Charlotte Powers 1: Power Down by Ben White

Author:Ben White
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure
Publisher: Clover Island Publishing
Published: 2011-02-13T11:00:00+00:00

xx48.11.18 / 19:56 / Still Friday

Okay, okay, I admit it, I started a new entry just for dramatic effect. Can you blame me? SUCH a cool line. It turned out I had to explain for C2's benefit, though, which took about ten minutes, but by the end of it I almost had her convinced that I was right.

"I concede that it's a possibility," she said, after I'd finished explaining. "But even if you're right, I don't see how this changes anything. What can we do?"

"Stop it, of course! Stop this evil mind control and free these students!"

"We're just two people. There are over a thousand students at this school; if this is 'mind control' then it's not an unreasonable assumption to make that they could all turn against us, possibly violently. Also, if you are right and 'supervillains' are responsible for this then the implication is that they have scientifically promoted abilities. The presence of thugs or similar minions is also likely. I ask this not as pointed repetition but instead due to an earnest desire for clarification: what can we do?"

Actually that kind of stumped me. If I had my powers—but no, Charlotte, you've got to stop saying that. The simple fact is that I DON'T have my powers. I'm just an ordinary girl, and so is C2. Well okay so maybe 'ordinary' isn't the right word to describe her but she definitely doesn't have super-strength or anything like that, and now that I think about it I really don't want to put her in any danger. So basically it's down to me, a single unpowered girl against a potential army of mind controlled students and their supervillain masters. Also probably thugs and/or minions. I wouldn't put it past the teachers to be involved in this, either.

"Um," I said.

"I haven't seen any evidence of 'control'," C2 said. "Except from Veronica Flux and the new student head of council, and from the teachers who arrived at around the same time that they did."

"Aha!" I said.

"But that isn't 'mind control'," C2 was continuing. "In fact, the mood alteration often seems to work against their desire to encourage the students to become more organised."

"More organised?" I said. "You're making it sound positive!"

"It is positive?" said C2. "There was a lot of bullying and other bad behaviour before the new staff were brought in. I was often treated badly, as were my friends. The teachers had trouble controlling the students."

"Huh," I said. I actually couldn't think of anything to say to this.

"That's why I suggested that the school board—"

"Okay, so clearly we have to investigate this whole thing further," I said. "It wouldn't be a good idea to make any rash moves."

"I agree," said C2. "That's why I think you should join the self-improvement program."

I stared at her.

"You're shocked," C2 said, in a kind of satisfied way—I guess because she was happy to have figured out my feelings, not because she was trying to shock me. "But as I said to you before, being there is less conspicuous than not being there.

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