Sentinel - Chapter 7 (Patreon)

Chapter 7

Sentinel cut through the air like a missile, even leaving a contrail behind him. As he flew he double checked his currently equipped abilities. Super and Power Mimicry were sitting in slots one and two respectively. He couldn't foresee a reason he wouldn't always have those two active. Slot three currently contained Tinker – Star Wars while slot four held Route. The tinker ability could stay, it would allow him to fabricate items on demand using Atom Eve's Molecular Transmutation contained within Power Mimicry.

It took him several minutes to arrive on the scene. He stopped in the air to take things in and get a read of the situation.

Shields had already been deployed and were being hammered by the Flaxans trying to take them down. Tinker – Minimization had come in clutch when it came to improving the shields and, more importantly, their power supplies. They were taking shots from the heavily improved tanks like they were a breeze blowing by.

The portable wall shields had been quickly deployed and protected the vast majority of the citizens who'd been unfortunate enough to be on the scene. Thankfully, there were very few bodies that he could see from his vantage point.

As for his companions, Kate was really showing off her skills by waging into the Flaxans and wailing on a dozen of them at once. Her armor and enhanced physique might have been compensated for, but the significantly smaller shields with vastly improved battery life were protecting her and her clones. Minimization had allowed Robot and himself to build a significantly slimmer shield belt that she could replicate with her clones.

Eve was sending out blasts and waves of pink energy blowing up groups of Flaxans at a time while ignoring their weapons fire. Like Kate, and everyone else, she was wearing a vastly improved shield belt. It would probably take hundreds of shots to disable it. That left her to go all out on her offense and smash her way through the Flaxans with ease.

Rex was having the time of his life firing his new gauntlets with varying levels of power. The explosions were pretty spectacular and Rex was clearly enjoying them.

Robot was a whole different experience in battle. Between his extremely powerful shields, beskar chassis, improved skeletal power, and immensely improved weapon systems, he was a walking juggernaut of destruction. A machine could already be considered superhuman with its strength. Robot was vastly beyond that now.

Invincible, equipped with his own shield gifted to him by Sentinel, was currently out of sight. Sentinel was certain he would be there, somewhere. He just couldn't see where the other teen was fighting at the moment.

Sentinel watched the army of Flaxans streaming out of three different portals. There had to be thousands of them with more coming every moment. This was their third attempt to invade Earth. Even after getting defeated the previous two times, they hadn't given up. It was clear, beyond doubt, that they wouldn't give up without being given reason to do so.

He was reminded of one of his lessons at the GDA.

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“Listen up, kid. This lesson is going to be the hardest lesson you will ever learn.”

Adam paid close attention, he'd been learning a lot and this seemed important.

“Being a hero you will spend the vast majority of your time fighting villains or petty criminals. You'll be able to deescalate and in cases where you can't you'll be taught how to keep property damage and casualties to a minimum.”

Adam nodded as he recalled those lessons.

“Today we're talking about situations that are not the standard. Sometimes there are people or organizations that simply can't be reasoned with, that simply wont stop. Sometimes, as distasteful as it is, there's only one solution. The final solution.”

Adam jerked in surprise, “You mean... killing?”

The instructor nodded, “I do. Taking someone's life should never, ever, be the first solution to a problem. It should always be the very last resort. Sometimes...” He sighed, “Sometimes it's the only solution. It's never a good day when you have to take a life, but someday, you will have to make that decision. I hope it never becomes and easy decision for you.”

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Adam had done his best to not take a life from the Flaxans. He'd injured plenty, but never killed them. His heart hammered and bile crawled up his throat, but the thought wouldn't leave him. The problem needed to be solved, permanently.

He dropped from the sky and landed on the street with a thud. Flaxan soldiers immediately aimed at him and opened fire. The blasts were intercepted by his personal shield leaving him to do what he wished. In his case, it gave him time to tap into Atom Eve's power. He raised his hand and rapidly generated a single item, a katana shaped vibroblade made out of the hardest and most durable version of beskar his mind could give him.

He grabbed the handle of the sword and took the briefest of moments to enjoy the smokey wave patterns of the beskar and the mono-molecular edge glittering in the sun. He took a deep breath and lowered the vibroblade to his hip and settled it as if it were in a saya hanging from his hip. He slowly lowered himself, his leg leg sliding back putting him low to the ground. His head tilted down while he really kicked up his usage of Thunder Breathing.

His muscles tensed while literal sparks of electricity snapped around his body as he built up power within them. He slowly exhaled, steam rolling from his mouth, “First Form: Thunderclap and Flash.”

With a thunderous boom his body turned into a streak of light that passed by a Flaxan soldier. Sentinel inhaled while the soldier collapsed to the ground, its head rolling away. He leaned down again, taking his stance once more, “Twofold.”

Thunder roared again as Sentinel streaked by two more Flaxan soldiers, their heads falling from their shoulders, “Threefold.”

Every time he stopped for an instant, he counted the next attack and more Flaxan heads fell from their shoulders. Panic began to unfold in the Flaxan invaders as more and more of them fell, headless. Seeing the streak that Sentinel had become sent shivers of fear down their spines. Sentinel came to a stop in front of a large group, hollow green eyes looked them over before his hoarse voice echoed, “Tenfold.”

The ground beneath his feet shattered throwing chunks of asphalt into the air that disintegrated from lightning striking them. More heads fell as he bounced between the Flaxans one after another in a continuous streak of death.

Sentinel game to a complete stop and exhaled a thick cloud of steam while behind him, Flaxan bodies fell like dominoes. In less than thirty seconds, he had decapitated fifty five Flaxan soldiers. It was only the beginning. A normal human body would be screaming in pain from the actions he'd undertaken this far. His enhanced body could be pushed much much further.

He turned on his heel and slowly crouched down while aiming toward some terrified looking Flaxans, “Twentyfold.”

Over the next minute, Sentinel became nothing but a continuous moving streak of death and destruction. Everywhere he passed Flaxans died while the ground was ripped to shreds from the sheer pressure of his speed. He only grew faster and faster, to the point where just passing by a Flaxan would seriously injure or even kill them.

When he finally came to a stop, his body burning from the strain of performing several Fiftyfold attacks, several hundred Flaxan lay dead while many others were already retreating. Sentinel took a moment to catch his breath and check on his companions. What he saw left him feeling ashamed.

