Return the favor.

I stood on the roof, at the brink of chaos. I had to help Grace. This was going to go horribly, but I had to do something. I twirled my staff and ran over towards Mongul. As soon as I arrived, I ducked low and swung the staff and hit him right in the groin with all the **** I could muster. He stopped, and turned towards me, his eyes practically burning with rage. Holding Graces throat in his hand, she was clawing at his grip.

His voice was calm and baritone, "Did you just attempt to hit me in the testicles?"

I should've been scared, I wasn't though, I grinned instead, "I didn't attempt, big man, I did hit you."

His stony visage shift to pure rage as he dropped Grace, who crumpled to her knees, coughing. He turned his full height to me, easily 8 and a half feet tall. I felt a rush of adrenaline, as he looked down at me like I was the only thing that mattered, and the only thing that mattered about me was how my organs would look on the roof.

I think I'll stick to being a street level hero if I make it through this.

Despite the primal fear I felt while this titan was staring me down, I didn't show weakness, I stared him back. Getting into a fighting stance, I narrowed my eyes at him. He ran at me, expecting that I ducked between his legs and swung my staff at his groin again. He roared in frustration as I rolled out from underneath and stood in front of Grace.

"You want her, shit-stain? You gotta get through me first."

"Do not tempt me, insect."

He charged towards me again. I knew the same trick wouldn't work twice so I had to do some thinking, but didn't have enough time. He swung his fist down and I clumsily jumped out of the way, the roof below cracked with the **** of the blow. I jumped on his fist and ran up the arm and swung my staff towards his head, knocking it to the side slightly. He chuckled and grabbed me by the face and slammed me into the ground.

"You cannot avoid **** from Mongul!" He screamed in my face.

He lifted me up again, my vision was blurry. The ringing in my ears was deafening. I was gonna die here. I was gonna die here. I was gonna die here. He slammed me into the ground a second time, a third time, a fourth time. The fourth time everything was hazy. I couldn't think straight.

I was gonna die here.

He lifted me up to slam me into the ground again, "WHY WON'T YOU DIE, CUR!"

Right before I impacted the ground for what most definitely would've been my last time, I was dropped as Mongul went flying, slamming into the roof, and slid to the edge and fell off. Standing where he was was a fuming Grace. Her glowing tattoos were smoking and crackling with red electricity.

She turned, her expression hard. It softened ever so slightly when she saw me and she ran over towards me. Sitting me up, she took my mask off, I weakly tried to stop her but she ripped it off and gasped.

"I normally look better than this, I promise." I joked, coughing.

She reached her hand forward and lightly touched my cheek, I winced, not because of the roughness of the action, she actually had a surprisingly gentle touch, but because of the gash she touched. She withdrew as if she was burned.

"You are... incredibly reckless. This makes the second time I've had to save your pretty ass." She said.

"Yeah I've been told I'm not the smartest person, and it's probably gonna get lower with the head trauma."

She chuckled, "I know someone who can hel-"

"I'm not done with you yet, woman."

Grace dropped me and turned, her powers activating. Through her legs I saw Mongul standing there, his posture was hunched and his face had several bruises on it, but he was still standing. I coughed and rolled over on my stomach. Everything hurt. My burns were irritated and there were now mostly likely several broken bones, I pushed myself up, ignoring pain my entire body was encompassed in.

The sounds of the other fights on the roof stopped, I looked over as the grey skinned girl made the helmeted man knock himself out with his own fist. The other two though, they just... stopped fighting. The yellow woman looked over at Mongul, back towards the blue woman, and then back towards Mongul. She let out an audible sigh and started walking towards him.

"Brother, we've lost. Give up. Get Un-Namer, we're leaving." She stood in between Grace and Mongul, staring him in the eye.

"You cannot order me around, witch. I will kill these mongrels alone if I have to."

He swung his hand and backhanded his sister to the side, knocking her back. He then began striding forward towards us. I slowly got up off the ground and, using the staff limped forward. I stood in front of Grace again, ignoring the warm blood pouring down my head. Grace tried to stop me on my way by, but I kept moving.

"Couldn't get enough of beating earlier, insect?" Mongul taunted.

I spit blood on the ground, "Fuck off. You aren't winning here, Mongul. Get lost."

"It looks like I am winning, fool."

"Think again." A new female voice said.

I looked over and saw a flying green woman with red hair, and a skintight white shirt with a red "X" pattern on the front. On her back was a hooded cape, the same blue as her skirt and thigh high boots. Stood on the roof next to her was... JJ? He was twirling a pen in between his fingers.

The young African-American boy smirked and pointed the pen towards Mongul, "So cool."

The pen glowed purple for a moment as a being made of pure lightning was pushed out of the pen. He flew in the air next to JJ and crackled slightly.

"Thunderbolt, heal him." JJ said while pointing the pen at me.

"You got it, pal." It responded.

The pink lightning creature flew over and charged me full of energy until suddenly I felt ten times better, I swung the staff around and got in a fighting stance. Everyone else followed my lead. Grace cracked her knuckles and started laughing, the grey skinned girl had pink energy sparkling from her fingers, the blue girl got in a fighting stance as well, the Martian flew behind me with her arms cross, and JJ and Thunderbolt stood side to side with the pen pointed at Mongul.

"You've lost, brother." The yellow woman said and stood with us. "Take your goon and leave. If I see you again, you will not leave this planet alive."