Dedicated to my friends Hybridblade and leev.

Sharon was trying to remain calm, but inside she was fuming. Her little brother was a Bang Baby and not just any Bang Baby he was Static! His blood, which had saved her life, now turned her into a metahuman. She was going punch his lights out!

"I can't believe this! Your Static and you didn't tell Dad or me? What about that time at the arena? I saw you and Static! Thanks a lot for making me a freak." Sharon yelled at him.

"I had some help with that. Sharon I didn't tell you because I wanted to protect you and Pops from my enemies. Richie warned me about giving blood, but at the time I didn't have a choice. You would have died. You should be happy that you just got my powers and didn't die." Virgil told her before she slapped across the face. "Ow! What was that for?"

"For being an ass. I'm not mad that you saved my life what I'm mad about is that you lied about being Static. When Adam lied about being Rubberband Man it hurt a lot." Sharon explained. The static cling around her had dissipated.

"Sorry Sharon. I mean that." Virgil apologized.

"You're forgiven. Now if Mr. Bighead over hear can tell me what's happening with my body I can stop worrying." Sharon said turning to Richie who was having Backpack analyze a blood sample.

"Give me a minute hear. I may be a super genius but these things take time. Ah here we go. Okay according to Backpack your DNA has undergone a metamorphic change due to getting Virgil blood. It seems his DNA patterns have attached to yours giving you his powers." Richie said reading the results.

"Ah Richie I think we already established that fact." Virgil stated

"Just tell me if this is permanent or not." Sharon ordered.

"Alright already shesh give a guy a break. From what I can tell your using up your electric powers at accelerated rate. Most likely you'll lose them in two three weeks tops." Richie said holding out the medical report for her to read.

"And if that isn't the case? Then what she has the powers permanently?" Virgil asked. Richie nodded and Virgil threw his hands up in defeat. "That's just great. What are we supposed to do Richie? Sharon can't stay locked up in her room forever."

"Excuse me I can still hear you. Don't I have a say in what I want to do about this situation?" Sharon said waving her hand in front of them. Both boys turned and stared at her. They hadn't even thought about asking her what she wanted to do.

"Sharon this is my fault. I should decide what were going to do." Virgil stated

"No way baby brother. Now you two listen to me and listen good. I can't tell Dad what's going on. It's not my place so I won't. But I've been watching you two and Adam save Dakota for the longest time and I'm all about helping people. I want to use my powers for however long I can. I want be a superherion." Sharon told them.

"Are you crazy? You can't be a superherion!" Virgil stammered while pulling on his hair.

"Yeah like I said we don't know if your powers are going to last." Richie stated.

"All the more reason. Look Virgil I might be changed forever or I may turn back into my old self at any time. We don't know. But if this is everlasting then I have to learn how to control these powers. And if you're willing to take the risks of being a superhero than I am to." Sharon told. Her tone of voice stated that what she said was final.

"Alright but you patrol with us. Now all you need is a costume. You can borrow one of my old ones." Virgil told her.

"No way there to small. Besides I have something in mind. Unlike some of you I passed sewing in high school. Give me half an hour and I'll be ready. You just come up with something for me to travel on and communicate with you two." Sharon told them as she pushed them out of her room.

"Well I'll give her one thing. She already has the superhero attitude. Plus I already solved the travel and communicator problem. We still have Starburst flying star and Replay cloned Shock Box. She can have those." Richie told Virgil.

"What do you think her outfit will look like?" Virgil asked. Richie shrugged.

Half an hour later Sharon let them back in her room. "Okay I worked really hard on this so whatever you do don't laugh or you'll be sorry." She called from her closet.

"We promise not to laugh." Virgil told her.

"Cross our hearts and hope to die. I mean your costume has to be better than what Virgil originally came up with." Richie laughed. Virgil elbowed him hard.

Sharon stepped out of her closet and they gasped. She was wearing white boots with gold buckles, a pink leotard with a gold star in the center with a white coat with pink trim on it. She had on wrist length white gloves with pink trim. Her mask was a carnival one. It was white and gold with red sequins. On top of the mask was a pair of pink sunglasses. "Well what do you think?" she asked hopefully.

"Well it's ah very interesting. Unique even." Virgil stammered.

"Its better than what V-man originally picked out." Richie said. He handed her the star disk and the Shock Box.

"Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I've even decided on my superhero name." Sharon told them. She was glowing pink.

"As long as its not Sparks I'll be happy." Virgil muttered.

"Call me Sparkles. So its 6:00 aren't we going on patrol? Dad won't be home for at least another hour and a half." Sharon now Sparkles said.

"Just let us get changed and we can go. You think you can fly that thing?" Virgil asked. Sparkles glared at him. Of course she could fly this thing.

"This looked a lot easier. Whoa! How do I stay on top of this thing?" Sparkles asked as she flew over the city with Static and Gear. Static groaned.

