Lady and friend walks into bar ?Are you Jimmy Hank??
Jimmy ?Who?s askin??
?I need help.? she breaks down crying. ?Remember dark places invasion on the earth last year??
Jimmy ?NO? I was busy getting drunk kinda like what I?m trying to do now?
Lady
Jimmy ?I wasn?t being sarcastic?what do you want!?
Lady ?His head on a pike. He took my child.?
Jimmy ?Alright next time he tries to invade the earth I?ll make sure I drag a dead gods head through the streets ok?ok. You know the fee well it?ll be double for an old god.? Lady puts a lot of money on the table and walks out.
Ben wakes up in a hospital with a scar halfway down his face diagonally in between his eyes. Doctor ?We found you in a back alley, bleeding to death with a giant cranial mannurism. It?s a miracle you even survived?. Ben walks out of room blood of doctor is splattered everywhere. Scene then switches to Ben in a car waiting outside of a bar in shady part of the city near harbor. Ben?s monologue ?Dr. Jonathon Schwartz, father of three. He?s the guy they sent us to for our monthly checkups. I think it?s time I paid the doctor a nice visit.? Ben wearing a trench coat gets out of the car and as he?s approaching the doctor says ?Hey!?, he then shoves the doctor against a brick wall in a back ally at the corner of the bar.
Doc ? Benjamin!! Your still alive.?
Ben ?Still? What are you, whats going on??
Doc ? I didn?t mean??
Ben ?Don?t play dumb doc or I?ll fry you alive starting with your brain? slowly.?
Doc ?Really I don?t.?
Ben ?Think of Susan, think of Geoffrey, remember Mark just turned five didn?t he??
Doc ?You bastard how did you get their??
Ben ?I know that, but there are still holes gaps I need filling, but if you don?t feel like cooperating maybe Susan might be more open to the idea.?
Doc ?You monster!?
Ben ?You facilitator!?
Ben ?Now tell me dammit these thoughts, memories where are they coming from??
Doc ?Alright follow me.?
Scene switches to them inside laboratory on metal balcony looking down at vats. ?This is where we do it. First we have to steal you.?
Ben ?Steal??
Doc ?Yes in order for the process to work we require fully grown humans. Clone?s half life?s are too short.?
Ben ?Then??
Doc ?We inject your circuitry system with a DNA altering compound, a forced, designed mutation.?
Ben ?What??
Doc ?C?mon you don?t really think someone is just naturally born shooting fire out of his mouth do you? See we increase the cellular speed in the esophagus which creates a sort of ?super? friction while strengthening the cellular walls, combine that with a hyper amino acid gaseous membrane based stomach and Houla! You have the (illustrated like a superhero name looking title)Fire Breather. It?s an art? really. Now non aerodynamic flight, that?s a whole nother story.?
Ben ?These memories.?
Doc ?Right, see we plant a computer chip in your prefrontal cortex. There it gathers all your genetic information constantly then it relays that information back to our supercomputers who process your new DNA, tweak it, and finally we send the signal back to your body. It?s how we can make subtle modifications in case your physiology mutates out of control. I guess you could say it?s really just the computers that are super. It also makes sure you can only use certain capabilities and not others,? kind of like a filter especially for those with multiple powers. It also makes sure you can?t kill each other.?
Ben
Doc ?What you never found it weird that the Super Villains always lose? That you can trample over entire populations of people and there?s never been a recorded death of a meta human. C?mon you can?t be that na?ve we built in natural inhibitions you couldn?t kill each other even if you wanted to.?
Ben ?These memories!!!?
Doc ?The chip suppresses your real memories, but your brain must have found a way to circumnavigate it, astonishing! And after the explosion your gray matter miraculously reconstituted itself through what I can only assume was an immune based electrical response from your nervous system. We obviously underestimated how an electrical based superpower would work on your synapses?Hmmm.?
Ben ?But all of this, why??
Doc ?Isn?t it obvious we live in a damn police state, the economy is going to shit, culture is becoming virtually nonexistent, the bill of right is basically being thrown out the window, don?t you get it superhero?s were created to distract us.?
Ben ?Impossible.?
Doc ?It?s the only logical explanation really, the flamboyantly skimpy costumes, the epic battles, the adoring crowds it?s just American gladiators on a cosmic scale!?
Ben ?You?ve got to be kidding me??
