The Affected: Thor

[willc453]

The Affected: Thor
Chapter 43

After getting home, cleaned my costume and thought of taking a shower, but said to heck with it, I'll take one before taking off for the studio's cafeteria. I overslept. A quick COLD shower, shaved, got dressed and zoomed to Hikarue's studio, with Bobs Mjolnir's joining us somewhere over the Pacific. I was thirty minutes late pass the time I was suppose to show up. Hikarue was there waiting, along with Airi and I quickly apologized to him, explaining why I was late. He was thinking I'd gotten busy with “Thor stuff” as I call it. He's going to show me something, something he thinks I can handle since we did our thing with those fishing trawlers in Alaska. Pull up to a big studio and inside I'm kind of flabbergasted......I mean, I looking at some kind of science fictiony submarine?! ESPECIALLY when it's about a hundred feet long?! Hikarue's smiling at me, saying he was glad to see I was so surprised. I asked him what was it, because it looked like a cross between a submarine and what's called a destroyer or cruiser. Find out I was wrong on that part......the guns on this thing are what used on what's called battleships, but that torpedo thing also threw me. Find out it wasn't a tube for torpedoes, but some kind of energy gun....ion cannon is the term he used, I think. And high...how about thirty feet high? Well, come to find out there was a series of movies/tv shows way back when in Japan about this thing which is called Yamamoto. Bad aliens destroy basically all of earths defenses and rule the earth, but the Yamamoto had been buried somewhere and went out to battle the bad aliens. If you wanna know more, Google it as it's just not my thing okay? And they (Hikarue's prop guys) had jammed a lot of RC stuff inside, so the turrets, props, radar, etc. moved. Now while this thing was massive, it was also a shell so it really didn't weigh that much. Now there were twelve places where Mjolnir's could be placed on the side of this thing, with Hikarue hoping it wouldn't need so many as he hoped I'd be able to take a few cameramen with me when this thing went “flying” thru the air. They'd be using green screen for when it went into outer space with me there lifting it up.

He's asking me what did I think of it and I told him it was impressive as heck and when would it be ready for flight? Told it'd be a couple more weeks at the most and then I asked maybe your crew could do a quick, one of a kind modification, you know, a speaker system that doesn't look like one? He asks what was I talking about, so I said since this is a Japanese naval vessel, I was thinking that animation series had all sorts of martial music when it went into battle, right? He nods, but reminds me it's not ready yet and besides. I haven't used my Mjolnir's on it to see if it could be done. I said, let's get that out of the way, even if it's lifting your prop out of its cradle. Well, he started giving orders, with me putting four of Bobs Mjolnir's inside of the Yamamoto and with those plates put back on, they were out of sight. If you're wondering, I used four to just be on the safe side, but in the end when the movie was being produced, I only used two. I then said, no doubt your PR people have been busy with coming up with ideas on how to advertise your movie or series, right on the Yamamoto, right? I said I bet EVERYONE not only in Japan, but all over the world has been talking about your giant robot prop and then we had Airi grabbing men off the street, telling them they're going to be meeting her big kettle as part of her next meal. Then I had another thought, with me saying I bet your studios stock value has shot up in value, hasn't it? Hikarue just smiled, which told me a lot, then says he's seen footage of that two man Star Wars fighter and of course, Disney's stock as far as the studio went, has also gone up. Now this made me happy because I wanted to make sure everyone was getting their moneys worth and with their stock going up, I knew I was helping it happen.

I said, let's strike while the iron's hot as they say in America. You've had a giant robot cruising around Tokyo AND landing, with Airi giving her the studio spiel. Now she's been busy grabbing buys off the street and MATCHING the speed of a bullet train. This is publicity you CAN'T buy. I said, it's time for you to step up to the plate and do some quick advertisement about the Yamamoto, along with playing some music from that series, with YOU as that ships captain. He tells me that I'm crazy and there's NO WAY he's going to get dressed up like that. So I turned my back to him to face the majority of people and rising into the air at which time I said I thought your boss Hikarue would look great as the captain of the Yamamoto......what do you say? Cheers went up from everyone, but when I landed, Hikarue still refused. I said fine, but you're REALLY passing up an OUTSTANDING opportunity with your board of directors. Yep, THAT got his attention. I said remember those three guys from your government and how they looked when they saw everyone else riding that surfboard? He says yes, but so what, I will still not do this. I said you want to bet those three guys got REAL busy bragging about what they got to do to their co-workers? And how about the board of directors seeing you, imagine the PUBLICITY the studio will get with you all dressed up and NONE of them being given an opportunity to do the same? No doubt your face would rise considerably with them, along with making them jealous. He said he'd do it, talked to Airi briefly, with him taking off for the costume department.

Come to find out, Hikarue had ordered smaller, but scale sci-fi fighters to fly alongside the Yamamoto. At least he made 'em big enough for one of Bobs Mjolnir's, Now he had twelve of 'em built and thought it might be good press to take a couple of 'em with us, so asked the prop guys which ones should we take. Ended up taking three, because four were in the Yamamoto, Hikarue would be attached to one, figured four cameramen would be enough to get the shots of everyones reactions on the street, along with the props as we flew around Japan. Wow, was I and everyone else surprised when Hikarue came over all dressed up. He had a white hair and beard, really fancy white uniform, with a cape that came down to the base of his spine. We all cheered, clapped and bowed to him. But wanting to hide Bobs Mjolnir on him, we got a large, white pillow case which was tacked to the back of his dress uniform jacket. All of this took about two hours, Hikarue telling me if I even started feeling weak, for us to get back to the studio asap, which I heartily endorsed. He was surprised and happy when those other props joined us. Yeah, Tokyo and other cities got “invaded” once again. But this time, it seems more than one Japanese citizen recognized the Yamamoto, the other props and Hikarue dressed up as its captain, with them doing a lot of cheering. We headed back to the studio a couple of times because I needed to eat and of course, recharge. But this time, Hikarue had four of those large electrical generators ready to go so I could recharge without leaving the studio. Think Hikarue wanted to keep an eye on me. Think we spent four or five hours hitting different cities, along with time spent me eating and recharging. Thing is, when we were done, Hikarue was VERY pleased with what we'd done and told me he'd tell Bob, which made me happy. And yeah, we even flew alongside one of those bullet trains for a few minutes. Then get a call from Bob, who says he's got Jim (Superman) on the phone with him.

There was a coal mine which collapsed in Wales and he could use my help. I said no trouble, but all I know about Wales is it's somewhere in England. Could you meet me at the base of Big Ben where there's some food vendors? He say yes and I said we're on our way, with me telling Hikarue some Thor stuff just came up. He just nodded and said go. After dropping everyone back at the studio, off we go and Jim's there waiting for us in front of the clock. Apparently, this mine had collapsed a couple of hours or so ago, with the mine people trying to clear rubble from it, but they kept having cave ins with some of the rescuers being injured. That's when the British government called the President who passed the call to Jim who flew over to the mine. He thought with us both being fast and strong, we should be able to clear the rubble out a lot quicker, which is why he called Bob who patched the call to me. I said let's go and we did, with him leading the way. Now it didn't take us long to get there because England's a small country and I hope you understand I'm not putting England down in any way. I mean, Texas is bigger than them and maybe Japan combined and probably Australia is the same way in as being bigger than those two countries combined. We tried, I mean, we REALLY tried, but we'd get ten or fifteen feet into the tunnel and the darn thing would collapse? If we didn't move fast as we could, there was a good chance we'd of been trapped under all that rock. After the third failure, I told Jim to hold up a bit, I gotta get something to eat and he says WHAT?! I said follow me and I'll explain when we get there, there being those food stalls. The same batch of ones I'd taken Chris to and the one Natalie got all huffy about in not getting a sandwich.

Now remember, while I carry cash in my sustainment pouch, I also got a couple pre-paid debit cards from that bank in Georgia and it came in handy this time. Told the owner I wanted ALL his sandwiches and I'd be paying by debit card. He has a big smile on his face and says righto mate, at which time I started gobbling those dozen sandwiches he'd already had made up. So when I wasn't busy stuffing my face, explained to Jim how things worked with me and the possible consequences of me pushing it. He understood now and apparently, however he got changed, he doesn't have to deal with the same kind of problem I have. Soon enough, his sandwiches were gone and he was busy making new ones, but I couldn't wait, so went to the next stall, telling the lady working there the same thing. She was selling ribs of beef and I simply started tearing each rib from the rib next to it......four chomps and it was gone. Yeah, NO bone got left behind and she just stared at me. I ate four sides of ribs, with her putting another dozen in a large garbage bag so I could take them with me back to the mine. But I was thirsty and needed water, so drank basically all their water. Told Jim he's going to have to come back here to gather all the food he can from these two people, maybe even hit other stalls for food. He simply said okay and he'd find a water delivery truck. Between me not eating, I told Jim of my idea and he asked if it was even possible. I said Jesus, Jim, I'm making this up on the fly and if you got any ideas, I'm all ears. That's when he talks about boring machines which are designed to make tunnels in the earth. The same thing they used in making what they call The Chunnel.....you know, that tunnel that connect Britain to France. I said that's nice, but don't think we need anything that big and of course, all we'd need is the boring part, not the rest of the equipment that's attached to it. And just where do we find something like this to use? He was honest in telling me he had no idea, but there were people who would know, so he pulls out his phone to make a call to someone. While that was going down, went to the next stall where sausages were being sold as a sandwich. Told that guy the same thing and ate eight of them, with the rest going into another garbage bag. I got lucky and one thing about Jim, he doesn't fool around. He happened to see a water delivery truck coming down the street and he simply stood in the middle of the road, making the driver stop. Drank fifteen gallons of water, with the promise of compensation using my debit card.

Now the problem was having to recharge and I wasn't moving up in the air as normal, so landed, with Jim landing next to me, asking what was wrong. I explained and he said he could get me to a power line and I said no,.......how about throwing me up into the air so I can get all the juice I need as quickly as possible, because I'm going to REALLY suck it up. He made a stirrup with his hands and up, up and away I went. As in about twenty thousand or so feet. Got busy with Mjolnir to draw clouds and soon started getting hit with lightning bolts. And man, I REALLY worked Mjolnir on this one. When I dissipated the clouds, landed near Jim, telling him not to be near me because I was really juiced as in just glowing with electricity. Now my original plan was to use Bobs Mjolnir's as a crude boring machine, with some of the others acting as a fan to draw away the dust and rubble from our work. So we headed to a concrete plant which makes large concrete pipes as used in sewers and drainage pipes. Like ten feet in diameter, thirty feet in length, with one end larger than the opposite end. Figured I'd be busy working the Mjolnir's and Jim would be busy shoving them inside the new tunnel before it had time to collapse. We started fitting two pipes to make one long one, then with Bobs Mjolnir's attached to two pipes, back to the mine we went, making enough trips so we had a couple of hundred feet of pipe waiting to be used. Then to where that boring thing was at, with the crew there taking nuts off of it and when they were done, called Bobs Mjolnir's to pick it up and back to the mine we went.

Jim made sure the mine people knew what might happen, so everyone, including Jim, stood off to one side of the mine entrance and then we got busy. Seven Mjolnir's had no trouble with handling that boring thing, while I had the other five behind us twirling in a circle, so they acted as a fan to suck out the dust, debris and other stuff from the mine shaft. Now Jim and I had headsets so we could talk to each other and when I figured we had made the new tunnel longer, we'd stop and have him shove those pipes inside of it. More than once, the tunnel would partially collapse, but since the pipe was thick enough, none of them cracked. The hardest part for me was having to stop so I could eat and recharge, but it helped that Jim kept bringing me food and I ate it as is, along with that water truck that he brought out. And it's NOT easy making a new tunnel, because a couple of times, the tunnel went up or down and Jim couldn't push the pipes in because of this. So, we'd have to back up and rebore that part of the tunnel. We'd bore, then I'd have to take a break to eat, drink and recharge. Discovered the elevator raising mechanism/chain by accident and a stud of the chain partially sticking out of the ground. Called Jim and the elevator was stuck, so new plan was with us boring another hole next to the elevator shaft, but also a vertical one to the top of this mountain. This way those fan acting Mjolnir's could get rid of that dust and debris. I'm checking and guessing how far we needed to go down and I'd stop about every thirty feet, then Jim and I would get busy clawing at the rock with our bare hands until we found the elevator as we had no idea how far underground it was. Twenty-two men were trapped inside of it and no problem bringing them up to the surface via the new vertical shaft we'd made. Then it was boring further down until we hit what's called the main shaft or tunnel, you know, where most of the coal comes from. We're going slow, but even so, I was surprised when we punched thru to it, with us boring about five feet of new shaft in it. We found forty-seven men, with Jim and I bringing them to the surface. The sad part was nine others had died and it was the first time I'd ever handled or even see a dead body and to tell the truth, was really creeped out by it. Enough that it gave me nightmares for awhile. All those dead guys did was just stare at me like they were saying why didn't you work faster? If you had, we'd still being alive.

I was kind of filthy from all the dust and stuff being chewed up and going by me, but Jim opened a couple of five gallon water jugs so I could get some of it off my costume, hands and Chris's face mask. While he was watching my back, took off Chris's face mask and put on my ski mask. I said thanks and with that, we rose into the air to head back to London to settle my food bill. Thing is, Jim was almost behind me, but then, I was in no hurry now that the job was done. Once my food bill was paid off, bye bye England and hello Los Angeles in a few minutes. I landed before the sandwich maker and asked him what I owed to everyone and he says, that gentleman over there, pointing at this guy, would like to have a few words about your bill. I'm thinking, oh jeez....is this guy Mafia or something? The way this guy was dressed, that went out of my head, along with him being a newspaper or television reporter. Really nice looking suit, tie, bowler hat and even carrying an umbrella?! Government man, yep and no doubt someone complained, which meant the State Department would get called, then Bob would get called and I'd get called into his office.....again. This guy comes walking over, holding out his hand, saying he was Mr. James Smith-Hawley, with her Majesty's government?! Let go of Mjolnir and shook his hand, at which point he tells me her Majesty's government would be pleased to pay for all my food and drink?! Turned to the sandwich maker who says that's right, mate......everyone's been watching you and that Superman bloke on the telly. You two are hero's, with him handing my debit card back and that's when Jim lands next to me, asking why did I take off like I did. I said because I failed, NINE MEN DIED and took off for home.

After putting Bob's Mjolnir's back on the studio's roof, left a note paper clipped on the outside of the partitions where Bob had set up that internet, pc, etc. stuff saying I was taking some time off and I'd call him when I was ready. Some people saw me, waved and called out hello, but didn't do anything in return except write and post that note, then took off for home. After undressing and putting everything away, went to sleep, which was no escape as that's when the nightmares began. It began with those nine dead just looking at me and or pointing their fingers at me. As you might understand, I didn't get much sleep. When I woke up, one thing I didn't want was any more sleep though I also knew I needed it.....the food and juice I'd gotten wasn't enough. Made coffee to help keep me awake and after thinking it over, decided to head out of town for a few days. Topped everything off at that truck stop, but by the time I hit Las Vegas, knew I had to pull over, which I did at a Sam's Club parking lot. The nightmares came right back and all I had to do was put on my shoes because I was trying to sleep with all my clothes on, I was that tired when I pulled into that parking lot. So once again, headed east and it was in New Mexico that I actually saw my first mesa. One thing to be flying over them, another to actually seeing them rising up into the air being so high and all of that. Went down a dirt road for a bit heading for one and then stopped, just to look at it in all of its awesomeness. Took Mjolnir and after making sure no one was around, flew to land on the top of that mesa. In looking at the land below and around us, it made me feel really small and insignificant. Decided I'd try to get some more sleep, but I'd sleep on top of the mesa with a few blankets after getting some soup to eat. It was also the first meal I had had in the past two days as I simply wasn't hungry in any way, shape or form. Did you know that it gets COLD in the desert at night? Like all the heat and warmness from the day no longer exists. Nightmares got worse, with the wind making a noise like the dead were moaning about their unnecessary deaths due to my failure to get to them quicker. I quickly headed for the motorhome and down the road we went once more.

Thing is, I realized I was running away and that's something no one should do, because once you do, you just may never stop running. I needed someone to talk to, but there was no one I could think of to begin with. While I knew a lot of people at the studio and elsewhere, just who could I turn to? Certainly not a therapist. Then thought of Ira Aldridge as he was the oldest man I knew of. What turned me into thinking of him? Because of his age and he was a veteran from Vietnam which I figured he'd have a different perspective of life. More than anything else, I just wanted someone to talk to and hopefully not judge me too harshly in failing so badly trying to save those miners. When I hit the Texas rest stop, said enough, I can't keep going on like this, It was a long six hours before I could leave for the Keys. Thing is, didn't know if Ira and Sui Te Wan would be there on one of the piers that day or not. They weren't. Flew back to Texas and once it was safe, drove the motorhome westwards for awhile, then pulled over on a dirt road about a mile from the freeway. Four hours later and with more coffee inside of me, headed west again, but I knew where I was going this time......to that first mesa I saw. At a Walmart, picked up some camping gear, including a tent and some food, though I really wasn't hungry, just living on coffee. Thought maybe if I bought a small bottle of whiskey, that would help as I heard it makes you sleepy. Thing is, I wasn't twenty-one, so couldn't buy it legally and not only that, didn't know anything about liquor other than Jack Daniels was suppose to be good stuff. But a homeless man took care of that. Cost me thirty dollars for a SMALL bottle of Jack Daniels which sold for fourteen dollars, including tax, but I had my whiskey and that homeless man had some money in his pocket.

Finally get to “my” mesa, then got busy taking my camping gear to the top of it. After reading the instructions, assembled what people call a dome tent and didn't have too much trouble assembling it. I mean, it only took me a little over an hour, so I was kind of pleased with myself. However, this mesa as nothing but SOLID rock and when I tried pushing the first tent peg into the ground, it bent?! Ground was harder than the tent peg. No problem I thought......I'll just get some rocks to lay on the tent peg ropes, that'll do the trick. But as soon as I started walking to pick some up, the wind comes along and there goes my tent, flying up into the air and off the mesa?! Mad scramble for me and Mjolnir to catch it and glad to say those poles inside the tent didn't get bent and there were no rips in the tent. Returned to the mesa and this time I put Mjolnir on top of it and was thinking there was NO WAY you dirty so and so of escaping this time. Had a bunch of rocks on the tent ropes so there would be no chance of the tent flying off like it did again. Had a 2 burner propane stove, along with 2 bottles of propane and I was very happy to find out this stove was self igniting as I didn't have any matches. Thing is, I thought it'd be nice to have a campfire, so took off for Albuquerque where there was a Dollar Tree and got some matches. A few trips gathering wood, with me having enough for a bonfire. Yeah, kind of overdid this, but then I was trying to keep busy and not think. Supper was nothing more than a can of tomato soup and some water, with me having to work on finishing the soup. Just not hungry. After eating, it got dark, so I started a small fire, looking at it and then seeing the stars come out. Then I had that small bottle of Jack Daniels in my hand and after opening it up, took a SMALL sip....like a tablespoons worth? I thought of an old saying that goes like this: look out tongue, look out gums, look out stomach, because here it comes. And I swallowed. VERY briefly. My eyes bulged out, I gasped, dropped to my hands and knees, then threw up....violently and all over that mesa. I put the lid back on the bottle and then it started raining, not hard at first, so I had time to stagger and close the propane stove lid and make everything nice and neat, at which time me and Mjolnir went inside my tent. I'd gotten an inflatable mattress and aired it up just right so it wasn't too hard or too soft. Mjolnir was resting on the floor of the tent, so I knew there was no way the tent was going to be blown over even if those rocks failed. When I was a kid, always enjoyed the pitter patter sound of the rain at night in my bedroom. But then came the wind, which wasn't hard or anything like that, but to me, it sounded like the wailing of those dead men and as for the rain, it was their tears from being ripped from the lives of their loved ones because of my incompetence. I curled up into a ball deep within the sleeping bag and pulled the opened end over my head in an attempt not to hear them. And if you're wondering, there was NO WAY I was leaving my sleeping bag to fly down to the motorhome. I was “safe” tucked inside my sleeping bag and not about to take a chance that they might be waiting outside for me. Glad to say it only rained that one time, but there was always the wind at night to remind me of what I hadn't done right at the coal mine.

It was on my third trip to Florida, that I saw Ira and Sui Te Wan getting their fishing gear from their car, so I quickly flew to the other side and landed underneath the concrete bridge support where they were going to take their gear. Since I was in the shadows, they didn't see me and when they got done bringing their stuff down, I called out to Ira, asking if he'd have the time to talk to me. Ira twirled around to face me, asking who was I, with me replying, it's me.,..,.Thor and stepped out of the shadows, with Mjolnir in my hand. He asked why was I wearing a ski mask and what was I doing not dressed up, meaning wearing my Thor costume. I said I wasn't worthy of wearing his costume any more and just realized it was wrong for me to want to talk to someone, so I'll be on my way and started to leave. That's when Ira says he came back from the Nam pretty messed up head and body wise, but Sui Te Wan here, got me thru it. That's why you came here, to try and talk about the demons that are tearing you up inside. So land and we'll talk, because you're giving me a crick in my neck looking up at you in the air. He turns to his wife, telling her this was man talk and she simply nodded and headed for the stairs where their car was at, so I landed. He pulls up a couple of those beach chairs, gestures for me to sit and asks me if I wanted a beer. I said NO SIR, I just tried some Jack Daniels and it was AWFUL! I said if you like that stuff, I can go get that bottle and bring it right back for you. He says he'd appreciate this, so we took off, got that bottle and returned, He took TWO good swallows and I just stared at him, waiting for him to throw up. He didn't.

Ira asked what was eating me, with me replying that I killed nine men, so I wasn't cut out to be no superhero. When he asked how did this happen, I explained. He was kind of shocked to find out about my idea of using the Mjolnir's to grind thru rock, but I said that it was Jim who came up with the idea of using that boring thing, so I'm nothing but brute force and he's the brains. Ira tells me that there was nothing wrong with my original idea, but also to recognize the fact that Jim not only came up with better idea, you accepted it without hesitation, Not only that, that I was the one who came up with using those concrete pipes inside the mine shaft when it started collapsing, didn't you? I said yes and he said you remind me of that movie of that Marine Gunner sergeant who tells his people to adapt, change, overcome.......and that's what you did and in doing so, saved a great number of miner lives. I said yeah, right. He asks me to stand up and we both did and without any warning, WHACK, got smacked on my face! I fell on my behind and scrambling to back away from him.

He says let me tells you a couple of things. You say you killed those nine men because you were too weak to continue without eating and recharging as you call it. What would of happened to you if you HADN'T eaten or recharged? I bet you couldn't of continued and where would those miners be? Still trapped inside the mine, slowly suffocating....or crushed under tons of rock from that collapsing tunnel. Did you ever see that man Jim using that boring thing as you call it? I said no, but then he was busy making sure I had enough to eat because I was pretty hungry at the time. Ira then maybe Jim COULDN'T do what you can do, so he helped you the best way he could by feeding you and pushing those concrete pipes into the mine shaft. Not only that, did you think that while he can move pretty fast, if he ever tried spinning like you can, he'd of gotten sick? I didn't understand, so Ira explained how he'd seen a short film on astronauts training on a centrifuge and how their faces get pulled back by the G forces and they have great difficulty in just trying to raise a hand. He's seen us on more than one tv news video, with us going in a circle, so why didn't I pass out from those G forces? Maybe Jim KNEW he couldn't take those kind of forces, so he helped you the best way he could. And do you have ANY idea what people would give to have your ability? Since all this bleep went down months ago, not everyone is out helping their fellow man like you, Jim and others are doing. Now, if you think of quitting this superhero endeavor of yours, think of this. How many MORE people will die because YOU could of saved them, but WOULDN'T. No matter how hard you try, bad things including death, will happen to good people.

[eyeseetwo]

Wow! Thank you so much.

[willc453]

Thanks. Just trying to add realism to my Affected stories, something the comic books/movi8es never seem to show when dealing with Superhero's. One exception was the one Daredevil movie where it shows Matt Murdock returning from fighting crime and pulling out a tooth and taking some sort of drug for his pain. Does Bat/Superman wear boxer shorts or fruit of the loom undies? What about Supergirl, Sue Storm of The Fantastic Four and Catwoman as examples.....they never seem to have monthly menstrual problems. Superhero's never seem to show or have thoughts of self doubt, but then there's Thor. He's making more money than he ever imagined and now has to deal with the problem of large amounts of cash. He can't just give it to his Mom because that would bring up questions he doesn't want her asking or thinking about. He has no one to actually talk to, but this was why he went looking for Ira who's older than his Mom and also a combat vet. On page 4.5 of chapter 44 and got a plot twist, though don't know when I'll put it in.

[texican]

Thanks willC for the chapter.

Yep, never see any panty lines on the super women.

Texican....

[willc453]

The Affected: Thor
Chapter 44

Funny thing was I'd never given thought to what others would do if they had my or others, like Jim and Chucks, abilities. Or some how get them. Considering some of the people we've met, it was kind of scary in what they'd be doing to everyone. That's when Ira pulled up his left pants leg and I see he's got a prosthetic leg. I'll be honest in stating that I stared at it as he was the first person I knew who had one. Asks me if I'd ever heard of the Tet Offensive and I shook my head no. Dropping his pants leg, he held out his left hand and this was the first time I noticed he was missing the first two fingers on his left hand, then he opened his shirt and there were some BIG scars on his chest and from what little I could see, he had scars down lower, but they were hidden by his pants. After finishing basic training and basic infantry course, he was sent to Vietnam, just like everyone else that he'd trained with. But when they hit Ton Son Nut Air Base, everyone got scattered all to heck and gone at the replacement depot. So, suddenly, he found himself ALL alone, being shipped to an outfit he knew nothing about or any of the people in it. He was able to get into his duffel bag and from it, got his spare underwear, t-shirts and other personal articles, which he put into what he called an Alice backpack. All his uniforms and other what he called stateside gear, was being left behind for him to pick up when he returned home after his eleven months. That is, if he did return home alive. He was also issued a flack vest, canteens, rifle, ammo, etc. all which weighed about seventy or eighty pounds. He was wondering how in the heck was he going to carry all this stuff into combat. One night in the transient quarters, then the next day, he and some other guys were put on a helicopter for their trip “up north” as he called it and it was on that trip he met Bobbie Joe, with the two of them going to the same outfit. Once they were dropped off at their firebase as it was called, they reported to their first sergeant, who told them what platoon they'd be in.

Thing is, they were kind of treated....not as outcasts, but not welcomed like they both thought they would be. Tells me that they were cherries, meaning they had no combat experience and being cherries, many times they didn't last long in combat. Worse yet, when they died, they would sometimes take someone with them. So he and Bobby Joe became brothers, again, something Ira explained to me. But those in their platoon did take care of them in many ways, explaining what equipment to take, how to use it, what to look for, etc. In time, they soon became vets, but then the Tet Offensive happened, with them being in some town called Hue which is a big city in what was South Vietnam. It was a bad time for the Americans and South Vietnamese because they were fighting what Ira called NVA and Charley who were really good soldiers. They'd gotten a call to help some other soldiers who were pinned down, so off they went. The problem was they had a new officer, with the rank of lieutenant, who had arrived in country as he called it, just a few days before the offensive started. The men were going to help those others, but the lieutenant said they'd cut thru someone's courtyard and pushed open the gate to that place.....and the gate exploded. Which killed not only the lieutenant, but Bobby Joe and two other men, while others, like him, got wounded. The wounded got evacuated to a military hospital, where what was left of his leg was removed and surgery was done on the stubs of his fingers. From there, it was to Japan, then the Philippines, then to Walter Reed hospital in Washington, D.C. He was discharged and returned home with a monthly twenty-five percent disability paycheck for his missing limb and parts of his fingers. As an E-2, his monthly pay was $113.40, plus combat pay?! So he was receiving a little over twenty-five dollars a month for being so messed up physically?!

He came back messed up mentally and rightfully so because he had survivors guilt, something I hadn't heard of before. He explained, along with having pain in his missing leg more than once. But Sui Te Wan was there for him and believe me he said, I was an absolute bleep towards her at times, but her love for me never faltered. Then he asks me if I have a girl and had to tell him no. There is a girl I was interested in, but she only knows me as Thor and...... well, I've been helping her people and I'd want her to like me for being me and NOT as Thor. He said I was like some Hollywood movie star, going out with basically only other movie stars or well connected people, you know, rich. This made me feel worse inside. Ira said the reason he slapped me and showed me his leg and hand was to make me realize that no matter how hard I tried as Thor, bad things were going to happen to good people, like his brother and those that died that day. And the same way those miners died you tried saving. I didn't like what he said, but understood. Then he surprises me, asking if I'd like something to eat and suddenly I was hungry. Not the HUNGRY, but regular hungry as I hadn't eaten much of anything in the past few days. I said yes, with Ira calling Sui Te Wan to bring the picnic basket down and I said I'd give her a hand with it and rose into the air to land besides her. Thing is, she's looking at their rear left tire which is flat. No problem, with me looking around for any traffic and a guy comes SWERVING towards us while laying on his car horn. Figured later on, didn't think he was going to hit us, but just to put a scare into us. But I didn't know and without thinking, grabbed Sui Ti Wan by her waist and we shot up into the air a good one hundred feet. That guy not only kept going, but sped up. Set Sui Ti Wan down by Ira, with me saying we'd be right back and took off again. That guy drove down the road for a few more miles before pulling over, then getting his fishing gear out and while following him, called for Bob's Mjolnir's. Watched the man go down those steps with his tackle box and a couple of fishing rods, at which time I attached one of Bob's Mjolnir's to the roof of his car and away we went. Now there are some SMALL islands in the Keys that can ONLY be reached by boat and that's where we left his car. Let him try explaining this to his insurance company, but not good enough for me as far as I was concerned. We hurried back to where that guy had just finished setting out his equipment and that's when we went LOW and fast just above the ocean. Had Bob's Mjolnir's twirling in a counter clockwise direction and when we got near him, they got sped up, creating a MASSIVE wave which SOAKED him and his gear, but not enough to blow him and his gear off that concrete pier.

