Infinite Justice: Beyond (Marvel,DC,DBZ X/Over, IC, Open)

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"Well, I cannot exactly complaining about my current condition, right?" "My accommodations are enough, probably. How long will you keep me in the cell? Until the end of times, or until a period of time? Oh, and I promise I won't kill. Much.".

"I used to be a hero, yes, but I was tired being one. Being a hero and didn't get much attentions, nor aid, but instead bitterness, regret, sadness, and not much compassion certainly harden the career of being a hero. Being nice is hard, especially when you are alone, and a girl betrayed you so much you have to burn down an orphanage in Siberia." .

The Knight's eyes wandered partly from the Kryptonian, then returned to looking him in the eyes,
"I understand your concerns, The Hatred, the backdraft of people hating you for trying to help, and they yell and lash out". The Knight extended a hand towards Len - el, "You for being Kryptonian", The Knight gestured towards himself, "and I, because I don't stand in the light when I strive for justice". The Knight's hand returned to his side, "But you can't just give up, yes, people will hate you for who you are, even when you try so hard to do the right thing. But that doesn't mean Humans are only vulnerable to do this, other species are viable to do this, to hate their heroes, and lash out. ".

"But I want to Know is, Why Murder. Why turn your back completely, and Instead of doing anything else, you pledge to murder 6 million people in Gotham, some of them innocents, because a crowd of 75 people decided to do the Arrogant filled option of hating you?". The Knight looked down at the Symbol on the Kryptonian's suit, Superman's Symbol. "If you are truley from that House, and you decide to Wear the Symbol of Hope, Do not go down the path of a Genocidal Maniac.".

"Huh, maniac. I ain't maniac, Knight, I ain't one. But you have to understand, we are similar to our counterparts both in Metropolis and Gotham. You are similar with Batman, I'm similar with Superman, except more willing to kill and not as goody two-shoes as him."

"Well then, in any case you need my help, or sorta like help, I'll be waiting here, waiting to be called," said Len as he turned his body to facing the wall. In the meantime, hopefully nothing happened while he became like this in this god-forsaken containment cell with the equipment to lower his strength.

"If by 'not as good two shoes', you Mean, and I quote, 'Kill everyone In Gotham', then you might aswell brand yourself a Genocidal Maniac". The Knight shook his head, "tell me, a few adults are angry, they throw rocks and ye;l at you. So you'll gladly go on a rampage and slaughter millions of people, around 26% of the population are children, that's 156,000 innocent children you and your sick devotion to Zod's mindset will have slaughtered. whats next, becaus you're sure as hell not going to stop at Gotham, You'll probably declare a vendetta on earth, and vow to kill all 7 billion people". The Knight stared right in The Kryptonian's eyes, "Just like your Sacred Role Model Zod". The Knight started to walk away from the cell, starting to become engulfed in the shadows of the room.

"I do hope you find your way out of this Madness, Because You're sounding less like a Righteous Superman......",


"and More like The Joker". After a pause of silence, The Knight was gone.

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Los Angeles

4:30pm

Guardian stood on the roof of a mediumly high building, overlooking the main heart of LA, his arms crossed. Guardian took a breath, breathing in the air, before saying "Hello Knight". Behind him, The Knight walked over and stood beside Guardian, looking at Los Angeles aswell, "Unusual to see you out in the day", "Knights must be prepared to walk in any time if they want to defend the innocent, even me". "Nice CIty You've got here", "she's rough around some edges, but she's prospered". Guardian peered over at The Knight, "You usually don't leave Chicago unless it's necessary", "Stahl and his men have left Chicago following the end of the Blizzard, their Trail leads around here". Guardian continued to look out at Chicago, "we'll find him". Guardian paused, looking at a cloud of smoke in the distance, "that's not good", The Knight opened up his Holographic hud on his gauntlet, "Major fire at a Los Angeles Shopping center. Shall we?". Guardian jetted off with the Knight jumping off the roof and grappeling behind him.

Guardian landed near the burning shopping center with The Knight landing behind him, "what's the plan?" , "You take the Northern half and try to get the civilians out of the Center, I'll head to the south and see where the Fire started". Guardian nodded as he flew into an broken window ahead of him, The Knight shot his grappel pulling him to the roof, from there he sprinted to the southern half of the Shopping center. Guardian landed in the burning shopping center, many of the residents freaking out and panicing, as the Exits have been mysteriously collapsed. Guardian ignores it as he smashes the rubble blocking the front exit and he opens it up, "Everyone Exit through here, NOW!" the people note as they hurry out of the shopping center building.

Across the Centr, The Knight smashes through the glass roof overlooking the food court, as he lands there is a high amount of fire. "Sanza, track the heat patterns and find me the locations of the Source of the fire", [yes sir]. Though The Knight is not prepared when he hears a voice call out to him, "No need for that Knight", The Knight turns to see Heat Wave standing behind him. "Heat Wave", "and Now, I'll cook you in your suit of Armor, and make a Knight Souffle. The Knight rolled to hsi right behind a collumn as Heat Wave shot a blast of fire at him. The Knight took out a Freeze Dart and shot it at Heat Wave's feet, "what the=" the Dart exploded, hitting Heat wave with a blast of Ice. The Knight sprinted, lunging at Heatwave and knocking him over the glass bannister and down into a group of shopping stands below. "Give Up Heat Wave" The Knight said with his foot on Heat Wave's chest. Heatwave gave a malicious Cackle, "Let's see how you stand when I roast the entire building" Heat Wave said as he took out an incendiary Grenade and threw it over to a large amount of propane tanks by an outdoors store. "NO!" The Knight shouted as he shot his grappel to catch the Grenade, but Heat Wave shot a blast of fire at The Knight, knocking him back.

The Grenade smashed through the glass, exploding and setting off the Propane tanks in the store, The Knight used his cape to shield himself from the blast, but the shockwave pushed him back into a wall. The Knight got to his feet, "once the Nemesis Objective is Complete, You and Guardian Won't stand a Chance" Heat Wave shouted as he dissaperaed into the flames. The supports of the southern end of the Shopping center began to collapse from the fire and the explosion, The Knight took out a putty based glue exploive, throwing it at the main support and detonating it, supporitng it for now. The Knight quickly radioed to Guardian, "Guardian, The Mall is Collapsing, Get as Many out as you Ca-". The Knight's communications were cut off as the southern end collapsed.

Guardianfinally got the last of the people out when he recieved The Knight's Message, it was then cut off as the southern end collapsed. "Knight?!" Guardian shouted through his comms as he jetted off to the southern end, when he landed, the entire area was a mess of charred rubble, and the quickly dying remains of the fire. Guardian began to look around, "Knight, Where are you?", Guardian looked to his right as a large piece of rubble was pushed aside, The Knight stood up, his suit charred and scratched. The Knight walked over to Guardian, "How many did we get out?", "from my count, all of them that were still trapped", "good".

"what started the fire?" Guardian asked looking around,
"a Villain named Heat Wave, but that isn't all",
Guardian raised an eyebrow staring at The Knight, "He said something about a 'Nemisis Objectve', From how he worded it, this wasn't just some random attack".
Guardian rubbed his chin, lowering his arms to his sides, "what now?".
"We'll head back to The new Domain in Northern Chicago, there we can plan out how we'll act".
Guardian nodded as he grabbed The Knight's arm and jetted off.

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The Knight's Domain, Under Branston Estate House

5:30pm

The Knight sat at the Knightcomputer, researching the scavenged CCTV footage from the ruined Shopping mall, surveying the footage of Heat Wave entering and commencing his attack on the Premisce. The Knight noticed an important detail, Heat Wave was allowed entrance through the back by some security guards, his equipment and all. The Knight narrowed his eyes as Heat Wave took out a fire based weapon, more high tech than what he usually uses. The Knight looked to his right, on a metal table was the partly charred Heat Weapon that Heat Wave used. The Knight stood up from his chair, walking over and beginning to inspect it, The Knight used metal tools and his armored glove to inspect the weapon.

Guardian came walking down the metal stairs, The Knight didn't turn to see him, but he uttered "I have a lead on who appointed the attack". Guardian, being intrigued, walked over and tood next to The Knight looking at the heat weapon. The Knight pointed to a partly charred brand on the weap[on, It had the "Star Labs" crest on it, however it had an upside-down anarchy symbol burned over it. "what's that?", "Star Labs, a main scientific Development organization. Though they usually don't manufacture weapons, Which means there's an ulterior motive behind it. The other is Stahl's Brand, and Upside down Anarchy symbol. Which means he's behind this". The Knight set down the weapon and walked over to the Knightcomputer, typing in the coordinates to the Star Labs facility and zooming in on an Ariel view. "this would be the Facility we'd need to head to", The Knight turned to Guardian, "anything we should cover before we head there?".

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Star Labs Facility

Washington DC

Guardian and The Knight landed on the roof of the Facility, ducking behind a stone dome on the roof. Guardian peered over at The Knight, "what's the plan", Guardian said striking a thumb at 2 cameras on the roof. The Knight loaded a remote controlled dart in the launcher on his left gauntlet and fired it, the Dart shot out towards the edge of the building, the Dart took a U turn and shot at one of the cameras, striking through it and hitting the other one, destroying them both. Guardian gave a look of confusion at The Knight, "Small Hover sonic technology allowing the dart to keep it's inertia, as well as Target ting technology used in many homing missiles, except on a smaller scale". The Knight walked towards one of the doors, with Guardian soaking up the explanation that was just given.

The Knight knelt down, inspecting the Advanced hand scanner that Star Labs had installed on the door. Guardian peered at it, "What do you think?", "Advanced Hand Scanner, used by Star Labs to make sure only data base employees get in", "well how do we get in?". The Knight took out a scanner and pointed it at the door knob, after a few seconds of scanning a black light was lit up revealing many hand prints from the employees who entered and exited. The Knight stood up, pressing a button on his right gauntlet, his right gauntlet hand then revealed a digital copy of an Employee's hand, placing it on the hand scanner allowing it to scan.

[Accessing, Permission granted, "Staniel Lee"]

The Door unlocked and The Knight entered with Guardian following, "how do you know all of these tricks?", "I didn't fight crime in Chicago for over a Decade by just being 'sub par'" The Knight said before stopping at a corner and peeking out. Guardian took stance behind him, "see anything?", "camera, fixed position, Give me a minute", The Knight accessed his comms, "Sanza, I need you to disrupt the cameras and place a still image of the hallway for the Security room", [or Course sir, it'll be just a minute]. Sanza access the camera, shutting off the feed and placing a still, looping feed on the terminals for the security guards to see.

The Knight stood up, walking down the hall with Guardian following behind. "Where do we need to go?", "advanced Science department, this tech from the weapon is beyond anything on their basic level". The Knight plugged a cord from his gauntlet into the keypard below the doorknob and started to hack into it, after a few minutes the keypad gave way and opened. "this is the place" The Knight said walking in.

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Star Labs Facility, Advanced Sciences Labs

11:30pm

The Knight and Guardian hurried into the lab, as The Knight walked over to the large terminal near the end of the room, Guardian marveled at most of the equipment. "Geez, do you see most of this stuff, looks straight out of Science Fiction", "Star Labs is one, if not, the most Advanced Science Organization in the Country, possibly the world. Their technology has helped any people in their time, now, onto the matter at hand". The Knight placed the partly charred gun onto the scanning pad on the terminal, entering the correct code he started a scan, "Once this is done, we can see who had this made". The Knight and Guardian waited as the terminal scanned the weapon, after a period of 2 minutes if finally finished and submitted a fax paper file of the submitted maker.

