Tag: Max Mercer
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Max: A Funny Fire Station Superhero Story
Max Mercer visits a fire station for an extinguisher recharge. One false alarm, an upward trip on the fire pole, and a runaway foam cannon later, he’s the only thing standing—or sliding—between Smoke Screen and the municipal records archive. Read more
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Seed You Later, Svalbard: A Funny Svalbard Seed Vault Adventure
Max Mercer travels to Svalbard to replace one door gasket. Instead, he faces the Frost Baron, runaway seed carts, and a fox with a taste for instruction manuals. Can the world’s least intentional hero save the samples without turning a maintenance call into an international incident? Read more
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The Sole Survivor: A Funny Shoe Store Mystery
Left shoes are vanishing from Lena Last’s repair shop, and Max Mercer is on the case. Armed with tracking insoles and dangerously enthusiastic gadgets, The Misfire stumbles into a vault robbery where putting every foot wrong might be the only way to save the day. Read more
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The Fortune Cookie Felony: A Funny Fortune Cookie Mystery
Max Mercer investigates fortune cookies that predict local burglaries. After eating a crucial clue and wrecking a printer with plum sauce, he sends a criminal crew toward the worst possible dinner reservation. Enjoy Chapter 5 of The Misfire: Chaos for Hire, where every plan backfires into success. Read more
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Tulip Bubble Trouble: A Funny Amsterdam Superhero Adventure
Max Mercer only wants to return his rental bicycle. Instead, he derails Baron Bulb’s flower-auction scam and leads a fleet of stolen tulips straight to the police. Amsterdam has never seen a bicycle return quite like this. Read more
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News at Eleven, Disaster at Ten: A Funny Superhero Television Interview
Max Mercer only wants to read two sentences and thank the real heroes. Instead, his first live television interview becomes a battle against the Broadcaster’s mind-control signal—with malfunctioning cameras, a disastrous weather forecast, and the loudest apology in television history. Read more
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Chapter 4: The Million-Dollar Mutt: A Funny Detective Story With a Dog
A wealthy countess hires Max Mercer to recover her missing championship dog and its million-dollar collar. Instead, a pastrami-confused scent scanner leads him to the wrong bulldog, a crooked laundromat, and a fortune in counterfeit cash. Somehow, that is exactly where he needs to be. Read more
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Chapter 4: The Loch Ness Mess
Max Mercer only wants to recover a professor’s lost sonar buoy. Instead, an inflatable bagpipe, a rented kilt, a flying haggis, and one deeply judgmental Highland cow expose a cybercriminal submarine in the middle of a Loch Ness festival parade. Read more
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Chapter 12: The Villain Orientation Seminar
Max Mercer reports to the wrong office and accidentally joins Henchmen Local 404. One broken projector, a badly paired security clicker, and a very realistic fire drill later, every hostage is free—and an entire supervillain organization has marched straight into police custody. Read more
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Chapter 1: Every Plan Backfires… Into Success
Max Mercer only wanted to deliver coffee. Instead, he tripped an alarm, soaked an AI supercomputer, and accidentally saved humanity from extinction. Fired and drenched, Max walks away thinking he’s a failure—unaware he just became the world’s most chaotic new hero: The Misfire. Read more