Chapter 1
Her fingers
moved deftly over the small electronic device in her hands. The mustached
plumber jumped at her command and caught the green and white mushroom that fell
from the brick block above. Then running faster than his little legs should have
allowed, he jumped for the brick castle as her score tallied.
“Yes!” Ava
did a small victorious fist pump as she turned to grin cockily at her opponent.
She reached up to tuck a pink lock of hair behind her ear as the slender man
beside her grumbled.
“You’ve been
practicing.” He commented. The way his eyes crinkled slightly at the corners
was the only hint at the amusement he was feeling.
“Of course.
You thumped me in Mario last time I was here.” Ava laughed as she reached for
the can of soda off the steel table beside her.
“Can’t let that happen again.”
With a
chuckle, Miles stood up and stretched his lean frame. His vibrant yellow and
black spandex suit was just this side of indecent in the detail that it revealed.
Ava
carefully averted her eyes.
“Your
mom’ll be here soon. I should get ready. Brush up on Zelda for next time.”
Miles said as he plucked the black mask from the table and fixed it over his
dark eyes. He was The Bee - sidekick to one of the most mysterious super
villains that Acyra City had seen in the last decade. Chaos. No one was sure of
exactly what his end game was. At the
moment, his only goal seemed to be to create havoc. His only obstacle so far was The Crimson Cape.
She was the
sweetheart and savior of Acyra City. Not to mention president of the
North-Eastern US chapter of the International Coalition of Superheroes or the
ICS.
Oh, yeah…
and she was Ava’s mom.
