Just the Girl

Chapter III: Uncontrolled

By: Shadowed Replica

Disclaimer: I don't own Sky High or any of it's original characters. So me no own, you no sue! (Piper Wells is mine though!)

Full Summary: Warren has been having some trouble with his powers lately, they're out of control and now even he can feel their burn. She was being followed by the adversary of her heritage since birth; never a moment of peace. They'd both been attracted to dangerous, forbidden things. Perhaps that is why they were drawn to each other. He was her salvation and only light within the darkness; even if she refused to accept it. She was his only chance to find love and hope for some normality; though he'd never admit it.

Regular Narration

"Speech."

'Thought.'

Dream/Song (You'll know the difference)

Flashback

Change in time, etc.

(Interruption)

Monday morning was a blast, in sarcastic terms of course. Piper woke up with a splitting headache and groaned as she tried to move her aching muscles. She tried, for a moment, to remember where the weekend had gone before slamming her face back into the pillows. Absently, she wondered where Hunter was until her arm curled around her side causing her to hiss and recoil in pain.

Hunter chuckled before he moved over her and kissed her lips. "If you'd learned to fight better, you wouldn't be so sore." He laughed when Piper elbowed him off her and trying to act dignified as she moved to stand but face-planted on the floor when the sheets caught her feet.

"Well how about I kick you in the balls and then teleport all around your ass hitting and kicking you. You wouldn't like that, now would you?" She snarled while ripping her feet free and moving to the closet to pull out a soccer shirt and a pair of ripped, dark, blue jeans. She combed out her semi-wet hair and let it fall slightly wavy and sighed. She pulled a couple of hair ties onto her wrist before turning to face Hunter's bemused expression.

"What?" He asked with feigned innocence.

"Get out so I can dress." She said firmly while crossing her arms over her chest.

He laughed mockingly before vanishing from before her eyes. She looked around warily before shedding the large tee-shirt and short shorts and pulling on a new pair of underwear before the jeans followed. She pulled on a sports bra and then the soccer shirt. A new pair of socks followed soon after and she walked out of her bedroom to be stopped by Hunter. In one hand he held her Nike shocks and the other a bowl of sugared strawberries. She smiled at him and kissed his cheek.

It took her all of ten minutes to put her shoes on and finish the strawberries. She searched for her bag for five minutes before remembering she left it in the locker at Sky High. With a sigh she moved towards the door when Hunter put a hand on her shoulder. "Where are you going babe?"

"School, duh." She answered tartly.

He chuckled again-which was really starting to piss her off-and pulled her flush against his body. He pressed his lips to her and she felt a weird sensation. Her entire body felt light and heavy at the same time. She groaned as her head began to spin and lights flashed behind her eyelids almost painfully. After a few moments, it stopped and her feet touched the ground lightly; but her knees still buckled and Hunter had to catch her. "Glad to know I still make you weak in the knees love."

With a scoff, Piper shoved him away from her and rolled her eyes while she staggered slightly. "You know I hate it when you do that! I hate shimmering from place to place. I don't know how you do it." She hissed at him as he stalked her movements away from him. "Now go away so I can go to school."

He caught her deftly around the waist and snatched her back against his body. "What, no goodbye kiss?" He gave a mock hurt look before capturing her lips dominantly and bending her over ignoring the crowd of supers that were openly gaping at them. He finally pulled back and released her, "Bye babe. You'll have to find your own way home; I've got shit to do." With that, he shimmered with a smirk and a wave.

Piper growled and whipped around to find him gone. "Asshole," she muttered before turning to find a hell of a lot of people staring at her. For a moment she turned red and then her temper flared, "What the hell are you staring at?" She growled before she flipped them the bird and envisioned her locker from the outside.

She was there and put her hand out to steady herself on the lockers. When she regained her equilibrium, she took a step back to locate her locker. She finally did so and moved to put her hand on the dial to open it. But before her hand could settle on the tiny black dial, it began to spin violently and she looked at it with a confused expression. It was spinning faster and faster with every passing moment. She stepped back when it started smoking from the friction caused by the speed. She was on the other side of the hallway by now when suddenly the spinning stopped and the dial liquefied. The liquid moved in mid-air towards her and hovered before her.

