Max ascended into the air repeating the words in his mind 'please don't drop, please don't drop, please don't drop'. He kept on climbing in altitude heading towards the city as fast as he could meanwhile Ramon and Jessica had their eyes glued to her TV screen waiting for Max to show up as the mech unleashed devastating attacks to buildings surrounding it. The mech punched through buildings, kicked cars on the streets below and had a menacing laser beam attack that tore buildings to shreds, Max had no idea what he was up against and was soon going to discover the hard way. His heart was full of uncertainty and anxiety not know what was going to happen or how the fight would play out, so many scenarios playing through his mind almost inhibiting him to maintain full focus on course as he flew over people sounding like a jet in mid-flight.
"Superheroes face challenges, no matter the cause, no mater how great, no matter how difficult, they would face any challenge that comes their way head on for the good of the people of the city and so I, must do the same" he said to himself nearing the city center more and more.
His words calmed his trouble soul and seriousness flashed through his eyes with his mood and look changing.
"Now let's see what this mech is made of!" he said.
He saw smoke rising from some buildings accompanied by the sound of sirens and he decided to head there knowing that the mech would be around there, Night and Ravage were helping to evacuate people from buildings and rescuing people trapped by debris and rubble and then Night spotted Maverick fly over the street he was on catching his attention. He knew that the city hadn't contacted anyone yet to come help them take down the mech so he wondered who it was then a thought came to him.
"Is that the kid from a few weeks ago?" he asked himself. "No, it can't be" he said shaking his head to get rid of the thought but deep down he knew it was him.
Ravage looked up as well as he flew over his street as well, "Who on Earth could that be?" he said in shock. He wore black shades with a green sleeveless top covered by an X of gun ammunition with brown combat pants and black boots. He had cream colored hair that was gelled up and faced backwards and wore black gloves to top it off. He had a modified M4A1 that was built to carry seven different rounds of ammo and had a selector which he could use to select his bullet type ranging from to normal bullets to grenade bullets, to taser and bolas bullets to rubber and ricochet bullets. The seven magazines went around the gun like a circle but did not affect the iron sight and trigger just that it looked more menacing than before. He still kept the grenade launcher but used it to shoot out nets rather than the grenades since he had grenade bullets. He kept magazines, grenades, two Swiss army knives, two Glock eighteens and many more within his combat trousers.
Max was at his top speed approaching the gigantic mech that looked like something that had crawled out of Pacific Rim, it was silvery white in color with red eyes. It was currently walking through the streets not minding where it stepped causing mayhem down below and the person inside gave a wild maniac type chuckle as his creation brought forth chaos to the city. As he continued his rampant run, his radar suddenly began to beep indicating that something or someone was closing in on him.
"What the-"
Before he could finish his statement, his mech was hit in the chest producing a shockwave that rattled the entire city and was sent to the ground collapsing with his back after flying a couple meters making a dent on its chest.
"It's not possible, there's no super currently available to fight me" the man said. He wore a doctor's coat and lamp on his forehead, he wore black trousers and cooperate shoes with a grey shirt underneath the coat. He was bald on the top of his head with wild unkept grey hair growing on the sides, he had some freckles and had a psychotic look in his eyes.
He began to push some buttons telling his creation to get back on it's feet so that they could face this new threat. He got his creation back up to its feet and he saw a man in a black suit with grey accessories, boots, a red and black cape with the letter M on his chest, the robot scanned through its database for anyone matching this figure but there was no match.
"Who are you?!" he spoke through the loud speakers on his robot.
"I am, Maverick" he answered.
"Maverick? What type of dumb superhero name is that?!" he said before chuckling.
"It's the name of the person that going to defeat you!" he said.
He didn't even give him time to answer and flew at him just like the first time but the difference was that he didn't hit his speed of Mach 2 this time and gave the robot an uppercut while the man inside continued to laugh. The mech was lifted ten feet of the ground before it landed on its knees using two buildings by its side to support it with his hands on them like anchors. Max looked at his fist surprised by the strength he possessed then clenched his fists even harder then turned his attention back to the one hundred and twenty feet of metal in front of him.
"You will pay for interfering with my plans, Dr. Quantum decrees it!" he said with his robot standing up and going into a boxer's pose.
The robot ran at Max and he flew at it, he totally mistimed his punch allowing the mech to duck as he flew over it, the mech turned around quickly grabbing Max by his cape which was incredible speed and agility for something of its size. He then swung Max around before releasing him as he flew through three buildings before dropping to the coal tar on the streets. He stood up slowly as people starred at him wondering who he was, he shook his head trying to regain focus.
"Damn, that hurt. Thank God I'm invincible" he remarked and just then the robot appeared behind him standing at least a hundred feet away from him.
People began to scream and run for safety seeing trouble arrive.
"I found you!" Dr. Quantum said.
The robot threw a punch at him and he was quick to react flying backwards to avoid getting hit, as the robot pulled its hand from the ground, Max flew quickly punching it in the chest making it shift back a little then he punched it two more times before holding the robot by the neck and used every muscle within his body to lift the robot off the ground. Ramon and Jessica couldn't take their eyes of the TV screen in front of them surprised and delighted at the strength their friend displayed.
"Holy smokes did you know he was that strong?!" Jessica exclaimed trying to control her happiness.
"I had no idea he was this strong, this is totally crazy!" Ramon replied standing on his feet and had his two palms on his head.
"AAARGH!" Max groaned lifting up the robot that would weigh nothing less than two tones.