Sui Ti Wan is down on the pier with Ira holding her when I got back to them. Ira held out his hand, saying thank you, so I shook it. Thing is, Ira said maybe I was thinking of quitting the superhero business because of what happened to those miners, but he KNOWS I not only wouldn't, but couldn't, simply because the way I was raised. Then it was I gotta change a flat, at which time I offered to help and he accepted. Now Ira's digging thru the back of their stationwagon for his spare tire and gear. Said to leave the jack and stuff inside the car, with me pulling out their spare tire with one hand, which I layed on the ground next to the flat tire. Put Mjolnir under the rear axle, then having it lifted up into the air high enough so I could change the tire. Ira offers me the lug wrench, then stops when he sees me loosening the lug nuts by hand. Swapped tires, then tightened the lug nuts with no problem. Ira had a cigarette lighter operated air pump and a patch kit to repair his flat, but was having a hard time getting his pliers to grab the long wood or metal screw in the tire. I simply reached out and pinched both sides of the tire, then pulled the screw out. Ira said I'd make one heck of a cracker jack roadside repair guy and laughed. We go back to Sui Ti Wan who got busy pulling out sandwiches and then I saw 'em......deviled eggs?!

Now in case you're wondering, what's the big deal about deviled eggs? How about the ONLY time we ever got 'em was basically on Easter and only because Mom would take us to one of the city parks where there would be a free Easter egg hunt and sometimes we were lucky to hit the local church's Easter egg hunt also. Yeah, there was a mad scramble by us to get as many as possible, with us ending up with a little over a hundred eggs.....and some kids would drop theirs and the egg would crack. We took them too. We also had no shame in accepting eggs from our friends as they were more into the candy in their Easter baskets. Anyway, once home, Mom would get busy making deviled eggs and I'm surprised she didn't slip on a wet floor from the drool coming out of our mouths in anticipation, Remember, the majority of time we had cereal for breakfast as we'd gobble down like three eggs each and there went almost a dozen eggs. Now to me, Mom ALWAYS made THE best deviled eggs. Period. But Sui Ti Wan's.....well, they were different in having bit of a “bite” in 'em, for lack of a better word. Told her how Mom made hers and asked her how she made hers. Same recipe, but she added something like a tablespoon or two of white vinegar to her mix?! Told her that hers was better than Moms, with me planning on making some when I got home. Once I got them down right, I'd be sure to let Mom know, She smiled and offered me more of them, which I gratefully ate, followed by two of the four beef sandwiches they'd brought with them. That made me feel really guilty, so asked if they'd like some beef ribs and roast beef sandwiches as a way to make up for eating most of their food. Ira tells me of a place in Homestead and I said I know of good place, but it's in London and if you want, we can get there and back within maybe ten minutes max? I got stared at, with Ira saying he's never tried food from England, so looking at Sui Ti Wan, he says let's give the boy a chance and she simply nods.

Up in the air we go and about thirty or forty miles off the coast of the Keys, we stop while I called up Bobs Mjolnir's.....just in case you understand, So I'm just looking around and then see it.....a weird looking boat and I'm thinking drug smugglers, here we come, so got lower. It wasn't a drug smuggling boat at all, but a raft that was not only coming apart, but some people were in the water and when I got closer, I could see SHARKS circling the raft and those in the water. Got busy getting those oil drums back under their raft with Bobs Mjolnir's hold the raft together, then grabbing those in the water, while others climbed back on it. Once everyone was safe (more or less), well those sharks were NOT happy and started BUMPING the raft! Lifted everyone and the raft about three or four feet above the waves, with us taking off for Homestead. Now there's a park called Bay Front Park where people can swim in self contained, sea water fed pond and there's a boat ramp for those who want to do some ocean fishing. Yeah, we go some attention when we came into the park via the air and then landed. Seems LOTS of people in Florida speak English and Spanish, with me finding out these people had escaped from Cuba?! Found out who the leader was of these people, giving him one thousand dollars so they could rent a motel room for a couple of days or whatever. Sixteen men, women and children now hoping to become American citizens. Yeah....I was guilty of smuggling illegal aliens into the U.S.

Then took off for those sharks as I had plans for them. Yep, sharks are NOT big thinkers and a bunch of 'em were still swimming where the raft used to be. Started sticking Bobs Mjolnir's to their backs when their fins would briefly come out of the water and I even grabbed one by it's top fin and off to Hikarue's studio we went. Now it was dark there, but when I landed, quickly found a woman who spoke English. After some discussion, it was decided that five people per shark was fair enough. I whacked the sharks heads, quickly followed those sharks by being zapped. They didn't move after those two actions by us and two more trips to/from Florida to/from Japan. Take off for London and you know they got a BIG Ferris wheel on the Thames river, right? I thought they were waving at me and at first, I waved back, then figured they weren't waving, but calling for help. Seems the wheel was stuck and firemen were being called out to help them. We got all twenty-one of them down within fifteen minutes, then off to the food vendors. Got lucky in getting there maybe forty-five minutes before they closed, with the beef sandwich guy seeing me land. He says he's really surprised to see a THIRD man flying thru the air.....and just how many of you blokes are there that can do this? And by the way, that Thor bloke is not going to like it you carrying the same kind of hammer he has. I said I'm sorry....it's me, Thor....I'm just not on official Thor business right now and can I buy twelve of your beef sandwiches please? Six the way you make 'em for everyone and six....well, if you remember what I like on mine and let go of my Mjolnir. He stares and says righto mate, bang up job you blokes did rescuing those miners. I said no.....because I had to stop and get refueled as I call it, those nine men died because of me. That's why I haven't being doing Thor stuff.....I didn't want others to die because I was too slow.

He says wot? Didn't you know that they'd been hurt when the mine started collapsing and died BEFORE you even got them?! I just stood there stunned, asking if he was sure and he asks haven't I been watching the telly? I said no....after......after what happened at the mine, I didn't want to be Thor any more, so I took off. Not when due to my incompetence, people died. Now the thing is, we'd gotten a crowd around us and one of the men there said that if it hadn't been the effort by the two of us, ALL of the miners would of died because the mine shaft kept collapsing. That we were doing something NOBODY had thought of, or would of thought of doing. I said, yeah....Jim's the one who came up with that idea. I then said excuse me, but I need some ribs and walked away from them to the rib lady. Told her I needed five racks of ribs to go please and gave her the money she asked for. I ate four of them and it was no problem pulling the ribs off and chomping on 'em, including the bones. She stared at me while she wrapped up one package, then I head back to the beef sandwich guy. Thing is, had people following me to her business, but the thing was, NO ONE asked for selfies and as he finished wrapping up all the sandwiches, but four of them, one by one, people came up to thank me for helping those miners. Boy, was I embarrassed, but shook each persons hand and thanked each of them for their kind words. Then someone mentioned us helping those people at what they call The London's Eye.......you know, that ferris wheel we'd been at maybe thirty minutes earlier. Then someone asked if I was going to try to put out all those fires in California and that hurricane in Georgia or whatever that state is called. I'll be honest.....I hadn't watched the news in awhile and not even aware of any of this, but one of the people pulled out her phone and showed me news videos of what was happening there at both places. I said excuse me, but we gotta go to do Thor stuff and rose up into the air with my food in those bags.

Got back to Ira and Sui Te Wan and told them how I had to take off, but hope you like the food and without a further word, we took off for Tahoe Lake, California after putting my sandwiches in the motorhome and getting dressed as Thor. Now we've done the water balloon thing, but the fires there were MASSIVE, so time to try something different. Think of a pipe with a cap on one end of it and this time, it's what we did. Six Mjolnir's acting as the cap, forcing the water down, while the other six were sucking it up into the air, but the water was being compressed and boy, Mjolnir's were WORKING bringing up that water. Flew over to where the fires were closets to homes, then started releasing it over an area of abut one quarter mile wide and maybe three miles long. Those fires were OUT. Did this one more time and knew I needed to eat and recharge, so started up some rain clouds about fifteen miles from Lake Tahoe and once it was raining, we took off for the studio cafeteria. Bill saw me enter and he calls out to everyone to step away from the serving line because Thor's HUNGRY and what surprised me was people doing just that. Ate for about thirty minutes, then took off again. The rain clouds were dissipating due to the heat of the fires, so we went to a ball configuration and started moving where ever we saw fires blazing. But then had to quit and remembering how things got sorta of flooded at the studio, dissipating the clouds, then back to the studio cafeteria. I knew I was pushing things in doing the water pipe and Mjolnir ball thing, but I needed A LOT of water at the time. Figured as long as I kept myself fed and charged, I'd be good. Before I left, told Bill to let Bob know I'd be back to see him, though it might be a few days from now. He said he would. We put out about three hundred thousand acres of forest fires, which took us somewhere around nine hours plus. though I had to return to the studios cafeteria more than once. Felt bad about this.... you know, having to leave to get something to eat and recharge, but knew I'd be worthless without them and more trees and possibly homes would burn up. It was on my last trip to the cafeteria that Bob shows up with the California governor in tow?!

He's GUSHING in his thanks, something I didn't need or want to hear because all I cared about was the price others paid for me NOT in watching the news earlier. Because if I had......., But now it was since I could create rain, would I mind filling up their lakes and reservoirs? I looked at Bob and asked him what was this guy talking about and Bob just looks at me, then says I haven't watched the news in awhile had I? I said no, with Bob getting an ipad from one of his people, then bringing up You Tube videos of California's water problem. After five minutes or so watching them, the governor made the mistake of opening his mouth, saying I HAD TO restore California's water shortage and if need be, he'd have a court order ORDERING me to bring water thru out California?! Didn't even think about it, but stood up, knocking my chair back and Mjolnir was in my hand, just like that, with me starting to Hulk out. I said don't EVER threaten me again. I like my boss, he a good man and I trust him. You, I not only DON'T know, but you THREATEN me?! Bob YANKS the governor by his suit and yells, watch out everyone, Thor's going Hulk on us, with a mad scramble of people getting away from us. Next thing I know is I'm snapped out of the Hulk stage. How? Natalie threw a salt shaker which hit me right between my eyes?! Then she says for me to cool my jets RIGHT NOW, you hear me? Yeah, I did. She turns to Bob, saying she didn't know what had happened to make Thor Hulk out like he did, but I'd be it had something to do with whatever the governor said, right? I said yeah, he said......Natalie turns on me, telling me to shut my pie hole unless I was feeding it and pointed to my cubicle. I shut my pie hole and returned to my cubicle to finish eating.

But I heard Natalie telling Bob he needed to get rid of the governor and after all, this studio is PRIVATE property and if he and his cronies don't leave, you can have them arrested for trespassing, right? Bob says yes, but that's when the governor opened his mouth again, saying he was the governor, blah, blah, blah. Wrong thing to say and wrong place to say it. I jumped over my partition without any trouble and before anyone (meaning Natalie) could do or say anything, I zapped the governor with one hand, with his collapsing to the floor. I looked at his people and said take this piece of garbage off the studio property NOW. They couldn't leave fast enough for the golf carts that had brought them here. Bob's shaking his head, saying I realized that I'd just assaulted the governor of California, right? I said no sir, I didn't......I believed he was getting hysterical and a man of his age, why, he might have a coronary....and we wouldn't want that kind of bad publicity for the studio, would we? I then turned back to my cubicle and started eating again, with those two following me into it. Then I heard Tom's voice saying I hope to God that someone got all of this on video......and someone start making a list of other politicians that Thor should deal with in the same manner. Next thing I know is he and Chris come walking over to my cubicle, asking to enter, which I said come on in. Now Tom, he doesn't hesitate in speaking his mind and he said he, like everyone else, wondered where I'd been for so long. I said that I had had something bad happen and needed.......time to think, along with quitting being Thor. Yeah, that shocked them, but what I liked was none of them asked what the bad thing was as they figured if I wanted to talk about it, I would of. Told Bob that because I hadn't kept up on the news lately, to let Hikarue know I may be not available for few more days. That's when Chris asked if I was going to help those in Louisiana, with Tom asking about the hurricane in New York City?! I said what hurricane? I thought there was just the one and that's when Bob once again got an ipad from one of his people and I started seeing videos of what was happening in both states, with Jim and others like us, helping everyone as much as they could. I said okay, let me put out the fires in California, then after eating again, we'll head out for Louisiana, just let Jim know we're coming, okay? He said he would and with that, we took off.

It took a little over two hours in making sure the fires were out and if any started up again, the firefighters knew to call me on my second phone, I stuffed myself back at the cafeteria because I knew we'd be hosing things done energy wise. Kind of overshot New Orleans and ending up in Georgia. Hey, I'd never been to Louisiana before, okay? Looking for people to rescue, when I hear Jim calling my name. Thing is, by the time we got there, it had dissipated, but there was a lot of flooding and figured best to search for people needing help. He comes flying over, saying everyone was wondering what happened to you......we could of REALLY used your help with disaster relief. I said after what happened at the mine with those dead men, I didn't want to be Thor. He just looked at me, so I continued. I went to talk to some people I know, but couldn't find them for a few days. He continues looking at me and I said, hey, I only met them one time at some place, but it's some place they go to a lot.....I just didn't know WHEN they'd be there......so I....kept to myself and away from everyone. He says he called Bob who said he'd call you and I said I have two phones....one's for family, the other is for Bob and other people I meet. I heard a phone can be traced to a location even if it's not being used, so before I return home, I take the battery out of it just to make sure this doesn't happen. He says the hurricane's over here and now everyone's busy rescuing people, but what we need is more help in New York City because the hurricane there has brought so much water into the city, that the subways are flooded, along with the streets. I said we learned a new trick that should do the job, but I gotta make eating arrangements, with him saying he'd make arrangements. I said forget it, you don't understand.....what I ate in Wales is NOTHING compared to what I'm consuming now. But I know a place that I'm pretty sure that's be glad to take care of me. Just let the White House know they may get a phone call from a Coast Guard base. He simply says go to it. Flew to that Coast Guard base in Florida, figuring they wouldn't mind feeding a future starvin' superhero. Looked for the biggest building figuring that's where the Admiral or Captain of the base would be working out of. Landed at the base of some stairs and started walking up them when three lady sailors came out of the building. They asked if they could get some selfies and I said, ladies, we're in a life and death kind of hurry......would you take me to who's ever in charge of this base? All three volunteered to do this and before too long, we're in the Admirals outer office and he was waiting for me?!

Explained what I needed and why, with the Admiral saying he'd have it ready for me. I got to go, then realized I didn't know where their dining hall was at, so asked him, but those three lady sailors said WE'LL TAKE HIM THERE! The Admiral just smiled, then said looks like you got your guides. Attached Bobs Mjolnir's to them and to the dining hall we went. Yep, the Admiral had already called and ALL of the food at the dining hall was at my disposal. Then off to New York City and it was AWFUL with the flooding EVERYWHERE. Found some policemen and got briefed how bad it was and I said okay, first make sure EVERYONE is out of the subway as things are going to get REALLY unreal, then told them of what we were going to do. They just stared for a few seconds, with them getting on their phones, while we took off again. This time I was needing those concrete barricades like those used on highways to separate traffic. Not knowing where I could get them locally, went back to California and a couple of DOT stations I've seen while flying over them. We'd stack five of them on top of each other and with my Mjolnir attached to a stack, we quickly took those sixty-five barricades back to New Orleans, dropping most of them there, then to New York City where we blocked off an area where you enter the subway system. Made sure the cops knew to stay at least two hundred feet away and we got busy making our “water pipes', then we'd ZOOMED to the ocean, dropping I don't know how many thousands of gallons of water into it. After two trips, had to eat but told the cops why I had to leave. Man, did I eat at that Coast Guard dining hall. Gobblegobblegobble, etc., then back for New York City. After the forth trip, I had to change the equation so to speak because there was A LOT of water I was dealing with. One friends Dad told me something I never forgot: never work for your money, make it work for you. As to my second trip to that Coast Guard base, I was eating stuff faster than they could cook it, you know like hams, roast beef, etc. Asked if they had a bunch of eggs and the head cook was a lady sailor, telling me they had lots of eggs....how many did I want? Asked how many eggs came in a carton and how many did they have, she laughed, went into the kitchen and comes out with a BIG carton which held one hundred and forty-four eggs. Made a BIG spoon and butter knife, with me just scooping/pushing everything into that spoon. They didn't have any pickle barrels, but they found a couple of BIG pots which they kept filled with ice and water. And someone got me a small metal pipe to use as a straw. Ate all the eggs in that carton, fifteen pounds of hashbrowns and two pans of gravy, then it was time to take off again. They were shocked when I told them no plates.....servings are too small. Just put my food on one of these serving trays and that's what they did. Made things easier for everyone all around.

This time I asked a cop just where did this water normally flow to and told there were drainage pipes leading to the ocean. I said I need to know where they're at, so he called someone who said he'd be at our location in ten minutes and he was. With him knowing where these pipes were at, attached one of Bob's Mjolnir's to his back and he gave me a tour of where they were all at. Thing is, they were all connected to each other in some way which made it a lot easier for us. Put three of Bobs Mjolnir's in each outflow pipe and had them start spinning so they acted as suction fans for lack of a better word. Once I saw the water coming out, I cranked 'em up speed wise. Oh boy.....the water came SHOOTING out, but once again, could only do this for maybe thirty minutes or so, before having to eat and recharge. Took us HOURS and HOURS before nothing was basically coming out of the drain pipes, so back to get something to eat and recharge again. Back to New York City to get those concrete barriers and then to New Orleans. First thing was to stop the rain, so dissipated the clouds. No idea where Jim was at, so asked one of the rescue people and shortly after that, he showed up. Said I needed the lowest point ground wise and he didn't hesitate in finding where that was and helped me set up the concrete barricades. Yeah, with them spread out, we had about a two hundred foot perimeter of barricades, though both of us had to move cars and other things out of the perimeter we'd made. When Jim asked me what I was going to do, told him and he just stared at me, then said he'd make sure the perimeter was clear of all people. Then started making water pipes, with that water going to those drying up lakes and rivers in California and Nevada. This was A LOT harder than I thought, with me only being able to make one trip at a time, with me hitting either the studio cafeteria or the one at the Coast Guard base. Before finishing that job, it was dealing with a tornado in New Jersey, followed by a really bad hail storm in Ontario, Canada. In New Jersey, there were a lot of downed power lines, some of them shooting off sparks, so we'd cut the lines at the top of the pole, with more than one pole busted. Grab it and set it off to one side, then go to the next one. Then back to Louisiana for a little bit before Jim was asking me to go some where else. Thing is, I started to drag.....you know, getting tired. What I needed was some coffee to jack me up so to speak. Went to the Coast Guard base and asked for coffee and they bring me a cup of it?! Their biggest cup wasn't good enough and got permission to look thru their kitchen to find what I needed.....two pots that would hold about three gallons each of whatever. Sugar from six bottles and a gallon of milk added to my coffee “cups” and a few slurps later, both were empty. But man, did I ever have the jitters and shakes from so much caffeine.

Thing is, while I was eating everything put before me and drinking water and coffee like an alcoholic does with liquor, I started dragging because I was TIRED and knew I HAD TO get some rest before I messed up really bad.....like dropping a load of water in Death Valley instead of some lake. Met up with Jim, telling him I was really, really sorry, but I had to leave because I was so tired and that....at which time he asks me when was the last time I'd gotten any sleep because I looked like heck. Took me a few seconds to come up with an answer, with me saying that morning we started working on the California fires. He says we'd been working basically FOUR DAYS straight?! Tells me they (superhero's) have a place to rest and he'd take me there. I said no....I just wanna go home and sleep in my own bed and he says okay. Tell him I'd come back for the concrete barricades, but he says he'd see they were returned, with me telling him where we'd gotten them. After that, we took off west, but the thing is, I wasn't really moving. Like only flying a hundred or so miles per hour and getting close to the ground. Get back up into the air for a few minutes, same thing. Time to land, find a motel and get some sleep before I possibly kill myself by flying into the ground or hitting a building in some city. It was somewhere west of Texas when I decided to land and sleep on the ground, I was that tired. Found a shady spot formed by some small, stunted trees, used my sustainment pouch as a pillow and wrapped myself in my cloak around me as a blanket and after putting Bob's Mjolnir's around me and with mine in my hand, laid out of the ground and basically passed out. And those dead miners came for me again.

[texican]

willC,

Thor definitely needs more help with his guilt that is not deserved.

Great chapter.

Thank you.

Texican....

[willc453]

Yep and that's in the next chapter. And on just started on page 3.5 of 47, along with new people he meets in the next few chapters, including Tala and Crows Feather. Also hope to clear up a few loose ends that I wrote about in earlier chapters.

[willc453]

The Affected: Thor
Chapter 45

Right off the bat, they pointed their fingers at me, with several saying I had killed them and that I had NO idea of the pain and grief I had caused their families because of my incompetence. I said that's not only NOT right, but unjustified. You people either were injured when that mine tunnel collapsed and died of your injuries or were killed outright. The dead: by why didn't you save us sooner? I said I don't have ESP or the ability to see the future, how was I to know what happens somewhere? They looked stunned, with me continuing with asking them if they'd of been happy if ALL of them had died in the mine, instead of just the nine of them? Murmurs of no came from them and I said you talk about your families and loved ones grieving for their loss.....how about the ones we saved? Those people KNOW that without Jim and my efforts, the others in the mine would of probably died. That's when the first dead man I had carried to the surface stepped forward to say he was sorry for his false accusations and please forgive him for them and when I said okay, he faded away to nothing. Then one by one, the others stepped forward to basically say the same thing before fading away except for the last man. He tells me basically the same thing, but then goes to say since they are on the other side of life, they see things differently. That I will will live for many years, saving many people, but some times failing in trying to save them. That I will find a woman who will love me for as I am and not as Thor, with many children from your union with her. Then it was live life to the fullest because it can end so suddenly and fare thee well Thor, at which time he fades away.

Wake up and still groggy as heck and as I look down, see that I've grown a third arm under my left arm and some how there's a forth arm that seems to have grown from my right shoulder blade with it's hand resting on the left side of my head. Later, it was finding a zip lock baggie with dried sheep meat in it and a canteen of water. Chewed some jerky and after a drink of water, went back to sleep. When I kind of woke up again, this time there was a bowl of kind of warm sheep stew and that canteen. Ate, drank, then back to sleep. Later, when I rolled over, find a woman next to me?! There's a blanket on top of my cloak and it gets cold at night, so this blanket helped. I was kind of shocked when she not only cuddles up against me, but uses one of her hands to take my wrist and puts it over her waist. Now things would have been great continuing that dream, but shortly after our cuddling, she snores.......LOUDLY?! I said I'm sorry, but you snore and turned back over and went back to sleep. When I finally did wake up, wasn't sure if I was dreaming or awake, but my bladder told me to get up or face dire consequences. I got up. Walked away from “my” trees to take care of business and was looking around because something said something wasn't right. It took me a few minutes to understand what I was looking for which was where I'd slept and touched my mouth thinking did I eat dirt while sleeping, thinking it was sheep jerky or sheep stew? Nope...no dirt on my mouth and as far as I could tell, no foot prints other than mine. After getting things tucked away so to speak, turned to pick up Mjolnir and I saw it.....a large, long black feather. Decided to take it as a souvenir and placed it in my sustainment pouch. We take off and kind of surprised in finding that I had either landed on or close to Tala's reservation land instead of us being in Texas.

Get to “my” mesa and there's my motorhome with me landing and having Bobs Mjolnir's land on the roof of it. Then I heard it......a dog was barking?! My first thought was someone else was out here, someone I hadn't seen when landing and no doubt they'd be wondering just what was Thor up to? And did they see me land next to my motorhome? Went back up into the air to find the barking dog and it's owner, but not seeing anyone for at least a mile. Land and dog gets to barking again, but this time, realize it's coming from under my motorhome?! Get on my hands and knees to peer under it and there's a Momma dog with five puppies?! Had to change asap, then deal with this new problem. Once I was changed, peered under the motorhome, trying to get them to come out......no way, with Momma dog REALLY barking at me. They had to be hot under there, even in the shade as I could see six sets of tongues hanging out while they were panting. Get a bowl which I filled with water and tried coxing them out with that. No good. But when I flicked some water onto the pups faces, they came out quick enough for the bowl of water sitting on the ground.......and knocked it over?! Yeah, had some crying puppies and Momma dog was just looking at me like saying how could I be so stupid? Fill the bowl again, but this time, it went into a depression in the ground that I made and all 6 of them got busy slurping water, which didn't last long. But I had a gallon of water to refill it with and did so, two more times. While they were busy drinking that third time, went inside to see what I had that I could feed them. Still had most of a one pound chub of hamburger and some American cheese I'd gotten from Winco. Also had about one half a gallon of milk and figured that couldn't hurt. Made two bowls of food....one for Mama dog, the other for her pups and yes, made sure the pups couldn't knock over either bowl. Yeah, they were all hungry, with the pups gobbling up their share first and then went for Mamma dogs share. She gave 'em a growl and they backed off, doing some whining. After a couple more bites, she backed off, with the puppies quickly devouring what was left. Now with no one around, there was no way I could leave them there, especially since I'd been gone for almost a week and no idea how they had survived after all this time. So opened the motorhomes door and called the pups to me and they came running to me. Started picking up pups and kind of tossing them inside, with Momma dog understanding what was happening, so she jumped inside with a pup in her mouth.

With the door closed, went looking for something to show me where the they all came from. It's said that even a blind squirrel will get lucky and find an acorn. I found car (or truck) tracks over the tracks my motorhome had made. Took one of Bobs Mjolnir's to follow them as I hoped to stop whoever from abandoning the pups and Momma dog. Miles down the road, it turned back to the freeway, so whoever was long gone. Back to the motorhome, with me needing to get dog food and better/more bowls for them to drink and eat from. So headed for the nearest town where there was a Petco. My intention WAS to get an empty cart to put the pups in, with Mama dog following us. But as soon as the door partially opened, the pups made a mad dash for it. I was able to keep them from getting out, but apparently there are different rules for puppies than those for Mama dogs. I looked at her and she looked right back at me as in saying the kids can stay inside, but not you and me, then she got busy sniffing and urinating everything in sight. She followed me into Petco afterwards, where I got an empty cart after making sure their pet grooming station was open as I wanted all of them to have a bath. Fleas you understand. Not that they had 'em, but still...... Then saw some rawhide chews, so filled a bag with them and after paying for them, Mamma dog got one which made her happy and tail wagging back to my place. Puppies went in the cart and of course, a rawhide chew each. Chewchewchew sounds commenced by them. Well, the pups and Momma dog got their baths and fur trimmed and while that was happening, bought collars and leashes for all of them, along with fifty pounds of puppy food, twenty-five pounds of regular dog food and two cases of canned food, with the idea of adding it to the dry stuff. Then finding out where the nearest veterinarian was at as I wanted to make sure they had whatever shots would be required by law. Man, this was getting to be expensive, but what could I do? They'd been abandoned once already and if I simply took them to the pound, I'd be abandoning them a second time. Oh boy.....ever try walking with five puppies on leashes? NOT easy as they all seem to want to go in different directions. It was on the way to the veterinarian that I thought of that black feather and my plan for it changed. Decided it'd look a lot better in ones hat than stuck in some photo frame from Dollar Tree, so pulled into the Bass Pro parking lot.

Took me about fifteen minutes to find the one I really liked and once back in the motorhome, made two slits on the left side of the hat, with the feather fitting ever so nicely and tight in it. Yeah.......I preened like a peacock in the bathroom mirror for a good five minutes while wearing it. Off to the vet's office where everyone got their shots and tags. Man, doing all this was costing me some money, but there was no alternative as far as I knew. Just wanted to make sure the puppies were adoptable as possible. Got hungry and was cruising for a place to eat, when I saw that same place where I'd met Tala, etc. awhile back. Mama dog and her puppies were peacefully sleeping on my couch, so I went inside to get something to eat and darn right, I was wearing my new hat and wouldn't of minded at all if someone told me how awesome it looked. Didn't happen of course. Double cheeseburger, fries and ice tea went down great, then decided to splurge, getting a strawberry milkshake and it was DELICIOUS with LOTS of chunks of strawberries in it. Well, it was time to get going back west and figure out what to do with Mama dog and her puppies and I was thinking maybe Natalie could help me out in finding homes for all of them or maybe Cherie might take one. Well, I'll be honest.....I wasn't paying attention, so it was my fault that I bumped into a girl and in doing so, she was going to fall on her behind. Without thinking (uh oh), grabbed her so she wouldn't, but she called me a couple of dirty names, thinking I was trying to make a VERY crude pass at her.......and at the same time, kicked me HARD in my ankle! I let her go, she fell on her behind and I'm busy hopping around on one leg while trying to make sure she doesn't get close enough to attack me again. Now I hadn't put my hat on and in doing my one legged hopping around, it got kicked a few feet away, so hobbled over to it, picked it up and put it on my head while looking out for that girl. Oh crud.....it was Crows Feather and her grandfather, Tala?!

