The Super 4 : Dark Death Read Free

impatiently by the bus. Now that I had super
speed the whole world seemed to move at a turtle’s pace. That was
both good and bad. Good on holidays and weekends bad on tests and
school days.
    “ Jake!” I heard someone shout. I
turned around and saw Carly running towards me.
    “ Hey.” I said.
    “ Hey.” She said in return. “
Harrison told me everything. I have electricity and water powers.”
She had told Harrison how she had been able to breathe under water
and cause a blackout when parents told her off. “So that’s why the
power was out.” I thought.” Shame I was watching a football game
last night.”
    I then told her about my power and Darryl’s
power. She said our powers were pretty cool too.
    On the bus we decided to meet at Harrison’s
tree house to discuss the series of events that had taken
place.
     
    I arrived at the tree house first, even though
I set off at 2:55, I still got there at 2.56. I decided to admire
Harrison’s tree house. The tree house was made completely of blue
glass: Harrison’s favorite color. Inside the tree house was adorned
with red velvet sofas, two flat screen TV’s and a long oak table
with six chairs. On the roof was a Jacuzzi.
    A long lake ran across one side of the tree
house and from that Carly emerged looking as grand as ever. She
smiled and waved. Then Darryl emerged on a motorcycle. My jaw
dropped open. I knew Darryl could invent stuff but wow! And then
almost as if determined to make a grand entrance Harrison floated
down from the sky, straining to keep himself from
grinning.
    “ Wow” I heard Carly whisper
softly.
    “ Let the meeting begin!” Harrison
announced when we were all seated around the table with snacks.
Harrison held a little hammer that I think was called a gavel, as
if he were the judge and we the jury.
    “ Well Darryl and I have come to an
agreement.” I started, pausing for dramatic effect. “It was the
soda!”
    At the time I didn’t realize how ridiculous
that sounded. Even Darryl struggled to keep a straight
face.
    “ No it was the chips!” Carly said,
going into a helpless fit of giggles.
    Finally, I grabbed the gavel and banged it on
the table three times. That got their attention.
    “ I liked that gavel.” Harrison
said.
    All of a sudden, a small bolt of lightning
came from Carly to Harrison. Somehow Harrison had disappeared. We
looked around but all we saw was a reddish puddle.
    Then Harrison appeared from the puddle, “Cool”
he grinned.
    “ Oh my gosh!” Carly’s hands
covered her mouth. “I’m so sorry, Harrison! I don’t know how that
happened! I was probably really excited, maybe spar-”
    Harrison interrupted her apology ramble. “It’s
fine. Besides, I discovered that I have this awesome liquefying
power!”
    He smiled excitably. Then he whispered
something to Carly a mischievous look crossed her face. Almost
immediately a small blast of water came my way.
    As if on cue, a sky blue bubble appeared in
front of me, deflecting the water and drenching Carly
instead.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Carly
    III
     
     

     
    We all stared open mouthed at Jake.
    “ Well,” he announced, “I guess I
have another power: Bubble stuff.”
    “ Force field” Darryl corrected
almost immediately. “It’s a force field.”
    I stared at Jake and he grinned cheekily at
me.
    “Well,” I began, “Let’s hope that’s the last of
many surprises.” We all nodded heartily, but Jake looked kind of
disappointed.
    “Hey,” he began. “Let’s have like superhero
names. Ooh and costumes.” That wasn’t a bad idea and looking at the
others faces I could tell they felt the same.
    “So,” Darryl asked. “What are our names?” We
thought about names for several minutes.
    Finally, Harrison said, “Hey, remember those
soda cans?” We all nodded. “Do you remember the names written on
them? Like mine said ‘Magma’ and yours said something else. What
about that for our names?” We all agreed.
    After all, the names made