Quick Summary: There is a new 17-year-old girl brought to the base. She is sarcastic, rude and stuck up but eventually befriends the super heroes of the zenith project. Commander Larraby gave her brother gamma 13 radiation shots and it drove him insane. She vows to save him and bring down the commander. She becomes a valued member of the team. Her father was once a member of the zenith team and Zooms friend. She picks on summer for being the girl she wishes she could be and cannot help but attract summer's new boyfriend Dylan who wants to help the new girl feel apart of the team.
Chapter one: Recruitment
Larraby Quickly glanced at the manila folder he held in his hand. He concentrated more on the content of the folder in front of him then he did to the petite bottled blond cursing threats at him.
Zenith Profile Access #900072
Family History: Former Zenith team member Marksman's daughter. One sibling a brother who is a year older named Carter. Mother could not handle the loss of husband and the stress of the children's developing powers. Reformed villainess. Took off and disappeared, whereabouts unknown. Presumably retired villainess status.
Full name: Samantha Anne James (SAJ)
Hair color: Not a natural Blond (naturally brown)
Eye color: Brown
Other striking features: Swollen lips, long eyelashes Mentally unstable, prone to death threats (Larraby Scribbled in with his Illegible writing skills)
Height and weight: 5'3 and average
Age: 17
Codename: Sparks
Powers: Electric manipulation: Ability to control, generate or absorb electrical fields. Can expel various forms of electrical energy blasts at a rapid pace and high voltage amount from the body. Can also manipulate energy/electrical energy into force fields. Also can draw energy sources.
Was accidentally transferred the power of heightened intuition and the ability to mentally block emotions or thoughts from telepaths and empaths. From her brother during early training of the zenith project that was being rebuilt.
Larraby snapped closed her file and fixated his stare at her.
"How dare you! So help me, if I don't get some dam answers around here, especially from you general, things are going to get a little hot in here!" The petite blond yelled standing in the middle of the area 52 base.
"Is that a threat Ms. James?" Larraby yelled back narrowing his eyes at her.
The Zenith team returned in time to see the fireworks go off. The blond's eyes turned completely black, and the air began to spark.
"That is enough Samantha!" He yelled bringing her back into focus, her eyes returning to their natural brown color. She turned around coming face to face with the team. "Put her in holding." Larraby yelled. The blond named Sam turned around fear clear in her features.
"No I'm not staying here again."
"You'll stay here and rejoin the team or you can have your sentence for threatening a commanding officer."
Two people in lab coats grabbed her by the arms and threw her in the white containment room. But not before she managed to shock them, not severely of course.
"Ok what that was about." Dylan other wise known as Houdini said motioning toward the petite blond that was taken away.
"She looks an awful lot like-." Conner began
"Marksman, it couldn't be they had a boy didn't they?" Jack asked confused.
"She's so scared, something's not right." Summer told the group.
"Alright everyone clear out, now!" Larraby commanded. The team cleared out and changed out of their uniforms and into their yellow suites. Jack went back to the containment room that was holding Samantha James.
"Open the door." Jack commanded. He walked in the white room to see a girl about the age of 17 sitting on the floor holding her knees up to her chest.
"So uh." Zoom began.
"Save it I already know who you are Zoom." She said.
"Marksman's daughter, I thought he had a son."
"He does, my older brother." After my father died and my mother well I have no idea where she is anymore and I honestly don't care, my brother Carter and I were sent here. When they decided to rebuild the Zenith group, of course they thought of the originals like you, and second generation like my brother and me, but the old ways are the best aren't they? Are they still stuffing those heroes with gamma 13? I'm sure it's doing your team a lot better than it did my brother." She spat hate dripping off each word.
When he didn't say anything she continued. "I don't want your pity, I just want my brother back and I can't do that if I'm locked up. I think you owe it at least to my father to help me out."
"If your going to be part of the team then you have to go through training and everything else the team does, no exceptions understand?" Jack said sternly.
Great another temper tantrum teenager he thought. Sam clenched her teeth together before nodding.
"Let her out, and suit up." Jack said in his captain voice.
"Sir?" The attendant asked unsure.
"Alright let her out in twenty minutes give her some alone time to think" Jack said leaving the area.
"Yes sir."
Sam sighed, "Did you want something?" She asked to what seemed to be a vacated room.
"How did you know I was here?" Dylan asked reappearing.
"Intuition I guess." She answered nonchalantly. "Why are you here, come to get information out of me, because I'm pretty sure you just heard it all."
"Well uh, yeah I did hear." Dylan said embarrassed, "I guess I'm just curious you know."
"Curious about me?" She laughed.
"Yeah I mean they stopped using gamma 13 you know, none of us have been dosed with it."
"Yeah well you're lucky I guess. My brother and I after our mother had finally left were recruited by the Zenith project. We were here a couple of months before you were. If you think your training was hard, then you wouldn't be able to survive what we went through." Sam said putting a strand of blonde hair behind her ear.
Dylan sat down beside, her clearly noticing how hurt she was.
"I don't know I've actually spent a lot of time in here you know. I'm Dylan West by the way." He said smiling and holding out his hand for her to shake.
Sam couldn't help but smile back, the guy had a nice smile and he was cute she thought.
"Samantha James." She said giving in and shaking his hand.
