Smoking Fingers...

[Before Transition]

With the family of three running away and Johnny getting all the attention I can be a bit lenient with my restriction of my powers and so as quick as lightning I smash my pipe into all three of the moles heads and send them flying back into the abyss they crawled out of, I don't think they were sentient so I don't think I'll feel too bad if they died or something once they reached the bottom. Looking back I can see the family of three still running towards the car and so I start to sprint towards them, I catch up to them and follow them to the car.

Once we get there the man of the family has some issues with climbing onto the car to cross the dark chasm but I plainly tell him that he either waits till more mole things show up or the ground collapses, the man made the smart choice and decided to cross the car with his family but before they do I go to the front of the car and put my hands against it just in case the cars unstable and slips. The man gives me a look as if to say 'what's that supposed to accomplish' but I just reply with a shrug, he doesn't know that I have super strength and my holding onto the front of this car makes it immensely more safe for him and his family.

This is all quite a tedious process and it would be much easier to just wrap a scarf around my head and use my powers to save these people but I'm afraid that that will be a gateway to becoming a superhero so I would rather help as a normal but intelligent civilian, it doesn't hurt that doing these heroic acts with my face out in the open will immensely improve the Fantastic Four's opinion of me and make my access to the Baxter Building that much more likely. Anyway it takes a few minutes for the family to safely cross the car as they were being overly cautious, I mean they only had to cross a large chasm that I'm sure goes down thousands of meters, not that hard right.

The mother of the family goes first, then the man climbs onto the top of the car with his child and helps the child across first before joining them on the other side, once the man is across he looks beck and holds his hand out and tells me to come over and I'm about to before I hear a series of familiar screeches. The mole things I knocked of the edge before are back and they were leaping at me, with my spider sense I had already leaned out of the way of all three of them and watched them fly past me. Unfortunately that was a big miscalculation on my side as instead of the creature doing a 180 and running at me again they began to run across the car towards the family of three.

Luckily for me the family of three saw that the moles were coming and started to run away, with no one looking at me I was free to kick the side of the car that the moles were running across and dislodge it from its position. The car no longer being stable soon fell to the bottom of the chasm with the moles still holding onto the car, I do not wanna be the guy who owned that car as I'm pretty sure the insurance won't payout for it. Oh well, it was a pretty nice car so I'm sure that the owner doesn't have money problems, now I just have to get up out of here while making sure no one spots me using my powers which shouldn't be too hard.

My ears suddenly twitch and I hear a quite sniffle coming from some place behind me, I guess I'm gonna be staying on this rock for a little while longer and I was just getting used to the idea of getting as far away as I can from the weird Saibamen knockoffs. With the sniffles being pretty much nonstop and my enhanced hearing it didn't take me long to find the source of the sniffles which seemed to be coming from behind a toppled over hot dog cart. Peering over the cart I came face to face with a little kid, couldn't have been older then ten and he was looking pretty terrified.

"Whatcha doin here kid? Where are your parents?" I question pretty casually hoping that my casualness might put him at ease but I can't tell if it's working. "M-my parents were on the- the other side of the street and I crossed to get a- a hot dog but, but the the p- the ground started to shake and- and I got stuck down here!" The kid chokes out through snot and tears while pawing at his face to rub the liquids away, which was just making a big mess which made me kinda not wanna touch him but alas I'm not that heartless.

"Cmon then kid, I'll help you get out of here and then maybe we can find your parents. That sound like a plan?" I say to the kid and reach out my hand to him and he takes my hand whilst nodding his head in affirmations though there was still snot and tears flying everywhere. We worked for quite a while as he was holding onto my hand, I was mainly looking for a way out of here without revealing my powers but there didn't look to be a single viable option. I was getting close to just saying screw it and hopping the gap and hoping the kid wouldn't question before once again I heard a familiar screeching but this time there were a lot more sources of the screeching, why can't these guys just leave me alone.

Up ahead three familiar mole minions popped out from behind some debris and slowly started to approach me and then a whole lot more mole things came out of the woodwork and started to follow the lead of those three, figures they would learn from our past two encounters and call in more reinforcements. "Kid just stay behind me, alright? Kid.." And that's when I realise that I'm no longer holding the kids hand, I spin around and I can see the kid sprinting off back the way we came, I quickly run after him making sure to smack any of the minions with my pipe when they got in my way.

I'm gradually catching up to the kid but all the minions are getting in my way and they're slowing me down so I make sure to reward them with a pipe to the skull but that doesn't seem to be discouraging the other minions, I can see that the kid is now running out of space to run and he's closing in on a chasm. I have just catched up to the kid when I see a minion jump to from behind car and screech at him, getting startled the kid jerks backwards and slips and unfortunately there's no ground behind him to catch him and he starts to fall into the abyss.

Without worrying if anybody sees me I leap towards the kid and I manage to grab him while latching onto the edge of the ground with the ends of my fingers, I hug the kid close to my side in relief without caring anymore about the snot and tears he was producing. The kid just keeps crying and seems to be in shock, I'm getting ready to climb back onto solid ground when I look up and see a small army of mole minions peering over the edge at me.

Well, this is just peachy. I'm definitely gonna have to use my powers in this situation because these rip off Saibamen are definitely gonna try to kick me down. I'm tensing my hand and getting ready to jump over the Mole minions when a blast of fire sails down and starts immolate them while also burning the shit out of the fingers I was using to hold onto the edge.

"GODDAMN IT JOHNNY! LEARN HOW TO BLOODY AIM!!"

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