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  Ihe ruins of an abandoned area of New York at the outskirts of the city’s walls, several peculiar-looking people wearing colorful clothes and even capes gathered together; all of them had their own distinct backgrounds and personalities and inated from a world not like this one, ohat was, actually, perhaps more dangerous and insane in some areas, although that still was called “Earth” and, in essence, had their entire history being the same as this one.

  Where did the differences lie? Where could they draw a line and see where the point of history diverged to give birth to people like them and where the line diverged to create a world like this?

  The group of superheroes, people that worked to protect humanity, discussed this with one another as they finally took a breather after a very long day of catg rogue vilins and evading this world’s new order.

  “It’s insane, man, this whole thing... I just don’t even know what to do anymore; should I just run fast enough that I out speed spad time a everything maybe that way…” Wingspeed suggested jokingly.

  “NO!”

  However, his panions all screamed at the same time, probably fed up with him having dohis thing once before, only creating an even worse future than what he had tried to ge.

  “Okay, okay! I was joking, man; I promised I wouldn’t do it ever again!” Wingspeed sighed, waving his hand as if trying to calm them down; he was the least serious of a group full of incredibly grumpy people, very old people at that. “Jesus Christ, I’m just trying to make a joke; everyone’s so serious…”

  “I know you had good iions, but the very thought of you doing that thing again scares me, Wingspeed; please keep your powers at bay,” sighed Gaxy Man. “And yes, I also uand why you would joke like this... Holy, I would usually ugh at such jokes, but right now, I guess I ’t really do so."

  “Even if we had the method to return home, we really ’t; several of our friends and foes are all scattered across this world,” said Nightman, crossing his big, burly arms, making a serious frown barely visible beh his bck mask. “We have to first find them, stop them, then find a way bae, and that’s not going to be quick, even with you helping us, Gaxy Man.”

  “I know…” Gaxy Man nodded, sighing. “I wao apologize for a while now; if it wasn’t for me, none of this would have happened. It’s my fault… I was the ohat ended up growing so weak that I was uo e help you out when Meicus and the vilins created that Time Distortion Mae. I should’ve taken care of Meicus myself, but after that fight against the Gaxy Tyrant, I had almost died.”

  In their inal world, the entire Justice Alliance had battled a powerful intergactiqueror that traveled across the os called the Gaxy Tyrant, someohat even called himself an A God of War, or its Avatar.

  A powerful foe that held equal, if not superior, strength pared to Gaxy Man, being both incredibly tough and also smart, with a massive p-sized spaceship that traveled across the os.

  His pn was to quer Earth and add the po his ever-growing amount of quered ps, being part of his massive intergactic empire, even if it had to be by force.

  This ended up being the spark of an immense war, where both heroes and vilins had to team up to protect their p, although there were also many traitorous vilins that joihe queror.

  Ultimately, Gaxy Man mao defeat him with the help of the entire Justice Alliance’s forces after he unleashed his Hyper Charge form by diving deep into the psma of their sun until his body absorbed all of its radiation, increasing his power but at the same time destroying his body internally.

  Gaxy Man had to go against his own morals and kill the Gaxy Tyrant to stop this madness ond for all. The battle took down half of the moon on its wake, aually, Gaxy Ma into a a for several months to recover. Because of this, the Earth became unprotected from intergactic threats, and that’s where old enemies, such as Dark Matter Man and Meicus, appeared again.

  “No, you shouldn’t be held responsible for what happened,” said Nightman. “You almost died to protect everyone, and you had to rest for all those months, as you were on the verge of dying. If anything, it is us, the heroes from Earth, that failed you…”

  The most prideful and ofteionless of the heroes, the Viginte of the Night and a powerful Exorcist such as Nightman, ended speaking his heart for once, surprising his friends.

  “Nightman…”

  “Yeah, I agree,” nodded Wingspeed. “Sorry… You had always been my hero since I was a kid, Gaxy Man; if anything, we failed you. We were uo coordinate, and we ended up fighting against one aoo much. We let the vilihe best of us, and... this is what ended up happening.”

  “Wingspeed…”

  “Hahh… I guess I have to join in and say that yeah, it’s our fault,” nodded a fourth person in the room, her feminine voice trasting with the three other men here.

  She was a sleall woman with a muscur body, long blonde hair, and sharp golden eyes, with tanned brown skin and wearing a skin-tight leotard with gold and white colors and armor, showing a bright star in the middle of her chest. She wore white boots and also carried a sheathed sword and a shield with her.

  “Marvelous Woman, I’m gd we were able to find you at the very least,” Gaxy Man smiled. “Though it’s disheartening that I have yet to pick up on the presences of Jade Star and Martian Man. It’s as if they’re pletely gone from my radar.”

  “Most likely the things you used to find us broke in the way here,” said Wingspeed. “After all, they’re just these tiny little bracelets. They get broken or easily lost while traveling within a damn wormhole.”

  “Right…” Gaxy Man nodded. “Any ideas where they could have goo?”

  “I could probably find them if I use my Odysseus pass,” said Marvelous Woman. “But I’ll need some time to amass the necessary Divine Power.”

  Marvelous Woman was simir to Wingspeed and, at the same time, very different. While Wingspeed was the long-lost desdant of the Greek God Hermes and was born and raised in New Jersey until he suddenly awakened his powers after being struck by lightning, Marvelous Woman was raised on a small isnd, made up of the st desdants of the God of War Ares.

