one, the clinic
in a city, simon worked in a clinic for premature babies, who were born earlier than usual. one winter morning he was in the mood for soy burgers so he grabbed from the frij the ones he had wrapped in foil for his oven, and brought them to work. he worked in the office and supervised until lunch.
the small toast oven was broken so he needed to use the microwave. the microwave was not working either. simon said that the broken oven probably broke the electric outlet. he decided cold was gross so he carried the microwave into the premy room. he plugged in the microwave and jammed in his foil wrapped tofu. he was a vej so he only ate soy burgers not beef.
he sat on a chair to wait the minute for heating up but soon he saw flashes from the microwave oven so he ran to look... and as he reached the oven a flash of lightning spark shot from the metal foil out through the clear plastic door and started jolting a premy! simon jumped to open the door... so it would switch off. his body moved in front of the door so the zap hit him. he was stunned!
he started falling but punched his fingertips, of his left hand, at the release bar, which popped back and opened the door which switched off the oven... but the zap had already zapped him. he lay on the floor... and started craving beef. he had been in the mood for soy burgers but now he wanted beef burgers. a few seconds later he recovered.
simon recalled the zap that hit the premy so he went to check if the lightning had burnt the baby. the baby seemed fine. he noted that the spot where he got zapped had also not burnt in contrast to lightning.
he also realized that if anyone saw him with foil they would complain "no foil allowed in microwave." since he was in the mood of beef anyway and was not gonna eat the soy and did not want to be seen holding the foil he simply left the room.
he told his supervisor the registered nurse named benna braun, that he was taking his lunch break. benna waved him off and said, "if you go to fast food get me a tower burger". hmm tower seemed even better. so he went to his parked electric car and turned the key and zipped to "some" fast food place. there he got a pair of the 3 bread and two beef tower.
he ate his hot and carried the second back to his car. he felt very light. could beef be that much more energizing than soy? he was shocked! but ran with a burst to the car. as he reached the car a zap of lightning flashed from him at the metal of the car. it did not feel like a static shock that goes out and hurts your hand when you touch the door knob so he figured it must have come into him.
he worried his battery in the car would be weakend. how would he drive back to work? simon beeped the remote key to unlock the door and slid into the soft seat. he started the engine and it hummed to life. the battery was full! not like he feared and not like it had lessened from his drive from the clinic. he was mystified why it was full.
he drove back to the clinic and watched the battery lessen. it must have lessened when he drove from home to the clinic too... and from the clinic to the fast food? how could it be full battery? he parked in his reserved space in the underground parking, and carried the burger to benna. he asked her if she wanted it hot? benna said "yeh please nuke it for me", she referd to the microwave.
he entred the preemy room and opened the oven and saw nobody had removed his foil. now the tofu seemed exceptionally gross. he wondered why he ever ate that stuff. simon leaned forward and moved the foil into the paper take away bag and put her tower in and switched on the oven. he stood by the oven as it whirred... he heard a giggle from behind him but from the ceiling?
he turned and saw a baby hovering near the lights giggling! simon shrieked scared it would fall but watched as it hovered and did not fall instead it went slowly back to the crib. while watching the kid he checked the color panel on the diaper but the kid was dry... and even if not he was handling food for benna so must stay focused.
he delivered the hot burger to her. he did not mention that he saw a baby fly, but went to his office to catch up on paper work. as he was typing he felt frustrated it was too slow. luckily a spark jumped from his finger to the keyboard so lines of words appeared on the screen. he said the stuff he needed to record and was finished much faster.
he had not needed to fix typos because he had not used his fingers. his work done he went to benna and asked if she had any other jobs? she said no just be in your office in case we need you. he felt very light again so he ran to his office... he arrived in his office with the door shut and did not recall opening the door?
nor closing it?
he felt light so he JUMPED over his desk... and as his face flew toward the window he decided to turn around and his face was facing the closed door... without spinning!
he realized that he had many powers. this would be very convenient. he remembered that he had eaten lunch the day before. he should probably empty the waste... but he did not feel any urge , but he had time and probably needed to empty the waste from yesterday lunch so he went to the men room... but to his surprise nothing needed to exit.
he flushed in case someone saw him enter and washed his hands with soap as usual... he hoped he was not the only one in the clinic to do this... and instead of opening the door he decided to walk through it. but instead of walking through it... he realized his office was by the wall of the toilet room so he walked to the wall and tried to walk through, bang! ow! his forehead smacked the concrete. no powers.
