A New Friend
"WOW!" the two young boys exclaimed in near simultaneous awe, as they looked up at the heroine who had just saved them and an elderly man from a speeding truck. Looking back down at the youths, even as she continued holding up the front of the truck Karen Starr… A.K.A. Power Girl cracked a warm smile. "Better hurry along boys." She observed, "I don't think being late will look good on your school record."
The two lads nodded, turned and ran off down the street, while the old man hurried away to safety as well. Holding her smile, Power Girl turned on the spot and gently placed the front of the truck back down on the road. quickly checking on the driver, who had apparently fainted out of sheer panic. Power Girl sighed, "this sort of stuff happens way too much."
"Yet heroes like you are here to prevent them causing harm." Power Girl reeled around, just in time to see a tall blonde hero descending from the skies "hail Power Girl."
Even as he landed, Thor Odinson bowed his head in Asgardian respect. "I am honoured to see you in action."
Power Girl wasn't a woman who ever got stunned… but right then… she was. she'd never been addressed with so much respect, so many men just tried to hit on her… but this… handsome guy…. "Umm… thanks."
But before either of them could say anything more, a sharp/loud BOOM! rang out through the air. reeling around again, Power Girl narrowed her eyes, harnessing her X-ray vision to see across the city, while beside her Thor had already began spinning his hammer around. "Peril?"
"Like you wouldn't believe." Power Girl answered, tensing to lunch herself into the sky,
"Allow me to aid you."
PG glanced at Thor, ordinarily she wouldn't need any help, but this guy had been so… sweet.
"Good luck keeping up." She said after a second, and lunched off… with Thor swinging his hammer and lunching right behind her.
The peril, turned out to be none other than the wrecking-crew (the Wrecker, Bulldozer, Piledriver and Thunderball,) wreaking utter havoc through the lower east side streets, even as people fled before them. With a boisterous laugh of enjoyment, Piledriver grabbed the front bumper of a cab… and threw it spinning down the street towards an elderly woman as she fled. Before the piece of metal could hit her though… Power Girl landed directly in its path, grabbed it with her right hand and dropped it to the ground. "that's enough, Jerks!" she snarled, taking a step forward towards the four muscle-bound men… "new back down before any of you get hurt."
The wrecking crew only sniggered, "oh…" the Wrecker chuckled mockingly, "sorry hot stuff, we're having way too much fun to just stop…" he took a step towards PG, "unless you wanna try and make us… hot stu…"
But before the Wrecker could even finish his sentence, Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, slammed into his chest, sending him flying backwards into Thunderball. Even as the two brutes hit the ground, Thor landed beside Power Girl. "One does not speak to one so fare in so foul a manner!"
For a long moment, silence hung in the air, as even Power Girl found herself stunned by the sheer… chivalry in Thor's words… which he'd said in her defence.
At last, the Wrecker got back to his feet, and snorted. "Come on Thor! She totally a…"
"Woman who deserves every respect and kinds any man can give her!" Thor interrupted furiously, levelling his hammer at the Wrecker, "Now speak an apology."
"Here, here!" chimed in the old woman, still behind the two heroes.
For a fraction of a second Power Girl felt as though she was blushing harder than she ever had… someone… or rather two someone's were actually defending her… honour….
"Try and make me, Thor!" the Wrecker spat… his own temper rising.
"GLADLY!" Thor answered… and charged.
The Wrecker met him head on, swinging his crowbar around to meet Mjolnir in a clash of metal, while the rest of his crew closed in towards Power Girl.
"Go get um deary…" the old woman called out in encouragement… and Power Girl did… like a bullet, she flew at Piledriver, punching him so hard in the chest, that he flew backwards all the way into the front of the same car he had robbed of its bumper.
Not missing a beat, Power Girl reeled around and deliver a perfect haymaker into Bulldozers helmeted head, denting the metal and sending him over onto his back… utterly KO'd.
She spun around again… only to be struck clean in the chest by Thunderball's wrecking ball, spinning through the air Power Girl slammed hard into the wall of an apartment block, falling to her knees with the concussion of the impact.
"Not bad moves…" Thunderball remarked, advancing towards PG even as she got back up. "But yeah… I've got a job to do here."
Momentarily caught off guard by the words, PG hesitated… and Thunderball swung again, with time with the chain end of his wrecking ball. The Next thing Power Girl knew, she was wrapped up in the metal chain from shoulder to leg, and, much to her alarm found that she couldn't just break it. "Magically charmed honey" Thunderball said proudly, and began to pull her towards him. now "come along, someone will paying good money for…"
"NAY!" the sound of Thor's voice alone almost made Power Girl smile. A millisecond before Thunderball knew what was happening Mjolnir was knocking him clean off his feet, the wrecking ball… and its chain falling from his hands.
The next second Thor was at Power Girl's side, reaching forward to rip the chins off her.
Power Girl glanced behind the thunder god, "The Wrecker?"
"He is defeated."
And indeed, he was... totally KOd, just like the other three. "And yet," Thor sighed, "he would not take back his harsh words…"
"Thor please…" Power Girl said with a warmer sigh of her own… even as the Thunder God ripped the chains off her "I get it all the time." she staggered, caught by the residual magic, before feeling Thor's right hand supporting her by the arm.
"Well… Thu deserves better…" the thunder god said with undisguised frustration.
"it's ok big boy…"
"Nay…" Thor shuck his head, "you fight for the innocent, you protect them every day… yet all they see is a well endued woman not a hero protector."
For one last second Power Girl found herself stunned… then placed a hand on the frustrated Thunder God's shoulder… "Thor… Thank you." she took a breath, "no one has ever said such a noble thing to me in my life… and I…" another, deeper, breath, "I guess I've just got way too use to that fact for my own good…"
"My lady…" he began, but a gloved hand on his lips cut him off…
"Let me finish… you stood up for me back there to… I have never known anyone do THAT for me either… maybe because I didn't need it… maybe not… but you did…" her voice dropped… "thanks."
She hesitated, noticing that the same old woman she'd saved before was now standing beside them. "Please… umm… don't think that I'm…."
"It's ok deary…" the older woman said, her face filled with something that might have been pride, "strong women need noble men as much as strong men need noble women."