.

Ozak shows Ripper the symbol on the shuriken.

Ripper: I know that symbol. It was on the letter-

Ozak: What letter?

Ripper: Back when we were fighting Bloodstain I tried to track them down. I found a man and took him down. In his pocket he had a letter with a wax seal made to look like this symbol.

Neci: What did the letter say?

Ripper: It said somewhere in Ironwood. I followed it. When I got there, Godson was fighting Bloodstain.

Ozak: Could that ninja have been part of Bloodstain?

Ozak walks over to the scanner and puts the shuriken under it. A blue light goes back and forth over the shuriken for a minute. It stops and pictures appear on the monitor. Ozak sorts through the pictures. A minute later he stops.

Ozak: Nanda Parbat. I thought it was a myth.

Neci: Nothing is a myth. When most people don’t get to see it, it becomes a story.

Ozak: The League Of Assassins. From what I’m seeing, Bloodstain isn’t a group of hitmen. They are well trained ninja of the League Of Assassins.

Ripper: What does that mean?

Ozak: The League Of Assassins is an ancient group of ninja that work in the shadows. They try to make the world better by killing everyone they deem as evil. They have been doing it for thousands of years. The mythos says that the leader of the League uses lazarus pits to keep eternal youth even though he’s been around since the birth of the human race.

Ripper: You sound scared. Are all the ninja like Bloodstain? How many ninja are there?

Ozak: They are a collective. Hundreds, maybe thousands of ninja. I sound scared because I don’t know anything about them. I fear the unknown.

Ripper: We all do.

## 21 - Bloodstain Part 5

A private jet lands on a cold snowy mountain top. Under the jet, snow moves around as it slowly lands. A door on the side of the jet opens up. Stairs come down from the door. Kai and Genki walk down the stairs. The stairs return to the jet and the door shuts. Only after Kai and Genki take a few steps in the snow, the jet has already picked up off the snow. A few more steps later and it’s taken off. Kai leads Genki through the snow. With a trail of footsteps behind them. Kai walks up upon doors to a castle.

Genki: You would never think that this place was on top of a mountain from the inside.

Kai: Looks are deceiving.

Kai opens the doors. They walk inside the castle like a building. Torches are lined up on the walls. The stone walls look old, but untouched like a preserved relic. They walk through the dimly lit halls until they find a door. Sunshine barely peeks through the sides of the door. Kai opens the door. They see a grassy land. There is no snow. The sun shines down like a warm day in summer. Metal clashes together as swords bounce off of each other. Bloodstain is training.

Kai: Children! I’m home, you can stop training!

The team walks over to Kai.

Basilisk: Why did Genki come with you?

Kai: I was going back to his home city. He wanted to come. That doesn’t matter. What does matter is I’ve gotten you guys new gear.

Kai snaps his fingers. Six League members step on the grass. They are holding circular unpowered devices and swords with a black edge.

Kai: These are electronic-

Intensity: Don’t need it. I already use my powers to upgrade my weapons.

Kai looks at Intensity with a silent intensity that instills enough fear that Intensity can’t keep eye contact.

Kai: These are electronic devices. The circular device is a shield. You wear it on your chest. The device projects a shield over your entire body. The shield resists impact, energy blasts, elements, even weapons. Obviously the shield isn’t impenetrable. It resists impact. It doesn't get rid of it completely. A strong enough punch will still fuck you up. The biggest weakness to the shield is the swords. The electricity it uses on the edge will cut through your shield. You're the greatest swordmen and women. So you shouldn’t have a problem. Intensity, you can use your powers to make the devices even stronger. I suggest you use them.

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Ozak, Neci, and Ripper are walking through the halls of The Beacon.

Neci: It’s dreary here. Everything is grey. It might look better if you had some gold.

Ozak: I refuse to make this ship look like Asgard.

Ripper: Where are we going?

Ozak: We’re taking the small ship to the League Of Assassins. The other team members will follow us there.

Neci, Ripper, and Ozak all walk through doors into their old small ship. Ozak walks up to the terminal. The doors close and the ship dismounts from The Beacon. Ozak, Cameron, and Dynamo show up on the screens.

Dynamo: What’s going on?!

Ozak: We found out that Bloodstain wasn’t just some regular group of hitmen. They were part of the League Of Assassins. An ancient group of trained ninja. We’re going there now. I’ll send you all the coordinates.

Ripper: Seems ballsy to run in their headstrong without a plan.

Ozak: I can get us out of there if need be, but we need to scout this place out. We don’t know enough about Bloodstain.

Ripper: That's not a plan.

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Kai grabs a torch and pulls it down. A hidden chain comes down as he pulls on the torch. The torch slowly raises back up onto it’s spot on the wall. The wall slides open leaving a gap like a doorway. Stick is walking around. Looking as old and disheveled as he always does. His blindness makes him look less aware than he really is. His guard is down, but he knows exactly where Kai is.

Kai: How is the portal doing?

Stick: Look at it. Is it still there? Then it’s still a problem.

Kai: Doesn’t mean you’re not working on anything.

Stick: Nothing will close this portal. It’s inevitable. I’ve tried everything.

Kai: Then what about plan b. The team of heroes we put together?You’ve seen them taking down the criminals. Reactor, that blue giant, martians, the Black Flash, Corruption, The Iron Giant, Prophet, and the Twins Of Fate. They took all of them down!

Stick: Low level enemies. They’re final test is fighting Bloodstain with their new tech.

Kai: Why Bloodstain?

Stick: I don’t waste my League members. Bloodstain will survive even if Ripper beats them.

Kai: You mean my League members.

Stick: We can say our if that makes you feel any better.

Kai: We’ll see who wins then.

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Ozak’s ship lands on the mountain. Ozak, Ripper, and Neci leave the ship and step on the cold snow. They’re feet sink in a bit as they take each step. Soon, a flash of lighting blinds them and Cameron appears next to the group.

Cameron: I was hoping I’d beat ya here.

Ozak: You beat Godson and Dynamo. That should be enough.

Dynamo and Godson land on the mountain.

Cameron: Took you two long enough.

Dynamo: The mountain isn’t close. It’s not even in America!

So much snow falls from the sky that it almost creates a fog. Through the fog of snow Ozak sees shadows.

Ozak: Bloodstain.

The six ninja stand before the team.

Genki: You found us.

Genki draws his sword. The light blue edge shines onto his dark blue suit.

Basilisk: I’m taking the one in the armor.

The ninja rush into the fight. Basilisk jumps onto Ozak swinging his sword. Ozak dodges the slashes. Basilisk swings an overhead strike. Ozak catches the blade. The edge cuts into his skin a bit.

