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of me. She pointed at me and said something, but I was still deafened by the lightning bolt, so I couldn't hear her.
    Then Tornadess pulled out what looked like a pair of handcuffs from her robes, which I figured she was going to use to get me. She approached me with an evil grin on her old lips, but I wasn't going to go quietly.
    I stood up and ran at her. I couldn't go as fast as I could, but she still looked surprised at my action, as if she had not been expecting me to do this.
    But then Tornadess waved her hand and electricity shot out of it at me. I couldn't dodge it in time, so I took the brunt of the blast, which knocked me to my hands and knees.
    “Stay down, boy,” said Tornadess, cackling as she stood above me. She raised the shackles above her head. “I know you don't have your powers anymore, so you will never be able to beat me in a fight. Just sit still while I put these cuffs on you and take you away to our employer, who will pay us quite handsomely for catching you so quickly.”
    I wanted to get up and fight her, but the electricity left me paralyzed. My costume had absorbed the worst of it, which was why I was still conscious, but I couldn't get away from her as she bent over to put the handcuffs on my wrists.
    But then, out of nowhere, Mom appeared and swung her purse at Tornadess's head. Tornadess had only enough time to look at Mom's purse before it struck her in the face. The blow sent Tornadess falling over onto her back, stunned as she dropped the handcuffs, which rolled away out of her reach. But then Mom grabbed the cuffs, put them on Tornadess, and stood up and looked over at me with concern in her eyes.
    “Mom?” I said, looking up at her in surprise.
    “Kevin, are you okay?” said Mom. Her hair was messier than normal and she was panting hard, probably because she was never involved in any of this superhero stuff and wasn’t used to this kind of physical exertion. “Can you still walk?”
    “I … I think so,” I said. “But I can't get up on my own.”
    “Okay,” said Mom. “Let me help you up, sweetie.”
    Mom grabbed my arm and helped me back up to my feet. Then we turned around and made our way to the ESCAPE door, which was blackened from where the lightning bolt had hit it, but apparently still in one piece, which was either a testament to the strength of Pokacu metal or was proof of Tornadess's own weakness.
    Regardless, we were just about to enter it when I heard a loud yell and looked over toward the controls to see Dad and Mimic fighting Ring Out. Ring Out had somehow managed to uproot one of the seats and was swinging it around like a giant club, but Dad and Mimic were both doing a good job avoiding it. Dad kept trying to aim at and shoot Ring Out with electricity from his gauntlets, but he had to keep moving to avoid Ring Out's weapon.
    I was tempted to go and try to help, but I realized that I was still in no position to actually help Dad. My body was recovering from its earlier paralysis, but even if I hadn't been shocked by Tornadess, I'd still be too weak to fight someone like Ring Out.
    So I grabbed the handle on the door and pulled the door open wide enough for Mom to go into the escape pod on the inside. I was about to enter after her when I heard Tornadess shout behind me.
    I looked over my shoulder to see that Tornadess was standing up again, only this time she wasn't aiming her hands at me. She was raising them above her head, which I didn't understand until I noticed the wind picking up and a dark cloud starting to form near the ceiling. The loud rumbling of thunder from within the cloud told me that something bad was about to happen, especially when the lightning flashed across the dark clouds.
    “You won't get away that easily, boy,” said Tornadess. Her voice sounded screechier in the wind, like she was having to raise her voice to be heard. “We are going to end this conflict here and now and take you in and get paid, just like we were hired. No more