slob superhero
A story I wrote a decently long time ago.
In Slob City, 'Villains' intend to ruin everyone's lives by cleaning up the city or making everyone healthy but Slobguy always saves the day.
I wanted to write more about other villains but i never got around to it (and don't have many ideas for them) so the only story i have is this one: Captain Health arrives in Slob City and terrorises the populace with things like 'vegetables' and 'exercise'. Slobguy puts aside the important business of lounging on the couch to stop him.
It was a beautiful day in Slob City. Trash filled the streets, noxious fumes filled the air and the city's overweight residents pigged out on junk food from the fast food outlets on every street corner.
Bob Gutt sat in his house, watching TV as usual. It was an uneventful day and Bob was trying to work on getting his full twenty-three hours of sedentary activity and stick to his 200 step limit. He scratched his gut lazily and slurped on a milkshake. He could sit like this all day.
Unfortunately, the world had other plans.
Just then, the reality TV show Bob had been watching was interrupted by a news report.
'We apologise for the interruption,' the news reporter said. 'But this is breaking news.'
The reporter was dressed in a food stained T-shirt and was overweight, just like Bob. It was highly likely he was wearing nothing but an old smelly pair of underpants under the desk, but then again lots of people in Slob City walked around in their underwear, so that wouldn't be much of a surprise.
'A strange man has appeared in the city square, home to the world's largest food court, and is apparently forcing people to eat healthily. We turn now to John for an in-person account.'
'Thanks Mike,' the screen split in two to show another reporter, this one standing at the city square.
He was dressed similarly sloppily to the first reporter. 'That's right: a mysterious man who calls himself Captain Health has been terrorising innocent civilians and making them eat things such as "vegetables" and "fruits".'
'What are they?' Mike asked.
'I don't exactly know,' John replied. 'It's the term that this Captain Health is using to refer to these strange foodstuffs. I have yet to see one in person, but an eyewitness saw one and said it was a green coloured object.'
'Green?' Mike said confused.
'Yes, green. A far cry from the normally golden brown deliciousness we eat daily.'
'How are the victims?'
'Terrible, Mike. One of them told us she was feeling healthy and refreshed, like she could run and jump about all day.'
'That's horrible!'
'I know. To make matters worse, it even appears certain victims have begun to lose weight.'
Mike shuddered. 'I can hardly stand the thought.'
Just then, a brightly dressed man appeared beside John.
'Hey there,' he said. 'I'm Captain Health. Would you like something to eat?'
The reporter was initially scared but suddenly a calm washed over him.
'OK,' he said. 'Sure.'
'No! John!' Mike cried, but it was too late: John had already accepted an apple from. Captain Health and had taken a bite. His eyes lit up and he looked more vibrant instantly. It even seemed like he was a little thinner. It was disgusting.
'Wow!' He exclaimed. 'I feel so much energy! I want to go for a run or something.'
John dropped his microphone and dashed off. Mike was left speechless as the feed cut off.
'We apologise to any parents watching with their children for any traumatic images they may have been exposed to,' he said. 'We will keep you updated on this situation as it unfolds. We recommend you stay indoors and continue to eat junk food.'
Mike took a bite out of a hamburger sitting on his desk and slurped some soda.
'Belch. For the time being, we will return to scheduled programming, but keep on the look out for any updates throughout the day, burp.'
The show Bob was watching returned and he sighed.
'I guess that puts an end to my plans to do nothing.'
He got up and went to the toiletroom (houses in Slob City didn't have baths, or showers for that matter) where he pulled the flusher of the toilet in the opposite direction. Suddenly the toilet moved to reveal a capsule and a tunnel in the wall. Bob hopped in, kicking a few empty soda cans out of the way, and the capsule brought him down deep underground.
Soon, Bob arrived in a large cavern. It looked like a cross between a garbage dump, a garage and an office: trash littered the floor and a few large vehicles sat in front of a garage door, while off to one side a desk covered in papers faced a widescreen TV.
Bob went over to the computer at the desk and typed a code into it. From the wall, a glass cabinet containing a superhero costume appeared.
