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Charlie and the Robotic Arm - A Bedtime Story for Kids · Dad’s Bedtime Stories

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  Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's Bedtime Stories,
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  Speaker 1: the podcast that takes listener ideas and turns them into
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  Speaker 1: bedtime stories. Today's idea is a standalone story that comes
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  Speaker 1: to us from Charlie, who I'm thinking was maybe listening
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  Speaker 1: to the Grandpa robones series over the weekend there and
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  Speaker 1: maybe thought of it as a result, or possibly it
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  Speaker 1: was just a coincidence. Let's check out the idea and
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  Speaker 1: you can see what you think.
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  Speaker 2: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Charlie and I'm nine years old. I've
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  Speaker 3: recently broke my arm, and I like listening to your
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  Speaker 3: stories because they helped me get to sleep. I would
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  Speaker 3: like my story to be one day I wake up
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  Speaker 3: and my aunt is a robotic arm that has lots
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  Speaker 3: of superpowers and I hope saved the world from criminals.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Charlie, I think you have an excellent idea there.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I don't know if it was because you
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  Speaker 1: listen to Grandpa Robonese on the weekend, but I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of thinking the whole premise for Grandpa Robonese makes the
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  Speaker 1: perfect premise for this particular idea.
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  Speaker 2: You know, a.
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship and his dragonling friend who like to help people
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  Speaker 1: in need and you know, turn them into robots or
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  Speaker 1: partial robots. I guess before we get started, I just
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  Speaker 1: have a couple things I want to do. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: I want to give a big shout out to some
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  Speaker 1: of my latest Patreon sponsors. Thank you to Kaya and
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  Speaker 1: I really really appreciate it. They will now be enjoying
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  Speaker 1: some ad free episodes of the show and financially helping
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  Speaker 1: us stay in existence. So thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Last I just want to talk to you guys about
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  Speaker 1: something I'm thinking of.
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  Speaker 2: As you know, I often.
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  Speaker 1: Create a logo for the show using artificial intelligence. I
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  Speaker 1: sort of have it read my transcript after I create
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  Speaker 1: the episode and come up with some artwork or a
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  Speaker 1: way of changing my own logo to advertise for the show,
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  Speaker 1: and some people out there really don't like that I
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  Speaker 1: use a HI for it. I, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: am of the opinion that in this case it's not
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  Speaker 1: actually replacing a human, as I would not be able
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  Speaker 1: to afford paying a human to do it at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully I can in the future. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to discourage real humans like my listeners
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  Speaker 1: from doing real artwork, because I think it's really important
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  Speaker 1: to write stories and to draw pictures. So for the
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  Speaker 1: month of May, I'm gonna do a couple different contests,
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  Speaker 1: all right. The first one is a story writing contest.
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  Speaker 1: I know I have a ton of people out there
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  Speaker 1: who have been inspired to write stories. They might take
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  Speaker 1: place in some of the universes from Dad's Bedtime Stories,
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  Speaker 1: which is totally cool. They might be a completely standalone
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  Speaker 1: episode or standalone story that you come up with, which
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  Speaker 1: is also really cool. But whatever it is, if you've
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  Speaker 1: written a story, I'm asking that you submit it to
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  Speaker 1: me by email if you want to at dadt Bedtime
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  Speaker 1: Stories at gmail dot com. I am going to pick
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  Speaker 1: a couple of them to read on social media and
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  Speaker 1: share with people, with the permission of the writer, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and I will pick one this month to turn into
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  Speaker 1: a full episode of Dad's Bedtime Stories with the help
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  Speaker 1: of the writer, which could mean meeting up to kind
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  Speaker 1: of flush out the story in a little more detail
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  Speaker 1: to make it a full episode that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And second, I want to see your pictures, so if
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  Speaker 1: you have pictures that you've drawn or colored in or
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  Speaker 1: sort of anything from the podcast, please send them to
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  Speaker 1: me at the same email address, Dad Bedtime Stories at
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  Speaker 1: gmail dot com. And I would love to put some
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  Speaker 1: of those up on social media as well. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I think I'll pick my favorite one with the help
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  Speaker 1: of my family, and we could do an episode for
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  Speaker 1: that person as well. So if you want to join again,
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  Speaker 1: just send them to me by email. But now that's
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  Speaker 1: probably long enough for the beginning of a podcast and
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  Speaker 1: I should get on with the story. This story is
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  Speaker 1: about a boy named Charlie. He'd broke in his arm
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  Speaker 1: and it was making a miserable. How he broke it
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  Speaker 1: exactly doesn't really matter, because well, he didn't share that
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  Speaker 1: information with me. But what was important was it was broke,
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  Speaker 1: and it edged, and it felt heavier than normal, and
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't play and do the things he wanted to do.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone just kept telling him it'll heal eventually, but eventually
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  Speaker 1: he felt very far away. To Charlie, he wanted it
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  Speaker 1: to heal now. In fact, he wanted it to heal
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  Speaker 1: better than it ever had. Sometimes he would imagine his
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  Speaker 1: cast arm as a robotic arm instead a robotic arm
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  Speaker 1: with really cool powers that allowed him to fight enemies
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  Speaker 1: and vanquish evil and eh, you know that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: One night, before settling into bed and putting on his
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  Speaker 1: favorite podcast, Dad's Bed Time Stories for Kids.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you've.
