A few minutes earlier, Payne was in the fight with an army of invaders, along with the others. The only problem, at times he felt obsolete, as all he could rely on were his guns, while all the rest could use their own strength. Even Stupendous Man's ego was enough to win against the rest. Where does that leave Payne. At some point, he realized something. There were six heroes who disappeared, according to eyewitness reports he read, each by a different person. Of those six, five of them were attacking them, and the sixth was chasing Red and those two women. Which made him wonder, since all six were accounted for, who's that other person that attacked Jasmine's colleague? If that other person was strong enough to take down an S.P.D. agent, will the three headed towards him or her be enough? He couldn't be sure, but since he wasn't serving much purpose where he was then, he decided to follow them. When he saw one of these flying machines, he thought he could take his chance. All of them were like nasty bugs, that kept flying all around you, giving you an idea where the expression "bugging" comes from. With that in mind, all Payne had to do was wait for one of them to fly low enough, jump on it and ride it towards the others. It sounded easy in his mind, but once he got on one of them, steering it into the right direction was far from easy. Still, he managed to get out of that fight.

Unfortunately for Payne, he had overestimated everyone. Spider-Man, for one, was getting too old to fight, the Thing was getting tired more easily than he used to, Stupendous Man's ego started to backfire, and with this lax support, Donatello was starting to lose the fight.

Meanwhile, Red used his psychic monster to heal Dekaswan and Dekablue's wounds, while Payne had found the Dragonite, along with Elektra and Jasmine.

"You all right?" Payne asked the two women.

"We were just about to take him down when something distracted him." Elektra answered.

"This Paragon they're searching for..." Jasmine started, "... I think it's a person."

"Must be that metallic woman we saw." Payne realized, "Red somehow got her to return to them."

"Sounds good to me." Elektra stated.

"Where's everyone else?" Jasmine asked.

"They're fighting the rest of the invaders." Payne answered.

"A whole army of invaders? By themselves?" Jasmine wondered, "Nobody can survive that."

"Which is why we better join them." Payne suggested.

"If only that Stupendous Man really had Stupendous Man's powers." Elektra sighed.

This gave Jasmine an idea: "That's it! Payne, where's Red?"

"Er... he's down there helping your friends." Payne answered.

Without another word, Jasmine ran to Red.

Dekablue and Dekaswan, who deactivated their suits and were just Hoji and Swan again, were still dizzy from earlier events.

"Red!" Jasmine exclaimed, to which the young boy turned, "You got a monster that can project people's minds?"

Though Jasmine spoke Japanese, which Red understood, he wasn't sure why she was asking. He nodded to her question either way.

Donatello, the Thing, Spider-Man and Stupendous Man were rounded up together. The invaders had them surrounded, so there was nothing they could do.

"They had some nerve to stop us." Brigade remarked.

"You have to admit they were quite formidable at what they were doing." Fault Zone said.

"Yeah, unlike that other hero." Johnny remarked, "I'm ashamed to know he and I have the same name."

When the Thing heard that, he started to get a little pumped: "You talkin' about my old..."

"Be quiet!" the Wink told him, "You escaped us once, but not again."

Those little mind-controlling devices, the Wink gave everyone one each.

"Oh, you gotta love those things, sticking into your head." Spider-Man remarked, "Don't we all like to get our heads hit by a train every now and then?"

"This is a really bad time for jokes." Donatello said.

"Stupendous Man won't back down!" Stupendous Man said.

When he said that, something weird happened. Whatever Stupendous Man wore as a suit before somehow changed. From what was a make-believe suit of the comic book character it changed into the actual suit of the comic book character. In that form, he started to run around, real fast, taking those devices away from these invaders. Once that was done, he destroyed those things with his bare hands, after which he flew, jumped, punched kicked,... until all of the invaders were beaten. Once that was over, his suit changed back into the make-believe.