Free Big Superhero Action by Raymond Embrack

said, “Are you crying?”
    “Golly,” she said. “Wheelchair Mountain is so movingly iconic.”
    “For the past year we’re out here every fucking day yet we never get close to him. Either he’s somewhere out of the city or if he’s in the city we only hear about him like Bigfoot sightings. Last week he was seen in Alphaville performing street surgeries. He did heart surgery on the hood of a car. Do you believe this guy? Do you believe us? But he could make us real.”
    For the Halo a lot had become hard to believe over two years. Meeting JKM…becoming a kind of couple….becoming a superhero like him…with him becoming a superhero team. Taking up a real personal crusade: The Corpus. It had been a year since The Corpus was a guest on
The Cape Report
. The Halo had been waiting for that podcast, marked it on her calendar, Post-It noted it on her PC. Then she was listening to his Greek accent, picturing the Silver Surfer-ish nude white marble-skinned bald Greek statue that was The Corpus.
    Clark Kant: The Corpus then is a body of knowledge?
    The Corpus: Yes. I gave it the name of the historical Greek Corpus. It stores the knowledge and directs me.
    So the power is in the technique or is it a power?
    You are making a fine distinction. Is it the Christ-like power to heal? No. The Corpus uses surgical technique so advanced it can be done without instruments and is so quickly performed it has the appearance of healing powers. The Corpus uses advanced science that generates the instant regeneration of cells and tissue. The Corpus is based on science so advanced it seems like a superpower. Just as if a doctor today went back to primitive times he would look like he had superpowers. And maybe he would. And maybe I do. But it isn’t me pointing at a cripple and having the power to make them walk. The power is the knowledge of the technique for repairing the spinal cord with a two minute massage.
    Can you restore youth?
    No. The Corpus only covers what can be done medically. Medical science. There’s no medical way to restore youth or stop the aging process. So far. I hear Xoir has done that but I’m not a super scientist.
    What celebrity would you most like to heal?
    Muhammad Ali…Larry Flynt…Stephen Hawking…
    Would you go to them except you have no powers outside Brutalia?
    Apparently not. But there have been inquiries made my way.
    Do you ever get a break?
    I go outside the city, The Corpus disappears and I’m…it’s like going back a thousand years.
    I couldn’t imagine it.
    There is too much work to do everywhere. So no, I need the break. The Corpus…you need a break from it. So I leave Brutalia and I’m back to having one brain instead of a thousand brains.
    We need to take this to the larger world. Is that the goal?
    I can’t do all the work. The goal is to find a way to spread the power to others. But I could no more share this or teach this than I could teach geometry in a language I do not know to a blade of grass.
    Do you stipulate who gets the benefit of your powers?
    I only heal the good. And the innocent.
    That rules out joining the OSD.
    That rules out joining AXIS too. I don’t use The Corpus for fascists.
    Two sides, both power freaks.
    I say never follow anyone who cannot heal your ills. Anyone else is a power freak. There has never been a so-called leader who offered anything of worth to the people they want to lead. They are afraid one day I will lead the people. They know if I ever did their day will be over.
    Will you ever create a movement to lead the people?
    I am not leader of people. But I do like to keep the fascists nervous.
    THIS INTERRUPTION IN INTERNET ACCESS WILL LAST APPROXIMATELY THIRTY MINUTES AS A SECURITY MEASURE TAKEN BY AXIS. AXIS IS GOOD .
    Everything went dead. AXIS had picked that moment to shut down the Internet just to show its power.
    Today in grimy daylight JKM said, “Fuck AXIS.”
    The Halo said, “Fascist asshole Nazis. And OSD is just as bad.”
    “They