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 Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:07 am
This group of apartments is home by some of the richest people in Delmor, like John Johnson, a.k.a. Dr. Clean. It has 50 deluxe apartments and they are all luxurious places to live.
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Posted: Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:26 pm
John jumped in through the bedroom window of his apartment, Number 23, and the great sense of him being home kicked in right away. What a day! Not only had he been fired from his job at Snottsborn Industries and reassigned as janitor of the 29th floor, but a mysterious explosion destroyed the entire 29th floor and John had to save Drew from a Super Cleaning Serum Monster! Now he didn't even have a job because there is now no 29th floor to clean up! But there was something else that bothered John as he threw himself on to his king sized bed: How did Drew come back to life when he was clearly dead? What had happened to Drew?
John needed some time away from his soap-opera filled life, so he switched on his giant TV hanging on his bedroom wall. The news was on. Not just any news though... W NEWS! John's favorite. He saw an anchor man talking on the screen.
"Welcome back to W NEWS, not to be confused with Channel Q News because we get that a lot. W NEWS brings you some fact thrown in with a lot of fiction. We've just heard recent reports of President Bush being impeached by Brittany Spears. The tearful story tonight at 11:59-12:00. On a happier note though, a girl was killed tonight by a falling cat. Reports were that the cat was just falling so fast, the girl didn't have time to move. Poor cat. Getting on... we have footage of Snottsborn Industries. As most of you know, a fire hit the 29th floor and it almost collapsed, but thanks to the police and fire man, all was okay. Here's the footage."
The screen lit up with Snottsborn Industries, fire on the 29th floor, the fire men and police men were just sitting there munching on donuts when all of a sudden water spilled out of the 29th floor. 'That was me! Those fire men and police men did nothing!' thought John. Then the footage showed a man, John knew it was himself, jump out of the building's 29th floor and onto the roof of the neighboring building. John clicked off the TV amazed.
W NEWS had caught him saving Drew on tape. Even though you could barely make out the figure, you could clearly see somebody leaping high in the sky with a man on his back. John felt his heart leap. It had been one day. He looked at the time. It was 8:15 pm. John felt a sudden urge to test his newly aquired abilities. See what else he could do. After all he was a scientist... or an ex-scientist. He wanted to test his abilities to the limit.
'I'll go to the roof tonight at 12:00 and see what I can do!' he thought excitedly to himself.
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 7:58 am
Later that night at 12:00... John opened up the door that lead to the roof of the building. When he got up there, he made sure that nobody else was with him. He didn't want to be seen. John went to the edge of the building and looked down. Miles below him was a road, which led to Main Street, where a car would occasionaly pass by. John closed his eyes and thought: 'If I could jump 10 feet today from a burning building... then I can jump from this building to the next!'He slowly backed away, from the edge, then, with as much speed as possible he ran. He didn't go very fast though because his back killed him when he started. He jumped off the edge and barely went 10 inches, let alone 10 feet. He could feel himself falling. He was coming very fast to the ground. Quickly, just by merely thinking of saving himself, the vaccum inside of him threw itself out of his back and air burst out of the nozzle. He could feel himself slowly flying up, back towards the safety of the roof. When he touched back down on the roof, John thought to himself again: 'I couldn't jump with the vaccum inside of me, but now that it's out, if I ever fall again I'll just use it to fly me back up! Cool!' He repeated his jump, but this time, he went all the way to the next building. He jumped up and down with excitement, his vaccum wiggling around. 'So not only do I have a vaccum that can suck up remotely anything, but I have super strength, I can jump far, and i can fly!' he thought. But there was one thing that was bothering him. How did he have water come out of his hands? He tried for five minutes to repeat the stunt, but he just couldn't. 'I'll figure it out later! I'm just really tired right now!' he thought, jumping back to the apartment roof. He made his way back to his room, Room 23, and threw himself on his bed. He drifted into deep sleep and dreamed about his new powers....