Ozak: What is this blade?

Basilisk puts one hand out and blasts Ozak back with red energy. Ozak’s feet slide back in the snow. Basilisk sends out one more shot of energy. The blast gets close to Ozak and then poofs into black smoke. Basilisk feels himself being pulled back by an unknown force. Then Ozak makes a small black hole in his hand. Basilisk’s body switches motions. His body is pulled to the black hole. Once he gets close, Ozak closes the black hole and punches Basilisk in the gut. Ozak sees a flash of blue shield. Basilisk looks unfazed. He slashes his sword down Ozak’s stomach.

Dynamo: Fuck!

Ivory’s blade slashes down Dynamo’s forearm. She doesn’t stop swinging her blade. Dynamo dodges left and right. He realizes Ivory’s focus is on him. He creates a gold rock by her foot. She trips on the rock. A golden hammer appears in Dynamo’s hand. Ivory falls foreward touching Dynamo’s hand. Dynamo swings the hammer up into Ivory’s face. Dynamo watches the blue shield flash. Ivory falls to the ground. Her nose is broken. She puts both her hands on her nose. It cracks into place. Dynamo’s hand is glowing yellow. An explosion goes off and he is blasted back.

Neci: Ugh.

Spirit’s left arm is covered in orange energy. She punches Neci in the jaw. Then she swings her sword. Neci blocks the sword with her axes. Spirit clashes with Neci’s axes over and over. Every swing, Neci stops her. Spirit’s sword bounces back and Neci kicks her in the stomach. Spirit’s eyes glow orange. She gets her balance and thrusts her sword at Neci like she’s jousting. Her blade bounces off of Neci’s axes. She swings her elbow up and bangs against Neci’s chin. Spirit stomps down on Neci’s foot, regaining her balance. She slashes down Neci’s chest.

Cameron: Everyone’s fighting. Except you.

Cameron looks at Essence. He feels like it’s getting harder and harder to breathe. He punches Essence in the stomach. She falls onto the snow. Time speeds up, and Cameron’s breathing returns to normal.

Cameron: That won’t work against me. You’re thinking is too slow.

Essence lifts herself off of the ground. Cameron starts to lose feeling in his legs. Essence slashes at him. He drops to the ground, avoiding the slash. She swings her sword down. Cameron rolls to the side.

Cameron: Even without legs you can’t touch me.

Ripper takes out his sai. Genki looks at Ripper focused. His mask hides his emotions as much as his face. Genki’s sword grinds against Ripper’s sai. Sparks fly off as the metal connects. Swing, parry, swing, parry. Ripper kicks Genki in the side. Genki stumbles. Ripper sees an opening. He thrusts his sai forward. Genki’s long blade stabs into his chest. Genki turns the blade and pulls it out of Ripper. Ripper falls to the ground.

Godson: Ripper!

Godson punches Intensity in the stomach so fast he can’t dodge it. His fists make shock waves as they hit Intensity in the ribs over and over. The shockwaves sound reminiscent of fireworks. One punch hits Intesity’s device, and breaks it. The next punch hits Intensity in the eye. He falls to the ground incompacitated. Kai jumps out. His fist red with power. He punches Godson in the jaw. He falls back. Everyone stops fighting.

Kai: Do you know who I am? I am Ra’s Al Ghul. Did you ever think about how you all ended up in the same place? Fighting the same enemy. I set all of it up. I brought your team together to be able to save this world when the threat comes. You can’t even defeat my team. You will all die in the battle against EOL.

Kai looks at Ripper and laughs. His smile changes quicker than Cameron can move.

Kai: Or maybe you’ll die now.

Ozak: We’re leaving!

Ozak moves his hands around. A tsunami of snow comes and carries the team of heroes away. The tsunami ends near the ship. Godson carries Ripper onto the ship.

Ozak: Dynamo, you’ve flown the ship before. Fly it again.

Dynamo runs over to the terminal. The ship takes off. Ozak examines Ripper.

Godson: Is he going to live?

Ozak puts out his hand. A dark essence covers Ripper’s wound.

Ozak: I don’t know. He was stabbed through the heart. Right now I’m just keeping him alive. I’ve stopped the bleeding as long as I concentrate on using my magic, but as soon as I stop he’ll be in a pool of blood.

Everyone is silent. The air filled with worry as Dynamo flies the ship back.

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The ship docks in The Beacon. Godson carries Ripper through the halls. Ozak runs beside him concentrating. Godson stops at the medbay. They walk inside and Godson puts him down on the table.

Ozak: Get out!

Godson leaves the room. Everyone watches as Ozak works. Ozak tries to fix Ripper’s heart. Everyone watches in anticipation. Ozak presses the button to block the window. The rest of the team can’t see anything. They all sit down waiting for Ozak to tell them something. Half an hour later, Ozak walks out of the medical bay. Everyone just looks up at Ozak. They don’t say anything.

Ozak: I had to replace his heart and one of his lungs, but he survived.

Everyone lets out a breath of relief.

Godson: How did you replace his heart and lungs?

Ozak: I had to use cybernetics. Now that we all know what happened. Let's leave the medbay alone for now.

Everyone walks through the halls and into the main room. They sit back down. Everyone is still silent.

Godson: We were all brought together by the same person we tried to defeat.

Ozak: It doesn’t matter how we got together. We do what we can to help.

Godson: But we aren’t a team. We don’t even trust each other.

Dynamo: We’re a family of masked faces.

Neci: I don’t have a mask. Neither does Cameron.

Godson: You have nothing to protect.

Dynamo looks at his gloves. Then he takes them off. His golden suit dissolves into regular clothes.

Dynamo: My name’s Santino Shaw.

Ozak presses a button on his suit. His real face is shown.

Ozak: My name is Xannus.

Godson’s blade turns into lightning and disappears. His suit goes along with it.

Godson: Darius.

Ripper stumbles out from behind the wall. They can hear him struggling to breathe.

Ozak: Go back to the medbay.

Ripper leans against the wall to keep himself up.

Ripper: You're all unmasking yourselves.

Ozak: We would like you to do the same Ripper. You don’t have to right now. You need rest.

Ripper: My mask stays on. If you try to get it off you’ll have to do more than stab me in the chest.

Ozak walks over to Ripper. He grabs him by the arm and drags him back to the Medbay.

