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  Wingspeed rushed through New York carrying Doctor Frost on his arms, finally reag a hospital. For a couple of seds already, he couldn’t hear Doctor Frost’s heartbeat anymore.

  BAAAM!

  With his superspeed, he pierced through the door and reached the hospital's interior.

  “Please someone, save this man! He was attacked, and he’s full of holes!” he screamed.

  “W-What?!”

  “Eh! A man in a tight suit…”

  “Bring him to me!”

  A doctor quickly came rushing inside; used to hunters ing dying, the hospitals of the big cities of the world had already been adapted to quickly attending people in emergencies.

  Wingspeed rushed towards the doctor, and then Doctor Frost ced over a bed, where he slowly started freezing it.

  “Ah! What is this man? He’s an Awakened? ’t he trol his frost powers?”

  The doctor, an old man in his fifties with a short white beard, couldn’t eve close to Doctor Frost, as he felt the tips of his fingers freeze.

  “Y-Yeah! He’s a metahuman,” said Wingspeed. “I think he had an act while trying to create some sort enic Sleep Device, and he ended up being in a perma state enic sleep that granted him such powers.”

  “W-what?!” The doctor had never heard of susanity before. “Unless he deactivate his powers, I don’t think I could close his wounds, though! At least you pour these potions!”

  “Potions?!” Wingspeed was shocked that wheered the damn hospital, he was given potions instead. “T-They’re magical… magical potions? Like in video games?”

  “Yeah, I mean, where have you been, kid? This is how it has been for eleven years,” said the doctor. “Now quickly!”

  “Ah! Yeah, sure!” Wingspeed opehe potion bottles and then… “Um, how do I use these? Do I apply them over his body or…?”

  “Apply in the body wounds,” said the doctor. “There are some that be digested, but these are specifically made for that.”

  “Gotcha,” he nodded.

  He quickly did that, p the red-colored potions into Doctor Frost wounds and rapidly seeing them heal and close.

  Then, his incredibly slow pulse came back as Doctor Frost’s eyes slowly opened.

  “W-Wingspeed…?!”

  “Doctor! You ok?!”

  “W-What… you saved me?”

  “I had to! I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t… as much as I hate you.”

  “You superheroes… Are the real insane people here… hahah…”

  “Super… heroes?” The doctor didn’t know what to even make of this all. “I should report this… These guys are definitely not from our world.”

  “Wingspeed!”

  RUMBLE!

  Suddenly, a powerful shockwave reached the hospital from the skies, making the entire building tremble slightly.

  “Eh?! Ah! Gaxy Man! You’re here too?”

  Wingspeed rushed towards the window, seeing the mighty Gaxy Man appear from the skies.

  “Yes, I came looking for you guys and the vilins that were absorbed by the portals,” said Gaxy Man. “There’s a lot we o talk about, but I doubt we do so rexedly. Is that Doctor Frost? Is he okay?”

  "Yes, he’s fine; some natives of this world almost got him,” said Wingspeed. “I saved him, but I ’t really bme them either; they did so on self-defense.”

  “Natives of this world were capable of inflig such wounds on him?” waxy Man. “I happeo meet someone of incredible poas definitely equally strong or even strohan me, but I didn’t think there were many like her.”

  “It’s fusing, I know; we’ll have to find out what’s up with this world first; it’s very different from our owh, or most parallel worlds we’ve actally visited before,” Wingspeed sighed, crossing his arms. “We o put Doctor Frost in some sort of jail first though; I don’t want him esg while we’re not around. Doctor, do you have any prison for metahumans here?”

  “Y-You mean the high-security prisons for Hunters? Yes, there’s a couple,” sighed the doctor. “Wait! This man’s a criminal?!”

  "Yes, I’m afraid he’s-”

  “And why didn’t you finish him off then?! Leaving criminals alive of this caliber would only bring problems iure, young man!”

  “E-Eh?! Finish him off?! That’s illegal! Even if he’s a criminal, killing someone… I don’t think I would be able to live normally if I ever did that,” Wingspeed argued.

  “What are you talking about?” facepalmed the doctor. “Well, I’ll call the police, so please keep him in check while they arrive.”

  “Sure!” Wingspeed nodded.

