Parsed with an automated reader. The content accuracy is not guranteed.\nâJustice means the same in the east as it does in the
west.â\n\n\n(1966, Minutes of a Los Angeles City Council Meeting)\n\n\nStatement by Rocket Lady of the Soviet Offbeat Team
October Warriors made to TV Station President Herman Edge during a friendly
visit. President Edge was later revealed to be the leader of a sex trafficking
ring by a team-up between Rocket Lady and the LA Defender Crescent.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKirara could easily do what had been beyond her for the past
two days. She shattered the steel chains binding her arms and legs.\n\n\nIn that moment, she became Flare once more.\n\n\nShe used her arms to protect Shizukoâs head and back as she
flew sideways from the bed, easily broke through the alloy wall with a
headbutt, and escaped that rape room.\n\n\nâEclipse! Capture Kirara!â\nWhen the Doctor noticed, he shouted at Eclipse, but Flare had already landed
above the underground computer room on Shizukoâs instructions.\n\n\nThe computer room was installed behind a special alloy
barrier to avoid external interference, but that was meaningless against Flare.\n\n\nShe kicked a hole in the ceiling and descended in front of
the computer while Shizuko attempted to contact the complex program from within
Flareâs arms. Shizuko could manage it from that distance even with the
interference device in her brain. She did not need a keyboard, mouse, or voice
input. Her nanomodules converted her thoughts into EM waves that allowed her to
directly enter the electronic world.\n\n\nShe announced her success in less than a second.\n\n\n\n\nShe sent two instructions to the computer.\n\n\n
and mouth.\n\n\nThe wax man had been blown away by a high-voltage attack
emitted from within ReiâsâŠno, from within Star Thunderâs ass and from the
exterior of the rest of her.\n\n\n\n\nWormhole writhed in agony.\n\n\nSomething like a black carpet emerged from the leopard print
covering Ocelotâs body and it attacked those extraterrestrial worms.\n\n\nâMeowww! Time to fight worms with bugs, you son of a bitch!â\n\n\nThe black carpet was a swarm of carnivorous marabunta army
ants, the strongest creature in the Amazon jungle, that Ocelot had summoned.
Those ants did not create a colony. They would surround their queen as they
moved around the jungle and devour every animal that got in their way, no
matter how large.\n\n\nThe pale young man must have shared the otherworldly wormsâ
pain as they were attacked by the carnivorous antsâ sharp mandibles because he
writhed on the floor like he really was dying.\n\n\nThe worms thrashed at the ants while vanishing into the many
dark holes opened in Wormholeâs naked body.\n\n\nâAhhhh, wait, no, please donât leave me here! Donât leave me
all alone!â\n\n\nNo one on earth could say for sure what happened next. While
Wormhole begged the worms, his body turned inside out. His brain, organs, and
bones emerged to the surface. And while inside out, he bent and twisted around
before vanishing without a trace. All that remained was a pile of metal tape on
the floor.\n\n\nNo one has ever seen Wormhole since.\n\n\nWaxwork stepped on the vanished young manâs abandoned
belongings while he created blades of hardened wax from all over his body.\n\n\nâYouâŠyou piece of shit! Iâll show you the true horrors I
can- erk.â\n\n\nAfter transforming his full body into weapons, the wax man
lost consciousness and fell over.\n\n\nMeanwhile, Joy Division held her head and writhed in pain.\n\n\n\n\nThe djinn vanished in a poof of smoke.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the same time, Brain Dead, Animalism, Gravity King, and
the many other Ogasawara escapees hanging out at the Doctorâs secret base all
lost consciousness.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFlare reemerged from the hole in the floor. She was now
accompanied by Rose Device who was all armored up.\n\n\nâHow about that, Disorder? I knew someone as distrusting as
you would have installed the same devices in the other Offbeatsâ brains so they
couldnât rebel against you. We just instructed those devices to knock them all
out.â Flare smiled. âWell, Rose Device did, not me.â\n\n\nThe Doctorâs mechanical face twitched.\n\n\nâKill them, Eclipse! Slaughter the Thunderclaps!â wailed the
mad scientist just before he vanished from the room.\n\n\nA moment later, Rose Deviceâs mechanical voice spoke up.\n\n\nâPattern B teleportation detected. He used a personal
teleportation device.â\n\n\nAfter confirming her father had escaped, Eclipse put on a
gruesome smile and kicked off the floor to take flight.\n\n\nâI have fatherâs permission now.
