Dr. Quantum turned his mech around and walked away from the heartbreaking scene he had created. "So much for trying to defeat me" Quantum said as his mech walked. "I must say, something about his abilities reminds me a lot of Sun's. oh well, he's gone now".
The citizens and all who watched felt that all hope was lost with their new hero giving his life to protect them after spending just minutes in the limelight, there was silence around the city with the mayor suspending any call being made to any super to come help believing that the new guy could handle it, alas it was all but a mirage or so they thought. Quantum and his mech took center stage standing in the middle of the city as he was about to make an announcement.
"People of San Francisco, I Dr. Quantum have conquered you, meet my demands or perish" he announced through his robot's speakers.
"We will never submit to you!!" some yelled.
"Revolting against me huh, well I tried diplomacy but I think it's time for some force" he said to himself.
The back of his machine popped out as missiles prepared to launch.
"Fire away" he said and at his word's missiles numbering up to twenty flew out hitting random targets ranging from office buildings to cars to gas stations and grocery stores, nothing was spared.
People screamed as the chaos continued and ran for cover, the military had gotten involved bringing out their big guns like tanks and even two thunderbolts. Five tanks rolled in from five different streets escorted with armored vehicles with machine guns mounted on them and 20 soldiers each and opened fire on the mech. All the damage they did were all cosmetic, merely scratches and smoke but nothing of their s seemed to penetrate, Quantum's alloy's integrity was really holding up despite all the damage Maverick had done to him. The thunderbolts flew in and unleashed a flurry of missiles and that seemed to get his attention making dents on the metal, the pilots were ordered to circle around and hit him again and again and again until he falls. Quantum's attention now turned to the military forces as they seemed to annoy them, he went about thrashing the limbs of the robot everywhere trying to destroy the jets, tanks and everything else that associated with them.
Ramon sat down with his head lowered as he felt responsible for the death of his friend.
"If only I didn't push him, if only I had been more considerate, he would still be alive, he would be here with us" he muttered.
"Don't take all the blame, I also talked him into going as well, but ultimately it was his decision to go in the end, right?" Jessica said with a stream of tears flowing down her cheeks.
She used her two arms and held onto her hair, "What am I saying, it was my fault, I ought to be the logical one but look at the decision I made, it's my fault" she said breaking into tears.
With his friends mourning him, Max was thought to be dead by all but that's not what he thought, his left arm busted through the rubble around him dusty as ever and he managed to crawl out of all the fallen wall pieces in one piece. He coughed violently as he got back up to his feet then began to dust himself.
"What a jerk" he commented setting his eyes on the mech receiving another bombardment of missiles.
"Let's take this thing down once and for all" he said going down into a squat preparing to give it his all and a serious look on his face almost an angry one.
Like the sound of rolling thunder, he shot off at Quantum wo was preoccupied by the military, people in the area were a bit frightened as he shot into the air not expecting such a loud sound that camera crews turned to. The mech's back faced Maverick since he was distracted by the tanks, machine guns and the soldiers so that let Max pick his spot expertly.
"First I take out that hand wielding the cannon then the head" he said flying towards the robot. He aimed for a soft spot in-between where the shoulder and the body meet, if he was fast enough, he could fly through it severing the arm off with ease.
The military had their radar begin to beep signifying that another aircraft had entered the aerospace.
"Do we have any other bird assigned to engage?" a Major asked.
"No sir" the man manning the radar answered assertively.
"Then what is that?"
Quantum's radar began to beep as well but was to preoccupied to attend to it and that gave Max the upper hand as he edged closer. People looked up as they heard something jet over them and they wondered who or what it was, soon Max flew through the shoulder of the mech's left arm stunning him as he was certain there was nothing or no one that could penetrate through the armor of his creation unless.
"No, it cannot be. He's supposed to be dead" he muttered in shock.
He looked around frantically to confirm his suspicion but was then hit in the back by another surprise attack sending him to lean on a building, he turned around to where the attack came from and found Max hovering in the air.
"NO! You're supposed to be the dead!" he said angrily.
"It's going to take a lot more to kill someone like me" Max said.
"Tell everyone to pull back, I'll take it from here" Max told a soldier below him.
He nodded and went around to give the order, the mech swung its right arm at max and he caught it with one arm then pulled the mech towards his body and met it with his knee making a dent on its forehead.
"Did he just get stronger?!" Quantum said.
As the fight happened, camera crews had turned their attention to the figure that had reappeared at the fight and it was none other than the caped hero from earlier. Night and Ravage looked on from the roof top they were on and were delighted that the guy was still alive.
"It seems the hero thought to be killed by that laser cannon attack is surprisingly still alive...." The reporter said from Jessica's tv screen.
Both teenagers raised their head to see the cameraman pointing his camera at Max currently engaging Quantum in battle and they were awestruck.
"It can't be? I'm surely seeing ghosts right Ramon?" Jessica said full of disbelief.
"No Jess, I'm seeing the same thing you're seeing" Ramon said surprised just as she was.
