A/N: Happy New Year and I hope you guy's enjoy
Chapter 6
The students continued to train over the course of the next few weeks, working on their combat training and rescue skills until they were given the week off. They had grown accustomed to working and learning under the heroes, especially one Eddie Guerrero who had been teaching class 1A every now and then. He came and left when he wanted and he was looked down upon by a few of the other heroes because his methods were less than hero like at times. He would lie and cheat and steal in order to catch villains and other criminals and most of the public loved him. He had charisma and something about his methods made people love him even more, however while he was fighting a villain, he got hurt.
All of the students in class 1A were watching as the news crew circled around the scene, displaying it live on TV as Eddie came strolling into the scene with his flashy red low riding car and the usual smirk plastered on his man had super speed and yet he always drove that lowrider everywhere, doing multiple tricks with the car for passing citizens who ever saw him. He was facing a random villain, some tall guy with dirty blonde hair who had been terrorizing a few people. All of the students knew it would be a cakewalk for Eddie, the man was super fast and could handle the boy in two seconds, but that wasn't Eddie's style. Eddie was flashy and like to tell a story with everything he did, he would draw out this fight as long as possible in order to make it entertaining, especially with the news watching.
"This is gonna be so cool" Xavier said, obviously fanboying as he scooted closer to the TV as the rest of the students agreed and leaned in to watch. The three boys Xavier, Big E and Kofi were on the floor in front of the Tv along with the twins while Paige, Sasha and AJ Styles were on one couch, Carmella, Cass, and Baron were on the other couch with Enzo sitting on the armrest beside Carmella and lastly Finn, Bayley and Charlotte leaned against the pool table watching the Tv.
"Bay I'm surprised you're not closer to the TV...I know you're like a fangirl about this kind of stuff" Charlotte said, looking over at Bayley with a small smirk
Bayley bit the bottom of her lip as she tried to suppress a smile while she bounced eagerly on her toes. Finn looked at her before giving a small chuckle, "I think she might burst"
Charlotte patted Bayley on the head, "Down girl"
"Sorry...I can't help it. Eddie Guerrero is my favorite hero...a-after Macho Man obviously" The brunette said to her friends
The students watched as Eddie began to fight the villain, punching, dodging, and evading his way through the entire battle. The students watched with smiles as Eddie shouted at the blonde villain that he was his Papi as he threw him through the glass window of a storefront. However, after a minute while Eddie was flexing and smiling at the crowd the blonde villain slowly stood before holding out a device in his right hand.
Carmella leaned forward and squinted her eyes at the TV, "What is that?"
"Is it a bomb?" Jey Uso asked
The students watched closely as the villain pushed the button before a loud piercing sound emitted from the device causing everyone in the city, including the WWE students to cover their ears. Eddie himself covered his ears before marching towards the man but stop as someone speared him into a wall. The students all gasped as soon as the piercing sound stopped and the dust of the now broken wall cleared revealing two villains, The Dudley Boys, standing over Eddie's body.
"Get up Eddie" Sasha muttered to herself as she leaned forward, biting on her nails.
The purple haired girl wouldn't admit this but Eddie Guerrero was her hero. He always has been, ever since she was a little kid. He was the whole reason why she wanted to be a hero here, she watched all of his fights and studied all of his moves, copying them and turning them into her own as she fought. He had trained her, taught her everything she knew now. The thing about Eddie was that he didn't have a flashy power, but he made it flashy. He trained himself to be one of the best hand to hand combat fighters in the world just to be able to keep everyone's attention, to make sure he wasn't just another superhero with super speed, and add that to his charisma, and Eddie is unforgettable. Sasha wanted to do that, she knew her power was common, so she wanted to train and get better so she could be a top hero like Eddie, but she would never say that, she would never admit to having an idol, then she would be like Bayley, and Bayley was weak.
Sasha mentally cursed herself for thinking about the annoying brunette before casting a sparing glance towards her, watching as she looked at the screen with big eyes, reminding Sasha of a child. The girl scoffed and shook her head as she turned back to the Tv, half of which was blocked by Big E and the rest of the boys on the floor who were loudly talking and commenting on the Dudley Boys.
"I guess that detonator button thing was just a signal for The Dudleys" Kofi said
"Yeah but why are the Dudley Boys working with that guy?" Jimmy Uso commented pointing at the tall blonde guy who was being helped up by Bubba Ray Dudley
"Common Enemy" Paige said from the couch, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend. The kid probably is tryin' to make a name for himself, so he got some back up to take out a big hero"
Sasha glanced at Paige beside her before nodding her head in agreement. There had been plenty of people who tried to team up against heroes but none of them ever succeeded, and this group won't either.
