Power Off

Chapter Five

I finally came to by the early morning rays of light and bird chirping. It was only then that I noticed that I had woken up on the floor of my bedroom.

Did I fall off the bed again? I thought that habit stopped a year ago...

I stretched on the floor before I sat up and started orienting myself. It was then that I noticed Blue was lying on my bed. She was still passed out from yesterday's injuries.

Oh right, I guess I blacked out on the floor after healing her. Well, I guess I can make some breakfast.

I set aside some spare bathroom essentials for Blue before I made my way downstairs and started on making omelettes and fried rice.

I was just beginning to store the extra food I made for the rest of this week when Blue finally made her way down the stairs looking refreshed and more put together.

"Morning."

"Morning Sparky. Did you make all this?"

"Yup, your plate is in the oven. I thought you'd be asleep a little longer, so I thought I would keep it warm in the oven as I stored this before I brought it up. You feeling better?"

"Yup, thanks for healing me. Oh, would it be alright if the hero crew came by to talk about Power Off? My dad suggested it when he called a little bit ago to check up on me."

"Yeah sure, this is my address. Offer them some of this if they want some breakfast. I'll go freshen up first." I say as I handed her my address and went to freshen up and change into a new suit.

By the time I finished, Blue's family was already present and was sitting at the table eating their breakfast.

"Hey Sparky, here's my family, the rest of the crew should be here any moment now." Blue said.

"Morning there! You should know Power and I by now and I assume you now know my son Lightning because of yesterday's events. The guy next to him is his older twin, Thunder. And of course you know Blue. Oh, thanks for breakfast. It tastes amazing!" Streak said enthusiastically.

"Thank you, glad you enjoy it." I say as a pattern of knocks interrupt our conversation.

I open the door and greeted the heroes at the door as they made their way in, introducing themselves on the way.

Power stood up after the heroes filed in and properly introduced the heroes to me while they piled their plates with food.

"That guy over in the corner with the rippled aquamarine suit is Tidal Wave with his wife, Blaze, in the ombre red-orange suit. The lady next to them in the metallic slate gray would be Steel and the guy in the purple next to her is the guy who found you in the alleyway, Sludge. Like Blue said, we have a few members that couldn't make it, but that's about it as for the superhero population of this town."

"Well, hello there everyone. Honored to meet you all. So, what exactly happened after Blue and I left and what are we planning to do about Power Off?"

"Shortly after we arrived and you guys left the scene of the crime, we found the machine you had dropped while trying to leave with Blue, but throughout the chaos, it was smashed." Power said as he pulled out the remains of my my machine. "We did have some luck in the first five minutes into the base as your machine pinged despite being smashed, but it completely died and we were met with the same fate with new locations of bombs. We pulled out before we lost any more members while James Atkins and his parents are nowhere to be found. We still don't know why Power Off is so interested in the Atkins family, besides Steven being the mayor of this city, but this obviously hasn't been the first occurrence. We knew that they had something planned out like this for about a week, but we didn't know the extent of their situation. Now we know that their base is now fully loaded with a new assortment of bombs that Blue and Thunder unfortunately had a taste of. How effective is that machine you got there?" Power briefly explained.