catches every bullet.
“This is unbelievable!” Airhead looks shocked.
“I guess I should have told you that we Concentratians are immortal here on your planet,” Numb informs as she takes Airhead's gun away from her. “I had better take this before you hurt yourself.”
Bo teleports Numb and Airhead back to Numb Mountain where the two siblings place Airhead into a maximum security cell.
“You can't keep me in here!” Airhead yells.
“Bet me,” Bo gambles.
“I thought you gave up gambling,” Numb wonders.
“Nope,” Bo answers. “I just gave up professional gambling. I still do it as a hobby.” He pauses and glares at Airhead. “And only when I know I will win.”
Somewhere in South Africa, Amy Cornillius follows Speedway into a bank.
“Everybody on the ground! Now!” Speedway orders.
“Does that include me?” Amy asks with mock confusion. “I followed you in here.”
“Of course that includes you,” Speedway informs. “Now, kiss the floor before I shoot everyone!”
“What are you going to shoot us with?” Amy criticizes. “Tar guns?”
“Fireballs,” Speedway answers, annoyed by the unaccomodating hostage.
“I suppose you are going to shoot the fireballs out of your fingertips?” Amy asks somewhat interested.
“Yes,” Speedway huffs. “Would you like a demonstration?”
“No,” Amy answers. “Your shoes are untied.”
Speedway bends over to check her laces before she realizes that the boots of her costume are slip-ons.
Amy karate chops Speedway in the back of the neck while she's bent over.
“Why you little...” Speedway starts.
“I know,” Amy interrupts with a smirk.
“A cage of fire should hold you,” Speedway infuriates as a stream of flames come from her fingertips and forms into a cage of fire around Amy, making the Vexar appear trapped. The money hungry thief finishes robbing the bank and runs off.
Bo teleports Amy out of the cage of fire and back to Numb Mountain.
“I take it they all got away?” Roger asks when all of the Vexars have returned to Numb Mountain.
“All but this one,” Numb answers as she uses her thumb to point over her shoulder at Airhead in the cell behind her.
“Excuses?” Roger asks knowing he will eventually need them for the paperwork that will inevitably follow such a case.
“I was trapped in a cage of fire,” Amy explains.
“I was splattered in the eyes with water,” Fonz informs.
“I caught the one I was after,” Numb smirks. “What's your excuse?”
“He turned into a dog with four legs,” Roger explains. “He outran me.”
“You are inexperienced and unprepared,” Airhead growls from her cell.
“When I want your opinion, I will give it to you,” Roger snarls back at the captured thief.
“I hate to do it,” Numb informs, “but I have to agree with our prisoner.”
“Fine,” Roger states. “Let's get prepared. Have five of those cars build as soon as possible.” He turns to look at his girlfriend. “Amy,” he smiles. “Finish those plans for Power Hall and locate fifteen places around the Earth for them that will give us a tactical advantage.” He turns toward Bo. “Start mailing applications out and finding us new members. I will train them all myself if necessary.” he turns to look at Fonz. “Quesion the prisioner and then take her to the U.P.C. Building.” He starts to walk out the cave entrance. “I'm going to go talk to Domingo.”
Domingo allows Roger entrance into his house in New York once his identical cousin knocks. Domingo always wears his dingy gray coveralls from NASA that have his name patched onto the left shoulder and a pair of black hiking boots. Unknown to most, Domingo always carries a pair of squirt guns in the inside pockets of his coveralls, but they don't always contain water. The two identical cousins sit on opposite ends of Domingo's sofa.
“How's space?” Roger asks his space-faring cousin.
“It's still out there,” Doming answers, knowing that Roger will get to the reason for his visit soon enough.
“Didn't NASA go for the plan you had for a space craft that could explore outside the galaxy?” Roger asks, interested in knowing what's beyond the solar system.
“It wasn't in the budget,” Doming answers, acting uninterested in why NASA turned his plan down.
“Would you be willing to work for me?” Roger smiles an ornery smirk that tells Domingo that his cousin has got big plans and they are already in the works.
“Doing what?” Domingo asks, a little unsure of what his identical cousin has in mind.
“Exploring space,” Roger answers with a big grin. “I'm even going to have Numb build the space craft you designed.”
