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Flashing red and blue lights glared in his eyes, and in the rearviewup behind hih the pile of e-size Snickers bars into his mouth as he pulled over onto the shoulder, and put the SUV in park He ate another four while waiting for the trooper to walk up to the driver’s-side hich he rolled down

"What’s the problem, Officer?" he asked

The trooper’s silly hat tilted down as he peered inside "Have you been drinking tonight, sir?"

"Only so himself a little, Lawson held up one of the eh, but I don’t believe that I was speeding"

"Can you tell me your name?"

Now that he had been transformed into the first true superhuain He needed a new title, one that would tell this ignorant mortal and the rest of the mortal world what he had becood of the sun and light"

The trooper put a hand on the hilt of his service weapon and shuffled back "Step out of the vehicle, please, Mr Apollo"

Lawson opened the door, releasing a sround They crackled as he stepped on top of them

"I have the worst case of the munchies in history," he explained "Not because I’ve been s"

The trooper nodded and pointed to the front of the car "Place your hands on the hood, Mr Apollo, and spread your feet apart"

Cops these days siht as he assumed the position When the trooper moved to stand directly behind hi it into the man’s face By the time the trooper uttered his first howl of pain Lawson had picked him up and tossed him over the hood of the SUV He sailed fifty feet and landed with a thud, rolling until his body lost momentum and flopped over onto his back

Lawson picked up the flashlight the trooper had dropped, and switched it on, focusing the beam toward the spot where the mortal had landed As he ed down into a hole in the ground An angry buzzing exploded all around hiulfed hiht as they zipped past his eyes, and he saw their distinctive colors Yellow jackets

"Get off," he shouted, swatting and whirling as he tried to get away fro insects Their tiny bodies bounced off his face, neck, and ars of his shirt and trousers to attack the rest of his body

Lawson hated being stung, and began to sob as he fell to his knees He toppled over and lay there for sos grew fuzzy, and then dark

Sometime later he came to and sat up Dead yellow jackets fell froround, and he smashed them with his fist There didn’t see around hiround

He struggled to his feet The transeruain, and he breathed in deeply as he felt no pain fros he had sustained He kicked at the dead insects, grinding soered over to see to the trooper