Time Heals Most Wounds

When humanity is threatened only the super-powered might of the Toronto Maple Leafs can be counted on to save the day. All over the continent small seeds of chaotic force have been seeking to control the powers of the National Heroes League. The battle to save the planet is on, and it is fierce.

A huge stone giant lumbers through the Hudson River. The Captain: John Tavares and Morgan Rielly float behind it on an icy brown platform, the result of John’s super chill. Morgan studiously ignores what is trapped beneath his feet. It’s almost as if by locking it in ice John has stolen the rivers ability to hide it’s filth. Morgan vows to burn his boots when he gets home then puts away the distraction.

It will only be a few minutes before the giant wades to the opposite bank and wreaks havoc.

“Can you freeze it in place?” Morgan asks.

John doesn’t answer more than clenching his jaw and digging deep. The ice forms but it isn’t fast enough. With ponderous steps that reverberate through the continent the giant is not troubled at all by the water it strides through, frozen or otherwise. Morgan can only watch as the chaotic titan gets closer and closer to the helpless people of New York.

There is a sonic boom and the giant’s chin flies back as if it were punched in the jaw. It staggers back a step and shakes its head, scanning the shore for whatever hurt it. The air cracks again with a sound like thunder but amplified like the thunder was especially angry. The giant doubles over and hugs its belly as it falls. A small tidal wave spreads out to crash against the banks of the river. The ice floe the Leafs are on pitches wildly as the river finds its new level.

Only the giants head can be seen above the water, whatever hit it knocked it on its stony ass. John reaches out with his super chill again and the water around the giants neck freezes solid. The ice begins to rise out of the river but another thunder clap knocks it off the giants neck and breaks a chip of stone off its nose. The thunder claps come fast and furious and the giants head lolls helpless from side to side until the loudest strike of all cracks it in half. The two lifeless slabs of stone slide into the river and the two Leafs take their hands away from their battered ears.

A small figure flies lazily away from where the ruined stone giant slips to the riverbed. Leo Komorav lands on the dirty ice and greets the Leafs with a handshake.

“Were you two trying to help?” The New York Islanders hero asks. “Cute.”

Leo rockets away, tipping the Leafs into the river.

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