Chapter 22: Falling into a dangerous trap and barely surviving.

Superman stood in his apartment, looking at himself in the mirror, rather at his new suit he tried them out.

'So this is how Spiderman feels looking at me.' Kevin finally understood, As he himself was fanboying himself right now. As a superman fanboy in his past life, he couldn't help it.

He even flexed his biceps and chest muscles looking at the mirror.

"I'm fine... change Yep, big change." He whispered to himself.¹

He opened the window and flew around New York, just showing his face in his new suit. He does this occasionally so that criminals will know that he's always around, and for citizens to feel safe and sound with him around.

'Oh... A bankbrobbery' Kevin flew inside with superspeed, and looked at everybody, the hostages were sitting in a corner.

"Ha I knew you'd come Superman!" The leader said, pointing a gun towards one of the hostages.

"You're our ticket out of here, either you help us carry all the bags, And protect us while we escape, or an innocent life will be lost" He said. He was known as Arozoth the smarty-pants, in his small community of criminals, as he was the head strategist, often being the leader because of it.

"WhAt a GoOd iDeA" another one said. He had big front teeth, a big nose and eyes that were way too close to each other.

"Jehnny, Why Don't you have your mask on!" Arozoth Barked.

"Because you said this is a done deal as soon as Superman arrives, so we're done aren't we?"

His logic was so impeccable that Arozoth almost got a stroke by it.

Superman looked at all the hostages and smiled at them.

"Don't worry, I'm here now."

Arozoth had heard so much about the new super hero that he got angry whenever he heard his name. always complaining about him whenever he had a chance. So in the end he thought of this plan to make a lot of money and destroy Superman's reputation. If Superman didn't come he'd just stay in here with the hostages until Superman does.

Seeing how Superman smiled and reassured everybody, Erozoth felt the need to make Superman Understand that he wasn't playing around. He pointed his gun at one of the hostages. and pulled the trigger.

'Mama, I just killed a man! Put a gun to his face and pulled the trigger, now he's dead.' Erozoth thought, he didn't really enjoy killing people but he would do it if needed.

But he got shocked by the fact that the hostage didn't die, instead Superman stood there, holding a bullet between his fingers.

Panicked, Erozoth shot at more hostages at the same time. But no one got hurt, Superman stood there with his fist up in the air. As he released his fingers, the sound of bullets dropping to the ground could be heard.

Everyone was awed by this feat, they had seen similar feats on the news and iTube, but seeing it in real life just hit different.

"So the rumours weren't fake!" Arozoth thought, he had never seen Superman before, so he assumed everyone was exaggerating about their beloved hero.

'I messed with the wrong guy' he thought.

Superman flashed by every robber and hit them unconscious.

And as the dust fell down. Everybody saw that the bank robbers were unconscious on the floor, and in the middle of it all, stood a tall, handsome man in his white and gold superman suit almost looking holy.

"You're safe now." He said in a kind voice. As a few started crying because of the relief. Being held hostages was a very stressful situation for most people.

Superman even saw a little boy crying, so he went forward and picked him up. "Everybody, let's go out!" He said.

As they walked out the police were relieved that superman had arrived. They heard gunshots and worried, but it turns out Superman saved the day.

He flew away as he was being thanked by the people.

Reaching home he heard his phone ring, so he answered.

"Son we saw you on tv, how handsome you've become." His mother said with a proud tone

"Thank you mom." Kevin said, with a bad gut feeling. His mother sounded almost too excited talking to him, she must be planning something.

His years of crime fighting experience gave him a gut feeling, which told him that something was going on.

In fact, his 18 years of handling his parents gave him an acute instinct even spiderman would be jealous of.

"Are you busy right now?" His mom asked innocently.

"Maybe.... what.. do you want?" He really started to get afraid now. Palms sweaty, weak knees.

"We haven't seen each other in a long time, so we're going to eat out together as a family, be at uncle Marios Italian restaurant in ten minutes. At table three, and bring your wallet you're paying. We'll arrive shortly." His mother said.

"But Mom, we saw each other two days ago..." His spider senses were definitely tingling now.

"No Buts young man! Be there or else!" Beepbeep she hung up.

Kevin once more looked into the mirror, whispering "You're superman, you can handle anything!"

'Maybe she really just missed me?'

He changed into a red tartan shirt, blue jeans and a simple black sports jacket over it. Then flew to Uncle Mario's Italian Food in Branchville.

When he arrived, he went to sit at the third table waiting for his family. Maybe they had some kind of announcement.

He saw that the owner of this restaurant was standing over at the cashier, smiling brightly while looking at him. Even gave him a wink.

'Is Uncle Mario involved in moms plans? He looks excited!" Kevin thought as he looked at the familiar uncle of his. All the older generation in Branchville were called Uncles and aunts, since they're like a big family here.

But sometimes he gets the feeling that there's something else going on in this town.

Before he could dwelve into his thoughts, his mother walked in with... someone beside her, Laura!

"Ah my son, how coincidental that you're also here. What a small town, they should call it smallville." She said with a straight face, pretending to not know he was here.

"I was just about to eat with my new friend, Laura, she's just a year older than you, and very pretty!" She still pretended.

"Mom, we've met before." Kevin said exasperated.

"Oh even better." she said, but was cut off by her own phone ringing.

"Yes who is this, WHAT, OH NO! WHAT, AN EMERGENCY??! I guess I have no choice but to leave my other appointments." She said heartbroken.

Kevin saw through it all and asked "What emergency?"

"Ah.. ehem you know..."

"Say that one of your friends is giving birth." Kevin's dad said through the phone in her hand.

"My friend Jonathan is giving birth! Anyways you two should eat since I reserved this table!" She said as she escaped the place before anyone could react.

Suddenly it got silent, Laura had just stood there, without a single expression on her face. She had superior senses because of her mutation, and heard the voice from the phone, and realised that her new friend had tricked her into a blind date with her son.

Kevin didn't feel like having a blind date, especially with someone that's onto his secret. So just as he was about to stand up, a new voice came over.

"It'sa me, uncle Mario! I will prepare da beste food for you!" Kevin realized why uncle Mario seemed so excited before, he was part of the plan.

"Should we just eat." Kevin said, giving up

Laura stood there thinking. Her new "Friend" was one of the first to welcome her into Branchville.

As soon as she arrived everybody noticed that she was a new face and treated her kindly, but only Kevin's mother and father had really helped her out. Inviting her to their secret... Fans Of Real Green Entities Research Sect, F.O.R.G.E.R.S for short, making her instantly part of the inner circle of Branchville.

Even though she was very antisocial, and had a hard time expressing herself and trusting others, Kevin's mother had patiently helped her.

'And now, she has done this' Laura thought, not knowing how to feel.

Kevin just saw that she just stood still for a second before sitting down.

"Okay" she answered.

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References:

1. Spiderman 2002, he stands Infront of his mirror, and says those words to aunt may asking if he's fine.