Chapter 1

(Third Person P.O.V.)

It was a cool Saturday evening in the city of Del Oro in the beautiful State of California, as a young Japanese high school girl was sitting in her apartment there, writing in her diary about the insane events that she had witnessed and experienced. This girl was Yuuko Kinoshita.

She spoke aloud to herself as she wrote, "I remember it like it was yesterday! I am writing this to remind myself this is real! it started a month ago when our school went on a field trip to N-Tek headquarters by the way of Akito Yoshii, the older brother of my boyfriend and schoolmate Akihisa Yoshii."

Flashback

Exactly one month ago, at N-Tek headquarters, Akihisa and Yuuko were hanging in the doorway to a lab where they tested their high tech Extreme Sports equipment, speaking to Akihisa's older brother Akito.

Akito was tall and fit, he had a darker shade of brown colored hair and eyes from Akihisa's and his hair was spiked and reached just a little bit down the back of his neck. He wore a Navy blue business suit with a dark red tie, a white button up shirt underneath and black shoes.

"Akihisa, I'm sorry I couldn't be there for you, I only recently found out what was happening and going on with you at home and at school, if I had found out sooner I could and would have acted sooner. I'm so very sorry." Akito said this to Akihisa with guilt and regret in his voice as he hugged him.

"Akito, big brother, it's okay, it's not your fault, I suffered a lot, but not because of you, you only wanted what was best for me and for me to live and have a happy life. You were the one who was actually trying to be responsible and actually genuinely cared about me. Not like our parents who didn't bother trying to teach me to be responsible and make good and smart life choices and our sister Akira and her creepy and disgusting incestuous little brother complex." Akihisa said as he returned the hug his elder brother was giving him.

"Still, is there anything I can do to make it all up to you Akihisa?" Akito asked as she stopped hugging Akihisa and had his hand on Akihisa's shoulders as he looked him in the eyes with a concerned look on his face.

But before Akihisa could say anything, a very loud alarm was going off, and a computerized voice was repeatedly saying "SECURITY BREACH! INTRUDER ALERT!" over the building's P.A. system.

"Big Brother, is everything okay?!" Akihisa asked his brother Akito with a worried and confused expression and tone of voice.

"Yes and no, look Akihisa I'll explain later, for now you and Yuuko both need to go rejoin your fellow students and follow N-Tek's security personnel to a safe location!" Akito ordered as he ran off in a hurry to deal with the emergency.

"Come on Akihisa, you heard your older brother, we need to go now!" Yuuko bleated as she grabbed Akihisa's arm and pulled him along to go find and rejoin their teachers and fellow students.

After rejoining their group, the Fumizuki Academy students and teachers were all being safely led outside the building by N-Tek Security Personnel. As they exited the building Akihisa saw what looked like a tall white man with blonde hair and wearing a blue muscle shirt and had what looked like a metal prosthetic arm enter the building through the back.

Security personnel tried to intercept and stop the man but he quickly dispatched of them, first by grabbing one of them and throwing him into one of the other guards, then he took out the third guard with a swift back spinning heel kick, then after that knocked out the fourth and final guard in his way with a hook punch from his cybernetic metal prosthetic arm.

The man then approached our group, "GET AWAY FROM US AND OUR STUDENTS!" Iron Man shouted as he charged at the man and tried to hit him with a pro wrestling style running clothesline, only for the man to do a slight sidestep and block it and counter with a straight punch to Iron Man's face and then grabbing his arm and hitting him again in the face, this time with a headbutt, before grabbing Iron Man's head with his free arm and delivering a painful knee strike to his gut that knocked the wind out of him, before letting go of him and transforming his cybernetic metal arm into a large pincer claw that held and surrounded Iron Man's entire body and lifted him up into the air and threw him through one of the glass windows of the building.

At the sight of the weapon that beat Iron Man and knowing that while on the other side of the world they were far too out of range to summon their avatars, the teachers ran which made most of the students stampede out! the only ones not to get away were Yuuko who got knocked over and Akihisa who ran to help her.

The man then slowly approached Yuuko and Akihisa, possibly with the intent to use one or both of them as hostages, "Whoever the hell you are, keep you damn robo-appendages away from her!" Akihisa said as he bravely stood between the man in front of him and Yuuko

"Trust me kid, you'll want to stay out of my way if you know what's good for you." The man said as he stared down Akihisa, who then charged at the man and tried to hit him with a flying side kick, only for the man to dodge it and and send Akihisa flying back with a back kick, knocking Akihisa down hard on to the floor.

The man then approached Yuuko and grabbed her with his metal pincer claw mode arm, just as Akihisa's elder brother Akito Yoshii showed up.

