Cape High Series by R. J. Ross (#14-#15, #18, #20, #22-#28)
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Overview: Overview: R.J. Ross was born in Kansas City, grew up in Kansas City, and still lives there today, working as a secretary for the family business and writing whenever possible. She enjoys writing romance and young adult fiction the best and likes to believe that fairies are real, but they don't sound like bells and there's no second star to the left involved.
Genre: Sci-Fi; Superheroes
Cape High Book #14: Shadow Boy:
“So Shadowman's not in the Cape Cells… me and him, we didn’t exactly get along well that last conversation,” I admit.
“You can find him,” Technico says. “Skye can find him as long as he’s not roaming the shadows, but you can find him, regardless.”
“Can you?”
“I can find his phone—but the moment I do, he’s usually switching to another one. Your dad is paranoid, for good reason.”
“So you want me to focus on Shadowman, while you take out Herold?”
“That about sums it up,” he agrees.
It’s dangerous—but not as dangerous as a lot of the stuff I’ve done in the past. “If I find him, how am I going to stop him? He’s a lot older than I am, and he’s more powerful, right?”
“He is,” Nico says. “And there’s a good chance he’s got a technopath behind him, just like you do. We just need to take that into account—”
“But—” I jerk, since I wasn’t the one that said that. There, standing in the hall, is Carla, her hand over her mouth.
“You should be in bed,” I say automatically. “You’ve got classes in the morning.”
“Classes don’t matter!” she says, stepping into the room. “You’re just planning on running off on your own to find Shadowman, right? You could get caught—or killed!”
“He won’t kill me, I’m his son."
Cape High Book #15: Super Villain Grandpa:
I’m a disgrace to the Falconess name. Yeah, that’s where this story starts. A pretty pathetic place to start, don’t you think? Well, it’s not as bad as it sounds. At least it’s pretty here.
“Welcome to the family island,” Mom says, pushing me towards the towering jungle past the beach we’re standing on. “No Internet, no television, no indoor plumbing. This is where you’ll be training until Mom deems you worthy of going back. I just wish—” Mom lets out a sigh, looking at me with a sad little smile. “I wish things had gone differently,” she finishes, pulling me into a hug. “Be good Keliah, and try not to die. You have your phone if anything too bad happens.”
“Wait, what?” I say, shocked. She steps back and summons her wings, taking to the air. “Mom? MOM!” I yell as she flies away, leaving me just standing there on a beach. “I don’t want to die!”
She’s gone. I know she heard me, she’s just ignoring me. I’ve been abandoned on Grandma’s island, and Grandma is nowhere to be seen. All I see is a little island covered with trees and animals.
Cape High #18 Rocky Road:
“So… what’s the lecture going to be?” I say as I look around the Science room. There are long tables lined up and a desk in front. All of the tables are covered with machinery. “Going to tell me that I can’t skip school in the middle of the day?”
“You skipped school for an entire year, I figure it’s too late to go into that,” Nico says, dropping down in the chair at the desk. “I just figured you’d want to talk about it.”
“About what?” I ask.
“Going to meet your mother,” he says.
I go still, feeling completely off-guard by that. “What?”
“You found out about her, so you should want to see her, right? I know I would. I did, in a way.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I say, starting for the door.
“I barely saw my father while I was growing up. He was always away, out saving the world. I was around your age at the time when I decided to do it. I’d just thrown my stepmother out of the house—”
“You did what?” I say, my jaw dropping.
“She was trying to make Liz tougher than I am. Liz hadn’t even come into her powers at the time,” he says. “It was pretty much child abuse. I threw her out of the house, told her not to come back. She never did. It left me with a little girl to raise and an old man that was never there.”
“So you went to find him,” I say, absently sitting down in one of the larger chairs in the room.
“Yeah,” he says. “I couldn’t even fly at the time, so I ran all the way to Saint Louis, just to see him at one of his appearances. He didn’t even notice me in the crowd.”
“Did you have an illusion watch on?”
