Superhero Squad by Alesha Dixon

Author:Alesha Dixon
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Published: 2018-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

11

JJ sat down next to me, his eyes bright with excitement.

“I just spoke to Dad,” he said, gesturing to a man sitting at another table who looked exactly like JJ, but a bigger and taller version. “He confirmed that the next meeting starts in half an hour, so the training room will be completely free.”

“Did he say anything about this morning’s meeting?” I asked, waving at Mum and Dad who had just walked into the canteen to get their lunch and sit with JJ’s and Cherry’s parents.

“Not really. Apparently it was just your parents giving them all the information about the Light of the World.”

“That makes sense.” Cherry nodded. “You need to know all the information about something before you can make an informed decision as to what to do about it.”

I smiled. “You sound just like my friend Kizzy.”

I was really missing my best friend. It felt like so long that I had been away from the Bright Sparks and there was no mobile signal underground so I couldn’t message them. I even missed Suzie going on and on about her new routines and almost hitting me in the head when she spontaneously decided to do a cartwheel.

“It must be weird that your friends know about your superpowers,” Cherry commented, taking a sip of her water. “I saw that they helped you stop that Blackout Burglar getting away with the precious stones.”

“They were key to the operation,” I said proudly. “I couldn’t have done it without them. And Alfred, my aunt’s pet ostrich.”

JJ looked confused. “Your aunt has a pet ostrich?”

“Yes. He’s really into fashion. And breaking things.”

“I wish I could tell my friends about my powers. It’s quite difficult keeping it all under wraps,” Cherry said.

“Same,” JJ agreed, pushing his broccoli to the other side of his plate. “I always have to run much slower in races and sometimes in stuff like football I forget and kick the ball right into the goal from the other end of the pitch. Mum and Dad get really mad at me. You’re so lucky.”

“I guess so. It was hard at first though, so I know what you mean. My friends only found out about my powers by accident,” I said, absent-mindedly tracing the swirled scar on my palm with my finger.

“Does your dad have any superpowers?” JJ asked, as we overheard Dad launch into a conversation with Cherry’s parents, Sky and Saheed, about the “fascinating structure of crystalline material”.

“No, he’s a Professor of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum. Are your parents both superheroes?”

“Yeah, they met on the job,” JJ explained. “My dad has super strength, he’s practically invincible. Mum, well, she—”

But he didn’t need to finish his sentence because, at that moment, JJ’s mum appeared through the wall of the canteen, kissing his dad on the cheek and apologizing for being late to lunch.

The three of us burst out laughing.

“Yeah, no explanation needed,” JJ said. “I was hoping I might develop the ability to walk through walls since I got

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