Spectacular World

A Boy Named Max

"Are you ready to give up your evil ways and be a superhero yet!" Mermaid demanded.

"Never!" Ruby Admiral announced. "Also! Get off me! You're heavy!"

"Are you calling me fat!"

"Yes! You're really fat!"

"R- Really?" Mermaid asked, sounding a bit hurt.

Ruby quickly shook her head. "No! I lied! You look good as always!" The raven-haired girl said quickly. "You got the super sexy hero body going on for sure!" She said, rubbing Mermaid's stomach and letting her bisexual fantasies run wild.

Mermaid simply smacked her over the head. "See. You took back your insult. A bad guy wouldn't do that. Face it, sister, you were born to be a hero."

"No fair! You cheated!"

Ruby Admiral squirmed a bit on the ground. She was flat on her stomach, tied up with thick ropes of water. Mermaid sat on the villain's back and reached down, pinching one of Ruby's ears and tugging on it. "You're an adult now, Jill. You shouldn't be playing silly games like that. Come on and just say you'll be a hero, already! We can get matching costumes, and I'll let you even be my sidekick."

Ruby's hair ignited with a red glow, along with her eyes, which clashed with Mermaid's glowing blue hair and eyes. "I would rather die." The red-haired girl said flatly. "Ow!" She let out a yelp when Mermaid reached down and grabbed her other ear and began to tug on it.

They got several odd looks from the other people in the building. After the incident with Water, what's his face, her father had called the Hero Branch, who had come to check the boat out. The workers had been busy trying to find out where they should place many of the kids. Most of the children had been taken from the streets of various cities and didn't have a home, and many had to be sent to a specialized hospital to help them recover. Some had even turned out to be Supers, which made it all the more of a headache trying to help them. The boy who had given her the coin she had used as a makeshift projectile in her duel with the Prince guy turned out to be one of those humans that gain powers during a stressful event. The boy could phase through stuff now and would likely be shipped off to some Hero Branch lab and either be turned into a hero or be used in some other way.

She didn't get to make sure any of them were okay either because her father had flown off, carrying her over to Rose City to meet with the head of the Hero Branch to discuss something. That was where she was now, face down, as her friend River tried to 'convince' her to become a hero. They were down in the lobby of the Hero Branch building, which was bustling around with dozens of agents going in and out of the many elevators.

"She's as lively as ever." Off to the side, Full Monarch had been watching his daughter and her friend wrestle, but he turned when he heard the voice addressed to him. "How have you been, Jackson?" Legend, a member of the Enforcers, held his hand out toward the Lord of the Sun and Cosmos. He was a short, dark-skinned man who wore what looked almost like ancient robes over his frail form. Despite his appearance, he was considered to be one of the strongest non-Lord Supers on the newly built hero team known as the Enforcers.

Full Monarch let out a strong, hardy laugh as he grabbed the hand of his teammate. "Ah Legend! It's good to see you! Oh, but could you just call me Full Monarch? I'm in costume after all!"

"Yeah, but everyone knows who you are." Legend snorted. "You're the soldier that defeated Lucifer. Hard to believe that was nearly fifty years ago now. My grandfather also fought in that war, and I was born a few years after it ended, you know." His smile faded as he looked toward Ruby and Mermaid. "So, how is she?"

"What do you mean?" Full Monarch raised an eyebrow, though he was bad at lying and obviously knew what Legend was asking him.

"Don't give me that. You know what I mean. How has it been raising her?" Legend questioned.