Here is Chapter 1, picking up from where Becoming Superboy finishes up. Enjoy!


"Jason, Wally I would like to ask you a favour please?" Mrs Richards, head teacher of the school attended by Jason Kent and Wally West, asked .

"Of course Mrs Richards, anything you want," Jason replied.

"Excellent. I have a young man in your year group who has just moved to the school and today is his first day. He is a little late as you can see by the time, but I was wondering if you could help show him around this week and look after him."

"We would be happy to help," Wally replied.

"Fantastic, if you could come to my office, he is waiting for us there."

They followed Mrs Richards to her office, passing the classroom they were supposed to be going next. At least for this task they weren't going to have to wear tights and try to dodge bullets. What they didn't know was, their lives were going to change once more and a whole new adventure was going to open up to them. Mrs Richards held her door open letting the two teenagers pass through, before she followed them, closing the door behind her.

"Jason, Wally, I would like you to meet Benjamin Parker. He has just moved to the UK from America and will be joining us here for the foreseeable future."

The three teenagers shook hands as they were introduced, each giving a small nod and smile at the other.

"Its great to have you here," Jason said. "Both my parents are American, but I have lived here for most of my life."

"I am also from the US, I moved here a few years ago," Wally added.

"There you see, you have nothing to worry about," Mrs Richards said comfortingly to Ben. "These two lads have been through exactly the same as you. Now lads, can you please take Benjamin on a tour of the school and make sure he is up to date on all of our policies regarding behaviour and fire safety. Thank you."

She dismissed us with a wave and we filed out of her office back into the corridor.

"Right, where should we head first?" Wally asked.

"I think we should start at the canteen and then branch off," Jason suggested.

"I have already been round the school once. I can remember everything from my last visit," Ben said, his American accent clear in his voice, not trying to hide it.

It is a fact that when people move to a country, they sometimes feel the need to mask their own accent in order to assimilate into their new culture. However, Ben felt comfortable around his new companions and decided to keep his native brogue. It wasn't like they didn't speak English in London.

"What do you want to do then? Jason asked.

"Tell me what it is like living here. How different is it from the States?"

"Well," Wally started, "the main thing I have found is the language. Yes we are all speaking English, but they speak English English, so you need to be careful over some words, as they mean different things over here. But also there are other little things like, remembering what side of the road they drive on and TV, that is very different."

"I remember going over to America and seeing the different style of food to what it is here," Jason said. "A lot of Americans will try and say the food in the UK is bad and not very nice, but it is really good."

"I agree with that, I thought the food would never be as good as at home, but boy they have some fantastic meals over here."

"Do you miss the States?" Benjamin asked.

"I do," Wally said, "because I still have family and friends over there, but you integrate so quickly and the British are really nice, especially around here."

"I just have my grandparents over in the States and as I said earlier have been here most of my life, so to me England is more of a home than America. But I suppose it will always be special as Mum and Dad come from there and it was where I was born," Jason said.

"Why did you move here?" Wally asked.

"My Dad works for the Daily Bugle in New York and they have opened an office here in London and Dad's boss wants him to run it."

"Wait. Parker?" Wally thought. "Is your Dad the legendary Peter Parker, the guy who gets the photos of Spider-man?"

"Yeah he is, but please don't mention it to anyone. People keep asking if I have met him because my Dad is supposed to his friend, but I haven't yet."

"Hasn't Spider-man disappeared though? It was on the news?" Jason asked.

"That is why Dad was transferred here. His boss thought he was to valuable to lose, so wanted to keep him."

Jason looked down at his watch and saw the time.

"We should head back to class. What have you got Benjamin?"

"Ben please," he replied as he looked at his timetable. "It says here that I have Q2 History CBR?"

"Ah okay. Q2 is the room the class is in, just by the English block. It's part of the 6th form area. CBR is the teacher's initials. It is with Miss Bradshaw," Wally said.

"What's 6th form?" asked Ben.

"You go there when you have finished secondary school and before you go to university. In Year 11 you do GCSE exams and then you either go to 6th form, college or get an apprenticeship between the age of 16 and 18. You do A-level exams in 6th form," Jason explained.

"It all sounds so complicated," Ben replied, trying to get his head around it.

"Yeah, don't worry about it. We'll get you sorted with it all. Let's get going," Wally said.

The three lads headed off down the corridor and to there lesson, apologising for their lateness and explaining the reason why.

The afternoon's lessons sped by and the three teens met up again outside the school, at the end of the day.

"Thank you for looking after me this afternoon. I have to admit, I wasn't looking forward to it, but you have helped me see that everything will be ok," Ben said.

"No problem. If you have any worries, come and see us," Jason replied. "Have a good evening and we will see you tomorrow," he continued, as a car pulled up beside them.

"That's my ride, see you both tomorrow," Ben waved as he moved off to the waiting car.

"Bye," both Jason and Wally chorused together.

They watched as the car moved off and then they too headed home, chatting about the day and what they would be getting up to that evening.