Sky High Page #5

Yet he'll be the one on cereal boxes.

Show me the justice in that.

Miss Fernandez, kindly thaw out Mr. Hellman.

- That was amazing.

- So is what you did in the cafeteria.

Yeah. Once they start handing out grades

for destruction of school property,

I'll be in good shape.

You know, I can totally help you

out with all this science stuff.

Yeah, you'd do that?

Mm-hmm.

I could be, like, your...private tutor.

Cool.

Guys! Guys! Over here.

Will? Sitting with Gwen Grayson?

Man aims high, gotta give him that.

Sorry. All full.

That's OK.

Uh, I think I see an empty table over there.

Come on, guys.

No offense, Will.

We are not running a loser outreach program. OK?

I'm sorry, Penny can be a little...

...full of herself sometimes.

Penny...

Sometimes you have to act nice...

- I just don't want them to sit over here.

- OK.

Layla! What's up?

Hey, you smell nice.

Tecomaria capensis. Honeysuckle?

- Listen. About lunch...

- What about it?

At the table, Penny was being...

- Please. Not a big deal.

- No, it is, and...

I feel bad, so let me make it up to you.

Maybe tonight we can go to the Paper Lantern?

- But you hate Chinese food.

- But you don't.

Paper Lantern. 8:00.

Will!

No, guys!

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey!

Come on, buddy. Easy, guys.

- Thanks, Will.

- All right.

- You OK?

- Yeah, thanks.

- Zach too.

Come on.

Not so tough when my boy's around, are you?

You just think you're so big

and bad, huh, Stronghold?

- No, I-I don't.

- Please! Will will totally take you.

You saw what happened to Warren?

Watch it, Stronghold. That big mouth

is gonna get you in a lot of trouble.

- I didn't say anything.

- Why not settle this in P.E.?

- What?

- You're on.

If Will beats you in Save the Citizen, you

lay off sidekicks for the rest of the year.

And if he loses, you can dunk Ethan

in the toilet every day till graduation.

- Yeah! Huh?

- You got yourself a deal.

- Wait, guys, guys.

- Bring it.

C- Come on!

Guys, are you crazy?!

No freshman ever won Save the Citizen,

and those guys are undefeated!

And you barely know how to use your powers!

Sorry. Not helping.

Will, you have no choice.

You can't let them dunk Ethan's

head in the toilet. Not again.

The dunking must end.

Five! Four!

Three! Two! One!

Uh! Hey, what's up?!

Ramirez! Hamilton!

Your citizen has just been mulched

because you failed to defeat your villains.

Next round. Speed, Lash,

you want to be heroes or villains?

- Villains.

- Yeah.

Ooh, there's a surprise.

Who do you want to beat next?

All right.

We'll take little Stronghold

and, uh, let's see...

- And we pick Peace!

- Remember when we used real citizens?

- Yes. Yes.

Hothead, Stronghold, you're the heroes.

Hey! Get your head in the game!

You have three minutes to

immobilize your opponents

- and save the citizen!

- Save me!

- Ready!

- Save me.

Set!

Battle!

Oh!

- Ha!

- What now, Peace?

Ow!

Hey! Coach, that's a foul!

Call something on that!

Save me! Save me!

Are you blind, ref?

Watch it, hothead!

Ahhh!

What? No! Wait!

No! Wait!

Hey!

Save the citizen!

- Save me.

- You are so dead!

Save me.

Save me.

Save me.

The vortex sucks away the oxygen.

No oxygen, no flame.

Come on!

Save me.

Save me.

Save me.

Five! Four!

Three! Two! One!

Time!

She's alive!

Heroes win!

Speed, Lash, hit the showers!

Where's my boy?

- Will!

- Will!

Whoo!

- Yo, we're right here!

- Here!

I just can't believe you won

Save the Citizen as a freshman.

That's never been done before!

And you topped Mom's best score on

the pinball machine? Get outta here!

- That is hilarious.

- There they are.

- Gwen?

- Hey.

Oh, uh, Dad, this is Gwen Grayson.

Gwen Grayson, this is Dad.

Mr. Stronghold, it's such an honor.

I'm sorry to barge in like this.

Oh, not at all. Will and I

were just hangin'. Chillin'.

Honey, Gwen is a Technopath,

and she's offered to help Will

with his science homework.

And she's a senior.

We said we'd work on that antigravity

stuff tomorrow, but something came up.

- Any chance we can do it tonight?

- Sure. Yeah.

On one condition, Gwen.

You join us for dinner.

Oh, no, I couldn't intrude.

- Oh, yes, you can.

- You must.

OK. Well, thanks.

- So should we get started?

- Certainly.

Well, she's gorgeous.

And she fixed the disposal.

Really?

So there we were, in the middle of nowhere,

and she's like, "I can't change a tire!

- I can only change the weather!"

I'm like, "Can you at least make it stop raining?"

Uh, I'll give him a few more minutes.

So, Gwen, do we know your parents?

Mmm. I don't think so, Mrs. Stronghold.

Dad went inactive a few years ago.

Lets mom do all the work now, huh?

Actually mom passed away when I was a baby.

So I did have an ulterior motive

in coming here tonight.

Will may have told you I'm the head

of the homecoming committee?

Uh, he most certainly did not.

Well, I was wondering if you'd consider

attending the homecoming dance.

- We would love to chaperone.

- Sure.

That's very nice, Mrs. Stronghold, but no.

We were hoping that you'd be the guests of honor

and receive the award for Heroes of the Year.

Still workin' on that?

- Hey.

- Hey.

We go to school together.

- You're Stronghold's friend.

- Yeah.

Yeah.

You want me to heat that up for you?

You're not supposed to use

your powers outside of school.

I was just gonna stick it in the microwave.

Uh, I was supposed to be

meeting Will here, but, um...

You want to sit down?

I think I can spare a minute.

Oh, look, hon'.

There's... What's his name?

Kid with the gravity.

- Lance, I think. Lance something.

- Yeah.

Oh, my gosh look, there's Boomer.

- He had a mullet?!

- Oh, God.

Oh, whoa-whoa-whoa. Remember her?

- Hmm? She was a weird one.

- Oh, yeah. Sue Tenny.

Disappeared right before graduation.

- Why is that?

- No one ever really knew.

Some say she was, uh,

recruiting villains at the school.

Others say she was smoking in the girls' room.

Nightmare. All right, now.

Speaking of villains, there's one of the worst.

Baron Battle.

Warren's dad?

Always swore he'd have his revenge on me.

And he totally stole the lead in Oklahoma!

You have to stop caring about that.

- It's a long time ago.

- Hon'.

- I don't wanna talk about it!

- You deserved it.

Then there was this time in first grade.

You know how you grow lima beans in school?

Will could not figure out why mine grew so quickly.

It was driving him crazy.

So finally I took mercy on him

and I told him about my powers,

and we've been best friends ever since.

Hmm.

And falling for him, was that

before or after the lima beans?

What? I am not in love with Will Strong...

- Is it that obvious?

- Yeah.

- Great.

- So why don't you tell him?

Well, I was gonna ask him to homecoming,

but there's two problems.

He likes somebody else, and she's perfect.

Hmm. You know what I think?

To let true love remain unspoken

is the quickest route to a heavy heart.

Wow.

That is really deep.

Yeah.

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