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Post by willc453 on Apr 23, 2021 10:42:21 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 32
With Bobs six Mjolnir's sent back to the studio and the other six on top of the motorhome, went inside to change, then headed off for Crispy Creme where I bought three dozen doughnuts. Two went to Mom and the girls, while I......well, I planned on keepin' and eatin' 'em for myself. Brought the doughnuts in, with Mom getting up to see how I was doing. Told her I had done some thinking and she was right.....even if I moved back here, it really wouldn't change anything unless I heard about it, like I did on that tv news cast. Life can suck even for a “superhero” like me. Back to the couch to sleep a couple of hours, then the girls got up and ready for school while Mom made breakfast for us which was oatmeal, with the girls getting another doughnut each. Yeah, even though Mom had money in the bank from me, she wasn't changing her ways money wise. As for the girls lunches, they had tuna fish sandwiches, a small bag of chips with bottles of water they'd frozen the night before. By time their lunch time came, most of the ice would be melted and cold to drink. We're walking to the bus stop as normal and of course, their friend who wanted to get into cosplaying, joining us. Yeah, word had spread THAT quick among the kids going to school. Thing is, they were ALL asking and thinking the same thing: how did Thor know what was going on, along with being in town like that and could it be he was from the Reno area?! I said I seriously doubt he's from Reno and there's a much simpler explanation. Remember how he showed up to clear the freeway of snow and helping a lot of people out recently? Them: see, that PROVES he's from around here. I said how about a more rational explanation? Could be he was just flying from some place, while going to some other place? He looks down to see how heavily it's snowing and decided maybe the road people could use some help in some way? Or how about he has one of those notebook computer things and he checks the news to see where people might need help, then goes to help them. Remember how he put out all those forest fires? It wouldn't surprise me if he was just passing over Reno and happened to see all those police cars with their lights on and decided to see if the police needed help. I said I know Mom said not to bad mouth the man, but he's NOT some all knowing demi-god from Asgard like you girls are talking about. Thank goodness that shut them up and something to think about. This was when I told the girls I was leaving to see that friend of mine, but I'd be back for Christmas. And by the way, DON'T be looking for your Christmas presents as they're safely stashed in the motor-home. I truly enjoyed their looks of disappointments when I said that.
Back home, tell Mom that I was taking off but asked if she needed anything before I left from the store. She didn't, so got gas at the Fernley Pilot truck stop, while also getting two of those hot dogs with onions and nacho cheese on them. Thing is, while I was looking forward to meeting Cheri, the girls and Quack Fu, I did not look forward to the long drive down there as it was around eight or nine hours. While it was the day before Christmas Eve, traffic was pretty busy on I-80, but kind of died off once I headed south on 95. It was when I hit the area north of Hawthorne that I realized there was basically NO traffic other than the occasional semi-trucks pulling their trailers. So I got to thinking and no doubt you're all thinking uh oh..... Yeah, I was thinking of the time we took all those New York City Marvel people to that cosplay convention and how they had no problems.....so why not do the same with my motorhome? It'd save me A LOT of time, right? So after making sure no one was around, had Bobs Mjolnir's that were on the roof of the motorhome, get under the motorhome. Another quick look around and up, up and away as Superman would say as we headed south at a VERY good rate of speed. Now we're zooming about twenty feet from the ground and maybe a quarter mile from 95 as I wanted to keep it in sight so I didn't get lost or go over Area 51 by accident. Unfortunately, I had forgotten there's an Air Force base north of Las Vegas where they train people to fly drones and fly those drones from that base. Oops. Now even if we were over it for a second or two, no doubt they had radar. Another oops. The “good” news was nobody had time to react and take photos as we passed over that area.
We didn't have any trouble with hills on our way down, but when I saw the buildings of Las Vegas, took off kind of eastwards because I knew there was a freeway that headed out of town and figured we'd take it back into town. Set down on some hill so I could see everything around me and of course, both directions on the freeway. It took some time waiting, but when the opportunity arose, we landed on large dirt area next to the freeway and with Bobs Mjolnir's back on the roof, off we went down the freeway just like everyone else. However, I did realize later I had screwed up in one way. I had been sitting in the motorhome next to Hawthorne's lake and while it was in park the entire time, I failed to turn off the engine! Yeah, could of saved some gas money if I'd done that. Which makes me wonder.....where and how does Batman get his gas from? In any case, saved almost four hours of driving, though I decided this was something I couldn't be doing on a regular basis as I would never know if someones radar was picking us up. By myself, no problem, but otherwise..... Get to Cheri's and they're all glad to see me, though she didn't expect me this early, not that she was complaining you understand. Well, we did some catching up, with me watching the girls after Cheri called the nursery about the girls staying there. Since the nursery was going to feed the girls, they now needed to be fed. Cheri was going to do that, but I suggested hamburger helper, with all of us (including Quack Fu) going to Winco where I bought 6 boxes of it, three, one pound chubs of hamburger, a two pound block of cheddar cheese and from Dollar Tree, a bag of macaroni. Mom would make this for us a lot, but only use a third of the hamburger chub in the hamburger helper, but would add about a cup or two of macaroni to make the meal go further. And she'd even get one of those small blocks of cheddar cheese from Dollar Tree because she knew how I liked shredded cheese on hamburger helper and spaghetti. And talk about torture......did I want to shred ALL of that cheese so I could put it on a big bowl of hamburger helper one time only. Or just shred a little bit so I'd have it available when Mom made it again? Mom never said anything about this but one time and it was think of the consequences of your actions. So I learned to control myself. However, I did sing a little ditty I learned from a school chum which grossed my sisters out the first time I sang it while eating hamburger helper with Mom just shaking her head. Here ya go:
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts, Mutilated monkey meat, hairy pickled piggy feet, French fried eyeball floating in some kerosene and me without a spoon.
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, scab sandwich, puss on top. Vulture vomit, puss on top, deep dish boogers soaking in a bowl of fat and me without a spoon.
Now when I got to the second verse, the three of 'em were just looking at me, with the girls jaws just kind of dropping open. Then the two of them started smiling. Next verses:
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, parrot eyeballs dipped in glue. Petrified porpoise puss, flaming ear was bobbing in a bowl of barf and me without a spoon.
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts, desiccated dinosaur dung, percolated pelican poo, tortoise poo balls with the little flies inside and me without a spoon.
All three of them just stared at me, with the girls jaws slowly dropping open as I sang this ditty. Cheri? She just kind of put down her head and slowly shaking it. Thing is, when I asked the girls if they wanted to sing it, they were OH YEAH! So I'd sing a verse, pause, with them singing it. When we got to the third verse, Cheri joined in. When we got done, the girls were making plans on singing it at the day care center next time they were there. Well, Christmas Eve with them was great. The girls and Cheri enjoyed the presents I had gotten them and was surprised to find out Cheri had gotten me a present. I simply didn't expect this and don't ask me why because I myself didn't know. Remember that photo she'd taken of the four of us just before we left Los Angeles? She bought a silver necklace locket with that photo inside of it. To say I was speechless is an under-statement. We took her to work, then hit a city park for about an hour before returning to their place with the girls naturally staying in the motorhome. They (including Quack Fu) never woke up when we went to pick Cheri up and take her home. Could only stay a little bit, then had to take off to see Mom and the girls for Christmas Day, but told Cheri I'd be back in a couple of days if that was okay with her. It was. Now I headed north out of town and thinking of saving some time again when my other phone rang and it was Bob?
I was thinking and hoping he wasn't going to call me into work being the holidays and all that. Found a place where I could safely pull over and called him back, asking him what was up. He tells me Homeland Security, the State Department and the Air Force were at his house and wanted to speak to me?! I kind of squeaked Homeland Security, the State Department AND the Air Force? Bob says yes, Homeland Security, the State Department and the Air Force.......and just what have you been doing that's got THEM interested in you? I said....oh, it's probably because we've been zooming all over the United States and setting off radar alarms. Besides, we've NEVER hit anything and it wasn't my fault that that Canadian fighter jets engines blew up like it did. Bob: silence. Then it was oh God, that's why the State Department is here too. So I explained what and how things just kind of, sort of happened with Bob saying you thought you'd play a game of fox and hound as you call it and one of the planes sucked in a goose or three, but then you were able to save the pilot and plane? I said yes sir. Bob suggested I do not do this kind of thing in the future and I said yes sir. Asked when would be a good time for me to meet those two guys and I said how about the day we're suppose to take off for Japan and their movie people. And besides, still gotta get Tom and Chris back from their folks. He says fine, with me using Bobs Mjolnir's to take me way east, then north. Ended up just west of Salt Lake City and no problem keeping 80 in view as we dodged either over or between the hills. Ended up landing somewhere in Spanish Springs and about an hour later, pulling up to the curb of Moms place at which time I went to bed for a quick nap.
Woke up with Margaret and Denise knocking on my door, saying breakfast was ready.....and DON'T forget our presents. Oh boy.......this time Mom went for biscuits covered in her scratch made gravy, hashbrowns or the options of pancakes with eggs over easy. I had two of the biscuits, etc. and three pancakes with six eggs while drinking most of her milk, which was a gallon, so I drank about half a gallon of cold water in addition to the milk. Yeah, got some stares on that one, but then I had used some energy getting to and from Cheri's place. As for me, Mom said she wasn't sure with me being “a Hollywood shaker and mover” if I'd like what they had gotten me. Oh yeah I did. More paper, colored pencils, etc. Told them I could NEVER have too much of that stuff. Went to the motorhome to get some of my drawings and they all liked them and not just saying so either. Now I was feeling kind of stuffed and lethargic, so decided I'd take a walk. The girls didn't want to go as they were admiring the jewelry I'd gotten them, along with their pre-paid Visa debit cards with twenty-five dollars each on them. Yeah, I could of put a lot more on them, but then there'd be questions I didn't want asked. As to the jewelry they, Mom and Cheri got, it was from a Navajo Mom and her daughter a few weeks ago. Was cruising back to California, kind of taking it easy in case someone had had car problems, when I saw them at a rest stop. They were sitting on some blankets and thought maybe their car had broken down and was waiting for someone to pick them up or repair their car. Found out they had a bunch of silver and turquoise jewelry for sale, so I bought some of their stuff.
Anyway, why is it some people are bullies, ESPECIALLY even on Christmas Day? Decided I'd take a walk around the neighborhood in part to walk off breakfast, another to see what, if anything had changed. The other was I like me being me if that makes any sense. One thing I didn't want to do or be, is being Thor all the time. Nice to be able to walk into a fast food place or restaurant, order, then eat it right then and there. Which meant meant I wasn't gobbling it down as Thor, along with having to hide somewhere and removing my mask so I could eat more comfortably. I'm about a mile or so from home and nothing has changed that I could tell, but then I hadn't been gone that long anyway. That's when I met Juan Hernandez, a twelve year old boy who was crying his eyes out in front of his home. You know what I thought at first? That maybe Santa hadn't visited him. Why? Because of the clothes he was wearing, reminded me of us when we were younger and hitting Goodwill for clothes. That maybe he REALLY wanted some- thing, but his folks couldn't afford it and I'm not talking about the latest video game console either. Well, he did get what he wanted, which was a bicycle, however, some gang members saw and took it, while knocking him to the ground in doing so?! Yeah, Reno and Sparks do have gangs there, though nothing like Los Angeles and other big cities. Thing is, when I asked him what was wrong, he started sprouting off in Spanish, with me telling him I didn't speak it that well, so he switched to English. Yeah, seems his family was more or less in the same boat as we were for a number of years. His Mom (Consuela) had gotten him a rebuilt and repainted bike from the Elks Club. Seems a lot of people will actually throw away a bike at the Waste Management garbage drop off area which is on East Commercial Row. Thing is, those guys working there put them to one side until someone from the Elks Club comes out to pick them up. Then of course, new tires, paint job, etc.
Now I didn't know about this and yes, I'd look at other boys who did have bikes. I mean, to me, it was a sign of growing up.......having a set of wheels gave you a lot more freedom to go places and do things. And if you're wondering, bikes don't last long at places like Goodwill because they go pretty quick because of their price. When I asked if he knew who those guys were and where they lived, seems they only lived only two blocks from his place, so I said let's go and get your bike back. He looked at me in disbelief, saying there's about a dozen or so of those gang members living on on that block. Told him that once you don't stand up for yourself, you'll find yourself running and being victimized all your life. And what will you do the next time you get something nice......you going to just give it to them? Besides, I'm kind of old to be riding a bicycle, so once they're dealt with, you'll have to ride it back home. He thought I was crazy, but willing to go with me. As we walked, noticed he kind of stayed a bit back and behind me. Then we saw them.....there were five of them, the oldest being at least eighteen and sitting on Juan's bike. They didn't say anything as I walked up to that one guy, but just looked at me as if daring me to do something, especially when they saw Juan on sidewalk looking on. I didn't say anything, but when I got REAL close to this guy, I simply hit him in his chest with an open palm and he went FLYING off that bike. One of the guys had a baseball bat, so he was next on my to do list as Mom would tell me when I was growing up. Grabbed him before he could react and zapped him into unconsciousness, with me grabbing his bat, then whacking BOTH knees with it before he hit the ground. That left three, with them pulling out some kind of big knives. Quickly switched the bat to my right hand even though I'm left handed. And why did I get in the habit of carrying Mjolnir in my right hand? Because that's how Thor carried it, plain and simple. One guy tried stabbing me, missed, but I didn't when I whacked him in the forehead with the bat. That left two to deal with and they tried coming at me from different directions. I jumped back a good five feet, then jumped about seven feet off to one side of one of them. His right wrist did not survive the encounter with the bat. The other? Well, he said it in Spanish, but figured he was saying I'm outta here, not that he made it. Used the bat like a frisbee, hitting him in the back of his legs, with his knife going flying and then I was on him. Shook him like a great dane would with a rat. Told him was to apologize to Juan for stealing his bike and being a bully. That if he or any other kid in the neighborhood has trouble with you people, I will be back and I won't be so nice, do you understand? Well, he started apologizing until I said do it in English.... it's considered impolite to speak in a language someone else doesn't know. He started profusely apologizing to Juan, so I told him to get out here. However, when he turned to leave, I gave him a good smack with that bat on his behind. He tried running from us as fast as possible, but it was more of a limping kind of running. Then turned back to the those four left behind and figuring since they wanted Juan's bike so bad, why, they'd be happier being in wheelchairs. So I whacked those three on their kneecaps.
Turned to Juan and with that bat still in my hand, said let's get you home as I'm sure your Mom's worried where you might be. He wanted to know how could I do the things I had done to those FIVE guys and I needed to come up with something quick. Then remembered watching some Bruce Lee movies when I was younger, so asked him if he knew anything about martial arts, which of course, he didn't. So started telling him a little bit about what I'd seen on a friends tv. Well, he was really interested in hearing what I said, but then it was they didn't have any money for lessons. Just a few houses down from his, here comes his two older brothers who started talking to him in Spanish, with Juan repeating what I'd said to that one gang banger about speaking English and they just looked at him, but they did switch to English. Seems their Mom was worried about Juan not staying within sight of home, so she'd sent those two to find him. Naturally, Juan spilled his guts on what had gone down, with those two just looking at me. THOUGHT I'd leave the three of them at their home and just be on my way, but their Mom was waiting for us on their porch. Thing is, his brothers started telling their Mom what Juan had seen and I had done. Oh boy. She couldn't thank me enough and asked my name, so I said how about calling me the batman, holding up that bat. Their Mom thought I meant it in one way, but the boys......well, they thought I was talking about The Batman, you know, from the movies. I held out that bat to Juan saying I want you to have this, but I hope you understand it's NOT just a weapon, but a symbol for standing up against bullies, then went to leave. Then was asked by their Mom if I would like a cup of coffee or tea and not wanting to be rude, said yes.
Three small bedrooms for six kids and their Mom to sleep in. Juan had a younger brother, with the four of the them sleeping in one bedroom, using bunk beds, while his two younger sisters had the other and of course, their Mom had hers. Found out she had been working as a maid at a local motel and believe me people, they are low on the food chain money wise. Got the impression her two older sons were working under the table somewhere, but then I wasn't about to ask where either. Yeah, they were lower on the food chain than we had been. And boy, was their Mom adamant about not only going to, but finishing high school. As it was, those two had made plans to join the military when they reached seventeen, something their Mom wasn't too happy about. But with them gone, that'd be two less mouths to feed and of course, her boys would be sending most of their paychecks back home. Thing is, this wasn't going to happen for a few years. Now I didn't have coffee or tea, but a lot of ice water as normal. As to her husband and their father, he'd been snagged by immigration two years ago for being here illegally. Talk about a family and financial disaster as he'd been working as a drywall installer for some construction company. Under the table of course. Even so, he was making a lot more than he could of ever made in Mexico. Eventually I was able to leave and on the way home, got to thinking about them, so went to talk to Mom. Up shot of all of this was Consuela (Juan's Mom) got hired at Moms casino, working as a cage cashier which not only gave her a boost wage wise, but a lot better benefits. Thing is, Mom made sure Consuela was put on her shift, so now she didn't have to walk to work as Mom would give her a ride to and from work most of the time. As to the three oldest boys of hers, I got online to find out what martial arts businesses were in the Reno/Sparks area. This happened within a couple of months after meeting Juan and his family. When I was home, later on time wise, I visited them and found one that I liked AND would be given a discount for enrolling the three of them at one time and paid for a years worth of training up front. I also got a years worth of bus passes for the three of them to make it easier for them to get to their lessons. As to their father, I'll talk about that maybe later on. Thing to remember is you DON'T have to be a superhero to help someone.
Well, after spending time with Mom and the girls, time for me to leave once again, this time to be with Cheri and her family for my first New Years celebration away from home. Bought the girls some sparklers which they enjoyed, with us taking off to a good place to see the fireworks exploding in the night sky. Then it was time for me to head back to the storage lot in California, but once no one was around me on the way back, I sent Bobs six Mjolnir's back to the studio. The reason for getting them off the roof was because the storage lot had cameras and didn't need anyone seeing those hammers on the roof. Thought of putting them under the motorhome, but again, what if I had a mechanical breakdown of some kind? The day after that, it was time to pick up Chris and Tom, though we (Chris and I) did spend some time with Toms family as we'd never had met any of his family before. Naturally, his family got to handle and fly a little bit with the Mjolnir's. And one thing about those two guys.....when I arrived at their homes, it was ONLY family there to greet and meet me. No doubt they knew what it was liked to be mobbed by admiring fans when out in the public. After dropping them off at their places, it was to see how Tala and his people were doing, with me moving a lot of the shipping containers to be next to each home. With me finding out that some people actually make homes out of them? This was from one of Crow Feathers friends who'd seen a Youtube video about this and what did I think of this? Said I'd have to check it out, but maybe we can improve on it. I was thinking of can they be insulated, have wood stoves in 'em......and running water should be no problem, but then you gotta get rid of it some way. And what about human waste? No way those people could afford a processing plant for something like that......but what about a REALLY deep hole? I mean, they're using outhouse right now and I don't know about having one inside ones home though. This was something they'd have to talk about among themselves. But I wondered what's the longest and widest drill bit there is and what would it cost to rent one for a couple of days? Saw Crows Feather and while we were taking off and me waving to everyone, I was looking at her. Yeah, life can suck at times.
Well, come Monday morning, I'm back at “my” alley ahead of time as usual and right after that, here comes the roach coach. Had a couple of their breakfast burritos with several cartons of milk, with me bs'ing them while eating. Then Jose nodded his head, so I turned around to see Bob walking over, saying those three we'd talked about were on the property and would like to meet you in my office. I dunno......it was the way he said it that made me feel uncomfortable. Like he was trying to tell me something, without telling me. So I said, do I need a lawyer which kind of surprised him, but then he said that just might be a good idea. Then I said how about telling them I'm running a little late and I'll be landing at this alley? And that's what he did, with me sitting back in my area that Bob had set up for me while Bob went back to get those people. This was when I met George Walker of Homeland Security, a Colonel Bert Williams of the Air Force, a black man called Dr. Gravity and a black lady named Lillian Randolph from the State Department.
Yeah.....Dr. Gravity was one of the guys that Ben would have had to deal with at Area 51 some years in the future and of course, I had no idea who and what Dr. Gravity really was in the beginning. When they walked up to us, they held out their hands, so I let go of Mjolnir and held out mine. Yeah, like everyone else, they just stared at it remaining in the air, without moving. George says my God, I don't believe what I'm seeing.....I mean, our people have watched videos of him and his hammer I don't know how many times and our technical people keep telling us what he does and can have his hammer do, is impossible. That's when the Colonel Williams said yeah, right.....they and everyone else has been saying the same thing about others with their abilities. So I asked them if they'd like to examine it for themselves and of course they did. Mjolnir just stayed in the air no matter how hard they tugged at it. I said hold on and I'll make it accessible to both of you and once I did that, they could handle it.
Now George wanted to know what Mjolnir was made of, so I told him I had a friend do a 3D print of the hammer. From Home Depot, got a good sized wooden dowel and from Tandy's, got the leather for the handle and strap, along with some brass stud things. You know, for ornamentation. That's when Bob said he always wondered how I got my Mjolnir, with me saying there's a lot of people, men and women, who cosplay Thor and they basically do the same thing....you know, making their costumes and everything else. Remember, not everyone's rich like Bruce Wayne at which point, Bob laughed. Thing is, those four had NO idea who I was talking about until Bob explained. Apparently none of them had heard of cosplayers, though George had seen the videos of us in San Diego awhile back. That's when Colonel Williams asked me how fast could I fly and without hesitation, I said REALLY fast. Then he says as fast as a jet fighter? I said wait a minute......what happened was NOT my fault, okay? I needed to make a phone call and figured Canada would be a good place to make it from. And after the call, I wanted to finish my Slurpee and hopefully, not get a brain freeze. That's when Doctor Gravity says, yeah, they will do that to you from time to time. I said anyway, I was walking to go back behind the store and after finishing it, I'd take off for here. But some helicopter guys saw me and started getting closer, so I finished my Slurpee as quick as possible, then went high to get home. That's when those fighter jets showed up and I figured....... why not play fox and hound for a little bit, then decided we'd fly next to one, so no matter what the pilot tried doing, he wouldn't be able to shake us and he couldn't. That's when he sucked in a big bird or maybe a couple of 'em, but we got the pilot and plane down safely on the that freeway. That's when the Colonel asked me why didn't I land it on a runway and I told him I had no idea where the nearest one was at. Then the Colonel tells me the Canadian F-18 Hornets max speed is almost one thousand, two hundred miles an hour....then asks how fast can I REALLY go? I said I think because Thor's the god of lightning, I'm thinking the speed of light? Major stares from all four of them, with Bob saying really? I said yeah, that's the only explanation I can come up with me being able to move thru the air so fast.
George wanted to know how many hammers did I have as we've (meaning the government) seen the videos of you using what appears to be at least a dozen. I said including mine, have thirteen total. I was NOT about to mention Natalie's, Toms or Chris's Mjolnir's and Bob understood this without saying anything. Then he was asking about the Hulkbuster and Tom's motorscooter, you know, the one he drove as Loki in that movie of his. I looked at Bob and he said that it was okay with him as they're my property. I said hold on, went to the roof and with my Mjolnir on my back, got inside the Hulkbuster, closed it up and with one of Bobs Mjolnir's under the motorscooter, we came back to be in front of them, while I had the other eleven of Bobs Mjolnir's floating above and behind me as normal. Now Dr. Gravity just looked at us with his jaw kind of wide open, while George kept repeating the name of Jesus and as for as Colonel went, he said this was sh*t hot, an expression I'd never heard before, So I asked him what that expression meant and it's fighter pilot jargon or slang for something that has no equal in the air. Asked him if he flew fighter jets and he said he did, but now was working.....else where. Noticed he didn't say where though. I said if you want, we can take you for a quick spin.....some where. Now the other three are looking at me and I said, sorry, nothing personal, but I figure the Colonel here would have a greater appreciation being a pilot and all that. One thing about the man, he didn't hesitate in saying yes. He got on Loki's motorscooter and I explained how things worked, including having him sideways and upside down, without his falling off. Truth is, he looked like a kid with twenty bucks in his pocket and he just entered a candy or toy store. Once he was upright and off of it, put the Hulkbuster and Loki's bike back on the roof. Then placed one of Bobs Mjolnir's on his back and explaining how things worked while attached to it. When I asked if he was ready, he said he was, up we went to the normal ten thousand feet or so. He started repeating Jesus's name over and over again, then asked how long did it take us to get this high? I said about a minute, but then I couldn't really zoom upwards without probably knocking a bunch of people to the ground. He just stared at me. I said I've never been to the Red Square.....you know, the one that's in Moscow, Russia. He goes to say yes, I kn.....and we're there, above Red Square around ten thousand feet. He's asking me where we're at and I tell him to look down. He couldn't believe it, so I landed us off to one side because as I told him, don't think his boss or he'd be too happy if he got hit by a car or truck if we landed in the middle of the square. He says yeah that's not only right, but it just might irritate Lucy. Lucy is his wife.
Even with us landing off to one side of the square, we did attract attention and slowly, people started coming up to us while some of them were talking to each other, others taking photos. You know what's scary? When a BUNCH of women suddenly start running towards you while calling your name! I got us up in the air by at least twenty feet when the women started saying something in Russian, with me only understanding the word Thor. Then one of the women called out to me in English, with others picking up the chant of stay Thor, stay Thor. Asked the Colonel if he'd mind if we spent a few minutes here and he said no problem, but let me make a call while we're here, okay? I said thanks and while you're doing that, I'm calling in for backup. He just looked at me and within a couple of minutes, Bobs eleven Mjolnir's appeared way above us, then came down to be above our heads. Seems the Colonel TRIED to make two calls.....one to George and then to what I figured was his Air Force boss and failed to reach either of them. So I called out to everyone below us to give us some room so we could land, which they did. Man, I've NEVER seen so many pretty girls in my life! I mean, there were a lot of 'em on Miami's beach, but this beat that place to all heck and gone. Thing is, they were all jabbering away in Russian, so I had NO idea what they were saying. When I asked the Colonel if he knew what they were saying, he had no idea either. So I said sorry ladies, but neither of us understand Russian. Oh boy......all of a sudden we had a SWARM of them all saying they could speak English?! Now they all wanted selfies with me, but I said no, we'll do it a different way. Had them pass their phone to someone who took a photo of the THREE of us. Yeah, the Colonel did NOT like this at all, but since he was attached to one of Bobs Mjolnir's, he wasn't going anywhere. Then I saw some kids with their folks, so called out to them, with the ladies reluctantly giving way so they could come forward. Now the kids REALLY just stared at me and they (kids and parents) didn't speak English, but one of the ladies was nice enough to translate for us. Pretty soon I had about three dozen kids and their parents around us. Asked if the kids would like to see what it was like to fly like me and naturally, the answer was DA! Which means yes in Russian.
So I lined them up according to height and they got rides the same way I've done for people at the studio and kids at St. Judes. Yeah......they had REALLY BIG smiles when they were done with their short aerial flight, then of course, some of the parents wanted to try, then the ladies and eventually, some of the Russian men got to do the same, along with trying to pick up or move any of Bobs Mjolnir's with and without my permission. Now the cops showed up shortly afterwards to see what was drawing such a crowd, but they didn't give us any kind of hassle, but I think it was because they got rides with the Mjolnir's and I think I impressed them when we lifted the front of one of their police cars into the air, then put a couple of Mjolnir's under it so it was completely off the ground by ten feet. Originally they wanted to know why I was there and I explained to them that the Colonel had no idea how fast we can move when we wanted to. They were quite shocked to find out that we'd actually slowed down because if we hadn't, we'd of setting off a bunch of sonic booms thru out their country which I figured they wouldn't be too happy with.
About this time, the Colonel FINALLY got my attention, asking if we could go home as we'd been there a little over two hours?! Yeah, he'd been stuck where I had originally landed him simply because I had been busy talking with the girls and of course, giving the kids rides via Bobs Mjolnir's, then others. With my digital camera, had someone take some photos of the two of us together and before we left, photos of the Red Square and those of everyone waving at us as we all took off back for the studio. I'd of called Bob before returning back to the studio, but apparently my phone didn't work in Russia, which was a new one for me. This is why I eventually ended up owning a satellite phone which was good ANYWHERE in the world. A few minutes later, we're back the studio with me apologizing a lot to Bob about me being gone for so long and how I did try to call him. However, the Colonel wasn't happy and VERY happy to get Bobs Mjolnir's off his back. As for Bob, he tells me he wasn't worried because as I've said before to him, things just kind of, sort of happen. Besides, he'd forgotten to tell and remind me of the time difference between Japan and California?! Yeah.......so had I. But it worked out well as we wouldn't need to be leaving for at least six more hours as Japan is sixteen hours ahead of us time wise. As Bob and I are talking, the Colonel, George, Lillian and Dr. Gravity are huddled together in their own little conference. When that broke up, Lillian was the first to try chewing on me verbally like some school teacher.
Tells me I CAN'T be taking off and flying into foreign countries without permission, so I turned to Bob asking him isn't there something in the Constitution or Bill of Rights about the right to move freely without government permission? He says yes, but......that's when Lillian tells me that the Immigration and Nationality of 1952 states it is unlawful for a U.S. citizen to enter or exit the United States without a valid passport and then gives me a got you smarty pants kind of smile. So, if I broke the law......then, so did the Colonel by going with us to Moscow, Russia, right? The Colonel's tried saying he never gave permission for me to take him there and I said that don't fly because you VOLLUNTERED to go on a flight with me. Turned to Bob and asked him if he heard the Colonel saying he DIDN'T want to go to Moscow? Bob just smiled, then said, why no, Thor......he never did. Then he leaned over to whisper in my ear, saying sic 'em boy, sic 'em. Then I looked at Lillian, with me saying I bet the Japanese government didn't complain about us entering their airspace, ocean or land in stopping that Tsunami and rescuing all those people with the help of that guy called Superman, did they? That's when Bob spoke up again, saying their government people WANT to meet Thor, but he won't because he doesn't want to be glad handing people. He does what he does simply because when people need help, no matter how big or small the problem may be, he's going to be there helping in whatever way he can. Then I said, I bet that Superman guy doesn't have a passport either, does he? Lillian looked like she bit into a really sour lemon. I said bottom line is I'm NOT going to get a passport. Period. And I WILL go ANYWHERE in the world where people need help and I DON'T care what ANY government in the world thinks of this. Now she looked like she had bitten into a rotten, sour lemon. Guess she'd never have someone talk back to her like this.
