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Von Braun-Halliwell residence

06:00 PM

 

Cass looked at her sister talking with her pets, the raven couple Crowy and Ravi, the Shiba Inu that she named Chun-Li after a video game character that she loved. It seemed strange as always to the little girl that her sister could speak with animals and magical creatures. Cass shook her head and watched the crows with rapt attention. They were playing outside their house in the garden.

Beautiful and crystal-like ice flowers were planted in circular patterns all around the back garden, forming a magical circle that generated a big atmospheric shield around the mansion to protect the place from being snowed in. Their mother, Malicia, disdained physical chores like shoveling snow, it was inelegant to her. As she is a sorceress, using magic to make their lives easier as a matter of course. The Von Braun-Halliwell residence was a home allying the comfort of modern technology and magic; so it was no wonder that the two girls plus animals were cozy and warm in the back garden of their house, playing with their tamed pet ravens and dog. 

They also had a cat named Lady Christine who wasn’t interested in playing with the others at all as she preferred to lord over their lives, as a true feline does.

<So, I looked at him to see if he had a spine, ten cawings later he averted his beady eyes!> Crowy the male raven laughed.

Crowy was the raven that spied on principal Cavros earlier to report to his mistress, Elissa about his whereabouts. His black and glowy purple plumage combined with his massive bulk for a bird of his species showed that he was the familiar of a mage.

<Sorry if my mate is being a jester today, mistress.> Ravi’s voice was more sibilant and softer than her mate’s.

Like Crowy, Ravi was Elissa’s familiar, the young girl could see through their eyes, speak through them and cast spells remotely. The female raven was more deferential to their mistress than her mate who treated her more like a niece.

“It’s ok, Crowy is just being himself, Ravi. More importantly what happened after?”

<This is when things get weird, two females entered his office, spoke to him when he became aggressive and they captured him.> Crowy reported.

“Huh-uh? So do you know if it was the police? Did they show a badge with a shield like this?” Elissa used her magic to build an ice construct in the form of a police shield that floated before them.

Ravi opened her wings wide and said, <Yes, there was something like this on their vehicle when they came in!>

“Good Ravi! Have this.” Elissa presented a treat to her familiar.

It was a jar full of wriggling pink worms, Cass looked at it with disgust. She loved her sister to death but she could touch gross things like worms or preserved organs for her alchemy, how awful. Elissa put her hand in the jar and took a fistful of the long tube-like animals. Ravi cawed in happiness as her mistress put the food before she and she began to peck at the worms. Crowy looked at her with envy, then at his mistress. He cawed, opened his wings and scratched at the ground.

“Crowy, tell me what they did after they captured him.”

<Two others in black coverings came and took the despicable human in their black metal steed and they left.> Crowy said.

“Good, you were really helpful, have this too.” Elissa put another fistful of worms before Crowy.

CAW!! Crowy opened his wings in victory, the male raven screeched in happiness and began gobbling the earthworms his mistress gifted him. He still couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have found a human that could speak with him and his mate and was willing to feed them. The other ravens of his murder followed him because he was the strongest and meanest now that the magic of his mistress made him this strong.

<Mama, I am hungry too!> The bitch at Elissa’s feet whined at her.

Elissa squinted her eyes at the little golden-furred dog and pointed an accusing finger at her.

“Didn’t I feed you meat earlier, Chun-Li? You know what the vet said. You need to eat more balanced now and not in quantity. You have become too fat!”

<But!> Chun-Li tried to argue but was rebuffed.

“No buts! I will give you food later tonight.” Elissa decided.

The little Shiba Inu whined a bit and hid her eyes under her paws. Elissa’s heart tightened when her little dog became saddened, but she had to be strong! The vet told her that Chun-Li became too fat because of her spoiling her too much.

“You know, big sis I still don’t understand what you say to them when you speak, all I hear are weird noises. I wish I could hear them talk too.” Cassandra said a bit jealous. She wanted to be like her sister, beautiful and talented, “someone else would think you are crazy, you know?” She retorted.

“Yes and that’s why I don’t tell people I can speak to animals, they wouldn’t believe me.” Ellisa looked at her sister a sad smile on her face.

“Even though tons of new superpowers are being discovered every day?” Cassandra laughed at that.

The little girl found people gullible and stupid, it was no wonder, one of the first rules that a magic user should understand about a society led by humans was that: ‘People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think its all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.’ Cassandra thought that it described the humans of Earth with a precision that had left her speechless when her mom explained it to her.