[Star_Labs_Item: Pyrotechnic_Infused_Rifle]
Made: 45_days_ago
Quantity: 3
Producer: Staniel_Lee - Star_Labs_Advanced_Sciences
Funder and Submitted: Alexander_Luthor

"Alexander Luthor?", Guardian raised an eyebrow, "wait. Lex Luthor? That guy from metropolis? Why the hell did he fund this?". The Knight pondered this, they were interrupted when they heard the echoing sounds of footsteps and yelling from the guards, "looks like our time is up, Guardian we'll split up and meet at the public offices below the cliff side, We'll discuss from there". Guardian nodded as The Knight grappled up through a grate in the ceiling, Guardian flew out through the way they came, the guards busting through seconds after he'd left. Guardian looked around, seeing The Knight standing down by a water fountain he landed, walking over. "So, about Luthor", "I don't know why Stahl and Luthor are working together, but whatever it is, they've pulled civilians into the crossfire to get our attention". Guardian nodded, "so, Head to Metropolis?" The Knight nodded, just as they heard a loud crash from behind. The Knight turned, only to roll to the side as a large car was thrown at him, Guardian caught it, and saw Solomon Grundy standing there, alongside Shiva, Nightshade, and Cheetah.

"Looks Like We've got Company", "High, Low?", "Indeed", The Knight grabbed Guardian's hand, Guardain swung around and threw The Knight, causing him to smash into Nightshade and Cheetah, before Grundy could act Guardian rocketed into his chest, knocking them back meters away. Shiva took out heir dual custom blades and began to swing at The Knight, The Knight began blocking with his gauntlets, matching her skill with the blade, The Knight parried one of her attacks. Catching her off guard The Knight tripped shiva, then punched her straight across the face knocking her out. The Knight quickly ducked behind a large piece of rubble made by Grundy as Nightshade threw dark crystal like shards.

Guardian began to Smack Grundy around, punching him, each hit pushing him back further, Grundy brought both his hands into a fist and smashed down, smashing Guardian into the dirt. Grundy began punching into the ground, Driving Guardian further into the dirt. Guardian caught one of Grundy's punches, using his other hand to Radio to Guardian using his earpiece. ["Why the heck won't this guy take a punch"] Guardian said gritting his teeth, ["Looking, Solomon Grundy: Died at an unknown date in the 1800s, He's virtually a Zombie"], ["meaning?"], ["orbit"]. Guardian's eyes opened, then he smiled as he threw off both Grundy's hands and smashed straight into his chest, then flew at top speeds for Earth's atmosphere.

The Knight dodged Nightshade's crystals as she threw then in groups, Cheetah raced ahead to Nightshade's caution, Cheetah attacked The Knight, clawing at him and kicking him. The Knight caught one of Cheetah's let's, spinning around and throwing her into Nightshade, who fell back into a wall Knocked out. The Knight stood, looking around at the area just as Guardian landed, "How's grundy?", "orbit. Mumbling about some Nursery rhyme", "Solomon Grundy from Gotham, Cheetah enemy to Wonder Woman, Nightshade a Sorceress, and Shiva an International Assassin. Turning up and attacking us, it doesn't make sense", "well maybe they'd tell us". Guardian said pointing to a large group of Villains coming out of the nearby woods, more appearing behind them from the steps leading up to the large building.

Guardian and The Knight stood back to back, "I'm counting Twenty, No, Thirty Five", "Forty". The Knight cracked his Knuckles as the Villains and mercs around them began charging at them.

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Bellanus offices, Virginia

2:30am

The Knight and Guardian stood back to back as the forty or so Villains and Mercs charged at them, "Now!" The Knight yelled as he threw down a flashbang catching the ones around them off guard. Guardian took one one half while The Knight took on the other, Guardian quickly went toe - toe with Gorilla Grod, resisting his mental Attacks and punching him into submission. Guardian was blasted in the back by the Greedy Orange Lantern "Larfleeze", He used his wrists to block the energy blast as he zoomed right up to Larfleeze, smacking him across both sides of the face with them and countering the energy right back at him. Kingshark grabbed Guardian from behind, putting him into a lock whilst the Villain Killer Frost blasts him with Ice. Guardian quickly kicked King Shark in the stomach, reeling him forwards, then tossing him right into the path of Killer Frost's Ice freezing half of him. Guardian flew over Kingshark and crashed right into Killer frost, knocking her unconcious.

The Knight flipped over the flashbang, landing on the same villain from Knighthunt, Firefly. "Well Knight, seems you won't be leaving this time, HAHAHAHAHA" Firefly cackled as he threw off The Knight and blasted him with fire. The Knight rolled to the right behind some rubble, he threw a small EMP charge at Firefly incapacitating his Equipment and making him fall straight to the ground. The Knight wasn't done yet, as Bane lifted up the Rubble he was behind and slammed it down at him, The Knight rolled under Bane's legs and jumped onto his back, The Knight used the hooked edges on his gauntlets to cut Bane's Venom tubes, and stop his flow of Venom. The Knight dropped to the ground, right as he quickly took out his sword and locked blades with a familiar sword. The Knight locked eyes with his Opponent, Deathstroke the Terminator, "Isn't it my Old Opponent from Chicago, I like the new armor, though it won't save you". "I doubt it slade" The Knight said as Slade started hitting The Knight with an array of quick and deftly swings. The Knight did his best to counter the swings, using his gauntlets and his sword, however Slade was more aggressive this time. The Knight set off a Flashbang, catching slade off guard, The Knight tripped him, but right before The Knight could do anything, a few pot shots hit the armor on his back.

Guardian Continued to take down the Villains and Mercs, swing one into another, taking down the more durable ones personally, but then, Giganta nearly stomped on Guardian with her foot. Guardian looked up at her, an Incredibly Giant Female as she threw a punch down, Guardian dodged it but her punch sent many of the other villains to be tossed around. "Oh Come On" Guardian said as he flew straight up at her, Guardian punched Giganta with both fists straight in the jaw, sending her toppling back onto the clearing unconscious. Guardian took a breath, seeing as the majority of his foes were either taken down or now fleeing, Guardian spotted The Knight, deflecting and blocking bullets from none other than Deadshot on one side, and fighting Deathstroke on the other. "Heads Up!" Guardian said as he grabbed a lamppost nearby and tossed it at them.

The Knight quickly heard guardian and flipped over the lamppost, Deathstroke and Deadshot however were caught off guard and knocked off their feet. The Knight quickly broke Deadshot's arm gun and punched him across the face, knocking him out cold. The Knight walked over to Deathstroke, Slade caught the first punch, The Knight then kneed him in the jaw and punched him out with his free hand. The Knight audibly took a breath as he looked around, Guardian landed next to him. "That was eventful", The Knight nodded in agreement, The Knight accessed his earpiece, "Sanza, Radio the nearest Virginia Police force....." The Knight peered over at Giganta, "and tell them They'll need a Crane as well", [Of course Sir]. The Knight turned to Guardian, "we need to get to Metropolis", The Knight pressed a button, and The Knight's VTOL arrived above him oddly fast, The Knight grappled up and flew off, with Guardian flying alongside him.

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Lexcorp HQ, Metropolis

Lex Luthor, CEO of Lexcorp, sat at his desk in the dimly lit room as the Masked figure known as Stahl stood in front of him.

Lex rubbed his chin as he looked at the video display at his holographic terminal, it displayed the two heroes, "The Knight" from chicago and "Guardian" from San Andres taking down Villain, Merc, and Paid thug one after another. Lex deactivated the Holographic Terminal staring straight at Stahl, "This didn't go as you said", "The Knight and Guardian are very big threats, especially together, they make for a fairly destructive team". Lex sighed, "then what do you suppose?", "We wait", 'What?" Lex said slightly dumbfounded. "The Knight and The Guardian are on their way here-", "WHAT" Lex partly shouted standing up, "Stahl you Fool, they have my NAME on the record from Starlabs, They took down 40 ENEMIES, and now they're COMING HERE". Stahl placed his hand up, Lex calmed and sat down, "I have a backup Plan", "Which is?", "that Kryptonian science project you have in the sub-basement is more than a worthy adversary to take care of our problem". Lex raised an eyebrow, "How do you know about-", "I have my ways. Now, Using that little Pet Project would take care of that little Duo, aswell as place the blame on your Archnemesis".

Lex exhaled, pressing a button and pulling up his intercom,
"Ready Project Bizarro".

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Metropolis, Construction Site

The Knight and Guardian stood on a high level of the half constructed Lexcorp Construction Site, The Knight was crouched working with his Gauntlet's UI, and Guardian was staring out at the city. "So, any telling where Lex is?" Guardian said staring out at Metropolis, "currently working on it, I'm backtracing his recent reports when he was visiting his assets and we'll find him". Guardian noticed a Red and Blue spot in the sky heading towards them, "hey Knight, what's that?", The Knight stood up, zooming in with his enhanced lenses. The Knight saw a flying person in a superman suit, however his skin was grey and slightly distorted, "Superman?", when the figure got closer, The Knight saw an angry, devilish look on his face, "That's not Superman, lookout!". The Knight dodged to the right, Guardian braced himself as the flying man smashed him through the floor, all the way to the bottom of the half made building.

Guardian kicked the man off, standing up, he saw the suit was in reverse, and the gray man stood up and yelled, "Bizarro Not Kill You!". Guardian raised an eyebrow, "what?", however he was caught off guard when Bizarro super punched him, Guardian was sent back smashing through several beams and crashing into the cement wall. Guardian stood back up, Catching Bizarro's punch, and punching him straight in the jaw, Guardian flew up through the holes made in the building after him. The Knight was on the same level as Bizarro and Guardian, watching them duke it out he radioed to Guardian.

["That's Not Superman"],
["Oh Really, I couldn't tell"],
["his DNA signature is corrupted, He's some sort of failed clone"],
["Any Ideas?"],
["Give me a clear shot"].

Guardian then grabbed Bizarro by the arm and threw up within view, The Knight shot a Kryptonite injection dart, hitting Bizarro in the back. Bizarro shook his head, The Knight read his energy signature and was shocked, ["uh oh"], ["what?"], ["The kryptonite..Strengthened him"] Bizarro turned towards The Knight, giving a roar as he flew towards The Knight, The Knight grappeled up through the hole made in the building away from Bizarro. Guardian followed, however Bizarro slammed into The back of The Knight, jetting into the sky. Bizarro turned The Knight towards him as they started to then fly towards the ground, "Bizarro will not turn you into Paste!", "Then how about this", The Knight activated the Electrical shock gauntlets built into his Gauntlets,The Knight then slammed them both into the sides of Bizarro's head. Bizarro yelled, dropping The Knight.

The Knight jetted down, then used his cape to land moderately on the ground, rolling then stood up. Bizarro flew towards The ground, Guardisn slammed into Bizarro's back, smashing into the ground with him. Bizarro stood up, Guardian shaking his head from the impact, "Bizarro will Not Smash You Al-" Bizarro was cut off when none other than supergirl slammed into his side, sending him through a cement truck, through a series of concrete walls, then down a vertical entrance to a Maintenance tunnel. Supergirl turned to Guardian and The Knight, "Looks like you guys could've used some help", Guardian looked to The Knight and shrugged. "Thanks for the Help", "Well it was really him who saw you guys needed help" Supergirl gestured to behind Guardian and The Knight. the both turned to see The Man of steel land in front of them.

'well this just got interesting' The Knight thought as Superman stood up.

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Metropolis

The Man of steel landed on the ground, standing up the sheer power within him could be felt.

"what do I owe the pleasure of.." The Knight saw as Superman's eyes glowed a but, "Two Humans, who were able to take on Bizarro".

