The Pre-Powers, chapter 11

High school is weird. That's all I'm going to say.

Ally- Clarinetgeek doesn't own the Avengers or anything that has a copyright in this story!

Me – (stares at Ally, then glomps her) YOU DIDN'T CALL ME CLARY! o^.^o

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The Idea

Three weeks had passed since the first day of training. To encourage and slightly bribe the PrePowers into improving, Tony had put up a roster to see who was doing the best in certain areas. Steve and Bruce had been against it, but Clint wanted Bailey to be focused on something like training to distract her from trying to get he and Natasha out on a date.

For espionage, Ally, aka Auto (Auto Matron is a mouth full) was in first and Bella, aka Momentum, was in last. For hand-to-hand combat, it was a tie between Bella and Felicia, aka Soldier, for first and Ally was in last. For long-range attacks, it was Alyssia, aka Elementia, and Niklas, aka Sonic Vibe, in the lead. For just muscle endurance, it was a tie between Bella and Kathleen. Ally was in last in that as well. The last main part of superhero 101 was overall situations (what Ally did on the first day), and surprisingly, Bailey, aka Indy (short for Indian) was in first with Ally in last.

These results gave Bella an endless arsenal of insults to bombard Ally with. You see, to get back at Bella for laughing at her arachnophobia*, Ally had constructed about ninety five robot spiders and painted them black and hung them all around her room while Bella had been sound asleep. The next morning around 8:00, (they got to sleep in on the weekends), a loud shriek was heard and Bella had been screaming for someone to get a giant broom.

The only people that weren't amused were Tony (Ally had used his materials without asking), Bella (well, duh!), and Natasha, who had to spend all of training listening to Bella complain about Ally's "totally uncalled for and majorly immature" prank. Everyone else had been dying with laughter, especially Niklas.

"So Ally Cat! Noticed you're a little low in the rankings. Tough break, you know? Are you ready to admit that you're lame-ass X-ray vision isn't enough to stay here?" Bella mentioned smugly, walking into the PrePower lounge. Ally just sighed, and put a blue bookmark into her newest novel, and tried to walk out the door and go to her room. Bailey came in, knocking into her, and looking sweaty, worn out, and deranged.

"Male models. So many hot, poisonous, male models. They were so gorgeous," she moaned into her hands, flopping down on the purple couch next to Bella. Bella chuckled sympathetically, and patted Bailey's back comfortingly.

"Rough training session?" she asked, still rubbing Bailey's back, like a mother would for a sobbing child. Bailey looked up with red puffy eyes and nodded.

"They made the thing I enjoy most- INCREDIBLY hot male models asking me out, a bad thing. It turned out they were these weird alien thingies from outer space and they emitted a poisonous liquid that melted my skin whenever they kissed me! I WANTED TO MARRY MIKE SO BAD," Bailey wailed, her arms muffling the sound, much to Ally's relief.

Kathleen came in, looking less than impressed with nothing put a navy blue sports bra and bright pink spandex. On her tan lean stomach was a red and purple mark, looking a solid steel yardstick had thumped her in the stomach. Ally cringed when she saw the angry looking mark.

"I take it you didn't have a very pleasant training session either?" Ally asked, closing her book once more and putting on her glasses. Kathleen nodded, looking utterly and hopelessly defeated.

"You take it correctly, Auto. So Bruce made me turn into a dog, right? That already takes a HUGE amount of energy, you know? So then as I was trying to find a person stuck under a bunch of rubble with my epic sense of smell, a GIANT Frisbee came out of nowhere! It looked so plastic, and chewable that I had to chase it! Then it grew bigger and bigger! It chased me and hit me in the stomach! Turns out it was made out of hard iron and copper," she moaned. Ally winced.

"Ouch. I'm sorry," Ally said empathetically. "Maybe Alyssia can use her water magic to heal it," Ally tried to offer optimistically. Felicia, who had just walked, shook her head dejectedly.

