Disclaimer: I still don't own it, ok? I also, sadly, do not own C3P0, or Worms2, which is a brilliant game.
A/N: Ok, I the last chapter turned out not at my best standard, and sorry about all the typos, I'll try and go through and edit them at some point soon, but I'm trying to get through "War and Peace" in under a week, as well as write, so, that explains a lot of the problems, or maybe not, but anyway, sorry about them. Hopefully enjoy.
Clemmy got a desk near Sarah's for the first lesson of the day, and sat down, nervously waiting for the teacher to turn up, hoping that he would eventually. About twenty minutes after the lesson should have started he came into the classroom.
" Sorry about that guys, I had to sort out a problem in the cafeteria, you know, seniors fighting,"
" Wow," Clemmy whispered to Sarah, " I bet they had fun."
" We should do that sometime!" Nodded Sarah, but she apparently said it a bit too loudly, as the teacher came over to them.
" What was that?" he asked, almost sounding cross.
" Um, nothing," said Clemmy, he smiled, and walked away. Man, that guy was too cheery for Clemmy's liking.
" Well class, I am Mr Boy, and welcome to," he disappeared behind a screen, and came out in some strange, geeky, sidekick outfit, " Hero support." He said it like it was a huge, big, exciting thing.
" Umm, I thought this was the sidekick class," said someone, raising their hand, "Umm, should I go to another room?" Clemmy saw that the speaker was a boy, with longish black hair, and tanned skin, he was sitting on the left hand side of her.
" Hero support is another word for sidekick," she whispered in his ear.
" Oh, sorry." He said, looking sheepish, " Ignore all that I just said," and then he turned to Clemmy, " Thanks," he whispered.
"'s'ok," she shrugged back.
" I'm Matt," he smiled.
" Clemmy," she smiled back.
Mr Boy gave a long speech on the importance of hero support, and then told them that they would get to go and watch a game of "Save the citizen,"
They all went to the changing rooms, and changed into gym clothes, and then went to the gym.
" Oh joy." said Clemmy to Sarah. " Lucky us, we get to watch a load of heroes showing off their powers." Although she had been talking to Sarah; Michael, Kieran, Ratboy, and Matt, who were also sitting with the girls, all nodded.
" Budge up," said someone next to Clemmy, she turned around and saw that it was Wheels. She budged up fearfully, and wondered just how hard the other girl could hit." Calm down, I'm not gonna hurt you." She grunted. Clemmy trusted her, but still felt wary around the girl. Otter's instincts told her that the girl was dangerous.
Emily sat next to Clemmy, and Streak, Chia and Chin Mae came and sat with them as well.
" Out of interest, you heroes do know you're hanging with sidekicks don't you?" said Sarah, having seen all the other heroes at lunch, dissing sidekicks.
" So?" asked Chin Mae, " we like you."
" Anyway, those senior heroes are a load of stuck up jerks." Wheels said, looking like she could strangle the people in question.
" Yeah," said Streak, " Anyway, we like you better than them," she grinned.
Then Coach Boomer came up to the front of the gym.
" William's and Robins were the champions last time, so we'll start with them." He said. Williams and Robins came up, they turned out to be a tall boy, with short light brown hair, and a smaller girl, with long blonde hair.
" Pick your opponents!" said Boomer.
" We pick Adams and Thomas," said Williams.
" Ok, hero or villain you two?"
" Villain," smiled Robins, wickedly, her green eyes glinting.
The game was won outright by Williams and Robins, as were the next five games played after that. They were obviously the best, and the reigning champions.
" Wow, I really want a go at that game," said Matt, as they all got on the bus to go home that night.
" Yeah, but it's heroes only," said Clemmy to him. " My brother and sister used to go here, and my sister was a sidekick, she never got to play,"
" And your brother?" asked Michael.
" Champion for three years," frowned Clemmy. " But he was a hero, and popular, and all that. He wouldn't dream of talking to sidekicks."
" Ah well, maybe," sighed Matt. " You know, at first I thought my power was really cool. I thought that being able to make the lights flicker was so cool, and could spook out my sister. Now I know, flickering lights are useless."
" Hey," smiled Michael, " I used to think that covering things in cheese was useful, but that's not either, although you can make an extra cheese pizza easily." Everyone laughed at his joke, although it wasn't that funny.
They all got off the bus at their stop, and split up from there, though only after having got everyone's instant message addresses.
Clemmy walked to her house, taking the newspaper out from their cat's mouth, and handing it to her mother as she walked into the living room.
" Thanks dear, I've been trying to get that out of his mouth for ages." She smiled. Clemmy's mother was a hero, she was telekinetic. Clemmy's brother, Dan, had taken after her. She and her sister on the other hand took after her sidekick father, and could both turn into something useless, and nothing else. Well, Clemmy's power beat her sisters, as she could turn into a carrot. " How was your day?" asked her mother.
" Fine, and I'm a sidekick," said Clemmy.
" Oh well, it doesn't matter." Her mother smiled. Clemmy nodded, and went up to her room.
