Kihonne: Hey everyone. For those of you who don't know me, I'm Kihonne, and this is my latest story, The Days of Our Lives, featuring my newest OC, Dani! So, usually, I take shows like this and add in a few characters, simply because there are some changes I feel need to be made. I already did this for Lab Rats (if you haven't read it, I suggest you check out The Lab Assistant), and with the new series Elite Force out, I felt that I should do the same for Mighty Med. It should be interesting – usually, I focus more on the more dramatic parts of a series, but Mighty Med is so light-hearted that it'll be a nice change of pace for me. Anyway, I don't want to waste much more of your time, so let's get onto the first chapter, shall we?
Oliver: Kihonne doesn't own Mighty Med. She only owns her OC, Dani, and anything else you don't recognize from the series.
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Oliver's POV
It was an ordinary Sunday afternoon, much like every Sunday afternoon. The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and as per usual, I was spending the afternoon at the local comic book store with my two favorite people in the world: Kaz and Dani.
"Okay, Kaz," I looked up at my best friend. The dark-haired fifteen year old guy glanced up at me for a moment, "Would you rather have Freeze Frame's power to stop time but you have to talk like a chicken, or Tecton's immunity to pain, but you'd have to wear a diaper."
"Oh, I'd wear a diaper, for two reasons" Kaz decided, "Number one…and number two."
I smirked and fist bumped him before glancing over my shoulder. "What about you, Dani? A pain-free, diaper-wearing life, or a chicken-talking, time-stopping one?"
"I'm with Kaz on the diaper thing." My twin sister replied, looking up from the stack of comic books she'd been examining. Her auburn hair, styled in a straight slanted bob that ended just below her jaw line, was in her face again, though it didn't seem to bother her. "The diapers would just save so much time too."
"Agreed," Kaz grinned. Suddenly, he caught sight of one of the props that were for sale. "Guys, there it is," He walked over to a display case, picking up a miniature meteorite on a stick, "the Meteorite of Zandor."
"It's the source of Tecton's immeasurable powers." Dani sighed, looking at it with envious, forest green eyes, "It's so cool."
"I have to have this," Kaz agreed, "Hidden in the Earth's core for millions of years, forged from a supernova in the Balazar Galaxy-"
"It says made in Taiwan," I pointed out.
"Well, I still want it," Kaz replied, glancing at the price tag, "But I'll never be able to afford it."
"Everything here is way over-priced," Dani complained.
"Yes, but we can still pose with it," I pointed out. Both of them grinned at the idea.
"Commemorative fake photo?" Kaz suggested. Dani and I posed with the meteorite while Kaz pretended to take a picture of the three of us. Most people think it's weird that we take these photos, but it was kinda our thing, so we didn't care what they thought.
"Dude, you blinked!" Dani accused, pretending to look at the photo Kaz took.
Suddenly, the sound of someone clearing their throat caught our attention. We looked up to see Wallace and Clyde, the two owners of the comic book store, standing in front of us. There were twins, like Dani and I, except they were identical. Hell, they even had identical haircuts. The only way to tell them apart was that Clyde wears glasses and Wallace does not.
"We'll take that, thank you," Wallace said, taking the prop out of Kaz's hands and handing it to his brother.
"Guys," Clyde began in that condescending tone of his, "you know the rules in this shop."
"Yeah," Wallace agreed, "Rule number one: no touching the merchandise."
"Rule number two: no mistaking us for each other. I'm Clyde," Clyde commented.
"And I'm Wallace," Wallace added.
"It's not that hard," Clyde insisted.
"Rule number three: if you need to use the restroom, please don't go in the Cauldron of Krepulan." Wallace finished as Clyde held up the plastic cauldron.
"That was one time!" Kaz snapped defensively. Wallace and Clyde looked at him pointedly. "Okay, twice."
They walked away after that, taking both the Cauldron of Krepulan and the Meteorite of Zandor with them.
"Hey Jordan." Dani headed over to the video game consoles, where our friend Jordan was busy playing.
"Shh." The blonde haired girl whispered, not taking her eyes off the screen. "I'm trailing this majestic unicorn. It's the last one in the entire land."
"Sounds lame." Dani commented, sounding bored.
"Boom!" Jordan shouted suddenly as her character swung an axe down on the unicorn's neck. "Cut off its head!"
"Okay, now I'm interested." My sister grinned. "Aw, look! It's blood is made of rainbows."
Kaz chuckled, then turned to Jordan. "Look, Jordan, we have to talk to you about our robot project for science day tomorrow."
"Yeah, the four of us are working on, right?" Jordan confirmed. We all exchanged glances.
"Yep, it will be just the four of us. You, me, Kaz, and Dani…" I looked away. "…and Gus."
Jordan stared at us. "What? Gus? No, no, no!" She protested. "Absolutely not!"
"We're sorry, but he is our friend." I reminded her.
"Besides, we kinda felt bad for him because no one else wanted him in their group." Dani added.
"Yeah, for the same reason no one wants a dead fish in their bed." Jordan agreed. "They both smell like dead fish!"
