Sera reads the whole book, an entire weekend just in her dorm room. Crazy how an entire day can feel like minutes. The book spoke to her, it talked about Philosophy, war, love and hatred. However something stood out to her, In the book the hero has a villain story arc, for a while the hero becomes the villain persona called JOKER.
Sera: Joker, now where did I remember hearing this name, come on think.
Ugh I give up.
Sera puts the book away on her bedside table and walks out the room. She receives a text.
Sera: Oh, it's Remi, she needs help with an assignment, okay then.
Sera texts Remi back: Okay, on my way.
She bumps into Cecile on the way to Remi's dorm, shrugging it off as nothing. Cecile checks her phone to see if Elaine is in the dorm room. She then walks in the room and heads to Seraphina's bedside. She opens the drawer.
Cecile: There we go.
Flash back to a year ago when John just transferred to Wellston High.
Cecile: Lets see here, John, you come here, to the school with the most powerful people in the nation, on top of that you insist that you were homeschooled, and whenever I try to find out more information on you, the royals, administration, and even the feds pulled me in a room to shut down my article. They are definitely hiding something one hundred percent. I looked up his name and W H Doe came up, which means it's no coincidence that some cripple is being protected by all these big Whigs, he either A, has some dirt on them, and they can't kill him somehow, or B, he's pulling his punches. If I want any answers, I'm gonna have to find a copy of that book his dad wrote, something tells me that's the first clue.
Cecile in her head: I managed to track down where John lives by following him and Sera around at the mall. If those two are this close, that they would hang out despite their power difference, then it wouldn't be a surprise if he lent her the book. Since John most definitely has an ability that I'm unaware of, I'll have a better chance of finding it when Seraphina has it because John is more dangerous. He may be not as powerful but he's certainly more painful to deal with.
Cecile: Ahhh, jackpot!
Cecile pulls out her phone and takes a picture of the book, then she pushes the drawer back in and leaves the dorm room.
Later that afternoon Blyke, Isen, and John are all on Cod of Poop.
Isen: Hell yeah! let's gooo boys.
John: Yeah! we got the dub boys!
Blyke: Let's fucking gooooo, GET OUT OF MY LOBBY WORTHLESS TRASH, FUCK YEAH!
John: Holy shit dude Jesus it's just a game!
Isen: Bro, Peaches! (peaches is code word for when a parent is in the room, so no one is allowed to swear, in this case though it's best not to swear in a dorm full of people)
Blyke: Sorry sorry, that guy was being toxic so I just had all that built up.
Isen: You sure you're allowed to play video games, I feel like one of these days you're gonna activate your ability and blow up a monitor.
Blyke: yeah yeah yeah yeah, hey listen you guys should play some duos matches, Arlo needs me at the school for something.
John: Yeah, actually I got to get off as well. Isen we should go do some work on reckoning New Oklahoma.
Blyke leaves the chat.
Isen: John, we literally made a miniature version, it's burned in the back of our heads, we have all the sniper towers marked, all the Fleshy scare crow things marked, we know where there large groups are, and on top of that we also have like everyone except Elaine.
John: Hey, I wanna do this right, there is a reason why I haven't taken it on alone.
Isen freezes, remembering how strong John is and all the years the city has been empty.
Isen: John?
John: Yeah?
Isen: Why did you hide your powers, for real?
John: Isn't it obvious, my powers stick out like a sore thumb, people all around the world talk about The Golden God, he's basically Earth's strongest vigilante. If people know who he is, everything he goes near starts to become a target. That's also why I was pissed when Vaughn told you all. Well Arlo and Remi, but then Arlo and Remi just told you guys.
Isen: Oh yeah, that does make sense, I don't know it's just been kinda hard getting used to, to the point where my mind just forgets and just remembers you as a cripple.
John: Yeah well, keep acting like I am, cause I'm not the one who's gonna suffer if my identity gets out. The only way I could ever just relax with my ability is if somehow someone with the same power were to just appear.
Isen: Good luck with that.
John: Yeah...
Isen pauses, the two are now uncomfortable, in an attempt to make conversation Isen brings up Sera.
Isen: Hey John, what happened when we left between you and Sera on the roof?
John pauses, his thoughts race, the nightmare of a memory starts to play showing him fighting off Joker from Sera.
