UPDATED yes I know I've been gone for so long my poor readers and I apologize :( I've just not been able to think of anything! Complete and total mental block SO in order to do something I've decided to go back through and redo the first chapters of "The Softer Side of Hotstreak" because I know they suck monkey balls and no one likes that. So hears the first updated chapter and if anyone has any ideas for something you'd like to see please let me know. If I know the anime/cartoon/whatever well enough then I'll definitely give it a shot.
Note: I do not own anything involved with the show/comic "Static Shock" although I will admit to having kidnapped Hotstreak and now have him bound and gagged in my room on his fire proof bed.
Hotstreaks POV:
Hard as I tried, I just couldn't understand why I was doing this. I had always hated Dakota Union High, hated the stupid kids running around, the teachers, the work everything about it just made my blood boil. Then why go back? Well thats a good question. Being extremely board can drive someone to do almost anything. I of all people know the lengths one will go to in order to quench relentless boredom, especially since the bang. Well it did give me a chance to wreak some havoc on all the unsuspecting people of that forsaken place.
It was late when I finally decided to grace them with my presence. Hay, I never claimed to be some kind of saint. They should be happy to have me there to begin with. Instead of going to class I decided to wander around the halls until lunch (Which was only a period away) I was starving and I tend to be more agreeable on a full stomach. Well, less disagreeable then I am when I'm hungry at least.
I wasn't looking forward to lunch because of how good the food tastes. On the contrary, I couldn't think of anything more disgusting, but it was the only food available and since the bang I burn off a lot more calories then I used to.
Once in the lunch room I immediately saw the table where a few of my old running mates were hanging out at. They were one of the few of my group that hadn't shown up to the docks. All of them had different reasons, none of which I understood. I was still bitter about them ditching us on the most important night of our lives. They had missed the bang that had contaminated me and the others there that night, though I didn't know if they were lucky or had missed out on the best thing that could have ever happened.
It was still a bitter sweet subject for me. Yes it had had been the best day of my life. It had made me stronger than ever before and opened up new windows for me that I never would have imagined in my wildest dreams, but I still remembered the members in my crew who weren't so lucky. Most didn't survive the mutations or lost their minds to it. So when I imagined my few remaining crew members being there I saw both new meta-human running mates and a few more new gang banger headstones.
As I walked to the table I enjoyed the looks of surprise and fear on their faces. As I sat down and began to chat with them I just enjoyed the view. I knew they didn't want to talk to me. Ever since the bang all the normal people were too afraid to interact with me and they had a legitimate fear of my retaliation for abandoning me and the rest of the crew.
It was a good while after I had gotten my food and gotten comfortable at the table when I saw him. I had gotten bored with the pathetic fear that kept my old crew planted in their seats, forcing small talk with the predator in their midsts. It had been a good ten minutes after the last person had come in.
Though he was at the other end of the lunch room I knew who it was. I could pick out Virgil Hawkins a mile away. I started to get up, ready to pick up where I left off with him the last time we met, but stopped when I realized something about him was off. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but there was definitely something going on and what pissed me off the most was the fact I was actually...well we'll just go with curious.
Everything that happened only a moment ago was forgotten when Virgil's and my eyes met. He was shocked to say the least, but there wasn't the normal fear in his eyes that I used to see. Something had happened to him, something that changed him from the wimp he was before. I could feel the need to know why spread through every part of my body like a roaring hell fire spreading through a sun parched forest.
I don't know how long we stayed like that, looking at each other. It was as if time stood still. I searched his eyes to try and find the answers I was looking for, but just as I thought I was close to finding something he turned and left just as soon as he had come. A darker part of my mind made me wonder if he had finally joined a gang. I knew Wade had tried to get him to join his crew, but after the bang no one knew what happened to him. What if he'd found another crew to run with?...No...He still had that certain innocence about him, an innocence he would loose the moment he went through gang initiation. If that wasn't it then what was going on? I waited a few minutes before leaving so I wouldn't look suspicious. I needed to know what exactly was going on one way or another.