"We'll make him wear an air freshener?" Dani suggested, trying to be helpful. Jordan rolled her eyes.
"Look, if I don't get an A on this project, my parents won't let me play video games for a year." She informed us. "And if I can't chop of unicorn heads then…who am I?"
"We promise you, we'll keep Gus under control." I assured her. "He won't say a word."
Kaz and Dani both looked at me incredulously. "Really, where are we going to get a muzzle?" Kaz demanded.
"Fine, just keep him away from me." Jordan insisted.
"Now we have to get a leash?" Dani protested.
"This is becoming a nightmare!" Kaz complained.
"We'll take care of it." I promised Jordan. She nodded and went back to her video games. Suddenly, Dani gasped.
"Oh, Ollie." She sang, put her arm on my shoulder. She pointed past me, towards the cardboard cutouts. "Look who it is."
I gasped, looking at one particular cardboard cut-out in awe. "It's Skylar Storm!" I exclaimed, running over to the cutout. It was of a young woman wearing a black and pink uniform with a silver lightning bolt on her chest. Her dark was flowing out past her shoulders, as if it were caught in the breeze, the single, thick, pink streak visible for all to see. "She's my favorite comic book superhero! She has twenty-four superpowers, including x-ray vision, so she can see how big my heart is."
Kaz and Dani smirked at each other, and my best friend grabbed the cardboard cutout, moving it around slightly.
"Oh, Oliver," Kaz said in a higher pitch, pretending to be her, "Come here and kiss me, but be careful because you know I'm made of cardboard."
He began making kissing noises, pushing the cardboard cutout towards me.
"Kaz, Kaz, stop!" I exclaimed, pushing it away. "You heard Wallace and Clyde; no touching the merchandise."
"Oh, it's fine." Kaz rolled his eyes, even as Dani took the cardboard cutout from him.
"What's the worst that can happen?" My sister questioned, placing the cutout down. It tipped over and hit the nearby toy gun, which shot a dart into the air. The dart hit a large UFO that was hanging from the ceiling and it broke in two, the top half remaining tied to the ceiling, while the bottom half fell onto Kaz and I, trapping us together.
Dani looked at us, shocked. "Aside from that, I mean."
Dani's POV
"And the award for the most humiliated people in the emergency room goes to the boys stuck in the flying saucer." Oliver complained. Kaz laughed.
"Take that guy with his hand stuck in the gumball machine!" He cheered, nodding at said kid. I walked around Kaz so that I could face my brother.
"Ollie, I've apologized like a hundred times." I told him, my tone apologetic. "But c'mon, when has something like this ever happened?"
"Do you want me to answer that?" Oliver challenged.
"No." I sighed, knowing he was right.
"This is so typical!" Oliver complained, even as Kaz turned them both around, his eyes focused on a man in a trench coat. "You two always do these crazy things and expect me to just follow you!"
"Hold that thought and follow me!" Kaz exclaimed, following the trench-coated man as the stranger walked into a storage closet.
"Where're we going?" I questioned, following Kaz as he drag Oliver along with him.
"The guy who just walked into this closer – I think he was the Blue Tornado!" My best friend exclaimed.
"You mean the superhero who can spin at the speed of sound?" I exclaimed, eyes wide.
"And who is make-believe?" Oliver added.
"Have an imagination, Ollie." I scolded gently.
"I know it doesn't make any sense, but it looked exactly like him." Kaz insisted. "The same crooked nose, the same scar on his cheek, he even had a wispy beard!"
"Well, so does my grandmother!" Oliver pointed out. I nodded in agreement, then reached forward and pulled open the door to the closet. I followed the boys in, only to discover that the room was completely empty. The only things in there were a bunch of brooms and mops, and a shelf with cleaning supplies and a toilet plunger.
"Kaz, there's no one in here." I pointed out the obvious.
"I-I don't get it." He looked around in confusion. "I saw him go in here."
"Well, maybe one of his powers is to turn himself into a roll of one-ply toilet paper." Oliver exclaimed, grabbing a roll from the shelf. "Now, enough damage has been done today, so can we please just go."
"Fine." Kaz agreed. He tried to open the door, but only managed to hit me by accident. I stumbled forward, hitting the saucer that surrounded them.
"Hey!" Oliver exclaimed, reaching forward to grab hold of something to stop them both from falling. He managed to grab the toilet plunger, but to my surprise, it didn't fall off the shelf when he grabbed it. In fact, the moment he hit the handle, a bright blue screen appeared on the wall opposite of the door, strange symbols appearing on it in a 5x5 grid.
"Whoa." I stared at it in surprise. Oliver and I exchanged looks, stunned.
"Check it out!" My twin exclaimed.
"I know!" Kaz chuckled. Because Oliver was facing the screen, Kaz was forced to face the other way due to the way they'd been trapped in the flying saucer. "My mom has this exact same mop."
"No, look!" I pushed the boys around so that Kaz could see the screen too. "It's some sort of puzzle."
"I think I know what it is." Oliver turned around again, already reaching out to touch the screen.
"Is it the maze where you have to help the rabbit find its carrot?" Kaz questioned as Oliver switched pieces of the grid with each other, creating an image. "Because if so, you're on your own. Those things are impossible."