Then Bob tells them that I'm a unique kind of person and he WASN'T talking about my abilities which we're still discovering. No doubt you've watched a lot of videos of him in action.......but what about the ones that HAVEN'T be recorded? He WON'T talk about them because as he once said, it would sound like he was tooting his own horn and he's simply not that kind of man. And from what I've seen on tv, that Superman guy and the one their calling The Flash are the same way. Correct? They were three glum looking people, with Dr. Gravity not being one of them. This was when George tried being a bully, with Dr. Gravity helping him for a bit, then the guy everyone was calling Superman showed up.
This was when George tells me he wants me to come to some lab to be tested, along with testing ALL of my hammers?! Stopped that bleep REAL quick by saying no. He says what? Do you understand what great potential you and your hammers have in defending this great nation of ours? I said don't know, don't care. You're NOT going to stick me in some laboratory with a bunch of Dr. Frankenstein mad scientists who want to stick more needles in me than a porcupine has quills AND mess with MY Mjolnir's. NOT going to happen. Then George tried using the carrot so to speak AND talking down to me. He says son, you're one of the VERY few in our great nation that has shown so many unnatural abilities, you should understand that it's your PATRIOTIC duty to assist your government in this time of crisis. What irritated or ticked me off if you will, was when he called me son, which was a lot different than when Bob or Ira used that word. With George, it was like an adult talking to a little kid, something I'm not, especially since I got changed and doing things. And got no problem with Natalie treating me like she's my big sister or Tom and Chris treating me like they're my uncles.....and how they, Bob and others tend to shake their heads in disbelief when they find out some of the things I've done. I said first off, I'm NOT you're “son”, so DON'T be using that word when talking to me again, understand? And I'm learning more about the world with each passing day, like when government people like you use words like “patriotic duty” actually means you're up to no darn good, along with probably also being illegal.
Well, George goes to the stick mode. First off, he not only threatens me with the IRS, but Bob?! Why? Because it had to be obvious I wasn't working for Disney for free. Then it was violating the air spaces of various countries with my flying over or thru them without a passport. Since you have the ability to fly, I was literally a major flight risk, which meant I'd spend my time in a jail cell until that matter alone is cleared up, That my Mjolnir's would be kept “in custody” by the federal government during this time and due to my actions over Canadian airspace in which a military aircraft was damaged, I would be held responsible for the costs of its repair?! And he had SUCH a what do you think of these charges smarty pants look on his face.
This was when I found out I change when I get REALLY mad. Started walking towards George with the intention grabbing and shaking him like a dog does to a VERY ugly rat. I'll be honest.....I truly ENJOYED the look of terror on George's face as I walked towards him. That's when he pulls out a walkie talkie or something like it and says Able Xray, Able Xray, then tells Dr. Gravity to stop me? Yeah, right. But this was when I started moving slower, then slower, then slower. What the heck? I'm looking at Dr. Gravity and realized he had to be using some sort of time altering ability on me. You know, making me A LOT slower than normal. That's when George tells Dr. Gravity to keep him under, assistance will be here shortly and once we tranquilize him, game over for him. Dr. Gravity was actually grunting when he said my God, my God.....I've got him at fourteen G's and he's STILL trying to get to us and I don't know how much longer I can hold him or possibly put him under even more. That's when I realized people were moving at a normal speed and Dr. Gravity talking about G's. Then hear Bob calling out to me, saying two LARGE military trucks with lots of armor on them just busted thru the studio gates and are headed this way.......DO SOMETHING. That's when I got mad. Next thing I see is Colonel Williams grabbing Lillian, while telling everyone get the sh*t back.........God knows what'll happen if he even gets within feet of us. Now I knew eventually I wouldn't probably be able to move much more, BUT by God, I COULD THINK! Everyone had been focused on me and my Mjolnir which was in my hand....but they'd forgotten about Bobs Mjolnir's. Had one of them zap Dr. Gravity, but didn't bother with the Colonel because he wasn't being a behind head in all of this. With Dr. Gravity zapped and unconscious, had Bobs Mjolnir lift him high into the air and drifting east-wards as I had no idea what his range was with his ability. Besides, with him in the air, NO ONE was going to be able to rescue him, because once a Mjolnir's moving with someone or something attached to it, it was basically and unstoppable force. As far as George and Lillian, they were next on my do not mess with my friends list, with them getting Mjolnir's being attached to them and of course, unable to move. But Bob got to calling out to me again, reminding me of those trucks.
So went to deal with those armored trucks, with the rest of Bobs Mjolnir's following us. People are screaming and trying to get out of the way of these trucks and this time I REALLY hit the hood of these trucks with all the force and rage that was within me with my Mjolnir. We hit them so hard that the front frames in the engine area were all but broke, with the engines being buried a couple of feet into the pavement. Before any of those people inside could bail, had a couple of Bobs Mjolnir's attach themselves to the roofs of these trucks and up into the air they went to my normal ten thousand foot flying height, with me sending one westwards toward the ocean, the other southward towards Mexico. Figured if the feds did try coming after us, they'd also have to deal with chasing three different sets of people floating thru the air and in different directions.
Now to deal with those two back at the studio. Not far above everyone's head at the studio, called for clouds, the wind and then lightning, with me absorbing as much as possible of it, then dispersed everything before landing near them. What I didn't know at the time was when I landed, EVERYONE scattered except for Bob, George and Lillian. Bob steps in front of me while making stopping motions with his hands and saying something, but I really couldn't hear him because I was focusing on those two. Then he's making a motion across his throat like he was a director in a movie saying cut while also making stopping motions towards me. I think I'd of continued towards those two, but he had such a SCARED look on his face and that's what stopped me from walking forward. Why in the world would Bob be scared? He asks if I'm here and I said yeah, but I don't understand your question. He says he meant mentally, then explained while I was fighting Dr. Gravity, I changed. I said in what way because I'm just me, no change, right? No, he says.......while fighting against Dr. Gravity, my Mjolnir started giving off sparks of electricity, quickly followed by it jumping off and around my body. My wig started floating in the air like it was being blown in the wind and my eyes.......you didn't have any?! Me: WHAT?! Told me that I lost ALL of my natural eyes and in their place were a very, light blue that seemed to glow? Then asks if I'm okay and I said yes and really, really sorry for scaring you and anyone else I may of done the same to. I hope you understand I didn't mean to and didn't know I had changed like I did until you said so. He gets a phone call, telling me it's from his security people who told him what we'd done with those armored trucks. I was going to tell him what I'd done, but suddenly there's a hand on my shoulder with some guy saying he's glad to form and that's all he got out because two things happened.
I thought OH BLEEP and we ZOOMED out of there, with me finding out later that I knocked everyone on their behinds except for George, Lillian and Superman. Yeah, this was George's backup plan when it looked like Dr. Gravity wouldn't be able to hold me in place. People, do NOT come up behind me unexpectedly when I'm jacked up like I was at that time. Man.....we REALLY shot up HIGH into the air. So high I could see buildings below us, but they were REALLY small. As in so small that I couldn't make out the studio's buildings. We started dropping height wise, but I had the rest of Bobs Mjolnir's with me, so if trouble came from a possible second changed person, I was ready to pound sand. Never understood what it meant, but it was an expression a friend would use from time to time. Then I see someone rising into the air towards us?! Uh oh, another changed person, but this time I was ready and NOT going to be surprised like I had been. Or allow myself to Hulk out as Bob put it if I could help it. Well, it was the guy everyone called Superman in the beginning of all of this. When he got within fifty feet of us, told him to stop where he was as I didn't want to hurt him, but we would if he insisted. He stopped and said he was sorry we were meeting under such circumstances as he admired how I had handled the tsunami, along with rescuing those people. I said I didn't know you were a hired government THUG and he says WHAT?! I said don't try denying it, George sent you to grab and force me to becoming a lab rat while STEALING my property. He said what the heck are you talking about? Though he used the other H word. Said George asked me to come talk to you about working with us, but I was busy elsewhere helping some people with a problem they had.......and why can't I remove those hammers off his and that womans backs? I said they're NOT hammers......they're Mjolnir's and the only person who can remove them is me.......even if I'm unconscious. He says apparently things went down that he hadn't been informed about and would I mind taking the time to explain it all to him? I said yes, but in a bit as I gotta check to make sure everyone's okay after we took off like we did. And with that we went back to the studio with Superman keeping up with us.
I got busy apologizing to Bob and everyone else for what we'd done, but told the truth.....that I'd gotten scared when Superman had placed a hand on my shoulder. Bob and other people understood and accepted my apology and why I'd done what I had done. Fortunately, no one had gotten hurt. Now to deal with George and Lillian. But George.....well, he just HAD TO open his mouth, telling Superman to deal with me and he wouldn't mind at all if he broke one or two of my bones?! That I was now deemed a threat to the security of the United State of America?! I looked at George, said shut up and had Bobs Mjolnir zap him back into unconsciousness again. That's when Superman says Thor, let's start all over again.......from the beginning if you don't mind. I looked to Bob who said tell him Thor and maybe this government foolishness of harassing and threatening you will end here and now. That's when Superman said by the way, my name is James Lathrup, though everyone calls me Jim and not Superman. I said just call me Thor and he said he understood because I was wearing a mask. What surprised me was others who had been changed, also wore masks, so I wasn't the only one. I said if you don't mind, Bob will explain what happened because I'm a little hungry and if you want, I'll buy. So while Bob explained what had gone down with those three, I ordered four triple cheeseburgers, two orders of large fries, with Jose getting and filling with ice and water, my five gallon bucket and of course, one of Bobs big straws. Jim just looks at me, saying my God......you're NOT really going to eat ALL of that are you? And what's the water for? That's when Bob explained to him what my food requirements were at times when it came to eating and how I had free meals at the studio's employee cafeteria, any time, along with anything I wanted, along with how much I wanted to eat. Jim and others who'd seen the videos of our stop in Amarillo, Texas thought they'd been faked, meaning a publicity stunt because “obviously” no one could eat that much until Bob corrected him.
Once the food was cooked, took it and my water bucket to my place in the alley. Thing is, Bob had explained to Jim why I ate alone whenever possible. I was done in less than ten minutes and with my garbage safely tucked away in my garbage bag and backpack, time to deal with George and Lillian. One thing about Jim was he didn't bother trying to talk to me while I was eating. So when I left my “hut” and started walking towards George and Lillian, Jim jumps to stand between me and them, saying he doesn't want to fight me. After all, aren't I one of the good guys? But he couldn't allow me to harm those two. So I sighed, told Bob that Jim was right......who knows how much property damage might occur here in the studio if we got to fighting, but I'd be back later and with that, we rose into the air with Jim watching us. Thing is, while I was talking to Bob, I had those two rise up into the air rather quickly. Jim never thought to check behind him as I walked towards those two and when I spoke briefly to Bob. Right off the bat, once those two were up in the air, sent George quickly headed towards Area 51, while Lillian remained in the air where I wanted her to be. One thing about Jim, he did react quickly once he realized the three of us were gone and yes, the man can move when he wants to.
He's looking around, then says I was one sneaky son of a b*tch doing what I had done and why is George flying away from us? At which point I raised Lillian higher into the air and started sending her west towards Hawaii. Man, he didn't know whether to poo or go blind when I did this. Told him that I knew he was pretty strong having seen him in action in Japan, but I advise you NOT to try pulling those Mjolnir's off their backs and of course, he asked why. I said as strong as the Mjolnir's are, you just might rip off their spines and if that happens, that's NOT my fault. Not that I'd of allowed this to happen, but I wanted those two to know what it was like to be bullied and helpless when it was being done to them. Now Jim's a few years older than me and he didn't rave, threaten, etc. upon hearing this. He simply asks what I had planned on doing with them and when I told him, he asks is that all? I said yeah......figure once I do this, we're even Stevens as simple solutions to simple problems works for me. He said okay, let's deal with George first, but do you mind bringing Lillian back here until we deal with George? I said okay and brought her back. She's sobbing and crying for Jim to help her and honestly, even though she tried being a mean government bully, I felt kind of bad about her crying and sobbing. I took off for George with Jim keeping up with me. When we got to George, we really started flying till we got over that hangar in Area 51 at which point Jim said to let him talk to the people on the ground before I released George. Sounded reasonable to me as after all we're flying over that area in broad daylight, a first for me. I don't know what he said to all those people on the ground, but about five minutes later, he says okay, release George on top of the hangers roof. I looked at George and told him he was NEVER to threaten my friends or me EVER again. Because if you do, I WILL find you and you will NOT like our next encounter. He was quick to agree, so I let him go and we head back for Los Angeles.
When we got back to Lillian, tell her what I'm going to do with her, which was dropping her off in that big square where those two big statues are. You know, that fat guy and his father and of course, there's a sixteen hour difference between California and North Korea, just like Japan. Now she's REALLY sobbing and crying out to Jim to rescue her and stop me from doing this. But Jim said after hearing what she and George had tried pulling, maybe they're the reason so many people like us simply refuse to join the hero's league which right now, being called The Guardians. This was something I hadn't thought of.......that there were others who had been threatened by these two and I said so. Jim tells me he's going to talk to some people to make sure people like these two have NOTHING to do with recruiting. But it was going to take him some time to fly to Pyongyang which is the capitol of North Korea, something I didn't know. When he told me how long it would take him, told him I didn't want to wait that long, but there was an alternative, with him asking what was it. I explained and he says okay, so I attached Bob Mjolnir on his back and explained how things worked. A few minutes later, we're hovering over that square in the dead of night in Pyongyang and she's sobbing like crazy NOT to let Jim leave her there. And yeah, we started attracting a group of soldiers which I'm sure made her REALLY unhappy. Told her basically the same thing in that the State Department was NOT going to give me any hassle about helping people no matter where in the world they were. She was VERY quick to agree, so then we took off for Tokyo, Japan with all its lights on which is VERY different than Pyongyang which was basically in darkness except of those two statues. I let her go once her feet touched ground and I told Jim he was NOT to give her a ride back home. She started this, let her deal with getting back home. He agreed.
That's when I said oops, with Jim asking what did oops mean as this did NOT sound good coming from me like that. I said I forgot about those guys in those two trucks and of course, he hadn't heard about them. So I explained what George had planned on doing to me which really upset him because I would have been kidnapped, tested on, etc., with me, then it was where I had sent those trucks. Asked if I'd mind returning them to the studio and I said no problem........he just didn't expect me to do what I did. Now Jim thought we'd go after the trucks and I said no need to, they're headed there now and will be waiting for us. He was happy with this, with us taking off for the studio. He was kind of surprised to find those two trucks floating above the studio street about two hundred feet in the air, with him asking me to set them down so whoever was in them could get out. I said nope and landed before Bob, who upon seeing those two trucks, called for studio security people, along with A LOT of cops that had been called in. Asked if the studio would mind having those in the trucks arrested and endangering peoples lives like they did. Besides, they didn't have a warrant. Not a problem he said and went to talk to the ranking cop. Of course, Jim thought of talking Bob and me out of this, but realized this was sending a CLEAR message to the government that peoples constitutional rights were NOT to be ignored or trampled on. Boy, were those truck guys in REAL trouble now. Bob got someone to bring a ladder after I lowered the trucks ten feet above the pavement so they could get out of the trucks wearing nothing but their uniforms. No guns, etc. would be permitted outside of the truck. They objected to this until I shook both trucks like a baby will shake a baby rattle. Boy, talk about weapons: hypodermic guns like those used on animals, vials of sleeping stuff to use in the guns, tear gas, AUTOMATIC weapons......they were ready for bear, but in this case they were messing with a angry T-Rex dinosaur. Once those were out of the trucks, I set them down so the cops could empty them of weapons, along with seizing those guys wallets, etc. For the police, I wrote four pages of what had happened, including what I'd done with George and Lillian. Did this using Mjolnir, using the front part of a piece of paper for my report and of course, signed it Thor. On Bobs insistence, the head cop read it aloud with a lot of people shaking their heads upon hearing what had gone down, including what Jim and I had said. Jim said he'd heard enough and once again said he would make sure George and Lillian would NEVER work with anyone who had been changed. I said that's good, because when you think about it, how many people may of refused to help because of their attitudes towards us or worse yet, kidnapped and stashed only they know where? I could see this really bothered him. Now the cops had to send for a couple of wreckers to tow those trucks to the police holding lot and then I had to deal with getting those engines out of the pavement, but where to put them? With a couple of Bobs Mjolnir's, we ripped open the back of each truck, placing the engines inside of them. I made sure to tell Bob that the studio needed to charge Homeland Security for filling in and fixing the holes in the pavement. He liked that. A lot.
As far as Dr. Gravity went, brought him back to land next to Jim who explained what had happened after he'd been zapped unconscious. He apologized and said Jim was right. That in the future he wouldn't be any part of something like this, especially considering this was his first time in such an operation. Jim said he'd give Dr. Gravity a ride back home and with that, they took off. My friends and those around us congratulated me for showing such restraint and I said no......I want to thank Bob getting out of what he called going to The Hulk state because what would of happened to George if I had touched him? Considering how electrically charged I was at the time, I got the feeling that if I had touched George, odds are I'd of electrocuted him. Yeah, I was mad, but never in a killing frame of mad.
You know what? Becoming famous is not only a pain in the behind at times, but then found myself being thrown for a loop. For example later on time wise, Bob asked me to show up in “my” alley one time. Kind of surprised to find Natalie, Chris, Robert and Tom there with him and wondered what was up. Bob wanted to know if I'd be interested in setting up a website?! I said who, me? I mean, why would I want such a thing and besides, I have NO idea how to do something like that. As busy as I've been more than once, I'd have no time in looking at it. Besides, more than one friend of mine is into that Facebook stuff, but I've never really had an interest in it. Bob says it'd be a separate website, not affiliated with Facebook and that's when Bob looked to my friends, with Natalie telling me that people are FASCINATED(?) by me and what we've done, then Bob say EVERY TIME we release even a minute or so of video of you “doing your thing” as you put it, the media not only gobbles it up, but screams for more, along with a spike in number of fan letters to you. I said I'm sorry, but still not interested. That's when Natalie said remember how you first met the three of us at that convention and you thought we'd just brush you off because we had been there already all day long? I said yeah, I still remember that day and that photo of us still hangs up on the wall in my place. Then Chris and Tom step forward and they said we feel we OWE our fans something extra in return for going to our movies. By going to treating people like you and others with courtesy and not with disdain like you know others in the entertainment business do. Then Tom says Bob here (meaning Robert Downing Jr.) has done the same more than once by going to conventions and talking with people. I said I didn't know that and he laughs saying no doubt, but then you're not an Ironman fan are you, with the five of them and others laughing. Bob said he'd really like me to do this for two reasons: one was it would help the studio, but the other reason is simply because people want to know more about you. You don't have to be on it a lot, just from time to time and that's when YOU decide to get on it and of course, how long. I got to remembering how those three were so nice to everyone at my first convention and said okay, but I don't know how often or long I'll be on it.......and where is this thing set up, meaning the computer Bob wanted me to use. That's when Bob, Natalie, Chris and Tom gave me the BIGGEST smiles.........yeah, I'd been set up as there was ALREADY a PC AND a printer installed and ready to go in the hut where we'd autograph photos for people, mostly kids. Bob waves to a guy named Brian who was going to show me the web page and how to run it. Thing is, one thing I liked about it was I had available what's called PM or private messaging. That is, I could answer a lot of questions that people asked, but if I wanted to, I could send them a private message that only they or I would get or see. And if I wanted to, I could print things from these people such as their address and yes, from time to time I'd visit them simply because some needed a in person visit. Brian asked what kind of user name I wanted and after thinking it over, I use I am Thor, with the website called Rumblings from Asgard. Now not all people are nice when writing to me, but I was given an option of blocking them, so they couldn't post any more messages on this website. When I asked, Brian said it wouldn't be a problem. Remember my cosplayer friends and their creating a cosplayer website? So I started adding cosplayer websites around the world on this website, which got A LOT of hits, along with Chris's, Tom's, Natalie's and Robert's websites.
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Post by texican on Apr 26, 2021 13:50:45 GMT -6
WillC,
I enjoy reading your story.
Thank you.
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on May 19, 2021 13:37:25 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 33
Remember me talking about some of the fan mail I'd received, with me going to see some of those writers? Will tell one more story about one I responded to and that's it. In this case, figured it'd be a lot easier to see someone when I had the day off from the studio. This one was about a guy named Robert and he hadn't written to me......it was his Mom who'd done the letter writing. Seems Robert was becoming more and more involved in some gang in the Chicago area and of course, no dad around to be a father figure. She believed it would be only a matter of time before he got arrested for something truly serious such as being involved in some gang turf war or worse, shooting someone because he wanted to show everyone how bad he was. And now, his younger brothers were looking up to him because of this. Could I come out to talk with him about making better choices because he wouldn't listen to her. She'd given me her cell phone number, so using my other phone, called her and got her address. Used my gps to get there as Chicago's a BIG city.
Once I got to the outskirts of the city, slowed down until I found myself above and in front of a BIG apartment complex that was something like fifteen stories tall. Guess they do things differently there than back west. Found out later places like this is called subsidized housing. You know, people with low income and on SNAP which stands for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program. This used to be called Food Stamps, something that we were never on when I was growing up. Then I happened to see a really old woman, meaning a lot older than Mom, pulling a wire basket cart that was on wheels. Thing is, there were five guys not far from her and she kept looking back at them from time to time with them looking at her in a not nice kind of way. This was when and where I met Mrs. Ruby Dandridge who was seventy-eight years old and just kind of surviving on her and her husbands social security checks, along with getting their monthly SNAP money. As for me, fighting crime has been kind of easy simply because people were OBVIOUSLY breaking the law, like car jackings for example. But five guys following an old woman.....well, no law has been broken and all I had to go on was my suspicions because of the way they were acting in following Mrs. Dandridge. Well, I was right and glad I had taken Bobs Mjolnir's with me. I hadn't planned on using them to fight crime. I was thinking of Roberts brothers and other kids in his neighbor-hood, that maybe they'd like a ride using them like I've done for people at the studio for example.
That's when their leader says it's that time of month Momma and it was NOT said in a loving way either. She said please Rupert, we NEED this money so we can make it until next month. Rupert tells her he doesn't want her using his honky name, but Nails because he's that tough and sharp. How much do we get this month and she replied I've got all of twenty dollars and some change. He says that's great, because that's twenty one dollars WE don't have, right brothers? The other four are agreeing with him, with Mrs. Dandridge trying to back up while keeping an eye on those five. Thing is, I could tell the way they were acting, they ENJOYED the look of fear and desperation on her face. Then she saw us up in the air behind those five guys and her demeanor changed. She tells them she's going to change a part of a Bible verse a little bit, at which time the five laughed at her, then one of them saying who believes in some honky mofo (and that wasn't the word he used either), voodoo BS? Again, it was the full BS word being used. That's when Mrs. Dandridge said the eyes of the Lord are in every place, with his angels keeping watch on the good and evil. That's when the five of them got to laughing and making fun of her, the existence of God and angels. That's when she says do not be deceived for God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. That's when Nails said he's heard enough of her bleep and give him that money or they'll not only take it from her unconscious body, but also her food! That's when I landed some twenty feet from them and coughed. A bit loudly in case they were deaf as well as stupid bullies.
Boy, they sure turned around really quick and quite surprised to see a white guy in a Thor costume in this neighborhood as apparently this doesn't happen every day there. Now I moved Bobs Mjolnir's so they were now above and slightly behind those five with Mrs. Dandridge being the only one to actually see this happening. Nails was the first to recover, saying, will you look at this white boy all dressed up like that guy we've been seeing on tv. This was followed by one of his gang members saying, bet ya he'd got money, because that costume of his doesn't look cheap......and notice he's wearing a rubber mask like that guy in those fantasy movies. Then another said how he'd like to show Natalie what a REAL man was like?! Then another says they'd ALL wouldn't mind having her for a couple of days and once she went black, she'd never look for or be satisfied anything else?! THAT sealed their fate. Nail then tells me that obviously since I must have money, I had to pay their street tax. I said what's this street tax you're talking about and he says they OWN these streets which is why that I have to pay them this tax money. Then one of them says with me being white, I OWE IT to them to make a donation for kidnapping their ancestors in Africa, then selling and enslaving their ancestors and making them pick cotton on some rich Caspers southern plantation. Why if their ancestors hadn't been kidnapped and forced into slavery, no doubt they'd of been raised as royalty like the brother in that Black Panther movie or Coming to America. I couldn't help myself.......I laughed when I heard that come out of that guys mouth. They did NOT like this, they pulled out knives and started walking towards me. I backed up, saying wait a minute fellows......let me please explain. Nails says okay but after you're done with your explanation, not only are we going to leave you naked but not to mess with Zulu warriors?!
I said a friend of mine, Rich, once told me that his ancestors being forced into slavery was the best thing that ever happened to him and his family. Them: no f'ing way, he's an Uncle Tom, etc. I said my friend's a lot of things, but Uncle Tom ISN'T one of them. In fact, he's a fourth generation plumber, with his great grandfather starting his business after he got home from WW 2, where he was a Seabee in the south Pacific. Now I too, had the same disbelief when he told me this but without the bad language. No doubt his ancestors had it very, very hard as slaves, but eventually they worked hard, got skills that people needed. To him and his family, America turned from a place of horror to that of not only being Americans, but with hard work and effort, to make their dreams real. Of course, this was met with hoots and lots of bad words by them. I said that lady you talked about is a friend of mine and her husband and their two kids are really, really nice people. But then I said but I got good news and bad news for you. Naturally they wanted the good news and I told them they were right.......I do have LOTS of money. And no doubt I've made more in one day than any five of you would make in a year all together. This made them smile and they wanted to know what the bad news was. I said it's a two parter.......since you all feel you've been used by white people, thought you'll be happy with the thought and opportunity to improve yourselves. The other is, you're NOT getting any of my money. That's when their smiles dropped and knives came up with Nails saying they were going to really cut me, leaving me naked while they took my money and fancy costume. Now Mrs. Dandridge could of said something about me being who I was during all of this, but she remained silent. As those five came towards me in a rush, no problem rising into the air and attaching some of Bobs Mjolnir's to their backs and up into the air they went. Followed by gasps and screams for mercy from them. I said any of you ever see the movie The Ten Commandments that was made in the 1950's.......you know, the one with Charles Heston and Yul Brynner? Even though those five were moaning about how sorry they were and all of that, I continued. I said there's a part of the movie where Yul's the Pharaoh now and he says let it be said, let it be written, let it be done. Now you guys were going to rob this poor lady AND said some disgusting things about a friend of mine and it's only fair and right that you all should make some sort of restitution. They didn't know what that word meant, so I explained it to them and they were quite happy to come up with some money which I had them simply drop to the ground.
I counted the money and came up with four dollars? Some how this didn't feel right, so I lowered them down a bit and got to looking at their shoes. How about two were wearing Nike's?! Of course, I and my friends NEVER had this kind of money and I always thought it was crazy to spend that kind of money on shoes. Only thing I could figure out was some people wanted to keep up with the Jones's so to speak. Of course, Nail's being the leader, he had a set on and so did this other guy. Nail's did try kicking me when I got to unfastening his first shoe, but when I gave him a slight tap on his left knee cap, he quit fussing about losing his shoes. That set the example for the other four and the removal of their shoes. Asked Mrs. Dandridge if she had a couple of plastic bags to hold not only the shoes, but that money they decided to suddenly and generously donate. She did and just looked at me as I stuffed the shoes into two of her bags. I said considering your financial situation, I'm sure you could use what was their money, correct? She said yes, but when they come back....... I said that's NOT going to happen, at least for awhile and I'm sure if they ever do get back, they'll be walking a most righteous path. Then told her what was planned and she gave me the BIGGEST smile in the world and took the offered money from me. Now those five didn't say anything when this went down, but no doubt they had plans for her and their money in the future once I was gone. Next to go was their pants and I was really surprised to find out that two of them weren't wearing underwear?! I said my God, man.......in the name of decency, cover yourself. Nails says no, he's proud of his manhood, so I raised the five of them up into the air about fifty feet, with me following. I then gave Nails a little zap from my Mjolnir to his manhood. Oh boy. First off, all I'd done before was us zapping bad guys into unconsciousness and us hitting them in their bodies, but NEVER down there before. I also used a lot less juice when we did zap Nails. He SCREAMED and shook.....then let fly with body waste from both parts of his body. Fortunately I wasn't hit, nor were those on the ground below us. And yeah, we had started gathering an audience. Anyway, he moaned, cried.....and was quick to cover his manhood with his hands while asking me if he was covering them well enough. As to that other guy.......when I looked at him, his hands were already covering his manhood along with the other three who were wearing underwear.
Then I saw them.....it looked like they had gold chains around their necks, along with Nails and two of those guys with what looked like gold earrings in their left or right ear lobes. I moved them over a little bit and told them that I'm sure this nice lady would like some fancy jewelry like those gold chains.....so drop 'em to the ground. Now. They didn't even hesitate taking them off and dropping those chains to the ground below. Then moved Nails and two of the other guys with earrings on so they weren't facing each other and of course, the other two who would have no idea what was about to happen. No problem to rip that jewelry from their ear lobes. Yeah, they screamed but didn't say anything. Well, after that was done, dropped to the ground to talk with Mrs. Dandridge, telling her that all this stuff was hers, but she declined, saying that when I left, they'd be coming after her and........ I said no maam, that's not going to happen for at least a few months.......if they're lucky. She looked at me, at which time I whispered what was going to happen to them, with her asking if I could actually do this and I said yes. She laughed really, really hard and took those guys money and other things, saying she'd wait for me to return......empty handed, with a big smile on her face.
