Author's Corner: Only one chapter today, so in honor of it a cliffhanger! /golfclap!

Legend

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italics = people thinking

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' ' = people talking within telepathy

CAPS = Power usage

Book 1: Chapter 8: Kidnapped?

“Now that Nick is here he should be able to give us some ideas. I’m sure he has thought of this since it has been a few days already.” –Mr. Absolute

“Yes. I have indeed thought of this situation. After finding out how strong Ted is I realize the only way to kill him is to simultaneously remove his head and destroy his heart. With just one the other will regenerate, but the real issue is finding something to penetrate his armor. Even my silver infused plasma blade couldn’t cut his neck or chest. So without that any other gadgets I have will only delay the inevitable defeat.” –Nick

“Don’t worry, I have Wrath and Gluttony for this job. Gluttony has dual blades that are very sharp and may cut through his neck if Ted is defenseless for enough time to connect. Gluttony isn’t that fast is the biggest problem, he’s just a walking tank with large strength. Wrath on the other hand is very fast and has a polearm that can pierce anything. It is definitely strong enough to remove his heart from his chest cavity. But Wrath is no faster than Ted and it takes awhile to charge up his super attack meaning Ted needs to be immobile for it to work.” –Dr. Sin

“Give me one minute, I have a device that may help with this problem.” –Nick

With that Nick goes to his work area and takes out the helm that goes with his suit. He patterned it after Boba Fett’s helmet from the original Trilogy and even gave it a few things like 360 degree vision as well as internet! Besides that it was purely for looks and has no other feature, but for subterfuge it is perfect!

“This is a special helm I made recently after noting the problems with my telekinesis. I’m able to hold people down but not for long as they eventually overpower me with their own Aura. But with this helmet I should even be able to hold down Mr. Absolute in his Absolute Zone for at least 5 seconds, meaning I should be able to hold down Ted for a full 15 seconds. There is just one major problem… Using that much power is a onetime thing and afterwards it will put me in a coma as it will overtax my mental abilities.” –Nick

Of course only half my brain will be shut down and then only for an hour, my other half will be perfectly capable of continuing the fight, but no reason for them to know that! –Nick

“Excellent! it should like we actually have a plan in the works. Ted is still not my equal so I can hold him within my 15m zone, it will be up to Nick to lock him in place while Solaria protects him. How long will it take Wrath to power up his attack?” –Mr. Absolute

“It takes 10 seconds to power up meaning Nick may not need those extra 5 seconds. While he is charging up Gluttony will try to remove his head.” –Dr. Sin

“Great we have a working plan finally, now do we know where Ted is?” –Mr. Absolute

“Hum… I think we can simply draw him out, he seems to be interested in Solaria. If we stand out long enough in Times Square there is no reason not to think that Ted will come on his own. Just leave Gluttony and Wrath off to the side as decoration, no one will even notice it with a decent cloaking device that makes them look fake.” –Nick

“Okay I will get them in position, they should be ready by tomorrow morning, so don’t start your decoy mission until then.” –Dr. Sin

With that Dr. Sin leaves and gets ready for the next phase of the plan. Only Solaria and Maya appear to not like this current plan, though their reason of course is pure ridiculousness.

“What are we going to do?” –Maya

“I don’t know, we need to work on a plan and our time is short!” –Solaria

“Girls, what are you talking about? This plan should work!” –Scarlet Queen

“What about Ruby huh? If she comes, our plan will be a failure!” –Solaria

“Well we already have Plan B for that, we just have to trust that she stays out of the fighting and doesn’t bother us until it is over. Plus Nick will be in a coma so we have time don’t we?” –Scarlet Queen

“Honey, how long will your coma last do you know?” –Solaria

“At least an hour as that is how long it usually takes for me to get enough mental energy back. Though if it is a complete exhaustion then I will need 8 hours of rest.” –Nick

“Phew! Looks like we have plan, just stick with Plan B then. You good with this Barb?” –Maya

“I d d do don’t know what you are talking about. This may not work.” –Barb

Of course the plan is for Barb to get Porter to do what they ask by seducing him. No one knows if this will work, but it isn’t like Porter will say no to any of them, these women are too scary to say no to.

“With this plan in motion is now the time to talk about these aliens? Or am I the only one who is worried about them?” –Mr. Absolute

“Nope, you are pretty much the only one worried, aliens are at the bottom of my list of things to worry about right now. What do aliens have versus immortal witches?” –Solaria

“The aliens were pretty weak. They had no evolved at all by the time I left… but they were about to evolve which is why I left in a hurry. This curse is scary and they were super ugly pre-evolution so who knows what would happen afterwards…” –Nick

*SHUDDERS*

“But they did have some good information for us. Especially about the classification of planets and how humans always fail.” –Nick

With that Nick went on to explain what he found out about the planets and the evolution system and the two monuments. He left out the part where he was the one who set off the second monument. The only ones who knew that were Maya and Ruby, two people who had no clue Nick was hiding his powers, thus neither knew it was a secret or even something worth telling or not telling. Especially Maya who was more intent on finding ways to keep Ruby away while on the flip side Ruby was thinking of ways to entrap Nick and join the harem.