They were all staring at him. Robot, Eve, Kate, Invincible, and Omni-Man were all staring between him and the swath of corpses he'd left behind. He knew they'd killed some Flaxans, they had to have during the three invasions, but none of them had a body count approaching his. Knowing that is what filled him with shame. He was a killer now. Deliberate and methodical.

Shouting from among the retreating Flaxans caught his attention. Among the foot soldiers he saw Scar's head on a giant mechsuit. He was shouting and clearly not happy about the retreat. He even went so far as to throw a soldier in the opposite direction of the portal back to their world.

Omni-Man shot by Sentinel with enough force to make him stumble. As everyone watched, Omni-Man tackled Scar and his mech suit into the portal which immediately closed.

“DAD!”

There was a beat of silence before Rex shouted, “Dad?! HOLY SHIT! Your DAD is Omni-Man?!”

Invincible glanced at Rex, then toward Sentinel, “You didn't tell them?”

Instead of answering Invincible, Sentinel dropped his sword and caught Kate when she charged at him. He caught her in his arms and held her close while she wrapped her legs around his waist. Her lips slammed into his without any hesitation sending a wave of shock through his system. They'd been dating about a week and this was the first time they'd kissed.

Sentinel remained frozen for a few seconds, then his eyes closed and he began returning the kiss with as much fervor as Kate was putting into it. Their lips parted and their tongues met in a wicked dance. Even though it was only kissing, Sentinel could feel a long neglected skill kicking in, Expert Kama Sutra. He'd gotten the skill months ago and never put any of it to use, until then. Kate moaned appreciatively into his mouth just from the pleasure of their kiss.

When they broke apart, Kate's brown eyes stared into Adam's emerald as she stated, with no doubt in her tone, “That was the greatest kiss I've ever had.”

Adam couldn't disagree with her and spoke in a husky voice, “It was the greatest for me too.”

A shudder ran through Kate's whole body. She unwrapped her legs from his waist and dropped to her feet, “Later, tiger.”

She sauntered back over to where Eve was staring at her with a playful smirk. The two girls split off together to have some girl talk that none of the guys, or robots, nearby wanted anything to do with.

Rex made his way over to Adam and looked at the vibroblade on the ground, then back to his eyes, “Dude. That fucking ROCKED! What was that?!”

Sentinel bent over to retrieve the sword while answering, “Thunder Breathing.”

Rex gaped, “Oh come on! You're seriously not going to teach me that shit?!”

Chuckling, Sentinel shook his head, “Nope, only the breathing technique.”

Rex grumbled, “That fucking sucks man!”

They fell into a comfortable chat while everyone gathered up to make their way to the Teen Team tower. Or, in the case of Invincible, back home to tell his Mom that his Dad was trapped in another dimension.

-----Line Break-----

Adam retched into the toilet. His throat and nose burned from his stomach acid going in the wrong direction. He'd managed to keep himself calm enough to help out a bit after the invasion, but once he was alone...

Adam wiped the tears from his eyes and fought against the overwhelming feeling of guilt bubbling up in him. He knew, intellectually, that the Flaxans were monsters. They invaded Earth and killed civilians with zero hesitation. Even after being driven back twice, they'd come a third time and been even more violent.

It seemed the only thing the Flaxans understood was violence, so he'd answered in kind.

He just wished doing so didn't feel as if it had cost him a piece of his soul.

There was a knock on the door to his bathroom causing him to pause. He'd been home alone, he needed to be alone to deal with his actions. The knock came again and was followed by the familiar voice of Cecil, “Come on out, kid. We should talk.”

Maybe a distraction wouldn't hurt. Adam floated up and settled on his feet, “Just a second.”

He grimaced at how rough his voice sounded. He turned on the faucet and rinsed his mouth out. A quick gargle of mouth wash later, he opened the door. Cecil took one look at him and commented, “Jesus, you look like shit.”

Adam grunted, “Thanks.”

“Honestly, kid, I'm kind of glad you do. If you'd been just fine after what happened I'd be a lot more worried.”

Adam scowled, but got Cecil's meaning. Cecil let the silence drag for a few moments then continued, “I know what its like, to do something you don't want to do. To have to compromise your morals and do things you honestly hate doing. I do it almost every day to protect the world from itself.”

Adam looked past Cecil, his gaze unfocused, “I killed them.”

“You did. And it was the right thing to do. The Flaxans wanted to kill us, all of us, and were not going to give up without a fight. Look... if you need to talk to someone, you know we have people who will keep your secrets.”

Adam's unfocused gaze moved to Cecil and gained some clarity, “I want to say no... but I think that would be a mistake. Make an appointment for me?”

Cecil nodded, “I will. Now, let's get your mind on something else. What did you get for saving the world?”

Adam moved his gaze to something only he could see, his rewards for the invasion.

[Feat Achieved! Terrify the Flaxans more than Omni-Man. +1 Gold Gacha Ticket.]

[Feat Achieved! Defend against the 3rd wave of the Flaxan invasion with minimum casualties. +1 Diamond Gacha Ticket.]

[Feat Achieved! First kiss with Kate Cha (Dupli-Kate)! +1 Bronze Gacha Ticket.]

“Bronze, Gold, and Diamond.”

Cecil raised an eyebrow in question, “That's an interesting spread. What're they for?”

Adam explained the first two easily enough then added, “I'm pretty sure the Flaxans will be back, again.”

Cecil clicked his tongue in annoyance, “Hopefully not for a long time. I expect Omni-Man is putting the fear of god into them in their own dimension.”

“We can only hope.”

Cecil smirked, “I noted you didn't mention what got you the bronze.”

Adam's cheeks flushed slightly and he mumbled the reason.

“I didn't catch that, what did you say?”

Blushing red Adam practically shouted, “I got it for my first kiss with Kate!”

Cecil's responding grin was vicious, though his mind was going at a thousand miles and hour, “Oho? Good for you. See what you get for that kiss.”

Still blushing, Adam nodded and thought, 'Roll the bronze ticket.'

[ROLLING!]

[Ceaseless Discharge, Trash Trait, "Not the one you are thinking of" Your cum refills almost instantly, and the volume of your ejaculations is substantially increased.]

Adam's eyes widened in shock after reading the description of his new trait. Then his cheeks went from pink, to bright red.

Cecil's grin turned positively predatory, “I get the feeling you got something really interesting.” He arched an eyebrow at Adam in question.

Adam felt like his face was going to catch fire. He was so embarrassed he couldn't even speak. He was forced to use Eve's power to generate a piece of paper with the description of the trait written on it. Cecil accepted it, read it over, and looked at Adam like he was a juicy steak, “I'm even more convinced your power isn't quite as chaotic as you think.”