"I'm The Knight, protector of Chicago. This is Guardian, from San Andres", Guardian pitched in, "That Bizarro Clown was quite the character, he's powered UP from Kryptonite". Superman nodded, "Bizarro is only hurt by Blue Kryptonite, however it's extremely scarce and even harder to make". The Knight took a mental note before responding, "we're here for Alexander Luthor, better known as Lex Luthor", Superman rolled his eyes, "what did Lex do this time?", "He's connected to an attack in San Andres which almost killed 200 Civilians, the Pyrotechnic weapon we found from Star labs was paid and ordered by Lex himself". Superman rubbed his Chin, before lifting his head and looking leftwards, "there's a problem halfway across state, train out of control. Kara could you please take care of this", Supergirl nodded as Superman jetted off, shaking the area a bit.

Supergirl approached The Knight and Guardian, "So, we're going after lex?", Guardian peered at The Knight, "yes, the Compiled evidence is more than enough to warrant an arrest". "did you find where he is?", The Knight shook his head, lifting up his right hand and activating the UI on his gauntlet, "Bizarro disrupted it, I'll try to backtrace the signal", "there's gotta be a faster way". The Knight paused, before closing the UI on his gauntlet and taking out a transmitter, "Supergirl, fly to the highest Broadcasting Antenna and attach this device to it, I'll be able to scan Lexcorp's communication waves for him". Supergirl took the device and nodded, jetting off even faster than Superman, Guardian peered at the Knight.

"Why didn't you ask me?", "Well, She knows the high points of Metropolis, She's faster than superman from what my scans just read, who in turn is faster than you". Guardian stared at The Knight, squinting, "It's nothing to be ashamed of-", "Shut up" Guardian said as Supergirl landed fast, however surprisingly soft in front of them. "It's hooked up", The Knight nodded as he used his earpiece, "Sanza give me a Reading of Alexander Luthor's Location", [Scanning.....Lexcorp Skyscraper, Downtown Metropolis]. Guardian sighed, "The Bad Guy is in his intimidating headquarters, who would've guessed, Knight do you want to grab on or-", "I've got it covered" The Knight said, grappeling upwards onto The VTOL and climbing in. Supergirl and Guardian took of with The Knight following behind.

["Any Ideas on Exactly how we're going to approach Luthor?"], ["We'll walk in through the front door"], ["You've got to be kidding me"], ["I don't think the Authorities are going to take kindly to us smashing through into his office, ripping him out and plopping him down at the Police station"]. The Knight ejected from his VTOL, gliding and landing on a Lexcorp Emblem in the concrete in front of the main doors, Supergirl and Guardian landed to his right. The Knight, Supergirl, and Guardian walked into the Lexcorp lobby, the attendant at the desk gave them a midly shocked face when looking up,

"we're here to see Luthor" Supergirl said to the attendant,
The Attendant scoffed, "As much as i'm sure you'd love to see him Supergirl, Mr Luthor is not in the mood for visitors. Especially from Aliens".
The Knight scowled, grabbing the Attendant by his shirt collar and pulling him almost over the desk, "Luthor is currently Responsible for an attack in San Andres, An attack that almost cost 200 innocent people their lives. If you don't tell us where he is, I'll make sure you're prosecuted for his crimes as well, counting the ones that were killed in that attack" The Knight let go of the man's shirt, causing him to fall back into his chair. "Mr Luthor is upstairs on the top floor, can't miss it", the man said before sinking under his desk. The Knight walked over to the elevator, Supergirl peered at Guardian who simply shrugged. They stepped into the elevator, The Knight pressing the top floor button as it carried them up. The Insuing Cheesy music played as all three of them waited for the elevator carried them up.

Once reaching the top, The Knight stepped out, readying his dart launcher on his left gauntlet, they approached the large doors of Luthor's office. Supergirl nodded to The Knight before he kicked them open, to reveal Luthor staring calmly at them, "Alexander Luthor, You're under arrest for your involvement in the attack in San Andes". Lex chuckled, "You've got me, I'm under arrest", he said, putting his hands in a position to be cuffed. The Knight began walking over, when suddenly, a green ray of light started beaming down on Supergirl forcing her to the ground, "K-Kryptonite" He said as she tried to at least keep up on one Knee. Guardian attempted to pull her out from under it , but was thrown back by an electrical feedback, throwing him into a bookcase on the opposite side of the room. The Knight stared towards Luthor who stood up Clapping, "do you really think I'd let you just Arrest me?". The Knight lunged at Luthor, however Luthor pressed a button on his desk, dropping down a hole which closed up behind him.

The Knight stood up, "Where did he Go?!" He yelled as Guardian stood up and shrugged, Then, Luthor rose from a panel in the middle of the room, In his Kryptonite based Armor. "Now Gentlemen, Let's get to buisness", Guardian flew at Luthor, gearing up a punch, However Luthor caught the punch, smashing Guardian into the floor with his other hand. The Knight shot an Explosive dart at Luthor's back, it exploded, however showed no real mark on Luthor's armor. Guardian got free of Luthor's Grip, kicking him and sending him into the ceiling, sending him crashing up and smashing down onto the floor. Guardian flew at Luthor, however Lex shot him with a Kryptonite Laser, throwing Guardian through the double doors, through the elevator shaft, and out of the building. Luthor stood up, turning towards The Knight, "so, what can you do my Vigilante Friend?", The Knight threw down a Smoke grenade, creating a screen of smoke, he then jumped at Luthor, punching him across the face which was exposed.

Lex grabbed The Knight by the Neck, using his other hand to tear off his cape, "Let's see how a Knight does without his Shield" he said throwing him into the right wall. The Knight slammed into a TV, he dropped down behind a couch, The Knight took a Knee, contacting Sanza with his earpiece. ["Sanza Contact Heavy Support, Red Level"], [Right Away Sir], Before The Knight could react, Luthor grabbed The couch, and using it like a bat, hitting The Knight and smashing him into the Reinforced glass of his office. The Knight internally groaned as he stood up, Luthor grabbed him by the neck, the Knight kicking and grasping for an exposed part of Luthor's armor, "Such tenacity, I wish we could've been buisness partners". The Knight thought, then activated one of his Gauntlet's Electrical Shocks, "I'd never invest in a Madman" The Knight said slamming it against one of the exposed joints of the arm Lex grabbed him with, causing Lex's armor to malfunction and him reeling back. The Knight took a breath, then noticed a gray spot outside of the window, Luthor had his armor return to normal, readying the Kryptonite Laser, "Any Last Words?", "Titan", "What?".

lex was cut off When Titan slammed through the reinforced glass, forcing Her and Lex into the back wall, Titan hovered, grabbing lex by the collar piece of His armor. "Oh look, a pretty little Metahuman, What are you going to do? Bark me to death?". The Look Titan gave Lex sent a shiver down The Knight's spine as she ripped off the Chest piece of Lex's armor, pulling him out of the suit and holding up up by the collar of his shirt. "set him down, I'll take care of the rest" The Knight said, standing up and walking over, the slight limp from his left side gave Titan a sign he'd cracked a rib or two. Titan tossed Lex into the wall, causing him to crack it before sliding down. Guardian returned flying through the several holes he'd made. "What'd I miss?", The Knight grabbed lex by his throat, punching him square across the jaw knocking him out. The Knight then shot an Electrical shock Dart at the Kryptonite protector keeping Supergirl down.

Supergirl stood up, groaning, "God I hate Lex, Always using Kryptonite, I'm gonna have this headache for a few hours". Supergirl hovered over to Lex, "I'll get him to a Police Department", The Knight nodded, "Thanks Supergirl", Supergirl shook her head as she dragged Lex out, "Please, you guys can call me Kara" she said as she jetted out. Guardian peered at The Knight, "I'm guessing this isn't the end of the trail from San Andres?", The Knight shook his head, "Stahl is connected, We'll have to part for now, I'll contact you when I have more Information". Guardian nodded, hovering and flying out though the broken window, The Knight looked at Titan, who peered down at the his right hand currently placed on his right ribs, The Knight walked over to the cape lex ripped off, reattaching what he could.

"I'm getting you home", "Titan I have work that needs to be do-", The Knight was cut off when Titan placed an arm around him. "Not up for debate" She ordered as she jetted off.

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Knight's Domain, Under Branston Estate House

Titan zoomed down the long exit way for The VTOL, speeding through the concrete tunnel whilst keeping The Knight next to her.

Titan paused once she reached the end of the Tunnel, hovering in the large concrete and metal room. Titan had one of her arms around The Knight's waist, the other was holding his right arm over her shoulder, The Knight pointed to The Knightcomputer with his left arm, "Over There". Titan landed next to The Knightcomputer's chair, setting down The Knight, The Knight quickly sat down in the chair and began to access the files. Titan noticed there was a bald man with a large air mask on his face, covering most of his face except for his eyes, "Who's that", "Stahl, an Internationally wanted Criminal Warlord. He's been harassing me and Chicago for the past few months. The Files i took from Luthor's suit when you ripped it apart allowed me to access his dealings with Stahl".

Titan peered down at The Knight as he finished decrypting the files, "Alright, let's have a look" .

Log File 257:
- Stahl's dealings have so far been lucrative, He's been able to bring in a large amount of money, which has been laundered and I'm able funnel into my Dealings against Superman.
- Stahl's pressuring me to go after 2 Heroes, "The Knight", a Vigilante and self sworn "Protector of Chicago". and Guardian, a Metahuman, and very powerful hero based in San Andres. Both of them are meddling Heroes, however I don't think they're worth spending Twenty Five Million dollars on. Still, Stahl is promising a big payout after this, so I'll go along with his plan.
- Stahl left, saying he'd have something planned for The Knight, said he'd be heading to Chicago to put something in place. Whatever he's planning, he has a sinister undertone to it.

"Sanza, open up the current police report records, traffic cameras, anything we can get into. and Give me the sightings of Stahl's symbol within the last 10 hours", [Yes sir]. Sanza went to work, hacking, logging, and opening up any file The computer could get into, eventually pinpointing Stahl's symbol at an Industrial facility. [Macmanus Industrial Facility, Eastern coast of Chicago], The Knight downloaded the files and atempted to stand up, however Titan placed her right hand on his shoulder, turning him towards her. The look Titan gave The Knight slightly confused him, "What?", "You're really going", "Chicago is in dang-", "And WHAT about you?" Titan gestured to the fairly damaged suit The Knight was currently using. "I'll Manage", "You can't be this Solemn protector, While being busted up like you just went toe to toe with superman", The Knight scowled at Titan, however Titan's glare shot straight through him. "Fine, I'll wait One Hour. Then, I need to go out", Titan nodded as The Knight took of his helmet, half hobbling to the Armor case.

[Confederation of imperial states]

Dathomir, Catarock's Throne room

Catarock stared out his stained glass window, gazing longingly at his Armies preparing themselves. The Thousands of Dathomiri ground troops preparing themselves just in Catarock's Gaze, not to mention the millions all over the planet, were readying for Catarock's biggest, and most ambitious offensive. Earth. Catarock folded his hands behind his back, but his trance was broken when the sound of a portal opening at the foot of the steps below him caused him to turn, Catarock turned, locking gaze with none other than Dark Lord.

"what is this? A mystic steps into the halls where his kind are not welcome" Catarock said as his hands returned to his side, The Dark Lord closed the portal, walking up the steps towards Catarock. "I Know about your foolhearty plan to invade earth, It's not going to work", Catarock chuckled, "and what does the one, who sits in The Void and ponders, know about military offensives?". "I spent Eons, quelling the fighting amongst The Void inhabitants, and then securing it and becoming it's master. You however, have created a makeshift empire for you own gain, calling yourself The God of Dathomir".

"But you see, I am a God", "That won't stop Earth Defenders, and Two very special beings I've recruited, from beating you". Catarock peered close at The Dark Lord, "what do you have to gain from this Dark Lord? I've studied you and the mystics, you have no Desire to help Earth and their People". "I do this because I don't want some greedy Alien Tyrant, from gaining control of the center of the multiverse".

"You'll die trying", "I don't think so, Boy".

