Maya Hunter was waking up while lying in the bed of her bedroom. The light of the sun was just beginning to rise through her bedroom as Maya stood up and straightened up her large red t-shirt which was all she was wearing. Suddenly some of the sunlight was blocked by a figure. Maya turned her head and saw standing on the balcony outside her bedroom window was a nervous looking Riley. Maya opened the window and said, "Hey Riles. What brings you here so early in the morning?" As Riley stepped into Maya's bedroom looking very nervous she said, "Maya, you know that party I was interested in going to last night." Maya then said, "Yeah. The party I couldn't go because of my family reunion. The party that... Wait. Did you go to it by yourself?" Riley nodded her head and said, "Yeah. And Maya... something really crazy happened last night. Something... disturbingly life changing." With a nervous looking face Maya said, "Oh no. Riley..." Maya suddenly hugged Riley close as she said, "Don't worry Riley. Just tell me the name of the guy that knocked you up and I will personally make his life a living nightmare for the rest of his days!" Riley then pushed Maya away as she said, "No Maya. It wasn't that kind of disturbingly life changing thing that happened. It was... well... this..." Riley then held out right hand and had several small sparks of electricity pop out of them. A confused Maya said, "Riley are you hiding some kind of sparkler in your..." Riley then held out of her left hand towards Maya and had a small breeze from her hand push at Maya. As Maya felt her hair blow up a bit she said, "Is there some fan you're hiding around..." Riley then held up her right hand and a small tiny flame appeared above it. Maya then suddenly jumped onto her bed as she said, "Ahh! Riley. You... you..." Riley then fell to the ground and covered her face as she said, "I know. I'm a freak. A freaky freak of freakish nature." Maya then calmed down as she smiled, got on the floor, and hugged Riley as she said, "No. You're not a freak Riley. You're special. You've always been special. Only now you're even more special than ever."
About an hour later in Maya's bedroom, Riley held the plug of a clock radio in her hand. Sparks appeared from Riley's hand and then the clock radio powered on. Maya then said, "Okay. So those are definitely electricity based powers you got there. And you say you can control the intensity in which they come out?" Riley nodded and said, "I think. When I first used my fire power, flames came out. But when I concentrated hard enough, I was able to just make my hands warm enough to heat up a plate of cookies without making anything burn." Maya then picked up a cookie on a nearby plate and ate it as she said, "Yeah. Thanks for that again. Your new fire powers work so much faster than an oven." An upset looking Riley then said, "Maya. I've become some freak of nature. I'm afraid of telling anyone else about this because I'll be reported to some secret government organization that'll lock me up for testing and stuff like that. What if my parents find out? Worse. What if the school finds out? Any boy I'm ever interested in dating will be intimidated of me for life. I am going to have no love life for as long as I live!" Then Maya said, "Wait a minute Riley. You said you suddenly got those powers from that strange gas at the party. But there were tons of other teenagers there. Could any of them have gotten powers too?" A freaked out looking Riley said, "Oh God. Please no."
A short time later, Riley and Maya were sitting in front of a television in the living room of Maya's apartment. On the television, a news woman appeared saying, "Out of nowhere overnight, the New York City of real life has turned into the New York City of comic books. Dozens of reports have been made of what could only be described as super powered criminals causing crimes with what could only be described as super powers." Maya then muted the TV as she said, "That footage... they looked like teenagers but... they all had different powers than you." Riley sighed and said, "And it was a real shady looking party Maya. There was beer and trouble making and... it was full of people who were up to no good. But now that they feel like they have the freedom to do whatever they want... this city is now gonna be over run with super powered criminals." Maya then said, "Unless you put a stop to it." With a nervous face Riley said, "ME!? But I'm not a super hero Maya. I barely understand what's happening to me. I don't even get how it happened." Suddenly the two heard a scream from outside. Riley and Maya then ran over to a window. Outside they saw an explosion near a building and three strange teens with powers walking towards it. Riley then bit her lip as she said, "Oh God. Three criminals with baseball bats and chains is scary enough. But now three criminals with super powers!?" Maya then grabbed Riley by the shoulders and said, "Riley! Your dad's old teacher had a saying that was taught to him which he then taught you. To believe in yourself, dream, try, and do good. Not do well. But do good. You didn't let your fear of fire stop you from saving that baby last night. Now don't let your fears stop you now." Riley then took a deep breath as she said, "Okay but... I need a mask." Maya then held up a small black domino mask as she said, "Don't worry. I still have this leftover from Halloween."
