(Page 1 of 2) Someone Else's Shoes by Steve Jones -B5
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SUMMARY: for the super powers flash fiction contest "You have what we call a secondary power," Toledo, the name of the superpower expert, said. "You can maybe find something useful to do with it, but you'll never be a hero."
Kelly Ponere ran from the office and out into the street. It had taken every penny she had to buy a bus ticket to the city and pay the expert. She'd dropped out of school. Now she had no place to go. After running a while, she kept walking.
"It's not a power," she said. "It's a cliche'."
Kelly wandered into a financial district. She found a likely looking bench at a bus stop and sat. It would have been nice to be a hero, she would have liked to have had a chance. She had wanted to meet Mindbender, or Sky Rider, or even Jack.
It was after lunch, which Kelly didn't have, when it happened. The side of one of the buildings exploded. People were running and screaming. Kelly stood up and looked at the building where windows used to be. A huge safe was making it's way out, floating gently to the ground. Once it had settled, it started hovering down the street.
Then she arrived, the one called Fury. She was short and pencil thin with a blonde pony tail, every bit of eleven years old, wearing a bright red and yellow uniform with a cape. There were two ways to join the Conference of Super Champions, one could be invited, or one could win in a fight against one of their principal heroes. Fury had beaten the whole team. Rumor had it the flight had lasted less than ten minutes.
She floated on a platform of electrical energy. Fury could absorb energy, changing one kind of energy into another, and use it any way she wanted. In her latest poster she was holding fire in one hand and electricity in the other.
Two robbers shot at Fury with sub-machine guns. Kelly immediately made the people who'd been waiting for the bus take cover. Did they think they were all bulletproof?
Of course nothing would hurt Fury. A shower of bullets fell to the ground as she turned their momentum into a loud ‘boom' which knocked the gunmen off their feet.
"I was having my hair done you creeps!" she yelled.
Fury landed, encasing the men in glowing lines of force and floating them off the ground. It looked like it was all over when suddenly a globe of darkness surrounded Fury, the henchmen fell free.
A woman wearing a dark purple cat suit walked around from behind the safe.
"I know you can hear me Fury," the woman said. "I'm Darkness, and while you're in my grasp, there's no power for you to absorb."
Kelly walked around in front of the bench despite herself. All Fury had to do was walk out of the sphere of darkness and kick some butt. She was very good at that.
Nothing happened. Somehow Kelly could feel where Fury was, in the middle of the darkness, crouched down and shivering.
Kelly had to do something, secondary or not. She concentrated on Fury. Kelly had to know where someone was in order for it to work. Then she mentally flipped the switch in her mind.
-Bamf-
Everything was suddenly dark and cold around her.
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