Shadowing The Pros
Another one of Jack’s classes starts and he seems to have an announcement for his students.
“You have all been making great strides forward in your training and I think you are all now prepared for a new challenge.” He is as enthusiastic about this as he usually is. “We are going to sign you all up for a superhero shadow program. You shall be interns to these heroes for the next week starting tomorrow.”
Violet raises her hand.
“Do we get to choose the hero that we would like to shadow? If so, I have a few ideas myself.”
“No you don’t.” Jack responds. “We already have a hero organization that agreed to take you all in as interns for the next week. Tell me, class. Have any of you heard of the Central Hero Society?”
Violet raises her hand again.
“Does anybody besides Violet have an answer?”
Violet puffs her cheeks angrily before lowering her hand.
Love slowly puts up her hand.
“Yes Lev.” Jack responds. Love has got to say something about her name in the school’s system soon enough, but she isn’t ready for that yet. Instead she brushes this off and answers the question.
“...That would be Headmaster Quentin’s old superhero organization that he started before he retired from hero work.”
“Correct, and since you mentioned Isaac that reminds me. This team will specifically be run by Isaac’s daughter Isabella otherwise known as Little Miss IQ. You will all meet together with Isabella’s team tomorrow and she will inform you about the rest of the plan from there.” Jack explains. “Okay. That is all I have for you today. Class dismissed.”
Jack’s class met in front of the school the next morning. Since Jack doesn’t have to be here for this he opted to take the rest of the week off.
They are eventually joined by Angella and the students of class two.
Ash decides to start a conversation.
“Hey Ms. DeLite. I thought that this was only going to be only for our class.”
“Did Jack not tell you? Oh, of course he didn’t. That is so like him.” She tries to keep a calm composure while her anger subsides about the lack of caring from her co-educator. “No. This will also include my class. I will not be going with you all though. I am just here to see you off.”
“...I’m sorry for what happened in the arena when we first met. Would you like to start over?” Love extends out her hand.
Ori doesn’t say anything. She just drags her thumb across her own neck in a slow motion like she was pantomiming a knife.
Love gulps and decides to head back to where her friends are to wait with them.
Eventually a vehicle does show up to pick all of them up. It is a big black van with the letters CHS on the side.
The students get in and are driven to Central Hero Society’s main office.
When they get there they enter the building and are greeted by one of the team’s members. She has long orange hair with bangs covering one of her eyes and is wearing a small straw sunhat, a floral patterned green blouse, gardening gloves, and blue jeans.
“Hello students. I am Gloriosa Gardener, but you might know me better as…”
Before Gloriosa can finish her sentence Violet cuts her off.
“You are Wallflower, correct?”
“...Huh…It seems like you all have been doing your research. Well, I am here to take you towards the training center. There you will meet up with the rest of the members on my team.”
Gloriosa walks the students to the training center.
“Hello SUPER students!” Isabella greets them. “I am Isabella Quentin, the daughter of your current headmaster, but you can call me Little Miss IQ!” She does a cute pose that involves sticking out her tongue and doing a peace sign as she says her hero name.
She is wearing a bowler hat that is similar to that of her father with long curly pink hair. She is wearing a sleeveless black suit with a pink shirt underneath.
“Alright team! Introduce yourselves!”
Gloriosa steps up first.
“Hey kids. We’ve already met, but just to reiterate I am Gloriosa Gardener, but you can call me Glori for short if that is easier to remember. As you may know I have the power to control plants.”
Next up is a ten foot tall viking-looking man with a long curly brown beard and wearing a metal helmet, a blue unbuttoned shirt, black shorts, and sandals.
“Greetings lads and lassies. They call me Fredrik Njord, but you might know me better as Bellows. He gestures to a giant horn that he was carrying over his shoulder. “I have breath that can cause a mighty gale, and this helps focus that into a wallop of an attack.”
After that is a person who appears to be alien in origin. They have long flowing hair in the color of space and constellations along with floating hair poofs with rings floating around them, pinkish skin, and a purple monk's robe. They are holding a stuffed toy in the shape of a gray alien.
“Nebulon!” Nebulon introduces themselves. They don’t know English let alone other earth languages that well.
Gloriosa decides to take over introducing them.
“This cutie here is Nebulon. They are a powerful extraterrestrial being with the power to control astral bodies. I know that may seem kind of scary, but we keep them on our side…” Gloriosa pulls a candy out of her pocket. “Using candy.”
She flicks the candy in the air like she is flipping a coin. Nebulon floats toward the candy and catches it in their mouth.
“Yum! Yum!” They say while happily chewing the candy.
Lastly we have a man who has light blue skin and pitch black eyes with long dark spiky hair and a black jumpsuit.
“I’m Urchin.” He says in a monotone voice. “And this is my power.”
His team takes a step back from him. He puts his right hand up in front of him. His fingers grow out into long dark claws.
As he retracts his claws Isabella walks back to the front of the group.
“You will be divided into four groups of three and each group will be shadowing one of us while we go on patrol this week.”
She uses her psychic powers to float a clipboard into her hands.
“Alrighty! Now to organize you all into teams”
She looks down at her clipboard.
“First up, Ash Burns, Calder McHail, and Zahid Zahir will be teaming up with Bellows. Next, we have Maka Sharktooth, Shiro Long, and Zypp Sunbeck who will team up with Urchin. After that, Candi Kane, Samara McNeil, and Takeru Takao will join Gloriosa and Nebulon. Finally, Lev Hart, Violet Newton, and Ori Sawano! You're with me!”
She lowers her clipboard.
“Any questions?” Some hands are raised, but she doesn’t acknowledge any of them. “Okay! Good! Get together in your respective groups and get ready to attack the day!”
They all form into groups that consist of their assigned teams and prepare for the first patrol.