I'm back sorry for the long wait real life sucks sometimes but you don't care about that. Enjoy the latest chapter.
Fear Itself
Retroville Docks
It was a quiet night at the docks. Not a soul was wondering about. The silence was broken by several trucks.
A man stepped out of one of the trucks and revealed himself to be Snake, the right hand man of the infamous crime boss Brick Stone.
As Snake walked up to a boat a group of six men revealed themselves, one of whom was holding a bag.
"Do you have the product?" Snake asked.
"Here it is." one of the men answered, throwing the bag at Snake.
Snake picked it up, pulled out his knife, tore a small hole in the bag revealing it contained a white powder and tasted it.
"Is it up to your standards?" one of the men asked.
"It's adequate, where's the rest?" Snake asked.
"In the boat behind us."
Snake nodded and signaled his men to enter the boat.
"Brick will be pleased. Your payment will be wired to you as soon as we have it all safely hidden."
"Understood." the man nodded.
"Hey boss there's nothing here!" one of Snake's thugs shouted.
Snake immediately pulled out his gun and aimed it at the men.
"Are you trying to stiff me pal!?"
The men quickly raised their arms, "We swear we're not! It was all there!"
"Then where is it now!?" Snake shouted.
"Don't worry bro." Sheen's voice echoed in the distance. "I'm keeping it safe for ya."
"Shit." Snake groaned, realizing what was happening. "Everybody move out!" Snake shouted.
An orange blur zoomed past Snake quickly snatching up all his men.
Snake tried to run but Sheen immediately caught up racing ahead of him.
"Running from the Fastest Man Alive, that's smart." Sheen said with a smug smile on his face.
Snake surrendered placing his hands behind his head and knelt to the ground.
"Yeah that's what I thought." Sheen commented.
Some Random Warehouse
A group of thugs working for Brick had just received a new shipment of military grade assault rifles.
One of Brick's Lieutenants, Maxie picked up one of the rifles and began admiring it.
"With these babies, we're going to make short work of Brandon and his thugs."
"Uh, I don't think so." Cindy commented as she revealed herself, hovering over Maxie and thugs.
"What the…!?" Maxie jumped in shock, "Shoot her!"
Maxie's thugs began firing at Cindy. Cindy remained still as the bullets bounced off her invulnerable skin. "Really?" she questioned, "Is today like your first day or something?"
Cindy's eyes glowed red as she fired her heat vision at the criminals' weapons, instantly melting them.
The thugs quickly surrendered but Maxie didn't back down. "I'm not afraid of you, bitch!" he called out, charging at Cindy and punching her in her face severely injuring his hand.
"You must not be too bright. If the bullets didn't work, what made you think your fist would?" she questioned.
Cindy flicked Maxie into a wall with her finger instantly knocking him out.
"Way too easy." she smirked.
Retroville Bank
The Terrible Trio, a group of mutant mercenaries Brick had hired, were doing their boss's dirty work, robbing the Retroville bank. The security systems had successfully been disabled and the guards were dead. The trio was loading the money from the bank into their truck.
The group's self appointed leader Cyclone was supervising his teammates, "Come on, you mooks, hurry up before the heroes get here."
"We would get this done faster if you actually helped!" Super Steroid yelled.
"He's right, airhead!" the group's newest member Sticky Jim agreed. "Get off your lazy ass and help us load the cash into the truck."
"You know you guys really shouldn't argue while you're on the job. It's unprofessional." Libby called out to the villain, while making herself visible.
"Get her!" Cyclone shouted.
Super Steroid expanded his muscles becoming much more buff and picked up Cyclone.
"Hey what are you doing!?" Cyclone shouted.
"How about you get her!" Super Steroid yelled, tossing Cyclone at Libby.
Cyclone quickly regained control of his body and hurled himself at an incredible speed at Libby.
Libby smirked and made a force field wall, Cyclone crashed into it, effectively knocking himself out.
"You know there was a time when I considered you guys threatening. Now you're just sad." She called out to the other members of the Terrible Trio.
Sticky Jim took a deep breath and fired a large flem like substance from his mouth
Libby instantly dodged it, "Ew!" she looked in disgust at the large lime green colored slime, "What the hell is that!?"
"Sticky Jim's surprise." Jim answered while looking at the teenager seductively.
"Gross." Libby said in disgust, Libby then proceeded to trap Sticky Jim in a force field bubble, throw him into a trashcan and crush its lid to prevent anyone from escaping.
"Glad I'm done dealing with that freak." Libby commented.
"Jim's not so bad, he makes a great distraction." Super Steroid said before he threw a massive dumpster at the teen girl.
Libby quickly erected a force field around herself blocking the dumpster's impact. Libby then threw two force field disks at Steroids legs knocking him down, she then enveloped the dumpster that Steroid threw at her with her force field energy levitated it and raised it above Steriod's head.
"Uh, Oh!"
"Uh, Oh is right." Libby smirked before dropping the dumpster on Super Steroids knocking him out.
"It's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it." Libby joked, she then thought about what she just said, "Aghh, I've been spending way to much time with the Flash." she facepalmed herself.
Club Moist
At a local teen club called Moist a group of Brick's thugs were luring women away to traffic them.
"Just this way baby my car is parked in the back."
"Okay, I've never done something like this before." the girl giggled.
As soon as the duo made it outside the girl was ambushed by a group of men, she tried to scream but she was quickly bound, gagged and thrown in the back of a truck with several other women.
"I think that's enough for the night."
"Right, the boss said to be careful."
"Maybe we should get another. The boss has been pissed about our progress lately."
"Okay, just one more. But hurry up before those freaks get here."
Two of the thugs left the van while the third stayed in the driver's seat.
Unbeknownst to any of them Carl was sneaking up to the van. Using his control over sound Carl had completely neutralized all the sound around the van.
Carl snuck up to the van and used his powers to open the back of the van, as he revealed himself to the girls they looked at him with much fear in their eyes. Carl got into the van and created a sound proof bubble for him and the girls to talk undetected.
"Don't worry, I'm Echo I'll get all of you out of here." he said as he began to untie the girls.
"Thank you, Thank you!" one of the girls said in a panicked state while hugging him.
"No worries ma'am. Just doing my job."
Carl's super hearing then picked up the other two thugs moving to the van holding another girl and prepared for action.
"You two sure took your sweet time." the third thug complained as his partners arrived.
"Kidnapping girls isn't exactly easy, you know." the second thug grunted as the girl tried to escape his grasp. "I swear to god if you fucking scream I'll cut your fucking throat out."
The girl immediately froze in fear. "Whatever, just load her into the van, if we stay any longer it will look bad."
The thugs opened the back of the van and were shocked to find Carl sitting right in front of their hostages.
"What the…!?" one of them said in shock.
"Hello there." Carl smirked, Carl then proceeded to fire three sound blasts from his fingers knocking all three of the thugs out in one shot.
A little while later the police arrived to take the traffickers away.
"Thank you Echo these traffickers have been a real problem lately. We appreciate the help." The lead officer thanked him.
"No problem just doing my job." Carl replied.
"Ever since you N-Men showed up you've really made this city a safer place."
