Hero High 3: A New World

Daniel was a laid back kinda gentleman and would normally shrug off insults but this, this was pushing it. Everyone in this room has risked their lives for this country nay the whole freak'n world, and then this pompous ******* and his incompetent assistant have the nerve to come and insult them while most of Strike Force lay unconscious. Daniel couldn't stand for this anymore, his emotions got the better of him and magic energy start to manifest around him, he hadn't lost control like this in years. "Excuse me, I need some air." Daniel walked pass Slightly and Hawthorne holding his emotions back and getting his power back in check. He walked out side cradling his broken arm, he sat down and took a breath of city smoggy air and began to say a spell, his arm was mended and his cuts healed or rather it seemed as if they were. The spell was only a quick fix it spell and would last only about five hours then the wounds would come back all at once, the pain would be intense but he had to be ready in case something happened, there was no telling what was coming next.

Gaku had thought that Zero seemed a little upset with him and he didn't know the reason or how he could make her feel better. So he followed her to the deans office when he heard Yukari talk about her powers this excited Gaku and walked along side Yukari placing his arm around her. "well your going to be my new training _partner and my new good friend are you okay with that."

Originally posted by The Big O
"No ones killing anyone," a medium-built, balding and aging man announced as he walked into the base. He was followed by Julian, Ghost and a middle-aged, short-haired, stern looking woman.

"Ladies and gentlemen," Julian announced, "I'd like you to meet General John Slightly and Lieutenant Marrienne Hawthorne."

"Save the intros, Jacobs. I'm sure everyone's been informed. Whose this ghoul?"

"This is Wraith, the self-proclaimed ruler of hell," Julian answered.

General Slightly eyed Wraith incredulously. "Hn, he certainly looks the part." Slightly appeared to be unfazed by the king's appearance. In fact, Slightly seemed to be more annoyed than anything. "Anyways, we're here to help you...people."

"Your plan worked," Julian smiled. "We have techs all over the place examining the civilians. Although, what really concerns me is the fact that most of the people as examined so far are supers."

"Yeah. We already knew that," Andrew said as he was was helping Simon get DJ onto a gurney. "The Hive was programed to attack Supers from the get go. How we see it, the normal civilians were just a way to build up its numbers."

"And we also know who was behind it," Simon added. "A man by the name of Bill Thresher. He actually was the Hive, so you might wanna check that out."

"Look, we don't take orders from your kind," Marrienne barked.

"Our kind," Andrew questioned as he folded his arms. "What do you mean by 'our kind'?"

"She means we don't take orders from kids who think their heroes," the General responded. Andrew took notice of the look Slightly gave to Hawthorne.

"For some reason, I don't think that's what she meant," Andrew muttered as he shot Janet and Simon a look, as well.

Julian cleared his throat. "We'll make sure to check that out. But in the meantime, we need you guys to help with the clean up effort."

"But what about our research," Tech asked. "Julian, you know we like to research after we encounter something, for a lack of better a word, weird."

"Plus, it was attacking supers," Blayze inserted. "So that's kinda our jurisdiction."

"You have no jurisdiction, son," the General said. "You work at a school full of super powered munchkins. I don't recall anyone saying that you lot could go off and gallivant around the world."

Andrew started to say something but was cut off by Hawthorne, "And you can save the 'government endorses us' s***. Just because a few misguided chumps gave you the thumbs up to train a bunch of freaks doesn't mean everyone is on board with that."

Simon, Andrew, Janet and the villains that were present all looked at the two military brass. "Exactly what're tryna say," Simon asked.

Julian sighed as Lieutenant Hawthorne spoke, "If it were all up to me, none of this would've happened because none of you would even exist."

There was a long pause in the base.

"So this is one of those situations," Simon finally said. "One super does something wrong and its every super's fault."

"Yeah. That's the gist of it. And if it hadn't been this Hive/Bill Thresher guy, it would have been these chuckle heads over here," Hawthorne asserted while pointing to Wraith and the assembled villains. Or some other super powered freak."

"Alright, I'm about the get offended," Simon said. His eyes flashing to jet black and then back to normal.

"Okay, everyone just needs to calm down," Julian tried. "A catastrophe was resolved. Tensions are high and-,"

"No, Julian," Andrew interjected. "We were already expecting this. We can deal and do our job, I mean, help out the regular people."