Tala starts apologizing for Crows Feathers actions for kicking me in the ankle like she did, then stops, staring at my hat with its feather in it. He says something to Crows Feather in Indian and she replies, but looks a bit scared for reasons I don't understand other than maybe she realized how wrong she was in kicking me like she did. You know, like maybe I'd call the cops on her, not that I would of of course. Then Tala says I look familiar, then Tala snaps his fingers like he's remembering something, followed by saying I was that young man they'd met awhile back.....and the one who handled those men when they kicked his dog. Uh oh...... I said yes sir, though your daughter didn't kick me in the ankle THAT time. He laughs, but Crows Feather doesn't say anything other than LOOK at me, then Tala says that's a nice hat and I tell him I'd just bought it, but then ask him if either of them knew what kind of feather it was, like maybe an eagle's feather? Tala says no, that's a crows feather, then turns to look at Crows Feather who's looking really scared, then pleased. As to Tala, he goes to LOOKING at me, then her. When asked where I'd found it, I kept it simple......I found it by some small trees and was going to put it in a picture frame from Dollar Tree.....you know as a memento. Then he mentions how some people believe in karma, while he believes in fate and strange that I find a birds feather as the same name as his granddaughters name. I didn't like where this was going, so I said yeah, weird isn't it? Asked what brought me out here and I said I decided I needed some time away from the city and ended up in this area not long ago. Found it.....peaceful, if you will. I mean, a lot of people would consider it kind of desolate, but I like it. Gives a man time to think without all the noise, smell and the hustle and bustle of a big city. Tala said he understood how some places can grow on a man.

We're then heading towards the door after paying our bills, with me asking them if they knew anyone looking to adopt a puppy, maybe even a Mama dog. That's when Crows Feather says something in Indian to Tala, then her saying she might be interested and that made me happy in thinking in maybe I found a home for one of them and only four left to go and of course, Mama dog. But things took a different turn when four guys came walking up to us when we were outside of the restaurant. The first guy tells Crows Feather she's looking mighty fine and my hand became a fist. Tala then says they want nothing to do with the Burrough brothers?! But the second guy says he's quite sure he could and would.....show her things and take her places she's never been to. Tala steps between those two, telling this guy they want NOTHING from the Burrough brothers, that his words were inappropriate and not wanted. This guy makes the mistake of telling Tala that he was just an old Indian sheep farmer and his granddaughter could do so much better in life by being nice to him. That's when I stepped between Tala and this Burroughs brother and grabbed this guy by the throat, saying you heard Tala. What you said was WRONG and slammed his head into the side of a car with a very pleasant thunking noise coming from those two meeting each other. Got sucker punch in my lower left side and all I did was give him my backhand to his jaw and just like that he was down. Knives seem popular there in town, with the third guy pulling out one that had to be Bowie size and it was Tala who saw this guy coming for me and called out to me about him coming at me. He tried stabbing me, but missed.....but I didn't. Grabbed his arm, turned and flipped him over my shoulder and SLAMMED him into the ground. The fourth man? He pulls a gun, telling me I'm a dead sob. Grabbed that big knife, then stepped in front of Tala and threw that knife at that guy, thinking I'd make him flinch and just maybe have a chance of jumping him. Instead, he found himself with four inches of knife sticking out of the other side of his gun hand wrist, which made it easy for me to slap him into unconsciousness.

Turned to face Tala and Crows Feather, asking them if they were okay and they just stood there for a bit, before they slowly nodded up and down. Of course, the cops got called and arrived there in maybe five minutes, with four ambulances being called for those four guys. Tala, Crows Feather, the patrons in the restaurant, the owner and the two waitresses spoke up for me, so thankfully, no charges were being brought against me. As to those four, the first guy had a concussion and out of it for two days. The second guy had his jaw dislocated and needed to have surgery on it. The knife guy had back problems for a few weeks, along with having his shoulder bone popped back into place. The fourth guy almost lost his hand because the way that knife went into his wrist. What I didn't know at the time was in throwing that knife, I cut a bunch of his veins or arteries, but then I was in a hurry at the time. Thinking about this afterwards, thought I should of hit his wrist with the knife handle, but like I said, I was in a hurry and had to protect Tala and Crows Feather at the time. Bad news, was the cops getting my personal information via my drivers license. Good news was this was obviously a case of self defense. Now all of this took about forty-five minutes, after which we were free to go. With so many witnesses, I was told that I'd very wouldn't probably even be called into court when those guys trials came up. As to those four, two were Burrough brothers, with their three other brothers at their ranch during all of this, while the other two were ranch hands.

With all of this over and done with, I turned to Tala and Crows Feather, telling them I had to take off for home as I'm sure my boss would be happy to see me again. But as I turned to leave them, Crows Feather says what about those puppies I had offered her earlier? Yeah, I'd forgotten about Mama dog and her pups, so I said okay, follow me and to my motorhome we went, with me explaining they'd gotten all their shots earlier. Thing is, when I opened the door to it, out come five puppies, with Mama dog right behind them.....all headed in different directions! Took us a good twenty minutes getting those five booger heads caught and put back inside my motorhome. As to Mama dog, she jumped inside with no problem, then turned to look at me as if saying see what I have to deal with? Crows Feather is on the floor, cooing over all of them and making all sorts of disgusting girly noises and after a few minutes, she says she'd take him. I said okay, which him because there's three boys. Tells me she didn't say him, but THEM?! As in ALL of them, including Mama dog?! Tala and I were both stunned and after a few seconds, words passed between the two of them in Indian. Upshot of their conversation was Tala had told her that she couldn't have so many pets, that they'd have to be working dogs, that is, sheep dogs. At least that's what I was told, though I think there was a lot more said between them, with Crows Feather saying it would be wrong to break up such a happy family. Well, got them in the back of Tala's trucks bed, with me putting my new hat and crows feather on the bed of it. Puppies kept going back and forth between me and Crows Feather, with them trying to reach me and lick my face. Hat almost fell off, which is why I put it there. I think Mama dog knew we were parting, because she put her two front paws on the tailgate of the truck and started licking my face, while wagging her tail quite a bit. Like she was giving me thanks. Picked up my hat and then tossed it to Crows Feather, saying I wanted her to have it because of her name and the fact that I had found that feather. Yeah, she looked a lot better with that hat and feather on her head than I ever did. I also made sure they got all the dog food and other stuff I'd bought. So I waved to them as they took off, with Mama dog still hanging onto the tail gate, barking at me and wagging her tail. Well, can tell you that it was a LONG walk back to the motorhome.

Decided I'd take another day or two off just to make sure I was okay physically. As to Mama dog and her puppies, yeah, I missed them and started understanding why people had pets. That there was someone waiting for you when you came home and missed you when you had to leave for work. Thing is, I KNEW I couldn't keep a pet simply because of what I'd be doing as Thor and who knew how long I might be gone at times? Headed back to “my” mesa, getting there a few hours before it got dark......and see movement on the side of “my” mesa?! Out comes my binoculars to see THREE people doing what they call rock climbing which is dangerous as heck as they use NO climbing gear. Depending only strength, agility and faith. And they were a good three hundred feet up on that side of that mesa, with another hundred or so before reaching the top. But the lead climber then fell, knocking the other two from the side of the mesa! Dropped the binoculars, grabbed my mask and Mjolnir and out the door we went, with Bobs Mjolnir's following. We stopped them from splattering all over the ground below by about thirty feet. I saw that all three guys had wet themselves, not that I blamed them. They're looking down at the ground below them, then calling out to each other, with one of them saying they had died and hopefully some angels will be there to take them to Heaven because it was obvious they weren't heading to that “other place”. I raised them higher into the air, then turned them so they could face me. I said no, no angels here......
just me......Thor. Told them they needed another hobby which wouldn't include heights, like skydiving, paragliding as examples. They heartily agreed. Find out they had parked on the other side of “my” mesa and once I set them down by their truck, they took off for the freeway, with us returning to my motorhome. Funny thing.....NONE asked why wasn't I in my costume. With no one now around, flew to the top of it and with my camping gear, set up camp again, along with a small fire and making some coffee. That's one thing I liked about being out in the middle of no where......NO lights except from the moon and stars. It gives a man time to think and sometimes that's a bad thing because I was thinking of Ira and his wife in how long they'd been married and I had nobody. When you think about it, life as a “superhero” sucks when you have no one to come home to. Now some may say Momma dog and her puppies wouldn't be.......actually being someone to look forward to seeing when I'd get home, but it would be someone. Look at Batman and Superman in the comic books...... no social life and of course, no marriage. When I got to thinking in these lines, wondered if Jim or Chuck were married or had girlfriends and what was it like when they grew up. Do they keep their abilities to themselves or tell them? Sometimes thinking can be a bad thing and after putting my fire out, went to sleep on the mesa.

Next morning, put everything away, then flew down to the motorhome where I plugged my second phones battery in and started it to be charged to one hundred percent. While this was happening, took a shower, with breakfast being a couple of soft scrambled eggs, four slices of bacon and a big cup of milk. After dishes were cleaned, called Bob to let him know I'd be back at work within two days, Well, things kept happening in the world.....the California governor had called him several times and of course, all of Bobs calls had gone to voice mail. There were several more fires happening in California, not one, but TWO hurricanes were forming off of Texas/Louisiana and another somewhere between Florida and Cuba. When he mentioned that one, first thought was of Ira and his family. Then it was I'd received a call from someone who said he was a friend from Mexico and would I like to go fishing?! Then Bob says the call DIDN'T come from Mexico, but the Philippines. Me: silence. Bob then says this was some private Thor business wasn't it? I said yes sir, but hopefully the state department doesn't know or find out about it, okay? He says his lips are sealed. I tell him I'll check out the news on what's going on there and he says they're being hit by a pretty bad typhoon. I said fine, this is what we'll do.....deal with that typhoon to begin with, then after putting those fires out again in California, we'll bust up those wanna be hurricanes, okay? He says fine, he'll call the governors office, but I told him to make sure the studio gets paid for ALL the food I may eat there, though I'm thinking of having some steak dinners. He says he'll order a bunch of steaks and the trimmings and have them ready to be cooked by his people whenever I get there. I said no.......I was thinking of that steak place in Texas and he starts laughing and says he wishes he could be there to see if he could find more marks, while making a few bucks along the way. Got dressed and we were off, first for the studio where I climbed inside the Hulkbuster, then to the Philippines,

Found the typhoon and started going in the opposite direction and quickly came upon Jim, but I called out to him to leave and help with rescuing people in the Philippines and without hesitation, he took off. Didn't take long and soon the sky and sea were calm, with us looking for any survivors in the ocean. We recused about a dozen or two people, some being taken to the Philippines, others put on their not quite sunk ships. Then we had to deal with A LOT of sharks, with Bobs Mjolnir's smashing them, where upon they were quickly eaten by other other sharks. The damaged ships we took to a port in the Philippines, then started helping a lot of people. First by rescuing people stuck in collapsed, poorly built homes and buildings. Jim and others were busy helping too, so don't want you to think it was just me. Red Cross was there, setting up aid stations and food kitchens, but then they started running low on food, which led us to Homestead, Florida where I went to a supermarket chain called Piggly Wiggly of all things. Now since the typhoon was over and done with, back to the studio where I left the Hulkbuster before going to Florida. One thing about me being Thor is that when I ask for someone and people KNOW it's me, I get help real quick. I explained what we needed and why, with the store manager simply said she'd get her people working on it and with that, took off for the Waste Management yard in Reno, Nevada where we got a dozen dumpsters for free after explaining why I needed them. Filled them with salt water off the coast of Florida, then kind of shook 'em to get rid of all the water. When we got back to the Piggly Wiggly supermarket, PALLETS of food, including milk were waiting and all shrink wrapped. Told them we'd be right back and took care of those two wanna be hurricanes. We filled those dumpsters with pallets of food four deep and once we had four of them filled, took off for the Philippines and the Red Cross. We made ten trips, with those dumpsters filled with not only food, but basic medical supplies like hydrogen peroxide, bandages, etc. All the containers were left at various locations and when I saw Jim again, told him I had some fires to put out in California, but I'd be back. He simply said go. In California, we cranked out some rain, moving all over those fires. Now all of this wasn't done in a day.....it actually took us a little over two days, with most of it spent in the Philippines, helping those people. I did A LOT of eating, most of it at Amarillo Slims steak house in Amarillo, Texas. Now the manager was REALLY happy to not only see me, but finding out that California would be paying my food bill. Not only that, he'd be quite happy to keep the place open even after hours, just for me! When I was finally done eating after multiple trips there, got a big selfie taken of all of us, using my digital camera. Later, I had Bob print a bunch of them up an signed every photo using Mjolnir and dropped them off there after everything was said and done. As to the cost of everything, California ended up paying not quite seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Of course, the governor put a spin on that food I got for those Filipinos by saying California was extending it humanitarian hand to those in time of crisis. Didn't care.....at least bunch of people got help and that's all that really counted.

After a day of resting by “my” mesa, it was time to finish the studio's contract with Hikarue's studio, with Bob giving him a heads up ahead of time. Now Hikarue had been busy while we had been for the last week or so. The fantasy idea of mine was being made into script or a movie, then they'd go for a tv series, depending on how the movie was received. Airi, Asahi and Hiroto all thanked me for giving them their chance at fame and fortune and I was glad to have helped them. It was not only a big success in Japan, but then there was a bidding war to air not only the movies (three so far), but the tv series among pay per view companies. But Bob being Bob, won. Disney's stock went up and I've been making a lot of money per day whenever Hikarue needed our abilities. And while I've worked for other studios, they all KNOW that when I have to do Thor stuff as Bob puts it, all filming is off until further notice. Thing is, the majority of the filming isn't that long, maybe six hours or so at the most. The reason was they wanted to use me as much as possible because we never knew when I'd have to leave. The Yamamoto movie was a big hit and of course, because another tv series, though Bob got outbid on the distribution rights to it. Couldn't make the premiere of it because I was busy and Hikarue understood. As to the fantasy movie premiere, got invited to it and was able to, with Airi making a grand entrance in full costume and riding her broom, while everyone else took limos for it. With the studio's obligation paid off to Hikarue, Bob knew I'd be heading back, but it would still take a few days to get to the storage lot.

Got to Las Vegas, driving to a nearby casino to get something to eat at its restaurant as I didn't feel like cooking. Thing is, their steak wasn't as good as I'd been getting at Amarillo Slims. It was when I was walking back to the motorhome and in passing by an alley, saw this guy rooting thru a dumpster, while a woman stood next to the dumpster. Watched him for a bit as he passed food from the dumpster to the woman. The woman says something to the man who stands up, turns around and tells me to get the bleep out of here before he climbs out and kicks my college boy behind. I apologized, saying I was just curious and didn't mean to offend either of you, but I've never seen anyone dumpster diving for food before. Would you mind telling me how you got here from where ever you were in life? That's when the man gets out of the dumpster and comes for me......until I offered him up to one hundred dollars for them to tell me their story, BUT it had to be believable, with me pulling out five twenty dollar bills from my sustainment pouch and showing it to them.....and I'll even help you get food while you tell me your story. Man says money first and I said no...,..I haven't heard your story. That's when his wife says listen to him honey....who the bleep would offer people like us that kind of money if they weren't interested? I climbed into the dumpster and quickly found out what a mess mashed potatoes and gravy make in a dumpster. With me helping, they got five banana boxes filled with discolored/kind of squishy fruit, but was still edible, along with old chicken, etc. When we got done dumpster diving, I gave them the one hundred dollars and on the way back to where they “lived”, got their story and how and where I met Richard and Lavon Galynski.

Man, it was awful where they and others existed. I say existed because in no way, shape or form could you say they were living, And garbage EVERYWHERE except around Richard and Lavons place and those next to them. Seems the city wouldn't put out garbage cans or dumpsters. It just didn't care as long as the casinos weren't effected. With Las Vegas heat being what it is, food outside can spoil pretty quick, but they had set up their own form of food bank, giving most of the food we'd collected to others and that included alcoholics and drug users. When they out scavenging, those next to them would watch their stuff and vice versa, though most of the time Lavon stayed “home” to watch their and others stuff. That's when Richard said he just realized they hadn't gotten my name and I said you can call me Lucky......and I'm a leprechaun from Ireland and taking a look at the colonies, then proceeded to do a kind of Irish jig/dance, that I'd seen those ladies in the Riverwalk review do one time in Reno. They laughed. As you might understand, I was NOT a good dancer. I asked if they'd be willing to spend one dollar on a slot machine in order to improve their financial situation and they both said I was crazy...... but then Lavon told Richard to take the chance.....after all, even though “Lucky' doesn't look like a leprechaun or sound like he's from Ireland, he did give us one hundred dollars and helped us gather a lot of food. Richard grumbled, but said okay and back to the casinos we went, leaving Lavon behind. A couple of times Richard stopped and went to turn back to their place, but when he saw me continually walking, he turned around to follow me. As to Ireland, I didn't know squat about it other than some place called County Cork, so I didn't talk much about “home”.

Had Richard pick a nickle poker slot machine and with his one dollar bet, hit a royal straight flush for four hundred dollars. Yeah, his eyes got REAL big when it came up. Told him he couldn't win more than one thousand dollars at a time, otherwise, they'd have to pay taxes on anything over one thousand, two hundred dollars. He understood. We hit different machines in that casino, with him collecting just under two thousand dollars and each time, he'd cash his ticket at one of those ticket changing machines. At the end of this streak of “luck”, he had just short of ten thousand dollars. We were cutting thru an alley way when I told him this was where we were parting ways. Thing is, he didn't ask me to continue helping him, but said thanks a lot and we shook hands. Told him I was hoping he'd help those near his and Lavons place, with him saying he would, but they'd be taking a Greyhound bus to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Lavon had relatives. Once he was out of the alley and out of sight, we took off.
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Working on 48 and just starting on page 2 of it.

[texican]

willC,

Thor is now over his depression. Crows Feather may be more than she seems to Thor.

Thanks for the chapter.

Texican....

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Before you can say uh oh, Thor's in it again in 46. 47's gone in two different directions, one which I figured out how to deal with. The other though, it's a bit harder than I thought as I want to keep it realistic which is why it's slopping into 48.

As to Lavon & Richard, they were our aunt and uncle, with us 5 kids spending 3 summers with them, starting in my 2nd or 3rd year of jr. high school. They lived outside of Yreka, Calif. where Richard had built a one room cabin. He had at least 1 gold mine and several gold claims he worked, along with being a guide for those into deer hunting. Spent 1 summer with them by myself and we took their flat bed pickup, hitting different dumps for metal to sell. This was WAY before people did recycling. Remember us hitting a Forestry dump where we got about a dozen brass fire extinguishers, the kind you hold upside down. And Cadillac's back then had a bleep load of wiring in them. Richard would burn the rubber off and turn the wiring in for scrap. Hey, whatever brought the money in. So they were off grid living before that description existed. Anyway, their place was in a national forest, so us kids had a couple of hundred thousand acres to run amuck in, not that we ever had problems with bears, etc. His family was originally from Poland, getting out of there before the Germans invaded. Lavon, along with Mom and their brothers/sisters grew up on a farm not far from Lincoln, Nebraska where some of them still live in that area.

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The Affected: Thor
Chapter 46

Now since I was in Las Vegas, realized Cherie was working and there was enough time for me to pick up her girls at the day care center and it was no problem since Cherie had me down as authorized in doing so. The girls were sleeping and never woke up even after picking both of them up and putting them in the motorhome, with one of the ladies there opening both doors for me. Tells me how the girls are always talking about me and that I give THE best horsey rides. I said maybe so, but my back reminds me how fast those two seem to be growing and besides, did the same for my two sisters when they were young. When Cherie came out of Hooters, she saw me and immediately went looking for and saw my motorhome. She had made a chocolate pie with coconut sprinkles over it and along with a big glass of milk, it was delicious. I knew that she was a good woman inside, but she needed to find a good man as the girls needed a Dad, but no idea how to be a match maker. Thing is, she's had a lot of guys making passes at her, just like the other Hooter girls have done, but none of those guys ever got fresh with them like that one guy had with her. She had to go to cooking school the next day, so after the coffee and pie, she went to bed. As to Quack Fu, he was glad to see me, though he sniffed my pants for a bit and looking at me like asking if I'd been seeing other dogs. But once the girls were in bed (and never waking up), he layed down with Susan, though Cheri told me goes back and forth between them. Since I had to get back to Los Angeles, after dropping the girls off at the day care center the next day and Cheri at her cooking school, I went back downtown and started hitting the casinos again, walking away with a little over one hundred thousand dollars from different casinos. I only got hit for I.D. twice and told I had to leave, which I did. Now just what was I going to do with that money? I got to thinking about the homeless and also those kids parents at St. Judes, because they have to pay travel expenses to see their kids being treated.

Headed west and backed up into my storage space as normal. Still had a lot of time on my hands before hitting the studio the next morning, so took a bus just to see the town from a different perspective, then I saw it.....a bowling alley. Always wanted to try it, but of course, with no money at the time..... So I got off and entered the bowling alley. Boy, nothing like the smell of greasy burgers and fries being cooked, so I had my usual double cheeseburgers, fries and ice tea, with me watching people bowling, with people cheering, jeering and groaning. This was when I met Lepa Radic, Concetta Sellecchia and Faye Elizabeth Roe who were in my age range. When they entered the bowling alley, they had three guys following and hitting on 'em. Thing is, I got.....involved if you will, when one of the guys told Lepa not to be such a bleep teaser and I was there between them pretty quick. Turned to Lepa, saying I was her cousin Lucky that her Mom had mentioned about coming out from Nevada. She stared at me for a few seconds, then said she was happy to meet me. Well, this guys says he's never heard of such bull bleep, so bleep off and shoved my chest with both of his hands. I didn't budge, then said my turn and with one hand, he flew backwards a good twenty feet, to land on the floor. Now the thing is, I was learning when there's more than one of 'em, don't waste time and I didn't. With my left hand, slapped the guy to my left and he hit the floor out cold. The guy to my right......well, picked up a bowling ball from the rack and he got a belly full of it.

Picked up the unconscious guy by his belt, then grabbed the bowling ball guy who was still doubled over and gasping for breath by the back of his shirt, then walked over to the guy I'd shoved over, telling him to take his two buddies outta here, because none of them would like it when I get mad. They left without a further word. The girls thanked me for helping them out, I said you're welcome and went back to finish the rest of my meal...... but it's gone?! Seems one of the bowling people thought I was done with it and had tossed it. Thing is, I had AT LEAST half a cup of ice tea that also got tossed! Man, talk about being bummed out about this. That's when Lepa asked me why was I looking so sad and I said somebody tossed out my lunch, along with an ice tea I hadn't finished. Then Concetta asked where did I learn to fight and move like that. I said it's a martial arts form called Quack Fu, ever hear of it? Well, those two hadn't, Faye says wait a minute....her nerdy brother used to read a comic book called Howard the Duck! So I started talking like Donald Duck and moving my arms like I was using some form of martial arts. They thought it was THE funniest thing. Then Lepa says they owe me something, so if you want, I'll buy you a drink and I'm sure my friends wouldn't mind you joining us in a game or two of bowling. The other two thought this was a nice idea. Well, they ordered beers and looked at me when I got another ice tea. When Fey said they'd buy me a beer, told them I tried alcohol once and got sick from the taste of it, but thank you very much. That's when Concetta says not many men will admit that they don't drink. Go to the desk and find out it's going to cost me THREE DOLLARS per game and FOUR DOLLARS for rental shoes?! Then figured, what the heck.....why not whoop it up once in my life? I mean, it's not like Mom or the girls would miss it if something happened to me.

After getting my shoes, went for a bowling ball with the biggest holes in it and off we go to our alley. Thing is, I had told them they'd probably be disappointed because I'd never bowled in my life. They didn't care, they were just being nice to me because I had stepped in in helping them. Now I took off my pack which held Mjolnir, with Lepa going to move it from that seat it was on and of course, it wasn't moving. She asks just what did I have in it that made it so heavy? I quickly had Mjolnir be able to be picked up by anyone and I said, you probably just tried picking it up wrong and when she went to move it again, no problem. Lepa showed me how I was suppose to hold the ball and kind of walk and glide towards the bowling pins without going over a line in the alley lane. I didn't like the feeling I had with my thumb in that one hole, so I just held onto the ball with my two middle fingers. Now I TRIED walking/gliding like the girls did and when I let go of the ball, it went into what's called the gutter, which meant NO points for me, followed by a second gutter ball. Thing is, the girls didn't make fun of me, but kept giving me encouragement in that no doubt I'd do better as time went along. Same thing happened when I tried rolling the ball down the second time, but the third time, I asked if it was against the rules NOT to walk/glide to that, as long as I do not pass that line. Apparently, this was not, so when my third attempt came up, I just stood there near where the balls are returned, thought things over and this time I got what's called a strike. Now the girls were really happy for me and said so. Thing is, I ended up not sticking my two middle fingers fully in the holes in the ball, but simply just the tips of them and every time after that, I got a strike. Yeah.....the girls and I were happy with this change of events. Now because I was enjoying myself (uh oh) and the girls cheering me on, the next two games were nothing but strikes. Oops.

Thing is, there were four guys next to us who'd been watching us bowl and they're in their thirties, with one of them saying I was lucky in doing what I'd done. This was when Concetta saying luck had nothing to do with it, because after all, his name is Lucky. He's just a natural born bowler though he didn't know it as this was the first time he's ever gone bowling.....and get lost creep. Uh oh again. This was when he said he'd prove it that I was just lucky and if I was up to it, let's make a “friendly wager”. Yeah....”friendly” my behind. The girls are saying don't do it, ignore him and I said okay. That's when this guy says this proves it.....that I was just lucky, otherwise he'd take me to the cleaners. I simply kept walking, until I got hit in my back by my empty cup of tea which still had a lot of ice in it. Okay, I figured keep walking, but the ice had come out of the cup, with the ice and some water hitting the three girls. NOT NICE. Turned to those four guys and said define “friendly” wager and when he says twenty bucks, asked if that was per game and he says yes. I said forget it.....if you wanna see a master of Quack Fu who is in harmony with nature, it's going to cost you fifty bucks PER FRAME. And when you lose, you also lose the shirt off your back. Maybe you can tell I'd been hanging around Bob a little too much? The agreement was whoever got the most pins down in one frame would win, but a strike was better than getting a spare. Well, that guys friends and him were quite eager to take this bet with the girls saying no, don't do this....you don't have to prove anything to us. I said thank you, but now it is time others learn from those who know Quack Fu and with that, pulled out five, one hundred dollar bills from my sustenance pouch, He never had a chance, with me bowling a perfect game of nothing but strikes, Boy, were those guys mad every time I won a frame, with me passing the money to Lepa to hold and boy, can girls talk smack, with them asking that guy how did he like being Quack Fu'd every time I got a strike. Those four guys were REALLY looking glum as they walked away, but I said wait a minute....,remember, the loser loses the shirt off his back. That guy snarls, says something dirty, then tosses it to me. I gave it to Lepa, telling her and the other girls to wipe their feet on it and leave the shirt on the ground, which they did. We go to leave with Lepa giving me my five hundred dollars, with me giving them one hundred each, telling them that it should cover the cost of dry cleaning their clothes or maybe buying new outfits because of what that guy did, They refused, insisting that since I had won that money, it was mine,

Well, outside of the bowling alley, I was asked if I wanted to go with them to a club, but I declined, saying I had to be at work in the morning, so they went off to where their car was parked, while I walked towards the bus stop. Checked the bus schedule and according to the time on my phone, I had a forty minute wait for the next one which would take me home,.....sigh. Thought of putting my mask, etc. on and cruising with Mjolnir just to see what might be happening around town, but suddenly a car pulls up in front of the bus stop, with the driver honking the horn. Yeah, it was the girls who were in Lepa's car. It was Fey who asked in an incredulous voice, I don't have a car? Then it was Lepa who said get in, we'll take you home. Oh boy.,.....how to get out of this situation? Couldn't figure a good reply, so got in next to Fey and off to my place we go. They were a bit shocked when we pulled up to the storage lot, at which time I explained about me living in a motorhome. Now Jimmy was working that night and he recognized me and as we drove inside the lot, he gives me a thumb up and BIG smile, no doubt thinking of me in a car with three women and heading for my motorhome. But when I got out and thanked them for the ride, why naturally they wanted “the grand tour”. They were shocked on how neat and clean everything was and of course, NO alcohol in the fridge. Then they wanted to know what I did for a living, so told them I was a go fer, meaning my boss had me doing different things for him, though I wasn't about to mention the studio. When asked where in Nevada I was from, asked if they'd heard of Winnemucca and of course, they hadn't. Told them it was a town not far from Utah, so I did NOT lie. They talked about taking off to get something to eat and asked them if they'd like a bacon, scrambled egg sandwich, lettuce sandwich, figuring I'd be nice as the host,,.,..,but didn't figure they'd accept. They not only did, but ate ALL of my food in making those sandwiches AND most of my ice tea! Before they took off, they ended up giving me their phone numbers and they got mine. They were the first girls I EVER had put in my phone....I mean, my sisters don't count, okay? Told they enjoyed my company and would like the four of us to go out again and I said okay. Seems I was finally getting some sort of social life, though no idea how it'd go in the future.

