New Horizons(Blood, Minor Language, Violence)(Put on hold)

Chapter 1

Mecha Maid watched as the Editor frowned slightly, "Something go wrong?" The Editor sighed, "To be honest, I was hoping to bring them both here. They're very close to here though, surely you can detect the energy spikes, Mecha Maid." Mecha Maid nodded as her visor showed two separate energy spikes, neither of them were too far from each other. She looked over at Spinnerette, "Do you think we should split up, they're not too far from each other and if one of us needs help, the other can get there quickly." Spinnerette nodded slightly, "Be careful, Mecha Maid." Mecha Maid smiled, "You be careful yourself, Spinny."

Mecha Maid took off from the roof of the building and flew towards the energy spike that she saw on her visor. As she looked down, she noticed someone armored standing there, "Vesper, can you scan the armor?" A voice spoke up, "Sorry Mecha Maid. I cannot. It is of an otherworldly make. However, I detect a high energy weapon on his person." Mecha Maid gritted her teeth as she watched as the person looked up at her. She spoke up, "You seem to be new around here, this isn't an open carry state. You'll have to give me your weapon." The man spoke up, "Your armor has many weaknesses and flaws and..." Mecha Maid readied her missiles as she watched as the man pull a strange looking weapon off of his back.

The man placed the weapon on the ground and took off his helmet, "Come down here, we'll talk." Mecha Maid nodded slightly and landed on the ground, "What... are you?" The man looked at her, "I'm a Mercenary. Well, the leader of a mercenary company." Mecha Maid shook her head, "That's not what I meant, I mean you're not human." The man looked at her, his violet eyes looking through her visor into her eyes, "I'm a Kilf, it's a Kitsune-Elf hybrid. Where am I?" Mecha Maid arched a brow, "You don't know where you are? This is Columbus, Ohio." The Kilf nodded, "And what year is this?" Mecha Maid looked at him, "Twenty-ten." The Kilf blinked in disbelief, "I should only be a young adult if it was two thousand and ten by human reckoning, and what is an Ohio?" Mecha Maid sighed, "You're going to have to learn a lot of things."

The Kilf nodded, "I suppose so, so long as you're not taking me to prison. At any rate, I surrender. Take my weapons." The Kilf put his hand on his belt and removed it, handing it over to here, "My pistol is on this belt and my shotgun is at your feet." Mecha Maid nodded and took the belt and picked up the shotgun, "These are some strange weapon designs, where do they come from." The Kilf sighed, "I'm not allowed to say, in case that I break the space-time continuum, but they're not from this time and they're not human make. All I can say is that they are a high energy photon weapons that condense photons into a densely packed packet that acts as if it was a solid object." Mecha Maid blinked as she didn't quite understand the explanation entirely, but she did get the gist of it.

The Kilf extended a gloved hand, "By the way, I forgot to mention, I'm Balthoron Miyamae." Mecha Maid nodded, "Well, you seem more well behaved than most villains I encounter, Balthoron." Balthoron sighed, "Honestly, I've been called worse, but I'm not really a villain. I'm not looking to hurt anyone, where I come from war used to be a common thing, so all soldiers got used to carrying their weapons everywhere with them." Mecha Maid nodded, "I'm Mecha Maid, by the way. Would you like to come with me, back to headquarters, we could ask Ben Franklin to check you out." Balthoron shrugged slightly, "If it makes you feel better, I'd just as soon explore this new world." Mecha Maid nodded, "I understand. But it's protocol."

Balthoron nodded, "I know a thing or two about protocol, can be a right pain. So, you want me to lead or you? Cause you kind of have my weapons and I'm not about to try to leave without them." Mecha Maid shrugged, "Well in that case, you can follow." Balthoron nodded and followed Mecha Maid as she walked through the city. As they walked, Mecha Maid looked back, "So, tell me, why did you surrender back there?" Balthoron spoke up, "When you scanned my armor, I scanned yours. The on-board computer ran simulations of every one of your weapons and found all but one of them to be non-lethal. Unfortunately for you, they would've been ineffective against my armor. Yes, even your missiles."

