This is part 2 of 4 of my prequel. Personally, I think Luke doesn’t get enough of a part. The picture is of a canal that I like to walk by. It’s close to my home in Belgium. Can you imagine if all this water suddenly started flying? I put some more story-starters for your walks at the end of this chapter.
Day 2
Luke couldn’t remember later if he actually rolled his eyes. Become superheroes? David had to be kidding.
“You want to do some flips?” David asked.
“Definitely.” Luke looked relieved. He got on his skateboard and rode slowly around the park. He put his hands out in front of his chest, and a glowing red ball appeared between them.
“How are you doing that?” David asked, narrow silver wheels appearing down the centerline of each foot.
“I don’t know,” said Luke. “It’s like I just know what to do.”
“Me, too. I think about becoming something, and it happens.”
Luke pulled his hands apart, and the orb split into two, one in each palm. Luke turned his palms down toward his skateboard. The red light spread out from the orbs and surrounded his feet and the board. He pushed off once, launched up a spine and got 20 feet of air. The board stuck to his feet like it was part of him. He did a McTwist and then another one. David lost count of how many before Luke landed it so softly that his wheels made no sound when they touched the half pipe.
They skated all morning, stopping their jumps just in time when they heard skates approaching down the block. Two boards rolled in, followed by the boarders themselves. The dudes walked up the ramp, then jumped off onto the boards. Both board and rider instantly gained speed. They flew off the same volcano and landed like a feather, but still with extreme speed. They slipped next to each other and one went behind the other, dismounting from the board. The skateboarder in front jumped up, and did a Yeah Right when he landed. The whole performance was flawless up to the point when the boarder currently doing a Yeah Right decided to take a drink of water and got knocked off his boards with a horizontal jet of water from the bottle. He sealed the bottle, which flew out of his hand and headed north, over the fence, down the block, and out of sight. After he managed to get a good drink of water from the water fountain, he slid gradually toward the same destination.
David and Luke looked at each other. The other boarded gaped for a moment then ran after his friend. All of a sudden, the water fountain released a spontaneous jet of water, and the sliding skater sped up. The water flew north like the bottle did, and the sliding boarder crashed through the fence and was lifted off the ground by his invisible pull. The other boarder yelled, “Jacob!”, hopped on his board and skated as fast as he could after him. Suddenly, David and Luke each got smacked in the jaw with a jet of water. The source was coming though the houses. Some people were watering their lawns with a hose, and once a dog ran after a piece of flying water, supposedly from his bowl. Ice flew out of cups, and manholes were knocked from the ground. All of the water around was heading straight for a single point.
“Water, water everywhere,” David said.
“I know, Bud,” Luke said.
“And this is why I suggested we become superheroes,” David said to Luke.
“And you were right,” said Luke, eyes and mouth wide looking after the water.
At that moment, a house collapsed, and a swimming pool of water slammed them in the backs. They were carried, suspended in the water, over their neighborhood, over busy Park Street, and straight into the center of town. David and Luke burst to the surface. David’s arm transformed into a computerized gauntlet. David said “Computer, scan for unusual energy sources”
“Scanning…scanning…scan complete. Match found,” the computer replied. A holographic map flashed into existence and showed a red dot two miles from Town Square.
Luke stared at David. “You’ve got a built-in computer?”
“Of course I do,” David replied casually, “I’m part machine, remember? I just didn’t think it would sound like Jarvis from The Avengers.”
With a flash of light, the duo were wearing costumes they had designed earlier in art class. Then the two jumped out of their glob of water. They flew toward the blip on the map toward Town Square. When the landed, the computer said, “Target source is underground.”
“Watch me,” David said. His whole body transformed into a drilling machine. He drilled into the ground, the cave collapsing behind him. The hero fell into a sort-of rectangular cave. Almost-Jarvis said, “Sir, we are currently beneath Nancy’s Nut Shop.”
“I always thought that place was suspicious,” David muttered.
Made out of red smoke, an insignia formed itself out of nothingness. With a flash of light it became a mist. It was of a castle, a huge building fit for an emperor, with huge tentacles coming out of it. It was a simple drawing, not detailed at all, but that was typical with insignias like this. David said, “Scan for radiation.”
“High levels of radiation detected.”
“Do they match Luke’s energy?” David asked.
“No.” The computer answered. “It does not match.”
“Then it’s not magic,” David muttered to himself.
“However, levels are similar to magic.”
“Then I’m guessing the hocus-pocus involved here has to do with some sort of a god, or maybe it’s some other kind of spiritual junk.” David tunneled back up and told Luke the whole story.
“No way,” Luke replied. “A building with tentacles, you say?”
“Yep.”
“Kind of suggests the rise of some sort of evil empire.”
“Took the words right out of my mouth,” David replied. “Now how are we gonna find these guys?”
“Easy.” Luke jabbed his thumb over his shoulder at a giant red dome a block behind them. “A forcefield.”
“And right at Town Square, too,” David finished.