Catarock fired his powerful eye lasers at The Dark Lord, The Dark Lord materialized his Mace, holding it up and creating a ward which shielded him from the Lasers. The Dark Lord then reflected the lasers back at Catarock, causing him to shake his head a bit. "I'll give you some credit, Mystic, that actually hurt". The Dark Lord then powered up a large blast of Void Dark, blasting the beam at Catarock and sending him crashing against his stained glass window majorly cracking it. "Enough Playing", "come fight me you greedy Child" Catarock jumped, from his position up near the throne, crashing down to where Dark Lord stood. Dark Lord teleported through a portal, materializing behind Catarock and blasting him forward with more Void Magic.

Catarock readied his arm blade turning around and swinging hard at Dark Lord, Dark Lord blocked with his made in a tense struggle. "You will not stop me, weakling" Catarock said as he punched Dark Lord with his freehand, sending him crashing into the lower steps of the throne breaking through them. Dark Lord blasted Catarock with Void fire, causing him to tumble back. Dark Lord stood up, walking towards Catarock as he rose, "I have Existed for more eras than you can fathom, I have seen countless nations rise and Fall". Dark Lord held his Mace to Catarock's throat, "Remember than the next time you cross someone with far more experience that you, Boy". The Dark Lord opened a portal behind him, as he walked towards it to return to The Void, Catarock blasted him with a large blast of his Eye Lazers at close range, roasting Dark Lord intensely and forcing him through the Void portal.

Catarock stood up, returning to his demeanor, turning his head to one of his servants who came running through the door.
"My Lord, is something the matter?",
"Inform The Generals, we're going quicken the pace of our Invasion".

[Confederation of imperial states]

Knight's Domain

10:30pm

Marcus carefully, but sternly, placed on each part of The Knight's suit, locking together the different parts in their places. Titan finished adjusting her gauntlet peering at The Knight as he locked on his boots, then placed on the helmet completing it. Titan peered back forwards, pressing a button on her belt activating the mask as it extended over her face. When Marcus originally made the custom Nanotech suit, he taught her how to use the different capabilities, such as the identity scrambling mask which would disrupt any attempt to see through it to her real face, giving a slightly altered version of her face for others to see through the mask.

The Knight stood up, placing his newly repaired gadgets in their respective holders, a satisfying click, as they were locked into place. The Knight turned to Titan, who's glare at him was seemingly trying to hide something, but The Knight didn't prod, "time to go". The Knight walked to the large VTOL, hopping in, he looked at Titan who shook her head as he closed the VTOL and it takes off hovering up and out of the hidden VTOL shaft, Titan flies up and follows the VTOL as it takes off for Chicago.

["What's the plan?"],
["We're going to investigate the Industrial site currently owned by Stahl's organization"],
["Investigate? or Beat most of them seneless and Interrogate the one who still has a working femur?"].

The Knight didn't respond to the last remark, simply flew the VTOL as it flew through the night sky. Approaching the Industrial site, The Knight paused the VTOL, slowing it down and making it hover in midair. The Knight opened the stop hatch, stepping up and out onto the wing and hopping off, The VTOL flew up and off back to the Domain. Titan controlled her speed, flying alongside The Knight as he descended at an extremely fast rate. "Do you have a Parachute in that armor?", "Don't need one" The Knight said as he opened his cape, cutting down the speed he was falling at and landing on a large metal gerdur.

Titan slightly hovered beside him, matching him in height, "How're we going at this?". The Industrial yard was full of Stahl's men, most of the armed with assault rifles, two them were in a Humvee with a mounted gatteling gun on the top. The Knight peered around the yard before answering Titan, "I'm going to throw down a distractionary, as soon as it hits I'll jump in and start disarming the men on the ground Get rid of the main gun" Titan nodded.

The Knight threw down 3 distractionary explosives, detonating across the yard, The Flashbang effect, combined with the smoke screen caught Stahl's mercs off guard. The Knight dropped down into the yard, landing one merc, then propelling himself off, catching onto two mercs with his arms causing them to fall back While The Knight punched out the two, 3 of the mercs began to fire on him with their assault rifles, The Knight dove back into the heart of the smoke screen, then reappeared behind them, disarming one of them of their rifles. The Knight disabled the rifle by pulling out the clip and firing mechanism, then using the stock of the gun to hit another merc knocking him out. The Knight dropped the disabled rifle, kneeing the third merc, then lifted him onto his shoulder and flipped him over, then stomping straight on his head knocking him out.

The Knight noticed the red dot of the Humvee's gun as it took aim at him, just as it fired, Titan flew and stopped right infront of the barrel, causing the rounds to seemingly hit and bounce straight off the center of her chest. Titan grabbed the barrel of the gun, crushing it and tearing it off the humvee, she grabbed the gunner by the collar of his uniform and tossed him back to The Knight, who caught him, throwing him onto the ground and placing a boot right on his neck. Titan then reached through the window of the humvee, tearing the driver out of it, and giving a (light) punch to the jaw, knocking him out cold. Titan dropped the driver onto the dented hood of the humvee, hovering and landing next to The Knight.

The merc looked up at The Knight and Titan, both together looking immensely intimidating. " *Cough*, I ain't telling you jack", Titan peered over at The Knight, non-verbally saying 'do your thing'. The Knight pressed down with his right foot on the merc's neck, "You're going to tell me Where Stahl is in Chicago, The amount of bloodcurling pain that you endure is up to you to decide", Titan took a knee down near the top of The Merc, "I'd tell him if I were you", "ALRIGHT, Jesus christ you're an a**hole, Stahl's been sending us Information from somewhere below Chicago, We usually see our guys move in and out of a large Sewer tunnel, That's ALL I KNOW". The Knight took his foot of The Merc's neck, "thanks for your cooperation" The Knight then shot his grappling gun at the merc's feet, causing them to be tied up to the grapple cable, The Knight then shot the other end of the cable at the top of a nearby light pole, causing The Merc to be hung upside down, "Hey, HEY, GET ME DOWN".

Titan hovered next to The Knight, allowing her to speak to him at eye level, "the blood is going to rush to his head", The Knight peered at her, "Go ahead and redecorate if you wish". The Knight walked towards a terminal connected to a radio transmitter the merc set up, Titan grabbed a large metal pole with one hand, hovering up to the merc she held him upright, and bent the metal pole around him tying him to the Light pole. "Much better?" The merc gave a terrified nod. Titan hovered down over to The Knight, "Found anything?", "Alot of transmissions sent to and from different points around the city, he's setting up bases around Chicago", "And I'm guessing you're going to go on a territorial Rampage". The Knight scowled at Titan, "I'm kidding", The Knight shot his grapple hook, "Not funny" he said right before being pulled off, with Titan flying and following behind.

[Confederation of imperial states]

Chicago Sewer entrance

12:34am

The Knight and Titan stand at the mouth of the large tunnel, leading downwards into the dark, deep underworld of Chicago.

The Knight took a breath, before walking forward, he was then stopped when Titan placed a hand on his right shoulder.

"I'm coming with you", "No, you're not, I'm coming with you", Titan gave a confused face. "Why not? Together we'll have the edge to defeat Stahl, we'll be able to stop him together", The Knight turned to Titan, "This is what the past few months have been leading up to. Stahl is only going to show himself if I face him, and I will, alone". "God Dammit Marcus! don't you get it!" Titan yelled placing her hands on The Knight's shoulders, "he's going to Kill you! Haven't you seen What he has, Haven't you seen him? He's a roided up Monster Warlord with an Army of mercenaries down there, no matter what gadgets you have, No matter what stupid armor you have...." Titan's voice broke slightly at the end of the last sentence.

"I'm prepared", "You're only a Man" Titan said looking back up, she pressed the button on her gauntlet retracting her mask, "Marcus, At the end of the Day, We're only people". The Knight, visually giving a frown, not out of anger, but of something else as he continued tio listen, "I know about this mission you're on, for a Decade you've been going at it. But this is different, He has an army and you've only got yourself".

Cassandra looked down at the ground, her hands still on The Knight's shoulders, "Cassandra", "you're the only person.." Cassandra lifted her head, "I've been living with these stupid Powers for years, all of my friends abandoned me as some freak. But you didn't, You meet me in San Andres, and after seeing who I was and what I am, You didn't discriminate me". "I don't want to see you di-", Cassandra was cut off when The Knight pulled her close and kissed her. Cassandra couldn't believe what just happened, when The Knight stopped and said, "I'm sorry".

Before Titan could react, The Knight flipped backwards, shooting a Knightdart which hit the power box causing the large door over the tunnel to close. The Knight dropped down the large dark tunnel as the door closed, Cassandra quickly reactivated her mask and grabbed at the door. "Dammit Marcus, No!" Titan yelled as, she attempted to pry the door open.

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Bottom of the Tunnel, Chicago Sewers

The Knight opened his cape, slowing his descent speed as he calmly dropped onto the wet grate of the large room he was in. The Knight stood up, he looked around, "Stahl, Come On Out!" he yelled, the echo powerfully making his voice travel. Then, from behind, 2 floodlights turned on revealing Stahl, standing on a metal bridge as he walked forward, clapping as The Knight turned to him. "The Great and Powerful Knight, Guardian of chicago. finally managed to find me". The Knight scowled as he walked towards Stahl, "Give it up Stahl, your reign ends here", "If you truley want me to come in, You will need to defeat me" Stahl answered taking off his large coat. "Man, to Man" Stahl stepped down the few steps of the end of the metal bridge, he threw his coat aside.

"Let's not Stand on Ceremony any longer" Stahl Said charging at The Knight, ready to fight, The Knight readied his stance in return.

The Battle between the Knight and The Brute had begun.

[Confederation of imperial states]

Battle Under Chicago
"The Knight vs The Brute"

The Knight and Stahl charged at each other, both filled with rage, one of justice, one of something much more, darker.

The Knight and Stahl crashed into each other, locking hands, The Knight promptly broke out of it pushing Stahl back. The Knight began to punch Stahl as hard as he could, hitting him with everything he'd got, but each of his hits only did some dents. Stahl caught The Knight's right fist, using his right free hand to grab The Knight by the neck. Stahl threw The Knight against a steel railing, The Knight slammed against it, with Stahl ramming into him severely denting the metal. Stahl began to throw hit after hit at The Knight, The Knight using the armor on his gauntlets to attempt to block them. The Knight then kneed Stahl, putting both his hands on the Railing and kicking Stahl back, linding and sliding on his back.

The Knight then climbed on the stop of the railing, jumping forward and crashing down on Stahl's chest, The Knight then began to throw punch after punch at Stahl's head. Stahl caught one of The Knight's punches, slamming it back into his own face, Stahl the flipped The Knight over onto his back, punching down hard with his right fist catching The Knight off guard. As The Knight tried to recover from the hard hit, Stahl stood up, shaking his head as he faced away from the Knight. "Do you know What you are protecting Knight?", The knight regained his breath as he tried to get back to his feet, "Chicago, a City of Honor, Integrity", "Wrong" Stahl said coldly. "Chicago is Built upon Crime, Corruption, and Filth. You cannot save this city", Stahl turned towards The Knight, "you never could".

The Knight charged forward, throwing hit after hit at Stahl, some punches, some swipes, some martial arts, bombarding Stahl with a full array of his Arsenal. Stahl was able to block some, but not all, however his seemingly indestructible physic soaked up hit after hit, The Knight then used his armor gauntlet to smack Stahl across the face with a closed fist, then using his right foot to kick Stahl back into the Railing along the edge of the area. "You Don't Get it Knight, you Cannot protect these people, they are too greedy, too corrupt, and You ignore that for a useless vendetta". The Knight charged forward, but Stahl grabbed The Knight by the neck with both hands, slamming him down onto the Grate, Stahl took a step backwards, beginning to fiddle with a device on his wrist connected to his vest. "It seems I cannot beat you as I am now" Stahl said finishing it, The serum contained within his vest began to pump into his veins , Morphing Stahl Physically and enlarging his muscles.