Mecha Maid frowned, "So what you're saying is, you surrendered because I would've lost?" Balthoron shook his head, "You would've died. Since you weren't a threat, I would've used hand to hand combat, but my scans revealed something. You're using medical technology in the armor itself. No one does that, unless they are using it for life support. Mecha Maid, I may be a soldier, but I refuse to kill someone that's on life support. It's amoral." Mecha Maid stopped, "So what you're saying is that you wouldn't fight me because my time is limited." Balthoron shook his head, "The type of medical devices you have are nerve amplification devices. You have a degenerative nervous system disorder." Mecha Maid blinked slightly, "How do you know that?" Balthoron sighed and walked around to look her in the eye, "I'm a doctor as well, Mecha Maid..."

Chapter 3

Spinnerette and Mecha Maid had met up in front of their headquarters and had gone on ahead without the two visitors, leaving Yoshiro and Balthoron to walk up twenty flights of stairs. Yoshiro looked at Balthoron as they walked, "Hey." Balthoron looked forward, "Hello, Yoshiro." Yoshiro laughed, "You have me at a disadvantage, friend. Mind telling me your name?" Balthoron lied, "Eruedraith Mithethdal." Yoshiro shook his head, "You're not telling me the truth. What's your real name." Balthoron looked at him, "Fine, it's Bellrauthien Neleremae." Yoshiro stopped Balthoron, "Stop lying to me, I recognize your scent and have never met anyone with either of those names, tell me your real name." Balthoron turned to look at Yoshiro, "Then tell me, who do you think I am."

Yoshiro looked into Balthoron's eyes and placed his hand on Balthoron's cheek, "You're my son, but that would mean that you're from the future. Balthoron where I'm from is still young." Balthoron nodded and hugged Yoshiro, who hugged him back. Balthoron gripped tightly, "It's been over a thousand years since I've last seen you alive, Daddy." Yoshiro nodded, "Understandable, I'm not going to be around forever, you know." Balthoron nodded, "I know, father. But you know, a lot has happened after you died. I can't tell you it all, but as you can probably guess with how I'm dressed and armed." Yoshiro nodded, "I know, Son, but we need to hurry up and get up to the top of this tower, come on, we can talk about a lot of other things on the way, I don't really want to talk about this right now."

Yoshiro and Balthoron made their way up the stairs and entered the headquarters of the super heroes in Columbus, Ohio. Balthoron noticed Spinnerette standing there, talking to a strange person wearing some sort of armor, but he couldn't see the person's face. However Balthoron could feel a powerful electrical field emanating from the person. Yoshiro tensed up, "Balthoron, you feel that?" Balthoron nodded, "I do, Father." Mecha Maid took notice of this, "Balthoron, Balthoron's father, this is Lightning, he's one of the senior heroes around here." Lightning turned his head to look at the two of them, "Neither of them are human, what an interestin development. As the lady introduced me, I'm Lightning."

Yoshiro looked at him, "How can I trust you, if I can't see your face." Lightning looked at Yoshiro, "I preferred a far more reliable way to hide mah identity. Ya see, this helmet here is designed to mask mah entire face. That way the super villains don't learn who I am." Balthoron stepped forward, "You have control over electricity, I can feel it." Lightning placed his hand on his visor and sighed, "Naw, boy, ya think with a name like Lightning, I'd have power over fish. Like that aquaman guy in DC Comics." Balthoron sighed, "There's no need to be sarcastic, I'm just stating an observation." Lightning nodded, "I just thought that mah name made it quite obvious that I have power over electricity. However, since the two of you aren't gonna trust me unless I take mah helmet off. Spinnerette, Mecha Maid, y'all think that y'all can go out and get some ice cream? Mah treat."

Mecha Maid nodded, "Sure thing, come on Spinny." Lightning handed Mecha Maid a twenty dollar bill and Spinnerette protested, "I want to see his face." Mecha Maid frowned, "He wants privacy with these two." As the two of them left, Balthoron and Yoshiro listened for them, when they were out of their ear shot, Yoshiro spoke up, "They're gone." Yoshiro took off his helmet, revealing his face, "There, now take off your helmet." Lightning took off his helmet and revealed his face to the others, "Not what quite what y'all had expected, huh?" Yoshiro shrugged, "I'm ex-military, not much surprises me." Balthoron folded his arms, "You're just a kid." Lightning looked at them, his red hair was slicked back and he stroke a red beard. He looked at them with his green eyes and smiled, "So, tell me, what were y'all expecting?"

