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Chapter 20 - Beyond the stars!

William grits his teeth as he continues to rise through the air. This would be the first time he would be leaving the comfort of his home planet, and the thought of it was naturally nerve-racking, causing him to sweat slightly as he rose through the sky.

His body escapes the confines of Earth's atmosphere, and his suit seals itself with a barely audible hiss and a transparent material covering the open part of the helmet, allowing him to view out into the void with his own eyes.

"Beautiful!" William's eyes shot wide, seeing the vast expanse of the universe before him, and he simply floated above the Earth, basking in the isolation and openness of it all.

He closed his eyes and breathed in, "If I had died that day, I would never have experienced this!" As he thought this, he opened his eyes, a firm and confident expression on his face as he suddenly flashed forward.

The lack of atmospheric pressure and gravity no longer hinders his nascent ability to fly as he steadily approaches the pale surface of the moon.

Earth's moon was quite dreary and lonely until a pair of feet landed on the surface, the force of which sent lunar dust scattering in every direction.

William stood there and waited, his heads-up display in his helmet sending him constantly refreshing information about solar activity as it was being scanned by nearby satellites and showing up on his HUD as small blue circles in the distance.

Among these circles, however, a red one was steadily moving closer to the Earth, it was completely obvious that the blue marble was their target.

However, eventually the red circle veered off and began heading towards the moon.

William saw a strange, orange-skinned alien in a red and white uniform that seemed to come with accessories, but the thing that caught him the most off guard was the fact that this alien only had a single eye.

He approached William, who was standing with his arms crossed, and floated in front of him with a look of vague confusion on his face, "Who are you? Where is that mustachioed man?" The alien said before getting into a fighting stance, "Oh well, I will just ask you afterwards!"

CRACK... WHOOSH

The alien launched himself towards William and threw a punch.

POW

William flew backward along the lunar surface before sliding to a stop dozens of feet away from the point of impact, before standing back upright with a smirk on his face.

The alien, mildly incensed by the smirk, launched himself once more towards William, but this time William also lunged at the alien.

They both raised their fists respectively, and their fists met in the center, causing the surrounding lunar dust to sweep outward from the area of impact.

BOOOOOOM

William was steadily being pushed backward by the alien's fist, and his feet were carving increasingly deep trenches along the surface of the moon.

BANG

Stomping his foot into the lunar surface, he stops his backward momentum and, in the same movement knee's the alien in the abdomen, catching the alien off guard and breaking his forward momentum.

WHOOSH

William spins into a kick, causing lunar dust to stick to form a small cloud around his foot before it slams into the side of the alien.

BOOM

A large plume of lunar dust erupted from where the alien was standing, and when it cleared, he was standing there on the other side, virtually unharmed.

He slams his fists into the moon and pulls a large boulder from within and throws it towards William, who is confused as such a thing would not work against someone as strong as himself.

TCHHH

William catches the mass of lunar rock and is about to throw it to the side when he feels a great pressure from the other side, and cracks form on the surface.

CRACK... BOOM

The alien's fist collided with William's surprised face, smashing his nose inward as he was sent spinning in the air before slowly lowering to the ground.

William flips backward and lands back onto his feet only to receive a pair of feet to his ribs, slamming him onto the ground.

BOOM

The alien lands on top of William and proceeds to throw a series of quick punches towards his head.

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

BOOM

He pounds William in the face repeatedly, causing his bones to break and reform, each time, however, less and less damage was done, it was either that the alien was growing weary or William's flesh and bones were being strengthened with every rip, tear, and break.

William squeezed his hand into a fist to the point his nails dug into his flesh and swung upward, hitting the alien directly in his eye.

POW

Forced to close his eyes to protect the endangered organ, he is unable to defend himself with his arms before he is launched like a missile along the surface of the moon.

CTCHHHH

CTCHHHH

BANG

The cyclops alien skidded along the surface of the moon like a rock across a calm lake surface before smashing into a small hill, destroying it completely and forming a massive cloud of dust.

A silhouette shot out of the cloud before it could settle, and once again, he was in front of William with his fist aimed at his gut and before he could respond the air was knocked from his lungs and only thanks to the suit did the alien does not see his organs be reduced to sludge by the attack.

William rises back up and is about to attack once more when the alien puts his hands in a T-shape, asking for a time out, surprising him and nearly causing him to lose control of his flight.

As William stops in front of the large orange cyclops, he raises his hand in a greeting gesture, which he cautiously reciprocates, and the two shake hands while floating just inches above the lunar surface.

"My name is Allen, by the way!" The alien's voice echoed in William's head, causing his brows to furrow.

"William?" He thought, not sure if the other party could hear him or not, but an affirmative nod from Allen gave him the necessary information

"You wouldn't happen to have run into a mustached man in white and red? He is the guy I met last time I was here, turns out, he is an extremely dangerous individual known as a Viltrumite, and the planet is in danger!" Allen said as he pulled out a tablet showing an image of a planet similar to Earth, but with a slightly different name.

"Urath? No, it's Earth!" William says as he gives a sideways glance to the blue planet in the distance.

Allen's eyes slowly fall from the blue planet above and onto William, and then onto his tablet.

Suddenly, William found himself waving Allen off with a helpless expression on his face before Allen's voice echoed in his mind, although somewhat more distant than before.

"I will see you again, William of Earth, unless I'm fired hehehe!"

As William was dealing with the orange alien named Allen, the new recruits for the Teen Team were being sent on a mission to deal with some thugs performing a robbery.

Sitting in the virtibird, Santana sat at the front next to Monster Girl as arcs of lightning passed between her fingers and out of her eyes, clearly her nerves were getting to her, and it was manifesting in her lightning.

