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Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.

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I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories,

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the podcast that takes listener ideas and turns them into

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bedtime stories. Today's idea is a standalone story that comes

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to us from Charlie, who I'm thinking was maybe listening

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to the Grandpa robones series over the weekend there and

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maybe thought of it as a result, or possibly it

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was just a coincidence. Let's check out the idea and

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you can see what you think.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 3: My name is Charlie and I'm nine years old. I've

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recently broke my arm, and I like listening to your

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stories because they helped me get to sleep. I would

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like my story to be one day I wake up

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and my aunt is a robotic arm that has lots

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of superpowers and I hope saved the world from criminals.

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Speaker 1: Well, Charlie, I think you have an excellent idea there.

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And again, I don't know if it was because you

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listen to Grandpa Robonese on the weekend, but I'm kind

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of thinking the whole premise for Grandpa Robonese makes the

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perfect premise for this particular idea.

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Speaker 2: You know, a.

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Speaker 1: Spaceship and his dragonling friend who like to help people

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in need and you know, turn them into robots or

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partial robots. I guess before we get started, I just

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have a couple things I want to do. First of all,

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I want to give a big shout out to some

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of my latest Patreon sponsors. Thank you to Kaya and

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Millie for signing up on Patreon and supporting the podcast.

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I really really appreciate it. They will now be enjoying

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some ad free episodes of the show and financially helping

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us stay in existence. So thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Last I just want to talk to you guys about

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something I'm thinking of.

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Speaker 2: As you know, I often.

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Speaker 1: Create a logo for the show using artificial intelligence. I

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sort of have it read my transcript after I create

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the episode and come up with some artwork or a

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way of changing my own logo to advertise for the show,

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and some people out there really don't like that I

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use a HI for it. I, on the other hand,

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am of the opinion that in this case it's not

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actually replacing a human, as I would not be able

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to afford paying a human to do it at this point.

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Hopefully I can in the future. But at the same time,

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I don't want to discourage real humans like my listeners

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from doing real artwork, because I think it's really important

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to write stories and to draw pictures. So for the

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month of May, I'm gonna do a couple different contests,

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all right. The first one is a story writing contest.

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I know I have a ton of people out there

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who have been inspired to write stories. They might take

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place in some of the universes from Dad's Bedtime Stories,

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which is totally cool. They might be a completely standalone

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episode or standalone story that you come up with, which

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is also really cool. But whatever it is, if you've

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written a story, I'm asking that you submit it to

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me by email if you want to at dadt Bedtime

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Stories at gmail dot com. I am going to pick

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a couple of them to read on social media and

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share with people, with the permission of the writer, of course,

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and I will pick one this month to turn into

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a full episode of Dad's Bedtime Stories with the help

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of the writer, which could mean meeting up to kind

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of flush out the story in a little more detail

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to make it a full episode that sort of thing.

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And second, I want to see your pictures, so if

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you have pictures that you've drawn or colored in or

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sort of anything from the podcast, please send them to

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me at the same email address, Dad Bedtime Stories at

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gmail dot com. And I would love to put some

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of those up on social media as well. And again,

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I think I'll pick my favorite one with the help

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of my family, and we could do an episode for

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that person as well. So if you want to join again,

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just send them to me by email. But now that's

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probably long enough for the beginning of a podcast and

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I should get on with the story. This story is

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about a boy named Charlie. He'd broke in his arm

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and it was making a miserable. How he broke it

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exactly doesn't really matter, because well, he didn't share that

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information with me. But what was important was it was broke,

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and it edged, and it felt heavier than normal, and

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he couldn't play and do the things he wanted to do.

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Everyone just kept telling him it'll heal eventually, but eventually

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he felt very far away. To Charlie, he wanted it

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to heal now. In fact, he wanted it to heal

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better than it ever had. Sometimes he would imagine his

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cast arm as a robotic arm instead a robotic arm

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with really cool powers that allowed him to fight enemies

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and vanquish evil and eh, you know that sort of thing.

