Sarah sat on her perch in the bell tower of the Belmont County Baptist Church and watched as people filed into the church. She sighed at the sight as she leaped quietly onto the church roof and then into a passing mattress truck.
"Sarah, there's a meteor coming quick." Her friend, Nicole Hiarason told her.
"Let the hero academy junkers take care of it." Sarah replied coldly.
"That's the thing you're the only one around who can possibly save the people there." Nicole told her.
Sarah sighed as she leaped from the mattress truck to a nearby roof and looked around for the meteor. It took her a while to spot it as it was somewhat cloaked from the naked eye, but her eyes were genetically enhanced from a young age. She hooked up her grappling line to the next building and zipped over to where she had a good sight on the meteor.
"Did you put the MPL on my belt." Sarah asked her as she search her utility belt.
"Yeah, the Multiple Projectile Launcher is the very far left." Nicole replied.
Sarah took a disc off of her belt and it instantly expanded to a full sized rocket launcher with four barrels and she focused on the meteor. As it beeped three times to show that the launcher was locked on and she fired it. The four rockets fired off and as they got closer those rockets separated into ten tinier rockets each that hit the meteor enough to where it separated.
"Okay, it's high enough in the atmosphere to where the two pieces will burn up before they even get close." Nicole told her.
Sarah nodded as she pulled up her hood and climbed down the side of the building where she wouldn't be seen. Her jeans were torn in several places and the pink shirt she was wearing hadn't been washed in a couple of weeks. Her shoes were torn and the soles were barely staying on, but her jacket was the only thing she ever washed. She never really lived anywhere even though Nicole and her parents offered to let her live with them, but she would never stay with them due to the danger they would be put through.
"Sarah, please come over, you know I worry about where you'll get your next meal." Nicole told her.
"Fine, but I'm not staying there." Sarah replied.
"I'll tell my mom that you're coming." Nicole replied happily.
Sarah sighed as she pulled out the Bluetooth and put it in her pocket. She tied back her blonde hair and started to jog towards Nicole's house. The house had white paneling on the outside and when Sarah first knocked on the door it swung open. Nicole pulled her in for a tight hug, next was her moom who kissed her forehead and Sarah looked around and sighed.
"He's out so you don't have to worry." Nicole's mom replied.
Sarah nodded as she looked around the house. It wasn't complicatedly decorated, the living room had a t.v., couch, a coffee table, and two recliners on either side of the couch. There was the kitchen and dining room off the right of the living room and there was a hallway leading from the living room to Nicole's room and it turns to the right leading to her parent's room.
"My dad doesn't hate you Sarah." Nicole told her.
"I don't want to bring it up." Sarah replied.
"You two are going to have to talk sooner or later." Nicole replied.
"I choose never." Sarah replied.
"Okay, whatever then." Nicole replied. "At least take a shower, you reek."
"I like my stench people keep their distance." Sarah told her.
"I know you really aren't a people person, but as long as you in this house you will not smell like you crawled out of a dumpster." Nicole told her as she tried to push Sarah towards her room.
"You know you can't move me." Sarah replied.
"What is she doing here?" A voice asked from behind them.
"Dad, she my friend, and she isn't putting me in danger." Nicole told him.
"Long time no see, Mr. Hiarason." Sarah spat out.
"Get out now, and I don't want you anywhere around my family." He told her.
"Fine, just don't ask me for help anytime soon." Sarah hissed as she stormed out of the house.
She heard Nicole run after but she just started to run. "Sarah, you're 16; you need a family."
She sprinted down the street as her anger started to boil violently and when she was a good distance away she collapsed to her knees and screamed until her throat hurt. The only thing that strained her friendship with Nicole is that her father is the director of the Hero Academy. The same Academy that didn't come to her aid until her parents were long dead. The same Academy that looked down at her because her parent were Powered, but she wasn't. The same Academy that made every day of her life since then a living nightmare. Sarah got to her feet and just started to walk with no destination in mind, when she finally started to notice her surrounding she found that she was at her old house. She opened the door, walked to her bedroom, and cried herself to sleep in her old bed.
