There was somebody else in the crowd, who had been standing in the rain despite being only adorned in a light white t-shirt and a pair of shorts all of which was now heavy with the moisture. He had been a fan of Starman growing up, hell who hadn't? The guy was a freaking Super hero, he could fly and lift anything he wanted. He changed the world....because if he could exist? What else could? The Iron General for one. Johann watched as the ten foot tall armoured goliath rained down brutal strikes on the white clad hero who had done so much for the world. His hands were balled into fists and he was muttering to himself as he hoped it would suddenly turn out, some deus ex would pop up and Starman would reveal some trick he had and win the night. But it wasn't happening.....it wasn't happening!<br/><br/>It was on a building mounted news screen that Johann saw it, the journalist who was almost as famous as Starman himself....mainly because she was the only one he ever dealt with. If he had a PR person, it was her. But this time she wasn't boasting about his latest epic moment......she was asking for help. He deserved to be helped, he had been helping the world for twenty years! Now he needed the world to help him back. It wasn't right that he had to face the unending waves of trouble makers, professional criminals, maniac despots and everything in between and beyond on his own. He didn't deserve to<em>die</em>like this. Thoughts like that kept running through his head. The German felt his throat closing up, something welling up in his chest and before he knew what was happened it all just exploded! He threw his head back and looked up to the rain, but it wasn't a voluntary thing. His whole body went into some kind of sudden spasm that threw his head back and his arms out. At first he screamed in frustration then roared in defiance. He wasn't aware of it at first, but the people around of him were certainly aware that his body was letting out light.....a brilliant golden light. His opened and he could see it himself, that light...and it was warm, comforting. But something was certainly happening. His body rose from the ground, floating up and then it was like he had always been able to do it.<br/><br/><em>Of course</em>that's how you fly! Obviously! But there was more......even though he had absolutely no evidence to support it....and he was quite the logical thinker, a man of science......he knew that he was stronger then any man but Starman had ever been! It was time for Johann Brannigan to step up and do his part. Golden glowing eyes returned downwards to oversee the scene, there were others who had joined the fray. Now it was his turn. Johann exploded forward, flying as it was something he had been doing all his life, he soared towards the power armoured mad man like a shining meteor and rammed into the wide chest with all the might he could muster. And all the time he yelled a rebel yell!<br/><br/><div align="center">*****</div><br/>Victory was within in armoured grasp! He just had to reach out and take it. With Starman gone there would be nothing that would stop him from climbing to the top and stop humanity from its self-destructive livestyle that was going to see the planet incapable of providing resources to appease the masses and pollution crippling all that it can. While the arrival of individuals who showed interesting capabilities was an unexpected set back it was only a delay. The EMP device held him back for the merest of moments, but his systems had fully rebooted. Some of them even attempted to use<em>guns</em>against him. Harmless toys! And dogs! Mere dogs! He'd be in dire straits indeed if any thug with a gun and his pet Rottweiler could best his armour. Another arrived and made use of energy weaponry he had not calculated the rest of the world to have for at least ten years! It had even penetrated the armours exoskeleton. It would take forty five seconds for the nanobots and self-repairs systems to complete. It would be faster but the armour had to push itself so hard he was down to forty percent power! He didn't even have time for to respond before some Starman wannabe came crashing in and rammed him hard. The combined efforts managed to knock him over, but even as the ten foot tall and six foot wide power armour of red and grey went crashing down, its humanoid form was back on its feet in no time. The Iron General's mind operated fourteen times faster then a standard genius! It didn't take him long to get back on track and get over a little bump.<br/><br/>Re-routing some of that energy into the shield projectors in the tree-trunk sized left arm a octagonal shield of energy appeared.  It hummed in place as the heavy rain bounced harmlessly. The armour shook for a moment before cooling emissions exploded out. Like a fighter cracking his knuckles and other joints before getting into a fray, if power armour did such a thing. Regardless, a hatch at the underside of the right arm opened up and what appeared to be two relatively thin cylinders soon started extending, with various components moving and telescopic parts coming to bear. Soon enough the two cylinders looked more like two-linked cannons. Something similar happened on his back but it was a singular even larger weapon. An experienced eye would recognize it as a 250mm cannon!<br/><br/>"You small minded fools may have gotten me once with you're unexpected attack!" The voice emanating from the armour was nothing short of an electric growl. "But we shall see just what kind of firepower you can handle.....now run!" he laughed as his computers took aim and he started to blast his payload. The under arm two barrel weapon aimed straight for the one with the particle gun. The familiar yellow glow revealing his weapon just may have been something similar. His weapons were't fast firing, but they had some serious BOOM power!