"We're just doing what we can."
Before Carl could leave one of the girls came to thank him. "Thank you Echo for saving us. I don't know what would have happened to us if you weren't there. Here take this."
The girl then handed Carl a card. "Huh, what's this?" he asked.
"My number. Don't be afraid to use it. Who knows when I'll need a superhero again." she explained while gently moving her down Carl's suit.
Carl's face went bright red, "Well… I better get going."
Carl quickly used his sound powers to fly into the air.
Summertime Bar
The notorious crime boss James Avery better known as Brick was in his office with his last remaining lieutenant a woman named Sasha Cameron aka Widow Maker and one of his cronies Tony Zupco aka Fear Monger.
Sasha got a call, "Hello… Are you sure… Understood."
"What is it?" Brick asked in a calm voice.
"That was one of our contacts at the RPD. They said the N-Men managed to get Snake, Maxie the mutants and my boys who were hitting moist today."
"What does that mean for us?" Zupco asked.
"It means…" Sasha hesitated to answer, "It means the N-Men have completely shut down our operations."
"What!?" Fear Monger shouted.
Brick remained silent and stoic. "They got our latest shipments of drugs, guns and girls and have stopped all our efforts in committing large scale crimes. If it wasn't for Mr Avery's legitimately owned businesses we would be in a tough spot right now."
Both Zupco and Sasha looked at Brick expecting some sort of reaction but none came.
Brick stood up from his chair and walked towards a window, "These 'heroes' are proving to be greater nucensous than I originally thought. We need to come up with a way to get them out of our business."
"Maybe I can be of assistance."
Brick, Zupco and Sasha all looked back to see a completely normal looking Savage standing with his daughter Martha, the Special girl clone, Nate Estevez and Remy.
Brick let out a little smile, "Savage it's good to see you again."
The Compound
Jimmy, Betty and AJ were working on a project of Jimmy's while Timmy was training Jasmine.
"Is that the right code for the evolutionary matrix?" Betty asked AJ.
"I think I know what I'm doing." AJ replied.
"She's right that code won't line up with the software we already have." Jimmy pointed out.
"If either of you think you could do better please take over." AJ snapped at them.
"Easy dude, we're just trying to help." Jimmy said.
"Yeah, three minds are better than one." Betty agreed.
"I know, I know." AJ said while rubbing his temples, "I just liked it better when I was the only genius around."
On the other side of the room Timmy was teaching Jasmine a new spell.
"Okay Jasmine this is a basic level one spell that can be used offensively or defensively depending on your own imagination. Are you ready?"
"Yeah." Jasmine answered.
"Okay, Solar Flare!" Timmy shouted a bright flash of light enveloped the room, the light was so intense it caused AJ to make a mistake on the device he was working on forcing it to fall and break apart.
"Hey!" AJ shouted.
"I apologize, I didn't account for the three of you being here." Timmy said.
"How about next time you take your dumb magic tricks some where else we have real work to do here!" AJ shouted.
"I don't appreciate your tone, metal man. I apologized. That should be the end of it."
"Next time just stick to magic tricks you're good at like, pulling a rabbit out of your hat." AJ chuckled.
"How about I pull one out of your big fat mouth. Ekam a tibbar emoc tuo fo siht sloof htuom." Timmy chanted.
AJ began to choke, soon miniature bunny ears came out of his mouth, then a bunny's head, and before anyone knew it a miniature rabbit the size of a mouse came out of AJ's mouth. AJ coughed it up and spat it onto the floor, "What the hell was that!?" AJ shouted.
"Just doing a magic trick I'm good at." Timmy replied with a smug smile.
"Boy are you asking for it." AJ shouted transforming his right arm into a cannon as he stepped up to Timmy
"I'm begging for it. Who's going to give it to me." Timmy replied with his eyes glowing blue.
"Okay I think it's time we all calm down before someone does something they regret." Jimmy said, stepping in between the two teenagers. "Timmy we're working here please train Jasmine in one of the training rooms please."
"Okay." Timmy agreed.
"And AJ don't antagonize the wizard." Jimmy asked.
"Sure." AJ agreed.
At that moment the rest of the team showed up.
"So how did it go?" Jimmy asked.
"Brick's drugs are sunk." Sheen announced.
"The mutant bank robbers are locked up." Libby added.
"Guns are melted." Cindy called out.
"Got the Traffickers." Carl said as he walked over to Jasmine and hugged her.
"Great work team. Crime has gone down 78% thanks to us. This calls for a celebration. Betty get the premium Purple Flurp."
"I'm not your secretary, get it yourself." Betty responded.
"Right." Jimmy agreed, a few moments later Jimmy returned carrying four six packs of purple Flurp. Cindy quickly went to help him.
"Let me help you with that Jimmy." she said as she took the drinks from the boy genius.
"Jimmy." Libby commented surprised Cindy was being more casual with Jimmy. "What's up with that?" she asked Sheen.
Sheen shrugged his shoulders. As Jimmy was handing out the drinks Jasmine gave Timmy puppy dog eyes. "Fine, we'll end training for today, have fun."
Jimmy declared a toast, "Look we've all had a rough year, it was tough and trying and mostly painful but we got through it and came out stronger even made some new friends along the way. Don't want to go on a rant so I'll just say to the N-Men."
"To the N-Men." Everyone raised their glass.
Libby began playing music. Cindy walked up to Jimmy, "Not quite the words Smith are you."
"Literature wasn't one of my majors. So how's the journalism going?" Jimmy asked.
"Just wrote an exposé on the 'meat' our school gives the students."
"Sounds like a riveting read. Mind if I get a peak."
"You'll just have to wait like everyone else, Neutron."
"Don't be like that."
"Fine I'll tell you if you tell me what you AJ and Betty have been working on for the last month."
"Arg, I can't, it's a surprise."
"Come on, I'll give you a hint."
"As much as I would like to know what they serve you poor kids, I'm going to have to pass."
"You're a real spoilsport, you know Neutron."
"Trust me when you see what I have planned, you'll thank me for keeping it a secret." Jimmy replied, "Let me get you another drink."
Hulk: Okay what was that?
"What was what?" Jimmy asked.
Hulk: You and the blonde girl were definitely flirting.
"What… No, you're just imagining things."
Hulk: You do realize we share a mind right. I literally know what you're thinking. And your thoughts definitely aren't PG-13.
"Shut it." Jimmy demanded.
Hulk: Okay, just know I'm rooting for you.
"I think I liked you better when you were all Hulk smash."
On the other side of the room Jasmine and Carl were talking.
"So I was thinking why don't we see Astrogirl: Space Quest this weekend." Jasmine suggested.
"Can't the band has a gig this Saturday." Carl replied.
"Really where?" Jasmine asked.
"At Royalty Prep for your winter formal dance."
"Oh." Jasmine said, realizing Carl knew about the dance.
"Why didn't you tell me about it?"
"It's a dumb dance, I'd rather go see a movie with you."
"I just thought maybe you didn't tell me because you were embarrasse…"
"Carl Wheezer, don't you dare finish that sentence. I am not embarrassed by you. I just… I don't… I didn't want you to be hurt by my Royalty Prep friends. They are not exactly nice people. Sometimes they're just mean."
