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In the dark of the night, in a desert a few clouds are seen, but the clouds split apart by air itself. This air turns out to be The Immortal, beating Invincible senselessly as he flies backwards in his Invincible costume. Mark hocks up and spits blood to his side as he smirks at Immortal.

'I've been hit harder before, like way harder'

'So arrogant, just like your father' Immortal said through gritted teeth

Immortal and Mark proceed to continue their fight, Mark gets slung backwards from one punch by Immortal, and as he flies towards Mark, Mark grits his teeth and clocks Immortal in the face, sending him backwards as well. The two continue to battle in the air, but it seems like Immortal has the upper hand, and Mark loses his chances to land a hit on him. Mark flies around Immortal, kneeing him in the stomach.

'I'm trying to save lives! Why can't you trust me?!' Mark asked, As he continue to punch him. Immortal punches Mark in the face, the first was to stun him, before grabbing him by the neck. Mark grits his teeth and holds his arm.

'After what Omni-Man did?! After what you did?!' Suddenly a red blur flies downwards, cutting off Immortal's arm, as he yells in pain, Immortal growls in anger looking at Nolan, also known as Omni-Man.

'You!' Nolan glares down at Immortal.

'Yep'

Immortal still proceeds to fight Nolan, but with Nolan, after he was punched backwards by Immortal, grows tired of the fight already, and catches Immortal's fist. He twists the Immortal's arm to the side very aggressively, tearing his arm open with his bones poking out as blood rushes out. Immortal is then met with a few hits to his chest by Nolan, followed by Nolan once again decapitating him. Immortal's head goes over to Mark, who catches it. Mark wastes no time in smashing Immortal's head into paste with his own bare hands. His blood flies onto his costume like water, covering part of it, especially on his head.

'Immortal your way out of that' Nolan is faced away from Mark. Mark flies over to him.

'Dad?' He asked, Nolan just took a deep breath before exhaling

'The Immortal lived for thousands of years trying to make this planet better for all its people, I thought he'd see the truth...like you did'

In the city of Chicago, everything was laid in ruins, helicopters, cars, tanks, trucks, fire, death, and the destruction of every building is all that can be seen throughout the entire city. Alongside a video recording of Mark on a big screen. The people, who are either dead, wounded, or trying to assist each other in a time of hopelessness have no choice but to listen.

'People of Earth...we know you all feel like we're the bad guys because my dad and I took over your planet, but you're going to be apart of The Viltrum Empire now; hat means no one goes hungry, no one dies from cancer, and no one messes with Earth again; look, I didn't get it the first time either, but I came around and you will too; and in the long run, you'll thank us; but you need to remember, the more you resist, the worse this gets; we didn't destroy any of your cities; you destroyed them by fighting back, your new Viltrumite rulers are on the way, and it's time to join us in welcoming them'

Out in the center, one men look up at the big screen and he took off his hood. He was another survivor.

'And if you think you can stop us, don't forget...I'm Invincible'

As Mark's message repeats, He began to walk away as you climb into the back of a wrecked school bus, close the door, press a button on the side, and go downwards on a makeshift elevator to see a shantytown composed of tents and trailers. You walk downwards with the other survivor, sighing to yourself. You look around to see other people, comforting each other as they are all dressed in dirty clothes and such. Soon enough, a deformed Robot is seen in his pod, while his remote robot is seen next to him.

'Angstrom, were you followed?'

'The Immortal lead them away we're safe'

'Yeah?' A voice asked, Angstrom looked up and saw Eve

'That's what Rex thought, too' Eve said, she had a shaved head, while wearing a black jacket, jeans, and a pair of white boots as the top to her hero costume is seen under her jacket.

'Did you obtain the null energy?' Robot asked. Angstrom nodded, he puts his backpack down and reaches into it, pulling out a container that holds the null energy.

'If this doesn't make Omni-Man have a bad day, nothing will' Suddenly rumbling can be heard above the underground.

'Oh, no! Oh, God, no!' The people run away and duck into their tents and trailers as the ceiling to the underground caves in as Eve creates a bubble around Rudy, Angstrom. Nolan and Mark fly downwards, the smoke flows away from them.

'Told you we were close' Omni-Man said. Mark, in a cold stare, looks towards Eve.

'Hey, Eve, you look good' Eve roar at him as she, attack Mark, while Rudy fight Nolan

Eve tosses projectiles at Mark as he either blocks them with his arms or dodge them before he flies after Eve. Angstrom tosses the null energy to Robot as he loads it into a rifle. One of Robot's drones attempt to kill Nolan, but he breaks his arm in two, and slice him in half at the waist. Robot fires the energy from the rifle, forming a large dark purple beam to send Nolan crashing into a wall.

Once the beam dies down, Nolan zooms out from the smoke, putting his hand right through the chest of Robot, blood leaks out as he drops to the ground. Next to Robot, a few other dead citizens are seen, torn in half simply by Nolan putting Robot through them. Their blood pools to ground as Nolan pulls his hand out of Robot, and Robot stares up at him.

'Someday...you too will die'

'Sure, but you should have died at birth' Nolan flew away as Rudy chamber continue to leak out water. Back with mark and Eve, she was still throwing projectiles at him, but still he destroy them with just his arms.

'Last chance, Eve' Mark launch forward which caused her to fall back with that distance she created walls, hoping to stop or at least slow him down.

'You and your stupid resistance made us kill thousands of innocent people' But to no luck he simply went straight through them and now has Eve by the neck as people scream, running away.

'Ah!'

'Stop this, or I stop you, please...' He tried to reason with her but just simply grabs both of his hands.

'I'd rather die' Mark was surprise by this.

