The Sensational Six Vs. Carlos, Man of Love, and Friends

Voth pushed open the lobby doors and dropped the tied up, unconscious woman on the ground in plain view as he observed the fights. He had already figured out who was on what side, and then he saw his first opportunity.

Aaron's exploding wasps weakened the magical barrier enough for him to slip through. Twirl spun on her heel and prepared to cast a spell at point blank range in to Aaron's face with a pink whip like thing wrapped around her magical book and yanked it free from her grip. She gasped in shock, watching the book fly off and land in a large Lizard man's hands, just as Aaron slammed a fist into her gut, knocking the wind out of her and dropping her to her knees.

Twirl's concentration broke completely, her magical barrier faded away to nothing, her stone Golem groaned and crumbled into dust, and her magical imp disappeared in a puff of purple smoke. She wheezed for air as she looked up at air, humiliated by her easy defeat.

Voth and Aaron looked to see Carlos standing over a large bear and a man, both unconscious at his feet. He was breathing heavy, and had several gashes all over his body. His pants and mask were torn, but still kept everything they needed hidden.

Carlos grabbed both of them and dragged them over and set them down near Twirl and Whiplash. "Hello fellow heroes. I believe Carlos is winning. 2 for Carlos, 1 for each of you." He said with a laugh. "Is there any more?"

"At least two." Voth said calmly, examining the book in his hand. It felt weird, like leather, but no leather he had ever seen before. He tossed the took down beside Whiplash. "I left my partner watching one of them. Can you guys watch these four while I go get? She's probably beat him by now."

"Carlos will keep watch. Be careful, young Chameleon." He smiled brightly. Voth nodded and ran back inside, taking the short cut through the building to the back. As he ran down the hallway he slowed as he passed the scene where the doctor had died earlier. To his great surprise, the silvery pudding was gone, and only the clothes remained. Had it absorbed into the floor? Voth was no scientist, so he figured something logical happened. Not like liquid can walk away.

Voth opened the back door of the cargo loading bay and spotted the mess. The transport truck was now sticking out of another building, which had collapsed on the cab. Valkyrie was watching over Piranha, he seemed out cold.

"Nina, are you okay?" He asked as he spotted the dried blood on her arm. Voth explained what was happening so far and picked up Piranha, carrying him over his shoulder, he lead Valkyrie to the group out front. He set the fish man down. Five super villains. "I am positive there is a sixth one."

Suddenly a huge energy blast struck Carlos, sending him flying once more, smashing through, yet another building. Voth and the others saw the one who had fired the shot, a man in thick advanced armour stood atop the main building. "Useless. Being beat by such trash. I shall destroy you heroes for interfering." The voice boomed from a speaker in the helmet, the suit reminded Voth of a black and white painted Ironman, only less lame looking. The armour seemed more practical, almost military like.

"Know what this is?" The man asked holding a black box, about the size of a brick. "It's nicknamed "Freak Buster" by the military. It's scheduled to begin production next month. Among the things we are stealing, we are setting them back to square one, so they can't use a weapon like this on supers. Do you know why?"

Carlos leapt from the whole in the ground he had been blasted into, and landed beside the other heroes, he glared up at the man, waiting for an explanation, he wasn't as dumb as he looked, and he didn't want to fight till he knew what it was.

The man laughed and tossed it at the group. Carlos caught it curiously.

"That, Heroes, is a 20-kilo Ferris plated sub-space bomb. Feel the weight, surprising for something so small. When it detonates, it expands to a 1 kilometer sphere, and lasts for five seconds. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima in world war two. It uses energy drawn from subspace to completely disintegrate everything organic in the field before dissipating harmlessly, causing no damage to the surrounding areas, and leaving no residual radiation." The man suddenly began to hover.

Voth turned to Carlos, "Throw it!" Carlos nodded and turned and tried to throw it towards the wide open desert. But to his dismay it remained in his hand.

"Oh that's right, I forgot to mention, the Ferris plate is build with pores that, when activated, secrete a compound that fuses flesh to metal. And you have... 8 seconds to it blows. Bye." The Bot took off at full speed, flying through the air and in seconds was gone from sight.

Carlos examined the bomb then looked at the other Heroes. "It has been an honour." He said with a smile and lowed his stance, and focusing all his strength, he leapt into the air. He too disappeared out of sight, going even higher than the clouds, a truly impressive feat. Then the sky lit up, a blinding white light filled the sky, and seconds alter a horrible, ear bursting blast rattled the entire compound, windows shattered.

Voth grabbed his ears and dropped to his knees. His ears rang horribly. When he recovered, he checked on Valkyrie and Aaron, they were fine, so were the villains they had in custody.

Was that it? One villain got away, prevented from taking billions of dollars of technology, but who knows what intangible data he got away with. On the reverse side, his five accomplices all lay at the hero's feet. Additionally, hundreds of soldiers, scientists, and a hero were dead.

The battle's done and we kind of won, so we sound our victory cheer, where do we go from here?

Voth pulled Valkyrie into a hug, and he kissed her forehead.

When does the end appear? When do the trumpets cheer? This is nothing like the comics.

(9003 world count at the moment)

Nina couldn't breathe as they were confronted by the stranger. It had all happened so quickly; pulling, shoving, yelling, dust, heat, and as quickly as it had started, it came to an explosive end.

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She looked up in the sky forlornly, feeling an inexplicable sadness at the strange heroes departure. As Voth pulled her into a tight hug, she closed her eyes tight and prayed that wherever the wrestler was, he knew how thankful she was. The villains words had chilled her bones, given her a gut full of fear, which was pretty damn hard to do. After having been faced with her own demise, only to have the danger ripped away along with the life of a noble hero...

Quickly, she buried her face in Voth's chest, not wishing the others around her to see the tears that she couldn't actually explain.

Trashed.