Johnny Bolt (anime)

*This article is for the anime version of the character. For the comic character, see: Johnny Bolt.*

## Physical description

### Eye color

Green

**Johnny Bolt** is a super crook. He wanted to be a superhero when he was a kid, but when he caused a huge accident which hurt a lot of people, he decided he would become a super villain. He stole in minor heists until Kasey told him to work for retiring.

## History

### As a teenager

Johnny was 15 in his freshman year at this point in time when The Utopian and The Flare are in San Diego with kids. As they give the seven rules for being a superhero, the television is turned off by Johnny's mother, who tells him to go to bed. The doorbell rings, Randy is at the door; he greets her.

Johnny lays in bed and wishes to move out while playing with his Utopian action figure. As he reads a comic, his mother once again tells him to go to bed, turning the light off. However, he turns it on once again by using his mind, which surprises him, but makes her angry. As she yells at him, she notices that the light is turning on and off on its own until a blackout occurs.

When his mother leaves, Johnny looks at a toy truck and is able to make its lights turn on and off at will, which makes him very happy. After that, he makes the street lights around his neighborhood turn on and off as well, all from his bed. Concentrating very hard, he is also able to make them explode, as well as his TV.

On their way to school, Tommy asks Johnny if he had seen that The Utopian had been on the news. However, Johnny tells him that he has new powers and demonstrates by turning all the street lights red so he could ride his bike.

When they make it to school, Dave, a bully makes fun of Johnny and Tommy, so Johnny makes his speaker blow up. He also controls the school bell, which freaks Tommy out. Johnny admits that he does not know how he had gotten his powers and shows that he can use electricity as well. Tommy tells him that he was a superhero, which excites both of them. Tommy tells him that he wants to be a photographer for superheroes and they tell the story of how the first people got their powers after visiting an island. They say that Johnny's dad must be a superhero for him to have powers, which surprises him, since he had never met him. Tommy asks for Johnny to let him take his photos which Johnny agrees to let him do.

Janice approaches them at their cafeteria table and asks if they were looking at The Flare. Johnny and Tommy are surprised, but she tells them that she had seen him and would love to meet a superhero again, which Johnny says would probably happen again. Dave calls her and she walks towards him and his friends.

Johnny hacks an arcade game so Tommy can play, telling him that he could now escape the town they were in, but his friend tells him that he could even get into The Utopian's Union of Justice. Johnny realizes that might be his new calling and figures he should call him self Electro Boy. Dave walks up to them and makes a joke about them being virgins. When Janice laughs at the joke, Johnny is offended and walks away.

A mechanic tells Johnny's mother that she should get a new TV. Johnny walks in and asks who his father is, but she does not understand the question.

Johnny shows Tommy a sketch of what he thinks Electro Boy should look like, but the latter does not really like it and offers to help with the design.

Later, Tommy shows him the new design, which is much better, so they try replicating it, but it does not look like the drawing at all. They try manu different outfits until they make one which does not look too bad. They also train, turning on an entire mall, but a few lights burst.

Tommy asks Johnny if he knows how a maglev train works, since superheroes got around by flying. Johnny gives flying a try and is able to get off the ground. The next day, they try looking for trouble all around town so that Johnny could intervene, but they find that their town is very peaceful. They are ready to demonstrate Johnny's powers, so they plan to show the children in their area the powers.

Johnny walks up to Janice, who was going to go to the pool. He asks her if she remembers that she wanted to meet a hero, telling her that she would meet one soon. Tommy walks up behind him and asks if he is ready, which he says he is.

Tommy records Johnny as he prepares to fly to the pool. He flies off the ground and struggles to contain his flight, but he manages to make an entrance, introducing himself, and vowing to protect crime in the town. Janice turns around and sees that Tommy was recording; at the same time, Dave realizes that Electro Boy was Johnny, but he denies it. Dave makes fun of him, so he starts losing control and falls into the pool. He lets out a big shock, which starts electrocuting everybody in there.

In the streets, cars start going crazy and crashing into buildings, causing many deaths and a truck even heads straight from the sky into the pool, which contained the motionless bodies of everyone who was in it.

Paramedics find that one kid was in critical condition, but might be rescued. While handed a cup of coffee, Johnny electrocutes another man and finds he is not able to control his powers.

Tommy approaches Johnny and says that what had happened was terrible. Johnny says that even though he had done it, it had not been his fault, which Tommy understands. Johnny asks what he is supposed to do if he has that superpower and cannot be a superhero. Suddenly an ATM next to him starts spitting cash. Johnny starts taking more out of the ATM and admits that he had in fact, caused what had happened at the pool. He tells Tommy to buy him a big bag, which shocks his friend, but he tells him that he was going to leave town and declared himself a super, but on the other side.

### As an adult

20 years later at Supermax Prison, people are introduced to where supervillains are kept. Johnny leaves his cell, saying that he would be having a nice time with his girlfriend. He is asked by the guards if he would be returning, but he says he is not planning on it. His security vest is unlocked and he puts his normal clothes on. He asks a guard why they do not clean the vests, but the guard tells him that they would need to update the control system, which would not affect them with their backup system. Johnny promises to behave and is let out of prison.