“That is some good intel. I think the next stage can only be completed by people with a 5.0 Aura. Which means there must be a way to increase your Aura as well as ways for Batmans to become Supermans. Too bad we didn’t have this information before Techie died, but that is the life in the business of fighting dangers supervillains. I am going to meditate on this until tomorrow, something tells me that the energy of the universe is the key to our answers and since I have a 5.0 Aura I’m going to try to probe my Aura and figure it out. I made some progress of shrinking my Aura during the past 3 days but I haven’t finished the process yet. I think a day or two will be all I need so I will tell my findings later…” –Mr. Absolute

Interesting. Maybe after Ted is dead I will tell Mr. Absolute what I know about Aura, though he is on the right track and neither of us know how to break the true bottleneck to the next stage… I guess if the time comes up I will tell him, though it may not, especially with how crazy my life is. I mean I try to go left and a meteor pushes me right! It’s almost like someone or something is having a kick out of my life trying to turn it into a comedy! I’m trying to take over the world here, this is not laughing matter!!! –Nick

Nick continued to rant in his head but since a certain someone or something didn’t want to hear he, it was redacted and the 4th wall was closed back up.

With that everyone seemed to split up in different directions. If one listened carefully they could hear Scarlet Death whispering to Barb and coaching her on different techniques as they went to the elevator and actually left the Halls to do who knows what. Mr. Absolute was already gone back to his training area while Maya and Solaria were seen giggling while going to their room. This left a confused Porter who couldn’t figure out what Barb was learning and then he noticed Nick standing there with his neck tiled to the side and eyes facing upward with a look of annoyance on his face as if he were having an argument with God or something. With that thought Porter left the halls to check out the new James Bond movie that just came out since special effects plus magic plus supers makes movies amazing in this day and age!

Five hours later Nick was seen being dragged to his room by a flustered Maya and an amused Solaria. No one knows what they were doing the last five hours or will know since many mysteries are involved when it comes to two women who are married to the same man and spend time alone. If a guy were to guess just by looking at their faces it would seem that a dominance game was just concluded and Solaria was the clear winner, and since a guy’s fantasy is very important we will all immortalize this vision in our heads while we take a moment of silence for the awesomeness that must have happened.

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After a long blue ball session that no one cares about the next day finally came around with a pouting Maya since she isn’t a member of the Halls of Justice, nor is she as registered super or otherwise, she isn’t allowed to go on the mission meaning only Solaria and Nick got dressed up in day clothes while wearing their costumes underneath. Nick put his helmet in his interspatial ring as well as other miscellaneous things that he has been working on when no one is paying attention. Once out of their room they were met with the rest of the team, oddly only Porter was wearing his costume.

“How come only Porter is in costume, isn’t this mission time? It isn’t like the rest of you have to hide who you are, none of us are in hiding after all.” –Nick

“I’m not in costume since I’m too popular to just walk around normally. I feel my powers will be best used while I stroll up and down the street dressed like a Karate master.” –Mr. Absolute

Yes, Mr. Absolute was simply wearing a standard Karate gi with a black belt with 8 stripes on it. The belt looked worn down but still in decent shape. Seeing how his response didn’t cover for Barb who was dressed to the nines ready for prey, she still had to respond.

“I’ll be incognito too. I stand out too much otherwise.” –Barb

Though even dense guys like Nick and Mr. Absolute saw the lie in her words. It was clear what she was dressed for but apparently Porter seemed to have no clue about it. It always seems that everyone knows what a girl is doing except the guy the girl is doing it for.

“I’ll stay near Barb just in case we are needed, no one cares about me in my costume anyways.” –Porter

Poor Porter was sulking so much that he didn’t even notice Barb beaming from his words. Typical dense male.

Eventually Nick was dragged out by Solaria who ignored everyone as she only had one mission. Though what the mission is, no one can truly figure out, but for now it shouldn’t affect the real mission so no one pays it any mind.

“So… Where to?” –Nick

“Shopping of course!” –Solaria

Poor Nick. Never ask a girl where to in an open ended fashion when shopping is an available option. Of all the times to not take charge of the situation, now is the worst time to be passive!

There is an untold number of stores in Times Square and with Solaria being very loud about who she and Nick are, it didn’t take long for the cameras to start following them on their date. Normally Nick would be in a bad mood, but the moment the cameras came out he became a different man. He not only smiled for all the cameras but he even started being loud with Solaria creating an extremely pink atmosphere that was suffocating enough just to cause the reaction they were looking for.

“Look at these pathetic love birds. It’s sickening I say, utterly sickening!” –Ted

“Looks like someone needs a rabies shop. No need to be jelly, there are plenty of bitches out there for you.” –Nick

MIND LINK!