“Yeah, to people a superpower has to be destructive or make you strong, fly or teleport, but we know better don’t we?” Elissa raised a brow and giggled.

“Yeah!” Cass raised a fist in the air.

“Hmm.” Elissa felt as if someone pinched her at the back of the neck.

It was the sensation that resulted from the wards around the house bringing to her attention that strangers were at the door of the mansion. Ravi who had finished eating cawed at her and cocked her bird head. Elissa mentally ordered her to go see who is at the door of the mansion. The raven familiar took flight, gracefully flew around the house and perched on a branch of a tree at the entrance of the house. Elissa used her familiar's vision and could see a black vehicle with a logo and the letters B.S.A. on its roof and doors.

“Interesting.” The young girl knew what the B.S.A. was of course.

Elissa was rather surprised that the people her familiar spied on earlier came to their house, but she knew that there were no such things as coincidence, only causality. Suddenly, Ravi noticed two people at the door of the mansion; two women, one with a short red jacket and the other with a white winter coat. Through her bird's piercing vision, Elissa could distinguish the facial features of the two, a Caucasian female and an Asian one. The young girl felt the wards passing their control to someone with more authority than her, it could only mean that it was her mother. Through her familiar’s vision, Elissa saw the door of the mansion open and saw Malicia usher the two women inside. But before closing the door, her mother looked at Ravi and projected her voice to her.

“Elissa, come back inside we must speak with these two agents from the B.S.A. now.” Malicia slammed the door.

*Well, she is in a mood…* The young girl thought bitterly.

---

Cassandra and Elissa left the two birds outside but were followed by Chun-Li who walked behind them sullenly. The interior was palatial, patterned marble tiles, white walls, and wooden partitions wed the old and the new. Green and blue rugs under the modern furniture assured that the tiles didn’t get damaged, the decorations all around the house were often Statues of Hekate or a figure from a different walk of magic, enchanting, druidic, Kabbalah; protection and security runes could be found all around the walls, pillars and roof, hidden or in plain sight. The lighting in the house was a mix of crystal mage lights and electrical ones, the interior was never in the dark. Malicia always thought that bad things happened when a dwelling was open to darkness.

The two sisters found themselves in the central living room of the mansion, two mage light crystals with their orbiting shards were suspended in the air by a levitation enchantment at their core illuminated the room. There were two sofas face to face with a tasteful giant green greek carpet under them. Music filled the room, symphonic to be precise. Ride of the Valkyries rang out in the background, Elissa recognized the composition right away. Elissa smelled the fire in the hearth and heard it crackling the wood it was feeding on. Cassandra passed her older sister and went to greet the two female officers.

“Hello, I am Cassandra! Wow, you are so beautiful.” Cassandra said to Ada Fong.

“Nice to meet you, Cassandra. I am Ada, Ada Fong.”

The two shook hands, Cassandra grinned happily at Ada who was struck by delight and became friendly right away. She was genuinely happy to see a new face, being homeschooled because you could break the bones or wound other kids wasn’t easy for her. Elissa went through this and understood her sister, that is why she doted on her so much.

*Cassandra’s cuteness field strikes again. This must be a superpower in itself.* Elissa grinned at the scene.

The older girl went to greet the other agent who looked at her predatorily, but Elissa wasn’t concerned at all. She was after all at home in her place of power, nothing bad could happen to her here. Jill and Elissa shook hands too briefly.

“Hi, I am Elissa.”

“Enchanted,” Jill answered.

“Truly?” Elissa smirked at her.

“I think that this word has enough gravitas for magic users, I suppose.” Agent Jill laughed at her own joke.

“You don’t wish to be enchanted, Agent Muir,” Malicia commented.

*Yes, there is so much worse that could come from being transmogrified into a toad or another sort of animal.* Elissa shuddered.

“We have come to ask questions about what happened this morning, Mrs. Von Braun.” Jill began.

“Please call me Malicia.” Elissa’s mother permitted them.

“Well, Malicia. Your daughter neutralized a pyrokinetic this morning and thwarted his attempt at making a third victim, he killed two other boys…” Jill was looking at Malicia as if she was a time bomb waiting to explode and spoke hesitantly.

“You have my permission to question Elissa, she has nothing to hide after all,” Malicia said while sitting cross-legged.

