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BUBBLY!

PROLOGUE. The Trials 

"So, [name], what makes you qualified to become a sidekick, or you know, an accomplice?” 

The lady fixed her glasses, she was holding your resume and flipping through the pages. You were in a regular old office filled with filing cabinets and on the side of her table were more files containing other children's files for becoming a sidekick. 

“Well, if you flip to page 5, you will have all my reasons to become an accomplice,” You stated.

“I know kid, but I need to hear your words, thousands of children come here to Herabi each year to get a chance to become an accomplice of a famous hero, tell me what makes you, [Name] stand out?” The lady stared at you waiting for your answer, she was right though. Some of those kids who come to Herabi don’t even get accepted and get sent home in disappointment. If you wanted to become an accomplice you needed to impress this lady. 

“Ok, well, I believe, choosing me as a candidate to become an accomplice will help multiple sections of the hero company–” You were explaining until the lady cut you off. 

“Bluecast, the company is called Bluecast,” She stated 

“Bluecast! Thank you! Well, I believe that I will be able to help Bluecast in many of their sections such as the research, tech, and surveillance! I will be able to improve multiple technical parts in the company if needed!” You remarked.

“Well, [Name], looking through your resume, I have one problem,” The lady placed down your resume and clasped her hands together. 

“What is it? I believe you included everything in it!” you said worriedly, is it something major? Will this hinder your probability of becoming an accomplice?

“[Name], what is your power?” she smiled and waited for an answer like superspeed or flying like any other classic power a comic book character had. 

“Well, besides being a prodigy, I don’t have any other special abilities,”

The lady didn’t say anything but just looked at you like you were joking. But with the look in your eyes suggesting you were serious, she noticed you weren’t lying. 

“If you are not powered [name] what makes you think you can become an accomplice or even become a solo hero when you become an adult?” She said,

“Well,” You took a deep breath. “If you let me become an accomplice th–then we can show that even the non-powered can help Herabi be safer! If we let the non-powered have a shot then maybe, just maybe, Bluecast will grow even bigger!” You vocalized giving a hopeful smile and determined to become an accomplice. 

“[name]--” You cut the lady off. 

“Miss, the fifth member in the council, Gearwreck uses mainly inventions to help him in his herowork, what makes you think that an accomplice can’t?” You said hopefully. The lady then smiled. And pulled out a uniform, it was a gray shirt, a black sleeveless puffer jacket and black pants with gray lines going down all the way to the end of pants. 

“You got my approval kid,” She chuckled, “Don’t worry about the size, every child registered to become an accomplice will have a pre-registered uniform as mentioned in the sign-up sheet, you remember?”

“Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Miss?” You took the uniform from her hands and shook it with excitement. 

“Mrs. de Claire,” she smiled.

“Thank You! So much! I promise I will become an accomplice! Is it ok if I can hug you Mrs. de Claire?” She nodded and you hugged her. You bid her farewell and she hoped for you the best. You went into the bathroom and changed and Mrs. de Claire was right! It did fit perfectly! So you brushed off the imaginary dust off of yourself and went out the door. You went around the place looking for the accomplice trials until you found a group of other children wearing the same uniform as you being accompanied by their parents or just being by themselves talking to others. You walked up to a girl with a pair of space buns on her head with puffy curly hair which reminded you of pom poms. She turned around sensing your presence and smiled. You noticed she had vitiligo, a condition where there are patches in the skin where there was less melanin, but besides that she had the biggest smile on her face. 

“Oh Hi! Do you need anything?” The girl's voice was a little high with a small southern accent.

‘Uh, yes! Is this where the accomplice trials are going to be?”

“Yep!” she nodded and then held out her hand. “I’m Dixie! What's your name?” 

“[Name]! I’m 14-12 years old,” You took her hand and smiled.

“Wow! We’re almost the same age!” She laughed “My power is to basically make portals!”

“Wow! I Wish I could do something like that,” You gave an ashamed smile.

“Oh please, [Name] I bet you can do something equally as cool!” She gave you another cheerful smile, to be fairly honest her smile was contagious, even if you felt embarrassed that you didn’t even have any power at all, you couldn’t help but smile because of her. 

“Well that’s the thing Dixie, I don't have any power,” You said it in such a small hushed voice, you were scared that people would hear you, what if they heard you and started to laugh? 

“Oh well,” Dixie let out a sigh. “I know that if you get this far into the trials you are able to become an accomplice as much as the rest of us!” You let out a sigh of relief. 

“Thank you, Dixie, I really needed that,” You gave a nervous smile. Before any of you could say another word, the doors opened to the trial area. A lady merged with a flamboyant outfit, the bright colors of her coat standing out against the gray was and white floors. 

“Who is ready for the trials?” She pumped her hand into the air and a small firework came out, it seemed like the lady had some type of spark power. After the little trick, everyone started to clap including you. “Come in come in! I am going to be your mentor for today and I’ll be telling you what is going to happen for the trials!” As she walked into the room, the crowd followed as you went in. You heard the parents of some children staying outside conversing, were the parents not allowed to come in? You looked around the room once more and you saw a stage with a singular dummy on top, it looked like it was a hologram due to the weird glow. 

