The Amazing Superblog

I’m back in town, so all you bad guys beware! I went to visit some friends out of town for the weekend, but they don’t know that I’m also Superblog, so couldn’t really do much superheroing. Anyway, I didn’t know the city I was visiting well at all, so I wouldn’t have been very effective. Just drank it up with them and looked around, didn’t even see bad guys. Their loss!

So now I’m back in Capitol City. Actually got in late last night. Flight was delayed, geez I wish I could fly, that would have made the trip so much easier instead of having to go to the airport and then take the subway home. Or if I was in town long enough to have friends to pick me up at the airport as well. Either way, it was a pain, I got back pretty late last night and just went to bed. Sorry if anyone logged in to see if I had anything new.

Anyway, I figured the best thing to do on my first day back in a while was to check in with City Hall. So I ran over to check out that Department of City Services administrator that asked me to come back when I visited last time. I called ahead to make sure he would be there this time, and made an appointment for 11.00. Plenty of time to super-shower and get ready, my so-called “costume” (just an old tshirt and old Halloween mask) were easy to get together. So I got all gathered up and ran over to City Hall.

The administrator was decent… His name is Mr. O’Connell, and said that the city often uses superheroes to do tasks that the police or other departments can’t handle. I’m afraid to hear what the “”other”” department tasks are, probably cleaning up super-fast after a big parade or something fun like that. But he said that since I was new to the city and didn’t know my way around too much, he’d help me get acclimated and all, before he let me out on my own to help out across the city. I took that as good news, always nice to have a helping hand.

So Mr. O’Connell mentioned that he was talking to the Chief of Police, and they said that there was a rumor going around that one of the city gangs was going to attempt to plant a bomb in a local office building in protest to the city crack-down on drug sales. Mr. O’Connell asked me if I’d go over and check things out before the gang could do anything, see if I could prevent things in any way. Sounded pretty simple, he said that if there was any danger or if I felt like I was out of my league, to call in the police easy. He said most superheroes did that on their first mission, so they’d already be ready and waiting for me to call.

I managed to find the office building Mr. O’Connell told me about, he even gave me a map to get there. It definitely wasn’t anything to be impressed with inside, sort of dirty and dark, I wonder who in their right mind would want to work in a place like this. But I was there to stop a bomb threat, not give interior design lessons, so I cautiously started checking out the building.

Well, talking about being lucky, it was pretty much the easiest mission I could have been given on my first try. I decided to take the stairs instead of the elevator, because who knows, maybe the bad guys would see someone coming up. I figured the stairs would give me a bigger chance of surprise.

Duh, I turned the corner heading up to the 3rd floor, and wouldn’t you know it, the bomber was right there setting up his equipment! And he was there alone even! One quick slam to the head and he was down for the count. All the gang’s bomb equipment and their bomber captured in one quick move. I couldn’t have been prouder of myself for what I did, it was nice and easy.

I called the police and Mr. O’Connell after I took care of the situation, and they sent over a van to take the bomb parts and bomber off to jail. Mr. O’Connell was so happy with my events that he said he was going to issue a press release mentioning me by super-name! I’ll find out later on when the news comes on if I’m famous already though.

Last night was a mediocre night for superheroing. Really just stopped a mugging. I’m sure the people I saved were happy and all, but the muggers didn’t have any superpowers at all. Still, they were evil, so they needed to be defeated.

I was running around — I’m starting to get used to the neighborhood around my place at least. I found one dark area between my place and the Warehouse District, which I’ve been circling over and over. Bad guys love the dark. Not even regular bad guys, but super bad guys too. So I was hoping to get lucky.

Right when I was about to leavethis dark area into some place with a lot of light, I could notice some people talking. Not that this is against the law or anything in this great country of ours, but I thought it was strange the way they were standing and looking and talking, right in a mostly-dark area. In fact, they’re lucky I could see them, I don’t have any super-sight vision powers or the like.

From what I could tell, three guys jumped a guy and a girl. They were trying to get her purse and emand his wallet. So I went in to check things out. I’m not rude like some of those cheesy superheroes, so I didn’t do something like fly right inbetween the two of them. Just casually started to walk on by. It was dark there anyway, so they wouldn’t have seen me anyway.

