A rather large man with short, greasy hair and a 5 o'clock shadow that runs all the way down his jowly neck approaches. Also, he's wearing a blue dress in the style of a popular female video game character.
"Howdy! The name's Jimbob Dunkleman, I'm a 38 year old truck driver from Indiana... BY DAY! But as you can see by my outfit, by night I am CHIN-SU, expert martial artist competing in a brutal tournament to win enough money for her grandfather's medical expenses. YA-TA!"
He does the karate pose-dance step that Chin-Su is famous for. If all you saw was his shadow, it's pretty accurate.
Well, that guy is back, and he's still dressed as Chin-Su!
JimBob guns the engine of his Trusty Trailer, making a beeline for the Octosaur. Grabbing his steering wheel lock, "the club", he wedges it onto the accelerator. Cranking up "Radar Love" on the radio, he gumbys his way out the driver side window, stretches both arms over the front of the cab, and walks his body backwards to the back of his trailer, so that his stretched arms go the entire length of the truck. He is preparing to catapult himself at the Octosaur as soon as the truck makes contact with something(be it the Octosaur itself, or some form of barrier).
The human rubber band unstretches with a SNAPP! And wraps himself around the tentacles which are pulling the Flash, so they can't pull away from each other. This prevents the Flash from being pulled apart.
However, the Flash's plan to remove his shoes is stymied by the fact that the Octosaur has him by the neck and the waist, so he can't bend over to reach his shoes. And no, he can't stretch his legs that far. C'mon.
But now, held by the springy contractileness of JimBob the human Slinky, the Octosaur cannot rend! So it tries to grab JimBob with its other tentacles. JImBob is hard to get hold of. It's flailing sucker-tipped octoflesh vs. rapidly flexing coils of blue lace and Chinese ribbons.
The Octosaur glows, and sickly green nodules pulsate on its limbs. They emit green light of a particularly sickening hue, literally sickening JimBob and Greg!
And somewhere, a voice laughs and laughs ...
(It isn't me, your humble narrator. I hope the good guys win!)
The Martian Manhunter takes the rope hand off from the Flash, and flies his end up to the top of the office building that is tilting and about to collapse. He quickly ties it taut around the most secure structure there, whether it be a lightning rod or water tower. Between being wrenched by the falling building and being run into by the Trusty Trailer, hopefully they can stun the beast long enough for the Flash to escape.
ReplyDeleteThe ringing laughter then reaches his ears, and he searches for the origin of the mirth. Perhaps, just perhaps, he can confront the source of the creature and defeat it that way.