The Superhero's Strike by Lucas Flint

Author:Lucas Flint [Flint, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, superheroes
Publisher: Secret Identity Books
Published: 2018-12-17T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The massive tentacle wrapped around my chest, doing its best to squeeze the life out of me. I gasped for air as the tentacle tightened its grip on me, doing everything in its power to crush me to death. Putrid slime rubbed off the tentacle onto my costume, filling my nostrils with something that smelled like sewer water and dead fish.

Although taken by surprise, I nonetheless activated my super strength and, with a shrug of my shoulders, broke free of the tentacle. The tentacle immediately went back into the water, but then another tentacle shot up into the air toward me like a cobra. I flew backward out of its range, however, and looked down at the water to see just what the heck was trying to kill me.

I expected to see a giant squid rising out of the ocean, but instead I saw what looked like a gigantic metal shell breaking the surface of the flowing water. A massive turtle head poked out of the water, its dull eyes glaring up at me with what looked like frustration and annoyance. Where a turtle’s legs normally would have been instead were four identical tentacles, each one covered in suckers that looked very uncomfortable to the touch.

“Holy cow,” I said. “Is that supposed to be some kind of combination between a turtle and a squid?”

The monstrosity of science did not, of course, respond. Instead, it lashed out at me with its tentacles again, which I easily dodged. The turtle-squid creature let out a deep growl, seemingly out of frustration at the fact that I was smart enough to stay outside of its reach.

“Okay, you’re freaky,” I said as I observed the monster carefully, “but not very smart. Being in the water would be a huge advantage … if I couldn’t shoot lightning bolts.”

I fired a red lightning bolt into the water, expecting to fry the turtle-squid or at least hurt it so much that it decided to run away.

Abruptly, the turtle-squid pulled its tentacles and head back into its metallic shell and disappeared beneath the water. When my lightning bolt struck the water, it created a small explosion that sent water flying into the air and caused red electricity to run up and down the length of the river in a light show that would have made a rock band jealous.

When the lightning ceased running along the water, the river returned to normal, but I didn’t see the turtle-squid anywhere.

I cracked a grin. “Didn’t expect me to take the easy route, now did you?”

But my grin fell off my face like a dropped bucket when the turtle-squid’s metallic shell reemerged from the water, completely unharmed by the electricity. In fact, it looked better than ever, as if my attack hadn’t happened at all.

“What the heck?” I said. I lowered myself closer to it, unsure if the monster was dead or not. “How did it survive that? Its shell can’t be that tough, can—”

A tentacle suddenly shot out of the shell and wrapped around me.

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