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  Speaker 1: Heard of it, Charlie wished and wished that that robotic
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  Speaker 1: arm would come true. Luckily for Charlie, there happened to
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  Speaker 1: be a very special spaceship that was created for the
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  Speaker 1: sole purpose of well wish fulfillment and adventure. Somehow, Charlie's
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  Speaker 1: mental distress signal, his adamant request to become a superhuman
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  Speaker 1: half robot person reached that spaceship. Human distress signal detected.
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  Speaker 1: Spaceship said to well no one in particular, because on
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  Speaker 1: this particular day, Spaceship was hanging out by himself. Emergency
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  Speaker 1: protocols initiated. A portal folded up from the base of
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  Speaker 1: the ship. It lit up a bright blue color, and
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  Speaker 1: soon afterward, a little black dragonling with lava like veins
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  Speaker 1: popped through.
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  Speaker 2: Ah. Alloo, ah, did.
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  Speaker 1: You send this portal for me? The creature asked, as
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  Speaker 1: the portal shut off and folded back down into the
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  Speaker 1: floor of the Ship, Yes, I did. I believe I
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  Speaker 1: need your help once more. Magnus Spaceship said, ah, what
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  Speaker 1: exactly is going on? A listener of our favorite podcast
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  Speaker 1: is in some distress and discomfort. He is wishing heavily
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  Speaker 1: to have a robotic arm instead of his current broken one. Now, well,
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  Speaker 1: all right, you want to go fix his broken arm? Yes, however,
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  Speaker 1: I believe we should enhance it beyond all reason. At
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  Speaker 1: that moment, Spaceship's display changed to a picture of a
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  Speaker 1: robotic arm. I have designed the perfect replacement, a robotic
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  Speaker 1: arm that will both enhance and protect the wearer. We
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  Speaker 1: will add both offensive and defensive capabilities, the power of flight,
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  Speaker 1: a holographic projector, and other interesting and useful features. I
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  Speaker 1: was hoping that you might be able to add some
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  Speaker 1: other enhanced capabilities as well. What do you mean, like
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  Speaker 1: a card or something? I mean, look at what I have.
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  Speaker 1: Magnus reached down and pulled out a deck of cards
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  Speaker 1: from well, Spaceship didn't know exactly where. The dragonling didn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to have pockets, but it produced a deck of cards. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: all right, here we got some flight powers, some magical creatures,
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  Speaker 1: and oh, this might be perfect a vigilante enhancement card
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  Speaker 1: and a kind of card that will end grease your
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  Speaker 1: overall strength, speed, and of course your battle reflexes, you know,
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  Speaker 1: giving you the ability to fight better and that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing that sounds perfect. The kid in question was
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  Speaker 1: hoping for enhancements that would allow him to fight crime.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Are you sure it's a good idea to give a
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  Speaker 1: kid this much power? That is an interesting question, particularly
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  Speaker 1: from a creature who exists in a universe where parents
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  Speaker 1: allowed their children to have magical cards then go into
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  Speaker 1: the forest and battle magical creatures with little to no supervision. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I guess you're right. I don't want to be a
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  Speaker 1: hypocrite or anything. Let's go enhance this kid understood, and so,
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  Speaker 1: under the cover of darkness, Spaceship and his friend Magnus
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  Speaker 1: the fire dragonling made their way back to Earth. They
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  Speaker 1: entered the atmosphere, dropped down below the clouds, activated their
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  Speaker 1: invisibility field, and floated over Charlie's house, activating sleep ray.