‘Ted is here, get ready, we are going to lead them to the two deadly sins.’ –Nick

‘Wow this is cool, okay copy that.’ –Dr. Sin

Grabbing Solaria closely Nick walked towards Ted slowly as if to stall and maybe get into better position.

“So Ted, what brings you to ruin our perfect date we had going on.” –Nick

“I’ve come for your bitch so I could add her to my harem of bitches.” –Ted

Buahahahahaha he actually said harem of bitches. I guess his IQ isn’t that high to be caught up in my flow so easily. –Nick

“Well you can’t have her!” –Nick

With that Nick throws a concentrated blast of telekinesis at Ted knocking him to the middle of Times Square where Gluttony and Wrath are waiting nearby. He also put on his helmet and flew in front of Ted with Solaria nearby.

“Before we get this show started I want to let you know that you are not going to survive this encounter as I have the perfect plan to destroy you. My helm makes my powers soar to the highest skies, and though I don’t have the power to kill you, my friends do!” –Nick

With that, and the super long evil monologue that Nick just had even though they are really stupid and have no business in front of would be superheroes, Nick “activated” his helm and lifted the mangy wolf in the air using his full 10.0 Aura to hold him in place.

‘Okay big bro, you have less than 15 seconds, he is in place and ready to be taken down.’ –Nick

With that Wrath got behind Ted and started charging his attack, aiming his polearm at Teds heart. As if a bomb was set off heroes started showing up with a guy in a karate gi and a huge monster with two huge blades which instantly started slashing at Ted over and over again. Unfortunately his blades were not made out of silver and thus only left shallow wounds that healed up instantly making Plan A a bust.

‘It appears Gluttony isn’t strong enough and I will have to take care of his head, just keep reading your polearm. His head is mine!’ –Mr. Absolute

ABSOLUTE ZONE!

Right at this moment 10 seconds finally passed and with a flash of light the polearm in Wrath’s hands was launched causing the air to simmer and the world to distort a little. Nick and Solaria were standing in front of Ted being the only thing he could see meaning that he didn’t even understand why his heart was laying on the ground in front of him or what that truly meant.

‘Hurry, I can only hold this for 3 more seconds! Solaria burn the heart and head if it comes out and don’t forget Teds ring…’ –Nick

Nick having prepared ahead of time made sure that he only had 15 seconds of mental energy left in the side of the brain he was using. He couldn’t fake his coma after all, so at this moment he was really struggling to stay awake.

In a flash of light a guy in a karate gi appeared in front of Ted.

“It is time to die Ted!” –Mr. Absolute

ROUNDHOUSE KICK!

If the attack by Wrath was said to have the essence of the wind as such a high degree that even space was distorted than the kick by Mr. Absolute would only be called the kick from the gods, as the essence behind it was so many times stronger than Wrath that the two couldn’t even play in the same league. Not only did the wind distort but even the Earth shook, scratch that, even the Sun started to dim as the brilliance of the kick far outshone it. Words truly cannot explain this kick or what happened to Teds head as there was simply nothing left of it. There wasn’t even blood at the end of Mr. Absolute’s foot, and seeing as he was barefoot, that is saying something. Even though this took awhile to explain, it still happened before Ted could grow a new heart meaning he was truly dead at this moment as at the same time black flame was turning Teds still beating heart into ash.

Unfortunately, Ted wasn’t the only one who was at the party and before Solaria could even catch Nick as he was going into a coma and falling to the ground, two shapes came out of nowhere, grabbed Nick and then disappeared!

“NICK!!!” –Solaria

With that yell all the members of the team including Scarlet Death ran to her to see what happened.

“What’s wrong?” –Mr. Absolute

He says this as he comes out of his daze, as he hasn’t used martial arts in over 30 years he didn’t notice Nick’s disappearance. He turns around to see the ash of the heart but no Nick.

“Where is Nick?” –Mr. Absolute

“Someone kidnapped him! It happened while I was burning the heart so I couldn’t tell who it was, but they just ran up, grabbed him and teleported away. It has to be that bitch Ruby!” –Solaria

“Did someone call my name?” –???

With that, an extremely beautiful girl walks out of the crowd. She even made Solaria give a double take. At 5”9’ she would be considered tall for when she was born so many hundreds of years ago, but she clearly is of Norse decent so maybe her height is normal. Long blonde hair and green eyes with F cup breasts is what answered Solaria as this is none other than Ruby herself!

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Things are heating up as the first arc comes closer to the end. The real question is, who took Nick? Did the aliens want to kidnap him to get added to his harem? Or maybe someone else? Will Nick get a bigger harem? (of course, that is the point after all) and if it wasn't Ruby then who else even knows who he is to do such a thing? Also, how does Ruby know about the curse at all if she isn't a seer? Expect a chapter and an epilogue tomorrow.