“You used the wish, didn’t you?” I whispered as we entered the locker room with our shirts back on.
“I didn’t think about anything except how I just wanted to win just once, maybe that triggered it, like a sub-conscious thought made the connection.”
The score was thirty-six to zero by the time the coach yelled for us to hit the showers.
Riley unlocked his locker and took off his shirt, revealing an impressive set of abs. His arms seemingly grew before my eyes.
“Umm, Riley?”
“It really is happening, isn’t it?”
“Looks like it.”
“Awesome,” he replied as he took his shoes, socks and shorts off. I, along with just about everyone else stared in awe at the new Riley, “Hulk Hogan” edition.
I turned back to my locked in sheer panic. If the change was instant and visible to everyone, did I really want to take a shower? All the guys were leery with getting near Riley as he went on like nothing happened. I got dressed and ran out of the locker room to find the others.
It didn’t take too long to track down Matt, as he literally appeared next to me.
“Remember that one time we talked about what kind of superpower we wanted?”
“Yeah, that broke down into a battle of Marvel vs. DC,” I replied as I was still trying to figure out how he just popped in right next to me.
“It’s still Marvel. All the way. Hey, time me!”
“Time you how?”
Matt vanished in a blast of wind and two seconds later reappeared on my left.
“How fast was that?”
“I don’t know, three seconds?”
“Yes!” Matt shouted. “All the way to Tokyo and back in three seconds.”
“How?”
“Don’t know…I just think of where I want to go or how I want to do it and it happens.”
“How many X-Men powers have you copied?”
“Everything, I think, except for an adamantium skeleton. Too many disadvantages and I didn’t ask for self-healing powers.”
“Okay, that’s the second surprising thing I’ve seen today.”
“What was…the…Shit, is that Riley?”
I turned to see Riley, now standing taller and broader than anyone around him. Amazingly, his clothes fit him as if he was always muscular.
“Does he look like he’s growing more?”
“I hope not,” I replied as I waved to Riley.
“Guess who’s on the football team?”
“So, your wish was to be the replacement for Andre the Giant?” Matt asked.
Riley shrugged his shoulders. “First practice is this afternoon.”
“Maybe I should go out for football? Oh, wait, basketball or track!!
“What did you wish for?” Riley asked as we continued walking. The once massive wall of students parted in awe of Riley’s fresh look.
“Superpowers. So far, I’ve tested, invisibility, speed and teleportation.”
“No flight?”
“On my list after the final bell.”
“Can you shoot laser beams from your eyes?”
“Let’s find out!”
“Let’s not,” I replied as I put my hand over Matt’s eyes.
“Maybe it’s more defensive than offensive,” he replied as he pushed my arm away.
“How did you test invisibility?” Riley asked as we reached his locker.
“Let’s just say Shelly’s really stacked under those sweaters she wears.”
“Katie should have added another rule to not use powers to spy in the girl’s locker room.”
“He did say he’d to it if he ever had superpowers.” Riley replied as he ripped the lock right off his locker and opened it up. “I’m going to have to get used to this.”
“Is this going to work for you, Riley?”
“Yeah, if I can sneak past the Omegas, I- Oh wait! I don’t have to do that at all. I can take them all on. No blood or killing, just going to make them leave me alone.”
“Do you think I should get a costume?”
“I know we should get to class, Matt,” I replied.
“You’re right. I gotta get up to the third floor. Let me get my books.” Matt flashed away and then reappeared with his textbook and binder. “See you guys later. One to beam up.”
“Have you seen Chris or Tony?” Riley asked as he gingerly closed his locker up.
“No, but I’m sure we’ll know something soon enough.”
“Catch you later, Ty,”
“See you, Riley.” I replied and then walked down the hallway, with fear about what they may have wished for.
Matt appeared next to me and grabbed my arm.
“You need to see this.”
The next thing I knew we were in the 3rd floor hallway in front of a mob of girls, twenty-or-so deep, who were shouting and yelling at someone in the middle of the circle. Either Johnny Depp made a surprise visit, or someone was giving away concert tickets for Taylor Swift.
“What’s going on, Matt?”
“Chris is in the middle of that hurricane of estrogen. I saw his face for a moment before another girl grabbed him and kissed him.”
We stood a few feet away from the crowd and for some reason I felt I needed to be a part of the mosh pit. I could have Matt transport me into the middle and I would put my hands all over his body before locking him into a deep kiss.
I slapped myself across the face. This was Chris, who once ate a bowl of cat chow and then wanted more.
“I’m going to be late for class, but you know, I’m okay with that. Do you think he could hook me up with one of them?”
More girls, maybe seniors, and one teacher jumped into the swarm.
“Where’s Tony? We should stop him from doing something like-”
“Like what? Powers? She didn’t say we couldn’t.”
“I don’t she meant for us to cause every girl in the school to want to throw themselves at our feet.”
“I wonder if I have mind control.”
“All students on the third floor, please report to class,” the voice of Mr. Harper, our principal rang out through the school intercom.
The crowd of girls diminished, including the shapely teacher, and went to their classes.
“I got sixteen prom proposals!” Chris exclaimed with his hands up in the air.
“Can you hook me up?” Matt inquired.
“How many, bro?”
“Chris, where is Tony?” I asked as I had a quick thought of ripping his belt off, unbuttoning his pants and going down on my knees. I took a step toward him but stopped as what sounded like an explosion rocked the school.
“It wasn’t me,” Matt replied.
We walked over to the window and looked out to reveal a giant robot ripping a truck like it was made from a beer can. It was safe to assume it was Barry’s.
“Well, there are two bright sides to this.”
We looked at Matt.
“That’s not going to buff out and at least it’s not a marshmallow man. Am I right?”