by I'm Not Mister Mxypltk
Shirley's apartment, 2002:
One of the walls had just exploded, and a big man had appeared after the explosion.
"Don't try to escape, weaklings! You are nothing to CAPTAIN DEATH!"
Mick's legs were trapped by one of the pieces of the wall. They were also severely injured. Shirley was near Mick. Mick tried to tell her to leave by frantically pointing at the door.
"B-but..." Shirley said.
Mick answered her by pointing at the door again, almost desperate. Shirley ran to the door.
"You can run, but you can't hide! For I am CAPTAIN DEATH!" the big metahuman said. "Ah, I will get the woman later, but now..."
He grabbed Mick's body from the floor and held it in the air.
"So this is the human they sent me to kill, hmm? I'm almost disappointed! I expected more for the amount they paid me! Ah, I'll just kill the woman for free to make it up to them... that, or make her my partner," he said, winking at Shirley.
Mick spat at him in the face. Death became furious and punched Mick in the stomach.
"You little worm -- nobody spits at CAPTAIN DEATH!" he yelled, connecting another punch. "Nobody!"
"Mick!" Shirley screamed.
Captain Death threw Mick to the ground and stepped on his body with his enormous boot. Mick could feel his ribs breaking.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!" Mick yelled.
A strange sense of deja vu hit him as the pain made his severed throat make that sound. He started feeling a familiar pain inside his brain, like in the circus. Like in the circus? he asked himself. Then the episode in the circus came back to him, followed by another big pain in his brain. He remembered how close he was that time. He was close to a name... M... S? No, no... X!
"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!" he yelled, using all his strength, as the pain in his brain doubled. But there was something else. M... X... what?
Captain Death grabbed him once again. "And now, the master stroke!" Death said, putting his free hand in the form of a fist.
M... X...
Death launched his fist against Mick's face. Shirley didn't want to look and covered her face.
Y!
The fist was one inch from Mick's face.
"YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!" Mick yelled.
A big explosion of light followed. Captain Death was sent to the other side of the room by it.
Death slowly opened his eyes and saw Mick (now M'xy) floating in the air, arms open. A coat and a top hat appeared from nowhere. His eyes were full of the same light from the explosion. He opened his mouth, like wanting to scream his freedom, but he realized no sound came from it. No problem. He waved his hand, and the throat was fixed.
"Ah! Much better!"
He noticed the cracked teeth, the broken legs and ribs, the bruises all over the body, and the small activated chip literally destroying his brain. No problem. He waved his hand, and all that was fixed.
"Wh-what the hell?" Death asked, scared. "Th-they told me you were just a human! The-they said it would be no problem!"
M'xy waved his hand once again, and Captain Death started floating, too. M'xy went him near him and started examining him.
"Hmmmmm..." M'xy said, rubbing his chin.
"H-hey, man! It was nothing personal, man! I-I swear! Th-they paid me to d-do it!"
"You!" M'xy said, pointing at Death. "You shall be turned into... a little kitty!"
Captain Death apparently disappeared, and his empty costume fell to the floor. A little kitten came out of the costume and ran away, terrified. Li'l Jo followed her.
Shirley ran to M'xy's arms.
"Oh, Mick!" she said as she hopped into his arms.
"Oh, Shir -- Mick?!"
As soon as M'xy said that, the lights in his eyes went away, and so did the powers, so they stopped floating and fell to the ground.
"What? Where's that Death guy?" Mick asked. "Hey, look at that -- I can talk!"
"You just defeated him, Mick!" Shirley answered.
"I did? I mean, I did!"
"Are you having troubles with your memories again?"
"No. In fact, they all came back! I just--"
"Because if you are, I can cure them with another kiss."
Mick just smiled and remained quiet.