Here we have Day 7: Create a superhero. Have he/she save the day. (We're not going to talk about the grammar mistake happening right before our very eyes, but I am going to shamelessly point it out.)
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Electrolexi's superhero name wasn't her idea. She had wanted a name that was cool. Like "The Inanimator." Or something like that. But her superhero mom thought that it would be clever to use little bits of the young superhero's name. Alexandra turned into Electrolexi. No relation to Electrolux. Or maybe there was. Superhero family trees were always so complicated, you would never know who was related to whom unless there was a slight similarity in name. Batman and Batgirl? Definitely father and daughter. Wait, that wasn't right...
Anyway, Electrolexi's superpower involved being able to communicate with inanimate objects. This was not exactly a power that gained you recognition among the superhero community, it was on par with being able to transform into a puddle of water or creating marshmallows with your toes. Something like that. Electrolexi's mother could control electricity and her father...well, not even Electrolexi's mother would admit who he was, though Electrolexi suspected he was Superman, but that was partially a case of wishful thinking.
On a February morning, Electrolexi turned on the television in her mother's living room to see a screen announcing, "BREAKING NEWS!"
"We've just heard word from NASA that their latest rocket, Iris VI has been hijacked by an unknown entity. We can posit that the person climbing into the cockpit and throwing the prep crew out a window is a man from the body type observed on the surveillance cameras, but nothing else can be assumed at this point. Superman was on the scene to save the prep crew being thrown out of the rocket, but has since disappeared, it has been reported that a Bruce Wayne who was funding the rocket's expedition may be on the scene any minute now to consult. We will keep you updated."
"Ahem, 'scuse me, but could you 'old me a bit lighter?" coughed the television remote.
"Oh! Sorry..." mumbled Electrolexi. She hadn't even realized that she was gripping it white-knuckled.
Without a fully formed plan, Electrolexi grabbed her cape and ran out the door. About halfway down her block, she got a stitch in her side and had to slow down to a brisk walk as she passed the bus that she would normally be taking to her high school. Chances are if she failed in whatever she wasn't planning on doing, her mother would kill her for skipping school to save the world anyway.
By the time she got to NASA, Electrolexi had a vague idea of what she should do.
"Hey! You can't be in here!" a bespectacled man yelled at her as she rushed down the hall to the control room.
"Trust me, I've got this handled!" she bellowed over her shoulder. Though she probably wasn't the most convincing person the man had heard, considering she was a lanky teenaged girl running full speed down a hallway toward the control room of a gigantic rocket, but what did that matter anyway?
Barreling into the control room, Electrolexi yelled at the top of her lungs, "Let me talk to the rocket!"
A group of rocket scientists turned from their computer screens to take in the teenaged girl standing inside the door and panting to catch her breath. None of them smiled, none of them found this even remotely funny. There was an unknown man in the cockpit of the rocket and this silly girl was demanding that she be allowed to "talk to the rocket"?
"Pardon me, little girl, but who do you think you are?" asked a white-haired man closest to the door where Electrolexi was still panting.
"I'm Electrolexi. Trust me. I've got this. Give me a microphone."
The rocket scientists were all so baffled by the presence of a teenager in their control room, they just handed her a microphone without any further questions. The white-haired man snickered a little bit and shook his head before settling back into his seat.
Closing her eyes and concentrating, Electrolexi tuned into what she figured was the rocket's voice singing a tuneless ditty without words as it prepared to take off. It didn't really care who was piloting it, it just wanted to fly.
"Hey, Iris? Iris VI? This is Electrolexi, can you hear me?"
"Electrolexi? I don't think I know you. Are you friends with the president?" the rocket asked, halting her song rather abruptly when she was interrupted.
"Yeah, we'll go with that. Okay, I need you to stay put, alright? If you get clearance for take-off, it's not from us."
"Right-o!"
Electrolexi let out a breath that she hadn't realized she had been holding. That was easy. Too easy...
To be continued...?
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