Disclaimer: I do not own Sky High.
Summary: A deeper look into Layla's new use of her powers, fighting Penny.
Power
All she can see, right then, are blurs of brown and orange. White teeth flash against dark, glossy lips, and Layla ducks down and sideways, almost tripping on the hem of her green dress.
In front of her, Penny smirks, if it is the real Penny, five look-a-like's clapping their hands and kicking sneaker-covered feet in a parody of a cheer. Leila can hear it, thrumming in time to her heartbeat, pounding hard enough to make her dizzy.
Go Penny,beat Layla! Go Penny,beat Layla!
A copy swerves in from the right, and Leila dodges again, eyes snapping towards the dark girl—
--and a hard, snapping blow catches her cheek, throwing her head back so forcefully she hears her neck crick.
Right when Penny's fist lands hard on her cheek, something clicks inside Layla—like a little slip of bone she never knew was out of place, but now that it's back, she can do so much more. A deep breath fills her lungs, farther than ever before, and she feels every green thing breathing with her—not just lima beans, like she told Warren. Not just little slips of moss and grass that snuck inside. This time, she feels every tree and bush outside the window straining, stomata sucking in the air and breathing out again with her, leaves and flowers swelling with this new-found energy.
"Bad idea."
Her arms swoop out, like she has seen all her life in cheesy cartoons and superhero movies, and she understands now why the dramatic actions are used. Power trickles through her arms like the veins in leaves, spreading out to fill each and every capillary until her fingers feel like they're going to burst, and she snaps her hands together, clapping them like a thunderbolt, and sprays of glass slice into her neck and bared back, but she doesn't mind too much, because her head is filled with the voices of green things, screaming for justice towards that which hurt their plant-not-a-plant friend.
Layla smiles. The trees smile with her, and grow.
A/N: I've just edited this for the name spelling; I'd originally used "Leila" instead of the actual "Layla" because I've never read the book. Just the movie. So, That's fixed, and I put in the lines. Hope you like it.