A second chance

Chapter 7

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No, no, no! This is wrong! He was not in love with his sister.

"Oh, but you are Maxie," evil Phoebe sing-songed as her arms wrapped themselves around from behind. "You disciplining yourself to liking blondes over brunettes, dating Alison who made you do exactly what I always wanted you to do: stop being a bad guy, you barely fighting me when I captured you."

Max removed herself from her. "That's not true! I believed that blondes were hotter than brunettes, I did what Alison told me because I loved her and I didn't fight back when you capture me because I wanted to get through you."

"Even though I threw myself onto you, you didn't push me away. Do you really expect me to believe that you only did it because you wanted to turn me back to being good?"

"Yes!"

Evil Phoebe rolled her eyes. "Keep denying Max. That's what you're good at. When you finally understand you know where to find me," she said and the world around them disappeared.

Max woke up with a start. He shook his head to get rid of these incestuous thoughts. There is no way he was in love with Phoebe. Those feelings were the result of loneliness since Alison dumped him years ago in the previous timeline. They'll fade and until they do he'll busy himself. As today was the Sunday, he went ahead and checked his suits. As he worked Phoebe entered his lair.

"Hey Max want to go to Splatburger with me?" she asked.

Max opened his mouth to say yes, but then he remembered his dream. "Actually, I have something to do. Maybe some other time."

"Oh, okay..." she said, her disappointment clear. "What are you working on? Another invention?"

"Yeah. Now, excuse me, but I have to get back to work."

"Alright then, see you later."

As he watched her go, Max couldn't help feeling sorry for turning her down, but it was necessary until he sorted himself out. Suddenly his watch beeped, displaying one message:

Tonight, at 2100 at the coordinates below. Send recruits ahead.

It turns out that the location is an abandoned warehouse at the edges of Philadephia. Ghost lay in hiding, waiting for someone to arrive. Finally, he spotted Steel Jaw entering the abandoned structure. Following closely behind, Ghost saw the henchman press a hidden button on the wall that revealed an elevator. Before Steel Jaw could make the lift go down, he was paralyzed by Ghost's stasis, leaving him completely immobile, incapable of even crying out for help. He didn't even see who knocked him out. After dumping the villain inside the warehouse, Ghost made his way down. The elevator led to an underground base. Armed guards patrolled the base. The vigilante's first objective was to find the main data frame. From there he will able to download all information stored in it.

"Colosso, I'm in."

*Static*

"Colosso?"

*Static*

Looks like I'm on my own.

Ghost dodged all guards he came across until he finally reached the mainframe. He plugged his specially made USB drive in the server and in 5 minutes all data has been copied and no one would ever know. Quietly exiting the server room, he tried to find any the Command Center where the villain might be. Checking each room by slightly sticking his head he eventually found Mastermind in a simple room with a large monitor and a table with chairs. Besides him, the only other people were a man and woman dressed elegantly.