The Superhero's Origin (The Superhero's Son Book 5) by Lucas Flint Page B

drive completely slipped my mind at the time, but I remembered it this morning and brought it with me because I intended to call you up and tell you about it after I spoke with your grandfather.”
    “Have you looked at what is on here?” I said, wrapping my fingers around the small flash drive.
    “No,” said Triplet. “It’s encrypted. I have some hacking skills, but whatever encryption Ted used is far beyond my expertise. I don’t know if you will be able to access it, but since you’re his son, I thought you should have it anyway.”
    I looked down at the flash drive, wondering what was on it, but I decided I would take a look at its contents when I got back to Hero Island. Or maybe I would just give it to Mom, since I didn’t think there was anything on the drive that important, unless it contained some information on Grandfather, that is.
    “All right,” I said as I slipped the flash drive into my suit’s pocket. “I’ll check it out when I go back to Hero Island. Are you sure you will be okay by yourself?”
    “I’m sure,” said Triplet. “I may not have super strength, but I’m hardly defenseless.”
    “Right,” I said. “Well, good bye, then.”
    With that, I flew up into the sky and took off toward Hero Island, leaving Triplet behind me as I soared through the air.
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    The flight back to Hero Island felt much quicker than the flight to Grandfather’s mansion. It seemed like it was only minutes—even though it was actually about an hour—before Hero Island appeared on the horizon and it was an even shorter amount of time before I passed through the Island’s airspace and was heading toward the House.
    Hero Island seemed pretty quiet today; I didn’t even see any tourists at the Museum or any of the other tourist accessible parts of the Island. But that wasn’t surprising, given that things had been pretty quiet all around after Robert Candle’s death. I’m not sure why, but it seemed like there just hadn’t been any serious supervillain threats recently, at least none that required the attention of the Young Neos. I heard about some guy in China who was apparently blowing things up with his mind, but the Young Neos never went abroad, and anyway international threats were usually dealt with by the NHA branch of whatever country is suffering from that threat. Then again, did China even have its own NHA branch? I didn’t know.
    Landing in front of the House’s entrance, I walked into the lobby, intending to pop by the Meeting Room and see whoever was there before I returned to my room to check out Dad’s files.
    As it turned out, however, the lobby wasn’t empty. Two people stood in the center of the lobby, apparently arguing with each other about something. I recognized the man in a powered armor suit that looked like knight armor as Mecha Knight, the supervisor of the Young Neos, while the girl with white hair, dark skin, and a white hood arguing with him was Blizzard, one of my teammates.
    I was surprised to see Blizzard, of all people, arguing with Mecha Knight. Blizzard was normally a very timid girl, sweet and kind, but definitely prone to avoiding overt confrontations with anyone. It was even weirder that she was arguing with Mecha Knight, because Blizzard never argued with Mecha Knight or any of the other adult members of the Neohero Alliance.
    The two were so engrossed in their argument that they didn’t even seem to notice me enter. I just stood there awkwardly, not sure whether to interrupt their argument or not, as they argued with each other.
    “Why can’t I do that?” said Blizzard. Her voice was heated and even loud and she looked almost ready to attack Mecha Knight, though since Blizzard had gained a lot of control over her powers recently, I didn’t think she was in danger of accidentally freezing him.
    “Because it is against the rules,” said Mecha Knight. In contrast to Blizzard’s passionate tone, Mecha Knight spoke in his usual robotic monotone and even his