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Posted: Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:12 am
In the morning at 8:45 am.... John woke up to the sound of his phone ringing. John rubbed his sleepy eyes and reached for the phone. "Hello?" he asked. "John! John is that you?" a voice asked. "Yeah... who's this?" "It's Drew... John you were supposed to be at Snottsborn Industries 45 minutes ago! Where are you?" "What?!?!?!?" John asked as he looked at the clock. He had been such an idiot! Even though he was downgraded to janitor, which was so unfair and there had to be a law about that somewhere, he was still supposed to get to work at 8:00 sharp, unless told otherwise. "Yeah! Listen just get ready and I'll cover for you and while your out... can you get me a coffee at Expresso Eddie's?" "Yeah whatever... but Drew are you alright?" "I'll talk to you about it later! Just hurry over here!" With that they both said their good-byes and John quickly got dressed in his only nice suit left. 'What does a janitor wear anyway?' John thought to himself as he hurried out the door. (Next post at Expresso Eddie's)
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 8:39 pm
5 Hours Later After the Events at Snottsborn Industries... John unlocked the door to his apartment and closed the door behind him. What a day he had had! He had been driven to work by a policewoman who was in reality Larry Listerine's daughter and she was investigating the explosion that had taken place the day before, which she thought was an attempt at murder! Then Mr. Snottsborn told him to put DO NOT ENTER tape on the 29th floor and he found two reporters from the Daily Cleaners on the floor and then they got attacked by the same damn monster that John had killed the day before. After John had saved Geter and Mr. Snottsborn, he had ran to the nearest phone and called the police. This had made Mr. Snottsborn outraged and Laura came back for the second time today. John had left on a sour note with Mr. Snottsborn, but at least the authorities were dealing with the situation now. What bothered John the most was the Serum Monster! How had it survived the fire? Where is now that it escaped his clutches again? Was it stalking him? All of these questions seemed to come into his head. As he tried to put his mind at rest, he got dressed in his PJ's and jumped into his bed. He clicked his TV on. The building of Snottsborn Industries showed up and it had police surrounding every inch of the place. Mr. Snottsborn is probably so ticked right now! "Everyone in the area of Snottsborn Industries is now panicking because of the second major incident that has happened at this same building! Today two men from the most famous paper in Delmor got injured. One is the well-known Mr. K.K. Kameson... who is alive and well and is now leaving the hospital of Delmor as we speak. The other, a new photographer Geter Garker, is in critical condition and we don't know if he'll make it out alive or not. More on this story later! On a brighter note, we finally caught the man we've been pursing.... Osama Bin Laden's... brother! More on the relation between the two coming right up and we'll be right back with W NEWS!" John's eyes drooped as the commercials played and he fell asleep before he could watch any more news.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:28 pm
The Next Day... John was woken up by a loud banging on his apartment door. "Open up! This is the police!" a voice of a man rang out from behind the door. "We don't want to break this door down... so open up now!" John quickly became wide-awake and ran as fast as he could to his door. He swung the door open and there was a tall policeman, standing behind him was Laura Listerine. 'What now?' John had thought. Laura pushed the man out of way and walked right up to John. "I'm sorry if we woke you up, but you must come with us at once. From this point on, until we get some answers, you are being arrested for attempted murder!" Laura said calmly to John. "Wha-wha-what?" John stuttered. "I did nothing wrong!" "Please John... not another word!" Laura said as she turned John around and cuffed him. The other damn police officer read John his rights. John couldn't help but think that this was a little bit unfair. The man police officer grabbed John by the neck after he was cuffed and lead John to the elevator where they would get on and travel to the bottom floor and then outside, where the cop car John would be driven in was. 'This time a ride in a cop car isn't going to be pleasant!' John thought as he went into the the elevator with the man police officer and Laura. (Next post in the Crime and Justice/Hsopital Building)
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2006 4:36 pm
(Last post in Snottsborn Industries)
Collin knocked on the door to room 6. He was eager to see his uncle on one of his few nights home from working. Lucas Aires, Austin's father, was the president of some big bank. Austin hardly knew this man he had to call Dad. Every few nights he got to talk with him on the phone and every few weeks they met in person. After his mother's death, Oual took Austin in because his father couldn't take care of Austin and the bank. The one part of it all that Austin apprecitated was that the money his father and Oual brought in provided the luxerous life he lived.