I wanted to tear you
limb from limb from the very beginning!â\n\n\nFlare took flight as well.\n\n\nâEveryone, leave Flare to me. I will defeat her!â\n\n\nâYou wish!â\nThe two of them clashed in the center of the room. The steel room shook from a
roar that seemed far too loud to have come from two human bodies colliding.
Rose Device quickly created a spatial statis field around herself, Star
Thunder, and Ocelot to protect them. The bed Flare had been bound to crashed
into the wall and shattered.\n\n\n\n\nEclipseâs fist crashed into Flareâs solar plexus. The
white-costumed figure was slammed into the metal floor, broke through, and
vanished to the floor below. Eclipse dove into the hole after her. The sisters
were out of sight, but powerful sounds of destruction and an earthquake-like
shaking still reached the other three.\n\n\nâIâve never seen Flare look so impressive in the 2 years
since I met her,â said Star Thunder.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoctor Disorderâs teleportation took him deep into the
mountains, far from any humanmade objects. A clear blue sky sat above the dense
forest around him. The only building around was a Japanese-style house that had
fallen from the sky and crashed into the ground. That was Reiâs house and the
Thunderclapsâ base.\n\n\nNo one knew that the mad scientistâs secret lab had been
constructed underground here a few years back. He had disguised it to the point
that it could not be detected even by military satellites and the people who
had worked on constructing it had since died in ways that looked like
natural causes. Eclipse had been created by the computer here while the
Doctor was imprisoned in Ogasawara.\n\n\nâDamn, now Iâll have to leave Japan. Maybe I should head to
Europe for a while and work with the Secret Cabal. The Magistrate owes me one
after that power up I gave to the Dark Champions of their French HQ.â\n\n\nHe extended a manipulator from his right shoulder and inserted
it into a tree trunk. The optical camouflage vanished and a small stealth jet
appeared.\n\n\nThe onboard AI rejoiced at finally being used after so many
long years of waiting, so it opened the cockpit and lowered the boarding
ladder.\n\n\nThe Doctor started to climb aboard until he heard thunder
rumbling in the blue sky. There was truly not a cloud in the sky, but lightning
crashed down directly into the cockpit. The Doctor was knocked away from the
jet which burst into flames before his eyes.\n\n\nHis hip slammed into the ground and his mechanical eye
widened as he heard a mechanical voice from behind him.\n\n\nâTeleporting away does not guarantee an escape. My brain can
track teleportation at this range.â\n\n\nHe looked back to see Rose Device, Star Thunder, and Ocelot
standing there.\n\n\nâI-impossible. Where is Eclipse? Killing all of you should
have been like taking candy from a baby for her.â\n\n\nStar Thunder gave him a pitying look.\n\n\nâEclipse is otherwise occupied. With fighting Flare.â\n\n\nThe ground shook, several large trees fell over, and the
bedrock exploded upwards.\n\n\nDirt and stone erupted into the air while white and a black
shooting stars flew out.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe white costume and the black bondage suit flew in
constantly-intersecting arcs at supersonic speeds. With each intersection, a
shockwave reached the ground. Eclipse was punched away so hard her back tore
through a mountain peak and Flare was punched down so hard her head tore a
crater in the ground.\n\n\nThe younger sister spoke down toward the older sister as she
tried to stand back up.\n\n\nâYou are no more than my prototype, so you can never defeat
me. You lack this power father gave only me: Omega Vision!â\n\n\nBeams launched from Eclipseâs eyes. The explosive current of
deep crimson energy ionized the air as it raced toward the ground.\n\n\nFlareâs costume instantly vaporized and the rock around her
grew red before melting in the excess energy.\n\n\nâSheâs burning!â screamed Rose Device whose mechanical
vision could look straight at those blindingly bright beams. âKirara-sanâs body
is burning. I canât believe it!â\n\n\nBut Flare remained standing. The scorching energy washed
over her and her skin carbonized, but she still stood tall.\n\n\nâThatâs not going to worrrrrk!!â\nShe took flight. She flew straight into the Omega Vision to climb toward