When I was walking by, one of the guys quickly hid something behind his back. I guess I’m not that inconspicuous in my bright red shirt and mask, but at least I had the sneakers on for when he went to run. They must have known I was a superhero (or else some crazy built guy running around in tights), because they tried for a quick getaway. That’s the kind of bad guy I love to fight. Terrified, no superpowers, and on the run. Well, a brawl with a supervillan is always fun too, but if I’m setting a quota of evil to disrupt in a week, an easy target always helps.

Anyway, the two bad guys turned to run, and the lady screamed “”get them!”” That’s always a good sign. So I lept into action and started running after them. Silly criminals, thinking they could outrun a superhero? I might not be as fast as some, but I can beat a mugger anyway. It was an easy BAM running right into them and I knocked them down to the ground. I didn’t even have to beat them up. They just kind of gave up there.

So then I found an old discarded tire and shoved it over both of them. Now that I think of it, I’m sure something like that hurts, but I wanted to incapacitate them while the police arrived. The guy and gal whom they were trying to mug said they’d be sure to watch over them while the police showed up, they wanted to make sure they’d cart them off to jail. Then I gave them my email address for the future, and asked them to drop me a line if there was any trouble.

All in the day of fighting crime and doing good!

My second day in Capitol City was much more interesting than the first! Then again, compared to a Sunday the day after you move somewhere and don’t know anyone, that’s not much of a surprise.

Anyway, to start out my wonderful day, I woke up late. Gotta hate Daylight Savings Time. I just can’t understand why people take the liberty to move everyone’s clock back and forth just because they want another hour of daylight in their life. Those people should just wake up an hour earlier in my mind! Those of us who fight super-evil usually work late into the night, we’re not really what you’d call morning people. I’m sure more super-villans are morning people than superheroes. And anyone who emails me saying “the early bird catches the worm” can just go set their clocks ahead yet another hour… But I digress (and vent), mostly because I didn’t get enough sleep last night and am probably cranky.

So I got out of bed — late — and did a little unpacking. Jumped in the shower and I’m out of soap and shampoo. Don’t try to do superheroing when you’re stinky, it just doesn’t work out. Unless your super-power is some kind of stench or gross smell stuff, I guess then it’s ok. Not mine though, I prefer to smell like some good old fashioned soap and maybe coconut shampoo when I’m fighting evil. So being out of those things — and very nearly out of toilet paper as well — today looked like it was going to be errands day!

The cable guy was supposed to show up today too. The building super said he’d let him in (not super-hero, he’s just the building super, and I think sometimes he can have super-stench as a power from the looks of him), so I didn’t need to stick around. Actually that’s sort of a pain being around when stuff like that is getting done, so I didn’t mind taking off for the day.

Since I figured out where City Hall was yesterday, seemed like a good place to start my busy day of errands. I talked to the lady at the information booth, and she called up to the Department of City Services for me. What a nice generic name for a department. Maybe they can rename it “”Department of Things”” to make it a little more specific. Anyway, that’s the city department that handles superheroes and villains. I guess there’s more than a handful of both in Capitol City, so they need someone in City Hall to oversee what’s going on and keep the Mayor on his toes.

I didn’t get to talk to the Director of City Services, I got to talk to the Assistant Director. Or maybe that was the receptionist. I don’t’ really know how many people work there. But I did get an appointment to talk to the Director and the Commissioner of Police later on this week. They want to see what I can do, so if there’s any kind of emergency I can help out with, they’ll know to give me a call.

There’s also a couple cool things going on with Capitol City and superheroes. There’s some kind of city-sponsored social group that meets once a month on the first Friday of the month. Lucky me, that was the day BEFORE I moved to down. I’ll have to wait a whole month before I get to meet other superheroes I guess. Well, I’ll probably run across some on the street or whatever.

Well, heading home I decided to take a side street home, and WHOO HOO… CRIME! Now don’t get all upset that I take glee in finding someone getting mugged. At least I was there to help out, and she wasn’t really hurt. The mugger pushed her to the ground and broke her purse strap. Other than that, she was fine. But I got to run in and give him a super-smack, knocked him down.

It was a good thing I went to City Hall today too. Another thing I found out was the city has a couple laws protecting superheroes in action. You just have to call a phone number after you finish up, and this special division of the police will show up super-quick and cart the bad guys off to jail. Now, after dragging guys like Dr. Freeze Ray and the like off to jail, I’m sure they were disappointed in seeing just a plain mugger. But hey, it’s a start.

So here I am back in my apartment, done for the day. For some reason the cable still isn’t working, I’m sure it’s an evil plot against humanity.