Lucas Aires opened the door and beamed when he saw the three (Austin, Collin, and Helen). "Oh come in, come in!" He invited. The three did so and closed the door behind them. They all said hello and Lucas of course messed up on Hannah's name by calling her Hellen.
"So are you three staying for dinner?" Lucas asked. Austin had to admit, he was a nice man who could be a great father. Key word...could.
"Oh no, sorry," Collin replied. "I'm bringing Hannah out tonight." Lucas beamed.
"That's fantastic...where are we going?" He asked.
"Hannah and I are going to the Cinamas and dinner," Collin replied. Austin shook his head at his cousins originality...the little bit he had anyway.
"Well have fun," Lucas said, realizing that he wasn't invited. "Anyway, I have some great news."
"What's that?" Collin asked. It felt to Austin, and Hannah probably as well, that they were completely shut out.
"I am having my bank moved to Delmor! We have been doing construction here for a while and we're almost finished." Lucas informed. Austin became interested suddenly.
"So you'll be home more?" Austin wondered. When his father nodded, Austin grew excited. He would finally know what it was like to have a father to spend time with!
"I'm looking forward to it," Collin put in. Hannah stepped up for the first time in the conversation.
"C'mon Collin, we'll miss the movie," she informed. Collin looked at his watch and a look of panic spread across his face.
"Oh, we really do have to go, I'm sorry. Bye Austin, Uncle Luke," Collin bid farewell, guiding Hannah out the door and back to the car. When he was gone, Lucas looked at Austin.
"He's a great young man son, you want to be like him one day."
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Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2006 12:27 pm
Austin nodded. What he didn't tell his father was that Collin happened to be his peronal idol. Collin always did the right thing and was the main reason Austin was the person he was today...minus the wings.
"So how was work?" Lucas asked suddenly. The question caught Austin off guard.
"It was...normal," he struggled for a word.
"School?" Lucas pressed on. Do you want me to tell you about today or every day since the last time I saw you? Austin wondered. Lucas seemed to have forgotten that it was summer break.
"It was fine...boring...but fine," Austin replied, trying to hide the words he really wanted to blurt out to his 'Dad.' It really wasn't that Austin hated Lucas, whenever they were together Lucas seemed like a great guy. The problem was that the three weeks in between their visits were times Austin felt extremely unappreciated.
"Boring but okay," Lucas laughed. "I know how that is. Tammy and Oual will be home tonight and we can have a great family dinner. Tommorrow, I have to check up on how the construction is going and then it's back to work."
Austin felt sick when he heard Tammy considered part of his family. He was glad that his father would be home tonight, but he was dying to ask Oual some questions. He would just have to go with the flow.
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Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:58 pm
Shortly afterwards, Dr. Oual brought Tammy to the apartments for dinner. Tammy lived in some cheap apartments in who knows where. Every time she walked in, she treated the deluxe apartment like a palace. Anyway, Austin was absolutly disgusted at the fact that Tammy would be at his house tonight.
"Whats for dinner Luke?" She asked in a voice that Austin failed to put an adjective to in the moment. Lucas beamed proudly at this chance to show off what an excellent chef he was.
"We're having -" he was cut off by an all too familiar ring. Austin gritted his teeth as he watched his father flip open his cell phone. "Hello? Yeah...okay...oh no...nope no problem I'll be right there, bye." The phone snapped shut and Lucas looked up.
"What is it?" Austin asked even though he already knew what his father was about to say.
"I am so sorry guys. I have to go to work. Some teller messed up on somebody's amount of zeroes. Now there is some big fight going on and only me, Mr. Bank President can help because it is out of hand and - "
"Dad," Austin broke in. "Just go."
"Right." Lucas looked at the ground and muttered how sorry he was again. Then he said some...interesting...words about how he would probably be firing somebody. Finally, he grabbed his coat and walked out of the apartment. Austin looked over at Oual.
"How come I'm not used to that?" He asked.
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Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 11:54 am
"I don't know?" Dr. Oual replied, shaking his head. The Taammy interrupted. She threw her arms up in the air.
"Oual! Give me a ride home. I'm going to have to eat fast-food again! Oh and bye-bye Austin dear." Tammy stormed outside.