"Oh wait...I do know that guy" Xavier said after squinting his eyes at the Tv for a while as the screen zoomed in on the blonde villain's face, "That JB...something...JBJ? JBC?...oh JBL. He was part of some money scheme a while back that Eddie Guerrero busted"
There were various 'Ohs' from the students as they nodded in recognition before continuing to watch as the three boys fought Eddie. Sasha winced as they showed Eddie take a rough headbutt from Devon Dudley, sending him crashing to the floor hard. She tore her eyes from the screen a minute to see Becky and the rest of the random engineering students enter the living area. Sasha watched them carefully as the group sat to themselves in the corner at a table that was close by the vending machine, well all of them except for Becky who walked over to Bayley and smiled. Sasha watched the redhead for a second before turning back to the Tv.
"Give it up Eddie! You're outmatched, outnumbered and out of time!" JBL yelled at the man on the ground as he gripped him by the hair, yanking his head up to look at him, revealing blood spilling from his mouth, "Once I get rid of you...I'll be the name on everybody's lips, nobody will forget me ever again!"
"And you are?" Eddie asked through the blood as he smirked while JBL grew angry, ordering the Dudleys to throw Eddie around some more.
As Devon went to grab Eddie, he head-butted the Black man sending him reeling back before Eddie stood and turned to Bubba who came running at him. Eddie ducked under the man's arm before doing a quick arm drag as the man turned around and tried to run at him. Eddie dug his knee into Bubba's side as he twisted his arm before Devon came and kicked him in the side of his head, knocking him off Bubba. The three fought, two-on-one for a while before Eddie began to get the upper hand, knocking Bubba through another store window leaving him knocked out so he could focus on Devon, however once Eddie knocked Devon down he started smirking and waving to the camera before JBL thrusted his hand through Eddie's chest.
There was a collective gasp from nearly the whole world as everyone watched as Eddie slowly frowned and began to cough up blood before falling to one knee as JBL pulled his arm from the man's chest. The blonde villain smirked before yelling out, "THIS...is your hero. Well I just killed him...he was nothing. HE...was a liar, a cheater, a thief...he was no hero...but now he is dead. Now no one will ever forget the name JBL!"
Sasha's eyes widened, as the camera showed JBL kicking Eddie in the back of the head sending him crashing to the ground, coughing up blood as he laid in the middle of the street, now swarmed by police officers and other civilians. The room stayed silent as everyone stared at the screen in shock and disbelief before Xavier stuttered and said, "t-that didn't happen...right? That wasn't real."
Charlotte frowned and crossed her arms, "That was real"
Sasha felt tears well up in her eyes so the girl quickly cursed before standing and walking away, pushing past everyone as she went back to her room, leaving Xavier and the rest of the boys to yell and scream at the TV. Once she was in the safety of her room she locked the door and felt tears flowing down her face. She angrily wiped at her eyes, trying to stop the tears that flowed from her eyes as she sat down on the floor with her back to the door. After a few minutes there was a knock behind her before Sasha could hear Bayley's voice, "Sasha? Are you okay?"
"Go away" Sasha responded harshly
"I just wanted to see how you were feeling. I know you really liked Eddie Guerrero"
Sasha took a deep breath as tears spilled from her eyes again before she stood and wiped them quickly as she opened the door. Bayley stood there slightly shocked before giving a sympathetic smile, she was wearing a green jacket and grey joggers with her hair down, pushed back by a grey headband. Sasha looked at Bayley for a second, ready to fire all of her anger at the girl like she always did, but as she opened her mouth nothing came out. Bayley seemed to notice her struggle and quickly hugged the shorter girl, Sasha wanted to refuse, she wanted to push the taller girl away, she wanted to scream and punch her, but she didn't. She didn't know why, but she couldn't. Sasha let the girl hug her before she slowly pulled away and looked up at Bayley, feeling weak and vulnerable.
"Did you want to come in?" Sasha said, barely above a whisper as she opened the door a little more for Bayley to enter.
