Chapter 85
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Note: The characters of Ben, Isabelle, and Curtis are not from any comic book, movie, or television show. It's just from a story I never published, enjoy.
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Much of the media was making movies about evil aliens come to cause trouble. Many of these movies showed sexy women committing murder. It got people excited, and put alien refugees in a very negative light. Although the SBA had a media wing, it seemed unlikely they were behind all of this, the mainstream studios figured there was a market for these films and wanted to make money. To counter these images, filmmakers like Dawson Leary and Randy Meeks made their own films, but there wasn't as big a market. One such endeavor was a children's show, modeled after "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." They would have loved to get some pointers from mr Rogers himself, but it seemed he had already been raptured up to Heaven. In one of these segments, three former "superheroes" talked to children and admitted their mistakes. It was hoped that this could inspire children, and their parents, to be more accepting of alien refugees, even those who had made mistakes. These heroes were Ben, Isabelle, and Curtis.
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Ben: As children, we were all on a school trip to a laboratory, and we wandered away from the group. We all got exposed to these mysterious radiation. It allowed us to change, not just into adults, but superheroes. I became a hero.
Isabelle: I on the other hand, used my new abilities to become a criminal. I stole stuff, fought Ben at times, but we never killed anyone, never revealed each other's identities.
Curtis; I became Ben's sidekick, sort of. I mainly helped him research other villains, much more dangerous than Isabelle. But I felt neglected, angry that Ben got all the glory. So I created my own villain persona. For awhile I played both sides, saved lives and stole things. Then, when we all started highschool together, that's when things got confusing.
Ben: I thought I had it all, a girlfriend, a best friend, even a favorite villain. Then I learned that my best friend was betraying me, we had a falling out. I also learned that my girlfriend, was secretly in love with another girl. We parted as friends, she ended up being a pretty good friend. And I got suprisingly closer to Isabelle, we remembered how we used to be friends, before we got powers. I learned about her home life, how her parents treated her badly, and I thought maybe I shouldn't judge her or Curtis too closely. We started dating. So, to sum up, my girlfriend became my best friend, my best friend became my arch enemy, and my arch enemy became my girlfriend. But hey, that's highschool.
Isabelle: Then ofcourse, an asteroid threatened our world, all of us were in danger. The three of us had never worked together all at once, now we had to. And I admit, that even after we all saved the world together, we still had our differences. But we have always been friends, or more. And now, we are all in danger from Evil, thus we should and must work together.
