As Cody and Ferret arrive in town, a red white and blue blur flies past them and lands in a pile of garbage.
"Hey ole glory!!!" yells a voice from the alley "you okay?" Statesman is transported to the hospital before he can answer.
They both turn to see a young guy in a goofy uniform resembling a medival joker"ah crap, i gotta do this myself again!" he says as he ice uppercuts a freakshow minion.
"Nice outfit." cody yells as an unoticed
freakshow heads his way. ferret leaps out taking down the
freakshow yelling,"watch out" as cody turns to repel
another would be attacker.
"holy shit, your tundra the
phalanxes laugh boy arnt you"?
"Naw, name's James Xaiver, but my real cape name is JMFX" shaking ferret and codys hands "and don't believe the hype that the phlanax feeds you. There's more to me than the bull they feed the media. I just go along because i owe someone BIG time" cody scoffs "Xaiver, Xaiver...why does that sound familar?" Just before JM could explain, an exhausted Statesman flies back to the scene. "So did you get em all rookie?" Xaiver stares angrily at Statesman "Yeah no thanks to you! If cody and Ferret didn't come, those TVheads would've torn me to shreds!" "Well you tore the hollows a new one on your own didn't you?" Statesman said sarcastically. Before JM could shoot back a camera crew arrived.
"This is Carrie Ultra with PNN, here with the Statesman after he single handedly raided a warehouse full of the freakshow. Statesman, do you have any words after this amazing feat of heorism?" Statesman stood proud and cocky "well i couldn't have done it alone..." as the real heroes began to walk into view "it took determination, working out, and write this down kids...i took my vitamins and said my prayers." Dumbfounded, JMFX stood next to Carrie "Hey asshole! what about us?" Statesman plucks him to the side saying "Out of my way snow-cone, you're blocking the lady." The reporter flirts with statesman and thanks him before sending it back to the studio...
Once the camera crew leaves, JMFX grabs Statesman by the throat "How dare you you self centered son of a dog! I'm tired of your shit. I'm tired of these suicide missions that the phlanax sends me on because you pussies don't want to break your nails"
Cody and Ferret look on in surprise but are intrigued "And let me ask you a question, where were you when my family was brutally murdered. Where were you when i went nuts and turned eastgate into a crater huh? You and the rest of the freedom cunts hid while back alley brawler risked his life to tame me before i reduced Paragon to a trashed snow globe!"
JMFX rips off the jester's costume then freezes it to statesman chest "take this job and shove it cause i'm tired of playing grinder monkey for you."
Statesman tries to pry the frozen costume from his chest "what about your promise to your family? what about your uncle michael?"
"Backalley knows where to find me." Xaiver says as he throws on his street clothes. "My people wanted me to turn hero, but they didn't want me to be anyone's damn puppet!" then as he turns to walk away, he sees a stunned ferret and cody.
"Oh i'm sorry guys, want a brew or something to eat? I know a good place." Ferret and Cody just shake their heads to agree, still trying to piece together what just happened. "Good, you guys can tell me your stories and where you're headed."