The Superhero's Cure by Lucas Flint

Author:Lucas Flint [Flint, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, superheroes, action adventure
Publisher: Secret Identity Books
Published: 2018-11-16T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Coughing and hacking, I staggered away from the case, my eyes watering from the gas. I could barely see anything and tried to rub the gas out of my eyes, but that just made my eyes tear up even more.

“Charles?” said Fingerprints, who I heard somewhere nearby, also hacking and coughing. “Charles, are you there? What happened—”

Something hard and heavy slammed into the back of my head and I fell to my knees. I heard Fingerprints fall nearby and then felt a couple of strong hands snap heavy manacles around my wrists. Still hacking, I struggled to break free, but that just earned me another slam to the back of the head that left me even dizzier than before.

“Nice try, kid,” said Red Tide’s voice, which sounded strangely distant now for some reason, “but you didn’t think I was going to let you see the weapon that easily, were you?”

Blinking hard, my vision gradually began to clear, until soon I could see everything again.

I was down on my knees. Fingerprints knelt beside me, although based on the way he was bent over, I could tell that his vision still hadn’t cleared. His hands were shackled behind him with thick manacles and a glance over my shoulder showed that mine were restrained the same way.

We were also surrounded. The other two pirates who had helped us move the case stood on either side of us, guns drawn and aimed at our heads. Red Tide himself still stood where he had before, but his arms crossed his chest and he was grinning like the devil now. Seth and Janet had also remained in their positions, with Seth smiling in an amused way and Janet smiling in a rather ditzy way like she didn’t quite grasp what was going on but was pleased that Seth was pleased nonetheless.

“What …” I coughed hard. “What was that?”

Red Tide kicked the case toward me. “That was a trap, my young, stupid friend.”

Blinking again, I looked into the case and saw that it was indeed empty. Only a spray bottle of powerless gas, attached to some kind of squirting mechanism, sat in the dark, soft-lined interior of the case. Other than that, I didn’t see any sort of super special secret weapon that could potentially give America’s enemies an edge over us militarily.

“Oh, the look on your face is priceless,” said Red Tide with a chuckle. “Look at the stupid kid. He really thought we had a weapon.”

I blinked again. “You mean you don’t?”

“Clearly, he failed to inherit his father’s intelligence,” said Seth, although he sounded more amused than condescending like Red Tide. “A disappointment, because his father was truly an intellect for our times.”

“Eh, this kid and his government pal here thought they had us fooled,” said Red Tide. He shook his head. “They think I’m an idiot just because I have a pirate accent. Let this be a lesson: Never underestimate Captain Red Tide or his crafty brain.”

“I don’t understand,” I said. “What happened?

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