1 Highway Battle

On a freeway overpass overlooking the river, a large armoured convoy comes to a screeching stop. Three men in black suits exit the front vehicle to investigate the cause of the pile up, as the other motorist begin honking; screams can be heard in the distance with the sound of an explosion, they immediately draw their pistols. Ordering the pedestrians to leave their vehicles and run, the screams start to become louder and closer, as civilians start running through the cars screaming, the three men start aiming their guns towards the encroaching threat. The rest of the men in the convoy exit their vehicles, drawing their pistols out, surrounding the armoured truck when suddenly a car is lobbed up in the air forcing all of them to scatter for cover. Two figures emerge slowly walk out from the cars, both wearing a red and black costume emblazoned with an X over their chest. One was a slender and petite woman and the other a tall morbidly obese man, with heavy grease stains on his costume.

The men peek from their cover and begin firing; however the morbidly obese man jumps in front of the woman raising his guard and the bullets are absorbed into his body, suddenly the bullets begin flying back out, forcing all of the men to take cover.

"I am requesting any or all nearby S.H.I.E.L.D agents! Bring heavy fire power! Immediate back up and evac for a Mutant Revolutionist attack! One is immune to our bullets; the others powers are unknown, bring heavy ordinance immediately! " One of the men yelled into his wrist microphone.

Near a petrol station an S.H.I.E.L.D agent receives the call, before leaving the station; he fills up two 5L jerry cans, tyres screeching on his rundown hatchback.

"Agent Andrew-648936 responding, ETA is five minutes!"

The men on the bridge slowly retreating with gunfire, as the two figures approached the armoured truck, one of the men started one of the SUV's in an attempt to ram the obese mutant. The SUV's tyres burning as it sped off, almost about to ram the obese mutant; the SUV's momentum came to a crashing halt with a powerful blast of air. The agent inside went flying through the windshield, the sound of his screams echoed through the air, before they were replaced with the sound of bones shattering and contorting.

"Protect me Blob. This will take a minute to open." The woman said with a sultry voice, raising her hands towards the armoured truck.

"Of course lady, how else I'm gonna get paid." Bob replied taking a star pose behind her.

Andrew unable to proceed further with his vehicle grabbed both jerry cans and began lugging them up the freeway, seeing other agents fleeing and rendezvousing with the one other agent.

"Agent Andrew, I'm here to help." He said panting heavily.

"Did you bring any heavy ordinance? `Cause our side arms do jack shit to that fat fuck there and the other one is telekinetic!" The man said reloading his pistol.

"Uhh yeah... I'm only a level one agent, my pistol only has rubber bullets in it, but I have something that might work against them." Andrew said scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.

"Kid you are fucking crazy to come here! Run away from here and circle back on the other side of the highway and try to help any civilians. That's an order!" the agent yelled while firing at Blob still to no effect.

Andrew refusing to listen to orders; grabbed his jerry cans began creeping through the cars, eventually finding one of the convoy's SUV, grabbing the emergency kit out and finding a flare gun. Now beginning to pour petrol all over the hood of the car, Andrew tied the seat beat through the steering wheel aiming the Blob and releasing the handbrake. The SUV now slowly rolling towards the two mutants came into contact with the Blob, only for it to be enveloped in his back. The Blob didn't even notice the SUV make contact with him.

"HEY TURN AROUND!" Andrew shouted.

The lady didn't move and continued to work on the truck; the Blob turned around, and had a small jolt when noticing the SUV in his back, pushed the petrol lathered hood of the SUV back to arms length and noticing Andrew standing out in the open aiming the flare gun at him.

"If the first 100 bullets they fired into me didn't work. What makes you think, that your gun is going to be different?"

"Don't know till I try."Andrew said, firing the flare gun straight into the Blob's stomach.

Blob looked down at the hole his stomach now glowing neon red as the flare began slowly fizzing out, looked back up at Andrew, and with a big grin began laughing. Until the flare popped out of his stomach onto the hood of the car catching fire chaining back up to the Blob's hands. Blob in an attempt to put out the nuisance of having fire on his hands, starts to slap all over himself, and now spreading pockets of fire over his greasy costume. Now completely immolated, the lady attempts to push Blob away using her aero kinetic powers, only to increase the flames intensity. Blob now flailing around of the ground screaming for help, the lady also in a panic, creates a gigantic blast of air, creating a small tornado of flames before sending Blob flying into the river below.