The brunette nodded before entering as Sasha closed the door behind them, turning to watch as Bayley looked around the room observing everything that was in it, however, it wasn't much, just a few pictures of her family and a few trophies
"I remember this" Sasha watched as Bayley's fingers lightly touch her MVP soccer trophy, "You kicked some girl in the face for this trophy"
Sasha bit her lip, not sure what to say, the last normal, non-threatening conversation she had with Bayley was when they were seven, anything she said no would feel...unnatural, "Yeah...I uh...I didn't mean to"
"That's not what the ref said" Bayley said with a smile as she turned to face Sasha before frowning as she saw the purple haired girl's face, "Hey...about Eddie I-"
"How did you know I liked Eddie?" Sasha asked suddenly, cutting of Bayley
"You told the class once before when we were kids. Everyone had to write about their favorite person and you said yours was Eddie Guerrero" Bayley said blushing a little as she remembered their childhood, "I mean...uh...that sounds a little stalkerish since I remember that"
"It's fi...no… yeah it is stalkerish." Sasha said shaking her head as she sat down on her bed while Bayley stood still looking around, "Eddie Guerrero is...was, my favorite superhero..a-and I'm not supposed to say this but he's my godfather."
"Wait...Eddie guerrero is your godfather?" Bayley yelled causing Sasha to quickly rush over to the girl and cover her mouth
"Shut up!" Sasha snapped causing Bayley to slowly nod before she pulled her hand away slowly and walked back to the bed, "My parents were friends with him, way before he got his powers, they grew up together and while other kids treated Eddie differently because of his powers my parents didn't. Eddie's family eventually kicked him out when he got older, so my parents let him stay in the apartment they had together once they were finished with high school. So they lived together for a while, even up until I was a baby as Eddie was trying to get into WWE. Then when he finally got in, he started doing everything to make a name for himself so he could pay my parents back, so he was around a lot. Then my powers developed and he took me under his wing, just to get them under control, but… one day a villain attacked him while we were out and I got hurt."
Sasha slowly lifted her shirt to show a darkened patch of skin along her belly button causing Bayley's eyes to widen, fascinated by the burn and the story, "Then what happened?"
Sasha lowered her shirt and rolled her eyes at Bayley's dorkiness, she could tell that Bayley was interested in knowing all she could about one of WWE's greats and it made Sasha want to punch her in her face, but she still couldn't help but smile. The two girls had grown up together, lived in the same neighborhood since they were babies, and at one point they were even friends. However, when Sasha's powers developed she spent more time with her godfather and he trained her, taught her to hold her head and call herself The Boss. He made sure that she would never get picked on for her powers and that she knew exactly how to get what she wanted, and eventually everyone at school began to follow her around, even Bayley. All the kids thought she was cool for getting her powers so early, she was only six at the time and she was the first kid in the neighborhood to get their powers.
Sasha would lead the kids on adventures and quests, claiming that she wasn't scared of anything and the kids stuck to her like glue, but as their powers developed as well, they didn't find Sasha so interesting anymore, only Bayley who didn't get her powers until she was twelve. Sasha grew angry and pushed herself harder and harder to make sure she was the best, and it wasn't because she wanted the kids to follow her around anymore, no, it was because she wanted them to fear her. If she couldn't make a name for herself by popularity, she would go the opposite direction, she would lie and steal like her godfather and eventually all the kids were scared of her...except for Bayley.
Bayley had known Sasha since they were little, so she was neither turned off by the girl's powers or scared away when she started acting differently and this made Sasha even angrier. She started using her powers against Bayley, humiliating the girl and doing whatever she could to get her to stay away and eventually it worked. But still, Sasha wasn't satisfied, Bayley still had that stupid smile on her face and she didn't fear her like everyone else, she just stayed away and because of that Sasha hated Bayley, and once they got older she was sure that Bayley had hated her too, but here she was listening to her story, smiling and watching her like an...like an idiot. Sasha searched desperately for some form of pity in Bayley's eyes, just so she could snap at her, but to her dismay, she didn't find any.
The purple haired girl sighed before continuing on with the story, "So he left"
"What?"