  “Hmmm, even the morality of this world is slightly twisted,” said Gaxy Man. “Killing criminals before they even be judged… Most of our vilins are mentally ill people anyway, so they never really are given the death penalty and are often times sent to specialized assilums for metahumans. Although… they always find a way to escape, or another vilihem… Hm.”

  “Earlier, I saw some strange people that weren’t humans walking around, and if you look closely, there are a lot of nonhumans too,” said Wingspeed. “From what I’ve overheard, they e from that huge tower on the horizon; did you see it?”

  “What taxy Man couldn’t recall seeing any tower from space. “Wait, how did that appear over there?! I was uo see it from space! It is like… some sort of magical mirage?”

  “No idea, but that tower has definitely done something to this world… Not that having a society that accepts other races isn’t bad; I mean, it’s wonderful and everything, but still, it's surprising to see fantasy races you would see in some Tolkien or Narnia book wandering around…” muttered Wingspeed.

  “Hm, I agree…” nodded Gaxy Man. “Well, I’ll leave you here then. I’ll go fetightman, Jade Star, Marvelous Woman, and Martian Man; I seheir presences around the city. Ohe whole group is together, we’ll figure out something.”

  “Alright, thanks, man!” Wihanked Gaxy Man, as his friend flew away fshily as always.

  “Did he say he met someone as strong or strohan him?” Suddenly Wingspeed recalled something Gaxy Man said. “There’s... no way, right?”

  He looked through the window at New York City and the tower.

  He felt a strange sensation the more he looked at it.

  As if it were calling him.

  “Just what the hell is this world?”

  .

  .

  .

  “Phew! Finally here, so this is New York, huh? It sure looks different than El Cairo! The air is a bit fresher too, and it’s not so hot~”

  Merh walked across the John F. Kennedy Iional Airport of New York, looking at the city in the distance while marveling over the dozens of little restaurants, shops, and many other things within the airport itself.

  Because there were hings she had never seen before everywhere, Merh ended up walking into every new shop she found, buying jewelry and clothes and trying out lots of new food.

  “Hmm! I love New York already!”

  Her little pyramid-shaped robot followed her, floating right by her left side, his single meical eye gring at her while squinting.

  [“Princess, I would reend you not to get too distracted! We came here specifically to attempt to repair the Meical Gods that Bing Xue has secured!”]

  He already seemed a bit tired of her distrag herself so much!

  "Aw, e o me have some fun!” she said. “We’re here to visit the pce as tourists, right?”

  [“B-But… What about Lady Bing Xue? Where is she? She seems to be te!”]

  “I think she might be busy dealing with something, but I bet she’ll be right here in time…”

  Merh was too rexed as she drank some delicious soft serve ice cream while sitting near a café; she was stantly cheg her new phone as well.

  She had created several social media ats and had bee rather popur online… Her robot panion was a bit worried she might grow addicted to oention.

  “Ah, look! My st post reached ten thousand likes already!” she celebrated. “I only posted it an ho, hehe!”

  [“Um princess, you shouldn’t really be trating on such frivolities; you’re royalty, much above these things…”]

  “Bah, what do you know? I have some fun while my Bing Xue es to pick me up~”

  [“Y-Your Bing Xue?!”]

  As the robot began to question the sanity of his master, suddenly…

  Crack, crack…!

  [“Hmm? The sound of gss shattering?”]

  He looked behind Merh, into the distance, and tiny cracks right below the ceiling of the airport started to spread through the empty air.

  Crack, crack…!

  CRACK!

  [“Ahh! T-This is…?!”]

  CRAAASH!

  The loud sound of spad time shattering apart echoed behind Merh and above the ceiling of the airport; the people walking in and out of every se instantly panicked.

  “A-A gate?!”

  “You’re kidding me! One in the airport?!”

  “R-Run! Quickly run!”

  “Aahh!”

  The people had grown rather used to gates appearing; their first rea was instantly to run away… Although there were also always some dumb people that stayed to look around, filming with their phones.

  As the people ran away, Merh was finally taken aback by the loud screams of people. She quickly turned off her phone, pocketing it between her breasts.

  “What’s with the otion?!” she screamed. “Eh?! A gate!”

  RUMBLE!

  Suddenly, from within the gray-cate, a bck fog started ing out, spreading around like a veil of shadows.

  Sometimes it shoh little stars, as if it were the night sky.

  Rapidly, the darkness gathered, taking a slightly humanoid, tall, and muscur form, although it kept a long cape of stars.

