Thomas Boyd’s Downhill Jam
We meet up with Pat, Thomas, Candi, and Fang as they continue their patrol.
“Do you sense anything wrong yet?” Thomas asks his older teammate as he kicks the ground to keep up the momentum of his skateboard.
“No, not yet.” Pat responds as he sniffs the air in front of him.
“Hey Pat. Do you have a cold or something?” Candi asks.
“No, I’m good. Just using my power.” He quickly responds.
“...What is your power exactly?” She says trying to clear up her confusion.
“I just have a really good sense of smell!” Pat says as he taps the bridge of his own nose. “Like a bear!”
“...Is that why you are bear themed?” Fang interjects. “Wouldn’t it make sense for you to be dog or elephant themed for a power like that?”
“Actually, bears are widely regarded as having the best sense of smell in the animal kingdom!”
“...Huh, I guess you learn something new everyday!” Fang says as he rubs the back of his neck.
“...Wait!” Pat says suddenly as he starts to notice something strange. “I am sensing someone's fear nearby.”
“...You can smell fear?” Candi asks.
“Yes. I can actually.” He goes over to a wall and slowly looks around the next corner. “I think we’re getting close to our target by the way.”
The others follow Pat’s lead and they all quickly notice what the problem was.
That problem in question being an ongoing bank robbery.
The thieves are actually in the process of leaving the building with their spoils.
“Stay still if you know what's good for ya!” One of the thieves says as he leaves the bank with a bag in one arm and a gun in the other.
“Yeah! Just leave us be and nobody gets hurt!” Another thief follows up.
A getaway driver pulls up to the curb, picks up the two other thieves, and drives away.
“I’m on it!” Thomas and Candi say in unison.
“Wait!” Candi exclaims. “You are a speedster too!”
“Yep!” He says as he snaps his fingers. In the direction that his finger was pointing after the snap an arrow suddenly appears on the ground. “I can make speed boosts!”
He then hops on his skateboard and begins to ride it forward. When the wheels of his board made contact with the arrow he suddenly sent flying forwards at what must have been over 100 miles (or about 160 kilometers) per hour.
“Wait, I think that I’ve got an idea!” Fang says as he pulls an object out of a fanny pack (which is actually what Fang’s power is. He has a small green fanny pack that he is able to use as hammer space). It was two green sickles that were attached by a chain. “I’ll jump on your back, you run towards the car, and I’ll stop it by wrapping this chain around the wheels!”
“Sounds like a plan!” Candi says as she takes a small vial of sugar out of her own fanny pack and quickly downs all of it. “Let’s do this!”
Candi and Fang are able to quickly catch up to Thomas and the getaway car.
“Hey Tommy! We have a plan!” Candi says as she runs alongside him. “Are you fine with being the distraction?”
“Sure! I am great at being intentionally annoying!” He says as he creates another arrow to speed in front of the car.
The window of the car rolls down and a voice quickly follows.
“Hey kid! Get outta the road!”
“Only if you give back the money you stole and turn yourselves in!”
“Never in a million years!” The driver says as he now is trying to run Thomas over.
“Well, you can’t say that I didn’t warn you!” Thomas says as he and the others quickly approach a road that has a sharp downwards curve. Thomas does an ollie and a 360 turn before he lands perfectly on the downwards slope of the road.
As he and the others speed down the hill Thomas notices that there is an old man with a walker trying to cross the street in front of them.
“Fang!” Thomas yells out as he quickly skates around the old man. “I think it’s about time for your plan!”
“I’d be inclined to agree!” Fang responds as he spins and launches his chain towards the back right wheel of the car. As the chain wraps around and locks onto the target Candi quickly skids to a halt and starts running in the opposite direction back up the hill.
She isn’t going nearly as fast as she needs to for the plan to work though.
“Tommy! Can we get some help!” Candi yells out as she barely maintains a neutral balance between her running and the car trying to pull her back down the hill.
“With pleasure!” Thomas says as he turns around and starts using his arrows to climb the steep incline of the road.
“Oh no you don’t!” The thief in the back seat rolls down the window of the car, pulls out a tommy gun, and opens fire on our skateboarding superhero.
As he dodges these bullets with ease and catches back up to where Candi and Fang are he creates a speed boost arrow right underneath her feet.
“Just for good measure!” Fang says as he pulls a jawbreaker out of his pack and places it into Candi’s mouth.
With the help of Thomas and Fang she is now quickly gaining forward momentum. After she crosses the first arrow Thomas creates another. He repeats this as she passes that arrow as well, so on and so forth until she makes it to the top of the hill and they start their way back to the bank.
“I wish I could see what those kids are up to.” Pat says as he is leaving the bank after he checked to make sure everyone was okay.
Right as he finishes that sentence he sees Candi and Fang followed by the getaway car and Thomas.
“That doesn’t look good!” He shouts as he quickly runs to the middle of the road.
“Thomas!” Pat yells out. “Use your arrows to turn the car around! Candi! Start running back up the hill as soon as Thomas does this!”
“Can do!” Thomas says as he skates around the car while placing sideways arrows under the wheels.
Candi then does her part by running back up the hill, but is only able to slow the car instead of bringing it to a full stop like before.
As the car approaches Pat he widens his stance, puts his arms forwards, and braces for impact.
As the car slams into his palms he is able to grind the vehicle to a halt.
“Phew!” Pat says as he places his hands on his knees and takes a breather. “That was a close call!”
The police soon arrive on the scene and arrest the thieves and return the money to the bank.
“Thanks for the help, heroes!” says one of the officers.
“Just doing our jobs!” Pat says as he tips the brim of his bear themed hat.
The heroes wave to the officer as they take their leave to continue their patrol.