As he walks out, he is told about Mr. Matts, who is the most famous supervillain. He is told that he is also known as The Bastard, which he is able to recognize. He finds it strange that a villain on the outside was doing charity work for villains in prison.

Johnny makes it out of prison and sees his girlfriend Kasey waiting for her. Both of them kiss and hit the road. He says that it feels good to be out of prison and she starts touching him.

As soon as they walk into their house they start kissing and removing their clothes. However, when Johnny walks into another room, he sees three men waiting for him and welcoming back. Kasey was not expecting them either and the four friends hug.

Kasey is angry that Johnny and the boys are all drinking. Johnny makes fun of his friend who only spreads bad luck and they all say that they've been doing a good job, but have another heist planned. They say that they do not want Kasey listening to them, but show him that they wanted to steal jewelery since its value did not change. The plan is to steal from 10 stores, only staying in one for a minute each. The plan was perfect since there would not be superheroes interfering either, and Johnny says that the plan sounds great. Kasey tells him to keep a low profile and get a real job.

Johnny's friends ask him if he wants to work for Kasey, but he says he does not want to do it. She tells them that they should not drink so much and asks them if they could not see that they were wasted. She winks at them, which makes them believe what she said and they all fall asleep.

Johnny asks Kasey since when she had been able to use that power, but she simply tells him that they finally had some alone time.

The Bastard is approached by The Salamander after Supermax and says that the party had gone great. Mr. Matts says that they need to look at things objectively and describes the Network as a natural order.

Johnny tells Kasey that the next day would be a busy one, so she asks him if he would seriously go with his friends. He says that it is a good offer and tells her that she should join them since it was in order to celebrate that he had just gotten out of prison. She tells him that the plan had really come from the Network, which meant that they would have to give them some of the money. Johnny says that it does not sound like a great deal, but she tells him that the Network was the reason why she worked at her restaurant and asks him to be smart about his jobs. She tells him that everything is about balance and tells him to look at things objectively. However, he says that if she is on their side, they could not lose, but she begs him to understand that with his power, he could be doing bigger things, so they should lay low until a bigger opportunity comes along.

However, five hours later, Johnny does the heist with his friends. On store number ten, they are forced to leave early, which they manage to do successfully.

Johnny and his friends try to leave the jewlery store, making their way on their bikes. However, they are chased by the cops. They remain optimistic since they believed that no superheroes were around, but unbeknownst to them, the police were requesting superhero backup.

Johnny and the other villains continue to move forward while being chased by the SFPD, but when Johnny causes all their cars to malfunction, they are able to move forward no problem. As they move through a tunnel, the police wait for them on the other side, but they do not slow down, as Transmit helps them phase through the cops.

At her restaurant, Kasey sees that Johnny was running from the cops, which makes her lose her focus. When two customers complain, she scares them and hands them their drinks.

Johnny asks his friends if the heist was planned by the Network, but they do not give him an answer. He also complains that he does not want to go back to jail one day after he had gotten out. The villains see that the cops are bringing a superhero, known as the Man Mountain. They try to keep moving forward, but Man Mountain causes them to slow down. Johnny shocks him, which only hurts him for a second, but the other villains also attack him in order to defeat him. After hitting him with bad luck, Man Mountain is hit by planes and burned by chemicals, which manages to immobilize him.

The villains keep moving as they are attacked by another superhero called Rubberball, who even takes the time to take photos with fans. Johnny is impressed by how fast new superheroes are showing up every day and tries attacking Rubberball, but cannot do so because of his speed.

The villains notice that Rubberball is also hurting civillians, but he stays confident that he would defeat them and manages to take one bike down. As the group moves forward, Rubberball knocks down buildings in order to stop them, but does not manage to do so with that move. Johnny is finally able to shock him, but that only slows him down temporarily.

Even when struck with bad luck, Rubberball is a seemingly invincible hero, even if he was killing more people than the villains. The villains combine their powers which makes it impossible for Rubberball to dodge all the ice and he is finally taken down. He begs them for mercy, but Johnny electrocutes him and they crush his legs with a bike.

The SFPF call The Praetorian.

Johnny tells Frostbite that that was exactly how he wanted to live his life and they say that bad luck worked in their favor. Johnny thanks them for opening his eyes as they cross the Golden State Bridge. However, as they celebrated, they were suddenly teleported out of their bikes and in front of The Praetorian, who tells them it was time to seize the day.

Transmit and Johnny try escaping, but they are found by Praetorian, who kicks Transmit and sends him high above ground. He then kicks him repeatedly against a car until he kills him.

Johnny is approaches by Praetorian as well, who punches him in the face. Johnny uses his tries to electrocute him by shocking the ground, which just makes Praetorian chuckle. Johnny says that he would not be going back to prison and tries running away, but sees that all his friends had been brought back defeated by the other Praetorians. Johnny complains that four against one was cowardly, so Praetorian agrees to fight him one on one.

Johnny asks him what he wants and Praetorian asks how long it had been since he had gotten out of Supermax, and hugs him with one arm until Johnny admits that he had been released the day before. Preatorian says that that was pitiful and understands that it would not be fair to send him back to prison. Praetorian says that he cares more about the sin than the sinner and knows that he has somebody who cares for him. Praetorian tells him to not go around doing things that would make her sad and tells him and his gang that they would never get a chance like that again.

