In an instant, a speck of dust on the lens becomes an incoming missile as the bunker-buster drops your way. Deep penetration, KABOOOOM!!!!
THE END
3, 2, 1…Shoot!
Catherine fires Widowsilk at this Earth’s version of herself, the villain known as Shadow Priestess. As the energy field surrounds the cloaked woman, Drillbit flings the vault door at your-Catherine with incredible force—a ferocity matched only by your own.
You bound forward, intercept the projectile, and deliver a leaping uppercut punch to the vault door. It’s an incredibly athletic move that sends the massive door crashing up through the bank’s roof and into the sky. When you turn back, you see your-Catherine deliver the stolen powers to herself in a beam of spine-arching ecstasy.
“Take his powers!” you cry.
The genius-telekinetic shakes her head. In a breathless, post-climax voice, she says, “It’s only got two shots in the chamber; keep him busy while I recharge!”
Drillbit takes a monkey wrench from his tool belt and swings it at your head. You bring up a forearm to block the blow and the wrench shears in half from the stress. The tool doesn’t hurt your perfect skin, but you can feel the strength the superpowered villain put behind it.
You deliver a counterpunch and this-Nick stumbles back in a daze. It’s obvious he’s gotten used to his invulnerability, and you’ve shaken him. But then he smiles. The realization is all over his face: If you can hurt him, he can hurt you too.
The now-powerless Shadow Priestess lets out a feral cry and charges at your-Catherine to take her revenge. Testing out her new power, the genius-telekinetic lifts her doppelganger in the air.
“Nick, take over!” she cries.
The telekinetic college student nods and steps forward. With an outstretched hand, he holds the Shadow Priestess in the air so your-Catherine can go back to the weapon.
Drillbit comes at you with his head ducked down in a charge, and there’s no stopping this freight train. He smashes into you and plows you through the wall, out into the open street. The entire Mercury City Police Force draws down on you from behind their barricade, but can only watch in awe as two titans do battle.
You deliver a ferocious kick to Nick from your position on the ground. He flies back toward the bank, smashing through a third-floor window. As he leaps back out to the street, your-Catherine emerges from the hole in the bank wall, Widowsilk at full charge and a smile on her face.
Drillbit senses his demise and goes to run, but you cut him off and deliver a clothesline with an outstretched arm. He falls back and you kick him out to the middle of the street, where he’s blasted by the future-tech rifle.
This-Nick screams in agony as his strength is sapped, a sound instantly counteracted by your-Nick’s moans of pleasure when he’s given a second superpower. Darkness clouds over his eyes as the telekinesis blends with super-strength to make the college student near-omnipotent. He floats into the air, strength rippling across his body.
He raises his palms, and in response the police cruisers and news vans of the barricade float into the air. Your genius mind quickly deduces: Nick was once limited by his mental perception of his own strength when it came to telekinesis, but now that he’s gained super-strength—the telekinetic barrier just got smashed as easily as that bank wall. Nick raises the police officers and bystanders into the air as well, holding thousands of pounds afloat with ease.
Then he destroys all of them with one thought.
Gore and machinery splash against the buildings of downtown. Just like that, the whole police force, gone. He turns, looks at you and Catherine, his face drunk with power, and smiles a cruel smile.
Then he raises his hands toward you.
Scream:
• “Nick! A god must be omniscient—all-knowing. What is power without knowledge? One more universe, right? Then we’ll truly be gods.”
• “Catherine, quick, take his powers! He’s too strong! He’s gone mad!”
MAKE YOUR CHOICE
THE END
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Ace Up Your Sleeve
Acme Portals
Agent of Evil
Always a Bridesmaid, Never a Supervillain
Always Split Pairs
And Then There Were Two
Angel of Music
Angry
An Offer Easily Refused
Apex Predator
Assault with a Super-Weapon
As Seen on TV
Ass Groove
Balls Out
Bank Shot
Battle Royale
Beat the Odds
Beat Senseless
Be Careful What You Wish For
A Bigger Boat
Big GOVERNMENT
Birds of a Feather
Blast It!
Blind Rage
Bones, or Dominoes
Boxed In
Break it Gently
Bringing Down the House
Bring Me a Dream
Buahahaha
Bull in a Pizza Shop
Cadmean Victory
Caped Crusader
Carved Out
Casino
Catherine the Great
Confused, if not Curious
A Contagious Enthusiasm
Contaminated
Control Freak
Cosmic Irony
Cowardice and Avarice
Crate&Bomb
Crazed and Confused
Creature of Appetite
A Criminal Mind
Crisis of Infinite Earths
Crunch!
