Okay finally up! Woot woot! Sorry it took so long...I have a major case of ADD. Thanks go to DR for helping me A LOT on this story...so here it is...ENJOY!
I do not own the justice league or the concept of Sky High, however, my character are mine so BACK OFF! Sorry Bipolar...so read already! Read and Review please!
"Just look at him, he's a freak!"I heard someone say at a lunch table behind me. I was about to get up and hit him into next summer when he added, "Isn't he awesome?"That made me freeze.
Jeez there were some seriously messed up kids in the so called school of perfection.
There was a snort and some giggling, "Are you kidding?" A low voice asked, "Awesome? More like gruesome. He looks like just came off the set of Saw VI!" His voice rose and another quieted him whispering, "Shh! He'll hear you!"
I smiled inwardly(no way was I going to give them the satisfaction of letting them know I knew what the were saying. They'd probably think that I'd be scarred for life whatever). I clearly had reached my goal of appearing to be a freak.
There were hushed whispers about me everywhere. Occasionally I'd hear "he's scary" or "keep your distance". And I would just roll my eyes and continue to write in my notebook(Poems, and no they're not happy ones about sunshine and rainbows. They're quite depressing actually). It makes you think of why I wri...I'm not going to finish that thought.
One voice I recognizedHow many piercings does he have?" I was that kid I clothes-lined earlier, Wally, "And how did he know my name?"
There was no reply because right after he said this I put away my crap and stood up, flinging my black backpack over my shoulder, immediately shutting everyone in the cafeteria up. I walked over to the table Wally and his friends were sitting at. Their faces were as white as my Alaskan wolf's fur(aka really white) If everyone was watching, might as well give them a show.
When I reached their table, I put my hands on the back of Wally's chair and leaned down so my mouth was next to his right ear, "You'd be surprised how much I know Wallace...Rudolph...West" I murmured, looking at the clock on the wall in front of me,"So yea,, nice talking to you." I turned to walk away. Barely anyone in the room even breathed
"Oh, and I have 14 piercings!" I yelled back to Wally.
I heard numerous gasps around the room. That was it, "Oh for the love of all things dark!" I turned to the high schoolers again,"You'd think you all were grandmothers sitting around a small table having afternoon tea! Would you like some crumpets as well?" I said with a British accent. It was so quiet, I swear I literally heard crickets, "Okay let me put this in simpler terms," I sighed, "You all gossip like old women with nothing better to do!"
There was no sound except that of my footsteps as I left the cafeteria and the life-deprived super-powered teenagers.
The rest of the day went by just swimmingly. All of my teachers decided to put me in the front row of every classroom. Every...single...one. But what really was the icing on top of the cake was how everyone split like the Red Sea when I walked through the hallways. Except for this one time when a couple of senior jocks made a brick wall with their overgrown hides so I couldn't pass. You see, I had offended them during lunch and I apparently was "looking for a beating".
"Whatever, now if you would be so kind as to move," I answered them.
They looked at me with dented prides and a growing rage flickering in their eyes. "You sure are asking for it, Freshman," one said as he lifted me off the ground.
"Ah but what is the question," I retorted, "I'm thinking Arby's. What about you?"
"You really shouldn't provoke him you know," the other meat head warned.
"Oh? And why not? It's not like you two actually have an inkling of a chance against me."
They laughed, so hard in fact Mr. Big and Ugly dropped me,"You! The pewee who has no powers?" more laughter, "You gotta be kidding!"
I glared fiercely. Who were these yahoos? Did they know who I was? I answered my own question. That's right I had worked hard not to let anyone know in the very least my last name. Darn, that card would've really come in handy right about now.
"Hey! What you spacing out about? If I remember right I owe you a beat down." meat-head looked at his friend as they both laughed. Wow they really had bad memories if they had to "remember right".
"Hey guys cut it out. Leave him alone. Besides you know if you do this you'll be banned from our first home game this Friday," I heard another voice say. I turned around. Crap, it was that show-off from power placement...one of that Wally kid's friends.
"What's it to you Kent?" one said with a growl.
The other added, "Yea why do you care if we play?"
"Oh, I don't in fact if you don't then I might have a chance to play. However, that's not how I play so I'm giving you fair warning," he said with a very shiny smile. Seriously, he could be the poster child for toothpaste.
"Excuse me," I smacked the kid's shoulder, "But, in all due respect, leave. You don't want to be in the middle of something I start, especially if it's a fight." I smiled(well it was closer to a grimace) at the tall boy with black hair that seemed to be made of cotton candy. Jeez, how fluffy can hair get?
"You sure?" he asked me.
"No, this is all part of my elaborate plan to commit suicide and bring you all into it as co-conspirators so you get arrested. And then, once there's no students left to go to school here, they'll have to shut down and all chaos will reign for the rest of eternity! Of course I'm sure!"
His smiled faded a bit and he turned me away from the two towers hovering over us and our conversation. "Don't touch me," I pushed off his arm that had draped over my shoulders.
He ignored me and explained, "These guys are pretty tough. The one with the brown hair, his name is Jordan Jacobs, the current QB and also gifted with super strength. As for the smaller one standing just a bit farther back, He's Matt Moreno, Wide Receiver and also Invisiboy."
