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===Part 4===
Machine Man removes his finger attachment from the wall just in time for Jack O'Lantern's attack. He proves immune to the mercenary's smoke grenade, and goes on the offensive by loosening the couplings of his body to windmill both his limbs and himself. Jack's freebooters prove easy to subdue, but Machine Man must still take on the villain himself while still maintaining his composure. Jack O'Lantern tries to escape down the corridors on his pogo platform, using his wrist-blaster and concussion grenades to try and fend off the living robot.
Jack O'Lantern burns through a wall into a ballroom full of startled partygoers whom he intends to exchange for his freedom. With no sign of his opponent slowing down, Jack threatens to toss a grenade into the crowd to get Machine Man to back off. Machine Man can tell he isn't bluffing. He takes his only option, generating a highly-charged magnetic field. Jack is contained, but his suit is insulated against this kind of attack – but his concussion bomb is not, and he is engulfed in its controlled explosion. The macabre mercenary is down and out, unharmed thanks to his suit, as Machine Man had calculated. Reasoning that Jack's men will surrender without their ringleader, he makes to leave before he has to explain to his Delmar colleagues why his face looks like Aaron's "party mask". The esteemed party guests watch him leave in stony silence, making no attempts to show gratitude to their mechanical saviour.
Machine Man meets up with Peter and Gears at Garvin's Garage, where the latter takes a look inside his head. What he finds is a mess of blown circuits and tangled wires; using his intuition with machinery, Gears spends nine hours operating on Aaron like a trained computer specialist. Aaron is overjoyed to be fixed up as good as new. When Aaron asks about Delmar, Peter informs him that Jack O'Lantern was captured and made international headlines, and that Byron Benjamin has had the super-embassy back to the drawing board.
His "final" duty complete, Aaron decides to take a leave of absence from his office job, telling Gears to take as much time as he needs to repair his face. With a new outlook on life and the world as his oyster, Aaron plans to discover everything he can about the wonders around him. Looking out to the city skyline, he tells his friends that he has the rest of his life to figure out his future... and he intends to be around for a long, long time.
The End?
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==Quotes==
"Amazing! You look wonderful!"
:—'''Peter'''{{'}}s perfectly heterosexual response to Aaron's repaired face.
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'''Maggie:''' "Speak for yourself, Cinderella! Now that he's here, this party'll become about as exciting as a trip to the orthodontist."
"Only fools and idealists fight on... when the cause is lost! A true mercenary knows when to find the back door!"
:—Wisdom from '''Jack O'Lantern'''.
"Though dazed and numbed by fear, these people realize... that Machine Man risked his all... in their defense! Yet no one offers a word of thanks, a gesture of gratitude... No one even tries... And that is the sharpest slap of all!!!"
:—The (melo)dramatic '''narration'''.
"I have so much yet to learn, to experience... in a world that's so gigantic... so filled with infinite wonders! I'll just take my chances as I've always done! I'm in no hurry to commit myself... I intend to be around for a long... long time!"
:—'''Machine Man''' has a new lease on life.
==Notes==
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