Eclipse.\n\n\nThe Doctor shook his head in annoyance at the sight.\n\n\nâTruly unbelievable. I did not design Kirara to endure the
Omega Vision. My calculations say Eclipse should be superior to her in every
way.â\n\n\nStar Thunderâs hand held the Doctorâs head and turned him
toward his two fighting daughters.\n\n\nâWhile you were in Ogasawara and the machines were creating
Eclipse, Flare was protecting people and fighting evil as a superhero. She
might be an artificial superhuman, but she has still found her life at risk on
a few occasions. She grew stronger by overcoming those things.â\n\n\nâYou claim Flare grew beyond my calculations? Preposterous.â\n\n\nA black-scorched hand finally struck Eclipseâs cheek. The
blow cut off the Omega Vision and a pair of fists continued raining blows down
on her.\n\n\nPushed on by the sounds of impact, the Doctorâs mechanically
amplified voice rang angrily through the sky.\n\n\nâPreposterous I say! Eclipse, final phase!â\n\n\n\n\nEclipseâs chest burst from within. The ribs connected down
the center of her chest separated to the left and right, grabbed at Flareâs
torso, and fused back together behind her sisterâs back.\n\n\nEclipse turned to her creator for help concerning this
transformation to her body.\n\n\nâFather, what is this!? Did you build this function into
me?â\nâIn 10 seconds, the Omega Vision emitter in your body will go haywire. Heat
rivaling the center of the sun will fill the area within a few meters of you.
Rejoice, my daughter. You will be offering up your body to vaporize Flare.â\n\n\n\n\nStar Thunder and Ocelot failed to accurately perceive what
happened over the next 10 seconds. Rose Device only figured it out by replaying
the footage in her brain after the fact.\n\n\nDuring the 1st second, Eclipse broke her own ribs with her
arms and kicked Flare away.\n\n\nDuring the 2nd second, Eclipse turned her back on her sister
and rocketed down toward the surface. She grabbed Doctor Disorder like a hawk
snatching up its prey and she ascended into the azure sky once more.\n\n\nDuring the 3rd second, the sight of the younger sisterâs
ascent brought a past memory back to Flare.\n
\n\n\n\nâStop! Donât shoot my daughter!â\nMy momâs scream was drowned out by the gunshot echoing through the cave.\n\n\nShe took the bullet for me. Even though she knew a mere
handgun couldnât hurt me.\n\n\nâThat is
my daughter, your rotten thief,â arrogantly
declared Doctor Disorder.\n\n\nThen the explosive inside my momâs hip activated. Her lower
body was blown to pieces before my eyes.\n\n\n\n\nIt was I who screamed that.\n\n\nâIâll kill you!â\nI couldnât stop the torrent of rage within me. Just as I ran forward to tear my
own creator to pieces with my bare hands, my momâs remaining upper body grabbed
at my leg from the ground.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nâCharles saidâŠSuper Offbeat said he was not given his great
power to take lives. He said it was to protect livesâŠno matter whose. So
please, protect his life.â\n\n\n\n\nI screamed as I picked up my dying mother in my arms and
flew deeper into the cave. Because I was not at all confident I could keep
myself from killing Doctor Disorder if I stayed there.\n\n\nâWait!â roared my creator, but his voice was drowned out by
the sound of my fist shattering the bedrock.\n\n\nI broke through the mountain and flew toward a human city
for the first time. I met Rei a few days after burying my mom.\n
\n\n\n\n\n\nDuring the 4th second, Flare took flight. During the 5th and
6th seconds, she forced her burned body to give her even more speed than her
sister as she flew, flew, and flew some more.\n\n\nâFaster. Faster! Faster for mom!!â\n\n\nDuring the 7th second, Flare arrived behind Eclipse and
matched her ascent speed. The sisters were motionless relative to each other.\n\n\n(If my sister can do it, then so can I.)\n\n\nDuring the 8th second, her blackened right hand touched
Eclipseâs back. The sistersâ bodies fused together. Flareâs fingers contacted
the tingling energy within.\n\n\n\n\nHearing Eclipseâs groan, Flare pulled her hand back out. She
now held a strange, crimson-glowing organ in her hand.\n\n\nDuring the 9th second, Flare kicked Eclipse down toward the
ground. At the same time, she threw the melting Omega Vision emitter upwards.
