by Gooz, HERO! and Nowhereman
Dragnet Zero and the Worm tried to open the bubble that Hardy New-Born was in, but they were unable to do anything.
Dragnet Zero: "Damn. With Incursion gone, we should be able to free you."
"Gone... Who said I was gone?" said Incursion.
The Worm: "What? How...? You should be..."
"No, you killed my stand-in! Look to the bubble to the all the way right..."
In the bubble was Little Ritchie with fear in his eyes.
"This will take care of you," said Dragnet Zero, pointing the Spear of Debt at Incursion.
"HA HA HA!" laughed Incursion.
Dragnet Zero: "What? It's not working?"
"Thank you," said Incursion. "You have delivered the last piece of the puzzle!"
"What?" Before Dragnet Zero finished speaking, Incursion lifted him up by his neck and crashed him into the steel wall to his right, knocking Dragnet Zero out cold. Incursion picked up the the Spear of Debt and lifted it up into the air, high.
"Now I have the KEY to eternity!"
The Worm and Hardy New-Born both looked at each other.
Hardy New-Born: "Oh, shit! Dragnet Zero just handed that madman the means to forward his PLAN! I hope the team is doing better than us!"
Hero had witnessed the fall of Gooz and the death of the impostor Incursion from his cramped bubble.
The Worm: "It ends here, Incursion!"
Incursion: "It never ends for me. You are a different matter, puny Worm."
The Worm raced for the Spear of debt, his only chance of defeating Incursion and saving the trapped Leaguers, and the world. With blinding speed, Incursion reached the spear first, and stepped on it.
With a fiery explosion, the Worm was sent flying backward. He hit the ground, hard. Hardy New-Born struggled in his bubble, searching for a way to help his friend. Hero knew the effort to escape was futile. The bubbles simply could not be opened from the inside. If there were a way, Hero's power to analyze on a molecular level would have uncovered it.
The Worm held his bleeding head as Incursion closed in for the kill.
Incursion: "You are expendable, Leaguer. Therefore, you die. I need only six Leaguers, and you are not one of them."
Dragnet Zero picked his head off the ground and assessed the scene. He was helpless to save the Worm from certain death. Hell, he could barely find the strength the raise his hand in defiance as a gesture of his resistance to Incursion's death march.
Incursion stepped closer to the Worm with each second. There was no one to save him, and the Worm was sure to fall. In his last second, the Worm cursed his own weakness.
At that moment, Hardy New-Born's communicator crackled into life, and a voice with a London accent came through.
"Hi, it's Nowhereman! I got on the wrong bus, and I'm halfway to Poughkeepsie, wherever the bloody hell that is! I'll be there ASAP. Gotta go. It's my turn at eye spy!" The communicator fell silent.
Hardy New-Born: "Oh, crap!"