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One night, before settling into bed and putting on his

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favorite podcast, Dad's Bed Time Stories for Kids.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you've.

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Speaker 1: Heard of it, Charlie wished and wished that that robotic

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arm would come true. Luckily for Charlie, there happened to

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be a very special spaceship that was created for the

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sole purpose of well wish fulfillment and adventure. Somehow, Charlie's

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mental distress signal, his adamant request to become a superhuman

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half robot person reached that spaceship. Human distress signal detected.

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Spaceship said to well no one in particular, because on

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this particular day, Spaceship was hanging out by himself. Emergency

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protocols initiated. A portal folded up from the base of

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the ship. It lit up a bright blue color, and

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soon afterward, a little black dragonling with lava like veins

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popped through.

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Speaker 2: Ah. Alloo, ah, did.

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Speaker 1: You send this portal for me? The creature asked, as

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the portal shut off and folded back down into the

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floor of the Ship, Yes, I did. I believe I

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need your help once more. Magnus Spaceship said, ah, what

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exactly is going on? A listener of our favorite podcast

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is in some distress and discomfort. He is wishing heavily

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to have a robotic arm instead of his current broken one. Now, well,

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all right, you want to go fix his broken arm? Yes, however,

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I believe we should enhance it beyond all reason. At

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that moment, Spaceship's display changed to a picture of a

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robotic arm. I have designed the perfect replacement, a robotic

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arm that will both enhance and protect the wearer. We

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will add both offensive and defensive capabilities, the power of flight,

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a holographic projector, and other interesting and useful features. I

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was hoping that you might be able to add some

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other enhanced capabilities as well. What do you mean, like

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a card or something? I mean, look at what I have.

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Magnus reached down and pulled out a deck of cards

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from well, Spaceship didn't know exactly where. The dragonling didn't

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seem to have pockets, but it produced a deck of cards. Nonetheless,

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all right, here we got some flight powers, some magical creatures,

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and oh, this might be perfect a vigilante enhancement card

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and a kind of card that will end grease your

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overall strength, speed, and of course your battle reflexes, you know,

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giving you the ability to fight better and that sort

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of thing that sounds perfect. The kid in question was

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hoping for enhancements that would allow him to fight crime.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Are you sure it's a good idea to give a

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kid this much power? That is an interesting question, particularly

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from a creature who exists in a universe where parents

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allowed their children to have magical cards then go into

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the forest and battle magical creatures with little to no supervision. Yeah,

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I guess you're right. I don't want to be a

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hypocrite or anything. Let's go enhance this kid understood, and so,

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under the cover of darkness, Spaceship and his friend Magnus

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the fire dragonling made their way back to Earth. They

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entered the atmosphere, dropped down below the clouds, activated their

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invisibility field, and floated over Charlie's house, activating sleep ray.

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Now we must ensure that no one wakes up. A

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strange blue light shot out of the bottom of the

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ship and sort of enveloped the entire house. Then a

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team of little medical robots were dispatched out the back

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of the ship carrying a little stretcher. They made their

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way through Charlie's window, carefully put the kid with the

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broken arm onto a little stretcher and flew him outside

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and into the back of the ship, where the medical

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procedures began. A team of robots equipped with high tech

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three D printing software began to reconstruct Charlie's entire arm,

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replacing its parts atom by atom with metal and high

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powered electronics. At the same time, Magnus pulled out the

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Vigilante card and placed it on Charlie's chest. The card activated,

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glowed blue, and shot into the boy. Charlie didn't have

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a card Corps, but that didn't mean that a card

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couldn't be fully absorbed by him. It became one with

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Charlie's essence. It made him stronger, faster, and even enhanced

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his reflexes and his sense for battle. I believe we

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have completed the operation. Ah looks really cool too, Magnus said,

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looking down at the sleeping boy with the robotic arm.

