Maria Summers Must Die

I Try to Learn Who the Real Bad Guys Are

I woke to sound of Alex's voice, and immediately screamed at her. "What the hell did you do to me?" I demanded. She sighed. "Relax. I just had to make sure you wouldn't hurt yourself." She said. I knew she wasn't using her crazy superpower, because I definitely did not relax. Realizing my outrage, I did look around the room for something to safely channel my energy into. Right bow I sort of wanted that thing to be Alex, but as we appeared to be in a bedroom I chose a a pillow instead.

"Maria," said Alex, I could tell she was gearing up to use her voice, so I opened my mouth to scream, but she was too fast. "Shut off your powers." She said. My rage didn't go away, but neither did anything else in the room. In my shock I stared at everything, the bed, the armoire, Alex. Nothing disappeared. I didn't know how, but it was like a magic switch had gone off in my head , neutralizing my abilities.

I stared at Alex without the intention of killing her this time. "This is... This is..." I started but I couldn't find the words. "How?" I asked finally.
"Did you ever read 'Ella Enchanted' as a kid?" I shook my head. "Seen the movie?" Asked Alex again. I shook my head no again. She sighed as if I'd just made her presentation an hour longer. "In that case, my power works like this; people have to listen no matter what I tell them to do, whether they how to do it, or whether it's even physically possible or not. If I tell someone to stop mid jump momentum will still be carrying them of course, but they will freeze. So when I tell you to shut off your powers even if you don't know how to do that your subconscious will still listen and do the best it can." She explained.
"So this means that I can't use my powers unless you unlock them?" I asked.
"That's right." Said Alex.

I stood there for a moment, dumbstruck. I stared, gaping at Alex for what felt like an eternity, until I finally found the words I was looking for. "Thank you." I said. And because I didn't know what else to say I repeated it. "Thank you, I- thank you." Alex looked at me mournfully.
"That's what they all say at first." She said softly. "We're not exactly taking in kids who love themselves." She said, "and they all say thank you at first." She closed he mouth then opened it again, then shook her head and closed it. "This is your room." She said at last. Then as she walked out the door she added, "good luck."

No sooner had I crashed on the bed then I heard a knocking on the window. I opened it up, and there hovered everyone's favourite superhero. "What are you doing here?" I asked.
"Warning you." He said. "This place seems nice now, but you have to trust me, what they do here... What you'll do here is wrong." He took a breath and floated through the open window to stand in front of me. "You can't stay here."
"Where else do you expect me to go?" I demanded, "did you see what happened on the bus this morning? Thanks for all the help out there by the way-" I was going to go on a nice long rant a him, but he cut me off.
"I'll take you somewhere, anywhere, tell me where you need to go and I'll help you out. Just don't stay here." He sounded pretty desperate. "Thanks for the warning, but I think I can handle it." I said.

Then he did the unexpected. He took off his helmet. He had light brown hair, and deep brown eye, and if this were a big reveal scene I'd be saying 'Everyman Mcshyguy who sits behind me in insert class here?' But it wasn't. I didn't exactly know enough people from my school to recognize him, even if he went there. He looked into my eyes for real now, and said; "please, just let me get you out of here." It was convincing, I had to admit. He really made me believe what he said, but I still didn't feel sure about anything.

"These people here... They're like me you know?" I said, "they have similar problems, they can screw up as badly as I can. I just feel like they'll be able to understand me."
"Anyone can screw up." Said the hero, "but these people... They really aren't like you, no matter how much you think they are, and besides," he continued, this time when he grinned I saw it reach his eyes, and that glint of cockiness within them, "if you stay here, we won't get to hang out nearly as much as we have been."

I took a deep breath. "I can't go." I said, "the heroes will find me anywhere, and I don't want to die, and I think if I stay here I can really learn to control my powers." I said. I didn't want him to convince me to leave this one place where I thought I could belong. Unfortunately for me, the hero knew what this place actually was, and was more adamant about me getting out of here than I was about staying.

"In that case I'm really, really sorry," he said, "but I do know one place that you can go." And just like that I was out the window with him. I wrapped my arms tight around his torso, because no matter how much I wanted to fight back and make him take me back to Alex and the facility, I really didn't want to commit suicide by falling from however high up we were. "Take me back!" I yelled. But between me clinging to him for dear life, and squeezing my eyes shut, I didn't think I was all that convincing. "I'm sorry, but I can't let you stay there." It was the last thing either of us said during the trip.

We lighted on a roof that must have been a few miles away from the city. The building attached to the aforementioned roof was on the top of a little hill, and I could see one winding dirt road leading up to it. I took in a deep breath as I looked out over the city. It was beautiful. Every light from every building shone in the night like a tapestry of stars. The boy standing next to me smirked and said; "just like our first date." I raised my eyebrow at him.
"We've been on a date?" I ask. He grins.

"We'd better go inside." He says, and I follow him to a door where we walk down a flight of stairs, before switching the mode of transportation to an elevator. "So what is this place?" I ask.
"Wait a minute," he said, "I'll tell you as the elevator doors open, and it will be really dramatic and cool!" He seemed far too exited with the whole thing, but I just sighed, rolled my eyes, and went along with it.

True to his word, when the doors opened he looked over at me as I stared at the scene. There were kids everywhere, most of them showing off powers and laughing at each other, I looked to the Asteroid, confused with the whole thing, and he grinned and said; "Welcome to the teen superheroes HQ."