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Chapter 8 by SingingLark SingingLark

But are you a hero?

Show them you are the hero

You reach the fight zone, and it is worse than you expected. Regardless of their power, the combined might of all Earth's mightiest defenders was being slowly pushed back as the enemy constantly flanked and outmaneuvered these powerful beings. Some of them, like the fantastic four, were truly able to fight cohesively, but too many were fighting independently, straying too far from their defense line, and then having to fall back under fire.

You reach for the alien's minds, and at first it was like holding an electric wire. Their thoughts were chaotic and frenetic. You focus harder. You see shapes and auras that you recognize are the Earth heroes. You try to scramble them, and notice their shots start going astray. You push yourself forward and see an even greater network of sparks. The battleship veers from its course, and starts to enter a collision course into Jupiter. You are pretty satisfied with yourself, when suddenly you feel a blade trespassing your body. You come back to see you are surrounded by mecha like robots, one of them holding the blade that just trespassed your chest. You touch the metal, and feels your synapses magnifying, throwing a huge lighting blast through the metal and into the robot. One is fried, but there are three others around you.

A gulf of flames consumes your body, hotter than a blast furnace, enough to make even you feel it. Given time you could heal it, but you have none. Another wraps a chain over your body. Globs of blood are floating around you. You try to focus on their minds, these things are being piloted, but a successive sequence of blows keeps you on defensive. Something slices through your flesh and bone, your battle addled mind wonders if that floating arm is yours. There is three. you focus on one, and meet his punch with one of your own, wrecking the alien's device. The two other strikes break your spine, and the last thing you see is Brunhilde's winged horse, her loving face, her velvet lips.

You died fighting an alien invasion. You were instrumental in the defeat of this hitherto unknown opponent, and at least one person will remember you fondly. But really? you were trying to get laid, not get a girlfriend. Go back to start and see if you can do better.

You died. Try again!

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