Next morning, I'm at the studio early as normal, with Jose showing up with his roach coach. He'd gotten ahold of his cousin in Mexico who had gotten ahold of his friend at that construction company which was somewhere north of Mexico City. We made arrangements that we'd show up that weekend. By we, I mean Jose and his cousin as I had no idea where Mexico City was other than somewhere in Mexico and of course, there was the construction companies location. Jose was quite happy to spend the weekend with family he had down there. Shortly after that, Bob shows up with Tom in his Loki costume, along with Luthor, his crew and various props. Luthor had brought out a bunch of fake, really long daggers that Tom's used as Loki in his movies. After I handled them, Tom would throw them at targets, naturally getting a bullseye each time. And that was the important thing.....he actually had them in his hands and would throw them, so no green screen would be required. Oh yeah, he was ecstatic. Now I'm used to having people watch us while doing these demonstrations and by people, I mean studio people. And remember, that street is blocked off except for those people going where ever. After about an hour of demonstrations, Bob says he's satisfied, BUT he has something else he wanted me to try and with a gesture of his hand, three people come forward and I had no idea who they were. I was thinking they were from some studio or studios that might be interested in me doing stuff for them. Oops..... Seems Bob had talked with some DC and Marvel people and the original thought was to bring out some stand ins, but when those three heard about it, demanded that they should go instead and not having gone to too many movies, with NO idea who they were. I shook their hands, saying glad to meet you and just what is it your studio would like us to do or at least attempt? Bobs got his head bent, hand on his forehead and slowly shaking his head and then Tom's laughing like crazy, then after putting his hand on my shoulder, asks if I know who these people are. I said yeah.....office people from DC and Marvels studios and he laughs even harder, with me asking what's so funny. That's when he introduces me to Gal Godot, who portrays Wonder Woman, Henry Cavil as Superman and Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Strange as master of the mystic arts. I really couldn't say much about them other than telling Gal that I knew a girl who cosplayed her back home. Thing is, I kind of stuck my foot in my mouth with Henry and Benedict.....because I said I was sorry I hadn't seen him in a Superman movie and as far as Benedict went, you're probably one of those Hogwart teachers? He says WHAT? I said a friend was telling me about some movies he has, where kids go to study magic and I figured you're one of the teachers with the title of master of the mystic arts.......right? Gal looks at the other two, saying at least I'M not TOTALLY unknown, with those two guys looking kind of glum with her, Tom and many others laughing as hard as they could. But then Tom told the three of them how I'd first treated Robert Downey Jr. That made them feel a little bit better.

Well, Gal was the first one I tried out in helping. A sixty foot rope was brought out which would be her magic lasso. I played with it for fifteen-twenty minutes and then said okay, let's give it a try. At least I knew a little about Wonder Woman, so we did different things, like her lassoing dummies without fail that Luthor had set up. Bob and her were happy with what I had done, but then asked her if she'd like to do something a little bit more and she was all for it. So had Luthor bring out a six by six piece of wood, about eight feet long, with me attaching one of Bobs Mjolnir's to it and then having it attach it to the side of a studio wall about fifty feet above us. I said we're going to do this stunt in two different ways at the same time.....safety, you understand. This was when Bob said he wanted some cameramen in the air, so four of them got their Mjolnir's and once everything was set, off she went. She “throws' her lasso to where it wraps around that beam, starts running and “jumps” into the air so she's ABOVE that piece of wood, does a slight twist and turn and landing on the studio's roof. People went crazy upon seeing her do this, I'm up in the air while all this went down, then flew over to her and after I released her lasso, she coiled it up. Then she's saying oh God a few times, then how amazing this was and how the studio would be using me in any future Wonder Woman movies which made me happy as Bob and I'd both be making money. She kept that lasso as a memento and I can tell you for a fact, that woman STRUTTED walking back to those two guys, Bob and Tom. And she could REALLY strut, with ALL of us guys watching her as she did this.

Now Benedict and Henry had the idea that they too would be flying, but I got to thinking, but it turned out better than expected as I got to thinking about my cape. Now I didn't know anything about Benedict's character, so he explained how the only magical item he used all the time was his cape which apparently gives him flying ability? Tom helped me remove my cape and I got to thinking of when Mom made it for me, then wearing it to my first cosplay group meeting. LOTS of good memories. I then simply tossed it up into the air and it snapped into a wide, flowing position like it was floating in the air, with the air moving it a little bit. Gasps and applause followed, with Tom saying he didn't know I could do this and I said I wasn't too sure myself, but after handling her lasso..... Now Benedict was quite happy when when I put my cloak on him and tucked it inside his shirt collar, followed by putting one of Bobs Mjolnir's on him, then up into the air he goes while making mystic moves with his hands. BIG smile on his face when it was over, then it was Henry's turn with my cape and again, another big smile afterwards and yes, they got to fly up and down the street at different heights.

As always, while waiting for Bob to tell me of other things he'd like me to try, I set up his Mjolnir's in a circle, so others could grab them and go for a quick ride. What surprised me was those three standing in line like everyone else waiting for their turn. Some people gestured for them to cut in front of them, but they shook their heads, saying they'd wait their turn like everyone else. Bob points to some people by those golf carts, asking if I knew who they were and I said no......but probably more famous people I never heard of, with Tom laughing once again. Then he tells me I should work the comedy circuit, with the title of innocence and Hollywood because once again, I've shown how innocent I am around famous people. That's when Bob says it's not every day that someone gets to knock the governor of California out, smiles, then says I was right......the governor learned the consequences of his big mouth and threats. I asked if those three would like to do some quick flying and he says no doubt as he'd watched their faces while we were dealing with Gal, Benedict and Henry. So Bob brings me over to those three, saying that I had graciously offered to have them fly up and down the street and would they be interested? Oh yeah. So got three of Bobs Mjolnir's attached to them, with them flying up and down the street. And no one complained about me using them. Once they had their flight, those Mjolnir's joined the others for others to get rides from.

So while everyone's enjoying themselves, hit the roach coach for some taco's and water, Now, I wasn't the only one at his truck and just like everyone else, I waited my turn to give him my order of eight tacos and a large order of fries, along with a bucket of ice water and off to my cubicle I go. So there I am, quite happy eating my tacos and fries, when there's a knock on the cubicle......it's Tom, with Gal, Henry, Benedict and Bob standing behind him. Seems Tom had been talking with those three about the short, world tour I'd given him, Chris and Natalie, Oh boy......those three looked like starving puppies waiting to be fed and since they knew Tom in a way, because they were in the movie business, he became their spokesman for them. Yeah, they'd like such a tour for themselves, with Bob saying he didn't agree to Tom talking to me about this, because it just might set a precedent. Now there's two other chairs in my cubicle, so asked Gal and Bob to take them, which they did. Asked Bob if this would be good publicity for the studio if we had a cameraman or two with us and of course, it would be and those three were looking a lot happier. I said let me talk it over with Bob and Tom for a bit and we'll get back to you and yes, Tom looked a little startled at being asked to remain. After talking it over, those three were called back and terms were layed out. They'd heard of St. Judes children hospital and of course, had seen the video's of us being there earlier. I'd give them a quick world tour, BUT they had to be in their superhero costumes, with Bob having ALL video rights to whatever footage that would be taken. The other thing is, it's going to cost you two hundred and fifty thousand dollars EACH and they looked a bit startled at that, especially those studio people. But Bob speaks up, saying they'd be donating their money to St. Judes AND would be required seeing and meeting as many kids they could for one hour. NOW they understood why they were being “charged” and agreed to it. They (meaning DC's studio) would pay for my food, with Disney charging them for it. So things were set up for them to return the next day, in costume. Went outside to tell everyone that we'd be leaving in five minutes or so, so be prepared please. No complaints from anyone again, Go back to finish my meal and hear them talking about how much I was eating, with Bob and Tom explaining why, with Gal asking me if I'd mind bringing up some thunder and lightning. I laughed, turned to Tom, saying you know who she reminds me when asking me to do something? He says yes......JUST like Natalie, with him and Bob laughing, She was a little confused until Tom explained. After eating and getting rid of my trash, Bob went out to tell everyone what was going to happen. Well, called up a LIGHT sprinkling of water, with me getting a few lightning strikes myself and after breaking the clouds up, landed. When I landed, they said their thanks and I told everyone around us that we were taking off and slowly rose into the air with Bobs Mjolnir's going back to the studio roof.

Next morning, I'm there early as usual and was surprised to find Bob, Gal, Henry, Tom and Benedict waiting for me in their costumes. Seems Bob had told them about my habit of arriving early and they were anxious and ready for their flights. Now Tom was going because as I had told Bob, I wanted to make sure we (meaning Marvel and Disney) outnumbered the DC people. He thought it was a good idea. After explaining how things worked and where I'd be taking them, suddenly realized......did they have their checks?! Well, the studio guys for Gal and Henry did and I made sure they had them, then Benedict is handling me a check?! Asked what this was for and says it was the agreement, wasn't it? I'd take them around for a bit, they'd visit St. Judes and in return, make donations to it. I turned to Bob and said, no Bob....this doesn't fly. He's a Marvel/ Disney employee, right? Have I EVER charged anyone for a chance to fly, but in this case, DC'S paying the freight bill, their stars are going to DEMAND I be used and.....well, the money goes to a good cause. I was surprised when he tells me I just cost him one hundred dollars?! Seems he had talked with Olivia, his secretary and she told him that this didn't sound like me, that is, charging someone who worked here for a flight. So a bet was made....if she lost, she gave him an autographed dollar. But if she won, she got a one hundred dollar bill, because after all, Bob made a lot more money than her as his “poor, poor secretary”. Upshot of all of this was Bob altering Benedict's check to Disney Studio's as payee and price on the check went to SEVEN HUNDRED and FIFY THOUSAND DOLLARS! Says this would cover Benedict and Toms contributions and tells me he wasn't about to have DC out do the studio and besides.....he'd just increase my price for their studio use and besides, it'd be a tax break. Didn't matter to me....those kids and their folks were going to be a lot better off.

So we cruised around Los Angeles where there are some tall buildings and I'd have the four of them rapping on different windows while the cameramen and us were kind of out of sight. We knew when they been spotted by their waving at the people inside those offices and I'd raise them up to the next, higher window, for a total of three windows. Oh, they were happy campers and about to become happier because I wanted to make sure they got their monies worth. Took off for the Los Angeles airport and on the way there, saw a LAPD helicopter in the air, with me having those four, by twos, on each side of it while we remained above it all and out of sight. No idea what that pilot said to dispatch in that he just had Wonder Woman, Superman, Dr. Strange and Loki just cruised by him. Now things WOULD of been okay, but then I saw another helicopter flying kind of funny......it was swinging from side to side, then part of the tail breaks off and now its falling towards the ground, fast. Without hesitation, I went past everyone, while directing Bobs spare Mjolnir's to get that helicopters tail and two on each side of the falling helicopter and stopping it. Opened the front left door, asking if everyone was okay, with the pilot saying if it hadn't been for us...... I said okay, turn off your engine because you don't need it and I don't want to be hit by one of those rotors, so he shut if off. Now I'd forgotten about everyone, but then I was in a hurry you understand. I go back to everyone and say, hey, I got an idea.....how you'd like to be filmed as superhero's in action? Those three looked a bit dubious until Tom said listen to him.....he comes up with crazy ideas ALL the time and there was NO doubt in his mind they'd look great. But if you don't want to do this, why I understand why, which is why I'LL do it all by myself. Yeah, THAT got their attention and they quickly agreed. So now I had Gal and Henry on one side, with Benedict and Tom on the other. Then had the camera men on each side of the helicopter and once things were set, off we went for the airport. We landed the helicopter with no problem, but then I got to looking around the airport.

You know how airports have those big windows in the boarding area? Crowds gathered REALLY fast when those four got to tapping on windows, with us going to different parts of the terminal and those windows. I said okay, enough of the small stuff and once high in the air, a few seconds later, we're looking down from an angle of the Golden Gate bridge. Now I got busy with the two cameramen so one would be getting shots not only of the people who stopped and got out of their cars, while the other set, got shots of them and the people waving back at Gal, etc. From there, it was to Mount Rushmore, then to New York City, with us stopping off at DC's, then Marvels buildings, While they were inside (sans Mjolnir's), I went looking for that hotdog guys stand and had a few, with me making sure I got a receipt. When I returned to Marvel's building, I came out of an alley and just stood outside the building figuring they'd be out soon. Thing is, people were gathered around the front doors as word had passed that they were inside. Then I got noticed with people commenting I looked pretty good dressed up as Thor, but I should get rid of the face mask, with me explaining I thought I'd look more like Chris's Thor with it on. Thing is, there were two news vans with camera guys on those roofs recording whatever and waiting for those four to come out of the building. So there I am, munching on my third hotdog, when they came out. Now the thing is, with so many people, I could only see part of the front doors, but when they came out, the crowd let me know. Well, I WAS going to simply rise up into the air, but Henry grabs Gal by her hips and lifts her up and right off the bat, she spots me. But then, I was the only Thor guy there. THEN she waves and calls out over here Thor, over here!? Suddenly HUNDREDS of eyes are looking at me, so rose up into the air and floated over everyones heads to land in front of them. Remember, there's Gal, Henry, Benedict, Tom and the two camera guys. Those tv news people are PUSHY and got right in front of me, so I went up and backwards so those six were in front of me, telling those news people that I wasn't the news story.....that these four were, interview them and so they did, with Bobs men getting more footage. Well, they got done talking and I was asked to say a few words. Uh oh.

I said I always wondered why studios are stupid in some things....like not collaborating in making movies together when it comes to superhero's. From what I understand, both studios spend MILLIONS of dollars in making them and of course, making even more back. But from what little I've heard about the movies concerning superhero's, they're kind of grim. Ever notice they NEVER seem to have personal problems and I got to thinking of maybe lightening up them a little bit. Heard one of Marvels people muttering saying it'll never happen and Tom turned on him, saying that I had come out with some crazy ideas that Bob not only heard, but is working on. That shut that guy up. I said Superman and Wonder Woman know each other in their world, but nothing about Dr. Strange or Loki as they are in their own world....and how a different kind of “villain”? That's when Benedict asked what kind of villain was I talking about and I said I can't remember his full name, but it started with an M and has no vowels in it, That's when someone asked if I was talking about Mr. Mxyzptlk and I said yeah, that's him. My friend once told me that Superman was vulnerable not only to kryptonite, but also magic, with a lot of people said no way, but someone else in the audience said I was right and soon everyone's phones are out, checking the internet for this information. So while they were doing this, I continued. Has anyone ever wondered about the HUMAN side of superhero's? I mean, let's take Gal as Wonder Woman for example and more than one guy cheered when I said that. She 's from some unknown and undiscovered island filled with nothing but women......but how come she never seems to be in discomfort from her monthly woman cycle? Quite a few boo's and hisses from many women with this bit of news and one of said she's able to control that function and I said oh yeah......PROVE IT, because where did this tidbit of information EVER say so in her comic books? More boo's and hisses from the women, but the guys.....they were saying I was right. As for Gal, boy, she was shooting me some EVIL looks.

That's when I said let's go back to Mr. M, if you please. Here we have Superman, aka Clark Kent and let's say Mr. M. discovers the planet he and other superhero's live on. Not only that, how about he discovers Superman's secret identity? Why it'd be no fun if Mr. M. exposed his secret identity, I mean, after all, what's the fun in that? And ever notice they never eat or go to the bathroom and I heard Tom saying I can't wait to see where you go with this, with some oh yeahs from some of the people in the audience, mainly men. That's when I see and hear a policeman calling my name, saying my help was needed.

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but how come she never seems to be in discomfort from her monthly woman cycle?

Yep, Thor didn't score any points for this statement.

That's when I see and hear a policeman calling my name, saying my help was needed.

Chapter 47 to reveal?

Thor is maturing.

Thanks willC.

Texican....

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Yes. Chapters are hitting 5 or at least close to 5 pages, which is this one's slopping onto 47. And working on 49 right now, though 48 slops into 49. Just want to make everyone feel they're getting their moneys worth, but not so long they fall asleep while trying to read a chapter. And yeah, got 2 more plot twists coming up. As to Thor, notice how he makes comments on what he's read in his friends comic books? So WHY NOT bring in some realism to these different movies?

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He don't just read the comic books, our boy reads between the lines.

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The Affected: Thor
Chapter 47

I said I'd be back asap, but it's Thor time and people started cheering. Called Bobs Mjolnir's, along with Loki's scooter from where I'd stashed 'em above Marvels building roof top. Removed Bobs Mjolnir from the scooter, asking Tom to make sure it was kept safe and with that, I walked over to the policeman. Tells me a demolition job has gone bad.....a lot of the explosives that were to go off and make the building basically fall straight down, didn't go off and it looked like the building would cause a lot of damage going the wrong way. With one of Bobs Mjolnir's attached to the policemans back, a few minutes later we're at that site and it was not good as the building was looking more like the leaning tower of Pizza. Quickly found the destruction supervisor and with the policeman on the ground and sans Mjolnir, we got to work. Used Bobs Mjolnir's to start demolishing the supports on the other side of the building, then put Bobs Mjolnir's rotating in a circle, going in and out, with me going higher and calling up clouds to make rain as I knew there would be a lot of dust and wanted to make sure things were going right. Man, Bobs Mjolnir's did the job just right and with a light rain coming down, dust was held to a minimum. In maybe four minutes, that building was nothing but a pile of rubble, basically all of it in a pile where a building once stood. Once I made sure no one had been hurt and everything was good, we took off for Marvels building. And yes, I forgot to bring that policeman back with me. Felt kind of bad about that, but I wanted to get the show on the road so to speak.

Get back and the people wanted to know what we'd done, especially the tv people, with me saying we did some Thor stuff, so let's get back to Gal, Henry, Benevolent, Tom and Mr. M., okay? How about Mr. M.'s discovering where Clark lives. Now he eats food like everyone else, which means he's gotta use the bathroom and I heard Henry groan. So when he sits down, how about having the toilet seat magically sticking to his behind? Yeah, he should have no problem breaking that off his behind, but now he's gotta replace the toilet seat, because it'd be kind of hard for him to explain to his landlord why his toilet seat was in a lot of pieces.....and imagine Clark going to Home Depot for a new one and installing it. Laughter on that one. Then I said what about magical toilet paper? How about Clark's done, but the roll will NOT unroll and that includes whatever other rolls he might have in his bathroom. OR, how about when he goes to wipe, his hand is not only STUCK to the toilet paper, but the toilet paper is also stuck to his behind? Cheers and groans from everyone. I said now remember, Mr. M. was never a bad guy in the true sense of the word.....he was more of a prankster, much like Loki was if anyone's read about him in mythology. That's why he was known as the god of mischief, with Tom gleefully saying he couldn't wait to hear what I was going to say next. So once again, I turn to Gal and she kind of backs up until she realizes this. I said what if Mr. M. discovers you and that tiara thing on your head represents you as the champion of your people, right. She nods and I said, it's not magical is it and again she nods. So....Mr. M. appears behind Wonder Woman, SNATCHES it off your head and makes sure he's not within grabbing or lassoing range of Wonder Woman. He then kind of turns so he's facing you, but then bends over and after putting HER tiara on his behind, he asks if it makes his behind look too big? Now everyone's laughing once again, with Gal saying SHE said you were a scamp. Uh oh.....the ONLY she I could think of was Natalie. I said how about giving everyone a Wonder Woman demonstration and of course, everyone wanted to see her doing some Wonder Woman stuff. Asked for women volunteers and it was like a cattle stampede with them trying to get to the front. I chose six women after they said they'd played jump rope as kids. So I had Gal “twirling” her lasso by herself and each of those six played jump rope. After her lasso was back on her hip, I turned to the two tv reporters, asking if they'd like their fifteen minutes of fame. Of course they volunteered. I said to the lady reporter she was a bad girl, while the guy was a bad guy, with Gal “lassoing” them and bringing them to “justice” after a path was created for them by the crowd.

Then someone asked me for my ideas on Dr. Strange and Loki. I said, oh, that's REAL easy. How about Dr. Strange appearing in Superman's and Wonder Woman's world, with him using his mystical arts defeating bad guys they're dealing with? Or, how about Mr. M. causing Batman's utility belt not only to fall off, but his pants too? Anyone know what kind of underwear he wears? Fruit of the Loom or boxer briefs and I said no doubt Loki and Mr. M. would have a lot of fun bedeviling his brother Thor. And since Mr. M. uses magic, Dr. Strange could be there to combat him. OR, maybe the two them would join forces to defeat bad guys who are used to fighting, using guns, etc., but NOTHING about magic? I said I hope that you liked at least some of my ideas and maybe you could write to Marvel and DC about this, along with your own ideas? Maybe....maybe the studios might use your ideas and if so, invite you to the grand premiere of the movie being released? Then said, we gotta go and with that, attached Bobs Mjolnir to Loki's scooter and other Mjolnir's to everyone and rose up into the air. We looked over the Empire state building, then to Washington D.C. to look at Washington's monument, then took the time to land and look at awe at President Lincoln's statue and memorial. What I liked was nobody bothered us as I just stood there before that giant statue of a man, at which time I asked Tom to take a photo of me in front of it, but he says, how about all of us in front of it? They were in agreement with this, so one of the cameramen used my camera for this, but when the people saw us doing this, they asked if they could too? I looked at the four of them and said do you mind and they didn't. So five minutes or so, lots of photos were taken of us standing there. But when I saw other people hurrying towards us, I said we gotta go and with that, everyone rose into the air and left. Off to North Dakota, to look over Mount Rushmore at which time I said I needed to get something to eat and they had no trouble with this, so off to Amarillo Slims we go.

I left everything over the roof of the restaurant as I just wanted something to eat, but when we walked in, here come the stares from everyone. Some were saying those five couldn't be them, while others argued it was. The owner was there and he was happy to not only see me, but bringing in three famous actors and an actress into his establishment. Asked him to put some tables together and that while DC studio was paying for my meal, I'm sure that studio wouldn't begrudge feeding their star employees. However, I'll need a receipt for all the meals and I'll be paying by debit card if that's okay. It was. Tables got put together, with me holding a chair for Gal to sit on, with me simply lifting her and the chair up till she was close enough to the table for her liking. Then after taking off my pack and after attaching Mjolnir to it, had it go up to just below the ceiling with me sitting on the other side of the table. Yep, that shut down ALL arguments whether we were real or not. Well, Gal got a salad and I think the guys got burgers and as for me, the owner asked me how many did I want and I said let's start off with three and then had him bring out a couple of big pots filled will ice water and me just guzzling it down, cup after big cup. Well, everyone got their food, with me just munching on biscuits with butter, until my orders came in and I started digging in. No bones left behind of course, but then I happened to see Gal staring at me and realized how bad it looked with me devouring my food. So I said I was sorry, picked up my plates and walked to another table, setting them down. This way my back was turned to them. Thing is, Tom got up and put his plate across from me, saying ignore her....she just doesn't understand. I nodded my thanks and went back to eating and wanting this day to now just be over, but I had told them I'd give 'em a tour and of course, there were the kids at St. Judes to think of. Not this was going to happen again for sure.

Next thing I know, another table is put alongside ours, with Henry and Benedict sitting across and next to me and Tom, with their plates and food. Now it was Henry who asked how could I eat so much and of course, so fast. Before I could say anything, Tom explained how I needed food and lightning to do the things I do and no doubt, why he has to eat so fast.....anything to get the energy he so vitally needs, Then another table is placed, this time to my right and Gal sits next to me and I just looked at her, but kept eating. She apologized, saying she hadn't meant to offend me, but she'd never seen anyone eat so fast and so much.....that she was curious and hoped that I would of explained. Tom tells her that when I'm eating, NOBODY talks to him, at least as far as getting an answer from him and that includes his boss. Started on my third plate and caught the owners eye, so I waved my hand in the air, then pointed a finger at my plate and was told he'd have another one ready to go in about fifteen minutes. I made the ok signal with two fingers and kept eating. Now Benedict said you two seem quite familiar with each other.....how did you meet? That's when Tom asks me to telling the story as he'd never heard it before, so I said okay and after a few more bites, started telling it. That's when Gal says wait a minute.....you had a picture taken of the four of you, WITHOUT your mask? I said yeah, but at the time I didn't know I was Thor and of course, I was just another cosplayer dressed up as Thor. That's when Tom says wait a minute.....wasn't there a big thunder, lightning and rain storm that night? I said that WASN'T my fault....I mean, in a way, it was, but then I didn't know what I was doing okay? Tom starts laughing, while the two guys and everyone else can't understand why he's laughing. That's when Gal says she says that you say that a lot.....that it WASN'T your fault and Tom.....that behind head laughed even harder when he heard her say this, along with pounding the table a few times. I was kind of hoping he'd choke, but he didn't. Then Henry asked me what happened when I took off with that policeman, with Tom saying no doubt this was Thor business and if he had wanted to talk about it, he would of. But there was no doubt in his mind that he's done a lot of stuff as Thor that nobody knows about, he's just that kind of guy. My fourth meal came and I got to eating, though this time it was with knife and fork. Nobody bothered me.

After eating, got the bill and paid it with one of my debit cards and asked if there were any betting men left in Texas? Of course there were, with more than one replying heck yes. I said hold on and I'll be right back and headed for the outside where I called one of Bobs Mjolnir's to me. Walked back inside and asked an older woman if she'd like to prove female superiority over men and she says darn tootin' I will, with other women cheering her on. So I gave her Bobs Mjolnir and she was able to hold it with no problem, then told her to lay it on an empty table, which she did. I called my Mjolnir to me, with the backpack still attached to it and from it, I took out ten thousand dollars in hundreds,. I said I'll take any and all bets up to ten thousand dollars that there's not a MAN in here who can pick up Mjolnir, with me sending pack and my Mjolnir back up to the ceiling. I saw the owner shaking his head as no doubt remembering the last time Bob and I were here and how that turned out. I also told them that ALL the winnings were going to St. Judes hospital for children and after it was all said and done, I'd match whatever money they lost as my contribution to the hospital. Thing is, as Bob would put it, there were a bunch of new suckers who were all clamoring take my money, take my money. But once again, some of the wives threatening their husbands with couch duty if he made a bet, so those guys didn't. Thing is, we made a little over two thousand dollars, but figured every dime we got, was more for the kids. I had EVERY woman then pick up and put down that Mjolnir onto the table. Then it was the betting mens turn and of course, they lost. I said thanks for your contributions and I'm sure I won't get away with this again, so let me demonstrate the power of a Mjolnir and with that, asked them to move the table that Bobs Mjolnir was resting on. They couldn't, even when they had nine guys trying to lift or push the table. After that, some of them got to do chin lifts using Mjolnir as a chin up bar. After that we took off for was Big Ben, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramids in Egypt, the statue of Christ in Rio de Janeiro and after Diamond Head in Hawaii, I asked if they'd gotten their moneys worth and they all said they had. At which time we took off for St. Judes and their hour there.

Now I left Loki's scooter on the roof there, sans Mjolnir and then we walked thru the main door, with me behind those four. Yeah....IMMEDIATE stares, with a couple of nurses making quick phone calls. After explaining why we were here, the four of them presented their checks which were greatly appreciated. As for me, I turned over the money we'd won and what I said I'd match, then added twenty-five thousand to it, because that money came from the casinos in Las Vegas. Talk about the kids being excited in seeing and meeting so many famous people in their superhero costumes, with us going thru as many floors as we could, with more than one kid being wheel chaired to us. The tv people got there pretty quick, but they were told they could NOT interview those four until after we were done and back at the main entrance AND if they would ok to be interviewed. After all said and done, when we got back the main floor, was surprised to find out we'd been there FOUR HOURS, more or less. I started apologizing to them because after all, the agreement was for only one hour. Tom said they were doing just what I'd been doing.....paying it forward, with the three of them nodding their heads and I said thanks. Well, they did a quick five minute interviews each with the tv news people, making sure everyone would know how there would be a bunch of new things happening in their movies. After that, we went back to the studios and we'd been gone for a little over seven hours and was surprised to find Bob and his people still waiting for us, along with those DC people. Bob could tell things had gone well by everyone's smiles and after removing Bobs Mjolnir's from everyones backs, sent them and Loki's scooter to the roof top as normal, then removed the Mjolnir from it.

