"La-la-la-la-Layla!" Zach chanted while he sat down next to the flower child.

"Hi Zach," she smiled.

"I still think…" he said then took a bite of Potato surprise and swallowed, "That when you do get famous…either for growing the rainforests back or being Will Stronghold's lover…" Layla gave him an annoyed look, ".. I mean wife…or something…." She smiled big "That they should make a clay pot in the shape of your head with holes and grow plants out of it! Like a CHIA PET!"

Layla considered, "Zach…are you saying I have HOLES in my head?"

Zach was astonished that she had come to that conclusion, "Wha…NO! All I'm saying is that your name fits the Chia song 'la-la-la-la-Layla….cha-cha-cha-Chia!" he explained. She nodded with understanding. "Plus you know you grow things and there will be stuff growing out of your head…" he added before eating more potato surprise.

"Yeah…where's Will?" Layla asked looking around.

"He wash in line lasht I shaw him," Zach didn't even bother to swallow so pieces of potato sloshed out of his mouth.

"Were you this gross when we went out?" Magenta asked with her face scrunched as she joined the table.

"Uh…..I don't tshink sho," Zach thought and then started choking on some potato. Magenta rolled her eyes.

"Swallowing usually helps," They heard Will and he slapped Zach on the back. His ribcage smashed into the table top and the potato was suddenly a bullet that stopped when it hit the kid who's body frame was made of goo. He looked up from his lunch, but went back to eating it, not knowing there was a potato wedged into his neck.

"Harsh, but thanks,' Zach said rubbing his freshly bruised ribs.

"Ah, you're welcome...and sorry," Will sat next to Layla. She gave him a fond peck on the cheek.

"Aw, how cute," Warren walked by and said with sarcasm. He would usually sit with them but lately kids were questioning his toughness. Plus, him and his girlfriend, Crystal of almost two years were 'on a break'. It made Warren melancholy. Crystal and he became close after Homecoming. She was the girl that could freeze things. He could say he 'melted' her heart. Lately though, they'd been fighting. She was irritated at how whenever they would kiss or touch, Warren would lose tabs of his power and mildly scorch her. He argued it was and act of passion. She said the next time she had passion, she'd freeze his genitals. That's when they decided to 'go on a break'. So he really didn't feel like hanging out while Will and Layla played kissy face. Also he got easily irritated when Magenta and Zach would start having spats about their long dead relationship. They cared about each other sure enough but boy were they bickered a lot for only dating for three weeks freshman year.

"Did you figure out which wires to cut and cross on the double explosive atom bomb?" Will casually asked Layla.

"Of course. You cut the maroon first, then the turquoise one. Cross the lime green with the royal blue. The violet crosses with the gold and then you cut the red one." She explained. Will kind of pretended she knew what she was talking about.

Ever since last year, at the most memorable homecoming, Layla had been upgraded to hero status after using her powers. Will was proud of her. Actually he was proud of all his friends.

Superpowers can modify and change. It is possible. When they did a semi-annual power check-up in December, Magenta found out she could shape shift into more than a guinea pig. She could be any mammal on earth. Coach Boomer demanded she shift to anything else than a mouse or rabbit. She had been producing shapes of small mammalian animals but got pissed off, shifted into a tiger and barely missed gashing Boomer's leg. He was satisfied after that and conveniently upped her status.

During the summer, their friend Ethan became quite surprised. He had practiced turning into a puddle. He slithered under his door and into the kitchen where his mother was making a tossed salad and re-formed.

"Oh hey baby. What kind of dressing do you want?" she asked, not phased by his sudden appearance.

"Blue cheese please!" he said and was focusing on melting again. His mother had more to ask and tried tapping him on his shoulder but he had already melted. In fact, she did too. She started freaking out and poor Ethan didn't have a clue what was going on except somehow making physical contact in the process of becoming a puddle made whatever object touching him (except his feet) liquid also. Coach Boomer was convinced when Ethan grabbed his arm. The clipboard fell to the ground. There are ways to 'puddle' communicate according to Ethan and he said Coach Boomer was throwing curses in every color before they became solid again. Therefore, Ethan became a hero too.

