CHAPTER 1 Saturdoom It was just another day in the city of Winkopolis Kitties mewed Birds chirped Joggers jogged Everyone was doing the same old ordinary things Everyone mind you but the girl who lived at 8 Louise Lane That girl was Ellie Ultra She was playing Go Fish a very ordinary card game but she was picking cards faster than a racehorse on turbocharged roller skates It was extraordinary Woo-hoo I won Ellie cheered Rocket-fast she whipped down one then two then three pairs of cards Her hands were empty in a flash Beat you again Cyclops
Cyclops the Ultras giant one-eyed iguana looked mad probably because he had also lost at Crazy Eights and Old Maid He snatched his Lizard’s Life magazine slunk off the chair and disappeared Ellie slumped in her seat The iguana wasn’t much competition but at least he was someone to play with All of Ellie’s non-lizard friends were busy and she was bored with a capital B After Ellie put away the cards her chin fell into her hand Saturday More like Saturdoom she said sadly I’m doomed to spend the whole day alone More than bored Ellie was lonely Being a superhero she had faced the world’s worst villains including Captain Blob and the Goo Crew and Queen Bee But loneliness It was the worst Loneliness blurred Ellie’s X-ray vision It turned her super strength into cooked spaghetti She couldn’t even fly