While in junior high school, our civics teacher had us read about South Africa, you know, that country that was basically ruled by white people until the black people there had enough and demanded a voice in the government. Figured since these guys wanted restitution, they'd be a lot happier returning to their homeland, though I didn't know which country they originally came from. At least it would be a start in their new country. Sad part was I didn't know where the country of Zulu was at, so they'd be on their own finding it and becoming princes or kings if that's what they wanted to become. Back into the air we went, with those soon trailing behind us and hello South Africa. Now remember, I was going from a photo I'd seen in junior high school, the other thing was I really wasn't too sure about the name of the town I'd seen the photo of. I'll be honest......only town I could think of in that country was Johannesburg. Oops.....boy, was I wrong. The city I'd seen a photo of was actually Pretoria which is where their President and his Cabinet work at, kind of like our Washington D.C. Now I wasn't sure to leave these guys and how do you ask directions for something like this? Then I saw it.......a U.S. flag flying on top of a building, so over there we go. Leaving those guys still high up in the air, I see two guys standing by an walled entrance to this building and they're in what I'd call combat uniforms. So about twenty-thirty feet above them, called out to them, but they simply looked around, but everywhere but up naturally. So I got down to ten feet above them, asking would you soldiers mind telling me what this building is that's flying the U.S. flag? Oh, THAT got their attention with one of them said hello Thor, but by the way, we're NOT soldiers......we're United States MARINES and how can we help you? When I explained, they said I was indeed in South Africa and then they BOTH started laughing. They suggested I talk with the U.S. ambassador to this country and I said okay, but which way should we go to be outside of town in some open area? They pointed and told me, so before we took off, I said we'd be right back and off we went.
I put those five on the ground and removed Bobs Mjolnir's with me saying you guys feel you're owed restitution for your ancestors being enslaved. I figured you'd be a lot happier returning to your country of origin. And I'm sorry, I got NO idea where Zululand is at, but I did the best I could for you you understand. They stood there stunned as we left. As to those five, they were about five miles or so from town. The other thing was I honestly forgot to tell them what town they were in and where that town was, but afterwards, figured they probably knew this during our short aerial flight out of town. We flew back to the U.S. consulate with us hovering not only over those two Marines, but about another dozen or so more, with one of them using a phone and after he hung up, told me that since I was a U.S. citizen, I'd be more than welcome to set foot on American soil, so we landed while keeping Bobs Mjolnir's up in the air and behind us as normal. Well, I'm lookin' at these Marines and they're lookin' right back at me, till one of them asked what was it like being able to do the things I've been video taped doing. I said there's an expression called living the dream and that's what I'm doing. I mean, I NEVER thought something like this would EVER happen to someone like me. Kind of hitting some big lottery jackpot. It's a once in a life time feeling, but on the down side of all of this is learning my abilities and being scared that if I mess up, someone could get hurt or worse yet, die. It's a kind of OJT.....you know, on the job training if you get my drift. They did and they're staring at my Mjolnir and Bobs Mjolnir's and I knew what that stare meant. Had those new Marines form a circle around me, while the first two kept guard at the gate area, with me letting go of my Mjolnir and calling Bobs down. They got a demonstration of me controlling them and then having one being able to pick up one of Bobs Mjolnir's, while none of the others could. Then I saw this man walking out of the consulate, with two other people behind him, one being a woman. Figured he's got to be our ambassador to South Africa and I was right. His name is James Baskett, holds out his hand for us to shake while saying I was one individual he never expected to actually see, followed by he was QUITE surprised to be told that I was here and that I had five individuals with me and looks at me. I said as to those five, they're that a way, with me pointing in the general direction of where we'd left them and about five miles from town. Well, except for the two gate guards, the other Marines were standing at attention while we're talking. Since none of them were holding Bobs Mjolnir's, had them rise up into the air in their normal position. Ambassador Bartlett wanted to know why we had left them there as they hadn't entered into this country by natural means, showing passports, etc. So I explained what they were going to do to Mrs. Dandridge and a couple of the Marines growled which was a scary kind of growl to tell the truth. Now the Ambassador was REALLY unhappy and tries telling me I HAD TO go back, get those five and take them back to the United States. He just stared at me when I said no. Those five were up to no good and NO doubt in my mind while they weren't bad men, I figured eventually they would become ones. Besides, they wanted restitution and I gave it to them......just NOT in the way they ever imagined. However, if you want, contact a woman named Lillian Randolph who works at the State Department and have her deal with this problem. He didn't like my answer, but couldn't do anything about it. Then said I gotta get back to Chicago where we and the people that live there are going to do some old fashioned, western style vigilante work. That's when one of the Marines said he was from Chicago?! Seems he grew up about five or six blocks from where Robert lives. Well, I had to go as I had people waiting for us to return, but the Marines, the Ambassador and his two people wanted selfies. I said okay, with one of the Marines taking the picture of them and they took off which suited me just fine.
As to those Marines, I did things differently. Had all of them line up in 3 rows, with me in the air behind the third row. Used my digital cameras timer and one of Bobs Mjolnir's to take a photo of all of us and while there got their names and ranks. Also asked if any of them would like a second photo sent to their folks, meaning their Mom and Dad. All did, but for one guy and he'd grown up in an orphanage. I told them right up front that it might take me awhile to get them printed because there's times I'm REALLY busy, but when the photos were printed, I'd bring them back here just to make sure none of them got lost in the mail. It took me about a week before I could make good on my word and considering I was doing this on my own dime so to speak, had to hit Walmart for eight by ten inch photo paper. And man, that printer Bob set up for me is really AWESOME! Nothing but QUALITY prints. Is it any wonder why I like him so much? As to the orphan Marine, I sent him extra photos, like when we worked on that wrecked train. I made sure to get their names, along with their ranks with each photo showing this information, along with USMC, the words Semper Fi, along with the month, day and year the photo was taken. I thought of putting the Marines globe and anchor on the photos, but hoped what I was doing was good enough for them. Now the second time I visited them, had some time on my hands and I happened to see one of those big delivery van trucks had gotten a flat tire on the other side of the street. Apparently the driver didn't have a jack and was trying to make a fulcrum (see, I DO remember some stuff from junior high school) using a large rock and a thick board. Two other guys were trying to help him, but they needed more oomph in getting that tire off the ground. So we flew over the traffic, landed and asked the man if he'd like some help. Guess he wasn't used to seeing white people in costumes in his country, but he said yes and gestured to where those two guys were. I simply grabbed the frame behind the rear bumper and lifted it up into the air a couple of feet. They just stood there and stared for a bit, then the driver got busy changing the tire. When he was done, I let it done, he thanked me and we shook hands. Back over the traffic to the Marines who kept saying they couldn't believe what they'd just seen and of course, no video was taken by them for which I was happy about. They wanted to know how strong was I and I said I had to work at it, but we once lifted the front end of an Army tank. They just looked at me and I say, we ended up what I'd call finger grooves in it because my hands had such a grip on that part of the tank. They just stared, then several of the Marines suggested I join the Marine Corps?! Now it was my time to stare at them, with me saying I don't think that would be a good idea. Right now I can take off from my job when there's an emergency without asking for permission and I don't think I could do that as a Marine, could I? And I don't know how to use a gun and nobody but me can use these Mjolnir's like I can. I mean, you've already seen where one of you could pick it up, but nobody else could. And aren't your guns locked up somewhere unless you're in some combat zone? Imagine my and Bobs Mjolnir's being locked up somewhere and I have to call them because there's no time for me to get to them or someone open a door. They'd bust thru basically anything to get to me. Thanks anyway guys, but that's one invitation I'll decline.
Well, back to Chicago where Mrs. Dandridge and some others in that neighborhood were still patiently waiting for me and we started hunting. They would tell me where these future bad guys would be hanging out and I'd fly over buildings to see and identify them, with me taking one of the older men with me to make sure I didn't take some innocent bystander. Now some of these wanna be bad guys were nothing more than kids....as in eleven or twelve years old and there was NO way I'd be taking them to Africa. They got a talkin' to, by me, Mrs. Dandridge and others. Bottom line was they were to straighten up or else. Or else having to deal with me because all the others had to do was let Mrs. Dandridge know and she'd call me.....and you guys would NOT like us meeting second time. Thing is, to prove my point, I took those kids not to only South Africa, but other cities I saw in Africa like Nigeria. Any place that I could see having a lot of black people in that city. Not that they got left in the city, but on the outskirts of it, while also getting a REAL look at poverty. And yes, I took everything of value those we left behind which I left with Mrs. Dandridge to distribute as she saw fit. Not that those I took had much, but figured their “donations” would help others. When we were done, there were some scared, if not terrified kids now realizing the consequences of their actions. There were twenty-eight kids who I believe got scared straight as the saying goes. Ninety-three adults (sixteen and older) found new homes on a different continent. From what I understand, many simply never returned to the U.S., not that I cared. I mean, they had EVERY opportunity to make something of themselves and didn't. Not only that, they caused a lot of pain and misery to a lot of people. So what went around, came around. As to the State Department, never had any trouble with them. With only a few people having my phone number and seeing how things turned out for those who forced themselves onto Disney's property, someone from the State Department called Bob. Now he didn't mention anything about this call until about a week later after we had returned from Japan. They were asking him to ask me to PLEASE quit dropping people illegally in other countries. I explained why I had done what I had done, along with how crime of ALL kinds had REALLY dropped in those neighborhoods. And if they (the State Department) wanted to do something about it, they could pay for those peoples returns. Apparently he did and he never got another phone call from them about this.
I carried Mrs. Dandridge's groceries to her apartment for her and then we went to see Robert's Mom. They talked, with his Mom thanking me, but I told her others would be around if that was okay so he'd know what had happened earlier. She was glad to also hear if she needed help to have Mrs. Dandridge call me. As to Chicago, it's a kind of ugly city, especially in those areas they call subsidized housing or the projects, with me and others getting involved. For example, setting up a playground for kids. With help from Natalie and others I've met, we brought in playground equipment we got at ten percent over cost. Thing is, I wasn't about to pay for this equipment on my own because I wanted the people living there to have a vested interest in all of this. Those people started something called gofundme, asking for donations and why. Kids needed sand for their sandboxes, with Bob letting me use one of his large construction dumpsters and we flew to what I figured was the Sahara desert. Figured no one would miss a couple tons of sand. The people got busy building and moving things for the playground, then it was us digging holes for trees, which came from Home Depot and Lowes. Both places had no trouble with me using a couple of their pallets to cart all this stuff around. The people wanted a chain link fence around their playground, so they paid for it via the gofundme money, with us having no trouble driving those posts where they wanted them. They then installed the chainlink fence. We drilled holes for trees, with them planting them. Now as to that gofundme thing, people made sure there were before, during and after photos. They ended up with a lot of extra money and instead of keeping it for themselves, they asked for more, but for a different set of those big apartment complexes. More money came in and that place and the next would get all prettied up for the kids. On Craigslist, found more than one place giving away fifty gallon oil drums. We'd cut 'em apart, with those people modifying them so they'd become barbeques. Did a lot of welding and cutting with my Mjolnir, while using Bobs to carry or hold stuff.
Anyway, a month or so down the road, Mrs. Dandridge calls me, saying they needed help. Seems some city inspectors were telling everyone since no permits were given to do this kind of thing, EVERYTHING would have to be torn down and removed?! And you KNOW the tenants were REALLY unhappy when they were told and things were looking kind of ugly for those inspectors, which is why she called me. Now we were working on a movie at the time, but the director said it'd be no problem for me to be gone for maybe an hour as they could do some other scenes without us and we were out of there. Mrs. Dandridge and her husband were waiting for me in front of their apartment complex. He was in his wheelchair, not that this mattered with me putting one of Bobs Mjolnir's under it and as for Mrs. Dandridge, she turned her back and stepped on my feet like I've done with Natalie and other ladies. The inspectors were only a couple of blocks and boy, there must have been about one hundred unhappy tenants facing them. Thing is, the tenants had called a couple of local tv stations who were filming all of this and because the inspectors got scared, there were six policemen. Got EVRYONE'S attention when I shouted for everyone to back up and the tenants did right off the bat, with the tv people moving in closer until I told them not to come any closer. I landed close to them and of course, they wanted an interview and I said okay, but one of the inspectors got REALLY mouthy AND got in my face, saying there was nothing I could do and all of this illegal construction was going to be removed. I quietly told him to back up or face the consequences. He made the mistake of asking what was I going to do, beat him up and actually got closer?! He got zapped, quickly being attached to one of Bob's Mjolnir's and HIGH up into the air they went.
Turned to the other two inspectors, asking them if they wanted to get up close and personal.......they did not. I asked Mr. and Mrs. Dandridge to step forward, with Mrs. Dandridge telling the reporters how we met and what had happened, followed by everyone slowly getting together to improve their surroundings. All of this thru donated money and their own sweat, while the Chicago city council simply sat on their be4hinds, doing nothing. That is, until someone on the council found out no one had gotten permission to improve their lives, at which point someone sicced those inspectors on these people. I said we're AMERICANS and the government works for and responds to the peoples needs and NOT the other way around. A ROAR of approval came from everyone except from those two inspectors, who tried slowly backing up towards their car. I just looked at them and said don't, at which time they stopped edging backwards. There were a lot of kids and as usual, had them line up in four rows, with them grabbing the other eleven of Bobs Mjolnir's and going back and fourth like I had been doing previously while helping them out. Looked at those two inspectors, saying there's an expression called “having a meaningful discussion”.......and I think you two should have one with whoever runs your department, QUICKLY followed by the two of you having one with ALL of the city council. As in RIGHT NOW. They were quick to leave with smiles on their faces until I asked those tv people if they'd send another team to also go to that building (where ever it was) to make sure those two did what was suggested by me. Better believe their phones came out to have this done as none wanted to have this new turn of events missed by their station. Competition between the stations you understand. Well, about a dozen or so people told those tv people what it was like before and after they'd changed everything. And there were a lot of abandoned and junked cars left on the streets around there and in other parts of town. We removed them, with me taking them to Tala's people who stripped them of any useful parts. Since they had a lot of land on the reservation, they open a wrecking yard, with them selling these parts at VERY reasonable prices to those in town. Now once those cars had been stripped of everything of value, we took them to India and that shipyard. You know the one....the one where I borrowed that ship chain awhile back. The head boss there was QUITE happy to accept every vehicle we brought, especially since I started doing this, they got THOUSANDS of cars and trucks. What surprised me was finding motorhomes which were REALLY trashed, but they didn't go to India. Tala's and other people I had met, would rebuild and sell them for a profit, with some of them being kept for themselves, which they bought at what they had invested in them, time and money wise. So it was a win win situation for everyone, along with recycling everything.
Then we heard some screaming.....yeah, it was that bully of a city inspector crying out for help. Lowered him down to about twenty feet above us and boy, did he have a really bad potty mouth. Back up high into the air he went. Asked the cops there to talk to the tv people and tell them what these neighborhoods were like before and after, which they did. As for me, said I'd be right back and into the air we went to talk to that city inspector bully. Some people just WON'T learn, so off to New York City where there's that lake and park of theirs. I dunked him a couple of times in the lake until he realized this was going to continue until he quit being a potty mouth. We then went looking for a policeman in the park and he was riding a horse. Called out to him and he finally looked up, at which time the city inspector got righted right side up and I asked if the cop would call for a squad car to take this man to New York City's building inspectors office and why. I looked at the Chicago building inspector, saying you WILL have meaningful dialogue with those people because I'm looking at doing the same thing here. I told the cop what had gone down in Chicago and he looked at the inspector with disgust. Leaving that inspector behind, we took off for Chicago. When I landed, I gave the tv people a 5 minute interview including letting them know we'd be doing the same thing in New York City some time soon. With that, we took off back to where we resumed being filmed and helping others fly with the aid of Bobs Mjolnir's.
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Post by texican on May 20, 2021 13:53:39 GMT -6
willc,
Petty gov staff have attitudes due to their sense of power. Had one in Austin, Texas, that gave me problems with rocking a cell tower site that rain water would bounce off onto the surrounding land. I offered to bring in a sample of the rock in a colander and pour a gallon of water onto the colander in his lap to see how much of the water bounced off versus how much water perked thru the rock. The city inspector decided that the rock was ok.
Sometimes logic has to be explained to petty gov staff.
Thanks for the chapter.
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Jun 8, 2021 10:19:15 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 34
Now having helped Mrs. Dandridge and some of her neighbors make their neighborhood a better place, figured we'd just cruise around for a bit before we'd have to head home for some sleep, then off to Japan. Now one thing about crime, there's always something going on somewhere and best way to find it is to talk to a policeman or a couple of them, which is what I did. Thing is, I'm not an expert on people committing crimes unless it's obvious. And yeah, when I asked, ALL the cops were anxious to have one of Bobs Mjolnir's on their back and thru the air we'd go cruising. We'd be together for an hour looking for bad guys, with the cop using his radio to talk with other cops or dispatch. After an hour, we'd get a new cop, checking a different section of the city. A couple of car accidents with us moving them to one side of the road once it was okay with the cops handling these accidents. This way traffic wouldn't be so jammed, sometimes barely moving. Six drug busts, twice people selling guns illegally. We even caught a guy just as he set an abandoned house on fire. With so many Mjolnir's, catching the bad guys was no trouble and of course, calling down rain to put that house fire out. I also made sure that every cop that was with us had a camera on his or her chest. This way there would be no he (bad guy) said vs what the cop said. I wanted to make sure the cops got convictions. And of course, I suggested they pass the word on the street that I'd be patrolling the city, but they had no idea when, where or how often we'd be around. Ended up doing the same thing in New York City and I was told that when people did see me, crime dropped like a rock. Of course, we'd fly above the streets with me calling out hello to people and waving to them. Other times we up in the air, with me using those binoculars that had been given to me. I also had those cops notify cops in New York City that I'd stop by if they wanted help, but no idea when I'd be around.
Well, by the time we got done with Chicago, it was starting to get dark, so we headed west and by doing so, I still had enough sun to see things. Now we're not cruising fast, maybe a couple of hundred miles an hour which gave me enough time to see what was ahead of us and high enough to see around us. We helped some people with flat tires, but when we got west of Denver, Colorado, saw my first accident actually happen. A car had cut off a semi-truck and trailer, with the driver hitting his brakes, but rear ending that guy and now his set went fish tailing all over the two lane highway, with the rear of his trailer smacking another car, with all three going thru the highway barricade with AT LEAST a three hundred foot drop below. We got busy with Bobs Mjolnir's attaching themselves to the roofs of these vehicles and trailer, then we got REAL BUSY. That car that had been hit by the trailers tail end was tumbling and I saw two objects which I realized were kids! We ZOOMED to grab 'em both. Both kids eyeballs were about the size of softballs and had wet themselves, not that I blamed them. No doubt I'd of done the same, including going poo in my pants. Got the vehicles and trailer upright and we all took off for the highway where it had all started. People had stopped and had to tell them to move their cars so I could put everything and the kids back on the ground, which they did. Didn't know it at the time, but come to find out there's a BIG tunnel thru one of those mountains called the Eisenhower Tunnel, so when people called 911, they got there really quick, while also calling for ambulances and even a helicopter. I explained to the three highway patrolmen what I'd seen, but what really helped was the truck driver had some sort of recording thing which recorded all the time until it was turned off. That cut off driver had been running his mouth how the truck driver had caused all of this, until one of the highway patrolmen got to looking at the truck drivers video. That car guy was arrested and with that, I said goodbye and off we took, heading west again.
There was still enough sun to see and thought I'd do a flyover at Tala's place to see how their reservoir was doing. Figured that was the best I could do as I needed to get something to eat and of course, sleep. The reservoir was doing nicely, then saw Tala with his sheep. Thing is, something was wrong.....too many dogs. Tala's got two, but I saw seven more and was thinking maybe he was training them to be sheep dogs? How about some coyotes trying to sneak up on Tala's sheep for a quick meal? I had no idea how his dogs could deal with a three on one kind of fight, but sicced Bobs Mjolnir's on those coyotes and they did NOT like it, giving off really LOUD howls. Of course Tala heard, then saw them rising up into the air, at which time he looked up to see me. He waves, so I waved back with me and my Mjolnir landing in front of him. Asked where would a good place for these coyotes to be released and he says about twenty miles that away, while pointing in the direction indicated. I said okay and that's what we did. Wanted to get home and all that but figured what the heck, visit with him for a little bit.
He thanks me for dealing with those coyotes because one problem no one had thought of was the sudden amount of water now being available in the area for all the different types of wildlife. That's true.....it was also something I hadn't thought of either. He asked me to make a couple more ponds and ditches where the water was coming from so the wildlife wouldn't be coming to their village like they now were doing. Sounded reasonable to me and I said we'd be glad to help out, but with me now working for another studio and possibly, other studios, I'd have no idea when I'd be doing this or how much time we'd have. Maybe we could finish one pond and the ditch needed for it on one trip, it might take a couple of visits. He understood and again, thanked me. Remember those trucks the Burrough brothers had “lost” awhile back? Tala tells me almost everything of value had been stripped, with those parts in a couple of the empty shipping containers and would I mind get rid of those unwanted bodies? Preferably somewhere far, far away? That's when I thought of that shipping yard in India and when I told him, he laughed a lot. He said they'd be completely stripped in less than a week and I said okay. Better yet, I'll try to stop by and grab what ever body is stripped. Just spray paint part of it so I know which ones are good to go for a quick trip to India. Then he threw me for a loop when he brings up Crows Feather name. He says she's been wondering why I haven't been by more often and he was also wondering because he's seen the way I've looked at her those few times. Yeah, my face got all red but figured it wouldn't really show with me wearing Chris's mask. I said I do like her, but...... When he asks but what, I said I'm not stud muffin as a friend of mine said more than once to me. Let's say Crows Feather is a world famous actress and a lot of men are interested in her, but not just for sex. And let's say she find someone she's interested, BUT I figure she'd have that one little doubt......does he care for her as a woman or is part of it being she's a famous actress? Now I'm NOT bragging in any way, shape or form, but I think I've had more than one woman giving me THAT kind of look if you know what I mean. He nodded and said yes, he understood my difficulty now. Then asked him if he'd ever read comic books as a kid and he hadn't. So I explained how Lois Lane never saw Clark Kent as a man as she ALWAYS had her eyes and probably goal in life of having Superman. Besides, more than once I've walked the streets as ME and NOT as Thor and I don't get even a glance from women. Not only that, I'd be just be being friendly to them while walking down the street by saying hello to them. You wouldn't believe the dirty looks some of them gave me.....like how dare I even speak to them? So even if I wanted to be interested in Crows Feather...... Thing is, Tala understood, saying he never thought of the difficulty I had between the two of us.....me being me, vs being Thor. With that, I said we gotta go as my boss wants me in Japan, so need to get something to eat, some sleep, then a shower before showing up at the casino and with that, we rose into the air and headed home. Sent Bobs Mjolnir's back to the studio roof, then I hit that Burger King drive thru once it was clear of cars. Got two dozen triple cheeseburgers which I took home to eat. Microwaved them and while eating, checked my email. Got a email letter from Mom and the girls and things were going well back home. Otherwise, it was nothing but what I call junk mail, while others call it spam. Which is kind of funny as I like spam.....you know, that meat in a can. After that, it was cleaning my costume, take a shower and off to bed for a few hours of sleep.
After shaving and other things upon waking up, time to go to work and of course, have breakfast at the studio cafeteria. Thing is, maybe I've become sissified because I did NOT want to get up, preferring to continue sleeping until my normal waking up time in the morning. Splashing cold water in my face and a cup of microwaved coffee made the day more acceptable and it made me wonder how people like Jim and Chuck deal with possible odd ball working hours, because bad things and people can happen any time and any where. Had forgotten to recharge after Chicago, so headed to Nevada where those big power lines were, then back to Los Angeles. One thing I decided to do was if this kind of work was going to have me working odd hours for different studios if they're in different countries and time zones, would be giving myself some time to cruise to see if anyone needed help and if bad guys happen to be doing or attempting bad things......,. This way no one would know when or where I was working. We were slowly cruising when I heard a car alarm go off, then seeing a guy open the drivers door via the broken window, with two of his buddies keeping a look out. This was in a public parking lot and no problem to sic three of Bobs onto them. One went to the roof of the car, while the other two grabbed the lookouts and up into the air they went....with a little screeching by them. A LOT more screeching by those two when I deposited them on the roof of that car, then removed Bobs Mjolnir's. Since they were about five hundred feet in the air, none of them seemed interested in any type of escape. I landed and called 911, explaining who I was and what we'd stopped. I couldn't believe it.....the dispatcher was giving me attitude?! As in telling me calling 911 as prank call was punishable as A FELONY, along with a fine of ten thousand dollars and NINETY DAYS in the county jail! I TRIED convincing this dispatcher I was who I said I was, but no good, so I said okay.....let me find a policeman in a police car and bring them to the bad guys. Dispatcher says do that and hangs up on me! Took me a good fifteen-twenty minutes to find one and it was simply enough to land a little bit distance wise in front of him and of course he stopped. Walked towards him and the two of them got out of their car, with me asking if I could borrow them and their car for a little bit so they could arrest some bad guys? They looked at each other and said no problem, tell us where and we'll meet you there. I said it's easier if we take you, so would you mind getting back in your car? Again, they looked at each other, but once in the car, attached one of Bobs Mjolnir's to it and away we go. They were a bit shocked being up in the air like this and on the way there, explained what had happened when I talked with that dispatcher. They were NOT happy hearing this. So I had the police car about forty feet from the bad guys and that car and the bad guys were SO happy to see these policemen. They called for a couple more policemen to be at the scene, at which time I landed the police first, then the bad guys and that car. They meekly went into police cars after being handcuffed. Well, after that, the police were talking how I'd been treated by that dispatcher and they were going to make sure she got tore a new one, but using those other words. I happened to see one of the police car was a K-9 unit and said hey guys......I got maybe what might be a stupid idea. I can understand people might make false 911 calls using my name, but how about me having a code to pass to any dispatcher? Next time I call 911, how about me saying this is K-9 unit Thor calling, this way only dispatchers and you guys KNOW it's me. And that's what happened.....not only that, they passed the word to other policemen and dispatchers across the U.S. Figured this saved me a lot of dispatcher headaches in the future. And remember me buying that truck drivers gps for the motorhome? Ended up buying a portable, battery operated police scanner which fitted in one of my sustainment pouches nicely, along with having a long ear plug for it. I'd check in with the Chicago police department for example, using my call sign as truck drivers would call it, asking if they needed any immediate help. Most of the time, it was routine stuff, but then there's be gun battles between rival gangs with the police trying to get there. Put the location in my gps and off we went. We zapped a lot of bad and wanna be bad guys. Can't say you didn't know anything about the gun found near you when your fingerprints are on it. Thing is, these guys (the police) were like everyone else.....want to see, hold, etc. Bobs Mjolnir's and no problem with me doing this for them. After that, it was time for us to get to the studio and grab a quick bite to eat at the studio cafeteria.
Had a normal breakfast, when Sophia Magdalena Scholt and John Herbert Gleason knocked on my cafeteria cubicle. Seems Bob was changing people on me for my trip to Japan and Bob knowing me, he knew I'd come in early whether it was in the alley or the cafeteria. After eating, went to one of the regular cafeteria tables, with me calling out to some of the people I've met and of course, the servers and cooks working the line. Well, come to find out the Japanese studio had seen the videos of me on tv, along with what we'd done here at the studio. However, they wanted to try some new things on me, but didn't want to say what they were. However, if I exceeded their expectations, there was a bonus in it for the studio and me! I was thinking not only of more money to stash away for Mom and the girls, but in helping others like Tala and his people. And no, never thought how much the bonus would be either as I knew Bob would be taking care of me. Then asked if that studio would want to see the Hulkbuster and Loki's scooter in action and both thought it was a great idea. Thing is, while the Japanese government welcomed me any time, they had to check in with their customs people. The good thing was they'd be waiting for us when we arrived. Got the Hulkbuster and Loki's scooter from the studio roof and down in front of the cafeteria. I saw the look in Sophia's eyes and asked her if she'd like to ride inside of it on our trip to Japan, while John took the scooter. She about knocked him down to stand behind the Hulkbuster. Removed the back plate, then with Mjolnir in the crook of my arm, lifted her up into it, then explained how things worked inside of it, Kind of funny as she was making sounds like a pigeon, saying ooo, ooo, ooo. Now John didn't look too happy at this turn of events, but told him he could ride inside of it on our way back once we're done working for that studio, along with how things worked with a Mjolnir attached.
Took it easy getting them up into the air, with John grinning and waving like crazy to those below up. Once we got up high enough, told both if you want, we'll make a quick stop so you can see Diamond Head in Hawaii. They liked that idea. John had brought a camera, so I used it to photograph them both with Diamond Head in the background and after that, we took off for Japan, using the photos that Sophia had shown me on her iPad. As normal, we're there about thirty minutes early, but we quickly gathered A LOT of attention as we landed on the street.......along with a lot of phones and cameras coming out. Thing is, those studio and customs people were waiting for us. Found out that Bob had told them I had the habit of showing up for work early, just in case I was needed to start work early. They liked that. Heard more than one Japanese woman murmuring when I helped Sophia out of the Hulkbuster......found out later, they thought another man would be in it. While John and Sophia were having their passports checked by the customs people, I got introduced to a lot of studio people. And you know how that goes.,..,,,,the higher on the food chain you are, you get introduced earlier. This was when and where I met Airi Taira who was to be my interpreter, with her being around my age (I guess) and really pretty. And in case you're wondering, there's LOTS of pretty girls in Japan.
