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    The Fall of Awesome: A Tale of Super City
    The Fall of Awesome: A Tale of Super City
    The Fall of Awesome: A Tale of Super City
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    The Fall of Awesome: A Tale of Super City

    By Andrew Pain

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    Five years ago everything seemed perfect. The Sinister Seven had finally been forced into the open and defeated, ending the greatest threat Super City and it's premier Super Team and it's greatest Super Hero - Captain Awesome - could bask in their triumph.

    But the battle with the Seven had caused changes in the team as well, and the team gained one new secret which could have torn it apart. New team members joined, unaware of what had happened in the past, of the shadow that still lingered over the heroes, and over Awesome himself.

    Now a new villain as arrived in Super City. A Super Villain who has taken down all those who had opposed him so far, and who's agenda seems to be nothing more than the destruction of the Super Squad.

    Old wounds are reopened, old secrets dug up and exposed, and Captain Awesome is forced to face a choice he made long ago in new light.

    The Tales of Super City are a series of Super Hero novels and novellas set in Super City, a world of heroes, villains, and humanity often just trying to stay out of the way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrew Pain
    Release dateFeb 28, 2012
    ISBN9781466193659
    The Fall of Awesome: A Tale of Super City
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    Andrew Pain

    After working as a Paramedic and riding a motorcycle around part of the world, Andrew Pain is now turning to another of his passions, and writing.

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      Book preview

      The Fall of Awesome - Andrew Pain

      The Fall of Awesome

      A Tale of Super City

      Smashwords Edition

      Andrew Pain

      Copyright 2012 by Andrew Pain

      Cover By Jeanine Henning

      www.JeanineHenning.com

      All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

      Prelude

      Ruler had taken control of the city twenty minutes earlier. He knew Ruler wasn’t a great name but it was the first time he found he needed one. It seemed to fit.

      The announcement was made in the usual way - blaring out of the large video screens and public address speakers all over Super City. He thought the city kept them just to make it a little easier on the villains, trying for their shot at glory.

      He hovered a couple hundred feet above ground level, clear of nearby buildings. The new Harris Building was higher. And the Tower, of course.

      The Tower, home of the Super Squad. The primer super team of Super City. Led by the greatest and most powerful hero of them all, Captain Awesome. Awesome always claimed to be from another star, but Ruler had his doubts. Another member of the Super Squad, Incredi-Girl, was from an alternate dimension version of Earth. When she was new to this world she made a lot of mistakes, showed a lot of confusion. Awesome didn’t do either. Perhaps he was just better at acclimating.

      Hovering here, within view of the Tower, was basically calling out the Squad. Being up in the sky meant Ruler would face the fliers first. The team roster only had one truly grounded hero, Speed-girl. Ruler wondered who thought up these names. Freedom’s armor could fly, but faced flight restrictions inside city limits. His rocket boots cause too much damage, but he has taken off when the team needed the help airborne.

      The other three members of the Super Squad appeared, as if on Ruler’s mental cue. The Lightning Lord first, Incredi-Girl and Captain Awesome slightly above and behind. Ruler glanced down to see Speed-girl clearing out the crowd below. Freedom was down there too, his orders to clear the area still audible at this height.

      Lightning Lord was closing fast, Incredi-Girl not too far behind. Awesome hung back. He preferred one on one fights. Ruler didn’t care, the order was unimportant.

      A lightning bolt struck Ruler’s Force Field. The Field was state of the art and converted the electricity to it’s own use, getting a little stronger. The Lightning Lord wouldn’t know that and hit it again. Ruler smiled.

      The Lightning Lord used the Earth’s electromagnetic field to fly and to generate the lightning bolts he threw around. Ruler pulled out a small device and tossed it in the general direction of the hero. Attracted to the magnetic field he was using to fly, it curved to follow his flight path and struck. Not very hard, that wasn’t the point. Once it had attached itself it activated a magnetic jar isolating the hero from the Earth’s magnetic field. He fell from the sky like a stone.

