"Smooth move, Paulie. Stealing a fire truck in the middle of Hell on earth. What could be any worse? Oh yea, neither of us can drive!"
remarked a cynical yet nervous copy to the original Multiplus who was behind the wheel..
"Coulda been worse. Almost got slap on the wrist by a garbageman once. Besides, I see the know-hows of driving in the movies a hundred times. Nothing to it."
The reason he stole a fire truck, was that one particular inferno which the guy with the eyepiece just went in. That had to be the one known as Longshot.
Around eleven copies were hanging on the truck's exterior, holding on tightly.
"Brake." mentioned the copy in the side seat "Brake!!"
Multiplus slammed hard on the brakes, almost jacknifing into the inferno in front, and just avoiding a crowd of people fighting the lower fires with water buckets straight from a near hardware store.
Once the original Plus was out, all his copies extended the hose and worked the ladder leaving poor Multy to deal with an irate crowd.
"Sorry about that folks. But can we leave Multy bashing until after we saved those people in there?"
The crowd agree and went to what they were doing.
"Okay Boys. Let her have it" he said to the copies who set the powerful blasts of cold water on the building. The flames were sizzling up into vapor almost instaneously, though this was anything but over.
Multiplus figured that the trapped folks had or suffering from severe smoke inhalation. Oxygen tanks are needed now, so he opened the hatch. Only one oxygen tank.
"You gotta be kiddin" he sighed with disbelief. "Well beggers can't be choosers".
He picked up the tank and observed the ladder's status. It has reached an opening in one of the upper floors.
He checked on his team's progress.
So far so good. The opening seemed alright to move in.
"Okay boys, I'm gonna get to the top floor. When I reach there, get out that trampoline safety thing from the hatch. Extend it too. We have a party that'll drop in".
The copies gave their thumbs up in acknowledgement, as Multiplus climbed up the ladder alone with the tank.
Once he got there, he spotted the eyepiece guy with a good-looking gal. They look like they needed oxygen.
There was also the fallen away floor trapping them.
"No worries" smirked Multiplus. Here catch!"
He threw the tank with all his strengty and it flew over the hole missing floor and straight into the guy's arms. Without wasting time, he placed the tank's mask over the woman's face, flooding her lungs with oxygen.
"And for my next trick"
Multiplus rapidly started to duplicate from the shoulder up until there was enough copies on him to make them togather a human ladder, which leaned and caught the surface of the other side.
The human ladder was now a human bridge.
"All aboard. Women, children and super heroes first!" copies and original both spoke.
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