"Oh is that it? Don't worry about that. Let's just go and have fun no matter what people say."
"Really?" Jasmine questioned.
"Jasmine, I'm in a really good place right now. I have great friends, an awesome girlfriend and I'm doing great with my Moms. There's literally nothing that can get me down. Who cares what some snobbish rich kids think."
"You know what you're right. I'll pick up a dress tomorrow."
"Can't wait to see you in it."
At another part of the room Libby and Sheen were talking.
"So find anything new on Shawn." Libby asked.
"Nothing. He and the Losers have gone dark. No one underground knows where they are." Sheen answered.
"What about Nate?" she asked.
"Even less than nothing." Sheen sighed.
"Don't worry we'll find them."
"Yeah, I just wish I could take a vacation. With finals on the way, college interviews and fighting crime. I'm spreading myself thin."
"You and me both." Libby agreed, "My parents said if my grades slip I'm off the team."
"So why don't we." Sheen suggested.
"What?" Libby questioned.
"How about we slip out one day for a couple of hours. With my speed we could be anywhere in the world in minutes. So what do we say are you in."
"You know why not. How about tomorrow? My schedule is clear."
"So's mine."
"Then it's a date. Where did you plan on taking us?"
"I was thinking Hawaii but maybe Caboluna or even Singapore."
"Well I've always wanted to go to Japan."
"Really!" Sheen said in excitement.
"It has top of the line fashion for me, it has that anime stuff you like to watch for you. Let's make a day of it."
"Then it's a date." Sheen smiled.
Summertime Bar
Brick and Savage were enjoying a drink with one another.
"Savage, I would say it's a pleasure but that wouldn't be true." Brick stated.
"Brick, you break this old man's heart with talk like that." Savage replied.
"You and your mutants have caused me nothing but trouble. I didn't care about your little rock hunt, but as soon as it started affecting me and my business it became a problem." Brick said in a calm voice as he drank some brandy.
"I know my recent endeavors have caused you some strife but I have a way to make amends."
"How?" Brick asked.
"Mr Estevez." Savage signaled to Nate.
Nate holding a briefcase opened the luggage revealing multiple vials of the drug Rush.
"What's this?" Brick asked.
"A drug that allows the recipient to move at supersonic speeds." Savage answered.
"I heard of this. It was on your files. It's called Rush right. Why would I want a defective product like that?" Brick asked.
"This isn't Rush. This is something so much better. I call it Temp-X." Savage replied.
"Temp-X?" Brick questioned.
"When Neutron invaded my citadel he showed my darling daughter how to create mutants with a serum."
"Interesting. But why would I want more freaks around?"
"Temp-X creates temporary super humans, mutant gene or not. They keep their powers for about an hour give or take."
"Any side effects?" Brick asked.
"Same as Rush. For those without the mutant gene after about three to five doses they're done for."
"And for those with the gene?"
"They can take it almost indefinitely." Savage replied. "But eventually their bodies will succumb."
"Okay Savage I'm interested. What do you have planned."
"Your problem right now is the N-Men. With Mr Folflax and the other mutants in hiding they have no more distractions and can focus solely on destroying your empire. We start pedaling this on the streets; they will be up to their ears in mutant threats. And if they're distracted fighting mutants you can proceed your operations as normal."
"What would you need?" Brick asked.
"Just these items." Savage said as he handed Brick a list.
"While I am interested, stealing these particular items will take time. What's your plan to deal with the heroes right now."
"Don't worry about that. I've got you covered. Remy, my boy, show Brick the other thing."
Remy pulled out a container holding large spore-like substances that we're beating like hearts.
"What are those?" Brick asked.
"Chaos spores. These marvelous creations make regular mutants so much more powerful." Savage answered.
"How much more powerful?" Brick asked.
"Trust me when you see it you'll know." Savage replied. "If your compatriot would kindly eat one of these spores they could easily provide us with the time we need."
Brick began thinking about Savage's offer, "And to add a little more icing on this cake, you can use my employees as you see fit. After all, what are partners for right?"
After thinking for a moment Brick let out a little smile, "We have a deal Savage."
The two villains shook hands to solidify their partnership.
"So which one of your employees is going to undergo the change?" Savage asked.
"Zupco." Brick answered.
"What!?" Zupco exclaimed. Brick gave Zupco an intimidating stare. "I mean when do I begin?"
"Remy my boy hand Mr Zupco a spore."
Remy did as he was told and gave Zupco a chaos spore. "What do I do now?" Zupco asked.
"Eat up." Savage said.
"What?" Zupco exclaimed in disbelief.
"You heard the man Zupco. Eat up." Brick said in a threatening tone.
Zupco's face scrunched up as he began to the spore, his eyes began to water and everyone in the could tell he wasn't enjoying the spore.
After Zupco had finally finished. "Now what." he panted.
"Wait for it." Savage replied.
Zupco began to scream in pain, his skin began erratically bulge in different directions, his body was moving as if it were having a seizure. He then began to grow larger, his skin went from it's normal slightly tanned color to a lime green, he then grew a horn, formed a third eye, his ears then became much sharper reassembling that of elves and finally he grew a long tail. Zupco roared like a dragon once his transformation was complete.
"What! What happened to me!" Zupco roared.
"Congratulations Mr Zupco on being the first Chaos Mutant in existence." Savage laughed.
"Let's see what he can do." Brick suggested.
"You're right. Cindy darling, kindly attack Mr Zupco." Savage ordered the clone.
"With pleasure." the Special girl clone smiled.
The clone flew straight at Zupco and tackled him into a wall, almost immediately Zupco slapped her away with his tail.
"This is incredible! I barely felt that." Zupco cheered.
"I'll make you feel this." the clone said as her eyes glowed red. The clone fired her heat vision, Zupco using his new reflexes dodged the beam and crawled along the walls before he tackled the clone to the ground.
"Let's see what else I can do." Zupco's eyes glowed blue and as a result the clones eyes glowed blue as well, the clone screamed for a moment before going completely catatonic.
"What did you do to her?" Martha asked concerned.
"She'll be okay. Maybe. I just trapped her in her own worst fear." Zupco replied as he began to laugh like a maniac.
"Release her. We still need her for the other operation." Savage ordered.
Zupco looked at Brick who nodded. Zupco's eyes glowed again and the Special girl clone woke up. Martha ran to her.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm fine." the clone groaned.
"That's all the proof I need. Fear Monger, go bring the chaos." Brick ordered him with a smirk.
Zupco began to walk out, "Stop!" Savage shouted.
"What is it?" Brick asked.
"He's going to need a new name." Savage suggested.
"What?" Brick asked, confused.
"His old name Fear Monger seems a little mundane for what you have become." Savage said.
"What did you have in mind?" Zupco asked.
"I was thinking Fearosity." Savage suggested.
Zupco let out a devilish smile and licked his lips with his long forked tongue. "I like that."
Without a moment's hesitation Zupco charged out of the building.
"Fearosity really. You do love your theatrics." Brick commented.
"This coming from the man who calls himself Brick." Savage retorted.