Doc ? Why would I, look around it?s what MTV could only dream of being, it?s what the super bowl was meant to inspire, what wars have been waged for, what religion has been doing for thousands of years? keeping the population in check. As Reagan so eloquently put it ?The Russians were the best damn thing to happen to America?. See they?re controlling us, making sure we don?t get out of line Nazis, Communists and terrorists just weren?t enough anymore we needed super villains now. I?m surprised they just didn?t fake an alien invasion. So long as we?re kept fat, dumb and comfortable the world keeps spinning.?
Ben ?And we?re all the wiser.?
Doc ?Exactly
Scene switches to police on walkie talkie, talking to sergeant in police station. They are overlooking superhero/ villain battle. Policeman ?We have a situation here sir.?
Sergeant puts phone down then makes another phone call. ?Call in the girls.? Four people dressed in business suits and trench coats they look like the minutemen from 100 bullets with (trench coats) . They walk into middle of city being torn up by superheros. Team consist of little black girl with cornrows tired seen some things face, tall man, black hair Brazilian looking, big guy long orange hair and petit blonde good looking guy.
Police 1?That?s them! A girl and some prince charming are you kidding me??
Police 2 ?I hear those two are the real killers.?
1 guy just looks at him like WTF. ?Why do they call them the girls??
2 ?Beats me I guess it?s prolly cuz they work for daddy.?
1 ?Daddy???
2 ?Ya know big brother all that. An officially sanctioned government sponsored superhero hit squad. And word on the wire is that it apparently consists of some incredibly psychologically fucked up people.?
1?Yeah? (Tornado man tries to blow orange hair?d guy off broken floor in opened up building couple stories up. Orange hair guy grabs rock throws a big broken piece of wall that looks like a boulder at tornado man it makes contact. He then jumps down snaps tornado mans neck.)
2 ?Yeah?. (The Brazilian guy then throws a metal pole through a superhero?s neck.)
1 ?Why is she sitting back?2?Guess they only call her in when things get really bad?. Scene switches to a big Building falling 1?It looks really bad to me?. Falling Superhero accidentally hits against petit kid looking blonde guy, blonde looks disturbed (like you just touched me kinda look), looks at superhero squints his eyes makes superhero explode telepathically. 1 ?Shit you see that.2 ?Just like I thought the other two, the smaller ones are telepaths while those big guys just fill in as support.?
1 ?Support! You see what that big fella did with the pipe!?
2 ?Physically enhanced meta humans, it?s impressive but still it?s not like they can topple cities by just thinking about it, now the other two...?
1 ?By the looks of it they don?t need to think about it.?
Agent Red walks up behind Brazilian agent on outskirts of battle. ?Finish this up we?ve got an appointment elsewhere.? Mr. Red then walks towards limo and says ?Start the car.?
A black ghetto guy bumps into Agent Red ?yo wat da fuck you dirtied my kicks man you gotta pay fo dat.?
Red ?Of course, let me just get my wallet.? Mr. Red man pulls out silenced pistol and shoots guy in the foot.
Ghetto guy ?My foot!!!?
?I think that?ll suffice, have an enjoyable rest of the evening, I know I will.? Agent Red smiles and wipes blood away from his red suit but the smudge conveniently just looks like it blends with color of the suit.
Woman on phone ?Yes it was a man dressed in a red suit. Yes he shot him in the foot that?s right.?
Mr. Red pulls out cell phone and makes a call ?I?ve made a mess.? Police come to corner of street where they find the street filled with guys in red suits, some of them even sitting down drinking coffee in cafes.
Cops ?C?mon you?ve got to be kidding me!?
Mr. Red drives away in limo. Jimmy ?Where to?? scene focuses on Agent Red?s face as he just smiles.
End of issue 1
Agent Red ?I know who you are?
Jimmy ?Look I don?t do porn anymore alright so if ??
Red ?I wasn?t asking about?
Jimmy ?I was just kidding? I still do porn?
Red ?hmmm, you know who I am I take it?
Jimmy ?Of course, but don?t get me wrong I?m not joining your squad of super savants, in case you haven?t noticed I don?t exactly look like rain man now do I??
Red ?you don?t??
Jimmy ?We gonna have problem here??
Red ?you tell me jimmy?
Jimmy ?what the..how do you?
Red ?I know everyone?s name.?Agent Red gets out of car. ?Its been a pleasure? Does eye see you gesture, Russian mafia .
Jimmy ?@#$%!?