'What? Eve... I would never kill you but I can't let you hurt anyone else' Then Mark twisted his arm and a loud snap can be heard then Mark let her go as she drop on to the floor. That was when Nolan flew down.

'I'm sorry you had to do that, Mar, she didn't leave you a choice' Nolan said laying his hand on his shoulder.

'She's not dead, just paralyzed' Eve was staring at them, their was anger and hatred in her eyes.

'Huh, so that's what you were practicing on those protesters last week, I couldn't figure it out' Nolan said taking his hand off his shoulder.

'Yeah, I've got some people who'll take care of her, so, you know, I can visit' Once the threats were erase, the two flew down towards the people, they both could see fear in their eyes.

'Hi, since you were all part of the resistance, we need to kill you' Angstrom was the first who step forward not out of fear but with rage.

'Murderers!'

'Ah, a volunteer' Nolan said. As Mark step forward Angstrom step back.

'Don't touch me!'

'Hey, buddy, you sentenced yourself to death when you joined club resistance'

'Justice...justice will come for you for all the friends we've lost to your senseless cruelty, for all the families you've torn apart, you will reap what you...' He was than interrupted by Nolan.

'Let's do this, Mark, I missed lunch because of that riot in Bangkok'

'Yep, way ahead of you' Mark said as he continue to step forward. Just then a neon green was lit up underneath Angstrom which caused him to fall and disappear.

'What the hell was that?! A portal or something?' He asked, but Nolan just shrug it off.

'Eh, who cares? Let's finish this off, I'm starving' Mark nodded and slowly approach the group, his shadow looming over them.

Its been a few weeks since Mark fought his farther and he was still processing the trauma this caused him. He, in his civilian cloths saw the reconstruction of the train crash that was caused by him and Omni-man fight, he look at the construction for a moment before walking away.

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Mark then dawn his costume few over the ocean and was heading straight to a factory which had caught on fire. As the fireman try to put it out, Mark flew closer to the building as he did a wave form behind him. Invincible stop flying letting the wave, now massive, pass through him and crash into the building. This caused some of the fireman to retreat for others caught into the crashing wave. As things settle down they look up to see the fire was extinguished and Invincible no where to be found.

Next he flew into the city passing by the people and the building, he soon saw a man dress up like an elephant crashing out of a building as he tried to flee he was caught by Invincible was was swung around by the trunk of the guys costume. After some time Invincible lets go of him causing into to crash into a nearby car, the people who suddenly saw this happen look around to see who had done this but invincible simply disappear again.

Now Invincible flew up into the sky staring at it for a bit. Meanwhile three cop cars where chasing a bunch of robber who were in an SUV, currently the chase was ongoing sometimes a robber would pop out the window and fire shots at the cops to slowly them down as he renter the car trying to reload his gun the car suddenly something their was a loud coming from the front they look to see that someone rip off the engine. SUV doors open and the robbers jump out of a car they tried to run but to their surprise pieces of the engine stop them. As the cops surrounded them, both of them raise their hand and surrender.

Invincible now was back into the sky but instead of looking at the sky he down on the city, it was so small when he flew into the air. Then he heard the sounds of sirens and so he let himself fall towards the ground once he reach the ground he flew straight towards the sirens. Meanwhile paramedics, load an middle age man on to the ambulance. As the ambulance door close one of them began to applied chest compression when suddenly they felt the ambulance car lifted off the ground causing them to fall on the floor even so, the person got up and apply chest compression again. As the moving stop the other paramedic open the ambulance door he saw that they were right next to a hospital.

Invincible continue to fly over them, passing by the buildings, he then went through a parking-lot building once he reach other other side he hear a woman scream he stop and look over to see a police car thrown into the air, Invincible lucky catches it. As he place down the car he saw in front of him was Magmanic, and Tether Tyrant, trying to commit a bank robbery. He was bout to intervene when the sounds of helicopters can be hear he look up to see a couple of helicopters flew in and stop on top of the villains, ropes were then drop down as Cecil man began to shoot at the two which caused them to flee, since his help isn't needed he flew away. After awhile of flying he reach the house and landed on the roof and sat their. Taking off his mask he sat their still processing the trauma.

'We all remember that day, when titans touched down in Chicago, the battle; the devastation, the cost in lives, for some, the pain will never fade but for many others, the healing has already begun, In only a few short weeks, crews have been hard at work rebuilding the city that had been so devastat...' Just then Debbie shuts off the tv and places the remote on the couch, she then hears Mark footsteps descending down the stairs, as they meet face to face they embrace each other in a deep hug.

'You don't have to go back if you're not ready' Debbie reassures him, he simply chuckles in response.

'Neither do you?' She chuckled at this.

'I think we're both dying to get out of this house' This made Mark nod his head. As the two of them opened the door to leave they were surprised that Andrew was right in front of them, this caused them both off guard.

'Oh Andrew I didn't expect to see you here' Debbie said. He simply shrugs.

'I just wanted to check up on you to see if you're doing ok' Debbie nodded her head.

'Yes we're fine I think the both of us need some fresh air, isn't that right Mark?' She asked. To which he nodded.

'Yea' Andrew simply nodded.

'Alright if you need someone to talk to, I'm just down the block' He said.

'Thanks Andrew you're a good friend' Debbie said.

Andrew nodded his head walking off of the house porch and onto the street. He wanted to leave immediately but something told him that would open old wounds and so decided to walk off waving at the two then dashing off at the speed of light leaving behind a blur of him as he ran forward disappearing from the two two stood their for a moment, staring at the ruin house across the street. Mark was the first to break the silence.

'See you later, Mom' Mark said leaving.

'You too ' She replied as the both of them parted ways.

