DISCLAIMER-- I DO NOT OWN SKY HIGH OR ANY OF THE CHARACTERS FROM IT. I WROTE THIS STRICTLY FOR FUN AND AM NOT MAKING ANY KIND OF PROFIT OFF OF THIS.
The next couple of weeks or so went by just as boring as it would at a normal school. Classes, lunch, upper classmen dunking the sidekicks heads in the toilets, random frozen people on the lawn, you know the usual. Tara, Mariette, and Cassidy usually got to see each other in lunch and during their free class, but also they found out that they had gym together too. During lunch they would always sit together and recently started sitting with Magenta and her friends; Will, Layla, Zach, and Ethan
After lunch was gym class, where they did "Save the Citizen". Mariette and Tara's Power Training class was after that, while Cassidy went to Grammar for Hero Support. Mariette was starting to get very good at controlling her abilities to where now, she only blew a few of the lights in the classroom rather than the whole school. Tara, however, was still dealing with the rivalry/conflict between her and Warren Peace. It had now gotten to the point that when they passed each other in the hallways you could literally see the anger between them. Mostly because of the increase in temperature in whatever hallway they were in, but also because of the fact that both of their hands had flamed up a couple of times. This was usually right after they had been in training. A lot of the school said that Tara's anger towards Warren was almost to the same level as Warren's anger towards Will Stronghold. This kind of made sense if thought through. Warren's dad had almost killed Tara's dad, and Will's dad had put Warrens dad away in prison which was pretty bad in itself.
The two pyro-kenetics kept most of their anger pent up until the training class, but sometimes it was pretty close. Tara had actually almost gotten detention once for almost frying a student who had tapped her on the shoulder right after one of her training classes with Warren. Fortunately, after apologizing to the guy, who ended up being Ethan, Mr. Boy had let her go with a warning. Warren was getting pretty good at how to get Tara's temper going too. In their lessons he would just have to mention certain things, either pertaining to herself or saying how weak her family was, to get her to flame up. Her temper was getting almost as bad as his already was. Fortunately for her, she was able to let all of her frustrations out during her free period when she could take ten minutes or so to meditate and clear her mind. She did it partially for her brother and dad who'd asked her to work on her telepathy, but also because she felt much calmer afterwards.
After meditating, she and Cassidy would usually go over their music trying to think of words for the song they were coming up with. Mariette would join in every so often when she wasn't off with Frank. Sometimes Frank would even give off ideas. Like how the tune should be with the music and what tempo it should be. The three also found out that he used to play bass when he was in middle school. Unfortunately for them, he told them that he'd lost interest in playing. Which meant they couldn't ask him to join their hopefully, soon to be, band.
So, here it was now, the end of the first full week of Sky High. It was lunch time, and Cassidy and Mariette were waiting in the cafeteria, with the rest of their "lunch group", for Tara to come back from her History class where she was finishing up the notes that were on the board.
Will was on his way over to the table and about to turn when suddenly he was tripped, which made all of his food land on a very pissed looking Warren Peace.. Warren slowly stood up and glared down at Will.
Will nervously apologized, "Uh, sorry."
Warren walked toward Will and said angrily, "You will be"
Will backed up from him. "Look, lets not do this."
"You think you can do whatever you want just because your name is Stronghold?!" Warren demanded.
"I'm sorry that my dad put your dad in jail, but-" Will tried to say.
Warren lifted Will up by the collar and heatedly said, "Nobody talks about my father."
Warren quickly flamed up his hands on Will's shirt and let him go. Everyone realized then that there was about to be a fight. A few of the students started to chant the word fight, until the whole cafe was chanting. Warren flamed up his right hand and started to walk toward Will, who was quickly backing away. Worried about Will, Layla looked around for the nearest teacher who happened to be Mr. Boy, the sidekick teacher.
"Mr. Boy, do something!" Layla said.
Mr. Boy threw down his drink and ran out of the cafeteria for Principal Powers.
Warren continued to throw fireballs at Will, but ended up melting a tray that Will had put up to block. Warren threw another at Will, who ducked, causing the fireball to hit a wall and engulf it in flames. People then started come in from the hallway, Penny and Gwen Grayson pushing their way to the front.
Warren attempted another fireball but it missed and hit the lunch buffet. When Warren tried to throw another one, Will ran toward the fire alarm but was tripped by Lash. As Will began to get up and turn around, Warren threw a really big fireball, barely missing as the Freshman crawled under a lunch table. Warren then jumped on the table and started to throw more fireballs to knock everything off the tables.
When he reached the end of the table Warren looked down and yelled, "Where's you're sidekick, sidekick?"
Zach stepped forward and said "Right here!" as Layla, Magenta, and Ethan also stepped forward.
