A cape attacked Leviathan. Large chunks of asphalt were ripped from the ground and thrown at the monster. Every hit made the beast stagger. The attack cut off when Leviathan sent a blast of water down the street, presumably hitting the parahuman.

Leviathan made to move down the street but was caught when a barrier of golden light blocked his path. His claws hit the forcefield, sending a spider web of cracks across it.

But that momentary pause was what Dauntless and I needed to catch up to the Endbringer. Dauntless swung his spear, and an arc of energy flew from it. It caught the monster in the heels. Knocking the Endbringer from his feet.

I hit the Endbringer just as it pulled itself to its feet. The monster dug its feet into the ground, we were at a standstill. The creature's claws lashed out, ripping my chest to shreds. I could care less for the harm that was caused to me due to my regeneration.

Dauntless hit the Endbringer in the back, the force of his blow pushing the Endbringer forward into me. My hands latched onto his head, with a great flick of my wrist, I twisted his neck. If Leviathan had any semblance to normal physiology, his neck would have been broken. But alas, he didn't, and all it accomplished was make the Endbirnger's head face the wrong direction.

A blast of water hit Dauntless, sending the hero spiraling out of control.

I flipped the Endbringer over my body into a building across the street. A blue armored figure got between me and the Endbrigner, Armsmaster. His halberd lashed out, cutting the Endbringer across the chest, the cut was deep. Water seeped from the wound. Armsmaster cut the Endbringer once more, his weapon seemed to be harming Leviathan.

Leviathan was forced into the building, it seemed to be trying to get away from the deadly halberd wielding cape.

I needed to get back into the fight, but Armsmaster was in the way.

Blades of metal rose from the ground, trapping Leviathan. They couldn't hold the Endbringer, not with the strength it had. All it did was hinder Leviathan for a second.

I felt the shiver and let myself go, I dissolved into a liquid. I spread across the ground, like my fight against Oni-Lee. But this time, I was all in the ground, I no longer held a human-like shape. It was my first time using a non-sentient form.

I traveled across the ground, like an inky black tidal wave.

As my senses spread across the ground, I felt Leviathan turn to run but was stopped. By what I didn't know.

Then I felt it, something was coming from underground. Leviathan was pulling the water from under the city.

The storm drain exploded just as I pulled myself back into a human-like state. Right in front of Armsmaster.

The water hit me like a freight train, I focused on a shield, something to protect the people behind me. The water continued to hit the shield I had formed. I was forced back, I made a spike extend from my heels, digging into the ground. It held me in place as I fended off thousands of pounds of water.

I knew the water would stop. Eventually, all I could do was endure.

Armsmaster yelled something I couldn't hear.

I felt the water taper off. I pulled the shield back into my body, catching the tail end as Leviathan rushed off head deep into the city. I felt like we had almost forced him out of the town.

It made me wonder, what if we forced him inland, away from the ocean? I destroyed that idle thought, it wouldn't help me now.

Dauntless flew right at the Endbringer, his shield hit the monster in the side. The Endbringer was forced off balance. I rushed forward my arms expanded, I grabbed hold of the Endbringer from behind. Water rushed over me, but I weathered it.

Dauntless dodged a swipe from the Endbringer's claws before he juked upwards, narrowly avoiding Leviathan's deadly tail.

Dauntless swung his spear in the air, and a blast of energy was released from it. The explosion hit Leviathan, not doing as much damage as when Dauntless was up close.

I pulled myself close using my arms as impromptu grappling hooks. My knee smashed into the Endbringer from behind. I pushed him down, an arm springing from my back to hold his tail in place as it thrashed. I grabbed his arms to keep them in place also.

I yelled out to Dauntless, "Cut his head off!"

Dauntless came down a second later, he stabbed his spear into the base of Leviathan's neck. With a grunt, he pushed the spear through the monster's neck. Pulling the spear out, he swung it once more, it only made it halfway through the monster neck.

Leviathan exploded, water came out of him from every direction. It blasted Dauntless away. I hoped he was ok. I stood firm, my knee firmly placed into the monster back.

It was now or never, I began to eat into the Endbringer, but this time I was focused. I ate through him, like a worm. Twisting and turning, making tunnels into his body, the further in, the harder it got. I tried to go faster, but he just got tougher.

I needed to make sure I wasn't thrown off him. I let myself fully enter him, like an infection, I spread. My body disappeared slowly.

Soon I would not have a body outside the body of the Endbringer. It was strange to be a parasite, I no longer had any sight, I could see what was going on.

I twisted and turned, looking for something important. He was made of layers, and every layer got stronger.

It was slow going, but I began to subsume the monster, turning it's flesh to mine. I was living up to my name, for in these moments, I was indeed the Usurper. Huh, I should add a 'The' to my name. The Usurper.

