Amelia IV
Amelia woke up with a jolt and the unsettling feeling that something was not right. Sitting up quickly she hit her head on the roof. Wait roof? Looking around Mia saw the converted box truck that she had lived in before she moved to Dystopia. Shit! Stupid Monitor and their dumb time ray. Looking at her cellphone she saw she was back to summer before what would have been her junior year of high school.
Ok Mia, you need to calm down. You just need to take this one step at a time. What do you do first? God, Char would know what to do if she was accidentally time traveled. Char is smart. Wait!... If she had been sent into the past, then the rest of Team Danger had probably been sent back too! So step one: find Char and the rest of Team Danger.
One problem with that, Mia could not remember where they used to live before, they met up in Dystopia. The trio was very guarded about their lives before forming Team Danger. Mia got it, from what she had gathered their home lives had been rather toxic and they had a ton of leftover trauma from their previous hero work. What she did remember was that Henry had gone by Kid Danger for a couple years so at least she had a starting point.
Pulling out her laptop she did a google search for "Kid Danger Superhero" and hoped for the best. Scrolling through pages and pages of google she finally came across an article on KLVY news network which was based out of a town called Swellview. The article read "Kid Danger Defeats Escaped Super Criminal Drex and Gains Superpowers". The picture showed a young blonde boy dressed in a blue and red spandex costume. Squinting at the photo Mia decided that the boy pictured looked similar enough to Henry.
Deciding to run with the lead of Swellview, Amelia successfully found an online phonebook for the city. Another hour of searching finally revealed an address for a Jake and Siren Hart household. She remembered Jasper complaining about Henry's parents once and his mom's unique name had stuck with her. Plugging the address into her GPS Mia found that if she drove the rest of the day and most of the night, she could get to the Hart household by the morning. So she finished her tea and started packing up her campsite.
Having finished packing Mia hooked her pink punch buggy onto the back of her truck. Hopping into the truck cab she headed out onto the highway, every mile bringing her closer to her family.
*A New Hero - A New Hero - A New Hero*
Having driven through the night Amelia was exhausted as she pulled up to Henry's home in the suburbs of Swellview. Swallowing the final dregs of her now cold coffee, Mia stumbled out of the truck and up to the front door. Reaching out she grasped the knocker and banged it multiple times. Shifting back and forth she became nervous while she waited for someone to answer the door. Plenty of painful what-ifs began to race through her head. What if they hadn't been sent back. What if they didn't know her. What if she had driven for hours on end for no reason! Just then the door opened revealing a familiar sleepy blonde, cutting off her downward spiral.
"Can I helllllp you" yawned a sleepy Jasper. Taking a deep breath and drawing up all of her courage Mia dived right in. "Hi I'm Amelia Jones and I'm looking for Henry Hart".
Hearing this Jasper's jaw dropped in shock. "Mia! You're ok! Oh my gosh how did you find us?" Laughing Mia hugged him tightly.
"It's good to see you Jasper. Can I come in?"
"Yeah, yeah of course! Please make yourself comfortable. I'll go wake up Hen and Char".
Jasper ran up the stairs while Mia made her way over to the comfortable looking couch. She had to admit the Hart's had a pretty sweet set up. She especially loved the backless bookcase. She could hear people bustling around upstairs but was quickly losing the battle of staying awake due to her sleepless night. Just as she was closing her eyes a blond blur and a loud voice caught her attention. "Who are you and why are you in my house!" Screamed the little angry blur. Focusing her eyes the blur turned out to be a little girl who was probably 10 or 12 years old. This was probably Piper - Mia's sleep addled brain suggested. "Well! Are you going to answer me?!"
"Hi, I'm Mia and I'm a friend of your brother's... I..." she was cut off as Henry finally bounced down the stairs.
"Piper please leave her alone! I apologize for her interrogation. Jasper tells me you are exhausted from your drive." Such a sweet boy. Henry always put others before himself, unfortunately that also occurred when it would harm him. Luckily Charlotte and Jasper were on the case to shake the habit out of him.
