I went to the nearest appliance store and got Mick a light bulb. After that, I was making my way back to my apartment when I heard a scream come from the alleyway to my right. Against my better judgment, I went into the alley to find a couple of guys harassing a woman and a little girl.
One was holding the mother against the wall at knife point, while the other two guys were holding the girl.
"Your husband owes us a lot of money lady, so you can either pay it or we can have some fun," one of the guys said as he used his knife to pop a button off of the woman's shirt.
Ugh, I hate people who act like this. Should I get involved? I mean, this is Batman's city, and if I do anything, I'll be on his radar. If I don't do anything, how long would it take him to get here before something happens to these two?
Fuck it. He probably already knows about me, being the world's greatest detective that he is, so I can help.
Ok, I need to end this quick and easy. I don't really know how my powers work, so I pray they work best with me concentrating on them.
I held my hands out, closed my eyes, and concentrated on this feeling that felt similar to electricity, but it also felt different from it. I focused on that feeling and willed it to move to my hands and form into two balls.
As if it was actually listening to me, I felt the energy move throughout my body and traveled to both my hands. I opened my eyes to see that in my hands were two turquoise balls of energy.
'Alright, let's take out that guy with the knife first,' I thought to myself.
Taking a deep breath, I shot off one of the energyballs at the guy, hitting him in the side and sending him flying into one of the guys holding the little girl.
"What the hell!?" The last guy questioned as he gripped the little girl tighter and brought out a knife to her throat.
"What was that lady?" He questioned the woman who was slumped on the floor.
"I don't know, just please let my daughter go," the woman pleaded.
Seeing the little girl more in danger than before made me think of doing something different to get the guy away from her.
I willed the energyball in my hand and slammed it into the ground, causing the energy to travel to the man holding the girl.
The guy looked down at the trail of energy that stopped at him and the girl before the energy leaped at him and encased him, but not the girl.
'It worked,' I thought to myself before I took control of the guy like a puppeteer.
I moved the hand that was holding the blade against the girls neck away from her and threw the guy into his buddies who were also starting to get up.
"Mommy!!" The girl yelled as she ran and hugged her mother.
"It's alright, sweetie," the mother said as she held her daughter closer.
Ignore the reunited pair for now, I had my energy in case the other two guys made all three of them hit the walls of the alley until they were all unconscious.
With my work done, I made my way back home and put the light bulb into Mick, the microwave.
"What took you so long?" Mick asked.
"I had to stop these guys from harassing a mother and her child," I said, thinking back to the incident and my first use of my powers.
"Well, you better not have gotten on the Batman's radar," Mick said in annoyance.
I never understood why he doesn't like Batman so much. Then again, he's a microwave, so I probably won't ever really understand him.
"I don't think I have. The place was secluded enough, and there weren't any cameras from what I saw," I told him.
"Good, we don't need that brooding rat around here," Mick huffed.