-1Ch 10: A Hero's Ego
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Well after the lunch incident classes went pretty smoothly, social studies we talked about hero's rolls in World War I, than power control we sparred again this time it was Ryan vs. myself, Alana vs. Melissa, and Gregg vs. Will. Will easily defeated Gregg when he grabbed Gregg by the tail of his T-Rex form and tossed it against a wall. Next came gym class which was pretty normal we played empowered football which my team lost but no big deal. The next interesting thing came when Save the Citizen came around.
We all gathered at the arena and waited to see who would be the participants this round. Ryan and myself have going pretty much undefeated since our match vs. Lash and Speed which is a first in the history of Sky High but it really didn't effect us any, okay so it might of effected Ryan a little but nothing major. Well Coach Boomer climbed into his chair and turned to us, "Alright Speed, Lash its time to see if you can redeem yourself from your losing streak since your first defeat, choose your opponents." Lash and Speed smirked, "We choose Stronghold and Peace as the hero's." This struck me as odd but I just passed it off that they were hoping that Will and Warren fought more between themselves then against Speed and Lash. Will and Warren walked down and got their gear on. "Alright the name of the game is Save the Citizen, READY GO!!!" boomed Boomer.
Speed took off at his super speed and I thought he would go after Will since his power would be the most useless against his speed. I was wrong and when I figured out what Speed was thinking it meant bad ill for Warren. See Speed with his super-speed started spinning around Warren creating a vortex like effect this in turn sucked out all the oxygen in the air creating sort of like a vacuum. With no oxygen there is no fire and worse of all this technique could easily kill Warren by literally suffocating him. "Will better think of something," I muttered to myself. My attention switched to the person in question who was having his own problems. Every time he tried to hit Lash he would just stretch in some way and it would miss him entirely than he would counterattack with a bunch that would send Will flying. One punch sent him crashing into a wall Will got up and brushed himself off looking over and seeing Warren in trouble he must of decided that something needed to be done. He charged Lash who countered by throwing a double stretched punch, Will got his arms and tied them around a pole. Lash tried to get them undone but couldn't before will got to him and tied his the rest of his body around another post. Lash finished with Will ran over to Warren, watching for a minute he reached in and plucked up Speed who must of thought he was okay because he was still running. Will placed Speed down who took off and was closed lined by Lash's stretched arm at full speed, flipping in the air a couple of times he slammed into the wall and was out. There was only 15 seconds left on the clock and the citizen was about to become sliced and diced. So Will picked up Warren by the back of his jacket and threw him towards the citizen with 2 seconds on the clock Will got the citizen flipped around and landed on his back the citizen was safe and out of harms way. The crowd went wild and ran down to Will the savior of the match. The first to reach him was Gwen holding his hand up in triumphant, a look of sheer mad glee on her face. The rest of the student body went to congratulate Will, I shook my head you could almost see his head grow to six times its size. I walked over to Warren and offered a hand which he took and I helped him up, "Good match dude." Warren humped, "Pretty boy over there was the true hero, that technique Speed used on me just made me as worthless as ever." "I wonder why Gwen gave him the idea?" I thought out loud. Warren looked at me, "What do you mean?" I laughed, "You and me both know that Speed couldn't come with that by himself and Gwen is getting as much attention as Will is." Warren thought this over, "Now that you mention it I saw Gwen talking to Speed and Lash before Save the Citizen, you think she set this all up but why?" I shrugged, "Don't know but for some reason she wanted Will to be considered the Hero of the match, just what he doesn't need his head to get any bigger." Warren nodded, "Yeah we both have to keep our eye out for her something doesn't feel right, but right know I need to go take a hot shower that vortex drained me." I nodded and waved him off than headed outside for a bit.
As I walked outside most the school was still in praising and complementing Will, Layla wasn't she stood by a tree that looked like it had just been hit by a major drought. "You know when you get sad you make the plants around you so bleak looking," I teased. Layla looked up than looked at the tree than quickly repaired the damage she had caused, "I know, I wanted to congratulate him so but he just looked me over and I was pushed aside." I went and put my arm around her, "You know he will come around, look he is coming to apologize right now," I nodded to the door as the students started to file out, I slipped behind the tree out of sight.
Will ran up, "Hi Layla did you see me I was amazing wasn't I!!" Layla quietly answered, "Yes you were pretty good, but Wa…." before Layla could finish though Will interrupted, "Yeah the way I tied up Lash was sheer genius and than used that to take out Speed it was pretty good, dad would be so proud." Layla just shook his head, as did I this is what I was afraid of he didn't even recognize that Warren helped him. The tree started to wilt again and I wanted to go cheer her up again but remained behind the tree. "What's wrong Layla, is this about lunch I am sorry I had nothing to do with it, how about I make it up to you what do you say The Paper Lantern 6:00?" The tree brightened up considerably, "Really you mean it?" stated Layla. "Yeah of course I do, you're my best friend Layla," replied Will. The tree wilted again, "Oh, friend," she whispered my keen hearing picked it up though. "Alright 6:00 it is then, come on lets hurry to the bus," stated Will. "Yeah sure," replied Layla quietly following Will, she gave a backwards glance and saw me leaning against the tree a smile on my face and a thumbs up. She smiled back and followed with a little more enthusiasm. I nodded looked at my watch, "OH SHIT!!! I AM LATE, Alana is going to kill me." I rushed to the gym to help Alana master her bubble prison which she was making especially to use against Warren, who by the way had broken down and asked Alana to the homecoming dance, so she wanted to use this in case he tried to ditch on her during the dance. Which he wouldn't but she thought it would be fun.
Author's Notes
Alright here is chapter 10 I warned you earlier that I really don't like Will so I will probably blow him out of proportion but oh well. If you haven't picked it up yet Layla and Andy are becoming best of friends. There you go for all you Warren lovers there is his OC match up I thought I would place it in this chapter. Well hope you like it!! R&R!!