Oliver finished the image, revealing what it was supposed to look like: a silver stick with two snakes wrapped around it, and a large capital M on the top, the letter surrounded by a circle. "It's the symbol of Caduceo, the legendary healer of superheroes." I realized, recognizing the symbol from my comic books.
Kaz spun him and Oliver around so that he could see. "Oh, it says 'enter.'" He announced as the word appeared in bold, green letters.
"I guess the big decision here is," Oliver commented as Kaz pushed the button, "whether or not to push the button…You want to push it, don't you?"
"He already did." I replied, stepping back as a bright, white, vertical line appeared on the wall. The wall suddenly opened up like a set of sliding doors, revealing to us the strangest sight.
Behind the wall was another emergency room, but not like any one I'd ever seen. There were a bunch of people in here, some wearing purple or pink scrubs, but many more of them were wearing strange costumes. The costumes you'd expect a superhero like Blue Tornado to wear. The room itself looked normal, though, all except for the giant red M on the far wall.
"Guys? Where are we?" I questioned, looking around in amazement.
"Look at this place!" Kaz gasped, pointing at the guy in the trench coat. The man quickly spun like a twister, removing the trench coat. "That's Blue Tornado!"
"And that's Solar Flare!" I exclaimed, gesturing at the blonde-haired woman as fire burst from her hands.
"And there's Incognito with his power of invisibility!" Kaz shouted, pointing at where a man in a white lab coat was examining…well, we assumed that there was an invisible person there, but we couldn't see him, so we couldn't be sure. "This…this must be some kind of secret superhero hospital."
"No, no that's impossible." Oliver objected, though it was clear that even he thought that this was place was incredible. "Superheroes don't exist. That's crazy!"
Suddenly, a guy sitting in a nearby wheelchair sneezed, and an actual rocket shot out of his nose. I ducked as it flew over my head and hit the flying saucer that was surrounding Kaz and Oliver. The saucer cracked in two and fell to the ground, releasing them. "No, that's crazy." I corrected.
"We've been reading about superheroes our wholes lives and it turns out they're real?" Oliver exclaimed, eyes wide. "My entire world has been turned upside down!"
"Not as much as hers." Kaz pointed at one of the superheroes in the room who was floating upside down in midair while she did her nails.
"Cool." I smirked, just as a set of doors behind us swung open, two nurses pushing a gurney in.
"Incoming! Incoming! Make a path, people!" The tall one shouted in a scrawny voice. "I've got a non-responsive hero! Temperature is 4000 degrees Fahrenheit, and he's oozing weird blue glowing stuff that tastes like hummus! This dude needs medical attention stat!"
"Hey, that's the Crusher, the strongest man in the universe." Kaz realized, recognizing the man on the gurney.
"Hey!" I called to the tall nurse. "What's wrong with him?"
"He's going into cardiac arrest, people!" The nurse shouted, ripping open the Crusher's shirt. He stopped and shook his head at the sight of his abs. "Okay, he and I have the same personal trainer. How is that possible?"
"Clear!" A nearby doctor shouted before hitting the Crusher with defibrillators. Nothing happened.
"He's dying! We have to do something!" Oliver exclaimed. I looked at him.
"What are we supposed to do?" I demanded, confused. "We're not doctors!"
"Hold on, Dani." Kaz stopped me. "If the Crusher's real, then maybe everything we've read is real too."
"What happened in the latest issue?" Oliver demanded.
"He'd just returned from the planet…Embreyon, I think." I replied, thinking fast.
"Where the gravity is forty times that of Earth." Kaz added, thinking.
"He's crashing!" The doctor shouted in the background, once again trying and failing to revive The Crusher.
"Uh, maybe the extreme gravity pulled his heart from his chest down to his feet!" Oliver exclaimed. Now, according to the laws of physics, that was impossible. But if we were going by comic book laws…
"They're shocking the wrong place!" I exclaimed. Kaz turned around and snatched the defibrillators out of a blonde nurse's hands.
"Kaz!" I shouted, stunned. We weren't doctors! We weren't supposed to mess around with that kind of stuff.
"Clear!' Kaz shouted before shocking the Crusher on the soles of his feet. The Crusher gasped, sitting right up with a confused look on his face.
The doctors and nurses stepped back, clapping with relief. One of the doctors high-fived the Crusher, only to get thrown back across the room from the strength behind the hand slap.
"Thank you, nurse." Kaz handed the defibrillators back to the nurse, smirking at her charmingly. "I'll need the Henderson X-rays in my office. Oh, and I'll need an office."
"Kaz, what are you doing?" Oliver demanded, pulling Kaz away. "We're not doctors."
"You're not?" The tall nurse looked at us. "Guards!"
"Oh, no. We're not guards either." Kaz told him. I turned around and noticed three very tall, very strong looking men in uniforms standing behind us.
"No, but they are." I told Kaz and my brother, backing up slightly. The guards walked over to us, grabbing us each by our shoulders.