"I thought you said you could fly this thing!" He retorted.

"Give me a break I'm new at this! Now are we on patrol or not?" Sparkles replied.

"Guys quit arguing will you. I'm picking up a Meta human alert. Carmendillo is causing trouble at the new outdoor restaurant on 5th. Come on lets go!" Gear shouted.

The three of them arrived on the scene just in time to see Carmendillo bowl over customers on his way to get the food. "Man I love this. All you can eat buffet! Ouch!" Carmendillo yelled as he got zapped.

"Lay off the snacks Carmendillo you're already fat enough." Static said zooming down.

"Why don't you pull up a chair?" Gear asked throwing one of his zap caps at him in an attempt to tie him up. It didn't work.

"Is that the best you can do? Watch this." Carmendillo said rolling into a ball and bouncing off the sidewalk knocking Static off his flying disk and forcing Gear to the ground. "You two are a joke! You can't catch me! What's going on here?" He wailed as he was lifted off the ground by pink electricity.

"Your in need of some manners. Why don't I show you some?" Sparkles told him. With one hand she shot him with pink electric stars and with the other she bounced him before tossing him into a dumpster. "Now what have we learned? It's impolite to take other peoples food. Static! Gear! Are you guys okay?" Sparkles asked landing and running to help them up.

"That was good Sparkles. Not bad for your first superhero deed." Static complimented her.

"Yeah and looks like you just made the 6 o'clock news. Here comes the reporters." Gear said to them pointing.

The reporters had a dozen questions for her. She tried to answer them as best she good. She liked being in the spotlight. No wonder Adam enjoyed playing superhero and being a rock star. "I could get use to this." She thought. Her brother dragged her away from the reporters after awhile and they flew off together.

"Loving the limelight?" Static casually asked her.

"Its okay. Is that what it's like for you two all the time?" Sparkles asked innocently.

"Yeah and there are other perks to being a superhero to. You get a lot of respect and you get to meet a lot of superstars and your favorite hero's. Sure your grades suffer and you miss appointments oh did I mention your family starts to think of you as a flake, but hey we all make sacrifices in life." Gear told her.

"Thank you Mr. Glass is half empty." Static said. Gear just shrugged. It was the truth and Sharon had the right to know what she was getting herself into.

"Listen Sharon and I better head home. Pops is coming home early to check on us and he'll go straight through the roof if were not home in bed resting when he gets there. Come on Sharon I mean Sparkles lets go." Static told his sister as he started heading for home.

"Right behind you. I wish I could tell Adam about this. He would be so thrilled." Sparkles said joyfully.

"Don't even think about Sharon. If you tell him he'll ask how you got those powers and that will reveal my secret identity." Static told her over the Shock Box.

When they arrived home they both barely had time to change before Mr. Hawkins came home. Luckily Virgil had take care of all the electric devices before they left for patrol so he didn't know anything was wrong.

"Sharon? Virgil? I'm home you two is everything all right? I called about an hour ago and no one answered." Mr. Hawkins informed them.

"Sorry Daddy we've been sleeping most of the day. But don't worry everything fine. I almost feel like my old self. So when can I get back to helping you out at the Community Center?" Sharon asked

"Yeah Pops it got boring laying around all day doing nothing. Usually it's my dream come true, but today it sucked big time." Virgil complained.

"Settle down you two. I'm glad your feeling better. I guess you both can come down to the center tomorrow and help me out as long as you don't strain yourselves. I don't want either of you going back to the hospital am I clear?" Mr. Hawkins demanded. They both nodded their heads in agreement.

Meanwhile at Vampire Manor the clan was relaxing. Recent events had caused them to stop and do something pleasurable before they continued with their plan. They were in the lounge. Siba was watching TV, Vanez was playing pool, and Merton was playing chess against Cassandra. Selena was on her laptop chatting with some doctors while the kittens played at her feet. Kathren was singing along with her Jo Dee Messina CD and Arra was practicing her yoga. Things couldn't have been more perfect.

"I seem to be beating you this match." Merton observed cautiously as his rook took Cassandra bishop.

"Oh really I hadn't noticed. If you look closer you see that you're in check." Cassandra said slyly as her queen took his knight. Merton glanced at the board and saw that she would mate him in two. Gracesly toppling his king he announced defeat. "You win again my love. I can sense through are bond that you were distracted through out the match. It nearly broke your concentration. Tell me what is it?" Merton asked.

Cassandra sighed loudly and signaled the others. They stopped what they were doing and pulled up chairs next to her. They had something important they wanted to discuss with Merton tonight and it would be better to present it here in the lounge than upstairs in the confining Conference Room.

"Merton I've been thinking about what you said the first night we arrived here. How one of our goals is to rebuild our society." Cassandra began cautiously.

"Yes I know. It's been almost six hundred years since our race was nearly wiped out. What are you getting at?" Merton asked politely.

