"So I think she remembers us." Jessie said after recovering from a horrible pillow attack.

"Why are you guys here huh? Gonna Finish what you started on that roof, gonna make sure I stay down?! Well fuck that and you." Lily said as she stood on her bed and reeled back her fist.

Her fist coiled back into her forearm roll upon roll of squished flesh, being pushed back by her fist.

"What the fuc-" Jessie exclaimed as lily launched her fist at him. With only a split second to react, he dodged her punch and watched as she smashed a pot behind him.

"Hey so the smoke did give her powers." Rose said as she pointed at the retracting arm.

"Hey, that's cheating. Let me punch you!" She yelled as she coiled her fist again.

"Uh anyone wanna help me?" Jessie asked nervously.

"All you man." Rose said as she put up her hands in a non-aggressive gesture. Mia followed her example.

Lily launched again this time catching Jessie off guard and striking him in the face.

"Ow! Man, she's got quite the arm. Well, a real stretchy arm." He said as he massaged his jaw.

"Enough of this already." Rose said as she walked between the two.

Lily looked at her ready to attack wary of Rose's next move.

"Okay one, nice shot that was funny. Two why do you think we are here to hurt you?" Rose asked as she looked at the mark on Jessie's jaw.

Lily uncoiled her hand and got off her bed.

"Aren't you guys with the bird guy? I mean you guys can do things like him. Especially this guy." She said while pointing at Jessie.

Her finger was right in Jessie's face despite her being ten feet away. He moved it out of his face and moved towards Rose and the others.

"I don't know why Plague and I have the same powers but one thing is certain, you punched the shit out of me from all the way over there, so you have powers as well." He said as he poked his face.

"You have a point but hey aren't you missing one. The short kid?" Lily asked as she stepped down from her bed.

The curtain in there other bed suddenly opened a very relaxed Travis. He had a cast on his arm, it was pink.

"Hi, I'm Travis. The giant man to the left is Jessie, he's the one who apparently helped with your ability, and the beautiful woman to the right is Rose. She shoots fire." He said while pointing to the respective person.

"You were there the whole time!" Lily said as her jaw dropped to the floor. Literally.

"First of all gross." Travis aid while gesturing to Lily's jaw on the floor. "Secondly yes I was. I didn't know how to make conversation so I just didn't." Travis said nonchalantly.

"Now if you'll excuse me I haven't used the restroom since yesterday so I'll be heading to the restroom. Don't mind me." Travis said as he hurriedly walked bowlegged to what Jessie assumed was the restroom. Before long he peeked his head back out.

"Hi Mia." He said with a smile as he slammed the door shut. Mia waved and giggled.

"That's so like Travis to do that." Rose said as she stifled laughter.

"You still haven't answered my question, are you with bird guy?" She said having recovered her jaw from the floor.

"No, we are not. His name is Plague and we met him on the roof just like you." Rose said hesitantly.

"How do I know your not playing me, how do I know big guy over there isn't him?" She asked pointing with her magic finger.

Once again Jessie moved it out of his face.

"My powers may be the same as his but we are very different. For one he attacked a school with super-powered goons and all I did was stop him." He said while looking at her coiled fist.

It looks like a loaded spring, I don't wanna get hit by that thing. Again.

"As far as we know, which granted isn't a lot, what we are. What you are is what Plague called chosen. Except for Jessie he's what plague refereed to himself as. Which is an icon, I forgot to say the name." Rose said quickly.

"What?" Lily said raising an eyebrow.

"Wait, you guys must know who was hurt. Can you tell me if a young boy was hurt in the attack?" She asked suddenly changing the subject.

She stretched her leg and took a giant step towards Jessie.

"Can you stop doing that? It's very distracting." He said while taking a step back.

"Sorry, can you tell me if Jorge Ortega was hurt in the attack? The nurses don't let me watch the news or have my phone." She asked hoping for an answer.

Oh so she's already got a boyfriend huh.

Jessie bowed his head and kicked his heel. His mood suddenly dropped.

"A few were injured and a couple of kids were killed but I never heard anything about any Jorge Ortega was hurt." Rose said putting her hand on her shoulder.

She shook it off and took a step back.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done that." She said as she held her hand close to her chest.

"No your fine it's just your hand is very hot and it shocked me." She said while showing a giant palm.

"Can you stop with the stretching? It's really hard to pay attention when I'm trying to not geek out over your whole plastic man stic." Jessie said looking her in the eye.