"Commemorative terrified fake photo?" Kaz suggested, holding up his hand to take an imaginative photo. We all looked at the imaginary camera, terrified, before the guards pulled us out of the emergency room.
Oliver's POV
"Hey, c'mon! We were just screwing around!" "We saved that guy's life!" "You're wrinkling my shirt!" We protested as they pushed us down an empty hallway. They shoved us into a nearby, dark room, closing the doors tightly behind us.
"Take it easy! My mom just ironed this shirt!" Kaz complained as the doors closed. Dani looked at me, her face illuminated by the faint red light coming from a sign above the door.
"What do you think they're going to do to us?" She questioned, biting her lip worriedly. Kaz glanced up at the sign.
"It says 'Now you die'!" He exclaimed, horrified.
"Do you think they mean one of you, or me?" I questioned. Kaz looked at me.
"Well, it says you." He pointed out.
"Silence!" A deep voice shouted suddenly, making us all jump. "You have trespassed in my hospital, and for that, the punishment is-"
"Alan?" The doors opened and a man in a lab coat walked in. He was tall, with dark hair and a goatee.
"The punishment is Alan!" I screamed, horrified. Who was Alan? Probably some evil and powerful bad guy who wanted to kill us, right?
The man in the lab coat hit a light switch and the lights flickered on, revealing to us what looked like a cafeteria. He looked up at the sign above the door.
"Stupid sign!" He muttered before hitting the wall harshly. The blow reactivated some of the lights on the sign, changing the message from 'Now you die' to 'Know your diet facts'.
"Oh, know your diet facts." I breathed a sigh of relief. "That's far less scary."
"Alan, what are you doing in the cafeteria?" The man questioned, looking past us. I turned to see a boy in a sweater vest, perhaps a year younger than us, with curly black hair sitting at one of the tables. He was holding up a coffee mug, presumably to help disguise his voice.
"Nothing, Uncle Horace." The boy replied nervously.
"Is that my mug?" The man, Horace, exclaimed before holding out his hand. "Send it over."
Alan sighed, but raised one hand and the mug flew from his grasp, slowly floating over to his uncle. "Cool." I laughed in amazement. Telekinesis.
"World's Sexiest Chief of Staff and Vice Chancellor of Medical Administration." Horace read off his coffee mug. "I bought this at a gas station – what are the odds?"
He placed the mug down on a table and finally turned towards us. "I'm Dr. Horace Diaz, head of this hospital. Who are you and what can you do?"
We all exchanged looks, not wanting to be the first one to speak. "Well, I'm Kaz, and I can do this." Kaz grabbed a tissue out of a tissue box and placed it over his face before sticking his tongue out, creating a tear in the tissue.
"Anybody can do that." Horace told him. "I meant, what are your powers?"
"We don't have any powers." Dani told him honestly. Alan jumped to his feet dramatically.
"WHAT?" He shouted. "You're Normos! Normos can't know about Mighty Med! I'm going to get a Normo cage!"
Alan tried to storm out, but Horace stopped him in his tracks. Literally. "Not so fast." He snapped, raising a hand. Alan stopped instantly, as if he were frozen.
"Can you teach me how to do that to mother?" Dani questioned, eyes bright with excitement. Despite the fact that we were clearly in a lot of trouble, she was still enjoying this. Typical.
"The Crusher is one of our most important heroes, and you saved his life. How did you know that his heart wasn't in his chest?" Horace questioned.
"Well, I thought that the super-gravity on Embreyon might have pulled his heart down to his feet." I explained.
"That's very clever. You figured that out faster than our best doctors, even Dr. Brainhead, and his entire head is a brain." Horace exclaimed. Dani smirked.
"Well, we pretty much eat, drink, and breathe superheroes." She told him, proud.
"Literally. This morning I had a bowl of a Honey Nut Blue Tornado Os." I added.
"A true fan. I love this guy!" Horace smiled appreciatively. "We might be able to use somebody like you around here."
Suddenly, a weird muffled noise came from behind us. "What's that noise?" Kaz asked, confused.
"Oh, right, Alan." Horace snapped his fingers and Alan unfroze.
"We can't have Normos here!" He protested. "I heard that if you touch them, your butt falls off!"
"That's not true!" Horace snapped before looking at us worriedly. "That's not true, is it?"
"Um, no." Dani replied, raised an eyebrow at them.
"Oh, good." He sighed in relief. "Because without a butt, what would I shake on the dance floor?"
I looked at him, remembering what he's been saying just before Alan's interruption. "So, you want us to work here?"
"Not us. You." He corrected before looking at Dani and Kaz distastefully. "Your friends seem a bit…off."
I looked to see Dani and Kaz fiddling with a strange silver cuff they'd put around Kaz's arm.
"I wonder what this button does…" Kaz hummed, pressing the button. Suddenly, his arm transformed into a chainsaw. Both Kaz and Dani screamed, the latter jumping back out of harm's way. Kaz hastened to push the button again, and his arm turned back to normal.
They exchanged looks. "That was…awesome!" "My turn!" They both exclaimed, grinning from ear to ear.
