Chapter 2: Lift Off

(This might start sounding familiar if you read HellInMyLife's Sky High story)

Richard woke up during the night before his first day at Sky High. Most teens would be overjoyed not only that they might have superpowers, but also that their going to probably the greatest school in the whole world. He on the other hand was worried and in fact a little scared. Was this new school going to be just like the last. Forced to be a loner just because he was "special".

"No." He said to himself "i am not going to be alone this year. I am different but so is everyone else in that school"

Richard walked to his bathroom to make sure he was wake. After practically drowning himself he went to get a root beer and checked the time; 2:35am. He has lately been waking up at these dead hours of the night with the same questions: Will i fit in? Will they like me? What will my classes be like? He stopped and almost laughed. This is the same thing he did when he was going into middle school.

"Get a hold over yourself Dick," he told as he poured a glassful of his favorite brand.

Knowing that he probably wont get to sleep and time soon he headed to the living room and clicked on the TV. All of a sudden the noise of a gunfight broke the night's silence. The shock of it made him turn it off while almost choking on his drink.

"Bad idea" he whispered. His parents should have heard the racket a little voice inside said. Placing his root beer on the table he quickly changed into a gray wolf and crept toward his parents room. Using his snout he gently pushed the door open and walked inside. Thankfully the noise didn't wake his parents, so he then left the room and decided to go for a walk. The night was surprisingly warm to him, but that didn't mean much since he was still in wolf form. There aren't many places to go in this almost eerie neighborhood. So he wandered around the city trying to get these ridiculous questions out of his mind and try to sort things out. He was just about to head home when he heard a scream in the distance.

"Probably some other hero will get that one"he muttered.

But curiosity got the better of him so he ran off to the disturbance. When he got to the ally were the scream came from he saw five big guys trying to rob a helpless woman. Looking around for anymore people coming to help, Richard saw that no one in sight. So he knew what he had to do. While still a wolf he hoped on a dumpster and planned his attack. The minutes it took to find an opening seemed like a millennium. Then finding what he was looking for, he leaped into the air and change into a werewolf before he hit the ground right behind the biggest guy. The thug never knew that he was there until Richard lifted him using his super werewolf strength launched the guy all the way to the other side of the ally. Sadly the four other attackers noticed that and decided to fight. Even though he was inexperienced and out numbered the battle didn't last long. Two of them tried to take him at the same time, gladly he saw it coming and jumped up not only making them collide but also pouncing on the third. This gave him the proper momentum to kick the final guy in the face, causing that guy to fall backwards into a pile of trash. When everything was over said and done Richard went to make sure that the girl was safe. As he walked up to her the reaction was just as he would guess from a movie: she was trying to hide herself with her arms. Richard just then got a horrible flashback from middle school and the reason he'd be afraid of going to this school.

"School" he thought "Oh no what time is it!"

He looked around frantically for any means to find out. Then he noticed the girl he saved was wearing a watch. 6:00am!

"i need to get home and get ready for school" he said as he turned back into a regular wolf and ran at top speed home

It didn't take long to get home since he has traveled these parts multiple times. When he finally made it he changed into a werewolf and jumped to his window on the second floor crawled inside and got his stuff together with just enough time to get some breakfast and make it to the place where he was suppose to meet the bus for school.

Unlike the night before the walk to the bus stop was uneventful which is just what Richard wanted it to be like. When he got there he saw that two other people were there already there. He was sure not to be and outcast in the social class again, so he went right up two them and introduced himself right away.

"Hello i am Richard Canis," he said.

The first guy, who he could tell was probably a junior, started first.

"Hi Richard, i am Ethan. I'm junior in hero support,"

Then the guy next to him who might have been a freshman like Richard went next.

"Hi, i am Chris. Are you a freshman too?"

"Yeah i am. Hey Ethan what hero support anyway."

"You could say I'm well a sidekick."

"Oh."

Just then another kid arrived. He seemed you have a lot on his mind Richard thought. Until he apparently

saw Chris who he knew Richard had to guess.

"Chris? Hey what are you doing here?" The new kid asked

Chris responded with: "I figured Id see you here, Kev, after middle sch..."

Richard decided then to look to see if the bus was coming. He did a bus coming, it didn't seem special enough. It seemed like an ordinary school bus. He it wasn't it because it was a superhero school he thought the bus wold be different until he heard what the Chris just said to Kev, or Kevin

"Remember were suppose to keep this secret from the neighborhood."

Richard decided to cut into their conversation to clarify if that was actually the bus they were waiting for and introduce himself.

"Hi i am Richard Canis, and that's the bus, i think.

As it turned out it was and as a force of habit Richard wait to be last on the bus. While he was waiting to get to a set Kevin just got himself humiliated being told to keep his voice down about the school until the door was closed or something like that. Eventually he found his way to the back and found a seat. Kevin and Chris sat in front of him and started up a conversation when the bus started moving. Since he was up for most of the night he tried to get a little sleep until Chris said loudly to Kevin.

"Its him, Will stronghold!"

Richard had heard the name before so this made him look up to the front to see Will walk in. Along with a very beautiful red-head girl wearing green, a tall guy with blond hair, and a gothish girl with orange mixed in. Apparently Kevin found the red-head girl good-looking cause he turn to his friend to find out her name, Layla Will's girl friend. After a while Richard tried again to get some sleep, only to be woken up again because of Kevin and his story on how he created a tornado during middle school. When everything quieted down again he tried to go back to sleep. Unfortunately he woke again due to screaming and panicking from the other freshman. The juniors tried to calmed them down. He to would probably have panicked if he wasn't so tired. Finally the bus turned into a rocket-like thing and he was able to catch a few Z's till they got to school. When they got off the bus a Senior herded all the freshman together and took them to the gym for class placement. The others had the look on their face of uncertainty and that

made Richard ask himself.

"What will i be?"