When you're a Superhero, you're not supposed to team up with the bad guy. Oh well, I suppose rules were made to be broken. -unedited Highest rank #23 in Adventure (Previously known as "Super and a Hero") *Please note that this story was intended for me to be able to practice my writing, therefore my writing improves throughout the story but the plot is still loopy and poor

Mary Thompson is alive. How? Oliver Storm doesn't know. All he knows is that somehow she's come back and isn't the same as she was before. His best friend, Ian Thompson, doesn't know what to think. Olly was a superhero and never told even him. Plus, Oliver kind of caused the not-so-death of his sister. And Oliver can't forget about his sidekick, Aden Dashner, who is trying pull off being a superhero while also trying to figure out how to act in front of the girl he likes. Not to mention that a new super villain by the name of Beast is ragging havoc in the streets. Plus, another new super villain, Midnight, who shows up in the worst moment. Oliver is starting to wonder how on Earth he'll be able to keep the citizens of Washington DC from supporting the Remedist Party in the upcoming election, who are calling for the imprisonment of all supers, and keep his sanity at the same time. But one thing is certain, The Obstructer needs to go down. And with his mother's upcoming wedding, it seems he won't be able to find time to do anything, much less stop a mastermind from killing all of his friends in a misguided attempt to save the city from all supers.

dam·sel in dis·tress /ˈdamzəl in dəˈstres/ (noun): 1. A young woman in trouble (With the implication that the woman needs to be rescued). 2. A stereotype of someone in trouble who needs a hero to save them.

"League of Legends assemble . . . or whatever." It's been two months and there's been no sign of the infamous villain, Nemesis, until superheroes around the world start to go missing. The secret agency MASKED knows that there is only one group of heroes fit for the job of figuring out what happened to the heroes . . . and save the city from a massive robot invasion. Sonic can run at the speed of sound, plus some. All she ever wanted was to live a normal life away from the publicity of her father becoming mayor . . . until now. Calico and Tornado are still off fighting secret wars for MASKED and The Marvel and Blue Archer are off fighting small crimes in Empire City . . . until now. White Static was just an underappreciated sidekick . . . until the super he works for goes missing under mysterious circumstances. Can this group of misfits get along just long enough to fight off a faceless villain who might be closer to home than they'd originally thought?

"It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just some idiot in spandex." Arabella Jones is your average American teenage girl, she even lives in one if America's most prosperous cities, Empire City, California. She's a sucker for the performing arts and owns two bookcases full of young adult novels. Well maybe she's not so much like your average American teenager. Everything in Arabella's life seems to be finally going perfect, right up until the city's most famous superhero come barging through her widow at two in the morning on a school night. All she used to have to worry about was what part she was going to get in the musical and if the boy she's been crushing on since freshman year likes her back or not. But these worries are nothing compared to her newfound super stalkers. Now it seems that the city's only hope, and her's, is a teenage boy dressed in spandex who still hasn't learned not to wear his underwear on the outside of his clothes.

Aden Dashner is thinking that he just might have superpowers. After an accident a week ago, he now seems to be stronger than he was before - like, superhuman strong. Aden's long-time bully, Dylan Danvers, was also in the same accident, and he seemed to get off clean with no powers, until a mysterious new super villain shows up in DC with fire at his fingertips and sticky fingers. And after finding out that Oliver Storm himself is DC's own savior in spandex, White Lightning, and that he wants Aden to be his sidekick, Aden didn't think his life could get any weirder. Not to mention that Oliver is dealing with his own problems. His best friend/super conspiracy theorist, Ian Thompson is getting suspicious of Oliver. Could he know his secret identity? On top of that, his girlfriend, Elise Howerton, has just seemed to figure out said secret identity. And the infamous villain, Andromeda, has finally seemed to have disappeared from Oliver's life. Well, that is until she decides to get close to one of Oliver's friends. What could this notorious villain want with Mary Thompson?

Oliver Storm is just your average American teenager. Well, unless you count the fact that he's actually White Lightning, sidekick to the notorious superhero Captain Impossible. But after a faulty save that leaves Captain Impossible dead, Oliver is left to be his city's savior in spandex. And following in the footsteps of Washington DC's favorite super isn't as easy as you'd think, especially when the culprit behind his death is closer than he thought. With Oliver starting his junior year in high school, things become more complicated. Trying to balance saving the world and school can be hard enough, but throw in his overprotective mother and a villain by the name of Delinquent who Oliver can't shake, being a hero by day is going to be impossible. As Oliver starts to unravel the truth behind Captain Impossible's death, he finds that maybe not all villains are bad. And maybe Delinquent and Oliver have more in common than they thought. *companion novel to Damsel in Distress series*

Xander Mendez is living the dream. He has the most amazing girlfriend in the world and is a superhero. Life could literally not be better. Trevor Rossi has been the CEO of his father's company for three months now and he's only inches away from catching his father's killer. April has been interviewing the villain X for months now and she thinks she's finally understanding how he thinks while discovering herself in the process. Celeste is finding herself falling for her study partner while also fighting for her turf with a new villain in town after her prize. Mischief is what this new villain calls himself, and he's seeming to turn into their biggest threat yet. A non-super with an array of guns and other trinkets who seems to be way too interested in Momentum and Artic Frost. And with the growing shadow of the old villain X over the citizens of Kingdom City, the stakes get even higher. And it turns out maybe they're all connected more than they thought.

su.per /ˈso͞opər/ (noun): 1. A person who shows exceptional ability or powers. 2. (Of a person who uses powers) a superhero or super villain. Xander Mendez wants nothing more than to be a superhero. Like, who wouldn't want to save their city with extraordinary superpowers? Trevor Rossi wants nothing more than to be like his father. A powerful figure with the city under his fingertips. April Watson wants nothing more than to be seen as something more than a damsel. She wants to be more than a powerless girl surrounded by righteous heroes. Celeste Moctezuma wants nothing more than to live with her career path without a certain pesky hero getting in her way. Four people all connected in a city renowned for its legendary supers. When their lives start turning into the plot of an A-list superhero movie, things go crazy. Suddenly Kingdom City has a new superhero and many new villains on their hands. Sometimes superheroes only make the world more complicated.