Naturally, everyone wanted to look at the Hulkbuster and Loki's scooter, but were too polite to ask. But by now, I KNEW that look, so when I offered, OH YEAH! Four step ladders were brought forth, two at each end of the street, with one of the studio people removing the backplate and helping that studio guy into and then out of the suit. It was a quick flight, maybe five feet or so off the ground, from one end of the street to the other. He'd get help getting out and another studio head would be helped into it. A lot of people had no trouble riding double on Loki's scooter and after explaining privately to a couple of the girls there, nothing but oohs and aahs, when I turned them sideways and then upside down. And no, even though the girls were wearing dresses, nothing got shown either when sideways or upside down. As to the rest of Bobs Mjolnir's, set them up to go back and forth down this street, so people could grab 'em and get taken for a short ride. Pretty soon I had six of the studio's head men standing before me. Hikarue Tanaka was Bobs equivalent at this studio and slightly behind him and to each side of him, were the others......obviously a pecking order. And it took a bit of an adjustment on my part being called Thor san. Anyway, he thanks me for showing off just some of my ability, along with him and others using the props and my hammers.......he bows and holds out a card with two hands?! New one on me......I mean, I've NEVER been offered a business card before. What to do, what to do? So I accepted it, thanking him for inviting me and my companions to his country, but as soon as I said this, realized he expected something more. So I turned to Sophia, explained what just went down, then asking her what was I suppose to do in return? This was when she says oh God, I forgot you know nothing about Japanese customs, then opens her briefcase and hands me a bunch of business cards from a box of 'em.
Oh wow......Bob went all out on these business cards and they were NOT something you'd have made at Office Depot. They were not only thick, but a creamy white kind of color, with the printing indented into the card and NOT printed. It said, Thor, employee of Disney studios, with the address and phone number of the studio. On the back of the card, he had actually had an image of Mjolnir imprinted on it! So I turned back to the studio head and apologized for not knowing what to do, but in my defense, this was the first time I ever got a business card from anyone, so thank you very much, with me handing my card to him with both hands like he'd done to me. He was all smiles, saying my kindness to strangers was totally unprecedented, for they had not expected me to offer services to others like flying in the Hulkbuster, Loki's scooter and offering the use of my hammers to others so they could “fly” down the street. I said I have no idea how or why I got my abilities, but if doing things like this makes people a little happier..... then turned to Sophia, asking if she had a pen and some paper. She did and I turned to Hikarue and said let me make my card a little extra special for you and those six with you and may I have my card back for a brief moment? He had no idea what I was going to do, but once I got my card back, passed the pen and paper to him, asking him to write his full name and studio title in Japanese and English. Now I've NEVER printed ANYTHING in Japanese, so I explained what I HOPED to do and if it wasn't done right, I'd have to re-do it in English. Now they're ALL looking at me like I grew two heads. So on the Mjolnir side of my new (and first) business card and Mjolnir in hand, we wrote to Hikarue Tanaka, studio head of such and such studio, thank you for your kindness. Below that we signed Thor and below that, was the month, day and year which was in English. Doing this in ten font size was HARD, but we got it done. And man, I was worried we'd screw it up, but now Hikarue was ALL smiles when I returned my card to him. And of course, the other six were also all smiles once we exchanged business cards, with me putting their names, titles, etc. on mine for them. Wasn't wearing my backpack because I saw no need to. I mean, if I did need it, I could get home quick enough. Even so, had hooked one of the sustainment pouches to my belt which carried almost two hundred dollars. This was in case I found something to buy for Mom and the girls.
I told Hikarue if he'd like, we could give him and others, some demonstrations of what we can do and he was quite happy for me to proceed. He kind of reminded me of Bob of letting me do my own thing like we did in the beginning of all of this. I explained that because I controlled all the Mjolnir's, here's one demonstration, with me calling out for twelve ladies and twelve men to step forth and form a line, left to right, with the women in front. My God.....talk about a STAMPEED of volunteers. Got Bobs Mjolnir's back under my control and had them land in front of those twelve volunteers. Asked the ladies to pick up the hammers which they did with no difficulty, then after they put them back onto the ground, the men TRIED to pick them up, without success. Then had the ladies pick up Bobs Mjolnir's without any trouble. Then I had the men try this time, this time they could without any trouble, while those twelve women couldn't. Did this twice with a total of twenty-four men and women. I explained there was a limit on what the Mjolnir's could do and as an example, I picked up the front of a truck with no problem. But told everyone that while I could attach a Mjolnir to them so they could fly, it would ALWAYS be under my control and not only that, they would NOT have the strength I get from using them or control the Mjolnir's in any way. Then Hikarue asked what could I do, flying wise. I said let me think for a bit, then asked him if he'd seen that Harry Potter movie where those boys are flying back to school. He said he had and asked him if he and his people would like to do the same? They were interested and there was a van with windows on the street, so I had the seven of them get inside of it, at which point I attached a couple of Bobs Mjolnir's under it and told them to start down the street and wave to everyone. Now Hikarue wasn't about to drive.....that was for the guy lowest on the food chain. So with me flying kind of next to them, down the street they go, then bit by bit, had the van rise up into the air with those on the ground waving to their bosses. We're maybe twenty feet in the air at the other end of the street, so pulled up next to them and explained what we were going to do next.....I could tell they weren't too sure about this, but I will say, they were willing to give it a try. Back down the street we go, but this time, the van's rolling left and right and a couple of times, upside down. And no, no one fell out of the van. Hikarue: what else? Remember that scene in one of the Batman movies where Batman has some rockets going off under it towards the end of a dead end alley, with the Batmobile driving right up the wall of a building. Oh yeah, they were all for me trying this with them. Asked if they'd be more interested in making this look more realistic in maybe having one of their technicians put some pyrotechnics under the van that could be lit by remote control. Hikarue didn't hesitate in calling in some people, they quickly rigged everything. We took a couple of dry runs with the van and everyone inside of it heading for a studio wall. Not that I was going to have the van actually drive on that studio wall as I had no idea what would happen if I did.....I mean, could we damage that wall doing this? It went off perfectly, with us having the van and passengers driving up that wall and onto the roof. Then I brought them back to earth.
When they got out of the van, I asked Hikarue if he'd like to be a superhero, but this time, bad guys have kidnapped his daughter and going to throw her off a studio roof. Asked Airi if she'd mind being Hikarue's daughter for this one, but that's when Hikarue asks if I'd mind using his own daughter?! Seems he and the other guys had brought their families with them to see us in action. I said no problem and was introduced to Aikira, his daughter who was somewhere in her twenties and if wondering, she had THAT kind of gleam in her eyes looking up at me. I then asked for a dressed, female mannequin which took a bit of time for it to be brought to us. Attached one of Bob's Mjolnir's to its back and had it rise into the air by fifty feet, then explained what was going to happen with Airi explaining to those who didn't understand English. Once that was done, removed Bobs Mjolnir from the mannequins back and of course, it tell to earth for a few seconds, at which time I had it reattach to the mannequins back about twenty feet from the ground. Ooo's and aahs from the crowd. Hikarue and Aikira both looked quite relieved with us doing this. Now NONE of Hikarue's studios men wanted to throw their bosses daughter off the roof even if it was for a good cause, so two men in the crowd got “volunteered”, but Hikarue was bound and determined to be the superhero in this display. However, he did NOT like the idea of his daughter being tossed off this studio roof without one of Bobs Mjolnir's on her back. I said, it's not needed for several reasons. If you miss catching your daughter, I can attach Bobs Mjolnir to her back with no trouble as you saw with the mannequin. The other is I'll be there besides you as you “rescue” your daughter and I will NOT allow her to be harmed....you have my word. That seemed to do the trick for Hikarue; that is, me giving my word to him. It went off perfectly.
Now the Japanese are REALLY into technology and Hikarue had about three dozen drones in the air, with those controlling them making sure they gave us all the room in the world. They (the studio people) were worried about one of Bobs Mjolnir's hitting or being hit by one of the drones, so they got another demonstration of my mastery of the Mjolnir's. Had the operators place six of the into a kind of square, then told everyone what we were going to do. Had one of Bobs Mjolnir's go to the end of the street and aimed right for those drones, with the first time stopping a foot or so from them. Second demonstration, had it zip right at those drones, but it moved so fast in rising up and being behind those drones, nobody could figure out what happened. I told those drone camera crews to slow down their playback speeds, which they did. Even so, Bobs Mjolnir's was a blur doing its maneuver. I said this is why we can move thru the air so fast and NOT hit something. Somehow, I KNOW when there are airplanes or large flocks of birds in the air, so we avoid hitting them. Then an idea came to me and I'm sure you're saying or at least thinking uh oh. I'm mulling things over when Hikarue asks if anything is wrong and I said no, I'm thinking of something new that MIGHT work, but I gotta think things out first, That's when John tells him how I'd come up with different things when I first started working at the studio. I said okay.....MAYBE this'll work, maybe not, but it's worth a try. That is, if it's okay with Hikarue and of course, it was and he, along with everyone else, was eager to see me trying something different for them even if we failed.
Turned to Airi, asking her to pick up John, which she couldn't of course, Then it was Hikarue's turn and while he did lift him up, it was brief. I called one of Bobs Mjolnir's down from the sky to be in front of her, asking her to take it, which she did. No problem lifting John up this time, then she did it one handed. I took her to one side and whispered what I wanted her to do and she was game. Up into the air we go, then turned her sideways, then had her fly over the crowd, asking her to reach out her hand so other women could hold onto her arm via her wrist. And bit by bit, I soon had a dozen women dangling in the air with us. In case you didn't know it, this was the first time I tried this stunt.......that of controlling one of Bobs Mjolnir's, but attached to someone else and having them picking people up like I've done before. I kind of got that idea from Disney's Peter Pan movie.......the animated one, not the one with Robin Williams. When I asked Hikarue if he and his men would like to do the same thing, of course they did. When they were done, had all twelve of Bobs Mjolnir's to lift one person who would lift up to a dozen other people. Hikarue and his men thanked me profusely, saying that Bob had actually UNDERSTATED what we could do. That made me feel good because it made Bob and the studio look really good. I've watched some Japanese and Chinese movies where people are jumping from roof top to roof top or doing some quick sword fighting while flying past each other. Hikarue brought out some people in Oriental costumes, along with some fake swords, with one of his men explaining what they'd like me to do for them. I said okay and talked with those people so we both knew what was going to happen and expect. But this time, more cameras were brought out, these being on cranes. Had them go thru the routine they wanted four times, each time going a little faster and then it was game on. Oh boy........when they were done, EVERYONE cheered.
Then told they had some other things they wanted us to try, with us going to a different part of the studio lot. How about something that looked like a Transformer?! It was in its semi-truck form and when Hikarue gave the order, it actually unfolded to stand upright as a Transformer! Seems Bob had told him what they'd done to the Hulkbuster, so they did the same with this Transformer thing, but a lot differently. This thing was a good sixty feet long and a forklift was brought to take me to where the entrance was at to this thing, not that I used it. With Mjolnir on my back, got inside of it via a back plate which was removed by one of the prop guys who explained how things worked. Moved the arms and legs a bit, then said seal him up, which he did. They'd installed several cameras carefully hidden and inside, were the monitors. I asked if it'd be okay for me to try it out, then we'd do (if possible) what his studio wanted me to do. No problem and of course, not only were the cameras there, but those drones and LOTS of people. Now having dealt with the Hulkbuster, this was kind of the same thing, but a lot bigger. And yes, a couple of times I fell, but never hit the ground like I had originally with the Hulkbuster. One thing about being in something so large is people give you A LOT of room to maneuver, which got me to thinking about it and how it reacted to damage when I was in it, along with getting used to the height difference and size of my “hands”. Once I got the hang of everything, which took me about an hour, I asked Airi if she'd like to go for a ride and oh yeah. My “hands” were massive.,...as in her being able to sit on one of them, while holding onto one of my “fingers”. It was the same with Loki's scooter..,,when I turned sideways, she didn't fall off. Thru the speakers of this thing, I said we'll be back in a bit and up in the air we went. Brought my “hand” near the head of this thing so I could hear her better and she told me where Tokyo was and off we went to cruise in air above various Tokyo main streets. Had my “hand” and “arm” stretched out and lower than my chest and as we SLOWLY cruised by, she started talking to everyone about the new series of movies her studio was going to come out with. Of course, you understand all of this was in Japanese. A lot of people heard her and looked upward, then just kind of just stopped moving all together. Apparently, they (the Japanese) will tow big balloons of various anime and movie characters.......it took a few seconds for everyone to realize, that this was NOT a balloon, with those on foot began following us?! She has me land in an open area of some park there, with me kneeling so she could get off my “hand” and at which point, I opened the hatch of this Transformer thing, then landed next to her. WOW.......a crowd quickly gathered around us, with cameras and phones being used basically being used by everyone. Well, Airi was busy explaining to everyone (in Japanese), how her studio was going to produce more realistic movies and with my aid, they could bring forth full sized Transformers, but not only them, but science fiction fighters, etc. I had NO idea what she was saying, but apparently, drew a lot of ooo's and aah's. After 5 minutes or so, she turned to me to say she was ready to go back to the studio. It was when we got back and landed, she told me what she'd said to everyone, then turned to see her boss looking at the two of us and looking a bit dumb founded. I said maybe you should give Airi a bonus or raise, that because of her, you got publicity you CAN'T buy. She got a bonus, though I have no idea how much, but she's now not only working as an interpreter, but also in the studio's public relations department. This was when she told me what she had said to everyone below us and in the park.
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Post by texican on Jun 8, 2021 20:50:35 GMT -6
Thanks WillC for the chapter.
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Post by willc453 on Jun 20, 2021 15:27:31 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 35
Now we'd been doing our thing for about five or six hours and my stomach gave a kind of growl, with me asking Hikarue for a break so I could get something to eat. Like I said, I didn't know what arrangements had been made for us working there and figured, I'd fly back to the studios cafeteria for something to eat. He turned to one of his men, said something and that guy got on the phone. Maybe five minutes later, here comes two what I call roach coaches or food trucks. Kind of surprised at seeing them as they were a bit smaller than those in America.....not much bigger than a U-Haul or regular van. Later on, realized it made sense to have and use a smaller vehicle because everything's kind of jammed in close together in Japan. The drivers were also the cooks on these things and they came out to give me their menus which were kind of disappointing, something that Airi caught. She asked me what was wrong and I said two things. It looks like the prices are written in Japanese and she tells me they use what is called the yen. I said okay, but I don't know how much a dollar is worth against your yen. She looks at me, then says during my stay here, ALL my food would be paid by the studio?! Apparently, this was part of Bobs deal with the studio and no doubt, he was thinking of the money he'd be saving food wise while I was here. Then she asks what was the other problem. I said there's a lot of American food being shown......and well, I was hoping to try Japanese food as it's something I've never had before, unless you count rice. The studio thought I'd want to eat American food while I was working here, but they did have some Japanese food available just in case I wanted to go that route. So between the driver/cook and her, they explained what was available. Guess what? Two things happened. First off, I get my food in what I would call a TINY bowl vs my hunger. Another was being handed a pair of chop sticks and boy, was I stuck on that one. Airi offered and showed me how to use them and they are tricky little devils. More than once, the bit of food I had in them, simply plopped back into that bowl, with her trying not to laugh. I asked for and got a couple of spoons which I made into a decent sized spoon just like at the studios cafeteria. My food was gone that quick, so asked if a much bigger portion could be made and pointed at what I thought was a fair sized bowl....which was actually one of the cooks call a wok which had a diameter of about three feet. It took a good thirty minutes for that amount of food to be cooked and man, was it good. Rice, shrimp, cashews and all sorts of veggies in it. Man, I LIKED Japanese food. I'm about half way thru when I asked Airi if the cook would mind making me another big bowl of this stuff and she did, with the other cook using another one of his woks. As far as water went, a normal five gallon bucket filled with ice and water and with a piece of pvc pipe provided by one of the studio people, I was in business. Kind of. Needed LOTS of water, so without thinking (yeah), remembered seeing a water faucet on the side of one of the buildings. Tell them I'd be right back and flew to it, where I filled it up. And here comes Airi running down the street looking for me and wanting to know what was wrong. I explained and she said she'd have those five gallon water jugs brought out to me instead of using this water faucet as she said the studio would lose face with me doing this. I said okay and asked her if she'd like a ride back to the food truck and of course she did. Now I used one of Bobs Mjolnir's to hold up that wok so I could eat from it, while another held up my water bucket. And yes, within ten minutes, here comes one of those water trucks, the kind that delivers those five gallon jugs of water to offices. Well, I really put a dent in those two trucks food supply.....fifteen pounds of rice, along with I don't know how many pounds of shrimp, cashews and veggies and let's not forget the ten gallons of ice water. Now normally, I prefer to eat alone but nothing had been set up here like back home. Thing is, I hadn't thought to ask because it might of sounded like I was asking for some special privilege. Now Asahi was one of those six men of Hikarue's and he and a bunch of other people were watching me eat which made me feel uncomfortable simply because at times, I'm just trying to get as much food into me, quick as possible. After I got done eating he said he and everyone else were surprised I wasn't as big as a sumo wrestler, a term I hadn't heard of before.
So I asked him what was a sumo wrestler and they all looked very surprised at this, with him telling me all about it. Seems it's a really popular sport in Japan, just like baseball, etc. is in America. That if I wanted to, he'd be honored to take me to a match that was happening later on that day. I thought this was really nice of him, but what was it going to cost me, you know, to see this sumo match? So I called out to John and whispered my problem to him and he tells me that Asahi was offering to take me to this match for free! Yeah, I was kind of stupid/naive about a lot of things during this point in my life. And truth be told, it still occasionally bites me on the behind. Hikarue came over and said they were going to call it a day as they had to re-think some of their plans, but I asked if we could try one more thing with your robot thing, with me explaining what had happened to and with the Hulkbuster. He didn't know about this at all. We waited until someone brought out a couple of sledge hammers in different weights. Once inside the Hulkbuster, I said okay, go for it, with Airi translating for me. And man, those guys REALLY tried beating the heck out of it, but to no avail. When that was over, I got out of it, had one of them simply tap a “toe” and of course, it broke. I then explained how things I used got changed some how, but when I wasn't using them, they were just normal things, but when I'm in the Hulkbuster, my strength gets amplified and again, don't ask me how or why because I simply don't know. Asked to give a demonstration and I said I saw a semi-truck and trailer earlier today; could you maybe have one brought here? He gave the order and while that set was being brought forth, got back into the Transformer. When the set arrived and the driver got out, I slowly knelt to put my hands under it, then rose up into the air and once high enough and clear of everyone, straightened my legs out. I then reversed everything, taking my “fingers” out from under that set, then putting that Transformer back to its original place, with me getting out of it. Asked how much weight could I carry in their prop and I told him the truth, with the truth being I didn't know as I'd never used something this large to do anything with.
After my quick lunch, six men and six women dressed in olden Japanese times clothing were brought out. Was introduced to them, then Hikarue explained what he'd like me to try with them and I said that'll be no problem, but let's add something to their costumes if that's okay with you. I explained and cloth was called for with me attaching Bobs Mjolnir's being attached to their backs and this cloth being wrapped around them so Bobs Mjolnir's were covered. I made darn sure who got what numbered Mjolnir and after about fifteen minutes of being told what they'd like us to do, we did rehearsals. REALLY slow at first and by the seventh time, everyone was satisfied with the speed we'd be doing everything. The reason I made sure we went slow and built up their speed via Bobs Mjolnir's was because even though they had fake swords and spears, I didn't want anyone to get hurt. So there's two groups of six men and women at each end of the street shouting Japanese at each other, with both groups shaking their swords and spears at the other group. Now there's these things movie people call marks and it's places where an actor or actress is suppose to be as they're being filmed. This comes in REAL handy when dealing with explosives even though they're mainly noise. Gotta dodge left to avoid the explosion to your right. I'm up in the air and to one side when Hikarue said action in Japanese and the twelve people went at each other. When they hit their mark, they're leaping into the air, some turning sideways and “fighting” each other with their swords and spears. Then once past each other, they'd land, some doing a tuck and roll. People who saw all this go down went crazy and Hikarue was VERY happy once he saw the film being played back. Tells me we're done for the day because he needed to get with his people to come up with more ideas to go with a couple of things already planned due to some of the videos of us in action they'd seen.
This was when Airi tells me if I wanted to, she'd be glad to have a studio car take me to my hotel room?! All I could get out was what hotel room? That's when Sophia tells me that because I'd gotten us here so quick and had jumped right into work, they hadn't had time to give me any kind of briefing. Like not only free food, a five star hotel with a two star restaurant, with the studio willing to pay our expenses if we wanted to go some place, like an amusement park, etc. I turned to Airi and said I don't mean to sound impolite or ungrateful if you will, but I will not stay at any hotel you give me. She looked shocked and said please, please wait here until she got her boss who came right over and he looked unhappy. I explained that I could fly and be home within a couple of minutes. That when I was home, I removed my costume and became just me. He didn't understand until I said no one knows what the me that ISN'T Thor looks like. I like eating out from time to time and can you imagine the looks I'd get if I entered a restaurant? When I'm home, I can relax drawing something or reading a book. If I'm in a hotel room, I'd be worried about someone seeing me as me even by accident. And that could put my family in danger. Besides, if you need me for something, I can give you my phone number, the same number that Bob uses to call me. He was kind of happy in getting my number, but asked me to at least check into the hotel room with John and Sophia, with Sophia explaining a little bit about the Japanese and face. I didn't understand all of it, but I said okay, but I'm going to keep my door locked if you don't mind and does it have a balcony in case I want to fly around Japan for a little bit? It did and into this big sedan we go for this hotel. Those hotel people did a lot of bowing to Hikarue and me and the funny thing is I never thought to pack extra clothing. And oh boy, what a room I got.....the livingroom was actually bigger than my motorhome! It also had a nice balcony and view of Tokyo. Hikarue was quite happy and pleased when I told him this place was beyond my wildest dreams of what a hotel room should be. As for Asahi, he'd been told where we were going and he'd pick me up at such and such a time. Asked Airi if she could come back in thirty or forty-five minutes to take me to some mall where I hoped to buy some souvenirs. Now I could of just flown flown around town and found a mall with no problem, but no idea what was being sold there, but figured she knew of some place that might fit my needs. She did and when she left, I not only locked the door, I picked up the couch and placed it in front of it just to be extra safe.
Opened the balcony door and off we went for my place and after a few minutes, able to get inside. Took a shower, then after cleaning my costume, we headed back for my hotel room. Thing is, my shower felt REALLY nice, then of course, had to make sure my costume was CLEAN because not only was I representing Bob and Disney's studio, but now, Hikarue's, so I was running a little behind time wise. I also took the time to take another hundred dollars with me just in case. Airi was knocking on the door, asking if I was okay and I said hold on, I'll be right there. Moved the couch out of the way, opened the door, then lifted the couch back up, placing where I'd gotten it from. She'd been knocking and calling out to me for several minutes and had gotten worried when I didn't reply and was about to call security just in case. I explained why I had put the couch in front of the door and she understood. She never realized we'd gone to California and back. Then it was off to get to the studio provided car, with LOTS of news and tv people in the hotel lobby, all wanting me to say something. She whispered it would be nice if I took a few minutes to talk to them, so I said okay. They wanted to know what I was doing here, so told them about working for Hikarue's studio and I turned to Airi and asked her to tell everyone what we had been doing. And of course, they're all clamoring for that footage to show on tv later on. I let her deal with that mess. I then said, Airi's going to show me around town for a bit as I've never been here before. As to Hikarue, said he was a very nice and generous man, with him reminding me of Bob, in the short time that we had worked together, Then I said that's it for now and if you want any more information, please contact Hikarue's office.
Now if you're wondering, where were Bob's Mjolnir's, the Hulkbuster and Loki's scooter at since I was at this hotel? I left them on one of Hikarue's studio roofs and having seen my demonstration of people not being able to move Bobs Mjolnir's without my permission, Hikarue knew they were safe. And I really wasn't worried about someone trying to steal the other two items.......not from some roof top. Took us maybe thirty minutes to get to this mall that Airi had chosen, with the driver dropping us off at the front door. Now I hadn't been to any malls in the Los Angeles area, mainly because I was more of a Walmart, Target, etc. kind of a guy. Add to this, was while we had a couple of shopping centers in Reno, we really only had one mall: Parklane Mall which is a bit south of us on South Virginia. Now I did go a couple of times, but honestly, it was kind of boring. I mean, who wants to look at and go thru different stores and not have any money to buy anything even if you were checking out the girls there? Well, we got a few stares but it seemed nobody put two and two together which made me happy, until things changed. One I hadn't thought of was the prices being shown in yen and not dollars, but Airi was there to translate them for me. I realized I hadn't brought enough money to actually buy some of the things I thought everyone would like. So asked Airi if she'd mind waiting for me until I went home to get more money and was surprised when she said the studio would be happy to pay for whatever I wanted?! Kind of stunned and said thanks, but no thanks. I was looking at stuff to buy for my family and some friends and having the studio buying it for me would be so wrong for me to accept. She understood, so back outside again, where once again I took off for home, but this time I was LOADED with money. At least that's how I felt. Get back with her and we're hitting the stores again, with me paying in dollars and once again, no one's giving us any real stares. I even got plexiglass display cabinets for each figure I bought. The girls and Crows Feather got geisha girl dolls, while Mom, Cheri and Crows Feather Mom got some really fancy gowns, the kind of a robe to use on cold days. For Cheri's girls, found out the stores had A LOT of different kinds of My Little Pony figures, so each of them got five different ones, plus a medium sized one, each also being different. Found a couple of resin dogs that reminded me of Tala's sheep dogs and for his son, Ahanu.... well, I wasn't sure about this, bought a long bladed and really fancy (but useful) knife, figuring this was something he could use. As to what to do with them, Airi said it would be no problem to have everything shipped to the studio to take back home when I was done working there. And yes, even picked up some small superhero resin figures for my cosplaying friends back in Reno. As to what I spent for this stuff, it's none of your beeswax, but I was pretty sure everyone would be happy in what I'd bought.
Now things WOULD of been okay, but things sometimes just happen. I heard a woman scream in pain and without thinking (normal thing for me, right?), we rose up into the air and I could see a woman on the floor with some guy running away from her with a purse?! NO guy I know carries a purse, so without thinking (again), I threw Mjolnir at this guy, saying sic 'im Mjolnir and Mjolnir did by attaching itself to this purse carrying guy and then zapping him. Without Mjolnir, I dropped to the ground and started running for this guy and then just kind of started jumping into the air by twelve or fifteen feet and over peoples heads. They had NO idea what was going on and on the my third leap, called Mjolnir back to me along with the purse snatcher firmly attached to Mjolnir. Then it was no trouble flying back over everyone's head until I got to that lady whose purse had been snatched. She was basically unhurt, just really, really scared, not that I blamed her. As to purse snatcher, he remained high up in the air until mall security came running over to us, at which time I lowered him into their welcoming arms. Thing is, while we were given some room, there were A LOT of people around us, taking photos and I just wanted to get out of there. So I turned to Airi, saying let's blow this place and she asked what did that mean, so quickly told her. She wanted to know how we'd get out with so many around us and told her to step on my feet and wrap her arms around me. Kind of surprised that she did without further hesitation and with her riding with us like we'd done with Natalie, up the air we go, but instead of heading for the entrance we came in, we turned to the other end and MOVED to it, leaving the crowd behind. She quickly got off my feet at the doors and we both ran thru them, with her saying she'd have the driver come to this side until I pointed at the people RUNNING towards us. I said no time, get back on and when she did, up we go, but this time we flew over the mall and back to the entrance we'd originally entered. Asked if she knew where the studio car was parked and it took us five minutes or so for us to spot it, at which time we landed. I'm glad to say that while some people saw us land, I think they were thinking they were mistaken as in seeing some sort of illusion. Thing is, on our way back, got to feeling really uncomfortable because Airi was staring at me and I finally asked her please don't stare at me like you're doing. She apologized, saying she hadn't realized that she had been staring, but she was so surprised and shocked how I had just reacted in the mall. I said it's a habit that I've gotten into......that when I see people needing help, I help them. It's also the same reason I don't hang around to get congratulations from people. Just want to help people, then get out of there. Then she asked if I had done much jumping like I had and when I said no, she asked if they could set up some tests for me to find out as this might be some other skill of mine the studio could use. It was also the first time she'd seen me using Mjolnir as a weapon, with me throwing it like I did, at purse snatcher. Sounded okay to me, because I also figured maybe Bob could use this knowledge in some way for the studio.
Well, we THOUGHT I could wait in my room until Asahi showed up, but there was STILL a large number of tv, etc. people waiting for me to appear. I told Airi to take off for her place and I'd get back inside my room via the balcony as I'd left the sliding glass door open earlier. So she took off for home, while I took off for my rooms balcony, then called the front desk asking that when Asahi showed up, to please have him call my room and no sooner had I hung up the phone, there's a knock on my door? I was thinking maybe Asahi was showing up early for whatever reasons, so I naturally opened the door without looking thru the peep hole in the door. What a mistake, How about it was over a DOZEN women who wanted to meet me?! Only thing that saved me was two of them tripped trying to get into my room, with the others tripping over them. As for me, I ran for my life for the balcony while calling Mjolnir to me and we jumped over the balcony railing and into the air. Oh boy....... Thing is, there was no way I could reach anyone because I didn't have any of the studio peoples numbers. So flew to the front of the hotel and walked inside, with people all wanting a piece of me. I TRIED being polite, but some people...... That's when I quietly said back off and let sparks of electricity start flying off Mjolnir and when that didn't, a quick burst of lighting coming from it, did the trick. Walked to the front desk, with me telling the desk clerk what had just happened. He was very apologetic and immediately sent hotel security to get rid of them, which took maybe fifteen minutes before they and the ladies came out of the elevator. The head security guy came over to ask if I wanted to press charges against these ladies and I said no......but how about just putting a scare into them? Call the police and while waiting for them to show up, tell the ladies all the trouble they're in for doing what they attempted. When the police arrive, tell them that the ladies were NOT to be charged, but let the police have them believe they were going to be charged, along with being put in handcuffs and taken to the nearest place where they would normally be processed. But don't process them, just let them go with a warning. Pretty sure they won't try this again and not with just someone like me, but anyone else. He smiled and thought this was a good idea and that's what went down. As for me, took the elevator this time to my room and this time I picked up that couch, placing it a few inches from the door. This way I could open it a little bit, but anyone on the other side of it was NOT going to be rushing in like those ladies had done.