Her arm could throw a JSDF tank with ease, so the artificial organ flew well
above the clouds.\n\n\nDuring the 10th second, the white clouds were dyed red and
annihilated. The heat instantly vaporized the water droplets forming them. The
explosive expansion of the air whipped up a powerful wind and the forest on the
surface creaked as it blew through.\n\n\nFlare rode that wind down to the surface. The burns covering
her body were already falling away with new skin appeared below. Her healing
power was incredible.\n\n\nOn the ground, Eclipse was waiting for her sister while
restraining her father with her great strength. The wound on her chest was
already healing too.\n\n\nThe naked and half-naked sisters stood on either side of
their father. Two looks containing complicated feelings crashed together,
producing sparks. The Doctor stared blankly, feeling left behind by the
superhuman speed at which things had played out.\n\n\nâWh-what? But how didâŠand why didâŠ? Eclipse, what are you
doing?â\n\n\nEclipse responded coldly to her father.\n\n\nâWhy did you abandon me?â\n\n\nâWhy? Because you are my daughter. Of course you should
sacrifice yourself for me.â\n\n\nâBut I love you. I served you because I love you. I made
myself a mere tool for you. But you threw me out like all those Ogasawara
prisoners. I will never forgive you for that. Never.â\n\n\nThe father could not understand what his daughter was
talking about, so Flare cut in with her voice low.\n\n\nâDisorder has never felt love, so he wouldnât understand how
easily a betrayed love or a lost love can turn to hatred. You have no idea how
many times I tried to kill you after losing my mom.â\n\n\nâIf you hate him that much, sister, then why did you save
the two of us?â\n\n\nâBecause I promised my mom I would become a superhero. And a
hero never takes a life. A hero never gives up on a life.â\n\n\nFlare held her still-healing right arm out toward her
sister.\n\n\nâPlease, Eclipse. Do not kill him. Give him to me instead.
Iâll make sure he goes back to eating nasty prison food. That will humiliate
the arrogant man more than death ever could.â\n\n\nâFair point. Killing him now would feel good, but then itâs
over. But if heâs rotting in a cell, I can go see him suffering as many times
as I like. But there is one thing I must do now.â\n\n\nEclipseâs right hand moved just like high-speed precision
machinery. By the time the Doctor noticed his daughterâs action, her index and
middle fingers were already stabbed deep into his mechanical head.\n\n\nâWh-what are you doing!?â\n\n\n\n\nBefore Flare could move in, Eclipse had pulled her fingers
from his head. She held a few chips between them now.\n\n\nâI know his body inside and out because I studied his
medical program so I could heal him if he were injured. These here are his
memory chips.â\n\n\nHer mighty grip crushed the chips into metal powder before
the Doctorâs eyes.\n\n\nâNow his collected scientific knowledge and his memory of
the Thunderclapsâ identities is gone. He might still carry the name of Doctor
Disorder, but he can no longer even solve a linear equation.â\n\n\nâNo. That canât be true. I still have my memories.â\n\n\nThe Doctor spoke his real name, his parentsâ names, his
birthdate, and his life story. But he could not bring to mind any of the
scientific and mathematical knowledge that had been such a large part of his
long life. He tried to recall the numbers of the elements on the periodic
table, but he could not recall a single one. In fact, he could not even
remember the names of the most basic elements. Even though he was the man who
had discovered a new quark two years ago that none of the worldâs scientists
had even predicted existed. But now he was not even sure what a quark was.\n\n\nâAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!â\n\n\nThe man feared as the worldâs most evil mad scientist
collapsed to the ground in tears.\n\n\nPerhaps a superhero should have felt some sympathy at the
sight, but Flare could not help herself.\n\n\n\n\nâSo even heroes take cheap shots. Thatâs a relief,
honestly.â\n\n\nEclipseâs feet floated up from the ground. Her destroyed
chest was almost entirely back to normal, but her bondage outfit had not
regenerated, leaving her alluring breasts exposed.\n\n\nâWait, Eclipse!â shouted Flare who was entirely nude. âWhy
donât you come with me? Weâre the only two of our kind, so there must be
something we can gain from each other. Iâm sure Star Thunder and the others
would accept you.â\n\n\nâYou expect me to become a superhero? No, thanks. The next
time we meet, I will fuck every last hole in your body with my penis and fill
you to bursting with my cum. Look forward to it!â\n\n\nâWait!â called Star Thunder as she came running over, but
the black figure turned her back, rocketed off at supersonic speed, and
vanished into the blue sky.\n\n\nâOh, what a shame. I was really hoping I could convince
her,â said Star Thunder.\n\n\nâRei, you just wanted Eclipse to do you in the ass,â said
Ocelot.\n\n\nâN-no, donât be silly. W-wait, look!â\n\n\nStar Thunder blushed, but then she pointed at the crying
Doctor. Joy Division was seated atop his half-mechanical head.\n\n\nâMy, my, my. Isnât this an amusing fate for the old Doc.â\n\n\nâI thought the machine in your brain knocked you out!â said
Flare.\n\n\n\n\nâIâm a djinn, so why would you even think that scientific
device would work on me? I mean, look.â\n\n\nShe spread her right ear hole like something from a gag
anime and stuck her right hand in up to the wrist. She easily grabbed the small
device and pulled her right hand back out.\n\n\nâSee? Do you really think this silly thing can control me?
