Jupiter's Schemes

"Report! B12 is down..."

On a trashed lawn, three stealth soldiers clad in armor made of materials invisible to the people of the Free Nation looked at their fallen comrade and reported the situation to their leader.

"Dead!?"

"Bang!"

"Sh*t! Sh*t!"

"Is Jupiter trying to rebel against the heavens!?"

Cycels felt he couldn't calm down, repeatedly slamming his fist on the metal table in front of him.

"Director, perhaps the soldier fell out of the window himself. Theoretically, Jupiter can't see our people at all,"

Cycels' secretary, with short blonde hair slicked back in a retro pompadour, analyzed after receiving the report.

"Are you saying our Global Defense Bureau's most elite soldier, wearing the Bureau's best kinetic armor, ultimately fell out of a high school toilet due to a simple misstep and died?!"

Cycels raised an eyebrow, his eyes filled with anger.

"Mmm..."

"Theoretically, that possibility does exist. We absolutely cannot rule out any possibility,"

The blonde secretary pondered for a moment before saying.

"Bang!"

Cycels said nothing upon hearing this, punching the table in front of him.

"All of you, get out..."

Cycels addressed the busy staff.

"..."

Hearing this, the staff skillfully packed up their various documents, remained silent, and walked out of the Global Defense Bureau's command center.

"Come out!"

Cycels looked towards a corner of the command center.

"Heh heh..."

"Cycels, you know you can't deceive yourself. You know very well who caused all this!"

The Demon Detective, Damian Darkblood, suddenly appeared before Cycels.

"Listen! I'm warning you, stop investigating! Whatever you know, forget it."

Cycels warned Damian Darkblood, clenching his fist at the same time. How he wished he could reveal the truth to the public! But he absolutely could not. Until they had a countermeasure against Jupiter, revealing the truth would inflict an irreversible fatal blow on the Global Defense Bureau, and even the entire planet...

"Blind old man..."

Damian Darkblood looked coldly at Cycels. He didn't care about the consequences of revealing the truth; he was only responsible for revealing it, and others would bear the consequences...

"..."

Cycels watched Damian Darkblood without speaking. He decided that before he could find the final result, he had to eliminate all uncontrollable factors first, such as... the Demon Detective in front of him, who wouldn't listen to his advice.

Meanwhile...

"Hahaha..."

"Hand over the money, you weaklings!"

In a certain free district of the Free Nation, a man in a yellow bodysuit was electrocuting his way through a bank robbery.

"Damn it!"

"If only the Guardians could come."

The bank security guards, or police, were no match for the man in the bodysuit. They hid behind cover, cursing incessantly.

With the Global Guardians nowhere to be seen, supervillains seemed to see the dawn. Every day, this city alone had dozens of bank robberies caused by supervillains. Simply put, the superheroes in this city were completely insufficient.

"See ya, rookies~"

The man in the yellow bodysuit, carrying a sack full of cash, gave the security guards and police the international gesture of friendship and vanished like lightning...

"F*ck!"

The detective watched the arrogant criminal and smashed a large pit in the hood of his police car with a single punch. He could only lament that cars nowadays were made with increasingly shoddy materials.

However, just as the supervillain escaped and the detective sighed, a white figure stood high above the clouds, quietly observing everything below.

"Hahaha..."

"This is great! It's so good to have days without those damn Guardians getting in the way!"

In the suburbs far from the city, the supervillain who specialized in using electricity was excitedly counting the money.

"Looks like you made a fortune!?"

Just as the supervillain was excitedly looking at the stacks of green bills, a slightly hoarse voice sounded in his ear.

"That's right, I made a fortune..."

The supervillain, dazed by joy, first nodded gently. Then, he suddenly felt something was wrong. This was his private hideout; how could anyone else be here? The supervillain, realizing this, immediately turned around and looked behind him.

"Good afternoon, pal."

He saw a burly man, dressed in a snow-white, tight-fitting suit with a large 'F' emblazoned on the chest, smiling at him from behind.

"Damn it!"

The supervillain cursed and immediately unleashed his strongest lightning attack.

"Bang!"

However, before the supervillain could successfully attack, a tremendous force gripped him by the throat.

"Listen..."

"I'm not here to arrest you!"

"I'm here to talk business."

"I'm not a dictator, so I'll give you a choice. You can choose whether to accept this deal. If you accept, nod. If you refuse, you die here."

"I'll give you five seconds to think!"

"Five!"

Jupiter said coldly, his hand gripping the electric man's neck.

"Nngh!!!"

Upon hearing that he would die if he refused, the electric man nodded immediately without a second thought.

"Very good. Now, gather your companions and attack the city's largest bank at 3 PM."

Jupiter glanced at the time and commanded the electric man before him.

"What!?"

The electric man hadn't expected that Jupiter's "deal" was for him to rob a bank.

"Don't worry, I won't arrest you, and I promise you that besides me, the Guardians, Omni-Man, and Invincible Young Hero will absolutely not be present..."

"As for why I'm having you do this, you don't need to know. You just need to agree, yes or no!?"

Jupiter floated in the air and said to the electric man.

"Hahaha..."

"Omni-Man and you won't show up!? Then why wouldn't I do this deal!?"

The electric man burst into laughter. In his eyes, if Jupiter and the others weren't coming, no one could stop him.

"Excellent. I await your good news. But remember, if you dare break our agreement, I will kill you. Even if you flee to Mars, I will hunt you down and finish you."

With that, Jupiter turned into an afterimage and shot into the sky, accompanied by a sonic boom.

"I envy his abilities."

The electric man watched Jupiter fly into the sky, his eyes filled with envy.