## 22 - Darwinism Part 1

Ozak is on The Beacon. He looks at the earth on his monitor. Little pinpoints show where all the heroes are. They are off in their own cities. Ozak looks for any signs of enemies. Nothing else is on the screen except the hero's pin points. Ozak walks away from the monitor. His footsteps echo down the long empty halls of The Beacon. He reaches the room with his name on it. The door slides open as soon as he gets close to it. Ozak walks to the glass wall. He taps a button on his suit. The mask comes off. Then the front of his suit opens up. He steps out of his suit. His open suit stands in the middle of the room like a statue. Ozak’s wearing a black skin tight suit that shows off how muscular his body is. He looks out of the glass wall at space. He holds a device in his hand. He clicks a button on it.

Ozak: Why protector of earth? Why was I assigned that position? The mission seems more difficult than initially intended. I may end up needing backup or worse. I may end up dead. The beings on earth are some of the strongest creatures we have found in the multiverse, but they’re defenders are limited. They’re government may pose a threat. B.L.A.D.E. a military organization is powerful. Even the heroes fear their militia’s power. Main priority, disable B.L.A.D.E. 's forces. Second priority, learn of all the defenders of this planet.

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In Red Lake City, A man is in a bank. He stands just to the side of the entrance doors. The police are standing outside of the bank with their guns ready. One officer has a megaphone.

Police Officer: You're surrounded. Come out with your hands up.

Criminal: I have hostages!

Police Officer: There is nowhere to run-

Criminal: The least I can do is kill some of these hostages!

Police Officer: We will make a deal.

Criminal: That’s more like it.

Police Officer: What do you want for the hostages' freedom?

Criminal: Uh… Five million dollars. No, ten million dollars and my freedom.

Police Officer: We can do that. You just have to come outside.

The criminal peaks his head and fires out a few shots into the air. The cops duck down behind the cars. The bullets bounce off the metal of the police cars.

Criminal: Do you think I’m stupid!

One of the officers looks at his watch.

Police Officer: Any second now.

A flash of yellow lightning moves by the police. Cameron sees everything in slow mode as he walks inside the bank. The criminal is standing still with a gun in his hand. He looks at all the people. The people are frightened and nervous. Cameron takes the gun out of the man's hand. Then throws the man over his shoulder. He puts the man down in front of the cops. Then puts the gun on the hood of a police car. He goes in the back of a police car and grabs handcuffs out of it. He handcuffs the criminal and puts him down on his knees. Cameron checks his phone.

Cameron: Keeseville.

He runs away. The cops see a flash and then the criminal is handcuffed in front of them. The officer puts down his megaphone. He takes out his phone and looks at a story about Black Mask.

Police Officer: This Black Mask character may be a saving grace.

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A man in dark clothes is running through the alleyways of King City. His cloak covers his face from sight. His breathing is heavy. He knows something is following him. He hears the stopping of the follower on the roof tops.

Ripper: This chase won’t last forever.

The man runs as fast as he can, but his legs don’t move fast enough. He can’t get away. Ripper throws a knife to the ground. It sticks into the dirt and the man trips over it. He looks up at Ripper and his hood falls down. Ripper jumps down from the rooftops.

Ripper: Jackson?

Jackson puts a hand up to the sky and blasts Ripper back with a beam of condensed hot mist. Ripper lands on the top of a big garbage bin. He hits the top of the bin and rolls off onto the wet dirt of the alleyway. He looks up and Jackson is running. Jackson turns a corner. Ripper picks himself up.

Ripper: He’s gone.

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Godson is at home in Ironwood City. He’s lying on the couch watching TV. A baby with some of Godson’s features is sitting on the floor playing with blocks. A woman walks in. She pushes Godson’s legs over and sits on the couch. Godson sits up and puts his arm around her.

Kiyanna: You look tired. You’ve been out all the time now.

Godson: I know I do. I have to go out today. I’m taking a vacation, but first. There’s something I need to tell you.

Kiyanna: What?

Godson: I’ve wanted to tell you for a while. I’m Godson. That’s why I am always out-

Kiyanna kisses him on the cheek.

Kiyanna: I know. You’re not good at keeping secrets Darius.

Godson: I didn’t want you worrying about me all the time.

Kiyanna: I always worry.

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Dynamo is standing on top of a tall building waiting. He stands on the edge of the building overlooking the sun starting to set. Neci lands behind him. She walks up next to him.

Neci: You wanted to talk about the team?

Dynamo: I would have called Cameron, but he’s too young. The rest of the group is divided. When Ripper came out and said he would never take off his mask killed the team. Since then, everybody has been on their own.

Neci: It felt like we finally were more like a family then a team.

Dynamo: We all came together just in case there were ever threats that any of us alone couldn’t defeat. What do we do now? If something comes up we’ll all be alone. We need to get the team together again.

Neci: How? Ripper will never give up his secret identity.

Dynamo: Godson will just have to deal with it. If he comes back the rest of the team will follow. Our team being together is more important than whatever we’re feeling.

Neci: I’ve never seen you act like this. You’re a lot more composed than normal.

Dynamo: I am whatever the team needs me to be. Usually I can mess around because Ozak or Ripper is leading the team. We’re superheroes. We’re what the world needs us to be.

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A two guards are dragging a man down the hall by his arms. He struggles, but they’re overwhelming strength keeps him in check.

Man: Please, please! Don’t do this. I don’t want to become a mutant. I’m a guard just like you. We’ve even had shifts together. Don’t do this.

Guard: You won’t be a mutant. None of us are mutants. We’re different.

Man: No!

They keep dragging him into a small room. In the middle of the dark room is a chair with straps on it. They throw the man into the chair and lock him down. Above the man’s head is a small light dangling from the ceiling. The guards stand next to the chair as someone walks in. The man is in a business suit with dark black hair.

Man: Boss. Mr.Cole. Let me out please. They dragged me down here. I work for you.

Cole: They work for me too. I ordered them to bring you down here.

A container of a yellow mixture is in Cole’s hand.

Man: No…

Cole: Don’t worry. A scientist made this. Before he went to prison he sent me the perfect version of this chemical. You’ll get powers with no drawbacks. It’ll be perfect. You’re the first one that’ll test this masterpiece. Be glad.

Cole pours the solution onto the man’s head. The two guards hold him down as he struggles, trying to break out of the straps.

Man: It burns!

His head swings around. The substance flows over his whole body. His eyes glow a blue color. The substance no longer burns him. A shockwave comes off of his body. The two guards hit the walls. The chair under the man is destroyed by the wave. He stands in the center of the room. One guard blasts the man in his face with fire. Cole watches as the man’s face adapts to a harder scaly grey color. Cole smiles. The guard stops shooting fire. The man’s face changes back to normal. The man punches the guard and takes the gun out of his belt. He fires off a bullet into the guard’s head. Blood covers the man. The guard falls to the ground dead. The other guard fires an energy blast at the man. The blast knocks him into the wall. He turns around and fires a bullet. The bullet pierces the guard's head. Cole is laughing.

