Unworthy Trust

Unworthy Trust, known also as the Boiling Point, brings Titan's bid for independence crashing down and drags Invincible into a fight he never wanted. It opens with Titan grudgingly sitting down with his old employer, Machine Head, who reveals that Mister Liu, the human host of a dragon they once robbed, survived his supposed death and now stalks Titan, bent on revenge. Machine Head offers to restore Titan's old place within the Order, promising protections even Liu cannot pierce, but Titan, unwilling to surrender the freedom he fought for, turns the offer down and walks out.

The danger surfaces during an outing with Titan's family. As his daughter Fiona jokes that no weather is too cold for ice cream, their guard detail is silently wiped out by Magnattack, a ferrokinetic killer sent by Mister Liu. Titan hardens into his stone form to cover Vanessa and Fiona and screams for them to flee, then loses himself entirely, battering the assassin into a pulp. Understanding he cannot face Liu alone, Titan reaches out to Invincible Inc. Mark, hollowed out by exhaustion and trauma, refuses to take the field himself and instead hands the job to his teenage brother Oliver, who is operating as Kid Omni-Man. Titan is skeptical of the boy at first, but Oliver wins him over by casually hoisting a desk while offering to help. The two soon corner Mister Liu, who unleashes his true form and becomes a towering dragon. Losing badly, they are saved when Mark finally answers a distress call and pours his pent-up fury into the beast, driving Liu off. Mark's frayed mind then breaks the wrong way. Convinced that Titan deliberately lured Oliver into mortal danger, he turns on him and delivers a savage, near-fatal beating that mirrors the one Titan gave Magnattack, relenting only when a horrified Oliver pleads with him to stop.

Left broken and out of options, Titan accepts that his run of luck is over. With nowhere else to turn, he returns to Machine Head to reclaim his seat in the Order, only to find Mister Liu already sitting at the same table. The syndicate reorganizes around cooperation and profit under a new arrangement, and Machine Head walks away the true winner, having maneuvered both Titan and Liu back under his authority. For Mark, the confrontation marks a grim milestone, the point at which he finally answers Titan for their long history, even as his own instability leaves the outcome anything but heroic.