Captain Hero. The greatest superhero that the world has
known. Ever. Period. The guy was idolized by everyone. Parents liked him
because he was a “good clean role model” for the growing generation, boys liked
him because he made stuff blow up, and girls liked him for his looks. Of course
captain hero was a pretty good PR guy as well. He liked to make appearances at
comic cons, lead parades, and even tried running for governor once. He won the
popular vote but because “Captain Hero” wasn’t a registered citizen the
government decided that he wasn’t allowed to run. Everybody loved Captain Hero.
But somehow all of them seemed to have forgotten me.
My name
is Hero kid- or Jim Tanner as my friends know me. I’m Captain Hero’s side kick.
Now you would think that being side kick to the greatest superhero ever would
have some pretty great perks. Not so. For instance: there was the time Dr.
Evilguy created the anti-death ray that created a whole bunch of zombies. The
zombies ran amok in the city, causing terror among the citizens. What stopped
them? The freeze sword that I created. Who got the credit for the save? Captain
Hero. Now I used to not care so much about whether or not I got some of the
fame and glory, but here’s the problem: I love the superhero business and I
would love to continue on, but I can’t be hero kid forever. No one can. But
hey, I’m 17 and my birthday is coming up soon. Once 18 happens, I’m gonna move
and fight crime myself. This upcoming year is going to be great.
December
13th
Hero
Hall is where Captain Hero and I hang our capes (so to speak). Captain says
that one of the most important things about superhero-ing is that the people
have to trust you, so our hide out is in the middle of the city, but the
biggest part of it is about 4 stories down under the sewer. This is where all
the interesting stuff is. The Presidor’s rocket gun, Underwelmer’s depression
ray, Discoman’s sound altering robot suit, all of it. Everything any enthusiast
and fan would want to see in their life time. Then there is the darker corner.
Captain won’t let me into this place. He says it’s the hot water heater and
maintenance stuff, but I don’t know if I believe him. I watched him go into the
back room and that’s when the alarm went off. Captain ran back from the back
room.
“what
is it kid?”
“I
don’t know! The alarm just started! I haven’t had time to look at the computer
yet! It’s on the other side of the base!”
“Kid,
if you’re ever going to get on your own you need to learn to keep ontop of the
small things!” he yells at me like that a lot when he’s stressed. But I think I
can understand that. He works hard.
We turn
on the screen and we see a flying saucer above the city. Beams of light are
being shot down to the ground. Immediately Captain Hero and I hop into the flying
hero car and fly to the rescue.
Captain
makes me read a lot of science books for research. Have you read War of the
Worlds? In the book it describes alien ships as saucers with 3 long tentacles
to move them around. That’s what this thing was, except the tentacles were made
of light.
“Alright
kid, get as close to the under belly of the saucer as you can. I’m going to try
and get inside it.”
“Roger
that captain!”
I moved
the car towards the under carriage of the saucer. My plan was to take it directly
through the light beam but as I took the car under it the light pushed down on
the hood of the car sending us in a forward flip down towards the city below.
“WHAT
ARE YOU DOING KID?” screamed captain as he grabbed the controls from me.
Captain pulled up on the wheel in vain hope that the car would correct itself.
I looked around to see what I could do. I went to the back of the car, hammer
hit the trunk with my fists and that controlled the car just enough for Captain
to stabilize her.
“Ok,
I’ll drive us up there and break into the ship. You just keep her level while I
hop in and take out the criminals.”
“Fine”.
Captain rolled his eyes at me. I hate when he does that. I would think after
this many years of working together I would earn a little trust and leeway from
the guy.
I sat
in the car and waited for the captain when I heard lots of punching sounds and
then the ship goes careening down into the street. Three aliens pop out of the
ship and the captain attacks. That’s when things got interesting. The three
aliens then morphed shape! Giant hammers of alien flesh smashed towards Captain
Hero but the Captain was too fast for them! He dodge, he jumped, and he kept on
hitting! The problem was so were the aliens, and there were three of them.
I knew
I was forbidden to do this, but I opened up the weapons dashboard and controls
on the car. Found the freeze pellets and shot a streamline into the ground,
separating Captain Hero from the aliens. I then hit the aliens and froze them
in their tracks.
“Looks
like this case has just turned cold!” I’ve been working on my superhero puns.
Captain
Hero looked sternly at me. I was SO going to get it when he got back to base,
but first he had to talk to the adoring public. I picked up the aliens in the tractor
beam in the car and flew but as I did, I hear a reporter ask The Captain a
question.
“Captain Hero! You were able to take down the aliens with
record time…
“Oh,
all in a day’s work I suppose” said the Captain. Pridefully I might add.
“I was
going to say, it seemed like your side kick Hero Kid did most of the work
there. How do you feel about that?”
I just
had to smile when she said that….
Part 2 coming soon! Stay tuned!
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