Balthoron shook his head, "Nothing, honestly." Yoshiro sighed slightly, "Alright, now we can get to talking, I'm Yoshiro by the way. Why are you here, you dropped by unannounced." Lightning nodded, "Simple, y'all are going to be under constant superhero supervision, to make sure that y'all ain't a threat of course." Yoshiro sighed, "Oh wonderful, so we're going to be treated like children." Balthoron nodded, "Let me guess, you're going to be one of the people watching over us?" Lightning looked at Yoshiro, "Y'all are going to be treated like adults, thank ya very much." Lightning looked at Balthoron, "Naw, I don't do good workin with teams. At least not anymore." Balthoron blinked, "So what happened?" Lightning folded his arms and put on his helmet, "That'll have to wait for another time."

Lightning pressed a button on a computer and an image of an old man came up, "Hey Ben, y'all up there at the ASA think y'all can send a group of superheroes to look after these two aliens?" Ben looked at him, "Lightning, I know you're from the south but... oh wow, they are quite indeed extra-terrestrials." Lightning spoke up, annoyed, "Was that a crack at my ancestry. I'll have ya know that mah ancestors were from the north." Ben looked at him, "Well Alternate, Reflex and Super MILF are free, and I'll have to come see them.Taking her invisible plane, I think it'll take about three to four hours to get there." Lightning nodded, "Mind if I make like a banana and split? Cause Alternate creeps me out." Ben nodded, "Alright, Lightning. Remember though employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."

Lightning nodded, "Will do, Ben." He pressed the button on the console and looked at the other two people in the room, "I feel bad for y'all. Super MILF is... eh. I really don't like her very much. At any rate, I'm gonna head out for now, if y'all need anythin, Mecha Maid and Spinnerette are going to arrive at any moment." Yoshiro looked at Lightning, "Go ahead and go, not like we can get into much trouble on our own anyhow." Balthoron nodded, "I concur with my father." Lightning looked at the two of them through his visor, "Somehow, I doubt that y'all are tellin me the truth, but at this point in time, it doesn't matter. See y'all later." Yoshiro and Balthoron watched as Lightning left the facility and Balthoron sat down in a chair, "Wonder what to do now." Yoshiro shrugged, "Find something to watch." Balthoron smirked, "Great idea."

Chapter 5

Joseph walked into goodale park, he was looking for a particular woman as he looked at all of the people there, "She called me into a null zone, fascinating..." Joseph continued to look around and then finally called out, "Tess! I know yer here!" A black haired woman with green eyes and glasses walked over towards him, holding an ice cream cone, "Joseph, you're as noisy as ever." Joseph looked at her, "You and I ain't going to talk here. Yer gonna come with me, ya understand?" Tess looked at him, squinting her eyes behind her glasses, "I chose this place for a reason, it's neutral ground. Look, I'm not going to mince words with you, Carey and Hailey want you back." Joseph shook his head, "I moved up here cause I wanted to get away from all of that drama."

Tess looked at him, "As stubborn as ever I see, so what is it going to take to convince you to return. Inverse is causing trouble and I haven't been able to lead the team as well as you have. You always had this no nonsense, take charge attitude about you, yet you were always the first one to risk your life in a dangerous situation." Joseph sighed, "I ain't comin back, Tess, y'all are gonna have to make do with what y'all got." Tess sighed, "So there is really no changing your mind?" Joseph looked at her, "Naw, there ain't, now stop wastin yer time on it." Tess sighed, "The man I once dated is truly well and gone." Joseph shook his head, "He's still here, just he has different priorities these days. Tess, I ain't gonna lie, Inverse scares me."

Tess blinked, "I guess I will follow you now, I want to hear this." Joseph nodded and walked out of the park with Tess in tow. He walked through the streets, until he reached a building of his own, "I own this entire lot, Ben Franklin helped me convert it to a place for me to live and work." Tess nodded, "What's Ben like." Joseph opened the door and walked into his place, closing it when Tess followed him in, "Ben is quite the philosopher, he's quite polite and a good natured man. Though I reckon that's because of his upbringin. Anyhow mind followin me into my headquarters?" Joseph walked over to a wall and placed his hand on it, he sent an electrical pulse into the wall and part of the wall slid to the side, revealing a set of stairs, "Ladies first."

