New York City

Inside the alleyway, the door opened, and two guys exited. As they did, one of them pulled out a pack of cigarettes. He inhaled deeply and turned to find his pal wanting a light. After he took a deep breath, he turned to see his friend wanting a light. The guy pulled back his lighter, igniting his cigarette. After taking a deep breath of the cigarette, he then noticed a guy in an alleyway. Both of them pulled their pistols and slowly stepped closer. At the other end of the alley stood a tall black man.

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He wore a gray jacket, black sweatpants, and military boots. After drinking his coffee, the man slowly approached the two guys, throwing away both his coffee cup and his jacket. His walk became a jog, then a full-on sprint. He then created an outer layer of stones, and as he did, bullets were fired at him, but they had no effect. Inside, the gang heard shots, and then someone burst through the door. All of them stood up and aimed their guns at the person. The smoke cleared, and it was the same man who turned into stone.

'殺了他' He said. Then all the gangs let loose and fired, emptying out their rounds. The man paid no mind to it and just went behind a forklift. Once his stone layer was restored, he was ready.

'My turn' he said, then lifted a forklift and threw it at them. The forklift crashed into someone, causing him to get stuck. He tried to get out, but it was no use. Other gang members try to kill him, but he simply throws the guy at them. He then ran up to another group when one of the gang members arrived with a machine gun. He began to fire at the man, and he was able to destroy his outer layer of stone. The man ran for cover, and as he ran, he grabbed a nearby pistol and threw it towards the guy with the machine gun in his head, shattering it. When the boss watched this guy slaughter his group, he attempted to break himself free. The stone man came behind one of them, knocking his gun out. The guy pulled out a knife and tried to stab him, but his knife broke on impact.

'What the fuck' The stone man grabbed him by the shirt, lifted him, and headbutted him.

The man felt the shot from his back and turned to see a small group of guys shooting. When they took cover, he threw the guy at them, killing one of them. The rest dropped their guns and ran. One of them attempted to fire a shot, but the bullet bounced off of him and struck him in the head, killing him. As the other gang members ran. The boss was able to push the forklift aside, but to his fear, it was the stone man. The man lifted him up by the neck.

'Tell Mr. Liu, next time I find him on our turf, I won't be so gentle' He then snapped his neck, killing him.

'That message was for you' He then turned around and saw a young man who had a double-barreled shotgun and was shivering due to fear.

'Don't be stupid, kid; I'm cutting you a break-' He was interrupted when the man accidentally pulled the trigger, which caused the stone layer on his right eye to be blown off. Once it regrows, he looks back at the man.

'Go' The man dropped his gun and ran. Once he was alone, he looked down and saw that his pants were destroy, filled with holes.

'Oh, shit...'

Invincible was fighting a werewolf. When she tried to land a blow, but Invincible grabbed her by the arm and threw her through a building wall, knocking her out. When he got there, he received cheers from the crowd.

'You're welcome! Just trying to keep the city safe'

'Behind you' One of the civilians said, pointing something behind him.

'What' He turned around to see the building coming down.

'Oh, crap' Invincible flew towards the broken wall, holding it up before it collapsed.

'Hi, don't be scared; I got this, but I guess, get your stuff? Sorry about your apartment'

It won't happen again, Mr. Sayer's' Mark said, apologizing to his boss.

'But it has, Grayson; you've been late 12 times in the past 3 months' He said, poking his chest.

'I'm sorry, but I'm docking your shifts' Sayer said as he began to walk away.

'You know what?' Mark said.

'Don't bother, I quit' Sayer turned around and was shocked.

'What!' He yelled.

'Um, Mr. Sayer?' One of the workers called out.

'There's a rat in the mayonnaise again'

'Do I look like I care, Sam?' He turned around to see that Mark was gone.

'Grayson?' He called out, looking around.

'Grayson?' Then Mark's apron fell on his head.

On one of the tall New York buildings, the same stone man was holding a man by the leg over the building.

'I'll have the cash tomorrow, I swear! Tell your boss I need more time!' The hanging man said.

'There isn't any more time, Gary' He said.

'Take it all, take everything I've got' Gary pulled out his wallet and gave it to him. He took a look through, and then he came upon a picture of Gary and his kid. With a deep sigh, he threw Gary back on the roof.

'Oof!'

'Two days after that, you're painting sidewalk' He then left the roof, leaving the man alone.

'Oh, God!'

'The gravity bomb, where is it?!' Invincible yelled.