She looked at the two women with her mage sight and discovered nothing to protect them from magical influence or curses. Rolling her eyes she couldn’t believe that law enforcement officers could be this helpless, Gaia was truly more peaceful than Phantasia. Malicia was finally struck by a bout of homesickness, she stood up and teleported. Ada and Jill opened their eyes wide and looked around them for the woman. Elissa was used to this display of power from her mother, so she stayed bright-eyed and smiled at the two agents.

“She left and trusts you to do your job, I guess,” Elissa told the two women.

The young girl didn’t care how she phrased this for the two women.

“Yes, she doesn’t consider you a threat at all.” Cassandra piped up. She sat on the sofa at Elissa's side and glued herself to her, showing that she didn’t intend to leave her at all.

The two women looked at each other nervously, Ada’s hand trembled a little from just these little statements. Jill told herself that she wouldn’t give in to fear after all those two kids seemed to be good ones.

“So can you tell us what happened in your own words.” Jill decided to stop thinking about the danger and work.

Elissa crossed her legs, put her hands on her thigh and made herself comfortable on the sofa. She looked at the two agents in the eyes.

“I heard screams in the neighboring building, you see I have a boost to my senses and I have a tremendous hearing.” The young girl began.

Jill could understand that. She was, after all, similar to Elissa. Her abilities focused mainly on her senses, maybe at a higher level than the young girl; Jill has extremely accurate senses, allowing her to see, hear, smell, taste, and feel better than the average human and superhuman. She was still barely scratching the surface of what she could do.

“So my friend Kelly and I, we ran toward the building at our fastest speed,” Elissa remembered how Kelly was slower than her but she was firmly behind her.

“Wait, why did you run toward the danger with your friend?” Ada looked at the young girl as if she was a weird animal.

“You see, for as long as I can remember, I just wanted to do what was right. My friend Kelly and I are the only two superhumans that were accepted in school, and we have been trying to stop the bullying when we could. We had recorded videos to have proof and gave them to the teaching staff; but nothing came of it, the bullies were never apprehended.” Elissa suddenly looked really upset. “I think the principal intercepted them and silenced the teachers who we depended on. So I thought it was just another case like this.”

Ada and Jill looked at each other and nodded in sync. Yes, they knew what a bastard principal Cavros was, so hearing this from the girl didn’t surprise them.

“I see, please continue your retelling.” Ada’s mind went into overdrive.

Was this young girl a saint? Or a wannabe hero? Did she think that because she had multiple abilities she had to use them to save people? Ada looked at Elissa with pity, the girl was still young and an idealist at that.

*Completely different from me.*

Elissa tilted her head at Ada, she didn’t understand the meaning of this look that she saw flying in female investigator's eyes, so she continued her Tale.

“Then we saw Ernest Culver trying to burn Harry Lawson alive, the fire went wild and everyone’s clothes were being set on fire! So I used my power to freeze everyone's clothes and reduce the temperature around me. Dad explained to me that I am reducing the kinetic energy of atoms, meaning I effectively make things colder, so the fire couldn’t take hold anymore. I tried to take out Ernest with an ice blast but his body was too hot.”

“I bet he was,” Cassandra said, giggling.

Elissa glared at Cass but chose to ignore her sister and continued speaking, “I had his attention and he stopped to speak to me. I helped him a lot you know, I tried to stop the idiot trio from bullying him. We even shared meals at lunch break, it still shocked me how he could just kill people like that. Even if they did bad things to him, he could have come to me.” Elissa shook her head. “But this isn’t about me, it’s about a boy who just wanted revenge on those who victimized and humiliated him… He tried to convince me that it wasn’t what I thought he was doing.” Elissa flashed a sad smile at the two women. “I deceived him, he was so happy when I told him that I understood. But I didn’t, he made bad choices and he had to pay for the consequences. I immobilized him in a freeze hold with my power and elbowed his face when he was distracted.”

Elissa finished her tale on a high point, her sister could barely contain herself and hugged her.

“Wow, sis you are the best !” Cassandra gushed.

Jill, rolled her eyes at the little girl's antics and focused anew on Elissa.

“We noticed that you also healed Harry Lawson, you have multiple abilities.” It was rare, but not impossible for Superhumans with multiple abilities to appear. They are highly sought after, little Elissa seemed to be a gem right for the taking for some organization.

