Chapter 1: Awakening

Hiro

Hiro woke up, he looked around, he seemed to be in some kind of pod. The last thing he could remember was him, Gogo, Honey Lemon, and Tadashi visiting Gotham city, and suddenly there was this wave of light. Then he blacked out. The pod suddenly opened, and he discovered that he was in some kind of ship. He looked down at his outfit, it had changed. He now wore a red shirt with a lightning bolt in the center of it, a yellow jacket, blue jeans, and sneakers. He touched his face and discovered that he was wearing a mask; he took it off and discovered it was red with white eyes. Additionally he had a backpack on his back. He looked over to one of the one of the other pods which had opened. He saw on the ground, Gogo, she was wearing a red mask with white eyes. She had on a white shirt with a fireball in the center of it. She was wearing red pants, and white sneakers. Over to his right, Tadashi was wearing a plain black shirt, a red jacket, black pants, and red sneakers; he was also wearing a black mask with white eyes. Directly ahead of Hiro was Honey Lemon. She was wearing a pink mask, with white eyes. She was wearing a pink shirt with a book on it, and a white skirt with pink sneakers. Hiro took off his backpack, discovering it was red. He looked inside and pulled out two pistols, there was a note attached to them. It said they never run out of ammo. He looked over at Gogo, she pulled out a long staff from her backpack. Honey Lemon pulled a book out of her pink backpack. And Tadashi pulled out a bow and a quiver from his satchel. Hiro pulled out a small square device, suddenly there was someone on it. The four got together and the person began to talk.

"Oh good, you're all awake and free, whew, ok I'm Oracle and we need to get you off that ship, look for a door."

The four looked around, and found a door. They opened it to find four security robots of some kind. They looked at each other, they all knew that they had to do something; otherwise they would be in trouble. Hiro pointed his pistols at the first one, and pulled on the trigger. Suddenly a successive group of bullets came out of the guns. Tadashi, noticing that one of the robots was about to fire at Hiro, loaded and fired an arrow at the robot. It broke apart under the pressure. Hiro stopped firing and Gogo ran in and swiped the other three to bits with her staff.

"Oh no, the ship knows your awake, quick hurry into the next room."

The four made their way through the hallway, they came through another one the doors and discovered a very large and angry robot. Gogo charged, it lunged at her and she rolled out of the way. Tadashi fired an arrow, but it simply bounced off. Hiro fired his pistols, but the bullets did no damage. Honey Lemon jumped out of the way of one of the attacks, and opened her book. She turned to a random page, it had some strange words she did not understand, but for lack of a better idea, she spoke the words aloud. Suddenly the robot was trapped in some kind of red and pink circle on the ground. After a short time, it broke free from the circle and charged at Honey Lemon. Gogo lifted her hand, as if to throw something, and suddenly a fireball appeared in her hand. She threw it at the robot. It turned, and faced her. Tadashi started going through his satchel until he found some kind of long wire. He tossed one end of it at the creature, and it was electrocuted. But it was not done yet, it began to charge at Tadashi, so Hiro shoved his hand forward, and suddenly a lightning bolt came out of his hand and struck the robot. It broke to pieces. The communicator activated again.

"That was an overseer, try to get out of their patrol range. Look for a maintenance tube above you."

They saw a door open, but it was far above them, they had no idea how to reach it.

"How are we supposed to get up there? It's not like we can run up walls." Hiro said.

"Yeah we'd have to be able to fly." Gogo said.

"Or climb walls." Tadashi said.

"Well there has to be a way." Honey Lemon said.

Hiro decided to take it at a running start, and suddenly he ran up the wall. Tadashi climbed it, Gogo started to fly and flew up to the tube, and Honey Lemon cast a spell, and two square platforms appeared, she summoned two more and kept summoning until she had a set of stairs, she then simply walked up the stairs. They ran down the tube, Hiro made it first and waited for the others to catch up. After a few minutes they caught up with him. They all were confused as to how they had gained powers, but they knew first they had to escape the ship and then they would get their answers. They walked into a room, more security, they fought off the security. And finally they ended up in a strange room, and all of a sudden they were separated. They found themselves in holographic rooms, designed to give them specific challenges.

