Dear diary,
Okay, so that felt like SUPER weird starting this with 'dear diary' because, like... !!!
Today was my first day of school at CCH and I was so so so excited, you know? First step! On my way! AAAAAH! It's so big and so cool and it's pretty much like a university before university I was so excited!
I thought maybe I got there too early, but when dad dropped me off there was already a line to get the CC-Link. My. People. FINALLY
So I get my link and get sent to the omnitorium (so awesome) and find Amber and Evan at the back beside the light room? Control thing? I just looked it up it's just called a control booth. Duh.
I thought it would be super awkward. Remember when I told you Amber saw my face at the mall? We still haven't talked about it. She basically acted like nothing was different so I tried to play it cool, too. Just read the instructions on how to use the CC-Link. Amber was acting kind of weird but I thought it might have been because she was avoiding Dana? She said she would stop picking fights but I think she might be scared she'd be too competitive anyway.
The principal goes on stage and gives a speech before his microphone just stops working and then a video starts playing on screen. Blind Viper hijacked our school intro?? My whole body froze and inside my arms had that itch. I was kind of scared tbh but I didn't panic!
He goes on this long villain speech saying like "we are not the villains but revolutionaries". Like, yeah, dude. Ethics 101: nobody thinks they're the bad guy. I wonder if I can get like a public service thing where criminals have to attend a few lectures from dad so they learn basic normative ethics. Not even two minutes after they blow up the city including in front of the school. Yeah. The good guys.
Okay so, like... Rose you say you never read my diary but sometimes I'm afraid you find it and do. If you're reading please please please stop. Seriously. Like 100,000% please stop I'll do all your chores for you forever, I promise. DO NOT KEEP READING IF YOU ARE ROSE (or dad, but I doubt you would)
Seriously.
Sorry Diary I just have to be sure.
The whole atrium FREAKS OUT the students run all over the place trying to find a way to escape, the teachers are panicking and not doing anything, and there are A.E.G.I.S. agents that basically just stand with their fingers to their earpieces but are useless. I ran into the control booth and put my costume on. I didn't even think of it at the time but there's a giant window on the front (I checked later and its one-way. If someone saw me changing I would have died)
I jump out onto the booth and tell Amber to keep Evan safe, cause I'm pretty sure she could break a villain in half if they got her mad. Speaking of... a girl PUNCHED A HOLE IN THE WALL. Just broke it! With one hit! Like, I'm strong now. But I don't think I'm that strong
But listen Diary, I'm so proud. I saw that the kids were freaking out and the teachers were freaking out so I jump down to one and kind of take charge a bit. I tell them "You have protocols. You have procedures. What are they? Calm them down!"... and the teacher says its her first week. Like... you didn't read the procedures in that time??? I drag her to the next teacher who is WAY more prepared and he starts getting things in order. Then I focus on the boom I heard out front. I call all the bugs and tell them to lead me there, to gather up just in case.
On my way out I run into So Calico (just in case. seriously, Rose do not read) and the girl who punched the wall down. I ask Cali (no that reminds me of Kali). Li? Yeah. Li. I ask Li if she needs some of my strength but I think she took some from the auburn girl. We go to the front of the school and a big werelion guy (who calls himself fox? uh, okay.) starts yelling some stupid aggro stuff. Oh also there was a person who was like blue and flying? I can't believe I didn't mention that its super important.
Werelion - I am not calling him fox - thru threw (dumb mistake) a bolder at us and right as I'm about to try and stop it from hitting Li, suddenly Phoenix Punch himself shows up. He asks if he can leave it to us and rockets off. He mentioned Inflammable might have come out of retirement for this? I want to meet her so bad that would be awesome she's my favourite.
Anyway so Li tells me to go down the middle, which is obviously the most important part, while she and auburn (but she called her pink) flank and the blue guy (she called him Rigel which I bet isn't his real name. No way he's named after the blue supergiant and he's just coincidentally named Rigel.) to come from on top. So I rush in the middle and try to distract him and he was strong enough to just shatter the bones on my arms when I blocked.
I mean like the ones I grew out as a shield. Not my actual arm bones. Oh wow this is going to get confusing.
He shatters them and pushes me back so far that the panic I was trying to hold back since basically... okay tbh since I arrived at school. I freaked out and sealed myself in basically a cocoon of bone. I made it too tight but I tried to get my inhaler even if I don't need it anymore. Eventually my cocoon shattered for some reason and threw me out. But by then the fight was pretty much over and the others beat werelion up.
I made handcuffs from bone but everyone was grossed out and thought it was useless. I was just trying to help. Why do my powers have to be so fucking gross? I want to be a cool, inspiring hero and help people but everyone thinks I'm disgusting.
idk... I was also really jealous of Li. She just immediately took a leader role, but I guess I thought I would be which is stupid. I know she's more experienced and knows how to do this stuff way better than I do but
I just prepare for this all the time. I thought I would be a good one. I guess being a good leader is knowing when to step down. Li knows what she's doing, like way better than I do. She's been doing it longer and even has a mentor. I also felt really useless. I tried to do a distraction but I don't know if it actually helped. Nobody really said anything to me about it. Said thanks, or good job.
I went back inside and met back up with Evan and Amber. They were fine. The principal told us they would do better to keep us safe, and that we were dismissed. We don't get the orientation week, we just go to school same day as older grades. I came right back home and... well, wrote in you.
I just realized I didn't get the contact info of the other two. Maybe Li knows? She's been a hero longer maybe she bumped into them. It would be super awesome if we could team up again.
Anyway. That's it. Guess I have a few days of free time, maybe I'll talk to Amber about the whole costume thing because we haven't yet or reach out to Calico about who the other two people are. Especially star-man. Who names themself after a star? Like who knows what Rigel is off the top of their head. Don't say anything I know you're thinking it, shut up. Yes. Me. I just mean who else?
Well. Talk to you later, Diary.
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