Spectacular World

Pine Tree Village

Sometime in the past...

Dozens of them stood out in the field, looking around in silence. Intake was one of them. He stared out across the field at his fellow villains. They all came from different teams and different cities, but there was one thing they all had in common.

They weren't part of teams. Not anymore. Every villain he looked at, Intake realized, was a villain who had survived having their team be destroyed. Guys like Red Raptor, Axe Hand, and Driver. He was part of that as well. His days as a member of the Bad Timers had long come to an end after all.

They all just stood there awkwardly, seemingly not knowing what to do. They had all simply been brought here by an unknown force, but there also wasn't anything better waiting for them back in the real world either. The place they were in was a field. At least, that was the only way it could be described. It went on for seemingly ever, stretching out in all directions, and was perfectly flat. No hills, or bumps, or anything. There also wasn't any grass, dirt or resources you'd normally see in the ground. Instead, it was just stone. Hard rock that was smooth and yet soft.

When they had first been transported into this strange place, they had tried to escape. None of them had worked together, and in fact, a few of them even killed one another. After a few hours of the constant fighting that got old, they wandered, and they walked, all of them going through whatever this place was. It had been literal hours that they walked, and the only reason they all stopped now and waited was because they finally found something in this endless field of flat ground.

A stage stood before them. One made of wood that had been put together clumsily that held a single man. A man in a lab coat. Harrison Avalon stood before them all, the older man looking out at the crowd of villains. He had a sly smile on his face and had been simply staring at them all in silence for what seemed like forever. Intake had debated attacking the man and ripping him apart, but he decided against it after watching another villain try it. That villain had instantly burned to ash as fire appeared at his feet and turned him to dust.

"I'm sure you're all wondering why you're here." Avalon finally spoke up after the smell of ash became too much to bear. Grumbles came from all the villains, and one stepped forward.

It was a villain named Aqua Ring. A low-tier guy dressed in civilian clothes. He looked annoyed and glared up at Avalon. "I was at my house chilling when I suddenly got transported here. I'll just cut to the chase: What do you want?"

Avalon hummed, and his eyes traced over the many people he had brought here. "Well, I used my power to bring each of you here because starting today onward, this will be your new home."

"Excuse me?" A woman named Madam Vine asked, making a face. "Our new home? I think you got a few screws loose there, buddy."

Avalon chuckled a bit and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well, sorry, but I'm being serious. We're in a realm created by a powerful Super. It's a near-endless stretch of land, but it doesn't have anything in it. It'll maybe take a few hundred years, but with all of your help, I'd like to transform it and change it into land people could live on."

An ice-based villain named Glacier scowled. "And why's that? You know you used to work for the Hero Branch, but I heard you actually were on our side. Working for the Emperor. Now that he's gone, it makes me wonder what side you're really on."

"Oh, the Emperor isn't gone, not anymore," Avalon said casually, catching many of them off guard. Intake looked through the crowd he was in and spotted dozens of nervous-looking faces.

"Are you saying the Emperor is back?" Madam Vine asked, her face paling a bit.

Glacier snorted. "He's lying."