#98: Ride the WhirlWind

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Marc rounded a corner, making his rounds, and there was Cody as usual.

“How ya doing Cody ?” Marc said. He noticed that Cody was growing up. Cody was almost five maybe. Marc and Cody were Buds.

Marc began to roll slowly around the island.

“Officer Marc?”Cody said “ I’ve been thinking about something”

“ I thought I smelled smoke. What’s up?” Marc said.

“Legs” Cody told him “You don’t have any. How come?”

“Bad people” Marc said “they set a bomb. The bomb blew up and blew my legs off”.

“Did it hurt?” Cody asked him

“Yes it did.” Marc admitted. “Really bad. I advise against being blown up.”

“I’ll remember that” Cody told him. “But about those legs. I like the way you do that unicycle thing. I’ve been thinking about the Paddle boat thing too. It’s pretty cool.”

“Do I hear a “but” in your voice there Cody ?” Marc asked him.

“Well yeah you do. It’s like this.” then Cody sent Marc and Info-dump via their Neuro-loops.

Mark swerved a little. “That’s awesome Cody . Did you think of that yourself?”

“Yeah. You like it?” Cody was excited.

“I certainly do.” Marc told him.” I need to sit down for this.”

They found a park bench nearby and Marc sat down. He looked at his mono-wheel which was constructed of SSmoke , and concentrated on the app that Cody had just given him. The Mono-wheel began to....turn to steam. Streamers of smoke drifted up, coalesced and formed into a little cloud. The cloud replaced his mono-wheel. He ‘stood up’ and he was floating. He was upright supported by a cloud of Smoke where his legs would have been if he still had any.

“Move back a little there Cody . I need a bit of room to practice.” he told the boy.

Cody stepped back. Marc concentrated...the cloud turned into a whirlwind.

“OK. “ Marc said “Let’s try this.”

Marc said “Now let’s go forward.”

He drifted forward.

“Stop” Marc said for Cody’s benefit and he stopped.

“Sideways, right left...backwards ..forward.” he said as he did those things. Then he was moving forward at walking speed. Cody trotted along beside him.

“Faster Officer Marc.“ Cody shouted “Go faster.”

“Let’s see how fast we can go.” Marc told him. He leaned over, scooped up Cody and set him on his shoulders. Cody’s legs straddled his neck. “Hang on. Buddie, ride em cowboy.”

Then Marc poured on the coal. He tried to see how fast he could go. He could go ...very fast. He scooted across the field MUCH faster than normal person could run, even faster than he’d been able to move with his monowheel. Cody was giggling hysterically while sitting on his shoulders.

“You like that?” Marc asked

“Oh yeah.” Cody said. “it really works. I’m going to conjure something like that for me.”

“But...you have legs.” Marc told him “You’re not going to do something stupid are you?”

“Oh don’t worry about that Officer Marc.” Cody assured him “No way am I going to cut off my legs. Not right now anyway. Mommy wouldn’t approve.”

Marc thought that was curiously unreassuring but he let it go. Perhaps he just didn’t want to know what Cody had in mind. They made his daily circuit around the neighborhood. Soon they were back where he had started.

“Seeya next time Cody.”Marc said. Turning to wave as he continued on patrol. “try to stay out of trouble.”

“Seeyabye “ Cody shouted over his shoulder. He was already running home.

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“Officer Marc was right. I can’t cut off my legs. Mommie would NOT approve.” Cody was talking to himself. He did that often.

“ She’d be all hurt and do the crying thing. I hate it when she does that. “ Cody said “Officer Marc is lucky. He doesn’t have leg’s to mess things up. This feels stoopid. My legs are just in the way”

Cody was sitting crosslegged on a rug. The rug was floating about four foot off the ground. Actually the rug was a cloud of SSmoke.

It could really move though.

“Perhaps I could lay down like superman?” Cody said.

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The next day when Marc turned the corner into Cody’s neighborhood he didn’t immediately see Cody anywhere. Marc looked around.

“Lookit ME Officer Marc...I can FLY!” Marc turned to see Cody....flying. Cody had discovered that the Island air was full of SSmoke. He was controlling it so that he could fly like superman.He was flying at about ten foot above the ground, moving at a pretty good clip too. Cody flew up beside Marc and hovered, then lowered himself to eye level.

“Want to race?” Cody asked

Cody didn’t wait for an answer. He was gone in a flash. Marc was right behind him. They were REALLY moving. They made two circuits of the neighborhood that day.

“I’d love to stay and play Cody .” Marc told him when they had completed the second lap “But I’ve got people to see and places to be. Don’t harass the wild life TOO much ok?”

“How’d you know I was doing that?”Cody asked him, thinking of one particular goose.

“I was a boy once myself” Marc said. “if you weren’t harassing them. I’d be surprised”.

“Seeya Officer Marc.” Cody said. Hovering ten feet off the ground.

“Seeya Cody .” Marc said, as he rode away on his small tornado .

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The Next Episode is
#99: Release the Krakens…
The Previous Episode was
#97: Cry Havoc and...
the First episode was
#1 : Prologue
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