Anne was bored, she was trying to play tennis on her Wii sports but was failing miserably - mostly because she wasn't even looking at it.
"Kyla", she moaned, "we have got to come up with something to do"
"Anne...", Kyla replied while she was clicking and typing like a woman possessed at her computer , "aren't you supposed to be working?"
"Of course, but I need a break!"
"Isn't that what the tennis is all about" Kyla absently replied.
Suddenly, Anne was standing right next to Kyla at her desk. Kyla looked up startled, "Annoying much?"
Anne laughed and said "What are you doing, working on those color coded calvary advertising sites again?"
"You know, you may mock my advertising, but don't mock my love of comics! Blackest Night, although a bit drawn out, is pretty cool! And who doesn't want to say that the Rainbow Rodeo has arrived or that the Color Coded Cavalry is locked and loaded!" Kyla said while chuckling.
"Well, at least its better than Aquaman."
"Excuse me - Aquaman is quite possibly the coolest superhero. Got a swimmer's bod and when he's not some kind of freaky squid monster has a pretty gorgeous face. Girls like Aquaman - that cannot be denied. And I, my dear sis, am a girl. So are you, I might add. Plus, he can communicate with fish - how cool is that? And remember how he was very helpful to the other Superfriends"
"Wow, you are too dorky for words. Next you're gonna jibber-jabber about Mark Waid again"
"Excuse me BA Baracus - Mark Waid is awesome. I saw on Facebook his photos were he has this pimp hat and hot chicks on his arm. Plus, he likes Aquaman. And Beppo."
"I love to get you going!" Anne smiled. "Well, I have to admit it would be cool if we were superheroes. We could have our own Superfriends, or Justice League or Avengers or whatever"
Kyla laughed. "You know, you mock me, but you can say Justice League and Avengers without prompting. Must be my great influence on you."
"Your incessant rambling is more like it. I guess it would be helpful if we had superpowers."
"Not necessarily", Kyla mused...."Batman doesn't have superpowers. But anyway, we do have superpowers."
"Oh, this I gotta hear. Do tell, what is your great superpower?"
Kyla finally backed away from her computer at this point. She leaned back in her chair and said "I can talk to plants and make them do stuff."
"So...you're even more useless than Aquaman?"
"Hey now, tread lightly. I'd like to see how you respond to an electric eel net. Anyway, it's not useless. I am the only one who could get Mrs. Masterson's tulips to actually take root and grow fending off those gophers. And I got Lois's sunflowers to grow tall finally by reminding them that they were like Superman, getting strength from earth's yellow sun. Our garden is the most beautiful in the neighborhood - that cannot be denied. My talking to them and my music choices for them have as much to do with their success and the success of our friend's gardens than fertilizer, plant food and water do. Maybe even more"
Anne sat down in the chair by her desk across from Kyla's in their little home office room. "Well, you have a point: I can't deny that you do seem to have a gift with them. Everybody says so. Still seems pretty useless from a crime fighting perspective though Botany Bay Ivy"
Kyla laughed and got up to refill her coffee and Anne's. "Botany Bay - Star Trek. Poison Ivy - comic character. And we don't necessarily have to fight crime. Superpowered people could do other things too ya know. Or we could be supervillians! So Doctor Doom, what about your superpower?"
"Ya know, I don't think I'd want to be Doctor Doom. Too much like Darth Vader."
"Doctor Doom was first, Brainiac. Ok, you can be the Madame Hydra"
"I don't even know who that is. Is that some other dumb Aquaman reference?"
Kyla moans..."First of all, if Aquaman were here, he'd kick your sorry tuckus. Second of all, no. Third of all, I guess that means you only sporadically listen to me..."
"You look like I told you your puppy was dead," Anne said giggling. "Okay, back to my superpower."
"I've got it! Your cooking heals people. Remember when Eric came down with that terrible cold - he even went to the doc and he told him he would be 7 days. You made him that 6 chili soup and it was gone in a day. And Mrs. Simmons. You made her your chicken matzoh ball soup when she'd been coming down with flu for well over a month and it was gone. You make her that soup every year now and she's never gotten a flu since and she used to get several a year."
"Great, magic soup. That may be even more useless than communicating with plants. " Anne looked dejected. She sipped her coffee and sighed. "Okay, guess we are scratching the Girl Guild idea"
"Girl Guild? I don't think you should get to name stuff... And it's not just soup. Remember cranky Mr. Wilson. And how funny is it that we actually have a cranky Mr. Wilson?" Anne looked exasperated at Kyla and she continued, "Anyway, you made him that amazing lasagna with the basil leaves and roasted garlic. He's been a teddy bear ever since" Kyla smiled and then hastened to add". A good teddy bear, not a gun toting Mr. Stuffins assassin bear"
"Okay, you ARE too dorky for words. Like I know, or care, who Mr. Stuffins is. Now I'll have nightmares about teddy bears taking us all out. I'm not convinced that magic soup and lasagna is actually a superpower" Anne stated.
"Well, first of all, believe me when I say Mr. Stuffins was awesome and they need to figure a way to bring him back. Second of all, your food heals people. And healing powers are very good for superheroes to have and considered quite valuable. Third of all, it's more than soup and lasagna. Remember the cheesy salmon and that spinach-apple-walnut salad with the flax seeds you made for that one girl, the mom who was gonna give up her baby her post-partum was so bad but then after your meal, decided to keep the baby and was at peace and happy about it...or"
"Okay, okay. I make magic food. I get it. I think you are ascribing too much power to it, but there are an awful lot of times like that which I can remember happening too. I am not sure how though my ability to heal through food and your ability to get plants to grow beautifully and fight off hostile conditions makes us superheroes...."
Kyla leaned forward. "I think it does. Plus, we can find others who have powers too. We just need to think about it. I'm sure some people we know are endowed too. Or we can look for people. And then, as a team we can figure out how to proceed....Or..."
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