Kasey picks them up and tells them that she had helped them. She tells Johnny to get in and the rest of the gang teleport in the car later. Frostbite, Transmit, and Kismet celebrate her power, which Johnny does not want to talk about. She refuses to help them out later since Praetorian could develop a power against her. Kasey tells them they are all very stupid, but they tell her that they had gotten the jewelery, now having $8,000 per person.

Kasey tells Johnny that she could not keep living the way they were. She tells him that if he wants to keep playing around with amateurs, she could not be with him anymore. Especially since he had lied to her, which he apologizes for. She tells him to use his head in order to not end up at Supermax and make more money so he could retire early. Kasey mentions that with one big payoff they could retire early, but he wonders when they could ever come across a big job like that. She asks him if he had ever heard of The Heat, who was an infamous 1970's supervillain who always escaped and never got caught. Kasey says that he had been her teacher and he was gathering a team for a big job, which could land them 50 million dollars, split between everyone in the crew. Johnny accepts the offer because he would be able to work with her.

In Chicago, Johnny and Kasey walk into The Heat Cleaners, where The Heat was waiting for them.

Carmine tells Kasey that he is glad she could make it. He is happy to see her again, but does not want to visit her in San Francisco. Johnny introduces himself as well as Carmine explains how he hides in plain sight. When Johnny wanted to touch a laundry machine, Carmine tells him he does not want him to damage it, which Johnny does not like. He asks Kasey why she had told Carmine about his power, but she tells him that she had not even mentioned Johnny to Carmine, which is what made him The Heat.

Carmine tells Johnny about his past, and how Chicago is the birthplace of supervillains. Kasey says that Chicago's first supervillain was The Heat, but he had cut ties with the mafia and gathered villains who were in similar circumstances together. Johnny finds Carmine's blasters, which were very powerful and is shocked to find out that Carmine did not have any superpowers, which he mentions were not needed back in his day. Carmine mentions that it is not even necessary for the legend of The Heat to be true because The Heat is a kind of ideal that other villains have constructed. Johnny cannot believe that that was his job, since he was only lying about his career; he in turn, says that he is a supervillain because he wants to be able to live his own life freely, but Carmine simply says that he would have a hard time making money with his ego.

In his office, Carmine welcomes Kasey and Johnny to the underworld of Chicago. Carmine introduces them and tells them all that people with superpowers were popping up all over the place and thanks to groups like The Union of Justice, business had been terrible for them, which was the cause for The Network's creation, but villains who wanted to avoid joining them had a harder time as well. The Diesel Brothers get offended when The Ghost tells them that they are unknown enough for the job, which The Network was avoiding. Johnny gets angry at The Ghost when he calls him "sport" condescendingly and wants to punch him, but manages to restrain himself.

Kasey asks Carmine to keep telling them about the job. Carmine says that the first requirement is to not be mixed up with The Network, but each and every single person in the room had a unique power, which fit into a unique role for the job. The Ghost makes fun of Johnny and says that everyone had a specific job except for him, which makes him very angry. As he shows his power off, the lights across Chicago start turning off. He asks the man what his power was, which he demonstrates as he walks through him.

The Ghost explains that it did not matter where he was, he was always being used, due to his power being so great until he tried to play both sides with some bad people until Carmine saved him and let him join his gang. Johnny calms down and Carmine thanks him for his demonstration of power, but he says that he bets it could do a whole lot more than just turn lights off, which is exactly what they needed.

Carmine tells them that the mission was made out of two parts. He says that the first part would be rescuing someone else they would need for the job. He had been caught while on vacation in Florida and his name was TK McCabe, who Johnny knows. Carmine explains that TK had been caught and defeated by The Gladiator, so he is now being transported in a plane and insists that TK was very important, so they all prepare to go to Florida. In order to get the mission running, they have a supplier from Romania, who had already given them money to go.

Carmine tells them about his visit to Romania and his partner, who did not hesitate to join the mission, which meant they were funded. All the villains are happy to start and Carmine adds that the timing could not be better because The Bastard had all his reputable villains occuppied. Johnny is happy that they were out-maneuvering The Network, and Carmine tells them to go to Florida; when they got back, he would fill them in on the rest of the plan. He adds that it could be the biggest plan he's ever done in 75 years and would be great for their legacy. Johnny asks what he means by that since all the newspapers he had around were about him being caught, which he did not want. Carmine gets angry and starts yelling, but a train interrupts him.

Carmine walks into a plane rental, walking straight to reception, but is told that he would need to wait for his Cessna. However, Johnny walks in saying that they needed to call 911 since somebody had been caught by the Cessna's propeller. The receptionist leaves and so do Carmine and Johnny, walking past the man who had been killed by the small plane. They walk to a bigger plane, and walk inside, where Ghost was already waiting for them. The Diesel Brothers join them on the plane, excited to be leaving.

Johnny joins Carmine in the cockpit as they prepare to leave and they are given the cue to leave. Carmine tells him not to be worried, but Johnny says that he lives for that type of thing. He hands him the plane's manual with the wirings so he could learn them and advises him not to compare his powers to other people's because he would drive himself crazy and tells him that what was best was to find his own style.