Near a small bank three super powered teens stood together. One of the teens had feathers on their arms and jumped in the air as he yelled, "Take this!" Then hard feathers came out of the teenagers' hands and hit the bank wall breaking it open. Then a teen male who looked buffed up used his fists to break more walls of the bank and saw scared people in the bank. As the two teens came into the bank, the lead teen yelled, "Give us all your money now." Then suddenly the three heard a voice say, "You three aren't getting anything." The three turned their heads and saw Riley wearing her domino mask with a long black shirt and tight blue jeans. One of the teens said, "And who are you?" Riley then said, "I'm... just a girl... completely out of her mind right now." The lead teenager then said, "Get out of my sight." "Then the teen held out his hands and from them rocks appeared and went straight at Riley. Riley then suddenly jumped and flew into the air and she yelled, "Ahhh!" The three teenagers caught off guard for a moment starred at Riley flying in the air over them. Then the teenager with feathers on their arms yelled, "I'm pinning you down!" The the teen sent sharp hard feathers out of their hands at Riley. Riley then held out her two hands and shot two blasts of fire at the hard feathers melting them. Then Riley landed on the ground and shot electricity from her hands at the three teens. All of the teens fell to the ground except from the leader who then said, "Electricity doesn't affect someone with a rock hard body." Then Riley said, "Then lets try this!" Riley then shot a strong blast of fire from her hands at the lead teenager hitting him hard. The lead teen fell to the ground as Riley stepped towards him and said, "Now to bring you in." The lead teen then looked at Riley as he said, "Maybe you should take care of your problems first." Riley then looked at her right shirt sleeve and saw it was caught on fire. Riley got wide eyed as she screamed, "Ahhh!" The three teens then got up and ran off as Riley shook her arm and said, "Get it off! Get it off!" The fire continued to burn on Riley's shirt and was growing. Riley then quickly pulled her shirt off and shook it a bit. Suddenly part of the flames caught onto the back of Riley's pants causing Riley to screamed louder. Riley then smacked her pants several times and put that fire out, and then threw her shirt onto the ground and stomped that fire out. Riley breathed a sigh of relief but then suddenly noticed people gathered around her with their cell phone cameras out. Riley then looked down and realized the top half of her body now was only covered by her bra, and there a large burnt hole on the back of her pants revealing part of her panties and teenage buttocks. Riley began to blush bright red as she tried covering her cleavage and behind while many people began to snap pictures. Riley then flew into the sky away from the crowd as she had a look of complete humiliation on her face.
Riley sat in Maya's bedroom on Maya's bed in only a bath robe while looking at her cell phone as she yelled, "It was humiliating Maya! I was supposed to save the day. But I couldn't even save my clothes from being burned by my fire powers." Maya who was sitting near Riley said, "Look Riley. No one expected you to do perfect on your first try. It's not like you went to super hero school or something." Riley then said, "Maya! I'm trending on Twitter! I'm the New York City Super Stripper now! There's tons of super powered people causing crimes in the city. But apparently it's the crime of indecency that gets all of the attention on the internet. I mean look at this. The most talked about part of it all is people analyzing the multiple angles of the incident to figure out my breast size!" As Maya looked at her phone she said, "That's not what most people are talking about. They're actually looking at the behind shots and discussing the size of your butt." An angry Riley covered her face as she said, "I screwed up big time Maya! I'm never gonna be a super hero. I'm never gonna go out there and do it again! NEVER!"
TO BE CONTINUED...
*Writers' Notes - And so we end the second chapter of our brand new series. When I was first dreaming up this series, it was honestly the second chapter that first came to mind. The how Riley got her powers wasn't as an interesting to me versus what would happen after she got them. Too often in popular media, as soon as a super hero gets their powers, they just suddenly know how to use them. They're just completely cool with how their bodies have suddenly changed. But honestly, it's already crazy enough that girls have to go through so many physical changes as they grow up. Throw in super powers right after puberty, and you would honestly have a mental breakdown on your hands. As for Riley's clothes burning during the fight, that was to show Riley making a realistic mistake during her first super hero fight. For most people, it's not the major things we get wrong when we do something new for the first time. It's the little things we seem to miss. But those little things can lead to huge problems in the long run. As for what happens next, will Riley get past her anxiety and become a full fledged super hero? What do you think? ;) But what will her super hero name be? Yeah, isn't that funny? This is probably the first super hero series ever where you don't even know the hero's name early on. Funny isn't it? Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope you stick around for chapter three.