Adam shuddered under Cecil's look but had to agree, “You might be right.”

In an effort to get away from the subject Adam thought, 'Roll the golden ticket! Roll it right now!'

[ROLLING!]

[High Speed Regeneration, Elite Ability, Gives you a rapid healing factor, even bullet holes and stabs will close in a few seconds. You can further speed up healing by expending energy.]

“Huh, I just got a healing factor as an ability. It'd be better as a trait, but whatever.” He explained the finer details to Cecil.

“Still, that's not a bad thing to have in your back pocket kid. Healing from a bullet wound in seconds is pretty fast. The fact that you can make it faster? We might have to see about getting you into more radioactive disposal sites. Now, let's see what you get for the big one.”

'Roll the Diamond ticket.'

[ROLLING!]

[Saiyan, Mythical Trait, Race(Dragon Ball) - You are a Saiyan warrior, having a great natural physique and a monkey tail as a weakness. When exposed to a full moon you turn into a rampaging giant monkey with massively increased stats. Don't expect to be too strong too soon, even Goku needed decades of training from the greatest martial artists.]

Adam tilted his head to the side, “Huh, this is the first race change that's not a demon or undead or something equally wrong. You ever heard of a Saiyan Cecil? They should be pretty strong since it's a mythical trait, but... I'd end up with a monkey tail that's somehow a weakness and a full moon would turn me into a raging gigantic monkey...”

Cecil gave Sentinel a flat look, “That... sounds incredibly stupid.”

Adam nodded in agreement, “I'm sure we're missing something that makes it worthy of being mythical, but it seems like such a waste to take it when I know nothing about it.”

'Reroll'

[ROLLING!]

[Obito's Mangekyo Sharingan, Mythical Ability, Naruto - You possess the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan of Obito Uchiha in addition to all of the benefits of the regular Sharingan you have full access to the Kamui technique. Granting you access to an endless pocket dimension called the Kamuki. With it, you can create barriers that pull people into your dimension, freely teleport inside it, teleport by leaving it in a different location, use it to become temporarily intangible, and even open portals in space and breach other dimensions with your own ability.]

Adam frowned as he read over the description of his newest ability, “Okay soooo I got some sort of freaky eye power that does things? Forget it.”

With another wave of pink energy he made another sheet of paper with the full description of his new eyes, “Super weird.”

Cecil read the description and frowned in thought. The eyes sounded very powerful, and dangerous, “Do me a favor, kid. Don't go opening portals to other dimensions. The last thing we need is fucking Cthulu finding a way into our little slice of heaven. Being able to teleport around sounds useful though. It'll make it a lot easier to deploy you.”

Adam tilted his head in thought, “I hadn't considered that, but you're right.”

“Good. I also came here for another reason. I plan to ask Robot to rebuild and lead a new Guardians of the Globe team. I know how close you are with Robot, but I want to request that you not join the Guardians.”

Adam jerked in surprise, “What?! Why?!”

Cecil gave Adam a serious look, “I like working with you kid and while the GDA has a strong connection to the Guardians, publicly they're seen as a completely separate group. If you join the Guardians, then anything I want to deploy you on becomes a Guardian mission in they eyes of the public. I'm not telling you that you can't work with the Guardians, I'd just prefer if you didn't officially join them.”

Adam frowned in displeasure. What kid growing up in America didn't dream of joining the Guardians of the Globe? It would literally be a childhood dream come true! But... He could see where Cecil was coming from. His training with the GDA included lessons on public relations and while he despised the topic, he reluctantly understood it.

He finally let out a sigh, “I understand.”

“Good. Go see that girlfriend of yours. I've got work to handle. I'll have the time for your appointment texted to you, alright?”

Adam nodded, too distracted wondering about his new abilities and ignoring his weird ass new trait. Though a small part of him hoped Kate was into that sort of thing... Right, freaky eyes, focus on the freaky eyes.

-----Line Break-----

Rex stood next to Eve, their hands intertwined as they listed to Omni-Man giving a private eulogy for the Guardians of the Globe. They'd already done the public one, now it was the real one. Invincible, or Mark as he now knew, had invited Eve and she'd invited him. Part of him thought about blowing it off, but he couldn't. He'd been putting it off for a while, but he still needed to have that talk with Eve.

As the funeral was closing, he guided Eve off to a side, walking under and umbrella in the rain together. Once they had some semblance of privacy, he turned to face Eve, “There's something I need to talk to you about.”

Eve's green eyes looked up to him and he felt a knot in his throat. He pushed through it and forced himself to put the words out there, “I realized something a while ago and seeing all this,” he gestured to the graveyard, “Made me realize I needed to do it before something happened and it became a regret.” He took a breath, “Eve, I fucking love you. You know that, right?”

Looking slightly suspicious, Eve nodded, “I do, and I love you too.”

“Which is why I think we should break up.” Seeing her eyes widen and tears beginning to form, he pushed on fast, “I love you. But I keep fucking it up and hurting you. How many times have I cheated on you like a fucking moron? I realized that if I kept fucking up, then eventually I would lose you forever. I'm breaking up with you because I want to keep you in my life, forever. Even if only as a friend. I'd rather hurt you a little now, than hurt you so much worse later.”

Eve stared at him while tears dripped down her cheeks, “You're... breaking up with me because you love me and want me in your life forever?”

“I know! It's sounds so fucking stupid! But think about it! What happens if I cheat on you again? I can't do that to you again!”

Eve snorted through her tears, “You're a fucking idiot, but I think I understand.” She poked him hard in the chest, “If you'd cheated on me again I would have lost my mind and you would have lost what makes you a man.”

Rex grimaced, “Jesus Eve, way to make a man squirm.”

She laughed, though it was wet and tears were still falling down her cheeks. He reached up and gently wiped the tears away, “Are you alright?”

Eve shook her head, “No, but I will be.” She looked into his eyes, “If only you'd been this mature the entire time I've known you.”

He back a sarcastic laugh, “Fuck that! I only realized this after that white knight asshole Adam cooked dinner for us. Speaking of that asshole, there better be some fucking food when we get back to the tower.”

Rex offered Eve his arm, “Shall we go home?”

Eve, still sniffling and wiping away a few stray tears, looped her arm within his.

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The moment Kate saw Eve with puffy bloodshot eyes, she grabbed her and dragged her into her room. After making Eve sit on her bed, she joined her, “What happened?”

