While everyone else was fighting, I thought it may be best to know why this Insano was spying on everyone, and see why he thought this entire mess was so funny: "I'll repeat my last question. What are you doing here?"
"Just looking at the fruits of my labor, if you catch my drift." he answered, upon which he laughed out loud.
"No I don't catch it." I said, not giving off any emotion at all.
"Oh?" this appeared to surprise Insano, but not for long, "Well you see, ever wondered how they could still be making videos or upload it on the internet?"
"What do you mean?" I didn't know what he was talking about, "Everyone can do that. What does tha..."
I stopped mid-sentence. I remembered that on the first of June, an atomic bomb was detonated, some distance above the U.S.A. While it didn't kill anyone, it did cause an electro-magnetic pulse that destroyed all electrical circuits. I don't know all the details of how this is supposed to work, but it is possible for electrical equipment to survive such a pulse if it wasn't switched on when it happened. Since this bomb exploded at night, when most people are asleep, the chances of all electricity being switched of were slim. Even then, any power plant in the country can't provide any electricity, which would render everything useless either way. So if that's the case, then how could any of these people still be doing what they always did? Unless... this is when a possible answer came to me.
"You're getting it now, aren't you?" Insano asked me.
"You're the one who detonated that bomb?" I asked him.
Insano stopped laughing, for a few seconds before continuing: "Close enough. No, I had nothing to do with it, but I was aware that someone was trying. So I had to make sure that their stuff would still be operational for my plans. Two birds with one stone! I had to install something in their camera's and computers, and at the same time I had to be sure that EM-pulse didn't fry them."
"You just took advantage of the situation?" I asked him.
"You can say that." Insano replied, "Too bad, I had to rush things a little. The point was that the more they'd use their stuff, the more they'd become my own personal slaves."
I wasn't sure how that was supposed to work: "Er... what?"
Rather than answering my question, he continued: "But as you can see, instead they just completely lost it. But... maybe this is for the better. Most of the only people who can stop me are here, so if they manage to destroy each other... NOTHING CAN STOP ME!!!"
He laughed louder than before, but nobody could hear it with all the other noise that was made. I wasn't sure of what this guy was trying to tell me, and he didn't even use techno-babble. But from what I understood, he was rushed into bringing this grant scheme of his (whatever that may be) into fruition, which had some unforeseen side effects. I suppose that would explain what made everyone gone so far out there as they have. I didn't know what else to do, but after everything he told me, I knew that this guy could not remain on the loose. I decided to respond to the last thing he said.
"No THING can stop you." I said, "But some ONE can."
Being a practitioner of Jyuken, I was given some kind of special gloves. Their real purpose for this sport was still lost to me, but I always kept them with me, just in case. And this, I thought was a good time for me to put them on.
"You think you can fight me?" Insano didn't seem impressed.
He took off his lab coat, revealing that he was wearing what looked like a fighting machine. With it, he attacked first. Earlier, when someone was trying to throw a punch at me, I could easily dodge it. But since this guy's speed and strength was increased with that machine he was wearing, that in combination with my lack of sleep, I was no real match for this guy. I tried to throw a few punches at him, but missed each time. So if my own strength wasn't good enough, I thought maybe some magic should help. I took out my magi-phone, and tried to shoot some destructive beams at Insano's machine. Unfortunately, since the machine had me already a little battered, whatever I shot either missed, or hit but didn't cause enough damage. I suppose I should've used magic from the beginning, but I thought it to be a warrior's honor to try with one's own strength first. I still tried one last time to hit Insano with my magic, but he stepped on my arm before I could even raise it to aim.
He laughed: "You thought you could beat me? You could, but you had to use your strongest weapon when you're too weak to use it. Smart. Very smart! If I were you, I'd have won this fight long ago."
This is what got me thinking. This man, who had foreknowledge about the bomb and did nothing to stop it, and instead take advantage of it. Who would use a machine to fight against one man, namely me, of whom he didn't know whether he even had special abilities. In other words, even if I didn't have the things I had at my disposal, he'd still have used his machine. This man was a coward in many ways. And I quite nearly started to feel different about honor, but his words made me remember what honor meant. It helped me remember why I was part of this mess in the first place. This sudden realization, it had me clench my fists again, and I felt some kind of fire burn through me. A fire which this Insano must have seen, as he started to look scared. He stepped away and off my arm. I got up, somehow slowly recovering my strength. I still don't know exactly what it was that happened next, but what with me having been practising Jyuken, which basically helps you release your inner beast, I roared at Insano. This roar, somehow, was strong enough to throw him off this balcony and in the middle of the battlefield.
My roar was heard throughout the area. Even the giants fighting heard it, and seized their battle. They all turned to look at where it came from, where they could see Insano crashland among the whole group of people. Nobody knew what was more confusing, hearing the roar, or seeing a man fly as this one did, but once some of them recognized him, they forgot all about it.
"Isn't that..." Linkara wondered.
"It's Dr. Insano!" Spoony shouted.
Anyone else who recognized him started screaming and yelling.
"Who's Insano?" Ana wondered.
"He's a mastermind criminal." Razmere explained, "You don't want to deal with him. He's that dangerous."
Ana understood: "Wait a minute. He's alone, and we are in group. Don't we have an advantage over him?"
The Critic appeared to be the first to snap out of it: "Dunno who she is, but she's right. Get him!"
Everyone nodded in agreement, and they surrounded Insano.