Zupco charged out of the building like a wild animal and proceeded to attack the city. He picked up a car and threw it into a building.
In no time at all the police raced with their swat trucks and cruisers and began firing on Zupco.
The bullets bounced off Zupco's dense skin. He smiled at the officers and used his powers on them which caused all the officers to drop down and stare at nothing in a vegetative state.
The Compound
The party with the team was still going strong. The boys had gathered around Carl who was gulping down a two litre of Purple Flurp.
"Go! Go! Go! Go!" all the boys chanted.
Carl gulped down the last few drops of the soda. Everyone waited in anticipation, in just a few seconds Carl let out a burp that was so powerful that it shook the entire compound. When it stopped, a stunned Jimmy checked the stop watch he was holding.
"41 seconds it's a new record!" Jimmy cheered.
The other boys began to chant and cheer like out of control frat boys.
In front of them the girls were wondering what was going on. "I just don't get it." Betty commented.
Why are they getting so hyper over a burp?" Cindy asked.
"Maybe it's a dude thing." Libby commented.
The trio were then instantly proven wrong, "Whoa! Way to go baby!" Jasmine chanted as she ran to hug her boyfriend.
"Or maybe we just don't get it." Betty commented.
At that moment an alarm sounded. "Crime alert." Jimmy stated.
Betty ran to the console, "We have some kind of monster rampaging downtown."
"Right. Sheen, Cindy you're with me. Everyone else stays on standby in case something happens."
"Right." Sheen and Cindy said in unison. The duo activated their watches and changed into their alter egos, Special girl and the Flash.
"Alright partner. It's clobberin time." Jimmy said.
Hulk: I'm sorry what did you just say.
"It's clobberin time. I was thinking it could be our new catchphrase. What do you not like it."
Hulk: No…No.
"Oh god you don't like it."
Hulk: It's not that, it's just…
Everyone else was staring at Jimmy having a conversation with himself.
"This is weird right?" Jasmine asked Libby.
"Definitely." Libby agreed.
"Then what is it Hulk, remember what Betty says we need open communication."
"Hey Neutron, we're kinda on the clock here " Cindy commented.
"Oh… right." Jimmy said feeling embarrassed before he changed into Hulk.
Jimmy: We'll talk about this later.
"Kill me." Hulk groaned before the trio went to the teleporter pad.
Downtown Retroville
Zupco was still wreaking havoc on the town trapping dozens of people in hellish nightmares.
"Come on little fishes. Come out and bite." Zupco said to himself.
Zupco picked up a woman and prepared to use his power on her before he could do anything. Sheen raced in and knocked Zupco down, catching the woman when she left his grip.
"Thank you Flash."
"No problem ma'am. Just doing my job."
"Can I have a selfie?" she asked.
"Sure, but a quick one." Sheen replied.
Sheen and the woman posed and took a selfie.
"Great, now get somewhere safe." Sheen ordered her.
"Right, no one's going to believe the Flash just saved my life." she screamed as she ran off.
Sheen stared at the woman as she ran away. "Sometimes I love this job." Zupco recovered and leaped right in front of Sheen, "And other times it's a real pain."
"It's good to see you again Estevez." Zupco greeted Sheen.
Sheen instantly recognized the voice, "Zupco! What the hell happened to you?" Sheen asked.
"I'm going to make you pay for what you did to me!" Zupco shouted.
Zupco lunged at Sheen, Sheen using his super fast reflexes to easily dodge the villain's attacks. Sheen then gave Zupco multiple fast punches to the chest which sent the villain back.
"Jeez, what are you made of?" Sheen winced as he tried to shake the pain off his hands.
Zupco tried to slash Sheen with his claws but Sheen easily dodged him. Zupco just managed to get Sheen off guard and hit the teen boy with his tail straight into a car. Zupco then grabbed Sheen.
"Payback time!" he shouted as he used his powers to trap Sheen in a nightmare.
Sheen's Nightmare
Sheen was in the middle of a street surrounded by people.
"Where am I?" he asked himself.
Sheen went over to talk to a person when suddenly everything began to slow down.
"What's going on?"
As Sheen kept moving everything and everyone around him began moving even slower.
"Oh no it's finally happening." Sheen began to panic. "My speed, I can't control it."
As Sheen ran to more people trying his hardest not to use his speed, their movements just kept decelerating.
"I can't believe this. I'm going to live my entire life in the time it takes someone to tie their shoes. What am I going to do?"
The Real World
Sheen was on the ground in a catatonic state.
"Look at you Estevez. Helpless, like the child you are." Zupco began to rant, "But don't worry I'll end your suffering." he said as he ripped a street lamp out of the ground.
Zupco prepared to swing the lamp but couldn't move it. "What!"
Zupco turned around to see Hulk holding the other end.
"Hey." Hulk greeted him before knocking the villain into a building with a single punch.
Jimmy: Remember that talk we had about collateral damage.
"Relax, it's just a library. Nobody reads books anymore." Hulk replied.
Jimmy: You are impossible.
"Flash." Cindy called out as she landed near the speedster. She checked his pulse and looked into his eyes. "He's not responding and his heart is beating way faster than usual."
Jimmy: That thing must have done something to him. I need to examine him.
"Later." Hulk replied, "First we need to put that thing in the hospital."
Zupco leaped out of the building straight at Hulk, Hulk easily swatted Zupco away into the ground.
Hulk looked on with a disappointed face.
Jimmy: What's wrong?
"I just thought this would be a little tougher." Hulk complained.
Jimmy: Don't let your guard down. We don't know his abilities.
"Whatever." Hulk groaned.
Zupco quickly got up and wrapped himself around Hulk.
"Nighty night monster." Zupco whispered before he used his powers on Hulk.
Hulk immediately pushed Zupco off of himself. The goliath then grabbed his head and began to roar in pain. In seconds Hulk changed back into Jimmy.
"What just happened?" Jimmy questioned in shock.
Hulk's Nightmare
Hulk was in an empty space surrounded by millions of different looking Jimmy's. The different Jimmy's charged at Hulk.
"No, get back! It's not possible! Get away from me!" Hulk screamed as the Jimmy's attacked and consumed him.
The Real World.
Jimmy was stunned by the disappearance of Hulk. "Uh, Hulk. Are you there buddy?" Jimmy then looked at Zupco who gave him a devilish smile. "Uh, oh."
"Uh, oh is right." Zupco replied before he leaped at Jimmy, Cindy flew in and knocked the beast into the ground.
"Don't you dare touch him." she shouted with her eyes glowing red with anger.
"Huh, Deja Vu." Zupco said to himself.
Cindy fired her heat vision at the villain, Zupco dodged it and stuck to a building.
"Cindy, avoid eye contact!" Jimmy shouted.
"Got it." Cindy replied. Zupco leaped at her, Cindy dodged him and grabbed his tail, she spun him around and threw the villain into the ground.
Zupco realized he needed to change his strategy; he ripped a manhole cover out of the ground and threw it at Jimmy. Cindy quickly reacted and flew in to protect Jimmy, blocking the metallic disk away.
Zupco quickly acted and charged at Cindy. "Got you." he said as he used his powers on her.
