Thanks for the boost of self-confidence through the reviews.

Kanade: Anyway, after bullying him a bit, here's Chapter 2. Enjoy ^^

Jikan: I don't own Tiger and Bunny, Sunrise does

Chapter 2: Endgame, Master of Time?

Jikan sat on the building for a bit longer, staring at the moving giant for a few moments. He wondered what he should do once he even got to the Steel Hammer Statue. He knew how to fight, but in reality, how does one fight a giant statue? He doubted that Sky High or Dragon Kid could even dent, let alone slow down the giant, and what they couldn't do, the other heroes most certainly could not. Wild Tiger could probably stop it, but he'd probably wreck it in the process. And get a damage report in the beginning of the year, Jikan thought, Oh well, first things first. Can't go in wearing my normal clothes. Jikan got up and walked towards the elevator, taking it down to the basement. Agnes told him that he was to get his suit immediately and once time was called he was to get down to the scene as a new hero and make the first arrest of the season. He was also due down there about an hour ago.

Having a small mix of antisocial personality disorder with schizoid personality disorder, Jikan really wasn't one of the friendliest of people when he was younger. He never made friends with anyone until the end of his Junior year in High School, and that was only cured by the many therapy sessions he had been going to and the year-long course to turn him into a proper person, which in the end result ended up having the teacher quit a few weeks into the session and having a new one hired, it broke down a bit of the unsociability and reservedness. Unfortunately, he grew a bit too serious, which can be seen whenever he is doing any business-related work for his mom. His antisocial personality disorder (ASPD) wasn't severe, but it made quite a problem when added in to his SPD. The symptoms of his ASPD were the fact that he could get quite irritably when things weren't going out as planned, an ability to lie with a dead on serious face, and lack of well being for others. The third symptom wasn't as severe as the other two, but it caused him to really blow off nearly all the deadlines that people were assigning to him, such as the one hour lateness in which he already should have known how his suit works, but really that ice cream cone and a walk in the park with Kanade really seemed like a much more important, and probably more enjoyable, time.

He waited in the elevator as it rapidly descended down to the basement of the complex. Once he was down there he saw a young man in a lab coat lounging on a bench. A younger girl was sitting next to him, strumming her fingertips impatiently on the side of a computer. Jikan politely coughed to catch their attention and immediately the girl pounced on him, steam pouring out of her ears.

"Finally you're here!" the girl practically shouted, invading his personal space quite quickly. "Do you have ANY idea how long we have been waiting here? Do you have ANY sense of time AT ALL? Or do you think you're just some BIG SHOT just because you're one of the, now what, 9 heroes? Well guess what Mister Hero, we normal people got lives too and just because you have some amazing NEXT ability doesn't make you any more important than anyone else!" The girl went ranting on for awhile longer, before Jikan silenced her by holding up his hand. The man on the bench yawned and slowly sat up, woken up by the girl's loud rant.

"Man, Cassie, you're kind of loud, can't I get some form of rest if the guy isn't here yet?" the man said, yawning and walking right past the girl who looked like she wanted to smack Jikan right there right now.

"I'm here," Jikan said sitting down in a chair and staring at the man, who was busy stretching.

"You are? Oh sure," the man said staring at him. He was much more calm and controlled than the young girl. He pressed a button and a circular opening appeared in the ceiling. A big metal cylinder spiraled down and hit the floor. Half of the cylinder shifted backwards to show the hero costume, current being worn on one of those faceless models seen in front of stores. Psycho Gaming was proudly displayed on the center of the outfit written in white with the words looking like flames. The entire outfit was black.

Well, it's all black, but it really doesn't look like it'll take a lot of hits, Jikan thought, I think I could have this personalized by some company. The gloves seem to be the only thing that could withstand anything. The outfit really didn't look like much. It was a black shirt with the logo on its center, with black jeans, some really expensive looking shoes, gloves, and a jacket. Everything looked like what Jikan could probably find in a store in the Gold Stage of town, with the exception of the gloves. The main part was black, but the parts where the fingers went looked like it was made from some kind of protective medal.

"You sure this thing is safe to wear while being a Hero, and how did you know to make it black?" Jikan asked, since the outfit looked like it would offer minimal protection if he were near an explosion or being shot at. It looked like he was showing off a new wardrobe look.

"Hmm, it's safe alright," the man explained, "It was customized like this because one, you're a teenager and I highly doubt you would want to walk around in some clunky armor like Rock Bison or Sky High; two, it looks like something a teenager would wear because of what Agnes said: you wouldn't like walking around like someone giving fan service like Blue Rose or Fire Emblem; and three, it's black because that's the color of Kelvar."