"After I got hurt Eddie promised not to come around anymore, because it was too dangerous. He would send cards for my birthday and for christmas, but other than that...I didn't see him, except for on TV" Sasha said with a shrug
"But why is he your favorite?" Bayley asked still confused
"He's unconventional… he's not a regular do-gooder like Macho Man or anyone else. He lies, and cheats and steals" Sasha said with a smirk, " He taught me everything I know… he taught me how to be the Boss, and he was one of the best superheroes ever. But… he's my favorite because he recognized something in me… at the performance exams he said that I could be the best hero WWE has ever seen and that's what I want. That means I have to be better than him, better than Macho Man, better than The Rock, better than Mick Foley...even better than you"
Bayley's eyes widened at how serious Sasha's voice was as the girl walked right up to her and stood so they were only an inch apart. Sasha stared up at Bayley with a dead stare, she was tired of talking, she was tired of feeling vulnerable and sharing all this information. She wanted to be alone, and she knew that she would have to force Bayley out because she wouldn't go willingly, "I will be better than you. Now get out"
Bayley's eyes slowly started turning purple before she robotically turned and left, leaving Sasha to crash down on her bed, staring up at the ceiling...alone. Sasha cursed herself and hit her forehead repeatedly at her stupidity. She never should have said anything to Bayley, she shouldn't have even let her in the room in the first place. She would have to build her walls up all over again seeing as how the tall brunette broke through them with one measly memory of a soccer game and a class assignment. Sasha closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths before she quickly changed and headed to the gym.
After news of Eddie Guerrero's death the students of WWE were given some more time off and a memorial was planned for this Wednesday. Becky and the rest of the engineerings students in Class 1A had been spending the time in the labs working and perfecting new challenges for Heromania. Each level of engineering students had a lab which was split between the classes so for the first year students class 1A and 1B had to share the large white room. It was, thankfully, sectioned off giving each class their own side and every student got their own areas, they were given a computer and table, other equipment and enough space to work on their inventions. There was also a large hologram table on each side front where they could pull up a hologram version of the playing field for Heromania to better strategize their obstacles.
"Hey Becky, come look at this!" the red head turned around from her station and walked over to where the rest of the Class 1A engineers were standing around the hologram table.
"Yeah Sami?" Becky asked the red hair boy
Sami Zayn was the number 3 engineering student, he was a plucky Canadian boy who always had a big grin on his face and tended to try to make everyone laugh. Sami had been able to score high enough on his academic tests and he was the best when it came to hacking software. He was wearing a black hat and a hoodie with jeans looking rather comfortable as he leaned against the hologram table with a smile plastered on his face, "Mustafa here has an idea for Heromania"
"What! I- uh...no I don't!" Mustafa Ali stuttered. He was the youngest kid in WWE, having skipped two grades in high school, unlike everyone else, making him very nervous, especially around Becky. The Irish woman was already well known around WWE, even in her short time being here. She had been under WWE's radar for a while when she was younger because of the robots that she had built for Dean, so when she got her letter of recognition everyone was excited to see what she could really do and Mustafa was a big fan.
"Yes he does. He's been working on it since the exams" Luke Gallows said, towering over the whole group as he patted Mustafa on his head, "You remember what he came up with for his exams right?"
Becky nodded, the engineering students had to go through different challenges from the powered students as they had to take two tests to determine their academic skills and then they had to present three of their best inventions. After this they were given a few tasks where they had to hack into systems and design new computer programs, in which the best would be chosen for the powered students' hero exams. Becky had been the best and the fastest worker, she could deconstruction and rebuild WWE's entire computer software with her eyes closed and that is what quickly got her the top spot and a lot of respect among the engineering students. Mustafa himself had been given the number two spot for his ingenious inventions and quick thinking as he developed the heat seeking weapons that attacked class 1A a while ago.
"Yeah" Becky said with a smile before looking over at Mustafa, "What did ya have in mind?"
"I uh… well it's sort of the same but it incorporates your robots and Luke and Karl's weapons." Mustafa said in a low tone, looking down at the hologram table before waving his hand over it causing a model of the arena to appear. It already had a set of obstacles built in like lasers, walls that crush you if you step in a certain spot and killer robots like the ones in the performance tests. It was the engineers jobs to add new obstacles and stipulations as the years went a long. He placed his hand on a clear patch in the area causing models of human looking robots to appear, "I think using the human looking robots will be best, you've already designed a few and then just given them a weapons upgrade...courtesy of Luke and Karl"
Mustafa gestured over to Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson, two boys who wore matching black shirts and dark jeans. These two had grown up together and were brilliant minds that managed to design impressive weapons that immobilized powered individuals. Luke smirked and went over to his station before coming back with a large blaster that looked to be the size of Becky's arm, "Karl and I have been working on this bad boy for a while, she's gonna pack one hell of a punch"
"Oh and Sami can hack into the system and set a pressure point in the area" Mustafa suggested hopefully, pointing to the red hair boy, "That way when people get into the area something happens"
"I'm thinking no lights, more robots" he said with a goofy smile, "none of them can see in the dark as we saw before and when it comes to Heromania, I doubt they'll be thinking of working together like they did then."
