Matilda- Beating Jackson

Matilda’s inhalers blasted hot flames and she rose several feet off the ground. “Good, then this will be a lot easier for me.” The littlest of the spies shot forward and clotheslined Jackson across the chest. He crashed onto his back and cried out in agony.

Matilda soared across the room, reached down with one arm, and bodyslammed him back to the floor. Jackson’s lungs burned. He slowly got to his feet. This time his fists were clenched.

“Are you nuts?”

“Are you?” Matilda asked as she spun around like a ballerina in the air and landed on his shoulders. She slammed the flats of her hands against his ears, sending a shock of pain into his brain. “I’m beating you senseless and you’re just taking it.”

Jackson staggered about and waited for the ringing in his skull to subside. While he was recovering, Matilda floated back down to the floor.

“Grab a weapon and fight back.”

“I’m not going to hit a girl!” Jackson repeated.

Matilda twisted his arm around his back and held it there. The agony in his shoulder felt like a bonfire and, worse, he was helpless.

“So, if you come face-to-face with a major-league bad guy who happens to be a girl, you’re going to let her kill you?”

She wrapped her arm around his neck, pushed forward, and slammed him face-first into the hard floor. “I call that a bulldog,” she said proudly as she rose back into the air. She flew around him, circling like a hungry hawk.

NERDS Chapter 9