บท 10: My very own... cameo?

"Are you all right there sonny?"

Andrew turned around and saw the elderly man. At first glance, he seemed like someone who you would forget after talking to him, but Andrew knew there was more to it.

"Stan Lee...?" Andrew muttered.

"Hm? Who is that?"

"Forget it. I would like to talk to you Watcher."

"You know who I am?" He asked gasping.

"I know a lot of things," Andrew said mysteriously.

"Come, let's talk in private."

In a random restaurant

"How do you know me?"

"That's not important, I don't mean you any harm. I want to hear some of your stories."

"My stories? Why?"

"I've got nothing to do."

"Alright then."

And so The Watcher started telling his tales. He told stories about Howard Stark and Peggy Carter, Captain America, Captain Marvel, a certain blind young boy, a green muscled giant and more. Hearing the stories solidified the fact that Andrew was really in the MCU. It didn't really feel like it because phase one would start next year, so much of the world was still normal for the most part and all the past MCU movies had already happened.

"You know, I have been watching you too you know."

"Heh, I can escape SHIELD and any other organizations but not The Watcher huh..."

"Yep. I gotta say, you have wonderful powers and the work you are doing is good however brutal."

"I don't know anymore... I... was supposed to get here and live my life... and this is how it turned out..."

"I see... so you were given a second chance. You're still young, you have your whole life ahead of you."

"HOW!?" Andrew lowered his voice after getting looks from the other costumers. "After all the people I hurt... some of them were just trying to live their life however they could and feed their families... their kids... and I f*cking crippled most of them for life...!"

"Whos to say that you can't. People make mistakes, you are just one of them."

"Heh... Most people fail in high school, break a glass, fall down, lose their money, or break others hearts. I hurt people, really hurt people. I... even killed someone..."

"..."

"I can't say that you haven't done some bad things but you've done a lot of good too. All the people you've rescued and evils you stopped. You did go too far sometimes, but you are only human and being human means making mistakes from time to time, you just have to make sure you learn from them and improve. Nobody is perfect."

"..."

"Tell me, what did you want to do with your second chance here, in this universe?"

"...It's just a childish dream of mine but... no, nevermind, it's stupid really."

"Come on, tell me, there is no such thing as a stupid dream here."

"I... wanted to travel. To explore. To meet people... maybe... just maybe one day... to fall in love..."

"Hahaha. There it is, you have a purpose now. Just follow your heart and you will be fine. If you make any mistakes, make up for them."

"Sigh. You make it sound so... simple."

"That's because it is. Now, its time for me to go. I am very busy, and I'm sure both of us will be even more so starting next year."

"You could say that."

"Goodbye Andrew. See you next time."

"Goodbye Watcher."

When the Stan Lee look-alike left Andrew slumped down on his seat and thought about all they talked about. He wanted to change, he really did. He was tired of this life, he wanted to change, to become better.

Before all that, however, he just had one more job to do. His last time out as the vigilante The Beast.

It was already over midnight by the time Andrew got to where he wanted. IT had stopped snowing by now and it was starting to get colder. Inside a building, Andrew could see this time's target, the last one. They were a group of human traffickers. They dealt with all ages and gender, old or young, man or woman, and... even children.

Only when they put all the 'cargo' inside the containers, Andrew started his operation so as to not hurt them. He grew horns, stopped camouflaging, grew claws, and his eyes started to glow.

One of the guards was casually looking around when he spotted two glowing dots in the shadow. He rubbed his eyes but they did not go away. It was then that Andrew stepped out of the shadow.

"...?" The guard was confused at first, but then he recognized the vigilante. After all, how could he not? Andrew was infamous.

"Oh, sh*t! HEY!! THE B-BEAST IS HERE!!!" Andrew didn't care that he had announced his presence to everyone. The 'cargo' was safe and it would make it easier to deal with them instead of having to go look for each one.

He waited a minute until all of the criminals gathered and he finally spoke with thirty guns pointed at him.

"I'll give you one chance. Drop your weapons and surrender. Nobody needs to get hurt."

"..."

"Pff, hahahahaha. Did you hear that boys? He said 'Nobody needs to get hurt' hahahaha. Light him up!"

All guns started to fire. From revolvers to pistols and rifles. All for naught as they simply bounced off Andrew's body and dropped to the floor. His damaged suit repairing with every bullet hole.

*click click*

"What the!"

"The hard way it is then," Andrew said as much as he dashed towards the group using [Water shot]. He held down the power and knocked out six people before reaching the group. He kicked a man in the gut, grouping him up with four other people before using [Eletric Ell's discharge], knocking them out.

By now the other twenty people had already reloaded their weapons and shot at him, not even caring about their comrades in the back. Andrew ignored the bullets and punched the closest person. He turned to his right and kicked another guy. Turning to the left he slashed the person trying to sneak up on him in the chest, leaving a long nonfatal gash from shoulder to the waist.

Andrew used [Water shot] once more and knocked out five more people. He then jumped high and dropped down fist first in the middle of a group of seven people. It cracked the floor and made an explosion-like sound. The shock wave downed the seven people.

There were only ten people left now. They all grouped up in hope of somehow defeating him. Andrew picked one of their friends he had knocked out earlier and threw him at them and dashed. When most of them fell down Andrew was ready and used [Eletric Ell's discharge], knocking out 8 people.

The two left seeing no way to win, dropped down their weapons and surrendered.

"We give up!" Andrew then walked up to them and flicked his finger on their heads, knocking them out. He did made sure everyone was unconscious before he was about to call the police from one of their phones.

*clap clap clap clap*

"Magnificent! BRAVO!!" The warehouse they were in was unclean and full of human feces and etc. so Andrew wasn't able to notice someone hiding between all the fighting.

"Come out!"

Out of the shadows came out a man dressed in a casual white suit and pants. He had his blond brownish hair slicked backwards creating a cool and elegant image if not for the madness, enthusiasm, and revenge in his black eyes.

"You..."