Cindy's Nightmare
Cindy appeared as a ghost. She looked on at a war torn Retroville. She looked around to see all her friends and family deaed.
"What the hell happened here?" she asked herself.
Suddenly she heard a sound and saw Jimmy on the ground beaten and broken.
"Jimmy." Cindy called out, as the teen girl tried to grab him she passed right through him.
"What's going on?"
"Why?" Jimmy groaned while staring at the sky.
Cindy looked up to see herself hovering over Jimmy.
"Is that the clone?" Cindy asked herself.
"Why did you betray us!?" Jimmy moaned.
"It's nothing personal Neutron." the dream Cindy said with a sadistic smile with her eyes glowing red.
Without hesitation the dream Cindy used her heat vision killed Jimmy.
Cindy looked in horror at what her dream self did to Jimmy. The dream Cindy then descended into her friend's corpses.
Savage then appeared and walked over the corpses to his daughter.
"That's my girl." Savage congratulated her.
"Thank you, Father." she smiled.
"NOOO!" Cindy screamed.
The Real World
Cindy had just dropped to the ground.
"You next." Zupco said as he let out a sadistic smile.
"This isn't good." Jimmy said to himself.
At that moment Timmy teleported in-between Zupco and Jimmy, Timmy then blasted Zupco back with an energy beam.
"Time to go!" Timmy stated.
"Slatrop kcab ot esab!" Timmy called out.
Four portals formed under Timmy, Jimmy, Sheen and Cindy taking them back to the compound.
"Cowards!" Zupco roared.
The Compound
The portals formed from the ceiling and the young heroes fell out of each of them. Cindy, Sheen and Jimmy hit the ground while Timmy levitated down.
Betty and the others instantly ran to them.
"Jimmy, are you okay?" she asked.
"I'm fine. Get those two to the med lab now!"
"Okay." Betty replied, "Libby, can you help us out?"
"Right." Libby agreed. Libby used her force field powers to lift Sheen and Cindy off the ground and into the med bay.
Jimmy, Betty and AJ worked around them.
"AJ I need a scan now!" Jimmy ordered.
AJ used his mechanical eye to scan Libby and Cindy.
"Everything's fine except the fear centers of their brains are lightning up like Christmas trees." AJ stated.
"They might be trapped in a mental loop." Jimmy said.
"Maybe it works like Hypno's powers." Betty suggested.
"I haven't developed anything to counter Hypno." Jimmy replied.
"I have." AJ stated.
"Really?" Jimmy asked.
"I looked at your data on Hypno, and I've developed some devices to counter and disable Hypno's powers." AJ said.
"Do you think it will work?" Jimmy asked.
"I've run hundreds of simulations through Grid. I'm 98.89% sure." AJ replied.
"Alright, let's try it." Jimmy said.
AJ removed two disk shaped devices from his arm and placed them on top of Cindy and Sheen's heads.
AJ activated the devices but nothing happened.
"I don't understand. There's not even a reaction." AJ questioned.
"It's okay AJ, we'll just try something else. Timmy, do you think you could do something?" Jimmy asked.
"I might." Timmy replied.
"You can't honestly be serious about asking Houdini here for help." AJ complained.
"Cool it AJ." Jimmy ordered.
Timmy walked over and passed AJ giving Cyborg a cocky grin which made AJ glare at the wizard.
Timmy placed his hand over Cindy's head, Timmy's hand began to glow with a pink light, red electricity began bouncing off of Cindy's head, the electricity enveloped Timmy causing the teen boy to scream in pain and fly off into a wall.
Everyone went to Timmy's aid.
"Timmy!"
"Are you okay?"
"Master, are you alright?" Jasmine asked.
"What happened?" Jimmy asked.
"This is not right." Timmy said.
"What's not right?" Jimmy asked.
"It's strange. It's magic but it's like nothing I've ever seen before." Timmy explained.
"Elaborate." Jimmy said.
"I can feel the magic coursing through their bodies but it wasn't put there by a spell." Timmy explained.
"How can you tell?" Libby asked.
"Every spell has a unique signature whether it's combat based, a curse or even an illusion no matter what spell is cast as long as it has the same base line that I can in a way analyse and dispel or counter if I ever needed to. But this. This is completely different. I can feel the magic, but I don't know how it got there. I can't fix them either." Timmy explained.
Jimmy thought hard about everything, he thought about the analysis of both Timmy and AJ and came to a conclusion.
"It's fusion." he stated.
"What?" Libby asked.
"What we're dealing with is a fusion of the science of mutants and magic." Jimmy explained.
"You can't be serious." AJ said in disbelief.
"I am. I don't know how but whoever we're dealing with has figured out how to energize mutant cells with magic making something incredibly powerful. That's why neither of you could come up with a solution despite being the best in your respective fields. Because this is a whole new concept all together." Jimmy explained.
Jimmy then began to pace around, "But why would someone go through so much trouble just to cause a little mayhem downtown… unless it was a distraction. AJ I need you to use Grid to hack into every major tech distributor in the city."
"What am I looking for?" AJ asked.
"Check for any irregularities in security systems." Jimmy replied.
AJ used Grid to do what Jimmy told him too. "I found something. The security at Roman Industries has been disabled."
"Here's the plan. Libby, Carl, AJ and Timmy you guys go to Roman Industries and stop whatever's going on there." Jimmy ordered.
"What about the mutant?" Carl asked.
"I'll handle that." Jimmy replied.
"No offense but that thing took down Cindy, Sheen and Hulk. What are you going to do?" Libby asked.
"Trust me, I have a plan?" Jimmy replied while picking up a giant gun.
Roman Industries
The Special girl clone, Nate and Remy were loading various pieces of equipment into a portal Remy had created.
"Make sure you get everything." Remy said.
"Who put you in charge?" the clone asked.
"I did. Clearly I'm the only one worth anything to Savage." Remy replied.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Nate asked after being offended by what Remy said.
"The only enforcers he has left are a defective clone and a drug addict."
"Did you just call me defective!?" the clone asked with her eyes glowing red.
"You don't scare me, clone!" Remy replied with his hands charging up with energy.
Nate stepped in between the villains, "May I remind you both we have a job to do. The boss won't like it if we fail. So why don't we cut the crap and get back to work."
"Fine." Remy agreed.
"Alright." the clone agreed.
At that moment they were all blasted back by a sound blast.
"I'm glad that you could make up before we sent you to jail." Libby said as the team stepped out of the shadows.
"Remy? How are you still alive?" Timmy questioned.
"You can thank your father for that, Timmy."
"Nate, you don't have to be here with these losers. Go home. Your family's worried sick about you." Libby tried to plead with the teen boy.
Nate let out a little smile, "I can guess since my brother isn't here to bore me with that family shit himself means Zupco got to him."
"Zupco, as in Tony Zupco!?" Carl asked surprised.
"That thing is Zupco." Libby said.
"The correct." Nate replied with a smirk.
The Special girl clone walked towards the N-Men, "As much as I love the warm feeling this reunion is giving me. I have a job to do." the clone fired her heat vision at Carl, Libby quickly reacted protecting him with a force field.
"I got her." AJ said as he charged at the clone.
