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Everyone starts looking around the large room where the battle took place. We are here looking for a former hero's Legendary weapon; the Halberd of the Paladin. This mystic weapon is an exceptional supplier of power to the rarest type of hero, the Divine Knight. It has been on display in the Hero's museum ever since the last divine hero retired about 3 decades ago. The Nags broke in and took it; I guess they wanted to learn what 'divine' means.

Suddenly a portal opens and a HUGE Nagdellian Elite Leader comes through! Ambassador starts to energize his defenses, but it is too late. The Nag hits him once and Ambassador is thrown against the wall unconscious. Dr Strikewell tries to heal him, but the Nag fires a sonic blast at her, causing her to lose her concentration and she is stunned by the beast! Green Pants Man and Eulb form a wall in front of me, and even though my healing is pathetic, it is better than nothing!

Or at least I thought it would be...

The beast knocks Green Pants Man out with a single blow, and then backhands Eulb into a wall! Just the energy of this blow knocks me on my butt!

This Nag is probably one of strongest one in their race... Where Eulb hits the wall, a hidden panel opens, and there it is... the Halberd of the Paladin. It falls out right next to me, but I barely notice. The Nag is slowly walking towards me, with what passes for a smile on his face.

As I back away from him using my hands and heels to slide on my butt, my hand touches the Halberd.

Space. Around me is empty space backdropped by a beautiful plethora of stars. The room I was in, and for that matter the Heroship Justice, is nowhere to be seen. I'm not standing on anything. The Halberd is in my hand, and I sense it is trying to tell me something, something about my place in the Universe. And I understand what it is saying...

I find myself back in the room, and point the Halberd at the Nag, firing a bolt of pure white energy at it. The Nag is blasted hard against the wall behind him, flying about 40 feet before he hits it! I feel the strength in my legs, the strength that my dad must have. I leap straight up in the air, and land right on top of the Nag, smashing its skull with the mace that acts as a counterbalance weight at the end of the Halberd, knocking him out.

As I look at the scene, I figure it out; the reason I had no real power was that I was acting like an empathy healer, when in fact I am... a Paladin.

I use my healing power, strengthened by the power of this marvelous weapon, to wake up the team, and then tell them what happened.

Eulb is rubbing the back of his head as he says, "Man, I was worried that you were going to get killed, and I was going to have to explain it to your dad from a hospital bed. But it looks like you were the least of my worries!"

I chuckle as I rely, "I think I am going to have to pull an all-nighter to write that report!"

Glad sees Eulb poke his head in the classroom and says, "Hey, Eulb, whats up?" Eulb smiles, puts his finger to his lips and sees the teacher already has a hero at the front of the room helping, so he nods and turns to leave.

Eulb and Dad are great friends. His wife Penniguin (man, she is HOT!) and he come over about once a week to plan incursions into bad guy territory and have a brew or two with Mom and Dad. 'Nessy and I just hide and watch as their carefully laid out plans turn into war stories... Then we would head to our rooms, because we have both heard it a jillion times.

Suddenly Eulb puts his hand to his ear and walks out of the room. I pay attention to the class, and am listening to this hero I have never met, and Eulb walks back in. He waves at the teacher, and says, "Mr Carson, I just got called to a mission, and I was asked to invite someone from this class to join for the learning experience." He puts his hand on my shoulder and continues, "Is it OK if I bring Gladsmite with me?"

I am beyond stunned. I was invited to go on a hero mission? I'm sure I have puppy dog eyes as I stare at the teacher trying to will him to say yes! "Of course Mr Eulb. Mr Smite, please write a brief report on your experience to share with the class tomorrow." I must have nodded 20 times in less than two seconds, as Eulb grabs my arm and pulls me out of the class.

"Your dad will smash me into little pieces if you get hurt, so stay back and watch the pros. We have a top team ready, so this should go pretty well."

I doubt the smile will leave my face for at least a couple of days!

(OOC) OK, I'll bite. I'll just warn you that High School was a LOOOOOONGGGGGG time ago.

(IC) As I look around the school, I am a bit nervous. I see kids with super strength carrying one ton ankle and wrist weights for training. I see speedsters racing down the hallway, which irritates the hall monitors to no end. But, they aren't running, just walking really really really fast... so they aren't breaking any rules... I think...

"NO FLYING IN THE HALLWAY!" The hall monitor waves down a girl that is obviously late for class.

Me? My dad's pretty famous. Gladstrike VII, you know, the guy who stopped a Nagdellian incursion almost by himself. (OOC - Go with it, assume he is a famous person) He is a 7th gen hero, My great great great great grandpa was in Paragon City when the meteor hit and took everyone out. But he was pretty awesome, he is in most of the history books for his fight with Tyrant when he rescued Statesman with all of the odds stacked against him.

I guess a lot of people expect a lot out of me, but I got my mom's powers, and my power level is really low. I mean, everyone wants a healer on the team, and I can shoot energy beams out of my hands and eyes. But I'm not gonna win many fights at this high school! Maybe, just maybe, my power level will go up to the same as my mom, or better yet maybe I'll get my dad's powers after I learn some stuff here.

"JERRY! Wait up!" I turn and see my sister briskly walking towards me. She's my adopted sister, but as far as I'm concerned she might as well be blood related. Her skin is gray, and her hair and eyes are jet black; quite the contrast to my Caucasian skin, blonde hair and blue eyes! I smile at her as I say, "Hey, Nessy, coming to make sure I don't throw up on my first day?" She giggles and then messes up my hair.

Gladness just appeared out of nowhere while my dad was fighting some bad guys. She was just a baby, maybe 3 months old. My mom and dad had only been married a few weeks, and I'm not even sure I was a glimmer in their eyes yet! But she smiled at my dad, and it was all over. He brought her home, and mom was just as smitten by her as dad was. They immediately adopted her, and I guess they changed their minds about waiting to have kids. About 9 months later I was born!

While my powers are weak, no one pushed Gladness around. She is a top tier hero with a wide range of Dark powers, and only her age keeps her from going to the SuperHero Academy.

She walks me to my first class and says, "If anyone gives you any trouble, just let me know, 'kay?"

She runs off to her class, and then I walk in. Every eye in the place is on me. 'Why is everyone staring at me?' is the only thought I can think. As I sit down, the guy next to me (a big, big guy, mind you) says, "How do you know Gladness? Every guy in the school wants to date her, and she turns us all down. Why is she so friendly to you?" I reply, "Well, she is my sister... I hope she stays friendly with me!" The guy looks at the door, then looks at me, then looks back at the door, then looks at me again.

"She's adopted." The guy lets out a breath and say, "I woulda never guessed you two were family." I smirk and say, "Yeah, sometimes I wonder how we grew up together without killing each other. Actually, its more like I wonder how we grew up together without her killing me!" The guy laughs and says, I'm James, James Tallman. Nice to meet you."

I shake his hand, very, very happy to have made my first friend in high school.