*But with two parents who are Omega rank, I understand that no one tried to do some forceful recruiting and Miss Elissa is still a minor.*

“Yes, they aren’t easy to master and healing takes a toll on my body so I try to avoid using it too much; but it seems that trouble likes to find me.”

Ada was consulting her tablet when she saw pertinent data on the young girl before them.

“I see there, that you have subscribed to Amazon combat training, how far ahead are you in that?”

“Lissa is the best!” Cassandra shouted, raising her hands in the air and stomping out with her heel.

Elissa giggled at her sister and patted her head affectionately.

“I am not subject to bragging, but I obtained my Journeyman's bracelets already.” The young girl could fight equally with most of the Amazonian instructors if she gave her all.

Elissa wasn’t satisfied with her level of combat abilities, but her strength and other physical attributes raised little by little. She still didn’t know why when some superhumans still had an upper limit to how much they could reinforce their body. But she wasn’t the kind of person to not take what is granted to her.

“This is no mean feat.” Jill squinted her eyes at the girl.

The agent found this little family rather atypic; this Elissa girl was dangerous, she had the equivalent training of someone in the special forces already. Coupled with her power she should be low Alpha rank. Jill noticed that Elissa didn’t lie a single time when she spoke to them, her senses would have picked it up; unless this young girl was adept at controlling her body to mislead her. And what about that little girl, was she a super too? How strong was she? Shouldn’t she be in school?

“Are you satisfied with your questions? Because I have my own.” Elissa bent forward, smiling at the two women.

Jill's train of thought was broken by Elissa.

“Why did you arrest principal Cavros?”

"How do you know that?!” Ada and Jill stood up in unison, surprised by the depth of the knowledge of this girl.

Elissa grinned at them, she uncrossed her right leg and bent forward toward the two women. Cassandra sighed at her sister, their mother taught her well. She admired how her older sister took control of the conversation so easily. The little girl hoped to be able to do things like that in the future. Playing mind games with people is after all really fun.

“Sit, agent Fong, agent Muir. I will answer your questions when you answer mine, deal?” Elissa negotiated.

“Okay, okay.” Ada took Jill’s arm and made her sit with her on the luxurious white sofa.

The Asian woman was unsettled by this young girl's behaviour. Where was her respect for her profession? Did she feel that she was in a position of power here? Ada stopped to think and had to realize that yes, Elissa Von Braun was in her home and through their own questioning they discovered that she was an Alpha ranked superhuman with deadly training, and her mother who was Omega ranked was still in the house. The girl had the upper hand.

“Mister Cavros was arrested because he attacked me while we were questioning him, the man lost his sanity suddenly when he discovered that we were superhumans.” Ada caved at Elissa’s demand.

The young girl looked disappointed.

“Oh? Nothing else? Everyone knows that he is a super-bigot.” Elissa didn’t consider this big news after all, after being in the principal's office and being chewed out for ten minutes straight for having saved the life of everyone in this building, she noticed his stupidity and bigotry.

“We can’t speak too much about the case…” Jill said trying not to reveal too much.

Elissa nodded.

“I understand, I won’t push too much agent Muir.”

Jill was relieved of hearing that.

“Tell us how did you know about his arrest?” Jill asked with trepidation.

The young girl’s eyes glowed green like shiny emeralds as a golden aura surrounded her body. Elissa looked otherworldly as the light around her enhanced her beauty. “Do you believe in magic?” Elissa said in a singing voice as a glowing magical circle drew itself in the air as her index finger traced it.

---

Manhattan, New York

Tesla Fortress

08:00 PM

 

As the Justicar VTOL Jet-Kestrel landed on its platform Heracles couldn’t believe that the Watchtower had stuck him with Ishtar, that woman was insufferable! She was a strongman type of superhuman with good training like him and was a good teammate who had your back in most situations, however, her propensity at trying to get into his pants frustrated him.

*I hope Malicia never learns of that, she would kill Ishtar.* He told himself.

Ishtar has been trying to seduce him since she joined the team one month ago. Heracles has been dodging her advances and blatant flirting, there were countless colleagues of his that would be glad to receive her attention but he wasn’t. The hero was happily married and was not interested in any dalliance. Malicia would take his betrayal rather badly, and to be frank, Ishtar wasn’t that beautiful. Compared to the women he met in Phantasia she was passable. Malicia is a Dae, Half Faerie and Demon; her beauty was supernatural and she is a Queen. Malicia is always, and under any circumstances, physically, personally and socially perfect, graceful and flawless, without anything that would make her look unattractive or distract from her presence.