"Mind explaining what these things do and how they help?" Jikan asked, obviously confused. He remembered sometime in school where he learned that Kelvar was used for police vests.

"Alright, your main shirt is made of Kelvar," the scientist started to explain, "Imagine just wearing a bulletproof armor as a normal shirt. Your jeans is also made up of Kelvar, but added in with fire resistant materials. It'll protect you from burns, but you'll still feel the heat coming from any flames. Your jacket might feel light, but it will distribute any impact damage you receive from explosions or hits through the material so you won't feel like you got hit by a bulldozer. The fingers of your gloves are made of titanium so you can pack a punch with you hits, and the material on the inside will distribute the shock so your hand won't be in too much shock from a hit. Your shoes were probably the most expensive part. A small jetpack was installed in each of the shoes so that you can briefly levitate yourself in case you need to reduce the force of your landing or use it to make longer leaps by using it as propellers. It is similar to your gloves, in which your kicks can do quite some damage, but the force of impact will be evenly distributed. Inside one of your jacket pockets you'll find some morphine pills and ointment if you ever get injured. Also, to hide your identity, please wear these silver contacts and here is a set of shades as well. There are four settings on this that you can activate by pressing sensors on the side. This one activates night vision, this one can give you heat vision, the third one can lock on to something, and the fourth one dulls light so you can still see when a flash bomb is thrown or light-based attack is used against you."

"I see," Jikan mumbled, remembering only several of the main points that the scientist said, such as fire resistant, jet pack on shoes, the morphine pills, and the night vision and light dulling parts of the glasses.

"So, when do I go stop that moving statue, what was it, the Steel Hammer Statue?" Jikan asked, taking off a glove and putting it on. He flexed his fingers a bit, it was quite comfortable. It was just like wearing a normal mitten or something.

"Oh, you won't be going anywhere JUST yet," the girl said frostily, "You're going to have to test the suit out in a training session to see how well you can move around with the suit along with any other adjustments we might need to make."

She pulled out a key from her pocket and unlocked a door at the end of the room. The man walked through motioning with his hand for Jikan to follow. Once inside, Jikan noticed all the different screens, each showing a different set of data. All of them currently were unresponsive as there was no one in the training room, which could be seen from an indestructible see-through wall. The training room seemed innocent enough; it mainly consisted of a room with lights and white walls. Wearing his Hero outfit, he walked in. He placed in his contacts and put on his shades and waited for something to happen. With a sudden crackle, the man's voice resonated from a random location in the training room.

"All right Endgame," the man's voice stated, "we're going to test how well your suit can stand in flames, we're going to roast the room a bit, so try your best to not get crisped."

"Wait, wha…?" Jikan stammered before the entire room exploded into flames.

2 hours after he stepped into the training room, the door finally opened. Jikan stepped out quite out of breath. Never in his life did he think he would ever die, but he swore he was going to get killed by some stupid contraption that those retarded scientists had planted in that god damned room. Flamethrowers, C4s, giant mallets, Jikan swore he saw everything and anything that could physical kill him in the real world in that simulation. He was sweating from the blasts of flame and his body was slightly sore from the beatings he took in, but his body was surprisingly not harmed, apart from one or two bruises and a small cut on his lower arm. The hero suit he had did a good job on protecting him, even if he still could feel some of that pain. His titanium-enforced gloves always did a good job on knocking that test dummy off the stand it was on and his levitating shoes saved him several times from breaking his legs. Still, it was hell in there for those two hours and he hoped he never had to go through that again.

"I think we got all the data we needed, Dr. Kento," the girl said to the older man, who was still furiously reading through the data that they had just collected from the training room.

"You seem to be correct," Dr. Kento stated, double-clicking on a file that said Burn Resistant, "I'm sure Endgame can take a break now. I need time to organize this data and save it in the computer. Cassie, mind showing him the way to the Hero Training Center so he can lounge about for awhile, I'm sure he needs his rest after that little session."

"Sure thing, boss," Cassie said and then turning her attention to Jikan she said, "Please follow me."

Jikan winced as he moved but managed to follow the girl all the way to the HeroTV training center, which looked a bit fancier than his training room in the basement, with the exception that it was made for nine people to train instead of just three. He plopped himself on the closest seat and laid down, working out the kinks in his joints. The girl gave him a bottle of cold water and a bottle of orange juice and the remote for the TV that was hanging off one of the beams.

