Me? A Hero? by Bronze Tempest | World Anvil

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Me? A Hero?

by Bronze Tempest

I land in the middle of a battle and see on the far side of the fight a guy with an orange canister just like what I remember being tossed at me. I have to get to him! I jump over the rabble in front of me and get to the guy with a canister. I pick him up and ask him for the canister, but all he does is gurgle at me so I take the canister away from him and drop him. Suddenly I am knocked flying and land in a heap. I do manage to make sure the canister is not broken as I look behind me and see a nine-foot-tall red thing - almost like me.......I look at him and see that he is surrounded by a cloud of some kind of smoke. Since I am not sure that I can safely go inside that cloud, I taunt the big guy so he will come to me. He calls me a little lady and basically ignores me. I get a little frustrated and suddenly I am almost as tall as he is and I call him names and insult his manhood. Next thing I know a rock comes flying out of the cloud - straight at someone else. He seems to be wearing power armor so I am sure he will be fine.
 
Then some guy on a rock beside me breaks out some electric whips at the same time that I see my canister going the opposite way of the big guy. I have to get that canister so that Kim and Melissa can do some testing on it to see if they can fix me. I grab the whips - apparently, electricity still hurts even in my transformed body - who knew? I manage to yank him off the rock and into the grass. Just as I am about to turn and head towards the little guy holding the canister, two other guys attack me from the other side - one high and one low. Good thing I am a cross-fit athlete. I am able to jump into the air and dodge the double attack. I turn once and longingly see my canister running away, but right is right so I turn and jump over to get behind the big guy and I hit him as hard as I can. He moves maybe a half step and then turns to look at me and grunt. I respond with "Is it my turn now?" Suddenly he starts swinging his arms forward and I know that I shouldn't be there when they meet. I do one of my martial arts flips and jump straight up and land behind where I was. His handclap gives off a sonic boom and the edge of it catches me - that hurts. I have gotten used to most things not hurting anymore.
 
Then there is a little voice below me that suggests I should work with him. I start to give him all the reasons that this is a bad idea and he interrupts me to say that we should just hit the bad guy before he has a chance to hit us first. We both hit and manage to knock big red out. I tell him thanks and all, but I have to get that canister before it gets away. One of the other guys floats down and hands the canister to me. I am about to say thanks and all, but I got to go and they both turn to help out the other two members of the team. Now I have to make a decision. I have the canister that I was after and I am not badly hurt. Do I help them finish the fight or do I take the card of this Moon Knight character and disappear for now? After all, once I get my friends to test the material I will have a chance to be normal again. What is the right thing to do? Am I a hero? Do I stay? Or do I go? I glance at the canister and I see writing on it. It says, "In ancient times, Pliny the Elder considered this to over anything around him, including living things." in a beautiful handwritten script. I growl since I feel like I have been told I have to stay and fight this battle to the end. I see on the other end of the clearing one of the team members surrounded by two of the bad guys and I jump into the middle of their circle. They stumble back a little and I can see that there is a chain that is charging for an electrical discharge so I strike it. I am expecting to break it easily, after all, I am way stronger and I could break things this size before I was changed. However, it just bends like hot rubber and tries to wrap around me instead of breaking easily. A very uncomfortable feeling.
 
Then just like that, the battle is over. There is a lot of talk about they seem to think that I am supposed to join their group: The Knights Vigilant. They talk a lot and probably share way too much and I finally tell them that I am going to go have the contents of the canister tested by my friends. I promise that I will let them know the results of the testing since I have a card from the Moon Knight character. I do a jump to the closest exit from the park, and make a dash for Kim and Melissa's apartment to give them the canister. I still wonder who wrote - actually hand wrote that quote on the canister. Why would they one, write anything at all and two, pick that particular quote to put on this mutagen that did so much to change my life - and not necessarily for the better.
 
I land on a rooftop and skid a little bit. "You should bend your knees when you land," says Knight Thrasher. We talk for a while about what a hero is, why to become a hero, and what is involved in being a hero. He makes a good point about needing to think about what I will do if the answer to being normal again is a no. So, what do I really need to do next?
 
 

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