The Superhero

Chapter 6

I was about to call Danielle when I heard a KABOOM in the distance, I looked to the far right and spotted more small falling objects from the sky. I knew everyone was going to be in serious trouble. I turned back and burst through the hospital front doors. The front desk receptionist got stared and asked"Sir, are you alright?" Panting, I ran up to her and whispered in her ear, "They're coming. The receptionist silently nodded and grabbed the desk phone to inform all the doctors and nurses to evacuate all the patients. 

As I watched the doctors and nurses wheel them out of their rooms and outside to the parking lot where they were being loaded into the ambulances,  I got on Derek's phone and called Danielle and Derek. "Hey Derek, put the phone on speaker so I can also talk to Danielle." So Derek did, and I asked, "Guys, have you been to the hotel yet?" "Not yet, but we're heading there now. Why?" "I'm okay and I'll meet you there as soon as the doctors, nurses, and patients are gone," I answered. "Gone? What do you mean by gone?" "I saw a blast after checking out, I quietly alerted the receptionist, and the whole hospital is evacuating from here," I clarified. "Good work James, We'll meet you at the hotel." As I hung up, I saw Dr. Weber and a few parademics struggling to help lift a patient into an ambulance. I ran up to help lift him in the ambulance despite a few paramedics' objections. "Thank you, James," said Dr. Weber. "It's my honor sir, I have to leave now. I'm needed at Holiday Inn and Suites at Beaufort. You and everyone else stay safe." "We will and good luck, son," replied the doctor.

I jogged through the streets, holding the phone, with eyes locked on the GPS navigating the directions of where I should go, to reach the hotel. I also stared at the sky to ensure that nothing dangerous was falling. "Your destination has arrived ,"  the GPS announced and I made it safe and sound. I sprinted inside the hotel, retrieved my cardkey to my room, and hopped in the elevator to lift me upstairs. Pushing the number four button as fast as I could, the doors shut. With quiet easy listening tunes playing, I rose all the way to the fourth floor. I exited the elevator and I walked to the emergency only pull station and activatied the handle, as a precaution. The alarm rang and blared throughtout the hotel. I quickly moved away from the handle as no one upstairs would catch me.

I was my room, labeled: Room 410, while everyone else; men, women, and children were dashing out of their rooms. I slid my cardkey into the door latch and opened the door. As I was inside my room, I dug my hands through my luggage and I snatched my camcorder and it's ac adapter. I also picked up a copy of my US marine application and switched my military boots for sneakers. 

With the fire alarm still ringing, I ran out of my room and through the hallway to the stairs when out of nowhere, something exploded in front, with me flying back. Dazed, I stumbed to my feet and made a dash for the stairs. When two guys wearing  white tuxedos and masks, burst into a window at the end of the hallway and shouted, "C'mon, give me the camera or you're dead." The camera? Hell no! I needed it. I gently tossed my camcorder on the floor and raised my fists in front in of them. "You want it, come and take it," I taunted.

The two criminals dove as we both swung, punched, and kicked each other for the camcorder. Noticing how tireless they were, I grabbed the attacker's arm and brought my elbow on his ulna and radius, breaking it. Then I caught the other guy's fist, which targeted my face, and kicked him in the scrotum. He held it tight with both hands. I snatched my the criminals heads and bashed them together, knocking them unconscious, like The Three Stooges.

Feeling tired and breathing heavily, I laid hold of my camcorder and paced toward the stairs and noticed that they were destoried, possibly from the blast. The top structure had broken off. Without thinking, I turned around and went for the broken window. Then I clipped my camcorder and stuck the ac adapter to my belt and climbed out and held onto the concrete lintel. Holding on for dear life, I spotted from above the hotel and to the ground where people were screaming and pointing to the sky. I lifted my head up and I saw more objects re-enter from the sky. But as they slammed into the ground, they didn't kill them this time. Instead they sucked them with a ton of force and and force field formed around them. Then the objects rocketed off, with the civilians back into the stratosphere one by one, until there were none. Would they have suffered a fate worse than death?

I felt my grip on the lintel lose it's grip. "Where the hell are you guys!" I thought after all of this it was over until I heard a low whirling sound emerge from behind me. I looked back and it was a helicopter, with Danielle, Derek and other FBI agents. She threw down a long rope and yelled, "JUMP FOR IT!" "I cautiously turned myself toward the helicoper ladder. With a leap of faith, I jumped off the lintel and caught the ladder with my hands. "We got him, let's get of here." I climbed the ladder to the helicopter opening where Danielle stretched out her hands, grabbed mine, and pulled me onboard. Derek, who was in the cockpit, shut the doors and the helicopter pulled away from the hotel and rose into the orange sun - setting sky.