Hiccup was panicking as his father laid there motionless on the floor with his hand covering his side.
He immediately reached for the earpiece in his ear. "Toothless get the lab ready we've got an emergency."
"On it," said a mechanical voice.
Hiccup then reached for a button that was attached to the wall next to him and pressed down upon it. Immediately the robots with muscular arms appeared down the hallway. It had no legs and instead had one massive wheel and its head was shaped like an English butler
"You rang, sir," said the robot in a British accent.
"Jeeves, I need your help to get my father to the lab," said Hiccup.
The robot nodded. "Of course, sir."
Jeeves and immediately picked up Stoick and soon the two of them rushed towards the living room. She then placed Stoick on the table and immediately the peace before they were standing on lowered itself and a slab close to the hole above them.
They soon found themselves in a laboratory of some sorts, there are of machinery all around them. There was a massive computer with very large screens on one side of the lab with a chair directly in front of it.
The moment the left stopped they immediately rushed towards a medical bed. Jeeves then placed Stoick on the bed and Hiccup extended his hands forward has holographic terminals appeared in front of him.
"Toothless what his condition?" Hiccup asked.
Suddenly a small holographic form of a dragon appeared in front of him. "He appears to be greatly worn out, no doubt he over did it again. Thankfully he is stabilised you arrived just in time before he went into critical."
Hiccup shook his head. "I hate it when he overdoes things."
Jeeves nodded. "The Master does have a tendency going overboard."
"Tell me about it," said Hiccup he then looked at Toothless.
Toothless was an AI that he created himself as a form of hero support. He was able to analyse things are almost an instant giving options and able to support any information that was needed.
"Get the meds online now!" Hiccup ordered.
"Right away," said Toothless.
Immediately the bed began to light up in a blue glow and Stoick's relaxed upon feeling this blue glow.
"Jeeves removed his shirt, I need to apply the healing gel," said Hiccup.
"Of course, sir," said Jeeves.
He then began to remove Stoick's shirt and upon doing so revealed a massive scar on the left side of his body. The scar was ugly and his body was a bit more power than normal, in that is if he had received a massive blow when they had stitches entire body back together.
Hiccup immediately grabbed some sort of fabric and then placed over the wound, his father fringed upon it making contact but then relaxed.
"He should be fine in a few hours, Hiccup," said Toothless.
"Tell me when he wakes," said Hiccup rubbing his forehead.
Hiccup then made his way and sat down on the chair looking over the monitor, he access the console and saw several images appearing upon it. They were mostly of heroes fighting against villains in other parts of the world.
Jeeves then rolled his way over to Hiccup. "You wish to be one of them don't you, sir?"
Hiccup sighed. "Yes, but you and I both know that my dad would never allow it."
Jeeves looked at him. "What your father does not know can't hurt him."
Hiccup sighed. "Not you too. I'm already getting enough of this from Gobber."
Jeeves looked at him. "Your mother assigned me to your household in order to watch over you and to protect you. However, I believe the best way to protect you is in order for you to master your powers and the best way to do that is to become a hero like your parents."
Hiccup sighed. "Ever since my dad got that injury three years ago, he has stopped every single one of my attempts to follow in his footsteps. He doesn't listen to a single thing that I say and he is a stubborn as an ox."
"The trade that you have inherited, sir," Jeeves added.
Hiccup groaned. "I just don't want to be the only member of our family not becoming a superhero. Snotlout is always quick to remind me of that."
Jeeves looked at him. "If you don't mind me saying I think you should prove your cousin wrong. You can prove that you are not useless and that you are not a, as you call it, 'a walking fishbone.'"
Hiccup rubbed his head. "I just don't know what to do Jeeves, I really don't."
Hiccup had fallen asleep at the monitor
He was then awoke when he heard a roar.
He immediately shot up. "Who? What? Where?" He then saw the holographic dragon directly in front of him and groaned. "Toothless, I've told you not to do that."