      Ruler threw a small anti-grav ball after him. It would slow his fall a little. It wasn’t required that the Lightning Lord remain alive for the last phase of the plan, but his death would be sub-optimal. It wouldn’t do for him to remain conscious now.

      He hadn’t fallen far when Incredi-Girl came swooping in. She wasn’t equal to Awesome, but wasn’t a push-over either. Ruler pulled out a small raygun, calibrated to a specific bean frequency. He pointed it at Incredi-Girl, already uncomfortably close, and fired.

      Nothing seemed to happen, but her flight path changed slightly, then more so. Ruler smiled as he saw her eyes go wide and she started to tumble from the sky, arms pinwheeling. She got an anti-grav ball as well. Ruler would definitely need her again.

      He activated another remote, triggering devices he had placed around the city earlier. Freedom was moving to open ground, looking for somewhere safe to take off. Awesome was working his way in, being cautious. Ruler knew that was more out of concern he would be made to look bad than actually being hurt. There wasn’t much that could hurt Awesome, but hurting him wasn’t required.

      Ruler pulled out a twisted wooden stick, pointed it at the hero, and spoke a single word. Captain Awesome’s eyes closed, he fell into a deep sleep, then he fell out of the sky. Ruler watched him fall while Freedom was still gaining altitude, then started down to meet the rising hero.

      A couple energy bolts hit the force field, which ignored them. Freedom switched to a sonic weapon, which the field absorbed but couldn’t convert. Ruler began to get a ‘power drain’ warning on his equipment monitor. Still, he went a little lower. The timing had to be right.

      From a pouch on his belt he pulled out a small remote. With a push of the button, and a lot of past research and rewiring of the remote, the Freedom armor started to power down. The rocket boots cut off and he fell back to Earth with a satisfying thump. The armor could take the damage.

      Only Speed-girl left. Ruler was low enough she could throw things at him, which wasn’t the plan. So he went lower still, taking a corner fast enough to pull a light pole free. It fell into the street.

      There she was. Ruler knew she was a progressive power. Every time she ran she got a little faster. She was already hard to see unless you had some distance which, right now, he didn’t. Ruler stayed in hover mode, one arm up in something that was supposed to look threatening.

      Speed-girl grabbed the end of the downed light pole. It was too heavy for her to pick up all the way. She ran forward, planning to spin the pole like a hammer throw. When was the pole was mostly behind her Ruler discharged the small capacitor he had slapped on as he pulled the light pole from the ground. The charge arced down the pole, through Speed-girl, into the ground. She collapsed.

      There was an uneasy rustling sound, civilians who were used to seeing battles go the other way. They were probably wondering where the other super teams were, Team Justice and the Guardians. Ruler knew of course, but he wasn’t going to share. There were still independent heroes around and some of those would be a problem if they showed up. He gathered up the five unconscious or, in Freedom’s case, immobilized heroes in a force-bubble for easy transport and flew towards The Tower.

      Chapter One

      Incredi-Girl, also known as Linda Smith, struggled up from unconsciousness Her mind was filled with terror, of falling and falling. The ground rushed up to meet her and she jerked awake. She was in the lounge, back in the Tower. A quick look around showed her everyone still in uniform, not moving. What had been happening? Some new villain over Super City. They had gone out to confront him.

      Then she noticed Freedom, Roger Sinclair. His suit was dark, somehow more inanimate than normal. She moved to fly over and check the diagnostic panels he had shown them and ended up on the floor. She couldn't fly. An echo of the dream came back...falling...but she dragged herself to her feet and stumbled over. The suit was fully isolated from the atmosphere. If he was trapped inside long enough without power he would suffocate. She looked at the indicators, he was alive. She reset the power relay and heard him start to power back up.

      She made her way around the room, waking the other heroes except Captain Awesome. He was snoring and nothing she could do would wake him. She tried hitting him and it just hurt her hand. She looked at her knuckles with a frown. Nothing had hurt her hand before.

      With a beep Freedom's helmet swung open. He looked around. Is he gone?

      Her mind was still fuzzy. Who? Then she remembered. Ruler. Crap. She looked around,

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