Static Shockwave Season 01 Episode 04
There was a video playing of what looked like boiling magma but was stated by an incredibly boring teacher that it was actually sunspots on the surface of the sun happening right now. All the students seemed extremly bored and the teacher told them to work on pages 40 to 67 which just made everyone groan.
As the teacher was drolling on about how it could affect even electrical devices Virgil and Richie noticed smoke off in the distance and Richie questions "What do we do?"
"We are not doing anything, one of us needs to take notes and it should probably be the one without powers." Virgil whispered back before calling out "Uh, my I be excused?"
"What is it this time Mr. Hawkins, emergency phone call, left your book in your locker?" The teacher questioned annoyed since he'd been trying to get out of there alot lately.
"Um, actually it was the roast beef in the cafeteria, there was this weird green shine but it didn't smell to bad s" Virgil stated stopping himself mid sentence to fake being sick.
"Alright, just go." The teacher spoke telling him to leave with an annoyed tone letting him leave the class.
Virgil had faked moving slow from the room and then ran out of the school into an alleyway throwing on his costume and charging up only to be lauched outwards from it by his powers and crashing onto the groun. "Man, I'm extra charged today. Must be eating my veggies." Static stated before running off.
We then see him going to where the fire was at and saw some Fireman trying to cut open a garage door stating "We gotta bust this thing open, there's someone in there. But it's solid steel."
"Steel huh? Stand back." Static spoke using his powers to rip the door off it's hinges and sent it flying up into the air where a news chopper had flown upwards to avoid it. "Oops, guess I don't know my own strength anymore that thing's headed for the cheap seats."
We then cut to later on as Virgil was having dinner with his family and the lights began to go haywire and his dad went to check the circuits calling for Virgil's sister Sharon to bring him a flashlight. While they were doing that the metal eating utencils began to float around. "Okay, this for sure ain't the breakers it's gotta be those sunspots affecting me."
He'd run run off back to his room and picked up the phone to call up Richie who'd questioned "Hello?" answering the call.
"Rich, these sunspots are giving me too much juice, can you search the net to see if there's an estimate to when they'll end? I gotta get outta here before they cause any real problems." Virgil answered back to his friend about what's going on.
He'd hung up and headed off changing into his costumed and climbed into the Static Saucer with his powers going nuts and he'd been shot off into the air like a rocket on that thing flying over the water and into a desert close by crashing face first and skidding across the sand.
Static had hitched a ride atop of a plane and then jumped off back over Dakota and thrown the Static Saucer jumping onto it and flying down to the junkyard where he'd created shockwaves that burst out around them.
"Man, when is this gonna end?" Static questioned as the sun began to rise up behind him which he'd turned towards them stating "This is all your falt Mister Sun, you know that?"
He'd then headed home and tried to get some sleep, waking up to Sharon knocking on his door and yelling for him to get up where he'd discovered his stuff had been moved towards him in his sleep and immediately began trying to move stuff back into place.
They'd headed off to school and Virgil states "Richie, I spent the past twenty minutes at the junkyard burning off the extra electricity, please tell me you got some good news?"
"Uh, no, and there's even worse news, look!" Richie stated as they'd gestured over towards where Hot Streak had been walking towards the school.
"No way, I thought he was in jail afer all that trouble he caused. They must have parolled him." Virgil stated as the guy with the red and yellow hair noticed the two of them and began to walk over.
"Great, he's coming over here." Richie spoke watching Francis as he'd started to make a beeline straight for them.
"Just be cool." Virgil stated back as they'd watched and waited to see just what they were up to being back at school.
"Ya, that's easy for you to say. You're the one with superpowers." The blond reminded him as Hotstreak came over.
"Well well, Virgil and Richie." Francis spoke walking up in front of them and climbing up the steps so that they were now face to face.
"Hey, we don't want any trouble Hotstreak." Richie stated taking a step back and putting his hand up in a non thretening way.
"Neither do I, see I had some real good counciling while I was away. Taught me how to manage my anger." Hotstreak stated to the two of them.
"Hey, it's great you're trying to get better." Virgil spoke in response and Francis turned to walk away from them walking off to somewhere else.
"I'm betting a day, two at the most and he's back to his old self again. But hey, with your powers supercharged all it'd take is your little finger to stop him." Richie stated to Virgil about Hotstreak.
Later on in class the test papers had started to stick to Virgil and everyone else including Richie followed by their hair moving upwards on it's own and the lights began to flicker and maded sounds like they were shorting out and the students in the class ran off outside freaked out about what's going on.