“I wore a hat.”
“How big was the crowd?” I ask. It startles a laugh out of him.
“It was massive,” he admits. “But I was a kid—I was HIS kid. I expected him to be able to pick me out of a crowd. I went home, feeling completely abandoned. It felt like his job was more important than his family ever would be. I wasn’t wrong, either. Even though Sparky was gone, we still barely saw him. He would come home only when he needed to sleep. Just like I am, now, he only had to sleep once every three or four days. He would head straight for his bed and sleep so deep that I felt like I was stuck guarding him, as well as Liz.”
“So… with that sob story, you really expect me to go out and find her?” I say.
Cape High #20 Rise and Shine:
"I caught a glimpse of the pets, too,” I admit. “They look like real animals, even move like them. I sort of wanted one, myself.”
“Your dad could make you one?” Adanna asks.
“Well, I’m still grieving over my last pet.”
“What last pet?” she stops and stares at me. “PLEASE tell me you’re not talking about the exploding mutant guinea pig.”
“It was a heartbreaking time, okay!” I say as she starts to laugh. “I’d like to have a pet, but…well, I’m not sure I want one that’s smarter than I am.” She starts laughing even harder, so I give up and take her cookie.
All of a sudden Cubby jerks, looking up excitedly. “It’s on!” he says, running past me for the house.
“It’s on! It’s on!” Robo says, chasing after him. I look at Adanna, who groans and gets to her feet.
“Come on, we’re watching them, remember?”
“Petleaves! Everybody loves Petleaves!” plays from the wall as we walk into their front room. It’s some sort of commercial, I guess? I walk over, looking at the wall-sized television, wondering what’s so fascinating. On the screen are a group of kids about Cubby’s age, surrounding a very strange looking plant…
“’Danna, Sunny, it’s on!” Cubby says, pointing at it.
“I know, Cubby, but remember, Papa said no. The only creatures we buy off the Dark Shopping Network are the ones that need to be in our sanctuary, remember?”
I feel a chill run down my spine, barely hearing the two as I stare at the screen. The plant on the commercial… it’s moving just like an animal.
Cape High #22: Stringless Puppeteer:
While there are many supers in the world living among the humans, making friends, fitting in, there are also those that just can’t deal with society. They aren’t evil, or violent, they’re just different. They don’t fit in. They will never feel comfortable on a crowded street, or surrounded by so much noise. These are Santa’s elves.
Well, actually, that’s not quite true. There’s a group of elves that are perfectly fine wherever you stick them, but for this story, we’re focusing on the first type.
Well, actually, we’re focusing on me. My name is Barrett, but everyone calls me Bear. I’m fifteen, and the second child of the latest generation of the Toy Box line. Yeah, that means Dollface is my big sister. You’re probably thinking that means I grew up in a dollhouse, right? Not really. I mean as I got older, once in a while, but the real impact it had on me was that up until I was seven, I thought it was perfectly normal for guys to have cartoon characters painted on their fingernails. I even remember several times where my mom would walk in on Dolly practicing makeup… on me. Thankfully, that stopped when puberty kicked in. I shot up taller than Dolly by the time I was thirteen, and she can’t run well in heels.
But other than that, I think I’m pretty normal… nah, I’m just kidding. I’m not normal at all.
Cape High #23: America's Firewall:
I’m supposed to be cleaning up a mess for the space cops called “Cosmics” in exchange for them cleaning up a problem for us. Back home we have a sentient planet named Clay floating around our planet. He’s caused a lot of trouble, recently, and not in a “Pay-per-view” sort of fashion like my brother does. Nico wants to launch him out into space, far, far away, but in order to do that we need the Cosmic group, who are the supers that oversee the protection of space. The Hall, who oversees all the supers in North America, did a lot of fast talking and card showing, and finally we came to a compromise. In exchange for this job, they’ll take care of making sure Clay doesn’t cause more havoc.