Now Zach was probably the most excited about the modification to his power more than anyone. He thought glowing was awesome but what he found out the third week of school this year made him ecstatic. It seemed everyone knew he glowed but it wasn't until he was in biology that it happened. He was sitting next to a plant and was really angry that all his friends were in hero classes while he was stuck in hero support, when the plant drooped over and died. At first he thought he'd extracted Layla's power but opposite. After Nurse Spex ran tests on him, they all found out he was outputting minor UV rays. He could make them stronger or weaker at will. In fact, he could give off any kind of ray he wanted with his glow. Principal Powers later sat him down and told him that if he turned up the UV rays too high, people would turn into cancer-crisps. Also any other type of ray turned up too high, would likely KILL someone. So he hardly used his powers, in fear of accidentally causing someone's demise. So he was put into the hero class.

"So when you graduate you should be called 'Radiation'?" Layla asked one time.

"No! I still like Zach-Attack!" he stubbornly said.

So now the gang was all here in hero classes. Life seemed it couldn't get better.

Ethan finally had made it to their table. He had gotten contacts and a growth spurt during the summer so he looked less like an uber-nerd. Although he still was the smartest friend.

He was breathing fast like he had run from somewhere.

"Oh man you guys…" he stopped to take in a few breaths.

"WHAT?" all of them asked in unison.

"So today at the semi-annual power check ups there were these transfer students…" He couldn't seem to get the words out fast enough between breaths.

"Who are they?" Zach's attention was lost to Ethan. He was staring at four strange girls walking down the center aisle with their lunch trays.

Ethan gasped and took in a few more breaths, "The TRANSFERS!" he whispered with a punch.

The girls sat down at the lunch table Warren used to occupy last year. They didn't say a word.

"Oh man, they are all babes!" Zach pointed out. Magenta rolled her eyes. Will agreed silently. Layla thought they were strange.

"But guys…GUYS!" Ethan had to shout to get their attention back.

They looked at him. "They refused to show Coach Boomer their powers!" he said, it shocked them.

"Understandable," Layla shrugged. She refused to show her power to Boomer in the first place.

"They wouldn't even explain why though. They just flat out refused. Do you think they even have powers?" Ethan asked.

"When someone refuses it's either because A: they don't have it yet…or at all. B: They do but maybe it's just to destructive to reveal." Will said.

"Or C: they only feel the need to use it when the situation calls for it." Layla added.

"Right" Will nodded.

"Warren where were you?" Ethan asked as Warren passed them again. He gave up and sat down with them.

"I was showing some kid that I haven't lost any toughness…" he cracked his knuckles. Ethan gulped and didn't feel the need to interrogate Warren any more.

"What's the deal with those chicks?" he nodded at the sisters.

"Transfers. Totally refused to reveal their powers during placement," Will recapped what Warren had missed.

"Hey the redhead is cute," Warren said out loud. They all stared at him, with shock, technically he 'was on a break' but if Crystal was there his lips would have been frozen (in the bad way)

"Ladies, ladies, ladies, welcome to Sky High," Lash was on the scene with his ever present bully buddy, Speed. They were in juvie after helping Royal Pain try to destroy the institution. But after lots of community service and their parents arguments that they were brainwashed by Royal Pain, they were re-instated to Sky High.

None of the girls said anything. They kind of just looked at the pair, at each other like a silent agreement that Lash and Speed were losers, and continued eating.

"Well, you girl's aren't very friendly. Why can't you show a little acknowledgment here?" Speed said.

Rayne was the one to stop eating and say "You don't really want to welcome us, it's just an attempt to get in our pants later on." This shocked all. Well, Lash and Speed were mischievous and never tried to let girls know that their lame scam of 'welcoming committee' was indeed a ploy to get with them as opposed to their scam of 'freshman welcoming committee where they juiced 12 dollars from all freshman until the real person to give them a tour showed up. They got embarrassed and slunk away, not even trying to argue with Rayne's statement.

"Damn," Warren said surprised.

"Well one thing's for sure, they have the power to say shocking things," Magenta said, kind of impressed they scared off Lash and Speed. Those jerks deserved it.

"Ethan, are they all the same age?" Layla asked confused.

"No there's one in each grade," he said and got around to eating his potato surprise. Zach had been finished with his before Warren had sat down. All at the table of heroes noticed the eyes of the girls from across the room, but no one wanted to talk about it.