"Actually," Slightly inserted, "You've all done enough. You're all relieved. We have the Ghost Squadron here in case we need the help of any superhumans."

Andrew saw Energía looking at his computer. He had an angry expression on his face but other than that, he was silent. Ghost had an unreadable expression and he was looking straight ahead. Andrew figured his team wasn't gonna get any help from the Ghost Squadron and Julian seemed to be just a novelty.

"All Strike Force members and heroes," Andrew spoke into his com-link. "Report back to base. We're done here."

"Sir, if you would just reconsider-," Julian attempted.

"We have more than enough man power to clean this city ourselves, Jacobs," Slightly said. From the tone, Julian knew to leave the subject alone.

"Lets get our stuff," Tech said to Blayze. He was already walking towards the lab.

"I'll meet you guys back at the school," Julian said as they walked past him. He had to talk to everyone. He had to explain this.

Lance was seething this military clown has no i dea how stupid he was being "we might be freaks but with out us you fools would have to keep running with your tails between your legs after all thats what you people are good for" he stated coldly stopped blayze to talk with him a moment then stalked off to the jet
BLayze frowned abit and caught up with tech to pack their stuff up

Rock staying by Lance, grinning. She is vastly amused by how he reacted.

Finally arriving back at the base, Caleb saw that the jet was already running and the base was empty of Strike Force's and the teachers' equipment. In fact, he saw Simon and Naomi carrying the metallic sphere that everyone believed held an unconscious Liam and Leon. Andrew was standing by the ramp of the jet and he was talking to Energia. Caleb made an invisible cone against his ear in hopes of eavesdropping on the two.

"....It has nothing to do with you or your team, Energia. We knew that there were people out there who wanted us caged. Or worst. The school has dealt experienced invasions from various factions before."

"But not just after you helped saved millions of people at the risk of your own lives. I can't believe that they'd say something like that in front of all of us. They seem so ungrateful. And to set the record straight, they aren't the ones who formed the Ghost Squadron. We just answer to them because we're a military based team. Chain of command, you know."

"You don't need to explain yourselves. We understand. The fact that the General and Lieutenant said what they said is no surprise. A lot of people are going to hate supers after this. We just have to get out of here before they actually do decide to try to lock us supers up. And by the way, the good General and Lieutenant do realize that the Ghost Squadron are all supers, as well, don't they?"

Both Andrew and Energia laughed. For some reason, both their moods lightened. "Well, it was good working with you guys again," Energia said. "But we really need to stop teaming up like this. We all should hang just for fun, you know."

"No offense," Andrew smiled, "but some of your teammates seem a little stuffy."

"Aww, hommes. Ghost can be...fun, when there isn't work to be done. He cracks a smile every once in a while."

Again, both heroes laughed. Before Andrew and Energia's conversation was over, however, Simon asked for Caleb's help with something. While walking over to Simon, Caleb had mixed emotions about two things.

He was happy that the day was saved and that Leon and Liam were found. It was weird, but he was glad that they were unconscious. That meant that they were still alive. A little healing and they'd be just fine. But considering what he heard Andrew and energia say about the coming hatred, he couldn't deny his fear and own hatred.

Would people really be so ungrateful that they'd hate the very ones that saved their lives? And what would happen when people acted out their feelings of hatred. What were they willing and capable of doing? Caleb tried to shake the thoughts out of his head, but it was too late. They were already taking root and they weren't going anywhere.

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Sitting around a large and long oval table was a group of men and women- some human and some something else. They were watching the events unfold in New York on a big screen. Most of them had manila folders in front of them.

"So that imbecile, Bill Thresher, actually did what he said he'd do," one of the human-looking men said.

"Yessss," a snake-like creature agreed. "I believe we are all surprisssed."

"Gentlemen, my creations never fail. And they always serve their purpose." The woman who said this was clad in a white lab coat and wore glasses. She had shoulder length, red hair and her face was horribly scarred.

"Very good," the man sitting at the head of the table said. "Phase two is complete. Have a superhuman destroy a city and kill hundreds of people and lines divide. Fear and hatred abound and pretty soon, a war will start."

The assemble mass all agreed.

The team of villains stood out next to their own jet which was slightly smaller than the schools. Ashlocke walked over toward the hero jet with his arms up n the arm. “Andrew, Simon. You heard as what was said as well as we did. We both know the confines of peace won’t last long with the humans. I recognize some of you are human with the gift of super powers I welcome you all to join the Links in the event of a all out war with the them. Think about it for awhile.”