"You want some tin man." the clone taunted him.
AJ threw a punch, the clone blocked it and punched him in the gut which sent the Cyborg back a few feet, AJ charged at her again threw another punch, the clone caught his fist and threw a punch at him herself which AJ caught with his other hand, after a brief struggle the clone sent AJ down with a headbutt.
Libby and Carl were fighting Nate, the duo were firing sound blasts and force field disks at the young speedster. Nate using his impressive speed managed to dodge all their attacks. Nate charged in and pushed Libby into a wall, Carl quickly acted by firing another sound blast at the boy Nate just barely managed to dodge the attack, he then threw a flurry of punches at Carl's stomach and chest which sent the hero back.
"Is that all you got?" Nate as he bounced around feeling the rush of the drug.
Nate charged at them, Libby reacted quick enough to protect herself and Carl by erecting a force field dome around themselves. Nate then began relentlessly punching the dome.
"You alright?" she asked.
"Yeah." Carl groaned.
"Maneuver 16." Libby said.
"Okay." Carl agreed.
Libby expanded the force field which sent Nate back, she then made herself and Carl invisible. Carl then used his sound powers to completely kill the sound around them.
Nate didn't know what to do. He couldn't see or hear his enemies. Before he knew he was blasted into a wall with a sound blast and trapped in a force field bubble.
Jimmy and Remy began their fight. "Do you honestly think you can defeat me?" Remy asked.
"Yeah, I think I can. Easily even. In Fact I don't think you'll last 30 seconds." Timmy taunted him.
Remy glared at Timmy and called out an attack, "Rock Wave!" a wave of sharp jagged rocks flew at Timmy.
"Steel Fists!" Timmy called out. Timmy's hands turned into a metallic substance, Timmy with impressive speed sent all the rocks flying back at Remy. Remy ducked for cover to avoid being hit by the rocks. "Anything better?" Timmy asked.
"Sandstorm!" Remy called out, a tornado of sand formed in the middle of the room.
"Child's play. Rain Dance!" Timmy called out, a cloud formed in the middle of the room and it rained washing the sand away. "It's like you're not even trying. Lightning strike!" Timmy called out as he fired a bolt of lightning at Remy. Remy was struck and because of the added conductivity of the water he took more damage.
"Shadow sword!" Remy called out forming a purple blade made out of energy, Remy charged and swung it at Timmy.
"Steel Fists." Timmy's hands turned metallic again and caught the blade, "Checkmate." he smirked, with his other hand Timmy formed an energy ball and fired it at Remy knocking the villain through a wall. "I stand corrected, you lasted 35 seconds."
Timmy was preparing to finish Remy off until he saw AJ's fight with the clone.
The Special girl clone knocked AJ into a wall, AJ tried to get up but before he could she slammed him deeper into the wall and started to choke him with both her hands.
"Got to say I'm impressed robot. You lasted way longer than I thought."
Before the clone could finish him off, AJ was saved by Jimmy firing an energy beam at the clone, which sent the villainess to the ground.
"What the hell!?" the clone said in shock and disbelief.
"Need some help?" Timmy asked.
"Maybe." AJ groaned as he got up.
Seeing an opportunity to escape, Remy opened a portal and left the battle.
The Special girl clone got up, Timmy stared her down. "Battle aura! Power of a giant!" Timmy's body glowed with a pink aura which then shaped itself into the shape of a giant.
The clone went in with a punch, Timmy caught it and gave her several quick jabs to her side, the clone kicked Timmy back and punched him several times in the face which Timmy met with a diabolical smile. Timmy gave the clone a right hook into the sky.
The clone using her power of flight to stay in the air. The clone fired her heat vision, Timmy countered by firing an energy beam of his own. The beams clashed neither gaining more ground than the other it looked like a stalemate until AJ rejoined the fight. He leaped into the air grabbing the clone's legs and slammed her into the ground, before the clone could get up AJ grabbed her shirt and tossed her into a wall.
Both Timmy and AJ attacked the clone with a punch, the clone dodged
by tucking and rolling, when she got up she kicked AJ back and grabbed Timmy's cloak, using her speed she quickly wrapped Timmy's cloak around his and began choking him.
Timmy was in a bind; he could neither move nor could he speak to cast a spell. Timmy began to lose consciousness until AJ saved him by firing his rocket fist at the clone's head.
"Thanks." Jimmy said.
"No problem." AJ replied.
The clone charged at them, AJ's shoulders opened up and he fired missiles at the clone which sent the village back, "Psycho chains!" Timmy screamed as multiple energy chains wrapped themselves around the clone trapping her.
"Let's take her down!" AJ suggested.
"Together then." Timmy smiled.
AJ's arm transformed into a cannon, both he and Timmy began charging up attacks.
The clone knew whatever AJ and Timmy were going to do it wasn't going to be good for her. She desperately struggled to free herself from the chains, just as the duo were about to unleash their attacks the clone broke free from the chains and flew out of the building.
"Nice work." Timmy said to AJ.
"You're not too bad yourself." AJ replied.
Nate was desperately trying to free himself from Libby's bubble.
"Give it up Nate. I'm not letting you go." Libby said.
"Not a chance!" Nate shouted.
Suddenly Nate felt a sharp pain in his chest, he gripped it tightly and began gasping for air.
"You're not going to trick me." Libby said.
"Libby, it's not a trick, it's his heart." Carl said.
"What?" Libby said as she released Nate from the bubble as she and Carl went to check on him. "Nate, are you okay?"
Nate regained his composure and struck both Carl and Libby in the face before he escaped.
"I thought you said it wasn't a trick." Libby groaned.
"It's not. I heard his heart. Something is very wrong." Carl replied with concern in his voice.
Summertime Bar
Nate super sped into the building and collapsed onto the floor, Martha quickly went to his aid.
Downtown Retroville
Zupco was still wreaking havoc and was starting to get bord.
"Agh, how much longer do I have to keep doing this." he groaned as he forced another victim into a coma, "It's just not fun anymore. Maybe I should go home."
At that moment Jimmy was standing on a rooftop aiming a futuristic rifle at Zupco.
"Alright, let's do this." Jimmy said as he got Zupco in his sights.
"Just wish something, anything would happen." Zupco said as began looking around for more victims.
At that moment Jimmy fired the rifle at Zupco's back.
The villain was barely fazed from the shot, Zupco turned around and smiled, "Finally something to relieve my boredom."
Zupco leaped into the building and began climbing towards Jimmy.
"Alright James you got his attention, now what." Jimmy said to himself.
Zupco made it to Jimmy, "I see you came back for more Neutron."
"Yeah, and I brought you a present." Jimmy quickly pulled out a gun that fired an inhibitor collar onto Zupco.
Zupco began to laugh while he walked closer to Jimmy, "Your little collars won't work on me anymore." Zupco explained as he ripped the collar off of his neck.
"I figured." Jimmy replied, "I just wanted to lure you into a trap."
At that moment Zupco found himself trapped in an energy dome.
"What is this?" Zupco asked.
"The Neutron Kinetic Containment Dome. No matter how hard you hit it. You're not going anywhere." Jimmy gloated.
