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TITLE: Stretching Out the Problem | Previous Challenge Entry
By Art Westefeld
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Considering that Speedster could move miles in between heartbeats, one wouldn’t think that Sandra could cause any trouble for the heroine. That was before one took her unique powers in to account. Sandra had the ability to stretch her body into near impossibly small or twisted situations. Her first crime was when she had slipped into a closed store by passing through the closed gate. She then managed to wiggle her finger into the lock on the cashbox, opening it as easily as if she had the key. After being seen on several security camera videos, she had been dubbed Ductile Damsel.
Speedster was determined to capture her, and was unimpressed by this villain trying to commit a one woman crime wave in her city.
Speedster had a major problem, however. She first had to get Ductile Damsel in a room with no openings. A tiny hole in a screen window was enough for this latest criminal to escape through. This criminal realized that freedom was more important than money, as she had abandoned her ill gotten gains just to escape the Speedster.
Speedster finally had a plan she thought was foolproof. A stash of cash to be given out as a prize in a radio contest seemed like a target for Damsel, so Speedster had requested that the money be moved into a basement room with no windows. Speedster sat there in the dimly lit room, vibrating herself to near invisibility, when her foe entered under the door.
Speedster got to work with the tools she had brought with her, and sealed the door jam with quick sealant from a nearby hardware store. As the violet clad woman turned towards the door to leave, she discovered that the door was completely sealed off.
She turned smugly to the superhero and stated, “You can’t keep me here for too long. Eventually the room will run out of fresh air, and since you move more quickly than I do, you will probably pass out first.”
Speedster knew her stretchable foe was right. She had to wrap this up, how else, quickly.
She tried a standard go to move, a super speed punch to knock her out. This tactic failed utterly, as her fist merely squished harmlessly in to Damsel’s chin. Speedster mused to herself, trying to conserve air, the direct approach is out. Speedster tried a plan that occurred to her at the spur of the moment. She rushed at Damsel and grabbed her fingers, stretching them out to tie them up in various knots she remembered from her days as a Girl Scout.
Damsel’s stretching abilities made it easy for Speedster to do so, as Damsel simply wiggled her fingers out of the knots, slower than Speedster, but still she was free a second after the last knot had been done. By this time, Speedster was feeling the effects of diminishing air, just as Damsel had predicted. The gold clad heroine had one last trick to try, but it might use up all the remaining air in the room. Speedster twirled around at high speed, forcing Damsel against the walls. Just prior to the oxygen being used up by her high speed attacks, she tore at the sealant and ripped open a crack at floor level. Damsel might have used the crack to escape, but Speedster had collapsed it by drinking in the last of the air, so her foe had been rendered unconscious.
Speedster raced out of the basement to where the police had prepared an escape-proof cell for Damsel, a plastic box with a high pressure air hose to allow Damsel to breathe. As they returned to the basement, Speedster asked, “Shall I collect her for you? She’s kinda spread out.”
When asked by a reporter at the station she worked at if Damsel was a rough criminal to capture, she responded, “Well, Damsel did make me think outside the box. You could say she stretched my mind.”
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