Disclaimer;; I do not own any of the characters, or Sky High.
This story is purely for personally entertainment, not profit.
This is also fiction, severe doubts to whether it actually happened.
"Miranda! Miranda, open the door!" Lizzie Maguire shouted through the door.
"No, Lizzie, go away!" The brunette shouted back at her best friend, "I'm okay."
Lizzie sighed and gave up, turning on her heel and retreating downstairs to David 'Gordo' Gordon.
Miranda Sanchez turned around and opened her palm that had been clenched for mere minutes. A large tongue of fire erupted from her tanned skin, leaving her hand warm to the touch, but otherwise unharmed. She studied her hand curiously, trying to tame the shaking.
This hadn't been the first time it had happened. Random bursts on flame regularly vacated her hands and mouth.
She dropped down onto her tartan-clad bed, burying her head in the soft pillows.
"What the fuck is wrong with me?" she cried, staring at her clenched fists.
Lizzie walked back into Miranda's sitting room, dropping her body into the soft red couch.
"What's up?" Gordo asked, "Is she okay?"
"I don't know. She wouldn't let me in."
"Do you think we should leave?" Gordo mused, more thinking out loud than asking Lizzie's advise, "I feel weird staying here."
Lizzie nodded in agreement and they stood, collecting their belongings from the room, and leaving a note for Miranda, saying they had left, and they hoped she was okay.
Lizzie walked out the door into the sunshine ahead of Gordo, who paused at the door, to look back and throw a longing glance at Miranda's bedroom door. He slowly walked outside, closing the door behind him.
Miranda heard the door close and jumped off her bed, rushing to the window. She peered out through her closed curtains and saw her best friends walking away from her house. She sighed and walked to her computer desk. She fell into the chair and turned her computer on, opening her search engine.
She carefully typed 'pyrokinetic' into the search bar, holding her breath for the results.
She scanned down the information page on Pyrokinetics, checking off in her mind all the parts that applied to her.
"Great." She sighed, "I'm a freak!"
Suddenly, a new message alert popped up on her screen. She jumped slightly, then calmed herself. She logged onto her email server, expecting to see a new email from Lizzie or Gordo, asking her what was wrong. What she found though, was something else, something she definitely not expecting.
The sender name was Sky High.
Warily, she opened the message, and a full-blown brochure for a high school popped onto her screen.
She skimmed over it at first, and nothing seemed untoward; then something caught her eye. At the bottom, and huge blue and red banner flashed the words.
'School For people with Supernatural powers.'
She quickly hit the close screen button and switched her computer off. She sat back in her chair and threw her head back, running over everything that she'd just read.
If the search engine was right, then she was pyrokinetic. Making her… supernatural.
The ad had said the school was near where she lived, and had an attachment to apply there.
She thought long and hard about it, and in the end only saw one option.
She dragged herself out of the chair and trudged downstairs. Her mom was sitting at the table, reading a book. Miranda set herself down across from her mother.
"Mama, do you believe in…. uh… superheroes?"
Daniela Sanchez stopped and looked up at her child.
"Ay, menina!" she started, "I'd hoped you'd ask soon, the summer's nearly over." A smile spread across her small round face.
"I assume you've discovered you're a little…Different?"
Miranda nodded.
"See, neither your father or I have powers, but your abuela, ay! She was the fastest moving thing I've ever seen."
Miranda was shocked. Her grandmother was small and frail, but then again she doubted being a superhero meant being immortal.
"So, there's a school?" Miranda asked, chewing her lip.
"Yes, Sky High. I was supposed to go there, but when I never developed powers, that wouldn't let me in." Daniela frowned. She shook her head and continued, "So… show me what you can do!" She beamed at her daughter.
Miranda stood up, inhaled deeply.
She looked down at the ground, and suddenly her arms burst into wild flames, her soft brown eyes glowing red and the roots of her dark brown hair glowing crimson. Miranda's mother sat with her mouth touching the ground.
"Ay, bebé!! Soy muy orgulhoso!!"
"Um, Mom, that's not it." Miranda cut off her mother's rant.
Her mother stopped, stock silent.
"I can, kind of… move things, too." She explained, the reached out her now flameless arm and within seconds, the can of soda that had been sitting on the worktop was floating quietly towards her.
Daniela swelled with pride, tears brimming her deep brown eyes.
"Come on, we're going to register you at Sky High, Right now!"