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By Art Westefeld
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To her dismay, her hands weren’t big enough to hold up the train tracks. Worse, she could hear the train coming early. Putting those thoughts out of her mind, she surveyed the damage to see if she could do a quick repair job.
It took less than a heartbeat to assess that the track was beyond easy repair. She stood over the track and realized that the broken area was about the length of her gigantic upper legs. Increasing her density to maximum, she knew if she lay down under the bridge her giant thighs could hold up the train.
She quickly worked herself into position beneath the tracks. While she did so, a voice came over her communicator. “Amazing Girl, the police just informed me that the Mad Blaster left some of his bombs in several locations.”
She grunted as the train raced over her legs, “By any chance did he confess to the bomb that just went off at the Eagle Pass bridge?”
The voice in her ear responded, “Yes, how do you know about it?”
She groaned in relief as the last car passed over her knees and answered, “I just prevented the train from crashing. There’s your scoop, Larissa. If you’ll excuse me, I plan on going to ask him where else I should look for bombs.”
Larissa interrupted hastily, “No need. I have the information, which I was planning to publish in tomorrow's paper. The rest of the Light Force has already been contacted, and your teammates are already on the job. In fact, Megawatt asked me to relay that there are several bombs at Eagle Harbor, right next to the oil tankers.”
Amazing Girl disentangled herself from the mangled tracks by simply returning to normal size. As she flew towards the docks, she asked her reporter friend, “Did Blaster mention where he hid his little bombs?”
Larissa answered, “On the support beams by the Texon oil refinery. He said he planted several.”
When she reached the docks, she saw that Larissa had alerted the authorities to the information from her story.
As she landed near the emergency vehicles, she saw the looks of relief on several workers' faces that a superhero was there to assist them. Returning to her giant form, she waded into the water without a word. With her maximum density, she wasn’t worried about the bombs hurting her. As she walked into the water on her fifty meter legs, she called over her shoulder, “Where are the bombs, exactly?”
A man in coveralls, identifying him as a senior engineer, shouted up at her, “Our divers found three on the northernmost support beams, about fifty feet down.”
Taking as much breath as she could in her huge lungs, she ducked her head underwater and shivered. Unlike some of her other teammates, she wasn’t invulnerable to temperature extremes, and the water temperature was in the 40’s. She glanced through the dirty water and saw the three bombs. She detached them carefully and, enclosing them in her hands, flew out into the comparatively warmer air.
Her plan was to fly the bombs to the upper atmosphere and let them explode harmlessly. Unfortunately for her, the Blaster had not cooperated. The bombs went off in her giant fists less than 75 feet from the ground. Her superdense hands contained the force of the blast, but physics still took its toll, as she was propelled toward the dock that the Blaster had tried to destroy. Experience had taught her to turn off her powers in an instant. She hit the dock at normal human density and size. Had she had more time, she could have shrunk down and decreased her density to that of a feather.
Still she decided that stopping three bombs from blowing up an oil depot, causing untold amounts of damage, was worth the serious headache that she suffered. She shook off the ministrations of the EMTs. "I'll be fine. Christ suffered far more than a headache for my salvation."
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