"I think they just proved my point." Horace told me, looking at them. He pointed at me. "You with me." He walked over to my sister and my best friend. "You two, do you happen to know if you take small or medium Normo cages?"
"What, no! We want to work here too!" Kaz protested. Dani nodded.
"We know just as much about superheroes as he does!" She agreed before looking at me pleadingly. "Right, Ollie?"
"Yeah, back us up, man." Kaz nodded.
"Yeah, they're great." I agreed, putting my arms on their shoulders. "And we're a package deal."
Horace hummed in consideration, looking us over. "…Okay, I'll give you kids a trial run."
"Yes! We get to work with real superheroes!" I exclaimed, high-fiving both Dani and Kaz.
"I can't wait to tell Gus, Jordan, and Barry about this place." Dani beamed.
"Are you crazy? You can't tell anyone about Mighty Med! It's a top secret hospital!" Alan told us smugly. Horace looked at him.
"Alan, stop interrupting." He scolded before turning back to us. "Are you crazy? You can't tell anyone about Mighty Med! It's a top secret hospital!"
"Yes sir." Dani agreed, though it was clear that she was disappointed.
"And another thing: if either of them mess up, I'm holding you responsible." Horace added, looking directly at me. I nodded nervously and watched as he and his nephew left the room. I turned to Dani and Kaz.
"You hear that? No goofing around, guys. Do not Kaz this up for me." I told them.
"Absolutely." Dani promised, while Kaz just looked confused.
"Wait, why is it 'Kaz this up' instead of 'Dani this up'?" He questioned.
"See, 'to Kaz something up' is to screw something up because you were screwing around, but to 'Dani something up' is to fail at doing something, but after you actually tried." Dani explained.
"Like all your math tests?" Kaz questioned. Dani nodded.
"And the science ones." She agreed before looking at the table. She grabbed a device off the table. "Ooh, I wonder what this button does."
"Let's see." Kaz took it from her and pressed the button, then looked at the device in disappointment. "Nothing."
Suddenly, a virtual saw blade appeared from the device, coming towards me. "Ah! Not nothing! Not nothing!"
Dani quickly turned off the device. "See? That is an example of Kazzing something up."
Dani's POV
After Oliver made us put the virtual saw watch thingy away, we followed Horace back out to the Emergency Room, where he showed us some of the cool tools they used on a daily basis. Then, he showed us a special television channel, where a woman in a red mask was doing a news broadcast.
"Superhero News Network has learned that the reign of terror is the work of super villain, Megahertz, who refused to be interviewed for this story." She announced. A picture of the villain, a half-human, half-titanium cyborg, appeared next to her. "He did, however, issue this statement: Bwah-ha-ha, ha-ha."
"Superhero News Network: I've never seen this channel before." Kaz commented.
"Of course you haven't. It's exclusively for superheroes, whereas Supermundo is exclusively for Spanish speaking superheroes." Horace explained. I nodded thoughtfully; it did make sense. "Now, let we show you kids around. This," he walked us over to a weird looking device, "is a web detangilizer. It's for our arachnid-based superheroes."
"This is a molecular devaporizer." He continued, showing us a kind of ray gun. "A lot of people get vaporized in this business."
"Cool." I smirked, excited.
"This," Horace moved on. He gestured at a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. At least, I think that was the correct bridge. I wasn't the best at geography…or most classes, for that matter, "is a picture of a bridge. I love bridges! Follow me."
He led us down the hall, just past the cafeteria, to another room. It was moderately sized, with a bunch of work out equipment in one corner. Weights, an Air Elliptical and Exercise Bike just like the one from our school's weight room, a stair climber, and other sorts of exercise equipment. There was also a few items that you wouldn't expect to see in a gym, like the massive red and yellow target on the far wall, or the weird circular area near the back of the room that was surrounded by light blue and grey walls. On the other side of the room, closer to the doors we'd just walked through was a couch, a couple of arm chairs, a coffee table, and a refrigerator, along with a flat screen TV monitor on the wall. "This is our rec room," Horace explained, "where recovering superheroes work on strengthening powers and honing super skills."
"Wait, I'm confused." I stopped him, frowning. "If superheroes are real, and out there saving the world, how come we never see you guys?"
"It's combination of things. Sometimes, we erase the memories of Normos who witness our heroics." I suddenly got a text from Jordan and quickly looked down at my phone, smirking at what she had sent. "Usually we don't need to, since most of you are too busy looking down at your phones all the time."
I looked up at the same time as the boys, as they were preoccupied with their cell phones too. "Plus, some of are invisible. And sometimes, we do things so fast, you don't even see it. Like how Kaz and I just switched outfits."
We all glanced at Kaz, but he was still wearing the red and black shirt and pair of jeans he'd walked in here with. "No, we didn't." Kaz pointed out. Horace smirked.
"Or did we?" He pulled out a photo, and showed it to us. He and Kaz were standing beside each other, Kaz looking confused and Horace grinning at the camera. Horace was in Kaz' clothing, and Kaz was wearing Horace's clothing.
"Wicked." Kaz grinned.
"Wait, if you guys act in secret, why are there superhero comics and graphic novels?" Ollie asked, pointing out the obvious.
