Firebreather Page #3

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Actually, you could take that show

on the road and sell tickets.

Duncan:
No big deal.

[Bones crack]

Troy:
Get lost, trailer park.

[Laughter]

Ken:
Uh, it's a free

country, amigo.

Duncan:
It's okay, Kenny.

Go.

Troy:
[Chuckles]

You know what happens now?

Duncan:
Well, traditionally,

this is where I hand you your

meat, all nice and on a slab.

[Laughs]

Duncan:
But I pretty much promised my

mom I wouldn't fight, so... Later!

Hey!

Get him!

What is he doing?

Troy:
[Growls]

Duncan:
Hey, blitz.

[Laughs]

[Laughs]

Troy:
[Growls]

Ugh!

What?

[Girl screams]

Troy:
There he is!

Duncan:
[Laughs]

Troy:
Come on!

You all right?

Duncan:
[Exhales sharply]

Troy:
[Breathing heavily]

Duncan:
[Breathing heavily]

You don't want to fight me.

Troy:
Don't worry.

It's not going to be a

fight, just a beatdown.

Duncan:
Leave me alone!

Troy:
Oh, forget this.

Duncan:
[Breathing heavily]

[Gasps]

Ugh!

Barnes:
Holy hello, kid.

Way to keep a low profile.

Troy:
Dude breathed fire, man.

W-what is he?

Barnes:
Get to class now,

or you're expelled.

Duncan:
It's not my fault!

It just happened!

Barnes:
Later, kid.

Duncan:
If Troy's hurt,

he was asking for it.

Barnes:
Don't worry about it.

I was going to

bench him, anyway.

He runs fine, but he couldn't

hold onto a ball with a handle.

[Keypad beeps]

[Energy pulsing]

Well, this doesn't look too bad.

Duncan:
Are you kidding me?

My face looks like the

Australian outback.

Barnes:
More like the

surface of Mars.

[Laughs] Mars?

No, it's not mar...

I mean, a little bit Mars, but no.

Barnes:
Is this it, doc?

Or should we expect

other surprises?

Well, obviously, Duncan's

innate strength and resilience

have been growing steadily

since birth, but his natural

fight-or-flight response created

a hyper-stimulated state, which

manifested itself as

incendia respiro.

It's fire breath.

Yeah, you have it, Duncan.

You'll learn to control it in

time, but until then, you're

just going to have to stay out of

situations with, uh, potential conflict.

Duncan:
Like high school?

[Chuckling] High school.

I remember high school.

That place didn't

work out well for me.

Barnes:
What I'm asking is...

When will Duncan constitute a threat?

To humanity? Duncan?

No, no. He's a sweet boy.

He's not a pandemic.

[Chuckles]

Barnes:
It's only a matter of time

before... Margaret: Duncan.

Duncan:
Hi, mom.

Margaret:
Whose brilliant idea

was it to bring Duncan here?

Barnes:
Uh...

How have you been, Margaret?

It's been a while.

Look... I-I don't like this,

either, but there was little

incendia respiro incident at school and...

Margaret:
That's what we call

a "your problem."

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