The lady took a deep breath, free from the suffocating flames, but before she could rest. Andrew had already moved up closer with his pistol drawn and opened fire using the Mozambique method, swiftly incapacitating her. Andrew moved closer with his sights up to inspect on her, seeing her still breathing, he let out a sigh of relief lowering his aim. The other agent came back to Andrew in complete silence, still stunned that both mutants were dealt with, grabbed two sets of hand cuffs and hogtied the lady in a criss-cross fashion.

"Holy shit! You beat both of them, that was a brilliant idea to use their powers against each other." The agent exclaimed.

"Yeah.... I'm not gonna lie, that escalated really fast and somehow worked out super well." Andrew said in astonishment.

"Well it worked amazingly, now come on and help me secure the prisoner and lock this lady up."

As they both went to go pick her up, Andrew started to see that there was no damage done to the armoured truck's door, however from the seams a small trickle of lime green fluids dripping out.

"That's weird. She was standing in front of the truck for so long, wonder what she was doing." Andrew asked.

"No idea, but that's a good thing the guy inside is pretty dangerous." The agent said.

"Who was being transported?"

"An aero kinetic mutant named David Cannon, we caught him in a string of jewellery robberies, but don't worry he's been pumped with X suppressors."

Hearing a small hissing coming from the doors, Andrew tackled the other agent to the ground as the trucks doors are blasted off into the distance. A man fully clad in a green suit of armour wearing a rocket shaped helmet with small wings adorned at the top. He jumped out of the top raising both his arms in the air boasting.

"NO ONE CAN STOP THE HUMAN TOP!"

The two agents taking cover at the front of the truck, the other agent pulled out his pistol handing Andrew a magazine for his pistol. However before Andrew could swap the ammo out in his pistol, he heard the man shout again.

"WHO DID THIS TO YOU DAISY? I WILL SEND THEIR WORLDS SPIRALLING DOWN!"

Andrew holstering his weapon stepped out from cover, the other agent unable to grab him down in time, he walked around the truck, when the Human top saw him casually stroll past him, and he was at a loss for words. Andrew continued to keep walking until hearing him shout.

"DID YOU DO THIS MY SISTER?"

"Me? I'm just trying to find free stuff left behind. Don't mind me." Andrew replied casually looking through the cars.

"DO YOU THINK I'M STUPID YOUR SUIT HAS A S.H.I.E.L.D LOGO ON IT!"

"Well I didn't assume your intelligence was high when you announced to the world your super villain name was the 'Human Top'. I mean, I have to ask did you actually pick that name yourself. Because if you did, you might as well just lock yourself up and go incognito, come back in a few years with a new name and pray to god no one remembers that was your name."

David enraged let out a ferocious scream and begun to spin himself on the spot. A small whirlwind forming at his feet he charged towards Andrew. Andrew disappeared into the cars, the whirlwind now becoming strong enough to gently lift cars around him; David started to spin his arms gaining altitude spotting Andrew hiding behind a car. Andrew stepping out from cover holding his other jerry can, tossed it into the whirlwind, letting the petrol become entwined with it. David in a desperate attempt, tried to stop his whirlwind, Andrew sliding a regular bullet out of the agent's magazine chambered it into his pistol. With a single shot, the ricochet off David's armour sparked the petrol; the flames quickly engulfed him, the remnants of his power still fuelling the flames intensity. Screaming in agony, David desperately created one last powerful whirlwind, flinging himself into the river. Andrew and the agent both looked over the guard rail to see S.H.I.E.L.D vehicles pull up to the river bank, both slumping against the rail they let out a sigh of relief.

"You have got some major set of balls to do what you just did. Did you know that one was gonna work."

"It was either gonna work, or I would of shot myself before I was killed by some dipshit calling himself the human top."

They both began chuckling, feeling reassured with the sounds of S.H.I.E.L.D agents making their way up. As they both got up, dusting themselves off walking towards them, when suddenly a brilliant and dazzling rainbow light enveloped Andrew and he was gone, leaving the road he stood on branded with a with a celtic runes.

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