Becky nodded at this and went to say something but stopped when she heard a yell from class 1B's side of the lab causing all of them to look over and see Sasha rolling her eyes at Aiden English as he yelled at her, "Hey! No powered people in the labs!"
"It'll just be a minute" Sasha snapped at him
"You heard him...no freaks" Chad Gable snapped backed crossing his arms
"Freak! Who you calling a freak bitch?" Sasha yelled causing Sami to hit Becky
"Uh should you-"
"Yeah" Becky said cutting him off before walking over to the girl, she knew that some of the engineering students had...problems, with powered people. A lot of them were picked on or bullied in school by them, Becky had seen it with her own eyes, but she had a close friendship with Dean and Finn Balor, making it hard to hate all powered kids, but others didn't feel the same. Most engineering students came to WWE, not to help superheroes, but for the money the job gave. Being one of WWE's engineers paid more than most jobs, even being a doctor or lawyer, and it got you quick fame. However, it meant working for superheroes, so the engineering students tended to stay away from them, keeping to themselves and keeping powered kids out of their labs.
Becky was probably the only exception to this as she talked to whoever she wanted and although other engineering students from other classes looked at her strange, the rest of her classmates didn't. Sami, Mustafa and the boys looked up to Becky, even though Karl was the oldest, because Becky carried herself as if she knew the secret to life and everyone else followed behind her, waiting to know what that secret was.
As Becky approached Sasha she gently placed her hands on the girl's shoulders and stood in between her and the boys, "Lads...let's take it easy… I'm sure she doesn' mean harm"
"Oh I mean harm" Sasha muttered bucking at the two boys as she was held back by the Irish woman
"Can ya not say that right now?" Becky whispered harshly looking back at the girl before turning back to Class 1B
"You know the rule Rebecca… no freaks allowed" a tall boy with no hair said causing Becky to roll her eyes
"Oh come on Aiden… that's not a real rule and besides the lot of ya can't go around hated heroes forever. Why don' the two of ya just go back ta whatever is it ya were doin'?"
Aiden English frowned at this but crossed his arms while the other boy, Chad Gable stepped up defiantly, "We don't take orders from you. Just because you're the number one doesn't mean you get to boss us around. Especially when you're hanging out with those freaks"
"Let me put this guy out" Sasha whispered to Becky but the red head merely shook her head
"Chad, the last time I checked ya were dead last on the list of students ta pass the exams, and the last time I checked...I was number one. A single bad word from me and yer butt will be packin' yer bags faster than Sasha here could kick yer arse. Now, why don' you run along?" Becky said in a dangerous tone causing Aiden to place his hand on Chad's shoulder and motion for him to pull back but the shorter boy pulled away and went to step in Becky's face
"Stand down Gable" came a thick Japanese accent, "Becky… is...right."
"Whatever" Gable said before he and Aiden walked back further into the lab on their class side while Shinsuke Nakamura stood with his eyes squinted at Becky
"Thanks Shinsuke" Becky said, holding her hand out to the Class 1B representative.
"Take your friend...and go"
Becky nodded at this and ushered Sasha out before she closed the glass, lab doors behind them and turned back to Sasha who stood in a tank top and shorts with her arms crossed, "what was that guy's problem?"
"Ya can't just walk into a lab like that… some of 'em aren't ta keen on havin' powered lads around" Becky explained carefully
"Whatever, the next time I see either of their faces again I'll punch a hole straight through it" Sasha said punch her right fist into her left palm causing Becky to roll her eyes
"Is there somethin' ya actually needed, I have work ta do" Becky said causing Sasha to lower her hands and look to Becky with an unreadable expression
"I know that you have all these crazy robots and that you can hack into the arena"
"So?"
"So... I was hoping that you could give me something to fight."
"... no"
"Oh come on" Sasha whined, "I know you do it for Dean… you would do it for Bayley"
"That's because Bayley is actually nice… ya aren't worth me time" Becky said with a glare and went to turn around but Sasha yelled out
"Wait…I going through a rough time and I just want to fight something. I've already broken two mirrors and a punching bag so they kicked me out the gym. Just help me!"