Now, he and Omni-Man are in the air, holding a villain by the foot.

'I'll never tell!' The villain yelled out, Invincible sigh.

'Now What?' He ask.

'Mark, you have to scare him and make him think you'll actually drop him'

'I can hear you' The villain yelled.

'I don't know, that seems mean'

All right here, I'll show you' Omni-Man then took the villain's leg and let go.

'Whoa!'

'There, see, now he tells me everything'

'Ok, but you're going to catch him, right?

'Yeah, in a second'

The steel doors burst open, and as the scientist ran out, the stone man got what he needed: a golden microchip. Just then, security came in and aimed their pistols at him.

'freeze!' The security guard

'Your lives worth minimum wage? Or do you wanna fire guns in the air, say you tried your best, and we all walk away happy and alive?'

The security guards look at each other, and one decides to just aim his gun into the air and start to shoot. One after another, they began to shoot in the air while he walked away.

The man enters through two large doors, and as they close behind him, he walks up to the large desk, passing a green-haired man wearing a suit with an I in the middle. Once he reaches the desk, he places the golden microchip on it and pushes it towards the man behind the chair. The man turned his chair around, reviling a guy with a machine for a man picked up the microchip and examined it. And was surprised that there wasn't a scratch on it.

'Not even scratch? Not bad for a guy with gravel for fingers' The comment made the green-haired guy laugh.

The machine head looked at the chip, placed it near his head, and inserted the chip. As he inserted the chip, his mouth and eyes began to glow.

'Oh...yeah, oh, yeah' The machine head straightened his tie up.

'Yeah, that's...that's nice; that works nicely'

'That's the last of it; paid in full, I'm done' The man said he was about to leave, but then the machine head spoke.

'Mm...Nah' The man turned around, confused.

'Nah?'

'See, Titan, your problem is that you're too useful; you get shit done' The machine head stood up and walked around his desk. Once he was at the front, he leaned towards the desk.

'You take bullets like a champ and don't even whine about it, unlike someone else in the room' He said with a robotic tone.

'It was one fucking time, I said-' He was interrupted by the machine head.

'Shut the hell up!'

'Yeah, yeah, sometimes you let people live when they need to die, but, man, you'd make an impact if you didn't just finish paying off your debt; we'd be talking bonus time'

'I don't need your money anymore' Titan said.

'Sure you do; come on, like you're going to go clean? Work the fry station at Burger-Mart? That ship has sailed; amigo, this is your life now, and this is what you do'

'No, it's not'

'You're a walking pile of rocks, you beakhead's, that's it, that's all own it ready, see, I know you're gonna keep working for me; the question is how painful do you want it to be?'

Titan turns around and walks up to the machine head, where he turns to stone.

'What are you doing? You think you can just punch your way out of this? I know where your family lives, and that means you work for me until I say you're fucking done!

Titan clenches his fists and slams it on the table, destroying it.

'Yeah, see? See! Impressive shit like that is exactly why I'll never letting you go!' He said.

'Plus, now you've gotta pay for the desk, too; this was imported Italian maple'

Titan just sigh.

Outer space

Omni-Man and Invincible were in space, and right in front of them was an asteroid coming down on earth. Invincible charge, and when he was there, he tried to hold it back. The asteroid then began to catch fire as it became closer to earth. Using all of his strengths, Invincible was able to stop the asteroids and the fire. Invincible was out of breath as he looked towards Omni-Man.

'Now just throw it back into space'

With a sigh, Invincible punched both his hands inside the asteroid, spun it around, and threw it back into space.

'How does it feel to save the world? Or at least the country?' He ask.

'By the way, that was a small one' Omni-Man added, which caused Invincible to be shocked.

'That was a small one?!' He asked.

'Yeah, you should've seen the asteroid I diverted a few years ago' Omni-Man raises his hands and sets them apart.

'The size of Texas' Invincible, then hear his phone ring and look at it, realizing something was wrong.

'Aw, crap, I gotta run, dad'

'Hey, whatever that is, your training is more important, big picture, right'

'I know, but it's Amber'

'Mark, we talked about this'

'Dad...'

Omni-Man sigh.

'This one time, okay'

'Yes!'

Invincible hugged his dad and then flew towards Amber.

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Amber opened the door to see Mark there, holding up a box.

'I know I'm a little late...'

Amber crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow.

'I brought dessert' Amber just groans and lets Mark in.

'Okay, that's fair'

The two were inside her room, and Mark was sitting on her bed eating lasagna.