“As you can see children, that is where you will be able to display your talents to the heroes that are going to come in soon! Now come along time to go backstage,” the lady then walked up the steps to the stage and kids followed at the back stage was multiple things, weapons, and other random items probably used for when other stuff was going on stage, the lady then stood in front of  entry way towards the stage and told the children to practice or try to get to know each other. You looked around the room once more seeing some kids flying around holding swords or bow and arrows and some running around the place with their superspeed, you then saw Dixie teleporting across the room grabbing random stuff and putting them in random places.  

Now what should you do? You had no powers so you can’t practice unless… You saw a box of gadgets tucked in a corner with random corners secluded from the other weapons and such, you walked over to the box and took a closer look, bolts, gears, batteries, cords, and a screwdriver. Maybe you can make something to help you help you in the trials in the meantime…

…

It’s now two minutes until everyone has to show their powers to the heroes, for you, you made an oversized wrench able to shock opponents with a push of a button.

“Ok children! It’s time! Now, Now, get in line for a single file!” Everyone said the lady from before said, for you, you were smack dab in the middle, not too far from the front, not too far from the end, perfect. And so the show began, first was a kid a few years younger then you introduced by the lady you now knew the hero name as Sparkle. The boy was able to clone himself to fight and destroy the dummy. Everyone cheered and clapped for him and he went off stage in a different direction. More kids went on and came off, Dixie was able to confuse the dummy program by teleporting to a random place and knocking it out with a punch. 

After a few more kids, it was your turn. Sparkle announced your name and you walked onto the stage waving nervously to the group of heroes in front of you. You could actually recognize some heroes from their growing fanbase like one man, a hero named Beryl able to change his body into a jem like rock to fight off enemies. There was also a lady able to summon sheep to distract enemies; her hero name was the shepered. You then walked in front of the dummy and held up your wrench. Before you can even attack the dummy started to charge towards you, I guess this was supposed to simulate you fighting against an enemy. You started to block the hooks and punch made by the dummy, why was this so hard? 

With another punch you got knocked down, you turned around and looked up, right coming after you was the dummy , but right before the dummy could lunge at you, you held up the wrench and pressed the button, but the shock button wasn’t working. 

“Come on… work… I should’ve clipped those wires together…” Out of panic, you pushed up the dummy with the wrench and swung at it using the wrench like a baseball finally knocking it out. You knelt down out of exhaustion and let out a deep sigh, the heroes gave a applause just like every other kid and you got off and went off stage. 

“Wow [Name]! You did great!” Dixie greeted you again holding a bottle of water. She took another one from a cooler and gave it to you which you gladly took. 

“Yeah! You too Dixie! I really think we are going to become accomplices,” You held your little water bottle up kinda imitating a toast Dixie got the memo and can put her water bottle against yours. It was only a matter of time before the heroes got to choose who they want as their accomplice. 

…

After all of the kids were done showing their talents Sparkle ushered all of the kids out and made them go into another line so the heroes can choose who they want as an accomplice or sidekick. The heroes went up the stage and started to go around choosing who they wanted as an accomplice . Some kids were automatically chosen while others were left alone until later they were chosen. 

“Bye [Name]! I hope to see you at Bluecast!” Dixie turned back at you waving goodbye with a hero you didn’t recognize but seemed to be a good choice for Dixie with her smile matching hers the same cheery smile that could be contagious. 

“Bye Dixie! Good luck!” You waved back at Dixie and she smiled and continued on with the hero that chose her. The minutes went by and more kids got chosen, there were less and less and less children were present being already chosen by heroes until you were the only one left. 

“Hey sugar, you ok?” Sparkle walked towards you. You were just staring into space? Did no one want you as an accomplice? Of course they didn't, that's why they didn’t choose you? Is it because you didn’t have any powers to show? You didn’t even notice the small tears welling up in your eyes, why did you decide to do this? You should have just stuck to repairing kids' phones for money at school. You felt the lady patting your shoulder lightly. “Come on kid, I’ll take you outside,” You started to follow her towards the door towards the door you came from to get into the room, until. 

“I’m here! I’m here!” A man burst through the door, he was dressed in his hero outfit, he wore shorts with the rims being a dark purple going down above his knees, he wore fingerless black gloves with the same purple trim with a top having the same design. He had box braids going into a small bun and the rest of his hair down, and had big sparkly purple wings looking like a galaxy. He looked like he either ran or flew a marathon to get here with how tired he sounded. “The Trails haven't started yet, right? Woo! I am tired!”

“Oh! Dark star! You just missed the Trials! I’m afraid you need to come again next year,” The man who you presumed as the Dark star looked down in defeat. “Well unless you want this kid right here!” Sparkle pushed you forward to introduce yourself.

“H-Hi! I’m [Name],” You held your hand out and the man shook it finally composing himself. 

“Dark star! If you don't mind me asking, what are your powers?” The man smiled. You looked down ashamed once more and spoke.

“I don’t have any, I’m just really smart, I–I can make gadgets to help me in battle though,” Dark star gave a surprised look and sparkled too. 

“Well, if you passed that dummy then I’m sure you're qualified!” Dark star smiled.

“Well, Dark star, would you like to take them?” Dark Star nodded and started to walk you out of the room. 

“Come on [Name]! I think you’ll be a great accomplice! Now, have any thoughts on your hero name yet?” You shook your head and smiled. Maybe you will be able to become an accomplice after all. 

NOTE:

HALLO! So, I decided to post my platonic story since I am posting on Tumblr now. I hope y'all enjoy it! I might make a master list soon because Bubbly has more parts!