In an unknown location a lizard climbed on a bone that was protruded off the ground. Just then three turrets pop off from the ground and aim their lasers at it charging up. Doing a quick scan of the lizard realizing it wasn't a threat went back underground.

'Who holds a grudge this long? I said I was sorry' Mauler#1 said to the guard in front of him. Both of them in a heated conversation in a deep underground prison used to house inmates of exceptional powers. The guard just sneered at him wearing a cast and neck brace with a purple eye looking at him.

'Get back from the door if you want to eat' He simply said.

'That's the thing, I don't want to eat that garbage, I want real food' Mauler#1 protested.

'I said, get back!' The guard ordered, Mauler#1 puffing air out of his nose took a step back, and the guard picked up a tray.

'Further' Mauler#1 took another step.

'Turn around' Mauler#1 Now sick of this guard, paranoia protests again.

'I'm not gonna-'

'Turn around!' He interrupted.

'You should count yourself lucky there, Pete' Mauler#2 scoffs taking his chance to negotiate a better deal with threats, sitting in his cell across from Mauler#1.

'We could've torn your arm off, smashed your head in, ripped out your liver, made your spine into a belt' Mauler#2 elaborated but the guard wasn't having it.

'I ain't scared you get back too, or you're both going hungry'

'Instead, we barely gave you a concussion, that means we like you, that means you're a friend, that means when we break out of here again, we don't kill you' Mauler#2 said continuing his rant of the consequences of mistreating them.

'As long as you keep us in good food, which you're currently not' Mauler#1 added.

'Don't try to bargain with me, we've got security turned up to a hundred on you two, new cameras, new guns, new doors, new guards, you ain't going nowhere' Just then portals appear behind the twins. Causing the three to get caught off guard. Mauler#1 looked at Mauler#2.

'Did you...?'

'Oh, yeah. I shit portals now, didn't I mention that?' Mauler#2 sarcastically said. The guard drops the tray and slams on the button signaling the alarms. As the alarms rang out he signals the other guards to come over here.

'Down here, hurry!' As the other guards rush over the Mauler twins are deciding whether or not to go through the portal.

'You think, uh...?' Mauler#1 asked.

'Couldn't be worse than the salmon' Mauler#2 said going through the portal.

'See you around, Pete' Mauler#1 said also going through the portal, the other guards arrive too late as the portals now closed and disappears.

The twins exited out a portal to a place unknown to them. Looking around they saw empty sand and dirt across the sickly brown horizon with no clouds in sight. Mauler#2 step forward when he heard a crushing sound, looking down he saw a skeleton of Pete. Or at least what they assume to be pete. Skeletons kind of blend together after many years of decay.

'Ugh, where the hell are we?' Mauler#2 said, disgusted that he stepped on a dead person's remains now getting it all over his foot.

'I bet he knows' Mauler#1 said pointing ahead, Mauler#2 look at the direction where Mauler#1 was pointing while cleaning his foot of skeleton remains and saw a man at the edge of the pit before leaving. The twins began to follow him in the general direction where he disappeared. When they finally did get out of the pit now standing on the edge of the pit they saw the man was there with his hand behind his back. Doing a quick look at him they saw he looked unremarkable in his appearance and as they looked around they saw nothing but sand and craters for miles.

'Holy shit, what happened here?' Mauler#2 asked.

'A tragedy, but don't worry, this isn't your world' He then turned around to face them.

'My name is Angstrom Levy'

'Hi, Angstrom, why'd you break us out?' Mauler#2 asked sensing there is a price for this break out.

'And what do you want?' Mauler#1 added having the same sense as his clone did.

'That's basically the same question, idiot' Mauler#2 insult him that he just repeated his question in a less than subtle way.

'I'll explain as we go, this Earth's too dangerous to stay here for long' Angstrom began walking away with the Mauler twins following them albeit reluctantly as there is little choice here in this doomed world.

'Let me guess, you can open portals between dimensions?' Mauler#2 asked picking up that he was the one who didn't deny about breaking them out.

'I mean, I don't like to brag' Angstrom said, flattering himself.

'But not within the same dimension' Mauler#1 picking apart angstrom words about this earth. Meaning that this isn't their earth but someplace else.

'Hmm, why do you think that?' He asked testing to see if these twins' reputation proves true.

'Because we're walking' Mauler#2 pointing out they were not being chased or going through another portal but instead just walking. Having a Hunch that these portals can't open anywhere and need a set location for it to work.

'And because you needed to find a crater deep enough here to reach us in the GDA's underground prison there' Mauler#1 added declaring the hunch out loud as to confirm their suspicions and this Angstrom levy powers and their limits.

'Ah, you two are sharp, you know, I was worried freeing you could be a mistake' Angstrom said before bumping into Mauler#1 and as he backs up he bumps into Mauler#2.

'Still might be, if you don't tell us what you want' Mauler#1 said, implying they would force their demands if things don't go the way they want to.

'I need your help with a very specific problem' Angstrom said, not afraid of the Mauler twins' thinly veiled threat.

'Last time we helped someone else with their very specific problem, it didn't work out so well for us' Mauler#2 said pointing out they need to increase the payment for their assistance.

'Look, I'm a pacifist, I don't hurt people, I don't kill people; I only use my power for good, working with the two of you is a real ethical and moral stretch for me, but I don't have a choice, there's no one else with your scientific je ne sais quoi, trust me, I've looked everywhere, now, I can't force you to help me...' Angstrom then disappears into a portal before reappearing behind them.

'But I will leave you here forever if you don't, or somewhere worse' He said disappearing into the portal leaving them to decide, Mauler#2 groan.

'I miss when we only worked for ourselves' He said before entering the portal.

'Me too' Mauler#1 agree while also entering the portal.