Cole: Darwin! You're Darwin. You can take others’ powers. You adapt to whatever you get hit with. You have the fire and energy of my soldiers. Dr.Scott was right. That was the perfect serum!

Darwin drops the gun onto the ground.

Cole: You’ll be the perfect guard, the perfect son.

Darwin's hand becomes like a flamethrower. Flames engulf Cole’s body. Cole’s smile becomes a face of horror as his body melts under the flames. The flames go away and Cole’s charred body falls to the ground. Darwin looks at his hand in shock. He runs out of the building.

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From the gates of a B.L.A.D.E. prison. Guards are escorting a prisoner to his truck. The prisoner has a special type of handcuffs. They cover his hands and forearms in mutant proof steel. He has dark skin and dreads. The cuffs are locked close together. His arms can’t be moved away from each other. They stop in front of an armored truck. B.L.A.D.E. soldiers open the back doors to the truck. The prison guards hand over the man to the B.L.A.D.E. soldiers. The prisoner sits in between soldiers. The truck drives away. A prison guard picks up his radio.

Prison Guard: Blue Thunder has been successfully moved to the truck for transfer. The truck has left with no problems.

Far above the transfer. Godson is watching everything. He follows the truck into Ironwood city. He’s determined to make sure Blue Thunder doesn’t escape from prison.

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Cameron is running around Keeves. He can’t find the crime. He laps around the city over and over again. Then he passed a building. A man is running out of the building. Cameron sees blood all over him. Cameron stops running.

Cameron: What’s going on? Are you hurt?

Darwin looks at Cameron terrified. Thoughts rush through his head. All he can think is that Black Mask has come to take him to prison. His mind almost seems like it’s fighting with itself. He can feel his irrationality. Darwin puts his hand up and blasts fire at Cameron. To Cameron, the fire is slowly moving. He runs around the blast of fire and punches Darwin in the jaw. Darwin's body changes motion. Cameron watches as his face moves away from his fist. Darwin is knocked back. He feels himself crash into a steel beam. He hits the ground. When he looks up. Yellow lightning is flowing through his body. Cameron is running at Darwin, but Darwin can see he’s running much slower than before. Cameron throws a bunch of punches at Darwin. Unguarded and unexpecting, Cameron is hit with an uppercut to the chin. Cameron is stunned by the blow. Darwin runs off. Cameron follows close behind. Cameron follows Darwin thinking.

Cameron: ‘Maybe I should call the team. I don’t want to be beaten again like what happened with the Prophet without backup.’

Cameron reaches for his com. Then he puts his hand back down.

Cameron: ‘No, the Prophet beat me because of the headache I got. I can take this guy down on my own. Ozak would have already been on coms if he wanted to help anyway.’

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Ozak is zoning out looking at space. He comes back to reality. He turns around. His suit is standing there. He feels naked without his armor on. He walks into the suit. The front of the suit closes up. He walks out of his room with his face showing.

Ozak: I’m not going to let the team spiral out. I lead this team. I’ll bring everyone back.

Ozak taps his suit. His mask comes back over his face. He walks up to the terminal. The map shows Cameron on the move. Ozak looks at Cameron’s statistics Ozak taps on the coms.

Ozak: Cameron, what’s going on?

Ozak sees Cameron turn his com on.

Cameron: I didn’t expect to hear your voice. I’m chasing a superhuman. He has the same speed as I do. When I first saw him he shot fire out of his hand.

Ozak: Can you handle it?

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Cameron is still chasing Darwin. Cameron sees how sloppy Darwin is with his running. He has almost caught up with Darwin.

Cameron: I think I got it. The way he’s running-

Cameron is next to Darwin. He bumps into Darwin. Darwin spins out. He falls to the ground rolling. He crashes into a wall.

Cameron: He just got his powers.

Cameron walks up to Darwin.

Darwin: You’re too fast.

Darwin puts up his hand. Cameron tries to run. A blast of energy collides with Cameron. Cameron flies across the street. His head hits a street light. His body falls to the ground. Darwin runs away.

Ozak: Cameron!

## 23 - Darwinism Part 2

Dynamo and Neci are flying above Winnsboro. Neci can feel the breeze on her wings as they talk about the team.

Dynamo: We’ll go find Godson in Ironwood City. From there we’ll be set.

Ozak: Cameron is fighting.

Dynamo: What?

Ozak: You two are near Cameron. He’s in Keeseville.

Neci: Who is he fighting?

Ozak: A superhuman with super speed.

Dynamo: We’ll be right over.

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Darwin is running through Keeseville’s streets. His eyes dart around looking for somewhere to hide. He finds an empty building. He runs inside. His feet stomp down trying to stop moving. He slides and crashes into a wall. He fixes himself upright and looks at his hands. Lightning courses through him.

Darwin: Cole was right. I take people's powers. I couldn’t run like that until that guy hit me. Whenever I touch someone I get their powers.

Darwin looks up. He sees the windows,

Darwin: I fought Black Mask. The rest of the superheroes will be after me. I need to steal more powers. I need to be stronger to fight them.

Darwin runs up to the window. His eyes peek through the window to see who’s walking around Keeseville’s streets. Only a few strangers are walking along the sidewalk. Darwin runs out of the building.

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Dynamo looks at his phone. It shows the location Ozak sent him.

Dynamo: We’re here.

Dynamo and Neci land on a rooftop. In a few seconds Cameron runs up next to them.

Dynamo: What’s going on?

Cameron: I got a crime alert in this city. I came running. I did laps around the city and then found a man covered in blood. We started fighting. All of the sudden he started using super speed. He’s used fire and energy beams.

Neci: How many powers does he have?

Cameron: Those are the ones I know of, but he might have more. We all have to watch out.

Dynamo: If he’s really that dangerous then we need to get Godson with us.

Ozak: We can’t.

Dynamo: Why?

Ozak: He’s following a prison transfer to make sure nothing goes wrong. He’s busy.

Dynamo: This is more important than some transfer! He’s there, just in case. We need him here.

Ozak: Then stall until the transfer is completed. That’s the most important thing to him right now. Everyone split up and search for the superhuman.

Everyone leaves in different directions.

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Ripper is walking around the grimy streets of King City. He hears his com buzz. He pays no mind to it. His focus is shifted on something else. He’s eyes scan the city for any sign of Jackson. Any sign of his brother. His com stops buzzing. He hears Ozak’s voice.

Ozak: I’ve overridden your com. Don’t ignore me. I know you’re in your suit. You’re on a rooftop right now.

Ripper: What?

Ozak: We need your help. There’s a new villain around. He’s got super speed like Cameron.

