Hero High 3: A New World

Aaron slowly leaned back and while placing his boot covered feet on the table. “Gosh don’t everyone act like they’ve seen a ghost at once. Yes uncle it’s me. Uncle Blyze I think that would be due to that little stun you guys pulled in New York. Whatever you guys did pulled me back here. Glad to see some of us have moved on.” Aaron eyes shifted over toward Rock. The scar over his eye flashed a bright pink for a few seconds. “Besides that it’s not important how I’m here. Just know mother you didn’t hurt me.”

lance silent again at a lose for words winced firgurign he was implying it was his fault

Blayze nodded abit " i see that would seem to make sense"

Damn Gaku thought as he seen that Sam had to leave ever since the day he met her he hasn't been able to speak with her. Well mostly because of the Strike Force thing she had did. Gaku felt extremely attracted to Sam not because of her looks but his Dragoon instinct that tells him she's the one. The bonus was that she was really cute but he just wanted to get to know her more at least. Gaku suffered from love at first sight as a lot of Dragoons do and they end up trying their hardest to be with that person._After Sam left Gaku had sat where she was sitting about to eat. He then took each carton of milk and juice and poured it into his tray looking as if he was going to waste it. Gaku put his hands in his tray picking up a jelly like ball of milk and juice putting it in his mouth in one go. After he was finished he threw his tray away and walked to his room . After making it to his door and opening the door he walked straight to the bathroom heading into the shower. Gaku turned on the shower washing himself up he had fell asleep in it with his mouth open as if he was some animal. The water that went into his mouth became jelly like filling and over flowing

Andrew was beyond shocked. Aaron was here. In the present. After his parents suffered a miscarriage and subsequently split up. It didn't make sense to him. Not one bit.

He looked at Blayze. "How would that make sense? Regardless of the fact that a mini-dimension was created, I can't figure out how or why Aaron would be able to cross over from non-existence. Especially if his parents aren't together."

Caleb, Naomi and Simon, for once, sat in stunned silence. They couldn't believe their eyes. They all remembered the fallout of Aaron's "death." How depressed Janet became and how broken Lance was. Yet here he was, sitting in front of everyone. All relaxed and confidant. It was stupefying.

Daniel was leaning against the back wall listening to the meeting when the man in question walked in, everyone seemed shocked to see this boy was alive or rather existed at all. of course Daniel didn't have a clue what was going on. "We know there are many different dimensions in existence right, So wouldn't it be possible for This boy to have come from a dimension where his mother didn't have a miscarriage and he still existed? I wonder..." Daniel said to himself. He realized that he was speaking out loud and was embarrassed, "just a thought really, I haven't a clue if that's possible or even whats going on..." he said trying to disappear.

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Zero walking around the campus reading the notes that Zach gave her, she had dropped the box off at her room and hid it somewhere no one would be able to find it. The hybrid mindlessly made her way down to the field where a few students were doing homework or looking out into the field, she looked too see what was going on and found Hunter showing off. "Guess some things never change," she said with a smirk. Zero sprinted down to the field a few yards behind Hunter, she stood there for a minute, he didn't seemed to notice her. "So your still an attention whore huh?"

“Ding ding ding. “ Aaron announced. “ What your name is Mr you must have been listening while everyone else was hearing. Allow me to repeat myself. “ So from what I understood from the convo in the jet THIS world is about to flip into what WOULD have been my future or should I say MY REALITY. When I was pulled into this word I came threw the astral plane as psychic energy and merged with the fragments of the Aaron of this world, or what should have been him. So I’m am the son of Lance and Janet of both worlds in a way. Your Aaron didn’t have these.” Aaron stood up pointing to his eye and then pulled his shirt off reveling a tattoo of a glowing firebird. “Your Aaron was able to freely use his powers. Me on the other had need this scare and tattoo to help release built up energy. Even more so now that I’m both Aaron’s now. “ Aaron turned his head toward Lance. “What a hint of emotion? It wasn’t your fault either Lance. As for your question Andrew your not psychic so you wouldn’t understand. We never truly die if we leave any fragment of ourselves within the astral plane. This is achieved by us simply entering the plane. There our fragments help make up the plane and give it a the energy it needs to remind. That’s how telepaths are able to shift everything there. Now that we’ve established that I’m in fact the body of another being and the mind of yours Aaron can we get to planning on how to save this universe?”

Rock blinking she looks at him "Whats sad is I think I understood that." she says "so is this a kick someones *** save this universe, get some 'magical' item and save the universe, what kind of save the universe are we talking about" she asks

Bonnie listening

Kaida heard lance is back, so she came looking for him. She heard he came here to the school. She heads in looking for him, silent as always.

lance frowned abit at the remark " suppose i deserve that..." he muttered the shock wearing off

Aaron raised his eyebrow at Rock. “Glad someone does. I don’t remember getting questioned down like this last time I was here.” He let out a slight chuckle which faded just as fast as it came. “ Listen I just know what I heard on that jet. You all believe something big is coming right? It just so happens to be I’ve made it back in time to help my Mom and Dad out along with the rest of my family here. Anyway to address my father.” Aaron turned back around to face Lance. “You did for the past. I was in energy form on that jet. I saw they way you acted towards this young lady. Even though I’m a bit jealous you never showed me that kind of emotion till the end I’m glad to see you’ve been doing it for her. That’s no sarcasm at all father. In my world you, mom and these of the family over threw the government making it safe for all people to live. While I’m on the subject of family where is Uncle Ben and Andy?”