Akito then shouted angrily, "GET AWAY FROM HER AND MY YOUNGER BROTHER, PSYCHO!" which distracted the man long enough for Akihisa to get back up to his feet and charge at the man holding Yuuko hostage and punch him, which not only made him let go of Yuuko, but also knocked his face right off therefore showing that it was not his real face but a mask.

The man then lifted his head showing his true face, which looked like that of a skull but made of metal with glowing red bionic eyes. A sight that horrified all who saw it, especially and most of all Akihisa, his elder brother Akito and Yuuko.

"Y-Your face!" Akihisa said in both fear and disbelief as he could not believe what he was seeing.

The man with the metal skull like face now known simply as Psycho then threw Yuuko at Akito, momentarily knocking both of them to ground and grabbed Akihisa with his claw while he was still distracted from being in shock at seeing Psycho's real face, just Akito and Yuuko both got back up to their feet.

"Unless you want me to break your precious younger brother in half, you'll give me the nano-probes that N-Tek has been developing and working on!" Psycho said to Akito as he held Akihisa in the air with his currently in claw mode bionic arm.

"Okay fine, I'll take you to where we have them. Once you have what you want you give me back my younger brother!" Akito said with a serious tone of voice and facial expression as he opened a door leading to an elevator that took them all to a lower level of N-Tek.

The elevator doors then open and Akito along with Yuuko lead Psycho, who still has Akihisa hostage to the door of a room that Akito opens to reveal a giant tank full of some kind of green colored liquid.

Psycho then pulls out a container and fills it with the green liquid from the tank. "There, you got what you wanted, now give me back my younger brother, now!" Akito said to Psycho in a demanding tone of voice.

"Sure, here you go!" Psycho said tauntingly as he threw Akihisa into the glass of the giant tank holding the green colored liquid inside of it, which caused a small crack in the glass. Psycho then switched his cybernetic metal arm to laser gun mode and fired at both Akito and Yuuko as they both just barely got out of the way.

He then looked at Akihisa who had just managed to get back up on to his feet and looked back at Psycho both making eye to eye contact before Psycho said, "The nightmare's just beginning kid." before shooting the tank in the same spot of the glass he threw Akihisa into and caused the crack, shattering the glass as a result and causing all of the green colored liquid inside to spill on to Akihisa, which made him feel sick weak as if the very life was being sucked out of his body as he collapsed to the floor completely covered in the green colored liquid, Akihisa weakly reached out his hand to his older brother Akito who ran to his side and in a weak voice said, "Help me."

Psycho then took this opportunity to run as he now had what he came for and thus had no reason to stay any longer.

Yuuko saw Psycho trying to flee and gave chase after him, she then saw a helicopter outside that that Psycho was signaling to, to get close enough to the ground to pick him up but before it did Yuuko charged in at Psycho and kicked him in the face, causing him to drop the container he was holding that had some of the green liquid he took in it, causing it to spill out, he the turned his bionic arm to laser gun mode and blasted at her with it which Yuuko miraculously managed to dodge as Psycho got into the helicopter and flew off.

Yuuko then rushed back into N-Tek's building to see if Akihisa was going to be okay and found his older brother Akito.

"Akito where is Akihisa?! Is he going to be okay?! What's going to happen to him?!" Yuuko asked Akihisa's older brother Akito frantically with a worried expression and tone of voice.

End of Flashback

"Anyway, the bad news is, that green colored liquid that spilled on and all over Akihisa was full of nano machines called Max Probes, which are now stuck in Akihisa's body and have integrated with his physical system, but the good news is they won't kill him as long as they are always fully charged with something called 'Transphasic Energy'. Also, Akihisa and I are now living and going to school here in Del Oro, California. Thanks to Akihisa getting expelled from our old high school in Japan Fumizuki Academy for always breaking things accidentally as a result of the now superhuman strength from the Max Probes inside of his body."

Yuuko said to herself in her mind before and then took a breath before continuing. "He is currently now working as and receiving training while he works as a secret agent for N-Tek and therefore also for his elder brother Akito." Yuuko said in her mind as she wrote this all in her diary before looking at a picture of Akihisa who looked like a completely different person because the Max Probes in his body also gave him the ability to change his appearance to look like someone else.

Akihisa gave himself the code name Max Steel to go with his new appearance while he worked as a secret agent for N-Tek and his older brother. As Max Steel Akihisa had spiky black hair, blue eyes, he wore a device on his wrist that monitored his Transphasic Energy levels, as well as did a few other things, as well as grey colored combat boots, long sleeved blue shirt with matching blue pants with black and brown patches on them and some kind of silver strapped on armor pads on the outer sides of his thighs and finally a belt and a silver harness of sorts on his chest both with the N-Tek logo on them.