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They had had a few training sessions together. It was the end of one of those, and Susan gathered them all together now.

"Ok, boys, we have a situation on our hands and we'd like to give you a chance to prove yourselves." She smiled, "Are you ready for your first mission?"

Ace not only high fived Kaegan, but bounced so that he shoved the other boy, essentially giving a full-body high five---not that Ace's slight frame would have much effect on Kaegan's, still.

"Does Dad approve?" Ace blurted.

"Yes, of course your parents approve," Susan smiled, apparently pleased with that question, "You're going to take an airplane trip and help arrest at least one -- possibly two -- evolveds."

"WHERE?"

"Hawaii."

"We're arresting Raleigh!?!!"

Susan pointedly ignored that.

"Raleigh is this super cool--"

"Raleigh is one of our supers in Hawaii who--"

"He's a SUPER now?"

"--has been training Ace. He has the ability to create life out of dead material, possibly any carbon material, though he hasn't experimented too far in that field. This is to be a joint training mission and likely an observation while he takes charge to arrest this teenager and his mentor. The teenager is a fire evolved, we're not sure about the mentor, though Raleigh suspects him to be a water evolved."

"That's so cool, we're totally going to go in there and bust---"

"You will not. You are going in there to watch and to listen to Raleigh's orders. If I hear that he's had any trouble from ANY of you, you can forget your time here. I'm done training, and you can go on with the remainder of your lives. Ask Mr. Edwards or Charles or if you don't believe me."

Ok, that was a scary statement said in a scary serious way. Ace shut up.

"We're arresting them because we have proof of their destructive natures," Susan sighed, "Unfortunately, some people like to flaunt their abilities and use it to scare others. In this case, the fire teenager has openly attacked others before. He's also been a threat to his community. Hopefully we can intervene and set him back on a right course."

"What else are we doing?" Ace demanded, "When are we going? Why are you sending us all the way over there?"

"It's your spring break. I promised something different for that, didn't I?" Susan winked.

"Come on, Suzie, the agency just isn't going to waste that money! There's got to be another reason?"

"Mmmm, perhaps."

"Aaarghhh!"

"Yes," Susan sighed, "Yes, he's a bad guy." She had to remember that these boys only seemed to care about the simple explanations.

Ace nodded to Kaden, "Duh. Why would they just ship us out like that?"

"Because we're all living in horror of you being HERE for a week with nothing to do!!"

The unusual comment from Susan threw Ace into a fit of laughter.

"I don't believe the word you was exclusive," Ace pointed out, "They're shipping YOU off too--Hey, Suzie, do we get return tickets?"

"No." Susan had already turned to take her hair down now, more or less dismissing them from the training session.

"We're doomed!"