Chapter 1
Bumpy Start
Will awakes from a strong and ferocious night. His body is filled with sweat. "Bad dream." He gets up and gets ready, its his first day of his Junior year at Sky High. He rushes around and grabs his shoes. They are brownish yellow. Inside one of them is his sock. He pulls oi out and puts it on his foot. He reaches for the nextone. Its not there though. He lifts his bed with one hand with ease. And there he finds his other sock.
"How did that get there?" He asks. He put on his other shoe and walks down stairs.
"Good morning, Will." His mother said.
"Morning, Mom." He replied.
"Hey, Will." His father said. "How are you doing this morning?"
"Pretty good." Will answered. "Hm, Layla is a little late." At that moment Layla barges into the Stronghold time. "Works like a charm."
"Good morning everyone." She said.
"Morning." All three of them said. A couple of minutes later Mr. and Mrs. Stronghold left for their real estate cover. After they left Will and Layla left for school. They walked to the bus stop holding hands.
"You know I could just fly us there." Will said.
"Yea, but, I like talking to Magenta and Ethan." The bus showed up on time like usual. Ron Wilson opens the door and says "Good Morning."
Will and Layla sit in the seventh seat back next to Zach, Ethan and Magenta. They did the usual swirl to school. Zach, Magenta and Ethan went to their usual class while Layla and Will went to hero class. It was the Mad Science room with Mr. Medula. He was teaching his lecture on the difference between rays and lasers.
After, Mad Science class Will went to Coach Boomer's office to help him pick Heroes and Sidekicks of the next class. Him and Coach Boomer were raised to the gym floor. The ladder then dropped down. "You may know me as Sonic Boom, you may not." He did his normal monologue.
"I always have a few winer babies, but my decision is final. Are we clear?" Like usual the kids just mumble and Will covered his ears. "Are we clearrrrrrrrr!" His pitch echoed across the room.
"Yes Coach Boomer!" The class yelled.
He picked the first person for humiliation. "Whats your name?" He asked.
"John." The boy said.
"Lets see what'cha got." John walked on stage. He changed his whole entire color of his body. "Hero!" Then Coach Boomer called upon few more up. Tree turning-sidekick, cloth shifter-sidekick, satelite hearer-hero. Then a boy named Carson came up he was blondish-brown hair and brown eyes. The girls surronded him before he got on stage. He was the cool one. "Lets, see what you got, pretty boy." Coach Boomer laughed.
"You wanna see what I got." He powered up and made electric discs that made great power.
"Hero!" Coach Boomer said. "Extraordinary." THe boy stepped down. Then the coach called up another kid. He was about 5'9 he had brown hair and brown eyes.
"Thats a bad act to follow." He said. "Okay here's-"
"C'mon lets see your power, clown."
"I can't it's hard to show. I can read other peoples moves, but only when I have to."
"How coincidental." Coach Boomer said. "Sidekick."
"Bad Call." The boy said. While getting off the stage Will noticed that but, he didn't say much. They finished soon after that. It was lunch time the bell had rung. The kids whose powers got shot down wlaked meaninglessly around looking for a place to sit.
"Hey, Kid." A voice called. The kid looked around and he saw Will sitting with his friends. "Come sit with us." He said. The adolescent walked over to them.
"You were Coach Boomer's helper right?" The kid said.
"Yea, I like you though, you remind me alot of myself when I was your age. What's your name bye the way?" Will asked.
"Its Arden." He said.
"Nice to meet you, Arden. This is Ethan sitting next to me." He pointed to Ethan. "Next to him is Zach and across from him is Magenta. Sitting next to her is Warren and then Layla."
"Nice to meet you all." He laughed.
"What's your power?" Ethan asked as Arden took a seat next to Zach.
"I don't know what its called, but I know how it feels. I can predict other person's fighting abilities." Arden said.
"You were put into Hero class then, right?" Layla inquisited.
"No, Coach Boomer didn't believe him. He's a sidekick." Will said.
"Don't worry Layla and Will both started out in Sidekick class, but then were promoted to Hero after seeing their powers." Warren laughed.
"Yea, but your the Commander and Jetstream's son." Arden argued. "Everyone expected you to be great."
"Arden, as a freshmen I didn't have any powers, besides when I did nobody really liked me until I became myself again." Will commented.
"Well I guess," his words started to get slurred as he stared at another freshmen. Haley Johnston.
"Who's that?" Magenta asked.
"Its Haley Johnston." She was a blonde with blue eyes.
"What's her power?" Ethan asked.
"Its control over animals." He said. "She got hero class for that."
"She should be able to control Warren then." Zach joked.
"You ever say that again and you will have to have Magenta put ice on her lips to kiss you." Warren said.
"Not many people, especailly girls, are into us sidekicks, trust me." Ethan said.
"Your a sidekick!" Arden was surprised.
