Dauntless said one word, one name. "Addison!"

"Wait! Dauntless whos Addison?!" I called after the hero as he raced off, leaving a trail of white lightning. Who was Addison? Wife? Daughter? Son? Someone of importance, I guessed.

A moment later, I was racing after the flying hero. The only way I could follow him was by the white streak he left behind. He was going fast, really fast.

Every footfall of mine thundered through the city. Every step broke the asphalt below me. I ran across a street, narrowly avoiding being hit by speeding cars. Civilians trying to escape before the Endbringer attacked?

I looked up into the sky, the trail behind Dauntless was fading. I need to go faster. He was going in a straight line.

Meaning, if I ran in a straight line, I would catch up with him. Only a couple of buildings would be destroyed. Ok, maybe several.

I put on an extra burst of speed. I headed for a department store directly in front of me. Turning to my side, I impacted the building with my shoulder. Glass shards landed on the ground. Passing by shelves of goods, I realized I was in a toy store. Only idiots would loot this place.

I smashed through a shelf before going through the back wall. Showering mortar and bricks everywhere.

I ran across another street, slowing just to see the trail made by Dauntless. I dodged a Honda Civic that tried to run me over. Man, what was with civics and this city.

I went through another building, I didn't care to see what store I was in. I just needed to get to Dauntless.

I ran right into an alley, I looked up. No trail! I couldn't see the trail. Claws grew from my fingertips, I launched myself up a building. I climbed up the structure by sticking my claws at least eight inches into the walls.

I pulled myself onto the roof. Looked about, I saw Dauntless as he streaked through the air. He was really far away.

I ran towards the edge of the building. Focusing on being lighter, I felt a shiver down my spine. Wings expanded from my shoulder blades. With a leap, I was off the building. A single beat of the wings sent me soaring into the air.

I steered myself in the direction of Dauntless.

The city looked very different from above. Still dirty, but it was a different angle. Looking about there didn't seem to be that much damage from the ABB's bombs. In fact, the only place that seemed damaged was the warehouse, which was a vast crater.

The sirens still ran that horrible screaming.

Dauntless dropped, he had arrived at his destination, it looked like.

It took me a little bit to catch up to where Dauntless had dropped. I soon as I was at the spot, I tucked my wings in and dropped. I whistled through the air, pulling the wings back inside my body. I reinforced my body, reverting it to its pre-flight state.

I landed on the road, sticking what would have been a perfect three-point landing. But when you weigh a considerable amount, you just end up going into the ground.

Before, I was the basic suburban house. Two stories, in a cherry red color, a little too bright though. The door had been kicked down, Dauntless was already inside. Looking for this Addison person. An abandoned moving truck was parked in front of the house.

I walked up to the pathway to the front door. My hand idly slid over the for-sale sign. I had to stoop a little to enter the house. A problem I fix quickly by knocking a few inches off my height.

"Dauntless?" I called out in the empty house. If the for-sale sign was anything to go by, whoever lived here was gone. There was almost no sign of anyone ever living here in awhile.

I entered the kitchen, it was odd to see a kitchen so empty. "Hey, Dauntless, whoever lived here is gone!" I tried calling out to my… Friend?

The silence was getting at me.

I tried the second floor. The floorboards creaked under my weight. I thought about becoming human to fix the problem. Instead, I settled for just switching what I was composed of a lighter material.

At the top of the stairs, I turned right. Down the hall were three doors; one on the right side, one on the left, and one directly down the hall. Only one was open, the one on the right. Silently, I made my way to the door.

I pushed the door open all the way, I stepped into the room. Dauntless was inside, he faced out towards the window. His helmet was off, I didn't see it anywhere.

"Dauntless, whoever you're looking for, they're gone."

Dauntless turned to me, his shining white eyes seemed to peer into my soul. "I left him," he stated simply.

I shook my head, "No, you didn't, you had no control over Bakuda. You didn't know she was going to use a time bomb on us."

"I could have fought her harder. I underestimated her." He clenched his fist, "I went easy on her."

"Dauntless…" I started and stopped. I didn't know what to say. "I'm sure whoever you're looking for, this Addison got out just fine. They have shelters for the Endbringer, right?" He nodded, "I'm sure they're fine, in a shelter right now." I tried to reassure the hero.

Dauntless shudder and let out a deep breath, he ran a gloved hand through the messy black hair. "You're right. Addison would have gotten to the PRT shelter."

"If you want, we can go check?" I asked the hero.

He nodded, "Yeah, let's do that."

No more could be said on my part here, I turned and left the room. I found my way out of the house and waited by the front steps.

It was a little bit before the hero emerged from the house. He still wore no helmet, though, which surprised me. Wouldn't you want the maximum amount of armor in an Endbringer fight? I made no comment, though.

