𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬.

H/n = Hero Name.

Y/n = Your Name.

H/c = Hair color

warning:

one of my first fics!

I'm still in the editing zone.

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"Hey, did you guys see what Captain Man and H/n did yesterday?" Jasper announced as he excitedly stood up to look at his two best friends.

Charlotte sighed upon hearing his voice as she closed her textbook in annoyance.

"Can we focus on the algebra?" She questioned as she scoffed lightly, and the curly haired boy ignored her commentary.

"There was a fire at a pet store, but they both ran inside right through the flames and saved all these animals AND didn't even get hurt! Can you believe that!?" He continued explaining, and the blonde out of the group chuckled lightly.

"Captain Man never gets hurt! He's a beast. And for H/n? He's so cool at anything he does." Henry told him, and Jasper nodded quickly in agreement.

"You know, someday, when you guys are cleaning my swimming pool 'cause you failed this algebra test, then flunked out of school, I hope you remember this moment, 'cause I will." Charlotte hissed as she looked back down at her textbook with a slight huff.

"Hey, here's a cool job I could do, pedicure modeling," Henry spoke while pointing at the screen and showed them the list of jobs he could possibly get at his age.

"You guys, could we go over the list for my birthday party?" Jasper questioned as his two friends shook their heads in complete disagreement.

"No."

"But--But I invited 52 people, and nobody's texted me back yet. What does that mean?" He asked them with a tone of sadness as Henry and Charlotte looked at each other and sighed.

"That people have been to your parties before?"

"Oh, come on, my parties aren't that bad!" The boy argued as Charlotte crossed her arms with some doubt across her face.

"Christmas, three years ago, 15 kids ended up in the hospital," She mentioned as the curly haired boy grimaced at the memory and the blonde smirked.

"Cause of your raw turkey.."

"It was turkey sushi." Jasper corrected his mistake with a small pout on his face and Henry rolled his eyes.

"A boy almost died."

"Yeah, almost!" He repeated as the room suddenly fell silent, and the three go back to studying in peace.

After a minute later, Henry glances up and cleared his throat in order to grab their attention.

"Okay. The first person who helps me find an after-school job gets this bowl of pine cones." Henry announced as he showed them the house decoration and the two gasped in fake surprise.

"Why do you even need a job?" Charlotte questioned and the shorter boy only shrugged.

"You know, to learn responsibility.. challenge myself." He murmurer as Jasper squinted his eyes in suspicion.

"He wants money."

"I want money!" Henry said very desperately as the girl nodded in understanding. "Can we please talk about my birthday?" Jasper pleaded as Charlotte groaned and turned to Henry.

"Am I gonna have to slap a boy?" She threatened while raising her hand up towards their face as the curly haired boy flinched back at her hand.

"Henry, can you please tell me how in the wor--Oh! I didn't know Jasper and Charlotte were here." Mrs. Hart replied after walking into the living room with a laundry basket.

"We're studying, actually."

"Are we?" Charlotte scowled and quickly stuck her head into the book one more time.

"Mom, we're right in the middle of something." Henry whined as he faced his mom, who held her hands up in defense to calm him down.

"I'm not interrupting." She answered as the boy sighed in relief and slumped his shoulders.

"Okay, thanks."

"I just have a question about your underwear." She brought up while holding his boxers in the air for his friends to see, and he blushed in embarrassment.

"Mom!" He shouted as his friends made it worse by wanting to hear more from his mother.

"Mom! Mom, I'm not okay!!" His sister, Piper, suddenly yelled as she quickly rushed downstairs with her phone.

"Piper, we're trying to study here." Henry told her, and the little girl frowned at him. "I'm talking to her, not you!!" she barked as he flinched at her tone and slumped his shoulders.

Mrs. Hart places a hand on the girls shoulder soothingly to calm her down. "What's wrong, baby?" She questioned, and Piper's anger came back again.

"Jessica unfollowed me!" Piper cried with a scowl as the blonde groaned in response.

"Why would Jessica unfollow you?"

'Cause she posted a picture of her with me and Allison, so I posted a comment that said,' OMG, you look so gorgeous!'" Piper explained, and Mrs. Hart awe'd at her daughter.

"Well, that's nice--" She commented but was cut off by the girl who still had more to say about the situation.

"No! 'Cause Allison thought it meant she looked gorgeous, so she posted a comment that said, 'Thanks, ILY.' And so then Jessica got jealous and unfollowed me, and now I hate myself and I'm gonna die." Piper ranted and huffed furiously.

"I'll call Jessica's mom and talk to her." Mrs. Hart said and walked away to find the home phone as Piper followed her mom with her loud shouting.

"No! That's not okay!"

Once they were out of sight, Henry looked down at the screen and slumped back on the couch. "Dang it. All these jobs say I've got to have skills." he muttered, and Charlotte squeezed his shoulders.