So, here I am on a planet that’s being illegally mined by slaves. I’m here to break up the slave ring and find out just who’s behind this little venture. Well, sort of. I’m hoping Nico will do the stuff that needs brain-work. I don’t consider myself stupid, but I’ll be the first to say that I’m better at using my head as a battering ram.
Cape High #24: Mimic You:
“I was informed that you were planning on sending Morgan into the field, soon?” Mastermental says.
Nico goes silent, and the group at the table looks at him. “I am,” he says, “but I was planning on sending her into a school that has hidden supers, not on a drug bust. She has a very specific goal in mind, you know.”
“Yes, I am aware,” Mastermental says. “And if you really wish to ignore this—”
“I didn’t say that,” Nico says, as Morgan jerks in silent protest. “But it’s not what she’s planning on going into.”
“Yes, but she is the perfect person to infiltrate a track and field group, as well as see who else is affected. There is a possibility that it goes much higher than that, Lauren has fractured memories of even teachers acting strangely, as well,” Mastermental says. “But as much as I dislike stereotyping—”
“I look like a normal, high school jock, right?” Morgan offers.
Cape High #25: Steel Life:
“Does Tatiana know she’s here?” Jack asks, finishing off his smoothie even as the cup Superior is holding crushes in his hold. “Yeah, I figured that was it,” he says.
“It’s going to blow up in our faces,” Superior admits. “So… want to help me kidnap her and leave her on an island in the Pacific Ocean?”
“Tatiana?” Jack asks.
“Sparky. If we did that to Tatiana she’d never stop yelling at us,” Superior says. Jack bursts out laughing, only to put his cup on the bar and shrug when he’s done.
“Sure, sounds like fun,” he says. “I’ll go find some rubber gloves.”
“That’s my grandson-in-law,” Superior says with a brilliant smile.
“And these two are the ones I REALLY wanted to introduce last, Grandpa,” Aubrey says, tugging her grandfather over to them with a severely irritated expression on her face, “but I have to do it now because they’re planning to do something stupid and need to be stopped.”
Cape High #26: Aloha Boy:
“Kahale! Tua! You attacked first!” they all hear Kaden shout from inside the security field. “Zoe! Let me out.”
“But Kaden—” Zoe starts out.
“I’m coming out, regardless,” he says.
“Fine, you’re clear to exit,” she says, watching as the one that had jumped drops to the ground, looking stunned.
“Kaden?” the stranger says as the large teen comes out of the school entrance, dancing on the footprints with impatience.
“Kahale,” Kaden says as he comes to a stop. He stares at them for a while before letting out a sigh and asking, “Pehea ʻoe?”
“What ‘Pehea ʻoe?’?” Kahale demands. “Where have you been all this time?”
“Everyone thinks I’m dead, or something, right?” Kaden says.
“We did!” Kahale says.
“Can you, ah… keep it that way?”
“You COWARD!” Tua roars, rushing forward to punch him. Kaden grabs the fist he’s about to throw, stopping him in his tracks.
“Bruh,” Kaden says. “Why so mad?”
Cape High #27 Boogey Blitz:
“Before you go, Malina,” Reaper says, “talk to me for a bit. You’re one of my little gem’s best friends. We should get to know each other.”
I look at him, and then at Evie, who is squirming, trying to get out of my hold. “Okay, just for a bit,” I say as I put her down. She runs off to a box in the corner, which is filled to overflowing with gemstones and gold chains. “Evie, don’t—”
“Oh, it’s fine,” he says. “Those are bait.”
“Bait,” I repeat. He gives me a wide grin that would terrify me if I didn’t know him.
“All the dames I love like shiny trinkets,” he says. “I have to restock it on a regular basis. The little one there doesn’t take it, she just likes to play dress up.”
“She’d be perfectly happy with plastic jewelry, you know,” I point out.
“This way she’ll know the real deal when she goes villain,” he says. “Since she’s teething on a diamond, she’ll never fall for cubic zirconium. A woman should grow up knowing what’s real, little sweetheart. It’s the same for everything, really.”
