Hang, sitting down in an office, watched a grouchy-looking Andrew shred two security guard IDs while he downed some coffee.

"I'm… Still sorry about what happened yesterday," Hang apologized.

"Yeah, yeah," Andrew grunted as the second one finished shredding, "Alright, I'm done. Go meet Kyle and Sean in the gymnasium." He stood up and stretched himself out. "I'm gonna go take a power nap," he told Hang and left. As he saw him leave, Hang couldn't help but wonder something about Andrew.

"How come Andrew's the leader when he doesn't have a power?"
"What do you mean?" Sean asked, sticking his head out of a portal on the gymnasium's floor.

"He's a capable and firm leader, yes," he continued as he dodged a green fireball and hurled back an orange one of his own, "But it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for some normal guy to lead what's essentially a team of superheroes."

"Yeah but what about James?" Kyle ducked and launched a flame wave at Hang's feet, "Second in command and he doesn't have a power either."

"Yeah he does, have you ever seen James break a finger?" Sean asked as he watched Hang jump over Kyle's attack.

"No, but that hardly constitutes a power," Hang interjected.

"Au contraire, rookie, James's fists are tougher than boulders!" Sean bellowed, "I was with him in the boxing club back in senior year of high school. He didn't need gloves but he was forced to wear them anyway, because he kept breaking people! He'd be all like, BOOM! POW! And his opponent would be too injured to come in the next day. We called him One-Hit Knockout James!"

"Seriously? I never knew that," Kyle admitted.

"PFFF, and you've been on this team HOW long?!" Sean snickered.
"It's not like he's punched me!"
"Well lemme tell ya, it HURTS!"
"Okay, but what about Andrew?"
"Same deal, he's got a power," Sean confessed.

"REALLY?" Hang got on the ground and excitedly crawled up to Sean "Tell me!"
"Weeeeell-"
At that moment, Andrew came in.
"Oop- Hey, Andrew! Just telling the newbies a story about James. Don't you worry, they are being very much productive," Sean smoothly explained.

"...I see. Just don't get too sidetracked," Andrew said and left again.

"Okay, so what's his power?" Hang asked.

"Nooope, nope! You heard the man, back to work, you two!" Hang clapped his hands twice as if he was a master ordering around his servants.

"Come on, you can't leave us hanging like that, please, I have to know!" Hang pleaded.
"Geez, you sound like a child. Now I'm not gonna tell you at all."

"Why not?!"
"Because it's funnier to watch you squirm!" Sean laughed, "Now you better think fast, Kyle got his head in the game before you did!"

Hang looks behind him and sees a green fireball coming right at his face. Instinctively he swipes it away with his hand, and the fireball dissipates.

"Whoa, dude, you can deflect fire?" Kyle asked in disbelief, "Not even I can do that! Awesome!"

"That would've come in handy a long time ago," Hang said to himself. After the training session, Hang and Kyle leave together. "Do you know what Andrew's power is?" Hang prodded.

"Are you kidding? If I knew, I'd have told you already. All I know is that he can kick major butt when he wants to," Kyle explained.

"Then I'll just have to ask him."

"Not a good idea. I've tried asking him before and he shuts me down every time. I don't think he likes talking about it. Besides, have you seen the bad mood he was in today?"

"Hmm, you're right, maybe I'll go ask someone else."
"Good luck with that. I'm gonna see if I can catch Mallory sneaking out when she's supposed to be asleep." With that, Kyle stepped onto some concrete and blasted off like a rocket with his green fire coming from the soles of his feet. Hang watches him crash-land right outside the forest and run in on foot. After watching that almost impressive display, Hang found James talking to some freshmen while sitting on the fountain.

"Hey, James, can I ask you something?"

"Uh- Hold on," James told the freshmen and turned to Hang, "Sure, but make it quick if you can. I'm kinda in the middle of something."

"What's Andrew's power?"

"...Hang, I hope you understand, but I can't tell you that. Andrew doesn't want me telling people that willy nilly and I have to accept his wishes." He turned back to the freshmen, "And then on the weekends we go over to the Lane stadium down Beamer Way to watch the Hokies during football season. In fact, our local mechanic's working on the new mascot there!"

"What's he going to be like?" One of the freshmen asked.

"I wouldn't want to spoil the surprise!" James teased. Hang left to go to the dorms to pay a visit to someone he didn't see often. He knocked on the door to Michael's dorm. He didn't get an answer. He jiggled the doorknob and found it was unlocked. He opened the door and Michael jumped out of his seat in surprise, his headphones falling to the floor right by a large wardrobe. He got back up the work on his drawing, not welcoming Hang in but not kicking him out either.

