The Undoing Of Heroes | ✓

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THERE WAS A MOMENT of stunned silence in the already quiet hallway. Everything seemed still. Too still. The kind of still where you knew something bad was going to happen soon, and that you wouldn't like it. 

Unfortunately, the only unfortunate thing that happened to me was that Gray appeared in the other end of the hallway, stalking toward me with liquid fire burning in his eyes. 

"What're you doing here? There's an emergency meeting in the auditorium. Go there. Now."

"And why should I listen to you?" I snorted, and for a moment he looked stunned, before casually gesturing to the super suit he already had on, the suit practically clinging to his body like a jealous girlfriend.

"Because It's my job to protect you. From criminals like her."

Now this peaks my interest.

"Who's her?" I inquired, and he shook his head before snatching my upper arm, dragging me with him down the hallway. I dug my heels into the polished floors, but they were of no use as I still slipped along with him.

"You've not heard of her? With all the hell she's been raising in my life, I'm sure you would've."

"Nightspark?" The smugness in my tone didn't go unnoticed, and he seemed to pick up on it, too. Something in his expression shifted, and suddenly the harsh words he'd said earlier about my alter ego didn't seem quite as ... sharp. 

"Yeah. We suspect it's her keeping the school devoid of electricity. For now." His grip tightened, and I resisted letting out a yelp. 

Not before long, we reached the end of the hallway and he flung me into the auditorium already packed with students, the amount of noise vibrating through the suddenly cramped space. 

I was elbowing my way through, when another hand took a vice-like grip on my shoulder. I whirled around, prepared with a thorough tongue-lashing when - 

"Vera?" I asked, registering the vivid pink hair and mischievous eyes.

However, mischief melted into relief as she found me. 

"Thank God." She rolled her eyes and pulled me with her through the milling students until she somehow found two empty seats and plopped down, "This school's more unfriendly than Regina George."

I suppressed  a smile, trying to get used to the dim lighting in the room. There was sparse light due to the electricity being off, and the small windows mounted just beneath the slant of the roof were barely enough for me to see my own hand. How Vera had spotted me, I had no idea - 

Unless- 

"So, I saw you getting manhandled by Mr. Blaze over there." Vera winked at me, and I wondered how on Earth she was aware of his super identity when she'd just moved here. 

Something's not adding up. 

"Yeah, he wasn't very gentle about it. You'd expect more from the city's kindest super, right?"

I smiled, although it was so forced I was sure I popped a muscle or two.

She nodded, her eyes trained on something else.