Eve rubbed her eyes and let out a deep sigh, “Rex broke up with me. Somehow the asshole made it into a kind of good thing.”

Eve raised an eyebrow in question, “Wait. Asshole Rex broke up with YOU? I thought you two would be together until he finally messed up so bad that you dumped him, for good.”

Eve gave a wry chuckle, “That's kind of what he said. He broke up with me so we could remain friends. He actually said he was scared he'd fuck up again and lose me from his life entirely.” She sniffled, “Don't tell him, but it was kind of sweet, in a dumb ass Rex kind of way.”

“So what now?”

Eve considered Kate's question, “I think... I think I want to be single for a while. I've been with Rex for so long that I've kind of forgotten what that's like.”

Kate studied Eve and slowly nodded, “I think that might be the right thing to do. Jumping right into another relationship would just be a rebound and probably doomed to ending, badly.”

What Kate didn't mention is that, while her advice came from a place of love, she also wanted Eve to remain single long enough for her to get Adam on board with dating both of them. Looking from the outside she could see they were attracted to each other, but Adam was too good a man to cheat on her so he'd labeled Eve as a friend. She didn't think it would be too hard to convince him to date both of them.

Besides, thanks to copying her power, he could be in two places at once, and wasn't that just a delicious thought? She pushed thoughts of threesomes and two person orgies aside.

Eve smiled at Kate, “Thanks for this. It's good to know I still have a best friend I can count on.”

Kate moved closer to Eve and wrapped her arms around her in a comforting hug, “I'll always be here for you.”

Eve hugged Kate back and sighed softly in relief. After the hug broke, the traditional trash talking of the ex-boyfriend began.

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Sentinel landed at the location Robot had texted him. Stepping inside he was met by Robot, “Hey Robot. What's going on?”

Robot turned to lead him inside but spoke over his shoulder, “I'm holding tryouts for the new Guardians of the Globe. I invited you to take part.”

“Ah. I wish I could, but Cecil asked that I not.”

Robot stopped and faced Sentinel, “Why?”

“PR bullshit. He doesn't want me connected, officially, with the Guardians of the Globe. Unofficially, I can do whatever I want and hang out with whoever I want. Basically, It'll be just like it was before I officially joined the Teen Team.”

Robot's eyes flashed then spoke in atone that almost sounded annoyed, “I see. It's less than ideal for you to not join, being one of the strongest heroes on Earth, but I understand the situation.”

Sentinel stepped forward and rested a hand on Robot's shoulder, “I'll always be there for my friends and our relationship doesn't have to change. I still want to work on things with you. Who knows when I'll get a whole new tech ability that we can explore together?”

“I appreciate that. Even if you wont participate in the try outs, would you be willing to stick around to heal any injuries that might happen?”

“Of course! I wouldn't miss this for the world.”

The next door the stepped through deposited them in a large room with plenty of seating and filled to the brim with heroes, many of whom Sentinel recognized. One wall of the room was floor to ceiling windows that looked down into a large open area.

As they walked, they spotted Invincible standing off by himself looking a little awkward. Robot approached him and held his hand out, “Invincible, I'm glad you could come.”

Invincible shook Robot's hand but rubbed the back of his head, “I wouldn't miss this for the world, but I'm not here to join up.”

Robot's tone definitely sounded annoyed when he asked, “May I ask why?”

“It's my dad. He wants to train me himself. Plus, my mom would kill me if I missed any more school.”

“I see.” Robot was clearly disappointed.

Robot turned away from Invincible and stepped to the front of the room. He increase his modulator volume to address the room, “Thank you all for coming here today. The Guardians of the Globe were more than a group of heroes, they were icons. Those of you who pass our trials will be the elite. The best of the best.”

His gaze swept over the room, “Needless to say, not all of you will be up to the challenge. Those of you who are up to the challenge will succeed not just by the uniqueness of your abilities, but by the uniqueness of your tactics, your adaptability, the agility of your minds, and, perhaps most importantly, the strength of your character and spirit. That, is what truly makes a hero.”

Sentinel, and several others, gave a polite round of applause for Robot's speech. Robot moved on once they finished, “The first trial will be between Atom Eve and The Hunk. Feel free to use anything short of lethal force, Sentinel has agreed to heal any wounds anyone receives. Though I should warn you, his method of healing is... unorthodox.”

Several gazes fell on Sentinel making him feel a little self-conscious as he waved back. Meanwhile, Eve and a giant muscular man standing somewhere around ten feet tall made their way down into the training area. As they stood across from each other, The Hunk started flexing his pecs while giving Eve a provocative wink. Her gaze immediately narrowed.

Robot started the fight and it was brutally short. The Hunk charged Eve and lashed out with a wide haymaker. Eve used her power to deflect his punch wide, then launched a small blast at his feet that sent him stumbling toward her. She came in hard, energy wrapping around her fist just before she drove it into his cheek with shocking force. The Hunk went flipping through the air and slammed into the ground unconscious.

Eve huffed and left the arena. Sentinel chuckled and made his way down to the unconscious giant. He looked up at the heroes in the viewing area, “I swear this is how I heal!”

He double checked that he had Physical Therapy in his fourth slot before cocking his fist back and slamming it into The Hunk's head. There were shouts, which become exclamations of shock when The Hunk grunted and pushed himself to his feet looking none the worse for wear. He looked around, confused, then down at Sentinel, “What happened?”

Sentinel floated into the air so he could pat the much larger man on his shoulder, “You got knocked out.”

“Damn.” The Hunk's shoulders slouched.

Together they left the arena so the next trial could begin. The next round was surprising to Sentinel. A girl who looked no older than fourteen, maybe younger, entered the training area and stood across from Demi-God. Sentinel didn't know much about Demi-God, just enough to recognize him due to his unique look. He appeared as a floating purple head which seemed to be his entire body, or a form of it. He wore a gray sweater vest over a white shirt with a blue tie and black gloves along with gray pants and brown shoes. He carried a long staff that split in two at the tip and had a floating purple orb in the middle of it.

He was rather shocked when the younger girl was surrounding in a whirling blue glow that transformed her into a hulking green monster that towered over Demi-God. The trial opened with Demi-God leveling his staff at the girl, Monster Girl, and firing a thick purple beam. Monster Girl crossed her arms and blocked the blast, though the force of it did have her feet sliding backward on the floor.

