The factory was much larger than I expected as when we got closer I was able to see that The factory was about 5-stories tall and was double that in width. As soon as I landed on the roof I took a quick headcount of how many people were in the building.

I heard a thud behind me “jeez I heard this place was huge but I don’t think they have a building this big to make toys” Mary looked around as I continued counting.

I heard a second thud, well more of a tumble as Leo patted himself off “well more room means more places to make toys means more money”.

“True”

I turned to face Leo and Mary “we got several dozen people throughout the whole place. Karma, could you check out how many evolved were dealing with?”.

“Oh give me a sec” I could see Leo eyes start to glow under his mask as after a couple seconds his eyes returned to normal “well we got 4 evolved in total so this is definitely the place”.

“Huh guess there's honor among criminals” Mary said with a shrug as she walked over to a column with a door “well we don’t know what we are entirely dealing with so we gotta be pretty careful ok?” I gave a nod and Leo gave a thumbs up as Mary crushed the lock and gently pushed it open as we quickly followed her down a flight of stairs.

Old that was the best way to describe the interior of the factory as we made our way to the first floor. When we finally reached the end of the stairs I had summoned my Thunderbat into my hand as I looked into the next room as I counted 5 goons. I held up five fingers as Leo and Mary gave me a nod as Leo eyes glowed behind his max and he held up a finger gun.

Leo’s fingers glowed a dark purple as he took aim and shot out 5 small purple bullets as I could see the goons get flung into the wall opposite of them. The door flew open from a kick from Mary as I shot past her towards the slowly recovering goons. I turned up the voltage on my bat as I quickly slammed it into the goons as the electricity flow putting them into a deep sleep.

I searched the rooms around me as I could see more goons coming towards our current location “we got company”. Leo’s hands charged with bright blue energy, Mary extended her hammer as it sparked with power and I summoned several ball bearings into my left hand as the goons smashed through the doors on the left, right and the one in front of us.

Two goons on the left with a shotgun and Ak respectively, 3 on the right all with steel bats and finally 5 from the front with a mix of both guns and melee weapons. I tossed out several ball bearings as quickly impacted the two gunmen on the left as with a yellow glow as quickly they ricochet into two more gunmen temples. I raced forward as I was quickly followed by Mary leap in front of the two goons on the left sending them flying to where they came from with a blast and several gravity bullets from that sent the 3 goons on the left straight into the concrete wall.

The goons in front of me tried backing away but I had already bounded towards them as I swung bat into one goon then that goon slams into another then into another until all 5 of them are smashed into the ground. “Was that it?” Leo said with mild disappointment “oh we're far from done we still got over several dozen more goons and 4 villains” Mary said as she finished zapping the two goons into unconsciousness “then let's go” I said as we all went into the room in front of us.

We walked into what seemed to be a break room that had a couple pool tables, some boxes filled with random snacks and what seemed to be a half finished game on beer pong, reminds me of college. “Huh I’m not gonna lie but these guys had a pretty nice set up” Mary said as she flicked one of the eight balls on the pool table.

I took a quick glance around as I could spot more goons coming to greet us. “Hey guys question, shouldn't we be moving faster so we can catch whoever is making the drugs here?” Leo said, why are we only realizing that now?.

Me and Mary both stood there for several seconds staring at him before Mary lifted her hammer into the air and with an explosion of stone she made a large hole in the ground. “Yeah he's got a point” she said as she hopped down as I could already here yelling then gunfire from downstairs as me and Leo quickly followed her well I grab a couple of eight balls from the pool table before I headed down.

Before I even landed I could already see Mary smashing her way through a group of goons as their bullets bounced off and their bats and blades broke against her. Seriously I’d think they would have better gear to deal with really tough evolved especially when this place is the lifeline of the gang, can’t blame them that high tech ammo is expensive as hell.

Blasts of air, blades of water, pillars of ice and bolts of lighting shot through the air as Mary swapped from smashing goons with her hammer to hitting them with one of her many ways of range combat. Leo shot out a couple gravity bolts here and there blasting away any stragglers.

