I think this was the hardest chapter to write. So, I'm sorry if it gets confusing.

Broken Sun

Chapter Four: How To Play the Hero and Fail

Sam shrugged. "Normally there's an explosion or two but that's-"

Then half the cafeteria blew up.

"Mason!"

I groaned as I sat up. The explosion had come from the doors where I met Sam. But instead of doors, there was a gapping hole in the wall and three figures, two all black and the last glowing. I think the whole cafeteria was staring at them but no one dared ro move or scream.

The only woman stepped forward. Black straight hair spilled over the tiger mask and down to her shoulders. She was wearing a all black jumpsuit with a keyhole slit in her top. She had black high heels that gave her a good three inches in height. "Hello Midtown High." Her voice was sweet honey as if she was an innocent child. "I have important announcement."

She turned to her left and nodded to the man who looked like a walking glowing green skeleton who threw a fiery ball at the floor. It melted through and grew a bit wider. Everyone backed up, so no one fell in. This dude can control acid?!

Radiation technically.

How do you know?! Sam helped me stand up so I would be able to see or that I won't get trampled. Either way, I wasn't looking like a retard. I did lean on him abit because my vision was slightly blurry and my head hurt really bad. I guessed that the skeleton dude had made the explosion and the woman was the leader.

Glow skeleton dude is named Blight, formally known as James Blaire. He was the head of a gang who, during a heist, fell into a vat of chemicals that altered his appearance and gave him the ability to shoot acid out of his hands.

So he's a fan of Batman Beyond?

What?

"That's what is going to happen if you don't answer our questions." The woman pointed out. "Now, who wants to tell us where Nightwatcher is?"

I gulped and felt like my legs were going to go out from under me. How had they found me? I hadn't officially become Nightwatcher yet and my magic wasn't strong enough to track. Plus Fyre confirms that they can't even track a Nightwatcher unless their Aven or alien.

"Um, excuse me?" We all turned to Morgan who had a confused look on her face. "Who the hell is Nightwatcher? Like, any of the other superheroes we would know of. They're all over the news. But Nightwatcher-" She shrugged her shoulders.

The tiger sighed. "Obviously you're not it. Trick Shot?" The man in black and red turned. "Dispose of the girl."

Trick Shot and Morgan stared at another for a second and he hesitantly pulled up his bow. Morgan just stared him down and didn't even try to run. Trick Shot released an arrow and Morgan flipped a coin. "Penny for your thoughts?" They connected and the arrow and coin exploded.

And that's when everything turned to hell. Everyone tried to run out of the cafeteria, distracting the three. I looked around for Sam or even Danny, but both were gone. Shit.

Suddenly, I was grabbed by my arm and brought underneath a table. I almost screamed but my captor put a hand over my mouth.

"Calm down." Morgan's eyes made me relax a tiny bit. "Do you know who these freaks are?" She questioned me seriously. I shook my head and she moved her hand. "Good. Take this." She placed a small switchblade in my hand and I looked at her. She rolled her eyes. "For protection. I don't really carry around a freaking bazooka with me." She looked out as more people scurried past.

"Do you know these freaks?"

She looked back and nodded. "Blight is a acid/radiation creator, Trick Shot shoots arrows, and Cross is able to manipulate shadows. They've never worked together before, so I am saying this Nightwatcher is an enemy of all of them."

"That's impossible!"

She looked at me with questioning eyes. "How do you know?"

I cursed in my head at Fyre. She said she didn't know any of them (except Blight because she used to date him then rejected him) and caused me to say it out loud. "Well Nightwatcher isn't in the news, so not a hero nor villain. Not in a gang because they attacked a high school and don't know what they look like. Doubt it's an assassin or mercenary because of the age."

Morgan nodded. "Makes sense. Okay, ready to play a hero?" I nodded after thinking for a second. "Good. 'Cause we are going to have to stall until the calvary arrives."

Morgan jumped right into fighting the bad guys and letting me help the kids get out. I didn't argue and Fyre yelled at me to fight.