  “W-What the hell is that thing? A monster?!”

  The rge, humanoid, and muscur entity made of darkness and little stars quickly formed a head and then a “face” made out of two small stars.

  In the middle of his chest, something formed—a rge letter “M” made of blue light, which were actually several tiny stars aligogether.

  “Hmmm…”

  The first thing the entity said upon appearing was humming in fusion and wonder as he looked around, tightening his fists.

  “Where is Gaxy Man? What is this pce? Another dimension—no, timeline? Universe? This is… Hmmm…”

  As the people around remaiatic while filming him, the man made of darkness gred at them with annoyance.

  “It seems that in any universe I visit, pests like you remain as annoying as always.”

  He waved his hand as a gigantic wave of shadows and stars surged.

  “Those foolish enough to not escape from Dark Matter Man deserve what’s ing for them!”

  FLUOOOSH!

  “W-What’s happening?!”

  “Aarggh!”

  “Someone! Help meeee!”

  “Noooo!”

  The darkness gathered around the people, lifting them up from the ground while beginning to suffocate them, entering their mouths, noses, and ears.

  “NO! STOP!” Merh screamed. “RA!”

  With a roar, Merh summoned Ra out of thin air as her Aura of her Golden Bloodliivated. Dark Matter Man immediately noticed an incredibly bright presence, as if the embodiment of the Sun itself had appeared.

  “Gaxy Man?!” He quickly gred at Merh and Ra. “Wait, no! Who are you?!”

  “{Sunlight Psma Spear}!”

  Ra maed fully as Merh had already appeared inside of him; this was thanks to him assembling himself around her body.

  With a mighty roar, she jured a giant spear made of the psma of the sun itself, reag Dark Matter Man and pierg through his body several times!

  CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

  “UNGH?! It’s damaging me?! Impossible! My body is impervious to damage!”

  As he noticed his body being riddled with several holes covered in golden and red fmes, Dark Matter man gave a siep ba slight fear.

  “This mae! What is this thing?! How are you capable of hurting me?!” As he angrily said that, he jured several spheres of darkness, firing them at Merh and Ra at the same time.

  “{Sunfre Armor}!”

  However, an armor of golden and crimson fmes enpassed Ra as he tanked each explosive bullet of Dark Matter, reag the man.

  “Dammit!”

  Dark Matter ma go of the people he was t, flying away from Ra’s gigantic spear as he pierced the ceiling and flew into the skies.

  “To think I would meet a terrible matchup right away once I reached this new universe!” he thought, juring more and more of his powers. “But don’t think I am weak! I am the mighty Dark Matter Man! Gaxy Man’s greatest nemesis!”

  FLUOOOSH!

  “{Bck Hole}!”

  Suddenly, his powers started dist spad even time itself around Dark Matter Man, as his darkness created a miniature bck hole, creating a terrifyingly powerful su force.

  “PERISH!”

  The bck hole was fired at Ra, who rushed towards him, reag the Meical God and causing a tremendous explosion in the skies.

  “Aaah! Ra!”

  BOOOMMM!!!

  Dark Matter Man smiled cockily.

  “Hmph! Haha! So that’s that!” He smiled maliciously. “Now, where are you, Gaxy Man?! This time, for sure, I’ll sy you! And-”

  CRAAASH!

  “Guh!?”

  However, to the super vilin’s surprise, the giant Sunfre Spear pierced his chest, blowing away half of his left shoulder into fmes and dark particles.

  BOOOM!

  “Uuaaarrgh!”

  As Dark Matter Man screamed in agony, he gred at Ra, who seemed to have received some damage over his body, several cracks across his steel body, which were already regeing.

  “What sort of mae is this?! Capable of matg my supreme power?! D-Don’t you know who I am?! I am Dark Matter Man! I have destroyed dozens of ps!”

  “And I am Merh, and this is Ra; we beat bad guys now!”

  Merh didn’t hesitate, fighting against a world-ending threat on her own, showg the incredible powers of the Awakened Ra!

  CLASH! BOOM! CRASH! RUMBLE!

  Across the skies, the two battled, firing beams of darkness and sunlight, which celled one ahe battle was being drawn out; both of their elements were their total opposites.

  “This isn’t getting me anywhere!” Dark Matter Man thought. “Dammit! Dammit! I came here faxy Man! Not to fight some damn brat and her robot!”