Well, Asahi did call, so after moving the couch once again, took the elevator down, but this time we had two of the hotel security guards as escorts.....just in case you understand. When the elevator doors opened on the first floor, one thing I did NOT expect was seeing Aikira, you know, Hikarue's daughter standing slightly in front of Asahi. Yeah, Japanese pecking order again. Frankly, I thought it was going to be just him and me. Well, we doing the Japanese bowing thing as apparently it's the way they greet each other and right after that, she's got a kind of death grip with her arms wrapped around my left arm because I'm carrying Mjolnir in my right as normal. I didn't really care for this, but she was my bosses daughter, even if he was a temporary boss, so didn't say anything about it. There were only a couple of people from some newspapers and one tv station still hoping for some kind of interview from me. Think it was the lady from the tv station who decided it for me when she tells me she REALLY needed a interview with me as this was her first assignment and it would help her so very much. I turned to the three men from their newspapers and yeah, they too were all newbies.......at least that's what they said. Asked Asahi how long would it take us to get to this wresting place, with him saying it would be about an hours drive. Asked if he knew where this place was at and he did. I said, let me give these nice people a kind of quick interview and then we'll leave, okay? He agreed.
Remember how I said Hikarue was kind of like Bob? He'd been busy having his publicity department releasing snippets of some of the things we had been doing at his studio and by now, word had gotten out what had happened at the mall, which was a complete surprise to Asahi and Aikira when the tv lady brought this little nugget up. Spent maybe ten minutes talking with these people, then it was time for us to leave. We got stares as we exited the car, then entering the building with Asahi presenting his phone to the ticket lady where it was scanned showing the seats the studio had bought. This was a new one on me.....didn't know phones could be used this way. I thought we'd be in the back part of this small stadium.....nope, how about front row seats? More stares as we walked to our front row seats, with some people taking photos of us. Aikira was kind of a ham waving to people as we walked to our seats........figured she wanted to let everyone know that WE were together if you know what I mean. As far as Asahi, was concerned, he was kind of like a spear carrier, you know, one of those people used to fill in the background of some movie or tv show. Well, these sumo wrestling matches have a MC (master of ceremony) and a referee, just like our boxing matches have. But the referee......well, he was in a really fancy gown of some kind while wearing a weird looking hat and carrying what I'd call a kind of hand held fan with writing on it. Since Asahi had asked me out, I turned to him, asking if he'd explain what was going on and a little bit about the history of sumo wrestling. He started explaining and if you're interested, look it up on the net, but then suddenly his face changed. Maybe not much, but there was that change, so I turned my head to see what he was seeing. Nothing out of the normal, but then he says he was sure Aikira would be able to give me a much better explanation of the history of sumo wrestling. Yeah, she didn't like me paying attention to him instead of her AND she STILL had her death grip on my left arm.
And like I was afraid of, I heard Thor san over the PA system along with some Japanese words. Aikira tells me they would like me to say a few words to the people before the match and I'm thinking oh jeez, but learning once again the pain in the behind of being in the public eye. And of course, Aikira's not about to let go of me, so we got up and walked to that ring thing, with me deliberately leaving Mjolnir behind us and still in the air. When we got the outside of the ring where that referee was at, I simply held out my hand, with Mjolnir flying right into it. LOTS of gasps, then clapping. Now the referee didn't speak English, so Aikira translated everything for me to the audience. First thing I did was bow to everyone in several directions, then started talking about what I was doing in their country and why I was at this sumo match, which was thru the generosity of Asahi and I called for him to stand up and wave hello to everyone which he did. Then introduced Aikira to everyone, at which point I flat told them that I was an ignorant American who NEVER expected to visit their country, but as it's said in America, things happen, with life taking you down a road you never expected. I have already met a lot of really nice people and hope to return here in the future to help make movies with Hikarue's studio and that got me to thinking of that guy who helped us with his translating my English to Japanese. Maybe I could find him and see if he'd be interested in showing me the real Japan and not the big city version? You know, if he had the day off and I'd pay whatever expenses that might occur. Bowed again in different directions, then headed for our seats, with me leaving Mjolnir resting on the floor in front of my feet. I turned to Asahi and asked him if I did okay because I wasn't used to this sort of thing. He said I did very well and thanked me for mentioning Hikarue and his studio.
Sumo wresting was interesting......I mean, golly, some of those guys are HUGE as in making at least two of me body size wise. And one thing I didn't expect was seeing these guys behinds. It was explained to me they use a long strip of cloth to cover their private parts and some things were allowed, some not. Thing is, these guys go for body mass and not actual muscle like football players do. Even so, they're really impressive, Was surprised when one of them SLAPS the other guy and while they're wrestling, they're slapping each other while trying to grab and lift each other to either toss their opponent either out of the ring or onto their back. Of course, I was wondering if those loin clothes ever came loose and....... Now we watched four matches and like I said, it was not only interesting, but learning about another countries sport. After everything was over, a man came to us and with Aikira translating, I was asked if I would do the wrestlers the honor of meeting with them and without thinking, I said yes. Figured it'd give me a chance to learn more about these men, their sport and lifestyle.
Well, they and their trainers are all in this big room and when we entered, they all turned and bowed, so we did the same. Some of the wrestlers and their trainers could speak English which made things easier all the way around. I said, let me guess.....you might want to know about my hammer which is called Mjolnir and yes, they did. So I held it in front of me about chest high and let go of it. Stares....lot of stares and even more when I told everyone that unless I gave permission, it could NOT be moved, with me inviting everyone in the room to attempt moving it. No one succeeded, then had up to four of them tugging at it like crazy and again, they failed. Called Mjolnir to my hand which got their attention and then I placed it on the ground and told one of the wrestlers he had my permission to pick it up, which he did without any trouble. Then had him put it back on the ground, with others trying to pick it up, but failing. I made sure everyone there got to mess with Mjolnir both ways. Asked how strong was I and I said I really don't know, but I'd say pretty strong. They wanted a demonstration and I said okay and I picked up each wrestler up, with him being held over my head and me walking around with him. I then let them pick me up, with them having no trouble. Then I said let's change things a bit and had Mjolnir attach itself to my back, but this time even with four of them, none could lift me. Think we spent about an hour or so together, with me learning more about sumo wrestling and what goes into becoming a wrestler. Really interesting in learning from people who do things like this for a living. Then of course, selfies with each wrestler and trainer and after that, we headed back to my hotel with Aikira and her death grip on my arm. Thing is, she got to GUSHING about what we'd done and frankly, I didn't want to hear it and told her so. I said, those men and I are a lot alike in one way, entirely different in another. I said those men TRAIN long and hard to become what they've become. I became what I am by an unknown and freak accident of nature. The common thread between us is that we are NOT like normal people. Just like those people who play professional sports in America. Another thing I worry about is what will happen if I lose my abilities and both of them looked shocked at this idea. I said, think about it..... I wonder if those wrestlers ever get hurt in the ring by being tossed to the floor. I mean, more than one American sports figure can get injured even while training and suddenly find themselves out of a job. I simply don't know if my abilities have a time limit or will I be what I am for the rest of my life and that's something no one's thought of asking me. They were both a lot quieter after that. When we got to my hotel, got out, saying I was headed home to get some sleep and off we went. Hit a McDonald's on the way home for six of their egg burrito meals.....the one that comes with orange juice and hashbrowns, which I ate on top of their building. Once home, got rid of the McDonald's garbage, with me stashing some of their extra mild hot sauce in a drawer for future use. Made sure my costume was clean and hanging in the closet, phones were on the chargers, BOTH alarm clocks were set and hello bed time.
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Post by texican on Jun 21, 2021 20:24:32 GMT -6
Working on 37.
Good to know willC.
Thanks for Chapter 36. Sumo wrestlers eat a lot of food to get their weight up and keep their weight up, kind of like Thor.
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Post by willc453 on Jun 21, 2021 23:30:43 GMT -6
Thing is, Thor seems to simply burn up every bit of food he eats, no matter how much he eats. In a way, he's like The Shadow, but Thor doesn't loose weight. He just gets weak, like what happened to him in Australia. Which is also why he has to zap himself with lightning. Thor's in Las Vegas because of what happened in 36 and now on page 3 of 37. And yes, he's visiting Cheri and the girls. He also found another ability while in Vegas and he's having trouble with it.
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Post by texican on Jun 22, 2021 15:14:31 GMT -6
He also found another ability while in Vegas and he's having trouble with it.
Chapter 37 to reveal?
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Post by willc453 on Jun 27, 2021 16:15:12 GMT -6
He also found another ability while in Vegas and he's having trouble with it. Chapter 37 to reveal? Texican.... Yes.
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Post by willc453 on Jun 27, 2021 16:16:11 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 36
Woke up when the second alarm clock went off and didn't feel too bad, shaved and after splashing cold water on my face, felt a lot better. Got dressed, but as I was the normal kind of hungry, figured I'd hit the studio cafeteria before taking off for Japan. As to John and Sophia, they were going to remain in Japan, not that I blame them considering how nice Hikarue was. Thing is, Hikarue's studio was paying a lot of money for that hotel room, so figured I'd use their restaurant instead, which was another reason for me to get there a bit earlier than usual normal time. Now the hotel room door was still blocked by that couch and I'm glad to say the hotel didn't have anyone inside of it to clean it, not that it needed cleaning, Using the house phone, asked for and was connected to the restaurant where I ordered a ham, cheese & mushroom omelet, with some hashbrowns, along with some toast and a couple of glasses of milk. I know, I know.....after me talking about wanting to try Japanese food, why didn't I order one? I had NO idea what they ate for breakfast and figured to be safe than sorry in finding out that I didn't like it. About twenty minutes later, there's a knock on my door, so I opened it a bit and there was the porter who had two security guards with him. After moving the couch to its place, they came in while the porter set up my breakfast on the table in front of the couch. I TRIED to give the porter a tip, but he tells me that the studio had already covered everything for my stay there, including tips. After some more bowing to each other, they left and I got to eating breakfast which was DELICIOUS! Decided I now had a little understanding what it meant to get a meal that's rated two stars and by two stars, I mean the Michelin kind. But I also still wanted more of the regular food that the Japanese people ate. Put all the empty dishes and glasses on the trolley, which went into the hallway. Called the front desk, telling them I was done, that the trolley was outside of my room and after putting the couch in front of the door, we took off for work via the patio.
John, Sophia, Airi and Asahi was waiting for me, that is, where we'd first landed the day before along with some other men that Asahi was in charge of. I was happy to see that Aikira WASN'T there. Bowing and shaking hands with the new people, then on to work. The Japanese have a superhero called Ultraman, with this guy wearing an all silver suit and a bullet shaped, metallic helmet. From what I understand, he can only fight bad guys on earth for a few minutes before having to fly off into space to recharge. How this is done, I have no idea, but Hikarue was coming out with his version of this guy. I met the actor who was going to be this guy, with Airi doing the translating between us. Did I mention this guy's got a long cape too? He listened to what I told him how the Mjolnir's worked and I thought things were going to go well......until the first time I had him fly up about two hundred feet in the air. He not only got air sick inside his helmet, he had a fear of heights! Yeah, poor guy.......he thought he'd be doing all his “flying” via wires not far off the ground and in front of green or blue screens. Now the studio people didn't know what to do as they needed some screen time which they hoped to show before an audience to get feed back whether the movie would be worth making or not. Better to spend money hiring me so I could have some guy flying around than make a movie which would be a financial disaster. I said hold on.......maybe we can salvage something out of all this and Asahi was eager to hear me out. I got to thinking about Cheri and how we first met in that truck stop parking lot and later on at that Hooters place. Remember me controlling Bobs Mjolnir while I was NOT in my costume? Once I thought things out, which was new to me in doing something like this, Asahi got busy giving orders. He had a small trailer dressing room brought out, then the studio seamstresses were came out, with them taking a bunch of measurements of me and started modifying one of the spare costumes so I could fit in it, with Mjolnir being on my back, but covered in that green cloth. Thing is, had to return home for my backpack so I could have normal clothes to wear as my costume is a bit bulkier than normal clothing and of course, the cape had to go. One thing about a studio, when things need to be changed to get something done, it gets done because the boots I was to wear were too small, so a couple of new sets were made then and there, though somewhere else on the studio lot.
While all of this is going on, his crew started hanging that green screen cloth over the sides of a couple of buildings and on the street. Now we could of done this stuff inside one of the studios, but Hikarue wanted as much open space as possible. Then they came out with some sort of large monsters head which was held up by a couple of sticks which were painted green and those sticks were duct taped and roped to a crane which had sheets of green cloth over it, with me being told it would become the monsters body. Yeah, didn't realize computers could do all sorts of things now days. The way things were suppose to work was the studio could give any kind of background it wanted on the green stuff, including the rest of the monsters body. The reason for the head was it gave me something to focus on and Asahi telling me how wide this thing was, where it's arms would be at, etc. Now all they had thought of this superhero of theirs doing was kung fu fighting bad guys and socking the monster on the jaw. Now while I was in my regular clothes, I kept Chris's face on, along with wearing my gaiter just to be extra safe identify wise. As to my backpack, put my costume in it and it hung from the top of a radio and satellite antennae they had on the property. No way anyone was going to sneak up there and possibly steal it. A new and larger helmet was quickly made for me, along with a walkie talkie set up inside of it just like it is in the Hulkbuster, with Airi telling me what the studio wanted me to do. Then I thought I'd add some things they might be interested in,,,...,,like this superhero being able to shoot lightning bolts from his hands. This was a new one on everyone, but then I hadn't been recorded doing this by anyone. Now I STILL was wearing my two sets of gloves, so larger ones were made for me to wear. With Mjolnir on my back, we go up about ten feet above everyones heads, with me shooting lightning bolts from small ones, to some really good, big ones. Thing is, doing this some how increases the amount of juice to get it done, which meant I had to recharge when I'm doing this which is good for about an hour me shooting lightning bolts and that's about my time limit in doing this sort of thing, Bolts shooting from my finger tips, from my knuckles when I make a fist, even half a dozen or so bolts from each open palm. And of course, poking small holes in both sets of my gloves, along with the studio ones. So the superhero got a new ability in their movie. They even went the route of him increasing his time limit of battling bad guys. Asahi asked and I said okay, with me attaching Bobs Mjolnir's to eight of his men who carried those shoulder held movie cameras like I'd done for Bob. Asahi was a happy camper with what we were doing, but then what seemed to make him really happy was when I screwed up. It was when this monster was to hit me, with me flying backwards. So once we had figured out how long this things arms were, when he said now, we flew backwards. However.......I over judged my speed and we SLAMED into one of the studio walls, breaking quite a few of the boards. Asahi was concerned I was hurt but I wasn't, even though part of my body was partially embedded in the wall. Yeah, he'd seen at least one of the Avengers or Ironman movies where Ironman gets thrown against a brick wall, with it busting to pieces. Then one of his people brought up a problem.....as in me being bit taller than the actor they'd hired. Now fighting that monster wasn't the problem, it'd be when rescuing people, especially women as I LOOMED over them vs the actor guy. Not only that, with me “reduced” in size, the monsters could appear a lot bigger without the cost of building them. So Hikarue asked if I'd mind wearing a green suit, including a green helmet. This way they could reduce my size on the screen, but not the people we'd be rescuing. Said no problem and since the studio already had my measurements, with them getting busy reducing them a bit and then it was time for lunch. God, I thought lunch time would NEVER be called, but it finally was, with those three roach trucks arriving, And while I was hungry, it was the normal kind. Thing is, shortly after this, things went to poo and first time I actually got mad because I was almost seen as me by Aikira while not wearing Chris's face mask and my gaiter.
I had taken off both Chris's face mask because I'm always worried about staining it with food, which meant the gaiter was also off. I'd invited Asahi, Airi, John and Sophia to eat with me inside that trailer that had been brought for the costume alterations. A couple of extra tables and chairs were brought, with me behind this curtain. I got them to talking about what it was like when they were growing up and how they had all gotten to being here in this trailer. Remember, they had a few years on me. I had gotten a different bowl of food from each of the roach coaches and bound and determined to learn how to use these chopsticks. More than once, I'd get the food near my mouth and it would plop right off of them and back into my food bowl. You know how cartoon characters will make noises when they're mad, but NOT actually cursing? Yeah, that was me in learning to use chopsticks. When they heard me, they asked if everything was alright and I told them what was happening, at which point they all got to laughing about it and it was the funny kind of laugh and not the mean kind. This included them offering to get me a spoon, which I declined. They wanted to know what it was like with me growing up, so I was kind of general in a lot of things. They were surprised to find out I was working at such a young age to help Mom make the rent or putting food on the table. Then I told them what it was like learning to fly, believing I needed not only Mjolnir to fly, but my costume and how my belt wasn't tight against my pants and they almost slipped off my legs while I was in the air. They got a really good belly laugh on that one. I said yeah, it's funny now, but at the time I was mortified in the thought of flying thru the air with only some underwear on. Even more laughter from them. Then I got to thinking about chopsticks of all things, not as a food utensil, but as weapons. And if so, could this make me more valuable to a movie studio interested in having martial arts in it?
I suddenly realized that Aikira was not only in the trailer with us, but she was pulling the curtain to one side where I was sitting at my table and had been eating my food! I didn't even think about my reaction. Just like that, Mjolnir's in my hand and we take off, STRAIGHT UP thru the trailers roof, with my lunch, the table, etc. suddenly flying everywhere inside the trailer. Quicker than you could snap your fingers, we were gone and in the air about five thousand feet. I quickly called two of Bobs Mjolnir's to retrieve Chris's face mask and my gaiter and I'm glad to say no one was even attempting to pick them up in those first few seconds. No doubt they were all shocked by our sudden and violent departure from the trailer, along with the trailer really being rocked. We took off for my backpack which was hanging from that tower on the studio lot, with me landing on the roof where I put Chris's face back on, then removed the studios costume and put mine on. Had two of Bobs Mjolnir's attach themselves to the Hulkbuster and Loki's scooter and then we took off for home, leaving their costume on that roof. Man, I was scared and mad about almost what had happened. Why didn't I tell Aikira to stay out or better yet, just turn my head or duck under the table? There was a full size mirror behind me so an actor or actress could view themselves while in costume. If I had turned away, there was (I figured) a good chance my face could be seen. And honestly, I hadn't even thought of ducking under that table as my one thought was get out. Get out of there NOW!
Get back to my studio where the Mjolnir's, etc. were left on that roof as normal, then home to my place. Now the funny(?) thing about this was I was also mad at Bob because I thought for sure he'd of told Hikarue how things were to be set up when it came to me eating, so didn't call him right off the bat. Maybe another funny thing was I simply didn't care about the money owed to the studio and me for even one days worth of work. I was also rethinking about working for ANY studio, including Disney's. I had a BUNCH of money stashed, so that was of no concern for my immediate future. I mean, I really hadn't spent much money since working at Disney. Yeah, kind of blowing money in eating out, but still...... Decided I needed to clear my head, but not as Thor, but as me and thought of Cheri and the girls, so cranked up the motorhome and headed east with a full tank of gas, water, etc. But when I got outside of Las Vegas, instead of taking the road to her place, I just kept on going east. As to my other phone, I had left it in my backpack which was in a closet, with Mjolnir inside the closet as normal. It had been awhile since I had actually driven for a long period of time.........world of difference between driving and using Mjolnir to get me thru the air you understand. Decided I'd be just me, not using any of my Thor abilities. Got into New Mexico and spent the night at some rest stop and believe me, there's not a whole lot to see in that part of New Mexico. I did take some photos of myself as me and the countryside using a tri-pod I had bought earlier. Thought that Mom and the girls would like them. I was also thinking of a line from the movie, The Last Starfighter. Next day, headed east once again and about four hours into driving, had a blowout with one of the rear tires.
No traffic and I thought I'd make this a quick tire change using Mjolnir, but then thought that one over REALLY close. What if a good Samaritan pulls over to offer me help, but instead of a jack, he/she sees Mjolnir holding up that axle? NOT good. But I had a spare tire, jack, etc. so decided to do it the old fashioned way. With no one around, didn't bother me to lift and carry one handed, my new spare tire which would weight around one hundred pounds, maybe a little more? The “fun” part occurred when I realized I didn't have anything to lay on while putting the jack under that axle, so took off my t-shirt to save at least one piece of clothing from getting dirty. Once that was done, raised the jack, then time to get the lug nuts off and with my strength, the lug wrench spun those off with no problem. Man, it felt good doing actual manual labor. So there I am, with the lug nuts off and me squatting and about to pull remove it when I hear a voice off to one side, asking if I needed any help? I was so startled, that I fell on my behind while still holding that blown tire! Next thing I know is two guys rushing up to “help me” get my tire off my waist/chest, while apologizing for startling me. Oh, TRIPLE POO! Why? How about it was Tala and his son, Ahanu?! Not only that, Crows Feather was standing not far from them! I quickly put on my t-shirt out of embarrassment, followed by introductions by everyone and me. Ahanu offered to help me with the spare tire and rim because as he said, those things are kind of heavy and of course, I didn't have a crowbar of any kind to give me leverage in raising it off the ground because I simply didn't need one. With no choice, I accepted his offer and we got the spare on. I made DARN sure I didn't do a speed twirl on the lug nuts along with NOT over tightening 'em either. Yeah, I was worried that I might snap a stud tightening the lug nuts too tight.
In looking over the flat tire, Ahanu found a metal screw which caused the flat, with him removing the screw with a pair of pliers from a tool box he had in his truck. Tells me if I wanted him to, he could fix the flat by putting a plug in it so it'd be almost good as new. Which would be A LOT cheaper than buying a new tire, so I said okay with him doing the repair right then and there! Talk about learning something new every day. They knew of a place where air was free and if I wanted to, I could follow them to it, at which point I said yes. You know what made me happy in a way? Crows Feather just looked at me like I was just a regular guy. Unhappy too for the same reason. Get to that gas station and while filling that tire up, asked if I could buy them lunch somewhere. They said no, but since it was close to lunch time, maybe I'd like to join them? This was okay with me as I got to look at Crows Feather at least for awhile. Once the tire was filled and put in its place, we take off again, this time to a kind of mom and pop restaurant and like so many other times, I made sure I parked away from everyone else that was in the parking lot just to be safe, with my explanation being since the motorhome was so big, figured it'd make things easier. Thing is, didn't know Ahanu had brought a couple of his dogs with them. The others were busy guarding his and Tala's flocks with a couple of other guys and kids watching the flocks.
I think what happened was they caught my scent and not only jumped out of the bed of the truck, but ran as fast as they could right at me! Ahanu called out to them to return, but they ignored him and I KNEW what was coming, so I knelt and they did their best to slam into me, while doing their little happy dance and barking. Now why would they be so glad to see me? Remember that Texas steak house? I filled a small garbage bag with bones and pieces of uneaten steak from its dumpster, with the dogs in the village getting this stuff from time to time. And if wondering, yes, I had permission from everyone there to do this. It wasn't a regular something, but more of a treat. Then bought a bunch of balls from Dollar Tree, with the dogs quite happy to chase after them as they bounced on the dirt and bring 'em back to me or the kids. Ahanu comes over to say he's NEVER seen his dogs act like this, except fo......uh oh, gotta throw him off that trail of thought. Asked if he'd heard of a Mexican named Carlos who was known as the dog whisperer and he hadn't. So I explained about what Carlos did for a living and I guess I must have the same kind of ability as there couldn't be any other explanation for his dogs behavior. I could see the doubt slowly fade from his eyes. As far as Carlos goes, the only reason I knew anything about him was watching him on Youtube via my laptop. Ahanu has his dogs lay in the shade of the awning as it was kind of hot and while there wasn't much difference temperature wise, every little bit would help. So while they headed for a large table, I asked the waitress if she could get me a large bowl filled with ice and water for my friends dogs who were outside. I think what made up her mind was the five dollar bill I was showing in my hand, along with me saying there would be another five when we left. Wow, I thought I was fast, but that fiver disappeared like it had never been in my hand. A few minutes later, she comes back with a large plastic bowl filled with ice and water which I took from her, giving it to the dogs outside. They got busy slurping water for a bit, had enough, then laid down, at which time I went back inside to join everyone.
Now they'd seen me going outside with that bowl of water, with Ahanu thanking me, but it also wasn't really necessary as they were used to the heat. I apologized for over-stepping any kind of boundary with his dogs. He understood, saying it was okay. After giving our orders to the waitress, we got to talking about each other. Of course, I had to be careful in more than one way. Told them that I had saved my money to buy a used motorhome because I wanted to see the world while I was still young. As far as making money went, I had just finished a job working as a temp, which was kind of, sort of true. I mean, I had been working for Hikarue even it was for a day and a half, right? Crows Feather thought me just roaming around the U.S. in a motorhome and working when I wanted to was something different......and romantic? I could tell Tala and Ahanu disapproved of that last part. I said maybe, but you need to think of possible expenses on the road other than gas. Like what if that tire had been ruined? New ones run around two and fifty dollars and if you average fifty dollars a day after taxes working for a temp agency....... She understood and got head nods from Tala and Ahanu for putting it that way.
Then I saw a look of disgust on Tala and Ahanu's faces, so I turned to see what they were looking at and all I saw was three guys headed for the restaurants door. But then one of them veered to one side and I heard the sound of that bowl of water being kicked over. I was out of that chair in a heartbeat and headed for the door, with me hearing those three laughing what the one guy had done. I didn't even think about it.....I just grabbed and lifted that guy with both hands and SLAMMED him into the restaurants brick wall. I said I PAID ten dollars so my friends dogs could have some cold water in this heat and YOU WILL go inside to get it refilled, understand? This was when his two buddies decided to get involved. One jumped my back trying to force me to let go of his friend who was being held up against the restaurants wall, while the other sucker punched me in my left side. Even though I didn't have Mjolnir with me at the time, found out that not only was I a bit stronger than normal, but also a bit faster. Not Flash fast you understand, but still...... I turned a bit and with the back of my hand, I slapped sucker puncher on the jaw, with him dropping to the ground unconscious. As to the guy on my back, I called him monkey boy and he was trying to get his his arm under my neck so he could cut off my oxygen. Grabbed his arm and just flipped him forward, where he hit a parked truck and he was out. Thing is, he had grabbed me by part of my t-shirt and when he went flying, it got ripped apart! And while they were from Walmart, I learned paying a little more for a good t-shirt was a good investment in that they were not only thicker, but lasted a lot longer. That left the dog water bowl guy who pulls out a BIG knife, telling me he's going to carve me up like a Thanksgiving turkey and lunges at me! Barely had time to turn to one side to avoid being stuck with that knife, but I was able to grab his knife holding wrist and SQUEEZED. With my other hand suddenly holding his arm near his arm pit, I turned so my back was to him and tossed him away from me, with the intention of hitting that same truck. Okay, so what if my aim was just a little bit off? It WASN'T my fault he hit the opened restaurant door, putting a bunch of cracks in the glass. When that guy went flying, saw Tala and Ahanu yank Crows Feather out of the way as they were outside of the restaurant, but there were some people looking thru the two doors. Picked up that guys knife and without thinking, snapped it where the blade joins the handle.....NOT thinking of course. When I looked up, EVERY-ONE who saw this were staring so I said it was made in China and everyone knows about the lack of quality from those people and tossed it in the garbage cant that was outside of the restaurant. Got nods from everyone on that one. Picked up the water bowl and seeing that waitress, asked her to refill it and I'd give her another five dollars. She says honey, after seeing what I saw, any time you want ice and water for your dogs, it's free?! I thanked her, then turned to those three unconscious guys. I picked up each one of them, one at a time, by their belt and shirts, but this time I made sure it looked like I was making an effort to pick them up, with me leaving them to get the full heat of the sun and parking lot minus their ripped off shirts. And nobody did anything like telling me I shouldn't do this. The waitress came back with that bowl of ice and water which I gave to Ahanu's dogs, who were greedily once again, drinking up.
Thing is, Crows Feather was saying something to Tala and Ahanu in Indian and the only word I understood was Thor?! I said please excuse me, but I need to get another t-shirt on and with that, headed for my motorhome. Was going to save that torn t-shirt, thinking I could use it as a rag, then was digging out another t-shirt, when there's a knock on my door? Asking who was it and I'm thinking maybe it's the cops.....how about it being Tala, Ahanu and Crows Feather?! I said hold on, let me change shirts and WAS going to let them in after I was properly dressed, but then saw some of the black and white drawings I'd done of them and some others from the reservation. Quick grab of these eight drawings, along with that photo of Nadine, Chris, Tom and me when we first met at the cosplayers convention. They went into the closet where my backpack and costume were also stored. Put my t-shirt on and with a final check to make sure there was no more incriminating evidence in sight, opened the door for them. Tala said Crows Feather asked him if it would be okay for her to check out your motorhome as she's never seen the inside of one. I said sure, come on in and the three of them did. So I started showing them around though making darn sure the closet with my backpack was kept closed as I'm sure they were familiar with me as Thor and carrying Mjolnir so many times at their place. Then Crows Feather saw my sketching pad (fortunately closed), along with that book on how to draw better. She says, oh, you like to draw and goes to pick the pad up. I quickly put my hands on it, saying I like to draw, but I'm not very good at it. I thought at one time I could maybe make a living doing it, but one place I was going to apply for a job at, told me I just wasn't good enough. You know how it is.......you plan for one thing, but things always don't go according the way you'd want them to. Show her what I got inside my fridge which is a fair size and I had forgotten about the six Port Of Sub sandwiches. NOT good because I could see that gleam in her eyes. It got brighter when she saw the photo of Natalie, Chris, Tom and I that I had gotten taken at the cosplay convention. And with that, she got to jabbering Indian at Tala and Ahanu, with them looking at me, then the photo, with Tala saying one word and she shut up. I asked what did Crows Feather say because I don't understand Indian. Tala points at the photo, saying Crows Feather you're Thor?! To say I was stunned and showing it was easy, but I turned to look at the photo and took it off the wall. I said not long ago, I was into cosplaying and have you heard about people who do this? They hadn't, so I explained about cosplayers and their costumes, then how I'd gone to a convention where I met Natalie, Chris and Tom. Along with them taking the time to meet everyone pass their agreed convention time. Besides, from what I understand, Thor lives in Los Angeles and I'm here in New Mexico in a motorhome. I was SO happy to see the disappointment in Crows Feathers face when I told them this. Tala and Ahanu both offered apologies for the way Crows Feather had gone off like she did and I said she must have one heck of an imagination to even think I look like that Thor guy. Turned to her and said thanks for the compliment. Well, they took off, with me putting my drawings back up on the wall. Time to throw her off my tracks, so headed for a near by Walmart. Got dressed and once the area was clear of people, took off for Tala's place, with me calling for Bobs Mjolnir's to join me. We got busy moving those shipping containers where ever the people wanted them which didn't take much time....like a little over an hour? Finally they were all moved, with me saying we'd be back when I had more time and with that, took off heading west. Once we were a hundred miles or so west of the reservation, sent Bobs Mjolnir's back to the studio roof, while I headed south for about a hundred miles, then headed east for the Walmart parking lot and my motorhome. Before I changed clothes, started the generator, then had the air conditioning going full blast.