Ripper: What am I supposed to do about that?

Ozak: Help.

Ripper: I can’t fight someone as fast as Cameron. I’m not sure if Neci and Dynamo could even fight someone as fast as Cameron.

Ozak: You don’t need to fight him. You know you’re a good man to have on the field. You make quick decisions. They need you out there.

Ripper: ...Where do I go?

Ozak: Keeseville.

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Darwin runs past news TVs. He stops when he sees Godson on the TV.

Reporter: B.L.A.D.E. is moving the prisoner, Blue Thunder, to a more secure prison. Luckily for the citizens. Godson has shown up to, what looks like, make sure the transfer goes well. We all feel safer with Godson watching over the transfer.

Darwin: Powers.

Darwin gets charged up. He starts running towards Ironwood City.

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Godson is flying above the B.L.A.D.E. truck.

Godson: Not even an attempted escape. Maybe I don’t need to watch him.

Godson sees a streak of lightning approaching. He swoops down and throws a punch. Darwin just barely manages to duck under Godson’s arm. He uppercuts Godson in the stomach. As soon as he makes contact with Godson, his punch gains more force. Godson’s body is pushed back into the sky. Darwin runs over to the back of the B.L.A.D.E. truck. He rips open the doors. Blue thunder is sitting there. Darwin can see Blue Thunder’s eyes are trying to keep up with him, but they can’t. Darwin walks up to Blue Thunder and touches his shoulder. Darwin breaks Blue Thunder’s handcuffs. Then he runs out of the truck. Godson tries to follow Darwin, but then he gets blasted back by lightning.

Blue Thunder: Ready for round 2, cuz?

Lightning surges through blue thunder. His eyes lit up blue. Godson flies at Blue Thunder and tackles him into the ground.

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Ripper is driving a stolen car through Keeseville.

Ozak: He’s coming back from Ironwood.

Ripper: I’m working on it.

Ripper drives up to the end of Keeseville. He gets out of the car and climbs up a fire escape to reach a rooftop. He reaches for a device on his belt. The device resembles a gun. Ripper aims the gun at the ground.

Ripper: You said he’s as fast as Cameron?

Ozak: No, slower than Cameron.

Ripper: By how much?

Ozak sounds frustrated.

Ozak: I don’t have data on him Ripper! I don’t know!

Ripper: If this doesn’t work. It’s your fault.

Ozak: What are you doing? Is that the gun you had me make?

Ripper: I thought I should make a device if the Black Flash were to ever return for Cameron’s head. So I asked you to make a gun that could create ice.

Ozak: Impressive.

Ripper sees a flash of lighting far in the distance. He aims the gun at the ground. Three pellets fire out of the gun. The pellets move almost in unison of Darwin’s movements. When Darwin gets close to the pellets, they have almost hit the ground. Unaware, he doesn’t see them. He moves closer and ice forms on the ground. He can’t react quick enough. He slips on the ice and falls to the ground. Ripper jumps down from the rooftop and aims the device at Darwin. He fires off more pellets. Darwin looks up. He sees the pellets and avoids them as he runs up to Ripper. He punches Ripper in the stomach. His force dents Ripper’s armor. Ripper is flying through the air.

Darwin: Out of all the people. You show up.

Darwin runs around Ripper and punches him in the back. Ripper falls to the ground.

Darwin: Somebody with no powers. You can’t touch me. The best you can do is make me trip.

Darwin picks up Ripper by his collar.

Ripper: That’s why I leave it to the heavy hitters. All I had to do was keep you here.

Cameron runs up to Darwin and knocks him back with a heavy right hook. Neci and Dynamo land on the ground near Darwin.

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Godson drags Blue Thunder across the ground, tearing up the concrete. Blue Thunder jabs Godson in the head over and over. Godson picks Blue Thunder up and throws him into a wall. Blue Thunder crashes through a wall. A beam of lightning comes out from the hole in the wall. Godson feels the lightning burning his stomach. He takes out his sword and slashes. A blast of energy breaks through the wall and disappears from sight. The lightning stops. Then Blue Thunder flies through the building. He throws a heavy punch. Godson catches his hand. The collision makes a loud boom like an explosion.

Godson: You fought me back when I first got this sword. I’m a lot stronger now.

Godson holds onto Blue Thunder’s fist tight and slams him on the ground over and over again. Blue Thunder’s body flies up a bit. Godson grabs Blue Thunder’s head and slams it against his knee, breaking his nose. Blue thunder hits the ground. His face is bleeding. Godson gets on top of him and holds his hands together. B.L.A.D.E. soldiers run over and cuff him. Another armored truck appears. The soldiers switch cars and throw Blue Thunder in the new car.

Ozak: Godson. They need you in Keeseville. The speedster you-

Godson: I understand. I’ll be there as soon as I can.

Godson watches as the B.L.A.D.E. truck drives off. He takes off into the sky.

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Darwin gets back up from Cameron’s hit. He looks almost untouched.

Darwin: I have more powers than just yours now. I have the powers of the strongest man around.

Ripper: He can copy powers! He’s as strong as Godson!

Cameron runs at Darwin and punches him as hard as he can in the stomach. Darwin’s body moves back. Darwin punches Cameron in his temple. Cameron falls to the ground. Dynamo flies at Darwin. Darwin touches Dynamo’s arm.

Darwin: What should I make? Maybe I’ll be like you and make a hammer.

Darwin creates a mallet and bashes it against Dynamo’s cheek. He sees Neci with her axes. He runs up to her and takes her axes out of her hand. He walks behind her and stabs both her axes into her back. Time speeds up. Dynamo hits the ground. Neci yells out in pain. Cameron picks himself up. He sees Godson flying in. Cameron jumps on Darwin. He grabs him and holds him still.

Darwin: Let go! Damn kid!

Darwin elbows Cameron in the stomach over and over again in superspeed. Godson notices Cameron holding Darwin down. He flies down as fast as he can and punches Darwin in the stomach as hard as he can. Cameron and Darwin hit a building. Cameron is incompacitaed. Darwin spits out blood. His entire stomach is bruised. He stumbles getting up. The team is looking at him. He runs away. Godson gets ready to chase him.

Ripper: No, the only one who can catch him is Cameron. We’ll just waste time. We need to get back to The Beacon.

They all look at Cameron.

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Everyone is sitting in the main room of The Beacon except for Ozak and Cameron. Ozak walks in from the hallway.

Ozak: Cameron is bruised badly and has some internal bleeding, but he’ll make it.

Ozak walks up to the terminal. Everyone is silent.

Ozak: Don’t focus on the loss. Focus on what we can do now to beat this superhuman.

Godson stands up.