“I'll do it,” Domingo answers without hesitation.
“Great,” Roger declares. “I'll have someone call you when your ship is prepared. Until then, be thinking about who you would like to have on your crew.”
“I will,” Domingo states with a huge grin. He has dreamed of exploring the far reaches of the galaxy for over a decade.
“What did you find out from our prisoner?” Roger asks Fonz as soon as he enters Numb Mountain.
“She goes by the nickname Airhead,” Fonz begins. “Nobody seems to know what her real name is. She lives in the clouds. She flies. And, she tends to have a smart mouth.”
“The United Planetary Council will love her,” Roger rolls his eyes so everyone can see how sarcastic he's being.
“Do you think we stopped those villains just by taking away one of their members?” Amy asks in an attempt to get everyone back onto the task at hand.
“No,” Roger answers. “Next time they are going to want to go for something bigger.”
“Where do you think they will head?” Bo asks, determined to finish this case so he can get a few laps of practice driving his race car.
“They are after money,” Roger thinks. “What place has more gold than Fort Knox?”
“Fort Knox was one of the richest places in America,” Amy begins. “It stands to reason that a few money hungry bank robbers would assume that it still is. I think we should send a group there and leave a surprise waiting for them.”
“That sounds like a good plan to me,” Fonz smiles.
“How long do you think it will take them to hit Fort Knox?” Roger asks.
Bo turns on the television to see a commercial for the latest news report.
“Fort Knox has just been robbed,” the newscaster reports. “Which places we think will be next, along with all of our latest news coverage, tonight at five, six, nine, ten, and eleven.”
Bo turns off the television.
“Don't you just love it when characters know exactly when to turn on and off the television or radio?” Numb asks you, the reader, directly, temporarily stepping out of the story so the other characters don't hear. She turns to look at Roger. “The first car is done.”
“Good,” Roger answers. “Bo and I will take the first destroyer and go set up a surprise attack.”
“Destroyer?” Bo asks.
“It is what I have decided to name these new vehicles that look like cars,” Roger smirks. “They are going to be a great asset in destroying evil.”
“Where are you going to set up the surprise attack?” Amy asks.
“The New York Mint,” Roger answers.
“I'll meet you guys there in the second finished destroyer,” Amy informs.
“Alright,” Roger answers as he opens the driver's door of the destroyer. “Wish me luck.”
“Good luck,” Amy winks.
Roger and Bo get into the destroyer. Roger presses a button on the dashboard marked plane, causing wings to unfold from under the car. The first destroyer flies out the entrance of Numb's laboratory and arrive and the New York Mint as it is being robbed.
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?Care to drop your weapons?” Roger asks Mutthead, Speedway, and Kwim as they come running out of the New York Mint.
“That sounds like an idea to me,” Mutthead begins as he draws a gun on Roger. “Why don't you drop your weapons, since we do outnumber you!”
“Maybe in brawn,” Roger vocalizes without concern for the gun that Mutthead is brandishing, “but in brains, we definitely outnumber you.”
“What's that supposed to mean?” Mutthead asks, completely confused by Roger's statement.
“It means that I'm the only one here with any brains,” Bo states sincerely.
“Besides,” Roger begins, “we don't carry any weapons.”
“That will make it so much easier for us to eliminate you,” Kwim states.
“I'm invulnerable,” Roger laughs as he telepathically explains to Bo his plan.
“No you aren't,” Bo argues with Roger.
“So,” Speedway begins, “you aren't invulnerable.”
“Yes we are,” Bo mimics the illusion that he's lying to her.
“Is it me, or is there two of them?” Kwim asks.
“There's two of us,” Roger states. “You should really go to a doctor and get your eyes checked. Here, let us help you find one.”
Roger looks at Bo and the gambling cousin uses his telekinetic abilities to throw Kwim clear to the center of the Atlantic Ocean where the money hungry villainess swims freely.
“Stop them!” Mutthead orders.
A stream of flames flow from Speedway's fingertips and trap the two Vexars in a ring of fire. She and Mutthead race off.
“Have you noticed what I've noticed about her fire?” Roger asks Bo.
“Besides the fact that it doesn't get hot,” Bo wonders. “No.”
“It doesn't make things hot,” Roger replies. “It's an illusion.”
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