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  Speaker 1: Now we must ensure that no one wakes up. A
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  Speaker 1: strange blue light shot out of the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: ship and sort of enveloped the entire house. Then a
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  Speaker 1: team of little medical robots were dispatched out the back
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  Speaker 1: of the ship carrying a little stretcher. They made their
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  Speaker 1: way through Charlie's window, carefully put the kid with the
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  Speaker 1: broken arm onto a little stretcher and flew him outside
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  Speaker 1: and into the back of the ship, where the medical
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  Speaker 1: procedures began. A team of robots equipped with high tech
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  Speaker 1: three D printing software began to reconstruct Charlie's entire arm,
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  Speaker 1: replacing its parts atom by atom with metal and high
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  Speaker 1: powered electronics. At the same time, Magnus pulled out the
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  Speaker 1: Vigilante card and placed it on Charlie's chest. The card activated,
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  Speaker 1: glowed blue, and shot into the boy. Charlie didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a card Corps, but that didn't mean that a card
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  Speaker 1: couldn't be fully absorbed by him. It became one with
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's essence. It made him stronger, faster, and even enhanced
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  Speaker 1: his reflexes and his sense for battle. I believe we
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  Speaker 1: have completed the operation. Ah looks really cool too, Magnus said,
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  Speaker 1: looking down at the sleeping boy with the robotic arm.
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  Speaker 1: The same team of robots carefully flew him out of
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  Speaker 1: the ship through the window and placed him gently back
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  Speaker 1: in his bed before disappearing once more. The next morning,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie woke up and the first thing he noticed was
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  Speaker 1: that the strange, dull pain sensation was completely gone. He
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  Speaker 1: looked down at his arm, expecting to see the cast
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  Speaker 1: that had been on it, but instead seeing a robot arm.
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  Speaker 1: His arm was now made entirely out of metal. For
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  Speaker 1: a moment, he panicked, and then he tried to move
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  Speaker 1: his fingers. To his surprise, they still moved just like
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  Speaker 1: they always had. He bent his arm up and down,
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  Speaker 1: he turned his wrist, and generally speaking, despite being a
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  Speaker 1: robot arm, it worked just like it had other than
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  Speaker 1: the fact that his wrist could now turn a full
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  Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degrees around without any kind of pain,
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  Speaker 1: something he found weird, but for some reason wasn't particularly
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  Speaker 1: panicked about, because at the end of the day Charlie
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  Speaker 1: had wished for this. Had his wish really come true,
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  Speaker 1: he felt a whole bunch of new sensations too, almost
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  Speaker 1: like parts of his hand that well weren't there before,
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  Speaker 1: reflexes that he instinctively knew he could activate, even though
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  Speaker 1: that made no sense. He reached out to that first
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  Speaker 1: sensation that first knew part on his arm that he
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  Speaker 1: could now feel. It felt sort of like clenching the
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  Speaker 1: muscles in your wrist. Only when he activated this one,
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  Speaker 1: an energy shield began to grow out of the side
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  Speaker 1: of the mechanical arm. The more he clenched, the larger
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  Speaker 1: it grew, until it covered his entire body in a
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  Speaker 1: protective force field like bubble cool, he said, before releasing
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  Speaker 1: the muscle and the shield at the same time. Then
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  Speaker 1: he activated another previously non existing part of his own,
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  Speaker 1: and a little ray gun looking thing with a glowing
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  Speaker 1: blue light at the end unfolded from the center of
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  Speaker 1: his wrist. Maybe I should take this outside for some trials,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie said, releasing that particular muscle and allowing the ray
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  Speaker 1: gun to fold back into his arm. He got dressed
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  Speaker 1: and decided to head outside. Though, uh wait, should he
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  Speaker 1: show his parents he had a mechanical arm. He imagined
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  Speaker 1: them panicking just a little bit, perhaps calling an ambulance
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  Speaker 1: or forcing him to go to the hospital to get
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  Speaker 1: things checked out. He would need to find a way
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  Speaker 1: that they wouldn't see it to cover it up, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: And with that thought, a strange sort of shimmer appeared
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  Speaker 1: around the outside side of the arm. It glowed for
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  Speaker 1: a second and then disappeared, leaving behind the image of
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  Speaker 1: a normal human broken arm, just like it had looked
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  Speaker 1: the day before. He could tell it was still mechanical,
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  Speaker 1: but to his eyes it looked normal, cool, some sort
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  Speaker 1: of holographic projection or something. He said out loud, turning
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  Speaker 1: his wrist over left and right. I ain't wonder what
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  Speaker 1: else that particular feature can do. Charlie made his way
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  Speaker 1: out of the house, passed his parents, sent into a
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  Speaker 1: small part of the yard that he thought would be
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  Speaker 1: open enough yet secluded enough to try out his new powers.