"Sorry it's not something that's easy to control, I just learned I could do this. Thank you for telling me about my friend. I was so worried." She smiled and looked out the window.

Friend.

Jessie held his head high and grinned. He turned to see Rose eyeing him, he stopped himself and gave a serious nod to her.

"He is a very fragile little guy and I thought he died in the attack and I could do nothing to help." He's like a brother to me." She sat on the bed and looked Jessie in the eye.

"Do you have any brothers?"

Jessie's heart hurt and he felt a familiar chill in his body. "I did." Jessie said under his breathe.

"Anyways we came here to check on you and to see if you could help us." Rose said saving Jessie from that question.

"Help? With what?" Lily asked as she looked for her clothes.

At that moment they heard an explosion and a scream on the intercom. The building shook and Jessie grabbed onto the wall. The heard the toilet flush in the bathroom.

"Fuck what now." Travis said as he opened the door to the bathroom. He blinked out of view and appeared by the door looking out. He perked his head and quickly went back into the room. He closed and locked the door.

"Hide now!" He whispered with fear in his eyes.

"What's wrong? Why are we whispering?" Rose asked as Travis hid behind a curtain.

"Soldiers. All wearing a bird mask emblem on their chest!" He whispered as he looked under the bed.

"What? Now he has an army?! Oh, we are so fucked." Jessie said as he scrambled with Travis.

"What do you mean soldiers?!" Lily asked as everyone scrambled to find a hiding spot.

"Looks like we don't have time to finish chatting but I swear we will. Please just hide." Jessie said worriedly.

"O-ok." Lily said as she began looking around the room.

"Hurry under the bed!" Rose said as she pulled Mia under the covers into a hiding spot.

"I'm scared." Mia said shakily tears in her eyes.

"Don't worry buddy we'll protect you we're superheros." Rose said as she pulled the covers hiding them from view.

"Oh, bad guys always check under the bed dude." Jessie said as he went into the bathroom.

"Yeah basic game logic." Lily said as she stretched herself behind a chair.

"Oh my god, there's two of them." Travis said.

As Travis panicked everyone could hear  nothing but the sound of boots echoing down the hall.

"Travis you can go invisible, you idiot!" Rose whispered angrily at him.

"Oh right." He said as he disappeared from view.

"Oh, he'd be amazing at hide and seek." Lily whispered as the boots stopped outside their door.

A banging at the door shook everyone and caused Jessie to drop a bottle of shampoo.

"Someones in there." The door handle jiggled as the door flung open revealing two armor-clad soldiers in black military gear. They wore ski masks. They walked in and Jessie could see the insignia through the mirror in the bathroom.

It's the same as the ones on Plague's goons coats. It's definitely him, but why now? Why here?

"Check the bathroom, I'll check under the bed." The taller soldier said.

The shorter one made his way to the bathroom while the tall one bent down to be level with the bed.

As the tall one lifted the covers a loud boom came from the bathroom and the short one flew out of the bathroom hitting his head on a bedside table knocking him out cold.

The tall one let the covers drop immediately alert and raised his weapon at Jessie who was now standing in the doorway. He had his hands out and black smoke coiled around his palms.

Rose blasted the soldier's boots causing him to yelp in pain and run into Lily's uncoiled fist.

He fell on the floor with a thud and didn't make a sound.

"Told you he would check the bed." Jessie said helping Rose up.

"Shut up I panicked. What's important is we find out why plagues here and with an army. This is definitely not the only soldiers he has." She said as she helped a scared Mia from under the bed.

Great now we have an eight year old involved in this.

"This stuff is military grade." Jessie said as he bent down to look at the shorter soldier.

"This is a P90." Jessie said as he nudged the soldiers gun on the floor with his foot.

"How do you know what type of gun it is, and how he's wearing military grade stuff?" Travis asked.

"Games. You learn a surprising amount from them."

"How did plague get an actual army? Why is he attacking a hospital?" Rose asked as she stood up.

"This is way too coincidental ok. You guys show up saying your here to help, then these henchmen show up waving guns around?" Lily said as she coiled her fist.

"Hey, I found your pants Lily!" Travis said as he took the punch in the gut.

"Hey!" Jessie yelled as he walked towards Lily.

She coiled her fist and prepared another strike. Jessie stopped and put his hands up.

"We don't know what's going on just like you. Can you stop hitting us and help before we all end up dead." Jessie said staring intently into Lily's eyes.

