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Chapter Two: The Powers

"Mankind has always feared what it doesn't understand," -X-Men, 2000

Athena could feel her legs burn as she ran. On the fourth day of training on the team and Julia was getting them ready. She could hear Bonnie complain to her friend but Athena huffed and ran farther away. She didn't blame Julia for being this rough on the team. Middleton High was good at football and cheer but the girls' soccer team was always defeated by the other teams especially Go City's soccer team. So Julia being competitive and drilling them was not that surprising to Athena. She didn't blame her friend. She wants to win too. She wants to show the school that the football team wasn't the only athletic team in Middleton that could win.

She could hear the cheer team chant loudly and doing their stunts. Both teams were practicing outside so Athena caught glimpses of Kim flying high and jumping around as she ran the tracks.

After the run, it was time for training. Goalies would train with forwards while Midfielders were going to train with defense. Then they would switch. Athena gritted her teeth as she began to kick the ball to Farah Morgan. Bonnie was still talking loudly and Athena internally groaned.

"C'mon girls!" Julia ran past them yelling. "Let's go! Keep it up!"

Today was going to be a long day.

Soccer training was seemingly easier but when her other training came in, she hated it. Athena knew it was essential to making sure her powers were in her control but it was tiresome. Both physically and mentally.

She could hear Uncle Wes play music as she continued with her training. She was wired up, the patches on her forehead and temples. Her training consisted of her mind and physical training. Today was the mind. Her powers were still growing she could lift things ten times the weight of the object like a bus. Still there were time she had trouble managing to keep a chunk of debris from a building afloat but her Uncles would tell her that with practice she could. It was also training to stay afloat which was fun and she joked that she was Jean Grey much to the amusement of her Uncle Wes and Aunt Winona.

When training was over and laying down for an hour, Athena got to work on her room. She had things floating and zipping past her to place stuff down. Her bookcase was reorganized and boxes squashed down as her stuff was finally placed. She liked things organized, not messy.

It helped her.

Placing the final touches which were posters up, she was satisfied with the look of her new room. The posters of a framed Disneyland map from when the park first opened to a poster of Janis Joplin and a poster of TLC's CrazySexyCool album cover. Two banners that hung across from one another were of House Stark and House Lannister. Maybe two more posters could do, maybe one of Janet Jackson or Taylor Swift? Or a House Targaryen banner and a House Greyjoy banner too!

Kim, Monique, and Ron all sat around their booth in Bueno Nacho. Athena had missed out, gone to visit her Uncle Miles in Middleton. Ron was typing away from his laptop while eating the burrito, updating his blog about the villains.

"Monique? I was wondering about Athena."

Monique paused, looking up from her history homework at her friend. "What about her?"

Kim shrugged. "I don't know. I was wondering if Athena is okay? She looked in pain during class today. She talks to you more than us, with your history and all that."

"She has stuff going on Kim. She wanted to tell you guys but it would be better for you guys to know..." She trailed off shifting in her seat. "Athena was born with powers."

"Like superhero powers? Cool!" Ron said typing away but Monique closed the laptop to get his attention.

"You guys can't tell anyone. Not even your blog, got it?" She did not know that Ron had already sent the post that it would be seen by all especially the villains. Monique was serious, the most Kim or Ron had ever seen her. "She has Telekineses and Telepathy, those are her powers."

"Who gave them to her?" Kim asked.

"Her mom," Monique had to choose her next words carefully knowing full well the identity of Athena's mom and dad. "She has powers and well when Athena was born, she got her power. Different powers but still she got powers from her mom. She told me that she got a few of her mom's powers but mostly it's telepathy and telekinesis. That's why her head was hurting, her telepathy is still in training. I mean she is still in training."

Her response was vague but it answered Kim's question. "So her mom. Was she like a superhero too?"

Shit. "They aren't in the picture. Just her Uncles and Aunt. It's, ah, a touchy subject for her about her parents."

At that answer, Kim frowned. Monique wondered what she was thinking if it was good or bad. "She's at home. Let's bring her some Nachos. We can do homework there."

Monique didn't hate that idea. "Okay, let's go. I know the way to her house."

"Wait I still need to order!" Ron shouted as he bolted from his seat to go order his friend's food.

Shego had finally managed to track down her brother's new address in Middleton City by breaking into the FBI website to find out her little brother's information but she did not need to get that far when Drakken also announced that he found out more stuff about their daughter. It was Kim's sidekick blog and they wondered if their daughter allowed it.

Reading it aloud Shego realized that her daughter had inherited powers. Telekinesis and telepathy. How powerful was she?

"Change first. Then let's go find our kid." Shego told the mad scientist. She wondered about her siblings and her daughter. Mostly her daughter. What was she like? If she had powers how was she dealing with them? She remembered the days of using her powers and training with them. God those days were terrible.

Taking a deep breath, Shego walked away to go get changed and fix her makeup.

Athena looked at her hand. It was aflame bright green flame flickered in her hand. With her own individual powers came the power she had inherited from her mom. Shego's signature green plasma flame was now in Athena. She did not know whether to laugh or cry about it. She was fine with this power but not this. She had shown her Uncle Wes who had called a family meeting on FaceTime with his siblings. They all looked at Athena with wide eyes.

Some tiny part of her wondered what her mom would have thought about Athena's powers? Would she have taught her daughter how to control them? Would she be proud that Athena got her powers as well?

I don't need her. She didn't need me then so why do I care?

Shaking her thoughts away she continued to read Clash of Kings. Game of Thrones had become a passion of hers as well as other things like being both a Marvel and DC fan. She partially blamed her Uncle Henry and Uncle Wes for her obsession with the comics growing up and later the movies. Well some of the movies, she did not speak about the Green Lantern movie. Never ever.

The flame flickered only to die out.

A knock interrupted her thoughts.

"Athena can you get the door! I'm still on the job," On the "job" meant that her Uncle Wes was looking over the patterns of a killer or making the profile. "If it's Girls Scouts, my wallet is on the counter!"

Athena hoped it was the girl's scouts she thought as she walked down the stairs. She really wanted cookies.

Opening the door, she wished it was those damn Girl Scouts. In front of her were her parents. Athena's first thought was, Isn't he supposed to be blue? Looking at her dad who did not look blue and panic slowly began to fill her. It got worse when she heard someone call out, "Isn't that Drakken and Shego?" It sounded like Ron. "It is them KP!"

Yep, it's Ron.

The only thing Athena did was slam the front door of her house and lock it.

"Athena? What happened? Did the Girls Scouts try to indoctrinate you?" Her Uncle joked but Athena could only run past him to the safety of her room. Behind her, Monique could be heard knocking at the door, hollering outside to let them in.

"What are they doing here? How did they find me?" She whispered to herself as she entered her room and locked it behind her. Something was glowing green. Wearily she pulled her hands up to see green flames enveloping her hands. She began to cry trying to control her newfound powers while outside, Wes dealt with seeing his sister. Inside her room, Athena could only cry as the green flames on her hands burned bright.

Why me?, she thought to herself, why?