- Joanna Anderson -

The cops took her advice and started to run away. Not satisfied with this, Joanna reached down and picked up the police car. She threw the car at the cops, hitting and immediately crushing them. The force of the throw caused the car to compress to only inches high, and to embed itself into the pavement.

"I'm completely invincible!," Joanna thought. "I wonder just how strong I really am."

Joanna looked across the road and spotted an office tower. She walked over to it. Crouching down and sinking her hands into the side of the building, she began to raise up with her legs. There was a horrendous noise as the building was torn out of the ground! Joanna was surprised at just how easy that had been and wanted to see if she could hold it up with just one hand. She therefore began to tilt the building to get it centered over her head. But as she was tilting it, the weight transfer from the building footers to just the area of her feet, was too much pressure for the groung to handle, and her feet sank over a foot into the ground. Intent upon getting the building properly balanced, Joanna didn't notice this. But she did notice when she heard a loud crack and fell into water up to her nose.

The ground had given way and Joanna was now in a reinforced concrete sewage tunnel under the building.

"God it stinks in here!" She inadvertantly swallowed a gulp of water.

"Oh yuch" she said in disgust as she spit it out. The tunnel was completely dark; there were no installed lights, and the building she held above her blocked the sunlight. Joanna began to panic but thought to herself, "Well, I'll just toss the building off of me, then I can swim up and get out of here." So she cocked her arms back a bit to get additional leverage, then gave a mighty heave.

What she hadn't counted on was the physics principle of action/reaction, or in this case just reaction. For when she tried to heave the building, the floor of the tunnel gave way instead and Joanna sunk up to her knees. This put her head completely under water. Joanna panicked and let go of the building. The building immediately smashed down on her head, but her head was much the stronger and harder. Her head crashed through the bottom concrete floor of the building; the building continued to fall down until it rested on her shoulders. Raw sewage immediately flooded into the building through the hole in the floor around her neck.

Joanna also noticed that she was sinking lower. When her feet had broken through the floor of the sewage tunnel, it had left a hole around her legs. The water from the tunnel was flowing into that hole and softening the underlying soil, turning it to mud. It was obvious to Joanna that it would be impossible for her to climb out of the hole. Meanwhile, at ground level, when Joanna had lifted the building from the ground, the gas main serving the building had been torn open. Also, the electrical power cables for the building had severed. The combination of leaking gas and electrical sparks had caused the gas to ignite into a huge fireball. The gas continued to burn at the main with the force of a jet engine. Although initially directed straight up, the force of the flames caused the gas main to shift, and the flames ignited the building. Joanna was unaware of this.