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October 1, 2009

Puny god smash

by Bronze Tempest

I have had enough of that droid machine above that keeps firing at me, so I jump up and land on top of it, burrow it into the ground and feel very satisfied. Then I hear that same voice from the harbor. This time he insinuates that he "made" me and that he has an even better "experiment" to bring into the fray. I am finding that I really don't like evil masterminds and especially don't like when they talk to me. I really do prefer the background now that I am freakishly tall and orange. For some reason I didn't mind the spotlight when I was doing competitions, but now it just feels like people consider me an object and not a person and that is simply wrong.
 
Suddenly, four orange people jump into the area with a superhero landing. They are eight foot tall and are very obviously mutated park goers. I can just imagine the therapy they will need for the next decade. I would prefer to ignore them, but I don't think they are willing to be ignored. I must grow to my full size so I can interact with them on their level. I know that Hulk would hurl insults and probably the mechanical beast at them, but I am not Hulk, so I hurl two balls I grabbed from the mechanical beast, aiming for the two closest to me. I hit them and can see the orange ooze boil up out them and start expanding and covering them. They start fighting it and I want to watch to see if I can get any ideas about things to do if that happens to me again, when the third one grabs an empty garbage can and hurls it straight at me. I drop down and it speeds harmlessly over my head. Fortunately, it just hits the band stand and bounces off. I sigh in relief and turn back in time to see the last one grab a picnic table and tosses it like a shield aiming right at my spot on the ground. I grab two more of the ooze balls and roll towards the Fantasticar and manage to roll far enough that the table hits the drone I had demolished instead of me. Sadly, that means there is a fountain of orange ooze that pops out of it. It rains down in a circle and some of it gets on me, but not a lot. Some even lands on a drone and weighs it down.
 
Suddenly, there are several quarter-sized bouncy balls heading towards me. Apparently the ooze made me a target and the group of drones to the north of me decide I am a great target. I roll to a crouch and do a bunny hop to get out of range. They land behind me and there is steam rising from where the balls hit and made some of the areas into a patch of undulating, quivering plastic goo. That seems bad and I am about to share that information with Tesla, who seems to have taken over one of the drones and is making it fire on its companions, when I am interrupted again by the bad doctor. He seems to be unable to decide what he wants to do and has no real plan - just popping from one idea to the next with no end game. I am sure he is just toying with me, but I do not know why. What gain is there to bother with me - a new hero with no real status or enemies or even a membership with the group she is currently standing with against the evil orange ooze. I almost feel that the ooze is alive - and coming to get me. It is always after me - no one else.
 
Suddenly, the drones all start moving and forming a giant mechanical beast with tentacles. There are lightning bolts or sparks running along the outside of the drones. Tesla tells me it is more of a plasma bolt, which does not really help at all. I feel we should stop it before it finishes whatever it is trying to do so I grab the picnic table and jump into the middle of the pack looking for its 'brain'. As soon as I land - in the almost middle - I do a sonic clap and the drones clear away from the space. I think I am doing good, when I feel an elbow in my back and am knocked into the grass. Another one lands close but misses me. They seem to be intent on making bodily contact and when they jump into the air with the clear intention of landing on me. Since I do not feel like being landed on, I tuck and roll and go under that person and manage to scissor the legs from the one behind them. I am congratulating myself when a third one lands and grabs that leg I used to scissor and starts bouncing me from one side to the other - like a puny god.
 
I try to pull my brain cells together enough to grab their leg and knock them tail over teakettle. Some little gold bug thing comes flying through the air and I manage to dodge it. Then I realize that it was from Moon Knight and I should have either caught it or at least NOT dodged.
 
 
 

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