A couple of months later, the Maximals find themselves as the greatest superhero team in the East Coast. They think all's great with just beating a few Decepticons away form Earth, but the worst comes when they meet their match; the Predacons. The fight against wrong-doing continues on as they find out what the Predacons are actually after... (mostly based on Animated continuity)
Chapter I
Brianna packed up the rest of her supplies. Let's see…four binders, four notebooks, a truck-load of pencils, five different colored highlighters, college ruled paper already in the binders, and black pens. Was that it? Wait! Forgot the most annoying part of all! The I.D. badge. Because of all the crap that teenagers pulled, they had to wear I.D. badges.
"Hey, sis," her sibling called from the other room. "You know what today's song is?"
"What, Brittany?"
"It's the woooorst daaaay eeevveerrrrrrrr!"
"Exactly! At least we're on the same page!"
Brittany gave out a dramatic and very fake gasp. "Get out of here!"
"You know what I call this day?" their mother, Pam, shouted from the living room. "It's the most wonderful time…of the year!"
"Be quiet, Mom! You're tone deaf!" Brianna teased. She heard a soft "whatever" and checked her bag again. Today was the first day of high school for her. To Brittany, Cari, Cody, Andre, and even William, it was the first day of middle school. None of them felt like going so soon, especially since they were working shifts as the famous band of techno-organics fighting some pissed off Decepticons. Brianna looked over at the clock and noticed that the bus was to be at the stop in ten minutes.
"Tigress, get your flaming rear in gear! We gotta move it!" she shouted. The twelve-year old girl listened and swung her backpack over one shoulder. Both sisters raced out to the living room, but their mother stopped them before one could get to the door handle.
"Wait! I want a picture!" she said. The woman grabbed the camera off the dining room table.
"Come one, Mom, we'll miss it!" Brittany whined.
"Yeah, can't this wait 'till after school?" Brianna complained.
"How about this; if I don't get a picture now, you won't eat the cupcakes to celebrate the first day of school when you get back."
"Smile, ladies!" Brittany said in a preppy way, holding a pose.
*
The sisters walked to their bus stop to find they were actually a lot earlier than they intended. They noticed four other kids, high school kids like Brianna, waiting as well. One boy with long blonde hair covering his face and black shirt on bent over to get a good look at them.
"Aren't you two the dragon and tiger from the Maximals?" he asked.
Brianna sighed. "Yes, random stranger, we are…" she groaned.
"That's so awesome!"
"Yo, yo!" said the other boy. "Can you show us your powers?"
"Sorry, not in human form. Plus, it's kind of dangerous to use Tigress' fire powers near the trees."
"Aw, come on! We just wanna see them!"
"Boy, you better shut up before I stick a foot up your--!" Brittany started, cut off by her sister.
"That's just what they want, kid, shrug it off," she said. Brianna knew how well Brittany's powers had improved, as well as the other Maximals and herself. For Tigress, she could shoot it from all directions and not just the mouth; Goldwing, all electricity(like the blackout that happened on his street), not lightening from hands; Panthora, the newest power to add to her visions was telekinesis; Darkjaw could manipulate water in the air so he wouldn't need to be near a body of it; Nightfang could make some dreams come to life, but that sucked a lot of energy out of him; Biba was stronger than a wrestling champ and could punch through metal; and Icefire could make ice from thin air out of the palm of her hand. Having powers was the bomb!
"Just a little bit?" the blonde boy begged. Icefire shot him a look, both of her eyes turning electric blue; even the white sections with the pupils. The boy backed off a bit and his friend got behind him. Two of the girls standing from some other part of street had looked at them with frightened eyes.
"You've seen us on the news, you know what we can do, you've seen what we can do, you know who we are, one of them is attending the same school. What more do you want?" the dragon growled. The boys backed up some more as her eyes changed back to normal, blue-green, human eyes. She looked at her sister. "That's all you gotta do."
*
Both sisters stopped at the high school; Brittany had to meet up with a connection to another bus to get to her school. Brianna followed everyone to the courtyard outside the cafeteria and sat on a bench. She took out her map of the school and her schedule.
"Okay, homeroom's C103, and I'm over here…Okay, which way's north?" She looked for the rising sun to determine where east was so she could find north. She turned the map so it was facing her own direction. At the top of the map had the football field, so she looked straight out to see it. "Okay, good! Now, take a walk across the lawn, make a …" She turned the map to the side to follow. "…a right. Keep going until the third door to C wing and walk in! All right, simple! I think…What's the next class?…Jesus, where's that at?!"
"X110 is in the guidance building," said a male voice behind her. She turned around to see a tall African-American boy standing above her, his long braided hair against his cheeks. "It's over that way, down the hall. You can't miss it; they have the door labeled."
"Thanks, mister…?"
"My name is Abraxas."
"Whoa! That's a cool name! What is it? Hebrew?"
"African."
"Oh. Sounded like it was from the Bible or something…What grade are you in?"
"Sophomore. So we won't be seeing each other much."
"Hm. Depends. I'm in all honors class with some other sophomores and juniors," the girl smirked. "Compare my list to yours; what classes do we have?"
Abraxas obeyed order and took out his schedule from his pocket. Before he opened it, he asked Brianna for her name.
"Oh, right! Stupid me. I'm Brianna Summers." She held out a hand and the boy accepted it to shake.
"Like the dragon?" he asked.
"Exactly!" she whispered loudly. Abraxas stretched a smile across his dark face.
"I'm shaking hands with a goddess," he complimented. Brianna felt her face turn red.
"Well, I wouldn't say a goddess, but thanks! Now, about the classes…?" Apparently the only class they had together was the computer lab, first period. "Aw, that sucks!" she moaned.
"Entirely. Some of your classes involve--"
"Hey, X-ray!" a girl shouted. She was an Asian barely as tall as Abraxas and wearing black and white clothing.
"--that girl…"
The girl ran up to her friend and hugged him form the side for two full seconds. "How are you, babe?"
"Stop calling me 'babe'…" he groaned.
"Okay, babe. Hey! Who's this!" She pointed to Brianna. "Wait a second, don't tell me! Icefire, right?"
"Uh, yeah, you--Oh, who am I kidding, of course you know me."
"Totally! I saw the first fight you guys had downtown, I was there! That was so cool how all of you mashed together and made that huge thing! That--that chimera thing!"
"When that happens, we're called Bestial," Brianna corrected.
"Bestial. Make that up yourself?"
"Nah, Primus did. He just told me."
"Who?"
Brianna sighed. She didn't like telling the same stories over again to new friends, and now there wasn't enough time since they heard the bell ring.
"Holy crap, that sounds like a hotel room in the morning," Brianna groaned. "Is that how it always sounds?"
"Pretty much," the girl sighed. "Oh! By the way, I'm Luli. Luli Chen."
"Brianna Summers. Where's your class?"
"Computer."
"I'll follow you."
Luli chuckled, grabbed Abraxas by the arm and skipped away, having Brianna follow several feet behind. To the Maximal leader, this girl was more insane than her, and maybe more insane than Blitzwing. Scratch that, no one could be crazier than Blitzwing. Luli was a talkative girl, Abraxas was sort of quiet, and Brianna was just the third wheel. Middle school all over again; there was no difference with Eaglewood.
xXx
Author's Note: Eh, first chapter's never much to comment on. For some pronounciation: Abraxas (ah*BRACKS*us) Luli (LOO*lee) and some others to come. Ain't Abraxas a cool name or what?