It took Piper a moment before she put a hand out to touch the cool liquid and then retracted her hand. "What the hell?" She murmured before looking to her locker and groaning; how the hell was she supposed to get her stuff if she couldn't open it? She bit her lip and looked at the liquid and back to the locker, "Well either I'm going crazy or this will work." She muttered before picturing the liquid floating back to the locker and she imagined it solidifying back into a dial lock. When she opened her eyes the dial was back on the locker perfectly. Okay, not so perfectly; when she reached the dial and went to put in the combination, she realized that there were no numbers and it was a plain dial. "You have got to be kidding me." She hissed before sighing and touching her finger to the dial. She closed her eyes and felt it liquefy beneath her fingers and she reformed it once again only this time with numbers and little nick marks that showed the other numbers. She then placed it in line with the actual combination before reattaching it to the locker.

She sighed and turned the dial putting her com in when a hand suddenly landed on her shoulder causing her to shriek and jump backwards. She growled when she realized Layla was the cause of her scare. "Layla," Piper hissed while yanking her locker open to grab books for Medulla's class.

"Sorry Piper, I didn't mean to startle you. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you back. We missed you at the lunch table." Layla said with a bright smile flicking her long red hair back over her shoulder.

Piper rolled her eyes before giving Layla a wry smile. "S' fine."

"So who was that guy out there with you?" She asked.

Piper made a face and closed her eyes, turning her head to the side slightly; she was hoping no one important saw that. Not that Layla was important or anything. With a sigh she looked at the greenery girl and continued walking. "He's no one okay?"

"But Piper he…"

"Just drop it okay?" Piper snarled before stalking off towards Medulla's class. She arrived a little early and slammed her stuff down on the table causing Warren to glance at her. "What do you want?" She growled ferally before sitting down and opening the book and notes.

"You do know we have a lab today right?" Warren sneered from behind his book.

A twitch formed in Piper's right eye and she could feel power swirling in her body. The demon inside of her clawed at the edges of her control but she successfully leashed her anger and closed her book and notebook without incident; though a few desks in the room stuttered on the floor for a moment before lying still.

About an hour into the lab, Warren and Piper were tap dancing on each other's last nerve. Piper would label one slide, Warren would check it and label it another; they'd argue for a moment before Medulla would step in and break it up by telling which person was correct. So far the score stands Warren: 4, Piper: 3.

Halfway into the next slide, Piper sat back and pushed the microscope towards Warren, "Go ahead, how about you decide what this one is smart ass." She said with barely contained contempt.

"I will, correctly." Warren snapped before pressing his eye to the eyepiece. He sat there for a moment before he pulled back, looked at Piper, and then looked back into the microscope. "What are you doing?" He asked bewildered.

"What are you talking about?" Piper growled.

Warren slid the scope over to her to let her take a look. When she did she sat up straight and took a deep breath before looking through the eyepiece again. The supposedly dead cells were moving around as though alive. She swallowed a lump in her throat and forced the cells to return to their original places. But as she did so, something amazing happened. Not only did the cells immediately do what she commanded mentally, but she began to see the mechanisms and processes of the human anatomy. She could understand what they did just by looking at them. She formed the torn and misplaced cells together to make a whole tissue. When she was finished, she smirked and sat back in her chair. "There's nothing wrong with it."

For a moment, Warren stared at her like she was stupid before taking a look into the scope. He gaped for a moment and then glared at her. "What the hell did you do?"

Before Piper could reply, Medulla stepped in, "Now what you imbeciles?" Medulla stepped in front of the microscope and Piper bit her lip worriedly as he peered into the eyepiece. "What is this?" He asked pulling his face away to look at the two partners. "You're supposed to be looking at damaged and diseased cells. "Where did this slide come from?"

By now, the whole class was watching Medulla, Piper, and Warren. "She changed it." Warren said.

"No I didn't!" Piper growled whilst glaring daggers at Warren.

"She couldn't possibly have been able to. I have the only key to the cabinet and would have noticed because I was standing in front of it most of the time." Medulla snapped.

"I didn't mean she switched slides, I mean she used her powers to change it." Warren retorted irritably.

Medulla looked to Piper for a moment, "Is this true?"

