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"We are mankind, and we throw rocks. This is our nature. We started with sharpened rocks strapped to sticks. Now we pull ore from the earth, refine and shape it and cast it our enemies at sublight speeds. But we are still throwing rocks. The pinnacle of technology is the railgun, not the tractor beam, crystal fusion, or force fields, but the railgun, which incorporates all these technologies into one. We may build universe defying wonders for ourselves but in the end we will use them to throw rocks. And this is how the Machines see us! As rock wielding primitives. And they are right! We are humanity, and we slay our enemies with rocks!"    

 That night Joe dreamed of Manhattan. He was fighting the Supers in Times Square, only it was raining much harder than it actually had. The rain began to pull more and more toward Joe, until it was falling straight at him. The weight and the force pulled him back but still he fought. But as he fought the ground and the buildings and the people were becoming soft and clear, slowly turning to water as well. Soon he was in a swaying sea of shapes, everything holding its form but being soft to the touch, and he was slowly sinking. Still he fought but now he began to lose, falling farther into the water with each blow until a Super struck him with