Junior Hero Blues by J.K. Pendragon

Author:J.K. Pendragon [Pendragon, J.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Riptide Publishing
Published: 2016-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

Jimmy Black was taken into the League headquarters and retained in one of their fancy holding cells. I hung around outside with the Raven while Chelsea and Captain Justice went in to interrogate him. When they came out, they were both exhausted and disappointed.

“He’s definitely brainwashed,” said Chelsea. “But he refuses to believe it. He’s irate. It looks like the brainwashing slipped for a little bit. I don’t know how. Maybe your fight jarred him.” She nodded at me. “But he wasn’t able to beat it completely. It’s back, and he’s not letting me in.”

Captain Justice sighed and tilted his head back, rubbing the base of his neck. He looked really old suddenly, although it might have just been the lighting. The rest of the League headquarters were bright and airy and modern, but the holding cells had been built in the eighties by the Organization, and you could tell. “I don’t like keeping someone who’s potentially innocent here. But letting him go back to the Organization could only be worse.”

“My recommendation is that we keep him here,” said Chelsea. “Try to keep him comfortable, and hope that he eventually decides to let me remove the brainwashing. It’s the best we can hope for. If it’s all right.” She glanced at Captain Justice. “I’d like to head home now. My husband’s out of town, and I had to pay a babysitter last minute.”

Captain Justice gave her a small but warm smile. “Of course, Chelsea. Thank you for your assistance.”

She nodded and left.

“Well.” He turned to me. “With your help, we may have saved that young man from doing something he may one day regret very much. So thank you.”

“Don’t mention it,” I said. The truth was, I felt awful. It was one thing to fight bad guys who were actually bad. It was another to realize that the person you’d been taking out all your righteous anger on is actually probably some polo-shirt-wearing businessman with like five kids. How many of the other villains at the battle had been brainwashed too? The dark underground cells here reminded me of the creepy underground prison at the Organization building, and I remembered with a shudder that terrifying old lady rushing toward me, her face all stretched and inhuman. What kind of person was she, to do that kind of thing to other people?

But I guess she wasn’t really a person at all. Not anymore.

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