The whole city was on super hero fever. Superior Man was the talk of the week; from morning shows to Kate night shows. People would post videos of his saves in the internet and soon, the whole world knew National Island had a superhero, even the underground organizations and others knew of this bullet proof superhero.
Nicklaus was smiling as he let three kids have a picture with him. There were no selfies then so another person had to hold the phone and click the picture. His fans had rising with one week and it was still rising.
"Superior Man, what does that symbol on your chest mean?" one of the girls asked him.
"It's an old momento to one of my favourite heroes. You may not know him but he was quite powerful and funny too," Nicklaus asnwered her. He then ruffled her hair then took off to the sky. Once he was high enough, he stopped and looked down at the island.
"You hear it, don't you?" Tsune asked him.
"The boy in the at the harbour, yeah I have been hearing him for ten hours now. Think it's time we saved him," Nicklaus said then took off towards the place.
When he was about to land, a rocket missile was fired towards him but he caught it before it hit him. He knew there were people surrounding the harbour but he just ignored it. They were nothing more than just dust in his eyes.
"Come out Mr. Badguys. I'll just take you to jail," Nicklaus egged them like he was convincing a stubborn dog to eat. When he said that, the place was soon flooded by the bad guys. "Hello there. It must be some sort of gathering, sorry to intrude."
"We have been a headache trying to figure out who you are but you hide your personality well," a Chinese man said from on top a container. "We looked into your power and we decided to bring in an expect at breaking people like you."
People like me? You sure you know people like?" Nicklaus asked him with an amused smile.
"Mr. Cane will make you believe that you are not the only one with mutant powers," the Chinese man said. Then, a huge figure crashed in front of Nicklaus then a huge fist made its way to his face. Nicklaus got hold of this fist without even trying then looked at the person who was in front of him.
"Jaggernaunt? Well, fancy seeing you here, friend," Nicklaus said.
"What? I should have broken every bone in your body," Jaggernaunt said in astonishment. Nicklaus turned to the China man and read his mind to only know his name.
"Mr. Feng, I'm afraid but this thing is not my kind. Take him back," Nicklaus said and flung the huge man to the now despairing Mr. Feng. Jaggernaunt hit the container with so much force the doors broke the bars and flung open, revealing Asian girls inside.
"Human trafficking, what a not surprise," Nicklaus said. Mr. Feng had been thrown far by the collision and was doing his best to get up when a black gloved hand got hold of him by his collar and pulled him up. "You will tell me where you take these girls or I will fry your brain in seconds."
"You can't do that, you're a hero," Mr. Feng smugly said. Nicklaus's eyes turned green suddenly then two green lasers shot out of his eyes and started boring into Mr. Deng's skull who was screaming in pain.
"Okay, alright, I'll tell you!" Mr. Feng said. Before he anything else, a container smacked into Nicklaus and he was flung away from the place.
"Take that, you fucker," Jaggernaunt said as he was panting.
"Good shot," Nicklaus said from behind him. Jaggernaunt and everyone was horrified to see him still in one piece and laughing. "Maybe next time don't pull your punches. This is how one should punch." Nicklaus suddenly punched Jaggernaunt and the shockwave produced threw everything in disarray. Jaggernaunt was flung backwards but Nicklaus appeared in his flight path and threw another punch that made Jaggernaunt feel as if his insides were shifting. Forward he went but the damn cape hero was in front of him and another punch into his gut.
He really felt his organs shaking, this punch was stronger than the last one! Just how much power does it take to take him down? Even he himself was not quite sure. Soon, it was like a game of ping pong and one was playing among themselves. He felt bones breaking and pretty sure his internal organs might have ruptured. It was done in half a minute but he felt like he had been hit for centuries.
"Cool mask, what's under the metal?" Nicklaus asked then ripped the metal helmet with limitless ease. "Not quite the face I expected but fine. If you set foot to my city again I will break your arms." Jaggernaunt tried to get up but ended up falling back onto his back.
"I think you might have broken something," he groaned but Nicklaus was not looking at them anymore. He turned towards the other people here.
"There's awfully quite a lot of you. In that case, 'Fight each other'," Nicklaus said as he used his psychic powers. Everyone there then started fighting each other without reserve but he made sure that they did not use sharp objects or fire arms. Soon, everyone was writhing on the ground in pain and Nicklaus could hear police sirens getting near.
"That's my cue," he said and flew off. Ten minutes later, the cops arrived and they were shocked to see every criminal element in the city right there.
"These people must be stupid. They have seen Superior Man lift up tankers like lifting a slice of pizza but they still think they have a shot in killing him?"