She huffed and picked up her pants from Travis' outstretched hand as he laid on the floor. She took his hand and pulled him up.

"Sorry for punching you."

"Oh, it's fine. I like a girl who knows how to punch." Travis joked as he massaged his stomach.

Lily's face flushed as Rose handed her a shirt and a pair of shoes.

"You get used to him. We need to leave now."

The trio walked out of the room followed by Lily as she frantically pulled on her clothes ripping of the hospital sheet.

"Where are we gonna go?" She asked as she caught up.

"The front door?" Travis suggested.

"It's never that easy Travis. The enemy always makes it hard on the hero's when they need to escape." Jessie said as he looked down a hallway.

"Ok nerd where should we go then?" Travis asked exasperated.

"Grandpa!" Mia screamed as she let go of Rose's hand and ran to the door across from the room they just left. She opened the door and screamed.

"Mia!" Rose yelled as she ran back towards Lily's room.

The three looked at each other before following. As Jessie turned around he saw Rose standing in the doorway that the little girl had walked through earlier.

She turned to them with tears in her eyes and Travis ran to her.

He looked inside and held a hand to his mouth. Jessie ran to them.

Looking inside Jessie saw what caused the two to react in such a way. It was their principal, he had a gunshot wound to his chest and Mia was crying holding onto his hand. Turtle on the floor.

Holy shit. They killed him.

Lily nudged Jessie out of the way and gasped. She took a step back and Jessie took a step forward.

I feel ya kid, here let me help.

He knelt  by side Mia and took hold of her turtle. He tapped her shoulder and she looked up. Her eyes were puffy and filled with tears. He held out her turtle in one hand and an empty palm in the other.

Come on Cruz, focus.

The familiar chill returned and he focused it into his hand until a small cloud of smoke appeared.

"Jessie?" Rose said quietly as she watched.

Your at the finish line man just copy the shape.

As a small bead of sweat fell down the side of his face the cloud slowly form into the shape of the stuffed turtle and Mia gasped.

"H-how did you do that?" She asked as she took him in her hands.

"You looked sad so I wanted to help you feel better." Jessie said as Travis walked to Mr. Doe's side.

Mia looked up at her grandpa and cried harder. She buried her face into Jessie's chest and sobbed. He could feel her wet tears and held her.

Travis bent over to Mr. Doe's head to hear for him breathing. He stood up startled and signaled for Jessie to come over. Jessie looked at Travis then at Rose who came and picked Mia up and took her away from the ghastly scene.

Jessie stood and walked towards Travis.

"He's still breathing and he's talking dude. This guy must have a crazy strong will to live to still be alive if only barely even after this many shots." Travis said as he pointed towards the wounds.

Upon a closer look Jessie could now see just how many shots were fired.

How come we didn't hear anything? Who could be this angry at him to shoot him this many times.

"J-Jessie?" Mr.Doe croaked as his dim eyes stared out seeing nothing.

"How'd you know it was me Mr. Doe?" Jessie asked as he stepped closer to his principal.

"That's not my name boy. It's Richard, Richard Reed." He said as he coughed.

"Well, Mr.Reed your not in good shape. Good thing you are in a hospital right?" Jessie said trying to lighten the mood.

Richard laughed which turned into a coarse cough. "Boy let's cut to the chase. I know everything, about you and your friends."

Jessie exchanged looks with Travis and saw him shrug.

"I saw your miraculous feats through the school cameras. I saw you fight that monster Plague. I need you to kill him."

Richard grabbed Jessie's shirt and pulled him close.

For a dying guy, he's still very strong.

"Look me in my eye and tell me you'll kill the bastard. It's the only way Mia will be safe. You have to kill him or he's gonna kill her." Richard gasped as he loosened his grip and dropped his hand.

"Wait why would plague want Mia? Is she the reason he attacked the school?" Jessie asked frantically.

"Yes, she has something he wants, and he'll stop at nothing until he has it. The only way to stop him is to kill him." He spoke softly and his gaze fell from Jessie's.

"What? What does she have?!" He asked grabbing his hand.

"An earth-shaker..." Richard whispered as his hand went limp and his eyes died out.

"Earthshaker? What's an earth shaker? Richard? Richard!" Jessie said as he grabbed his hand tighter.

Travis laid a hand on his shoulder and pulled him towards him.

"He's gone Jessie. He's gone."

Jessie turned and saw that it was true. Their mysterious principal was gone. A man they thought they knew was not who they thought he was.

His granddaughter might just be the key to all of this.