(A/N: Hey all, its the next installment of Kevin's wonderful sotry...yeah right. Neways, its time that Kevin woke up, so first a word for my readers...

Dante Tigerwolf: Wow, ya know, I didn't realize until you said something. Nah, yes he does have something against Kevin, and you'll find out eventually.

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Chapter 4: Discover Your Niche
"A true friend is not one who tries to talk you out of a stupid idea, but one who sits next to you in the jail cell saying how much fun it was."

­-Unknown

As his eyelids parted, all he saw was white. It took a few seconds to notice he was on his back, and that the white was from a ceiling. The smells of sterilization and sweets, as well as different aromas of varying degrees of tolerance didn't register for at least a minute. Finally his brain put two and two together, and he realized that he was in a hospital room, or a doctor's office. Remembering he was at school, his theory narrowed down to one choice. A nurse's office. Finally awake, his eyes darted around the room, making sense of his surroundings. As his ears woke up, he could hear the voices of two familiar people.

"I still can't believe that he has that much power this early."

"Baby, everyone is different. I can't believe that Boomer did this to him, that was unfair."

"Serves him right, now that he cost the school a new building."

"I know."

"Oh looks, he's awake. How are you feeling?" The face of Layla appeared next to him, with Will standing next to her, near the door. Kevin tried to answer, when a third person appeared, an older woman wearing a white coat and glasses.

"Layla, dear, let him wake completely, he's been through a lot."

Kevin cleared his throat. "Actually, I'm feeling ok. Who are you?"

Will stepped forward. "This is Nurse Spex."

Kevin darted his eyes, not to look at anything, but to try to remember what happened. Failing that task, he submitted to his curiosity. "Wait, what happened, why am I here?"

Layla smiled. "You don't remember, that's ok, let's just say you proved your place in power placement. After Boomer made you unleash you abilities, you lost control of it, and well, half the gym was immediately blown. Powers is furious. And then you collapsed, and were taken here. I'm glad to see your doing fine now."

"Wait, what do you mean furious? At me? And then why are you two here?"

Will spoke up. "No, she's mad at Boomer. I mean really pissed, she was ready to fire him on the spot. Bu in any case, it's standard procedure to bring you here, and after we found out, er, Layla found out, she dragged me here, and Powers asked that we watch over you when we passed her."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have let then stay and interrogate you like this. And now I'm really regretting her letting them here," said Nurse Spex, clearly annoyed with visitors.

Layla turned to him again. "But you are ok, right?"

Kevin smiled. "Actually, now that you mention it, I feel like I was hit by a tornado."

Layla looked confused, and turned to her boyfriend, who was also smiling. Will raised his eyebrows, obviously trying to suppress a laugh. Layla rolled her eyes, and turned to Kevin. "At least you have your sense of humor, I guess that means your ok."

"So, how long was I out?"

"About two, maybe three hours. Lunch started about a half hour ago."

Kevin sat up. "I see. When can I leave?"

Nurse Spex turned around to face him again, having been writing things on a pad. "Let me just check you and then you can go." She leaned down and pulled her glasses down, letting her eyes turn red, and beams shot out, becoming X-rays to view Kevin's body. After a while she closed her eyes, and opened them to reveal normal irises, and placed her glasses back on. "Your free to go, Will, Layla, you will stay with him, right?"

"Yes m'am." They said in unison, and all three of them walked out.

Kevin had yet to have walked the halls of Sky High, so of course, he was amazed of what he saw. Never had he been in such a school. The almost postmodern look of a ship more than an actual place of learning stood around him. Layla and Will took the chance to give him a first hand tour, as well as give him some history that he obviously didn't know, while the rest of the school did. It was mostly the story of their first year of high school. With Will's missing abilities, to Layla vs. this Gwen Grayson girl, which Kevin noted still brought harshness to Layla's lips, to the Homecoming dance and the revealing of Royal Pain. As soon as Kevin was practically an expert at Sky High, the conversation turned to him, and his story. He talked about his unusual illness and what he later found out about it, as well as his parents, and of course a full non-exaggerated detail of what really happened back in his eighth grade year. And finally he talked about how he learned of his powers, and how he spent the rest of the year and summer trying to learn how to control them, and his adventure up to this point. Suddenly, and without warning, he remembered a bit about what he was doing before.

"Oh crap, I don't know what I've been placed in, I don't know where to go!"

Layla offered a comforting smile, which made Kevin feel comfortable, and slightly blush. "Don't worry, Boomer tried to place you in Hero Support, but Powers stopped it. You're in Hero. After lunch you need to go to Principal Powers's office. She'll give you your schedule."

Will chipped in. "Yeah, that guy has it in for you, I don't know why. I mean, that was an impressive display, or so I hear."

"Trust me, I don't know why he hates me, I haven't even met him before today."

Layla nodded. "Yeah he seems to have it in for some people."

Kevin turned to her. "Did he have something against you? I mean, being a sidekick and all?"

"Nah, I just refused to be part of the system. Which reminds me, Powers decided to make me Hero. I am now in the Hero track."

"Why weren't you last year, you could have been then."

"Yeah, she was offered, but refused. It took a lot of convincing of me, Warren, Ethan, Zach, and Maj to get her to accept it this time." Will said.

"Cool, I just can't believe with powers like your, that you would not want to be Hero."

Layla smiled. "What about you? I mean, I've never seen a freshman which so much power."

"Yeah, I've been told that this wasn't suppose to happen, I'm too strong for myself, and I don't know why."

Will looked up. "I do."

"You do?" said both Kevin and Layla simultaneously.