"I'm fine Hen. Piper here was just worried about a stranger in her house. How was she to know that we are friends." Henry gave Piper a hug and sent her off to her room to get ready for the day.
Mia finally started to relax as Henry pulled her into a hug, but something was still missing. Charlotte's familiar shriek sounded from the top of the stairs and Mia laughed as she was suddenly engulfed by a hug from behind. Her heart was so light now that she was back with her team. "I am so sorry to ask this, but do you have any coffee? I drove through the night from Stevens Point and feel like I am going to fall over."
This quickly had the three of them springing into action. Jasper and Henry ran over to start a pot of coffee and breakfast while Charlotte got comfortable on the couch with Mia. "It's so good to see you Mia we were so worried! We had no way to find you. How did you find us?"
Taking the mug of coffee and a Danish from the boys Mia settled in to tell them all that had happened while the team had been apart. "Well I freaked out when I woke up since I had no idea how I was going to find y'all. I spent a good portion of the day scouring the internet for a mention of 'kid danger' in hopes of finding out where y'all were based. I finally found an article about you defeating someone named Drex and getting superpowers." The group winced at the mention of the villain. Apparently, he was a sore topic for this group. "Once I found out the town y'all lived in I had to find a phonebook for Swellview. From there I found the Hart's address, packed up my campsite, and drove through the night in order to get here. Speaking of which is it ok for me to park my truck in the street? Y'all don't have an HOA right? Those HATE me".
Laughing Henry reassured her, "I don't think we have an HOA and with the number of crazy things that happen in this town I think that you parking your camper outside is fine". It was at this point the Piper decided to rejoin the conversation.
"Please tell me that she is not moving in as well! There is only so much room in this house people!"
"Piper! That is not a nice thing to say!"
"Whatever. I'm not sharing my bathroom with another person! I already have to deal with Mom bringing her tennis coach over all the time. She doesn't even play tennis!"
"Don't worry sweetheart. I'm not planning on moving in at the moment. I'll hit up a camping site. Swellview has to have one of those."
"Mia! We are not going to make you live on the other side of town! Piper can deal with another person in the house for a little bit."
"Shut up Jasper you just moved in officially yesterday!"
"Alright, everyone stop screaming. For now Mia can stay in her RV. We have some business to catch up on before we make any permeant living decisions" declared Char. "Piper do you have any plans for today?"
"I'm going to Janna's" she sniffed
"Ok, do you need a ride since I took your driver's license?"
"No Henry. I'll walk". She declared as she stomped out the door.
"Alright, I will just have to deal with her later. The plus side to having neglectful parents is that they are never home so we can talk freely".
"Great! I told y'all what I've been up to since we were sent to the past, what have y'all accomplished?' Mia listened attentively as Jasper gave her a run-down of what the trio had been up to since they were blasted into the past. "Y'all are really looking at Hiddenville! I told y'all that it seemed great!"
"You were so right. Char and I narrowed it down to two properties in Hiddenville that will work. We just need you and Henry to help us pick one."
"Awesome Let's see them!" Charlotte pulled up the two properties on Zillow. "Here are the two we are looking at. They both are serious fixer uppers, which would allow us to design the Danger Zone how we want. What it really comes down to is whether or not we want to be on the water with woods or have woods with mountains. Any preferences so far?"
"Having a lake nearby would be great for my garden. It's also a pain to try and garden on rocky terrain. I vote lake property."
"I back Henry, the woods and lake provide for natural barriers and offer great protection for the Danger Zone when villains inevitably discover its location" added Jasper. "What do you think Mia?"
"I like the water property too. It's closer to town which means less time installing tubes and the like for Team Danger activities. Plus it's a mansion with a supes cute well and plenty of room for Hen's gardens, Jasper's studio, my library and Char's study!"
"Alright! We are all onboard for the lake property! I'll call the relator and start negotiating a price" decided Charlotte. "That way we can have a better idea of how much we need to lift off Ray". With the plan in place Mia crashed on the couch hoping to catch a little shut eye while the group waited on their next step.
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