Zupco looked around, "You said this was a dome right."
"Yes." Jimmy hesitantly answered.
Zupco then looked at the ground, Jimmy instantly realized what Zupco was about to do.
"Shit!" Jimmy exclaimed as he leaped off the roof and flew off on his jet pack. "Note to self make containment dome a bubble."
Zupco hit the roof and collapsed into the room it was under, Zupco then leaped out of the building and tackled Jimmy onto another rooftop.
"You're not going to be needing this." Zupco said as he ripped one of the rockets off Jimmy's jetpack. "You almost had me, Neutron. Any last words."
"Just get it over with. Your monster breath is nightmare enough." Jimmy replied.
Zupco's eyes glowed red and he used his powers on Jimmy. Jimmy began to scream in pain, he then kicked with enough force to send the villain flying off the building, plummeting into the ground.
"How the hell!?" Zupco said in disbelief.
Jimmy then jumped off of the building and landed right in front of Zupco.
Jimmy's eyes changed to a pure blood red color, his skin began to turn yellow, his hair disappeared, his ears turned to find, he grew two small horns on his forehead and his body began to grow larger and more muscular about half the size of hulk.
The newly transformed Jimmy roared in triumph.
Jimmy: Who the hell are you!?
The monster smiled, "Don't worry master there's no need to be concerned. For Etrigan the Demon has returned!"
Jimmy: Etrigan?
"I don't know what's going on with you Neutron but it's time for you to take a nap."
Zupco charged at the Etrigan and tried to use his powers on the beast. Etrigan looked at with a blank stare and struck him in the face with enough force to go through a car and into a building.
Zupco got up with a bloody nose, "What the hell!?"
"Your powers won't work on me so let me make it clear. For Etrigan the Demon possesses no fear." Etrigan said as he walked towards the villain.
Zupco threw a punch at and Etrigan easily caught his wrist, Etrigan smiled and easily snapped the villain's wrist in two ripping it off the villain.
Zupco screamed in pain and backed away from the monster in fear.
Etrigan let out a sadistic smile, "Why are you running little mouse? Etrigan only wants to wants to play house." Etrigan grabbed Zupco's tail and tossed him across the street clean through a building.
Jimmy: It is a good thing those buildings were evacuated.
With a single leap, Etrigan landed right in front of Zupco.
Zupco began to cower away from Etrigan, "Please, don't kill me. I'll tell you everything.
"No need to beg and lie. For it is time for you to die!"
Jimmy: Etrigan wait. Let him explain.
"So be it. But if you're lying to me, you'll be in so much shit." Etrigan threatened him.
"Okay, Okay! That guy Savage made me like this."
Jimmy: Savage! Where is he?
"Tell us where he is!"
"I… I can't. I'm sorry I can't. I swore an oath. And I won't break it even if you threaten to kill me."
Erigan growled, "I am tired of playing this game. For your insolence you will suffer through a demon's flame." Etrigan shouted before he unleashed a burst of fire from his mouth at Zupco.
"NNNNNOOOOOOO!" Zupco screamed in his last moments as he turned into ash.
The Compound
Cindy and Sheen instantly woke up.
Downtown Retroville
"My time is done in this fight. It is time for my master to reclaim the light." Etrigan said before he grabbed his head in pain.
Jimmy's Mind
Jimmy and Etrigan were standing in the grand hall of Jimmy's Mind, when suddenly Hulk reappeared.
Upon seeing each other Hulk and Etrigan attacked one another.
"You!" Hulk roared as he charged at Etrigan and punched him in the face.
"You insolent beast. I'm going to roast you alive and enjoy a fine feast!" Etrigan threatened Hulk with his mouth smouldering with fire.
"Just try it!" Hulk roared.
"Enough both of you." Jimmy shouted as he got in-between the two monsters.
Both beasts yielded. "Can one of you explain what's going on here?"
Etrigan let out a smile, "It brings me much joy, to know you have not yet informed the boy."
"Inform the boy about what?" Jimmy asked.
"Five of us there be. Each with a power and unique personality." Etrigan explained.
"Care to elaborate, Hulk?" Jimmy asked.
Hulk sighed, "Fine, I guess you were going to find out eventually. When you were younger you suffered a traumatic event."
"What happened?" Jimmy asked.
"I will not tell you that." Hulk replied, "After you experienced that event your mind fragmented creating five alternate personalities. Etrigan and I are two of these personality. We are triggered through an emotion. I come out when you're feeling angry. Etrigan comes out when you're feeling scared."
"And the others?" Jimmy asked.
"The others aren't important." Hulk explained. "Our jobs were simple. Protect you. The others weren't too keen on that arrangement. Long story short I got rid of them to keep you safe."
"So what happens now?" Jimmy asked.
"You go back to the surface. We'll talk things out." Hulk said.
"Okay." Jimmy agreed.
Jimmy vanished before the two monsters.
"So what happens now Hulk?" Etrigan asked.
"We continue to work together just like before."
"I'm surprised by your change of heart. Before you'd try to tear me apart."
"I say we leave things in the past. As long as you stick to the mission we have no problem. I failed where you succeeded, the boy will need both of us to survive." Hulk replied.
"Trust me Hulk, after my resurrection. All I care about is the boy's protection."
"Good. Then we are in agreement." Hulk said as the two power houses shook hands.
The Compound
The N-Men had returned to find Cindy and Sheen awake, Libby ran to hug Sheen, "Sheen you're awake."
Sheen said nothing and just hugged Libby back.
"Are you two alright?" Carl asked.
"Aside from never wanting to sleep again. Yeah we're alright." Cindy replied.
"What happened to Zupco?" Sheen asked.
Everyone had a startling realization. "Oh no Jimmy went to face him alone." Carl said.
"No problem right. Hulk's got his back." Sheen commented.
"Actually that may not be true." Betty said.
Cindy flew out of her bed, "We need to go now." she ordered.
"You won't need to do that." Jimmy said while walking in holding Zupco's severed hand.
"What happened to Zupco?" Sheen asked.
Jimmy placed Zupco's hand on an examining table. "That's all that's left."
Everyone looked at Jimmy shocked, "That's why Sheen and Cindy woke up, you killed Zupco and the effects of his psychic attack dissipated." Betty commented.
"Whoa Jimmy." Timmy said, impressed, "Eviscerating your enemies. Didn't think you had it in you."
"I didn't. I got help."
"From who?" Carl asked.
"This is going to be hard to explain but when I was facing Zupco, he hit me with his powers. It triggered something in me and now I have a new alter."
Everyone gave Jimmy a shocked expression.
"You have a new alter." Betty said in disbelief. "What does this even mean for you? Your cellular makeup can change itself on a whim based on your emotional state. This changes everything we knew about mutants or just you in general. We need to run test."
"I know Betty just… later okay. I'm really worn out." Jimmy replied.
"Can we meet him?" Jasmine asked.
"Sure I guess." Jimmy replied as he changed into Etrigan.
Everyone except Timmy was startled by Etrigan's appearance.
"Pleased to meet you Men of N. I am the alter known as Etrigan." Etrigan bowed.
"Cool he rhymes." Sheen commented.