"I think yer missin' somethin' in that sentence" Becky said with a raised eyebrow, "I don' have ta help ya"
Becky watched as Sasha clenched her teeth and grumbled to herself, throwing a mini tantrum as she stomped lightly in place and balled up her fist before taking a deep breath and saying, "... please"
Becky paused for a second, "Wow… okay"
"Really?" Sasha asked hopefully
"But first… name five other people in yer class, not including me...if ya even know me name" Becky said with her arms crossed
Sasha rolled her eyes before counting out, "Bayley… baby Flair, annoying clone boy... Annoying clone boy's sister...and those twins… see that's six"
Becky looked at Sasha with wide eyes before she busted out laughing, "Annoyin' clone boy?"
"Come on...I said please, I named the people… well… you knew who I was talking about" Sasha whined at Becky's laughter, "Please… I'll owe you"
Becky slowly calmed down and wiped a fallen tear from her eye before smiling at Sasha and giving a shrug, "Fine… come on"
With that Becky walked off, not waiting for Sasha to follow as the two headed through the building. Sasha quickly caught up and walked slowly beside the red head, "Thanks"
"What was that? I don' think I heard ya" Becky said with a smirk
"Don't push it"
"Ya gonna tell me what's got ya in such a bad mood...well worse than normal?"
Becky glanced at Sasha as the purple haired girl thought over what to say, "I mean you saw what happened with Eddie Guerrero"
"That? That's why yer upset?" Becky asked with a scoff, "People die… heroes die. Ya can't be upset over that"
Sasha clenched her fist, "Wow you really have a way with people don't you?"
Becky gave a sarcastic laugh before looking to see Sasha with a serious look in her eyes, "Oh. Uh...I'm sorry yer hero died"
"Your hero? What you never had a favorite hero?" Sasha asked in shock by how dismissive Becky was about the death of a great hero
"No I have me favorites… but I also realize that they're people too and they'll die eventually. However, I know that he was yer godfather and I-"
"What?" Sasha asked as she stopped walking causing Becky to stop and turn to face the girl, "who told you that? Was it Bayley?"
Becky raised her hands defensively, "I read yer files… WWE knew about it, it was in there...right beside hot headed"
"WHAT!?"
"I'm kidding" Becky said with a small smile, "But I am sorry fer yer loss. I've lost people too...I know it sucks. I'm kinda immune to it now."
"Lucky you... " Sasha said sarcastically before pausing, "I've only ever lost my grandfather…and I haven't talked with Eddie since the performance exams."
"Well I'm sure he was proud of ya… ya can in number one… well without the civilians counted" Becky said with a smile as she shoved her hands in her pockets
"Yeah" Sasha said with a sad smile, "Yeah, he was"
"Good… Now, ya gonna come smash some robots… or are ya just gonna stand there like a dope?"
Sasha shook her head before following Becky out to the arena, "So WWE has a lot on me and the rest of the students here?"
"Everythin'. They have all the files on that computer in the library"
"really? Even mine?"
"WWE believes in no secrets so they have dirt sheets on all their heroes" Becky explained leaving the two in silence until Becky asked, "So… ya told Bayley about Eddie. No wonder she had that big goofy grin on her face when she left. Are ya two good now?"
"No. Never have been, never will be." Sasha said as they entered the arena
The red head set up a similar situation like she had with Dean and gave Sasha the city setting. There were a few citizens and a bunch of robots, a lot more smaller ones than bigger ones because Becky figured it would help with Sasha's anger. After a few rounds Becky gave Sasha one giant robot and watched as the girl's shoulders slumped once the robot was defeated. The Irish woman stopped the simulation and shut everything down before walking out to approach the girl
"Thanks...I needed that" Sasha said as she took a few deep breaths and wiped the sweat from her face
"No problem…" Becky said as she watched the girl trying to catch her breath. She had been studying and watching the girl as she fought and exerted herself, "Ya good?"
"Yeah..just...that took a lot out of me"
Becky had noticed once when she sent out ten robots that Sasha became distracted had to fight them hand to hand, "Ya struggle with focus when it comes ta yer powers. I'll remember that"
"You plotting my despise for Heromania Red?" Sasha asked with a playful smirk as Becky slowly began to back away still looking at Sasha
"We'll just have ta wait an' see won't we Banks?" Becky shot back with a smirk before turning and walking away. Yelling over her shoulder, "Thanks fer the information"
Sasha stayed in her spot and watched as the red head left, smiling to herself before she shook her head and made her way back into the building so she could shower and then get something to eat.
