"Hey. EY!" Zach shouted catching up to Will, Layla, and Ethan after the final bell. They were walking to the bus after an excruciating day of learning how to combat fiends (the fiends were actually faces glued on punching bags.)

"What's up Zach?" Will asked.

"I made contact!"

The friends looked at each other puzzled.

"Are you sure you haven't accidentally gamma'd your brain?" Ethan asked.

"No dude. The Freshman sister, Terra. I talked to her, yo!" Zach explained.

They nodded in understanding now. "Yeah and check this out, the senior sister is called 'Rayne' , and then she said the other two were 'Gail' and 'Byrn'. Although I'm not sure which is which," Zach further explained.

"Oh, Gail is the sophomore," Layla snapped with a not too happy of face. This surprised them, she was not one to be snappy. She was a token free thinking pacifist hippie chick. Zach questioned Layla's face by looking to Will for explanation.

"Yeah…she tried hitting on me today during P.E…" Will reluctantly said, trying to be as nonchalant about it as possible.

"Dude! What did you do? Did you take her up on it? Eh? Eh?" Zach grinned and poked his buddy. Layla grew the grass around his feet as tall as he was so he was a human bush. "HEY! Sorry I forgot!" Zach said. He didn't really forget, just said he did to back Layla's shrubs off. She made her grass retreat with a wave of her hands and an annoyed huff. "Well I would have taken her up on it, I mean they are all gorgeous. Might as well…" Zach said and sort of drabbled off because Layla was throwing him a glare that told him to watch his garden or else it would attack him when he wasn't looking. Just what he needed--an army of pansies trying to maul him in his sleep. Well he gave a big no thank you to that.

They continued walking , and as they passed under a tree they heard a husky ,masculine voice with a threat on the edge of it say "Hey."

They looked up to see Warren. They really didn't know what he was doing in the tree, and they didn't feel like asking. Instead, Layla directed the branches to grow out and to the ground so Warren slid off it to ground level. When he stood up the tree went back to normal.

"Hey Warren,"

"'Sup Warren?"

"Yo,"

"So I got some information of sorts," he said flashing a roguish grin.

"What about?' Will asked.

"Those new girls… The principal made them show what they could do after lunch," he said.

The gang stared wide eyed waiting for his next word, he must have known what their powers were. Warren had his own ways of doing things and asking him how he got a hold of such facts was fruitless because he'd give a cryptic answer that no one could figure out anyway. Of course, he tortured his sophomore friends by not saying anything else but the first thing.

"DUDE! What can they do?" Zach couldn't take it any longer and grabbed Warren by his leather jacket. Warren produced a flame on his shoulder and that made Zach jump away fast.

"Don't touch me," he warned. He didn't mind being friends with all of them but he hated being buddy-buddy., touchy-feely, whatever you call it. He strictly reserved that stuff for Crystal until recently. He began walking, circling around them scratching his stubbly chin with a tantalizing grin. He had their undivided attention . Good.

"The oldest one…does puddles," he said with amusement. They looked bewildered at the statement.

"You mean the goth girl can summon puddles…and that's all?" Ethan asked almost unbelievably.

"The. End." Warren said simply and sharply.

Will got goose bumps from such the simple answer. It seemed like she could do more. She totally scared everyone with her black apparel and her chilling voice that hardly showed any emotion.

"The redhead sparks people," Warren continued.

"You mean like static electricity?" Layla asked interested a little.

"No, it's fire based I hear. Not electric. I knew why I liked her-- fire knows fire." Warren stopped and smiled big in a mischievous way, almost talking to himself on the last part.

"But all she does is spark?" Will seemed like he was mistaken.

"That's what they say," Warren shrugged and continued to walk around them.

"What can Gail do?" Will asked.

Layla gave him a scowl at him when he said 'Gail' in an interested tone. He didn't mean anything by it. Will just wanted to know what the girl could do supernaturally.

"The one your ages? She makes breezes," Warren answered. Layla gave a laugh of superiority. Her vine and ivy choke holds could beat a breeze any day. Not that she used her powers for violence…And when did she develop a superiority complex over anything.?

"Breezes," Zach mumbled under his breath, he felt lied to somehow. At least the blonde with the freakiest eyes should be able to do something insanely weird.

"Breezes," Warren repeated to bring Zach back to reality.

Once there-- "And what can Terra do?" Zach demanded. He had talked to the girl and he could feel the power. She would be able to do something greater than what Warren was telling them.

"The freshman," Warren chuckled and shook his head. Zach felt his stomach sink, she probably could formulate pebbles in her hand and throw them , or something not so amazing as he suspected. He almost had a feeling of disappointment in his chest.

"The freshman can create tremors," Warren stated. Zach 's attention was back on Warren. Disappointment obliterated.

"So what are you saying? That all these weird sisters have lame powers but the freshman can do something cool?"

Warren shrugged again with a smug smile. "It happens."

They mulled it over in their brains. How could it happen? For one thing, the Matters sisters only looked the same because they had the same noses, eye width, and full lips. Other than that, hair and eye color was all different. Were they even biological sisters? Secondly, how could the three oldest be deserving of hero support and the youngest a hero?

"Maybe it's genetics,' Magenta suddenly appeared. It startled them all; not Warren though. He was actually up in the tree talking to Magenta as she was in squirrel form. No one noticed the small, purple, and furry as soon as Warren started spouting information about the Matters sisters.

