PLOT:
Things are not looking good in Japan, home country to the Super Young Team. The entire city of Tokyo is under military
quarantine and not even the venerated champion of the Global Guardians
and Big Science Action, Rising Sun is allowed inside. When he begins to make a scene outside of the military barricade, the seemingly ubiquitous Mister Itami shows up to remind him that his skills are no longer
powerful enough to aid in the city's recovery, nor will they allow him access to the site. Upon retreating to the local pub to lick his wounds, Rising Sun looks up from the bottom of his empty bottle to find
an update on the Super Young Team's adventures in America playing on the television.
It seems that Mister Itami's game of mis-direction continues. This time, deciding that a
satellite headquarters was too passé for the premiere crime fighting team of the 21st Century, Hanover sets the team up
in a top notch suite inside Las Vulgar. There, the heroes of the ADD. generation are surrounded by all of the lights and spectacle the city has to offer. A hot tub. A fully stocked bar. A television with twelve hundred channels (but no
news stations of course). And a top of the line camera crew to follow them around and film their adventures.
But finding adventure in the city of Sin isn't as simple as it would seem. Tired of the extra baggage of a film crew and eager for action, Superbat ties up the camera crew and sets about looking up the nearest super-villain in all of
Las Vulgar on the Wiki. He is able to track down one Doctor Dread, a former enemy of Metamorpho who has set up shop within the city.
While her teammates go out in search of a fight, Shiny Happy Aquazon stays behind to embrace all that commercialism has to offer. To the shock of the rest of the team, she agrees to take place in a bit of product placement for the show.
The product - a portable canister of treated and specially cultivated oxygen named Oxy-Gen (a joint venture between Devonshire
Corporation and Technocult tm) is being hyped as the next big canned refreshment product. Excited to have Aquazon as their
spokes model (well, after a little bit of
air-brushing that is), the president of Oxy-Gen and Hanover take her to a hip launch party down at the Freemont Street Experience. It's there that she learns that the marketing promise that breathing the oxygen
cocktail makes you "part of something much larger than yourself" is
eerily spot on. After breathing in hits from the canisters, a hive mind nanite within the compound activates, turning everyone at the party into a giant mob controlled by something known as the "Brain Drain"!
Despite the fact that they launched an all out attack on his home and private property, Doctor Dread seems to bare the team no ill-will. They're just another round of youngsters who have saved the universe and are still looking to make something bigger of themselves. He won't begrudge them their
quest for stardom but he makes it very clear that he has no plans to be anyone's "TV nemesis." Instead he invites the team into his bunker where he offers them coffee and sandwiches. It's there that he also gives them a shocking glimpse into what is going on in their home country.
It seems that someone (obviously with quite a lot of pull) has managed to place a large scramble over every
satellite's view of Japan. Checking the news feeds for any coverage of the events going on in Japan, the team stumbles across a report on the goings-on on Freemont Street and immediately race
to aid their teammate Shiny Happy Aquazon!
Crashing through the roof of the Experience building, the team extracts their own and bids adieu to Las Vulgar as they make their way towards
Thornton, Colorado - home of Oxy-Gen's bottling plant. There, thanks to a simple forced binary fission via Sonic Death Wail the Super Young Team
are able to defeat the giant mind-controlling menace at the plant's core. Could this be the victory be the one that finally scores the team all of the glory and praise they deserve?
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