The beam lasted for nearly a minute before Demi-God had to stop. Monster Girl looked at him from behind her crossed arms. When she spoke her voice was much deeper and more masculine, “My turn.”

She... he? Did she become a he when transformed because her monster for was definitely male. Well, either way, Monster Girl charged across the open floor and started swinging away. Demi-God managed to dodge a few blows, even using his staff to redirect a few blows. It was going well, until Monster Girl used a feint that threw him off and she managed to land a crushing blow to his face.

Demi-God flipped through the air until his back slammed into the wall. He stuck to it for a moment before collapsing to the ground and laying there. Robot let it go for a short time then called it. Sentinel went down once more and punched Demi-God conscious. Meanwhile, Monster Girl shifted back to her teenage form and walked over to Demi-God and held out a hand, “You alright?”

Demi-God accepted the helping hand and nodded. Together the trio went back to the viewing area. Over the next twenty minutes, Sentinel watched a half dozen matches. Some of the heroes he recognized, some he didn't. Some seemed like decent people, others were kind of arrogant or conceited.

Speaking of arrogant, Rex was forty minutes late to the trials. If Sentinel didn't know better, he would have sworn that Robot looked annoyed. Maybe he was just projecting his own feelings on the man? Machine... whatever. He considered Robot a man and that was what mattered in his own head.

Rex sauntered over with a smirk, “So, what'd I miss?”

He was summarily ignored by Robot who announced the next match, “Black Samson versus Throwbolt.”

Sentinel watched as Black Samson, one of the original members of the Guardians of the Globe, stepped out of the line. Black Samson had lost his powers years ago and left the original Guardians. Now he wore armor that consisted primarily of a dark navy bodysuit covered by bulky yellow-gold armor around the chest, shoulders, neck, forearms, hands, lower legs, and feet. Thin orange lines ran across portions of the suit and armor, while small orange-red details appeared on the chest and extremities. His head remained exposed while wearing the suit.

Throwbolt was a young woman with a slender, athletic build. She had spiky blonde hair in a hairstyle resembling a faux hawk, thin black eyebrows, and blue eyes. She was fairly attractive but didn't hold a candle to his Kate. She wore an outfit consisting of a primarily yellow form-fitting sleeveless tight suit with a high-neck collar and white shapes, including two distinct thunderbolts on the front of her suit. She also wore yellow gloves with a white strip at the wrists and yellow boots.

The fight between the pair was interesting to watch. Black Samson's suit gave him flight, strength, and firepower. Meanwhile, Throwbolt powered up transforming her hair to look like electricity and making her eyes glow and emit small sparks. While Samson flew and fired at her, she returned fire with electrical attacks.

Throwbolt managed to land a hit on Samson's back knocking him out of the air. Unfortunately, that was her undoing. Once he was on the ground he managed to weave through all of her attacks and land a solid blow that knocked her down.

Being a gentleman, Samson offered Throwbolt his hand and helped her back to her feet. It was a nice show of sportsmanship. When they got up to the viewing area, Sentinel gave Throwbolt a nice shot to the face and healed the small amount of damage Samson dealt.

Rex then fought a hero named Pangea and won. He was followed by a woman named Shrinking Rae fighting against Man Kong, a guy that looked like a gorilla with a human face. Seeing her in action was pretty impressive. She took Man Kong out my crawling into his ear and messing with his inner ear so badly he vomited and fainted into his own vomit.

Kate's match was next and it was... really one sided. Thanks to the Heart Shaped Herb, Kate was a low level superhuman with just one of her. A half dozen of her versus one other hero? No contest. She barely had to try to win her match against Bug-Eye.

Eventually the tryouts finished with Sentinel only having to punch a few people back to health. No one would be leaving without a single bruise if he had anything to say about it. Robot once more stepped in front of the gathered heroes, “Thank you all for attending. It is my pleasure to announce the new Guardians of the Globe.”

His gaze swept over them all, “Black Samson. Shrinking Rae. Dupli-Kate. Monster Girl.”

He paused after naming each hero to let them step forward. When Monster Girl did so, she caught Rex's undivided attention. He stared at her for a moment before throwing his head back and laughing, hard. Once he stopped he leaned over with his hands on his knees to get eye level with Monster Girl, “Awwwww look at her! She's adorable!” He straightened, “But, isn't there an age requirement for this ride? Am I wrong? This is weird, right?”

Robot's lenses snapped toward him, “Rex!”

Monster Girl cut in, “I dunno, you're here. Isn't there a dick size requirement?” She held her hand up with her finger and thumb held close together.

Rex faced her while stainding ram-rod straight. His voice held a hint of anger as he started with, “I'm sorry...”

Monster Girl cut him off, “For your tiny dick?” she asked while lifting her pinky finger suggestively.

Rex curled his hands into tight fists while Monster Girl continued, “With the way you've been strutting around here, you must be compensating for something.”

Sentinel had to hold back a smirk. While he hadn't paid any attention to Rex, Monster Girl's description of strutting did sound like him. While Sentinel held back, the rest of the heroes weren't quite so polite with some chuckling and others outright laughing.

Embarrassed and angry, Rex pulled one of his disks off of his belt and began charging it, “Someone aught to teach you some mother fucking... what the fuuuuck?!”

As he was speaking, blue magical energy wrapped around Monster Girl's left shoulder and traveled down her arm transforming it into a large muscular green limb. Her fist slammed into his face and sent Rex crashing through the glass viewing window and down a couple of stories to land hard on the training room floor.

Rex managed to push himself up a bit before Monster Girl landed in front of him with a heavy thud. She looked at him with a smirk, “I guess you missed my tryout.” Magical blue energy swirled around her whole body shifting her into her alternate form, “Still think I'm adorable?”

Rex managed to push himself to his feet but couldn't say anything before Monster girl's gigantic fist slammed into his face with enough force to lift him off his feet and toss him a dozen feet to the side to slam into the arena wall. Rex groaned and spit three teeth into his hand.

“Oh you bitch!” He charged his own teeth with energy and threw them at Monster Girl. They struck her large chest and detonated in small explosions that did a grand total of nothing to her, “Awwww. Now THAT'S adorable.”

What followed was a one sided beat down that only ended when Invincible interfered by flying into the arena and punching Monster Girl, but only after she punched him first. Monster Girl, looking a little sheepish, explained, “My bad. The kid thing sets me off every time. Then it's like 'Raaaa' beat mode.” She looked at Rex, “Sorry about the dick joke, I'm sure your junk is awesome.”

