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We'd be happy to collect that $15 new student fee.

Um, there was nothing about a

new student fee in the handbook.

OK, guys. Very funny.

I'll take over from here.

Hey, everybody I'm Gwen Grayson,

your student body president.

I know you're all going to love it here at Sky High.

I know I have.

I've just had the greatest experience...

...but there are a few rules that

I just want to let you guys know.

First of all...

If you can remember those few simple rules,

I promise you will not fall

off the edge of the school.

- Follow me inside for orientation.

- Rules? What rules?

- Weren't you paying attention?

Good morning I am Principal Powers.

On behalf of all the faculty and staff,

welcome to Sky High.

Yeah!

In a few moments you will

go through Power Placement

and your own heroic journey will begin.

- "Power placement"?

- Sounds fascist.

Power Placement:
It's how

they decide where you go.

The hero track or the loser track.

Th-th-there's a loser track?

I believe the preferred term is "Hero Support."

For now, good deeds and good luck.

Let the adventure begin.

Comets away!

All right, listen up.

My name is Coach Boomer.

You may know me as "Sonic Boom."

You may not.

Here's how Power Placement is gonna work.

You will step up here and show me your power.

And, yes, you will do so in front of the entire class.

I will then determine where you will be assigned.

Hero or sidekick.

Now, every year there are a few students

or, as I like to call them, "whiner babies,"

who see fit to question

and to complain about their placement.

So let's get one thing straight.

My word is law.

My judgment is final,

so there will be no whiner babies.

- Are we clear?

I said, are we...clear?!

Yes, Coach Boomer!

Go-time!

You! What's your name?

Larry.

Little Larry.

Get up here.

What's humiliating him going to prove?

This is so unfair.

If life were to suddenly get fair,

I doubt it would happen in high school.

Car!

Big Larry. Hero!

So he's good.

But I'm better.

Did I say you were next?

Name's Zach, Coach Boomer.

Try not to drop your clipboard.

Any day now, superstar.

- I'm doin' it.

- Doin' what?

- I'm glowin'.

- I don't think so.

Well, it's easier to see in a dark room.

Turn off these lights, cup your hands

around your eyes and look real close...

- Sidekick!

- Are you sure you don't want to just...

Sidekick!

You! Front and center!

Let me start off by saying

- what an honor it is to...

- Is that your power? Butt-kissery?

Very funny, sir.

I've heard you had a wicked sense of...

- Shut up and power up.

- Right away, sir.

Say, that's pretty impressive...

...for a Popsicle! Sidekick!

Hero!

Side...kick!

Super spit?

Sidekick.

Acid spit.

Hero!

Ho! Hero!

And a handsome one at that.

Get out of here, knucklehead!

Purple kid. Let's go.

- What's your shtick?

- I'm a shape-shifter.

OK. Shift it.

- A guinea pig?

- Yep.

Not even a swarm of guinea pigs?

Uh, no.

Sidekick. Shoo!

- Bite me.

- You. Flower child. Let's go.

Uh, I believe in only using my powers

when the situation demands it.

Well, you're in luck.

This is the situation, and I'm demanding it.

But to participate in this test

would be to support a flawed system.

The whole hero-sidekick

dichotomy only serves to...

Let me get this straight.

- Are you refusing to show your powers?

- It's more complicated than taht...I mean -

Sidekick!

- We'll pick it up right after lunch,

starting with you.

That's not cool.

I tell you, Boomer will regret making me a sidekick.

All right? Someday it'll be dark,

he'll be all alone, walking to his car.

He'll drop his keys, and I

won't glow to help him find 'em.

You got a problem with me?

- Uh, no.

- No what?

No, sir. No, sir! No, sir!

Just messin' with you, sidekick.

You're not supposed to use your

powers outside of the school gym!

The cafeteria staff requests

sidekicks stop ordering hero sandwiches.

Am I crazy, or is that guy really looking at me?

- Dude.

- What?

- That's Warren Peace.

- That's Warren Peace?

- Yeah.

- I've heard about him.

His mom's a hero and his dad's a supervillain.

Baron Battle.

Where do I come in?

Your dad busted his dad.

Quadruple life sentence.

- No chance of parole until after his third life.

- That's great.

My first day of Sky High, and

I already have an archenemy. Hmm.

Is he still lookin'?

- No.

- No?

No.

I thought you said he wasn't looking.

A reminder:

There is no smoking on school grounds,

or freezing or bursting into flame.

I'm...

Will Stronghold.

Aha! Mind reader!

No. Name tag.

Right. Uh...

Uh, these are my friends.

That's Zach.

- What's up?

- And...

Layla. Got it.

- I'm Gwen.

- Hi.

- I love your skirt.

- Th-Thanks.

- How's Power Placement going?

- Um...great.

I'm not surprised.

Hey listen, I need a freshman rep

for the homecoming committee, so...

if you'd be interested we could...

...talk about it over lunch sometime.

- I eat lunch.

How cute is he?

- I guess I'll see you guys around.

- Yeah.

- Bye.

- Bye.

I don't think she really liked my skirt.

See you.

And thanks for the swirly.

- What's up, guys?

- The kid, uh,

looked a little dehydrated.

How about it, Stronghold?

You gonna hang with us this year?

Help us bring some pain to the sidekicks?

Th-That sounds like...fun.

Hmm.

Good man.

See you around.

OK.

...what it actually is...

What do you mean, you don't

know what your power is?

- Well, uh...

I got it. You're messin' with the coach.

Just like your old man! Car!

- Wow!

- That was close!

Are you insane?!

I don't have super-strength!

Oh, I get it.

You're a flier, just like your ma.

Why didn't you say so?

- Whoa!

Kid, come on - quit messin'

around I haven't got all day.

- What's your power?

- I don't have one.

Stronghold.

Siiiide...

...kick!

Hmm. I remember doing this to your

father when he was just your age.

Kicked me through that wall!

You, uh, haven't called him yet, have you?

Like I want to be the one to tell the

Commander his son has no powers?

Ooh!

Let's...let's take a look at that chest.

Well, nothing seems to be broken.

Except for me not having my powers.

Well,

maybe you're just a late bloomer.

You could get one of them or both.

Your mother's flying or your father's super-strength.

But when?

The kids who get bit by, uh, radioactive insects

or fall into a vat of toxic waste,

their powers usually show up the next day.

Or...they die.

Ooh, lookit.

But kids who inherit their powers...

...well, impossible to say.

But I will get them, right?

Many sidekicks

are the offspring of one super-parent, mmm,

and one ordinary parent. Hmm!

But there are cases, rare,

yet not unheard of,

where the child of two super-powered parents,

mmm-mmm,

never acquires

any...powers

whatsoever.

There are?

Like who?

Well, I know of only one.

Ron Wilson, bus driver?

There he is.

There he is now.

A 3 bath Victorian with original crown molding?

You bet we'd love to take a look. How's, uh...

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