"That makes sense," Layla said. She really didn't want to concentrate on the quartet of girls; they made her turn into a competitive critic. That was so not what Layla was all about. She thought they were dangerous no matter what warren said. A female's intuition is never wrong. She was tired of everyone judging anyway. They all should just leave the transfer students alone. She turned to Will "Want me to help you figure out the double explosive atom bomb wire puzzle?"

"YES," Will groaned, he slid his arms around Layla 's waist and levitated before flying down to the neighborhood.

"Flying comes in handy," Zach noted as he looked off the edge of the school. It was many miles until the ground showed up.

"Tell me about it," Magenta smirked and transformed into a bat and beat her wings around Zach's head.

"AGH Vampira, beat it VAMPIRA!" Zach screeched and tried dodging her wings. She called him a 'dweeb' and took of fin bat form to her house.

"You're lucky you don't have homework or else you'd have to carry a backpack home!" Zach shouted after her.

Warren laughed at the scene of them but sensed Crystal nearby and whipped around to see her walking toward the jetpack rack. He also spotted Lash's long, sneaky, arms winding towards her . He was either trying to trip her or lift up her skirt from a distance. Probably the latter. Lash didn't trip beautiful girls; he tried going out with them.

Warren felt his hands on fire. He looked down, oh they were--probably an automatic reaction since he was growing enraged at the thought of Lash trying to look at Crystal's panties. Warren even called that she had on the pair that were string bikini like, satin, blue, that said 'ice queen' on the front--frankly, he wanted to be the only boy ever to lay eyes on those pair of panties. Without another thought he hurled two fireballs at Lash's arms. Lash saw and gave Warren a dirty look. His arms quickly retreated and Warren realized with horror that they were going to hit the jetpack rack.

"LOOK OUT!" he yelled over at Crystal. She turned around and saw the fireballs looming in closer she froze them in mid air and they dropped and shattered.

Warren breathed relieved.

"What the hell?" she called.

He pointed at where Lash had been standing. Lash was gone. Must have run away on his long limbs. Warren growled silently as Crystal shook her head and put on her jet pack to go home. He swore to himself if he ever caught hold of the stretchy kid, he'd strangle him.

"Why don't you just tell Crystal that you wanna get back together?" Ethan asked, seeing Warren's anxiety. Warren just grumbled something incoherent and went home.

"Bus?" Ethan asked because talking to Warren about his girl problems was no use.

"Bus" Zach nodded.

Zach suddenly noticed Terra coming out of the school. "Actually I'll find another way home."

Ethan looked puzzled but boarded the bus anyway. Ron Wilson retired after being dropped in a vat of toxic waste. But his cousin Don Wilson took his place.

Zach turned around baffled. He didn't know what to do. He wanted to talk to Terra , that was for sure. He dropped one strap of his back pack so one strap was left slung over his arm. He ran his fingers through his hair, turned his visor to the side and decided to take a breath and give it a shot. When he turned around Terra was coming straight towards him. He had to hide his startlement with a goofy smile.

"Hi," he said.

"How did you know my name?" she got right to the point.

"What?" he knotted his eyebrows together and asked puzzled.

"Today, you bid me farewell and used my name. I never told you my name," she reminded him.

"Uhhh," His mind raced, trying to remember. Zach's mind was like an Easy Bake Oven. At first it took awhile to warm up and then 'DING' what came out was all fresh and delicious in the end. "Oh ye-eah…" he breathed, relieved he recalled what she was saying. "On that note I gave Mr. Boy, it had your name on it So there, that's how I knew it. By the way how did you know mine?" he explained and asked her .

"The nametag you wore for the office, it said 'Zach'." She smiled. Wow, he loved her smile, he realized. It was kind of a breath of fresh air because whenever he saw her she looked deep in thought. No one smiles when they think unless they're thinking about pie or maybe a sweet ride. So her smile was just a nice thing on her face in between her deep-thought looks.

"What are you smiling at?" she asked. Her smile was gone. Apparently he could also smile when he thought about Terra's smile and not just apple pie or corvettes.

"You," he answered honestly.

She looked startled. No one ever said anything like that before to her. Not to a Matters sister. Well, Terra couldn't blame the world for that one. They really didn't deserve to get such things said to them. "I…uh…I have to go," Terra whipped around to leave, not knowing what else to say. A comeback for that was impossible.

"Wait!" Zach stopped her.

Her wide orange look reminded him of an orange juice add. Chants of 'Minute Maid. Minute Maid. Minute Maid. TROPICANA!' ran through his mind, but he shook it away to say, "I heard about your power, the one you showed after lunch because they made you, so it's only fair that I tell you mine." She wondered exactly how he knew but was actually interested to know the blonde boy's power. She waited for an answer.

"I can GLOW!" he said triumphantly. A silent laugh jerked her brain.

"Oh, and I can cause radiation. X-ray, gamma ray, ultraviolet…any of those,' he added, not so enthused as he was by the fact he could glow. She found that interesting. Then again, not all people liked their damaging powers…

She nodded at him and waved goodbye.

He was proud of himself for talking to her. He wanted to talk to all of them-- get the low down. Maybe even be their friend. Maybe, if he wasn't so scared.

He walked along the sidewalk pondering recent events and then that delicious and fresh product of his Easy Bake Oven mind happened.

"CRAP!" he shouted. He had no way of getting home.