"It's the only way to wake you up," Toothless pointed out.
Hiccup groaned. "What do you want, bud?"
"Stoick's awake."
Hiccup immediately sat up and made his way over towards the medical bed and found that his father was indeed awake and was already putting on his shirt.
"How was school, son?" he asked.
Hiccup stared at him. "'How was school?' Dad, I found you half dead on the floor. What the heck happened?"
Stoick sat up straight and winced as a hand immediately reached for his wound. "I just overexert it myself."
Hiccup placed his hands on his hips. "Dad, you know as well as I that you can only fight for about three hours a day before you run out of strength. Told you that you can extended if you just slow down."
"Hero does his job no matter his condition," said Stoick flatly.
"And yet you prevent your own son for becoming a hero to do just that," Hiccup pointed out.
Stoick sighed. "We've had this conversation before son."
"Wrong, you have a conversation you just keep ignoring everything I say," Hiccup corrected.
"No, and that is final!" Stoick said strongly.
"This conversation sounds very one-sided," Hiccup grumbled as he folded his arms. He then looked at his father. "Can you please tell me how you got that injury?"
"I told you it's a secret and it's one that I do not want spread across the entire country," said Stoick as he got to his feet.
Hiccup was practically at the end of his wick, but then Jeeves rolled over towards them.
"I have a dinner, sir," said Jeeves.
"Good," said Stoick making his way to the lift.
Hiccup just sighed and followed his father.
Later that night Hiccup was on his bed in his room looking up at the ceiling. The place was filled with posters of famous heroes and there was a desk with many schematics and notebooks upon it.
Toothless holographic form then appeared next to Hiccup. "Don't you look cheerful?"
"I just had an unexciting dinner with my father," said Hiccup not looking at his friend. "Everyone in school believe that I'm normal for each and every one of them have a super ability, because my father has forbidden me to use my powers."
Toothless looked at him. "I still don't understand why your father doesn't want you to follow in his footsteps?"
Hiccup sighed. "Neither do I, bud, but it is what it is."
"You could do what Gobber suggested and go behind his back," Toothless offered.
"And have a quarter ton of fist slam into my face, I think not."
Toothless sighed. "Hiccup, you made me in order to help support other heroes and how can I do that if my creator does not become a hero himself. I mean the only support I've done is for your Dad and that only when he comes back half dead."
Hiccup closed his eyes. "I just want to make him proud of me, but no matter what I do it just doesn't seem to be enough. I mean I made you and he barely acknowledges you."
"Your father has always been a bit old-fashioned," Toothless reminded.
Hiccup chuckled slightly. "You don't know the half of it."
Toothless looked at him. "You might make some friends if you join the academy."
Hiccup looked at him. "You're the only friend I need, bud."
Toothless looked at him. "Personally, I think it's unhealthy that your only best friend is the one that you built."
Hiccup chuckled. "I suppose you're right, but I'm not sure that a good enough reason to join a Hero Academy?"
Toothless looked at him. "I didn't want to say this, but your father strength is beginning to lag a bit."
Hiccup looked up. "You mean getting weaker?"
Toothless nodded. "If you hadn't built the implants he now has he would have lost strength a long time ago, but if he keeps going at this pace to lose his power within a year."
Hiccup looked at Toothless completely horrified and that night he was unable to fall asleep as worries of his father's safety entered into his mind.
The next day was a Saturday so Hiccup made his way to the workshop and informed Gobber of everything that Toothless had told him.
"I know all about that, lad," said Gobber.
Hiccup looked up. "You know?"
"Aye, I'm his best friend why wouldn't he tell me?" said Gobber.
Hiccup looked at him curiously. "Who else knows?"
"Only a few people know of his condition, mostly some other pro heroes," said Gobber. "Nothing should concern yourself with, lad."
"Nothing I should concern myself with?" Hiccup stared. "My Dad is going to lose all his strength in about year from now if he doesn't stop pushing himself so hard."