"I need to go give her majesty a ride home," Oual stated, talking to Austin. "Do you know the extent of your powers?"
"No," Austin replied.
"All the better!" Oual exclaimed. "But tell me what has happened so far."
"I had been flying before you came in at Snottsborn. Then when I needed to find Collin's car I had like a vision and I saw him. Then I sort of navigated myself to him without really knowing where to go, if you know what I'm saying," Austin informed his grandfather. Dr. Oual nodded his head. By the look on his face, Austin knew he was intrigued. Being a scientist though, he played along as if he knew it all.
"You watch the news correct?" Dr. Oual asked.
"Sometimes," Austin replied.
"Then I assume you know all about Delmor's more...special individuals," Oual continued. Austin wasn't seeing where he was going and just nodded. "I have found out from Tammy on my way home that a strange incident occured at the Crime, Justice, and Citizen Hospital Building. She has recently had a physical done there. I need you to focus on the building," Oual told Austin. Austin did so. Nothing happened. He told this to Oual. "Maybe you cannot focus on buildings but only specific people," Oual suggested. "Do you know anybody in the building?" Austin remebered on the news that taninsh guy with the cape whom they had innterviewed. With any luck he was there. Austin focused on the man. The strange sense overcame him again as he heard voices and found his vision covered over with a scene.
Down in the cells, a girl dressed in duct tape was with the tanish man and a guy with the vacuum cleaner in his back was exiting a cell.
Talk about special Austin thought. His vision was normal and as his legs started to bring him to the scene he commanded them mentally to stop. "I know whats going on...sort of. Should I go?" Austin asked his grandfather.
"Yes," Oual replied with a gleeful look in his eye. "Go and learn to control your abilities." Oual walked out to give Tammy a ride home. Austin fealt in complete control as he confidently commanded his navigation sense to bring him to the building. He went by foot so that nobody would point the sky and say:
"Hey look Austin Aires can fly!"
(Next postin the Crime, Justice, and Citizen Hospital Building)
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Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2007 12:33 pm
(Last post in transit)
Austin arrived home at number 6. Obviously, hiding his wings, he walked inside to see Oual stuffing a large pizza down his throat like an untamed animal to it's prey. Sauce was spread out across his face making him look like that "prey" happened to have a lot of blood.
"Wha da hukkk wa ou?" Oual demanded. He spat out a large chunk of pepperoni and cheese. "Where the heck were you?"
"At the Crime, Justice, and Citizen Hospital Building mostly," Austin replied casually. He grabbed a slice of the pizza and led Oual to a look of something closely related to murder. Austin took a bite of the pizza and watched Oual's fists clench tightly.
"Well," Oual seethed, taking long deep breaths, "What were you doing at the hospital?"
"I was actually in the cells," Austin replied. He then proceded to tell Oual everything that had happened, all the way to the point where he got tired in the sky. At the end, Oual's mouth was wide open in shock. He seemed to forget about the saliva colored drops of sauce raining from his mouth.
"Welcome to Delmor's hero committee," Oual smiled at the end. It was quiet for a minute. "You know what you need Austin?"
"What's that?" Austin replied, nervous about his answer.
"A costume!"
"What! Are you insane!" Austin could already picture himself jetting through the air with his wings, tight clothes, and a pair of whity tighties pulled over his 'super-pants.' Oual however, would have none of it. He looked at the sky smiling as he created a picture similar to Austin's with only minor adjustments.
"I could stich one, but that would take far too long. I could buy one, but you and your teenageness might be embarrassed. I know -"
"I'm going to be embarrassed anyway, grandpa, I don't need some costume," Austin put in.
"Nonsense!" Oual exclaimed. "Get your coat, I know where to go!"
"Oh God help me," Austin muttered as he went to get his coat. How could Oual forget that Austin had a small problem to handle in Bronzed. Now they were going costume shopping!
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 3:23 pm
Reluctantly grabbing his coat, which he didn't need, Austin called to Oual, "So where are we going?"
"You'll see!" Oual hollored back. "It's got to be the best but cheapest place in town for costumes."