"I… well, yeah. But it was an accident," Piper started.

"An accident that you reformed almost two billion diseased cells and created a human tissue, albeit rather small," Medulla questioned.

"Well they started moving on their own first and then I kind of just directed them." Piper said while crossing her arms.

"Interesting," Medulla murmured. "If you can do that, then…" He trailed off just as the bell rang. Everyone waited for Medulla to bark out some orders for homework. "Everyone is dismissed, leave now." He said instead.

Not wanting to wait for him to change his mind, everyone hurried out as quickly as possible. But just as Piper was about to exit he called her back, "Ms. Wells, come here."

Piper stopped mid-step out the door and turned her head slightly, "Um, okay…" She said before turning on her heel to re-enter the classroom she had almost escaped. When she was in front of Medulla she gazed at him curiously and impatiently. She had better things to do than watch him… what is he doing?

Medulla began to circle her looking at her. He stopped when he reached his original starting place and disappeared, "Wait here," into his office for a moment. He reappeared about five minutes later with a large, uneven chunk of copper. "Tell, what's the first thing that comes to mind?" He asked excitedly.

Not wanting to disappoint him, or rather make him angry so he'd start shouting again, Piper bit her lip and tried to grasp for an answer. Unfortunately, she ended up with zilch. "I'm not sure exactly."

"Come, come, you cannot tell me you have no idea what you can do with this?" He asked while crossing his arms and tapping his finger against his elbow.

"Not really," she replied.

He sighed, "Look at it, what can it be used for."

"Scrap?"

"No! Ms. Wells, please try to use your brain. I want you to flatten it." He snapped. With a raised eyebrow, Piper looked around for a hammer and grabbed one. When she raised the hammer to hit the copper with, Medulla shouted, "NO!"

"What?! How the hell am I supposed to do it if not with a hammer." She asked incredulously.

"Use your powers you imbecile!" Medulla growled out.

"Oh," she murmured lamely. "I'm not sure if I can do that…"

"Try," he commanded.

With an audible sigh, she focused her mind on the copper ball. It shivered slightly and she tried to meld her mind around the concept of flattening the object. For a moment, all the ball did was tremble violently then stop. She tried again and focused harder, every moment that passed made her angrier when suddenly the copper ball exploded and both Piper and Medulla were forced to duck for cover. "I told you I couldn't do it."

Bit and pieces, fragments of copper were scattered all over the room. "You blew it up, not what I asked you to do. Put it back together and try again." Medulla commanded.

"What? You've got to be kidding me!" She hissed.

"I don't kid," he growled.

Her eye twitched in anger and she turned to see copper all over the room and floor. She put a hand over her face and groaned. She then closed her eyes to locate every object she could with her mind's eye before opening them. "Here goes nothing," she whispered. She raised her hands and, miraculously, every piece of destroyed copper floated in the air level with her hands, "Cool." She then brought her hands together and the pieces began to meld back together. "This is so amazing." The once uneven copper ball now appeared floated in mid-air as a perfectly round and symmetrical copper ball. She brought the ball over to her and set it on the desk.

Medulla was smirking when she looked up and she rolled her eyes, "Now, flatten it into a disk shape."

She bit her lip and looked at the copper. She pictured a copper disk in her mind's eye and then held her hand over the ball. She pushed her hand down until it was touching the copper ball and would go no further; nothing happened. "Nothing's happening."

"Hm," Medulla muttered before putting a hand to his chin as he pondered. "Of course, I want you to picture each molecule, each atom of the copper sliding against each other until they reach the desired form." He directed.

With a hopeful breath, Piper's eyes fluttered shut and she imagined a trillion, zillion atoms working together to unshape the sphere. She peeked through her eyelashes and gasped. The copper was slowly 'melting' into a disk. "Wow," she murmured as the copper sphere flattened into a perfect disk.

He looked quite pleased with her work and then he picked up the disk. "Good, now, let's see it fly." He chucked the disk at the wall.

His actions startled her slightly but she immediately went to work and focused on the disk that was flying through the air. It took a moment but suddenly the disk wobbled in its flight and then stopped though it continued to rotate on a central axis. She took it a step further and brought the disk over to her and it began to expand, thinner and larger. Then it moved low, a few inches above the ground and she put one foot on it. Her second foot followed and she was standing shakily on the disk. "This is cool."

