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Betrothed is a Bad Word

Urrgh. I'm not going to open my eyes. Nope. If I open my eyes, I know I'll be in that stupid white room, and I'll be blinded. I think Nurse Spex has realised I'm awake, but I'm still not opening my eyes till I'm out of the room.

"Dear, is there something wrong with your eyes?"

Oh, she's trying to trick me into opening my eyes. Well, I'm not going to fall for it.

"No, I just don't want to be blinded by the white," I stated. I heard her sigh. Then, I heard a sort of rustling and lowered voices. Wish I would stop being so stubborn so I could see what was going on. Then Nurse Spex raised her voice so I could hear it.

"No, sorry Lash, she refuses to open her eyes, so you'll just have to leave and see her later."

"Wait a second!" I groaned, knowing she had won. I slowly opened my eyes and of course, was dazzled by the scary white. It took me a good few minutes, but I overpowered the white and was finally able to see properly. I turned to face the Nurse and saw Lash stood next to her, rubbing his neck.

"Blaise, She's not gonna stop till I'm dead or something. I mean I didn't want to help her in the first place so She shouldn't have made me join, really. Plus, we're betrothed and all which is a perfectly good reason to stop reporting to her-"

"Wait, what- no, why- who is She?" I interrupted and stood there expectantly. He appeared to have lost all knowledge of how to open his mouth and say something, so I turned to Nurse Spex.

"Royal Pain," she said simply and Lash shrunk back a bit. Then she patted my shoulder gently and calming me down, the only problem was, I wasn't upset or shocked or anything. I honestly had no idea who they were talking about.

"Who?"

She let go of my shoulder and looked scandalised.

"Royal Pain… You know… Wore big armour, was a techno-path. No? The biggest villain of all time?"

I shook my head and she leaned back onto her desk.

"I'll tell you what, you two pop down to see Principal Powers. She'll explain everything. And you," she said pointing at Lash. " Can update her on exactly what's going on."

He nodded and grabbed my hand. He started leading me out into the corridor so I just yelled a 'Thanks!' as I disappeared out the door.

It was so quiet in the corridor as I assumed all the students were in class. We walked in silence down past about 3 classrooms when Lash suddenly stopped.

"Thanks," he muttered and I had to think for a second about what he was thanking me for.

"For helping you with Speed? It was no problem, really."

"It is! I could've been killed! You saved my life!"

"Well… I suppose but anyone else could have done it, so it's not a very heroic task. So, really, it doesn't matter."

"It does-"

"Hold on, where is Speed? I'm pretty sure he wasn't in the Nurse's office."

"He did go there first but then when the Nurse had gotten the stab wound in his shoulder all sorted out, he got sent straight to Principal Powers' office."

"Will he still be there?"

"I dunno."

"Alright then, let's just carry on, I really want to know who Royal Pain is."

Lash didn't answer, but he nodded in response and continued walking.

When we neared Principal Powers' office I suddenly felt sick to my stomach. What if Speed was still in there? Would she expel Lash for helping Royal Pain, even though he didn't want to? I stopped and realised I wished Will was there. He may be my stupid brother but he has super strength, and whenever he's there, I always feel like I'm safe. I mean, who would win against Will? Superman possibly but I don't think anyone else would.

Lash turned around when he'd noticed my abrupt halt and just waited. He didn't ask why I had stopped because he probably could work it out. I looked at my shoes in shame. Here I was, worrying about everything and wishing Will was here. Lash wasn't worried about anything and he was perfectly happy to go in without Will, as long as I was there. I should be glad he's there because he can defend me. I shouldn't be wishing for Will!

I shook my head and smiled at Lash. He looked confused but I just walked over and held his hand.

"I'm glad you're here," I told him and he smiled back. He knocked on the door and we entered silently.

As we stepped in, we scanned the room for any sign of Speed and when there was none, we let out the breath we had been holding.

"Don't worry, he's been arrested." Powers told us and motioned for us to sit down.

We teach took a seat and waited for her to speak.

"So, what actually happened today?"

I heard Lash start explaining so I stopped listening. I already knew all of that so I didn't need to hear it all again. Wonder what everyone will say when they hear about it. Of course, by know EVERYONE will know because gossip flies around this school faster than Speed running to the cafeteria when he's hungry.

I suddenly snapped back to the real world when I heard someone say my name.

"Blaise?"

"Hello."

"Are you paying attention?"

"Of course Principal Powers, it's just that I'd heard it all before so I didn't think I needed to listen."

"Well, we'd finished discussing that and I asked if you had any questions."

"Oh yes! I do! Who's Royal Pain?"

"Well, back when your parents were at school, there was a young techno-path called Sue Tenny (sp?) but back then, techno-paths were thought to be almost useless unless your car broke down. Sue resented all that assuming because she knew her powers were useful but she was stuck in hero-support. During her senior year here at Sky High, she went missing and no one knew what had happened to her. But later on a villain emerged who called themselves Royal Pain. This villain could make unbeatable fighting machines and almost any type of weapon. You father managed to beat her but there was no trace of her. We assumed she was gone for good, but recently, we have received reports saying that she's back and a lot of robots have been attacking the cities. It turns out that she has some sort of machine that could turn people into babies and that's what happened to her when the Commander beat her, so in a way she was just reborn. Do you understand?"

I nodded. I understood now. I had heard my Dad talking about her once or twice but he had always referred to her as 'That techno weirdo' so I hadn't make the connection.

"Using all the information Lash has given us, we should be able to find her and arrest her for good, so you needn't worry about a thing." Principal Powers smiled at us and then firmly told us to go to class.

We were shooed out the door faster than you could say 'Bob's your uncle'. Lash started heading for Mad Science while I set off to go to Hero Support but he stretched his arm to me and wheeled me around so I was walking the same way as him.

"What the-"

"You have hero classes in the morning remember?"

I looked at him blankly.

"And I have side-kick lessons in the afternoon."

"Oh yeah, I'd forgotten… And it's hero-support! Not Side-kick!"

Lash stuck his tongue out at me and ran to the door. I ran after him and laughed. It's nice to forget about all your worries and have a bit of fun sometimes.

We walked into the classroom and were faced with complete silence. All faces were looking at us and it dawned on me how bad the rumours must be.

It was going to be a long day.

AN: Sorry about how rubbish this is! Don't forget it's an alternate universe alright! That's why the explanation about Royal Pain sounds wrong ok?

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