Taken from the chapter - Blue Ninja Man
Jimmy frantically rummaged around his house trying to find anything blue. Despite Jimmy saying he liked the colour blue he was surprised to find that there was a lack of anything blue in his house, especially blue objects that looked like a 'deep sea.'
"How annoying," he screamed. "This must be the most un-blue house in the neighbourhood." It was no wonder his superpowers hadn't started. "I bet my parents know I'm supposed to be a super hero and are trying to keep me as a normal kid. It would be so like them to stifle my potential."
Jimmy made his mind up that from that moment on he would surround himself with blue objects. He reached to the very back of the cupboard and pulled out two plastic blue beakers, "Yes." From now on he would only drink out of these cups. He threw them to one side and continued his search. After turning the house upside down for the whole afternoon, Jimmy laid out all his blue booty on the bed.
Two blue beakers
A blue vase
An old set of blue pyjamas (two sizes too small)
A blue plastic bin
Some sort of blue kitchen utensil
A blue balaclava
A blue picture frame (8in x 8in)
Jimmy held onto the two plastic cups and imagined his dormant powers rushing through his veins and igniting every atom in his body. He pushed hard with his mind. "Think blue," he said to himself. "A deep, blue sea."
He pushed even harder, trying to squeeze out every last drop of blue superpower-concentration but only managed to squeak out a small fart. It wasn't working. He needed more blue. There simply wasn't enough to get his powers kick-started. Quickly he jumped out of his clothes and pulled on the old blue pyjamas. The tight blue top was too small to cover his podgy belly and the trousers were at half-mast up his legs. Jimmy loved these PJs, and had never wanted to throw them away; now he knew why. Jimmy jumped in front of the mirror in his room. "Super—POWERS!" he yelled.
Actually he thought he looked a bit stupid, but Maximus had said that blue was his superpower colour and he'd also said that he was rarely wrong. Jimmy examined his tubby gut in the mirror. "Wow. How did that get so big? Too much Chunky Chicken," he smirked.
He reached across to the bed and grabbed the balaclava, pulled it onto his head and dived in front of the mirror while chopping the air. "The blue ninja man," he shouted at the top of his voice.
Maybe he had super blue Kung Fu powers? He gave the air a few deadly sweeps with his hands, "Super-blue Karate chop. Super-blue Kung Fu kick."
Jimmy's arms and legs flew everywhere as he danced in front of the mirror. It was no good, nothing was happening. Maybe he needed a fighting partner? Jimmy rushed out of his room and judo rolled into his older sister's room. Her room had a big teddy bear; which was almost the same size as him.
The bear sat innocently in the corner; unaware of the pounding it was about to receive. Jimmy flew through the air and smacked the unfortunate bear in the nose, "Karate chop."
It slipped onto its side.
"Karate kick!" Jimmy buried his foot in the bear's podgy brown face.
He leaped onto it and fixed it in a headlock. "Super blue head butt." Jimmy planted a kick between its eyes. He increased the intensity of his attack and blitzed the bear with a barrage of special moves. He was whipping himself up into a 'super-blue' frenzy as he boxed the teddy's ears. Behind him the bedroom door swung open. Jimmy's teenage sister Kate and her two best friends Shauna and Angelina walked into the room.
"JIMMY! What are you doing in my room?" Kate was fourteen and hated everything about Jimmy, even looking at him made her angry. Jimmy jumped up off the pulverized bear and pulled off his blue balaclava, his usually neat-combed hair stuck out from his head like an electrocuted cat.
"Erh nothing…I was just looking for something," Jimmy said, blushing.
Behind Kate the two other girls were trying hard not laugh. Jimmy felt like such a dork, standing there in front of the girls in his minuscule baby, blue pyjamas. He tried to pull the tiny top over his milky white belly but it was much too small.
"GET OUT," screamed Kate. "GET OUT."
Jimmy ducked his head and ran out of Kate's room before he got a slap from his sister or died of humiliation. As he slammed the door of his own room shut, he heard the girls burst into shrieks of laughter.
