Alter Egos Page #5

he's got the midlife crisis,

don't you think?

You know, I know

why you're really here.

You're trying to decide

whether or not to kill me.

- How do you know that?

- Your body language tells me.

Not moving tells me

you don't want me

to read your body language,

which proves that I'm right.

There's something different

about you.

Did you forget

to take your serum?

- What serum?

What are you talking about?

What the hell was that?

You're a telemorph.

- I'm a little rusty.

- Why didn't he tell me?

[Inhales sharply]

[Groaning]

- Oh, there we go.

[Bright rhythmic music]

- What the hell?

- Ha!

- Come on, Fridge.

Focus.

- [Laughing]

- You can do this.

- I will not...Let you...

Get inside...Of my head.

- Well, I'm just

getting warmed up.

But you...Don't...

Have...A...Choice.

[Voices whispering]

- Ah!

What are you doing?

- Your name is Brendan?

Oh, God.

- [Panting]

That's how you killed him--

mind control.

- You're Matthew's son.

- Don't you say that name.

You don't get to use that name.

- Oh, God.

- Is this when you make me

kill myself,

like my father?

- Brendan, you're my nephew.

- That's bullshit.

- It's true.

Brendan.

Brendan, you're my nephew.

- No, you're a liar.

Get out of my head.

- It's true, Brendan.

We're family.

- No, that's impossible.

- Matthew was my older brother.

You look just like him.

- Jimmy, you're drunk.

- No, I'm not.

I came here to tell you

I'm not going to be

divorcing my wife.

I'm going to get back with her.

- Good.

- She loves me.

- I'm glad.

'Cause what happened between us

was a mistake.

- Yeah, my mistake.

To think that I almost

lost my marriage for you.

- Well, then that worked out

for the both of us, didn't it?

- Yeah, it did.

- Okay, Jimmy, you can go.

- If you want me to leave,

then you should probably

call the cops.

Oh, wait.

I'm the cops.

- Okay, Jimmy,

you're freaking me out.

- You're cheating on me

with one of those superheroes,

aren't you?

- Cheating?

We were never a couple.

That doesn't even make sense.

[Plate clattering]

You're an a**hole.

- I know, but the problem is,

is that you're just so cute.

- Don't you touch me.

- You always smell so good.

I just want to tear off--

- Jimmy, I said "no."

- Uh!

[Glass shattering]

That really hurt!

That is no way to treat

your lover, lover.

- Get away from her.

- This is the f*ggot

you're dumping me for?

Here he comes

to save the day

What are you gonna do,

X-ray boy?

You're probably checking

my balls right now, aren't you?

- You don't want to do that.

- You better kill me.

Because if you don't,

you're going to have

to watch your back

every day for the rest

of your goddamn life.

- Say you're sorry to the lady,

and get out of here.

Are you all right?

- Yeah.

[Door slams]

I think he's gone.

- He's gone.

- How could nobody know

that you were brothers?

- He was a superhero.

I was a supervillain.

If the world found out

that we were brothers,

it wouldn't have been good

for either one of us,

so we kept it a secret.

- But why would you do it?

I mean, how could you kill

your own brother?

- It's not what you think.

It's complicated.

I'll just show you.

[Voices whispering]

- No, don't do that.

Don't just inject it

into my mind.

I want to hear you say it.

- Matthew was my idol.

And when our parents died,

he joined the supercorps.

And he married a superhero,

your mother.

And together they ran off

to save the world,

abandoning me, his baby brother,

who--who needed him most.

Yeah, I was jealous at first,

when he had superpowers.

But then my superpowers

started to kick in,

although I didn't understand

what was happening.

I could hear people's thoughts.

I thought I was going crazy.

I saw dozens of doctors.

I was in and out

of mental institutions.

Where was he?

Then, one day, electric death

pulled up in his stretch,

and he told me

that the voices I was hearing

was the beginning

of mind control,

and that I was special.

One in a billion.

He told me that if I worked

for him,

he could help me hone my powers,

and that the world would just

open up like a flower,

offering me all

of its sweetness.

- Freeze!

- And pretty soon,

I was the most powerful

supervillain around.

And then it was Matthew's turn

to be jealous.

He decided that he was going

to tell the world

that we were brothers,

so that my guys

would turn against me.

Fair man that he was,

he gave me a warning.

He came and made me an offer.

He brought your mother,

windchill, with him,

and she tried to convince me

that the supercorps

could take care of me.

How could they take care of me?

And even if they could,

being a superhero

didn't seem like much fun,

as I guess you know.

So I decided I had to stop them

then and there.

- Why like that?

Why did you use his own gun?

- I flew into a rage.

Next thing I knew,

he pulled his gun.

[Gunshot]

She hit the ground.

He hit the ground.

[Whispers]

I lost control.

I lost control.

You have to believe me.

- It was an accident.

- I swear it was.

- I'll show you an accident.

[Zapping]

Why aren't you stopping me?

- Because I want you to do it.

- Damn it.

My truffula tree cupcakes.

- Poor guys.

- [Sighs]

I was making them for this guy

I met today.

- You put a lot of work

into them.

- Dr. Seuss

would have been proud.

- You must really like this guy,

huh?

- Yeah, I guess I do.

Listen, um, thanks.

I mean it.

- No need to thank me.

- Not just for stopping him,

but for stopping me.

I would have cut his balls off.

- If I knew that's all

you were gonna do,

I would have let you do it.

Still, it feels better

to do the right thing.

You know what I mean?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I know what you mean.

[Whispers]

What am I doing?

I got to, um...

I got to go fix something.

Brendan, wait.

Don't do it.

- Get out of here, C-Thru.

- I was wrong.

I shouldn't

have brought you here.

- What the hell

are you talking about?

Five minutes ago,

this was my chance for revenge.

- Not like this.

Superheroes shouldn't

kill anyone.

- No, this doesn't make

any sense.

What's he not telling me?

- I can't read his thoughts.

He's using

the mind-control inhibitor.

- That's not true.

- Mind-control inhibitor?

What was in that syringe?

- Nothing, I told you.

- That's how they captured me,

- Shut up.

- The prison guards still use.

- We got to go, now.

- Well, what's your plan?

You just gonna leave me here?

- This isn't about you.

- Uh, C-Thru?

- Brendan, don't listen to him.

He's trying to get

inside our heads.

- C-Thru!

- What?

- Sorry.

[Telephone ringer dings]

[Ominous music]

- What happened?

- It's okay to show him

how you feel.

- Why don't you tell us

how you tried to set me up?

- Don't listen to him, Brendan.

- Why don't you tell me why you

didn't give me the serum?

- I came back to save you.

- To save me?

You know what, man?

Just for once,

I want to hear you tell me

something that's actually true.

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