She turned on the old computer she had got from her sister, and opened a book as she waited for it to boot up.
" Sidekick, hey?" came a voice from the doorway. Clemmy looked up, unsurprisingly Dan was standing there, smiling wickedly,
" Aren't you going to move out Dan?" asked Clemmy, " or do you need to stay with mummy?"
" Shut up, baby sister," snarled Dan, as he walked away, " I'll be gone soon enough, I've just got to gather the money."
Clemmy raised one eyebrow, and pulled a face at his back. She looked, and saw that her computer had now loaded up. She logged onto Instant Messenger, and saw that a load of people were online.
BlueOtter says: Hey Sarah, how are you?
Lightbulbsrule says: fine thanks, you?
BlueOtter says: I'm good, thanks.
Lightbulbsrule says: Cool, you know, I'm glad that we don't have any homework
BlueOtter says: Ok, random comments.
Lightbulbsrule says: I will take over the world. Mwah hah hah hah.
C3P0Em is online.
C3P0Em says: Technically being a school for heroes, we're not supposed to try to take over the world
BoredStreak is online
BoredStreak says: Who actually bothers with these rules, especially unimportant ones like that. Lol
C3P0Em says: lol
BlueOtter says: How are Chin-Mae and Wheels; still threatening to kill?
BoredStreak says: They're having a nap. They need it, they get cranky.
C3P0Em says: I know, they both looked about to kill me when I first met them
BoredStreak says: No real surprise, feel sorry for me, I have to live with them, and some stroppy young lady, always telling us to tidy up, or checking if we've done homework, and I've only been here two days!
BlueOtter says: that young lady, my sis.
BoredStreak says: Oh god, sorry!
BlueOtter says: 'S'ok, gtg, bye!
BlueOtter is offline.
Clemmy heard her mum calling her to dinner. She ran downstairs as fast as possible, feeling very hungry for some reason. She smiled, seeing it was some of her protein level managed pizza, and managed to eat more than her mother, and brother put together, not totally knowing why, but, not particularly bothered.
Then she went up to her room, that is, after stuffing down a load of pizza, and ice cream. She checked the computer, but no one was logged on, so she went to ask Dan if she could borrow Worms2.
Clemmy knocked, but there was no answer, so she sneaked inside, just to get the game, and go out again. She went over to the computer, where the game should be, and looked around for the disk. On the monitor, a conversation her brother had been having met attracted her attention.
Movingdude says: Boss, you tried to use your power on my sis.
Boss says: Yes, and it didn't work, so how'd you know about it.
Movingdude says: she ate loads at dinner, she needed the strength to resist you.
Boss says: She's strong, something you wouldn't expect from her power,
Movingdude says: You shouldn't have done it to her.
Boss says: sorry
Movingdude says: people will think we're evil
Boss says: Why would they? We're just fighting for our own rights, yours, your sisters', everyone's, we're trying to make the world better, maybe to do that, we will have to use my power, maybe we will have to stop young ones who get in our way, but they will all be people not worthy of a peaceful utopia if they try and stop the progress of true happiness.
" What are you doing?" said voice coldly from the doorway, Clemmy looked up and saw her brother.
" Looking for worms2," she answered, flustered.
" Here it is," he said, chucking it at her, " Now get out of my room! And don't come in it without permission again!" Clemmy scampered out, with the game, back to her room.
She put the disk into the drive, and waited for it to load up, thinking about the conversation. Who was Boss, and what was his power?
The game loaded up, but she didn't feel like playing it. She cancelled the screen, and turned off the computer.
She put on pyjamas, and got into bed, rolled up into a small ball, and tried to sleep.
It was a long while before she did, but eventually she drifted into a fitful sleep.
" Clemmy, who?" she saw Sarah say, looking at a masked man, " why would I want to stick up for her? I don't know her," she said, "why would I have heard of her?"
Then the picture cut to a huge explosion. Then a picture of Chia, Wheels and Chin-Mae, dead, came up. Then Michael, and Kieran standing in front of her, stopping her brother get to her, he seemed to be trying to help her. Then it was Matt, trying to hurt her. Then it was Streak and Ratboy, turning on an innocent looking woman. Lastly, Em, looking madly at her brother, trying to find something in him, but Clammy saw, with a little triumph that her brother could stop her.
Clemmy sat up in bed, sweating like a pig. It was two a.m. The dream, it must have been a nightmare, brought on by the strange, conversation she'd read of her brother's. She trusted him, although she could think he was annoying.
Anyway, the cobbled together parts scared her a lot more than they should, and she couldn't tell why. All she knew was that she was scared, scared of her friends betraying her, and trying to stop her brother and his friends, knowing that good always beat evil.
She told herself that it was just a dream, and tried to calm down. Eventually she did, and she got some real sleep.
Ok, so, for all of you who think that this is all painstakingly obvious, you're right, it seems it, but maybe I'll have a twist, huh? So you should read on, see, if it's good or not, plus, the characters will probably be doing stupid things in the next chapter. Anyway, review please, as I said before, advice is brilliant, and I really appreciate it,
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