This story is 100% fictional. All characters in the story are 18+ years of age.
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The super-villain Sensorax had been terrorizing Starlight City for three days straight. Nobody knew what to do, not even the town's most powerful superhero, Dectora. Every time she tried to capture him, Sensorax used his incredibly heightened sensory perception to escape. Any trap Dectora set was instantly discovered by Sensorax's ability to hear, see, smell, taste, and feel his surroundings with incalculable detail, almost as if he possessed some form of precognition. The mischievous monster had put the entire city on high alert, and Dectora needed to find a solution quickly before Sensorax's behavior consumed everything in sight.
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"Please list all known abilities pertaining to Sensorax," Dectora asked her deep-learning computer.
"Again?" the computer responded sarcastically.
"Computer, please lower Humor Quotient down to 0%."
"Are you sure?" asked the computer. "You've always said a little laughter goes a long way."
"Now's not the time. Drop Humor Quotient to zero immediately."
The computer complied. "Yes, Dectora."
"Known abilities include, but are not limited to, heightened senses caused by last year's spill at the nuclear power plant. Sensorax, formerly known as Edgar Shaw, left behind no family or pets. His lack of personal relationships has created an insatiable craving for sensory stimulation, compelling him to consume everything around him."
"We need to find his weakness..." Dectora pondered. "Computer, please access Edgar Shaw's complete Internet history."
"Yes, Dectora."
Seconds later, thousands of website addresses flooded the screen in front of her.
"Please filter results to only show websites containing mature content."
"Yes, Dectora."
The list whittled yet still displayed thousands of results.
"Computer, please bracket websites by category, then sort by volume."
"Yes, Dectora."
The screen quickly bracketed each website into one of eighty-nine categories. One of these categories contained more than half of all the listed websites. The category read: "Foot Fetish/Sock Worship"
"Very interesting..." Detector whispered out loud. "Computer, please produce sensory profile for Edgar Shaw, including dietary preferences."
"Yes, Dectora."
Again, the screen flooded with thousands of results.
"Please filter using previous modifiers."
"Yes, Dectora."
The most populated category regarding Edgar Shaw's dietary preferences read: "Sweets"
Dectora stared at the screen for more than a minute.
"Computer, please list all available sedatives and anesthetics."
"Yes, Dectora."
Another list flooded the screen.
"Please filter list to show any sedatives or anesthetics that taste or smell sweet."
"Yes Dectora."
In less than a second, just one result remained - Chloroform. The Computer began to dictate:
"Chloroform, or trichloromethane, is an organic compound with formula CHCl3. It is a colorless, sweet-smelling, dense liquid that is produced on a large scale as a precursor to PTFE. It is also a precursor to various refrigerants. It is one of the four chloromethanes and a trihalomethane...
In industry, chloroform is produced by heating a mixture of chlorine and either chloromethane or methane.[4] At 400-500 °C, a free radical halogenation occurs, converting these precursors to progressively more chlorinated compounds...
The anesthetic qualities of chloroform were first described in 1842 in a thesis by Dr Robert Mortimer Glover which won the Harveian Medal for that year. Glover also undertook practical experiments on dogs to prove his theories. Glover further refined his theories and presented them in the thesis for his doctorate at Edinburgh University in the summer of 1847. James Y. Simpson was one of the persons required to read the thesis. Simpson later claimed to have never read the thesis and to have come to his conclusions independently.
