The third rock from the sun appeared miniature as the expeditionary force's star cruiser blasted out of the upper atmosphere avoiding space junk with fire glowing on the ship's diamond-shaped prow.
"Nice thread count! Is this onesie moisture wicking fabric?" Their new colleague donned a symbioplasmic Force Magnified body casing and sleek reflective sunglasses, then annoyingly talked through the communication link in the splendent costume's incandescent emblem, "This is embarrassing. We're wearing the same outfit. I had to say it, and I'm not taking it back. Made you look."
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed, but can change form. "That's big hero energy! Here comes the airplane! Here comes the choo choo!" After experimenting with increasing and decreasing his size one body part at a time immersed in a shower of elliptical sparks that looked like Rutherford's atom, Noy ballooned his hand next to Cron's face. "Smell my finger... Hey, wait a minute. Is this one of those deals where if you don't like how it's panning out you can just take a mulligan -- leapfrog through the multiverse timeline and problem solved?"
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," one of them grumbled.
Another added, "Good way to milk out a storyline though."
"I smell franchise."
"Cha-ching!"
"I'll be the cocky human and you can be the comic relief alien wingman." He pointed to the back of his shoulder, "Can I get 'Been doing hero stuff all day' put right here? You have to call me Power Grab. It's true. There are no small parts -- only small..."
Cron's foot became larger causing Noy to stumble over it. The blink-and-you'll-miss-him spaceman looked at a scrutinizing Fuzzlo and shrugged, "There's nothing in the regs about having to listen to the hindbrain."
With a knitted brow, the fuzzy field analyst consulted data on his touch screen tablet as he walked away saying to himself, "No matter how punchable the face, heroes don't hit... I looked it up."
"Toyetic merch opportunity, mind if I check my inbox on that real quick?" Noy called after Fuzzlo.