Kya ha ha ha ha ha ha!â\n\n\nThe Thunderclaps were all offended as living beings when
they saw that djinn stepping on the weeping mad scientistâs head.\n\n\nâHold on. Whose side are you on?â\n\n\nJoy hopped down from the Doctor and boldly pushed her chest
out.\n\n\nâIâm on whichever sideâs more fun. If itâs fun, Iâm there.â\n\n\nâThat attitude only makes the world worse, meow!â\n\n\nOcelot extended her claws and leaped high into the sky, but
the djinn snapped her fingers to transform the jaguar woman into a cute Persian
cat. The Persian cat landed back on the ground and began running around in
confusion.\n\n\nâWhat have you done?â\nStar Thunderâs hands glowed a bluish-white and lightning raced out toward Joy.\n\n\nThe djinn raised her index finger.\n\n\nâEeny, meeny, miny, moe.â\n\n\nWhen the Arabian beauty pointed her finger down on the
âmoeâ, the lightning dropped down right in front of her face and vanished into
the earth.\n\n\n\n\nRose Deviceâs words announced that the space around Joy had been
solidified. Not a single electron should have been able to leave.\n\n\nBut the djinn knocked on the statis field without a hint of
panic or concern. A wooden door appeared along the invisible field, so she
turned the shiny brass knob and leisurely strolled outside the field. Shizukoâs
jaw dropped within her emerald green mask.\n\n\nâHumans like you are powerless against me.â\n\n\nA white cloth appeared below Joyâs feet. It had âFlying
Carpetâ written on it in Japanese for the Thunderclapsâ benefit and it floated
up with her on it.\n\n\nâNowww then, I think itâs time I performed a strip show on
Naraâs Great Buddha. See you later.â\n\n\nâThere will be no later, mischievous child.â\n\n\nA deep voice, like that of an old man, rang out.\n\n\nA black starry sky suddenly appeared behind Joy where she
stood in the blue sky.\n\n\nThe starry sky was the bottom of a large trench coat. A man
had appeared in the air wearing a subdued brown suit and a coat patterned like
the starry sky.\n\n\nBelow a felt hat the same color as his suit, he wore a
golden mask with only two eyeholes. The sparkling surface of the mask had a
large blue question mark drawn on it.\n\n\nâI placed you in Ogasawara in deference to the Japanese
police, but it seems I must keep a closer eye on you, Joy baby.â\n\n\nâOh, yes. Please capture me, Enigma darling.â\n\n\nThe bottom of the trench coat flipped up and wrapped around
the djinn. Joy nestled herself up against the gold(?) masked manâs chest.\n\n\nâLadies, I do apologize for the trouble.â The masked man
bowed, but there was an obvious smile in his voice. âAnd I must say, you are a
nice sight for sore eyes. Yes, veryâŠenticing. Goodbye.â\n\n\nThe man and Joy Division disappeared as suddenly as either
one of them had appeared.\n\n\nOcelot had returned to her normal form and she opened her
mouth to show off her fangs.\n\n\nâI can see why even the spirit elders in South America view
him as their superior. Master Enigma is incredible.â\n\n\nâSo that was the legendary Master Enigma, was it?â\n\n\nâThat magician is said to have moved the moon.â\n\n\nâAh!â Flare cried out in despair while looking up into the
sky with her teammates. âA legendary hero saw my penis!! Heâll think Iâm