Thanks to anyone who bothered to read the previous author's note. the first couple paragraphs were supposed to be at the end of chapter 2. Keep that in mind while reading this.

Enjoy

~Superavenger212

Cherry sheepishly walked to the back of the classroom and took the seat furthest from the door, Max sat next to her. "Hey, so what do you remember from the leauge?" Cherry shrugged,

"not must to be honest. Just that I worked alongside some superheroes-in-training bacback when I was thirteen, maybe fourteen judging by the report card years." Max frowned,

"that's weird. I don't think the Hero Leauge didn't have any pre-teen/teen training program back then. Not an official one at least." She shrugged,

"maybe Phoebe knows something. After all, you were in your villain phase back then. Maybe you missed something." Max nodded,

"true." Bradford suddenly appeared behind him.

"No talking in detention!" He declared as he seperated the two of them. Cherry sighed then looked at the clock, fourty minutes to go...

Half an hour later Bradford was sleeping with his legs proped up on the desk. "Let's blow this place." Max said from across the room, the other detention serving students cheered then followed him out of the room, Cherry sighed then followed him outside. "Now that we're free, let's sneak back to my house." Cherry nodded then followed him down the sidewalk.

"So," Cherry started as they sneaked into the house. "What's the surprise?" Max turned away from his computer to ask,

"did you bring the ID card?" Cherry nodded then pulled it out from her backpack. He took it then swiped it into some machine he invented. A loading screen appeared on his screen, he shrunk it then pulled up a different program.

"What are you doing?" Max tapped into security footagll from somewhere. "Is that the Hero Leauge headquarters?" He nodded then said,

"this isn't the first time I'm hacking them so don't worry. I already backtracked through like, six different programs and interfaces. They can't track me back here." Cherry frowned as the video became clearer. It was the tech wing she used to work in, at least she recongized some of the room.

"Hang on." She said, Cherry pushed Max aside and paused the recording. Enhancing it she zoomed into one of the guys near her desk so they had a clear view of her face. "That's Luke, he just enrolled into Hiddenville High School last week, I met him yesterday." Max frowned then asked the obvious,

"why would he enroll at Hiddenville? Let me pull up his file." After a few more seconds he had Luke Dejanir's file. "Let's see... Super Scout, Honor Roll, his only has one super power, the ability to control fire." Cherry frowned,

"that sounds like a villain's superpower, not a superhero's." Max nodded,

"you're right. This doesn't make any sense." Suddenly a memory flashed through Cherry's mind.

She was walking down a creepy alley alone. A group of teens walked up to her ten year old self and tried to steal her backpack, so she fought back. Cherry almost escaped, but their leader grabbed her backpack and ripped it from her shoulders, the straps broke due to the impact. "Hey geeks!" Someone said coming into the alley, "leave the girl alone." At first glance she could tell the boy was homeless. He wore ripped jeans and a blue shirt that used to have writting on it. Overtime it must have faded away because she could only make out a few letters.The teen who grabbed her bag smirked,

"what are you going to do about it? You're ten!"

The kid growled,"you don't want to see me angry." The teens just laughed, but Cherry felt something was off with the boy so she began to slowly walk away from the teens. His eyes flashed red. "I warned you." Suddenly his entire body was covered in flames. Cherry screamed when the firey figure began to walk closer. With each step he took his feet left ashey outlines on the pavement.

As he continued to walk closer the leader of the teens dropped Cherry's backpack and ran as fast as he could out of the alley, his goonies in tow. In the blink of an eye the boy was back to normal, the only evidence of his use of fire was the footprints he left behind. "Here." He said picking up her backpack, "I believe this is yours?" She nodded quickly then grabbed it, unsure of what to make of him

"what are you?" Asked Cherry, afraid of what his answer was going to be. He sighed,

"I want to be a superhero, but my father's a supervillain so I don't have much of a choice in that department. I'm Luke by the way." She nodded then introduced herself,

"I'm Cherry." She paused, normally now was the time people made jokes about her name, but none came

"That's cool." He said, then Luke asked, "why were you even in the alley anyway?" She blushed in embarassment then opened her bag for his answer. Instead of there being books and homework she had a couple of run-down dvd systems."I fix them. My family doesn't like me so I have to find money someplace other than my parents." Luke frowned, then a smile grew on his face,

"I have an idea!" She looked up, then he continued, "let's play superhero!" She didn't understand what he meant so he elaborated, "even though we're only ten right now I need to practice saving people using fire powers. I need someone to tell me where to go, a computer person." Cherry smiled,

"I love computers!" Luke held his hand out,"so, it's a deal?" She bypassed his hand and went straight in for the hug.

"Yes!"

Cherry woke up with a start.

