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SUPERBOY: THE STORY OF A NEW HERO
CHAPTER 20: EMERGENCY SIGNAL

CHAPTER 20: EMERGENCY SIGNAL

After the first mission I got along better with Megan, she is a good girl, and although she is still weird, she is a good friend, the other guys as happened before are usually in different parts fulfilling missions together with their superiors.

They still don't let me go out so freely I'm still forbidden to go out, I even talked to Megan about how we could escape without being detected.

Megan managed to get the bio-ship to hack part of the entry and exit system, although it doesn't last long, maybe it will last the necessary time and give us the time to go out and have some fun in the city.

"Everything is ready superboy"- Megan says to me as she levitates towards me.

"Perfect, how much time do we have?"

"To leave approximately 15 seconds while the base re-establishes its control of entry and exit of the base" - Megan tells me while she prepares some snacks in case we get hungry.

"Well let's do it."

In my previous life, I didn't even have time to get into mischief because I was focused on how depressing my life was, I had no reason or friends to hang out with, and although it made me nervous I was also excited to see what was beyond this place.

Being with them is not so bad, it is a good start to the life I had before, I never felt the need to protect or for someone to come to protect me, or even saw no need to protect myself from any effect or evil person, I never imagined risking my life for people I do not know, well to tell the truth, now they are the closest thing I have, and this time I do not want to lose them, I will survive everything that is put in front of me, to grow with them and to explore freely with them this world.

Megan already made sure that Tornado did not leave his room there was no sign of movement, so for now, everything goes according to plan. Right now we are inside the ship, the door opens little by little without activating any alarm as we had planned.

Although the ship is slow to take off for a moment we manage to get out in time just before the base systems are reset.

For now, there is no big difference in my world, I only see mountains, a beach, and the town that in the distance can be seen as it is rebuilt because some time ago it was attacked by Mr. twister.

Megan accelerates the ship and activates the stealth mode to avoid being seen, it is assumed that a few kilometers away we will be in a city, I would like to see how different a city is in this world... or well I would like to say but in the ship, we begin to hear interference in the communication system.

"Members of the league that are closer to the sent location please gather, we have a problem with the big bridge, it's time to help the citizens before the bridge collapses."

Megan and I look at each other and we know we can't ignore the situation, so we land in the nearest place and we leave as fast as possible on our way to the bridge to help.

When we arrived we saw many injured people, some with minor injuries, and others completely immobilized on the ground someone placed bombs on the bridge, who would do such a heinous act?

"Superboy look" - Megan tells me while pointing to one of the pillars that still supports the bridge.

"A small gift for my great and valuable greatest enemy, I hope you like it"- reads Megan while she doesn't take her eyes off the text written in graffiti format.

"Please someone help us, children please, quick!"- I hear a woman shouting a few meters away from us, apparently they are trapped on the other side of the bridge.

"Can you do it?"- says Megan while looking me in the eyes.

"I don't know"

"I trust you, I'll take care of the ones on this side"- says Megan with confidence Shit, the league is supposed to be here, but no hero has arrived yet, what are they waiting for, people are badly hurt, if this continues people will die.

I take impulse and concentrate the strength in my legs to be able to jump to the other side, while Megan continues helping people, further ahead there are two cars and a bus with... Students, shit, those are the kids the woman was referring to, I still have time, if I jump I'll make it in time.

I reach the location where the woman and the children are, although when I land on top of a car the bridge shakes a little, and makes the student bus flip over and slide towards the edge of the bridge, where only a dangerous fall awaits.

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I reach out to grab the bus and although I try to pull it back into a safe position again if I make a false move my feet will also slip and I will fall with the bus, and even if I survive I can't say the same for these kids, shit, at least until they all get out, and are on the safe platform Megan can come and get them, I'm not going to risk the kids falling off the bridge.

The school bus is heavy, plus it's almost at the edge, and it's about to fall, I can't let someone get hurt, I can do it, I just have to concentrate all my strength on this.

The screams of the kids don't help, they move around a lot and make the bus move more, I'm slipping, shit...

On the other side, I hear screams from a family in another car they are also trapped and the car is slipping on the way to a dangerous fall from the bridge.

The kids haven't finished getting out yet, shit I need help.

-Megan please help!

The car with the family is about to fall, there is only one child left to get out, hurry.

"Please hurry up child"- I indicate to the last child.

The child, crying and scared, carefully climbs down with the help of Megan who flies in to help him down without any problem. When they are all out I can let go of the bus and let it fall without the risk of someone dying, the only thing left to do is to run to the car, I know I can make it, but I have to do it.

A tremor makes the car wobble on the edge of the bridge and causes some debris to fall from the top, I'm already a few meters away, if only I was faster I could get there sooner.

I manage to feel the bridge stabilize a bit suddenly, making it easier to run, even though it's stable I can't jump, it would be too risky for the remaining people.

-Superboy, look out!" shouts Megan in my head, making me look up and see how one of the cables of the bridge falls straight towards me.

I manage to narrowly avoid it but the falling cable makes the structure wobble again and although my fingers manage to graze the car I can only see how the faces of the people inside panic even more and ask for help.

Shit, if only someone else was here... I couldn't save them…

-Superboy are you ok, the kids are safe now, and none of them were seriously hurt, how are you doing with the other car?

His words, even though they make me a little bit happy, disturb me instantly by reminding me that I failed, that my family died because of me, if only I was stronger... my eyes are flooded with tears and I can only put my head against the ground.

Suddenly the cries and screams of the people stopped, and there was no sound of the car crashing.

"Mommy, it's him!"- a child's voice is heard on the other side of the bridge where Megan is standing.

"What do you think you're doing boy, you shouldn't be here" - a familiar voice sounds in front of me.

When I raise my head I can see the car with the family that a moment ago I thought was lost in one of Superman's hands, and in the other one, a person fainted.

"You're a little late aren't you, Megan and I had it covered, it would have been easier if help had arrived sooner."

"no boy, I was the one who had it covered, your jumping and landing almost made this bridge collapse faster, luckily I was down below holding it and fixing the beams... you better stay there, I'll come for you." - claims Superman.

"argh, I didn't ask for your help."

"Nor the league to you"- says Superman.

"then what did you expect, for the people in the cars to die up here?"

"I was making sure the damage wasn't too bad, which is what your landings almost did by further destabilizing the bridge."- says Superman to me in a serious tone.

"But they didn't, it didn't collapse."

"but it could have, I didn't want to take any risks, besides you can't leave without permission, we don't know the limit of your powers yet".- says Superman.

"I'm not a criminal enough to be locked up in jail, and if my powers are a fucking problem maybe you should help me with that".

His angry look came over me again, it was a mixture of disgust at what he had just said and anger at what he had almost caused the civilians with the bridge collapse.

"...Batman's got that covered."- Superman replies as he slowly walks away.

"But..."

He just Turned around and ignored me just like that...how bad I feel.... what a shitty feeling.