Heroes

Heroes

This story is set 20 years in the future in a fictional world where Spiderman, Batman and the Fantastic Four team are aged veteran superheroes who are about to retire. They are going to be leaving the responsibility of saving the world to a younger superhero team called the ‘Protectors’.

On the last day of work for the veteran superheroes the alarm bells start ringing which indicate a super villain is at work in the world. Believing the Protectors to be mature enough, the veteran superheroes send them off to tackle the super villain. However that this is no ordinary villain. This villain calls himself Villain Xtreme and is an amalgamation of all the villains that the superheroes have ever faced. Villain Xtreme wants to make Earth his fortress and use it to rule the galaxy. Villain Xtreme quickly overpowers the Protectors and begins to transform the whole planet into his fortress.

Meanwhile back at base, the superheroes watch the beginning of the transformation on live TV and decide to go to battle one last time to defend the planet from super villains. They realise that to defeat this villain they have to remember they ways that they defeated the villains that they have ever faced before. This is a more complex task that they had originally thought because some of the team have memory loss due to old age and can’t remember how they defeated villains. However scientists on Earth have made up a cure to memory loss caused by old age. Before going to defeat the super villain the superheroes go to the scientists and get the cure.

The superheroes armed with their fast knowledge of defeating super villains travel to Villain Xtreme’s base of operation and engage in battle with him. Half way through the battle the superheroes fall back and realise that they can’t defeat this super villain with just knowledge from previous battles, they have to figure out a way to defeat this villain with previous knowledge and another thing. Eventually they work out that to defeat this villain they have to put their full physical and mental strength into defeating this villain. The superheroes are then aided by a return of the Protectors who have recovered from their earlier defeat. The Protectors add a stronger element of strength to the battle as they are fitter and more agile than their older superhero colleague. With the combined strength of the Protectors and the knowledge of the veteran superheroes, Villain Xtreme is eventually defeated.

In his dying words, Villain Xtreme whispers, “I’ll be back!”.