The two made there way out to Oual's ancient car which couldn't possibly live much longer. Austin really didn't want to go look for a costume with so much on his mind, but the scientist had his mind made up. Austin was for some reason unnerved at the sudden actions of Oual. The "best but cheapest" often came up but was hardly ever factual. Oual was either falling into the traps of salespeople, or he was up to no good. Knowing Oual, he was probably falling into the traps of salespeople because he had money. Judging by the way things had been the past few hours, Oual was probably up to no good. Austin suddenly yawned and felt very tired. He shook it off and kept moving towards the car. He couldn't help but add, "This is ridiculous Grandpa!"
"Oh you wait, we're going have you making that Dr. Clean who's been on the news lately look like nothing! Wait didn't you meet Dr. Clean last night at the hospital?" Dr. Oual continued. Austin shook his head at how strange such a smart and respected man could be sometimes.
"Yes," Austin nodded, faking a smile, "I sort of know Dr. Clean."
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:34 pm
John put his hand on his head as he crossed through a sea of parked cars towards the apartment's front doors. His head was killing him and he ached everywhere. He looked to the left of him and saw two people talking. One was an old geezer who was talking to a boy. The boy looked strangely familiar and then.... 'THAT'S THE BOY I SAW AT THE HOSPITAL!' John though in awe, his head-ache instantly wiped from his mind. It was a good thing John had disguised himself, or else the boy would know who he was.
John quickly walked up to the doors and with one quick glance behind him to see the boy, he went indoors. He made his way to his room and when he finally got there, he flopped onto the couch. 'What a day!' John closed his eyes when all of a sudden he heard a thump and then....
"John! You're alive!" the voice of Drew Dubberbury thundered throughout his whole vast apartment.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 4:34 pm
Oual started the ancient car he called his own, and started off with Austin on the passenger side. Austin was busy raising an eyebrow at a strange looking man who was passing by. The man was passing by and stumbling everywhere like he was in great pain. He was also staring at Austin as if he recognized him. Austin wished he knew what room the man lived in. He needed to be institusionalized!
"Crazy ba...ss fishing is so much fun!" Austin causght himself, remembering Oual was in the vehicle. The bird scientist looked at him cross-eyed. Austin smiled innocently. The man really was strange though. Suddenly he just burst. "Where are we going Oual!"
Oual probably wet his pants in fright. "The cos-cost-t-t-tume p-p-place!" He wailed as if he was being threatened with a gun. Austin shook his head.
"What costume place?"
"Oh that old theater! The muxie-mux-um -"
"The Mieux theater," Austin finished.
"Exactly! That one!"
"Oual you're crazy!" Austin shouted...
(Next post in the Mieux theater)
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Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:39 pm
John nearly had a heart attack. "Oh my God John!" Drew ran up to him and gave a big hug as he screamed this. "I heard the reports on the news... I heard that heroes were coming from all over to the Crime and Justice Building and I heard you disappeared! I'm so glad you are okay!"
Drew got off of John and John noticed cheesey finger prints. 'Great! Drew got into my bag of Cheetos! I was saving those! Once Drew starts eatting, he doesn't stop! Now he'll never leave!' John thought and then John said, "Listen I am glad to see you again, but I am exhausted and..."
"No time to be exhausted!" Drew cut in. "Mr. Snottsborn is throwing a fit that you haven't been in for the past two days. He's thinking of firing you." John didn't think that was such a bad thing, but he didn't cut in to tell Drew that, so Drew kept talking. "You need to come back and anyway... it'll be better now. I cut in a deal with Mr. Snottsborn and you are now gonig to be MY janitor! Isn't that sweet?!?!?!?!?!"
John could almost barely contain his anger. 'Whoody fricken doo!' John thought. 'A premotion from low janitor, to Drew's janitor... what a change!' John looked at Drew and said, "I don't see why that is so great... I want to invent! I am a scientist... not a JANITOR!"
"Listen... I hear ya buddy! But we have to get going. We'll discuss more later... but think of it this way... you can now clean up my experiments and maybe... I'll even let you fill the beakers I need to fill with water! How exciting is that?"
John could barely contain his excitement. (That was sarcasm.) 'Hot dang! This is the life!' John thought. (This is yet again more sarcasm)
(Next post at Snottsborn Industries)
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