"Have you ever tried telling your father what he should do?" Gobber asked.
"Fair point."
Gobber sighed. "Look everyone been trying to convince him to allow others to take up the slack, but there's no way your father is going to stop doing what he does best even if that means pushing himself hard."
"But if he loses his strength while he's in a battle with a very powerful super villain he could get killed."
Gobber laughed. "Your father paces himself when dealing with super villains, but Irish should be more concerned about what you're going to do."
"Me?" Hiccup blinked.
"I mean trying to assign yourself into the Hero Academy, the applications closed next Friday," Gobber reminded.
"I just don't know what to do," Hiccup sighed as he sat down. "I think I just need to think about it."
"Well, while you're thinking maybe you should get back to work," Gobber asked gesturing to his back door. "Those components aren't going to fix themselves."
Hiccup nodded and got and grabbed his apron. "You got it."
Snotlout was making his way down a dark alley with two of his classmates. One had like wings on his back and the other had a clawlike fingers.
"So are we heading to the arcade?" the guy with the claws asked.
"I was hoping that we run into Useless and showing what a real hero is capable of," said Snotlout swinging his fist.
The boy with the bat wings rolled his eyes. "Seems like a waste of a perfectly good Saturday to me."
Snotlout huffed. "The guy thinks he can be a hero, but he doesn't have any powers."
"But doesn't he have powers?" the guy with the claws asked.
"He says he has, but he never used them," said the boy with the bat wings.
"Meaning is just trying to make himself sound tough," Snotlout snorted. "Me why does the show them off like me."
The boy with the bat wings looked to his friend. "Hiccup, showing off?"
"Not in a million years," said the boy with claws.
"Exactly," said Snotlout as if that proved his point. "I'm going to be the first kid in our school to become a hero and it's only going to be me."
However, to them there was a black like creature in the alleyway. Snotlout's two friends notice this and their eyes widened.
"Hey, what's that?" they asked pointing behind Snotlout.
Snotlout turned and saw the black blues like creature towering above him. "Perfect," it said. "I like a skin suit with some fire."
Snotlout then immediately unleashed his flames upon the creature, but it merely expanded itself and consumed him.
Hiccup and Gobber when the workshop working on some damage devices when they heard an explosion.
"What was that?" said Hiccup.
Gobber immediately reached for a communicator and then placed it on his ear. "What's going on?"
Hiccup knew that Gobber was talking with a local hero agency, the one who works for as a hero. He also knew that he would only using a one-sided conversation due to the fact that it was top-secret.
"What?" Gobber gasped. "I'm on my way."
Hiccup looked at him. "What's up?"
"There's a villain on the loose in Hooligan Street, I need to get onto the scene right now," said Gobber.
Gobber press the button underneath the counter and immediately a wall slid aside to reveal his hero suit. It was brown with a metal visor and on its chest and the logo of a hammer.
"Stay here," he said strictly as he made his way into the secret room.
The door then closed behind him and Hiccup just watched.
Gobber was soon wearing his hero soon was rushing into action from the back of his shop.
"This is Forge, on the way," he said.
Forge was one of the original superhero with the ability to create anything from any kind of metal. He had lost both an arm and a leg from a very powerful villain about 20 years ago and was able to forge himself prosthetics in order to replace them.
Hooligan Street was a major shopping district and already the place was sealed off as flames rushed out in all different directions.
"It's a monster!" a woman cried.
Stormcutter was already on the scene with a few other heroes and that's where they found a muscular like creature whose body was made of black ooze. However, the most concerning aspect was the fact that it had Snotlout's face whose mouth was completely covered up.
"What is that thing?" a hero asked.
"It's Symbiot," Forge gasped a team approach them.
"You know this thing?" said Stormcutter.
"Aye, a very dangerous adversarial," said Forge. "He is capable of taking over anyone's body as a host and use their abilities, though it much greater strength."
"I'll get that thing off," said Stormcutter.
