The Restored Legend Part-1: Gary Motter, #1

By Aarsh Roongta

GARY MOTTER, a 19-year old cameraman is totally taken aback when he finds out that the villain named ELECTRO-MAN that existed in his imagination is present in reality. When Electro-Man attacks the city of San Francisco, Gary and his favorite hero SKULL-CRUSHER team up against him. After a breath-taking sequel, they manage to kill him, but Skull Crusher and Gary's family die in the sequence. He revives Electro-Man. However, Gary manages to win over them. He is astonished when he finds himself in the world of heroes. He makes new friends and enemies. He trains for fights but every time something or the other goes wrong. It seems as if someone doesn't want Gary to become a hero. Gary participates in the Race of Death to become one of the Immortal Five, but is stopped by enemies. Soon Gary discovers that there are some spies, who are helping the villains get the Immortal Sword. If the villains get hold of the Immortal Sword, they can use it to raise the Doom, the Lord of the Villains, who is undefeatable. Will Gary be able to save the world of heroes from the nasty plans of villains? Will he betrayed by someone? Will he get himself into great trouble? Read this adventurous sequel to find out.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Aarsh Roongta
• Release date: Jun 15, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393443261

Aarsh Roongta

Aarsh Roongta is a 12-year old writer, studying in eighth class in Jayshree Periwal Global School in Jaipur, Rajasthan(India). He is fond of reading books since childhood. He started with his first book, "Gary Motter: The Restored Legend" in the year 2018. He writes fiction and fantasy story series.

Book preview

1. Electric Kick

Hi! I am Garrison Motter Sheldon. Don’t get confused that my name is misspelled. It’s G-A-R-R-I-S-O-N...M-O-T-T-E-R...S-H-E-L-D-O-N only. I know it is kind of weird. So people just simply call me Gary. You must have heard of Harry Potter or Garry Old man or Sheldon Cooper. You might be thinking what kind of name is Garrison Motter. Actually my father, George Sheldon, is an automobile mechanic. So he named me Garrison for Garage and Motter for motor. How foolish! Really foolish

I am 19 years old and I have been living in San Francisco since birth with my family: my mother, Lily Sheldon; my father, you know; my 23 year old elder brother, Crow, I mean, Joe Sheldon; and my 11 year old smaller brother, Cracks, oh-sorry, Max Sheldon.

Actually not only my father but my whole family is a weirdo. Like Joe, who gifted me a baby doll on my 10th birthday, and Mom, who once actually put a medicine pill in pasta sauce. And how can I forget about Max? When I was 9, the 5 year old boy peed on my bed. Yuck!

I have a never-ending list of complains for my family but leave that. I am a cameraman for the news channel, ‘FREAKING PACK-UP.’ I know that’s ridiculous but you won’t believe that it’s the most famous news channel in the city. So gross!

Okay, let’s come to the point. I have been having the fever of photography since childhood, but Mom and Mad, sorry, Dad wanted me to become an engineer. Engineer? Disgusting! Engineering was my last choice to become in future.

See, I can shoot news on any subject but my favorite is a fight between superhero and villain. When I was a child I used to see the fights of my hero, Skull Crusher, on television. I had never had the thought that I’d be able to myself to shoot his fights. Recently, I made a video of his fight against the Terra-Terror who was an ancient tree, come to life, but evil one.

Zzzzz-zzzzz

It’s a message from the studio. I have to go for shooting to the San Francisco zoo.

‘Good morning ladies and gentleman. I am Rey Jackson. We are live here at the San Francisco zoo, where a tiger has escaped this morning at 7:00 a.m. Let’s know what the visitors have to say about it. Sir, you were present there at that time. What happened?’

‘Everyone was busy watching the animals. Suddenly we heard a loud roar. We all turned around to see what happened. We saw the tiger standing out of the cage. It was too late: the tiger had finished his prey- a young man. The tiger could have done more damage, if the police hadn’t come on time and shot the tiger.’ said a grizzly old man.

‘Do you think the zoo caretakers are responsible for this?’

‘Yeah, this is their fault only......’

