Author's Note: Well, here's the first of the introduction chapters. We're just going to introduce our main characters and, in some cases, how their story in this universe differs from canon.

Introduction 1: El Tigre

"I can't believe it!" White Pantera cried out in excitement.

"What is it this time Rudolpho?" Grandpapi Rivera asked in exasperation as he looked up from his newspaper.

"The North American Super School is finally opening, and I have been asked to be a teacher!" White Pantera held up an official-looking letter. The super-hero was so excited, he was about to faint. He turned to his son, "Manny, you can finally hone your heroic skills at a real super-hero school!"

"Uh-hu. Yeah. That's great dad." Manny, a short boy with curly brown hair, didn't even look up from his VS.

"Or you could hone your villainous skills!" Grandpapi added.

"Papi, it is a super-hero school." White Pantera pointed out.

"Jes, and some of the greatest super-villains of all time were students at so-called hero-schools." Grandpapi said. "Like Metal Mousellini! He graduate with top honors in his hero class at Italian hero school, and next day he rob three Italian banks with his robot mouse army! Ha-ha!"

"Yeah, uh-hu, that's—Hold on a sec, did you say super-school?" Manny suddenly looked up from his game.

"Where were you for the last two minutes?" Grandpapi rolled his eyes.

"Blasting space pirates." Manny replied.

"Yes mijo, I have been asked to teach at the new North American Super School." Manny's father said patiently.

"You mean, like there are going to be other kids with super-powers there? That's awesome!"

But just a while later…

"Dude, that is not awesome!" Manny's best friend Frida exclaimed when he told her the news. "You can't go to a super-school and leave me here, alone! I'll have to walk to school, alone, I'll have to eat lunch, alone, I'll have to sit in detention, alone! You can't do this to me!" She started shaking her friend.

"Aw man, I didn't even think of that…" Manny trailed off, "It's just that I don't get to meet a lot of other kids with super-powers."

"Well who's more important? A bunch of people you don't even know yet, or the person who's been your best friend for forever?" Frida steamed.

"You are, you are!" Manny said quickly before she smacked him. "Hey, what if you came too?"

"Um, hellooooo! I don't have super-powers! And I am not jumping into a pile of toxic waste hoping it'll give me laser vision or something."

"There's gotta be more than one way to get super powers." Manny grinned.

One trip to the internet later…

"You can buy super-powers on i-Bay? Frida asked in disbelief.

"Uh, maybe." Manny replied, "Grandpapi buys parts for his doomsday machines off here all the time though, so it's worth a shot."

"Whoa, someone sold an 'Open-the-door-to-a-lobster-cage-inator' for $5000?!" Frida looked at a recently sold item.

Manny rolled his eyes. "It's crazy the junk people will bid on."

They typed "Super-Powers" into the Search box.

"Here's one. "Ghost Powers –R- Us dot com." Manny said.

"Nah, invisibility and fading through stuff isn't really my style."

"Uh… Radio-active insect?"

"Ew."

"Learn to Talk to Animals?"

"Useless."

"Psycho-Kinetic Thunder?"

"What's that?"

"Ok, let's see what's on page two…" Manny clicked the Next button.

Frida gasped. "It's perfect!"

"Hmm. Used Super-Arrowhead Guitar. Capable of shattering glass with its highest frequencies and crumbling walls at its lowest frequencies. Comes with a book of mind-controlling, can't-get-out-of-your-head chords. Titanium strings not included. Cool!" Manny read.

"I gotta have it! What's the bidding start at?"

"$20. Two hours left."

"Yes. You are mine!" Frida submitted a bid for $80.

"Where did you get $80?" Manny asked.

"Well, I have $35 at home, I figure I'll just borrow the rest from my sisters."

Manny was quiet for a moment, then smiled. "Great! Looks like we're both going to the Super-School!"

Author's Note: I will respect you forever if you know what Psycho-Kinetic Thunder is from (hint- abbreviate the first two words)

For the next few intro chapters, you can expect me to update on Friday evenings. Whether that continues after I get past the intros depends on how much more I can write while I'm on break, and my schedule for the new semester.

Next time: Cleft!