"How far is the shelter?"

Dauntless shrugged, "few miles. Most of the Protectorate and the PRT personal lives quite close to it."

I nodded and gestured for him to lead the way. "If you fly low, I should be able to keep up." I started when the hero looked to walk.

The hero took off, he rocketed down the street. I followed closely after him.

It only took a couple of minutes to reach the shelter. What looked like a basic concrete building of fourteen by fourteen feet. Its door would have looked more in a place like a vault door. Dauntless stood in front of the door, the door was closed.

"I'm sure they made it inside," I stated as a finished the last leg of my run and stopped beside Dauntless.

"Yeah, I'm sure he did too," Dauntless spoke slowly

"Now let's go kill an Endbringer," I said, hoping to raise his spirits.

The hero laughed bitterly, "Now that would be something. Come." he held a hand out to me. At my pause, he added, "Pretty sure I can carry you now if you lose a little weight that is." he said the last part with a smile.

I made myself into the lightest I could and grabbed his hand.

We lifted off the ground, "What are you made of now." said the hero rhetorically.

We rose quickly, entering the building Cumulonimbus clouds. While the view became hazy, I was still able to see. Down below, I could see the waves batter the shore. There was a building with a couple of people flying into it, must be the rally point.

Dauntless set us down in front of the building. The build was tall and nothing else, there was nothing flashy about it that said Endbringer Rally Point.

We pushed open the doors, glass doors, I ideally noted. As soon as the doors were opened, I heard a man's voice talking, giving orders.

"-ink, you'll be the greatest assistance! The rest of you-" the man was cut off as someone yelled. Forcefields light up the far wall. The building shuddered and groaned. There was more yelling as one of the force fields failed.

Someone yelled something about strider, and all the capes where gone. Leaving Dauntless and I alone.

Dauntless grabbed me by the shoulder and yanked me out of the building and into the air.

Looking around, the only thing I could see was water. Water was everywhere, it washed over everything.

Up in the air, I could see the Endbrigner, the only way to describe it was, monster. The monster traveled at an impressive speed into the city from the water.

This was Leviathan, the second. The one that controlled water. Dauntless did say he was the least of the Enbringers. I watched as buildings were destroyed as the water rushed in from the ocean. If this was the least destructive Enbringer, I didn't want to meet the others.

And I was going to fistfight him, "Get me close to him, Dauntless!" I yelled over the howling wind and rushing water.

I didn't hear Dauntless' response, but we moved towards Leviathan.

Once we got closer, I yelled up to Dauntless. "I need you to drop me on him!"

Dauntless sounded surprised, "You sure?!"

"YES! Just drop me!"

And so he did, as I fell, I focused on one thing. Reinforce, be strong, and be fast. I smashed into the ground, the sound was deafening. On the ground now, I started to add height, swelled another three feet in a matter of seconds.

The Endbirnger had noticed my arrival, he turned around to face me. In all his four-eyed glory.

Then he rushed me, he wasn't fast, he was Fast. I barely had time to raise my hand before the monster collided with me. My arms reached out, grabbing hold of the Endbringer. Leviathan's claws slashed at my torso as I flipped him. I slammed the beast into the ground, brought my fist up for a punch. The monster moved, twisting out of my grip, I punched the ground.

Before I could bring up my defenses, a blast of water hit me square in the face. A shield expanded from my handhold off the water as it pushed my back. Water cut off, and I launched forward, right into Leviathan. This time he hit me with his claws and tried to get me with water from behind. My arm reached out, shifting to a blade, the blade hit the Endbinger on the cheek. Water spilled forth from the wound. I brought up a leg, and spartan kicked the monster back.

A salvo of lasers hit the monster while it was down. Funny, the laser didn't seem to actually do damage, in fact, nothing seemed to be doing damage. A soon as the salvo of lasers were done, I moved to attack the Endbringer again. Dodge a swipe of water I grabbed Leviathan and twisted it flipping it on it's back. My foot came crashing down, pinning the monster to the ground. Hey, it was good when you were the same size as the thing you were fighting. A geyser of water hit me in the chest, knock me off balance. Leviathan moved to get away, but a black blur crash into him. His tail knocked whoever the black blur was off to the side.

I was smashed into by water in the shape of the Leviathan. Huh, a water echo, that's what Dauntless was talking about.

My hands turned to blades, looks like I would have to try hacking and slashing. My blades were a blur as they lashed out, cutting into the monster. The cuts hardly did anything to him. Water that spilled forth from him looked fake, he didn't bleed water. He didn't bleed anything. He was kind of like me when I was in a solid form. Just a mass of solid, no liquid.

I would have moved forward if Dauntless hadn't chosen that moment to attack. He came from the heavens like a vengeful angel, no a vengeful god. White lightning danced off him as his shield slammed into the Endbringer from above. With a twirl of his spear, his scraped off a sizable portion of the monster's face.