Of course, there was Bob to deal with and I didn't want to put it off any longer. I mean, I was on my second day of just taking off like I did. Had to recharge both phones and while doing that, found he'd called me nine times! There were also two phone calls from some weird number, which I found out later was from Hikarue. Of course, I hadn't heard the phone ring with it being in the closet and my backpack, so called his office. His secretary passed me to him right off the bat. Funny thing......he was worried about me. You know, that Aikira may of seen my face and boy, was he mad at her and Hikarue. Seems Aikira decided to just go see me WITHOUT asking if it was okay to begin with. John, Sophia, Airi and Asahi never had a chance of even stopping her, then of course, the trailer got REALLY rocked from side to side with taking off like we did. For a bit, Airi, Asahi and Aikira thought the studio was being hit by an earthquake?! And let's not forget probably scaring those that were walking outside at the time. He asked what happened from my point of view and that's when I told him about the mirror in the trailer and he kind of sucked in his breath, then saying he didn't blame me one bit for taking off like I had. He was also not happy that my eating arrangements had been just kind of thrown together. He said okay, our deal with Hikarue is off, but I'll make sure you get paid for those three days and I said wait a minute Bob. It wasn't Hikarue's fault his daughter came bursting in like she did......she's a SPOILED brat, then told him how she had a kind of death grip on my arm when we went to that sumo wresting match.......you know waving at everyone like we were some kind of item. And it was Asahi who invited me to it, but when he started telling me the history and traditions behind it all, SHE had to open her BIG mouth, making him shut up. Bob says sumo wrestling? He hadn't heard about that, so told him what Mjolnir and I had done after the matches were over with the sumo wrestlers and their trainers. Bob tells me that's another thing he likes about me......that I was always giving more than expected. He said he'd call Hikarue to get this settled, including having my own eating set up and if it was okay, how about the one we set up for you, here? I said that'd work great, then he added he make Hikarue understands that his daughter was NOT to be on studio grounds for ANY reason while you're working there. Told him that sounded great because other than her doing what she did, I was having a great time.
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Post by 9idrr on Jun 27, 2021 20:48:31 GMT -6
Now, if only Thor had picked up an ability to at least understand other languages. Or could this be a talent given another, as yet unseen Affected? Certainly am enjoyin' this story.
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Post by willc453 on Jun 27, 2021 21:30:19 GMT -6
Remember Dwayne, Bens brother from Tale of Two Brothers and his 3rd eye? He kind of had linguistic ability, but also the ability to read anything no matter what language it was in. Now someone having a true ability to be able to speak and understand ANY language would be interesting.....but everyone knowing me, I'd put a spin on his ability. Like people not only speaking gibberish, they also couldn't write ANYTHING, including their own names. This is PERMANENT unless the Affected removes this "curse". Start off easy like I did with Thor and the other Affected. Go from just seeing people and messin' with 'em, to being able to do the same with people on some news cast.....and it won't matter when it was aired, whether it was last week or five years ago. Imagine all the news videos that are on Youtube alone. Imagine how Pew Pew Joe, Harris, Pelosi, Trump, etc. are going to react. Hell, I might make this guy a Libeterian and I'm using the old fashioned version. Work his ability on two cops who have pulled him over for not using his turn signals. He's got a dick of a boss.....do him. Maybe he's got some neighbors he doesn't like. Hmmmm.....how about another ability of making people mute? And they still can't write anything that's readable. As it is, got enough on my plate, so if anyone feels like coming up with such a story, help yourself. Just started on page 2 of 38 on Thor's story and want to get back to Tale of Two Brothers, A.I. Moms and I Love The Night Life.
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Post by texican on Jun 27, 2021 21:47:51 GMT -6
Thanks willC for the chapter.
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Post by willc453 on Jul 5, 2021 16:49:52 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 37
He then asked when could I go back to work and I had to admit that was kind of awkward as I was in another state. I said I had decided to just take off east and it was going to take me about a day and a half to drive back to Los Angeles, at which time Bob really starts laughing and I'm pretty sure he was pounding his desk with a fist a couple of times. He finally croaks out that this is SO Thor like......you have the ability to go any-where in the world, but instead, you're driving your car?! Then it was, wait a minute.......there's no way with the money you've been paid so far that you're homeless and living out of your car are you? Had to laugh at that one myself and said no, but please don't ask any more questions like that. He said okay, then told him about the weird phone number I'd gotten and when I gave it to him, he said it was Hikarue's. Asked if I should call the man or not, with Bob saying no, he'd deal with him, but would I mind if Hikarue did call me later on and I said no problem. As to John and Sophia, they were still in Japan and staying at the same hotel I was in. Told him I felt really bad abandoning them like I did, but I was scared, okay? He understood which made me feel only a little better. With that phone call out of the way, I started west once again with me not having to get to Japan till four days later. When I pulled into Las Vegas, parked outside of the Hooters entrance and waiting for Cheri to get off work. Yeah, without hesitation when she got off work, she made a beeline for my motorhome. Got a quick hug from her and we went to pick up the girls who went kind of crazy when they saw my motorhome. Quack Fu was glad to see me, with Cheri cooking up a quick meal for all of us. Told her I had to get away from work for a bit, so was taking a few days off, but I'd have to be back by the second full day here.
It was some time around one or two am that Cheri finally got the girls to bed, then she did the same as she had to go to her cooking school in the morning, knowing I'd be watching the girls and Quack Fu. Decided I'd get dressed and just cruise around to see what was happening, where ever. Cruised down the strip of Las Vegas low enough that people could see me and I waved back to those who saw and waved at me. Figured just having the word go around that I was in town just might slow down some criminal activity. Which made me wonder......did Batman just cruise the streets of Gotham looking for criminal activity or only coming to town when the Bat signal was shown? Anyway, I headed south, then west and found myself somewhere east and south of San Diego. Then I saw something I didn't understand.......six flying objects and my first thought was UFO's! So we got lower and called upon Bobs Mjolnir's to join us........just in case you understand. I didn't want to be captured by aliens by any means and from what I understand, they LIKE using anal probes on people for some reason. NOT going to happen to this boy. Well, instead of UFO's, how about some really BIG drones carry packages? And right after that, see them landing in front of four guys who got busy removing those packages and putting those packages in the back of a pickup truck. Yeah, dumb as I was, I knew I was seeing a drug smuggling ring in action. They got zapped once packages were unloaded and new ones tied to the drones, then we started following the drones back to the Mexican side of the border where I found the six drone operators and their pickup truck. Once the drones landed, I zapped everybody, then loaded those guys, the drones and their controllers in the bed of their pickup truck. With one of Bobs Mjolnir's on the trucks roof, we went back into the U.S. Loaded up the U.S. side truck with the guys and those packages and after putting another of Bobs Mjolnir's on that truck, up into the air we went, with us now looking for a policeman or Border Patrol car. Figured push comes to shove, we could always take them to San Diego. After a few more minutes of flying, saw some headlights below us. MORE drug dealers? Left everyone upstairs, while I went to check this vehicle out. It was Border Patrol, so scooted a bit ahead of them, then landed, waiting for them to see me with their headlights. Yeah, I was one person they didn't expect to see, but I was learning how to cut the “are you really” kind of questions from people. So I just waved at them, leaving Mjolnir in the air while I walked towards them.
I said I'm pretty sure we caught some bad guys trying to smuggle drugs into our country.........like maybe grass? They're looking around for the bad guys, at which time I said oops and pointed up in the air where those passengers , etc. were at. I had them lowered onto the ground with the two Border Patrol agents going to look at everything with me explaining what I'd seen and we had done. Find out several things about these people........first off, no grass. How about cocaine? The packages weighed ten pounds each, so there was a total of sixty pounds of coke, which made it worth I don't know how many millions of dollars. As to the drones that headed back to Mexico, they were carrying A BUNCH of hundred dollar bills. Second they had a couple of military grade automatic rifles in both trucks. This was when I found out you need a special kind of stamp or government form and permission to own something like them. Then one of the guys said a dirty word, saying he knew one of the bad guys. Seems he was the number three guy in the drug cartel in the town right inside the Mexican border and suspected of killing more than one person who got in the way of the cartel, not only in Mexico, but the U.S. The capture of these bad guys had a good spin put on it by the Border Patrol. Seems both sets of people used drones to make sure they weren't going to be ambushed because of the amount of drugs and money involved with all of this happening in the U.S. of course. This time, my call sign became Border Patrol K-9 unit, so when I had time on my hands, I'd call a number in California and they'd let me know where they could use some help. Thing is, it wasn't just drug smugglers, but those trying to sneak into the U.S. into having a better life. And if wondering, yeah, I knew more than one guy or lady who were in Reno, illegally, but they were good people just trying to make a living, something they couldn't do whether they were from Mexico or further south. But the one thing I had NO mercy for was those people called coyotes. You know, the people who would smuggle people into the U.S. for a LARGE amount of money. Those people went straight WAY south........like Peru, along with those who had brought vans, trucks, etc. to take them deeper into the U.S. I simply pointed to these vehicles at which time they got into them and we'd haul them to the nearest Border Patrol office. Man, I HATED doing this as I knew they just wanted a chance for a better life. My life sucks at times like this. As to the coyotes money, I took it ALL which I split among those people that were trying to sneak into the country. At least this way, they weren't flat broke.
Having killed a few hours patrolling our border, headed back to Cheri's place with me getting back inside my motorhome without any trouble. It seemed my head had no sooner hit the pillow, the girls were calling out to me and VIGOURISLY shaking me, along with Momma had made breakfast, along with Quack Fu kind of bouncing on me while licking my face. Yeah, had forgot to lock my motorhomes door which was something I hadn't done before. The good news was my costume and Mjolnir was tucked out of sight in the closet. Told the girls that I'd be right in after brushing my teeth and shaving. After feeding us, took Cheri to her cooking school and the girls got to playing with their My Little Pony's which reminded me of the stuff I had bought for everyone in Japan. Called Bob again, explaining there would be some packages arriving at the studio of things I had bought and that it'll have my name on it. Told he'd pass the word to look for them. Got my drawing material, with me working on showing the two girls playing with their My Little Pony's, with Quack Fu laying down next to them. Then of course, I ended joining them with us protecting different animals in the Magical Forest.
Now Cheri hadn't made any lunch ahead of time because I think she was getting to know me. We called for pizza, picked it up, then headed for one of the parks with us eating it, Naturally, Quack Fu had no pride or shame in begging to be fed, which the girls took turns doing. As to the girls, they're just as sneaky and devious as my sisters. They said it was AWFULLY hot and it would be REALLY NICE if they could go swimming to cool off.....and then looking at me?! I said your Mom didn't give the okay for me to take you to the lake..... Them: call her, call her.....PPPLLLEEAASSEEE? I said I couldn't because she was in school right now, but maybe she wouldn't mind if we did something else instead. Off we go to Walmart where I bought a twenty-five foot slip n slide and a couple of short garden sprinkler hoses and fittings along with a small pool for kids. Took me about an hour to set everything up, with the girls having a great time on the slip and slide with Quack Fu going kind of crazy “chasing” them as they slid down it. As to the swimming pool, the water was up just pass their belly buttons and as for Quack Fu, he jumped right in, splashing, splashing and kind of hopping around in the water. They enjoyed themselves, but got tired between all of this, so had them go inside for a nap even though they protested they weren't tired. Even Quack Fu's tail was down between his legs, he was that tired. After a couple of hours, they woke up and of course we're hungry. Decided I wanted something more than fast food, so told the girls we'd be going to a restaurant, something they hadn't been to. Figured we'd hit a casino because they have buffets and with gaming supporting the buffet, the food would be good and cheap. Quack Fu didn't like being left behind, but after giving him 2 hot dogs and telling him to go lay down, he did. Though I think I still got a look of disapproval from him as he walked off with those hot dogs in his mouth.
Used my lap top to check out the distance from Cheri's place to Circus Circus as the girls had been there before and about twenty minutes or so later, pulled into its parking lot. It was SO nice to enter the air conditioned casino and restaurant. Which is why I started my generator so the air conditioning would be running while we were eating. Being in Las Vegas, worried about my place being broken into.......I mean, it had already almost happened once before. So while the girls were standing outside, I pulled Mjolnir from the closet, left it on the floor, then stepped outside. Then I commanded Mjolnir to to hold to the inside of the door and knew it had been done when I felt its gentle tap against the door. Now the girls couldn't see what was being offered, so I picked both of them in each arm, with them holding their plates and getting what they wanted with their free arm. My God....I thought I ate a lot at times. How about TWO cheeseburgers, fries, mac n cheese. Then they wanted seconds on the mac n cheese. And of course, there's ALWAYS room for ice cream. As for me, three slices of roast beef, a large plate of mash potatoes and gravy and a salad. And yes, I found out there was room for ice cream. I left a five dollar tip out of habit for the bus boy, then we left. Thing is, the girls are on each side of me and after LOOKING at me, they'd LOOK upwards. Yeah, they looking at where the carnival and all that was up there. I said gee, wonder where should we go next and next thing I know it the girls are PULLING at my hands to lead me to the carnival and of course, the dart games with their stuffed animals.......and My Little Pony's. They each got a new My Little Pony, then I asked them: where the Mommy My Little Pony? They had never thought about them having a Mom, at which time I said maybe Mommy would like one and maybe she'll play with her My Little Pony and you and your My Little Ponies. They liked that. So now Cheri had her own Mommy My Little Pony. The guy at the dart game had a real sour look on his face as we left with out prizes. Was it my fault they advertised three darts for a dollar and I won every time? Eventually, Cheri got off work from Hooters with us waiting for as usual.
Now the thing is, while I've been to Las Vegas, I've never BEEN to Las Vegas if you know what I mean and I just wanted to wander around to see it from the ground point of view. After dropping everyone at home, told Cheri I was going to wander around down-town and maybe take some photos. First thing I did was find a parking spot so I could get my picture in front of the Welcome To Las Vegas sign. Didn't have a tri-pod, but there was a really nice older couple who didn't mind taking a picture of me in front of it, using my camera. I did the same for them. Back to Circus Circus parking lot, with me just wandering down the main drag. Now just in case something happened, had my ski mask and set of rubber gloves stashed in my sustainment pouch and to be REALLY prepared, called Bobs Mjolnir's to hang WAY up in the air so they'd be out of sight in the night sky. The Bellagio is a REALLY fancy casino and isn't that where they filmed that movie Ocean's 12? Wasn't too hot vs day time and I wasn't sure what the dress code would be for the Bellagio. Besides, we've got NOTHING like it in Reno so yeah, I wanted to see what it was like inside. Dress code? None that I could see. So I'm wandering around and because there's electricity EVERYWHERE, I could feel it. People are playing the slots everywhere, many are having fun, others........not so much, like having looks of desperation. Growing up poor, you do NOT want to take any chances with ANY of your money, but since I had some....... Had some dollar bills on me and put one of them in a poker machine, making the max bet of one dollar. Figured I'd try MAYBE three dollars max and after that, just go back to sight seeing. Got to looking at max payout which would be eight hundred dollars for that one dollar bet. I'm thinking you're being really stupid blowing a buck like this. But I put my dollar in and put my hand on the screen, hoping and wishing for the royal. It comes up?! Got my ticket and was going to head to cash it in at one of the atm's casinos have for this sort of thing and I happened to play next to an old lady. As in being a lot older than Mom.
The lady says she wished she had my luck and I'm looking at her and I could tell she was tired and I don't mean the physical kind either. Having seen people like her in various Reno casinos, asked her how much was she into the machines for. Try ONE THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS?! She'd been floating, that is, trying to find a machine which would give her the chance to get some, if not all of it, back. And too many times I've seen people who never got it back. And for some, it was downhill like that guy I stopped from committing suicide. I thought things over (oh oh) and decided to see if what happened to me was a fluke.......or not. Now she was getting ready to leave that machine and try another and I said wait a minute, maybe my luck will rub off on you, so I put my hand on her shoulder, removed it, then placed my other hand on the video poker machine. Told her that if it didn't work out, you could have my ticket........but I want my dollar that I'd put in the machine. She just started at me in disbelief, but you know what, she didn't take it. Said she felt her luck was going to change for some reason. Yeah, she hit it for eight hundred dollars.......FIVE TIMES!! Of course, I had her print out her winnings each time, this way she wouldn't pay any income taxes on it. Yeah, once she'd of hit it twice for one thousand, six hundred dollars, that required a hand pay AND filling out a W-2. Oh, she was REALLY happy and scurried away with her winnings not only being out of the hole money wise, but ahead of the game. She'd caught what we call a gamblers special out of San Bernardino, California. You'd pay usually around thirty dollars for a round trip bus ride to Las Vegas where you would get thirty dollars back in cash and comps, like free food.
As for me, while cashing in my ticket, I get four more old ladies asking if maybe I could lend them some of my luck?! Just how in the heck do you say no to a couple of old ladies? It'd be like some Boy Scout refusing to help an old lady across a street, so I said okay. They were playing nickels, with the five of them winning one thousand dollars each.....TWICE! The ladies said they didn't believe in leprechauns as I was too tall, but since I was so lucky, that's what they'd call me. They wanted to tip me, but I said no.....how about making a donation to whatever place feeds the homeless or food bank? They said that was nice of me and that they'd do this. Whether they did or not, no idea. The bad part......we had now gotten an audience and some how I just remembered you have to be twenty-one to gamble. So glad I had cashed my ticket in earlier. Then there were three girls some where around my age who wanted me to work my luck for them and of course, I'd get “lucky”. Yeah.......thanks, but no thanks. I backed up to those four ladies who heard this and suddenly it was like a pride of lionesses protecting a cub. They told the ladies to go to you know where AND they were NOT about to get their claws in Lucky. When I mentioned I was ready to leave, suddenly I had my own protectors....one of each of them holding my arm, but not the clutching type, while I had another in front and behind me. Those other girls got the idea REAL quick not to mess with those ladies as one of them tried getting close to me, with one of the older ladies whacking that girl in her ankle with her cane! Decided for their efforts, they should get another slot machine payoff, but this time, they'd only get to keep half of it, with the other half going to some charity of their choosing. They were quick to agree, with them winning another one thousand, five hundred of it to go to some charity.
Now one thing we don't have in Reno (other than something like the strip) are people who dress up in costumes They're not cosplayers, but people who are in costumes and tourists want to have their photos with them and the tourists are suppose to tip these people. From what I understand, there's a lot more of 'em during the day and evening. And just like Reno, there's hookers working the streets. For some reason, Thor's a popular guy, along with Loki, Batman, Ironman, Superman, Wonder Woman and Spiderman. There were also some weird Japanese anime characters like Pokémon. I got a group shot of me, with Thor, Loki and Ironman, tipping them ten dollars each. Strange ain't it? I mean, I KNOW the guys who portray these superhero's, but still wanted that photo. And yes, I had THE biggest smile on my face when the photo was taken. I wandered around more, with me hitting slot machine after slot machine, but I was smart enough NOT to try my “luck” on the mega millions or wheel of fortune machines. I REALLY didn't want that kind of tax hassle or publicity. In the four(?) hours or so of wandering, “winning” time after time. Thing is, I did attract attention from some unsavory people. Just how in the heck was I to know that I was being followed?
Didn't realize this was going on until I cut thru an alley with the intention of hitting a couple more casinos, then going home. I heard a noise behind me and there's four guys behind me and thinking nothing of it, but then there's a noise in front of me.....two guys and some girl. And they had predatory looks. I'm looking at the buildings that made up the alley, but for me, it was looking for cameras. They thought I was looking for a place to escape to, but I wasn't.......I was looking for tv cameras and glad to say, there weren't any. Then one of those guys says forget it “Lucky”.....looks like your luck has run out. Now we don't know how you won EVERY TIME playing those slots, but we figure you got some kind of electronic gizmo.......we want it, along with all that money you won and with that, three of them pull out guns, the rest pulling out knives and get closer?! I said wait a minute, WAIT a minute.....I don't have no electronic gizmo that affects slots machines okay and how about I prove it? But I got one question for ALL of you? Do you REALLY all want to ride this choo choo train? That's when one of them says who does this bleep think he is.....Will Smith in that movie? I said I need to get some stuff from my pouch REALLY slow so none of you think I'm going for a gun, okay? One of them says okay, but they're still going to take all my money. They were a little surprised when I pulled out and put on my ski mask, followed by my 2 sets of rubber gloves. What did they do? They started laughing! I said in any situation, there can be good news or bad news. The good news was you COULD OF just turned around and left me and my friends alone, which got their attention. But in looking around and not seeing anyone, why, I had to be bluffing according to them. That's when I had Bobs Mjolnir's zap and attach themselves to those wanna be thugs. Then someone saw us, calling out what was happening down there....time to get out of Dodge. Quick. Up into the air we go and I had them land on a casino parking garage roof top. Took all their money from their wallets and that's lady's purse, giving me almost two hundred dollars. Once that was done, off to Mexico.....yeah, just outside that same town that that drug cartel was running. But I was nice........I dug an arrow in the ground pointing the way to the U.S., with the letters U.S. just above it. Figured they should figure it out kind of quick, but if not, it WASN'T going to be my fault. Back to Las Vegas and walked back to my motorhome, with Bobs Mjolnir's attached to the motorhomes roof, and then heading for Cheri's.
Made a couple of sandwiches, drinking water as normal. But I had a problem......I simply failed to keep count of the number of machines I had hit at the various casinos. I mean, all I was doing was testing this new skill of mine and NOT trying to win money. Which also explained how I was so darn good throwing those darts. Thing is, was what I did dishonest? If yes, it bothered me. Not that I was about to give that money back to the various casinos. But I simply didn't have anyone to really talk to until I thought of Ira and his wife, Sui Ti Wan. Thing is, even if I showed up to talk to them, it'd be too early as Florida's three hours ahead time wise vs Nevada. No doubt you're all wondering just how much I actually won, right? A little over thirty-eight thousand dollars. I put all that money in a small paper bag, which got stuffed behind some stuff in one of the cabinets. Next morning, the girls are knocking on my door, so after a shower and a shave, time for breakfast that Cheri cooked for us. As much as I love Moms cooking, she was giving Mom a run for the money, so those cooking lessons were paying off. Now the girls were busy for awhile with their My Little Pony's and yes, once again, we're protecting all the innocent animals in the Magical Forest with one or both of the girls on my aching back. Then they went outside to use the slip n slide, followed by their pool. Quack Fu was quite happy to just lay in the shade, while I worked on some sketches of the girls and him. Lunch was mac n cheese, with chips, supper being pork chops, baked potatoes and salad. While they like the mac n cheese, was told “Mommy makes pork chops a lot better” and maybe we can eat out for supper next time?! Picked up Cheri at Hooters as normal, but found out she didn't have cooking school the next day and it was also her day off from Hooters. So the next day, we went to Madame's Trudeau's wax museum, with us parking at Circus Circus as normal as it wasn't that far from it, with me paying for the tickets. With my digital camera, took a lot of photos of them in front of the various wax figures, but then she insisted asking people if they'd take photos of the four of us in front of these figures. So there we are: her and I side by side, with one of the girls on each side of us. Then we went to another wax museum called Madame Tussauds, again with me paying which wasn't making Cheri too happy until I told her I had won a few bucks the night before. However, she insisted on paying for lunch at In N Out. Then stopped back to her place real quick so she and the girls could get their swimming suits as Cheri knew one of the city swimming pools was open and insisted on paying for that too.
Now this was an Olympic sized pool with a wading pool for younger kids and they had some life guards to keep an eye on everyone. Well, an hour or so there, I had to use the bathroom and that's when it happened. Walking back to Cheri and the girls when I hear a woman calling out for some kid named Danny. Thing is, she's not getting a response and her voice got kind desperate, telling Danny to quit fulling around and answer Mommy. Thing is, the two lifeguard guys were busy bs'ing with some girls instead of paying attention to what was going on in the pool. So I'm looking for some kid who might be hiding from his Mom and that's when I happened to look down at the deep end of the pool and see a kid laying on the bottom. I didn't hesitate, but dived right in, Maybe the kid was trying to see how long he could hold hi8s breath, but if not...... Yeah, it was Danny and he was completely motionless on the bottom of the pool. Grabbed him and shot for the surface using my legs and I partially not only shot out of the water, but hit the side of the pool! I got busy making laying him on his side, making sure his tongue hadn't been swallowed and whether he was breathing or not. He wasn't. Started CPR right then and there, with people quickly gathering around me and his Mom screaming his name. This got the attention of the lifeguards, with both running to us, but it still took them a couple of minutes to reach us. Thing is, Danny wasn't responding, so I got desperate. I know ambulances and hospitals use those electrical jolt things on people who are having a heart attack. So I gave Danny a mild jolt. Nothing. Back to CPR for another thirty seconds, this time with a slightly higher jolt and this time he started gasping, then puked on me! Turned him on his side to get rid of whatever water he might have left in his lungs and of course, he emptied his stomach to boot. His Mom rushed up with a towel, wrapping him in it, then the lifeguards were there with me looking at them in total disgust. A few people said they were going to complain to management about how a total stranger saved a childs life instead of the lifeguards. Went to the mens shower to get all that stuff off of me, then walked back to Cheri and the girls who by now heard what had gone down. Then Danny's Mom is there thanking me for saving her sons life and I said I was glad to have helped. After they took off, find out that Cheri SAW ME not only dive into the pool, but coming out to land partially on the concrete edge of the pool! I asked if we could just go home, besides I needed to get back to Los Angeles pretty soon and get back to work. So we went home with Cheri looking at me from time to time and that was making me nervous. She said it was strange, not that she was complaining you understand, but things just seem to happen when I was around. That I helped her and the girls when she was in a really hard place in life, finding and giving them Quack Fu, then helping those people at Lake Meade and now, at the swimming pool. I sighed and said okay....my secret's out. In reality, you see me now as Shoeshine Boy, but when people need help, I duck into the nearest telephone booth, put on my costume and become Underdog, poking the bad guys in the nose and sending them to jail. She just stared at me and then started laughing, saying forget I ever brought it up. I said fine with me. After the girls and Quack Fu were in bed, I took off with Cheri telling me not to be a stranger and how it must be awful hard in finding phone booths in this day and age. Hit a truck stop for gas, then headed west and once out of town, Bobs Mjolnir's went back to the studios roof.
The drive back was uneventful, but when I backed into my storage space, wasn't tired, but a little hungry. Sandwiches, burgers, pizza...none of them sounded appetizing. Then I thought of that Japanese food I'd eaten at Hikarue's studio roach coaches. Then I remembered either John or Sophia telling me about how there's a lot of street vendor stalls where the food is made up right then and there. Since I didn't have to report to Hikarue's studio until tomorrow, I was on my own dime. Thing is, I wanted to go as me and not as Thor, but the way things sometimes happen, I wanted to be prepared. So made sure while I had money in my wallet, with my ski mask and gloves in my sustainment pouch. Now I needed Mjolnir to get me there, that was a gimme, but should I take Bobs Mjolnir's? Yes, no, yes, no.....kept going back and forth on that one and said to heck with it. Better to have 'em just in case I run into a freeway accident for example. And yes, it felt strange taking off without being dressed as Thor. A few minutes later, we're over Tokyo and I find an alley to land in, at which time I sent all the Mjolnir's back up into the air, with them being over buildings as I walked down the sidewalk. Thing is, I'm me, without any mask or gloves on. Well, that street vendor food is DELICIOUS! Hit four stalls and was felling pretty good and ready to take off for home and a good sleep. But then I heard a woman screaming and that's when it started hitting the fan.
I looked up and saw a woman struggling with two men on a roof top, with the building five stories tall, then they threw her from the roof! Without hesitation, I jumped upwards, calling for my Mjolnir. With it in my hand, I was able to catch her and to the roof top we went. The two men stood there for a couple of seconds, then turned to flee, but they never made it off the roof because two of Bobs Mjolnir's zapped them. After freeing myself from that woman, I cut a phone line from a near by telephone pole and quickly tied them up, then put on my ski mask and gloves to hid my identify. Then started questioning this woman whose name is Natasha and from some city in Russia. She'd been hired as an entertainer, but in actuality, she was forced into prostitution for “entertainment” of many Japanese businessmen. Beaten and raped by those who had “hired” her, she quickly submitted to their wishes. But she wasn't the only one......as there being something like a little over fifty other women, from Russia, different countries in Europe and some from the U.S. Others had been kidnapped while visiting Japan. Those that refused to “co-operate” simply disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again. Seems white women were favorites of these Japanese businessmen. So we're not only talking about women being beaten and raped, but forced into sexual slavery. Told Natasha that once we were back on the street, she was to start screaming for the police after showing me where the entrance to this den of evilness was at.