"No way that's gonna happen, Cadet." Ally looked confused as she waited for Felicia to elaborate.

"Little Nick took a pretty bad hit from Thor's lightning. It was meant for Alyssia, but Nick got in the way when he tripped into Alyssia. Poor kid was only giving Alyssia her water bottle," Felicia admonished, taking a swig of her Dr. Pepper. "So that means she won't be leaving his side until he's up and good to go." Ally shuddered. She had only talked to Thor once in the three weeks that she had been here, and he had seemed nice enough. Ally knew, though, that he could open a big can of whoop ass, if he needed to.

"You know what we need?" All of the girls turned to look at Bailey, who was actually looking quite thoughtful for once in her life.

"What? A robot that could take our places during training?" Kathleen asked. Bailey shook her head.

"A break. We should just take one night out, that's it! To a restaurant, a club, a movie, something like that! We haven't left this dumb tower for, like, EVER, and we are all starting to go, like, totally crazy! There's gotta be some way," Bailey lamented, sinking into the blue plush couch. Ally nodded in agreement.

"For once, you bring up a logical point. The stress is getting to our mental and physical health. Surely they'd let us out if it was for our own good," Ally agreed instantly, brightening at the though of being outdoors.

"So we all ask our assigned mentor sometime today, yes?" Alyssia said, coming into the room, with Niklas right behind. "Niklas can make sounds louder as well," Alyssia answered to the question that was written all over the girls' faces. Ally rushed over to Niklas, a look of worry and guilt etched across her face.

"Are you ok, Niklas? Felicia told us what happened. Are you sure you want to go out some time tonight? If not, we can always bring you back something to eat," Ally offered, feeling horrible that they'd be going out without the poor kid. Niklas shrugged with an easy-going grin.

"Ah, don't worry about me, Auto! Nothing could keep this awesomeness down for long," he cheered, zooming around the room to prove his point. Ally giggled at his actions to reassure her. Alyssia rolled her eyes, like any annoyed sibling would.

"You're welcome, by the way, Niklas," she hollered, so he could hear her. Niklas rolled his eyes in response.

"You're healing might have had something to with it, but overall it was because I'm just cool like that," he boasted happily, stopping his sprints to smirk at his sister. She stormed over to him, and put him in a headlock.

"ACK! Ok, ok, I get it! Your healing is why I'm like this," Nikki relented, starting to go blue in the face from Alyssia's strong grip. She smirked and released him.

"That's why you have to remember your manners, Niklas! Surely I taught you better than that," she admonished, acting like she was talking to a five year old. He pouted and crossed his arms, and looked away.

"Shut up," he grumbled childishly. The other girls laughed at the humor of this whole scene while Ally laughed at how funny his face was. It was red, and blushing, and he was just glaring at the ground. She could relate to how he felt. Truly, she could.

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Felicia put on her best friendly face and walked up slowly to Steve. She knew that with all chances he would say no, so she might as well act polite. Steve glanced behind him to see Felicia actually skipping. He had known her long enough to know that it was completely out of character for the angry and violent teen.

"Um, hello Felicia. How are you this afternoon?" he asked uncomfortably, not knowing quite what was going on.

"I'm lovely, thank you! How are you, Mr. Rogers?" Felicia chirped happily, making Steve even more uncomfortable. She hadn't ever called him Mr. Rogers, or said the word lovely during her time here. Yep, something was definitely up. Steve had a slightly disturbing thought, and he glanced at Felicia warily. She was still skipping next to him, and her smile hadn't faltered. Hormones caused mood swings, didn't they? And hormones were always flaring during a certain time of the month for teenage girls.

"Um, Felicia? Are you feeling alright?" he asked cautiously. She nodded happily.

"Yep! Why wouldn't I be? But I'm glad I found you! I wanted to ask you something," she said, that cheerful smile never even wavering, which nearly made Steve go into hysterics.

"Please, Dear Almighty Lord above, don't let her ask if I can go to the store and buy tampons for her or anything like that," he prayed silently, a small sweat breaking out at the back of his neck. "Shoot, Soldier," he replied, trying to avoid eye contact.