“It's good. You're good. I'm good.” Rex sounded a little unstable and probably concussed while pushing himself to his feet with loud groans. As he walked toward the door her flipped Invincible off over his shoulder and petulantly remarked, “I didn't need your help, asshole.”

When they finally got back to the viewing room, Sentinel smirked at Rex, “Forget your gauntlets?”

“Fuuuuuck you. Now heal me, bitch.”

Sentinel crossed his arms over his chest and raised an imperious eyebrow, “I only offered to help heal the official tryout matches.”

“Ohhhh, FUCK. YOU.”

Robot chimed in, “As I was saying. Welcome to the Guardians of the Globe, Monster Girl.”

Rex groaned and held his stomach with one arm, “Gunna shit blood tonight.”

Robot continued, ignoring Rex's comment, “Along with Rex Splode, once he's recovered. And our final member, Atom Eve. Thank you all for coming today. We'll be making a public announcement shortly.”

Almost everyone turned to leave the room, though Sentinel stuck around along with Rex and Robot. Eve walked by talking to Invincible about how excited she was to be on the team.

Sentinel walked over to Rex and pulled down his mask just so Rex could see his smirk, “You just can't keep your mouth shut, can you?”

Rex glared at Sentinel and spoke in a forced calm tone, “Just heal me you dick.”

Sentinel laughed and did as asked, slamming his fist into Rex's face until all of his wounds were gone, “You're lucky I'm around or you really would have been shitting blood tonight.”

Rex grunted in acknowledgment then added, “But you are around. Speaking of, you cooking dinner tonight? You know, as a celebration for all of Teen Team, minus you, getting into the Guardians?”

“I suppose I could.” Sentinel conceded.

“Fuck yes! Totally worth the ass beating.”

Sentinel pulled his mask back up and looked toward Robot, “If you need help with anything, you don't need to hesitate to ask. I might not be an official member, but you're all still my friends. Hell, Kate's even my girlfriend. We can work together on more upgrade for the whole group.”

“Thank you Sentinel, I appreciate your continued support and help.”

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The following day, Adam joined Robot within his lab at the Teen Team tower, it hadn't been moved yet. He looked toward his friend and asked, “Not that I don't want to hang out and make awesome stuff together, but shouldn't you be working with the new Guardians?”

Robot turned to face Adam, “In better circumstances, yes.”

“Personality clashes?”

“Among other things. Monster Girl's power is a curse that reverses her age every time she transforms. Black Samson and Rex Splode get along as well as potassium and water. Though Dupli-Kate, Atom Eve, and Shrinking Rae seem to be getting along rather well with one another. There is some minor animosity between Atom Eve and Rex Splode, but that is expected given their break up.”

Sentinel nodded in agreement, “Yeah, but that could have been a whole lot worse. At least she doesn't hate his guts so there's a future where they work together just fine.”

“I believe you are correct. Now, to the reason I called you. If you would follow me.”

Robot turned and walked away. Sentinel didn't hesitate to follow. They made their way to a hidden elevator which raised an eyebrow, but Adam didn't ask. Robot was allowed to have his secrets, plus if he had the chance Adam would build his own secret passages in his own place in the future.

When the elevator stopped and the doors opened, they were faced with a short hallway and another door. Robot stepped into the hallway then turned to face Adam, blocking his path, “What I am about to show you, no one else is aware of. It is my closest guarded secret. I ask that you tell no one what you are about to see and learn.”

Hearing something serious in Robot's tone, Adam nodded in solemn agreement, “I wont tell a soul. I promise.”

Robot seemed to study him, as if looking for something. Apparently he found it because he turned around without another word and walked toward the door. Opening it led into a large room with a large containment pod sitting in the middle of it. Stepping closer, Adam could see a small and severely malformed human floating in the tank connected to tubes and wires.

Robot's monotone voice spoke from behind him, “It's good to finally meet you in person, Adam.”

Adam looked between the speaking Robot and the individual in the tank, “Wait, you're human?!”

There was a pause before the Robot spoke once more, “That is probably the nicest reaction anyone has had upon seeing me for the first time. My name, is Rudy. I created and control the drone bodies everyone knows and calls Robot.”

Adam ginned, not bothered at all by the sight of Rudy's body floating in the tank, “It's nice to officially meet you, Rudy. Not that I don't appreciate the trust, but I'm guessing there's a particular reason you chose now to share your condition with me?”

“You are correct. The meeting with the Guardians made me realize that, as long as they believe me to be nothing but 'a bunch of ones and zeroes' they will not take me seriously as their leader. However, my current body will not inspire the confidence in my leadership either. My research into Star Wars has revealed that cloning technology existed within the universe.”

Adam swapped Tinker – Star Wars in and a quick look brought up what he needed to know, “Yeah, there's a lot of technology related to cloning from multiple sources. There's also a lot of information on genetic engineering.” He looked at Rudy, “I'm assuming you want a new body?”

“You assume correctly. Is there anything related to consciousness transfer?”

Adam paused and closed his eyes while thinking on the topic. He frowned, “Not as much, but some.” He opened his eyes, “We can make you a new body and move you into it. However, it'll take longer to fix the issues in your genetic code than to grow the body.”

“I... do not wish to use my body as the template...”

Adam crossed his arms over his chest, “Did you have someone in mind?”

Rudy paused then, slowly, “I was hoping... You might be willing.”

Adam studied Rudy for a bit before he answered, “I have conditions.”

“Name them.”

“First, if I agree, you have to take the last name Cross, so you will become Rudy Cross. Second, you will be officially adopted into my family.”

Adam could see the shock in Rudy's eyes while Robot spoke, “But... I'm thirty...”

“Do you plan to age your new body to thirty?”

“No. I wanted to stop around age thirteen, give or take one year.”

“That would make you my little brother then. I always wanted a little brother! Having a twin sister is awesome, but this'll be something completely new!”

As far as talking to his mother about it, Adam saw no reason to do so. His mother would agree in an instant if she lay even a single eye on Rudy. It didn't take a genius, or even an intelligent person, to know that Rudy had NOT had a pleasant childhood. If he'd had any kind of childhood at all. No, people were not that kind. Frankly, he thought it was a miracle and a testament to Rudy's willpower that he even managed to live so long.

Robot tentatively asked, “Are... are you sure your family won't object?”

Adam chuckled, “Mom always said she wanted more kids but with my Dad gone...” He shook it off, “Anyway! This'll be a great way to get more Cross's out and about!”