Cape High #28: Deadly Road Trip:
“Where’s Ma Skye?” I ask, shrugging off the shirt and looking at my back. “And how do I get my wings back? Or am I stuck in this form?”
“You should be able to shift with some practice,” Doris says. “We’ll work on it—"
“AFTER we do this!” Skye says, coming straight through the wall with a ratty looking notebook in her hands. On the cover is a picture of a neon colored tiger, and it’s covered in glitter.
“A… neon glitter tiger?” I say, confused. “I don’t think I’ve got that form…”
“Nooooo, this!” she says, flipping open the cover. The words “My Perfect Family Vacation” are drawn in bubble letters on the first page. They’re a lot smaller at the bottom, since she ran out of room with the word “Perfect.” She’s grinning like a loon and shoving it towards them. “We have to do this! It’s my ultimate, life-long, FOREVER DREAM!” she exclaims.
I… okay, well, see, I’m positive that none of my new moms had a very good childhood. Doris summed it up once in a very calm manner, but… “You’ve never been on a family vacation?” I ask.
“Wellll… I went into outer space to save Emily, once!” she says. “And I went to the super villain summer camp! But that’s not the same, right? This time I’ll be the PARENT! And I can look back and threaten to come back there, or turn the car around! That’ll be fun!”
Doris takes the notebook, flipping to the next page. “Okay… yeah… really?” she says, reading over each of the lists. “I can understand the show in Vegas… but we’ve already had dinner with aliens before.”
“But we haven’t hosted the dinner! There’s a difference!” Skye insists.
“That’s because only Ursule can cook,” Ariel says, floating over to read over Doris’s shoulder. “Oh, I want to sail a pirate ship! Let’s do that one!”
“We’re going to do ALL of them!” Skye says. “And we’re going to do it while driving around in a Winnebago!”
I grab the notebook, flipping through it for a long moment while trying to figure out how to put it. I mean, sure, we CAN do a lot of this stuff… but it means unleashing the Deadly Darlin’s on the entire United States, doesn’t it?
Reaper's Darlin':
"Why are you so willing to bend over backwards for us, Reaper? You're not even in our branch. We're not even in your league, honestly. We might both be villains, but you're the exit-only door and we're the fluffy entertainment."
"I sometimes wish I could be the fluffy entertainment," he says.
“You're lying."
"Yes, yes I am," he says. She laughs, dropping down in the chair. "But I do like you three. I don't have many people I can touch, Doris. I definitely don't have people that will greet me with hugs when I show up, either. Add to that the fact that you three love the most important person in my life, and what do you expect me to do?"
"Kiss me," she says. The room goes silent, the end of his cigar starts to fall, and he grabs it just before it hits the carpet.
"As much as I'd love to, my dear, I think we've missed a few important steps along the way," he says as he slowly drops the cigar tip into the tray.
Ringmaster:
“Tabitha,” she starts out, “is… yes, I believe she IS a super,” she says. “But whenever I tried to tell Bishop Frances that, he refused outright to believe it. I… I should not speak ill of anyone, especially a bishop, but he has his head so far up his—his KEESTER that he can’t see what’s under it!”
“That’s surprising,” Isotonic says, sitting when she motions to a chair. “I would think that even the clergy would have to accept our existence, by now. What, with how the Hall has practically blown up over the past few years.”
“Oh, he believes that supers exist,” she says, scoffing. “It’s not that. The problem is Tabitha—no, the true problem is Bishop Frances! He took one look at her the moment she started showing signs, and said it was clearly impossible!”
“Why was it impossible?”
“Because Tabitha just doesn’t LOOK like a super!” she says, her frustration showing as she throws her hands in the air. “What sort of Godly representative judges someone based on their—” she stops herself, taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. Isotonic has a stunned expression on his face.
“How do you ‘not look’ like a super?” he asks after a moment. “I’m afraid I’m confused.”