Tess walked down the stairs and Joseph followed her, "Wow, you built all of this yourself?" Joseph shook his head, "I ain't do all this by mahself. I had help from my Pop's friend." Tess nodded as Joseph walked over to his armor, "Tess, remember three years ago?" Tess nodded, "How can I forget, we had both turned eighteen that year and we started dating." Joseph nodded, "It was our datin that made me happy back then. After our breakup, I was gonna leave the team, then Inverse showed up. Because I couldn't keep a level head, I got Regan and Sarah killed." Tess sighed, "You honestly blame yourself for that, Lightning?" Joseph turned around, "Tornado, I don't think ya understand. Had I kept a level head, they would be alive right about now."

A voice spoke up, "You used your powers when you didn't need to." Joseph sighed, "Howdy Alternate, how are ya doin today?" A bald man walked in wearing a large robe, "Tornado and Lightning in the same area..." Tess looked at Joseph, "How does he know who I am?" Joseph shrugged, "I ain't got the foggiest clue how he does it, he just does and it creeps me out." Alternate looked at Tess, "I know you from an alternate universe." Tess nodded, "I see. Well Joseph, I'm going to head out for a bit, do you mind if I crash here during my visit?" Joseph sighed, "I guess I ain't got a choice in the matter, but please do not leave me alone with Alternate." Tess walked off, doing exactly that, much to Joseph's annoyance.

Alternate looked at Joseph who stared back at him, Joseph was the first to break the silence, "Alright, we're gonna crack this mystery open like a clam at a seafood buffet. How in tarnation do ya know Tess and I?" Alternate shook his head, "I will not say, yet." Joseph folded his arms, "Alternate, ya can either tell me what ya know, or ya can leave the premises. It don't matter to me one bit which one ya choose, just choose one." Alternate turned around and started walking up the stairs, but he stopped, "I cannot tell you, because you have not authorized me to tell you." Before Joseph could ask him what that meant, Alternate was gone, leaving Joseph to his thoughts. Joseph shook his head and sat down in his chair, looking at his computer with a sigh.

As Joseph looked at the computer, he reached into the drawer and pulled out his old ring, it was Purple with a white circle on top, in the middle of the circle, there was a purple Lightning Bolt. He closed his hand around it and sighed, "It was my stupidity and childishness that got my friends killed." He picked up a ring with a similar design, except the purple was dark blue and there was a rain symbol on it, "Regan, you were always serious, but kept the rest of us out of trouble, my friend." He placed that back and picked up a ring with a similar design, except the blue was replaced with a light blue and there was a snowflake on it, "Sarah, your smile kept our darkest days bright, and you were always the first to tell a joke. I'm sorry that I failed you." Joseph placed the rings back in his desk and sighed as he looked at the ceiling, their deaths still weighed heavily on him.

Chapter 7

Night had fallen on the city and Joseph sat on the roof of his house, he enjoyed living out here in the suburbs as he had a far better view of the stars and moon than he did while inside the city. As he looked at the stars, he suddenly got a call on his phone and he looked at it, "...Cloud." Joseph rejected the call, "I'm sorry, but I ain't bout to go back there. Not after what I did." A voice with a heavy accent spoke up, "So you're the kind of super hero that gives up, huh?" Joseph turned to see a werewolf like creature standing on his roof, "Who are ya and how did ya get here!?" The creature moved his hand, "Relax, my name's Bruno, I don't mean you any harm." Joseph narrowed his eyes, "So even werewolves know who I am?" Bruno looked at him, "No, and for the record, I'm not a werewolf. I am a Lupine."

Joseph nodded, "Ya can stay here, but I'm dragging ya down to Spinnerette's headquarters in the mornin' is that clear?" Bruno shrugged, "If you think you can do it, I welcome it, but I don't think that you'd be able to do so." Joseph sighed and laid down on his roof, "Whatever, I ain't got time to be arguin with you. Feel free to use mah couch, but there will be no sheddin, am I clear?" Bruno shrugged and sighed, "Who shoved the stick up your rear end?" Joseph looked at the sky, "None of yer damn business." Bruno sighed slightly and jumped off the roof, "Screw this, I'm going to go find a place to sleep that isn't here." Joseph shrugged slightly, "Be mah guest, but ya realize I'm gonna report ya to the American Superhero Association as an extraterrestrial lifeform, right?" Bruno walked off without a single word, leaving Joseph to his thoughts.