On the plane, a Supermax guard feels a small power surge as Carmine flew above their plane. Carmine asks Johnny if he could deactivate the restraint device TK was in, but Johnny says it was impossible. The crew prepares for Plan B. While the Supermax plane tried communicating, Johnny deactivated their comms as Ghost and the Diesel Brothers throw themselves onto the Supermax plane. Their shouting alerts The Gladiator, who watches in shock as one of the brothers throws himself at a propeller. The bigger brother tries attacking The Gladiator, but receives a punch to the face which dislocates his jaw, but he tells Ghost that he had gotten rid of The Gladiator. Ghost flies down to the Supermax plane and prepares to attack the guards inside the plane.

The pilots say that they need to get to Supermax as fast as possible and start flying up. Carmine asks Johnny if he could slow them down, which he says he can do. It takes a lot of his concentration, but Johnny says that that was nothing, also mentioning that he could not think of a better way to show his style off.

Roddy fights The Gladiator, but is taken down, while told that people like him were nothing without their powers because they had no discipline. Ghost was trying to open the lock, while being laughed at by the guards. However, Carmine tells Johnny that Ghost was a famous safecracker.

Ghost cannot open TK's lock, so Carmine tells them to change to Plan C, which they say does not exist. Johnny tells Carmine to fly them closer to the Supermax place and manages to turn it off. The plane starts falling fast, with Carmine and Johnny chasing after it.

As the Supermax plane plummets to the ground, Johnny tells Ghost that there was nothing he could do as Carmine realized what he was trying. Ghost tells the guards to cooperate because they would all die except for him if they crashed.

The guard cooperates and TK uses his power to stop the plane from crashing. Everybody celebrates and TK kicks all the guards out of the plane. TK asks if Johnny was with them and they all get together to leave.

Carmine congratulates Johnny, Kasey, Ghost, TK, and The Diesel Brothers on a job well done and tells them that they needed one more person for the next part of the job. He tells all of them that the job was risky but he had a plan which would be the next day. Carmine tells them that they needed to decide if they were in or out. Kasey tells Carmine that even if everybody was in, if something sounded off, she was out. Johnny asks who the target was, which Carmine says could be seen from there. Kasey realizes that Carmine wanted them to break into the Union of Justice. The villains think Carmine has lost his mind and want to quit the job since it was suicide.

The Diesel Brothers and TK prepare to leave when Carmine tells them that Brainwave, one of the heroes could read thoughts, and would probably be there within less than a minute since he could read their thoughts. Ghost grabs Carmine by the head, while TK tries to clear his thoughts. Kasey tells Carmine to just tell them what he wanted to say, and he points out that Brainwave was not there right now and was in Beijing.

Johnny tells TK that Carmine could not get the other man on the phone so he would be walking them through the next part of the plan. They talk about their time in Supermax, where TK could not see his powers and reminisce about how they met each other in Supermax. TK tells him about the guard who had killed a villain and Johnny had started clapping, as the rest of the villains started doing the same, basically telling the guard he was a murderer. They say they do not ever want to go to Supermax and they all walk back in.

Carmine and The Diesel Brothers say that they are all in, and Carmine tells Kasey that they would be making 50 million dollars. All the villains are excited by that, but Ghost asks what the real plan is. Carmine tells him that they would steal Count Orlok's helmet, who was a legendary supervillain from Romania and their sponsor. His helmet made his powers double, so they wanted to get it back. Ghost says he is in but does not want to touch the helmet. Kasey says that they need to know the most important part, how to defeat the powerful superheroes, but Carmine says that he had thought of everything.

Carmine tells Kasey the plan, and Johnny says that not even The Network would dare attack the Union of Justice. Ghost adds that The Bastard was getting ready to retire. Carmine tells them that if they moved quickly, there was a big chance that they would not need to ask The Network for money. Johnny tells Kasey that he was in and tells her that they needed to do it, but Kasey refuses. She asks where the last member is and Carmine says that he would call Forecast again. Forecast picks up the phone and tells them that he was in. Carmine tells Kasey that Forecast had the ability to change the weather and she counts herself in.

At the Plaza Hotel, Johnny and Kasey check in. Once they make it to the room, Johnny is excited, but Kasey is not feeling as excited as he is. She looks at their reservation paper and says that they were only a pretend married couple. However, Johnny says that the next day it could be for real, since it would change everything for them. They celebrate with a beer and vow to leave crime behind so as not to end up in Supermax.

As Kasey and Johnny prepare to have sex, they get a phone call from Carmine, who tells them to sleep well and not drink, but Johnny hangs up on him.

Outside Union of Justice, Johnny, the Diesel Brothers, Carmine, Ghost and Kasey work a hot dog truck. Sammy complains that Roddy is not helping him as the latter plays solitaire. Outside, Ghost asks Kasey to make him see something pleasant if it looked like he was going to be killed, which she agrees to. Johnny says that he would not need fantasies because all he would want to see is the real Kasey until his final breath.