I looked skeptically at him. "You just made that up," I accused.
"So sue me," he shrugged, "but he can turn invisible."
"Okay well thank you so much for the help now if you will..." I trailed off as I motioned for him to step aside.
The meat-head, Jordan as I just learned, was whistling, "You ready mini-man?"
I took my defensive stance as I lifted my fists to protect my face, "Come and get me Mega-butt."
His face reddened and he motioned to Matt to stay where he was and muttered something about not interfering unless he was down. Great, I'll take down one at a time. Granted, that's not as impressive as beating both their butts at once, but still, they're about twice my size and at least 5 inches taller than me, that's gotta count for something. Jordan rolled his neck and stretched his arms. I just stood there, watching him. Was it just me or was this guy kinda jittery?
"You gonna come at me or just stand there like a troll with brain damage?" I asked, impatient.
At that moment he lunged for me with his fists balled up. Ha! He was so slow a snail could punch faster then him. However, since I was in the middle of a sentence he did catch me off guard to which I responded by quickly jumping to the side and yelling, "Whoa there big ugly!"
He kept throwing his fists at empty air and I kept on dodging lame attacks. Shark boy was more exciting than this dork. I finally got bored and decided to play with this Bone-head a bit.
"Hey," I started to get his attention, "Do you know something about super-strength?"
He remarked, "I doubt you know anything about my power, which I've had for about 6 years."
I continued, ignoring him, "Yes, you can punch through about anything, and crush anything you can get your hands on," He thrust his over-sized fist towards my face and I caught it with one hand. Granted, the force of his strength did make me slide back a couple feet, I finished my sentence,"But you're really slow and clumsy." I finished him off by pulling his head down on my upcoming knee, effectively knocking him out.
Silence, pure, blissful silence. That is until Meat-head's friend decided it was his turn to kill me and turned invisible.
"Ooh, invisidude I'll enjoy this," I said with an evil grin. Okay, problem, can't see opponent. Opponent is able to sneak up on me...I don't like opponents sneaking up on me...it makes me moody. How to deal...how to deal...Ah! Yes!
I pulled out a black strip of cloth and tied it around my eyes so I could concentrate on listening for him. No one spoke, in fact, they were all yelling at both me and Matt to get the fight over with before Principal Powers came. However, they all shut up when I did something very horror-movie-like. I called quietly in a high soprano voice, "Marco!" and when I heard the heavy breathing closest to me, I answered myself, "Polo," as I swung my arm around to hit him in the head. When I took my blindfold off, both perpetrators were on the ground unconscious.
"Anyone else?" I looked around at the witnesses. There was no response but there were terrified and a few disgusted looks among them,"Good, now let's get something straight...if any of you leak on me, your fate will be worse than theirs," I motioned towards the very mountain-like bodies on the floor. "And yes I will know. So don't go thinking 'There's no way he would know if I told'."
"Now wait a second," I heard a girl's voice beside me. Oh no was that anger I heard oozing through her words?
"Don't Sheyera, he's just trying to scare us into doing what he wants," a tall(okay what's up with all the top-class super heroes being tall? Is there an unknown prejudice against shorties? These are the things that haunt me when I'm trying to sleep at night...well that and other more complicated things, but I won't get into that now) black, oh I'm sorry, African American guy with long, shaggy black hair took a step forward, "It's not like he actually knows anyone. He just came here,"
I heard a sigh of relief from multiple students,"Johnny Boy so nice to see you again! How was lunch? Oh and better yet...how's that ring of yours working?" I grinned evilly.
Reflexively, he lifted up his hand to examine his ring, but didn't find anything. He tried to search his pockets casually but failed epicly.
I continued, "If I'm correct," I looked at a girl beside me, "And I usually am, you need this ring, it's somewhat important to you right?" I twirled his ring between my fingers as I returned my gaze to him. With mouth open and eyes wide, he stared blankly at the ring in my hand.
"Ooh, it's getting a little dull there. You should clean it more often otherwise it won't work anymore. Not that I need to tell you this. I'm sure you hear enough of it from the other lanterns-in-training, not to mention your instructors," I tossed back his ring with little effort. Honestly, how stupid did they think I was?
"Well, this has just been fine and dandy but I've got a jet engine I need to work on. Not to mention the ultra fine laser sniper I've been working on needs to be adjusted. Oh I also have to feed my pet," I was counting off these on my fingers as I started to walk away.
"O he has a dog, at least he has a shred of normalcy to him," Someone mumbled to himself.
"I have an Alaskan Wolf, part of the same family, yes, but not the same as I think you were thinking," I froze to explain.
I walked to the edge of the school to wait for Alfred.
For the love of God Alfred! Get here fast so I can escape this torture called High School! And today was only the first day! Ugh, do you think Alfred would let me drop out? Wait what am I saying?!?! Of course not! Well better get used to this place now because I'm apparently stuck here for a while.
Sigh, that took some work! Over 2,000(2,183 to be exact)words! Chapter 5 will be up soon because I've already typed half of it so...I'll keep you posted! Please Review! Gracias!