"You can forget about catching the culprit of the moving statue in the current state that you're in right now," the girl said as Jikan winced as he changed from a lying position to a sitting one. "Mr. Kento says that you shouldn't do anything too extraneous for the rest of the day and should just relax. Why don't you watch the other Heroes deal with the current situation? They left about an hour ago."

The girl bowed her head and walked back the way she came from to go help Dr. Kento organize the data obtained from Jikan's little training session. Jikan took and deep breathe and sighed, picking up the bottle of water and staring at it for a few minutes in silence. His whole body hurt. It didn't matter that he managed to escape from that hazardous training zone mainly unscathed—his entire body didn't feel that good. Well, if he wasn't going to make his debut with that statue, he might as well check up on how the other Heroes are doing with the problem. He flicked on the TV to show that the Steel Hammer Statue wasn't moving, but the Komainu statue that represents Helperides Finance is running amok the city and causing panic. He drank his water as he saw only Wild Tiger on the scene, attempting to stop the frenzying statue. There seems to be a kid on top of that statue when suddenly it just pounces right through the street, heading towards the skate rink. Jikan swore he could have felt the vibrations from that jumping Komainu statue from his location. He winced again as a sudden pain erupted from his arm, exactly where the stupid mallet had pummeled him. He swore he was never going to enter that god damned training room again if he could help him. He continued to watch the current HeroTV. Apparently, the lion had pounced into the ice rink and collapsed a nice circle in the ceiling of the ice rink. On the screen it showed that Wild Tiger had received 100 points for saving the civilians inside the ice rink.

Well that's a first, Jikan thought, Wild Tiger is actually 1st in the current list, wonder how long that will last though. He broke his train of thought as another stab of pain hit his arm again. Wincing, his right hand gripped his left arm, which was clenching on the water bottle, crumpling the plastic quickly. Mario, the announcer, caught his attention with his shouting over what is going on with the situation at the ice rink. From the view of the blimp and the use of the subtitles, it seems that Wild Tiger and Barnaby are currently confronting the NEXT who is controlling the Komainu. The blimp tried to get closer to get some action, but the spiky protrusions that the Komainu had made on the glass ceiling made the driver wary. At the base of the skating dome, the other Heroes seem to be standing there, waiting for something to happen, while Dragon Kid and Origami Cyclone helped lead people to safety. Then Agnes decided it was time to cut to a commercial. It was on some stupid thing about one of the many banks in the Gold Stage and how they provided such great services when Jikan remembered the check he got yesterday. The check was lying on the table and it still needed to be deposited. Cursing, he closed the TV right when the commercial ended and rushed out of the room, and used his NEXT abilities, dashing out of the door quickly.

Luckily for Jikan, his home was only several blocks down from the HeroTV place. He quickly undid the lock and rushed inside. He grabbed the check and was about to go out when he remembered that he was still in his Hero outfit, he had a few injuries on him, and his body was irritably sore. Glancing at the clock, he saw that it was flashing 3:15. The bank wouldn't close for another hour and fifteen minutes.

That should be enough time to get a bath and bandage up the small number of wounds and bruises," Jikan thought. He pulled off his jacket and went into his bathroom. He turned the faucet on and warm water quickly filled the tub. He pulled off his unharmed shirt and winced as he felt a short stabbing pain in his arms. He quickly disrobed and carefully stepped into the tub and sank down into the water. The warm water helped with his sore muscles. He took a deep breath and sighed, thinking once again about the "training session" that he had to endure. There was nothing he wasn't prepared for anymore, except maybe Kanade. That girl was the definition of strange and unexpected. He stayed in the bath for about 30 minutes before he got out. He went into his room and picked out a black dress shirt and black jeans. From a cabinet, he produced some bandages and patched himself up a bit. From his drawer he took out his iPhone and his silver and black headphones. He walked into the living room where the check lay on the table and grabbed the jacket he got from the Hero place and started searching for the keys. After about a 15 minute search, he remembered that Kanade had the keys and car with her after she dropped him off at the Hero place, where she went and when she'll get back was a mystery to him. Glancing at the clock again, he noticed he had about 30 minutes to get to the bank. The bank was quite a few blocks down and the 15 minute to be in the bank or you wouldn't be allowed in was quite a risk for him to rush down normally. Sighing, he concentrated and the blue NEXT glow emanated from him quickly. He ran out of his house and sprinted down the streets so fast that other pedestrians wondered if a strong gust was coming in. He made it to the bank with a good 8 minutes to spare. He shocked the a girl and her mother who was just leaving the park as they saw him zip into their view out of seemingly thin air.