While Aaron explained it pretty well, Andrew was still fuzzy on the details. But he decided to shake it off and get back to the matter at hand. "Umm, I'm glad to see you either way it goes, Aaron. I'm sure you'll want to send some time with, umm, ahem, Lance and Janet. But Aaron's right. We have some serious issues.

"First, lemme answer your questions. Ben is on one of his magical walkabouts. There's no telling when he'll be back. As for Andy, he should be in class right now. I'm sure he'll want to see you when he gets out.

"Now for your question, Hit. While you were out, Simon pushed past his abilities and, what do you call it, Simon?"

Simon, in a very animated manner, cleared his throat and stood up. "Shadow hopping." And then he sat back down.

"Right," Andrew chuckled. "Simon shadow hopped from New York to this school in California to get more energy bars. Then you and Sam got up on that brigadoon that Bonnie made to heal Uriah when he was juiced up. A stray blast knocked you two out but the Hive was defeated. You two were out until we all got back to the school. Does that answer your question, Hitosu?"

Hitosu nodded to Andrew's reply "That answers part of my question is the Hive still more of a threat or is it completely over?"

"Based on the info that Energía sent over, the Hive has been obliterated. Julian will be sending the details over via faxing. But other than that, is there any other questions?" Andrew looked around the room.

Hunter stopped his routine at the sound of Zero's voice. He turned and grinned. The dark shroud around the end of his limbs all disappeared. "What? A guy can't train himself without being criticized?" He laughed, wiping sweat from his forehead. Hunter went to grab his shirt, and sunglasses, along with his scarf. He put each of them on, and turned back to Zero. "There really is nothing to do here at the moment. While lame old Strike Force gets to go fight with strong guys, and be in actual danger, I'm stuck here, sparring with the air..." Hunter didn't realize how backwards his last statement had sounded, but he liked the thrill of being in danger, and he loved fighting even more. "You know what would be awesome Zero? If I started doing secret missions by myself..." He grinned and nodded. "Whaddya think?"

Zero turned away with a half cocked smile, "So you don't want to be on my super secret team then? Well I guess it can't be helped and we were going to move out tonight."

Hunter scratched his head in confusion. He walked over in front of Zero, and looked down at her, returning the half cocked smile. "Super secret team? You have a super secret team?" He chuckled a bit at the thought of Zero forming a group. When he had first met her, all they did was argue, and he was sure she did with others too. "Who's in this super secret team, Zero?"

Zero crossed her arms, "well if I told you that then it wouldn't me a secret now would it. If you came you will meet them." she saiod failing to tell him it wasn't really a team but more of a group of kids wanting to do hero work. Zero walked pass the boy slowly, "it's almost time for us to meet up, are you coming or what," she said as her tail flicked around like a playful cat.

Hunter cocked an eyebrow, not really sure if she was serious, but what was the harm in going with her. He shrugged and sighed. "I guess so..." Hunter watched her tail as it moved in front of him. Like any teenage boy he found himself 'checking her out'. It was true... Hunter was attracted to Zero, but he couldn't tell her yet, at least until he knew it was mutual. He followed her to wherever she was going..

Andrew clapped his hands together. "Okay, then. On to the major stuff. Things are in motion. What we heard the General and Lieutenant say, how supers shouldn't exist, is how a lot of people are going to feel after New York."

"How would you know that, Andrew," Bonnie asked. "I mean, we did save a lot of people."

"We did. No one's going to say other wise," he responded. "But for a lot of people who don't have superhuman abilities, they're going to assume that it was a super. And why wouldn't they? I mean, who else could cause an attack that size with something so weird and unheard of?"

"The government," Caleb tried. "I mean, the Hive did attack supers. They were it's primary targets." Many of the assemble agreed.

Andrew shrugged his shoulders. "While that's true, I don't know if the government would be able to cook something like that up with out our knowing. But I do know that if I were a human with no powers, I'd point fingers to the people who are popping up out of the wood works now. People who can do things no one should be able to do.

"People who can enter your mind and make you do whatever they want you to do. People who can walk through fire and not die because their bodies heal themselves. People who can drain you life force with just a simple touch. People who can make just about anything happen with just a few spoken words. People who can control the various aspects of nature."

"But most of us were born that way," Sam said.

"And some of us were created like that," Rock added. "We didn't have a choice in the matter."

Nodding and gesturing around the room, Andrew said, "We know that and we accept that. But what if you were one of those people who aren't like us? People who don't see a kid flying all over the place or some man walking through a wall all the time. What would you think?

