A Shocking Surprise

Ch. 1:

High School

"Sorry, Dash. I can't walk home with you today. I've got soccer practice."

"Okay." Dash sighed. Randy's really getting busy with soccer. Well, she's always busy: soccer, volleyball, karate… Randy doesn't even have the time to walk with her best friend. I walked home … alone. Sometimes it's scary because I'm a super. I know being a super is cool but bad guys want to get revenge for catching criminals and putting them in jail and etc. I can't exactly use my powers to help me. People would notice. I don't think anyone else knows my secret identity but I'm still scared.

I wish I could tell at least someone that I'm a super. Someone that I can talk to. Sure I talk to Mom and Dad and Violet and Jack-Jack, but it's not the same. I shouldn't call him Jack-Jack anymore. He says he's not a baby anymore because his five now. Like I was saying, I wish I could talk to someone. I could tell Randy but she…she's a girl. It's not the same if I talk to a guy. But then again she's my best friend. The only other guys I talk to are the ones in my track team. Can't be on the relay team. I wouldn't know how fast to run. If I run too slow I might make the team lose. Too fast and …ya you get the point.

I guess a walk by myself is fine. It's actually calm and peaceful. Trees waving in the wind. Birds chirping their little songs. Not like the crime fighting and superhero thing that takes up most of my time.

Finally home. My back hurts. Too much homework. Sometimes I wish I had my dad's strength.

"No Miranda today?" asked Violet.

"Nope." Good thing too. She hates being called Miranda.

"Aww, I was going to ask your girlfriend to check what's wrong with my computer."

"She's not my girl friend! She's my 'best' friend!"

"I finally get to bug you for once. And you say it's the little brother's job to bug everyone."

"Just because it's my job doesn't mean that nobody else can."

"Really!" She started to grin.

I am so dumb. Now she's gonna annoy me for life. I sighed. Me and my big mouth.

"I'm gonna do my homework," I said.

"Sure… I'll tell you if your girlfriend calls."

Now I was steaming. "Why should you be talking?"

"What do ya mean?"

"It's kinda sad that you call Randy my girlfriend and you don't have one," I snapped. "You're already in university." I stuck out my tongue.

Finally done! Spanish takes forever. I wished I had an electronic dictionary. Then I wouldn't have to look up all of the words in the dictionary. (sigh) I wish I had listened in class at middle school. I would have known at least a few words. It seems like I never knew Spanish.

"I'm going outside," I yelled. "Going out for a run."

"Dad, can I volunteer?" I overheard Violet talking. "I get to show high school kids around the university. Please!"

"I have no idea why you want to do that," Dad answered. "Don't you think that's kind of boring."

I didn't leave yet. This was starting to remind me about something. Did I forget anything?

"Honey," explained Mom, "this would really help Violet with her leadership skills. Especially with Dash." She giggled.

That's what I forgot!

"Dad, I have a permission form to go to a university!" I shouted.

"What?" Dad took the form and read it. "This is to go to University of Fairsview (I made that up)"

"AAAAA!" yelled Violet. "I change my mind! Not volunteering!"

"Honey, this will improve your leadership skills," exclaimed Mom.

"At least we can trust you to take care of Dash," added Dad. "I don't really trust teachers."

"As much as I hate it that it's Violet's university, teachers are sorta forcing everyone to go." I tried to smile. It wasn't working.

"I'm not going!" Violet crossed her arms.

"You were practically begging me to let you before!" shouted Dad.

I sighed. "I'm going for a run." I don't know why I bothered. I could still hear them yelling as I went out the door. I don't think anyone heard.

"Dash, if you want to actually run you're fastest," said Mom, "you should go in your super suit."

"Okay…"

I zipped to my room and back.

"Done!" I said. "Bye, Mom." I left her before she could say anything.

A run is nice after doing homework. I know a lot of people would run straight to the computer or TV after doing their homework, but I'm different. I'm Dash and I love to run.

"Ah!" I stopped suddenly hearing a big bang. An alarm followed. I sighed. Probably another bank being robbed. "Don't worry. Dash is coming to the rescue." I said lamely. I think I'm actually hating the job of being a super. I sprinted towards the sound of the alarm. I turned around the corner. I sighed. Just a typical robbery with a typical robot thief. Wait! That's not typical! Before I knew it the robot had picked me up with one of its' arms. I couldn't run away! I don't know if I was just seeing things but it looks really similar to Symdrome's robots. Forget about Symdrome! How am I gonna get out!

Sorry that's it. It's just the first chapter. I wanted a casual start. Don't worry! It'll get better.