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Chapter 5
Secrets and Masks
Raven
This was it. I was going to tell them all who I really was.
It’s been ages since I’ve used my real name. I’ve never let the foster parents
use it or any of the councillors I’ve been to either. They thought it was
because I was trying to detach myself from my old life. Truth was I just really
didn’t like to be called by my real name because my mum had given it to me and
she was dead. As well as my dad and the rest of my family. It had been all over
the news what had happened to my family and I.
“ Well, you guys want a drink or anything before we get
started?” I asked them trying to stall so I could find the right words to tell
them about me without breaking down.
“ Yes please!” I heard Scar off to the left. He jumped up on
the stool and smiled at me. He was the only one here who new my whole story. We
had been friends for years. Long before either of us became heroes. Before our
families left us. But that doesn’t matter. Omega had told him that his ID
couldn’t be revealed. He wanted me to do the same but the thing was if they
didn’t know they wouldn’t be prepared. White noise knew who I was and most of
my background. We had been friends before I became a hero too. But I kept some
things to myself with her. It wasn’t I didn’t trust her it was just that sometimes
she would try too hard to make my life better when it clearly couldn’t get
better. She taught me how to fight and told me about what she did so I started
being a hero because of her too. Well, sort of.
I got the drinks and gave one to everybody and then leant on
one of the counters.
“ I wanted to tell you guys who I am. Without the mask I
mean. If we’re going to be a team we need to trust each other with stuff like
that anyway. So, here it goes,” I took off my mask and looked at all of them.
White and Scar came around to me and said “ well done”. When no one else said anything I thought I
would elaborate on who I was.
“ I don’t know how many you guy’s remember the story on the
news from about six years ago now. About the girl who’s family was killed by the
Riddler. Well, anyway, I was that girl. I was nine when my family died,”
Clockwire had tears coming to her eyes.
“ What happened?” I heard Knight say.
“ My family and I were out celebrating my birthday. In my
family it was a big thing birthdays, so the whole family would come together on
that day and celebrate. My dad was a scientist working on some cure for some of
the gases the villains used which made him and our family targets. Usually we
would be fine the cops were following us pretty much everywhere as well as
rotating hero’s. Frost was there that night as well as Omega, but by the time
the Riddler had hit most of my family was dead and whoever wasn’t had been hurt
that badly that they were losing too much blood to survive,” I took a breath
holding back the tears. I had flash backs every now and then but this was
almost like torture. White put her arms around me and held me tight. When she
let go I continued.
“ the only reason I survived was because of my powers. One
minute I was just standing there and the next I was screaming and I managed to
hit Riddler with some fire and ice. By the time Omega and Frost saw him near me
the ice and fire had disappeared, so they didn’t know until a few years ago I
had powers. Anyway by the time they had gotten Riddler caught, my family was
dead. And I was standing there looking like I was going to be sick. I was numb
to the pain of their deaths for quite some time but at the funeral I just broke
down,” I finished.
Scar was holding my hand and Apollo had come over to give me
a hug.
“ Your Cassie Roaden, Oh my! I’m so sorry!” Clock came over
and pushed Apollo out of the way, then grabbed me in a hug.
“ Your names Cassie?” I heard White ask. She knew it began
with C because I had asked her that she only call me that. I had never actually
told her my proper name.
“ You didn’t know?” I heard Scar ask her. He looked quite
nervous.
“ No, you did?” she asked him back whilst still answering.
She looked hurt.
“ Yeah, I guess it’s because we’ve known each other for 8
years, I knew her before all this started and she became a hero,” Scar replied
nonchalantly.
“ Well I guess it makes sense then,” White’s face softening
a little.
“ My turn,” Said Knight he had his head down and peeled off
the mask that hid most of his face.
“ My name is Cobey Lenon, I’m eighteen and well I’ve been a
hero for about 8 years. I was brought up
by my mentor cause we’re related. He’s my dad.