Disgusting! Such a boring interview! Yawn! I wanted to interview Skull Crusher; not an old grizzly man talking rubbish.

‘So sir, do you have any idea how did the tiger.....’

BOOM!

What was that? Huh. Another boring interview of a new accident, probably a short circuit or firing criminals. Wait a minute. My camera’s screen has become black!

‘Hey Rey, wait for a minute. The camera isn’t working.’ I said.

‘It has also gone to sleep like you were, during the interview.’ replied Rey.

‘And now neither it will wake up nor you!’ came a voice behind me.

We turned around to find an ugly-looking creature, probably human being. There were electrons and zaps all around him.

‘Who are you?’ I asked.

‘Your end’ he replied.

‘What do you call yourself? Zappo or Techno?’

‘Wrong guesses. My name is Electro-Man.’

‘Hahahaha! Who on earth calls himself Farto-Fan?’

‘How dare you insult me?’

‘Flirt you? But I didn’t flirt with you?’

‘Gggrrrrrrrrr! How dare you talk like this to Electro-Man?’

This time I heard the right name. Oops! I forgot to tell you that I have a problem in listening words properly. 

His confidence suddenly turned into a frightening rage. He raised his right hand. The clouds rumbled. A lightning fell down in his hands. It became a great ball and then he waved it towards us.

BOOM!

Thank God! Rey saved me at the right time.

BHISH!

This time it was something else! It was my favorite hero Skull Crusher! He punched Electro-Man right on the jaw! He went flying and crashed into a wall. THUD!

‘You are nothing in front of me!’

‘Potty? You want to go for potty? ‘Hahahaha!’ I said.

Hey, have I said something wrong because the next moment he was coming for me furiously.

‘Leave him! If you have power, come and fight me, you Ugly-Mugly’ Skull Crusher shouted.

‘Hahahaha! Electro-Man, do you know that Mugly is the name of the ugliest dog on earth!’ I cried.

The Electro-Man flew and went high into the sky. The sky grew dark. The clouds started thundering.

Suddenly a lightning fell on Skull Crusher. He fell to his knee, screaming in pain. Blood ran down his belly.

We all gathered around him. Suddenly I saw that the camera had started working. I was busy setting the camera, when my eyes went to Rey whose left leg was bleeding.

‘Rey, you need help. How this happened?’ I cried.

‘Gary, when I saved you, the Electro-Man’s zap hit my left leg.’

Then I realized that I hadn’t paid any attention to him after that. I straight away called for ambulance.

‘You need rest. Wait here. I will make a story on this. Take care.’ I told him.

It was my time to cover my first news, and that too of my favorite subject. I started.....

‘Good morning ladies and gentleman. I am Gary Motter. We are live here at the zoo, where a super villain has attacked us. His name is Electro-Man. He has badly hurt Skull Crusher and my friend Ray Jackson.’

I tilted the camera towards Skull Crusher who was struggling to his legs. Suddenly I saw Electro-Man started descending at full speed from the sky at Skull Crusher holding a powerful ball of lightning and charged it straight at him.

I went running there and saved Skull Crusher on time. The villain landed on the ground and stared with his glowing eyes at me. He raised both his hands and suddenly there was a kind of magnetic field in the area. All the electronic gadgets, including our camera went straight into his hands.

‘This will be the end of the human race!’ he exclaimed.

‘Why are you doing this, Electro-Man?’ I asked.

‘My real name was William Kane.’ he started, ‘When I was your age, I was a mobile-addict. I used to be on mobile the whole day. My mother passed away when I was a child. My father sent me to London for my treatment. I learnt there the effects of mobiles on our lives and on earth. Two years later, I returned. After sometime, my father passed away. I started campaigns against mobile phones. No one listened to me; instead they posted my videos on social media.’

‘Hahahaha! They made your video. You are famous perhaps.’

‘You dare interrupt me!’

‘Oh, sorry. Please continue.’

‘No one listened to me. The global warming increased. Birds and animals died. At last, tired of the world, I committed suicide. And now, God has given me this new life so that I can teach you human beings a lesson. You are responsible for your own destruction.’