  With hard Spartan-like traditions, she was rigorously trained as the ohat could hold and wield the many diviifacts her family was made to protect, as a hero that would protect the world from the hreats.

  Aside from such Diviifacts ied from the od Families, she also naturally possessed the greatest strength amongst the warriors of her tribe and had awakehe Brand of Ares, destio bee the new Goddess of War.

  Yet, to her, most of these things didn’t matter. War wasn’t something good, and she didn’t want to bee a goddess that would love and promote such a thing.

  “You haven’t harnessed much yet?” Gaxy Man wondered. “What could we do to help you out?”

  “Hm, this world is strange; perhaps I could probably use this strange System that popped out of nowhere,” Marvelous Woman said. “It says something about… accumuting Faith? Maybe that could help, but I have no idea if we could trust this thing or not.”

  “It is yet another of the strange phenomena of this world,” said Nightman. “And it is what’s giving even the shittiest vilin out there the power to go against us now. It’s straoo; it iivizes killing things so you gain strength and magical abilities. In all my life, I have never seen such a wicked sorcery before. Whoever set this up worldwide must be an A Demon of Sorcery or something simir to the Accursed One, which I guess I ame here, Mephistopheles.”

  “I agree, this thing is imbued with tremendous amounts of powerful sorcery and magic power,” nodded Marvelous Woman, sitting down again. “But it doesn’t seem threatening at all; despite its iivization to kill, there’s nothing saying we have to kill people. I guess it simply synergizes well with vilins and psychopaths that have no problem doing so. We could hunt, for example, monsters or animals instead.”

  “Animals? For the sake of it? That’s cruel,” said Wingspeed. “But monsters…? I mean, if they’re dangerous to the people, we might give it a try…”

  “I suppose so; I always have to hunt down alieures and monsters when I’m patrolling the Gaxy,” said Gaxy Man. “So I am kind of used to hunting dows.”

  “Hmm, I don’t think we should be hunting monsters right now,” Nightman sighed. “We have to find more vilins and apprehend them quickly, before the people of this world just kill them.”

  “And you want to defend those terrible people that have killed so many?” sighed Marvelous Woman. “I wouldn’t kill them either, yes, but there’s nothing that’ll make me stop those that want t greater justice to them, even if they have to taint their hands red.”

  “If you simply stand and do nothing, then you’re simply not a hero,” said Nightman.

  “I think I am a much better hero than what you could ever be, Nightman,” said Marvelous Woman, crossing her arms. “You alone are managing a whole city full of criminals, always letting them escape after a week in an asylum that is clearly also trolled by the underworld. The only way to that city of yours is by exeg those people, but strangely enough, even the gover of that state is against that. Haven’t you ever realized a sihing about the pce you live? And how unsustainable is it to let these psychopaths go all the time? No, have any of you ever begun to think for a single sed about this?”

  She fronted all three of them, sighing; they didn’t respond, remaining in silence, looking elsewhere. The idea of a hero for them was different than what she believed, as she was raised away from modern society, and in a harsh, spartan society, she was a bit more ruthless.

  “Look, let’s not start fightiween one anain,” said Gaxy Man. “Okay, we won’t start chasing them around however we want; that’s a waste of time, holy. But we should at least che them too, to firm what happeo them, at the very least. There’s some vilins that I’m sure aren’t weak or stupid enough to get caught so easily… Like Jester, Meicus, or Dark Matter Man.”

  “Hmm… fine,” Marvelous Woman nodded. “Nightman, you better stop your stupid romanticization of what a hero is; even our ki member here has already accepted that we ’t simply keep up this stupid ideology anymore. It is simply not sustainable. Or were you hoping faxy Man to spare the Gaxy Tyrant?”

  “I never suggested anything,” said Nightman, groaning angrily. “Let’s do what we must do…”

  There was a lot of tension in the air; flig emotions and ideals cshed, and the heroes were on the verge of colpsing as a team.

  “e o’s go hunt some—woah!”

  BAAAM!

  Before Wingspeed could even speak, suddenly, the ruins where they were trembled as a massive creature broke in, r ferociously.

  “ROOOAARR!”

  It was a massive, green-scaled tyrannosaurus, with sharp red spikes across its body overflowing with a golden aura within its gigantic body; several more of them followed it from behind, gring at their prey.

  “Dinosaurs?! Really?” Wingspeed ughed, smiling in disbelief. “This world’s nuts!”

  “I guess we won’t have any more time to just discuss,” said Gaxy Man, beginning to float in midair.

  “Fighting dinosaurs, huh… I guess I hought I would be doing this, for fuck’s sake,” Nightman sighed.

  “Ah, a good prey to test if the sharpness of my bde hasn’t gone dull!” Marvelous Woman uhed a golden sword.

  As the heroes battled the huge horde of giant dinosaurs, from the distance, leading anantic army, a group of strange-looking beings g them in silence.

  Their reptilian eyes deteg their movements, and the powerful auras exuding from their bodies, which brought their attention.

  “It seems we’ve finally found some worthy vessels for od.” The being spoke, smiling viciously. “Immediately report this to Lady Bloodcw.”

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