Mark was now talking to Amber, his girlfriend, during school lunch hour as they sat opposite to each other on one of the lunch tables. Feeling the tension from the week's traumatic events. Amber decided to start the conversation to help mark get out of his runt he was going through seeing he doesn't want to talk about at all. Even seeing him freeze up in the hallway when Todd was apologizing to him about his dad's cover up story.

'Hey you ok?' She asked, trying to comfort Mark.

'It's fine' Mark simply replied.

'Yeah, it's fine, but are you fine?' She asked again. Mark then thought about it before taking a deep sigh. Remembering Todd's hug.

'Todd's right, my dad might as well be dead, that's how it feels anyway'

'Sure' She said, still skeptical.

'I don't get to be sad, I'm part of the problem, I'm the reason all those people in Chicago died' Mark said, blaming himself for revealing his powers to his dad and causing all of this to happen.

'Wait a second...' Amber tries to reason with him but he interupts her.

'I shouldn't be here, I should be out there, making up for all my mistakes' Wanting to atone for not doing better. That he failed all of those people he wanted to protect.

'You didn't kill those people, Mark, Omni-Man did' Was Amber quick reply to Marks beating himself up.

'But I didn't save them,' Mark said, still berating himself for his failure as a superhero.

'But luckily Godspeed saved you, and even if you continue that fight without Godspeed, it would've killed you, you don't owe anyone anything' Amber tried to say hoping to find a bright side to all of this.

'I'm not so sure' Was Mark conflicted about weighing the options of living and doing good tomorrow and the day after or die fighting against his dad not wanting to live figuring out how to get through tomorrow. Both options he still can't figure out just yet.
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Mark was now sitting alone at a fast food place waiting for a certain person to meet up with him. Then the sound of a ringing caught his attention. He looked up to see Cecil sitting down, opposite to him.

'Good to see you, kid. What can I do for you?' Mark takes a deep breath before responding.

'Going back to school made me realize it's the wrong place for me right now, I need to be out there, you need to start calling on me again' Wanting to do some good now rather than sitting at school doing nothing while villains do crime. At least that's what he'll say to Cecil. Inside he wants to atone for what he couldn't do hoping his act would make up for him failing the people of chicago.

'Hey...hold on' Cecil trying to get the kid to slow down as this is a symptom of someone with trauma trying to bury himself in work rather than focusing on healing.

'I'm better, I'm stronger, I'm ready' Mark cuts off Cecil who just sighs.

'No, you're not, you're not, Mark' Mark was surprised by this.

'What? What do you mean?'

'You think I haven't been watching your early morning outings?' Ceciel explained always keeping an eye on things.

'That's why I need you, I need to do more' Mark pleaded with him knowing he had some idea he was going through. Cecil just sighed.

'It's only been a month, Mark. Focus on your mom, your grades, your girlfriend, you want to go to college with Amber, right? You can't do that if you don't graduate' trying to get Mark to live as a normal human being trying to graduate through high school not wanting him to fight while his head is not in the game. He can't take risks again.

'I can save lives, you did, you saved a ton of them, but you also went through an emotional tumble dryer and I need to know your head's stopped spinning before I let you back in the game; so no, not yet'

'You can't stop me, I don't need your permission to be a superhero' Mark now confronts Cecil that he wanted someone to have a shoulder to lean on but looks like he is going to save people on his own. Cecil just stared at him remembering that an old friend used to say that to him when he first recruited him.

'You know who else said that to me?'

'I'm not my dad, I'm not my dad!' Mark yelled, slamming his fits on the table denting it in the process.

'Take some time off, kid, some real time off, you need it' With that being his final words left the fast food restaurant leaving Mark alone, Inside of the pentagon Cecil teleported back inside the base.

'Jesus, this thing still going on?' Cecil asked.

'It's not going well, sir, the Guardians could use some help, they could really use... Invincible' Donald suggested but Cecil wouldn't have it.

'I'm not making the same mistake I made with Nolan, there's only one way this kid goes back out there, and that's on a very short leash'

In the middle of a city The New Guardians of The Globe were amidst a battle that lasted a lot longer than it was Cecil would have wanted, as a giant creature swung his fists around destroying nearby buildings. Rex threw explosives at it which threw it attention.

'That's for stepping on my favorite bar, you piece of shit!'

'Don't call me that! I'm The Giant' It yelled as it marched forward at Rex and tried to stomp on him but luckily he dodged and it just crushed a bus instead.

'And I want to be president of America and an astronaut' It yelled while Robot fire shots at it, The Giant tried to swat it away but Robot on his flying bike flew away so, grabbing a chunk of a building he throw it at Robot, luckily he dodges it but in doing so the chunk crashes into another building causing the building to drop rubble onto the people, they would have died if not for both Dupli-Kate and Godspeed focus on evacuating the civilians and put them out of harm's way.

'Um, those are...very specific requests' Was Dupli-Kate retort to the giant demands.

'Based on his speech patterns and vocabulary, the Giant seems to have the mental capacity of an eight-year-old' Robot said, again firing shots at it while avoiding its attacks. Just then Monster Girl climbs to the roof of the building and jump toward The Giant uppercutting sending it back a bit.

'An eight-year-old what?' She asked.

'Explains the astronaut part' Godspeed added. Setting down a civilian in a park away from the action before running back to the fight. Back at the battle The Giant was hit with multiple explosives, when he opened his hand Shrinking Ray resize herself to normal size and punched him in the eye sending him back.

'Maybe we can buy him some comics or something' She said.

'I don't care how old he is. He needs to go down, now' Samson said, throwing a car at it sending The Giant back a bit more.