Joseph thought about his old friends and how they enjoyed being together. He remembered that most of them had met in the second grade, all of them were in the same class and he really had enjoyed their company. Carey and Tess were the ones that joined up with the group in the fourth grade. They would go into the fifth grade with the same teacher and then go to separate middle schools, where around the time they all turned thirteen, they got their super powers. He slid off his roof and walked into the house where there was a bottle of alcohol on the table. He sighed and poured himself a shot and drank it as his thoughts turned towards the formation of the Weather Team and pain tore itself through his heart.

Joseph looked at his phone and sighed as he called up his mother, "Hey ma?" His mother's voice spoke up over the phone, "Hey dear, sorry, I'm going to be working late tonight. I hope everything's alright. I know you haven't been the same since you know..." Joseph nodded, "Well, I wanted to let ya know that I ain't gonna to be home tonight. I'm gonna go see a friend." His mother spoke up, "Alright, please be careful and stop drinking so much, son." Joseph looked at the bottle, "I'll try. Love ya, ma." His mother's voice spoke up, "I love you too, dear. Bye." Joseph nodded and hung up, he switched over to Park Seong's number and called, there was a ring tone for a minute and then finally a voice he recognized spoke up, "Hello, Seong Residence." Joseph looked outside his window, "Hey, um, Butler."

The voice spoke up, "Park, Joseph, my name is Park." Joseph nodded, "Sorry, just ya and Mr. Seong have the same first name, ya know." Park spoke up, "What do you need?" Joseph sighed, "Look, I'm havin a bit of a rough night round here, mind if I come over there and sleep on the couch?" Park spoke up, "Marylin, do you mind if Joseph comes over and sleeps on the couch?" Joseph heard Marylin speak up, but couldn't understand. However Park spoke again, "She said that it's alright, Joseph. How do you plan on getting here?" Joseph spoke up, "I'll be there in thirty minutes or yer money back." Joseph hung up the phone and realized that he forgot to say good bye, "I'm gonna get an earful from him when I get there. Oh well, there ain't no time like the present."

Joseph walked into his room and grabbed his ring, when he put it on, his armor unlocked and he put it on. He walked out of the house, making sure that all of the doors and windows were locked and grabbed his phone on the way out. He crouched down slightly and then started running at very high speed, faster than any car. Thanks to the increased electrical power in his brain and eyes, he could easily avoid any obstacles that were in his path. He weaved in between cars, in and out of traffic in what appeared to onlookers as a harmless bolt of blue lightning. He soon left the city and entered a suburb area, where he ran down a street and then turned the corner into a driveway and then stopped. He thanked his superpowers for allowing him to negate the shock of such a sudden stop like that as he walked down the driveway.

When he reached the door, he knocked on it and a rather tall man wearing an eyepatch opened it, "Joseph, I presume." Joseph sighed, "What's the point of hiding mah identity if everyone knows it." Park looked at him with his one good eye, "You won't need that armor in here." Joseph shrugged and removed the armor, "Mind if I carry it inside?" Park shrugged, "I don't mind. But what have I told you about just hanging up on people?" Joseph sighed, "I'm sorry, Park. I'm just in a hurry to get away from mah place, but even so... it seems that I ain't gonna be runnin from mah past." Park nodded and motioned inside, "Trust me, I know all about that, Joseph." Joseph nodded as he walked into the house, "By the way, thanks for havin me over here, Park." Park nodded, "Don't thank me. Thank Marylin."

Chapter 9

A black haired man walked into Columbus wearing his signature shades, his hair was a mess and he straightened his denim jacket as he kept walking. He had rode his motorbike all the way from Macon, Georgia to get here and he smiled as he sensed all of the Cherenkov-Kirby reactions. He laughed a bit as he crossed the street, but a car horn broke him out of his thoughts. He looked at the person, "You're no super." He continued to walk along the street, he was looking for Tornado, who had led him up here, and perhaps through her, he would be able to find the one person he enjoyed fighting above all else, Lightning. As he walked through the crowds of people, he noticed the strength of the reaction growing stronger, as well as reactions of other supers.

