Chapter 46 - [BT] Attack of The Shitty Market Budget Saibamen!

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Before I could even tell what had happened Johnny had transformed into a man made of fire and flew off towards the mole man leaving me with the words 'Find some cover and hide!' Which I believe is great advise and I will endeavour to do my best to follow it. I quickly took cover behind an overturned car that must have flipped over when the ground started to break open, taking a moment to look around I saw no other better spots with better protection than this so I decided to just keep safe behind the car.

Peeking over the top of the car I could see that the situation was much worser than I thought it would be, I had previously thought it was just the small ugly midget in green spandex with a green cape that was attacking but getting a better look I could tell that things were much more serious. Springing out from the gaps between the broke up ground were small gangly little midgets that looked entirely alien, they were some kind of greedy brown and, well, I guess they kinda look like the Saibamen from Dragon Ball Z except without the plating/carapace and that they are a whole lot uglier and look about ten times slimier though I can't blame them for that, it must be humid living underneath the ground.

These creatures were popping up out of the ground and helping the mole man fight Johnny, at least most of them are helping the mole man while a few strays have taken it upon get themselves to terrorise some of the surrounding civilians. And as if that wasn't bad enough, because of the ground cracking and breaking up there are some people trapped on a piece of ground with no way off of it and the ground doesn't look stable enough to hold them till the authorities or superheroes arrive to help them. Taking another look around I can see a few cops fighting some of the stray creatures but they don't seem to be doing that well and with the cops busy fighting the stray creatures there is no one to help the trapped civilians, I take another look at Johnny and I can see that he is getting swarmed by the creatures while fighting the mole man.

With it looking like there's no one to help those trapped civilians it falls to me to help them, I'm only doing it to show a heroic side to Johnny and earn some of his respect and no other reason at all, definitely not because I feel responsibility to help these people. Go damn you moral spouting propaganda from my previous life, screw you comics, screw you manga and anime and screw the superhero movies! Why did you have to teach me life lessons and give me good morals while I was growing up? Especially when it now applies to my exact situation, goddamn power and responsibility.

After my little psych up session I began to look around for anything I could use, anything that could provide an alternative to using my powers because I don't want to show them yet and only as a last resort. Standing up I move to a pipe I saw sitting not to far away from me and I pick it up, who knows where it came from all I care about is that it will help me beat off the creatures without exposing my powers. I will be using the minimal amount of strength possible because I don't want to splatter these creatures on the sidewalk (probably gonna be some protesters getting angry at me for it for some reason or another if I do) but even the least amount of strength my blows will still be heavier than a regular humans, well let's get to it.

Now I want to avoid the creatures as much as possible and focus on rescuing the civilians without exposing my abilities, no sweat all I've gotta do is find a way to bridge the 1-2 meter gap between the ground for them to get across, no problem at all. There seems to be a family of three trapped the closest to me on a unstable piece of ground but there's is quite a wide gap between them and safety and I have to find a way to bridge that gap. With everyone panicking and running away a few people got out of there cars to run as well and luckily for me they left their keys in the ignition.

Getting in the closest four door car I turn the key in the ignition and thankfully it starts up without any problems, now I've just got to use it to bridge the gap between the massive abyss in the ground which shouldn't be too difficult, right? The ground that the family of three seem to be on is lower than the street level so I should be able to drive the car of the edge of the gap and it should just about bridge it, hopefully. I slowly begin to accelerate the car to the gap going quite slow and I speed up just before I hit the gap and there's a moment where I feel weightless like when you're on a roller coaster and you can feel your guts getting jumbled around inside you, it's like that.

With a loud thunk I can hear the front of the car collide with the lowered ground all the while the back half of the car is perched on the street level ground creating a temporary rising bridge between them which should hopefully hold, hopefully being the key word in that sentence. I stall the car, fully lower my window and switch off the ignition before I grab my pipe and climb out of the window and onto the top of the car hoping to god that it's stable, after a moment where I was sure I was going to plummet to my death I begin to move along the car and hop onto the land which holds the family of three.

Making my way over to them I can see them looking at me in confusion. "Cmon, this ground is unstable and is liable to collapse at any moment! We have to climb along the car and get back to safe ground, quick!" I shout at them but they don't seem to want to move, the man in the family of three opens his mouth and is about to spout his time consuming words but just before he does we hear a screech and the words die before they even leave his mouth. A creature, I'm just going to call them moles since they work for the mole man even if they don't look like moles, jumps up out of nowhere and pounces towards the man but it's like the mole is moving in slow motion and I can easily see it slowly advance towards the man.

I'm fast enough to hit the mole in an instant but that would be suspicious so I first ready up my swing with the pipe and making sure to swing fast but not too fast enough to to be outside the human realm of speed I swing when the mole gets closer to the man and with a thus my makeshift bat makes contact with the makeshift baseball in the form of a dull green skull. I can't lie but I feel pretty awesome at this moment and feel like shouting something silly such as 'Batters Up!' or 'Homerun!', I guess the idiocy and posterity just comes with the job that being a superhero is, not that I'm a superhero but I'm feeling pretty heroic right now.

With a thud the mole goes flying backwards but he gets right back up after a few seconds, I guess I didn't use enough strength so I'll just slowly increase my strength till I find the sweet spot for these shitty Saibamen hopefully before I end up saying f.u.c.k it and giving them a team rocket blastoff. My musing is cut to an end when the little mole midget lets out a screech and if I'm not mistaken and from my experience playing games that sounds just like a.. Yep, the little shit just called for reinforcements.

Two mole things jump down from a higher level of ground and land next the mole that called them, I look behind me at the family of three who look frightened before I tighten my grip on the pipe in my hands.

"What are you waiting for? GO!"

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