'That's an excellent suggestion, Samson, there's a multilevel parking garage beneath this intersection, I will detonate stress points in the concrete and drop the Giant into it' Robot flew down and fired mines on the grounds. While this is happening The Giant throws Shrinking Ray, which luckily she was caught by Godspeed.

"We can neutralize him there without endangering...' He was interrupted when his motorcycle crashed into The Giant foot, launching him to the ground, and as he sat up he saw above that he was going to be crushed.

'Civilians'

'Rudy!' Monster Girl, she luckily grabbed him and avoided being crushed.

'You okay?' She asked.

'I'm-I'm not sure'

'Rex! Blow up Rudy's charges' Samson said, Rex sent small explosives to the mines which caused a chain reaction causing the ground unearth the Giant to collapse causing him to fall underground.

'Come on!' Samson yelled.

'Why are you so mean to me? Why you do that?' As the others jumped into the hole leaving Monster Girl and Robot alone. Rudy fell out of his suit, Monster Girl transformed back to her normal form to catch him.

'What happened?' She asked.

'I don't know, I couldn't move, my heart was racing, I was all sweaty...' This caused her to chuckle.

'Why are you laughing?' He asked.

'That's fear, before, all this was just a video game for you, now you're here, in person, playing for real. It's a big difference' She stood up and walked towards the hole transferring back into her monster form.

'Don't worry, you'll get used to it, just like the first time you used the toilet' She joked before jumping into the hole.

At the Guardians base Cecil was chewing the team out after their recent mission.

'Ongoing, repeated fuck-ups of monumental proportion' Cecil bark.

'That's a little harsh, Cecil' Dupli-Kate said.

'That was the nice way of saying it, Kate, don't push me' He pulls up pictures of their last mission.

'You're slow, unprepared, undisciplined, take-downs take too long, thankfully the casualty rate is low because Godspeed is carrying your ass'

'Hey! We put our necks on the line every single day...' Rex tried to object but Cecil shut him up.

'Shut up, Rex, this isn't about you, we've done an analysis of your last 15 engagements and narrowed it down to a failure of leadership' Rex let out a sigh of relief placing his hand on Rudy's shoulder.

'Phew, off the hook, oh, uh... sorry'

'I'm still adjusting to my new body,' Rudy trying to defend himself that he needs time to adjust. But time is what they don't have right now.

'And I'm instituting a change' On cue The Immortal landed right next to Cecil. Still mad and furious with himself about letting Omni man get away with killing his friends and uncountable innocents. Cecil stepped forward to announce changes to improve team cohesion.

'The Immortal is now in charge, a couple thousand years of experience should turn things around'

'Nice entrance, whoa! Was he waiting for his cue? You were, weren't you? Like, just over there or something; did you work it out in advance? I mean, it looked effortless but I feel like a lot of preparation went into it' Rex joked angrily at him. Cecil was not surprised but continued with another addition to the team as they lacked some heavy hitters.

'It's also obvious the team needs more muscle. Meet Bulletproof' As Cecil ended his announcement of a new member. An African man with yellow goggles wearing a bodysuit coloring the chest, highlights and fingerless gloves with dark yellow as four dots of a yellow spread across his forearm and chest with a circle belt around his waist coloring the rest of the suit with a dark orange pallet. Bulletproof landed behind Rex.

'Hey' He said.

'Amazing. hо, hо! It's just a whole afternoon of new friends. And...what do you do? I mean, other than having the most obvious name ever, Bulletproof? I do everything you wish you could' Now taunting the new member that joined in as a new member of the guardians of the globe. Bulletproof was unimpressed.

'I do everything you wish you could, and that's rich coming from a guy called Rex Splode, you think up that grade-school sh¡t yourself, or did somebody help you with that?' catching Rex off guard. Remembering old memories that someone did help him come up with the name. Feeling regret that things broke down after he did something stupid.

'I...came up with it' Was his attempt to save face.

'Yeah, I figured, come on, man, I know your type; be better' Bulletproof simply stated.

'I-I was trying to be bett...' Rex was actually hurt by that and was then interrupted.

'New training schedules are in your lockers, first session is in 30 minutes, dismissed' Immortal said as the group left to start their training.

'I still want you on the team, Rudy, you good with that?' Cecil asked Rudy.

'This was not the outcome I desired, but yes, of course, I understand' Rudy said Cecil nodded his head.

'Good man, I knew I could count on you' Cecil said before teleporting away.

'Screw him. He's making a big mistake' Monster Girl said but Rudy shook his head.

'Cecil's right, my leadership has been suboptimal and that's a problem, and like any problem, it needs to be fixed'

Godspeed was running home after a long day of superhero work, lucky for him there was no major event that required The Guardians so he was able to go home. Godspeed slows down as he reaches the front porch of his house, he turns the doorknob and as he enters the house he could hear the sound of groaning coming from the kitchen. Closing the door behind him he pulled his mask off and entered into the kitchen doorway. What he saw was Nikki head laying her head on the kitchen table being the source of the groaning, beside her was Cassie who waved at him when she noticed he walked in, her attention turned back to Nikki.

'C'mon Nikki, you can do it' Trying to encourage her sibling. But Nikki only groaned in response.

'Why is math so hard?' she asked, defeated by school math.

'Well if you think this is hard wait till next year' Andrew said, grabbing Nikki's attention who looks up from her table seeing him come home and smiles getting out of the seat to hug, Andrew returns the hugs back.

'I thought you were busy' Nikki said, grateful that Andrew returned home this time and was picked up by him.

'Well luckily, no one started to have any bad idea's so I'm free for the day' Andrew turns his head to look at Cassie and proceeds to give her a kiss on the cheek.

'So what's going on?' Cassie sighs.