Walked up to a steel door with a slit in it so it could be opened from the inside and using my left fist, pounded on that door three times, at which time a Japanese guy looked back at me. Thing is, his eyes got real big when he saw Natasha just a few feet behind me, screaming her head off for the police. I didn't hesitate, but slammed Mjolnir against that steel door and it went flying back. Now the thing is, I THOUGHT the door and that guy would go backwards into some open room. Not so. There was a SECOND steel door with that guy becoming a kind of sandwich between both doors. Didn't bother me at all to step on that bent door with that guy under it, then I hit that second door with Mjolnir. Yeah......when we did that, it made quite a racket and that's when I called out into that open room saying fe fi fo fum, I smell bad men in this room. Then we got busy, with all twelve of Bobs Mjolnir's zapping EVERY man in that room quickly as possible while shouting for all the women to get out of here and into the street. They got out. Thing is, there were some Japanese guys with guns and this is where I got shot six or seven times and I'd of been shot a lot more but for Bobs Mjolnir's becoming a whirlwind of hammers stopping more bullets hitting me like they did with those drug smugglers in Florida. They quickly ran out of bullets, so they got zapped. Took one of the steel doors and with some quick cutting and welding, had me a crude, but effective shield. I felt the brief pain of being struck, but more than anything else, I was running on rage alone because I was thinking of Cheri and what could of happened to her if I and the Mjolnir's hadn't been there to help her. Except for women, EVERY guy got zapped no matter what kind of (or lack of) clothing you were wearing. Cook? Ya got zapped? Worked in the office? Ya got zapped. Utter and total sexual discrimination on my part. The cops did come out and they caught me unawares, so more than one got zapped, at which time they quit rushing into that room. Some of the clientele tried getting away by jumping out of the windows, but it didn't do them any good. More than one broke a leg or an ankle, with the cops quickly putting them in handcuffs. Not everyone got zapped as some of them I just slapped into unconsciousness, with jaws and noses broken.
Mom was right......there is TRUE evilness in the world and I discovered this myself that day. But when I found her and them, there was no mercy in me for those men. Apparently there are people who like hurting people physically?! She was chained to a raised up table and I could see whip and burn marks on her naked body. Those three guys thought they were having a great ol' time till I busted that door down with ease. The room was well padded so no sound could escape and bother other “patrons”. Those padded walls actually saved their lives when I threw them against those walls. Me seeing what I saw made it REALLY bad for all men in the building because EVERY ONE of them not only got their arms and legs busted in two places, but their collar bones too. Figured let these guys feel just a little of these ladies pain for being forced to work there. Women ran away, sometimes screaming in fear of the carnage we were doing to the men, while others gave thanks and others helping other women get out of captivity. As to those I started busting arms, etc..., they got tossed down stairs, until I got to that first big room and tossed them against a wall. Yeah, the cops got out of the way real quick when that happened because a few of them got hit by the flying bodies. Broke the chains and bracelets from that red headed girl and picked her up in my arms and she woke up just long enough to thank me, then passed out again. I attached Mjolnir's to those three guys, with me carrying Red in my arms and down the stairs we went to greet the cops where I looked at those three, saying VERY bad men. Girl hurt, help her and they had two guys come in with a stretcher to take her out of my arms. As to those three men, I made a waving movement with my arm, then saying clear the doorway to the street. It got cleared and one by one, I THREW those three out into the street where they SLAMMED against some car or truck. From what I understand later on, nineteen of those men in that building had broken backs and would never walk again from me throwing them against various walls. Did I feel bad about this? No. As to Red, her name is Kaitlin, is from Ireland and she had been kidnapped shortly after arriving in Tokyo as a tourist two months earlier. She was......used if that's the right word as just one of the girls until those three paid a large amount of yen to use her in a different way. And remember those two I left on the roof of that building? I attached Bobs Mjolnir's so one was attached to each leg and arm, with the cops WATCHING me as I broke their arms, legs and collar bones. We're about twenty feet in the air and when I was done with them, simply removed Bobs Mjolnir's from them where they kind of hit the street hard, but unlike what would of happened to Natasha if we hadn't stopped it, they were still alive.
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Post by texican on Jul 7, 2021 21:56:40 GMT -6
willC,
Sex trafficking and slavery is a major problem across the world. The penalty for sex trafficking or slavery should be death and serious long term punishment at hard labor.
Thanks for the chapter.
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Jul 8, 2021 2:33:01 GMT -6
Working on page 2 of 39. As to Thor, there's a bit more of what happened in Tokyo and Thor being Thor, has other things happening in 38 and 39. And remember, Thor broke a lot of bad guys backs in 37 and he didn't care, along with legs and arms.
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Post by willc453 on Jul 14, 2021 14:38:21 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 38
What surprised me was being attacked by two guys with Samurai swords......you know, the kind that black lady uses on The Walking Dead zombie tv series. Not that I had an interest in that kind of trash. I only watched a couple of episodes because a friend of mine was into it. Guess those two guys never heard of the saying never bring a knife to a gun fight or in this case, to a Mjolnir fight. I kept those swords and scabbards as souvenirs which hang up on a wall in my motorhome. Thing is, these were REAL swords and not some tacky, knock offs sold to tourists/collectors. And they, like Bobs Mjolnir's being original props, changed when I got to playing with them. They became just another form of Mjolnir, with me controlling them. And did I mention sharp? Oh yeah...... they'd cut thru steel like a hot knife thru butter, along with being able to zap people. Someone remind me to write how that came about.
I'm floating in the air and my t-shirt is kind of sticky, so I pulled it away from my body and hear five tings hitting the pavement below us. How about FIVE BULLETS hitting the ground?! First thought was oh God, I'm shot and gonna die......what's going to happen to Mom and the girls now? Will they ever get that money I've stashed in the motorhome? Pulling up my t-shirt, there were NO bullet holes in me or my t-shirt and only thing I can figure out is my body has really changed....I simply didn't know it until then. My skin had gotten a lot tougher and more condensed if you will along with apparently changing whatever I'm wearing into like armor. But I had some REALLY ugly bruises where I'd been hit. Then felt myself getting closer to the ground and knew what was coming next.......I'd been really hosing it down dealing with those people and I needed food and I needed it RIGHT NOW! There was NO way I'd be able to fly to Bobs cafeteria or any other place without me very possibly collapsing and remembering how close I came to messing up and hitting the ground in Australia...... I started running and jumping down the street towards those food vendors who were several miles or so away. How bad was I? Think it took me ten minutes to get to the first one and I'm ashamed to admit I was a bit rude with the first food vendor. From my pouch, dug out a couple of hundred dollars and gave it to him, with me quickly taking a big bowl of cooked rice, with one of Bobs Mjolnir's holding it for me. I simply started taking hand fulls of rice and stuffing it in my mouth, then pointed at a fair sized spoon of his, with the food vendor giving it to me. I began to REALLY eat, quickly followed by ALL the cooked chicken he had. Asked if he'd cook more food for me, but he didn't understand English, but then a Japanese policewoman shows up who heard my question and translated it for me. The vendor nodded his head up and down but thing was, I couldn't wait for him to cook more food, so had the policewoman tell him I'd be right back and went to the next vendor who was serving octopus and fish and me giving him several hundred dollars, with me keeping that first vendors spoon. The problem now was lack of water. I mean, all the vendors had bottles of 'em, but they simply weren't big enough. So I turned to the lady policewoman asking her if she could tell me where I could find BIG bottles of water and finally got her to understand we're talking those five gallon bottles of water delivered to offices. About fifteen minutes later, here comes a water delivery truck filled with them. Well, in watching the news, more than one commentator said I drank over fifty gallons of water and ate EVERYTHING those nine vendors had to offer food and drink wise, along with those bottles of office water. Feeling better inside, from time to time I'd rise up into the air to get zapped by a lot of lightning bolts, then go back to eating and drinking.
Now while I had eaten so much and had recharged with lightning bolts, I was TIRED and REALLY need some sleep and of course, take a shower. I get ready for us to take off as I wanted those two samurai swords and sheaths, but this was when that policewoman is offering me American money?! I had a look of disgust on my face, telling her that I helped those women and dealt with those bad guys NOT for money and I'm outta here. That's when another Japanese policeman steps forward, saying please wait Thor san. This is YOUR money that you paid for the food you ate and we want you to take it back as the Tokyo police force would consider it to be an honor for us to pay for your food. We have been trying to combat what you call bad men for years, but we call them Yakuza. They're even worse than the Italian Mafia and with your aid, we now have many of their men and customers in police custody. And no doubt, the women you rescued will quite gladly give testimony against them, with all those “bad men” facing YEARS of imprisonment. I said how about keeping that money and I'll get you some more so all those ladies can fly back home when it's all over and done with in court. He tells me there's no need for that, as the Japanese government will pay their air fares back home. I asked if this building and it's contents will be seized by the Japanese government and if so, when it's sold, will these ladies get any of that money? He didn't know, but he'd find out. That's when I offered to take every one of those ladies home instead of them having to deal with flying home. He said he would let the ladies know of my generosity and that's when I gave him my second phones phone number, offering to give them a hand if they ever needed it. I got his and that policewoman's business cards and told them I got some business cards, but they're back home, but I'm working at one of the movie studios here and I'll pass those cards to someone so you get them, if that's okay with you. It was and with that, we took for home after making sure I had those swords in my grubby little hand. As to those spent bullets that fell from my body, there was a mad scramble by people to get these “souvenirs”, but from what I understand, the cops ended up getting most, if not all of them as evidence to use against the bad guys. More about those ladies and the Yakuza later on.
Once inside, my clothes went into a plastic bag, because they had blood stains from the bad guys on them. Took a wet rag, wiping down my face, neck and arms and wanted a LONG, hot shower, but didn't want to use up all my water, so got dressed and took off for that truck stop in Riverside. I was already good on gas, but as I walked to the truck stops store where you get your showers, saw a guy and his dog, with the guy rummaging thru one of the trash cans, pulling out soda and beer cans. Then saw him take out a partially eaten hotdog from the trashcan which he gives to his dog, which greedily ate it. Didn't say anything, but then continued to the store where I bought eight cans of canned dog food, a small bag of dry dog food and from the condiments isle, got some plastic spoons and those paper things that'll hold your hot dog. Then figured what the heck, bought a pack of hotdogs and a small box of dog biscuits, then went looking for that guy and his dog. I told him that I didn't mean anything by it, but your dog looked kind of hungry the way he gobbled down that hotdog. So if it's okay with you, got him some stuff. I was surprised when the man started crying, saying it was the nicest thing anyone's ever done for him in a long time. I then asked him if he was hungry and he simply nodded his head. I said how about us going over to the patio area where those tables are at, with lunch being on me? He simply nodded, with him pushing his cart and his dog following us on its leash. His dog's name is George, with Fred Toones being the homeless mans name. Fred tied George to one of the seats legs, then got out a bowl, followed by a gallon jug of water which he poured some of it into the bowl. Slurp, slurp, slurp.....George was thirsty all right. A can of dog food went onto a small plate, with George gobbling it up. Gave Fred thirty dollars, telling him I wanted two hotdogs LOADED with onions and some nacho cheese, along with a gallon jug of water and for him to buy whatever he wanted to eat. When he came back, he had my hotdogs and water, but he had bought some bologna and bread to make sandwiches with, saying he could get more meals this way and hoped I didn't mind. I said no, don't mind and keep the change which surprised him.
Now I was ready to take a LONG shower and after saying goodbye to Fred and George, took my shower. Man, I was getting REALLY tired and almost felt like I was going to fall asleep on that bench as I got dressed afterwards. Why do people have to be so mean whether in words or deeds? Beyond the fuel pumps was where my motorhome was parked, was when I see this truck driver with some other guy walking towards Fred and George. I'm thinking he's a truck driver because he came from the direction of the truck parking spots beyond the truckers fuel pumps. He started giving Fred crud because Fred was homeless, how the truck stop shouldn't allow people like him to even be on the property and going on and on, but then talked about calling animal control because George didn't have any tags on his collar. Just a piece of rope thru it. That's when I stepped forward and in front of this guy, saying the world can be a cruel place and there's no need to make it crueler just because you can without repercussion. Bleep you and with that, he socks me on the jaw! I staggered back a few feet being totally surprised by his unwarranted attack. I walked up to him and said it's time you got three lessons. First is your potty mouth and that's something that my Mom would NEVER tolerate. Second is you're a bully and I don't like bullies. Third is a couple of my friends learned what happens when they tried getting out of hand so to speak with their Dad around. This guy starts laughing and calling me a Momma's boy?! I slapped him and he went down to the ground like a wet dish rag, unconscious. I turned to the other man and asked him if he wanted to call me a Momma's boy? He did not. Grabbed that guy and put him on Fred's grocery cart, asking if had a bar of soap and some water. He did, so I started pushing that cart back to where those tables and chairs were at. Locked that guys arms with one of mine, then doused that guys face with water, which woke him up. Then from Fred, I got that bar of soap and told that man he had a choice. To either open his mouth, at which time I was going to scrape this bar of soap on his teeth and he was to keep that soap in his mouth for TWO minutes and NOT spit it out. But if need be, I'll break some of your teeth and you'll STILL get that soap in your mouth. He opened his mouth, scrapped that soap and asked someone to keep time for me please. Then YANKED down his pants and started whaling on his behind! He got six GOOD whacks and then I stood up, so he was tossed to the ground a few feet from me. I turned to Fred, saying lets get out of here. NOW. He agreed, with him taking off in a different direction near the fuel pumps. I said come with me.....I got a motorhome and I'll take you where ever you want to go. Now we weren't running, but we were moving pretty fast. But not fast enough because here comes the wanna be bully with a gun in his hand and he starts shooting! BOOM and Bobs Mjolnir's are there, with one of them zapping this guy and attaching itself to his back. And just like that, they were gone. Yeah, everyone was stunned and I told Fred that as much as I'd like to thank Thor, LET'S GET OUTTA HERE! And we got. As to that truck driver, I had Bobs Mjolnir leave him on one of the picnic tables along the Truckee River where we'd have our picnics. As to that other guy, never saw him and I didn't think about picking up that guys gun, so no idea what happened to it. Dropped Fred a few miles away where there more than one homeless camping there. Pretty ugly over all because trash was everywhere. But I noticed Fred's area was neat and clean, along with those people near him. I said George is a growing puppy and gave him one hundred dollars. He was speechless and I was glad to get out of there because it was depressing as heck. Just HOW do people end up like this? Figured I'd check it out when I had the time.
Had to work at getting back to the storage area and said to heck with it as I was REALLY tired, so found a large grocery store parking lot and with me off to one side of it, collapsed on the bed. Woke up six hours later because the supermarket security guy was telling me I had to leave no matter how tired I was. But he told me of a Lowe's near by, so went there parking way out of the way. But I got smart....I had a note trapped by the motorhomes wiper saying that I was so tired it wasn't safe for me to drive any further. Slept ten hours and felt a little better, enough to get back to the storage lot and once there, went right back to bed. When I woke up this time, find out that TWO FULL days had passed, so it had been a total of three days with me sleeping much as possible. I checked my other phone and there were calls from Bob, etc. with him leaving a message to call him when I was ready. Grabbed a Port Of Subs sandwich and a jug of water for “breakfast”. It was in the afternoon and after eating, plugged in the chargers to both phones and called Bob. He asked how I was doing and was I okay? Nothing about not being in Japan, working for Hikarue. I said I was exhausted even though I had eaten a lot and gotten recharged. He said he didn't care about Hikarue, as long as I was okay. I said I was thinking about something and maybe we could put off me going there for maybe another day? He says not a problem and by the way, have you called Natalie?! Oh God.....I was thinking of Bob and hadn't even thought of her. I told him to forget it.... that I'd wait a few more days before calling her because by then, she'd know I was okay. Then it was he'd heard I'd been shot and I said yeah, but......then realized I should of kept my mouth shut and coming up with some sort of lie. That's when Bob used his boss voice, telling me he wanted me at the studio within the hour so I could be checked out by one of the studio's doctors. I said I'm fine Bob. No good. So I meekly said I'd be out there within an hour at my alley. Got dressed and before that hour was even close to being used, I was at the studio. And naturally gathered a crowd, which included Bob and that doctor. Thing is, the doctor insisted in seeing me without the top part of my costume and both of them kind of sucked in their breaths. I said what's wrong? I mean, you should of of seen 'em BEFORE.......crud. Me and my big mouth. All I wanted to do was put them at ease, especially Bob. Bob gave me THAT look and quietly asked how big were they originally and I made a circle of about six to eight inches and now they were maybe the size of a penny or a dime. That's when I heard somebody calling out and asking if they could come in. That's when I recognized Chris's voice, so I said okay, come on in. Now the thing is, with that desk and chair there and FIVE people in it, it was REALLY crowded. You see, it wasn't just Chris, but Tom too and both were concerned about my welfare. I said I was okay, that I just needed some rest, but I'm okay now.
Well, Tom says he heard I'd been shot a couple of dozen times and I was looking pretty good, with me saying it wasn't no couple of dozen times, only five and the doctor here has decided I'm not going to die.....which makes me real happy. But when I dropped my costume top, the eyes of those two bulged out a little bit, with Chris asking me if I was wearing kevlar. I said no, but I think I changed in more ways than one. You ever notice how Thor gets hit or slammed up against something, but his costume never seems to take any damage? I think the same thing happen to me, but in a different way. I was me and not Thor and those bullets should of gone thru my t-shirt, but they didn't. And remember how the Hulkbuster changed when I was in it? That's when Bob said Jesus, Thor.....why didn't we remember and think of that? I said that's not all......something happened and a girl saw me helping some people and she said I kind of Hulked out, with Chris asking what I meant. I said look at me and pulled my top away from my body and the body you see here is NOT the body I had before all of this started. And when she said I Hulked out, more muscles started showing, though I never got tall like you. Now they all thought this was interesting as none of them had seen me even partially undressed as Thor. Then Tom asked if I could give them a demonstration and I think he wanted to see if or how much I changed, so I said okay, but when this happens it's either I'm making an effort to move something or get really mad. Bob says take your time son. So I got to thinking and couldn't really come up with anything until I thought of those girls in Japan, then all heck broke loose.
I guess I must have been really scary looking because the four of them made a beeline for the door and with four of them trying at the same time, my place collapsed with part of its roof on my head! I called out asking if everyone was okay and when I was told they were, put my top back on and went outside. Told Bob I was sorry to have broken his place up, but I'd pay for a new one. He looks at me and starts laughing, quickly followed by the other two. They saw me change and figured to get the heck out of there just in case. Seems without thinking (as usual), Mjolnir leaped into my right hand and started giving off A LOT of electrical sparks and one thing you DON'T want to be close to, is electrical sparks. And they all agreed that I had physically changed in just a few seconds, but now I was “normal”. I told Bob about that Transformer robot that Hikarue had me using, but I said could you make a BIG Hulk that I could use, with me inside of it? It'd be a lot more realistic than using that CGI stuff everyone seems to use now days. Bob just smiled and said he'd have his people working on it right away, then he says I've got something else on my mind, don't I? Said yes sir and maybe it's something Tom could use as Loki, which got his attention right off the bat. But I need some stuff, so do you mind waiting while I write out my list? He says okay, so went to the other set up that Bob had made for me with the printer and all that. It took me maybe five minutes to come up with that list, at which time I gave it to Bob. Bob: watermelon, cantaloupe, WOODEN chopsticks? Just what are you up to son? I said I was thinking about Tom as Loki and when you think about it, ya gotta feel sorry for him when you compare him to Thor who not only has Mjolnir, but also controls lightning. So what if Loki was able to gain access to the Well of Knowledge in Asgard and had a few sips from it? Now Tom's looking really interested. Let's say he learned how to conjure things, but he doesn't have full control of this new ability and of course, he's not always able to bring forth the same item each time. Kind of a hit or miss and that's when Tom says that's interesting, but honestly, sounds kind of dumb. I said oh.......almost forgot. When you bring forth these things, you CONTROL them. Now Thor can whack someone in the chest with Mjolnir and they go flying........have you ever been hit in the chest by a flying multiple cantaloupes or baseballs? And Loki really controls them, just like Thor does with Mjolnir, meaning they could possibly be returning to you, unless they got damaged as these would be like normal items. Bob says it'll take an hour or so before we have everything on your list and by the way, the roach coach is here, pointing to it. I said I'd grab a quick burger and take off for a little bit........you know, kind of cruise around a bit seeing if anyone needed some help or foil the evil intentions of bad guys. Then Tom came up with n EVIL, Loki kind of idea......how about bringing forth and controlling rotting tomatoes, then looking at Chris! Chris did NOT appreciate Toms idea.
Didn't get my burger, but instead, thought of those food stalls, but these were in South Korea and from Youtube videos, they looked like they had really good food. Besides, I hadn't been to South Korea.......North, yes, but not South. Now Jose (roach coach cook) looked disappointed in that I wasn't ordering any of his food, but looked happier when I told him I'd bring him some South Korean food. Now it didn't take us long to get to Seoul, but then decided I wanted to take a quick peek at what's called the DMZ, the border which separates North and South Korea as Seoul really isn't that from from it. Well, then I saw them......some buildings separated by some asphalt road and on each side, the South Korean and American flags were flying, with the North Korean one on the other side of that road. Then I saw him......some guy was running as fast as he could for the South Korean side, with some seven other soldiers chasing him. But when I saw they started aiming at this guy with their rifles, I knew we had to act and act NOW. But that guy got shot, with me landing next to him and with my free arm, picked him up and off we went south. And this time I not only got shot, but got shot A LOT! I landed near some South Korean army guys, telling them this man had been shot and I took off again, this time to deal with those seven guys who had been shooting at that one guy and me. They had been joined by four other soldiers and you know what they did? They started shooting at me again! Bobs Mjolnir's stopped that and of course, when they ran out of bullets, I didn't give them a chance to reload with Bobs Mjolnir's not only zapping, but attaching to their backs and we went back to South Korea. They got dropped off with more South Korean and American soldiers and then I heard the tink, tink, tink of those spent bullets falling off my costume. NO idea what kind of trouble I might be in, but figured better to get out of there NOW. But still wanting to try Korean food, headed for Seoul and got two orders to go of rice, shrimp, mushroom and some veggies all mixed in.
Think I was gone for ten or fifteen minutes when I landed before the roach coach, giving Jose his order. Thing is I was aching from being shot and as I turned around, I heard three tinks. Thing is, Tom says hey Thor did those bullets that just fell from your cloak? Adding to this was Chris committing about me moving kind of funny or stiff like. And Bob was on me like stink on fresh cow poo, wanting to just how did those three bullets fall from your cape? Because you've only been here a little bit and nothing fell.....WAIT A MINUTE, DID YOU JUST GET SHOT.......AGAIN?! I said it WASN'T my fault, okay? I just wanted to look at something before getting something to eat and that guy was running for the border with some other guys chasing him and then they started shooting at him and what was I suppose to do, let them kill him and I'm hungry, so if you don't mind, I'd like to sit down and kind of unwind and eat. Tom says listen to him......once again, it WASN'T his fault, with Chris asking just what I'd gotten to eat, so I showed him my meal, with Bob saying that's KOREAN FOOD, isn't it? I said yes, sir and started kind of limping to where Bob had set up the printer, etc. Thing is, the four of them, (which included the doctor) and others followed me. That's when Bob tells me he wants me to remove my shirt top and cloak again and I said please let it wait a little bit, as I'm kind of hungry and seeing one of the on lookers, asked him to as Jose to cook me six triple cheeseburgers with condiments on the side and a bucket of ice water please. He took off to place my order. Thing is, there was a set of chopsticks with my food?! So dug out my spoon from my pouch and that entire meal was gone in maybe two minutes? That guy brought that bucket of ice water and I emptied it, then requested him to refill it please. That's when Bob tells me to show my manly chest and he said it in his boss tone, so I did, but only if the door to this place was closed. This was the one with the computer, etc. inside of it.
When that was done, there were gasps from all four of them, with Bob saying Jesus Christ, Thor.....how many times were you shot? I said I don't know as I was kind of busy covering that guys back, but they had machine guns or something like 'em. The doctor says I shouldn't be alive from being shot so many times and I looked him in the eye and said I'm VERY glad to disappoint you. Thing is, there were some bruises partially showing above my pants, so Bob had me drop my pants to boot. I tried making light of it by saying I'm sure glad I put on a clean pair of undies this morning. None of them laughed. They all checked me out and all agreed that I'd been shot NINETEEN TIMES! Asked Bob if we could go to the cafeteria as it might be quicker for me to eat something there and he says no?! I want the doctor to check you out, so I'll have the cafeteria bring stuff to you. I said okay. Ate all those burgers Jose made, along with two bags of fries, followed by two pans of mashed potatoes with gravy, a BIG bowl of salad, four WHOLE chickens and a pot roast. Now I'd pulled up my pants and when the food came, got to chomping away. Thing is, the doctor is the one who realized what was happening first. I had bruises about nine inches in diameter originally, but maybe half an hour later of eating, they had gone to around six? That's when Tom held out his fist, saying he grabbed them before anyone else could and showed me those three spent bullets. I took them from him, turned to Bob, saying I'm really sorry for being such a pain in the behind employee, would you like one of these bullets? He did, then turned to Tom and Chris, saying I still remember how you treated everyone back when, so here's something from me to you two guys. And by the way, do NOT tell Natalie that I gave 'em to you because she's going to want one. In fact, she'd probably shoot me just to get one and with that, the three of them got to laughing. When they got done laughing, told Bob I wanted to go home and get some sleep. Tells me I was to take off and NOT return until I felt what would be normal for me and of course, he'd have his doctor check me out when I did return. With that, I said I'm outta here and took off. Got home and walking to my bed and next thing I know is I'm laying on the hallways carpet? I had passed out for a little over four hours. Just undressed and dropped everything right there in the hallway and plopped into bed.
When I woke up, found I'd slept for about thirteen hours and out of habit, checked my phones. Nothing from Mom or the girls, but Bob had left a message saying he was sorry to bother me, but he needed me to come in as soon as possible. And Natalie....oh God, she'd left a couple of messages. Decided it was in my best interest to hide from her. Take a shower and after shaving, got dressed and I was HUNGRY and took off for the studio cafeteria. When I walked in, told everyone that I was just here to grab a quick bite to eat, then I'd have to see Bob about something. I was wolfing down what would come out to be twenty-seven eggs scrambled, five pounds of hashbrowns, plus a lot of ice water, when Bob came over to my table, sat down and said for me to just keep eating. He even ordered breakfast for himself, with the two of us just sitting there eating. Tells me he's got the stuff I requested and when I was ready to return, he'd have Tom and Chris there. But I needed to get back to Hikarue, do you understand? I said I did. After eating and me thanking the cooks and servers, we took off in Bobs cart for my alley and saw that not only had my booth been repaired, it was actually enlarged. I turned to Bob and he says after I Hulked out, he wanted to make sure everyone could get out a lot quicker just in case, with him smiling and laughing as he said that.
Find out there's two people from the government to see me about what happened in North Korea and it seems I created an international incident? Bad enough that I “invaded” North Korea, but their government is claiming that I kidnapped all those guys?! They not only wanted those men returned to North Korea, but their country was to be paid reparations which was a new word for me, so Bob explained it to me. And let's not forget they wanted to try me in one of their courts for a bunch of international laws being broken?! I looked at Bob and he said don't worry, nothing's going to happen to you as I've got lawyers ready to deal with any legal hassles coming this way AND of course, EVERYTHING'S going to be recorded. This made me feel a whole lot better. Thing is, those two people from the government were some unhappy campers because of the Bobs people with their cameras and lawyers. Yeah, they were dumb enough to think we'd agree to a private conversation. Angela Bassett was from the State Department and like that lady earlier, she started chewing on my behind for creating an international incidence, that I'd have to make a PUBLIC apology to the one they call Great Leader in North Korea?! That I might even face kidnapping charges?! Though reparations were out of the question, North Korea was calling a special session of the U.N. to condemn the U.S. and South Korea for its unwarranted aggression against the peaceful North Korean people.
I turned to Bob, asking if he'd told these people what had gone down and he says yes, he had. So I turned to those two and I'll repeat my side of things. Angela tells me I have NO right to invade another country, doing whatever I wanted to do there and I haven't even started to talk about the mayhem you did in Tokyo. Yeah, Bob and everyone knew about that incident due to the tv people there showing off all the videos people had taken of us in action outside of the that building. He just hadn't brought it up. I quietly said if we hadn't acted like we did, that man would have been dead, simply because he wanted to live in a free country. And besides, is the South Korean government going to charge those North Koreans with attempted murder? Her: WHAT?! Then I heard a voice above us, calling my name and it's Jim, the guy everyone was calling Superman. Thing is, I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and it was inhumanly fast, so we took up into the air without hesitation with Bobs Mjolnir's ready to do some zapping. That was when I met Chuck, who goes by the name of The Flash. Jim lands, then tells Chuck he had told him so........that as fast as he is, Thor's a lot faster. Or did you forget how I told you how he took me and that other woman from the State Department to North Korea in just a few minutes? Chuck thought he could sneak up on me and I said you need to remember no matter how fast you are, I can basically move at the speed of light, stuck my hand out and said glad to meet you and we shook hands. He said you're not the only one who wears a mask as others don't want people to know who their family members are. This was new to me. I said I'm not trying to be funny or anything, but when I saw you running, was wondering if you could run on water and if so, how fast? Chuck looked stunned, then saying he's never thought if he could do that or not and that's when Bob spoke up, saying you know little about Thor because he's ALWAYS coming up with something out of the norm.