Johnny tells the group that he had wanted to visit the Union of Justice since he was a kid. Carmine, Ghost, the Diesel Brothers, and Kasey move forward. Carmine tells them that as soon as the superheroes left, they would take down the security system and cut themselves out of the surveillance footage, which would be Kasey's job.

Johnny, the Diesel Brothers, Carmine, Ghost and Kasey start looking for the helmet, trying to focus on Count Orlok. Johnny and Kasey remember when they attacked a wine cellar, hoping they did not screw up like that time. They find the magic helmet and get excited.

Praetorian gets on an elevator and reaches floor G, where he sees Count Orlok's helmet floating. He wonders if he is hallucinating and tells Ghost, who was carrying the helmet that there was no use in hiding. He hits Ghost with a fire attack, which breaks the helmet. The villains are in shock, while Praetorian tells them that they are idiots because they would never display the real thing there and only replicas. He reveals that all the real objects were in a vault underground. They were being kept invisible by Kasey's power.

Carmine exclaims that it is underground and yells at Ghost to phase all the way there. Ghost goes underground while Praetorian starts throwing columns from the building at them. Praetorian recognizes that there was something in his head like in San Francisco. Hitting Kasey, he is able to reveal all the villains. He looks at Johnny and tells him that he feels like they had met before.

At the Union of Justice, people run out as The Praetorian approaches Johnny, who says that he had never met The Praetorian before, and complains that it had been him who had found them. Praetorian realizes what their plan had been all along and wants to take care of things. Praetorian shoots water at Kasey, but Johnny protects her. Carmine tells them they should run while they can, so he picks Kasey up and they run. Praetorian throws a large rock at the villains as Johnny tells Carmine to leave. The Diesel Brothers complain that Praetorian has too many powers and did not even know which one would be next.

Praetorian reveals his next power was laser eyes and starts shooting around, killing many civilians in the process. Roddy and Sammy try to attack him, but even as Sammy sticks his finger into Praetorian's eye, it gets shattered. Praetorian crushes Sammy's arm and throws him towards Johnny, who had just shot at him. Praetorian shoots at Johnny as Carmine and Kasey hide.

Johnny gets out from being buried under rubble as Ghost coughs confused. He sees that The Praetorian was chasing after Johnny and miraculously is able to find Count Orlok's helmet.

Praetorian tells Johnny that he is pathetic, while Johnny asks if he does not think he's doing a but much. He asks Praetorian how he could do that to his own HQ, but the latter does not care, telling him he never goes easy. Praetorian tells Johnny to prepare to die as he lights up two fireballs in his hands; however, Johnny turns on the fire sprinklers and manages to turn him off for a bit.

Johnny and Ghost reunite, also seeing Carmine above them. He tells Ghost to put on the helmet and say the magic words, but Ghost refuses because of the helmet's reputation of being cursed. After a bit of convincing, Ghost agrees to do it, but nobody knows the spell. However, inside the helmet "supercalifragilistic expialidocious" was written, which made Ghost realize that must be the spell. As they argue who has to put it on, Praetorian wakes up and gets ready to face them. Ghost says the spell, puts the helmet on and it turns on. He wishes to be taken somewhere far away and safe, and they vanish from The Praetorian's sight. TK and Forecast are also taken to safety.

Ghost, Carmine, Johnny, TK, the Diesel brothers, Forecast, and Kasey all make it away, as Ghost tries to remove the helmet. Johnny asks Kasey if she is okaym but she asks where they are. Carmine tells her that they are in Black Rock, Romania. Kasey tells Johnny that that was too close, but they are all happy they had been successful in the end.

A butler approaches the crew and tells them to make themselves at home. Carmine says that they should probably start celebrating with a toast in which they say that Count Orlok would be returning as the greatest supervillain ever, unstoppable even by The Network. The butler agrees and tells them that they were all invited to be part of the new Syndicate, which Kasey remembers hearing of. Carmine tells them that the Syndicate had predated the Network and Kasey goes to take a shower.

Carmine tells the group about the Syndicate, which was formed by The Heat, Count Orlok and The Bastard. In the meantime, the Union of Justice was starting, so they decided to go to Europe. Carmine says that they were a great group, but Orlok and The Bastard had never gotten along. However, as all supervillains all of them ended up betraying each other and The Bastard formed The Network. Later, the castle became a club and a movie studio. It had been 30 years since the Syndicate had been founded.

Kasey gets out of the tub, but is being watched by someone who likes her body. Kasey walks into the room, where she sees that everybody was already wasted. The doorbell rings and the Diesel Brothers get very excited about the pizza getting there. However, as Roddy opens the door, he gets punched in the face by Praetorian, who stops all of them from moving. He laughs and tells his boss everything was clear. The Bastard, his boss, walks in and wants to know if he had interrupted a celebration. He tells Carmine he could not believe his hideout and Praetorian says that they probably could not believe that a superhero like him was with a villain like him and reveals that he was a double agent.

The Bastard says that he would have never thought that The Heat would gang up with Count Orlok again and tells them that their behavior needs to be rectified. Praetorian says that they knew where they were because Carmine had shouted "The Rock" right before they disappeared. Praetorian is impressed with the power Count Orlok's helmet has, but The Bastard says it is not to be underestimated and adds that even if he was just about to retire, he needed to protect The Network. Praetorian tells them that they needed to give them more than the usual 30% because they could not operate from behind The Network's back.