“Tabitha is a little person,” Sister Agnes says.
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Overview: Overview: R.J. Ross was born in Kansas City, grew up in Kansas City, and still lives there today, working as a secretary for the family business and writing whenever possible. She enjoys writing romance and young adult fiction the best and likes to believe that fairies are real, but they don't sound like bells and there's no second star to the left involved.
Genre: Sci-Fi; Superheroes
Cape High Book #14: Shadow Boy:
“So Shadowman's not in the Cape Cells… me and him, we didn’t exactly get along well that last conversation,” I admit.
“You can find him,” Technico says. “Skye can find him as long as he’s not roaming the shadows, but you can find him, regardless.”
“Can you?”
“I can find his phone—but the moment I do, he’s usually switching to another one. Your dad is paranoid, for good reason.”
“So you want me to focus on Shadowman, while you take out Herold?”
“That about sums it up,” he agrees.
It’s dangerous—but not as dangerous as a lot of the stuff I’ve done in the past. “If I find him, how am I going to stop him? He’s a lot older than I am, and he’s more powerful, right?”
“He is,” Nico says. “And there’s a good chance he’s got a technopath behind him, just like you do. We just need to take that into account—”
“But—” I jerk, since I wasn’t the one that said that. There, standing in the hall, is Carla, her hand over her mouth.
“You should be in bed,” I say automatically. “You’ve got classes in the morning.”
“Classes don’t matter!” she says, stepping into the room. “You’re just planning on running off on your own to find Shadowman, right? You could get caught—or killed!”
“He won’t kill me, I’m his son."
Cape High Book #15: Super Villain Grandpa:
I’m a disgrace to the Falconess name. Yeah, that’s where this story starts. A pretty pathetic place to start, don’t you think? Well, it’s not as bad as it sounds. At least it’s pretty here.
“Welcome to the family island,” Mom says, pushing me towards the towering jungle past the beach we’re standing on. “No Internet, no television, no indoor plumbing. This is where you’ll be training until Mom deems you worthy of going back. I just wish—” Mom lets out a sigh, looking at me with a sad little smile. “I wish things had gone differently,” she finishes, pulling me into a hug. “Be good Keliah, and try not to die. You have your phone if anything too bad happens.”
“Wait, what?” I say, shocked. She steps back and summons her wings, taking to the air. “Mom? MOM!” I yell as she flies away, leaving me just standing there on a beach. “I don’t want to die!”
She’s gone. I know she heard me, she’s just ignoring me. I’ve been abandoned on Grandma’s island, and Grandma is nowhere to be seen. All I see is a little island covered with trees and animals.
Cape High #18 Rocky Road:
“So… what’s the lecture going to be?” I say as I look around the Science room. There are long tables lined up and a desk in front. All of the tables are covered with machinery. “Going to tell me that I can’t skip school in the middle of the day?”
“You skipped school for an entire year, I figure it’s too late to go into that,” Nico says, dropping down in the chair at the desk. “I just figured you’d want to talk about it.”
“About what?” I ask.
“Going to meet your mother,” he says.
I go still, feeling completely off-guard by that. “What?”
“You found out about her, so you should want to see her, right? I know I would. I did, in a way.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I say, starting for the door.
“I barely saw my father while I was growing up. He was always away, out saving the world. I was around your age at the time when I decided to do it. I’d just thrown my stepmother out of the house—”
“You did what?” I say, my jaw dropping.
“She was trying to make Liz tougher than I am. Liz hadn’t even come into her powers at the time,” he says. “It was pretty much child abuse. I threw her out of the house, told her not to come back. She never did. It left me with a little girl to raise and an old man that was never there.”
“So you went to find him,” I say, absently sitting down in one of the larger chairs in the room.
“Yeah,” he says. “I couldn’t even fly at the time, so I ran all the way to Saint Louis, just to see him at one of his appearances. He didn’t even notice me in the crowd.”
“Did you have an illusion watch on?”
“I wore a hat.”