I sent part of my self to his head, to blind him. Other parts I sent to his limbs. Soon, I thought.

Then I found it, his core. His heart.

My inky black tendrils entered it, spreading through it. It was tough, so very tough. I felt the one that I sent to his head finally cut off his vision. Another got his arm, his left arm. Then his right. Then I got his right leg. Leviathan stumbled but didn't fall. His tail, his left leg. I felt the Endbringer drop, unable to control his limbs. He futilely flopped his body.

I entered the core finally after assaulting it for so long. The core was different than what I expected.

It was a series of links, links to what gave it its power. I examined every link before I began to subsume them, taking them for myself. After I took control of the links, I further examined them. They all controlled a different aspect of Leviathan's power. One liquid kinesis, while useful it was limited to the macro scale. Meaning if I used that power, I would have no fine control. I also wondered why it limited itself to water. The next power was much more useful, density control. It was what the Endbringer used to control how robust its body was. It made me wonder why didn't it make itself tough when I attacked it internally. Oh well, he was gone, I had his powers. I examined the next link, this one was interesting, matter creation, limited to liquids. It was how he created the water echo and the bleeding effect. Another thing that made me wonder, why limit itself to water? It was like it had a specific role it had to function in, it wasn't allowed to stray any bit from that role.

Ah, another link, this one was what allowed for sight. Leviathan could have projected his sight anywhere in the world. Basically, it was like remote viewing through a camera. It also allowed for view all across the electromagnetic spectrum. X-ray, Ultra-violet, visible, infrared, radio, microwave, gamma. Incredibly useful, but some of those I probably already had.

Look! Another link. This one was used for projecting a physical body. Must be how Endbringers' got their bodies, they were just a collection of these links.

But, here was yet one more link, the last link. A control link, this link was like the center for control. It was the mind of the Endbringer. I crushed it, I didn't want anything to do with the mind of this monster.

Now it was my time to leave, the Endbringer was dead. And I had extracted everything of use from it. I pulled myself back to the place I had entered and pulled my body back to its human-like shape.

I startled Dauntless, who was standing by the hole I had created in Leviathan.

"Shit!" He swore and flew several feet away in the air. "That's freaky."

I laughed as I applied the finishing touches to my body, giving it a more human look. Features, useless, but they made me look and feel a little more human. God knows I needed it after what I had done.

Dauntless' eyes darted over my body. Obviously, he noticed the change. "I thought something had happened to you when you disappeared from the fight." He brushed a hand through his hair. 'But, when I saw the hole in Leviathan, I had a pretty strong guess where you were. Especially when Leviathan went crazy at the end. What did you do?" He sounded a little fearful.

He had every reason to be. I was an amnesic-shapeshifting-demon-killer-alien-immortal-Endbringer-slayer-thing from the deepest reaches of hell.

"I killed him, completely and utterly. Leviathan is dead now and forever."

Dauntless nodded slowly, "Yeah, you did a number on him. But it doesn't matter how you killed it. What matters is you killed an Endbringer. Something no one has been able. These things." he stabbed the Endbringer with the butt of his spear. "They have been destroying people's lives, ruining cities, countries. They are the single point of the greatest evil thing in the world. And you have killed one." he pointed a finger at me. "You have brought hope back to a bleak world. And back there," He moved the focus of his finger behind him where I could see dozens of capes. "The world, its eyes turn to you, for strength, and for hope. You are the champion of the world-." Dauntless was cut off mid-sentence by a scream.

"HE KILLED LEVIATHAN!" A very shrill voice screamed.

It was at that moment that I learned what it was like to be a celebrity. All the capes that were involved in the fight all ran at me. Or instead, they ran at Dauntless and me.

From all sides, they came, running, flying. Someone threw confetti in the air. It was unreal.

"How did you do it?" Asked a young red cape in red armor.

'Uh." I pointed at the hole that I entered through. "Well, I got inside him and ate his insides. He had a core once I destroyed that he died."

"Awesome!" Said the young cape.

He has then shoved aside. Much older cape, a woman. "I can't thank you enough for what you have done."

"Yeah." I shrugged, "Anytime."

There was a tap on my shoulder. I turned around; it was the cape from before. The red armored one. "How did you eat him?"

"I absorbed him," I answered simply.

I looked at the dead monster's face. Some and spray painted glasses and mustache on the monster's face. Why they had spray paint during an Endbringer fight, I didn't know.

"What's your name?" Asked a cape-wearing a hockey mask.

"The Usurper," I said, trying to detach myself and get away from the mob.

"Are you a villain?"

"No, I'm a hero." I sighed. Maybe my name was too edgy.

There was a cape carving their name into the Endbringer's body. I watched as they used lasers that emitted from their hands to carve the name, Laserdream. I shrugged whatever.

