The Wanderer by Danny Giancioppo

Author:Danny Giancioppo [Giancioppo, Danny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Superheroes
Published: 2019-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

9

Making Waves

A couple months had gone by, right? Training, fighting challengers, more training, more fighting challengers, school, friends, flirting, all kinds of stuff. Bentley pushed me a hell of a lot harder than the challengers, I’ll be honest; drones were sort of his forte, and the U.S.B. apparently had literally hundreds if not thousands to go around.

Speaking of the challengers though, it really did get a lot easier to deal with them. What was once a genuine threat was quickly turning into a casual threat; I just had to be wary, and try my best to focus. The upside was that I was getting a lot stronger, and it showed, but the downside was… you know, it showed.

That’s what Malek wanted, for me to get stronger and stronger, and I was doing it. We hadn’t interacted much lately– I guess his threats against my loved ones were a little more empty than I’d thought– but I knew he was watching me; every move I made, every fight I won.

I tried not to think about, which Ox strongly cautioned against, but what did he know? He was just a collection of every single Wanderer to ever fight against Malek and lose, learning time and time again what wouldn’t beat him for centuries.

Anyhoots, amongst the challengers and the training, I also saw my friends, like I’d said. I don’t really know why, but after that day saving Sam and the subsequent night in the city, we were getting along a lot better. I guess my words to him as the Wanderer did a number, and my own experience with Sharon just kind of opened my eyes to moving on. Suffice to say, we were all hanging out together more often, and things were slowly themselves picking back up.

Not everything was perfect, and he and I were still a little weird– after all, the issue in and of itself hadn’t really been resolved– but we were working on it, I think. It was nice, I know that much; better than it had been.

At least, it was.

We were all sat in Alex’s house– his kitchen, to be precise, which had a window that peered right out into his little old backyard. I sat closest to it on one end of the island, and Will sat between Julia and I. Alex leant on the counter by the fridge, and Alannah and Sam sat on top of said counter, by the sink.

It was midday, just a little after school had gotten out. Spring was rearing its head, cutting through all that gross winter cold and slush, and we were busy talking about absolutely nothing of importance: my favorite discussion topic.

“What I’m saying is that wouldn’t know if it died until eight minutes after it happened,” Alex stressed, gesturing to both Will and the sky wildly with his hands. “That’s how science works!”

“Yeah, and I’m telling you, you don’t know nothing,” Will scoffed. Julia and I snorted a little, and Sam and Alannah just watched curiously, observing the fascinating debate between two non-scientific minds.

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