Warren was lounging around his bungalow, but he was deep in thought. Not about Crystal like usual, but about Byrn Matters. Something tingled in him, but he was pretty sure it was a bad sort of tingle; a dangerous, untamed, sensation that she caused in him when they had locked eyes at the paper lantern. It disturbed him and Warren Peace wasn't one to be easily disturbed, and by a girl no less. He decided to stop thinking and sleep.

The next day at school, the kids were all hanging out on the lawn or on the steps scrambling to get their homework done. Zach was aimlessly crouched on one of the steps leading in.

"So, what did you learn?" Will asked walking up wearing a red polo. Zach wondered if the kid had any other color in his wardrobe besides the red, white, and blue. He looked down at his neon yellow t-shirt…well he couldn't complain-all he had was bright yellow and green or white clothes.

"Well there was this kid a year younger than your parents who went berserk and ended up in jail because he couldn't control his powers. He could do all the things the Matters sisters can do, Will. I have a feeling he's their father." Zach said most solemnly.

Will raised a doubtful eyebrow."You can't be sure of that,"

"It's hella ironic though. Think about it, the guy's powers went haywire when he became emotionally distraught and yesterday I'm sure Rayne was pretty disturbed at Lash, therefore her emotions went through the roof in anger and she let loose on everyone," Zach noted.

"Why did the other girls join in then?" Will asked.

"Dude, I told you! They have a connection. If one gets distraught…they all do!" Zack waved his good arm in the air for a dramatic effect.

"How's your arm by the way?" Will nodded at Zach's other casted arm.

"Oh…I forgot it was there," he looked at it and frowned.

The bell rang and the students started to go into the building for their first classes.

Laser vision guy, who's name happened to be Tony, decided it would be fun to zap Crystal's bottom again since she was 'on a break' from her pyrokinetic boyfriend.

"Hey watch this," he nudged his friend, scooted down his shades and sent a small beam to zap Crystal's cute little behind. She whirled around with a scowl, knowing exactly who it was. Tony always tried to zap her when she wasn't looking. She threw her hands out and liquid ice streamed out onto the boys and froze them in place. She smirked and continued walking.

Warren had just arrived; he slept in late. He saw Crystal freeze Tony and his friend and also smirked. Then he watched her disappear into the building. They seriously needed to talk; he was slowly going insane without her.

There was another super villain lecture in class.

"Villains have connections, and I don't mean the kind of connections where they can score a sweet death ray. No they have a web of contacts through each other, and they know about one another extensively. That's why they can pick up so fast after one of their colleagues fails.

Next, I would like to say that super villains are very smart but the really really smart ones don't go blasting around cities and admit to attempting to rule all of humanity. The really really smart super villains…we don't even know who they are. They are like phantoms of malice, never seen, never heard, but their destruction is known everywhere."

All the kids got chills hearing that bit of information. There were super villains that the heroes didn't even know about? It was more than unnerving.

"I guess heroes are just going to have to step up and be more perceptive," Layla shrugged after class when they were talking about it.

"They have a sophisticated web of contacts...it's like the mafia!" Zach exclaimed.

They laughed at his comparison.

"Though the worst thing the mafia does is impound your feet in cement and throw you into a lake," Ethan noted.

"Warren what do you think?" Layla asked as he was walking by, since he the class a year before.

"Nothing good about the mafia, but I'm impressed with the complexity of information hidden within the villains information," he mused.

Suddenly an Idea hit Zach so suddenly he jerked physically.

"Are you spazzing out?" Magenta asked, but really not that concerned.

"No, I'm fine…" Zach said.

He wondered if Warren knew what information lied within the villains' communications, after all Baron Battle wasn't one to be left out of the loop.

Warren stalked off like usual but Zach followed him.

"What do you want?" Warren asked without looking behind him; Zach wondered how Warren knew.

"I was wondering…would you know any of the villains' inside info?"

Warren stopped walking and turned around, coming face to face with Zach, "NO."

Zach smiled, it was an obvious lie. Although he was frightened by coldness in Warren's eyes.

"Why would you…it's not like you have connections or anything?" Zach nervously laughed.

Warren smirked one of his more dangerous smiles, "Why, what were you thinking?"

"Oh, nothing much," Zach dug the toe of his sneaker into the carpet and stuffed his hands in his pocket, "except that I was looking through the Commander's yearbook and there was a kid who's powers scream out that he is the father of those sisters. He was jailed after that, and I was just pondering whether or not his information was stored within the villain's web of knowledge."

Warren was kind of surprised Zach used the word 'pondering' but that didn't matter. "It probably is but, there's no chance I'm asking dad about that."

So Warren could access the information? Was that legal?

"Please Warren," Zach begged.

"No," he refused and kept going without giving Zach a second glance.

"Aw man!" Zach grumbled and trudged to his next class.

Warren was crossing the green in front of the school, passing a frozen Tony plus random friend. A bunch of other students crossed too, it was just shorter than taking the halls through the school. He spotted Crystal and gawked at her like any other besotted male would. She had a content grin on while she was chatting with one of her gal pals. Unrepentantly she looked straight up at him and her grin became a scowl. A scowl of hate. He stepped back, startled but then realized she was looking at something behind him. He turned around and Bryn suddenly brushed past him, munching on an apple. Farther behind him were Tony and his friend, soaking wet and looking dazed. Oh damn, he whirled around and saw Crystal's angry eyes shoot daggers at Bryn. Byrn pretended not to notice and kept strolling. No one, NO ONE had ever freed any jerks that Crystal had frozen…well no student anyway. He could see why Crystal was so pissed. Bryn looked at her and smirked and then disappeared into the building. Students started talking all at once to each other. Crystal's just stared into nothing.

"Damn it's cold," Tony said, ringing out his shirt of water.

"We gotta thank that one pyro chick sometime," His friend added.

"Yeah, dude," he agreed.

Warren had a change of mind at Zach's suggestion earlier. Who were these girl's and why did they act the way they did? He had to find out; maybe his father had an answer.