We then see Static had been over the water letting out a bunch of juice and heading back towards the mainland having drained too much power and dropped into the ocean. The next day he'd met up wiht Richie who'd question "So, how's the power thing going?"
Virgil showed him a small charge between his thumb and index finger stating "Best I can do at the moment. I just can't seem to hold a charge." as they were walking together.
They'd heard a kid calling to be let go and found Francis harrassing another student stating "Bet you can't make me, bet say.. your lunch money."
"Yo, Hotstreak!" Virgil spoke up walking over as Richie seemed worried walking up beside them distracting them.
"What, you want some of this Hawkins?" Hotstreak questioned while gesturing to himself and looking angry.
"No, no he does not no way." Richie spoke intervening and pushing Virgil away from them and around the corner.
They'd seen flames being shot around as that kid had ran off and Hotstreak set the place ablaze around the building and Virgil says "Powers or not I gotta do something, c'mon!" and the two ran off to where they hung out and where Richie did the work on stuff like the ZapCaps.
"Uh, what are you doing with the ZapCaps, you said you couldn't hold a charge remember?" The blond questioned his best friend about what exactly he was trying to pull.
"Static is the only one who ever put Hotstreak in his place, he's afraid of me I know it." Virgil answered back putting them into a bag.
Meanwhile Hotstreak had the place burning for his own entertainment and had the flames move out of his way as he'd walked forwards throwing fireballs at the cops with a twisted sorta satisfaction.
Suddenly purple electricity sparked around them and that'd caused Hotstreak to freak with the flames dying down around them and Static came through the electricity stating "Time to chill Hoststreak!"
"Static!?" The Pyrokinetic spoke seeing the superhero that had stopped them the last time he went on a rampage.
"You remember me, I'm flattered. Hope you remember what I did to you last time, but lucky for you this time I'm giving you the chance to just go in quietly." Static stated while pointing his index finger over at him.
"That's not my style." Hotstreak answered back stating that he wasn't interested in going down that way.
"I'm warning you I've gotten stronger since we last met observe." The electrokinetic stated pointing at the ground in front of hotstreak and Richie threw another ZapCap making it explode in a burst of electricity with Static then stating "Care to test me?"
"Try me." Hotstreak spoke and Static pointed at him with Richie throwing another Zapcap that'd exploded against him knocking them back, though he'd quickly gotten back up stating "That the best you got? Seems to me like you're weaker than before, you're outta gas static. But I'm not." and created flames around his hands.
The two began running around the city with Static leading him away from people as they'd been playing cat and mouse with the hero tucking into an alleyway trying to hide with Hotstreak running past and Richie called out from above them dropping down the latter for Static.
"So what's the plan?" His friend questioned as they were heading towards the roof where a giant fan was spinning to draw heat and smoke out of a building.
"I got an idea, maybe I can use my body as a conductor, go and hide." Static told Richie who'd hidden behind the top of the stairs of the building.
The hero had his goggles blown off his head by the fan and that tipped off Hotstreak who'd used his flames to get up to the rooftop landing in front of them and stating "Nowhere to run now hero."
"I'm giving you one last chance Francis, give yourself up peacefully." Static stated though Hotstreak just laughed and made the flame in his hand take the shape of a sword ready to attack.
Static put his hand on the metal cage of the fan and began to conduct the electricity from it blasting the water tower and causing the water to rush down on top off Hotstreak washing him to the corner of the building and smacking him against it taking him out of the battle leaving him unconscious.
We then cut to later when a guard had opened Hotstreak's cell stating "You got a visitor, make it quick."
The pyrokinetic then went to the visitors area where Virgil of all people were there on the other side of the safety glass and got annoyed questioning "What, you come to gloat about me being back on this side of the glass?"
"I came to say something important." Virgil then answered back to him about what he was doing there.
"Then say it and get it over with." Francis spoke in response waiting to hear just why they were there.
"When you'd told me that you got help managing your anger I was genuinely happy for you because I'd hoped you were finally trying to do better. But I guess that's what I get for beleiving that you could be anything more than a street thug." Virgil answered back surprising the pyrokinetic to hear that he'd actually gave a damn.
For a split second Francis had felt.. what was that dissapointment, in himself, and what was that remorse? Sadly that seemed to have been lost on him as he'd then struck the glass with the side of his fist stating "Whatever, I don't need your pity or anyone elses!" while looking angry and turned back towards the guard walking towards them stating "Take me back to my cell. We're done here."