Trainee Superhero (Book Three) by C. H. Aalberry

Author:C. H. Aalberry [Aalberry, C. H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: superhero, alien wars, space marine
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“Another titan has just made landfall… and we’ve been ordered to respond.”

Lesson Fourteen: …So Have A Plan For When Everything Goes Wrong

“Stay calm and trust in the Corps. We have everything under control

-Superhero Corps official propaganda

“Some days everything goes wrong, despite all the plans and attempts to make things better. Being a superhero doesn’t prevent those days, it amplifies them.”

-Bad Day, email to his brother.

Only seven of us make it to the second titan, and all of us are hurting.

Tenchi and I are the only trainees, but we are in better shape than the others. Never Lies has lost one of her cannons, Home Brew is limping, Free Man and Simon Smith are covered in burn marks and cuts, and even Dark Fire is moving more slowly than usual.

“We’re dead,” says Home Brew as we soar in the Comet, and no one disagrees.

The Comet drops us above the city and we fly in formation, a thin shield to stand against the saucer’s great weapon. The city unrolls below, streets and buildings all laid out like a model. Cars and buses rush under our feet as people flee back the way we came. Some look up and wave, but most do not. They are too busy trying to survive, too busy in the struggle and frenzy of escape. The sounds of sirens and screams drift up to us, but they are muffled and far away, noise from another world. We fly in silence, each of us full of both focus and fear. The people below are relying on us; thousands will die if we fail.

I feel like a superhero for the first time; I feel like this is my moment.

We land on the highest tower and wait. We can’t see any other supers in the air. Dark Fire drops a purple emergency flare, a call to any and all superheroes to gather to him. I doubt they will. The first team sent to stop the titan are missing, and it will be too long to wait for any others to arrive. We are alone, but Dark Fire still drops the flare. It sizzles loudly. We can hear the heavy footsteps of the creature approaching, smell the smoke of distant fires. The ugly sounds of a panicking city drift up to us, the crash of cars colliding and distant, useless sirens.

“Any sign of the East Coast Warriors?” asks Never Lies.

The warriors were meant to be protecting this area, but there is no sign of them. I wonder if they have already tried to stop the creature and failed.

“They are not here,” says Simon Smith with worry confidence.

An enormous red dorsal fin rises over the hills. This titan is different from the last one, with a broad head and two vast cannons on its shoulders. It has long rows of spines taller than the building we are standing on and a pair of long, thin tails that whip from side to side as it approaches. We aren’t the first to try and stop this thing: it's limping, and smoke rises from a long gash on its right side.

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