They both turned to each other and screamed, "HE'S NOT DEAD!!!!" on the top of their voices in excitement. They turned their attentions back to the screen cheering their friend on.
He slammed more buttons shooting more missiles at him, Max didn't care to move as all the missiles made contact with his skin. Quantum was happy that maybe now he had ended him just for Max to fly out slowly from the smoke unharmed, Quantum was as terrified as ever with his body reenacting a feeling he had felt before but where? While his mind was taking a trip down memory lane, Max flew over to the head of the machine with an angry expression on his face with the tips of his eyebrows almost touching. Quantum snapped out of the trans but by that time, Max was in front of the head of the robot with a menacing stare and it shot Quantum back to a memory of when Sun threw him out of the Cipher Tech building with that same look and he finally realized who it was.
"My God, it truly is the lost project" Quantum muttered trembling with fear.
"This is the end of the line for you" Maverick said with authority and power.
"Never, you cannot tell me what I can and cannot do!" he refuted.
"Then you leave me no choice" Max said with a cold voice.
"What are you going to do? Punch me-"
BAAM!
Max punched off the head of the mech in a single blow, the scene was unbelievable, one blow and that was it.
"Holy shit our bro is this strong?!" Ramon exclaimed holding his head.
"Damn that punch must be something since all the others just made dents on him" Jessica analysed.
"I don't care about that; he might just be strongest super to ever exist!" he added.
Quantum didn't even realize that the head of his robot had been taken off until all the beeping sounds and red lights came to an abrupt end.
"What's going on?" he said looking out of the eyes of the bot and saw that he was moving away but without controlling the robot and felt weightless.
As he kept on moving, he then realized that he was no longer connected to the body of the mech and was going to crash into something if he didn't act fast, he brought out some spare clothes and a hat that he kept in the mech in case of an emergency and began to take off the clothes he wore just before he crashed into a dollar store. Max moved in to investigate where he had gone to and when he punched through one of the eyes to see what was going on, he saw that the head was empty, devoid of the human controlling it. He then spotted a latch open meaning that Quantum used it to escape but where did he go? He immediately began to search for him but was oblivious to Dr. Quantum standing thirty feet away from him wearing a brown cloth cap, brown woolly sweater, black trousers and kept his black cooperate shoes while holding a newspaper. He smirked on the fact that he had escaped and walked away into the city like a regular person.
Apart from the cameras of the news, Max had also caught the attention of someone else, precisely the attention of Clinton Brown the CEO of Cipher Tech, he was seated in his office with Sun sleeping the sofa he had in his office, the place was dark and shady and you could already get the feeling of the type of monstrous things that happened there.
"Bring up a picture of that new hero" he said over the intercom and the picture of Max with his face and all appeared on the monitor he had.
"Impossible" he said out of sheer shock from the picture.
"What's up?" Sun said from his sleep with his eyes still closed.
"You would never believe who just appeared on the news" he said with a despicable cold tone like your typical evil mastermind.
"Who?" Sun said with his words peeking his interest.
"Your long-lost brother, project, Maverick" he said turning his monitor to face him.
Sun's eyes opened up quickly and turn to face Clinton as he saw the picture of Max on the monitor floating in the air.
"Seems our boy has chosen the lime light, I can't wait to meet him" he said with a grin on his face as he couldn't wait to beat his brother like the old days.
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"Max the way you took off that Mech's head was so cool! You just one shot him and I guess he didn't even realize it on time" Ramon said with an excited tone pacing up and down Max's room.
"The fight was pretty cool Ramon but you don't have to act like a kid that his parents just bought a brand-new toy for" Jessica said sitting on a bean bag. In a corner at the end of his bed.
"Give me a break Jess" he said in annoyance. "So how was it being out there fighting crime Max?" he asked his friend who laid on his bed with his face facing the ceiling and didn't say a word to them.
"Max?" Ramon said.
"Max!" Jessica yelled and slapped him on the foot.
"What, what?" he said sitting up and rubbing his foot that she had just slapped.
"That hurt you know" he said.
"Oh, I thought you were Mr. Invincible after taking a blast from that laser cannon and all those missiles back there?"
"That's when I got my powers active" he answered.
"So, what's on your mind?" Ramon asked.
"It's the guy I fought in the mech" he said with his mood returning to what it was while he laid on the bed.
"You still sad that he got away? Don't worry about it, villains get away all the time but a time will come when you lock him up for good" said Ramon.
"It's not that" he said lying back to his position.
"Then what is it then?" Jess asked.
"His voice, I think I've heard it somewhere before, like I've met him somewhere before" he said.
"Wow, that's big" Jess remarked.
"A villain that we've associated with, how extraordinary" Ramon said with a glint in his eyes.
"I've gone as far as I could remember but no one I've met has his voice but I'm certain of meeting him somewhere before" Max emphasized.
"Don't sweat it Max, we'll help you find him" Jessica assured him.
"Yes, we will. Now, let's get some victory pizza!!!!" Ramon exclaimed.
"Oh Ramon" Jessica and Max chorused.