The monster swiped with its claws. Dauntless raised his shield and blocked the attack. It was so impressive I could have stood there all day watching, but I knew I needed to help.

I pushed off the ground. My feet dug into the asphalt. I sailed through the air, a body slammed the monster just as Dauntless vertically cut the Endbringer from bottom to top. The hit made the monster stumble back, which was all the opening I needed. My massive hand wrapped around the beast's throat. And without heed, my body began to eat the monster. I was like some sort of acid eating into its neck. I understood what it was made of. Something I could replicate. It relied on outside powers to influence it, I couldn't replicate powers… yet.

We couldn't really harm it in its current state. Maybe I could, but only if I held Leviathan in my grip long enough.

The monster struggled harder, water, and claw hitting me over and over again. I began to dig myself into the ground. I sent out roots into the ground, as I continued to eat away at the Endbringer.

Maybe it would have worked, perhaps it wouldn't have.

I would never know because the black blur was back. The blur hit the Enbringer on the right side, pulling him from my grip.

Who was this muscle head? I thought angrily and followed after the Endbringer.

Leviathan was pushed over right into a building, which crumpled. I had to cringe as the thought of property damage crossed my mind for the first time ever.

Dauntless came down once more from the sky, slashing deep into the stunned Endbringer with his spear.

He would have done more if it wasn't for the warning that one cape screamed out. "Wave incoming!"

when you're fighting something that uses water, wave incoming can only mean one thing.

Before me, some parahumans rushed forward, forcefields sprung into existence. But based on what happened to the building before they wouldn't hold. The water smashed into the barriers, some began to flicker under the pure pressure.

With a running leap, I jumped over the barriers. I wasn't going to wait behind them like a pansy.

A geyser of water sprang up before me, I dodged it. The black blur from before hit Leviathan again. I was finally able to get a semi-good look at them; it was a caped woman wearing black and greys. She managed to get her arm hooked around the monster neck, forcing the Endbringer into a chokehold. She pulled him onto the ground, stupid, did she want to drown?

Before Leviathan could push, the cape underwater, hit him with a solid punch. Someone hit the Endbringer with a beam of red energy, I could see that it did at least some damage to the monster.

I thought back to my fight with Lung, I beat him by escalating faster than he could. Becoming bigger and stronger. That's what I needed now, I needed to become bigger and stronger.

I felt a shiver down my spine, alerting me to change. I could feel the effects immediately, I began to tower higher.

All of the sudden, Dauntless was floating beside my head. "You got any idea on how to beat this thing!" he yelled over the fighting.

I watched as a flying mech launched missiles at the monster, they hardly did anything.

"You're able to harm him!" I answered the hero.

Dauntless rolled his shoulders, "I can't stay long enough! Afraid someone's going to hit me!"

I could understand that, with so many capes in one spot, and they all had the same target. I was surprised there wasn't more friendly fire going on.

"We need to get him away from the rest of the fighters. I'll restrain him, and you hit him with everything you got!" I added as an afterthought, "Don't worry about hitting me!"

The hero nodded, and we moved forward together.

Now easily twice the size of Leviathan, I grabbed hold of him and pushed him. It was a tactic bullies used a lot. I slammed the Endbirnger into the side of a building, he tried to twist out of my grip, but this time I had him. Dauntless slammed into the monster head, his spear carving off its face. The Leviathan responded by hitting me in the face with water, temporarily blinding me. When the water caught off, I was still holding the monster, which was missing half its face.

"Hit it in the body!" I yelled, hoping Dauntless would hear me.

I pushed the Endbringer more into the building, nearly going through the building.

Dauntless must've have heard me as he was between Leviathan and I spearing the monster in the chest. The more I pressed on the Endbringer, the more water hit me.

I looked up beyond Leviathan and beyond the building. Incoming was the most concentrated massive wave I had ever seen. It destroyed everything in its path, and it was headed right for Dauntless and I.

My chest opened up, and inky black tendrils grabbed Dauntless, pulling him inside me. The wave hit, Leviathan, the building, and millions of tons of water crashed into me. I released Levitan, focusing on protecting my chest, where Dauntless was being protected.

I spoke into the chamber that held Dauntless, "Massive wave," I stated simply.

I rocked back on my heels, just a couple seconds, and the wave would be gone.

Finally, the wave settled at a less threatening height. My chest opened, and Dauntless flew out, looking slightly confused.

He looked at me strangely, his mouth at an odd angle, "Don't do that again!" he yelled.

I nodded and looked around for Leviathan, dam he moved fast. Already a block away, and the wave only lasted a couple of seconds.

Time to grapple with an Endbringer once more. And this time, he wasn't getting away.