“How big was the crowd?” I ask. It startles a laugh out of him.
“It was massive,” he admits. “But I was a kid—I was HIS kid. I expected him to be able to pick me out of a crowd. I went home, feeling completely abandoned. It felt like his job was more important than his family ever would be. I wasn’t wrong, either. Even though Sparky was gone, we still barely saw him. He would come home only when he needed to sleep. Just like I am, now, he only had to sleep once every three or four days. He would head straight for his bed and sleep so deep that I felt like I was stuck guarding him, as well as Liz.”
“So… with that sob story, you really expect me to go out and find her?” I say.
Cape High #20 Rise and Shine:
"I caught a glimpse of the pets, too,” I admit. “They look like real animals, even move like them. I sort of wanted one, myself.”
“Your dad could make you one?” Adanna asks.
“Well, I’m still grieving over my last pet.”
“What last pet?” she stops and stares at me. “PLEASE tell me you’re not talking about the exploding mutant guinea pig.”
“It was a heartbreaking time, okay!” I say as she starts to laugh. “I’d like to have a pet, but…well, I’m not sure I want one that’s smarter than I am.” She starts laughing even harder, so I give up and take her cookie.
All of a sudden Cubby jerks, looking up excitedly. “It’s on!” he says, running past me for the house.
“It’s on! It’s on!” Robo says, chasing after him. I look at Adanna, who groans and gets to her feet.
“Come on, we’re watching them, remember?”
“Petleaves! Everybody loves Petleaves!” plays from the wall as we walk into their front room. It’s some sort of commercial, I guess? I walk over, looking at the wall-sized television, wondering what’s so fascinating. On the screen are a group of kids about Cubby’s age, surrounding a very strange looking plant…
“’Danna, Sunny, it’s on!” Cubby says, pointing at it.
“I know, Cubby, but remember, Papa said no. The only creatures we buy off the Dark Shopping Network are the ones that need to be in our sanctuary, remember?”
I feel a chill run down my spine, barely hearing the two as I stare at the screen. The plant on the commercial… it’s moving just like an animal.
Cape High #22: Stringless Puppeteer:
While there are many supers in the world living among the humans, making friends, fitting in, there are also those that just can’t deal with society. They aren’t evil, or violent, they’re just different. They don’t fit in. They will never feel comfortable on a crowded street, or surrounded by so much noise. These are Santa’s elves.
Well, actually, that’s not quite true. There’s a group of elves that are perfectly fine wherever you stick them, but for this story, we’re focusing on the first type.
Well, actually, we’re focusing on me. My name is Barrett, but everyone calls me Bear. I’m fifteen, and the second child of the latest generation of the Toy Box line. Yeah, that means Dollface is my big sister. You’re probably thinking that means I grew up in a dollhouse, right? Not really. I mean as I got older, once in a while, but the real impact it had on me was that up until I was seven, I thought it was perfectly normal for guys to have cartoon characters painted on their fingernails. I even remember several times where my mom would walk in on Dolly practicing makeup… on me. Thankfully, that stopped when puberty kicked in. I shot up taller than Dolly by the time I was thirteen, and she can’t run well in heels.
But other than that, I think I’m pretty normal… nah, I’m just kidding. I’m not normal at all.
Cape High #23: America's Firewall:
I’m supposed to be cleaning up a mess for the space cops called “Cosmics” in exchange for them cleaning up a problem for us. Back home we have a sentient planet named Clay floating around our planet. He’s caused a lot of trouble, recently, and not in a “Pay-per-view” sort of fashion like my brother does. Nico wants to launch him out into space, far, far away, but in order to do that we need the Cosmic group, who are the supers that oversee the protection of space. The Hall, who oversees all the supers in North America, did a lot of fast talking and card showing, and finally we came to a compromise. In exchange for this job, they’ll take care of making sure Clay doesn’t cause more havoc.
