This week we did something a little different with Daily Creates than normal. Usually we just complete a set number, but this time we had to use them to tell a story. It was suggested that we do three of them and then tie them together to create a story. We could use create from this week and form last week if we needed to, so I chose three that inspired me the most. It was suggested we hyperlink them together, but I decided on something different. I took inspiration from three separate Daily Creates to generate a story for October 20th, the National Day on Writing. I’ll embed the tweets just below then include the story I wrote that ties them all together! Heroic Misadventures Explosions rocked the streets of Fulton as a man dressed in a suit made of tinfoil marched down main street. Emergency sirens wailed and people rand for cover as the unnamed assailant points finger guns all around him, seemingly making things explode. The Fulton police were huddled around their chief, ducking behind a police car in the hope of not getting blown up. One brave cop tries run right at the man but gets blown right back down the street for his efforts. “Hahahaha! Pew! Pew! Is this the best the cops can throw at me? Pew! Pew!” The villain cackled, making something else explode. The police chief looks over at his men, a hopeful smile on his face, and delivers some good news. “Don’t worry, men! I’ve called for backup! Greased Lighting is on the way! __________ Meanwhile at the local superhero headquarters, a petit blonde woman answers a phone with her biggest fake smile plastered on her face. “Hello, this is Heroes United! My name is Stacey. What can I help you with today?” Bored, Stacey absently takes notes on her computer, humming and nodding in all the appropriate places like she had been taught to placate a client. “I understand the need for urgency. I’ll contact him right away. Thank you for calling Heroes United! We hope you have a super day!” Stacey hung up the phone, rolling her eyes, before paging the hero known as Greased Lightning. Seriously, who came up with these names? “Greased Lightning, you’re needed in downtown Fulton. Code red. Oh, and the police chief says hello.” Stacey then goes back to watching videos online and planning what she wants to do on her next day off. __________ “You called me for this?” Asked the hero known as Greased Lightning. “He was causing a ruckus!” said the Fulton police chief. According to his badge, his name was Jeff. “He was making things explode!” “He was throwing firecrackers, Jeff! You made me think he had psychic powers he channeled through his hands! I’ve probably ruined his life! I’ve definitely ruined his hands!” The apprehended villain who had previously caused so much trouble for the Fulton police laid prone on the ground, clutching his broken hands to his chest, and crying. He was babbling nonsense and doing his best to glare at the hero, but the pain proved to be too much. His tinfoil outfit was even more crumpled than before, and his hat lay in the dirt a few feet away. Greased Lightning shook his head. He hadn’t even needed to bound and gag him. The unnamed villain, and Greased Lightning scoffed at that description, had simply given up. He’d excited when the hero showed up. The man had apparently been making things explode with his mind. Jeff had told him the man make this happen by making finger guns and pointing them at objects. The hero had assumed he needed his hands to channel his powers, and swiftly dealt with the problem. It was only afterwards he learned the man had no powers at all and had been throwing firecrackers. “I just got a call from the station. A mental patient escaped from Fulton Hospital fitting the description of our villain.” Jeff explains, looking a little sheepish as he does so. “Great! I’ve just injured an escaped mental patient! That makes me feel so much better about myself, Jeff!” The hero watched as paramedics loaded the man into an ambulance. He turns back to Jeff. “I think you’ve got it from here, Jeff. I’m going to go finish watching the game. The Cardinals were just starting to pull ahead when you called!” “We they? I’ll have to head back to the station and watch it myself. Have a nice day, Greased Lightning!” “You too, chief!” __________ Meanwhile, in the cold reaches of space, a man in an astronaut’s suit is reading aloud from a data pad while a chicken roosts nearby. The finishes reading aloud and looks to the chicken expectingly. “And that’s all I’ve got so far! What do you think, chicken?” The chicken in question cocks their head to the side, narrowing their eyes and letting out a disdainful crow. “It’s not that bad! Like you could do anything better! If you haven’t noticed, we’re trapped in space and we’ve both already read everything in this ship! I’ve even read all the crash reports, and they’re nothing but depressing news informing us we’ll be stuck here indefinitely!” The chicken flaps their wings and lets out an indignant cluck, before turning around to presumably ignore the astronaut. The astronaut scowls. “That’s the last time I share any of my original work with you! Don’t come clucking to me when you’re seeking approval for something you worked very hard on!” The chicken lets out a low cluck, causing the astronaut to throw the data pad at them. “Say that again, you ignorant drumstick!” The End Now that you’ve read this story, I’d like to point out its meant to be a parody that satirizes superhero comic and cartoon logic. It’s also intentionally bad, since it’s meant to be a comedy, written from the perspective of a hapless individual who stranded in space with a chicken (which is the entire premise of the video game Breathedge, the video mentioned in my first Daily Create). Being stranded in space must be boring, so this individual has taken to writing ridiculous stories and reading them to the chicken, who is less than impressed by his writing abilities. The entire idea is that he write a story about people just as hapless and helpless as him. Meanwhile the “hero” makes mistakes, just like him. It felt fitting and I really had to write this story down once the idea came to mind! I’m also very happy I got to incorporate it into a forth Daily Create, making the situation even better!