The Siege of the Supers (The First Superhero Book 2) by Logan Rutherford

know, I swear. I’m just someone trying to get by. Please don’t kill me.”
    “We’re not going to kill you,” Holocene said. She walked over to the man and picked him up. He started screaming as loud as he could, pleading for his life.
    Holocene jumped off the building, leaving me up there alone.
    “Did you get that, Samantha?” I asked.
    “Sure did. Doug is looking up all the ships coming into the Houston docks from China on Monday,” she said in my head.
    “Alright, good.”
    “Kane, isn’t this all kinda petty? Don’t we have bigger things to take care of, like the government kidnapping Supers, keeping an eye on the ones still out there, taking out the bad Supers, stuff like that?” Samantha asked for what seemed like the hundredth time.
    “Samantha, this drug is the most powerful drug there is, and part of it is coming from a Super. A very bad Super. We are taking him down, and this will get Holocene on our side while we’re at it. He’s just very smart. He’s not robbing banks, or destroying cities. He’s staying hidden, in the dark. But don’t worry, we should figure out everything we need to Monday night at the docks.”
    Holocene flew up and landed on top of the building. “Still talking to the voices in your head?” she asked with a smirk.
    “Just filling Samantha in on a few things. Where’s Mr. Hoodie?”
    “Dropped him off at the police station. That was some good intel we got from him. You did some good work, too,” she said, smiling.
    “Well, it wasn’t anything you couldn’t have done on your own,” I said.
    “Yeah, but company’s nice, and we don’t all have voices in our heads.”
    “You’re not wrong about that,” I said with a chuckle. Samantha always having my back and being there to talk to was pretty sweet. “So, what next?”
    “Meet me here Monday night. We’ll fly down to Houston and be there when that shipment arrives. Someone will know who it’s going to. If we can find them, we can find the Super behind all of this.”
    “Sounds good. I’ll see you then.”
    I took off into the air, leaving Holocene and Dallas behind. As I flew back to Indianapolis, I couldn’t help but feel like I was really becoming a hero.

21

Shocking Revelations
    M y phone buzzed on the table next to my bed, waking me from my sleep. I picked it up and saw that it was Drew calling me.
    “Hello?” I said into the phone.
    “H-hey, Kane? You busy?” Drew asked. I could tell by the sound of his voice that something was wrong.
    “No, man. I’m free. What’s up? Is everything okay?” I asked, sitting up in my bed. I looked over at the clock and saw that it was nine-thirty in the morning.
    “I just need to see you right now. Can you meet me behind the home bleachers at the football field?”
    I cocked my head to the side, taken aback by Drew’s strange request. “Are you sure? You don’t want to meet at the Burger Shack or something?”
    “No! I-uh-no. Sorry, I just gotta show you something.”
    “Okay, I’ll be there in fifteen,” I said.
    “Thanks, I appreciate it,” Drew said. He hung up.
    I sat in bed for a moment, playing over the conversation we’d just had in my head. What could Drew possibly want to show me that he had to do it in such a weird location? From the sound of his voice, it wasn’t anything good. Drew had sounded afraid—an emotion I wasn’t one hundred percent sure he knew until just now.
    I could get to the bleachers behind the school in less than a minute, so after getting ready, I spent the next twelve minutes pacing around my room, trying to figure out what could be going on.
    Once it was time, I raced outside—maybe a little too fast—entered my alleyway, and took off flying toward Ebon High School.

    I landed behind some trees near the school and began walking toward the bleachers of the football field. Using my super vision, I could see Drew pacing back and forth underneath the seats, waiting for me. I picked up the pace a little bit and