'Well she's having trouble with some math problems' Andrew looked over the sheet of paper and thought this could easily be fixed. setting Nikki down for her to take a break. Bedding time for his teacher persona to assemble. Or figuring out how to explain it that can be best explained to a child.

'Hey how about you go play and I'll help with your math problem later'

'Okay!' She excitedly said running to her room. When she was out of sight he let out a deep sigh before he slumped down on his chair. Cassie sat beside him.

'Rough day?' She asked.

'Yea' He simply replied.

'The team?'

'Yep'

'I'm sorry about that, but it's not like you can just make your own teammates' Andrew sat there for a moment until a light bulb lit up above his head and quickly sat up, realizing he had a brilliant idea.

'Your, right...why haven't I thought of this before' He got up from his chair and left the house, before returning back and gave Cassie another kiss on the cheek. Cassie looked a little dumbfounded at that then sighed. Realizing she just gave him the idea to make his own team. Hopefully these won't turn into villains immediately.

'You amazing' He said before speeding off in a flash remembering there is a library for such an occasion.

In a small Library stocked with books being reorganized into alphabetical order of the genre in separate sections. The librarian was checking to see if she got the order correct and moving to another stack of books to reorganize when a sudden gust of wind blew off her hair and glasses, catching her off guard, when she regained her focus and putting back her glasses she was again surprised to see the superhero Godspeed right in front of her.

'C-can I help you sir'

'Yes, do you have books on western, horror but the cheesy kind, crime or mystery novels?' He asked to which she slightly nodded. Still frazzled that a superhero of all places would come by in this little book store of hers.

'There all in the back' Pointing the way. Godspeed nodded before disappearing and reappearing with a bunch of books in his hand.

'I'll like to borrow these books please?' The librarian just sighed and waved him off. Checking a bit to see the books he borrowed were long forgotten and were taken up space. No harm in getting rid of old books to make space for the new popular ones.

'You can take them, people aren't going to miss them anyway' Godspeed gave a slight nod and smile before disappearing again. Leaving the librarian to continue with her nightly duties as a librarian in this small library shop of hers. Making the event that just does not happen in the first place...

Andrew zooms back into his house in a flash stopping right inside of the garage opening now remade into a training room for Cassie. Now he was using the space to make his own teammates. The guardians of the globe haven't been meshing well with him lately. So decided to make his own team. Hopefully they would be more cohesive. Placing the books on one of the foldable chairs he pulled out from the side, Andrew began splitting himself into three clones near the chairs, the four looked at each other all seeing that they look and feel the same until the first Andrew began handing the clones the books he borrowed, receiving the books given to them they nodded their heads as if they knew what he was thinking about and now began reading their assigned books.

Reading the book would have taken a couple hours but thanks to the clones' superspeed or just skimming through it improvising along the way they finish the books in a matter of minutes. As the three closed the books standing up from their chairs their body's began to morph, each of them drawing a new appearance.

The first one read a western book, so he took inspiration from the wild west, for first appearance he looks like any regular cowboy. He was wearing a brown coat, gold badge, a cowboy hat and red bandana. Across his chest was a bandolier. There was also an empty holster on his left side of his waist under his coat. He almost looked like a normal cowboy, Until deciding that his face should be decomposed. Now showing that he had a skeletal face with very little skin covering it with his left eye glowed a blood red.

The second clone had read cheesy horror stories, so his body began to morph, changing his body as if he wore clothes that look like something from the Victorian-era, a white suit with a long tailcoat, a vest, white gloves, complemented by a tall top hat and a monocle. In his right hand he holds a cane with a golden handle. The most eye-catching thing was he had no face. Looking to be a ghost possessing his long dead clothes from beyond the grave.

The third and final clone read both crime and conspiracy theory, turning himself into a detective. Morphing his body to wear a striped purple business suit, similarly colored leather gloves, a grayed scarf, and heavily unpolished elevator shoes. A brown trench coat with his matching fedora hat with a light purple stripe, a pin that was a smiley face with a bit of red splashed across its right eye now attached to his trench coat. Wearing an ink-blotted mask, with the ink constantly shifting.

'So we know what the plan is?' Andrew asked. The three clones nod their heads.

'Go out there and be heroes' The first clone said.

'Make a name for ourselves' The second clone added.

'And if the Guardians fall we step in' The third clone finally said. Andrew nods.

'I guess we proceed with the plan' Andrew opens the garage door to let them out.

The first and second clones created their own personal horse to ride off in the moonlight. Shifting and changing along the way one being a brightly green colored skeleton horse surrounded by black highlights the other a pale white horse that was nothing but bones to then riding forth to make a name for themselves. The final one tipped his hat to his creator and turned around and walked away in the moonlit night ready to start his first investigation.

A light blue screen showing the Mauler twins in their lab coats and original suits purchasing equipment from an individual looking to be a spec ops mercenary of some far off country in an alleyway holding a suitcase full of money. Minimizing and moving into another blue screen showing the deal went off in a success moving the gear with both of his hands above his shoulder with the other carrying the suitcase equipment moving to another alleyway. Being looked over by Donald and Cecil with their team of experts looking over the data that was gathered over the deal and pinpointing a location. Donald began debriefing Cecil about the information they gathered about the Mauler twins activity.

'We tracked them down into a warehouse near the harbor' Donald said.

Now putting up the warehouse schematics on screen with light burning in the schematic page for a visual representation on what Donald was going to say next.

'We don't know what they're building in there yet, but it's big sir'

Cecil sighed knowing this is just another mad scientist mission. Even worse was the guardians under the leadership of Immortal are untested as of yet. But they don't have anyone else on hand anymore.

'Let's find out before they find out, get me the Immortal' Cecil said.