I decided to follow his example by throwing the eight balls I grabbed earlier into the temples of several goons. Said eight balls then glowed with a yellow light as they ricochet off the heads of the goon just to fly right into another goon. The goons keep coming and we keep knocking them down but as I break the nose of another goon I start to notice something no, I start to hear something.

It kinda sounded like a computer booting but a lot more staticiy and it was getting louder and louder. All my instincts were telling me that I should get moving so I grabbed a Leo and leapt a good 20 feet from my current location. My suspicions were confirmed when I turned to see a massive ball crackling green energy melt right through the floor, Finally something exciting.

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Mary stopped halfway through electrocuting the remaining goons with a mini storm cloud as like me and Leo she turned to face the entrance to the room. After several seconds someone, no several someone's rose from the hole seemingly on a floating green disk.

The first figure had a skinny build like they never worked out before, not even once, didn’t help that they were wearing bright green spandex with dark green lighting bolts running down his chest, arms and his legs that really showed off how skinny he was. Finally he had two dots for eyes that glowed a soft pulsing green “huh I missed that's new” he seemed generally surprised as he kinda nasally voice. “Huh, maybe these guys are actually competent?” Said his companion sounded monotone like a robot. She seemed to be a girl wearing a set of heavy dark grey robes that dragged behind and a large hood that covered the entirety of her face. There was a loud burp as I turned my attention to the final member of the trio. Unlike his friends he was wearing something more casual, a pair of sandals, some swimming trunks, a red Hawaiian shirt and a pair of shades. To go with the surfer vibe he had a pretty muscular build, a deep tan and bright blond shaggy hair, oh I wonder what his power could be it's so hard to tell, it's definitely water related, I wonder how you ever could get that idea?

“Can we just get this over with? I have a hammock at my apartment that is just calling my name” Surfer dude said as he sounded so much more relaxed than his companions as if it was just a normal day at the job.

“Well I heard scratchers are pretty comfortable” Mary said as she lifted her hammer from her shoulders and pointed towards the 3 villains.

“So my friends weren’t wrong about most villains just being walking stereotypes” Leo glances up and down at surfer dude “and lazy ones at that”.

I could see a vain start to bulge as Surfer dude grit his teeth and balled his hands into a fist “ok I’m gonna kill Them!”.

Grey hood sighed “Riptide please don’t do anything r” before she could finish Mary burst into laughter. The 3 villains stared at Mary as eventually her laughter died down in a small snicker. “hehehehe really riptide? For someone who seems to get mad over getting called a walking stereotype you really don’t help your own case”.

I could feel the shit eating grin under Mary’s mask and Riptide seemed to feel it too as it also seemed to break as a swirling blue energy coated Riptide's arms. “Screw it I’m going to kill them starting with the blond bitch” Riptide walked forward as I gripped my bat. Grey hood tried to stop her very angry friend as she put a hand on his shoulder “Riptide rela” but He quickly shoved her back. “Shut the fuck up Stoneheart” he snarled as he rip himself out of her grip.

Leo whispered towards me “these guys aren’t work friends guess” I gave an agreeing nod. “Greenlight” Mary starting laughing again at the even more stupid name “let's kill these fucks” Riptide said to his neon green friend as he sighed in relief “finally ass kicking time”.

As soon as greenlight stepped forward I had already switched to dex mode and rushed towards the trio of villains. I could see Mary charging after me and Leo shot several gravity bullets. I was already in front of riptide before greenlight foot could hit the ground as riptides head shot back as I hit him in the jaw with a quick jab.

At the same time Greenlight was knocked to the ground as he took a gravity bullet right to the stomach. It seems Stoneheart had better reaction time then her friends as she was able to sidestep Mary. Mary shrugged as she went for another swing but Stoneheart simply leaned back avoiding the swing as Mary shot a bolt of electricity but once again she missed as Stone heart simply just hopped out of the way.

