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Part 5

My expectations were met in full. I might know a lot of stuff I didn't a few days ago but my actual skill hadn't changed a lot.

Plus a lot of my new memories were pretty redundant on card games. Other me hadn't been much of a player. Though he had known a few things about reading people that had helped a lot.

Still losing can be fun. Just ask anyone whose played Dwarf Fortress for longer than the day they installed it!

They had a kind of unfair advantage though. My mind kept coming back to the hero thing. I mean... how does one superhero?

I needed a name, a costume, superpowers and the ability to kick ass.

I currently had all of one of those things, though I was working on at least two more.

Annnnd next class up was World Issues. So, plenty of time to work on another one.

Being the cape capital of the East Coast tended to focus which 'World Issues' were talked about a lot.

Though given Mr. Gladly's habit of group assignments I might not have as much free time to think to myself as I would have hoped.

Students piled in, I got to my seat, book bag slack at my side, no idea if I was going to be pulling out textbooks or not.

Mr. Gladly was sort of a fake smiles kinda guy, the sort of person who would make a comment about the miniscule good point to a really horrible situation.

Case in point, when the Endbringers had come up in class, he'd told me 'at least I'd know the material!'. Though he had quietly after class offered to let me skip the assignment if I wanted.

I did it anyway. It happened, I was ten. Denying it wasn't going to change things and it was an easy A.

Our delightfully bumbling teacher stepped in, gathered his notes, and started laying out the new project. Something my new knowledge of the world couldn't really help with. The effect of Capes on modern culture.

I wondered offhandedly just who I'd be working with today. Greg? One of the three faces of Cerberus perhaps?

I didn't have to wait long; "Underwood and... Hebert."

I almost flinched.

Taylor Hebert. She wasn't a bully or anything. Much the opposite, she seemed almost fragilely meek. On the other hand she was also the daughter of Todd's boss. Or at least the guy who could drop his ass out of work at the drop of a hat.

I'd mostly avoided her to try and keep anything I did from influencing such a decision. Also we just ran in different crowds.

...Or... in hindsight I'd just let dumb ass 'pecking order' bullshit keep me from really wanting to talk to a girl near the bottom of the totem pole.

Hadn't she been in some sort of incident a few months ago as well?

So I'd just take the opportunity to... feel her out a little. That couldn't be to hard right?

And hopefully this would not blow up in my face too bad.