Before the order could be carried out. An GDA agent called out getting Cecil attention seeing Amber and Mark walking in. Mark took one look at Mark and instantly knew he wanted to get back in the field. Cecil just turned in frustration.

'Mark it's not good-' But she interrupted.

'I'll work for you' He interrupted. Cecil raised an eyebrow at that and let Mark continue.

'I'll follow orders, I'll let you make all the calls, just put me back there'

Before Cecil even thought of what to do. His hand was forced when Donald updated the situation that the warehouse they were spying on went active coloring the schematic in bright orange. Cecil turned back to mark knowing his time for making a decision was up.

'Get this kid an earpiece'

Inside the Warehouse The Mauler twins were readying the machine while Angstrom from different dimensions sat there side by side patiently. All suspended in the air sitting down hooked up into their seats. Murmuring among themselves as to calm the nerves of this project. Putting on helmets and bracing themselves for when the machine activates.

'Power's stable, neural matrices spinning up, buffers ready and networked' Mauler#2 said. Rattling off the system checks.

'You know who else could have pulled this off?' Mauler#1 asked smug about their superiority.

'No one in a million different dimensions' Mauler#2 agreed, as both of them fist bump each other.

'Boom'

'That's right, you two are about to change the world, all of them' Angstrom said walking in to do his part.

'Open your portals and we'll connect to the other nine machines' Mauler#1 said then moved forward to the machine to see if the connection goes through. Angstrom holds out his hand creating portals connecting wires on top of the machine.

'Trans-dimensional interconnects are stable, bringing them online' Mauler#2 typing on the machine. Then watch as the power lights up the machine through the varying levels as it reaches full power and a hundred percent synchronization rate.

'One thousand minds, synchronized' Mauler#1 added. Angstrom then walked towards the main seat.

'Your throne' Mauler#1 said. Angstrom sat down, taking a deep breath before attaching a helmet on his head.

'We're doing a ton of processing behind the scenes so you'll remember that you're you and not them' Mauler#1 adding in the condition that this machine needed for it to function.

'Even though you'll have everyone's memories' Mauler#2 added.

'It's a first for us, but that means, once we start the process' Mauler#1 said

'it's impossible to stop' Mauler#2 finishing Mauler#1 warning that whatever happens next there will be no going back.

'At these power levels, severe brain damage would be the least of your problems' Mauler#2 finally added. Angstrom simply nodded.

'I understand, I'm ready' Mauler#1 then grab on to a volt switch.

'Let's ride the lightning' Mauler#1 referenced.

'Nice' Mauler#2 said remembering the reference. Mauler#1 flip the switch and lighting form around Angstrom feeling the lighting and the memory coursing through his brain and body. As well as the other hims as the memories were beginning to go through to him. Even hurting the others as it was a painful process but one he had to muscle through. All for his beautiful utopia and smiled that his dream is coming close to fruition.

'I...I am large' He began to chuckle.

'And I contain multitudes' Mauler#1 look at the screen and see it going steady.

'Locked and stable, we're laughing' Mauler#1 said. Mauler#2 Then look at him feeling that he just said something that doomed their operation again.

'Don't say that' He said.

'Why not?' Mauler#1 asked just then Invincible crashed through the roof.

'That's why, you idiot' Mauler two said, feeling peeved that his twin jinxed it. Invincible looked at the machine and was confused. Not too sure on what to make of the situation before him.

'Uh...'

'Spit it out, kid' Cecil said through the ear piece.

'Okay, there's like a giant mechanical Christmas tree with, like, a bunch of the same guy sitting on it, and some portals, and the Maulers, and...' Invincible tried to explain what he was seeing but Cecil didn't care.

'It doesn't matter, just stop them'

'Hey, shut it down, or I take it down' The Twins took off their lab coats and one of them cracked his knuckles.

'Make us' This made him smile.

'You have no idea how much I wanted you to say that' Invincible smirk, now getting the best part of being a hero. Fighting bad guys. Now flying straight towards the twins throwing the first punch.

'Uh...wait! Invincible, you don't understand' Angstrom tried to reason with them but they weren't listening as they were focused on fighting.

Mauler#1 punch Invincible across the face sending him back with some blood coming out of his mouth but only briefly. Going in for a second punch Invincible punched Mauler#1 in the chest causing him to kneel from the pain before being uppercutted into Mauler #2 both collapsing onto the ground.

'Stop fighting and listen to me!' Still they didn't listen.

'He's stronger than he looks' Mauler#1 said, rubbing his jaw.

'Maybe, no way he lives up to his name, he's definitely not...Invincible''Before the three could continue their fight Angstrom stopped them.

'Stop, this is for the greater good'

'Yeah? I've heard that before' Invincible quipped remembering the time with a mad scientist that fell into a magma stream.

'Then I'm sorry' Angstrom created portals then multiple versions of Maulers came out.

'Maulers, help your brothers' The two Maulers from this earth look at Angstrom.

'You were using other us's?!' Mauler#2 said they were not happy that they weren't special.

'You said we were special' Mauler#1 pointed out.

The maulers charged in aiming to kill Invincible here and now. One of the Maulers in a lab coat went in for a punch and missed getting kicked in the air then being sent down to the ground in a two hit combo. Another mauler in a suit went in for a punch but was pushed back in the stomach sending him flying back. Quickly running in to punch Invincible in the head he missed getting a two hit combo in his stomach before being uppercutted sending him off. A Mauler looking to be out of the psychotic ward tried to block Invincible block as he ran in but was a feint getting a spin kick to his head sending him down to the ground.

Another Mauler looking to be more mutated than usual was side swept into the air spinning being punched down to the ground. Invincible finished this off by punching the mutated mauler further into the ground in one punch sending dust and debris flying from the impact zone. One of the mercenary Maulers ran in and grabbed Invincible from behind holding him in a bear hug to buy some time. Invincible struggled from the hold before breaking out and throwing him by the arm into the original universes Maulers knocking both of them down.