Hunk, who was sitting to her left, suddenly slid far to the other side of the virtibird and slammed into Boss Baby's giant green golem to escape from an arc of lightning that came too close.

He had experienced firsthand how much that lightning hurt; not only did it hurt, but it seemed to sap his speed, which only extended the effect and the pain further.

"Hey, get your sweaty man-tits off my golem, ya freak!" A brash and borderline disrespectful voice brings Hunk out of his stupor, and he looks back to see Boss Baby standing on the shoulder of his golem with his tiny arms crossed and a stern expression on his face.

Hunk snorted and got up off the golem's arm, and he moved back towards his original position while eyeing Santana suspiciously. 

Across from them, a dark-skinned, muscular woman with a green mohawk sat with her eyes closed, slowly straddling the shaft of her axe, and next to her was a nearly skeletal man with purple skin and a large tuning fork.

He could not stop himself from looking at the woman next to him as she rubbed along the handle of her trusty weapon, "I'm not a young buck by any means, but I am still a man, damnit!" He thought as he caught himself before a line of drool began to fall down his lips.

"Got something you want to say, Neodym?" The woman opened her eyes to catch the man leering at her, and she immediately chastised him.

"Warjade..." Neodym is interrupted mid-sentence by the lights in the cabin going from normal to red, and the doors made hissing noises like they were about to open.

As the door finally opens, they are immediately astounded by the immediate and war-like sound of heavy gunfire.

Warjade is the first to rise, picking up her weapon, she sprints to the open exit ramp and leaps from the rear of the vertibird, landing smack dab in the middle of a group of five robbers all pointing their guns at the police who are cornered behind a desk and unable to get to a new position.

But before the robbers could react, a large, dark-skinned woman with an axe and a mohawk slammed into the center of their group and immediately slammed the head of her axe into the gut of one of the robbers.

SLCK

She pulls the axe free from the gushing wound and looks at the rest of the robbers with a sadistic smile that borders on demonic.

As their companion falls, the group all turn their guns on Warjade and open fire, filling the front of the bank with the sounds of gunfire once more, but just before the bullets collide with her, they stop in place as if blocked by some unseen barrier.

Neodym floated down from above, surrounded by waves of gravity that he extended towards Warjade to act as a defensive barrier.

He slammed the tuning fork into the ground as he landed, and the bullets still suspended in front of Warjade all began to turn around and point directly back at the robbers before they spun in place.

BZZZZZZZZ

The bullets spin with such speed that they begin to heat up, and suddenly they disappear, and everyone, including the police nearby and the robbers, all stare in awe and horror respectively.

RUMBLE...

The sound finally reached the ears of those nearby, and as if on cue, the robbers all fell over with blood spurting from both their mouths and the newly gaping wound where their hearts were supposed to be.

"TSK, I don't need your help, pervy old man!" She gave Neodym the most devious side-eye and charged towards the sound of more distant gunfire and shattering glass.

Neodym, who decided to strike a pose as he landed for some cool points, walked behind her, clearly deflated from his previous energy.

In another part of the bank, a group of hostages were being held at gunpoint while a robber who was clearly the leader of this little rogue outfit was arguing with a man on the other side of a phone about a ransom and a getaway vehicle, but was clearly getting the runaround.

"ALRIGHT YOU CHEAP FUCKS, YOU WANNA PLAY LIKE THAT THEN THIS DEATH IS ON YOU MISERABLE FUCK, SHOOT A HOSTAGE!" He ends the screaming session with an order to kill one of the hostages so the person on the other end could hear but before the robber intent on doing the deed can even spin his gun around he and everyone in the room are suddenly sent flying by what appeared to be lightning which burned a clear hole through their shirts and singed the skin on their abdomens.

RUMBLE...

The sound of thunder seemed to precede the lightning and echo through the bank signaling the arrival of Santana, who was now helping untie the hostages, however, she was unable to see the man approaching stealthily from behind her as her raised his gun.

BANG

The wall breaks behind him, and a green giant grabs the man and slams him into the ground headfirst, Boss Baby sitting on the giant's shoulder, cringing at the sight, but nods towards Santana, who continues untying hostages with haste.

In the upper level of the bank, a sniper pointed his weapon at the child on the green golem's shoulder and was about to pull the trigger when he saw something block his scope.

He looked up and saw Hunk staring down at him while grabbing the barrel of his rifle.

Hunk began bending the barrel of the rifle inward and only stopped when the barrel pointed directly at the sniper's head.

The Hunk smiled menacingly and said, "Oh... what, not so eager anymore?" After waiting a moment for an answer that only came in the form of shaking knee's he shrugged before smacking the robber on the face with an open palm and knocking him out cold.

"Still got it!" He mused, thinking about the beating he received recently from older members of the Teen Team before he leaped from the second floor to the floor below with an unconscious robber in his hands.

Now, all that was left was the leader standing in front of them with a mad look in his eyes as he opened his jacket revealing a shit load of explosives strapped to him like a vest.

"y'all come in here and ruin my perfectly laid out plans... KILL MY MEN!" He shouts those last words as veins bulge in his neck, he takes a deep and soothing breath to calm himself, and starts pacing.

As he is about to start speaking, however—

BANG

A distant gunshot rang out, and a hole appeared in the leader's neck, causing him to unconsciously drop the dead man switch, keeping the bombs from going off.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

As the bombs began to explode Santana, wreathed in her strange lightning, dashed at super speed towards the leader and began circling him like a cyclone and using the intense upward pressure generated by her constant circular movement to force the flames and force of the explosion upward in an effort to save the still fleeing hostages.

With sweat dripping from her forehead and a great deal of effort, she sends the brunt of the explosive force upwards, and the roof of the bank erupts outward.

BANG

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