Despite his ongoing battle with liver cancer, 13-year-old Erik Martin, like most kids that age, wants nothing more than to be a super hero.   In what is probably the most heart-warming thing you’ll read all day, the Make-A-Wish Foundation turned Erik’s dream into reality, thanks to a little help from the entire city of Seattle, Washington.  Erik’s final wish turned into a giant role-playing event that involved the Seattle Sounders of Major League Soccer, the Space Needle, Spider-Man, a DeLorean, and hundreds of residents of the Emerald City (Seattle, not Oz).

When super villains Dr. Dark and Blackout Boy struck Seattle, kidnapping the Sounders, there was only one person who could help.   After a frantic call from Spider-Man, Erik Martin donned his costume and became Electron Boy.  He hopped into his DeLorean, and with a police escort, raced across the city to Qwest Field, freeing the Sounders.  No time to rest, as then he chased the bad guys to the Space Needle, where he bested the villains to a chorus of cheers from hundreds of onlookers.

This is quite possibly the coolest thing anyone has ever done.   Giving the kid a cool super-hero costume is one thing, but to work out a plan of this magnitude and involve hundreds of people?  That could not be any cooler.

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