"Hey Michael, do you have any idea what Andrew's superpower is?" Michael only rushed over and slapped his hand over Hang's mouth.

"Keep it down!" Michael whispered, "Do you want him to hear you?"

"I don't even think he's on this floor," Hang said through Michael's hand.

"Doesn't matter, I just don't want to make him mad. He's really scary when he's mad."

"You're telling me! He yelled at Thomas and I just yesterday. I might've wet myself if I hadn't just barely avoided a seventy foot drop before."

"Exactly! So if you're going to ask around about stuff like that, don't do it here." Michael then went back to work on his drawing, letting Hang leave. When choosing where to go next, something James said echoed in Hang's mind.
"And then on the weekends we go over to the Lane stadium down Beamer Way to watch the Hokies during football season. In fact, our local mechanic's working on the new mascot there!"

Hang decided to head to the Lane stadium to see their local mechanic. On the way, he pondered if he should really be prodding people about Andrew's power if he told James not to spill the beans. But he really really wanted to know what it was. Then he realized, James just said Andrew didn't want him talking about it, he never said anything about other people.

Once he arrived at the stadium, he peered through the empty bleachers to see something big and made of metal. He climbed through and saw what it was: A giant, robotic turkey, with local mechanic Waqas working on what appeared to be its head.

"Hey, Hang," he said nonchalantly without looking up from his work, "Mind throwing up a rag while you're here?" Hang took a rag from a bucket of them on the ground and tossed it up to Waqas. He caught it in his right hand while his left tightened something with a wrench.
"Hey, Waqas, mind if I ask you something?" Hang requested.
"Hold on, give me a minute," Waqas told him. Suddenly, Hang heard a snapping noise and Waqas used the rag Hang gave him to block a gusher of oil coming right at him. "Yep, yep, knew that would happen," Waqas groaned. After that, he climbed down the giant turkey to meet Hang face-to-face. "Let me guess, you want to know what this baby is, don't you?"

"Well I- Actually, yeah, I kinda would."

"I was hoping to wait until the weekend to unveil this to all of you at once but what the hey, you're already here. Hang, I present to you Robo Hokie!" He waves an arm across the giant contraption.

"Our new mascot is going to be a giant robot? But why?"
"Ever since I was a child I always wanted to build a giant robotic bird so this is really a dream project. It's gonna have fully adjustable tail feathers, thrusters for hovering over the field, and my personal favorite…" Waqas presses a button on a remote and the Hokie's body roars to life, displaying a low-power light show complete with bursts of green fire. "You like it? Your pal Kyle helped make it!"

"Wow, that's really cool," Hang said, "But I also wanted to know-"

"It is very cool!" Waqas interrupted, "In fact, if you wanna climb on up there, you can lift up the head and look at the circuitry firsthand!"

"That sounds interesting," Hang said and climbed Robo Hokie, resting on its shoulders next to some of Waqas's tools. He tried lifting the head, but it was too heavy. Waqas clapped his hands to get Hang's attention and pointed at the beak. Hang, more than a little confused, pushed on it and the head opened on its own. As he peered inside, a negligent slip of the hand accidentally knocked one of Waqas's wrenches into the machine, causing the wiring inside to spark briefly.

"Oops! Oh great, Waqas is gonna kill me if he finds out what just happened," Hang thought to himself.

"Hang? Everything alright up there?" Waqas shouted from the ground.

"Uhhh, yeah! Everything's fine!" Hang lied and fluttered to the ground on his fire wings. "I, uh, think I'm gonna go now, thanks a lot for showing me this."

"Hey, no problem, I always like showing off my hard work," Waqas told him and climbed back up. Hang started to leave the stadium the way he came, but froze when he heard Waqas speak.

"Where did my twenty two millimeter go?" Hang tensely waited until Waqas said "Oh well, must've dropped it. Should turn up sooner or later," and got back to work. Hang breathed a sigh of relief and left, wondering what he should do now. Then he had an idea, there had to be one person who he hasn't asked yet who knows, and he knew the idea might just be stupid enough to work.

"Hey Andrew, can I ask you something?" Hang asked as he trailed behind his leader through the halls. Andrew took a pencil out of his mouth and put into his right hand, already filled with papers.

"Not now, Hang, I'm kind of busy," Andrew told him.

"But it's something that's been on my mind for a while now and won't leave me. Something that won't leave me alone. Something about you."

At this, Andrew stopped walking. Hang bumped into him.

"Alright, make it quick."

"What's your power?"

Andrew didn't say anything.

"Hey, I asked-"
"I don't have one."

"What? But I heard-" Hang cut himself off, but it was too late.