"Yea, so is Zach and Magenta." Ethan said. "I melt."
"I glow." Zach said.
"Zach you gotta say something else thats just too depressing." Will laughed.
"I shapeshift into a guiena pig and a squirrel." Magenta said.
"Next, is a hamster." Arden joked. Magenta was not amused though. "What does Layla do?" Arden quickly changed the conversation.
"I have control over plants." She replied.
"And everyone that goes to this school know what Warren and Will can do." Arden said. "I heard you guys are undefeated. I mean your flying and super strength and his fire. You guys are like unbeatable."
The lunch bell rang and it was back off to class. Will just couldn't stop thinking about Arden. He knew the adversity that he had felt, even though the girl he liked was an evil psychopath. He was glad he could befriend the boy and maybe go hang out with him.
After school Will walked Layla to her house. He gave her a kiss good-bye and then went home. When he got home he saw his parents rushing to the Secret Sanctum. He's been waiting to go with them on thier battles of evil, but he couldn't do it until his first day of his Junior year and he just missed his oppurtunity.
He did his usual when he see's his parents rush out through the Secret Sanctum. He flicked on the tube and watched the news. He couldn't quite describe what was going on this time. Usually, they just attack a giant rampaging monster. This time though, there was a man standing in the middle of the air. It seemed like his father was talking to him something also very different. Then it hit him. That's Barren Battle.
"How did he get out?" Will asked out loud. He picked up the phone and called Warren. "Hey, did you know your dads out of prison?"
"What are you talking about?" Warren asked.
"Turn your T.V. to channel 6." Will said quickly.
"Yea, thats him alright." Then all Will heard was the unpleasent ringing sound of a phone hung up. He kept a close eye on the television screen.
"Oh dear God." Will yelled as he saw his parents get thrown about by Barren's whirlwinds. Once the Commander hit the ground Barren's whirlwinds took a number on him. Even if Jetstream got close to him her attacks were futile to Barren's strength.
"I have to help them." Will said. He ran towards the Secret Sanctum. He changed into his uniform and flew out towards the city. He saw his parents almost completely destroyed by Barren. He landed about three blocks away from the battle sight. He started to run from there hopefully not seen by Barren. Then, the car next to him flew up into the air. He saw his father welded with the hood of the car. Will stopped. "Dad?"
"Will, what are you doing here?" His dad yelled. "It's too dangerous."
"You two are being defeated." Will yelled. Will then took off flying."
"Wait!" His dad yelled. "Can you give me a ride." Will took off towards Barren. Barren saw him and laughed. Whirlwinds of rapid air came at him. Cars flew at him sending Will to the ground. Barren lowered himself a little to try to finish him not knowing Will's power. Then a flame blast hit Barren.
"Father! Leave him be." A dark voice yelled.
"If it isn't, Warren, my only son. How's your mom?" Barren laughed. "Let's see you get out of this one Hothead." Warren's flames went out. Lik Medula said "No air, no flame."
Will started to fly again at Barren, but then was hit into the ground yet again.
"Sit down." The masked man said. "What's your name?"
"Wi-, Megakid." Will yelled. "What's yours?"
"Shockwave." Then static flew through Williams body as if he was a metal conductor. The Commander picked up Shockwave and trhew him.
"Are you okay, Will?" Steve asked.
"Yea," Will said. He Shockwave not that hurt get back up. "Look out, Dad!" Two cars came crashing inot The Commander.
"Nooooooo!" Will yelled. Then Shockwave jolted Will into the brown alley across the way and into trash cans.
Warren was still trying to get past his fathers wind barrier around him. Will didn't know at all where his mother was, last time he saw her she was smashed into a building.
"Shockwave." Barren yelled through the wind. The wind took the words to Shockwave.
"Yes, Barren." Shockwave said through his walky-talky.
"Jam the radio signals." At hearing that through the wind Shockwave lifted his arm and electricity raised into the atmosphere making the area around them have no satelite or radio transmissions. Also, all the electricity went out.
Will got back up again, hurt but not that bad. He noticed what had happened. The radio signal has been jammed and Barren created a vortex around the city. Will ran frantically to catch up with Shockwave. He was too hurt to fly towards him.
"Shockwave, lets get what we came for." Barren said through the wind again.
"Right." He ran to the state prison and broke open two doors. Then the electricity and wind were gone. So was Barren and Shockwave.
Will found his fatehr okay, just a little bumped. Then they found his mom in the seventh story of the Bank of Maxville. She had a wall on her leg. "Are you okay, Mom?" Will yelled.
"Yes, I think I broke my leg though." Josie said.
"Let me help your mother, see how Warren is doing."
Will ran to Warren's aid. He found him. He was okay. "So that's your dad." Will panted.
"Yup, that's my dad." Warren replied painstakingly.
"What was he after?" Will said, examining the two holes in the prison.
"I don't know!"