Cut and Run
Cutting out Early
The C-Word
Damsels
The Dark Lord (or Lady)
Darting In
Dead or Alive
The Death of ‘Supa-Gurl’
Defender of Peace and Justice
Dense
Diamond in the Rough
Dimension Ex
Don of a New Era
Doomsday
Doppelgangers
Double Down
Double Trouble
Dun Dun Duunnnn…. (Super-Fiends–Part 2)
A Dynamic Duo
Dystopia Rex
Edge of Tomorrow
The Emperor’s New Plan
Empty-Handed
End of an Era
Entreprenope!
Evasive Maneuvers
Eye-Opening
Feeling Lucky
Fight Drillbit and You Get Screwed!
First Day of the Rest of Your Life
The First Martian
Flight of Shame
Flock Together
Fly-by-Night
Foiled Again
Follow the Leader
Force Choke
Fortune Favors the Hungry
Freedom Fighters
Frightened Rabbit
Fugitives
Gambled, Lost
Get Bent!
Getting the Drop
Ghosting
G-Men
GMO Nom Nom
Godwin FTW
Going Down
Golden Hour, Drone Shower
Goodnight, Bloodnight
Grasping the Concept
Hard to Believe
Harsh Reality
Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown
Helluva Nosebleed
A Heroic Sacrifice
Heroism is Hard
High Road or Low
Holding Out for a Hero
Honor among Thieves
Hostage Situation
House Arrest
House Rules
House Stark
The Human Elephant
Human Interest
Hungry Hungry
Identify With
Idle Hands
If You Believe in Magic…
Incognito
Infamous
In a Single Bound
Into the Blaze
Into the Fold
Ironically and Erroneously
Janitors…of Justice!
Jingoism Unchained
Joining Forces
Juggling Act
Justice Department
Justified
Kansas City Shuffle
Keep Your Head
Kicking the Crap out of the Joneses
Kid Stuff
Kingdom of One
Kings and Pawns
Kissing Cousins
Legendary
Libertarian
Light of Life
Like a Boss
Like a Jedi
Like a Lead Balloon
Limitations
Lucky You
The Lying King
Mad as a Hatter
Manning Crisis
Masked and Dangerous
The Matador
Mercy Me
Might Makes Awesome
Mind over Matter
Mission Extremely Possible
More Valuable than Gold
The Most Dangerous Game
Murder Schmurder
Neo-Manhattanite
A New Menace
Newsworthy
Nickless Wonder
A Night on the Town
Night Owl
No Honor among Thieves
Normalizing
Nothing but Net
Objects May Be Closer than They Appear
Occupy Superpowers
Off with His Head!
Oh, the Humanity!
Omnicide
On a Super-Walkabout
One-Hit Wonder
One Option
Outlaws
Overburdened
Overthrown
Pantheopolis
Paper
Pawn
Perpetrated
Placate
Players’ Club
Plucked
Poor Threat Assessment
Portal Combat
Post-Haste
Powerless
Profession Non Grata
Public Enemy
Public Image
Pulp and Conspiracy
Push It to the Limit
Queen of the Dead
The Quickening
Quicksilver
R2-C4
The Rainmaker
Rampage
Redefining “Superpower”
Reign of Terror
Re-Shard-ed
Resistant to Change
Right Answer
Risk-Averse
Rite of Passage
Rock
The Rogues’ Gallery
Role of a Lifetime
The Rule of Threes
Sapped
Scissors
Secret Identity
Seeds of Change
Self-Destructing
Sentinel
Shear Stress
The Shocker
Show Your Hand
Sinking Feeling
Sin & Vice
Sky Battle!
Snippets
Some “Thing” Different
Something Fishy
Soon I Will Be Invincible!
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
Spare Me the Spandex
Splitting Headache
Still a Fairly Tall Building….
Super Apathy
Super-Fiends
Superior Intel(lect)
Super Murder!
That Smarts
There Can Be Only One!
The Third Musketeer?
This Is The End
Tiger Trapped
Trailer Trashed
Tricks
Trump Card
The Truth Shall Set You Freedom Fighters
Twilight
Underestimated
Unforgettable
Unlimited Government
Up in Smoke
Up, Up, and Away!
Vaporization Commencing
Vessel for the Soul
Viral
We Are Hydra
Welcome to My Parlor
What’s in a Name?
Whoosh!
Who’s There?
Wink and a Nod
The World Is Your Oyster Bar
World Police
A World Untainted By Man
Wrath at K-HAN
Wrong Answer
You’re Doing It Wrong
Your Whole Life Ahead
You’ve Probably Never Heard of Me….
You’ve Seen Too Many Movies
3, 2, 1…Shoot!
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