"Need a hand?" I helped a girl who had twisted her ankle out of the cafeteria. I calmly assured her that everything would be alright and talked to her about shoes. Her friend took her outside as I turned back to the room.

Everyone was gone except Morgan, Terrible Trio, and I. Morgan was actually whooping some major ass. Every arrow Trick Shot launched she redirected at Blight. Every time Blight or Cross tried to hit her, she dodged it.

Well, until Trick Shot caught her when she dodged Blight's ball of acid for the fortieth time.

"Let go of me you jerk!" She kicked his shins but he held her up in the air. "Gaaaah! So not inviting you to thanksgiving dinner you ass!"

Cross laughed and petted Morgan's cheek. "Poor little baby. Put her out of her misery."

"Stop!" I yelled from the burned entrance.

Great, we're dead. Thank Mason.

All four of them looked over and Cross laughed. "Aww, another little baby wants to play." She then noticed the charm hanging out of my shirt. "Where did you get that?"

I gulped and agreed with Fyre. I just got myself killed. "It's a family thing."

Cross growled and pulled out a whip. "Your dead meat."

"That's right!" Cross flew across the room and hit the wall hard. I looked up to see a kid, dressed like Anala in the photograph with the guy, just floating there. A Nova?

Morgan took the distraction and totally flattened Trick Shot. "Stay down," she said. When he didn't get up she lightly slapped his face. "Good boy." She glared at someone behind me. "Took you long enough."

"Yeah well, we stopped for tacos." A red and blue figure said as he landed in front of me. Oh my god. It was freaking Spiderman!

Blight growled and shot at the Nova, who dodged it and shot back. Three figures also rushed by me.

One was wearing a green spandex suit with a yellow belt around his waist and mask on his face. He had a black drawing that resembled a dragon on his chest. Blonde hair spilled out of the mask as he ran by.

The next dude was wearing a sleeveless suit which was yellow on top and the rest black. He had metal plates on his biceps and ankles and was wearing yellow boots and sunglasses. He was dark skinned and freaking huge.

Last, came a cat girl. She was wearing a white cat-like suit, with claw markings on her waist and shoulders. A green pendant was on her belt and it was slightly glowing. It also has yellow eyes, with her hair sticking out in a long, high, black ponytail.

I stood in awe as they began to fight. Morgan ran over after nodding to each of the superheroes before grabbing my arm. "Let's get out before we get injured." We stepped forward and suddenly the hole was filled with a pasty substances. "Scrap."

I snickered. "Nerd."

She hissed at me and looked over to where Trick Shot was standing, holding his bow. "Why couldn't you stay down?"

He smirked and fired another arrow, turning into a rope that pinned her arms to her side. "Sorry Blondie. Can't follow your orders cause your not my boss." He looked at me. "Are you going to fight me?"

Fyre?

Ya?

Anyway I could get Boudicca or Eleanor in my head?

...

I frowned and stepped backwards. I was fucking screwed.

Summon your familiar.

"Not helping." I muttered. I felt the switchblade in my hand and flipped it. I held it with both hands and backed up into the wall. "Stay back."

Familiar!

Shut up!

He smirked. "Sorry, I ca-" I slashed at him, desperately trying to land a slice. He dodged most of them but I was able to get him across the chest. He grew angrier and grabbed my wrist, bringing me close. "Watch it princess." I glared at him then kicked him where the sun don't shine. He fell and I kneed him in the face, knocking him down with a broken nose and dignity.

I looked around for another exit but suddenly I'm being lifted in the air. It took me thirty whole seconds to work out what was happening.

"Con l'Allspark!" I cursed in Italian.

"Spiderman and company, surrender yourselves or witness the untimely and excruciatingly painful death of this young woman." A voice shouted over the fighting.

I stared down and noticed only one person was missing and he had the ability to kill me with radiation. So much for living till the end of the day. A horrible feeling arose from my stomach as I thought about how stupid I was. I should have run with the others.

But then I wouldn't have saved a lot of the kids that got in harm's way.