"You heard?" Andrew turned around and stared him down, "You heard what?"

"Uh… Nothing!"

"Good, because I have nothing. Got that?"

"Yes, sir."

"Now, if you'll excuse me-"

Suddenly, the alarm went off. Hang covered his ears, Andrew dropped everything, got into a fight stance, and looked around frantically. James's voice then came over the loudspeaker.

"EMERGENCY! I GOT A DISTRESS CALL FROM WAQAS! WE NEED ALL AVAILABLE DEFENDERS AT THE LANE STADIUM ASAP!" Andrew grabbed Hang's arm and ran off with him all the way to the stadium. When they got there, they saw Waqas desperately clinging onto a runaway Robo Hokie, with its eyes lit up green. Ben, Luke, and Sean were also already there.

"WAQAS! WHAT'S HAPPENING?!" Andrew yelled as the two of them crawled into the stadium. His yelling distracted Waqas long enough for Robo Hokie to shake him off. Ben and Luke managed to catch him, and Andrew quickly caught up with him.

"I don't know! Somehow my wrench got inside the wiring and it's making it go haywire!" He desperately explained.

"Wrench?" Hang asked, but before he could confess, the six Defenders saw a blast of green fire coming right at them. Sean teleported himself, Ben and Waqas out of there, but left behind Hang, Andrew, and Luke. Hang stepped up and waved his arms like crazy, dispersing the fire blast. Meanwhile, Ben, now on the bleachers, tried to throw his Sticksaber at the mechanical beast, only to have it swatted far away by one of its knife-like feathers.

"...I hate it when that happens," Ben complained and ran off to go get it. Robo Hokie used one of its thrusters to spray a stream of green fire right at Hang who held out his arms to deflect it around his peers.

"Guys, there's something I have to tell you!" He said.

"Hang, is now the time?!" Andrew asked.

"I accidentally knocked the wrench into there! I didn't want to say anything because I was afraid Waqas might get upset!" He shouted over the roar of the fire which stopped along with his speech.

"YOU WHAT?!" Waqas and Andrew yelled in unison.

"YOU PUT US ALL IN DANGER BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GET IN TROUBLE?!" Andrew practically screamed.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know this would happen! I know you're mad at me, but-"

"OH YES, AM I MAD AT YOU!"

Sean dodged Robo Hokie's blade feathers and landed a flying kick at its head, which disoriented it. It charged right at the trio on the ground in its confusion.

"HANG, YOU- LOOK OUT!" Andrew pushed Hang off to the side so hard that he hit the stadium walls and got the wind knocked out of him. As he tried to get back the air in his lungs, he remembered Andrew and quickly looked up. He couldn't believe what he saw.

He saw Andrew stopping Robo Hokie, who was still charging. Alone. With his bare hands. Then he lifted the whole thing up in the air. Words he heard before rung in Hang's head.

"All I know is that he can kick major butt when he wants to."
"He's really scary when he's mad."

It all made sense now.

Andrew slammed Robo Hokie on the ground with a yell, breaking it and shutting it down. He panted heavily before grunting in pain and falling to his knees, letting his arms go limp like noodles. Everyone else gathered around him, including James who had just arrived and was out of breath.

"Luke, Sean, ice. Ben, go back and let everyone know the situation is fine. Waqas, retire that thing and have James help you hide it," Andrew ordered. The others except James and Waqas left.

"Hey, no need for that," Waqas assured him, "I'll have to delay the big premiere but I've already got plans on how to make it more safe. Heck, I'll even add a cockpit so one of us can personally control it."

"Well, alright. You haven't let me down before. And Hang…"

"Yes?" Hang tensed up in fear.

"...Be more careful."

"Oh. I'll be more careful, honest. I'm sorry about everything today."

They stood there for a few moments in silence.

"...I'm not proud of it," Andrew confessed.

"Proud of what?"

"That. My power. The one that just saved the stadium," Andrew sighed. "Hang, I don't like getting mad. I don't like everyone feeling like they're walking on eggshells around me. I don't like…" Andrew wouldn't finish his thought. "...Do you get it now?"

"Yeah. I get it now."

They waited for a while longer before Sean and Luke returned with a bucket of ice. Andrew plunged his arms into it like it was nothing.

"You can leave now, this is going to take a few hours."

The disgraced security guards from Slusher wandered through trees until they found one with a small, rectangular indent in it. They knocked on it twice, making a metallic noise, and the indent slid itself open to reveal a pair of eyes.

"Oh no, did you two get tossed out?" The eyes groaned.

"Unfortunately, yes," one of the guards admitted, "But we still have the backup plan." They pulled out an ID card, one with a familiar pink person on it.

"Good."

The End.