Big City Villain | BOOK ONE

Deleted Scenes and Fun Facts:

SATURDAY MORNING. A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE SUPERHERO DANCE: I love, love this scene because of the narration, but it just didn't work out no matter where I tried to stick it in, it kind of threw off the intensity that was built up in the previous and following chapters, so I had to move it to the deleted scenes:

So I know I'm an idiot. That has been confirmed by now, and you'd think that after having my powers disabled and being grounded for the first time ever I'd have learned my lesson by now and you all would be congratulating me and patting my back.

Except, I'm still an idiot because I am not where I should be. I should be at home sulking in my room on this very cold Saturday morning, at least trying to obey my parents. But where do I find myself? Walking. Walking where? To the Board of Heroes and Villains.

Like I said, I'm an idiot. Now that that has been established, let's move along, shall we?

I pulled my jacket around my body tighter, the storm wasn't actually from Storm but it was one of those storms that blew in from the Arctic and I could tell. The bone-chilling wind and freezing rain chilled me right to my bone, and with no way to warm myself up my teeth were chattering and I was shivering violently.

Not fun.

But like I've mentioned, a smart kid would stay at home where it was nice and warm. And I'm anything but smart.

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SOMEWHERE AFTER CHARLIE AND ELLIE DISCOVER THAT COAL CAN TURN INVISIBLE: I always planned on adding a scene similar to this. Actually, the original subplot was Coal juggling Headphones and this new hero InvisiBoy (the name would have been changed), and eventually the Board finding out and bringing Charlie and him to questioning, leaving Coal to reveal his identity to Charlie and end in a big mess of some sort... Yeah, again, I'm happy with how it all turned out in the end XD:

"Come out already!" Ellie yelled at me from the hallway.

"Dude, you're worse than a girl!" Charlie yelled even louder.

I bit my lip hard to keep from yelling at them. I stared at my reflection in the mirror and wished for the millionth time that I hadn't gotten so caught up in the CS issue to forget to monitor Ellie and Charlie's promise to find me both a costume and 'superhero' name.

Now I was stuck with InvisiBoy printed on a skin tight bright, neon red shirt. And when I say it's bright, I mean you could probably spot me from Mars. I mean cars would stomp on their breaks because they'd mistake me for a stop sign. Why didn't Charlie just do it? Just get it done and over with, and have 'Super Stop Sign Boy' printed instead? But I guess with my new powers and all, an invisible stop sign would do no good.

And leggings. Or whatever the very weird, obviously home-dyed black polyester pant things that I had somehow managed to convince myself to pull on were. I swear, there was at least one dark blue leopard print somewhere on my right leg, but at the moment it was hiding, and no amount of twisting and turning would reveal it.

I saw my reflection and groaned. "What are you doing, Coal Black? Leopard print leggings and a red shirt. You look like a weird mix of Red and Tights."

"He's talking to himself, that must be a bad sign," Charlie said, not very quietly to Elora.

"I heard that!" I snapped, still not able to persuade myself to open the door.