Medulla smirked, "Very good, move around the room." He gestured by jerking his chin towards the end of the room.

She wobbled a moment and then the disk began to rise in the air. She wasn't paying attention and suddenly her head smacked into the ceiling, "Ow!" She growled and pushed herself away from it while rubbing a small bump on her head, "Bloody hell." Then, while ignoring Medulla's annoyed grunts, she began to soar over the tables and chairs in the room. "This is so awesome."

Medulla glanced at the clock and did a double-take, "Ms. Wells." He called.

This effectively broke Piper's concentration and the disk dropped onto a table and flipped off, hit a chair and landed safely on the floor. Piper's body followed and she crashed into the table with a painful 'smack' and she bounced off that into a chair before falling to the ground and giving a small cry of pain. "Ow, damn it!"

He shook his head at her, "Learn to keep your concentration Ms. Wells, and you will do great things." He then pointed to the clock, "I believe it is time for you to attend lunch and we will resume next week at the same time." He said matter-of-factly before disappearing into the back of his office.

Piper stood up burning with anger; how dare he leave her there on the floor after she'd fallen so hard and painful to the ground. What if she'd broken something? 'I'll get him,' she thought viciously before taking a shaky step. She stumbled and then made her way to the lunch room clutching her injured hand to her stomach. She would try to avoid Layla and the others at all costs. She probably shouldn't go to the lunchroom then, but alas, she already entered.

Layla was most persistent in her search for her new friend and was thusly rewarded in finding Piper hiding out behind a tall column in the lunchroom. "Come on Piper, sit with us." She commanded more than asked as she wrapped her small yet shockingly strong hand around Piper's upper arm and tugged her to the table where everyone was sitting.

Unfortunately, everyone was sitting there, including a certain asshole she'd like to avoid. But she sat, by almost sheer force from Layla. So with a bit of aggravation, Piper sat across from Warren. Her fingers began to tap an irritated tune as she waited out lunch. There was power surging through her body like she'd never experienced before with the exception of the time she almost died four years ago.

Lunch seemed to take an eternity as Piper sat there almost unmoving except for the steady tap, tap, tap of her fingertips on the plastic table top. Finally, the bell for lunch's end rang and Piper was up so fast Layla started in surprise as the girl almost ran past.

By now, Piper was to the bursting point. She felt as a boat that was filling up with water faster than she could bail out and she was very near sinking in her own power surge. She fought it all the way into the gym for Save the Citizen.

She was forced to watch two battles where Will was teamed up with some electrical guy that was killing it with these nearly uncontrolled outbursts of electrically charged attacks that included both short, mid, and long range.

The second battle Will faced off against Layla and he struggled against her for a moment before just plowing through her plants with his super strength and saving the Citizen. The other opponent was some ice power chick that kept throwing icicles at the electric guy and he got stuck a couple times before she was zapped out.

It was the third battle when Will called Warren down to be a villain and the electric guy called Piper down as the other. She was changed and ready to go in an instant. When Coach Boomer sounded the whistle for their time, Piper dodged an electric attack. She continued to dodge until she had her back to the citizen. She growled and tried to freeze the guy but accidentally threw him backwards.

She was hit from behind by Will and sent sprawling across the floor. Apparently, the electric guy, his name-she later discovered-was Mick, had hit Warren and they fell into a tussle. Piper was a bit stunned from the hit when she noticed Will going for the Citizen. Piper growled and jumped up to her feet. She turned to a pole that was standing a few feet away and uprooted it. She then smacked Will hard enough to send him careening out of control into the safety-glass wall.

With a satisfied smirk, she started to walk towards Will. A shout of warning that sounded a bit like Layla stopped her strut. Abruptly, an acute spike of pain centered on the small of her back and traveled up her spine. Her mouth opened in a silent scream and she couldn't hear anything as her entire body jerked and twitched as a violent electric current traveled through her body and up her spinal cord.

The scream that erupted from her throat was unlike any ever heard by the students. It was one of complete agony; a creature being tortured viciously without mercy. She was screaming so long and loud she couldn't hear herself.

