Love and War [O.H.]

Chapter One

"Rey! Have you seen the latest news on Giantess and Hammerhead?!" I shook my head at my overexcited friend. "Have you been drinking coffee again, Tasha?" Natasha looked affronted. "What...? No! No, but I just saw this awesome video of Giantess beating the crap out of Mr. Evil himself, Blaiser! Can you believe it? She didn't even receive a slight burn from those flames! Her skin must be super tough to resist that, right?" I thought back to what happened. "Yeah, Giants are immune to fire, right? So it would have been easy for her." Natasha nodded her head as we walked into our first class, Math. "Yeah! Your right, Rey!" Natasha then pouted, glaring softly at me as we both sat down in our normal seats in the back. "I wish I was as smart as you, I wouldn't have a problem with the stupid homework and I'd be able to sound smart in a conversation." I giggled behind my hand, focusing on the teacher and copying notes quickly. "Then you should study more, and pay attention in class. Then you might, and I mean might, actually get a few more brain cells in that hollow head of yours." Natasha pouted and turned away from me slightly. I laughed out loud, trying to stifle them with my hand. The teacher must have heard me, because she stopped her explanation of how to find the square root of a number and looked at me with a disapproving glance.

"Miss Audrey. Since it seems you don't need to learn what I have to teach, what is the square root of thirty-seven?" I quickly did the calculation in my head. "There is no possible answer if you want a whole number. Do you want a decimal?" The teacher gained a vicious glint in her eye and smirked slightly. "I would like that very much Audrey. Give me the full decimal number." I smirked and redid my calculations, as double-checking. "Six and zero eight two seven six two five three zero three billionths, Ma'am."

All of the class was staring at me, and I could feel my ears start to heat up slightly. I had never shown off so much in class, it was kind of embarrassing. The teacher had a look of shock on her face, but it quickly melted back into the bored, slightly angry, face that she always wore. "Yes, well, you still need to pay attention in class in order to get the directions for our work." I nodded my head, the classes attention slowly drifting back to the teacher. "Yes Ma'am." I mumbled quietly while Natasha quietly squealed next to me. "Oh my god! I can believe you just did that! Rey, no one has stood up to her in years! The old hag needed to be put in her place. Awesome job!" She whispered to me, still in a haze.

The rest of the day passed in a blur. Boring Spanish, reading in ELA, lunch, blah, blah, blah. I was so happy when I finally escaped those doors to the fresh air of outside. "Well, that's seven hours that I can never get back. Wish it was doing something else." Natasha giggled as I stretched, careful to keep my backpack secure on my shoulder as I walked on my way to my 'house'.

I was an orphan, but it never got me down. I hid it from everyone by pretending my colleagues are my parents. They're completely cool with it. "Yeah, I totally get it. How many hours have we slaved to those schools? I bet I could get a fortune for selling those hours for some moola." I snickered. "Dude, I think you're the only one who still says 'moola'. Get with the times." Natasha scoffed. "Please. At least I don't read books about the medieval era twenty-four/seven." I put my hand on my chest. "Hey! I take that personally! Plus, they're really good books." Natasha rolled her eyes. "You were suppose to. It doesn't matter, read a book about Giantess and Hammerhead every now and then. Those will have action, guaranteed." Now it was my turn to scoff. "Yeah right. Whatever. Maybe, I'll read one." I didn't need to read it when I was living it.

"Ok, whatever, see you later! I have to jet. You know, I have to be home by a certain time otherwise my parents will flip." I laughed while she chuckled, embarrassed. "Yeah, I get it. Go. Don't be late. I'll see you tomorrow!" Natasha waved over her shoulder as she raced to her house a few blocks down the street. I chuckled quietly to myself as I went inside my recent headquarters.

The house in which I was staying was pretty modern. The people who own it, Sandra and Henry, both work a lot, so they aren't there often. Sandra's a hospital receptionist while Henry is a doctor there. When they were younger they used to be superheroes, but they got older and when I joined the scene with another noob, we took their spots as heroes of Key West, the last island of Florida in the USA.

Sandra and Henry both know my identities, as well as my partner's, but I don't. They always check in on us and sometimes help us with our powers or just with the fighting in general. I usually have patrol with Hammerhead at four, and as it's three fifty, I have to get going. I'd finished all of my homework during lunch so I am fine with that.

I quickly walk through the house to the backyard. "Let's hulk out!" I knew of Bruce Banner, aka Hulk. They were one of my favorite stories to read. Bruce got Hulk from gamma radiation and science experiments. I say he was lucky. I got my hulk when I was born. No one knows how, but I still try to figure it out. My body was quickly engulfed in a soft green glow and it quickly vanished as my body turned green. My clothes disappeared and were replaced with my costume. I didn't exactly need a mask since my face changed slightly with the transformation, so I was in the clear. I grabbed a decent-height branch of the only tree in the back yard and used all of the muscles in my arms and legs to push me off and fly me through the sky toward my rendezvous point with Double H.