My Super Secret Life…Potentials

Chapter 1

Three years in the making. Three years with every step forwards been ten steps back sometimes because of just anger, stupidity, racism, politics but it’s finally done. Finally here.

Victory looked out over the campus while sitting on the roof of the stadium and smiled letting the wind blow through her long white hair. There was movement to her left and right as she was being joined by Sentinel in his power suit and Champion all the way up from Paradise City on the other side.

Sentinel had a carrying case that he opened as he sat down and took out several coffee’s in a can. Champion of course brought the pastries.

Sentinel took off the helmet for his armor and cracked a can offering it to Champion. “So how’s the rookie Steve.”

“Green, Titan got themselves hit hard and their still in recovery.”

“What happened?”

“Vector…he snatched so movie starlet singer called Oasis Jones and now she’s being ransomed.”

“You didn’t get him?”

“Long gone by the time we got there.”

“He still working with the kidnappers?”

Victory took a churro from the box that Champion brought took a few bite before it was gone shaking her head. “Vector’s not into the ransom thing, too many factors involved.”

Champion looked at her. “You dealt with him before?”

“Yeah a few times before he was sent away for life.”

“He’s in Alpha Block?”

She nods. “The original is. I looked at what you guys got on this one and I think Vector’s Shaun Sinclair the original Vector’s youngest son.”

“So he’s a legacy?” Sentinel asked.

She nods. “Shroud’s already likely got or getting a bead on him.”

Champion frowned a bit. “Yes and that means he might go in without proof or a warrant.”

“Well, we all know what he’s like.” She took three more churros in that super metabolism way.

“Yeah…I know we should keep him close but.” Champion was frowning. Sentinel looked at him. “Look Steve, we need guys like him on our side.”

“We do?”

“Yeah, Shroud takes the heat for doing the things that the laws can’t let us do. He breaks and bends the laws for the greater good and we get to be pissed about it. But he gives us that excuse.”

Victory nods with a mouthful. “He also keeps the guys that would think you cant touch them scared and respectful… it’s when these crazy guys with lots of muscle get to thinking they’re untouchable is when civilians and cops get hurt.”

“So I should.”

She stopped eating a wiped her mouth. “Let him do what he’s going to do. He’s likely got Vectors escape thought out.”

“Escape?”

“He’s done working the muscle on the kidnapping right?”

“And Oasis is worth a lot?”

“Yeah the Studios are freaking but it looks like they’ll pay but the feds are on it.”

“Exactly, I’ll bet you Vectors going to mess up the kidnappers so they get caught and as they’re getting arrested he’ll take the ransom money.”

Sentinel shook his head. “No honor amongst thieves.”

Victory shook her head. “No respect for the stupid.”

Champion looked at her. “So I?”

“Let the federals run their investigation while you guys follow just the money. If I’m right you’ll run into Vector and you’ll either take him down or he’ll try to get away and Shroud will be waiting for him.”

“Okay….that sounds good, I don’t like having him loose in my city.”

Sentinel nodded. “No I imagine not, the last thing you really need is meta-mercs down there making a profit off the gang wars.”

“Yeah.”

They ate and watched people moving in and setting up. Champion took a drink from his coffee. “Is this really a good idea?”

Victory nodded. “It is, honestly this won’t solve things but it’s the best option we have. The children of the Arkers and the Exiles are showing more mutations with the generations and adding into the other regular mutants and other super beings and the Anthro situation we need a protected but public answer.”

“The pro-human and anti-mutant groups are all over this. Hell there’s even shit coming in about this from other governments.”

Sentinel frowned and crumpled his can of coffee. “Yeah well the Federation of Free Colonies can kiss my ass. My kids have powers…I’m not letting some government stooges lock them into a internment school so they can be trained to be their super powered troops. They saw five years of service and they’re allowed to be citizens…bullshit.”

Victory nods. “The thing is you either re-up or you’re arrested for treason, or something happens, like all those people that don’t have powers they can really exploit. It’s why they come here. It’s easier to hide and if you can’t hide in plain sight there’s the mutant underground and Freaktown. It’s the same with the SSB and Red Star Governments and others. But this…we need to give these people a chance, homes, educations and show the world that it’s nothing horrible, that we can live together and we can be regular members of society.”

Champion sighs. “They’re waiting for this to blow up in our faces and go wrong.”

She nods. “The media are going to have field days with all of this. Our main advantage is the embassies setting up here The Avari, Phari, Vishanti, and the others are all setting shop up here to see how New Haven will act differently than the rest of humanity to those that are different.”

Sentinel smiles and runs his fingers through his hair. “So you basically got it et up that the government has to help us get Sanctuary and Halo up and running so they don’t look like doughboys to the other races in the galaxy.”

She nods. “Had to, we really need this, the kids need this. They need a start of some kind to get people to see even with or without powers people are still people. If I have to spend every dime I have and call in every favor I’ve got then it’s worth it.”

Champion stand floats. “I should be going but I might be sending some kids here, I’ve got several of them here now and we’re sort of watching a few more. Are we still going to consider advanced training?”