“Alrighty bossman. She’s ready to soar .Where should I set a course for?”

“L.A Nova.”
“Till then heroes; good bye”
Within moments the small grayish jet was air born and heading to L.A

Yukari ducked under Gaku's arm and looked at him while walking backwards, "Whoa there buddy, we can be friends but training partners? that's a weird thing to ask someone you just met." She turned around and caught up to Zero, "And besides, Zero is already my training partner," she says smiling. Zero raises a brow, "But didn't we just meet?" she asks sarcastically. Yukari laughed, "But we already fought so it makes it okay!" she replies. Zero shrugs her shoulders, "Can't argue with that logic I guess..." she says.

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Daniel helped the others pack up the jet and over hears the villains offer for alliance against the regulars, he is sadden at the idea because there was some logic to Ashlocke's madness. The wizard makes his way over to Andrew and Simon, "Hopefully it doesn't come down to that..."Daniel says then puts his hand out for Andrew, "Sorry, with all this commotion going on I didn't get a chance to properly say hello. My name is Daniel I attended Hero High before all the craziness broke out."

lance walking along side rock into the ship "so runt we need to have a chat" he stated simply looking around to makesure it wwas alright to ask didnt wanna start a fight about this

Rock blinks at him "what about" she asks staying close by him, watching him nervously awaiting the topic of the chat, a bit worried he will say he doesnt want her around.

"been thinking about this sense the start of finding hte students while cant do it leagally seeing i dont really exist on record was thinking of having you stay with me... you know like be your gaurdian" sounded sheepish

Rock blinks "your wanting to adopt me?" she asks her surprise showing in her voice, she thought no one would ever want to adopt her. No matter what she still sees herself as a monster "why would you want to adopt the girl you called a monster on day one. I overheard you that day."

"that is what i said.... and i didnt mean it i was venting to blayze" said sheepish

She suddenly does something he has never seen her do, she jumps up and hugs his neck, he feels the moisture after he feels her shake lightly, she is crying. "thank you" she says softly.

Originally posted by starryknight
Daniel helped the others pack up the jet and over hears the villains offer for alliance against the regulars, he is sadden at the idea because there was some logic to Ashlocke's madness. The wizard makes his way over to Andrew and Simon, "Hopefully it doesn't come down to that..."Daniel says then puts his hand out for Andrew, "Sorry, with all this commotion going on I didn't get a chance to properly say hello. My name is Daniel I attended Hero High before all the craziness broke out."

"Please, try to control yourself, Simon," Andrew laughed. He shook Daniel's hand. "I do have to agree with Simon. I did think I recognized you. You were the kid who stayed to yourself? The other witch boy back before Hero High was so magical."

Originally posted by Lt_Champion
She suddenly does something he has never seen her do, she jumps up and hugs his neck, he feels the moisture after he feels her shake lightly, she is crying. "thank you" she says softly.

She lets go and dries her eyes "dont get used to it, It doesnt happen often" she grins looking at him "doesnt mean I am easing off the pranks." she says

Bonnie walks in after a moment "you two ready to go home" she asks Lance and Rock smiling

Inside the jet Janet sat with her arms crossed trying to figure out what was the sudden presences she had picked up during the amp-ing of Uriah’s powers. Whatever it was it brought with it a spike of psychic energy and then vanished.

Something undetectable had it’s eyes fixed on Lance, Rock and Bonnie.

Lance rolled eyes at rock " dear i seriously doubt ill be teachign at school again most likely the others are gonna ban me seeing im mostly trouble... i have other plans just in case" he stated shaking head to bonnie to answer her question not aware there being watched

Bonnie looks at him "mind if I come with you?" she asks lance "I'd rather not return to the school where they never accept me to begin with"

Rock grins "never said I'd Prank you only at the school"

Daniel scratched the back of his and and shook Andrew's hand with a nervous laugh, "Yeah haha, was a loner back then but I remember seeing all of you around campus and such..."He felt so awkward talking to them like this. Daniel took a deep breath and finally cut to the chase, "Not to be too forward or anything but uh, would you all allow me to tag a long back to the school? I could use some healing and a safe place to stay while I recharge." His quick fix spell would only last a few hours and after that his arm would re-break and all the wounds he'd receive would hit at once, hopefully he could control his self and not scream like a little girl when that happens, he thought to himself.