"Usurper!?" called out a familiar voice, Dauntless he pushed his way through the crowd of parahumans.

"Could you do it again?" A short blonde girl in green, a green visor obscured her face.

Dauntless spared me from answering, "Yes, Vista, he could do it again."

"Dauntless?" she asked, "What happened to your helmet?"

Dauntless sighed, "I left it behind. I didn't feel like I needed it anymore."

"Oh." was the response from Vista.

"Hey, Vista, do you think you could get us out of her."

She looked happy to be needed. "Of course."

Space warped, and we were only a step away from getting out of the crowd and into the street.

"Thanks, Vista." Said Dauntless, and we stepped forward out of the crowd.

"That's a useful power."

"Tell me about it. And the PRT just wants to use her for PR things." Dauntless said tiredly. "Now as I was saying, before-" he was cut off again.

"Dauntless, I would like to speak to the one who slew the Endbringer." interrupted a male voice.

Looked beyond my friend, floating behind him was a cape. He wore a flowing green cloak. Beneath his cloak, he wore sculpted armor, with a featureless mask that was lit up with green lights.

I didn't know who this guy was, but Dauntless seemed quite impressed with him if the way he looked up to the other hero was any indication. "Of course, Eidolon." Dauntless stood aside to allow the cape to float forward.

"I listened to what Dauntless told you. It's true now that you have killed an Endbringer. The world will look to you. There are many things you can do from this moment on. I hope that you will make the right choice. The way to make that right choice is to always remember that you are a hero first and foremost." he gestured to me, "It doesn't matter what you look like or what you call yourself, Usurper. You are a hero. And keep in mind I believe that you and Dauntless hold much promise. I can't speak for the rest of the Triumvirate, but I believe that they hold the same view as myself."

"Thank you, I will keep that in mind," I said to the hero.

Eidolon nodded, "Please do." with those words, he left.

I felt there was something I needed to tell him, but I couldn't remember what it was. It escaped me, like my memories.

"What now?" I asked Dauntless. "What do we do?"

Dauntless ran a hand through his hair, "I need to make sure Addison is okay." he gestured off.

I understood his meaning, "Go find him, I'll just be hanging around."

The hero's eyes shined with appreciation, "Thank you." the hero lifted off the ground. A moment later, he was gone. I was sure Addison would be fine.

I turned back to the capes. They were still crowded around the dead Leviathan. Something told me they would be there for a while.

I had other things I wanted to do, such as check out Leviathan's powers. I looked through my mental library, found the link, and copied it.

I felt no change, besides know that I had the link. Did it work? Had I messed up. Only one way to test it.

I reached out to the water, physically and mentally. I commanded it, I pulled upon it. For a few agonizing moments, nothing happened. Then I saw it, trickling from all directions was water. I pulled again, but this time, I pulled hard. I pulled the water from all around. It was still slow. I pulled, I yanked, violently upon the link.

The roar of water could be heard. It washed through the city head for me. I had called it, it had answered. I stopped pulling and tried holding it in place. It all stopped. It seemed with every use, it became more comfortable to use.

This time I reached for the water in the streets. The unwanted water. I left the water in the pipes alone, the water below me alone.

With a push, I pushed all that water away back into the ocean. Back where it came from.

I stopped, the water was gone. The road around me was dry. Perfectly dry. I looked to the capes would they notice? Maybe, most likely not, they were too busy celebrating. As they should be.

I collapsed the link. It faded into nothing. While I could certainly use it, lots of practice would be needed.

Next, I created the density control link, probably the one that would be most useful to me. I controlled the density of my body. Like turning a dial, the more my density would increase. Turn the dial the other way, and the density decreases. It was a quick fix to make me stronger with fewer drawbacks.

I would certainly keep this one.

The others I was uninterested in.

I turned away from the dead Endbringer, I walked towards the ocean. I would wait for Dauntless there.

After all, I couldn't remember the last time I had seen a beach. Hopefully, they had a beach here, if they didn't, I would just have to make one.

As I walked, I contemplated my situation. How long had it been since I awoke here? It felt like a matter of days. But once I really thought about it had been days, the time bubble really messed things up.

I walked through the empty streets, everything looked wrong. All the people were gone, that's what was wrong. It's funny to take away the people, and what was this place? Just a jungle of concrete, an empty husk. People are what make cities worth something.

And that was why so many came to fight the Endbringer. They didn't just go because it was the big bad, well, maybe some did. But most, they came to try to make sure this city survived. Even for how bad it was.

I stepped through a doorway, well half a door. The rest of the building was gone. Scattered around the area. I could see the ocean, it was calm.

Was there such a thing as the calm after the storm? Or was this just the calm before the storm? Would a storm hit Brockton Bay so soon after the last storm?

AN: Here is another chapter, because I mess up and posted the same chapter twice.