“Thank you, Adam.”

“Oh ho ho ho, I can't WAIT to tell Mom and Eve about this. They're going to flip!” He rubbed his chin, “Speaking of Eve, I'm a little late giving her the Heart Shaped Herb I promised. I'll talk to both of them tonight. Until then, what do you say we get to start building the cloning chamber and support equipment?”

“Yes. Lets.”

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“Sentinel.”

Adam paused in his work on a control console for the cloning chamber and reached up to touch his ear so Rudy would know he was using it, “I'm here, Cecil.”

“I need you.”

After setting his tools aside, Adam stood and used Eve's power to change into his costume, “Sit rep.”

“Rogue super villain, public's in danger. You're heading to Mount Rushmore.”

Sentinel turned to Robot, “I'll be back in a bit.”

He took off and left the Teen Team base to make his way toward South Dakota. He poured on the speed while Cecil briefed him, “Your target is Doc Seismic. He has a PHD in seismology, so the Doc thing? That's legit. The problem is, he made himself a pair of earthquake gloves that generate shock waves and uses them to terrorize people. We believe that every time he uses them he gives himself the equivalent of a concussion so it's hard to tell what he actually wants. He might not even know. Your job is to take him down, protect the civilians, and protect the historical site.”

Setninel hit maximum in atmosphere speed while using route to guide him toward his destination, “I understand. I'll take him down as efficiently as I can to keep damage to a minimum.”

“Good luck, Sentinel.”

It took a couple of minutes for him to fly from Chicago to South Dakota. He arrived in time to see Doc Seismic giving a loud speech about how the people depicted on the mountain were slave owners and other crap that Sentinel didn't need to listen to. Just seeing how aggressive the Doc was being toward the nearby civilians was enough.

Sentinel immediately used Kate's power to split himself into a dozen copies. Eleven of them took off and began collecting people and evacuating them. Meanwhile, one flew directly toward Doc Seismic, “That's enough! It's time for you to be taken in!”

Doc Seismic turned to face Sentinel and laughed, “And whose going to take me in? You?!”

Doc Seismic didn't present a very threatening visage. He was a short old man with a bald head that sported just a few thin hairs desperately hanging on for dear life. His clothing consisted of white pants and a white jacket over a red shirt with a jagged line running vertically though the center that looked like a line on a seismograph.

Sentinel split into three more clones who all spread out wide around the villain surrounding him. Doc Seismic glanced from one clone to another sizing them up. Sentinel didn't give him much time to do so. The clone on the left blitzed toward the villain at high speed. Amazingly, the Doc managed to react. He slammed the red bracelets he was wearing together producing a harmonic tone, then aimed his hand at the incoming copy of Sentinel. A powerful shock wave rippled out of Doc Seismic's hand and slammed into the clone with enough force to not only stop it, but to move it back a few feet.

Seeing that, Sentinel immediately swapped out his High Speed Regeneration for Obito's Mangekyo Sharingan. He'd played around with the eyes for a few hours the day he got them so he had a good handle on their basic uses. Needless to say, his once dismissive feelings toward the eye power had changed drastically after that!

Activating his Mangekyo Sharingan's power transformed his eyes from their normal emerald green to something much scarier looking. His eyes became bright red with a black design that was three stretched triangles evenly spaced around the pupil that each curved at the top around the eye to form a circle, making it similar to a pinwheel.

Aside from the physical change, his vision underwent a drastic improvement. His vision had been twenty-twenty, normal, before. Now he had no idea what it was, but he could see individual grains of dirt on Doc Seismic's scalp from over a hundred feet away. That was just an improvement to his regular visual acuity and didn't even get into the sheer bullshit the eyes could do.

He thanked the Chaos Gacha for his Nascent Esper skill. Even with it he was having a hell of a time mastering the usage of his new eyes. He didn't want to think how much harder just using the basic abilities would be without it. Thanks to his faster learning speed and the basic understanding he got with all abilities, he was able to enter and exit the pocket dimension he had at will.

Which meant...

All four clones charged Doc Seismic at once, each glaring at him with glowing red eyes that began to rapidly spin. Doc Seismic looked around, then slammed his wristbands together once again. He threw his hands out to his sides and sent out an omni-directional shock wave meant to push back all the copies of Sentinel.

Unfortunately for him, the Sentinel coming at him from behind instantly slipped into the Kamui dimension. The clones outside were able to open a small hole to the Kamui dimension and send a telepathic message though the moment the shock wave hit them and was no longer a threat to the hidden one.

The fourth clone appeared the very next moment and grabbed Doc Seismic's wristbands and dig his fingers in hard enough to crush them into uselessness.

Doc Seismic opened his mouth, maybe to shout, or complain, but Sentinel would never know as another clone of himself closed in and pulled out a stun baton that it pressed to Doc Seismic's chest. Electricity coursed through the villain locking his muscles up and quickly causing him to pass out.

Just to be on the safe side, one of the Sentinel's tightly bound Doc Seismic up in webbing then tossed him into the Kamui dimension where he couldn't escape or cause any harm if he woke up.

[Feat Achieved! Defeat Doc Seismic. +1 Gold Gacha Ticket.]

[Feat Achieved! Prevent Mount Rushmore from being damaged. +1 Silver Gacha Ticket.]

One of the Sentinel's shrugged his shoulders, and with the mental agreement of the others, decided to roll the tickets while waiting for the GDA to show up.

'Roll the silver ticket.'

[ROLLING!]

[Stone Skin, Common Ability, Allows you to cover your skin in a stone like texture that enhances your durability and increases your mass.]

Several Sentinel's snorted at their roll. It would never see any use. It made them all wish they could share their abilities directly. Still, that made nineteen abilities in total. If the next roll was an ability, he would get another slot. That would be nice.

'Roll the gold ticket.'

[ROLLING!]

[Tinker – Erotics, Uncommon Ability, Tinker - Allows you to build technological constructs or items that are related to Sexual events, such as Aphrodisiacs, Sexual Instruments, Contraceptives, etc.]

All copies of Sentinel immediately began blushing. Tinker – Erotics was his twentieth ability and therefore opened up his fifth ability slot. Which it then proceeded to slot itself into. In an instant, any thought he had suddenly involved the creation of sex toys with some pretty... uh... interesting features.

As a regular hormonal teen with a hot girlfriend who could split herself into multiple copies, sex was already on his mind quite a bit. Now it was REALLY on his mind. Just thinking of Kate's power had his new tinker specialty offering him up a bunch of potential things he could build capable of pleasing as many clones of herself as Kate felt like making.