That's when Angela had to open her mouth, saying she wasn't done with me and this was NOT the time OR place to have our own, private conversation. I thought this was NOT nice of her, because I had every intention in talking with her and that guy, but...... Thing is, I think Jim caught the gleam in my eyes and he said, Thor, please don't. So I squatted a little bit so I could look up at him, battered my eyes at him like Natalie did to me one time, saying, who me? He twirls around and of course, Angela's gone. Jim almost moans when he asks where is she and I just pointed up, saying the good news is I haven't decided whether to send her east to that place which doesn't exist or further north of that place we visited awhile back. Maybe if you talk to her, she'll be more polite? And this time, everyone gets this memo, okay? So he goes flying up and figuring we'd have a few minutes, so I asked Chuck if he'd ever eaten authentic Korean food. He hadn't and when I asked him if he'd like to try it and I was buying, he was curious about this, but what about Angela and Jim? I said I know Jim's going to talk with her........and besides, I never told him about bringing her right back to earth after he talks to her, did I? He laughs and Bob's doing a face palm. Was kind of surprised when the man with Angela spoke up, asking if he could also go. This was when I met Justin Bateman. I said okay because he wasn't being a behind head like Angela and wondered where he fit in the scheme of things. Put one of Bobs Mjolnir's on each of their backs and I could see Jim slowly coming to earth, so we took off at an angle, with a quick stop so Chuck and Justine could see Diamond Head in Hawaii. Both were surprised, then off to Seoul where there were still food stalls open. Now the first guy didn't know English and of course, both of us didn't know any Korean. Thing is, this guy and many others KNEW who I was and soon we had a bunch of people surround us, taking photos. So I asked if anyone there knew English and Korean.......well, a couple of girls basically shoved to one side the guys who said they did. They wanted selfies with me and not Chuck because he wasn't well known at all in the beginning of all of this and Justine was a totally unknown. I said no selfies until we get our orders in. I bought and paid for fifty meals because I was thinking of those regular people at the studio. You know, kind of like letting everyone handle and fly with the Mjolnir's. The meals were in those styrofoam box things and then bagged 'em with a lot of tape on 'em. So glad I had brought Bobs other ten Mjolnir's out of habit. The girls got their selfies, then went for group selfies for a bit, then said we gotta get back to California while the food is still hot and off we went. When I landed, Jim was looking a little ticked, so I brought Angela to earth REALLY fast, then suddenly stopping her about ten feet from the ground. Yeah, she SCREAMED all the way down. I told her I'm really sorry you're so crabby......and it's NOT your fault you're older than my Mom. Yeah, cheap shot, but it had the effect on her that I wanted. Her eyes BLAZED and started stepping towards me, but Jim put his hand on her shoulder, telling her that I was not only baiting her, she had fallen for it. Told Jim he was a big meany giving away superhero secrets like that and he laughed. Then offered him one of those Korean meals, followed by Bob and that other government guy one. Gave one to Jose, telling him where I'd gotten it and boy, was he surprised. Ten went to those working in the studio cafeteria with Bob having someone take those meals to them. He got some chairs delivered to us and while they got to eating, I called out to the studio employees that were walking by or who'd been watching all this go down. Oh yeah, they all wanted a free meal. Of course, not everyone got a meal, but still.......
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Post by texican on Jul 14, 2021 17:50:17 GMT -6
Ate all those burgers Jose made, along with two bags of fries, followed by two pans of mashed potatoes with gravy, a BIG bowl of salad, four WHOLE chickens and a pot roast. Now I'd pulled up my pants and when the food came, got to chomping away.
Now Thor ate the first set of food before he pulled up his pants to eat the second set of food. I have eaten with just my undies, but have to watch dropping food bites and juices to not have to take another shower.
I once ate a lot of food, but not in comparison to what Thor eats and he doesn't gain weight.
WillC, you definitely know how to put Thor into and out of situations.
Thanks.
Texican....
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Post by willc453 on Jul 14, 2021 20:19:23 GMT -6
Yeah, things just seem to happen around him. Just started working on 40 and in 39, he's still dealing with Angela & Justine, with Justine hitting Thor below the belt. He's also going to be talking with Jose, the roach coach driver/cook and Thor's out again busting bad guys again. There's other stuff in 39 and 40 takes off in a different direction with Thor figuring out how to use his ability, but in a different way in 39. Uh oh.....you know what that means.
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Post by willc453 on Jul 22, 2021 23:34:40 GMT -6
The Affected: Thor Chapter 39
Thing is, I wasn't thinking as normal as ALL the meals had chopsticks in them! How-ever, I still had my spoon, but Bob said no, as he'd teach us how to use them. And I actually got better.......as in “only” dropping about half my food back onto my styrofoam plate. And yes, Chuck was telling everyone what we'd done and now, that Justine is REALLY looking at me, then asks just how strong was I and I told him I simply didn't know, just me and my Mjolnir kept that fighter jet from crashing and who knows what we're really able to do when we work together. When he asked who was we, I simply pointed upwards where Bobs Mjolnir's were high above and behind me. I said and let's not forget the Hulkbuster and with that, had one of Bobs Mjolnir's take it from the roof top to land beside me. Now Justine said he's seen videos of me in it and Bob kind of sucked in his breath. Figured he didn't realize the government had access to the videos he's taken of me. He thought they'd only have the ones he had authorized to be released. I said hold on, we'll be right back and got into the Hulkbuster and took off for the remains of that tank that Bob let me play with. We put it in the middle of the street with me calling out to everyone to make room, which they quickly and gladly did. I said it's NOT a robot thing. It's name is the Hulkbuster and jeez, don't any of you people ever go to the movies? Bob started laughing. Got out of the Hulkbuster, then said let me show you what I can do by myself and after cutting a strip of armor off of it with my Mjolnir, with me bending that piece of armor in half.
Turned to Jim, asking how strong he was and when he quietly said very, I knew it was no bs on his part. I said that's great, let's show these two why they should NOT harass people like us, picked up that piece of armor and passed it to him. No problem for him to fold it in half again, he passes it to me and we started folding that piece of armor smaller and smaller till it was the size of postage stamp and maybe one half inch thick, at which time I dropped it to the ground with an audible thunk. Justine couldn't pick it up because we'd condensed the metal so close. I picked that piece of metal up, turned to Bob if he wanted a souvenir, he said yes, with me putting it in the back of his golf cart. I then turned to Angela and Justine, telling them you people might shoot me in the behind with a sleeping dart, but there WILL BE Caine raised when I wake up......and this is going to be one of TWO demonstrations. I said the hatch to this thing is still there, with me flying to the tank and opening it. And with that, had one of Bobs Mjolnir's fly into the open hatch. Then told everyone NOT to look at what we're about to do because you might go blind and if so, that's NOT my fault. Then welded the hatch shut. Had Jim lift those two so they could see for themselves that it was welded shut and funny thing, after those two were back on the ground, both Jim and Chuck are looking at me, then whispering to each other. Justine was impressed with our welding, but said it'd be no problem for that hammer thing to simply fly thru the gaps in that tank. I said no, because I'm not only to have it fly thru that welded hatch, the six of us are leaving, with Angela and Justine deciding where I should be “kept captive”, however I MUST remain outside for reasons you'll understand. So off we go, the six of us; with Bob driving his golf cart and me besides him while we were following the other four. When they said they were ready, Bobs Mjolnir was there in maybe two seconds, hanging above me. I said okay, let's go look at Bobs tank and we'll do the second demonstration and back we go, where they find the hatch laying on the ground with a big hammer size hole in it. I said now think what we could do if North Korea keeps pushing their bs and no, bs is NOT a dirty word. It's only dirty if you say all of it out loud and no, never even used those letters around Mom or the girls either. Had everyone back WAY off just to make sure nobody would get hurt and after and after inspecting what was left of the tank, I sicced all thirteen Mjolnir's at it. Three or four minutes later, it was all of six inches high, with me then having them bending all that armor (including the engine) into halves and halves, etc. till that tank was the size of a suitcase you'd turn in at some airport counter. Looking at Justine and Angela, said I figure North Korea's got a lot of tanks......if I were a big meany, how long do you think it'd take us to smash thru ALL their tank engines alone? Of course, there was a square hole in the roads asphalt where we had pounded the tank. I looked at Bob after discovering this and he says he'd take care of it......but in the future, please use the ground. Once again looking at Justine and Angela, I said look at what we did to that tank.......imagine me calling them to free me from whatever prison you've got me in or chains you might have on me.
Then I had a thought, turned to Bob asking him if it'd be okay if I tried something I just thought of. He didn't hesitate, but said go for it.....but do you mind telling us what you're going to try? I explained, with everyone there just looking at me, then Bob asking if this was actually possible? I said yes, sir......I think.....if it goes as planned, it'd be kind of like a perpetual machine that once it's doing it's thing, it'll simply continually do its thing. Bob and the others were looking kind of doubtful, with Bob asking if I had the time so he could get extra camera men out here and would I mind putting them on the various building roofs? I said no problem and once everyone was in position, we went at it. Oops. I mean what can I say as this was all new to me too, okay? And I DID give everyone fair warning, right? Rose up into the air about two hundred feed, with Bobs Mjolnir's forming a ball if you will, around me and mine. I said okay boys, let's show the feds what we can do.....and let's do it NOW! I'm twirling mine around my head, while Bobs are going in circles around us and within a minute, there were the clouds, followed by thunder, lightning and rain. LOTS of all four. I'm getting hit by lighting, with me having Bobs Mjolnir's taking even more lightning hits. Next thing I know is Jim's up in the air and in front of me about two hundred feet away, making cutting motions across his throat with his hand, so I stopped. Oh boy.......ever stand in front of fire hydrant when it's releasing water full bore? Well, it was kind of, sort of pouring down rain like that, but A LOT WORSE! Man, those clouds were REALLY jammed over us, so while we're trying to disperse them, we headed east, figuring we'd be able to cool everyone down with some rain. Took us till we got close to the Nevada state line before all the clouds unclouded, at which time we flew back to the studio.
Seems while we were in the air doing our thing, THREE MILES around the studio lot got flooded with eight inches of water. NOT good. As for us, was told they could only see me occasionally as I was surrounded by a gigantic ball of lightning. That's because not only were Bobs Mjolnir's taking lightning strikes, but also passing it among themselves. Now Bob wasn't a happy camper, along with a lot of other people, with me doing a lot of apologizing as more than one person got soaked before they could find shelter from the rain. Bob says he understands that this wasn't my fault, because after all, I was using the Mjolnir's in a new configuration, but when you do this again, let's take it some place far, far away...........like Victorville, as there's A LOT of desert out there. And that got me to thinking of two things and Bob caught that look and asks me what was I thinking. I said do you mind if I get something to eat and while we're waiting, I'll tell you. So once I got to the roach coach, had Jose make me up a dozen triple cheeseburgers with all the veggies on the side.......and a bag of fries, please. Thing is, Jose wanted to talk to me also, with me saying fine, but I gotta talk with Bob about some stuff, eat and then we'll talk, if that's okay with you? I had Bob go to the front of the roach coach and said if he's looking at some wide open land and you're willing to rent the use of it, I know some people who could use the money.........that is, if you don't think I'm being too forward. Then I thought of something else, asking him if any studio was doing westerns and if so, where. You have an idea how poor things were for me and my family, but Bob, these people are REALLY poor and could use whatever work you or some other studio throws their way. He said he'd think it over which was good enough for me. I said one thing to remember about whatever place you chose.......we WEREN'T going full bore because I was concentrating on having your Mjolnir's doing their thing. He says Jesus.......how fast were you going then and I replied, I THINK less than half speed. Yeah......BOTH of us were stunned when I said that.
We walked back to Jose who had my bucket and straw ready for me, with us going back to my cubicle and when the first four burgers and fries were ready, with the four of them kind of staring at me as I simply devoured them in maybe three minutes. Bob wasn't staring simply because he's seen me get hungry. Bob asked if Jose was cooking enough for me and I kind of waved my hand like I was saying I wasn't sure. He got on his phone and within ten minutes or less, here comes a couple of the cafeteria people with THREE trays of mashed potatoes with a pan of gravy mixed in with each one of them. I ended up using Jose's cheeseburgers like they were chips used to scoop out nacho cheese in the mashed potatoes and gravy while eating a full sized ham (including bone) and a pot roast went to. Bob said darn Thor, wished I'd known you were hungry........maybe we could of have made a few bucks at that Texas steak house and smiled. I smiled back. Asked him if he could get me more of Chris's face masks as I seemed to be using 'em up a bit quicker than anticipated and he says he'd have a hundred of them ready for me tomorrow and waiting in my cubicle. That's when Justine asked if he could talk to me privately. I said no.......any time someone wants to talk to someone privately, usually that person's going to get fired. Or in your case, since you came with Angela, you're with the state department and by now, you now how I feel about her and all that stuff. Told Justine that Bob, along with Jim and Chuck stay or our conversation is over. Well, he's not with the state department, but is in the Army? I said hey, I already talked with those Marines in South Africa and told them I wouldn't do well in the military. He says he knows as he's had people talk with those Marines?!
Seems he wants me to work as what he calls a “special asset”, another new word I didn't understand and said so. I'm looking at Jim and Chuck asking them if they're also “special assets”, with both of them saying no. Then Jim says he has the feeling that Justine, if that's his real name, is part of what's called a black bag outfit. New word for me, so he explains. Black bag outfits do all sorts of dirty work, with complete deniability by the government. I said there's NO WAY I'll help you people. I do what I do because I can help people. I'm not good at sneaking around, hiding stuff. That's when Justine says he's quite sure I'm of draft age.....and have YOU registered for the draft?! I was stunned at this as I NEVER thought of registering for the draft. It's not like the military or some-one from the government came around at UNR making sure everyone was registered. Bob got mad, saying he'd have every studio lawyer on this problem. Thing is, Justine could tell by my expression that I hadn't registered and this was when I figured I hadn't been to that research station in the Antarctica, then started towards Justine without saying a word. That's when Jim put his arm across my chest, saying he and Chuck would deal with Justin and Angela. Not only that, after we see the President, you will NEVER be bothered by these kind of people ever again. I said right....what are you going to do? Fly to Washington D.C., just walk into the White House and talk to the President of the United States? When Jim says yes, I knew he wasn't lying. Come to find out, he was one of the people the President had asked to see him about forming a superhero league. That's when Chuck says, Jim doesn't always fly out to see the President, but he has a direct number to the White House and when he calls, he's talking to the President within an hour. I said I was sorry, but all of this is weird and new to me.
Then Chuck is telling me how they REALLY needed me as there are others who were altered like us, but using their new found abilities for their own, personal gain. That we've got about a dozen people who are suddenly appearing inside a bank vault when the bank's closed and they take EVERY bit of money inside of it. The Treasury Department thought these thefts were an inside job, but banks are getting hit all over the nation, with over five million dollars being taken that we know of. We have NO idea when or where they'll strike next. I felt kind of bad in turning down their offer, thing is, I had to make a living and figured I'd probably working with idiots......not these guys or even others like us, but the government people and said so. Jim says it's still being worked on pay wise and of course, it depends on ones ability. I said that kind of sounds like those pigs in Animal Farm and everyone's looking at me. I said, you know, where the pigs are telling the animals they're all equal, but some are more equal than others. Besides, I think my boss and I have a great working relationship and the pay is VERY good. That's when Justine asks how much was I making and I told him it was none of his beeswax. Then he mentions the IRS would be QUITE interested in finding out and that's when Jim grabs him, saying that's enough out of you. I said, see what I mean? These government people will bully and harass people like us to do what THEY want us to do and I'm surprised and feel sorry for you guys, so no thanks for joining your superhero league. Jim says it's not like I'm thinking at all and would I mind coming out to their headquarters to look things over and talk with others in the league? I said okay reluctantly and from him, got their address which I wrote in my small notebook. That's when Bob got a call, then looks at me, saying why is the Border Patrol calling me, asking for you? Oops.
He gives me his phone and I'm talking with some lady from the Border Patrol and the Mexican police had “a situation” in that town run by that drug cartel and really needed my help. I said give us a few minutes and we'll be there, giving Bob his phone back. Justine says Border Patrol? We haven't heard you were involved with them, though we do know about you and those in the Florida Keys, helping the Coast Guard. I said that's the deal I have with those people......my name is NEVER mentioned in any report. That's when he says he read about a major drug bust happening on the border, but I didn't say anything. I turned to Jim and Chuck, asking them how long would it take them to get to Washington D.C. and when they told me, I said if it's okay with you guys, we can take the four of you there within a couple of minutes. They agreed though Justine and Angela didn't want to go this route as they figured the longer it took, the better spin they could put on everything. Once Mjolnir's were attached to everyone, off we went, with us landing in the back of the White House. Of course, we had A LOT of Secret Service people surround us when we slowly came out of the sky. Jim is the one who said this is how it is when he comes out here. Makes people in the White House a lot less nervous and the President would be pleased to meet you, with you being in the news so much. I said nope, we gotta get outta here and go some place else and with that, back into the air and hitting the California/Mexico border, not far from that Mexican town.
There were six Border Patrol men and their vehicles waiting for me in that same spot where we had landed with those trucks, drones, etc. One of the Border Patrol men said that while I wasn't here, but this man whom he pointed at, isn't here either, do you understand? I did and that's when I met Colonel Arturo de Cordova. Now he was older than Mom, but younger than Ira. Thing is, when I looked into his eyes, he looked OLD if you understand what I mean. He'd been fighting the narcotic people most of his life as a cop and he was now going after those in that town. Thing is, he was sure he had at least one cop who was taking bribes or being blackmailed and if they go in to bust everyone, good cops would be shot to rags, with informant being “lucky” to have escaped with his life. When asked when this bust was to occur, he said tomorrow morning?! Because of what he had seen of us in Tokyo and North Korea, this was why he was asking for my help on such short notice. Short notice.....talk about an under-statement. I simply said okay.......how many people are we talking about and was surprised when he said it varied from eighty to one hundred twenty. I said what about kids and women and was told few of these men were married, but there were a lot of single ladies there if you know what I mean. When he said that, I did. I said let me think things over for a bit and I started thinking how to do something like this. Dealing with bad guys, no problem but how NOT to hurt kids and women? Thing is, they HAD to go in tomorrow morning as word had been passed to him that over five hundred kilos of cocaine was waiting to be shipped out. No idea what a kilo was, but was told it's over a thousand pounds! Was told that there were fourteen houses where these bad guys lived. The bad guys had guards all the time, either walking around and some on the roofs for better visibility. But when I asked, was told all the guards that worked the night shift remained on the roof and able to call those inside if something went down or was suspicious and that gave me one idea, then another. I said it's going to be dark when your men raid these places and don't think there's going to be a moon tonight. Find out there basically wasn't going to be one, so asked Colonel de Cordova if he had access to night vision goggles and he says yes. That's when I asked him if I could borrow a pair, with him saying no problem, but it'd take him about an hour or so to get them. Then asked for a portable radio with an ear piece as I wanted only us to talk to each other and a map of some kind showing where the bad guys lived. He said he'd bring everything and with that, he took off walking back to Mexico.
Asked the Border Patrol agents if anyone was around for a few miles and they said no. I said I'm going to try something, but don't know how it'll turn out or even if I can do it. But if things start looking scary, get inside your truck and do NOT come out because there's a good possibility you'll be electrocuted. Yep, that go their attention all right. Now Thor's able to control lightning, right? And that means bringing up clouds to generate thunder, then lightning. But what if he could simply bring in the clouds, but NOT calling up the lightning? Like I said earlier, I had NO idea if my crazy idea would work or not as I've always had us doing this the old fashioned way. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Up into the clear air we went and went to work. About twenty minutes later, the clouds were thick and over us, with the faint rumblings of thunder. Not good enough......I wanted BLACK clouds, so we started spinning faster, with more clouds joining up, but condensing into a tighter formation if that's the right word, then we started descending to the ground. And it worked! The clouds came down with us! When the Border Patrol guys saw us getting closer to the ground, they beat feet for their truck. When we landed, we kept twirling and the clouds kept coming down, though there was A LOT of rumbling coming from the clouds and I could FEEL the energy wanting to be released. The first batch(?) of clouds were like wisps of fog as they rolled on/along the ground, then the others joined them. Thing is, as the clouds got closer to the ground, sound was basically gone, something I hadn't thought about, but it was a good thing for about what we were to do. Then I lost it and all heck broke loose. MASSIVE and MULTIPLE lightning strikes started hitting not only the ground, but the cactus and anything else that was above ground level, including the Border Patrol trucks. And wind......NO idea how strong it was, but that truck started rocking and it looked like it was going to be turned over. Quickly put one of Bobs Mjolnir's on its roof so this didn't happen and the rest of us took off skyward and needing not only to break up all these clouds, but scatter the rain all over the desert, which took some time. When we came back, asked the Border Patrol guys what did they think of what we'd done? They both said it was scary as bleep, quickly followed by being terrorized by the wind which shook their truck and all those lightning strikes happening around them. I apologized for the wind as this was something I hadn't thought of or planned for, but then that's why I had one of Bobs Mjolnir's attach itself to the roof of your truck, otherwise there was a good chance it would of been flipped over. And if you're wondering, the ground was SOAKED.....we're talking what happened at the studio was like a light drizzle. Thing is, those guys told me they couldn't see ANYTHING once the clouds got down to ground level, but I had no trouble seeing them in their truck.
One of the guys then gets a phone call from Colonel de Cordova who says he's stuck in the mud from a sudden rain storm of a type he's never seen before. Asked if anyone was around him and when I was told no, said we'd come out to help him. Take off across the border and we see him and his truck's stuck up to the frame of the truck in the mud. Attached one of Bobs Mjolnir's to the roof of that truck and up into the air goes that truck and the Colonel, with me flying next to his drivers door. Yeah, he was surprised at this happening. Got that radio and night vision goggles from him and after talking it over, set him down on dry ground a few miles away further inside of Mexico. Back to the Border Patrol guys and did the same for them. After putting Bobs Mjolnir's on the studio roof, took off to get some sleep after I called Bob.
Told him I wasn't going to be able to work the next day because we were needed to help some people, but I can't talk about it. It's one of those things where it would be better off if no one knows I'm involved.......like the State Department for example. Bob said do whatever you got to do......and by the way, Natalie's REALLY on my behind and you do know and understand that you'll EVENTUALLY have to talk to her, right? I sighed and said yes, sir......but right now, today is not that day. Then he says, why not call her and get it out of the way before you do whatever you're going to do? I thought it over (uh oh) and that sounded like a good idea and it still wasn't too late and figured she hadn't gone to bed where ever she was at. Remember, she was making a movie. Hit that Burger King for a couple of triple cheeseburgers before getting home and ate them. I know, I know......I was stalling in calling her. So I didn't. After cleaning my costume, went to bed with the alarm set.
Was feeling a bit hungry, so as normal, woke up early to hit the studio cafeteria. Four ham, cheese and mushroom omelets, half a bag of hashbrowns and a couple of gallons of milk topped off my tank so to speak, then off to the U.S. and Mexico borders. No problem finding Colonel de Cordova and once again, we made sure we were on the same page as to what was to happen......at least I hoped so, with him taking off to get back to his men. Night vision goggles are neat, though a bit weird seeing everything in green. As always, people don't think to look up even when on guard duty with those twenty-seven being the first to be zapped, then transported with their illegal guns into the U.S. and the welcoming arms of the Border Patrol people. Then to cover up possible screams and noise from guns being shot, we called for clouds......lots of 'em, then brought 'em to ground level and when I couldn't hold 'em back any further, let 'er rip. MASSIVE amounts of rain and lightning coming down and everyone's in the dark because I disabled the power transfer things that supplied power to this town. I knew which houses had bad guys in 'em thanks to Colonel de Cordova and there was no knocking on my part on doors. Mjolnir took care of that and with Bobs Mjolnir's right behind us, we got busy zapping all the adults and those of teenager age, one house at a time. Then take those adults and their guns to the Border Patrol people. Stop from time to time to “refresh” our storm cover, then back to work. The Mexican raid was to occur at four am, and no one was expecting such a storm, rain and lightning at two am, especially when lightnings striking buildings and the ground all over town. Yeah, the bad guys were ready to deal with Colonel de Cordova's men, but not us.
Once we were done dealing with bad guys, time to disparate the clouds, but not wanting to waste water, dragged everything up back into the air, then headed south where a lot of farms and desert got much needed water. As to Colonel de Cordova, called him on that provided radio, at which time he and his men went into that town only to find no bad men. They did find a bunch of guns, fifteen million dollars in cash and of course, A LOT of drugs. The bad guys were arrested for attempting to illegally enter the U.S., along with having all those guns. Thing is, Colonel de Cordova was quite happy to tell his men of the wickedness that befell those in Sodom and Gomorrah and with them all being a devout Catholics....... Remembering what happened to the Filipino's Captains binoculars, made sure the radio and night vision goggles were left with the Border Patrol people, took off for the studio's cafeteria where I stuffed myself. After getting home, cleaned my costume, then crashed for about fourteen hours. Now Bob never called, but Natalie...... ended up having to go see her as she did NOT want a phone conversation, but a face to face one. Man, I tried dodging that bullet so to speak because I didn't know where she was working. No sirree, that was NOT going to fly as she reminded me that I had NO problem finding her when I went to their home AND that I had a gps, so here's her co-ordinates?! Crud. Went down the street to that restaurant as I hadn't been there for awhile to have breakfast, then once home again, got dressed and took off to see Natalie.
Now I didn't know anything about Mexico as I'd never been there before until the previous night. I was thinking a lot of it was desert, but it's not. Yeah, she was doing a movie in Mexico of all places?! Took us about ten minutes to get to her because we kept overflying the given co-ordinates and when I say we, I mean including Bobs Mjolnir's, you know, just in case something went down when seconds might count. I mean, you just never know, right? My gps is a good one, accurate to a couple of hundred feet and from the air, I could see her waiting and as we descended, when she saw me, she waved, so I waved back, then landed before her. Before she could say anything, I said we needed some place to talk privately and held out my arm. Without hesitation, she stepped on my feet and we took off to land on the roof of a near by building. Once she was off my feet, she went back and forth between tearing me a new one for North Korea and Tokyo, then praising me. Never had a chance to defend our actions until she ran out of breath, at which time I told her what had happened and why, but didn't say anything about being shot, but those darn news people....... She wanted to know why I wasn't in the hospital, with me explaining what happened on that and that Bob had had a doctor check me out. Didn't matter, she went back to being mad again, then it was about that Mexican town, saying it was something I'd be doing. I said I hope to God you haven't talked with anyone with your suspicions, have you? She hadn't and I said good, you're the only one outside of the people we worked with knows that we were there. I said you know me.......the less publicity we get, the happier I am. And those few bad people in that town were not only terrorizing the towns population, but were setting up an ambush to kill Mexican police. And if you talk to anyone about this, the element of surprise could well disappear if we need to ever do something like this again. From the Bible chapter of John, it's said everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed. These bad people are like cockroaches who scurry to dark places when exposed and in this case, they will be in prison for a VERY long time. Then she brings up Sodom and Gomorrah being mentioned on the news and I said yeah, I thought of that one all by myself. Think about it, Mexicans are all basically Catholics and when word gets around that God was displeased what He saw what was happening in that one town...... Natalie asks if I was seeing myself as some sort of avenging angel of God and when she said that, I had to laugh at her for about a minute or so, something that didn't please her. I said hey, I'm just me, but when clouds start forming and getting dark giving every indication of raining, maybe people, especially bad ones, will be thinking of what happened in that one town. And who knows, maybe badness overall in Mexico will go down even for a little bit or a little bit of time. Is that bad? Then it was I was being reckless and crazy and my reply was can you blame me? I mean, in this matter I was under a REAL time crunch in figuring out how to handle the matter. And besides, as to be being crazy, can you really blame me? Not long ago, I was in college while working part time as a dish washer and bus boy, so all this stuff that happened to me and is happening to me now is all new. When she said I was a moronic idiot, I knew she understood what I had been telling her and why things went down like they did here in Mexico and else where. After dropping her back at her filming location, took off to see Jose at the studio.
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Post by 9idrr on Jul 23, 2021 7:00:49 GMT -6
Thanks. Sure was a nice surprise to find this mornin'. Our boy is gonna get hisself a reputation pretty soon.
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Post by willc453 on Jul 23, 2021 11:49:59 GMT -6
Thanks. Working on 41 right6 now. What I'd like t6 do is tie in other characters To Thor's story like by bringing in Jim and Chuck. The same way like I did with Brainiac & V's stories with Ben. In this case, Thor's hearing about a bunch of people robbing bank vaults from the inside when the bank is closed. Remember, Thor and Ben are starting basically at the same time frame as being Affected. And does anyone remember that Thor and Ben are from Reno? It'd also be nice if SOMEONE would write a something about the superhero league. Yeah, there's east and west coast leagues, but where are they located at? What do they get paid for their services? What about medical? What kind of coverage to they get? Thor's got loose ends o deal with....one of them being that money he won in Las Vegas, another is a new one that starts in 40. He also has to get back to Japan to finish his contract with that studio. Originally, I had Thor twirling his Mjolnir over his head, with Bobs dong the same over his head. Came up with the idea of let's try a different configuration. And let's not forget he's hoping movies will be made on Tala's peoples reservation land. WAS trying to get into Xray's story, but then I came up ideas for Thor's story. Same way with new iMoms chapter.
On a personal note, bought a used 3D resin printer which came in last week. Got it at a good price w/free shipping AND about a dozen bottles of resin. Now how to learn in using it for my zombie/apocalypse dioramas. Also will be printing up D&D figures/monsters for my nephew. And still looking at class A motorhomes on Craigslist and Facebook with there being 3 I'm interested in. As far as modeling goes, pretty much done with buying kits from Evilbay. Yeah, got that much stuff, with a lot of additional sets of figures. Will add more later one when things change again.
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Post by texican on Jul 23, 2021 18:16:16 GMT -6
Is it Natalie's mother feelings or big sister feelings coming into play with the young Thor and her worrying about him doing all he is doing. Thor actually acting like a kid not wanting to face the music.
willC, a new toy to play with. Your second childhood is improving with all of the toys you can now afford. Please post a few photos showing your work so we can also enjoy your work.
Thanks for the story.
Texican.... Still a kid at heart.
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