Ultra City – Penny's Road
The city burned. Chaos ruled the skies. Everyone was in distress. Civilians panicked; no one knew what was going on. The explosion was unexplainable.
Up above a building, Timothy stood. The explosion had struck at the right time—but in his case, it couldn't have been worse.
"It had to be when they left. He sighed. What am I going to do all by myself?"
His comms buzzed, and a lady's voice came through—the voice of the Commander, she said. "You're seeing this."
Timothy replied. "Yup, I'm moving there now; I need to get a better view of things." He jumped down from the building, got onto his bike, and sped off.
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At the area of explosion, Vilex looked around, scanning for the cause, but found nothing. He pressed a finger to his comms. "Commander, what exactly is going on in the city?"
Layla's voice came fast. "We don't have full visuals—but I'm seeing multiple portals… brimming with unstable energy."
"What portals? I can't see any—"
He paused, eyes lifting as he saw the portals pulsing in the sky.
He pressed his comms; he asked the commander. "How are we supposed to stop this?"
Her voice carried worry. "I don't know; we haven't even identified the culprits. And we don't even know how to handle evacuation."
Vilex's eyes were still fixed on the portals, Layla added. "Won't you call them for reinforcement?"
He answered. "Let's see how it goes. His other comms buzzed. He had ended his conversation with Layla and responded to the caller. "Don't bother coming; just tell Larry that now will be the time we'll need that help."
BOOM.
A shockwave split the street.
A muscular figure slammed down from the clouds, his massive staff crushing the pavement. Wind whipped through his wild mane. He stood fierce and imposing—dark eyes glowing beneath a shadowed brow. His armor shimmered obsidian-black, streaked with gold.
With one swift spin of his staff, ten clones of him spilled outward, some morphing into hulking, gorilla-like beasts. Agile. Savage. Terrifying.
Vilex stood his ground, breath misting in the air. "Damn. It had to be today I get to face things like this? They're not even imaginable."
"Knew something big was coming; has their phase two already begun?" he muttered.
Suddenly, the sky twisted. A rift tore open—and Sun burst through, crashing onto a skybridge. His red-orange tactical armor pulsed with heat. Eyes like molten embers locked onto the chaos below.
"Brother," Sun growled, "let's make them beg for mercy."
Wukong smirked. "Mercy? Elder brother, they don't deserve it."
His staff pointed forward. "Let's show them what forgotten children become."
Ultra City erupted. Civilians ran in all directions, desperate for shelter.
"What is happening? Has rapture befallen us? If so, I want to ask for forgiveness of sins," one civilian cried, bowing his head.
Everyone thought chaos had won. Until—
VMMM.
A blur of white and silver streaked through the chaos.
A glowing figure zipped across streets and rooftops, evacuating citizens in a storm of speed.
The commander's voice came through. "What the hell is that?"
Vilex kept his gaze forward. "I don't know, but whatever it is… it's helping. That's what matters."
As the blur passed them, a voice echoed—distorted by speed: "I'm not a thing—and definitely not an it."
"Hey Timothy, have you ever seen anyone move that fast before?" Layla asked.
"No, I haven't. Enough chit-chat—I need to go do my job."
Elsewhere…
Tyler held his phone tightly.
"Bethany—are you okay?"
"I'm fine," her voice crackled. "Already evacuated. What about you?"
"I'm near Penny's Road. I've got to take care of something first. I'll come for you after."
"Hey, don't do something dangerous, okay?" Bethany said softly.
"I won't, I promise," Tyler replied with a smile.
He ended the call and looked skyward. Lightning danced in his eyes—then he vanished in a thunderclap, launching into the clouds.
The speedster helped massively with the evacuation; in less than two minutes he had rescued eighty-eight percent of the citizens. Vilex could only watch as he went his way. Not long later the quick feet arrived beside him.
Vilex asked. "Are you the help he talked about?"
The helper replied. "Yep, the fastest guy on the planet. What else do you need? He pointed his hands towards the angle where the Brothers stood. How do you plan to stop them, Captain?"
"Vilex's eyebrows raised," he said. "Captain, I'm no captain. Did Larry tell you this?"
The other answered. "You are the team lead, so yeah, you're the captain."
The two brothers from afar seemed offended; they felt ignored. Wukong shouted. "You imbeciles, legends stand before you, and you ignore them. You will die with that attitude of yours."
Vilex drew three arrows from his quiver, prepared to shoot at Wukong; he frowned, and his voice carried steely intensity. "I hate monkeys."
He let loose of the arrows; they went straight at Wukong, blowing up a moment before getting to him. Vilex moved fast; he called to Max. "Speedy, go to the other brother; I'll handle the brute."
Max smirked. "Aye, aye, Captain."
Sun roared, "Brother, they don't deserve this city!"
Wukong answered darkly, "Let's burn the corruption out."
They hovered—rage and destruction swirling around them.
Max ran fast, dodging through the portals set by Sun; the blast of the brimming circles of energy couldn't get to him. Punches from different angles landed at the sun, Max teased.
"Too slow, light bulb."
Vilex wasn't concerned about the clones that Wukong made; his main focus was the source. Wukong swung his staff, but Vilex weaved; he remodeled his bow to a short staff as well, hitting it straight at the belly of the brute. The hit brought him to his knees; a kick from Vilex met his face, and blood spilled from his mouth before he could react. Vilex took out arrows and stabbed his two hands to the ground.
The brothers were being overwhelmed.
The sky darkened. Lightning ripped the sky.
A man in shorts and a ski mask descended like a bolt from the heavens, blasting the clones into the air.
He said. "You two look like you need help."
Vilex had only one question for the unknown figure. With a frown, he asked, "Are you for us or against us?"
The man in shorts replied. "You just saw me take out the clones, and you still think I'm against you."
Vilex shot at him immediately. "Help if you want to and stop yapping."
Sun snarled. His portals expanded, raining down explosive blasts across Ultra City.
Wukong asked his brother. "Why are we losing to them?"
Vilex replied to him. "You'd lose a thousand times because you lack experience."
The brothers were annoyed by the words Vilex said, and the portal fired at them. The guy in the ski mask said to Vilex. "Let me handle this."
He hovered beside them. "You both should clear out—lightning strike incoming."
CRACK!
The sky exploded. Lightning ripped through the brothers. They screamed in pain.
Just as the dust was clearing, a portal opened. Sun grabbed his brother and jumped into it. Beaten and battered, they barely escaped.
Vilex watched them leave, a grim reflection weighing on his thoughts.
"Is this really their phase two? It can't be; it would be too easy."
[Narrator]:
Those frauds knew they couldn't do shit. My boys are cooking 🫵; you better stick around.