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The same team of robots carefully flew him out of

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the ship through the window and placed him gently back

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in his bed before disappearing once more. The next morning,

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Charlie woke up and the first thing he noticed was

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that the strange, dull pain sensation was completely gone. He

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looked down at his arm, expecting to see the cast

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that had been on it, but instead seeing a robot arm.

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His arm was now made entirely out of metal. For

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a moment, he panicked, and then he tried to move

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his fingers. To his surprise, they still moved just like

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they always had. He bent his arm up and down,

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he turned his wrist, and generally speaking, despite being a

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robot arm, it worked just like it had other than

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the fact that his wrist could now turn a full

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three hundred and sixty degrees around without any kind of pain,

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something he found weird, but for some reason wasn't particularly

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panicked about, because at the end of the day Charlie

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had wished for this. Had his wish really come true,

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he felt a whole bunch of new sensations too, almost

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like parts of his hand that well weren't there before,

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reflexes that he instinctively knew he could activate, even though

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that made no sense. He reached out to that first

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sensation that first knew part on his arm that he

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could now feel. It felt sort of like clenching the

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muscles in your wrist. Only when he activated this one,

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an energy shield began to grow out of the side

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of the mechanical arm. The more he clenched, the larger

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it grew, until it covered his entire body in a

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protective force field like bubble cool, he said, before releasing

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the muscle and the shield at the same time. Then

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he activated another previously non existing part of his own,

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and a little ray gun looking thing with a glowing

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blue light at the end unfolded from the center of

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his wrist. Maybe I should take this outside for some trials,

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Charlie said, releasing that particular muscle and allowing the ray

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gun to fold back into his arm. He got dressed

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and decided to head outside. Though, uh wait, should he

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show his parents he had a mechanical arm. He imagined

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them panicking just a little bit, perhaps calling an ambulance

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or forcing him to go to the hospital to get

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things checked out. He would need to find a way

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that they wouldn't see it to cover it up, maybe,

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And with that thought, a strange sort of shimmer appeared

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around the outside side of the arm. It glowed for

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a second and then disappeared, leaving behind the image of

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a normal human broken arm, just like it had looked

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the day before. He could tell it was still mechanical,

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but to his eyes it looked normal, cool, some sort

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of holographic projection or something. He said out loud, turning

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his wrist over left and right. I ain't wonder what

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else that particular feature can do. Charlie made his way

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out of the house, passed his parents, sent into a

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small part of the yard that he thought would be

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open enough yet secluded enough to try out his new powers.

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Deciding that it probably wasn't the right place to try

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out a ray gun, he reached for one of the

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other sensations. His hand folded inside his wrist, and a

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long pole extended outwards, a long pole with four long propellers.

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The propellers popped up and well. Charlie now had a

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medium sized helicopter propeller sticking directly out of his mechanical wrist.

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He lifted the propeller up in the air and activated

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it using his muscles. It instantly began to spin around

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faster and faster and faster, until it slowly started to

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lift Charlie up off of the ground, higher and higher

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and higher into the air. Whoa, Charlie said, this is amazing.

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Charlie tilted his arm forward, flew forward. He tilted it

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back and flew backward. He could adjust the speed in

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his height with a simple thought. This was the coolest

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thing ever. In an instant, he launched himself up towards

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the sky at incredible speed. The propeller pulled him along

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through the air, almost as fast as a jet. He

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blasted through the clouds and high above the world below.

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decided that it was probably time to come down for

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a landing. He slowed down into more of a hover mode,

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hanging from the propeller once again, and thought for the

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first time that, eh, he wasn't even really feeling tired.

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He was holding his entire body up by a single arm,

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and normally that would exhaust a person, but Charlie's muscles

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felt fine. They felt like he could do this all day.

