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The second Alex hit the water, she bounced out of the movie and hit the carpet at home. Getting melted didn't hurt at all, but bouncing off the cliff did. Covered in aches and pains, her parents rushed to help her off the floor before the TV. They said watching her in the movie was just like seeing her in a school play. They enjoyed it very much, but they were sorry she got hurt. Jerry wasn't upset that Justin had kept his new spell a secret.
"I slept great." Justin woke the next morning back in a body of skin, muscle, bone and tissue. "You know, I think being the Scarecrow gave me a great cardiovascular work-out!" He flexed his arm. "Do I look buff? I think I'm buff."
"I'm glad you had a great time." Max sat in his regular stool eating his cereal for breakfast. "Last night, I didn't get any sleep because I was still squeaking and creaking all night!"
"Max…" Theresa looked to her son. "You've got a metal box springs on your bed!!!"
"I know!" Max reacted. "It kept me up all night!!!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah…" Jerry was sipping his coffee ready to start getting the shop ready to open at ten in the morning. "Justin, I revealed your spell to the Wizard Council…"
"Did they like it?"
"Well…" Jerry sipped his coffee and proudly put his arm around his son. "You see, son, not a lot of wizards watch movies on DVD or VHS, so they don't know what to do with it, but they are publishing it in the next grimoire of new spells and placing it on a trial basis. So, who knows…"
"And in the mean time…"
"You won't see a dime off it."
"Not a dime…" Justin realized.
"In the meantime," Jerry reached over and picked up a DVD from the shelf. "I figured out where to go for our next vacation! Look, National Lampoon's Vacation!" He was grinning ear-to-ear. With his son's movie spell, he could take the family anywhere! Max and Justin looked at each other with embarrassed shock.
"Jerry," Theresa walked over to their DVD collection. "What are you crazy? The dog relieves itself on the picnic basket in that!" She pulled a movie. "Here's something romantic for us, Romeo And Juliet!"
"How about something the whole family will enjoy." Jerry looked again. "Oooo, The Brady Bunch Movie!!!"
Justin and Max started unhappily shaking their heads.
"Jerry," Theresa had another one. "Moulin Rouge! Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor…"
"Here's one!" Jerry pulled one out from the back of the shelf. "The Blair Witch Project! The Blair Witch Project? What am I crazy?" He chucked it back then headed over to check their DVDS stacked on the TV. "Let's see, we got National Treasure, JFK, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang… Wait a second," Jerry checked the VCR-DVD player. "There's already a movie going. Is someone watching this?"
"What movie is it?" Justin looked over the back of the sofa. "Oh, that's Superman Returns with Kevin Spacey and Brandon Routh. I saw Alex with that one last night before bed."
"You saw, Alex with it?" Max responded curiously with his juice in his hand. Parents and brothers stepped backward and watched the movie as Kevin Spacey playing Lex Luthor placed a Kryptonian crystal in a cylinder of Kryptonite and inserted it together within the body of a missile. Kal Penn was his henchman, and Parker Posey was his girlfriend. The missile was placed into a cannon aimed precisely for a fault-line under the sea around them. The music started building as the cannon went off, the missile going off with a line of white smoke just before something dashed into the scene, caught it and started soaring into the air with it.
"She can't do that!" Spacey was yelling as Luthor. "She can't do that! I want my missile back!"
"Who's she???!" Jerry asked the TV.
"That ain't Brandon Routh!" Max noticed.
On the TV screen, Alex was soaring through the atmosphere clad in a red, blue and yellow bodysuit pushing the missile into orbit. Her long dark hair was waving around her head, her big red cape snapping in the breeze. A Kryptonian symbol across her chest, she was grinning ear-to-ear excitedly, listening to the music soundtrack resonating in the sky around her, feeding her incredible ego as she exhibited incredible superhuman strength and the ability to fly. As she reached the top atmosphere, she pushed off the missile and kicked it off into orbit, destroying Luthor's insidious plan before it started!
"This is so much fun than playing Lois Lane!!!" She felt great! She had never had such powers like this! "Now, for a date with that cute Jimmy Olsen!" She dived back toward the planet, a sonic boom resonating behind her as she soared through the atmosphere, the movie soundtrack playing as she ripped through the air...
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