"We chronicle our adventures and sell them to the public to finance this hospital, The League of Heroes, and The Bowling League of Heroes," Horace replied before pulling three small pieces of plastic, each about the size of a pea, out of his pockets. He handed them to us, "Here are your MM-200 communicators. I'll contact you when I need you."
"Look at the size of these things." Kaz cooed, examining his communicator.
"I know; sorry they're so bulky," Horace apologized, "The MM-200-S will be much smaller, and have new funky ringtones."
"Ooh." I smiled, beaming. This was so cool!
"Man, look at all this cool stuff." Kaz looked around after shoving his communicator in his pocket. He walked over to a nearby table and picked up a metal bowl. "I wonder what this is. Some kind of high-tech memory restorer?" He guessed, placing the bowl on his head.
Ollie and I exchanged looks. "That's a bedpan." Ollie told him.
"Ew!" Kaz cried, throwing the bedpan as far away from him as possible. It hit the ground near the boots of one of the superheroes, a tall, brown haired girl in a pink and black uniform. There was a silver lightning bolt on her chest, and a very short black leather vest around her. "Sup girl." Kaz flirted immediately, before he even recognized her from her comics. But Ollie sure did.
"Wait." Ollie stopped her from walking away, a look of pure adoration on his face. "You're Skylar Storm."
"No way!" I exclaimed as the girl, Skylar, smiled at us. "Dude, you were just making out with a cardboard cutout of her."
"No I wasn't!" Ollie hissed, glaring at me pointedly. I merely smirked, amused by his reaction. He turned around and shook Skylar's hand. "Hi, I'm Oliver. I'm a big fan of your work. You have so many amazing powers."
"Had so many amazing powers." She corrected bitterly. "Yesterday, I was ambushed by the Annihilator. He neutralized my powers, stole my invisible flying motorcycle, and he even stole my costume! He left me just standing there, in my underwear."
Ollie's face went distant for a moment as he imagined that very scene. Skylar rolled her eyes, obviously knowing what he was thinking, and snapped her fingers in front of his face a couple of times. He snapped out of it, then glanced at me and Kaz. "I will definitely be buying that comic book when it comes out."
"Anyway, I came here to Mighty Med to get my powers restored…" Her face suddenly brightly slightly, looking a bit hopeful. "Unless…explode!" She raised her palm at Kaz, but nothing happened. "Nothing!" He complained.
"Bummer." Kaz replied apologetically. "Wait, if you did have your powers, wouldn't I have just exploded?"
"Into a million pieces." Skylar agreed, smiling at the very thought. Kaz stared at her for a moment, then looked back at us.
"Awesome!" He grinned, high-fiving us.
Kaz's POV
"Yesterday was so cool." Oliver grinned as he walked up to our lockers. "I can't believe we get to save the people who save people!"
"You should trademark that." I suggested, grinning back. "I would totally buy that t-shirt."
"Yeah, I should." He agreed, opening his locker and pulling out his books for class.
"Hey," I looked over my shoulder to see Dani walking over to us, her bag slung over her shoulder.
"Hey, how was soccer practice?" I asked, grabbing my pencil case out of my locker. She shrugged, opening her own locker and shoving the bag onto one of the shelves in it.
"Boring – half the team's out with the flu, so Coach Rombough just had everyone doing shooting drills and passing." She complained. "I can't wait until the season actually starts. So, what are you guys talking about?"
"Yesterday." Oliver replied. Dani smirked.
"About everything, or just the Skylar Storm bits?" She teased lightly, earning a glare from her brother.
"So, did you guys find anything cool?" We turned to see Jordan standing behind us, looking at us all expectantly. We all exchanged looks, hoping she hadn't overheard us.
"Like what? A hospital for superheroes?" I chuckled nervously. "No!"
"I meant for our found object robot." She reminded us, referring to our science project. "Now, this is an all day project, so please keep Gus under control all day."
"Don't worry, we won't let him anywhere near you." I assured her, not noticing Gus walking up behind her until it was too late.
"New shampoo?" The short boy guessed, smelling Jordan's hair before adjusting his glasses.
"No, it's bug repellant." Jordan replied. "And obviously, it's not working."
"Anyways, you asked for found object and I found this in my room." Gus continued, pulling a wad of cash out of his jacket pocket. "Five hundred dollars in small bills." We all looked at him. "My parents give me money instead of attention."
Jordan took the money and began to count it, just as the communicators that Horace gave us began to buzz. A quick look at the very tiny screen told us that he was calling us back to the hospital. "Excuse us for a minute." Oliver pulled Dani and I off to the side, out of earshot.
"Horace is paging us to the hospital." Dani whispered, looking at her communicator.
"What do we do?" Oliver questioned, looking at Jordan and Gus.
"Well, we have to go." I reasoned. "This is the opportunity of a lifetime."
"You're right." He agreed. Dani glanced back at our friends.
"What are we going to tell Jordan?" She asked. Oliver considered it for a moment, then nodded to himself.
"Follow my lead." He instructed. He walked over to Jordan and Gus, Dani and I following closely behind him. "Uh, hey. Kaz, Dani, and I have to take off for a bit."