Etrigan smiled and changed back into Jimmy. "Enough of that. We have business to discuss. Savage is back."
"What!?" Cindy said in disbelief.
"It's true we fought his henchmen at Roman Industries." Timmy said.
"Timmy, AJ can you examine Zupco's arm?" Jimmy asked.
"Okay." Timmy replied.
"Sure." AJ agreed.
Timmy and AJ used their respective abilities to examine the arm.
"The metamorphosis is happening on a cellular level, overwhelming the cells. I theorize complete cellular disintegration in 24 hours." AJ explained.
"I see. Timmy what did you get?" Jimmy asked.
"I agree with the Tin Man. This is chaos magic. Very powerful, very destructive." Timmy explained.
"Do you two think you can work together to come up with counter measures for these 'Chaos Mutants'?"
Timmy and AJ looked at each other and smiled, "I think we can come up with something." Timmy said.
"Infact, I think Timmy might be able to help us with that other thing." AJ suggested.
Jimmy smiled, "Good. Let's get to work."
Summertime Bar
Remy and the clone returned beaten and bruised. They entered the bar to find Nate on a IV and Savage sitting disappointed on a chair.
"Did you manage to get everything?" he asked.
Remy and the clone didn't answer.
"I thought I asked you two a question? Don't make me repeat myself."
"No." The clone reluctantly answered.
"WHHAAATT!" Savage screamed as his entire body completely turned black with a red outline along his body and eyebrows, giving him a silhouette-like appearance with few other discernible features, the most notable among them being his bright yellow eyes.
Everyone but Brick backed away from Savage in fear. Savage then began to telekinetically choke the clone, Remy, Martha and Nate.
"I am surrounded by incompetent failures. You." He said looking at the clone, "Are nothing but a cheap knock off of the original. You." He said looking at Nate, "Are a worthless drug addict. And you!" He said looking at Martha, "Are nothing but a disappointment." Savage began to squeeze their necks tighter, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't finish any of you off right now."
"I-I… I have one." Remy gasped.
Savage released his minions, "What?"
"I didn't tell you this before because I thought you would kill me. That wizard I was chasing down when you found me is your son Timmy." Remy explained as he was trying to catch his breath.
Savage thought for a moment, "Interesting. So the prodigal son has returned. Very well." Savage said as he changed back to his normal self.
Savage began to walk out. "Where are you going?" Brick asked.
"To take care of some family business. You're in charge of my rogues while I'm away. Children make sure you do everything that Brick tells you or there will be hell to pay. Do you understand."
"Yes Savage." Martha, Remy, Nate and the clone said in unison.
"Good." he responded before he left the building.
After Savage left Nate quickly pulled Martha away.
"Doc, what happened to me earlier?" he asked.
"The Rush is killing you Nathan. It's causing complete respiratory failure and…"
"And what?" Nate asked.
"It's given you stage four terminal cancer in your liver, kidney, lungs and brain." Martha continued.
Nate felt a sharp pain in his chest and collapsed in despair.
"At the rate you're going you have a few weeks left and if you keep taking Rush even less."
"Isn't there something you can do?" Nate asked.
"Maybe If you got a new heart it would buy you more time." Martha suggested. "But there's nothing you can do about the cancer."
Nate looked at Martha with a worried face.
Cindy's House
After their long day Cindy and Timmy we're walking to their home.
"I'm gonna take a nice long bath when I get home." Timmy groaned while rubbing his shoulder, "That knockoff you doesn't pull any punches."
"I wish I could take a relaxing bath again." Cindy complained.
"Why can't you?" Timmy asked.
"Invulnerable skin doesn't let you feel much heat. No matter how hot I make it even with my heat vision it's just lukewarm."
"That must be a bummer." Timmy said.
"The price you pay for super powers I guess."
"Have you ever tried taking a bath while wearing an inhibitor collar?"
"Huh, I haven't thought of that. Maybe I'll ask Jimmy to whip up something less BDSMy."
"That's why it's good for you to have a smarter, handsomer, older brother." Timmy gloated.
"Yeah an older brother who still can't figure out a phone." Cindy teased him.
"Don't get me started on those things." Timmy groaned.
As the siblings stepped into their house they were completely surprised by what was waiting for them.
Savage was sitting on a chair drinking a cup of coffee, "It brings a tear to this old man's heart to see his children getting along so well."
"Father." Timmy greeted him with a lot of hatred in his voice.
"Timmy it's so good to see you again. You look good for your age. Don't Tell me you inherited immortality from me."
Timmy didn't answer the villain. Cindy used her super speed to quickly check the house.
"Savage, where's my mother!?" Cindy asked.
"Young lady that's not how you speak to your-"
"Where is she!" Cindy screamed as her eyes ignited red with rage.
Timmy backed up his sister and prepared to fight the villain by creating an energy scythe.
"I would relax if I were you two. Who knows what attacking me would do to Susan's health."
Cindy's eyes went back to normal and Timmy dissipated his scythe.
"What do you want?" Cindy asked.
"The three of us are going to go on an exciting trip."
"Where?" Timmy asked.
"That's a surprise."
"Why us?" Cindy asked.
"Well I was originally planning to use the clone and that reject sorcerer Remy but as soon as I found out you were back son, I got a new plan. Why settle for the rest when I could've the best."
It took a moment for Timmy to see it but he eventually felt the evil presence surrounding Savage.
"You reek of Chaos Magic." Timmy commented.
"I should. I am the new wielder of the Chaos Amulet of Tarren."
"You really are a fool, Savage. Do you have any idea what Chaos Magic will do to you."
"In fact I do my boy. Unlike the order magic you use, chaos magic is little by little destroying me. But that won't matter when I get the stones. So here's what's going to happen now, you two are going to help me get the artifact I want then I will return Susan back to you safe and sound."
"And if we refuse?" Timmy asked.
"Well you could try to find Susan with a spell or use one of James's nifty inventions, but I guarantee you, she will run out of food and water long before then. So are we in agreement?"
Timmy and Cindy looked at each other and nodded.
"Good children. Now come over here and give your old man a hug." He said as he extended his arms to his children.
Timmy and Cindy begrudgingly hugged their father.
"Aren't we just the picture of the perfect family." Savage chuckled before he let out a loud psychotic maniacal laugh.
Well that's it. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Be sure to leave a review.
As you read I gave Jimmy another alter, I'm planning to give Jimmy alters based on heroes with dual personalities, and the second being based on DC hero Etrigan cause I really like him and think he deserves more love and I wanted to challenge myself because Etrigan speaks in rhymes most of the time.
Etrigan isn't stronger or weaker than Cindy, they have about the same level of strength it's just Etrigan doesn't hold back.
Also the black silhouette design I thought of for Savage was inspired by the Codename: Kids Next Door villain Father, I just rewatched the entire series and really loved his role in it.
I want this to feel more like a tv series than a book so in-between chapters I'll release promo chapters.
Have a good time.
Next Episode: School Dance
Synopsis: Carl, Libby and Jasmine have to deal with a mutant at The Royalty Prep Winter Formal while Timmy and Cindy are working with Savage and Sheen has to deal with the return of his brother Nate.
