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Chapter 285 by D!$N3Y D!$N3Y

When will it end...?

"You Should Always Face What You're Afraid of."

J'onn continued into the city and gazed in horror at how so much destruction someone could sew... And as soon as he made it, a shadowy figure stood in the distance, blocking his way. "Shadow..." But the man in the distance wasn't George at all, for it grew as it approached, at least 2 or 3 times bigger and taller than before.

It was IMP!

"Hiya, space man!" he taunted. "How's your family? Oh, yeah! Six feet under, on Mars." As he approached J'onn, the martian only stood there and stared at IMP. "Nothing to say? ... Must've struck a nerve. I mean, you're just so quiet now." He arched his fist back, smirking. "I'll change that." But J'onn altered his density into a steely form, just as the monster pounded on his face. His bones directly from his knuckles to the base of his fingers hurt, his muscles swelled and throbbed.

...

Meanwhile, in the real world, you was curled up in a ball on the floor and seemed to be having a nightmare. You mumbled fearfully and panted a bit quickly. "Help me..." you whispered. Due to the intensity of Scarecrow's ****, the nanobots in you helped you by having you slip into a coma-like stare, to help you stay calm as they combat the fear-inducing effects.

...

Jonathan Crane was pleased to see that his plans were going well, especially with his test subject; last time he used the postal service, he sent telegrams to top athletes and had their adrenaline trigger his fear substance: a powdery substance that would be absorbed into their skin.

But this time, he would go much bigger!

...

Inside your mind, J'onn was easily fending off the IMP, but the villain persisted. As soon as one was defeated and/or had disappeared, he would keep reappearing around the martian, and worse, multiplying! "You can't save the kid, y'know. Just like you couldn't save your family." It was getting to be so J'onn couldn't even keep down the copies that got knocked down, for they just kept getting back up. Minutes after the one-sided bout, IMP was now growing out of the pavement like sunflowers or cornstalks. "They were counting on you, and you let them down." The copies kept bombarding J'onn with his fear. "Now you're betraying them by forgetting about them, as if they never existed."

J'onn stopped fighting as IMP surrounded him, being both so close and yet so far from him. He put down his dukes and stood there. He looked around at the IMPs, listening to them chuckle triumphantly. "As the humans say, you are fishing, IMP. I have made peace with my family long ago, and their memory still lives inside of me."

The IMPs around him lost their grin and were stumped that he could be so calm... J'onn gazed up at the darkened sky and watched it grey up. "George!" he called. "I know how it feels to lose a loved one! But you must make peace with yourself!" The copies turned their heads to watch another figure walking up the street towards them. They grinned again as they vanished from sight quickly, leaving J'onn with... you!

"J'onn, what are you doing here?" you asked, looking up at him. You seemed so sad.

"I've come to set you free of the fear that tries to cripple you." But your frown didn't go away and you look at the pavement. "Talk to me. I can help you, but you must let me."

"Is this what my nanites are good for? Just... Giving me protection and enslaving women?" J'onn watched you silently, beginning to see where you were going with it. "Ever since I had these injected into me, I've been getting stronger. And they're the ones that get better. But... Where does it stop? How many girls will fall over themselves to be with me?" After a pause in your speech, you look up at J'onn. "What am I doing with myself...?"

"Like Superman," J'onn said, "you've been accumulating many abilities. And like Superman, you'll deal with it; you may have lost some of your family, but not all." He actually smiled. "How you saved the women, at a young age, was nothing less than remarkable." He walked up to you and held your shoulders. "We all make mistakes, but we are meant to learn from them. We have challenges to face, but doing so makes us stronger inside." He finished by telling you that facing your fears will be a grand challenge, but you'd emerge a better person from it.

All around you both, the background was fading into white, just before you and J'onn did.

What's next?

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