Heracles sighed heavily while undoing his belt and stood up from his seat, Ishtar followed him closely. Ishtar was a tall brown haired and steel grey-eyed beauty, She didn’t have a face mask to protect her identity as she didn’t care who recognized her. Her face was beautiful, she had a refined nose and glamorous pouty lips. Her costume didn’t hide any of her curves as it was simply a gold and purple stretchy catsuit with armored panels protecting vital areas of the body with a tool belt, arm guards and combat boots.

She tried to cross his arm in hers, but he didn’t let her and brushed her off. The woman looked wounded by this, but Heracles didn’t care at all. Ishtar wasn’t used to men brushing her off like this, it made her more determined to seduce the Omega hero. She finds him attractive, selfless, nice and resolute. There was a lot more of what she liked in that man, but he didn’t seem interested at all. Ishtar has taken a hit in her confidence since meeting him. Despite all the men in the team salivating at her, he was the only one not doing it. Ishtar thought that she just had to be patient and worm her way into his good graces to have what she wanted, and she wanted Heracles to be her boyfriend, she thought he was the one.

The two teammates got out of the Jet, their booted feet echoing on the metal ramp, they saw someone on the platform waiting for them. It was Major-Freedom, the new one not the chairman of the Superhuman League but one of his descendants that took on the mantle and possessed the same set of powers as him. He wore a helmet that hid half his face with a blue, white and red bodysuit reminding of the American flag with a stylized F on his torso and the logo of the team on his upper arm.

“Why is Douglas waiting for us?” Ishtar asked out loud.

Douglas Blake was the new Major Freedom, his true identity was only known to the members of the Justicar.

“I don’t know, but it must be important.” Heracles sighed.

They just came back from taking down the Hierophant, an anarchic superhuman who created a terrorist organization intent on creating their own government whose only constitution would be might makes right with him as a king. He was an Omega superhuman that had dozens of low alpha minions as henchmen, beating him up in his underground lair had taken most of the day, even for someone as powerful as Heracles, Ishtar and the local superhero group in Boston. The hero was tired mentally because of the things that crazy man said, how could anyone believe any of what he was saying? Might makes right, he wasn’t even the most powerful super in the world. Heracles hoped to be able to take a teleport home and come back to his marvelous wife and his two girls, but it seemed that it wasn’t possible now.

“Heracles, Ishtar welcome.”

“Major Freedom, is everything alright?”

“Here? Yes, everything is doing fine! Good work with the Hierophant, by the way.”

“I doubt that you would come to us if there wasn’t a problem to fix, Doug.” Ishtar piped up.

“Well, there has been a situation. But it only concerns Heracles, if you could let me borrow him Ishtar it would be great.” Douglas looked at Ishtar with a teasing smirk on his face.

Heracles cut short the pleasantries.

“There is no need to ask her permission, I am my own man. Lead the way, we are going to speak about the problem inside I suppose.”

Ishtar’s face showed a flash of hurt again but she tried to hide it, not fast enough, however, because Douglas saw it and shook his head. He didn’t understand why she persisted in trying to seduce the man, he was always all business with everyone. Heracles walked toward the entrance of the tower where the team’s amenities were.

Facing Heracles was a man in an expensive Italian suit, he had his short black hair slicked back, dark eyes and an elegant mustache that made him look like a vintage villain from the sixties. His name was Nikola Tesla, the most famous enhanced human on Earth. He was the one who founded and sponsored the Justicar team.

“Tesla, Douglas told me that you had something to tell me?” Heracles said.

Nikola Tesla was a living legend on this planet, he manufactured a regeneration serum that made him virtually immortal, helped win World War 2, became rich by creating Tesla Industries; a company that catered to every aspect of life, military, power generation, civil engineering, and most technological breakthroughs were made by it and its subsidiaries. The rich scientist was also a troubleshooter for the team, always covering and treating them like decent human beings, not celebrities or walking weapons; but as people.

“Yes, there’s been an incident involving your daughter at her school,” Tesla said.

Heracles hung his head low and shut his eyes tightly. His black Phantasian armor reflected the lights in Tesla’s office, it gave off an eerie look when he looked back at the scientist who waited for him to ask questions.

“First let me ask you, did she kill anyone?” Heracles began.

Tesla looked horrified by the casual way the man asked this, as if his daughter killing someone was an afterthought.