The weird thing is she never retaliated once not a single counter or even using m=Mary own force against her she did nothing maybe she was just quick not strong. After the 6th missed attack from the almost raging Mary Stoneheart finally did something. She clasped both her hands together tightly and placed them against where her heart would be on her body.

Before I could figure out what she was trying to do I could spot Riptide walking towards me rubbing his jaw. “You are such a rude little sh” his head shot back again as I hit him with another jab this time right in the nose but instead of feeling his nose shatter I felt pain shoot through my hand. It felt like I punched solid rock as I hand throbbed as I could see riptide start walking towards me again but he was different.

Last I saw his skin was a light tan and fleshy but right now I’m seeing more of a dark grey color and rigid stone. Head to toe his skin seemed to be made of rock now hell even his eyes and hair was stone as if he was a stone statue brought to life, Of course stone hearts a support…..kill her now.

I could see a large grimace form on Riptide's face as he stepped towards me again “you interrupted me you son of a” I switched out of dex mode and hit him with a straight right to the gut but it didn’t even faze him, ok what did you even expect to happen there? “Ok you're dying now” I tried to step back but Riptide shot his hand and what seemed to be a blast of water slammed into me. It knocked me back a foot as it wasn’t really that strong of an attack as it just kind of stung but I quickly realized something the water hadn’t fallen to the ground.

The water paused in the air for several seconds as I tried to step out the water but I couldn’t move even an inch. It felt like I was trapped in cement as I could see the frown on Riptide's face turn upside down. “Newbie you should have hit me full force because now” the water started to pull me towards him as his palm and the water started to glow a neon blue. As I was pulled towards him the water was quickly absorbed into his hand as the light glowed brighter and brighter until his palm landed on my stomach “you're just gonna get washed away” and the light exploded forward.

I felt the wind get knocked out of me as I shot through the air at high speeds as I smashed right through a concrete wall. I skittered across the group as I eventually stopped as I laid on my stomach. Before I could start gasping for air I was forced to yank off my mask as I started vomiting blood.

I could feel most of my ribs were shattered and the shard had stabbed into my lungs feeling them with blood. The rest of my organs weren’t really doing well as I could feel my healing factory working at top gear to keep me from choking on my own blood. I shakily stood up as I could feel my lungs were no longer being punctured by my own ribs, that's a plus. the plates, clothing and some skin on my abbs were completely gone torn off from the pressure of the blast, sigh I really need to make a tougher costume.

You know this is what you get for constantly underestimating your opponents, you really need to fix that or we will, “shut up”. I shook my head a bit as I made my way into the me size hole and well it seemed like I wasn't the only one having a bad time. Leo was constantly firing blasts of blue energy at greenlight but the guy in basically a green suit was kinda kicking his ass. That large disk the 3 villains seemed to also act as a shield as every energy or gravity blast seemed to dissipate against it and every time Leo stopped to conserve energy greenlight would fire a smaller version of that energy ball from earlier. This kept Leo constantly on toes as he was forced to keep grappling around or he would be turned into a donut.

I turned to the other side of the room to see Mary was having it even worse than Leo. She couldn’t land a single hit on Stoneheart and whenever she tried to use an attack with a bigger range she would be forced to move or be blasted away by riptide. She tried to damage Riptide but seems whatever Stoneheart is doing to him is making him pretty much indestructible as her attack just bounced off him.

So let me break this down real quick, We got an energy manipulator with a great offense and defense. A guy who has the ability to draw you in if he hits and hits you with the force of a freight train. finally a girl who seems to have superhuman reaction time and can make her friends invincible, this is all just so wonderful. I sighed as I shifted to dex mode and summoned a scarlet mace into each of my hands. You gonna get your ass kicked again?, quite the opposite………wait who said that?…………You know what that's something I will deal with later. So I take a deep breath as I Feel everything slow down, my heart starts to beat faster as adrenaline runs through my veins and I rush back into the fight