"What?" Jordan demanded, staring at us in horror. "You can't go! You guys promised to help me on this project."
"We'll be back soon, okay?" Dani assured her.
"We just have to stop by my grandmother's house." Oliver lied.
"Which is on fire." I added, trying to be helpful. The twins both looked at me before turning back to Jordan.
"Fire Creek drive." Dani said, a little flustered. "Where she lives. She needs us because of-"
"-the fire." I interrupted.
"Alarms!" Oliver exclaimed. "Fire alarms. She needs us to make sure they're working because of-"
This time, they both glared at me. "Yes, sure, our grandmother's house is on fire." Dani decided just to go with it.
"Okay, gotta go, see ya!" I rushed them out of there before Jordan could object.
"Please hurry back! I need you guys! Do not flake on me!" She shouted after us as we bailed. The moment we were out of earshot, my best friends both turned to stare at me.
"Fire?" Oliver repeated. I shrugged.
"Just trying to help." I replied before racing in the direction of the hospital.
Oliver's POV
"Boys, Dani!" Horace greeted as we walked through the Mighty Med door. "So great to see you."
"Yes, so great." Alan commented sarcastically. He was standing next to his uncle, wearing a lab coat and carrying around a tablet.
"So, what's going on?" I asked curiously.
"Megahertz has run amuck in the city. We'll need your help." Horace explained just as a set of double doors swung open.
"Make a path, people!" Benny, the nurse yesterday, shouted as he pushed a gurney into the room. A tall, blonde haired man was on the gurney, dressed in a red-ish/orange uniform with black boots and gloves. A stop sign was protruding from his chest. "I've got a beloved superhero with a puncture wound to the chest. Object appears to be a…stop sign?"
"That's Tecton!" Dani gasped, recognizing her favorite comic book hero. "You're, like, my favorite superhero ever."
"Are you okay? What happened to you?" Kaz questioned, looking him over.
"Megahertz was robbing the Federal City national bank. When he tried to make an unauthorized withdrawal, I stopped him." Tecton explained. "Unfortunately, he made an unauthorized deposit of this stop sign in my chest." He finished, flicking the stop sign.
"Man, how cool is this guy?" Dani laughed. "He's skewered and he's still making quips."
She was beaming excitedly, and I couldn't help but chuckle in amusement. And she teased me for being star-struck when I met Skylar Storm.
"Hey, I know people must ask you this a lot," Kaz began, revealing that my sister wasn't the only one excited to meet him, "but can you punch me in the stomach?"
"I'm sorry, but if I punch you in the stomach, I have to punch everybody in the stomach." Tecton replied, much to Kaz' disappointment. "Also, you'd die instantly."
"Benny, wheel Tecton to the OR." Horace told the nurse after examining Tecton.
"Yes sir." Benny nodded and began wheeling Tecton away. "Ooh, who's your trainer? Because I am this close to firing Guillermo."
Horace turned to us. "How would you three like to observe Tecton's surgery?"
We all grinned excitedly. "Are you kidding?" Dani laughed in amazement. "We'd love to!"
I was all on board for a moment, then I remembered what Jordan had said to us before we left. "Oh, but…we kinda have a prior commitment."
"Right, Jordan…" Kaz remembered. Horace looked at us.
"Huh, I thought your commitment was to this hospital." He mused. "I guess I misjudged you."
"No! No, you didn't!" Dani protested. I nodded quickly.
"We definitely want to work here; it would be a dream come true." I agreed. "We promised our friend…"
"This is Tecton." Kaz insisted. "Tecton."
"Besides, we can find new friends." Dani agreed. I looked at her.
"Where?" I questioned. Gus had been our friend since the 1st grade, and Jordan since 6th. Where were we supposed to find friends like them so easily?
"I don't know. EBay?" Dani suggested, shrugging. She turned to Horace, brushing her bangs out of her eyes. "We're in."
"Splendid. You'll be saving the people who save people!" He proclaimed. Kaz sighed.
"I told you that you should have trademarked that." He said.
"Too late!" Horace smirked and ripped open his buttoned shirt to reveal a light blue one underneath, the words 'Saving The People Who Save People' written in big, dark blue letters.
Dani's POV
"So, do you think Jordan's gonna kill us for ditching her?" Ollie mused as we waited for Horace to come get us for Tecton's surgery. Kaz and I exchanged looks, knowing full well that she was indeed going to kill us, but also knowing that telling my brother would make him feel even more guilty about abandoning her than he already did.
"Nah, she'll get over it." Kaz lied, just as his phone began to beep. He answered the video chat request without a second's thought. "Oh, hey, Jordan."
Ollie and I just stared at him like he was crazy, wondering why he would answer that call.
"Gus is driving me crazy, and I can't finish this project without you guys!" She exclaimed. "Is Oliver and Dani's grandma okay?"
"Um, yes, yes, she's fine." Oliver assured Jordan, taking the phone from Kaz and pointing it so that she could see both of us. "Turns out she just burnt some toast in-"
"The fire." Once again, Kaz's obsession with fire influenced his attempts to help. Ollie and I didn't even bother saying anything this time, just shaking our heads at him.