Charlotte slowly walked around the library, running her fingers along old books and glass cases. The room was large with two levels and had hundred of rows on the first floor while the second held computers and historical information about all the heroes and villains. Charlotte had come here after wandering around a while after breakfast. She looked at the glass cases of Macho Man's colorful streamers, Stone Cold's vest, Mick Foley's old mask. All of the statement pieces of past heroes hung up on the walls in here.
Charlotte shoved her hands into her leather jacket pockets as she stopped in front of Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat's red headband, pants and wristbands that hung on a plastic model in a glass case alongside a few pictures of him. He and her father had battled many times while she was just a kid and Charlotte and her younger brother had watched the TV closely as their father brutalized the man in a mall not too far from their elementary school. Kids hated them because their father was Ric Flair, and whenever the blonde villain was shown on TV attacking anywhere or hurting any of their favorite heroes, Charlotte and Reid would experience hell the next day. It was once so bad that people threw a glass bottle at Reid, cutting his forehead open, causing blood to spill down his face the whole walk home. This was why Reid hated their father, why he hated villains and why he wanted to be a hero.
Charlotte slowly lifted her hand to the glass case and carefully examined The Steamboat model, only stopping as she heard someone clear their throat behind her. The tall blonde quickly turned around to see Sasha standing there in a red hoodie and joggers, "What are you doing?"
"nothing...I was just looking at this stuff" Charlotte said, dropping her hands to her pockets and taking a step back from the case
Sasha slowly walked up to her, looking at where the blonde had been standing, "Ricky Steamboat...good man… good hero. Also, one of your father's mortal enemies."
Charlotte looked back to Ricky's case before nodding, "Yeah… he and my dad went at it for a while"
"Ya know I liked watching your dad fight Dusty Rhodes. Those two were good opponents"
"Yeah too bad he killed him" Charlotte said bitterly as she crossed her arms thinking about the pure hell she went through when she went to school the day after her father threw Dusty Rhodes off the roof of a bank.
"Yeah… that sucks...so why are you looking at Steamboat's stuff?"
"Just looking… why are you in here? I didn't know you knew what a library was" Charlotte said, turning the tables on Sasha causing the girl to shrug
"Red told me that they had files on the computers up here...so I came to have a look for myself" Sasha said as she walked past Charlotte causing the tall blonde to follow her over to the large computer that sat in the corner.
Sasha quickly sat down and began to type into the computer while Charlotte hovered behind her, "Red?"
"Yeah...Rebecca...Becky...whatever"
"Since when are you two friends?"
"Since today"
"Well what are you looking for?" Charlotte asked as Sasha pulled up WWE's search engine and began to type in Charlotte's name, "What are you doing?"
"Becky said that WWE has their files on everyone on here… don't you want to know what they know about you?"
Charlotte looked at Sasha for a second before nodding causing Sasha to smirk before she hit the enter button and watched as information on Charlotte came up. There were pictures and news clippings of Charlotte growing up, there were a few images of her playing volleyball, her and her cheerleading team at States and multiple articles about her family. Charlotte leaned over Sasha and skimmed through most of the words before saying, "They have every piece that was ever written about me"
"And by you" Sasha said before pointing at one article and saying, "You were in a news club?"
"It was a journalism club… and yes." Charlotte said before spotting something, "Click on that article"
Sasha slowly clicked on one article before sparing a glance at Charlotte watching as she read over her shoulder. Sasha glanced back at the article, reading over it as it talked about the death of Reid Flair. There were pictures of the boy in a football jersey and volunteering as they talked about all the good he did to try and counteract his father's evil. The article also talked about the torment that he and Charlotte went through growing up with their father's evil and there were a few pictures of people yelling and spitting at them as they walked to school.
Sasha carefully looked at the blonde as her frown deepened while she continued to read, "I'm sorry about your brother"
"It's fine" Charlotte said shaking her head. Sasha nodded before she slowly continued reading looking at WWE's comments on her from the performance exams. Charlotte seemed to be reading the same thing as she commented, "They think that I'm trying to spite my father… and that will be my downfall?"
