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August shakes his head. “You don’t understand how strong he is. There’s a reason we’ve never sought him out. There’s a reason why all the supers just… let him exist.”
“I thought you once told me that I could be the most powerful villain in the world if I put my mind to it,” I say.
“I… might have said that.”
“Then let’s prove it.”
August seems unsure but he’s going to have to trust me. “Okay… Deus, your bullets are going to become weapons for him to use,” he says.
“You have to keep in mind that none of us are going alone, August,” I say. “Deus is quite skilled. If he uses one of our attacks to distract Alloy before shooting him, he could kill him. And Alloy isn’t the only one who can catch a bullet.”
August nods. “Okay. Okay… we can do this.”
“August, once we draw him away from the building, we’re going to need to be close enough to hit him all at once. So I want you to freeze time and we’ll get in as close as we can. If I’m close enough… I can crush his heart,” I say.
August looks over at me. “Landon… you don’t want to kill someone… that’s…”
“I will do what it takes to ensure my friends make it out alive. But it’s a power that I need close proximity for. I can’t do it from a super long distance.”
“Okay… so I will focus on getting you close,” August says as we reach the area outside Superheroes United. There’s no one at the front gate because the guard’s outpost has been flattened. I can’t help but wonder what happened to the guard that generally mans it.
“Once we’re out, we need to get away from the car so he can’t weaponize it,” Ellison says. “Ready?”
Brandon is standing in the middle of the road looking down at a guy I don’t recognize as we get out. “Landon! Landon, this dude hit me,” he says as he picks up the guy’s unconscious body like we want a really good look at him. “Was this who we’re supposed to attack?”
“Um… I have no idea who that is but if he was trying to attack you, it’s a job well done,” I say.
“Thanks,” he says as he chomps down on a stick of string cheese. “Sooo… what do I do with him?”
“Just… wing him somewhere.”
“Okay!” Brandon says as he swings the man around and flings him off into the street where a man on a bike immediately hits the body and goes flying off his bike.
“Don’t look, pretend you don’t see,” Ellison says. “Come on, let’s go. Quickly walk away.”
All of us pretend we didn’t just cause a bicycle crash as we hurry off.
“Brandon, we need you to draw that guy raging in front of headquarters over to us. See that field out there? You’re going to taunt him and bring him over there, okay?” I ask as I point to an area fairly clear of metal.
“A-okay! Hold my cheese stick,” he says as he passes it off to me before running straight toward the building. It’s quite a distance since we didn’t want to take the car anywhere near it. If he were to simply crush the car with us in it, we’d immediately be dead.
“Here, hold his cheese stick,” I say as I hand it to Ellison who throws it on the ground and starts walking.
“Harsh,” I say as we move toward the field when Deus suddenly slides in front of me and shoots a tree.
The tree falls back, flailing as blood splatters out from a gunshot wound in what I now realize is a man’s chest. Deus swoops in and grabs the man in a choke hold, squeezing the life out of him before plucking the gun out of his hands.
Deus hands Ellison the gun. “Here, he said you could borrow this.”
“Are yousurehe said I could borrow it?” Ellison asks as he eyes the body.
“Yeah, why?” Deus asks like he can’t fathom why Ellison would question this. There are two more people moving toward us that Deus waves his hand at. “Since I’m not much help against the metal guy, I’ll take care of these two and meet up with you.”
“Be careful,” I say.
“I will!”
I watch as Brandon finally snags Alloy’s attention. The man almost immediately sends a sheet of metal flying his way. It slams into Brandon who looks down at it like he’s confused how this has happened, and I realize that maybe I should have told him who he was up against. He picks it up and looks at it this way and that a moment before another one smashes into his face, knocking him off balance and onto his ass.