The Bastard tells them that he would take everything and adds that betrayal also warranted paying extra in blood as well. He says that normally he would kill a family member, a friend, or a lover, but he was not in the mood. While, they were being watched, The Bastard makes the butler's head explode. The pizza makes its way to the front door and Orlok reveals himself, saying he had been hiding in the attic. He does not see The Bastard standing behind him and asks where his helmet is. He turns around and sees The Bastard, who tells him he hates surprises; he is in shock that The Bastard is there and starts yelling, but The Bastard makes his head explode as well. Praetorian and The Bastard walk away with all the money, but before he leaves Praetorian tells them to not tell anyone what happened or they would kill them.

Johnny turns a TV on in which news about the attack on the Union of Justice was showing, saying that Praetorian had been able to recover Count Orlok's helmet. Johnny sadly watches as he drinks. The Diesel Brothers, TK, and Carmine are also feeling down, while Ghost says they could not even do anything with the helmet now that Orlok was dead and TK says that Matts and Praetorian were too much for them to handle. TK complains that the team was bad, but Johnny reminds him that they saved him. Ghost tries to leave and thanks Carmine for getting his hopes up, but Sammy throws an axe at him. When he throws it back, the Diesel Brothers attack him together. Forecast makes it rain on top of the fight, making them separate.

After a while, the bartender tells him that Carmine was an old fool as he slept on the bar, but Johnny says that the heist was supposed to go better than planned and be the biggest thing The Heat had ever done. The bartender does not care and asks him to pay for Carmine's drinks, so Johnny goes to an ATM and withdraws some cash.

Later, Johnny and Kasey ride on their car, but the latter is quiet and does not feel like talking. When they park, Kasey cries and starts hitting the car. Johnny simply hugs her; once they walk outside, Johnny gets down on one knee, saying that even if they could never be villains, he wanted to be with her and wanted to build a life in the future with her, making a ring out of electricity. Kasey says "okay" while smiling and both of them kiss.

The day before his wedding, Johnny shaves and opens the door, seeing nobody there. However, he is kidnapped and wakes up inside a car. Frostbite tells him that it was his last night as a single man, so he, Transmit, and Kismet wanted to give him a bachelor's party. They are kicked from a strip club for being villains and are all very drunk. They do not have any money, so Johnny hacks an ATM, which shocks all his friends. He explains that that was how he got around as a kid.

Frostbite asks Johnny if he would not like to do one last big job for Kasey's sake, but Johnny says that he would be clean now. However, Kismet says that his mother had once told him that money is always why marriage for love ends in divorce and tell him that there were many ATMs around. Transmit brings them their suits, which makes Johnny agree to do it. They ride on a big wagon and Johnny hacks the ATMs so Transmit could teleport and collect the money. They ride and Johnny wants to go to a bookstore to get Kasey a present, since Kasey wanted MBA books, which were expensive.

The cops go to the scene of the crime and Johnny, Transmit, Frostbite, and Kismet start running. Praetorian joins the cops as well and wonders where the villaisn are. The cops tell him that they are on a train, so they go to the station, where he gets on a train and finds the group of villains. Johnny starts running away from Praetorian who shifts his focus from his friends to him instead. When Johnny believes he had escaped, he turns around and finds The Gladiator looking at him and gets punched in the face.

Meanwhile, Johnny is caught and is sent back to Supermax. His cellmate tells him they should play chess, but Johnny is sad that he could not make a phone call.

### Five years later

Kasey works at a diner, where Johnny walks in wearing a suit and greeting her happily. Johnny apologizes, but Kasey tells him that she has nothing to say to him, so he should get out. He tells her that he had stolen to try to get them something nice for their wedding, but she does not want to hear it, feeling him betrayed. Johnny wonders what she was doing at a diner and asks what had happened to her MBA since she had a great power and was very smart. She tells him that she got expelled from her MBA since she had punched her professor who tried to sexually harass her. She tells him that she always had low grades and even as a villain always had to work as a team, telling him to get out. Carmine walks in the coffee shop scared and falls down. He asks them for help.

Johnny reads a journal in which he fantasized about being Electro Boy and being inducted into the Union of Justice. Meanwhile, Carmine slept scared and Kasey was not feeling well, telling Johnny that she could not believe that Carmine had tried scamming The Salamander's casino. Johnny worries that they could not get 100 million dollars and knows that Carmine would be killed if they could not pay. Kasey says that their only option is to get him out of the country, but Johnny says that he got info at Supermax, but Kasey will not listen to him and tells him to get out. However, Johnny does not think that's what the Carmine he knew would do. Johnny keeps reading about Electro Boy and smiles while reminiscing.

Carmine and Johnny visit Ghost, who tells them he cannot help because every one of Carmine's job always ended in a disaster. However, Carmine tells him that it was not his idea, but Johnny's. Ghost tells them he is no longer a villain and was doing a good job as an architect; Johnny asks him to do it for Carmine, so Ghost offers him to help him live out of the country as a way of gratitude for all he had done for him in the past.