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That was another change that couldn't be explained by the

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robotic arm alone. He slowly lowered himself down through the

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clouds and realized that he was above some kind of

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town center below. He wasn't sure exactly where, but there

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were clearly a lot of people around, people who could

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see him and report him and well possibly call the

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army about him or whatever. In his worry, the same strange,

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distorted energy that had covered up his mechanical alarm for

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his parents started to spread over his arm and across

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his entire body. It shimmered for a second, kind of

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like air does when it's extremely hot over top of pavement,

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and then his arms disappeared, and his legs disappeared. Everything

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about him well was no longer visible invisibility. Maybe the

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same holographic field can well give the illusion that I'm

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not here, Charlie realized, as he slowly and invisibly lowered

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himself down to the top of a fairly tall building

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in the area. This should be an easy place to

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test things out, he said, though he was kind of disoriented,

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not being able to see his feet and where they

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touched the ground. He could still feel them in everything,

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but it's weird to not be able to see them.

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He focused for a second, trying out something that he

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hoped might work. He focused on that field that was

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directly surrounding his limbs to expand outward into more of

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a bubble. The air shimmered again as the glowing energy

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moved away from his body and into a large bubble

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form around him. It shimmered once more, and he could

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see his arms and legs again. Looking out through the bubble,

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everything was a little bit distorted. A quick look over

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at a near by reflective door surface told him that

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he was still invisible, at least from the outside of

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the bubble, and this was probably a better place to

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test some of the other equipment that came with the arm.

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He once again focused on that sensation that had caused

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the blue ray gun to pop up and had folded

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out of his arm. Once again, he pointed it over

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to a large mechanical box looking thing on the top

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of the roof, squeezed his muscles, and a pulse of

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blue energy shot out, hit the metal box and started

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building ice up all around it. An ice ray perfect,

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he said, Now what else have you got? He let

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go of that muscle, folding the ice ray in, and

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activated another. This one also looked like a ray gun

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of some kind, though it was sparking on the end

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with bits of electricity something about had told him that

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he probably shouldn't point it at the metal box, so

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instead he pointed it straight up in the air, squeezed

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his muscles, and a bolt of electricity shot directly upward.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Cool.

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Speaker 1: This one came with a sense of power too, one

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that he could turn up or down instinctively. He knew

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that well. He knew there was a level that would

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simply shock things it touched, and a level that would

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do more. He said it to the first one. Charlie

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didn't want to do anyone any real harm after all.

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Then he released the muscle, allowing the electric blaster to

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fold back into his arm, and activated the last one.

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He could sense. A somewhat larger cannon like thing folded

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out of his arm, with strange green good dripping from

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the end of it. He pointed it at the same

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mechanical box, squeezed his muscles, and fired a stream of sticky, bicky,

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goopy goo blasted out and covered the mechanical box. It

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looked like that would be really annoying to clean up

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and very hard to escape from if you were hit

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with it. Cool, he said, I think I might be

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a superhero. Just then, his wrist started to beep. He

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lifted it up to look at the side of it,

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allowing the goo cannon to fold back in, and something

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else unfolded from the side, a little screen with a

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picture of a radio signal or something like that. The

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numbers changed as the radio tuned itself into the right frequency,

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and Charlie heard at tension, all units, we have a

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bank robbery in progress. All available units should head to

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the corner of First Street and Fifth Street immediately again,

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bank robbery in progress, First and Fifth. The screen then

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changed to a picture of a map. A blue dot

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was blinking at the top of a building, clearly Charlie.

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The map then zoomed out and pinged another dot, a

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red one at the corner of First and Fifth Street.

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Charlie oriented himself so he was pointing directly at the

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red dot. Then he lifted his arm up in the air.

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He activated flight mode. His hand folded inside his wrist

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and was replaced by a medium sized helicopter propeller or

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something like it, still invisible, Charlie blasted up into the

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air and straight towards the coordinates on his wrist, coordinates

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that were honestly somewhat hard to see when it was

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his wrist holding him up, but he knew he was

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going in the right direction. Scanning the streets below, he

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soon came across what he assumed was the right street.

