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Lucas Flint

Worst. Birthday. Ever.

A boring field trip to the local historical museum quickly becomes deadly when one of Beams' classmates is kidnapped. The perpetrator: The supervillain Birthday Candles, an infamous criminal wanted throughout the whole country for his cannibalistic crimes.

Now Beams and Rubberman must track down Birthday Candles before he can eat Beams' classmate. Yet that is easier said than done when Candles pulls a disappearing act, forcing Beams and his boss to race against time before it's too late.

Set between the end of Minimum Wage Sidekick and the beginning of Dimension Heroes, although it does not spoil either series.

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Minimum Wage Sidekick

Happy Birthday: A Minimum Wage Sidekick Novella

Alex Fry (Beams) has a great life. He's a famous sidekick, works for one of the best superheroes in the world, and is even dating the girl of his dreams. While Alex can't publicly accept the praise and accolades his sidekick persona receives from fans, his life is good nonetheless.

That is, until he becomes the target of the most infamous assassin in the world, whose presence in Golden City forces him to go on the run. Even with the arrival

of a new superhero to protect him, Alex's life is still turned upside down, forcing him to remain in hiding to avoid getting killed.

Now Alex must catch the assassin before the assassin finds him. If Alex fails to defeat the assassin, then everything he's worked for will collapse.

First Date

After nearly crashing his boss' car, Alex Fry (Beams) finds his relationship with his boss has soured, to the point where he no longer enjoys going to work for him anymore. And when a new superhero in town offers Beams higher pay to work for him, Beams finds the offer almost too tempting to resist.

But there is more to this new superhero that meets the eye, and if Beams makes the wrong choice, he might ruin his career—and his life—forever.

First Offer

When a superhero serial killer comes to Golden City with the intent of killing Rubberman, Alex Fry (Beams) and his boss desperately try to track him down before he kills them. And when it turns out that the killer is Rubberman's ex-wife seeking revenge against him, Beams finds himself facing dark magic unlike anything he has face before.

But when a legendary retired superhero shows up and offers to help Beams capture the killer, Beams thinks they might just defeat the serial killer after all.

Yet things are not as simple as they seem, because the retired superhero seems to have ulterior motives for helping Beams, and if Beams doesn't uncover them quickly, both he and Rubberman will die.

First Magic

After the events of "First Magic, " Alex Fry (Beams) heads out to a small town in West Texas to train under Rubberman's mentor, one of the first ever superheroes. Beams finds his mentor's training a bit unusual, but he expects nothing interesting to happen while out there.

When aliens suddenly start abducting cows from local ranches, however, Beams finds himself thrown into a web of intrigue, government agents, and secrets related to the origin of Rubberman himself.

And unless Beams is able to find out what the aliens want quickly, he won't be able to stop their sinister plan.

First Mentor

With war raging in the streets between superheroes and vigilantes, Alex Fry (Beams) strives to not only survive the war, but also end it before the superpowered battles completely demolish his city. In addition, Beams must decide how much longer he will continue to work for his boss and his future in the superhero business in general.

But all of that fades into the background when Beam's worst enemy blackmails him. She offers him a simple choice: Kill Rubberman, his boss, in a week, or have his identity made public and his family killed by her minions.

Now Beams must find a way to stop this mad woman while keeping his family, job, and employer safe. But with Beams' enemies closing in on all sides, this may be the end of the road for the young hero, whose decisions will impact not merely his own fate, but the destiny of everyone he loves and cares about as well.