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53.

David flew to his mother’s side, but Mickey said, “Wait just one second.”

He was looking at his I-Pod, and then said, “Turn ‘em on boys!”

The Omegatron 14’s lit up and began to blast the Helen Reddy song “I Am Woman,” and an enraged Shastan flew towards Maria.

Unfortunately for him he went well beyond her and was swatted back by the dragon’s tail.

On the rebound Maria locked hands with him, and, looking eye to eye said, “This is a life, like so many before it, that you have thrown away.”

With the most powerful kick anyone present had ever seen she hit the superhuman in the groin.

“You should have been doing good. But you chose to be anti-life,” She said as she socked him in the face. He had not been defending his face, since both of his hands were cupped around his recently attack region.

Her second shot sent him reeling at least 200 yards. At the end of that arc he became incredibly dense again and smashed to the ground.

Flame and acid hit him from both sides, and the music continued to blare.

“Even your own robots are against you,” David said, pointing to the approaching behemoth.

The metal giant struck him from one side and Mastodon answered on the other.

Then he flew uncontrollably into the air, where he was met by Maria’s pummeling fists.

This time when he hit the ground, he did not get up so quickly.

When the giant robot sat on his back it took conscious effort for him to throw the thing away.

Luckily Stonedragon could take over another of the abandoned giants and bring it into the battle.

Madame Mimic had recovered and appeared to him as himself, but a Shastan in a diaper, sucking his thumb and crying like a baby.

He was again enraged, but flame and a crashing robot on his head seemed to take the momentum out of it.

Now the machines that he knew were the thing altering his powers blared out the Beatles song “Nowhere Man.”

He stood, with great trouble, and began to walk to his saucer. At this point an invisible hand injected him with something.

He turned and looked at them, with a total look of confusion.

On the other side, another invisible injection took place.

The world around him began to spin.

It was at this point that Maria landed just in front of the beaten Immorti.

“Vadid Shastan,” She told him, “You will come back in another life. We cannot stop that. But this last thought let us leave you with in this life.”

Mickey and David walked to her side.

“You were not beaten by power, you were not beaten by stealth or shicanery. You were beaten by family. Something you had, and could have again. If you can, move on. I have lost my husband because of you, but I must move on. The family is more important than any individual. Until you learn that, your lives are phony, sham things. This next one, try to live again.”

It was at that point the poison took over.

The injections had taken so long to be given because needles could not pierce his skin. But, once the battle had cut him, scraped him, there were plenty of places where the poison could go directly into his system.

A general cheer went up from those who had seen a hard battle won.

Mickey didn’t feel like cheering as he looked down on the dead body.

His mother understood and soothed his hair with her hand. Then she kissed him on the top of his head.

Mickey decided to let those who felt like celebrating do so, so he hit the button on his I-Pod and Queen’s “We Are the Champions” filled the air.