Disclaimer: I don't own the premise of Sky High.
Chapter 1
Sky High; the school where superheroes were made. It's highly functional anti-gravity device kept it floating above the earth and constantly moving to prevent anyone from discovering its location that may have nefarious plans for the school. Some people dreamed of attending and graduating Sky High. I constantly dreamed of getting out. Like a couple hundred other kids we attended high school there and everyone knows; high school sucks.
'Super,' I thought to myself. The first day of school; new freshman, new classes, new books, "But ahh, new clothes too," I said quietly to myself with a smirk on my face. I put on my new denim skirt and a v-neck navy t-shirt. I starred at myself in the mirror as I played with my long straight blonde hair. My adornment of myself was broken by a knock on the door.
"Hailey, you need to get going if you don't want to be late," my equally attractive mother announced. People said we could be sisters, possibly because my mother was resisting aging. That was part of her powers, accompanied by telepathy, which I had inherited. My father had the power of shape shifting, into a tiger; which I had also inherited, well sort of, only not nearly as cool. I could shape shift alright, into a cat; no, not a cool wild cat, just a regular domestic cat. My father however had been one of the most renowned super villains; well I suppose he still was, except that he'd been put away, by none other than 'The Commander' himself. Come to think of it, the Commander's son was attending Sky High this year as well, should be interesting. I wasn't the only student who's father he'd put away. My father's partner, Barron Battle had also been put away, however I, unlike Barron's son, held no grudge against anyone for it, except perhaps my father.
"Alright mom, I'm off," I smiled and grabbed my book bag. I gave my mom a kiss on the cheek and jogged down the steps. As I opened the door my mother cleared her throat. I turned around as she held out an apple.
"You need to eat something," she insisted. I laughed as I held my hand out, the apple shot from her hand to mine, and quickly made its way to my mouth. I took a bite and waved a final goodbye.
I continued to eat as I walked to the bus stop. At my bus stop stood two guys, both in my class, grins spread over both of their faces as I approached. Before I even had the chance to say so much as a cheerful hello one of their arms stretched down the street and wrapped around my waist pulling me quickly over to them. The culprit leaned down and gave me a kiss. I smiled. "Mmm, hello to you as well," I looked up at him; he was tall, much taller than myself, with dark shaggy hair. He wore his trademark long sleeved black and white striped shirt under a t-shirt look. His name was Lash, and we'd been dating since our freshman year. His partner in crime, slash best friend, was known as Speed. He had the appearance of a guy in much need of a treadmill, and yet surprisingly enough his power was agility. As for Lash, he was like a human stretch Armstrong. The bus pulled up and screeched to a stop. We climbed aboard and took our seats. Everyone was chattering apprehensively about the new school year.
After a short bus ride of flying around we arrived at Sky High, the brilliant gravity resistant school sat peacefully surrounded by clouds. After we got off the bus we stood at the top of the stairs up by the school and scanned the crowd for any old friends. Just as I was about to point out the new group of freshman descending the stairs of Ron Wilson "the bus driver's" school bus, the epitome of everything I can't stand came up from behind me.
"Hailey! How was your summer, I missed you!" she said. I turned around with a sarcastic smile on my face.
"Oh my god! It was awesome! How was yours?" I replied in a high-pitched tone. Her smile faded to a glare.
"And I see you haven't lost your… charm," she replied. Her gaze shifted to a large group of freshman being rounded up by Speed.
"Lash!" I said with a forceful tone, but I was too late, he was already stretching his way down the steps to 'greet' the freshmen. I groaned and shook my head. Gwen Grayson and I had our issues from day one. She was basically a dark haired version of me, well a taller dark haired version of me; who had a practically useless power of being a techopath. She walked down the steps to do her bull shitted "Student Body President" speech. She was the reason the hero's thought they were as they were, the rulers of the school, so to speak. Lash and Speed walked back up the stairs, with out stopping Lash grabbed my hand and led me in the door. The school year was starting alright, and I had a feeling it was going to be an interesting one.