The Knight picked himself up, turning to a very large, and now Serum fueled Stahl, The Knight only scowled as Stahl cracked his now large knuckles. "Light It up gentlemen!" He called out, as the large chamber above, and the catwalks were lit with lights, and Stahl's men began to cheer as he peered bakc down at the Knight. "Now, today will be the day, The Knight, dies", Stahl said charging at The Knight, "never" The Knight said as he charged in return, The Knight slid under Stahl, jumping on his back and grabbing onto his Vest. The Knight began to point the back of Stahl's head, all the while Stahl began to flail, jump, and erratically move himself shaking The Knight around. The Knight then grabbed onto part of Stahl's mask, using the armor of his mask to partly Damage it, Stahl grunted, as he grabbed The Knight with his right arm, pulling him over and slamming him down on the ground on his back.

The Knight partly groaned as he tried to get up, but was stopped when Stahl placed his right foot on his chest, keeping The Knight down without even trying. "Tonight is the night, The Protector of Chicago, DIES!" Stahl Yelled out raising his hands in the air, the men around cheered, some holding the flag with Stahl's symbol, Some holding defaced pictures of The Commissioner, The mayor, and a few were holding up a picture of Chicago, Burning. The Knight grunted, slamming his fist against Stahl's leg, but not even moving him an inch, The Knight was ready to give up, when something his father told him flash in his mind.

"It is The great men, who stand up for Chicago, when others turn and run", and then, The Knight remembered when he battled what seemed to be a god in his city, The Knight then quickly pressed a few button on his gauntlets, turning on the Electrical shock charges. "NEVER!" The Knight yelled as he slammed both of his fists onto Stahl's knee, blasting him with electricity and causing him to stagger backwards, The Knight kicked up, then charging at the Muscle bound hulk. "Not NOW!", The Knight said throwing a hard right hook at Stahl's face, blasting him with electricity. "Not EVER!" The Knight yelled again as he threw a left hook at Stahl's head once aga9in staggering him and hitting him with electricity. "Will Scum Like You..." The Knight yelled as he began to hit Stahl over and over again, Electrically hitting him with every punch, "DEFEAT ME!" The Knight said hitting Stahl square in the chest, throwing him back, the dropkicking him causing him to smash into the large railing, severely denting it, and Knocking Stahl on his back. The Knight stood up, a look that sent a shiver down Stahl's spine,

"I am Justice......", The Knight said throwing back Stahl's left arm as it tried to weakly grab him,
"I am The Protector...." The Knight said grabbing Stahl by the collar of his vest, forcing the hulk to stare right into the adrenaline and rage filled face of The Knight,
"I am THE KNIGHT" The Knight yelled, headbutting Stahl, knocking out the muscle filled behemoth.

The Knight stared upwards at the large amount of Stahl's men, staring down at him, surprise, shock, and fear all at the same time.
"This is My City!" The Knight said, his voice echoing, "And You WILL NOT HAVE IT!" The Knight yelled again, his voice booming. Just then, A megaphone sounded out from a high platform, "This is The Chicago Police, Put your hands in the air" The Knight looked backwards to see John Brakenbrook with a megaphone, as many Chicago Police Officers poured out throughout the complex, arresting, tackling, and taking down Stahl's men. The Knight fully turned and walked towards Detective brakenbrook, "Good to see you John", The Knight said shaking the Detective's hand. "We were tipped off by a friend of yours you'd need help" Brakenbrook peered over The Knight's shoulder at a large, unconscious Stahl, "seems you had it covered" he said with a part chuckle. The Knight peered back at Stahl, then faced forward, "Stahl is currently pumped full of his serum, have it dejected with his vest before sending him to Iron heights". John nodded in agreement, "You look roughed up" John said trying to lighten the mood, The Knight turned and started to walk away, "The past few months have been hard on the entire city". "Where are you going?" John asked as The Knight took out his grappel, "I owe someone an apology" he said, grappeling up and off.

John shrugged, "well at least he didn't disappear when my back was turned".

[Confederation of imperial states]

War of Kings

"I'm giving you one last chance, TALK, or I'll make sure your last minutes on this earth are a Living hell!" The Knight said, as he walked towards Kalder, picking him up with one hand and pressing the barrel of one of his pistols against Kalder's abdomen.

Kalder peered down at The Knight, he was different, he was was older, grittier, and more dangerous. Kalder then aw something on a desk off to the side, a Picture, of Marcus Branston the Knight, with his father Thomas and Martha branston. Kalder used his enhanced Arovean senses to peer inside the armor, The Knight was female, Kalder put it together.
"Wait...... You're, Martha Branston!"
The Knight gritted his teeth as he threw Kalder at one of the Hard concrete walls of the Lair, cracking it, Kalder slid down as The knight peered down at him.

"How do you Know my name? TALK!" The Knight's voice broken, Kalder could hear the more female side of the Vigilante.
Kalder half stood up, "I know your son, Marcus-" The Knight grabbed Kalder by the neck, "My Son Is DEAD, because some criminal scum had to rob a bank!". Kalder grasped at The Knight's grip, looking her straight in the eyes, "I....Am from another dimension, An Alien Deity sent me", The Knight scowled telling Kalder she didn't believe him, "MARCUS HAD A FASCINATION WITH KNIGHTS WHEN HE WAS YOUNG, HE SAID HE WAS ONE FOR HALLOWEEN". The Knight gave a suprised look as she dropped him, "What do you Want?" she asked sternly, Kalder coughed as he stood up.

"I need to get back to my world, The Knight nodded as she walked over to the Knightcomputer.
"As much as I'd love to help you..", "Kalder", "We're currently dealing with a more serious matter".
Kalder raised an eyebrow, "what is it?", The Knight pulled up news footage of Aquaman and Wonder Woman, at war with Black Panther of Wocanda and Namor.
"How?...." kalder asked in disbelief, "Honestly, I don't know or care, but from what I'm seeing, The United States is going to get involved to try to stop it". "And why's that a bad thing?", Kalder asked, "Those idiots are going to make the United States a hated enemy by both sides, and With Atlantis and Themysceria in the east, and Wocanda in the west, The US is going to be the staging ground in the middle".

"what should we do?", "Nothing, unless we don't want to get killed by Wonder Woman and Panther", "we've got to do something Martha". The Knight shook her head, "Kid, I'm 55 years old, I'm a worn out Vigilante. The f*ck am I coing to do?" . Kalder Extended his arm out, his hand tilted upwards, "Together, We can gather up anyone we can, and Stop this war", The Knight exhaled as she returned Kalder's hand, "Sure, why the Hell not". Kalder nodded as the Knight packed up her various crude and homemade gadgets, placing them in her belt before exiting The lair with Kalder.

"Who are they?" Kalder asked pointing up to some superpowered individuals,
"Oh Hell, It's the Avengers!", Iron Man spotted them below, he then readied his Ion cannon. "We've got Contact, Avengers, take them out!".
Iron Man flew at The Knight and Kalder, with Hawkeye, Falcon, Black Widow, Giantman, and various other avengers joining him.

[Confederation of imperial states]

Welcome to the League

Chicago, Rooftop
6:27am

The Knight was crouched on the edge of a tall Skyscraper, with Lawbringer working on her small device behind him.

The Knight peered down at the many cars driving down the streets, turning, there were always cars on the street, always traveling. The Knight peered back at Lawbringer, "Is It done?", Lawbringer yawned and shook her head, "No, And I don't see why we have to get up this Early", "Crime isn't limited to the Night Lawbringer", "The Batfamily gets time off", "well we aren't the Batfamily". Anna slightly sighed as she continued, [Sir, there are Two Super Powered anomalies quickly heading towards your way]. "Flying, Land, Air or?" ,[Teleporation Sir], "When will they be here?", "We're Already here I believe" a Strange Male voice spoke from Behind The Knight.

The Knight was caught slightly offguard, when he stood and turned to see none other that Wonder Woman and Martian manhunter of the Justice league, The Knight kept his stern professional demeanor. "To what do I owe the pleasure of The Justice League meeting me?", "It's actually about you" Martian Manhunter said causing The Knight to raise an eyebrow, "If This is about that Idiotic Movement Lex Luthor is Starting, I'-". "Currently Neutral, But that is not the Topic" Martian Manhunter literally took the words out of his mouth, causing Wonder Woman to Sigh, "J'onn please don't Mind read, However, Knight. We're here on behalf of a Group Called The Justice League. We'd like you to Join it". The Knight kept his stone faced demeanor, remaining calm, however inside, his mind was internally shock, surprised, and partly excited all at once.

"I'm a Powerless Vigilante, What would you need me for?" The Knight asked, "The League hasn't just now decided, We've been monitoring you since your first Arrival In Gotham. In that time, you've been able to Take down Black Mask, The Architect, Stahl, an International Criminal, Bizarro, and Lex Luthor. As well, you've shown great ability to coordinate with other organizations such as Police forces and Other Heroes, We've come to a common Agreement, and Would like to Invite you up to the Watch Tower for our League Invitation". Martian Manhunter spoke up, "The Watch Tower is-", " a Large, Currently Orbiting Space Station, Which has been sending out Teleporation rays for godknowshowlong, aswell as being host to probably some of the most Advanced Technology in the world". "Knowledgeable, I Like it" Wonder Woman commented, "We'll head up with you to the Watch Tower", "We?" Martian Manhunter asked. the Knight gestured with his hand over to Lawbringer, who gave a simple wave, "My protege' and I are partners, If I do, she does, or no Deal" Martian Manhunter spoke to object, however Wonder Woman interrupted him.

"Reasonable, Cyborg, Warp us up" Wonder Woman said using her Commlink, and before they Know it, The Knight, Lawbringer, Wonder Woman, and Martian Manhunter were teleported to the Watchtower. They stepped off The Metal teleportation pad following Wonder Woman as she lead them, The Knight peered around ever so slightly, while Lawbringer gazed about whilst walking next to The Knight. 'This Place is Incredible" Lawbringer added, "It was constructed in orbit, with the help of Superman, Green Lantern, Myself, and Several others", "I Can't imagine the Power Source keeping this place running". Wonder Woman Chuckled, "You and J'onn would have a fun time talking in the bowels of this place, but right now..." She ended as they entered the main chamber, with Batman and Superman standing by a large main Terminal. "Onto the Oath" Wonder Woman said gesturing him to follow, The Knight nodded, making a small gesture telling Lawbringer to wait back. Lawbringer Complied waiting bu the doorway, as The Knight joined Wonder Woman, Superman, and Superman over by the large central area.

"Gentlmen, This is our member from Chicago. Knight, This is Superman", The Knight nodded, Shaking Superman's hand. "We meet shortly in Metropolis, nice work taking care of Luthor, Though he's now creating a new mess", "Megalomaniacs like him never cease to Stop" Superman chuckled at the last comment. Wonder Woman then gestured over to Batman, "And this is our Detective and Tactician, Batman-". "We've Already Meet, We've Already Meet" The Knight and Batman said insync. The Intimidating Gaze they gave each other was partly them thinking, and partly our of Mutual Respect. "Oh great, we've got Two brood filled Members now" Superman said, trying to break up the stare off. "Onto The Oath" Batman said, The Knight nodded, "Let's..", Batman pressed a button on his Gauntlet pulling up a Holographic display, which started to display the Oath words.

Batman Started,
"Do you swear to Uphold the justice Ideas of Saftey, Equality, And Freedom",
"I Do".

Superman Added,
"Do you swear to protect the people of Earth as a guardian, protecting them against Criminals, Villains, and all other threats"
"I do".

Wonder Woman ended,
"And do you Swear to stand by the League, through Thick and Thin, as one of Earth's protectors"
"I do".

