The Super 4 : Dark Death (4 page)

I slapped myself for forgetting to switch my
alarm off yesterday.

I crawled into bed trying to get back to
sleep.

However try as I might I simply couldn’t
re-enter the world of dreams.

Still moaning and groaning I stomped towards
the elevator. That’s one advantage of being the son of the most
important person in the world. You don’t have to take the stairs. I
reached the ground floor and continued to march my way miserably to
the kitchen.

“Yo, Grumpy-poof!” I turned around to see my
sister walking towards me. “What happened to my pillow?”

“What pillow?” I asked innocently.

“The one I..” her voice trailing
off.

The one you what?” Keeping up my phony
innocence I opened the fridge and took out a pack of microwavable
pancakes.

“Never mind. Just make me some
breakfast!”

“And what did your last slave die of?” I
asked.

“I killed him for not making me breakfast!”
She smiled what she thought was an evil smile, but it looked like a
puppy’s first attempt at growling: just wrong!

“Fine.” I muttered incomprehensibly. I tore
open the pack of pancakes and put five individual ones on each
side, then placed them in the microwave.

While we were
waiting for the pancakes, my sister started singing ‘Do you wanna
build a snowman’ really loud and really terrible. I groaned and
close my eyes with my hands over my ears.
Ding!

Relieved that my sister’s racket was finally
over I cautiously opened the microwave and waved away some of the
steam that billowed out of the microwave. I lifted the plates out
of the microwave without my hands getting even a little hot. I
placed one in front of Tessa. I placed the other one on the table
and added some strawberries and chocolate sauce to my pancakes. I
wolfed mine down in record time, while my sister was still only
quarter-way through to finishing her first pancakes. I laughed at
her and immediately started choking. I poured some juice in a glass
and downed it quickly enough. Then I continued laughing at Tessa
all the way to the front door.

I had taken only three steps until I
remembered that it was Saturday and I was still in my pajamas. With
my face burning I walked back towards my house. Luckily my mansion
is right behind the White House, so nobody saw my burning face in
Captain America pajamas.

I went back upstairs to wash out the flames
from the fire burning on my cheeks. Once the fire was out I walked
back downstairs to the kitchen. I heard Mum and Dad talking quietly
to each other. I decided to give them some privacy and walked into
the living room where my sister sat on the sofa her pancakes on her
lap and a TV remote next to her. She was watching some stupid
fashion show. I rolled my eyes as I silently crept towards her. I
slowly slid my hand over the remote and removed it from the sofa
into my hand.

“
Put it back Harrison!” Tessa
yelled, scaring the living daylights out of me. Tessa laughed
cruelly. “You should’ve seen the look on your face!” She continued
laughing her horrible hyena-like laugh.

Mum soon came rushing in to see what the
yelling was all about.

She attempted to calm Tessa down but couldn’t
stop the smile that slowly spread across her face as she heard how
her eldest child had made a fool out of himself. Soon, Dad came in
to see what all the fuss was about and broke off in deep
laughter.

Whereas my sister is pretty much identical to
me, except for her hair, eyes and height, you would never guess
that my parents were my parents just by looking at them.

Dad is a pretty muscular, tanned guy from
Texas and has light brown hair and hazel eyes.

Mum however is the same complexion as Darryl,
but has black hair just over shoulder-length height, with eyes so
dark you can barely tell whether her eyes were black or
brown.

Mum likes swimming and running so she’s pretty
fit. She’s also addicted to this sport called squash. I’ve played
it a couple of times and loved every minute of it. Mum is from two
small cities in Ghana, so you can bet it was a big surprise for
them to discover that she’s the wife of a president!

When my simply ‘hilarious’ family calmed down,
Mum announced that she was making breakfast. This was great news
because Mum was even better at cooking than our private chef from
France. We all stomped to the kitchen, even Tessa came along,
though she was still finishing her pancakes, where Mum started
frying bacon, scrambling eggs and toasting bread. In other words
she did her magic. By the time breakfast was ready I was
practically drooling. I was starving even after five pancakes and a
handful of strawberries. I gobbled down six pieces of toast, three
helpings of scrambled egg, eight pieces of crispy, fried bacon and
several cups of hot chocolate.

All in all, my breakfast that day was pretty
good.

I leaped up the stairs, taking them three at a
time, and crawled up the attic ladder to get to my room. I silently
wondered why my family had been moving so slowly after only two
helpings. I also started wondering whether my powers meant I could
burn calories.

Literally.

I wasn’t dumb enough to give it a go. However
I did think that after that breakfast I would need some serious
exercise.

So I hopped in the shower, put on some clothes
and called Jake, Carly and Darryl. I had skillfully avoided calling
them ‘the gang’ out of fear of being called Freddie from my second
favorite cartoon ‘Scooby-doo’.

They picked up on the sixth ring. “What’s up?”
Carly asked.

“
Nothing much, but do you guys
want to go to the tree house to train again?” I asked.

“
YES!” I heard Jake
scream.

“
Sure, I’ll come.” was Darryl’s
feebler reply.

“
I guess.” replied
Carly.

“
Okay meet you there.” I
said.

“
Already there!” said Jake, as he
disconnected the call.

“
I’m on my way.” said Carly, as
she too ended the call.

“
Well see you there
Darryl.”

“
Okay.” He hung up.

I pulled on my trainers and headed downstairs
to tell Mum I was leaving.

“
See you later, mum!” I yelled as
I walked out of the house.

“
See you, have fun.” Mum replied,
“ and be back by lunchtime. I have a surprise for you!”

