Pandora's Box

Game Prep

"Is she going to be okay?" asks a very concerned Pandora.

Pandora paces in her father's office, unsure of how to feel about what just happened.

"She'll be fine... eventually." confirms Jove from behind his desk, "Her leg was fractured but not broken. Kat will be out for a few weeks, but she should recover. You were lucky."

"More like unlucky. I don't even get how it could've happened. I had that routine down. And Kat has been doing this a lot longer than I have. There's no way we should've slipped up like that. I don't get how this could've happened." Pandora expresses with a lot of concern.

"You know why." insists Jove, "I've been getting reports of strange accidents. People hurting themselves doing things they've done a thousand times before. Early reports have Sarah at many of those incidents. Most of my teachers haven't made the connection yet but it's only a matter of time. If this is something she can do... with the football game coming up..."

"She could do a lot of damage. With all those people around? We're going to have to keep her from implementing whatever plan she has." insists Pandora.

"You're right. If she's manifesting more advanced powers, she might be ready for your help with The Box. You did bring it with you?" asks Jove.

"Yeah... although I'm pretty worried about using it." Pandora says.

"I know things didn't go so well last time, but that's to be expected. You're still new at this. You're bound to make mistakes." Jove suggests.

"I just don't want to make the kind of mistake that's going to get someone killed." explains Pandora.

"You won't." Jove says back, trying to encourage his daughter.

"You don't know that." Pandora says, concerned.

"I do. I believe in you and you'll do this just like you saved Jemma. You can do this." reassures Jove, "Do you have it with you?"

"It's in my locker. I'll go get it." says Pandora, turning to the door and leaving her father's office.

She makes her way down the hall quickly, passing several students on the way to class. It isn't long before she makes it to her locker. Pandora opens her locker, only to find...

"It's gone." declares Pandora, shoving her things out of the way in hopes that somehow she missed it.

Pandora slams it shut, then turns to look around for any sign of who might have broken into her locker. Eventually, she sees something out of the corner of her eye and looks towards Hermes' classroom. He is standing there in the doorway with a clear smirk on his face. After a few long moments, he turns and goes into his classroom.

* * *

Sarah is standing on the football field, enjoying the emptiness of it all with a smile on her face. She closes her eyes and listens. Suddenly, the sound of cheering can be heard. It's as if the bleachers are filled with parents and students from both schools, screaming for their school.

Her hands move up as the apparent cheering increases and a strange glow starts to surround her hands, with strange sparks coming in between her hands and the energy bubble surrounding her hands. Although it isn't long before the sparks expand outside the bubble and shoots what looks like electrical strikes from the bubble to the grass around her.

Sarah raises her hands above her head, the apparent cheering increasing as she does, and the energy bubble gets bigger and the strikes increase too. After a few moments, she claps her hands together and the energy bubble explodes outwards and ripples out across the field, hitting the bleachers.

All the energy disappears pretty quickly, including the bubbles around her hands as she brings them back down to her sides. The cheering disappears with the movement of her arms and eventually she opens her eyes again. Yet just like before, the field is completely empty. The silence becomes deafening as the lights of the field get turned off on a timer. It's not entirely clear where the cheering came from.

Sarah takes a deep breath and ends it with a big smile on her face. There's a red glow in her eyes that doesn't disappear right away.