It wasn't exactly your typical superhero costume. It did have visible underwear, but that was because there weren't any pants to speak of. The top was just a dirty singlet and it didn't even have a mask. To the untrained eye, it would just look like someone's dirty laundry if it weren't for the big SG emblem on the singlet drawn on in food stains and the smaller, brown one that emblazoned the back of the undies, drawn using something better left unmentioned. In reality, it was a high-tech outfit designed for a superhero.
Bob swapped his regular clothes for his costume and typed at the computer a bit more. A map of Slob City appeared with the city centre shown by a red circle.
'It's not too far away,' he noted. 'I think the ol' Slobmobile will suffice.'
He pressed another button and the vehicle in mention turned on and the garage door opened. Bob's chair moved him to the car and he hopped in.
'OK, Slobguy is go!'
Bob, you see, was no ordinary man. He was Slobguy: defender of the gross, the dirty and the unhealthy. Slob City's saviour.
The Slobmobile sped through the city streets, leaving a trail of dirty exhaust in its wake. Very soon he reached the city centre and saw the havoc unfolding: everywhere people were exercising and running about. It was unlike anything Bob had ever seen before.
'I have to save these poor people,' he said.
He turned to the nearest person he could find, a woman doing push ups.
'Ultra-lazy Yawn!' Bob cried and let out a loud yawn. The woman slowed down and seemed tired all of a sudden.
'Oh, I'm feeling… sleepy…' she yawned. 'I better take a nap…'
Bob smiled. This shouldn't be too hard. Just as he was about to move on to the next person, he noticed the woman stirring.
'Ah, that was a refreshing rest,' she sighed. 'I feel even more energetic!'
Suddenly she started doing push ups at an even faster rate than before.
'Alright, looks like that just made things worse.' He thought about the problem. 'What I need to do is fight this at the source: the vege-watchimacallit things. Maybe if I can get them to eat some junk food, they'll go back to normal.'
Bob pulled out a slice of greasy meat lovers pizza from his underwear (one of the special abilities of his undies was that they could store anything). He offered it to the woman.
'Hey, would you like something to eat?'
The woman shook her head. 'I'm still full from the celery I ate. It's full of fibre!'
Bob didn't know what "celery" or "fibre" were and he didn't want to find out.
'OK, that didn't work either.' He took a bite of the pizza: no use having it go to waste.
He got an idea. 'I'm looking at this all wrong: the source isn't the food, it's the guy giving it out! Captain Health!'
'You called?'
Captain Health himself appeared before Bob. Bob was shocked: he had never seen anyone so thin and muscular in his life. The guy looked horrible.
'Would you like something nutritious and fresh to eat?' he smiled.
Bob shook his head, but soon felt a strange compulsion rush over him. He felt a desire for something healthy. It was unsettling, but Bob could barely control himself as he took a carrot from Captain Healthy's outstretched hand.
Just as he was about to eat it, he heard a cry.
'No Slobguy! Don't!'
Before he could put the vegetable into his mouth, he saw something come flying from the direction of the voice. It landed into his mouth and Bob chewed. It was a doughnut. A delicious, sticky, sweet doughnut. Bob was broken out of the trance and quickly let out a yawn.
Captain Health was overwhelmed by the yawn and fell to his knees.
'Whew,' he sighed. 'I feel, tired, all of a sudden…'
Bob looked at the carrot in his hand and used his slob powers to rot it and then create slimy muck that held Captain Health in place.
'That was a close one,' he said and looked to try to find his rescuer.
It was a young guy, in his late teens, overweight and slobby like the average resident. He waddled over to Bob, panting.
'I was worried,' he said. 'I thought you might eat that thing and lose your powers or something, then we'd all be doomed.'
'Thanks kid,' Bob smiled. 'What's you're name?'
'Federico, but you can call me Fed.'
'I'm Slobguy, though you know that already.'
'Here,' Fed said, giving Bob an XXXL soda. 'Drink this so he can't do that same trick on you again.'