"Ok, if you can reach the end of these holographic simulators you can reach the main power source to the ship, destroy it and the ship we be exposed and I can get you out of there." Oracle said to them.

Hiro walked forward into the room, he knew he had to get through. At first the environment was simply blue, nothing else just blue, then suddenly it changed. He was back at the college, the night of the science fair. He walked inside, he was invisible to the people in the room. Then, they all vanished. He saw himself standing there, but it was him dressed like he was now. The holo-Hiro lifted his hand, and a gun appeared in it. He fired it up in the air, and two more people appeared next to him. The first one was Tadashi, or a holographic version, and the second was the super hero Kid Flash. Long ago Hiro had figured out who Kid flash really was, but he kept it to himself.

"Leave, abandon your mission, join Brainiac, you cannot resist, your powers are his." Holo-Hiro said.

"I'll never join Brainiac!" Hiro replied.

"Very well, then you shall die." Holo-Hiro replied.

And suddenly they attacked. The first to attack was Tadashi, he pulled out a long electric cord, and he threw one end at Hiro. Hiro started using his super-speed to run out of the way, Kid Flash began following him. Keeping up with his pace, Hiro summoned an electric blast, and shot Kid Flash down, suddenly he was gone. Kid flash had vanished. Then Hiro realized that the simulation thought he had defeated him, all he needed to do was beat them and the simulation would end, then he could rejoin his team and work with his friends. Hiro ran toward Tadashi at full speed, knocking him down. He pulled out his pistol and fired two shots, and Tadashi vanished. Holo-Hiro stood on the stage, he wore the controlling band for the microbots. Suddenly Hiro was surrounded by microbots, and they were binding his feet. Hiro shot a blast of lightning, and a few of them short circuited. Hiro pulled out his pistol and fired at Holo-Hiro. He blocked it with microbots. Hiro searched the room for a possible play on beating him. He saw it, there above the stage, there were a bunch of lights and there was one right above holo-Hiro. Hiro fired a shot right at the stage light connector, and it fell. It smashed Holo-Hiro. And he vanished. Suddenly everything became blue again, and there was a door in front of Hiro. He walked forward through the door and saw the others waiting for him. He immediately hugged his brother, and then they continued. They found the main power core, and destroyed it.

"Alright, I've got a teleport lock on you. And teleporting now." Oracle said.

Suddenly they were all standing in a police station.

"Where are we?" Tadashi asked Oracle.

"How did we gain powers?" Gogo asked.

"Why were we on a Brainiac ship?" Honey Lemon asked.

"Where you are, is Gotham's east end prescient. Now how you gained power is a bit more complex. In the future, one where this never happened, Brainiac took over completely, now future Lex Luthor he stole exobyte technology from Brainiac and came back in time, the wave of light you saw was him releasing it on earth, and thus giving you your powers. You were one a Brainiac ship because he wanted to swipe your powers and use them to win the war against superheroes."

"Are we able to get back to our home?" Hiro asked.

"No, I'm afraid Brainiac has bottled up every city in the world, no one can get through."

There was a long pause.

"I think it's the league's responsibility to train you but there are four problems right now, and they are very bad. Each of you is being assigned a nearby hero who has similar powers to yours who can help you gain mastery over them. Since there are four different crises I'm sending coordinates to your maps, your partner will meet you there. And be careful, while your weapons can only stun the villains will not be so nice."

The communicator shut off, they knew they would have to separate.

"Stay safe Hiro, Tadashi, Honey Lemon." Gogo said, and then she flew off.

"Be careful, don't do anything stupid." Honey Lemon said before stepping through a portal.

"Come back alive Hiro." Tadashi said.

"As long as you promise to do the same." Hiro said, and then they went their separate ways, not knowing if they would meet again.