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  Speaker 1: Deciding that it probably wasn't the right place to try
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  Speaker 1: out a ray gun, he reached for one of the
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  Speaker 1: other sensations. His hand folded inside his wrist, and a
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  Speaker 1: long pole extended outwards, a long pole with four long propellers.
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  Speaker 1: The propellers popped up and well. Charlie now had a
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  Speaker 1: medium sized helicopter propeller sticking directly out of his mechanical wrist.
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  Speaker 1: He lifted the propeller up in the air and activated
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  Speaker 1: it using his muscles. It instantly began to spin around
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  Speaker 1: faster and faster and faster, until it slowly started to
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  Speaker 1: lift Charlie up off of the ground, higher and higher
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  Speaker 1: and higher into the air. Whoa, Charlie said, this is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie tilted his arm forward, flew forward. He tilted it
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  Speaker 1: back and flew backward. He could adjust the speed in
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  Speaker 1: his height with a simple thought. This was the coolest
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  Speaker 1: thing ever. In an instant, he launched himself up towards
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  Speaker 1: the sky at incredible speed. The propeller pulled him along
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  Speaker 1: through the air, almost as fast as a jet. He
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  Speaker 1: blasted through the clouds and high above the world below.
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  Speaker 1: It was honestly a pretty awesome time. Though Eventually Charlie
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  Speaker 1: decided that it was probably time to come down for
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  Speaker 1: a landing. He slowed down into more of a hover mode,
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  Speaker 1: hanging from the propeller once again, and thought for the
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  Speaker 1: first time that, eh, he wasn't even really feeling tired.
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  Speaker 1: He was holding his entire body up by a single arm,
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  Speaker 1: and normally that would exhaust a person, but Charlie's muscles
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  Speaker 1: felt fine. They felt like he could do this all day.
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  Speaker 1: That was another change that couldn't be explained by the
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  Speaker 1: robotic arm alone. He slowly lowered himself down through the
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  Speaker 1: clouds and realized that he was above some kind of
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  Speaker 1: town center below. He wasn't sure exactly where, but there
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  Speaker 1: were clearly a lot of people around, people who could
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  Speaker 1: see him and report him and well possibly call the
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  Speaker 1: army about him or whatever. In his worry, the same strange,
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  Speaker 1: distorted energy that had covered up his mechanical alarm for
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  Speaker 1: his parents started to spread over his arm and across
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  Speaker 1: his entire body. It shimmered for a second, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like air does when it's extremely hot over top of pavement,
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  Speaker 1: and then his arms disappeared, and his legs disappeared. Everything
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  Speaker 1: about him well was no longer visible invisibility. Maybe the
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  Speaker 1: same holographic field can well give the illusion that I'm
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  Speaker 1: not here, Charlie realized, as he slowly and invisibly lowered
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  Speaker 1: himself down to the top of a fairly tall building
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  Speaker 1: in the area. This should be an easy place to
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  Speaker 1: test things out, he said, though he was kind of disoriented,
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  Speaker 1: not being able to see his feet and where they
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  Speaker 1: touched the ground. He could still feel them in everything,
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  Speaker 1: but it's weird to not be able to see them.