"His eyes are silver, mommy!" the girl screeched.

My eye color is…must have forgotten to take off my contacts, hope I have my shades. Jikan thought, while quickly moving inside the bank, fishing out a set of shades in his jacket pocket, and putting them on. He quickly made his way to the back of the bank, got a key from an assistant and walked through a narrow corridor. At the end, he used the key to open a door. Inside was a small room with only a small black box and a small white box. He picked up the white box and punched the code on the lock. With a light click, he opened it and placed the check inside. The white box already had 7 checks that Jikan did not want to put in just yet. Before he left, Jikan picked up the black one and stared at it for a few seconds. Then sighing, he put it down.

"Maybe another day," Jikan said to himself, before he locked the door and left the room. Suddenly he heard a faint sound, like something exploding. The light suddenly flickered and he dismissed the faint sound as the light bulb temporarily losing its charge or something. He opened the door and was met with a scene of chaos. The bank was currently being robbed by several robbers. Outside he could hear the sounds of sirens. There were about five robbers inside and they looked pretty rushed. Two of them were ready to leave when Dragon Kid and Blue Rose barged onto the scene. The robbers panicked and started shooting at them randomly. Blue Rose screamed and quickly dodged to the side. Dragon Kid on the other hand leapt over the bullets and electrocuted two of the robbers shooting, incapacitating them. A third tried to escape from the back door, but Sky High caught him with some bursts of wind. Suddenly Rock Bison barreled into the scene and crashed into the fourth robber, probably giving him some broken bones. Tiger, Barnaby, and Origami Cyclone then entered, but the 5th robber regained his composure and quickly took someone captive at gunpoint. Unfortunately for Jikan, he was the one taken at gunpoint. The robber violently grabbed him and shoved the gun at his forehead.

"If any of you move, I'll blow his brains out!" the robber yelled. All of the Heroes froze. Everyone else in the bank held their breath and the Heroes were unsure of what to do. The robber unfortunately had the advantage as he was too far away for Dragon Kid's or Blue Rose's long range attacks to do anything, Barnaby and Tiger were too far even for their Hundred Power speed, Sky High and Rock Bison were both at the back exit of the bank, and Origami Cyclone really couldn't do much if his power was transformation.

Tch, this idiot doesn't even know that my hood will prevent that bullet from even getting close to my head, Jikan thought.

"Now, I want all of you heroes to move OUT of this bank this instant!" the robber yelled, sounding assertive, but Jikan caught the panic in his voice. The robber knew that one small mistake could easily plant him in jail with his four captured friends. Grinning to himself, he knew exactly how to follow Agnes' commands of showing off as a new hero; he just had to bide his time. He stared blankly at Wild Tiger, Barnaby, and Blue Rose as they stood away from the entrance to let the robber leave. The robber slowly edged to the door, the gun still pointed at Jikan's head.

"Keep moving!" the robber yelled, voice cracking, when he saw that Wild Tiger and Barnaby weren't moving any more backwards.

Well, this is quite pathetic. A normal robber is commanding the Heroes, Jikan thought. His eyes twinkled with amusement, although no one could see that since he had shades covering his eyes. Then again, those Heroes really can't have a 17-year-old kid shot, especially if that 17-year-old kid is going to be the newest Hero in Steinbild.

Wild Tiger, Barnaby, and Blue Rose were currently outside now, along with the robber and Jikan. Jikan saw the giant blimp for HeroTV circulating overhead. He wondered what the announcer currently was saying and wondered if Agnes could recognize him from the camera that was probably pointing at his face announcing that the robber had taken a person hostage. If she did, she probably would be commanding him to get the arrest and introduce himself already. Letting out a sigh, Jikan thought that this little "I'm a scared 17-year-old kid at gunpoint" had been dragged out enough. He elbowed the robber in the ribs hard. Grunting in pain, the robber reflexively pressed the trigger on the gun.

BAM! Everyone held their breath once they heard the gun sound. The robber, pedestrians, and the Heroes froze, none of them really comprehending what happened. Everyone heard the gun and was sure that the kid the robber held captive was currently dead, but it was strange that blood didn't spurt out from the wound. In the van, Agnes was watching with awe as she saw the rating spike up by at least 5%. Her assistants watched the scene with disbelieving eyes and Mario, the announcer was too stunned to speak. Suddenly the kid that was shot started glowing blue with a NEXT aura and then, seemingly disappeared then suddenly reappeared behind the robber…and he had the robber's gun in his hand pointing at the robber's head.