Victory gets up herself and nods. “We’re working on a ROTC based hero type of program and making it a requirement for those that want to get into the job plus maybe team placement though the federals.”

“Placement?”

“There’s a few cities that could use Meta based back up. The grads from here would be fully sanctioned volunteers.”

“Huh that might work…hey…maybe in ten years or so we’ll be able to take a vacation.”

Victory smiled and hugged Champion. “Mmm…yeah or even retire.”

The three of them laughed a bit at that. “We’ll see you soon?”

Champion nodded. “Hopefully with students in tow.”

………………………………........................................* Samantha Chase…

I put the last of my things into the back of the moving truck and I get in with my grandpa Charlie’s police cruiser and we pull out from our house in the Avalon district and we head out to the All-Saints Bridge and to where we’re moving out onto Sanctuary Island.

I have to. I’ve got powers.

Well it’s more than that. My Mom is Amber Swift, now in her civilian life she’s a cop from a long line of Irish cops and as if that wasn’t enough she’s kind of famous. She took down the Meta-Villain Echo when she was a rookie and in doing so she stopped a serial killer too. No one knew just how sick the guy was until they started finding the bodies.

And…after that she had been exposed to the alien tech he had that converted like bio-energy to weaponized sound.

Yeah…My Mom’s the Ark Angel Songbird.

And Halo Academy and the whole Sanctuary thing is an Ark Angel Project so…we’re moving. New house, new school…I’m kind of scared and kind of excited. Scared because I’m TG and this is sort of starting my transition. I’m not VG I’m not like needing to be or change who I am to fit their place on the gender queer ladder. I’m just a girl born with the wrong plumbing and I’m getting it fixed.

Yeah I’m MTF. I’m a girl, I feel like a girl, I want all the changes done and stuff I just want to try to be normal.

I’m excited because this new school will be so inclusive and it’s just starting, all of us will be going to this place new and on the same footing. I’m going to like not having freak, fag, and the ever so fun judgments of being a cops kid. I had a lot of the keep away factors going for me in my old school.

I’m a meta too, born this way but unfortunately it never got around to setting my gender stuff to rights. Mom was a late bloomer in her powers and there’s some talk about if she is a mutant or just altered. But My Dad, he’s a Psi.

I take after him with my psionic talents being towards the mechanical stuff. Telemechanics mostly that’s kind of like being a universal remote control for most technology. I’m not as powerful as dad is but I’ve got some of Mom’s sonic stuff too not like her ability to use it as a weapon but I’ve a huge vocal range and a really accurate ear.

And yeah, I’ve really great at music. Give me an electric guitar or a keyboard and my powers mesh and I shine.

But I think they hope that I get into the family business. Cop or maybe even AA…see Dad, Dad’s Sentinel of the Ark Angels. I know, he wears a suit of super advanced battle armor. It’s somehow why it works his powers. I mean he is smart and he’s very Tony Stark…Y’know Iron Man the old comic guy…and Ryan Chase Enterprises makes a lot of stuff and all that but no one’s made a power suit that doesn’t have a short lived battery.

No one can figure some of Dad’s tech out including me….yet. He was planning on passing the welding torch but my transition’s kind of thrown him.

………………. We pull around the overpass and there’s choppers from the press and hover platforms and the police and federal marshals are out in force because of the protestors.

There’s a lot of people pissed about a freak community. They think we don’t deserve to have lives, or be out in public and …well they’re against all of the stuff that the whole place is about…

The P4’s are the biggest bunch…they’re the “People for Purity.” and hate everything not human and they’re really unhappy about this. Religious people, even with mankind finding out that we’re not remotely alone in the universe there are those that claim all the other races and mutants are the children of Satan or some such bullshit and they have their followers.

Okay not all faiths are like that and there’s even a new version that says that man being on earth was us being expelled from the garden of Eden or something like that. And some faiths just never changed at all.

I’m not really into religion though Buddhism was kind of neat but I think they’re vegetarians and stuff and I like my BBQ way too much.

The rest are other groups like some of the fringe political stuff and just people bent on hating everyone different.

They’re screaming, yelling chanting with signs and some are throwing stuff but the police and the federals are there and so is Parvati of the Paradise City Champions and she’s floating there making magical shields to block the stuff being thrown.

Oh they really hate her. Hindi, female, powerful, and closely connected to the Vishanti aliens. And then there’s the obvious fact that she couldn’t care less about their bigotry. She so has that Indian princess thing going on.

Scary stuff but y’know. I’m kind of proud to be here when this starts up. It’ll be really cool to see people being able to come and go after awhile without the hater brigades doing all of this stuff.

I still bite my lip though as we drive through the gauntlet of hate and god there’s people from my old school there. The windows are tinted so the don’t see me but at the same time it still makes me queasy feeling.

I need to make this better.

Why…

Besides being the right thing? I want a family someday, I want my kids to have a chance to be safe…

**I'll be taking ideas from those who write in with a PM for a character for me to try in this series.**
Thanks Bailey.