The man stopped suddenly as the power of one person became extremely close, he turned around to see someone wearing cargo pants and boots, in addition to biker gloves, a tank top and shades. The man looked at him, "My my, we have the first super that I've encountered all day long. I was starting to get bored." The other person spoke up as he formed an orange flame in his hand, "You're a superhero, huh? I'm Fireblade and you will be my first kill! After that, I'll kill these parasites around us." The man spoke up, "You'll do no such thing." Fireblade smirked, "Oh yeah, and who is going to stop me?" The man snapped his fingers, his power copying Fireblade's creating a flame in his hand that was near absolute zero, "Me." The man looked to the civilians, "Get out of here, now."

Fireblade threw a fireball at a young child and the man threw his own fireball at the fireball, cancelling it out. Fireblade winced and threw a fireball at the man, who dodged it and started moving forward. Fireblade used his flames to push himself into the sky and started flying at the mysterious man, hands engulfed in flames. However the man dodged the charging punch and put his fist into Fireblade's chest, unleashing the power. Fireblade quickly warmed up that area and punched at the mysterious man. The man moved out of the way and threw his own fireball into Fireblade's face. When Fireblade went to warm up his face, the man placed his hand over Fireblade's mouth and unleashed his flames into Fireblade, killing the Supervillain.

The man stood up from the dead body of his opponent, "You were weak." A woman ran out to him, "Thank you for saving us! But I don't even know your name." The man looked at her, "I do not intend to tell you my name, and I didn't save you. My interest is fighting supers and becoming the strongest, nothing more." The woman sighed, "Surely you have other interests." The man looked at her, "Leave me be, woman. I have no interest in wasting my time with people. I have my mission." As the man continued walking, he heard the woman speak up, "There was no need to be so rude." The man ignored her and continued walking. Soon he ran into a Lupine, "Superhero! Prepare to fight!" The Lupine looked at him and assumed a fighting position.

The man opened his hands and noticed that nothing was happening, "Strange... I sense you, but yet my powers don't work." The Lupine sighed, "You do not challenge someone to a fight and then not fight them without an explanation. The man looked at the Lupine, "You are not a super. You are not worth my time." The Lupine stood up straight, "You're wasting both of our times. Suddenly the man sensed something else and turned around to see a rather well endowed woman standing there, "Super MILF. We meet for the first time." The man assumed a fighting position, "I wonder if you'll be strong enough." Super MILF looked at him, "I didn't come for a fight, but if it's a fight that you want, then I'm afraid I'll have to oblige."

The man tried to open his hands again, but he noticed that he had no powers in stock, but he didn't care, he swung a fist at Super MILF who dodged it easily. Super MILF followed up with a kick of her own while she was in the air, but the man dodged it easily, catching her leg and using her lack of friction to throw her. He took off his shades and looked at her with deep green eyes, "I'm going to enjoy this fight." Super MILF flew at him and tried to tackle him, but the man moved out of the way just in time. He waved his hand and found that he had caused Super MILF to hit the ground, "Interesting." Super MILF shook her head as she stood up and the man walked over towards her to attack her, however the Lupine interfered by punching him in the head.

The man reeled back from the punch and looked at the Lupine, "You! Don't interfere, civilian! This is between the Superhero and myself!" Super MILF spoke up, "I agree." The Lupine didn't care and waved his hand, nearby earth rose up and slammed into the man as a fist, knocking him back into a tree. The man knew that he wouldn't be able to win like this, and recognized why he couldn't copy the Lupine's powers, they were magical in nature. The man stood up and beat a retreat, "I'll be back to finish this fight sometime soon!" The Lupine started running, but Super MILF put her hand on his shoulder, "He didn't hurt any civilians, not to mention, we got to get you to headquarters, we can't have an alien running around on the loose." The Lupine nodded slightly with a sigh, "Alright."

Chapter 11

Joseph's hand crackled with electricity as he stared Inverse down, the two of them moved in a circle, awaiting the other's move. Joseph watched as Inverse's hand started to crackle with black electricity and his brow furrowed. A wind blew through and once it died down, Joseph ran to the side and threw a bolt of lightning at his opponent, who intercepted it with his own, Inverse laughed, "You'll have to do better than that Lightning!" Lightning placed his right hand into the air and formed a ball of lightning, throwing it at Inverse, who charged his own arm with electricity and bat it down at the ground, throwing a ball of lightning back. Lightning threw up an electrical barrier and dissipated Inverse's ball lightning. He stopped running to the side and frowned under his helmet.