The duo shot off. The forcefield contained two houses and a giant pool of water. There was an island in the middle of the pool. One house was partly submerged. One house was on the island. There was a person standing on the island, apparently the person who had been controlling the water. He was standing on the island. It looked as though he was trying to raise the other house out of the water but without any luck. The house on the island, the one that seemed to belong to him, was blue and built in a Chinese-looking style. The half-submerged house was built in a Chinese looking style, too, and it even looked like it had the exact same design, but it was mainly brown.
The duo said, “Whoa.” It looked like a factory with the water flying in through the forcefield’s dome. David looked around. He was a rational thinker, so he could see patterns easily. He looked. A stream of water flew through the direct top of the dome. Water flew in through various other places, and then water flew in through the top once again. David mentally recorded the places and realized that it was going in a loop. David said to Luke, “I think there’s a pattern to when the shield opens.”
Luke asked, “How?”
David replied, “The top will open in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .” A stream of water passed in through the top of the dome. “See? I think we may be able to sneak in.” At that very moment, a fire hydrant popped open and blasted them with water. A screen popped up, one of David’s constructs, saying, “Wait for it . . .”(because you can’t talk underwater). The side of the dome opened near the bottom, a perfectly circular pinhole that expanded rapidly into a hole that the water, Luke, and David, could fit through. The hole closed suddenly. The water was cut off mid-way. It splashed onto the shield and was quickly absorbed through the walls. David and Luke were left sitting on the side of dome. “This is a sticky forcefield,” David said.
“Probably meant as some sort of magical trap,” Luke said in reply.
“I’ll get us off of here,” David said and zapped the dome with lightning straight from his eyes. Their section of dome buzzed with electricity for just a second and then it turned into a white cloudy barrier. David and Luke slid off.
“Weird,” David said. “I thought we were gonna be shocked off.”
“And what was the barrier all about?” Luke asked.
“No idea, but if I can turn magic into that, then maybe you can turn it into nothingness.”
“Great idea! I can use my magic to cancel out that magic.”
Luke formed the familiar red mist around him then charged at the dome. A saber cut through it, and he jumped through the barrier. “Run towards it!”
David followed his lead. Again, a saber cut through the shield, creating an momentary gash so that David could jump through.
From the middle of the island, the man’s head snapped toward them. His face was hardened. His nose looked tall and his eyes glaring. His face was formed into an iron grimace. A mid-air whirlpool spiraled into his hand, turning into a rod of water. With a flash of red light he was holding a scepter. He pointed the scepter at them and shot a stream of water, knocking them back. “Hey, it isn’t sticky on the inside,” David said to Luke.
“I know. Weird, huh?”
The man shot a sphere of water at them. It hit David square in the face. “Glublub. Okay. That’s it! I’m letting him have it! David unleashed a ball of lightning at the man. The bad guy was knocked back into the water.
“Well, he should like that,” David said. “He’s in his element now.”
The duo zoomed into the sky. David unleashed a flying missile at the newly surfaced villain. As he moved his hand around, he controlled the missile. He knocked the villain off a platform of water. A giant red fist hit the man from below and onto his house.
“Two points!” yelled Luke.
David swooped down and gave the man an uppercut with his foot. He shot a grappling hook onto the ceiling and flew into the air. His other hand transformed into a mace-type weapon that shot a ball on a chain at the man. As if on a yo-yo, the weapon returned to David, aiming for the villain’s back, but the man was dodging left, right, and center. The man twirled his scepter and unleashed at least five water spheres at David. David expertly dodged one, then two, then got hit square in the face and then the chest by some of them. Any remaining either hit the shield or became inanimate, falling down to the water below. David, with a loud BOOM, was bounced up in mid-air. He realized he was creating explosions to propel himself, and it was his subconscious controlling them, too. He took over, shooting himself forward with rapid-fire explosions. He had found a new way of flying. After dodging multiple blasts of water from the man’s scepter, David unleashed a grapple and pulled. He flew downward and, with his momentum, knocked the man into the air.
“I’ve got him,” Luke said. He threw a cube underhand. The man caught it and looked at it curiously. One side flew open, releasing Lake Erie’s share of water into his face. He collapsed onto the island, but he had one last trick. The man aimed the scepter at the ocean of water beneath him and let fly a huge laser. super-charged tidal waves raced around Luke and David with more power than they should have.
“Each wave here has the power of a thousand tsunamis!” Luke said.
“Why didn’t he do this before?” asked David.
“Last resort?” offered Luke.
Suddenly, the tidal waves closed in on the island. They splashed down on top of the man, but he seemed unfazed. He raised his scepter and unleashed a whirlpool of water at them going at the speed of a formula one racecar.
Long story short, David and Luke were sent clear out of the shield.
“Well,” David said, dazed. “Let’s try again tomorrow.”
“That sounds like a good idea.” Luke replied.
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Okay, here are those story starters. Tell me if you made a good story from one of these or if they helped you think of your own:
• He woke with a start. The nightmare had happened again.
• “Whoa!” He said. And ‘whoa’ was right. The world was white around him with silver particles floating in clouds.
• She felt like a thousand Christmases had happened in one day. A giant bird and pixie land? This couldn’t be happening.
• She felt lighter that air as she floated through the sky.
Story kaBOOM! 