So I got my powers from him,” He told us. White nodded and went over to the cupboard, she grabbed a bowl and
a bag of chips. When she came back the bag had been emptied into the bowl.
“ Well, I’m no secret, It’s Becca Grange. From the Grange
Family, mansion, and of course, my dads business in weapons. We’re billionaires
because my dad helps to keep war going by arming the men. Its always a nice
thought,” she said sighing in the end. She then grabbed some chips and ate
them. She had told me in the past why she had become a hero. Her main reason
was to fix all the problems her dad had made in the world by stopping the bad
guys. Another was because her parents never had time for her. They still hadn’t
even noticed her hair was the way it was. She had had it dyed like this two
years ago. It was kind of funny.
“ I can’t tell you who I am. Omega insists. The fact that
Cee disobeyed this order for herself is kind of brave if you ask me,” Scar told
the team. He said it all nonchalant but if you knew him the way I did you could
tell he was upset.
“ Wait, you weren’t meant to tell them?!” Becca was shocked.
Even though she was a badass she was still a bit scared of Omega, I mean he was
pretty big and well, forbidding. But I had known him for a while and again was
privileged enough to know his true name.
“ Let me clear things up, he didn’t say I couldn’t, he said
it would be the wisest idea in terms of keeping you all safe from Riddler. But
hey, we’re a team, we’ve got each others backs,” I said turning to each of them
individually. I smiled as I said it. I
had never seen Apollo so shocked. The few times he had met Omega, he had been
to scared to talk to him at all.
“ Your two are joking right? You were given the a okay to
tell us right?” Clockwire was looking a little frantic. My Gods, were they
really that scared of Omega?
“ He said I could if I wanted to but I should be very
careful. I mean if Riddler finds out I’m
alive and on the team I am in… we are in serious trouble. Which is why since
the death of my parents my name was change to Brook Bell. Lame, I know but it
kept me and the foster parent’s safe. The foster’s didn’t even know it wasn’t
my real name though, Scar was the only person a part from Omega to know my real
name,” I looked down at my feet feeling slightly embarrassed.
“ Come here Cee, we’re your family now. And you have a
permanent home too!” Becca said as I walked into her open arms for a hug.
“ Well, my name’s Tahlia Wilson. I was in a lab accident a
few years ago with my mentor and ever since we’ve been working together. He
already had powers and was fighting crimes but I got mine in the accident and
his got stronger,” Clockwire said from the other side of the kitchen island. I
had known about her mentor long before I became a hero. Coiler. He was there
the night my family was murdered. Strange powers though, something that had to
do with forces and energies. Not magic they made that very clear, more like
science stuff. Still it was pretty cool.
“ Thanks you guys, I know it sounds silly but having you
guys open up like that made it a little easier for me to talk about,” I turned
to each of the individually. I wanted to
make it very clear that each of them was important to me. I mean I had been
there to help hand pick the team to start with. There were lots of people like
us who had powers and used them to help others. But for now we kept to the
apprentices of the HHC’s members. As time went by I’m sure we would introduce
more people into the team and become a whole new league per sae. But for now
just this small team would be plenty as it was for the undercover jobs that the
main guys couldn’t do or other missions only younger people would be able to
fully undergo without holding back.
Apollo
I noticed that she rolled out her hips when she was nervous
or thinking too hard. Sometimes purposely rolling onto her ankles sides and
just standing like that for ages. Obviously she was used to it and it had
become something of a habit without her knowing it. Damn, I thought, can’t do
this. I am not thinking about this. I had been repeating this in my head
for ages now as I stood in the kitchen. I excused myself from the room and went
looking through the tower. I noticed as I left how Becca had sent me a look as
if to say: I know your thinking about
her. If you hurt her I hurt you real bad.
As I entered the room I dropped to the bed and felt a wave
of tiredness blow through me. It was enough to make me forget that I was even
in the cave. I pulled the blankets over my head as I started to drift off to
sleep.