TK leaves his job, but is told that he needed to unload a truck. He uses his powers to make it unload faster, but his boss gets angry at him, telling him that he could not use his powers. However, TK tells him that his wife would be fired if he did not make it back home in time. His boss tells him to put it all back and unload it once again, but Johnny gets there and tells him that he looks like he could use a new job. TK tells him he needs to stay out of trouble.

Forecast makes it rain so that people would buy him an umbrella. Johnny approaches him and knows that he was provoking all the rain.

The Diesel Brothers are in a cage fight, which Carmine and Johnny think is gross. In the fight, Roddy and Sammy end up winning and Johnny believes that he would definitely need their help in order for his plan to work out.

TK, Carmine, the Diesel Brothers, Ghost, and Forecast all join Johnny, who tells them that the legend of Electro Boy was about to begin. Kasey walks into the room and tells Johnny that his plan better work.

Johnny drinks while Kasey tells him to just tell them who the target was. Johnny tells her that she would know soon enough, but they needed another team member. Carmine wakes when Kasey mentions that a target was there.

Johnny greets Glenda, who tells him that he could not decide what to wear for their date. Johnny tells him that he thinks he looks better when he wears a suit that is tighter. Glenda asks what he means by that and Johnny tells him to have a seat, calling him Gladiator. Ghost mentions that Johnny is insane, but Johnny tells him that he knew who he was thanks to Supermax and also knew that he spent time cheating on his wife, which angers Gladiator, but Johnny threatens to send an intimate photo if he did anything to him. Gladiator asks what he wants and Johnny asks for help with a heist, which angers him even more, saying that working for him would never be meaningful to him. Johnny tells him that the heist was on an island south of Japan, which was off limits for the Union of Justice and The Network.

Gladiator, and all of Johnny's friends wonder if he really wanted to attack The Bastard, but Johnny mentions that Praetorian was also there, which sparked Gladiator's interest. Johnny tells him that The Bastard was enjoying his retirement, having opened Casino Grand Granite. Ghost counts himself out, but Kasey tells him that it could work as long as they got in unnoticed. Johnny tells Gladiator that it was a good chance to get back at Praetorian and also says that he could donate his share to an LGBTQ charity of his choice, also promising to delete those photos.

Johnny tells TK, Carmine, the Diesel Brothers, Ghost, Kasey, and Forecast that he knows there is one airport on the island which meant security would be tight. Kasey does not want to use her power since she could not make an illusion without preparing it enough. She could really only hide one or two people. They get on the plane and land on the island.

On the island, Ghost separates from the group and Johnny and Kasey open up briefcases where The Diesel Brothers were being stored. The rest would be taking a ferry, but they would also jump from the ferry. On the island, Gladiator arrives by swimming butterfly at an incredible speed.

Johnny, TK, Carmine, the Diesel Brothers, Ghost, Kasey, Gladiator and Forecast all take a break on the hot sprinks. Kasey puts on a disguise so that they do not see her naked and Johnny says that he is the only one who could see her like that, but she says that she was just not wasting effort on him. The Diesel Brothers tell Gladiator that they were sorry for how things had gone the last time they had encountered him, but he tells them to not talk to him, as he was only there to destroy Praetorian.

Ghost was quiet because he is nervous about attacking The Bastard, but Johnny tells him that they have a perfect plan. TK, Forecast, and The Diesel Brothers want to know about the plan, saying that the first part would be walking to Matts' front door.

At the casino, Carmine and Johnny walk in, with the former excited that all of it could be theirs. Ghost says that he did not know there were casinos like that in Japan. TK tries a game, but tries moving it when he lost. However Ghost stops him from using his powers. The Bastard looks out at the casino with Praetorian and both of them head to the VIP room to meet their guests from the middle east.

Kasey and Johnny look at a recreation Kasey had made of The Bastard's mansion, while The Diesel Brothers join them. Ghost wonders how she had done it without being detected by the superpower sensors inside, so she says that when she touches someone, she can read minds without the sensors detecting it. Carmine says that he had done his part and tells them that the main floor had standard superpower sensors and security, but Ghost says that the real problem are the underground rooms connected to the VIP rooms at the back. Forecast gets there late from taking a bath, as Gladiator joins them. Carmine tells them they would take The Bastards briefcase, which was actually a big vault on the inside. However, the real problem are all the sensors that can deactivate their powers. Carmine says that normally the unit is switched off, but if the sensors pick up a use of superpowers, then it turns on, so they need to deactivate the whole system. They want Ghost to use his powers in order to reach it, but he tells them that the island was huge, so he would lose track of where he was, so he would die. Gladiator tells them that they should just give up, but Johnny remembers that whenever a new supervillain has to be registered in the database, they update the software, but it also means the system must be rebooted, so they could destroy it then. Carmine tells them that they would split into two groups to enter the facility.

Carmine, Ghost, TK, Forecast, Johnny, the Diesel Brothers, and Kasey all toast. He thanks them and tells them that he liked that they had a sense of duty. Kasey wonders why Matts had made it so even he could not use his powers in his mansion, but Carmine knows that he hated superpowers. Johnny tells them that he had new outfits for their plan, which Gladiator refuses to wear.

