A/N: I LIVE!
Please forgive me for not updating sooner. I've been in school, working on other stories, and gotten lazy. But since I'm out for the summer, I have decided to update the story.
Thank you so much for the favorites and follows, I'm amazed at how many this story has gotten, after putting it on the back burner. And to those who reviewed, thank you; you're all awesome! Twins is not dead.
So, read on and don't forget to review. I don't own Sky High, I only own Bella.
Chapter 7
The next day, Bella received her schedule for hero classes. She went to Jeannie Elastic for homeroom.
Bella knocks on the door.
"Come in," A voice said.
Bella opens the door and entered. All eyes were on her.
"Can I help you?" Jeannie asked.
"I received my schedule and I was supposed to be in this room." Bella explained as she handed her schedule to the teacher.
Jeannie examined the paper.
"Are you Josie's daughter by any chance?" She asked.
"Yes," Bella answered.
"Well, welcome abroad. I had your mother in one of my classes when she was your age. Please take a seat," Jeannie said warmly.
"Thanks," Bella takes her seat.
Behind the brunette, a familiar voice asked "Hey, you're Will's twin sister."
Bella turned around to see Gwen Grayson and Penny, the duplicating cheerleader whom the siblings saw on their first day.
Bella nodded.
"Well hello again, Gwen." She said.
"Hi," Gwen replied. "This my friend Penny Lent."
"Hi," Bella said smiling.
Meanwhile, Will was in hero support class with Layla, Zach, Magenta, and Ethan.
The door opens and an older man with straw blond hair entered.
"Morning class, welcome to Hero Support. My name is…" The teacher disappeared behind a chalkboard and then emerged, wearing a red, white, and blue outfit.
"All American Boy!" He declared, standing on his desk.
The students didn't say a word.
"Course nowadays…ooh! I just go by Mr. Boy,"
"But this year, it will be my privilege to help each of you become the very best hero support that you can be." Mr. Boy continued.
"Without hero support, why there wouldn't be any heroes. All right, there probably would be heroes, but they would be very lonely. Lonely heroes indeed and…"
He stopped when Zach raised his hand.
"Yes?" Mr. Boy asked.
"Uh yeah, um when do we pick our names and costumes?" Zach inquired. "Because I call dibs on 'Zach Attack,'"
"Well, you don't get to pick," Mr. Boy responded. "On graduation day, you'll be assigned to your hero, and then he or she will uh; decide what you will be called and what you will wear."
"I think this is mostly done to avoid clashing colors. That's why when I was paired with…"
Mr. Boy walked over to the side of the room and pulled down an image of him and the Commander.
"The Commander; red, white, and blue it was."
Layla and Will exchanged looks.
"Which for me was a very good thing for me because uh, as you can see blue makes my eyes pop. It's very dramatic,"
"Huh," said Zach.
Will raised his hand.
"Uh excuse me, I didn't know you worked for the Commander." He said.
"I worked with the Commander," Mr. Boy replied. "We were a team, Mr.…Mr.…Stronghold!"
"Stronghold, you Steve's son?"
"Yeah," Will answered.
"And he never mentioned me to you,"
"I don't…I don't think so," Will replied.
"Makes sense," said Mr. Boy. "That makes perfect sense because the Commander does not have time to sit around flipping through scrapbooks that I took the time to make for him. No, the Commander's got to be out there saving the world!"
"With your mom, your mom. She ever mentions me?" Mr. Boy asked.
"Uh…" Will started to say.
Suddenly, the room gets dark and there's a rumbling sound.
"Incoming!" Mr. Boy ran for cover.
"Oh look, he does glow." Magenta said.
She, Layla, and Will turned around to see Zach who glowed in yellow green light.
"I told you," said Zach.
A man with a large head emerged, holding a flashlight.
"Greetings, little misfire in the Mad Science Lab." He said.
The lights come back on.
"No need to panic, unless you're a single-cell organism."
"Mr. Medulla," said Mr. Boy. "We in Hero Support are trained never to panic."
He fell from the ceiling vent into a trash can.
"My bad," said Mr. Medulla. "I'll get the nurse…unless she's injured.
Mr. Boy removed the trash can from his head.
From then on, the twins enjoyed their classes. Bella liked hanging out with Gwen and Penny. Even Lash and Speed acted decent towards her. Will accepted being a sidekick and spent time with his friends.
The siblings continued to avoid each other.
One time, Bella was on her way to one of her classes when she bumped into Warren Peace.
"Oh, I'm sorry;" Bella apologized looking straight into Warren's eyes.
"Just watch it," Warren snapped.
Bella walks away.
"Jeez, he's so mean. But oh, that pretty face;" She thought with a secret smile.
One evening, Will invited Layla, Ethan, Magenta, and Zach over to the house for homework session. The teens sat in the living room.
"OK, number one;" said Will.
"'A radioactive zombie is charging at your hero. Do hand him: A) his silver-tipped crossbow; B) a wooden spike, C) …"
"Yo, that's so weak man." Zach interjected. "I'm holding his crossbow. Why can't I shoot him myself?"
"Cause we're hero support," Ethan pointed out. "And if your hero asks for a crossbow, you hand it to him."
"Or her," Layla added.
"By the way Zach, you can't kill a zombie. "You can only re-kill him;" Ethan said.
"Or her," said Layla.
"If you kids are all in here, who's out there saving the world?" Steve Stronghold asked, entering the room in his Commander suit.
"Dad, why are you home so early?" Will asked, looking a little bit surprised.
"After I stopped the superdome from collapsing, I was watching the game and got to thinking, 'It's been a while since Will and I tossed the old pigskin around.'" Steve explained.
"I'd thought I'd hustle back home, but I see you and Layla have already made new friends."