Was surprised they were still waiting for us to return, but those three shook my hand and giving their thanks for such a trip, but when Tom held out his hand, I shook my head no and he said I was still paying it forward wasn't I and I simply nodded, Then asked if he had a few minutes and he said yes, so I started walking to my cubicle. Once inside, I turned not only to see Tom, but Bob, with me telling Bob, sorry, this is Thor/Loki business and we'll be right out in a bit. Asked him to remove his cape and he REALLY sighed, then asked when we colonists would EVER recognize the difference between a cape and and OBVIOUSLY, his CLOAK? But he removed it and when I held out my hands, his eyes got BIG and said are you go......with me holding a finger to my lips and pointing to where Bob was outside waiting for us. Now I failed the first couple of times, with his CLOAK simply falling onto my table. Then got to thinking about Tom not as Tom, but as Loki and how he'd look with hi cloak billowing in the wind and when I tossed it, it snapped out and fluttered, just like mine had and letting Henry and Benedict use it for a bit. Then moved his cloak so it was behind him and let him tuck it back into his costume and after that, let it fall naturally like it should. He could barely choke out his thanks and I said, just paying it forward for taking the time in being nice and talking to a nobody kid. Now Bob was waiting for us when we left my cubicle and he KNEW that SOMETHING had happened, but not what. As to Tom, he simply told Bob that I was thanking him once again for their time, but notice, he didn't say WHO'S time he was talking about. That's when he started talking to Bob about the ideas I'd come up with at DC's headquarters and yes, he already had seen the tv videos.....along with everyone “rescuing” that helicopter AND us dealing with that building in New York City. Yeah, that surprised Tom and me, with me telling them I was in a time crunch and simply didn't think of looking for any tv cameras at the time, okay?

Gave Bob my food receipts, which he took, then handed me my usual yellow envelope, saying I'd earned another bonus?! I took it because of St. Judes, but also thinking of the homeless people I'd met in Las Vegas and here in Los Angeles, along with food banks that seemed to be always running low and sometimes just out of food to give to people. So I asked Bob if I bought a shipping container, could I store it here on the studio lot....you know, somewhere out of the way? He looks at me, then saying this was private Thor business isn't it and I said yes sir. Tells me he'd have place set aside with a bunch of those orange road cones so I'd know where to put it......and did I know where to buy such a container at? Thing is, I had NO idea......you know how it is....sometimes I get to thinking and wanting to do things, without thinking of how to do it. He said he'd buy one and have it delivered. That the studio would pay for it and I could pay the studio when it arrived next time I saw him. I said that was great, but could you make it two of them instead and he says okay. Asked him what was going on with filming out you know where and told he was working on it, but when things were set, he'd let me know, which was good enough for me, along with needing me tomorrow which made me happy. And with that, we took off for home.

After a bit, I'm inside and back in regular clothes munching on one of those beef sandwiches when there's a knock on the door? I opened it without thinking, because I was thinking it was one of the security guards.....how about it was Lepa?! This I didn't expect, with her telling me she's called me a couple of times, but every time she only got my voice mail. Explained to her my boss had kept me busy basically all day and I hadn't had time to check my phone and that I was sorry. She wanted to know if I'd be interested in going out for pizza and I said okay. As usual, took my smaller pack which I stuck Mjolnir in and while doing that out of her eye sight, she's looking the place over again. She finds the photo I'd gotten taken with Natalie, Chris and Tom, asking me if they were those people....you know, the ones from all those fantasy movies? I said yes and explained how I had gotten lucky to be the last one to see them and THEY volunteered to have a group photo taken with me. Then she's looking at the photos of them as their characters and as themselves. Tells me a couple of her friends had gone to San Diego and got to see the REAL Thor and by the way, was I still cosplaying Thor? I told the truth....that with my new job, didn't have time to do any cosplaying, like going to conventions. Then it was off to a pizza place she knew, with her insisting on paying the bill, though I tried paying half. She only had two slices, while I....well, I ate half with little trouble, with her saying my, I was certainly hungry and since she didn't want to take the leftovers home, I got 'em. She's laughing, saying the way I dug into the pizza, she knew I was a cosplayer because that's her friends to go to food when they and other cosplayers get together, with me remembering the good times we'd had at Little Waldorf. Then it was a place for miniature golf, but this time I made sure I did terrible with her winning, which made her happy. After that, she took me home and said for me to start checking my phone more often and I said I would.

Next morning, at work early as usual and after eating, went to wait in that other cubicle with the intention to check on my fan mail and the news, but ignoring stuff about me, along with checking out food banks and homeless shelters in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It had gotten bigger?! I mean, it was now bout twice as big as it had been yesterday? Inside was a BIG flat screen tv and a dvd player, along with a bunch of dvd's, a lazyboy type chair to sit in. PLUS a hot air popcorn maker AND a small fridge. Yeah, I just kind of stared at everything for a few minutes. Now when Bob arrived, put some of those fan letters off to one side as I wanted to check 'em out later on, with me asking him what was going on. Seems after I left, he and Tom talked and the upshot of it all was that he, Tom, Natalie and Chris had gotten together to buy all this stuff. Why? For two reasons.....one, as they were paying it forward as Tom had explained to him. The other was so I wouldn't be so ignorant when I'd met other actors or actresses....along with at least having an idea of the characters they portrayed. He laughed, saying he couldn't believe I didn't know who Benedict, etc. were, especially when I had asked Benedict if he was a Hogwart teacher. I thanked him very much for all of this and I'd be thanking Tom, etc. as soon as possible. Then remembered the photo I'd taken of the five of us standing before Lincolns statue and gave him the chip from my digital camera so he could make a bunch of prints from it. And as normal, when I got a bunch of 'em, I autographed each one to each of those people using Mjolnir. Yeah.....Bob was really happy and of course, their fan mail numbers went up. I also was told I could take the dvd's home to watch if I wanted to.

We go to one of the studios, with him showing the progress on the Star Wars props, along with others also under construction. Then off to another studio, this time in a large room where there were a lot of people dressed in different costumes. Bob asks if I knew who these people were dressed up as and I said I know some of them, but a lot of 'em I only saw at the cosplay convention in San Diego. So he had them all step forward one at a time, explain who they were and what their characters did, superhero wise. This was when I met the Silver Surfer, Hulk, Spiderwoman, Spiderman, Spidergirl, Angel, Black Panther, She Hulk, Wasp, Batman, Superman, Nightwing, Batwoman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Powergirl, Miss Martian, the Green Martian, Mr. M who was quite short in height, which thru me off for a bit, Catwoman and of course a guy with a skateboard with no wheels. Yeah, Bob had been busy getting these people into their costumes and ready for me to look 'em over and that's why he's the CEO of Disney studios. Then off to another big room where there were some stadium benches set up, with us doing a group photo, with me being in the back, but up in the air with Mjolnir being raised. Later on when the prints were done, made sure I had the name of each person and their character with me autographing each of 'em and putting the date the photo was taken. Thing is, found out that three of the girls were cosplayers and I thought they were yanking my chain, but they were for real after we talked for a few minutes. So I asked Bob if I could talk to him privately for a couple of minutes, with him looking at me, then says yes, at which time we went to a corner with our backs turned to everyone.

I asked him how were these people chosen and told basically the studio had hired them from some talent agency, but requiring certain heights, etc. Then I asked how about their costumes.....were they just given to them or.....and he didn't understand my question. So I said did those four ask for a specific costume and he didn't know. But he made a phone call and right after that, those three had asked to wear a specific costume and he's looking at me, asking how did I know or come up with such a question. Cos-players KNOW their characters and when I talked briefly with those three, they were so happy in not only dressing up as their characters, but getting paid for it?! Bob says well, goody for them....then stops to look at me, saying you're thinking of something else aren't you? And do I have the feeling you've been hanging around Tom as Loki too much? I said no, this idea is all my own and I'm hoping you'll hear me out. He sighed, then finally saying okay, lets hear it. So I explained and right off the bat I'm shot down because movies cost MILLIONS of dollars and if one of them fails..... I said I understand your concern, but have you heard of that actor, Harrison Ford? He says of course, why are you even asking? I said wasn't he pretty much of nobody until he and those others got their Star War movie roles? And I bet Hikarue hasn't told you what he's planning on using me for, right? Then told him about Hikarue looking at making a fantasy movie and maybe even a tv series. Tells me that might sell in Japan, but not here and very probably, not world wide. But I said the Asian market is a BIG market...who says you make a pitch to just one group of people where ever in the world? And besides, no doubt he's going to get them CHEAP and it's a good thing for all parties concerned......if it flops, he not out a bunch of money for famous actors or actresses. But they'll probably making more money than they ever expect.....and not only that, they'll have their chance at fame, just like Harrison and the others did. Bob said he'd get their names and use them as stand ins if they were available and with that, Bob told the Nightwing, Supergirl, Batgirl and Powergirl people to follow him.

In about ten minutes, here comes 4 cameramen, with cameras and another guy. Bob talks to this guy, whose name in Charles, then tells me he's got to get back to work, but Charles knows what I want. Bob wanted to see these four “in action” and the portraying Nightwing was scrubbed because when I lifted him up into the air via Bobs Mjolnir's, then went to spin him like he was doing a somersault, he puked! Seems he had a fear of heights. Charles said he was sorry, but he was out, but to leave his contact information with the studio. Felt really sorry for him. Next was Supergirl and she did really well, then Powergirls turn, who also did well. But Batgirl said she didn't have the ability to fly, but thanks anyway. I said wait a minute.....doesn't Batman use a boomerang with a really strong rope to it? She says it's called a Batrang and yes, he does, but he's also used his cape as a kind of glider. I said, there you go.....I get you up in the air and when you say ready, I'll have you lean forward, with you holding the ends of your cape so it's like you're gliding and then landing, okay? She thought this was fabulous. Got her thirty feet up in the air and she was a natural, “gliding” and landing like she'd been doing this all of her life. So, what happened? Well, Supergirl didn't hired to play Supergirl because I didn't know it at the time, there was already a tv series about her, but she did get to do small parts in some tv series. Hey, maybe it wasn't the fame and fortune I'd hoped for her, but still...... Batgirl became a kind of regular on DC's tv universe and they found another guy to portray Nightwing, with the two of them hooking up as crime fighters, so she's doing very well. Found out that Powergirl didn't work out as she had a hard time memorizing her lines in more than one casting call. That part went to another girl, again in DC's tv universe. Now remember the others who had been turned away? Silver Surfer, Spiderwoman, Angel, She Hulk, Batwoman, Miss Martian, the Green Martian, Cat-woman and Mr. M. all got tried out for their roles and got them. As to Mr. M., boy, did he try Supergirls patience..... lots, with them all on tv of course. As to that guy with a skateboard with no wheels, eventually Amblin said okay, though this took some time. Thing is, Bob gave me a bonus which I took.

Now when we were done, Charles tells me I was to go to another studio to meet Luthor, which I did. He meets me and takes me inside where I see something REALLY big covered in a sheet and I was thinking robot/transformer you know, because of Hikarue had already been there, done that. Boy, was I surprised what was under that sheet. How about a eight foot tall Hulk?! Luthor laughs, saying we surprised you didn't we and I said oh yeah. That's when Luthor said Bob had gotten to thinking on what had happened to The Hulkbuster and wondered if I'd be able to do the same thing. I said I didn't know, but I was willing to give it a try. Now part of the back came off just like the Hulkbuster, then I was given a headset so we could talk to each other. But this thing......well, it was A LOT different than the Hulkbuster because Luthor had set things up so the face could show different expressions for any scene it would be in by remote control. Now one of the problems was they had to enlarge the eyes a little bit because I had difficulty in seeing and of course, learning to turn my head so Hulks head would turn. Ended up with a strap being put around my forehead, so where ever my head was turned, so did Hulks. Then they had to adjust the foot stirrup and hand cables to make it easier for me to operate everything. With one adjustment or another, I was in and out of that thing for two hours, WITHOUT actually doing anything with it, The other thing was that it was HOT inside of it, with me drinking a lot of ice water and cooling off in front of a couple of fans that Luthor had one of his people bring. This was going to be a lot harder than I and Luthor thought. After three hours of dealing with the Hulk, it was lunch time. Thing is, I wasn't hungry, but really, really thirsty. From Jose, got one of his towels which I got to use wiping my face off which helped. Next thing I knew, my back was hurting and I was on the ground, on my back.

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Thanks willC for the chapter.

Texican....

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On page 3.5, chapter 49 and Thor's involved with another girl, starting in 48. Which is why it's slopping into 49.

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The Affected: Thor
Chapter 48

I grunted, then groaned, then rolled over onto my left side and there's a bunch of shouting by several people that he's awake and moving. Then I'm suddenly being grabbed, brought to my feet with someone saying bring that stretcher over here NOW and boy, did that act like a shot of adrenaline. Stretcher meant an ambulance and that meant a trip to a hospital?! No way. I said let go of me and kind of shrugged both arms and suddenly no one's holding me, but at least I didn't fall to the ground. Someone's telling me to calm down, that they're there to help me and when my eyes finally focused, recognized the man.....it was the same studio doctor who Bob had me checked out awhile back. I had been guzzling ice water and had just started on my second bucket when I fell to the ground which scared the snot out of everyone. Thing is, with Mjolnir attached to me, I couldn't be moved just like it had happened in Australia. So the studio doctors were called, along with Bob, then Luthor had people form a circle around me to protect me and a tent was brought and assembled over me. What happened? Heat exhaustion from trying to work the Hulk suit as it was quite a bit smaller than the Hulkbuster and was sealed quite a bit more than the Hulkbuster. So I basically overheated. Bob insisted on me being checked out, so we went to my cubicle while I carried my ice water bucket to it, with me being given some salt tablets. The doctors said I was fine and Bob started chewing on Luthor for this happening and I stuck up for Luthor, saying it wasn't his fault. I should of realized how hot it was in there, but I was so focused in trying to get used to it. So the fault was mine, not his. Luthor said he'd make modifications to the suit so it wasn't so air tight and get some small battery operated fans inside the legs and arms so I'd have air circulation inside of it. I got the rest of the day off, even though I wanted to keep working.....you know, make sure Bob got his monies worth, but he said no. So I took off for home, then took a shower and went to working on my drawings and think things over. Thing is, after awhile, figured I'd just cruise around, you know, to see if anyone needed help. It went in a direction I NEVER expected.

Now we were cruising a couple of hundred feet over the streets and not seeing anything that might need our help, but then I saw the flashing of a couple of police cars, so we got lower to see and hear what was happening in case those policemen needed help. They didn't, but the man they were hitting and kicking, did. He was handcuffed and crying out that he wasn't resisting, while two of the four cops hitting and kicking him, kept saying quit resisting. I know right from wrong and this was WRONG! Didn't hesitate or think things over, but got closer and zapped those four cops and called up Bobs Mjolnir's which arrived with a big BOOM. Those four cops got Bobs Mjolnir's attached to their backs and one each to the two police cars. I went over to this guy who was around my age and he's moaning I'm not resisting, but I broke the chain to those handcuffs and told him he'd be okay in a bit and he looks at me, saying Thor? I said yes, it's me and those cops are going to pay for what they did and allowed to be done to you. Took those cops belts with their weapons and other gear off on them, followed by the cameras they all wore. Their belts went inside the police cars, which I raised up into the air by a hundred feet, while their cameras were put in my backpack pouch. That's when I raised the cops up into the air and then some guy is calling out to me, saying he'd videotaped what the cops had been doing and I said get to the nearest tv station so it's aired as soon as possible and he said he would. He did more than that.....he also posted it on Youtube. I picked up the injured man and all of us took off for the nearest hospital that I knew of.... it being the one I'd taken that lady and her kids to awhile back. Leaving everyone and the cars up in the air, I walked into the hospital emergency room, saying I got an injured man here who needs help. Snapped his handcuffs off when a gurney was brought for him to lay on and after that, we took off for the nearest police station. Everyone and the cars remained up in the air while I landed, then walked into the police station. I asked for whoever was in charge and pretty quick, I got the supervisor, telling him that I had made a citizens arrest on four police officers and why. Yeah.....that got A LOT of attention by the police that were there. When the supervisor asked where those men were, I said they're outside and suddenly I got about two dozen policemen and women following us as we walked out of the station. Outside, I pointed up, where everyone could see those four cops and two police cars with their lights still flashing up in the air.

The supervisor asks me to bring them down and he'd take custody of them and of course, I'd have to file a report about this. Thing is, they wanted me to provide i.d., as in a drivers license and I said no. Me being me is proof enough. They didn't like it, but accepted it. About an hour(?) later, everything had been said and I signed it with Mjolnir. Sent Bobs Mjolnir's back to the studio roof and of course, I had disconnected the battery to my second phone before getting close to home. Inside, after undressing, made a cup of hot tea with honey and still couldn't believe what I'd seen. I mean, I'd NEVER heard of a thing, though there was that black guy who got beat up by all those cops and remembering some of the aftermath of the cops trials. I did not sleep well, because I was wondering and hoping this was a freakish sort of thing happening. Thing is, when I landed by Jose's roach coach, Bob's waiting for me?! Some how I got the feeling this was not going to be a good thing because he's always arrived some time AFTER I'd get to work. Tells me we're to go to my cubicle NOW and starts walking to it, without looking back. I quickly grabbed two breakfast burritos in what I think is called the hot box which is an oven which will keep hot food, hot. This way people can simply grab what they want without waiting in line for food to be cooked. Also got some bottles of water, then followed Bob. Once inside and the door closed, Bob wants to know what happened last night, so without hesitation, told him. How about that's NOT what he was told by the higher ups in law enforcement?! That I'm looking at charges for ASSAULTING four law enforcement officers, interfering with a lawful arrest, kid-napping, aiding and abetting the escape of said person being put under lawful arrest and stolen property?! I just stared at him and then said wait a minute....I didn't steal noth.... um, hold on a minute. With that, removed my backpack and from it, took out those four body cameras I'd taken off those cops as I was worried they might fall off of them and told Bob this. Asked if I'd seen any of the footage and said I have NO idea even how to do sort of thing, you should know that. He did and made two calls, telling me to eat my breakfast and wait for some people to show up.

About fifteen minutes later, two guys are there with some sort of computer equipment, with Bob gesturing towards the body cameras and telling them to download them if possible. They took that stuff to my other cubicle so they'd have more room to work in, then came THREE of the studios lawyers?! That's when Bob had me tell my story again and boy, they had ALL sorts of questions for me. The tech guys were able to download complete videos from those body cameras, with Bob and the lawyers then watching all of them, with the lawyers saying this puts a new slant on everything. First thing they needed to do was return the cameras to the police so that charge of stealing police property would be dropped. As to the guy getting beat up, he'd been arrested for resisting arrest and still being held in the hospital under observation, with a bail of fifty thousand dollars which hadn't been met. I said hold on a minute and from one of my yellow envelopes, pulled out that money and I said make this mans bail. Told all I'd need is ten percent of it thru a bail bonds agency to make this mans bail, but that's also what I'd be charged for this service. Told them no way I'd pay five thousand dollars for this so called “service” and Bob laughed. It took those two guys about an hour to download all four body cameras, with us then watching what had gone down from the cops point of view. I said this isn't right......if the police don't obey the law, there is no law. Once the lawyers and computer guys were gone, Bob tells me to take off.....as in some place where it'd take me a couple of days to get back to town. Tells me to watch the news as no doubt he'd have to release some sort of statement and of course, the media's going to want it on video for broadcasting. When it was safe for me to return, he'd literally give me a thumbs up or if he needed me to call him, he'd hold one or both hands out, palms up, otherwise, keep the battery out of my phone. Then he lays a couple of yellow office envelopes, saying I hadn't collected my pay for the past few days, including being here today, I pushed one of 'em back, saying I hadn't earned that money, but thanks, but no thanks, Then pushed the others to him saying I'm hoping this'll will cover my lawyers costs and he shakes his head, saying, son, I've NEVER met anyone like you before and I'm NOT talking your abilities. You about THE dumbest, most naïve and eager person I've EVER met.....but no matter what, you ALWAYS do what is right and there's NO doubt after seeing those videos, you were right in doing what you did. I said thanks, then he pushes all but one envelope back to me, saying since I was a special Disney employee, my legal fees would be paid by the studio. I took those envelopes as I had the feeling this would be my last paycheck here, Then he reminds that a package had arrived from Japan a week or so ago, with me remembering the gifts I'd bought for everyone while working for Hikarue. Stopped at the studios post office, getting it, then flew to Natalie's place, not that they were home. I took out their gifts and leaving a note saying I hoped they like them, signing it just with a T. Then took off for my motorhome and from there, headed east to Las Vegas after making sure I was good on gas, etc. When I got to Las Vegas, went to Cherie's, but she was at work and the girls were at the day care center. But left their presents on a table on the patio with another note, but signed by me instead of Thor, then took off for “my” mesa. I pushed it, but quit when I saw a Walmart near the freeway, stocking up on food and other things and crashed for the night in its parking lot.

Next morning, hit McDonalds for coffee with them filling up the thermos I'd bought the night before and adding my creamer to it, then continued east till I hit my mesa. Internet was kind of spotty and as for news, nothing via Youtube because stuff gets posted there quicker vs so many news services. Nothing there and I was thinking and hoping all of this was going to blow over as far as charges against me. Decided just sitting there after that first day wasn't going to make it....besides, I had gifts for Mom and the girls, so took off once again, this time for Reno, meaning heading back to Las Vegas, then going north. But I needed to first get a lot of my cash onto my debit cards, so got dressed and after making sure the coast was clear, flew to that bank in Georgia I'd gone to earlier. The manager came right out and quickly got my money on the pre-paid debit cards, then took off for my place. In Texas, there was a multiple car accident, with us stopping to move the vehicles off the road once the cops said okay. In Utah, it was worse. A semi-truck and trailer was on top of a car, with the cops just arriving and saying a wrecker, fire trucks and ambulance would be there in about ten minutes. I offered to remove that truck and trailer from the car to make things easier for the fireman, etc., which was accepted. Once it was out of the way, used my Mjolnir to cut away the roof and front windshield supports, then putting it out of the way. It was ugly inside and when I asked about the ambulances, they were still way out, but coming. I said this lady can't wait, she need medical attention NOW and what about her two kids? I said I need someone to direct me to the nearest hospital and a lady cop steps forward to tell me where it was at. I said just point and tell me how many miles it's from, which she did. Attached one of Bobs Mjolnir's to the front and rear of what was left of that car and a couple of minutes later, there's the hospitals emergency room, a which time we landed, There was an ambulance there with three paramedics taking a break and they got onto helping that woman and her kids, with others coming out to also help. Once the car was empty, set it off to one side in the parking lot while telling one of the nurses the general area where the accident had happened, then took off again,

Anyone ever toured the Grand Canyon from the air? Found out later, you can take helicopter rides to do this, but my way.....it's A LOT better. Cruising about one hundred feet over the river and surprised to see not only so many rapids, but sandbars. Seems people will take a raft tour, along with others using kayaks and stuff to do the same, but pull over to do some fishing and camping on these sandbars. Saw a bunch of people with life jackets on and waving at me, so I waved back until I realized they were calling for help! There were eight people kind of scattered along the river with another set of rapids coming up, so we got busy getting them out of the water, using Bobs Mjolnir's. We took them to a sandbar further down river with a woman asking me to find Rufus, which was her dog. So downstream we go and I see it....it's shivering and shaking on a rock on another set of rapids and didn't give me no trouble picking it up. Once I returned the dog, went looking for their raft and belonging, some of which fell into the river. Good news was that stuff floated and was in water proof bags. Once everything was returned to that sandbar area, had everyone and the dog get in the raft and with the help of Bobs Mjolnir's, took them downriver where some trucks were waiting to pick them up and return them to their original jumping off point.

Now I was getting kind of hungry, but not HUNGRY and figured I couldn't go to the studio and while Las Vegas has a lot of cheap buffets, that'd be out. Where to go, where to go? Then thought of that Coast Guard base in Kodiak, Alaska, so off we go. Land outside its dining hall with Bobs Mjolnir's going in a circle outside of it so in case anyone wanted a quick ride..... Inside, I'm warmly greeted and made a quick order of six ham and cheese omelets, along with a couple of plates of fried potatoes with gravy over 'em. They had my bucket filled with ice water, then asked for milk which they put in a large pot. Saw the base commander coming over, so stopped eating and stood up and shook his hand, with me asking if it was okay for me to be eating everyone's food, but if not, just tell me what I owe and I'll pay it. He tells me his offer still stood, that I could eat here anytime I wanted to and as much as I wanted, so I sat down, said excuse me and went back to eating. Then realized he was looking at me, so I put down my spoon and knife, asking if he had a problem and could we help? He had a look of relief and tells me that thirty minutes ago, they'd gotten a distress call from a plane and right now, planes were taking off to its last known location. I said we'd be glad to help, but trying to find a plane over the ocean, well...... Tells me he's talked with his counter part in Florida (those Coast Guard people) AND Bob. He had the planes last known co-ordinates, along with a photo of the type of plane I'd be looking for and the aircrafts registration number, which is kind of like a license plate on a car. I took out my gps and after entering those numbers, said give me two minutes please and went to GOBBLING those ham and cheese omelets, half a pan of hashbrowns, followed by the rest of my milk and ice water. The commander just looked at me, then I stood up, saying we're outta here.

Once Bobs Mjolnir's were free, we took off, then ZOOMED to the planes last known location. I knew we'd gone a bit too far when I saw land, but was thinking maybe the pilot had made it this far after all and had decided to land? Oh boy....it was some sort of military base and next thing I know I see ROCKETS being launched at us, so we high tailed it out of there, with us going to the right about fifty miles, then back to that last known position. Ever divide a pie into sections? In this case, there were A LOT of sections to “slice'. Twice, I thought we'd found that plane, but wrong kind and of course, no registration number matching what I was given. We did find it, but the engine wasn't running normally.....it'd run, then cut off, then start up again, so I stuck all of Bobs Mjolnir's on the fuselage and then flew along side the planes door and knocked. After no answer, I opened it and stepped inside, with me closing the door afterwards. Boy, talk about six people looking surprised and scared. I said the Coast Guard sent us out to look for you and that's when the pilot says he's about out of fuel. I said that's okay, there's Mjolnir's attached to your plane, so you're not goin' to fall out of the sky. Apparently, several of the passengers had seen videos of us helping those crab boats. So the pilot shut off his engines while we kept moving forward thru the air, without going into a crash dive towards the ocean. Took everyone to their last known position and from there, the pilot figured out where they had to go. Simplest way, which is the best, was him simply pointing and saying X number of miles. Off we go and find an island, but he says it's an Air Force base called Shemya, so a few more miles down the road we go and there's Kodiak and the Coast Guard base. I got out once the planes landing gear was down, with us landing it slightly behind a couple of big, four engine propeller planes the Coast Guard uses, then we took off for its dining hall.

Surprised to see the base commander still there because I figured he'd be in his office and with us landing the plane, someone would tell him, which would give me time to get a little bit more to eat. He's looking pretty glum and I figured I'm in trouble for leaving that plane where we did, so figured may as well face the music and go move it again after he had his talk with me about my screw up. He says so you couldn't find them, then his phone rings, which he answers it. When he hangs up, he just looks at me, with me saying I was sorry.....just have someone show me where you want it parked. He says you FOUND THEM, then looks at his watch. Then says, but you've only been gone maybe forty-five minutes?! I said yeah....we went a little to fast to begin with and when I saw land, figured maybe they had landed, so went to take a look see. Which is where I saw that runway and thought it'd be a good idea to make sure they had landed and were safe. And by the way, I didn't know we launched rockets into outer space from Alaska and besides, what the heck was going on with them shooting missiles at me? He says MISSILE? ROCKETS? Are you talking about launching pads?! I said yeah, I just couldn't remember the name of those things. He gets back on his phone and telling that person he wanted some maps and if he didn't have 'em in five minutes, that person would find themselves as an E-1 before the sun set. I don't know what an E-1 is, but it didn't sound nice. Well, it took that Coast Guard lady seven minutes, but at least she wasn't turned into a E-1. The commander lays out a map, then marks it, showing where the plane took off and last posted position and asks me where I saw all that stuff, so I pointed over that way....past where you're map ends. He says Oh Jesus......you FLEW OVER Kamchatka? I said I don't the name of it, besides I wasn't about to ask when those missiles came up. He then asks me if I knew where Kamchatka was, with me replying somewhere over Alaska, right? Seems Kamchatka is a big RUSSIAN base where they test their rockets, along with shooting some of them up into space. I said, how about if I don't say anything about this, you don't either? I mean, the State Department got a little unhappy when I was around North Korea. He looks at me, starts laughing, followed by everyone else and he said yes, they wouldn't mention this to anyone. Well, got some more to eat, then we took off for my place. After changing to regular clothes, went to the top of my mesa and drinking hot tea with honey in it while looking at the moon and stars. No problem crawling into my sleeping bag and sleeping.