"Your real name is Ashley?" Sasha asked with a smirk noticing this under WWE's notes
"Shut up" Charlotte said before crossing her arms and pulling back from Sasha, "You can move on...you came here to read your own files…"
Sasha eyed the blonde as she shook her head and seemed to fall deep into thought before turning back to the computer and typing in her own name. She clenched her jaw as she saw multiple suspensions and complaints about her, all of which that came from her schools and classmates, "They say I'm ill-tempered and that I could be a good hero if I didn't have such a short temper"
"Well that's probably true" Charlotte commented causing Sasha to glare at her, "What...nobody likes a bitchy hero. Even Eddie Guerrero had some charisma, you're just…"
Sasha continued to glare at her as she trailed off before turning back to the computer screen. There were pictures of her family, her and her younger brother who had Autism, there were also some pictures of her and her soccer team for the one year when she did play. Sasha skimmed through all this before coming across information about her family and Eddie. There were pictures of her parents with him and some even with him and her when she was just a little kid, "How are they getting these pictures?"
"They probably did a global search from the internet and a face search from security cameras." Charlotte said after thinking, "I mean some pictures came from the internet, social media or newspapers, but there are a few pictures that looked to be taken without anyone knowing and they could either have people watching us, or they just looked up any time security cameras caught us on film growing up."
"That's still creepy" Sasha said before the two sat in silence for a minute while Sasha continued reading
"Eddie Guerrero was your godfather?" Charlotte asked over the purple haired girl's shoulder, "No wonder why you were so upset earlier"
"Yes" Sasha said simply, not feeling like explaining another heartfelt story about her and her godfather's relationship to anyone, "And your father is Ric Flair"
"Everyone already knows that. I'm surprised you don't flaunt around the fact that he's your Godfather" Charlotte said with a smirk
"Why? I don't need any famous ties to make a name for myself unlike some people" Sasha snapped before she began typing in a new name into the search engine
"Whatever" Charlotte dismissed, debating whether or not to leave now, but after she saw Sasha type in Bayley's name she kind of wanted to stay.
"Bayley Martinez" Sasha muttered as she read over the few school articles about her playing basketball and the few pictures of her volunteering at an animal shelter. There were also a few pictures of her with a milkshake poured on her head and a video of her telling everyone that she still wet the bed and slept with a Macho Man night light, all of which were caused because of Sasha.
"Geez...you really are a bitch" Charlotte said as she looked at the same things, "I don't understand how she still likes you. I mean you humiliated her for most of her life and yet, I saw her go after you when you were upset this morning"
Sasha didn't look at Charlotte as thoughts of Bayley filled her head. She thought about how mean she was to the girl before she quickly shook her head and muttered, "She never gets the hint. I don't need her or her pity, I wanted her to stay away from me… after all these years, she still never did"
Charlotte leaned away from Sasha and shook her head, "She sees something in you...she believes in you for some unknown reason… that will probably get her killed, and that's why they said that her blind niceness will be her downfall"
Sasha looked at the screen and read WWE's comments on Bayley before saying, "They're right"
Charlotte looked at Sasha carefully before saying, "Alright… I think that's been enough snooping for today"
Sasha nodded and began to hit the backspace, erasing Bayley's name from the search engine, stopping only at the B as she thought for a second, "Hold up… one more name"
Sasha quickly typed in Rebecca Lynch and hit the search engine causing Charlotte to lean back in and watch as the screen buffered, "Seriously?"
"What? She has all that information on us… why not learn a little bit about her?" Sasha said causing Charlotte to sigh before agreeing, leaving the two in silence as the screen continued to buffer for another two minutes before the screen went black, "Woah...woah, what happened?"
Sasha began repeated clicking the screen and hitting the spacebar, Charlotte hit the girl's hands, "Stop touching it"
"Ow, don't hit me. I'm trying to get it to work" Sasha snapped
"You're making it worse" Charlotte snapped back, hitting the girl again causing the two to get in a petty hitting match before something popping up on the screen, "ow. Stop!"
Sasha and Charlotte both looked at the screen to see a messaged typed into it. Sasha squinted her eyes before reading it, "Nice try Banks."
"What the hell?" Charlotte said while Sasha began typing back
Who is this?
You think I'm going to let you find out anything about me? Try again.
Sasha rolled her eyes at this response before cursing, "Fucking Red."
"Wait this is Becky?" Charlotte asked pointing at the screen
"She must have hacked into the system" Sasha said before she went to type something but stopped when the words disappeared and a skull appeared in the middle of the screen. It slowly began to catch fire and Sasha and Charlotte watched as it melted away and once it was completely gone the computer let out an ear piercing siren.
Sasha jumped up and away from the computer, she slowly backed up into Charlotte, hitting the girl quickly, "We should probably…"
"Yeah" Charlotte agreed as the two slowly backed away before running out of the library.
A/N: Let me know what you think and what you guys want to see in the future
