This is an unused chapter from Episode 2 Time is Power. A scene where the Pricefield couple returns to the American Rust after Max's appointment with her psychiatrist and before returning to Blackwell for her school day. Enjoy.

Super Max

Max

April 11, 2014

7:27 AM

Arcadia Bay, Oregon

American Rust Junkyard

Chloe and I drive the truck back to the American Rust where we had shot some bottles that week between us. My girlfriend parks the truck in the usual spot by the fence and we hop out to have some fun. She wanted to take me back here again so I could test my new powers I've been receiving for the past six month now.

Six months have passed by since I picked my poison to doom the bay just for my bae and somehow I just so managed to not create another storm with powers. I hadn't used them a whole lot as much as I did that week. Considering how more tempted I was with my power that week, it was the more reason being the storm occurred to begin with. Chloe and I had agreed with each other that I wouldn't use my power as many times as I had that week just to avoid another supernaturally colossal disaster in town.

We would at least play around with my power once a month in the junkyard to stay on the safe side. It would at the very least be our saving grace from inadvertently causing another storm to strike the bay down and wipe out hundreds of more Arcadians in the blink of an eye. We've also agreed that I wouldn't use my power for my own benefactor. Another reason being the storm had been on it's way for the most part. Rest assured, all in the past now. There was better things to look forward to in the coming future.

"So, ready to put your super powers to the test again, Super Max?" asked Chloe. "I really should start calling you that from now on. You'd make a good superhero for the Avengers or Justice League."

"The Avengers or Justice League, Chloe?" I ask. "Next thing I know, you'll want to put me in Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters."

"Isn't Professor Xavier the Patrick Stewart character from the X-Men franchise? That's him right?"

"That's right. I look forward to seeing him reprise his role in Days of Future Past."

We hop out of the car and enter the junkyard through the gate. Six months ago we not only came here to help Chloe with her aim and rewinding to keep her from shooting herself, but also to find Rachel's body which had become the most devastating moment in Chloe's life since the death of her father. The sins of her father didn't compare to the sins of Blackwell's beloved daughter. The hole we had dug up to find the body was still there, but we never bothered to revisit Rachel's burial only to relive a tragic memory. Like Rue dying in the Hunger Games.

This junkyard had also been the tomb of Nathan Prescott when the police recovered his body elsewhere. This dump had become a mausoleum of where good people of Arcadia go to die. The sins of others. And now we used this tomb as a training ground for my time powers. What a way to pay respects to the dead. Not that anyone would be honored to be buried here to start with anyhow. We both enter the junkyard to where Chloe wanted to play around with my powers. Seeing how she already had things set up for my powers to be used on.

"Alrighty, Max," said Chloe. "I managed to set up some bottles over in the usual spot. Figured we try and shoot some down like we've done before."

"We're shooting bottles again, Chloe? Really? I mean the last time we did this I had rewind to be sure you didn't shoot yourself. Remember?"

"I was thinking we could perform a fancy technique with your power while doing all the shooting. You see all those bottles over there? I managed to scrap a full stack of them so you would be able to use your time stop on time them and I could perform a trick with my bullets."

"And how will I perform a time trick with my time stop with your bullets?"

"Think about it, Max. It's something I learned from the laws of physics. The quantum theory. Say if you were able to use your freeze power on those beer bottles. If I were to shoot a bullet or two into that freeze bubble you manifest from you powers, the bullet would halt itself in stasis, then eventually penetrate through the glass when your time bubble wears out. And here's the cherry on top of the sundae, the more bullets I fire into that thing, the more bottles I can shoot simultaneously. Does that make sense?"

"Gee, Chloe. I didn't know you were that intelligent with something as scientific as the quantum theory or physics. When did you ever get yourself into that stuff?"

"Remember watching Bill Nye the science guy when we were kids? That one episode where talks about physics? Such a memorable episode of mine even to this day."

"Right...I remember now. Six, seven, eight years from then. So are we doing this or what?"

"I'm ready when you are, Max. You may fire when ready."

"Right back at ya."

Chloe aims her pistol at the bottles. I take a deep breath before using my powers. I shoot my time stop at the stack of bottles and Chloe shoots one round into it. When Chloe's bullet freezes in my time stop field, the field wears out within seconds and the bullet smashed through a bottle. Surely, we could do better than shooting one bottle to bits.

"Well that was lame," said Chloe. "Shoot me another one. I'll try shooting two bullets this time instead of one."

Same process as before. I thrust my hand to shoot another time field and Chloe fires two round from her pistol instead of one. The field wears out and two bottles are shattered spontaneously from the two rounds.

"Okay, that's more like it," said Chloe. "Now for three rounds."

"You sure you have enough bullets in that clip to be adding more rounds?" I ask.

"There were ten bullets in this clip," she answered. "I've been keeping count. Fire away."

For the third time in a row, I thrust another time field into the stack of bottles and Chloe shoots three rounds into the field. The time field shuts down and three bullets flickered through three green glass bottles. It just kept getting better.

"Boom! I'm on roll, Maxi-roo! That's how it's done!"

"Ha, at least you didn't shoot your eyes out like the Christmas Story."

"One more time, Max. Four more rounds and my clip is empty."

One more time, I activate my time stop power on the stack of bottles. Chloe shoots four bullets into the field and four bottles burst into glass when the field run out.

"Scoreboard reads Chloe Price: Ten! Laws of Physics: Zero! They shall call you Max the Avenger!"

I laugh.

"I would not last two minutes with the Avengers!" I chuckle.

"Sure you will. Maybe you can take on Loki's forces in New York City. Or maybe you can get punched in the face from the Incredible Hulk just like Thor."

"Har har. I get punched in the face by the Incredible Hulk, I would die with one blow. I'm not some god of Asgard who wields around a hammer and survives getting punched to side thirty feet in the air."

"No, but your like a time goddess who can travel through time using Polaroid you take of yourself. You know what I mean."

"Don't even get me started. I'm all done traveling time via Polaroids. Out of all the superheroes who should join the Avengers, Peter Parker/Spider-man is more likely best suited. Not me."

Note: I thought about adding more to this oneshot, but I must get back to work on the finale. This oneshot may have been a little rushed, but I have a much bigger endeavor to complete. I may write one more oneshot before episode 6 is done or after completion. In the meanwhile, I'll finish what've I've begun to keep you tuned in to my exciting finale of my fan fiction sequel.

Thank you.