Superman gave a small smile an nodded,
"Welcome to the Justice League, Knight".

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Elsewhere...

The Dark Lord watched from the Void, as The Knight officially joined the Ranks of Earth's defenders. The Dark Lord cast away the vision, displaying Catarock's forces gathering and readying on Dathomir.

"And so it Begins..."

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War of Kings

"we've got contact!" Iron Man shouted as he blasted at Kalder and the Knight with the Ion blasters in his gauntlets.

The Knight grappeled out of the way, as Kalder shot the Ion Blast with his energy blast, destroying it mid air.

"Knight, Got any ideas?" Kalder shouted to The Knight, The Knight thought for a moment. I'll lead half into close corridors, You handle the rest". The Knight pulled out two semi auto handguns and began to fire at Iron Man, causing Iron Man to fire a few Ion blasts before jetting after her, followed by Hawkeye and Black Widow. Kalder fired a few Energy blasts at Giant man, Falcon, and Captain America.

Knight
The Knight began to fire back at the avengers before diving into a deteriorated and moss covered building, landing and rolling through the window. Iron Man, Black Widow, and Hawkeye came in after her, only to find themselves staring at the weathered and flora covered interior. "Spread out, and find them", Iron Man said heading forward, Hawkeye went left, and Black Widow went right. The Knight, observing all of them from a distance, planned out her attack, 'Iron Man's armor is susceptible to an EMP, as for Black Widow and Hawkeye, I'll need to match their training with some tactics'. The Knight readied an EMP dart and aimed at Iron Man, before taking the shot.

Kalder
Kalder swerved out of the way of both Falcon and Giant Man's fist, then catching Captain America's shield Mid air and tossing it back at him. Kalder tried to gain his bearings, firing an energy blast at Giant Man's middrift catching him off guard. Kalder flew down and then blasted upwards, 'Come On, just like Guardian taught you' he thought as he used his strength to smack into the bottom of Giant Man's chin, sending him tumbling backwards crushing an abandoned storage building. Kalder hovered midair, before behind rammed into by Falcon sending them crashing them through a glass window.

Kalder kicked Falcon off, then blasting him with energy sending him through a deteriorated wall. Kalder stood up, only to have Wasp appear infront of him, Kalder attempted to block each of Wasps blows, but she was just far too quick for him. Wasp them blasted kalder sending him through a desk and a window, Kalder flipped midair and hovered, then hit wasp with a huge blast of energy knocking her back as soon as she exited the window.

Knight
The Knight shot iron Man with the EMP Dart, short circuiting his armor and causing it to shut down, hitting the floor hard. Hawkeye and Black Widow began to fire at the area the dart came from, causing The Knight to slink out of the firing range in the shadows. The Knight then appeared behind Hawkeye, putting him in a headlock, Hawkeye activated a gas arrow in The Knight face, sending her stumbling back, Hawkeye then began to strike at The Knight, hitting her several times in submission. The Knight then grabbed Hawkeye by the neck, using one of her pistols to shoot him straight in the knee.

The Knight then used Hawkeye as a human shield as Black Widow began to fire at her, firing back several times aswell, Black Widow dodged the bullets as they passed by. The Knight then fired an explosive dart, destroying the wall behind black widow sending her forward. The Knight tossed Hawkeye's corpse aside, Black widow kicked up and began to strike at The Knight. The Knight blocked and parryed each of Black Widow's blows, Black Widow gritted her teeth, "JUST DIE". The Knight caught a kick from her left leg, slamming her elbow down on BW's Knee shattering it. Black Widow stumbled backwards, The Knight grabbed her by the collar of her uniform,

"You've got alot to learn girl" she said before tossing Black Widow down an open hole in the floor. The Knight took a minute to breath, looking around, and especially at Iron Man who struggled to even get up in his heavy armor. The Knight ran out of the open window she came in, grabbing onto the edge of the half collapsed storage building, Kalder landed next to her. "That went well", "Yeah. God Kid that was amazing, I haven't had a fight like that in Years" The Knight said, partly smiling as she looked around. "Where to?", "we've got to find the hero, Guardian", The Knight raised an eyebrow, "Guardian?". "San Andreas, he's been active for several years". The Knight opened the flat computer on her gauntlet, "The Last I remember was a Chemical Plant explosion, the Military confiscated something and took it to a Military base in the Appalachian Mountains" .

"So, We heading there?", "Not yet. There's One stop I need to take if we're going to build up a Frickin army to take down both sides of this war", "Where's that?", "Gotham City". Kalder Nodded as she hovered over The Knight, grabbing her shoulders and flying off.

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Chicago

6:30pm

[Chicago City News]
"After the recent announcement from Alexander "Lex" Luthor about the new registration act, Many wonder which Heroes will join and register revealing themselves. And many wonder who will rebel and join the underground movement, keeping their identity a secret. And in Chicago, many are asking if Th City's Vigilante protector, "The Knight", will join the act, or will remain a secret as it has been the last Decade since his appearance. We go to interviews from some of the citizens of Chicago on whether or not the Knight would Join"
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"The Knight needs to Register and reveal himself, for the benefit of everyone in Chicago"
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"Hell No! The Knight has been Protecting Chicago, Against Assassin wackos, Against The Architect, and the Mobs since I was a Kid!",

"The Knight cannot Reveal himself, he is a Symbol, a sign that we don't have to be afraid of criminals, You can't ask him to do it",

"Whatever The Knight decides to do, I hope it's a safe outcome, the last thing we need for our children are a buch of Pro-Registration Wackos tearing down Chicago".

"As to can see, Many people are divided on whether or not The Knight should Register, But whatever He does, He's shown that he has the bets intentions to help chicaho. This has been the Chicago News report at 9, and have a good night!".

The Knight exhaled as he closed the Holographic UI on his gauntlet, standing up, "How long until they're here Sanza?". [Pro - Registration forces will be here within 5 minutes, I'm currently tracking their progress]. The Knight quickly looked around at the roof he was on, taking out a few small devices he quickly tossed 3 on the ground, and a few on the walls. The Knight walked back over to the edge of the building, gazing down at the golden glow of the city streets below. The Knight then lifted his head, "Mr Stark I'll assume". The Knight turned around to see Iron Man hovering infront of him, with 2 War Machine suits to his side, "The Knight, Protector of Chicago", "Tony Stark, Secretary of Defense, CEO of Stark Industries, and Defender of Luthor's Registration act".

"The Registration Act is the will of the people-", "yes, because the 'Will of the people' was so at hand in your last Registration crusade. What with all of the collateral Damage, aswell as your little stunt of a fight in New York, which caused the deaths of innocent civilians". "That was not our intention", "yes, because when you come to My City, with 2 Mechanical soldiers backing with with Miniguns, Peace is your true intention", "we only want to protect the public, The American People WANT heroes to register". "I'm guessing that's what Luthor and his band of Government paid cronies spouted at you when he ordered you to come arrest me". "Knight, we simply want you to come in and Register, we'll give you amnesty and allow you to continue to work in Chicago". The Knight shook his head, "The symbol of The Knight is one that is more than a Man, a sign to the scum who threaten Chicago that they face something that doesn't fear them, and in return gives them something to Fear". "It doesn't matter, now are you Registering or Not?", The Knight scowled.

"Not a Chance", "so be it then",
as Stark and his War Machine suits readied their weapons, The Knight activated the devices, hitting both Starks' and the other suits, short circuiting them. Stark's Suit hit the ground, Stark desperately trying to keep to taking a Knee, then the other 2 suits landed on him forcing him down. The Knight knelt down near Stark's head "You and your so called 'Justice' might think you're righteous enough to barge into people's homes, But don't come into my city, and think you're King". The Knight stood up, walking off towards the edge of the building, Stark looked at The Knight, "we'll Find you! You can't run!", "we'll see about that".

The Knight jumped off the edge of the building, shooting his grappel hook and heading off, Stark pulled himself partly from under the War Machine suits. Stark then used an EMP shielded earpiece and contacted HQ,

"This is Iron Man to Base, The Knight is a Rebel, I repeat, The Knight of Chicago is an Enemy to the registration Act".

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God V Man II
Humans together in a Mob....,
What's a Mob to a King,
What's a King to a God,
What's a God to a Nonbeliever....

Chicago, Grand Avenue

The Incredibly powerful, and incredibly dangerous Metahuman Thunder, landed hard in the middle of time square. The landing cracked the concrete and street around him, sending cars spinning, sliding, and some flying back. Thunder stood up straight, looking around and giving his usual Devilish grin, "Ah, the Ants of Chicago", Thunder gazed at a man trapped trying to get out of the windshield of his car, Thunder grabbed the man by the collar, kicking his car back freeing the man. "Tell me, Weakling, Are you afraid to die", The man nodded nervously, "Y-Yes", "Pathetic" THunder said casting the man aside.

Thunder flew up to the large statue in the middle of the Grand Avenue intersection, standing ontop and gazing around, The destruction his landing caused visibly disrupted traffic for blocks. Thunder then noticed the flashing blue and red lights from behind him, The Chicago Police, a number of cars pulled up around the statue he was on, officers aiming Pistols, Shotguns, and some even rifles at him. "This is the Chicago Police, Put your hands in the Air!", Thunder gave an evil grin as he jetted forward, slamming his foot on the ground and sending 2 of the patrol cars flying back.

The Police fired at Thunder, though the bullets simply hit him, doing no visible damage and leaving him unphased. Thunder then jet to one of the officers, punching him and sending him flying, Thunder sipped over to another officer, grabbing him and quickly throwing him into some other officers. Thunder continued to move around quickly, the Officers being unable to shoot him, fell back behind some of the wrecked cars and rubble. Thunder stood on a clearing in the middle of the street, "Is this all the great Police Protectors of chicago could muster?!" he said holding his arms out Horizontally, "Is this all?".

Thunder peered up at the sound of helicopters, Police Swat Choppers hovering overhead, ["This is Chopper Unit 1, We have lock on Target"], ["Chopper Unit 1 you're cleared for termination"]. The Choppers began to fire their automatic weaponry at Thunder, the bullets hailing on and around him, Thunder grabbed a van and tossed it at the tail of one of the choppers, tearing it off and causing the choppers to swerve and crash onto the ground. Thunder then flew up to the side of the chopper, hovering near one of the gunners as he continued to fire straight into Thunder's Chest. "Now, Now.." Thunder grabbed and crushed the barrel of the mounted machine gun, "Let's bring us all back down to earth". Thunder grabbed the top rim of the helicopter and descended quickly, slamming the Helicopter down onto the street, Crushing it greatly, but not causing it to explode.

Thunder a Swat Van heading down the south route of Grand Avenue, he reached over and grabbed one of the rotary blades, tossing it like a javelin at the Swat Van. The Blade stabbed right through the engine compartment at the front of the van, impaling it to the ground, The Van leaned forward, then slammed back down on the ground. Thunder cackled as he looked at the carnage around him, then raised an eyebrow as he heard a monstrous engine roar from behind, Thunder turned around to see "The Destroyer" beaming right down the street towards him. Thunder began to grab rubble and toss it at The Destroyer, the Destroyer either swerving out of the way, or the rubble simply breaking off on impact.

[In The Destroyer]
The Knight Drove down grand Avenue towards thunder, swerving out of the way of incoming objects, The Knight connected to The CPD network.
["This is Police Commissioner John Brakenbrook, Who Is this?"],
["John It's me"],
["Knight, Thank god, That Psychotic B*stard has taken out 20 of my men"],
["Evacuate all Civilians within a 12 Block Radius of Grand Avenue, I'm heading in to Stop Him"],
["Already on it, The Military are on their way if you need some Support"],
["No, keep the Military from the Battle. If they get involved, It'll only cause more Carnage"].
["Alright, be Careful Knight"].