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  Speaker 1: He focused for a second, trying out something that he
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  Speaker 1: hoped might work. He focused on that field that was
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  Speaker 1: directly surrounding his limbs to expand outward into more of
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  Speaker 1: a bubble. The air shimmered again as the glowing energy
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  Speaker 1: moved away from his body and into a large bubble
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  Speaker 1: form around him. It shimmered once more, and he could
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  Speaker 1: see his arms and legs again. Looking out through the bubble,
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  Speaker 1: everything was a little bit distorted. A quick look over
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  Speaker 1: at a near by reflective door surface told him that
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  Speaker 1: he was still invisible, at least from the outside of
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  Speaker 1: the bubble, and this was probably a better place to
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  Speaker 1: test some of the other equipment that came with the arm.
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  Speaker 1: He once again focused on that sensation that had caused
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  Speaker 1: the blue ray gun to pop up and had folded
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  Speaker 1: out of his arm. Once again, he pointed it over
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  Speaker 1: to a large mechanical box looking thing on the top
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  Speaker 1: of the roof, squeezed his muscles, and a pulse of
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  Speaker 1: blue energy shot out, hit the metal box and started
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  Speaker 1: building ice up all around it. An ice ray perfect,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Now what else have you got? He let
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  Speaker 1: go of that muscle, folding the ice ray in, and
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  Speaker 1: activated another. This one also looked like a ray gun
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  Speaker 1: of some kind, though it was sparking on the end
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  Speaker 1: with bits of electricity something about had told him that
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  Speaker 1: he probably shouldn't point it at the metal box, so
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  Speaker 1: instead he pointed it straight up in the air, squeezed
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  Speaker 1: his muscles, and a bolt of electricity shot directly upward.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Cool.
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  Speaker 1: This one came with a sense of power too, one
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  Speaker 1: that he could turn up or down instinctively. He knew
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  Speaker 1: that well. He knew there was a level that would
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  Speaker 1: simply shock things it touched, and a level that would
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  Speaker 1: do more. He said it to the first one. Charlie
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to do anyone any real harm after all.
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  Speaker 1: Then he released the muscle, allowing the electric blaster to
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  Speaker 1: fold back into his arm, and activated the last one.
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  Speaker 1: He could sense. A somewhat larger cannon like thing folded
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  Speaker 1: out of his arm, with strange green good dripping from
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  Speaker 1: the end of it. He pointed it at the same
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  Speaker 1: mechanical box, squeezed his muscles, and fired a stream of sticky, bicky,
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  Speaker 1: goopy goo blasted out and covered the mechanical box. It
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  Speaker 1: looked like that would be really annoying to clean up
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  Speaker 1: and very hard to escape from if you were hit
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  Speaker 1: with it. Cool, he said, I think I might be
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  Speaker 1: a superhero. Just then, his wrist started to beep. He
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  Speaker 1: lifted it up to look at the side of it,
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  Speaker 1: allowing the goo cannon to fold back in, and something
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  Speaker 1: else unfolded from the side, a little screen with a
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  Speaker 1: picture of a radio signal or something like that. The
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  Speaker 1: numbers changed as the radio tuned itself into the right frequency,
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  Speaker 1: and Charlie heard at tension, all units, we have a
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  Speaker 1: bank robbery in progress. All available units should head to
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  Speaker 1: the corner of First Street and Fifth Street immediately again,
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  Speaker 1: bank robbery in progress, First and Fifth. The screen then
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  Speaker 1: changed to a picture of a map. A blue dot
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  Speaker 1: was blinking at the top of a building, clearly Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: The map then zoomed out and pinged another dot, a
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  Speaker 1: red one at the corner of First and Fifth Street.
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  Speaker 1: Charlie oriented himself so he was pointing directly at the
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  Speaker 1: red dot. Then he lifted his arm up in the air.
