2002, Shirley's apartment.
One of the walls just exploded and a big man appeared after the explosion.
"Don't try to escape, weaklings! You are nothing to CAPTAIN DEATH!"
Mick's legs are trapped by one of the pieces of the wall. They are also severely injured. Shirley is near Mick. Mick tries to tell her to leave by freneticaly pointing at the door.
"B-But..." Shirley says.
Mick answers her by pointing at the door again, almost desperate. Shirley runs to the door.
"You can run but you can't hide! For I am CAPTAIN DEATH!" the big metahuman says "Ah, I will get the woman later... But now..."
He grabs Mick's body from the floor and holds it in the air.
"So this is the human the sent me to kill, hmm? I'm almost dissapointed! I expected more for the amount they payed me! Ah, I'll just kill the woman for free to make it up to them... or make her my partner..." he says, winking to Shirley.
Mick spits to him in the face. Death gets furious and punches Mick in the stomach.
"You little worm... Nobody spits to CAPTAIN DEATH!" he yells, connecting another punch "Nobody!"
"Mick!!!!!" Shirley yells.
Death throws Mick to the ground and steps on his body with his enormous boot. Mick can feel his ribs breaking.
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!" Mick yells.
A strange sense of deja-vu hits him as the pain makes his severed throat make that sound. He starts feeling a familiar pain inside his brain, like in the circus. "Like in the circus?", he asks himself. Then the episode in the circus comes back to him, followed by another big pain in his brain. He remembers how close he was that time... He was close to... a name... M... S? No, no... X!
"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!" he yells, using all his strenght, as the pain in his brain doubles.
But there was something else... M... X... What?
Death grabs him once again.
"And now, the master stroke!" Death says, putting his free hand in the form of a fist.
M... X...
Death launches his fist against Mick's face. Shirley doesn't want to look and covers her face.
Y!
The fist is one inch from Mick's face.
"YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!" Mick yells.
A big explosion of light follows. Death is sent to the other side of the room by it.
Death slowly opens his eyes and sees Mick (now Mxy) floating in the air, arms open. A coat and a top hat appeared from nowhere. His eyes are full of the same light from the explosion.
He opens his mouth, like wanting to scream his freedom, but he realizes no sound comes from it.
No problem. He waves his hand and the throat is fixed.
"Aaah! Much better!"
He notices 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 waves his hand and all that is fixed.
"W-What the hell...?!" Death asks, scared "Th-They told me you were just a human!! The-They said it would be no problem!!"
Mxy waves his hand once again and Captain Death starts floating too. Mxy gets him near him and starts examining him.
"Hmmmmm..." Mxy says, rubbing his chin.
"H-Hey, man! It was nothing personal, man! I-I swear! Th-They payed me to d-do it!"
"You!" Mxy says, pointing at Death "Shall be turned into... A Little Kitty!"
Death apparently dissapears and his empty costume falls to the floor. A little kitten comes out of the costume and runs away, terryfied.
Li'l Jo follows her...
Shirley runs to Mxy's arms.
"Oh, Mick!" she says, as she hops into his arms.
"Oh, Shir-- Mick?!"
As soon as Mxy says that, the lights in his eyes go away, and so do the powers, so they stop floating and fall to the ground.
"What...? Where's that Death guy...?" Mick asks "Hey, look at that, I can talk!"
"You just defeated him, Mick!" Shirley answers.
"I did? I mean, I did!"
"Are you having troubles with your memories again...?"
"No, I fact, they all came back! I just--"
"...because if you are I can cure them with another kiss..."
"..."
[ 02-20-2002: Message edited by: I'm Not Mister Mxypltk ]