The Knight quickly Loaded a Electrically charged Acid Round, loading it into the 60mm Cannon. Thunder grabbed a large bus, the driver and he remaining people bailing out at the last second, and threw it at The Destroyer. The Knight drove the Destroyer straight threw the bus, tearing through easily. Thunder braced as The Knight ejected from the Destroyer, causing it to ram into Thunder and sending them into a Cafe. Thunder Kicked the Destroyer off, sending it in reverse and partly onto the fountain surrounding the statue, Thunder peered over at a Cafe' worker, growling and scaring her to hide under the counter. Thunder walked out, in the distance he made eye contact with The Knight.

"Well, Well, Well. if it Isn't Chicago's Armored Protector".
The Knight stood his ground as Thunder Walked forward, "Why have you come back",
"I warned you'd I come back, Sure I might be a bit late, But I always keep my promises".
"You won't suceed at this useless bid of worthless Carnage",
Thunder scoffed, "Art is Always open to Interpretation",
"Well then, You and your Artistic skills are going to be sitting in Statville National Prison".
Thunder chuckled, "Make me, Southside boy".

Thunder jetted forward at The Knight, The Knight used his gauntlet to remotely use the Destroyer's 60mm Cannon, The Cannon popped up and locked onto Thunder, firing it's round at the halfway point between them. The round slammed into Thunder, knocking him out of his flight pattern, Thunder took a Knee as the electrically charged Acidic compound beat down on him. Thunder's adrenaline kicked in as he peered up at The Knight, "NO MORE GAMES!" He jetted forward at The Knight, The Knight shot his grappel pulling him up to a roof top, Thunder hovered where The Knight was, "Where are you Running, Knight!". The Knight used the commlink in his helmet to contact The Domain.

"Domain Come In, This is The Knight!", ["Lawbringer to Knight, What's your status"], "Thunder is Running on Adrenaline, making him Highly volatile and dangerous, I need the Heavy Suit dropped in, Now!". ["Right away, ETA 2 minutes"], The Knight exited the commlink as Thunder smashed up through the very building infront of him. "COME HERE, Knight Boy!" Thunder flew forward, causing The Knight to roll to the left, throwing down a flashbang, Thunder shook it off, looking around to see Where The Knight went. "Come out, Come out, where ever you are!" Thunder said hovering around the roof, The Knight quickly and deftly moved between cover points on the roof, staying just out of Thunder's line of sight.

"You can't hide from Me!" Thunder said ripping a generator from the roof and tossing it across, smashing and clearing up alot of cover, The Knight just out of the path of it. ["ETA of Armor 30 seconds, in Jackson Central Park" Thunder heard the commlink on the silent rooftop, ripping off the cover and staring straight at The Knight. "There You Are!", The Knight activated his Shock Gauntlets, and slamming them on the sides of Thunders head, forcing him to stumble back in pain, "AUGH, You Stupid Meatbag!". The Knight ran and jumped off the building, gliding off towards Jackson park, "Come back here!" Thunder yelled as he flew forward, slamming into the back of The Knight, "Let's take a trip, straight into the ground". The Knight then powered up his gauntlets to 300 voltage setting, Shocking Thunder so hard it caused a vessel to break in his eye. The Knight then broke free of Thunder's grasp, he kicked off and flipped onto the ground as thunder slammed straight into it, kicking up a massive amount of dirt and uprooting a tree.

The Knight quickly hurried over to the large cylinder the Armor was contained in, activating the hand scanner and hurrying in, the doors of it closing behind him. Thunder stood up and looked around, his vision partly distorted by his eye. Thunder then saw the large cylinder sitting in an open clearing, "There you are" he said angrily as he jetted forward at it, "I'll open this Metal Box..." Thunder said grabbing the edges of the doors, "LIKE OPENING A CAN!" Thunder ripped open the doors, casting them aside. Thunder had an evil grin as he looked into the partly smoke covered interior of the Armor container, the grin was wiped off his face when a Metal, armored fist came from within the smoke, punching him and sending him backwards.

Thunder shook his head as he stood up, turning back to the Armor casing, just as The Knight in his Power suit emerged. Thunder grew more and more angry at The Knight every second, "I AM A GOD!", "What's a God, to a Nonbeliever". Thunder jetted forward at The Knight, The Knight activated the boosters on his armor, slamming into Thunder and sending him backwards into the dirt. Thunder kicked the Knight off, hovering back upright he jetted at him, Punching The Knight, each punch had the mass of a Semi-truck. The Knight caught Thunder's right fist, twisting it backwards, then punching Thunder straight into the Ground with his free hand. The Knight then grabbed Thunder with both hands, spinning and throwing him, causing Thunder to hit a tree then slam into the ground.

"As Much as the more Arrogant of you, With all of your Power and Strength to destroy the world ten times older, think you're Gods" The Knight said walking Over to Thunder. "YOU", The Knight slammed his right boot down onto thunder's head, "ARE", The Knight stomped down onto Thunder, "STILL", The Knight stomped again down onto Thunder, "MORTAL". Thunder cuaght The Knight's foot with both of his hands throwing him off to his right, The Knight rolled before regaining balance and standing uprights.

"Then let's test your morality", Thunder said jetting Straight at The Knight, Thunder slammed into the Knight's chest, pushing them through the stone wall perimeter of The Park and back down Grand Avenue. The Knight recieved a Notification from within the suit, ["Sir, The Suit's heath is at 89%"], "Still Viable" The Knight said, slamming his elbows down onto Thunder causing them to crash onto the street, crunching and breaking the ground below. The Knight stood up, but thunder beat him to the punch, grabbing a nearby lamp post and swinging at The Knight, causing him to get thrown back through the container end of a Semi - Truck, and into an empty store. The Knight stood up, ["Suit at 81% efficency"], The same lamp post was stabbed through The Knight's Power suit shoulder, narrowly missing The Knight's real shoulder. ["Suit Efficency at 71%"], The Knight tried to stand up, but Thunder stomped down on him, the Grabbing The Knight with both of his hands and throwing him, sending The Knight out of the store window, smashing through the corner support of a building, and coming to a hault landing on a van and crushing it.

["MARCUS, GET OUT OF THERE!"], The Knight pulled out what remained of the lamp post from the Power Suit's shoulder. The Knight swung down as thunder jetted forward, causing him to be slammed straight into the ground, The Knight grabbed thunder by his shoulder with his left hand, and started to continuously punch him over and over again with his right hand. Thunder Caught one of The Knight's punches, The Knight headbutted Thunder, partly denting the Power Suit's helmet. The Knight threw Thunder to his left, smashing him into a thick wall, The Knight walked towards Thunder and kicked him, sending him all the way through the wall.

The Knight pressed a button on his Power suit's gauntlet as he stepped back out onto the middle of the road, Thunder growled as he got back up. Thunder Charged Towards The Knight "I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO PAST-" Thunder was cut off when The Destroyer rammed into his left side, sending him down the street with the Destroyer.
The Knight's suit started to fail as one of the Knee's gave out, forcing him onto one knee, [Sir, The Power suit's auto repair function is failing, Suit's efficiency is at 67%], "I Can Manage Sanza" The Knight said as he looked down the road, Thunder casting the Destroyer aside as if it were a tin can.

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The Knight's Domain, Knightcomputer

Lawbringer fidgeted as she continued to view The Battle in downtown from the terminal, Sighing, "Sanza what's the Status on Marcus?". [Reports he can manage, However the Suit's power is failing]. Lawbringer shook her head, "Call in Failsafe A", [Miss, Marcus reported he can handl-], "I'm Overriding Marcus' order, Call in Titan". [Yes Ma'am].

Knightcomputer connected to Titan..
["hello?"],
[Cassandra We need your help"],
["Oh, I thought Chicago's One Man Army could Manage without me"],
["Cassandra, Marcus is refusing Support and His Power Suit's Failing"].
Titan paused for a moment, "Who's He fighting",
"Same Guy you and Guardian have run into in the past, Thunder".
Titan's Voiced Sounded slightly panicked, "I'm On my Way".

Lawbringer took off her mask and returned to viewing the Battle from nearby CCTV cameras, Anna watched as Thunder came speeding Towards The Knight.

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Chicago

The Knight charged up The Power Suit's gauntlets as Thunder jetted Towards him, "KNIGHT!", The Knight also charged forward, as Thunder lined up a punch, The Suit's gauntlet increased armor plating on The Knuckles. In one punch, Both Thunder and The Knight's punch connected, causing an outburst of Electrical shock, and a slight shock-wave that cracked and broke Glass and Windows nearby.

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The Knight's and Thunder's fists met, The Electrical shock from the Impact shattered Windows, Windshields, and all sorts of glass within a 10 block radius of them.

The Knight Braced himself as Thunder sent a hail of Punches sent by Thunder, each one of them making dents in The Power Suit's gauntlets.

"LOOK AT THIS KNIGHT, THE CITY IS BEING DAMAGED, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?!" Thunder said, Half Sadistically, Half taunting The Knight. On the inside, The Knight knew about the Damage, He also knew that All people within a 12 Block radius were evacuated. "Enough of this!" The Knight ordered throwing back Thunder, The Knight Tripped Thunder with his left Leg, then Punching Thunder to the ground with his right hand. "For whatever Sort of Sadistic thoughts you have Inside you...", The Knight stomped down on Thunder's Chest, "STAY", The Knight stomped down again, "DOWN". Thunder caught The Knight's foot, slamming him to the ground beside him, The Knight attempted to get up, But Thunder slammed down on The Power Suit's chest.

"Let's open this tin can" Thunder said as he tore off the main chest piece, ripping part of the helmet off to reveal The Knight in his normal suit within the Power suit.

"Hello Sunshine", "Bite me", "Gladly".

Chicago
Dawn's thinking wasn't her strong point, and she had managed to get herself lost. She was about to go and ask someone for directions, but a loud crash from nearby interrupted her thinking. Glass spewed everywhere because of the electromagnetic shock Knight and Thunder made. After quickly calculating how much money that would all cost to repair, she became inflamed with rage, and sought out the cause of this destruction.

After turning a few corners, she found what she was looking for. Knight and Thunder battling it out. At first, she questioned what she could do to help without causing massive amounts of destruction. After a cop car Thunder threw flew by her head, she became terrified, which changed her appearance once more.

She created a mist of absolute darkness by absorbing the light from the area. She solidified some of the darkness to put a barrier around the area the fight was taking place in so nothing too dangerous would happen to innocent bystanders. The last and final thing she did was create a massive Shadow Ball with her powers, then threw it towards Thunder.

Suddenly, a Ball of Shadow and Darkness came from Behind and Hit Thunder, throwing him off of the Suit. The Blast Stung Thunder greatly, even with the Adrenaline currently fueling him.
Thunder stood up, Staring back at the street behind and seeing a figure duck behind a corner.

"I'm Sick of this, Come Here Meatbag!" Thunder said shooting off towards the corner.

The Knight got up and out of the Power suit, he noticed Thunder jetting off possibly after someone, The Knight pressed a button on his gauntlet.
The Destroyer quickly drove up next to the Knight.

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Chicago
Mood Music
Dawn's Darkness Abilities allowed her Night Vision, so she could see Thunder coming. Sidestepping the oncoming Thunder, who would now crash into the black barrier around the fight. She was unsure of what follow-up attack to use, but decided to reuse a Shadow Ball, this time much larger and more powerful. White static was all around it. She slammed it down on Thunder.

The Shadow ball was slammed down onto Thunder, Who was caught offguard, The force of the shadow ball, combined with Thunder's heavy body mass, sent him down into a sewer line below.