Then he immediately jumped into the air and began spinning his stores around creating a powerful gust of wind that slammed into Symbiot. However he merely just took the blow and still clinging onto Snotlout.
Then he immediately unleashed a powerful burst of flames directly at Stormcutter and he would have been roasted alive in the cable had appeared out of nowhere and wrapped itself around his waist. Then with one good pull he soon found himself back with Forge.
"Thanks," he said gratefully.
"It won't work," said Forge. "Symbiot is literally able to attach themselves his host. It's gonna take much more powerful gust of wind the matter blow him off, but the only person I know is capable of producing such a powerful gust would be Skullcrusher.
"Where is he then?" a hero asked.
Forge said nothing.
Stoick was currently in the secret underground laboratory of Hiccup watching the entire thing from the monitor.
"I have to get out there," he said getting up.
Jeeves immediately grabbed him and forced him back down. "You're in no condition in order to fight, sir. You have also used up your time-limit you will only be a burden."
Stoick slammed his fist on the console in frustration which caused the monitors to blowout.
"Now we can't even watch what's going on," Jeeves sighed.
Snotlout was trying to break free from Symbiot, though there was easier said than done as the creature was clinging onto him like a fly on a spider's web.
"You messed with the wrong guy," he roared.
He immediately shot flames from his hands, but it had no effect on Symbiot as his strength appeared to be totally useless as he was unable to break free with his muscles.
"You got some quite impressive abilities kid," Symbiot smirked. "I can only imagine the amount of chaos I can call us with them."
"Get off of me!" Snotlout roared still trying to free himself.
"Only until I find someone better than you," Symbiot laughed.
"But there's no one better than me!" Snotlout cried.
"Then it's tough to beat you," Symbiot laughed.
Forge the notice a couple of kids within the flames.
"We got containing this super villain and save those kids," he said.
"I'm on it," said a hero wearing a purple leotard.
Immediately his arm began to stretch and they wrapped around the two kids. He then pulled them out of the flames and to the crowd that surrounded the area.
Forge then turned to hero that resembled a firefighter. "Firefighter, you need to contain these flames!"
"On it," he said and released bursts of water from his hand straight at the flames and began to douse them.
"What do we do about this thing?" Stormcutter asked looking at Forge.
"We have to wade into a hero with the right ability to handle this thing shows up," said Forge.
Hiccup was watching the entire thing from the TV and Gobber's shop and saw that Snotlout was inside of Symbiot.
"Snotlout," Hiccup gasped as he got to his feet. "I've got to help, but how?"
Hiccup looked around wildly then he saw several components on the workshop and an idea appeared in his head.
On Hooligan Street, the heroes were doing their best to pin Symbiot down, but the combined strength of Snotlout's flames and strength that was almost impossible.
"I'm not sure how long we can keep this up," said Stormcutter as he never blast of wind from his swords.
Symbiot merely withstood the attack and then slammed his fist into the ground causing it to crack sending a massive shock wave that caused a mini earthquake.
Forge had just got off his radio. "The agency doesn't have anyone that is particularly suited for this situation. The contacting another agency with a hero that can help, but is gonna be some time until they get here."
"I don't think we have that long," said the hero that is able to stretch himself.
Forge knew he was right, but what else could they do?
"Gobber, it's me," said Hiccup's voice on his radio.
Forge's eyes widened as he reached for it. "How did you get this channel?"
"I hack into it," said Hiccup who is currently running down the street holding a package. "I saw everything on TV and I'm making my way to you."
Forge's eyes widened. "I told you to stay put!"
"I sit around and do nothing," Hiccup snapped.
"Hiccup, I appreciate that you wish to help, but there's nothing you can do," said Forge keeping his voice down so no one could hear them.
"That's where you're wrong, I've got something that could help," said Hiccup.
Symbiot was now shooting flames at the people, but Gobber quickly grabbed a car door and immediately formed into a shield, a fireproof shield. He immediately placed himself between the people and the blast, he was pushed back slightly but he stood his ground.
