Middle School Heroes

Chapter 4 - Time with the Science Bros

Surprisingly, Language Arts class here was just like Language Arts class anywhere. Professor Coulson was kind to her and just had her introduce herself, not give her life story, before beginning to teach. They were just finishing up a book called Lord of the Flies, so they spent the class discussing the last few chapters. The book sounded awful, and Skye was glad to have missed it. Before the period ended, Professor Coulson announced that they would be starting a unit on Shakespeare the following day, which earned groans from most of the classroom. Skye didn't mind Shakespeare so much. It was better than reading that horrible book they just finished.

When the bell rang, Skye grabbed her backpack and followed Jane and Pepper out of the classroom. "My math class is close to yours, Skye, so I'll take you to it."

"Oh thank you!"

Her geometry class turned out to be upstairs. Pepper showed her to the door and promised to meet her back there for the walk to science. There was no teacher present in the classroom, so she took an empty seat in the front row. A girl with fiery red hair, pulled up into a ponytail, was sitting to her left already. She turned to look at Skye immediately. "Oh hello," the girl said. "You must be the new girl. Daisy? I'm Jean Gray. Some people call me Phoenix."

Skye gave her an awkward little wave. "Hello. I prefer to go by Skye, though. Just Skye." She was never going to keep all of these names and code names straight.

A boy walked through the door, took one look at Skye, huffed and went to sit on the other side of Jean. "Oh, am I in your seat? I can move." She started to get out of her chair.

The boy looked at her, and she noticed that he was wearing the strangest pair of glasses that she had ever seen. They kind of looked like a safety visor, but the lenses were very thin. "No. It's fine. There was a seat over here," he replied.

Jean leaned closer to Skye. "That's Scott. He's my boyfriend. He isn't usually so grumpy, but I saw him talking to Logan in the hallway, and that always makes him grumpy," she giggled at him.

"Yeah, I'm Scott. Scott Summers. Also go by Cyclops. Bet you can guess why." He tapped the glasses.

"Uhhhh......I guess you only have one eye behind those glasses?" Skye hoped he wasn't going to show her.

"No, but close," he answered, offering her no more information. Skye wasn't sure whether it was polite to ask people about their abilities. She'd only ever met one other person like her before Professor Xavier showed up to tell her about this school.

Someone sat down to her right with a loud sigh. She looked and saw a very tall and somewhat thin boy with long black hair. He was wearing solid green t-shirt with black jeans and black boots, and he looked at her as if he was trying to decide if she was worth speaking to. He finally took a deep breath and drew himself up to be as straight and tall as possible and said, "My name is Loki of Asgard, and I am burdened with......"

A shout from behind him caused him to freeze. "Oh give it up, Choki!" A boy in the back of the class shouted at him. "The only thing you are burdened with is an over active ego, and a brother that can knock you out."

Loki sighed loudly and from the way he was biting his teeth together, Skye could tell that it was taking every bit of strength he had not to respond. "Err......Hi Loki," she said, trying to smile at him. "Is that your real name, or your code name?"

"Loki is my given name. I do not possess a silly code name. You are new to the school. Daisy, I believe?"

"Wow. I guess everyone knows me. Yes, but I prefer to go by Skye. Who is that guy in the back?"