USM: Broken Sun

Chapter Seven: Electro (With a Twist!)

A Week After the Events That Occur in The Lizard...

Mason's POV

When the power went out, Anala had been asleep for two hours.

I had been playing Galaga on our Playstation when all the lights suddenly shut off. It was weird because there wasn't a storm and punks didn't dare to mess with us.

Suddenly the TV came back on with a blue figure on the screen. "Good evening New York. Do I have your attention?" He came closer to the screen. "The name's Electro 2.0, and I have taken control of the electricity of New York. All of it, everywhere, mine thanks to Spiderman. I've become super-charged and you've got 24 hours to give me all your money. If you don't, I'll send this city back into the Dark Ages permanently." Then it went dark.

We should suit up. Fyre's voice was suddenly quite loud in my head.

Wait, what? You and Anala have said I shouldn't introduce my powers just yet. And I'm still learning magic from Cleo!

It's totally dark. I can teach you some manipulation.

But the suit is necessary?

Yes. Now put it on.

I groaned but put on the outfit. I hugged the sleeping Anala on the way out and grabbed a protein bar for later. So, where are we going?

Don't know. Just run until I can think of a good spot.

I sighed but ran along the streets till I hit the city. There I took to the rooftops, stumbling across a few. Can't I just fly?

Hey, I specialize in darkness manipulation. Not actual magic. Learn that from Cleo.

I looked down and noticed Spidey and crew rolling down the street. It was a weird sight. Pete-Spidey, White Tiger, and Iron Fist were sitting on the bike as Power Man pushed it and Nova floated along. You should be glad I learned their names after extensive research. I stood watching but followed at a faster pace.

Stop!

I slammed on the breaks at the last second, nearly avoiding splat with the ground. There was a nearby bridge and I looked around. With everything dark, it was silent.

Okay. First summon the shadows from the outfit.

What?

The black. Those are shadows incorporated into the outfit. When you need shadows, those are the easiest to summon.

I raised an eyebrow and tried, using my usual exercise. Nope.

This is magic or your familiar. Imagine your hand is full of the shadows from the outfit.

I closed my eyes and imagined what she had said. I felt a tug in my stomach and a warmth in my hand. I opened them to see it full of a black pulsing mass. "Whoa."

Whoop! First try too! Took Ionia days to help me. Now concentrate and make it into a shape.

I stared at my hand and imagined it transforming. I watched at it started to become a star but was interrupted by an electrical pulse. "What the hell?"

So uncool.

You forgot about Electro's threat.

Maybe. Hey there's Batrock the Leaper!

I looked over towards the bridge to see Spider and Co. getting their asses handed to them. I'm going to go help them. I jumped down and sped over. Time to save some people.

"Au Revior, heroes!" Batrock stole the girl on the scooter's necklace. "Le-"

"No leap!" I jumped on him and stood there. I took the necklace out of his hands and back flipped onto the street. "Here you go, Madame." I spoke with an Italian accent to hide my voice, not wanting to be recognized.

"Whoa." I turned to see an angry crowd throwing stuff and Spidey staring at me which caused me to stare back.

"What?" I dodged a thrown tomato. "Who carries tomatoes on them?"

Power Man picked up the truck I was standing by. "Guys, under here." He stepped in front of all of us, blocking thrown pieces of garbage and wasted items of food. "Things are getting out of control. We gotta find find Electro fast."

"The electrical dude is causing a power surge over there." I said, pointing to a cluster of buildings with the said power surge showing. "He's been such a bad child."

"Found him. That truck can wait. Come guys, follow me." Spidey jumped and swung ahead of the others. I followed, hoping I could get some action in. "We're taking the tram." Spidey shouted and jumped on. Nova brought up White Tiger and Power Man threw Fist.

He looked over and I shook my head. "Looks crowded. I've got a way over." He nodded and got picked up by the Nova.

I imagined my chimera appearing. He roared and I swung up Legalos style. Towards the electrified city my stead!

Screw you. He ran anyways towards where I had pointed. We were actually in the city when the tram sped by without the Nova. Um, faster I'm guessing?

Yep. Could need help.

He growled and the Nova flew by, making the chimera speed up faster. We reached the crash site but the others looked fine. Thank the gods! I made the chimera disappear and I ran over to them. Tiger and Spidey stood a little away from each other like something romatic had just happened between them. Damn, I missed it.

"Hey, I thought you said this dude was a second-tier bad guy." Nova said.

"He was. He must've upped his game." Spiderman looked at the me. "Who are you?"

I smoothed her hair. Not my choice for conversation when a bad guy was threatening New York. "Um, your personal teenaged Nightwatcher?"

They all stared at me. "You know we had three people looking for you a few weeks ago at our school."