John to himself: No, I can't bring up Joker, not yet, he's my problem and my problem only.
Isen: Uhh, hello? Too soon?
John: Uhh yeah, no no I'm I don't know Isen it doesn't look great.
Isen: Oh jeez, what happened? If you don't mind spilling the beans.
John: Yeah well, she felt a little betrayed, we were really close you know.
Isen: How close?
John: You know, just close nothing crazy, You know ..ugh!
Isen giggles a little.
Isen: Hey man, don't worry it will all work out, just gotta be patient. She's only really open to you Remi and Elaine.
John: Yeah whatever, can we just start up another match, I wanna forget this ever happened.
Isen: Yeah sure bud. I'll do the reckoning some other time. Hey, you heard Arlo and Elaine were making out.
John: What, where did you hear about something like that.
Isen: I got my methods, guess they got really close recently.
John: Haha, just wait till we all meet up again, he's gonna get shitted on. Whatta Siiimp!
John hears a voice in his head.
Hahaha, oh I love Irony.
John out of confusion looks around to find the voice nothing but a figment of his imagination.
Isen: Yeah I know, I got a whole gig planned out that I'm gonna tell him when.
John: Haha, can't wait.
The two play video games for the rest of the night.
Meanwhile on the roof of Wellston High.
Arlo: Hey, hope you didn't have a hard time getting up here.
Blyke: No man while you have all the keys in the world, I just have to fucking wall jump with lasers.
Arlo: Oh good then ;), anyways I got to share this with you Elaine, and Remi, but since you're gonna be King next year when I graduate, I need you to be the one setting an example.
Blyke: Yeah of course, what is it?
Arlo: Headmaster Vaughn got a tip that there is a group of students running an underground Mafia, this includes things like students having to give up their lunch to certain people, to things like setting up black mail on us, on top of that there is a place were this group of individuals take people to torture weaker students.
Blyke: Oh God, that's just brutal.
Arlo: Yeah, you create a system where power is key, and those on the bottom struggle for what's left.
Blyke: Yeah no shit, figures that the government doesn't give these people the same rights as us, you get a couple bad eggs and the whole carton gets thrown away.
Arlo: Yeah well, it's crazy within the span of a week, you got the New Oklahoma city incident, John's identity, and now The Godfather of high school is going down.
Blyke: Yeah, hey how did a tip about this underground mafia thing get to Vaughn.
Arlo: Terrence, he was doing a thing for the news when he stumbled upon a group of students, they all were chatting about something like how they had a tight ring to run. Though I had to dig around for that part.
Blyke: Well, did he get a description of the people.
Arlo: Well, one of them detected his aura before he turned the corner. So he ran.
Blyke: Ohh, I see.
Arlo: Yeah, rough shit am I right.
Blyke: Yeah well, someone has to take care of it right.
Arlo: Glad I can count on your assistance. Remi has been so focused on New Oklahoma City that I'm not sure if she is gonna be any help.
Blyke: Yeah but Arlo, didn't you grow up in New Oklahoma City?
Arlo gets a glimpse of painful memories for a second.
Arlo: Yeah, and I would like to forget about it, I don't know what you guys are thinking, but doing this could start up something big, or at the very least you could get seriously hurt! HEY ARE YOU LISTENING!!!
Blyke: Woah jeez I was just asking. Calm down.
Arlo: Blyke, if you care about Remi, then ask her to drop the case, let John handle it, he's the only one strong enough to take back a city!
Blyke: Yeah, I'll try, she's just really stubborn.
Arlo: DO YOU LIKE REMI?
Blyke: What?
Arlo: Do you LIKE REMI?!
Blyke: Well uh, I...
Arlo looks at Blyke with a serious look, the kind that says, no demands that you give him a straight answer.
Arlo: Well, I think we know what the answer is.
Blyke: Huh?
Arlo: Oh don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about, we all see how you act around her, always agreeing with her naive ideas. Yet we all know how smart you really are.
Blyke: Yeah well, I don't have to tell you jack squat.
Arlo: You don't have to, I trust you will act what is best for her.
Arlo exits the roof, as he walks away, Blyke clenches his fists.