'Thanks, I could do with a quick-thinking assistant like you,' Bob grinned. He couldn't dwell on this for long, since he had to deal with the matter at hand still.
'So, Captain Health,' Bob said dismissively as he sucked on his drink. 'What have you done here?'
Captain Health groggily opened his eyes.
'I was… trying to make everyone here healthier,' he explained. 'So I formulated some ultra nutritious vegetables designed to improve weight-loss and health. I knew you all would probably resist my efforts though, so I decided I would have to use some mind control to get you guys to eat the fruit and vegetables in the first place. I know it was a bit heavy handed, but it was for your own good.'
'How do you control this hypnosis thing?'
'It's the vegetables,' he said. 'It's a mix of scent and sight cues designed to make them look appealing.'
'And where are you keeping them?'
'In those boxes over there,' Captain Health pointed.
Bob walked over to them and stopped drinking for a moment in order to let out a massive belch. The vegetables decayed quickly in the noxious fumes.
'That's that dealt with,' he said, scratching his bum as he headed back to Captain Health and Fed. 'Now we just need to get everyone unfit again.'
'Eventually they'll get hungry again,' Fed said. 'And when they do we just need to feed them junk food.'
'Ha, that's where you're wrong!' Captain health exclaimed. 'My hypnosis make them hate junk food so much that they'll only eat vegetables!'
Bob thought this over. If only there was a vegetable that was also a junk food. Unfortunately, Bob didn't actually know what a vegetable was.
'Hey, Health dude,' he said, turning to Captain Health. 'What are vegetables?'
'Do you mean an exact, scientific definition or do you really not know what they are?'
'I really don't know,' Bob said. 'But let's just make it easy: give me some examples.'
Captain Health was a bit confused, but obliged.
'Let's see… Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower… lettuce, kale, asparagus… Potatoes, I guess… Artichoke, cabbage, tomato, but technically that's a fruit…'
'Wait a minute,' Bob exclaimed. 'Go back.'
'Cabbage?'
'Further.'
'Artichoke? Potato?'
'Yes, potatoes!' Bob had an idea. 'Fed, get me all the potato-based food you can find. If anyone asks, tell them it's for Slob Guy and that he'll pay them back.'
'Will do, sir!'
Fed headed off and so did Bob, buying all the potato-based fast food they could get: chips, potato cakes, fries, potato mash with gravy, those potato swirl thingies, and so on and so forth.
When they had enough, Bob went over to one of the victims.
'Hey, I bet all that exercise has made you hungry. Want something to eat? It's made of vegetables.'
'I don't mind if I do,' the woman took the packet of chips and ate a handful. 'Wow! These taste so good!'
Suddenly her healthy radiance faded and she stopped doing star jumps.
'Ooh, why I am exercising?' she asked, confused. 'I need to go home and sit down for a while…'
Bob's plan had worked! He and Fed went around, handing out potato goods to everyone and eventually they were all back to normal. By the time they were through, the police had arrived to deal with Captain Planet.
'Sorry we're late, Slob Guy,' one of the officers said, licking a bit of icing sugar off his top. 'We had to stop to get some doughnuts.'
'That's all right, I'd have done the same.'
'What do we do with this guy?'
'I think I've got a punishment that'll fit his crime…' Bob grabbed a potato cake from the pile of junk food and brought it over to Captain Health. 'Eat up, Captain Health!'
'No! No!' Captain Health squirmed but it was no use and Bob forced it down his mouth. All of a sudden, his vitality drained out of him and he looked tired and weak.
'Junk food is my one weakness,' he explained. 'My powers have been lost…'
Bob smiled. 'Now you can enjoy a life of laziness and fast food just like the rest of us.' He turned to the officers. 'Take him away, boys. I doubt he'll be causing any more trouble anytime soon.'
The ex-captain Health was taken away and Bob was left with Fed.
'You know, Fed, I think there might be an opening down at Slob Guy HQ for a sidekick. How would you like to be it?'
Fed's eyes widened. 'No way! It'd be a dream come true!'
And so the day was saved and Slob Guy now had a new assistant: the Piglet!
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