Ordinary Champions by Hayden Thorne

Author:Hayden Thorne [Thorne, Hayden]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Queerteen Press
Published: 2014-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Nothing but endless beeping—of the furious, freaked out, WTF kind—became my happy world for the next moment, and Heaven knew how long that moment stretched itself out.

“I love you, I love you, I love you, my hot, ass-kicking not-really-girlfriend!” I cried, hugging the computer monitor as it beeped hysterically. I guess had Althea the ability to speak through the computer, she’d be cussing me out like whoa, and I figured her crazy stream of beeping to be all kinds of imaginative, dirty words aimed at me.

I let the computer monitor go eventually. My arms were a little sore from all the weird angles they were forced to embrace. When I stepped back, I was teary-eyed and totally not ashamed, though I still didn’t have access to facial tissue, so I had to turn away from the computer and wipe my face with my shirt.

Dude, you almost decapitated me, Althea said. Don’t ever do that again, especially after all the trouble I went through to track you down.

“I’m sorry.” I sniffled, immediately plopping myself down on the chair. “I’ve been leaving a trail for you to pick up, but I haven’t heard from you for a long time, so I thought—God, I thought I was just fooling myself with such a stupid idea. Now…I never thought I’d be chatting with you like this, while in prison.” I grinned. “You look great.”

Shut up.

I chuckled. It was so cool, being told off like this.

“So—I guess—I guess you, Peter, and everyone else will be able to help me zap this place into dust, now you know where I am.”

Lemme think about that…

“So are you, like, more powerful now than before?”

How’d you know that?

I blushed, but it was too late to cover up. Not that it mattered, really, since Althea couldn’t see me. “I just know,” I stammered.

Peter told you, didn’t he? Well, that confirms a few suspicions of mine.

“Like what?”

Like his whereabouts last night, when we were all supposed to be assembled at the police station, monitoring the Trill’s men. Peter wasn’t with us, and he showed up after the robbery at the Pyramid Bank.

“Hey, don’t tell anyone,” I said. “He said that he just wanted to see if I was okay. He didn’t mean to screw up your vigil—or whatever it is you guys call it. Please, Althea? I honestly thought that Magnifiman’s gang would show up to beat the shit out of me, not Peter alone.”

Yeah, well—it wasn’t cool, no matter how you look at it. He could’ve put your ass on the line, and he could’ve screwed up our plans.

“Plans? You mean those plans that let the Trill get away with a crime? Some plans they were!”

Jeez, Eric, what happened last night was approved by the mayor and the bank management. We knew where the Trill was going to strike next, and we knew why.

I frowned. “How’d you find out all that?”

Lucy told us.

“Lucy!”

Yeah, a new superhero. Check this out—she’s actually a human chameleon. Isn’t that kickass? She showed up

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