Godson: We could have stopped him if we had already been together.

Ripper looks at Godson.

Godson: You know what I’m talking about.

Ripper stands up.

Ripper: Yeah, I know that you’re going to argue about nothing.

Godson: I’m not arguing about nothing-

Godson gets frustrated and starts yelling at Ripper. Ripper completely drowns out the sound. He watches Godson speak, but doesn’t hear the words coming out of his mouth. Ripper thinks for a second. He hears his own words.

Ripper: ‘I put everything on the line to catch a criminal.’

Then he puts both hands on his helmet and takes it off. He shows his chiseled face, dark hair, and classic full beard.

Ripper: We’re all frustrated, but me taking off my mask changes nothing. We’re just as much the team we were with my mask on. Now sit down, shut the fuck up, and help the rest of the team come up with a plan.

Godson looks shocked. Ripper sits back down.

Ripper: We lost to Darwin because he is the best of us. He’s as fast as Cameron with Godson’s strength and durability. Not to mention the powers of Blue Thunder and Dynamo. We absolutely cannot fight him in a test of strength. We need a solid plan with a way to actually damage him.

Ozak turns on the clip of their fight. Ripper stands up and walks next to Ozak. He watches the clip with him. Everyone looks up at the monitor.

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Darwin runs into the same building as before. This time his pain makes him stumble. He falls to the floor holding his stomach. Darwin looks at his bruised abdomen.

Darwin: It’s already starting to heal. Thank god these heroes can heal fast. I feel like I’m dying. How do they handle this all the time?

Darwin tries to stand up. Just him pushing himself up makes the pain in his abdomen much more intense. He falls back down to the floor.

Darwin: I took down their speedster. They can’t catch up to me anymore. Once I heal, I’ll leave America. Then I can make a new life. I won’t be hunted by heroes anymore.

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Ozak and Ripper are still watching the video. Ozak replays the video over and over again.

Dynamo: Is this really helping? I don’t want to keep watching myself get bashed in the head with a hammer.

Ripper: Then don’t watch.

They play it again.

Ripper: I don’t see anything.

Ozak watches as Cameron grabs him and Godson punches him.

Ozak: That’s the secret. Two is better than one.

Ripper: What?

Ozak: I use magic with my hands. That means that if I do something. At least one hand must be used to conjure a spell. That’s only two spells at once.

Ripper: He can’t use as many powers as we can.

Ozak: Exactly. The more powers we use, the less he can keep up. He might be able to run really fast and create gold, but if we can do more than that-

Ripper: We need to find people.

Dynamo: Wait, you mean, like, get everybody we know?

Ozak: We need a big group. As many people as you can that have superpowers. If we all blast him at once he won’t be able to do anything to stop us. He won’t be close enough to punch us-

Godson: What about his speed?

Ozak: I’ll keep him still. You all.

Ozak points at everyone.

Ozak: Need to find everyone you can.

Neci: I can probably find someone in Asgard.

Ozak: Go.

Dynamo: I’ll get on the phone.

Godson: I don’t know anyone.

Ozak: I said, anyone. That includes villains.

Godson: Blue Thunder?

Ozak: He’s controllable enough. Find him, and we’ll use him.

Godson and Neci walk through the portal. Dynamo calls someone and leaves the room. Ripper stands there.

Ripper: I’ve got no one.

Ozak: Really? Not a single person?

Ripper: Not that I want to bring here.

Ozak: Doesn’t matter what you want. This is more important. If you know anyone, then bring them.

Ripper: I’ll try, but that doesn’t mean I’ll be able to catch him.

Ripper walks through the portal.

## 24 - Darwinism Part 3

Neci flies up to the rainbow. She lands on top of one of the colors and runs for the portal. She jumps into the portal at the end of the rainbow. A flash of blue blinds her eyes. She lands in Asgard. Neci flies above the bifrost bridge. When she passes the bridge, she looks down on all the golden buildings of Asgard. Then she sees Valhalla. She swoops down from above and lands in Valhalla’s training grounds. Vidar slices off the head of a training dummy.

Neci: Vidar, I need help.

Vidar: With what?

Neci: I need people with powers. People that could create blasts or fire. Anything like that. Do you know anyone that can do that?

Vidar: Regular people?

Neci: I would hope.

Vidar: No, that sounds like something one of the gods would do. None of the einherjar or valkyries have those powers.

Neci: Do you think we could get one of the gods to help?

Vidar looks unsure.

Vidar: To get a god to go to Midgard might be impossible.

Neci: Please help me try.

Vidar: Alright.

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Dynamo walks into his room with his phone ringing next to his ear. A woman picks up the phone.

???: Hello.

Dynamo: Nahla, I need your help.

Nahla: Are you okay?

Dynamo: Yeah, why?

Nahla: You sound distressed.

Dynamo: Well, it’s not really just me that needs your help. My whole team got wiped out by one person.

Nahla: How could I help?!

Dynamo: We need your magic. You’re not the only one being asked to come in for backup. Ozak is working on a plan right now where no one will get hurt… Except for the villain.

Nahla: Where do I meet you, The Beacon?

Dynamo: Yeah. Same as when we normally hang out. I won’t be there though. I have someone else I need to find for help.

Nahla: Alright, be there in a bit.

Dynamo hangs up the phone and walks out to the main room.

Dynamo: Ozak, I need you to change the teleporter.

Ozak: You know it automatically sets to where you want to go.

Dynamo: No, not a city.

Ozak: That could take a minute. Where do you want to go?

Dynamo: Atlantis.

Ozak: Why?

Dynamo: Remember how I told you I fought a girl there.

Ozak: Do you think she would join the team?

Dynamo: Well, she helped us escape Atlantis. So she must not be a big fan of being there.

Ozak: Whatever works.

Dynamo: How long will that take.

Ozak: It’s already done. I’ve teleported to Atlantis before.

Dynamo: Wish me luck.

Ozak: You need an oxygen mask.

Dynamo: Oh, and a suit. They’ll recognize me.

Ozak: Go get ready.

Dynamo puts on a black suit then an oxygen mask on his face and walks through the portal.

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Ripper runs around King City like a wolf. He jumps on rooftops, he searches the ground. He runs around all the slums of King City. Out of the corner of his eye he sees a man sitting down in the alleyway. Ripper jumps down. The man looks up and blasts him with mist. He tries to run away. Ripper slams his gauntlet up against Jackson’s throat, pinning him to the alley wall.

Jackson: Come to finally kill me? Do it. I have nothing to live for. You’re raising my daughter. My house is gone. My life is gone. You might as well!

Ripper: I need your help.

Jackson: I’m not helping you.

