The Masks We Wear Chapter 13: Beat Up, Shake Down The rest of the week passed about the way they expected in class. Ethics was confusing, gym was excruciating, and then there was class above ground… Sam decided to take a relatively light load of classes for his first semester. […]
Chapter 8 The next day Sam rushed down to look at his rankings; subtlety, focus, and ranged should all be up now, he knew his subtlety and focus ranks were going to be low, but he thought he had a chance in ranged. He’d been able to throw […]
Angela watched as one by one her dorm mates failed to advance to the third round. The second round bye was a blessing in disguise. At first she’d been eager to get back into the ring. Her first match with Seth was…disappointing. Angela knew she’d made an enemy in him, […]
Chapter – XI Sean was agitated. And frustrated. In fact, those who knew him best, if anyone truly did, would know that inside he was fuming. As he paced around the combat cell, he kept asking himself why that overgrown lummox wouldn’t just surrender. He was laying flat on his […]
Chapter 9 Sam made sure to get to the complex early again because he needed to know how he’d done in control. He walked into the gym and avoided looking up at the board for as long as possible, but finally he couldn’t put it off any longer. […]
Daisy watched the healer patch up Mason. Shrinking the swelling and bruising on his face until no trace of the beating remained. She fixed his eyes, which were actually quite damaged from Angela’s repeated blows. The trauma would have left the Super partially blind if not for the available healing. […]
Chapter – XII Ani-Man was sitting hunched over a bank of computer monitors in the heart of Second City Justice’s headquarters. In his quieter and more introspective moments Anthony Mason wished that he had been just a bit more creative in picking his Hero name. Creativity came part and parcel […]
The Masks We Wear Chapter 14: Beat Down, Shake Up Ethics on Thursday proved a bit more interesting than the last gym class had. Sam arrived and took his assigned seat between Jenny and Manny. The class slowly filed in until all the seats were full except four, the three […]
Chapter 10 “Welcome to your first Close Combat class,” Coach Tillman said to everyone, while standing up on the stage in the lecture hall. “During these classes you’ll call me Professor Tillman, and as such, I expect questions, but once your gym period begins it will be […]
Kyoshi felt her grip relax the moment the door closed behind Coach Meyers. It wasn’t until the relief washed over her that she even knew she’d grabbed Mason’s hand in white knuckled fear. She gingerly flexed her digits, each popping with reprieve as pressure was released. <What was that?> Kyoshi […]