He nearly burst a vessel when the complete schematics for an Orgasm Ray passed through his mind. It did exactly what it sounded like.

With a supreme effort of will, he swapped Tinker – Erotics out for Radiation Absoption. He needed to avoid his Tinker abilities while sex was on his mind. Even Tinker – Star Wars because there was no way an entire alien universe was adverse to the creation of sex toys. He'd just never thought of them before so it had never come up in the past.

Now he was terrified to find out what a Hutt considered to be a sex toy.

Ew.

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“Mom! Eve! I'm here!”

He heard the sound of feet pounding against the floor as Eve came running around the corner. She pointed an accusatory finger at him, “YOU! You're late!”

She charged right at him, grabbed the front of his shirt and jerked him close, “Gimme!”

Adam rolled his eyes and instead of giving in, wrapped his arms around Eve and hugged her close. Before he could speak his Mom's infamous warning voice echoed down the hall, “Eve, were you running in the house?”

Eve twitched in Adam's arms before shouting back, “No, Mom!”

Adam snorted, “Liar.”

Eve glared at him, “Shush you. Now, gimme my super power.”

Huffing in amusement, Adam carried Eve through the house until he got to the living room where his mother was waiting, “Hey, Mom.”

Sarah Cross smiled softly at him, “Hello, sweetie.” She eyes Even still being held in his arms, “She's been a real pain waiting for you to come by.”

Adam looked at Eve, then back to his mother, “I believe you.”

“Hey!”

Everyone laughed at that. Finally, Adam set Eve down, “Alright. Before I make Eve safer, there's something else I need to talk to you two about.”

Everyone sat down in the living room where Adam explained Rudy's situation to them and their plans to help him out. He made sure to include the conditions he'd given his friend for being adopted into the family.

Silence reigned for a few minutes before his mother broke it, “Will he look exactly like you?”

Adam shook his head, “Not exactly. We have the technology to tweak his looks slightly. He'll definitely look related to me but not exactly like me.”

Sarah nodded, “Then I agree, with a condition of my own. A weekly family dinner, when possible. You and he must attend. I know you two can be busy with hero work, but do your best. I miss having you around and I want to get to know your new brother better.”

“I don't see a problem with that.”

She looked toward Eve, “What about you, hun? Any requests?”

Eve shook her head, “Nope! It'll be kind of weird, but awesome, to have a little brother. Even if he's a thirty year old man in his mind. Now, GIMME!” She made greedy grabby hand motions toward Adam.

Sarah and Adam both rolled their eyes in response, though Adam was the one to speak, “Fiiiine.”

His eyes flashed red for a moment while a small cooler appeared from nowhere in his lap. It might be a bit of an abuse of power, but having a limitless pocket dimension give him limitless pockets to carry his shit! He opened the cooler and pulled out a small glass bowl holding a dark purple sorbet. He held it out toward Eve, “I present to you, Heart Shaped Herb Sorbet. Be sure to eat it all and be prepared to pass out. Kate did after finishing hers.”

Eve looked at the sorbet, then, with no hesitation, dug into it. The moan she let out made Adam feel very uncomfortable. He did NOT want to hear sounds like that out of his sister. As the swallowed the last drop, her eyes rolled up into the back of her head and she slumped on the couch. Sarah moved to check on her while Adam watched her closely.

Both watched in silence for a few minutes until Eve shot up with a loud gasp as she inhaled deeply. She looked around the room for a second before muttering, “Whoa, trippy.”

Sarah, ever concerned for her children, “Are you alright, Eve?”

Eve nodded while still looking around, “Yeah, better than ever! I feel like I could do anything!”

Adam quickly chimed in, “Don't think like that. You still very much have limits. They're just a lot higher than they used to be. I'll talk to Rudy about using the Teen Team tower's training room to get you some practice and training in using your new abilities. Alright?”

Eve nodded excitedly. Then, she asked the obvious, “Could I be a hero with this?”

Adam looked to his mother, wondering what he should say. He saw a look of concern on her face, but also acceptance. Adam considered his answer deeply before saying, “It's possible, but not anytime soon. You need a lot of training first. Not to mention equipment. I spend months learning from people at the GDA after my first few bumbling forays into hero work. You should too.”

He knew the best way to get her to cooperate, “If you do, I will personally make your armor and gear using all of my abilities.” His grin grew, “And who knows what I might earn between now and then?”

Eve stared at him, a manic gleam in her eyes, “DEAL!”

Both Adam and Sarah laughed at how easy Eve gave in. He felt relieved knowing it would at least be months before she was on the streets or fighting villains. Judging by the look his mother was giving him, she was grateful for it too.

He gave her a gentle smile, “Don't worry, Mom. I'll make sure Eve is as safe as possible. Until then, I still plan to give you an upgrade too.”

Sarah frowned slightly, “Are you sure you want to use something so precious on me?”

Adam snorted, “I get three a month, that's thirty-six a year. Even if I gave one to everyone in the Guardians of the Globe, including Rudy, I'd still have twenty-seven left over for other people. Though I'm sure Cecil would pay me a huge premium for each one I'm willing to sell to him.”

Sarah, knowing Cecil from her husbands work nodded, “I'm sure he will.”

Smiling, Adam got to his feet, “I'll cook dinner. You two relax.”

Adam was looking forward to spending the night with his family. It was a wonderful feeling to spend time with them. He was also looking forward to adding a new member to the family in the near future. How awesome would having a younger brother be?

AN

Another 10k words.

So. A lot going on here. I've still not decided if I'm letting Omni-Man escape Earth or not. But if he is going to escape, Adam will have to be off doing something completely different somewhere else and unable to interfere. I suspect, if I choose to follow canon a bit more, that Adam will be off in deep space taking his newly finished X-70B on its maiden voyage.

I'll figure out which way I want to go before we get there.

As usual, lots going on in this chapter, but we're officially finished with episode 3 of the show. heh, feels like we should be so much further, right? Even funnier, each season seems to last about a year. It's been two weeks so far since canon began. Only 50 more to go! lol.

There will be a lot of small time skips with scenes in between, like Adam dating Kate, possibly their first night together.

We also have our first major canon divergence. Eve joined the Guardians. That's a big change.

Anyway, let me know what you all thought of this chapter!

OH! And before the screaming begins, Adam has no idea what the hell a Saiyan is. All he knows is the description which makes the race sound stupid.