  As Dark Matter Man started to grow frustrated, suddenly…

  He heard a meical voice behind him.

  “Need some assistance, Dark Matter Man?” it spoke. “I could help you; in exge, you will aid me in my goals.”

  “Huh?! Meicus?!”

  Dark Matter Man gnced down into the airport, notig a small, gray-colored alien with big green eyes, covered in meical armor, bald, and with several circuits across his head.

  “This robot indeed is very powerful; it could be said it was made to defeat you. I ’t wait to disma,” said Meicus. “So? Do you require my assistance?”

  “Tch! Fine!” Dark Matter Man screamed. “Help me already!”

  “Yes, it will be my pleasure,” smiled Meicus.

  RUMBLE!

  “Eh?!”

  Suddenly, Merh gasped as space twisted, and several little blue portals materialized around Ra, and from eae of them, gigantic robotitacles with giant cws surged, grabbing Ra’s limbs.

  Each time Ra’s limbs were grasped by such giant meical cws, electricity was released at certain intervals, suddenly paralyzing most of Ra’s circuits arog Merh inside.

  “Aargh! R-Ra!”

  As Merh tried to el her Golden Bloodline and her Ki tain trol of Ra…

  “Ah, what an exquisite build; I’ve never seen something quite like this,” Meicus appeared in front of Merh and Ra. “Shall we begin the dismantling?”

  Dark Matter Man smiled manically at the se.

  “Good! Well done,” he smiled. “I’ll help you ter though; I must find Gaxy Man first!”

  “Ah, well, be on your way,” smiled Meicus. “I don’t want anybody to disturb me while I see this new, wondrous spe. How amazing! I should have begun traveling to other universes much sooner.”

  “W-Who are you?!” Merh asked. “Who the hell are you guys even?!”

  “Me? I am Meicus, a biomeical life form; I once had a name… and I once beloo a p of my own,” he spoke. “But such things do not matter now. The only thing that matters is expansion. This p, I will devour it. But first, I must e your robot, child. You may end up dying as well, but what is life without sacrifices?”

  “W-What?! Stop talking nonsense!” Merh cried. “Y-You damn…! STOOOP!”

  FLUOSH!

  Suddenly, her Ki gathered within her entire body and then was released from Ra’s chest as a powerful Sunfre Beam, hitting Meicus in the fad sending him flying away!

  BOOOM!

  “Ugh?!”

  Managing to free one of Ra’s arms, Merh quickly cut the other meical cws, keeping Ra paralyzed, flying towards Meicus to stop him.

  “Amusing!” smiled Meicus. “Truly incredible!”

  With a wave of his hands, Meicus summoned a giant blue portal behind him, revealing a massive meical eye that gathered eleagiergies and then…

  TRUUUM!

  It fired an even more massive ser towards Ra!

  “Ahh!”

  BOOOMMM!!!

  “Oh my, did I overdo it?” wondered Meicus. “I hope it is not pletely destroyed now- Oh?”

  However, his meical eyes quickly widened as he noticed a silhouette within the smoke produced by his ser beam.

  A woman with long silver hair and rainbow-colored eyes appeared, gring at him with hatred as she protected Ra with her very body.

  “Unscathed after taking my Super Photoroshock Laser? It’s capable of blowing up the p's crust, you know?” Meicus ughed. “How ridiculous! So there are beings at the level of Gaxy Man here as well?”

  “B-Bing Xue!” Merh’s voice echoed behind her, full of hope. “You’re here! For me!”

  “Sorry for being te, Merh; I had several things to take care of.” Bing Xue sighed. “Now then, shall we crush this bastard together?”

  “Alright!” Merh roared as Ra cried loudly with mighty pride.

  “CRYAAAH!”

  Meicus, however, ughed, smiling.

  “Oh yes, please, do your worst,” he said. “This will help me gather a tremendous quantity of Data after all…”

  Suddenly, more blue portals appeared around him, as gigantic meical tentacles with sharp metallic cws, titanic meical eyes charging energy, and even massive ons appeared.

  “What sort of power does this man have?" Merh asked.

  “It seems he’s capable of summoning portals to a pocket dimension he trols,” said Bing Xue. “Where he stores a gigantic… mae.”

  “Hm! So you’ve figured it out… Well, it won’t ge anything anyways!”

  BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

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  Pach