In this chapter, the action switches to the city of Washington, D. C., where the "guardy girls" are engaged in their usual duels with the "dr. cynical" . The narrator laments the fact that the "ultimate friends" of the city, the "ufo" and the "general" , are not moving at all. He wonders if the "real ultra ape" will be able to resist standing out too much in the face of the "flying saucer" and "the general." The narrator wonders if "superheroes" are "illegal" in an emergency, and he wonders if soldiers should be "chumming up" with "em like this." He wonders how his daughter, oliver, who is about to graduate from high school, can live in "an astounding city" when she can't even finish her studies. He is the "capital defenser" of this city for the past 25 years. He laments that he is the hero who has protected this city from the "outer space" and wonders why the "guy in the sky" should be allowed to enter. He asks the narrator to stop harping on the subject of heroism, and the narrator replies that "god didn't create all us people." He then proceeds to explain that "they did this hero stuff" as a kid, but one day, he realizes that he doesn't have enough power to "flip over the world." He says that he accepted that he had enough power, and now he is happy.