Spectacular World

The Last Evening of Peace

"I can't believe they actually ditched us," Ashley said with a deadpan expression.

Lily folded her arms and sighed. "Boys will be boys, I guess."

"Who cares?" Sky rolled her eyes. "We don't need them anyway."

"So, then, what do we do now?" Sera asked.

"No clue," Sky admitted. "Lily, what do you think?"

"Good question. Hope, what do we do?"

Hope stepped back, taken off guard as all the girls turned to look at her. They were out in the parking lot of the mall now, having watched Kenny and the other boys run off with Kyle. Their leaving had basically thrown Lily off her flow, and she no longer knew what to do for the day. "Why do I have to be the one to pick?" She sighed and rubbed her chin when the other girls just shrugged. "Well, they said they were going off to have a guy's night. Why don't we just do the reverse, then?"

"Like a girl's night?" Sky questioned.

"Exactly!"

Silence hung around them. "So, what's a girl's night?" Sera asked awkwardly.

"Huh! What do you mean by 'what's a girl's night?' Have you never had a sleepover?" Ashley said in shock.

Lily chuckled and shook her head. "None of us really got to do normal stuff growing up. Sera is like me and Sky. The three of us all had hero parents. Ashley, you and Hope are the first people to get superpowers in your family, but for people like us, we mostly had to keep to ourselves since the parents didn't want to worry about their kids in the hands of some other hero. I guess it would be like a doctor wishing to be there for their child if they got hurt instead of some other doctor."

"I never got to do a sleepover either," Hope said sheepishly. "Well, I mean a girl's sleepover. Armin and I hung out all the time when we were kids, but I never had any girls my age that I could be friends with."

"Are you and Armin dating?" Sera asked, surprised.

"Ew! No! Just ew!"

Sky tapped her foot down in annoyance. "I guess that means you're in charge, Ashley. What do we do?!"

This time, it was Ashley's turn to shrink back as everyone looked at her. She let out a nervous laugh, trying to come up with something. "Well, to start with, we need to decide whose house we're staying at."

Lily snapped her fingers and smirked. "That should be pretty obvious!"

"I'm not taking you guys to my house." Ashley said flatly.

"Damn. New plan then." Lily announced.

That was how the five of them found themselves crossing the bridge connecting Oleander and Lillian. Lillian was almost nothing like Oleander. The buildings were way smaller, and the city looked far richer. Every house was practically a manor, and it was wide and open. A steady stream of traffic was present at all times down below, and even as the sun was reaching its peak, turning into the evening soon, people seemed to be going to and from work.

Thanks to the watches Boy Genius made, all of them were able to find a spot out of sight in Oleander and change into their costumes. They got into Lillian thanks to a mix of Oxide's and Poseidon's powers. Oxide created a large metal ramp with railings across it and seats they could hold onto. Poseidon wrapped it up in a bubble of water and used her power over gravity to cause the thing to rise up, and she carried it, almost seeming to fly.

Hope had to admit she was a bit jealous. Part of her still really wanted to learn how to fly, something that still seemed to keep itself just out of her grasp. Sure, she could boost herself through the air thanks to her explosions, but it wasn't the same. Of course, she was still learning new tricks to her power every day, so maybe one day soon she'd be able to soar through the skies.