Spectacular World

In Over Your Head

Tears streaked down the little girl's face. "Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you-"

"Yeah, yeah, don't mention it. Let's keep this secret, okay?" Hope waved the girl off as she handed the child her cat. "The last thing I want is your mom or dad seeing me and getting the wrong idea."

With the existence of heroes and villains, Oleander City, as well as dozens of other cities, had been torn down so many times now that they were almost a mesh of designs and styles. Her part of the city, being the poor part, didn't have the giant skyscrapers or massive roadways that the better parts of town had. The buildings here were still tall but not reaching the sky.

Even still, if someone were to see her, it would have been a strange sight indeed. "Okay. Now try not to let him escape again. I might not be able to go and get him a second time." She explained. She clung to the sixth floor of a large apartment. She had taken her shoes off, and her toes quite literally dug into the stone of the building and held her weight up. She might not have been blessed with wall-climbing powers or bug powers like the hero Golden Weaver, but she was making do.

The little girl nodded her head several times, taking the pet. "I'll take better care of him, I swear! Thank you, Ms. Hero!"

"I'm not a hero quite yet." Hope gave a salute to the girl and leaned back, letting gravity do the rest. She tried to show off and flip backwards as she dropped, in an effort to come off as 'cool' or 'hip' in front of the girl, but only managed to land head first on the pavement below. "Ow..."

"Are you okay!" The girl yelled.

"Yep. Fine." Hope slowly stood back up and gave another wave before she began running off. She moved fast; there were almost no cars on the roads, allowing her to truly go all out. For the first time in forever, she truly felt free. "Having powers really is the best!"

She had created a costume of sorts. It wasn't anything crazy, but after saving the first lost cat, she somehow got roped into saving others. All over the city, people were constantly yelling for their house pets to come back. It wasn't any big superhero work, but it was still work.

Her current outfit consisted of a basic jacket she had zipped up and her makeshift mask. She also kept her hood up in order to hide her hair and wore a simple face mask that she had swiped from her mother's purse.

She would by no means be winning any awards or anything for her costume, but it was still fun to be running around in it. As kids, she and Armin used to play superheroes all the time. He would always pretend to be Max Lightning, while she constantly dressed up as heroes like the Victorian or Lady Time.

As she ran back home, she made sure to pick up any trash that littered the streets or stop by and grab any other escaped animals and return them to their owners. That wasn't all she did, though.

"L- Leave me alone!" A woman screeched. "Get off of me."

"Oh, come on. You were eying me up in the bar." In a nearby alleyway, a man held a woman against a wall. "Come on, I ain't asking for much. Just give me your number. That seems more than fair. After all, I bought you a bunch of drinks-"

"The lady said no!" The man didn't even have time to turn, as a strong punch to the gut instantly sent him crashing to the floor unconscious. Hope folded her arms and placed her foot on the guy's chest. She did her best to puff out her own chest and placed her hands on her hips using her best 'hero' voice. "You're safe now, lady-"

"What's with this city and its weirdos?!" The girl was already running off, not even looking back.

She deflated a little and sighed. "Thank you for saving me, super cool new hero; you're amazing and could one day be part of the Enforcers. Is that too much to ask for?" She grabbed the guy and placed him on his back on top of a dumpster. Next, she grabbed his phone and sent out a life alert.