'You were right; your mom's a great cook'

'You should've told her that yourself during dinner two hours ago'

'I tried to text you-' He was interrupted by Amber.

'Am I important to you, Mark' Amber ask

'Uh...yeah, of course'

'Well, it really doesn't feel like half the time we make plans, you're late, or you cancel, or you just don't show, and your excuse suck'

'Hold on-'

'But then you pick up sushi I like, or you leave a note in my locker, or you surprise me after class, and you're not a bad kisser, but that doesn't make it okay if you keep doing it, and tonight was just definitely not okay; this was three months; this was meeting my mom'

'It's just...I have these family responsibilities; I help my dad with work; it's hard making it all fit'

'Sure, that's fines' Amber responded.

'Then make that choice, but then this? I'm not doing this anymore; I've been down this road before, and once was enough'

'Hold on-'

'Why?'

'Because...I'm, uh...'

'Your what?'

'I'm...I'm gonna do better, I promise'

'Proved it'

After that shitshow, Mark was walking on the street. When he was walking, he accidentally kicked the rock, causing it to crash and destroying a part of the roof. Then Mark receives a phone call and sees it's from his dad; he then answers it.

'Hey, dad' Mark said.

'Mark, I'm watching the elephant rob a store downtown; he'd be perfect practice for you'

'I'm not really in the mood-' He was interrupted by his dad.

'Mark...' Mark just sigh.

'Okay, I'm coming'

'That's my boy'

Mark ended his call and looked around to see no one, then flew up.

Guardians headquarters

The base door opened, and the new Guardians of the Globe entered, celebrating.

'Whoo, fuck, yeah! That's the last time the Lizard League turns people into snakes in my town!' Rex said he was holding his hand up for a high five.

'You better believe it, baby' Monster Girl said, high-fiving him.

'Who wants a beer?' Dupli-Kate asked.

'There are no alcoholic beverages in the Guardians headquarters' Robot said.

'There "were" no alcoholic beverages in the Guardians headquarters; that was the first thing I fixed in this dump'

Dupli-Kate, tap on the floor, and a pillar full of beer appeared; one clone popped out, took some, and started to hand it out.

'Had to throw out whatever scanner or computer was in that spot, though' Rex then had a shock expression.

'Oh, no! I hope that wasn't your girlfriend, Robot' Rex said sarcastically.

'Up top' Rex then fist bumps with Monster Girl.

One of the clones offered some beer, which Robot, Black Samsons, and Andrew denied.

As the clones pass along beer, she hesitatingly wonders if she could even give it to Monster Girl.

'I'm 25' Dupli-Kate then handed her a beer.

The clone then reunited with the original and sat down next to them.

'Nothing like an ice-cold brew after you've crawled through someone's inner ear-' Shrinking Rae was interrupted by a high-pitched sound, causing the beer bottles to shatter.

'Dude! What the hell?' Rex said to Black Samsons.

'Two dozen civilians could have been in the hospital if Andrew hadn't carried our asses, just because we fought like 6 individual assholes instead of a team' Samsons turned around and walked to the middle of the field.

'Pull up the fight'

Robot then pulled out a hologram of the fight. As the hologram continued, Samson paused and pointed at the bus.

'You see this, this right here?'

'I know what a bus looks like'

'This is where you messed up, you and Monster Girl, both so caught up in your own little prize fights, and if not for Andrew's speed, this entire bus of civilians could have crashed' Samsons continues the hologram showing the bus crash.

'It had kids on it, man'

'What were we supposed to do?' Rex asked.

'You pop the tires on the bus; blow that concrete into gravel to slow it down, so monster girl can stop it and save lives! That is what you were supposed to do!' Black Samsons yelled.

He then walked towards the villain, who was turning people into snakes, and paused.

'Dupli-Kate, next time we're in this situation, I want you to think about containment, if you had cloned the perimeter around King Lizard here, you could've held him back while Shrinking Rae took care of his snake gun, or whatever hell he called it'

'Snake-erator' Everyone looks at Rae, and she shrinks a little.

'He called it his snake-erator'

'No!' Rex stood up and threw the broken bottle to the ground.

'Forget this; we did our best and we won, so whatever, you don't even have powers, old man' Rex said, crossing his arms.

'Say that one more time, son'

'Why? Forget your hearing aid, grandpa?'

'Okay, okay, stop; he's not wrong, Rex' Dupli-Kate.

'Fuck this!' Rex then left and others began to leave as well.