“
Okay.”

I headed out and set off towards the woods.
While I was walking I saw a trail of t water, which was a sure sign
that Carly had been there. I also saw a couple of screws and bolts,
which informed me of Darryl’s presence.

As I neared the tree house, I decided it would
be hilarious to sneak up on them and scare them. Plus it would mean
I wouldn’t be the only one embarrassed. I melted when I caught a
glimpse of Jake talking to Carly. I decided to sneak up Jake’s back
and turn part of my face to solid form. That way Carly would
hopefully think that Jake had sprouted another head. Chuckling
softly I crawled up Jake’s back and completed my
mission.

Carly totally freaked when she realized that
Jake had two heads and jumped backwards into the lake.
Unfortunately for her she didn’t have time to activate her power,
so when she finally dragged herself out of the lake she was
dripping from head to toe. Everyone but Jake laughed, even Carly
laughed a bit before using her powers to get rid of all the water
on her. She was completely dry in a matter of seconds. However Jake
looked as if he wanted to kill me.

“
Harrison, please come.” He said
in a flat tone.

I followed him slowly as he led me out of
earshot of the other two. “Hey what’s up?”

“
What was
that
all about?” He
asked

“
Oh, it was just a
joke.”

“
A
joke?
A
joke?
You literally just
ruined my life!”

As he spoke I suddenly realized that his
normal Red Sox jersey and shorts with a pair of muddy sneakers were
replaced with chinos and a fitted polo shirt and Vans.

“
Oh.” I said finally
understanding. “Jake, I’m sorry I didn’t realize you were like you
know going to ask her out.”

Jake practically
had steam coming out of his ears. “Sorry?
Sorry?
”

“
Wow!” I said. “Relax. Calm down a
bit just ask her now!”

“
I can’t just ask her now! My
brain is as alive as a rock right now! I’ve no idea what to say
thanks to you! How am I supposed to RELAX!”

“
Hey, guys! What you talking
‘bout?” Carly asked. We realized Jake had been shouting.

“
Nothing, I’m just teaching Jake
how to...uh...Relax!” I responded hurriedly.

“
Oh...uh...Carry on then.” She
gave Jake and I a weird look before turning back to
Darryl.

“
Thanks a lot. Now she thinks I’m
a weirdo!” Jake spat. He walked back towards Carly. After a few
moments, so did I.

“
Well let’s start the match” I
said half-heartedly. I paired off with Darryl again, as the game
started.

This time they were way better prepared and
Jake immediately started running circles around us at 150 mph. A
cloud of dust circled us and I immediately flew away. But Jake
seemed to have thought of that to and I flew head-first into a
force-field. The last thing I remembered was someone screaming my
name as I slipped out of consciousness.

Jake

VI

I won’t deny it gave me a bit of pleasure to
of hurt Harrison like that. I probably should've been worried, but
he was only unconscious for about five seconds, before he melted
into the earth. Plus he was a huge jerk!

The next thing I knew Harrison had lifted me
into the sky. I hated the thought of being alone with my new
nemesis, but luckily Carly had been watching the whole thing and
assaulted Harrison with a vicious army of water balls.

Harrison evaporated all the water, but not
before dropping me on the ground on my rear end.

Luckily we were only a few feet up, but that
didn’t mean it didn’t hurt.

As I howled silently, I lost control of my
force field and Darryl extended an arm and latched his hand onto a
tree branch and swung away.

I sped after him but he was perched on top of
a tall tree and I didn’t fancy heights that much, so I simply used
my force field to push me up of the ground to the top of the
tree.

I was still scared of heights but at least I
was safer than I would’ve been surrounded by my light blue force
field.

As I approached him I started wondering
whether I could shoot mini force fields at him that would push him
backwards and possibly seek refuge on the solid ground.

I had only shot a few mini force fields at him
that pushed him back a lot, before I felt something wrap around my
waist. I wasn’t sure whether I could shoot force fields while in
the safety of my own, but I decided not to try in case I made some
noise to give away my position.

Harrison grabbed hold of me and started
flying. Up there I had a panic attack and my mind went blank. I
started screaming like a little girl. Harrison found that
absolutely hilarious and doubled over laughing. I used that as an
opportunity to get away and untangled myself from Harrison’s
loosening grip. I fell towards the earth in my force field which I
had artistically shaped to look like a rocket.

As soon as I had planted my foot on the ground
I was gone.

I knew I could go even faster than that. I
didn’t know how I knew. I just did.

I raced to my house and didn’t slow down until
I had reached my doorstep. I casually walked in, said hi to Mum and
walked quickly down the steps to my basement room.

Like I said, I don’t like heights.

I collapsed as soon as I made sure my door was
locked. I hated my life! And I hated Harrison even more!

I awoke roughly two hours later, with a loud
pounding noise coming from upstairs. “What?” I said groggily, as I
attempted to remove the sleep from my eyes.

“
Jake! Dinner’s ready!” The sound
of my sister’s voice immediately woke me up. And it made me annoyed
at her.

Groaning I stepped out of my bed, “Coming!” I
yelled. Suddenly the events that had happened in the past few hours
came rushing back to me. The last thing I remembered was lying on
my bed, screaming in fury.

I wanted to be angry, but I was just too
tired.

I slowly made my way to the dining room. At
the head of the long, highly polished glass table, my appalling
nurse sat.

She, or as I call her, the beast, was wrongly
named Madame Blaise, instead of Madame Brute, which meant
beast.