​     Alacran reared way back, ​putting everything he had into his right fist. He was so enraged, he planned on taking the security guard's head clean off. And he could do it, too. He wasn't just plain old paraplegic Axel Clemons anymore. He was Alacran, the Silver Scorpion! Currently, he was the most powerful man on the planet Earth! He'd just taken out a whole squadron of security guards! He'd kicked ass on Adam Forwarder himself! Why, he could lift cars and throw them like snowballs if he wanted to! He could stare down a tank if he wanted to! Why, is he wanted, he could...

​     And that's when the robot Adam threw hit him in the head. 

​     The force of it made him stagger, and Adam took that moment to jump on Alacran and hit him with a judo slice to the side of Alacran's neck, and that hurt! That actually hurt! The blow made his skull rattle inside of his armor so that he actually felt it! What the...

​     And then Adam smacked him again, again, at the neck again, at the elbow, at the shoulder. As he did, his feet kicked hard at Alacran's knees and shins. Adam even stomped on Alacran's feet with his own. He twisted and kicked the back of Alacran's knees so they they bent. Adam Forwarder was getting the best of him! He was actually winning the fight! No! How could he possibly...

​     "I AM ALACRAN!" he bellowed in that deep, baritone voice that Voltair had provided for him. "CAN'T YOU FATHOM WHO I AM? IF I WANTED TO, I COULD KILL EVERYONE I SEE! I..."

     Another karate chop from Adam to Alacran's neck shut him up. It made his vision jiggle. It jangled his mind. Adam kept coming. He delivered more blows to Alacran's more vulnerable areas, his joints, his elbows, his knees, his shoulders.

     "NO!" 

​     It was Alacran's tail that stopped Adam in the end, not his fists. It had the power to tear a mailbox loose from the sidewalk and send it flying, that tail. It caught Adam in the ribs so that he went sailing across the room and out through where Alacran had smashed through the plate glass window when he first made his entrance. 

     Which is to say, Adam sailed out into the night... 

     some thirty stories up.

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