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"I’m not a man tonight," Marcus whispered back, his voice a low gravel. "I’m a headache they won’t wake up from."

In the neon-drenched canyons of Novo-Gotham, the sky was a perpetual bruise of purple and smog. But tonight, a different kind of darkness moved through the alleys of the Kiln District.

The Vipers were cocky. They had laser grids, thermal scanners, and motion detectors. But they had never faced someone whose body heat blended with the cold steel, whose movement was so fluid it looked like spilled oil. superhero skin black

"No," Marcus said, his white eyes the last thing Razor saw before unconsciousness. "I'm just a Black man who got tired of running."

The leader, a cybernetic brute named Razor, laughed. "You think black skin makes you invisible, hero? We see you." "I’m not a man tonight," Marcus whispered back,

"Ebon," crackled the voice in his ear. It was Kaela, his handler. "The Vipers are moving the shipment through the Scythe Bridge. Twenty of them. You’re one man."

And as the first patrol car’s light swept across the bridge, there was no one there. Only the night. Only the black. The Vipers were cocky

Unlike the spandex-clad paragons who fought in broad daylight, Ebon was a rumor. A glitch in the city's optical sensors. He stood six-foot-four, his deep brown skin seeming to drink the light itself, making him a negative image against the city’s glare. He wore no mask—only a high-collared, matte-black duster that whispered when he walked. Two matte-black batons rested on his thighs, not for show, but for the brutal, silent ballet of close-quarters justice.

But Marcus was born in this darkness. He was the darkness.

In the dark of the truck's cabin, the first guard saw a flash of white eyes— just eyes—floating in the void. Then, a black baton cracked against his temple. The second guard turned, gun raised. Marcus didn't dodge. He absorbed . His skin seemed to swell, swallowing the muzzle flash. The bullet hit a patch of his duster, and the nanoweave turned it into a dull thud. Marcus grabbed the barrel, crushed it like a tin can, and whispered, "Sleep."