"Hurry." Jordan pleaded. "We have to turn this project in in three hours, and it's only half-finished."
"We'll be there." I promised before hanging up for Kaz. I turned to look at him. "Now, this is just me, but I don't think it's a great idea to accept video chat requests in super-secret hospitals. Or any other location that is super-secret."
"Right." Kaz agreed sheepishly, pocketing his phone. We waited a few more minutes, but eventually, boredom set in.
"Let's go explore." I decided. Ollie shook his head.
"Horace said to wait here." He reminded me. I looked at him.
"And you always do what you're told?" I questioned.
"Yes, it's why adults like me more." He pointed out. I rolled my eyes and turned to Kaz, since he could always be counted on to follow me when I wanted to do something that Ollie didn't.
"Wanna go see if we can find the OR on our own?" I questioned. He grinned.
"Sure!" He exclaimed. I smirked and looked at my brother.
"Two against one, Ollie. Democracy for the win!" I grinned before heading down the hall. After a couple of wrong turns, we finally found the OR, where Tecton was already prepped for surgery. "Look at this place." It was actually a pretty cool room, with lots of flashing lights and cool gizmos.
"Mom and Dad always said we were wasting our lives reading comic books, but look at us now!" My brother exclaimed, grinning. I looked up, smiling, only to see Kaz with a surgical glove on his head like a hat.
"Check it out!" He chuckled. "I'm a rooster."
I laughed lightly in amusement, while Ollie just shook his head. "Hey, are there any more?" I asked, looking around for where he got the glove.
"Stop Kazzing around, you guys." Ollie scolded. "I vouched for you two, and this job is really important to me. This could be the best afterschool job ever!"
"Dude, I'm sorry, but if you leave a glove around, somebody is going to leave it on their head." Kaz insisted. I nodded, looking at Ollie.
"It's science." I agreed. Ollie just crossed his arms and looked pointedly at Kaz. He sighed.
"Fine, I'll behave." He promised, taking the glove-hat off.
"Thank you." Oliver replied. I looked at Tecton, who was lying on the gurney, unconscious.
"I hope Tecton's going to be okay." I hummed worriedly. "He's the only one who can stop Megahertz."
"Of course he's going to be okay, Dani." Kaz assured me. "He survived falling into the Earth's core."
"Only because the meteorite in his chest gives him healing powers." Ollie pointed out. Kaz stared at him, his face lighting up as if he'd just had an idea.
"That's it." He realized. I nodded, following on the same train of thought as him.
"He can heal himself." I whispered, realizing. Kaz nodded at me.
"I'm going to prove to Horace that I belong here." He declared before running around Tecton and reaching for the stop sign.
"Kaz, wait!" Removing the stop sign would solve the problem, but we should at least wait for Horace to get here, so he can see Kaz in action. Kaz either didn't hear me, or ignored me, as he carefully slid the stop sign out of Tecton's chest. He held it upright, the metal pole covered in light blue blood.
"What did you just do?" Ollie stared at him, absolutely horrified.
"He just saved our favorite superhero." I frowned, unsure of why Ollie was so upset. We worked here now; wasn't that what we were supposed to do? Save superheroes?
"Like a boss." Kaz added, pointing his index finger at me and smirking cockily.
"We were just supposed to observe the surgery!" Oliver's voice had risen, and though he wasn't quite yelling yet, Kaz and I could both tell that he was coming close.
"Relax!" Kaz exclaimed. "He always heals – that hole is going to close right up."
We all looked at Tecton's chest, where a massive hole was still visible. After a few seconds, I glanced at Kaz. "Uh…"
"Give it a minute." Kaz hissed, his smile somewhat fading. "Any second now…" Still nothing. "Uh oh."
"Oh, man." I brought my hand through my hair, eyes wide. What did Kaz just do?
"If anyone sees this, we're finished!" Ollie exclaimed. "I told you two seconds ago how important this job was to me, and you did this?"
"Hey, in all fairness," I laughed nervously, "two minutes ago, when you said all that, he probably wasn't listening."
Kaz shook his head, agreeing with me, though my brother certainly did not look amused. Kaz gulped and held up his hand. "Commerative I-Kazzed-This-Up fake photo?"
Ollie shook his head and we all exchanged looks. How were we supposed to fix this? After this, there was no way Horace was going to let us keep our jobs.
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Kihonne: So, what did you guys think of 'Saving the People Who Save People, Part 1?' I could really use the feedback. Were there things you liked? Didn't like? What about Dani? I'm always curious to hear what others think of a new OC. You'll get to see a little more of her personality in the second part, I promise, but for now, what was your first impression? Please guys, reviews motivate me to keep writing. Anyway, here's the plan for the next few updates:
April 4th – Saving The People Who Save People, Part 2
April 11th – Frighty Med
April 18th – I, Normo
As you can probably tell, I intend to make Mondays my regular update day. I would have updated yesterday, but our WIFI was down. But anyway, I'll see you all next week. I hope you enjoyed the chapter, and please review to let me know what you thought.