"It's an honor to meet you sir," Ethan said, getting up from the couch. He shook hands with Will's dad.
"What's your name and power?" Steve inquired.
"I'm Ethan and I melt," He informed.
"OK," said Steve.
"Zach, I glow;" said the blonde.
"I see,"
Magenta stood up.
"Magenta, I shape-shift;" She said.
"Shape-shift!" Steve shook hands.
"Into a guinea pig," Magenta said.
"Great, great; really great!"
"Well, I make a really great tuna fish salad sandwich. Anybody want one?" Steve offered.
"No," said Zach.
"Pleasure meeting everyone," Steve leaves the room and went into the kitchen.
Will joined his father.
"They're a good bunch of kids Will," Steve commented as he started preparation for a sandwich.
"Yeah," said Will.
"Can I ask you something, though?" Steve questioned.
"Does that one kid really, you know glow?"
"Sometimes," said Will.
"Boy, they have really lowered the bar some for superheroes; at that school since I went there." Steve remarked, spreading mayonnaise on the bread.
"Well actually, he's a sidekick." Will interjected.
"Oh well, that makes sense."
"Yeah,"
"Actually, they're all sidekicks;" Will added.
Steve looked at his son.
"Good for you son," He said.
"Kid of your stature hanging out with a bunch of sidekicks. I bet Bella hangs out with some sidekicks."
"Nah, Bella's labeled hero so I'm sure she has friends from Hero classes." Will said.
"Ah well good for her. As a freshman, I didn't have the guts. And I can only imagine what your grandfather would have said if I'd have brought some of them home." He laughs a bit.
"You know there's nothing wrong with being a sidekick Dad." Will pointed out.
"Oh no," said Steve. "Of course not. I used to have one, saved my life once too. Old…what's-his-name."
"So, then you would be fine with…if I was a sidekick." Will said.
"Well yeah, sure I guess." Steve replied. "Hey, hand me that mayonnaise there."
Will gives his dad the jar.
"Well that's good then, because; because I am."
"Am what?" Steve asks.
"A sidekick," Will answers.
"Who is?"
"Me, Dad;"
"Dad, I'm a sidekick okay?" Will asks. "I washed out of Power Placement,"
Steve looked a bit surprised.
"Washed out!" He exclaimed, his voice a bit loud.
Glasses rattled, Will looked a little nervous.
"Boomer," said Steve.
The patriarch banged on the table loudly.
Layla, Zach, Ethan, and Magenta looked up.
Bella who was in the bedroom doing homework, heard the noise. She goes downstairs to investigate.
"Oh, it's a power trip Will." Steve said with a hint of sarcasm. "That's all it is. Sonic Boom? Try 'Gym Teacher Man'."
Steve dials the phone angrily.
"What's going on?" Bella asked, whispering.
Layla and the others to see Will's twin standing in the room.
"It seems Will told your dad he doesn't have powers." She whispered back.
"Uh oh,"
The teens continued to listen.
"No, Dad! What are you doing?" Will asked.
"I'm calling the school," Steve replied. "The tuition we pay them!"
He pressed the buttons so hard he crushes it. Steve opens a drawer and got another phone.
"Dad, don't. Dad!" Will protested. "It's not Coach Boomer! It's me OK? I don't have any powers."
Steve looked a little stunned.
In the living room, the teens are quiet.
"But you never said…" Steve started to say. "I mean, you made it seem like…"
"Like I had super-strength like you?" Will asks. "Or the ability to fly like Mom and Bella?"
"But I don't,"
Steve walks over to his son.
"But you will, Will!" He assured, putting his hands around Will's shoulders.
"You're just…you're just a late bloomer. That's what it is!"
"Maybe, maybe not;" said Will. "But I don't care, because really the fact of the matter is I'm proud to be sidekick."
"Good for you Will," Bella thought. "See you guys later,"
She heads back upstairs quietly.
"Actually, I'm proud to be hero support." Will left the kitchen.
"Uh, so uh…I think we pretty much covered the undead." He said, rejoining his friends.
"What's next?" Will glanced at the others who stayed quiet.
Layla motioned for the others to continue with homework.
"Your hero flies north at 300 miles per hour for 15 minutes. His archenemy is tunneling south at 200 miles per hour for 10 minutes." Ethan starts to read.
Both Will and Layla exchanged smiles, knowing that Will finally got the secret off his chest.
Meanwhile, Steve was in the Secret Sanctum with Josie. Josie informed her husband that Bella told her that Will didn't have powers.
"All I ever wanted for him was to save the world," said Steve. "To just feel that once,"
"That's a lot to put on a fourteen-year old's shoulders," said Josie.
"Oh, come on Josie!" Steve said, exasperated.
He gets up and went over to the pool table.
"When I was his age, I could put a truck on my shoulders."
Steve tries to shoot the ball with a pool stick but it goes through.
"Honey, I know you're disappointed;" said Josie.
"So am I. You think I didn't want to see my son fly? It's enough my daughter is already flying."
"But we can't change who he is," Josie said. "Not without dropping him in a vat of toxic waste."
Steve takes off his glasses off and looked at his wife, an idea forming in his head.
"Steve!"
"Aw…oh no, no…where would we find a vat of…"
"Steve!" Josie exclaimed, appalled.
"I-I just, I'm thinking;" Steve said.
"Will is a great kid and so is Bella." Josie insisted.
"This is not the end of the world. Okay, so maybe we won't be the Stronghold Four, the greatest family of superheroes the world has ever known. But we will be the Stronghold Four, the greatest family the world has ever known."
"You're right," Steve agreed. "And he can always go into real estate, maybe Bella."
A/N: Whew, what a long chapter! But I hope you enjoyed it.
I will try to update as soon as I can, so stay tuned more chapters soon!