So, here I am on a planet that’s being illegally mined by slaves. I’m here to break up the slave ring and find out just who’s behind this little venture. Well, sort of. I’m hoping Nico will do the stuff that needs brain-work. I don’t consider myself stupid, but I’ll be the first to say that I’m better at using my head as a battering ram.
Cape High #24: Mimic You:
“I was informed that you were planning on sending Morgan into the field, soon?” Mastermental says.
Nico goes silent, and the group at the table looks at him. “I am,” he says, “but I was planning on sending her into a school that has hidden supers, not on a drug bust. She has a very specific goal in mind, you know.”
“Yes, I am aware,” Mastermental says. “And if you really wish to ignore this—”
“I didn’t say that,” Nico says, as Morgan jerks in silent protest. “But it’s not what she’s planning on going into.”
“Yes, but she is the perfect person to infiltrate a track and field group, as well as see who else is affected. There is a possibility that it goes much higher than that, Lauren has fractured memories of even teachers acting strangely, as well,” Mastermental says. “But as much as I dislike stereotyping—”
“I look like a normal, high school jock, right?” Morgan offers.
Cape High #25: Steel Life:
“Does Tatiana know she’s here?” Jack asks, finishing off his smoothie even as the cup Superior is holding crushes in his hold. “Yeah, I figured that was it,” he says.
“It’s going to blow up in our faces,” Superior admits. “So… want to help me kidnap her and leave her on an island in the Pacific Ocean?”
“Tatiana?” Jack asks.
“Sparky. If we did that to Tatiana she’d never stop yelling at us,” Superior says. Jack bursts out laughing, only to put his cup on the bar and shrug when he’s done.
“Sure, sounds like fun,” he says. “I’ll go find some rubber gloves.”
“That’s my grandson-in-law,” Superior says with a brilliant smile.
“And these two are the ones I REALLY wanted to introduce last, Grandpa,” Aubrey says, tugging her grandfather over to them with a severely irritated expression on her face, “but I have to do it now because they’re planning to do something stupid and need to be stopped.”
Cape High #26: Aloha Boy:
“Kahale! Tua! You attacked first!” they all hear Kaden shout from inside the security field. “Zoe! Let me out.”
“But Kaden—” Zoe starts out.
“I’m coming out, regardless,” he says.
“Fine, you’re clear to exit,” she says, watching as the one that had jumped drops to the ground, looking stunned.
“Kaden?” the stranger says as the large teen comes out of the school entrance, dancing on the footprints with impatience.
“Kahale,” Kaden says as he comes to a stop. He stares at them for a while before letting out a sigh and asking, “Pehea ʻoe?”
“What ‘Pehea ʻoe?’?” Kahale demands. “Where have you been all this time?”
“Everyone thinks I’m dead, or something, right?” Kaden says.
“We did!” Kahale says.
“Can you, ah… keep it that way?”
“You COWARD!” Tua roars, rushing forward to punch him. Kaden grabs the fist he’s about to throw, stopping him in his tracks.
“Bruh,” Kaden says. “Why so mad?”
Cape High #27 Boogey Blitz:
“Before you go, Malina,” Reaper says, “talk to me for a bit. You’re one of my little gem’s best friends. We should get to know each other.”
I look at him, and then at Evie, who is squirming, trying to get out of my hold. “Okay, just for a bit,” I say as I put her down. She runs off to a box in the corner, which is filled to overflowing with gemstones and gold chains. “Evie, don’t—”
“Oh, it’s fine,” he says. “Those are bait.”
“Bait,” I repeat. He gives me a wide grin that would terrify me if I didn’t know him.
“All the dames I love like shiny trinkets,” he says. “I have to restock it on a regular basis. The little one there doesn’t take it, she just likes to play dress up.”
“She’d be perfectly happy with plastic jewelry, you know,” I point out.
“This way she’ll know the real deal when she goes villain,” he says. “Since she’s teething on a diamond, she’ll never fall for cubic zirconium. A woman should grow up knowing what’s real, little sweetheart. It’s the same for everything, really.”
