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`` Is that it? Pathetic.'' The musclebound behemoth spat in disgust. `` They warned me about you - said you were an unstoppable force of mayhem. I guess I never realized they were all brainless cowards.'' 
 
 30 feet away, the man in the tattered trench-coat stumbled slightly as he shambled down the central road of the poverty-stricken village. Sparks flew from his left side. 
 
 `` That's close enough! I'm not an idiot. The boss wants you alive - but he did n't say anything about the little girl.'' The giant lifted his hostage by the collar and leveled a plasma weapon at her head. 
 
 The man in the trench-coat stopped. Men in dark jumpsuits swarmed out of the surrounding buildings with batons and handcuffs. He mumbled something under his breath. 
 
 In the blink of an eye, steel tentacles sprang from his back and impaled the jumpsuited minions. They struggled for a moment. There was a loud crack and the smell of ozone, and the bodies went limp. 
 
 The tentacles retracted, leaving the scorched corpses scattered about. The man in the trench-coat resumed shambling forward. 
 
 `` I said that's close enough! One more step and the girl gets an ion beam through the -'' SNAP 
 
 8 feet of inhuman flesh crashed to the ground, a gash in its side glowing violet. `` The girl'' stood over him with a stun gun in one hand and a scalpel in the other. 
 
 `` Splicing a human with a bear does n't make them any less vulnerable to electricity,'' she snarled as she turned to face the man in the trench-coat. 
 
 `` Good work, Penny. Quimby would be proud.'' The man in the trench-coat smiled, showing more metal than enamel. 
 
 In an airship across the world, a mechanical fist clenched with anger. [ `` *I'll get you next time, GADGET. *'' ] ( https: //youtu.be/l3nXbqdR4hU? t=14s )