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  Speaker 1: He activated flight mode. His hand folded inside his wrist
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  Speaker 1: and was replaced by a medium sized helicopter propeller or
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  Speaker 1: something like it, still invisible, Charlie blasted up into the
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  Speaker 1: air and straight towards the coordinates on his wrist, coordinates
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that were honestly somewhat hard to see when it was
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: his wrist holding him up, but he knew he was
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: going in the right direction. Scanning the streets below, he
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: soon came across what he assumed was the right street.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: A bunch of police cars surrounded a large glass bank building.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: At that instant, a team of people, while wearing black,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: burst out of the bank and onto the streets. Put
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: your hands up and put the money down, a police
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: officer standing beside his car announced. In response, one of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the robbers pointed what looked like a ray gun straight
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: at the police car and blasted a red band of
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: energy straight at the thing. The car exploded. As the
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: police officer jumped out of the way to safety, the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: robbers began to run. Charlie looked at where they were running,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: to a car or a van that looked suspiciously like
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: an escape vehicle. He headed directly for it and dropped
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: down out of the air in front of it, Still
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: entirely invisible. He activated his freeze ray, pointed it at
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: one of the robbers, and squeezed his wrist. Blue energy
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: shot out of what seemed like nowhere to the robbers
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and instantly froze one of them into a gigantic ice cube.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: But who did that? The others said. Slowly, they backed
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: into each other back to back, pointing their ray guns
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: outward in a sort of protective circle formation. Charlie moved
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to the side so he wouldn't be in exactly the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: same place, switched to his goo cannon and blasted it
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: straight at another two of the perpetrators. A stream of
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: gooey green goop blasted out, hit the two individuals and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: almost instantly stuck them to the floor. It's coming from
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: over there, the other two announced, pointing directly at Charlie. Instinctively,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Charlie activated his force field just in time for two
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: beams of red energy to bash directly into it. It
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: seemed that his invisibility had disappeared at that point. Maybe
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: he couldn't have both of them activated all at once.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Luckily for him, the energy shield seemed to be completely
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: unaffected by the blasts of energy. Charlie slowly began to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: walk towards the two blasts. Hey, it's not working. Why
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: isn't it working. They continued to fire their blasters until
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: eventually they both became too hot. They dropped them as
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: if they'd just touched something straight out of the oven.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Ah I think it overheated, one of them yelled, and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: in that instant Charlie activated his shock wave or lightning
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: device or whatever it was, and pointed it at one
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of the robbers. A blast of non lethal electrical energy
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: shot out, hit the robber, and then changed to the
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: other one. Oh is he doing, they said, as they
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: clinched every muscle in their body. He allowed the shockwave
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: weapon to turn off, and the two robbers fell to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the ground. At the same time, sirens from almost every
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: direction started to appear. The police were coming. Charlie had
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: done the right thing, but he didn't really want to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: answer questions about it right now. He instantly focused on
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: his invisibility field reappearing. The air shimmered around him, and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: well it did just that. He lifted his arm up
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: in the air, folded his hand in and produced the little,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: medium sized helicopter rotor. Once again, it began to spin
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: and Charlie lifted up into the air. He watched for
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a minute from eye above the scene as the police
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: arrested the two shocked individuals, and well endeavored to free
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: the other three from the goo and ice, looking particularly
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: puzzled as they did so. Then Charlie blasted off into
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the air once again. He flew high above the clouds
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: until the landscape below started to look a little more familiar.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: He slowly lowered down and came to a hover as
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he saw his very own house. He gently lowered himself
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: down to the ground, landing in front of his door
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and deactivating his flight propeller as he moved toward it,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Keeping his field of invisibility activated, he slipped inside the house,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: hoping no one would notice he'd gone. He tiptoed back
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: to his bedroom and deactivated the whole thing when he
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was safely inside, His bed looked particularly comfortable right now,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: and well he'd earned a good sleep after a day
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of work as a robotic superhero. He climbed into his bed,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: pulled the covers up to his chin, and closed his eyes.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: With every breath, Charlie sank down into the mattress. He
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: released his shoulders, his arms, his legs, and with each
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: breath he sank a little deeper and his mind began
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: to wander off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and new robotic soup Your powers to come.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Good night everyone.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Name never in New York Union, No more.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: In m.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: One on many Things never assas