Thunder shook his head, gritting his teeth and crashing back up through the street above. "Weak little girl, Do you really think you can beat me, I'LL CRUSH YOU LIKE A BU-",

Thunder was cut off when The Destroyer came barreling into his right side, Smashing him against the barrier and forcing him under The Destroyer. The Knight opened the top of The Destroyer and ejected out from the seat, landing next to The Woman, as Thunder got up, lifting The Destroyer on his shoulders, The Knight quickly pulled out his grappling gun. "Time to Move", The Knight quickly grabbed Dawn and grappeled up onto the top of a roof, The Knight quickly pulled him and The Woman up, letting do once they were on the roof.

As thunder tossed The Destroyer aside, The Knight opened the holographic UI on his Gauntlet,
The Knight peered over at Dawn, "Thunder (The currently Adrenaline fueled Metahuman Criminal down there) is currently pumped on a Superhuman Adrenaline rush. Luckily I got some help coming, So in about 30 seconds, You might want to drop the Barrier for a few seconds". The Knight peered over at Dawn, "I'm The Knight of Chicago", The Knight extended his free hand to shake hands with her.

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-snip-

One minute, Dawn was looking into the eyes of a very scary bearded man. The next minute, the bearded man was smashed into a wall. After that, Dawn breathed a sigh of relief, only to be dragged to the top of a roof, which only made her fear even stronger, because she'd never liked heights. Trying not to look down, she instead looked at her rescuer who asked her to take down the barrier so his help can come. He also offered his hand, which she shook. "My name is Dawn Sutton, but most people that don't know me very well call me Emotigirl." About thirty seconds passed, and Dawn waved her hand, breaking down the barrier.

"My name is Dawn Sutton, but most people that don't know me very well call me Emotigirl.", The Knight nodded.

After about thirty seconds, the Barrier lowered, with Titan flying in the vicinity. Titan gave a small wave to The Knight, before landing on the ground with great speed (though landing relatively lightly) and meeting eyes with Thunder.

Thunder laughed, "Well isn't it the little girl from California, Move out of the way Titan",
Titan readied her stance, "I'm All Grown Up", Thunder charged at Titan, who flew at him, catching him in the mid drift and forcing him back to the large statue in the middle of the square. Titan threw a punch at Thunder's chest, Thunder threw a fast punch but Titan caught it, breaking it and throwing several Punches straight at his head. Thunder grabbed Titan by her right arm and spun her into the Statue, the slammed his foot down hard on her, Titan Responded by Kneeing him straight in his stomach, then grabbing him by the shoulders and throwing him into the wreckage of a Semi - Truck.

The Knight opened the Holographic UI on his Gauntlet, opening communications with Titan so Dawn would be able to hear the chatter.
Communications Established....
["I'm Kind of in the middle of something"],
["I'm sure, Thunder is taking a beating, but his Adrenaline and sheer Superhuman Endurance makes him a tank"],
["So, What Do I do?"],
["we need to Burn through His Adrenaline."],
["Oh yeah that's Just Straight forward enough- How Exactly Do we Do that?!"],
["Titan, Continue close combat with Thunder, I'll provide ranged support with the Destroyer, and Emotigirl will continue to hit Thunder with her magick support. Everyone agree?"],
["Sounds good to me"].

The Knight waited for Dawn's reply.

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Chicago
Dawn noted what was going on. Some chick named Titan showed up and began to hand Thunder's butt to him. Hearing the communications, she nodded in agreement, now getting less afraid and in reality, jealous that Titan got to hand Thunder's butt to him. Now she could use her nature powers. The mist and wall vanished, replaced by a massive thorny vine wall. Large thorny vines sprouted around Thunder's arms and legs in order to dig into his flesh and/or possibly pin him down. A massive vine sprouted that Dawn used to climb down. One vine held a nest of hornets that if proper action were taken, would land right on top of Thunder.

Dawn Nodded in agreement,
["Alright, Let's move"] The Knight said as he exited the call, The Knight quickly jumped off the building, landing on The Destroyer. The Knight quickly entered The Destroyer, entering the combat mode and loading more of the Electrical Acidic Rounds into the Cannon.

Titan Jetted at Thunder as he climbed out of the Truck Wreckage, Thunder began to attack Titan, throwing a flurry of Punches and attacks at her. Titan did her best to counter and parry them, albeit being forced back by Thunder's sheer brute strength attacks. The Knight fired an Acidic round at Thunder, Thunder knocked Thunder, then, caught the Round midair, and threw it back at The Destroyer, before continuing his brawl with Titan. The Destroyer strafed out of the way. Thunder was caught off guard when Thorny Vines seemingly were conjured around his Right leg , sprouting and digging into it, before winding and digging into his Arms. Thunder outright screamed in Anger and Pain as he stomped around, trying to get rid of The Vines. The Knight then fired a High Explosive round at Thunder, catching him offguard and causing him to be thrown in the air, ["Now Titan!"].

Titan flew up, Thunder hovering midair, increasingly hurt and now being attacked by a Hornets nest stinging him constantly and fastly. Titan Backhanded him with her fist, Then Kneed him hard in his stomach, before flipping him over her shoulder and throwing him back down to the Ground. Titan then stopped Thunder's last attempt to get up, by Slamming down onto his chest with her right foot, finally breaking through his Adrenaline rush with all of the added pain.

The Knight ejected out of The Destroyer, landing next to Titan, Dawn climbed down with a large vine wall joining them. Thunder weakly tried to reach up to The Knight, "Stupid......=Meatbag", The Knight then grabbed Thunder by the collar of his suit, punching him across the jaw, knocking him out. The Knight flipped Thunder over, using special handcuffs to bind Thunder's hands together, Just as a few patrol cars pull up on the scene. One of the Swat members steps forward as The Knight kicks Thunder flipping him back over. The Swat Officer and a few other armored Policemen load Thunder into a convoy and haul him off, as more police arrive on the scene to secure the area.

Titan glares at The Knight, "See that he reaches Statevile, then meet me back at the Domain", Titan's expression didn't change, "....Please". Titan gave a smirk as she jetted off, The Knight turned to Dawn, "Thanks for the Help Emotigirl", The Knight said extending a hand. If Emotigirl shook it, The Knight would press a button, pulling The Destroyer up alongside them, "If you ever need my help, Simply contact me, You've earned it". The Knight climbed in The Destroyer and drove off, the police stepping out of the way as he pulled down the street, then stepping back onto it and a resuming their duties.

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Chicago, Chinatown Restaurant.

A Few hours after the Attack....

Police Captain John Brakenbrook lit up a cigarette, standing behind the yellow tape of the cornered off Restaurant.

The entire Chinatown block had been closed off for Police quaratine of the area and investigation, John stamped it out, "Bout time I quit anyways", "Smart decision". John Brakenbrook peered over his shoulder to see The Knight, "Yeah, my Daughter has been nagging me to quit". John shook hands with The Knight, "Has the area been tampered with yet?", John shook his head, "No, I've been waiting for you. My men are keeping pedestrians out". The Knight and John walked into the restaurant, John grimaced at the scene, The Knight keeping his demeanor. The people were butchered, stabbed and impaled with knives, cutlery, and other utensils, with a large amount of blood around the area.

The Knight carefully walked around, stepping over patches of blood, and making sure not to touch the bodies, "You know what's sick?" John asked The Knight. The Knight peered over at him, silent, "I was going to take my wife out for dinner here tomorrow" John said, shaking his head as he looked at an older couple, dead on the floor. The Knight peered down at one table, seemingly untouched by the blood and murder, "No blood on any part of this Table", "That's where Witnesses say he was sitting", "He?". The Knight then looked over at a dead waiter, behind his body were a large amount of Restaurant employees. "What kind of person does this, commits murder in a public place and somehow gets away?", The Knight shook his head, "This wasn't a murder.....".

The Knight stood up, gazing around, "It was a Massacre".

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Chicago, Chinatown
Dawn walked down the street, lost yet again. This was beginning to get frustrating. Half these people speak little to no English, but they're running shops and businesses. "There ought to be a law that makes immigrants learn English," muttered Dawn as she turned a corner. The good thing that came about getting lost, was she did have an excellent meal, though sushi was not her favorite meal.

As she turned the corner, she saw flashing lights, cop cars, and a police barrier. Running to the Police Barrier, Dawn asked one of the officers, "What happened here?"
"There's been a murder, Miss. I'll have to ask you to move along," the Officer replied, gruffly.
"What kind of creep would perform a murder?" demanded Dawn aloud. She was starting to get angry, but not enough to bring about her fiery aura.
"I have no idea, Miss, but I'll have to ask you to move along," the Officer restated.
Dawn saw a familiar figure inside-Knight. "I'm an ally of Knight's," she said, "Does that help anything?"
"Well, IF what you're saying is true, and you're not a nosy member of the press trying to get a looksie, then he'll have to confirm it," replied the Officer, "Hey, Jim, tell the Cap there's some gal out here claiming to be one of Knights compadres!"

An officer approached Captain Brakenbrook,
"Sir, There's an Ally of The Knight here", John Raised an eyebrow, "Wouldn't Lawbringer just get around the blockade like The Knight did".

The Knight stood up looking at the officer, "What does this 'Ally' look like?", "Female, long hair in a ponytail", "We've meet before, let her through". The Officer nodded, heading back to the barricade he allowed the woman to cross through. If she did cross through and made it to the Restaurant, She's see The Knight inspecting a knife that was lodged in a wall, the blood on it meant ot went straight through someone. "Emotigirl, Nice to see you again", John was writing down, giving a nod to Dawn before he continued to investigate.

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Chicago
Dawn was finally let through by the Officer, who, admittedly, was quite smitten by her beauty. Upon entry, she found herself sickened by what she saw-piles of dead bodies. "Nice to see you as well, Knight. I wish that it were under better circumstances," Dawn stuttered, still in shock as to her surroundings, even though in reality, most crime-fighters didn't meet in better circumstances.
"That officer outside told me that there was a murder in here. I hate to argue with him, partially because he's not here, but this wasn't a murder; it was a massacre," Dawn continued, scanning the room. Her anger now exploded as her fiery aura took over her. Now looking like this, Dawn's anger began to outwit her control, "The person who committed this despicable crime will BURN in MY wrath, then in HELL!"

As Dawn was now visually Brighter, from the Fiery Aura around her, and Angry.
John was nervous, keeping a more calm tone, and peering at The Knight who looked back at Dawn.

"we're going to find the Animal who did this, But right now we need to remain calm and survey the evidence", John flipped back a page and began to read off,
"So far everyone was killed with the Utensils off the entire place, precisely hitting their targets. The Waiter near the only blood free table, currently has.....the entire top of his head cut off".
The Knight stood up from surveying some of the knives, "None of these have any Finger prints on them", John raised an eyebrow, "So that means....", "We're dealing with someone with some sort of Telekinetic abilities, and one of great control. As far as my Scans have shown, everyone was killed by being punctured in exact places by their silverware". John closed up his notepad after writing down some more of the information, "I'm gonna go radio to HQ, tell them to ready a Crime Investigation team. I'll have them arrive when you're done". The Knight nodded as the captain left, The Knight used the Comm link in his helm,

["Knight to Lawbringer, where are you?"], "Right here" Lawbringer said dropping down and entering the Restaurant. her eyes were visibly squinting once seeing the scene, shaking her head, "This has gotta be one Psychotic Meta, to do this to so many Innocent people". The Knight started to walk around the counter, looking over at Dawn, "Emotigirl this is My Partner, Lawbringer. Lawbringer this is Emotigirl". Lawbringer gave wave as she began to access a small device, "Trying to Access the Security CCTV of this place", The Knight was gazing around, "Many of the Cameras were taken out, though there's got to be some that were missed". The Knight used the Lenses on his helmet to view the electrical wiring between the Cameras.

"Lawbringer, Emotigirl, Try to find the Office and survey what you can from the CCTV network, I'll continue on investigation down here". Lawbringer nodded as she nodded to Emotigirl before heading behind the counter and towards one of the back rooms.