by Smasher, HERO! and Gooz
There was a bloodbath on the battlefield. Greenish alien blood and shapeshifting body parts were all over the place. Leading the MBL team was Agent F7. In the horizon was New Champ City, and the sun was rising.
"Team, we are getting to close to the city," said Agent F7. "I want no innocents to die on my shift!"-
Agent F7, with quickness and grace, jump-kicked two Boull aliens at the same time. He took one of the unconscious Boull's laser blaster and knocked off nearly twenty aliens. Behind him, Major Man busted some Boull aliens and copied the Lioness' powers to zap the Boull as they came out of the ship.
"Fleetfoot, Lioness, and Major Man, you guys follow me!" shouted Agent F7. "We have to take out the ship before it's too late. Zed and Cadet, you lead the rest of the members, past and present, on the battlefield!"
Several past members and allies, such as Nightwatch and Albino Chameleon, were busy taking out the Boull, as the Caped Cadet had brought a team of past members and allies into the fray. Cadet used his left hand to warp the ground and sink the Boull into the pavement.
It was a full-blown war, almost a World War III. Fleetfoot, Lioness, and Major Man, led by Agent F7, made a move for the ship.
Major Man used Fleetfoot's speed to move fast right toward the ship, then used Lioness' powers to bust into the ship. Out of the big hole made by Major Man came out an uncountable number of the Boull that piled on him. In a large boom, all of the Boull were flung off of him. "ARRRRRGGGGGHHHHH!" he yelled.
All four entered the ship and had started moving toward the center of the ship, when a hell of a lot of the Boull started coming at them.
Agent F7: "Lioness, if you will..."
The Lioness used her energy powers to collapse the upper floor onto the Boull, crushing them where they stood. Fleetfoot moved like lighting and gave Agent F7 thumbs up that everything was okay.
The heroes advance and reached a large room locked shut. The Lioness used her powers to open it, but they were not enough.
"Let me give you a hand," said Major Man.
Both the Lioness and Major Man hit the wall with powerful energy blasts at the same time, piercing through the solid steel. In the round room were a lot of machines and one giant, nine-foot-tall Boull, who was connected to tubes and wires.
"Oh my GOD..." gasped the Lioness. "Those machines... Back on my world, I remember reading a story like this..."
Agent F7: "Yeah..."
The Boull saw them. He walked toward them. In holders behind him were bodies of Boull aliens forming at a fast rate. "You have found out my little secret, I suppose."
"Which is...?" asked Agent F7.
"I am the last of my kind! To keep the species alive, I have been mass-cloning myself." The Boull smiled.
"No way..." said Fleetfoot.
"You have all been fighting clones of ME. That is the ONLY reason you are still alive! A pure Boull would have taken you out where you stand."
The master Boull grew bigger and spread his arms as spikes formed on them. He pointed his arm toward Lioness and fired a powerful blast at her.
Agent F7 screamed, "Nooooooo!" In the flash of a second, he jumped in front of her and took the brunt of the blast, sending him to the ground.
"No... Agent..." The Lioness hugged Agent F7 close to her body, and a tear fell out of her eye.
"Why did you do that? ... risk your life to save me?" sobbed the Lioness.
"The same reason as always. Since the first time I saw you... I love... you," said Agent F7.
"What? I had no idea," said the Lioness. They kissed.
The giant Boull came closer, and Major Man stepped in front of them. "I can use anyone's powers... even people not of this world," he said. Major Man grew huge and spiked up his arms. He moved toward the Boull, and both started pounding each other.
"Don't worry, you are going to be okay," said the Lioness.
"Only if we stop these freaks!" said Agent F7.
Major Man and the Boull cracked each other through the machines, busting them to pieces, and they broke right through the steel walls and into the battlefield.
The Lioness helped Agent F7 to his feet, and Fleetfoot helped them both make their way to the fight.
All of the Boull clones ran and merged with the master, creating a new giant Boull. All of the MBL members formed a circle around him.
Hero sat wondering if anyone was ever going to rescue him and the other five. With the Hypertime Entity and Viper in Incursion's grasp, the six had been gathered, and the end of the world was nigh.
The Worm, Beer-Drinking Lad, Dragnet Zero, and the mysterious shadowy figure faced Shock-Headed Peter and Incursion.
This is it, thought Shock-Headed Peter. It's now or never. Do I show my true colors? Am I man enough to save the world alone?
Shock-Headed Peter surveyed the scene and saw scattered MBLers in various states of injury and weariness throughout the room. I'm not alone, he thought. I am with the MBL!
"YOU'RE GOING DOWN, INCURSION!" Shock-Headed Peter yelled as he lunged for the beastly villain.
Incursion quickly knocked Shock-Headed Peter away, causing him to hit the ground hard.
"You little bastard!" shouted Incursion. "You dare defy me? I will make your death quick!"
"Did you really think that I was that dumb?" Shock-Headed Peter pressed a device on his wrist, and two blue portals opened. "Well I'm smarter than you think!"
Out of one portal walked the Hypertime Entity, and out of the other walked the man known as Viper.
"What? How...?" Incursion turned to look at the bubbles, where he saw the Hypertime Entity and Viper, captured earlier, morph into beaten-up Boull aliens.
"I used your own plans against you! And you thought I was weak! HA!" Shock-Headed Peter pressed another button, and a larger portal opened. Out walked the new Infamous Bedlam Gang, including Cisco Bob, Hammer, the Wordblank, Glass-Eye, and several clones of Rae. "You did a pretty good job against the MBL. Let's see how you do against the EVIL SIDE!"
Hardy New-Born in the bubble whispered to himself, "Our plan just might work..."
Continued in Chapter 9: The IBG and the MBL, Together at Last