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    Lightweight 4: "Animals"
    Lightweight 4: "Animals"
    Lightweight 4: "Animals"
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    Lightweight 4: "Animals"

    By Nicholas Ahlhelm

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    In the fourth Lightweight story, Kevin meets the new foreign exchange student, but doesn't exactly get what he expects! At the same time, it is the return of the Titan robot that Lightweight faced in chapter one, only this time there are six of the robots that almost killed him just three months ago!

    Plus more with the Gray Man, Andy makes a new friend and the debut of an all new hero!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMetahuman
    Release dateMar 8, 2014
    ISBN9781311278609
    Lightweight 4: "Animals"
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    Nicholas Ahlhelm

    Nicholas Ahlhelm produces new super powered fiction, often in a serialized format like you see here with Lightweight. He lives in Eastern Iowa where he wishes the winters were just a bit less wintery. Learn more about his work at superpoweredfiction.com. To directly back his writing and get new serialized stories months before everyone else, support him at Patreon.com/ahlhelm.

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      Lightweight 4 - Nicholas Ahlhelm

      Lightweight 4

      Animals

      by Nicholas Ahlhelm

      Lightweight 4: Animals Smashwords Edition, Lightweight and all related characters are copyright © 2014 Nicholas Ahlhelm.

      Edited by Lisa M. Collins.

      Cover illustration by Brent Sprecher.

      Lightweight logo designed by Cynthia Celeste Miller. Lightweight costume and insignia design by Brent Sprecher.

      Some fonts used in production of this book were created by Blambot and are used under their Free Font License Agreement. © Nate Piekos. Blambot.com.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Animals

      Afterword

      Letters

      Character Profile: Red Sparrow

      Backers

      About the Author

      Animals

      The flames were all around him. And the flames licked at his skin. He could feel them burn him. It hurt, but he knew it shouldn’t. He knew the fire wasn’t his enemy. It was his friend. It was his ally. It wasn’t meant to betray him.

      But it did.

      His skin burned and he screamed.

      "Why? The words echoed past the crackle of the flames. This wasn’t supposed to happen."

      "Everything happens for a reason."

      The voice was a whisper, but somehow he heard it clearly past the fire, past the crackle of his own skin burning.

      "Who are you? What do you want?" He whimpered as the words passed from his mouth. The pain was too much. It was too strong. And his failure was too much.

      "You will learn all of that in good time. But for now, you must continue as it was. You must forget. You must be ready for when you are needed again."

      "No. I have to get out! I have to make him pay!"

      "That is not your choice. That is not your path, not yet."

      "No!" His scream echoed out of the burning room and out of his skull.

      In a small room in the burn ward of the Grace Medical Center, George Arnold slowly blinked his eyes. For the first time in nearly a month, he awoke. A breathing mask was over his face. He could feel his hands covered by multiple sensors.

      Wh-what?

      A doctor looked down at him. She was black, maybe in his forties. She wouldn’t be the kind of person Dad would want around him. I’m glad you’re awake, Mister Arnold. Do you remember what happened to you? Do you remember the mall?

      George slowly shook his head. I don’t remember anything.

      ***

      Lightweight was grateful that his costume was a ski suit. Even with the repairs he had to make to the costume, it protected him from the December winds. And those winds blasted around him as he flew over Federation. His boots were locked to the steel grate beneath his feet, but he didn’t have the maneuverability of the man he chased. The Red Sparrow flew upon massive wings that spread from underneath his arms. Lightweight couldn’t help but think how awesome it was to be chasing after him.

      The Red Sparrow was almost a legend. Sure he was a criminal, but for the past thirty years he faced off with just about every metahero Lightweight could name. Now he was back in Federation. Lightweight couldn’t get over how amazing it was to follow him. He just wished it was easier.

      The Red Sparrow flew with

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