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A bunch of police cars surrounded a large glass bank building.

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At that instant, a team of people, while wearing black,

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burst out of the bank and onto the streets. Put

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your hands up and put the money down, a police

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officer standing beside his car announced. In response, one of

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the robbers pointed what looked like a ray gun straight

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at the police car and blasted a red band of

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energy straight at the thing. The car exploded. As the

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police officer jumped out of the way to safety, the

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robbers began to run. Charlie looked at where they were running,

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to a car or a van that looked suspiciously like

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an escape vehicle. He headed directly for it and dropped

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down out of the air in front of it, Still

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entirely invisible. He activated his freeze ray, pointed it at

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one of the robbers, and squeezed his wrist. Blue energy

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shot out of what seemed like nowhere to the robbers

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and instantly froze one of them into a gigantic ice cube.

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But who did that? The others said. Slowly, they backed

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into each other back to back, pointing their ray guns

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outward in a sort of protective circle formation. Charlie moved

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to the side so he wouldn't be in exactly the

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same place, switched to his goo cannon and blasted it

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straight at another two of the perpetrators. A stream of

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gooey green goop blasted out, hit the two individuals and

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almost instantly stuck them to the floor. It's coming from

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over there, the other two announced, pointing directly at Charlie. Instinctively,

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Charlie activated his force field just in time for two

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beams of red energy to bash directly into it. It

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seemed that his invisibility had disappeared at that point. Maybe

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he couldn't have both of them activated all at once.

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Luckily for him, the energy shield seemed to be completely

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unaffected by the blasts of energy. Charlie slowly began to

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walk towards the two blasts. Hey, it's not working. Why

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isn't it working. They continued to fire their blasters until

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eventually they both became too hot. They dropped them as

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if they'd just touched something straight out of the oven.

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Ah I think it overheated, one of them yelled, and

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in that instant Charlie activated his shock wave or lightning

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device or whatever it was, and pointed it at one

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of the robbers. A blast of non lethal electrical energy

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shot out, hit the robber, and then changed to the

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other one. Oh is he doing, they said, as they

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clinched every muscle in their body. He allowed the shockwave

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weapon to turn off, and the two robbers fell to

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the ground. At the same time, sirens from almost every

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direction started to appear. The police were coming. Charlie had

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done the right thing, but he didn't really want to

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answer questions about it right now. He instantly focused on

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his invisibility field reappearing. The air shimmered around him, and

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well it did just that. He lifted his arm up

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in the air, folded his hand in and produced the little,

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medium sized helicopter rotor. Once again, it began to spin

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and Charlie lifted up into the air. He watched for

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a minute from eye above the scene as the police

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arrested the two shocked individuals, and well endeavored to free

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the other three from the goo and ice, looking particularly

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puzzled as they did so. Then Charlie blasted off into

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the air once again. He flew high above the clouds

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until the landscape below started to look a little more familiar.

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He slowly lowered down and came to a hover as

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he saw his very own house. He gently lowered himself

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down to the ground, landing in front of his door

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and deactivating his flight propeller as he moved toward it,

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Keeping his field of invisibility activated, he slipped inside the house,

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hoping no one would notice he'd gone. He tiptoed back

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to his bedroom and deactivated the whole thing when he

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was safely inside, His bed looked particularly comfortable right now,

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and well he'd earned a good sleep after a day

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of work as a robotic superhero. He climbed into his bed,

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pulled the covers up to his chin, and closed his eyes.

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With every breath, Charlie sank down into the mattress. He

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released his shoulders, his arms, his legs, and with each

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breath he sank a little deeper and his mind began

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to wander off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,

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and new robotic soup Your powers to come.

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Speaker 2: Good night everyone.

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Speaker 4: Name never in New York Union, No more.

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Speaker 3: In m.

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Speaker 4: One on many Things never assas