"Where am I?" She asked the darkness, there was little light provided, and the only sound she heard was a steady beeping noise. The door opened and someone with a long white coat walked in.

"Hi!" He said with a smile, "my name is Dr. Edlio, it's good you're up. If you stayed asleep any longer I would've had to officially report you were comatose." Cherry frowned,

"what in the world are you talking about? I was just at my friend's house. I shouldn't even be in the hospital." Dr. Eldio smiled,

"on the contrary my dear. Your friend called 911 after you fainted to make sure you were okay. He even paid for most of the hospital charges himself." Cherry frowned then tried to pull the IV out of her forearm.

"Cherry, please let the doctor do his job." Phoebe said revealing her presence.

"What are you doing here?" Her friend chuckled,

"where else would I be? Besides, I'm pissed at you for lying to me." Cherry suddenly became interested in the plaid patterned hospital sheets.

"Don't be so hard on her Pheebs." She looked up and saw Phoebe's other half walk into the room holding an armful of hospital Jell-O.

"Are one of those for me?" She asked him he nodded then tossed one at her, which she caught flawlessly. "Thanks." He nodded then she opened it, fashioned the lid into a spoon, and began to eat it.

"Look Cherry, just tell me what's going on with you okay? It doesn't have to be now, but I'm your Super Bestie, we should be able to tell each other anything." Cherry nodded then swallowed her bite of Jell-O.

"I know that Pheebs. I'm not hiding anything form you." Her friend frowned then asked,

"if you're not hiding anything from me then why wasn't anyone at your house when I stopped by yesterday?" Cherry froze,

"you went by by house?" Phoebe nodded,

"yeah. I wanted to see if you were done with your homework so we could have a Hot Guys At The Beach marathon." The blonde sighed,

"sorry, I was out for ice cream with my family." Phoebe frowned slightly, but seemed to let the lie slide by.

"Fine. At least you're okay." Cherry nodded,

"yeah I am." She glanced at her friend then asked, " can you aee if there's a coffee maker anywhere? I'm dying for a cup." Phoebe nodded then said,

"sure." As she left the room Cherry turned her attention towards Max.

"What happened?" He shrugged,

"I really don't get it either, but one second we were looking at that video footage, and the next you hit the floor cold." Cherry frowned,

"while I was out I didn't really have a dream... It was more like a memory. Luke was in it too, we were both younger, ten I think. I was dumpster diving in one of the alleys and he saved me from getting my backpack stolen." She decided to leave out the part where his father was evil. Max spoke,

"at least we have a little bit more info to go off of." She nodded then sighed, the beeping from her heart rate monitor broke the silence.

"What if... I think I my parents weren't always, well, my parents." Max frowned,

"what are you talking about?" She sighed then ran a hand through her long blonde hair.

"In the memory little me said her family hated her, but now it's physically impossible for my mom and dad to love me anymore than they do currently." Max frowned deeper,

"what did you find out that was so dangerous?"

It turns out the coffee maker was ona different floor, so Phoebe had to use the elevator to get there. As she waited to get to her floor guys in suits entered the elevator. One of their phones rang sothe business guy answered it. "Yes 'Mam, we are at the building. We are receiving the package now." Okay so maybe they aren't buissness men... Phoebe thought as she tried to low key eavesdrop on his conversation. "I am aware of the importance of this mission, of course. I will see you at the trade point then, it has been our pleasure working with such a powerful woman." He hung up the phone then Phoebe pretended to be on hers so that he wouldn't suspect anything. She didn't know what, but something was going down. Missing her floor she stayed on the elevator only to find herself back on Cherry's level.

"T-minus 20 minutes." Spoke another man, "the package is in room 44B, find it." Phoebe gasped, room 44B was Cherry's room. Ducking into the bathroom she quickly changed into her supersuit then sprinted in the direction of her friend's room, praying her brother hadn't left yet.

As Max and Cherry continued to converse she realized something shifted in the air, it was different... more polluted. "Max, what's that smell?" She asked as she could smell a colorless gas entering the room. His eyes widened,

"don't breath it in!" She covered her mouth using her sheet, Max did the same. Unfortunately the they both still inhaled it, Cherry passed out first, but just before he closed his eyes Max saw a group of dressed up buisness men, one of which held a briefcase. On it was an intricate image of a tree.

A/N

Horray! Sorry for the delay, this story is taking a turn I didn't expect it to take when I was thinking about it. Who are the suit men Max saw? What happened to Phoebe when she was following them? Find out in the next chapter!

~Superavenger212

PS: Sorry if Phoebe's POV was confusing, it is somewhat important to the plot so I had to work it in somehow and I despise it when writers do the whole POV: NEW CHARACTER thing in the middle of the chapter.