"Well, the PrePowers have been stuck here forever. It's not that the Tower isn't cool and all, but we need just a little more space. Do you think that the PrePowers could go out sometime? Just for a day?" Felicia beseeched. Suddenly it all clicked. He was kind of insulted and relieved that the chipperness was all an act.

"No. You guys aren't ready to be out in public yet. Believe me, I understand, but it isn't going to happen. Maybe sometime in the future," he answered warily. Felicia's eyes narrowed into her normal nasty glare as Steve walked away, quite happy he didn't have to go buy pads, tampons, or birth control pills. Felicia was another story entirely.

"Stupid son of a-"

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Kathleen skipped up to Bruce, being her weird, strange, hyper self. "Hi Bruce! I was wondering-" Bruce cut her off with a stern gaze.

"No, Kathleen."

"But you didn't even hear what I wanted to ask," Kathleen protested angrily, quickening her pace to keep up with her mentor. Bruce sighed.

"No, you and the PrePowers aren't leaving the Tower." Kathleen opened her mouth to argue. "I don't care if that's not fair, or that you promise not to pee on fire hydrants." Kathleen's mouth dropped in angry awe. "No, I'm not psychic. Why don't you go tell all of this to the others?" Kathleen stormed away, pissed she had only gotten one sentence in.

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Alyssia and Niklas didn't even get to talk to Thor. He had left a note on his suite's door.

"Alyssia and Niklas- you two are not to leave the Tower unless I give you permission. That means not tonight."

"Gah," the siblings yelled in frustration. How were all of the Avengers naturally psychic?!

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Bella didn't get to talk to Natasha either. Momentum opened the door to Natasha's bedroom and took a confident step forward.

"Yo! Nattie? You here?" Instead of an answer, a noisy fire alarm went off, blaring at maximum volume. A cage rose up and totally trapped Bella. She looked all around frantically, as she tried to figure out a way out of this. Lava red lasers spun all around her carving some symbols into Natasha's purple carpet. The symbols, it turned out, were actually picture perfect cursive letters.

"Bella~ you and the PrePowers aren't going to have a night out for a while. End of discussion," It spelled as the smoke from the laser dissipated. Bella glared at the message.

"HOW IS IT A DISCUSSION IF YOU'RE NOT EVEN HERE?!"

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Ally hadn't even bothered to try, considering she had heard Felicia's angry ranting from three floors above. Captain America was basically the leader of this team, next to Fury and Iron Man, so what he says, goes. She just wrote in her sparkly blue journal about what she would do once she was out of this hellhole. Yes, she actually wrote out "hellhole."

"C'mon, Allison. You're a smart girl, surely you can figure out a way to sneak off for a night of fun, correct?" the ghostly voice coerced, wrapping around her ear like a bandage. She shuddered, cursing that the stupid voice was back again, it had been gone for three weeks, the longest time it had been away.

"Fuck my life. You're back." The voice clucked in mock hurt.

"I'm offended! Wasn't it I that told you the back routes out of town that nobody knew about to help you escape?" Ally covered her ears, squinting her eyes shut.

"Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up," Ally whispered pleadingly.

"Come on, Ally, at least think of an idea." Despite the voice annoying the hell out of her, she closed her eyes and thought of ideas. An instant image of a robot trashing Manhattan came to mind.

"Good my pet, good. It gets some of the anger out, doesn't it?" the voice cooed. Ally grunted, feeling really out of wack.

"Whatever." And with that, she lay down on her side and took a nap.

AND SCENE! FINALLY, A NEW CHAPPIE! Blech, high school has HW EVERY NIGHT! WTF, DUDES AND DUDETTES?! Ok, I just need to rant. So please read and review! Flames are welcome, but no cussing pretty please! ^-^ Btw, arachnophobia is the irrational fear of spiders. I know most of you knew that, but I still had to put that out there!