Even after Mick stopped his surge the pain lingered. It grew every second with such a monumental intensity that she could see nothing and hear nothing. Everything was so unbearable that suddenly she couldn't feel pain anymore. It just suddenly disappeared and she went blank. Her body sort of flickered in an out as though she tried to teleport but failed.

Suddenly, a burst of power surged through her and she could feel it clawing at her control; overpowering her and sinking its demonic claws into her conscious state of mind. All the anger built up from over the past few years. All the fear, hurt, pain, depression, and loneliness was cresting into a wave of uncontrollable power. And then, everything went dark and her conscious mind shut down. She fell to her knees and then face down on the floor.

The entire gym was silent as they watched the electric current zing through Piper's prone body continuously. When it finally died, they still remained deathly quiet. Only Will seemed unaffected and took a cautious step towards her, "Piper, are you okay?"

He stepped closer and put a hand on her shoulder. He was able to turn her over onto her back and he swallowed a lump that formed in his throat. She was deathly pale and her skin almost completely translucent. Just as he went to check for a pulse, her eyes snapped open to reveal a nothing but white; a kind of light that emanated from her eyes.

Will went soaring backwards over the safety glass wall that protected the student and hit the gymnasium wall hard enough to crack it and bust through. She made it to one knee when she was suddenly floating in mid-air. Her hair was slightly fluttering about her and she turned to Mick. He took an involuntary step back as she smirked cruelly.

There was a fake phone booth and a bench in between Piper and Mick. They suddenly disintegrated into nothing; as her power seemed to drift towards him, the bench seemed to materialize and then vanish right before everyone's eyes.

Mick turned on his heel and began to run but she waved a hand at him and he tripped falling flat on his chest. He turned on his back and tried to scoot away as the floorboards disappeared not a few feet from him. Just before he could be disintegrated by Piper's power, Warren stepped up and tossed a large fireball at her.

The ball of fire hit her in the side sending her flying into the wall. She cried out in anger before she turned viciously on him. Half of her suit was burned away revealing deliciously tanned flesh that was burned pretty badly in a central area around her hip. She took two more fireballs-one to the chest and the other to her right thigh-until she got irritated. The third one stopped inches from her face and disintegrated into nothing.

Her eyes narrowed and a voice that was not her own spoke from her mouth, "Foolish boy." Warren went flying backwards and was pinned against the safety glass wall. His skin began to rapidly disintegrate before healing and then starting all over again. This seemed to continue onwards with only half her focus on trying to kill Warren and the other half on tossing away the teachers and students brave enough to try and stop her.

But when Warren was able to throw another fireball at her she ignored them and focused her power on him. He yelled in pain as his shirt was dematerialized and his skin was shredded from his body only to be replaced almost instantaneously.

She was walking towards him now, "Why won't you die?" She hissed at him. Just before she reached him, something hit her across the back of the head and an electric current struck her along with a freeze ray from Medulla.

A terrible scream wrenched from her throat and suddenly all was silent and she froze. Her glowing white eyes returned back to their green color though she still floated in the air. For a moment, time seemed to stop as she regained her wits and her eyes locked onto Warren, "No." She whispered, "No." She screamed. She recoiled from him and Mick hit her with another electric surge thinking she was going to attack them again.

She didn't scream this time; she simply fell to the ground and didn't move. Layla, afraid Mick had killed her, ran to Piper's side and felt for a pulse; she found one. "Oh Piper." She murmured.

Everyone was staring in fear and wonder at the unmoving body of Piper on the floor and at Warren who was kneeling on the ground a couple feet away wincing with pain. The look on his face was unintelligible. His whole body was tense and he seemed afire though his power wasn't active at the moment.

Something had passed between them in that single moment when she had regained control. It was a flickering glance, but he saw it nonetheless and it stunned him.

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. And to my flamer, thanks. I've never enjoyed hitting the delete button that much and just smiling as I read your rediculous jealous, bull shit.

So thank for showing me that there are still haters out there. Don't worry though, I'm still going to be a nice person and only say this:

Hating is a serious disease; get well soon. :]

To all of you who enjoy my stories, please continue on and I apologize for not getting this one out sooner. College takes a lot out of you.

As always,

Shadowed Replica