"Well, they feel threatened of his powers and the fact that he is using them against each and everyone of them,"
"But we do not have enough evidence to stick on most of them,"
Two days later, the cops got the evidence from Superior Man and for the first time in ages, a city had gotten rid of every criminal in it. What most of the people feared was that a new gang would try and take this opportunity but they clearly mistook one thing; as long as no one knew what Superior Man's weakness was then nobody would even dare to come close to the city. The underground knew Jaggernaunt, they knew that guy was powerful enough to lay siege to a city alone and completely destroy it in two hours but he did not even last for five minutes with this new guy who even ripped his helmet apart, a helmet that can ram through concrete building without a scratch on it.
"Who is this guy, this Superior Man? Is he a human, mutant or even an alien. While we know that he helps people of National City, why wouldn't he come and help others?" a TV anchor asked.
"The talk these days has been about Superior Man, a superhero who started his debut just over one week ago. He has stopped crimes like a child on auger rush and saved people like no one has ever done. Nobody has ever got to do a full interview on him but today, Channel 8 News just hit the jackpot and we are the first people to interview him. Here we are live at Downtown National City." The video shifted to a man who was looking up to the sky.
"We have had a tip that Superior Man likes to eat hot dogs from this vendor. We are going to ask him some questions which he will be obligated to answer...Here he comes," the man said as there was a sound like thunder in the clear sky. Then, the man himself landed smoothly in front of the hot dog stand.
"Four as usual, Ernie," Superior Man said with his usual smile.
"Superior Man, my name is Benson Stinkson from Channel 8 news, would you answer some of my questions?" the anchor asked.
"Ah, what every celebrity fears and loathes, what's up?" Superior Man asked them with his smile still on.
"Where did you come from?"
"National Island, born and lived here for my whole life. No, I'm not a mutant, how I got these powers is a mystery even to myself. But when I deed I decided I would not let anyone just bully the weak while I am around so I made my own suit and decided to fight crime," Superior Man answered.
"Do you believe that you might be doing more harm than good?" the man asked.
"Benson, can I call you that? I have with much concern realized that us humans might be the very cause of our own end. Do you know when it started? It began when army made Captain America. He may seem like a hero but he opened up a cannot worms that was otherwise closed. He gave others the idea of having a super soldier and I can tell you this, many research has been done, our own government has tried to make more and they may try to hide it from all of us.
"This is an age where more super powered people will start appearing because of unsactioned researches. They might be heroes or supervillains but none of them will make National City a battleground. That is why I am doing this; to save lives for the battle that is around the corner. Call me crazy but soon, three words are going to start the most dangerous age of human history," Superior Man said the turned to the vendor. "Thanks Ernie. Greet the missus, will you?" He paid for the four hot dogs and flew off, leaving the world shocked by his words.
What followed was panicking like no other ever recorded. When a super hero says that there is going to be a war between super powered people in the near future that might be the results of experiments, people take them seriously than when a hacker group decides to take down a corrupt company. It did not help later that a green skinned monster started terrorising people in the mainland and it certainly did not comfort people when they saw the said monster flinging army tankers like it was playing tennis and that the army failed to capture it spectacularly.
Other organizations took this chance to bring up countries that ever tried to make a super soldier and America was on top of the list. The internet became a place of crazy theories as everyone brought their own stories there.
Government's all over the world did their best to bring public unrest down and politicians used this moment to make sure their campaigns went smoothly by promising to make sure said war would not happen in their country's soil. Others said Superior Man is not good for public safety for releasing such news at once would have caused riots and chaos all over the world. When the superhero was asked about this, his response made everyone surprised.
"Humans are fickle beings. When you treat them like glass then they will break. When you treat them like metal then they will be strengthened by each hammer strike. When they find out that they have been lied to for a long time they tend to be unreasonable yet they do not want to hear the truth, they go to denial. Like our planet is dying yet none of them even realize that we are the problem, not the animals, plants, oceans, lakes or rivers. No, we are yet we are killing them too.
"So, when a person like me says the truth, it hits them that they are in trouble and they start acting. It is the only way to make humans who value what celebrities say than safety officers to do something that will save their lives."
There was silence for three days when Superior Man said this. Like there were no more news of people rioting, marching or forming militias. That message might seem bland but when it comes from a person who wears a superhero costume then it hits them hard! Later, the people went back to their own devices but there was a group that was even more energetic, the Green team. All over the world, these people started using his words as a rally for people and for the first time they started having impact on them.
Superior Man became a beloved hero all over the country and especially National City, he became it's guardian angel. Ever wondered how hero jealousy would work then go to this place and say that Superior Man might be going in land and you might never know how you got to a container to the Sahara.
Crimes were rare, like the citizens even forgot what muggings were. Superior Man started programmes that helped the unemployed get jobs that will at least get them to their feet and the homeless into apartments he build in one day, of course the safety officers checked them. Soon, National Island became the target of everyone wanting to get rid of their tiresome neighbourhood and was stated as the number one tourist attraction in the world because of safety. Criminals would try to take this hotspot but they would find themselves back in the mainland before they even know it. In other words, National Island became a Utopia and at the centre of the city was the giant statue of the man who made this all happen, Superior Man