I'm sorry, I know I suck, I just love cliffhangers, I felt that was the perfect place to end the chapter!

Out of all people they had to take Paula Lovell hostage

Paula Lovell was my crush all the way from seventh grade, but she graduated high school last year while I was a junior. She has dark amber hair and blue-green eyes.

"Paula Lovell," I whispered.

Well this is bull, it's just like the movies, the prized damsel is captured, and the hero is the only one who can save her

Actually the more I thought about it, I actually began to smile, I was the only one who could save her. Lifty and Shifty were talking to each other, more like arguing, so they had no idea that Splendont and I were there.

Suddenly a person in a beige trench coat and fedora came through a metal door revealing stairs. I almost chuckled, if there are henchmen there must be more hostages, but I know that Lifty and Shifty were to selfish to split the stolen money, they'd probably kill off all the henchmen after.

"I'll take care of the hostage problem from the bottom up, you just distract Lifty and Shifty for a while," I said.

Yes, I'll be the one to come to the rescue

"Sure, now go!"

I flew down to the entrance, where a squad of policemen were waiting, and saluted the commissioner. A thousand flashes went off, but I payed no attention to the press and flew into the bank.

"Hey, there's that Splendid kid!" said one of the henchmen.

All the sudden, bullets were coming right at me. I laughed hysterically as the bullets reflected off my body.

"Why, you are the most stupid henchmen I've seen in my days! You guys are obviously new here, so I'll introduce myself. Hi, name's Splendid, bullets, yeah they have no effect on me!" I said laughing.

"Start killing off the hostages," a henchman yelled.

I turned to him, "Hey buddy, I don't think so." My eyes turned red right before lasers came out of them and hit the henchman in the foot.

"Shit!"

"That was just a warning shot!"

"Fuck this, let's get outta here!"

I chuckled, "Yeah, that's also not going to work," I said pulling out shackles of handcuffs.

Five seconds later after using my super speed, they were all in handcuffs.

I came back out, "They're all yours."

I turned around, "Have a nice day," I said in a patronizing voice, and ran for the stairs.

As I was running up the stairs I came across several landings.

I as I finally made it up to the metal door, I heard the muffled voice of Lifty through the door.

"I'm gonna check on the henchmen."

He opened the door and his pupils grew very small as it closed behind him.

"You're not going to check on the henchmen," I said. I punched him across the face and he tumbled down to the landing behind me, unconscious, blood pouring out of his head. "Besides I already took care of them. Don't forget to wash the blood out!"

I silently opened the door, Shifty had his back faced towards me, but I could see he was holding Paula with one hand and pointing a gun in between her jaw and neck with the other hand. I started creeping forward as Shifty talked to Darren.

"You're useless, one more step forward, I kill her, fly off the roof to save the rest of the hostages, I kill her. You're worthless without your brother!" he said laughing hysterically. Then he stopped, "Wait, where the hell is your brother?!"

I jumped up, "Right here, BITCH!" and punched him right across the face. "I did the same thing to your brother!"

Darren smiled when seeing Shifty on the floor, "I'm gonna help the police with the hostages and henchmen." He started to walk off the roof, stopped, and turned around. "Wait, I gotta do something!" He snatched Shifty's hat off his head, "I'll see you in hell," he whispered in Shifty's ear. Then he flew off the roof.

Okay, I'm alone on a roof with the girl of my dreams. Shit, what do I say? What do I do?

"Thank you for saving me, Splendid," she said in a soft voice.

Her voice gives me butterflies, that voice, I haven't heard it in the longest time! She even smells like chocolate chips and fresh laundry, you can't get that out of perfume! There's no way I can talk to her and not freak out or make a fool out of myself! That's it I'll make a fool out of myself and she'll think I'm just joking around!

"Well I just love what I do best, Paula," I said, holding my cape and bowing. That was actually a lie, I hate dropping everything I'm doing just because someone is in danger, but duty calls.

She gasped, "You remember me?"