Kasey sits alone at the beach, when Johnny joins her. Both of them walk together and Johnny asks if she would really leave, and she says that she would. He tells her that she had done a fantastic job and tells her that she could still do it, but she says that even though she had outgrown heists, she wanted to help The Heat. Johnny tells her that he knows he had done a lot of stupid things, but the stupidest of them all was letting her go. They look up at the sky and there is a banner which says "I'm sorry". Johnny tells her that he had finally understood and says that that would be the last time he ever did a heist. Both of them share a kiss after that.

As Johnny sleeps, Kasey looks at him and leaves. When she makes it to the airport, she tells Johnny that the plan was risky and she did not want to make the same mistake, hanging up on him.

Johnny, TK, Carmine, and Forecast accept that she had left them and agree that they would not use their powers. They plan to infiltrate the security room with the superpower suppression device, in order to force the unit to update. They make a small hole and make it underground, but an alarm starts to sound. They know that they cannnot use powers as many ninjas start heading towards them. Johnny accidentally uses his powers, which activates guns, so Carmine shoots them with his guns. Johnny starts an update, and realizes that they could now use their powers.

Johnny tells Carmine and TK that he believed they were in the right place. They are joined by The Diesel Brothers, Gladiator, and Ghost. Forecast joins them by making it snow, which Johnny believes would be a good idea for the fringes on the door. Once they freeze, Sammy uses metallic arms in order to rip the door off. They look down towards the vault which was all the way down and jump. Ghost looks through a wall in order to see how many guards there were behind a wall and they finally make it through.

Johnny tells them that there was one more trap, which detected anyone except for Matts and would rip them apart. However, there was a button to turn the laser off at the end of the corridor. The Diesel Brothers get ready to race to the button and take off running. The laser cuts through both Sammy and Roddy, but both of them regenerate quickly and keep running. After five minutes, Sammy finally manages to make it to the button and turns it off. Once they all walk across safely, it's time for Carmine to use his heat guns to melt the door. He does it quickly and they finally make it to the briefcase, where all the gold is stored. Carmine tells them the system would restart soon, so they start moving out.

TK tells Johnny that with the money he would take his family to Asia. The Diesel Brothers, Ghost, Carmine, Forecast, and Gladiator run with them as well when Praetorian shows up, telling them that they were as stupid as they looked. The Bastard talks through a PA system, asking if they really thought they could get away with it and asks why they would try to steal from him if they knew who he was. Johnny makes fun of him, telling him that was now too old to stop them. That makes The Bastard very angry, but the power suppression system reboots.

The Bastard tells Praetorian that he could now kill the group. Johnny tells Gladiator that it was now his turn to handle Praetorian. However, Gladiator takes his time while Praetorian punches Johnny in the face. Gladiator tells Johnny that he had been waiting to see him get hit. Even without powers, Praetorian seems to be taking his time defeating the villains.

Praetorian defeats all the villains, telling them that they were all worthless without their powers. Gladiator finally thinks that that had been enough and tells Praetorian that he could not believe how he had fallen, seeing that he was The Bastard's bodyguard. Praetorian tries punching him, but Gladiator grabs his wrist and reveals his face, which frightens Praetorian. Praetorian tries defending himself, but Gladiator is clearly much stronger and sends him flying back and slams him into the ground. Once Praetorian was defeated by Gladiator, Carmine asks if he was dead. Johnny tells Gladiator that he was not supposed to kill him since they never did that, but Gladiator says that he had only left him with some brain damage. Johnny says they should now leave.

Kasey waves towards Johnny, who was on a small boat and is brought on board. She hugs Johnny, but Carmine tells them that they need to leave, so they take off.

Ghost tells Kasey that she really had guts in order to do what she had done, as Gladiator smiles. Carmine also says that she followed the rules needed and calls her a great supervillain. Johnny tells her that she was the only one who had been able to go through all of that with her friends. Both of them hug and tell one another that they love them. Kasey tells him that they could now retire, which Johnny agrees with. Forecast, TK, The Diesel Brothers and the rest celebrate happily.

### One year later

Later, in a casino in Manila, Carmine had been able to pay off his 100 million dollar debt and chilled out as told by Johnny. TK took his family on a trip to East Asia, Forecast invested in space exploration, while Ghost used diplomatic pressure on the Greek government and bought a lot of land there while they were in a financial crisis. Roddy put every penny of his money into the development of a four-dimensional transport system, which meant his time machine was not a bluff and he had actually earned a doctorate from Princeton. Sammy spent everything on women and liquor, while The Gladiator made sure he could never get blackmailed again, confessing he had been disloyal to his partner, later marrying him.

Johnny still wanted to know what to do with Matts one year later because he knew that he loved vengeance. His old friend Tommy was working as a writer for *The New York Times* when he got a letter from "Electro Boy", which had the selfie the villains had taken when stealing from Matts. In the photo, the villains used The Salamander's gang's costumes. Tommy was left in shock by that.

Johnny and Kasey ride on a hot air balloon when Johnny points to the ground, asking her if she would marry him. He gets her a real ring, and she says she would think about them, kissing him.

## Trivia

* Despite being a crook with klepto tendencies, Johnny is nothing if loyal to his friends and loved ones. Even if he breaks a promise, he more than tries to make up for it to them.