Rocky Road

David woke up to a ripping sound. He looked out the window to see the sod being torn from the ground in their backyard. David had slept in, and he knew his mom would be making breakfast for him by now. David went downstairs to find his mom staring at the window. He asked his mom, “Hey, may I borrow your phone?”
“If you can find it,” said his mother, trying to control her panic. “Are you going to call emergency?”
“Luke.” answered David.
“What? Some invisible force is tearing up our backyard!”
“Yeah. I kind of noticed. I think Luke and I can work out a solution. Oh, and it’s in your night stand, back of the top drawer.
She stared at him, bewildered, and then at the backyard where chunks of dirt were flying everywhere.
About a minute later, David and Luke, in gear, were sitting on top of the house of one of Luke’s neighbors, a friend to both of them who was on vacation with his family. He was probably on some beach in Kona while they were here dodging dirt clods the size of refrigerators.
“Hi!”
“I swear, this is like that show.” Luke said.
“What show?” David asked.
“The one with the guy with an arrow on his head. You know, the one who’s trying to control the 4 elements or something.”
“Yeah, great show, but if you hadn’t noticed, this is real life,” David replied. “Hey, I have a plan.”
What is it?”
“The emblem I saw yesterday—it was made of cosmic energy. The readings are exactly the same as the shield. If I can emit a beam of energy equal and opposite to the rays causing the shield—“
“They’ll cancel each other out!” Luke finished. After all, they had been in the same science class.
“And I’ve got just the gadget to do that,” David said.
Less than a minute later, a gigantic energy cannon mounted on 6 legs was thundering around the shield.
“Time to fire this behemoth of a cannon for the first time.” David
“Hey, that would be a good name,” said Luke, “Behemoth Cannon.”
“Yeah, that’s what we can call this thing, BeMo,” David said, grinning.
David stared hard at BeMo. The new found heroes heard a whirring. Then a blue beam hit the shield, tearing a hole in it.
“It worked!” David shouted. “It worked! It worked! It worked!”
“Wait a minute,” Luke said. “How did you fire it?”
“With my mind,” David shrugged.
“Hey, it looks like there’s a smaller shield in the middle of that lake that used to be town square.”
“Hey! You’re right!” David replied. “And I also noticed that there are two people on the island.”
One of the men was tall and thin with a hard face and long, flat nose. The team recognized him as the one who controlled water. The second man was big and bulky. He was very brutish. As the team stared at him, he launched a clump of asphalt flying from the roads at the two heroes.
“Look out!” Luke levitated just above it, but David wasn’t so lucky. The clump hit David square in his chest plate, knocking him back against the brick chimney, which crumbled onto the roof. Luke ran to his friend. David opened his eyes into a tight squint. Luke blew out a relieved breath. “So you can make a super cannon, but you can’t deflect a chunk of asphalt?”
“I did not see that coming.”
Luke offered David a hand up. David looked down at his dented chest plate. “I think I have to fix that.” Another chunk of asphalt zoomed past them. Then another, which they had to dodge.
“It’s time to retaliate,” David said. His chest plate shifted and returned to normal. Wires, gears, springs, and mechanical parts—they all flew out of David’s body and took the shape of BeMo. “Full power!” David yelled enthusiastically. A blue ray shot out of the cannon, counteracting the shield. A blue ring expanded, seeming to fight the red shield. It grew. It seemed to be pushed back, but it kept going. The outer shield popped open.
“Let’s go!” cried David. He and his partner flew down toward the smaller shield, David blasting it all the way.
BeMo had disassembled and retracted back into David’s arms, legs, head, and spine.
A hole opened in the smaller shield, and David and Luke flew through. “All right! Everything you’ve got on the big, tough guy!” David announced.
The “big, tough guy” was in a black suit, controlling the soil, rock and asphalt that had been ripped up from the ground. The red and blue beams, however, hit each other before they hit the enemy and became a cloudy white forcefield. Luke and David dropped their arms, the beams fading into pale vapors.
Luke and David looked at each other, surprised. Luke said, “looks like some sort of barrier . . .”
“. . . created by the fusion of our energies,” finished David.
And together, “A fusion barrier!”
The big guy looked around from inside the fusion barrier, shrugged with a grunt, and continued waving his hands around. Chunks of stone continued flying, some bouncing off the sides of the barrier. And that’s when it formed. The chunks flew together, shaping themselves into a huge golem. It was a huge, gray bulky sculpture of stone, towering over them both. It had one crystal eye, a big, purple orb looking down at them. The golem smashed its fists together, creating a wave of air.
Luke and David were thrown backwards. The golem’s eye glowed. A huge purple beam fired at Luke and David. They managed to block it using a forcefield. The laser hit the golem’s elbow, reducing its forearm to rubble. The golem seemed to roar. Luke flew up and blasted it in the eye with a red beam. Then a red mist surrounded Luke. With his left pointer finger, he drew a star out of red light. No sooner had he completed it than a blast of flame knocked the golem back.
David landed the final blow. Growing his hand and leaping up to the eye level of the golem. His fist shot out as if on a yo-yo, and hit the golem’s eye, causing it to explode. Unfortunately, the explosion sent Luke and David flying. They each landed on their rear.
“Another failure,” Luke said.
They looked down from the rooftop at the long, shredded road, not feeling much like heroes.