I wouldn't be a kind of hero.

"Well?" It was quiet then I felt a huge pain in my side. Like burning. I bit my tongue and tried not to scream, not willing to give him the satisfaction of doing so. Guess there was one option left.

You ready?

As ever as I'll ever be.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, shutting out the world. Okay. Antigone had said no Nightwatchers' familiar was the same. Like the pendant, it goes off your personality. So what was I?

Sarcastic for sure. Short. A little bit of tomboy. A sprinkle of determination. A dash of curiosity. Fiercely protectiveness ran through my veins. Hot-headed majorly. Maybe a bit-

Wait. What was the second the two?

Fiercely protective and hot-headed?

Yes. What is a creature with that capability?

A snake?

Nope.

A dragon?

Nah.

Can't you just tell me the answer?

You have to figure it out yourself. Rules are rules.

Cat?

Hint: You had a dream about this before you met Morgan.

Dragon.

Already said that. Something that's a mix of all three of them.

Then...

A large roar shattered through my thoughts and tore throughout the room.

"Chimera." I whispered and smiled.

A large navy blue cat was standing just beneath Blight and I. It was more see-through than solid but it was pretty terrifying. It's snake tail was raised above its head, spitting and ready to bite. The other thing that was missing was a goat's head, I was fine with by the way, which was replaced by a pair of scaley wings.

It snarled at Cross who was smiling wickedly. "Hello Nightwatcher." She looked up at us. "Blight, kill the girl."

I mustered up enough energy to take the switchblade out again and jammed if into his shoulder. He screamed and, to my surprise and stupidity, dropped me, both hands going up to get the blade.

Kind of forgot I was in the air.

Yeah.

...

Aren't I supposed to have the ability to fly?

I closed my eyes, waiting to either roll and recover or break an ankle. Instead, someone caught me by my wrists. I opened my eyes and was staring at the Nova kid, looking totally bad ass and a determined look on his face. He set me down next to the others as the-my chimera attacked Cross and Blight. Morgan had untied herself and joined our group of misfits.

"Okay, does someone want to explain why there's a giant cat attacking them?" The dude in yellow and black asked with a raised eyebrow.

Morgan stood beside me and looked at my side. "Does someone have a phone? Idiot here has a burn on her side and probably sprained wrists." Greeny and Bee Boy looked at me with slight concern but I shook it off.

"I'm fine for now." I raised an eyebrow and looked at her. "I think we should let the heroes beat up the bad guys and we find a way out."

She opened her mouth then nodded. "Last time I ever play hero." She muttered as my chimera disappeared in a wisp.

I chuckled. "Doubt it."

We stepped aside, her more revealing the heroes and myself limping. I rolled my eyes at her and tugged on her jacket, going behind a bunch of piled up tables. Cross's outfit was ripped in many places and had bite marks on her shoulder while Blight was less glowing. Update: Trick Shot was conscious but tied up.

She looked at all the heroes. "You don't have any idea who've you made an enemy of." She then raised her hands above her head and any light within ten feet of her shattered, putting most of the room in total darkness. The heroes ran forward and Cross closed her fists.

Oh shit.

The roof started to cave in and I heard Cross shout "Until we meet again heroes!"

"Morgan! Mason! Get down!"

I pulled Morgan under a table and waited for the roof to stop falling in. It took a long time but eventually it stopped. Morgan and I shoved a few pieces out of the way and were hit with sunlight. Morgan hissed and I laughed. Then I realized there was no other noise.

"Shit, Spiderman and Nova!" I ran over and started to dig through the rubble. Morgan joined me and was humming under her breath like she did this everyday. Eventually, we unearthed White Cat and Greeny who helped us find the others.

I pushed another piece of rubble and Bee Dude stood up. A pair of glasses fell to my feet. I picked them up and held a hand over me eyes as I handed them to him. Secret Identities are secret. He took them and I opened my eyes. All five heroes were recovered and police should be arriving any second.

I sighed and the world began to fade into darkness. Scrap.

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