"What is this package you got?" Forge asked.
"Something that will give him a nasty headache," said Hiccup with a smile just as he entered Hooligan Street.
Forge looked at Stormcutter. "We may have a solution to our problem."
"Good," said Stormcutter as he jumped back to Forge. "What is it?"
Forge turned and saw Hiccup making his way through the crowd and saw the package he was holding.
"We're about to find out," said Forge.
He then made his way over to Hiccup and grabbed the package and this did not go unnoticed by certain group of people. Most of them were wondering why they big time hero like Forge would grab something from a kid in the crowd.
Forge did the wrapping and saw that it was a sonic blaster, it was crudely made pieces from his workshop, but with his bow as he would be able to improve it. He closes eyes and immediately the blaster became a high-tech weapon.
He then looked at the hero with the leotard. "Stretch, get ready to get the kid out of there."
"You got it," Stretch nodded.
Symbiot saw Forge aiming the blaster directly at him. "You kill me you kill the kid, not very hero like if you ask me."
Forge smiled. "Then it's a good thing that's not my plan."
He then pulled the trigger and immediately a sonic blast erupted from the weapon. The moment it struck Symbiot he roared in pain and found himself unable to hold onto Snotlout.
"What's going on?" he yelled.
"You should know," Forge smiled. "You are indeed a powerful, but you have an unfortunate weakness to sound attacks. Stretch, now!"
Stretch immediately stretched his arm and immediately wrapped itself around Snotlout's waste. Then with one good pull he was able to pull him out of Symbiot leaving him nothing more than a black who was roaring in pain.
Forge then lower the volume just enough to keep him disoriented. "Mission accomplished."
After the incident, they were able to contain Symbiot into a container and transferred him to a prison that specialise containing super villains. Snotlout was original weakened, but otherwise he was fine, though he was annoyed that the media wanted to interview him about his experience.
Hiccup and the other hand was able to get out of the street before he was questioned about where he got the sonic cannon. The last thing he wanted was an immediate time and be chewed out by his father when he got home.
Speaking of home he was making his way back home so that he would not get chewed out by either his father or Gobber. That being said he was willing to bet that Gobber was going to yell at him when he returned back to work tomorrow.
However before he reached the hill where his home was located he heard a familiar voice running towards him.
"Useless!" Snotlout's voice yelled.
Hiccup turned and saw his cousin running towards him looking furious. "Snotlout, I heard what happened. You are right?"
Snotlout narrowed his eyes. "Don't play dumb, I saw you were there handing something to Forge. Well you think that I'm going to find you for helping me, you got another thing coming! I had everything under control!" He then turned his back on him and walked off fuming. "You're nothing more than a delivery boy with no powers, there's no way you can be a hero!"
Hiccup frowned. 'Nice to see that this incident hasn't changed him.'
"Heading home, lad?" said another familiar voice.
Hiccup frozen turned around to find Gobber leaning against a tree looking at him.
"Uh, yes," he said.
Gobber got up straight and looked at him. "You're fortunate you got out of there just in time, your father smashed the monitors preventing him from watching the news. He would have a heart attack knowing that you put yourself in danger like that."
"I only handed you a device," Hiccup pointed out.
"That you made yourself out of junk," Gobber pointed out. "You certainly have ingenuity and you got coverage jumping in like that. The world would be lucky to have a hero like you, most heroes these days are just looking for fame and fortune. However, you hold the same stone that your father and I based the Institute on and I think I'll be a good chance for people to remember what a hero is truly supposed to be."
Hiccup looked at him. "But I haven't decided whether to apply to the Academy?"
Gobber placed a hand on his shoulder. "Lad, you got the opportunity of a lifetime don't because of what your father. You could possibly become a greater hero than your father, but only if you agree to apply."
Hiccup just looked at him unable to think and unsure on what he was meant to do.