Ripper: You’re going to do as I say-

Jackson: Or? You’re not going to kill me. What are you going to do? Beat me up until I help you?

Ripper: Maybe.

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Godson is flying over a city. He finds the B.L.A.D.E. truck still driving to the new prison. Godson lands in front of the truck. The concrete cracking under his feet. The truck stops before it hits him. The B.L.A.D.E soldier in the passenger side leaves the vehicle and walks up to Godson.

Soldier: Why are you prohibiting the transfer of this prisoner?

Godson: I need him.

Soldier: You do realize that you would be going against the military by taking this man out of our custody?

Godson: Yes I do, and I’m going to bring him back.

A few more soldiers get out of the back of the truck.

Godson: What prison are you transferring him to?

Soldier: Black Forest.

Godson: Then I’ll drop him off there when I’m done.

Soldier: I can’t let you do that.

Godson: I was telling you what I’m going to do. Now I’m taking the prisoner.

The soldiers shoot at Godson. He is unphased. He walks to the back of the truck and opens the doors. He walks inside and throws Blue Thunder over his shoulder. He walks out of the truck and flies away.

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Ripper is still holding Jackson up to the wall.

Ripper: My team and I need your help in defeating a criminal.

Jackson: You can let go of me. I’m not going to run.

Ripper: No, I can let go of you because if you do run, I’ll throw a knife into your leg.

Ripper takes his arm off Jackson.

Jackson: Don’t you have a team now?

Ripper: We all lost.

Jackson: The fuck do you expect me to do? Remember Godson? Like six foot five, bulky as shit, outruns trains, waves to jets as he flies past. If he was beaten then game over we lose.

Ripper: No, we have a plan. Your ability to create mist can help us, and we need all the help we can get.

Jackson: Alright, I’ll help you. Under one condition.

Ripper: What?

Jackson: Find me a place where I’m not always hunted. I can’t walk down the street without thinking B.L.A.D.E might see me.

Ripper: Done.

Jackson: Good. I’ll happily take down a criminal.

Ripper: You’re more of a hero than I am.

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Neci and Vidar walk through the halls of Valhalla.

Vidar: If there is any god that will help people out. It’s going to be Thor. He’s our best and only chance at someone helping us.

Vidar knocks on the door to Thor’s room. Thor opens the door up.

Thor: Baby brother!

Thor hugs Vidar.

Thor: Come in.

Neci and Vidar step into Thor’s room. Thor closes his door.

Vidar: We need your help Brother.

Thor: Are you fighting someone?

Vidar: Yes. Neci needs your lightning for-

Thor: I’ve been cooped up in Asgard for far too long. I’ll help.

Vidar: It’s on Midgard.

Thor: I can’t help.

Neci: Why not?

Thor: I’m sorry Valkyrie, but the gods aren’t supposed to go to Midgard. What do you think would happen if Odin walked the paths of mortals?

Neci: Well, the water on the edge of Asgard becomes rain right?

Thor: Yes.

Neci: So couldn’t you send down a strike of lightning without being on Midgard.

Thor: I’m sure I could manage it.

Neci: That’s all I need you to do.

Thor: Here.

Thor hands Neci a piece of metal.

Thor: It’s the same ore my hammer was made out of. Throw that and I’ll strike it with lightning.

Neci: Thank you Thor.

Thor: Anytime little lady.

Neci and Vidar leave the room.

Neci: Thank you Vidar.

Vidar: I’m here anytime you need help.

Neci runs off.

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A portal appears in the Atlantis alleyway. Dynamo walks through it, and the portal disappears. Dynamo swings around. Atlanteans act like normal people in the giant city. He sees the colosseum far deeper into the city. The colosseum towers over most other buildings. The closer he gets to the colosseum, the more cheering he hears. He walks through the giant open doorway.

Dynamo: I don’t remember any of this. Damn. I was trapped down below. Wait, there must be a way to get down then.

Dynamo swims around the colosseum. He finds a doorway to the back of the building. He sees a staircase down. He swims above the stairs until he reaches the floor below. He notices where you walk up to your positions to fight.

Dynamo: Her place was somewhere around here.

Dynamo swims up to a door.

Dynamo: Was it this one?

Dynamo opens the door. He feels himself get grabbed and slammed against a wall. He sees a woman with long pink hair in front of him.

Dynamo: I know you don’t know who I am. Give me a chance to explain, Tellal.

Tellal: Who are you then?

Dynamo: Dynamo, the guy in gold you fought. I snuck in here so I didn’t wear my armor.

Tellal lets go of him.

Tellal: Why are you back? I helped you escape.

Dynamo: Well, I had a question. I need your help to defeat an enemy and I was wondering if you would leave Atlantis to help me..?

Tellal shakes her head in disbelief.

Tellal: You're insane.

Dynamo: The way I worded that wasn’t the best, but I do need your help. You can’t like this place. All you do is fight people for no reason. You didn’t just help me escape because I wanted to leave.

Tellal: I helped you escape because nobody should be trapped here.

Dynamo: Including you. I’m giving you the chance to leave.

Tellal: How? Last time you used some mushrooms.

Dynamo: All we have to do is walk out of here and go to an alleyway where a portal will appear. That sounds a little strange, but not as much as eating mushrooms to transport yourself to a magic dimension.

Tellal: I’ll come with you.

Dynamo: Great. I’m not wearing my gloves. You’ll have to do the fighting if anyone sees us.

Tellal leads Dynamo through the colosseum. After a minute of walking and swimming they see two guards posted at the entrance to the colosseum. Tellal sneaks up behind them and smashes her trident against their heads, knocking the guards out.

Dynamo: Easier than expected. Last time I had a lot more fighting.

Tellal: Last time was after the tournament fight. This time you broke in.

Dynamo: The portals close.

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Dynamo and Tellal appear on The Beacon. Everyone is waiting for them. Dynamo takes off his oxygen mask.

Dynamo: Wow, we need more friends.

Ripper, Jackson, Neci, Ozak, Godson, Blue Thunder, Nahla, Dynamo, and Tellal all stand in the main room.

Ripper: Not many heroes exist anymore.

Ozak: This is the team then.

Everyone splits up in the ship. Ripper is standing at the monitor with Ozak.

Ripper: What are you looking for?

Ozak: I’m watching for any sign of speedster energy.

Ripper: When he gets on the move, we’ll catch him.

Ozak sees speedster energy.

Ozak: He’s running towards the west coast at remarkable speeds.

Ripper: He’s trying to leave America.

Ozak: He won’t.

Ozak presses a button on the monitor. He talks into a mic.

Ozak: Everybody, to the main hall! We found him!

