Chapter three

"Those aren't ordinary cops!"Was the understatement of the century. They weren't cops at all. They looked more like the people sent to capture Shenice. "Um, V, how are we supposed to escape? Those people knocked you out in the past, and now there is an army."

"Thanks for reminding me Richie, and no, I don't know. The best we can do is run." Virgil replied.

"That is not much of a plan." Richie replied. "But then again, I can't think of another one." Richie climbed out an escape latter. "I wish I had my skates. Well, at least I have a couple of zap caps, oh, and those new powers might come in handy."

Richie jumped down, and Adam was already out of the house. Unfortunately, he was also knocked out. Richie...if only I was Static, I could help, but they would notice me if I changed anywhere near here, and then my cover would be blown. Richie then proceeded to throw random objects with his mind. The problem was he wasn't very accurate. It was understandable you needed to train a little to get your powers under control, and Richie didn't have the time to train. He was very, very good at running and dodging though because he hanged out around Virgil so much.

"Damm, since when does Richie run?" Sharon asked. Virgil could tell her voice was shaky. Her fiance, ooh, the word hurt so bad, was knocked out after all and was about to be captured. It was amazing her voice was only a little bit shaky.

Soon, the worry began to spread to Virgil, and that is when he understood a very important lesson. Two main feelings could cause you to do stupid, idiotic things, and that was the feelings of anger and love such as, I don't know, climbing down a latter into a dangerous situation. Virgil began punching random people, but the people had guns, and well, a punch holds nothing to a gun.

That was when he did the most stupidest thing he ever did: he decided (more like did without thinking) to send out a massive electromagnetic wave. Not only was his cover blown, his powers were drained to the point he couldn't stand, anyone not blind could see the wave, and there was massive destruction around him.

On the positive note, Adam was fully awake after the blast which no one could really ignore, the other bang babies were heading this direction (Virgil was still deciding whether this was a good thing or not), and the bad guys were knocked out cold. On the flip side, more bad guys decided to show up. "Virgil, do you realise how stupid that was?" Gear helped him up. "You can't even stand, and you know how many people are here. We are in trouble this time."

That was when a big crash sent a little kid to their rescue. "Virgil? Are you okay? Mr. Hawkins isn't here, is he? Is he hurt?" Dwayne said. Dwayne was a good kid, and Virgil got close to him at the community center. He became a better brother role model than his step-brother, even if his duties as Static sometimes got in the way.

Not only that, but the little kid kicked some serious butt. All the people were down because of his comic book characters. "Wow, I didn't realize that kid had more potential than magically making food show up." Talon said. So that was the food problem. Dwayne somehow wasn't making it. Talon had little reaction to the whole 'Virgil is Static thing'. Considering how many times he put her in jail, Virgil was amazed.

However, the rest of her friends weren't exactly happy to see him. Now, all they needed was a ride..."Richie, I didn't know you could hotwire a car," or bus. It was a big yellow school bus, not the coolest of rides, but it will do.

"I'm a supergenious, remember?" Everyone piled into the bus. "Yeah, I might be a supergenious, but I don't know how to drive a car."

"You are the only person who knows how to jack a car, but not drive it." Kangorr took the wheel. "You know, it is times like this that I miss having Hotstreak around. He could drive."