After breakfast, took off for Las Vegas and checked the internet to see what was happening about those four cops. Nothing? What was going on? I mean, that supervisor said he'd take care of this and what happened to the guy who was getting beat up by them? Wanted to go check on all of this, but figured better to lay low until Bob gave me some sort of signal. Now Cherie had called, leaving a message, so had to call her back, getting her voice mail as she was at work. Said I had some time on my hands which was why I had left their presents like I had, but if possible, I'd be out to see them sometime soon, Now since I didn't know what was going on, I had no idea if Disney would want me working for them even if no charges were brought against me, so figured I should get some money from the casinos in town. So I wandered in and out of about two dozen casinos on the strip as it's known. I only got “hit” twice by casino security, that is, they asked for I.D. and of course, asked to leave because of my age, But what made me mad was they wouldn't even allow me to get my two dollars back I'd just put in the machine, but hadn't pulled up any wins?! Rotten so and so's. So I went back at a different time when there were a lot more people playing, this time costing them a little over fifty thousand dollars. Each. How much did I “win”? Close to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, but then I didn't keep it all either. Made cash donations to the various homeless shelters and food banks. Thing is, COULDN'T make large donations as I was sure questions might be asked, though I did make sure I got a receipt for each one, using a false name AND not showing any I.D.

Now I had planned on going home, so hit a truck stop for gas, etc. Now I'd just finished parking the motorhome when there's a knock on my door and that's when I met Angeline Brown who asked if I was interested in “some company”. Now she was at or close to my age and pretty, I politely declined, but told her I was hungry and if she wanted, I'd buy her her supper too and offered twenty dollars which would have been more than enough to cover the cost of our food. Now this truck stop had several fast food franchises inside of it.....KFC, Little Ceaser's and Del Taco. Tells me she's been eighty sixed, which meant she couldn't enter the truck stop or face the chance of being arrested for trespassing. So I got us a large pepperoni pizza, while she waited outside of my motorhome. Now as I'm walking back to my motorhome, a homeless guy asks for any spare change, with me saying no....but how about two slices of pizza, which he accepted. Now I'm close to my place and I see Angeline talking to some REALLY big guy....like Chris or Tom size, maybe even a couple of inches taller. Well, she was a “working girl” so I figured she was talking to a truck driver and if that's what she wanted to do, I'd just wait until they left for where ever. I mean, I didn't like what I was seeing, but learning some things are just what they are. But things changed when he slapped her and I was there REAL quick.

No, I didn't hit him, but did push him, with him getting pushed into the air by ten feet or so, then sliding alongside the trailer for fifteen or twenty feet. That's when I called for help and two truck drivers came over, asking what the problem was. I explained, then asked Angeline to get our pizza, which she did. Thing is, someone ran over it?! First, I see some BIG guy hit a young girl and now our pizza's ruined?! That's when she cries out for me not to hit her pimp because she loves him and he loves her?! Women are crazy is all I got to say. I said no, he doesn't love you....he's just USING you because when you love someone, you DON'T hit them. Then asked the two guys if I was right and they said darn right and that's when Les (the pimp) got up and said he wasn't even going to leave a greasy stain on the asphalt when he was done with me. Asked the two drivers to call out for other truck drivers to bear witness that this guy was going to try beating me up, with one of them asking if I was sure about this, because he looks only a LITTLE SMALLER than King Kong, I said you forget two things: remember how King Kong died because of a woman? Well, I'm not going to kill him but he WILL learn a lesson about hitting girls when there's a master of Quack Fu around, with someone saying they'd never heard of it. I said it's a secret form of martial arts, okay?

At which point I started walking towards Les who had a BIG smile on his face, even saying he'd give me the first shot but after that, I was his? So I balled up my fists and got close to him.....and kicked him hard as I could not only in his right ankle, but knee cap! He sure as heck didn't expect that and when he reached out for me, hello left ankle and knee cap and boy, that REALLY slowed him down. NOT good enough though, as I will say the man was tough. I let him grab me, while wrapping his arms around me, with my arms by my side and saying get ready to feel REAL pain boy, He started squeezing, but after a bit, I laughed, saying MY YOUNGER SISTERS could squeeze harder than what you're attempting and reached out with my hands and squeezed a couple of his ribs. HE screamed at this and quickly released me, with me letting him go and him backing up. I said not so fast girl beater, reached out and grabbing his right arm, threw him over shoulder and SLAMMING him into the asphalt. He was out cold, but what I DIDN'T expect was Angeline running over to cradle his head in her arms and crying?! Then she's telling me she loves him and please don't hurt him any more?! Yeah.....this PROVES women are crazy and I just stood there for a few seconds, before bending down and lifting her up by her shoulders and off the ground by a few inches, then started walking to those truck drivers and when I got to them, I let her feet touch the ground. I told her you say you love him, but if he loved and cared for you, he'd of NEVER struck you, right guys? They all agreed with me, with a couple of them being married, saying they might get mad a s heck at something their wife or girlfriend has said or done, but they'd never hit their wife or girlfriend, with me saying, see? I said stay here for a bit while I deal with your pimp and once again, it's please don't hurt him, etc. I said all I was going to do was move him from where he's at, so he won't get run over and with that, walked over to Les and grabbing by his belt and shirt, lifted him up with no problem and carried his to the back area where there was room between the concrete stopping blocks and the fencing around the truck stop. Thing is, made sure of making some grunting noises like Les was really heavy, though to me, he wasn't. Put him behind a trailer and got to thinking no doubt Angeline was owed some money as I was sure Les was one of those guys who'd be keeping it “safe” for her. Yeah, he had quite a bit, though I didn't count it. Kept what I was owed for the pizza, tore up and scattered his drivers license and social security card, then found his car keys, which I kept. Thought things over and decided it just wasn't quite enough, so broke his four fingers on his right hand. Hit a girl would he? But as I got ready to leave, something occurred to me......what if he was LEFT handed? Hmmm....better to be safe than sorry, so broke those fingers too.

But when I went to return to everyone, see the original two truck drivers looking at me! I said Les didn't mind giving Angeline her severance pay and held up his former money and I figured it only fair that I get compensated for losing my pizza....or should I give it back to him? They said keep it, then we went to see Angeline, with me telling her that since Les figured you wouldn't be working for him any more, that you should get your back pay and handed her his former money. Then she goes to WAILING how she has no place to stay because she'd been living with Les and a couple of other girls?! I said, it seems I forgot....he didn't mind when I got his keys and held them up. I said take his house key and we'll leave them with his landlord, okay? And if you want, until you get settled, you can stay with me as my couch makes into a bed, so this way......and she STILL didn't want to go until a couple of drivers told her to go with me, because it's obvious that I meant her no harm and I'd be a hundred percent better off. So she got into my motorhome, with me turning to those two drivers, with me saying I seem to have a wallet with no drivers license or social security card, so maybe one of you guys wouldn't mind turning it into someone at the truck stop? The one guy says not a problem son and then I turned around to face where Les was more or less at, saying here's your car keys and we'll leave your house key with your landlord and threw them over the fence where they landed onto the property next door. Got a lot of laughs on that one, with someone saying nothing like seeing a master of Quack Fu at work. With that, got in the motor-home and we took off for a bit before pulling over to get the address of where she had lived with Les.

Angeline opened the house door and went to her room to gather her things while I looked around. Boy, talk about lack of taste but then I got to thinking.....since Les dealt with a cash only business...... I found the safe which was in the floor and no problem pulling the lid or whatever it's called, off and my oh my.....LOTS of money, along with some gold looking jewelry and some rings that might have diamonds in them. The money got divided into fourths, with Angeline keeping the jewelry, with her writing a note to the other girls saying Les was going to be in the hospital for awhile and it would be best they leave while they had the chance because they knew how he'd be when he came back here and with that, we left with her few possessions which fit in one medium sized suitcase and a small garbage bag which held some stuffed animals she'd won at Circus Circus some time earlier and had gotten a beating from Les for spending “his” money, but at least she got to keep them which kind of surprised her. Now we went to Circus Circus because they have a good and reasonably priced buffet, with her stuff left in the motorhome and it parked at the casinos parking lot. Six slices of prime rib covered in gravy, three plates LOADED with mashed potatoes and gravy, nine biscuits with butter, a small salad and starting off with six glasses of ice water. Saw the bus boy cleaning off another table, so waved him over and offered him ten bucks to make sure I got more ice water when four of the glasses were empty. Yeah, had said to say he worked for that ten dollars, so when we left, I gave him another ten. Angeline wanted to talk, so I TRIED okay, but I was a bit more interested in getting food in me, so she quit trying and I'd catch her staring at me from time to time.

She, like others, had a hard time in believing I'd be eating so much without getting fat. Told her as a master of Quack Fu, it uses up a lot of energy. Afterwards, went upstairs to watch the circus people doing their thing, which made her happy as she'd never had the time to really do this. Somewhere while doing this, suddenly I realize she's got her arm inside of mine and we're holding hands?! Not that I was complaining mind you, but I also knew nothing could come of this. Anyway, we're walking by where you throw darts to win a prize, in this case, stuffed animals and I saw her looking wistfully at them. Then I saw it......it was a NICE looking dragon, not a fierce looking one and about a foot tall, but stitched on it's chest was the word HOPE. I said hold on a minute......let's add to your collection, okay? She was enthusiastic and with that, bought three darts, hitting that dime sized, colored target with no problem. Thing is, she wanted a different stuffed animal (a stuffed unicorn), so paid for another three darts, this time choosing the dragon, which I gave to her. I said this is to represent what I hope will be a new life for you. Next thing I know she YANKS my head down to her level and not only kisses me, but I've got her tongue in my mouth?! I didn't resist and I couldn't help myself, so my tongue's touching hers. And for a few seconds I was thinking maybe she was the one, but then realized the problems I'd have as Thor and how unfair it would be to her, with me having to take off to help people as Thor. Once again, I was finding out that life can suck at times and this, once again, was one of 'em.

[texican]

Thought things over and decided it just wasn't quite enough, so broke his four fingers on his right hand. Hit a girl would he? But as I got ready to leave, something occurred to me......what if he was LEFT handed? Hmmm....better to be safe than sorry, so broke those fingers too.

Yep, Thor is learning.

Thanks willc for the enjoyable chapter.

Texican....

[willc453]

Just started page 2 of 50, so you'll be reading more about Angeline as I'm sure you're wondering how are things going to work out with him as Thor and now Angeline is living with him in his motorhome? As to the left/right hand, I was remembering a James Garner western where he's a woman's man, hooking up with a lady who ran a "house", where he did the same to a gunslinger who wanted to shoot him. Support your local gun fighter is the movies name. Figured if it was good enough for Jim, it'd be good enough for Thor. And yes, he's learning, which is why he did what he did with those 4 cops.

[willc453]

The Affected: Thor
Chapter 49

After that, we stopped at a convenience store where I bought us some sodas and hot-dogs, with the largest slurpee they had, combining all three flavors into my cup. From there, we went to a park with her under the impression that we were going to be together, living in my motorhome and traveling across the country?! Oh bleep was putting it mildly. I explained how I worked as a go fer and right now I had a day or whatever off and then expected to go back to work any time soon and that my motorhome was stored in a storage lot while I was working....but she didn't care, she'd be waiting for me to return and take care of me?! Felt like I was in a deep pool of quicksand. I said it wouldn't be fair to you because I DON'T have what you call a nine to five job, but I know someone who may be able to help you. Tells me she doesn't care who I know, because I don't want her, so she may as well find another pimp. That's when I started describing the women “working” on second street in Reno and of course, she says that'll never happen to her. I just looked at her, with me saying she's not the first “working girl” I've helped and the lady I'll be calling is her. Then explained how Cheri was now learning to become a chef and working at Hooters, but also how she has two young girls to protect and provide for. She's looking at me and I said right now you have two ways to go in life.....let us help you or eventually you'll end up on second street, especially when you get older and not so attractive, with someone like Les replacing you with someone younger. Heck, he might even sell you to another pimp just so he can squeeze every bit of cash he can from your body. Or how about he just kicks you out of HIS place, leaving you not only on your own, but with only the money he has LET you have when he does this?

She kept denying this would happen to her and no doubt in her mind she'd find a man who'd want her as his wife and I said oh, really? And just how many “future husbands” have you met since you started “working”? And before she could reply, I said think about this.....how many men have reached out to hold your hand as you walk back to his truck? From what very little I've seen, they walk back to that guys truck....but NO hand holding or even his arm around her waist. THAT got to her, with me asking her how many times had Les taken you or his other girls to a park to have a VERY simply picnic? He hadn't....the “best” he'd do was take them to some fast food place and then it was dropping them off at various places to go back to “work”. Asked her if she or the other girls had been taken to Lake Mead for some time on the beach, swimming and of course, picnicking. Of course not....not only that, Les had them working SIX days a week?! After all, if they weren't “working”, they weren't making him money. Grabbed my soda, then said let's go. When she said where, I said first Lake Mead as I want to show you there's more to this life than truck stops and motel rooms, with us stopping at Walmart so she could get a one piece bathing suit like Mom had the girls wearing when they started “blooming” so to speak. Now Angeline wasn't happy about my choice, but made sure I paid for it, though had to wonder if that was right or not. Not that Les bought their clothes, but he gave his “approval” of their appearance and clothing. Also hit Port of Subs for six twelve inch sandwiches and more sodas. Explained sometimes I didn't feel like cooking, so..... With two new beach towels, another umbrella, ice and ice chest from Walmart, hello Lake Mead. She wanted me to buy some beer, but told her I couldn't as I wasn't twenty-one and she just looks at me, saying forget it when I said she could buy some if she wanted to. Once again, I'm being used as a donkey just like when I'd be carrying all the heavy stuff when we'd go the Truckee River or where ever for our picnics. Once we got things layed out, she got to looking around, seeing all the people... not just couples together, but FAMILES doing their things with kids running around. Think she was seeing life in an entirely different manner, which is what I wanted her to see. We went swimming, with me tossing her up into the air about ten feet and her diving into the water.

Afterwards, I'm going thru the ice chest to find me one of those sandwiches....and it seems I forgot to put two of them in the ice chest. Angeline says no problem, she'll get 'em and I said thanks. Thing is, after a few minutes I got to thinking I just might want four sandwiches and happened to turn around to see if Angeline was within calling distance only to see her getting into another motorhome with four guys and my heart sank quicker than any stone in a pool of water. Figured she didn't want to leave her......“life style” and of course, no problem getting back to town with those guys. But she turned and I saw not only a look despair on her face, but she was being frog hopped into that motorhome by some guy, with three other guys behind them! And I ran and when people were in my way, I simply leaped over them without thinking, but by the time I reached that motorhomes door, the five of them were inside. Then I heard one of them saying they remembered “training her” when Les found her and it was about time for a “reunion party” with her saying nononono. You might think motorhomes are massive, and well built, but they're not when it comes to fighting, nor are the doors built that well as I yanked the door handle out of the door, but the door was open and I was inside. One of them had just enough time to say who the ble....and I was on them. They didn't even have time to draw a weapon. Heads got smashed into a cupboard, a table, the window of the microwave and the fridge door, at which point they just flopped to the floor unconscious. I looked at Angeline, gave her my keys, telling her to get our stuff, take it to my motorhome and do NOT look out or open the door until I called out for her. She nodded numbly and took off. I made sure the door was closed and went to work on them. Broke their arms between their elbows and shoulder, followed by broken bones from their elbows to their wrists. Next was their legs between their hips and knees and then from below their knees to their ankles. Then broke both ankles. They were going to be in a hospital a long, long time and hopefully have nightmares when they think of Angeline. Then started searching the motorhome, finding some guns which went into a pillow case so there would be no fingerprints, with me using a pillowcase. Then there was the small barrel safe in the floor by the bed, with me ripping the cover of it off with no problem. It had quite a bit of money, some women's jewelry and credit/debit cards in different names. No doubt stolen goods, so they went into the pillow case, but I kept the cash, along with those four guys wallets and some jewelry they had on their persons. Then turned to wipe everything down that I might of touched for any possible fingerprints. Thing is, looking at this place, realized it must of cost AT LEAST fifty thousand dollars and it made me sick thinking where the money came from. So I crushed one of each mans testicles with my thumb and first finger, Went outside, closed the motorhomes door, then walked to where I was facing the tires on the right side of it and simply pulled the valve stems from those five tires. Didn't do the left side as Angeline might of seen me, then walked back to my motorhome, then calling out for Angeline, She opens the door and as soon as I'm inside, she's got her arms wrapped around me, crying her eyes out. After a bit, told her to put her seatbelt on as we're leaving and right after that, we left Lake Mead.

As we headed back towards Las Vegas, saw not only a post office, but one of those big, blue mail boxes in front of it which is where I dumped that pillow case with the guns and jewelry into it. Once we got into town, parked in some casino's parking lot and called Cherie who was happy to hear from me.......then I said I had a problem and she was the only one I could think of helping me, but I wasn't sure if she'd want to, considering what had happened earlier. She asked how bad was it and I said much worse than your former problem, with her telling me she'd call work (Hooters) that one of her girls was sick, so couldn't come in for work, but pick her up at the cooking school and she'd be waiting for me. Now Angeline had A LOT of questions about who I was talking to and simply told her Cherie was someone I once helped from an.......unpleasant situation, When we picked up Cherie, as soon as she saw Angeline, figured out some how that Angeline was a “working girl” and looks at me. All I could say was yeah. Has me go to another casino parking lot, telling me to take a walk and when she was ready for me to return, she'd call me. This was when I passed to her that pillow case with all those guys cash, wallets and jewelry. So I did, but hit the casinos buffet as I was a little hungry. Still waiting for Cherie's call after eating, so I hit that casino for twenty thousand dollars, with a lot of small wins of less than one thousand dollars each. I was thinking that even though Angeline had a lot of money, it wouldn't last forever, so worked on building her a nest egg so to speak and figured it might help Cherie making up her mind.

When I was called by Cherie and returned to them, saw that both had been crying which I figured was a good thing. The problem was while Cherie was willing to give Angeline a chance for a better and different kind of life, I had to kick in too.....as staying with them for a month?! If not, she wasn't about to take a chance endangering her girls with a stranger, no matter how good my intentions might be. Angeline's face told me that she believed I'd say no and quite surprised when I said yes. I had NO idea what I was getting into, but what choice did I REALLY have? It was kind of like when I found Quack Fu, Mama dog and her puppies. Another shock....she was ONLY sixteen and had started “working” for Les when she was fourteen?! Now Angeline had closed to fifteen thousand dollars which Cherie was going to hold, thought Angeline could get whatever amount she wanted, including all of it any time she wanted to. Thing is, it couldn't be large amounts and if she ever asked for all of it, she was out of Cheri's place. Forever. She had to get her G.E.D. (general education diploma) which would not only help her later on in life while looking for a job, but it would show her determination in changing her life. No, it wouldn't be easy, but much better for her in the long run, Now adding to this was her finding a regular job and at her age, it wouldn't be easy and of course, she'd be kicking in for rent, food, etc. Well, Cherie became Aunt Cherie and Angeline became Aunt Angie to the the girls. Of course there were problems as Angeline was a bit of a slob, but Cherie got that straightened out real quick. Cherie got Angeline her a social security card, though this took some time as Angeline needed her birth certificate which meant contacting her state (West Virginia) for it, then of course going to the social security office to apply for her card. Found myself in a situation I never thought would occur......or even how to deal with it. If it hadn't been for Cherie and her willingness to help, I'd of been REALLY stuck as the only other two people I could think of was Natalie and Mom and remember, Natalie had already helped me with Cherie, so I didn't want to impose on her and Benjamin a second time,

We went to Walmart for some sheets, blankets and a pillow, along with a couple of pillow cases paid using Angeline's money. Now since Cheri was off from Hooters, we went to the day care center to pick up the girls, with Cherie telling them that Angeline would be staying with them for awhile, but the girls REALLY perked up when informed that I'd be staying for awhile too. And of course, they looked at me and started chanting magical forest over and over, with Cherie explaining to Angeline what they were chanting about. This was when she pulled out that dragon I'd won for her, with the girls thinking this was ever so neat and couldn't wait till she joined them in the magical forest. We ended up going to that pizza place not far from Cheri's, ordering two eighteen inch loaded pizzas and eating them there, Thing is, saw Angeline looking around and at first I thought she was looking for those four guys, but then realized she was actually once again seeing people enjoying life with their families or friends. It made wonder how long had it been for her to see and maybe remember things happening like this earlier in her life. Afterwards, we took off for Cherie's, where her couch was made into a bed for Angeline, with me staying in the motorhome. This gave me a chance to rest my aching back from the girls riding me thru out the magical forest. Thing is, Angeline brought out her stuffed dragon and of course, since I STILL didn't have a stuffed animal, I was the evil, bad guy/creature. Now I got NO idea what a gold dragon does, but apparently the girls not only did, but looked at me like I was retarded when they said it would shoot flames. Well, not just ANY kind of flames, but MAGICAL flames which would catch bad guys/creatures on fire, but nothing else, like trees, good animals, etc. Yeah....I kind of got into being on “magical fire”, so I'd be standing up, moving around and slapping at my behind with both hands saying my pantaloons are on fire or scooting my behind on the floor like a dog will do from time to time like I was trying to put out that “fire”. All four of them thought this was THE funniest thing. Thing is, after the girls went to bed, along with Angeline, I ended up sitting at the kitchen table with Cherie.

Of course, this time I was munching of a BIG slice of apple pie after eating four more slices of pizza which I heated up in her microwave, along with a gallon of milk I'd gotten from the motorhome. Thing is, she's LOOKING at me and that worried me. Why? Because she says this is the fifth time that something's happened and I happened to get involved. That things just seem to happen when I was around and I asked if that was a bad thing and she says no. but I should think about what might happen if I go to help someone and get really hurt. I said I know, I know.....but it seems like when something happens, I HAVE TO act, I just can't stand by and do nothing. She understood, then asked about my job and what will come of it. Said I gotta call my boss between now and tomorrow and leaving him a voice mail, at which time I'll call him back when he's back at work. She says this is going to cost you money, possibly even your job? I said money's isn't everything and I'm GOOD at what I do, so I'm figurin' he'll chew on me a bit, but hopefully that'll be it. Then she says NOBODY'S that good and I just looked at her, quietly replying I am. She saw my face when I said that and slowly nodded. Now everyone had to get some sleep, including me, but after leaving the house, knew I had to call Bob asap. Got dressed as Thor, then grabbed my second phone and after making sure no one was around, took off for my mesa, thinking it'd be a good thing to be calling from no where. Called him and as expected, got his voice mail, so I left a quick message saying I'd call him tomorrow, though I wasn't sure when it would be, then went cruising to see if anyone needed help.

Now I didn't want to be cruising in California because of those cops, so headed east with us heading to St. Louis, Missouri. Nothing happening there, same thing in Washington D.C. Miami, New York City, but when we got to Chicago...... We were cruising over the streets, taking our time and were about to leave when I saw a car driving down some residential street, then flashes of light. Yeah, gunfire was coming from it, so we swooped down to put an end to this foolishness. But the shooters were shooting at homes as they went down the street?! Having Bobs Mjolnir's with me as normal, no problem attaching one of them to the roof of this car and HIGH up into the air they go, like five hundred feet, with me zapping them into unconsciousness. I landed in the street below, with me calling out for anyone to call 911. Thing is, NOBODY was coming out.....until I said I was here, meaning Thor. That got reactions, with people now coming out. I'm glad to say that while there were bullet holes in different homes, nobody had been hit. When the police arrived, they were happy to drag out these gangbangers, along with their guns. Now some of the people told me how this particular gang had taken over a small warehouse that had been abandoned, with me getting that address and putting it in my gps. I'm peering thru some windows where I saw this place had offices on part of the second floor and by looking thru some others and my, my, my.....several vehicles were being taken apart and I don't think they were being repaired. Baggies of stuff with white and green things in them, with me figuring cocaine or crack and marijuana. And let's not forget several handguns and rifles on another bench. First to go was the two watch outs out in the yard, then me opening the double gates to this place, One thing they NEVER expected was having the double doors to the warehouse SLAM open and then we were on them like those coyotes were going to try for Tala's sheep. They never had a chance... with all of them getting zapped. Used one of their phones to call 911, saying this was Thor and I happened to be at such and such address where there's a warehouse and me seeing a lot of guns and possibly, drugs. Within ten(?) minutes, here comes six police cars, with me waiting for them by the opened gates. I said you'll notice that the warehouse doors are open and the inside of it is viewable, right? Ended up with NINE more police cars, vans and trucks coming out, with eighteen bad guys and women being hauled off to jail while making sure I didn't get any credit because as I said, a lot of people DON'T look up and I just happened to be curious, so peered thru one of the windows. Wasn't about to mention the help I'd gotten from those people in that neighborhood elsewhere. Decided to check on my “mothers and family” in Australia, you know, making sure they had enough water out in the bush country. Some of the places had dried up, others were getting low, so we got busy filling 'em up. Saw a campfire, so we flew over there to check it out and I knew a couple of people there. Stayed for maybe thirty minutes because they offered me some rabbit, which I greedily devoured, then telling them I had to go before I was discovered not where I should be. With that, took off for Las Vegas.

Thing is, I was cutting it kind of tight time wise and it'd be only a few hours before the sun would be rising. Sat on the roof of Cherie's place for a bit until I made sure no one was around, then hustled into my motorhome. After putting everything away, went to bed, but next thing I know is Angeline knocking on the side of the motorhome and telling me to get up if I want any breakfast. After washing my face, went inside for breakfast and I can tell you, Cheri can REALLY cook and yes, I put a serious dent in her groceries, but she didn't say a word about this. With me being there for a month, Cheri wouldn't have to pay for childcare, which would save her some money. After everything was cleaned up and put away, we took Cheri to her cooking school with me saying if anyone there needed a second opinion on their cakes or pies.....she just smiled and said she'd see what she could do. Now we couldn't get Angeline's a social security card until she had her birth certificate, something that Cheri had applied for last night. We went to Winco for groceries and believe me, I stocked up......like five of those eighteen count cartons of eggs, thirty pound of potatoes, ten pounds of bacon and other goodies. Try almost four hundred dollars worth, with Angeline just looking at me. Then the “fun” part started of loading everything into the motorhome and some of it into my cabinets and fridge/freezer. Thing is, Angeline couldn't keep sleeping on the livingroom couch, so plans were made for us to check out a couple of stores for a bed. She ended up choosing a single bed, but it's also called a captain bed. You know, a regular bed, but with three drawers on each side of it AND they'd not only deliver it, but also set it up. Angeline did some crying because this was the first time she'd actually had something new in her life.
As to that, I knew how she felt, but of course, I never cried, because that's a girl thing. Now the sheets we'd bought earlier would fit Cheri's bed, so off to Walmart for ones to fit Angeline's bed and while there, hit Port of Subs for a dozen twelve inch sandwiches, you know, so I'd have something to eat quick and dirty like when needed.

Now since it was getting close to lunch, we talked of where to go for. Of course, the girls, Susan and Sandra, quickly voted for In N Out......and they CHEATED! How? Because they looked so pitifully at Angeline while telling me where and why we just HAD TO eat. Makes me wonder if girls are biologically equipped to cheat and play dirty. Off we go to In n Out, walk in and make our orders which we were going to eat at a near by park. Thing is, the girls made sure they got extra ketchup, but actually turned to Angeline, saying I had a bad habit of forgetting important things like this?! Why did I have the feeling I was dealing with my sisters? So the food gets laid out on the parks picnic table and we're having a good time until I saw a young girl grab her small dog and started backing up and then trying to run away from two guys who had a young pitbull looking kind of dog with them. Now that SHOULD of been the end of it, but no. Those two started jogging after her, saying Growler would like a quick snack. Told the girls I'd be right back and took off running, with me coming between the two parties. Told the girl if she wanted to, she could go where those three girls are at that picnic table and she didn't hesitate in taking off to be with them. I said to those two guys that it was pretty bad when guys your age would go around TERRORISING a YOUNG girl and her dog. Told that they were just “funnin'” with her and her dog, with me saying no, you were being bullies and what's worse, I think you were training your dog to be the same and that's TOTALLY wrong. Thing is, they asked me what was I going to do about it and I'll be honest.......I REALLY wanted to do something to these two, you know, teach 'em a lesson on what it'd be like on the receiving end of being bullied, but I didn't. Instead, I simply turned around to walk back to the girls and that's when they made their mistake. I'm a good twenty-five feet away from them, when Angeline cries out behind you with me turning and had maybe a second before catching the two Frisbee's they'd thrown at my back.

They look at me, with one of them saying I shouldn't of walked into their Frisbee's, give 'em back while trying to give me a mean looks and mocking smiles. Sorry guys, Tom's got you guys all beat to heck and gone when it comes to mean looks and mocking smiles. I said sure, no problem, as I understand how things can happen. At which time I threw them, hitting them each in the stomach area and they're gasping for breath. Not good enough, so as soon as those Frisbee's hit 'em, called them back to me and hit 'em again, this time alongside their heads which knocked them to the ground, at which point I figured we were even Stevens, between what they were doing to the girl, her dog and almost hitting me with those Frisbee's. So I'm walking back to the girls when Angeline shouts the dog, the dog. Yeah, seems the dogs owner decided to sic Growler on me and when I went to turn around, Growler leaps up and has my left wrist in his mouth?! I quickly grabbed him by the scruff of his neck with my right hand and quickly gave his a small zap, which knocked him out. But at least with me holding him, he didn't fall to the ground and I layed him gently on it. Thing is, my back was turned and those two guys saying I'd killed Growler?! I turned to face them, saying no, all I had done was using Quack Fu and you know what? This dog's too good for someone like you, bent over to pick Growler up and that's when they went to jump me as I walked towards the girls with Growler in my arms. Angeline shouted to me and when I turned around, got jumped by them, with the four of us hitting the ground, with me doing my best not to land on Growler. They never expected me to rise, with both of them on top of me. One had his arm around my neck and he had to go, but before I could do anything, Angeline's SCREAMING something unintelligible....and that girl's CRAZY! She's on Growlers owner back, legs wrapped around his waist and trying to claw out his eyeballs with her nails! Once I zapped the guy on my back, he flopped to the ground unconscious and was going to deal with Growlers owner, but he flipped her over his back and she went flying, then hitting the ground. I ran over to where she's at, but she's okay and getting up on her feet when dog owner jumps on my back, wraps a arm around my throat, saying after he chokes me unconscious, he's going to kick the bleep out of me.