I sighed and looked at the sky. What could I say? Oh, I was there and helped saved your butts? "I literally just started training to be Nightwatcher is the past week. And that's not even official." I looked back at them. "Petty hatred later. Villain wanting to put New York back into Dark Ages, anyone?" I pointed over to where the majority of electrical activity was.

We all ran, me just a bit away from the team. I was a little afraid of what was going to happen if I stood to close to White Tiger or any of them. We stopped and looked around the corner.

Electro was laughing manically with electricity surging around him. "Someone's needing to be put in a rubber room in a psych ward." I muttered. Spider-man nodded to agree with me.

"Good, he doesn't know we're here." I raised an eyebrow, knowing he had just screwed us all. Then lights came from behind our odd group. Fuck. "Though I been known to be wrong sometimes."

The truck started to come towards us and I summoned my chimera. He burst in front of us and stopped the truck from crashing into the wall by redirecting it. I was napping.

Sorry. But I needed your help.

"Who's driving those trucks?" Power Man pointed to the more oncoming trucks.

"Hint: his name rhymes with 'Smellectro'."

Take out the other trucks. Weird dressed kids are allies, so no eating. The chimera nodded and went to take out the other two trucks Iron Fist hadn't sliced in half. He then pounced back over, turning smaller and jumped on my shoulder. Aw, you're so cute.

Woman, I am not cute. I am a ferocious beast.

Um, say that to you on my shoulder.

"He must be giving off some sort of energy field. It's turning anything that runs on energy into a weapon. We better," Power Man looked down at his feet where a blender of all things was acting like a animal. He looked at it then kicked it over to where a football game was on. Power Man saw it then ran over there. "What's the score? How much time is left on the clock?"

I face palmed. Is every teenaged boy obsessed with football? It's like back in Italy how every boy was obsessed with our football (Soccer to you Americans) and rarely did anything else. I was inturpted as a bus filled with screaming people drove by.

"Hey Nova, you got a bus to catch."

Nova nodded and flew over to stop it. I heard story from Anala about how fast Novas were but I never fully believed it till now. I raised an eyebrow at his mismatched Denarian Hemet and Centurion outfit (Blame Anala!) but decided not to question it. He stopped the bus and people rushed off until he got other wise occupied and slammed bug like on the windshield. I cringed. Ooo, that's gotta hurt.

Whit Tiger went over to yell at Power Man. Iron Fist pointed to my chimera. "Is that a chimera?"

I nodded. "Ya. He doesn't have a name yet."

He nodded but kept staring at me like I had done something suspicious. "Have we met before?"

Yes, you hit me with a door when we first met. I shrugged. "Not that I know of. I'd remember a face like yours."

Smooth.

Shut up Fyre. I'm not flirting. He's one of my friends.

Sam is too.

Ya, but he's funny and cute. Danny is too serious.

So?

Ladies, can we shut up?

You need to shut up cat.

Bite my butt human.

AVEN YOU MANGY CAT!

I tried to block them out until Fyre said she was Aven. Wait, you're Aven?

Yeah. All of the Nightwatchers are Aven related. If there's no Aven DNA or something, it kills the wearer. Wait, I wasn't supposed to say that.

I blinked. You will explain later. I returned to the land of not-my-brain where Power Man was stopping the bus driving around with Nova on the windshield. "Gah."

"Nightwatcher, helicopter."

I looked over and saw it crashing. "Got it!" I ran over and my chimera grew larger. He grabbed it by it's tail and put it down gently. I went to the cockpit and discovered, "And there's nobody inside it."

I heard Electro blast something and Spider-man giving witty comebacks. "I have to give it up to you, Electro. You've changed."

"Surprised Spider-man? Change is good." He created an electrical blast and fired it at Spiderman who ran and dodged it. The blast instead hit the building at the end of the street and electrified it. Electro flew up in the air to face Spiderman. "This power was in me. But my body was holding it all back. Back-back pain-Backgammon-baby back ribs."

"Weirdo." Both Spiderman and I said. The chimera returned to my shoulder and both our stomachs growled. Right, food. I took out the protein bar from earlier and spilt it in half. Half for me, half for the chimera. "I'm naming you later."

"This guys a dim bulb. He has all these crazy hookups and he's robbing ATMs." Nova don't be an idiot. Don't be an idiot. "If I was him," Shit. " I'd be frying open the vaults at the biggest banks on Wall Street." Ya know, I'm going to kill Nova, then Sam.

"Nova." Spiderman facepalmed. I had to agree with Spidey. Face palm indeed.

Electro laughed. "Now that's a though."

"Is your helmet on too tight?! You just told him to rob a federal reserve, you twit!" I shouted. Spiderman nodded at my statement and swung off, following Electro. We all followed Spidey.

"Follow if you dare. Follow your heart-Follow the bouncing ball-Follow-Follow-Follow."

Nova yelled and blasted the dude like it was supposed to do something other than make him growl. "Uh oh. C'mon, are your web shooters still down? Don't you have some kind of Spider net you can throw over this clown?" If I could reach you Nova, I would slap you.