Blyke: oh yeah well, at least I let everyone know how much I care for her subtly, I don't go around acting like I'm too tough for feelings.
Arlo turns around to face Blyke.
Arlo: Cute, is that all you got for insults.
Blyke: Well it would just be a shame if Elaine never finds out that you actually like her and don't just like how she looks....
Arlo charges at Blyke with anger, his eyes glow a sinister blue, not a lapiz blush like Seraphina. He lunges at Blyke and punches him square in the face. Blyke uses his laser beam to propel himself back.
Blyke: Hey, is that all you got? Come on man I know you have a barrier.
Arlo looks at his clenched fist and Blyke's bloody nose, realizing he acted out of anger.
Arlo: At least I step into those who I care about lives when they are about to do something stupid.
Blyke: Yeah well, all we can do is our best, right? Plus it's not like she even cares about me like I do with her.
Arlo: You really are a child aren't you?
Bake starts to power up a laser beam. Arlo casually activates his barrier.
Arlo: When you like someone it doesn't matter how they feel back, if you already have a friendship you do everything in your power to keep that friendship going even if it means never taking it to a level you wanted it to go, because in the end that might be the very thing that destroys it. You care less about what you feel and more about how the recipient feels.
Blyke starts to power down.
Blyke: Woah, that sounded so wise, wait how would you know any if that....
Arlo gives Blyke a good hard stare.
Blyke: Woah, so that's what you were doing with Elaine.
Arlo: You had no idea how much baking we did (if you couldn't tell Alro really hates baking).
Arlo starts to walk off the roof.
Blyke in his head: But Arlo, you know it's not that simple, I can't do that to her, do you have any idea what she has gone through to even want to be a vigilante. You're asking me to break toys on Christmas Morning!
And Remi is the child waking up.
Blyke hops off the roof.
Blyke: What am I saying? Arlo is right. But this is more than about me and Remi, this vigilante thing is about doing what no one wants to do.
The Next Day.
Seraphina and Elaine are walking to class together.
Elaine: Hey, what happened between you and John, you guys seem distant, did something happen?
Sera: No, I'm just processing some things.
Elaine: Yeah well, you guys should really start talking again, you two always looked so cute together.
Sera: Ugh not this again, listen, nothing is going on between us, I promise. In fact, I'm not sure if I like this new John.
Elaine looks at Seraphina with sadness in her face.
Sera in her head: Why does that have to be the truth. He lied to me, so why do I even bother with him?
The two get to their class when the loudspeakers turn on.
Seraphina, will you please report to the main office.
Seraphina: Oh great, what's this about.
Five minutes later
Headmaster Vaughn: Seraphina, do you know why we called you down here.
Seraphina: No Headmaster.
Vaughn: Woah what's with the intensity, now I'm kinda nervous. Let me introduce you Miss Nadia, she's here on behalf of the authorities today. She is going to ask you a set of very simple questions today. No need to worry though, you'll be out of here in no time. Alright ladies, take it away.
Nadia: This is an official interrogation. You are expected to answer all questions honestly. Any false answers you provide will be detected and will result in immediate expulsion from Wellston Private High School. Is that understood by Miss Seraphina?
Seraphina takes all that in with a grain of salt.
Sera in her head: Psh, they're not gonna expel me.
Sera: Yes.
Nadia: Good, lets begin, now we were informed by an anonymous source that you had ownership of the book UnOrdinary. Is this true?
Sera: Yes.
Nadia: For how long have you had the book for?
Sera: For about a couple days now.
Nadia: And where, did you get this book from?
Sera's thoughts start to slow down.
Sera: Well... I, no that ass-
Nadia: Answer the question!
Sera in her head: Okay, no choice then. Besides, he can handle himself, he has "powers" after all. They won't punish a high ranker.
Sera: Jo-
Vaughn: Woah woah woah! Now we can't be snitching on others now. You know the rules, snitches get stitches.
Nadia: Well, it's important we find the culprit who distributed this fil-
Vaughn: Sera! Do you mind if me and Miss Nadia talk in private.
Sera: Yeah sure, I'll be in the lobby.
Vaughn: Excellent!
She heads out of the room while the two discuss some "things" about "John".
Sera sits on the benches outside the office while she waits for her cue to come on back in.
30 Minutes later
John is chilling in class when he receives a text.