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Darwin is running across West America as fast as he can. He sees the signs for King City. He keeps running in a straight path. No matter what is in his way he runs over it. Determination in his eyes to reach the coast. He hits the outskirts of King City. His feet stop. He tries to run, but his legs won’t move. He looks down to see some black magic around his feet.

Ozak: You shouldn’t have run in a straight line. You made it easy to know where you were going to be.

Ozak has one flist clenched. Keeping Darwin still.

Darwin: Who are you?

Ozak: The leader of the superheroes who own the powers you copy.

Ripper, Jackson, Neci, Godson, Blue Thunder, Nahla, Dynamo, and Tellal appear in a circle around Darwin. Magic appears around everyone else's feet, keeping them in place just like Darwin.

Ozak: Who are you?

Darwin: I’ve been called Darwin.

Ozak: Have you ever been to jail?

Darwin: No.

Ozak: Then today you find out what it's like to rot in a cell.

Everyone puts their arms up.

Ozak: Fire.

Ozak uses his other hand to shoot dark magic into Darwin’s body. Ripper fires off pellets that freeze Darwin’s skin. Jackson blasts Darwin with hot steam. Neci fires yellow arrows filled with magic. Nahla blasts him with fire and air. Dynamo sends out pure gold essence that melts against Nahla’s flames and covers Darwin's body. Tellal fires off as much water as she can that cools and hardens Dynamo’s gold. Godson slashes energy waves into Darwin that breaks Dynamo's gold. Blue Thunder fires off bolts of lightning. Darwin’s skin morphs constantly trying to adapt to the new elements. Part of his skin becomes lightning proof, other parts fireproof. It can’t keep up with the changes. He starts to look like a distorted monster with skin ever changing. Most don’t notice as the elements block them from seeing what Darwin has become. Darwin sends out shockwaves to blast everyone back. The magic around their feet keep them steady.

Ozak: Darwin won’t fall down. It’s not enough.

Neci throws the piece of metal at Darwin. The clouds above them move out of the wave. A giant hole in the clouds appears. One beam collides with Darwin faster than anyone can react. The lightning doesn’t stop after one second. The lightning lasts and mixes with the elements everyone else is firing at Darwin. The lightning fizzles out. Darwin is still standing. His shirt burnt off. His pants ripped, but still barely intact. His eyes look dead. His skin is damaged. He has burn marks, freezer burns, arrows inside of him, and dark magic glowing off of him. Ozak stands ready for him to make a move. He falls down. Ozak walks up to him and checks his breathing.

Ozak: He’s barely alive. His resistance and adaptation must have saved him. We’ll have to keep him at The Beacon.

Ripper: How? He’ll break out.

Ozak: We’ll hook him up to a machine. He will never awake again.

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Ozak and Ripper stand in front of Darwin’s cell. He is in a reinforced steel cell with unbreakable glass. Then inside that he is laying on a table with unbreakable glass around him. He has a machine hooked up to him to keep him alive.

Ripper: How did he survive it?

Ozak: I checked his vitals. I don’t think he’s really even alive. Just breathing.

Ozak walks away. Ripper follows him into the main room. Godson is talking with Blue Thunder.

Godson: I’m surprised you didn’t turn on us and start blasting us with lightning.

Blue Thunder: If I did I would have been beaten to shit. So?

Godson: True, but your family. I’ll tell you what. If you get out- No. When you get out of prison, you can come to me for anything. I’ll help you.

Blue Thunder: Now, you’re taking me to the Black Forest Prison.

Godson: I have to, but not before we get dinner.

Godson and Blue Thunder walk through the portal. Ozak walks up to Nahla, Tellal, and Jackson.

Ozak: You have all helped us out in our time of need. You’ve earned your place to be one of us. I offer you all the opportunity to join our team.

Nahla: Not yet. I still have some more adventures to do. I’ll come back here one day.

Ozak nods to her.

Jackson: I can’t be a part of your team. I still have growing to do before I become a hero.

Ozak: When you finally become a hero. Our doors will still be open.

Jackson walks over to the portal.

Neci looks at Ripper angrily.

Neci: Talk to him. Family is important!

Ripper follows Jackson. Ozak turns to Tellal.

Ozak: And you, water princess.

Tellal: I’ve been fighting my whole life…

Ozak: No, you fought needlessly your whole life. We fight for a cause. To make the world better.

Tellal looks up at Ozak.

Tellal: I’ll join.

Ozak chuckles.

Ozak: Welcome to the team, recruit.

Ripper puts his hand on Jackson’s shoulder. Jackson turns around.

Ripper: I know I’ve been a douchebag, and we almost killed each other. We’re both different now. You wanted to help us fight Darwin. You are a hero.

Jackson: It’s not that. I’m not ready.

Ripper: Then we’ll stop a few criminals in King City here and there.

Jackson: Yeah, sounds like something we could bond over.

Jackson and Ripper shake hands. Jackson walks through the portal.

Nahla walks up to Dynamo.

Dynamo: I would have liked you on the team, but what can I do?

Nahla: There’s still artifacts to discover.

Dynamo: There always will be.

Nahla: But one day I’ll get tired of looking for them.

Dynamo: See you soon?

Nahla: Yeah.

Dynamo hugs Nahla before she leaves. Cameron walks into the main room from the hall.

Dynamo: Ay, Cameron!

Ozak: Are you feeling better?

Cameron: My stomach still hurts, but I can walk.

Ozak: Tellal, this is the other member of our team. Cameron or Black Mask. He’s a speedster. He sacrificed himself so we could beat Darwin.

Tellal: Nice to meet you.

Darwin: Nice to meet you too.

A news report shows up on the monitor.

Reporter: The Legion has taken down another villain. This time a threat greater than they have ever before seen. They call him Darwin. B.L.A.D.E. wasn’t able to do anything about it. Can B.L.A.D.E. still protect this city? or will the Legion, our heroes, be the ones truly protecting us.

Ozak mutes the monitor.

Ozak: How do they know Darwin's name and where did this Legion come from?

Dynamo: We needed a name! I think it’s dope. The Legion. It’ll strike fear in our enemies and be easy to remember.

Neci: Strike fear?

Dynamo: Ripper, you can agree with me. You live to frighten people.

Ripper sighs.

Ozak: Go to bed Dynamo.

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A month later. Neci is watching the monitor with Ozak. Signs appear all over the monitor.

Neci: What’s going on?

Ozak: Portals are slowly appearing everywhere.

Neci: Do you think it’s a problem?

Ozak: It could be, but no spikes of energy after it appears. The energy stays constant. Nobody is using the portals.

Neci: Then why have them?

Ozak: For when they do.

**End.**