"Yeah I read about it once, and Powers was talking about it. Kevin, you know that you have, or had, two different super genes that rejected each other and therefore conflicted, right?"

"Yeah"

"Well, during the fighting, each gene builds up to surpass the other, while the other does the same in response. Which is why you kept getting sick throughout your life. Makes sense?"

"I guess."

"Well, eventually as the mutation occurs, the fighting still continues, and you start getting radiation sickness. Eventually they mutate and fuse, and finally you settle down, and have your powers, but they become a lot stronger than normal. This occurs most often in people with such rejecting genes. So, in essence, you have the strength of an adult. Your powers will continue to develop, but your already ahead, its just you lack control not because you're not good enough, but because your basically too powerful. Its gonna be harder for you to learn how to control, but once you do, your gonna be very powerful. Ok?"

Kevin sat and thought on this for a moment, and finally agreed. "Yeah makes sense."

"Tell you what, you know my parents are the greatest heroes ever? Maybe I can see if they can help you. I mean, we don't want for you to destroy another building because of Boomer. What do you say?"

"Sure."

"I'll help too, ooh, this will be fun," perked up Layla, as they turned to the lunchroom.

The hustle and bustle of kids in line were filling the air, well, if it wasn't for the fact that the current kids in line had their shoes melted to the floor. From the front of the line the same girl from the back of the bus smirked as she walked away with her food. Will lowered his head into his waiting hand. "Not again."

Together the three of them walked to a table, one that seemed to almost be reserve for them, since they were being waved over by a few others, some of the people he vaguely met outside the school. After sitting, Will formally introduced the others to Kevin.

"This is Zach, he glows. Ethan, you already met, melts. Magenta, or Maj, is a shapshifter. Into a guinea pig. And this is Marina." He realized that this was the same girl he saw on the bus. The blind girl. Instantly he remembered her reaction to his thoughts, and it once again caused her to focus more on him. Will paused, before going on. "She, uh, well, as far as we all know, she has a connection to fire, and she can see auras."

"Why are you so embarrassed?" she asked, staring straight at Kevin.

Kevin could barely talk, till he realized that she wasn't psychic. "You did the same thing on the bus," she said.

"Sorry Marina, I thought you were telepathic, and you heard my thoughts about your eyes."

"Oh, when your aura looked ashamed? I thought it was unusual. Was it something about my eyes?"

"Yeah, I thought a stupid comment when you heard about me."

"Oh! You're the one with the weather powers aren't you?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Oh, nothing, my dad is the WeatherWatcher. He controls weather and stuff, so when I heard about your powers, well, I was interested on finding out who you were. It wasn't hard, considering you seemed like you wanted to shrink and run. And it showed up different than the rest of the bus."

"WeatherWatcher?"

"Yeah, we'll explain it later." Said Will, who was scanning the lunchroom for someone. Then he found him. "Ah hah! I figured he was at his table. That guy over there, he's also part of our group, though he still likes to be alone." Will stood up and walked over to another table, where the girl on the bus and another guy who could have passed as her twin were sitting, on opposite corners of the table. Will started talking to the guy, who glanced up at him and almost smiled for a second, before returning to his angered look. Will took no notice, and continued talking to him. After what seemed like hours, and was yet only minutes, the guy packed his things furiously and walked over.

"Now," Will said, "this is Warren. He controls fire."

Warren turned to him, and then back to Will. "You dragged me over to introduce me to Twister over here? My god, Will, I'm not your girlfriend or anything, I don't need to know everyone."

Kevin looked at Warren, and at the girl still at the table. "Are you two siblings?"

Warren turned to her. "Payla? Nah, of course not."

"You two look so alike."

"You have no idea, now if you'll excuse me, I'd rather not get to know Will's new boyfriend. Later." And with that, he turned on his heels and walked back to his seat, and tried to sit while Payla made the place he would try to sit flame up. Although it seemed like she was fighting with him; as he was joining in, he could tell she was enjoying herself, even without a smile. Layla sighed. "I swear, those two belong to each other, they really are a perfect couple.

Zach started to giggle. "Yeah, they really are the sparks to a flame." Maj responded by elbowing him in the chest, taking the wind out of him. "Oh, come on, Maj, it wasn't that bad!"

Kevin and his new friends continued their conversation and food, and having a good time, before a yell came from behind Kevin.

"Hey, there you are!"

Chris walked up to Kevin, and patted his back. "Are you ok? Damn, man, that was some show! Better than the middle school stunt. You almost got the coach fired! And you missed some other cool placements, like there was this one guy, who had a full black and a full white eye. He did this cool stunt with shadows, it was awesome, plus he has a night only power with the moon or something. Although, I don't know where he went. And there was also- wait a minute, you're eating with the Stronghold Crew?"

Will laughed. "Stronghold Crew? That's a new one."

Kevin smiled and introduced Chris to his friends. Soon after Richard came in and said he was looking for Kevin. Finally, for the 'Stronghold Crew,' they had a full table, except for two seats. Together they talked about life and basically became friends before the lunch bell rang. They all got up and started heading for the door. Will turned to Kevin. "Well, since it's the first day, now its time for just games of Save The Citizen. They have two teams, the heroes, and the villains. The heroes need to stop the villains and save the citizen, while the villains need to stop the heroes. It's really fun, and so far, we are unbeatable."

Chris raised the question. "But I thought the gym was destroyed. Where is it now?"

"When the gym is not being used, there is an outdoor field. That's where we're going," said Ethan.

Together the group, joined by Warren, walked to the field, for Kevin's first viewing of Sky High's signature game.