John in his head: Oh! it's Sera.
John gets a mix of excitement and nervousness. He reads the text.
Sera: Meet me by the school gates ASAP.
John rushes out of the class, the teacher calls his name to get him back, this gets Isen and Blyke's attention who happen to be two classes over. They both rush out to see what is going on. John sprints his way through halls and slides down stairs. He bumps into a low tier student. The student gets back up and tries to run after John, powering up with their green eyes, only to get decked by Blyke and Isen.
John in his head: This is it if I don't show up I might lose her.
John: Sera, hey wait! What's the luggage for?
Sera slaps John in the face again. She leaves a red mark on John's cheek.
John: What the heck, Sera just listens!
Sera: John, don't think I'm gonna let you off just because I got suspended for a month.
John: What, Why?
Sera: The office found out about UnOrdinary. They sent me home for the month.
John: What, how?!
Sera: Apparently it was an anonymous source.
John: That's a load of bull, if I ever find that person I'll...
He pauses, lost in his own words and thoughts.
John puts his hands on her shoulders.
John: Sera! This is serious, you could have gotten in serious trouble not even the Headmaster or your reputation could have gotten you out of. This whole thing started because of me.
Sera: Well none of that is relevant anymore, what matters is that both of us got through this relatively unscathed. This will be the last we ever hear of UnOrdinary. When I return after this month this whole thing will be behind us.
John: I guess that's true, listen, before you go I... wait, you're not mad at me.
Sera: Well I was but...
Sera pauses before speaking again.
Sera: John no, I owe you an apology, I didn't mean to hurt you, I just was scared of what you became, who you were, not realizing that you were protecting me, not seeing the bigger picture from a societal standpoint, you have an identity to protect, I was just thinking about myself, how you made me feel. And I thought you were gonna be different, than the amazing boy I first met.
John and Sera stop to look at each other, for what was a minute felt like an hour.
John: Hey, listen I...
Sera Puts her finger over John's mouth.
Sera: Shush now, listen, the important thing is that they won't be coming after you, I realized that you're still the cripple I know, and I don't want to lose that.
She goes to hug John, she squeezes him tightly, accidentally activating her ability and almost breaking a rib.
John: Ahh, Sera. Im....
Sera: oh, sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you like that.
John: hahaha, no worries, I've been through much worse.
Sera: Well tell me about it when I get home.
A loud honk startles the two of them.
Sera: Oh well that's my cue.
She steps into the car.
Sera: I'll text you when I get home.
John looks back at the school, doom and gloom surrounds the building, but John is ready to make lives for others that cross his way just as bad.
As John walks back into the building, Cecile is standing at one of the windows. She smiles as her purple eyes start to glow.
Cecile in her head: Okay then, let's see if you broke boy.
Later that day John was walking on campus when he heard a familiar voice.
Gavin: Hey you!
John looks behind him, Gavin is standing there with his stone ability activated
Gavin: Long time no see. I believe we still have some unfinished business.
John looks at Gavin in hatred, he quickly realizes the situation and snaps back into his cripple persona.
John: No I think you have the wrong guy buying!
Gavin: Hey get back here you little BITCH!
John and Gavin pursue in chase.
John: You're still caught up on the whole window thing? Look man if you keep dwelling on the past, you'll never be able to move forward!
John runs into a dead end.
Gavin: I got you now!
He drops a kick but John anticipates rushes towards him, he gets slightly behind and uses his leg to trip him. Then he throws his papers at Gavin, blinding him for a solid second.
Gavin: Why you little... You'll pay for that.
Gavin gets up and looks around in confusion. He spots John running away.
John in his head: If I can just get around this corner then I...
Gavin rushes up and jumps him, John however in an instinct uses part of his ability and flips Gavin right to his chest, Gavin now confused starts to struggle and panic. John moments later Remembers New Bostin right as he pulls Gavin's arm (going for a dislocation) , stops, and deactivates his ability. Gavin notices the second long pause and gets up, knocking John back and allowing Gavin to get the pin on John.
Gavin: Okay asshole, time to take back what's mine.
Gavin Continually beats John to the ground till his eye bruises. He kicks at his arm using his stone ability, resulting it to fracture and break.