The Mauler twin went in not giving Invincible a second to breath as he went in punching forward. Invincible ducked underneath the punch and shoulder checked mauler which had no effect as he tried to uppercut him to make up for his last punch dodging out of the way. Putting pressure on Invincible he went in for another strike as Mark stepped back and countered his punch by hitting him in the face sending him back. Leaving the perfect opportunity for a female Mauler to take a cheap shot at him hitting him right at the face sending him back into another mauler strike punching him back.

Invincible stumbling back spin kicked a Mauler pushing him back but not out of the fight as another mauler came from behind kicking him in the back sending him off to another mauler fist punching him forward. Invincible being dazed from that blow could do nothing as the mutant mauler coming back for revenge uppercutted him sending him flying in an arch from the gathering Maulers.

Sliding back from the ground after a hard landing he tried to get up feeling the pain that was settling in his body but was stomped by a mauler right on his face from behind. Invincible reeling from the impact tried to get up but was stomped again with the foot being held there. Invincible with great effort pushed the Mauler foot off from being pushed on his face only for him to be stomped in the stomach. The Maulers sensing the opportunity and getting back up ran up to Invincible and proceeded to kick him while he was down, getting blood on their suits as they were adding more force with every kick. Angstrom on his throne watched from afar as the battle took place and yelled at the maulers who were kicking the life out of Invincible.

'Stop him, but don't kill him'

'Oh, we're gonna do both' The Female Mauler said.

'Shut up and enjoy the show' Another Mauler said this one had a beard. The two Maulers hold up Mark as they throw punch after punch at his face.

'No, that's enough, I said stop' Angstrom pleaded with them but they didn't listen.

'Quit whining, we're almost done' As the Maulers continue to beat down on Mark, Angstrom only had one thought.

'I won't build my utopia with blood' Using his strength he began pulling the helmet out. This caught their attention when the machine rang out alarms.

'Stop! There's too much power!' Mauler#2 yelled.

'You'll kill us all!' The female Mauler warned, but he didn't listen, pulling out his helmet caused a massive explosion, instantly killing anyone in its range. As the dust settled, everything was destroyed, everyone killed by the explosion. Except for Mark, as he sat up The Guardians came in.

'Are you injured?' Robot asked. Mark didn't answer.

'Huh, I guess he really is...Invincible' Mark looked at his hand seeing the blood.

'No, no, no, not again' Mark said but Rex came to comfort him.

'Hey! Hey, hey, buddy, this was the Maulers, okay? And apparently, lots of them, look, I don't know what they were up to, but...I'd say you stopped it pretty fսcking spectacularly' Rex said, then Cecil spoke in.

'I can't believe I'm saying this, but listen to Rex'

'There were other people here, and even the Maulers didn't deserve this' Mark said.

'Everyone here did this to themselves, whatever they were planning, you stopped them, this is what happens when you follow my orders, we did good today, do you understand me? Head home, we'll handle the cleanup and try to puzzle out what they were up to' Mark then flew away.

'Immortal, check the site for survivors and report back to me'

'Understood' He said.

Even though today was bad, at least something good happened to him after making dinner for his mom. In hindsight she needed that as well as he. But in the end things were improving when he and his girlfriend got accepted to college. Walking home to tell his mom the good news he stopped when he saw a shadow, he ready himself to fight but was revealed to be Immortal hovering over him he calmed down.

'Oh, hey, Immortal. Um...thanks for the support today, I-I don't know if you heard, but I'm working for Cecil now, so, you know, if you need some help or want to team up, just give me a...' The Immortal landed in front of him looking down on him feeling the scars of Omni-Man still haunting his mind.

'Cecil thinks you're on our side, I'm not so sure' Immortal walks away for a bit before looking back at him.

'I'll be watching you' He said before flying away. Leaving Mark with those words.

Back at the factory by the harbor, one of the rubble began to move, out came Mauler who somehow survived the explosion but not without him being disfigured on his left side.

'I told him not to take off the damn helmet!' As he began to walk off to their hideout he could hear the faint sound of moving.

'Brother? Is that you?' Mauler asked running towards the sound and started to move the rumble, but no it wasn't his brother, instead Angstrom, who also survived but was suffering a deformity that is him having a large head with blood covering his back to open the new brain mass he accumulated over the explosion.

'How are you even breathing?' He asked, seeing that it was not biologically possible to live like that. Angstrom didn't answer, instead he touched his head feeling it full size.

'What...? What did he do to me?' He asked, to which Mauler rolled his eyes.

'You did that to yourself, and this to me' Mauler said pointing toward himself.

'He did this, made me a freak, he ruined everything!' Angstrom groans in pain.

'He killed so many...people I knew, people I loved, millions died because of him' Mauler just scoffed.

'Your brain's scrambled, you've lost track of what memories are yours and which come from the others' Angstrom grabs him.

'They're all my memories! All of them!' Mauler just pushed him away annoyed.

'You need a hospital' Angstrom coughs blood for a bit before wiping it off.

'No, I need revenge, I need to make him pay! I won't rest until I've killed...!'

INVINCIBLE

Angstrom then left through the portal leaving Mauler alone by himself.

'Fine, go, don't worry about me; just had half my body melted helping you mutilate yourself, that's the last time I work for anyone else ever!' He said before walking away.

As he leaves he doesn't notice that a person in a trench coat with fedora hat that had a light purple stripe, saw the whole thing unfold, he then reaches down into his coat pocket and pulls out a journal and begins writing it down.

'Interesting' He simply said before walking away.

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