Lightning looked around and noticed that a motorcycle was nearby, he picked it up and threw it at Inverse, who just casually formed a blade out of electricity and cut it in two. Lightning's jaw dropped as this happened and Inverse smirked, "You could never beat me, Lightning, you're too weak and you rely too heavily on that armor your father made you!" Joseph was shocked to hear that Inverse knew who made his armor, but Inverse continued, "Yes Lightning, I know. I was in the military when your father started work on Project Thunder!" Joseph rushed at Inverse and tried to punch him, but Inverse merely grabbed onto the suit of armor and sent a powerful shock through it and into Joseph. Joseph wasn't prepared for it and a warning sign appeared on his visor.

Joseph started breathing heavily as he slumped into Inverse's hand, Inverse pushed him back, "Now to do what I should've done years ago!" Joseph started limping away and Inverse threw a bolt of lightning at him, Joseph barely dodging it as he continued to flee from the battle. Inverse smirked, "So you still have some fight left in you." Joseph felt a hand on his chest and heard a voice speak in a strange accent, "Balthoron, you take Lightning. I'll deal with Inverse." Balthoron spoke up, "Alright, Dad. Be careful." As Balthoron took Joseph away, the man with the strange accent looked at Inverse, "I guess we're going to fight now." Inverse looked at him, annoyed, "You're no super, why are you wasting my time?"

The man drew his sword and smiled, running his right hand through his hair, "Simple, I'm what you people call a Xeno." Inverse smirked and threw a bolt of electricity at the mysterious xeno and he raised his hand and formed a barrier of light, allowing the electricity to hit it harmlessly. Inverse smirked, "I guess you'll give me some entertainment after all." The xeno smiled, "Good, while I'm at it, you can call me Nazo." Inverse scoffed, "Original, the Japanese word for mystery." Nazo smirked and rushed at Inverse with the sword. Inverse dodged and tried to grab at the sword, but Nazo struck at the arm with his right hand. He watched as Inverse grabbed the arm, but formed a light barrier protecting him from the electrical shock. It wasn't enough to stop the skin from being damaged, revealing bionic components.

Inverse blinked, "You're a robot!?" Nazo smirked as he dropped his right hand and placed the wrist into Inverse's gut, firing a shot, "Cyborg for the moment." Inverse grabbed his gut and started to flee at super speed, allowing Nazo to pick up his hand a twist it back into place. He sighed slightly, "I hope that human is alright." Before he could gather his thoughts, Mecha Maid landed near him, "Where's Lightning?" Nazo looked at her, "Injured, I had Balthoron take him to a hospital of some sort." Mecha Maid gasped, "Hopefully the Superhero hospital! They'll reveal his secret identity to the public if he goes to a regular one." Nazo shrugged, "That's none of my business, Mecha Maid." Mecha Maid looked at him, "You said Balthoron, who are you and how do you know who I am?"

Nazo smirked, "Yoshiro Tayasui Miyamae at your service, Mecha Maid." Mecha Maid gasped, "How did you get clearance to leave the headquarters!?" Yoshiro folded his arms, "I didn't get clearance, I left on my own and pulled Balthoron with me, I wanted to go exploring. We just happened to run into this battle." Mecha Maid folded her arms, "That's a lie." Yoshiro smirked, "Alright, how about we were outside the headquarters to get some fresh air and heard the sounds of combat." Mecha Maid nodded, "Alright, that I'll believe." Yoshiro's communicator beeped and he pulled it out, "Yoshiro here." Balthoron's voice spoke over the communicator, "I got Lightning to the Superhero hospital. They say he's roughed up, but he'll recover."

Yoshiro nodded, "That's good. Balthoron, you did a good job, my son." Balthoron's voice spoke up, "Thanks, Dad. I'm glad that you think so. Anyhow, judging from his wounds, he was shocked something fierce. He's got electrical burns on his body, they'll heal, but he'll have scarring on his chest and neck." Yoshiro nodded slightly, "Sometimes I forget that you want to become a doctor." Balthoron chuckled, "In my time, I did become a doctor. Anyhow, Balthoron out." Yoshiro put away his communicator and looked at Mecha Maid, "You can go visit Lightning if you want, as for me, I think I'm going to go back to the headquarters. See you later." Before Mecha Maid could say anything, Yoshiro bent light around him and disappeared from her sight.