Later that day in Remi's. Blyke and Remi are meeting up in Remi's dorm.
Blyke: Hey, you called me over here.
Remi: Yeah Blyke, I wanted to discuss your costume.
Blyke: Hey listen, I have to go on a "date" soon. I don't want to be late.
Remi freezes, her eyes widen, her hands clench.
Remi: With who?
Blyke: Woah woah, not like that, you know the spider witch. It's how I keep tabs on her you know?
Remi: Oh, Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
Blyke: It's okay, no hard feelings.
Remi: Hey come here I want to show you your new costume.
Blyke: Costume?
Remi: Yeah, you and I are gonna need to have something over us to hide our identities.
Blyke: Remi, you should really think over the whole super hero thing.
Remi: Let me guess, Arlo told you to tell me that.
Byke: huh?
Remi: Yeah, Arlo told me to do the same, he probably thinks we are just gonna get hurt, he forgets that we have something called "powers" and common sense. Yes we may not be able to win alone, but if we all work together we should win.
Blyke: Well, knowing how stubborn you are, I don't think I can convince you otherwise.
Remi: You didn't even try to argue.
Blyke: Okay, what ever happened to "We have to be careful, just because we have powers doesn't mean we are invincible"?
Remi: Yeah that's why we have numbers.
Blyke: Okay then show me what you got.
Remi pulls out a black mask, one that people wore when Covid-19 was around.
Blyke: That's it?!
Blyke looks over to see Remi's costume, A white dress/trench coat like outfit with a pink X across the chest, a white mask to cover her face and a hood stitched on to go over her head, and another costume that has a gray duck taped X across the chest, and a mask with whiskers, a kitten nose, and a small mouth drawn on it.
Remi: What?
Blyke points to the two costumes hanging in Remi's closet. Then he points to his mask.
Remi: Oh yeah, I forgot.
Blyke: How? That was the whole point of this... ugh never mind just show it to me.
Remi throws a yellow tee shirt, grey pants, and a black jacket.
Blyke: What, clothes?
Remi: Well yeah, can't be running around in the nude now can't we.
Blyke: bruuuuh that's not what I meant.
Remi giggles. Yeah I was just teasing.
She struggles to keep a straight face.
Remi: Anyways why I really called you over here is because tomorrow night we're gonna go crime fighting.
Blyke: Ummm, Crime what?
Remi: Crime fighting, you, me, and Isen are gonna go crime fighting tomorrow night. I found some cities that are in need of help, I'll show you the criminals tomorrow since you have your date thing.
Blyke: Remi I'm not sure if that's a good idea.
Remi gets slightly salty.
Blyke: Remi relax, I'm only doing this because I don't wanna leave you out there on your own.
Remi: Alright then.
Blyke sighs in annoyance.
Remi: Aww come on, you always admired Jo- I mean the Golden God. Let's become just like him!
Blyke: No, it's fine. I just-
Remi: Good!
Blyke heads out to meet with Rein.
Remi: Blyke wait!
Blyke turns around to find Remi wrapped around him.
Remi: Be careful, okay. I know how reckless you can be.
Blyke puts his arms around Remi.
Blyke: Yeah don't worry, your boy will always come home in one piece.
Remi giggles at Blykes stupid comment. The two hug for little while longer before Byke gets a text from Rein.
Rein: Hey, I gotta cancel tonight, sorry for the short notice.
Blyke: It's fine, text me when you have a new date set up.
Blyke puts down his phone.
Remi: Who was that?
Blyke pauses for a second.
Blyke: No one important. Hey, you wanna just watch a movie instead. I kinda want to hang with you....
Blyke recalls back to Arlo's words.
Arlo: It doesn't matter how you feel, but how your partner feels.
Blyke: If that's what you want of course.
Remi: Blyke, I would want nothing more.
She takes his hand and pulls him to her bed.
Remi: Come on, let's watch something.
Blyke: Yeah, I'd like that.
Meanwhile downtown New Bostin.
Rein: Oh well Blyke, thought I could make you into the snack you are.
She looks at the Golden God, standing six feet behind her.
The Golden God: Who's Blyke, what do you plan on doing with him?
Rein: Now now, it wouldn't be fun if I told you without a fight.
The two start to power up, ready to shed blood.
To be Continued....