"Merton your plan to use Metahuman blood to awaken Victor and Demetra is brilliant, but its flawed. We can't do it alone." Kathren blurted out.

"We've always talked about rebuilding our society and bringing back the former glory days of the vampires, but it's been almost six hundred years. Demetra would have our head if we didn't have any new members and to top that we lost one of the few remaining ones." Vanez added.

"So you want to do what exactly? Turn one of the Metahumans into a vampire? That's crazy!" Merton shouted.

"It's the only way the plan will work! Arra and I can research them all we want, we can run the figures but the bottom line is this. We may have the power to take them on, but not the experience. We need someone who knows all the Bang Babies inside and out. Their strengths and weakness were they hang out, and how they think otherwise were screwed." Selena told him.

"Have you all forgotten what happen last time we blooded someone? Kurda betrayed us and we lost one of our own. We simply can't take that chance again." Merton replied coldly.

"None of us can forget Kurda. But it was our own haste and arrogance that led to death of my best friend and Arra's mate. Merton just because something doesn't work out doesn't mean you give up hope. If we do it right this time no one will have to die." Siba insisted.

Merton closed his eyes and held his head in one hand. He to had been thinking about this for sometime. Once Victor and Demetra were awaken everything would be as it was. But they would never awaken if they didn't succeed in getting the blood they needed. He turned to face Arra who was holding a folder in one hand. "You have something to add to this discussion?"

Arra nodded her head. She opened the folder and placed all kinds of newspaper articles on the coffee table in front of them. Most were two years old. They were all about the city of Dakota and its hero's Static and Gear. "It wasn't just chance that I chose this town for our home. The blood drive was the incentive we needed to come here. We've always wondered what would happen to us if we drank the blood of a super powered being or if we blooded one. With Selena's help I believe that as long as were careful with the amount of blood we drink it shouldn't affect us any differently besides making us stronger. As for blooding one them I always thought this day would come. We need a Metahuman who is smart, inventive, and quick on his feet. That has a good heart and wouldn't turn on us. I believe Gear fits the bill." Arra said showing them a picture.

"Why not Static? He obviously is more powerful." Kathren said picking up one of the articles.

"Two reasons sis. One he's African American and we've never blooded one before or know any in our history who were black. Their body chemistry could be completely different than ours. All we might end up doing is killing him and I for one think for such a great warrior that would be a pathetic death." Cassandra explained to Kathren as she read another article.

"Granted we've never had a black vampire. We don't want to take any chances with this blooding. So what's reason number two?" Kathren demanded.

"His powers obviously take a lot of energy to use. Mixing ours with his could shut down one or weaken him considerably. Not a very good asset to the clan. Besides we need warriors who have brains as well as brawns." Cassandra replied.

"I can vouch for that. When I was fighting him it was like fighting a vampanzees. You never knew what he was thinking. He was always two steps ahead of me. Besides we could use a male that isn't an ruled by his hormones." Kathren added casually. The male members of the clan glared at her.

"According to our research he's only sixteen years old. Yet look at the stuff he's built and the things he's done. He could maybe come up with a way to help us overcome our weakness to sunlight." Selena added excitedly.

" He knew what we were that much is certain. He would make an excellent vampire, but remember it has to be his choice to join us. We can't force him. I say we bring him here and make him an offer. If he refuses we can always take his blood and wipe his memory clean." Siba told them.

"I have no problem with bringing him to us. We have the advantage. Besides I think Victor would like him a lot." Vanez said.

"Yes, yes he would. Arra tell me something. Why have you been really collecting these articles? Static has been around for about two years now and Gear only showed up about a year ago. It looks to me that you've become obsessed with the boy. You do realize that if he joins us he will become your mate. Is this an elaborate attempt to get a mate? I know life's been hard on you since Larten died." Merton spoke up.

"Wanting a new mate has nothing to do with it!" Arra said defensively. "Its true that I love the boy even though we've never met and I have been lonely since Larten died. It's just that when he first made an appearance I felt drawn to him in way I never was with Larten. I've studied him and found him to be a wonderful person. I had hoped that if we came here we meet and something would develop between us. Its been two hundred years since Larten died I have to move on Merton! Gear is a superhero and is pure of heart. Theirs no way he would betray us like Kurda. You can't deny me a chance at happiness. I beg you please let us try to persuade him to our cause." She said confessing her inner most thoughts. Tears fell down her face and her hands were clenched tightly together.

"I see no reason to deny you this small request. Since I hear no objections we shall proceed with the plan. We shall turn this "Gear" to our side and by tomorrow night we will have a new member of the clan." Merton proclaimed to all. The Vampires made the symbol of their people and repeated the motto out loud in joy and celebration, "Physiol Est Portestas!" The firelight danced around the picture of Gear and a sense of forbidding surrounded the young hero. He had no idea what was to come.