“No,” Tesla answered.

“Did she maim someone?” Heracles put his hands on the wooden desk and bent forward.

“No.”

Tesla lost his countenance the more question Heracles asked. Was his daughter, Elissa a normal girl? He didn’t think that any kids of his killed or maimed anyone. They received an excellent upbringing and wanted for nothing. He even went so far as to tell them to be on their best behavior and on the good side of the law constantly, the same went for his grandchildren.

“Did she curse one or multiple people?” Heracles continued.

Tesla knew that his wife and daughters were all magic users of a style the expert he had consulted didn’t recognize. The fact that Heracles asked him this, told him that their mother taught his two girls how to curse people. It didn’t sit well with him, but Tesla remembered from the file he has on the girl that she was a good person prone to help more than harm.

“Good gods, no! She saved the day, in fact, there was a rogue super that attacked her high school.” The scientist looked horrified.

*Heavens above, what education did they give to this kid?* Tesla thought.

The dark armored hero was relieved at that, his daughter was like him. Unable to leave people in danger alone, a habit that his wife didn’t like. Malicia was of the school of thought that people should be able to handle their own problems in the scope of their life. This was where Heracles was at odds with his wife, some people couldn’t do everything alone.

“Oh, then I don’t see the problem…” Heracles didn’t understand why he was there.

Tesla looked exasperated at Heracles, but pushed down this feeling and decided to present why he asked the hero to come see him. He was still mystified by Heracles’ reaction towards his daughter, was he that confident that she could handle the kind of situation she was in?

“Heracles, we are friends right?”

The muscular man looked at Tesla skeptically, in general when people asked these kinds of things, they need something; and what would the richest man on Earth want that Heracles had? But Tesla was an idealist, a man who wanted to help the little people as he grew up in a good, but at the time poor, family. The man had also helped the Von Braun family by defusing the situation when the hard-headed Chairman of the Superhuman League tried to take him in and his wife on. It was Tesla who gave him his house and the Park behind it to Malicia; Heracles had joined the Justicar because of Tesla.

“Yes, Nik you have been more welcoming than those people in France who repaid my goodwill by harming my family. I do think of you as a brother.” Heracles said fondly.

He nodded at the man and crossed his arms, waiting for why he asked him that.

“It touches me that you think so, then it won’t be easy for me to tell you this. Have you ever thought of letting your oldest girl enter the mentoring program for Superhumans?” Tesla passed a finger on his mustache as he said this.

*Not this again.* Heracles thought.

He leaned in his chair, looking at Tesla with apprehension.

“I had thought of it, but I have been warned that I am not the one making the decisions at home.” Heracles lamented.

It was a recurrent point of arguing with his wife, But she wanted Elissa close to teach her more about magic.

“Oh, I know how Malicia is. She reminds me of Queen Dorina you know, always in control. However, Heracles, I don’t think that normal schooling is going to cut it for your daughter. I noticed a certain trend concerning her.” Tesla laughed, remembering how formidable Heracles’ wife was.

The armored hero couldn’t deny it, Elissa was a trouble magnet. His daughter was able to attract it as if the fates were targeting her specifically.

“Yes, trouble loves to find her.” Heracles nodded and made a deep sigh.

Tesla recognized a man harried by worry for his loved one, so he pounced.

“Ah that settles it, you are a smart man. I will go with you tonight to ask your wife if she can let Elissa enter the Tesla Academy for enhanced and superhumans.” Tesla put a pamphlet on his desk and slid it with his hand toward Heracles.

Heracles took the pamphlet, it described how good of a quality the institution was, the dedicated lessons and how tailored the education of each student would be. It was good, on paper. But to Heracles, there was a glaring flaw in this pamphlet. He looked at Tesla and said, “Do you have a supernatural division?”

“Oh, my friend I am going to open one and wanted to ask for your wife’s help…” Tesla finally put his cards on the table.

Heracles looked at Tesla as if he had grown a second head, he thought about refusing but the smiling face of Elissa came to the forefront of his thoughts. His girl deserved to have better, and she will never bloom amidst the normal humans. Mayhap letting her interact with people somewhat similar to her might be for the best. Nonetheless, the biggest obstacle to doing this was his wife. The armored hero looked at Tesla who still smiled at him, confident that he sold him on the idea.

*I may be in the doghouse for a long time after this, but Elissa deserves to be happy.* He nodded at Tesla, agreeing with him.