Big Superhero Action by Raymond Embrack Read Free Book Online Page B

Could make me fly. Only that recording gives me the power of flight. No covers, only the Bowie original. I can fly for over an hour off one play of the song. Then I play it again for a refill.”
    “That’s just dumb.”
    “Yet it works. I can fly, I can make a Delta 88 fly, any vehicle and size. But I’m not The Carousel.”
    “Meaning what?”
    “The Carousel’s only superpower is not being a superhero.”
    “No,” Spector said. “He creates them. I take it flying to classic rock changed your life.”
    “It changed everything. I never exactly fitted in as an ordinary person anyway. Now reality is like being inside a dream. Like I found my natural state and this is it.”
    “Now what?”
    “Now I become a superhero.”
    “Why become a superhero?”
    “You want the real answer? I’m obsessed with a superhero.”
    “Who?”
    “Teenage Cleopatra.”
    “You’re after
her
?”
    “I am. And I don’t have a chance without being a way better superhero than this. That is my goal in life.”
    “You got a name?”
    “Duff Nash.”
    “Okay, here you are, Duff Nash. Why should I trust you?”
    “You know why. You can tell who you can trust. You can tell I’m kosher.”
    “That is true. But if I turn out to be wrong, your life ends.”
    “Intense but deal.”
    “Now what have you gained from the deal?”
    “We can talk openly about stuff.”
    “You talk,” Spector said. “I’ll edit what we talk.”
    “Martian Justice took out the Motorchrists alone. I thought you…he was dead as fuck. Then he got up and blew their fucking heads off. You blew their heads off but they didn’t die. Somehow you…Martian Justice does that.”
    “Okay, first off: stick to third person. MJ uses regeneration disruptor cells. Their heads grow back. The gun doesn’t blow off heads, it grows a new one. The brain is childlike but harmless and eventually it grows to full adult size.”
    “How?”
    “KM technology.”
    “You started AXIS,” Duff said.
    “I won’t deny that statement.”
    “AXIS is a force for good?”
    “It’s a force that is anti-OSD.”
    “The Order of Social Domination.”
    “Correct.”
    “What does
AXIS
stand for?”
    “
AXIS
doesn’t stand for anything. It takes a word associated with evil, cleans it up and owns it.”
    “Why start AXIS?”
    “The OSD, that’s why. The OSD has to be stopped before it finds the key.”
    “How do we know the key exists?”
    “AXIS has confirmed the existence of super powers outside Brutalia. That indicates a key that will release super powers to the rest of the world. AXIS must find it first. If the OSD finds the key first the world as we know it is fucked. Dr. Playground will wipe his ass with every military on the planet and put everyone into a uniform. Except the children, who he will dress according to his sexual fantasies. The OSD will end inequality because everyone will be slaves. For now only AXIS can stop the OSD.”
    “What makes Dr. Playground that evil?”
    “That’s what he wants to be. He has the almost unlimited power to be whatever he wants to be.”
    “How many superheroes are in AXIS?”
    “The number is a secret.”
    “Are all of them…you?”
    “The membership is secret.”
    “How many superheroes are you?”
    “I talk about myself in the third person. There’s reason for that.”
    “Okay.”
    “It’s like this. The Carousel is a superhero who takes turns being an unspecified number of superheroes. They spin like the monthly comic books in the comic book carousel in the corner drug store. The Carousel picks one of them at a time to become.”
    “How does that work?”
    He had invented carousel tech based on KM identity sharing technology but there was more unknown than known. Like exactly how he accessed the carousel. It was a reality somewhere between dream state and ESP like he had at some point become part computer. It put the unknowable in his hand with the fit of a TV remote. He only turned the carousel. It involved