Angeline's all ready to jump on this guy again, but told her to get the girls to the motorhome, dug into my pants pocket and tossed her the keys to it. Her eyes got kind of big, but did as she was told. Now this guy has his hand locked into my hair and attempting to pull my head back, but I simply reached up with one hand and pulled his arm from around my throat with no problem. Yeah.....surprise on his part and then flipped him over me and onto the ground. Then reached down and picked him up with both hands, then lifting him up, using only one hand. I said you're about to learn two lessons. From Proverbs, there's a line I don't remember all of, but it goes like this: whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast and apparently you don't because you're TRAINING him to be a bully. And now, you're going to learn what it's like to be bullied and unable to do ANYTHING abou it. Then slapped him kind of hard several times with my open palm, with me asking him how does it feel being bullied? Then a couple of times in his stomach, with the same question, then his ribs, with the same question. He started crying, with me saying it isn't so much “fun” on being the receiving end of being bullied is it? He said no, he'd NEVER bully anyone ever again, just let him go. I said fine, but I want to know where you and your friend live so I can check up on you from time to time....I mean, you don't have any problem with that do you? Unless of course, you're lying to me. Oh no, sir,....I'm not lying and with that, got to look at their I.D.'s and told them neither of them were to have another pet until I KNEW they had changed their ways, because what had happened here would be just a SMALL taste if I found out they'd gone back to their bullying ways. Had them take off and sad part of this was the dog owner never questioned about giving up Growler.

Had them head in the opposite direction of my motorhome, then after they were a good distance away, picked up Growler and headed for the motorhome. Angeline sees me coming and opens the door, with me and Growler entering. I put Growler on the couch, with the three girls just kind of eyeballing Growler. Angeline is repeating herself, saying my God, she couldn't believe how fast I could move or how strong I was and LOOKING at me, at which time I realized my t-shirt was tore in a couple of places.....and it was a GOOD t-shirt! Hello future rag when I might need it for something. So went to the bedroom after getting another, then returning to everyone. That's when Angeline asked me what was I going to do with Growler, with me saying he's YOUR responsibility now and she says WHAT?! That's when Shelly (the girl with her dog), asks if I'd take them home which was all of a mile or so away and I said okay. Gobbled down one of those Port of Sub sandwiches on the way to her place and when we got to her home, she asked us to stay a bit so her Mom and Dad could meet me, with me saying okay. They came out and thanked me which made me feel good inside and then we took off for some 31 Flavors ice cream because I wanted something and ice cream in this heat sounded like a good idea, not that the girls were going to say no. Did you know they not only have some DELICIOUS cherry ice cream, but also, coconut? Now the girls got single scoops of ice cream, while I got a double scoop. Well....that was a nice snack, but then two things happened. I saw they had things called waffle cones and they were BIG cones. The other thing was getting a sample bite of coconut ice cream. I'll take four please and just stuff 'em as much as you can please. Now that first cone took me about a minute to eat, the waffle cones were maybe two minutes or so? Yeah, the three of them were just staring at me because they hadn't even finished theirs by the time I finished off that fourth cone. Now I needed some water, but wasn't about to pay for their bottled water, so while the girls were finishing up their cones, went to the motorhome for my jugs of water. Thing is, see a lady a couple of parking spaces down from us and she's not looking too happy, so wandered over there to see what was up. She'd gone grocery shopping only to find she had a flat tire and was waiting for a tow truck to change it for her. Told her I could do this for her for free, so cancel the tow truck service. Went to the motorhome and there's the three girls waiting for me. Gave Angeline the keys after unlocking one of the side panels, taking out my floor jack and lug wrench, with me explaining why. They all decided to watch me for what ever reason. At least they helped removing some of the womans groceries from where the spare tire was at. The lady had one of those scissor jacks and single lug wrench, but with my stuff, it got done quicker. Then after putting everything away, we went back to my place, then headed for Cheri's cooking school to pick her up and take her to Hooters.

Yeah, she was kind of shocked when she saw Growler and was thinking I'd adopted him. I said no.....he's.....a rescue, kind of like Angeline. Both of them going down the wrong path, but now being given a chance to take another. Angeline didn't care for being compared to a dog and told her to lighten up as it wasn't meant that way. Besides, you NEED Growler as much as Growler NEEDS you. You were going down the wrong path in life, while poor Growler.....he was just doing what he was told and trained to do. With the two of you helping and watching each other, I think it would do you both good. You'd have someone to care for instead of just being on your own and of course, Growler would not only protect you, but the girls and Cheri. And let's not forget Quack Fu as I'm sure he got lonely a lot of times with the girls in the day care center. But now that you'll be living with them, everyone will have a another dog to play with and one more dog to protect all of you, so it's a win win situation. Now Cheri's got her head bent, with a hand on her forehead just like I've seen Natalie and Bob do, then says okay....but ONLY if Quack Fu and this monster of a dog get along. I said okay and all I could do was hope for the best. With that, we dropped her off at Hooters, then to Dollar Tree to pick up two large metal bowls for Growler, then Walmart for some dry and wet dog food, some squeaky toys, some hotdogs along with a new collar for Growler as the one he did have, had spikes in it. NOT the look I wanted him to have, with Angeline picking out a pink one?! Her dog, so I wasn't about to nay say her choice of colors. Thing is, he didn't have a dog tag, so we planned on doing that the next day along with making sure his shots were up to date.

As to Quack Fu and Growler, they did get along and what helped was they had their own food and water bowls with some distance between them. Then ended up becoming buds, with each of them “stealing” the others toys and heading for the backyard. Quack Fu would “sneak up” on Growlers stuff, with Growler growling as in don't even think about it. And just like that, Quack Fu was hauling donkey for the backyard with Growler chasing him and barking like crazy and after a bit, Quack Fu would drop Growlers toy, with Growler taking it back inside. Then he'd do the same and get the same reaction by Quack Fu. Now Growler knew some tricks like roll over, sit, etc., so the girls all got into training Quack Fu to do the same. Amazing how those dogs learned a lot quicker when they got a piece of hotdog for doing it right vs nothing when it wasn't done right.

Now Cheri had made up a BIG batch of spaghetti, so all we had to do was microwave it and boy, once again, it was DELICIOUS. Thing is, I like cheddar cheese on mine, so got my block of it from the motorhome, shredded it and piled it on my spaghetti. Now Susan and Sandra are eyeballing me as I swirled(?) everything into a nice mass of spaghetti and cheese, at which point I got to eating it, along with my jug of cold water. Then of course, they wanted to try some on theirs, with me adding a little bit to theirs as I wasn't sure if they'd like it this way or not. They not only did, but wanted more on theirs. So we got to eating and when I came up for air, I started singing my greasy, gopher guts song just like I used to to my sisters. All three of their jaws dropped, with Angeline bowing and shaking her head, saying I don't believe I'm hearing this. Well, Susan and Sandra not only like the song, but started repeating the lyrics and that became their song when Cheri would make spaghetti. Then Angeline joined in and we had a good time.
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Working on 52, along with another iMom chapter.

[texican]

WillC,

Great chapter.

Thank you.

Texican....

[willc453]

The Affected: Thor
Chapter 50

Later on, we went to pick up Cheri and I got to thinking it'd make their lives a lot easier if they had a car, though I was pretty sure Angeline could only get a learners permit. But maybe a drivers license when she turned seventeen? Thing is, with Angeline now living in Cheri's place, I passed Susan to her to carry into the house, while I had Sandra, which left Cheri to open the door for us. The problem was I was once again not thinking and yeah, it almost got me into trouble. Angeline was talking to Cheri as we headed home and once the girls were put into their beds, Quack Fu jumped on Sandra's bed, with Angeline making her bed on the couch and as for me, I just kind of wandered into the kitchen to see if there were any “goodies” to munch on. I mean, Cheri's were all hand made, while mine came from some store.....big difference. Then Cheri's in the kitchen asking why I hadn't said anything about what had happened earlier at the park? I said it wasn't much.....you know, some guys thought they could scare a little girl and her dog, but instead, they found someone scarier and I hope they learned a valuable lesson. She then says what was it about me and all I could say was hunh, what do you mean. She says things seem to happen when I'm around and that's when Angeline came into the kitchen, with her telling Cheri what had happened at the lake with those four guys and her wanting to escape, but unable to. Now Cheri is REALLY looking at me and asking how could I take out four men in maybe two minutes, with me saying you know how people can get super strong because of adrenaline rushing thru their body in times of stress? I've never had a doctor check me out about this, but maybe I got a bigger adrenaline gland and that's how come I can move so fast or lift heavy weights at times? Which would explain why I eat a lot at times. Once again, I was NOT lying. Then to get both of them off this track of thinking, asked what Cheri thought of buying a car, you know a van or stationwagon, with Angeline getting a learners permit. Yep, that did the trick.

Yes, she'd love to have one, but didn't want to get deeper into debt to me. I said my lady friend's not in any rush in paying her back and you know it. Besides, I was thinking ahead and the money's there for you. All you gotta do is check out cars on Craigslist, have a mechanic check 'em out and soon, the two of you will be a lot more mobile. I mean, it's gotta be a pain in the behind catching the bus to work, getting groceries, going to the the park and things like that, right? She says that's so sweet of me, but no thanks. I said okay, but that wasn't the end of this idea of mine as I KNEW what a difference it made for Mom and the girls when I got her a car. With that, I went to beat feet for the safety of the motorhome, but Cheri stopped me with her open palm on my chest. She wanted to know what if “those four” saw her, her daughters and Angeline together somewhere? I told her that those four will NO LONGER have an interest in their.....former occupations, if you will. Was REALLY surprised when Cheri asked if I had killed them?! Told her that was crazy talk and no, I hadn't killed them, but sure put a hurt on 'em....and smiled. That's when Cheri turned to Angeline, saying she never realized how scary I could look, then says whatever he did to those four, I think you can take it to the bank that they'll NEVER bother you again, then turned to me, saying, right? I simply nodded and with that took off for my place.

Got online and started checking out cars and vans on Craigslist, finding some that would help Cheri and Angeline along with what it'd take for Angeline to get her learners permit and when could she get a full license. With her taking and passing the written test, she could get a limited learners permit and six months later, a full drivers license. Figured that would take a lot of stress off of Cheri in going to cooking school and working at Hooters. Then when Susan and Sandra went to bed, they tucked them in, with them being Cherie and Angeline. I stayed a bit afterwards watching the news, but nothing about me and those cops or that guy we took to the hospital. However, it seems a city in Italy was getting flooded pretty bad, so after making sure everyone was in bed, got dressed, made sure the coast was clear and hello Italy. What helped was they're nine hours ahead of Nevada time, so it was daylight when we got there. Thing is, a lot of times, water is simply in the wrong place, like a country called Zimbabwe. Now I didn't know the name of this country until it was mentioned in the news. All I knew was the country had a bunch of dips and hollows, just the kind of place to store water, you know, like Tala and his people had. Thing is, there really wasn't much of a time difference between the two countries. We worked for five hours straight and once again, I was pushing it in two ways: my endurance and of course, I had to be back at Cheri's before they and others woke up. When we got done with our water balloons, a lot of water had been taken from the streets of that town in Italy and hopefully, those in Zimbabwe would use it to grow crops and water their livestock. Once again, I needed A LOT of food which was why I had us quit after five hours as I had to hit that Coast Guard base dining hall in Florida. I was warmly greeted by those there and they quickly brought me a pan of hashbrowns covered in gravy, then got busy cooking eggs and I didn't care if they were over easy or scrambled. One of the cooks got busy making toast for me and after they were buttered, another one of 'em delivered them to me. Now the base commander wasn't up yet, but someone called the duty officer who was and I asked him if the Coast Guard would mind sending my food bill to the Italians. She smiled, saying they would, but by the way, just what did I do with all that water we took? Told her about that place we'd flown over earlier and that's where it went. She whips out her cell phone and after some searching, tells me that basically there's three thousand, seven hundred miles between the two countries. I just nodded and kept eating and drinking. Spent about ninety minutes stuffing my face and was still hungry, but I had to leave. So after thanking everyone, we took off for Tala's place where we generated up a thunderstorm which gave me a bunch of lightning and the surrounding area got more rain. Then to Cheri's place and people were already up and going to work?! Landed in her backyard and some how the dogs KNEW there was somebody there, got to barking, so I quickly jumped over the fence gate and ran to my motorhome. Once inside, got out of my costume and into regular clothes, then took off for a pizza place that was open twenty-four seven and ordered a dozen of their largest pizzas, with everything but pineapple.

Well, Cheri called while I was waiting for my pizza's to be cooked and wondered where I'd gone. Told her I had the case of the munchies, so was at the local pizza place, but I'd be back in a bit. When the pizza's were done and paid for, I quickly gobbled down three of them before leaving the parking lot, followed by two more by the time I got back to Cheri's, with the dogs barking again as I backed into her driveway. Cheri and Angeline came out, with Cheri saying the only time Quack Fu would really bark and be all excited was when I'd be showing up, but she couldn't understand why he was doing this at the backyard door. Me, I was sayin' nothin', but held out three pizza boxes. Cheri's just shaking her head, but when I held out the boxes to Angeline, she didn't hesitate in taking one of them, soon followed by Cheri. Of course, the girls woke up and smelling pizza.....and how could Cheri say no to them when the three of us were going to be munching on these pizzas? I ate two of the pizzas by doubling up the slices, while those four only ate about half of the one they had. I was still hungry, but when I was offered theirs, I declined, saying I'd be back in a minute and back to the motorhome where I gobbled up four more. Now I was kind of full, but figured I'd microwave the last remain pizza later on that day or the next. Took a shower and changed clothes, then back to Cheri's who was getting ready for work, that is, the cooking school. We took her to it, then back home to wait for the delivery of Angeline's bed which was to be delivered by no later than five pm.

So she and I got busy moving Cheri's bed over a bit, so that when it did arrive, those guys would have an easier job of assembling it. Angeline got busy on Cheri's computer looking up Nevada's drivers licensing requirements, with me getting my drawing stuff, but this time thinking of what the Magical Forest and the creatures living there would look like, along with Susan, Sandra and Angeline. Well, every job has a supervisor and in this case I started with two, then three of 'em. First it was the girls, with them asking what was I doing, followed by Angeline. This was when I got to learning how the Magical Forest should look and of course, various creatures, good and bad, with me coming up with about twenty plus quick sketches. Then thought I'd do one on Angeline when she went back to Cheri's computer, with her all suited up and riding her hope dragon, the other being a profile of just her head and neck, then started a third drawing, with the three of them with their mounts in the magical forest. Susan would be on her unicorn, while Sandra would be on her Pegasus, you know, that horse with wings. Then realized Cheri needed to be in it too and fortunately, there was enough room for her and her pseudo dragon, which is a kind of miniature dragon in case you didn't know. Well, I got to flipping back and forth on all three attempts and got kind of lost in working on them. Next thing I know is Angeline is saying oh, wow, with the girls wanting to see what she was looking at. They all liked it, with the girls both asking if they could have it and they were happy when I said I'd make two copies, so they each would get one, but it'd take awhile before they were done. They understood and Angeline was quite happy she'd be getting too, along with the profile of her I'd been working on. Now Cheri had pre-made a roast, leaving written instructions on how it was to be cooked, with Angeline to do the cooking. You know, to start pulling her weight here. Man, did I mention Cherie knows how to cook? Any way, we had just sat down to eat when there's a knock on the door, with Angeline looking at me like I should answer it. I said no, YOU need to answer it because eventually I'll be leaving and it'll be YOUR responsibility to answer any door knockers. But don't worry, we'll TRY to leave you some of this roast, but no promises. She crossed her eyes and stuck her tongue out at me which made me feel better because she was getting some spunk in her and every little bit would help her. It was the bed guys with her new bed and she told them where and how she wanted it set up. Once again, I wasn't helping her because it was her bed and figured she needed to build up her confidence. While that was going on, I put her plate in the stove, with the heat set to keep her food warm. Well, when those guys left, they also took the cardboard and other stuff with them, then Angeline's got her arms around my neck, crying, saying I was the best thing that had ever happened to her. Now the girls wanted to know why she was crying and I told them that Angeline had been chased by evil creatures, kind of like in the Magical Forest and I just kind of set their pantaloons on fire so they're not going to bother her no more, which satisfied their curiosity.

After dinner, dishes got washed, dried and put away, with the girls doing this so I went to Cheri's computer to check out cars on Craigslist, finding a couple that she might like. I also tried catching the news about those cops, that guy in the hospital and the guy who said he'd videotaped everything and nothing? And nothing on Youtube either, so what was going on? I mean, had those charges been dropped against me or what? Angeline came over to see what I was looking at online, then asking if I'd seen anything interesting, new wise, with me saying no, then telling her about me looking at vans on Craigslist.....anything to get her mind off in why I was looking up the news and yeah, I was also looking at what was going on around the world because even though I was “stuck” here for thirty days, maybe I could still be of help somewhere? Thing is, the news was commenting how there would be TWO superhero leagues....one for each coast of the U.S. and while a lot of us were TRYING to make the world a better place, there were others just out for themselves and whatever they could take. So between these two different groups attitudes, life in this world became.....interesting. After that, the girls wanted Magical Forest time, but this time I set my phone to go off after twenty minutes, Angeline joining in, with me going back to my drawings afterwards. At least my back got a break this time. Then it was time to pick up Cheri and taking her to work, then back to her place where she'd also pre-made supper, with Angeline heating it up. Now while at Cheri's, realized while she had a tv, she had no dvd player or movies. So after dropping Cheri off at Hooters, we went to Walmart where I bought a twenty dollar dvd player, with all three girls picking movies from its five dollar dvd bin. Susan and Sandra were quite happy in finding two different My Little Pony movies, along with a Barbie and Care Bear movie. While Angeline didn't find anything she wanted to watch, but while there, picked up a hot air popcorn maker, a big bag of popcorn and some more coloring books. This got me to thinking, which was why I picked up two reams of printer paper for Cheri's computer. After supper, the girls were ready to watch their movies, with them agreeing to take turns in the future, with Sandra winning the coin toss. We both had to tuck the girls into bed, with Quack Fu getting in bed with Susan, with Growler getting on Sandra's bed. But I found out the next day, after we picked up Cheri, Growler crawled into Angeline's bed, which according to her, made things a bit crowded. And Cheri was surprised when she saw the dvd player, the girls movies and popcorn machine.

One thing for sure, was I couldn't be burning the candle at both ends. That is, being with the girls and Cheri during the day, then taking off to be Thor at night when everyone had gone to sleep. So while I did get some sleep during the day, made sure I set my alarm clock function on my phone so while I'd be able to get a few hours as Thor, I'd also be able to get some sleep before everyone woke up. So after everyone was sleeping, I got dressed and took off for the studio, figuring I'd take a look thru all those dvd's everyone had gotten me and watch 'em in the motorhome or at Cheri's place. Now once at “my” cubicles, the security guard there warmly greeted me, along with some passing by. He wanted to know about “this nonsense” of me attacking four cops, with me explaining what I'd seen and done, but nothing about Bob downloading those body cameras or that guy who' gotten those few seconds or minutes of what had been going down. Figured the less anyone knew about this, the better I and the studio would be off. Was told that he'd be happy to be a character witness for me and would pass the word around the studio. That kind of surprised me, but I did thank him. Then after selecting some movies, checked my second phone and of course, Natalie had made more than one call. Kind of mean I know, but it didn't really bother me calling her so late. Now I'd HOPED I'd get her voice mail, but nope, as she answered it on the fourth ring no doubt with her phone showing who was calling. Of course, they both wanted to know what was going on, with Natalie wanting me to see her and Benjamin, her husband at their place and then she hangs up on me?! Sigh....thought about NOT going, but knew I'd have to pay that butchers bill in the future, so took off for their place.

Landed in their backyard, with Benjamin answering my knock on their door. Shakes my hand, saying he was glad to see me, then that tea will soon be ready. Now the thing is, the tea they drink is a lot different than what I buy/drink. Some sort of special blend, but my God, the price...... I'll stick with the stuff I get from Dollar Tree, thank you very much. They both wanted to know what was going on and why I hadn't been at the studio, so I explained some of it, but Natalie, using her Mom power, says there's more to this isn't there, because otherwise, you'd be at the studio as normal, right? Me: silence. Then she goes for the jugular, saying that Bob needs to know what else had gone down because it might either reflect on the studio and the charges that were talked about bringing against me. But when I went to tell them what else was happening, she pulls out her phone, saying Bob needed to hear this. I said okay, but if he doesn't answer, I'm outta here. Apparently, Bob sleeps with his phone just like Natalie does. Crud. She quickly explains that Thor has more information that he needed to hear. Yeah, that woke him up, but at least he didn't go make tea or coffee. I said after that policemen business, things kind of, sort of happened and I heard Bob groan, with Natalie telling him to be quiet so they could all hear what had happened afterwards. I said awhile back, I helped a lady out of a.....bad situation, with Natalie wanting to know what it was. I said she was going down the wrong path in life and I didn't want her daughters going down that same road, that's when Natalie and Benjamin remembered me asking for names of schools that Cheri might be able to go to in order to become a chef, but they didn't mention this out loud to Bob. Natalie says it was so sweet of me spending my own money to help someone out like this, but Bob being Bob, wanted to know how did I explain having the money to move this lady and her daughters, with Natalie then saying she hadn't thought of this because with me being not Thor and coming up with the money for all of this.....I said I told her that I knew a rich lady friend who would probably lend me the money for the move, with Bob and Benjamin suddenly laughing quite loudly and repeating rich lady friend several times, then Natalie joined in.

Bob says okay, so what does it matter you helping someone as Thor.....then it was, you helped her when you WEREN'T Thor, didn't you? I said yes, but it gets.....kind of complicated. That's when Bob says oh God, with Natalie laughing?! Then Benjamin says however complicated it might be, no doubt I had good reason for doing what I had done. I said yeah.....that pimp made the mistake of hitting this girl in front of me and......total silence from all three of them, with Benjamin waving his hand like, continue with my story. I said that I finally convinced this girl to go with me to meet my lady friend who agreed to help her, but only if I'd stay there with the four of them for thirty days. Bob about screamed THIRTY DAYS? I said this is why I haven't been around much, because the only time I can get out to be Thor is when they're all sleeping. But it's not all bad as she has the same two days off, with me being to take off if you need me at the studio or somewhere else to do something for someone. I said that's why my phone's been unplugged......I worry about someone maybe finding my number thru you or others and tracking me to where I'm at now or when I'm.....back at my place as normal. Bob didn't believe that anyone would be doing such a thing until Benjamin mentioned that the FBI and some other government agencies had been doing this sort of thing the past five years or so. That's when I said IF such a thing was happening, whoever they are, they now have your phone numbers and who knows what others they may have, which no doubt startled the three of them. Now in case anyone needed to reach me, I'd have my second phone on after midnight, my time, which would be west coast time. With that, Bob hung up, with me walking outside, with Natalie and Benjamin following me. This was when Natalie thanked me for her kids presents and I said I was happy they liked them and that I had taken some of the dvd's they and the others had given me. Naturally, she wanted to know what movies I'd taken. I said not many, because I don' know how much time I'll have on my hands, because I'm working on some drawings right now, but let's see......felt kind of bad about not knowing about Benedict's Doctor Strange movie, then there's Robert as Iron Man movie, Henry being Superman and Gal being Wonder Woman. Then didn't say anything for a bit and now she's REALLY looking at me, asking those four movies was it? Yeah, I could tell she was a bit ticked that I hadn't mentioned any of her movies. I said oh yeah, got those Thor movies, then as I rose up into the air, said there's a weird sounding one called V for Vengeance about some guy wearing a mask and I didn't know you were in a hacker movie. She about SCREAMS hacker movie?! Hacker movie?! That movie's called V for, at which time I pointed my finger at her, saying gotcha and left. I truly did like seeing the expression on her face when I left.

Cruised around Los Angeles for a bit, then off to San Francisco, Sacramento, then to Reno check out our place. Mom was home because the kitchen light was on. I landed and could see her as she was drinking some tea, with two doughnuts on a small plate in front of her. She looked kind of tired and it surprised me, because I don't ever remember her looking tired. I mean, she always seemed so....cheerful and upbeat around us kids, so I landed on on our roof and called her. Yeah, she was surprised to hear from me and right off the bat she wanted to know if everything was all right because I'd never called her so late. I said things are fine, but thought of you and wanted to make sure that YOU were doing okay. She said things were fine at their end, that the girls were doing well in school and that's when I asked about their boyfriends that I'd met some time ago. She said they were good kids and don't growl like that when you talk about them?! Told her work was just like it's always been....something different happening every day. Then it was would I be coming out any time soon? I said right now I'm helping someone who needs a lot of help, so it might be a month before I could come out. Well, Mom said it must serious if it's going to be a month. I said yeah, it's pretty serious, but......I couldn't abandon her. Stupid me. Mom: her?I said yes, it's a her involved. But I got a lady friend who said she'd help me, help her. Mom didn't ask any more questions other than did I know what I was getting into and I told her the truth....I didn't, but sometimes things just happen and ya just gotta step forward to make things right. She sighs, then says be careful and I said I gotta go, you know....no rest for the wicked. With that, we hung up and I took one more look at her thru the kitchen window and she seemed a bit perked up which made me feel better. Hit Chicago, New York City and Miami, helping the cops, some dealing with accidents, others with drive by shootings, then headed for my motorhome when I heard my phone alarm go off. Once inside, changed clothes, grabbed a couple of Port of Subs sandwiches and a gallon of milk as a quick snack. While eating, checked out the news, Youtube, along with homeless shelters and food pantries in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Now the next few days were the same, though I did end up going to Greece to help some people out who rescued abandoned dogs and puppies. Fortunately, Greece is ten hours ahead of Nevada, time wise. Did the same for some people in Russia and yeah, I was one person they did NOT expect, nor getting such a large donation which would help them out for a couple of years. Besides, it wasn't MY money.....it was from the casinos in Las Vegas. The problem was Cheri, who did NOT want me buying her a van, but we took a vote....we being Susan, Sandra, Angeline and me. Yeah, she really would like a van, but didn't want to get deeper into debt with my “rich lady friend”, but convinced her she'd be better off in the long run with not having to take the bus, etc. Took us a few days going to different places to look at the vans until she decided on which two she was interested in, then having them inspected at Triple A. After paying for the one she'd own, off to DMV and Triple A, where I added her to my road assistance plan which was a bit cheaper than her buying it on her own. Then off to Walmart for car seats for the girls, along with jumper cables, etc. The bad thing was her having to take another day off of work from Hooters to get all of this done. Now during the day, I'd check the internet and Youtube for news and what surprised me was all of them were interested in any news about people like Jim, Chuck, etc. As to the girls (Susan and Sandra), they brought in a new character to the Magical Forest which they called Lightning Man, which was their version of Thor. They did NOT like my idea of Thunder Man who had the ability of letting loose really bad and smelly farts. It was on the afternoon of the eighth (?) day, it hit the fan, with the head district attorney stating a warrant had been put out on me?! For battery, etc. I went to my motorhome and after putting the battery in my second phone, called Bob.

He wanted to know what happened to that guy who had videotaped the cops beating on that guy, then me zapping them. I said I got no idea, with him saying he'd have his public relations people put out an ad out on the various networks, along with one on Youtube, stating Disney would pay one hundred thousand dollars for exclusive rights to this video in its entirety. I said I'd pay for it, but he sounded hurt when he asked if I'd been working for someone else, without his knowledge. This was something I hadn't thought of and told him no, he's the only one I'm working for unless he hires me out to work for someone else like Hikarue. He then says this is going to bust you money wise, are you sure you want to do this? I said well.....I found myself with a kind of different....
ability and of course he wanted to know what it was. I said it's not something that'd help in any movies as far as I know....besides, I'm still trying to figure out if it's morally right, much less legal. Bob: silence. Then he says it must be a dozy considering when you have to consider the moral and legal ramifications of your latest ability but forget it.... with the studio having exclusive and copyrights to this video, we'll make money. I said okay and thanks, but if the studio needs money for all of this, give me some time and I'll get it to you. If you're not at work, I'll leave it with the security guard you have posted at my cubicles. It was arranged a press briefing would be held at the studio in a couple of days, with or without that badly needed video. This, of course, was when Cheri would be off work from both places. After disconnecting the battery from that phone, went inside and Angeline said I looked worried and was there anything she could do to help or maybe I'd like to talk about it? I said no.....I had to call my boss about why I hadn't returned to work. While he's not happy about it, he understands, but I gotta take off for Los Angeles when Cheri is off for her two days off. But I'd be back per our agreement. She says this is costing you isn't it? I said yeah......but some things are worth paying for, no matter what the cost and with that went back to my drawings.