"So Sam, guess your joining the team huh?" Dylan said comfortably calling her by her nickname
"Just to get my brother back." She said, "He's the only one I have left. You better disappear, I'm going to be let out in a couple of minutes." As quickly as Dylan disappeared the isolation doors opened and Sam was set free.
Zoom was waiting for her suit up cadet training starts ASAP. He said somewhat harshly. She grabbed the yellow jumpsuit and went into one of the empty rooms.
"Where is she?" Zooms said annoyed.
"Jack? Sir she's um on her way." Dr. Grant said nervously through a speaker.
"Hey Jack man listen this is going be hard on the kid, I mean gamma 13, she really has no one and I was the one who killed her father. This isn't going to be easy for her." Conner said guilty.
Of course he felt bad, what he had done to his teammates how that had affected their second generation. Sam strode up to the yellow jumpsuit team wearing black combat boots, a jean mini skirt and a hot pink t-shirt. Dylan's eyes almost popped out of his sockets, which earned a nasty glare from his girlfriend Summer. She didn't have to be an empath to pick up on the drool coming from his open mouth.
"What the heck are you wearing?" Zoom said trying to control his anger.
"I think she looks pretty, why can't I wear my princess dress at training too Mr. Zoom?" Cindy Collins age 6 said in her sweetest little voice.
Zoom however chose to ignore her. "Change now!"
"I don't think so, what's wrong with what I'm wearing?" She questioned. Blowing a huge bubble with her gum.
"You cannot train in that."
"Says who?" Zoom grunted out loud. She was rude, and arrogant and most of all stubborn.
"Typical! Fine train in that if you break a leg in those boots or can't keep up with anyone else, that's not my problem." Sam gave a cocky smile.
"Team this is the new addition. Samantha Jones this is…"
"Dylan West, Houdini." Dylan said giving her a wink.
"Summer Jones, Wonder."
"Tucker Williams, Mega boy."
"And last but not least…" Zoom said looking over at the little blond.
"Cindy Collins age six, Princess."
The four of them went into the chamber.
"Aren't you coming?" Sam questioned,
"No you highness we are going to watch the five of you train. And watch you make a fool of yourself in those shoes" Sam rolled her eyes, blew another bubble and sent a death glare to concussion. She knew exactly who he was, but she kept her emotions buried deep. Stepping into the chamber with the rest of the group. Suddenly the floor began to move turning clockwise and the other half turning counterclockwise.
Suddenly paint balls started shooting from out of the billions of tiny holes in the wall.
"Whoa!" Sam said putting her hands up creating a weak electrical force field around the other four.
"Hey awesome!" Tucker said when they all realized Sam and her force field were protecting them.
Sam put a cocky smile on her face. Larraby walked in on the control center and after surveying how easy it seemed to be, he commanded an increase instead of the normal twenty percent they were use to.
"Hey you can't do that, they haven't been training more than twenty forty is too much."
"Don't tell me what to do, that girl has more power than you can even begin to imagine, gamma thirteen does wonders, don't you remember Zoom?" Larraby asked.
"Mind you she hasn't been exposed to much of it." He continued.
Sam noticed Larraby and felt the increase in power. She closed her eyes and tried to concentrate harder holing back the forty, then seventy and finally hundred percent increase in power. She couldn't breath anymore she hadn't used her powers in a long time and she had to admit it was quickly taking it's toll on her.
Dylan was the first to notice the blood trickle down from her nose and how she seemed to slowly give into the weakness.
"Hurry up press the button." Dylan yelled.
Tucker stretched out one of his arms with the aid of Cindy and shut the power off.
Sam felt the darkness leave her eyes and settle into her mind collapsing into an invisible force.
Dylan held her unconscious and limp body, scooping her up in his arms. The sting of jealousy coursed through Summer. She felt his concern for the new girl and she felt, she felt nothing from her.
Summer narrowed her eyes at the still form in her 'boyfriends' arms. Nothing she couldn't read anything from her, not even from before. Dr. Grant, Zoom, Concussion and Marsha rushed to the entrance of the paint ball dome. Dr. Grant felt her pulse and quickly studied her. When her eyes began to flutter slightly open and then close again he made his analysis.
"She just needs to regain her strength and energy. She needs rest."
Morning came all to early for the Zenith team. Summer quickly eyed her boyfriend as he walked into breakfast that morning.
"Hey." She greeted, moving over for the seat she saved him. Cindy and Tucker were also eating at their cozy table of four.
"Hey." He said back. Dylan was looking around the room.
"She hasn't come in yet." Summer said a little bit heart broken.
You didn't need to be an empath to know what she was feeling.
"Oh I, well I just wanted to make sure she was ok you know, from yesterday? And uh she's new." Dylan said.
Summer forced a small smile, trying her best to understand. Samantha strode in with dark bags under her eyes. No amount of makeup could hide the distressed features in her face.
She looked over to the group and then turned away grabbing a fruit cup from the cafeteria and sitting in a seat away from the group.
"Maybe we should uh, you know invite her, she's new." Dylan suggested, to his girlfriend more than the group. Summer could practically feel his emotions and they scared her. He had such an over whelming emotion to make her feel part of the team. Dylan looked down.
"So what do you think?"He asked wanting to know what she would say next.
So that was the first chapter, Hope you liked it. Please review and be kind. thx :P