''What is going on!!" Quantum shouted within the head of the mech.
Maverick lifted the robot thirty feet in the air then with all his might threw the mech up and kicked out with both feet, his kick sounded like a jet that had just broken through the sound barrier and sent the mech tumbling through the air for several hundreds of meters. Max had come up with the idea of taking the fight out to see to minimize the damage done to the city as best as he could. Red lights flashed inside the head of the mech indicating that it had taken some serious damage from that kick with so many things beeping and whining inside the head. The mech hit the ground with a loud crash with its outstretched limbs causing damage to the buildings around it, Quantum lifted up his head slowly as it rested flat on his seat, his eyes blinked many times as he was feeling a bit nauseated and disorientated from flying through the air for a couple seconds then crashing hard on the earth.
"System failure, system failure, autopilot mode no longer available" the system of the mech sang with a female voice multiple times accompanied by the flashing red lights.
He looked at the dashboard which displayed that he had taken a lot of damage to parts of the mech with the left leg, right arm and chest flashing red. "Yes, yes, yes I get it we're losing but not anymore" Quantum said. "Switching to manual control" he said hitting a blue round button as two metal rods like the control stick of fighter aircraft came out in front of him with red buttons on their apex.
"Now let's give him a fight, prepare laser cannon" he spoke to his mech and it began to charge the cannon with a bar at five percent appeared.
He moved the control sticks forward letting the robot get back to it's feet with Maverick coming at him head on, as he got closer, he cut off the hero with a left hook sending him to the side of a building then grabbed him in his palms and ran him through the sides of two more before throwing him to the ground. This is where experience pays off, not more than a year ago, Dr. Quetom or Quantum now was let go by Cipher Tech with the CEO concluding that his services were no longer required at the establishment. To make matters worse, the rest of his inventions that he was working on were stolen from him and made Cipher Tech property so now he was out for revenge for being betrayed. Since then he had become a villain bringing terror to the hearts of the citizens of San Francisco which he was using as an avenue to test his technology and how it would fare against Clinton Brown's guard dog now know as Sun. Quantum had more experience in superhero fights more than Maverick so he knew how to handle his current situation pretty well as the other was still learning the ropes.
"All I have to do is keep the pressure on and I can win this" Quantum spoke to himself.
He got his mech ready to stomp down on Max who was still trying to regain his composure. "Time to die boy!!" he yelled as the foot of the mech came flying down.
"Crap!!" max exclaimed seeing the foot coming down towards him.
He moved quickly to the side avoiding the foot then fly up seeing a hand coming down at him, he fly over to the other side and punch the fist of the mech headed his way then moved to his back to get a hit and turn the tide of the fight but then the shoulder plates of the left arm moved up and four missiles shot at him. He panicked and flew up but the missiles still followed him, with no battle experience, he was making rookie mistakes but all still part of the learning process. He the descended back down to the buildings and then had the idea of taking them back to the owner of the missiles, he weaved through buildings with the missiles still following closely behind as he circled back to Quantum's position. He moved quickly through the streets at speeds of Mach 2 as he was now just a block away from Quantum.
"Crap, crap, crap, I have to take them back" Max said as the missiles got closer and closer to him.
He made a right turn around a block surprising Quantum who had lost track of him as he weaved through the streets and buildings from behind.
"I think this belongs to you" the boy said approaching the mech
"WHAT???!!!!!!" he yelled as Maverick flew through his legs and the missiles hit him.
He raised the hands of his creation protecting the head where he stayed but not the rest of the body as more red lights flashed and things beeped and more parts of the robot flashed red.
"Damn that boy!!!" he shouted turning to face him nut had lost track of him again.
Max had gone behind him holding a pickup truck and slammed him in the back of his head with it making the robot jerk forward on impact of the surprise attack.
"You're gonna pay for that!" he cried turning around sharply and slapped Max into a building.
"Laser cannon at one hundred percent" the system of the robot said.
"FIRREEEE!!!!!!!!!" he shouted hitting the big red button in the middle of his control panel.
The left arm of the mech turned into a huge cannon and began glowing red.
"Oh no, he's in trouble" Jessica said with a worried tone and look seeing what was about to happen.
"Come on Max get up, get up" Ramon chanted knowing that if he got hit it could be lights out for him.
Quantum hit the button multiple times so that his machine would fire faster as Max hadn't gotten up from the slap he gave him, the glow got brighter and brighter and Max's eyes began to open slowly. As his eyes finally opened, he saw the bright red glow in front of him trying to understand what was going on.
"What's going on?" he questioned himself raising up his right arm to cover the glow entering his eyes.
"Say good night boy" Dr. Quantum said with a sinister voice.
With his finally words said, his mech finally fired a huge laser beam at him.
"NOOOO!!!!!!!!!!" Max, Ramon and Jessica chorused at the same time as the beam hit Max obliterating all that surrounded him in a two-hundred-foot radius.
"Is he dead?" Jessica asked with morsels of tears forming on her eyes.
"I don't know" Ramon said with a solemn voice and head bowed.
Jessica began to tear hoping that he hadn't died and watched on for any sign of him.
"NO" Night said from a rooftop where he and Ravage stood watching the fight as they were powerless against such a machine.
'If only I was stronger, I could've helped him, I could've helped the kid' he said in his heart clenching both fists to the point that he drew blood from them.
"You don't need to be hard on yourself Night, there was nothing we could do" Ravage encouraged him placing his right arm around his shoulder.