SW10/WWW: Powernaut 2008 #5: What Makes You Want to Raise Superheroes?

[Scott Eiler]

The Powernaut builds his household - with the help of the Ferguson 
family!  But villains are starting to take interest, as Reality House 
2008 continues.

http://www.eilertech.com/stories/powernaut/2008b.htm#5

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Bonus Section: Commentary from Wyatt Ferguson! The Ferguson Family of Heroes

Heh, I have to comment as Weird Uncle Wyatt now.  I have to admit, I 
never thought my sister would identify with superheroes.  Yet here we are.

*  Lauren got mixed up with "The Last Army War" in the 1990s.  Her 
husband at the time said, she'd moved to the Caribbean with him.  We 
found out later, it was to an island full of superhumans, determined to 
conquer the Earth.  They mostly fought Ellipsis.  But Philippe St.
Joseph Lateran was in charge of brainwashing the island.  Lauren was
just too ornery for that. (It runs in the family.)

*  Andy was with Lauren at the time.  He came out of the affair with 
"Vigor" superpowers - basically all physical abilities just beyond 
maximum human potential.

*  Calvin was a U.S. secret agent.  He had a suit of flying shrinking 
battle armor.  How cool is that?  At the time, he tried to get me into a 
family intervention on the island.  At the time, I was in the middle of 
a disaster, so I missed his invitation to join an international 
incident.  As he missed my own involvement in a disaster and a 
subsequent series of incidents in New Jersey. - Indeed Calvin may have 
been delayed on his mission, while he checked his Gov sources on me. But 
then he kept going, to save Lauren and Andy... Calvin's story may 
perhaps be told another time.  But he has logged his own diary, of which 
the world has gotten access to one episode from 2004.

*  I (Wyatt) am here represented with my most photogenic powers... the 
"Method Man", an agent of elves, godlings, and demons earlier this year. 
I've also hosted demons and Death before.  In my world, though, all
these powers come and go.  The more accurate current representation of 
me is with a bicycle helmet, in a flashback sequence earlier in this series.

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-- (signed) Scott Eiler  8{D> ------ http://www.eilertech.com/ -------

The soldiers presented a pathetic but inspiring spectacle. The
hospitals were crowded with sick and wounded; the walls were
gradually crumbling under incessant shell fire, yet that garrison
of heroes remained undaunted.

It was as Buck said, "just as if they had been Americans."

- from "The Airship Boys in the Great War", De Lysle F. Cass, 1915.
Coming soon to Project Gutenberg.  gutenberg.org