"Are you okay?" A voice asked her.
Sarah shot straight up in her bed when she heard the voice.
"Who there?" Sarah asked the voice.
"To bad the electricity is no good." The voice replied.
Sarah sensed whoever was in her room get closer to her bed and who she saw shocked her. The girl that sat at the foot of her bed had bright blonde hair that was braided. She wore a dark red shirt with a leather jacket and dark skinny jeans and she had on high heels. She looked to be around Sarah age as well.
"How did I not hear you?" Sarah asked her rubbing her eyes.
"I had asked you same question like ten times before you actually responded." The girl replied.
"Well I was asleep." Sarah replied.
"Why here, and not with your family?" The girl asked her.
"They were killed." Sarah replied. "This is my old house."
The girl nodded as this sunk in.
"Who are you?" Sarah asked the girl.
"My name is Black Magic." She replied. "And your name is?"
"I'm Conduit, and don't worry about my real name." Sarah replied.
"Come with me." Black Magic told her.
"Where to?" Sarah asked her. "Also, why I don't even know you."
"Would you rather be in this dark and dreary house all by yourself?" Black Magic asked her.
Sarah's sighed as Black Magic offered her a hand and she took it. Suddenly she felt weightless as her house disappeared and an island appeared around the two of them.
"How did you do that?" Sarah asked her.
"My abilities let me bend the laws of the universe." Black Magic told her.
"That's weird." Sarah told her.
"Yeah, but you'll get used to it." Black Magic replied.
"No, not your abilities." Sarah replied as nicely as she could. "My phone had a full battery and now it completely drained."
Black Magic checked her phone and she was surprised to find it was dead as well. "My powers don't do this. Has this happened recently."
"If I have to make trip to the middle of nowhere then yeah but I usually have enough time to pack at least 40 cellphone batteries." Sarah replied. "This sudden drain completely kills the batteries."
A backpack appeared out of nowhere beside Black Magic and she pulled out a sleek metal case and what looked like hair spray.
"You will want to close your eyes and mouth and plug your nose; it is horrible if gets into any of those spots." Black Magic told her.
Sarah nodded as she did as Black Magic told her and when she was able to open her eyes see saw several black streams flowing from a flashlight that Black Magic was holding.
"Power over electricity, interesting." Black Magic told her. "You are definitely buying me a new battery."
"Okay, but is that the only reason you brought me here, I think the lack of electricity is making me sick." Sarah told her.
Black Magic placed a hand on Sarah's and they were instantly teleported back to the city but Sarah still threw up on the streets.
"Let's get you somewhere safe." Black Magic told her as she took her arm.
They walked as quickly as they could to what seemed like an abandoned building on the outside, but Sarah was surprised by what she saw on the inside. The walls were completely line from the roof to the ground with computers and she barely saw the person going from one to the next. With the new information she got from Black Magic she placed a hand on one of the computers and as it started to flicker the person stopped in his tracks.
"Can you please stop?" The guy asked her.
He was going to continue until he saw that Sarah was the one draining the computer he spun on Black Magic.
"Why did you bring her!" He yelled right before a black band of energy wrapped over his mouth.
"Good to see you again, you treacherous piece of scum." Sarah told him.
"Calm down Conduit." Black Magic told her.
"No, what he did is unforgivable." Sarah yelled before disappearing.
Sarah jumped out the power line onto the roof a building a block away from Black Magic's hideout. She spun around with electricity crackling across her fingertips as the another girl approached her this girl was wearing a skintight Kevlar bodysuit with her black hair flowing behind her.
"I'm irritated and I'm going to blast you away if you don't start talking." Sarah told her.
"Follow me Sarah Mcneal; you'll get your answers." The girl asked before she started to walk away.
Sarah ran after the mystery girl.
Author's Note: I'm accepting OC's for this story I'll be putting up a poll with the available relationships.