Chapter 23: The Operation

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 “You read about a character’s Journey, from hell to back. Not like literally from death to back. That messes up the entire reasoning, story, precious concept gemstone of it all.”

“When we keep secrets, they tear us apart by the inside. It hurts. The evilness. The pain. The Darkness. It’s hard to keep one secret for so long.”

              He is bleeding, heavily from his right chest area  and his left shoulder. It exposed more of his tissue and other body parts that it seemed impossible for him to survive.  The Doctors wheeled him to the emergency room. The Doctors or Surgeons were wearing those light blue clothing used to prevent themselves from getting infected from the operation. There’s a big round light projector hanging onto the ceiling joined onto a metal black straight-lined pipe connected to the round insertion object part of the light projector.

            Steel is not in his mind. Technically, actually it’s not one of those near death experiences where people are out of their bodies seeing things or going to heaven where they could possibly meet their dead loved ones. Better yet, meeting god then deciding if they want to live or stay here.

“Where’s he been shot?” Adams asked, with plastic gloves over his hands. He is the same person from the Renting Dojo.  He saw dripping blood leaking from the medical table to the floor, while the metal material is becoming more dominant. He didn’t figure Bruce is actually The Steel Man. He knew it is Bruce on operation.

A surgeon who is a woman cut the chest open.

“Kidney!” She said. “Came up from the metal detector. For some reason he has more metal inside of him than not!” Steaming hot acid smoke is recoiling off the round bullet lodged into Steel’s right kidney. “It’s almost as if he is a statue of steel…Or metal.”  The Doctor’s coughed, fanning the chemical smoke out of their way. Little electrical bolts spiked from the bullet as if from machine sabotaged or a broken machine.  “The Friction from the gun must’a made it get some electricity remains!”  One of the surgeons proclaimed.

Adams takes a tool from the counter.  He then froze realizing something very important from the surgeon’s context. The metal tool is shaking in the man’s hand for a very good reason. Some fear is present in his surgeon mind. Some shock is present on his face. The others noticed

“Something wrong Doctor Adam?” The women, Jenna Loius-Colemin, asked him. She is the one who made the cut on Steel’s chest. “We have an operation to do before this man dies of the bullet!”

 Adam  gulped.

 “Metal is weak to electricity.” He said, turning his eyes to another Co-worker.  “Fire is weak to water. Water is weak to grass.  This is…everyone…remember that guy who caused chaos in 2009?” Everyone nods. “Well this is the guy. As a human. The Metal Man. Actually, The Steel Man. Now let’s save his life as he had done for so many people.”

 They gasped.

            “How can you be so sure?” Jenna questioned him.

            “Because when he came to the Renting Dojo, He had no  ID and spoke a different language.” Adams explains. “I saw him bring a Cell Phone to himself without using his hand. He pointed his hand at it…Well then there were the metal objects being attracted to him at Miss Critic’s funeral.”

            Adam’s eyes flickered determination. “Now do you believe me?” The people nodded, and then headed straight to work. Despite not knowing about Steel’s background, they could understand by the man’s all so simple sentence he has done good things and bad things. There was a case in New Jersey history just a week before Jean returned there some disaster at a business building.

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