-1First I have to say I do not own Sky High or any of their trade marks in any way. Second, this is a spin off of a good friend of mine's story. Her pen name is Sexy Heather and I highly suggest you read hers first.
The New Kid
It really sucks being the new kid at high school, especially when it's at Sky High and your first year is your senior year. I wasn't born with my powers, that set me apart even more, and I wasn't going to be a freshman again just because I was going to a "super community" school now.
My Dad was one of those evil genius super villains you hear about and naturally was extremely disappointed when I was his only of 3 children born with out a super human brain, let alone no powers at all. So I became the test subject for all his evil experiments, lucky me. The only thing that kept me sane was this "failed experiment" of my dad's to create a super animal out of a tree frog and instead only increased its life span. He gave it to me for my 6th birthday. I loved amphibians; all my friends even call me Toad. This is rather ironic due to the fact that I now have the powers of said amphibious creature… sort of.
The first day of summer vacation after my junior year (excellent season of Ultimate Frisbee by the way, shut up I'm a geek but I'll get to that later) my dad grabbed me from my room yelling about how excited he was about his new transporter device he just finished. I put my pet tree frog Spot back on the edge of his tank as my dad pulled me out the door and down to the lab.
"It my greatest invention yet!" I had heard that one a million times. "And you get to be the first one to try it." Yet again very familiar.
When I saw it I immediately recognized it as a teleporter from many sci-fi movies I'd seen before. You've seen it too, 2 cylinder pods on either end of a room with a bunch of wires and tubes coming out of each one and a weird shaped glass door on the front. My Dad went on and on about how it worked, something about the "disassembly and reassembly of molecules" but I ignored him wondering about the look of the machine. Why does he always have to make it all funny and sci-fi looking? I'm sure it would still be functional if it looked practical, and the whole sci-fi look had to increase the budget, he could have saved some money by making them rectangle and throwing some glass doors from Home Depot on there.
"Don't just stand there gawking get in!" My dad was getting impatient. I opened the door to the pod on the left and stepped inside. He stood behind this giant computer and started the thing up and a bunch of green lights blinked above my head. I traced the wires with my eyes and saw they were hooked up directly to the power source and from taking basic electronics knew they weren't necessary for the machine to function.
"More stuff for show" I thought "This guy could really save some money if he weren't so much about showman ship, who does he think he is Dr.Doom?"
As the floor panel lit up white I saw something on my shoe that wasn't supposed to be there. I bent down to get a closer look and it was Spot!
"You must of jumped down off your tank as I left the room" I said to Spot. "You missed me how cute." As I picked Spot off my converse we were surrounded by white smoke and I started to feel really weird. Of course for me this was normal because I tested all of dad's "creations" so I just relaxed and waited for this to be over. I looked down at Spot clinging to my index finger "look like you're going on a trip across the room with me buddy."
I looked up as dad gave me an excited thumbs up and pressed one last button. There was a flash of light and I was all of a sudden looking at the other side of the room. My dad jerked open the door and started jumping up and down in excitement.
"IT WORKED! It worked! It worked! It worked!" He chanted "I am a super genius." He struck a goofy pose. "It worked! Well except for that." He said as he pointed at my hair. I looked in a near by mirror and my short spiky blond hair was now a bright green.
"It might be because of those green lights you put in there" I said as I ran my fingers through it.
"Don't criticize my work!" My dad yelled as he pointed a finger at me, he then scribbled "try excluding green lights" on the board that held the schematics to his new machine. As he grabbed a tool I never saw in shop class I walked back toward my room. I opened the door and reached for Spot who I assumed was still attached to my finger but my hand came up empty. Spot was gone. I instantly thought of that movie "The Fly" and knew what had happened.
I could tell you all about what happened next and how I tried to hide it from my dad who would now doubt make me his evil minion if he found out I had the powers of a tree frog but it's all boring and the only point of telling you that story would be so you would know about how I got my powers. And now that you know the rest of the story is pointless.
Later that summer dad tried to teleport into the safe of a bank and take all the money when he realized he only made a one-way teleporter; he was stuck in the safe, some super genius. He was arrested and put in a super villain rehabilitation center. I was put with a local super family whose son had a rather interesting power… he could glow. When they found out I had powers they enrolled me in Sky High which puts me back at the beginning of the story, I'm the new guy at Sky High.