two [c2 kuz 1,100 words in 1] the fires
he returned in a daze to the wood door and reached his hand to the knob... he realized he could not walk through doors but did plan on exiting this door but before he touched the metal lever of the handle with the back of his hand as usual... he was out in the hall. but how? what was the difference. he felt very confused.
he decided to look back at the door that he had passed through to see if it was open and without spinning he faced the wood door and saw it was shut. he saw through to the blue stalls through the reinforced glass with wires for safety to prevent shattering. a guy appeared behind the narrow window in the door so simon jumped aside so he could exit.
in a moment he was at his office door and through its narrow glass window, and at his desk facing the door. he wondered how this happened but decided not to complain because it made life easier. he started playing with the drawers to pass the time and found a lighter. he saw it had some fuel inside through the clearish orange plastic.
he rolled the metal sparker and watched the flame sway. he felt very bored so he made a game how close can he get his hand to the flame... he held his hand over the flame and slowly moved closer and closer he felt hot but not too hot... oops he touched the top of the yellowish flame so his hand jumped back but did not hurt. luckily he had pulled away in time before it burnt him.
his skin looked fine. he did not know that he had not pulled away in time but he was protected from energy harm.
he released the lighter... but too late someone passed in the hallway and swung his door open. "hey! no smoking in here! i saw you with that lighter.--i was not smoking--let me see your desk" said the accuser. simon felt ashamed that people would know about his magazines. so he blocked the drawers. "aha you are guilty! you were smoking! if you were innocent you have nothing to hide."
"you have no authority to search. go convince a security guard!--the fact you hid proves you are guilty, if you were not smoking you would let me see. simon stayed silent because he did have something to hide... his magazines! but he did not want the snitch rat to know about his magazines. the rat named rubin rabinitz went to benna.
he said "i caught simon smoking." simon did not hear her answer just the shouting of rubin. he moved the magazines into his paper delivery bag and locked the drawer. he walked out and heard rubin arguing with benna. rubin wanted to search the desk for the lit cigarrete. benna said "stop accusing! simon is the nerdiest guy he would never break any rule!"
simon smiled and touched the elevator metal doors. he knew the elevator was there and zapped himself through the metal doors... oops it had been passing! he fell faster than the elevator and landed on its roof. he zapped through the metal roof and stopped on the tile floor. he had pushed some people so he said "excuse me." they ignored him.
the elevator doors opened and he felt very light so he started running home but soon recalled that his car was parked in his reserved spot by the clinic so he ran back it was far! he had ran about a mile in five seconds. just as fast he appeared by his car. he wondered if he was as fast as The flash. he checked the dc website and saw that his speed was far less than flash and far less than lightning.
he drove home. at dinner time he had no appetite so he walked to the frij, looked around found the cottage cheese waved his hand so the metal spoon jumped out through the metal drawer inro his hand he scooped a spoon of cheese , ate it and returned the cheese to the frij. he felt too lazy to wash the spoon.
he "moved it" and the new metal formed a clean spoon over the counter where it fell and smacked the wood counter top. then he went to his bedroom... through the kitchen socket to his bedroom socket and reformed himself pure without dirt and sweat just his body. he did not feel cold so he climbed under his sheet and fell asleep but only for a moment because he heard someone screaming!
orange light shined through his window. the building beside his was burning. people were by the windows trying to breathe as the smoke poured out around them. the orange grew. the people jumped out the window and fell far to the ground with their clothes blazing on fire. he felt sad for them but superman was not real.
he thought, nobody can save them not even god well. he could but god does not do miracles only rarely. simon heard his lady lover called from that building "help me i am trapped in the elevator!" he recalled that he had entered the metal elevator so he could save her... but people would say he was a freak and how in smoke would he breathe?
he had masks from covid. the leftover ones had just sat there, on the shelf of the book shelves by the door, ever since the mask mandate was cancelled so he put on a dentist mask for smoke. simon zipped through the electric socket in his room out the building and across the city wire to her building. the elevator was jammed due to the loss of electricity in the building. he used his electric zap to activate the electric doors. they opened so she could get out.
three the rescue
he lifted her and ran through the flames to the door carrying her. the heat energy only hurt a bit as he ran through the flames. he kicked open the door by the steps, and saw her clothes were burning so he rolled her off his hands onto the floor and rolled her back and forth smothering the flames it was a miracle but it worked and the flames stopped but she had fainted from smoke.
he zipped down the steps and out the fire exit and carried her to the ambulance. they saw she had stopped breathing and declared her death. all his work had been fruitless he had not even saved her. he decided never to use his abilities to help anybody again... so time passed...
to be continued... at:
https://thinkforyourselfn8.blogspot.com/2023/12/simon-super-hero-part-2.html
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