Warren lit up his arms to the shoulders and charged up a massive fireball. When he did, Ethan melted into an orange puddle. Will noticed this and put his arms up on the bottom of the table.
"Leave them alone!" he said as he suddenly lifted the table which surprised everyone.
Shocked, Layla said "He's strong."
Will, shocked at his own strength said "I'm strong?"
Finishing the surprise, Gwen said "He's super strong."
Will threw the table and ended up throwing Warren into a lowered part of the ceiling. Warren fell down into a table, shattering it. Everyone cheered, thinking that Will had won. Will then turned to Speed and Lash and asked who tripped him. Speed ran away and Lash grabbed the ceiling and pulled himself up.
"Stronghold!" Warren yelled as he got up.
Everyone around him scattered away as he lit up his arms again. In response, Will nervously put up his fists. Warren came up to Will and was punched through a wall and into a column.
Warren climbed back through the wall, looking completely unharmed. "Think I can't take a hit?" he said angrily.
Will looked at Warren who lit up his arms again and charged, yelling, forward. Layla threw a fire extinguisher at Will and told him to pull the pin. After struggling with the extinguisher, Will pulled the whole top of the extinguisher off just as Warren lunged at him. The foam went all over Warren, knocking him to the ground. When the foam began to clear off, Principal Powers walked over with her arms crossed.
"Hi." Will said cautiously.
Principal Powers then led the two students to the detention room.
"But I didn't do anything, he started it." Will said as they entered the detention room.
"You're dad started it. And I'm gonna finish it." Warren said, trying to flame up his arms again.
"Don't bother." Principal Powers said. "The detention room neutralizes all super powers. Sit." The boys obeyed. "Here at Sky High we do everything we can to teach you how to use your powers. But what you do with them? Now that's up to you. Living up to your father's reputation, or trying to live it down, is a sad waist of talent. Your talent. Try and keep that in mind the next time you're about to do something stupid." She said, turning to walk out of the room.
Will sighed. "Alright, look. Whatever happened with our dad's has nothing to do with us. What d'ya say?" he said holding out his hand for Warren to shake.
Warren looked at him and said, "I say. If you ever cross me again, I'll roast you alive." Will put his hand down and just sat there.
After about five minutes, the detention door opened and a girl wearing a maroon shirt with a Pirates of the Caribbean logo and a black long sleeve mesh shirt underneath, black skirt, and combat boots to her knees was brought in by Coach Boomer. The girl sighed and sat down in the desk across from Will and two down from Warren. As soon as she saw that Warren was there her face turned to disgust.
"What're you in here for?" Will finally asked breaking the awkward silence that had ensued.
"I tried to barbeque a Junior." Tara said simply. "What about you?"
"Oh, um, we kind of got in a fight." Will said glancing over at Warren.
"Bet Stronghold kicked you're ass didn't he?" Tara said smirking as she knew this would piss him off.
Just as she thought, Warrens response was to only glare at her. "You should feel lucky that my powers don't work in here. Both of you." He said.
"Really Peace?" Tara said, leaning forward on her desk. "Last I remember I was the one who beat you yesterday in Power Training. And even so, its tactics that would determine the winner and I say that I could beat you hands down. By the way Will, tell The Commander that my dad said hello."
"You think you're all high and mighty just because you hit a couple of degrees higher than me in class Langley?" Warren questioned.
"No, Warren." she said, actually using his first name. "I don't think I'm 'high and mighty'. I just know that you aren't that good at controlling your anger. And that anger is what would make you lose because you'd be so blinded with rage that you wouldn't know what to do? Understand? Or do I need to say it slower?"
"And you think you are?" Warren said quickly. "You got put in here because you toasted an upperclassman. Do you see that as anger control?"
"Geez, Peace if you must know, I tried to toast him cause he tried to smack my ass! If you were a girl you would too. Not that any of that matters." Tara said rolling her eyes. "And yeah I do call that anger control."
"Wouldn't have happened if you weren't wearing that skirt." Warren muttered to himself almost inaudibly. Will smirked.
"What was that?" Tara said glaring at him.
Warren ignored the question and pulled out a book from his bag. Tara stood up and walked over to him.
"I asked you a question Peace. What did you say?" She said calmly, wishing her hands could flame up to reflect what she really felt.
"I didn't say a word to you, Langley. I was thinking aloud to myself." Warren said just as calmly. "Therefore what I said is absolutely none of your business."
Tara rolled her eyes and walked back to her seat. She pulled out a notebook and used the rest of her time in detention to work on her music. Warren spent his time reading his book, and Will spent his doing homework. Principal Powers returned, about thirty minutes later, lecturing the three and sending them off to their last class.