Cape High #28: Deadly Road Trip:
“Where’s Ma Skye?” I ask, shrugging off the shirt and looking at my back. “And how do I get my wings back? Or am I stuck in this form?”
“You should be able to shift with some practice,” Doris says. “We’ll work on it—"
“AFTER we do this!” Skye says, coming straight through the wall with a ratty looking notebook in her hands. On the cover is a picture of a neon colored tiger, and it’s covered in glitter.
“A… neon glitter tiger?” I say, confused. “I don’t think I’ve got that form…”
“Nooooo, this!” she says, flipping open the cover. The words “My Perfect Family Vacation” are drawn in bubble letters on the first page. They’re a lot smaller at the bottom, since she ran out of room with the word “Perfect.” She’s grinning like a loon and shoving it towards them. “We have to do this! It’s my ultimate, life-long, FOREVER DREAM!” she exclaims.
I… okay, well, see, I’m positive that none of my new moms had a very good childhood. Doris summed it up once in a very calm manner, but… “You’ve never been on a family vacation?” I ask.
“Wellll… I went into outer space to save Emily, once!” she says. “And I went to the super villain summer camp! But that’s not the same, right? This time I’ll be the PARENT! And I can look back and threaten to come back there, or turn the car around! That’ll be fun!”
Doris takes the notebook, flipping to the next page. “Okay… yeah… really?” she says, reading over each of the lists. “I can understand the show in Vegas… but we’ve already had dinner with aliens before.”
“But we haven’t hosted the dinner! There’s a difference!” Skye insists.
“That’s because only Ursule can cook,” Ariel says, floating over to read over Doris’s shoulder. “Oh, I want to sail a pirate ship! Let’s do that one!”
“We’re going to do ALL of them!” Skye says. “And we’re going to do it while driving around in a Winnebago!”
I grab the notebook, flipping through it for a long moment while trying to figure out how to put it. I mean, sure, we CAN do a lot of this stuff… but it means unleashing the Deadly Darlin’s on the entire United States, doesn’t it?
Reaper's Darlin':
"Why are you so willing to bend over backwards for us, Reaper? You're not even in our branch. We're not even in your league, honestly. We might both be villains, but you're the exit-only door and we're the fluffy entertainment."
"I sometimes wish I could be the fluffy entertainment," he says.
“You're lying."
"Yes, yes I am," he says. She laughs, dropping down in the chair. "But I do like you three. I don't have many people I can touch, Doris. I definitely don't have people that will greet me with hugs when I show up, either. Add to that the fact that you three love the most important person in my life, and what do you expect me to do?"
"Kiss me," she says. The room goes silent, the end of his cigar starts to fall, and he grabs it just before it hits the carpet.
"As much as I'd love to, my dear, I think we've missed a few important steps along the way," he says as he slowly drops the cigar tip into the tray.
Ringmaster:
“Tabitha,” she starts out, “is… yes, I believe she IS a super,” she says. “But whenever I tried to tell Bishop Frances that, he refused outright to believe it. I… I should not speak ill of anyone, especially a bishop, but he has his head so far up his—his KEESTER that he can’t see what’s under it!”
“That’s surprising,” Isotonic says, sitting when she motions to a chair. “I would think that even the clergy would have to accept our existence, by now. What, with how the Hall has practically blown up over the past few years.”
“Oh, he believes that supers exist,” she says, scoffing. “It’s not that. The problem is Tabitha—no, the true problem is Bishop Frances! He took one look at her the moment she started showing signs, and said it was clearly impossible!”
“Why was it impossible?”
“Because Tabitha just doesn’t LOOK like a super!” she says, her frustration showing as she throws her hands in the air. “What sort of Godly representative judges someone based on their—” she stops herself, taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. Isotonic has a stunned expression on his face.
“How do you ‘not look’ like a super?” he asks after a moment. “I’m afraid I’m confused.”
“Tabitha is a little person,” Sister Agnes says.
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