Chapter 2: Woods of Rescue
Elec awoke deep in a forest. The sun was low in the sky, indicating that night would fall soon. He checked his gear and found that nothing he had could tell him where he was. He wondered if that light was the "Chaos control" he'd heard about. Then he heard voices. Moving closer, Elec noticed that they belonged to two humans, who were carrying a third human who was gagged, and her arms were tied but strangely her legs were not bound. She had blonde hair and blue eyes. Elec jumped into the trees and listened. "Let's leave her here and go call for some ransom" one voice added with a malicious laugh. "She's not going anywhere" added the other. Elec guessed that the girl must be crippled somehow. The two humans dropped their captive in the woods and walked off. Elec was furious! Since he had been born with a strong sense of justice, he couldn't let this atrocity go. Elec was about to think of a plan when the branch he was standing on snapped. Elec landed on his feet, since falling that distance was nothing for a mobian. The thugs turned around, not seeing Elec yet. "Who's there?" barked one. "Show yourself!" commanded the other. Elec knew that if he didn't act fast they might threaten the girl in order to draw him out. Eyes filled with resolve, Elec made his move. He ran up to one of the thugs and stuck a finger in his ear. There was a zap and the thug fell to the ground. The other thug looked at looked at his fallen partner in disbelief and pulled out a knife. "Over here!" Elec taunted and then ran around behind the thug. He zapped him in the leg to annoy him and then zipped around and kicked him in the crotch. Elec finished the job with another zap to the head, this time delivered via the thug's nose.
He was wiping his glove off when Elec heard a muffled sound from behind him. The girl still needed him. Elec finished cleaning his glove and withdrew a swiss army knife like tool from his utility belt and extended a blade. The girl recoiled. "It's ok" Elec said quickly, "I'm only going to cut you free". She stared at him wide eyed. Elec cut away the gag and the girl exclaimed "You can talk?". "Yes" Elec replied then added, "Are you ok?" "Yes" the girl replied, still staring, then She added "I've never met a talking fox before. My name is Helen". Elec was intrigued, but then he remembered that his knockout shocks were only temporary. "My name is Elec, Elec the Fox" he said proudly. Becoming more matter of fact, he continued "Let's get out of here and talk later, those guys will wake up soon" "I can't walk" Helen told him. Elec considered carrying her, but realized that he wasn't strong enough to go very far. "Where can I get help?" asked Elec, his tone matter of fact. Helen considered telling him to go to the police, but then thought of a better idea. "My house is that way" she said pointing, "Find my emergency phone and bring it back here, before they wake up" she added with a pleading tone on the last part. Helen gave a description of her house and where her phone was within. Elec zoomed off after he bound the thugs to a tree. By the time Elec found the house and vaulted inside though a window, night had fallen. Elec heard what sounded like a news report about a high speed chase coming from another room as he looked around Helen's room. He noticed that the phone wasn't attached to Helen's wheel chair where it should be! Elec heard anxious voices from downstairs, he considered his options. He could either try to sneak around and find the phone on his own, or he could ask the people downstairs for help. Helen's life was at risk, the choice was obvious.
Elec jumped down the stairs and saw three worried looking humans, he guessed two of them were Helen's parents. One of the humans had a bandage on her head and was holding Helen's emergency phone. They turned the TV off and turned around. All three of them stared at him. Elec tried the diplomatic approach. "Someone asked me get that phone" he said, and then mentally kicked himself. Years of keeping names out of his speech while he was agent had rubbed off on him, and now he just made himself sound like a criminal. After a couple seconds pause, one of the humans exclaimed "He's an accomplice! Call the police!" and another lunged for the house's phone. Elec knew he had to act fast. He zipped over to the phone and zapped it As one of the humans exclaimed "There's no dial tone!" Elec moved more slowly towards Helen's room. Two of the humans fell for it and came after him. Elec zoomed past them, running on the wall as if it was a floor and zapped the bandaged human's arm, "OW!" She said and dropped the emergency phone."Forgive me" Elec said as he caught it and zoomed off.
Three minutes later Elec was back to the same spot in the woods and Helen stared at him again. Elec gave Helen the phone and turned to leave. "Don't go!" She said. Elec stopped, he had been so focused on avoiding being framed that he was about to run away before the girl was rescued. Elec stood guard as Helen dialed the phone. After Helen had called the police, Elec explained that he got into a bit of a scuffle to retrieve the phone and thus he didn't want to be seen. Helen understood. After a minute or two they heard the sound of footsteps and a voice from a mega phone "This is the Police! Come out with your hands in the air!" Helen yelled back "I'm over here! I'm safe but I can't walk!" More quietly she asked Elec "Will I ever see you again?" Elec thought for a bit and then responded "I don't know, my gifts are needed elsewhere as well". Helen looked sad. Elec watched from the shadows as the police officers brought Helen to a police car and Elec secretly followed them to her parents home. Elec smiled as he watched the tearful reunion from a nearby tree. Sometimes it felt good to do good.