"Would you think it possible for a girl to be created in a petri dish and then have her grow up in a vat all her life? And then, that same girl was experimented on to give her super powers for whatever reasons."

Rock shrunk back into Lance's arm. She couldn't answer the questions. While it sounded normal to her, mainly because that was her life, it would have sounded like something from a comic book to her if she were someone else.

Andrew looked around the room as he spoke. "Jordan, the demi-god, is a mythical creature; Tori, the cyborg, is a science fictional government experiment; Simon, the shadow creature, is from another dimension; I'm an genetically enhanced version of something that was already more than human. Katt and DJ are aliens while Ben, Daniel, Lance and Sam all possess magical powers from fairy tales."

"We get it, Andrew," Katt injected. "We're all weird or freaks or imaginary."

"Well, I wouldn't use those words," he said.

"But someone else would," Katt clarified.

"And already has," Simon added.

It was quite for a moment. Everyone was letting that seep into their minds. DJ was the next to say something. "But they just don't understand us. If we were somehow able to explain to the masses-"

"They wouldn't let us," Naomi interrupted. "The masses wouldn't let us explain a damn thing."

"Why would you say that," DJ demanded.

"Because they don't understand us. And they wouldn't even try to," she answered.

"And we all know that people try to destroy what they don't understand," Caleb grumbled.

DJ, with his mouth agape and a few others stared at him. They all knew that Caleb was right. They just couldn't believe it was coming down to that.

"But the government....," DJ tried. "They approved the school. Doesn't that mean they accept of us?"

"DJ, they're making us register ourselves and what we can do after we complete our training here," Naomi explained. "I don't think that means they accept us. I think that means they want to know what we can do and how to deal with us."

DJ was getting a confused yet saddened look in his eyes. "But why?"

"Because they fear us," Lance surmised.

"And with good reason," Rock added as she hopped up. The room started to shake and the metal walls rippled as the girl balled her fists. Lance yanked her shirt and Rock fell back into her seat. "I'm just saying," she said, sporting her characteristic devious smile.

"So what are we supposed to do, Andrew," Janet asked.

"the only thing that comes to mind right now is to just cool our jets. Lay low. Everyone needs their rest anyways. And regardless of what some military brass says, I think we all did a damn good job."

"So why do we all feel like crap," Hitosu asked.

"Maybe it's because of this depressing meeting that Andrew called," Jordan smiled. Tori smacked him on his shoulder and then winced afterwards. She smacked his godly body with her human hand.

"We needed to get some things out on the table," Andrew defended himself.

"Yeah, I know. But it was still depressing. I say we take things as they come. The government's busted through our doors before and they always got their asses handed to them. And that was way back in the day. We're all plenty more stronger now." Jordan started cracking his knuckles and his cocky smile spread across his face.

Simon cleared his throat. "Jordan, that was all before people knew about us. I think if they come this time, they're gonna have something their very longs sleeves that's gonna...."

"Gonna what, Ray," Jordan inquired.

"I really don't know but I'm pretty sure that it won't be pretty."

"Well like he said," Tech jumped in. "We shouldn't worry about it until there's something definite to worry about."

"And I for one can go for some of that rest Andrew spoke of," Blayze yawned and stretched.

Andrew smiled. "First, I think we should all congratulate Strike Force for doing as good as they did. This was the team's first away mission and they did everything the way we would've handled it. They were and did risk themselves to help and save millions of people. And because of that, there will be no classes for a week starting on Monday."

Everyone acknowledged and congratulated the teens. Caleb and Hitosu both cheered at the announcement of no classes and many of the assemble laughed. The mood lightened almost effortlessly.

"So is this the end of this meeting," Rock asked.

"Yeah," Andrew nodded. "Everyone's dismissed."

Rock looking at Lance "we arent that scary" she says calmly walking out with lance hungry

Bennu entered the dorm room silently, gently closing the door behind her. She took a few steps inside, and then stopped. Pryce had been sleeping most of the day, ever since they got back from the almost mission. He hadn't gotten any sleep the night before, and was extremely tired after having to talk about his past, so Bennu was surprised to see him sitting at the desk, holding the necklace with Blank Jewel in his hands. He didn't look quite as tired now, but his expression was weary, as if he'd been having nightmares.

"Hey," he said, flicking his eyes in Bennu's direction. "How was class?"

"Alright," Bennu returned. "I picked up your homework, and let the teacher's know you were sick." Bennu deposited her backpack on the desk, removing a few folders and selecting the appropriate pages. As she did, she tilted her head to get a better look at the necklace in Pryce's hand. The jewel was still a pure white, and still looked unsettling in the black frame.

"I thought you said that thing was dangerous?" Bennu asked, eyeing it closely.

"It is. It can't hurt me, though, and I have to make sure it won't hurt anyone else." Pryce gave a weak grin. "If I'm gonna live, so is everyone else."

Bennu returned the smile more warmly. "That's the spirit. Are you going to be ready for tonight's adventure?"

Pryce put the Blank Jewel in the desk drawer, slamming it shut, and stood up. "Yeah, I suppose so," he sighed.