"Man, what kind of crappy gun are you using, dude?" Jikan asked, letting his hood fall off to show that the bullet never hit his head. The robber was thrown into complete panic and tried to run, but Jikan stopped him by knocking him out, smashing the gun into the back of the robber's head. The robber's eyes rolled into the back of his head and fell down onto the ground, unconscious. The teen then smiled and faced the crowd of people and took off his shades, showing his silver irises. He then looked up directly at the blimp and hoped that the camera was currently focused on him.

"So, Agnes, how was that for an entrance?" Jikan asked, smiling confidently, before putting his shades back on in an oh-so suave move. He then faced the three heroes that were standing at the side of the sidewalk and adopted a more regal manner of speaking. Still smiling, he bowed to them and announced,

"Endgame, Master of Time, at your service," Jikan announced, "Hope you don't mind if another Hero joins this little club." Straightening himself off, he placed his headphones on his head, put his hood back on, and adopted a bored expression.

"After today, it really seems you need some help," Jikan said, boredom obviously shown in his tone and walked off back to his home (where luckily, the crowd of onlookers was NOT blocking his path.)

Back at the station though, Agnes looked absolutely pleased at how Jikan, or Endgame, as he called himself performed. On the upper right hand of the screen, it showed that ratings had hit 93%.

This will be a VERY interesting season, Agnes thought, I can just feel it.

Once he was out of the view of the crowd, Jikan quickly activated his NEXT abilities and got to his house very rapidly. He threw this jacket onto the couch and went into the bathroom, closing the door shut. He never wore contacts before so he didn't know how to take them out. After 15 minutes of poking his eyes several times, he managed to get out his silver contacts and placed them in a small container and he filled it with water. He made a mental note to ask that girl and scientist how to properly wear, remove, and keep contacts. Once that was done, he headed back into the living room and plopped himself on the couch. He searched through the pockets of his jacket and found out he still had the gun that the robber had. Sighing, he opened the gun and removed the bullets. He then went to the closest trash can and threw the gun and bullets in. He glanced at the clock, 4:45 the clock showed. He went to the fridge and grabbed a can of Pepsi NEXT and plopped himself back onto the couch. Using his jacket as a pillow, he lay down on the couch and turned on the TV. Apparently they were interviewing the Heroes right now on what they thought of that new Hero that appeared, Endgame. Curiosity piqued, Jikan watched how the Heroes responded to the new hero. Apparently he already missed Dragon Kid and Wild Tiger's response, but he managed to catch the end of Origami Cyclone's and heard the rest of the group. Sky High said that he had a bright future and wished to thank him and thank him again. Rock Bison said that he seems to be a powerful NEXT, but was uncertain of what might happen, Blue Rose said he seemed a bit on the cold side and had an attitude worse than Barnaby, in which caused Barnaby and Blue Rose to get into a full-fledged argument about attitude and the producers decided to skip what Barnaby wanted to say. Finally, Fire Emblem said he looked "hot" and would totally date him if he were older.

"Fascinating, huh?" a girl asked, shutting the door behind her. Lifting his head, Jikan saw that Kanade had returned from wherever she took the car to.

"Hmm… yeah," Jikan responded absentmindedly. He was still kind of overwhelmed of what happened today.

"How was your first day of Hero work?" Kanade asked, "Didn't seem too hard since you have only a few bandages on your body."

"Blame the bandages on suit testing," Jikan responded icily, "Stupid scientist and his assistant practically killed me in the testing room to test the armor out."

"Really…" Kanade wondered before Jikan interrupted her.

"Anyway," Jikan interrupted, "I got my first arrest today and made myself known to the Heroes as you can see from the current report."

"I see," Kanade said, "Seems that everyone has a different place for you."

"Yeah," Jikan grumbled, thinking about how Blue Rose said he was full of arrogance to how Rock Bison said he was powerful, but a bit enigmatic.

"Hope you're not going to quit," Kanade whispered in his ear.

"Don't know, kind of early to say, huh?" Jikan responded turning to face her eye-to-eye.

Kanade smiled and leaned down a bit more.

Until Chapter 3! :3

Was that a good ending? :c

Jikan: You're side tracking =.=

Kanade: I liked the ending :P

Jikan: That's only because…

Me: ANYWAY, sorry if this took awhile, I kind of did this half brain dead. Stay tuned for Chapter 3: Don't define me by who I am!

Hint / Slight preview: Blue Rose and Endgame get annoyed on the Heroing business. What will their decision be, to stay or to leave?