Electro chuckled. "Web shooters down?" He flicked his fingers and Spidey's shooters started to go haywire.

"Whoa!" He started his web shoot everything, including us.

"Deal with this Spiderman." I watched him hit the crane above us. Well, that's convenient. Electro started to go into the bank and I started to run after him.

Fyre, I'm gonna do something stupid.

Shit.

"Hey TV screen!" Electro looked back. "Hi!" I the black on my clothing shot towards him and pinned him to the wall. He disappeared out of my grasp and I chucked a pitcher of water at him.

That was your stupid plan?

Yep. Thought it would work.

He yelled as the water touched him. Lesson One, his weakness is the same as the aliens from Signs.

He glared at me. "You'll pay for that girly." He shot some electrical blasts at me which I dodged until one hit me in the chest. Shit, that hurt! I rubbed it and looked up. He was gone. I ran over to the elevator and pressed the down button.

"Hold it!" Spidey and his team entered and I stepped aside. The doors closed and I was going to get yelled at in three, two, one- "You shouldn't have gone ahead."

"I distracted him. And I'm not part of your team."

Spidey just glared and Power Man, the chimera, Iron Fist, and Nova were chuckling under their breath. "Have me met before?"

I shook my head. "Na, unless you're the drug dealer I beat up awhile ago or the coffee barista on 39th street. Then yes. We have."

"...You were being sarcastic weren't you?"

I nodded. "Ya." The doors opened and I exited first.

"There, in the vault." White Tiger said pointing.

"No shit. What else would he be doing here?"

I ran forwards but Spidey jumped down in front of me. "Mind sitting this one out Nightwatcher?" I blinked. "Please?"

I growled. "Call if you need a hand with TV screen over there." He nodded and put something on my wrist. I looked down to see a red communicator. "Red's not my color."

He stared at me. "We'll communicate through this. So be ready."

I nodded and walked back towards the elevator. Why would he want my help? He has a team to do that. And he's yelled at me at least twice this evening. Nightwatcher wasn't someone you should not trust. Did he know I was also Mason Dusk/Sdentato? Doubtful.

I walked out into the street when the communicator beeped. "Nightwatcher?"

"Ya?"

Spiderman's face appeared. "Can you meet us at Daily Bugle?"

"Yes. But why would-" Then it hit me. "The Bugle satellites. The more Electro is spread out he becomes more unstable. Like radioactive isotopes."

"Not sure if that counts."

"I have a B in science. I'll be there faster than you'll be."

"Spidey out." The communicator went dark and I pet the silent chimera. "Bugle Communications." He growled and turned into his larger form. I jumped on. "Can you fly? I mean, you have wings and a-" He shot up into the air and I held on tight. Within seconds we were standing just outside of the building. "Not fun." I looked around at the people still there. "I'd clear out unless you want to become electrified pancakes." Several nodded and others took pictures as JJJ appeared on screen, yelling about Spiderman and Electro working together. I rolled my eyes.

"NW, I suggest finding something electric and yelling at Electro then split him."

"Got it Spidey." I ran over to the nearest store with TVs in the window. "Hey TV screen! Ready for Round Two?" Four Electros appeared out of the screens. "I was joking!"

The chimera grabbed one and bit down, splitting him into two. I ran with Electro on my heels.

"So, what's your cat's name?"

I glared at Nova. "Shouldn't you be messing with Electro?"

He pointed behind him towards the army of Electros. "So what is it?"

"Don't have a name."

"It should be Fluffy or Burn!"

"It's blue."

"So?"

I rolled my eyes. "Then I'm calling him Masterizzare. It means burn in Italian."

"Cool." He picked up Power Man and we all met in the center, except Spiderman. "Whoa, maybe we overdid it."

Spidey swung near. "Now way, man. It's just right."

Power Man smirked. "Power Play."

I rolled my eyes. "Or Shadow Bomb. Everyone duck!" The shadows on my outfit expelled, cutting all Electros in half. "Hope you guys were okay with that."

We all turned to the screen where Electro disappeared and a man fell to the ground. Spidey went and punched him, knocking him out.

"Good leadership bro." Power Man punched Spidey.

"Ow."

"Yeah, good job." White Tiger punched him.

"Ow."

We all laughed like those weird TV show endings. Spidey turned to me. I took off his communicator and handed it to him. He nodded. "Thanks Nightwatcher. I think you could be a great superhero one day. Maybe you should join SHIELD."

I laughed. "Let me think about it. But now I got to get home before my parent yells at me." I nodded to the newly dubbed Masterizzare before he went big. I climbed on.

Tonight was a good night.

SO Electro with (not much) of a twist,

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NEXT TIME: THE LONG AWAITED RETURN OF... Trick Shot! AND Mason's solo mission with possibly Masterizzare.

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