After Cheri got off work and settled down, told her I'd have to take off for a day as my boss wanted to talk to see me in person. Like Angeline, she asked if I was in trouble and I said no...at least not yet and not with him. It was some others that was causing some problems and he needs me to there to....make things right, if you will. She then says I never talk about what I do for a living because “making things right” sounds kind of vague and wondered how someone as young as I would know some “rich lady friend” who would lend me money with me just asking for it. Not that she was prying and if I didn't want to talk about it, that'd be okay. Thing is, I knew it wouldn't be okay because no doubt she was thinking of Susan and Sandra, while wondering what kind of guy she had around them. I said I make an honest living, working for a man who has me try coming up with different things, you know, special effects. That's when she says, I'm in the movie business then and I said yes. Now my boss comes up with different ideas and things he wants me to do and I......well, I simply get 'em done. As to my rich lady friend, she's a famous person and I met her where I now work and she was kind of impressed with what I'd come up with. But please don't ask for any names, because it'd sound like I was bragging on who I know and work with. She says she's heard a lot of bs from Johns when she was a “working girl” and there's no doubt I'm giving her a load of it right now, but considering......how you look and act at times, then adding to all of this was what Angeline told me about Lake Mead, you're a good man with many facets that I doubt anyone will ever see. But I'm glad we met and I've seen the way you watch the girls and no doubt someone would be hurting even worse if anyone would even attempt in harming them....especially after what Angeline told me what little she saw happen to those four. She said okay, no more questions because she truly believed I meant no harm to any of them and that I would have none to those who would harm them in any way.

Well, when Cheri had her time off, I took off that night for Los Angeles, with me calling beforehand. He said he'd call the local stations an hour before the scheduled news conference which was to be at eight am, with it being done on studio property. After parking at my storage unit, got dressed and when the coast was clear, took off for the studio. Now Jose wasn't at my alley, but I found him with no trouble. Got greeted by a bunch of people, who all said they didn't believe I had broken the law by dealing with those cops. I said Bob's called for a news conference at eight and we're going to start there. As normal, waited my turn like everyone else, though more than one said go ahead of 'em, which I declined. Jose was glad to see me and I told him that I had non Thor stuff happen which is why I hadn't been around, but I hadn't forgotten about helping his cousin and others in Mexico. But if he wanted to, maybe we could get together after he was off of work today and fly down there real quick to meet everyone and see what needed to be done. He was quite happy to hear even with my troubles with the police, I was still thinking of helping his cousin and others. I got four of his egg, cheese and sausage burritos, four hashbrowns and six small bottles of milk, which he put in a card-board box for me and then took off for my alley where I prepared to eat breakfast. I really wasn't hungry, but considering how things go at times, better to stock up a little bit food wise. After eating, started going thru some of the fan mail, putting some of them aside. Some I'd write short letters to, while also sending them an autographed photo of me, while others, I'd try to visit. Then Bob showed up, along with the studio lawyers and boy, was I nervous.

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The Affected: Thor
Chapter 51

I had NO idea how all of this was going to go down. I mean, it's one thing to watch a few seconds on tv about some news conference, QUITE another to be the subject of one. Now the thing is, there was SUPPOSE to be only THREE tv station people there. How about close to TWO DOZEN?! I mean, CNN, etc......EVERYBODY was out in force. Seems some people at these stations SOLD the information about the news conference to the major news people. Oh boy. Thing is, Bob failed to pass the word to the security people, so when tv trucks and vans showed up, they thought it was okay to let them in. Bob made sure after that, it didn't happen again. Because of this, Bob had figured he'd give the press conference at ground level, but with so many people there, it made things more difficult. I thought of attaching some of his Mjolnir's to him and those three lawyers so they'd be higher in the air, then asked if he'd gotten those shipping containers for me. He had, so I said I'd be right back, got two of Bob's Mjolnir's attached to one of 'em and then flew back. Bob and the lawyers moved aside, then we helped them to the roof of it, followed by the microphones that had been set up. Now the head lawyer read the studios statement about how the charges against me were false, along with the studio was going to bring charges against the cities district attorney for all of this, along with excessive force used by those two law enforcement officers, along with the other two who stood idly by while a mans rights were flagrantly ignored as their body camera footage will clearly show. That's when someone out there said the chief of police had stated earlier that there was NO body camera footage because apparently the cameras had been shorted out when I knocked those cops unconscious?! Not only that, the cops were still looking for the guy they'd been beating?! The five of us are looking at each other, with the head lawyer telling me to say NOTHING, so Bob stepped forward, saying the studio would not make a statement about this matter until it's been reviewed. The problem was, they (the news people) wanted to hear from me and on the advice of the lawyers, I declined in saying anything which made me feel bad inside because I thought it might make me look like I was hiding behind the studios skirts. Now, as always, I'm always looking around and see something moving pretty fast towards us. Tell Bob someone or something's coming our way, so you all need to get off this container while I check it out. Helped them down and then we took off into the air for about five hundred feet. I wanted to make sure we were high enough so hopefully nobody would or could get hurt. Boy, was I surprised.

It was Jim and he approached me slowly, saying he'd been sent to find out what had happened between me and the police. I thought about this for a minute, then said follow me and with that, fly back to everyone on the ground. Yep, Jim got quite a few questions himself from the news people on why was he here.....as in was he going to arrest me and take me to jail?! Jim says no, at which time I said he wanted to know what had happened between me and those cops. Of course, they're all waiting to hear that story, but I said no, I'd only tell Jim and only if he doesn't tell no one else, with me looking at Jim when I said that. He said he would keep it between us. I said okay, but let us put that shipping container back where it belongs and we'll talk, okay? Once that was done, we did on that hillside where we'd made that Mickey Mouse outline. But Jim's not dumb, because he said there was more to this than what I had spoken about, right? I said yeah, but my boss and the studio lawyers don't want me talking about it. That's just the way things are right now. You could of knocked me over with a feather when he says the President of the United States wanted to talk to me?! Seems the government REALLY wants me to join the superhero club and he (the President) would give me a Presidential pardon if I was found guilty of battery, etc. of those four cops?! I said NO WAY, that I did what was right and if I did take that pardon, everyone would believe I was guilty and I already told you that I wasn't interested in a job working for the government. Jim tells me he's told the Presidents men the same thing, but would I mind telling them in person? I said okay, but I gotta tell my boss what's going on because he might have some work for me. You understand, money's money, right? He just looks at me, so when I took off to see Bob, he followed.

Now Bob (and the lawyers) wanted to know what was going on, so I told them and then walked over to the microphones and said I have an announcement to make. Then told the news people about being offered the Presidential pardon and why I wouldn't take it, then told everyone to back WAY back and when everyone did, turned to Jim, saying I'd see him at the White House, touched him on his chest with a finger and said tag, you're it and we blew town. Yeah, even though people had backed up, found out later that more than one person had been tossed backwards. But at least Bob had told the lawyers what was about to happen, so they weren't affected. A few seconds later, we're over the White House and at first, thought those people on the roof top were terrorists and were going to get a world of hurt, but then realized they were in uniforms. Seems they got people on the roof top all the time....you know, in case someone wants to crash a plane into the White House and hopefully killing the President, along with a bunch of other people. So I landed and explained why we were there, that we'd be waiting for the President at the backdoor of the White House and that's what we did. What I didn't know was there's a Marine standing by that door, so I explained why we were there and immediately after talking with him, here comes seven guys, six of 'em Secret Service and some guy who works for the President. Found out later, he was the Presidents chief of staff, you know, top dog among the Presidents office people. Told that the President would be with me as soon as possible and I told that guy that I'd hang around for five minutes, then we'd be outta there. He just stares at me, saying the Presidents time is quite valuable and I would just have to wait. I said not me, we're outta here and started rising up into the air. That's when the guy says I just can't up and leave like this, that I HAVE TO wait for the President. Not me was my reply, with us taking off back to the studio where everyone was still waiting, which kind of surprised me. Told Bob and the lawyers what had gone down with Bob busting out laughing and the lawyers looking horrified. Bob says Jesus Christ son, you actually left the President just like that? I said it WASN'T my fault because some guy said I had to wait for the President, but wouldn't give me a time when he'd be free. Bob laughs even harder, then steps up to the microphones, telling the news people what kind of man I was and how preposterous the charges were and with that, the news conference was over, even though the news people were still shouting questions at us. Thing is, we five weren't the only Disney studio people there.....how about a hundred, maybe more of just the regular employees? Yeah, they'd all shown up to give me moral support and afterwards, more than one gave interviews to the news people, telling them what kind of man I was and none of it was bad. Well, almost, because some of them brought up that time I really flooded the studio when we called up that storm and how I caused a brown out. But they did defend me, saying I was still learning at the time about my ability as Thor. Funny thing.....when I had announced for everyone to back way up, they KNEW what was coming, so they weren't affected by us taking off like we did.

Asked Bob if he had any work for me, with him saying he was glad I asked because he had some costumes he wanted me to try out. Remember, awhile back, the studio had taken my measurements for just this reason, so I said okay, let's give it a shot. He had to stop at his office, with Olivia (his secretary) offering me some cookies which I happily took six of and started munching on. Bob asks me to wait in his office while he dictated some letters to her, so I went into his office and started looking around. First thing I noticed was his dollar bill collection hadn't increased, which I'm sure made him unhappy. Then happened to see a golf club, some balls and a portable putting green. Yeah, figured Bob wouldn't mind too much if I kept myself occupied while he was with Olivia......and I kind of forgot about the time I was fooling around with them. Then heard a noise and there Bob is standing in the doorway with his phone held up before him and apparently, he'd been videotaping me for awhile. Bob says he didn't know I played golf and I said I don't......I was just fooling around and I'm sorry for fooling around with your stuff without your permission, with me starting to put his stuff back where it had been. He says I apparently was a natural, but when I didn't say anything, he says wait a minute.....you were doing it using your Thor ability? I said yes sir, picked up a golf ball, then tossed it to him, with him reaching out to catch it, but it stopped in mid air. At which time I called it back to me, tossed it over my shoulder where once it hit the floor, rolled right into his putting green. All Bob could say was Jesus.....then it was, could I do the same with the others? I said probably, but I was only using that one golf ball, with him saying show me what else you can do please. So I did, not only using that golf ball, but the others he had in the office. Apparently, a lot of business deals are made on a golf course, something I didn't know. Thing is, Bob wanted me to come out to the golf course that weekend to “caddy” for him. He was disappointed that I only had two free days, then had to get back to where ever until my thirty days was up with Cheri.

However, he could use me for the rest of the day and possibly tomorrow! Oh yeah, nothing like making LOTS of money while really enjoying ones job, along with working with a bunch of great people. Now earlier, I wrote about how I'd been measured for possible other costumes to wear and in this case, it was as Dr. Strange and Superman. Now the studio hadn't made face masks of these actors, so I used Chris's face mask as usual. First to be tested was Dr. Strange and everyone was happy with what I was doing, but I wasn't and Luthor asked me what was wrong. I said I have NO idea how this guy does his thing. I took that Dr. Strange movie with me to watch later, but haven't had any time to watch it or the other movies. When he asked if it would help if I could watch them, I said yes and he said he'd take care of it. About thirty or forty-five minutes later, he hands me those two movies, with him showing me the more interesting parts of them. I said this was really neat.....and I gotta another idea with Luthor all for it. This took all of another thirty minutes or so and he's like Bob.....when he wants something done, it gets done. With Luthor and I working together so much, his value had gone up at the studio, which made me happy. First thing I did was “alter” Dr. Strange's cloak so not only did it “float” behind me while I was in the air, but also controlled it when it wasn't on me and in the air. Like it'd be on a coat rack and as I walked by it, it would rise up into the air and settle onto my shoulders. Then Luthor brought out six of those “mystical symbols' which were made of one eighth inch thick plexiglass and painted different colors. After handling them and thinking things over, I had control of 'em. Now this was kind of wowing everyone until I said let's try something different and with that, had the “mystical symbols” out of sight of the cameras, started waving my hands and just like that, they were in front of me and rotating. One moment there was nothing in front of me, the next second, there they were. Then it was being Superman. Now just remember, each time I was one of those other superhero's, I'd have my Mjolnir attached to my back, otherwise I can't fly. But then when I have it on me, I'm a lot stronger than normal.

Thing is, Bob was still kind of adamant about changing my mind to play golf with him and his “associates”. I repeated why I couldn't, but then said maybe we outta practice before all this goes down.....you know, just to be sure. He agreed without hesitation, with me showing up as me and not as Thor, though I'd be wearing Chris's face, my ski mask and latex gloves. He has Olivia call the golf course to set up what he calls a tee time and with that, he took his golf club set. Had to get home to change and once that was done, took off for the golf course with its address in my gps. Now, I didn't land on the golf course of course, but landed about a quarter mile from it and proceeded to walk to it, but wasn't permitted to enter? Seems this was a PRIVATE golf course, so only those members of it were permitted to enter it or ok'd others to enter. Seems Bob forgot about this part and as to wearing a ski mask..... Not willing to bother Bob, I simply walked away until there was no one around, then simply jumped over the chainlink fence to this place. Figured it'd be like the studio with everyone figuring you belonged there simply because you were there. I find Bob after a bit and he's talking with some guy that wanted to form a twosome instead of playing on the golf course separately. I said Uncle Bob, sorry for being late and of course, Bob KNEW it was me from the get go because he'd seen the footage of me on my hoover board on the freeway awhile back. He goes to introduce me, but didn't know what name I'd be using, so I stepped forward with my hand out, saying I was Jimmy, Jimmy Olsen kind of like Sean Connery would do when he'd say he was Bond, James Bond. A bit ticked when the man IGNORES my hand for a bit, then RELUCTANTLY shakes it. Now I'm “uncle” Bobs nephew, who was interested in seeing what a golf course was like and of course, I'd be caddying for him as price of admission to this exclusive golf course. Bob has no problem with us doing a twosome, with us then going to get our golf carts, with Bob telling me how the game is played, like I didn't know golf courses were set up with different kinds of difficulties, much like miniature golf courses are. And did you know there are SIX different kinds of golf clubs? I didn't know how many a golfer could or might use in the game either. I mean, all I had used in Bobs office was what he calls a putter. Anyway, there's drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons, wedges and putters.

Now the other guys caddy was named Brandon and he was a few years older than me and naturally, they wondered why I was wearing a face and ski mask, along with latex gloves, with Bob telling them I had a skin condition. That by wearing these things, it kept my medication on my skin. Those two were worried it might be contagious, but Bob told them no. Now what helps in me doing my thing is seeing things like this, so a couple of times I got my binoculars out to see where the ball should go. I happened to comment golly, that first hole is sure far, far away.....kind of reminds me of a gun range, you know, where the targets are that far away. Bet cha, ya gotta REALLY hit the ball because it's so far away and did ya ever put your golf ball in that hole thing with only one hit.....or is there a penalty for doing that? Those two are just slowly shaking their heads, with Bob explaining about hole in ones and other golfing slang. “Amazingly” Bob not only got one hole in one, but THREE, along with cutting off nine strokes off his normal golf game, with him winning the game against the other guy. Afterwards, Bob asked me and I told him that it wouldn't of been a problem for him to get eighteen hole in onesy's. He asked if I'd like something to eat and I said I'd like a Slurppy more than anything else, which I had to explain what it was and that's when my phone rang......it was Lepa, asking me out again.

Seems she and the other two girls wanted to go bowling and would I like to go with them? Naturally I said yes, with them going to pick me up in an hour. Yep, I was a happy puppy. Bob's looking at me, with me explaining I'd helped some girls from some guys that were bothering them, with Bob saying this was when you weren't Thor, right? I said yes sir and would you mind dropping me off down the street, which he and his driver did. Once the coast was clear, took off for home and waited from the girls to show up. Now the thing was, they were looking at joining a league, but this was something I told her I'd have to think about as my boss kept me pretty busy so that might not be possible. This time I didn't do as well as the girls, but them....a lot more strikes and spares than they'd usually make which made them and me happy. Yeah, I made sure I handled their bowling balls, saying I was curious about their weights. Now I hadn't forgotten about Jose, with me getting his address and using my gps to find it. So I got there around ten pm, with me dressed as Thor, then landing in his backyard and knocking on the rear door. Said I was sorry for not calling ahead of time, that it was something I hadn't thought of at the time, you know, getting his phone number, but in any case, he was more than willing to leave. Of course, his family met me, with him having three boys and two girls. His wife offered me something to eat, but I told her I'd eaten earlier, so I was good for now. Yeah, it was a couple of those bowling alley cheeseburgers, fries and ice tea.. Now they were curious about the Mjolnir's as Jose had told them about me giving people rides on them, so they all got a quick ride around their backyard and when that was done, attached one of 'em to Jose's back and away we went. It took us a good thirty minutes plus to finally find his cousins place because he wasn't used to flying so fast, though to me, it was kind of slow. The other was I'd never been to Mexico City. We ended up going to San Diego, then to being over Tijuana before finally getting to Mexico City. From there, it was easier for us to find and land in the backyard of his cousins place. Once I removed Bob's Mjolnir from Jose, he knocked on the backdoor with me just waiting.

Yeah, his cousin was surprised, with the two of them chattering away until Jose told his cousin to speak English as his friend, Thor, had come to help everyone and didn't understand Spanish. Now Angelo just kind of stood there, like he couldn't believe his eyes and I think he was thinking his cousin had been pulling his leg about knowing me. So I stepped back, releasing Mjolnir where it just hung in the air and Angelo was now a believer. The three of us then took off for that river that flows out of the United States and into Mexico. Boy, what a joke......I wouldn't even call what they had a creek. I'd generous calling it a stream, so yeah, things were that bad for those farmers. Got to looking around with me asking Angelo questions during all of this. His eyes got kind of big as he had a hard time believing this was possible, but Jose said if Senor Thor says so, take it as gospel. We landed so Angelo could call his friend in the construction business and right after that, we took off for the construction yard, where Garcia was just pulling into the yard and ready to wait for us. Garcia showed me the buckets that were available and not hooked to anything, so I took all five of 'em. Thing is, both Garcia and Angelo wanted to see us in action, so I wasn't about to say no. We all head back to those areas I thought would be good for being reservoirs. You know, like I did with Tala and his people. Four hours REALLY working those buckets and it was time for me to get something to eat, so I told Jose why I was leaving, but I'd be right back. Thing is, Angelo offered to feed me, but Jose said he simply didn't have enough food when I got hungry. So hit the studio cafeteria and just gobbled everything was brought to me for at least an hour. Good news was nobody bothered me other than bringing tray after tray of food to me. Headed for Tala's place afterwards to recharge and bring more rain to that part of the desert, then back to Jose, etc. Scooped out part of the river so it was a lot deeper.....like twenty feet off and on for a couple of miles. Fly back to Angelo, telling him he's got thirty minutes to warn everyone that it was REALLY going to rain, which during this time, I'd take Garcia and those buckets back where they belonged, along with Jose back to his place. Once that was done, first thing to do was fill those four reservoirs, one by one, with HEAVY rain clouds over each one. I'd also fixed things so when there was an over flow of water, it'd flow into the river. Then started another cloud over the river on the Mexican side and once that was done, took off for the studio cafeteria and ate some more.

Thing is, I was tired and wasn't looking forward to flying back to my place because even with the alarms set, would I hear them? And if I didn't, I'd be late for work, NOT good. Well, someone asked if I was okay while I was eating at the studios cafeteria and I said I was just tired, with that guy saying the studio has a couple of motorhomes they make available to the actors and actresses when they're on location somewhere. I said that's nice, but I'll get into trouble with Bob. He says he's sure Bob won't mind, especially when we tell him how tired you look, so I said okay. I kind of fell asleep while riding in one of the golf carts to my alley and right after that, here comes a HUGE motorhome. All but one of Bobs Mjolnir's went to the studio roof. I kept one of them attached to the inside of the door of the motorhome just to make sure no one could enter thru it. What surprised me was finding another door to the bedroom, so I attached mine to the inside of it and boy, this place was REALLY nice. Now I was sitting on the edge of this bed and had just removed my cape, Chris's face mask and wig and next thing I know is someone's making a lot of noise, telling me that I had to get up after carousing all night long at different bars, dancing the night away AND flying home while drunk?! I was a bit muddled and said I'm up Mom, I'm up.....and you know I don't drink. After washing my face and putting everything back on, went to answer the door after removing Bobs Mjolnir. It was Luthor and I'd of said something nasty to him, but he was holding out a BIG cup of coffee to me. Not only was it hot, but got me awake pretty quick like. Seems it was like a little after nine am, so yeah, I had not only overslept, but had forgot to see my phones alarm clock function.

Thing is, found out that while Bob was told about me sleeping in the studio motorhome, he wasn't mad about me using it. In fact, two things happened after that. How about there would ALWAYS be a motorhome available AND he had a Slurppy machine installed in my cubicle, with all three flavors?! Jose was there, with me having a few breakfast burritos, hashbrowns, but instead of those small bottles of milk, he now had several gallon jugs of 'em just for me, along with me having a couple more cups of coffee. Tells me he had talked with his cousin and it had POURED for about four hours straight. The reservoirs were about half full and now, they had a REAL river again, so everyone should have a normal crop yield. Told him when I got the time, we'd fly back and fill the reservoirs. Now, Bob wasn't going to let any dust settle on him, so Luthor asked me if I'd heard of other superhero's, with him talking about Silver Surfer, Hawkeye, Shazam, Green Arrow, Superboy, Hawkman, Krypto for example. I had to say no to most of 'em, but he says there's some dvd's on most of them, so when I had a chance to look at them...... Having done Dr. Strange and Superman, Bob wanted to try out the modified Hulk suit. Thing is, Luthor and his people really modified it, adding some fans, which worked great in keeping me cool, though I was limited to performing in it by twenty minutes as nobody wanted to see me pass out again. And man, did those fans make a difference. Spent a couple of hours in it, with the first hour of its back removed just to make sure I was getting enough air flow. Then we started doing different things that Bob wanted me to do, with Luthor and me coming up with some other ideas too. With the help of Bobs Mjolnir's, Luthor's cameramen filmed us jumping to the roof tops of the various studios and then to other roof tops. Thing is, just like The Hulkbuster, my strength was amplified and that prop was basically indestructible when I was in it. When I landed, I said okay guys.....let's have some fun and to be honest, Luthor looked kind of dubious when I said this. Like landing in front of a studio tram with a bunch of tourists in it, kind of squatted with my “arms” spread outward, roared at them, then jumped over them and the tram and down the street we went. And yeah, got kind of carried away with me jumping over the studios main gate and down the street we all went. My “jumps' would be about a quarter of a mile in length, sometimes longer and yeah, more than one person was completely startled by seeing the Hulk landing in front or near them, then jumping away. Then I saw it...... an elementary school and figured the kids might like seeing The Hulk in person. Boy, I almost caused a riot because once a couple of kids saw me land in the playground area, word spread like wildfire and the kids came streaming out of the school like a bunch of cattle stampeding in some old western, with teachers right behind them. Funny thing was that NONE of the kids were scared of me as The Hulk even when I growled, roared and waves my arms about. Of course, they ALL had a gazillion questions, which I TRIED answering, with me finally getting out of that prop. Oh boy. There went a good thirty to forty-five minutes, at which time we took off, with a lot of kids and some adults groaning when we did. Thing is, it was getting late and I had to head back for Las Vegas. Now it was “only” about three pm and Luthor was all for me trying some other stuff to be filmed. Told him I couldn't as I had to drive and be some place else as some people were depending on me to be there for them. What I liked was he didn't try persuading me any further about staying later. After getting out of The Hulk suit back at the studio, got paid, then hit the studio cafeteria for a quick bite, then all of us took off for Jose's cousin place, cranking up some more thunderclouds, while getting recharged. After that, sent Bobs Mjolnir's to the studio's roof top, while we went back to the storage unit to change, then headed for Las Vegas. When I got back, Susan and Sandra were in bed, but Cheri was nice enough to make me a few tuna fish sandwiches. Seems while I was gone, they'd gotten laundry done, gone to a couple of parks and having a picnic in the backyard, while Angeline had been studying for her learner's permit. She was just waiting for her birth certificate and of course later on, her social security card.

Now Angeline got her birth certificate in a couple of weeks, with me taking her and the two girls down to the social security office to get her card. She also got her learners permit, with Cheri taking her to deserted Home Depot parking lots after it was closed, so she'd learn how to drive. This way she had some experience before taking her drivers test so she'd have a regular license and while this was going on, I was sleeping on Cheri's couch until they came home. Now I felt bad in not helping people like I had been with me burning the candles at both ends by going out for a few hours after everyone was asleep. For example, we helped those Canadians who found themselves stuck due to massive flooding, but there were others like me helping them too. Thing is, I was becoming a world traveler in a way, with me no longer just checking out cities in the U.S., but in other countries around the world. And it wasn't easy for Angeline either, because not only was she learning to cook, clean and work on getting her G.E.D., it was caring for two young girls. I mean, I helped at times, but SHE was the one who had to care for them. I think what did it was when they started calling her Aunt Angie. The good news was Cheri had had a talk with Angeline about me NOT being husband material and yeah, she'd made a few passes at me, including walking around in nothing but a towel one time. That's when I “ran” to Cheri for help. Then came the day my thirty days was up, with Cheri agreeing to help and keep Angeline with her after I left. Man, it was like when I left Mom and the girls.....but then, to be honest, I was glad.

Now I still had that problem of winning money from the slot machines like I did and it was a few days before I saw Ira and Sui Te Wan on one of those piers on the Florida Keys bridge. Now I was dressed as me and not Thor, but they knew who I was as soon as I called out from behind them, with me being under the bridge and over the water. Ira was using a casting net and trying to catch shrimp with little success. He'd usually do this at night, with a Coleman gas lantern on a pole over the water and this would attract the shrimp. Now I knew NOTHING about shrimping or shrimp other than having a all too rare shrimp cocktail when I worked at the casino and the reason I ever got one or two of 'em was the cooks knew I was busting my behind in making sure they had clean dishes, pots, etc. without asking. Now Ira wasn't in a good mood because apparently he'd set his mind on having shrimp for supper, along with having it as bait. And as for Sui Te Wan....well, she was giving him heck about being such a “mighty fisherman”. Of course, I knew she didn't mean it, but she did enjoy teasing him about it. A lot. Now Ira was nice enough to explain what he was trying to do and why he was failing and that's when I offered him a better view of the ocean. You know, go looking for these schools of shrimp that weren't around there. He accepted right off the bat, so I called one of Bobs Mjolnir's to us which took a few minutes because I didn't want any supersonic booms going off. While waiting, he showed me how to use his casting net, then me explaining how things worked with a Mjolnir attached to ones body, then once the other Mjolnir arrived, it got attached to his back. Ira would tell me to get him lower, left, right, etc. and it only took maybe ten minutes to find a big school of shrimp. We filled up his two ice chests with shrimp, with more than one being the size of my hand. Now his wife was nice enough to write her recipe on how to cook 'em because I was thinking of Tala and his people....like had they ever eaten shrimp before? Probably not, with them living out in the desert and all.

Like I wrote before, with them being a lot older, Ira was the one who asked me what was bothering me, after they'd gotten their shrimp, because as much as they enjoyed my company, they could tell I had something on my mind that was bothering me. So I told them about what I'd done with those slot machines, though I didn't mention where they were at. Boy, did this make Ira mad.....not at me, but at a couple of New Jersey casinos where he got very little slot play for the money he'd put into them and naturally, he hadn't been back. So when I asked him if he'd like to make another try at it, he was all for it, but then saw Sui Te Wan's face and knew she wanted to go, so I asked her if everything would be safe locked in their car and she said yes. Now they both had some money on 'em, but I said all you really need is two dollars each and they just stared. So I called ALL of Bobs Mjolnir's to us just in case something might happen while there. As for me, I was a friends son and of course, I was Jimmy Olsen. I also warned them about wanting too much per win because other wise, they'd have to pay taxes, something they hadn't thought of. Ira explained how having a Mjolnir on her back worked and once everything was put away, off we went. They EACH got a little over ten thousand dollars, with NO taxes paid on their “winnings”. When we landed at their fishing spot, I was surprised when they both offered me their money and when I asked why, Sui Te Wan was the one who said they hadn't won that money, it was just me using my ability. I said no, keep it......you have kids who have kids and you never know when something might happen and that money could come in handy. That's when Ira said why did he have the feeling I wasn't making money for myself and I said I make really good money working at the studio and there's some things money can't buy, like making friends I'd of never met otherwise. As to the money I have made at the casinos.....I give it away to those who need it more than me, along with making donations to food banks and homeless shelters....you know, where they help and feed the less fortunate. Tells me that there's nothing wrong what I've done because the casinos rake in billions of dollars every year and what you get isn't even a drop in the bucket money wise, along with you spending none of it on yourself, but others. Felt a lot better inside because of their words and actions.

[texican]

Thor is maturing.

Thanks willC.

Texican....