[Adaptive Evolution]-Saiyan???

The Grayson family's yard was packed with black SUVs.

More than a dozen agents moved through the ruins, the instruments in their hands beeping nonstop. The dining room area had been blasted into a huge crater, with broken bricks and shards of glass strewn everywhere.

Cecil Stedman stood at the edge of the crater, looking at Nolan trapped inside a force field.

Omni-Man was curled up inside the translucent energy cage like a dead dog, his skin pale, his muscles limp, his eyes vacant. The force field was the result of twenty years of GDA research, designed specifically to deal with Viltrumites. Of course, before today, no one had imagined they would ever actually need to use it.

Mark stood beside his mother.

Debbie was still trembling, her tears long since dried up. She did not understand what had happened. She only knew that her husband was a monster, and that another, even more terrifying monster had beaten him into this state.

Cecil walked over and stopped in front of Mark.

The one-eyed old man wore a black trench coat, his face expressionless. His gaze toward Mark was complicated, as though he were looking at both a dangerous weapon and an investment opportunity.

"I know you have a lot of questions," Cecil said hoarsely. "But I'll answer the most important one first—yes, we've always known what your father was."

Mark clenched his fists.

"You knew?"

"The Global Defense Agency's job is to monitor threats." Cecil nodded. "Your father came to Earth twenty years ago, and we identified him immediately. But we had no way of dealing with him. All we could do was watch, wait, and pray he would never bare his fangs."

"Then why didn't you tell me?"

"Tell you what? That your dad was an alien who might