Astrid Stronghold, cousin to Will Stronghold, lost her father to a Sidekick turned Villain and yet she still chose to become a Sidekick. Lash Livingston, Hero turned Villain turned Hero, would do whatever it takes to save Astrid, if she was ever in...
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Rain pattered against the windows of the bus as Astrid reached Sky High. Rolling her eyes at the girls panicking about their hair getting wet, she pushed past them all and faced the downpour, not even bothering to put up the hood of her coat. Pushing open the door to the school, she wandered over to her locker where Natalia was waiting. Not a drop of rain had touched Astrid.
"I hate that you can use your intangibility to avoid the rain." Natalia grumbled, ringing out her dripping hair.
"What can I say? I'm blessed." Astrid hummed, putting her books into her locker.
"Are you okay after last night?" Natalia asked, sucking the humour out of their conversation.
Once the tears had stopped flowing and she had pulled herself together, Astrid had FaceTimed her best friend to explain what had happened with her mother. For the next three hours, the girls had complained about both of their parents, the unjust pairing system and anything else they could think of. Eventually the pair had ended the call laughing about the debate they had had over whether a desk chair or a beanbag was best for writing essays. Natalia had argued that the impractical beanbag was best for sitting for extended periods of time, Astrid had stated that Natalia never did work when she was sat in the beanbag.
"Honestly, last night really helped me get some things off my chest." Astrid answered truthfully. "In fact, I'm not even worried about facing Lash today."
"Are you sure? Because we have Gym first and that means you'll have to work with-."
"I'll be fine."
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Coach Boomer perched atop what could only be described as lifeguard's chair as he surveyed the Seniors beneath him. The arena had been set up for Save The Citizen and whilst all the years were crammed into the Gym together, the first Gym class of the year was explicitly for the Seniors to work together in their pairs for the first time.
"Lash and Astrid, you're up first. Who do you want to be; Heroes or Villains?" Coach Boomer asked.
"Villains." Lash responded.
"I'm shocked." Astrid muttered under her breath, hearing variations of the same thing rippling through the crowd.
For once, Coach Boomer didn't comment on it. In the past, he had made jokes about Lash and Speed continuously being the Villains but he had written it off as them wishing to practice their offensive moves instead of defensive. Now that he knew what they had turned out to be, it no longer amused him. Frowning at her comment, Lash ignored it as Coach Boomer scanned the Seniors for the group they would be pitted against.
"Speed and Natalia." Boomer announced.
Staring at each other wide-eyed, the two girls had never been thrown into the arena together, let alone against each other. Remembering the last time she had been in the arena with Speed, Astrid took a step away from him when he stood too close to her. Especially because the last time she had even seen him, both she and Warren had defeated him and stuffed him into a locker (after morphing two lockers into one).
