1. Making History

"I can't believe I'm doing this," Raven muttered to herself. It had to be the first time ever in the history of heroes that a heroin ever helped a villain build a pillow fort. She leaned a sofa cushion against the wall of his little room before losing interest.

He sat across from her, a small smile playing on his pale lips as he stacked the remaining sofa cushions against a chair before throwing a blanket over it. He crawled back a few steps to admire his handiwork before nodding in approval and climbing inside his little fort.

A few moments later, he stuck his head out and smiled at Raven. He gestured to her, then the fort and waved.

Raven shook her head. Why would she want to climb inside a pillow fort with him? They were only stuck inside the HIVE base for a few hours; until the rest of her team could find them under all the rubble of the collapsed academy, though it just so happened Kyd Wykkyd's room wasn't demolished and the two happened to get stuck inside together. And since the HIVE academy had the latest-of-the-latest trapping technology, neither of them could teleport out.

Suddenly there was a loud boom, and the lights went out. Raven felt her heart flutter just a bit faster; not from the sudden presence of the darkness but from the fear of the roof collapsing onto them.

There was another boom; a louder one this time, and she could have sworn she heard a crack. She flinched this time and wondered who the heck was trying to squish them.

It went on like that for a few more minutes until Raven grudgingly gave in and crawled over to squeeze into the narrow space of an opening and sat as far away from Kyd as possible in the crammed space of the fort. She could see his bright smile in the glow of his red eyes and glared at him.

"Oh shut up. I'm only in here because if I die, you're going down too."

His smile dropped like a pebble into water.