Chapter One
I sat in a chair on a large, outdoor stage, my hands in my lap. The sun was bright and shining today—which was pretty rare for New York—allowing me to see all of the hundreds and hundreds of superheroes gathered in the area below the stage. The crowd was comprised of members from the Neohero Alliance and the Independent Neoheroes for Justice, which was pretty rare, since the two organizations don’t usually hang out together. But it wasn’t surprising; ever since the Neohero Summit earlier this year, the NHA and INJ had been working more closely together to deal with crime and villains than ever.
I wasn’t the only superhero on the stage, however. Sitting to my right was Blizzard, my girlfriend and one of my teammates; Treehugger, who had put a large yellow flower in her hair fo