'Good debrief, everyone, as usual, I'll be the only person who actually sacrificed something since I'm now a week younger than I was yesterday'

'Now, if you excuse me, I have business to attend to' With great speed, Andrew left.

'Can you believe these punks?' Samson said to Robot. Robot just stare at Monster Girl.

'Some of them' Robot responded.

Invincible was flying through the air, having a blast. He then saw a plane and flew down right next to it. On one of the windows, he waved hello to a little girl and then flew down. As he flew down, he saw one of the buildings. A half-finished painted version of his name. He then flew towards that building. As he landed he let out a chuckle.

'You missed a few letters' He said.

'Paint costs money, and you've got a long-ass name' The man said Invincible, look closer and recognize the man.

'Oh, you're that guy I stopped from robbing a bank a few months ago'

'My name is Titan' He said, taking off his hood.

'Oh...you're out for revenge' Invincible then gets into a fighting stance.

'Fine, let's do this'

'I didn't call you here to fight'

'Because I'd would win?'

'You got lucky'

'Sure, I did' Titan just shrugged.

'I called you here because I need your help'

'Why would I help you? You're a criminal'

'You don't even know what that word means'

'Uh, pretty sure I do' Invincible said, stroking his chin.

'No, you don't; I'm not a criminal; I just owed one money, and now I can't get out'

'So?'

'So aren't you a hero? Helping people and taking down bad guys?'

'Yeah...'

'So help me take down my boss; they don't get any worse than him'

'Who's your boss?' Invincible ask.

'Machine Head' Titan responded.

'That's not a real name'

'Huh, of course you haven't heard him; you're a rich kid from the suburbs' Invincible was an insulted.

'What? No, I'm-you don't know!'

'Come on, man, Machine Head runs this city; if it's illegal and it makes money, it's his, and when people need to die to keep it that way, he's got muscle like me to take care of it'

'Yeah, I'm more like a big-picture superhero saving the planet and stuff like that Why don't you give, uh, Fight Force a call?' He was about to fly away when Titan stopped him.

'Sure, man, just fly away; forget about everyone else down here, let me show you what you don't see from up there'

'What, like, right now?'

'You've got somewhere to be?' He asked, Invincible, then flew, carrying Titan, his arms cross.

'This is some bullshit'

'It's not a party for me either, man'

A garbage truck pulls up and carries the trash can.

'Machine Head owns the trash company, uses it to ferry drugs to stash houses all over the city'

Once the trash can was replaced, two other people opened the lid to see drugs; they then closed it and dragged it inside.

'Machine Head owns this whole block; he pays off inspectors so he doesn't have to fix shit, and then burns them for insurance money if anyone is inside at the time, too bad'

Then both Machine Head and Isotope then walk out of the strip club.

From a corner in the alley, both Titan and Invincible spy on them.

'Which one's Machine Head?' Which gave him a look.

'Kidding, I'm kidding'

Just then, Machine Head stopped looking down on his phone and looked towards the alleyway, to which both Titan and Invincible quickly hid.

'Isotope, let's go' Just then, both he and Istope disappeared.

'What the hell was that?' Invincible asked.

'His pet'

Then again, Invincible carried Titan to a different alley.

'You help me take down Machine Head; you help real people with real lives; think about that next time you're fighting some stupid elephant-man or whatever' Titan was about to leave when Invincible stopped him.

'Why did you borrow money from Machine Head anyway?'

Titan said nothing at first until a woman in her late 20s or early 30s exited the community center. By her side, holding her hand, was a child, maybe around 5 or 6.

'It wasn't for me' He then exited out of the alley, and the kid recognized him.

'Daddy!' The kid said she accidentally slipped, but Titan was able to catch her. Titan smiled as the three walked back home.

It was late at night when Andrew entered the house. When he turned on the light and put away his wide-brim hat, he then walked across the living room. And what he saw surprised him. There on the living room table was his daughter, Nikki; she slumped over the table, asleep, her head resting on some paper. Andrew just sighed and gently picked her up. Before he could put her to bed, he noticed on one of the papers a caryon, verson of him and Nikki holding hands. He sighs and smiles, then goes into Nikki's bedroom and gently places her on the bed. Once she was in bed, he tucked her in and was about to leave when he heard her mumble.

'I love you, Dad'

Andrew smiles and whispers back something he never thought he would say.

'I love you too' With that, he closed the door to Nikki's room. When he closed the door after saying what he said he felt...

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