Tar-Anael rushed me. But I was able to dodge it by running up the wall and pushing off it to sail over the burning replica of my friend. I was surprised to see how her hair still wasn’t burning off of her. I’d call it a miracle, if only a small one.

It bellowed in anger as it stumbled on the ruins of the table and turned towards me. It raised two fingers and snapped them. Two small disks floated out of the box and attatched themselves to Anael’s wrists and lifted her off her feet. I noticed fear in her eyes as she looked at me and was whisked out of the room through the windows.

“NO!” I nearly jumped out of them myself but Tar-Anael grabbed my ankles and held me in place. “What do you want?!” I kicked it with my other foot.

Without a word it spun me and launched me hard into the wall creating a hole as I sailed into the free air outside. A few seconds later, I landed on top of car crushing the roof under my weight and making it shriek its alarms.

I was thankful for the vehicle softening the blow. The hard road would’ve been worse than the flimsy metal. But my body was still sore.

I could barely make out Tar-Anael jump out of the room as the sun blinded me. I picked myself up as she crashed into the street creating visible cracks. There were few people around and they were sensible enough to flee the scene.

“Am I seriously kicking your ass right now?” Anael chided to me from above.

I could see the strain the disks were putting on her arms as they carried her a few feet above us. Yet she still had enough strength to make fun of our predicament.

“Seriously? Do you not see that it is made of molten rock?! The Tar monster has already given me a couple of burns which you will have to end up treating!” I retorted as I demonstrated the burnt places of my leotard. “Besides, have you seen her assets?! They are very distracting since she isn’t wearing anything!” I added pointing at Tar-Anael’s chest where her breasts were enlarged contrasting the original’s.

“Ugh, you boys are typical,” she scoffed and shot me a glare.

“Don’t worry Gorgeous! I will get rid of him for you! No more pain in your ass!” Tar-Anael told her.

“Great! It talks. I take it you’re Maximillion then?” I asked it as I quickly dodged a sudden enlarged hand that came crashing down on the place where I was a moment ago.

I pulled a metal sign from the ground and vibrated my hand on the place where the sign was until it fell off leaving me with a metal beam. I also concentrated and summoned some electricity which coursed through the metal body in threatening volts of purple.

“Maximillion is no more—” Tar-Anael’s form wavered and changed into another girl. This one appeared to be at least a year younger, Anael’s age. The black goo and red hot cracks disappeared as her skin returned to normal. “I made sure of that to make myself better for her,” she looked at Anael in infatuation.

“Wait, you’re a girl?!” I was confused.

I thought that Maximillion was a guy. Not only was the name male orientated, but the obsession she has with Anael was not what I expected from a girl.

“Yes. Got a problem with that?” her hand started dripping with Tar as it slowly transformed.

“With you being a girl? Nah. But I do have a problem with people who want to kill me and kidnap my friends. By any chance, were you the one who I fought earlier?”

“Yes. It was to test out how powerful you were and I'm going to finish what I started,” she finished her transformation back into Tar-Anael.

I javelined my metal beam into her chest. It sunk in quietly and smoothly like a hot knife with butter. But it didn't elicit a reaction from her. Instead, she just used her claws to slice through it as she made her way to me. She picked it up and launched it back at me. I nearly dodged it, but it managed to scrape against my ankle causing me pain.

“Seriously, Martin? You could've taken her out while she was talking!”

I ignored her critique and focused on the fight. I'm out in public, I cant use my superspeed without my armour. But there was something I could do. My public hero identity was God of Thunder, or New Thor, so I could use that.

I jumped over Tar-Anael’s head and back into my apartment. I sped quickly by everything searching for my weapon. I hadn't used it in a while so I wasn't sure where I put it and I was running out of time. I could hear speaks nearing me. Then finally, I found it. My Event Axe. Modeled after Thor’s stormbreaker.

A molten Tar bat slammed into me knocking me to the floor. I picked myself up and slashed the air in front of the pest. An arc of lightning was sent into the creature frying it and making it drop to the floor as a heap of rock.

I turned my attention to its 3 other friends. I gripped my weapon tightly as electricity coursed through me and the metal.

I dashed between them in a near blink of an eye cutting them up and cooling them into rock.

My lightning was surprisingly versatile. I could make the energy super hot or cool it down to freezing temperatures. I'm not sure if it derived from my reality warp ability and I didnt care.

I launched myself at Tar-Anael and slammed into her cratering the floor below us. My skin grew in density to do its best to protect me from the burns she could give me as I pinned it to the floor. I raised my axe above me directing the swirling clouds over me. Lightning split open the sky as it traveled down and covered Tar-Anael.

I was about to let the lightning melt her back into goo but I remember what happened the last time I did that. So I forced the temperatures to change. Freezing air surrounded us as Tar-Anael shifted back into the monstrous creature I fought earlier and slowly froze.

I stopped the lightning strike and dispersed the clouds. Maximillion was now a frozen statue of the Tar Monster with the disfigured face it wore as Tar-Anael.

“You defeated him. Great! Now get me down!”

I sparked a bit of electricity between my fingers and directed it towards the diks. A puff of smoke came out of them as they were fried and dropped Anael to the ground.

“You've told me about the stalkers you've had, but this girl. She was just crazy,” I chuckled.

“Shut it. We have a mess to clean up,” I followed her into the building as we made our way to our apartment. Inside, she grabbed two gauntlets.

“Since New Thor has made his appearance for the first time in months, I might need a new gauntlet for the Axe,” I smiled sheepishly at my request.

Anael rolled her eyes clearly lacking her usual amusement.

A bunch of orbs rose to life as her gauntlets turned on. They swarmed around fixing stuff up and setting up devices around the hole in the wall. A large group of them also went out into the street where they began to try and pick up the Maximillion statue. They were finally able to haul it into our place after a moment of stalling.

“Where are we going to fit that?”

“In your room,” she retorted.

“What? No.”

“Then don't ask.”