Saving The Day

Had a bit of wooziness and nasea today, but I didn't take any extra anti-nasea medication as we're trying to get me offa it. I think its because we're changing the Fellbamate time to 7:00 with the rest of my meds(we started at 8:00) But it wasn't bad and I recovered fine. So yeah! Mother also gave me a nice little magazine “retro gamer” It was interesting to hear about the old video games. I find it interesting reading about entertainment history(video games, television and sometimes music) when you see how technology changes how people do things. Reminding me of old stuff I saw a video of somebody reviewing that John Carter movie and he was talking about how overused all the stuff in the movie was. I thought that was funny because the reason that all the stuff was overused was that it was based on a 100 year old sci-fi book hence the guy actually did everything first and everybody was ripping off of him all these years. So really everybody was ripping off the movie in a weird way even though the movie was new. This kinda feels like one of those time travel paradoxes. Well, with that little ramble over onto the flash fiction!

Saving The Day

       Spectacular Kid watched his idol and mentor Spectacular Man be defeated by Black-Hole. Black-Hole is what they called the monster that would take the life force of people and wreak havoc. It was more dangerous than any mere supervillian, even Dr. Desolation. Spectacular Man was not the only hero who fought the monster. Heroes from all over the world joined the fight, it had to be stopped, because it would never on its own.

     The creature was a shape-shifter, though it could not impersonate anyone as it always gave off a strange green-black glow unlike anything else. It defeated any hero that tried to fight it. The Mega-Bolt, master of speed, it became an octopus with arms of lighting and those arms surrounded and smashed him, leaving him paralyzed on the ground. Kung-Fu Man was met with a thousand fists that he could not counter. Not all heroes fought it one-on-one. Leagues of heroes jumped it and were met with various different monstrous forms. Teams and squads joined in. Armies of superheroes came over the horizon and were defeated. Even the Change-o-bots in all their car and combined forms were defeated quickly.

    Then finally, the Mega-Empowered Rangers came. Though Spectacular Kid idolized Spectacular Man he knew that the Mega-Empowered Rangers were the most powerful heroes in the world. This was because they had the greatest power in the world. The greatest power that any superhero knew, The Power of Friendship! The Turquoise Ranger, The Amber Ranger, The Chartreuse Ranger, The Cardinal Ranger, The Beige Ranger, with The Power of Friendship they could perform any super move needed to defeat any foe!

They were crushed by Black-Hole.

      Spectacular Kid couldn't believe it. The Power of Friendship defeated. The Power of Friendship! The one truth he knew was that if a hero had faith in The Power of Friendship he could get out of anything. It beat any power. Flight. Laser beams. Gadgets. Teleportation. Mind Reading. Fire Breath. Ice Breath. Super Strength. When all hope was lost for a superhero he used The Power of Friendship to escape. Even if his friends weren't by his sides. But here it failed. What other greater power was there?

      It hit him. A power he could use to defeat Black-Hole. But he was afraid to use it. It was a power he and Spectacular Man only knew of. Though before only Spectacular Man knew of it. A long time ago Spectacular Man defeated an evil wizard who used an indestructible book of dark magic. Since Spectacular Man could not destroy it he hid it in the Spectacular Hideout. Spectacular Kid's biggest flaw was his insatiable curiosity so when he discovered the book he read it, every page. Though Spectacular Kid's heart was pure so he resisted any temptation and forgot about the book until this dire moment. He rushed back to the hideout. His power, although still developing, was incredible speed, so he came back before too many more bodies had piled up.

     He flipped through the pages frantically and selected the most powerful spell he could find. Though he had to sacrifice a fraction of soul for it to work. But he didn't care. He had to stop Black-Hole. He cast the spell. The sky went dark. Many of his memories started vanishing. But not the big ones. He didn't forget events like his birthday parties, or his adventures with Spectacular Man or Christmas days or newsworthy events. The little events that people don't even realize are recorded in their brain were the memories that the spell took. The thousands of time that people of said thank you, please, excuse me. All the hugs and high fives, handshakes. He had all the tiny strokes good luck swiped from the back of his mind. He would remember that roses smelled nice but the memory of a rose's smell would be gone. All the little pleasantries of life that sat in back of the mind and made him a happier person were pulled away. That was the fraction of his soul that the book took as payment for the spell.

      But Black-Hole was destroyed, and when it was destroyed the life force it stole was returned to the people it stole it from. Everyone was revived. Spectacular Kid had saved the day.