"So? You've got tons of skills." Jasper tried to cheer him up as Henry turned his head towards him. "Name one." He announced while raising his eyebrows, and Jasper smiled nervously.

"You're a great dancer -" He began, and Henry almost found himself laughing at the bad lie. "No, I'm not." He replied with a chuckle while tilting his head.

"You could take lessons!" Jasper suggested as the blonde looked down at his phone again and paused.

"Oh, my gosh."

"What?" Charlotte glanced at him weirdly when he gasped, and Henry's jaw dropped at the realization.

"I'm--I'm not great at anything. This is tragic." He stammered sadly and hung his head low. "Here, let me see." Charlotte spoke softly and reached for his phone as he gave it to her willingly.

"I'm just a big pile of average.." He said and whimpered at all of his insecurities as the other boy shook his head.

"Okay. Here's a job.. At a store called Junk-N-Stuff. It says, needed, another part-time helper for various duties." She announced as she tilted her head upward, and Jasper chuckled.

"Duties.." He joked as the girl kept reading and scanning the website.

"And see? It says, "No special skills necessary."

"That's me. I've got to go get that job. You get the pine cones!" Henry shouted and pointed at the table as he rushed to the front door.

Charlotte and Jasper wave the boy goodbye while wishing him good luck as he turned and smiled widely at their support.

"Thanks!"

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𝙃𝙀𝙉𝙍𝙔 𝘿𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙍

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"Hey, Boris."

The H/c haired teen at the front counter greeted the man who entered through the back as he boredly flipped through the a magazine.

The plant beside him growled lightly after he turned a page to his liking as the older boy scratched one of his leaves and it purred happily.

Y/n pulls his hand away as he leans down to get a bag of treats that Gooch had left to give to the plant creature.

Henry walks up to the store his friend Charlotte told him about as he stands outside and takes quick peek through the window and raised his eyebrows in curiosity.

He takes a deep breath before deciding to bravely walk into the store..

Hearing the bells jingle at the front door, the H/c haired teenager slowly pokes his head out from behind the counter to see the customer who entered.

The blonde silently looked around the weird items in stock as he moved his gaze away and it lands on a guy wearing all black clothing with a beanie on his head.

The random man suddenly turns around when he felt eyes on him as he made eye contact with the shorter boy and gritted his teeth.

"What are you looking at?" He hissed making the boy flinch and stumble back in fear while saying nothing as he walked over to the teenager leaning on the counter waiting for him.

"Welcome stranger." Y/n greeted with slight enthusiasm and boredom as the younger boy blinked and turned to face the cashier.

He quickly found himself face to face with a guy he has never seen around Swellview before and paused with a small blush on his cheeks.

"I-- Uhm wha--? Oh wow, H-How are you extremely attractive?" He stammered and Y/n chuckled softly at his little outburst as Henry's eyes widened in shock when he realized he had said that out loud.

"N-no wait I didn't mean to make you--" He tried to explain himself as the teenager waved him off with a smile.

"It's okay, I get that a lot. Mainly from girls who come in here to flirt but.." Y/n trailed off as he winked at Henry and the shorter boy fumbles in his spot and quickly cleared his throat awkwardly to introduce himself.

"I-- uhm, m-my name is Henry Hart.. I'm here about the job." He stuttered and Y/n sits on the stool as he searched their face and found his answer very genuine.

"How interesting."

The plant makes a noise as it captures Henry's full attention and he slowly pointed at it. "Um, did that plant just burp?" He questioned and raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"--Maybe, you should go back." Y/n replied and Henry blinked at their blunt response.

"Come.. back?" He repeated as the male pointed at the open doorway with curtains and decorations. "Oh, go to the back!" Henry scratched his cheek awkwardly and Y/n hummed.

"just take the elevator down and you'll meet my boss. You will only see two buttons inside. Just pick the bottom one and it's easier said than done right? Good luck." He explained and waved at the blonde who hesitantly went to the back.

Henry gulped and went up to the open elevator already waiting for someone to enter but before he could walk inside, his cellphone rang in his pocket.

"Hey, what's up?" Henry answered while holding the phone to his ear. He hears a lot of arguing on the other line with Charlotte in the background trying to talk to him.

"Uh, what are you and Charlotte doing in your basement?" He replied and then heard random shuffling.

"As I was saying!! He wants to have his birthday party down here in this chicken toilet" Charlotte said in disappointment while looking at the place below Jasper's house as they started to argue during the call.

"Guys, I can't talk right now! I'm at a job interview, so I gotta go" Henry told them while shaking his head and walked inside the elevator as looked for the two buttons on the side.

The elevator closes shut as it takes a second to make a clink noise and eventually fall thousands of meters down at a fast pace. This action catches Henry off guard as he yelled for dear life, forgetting about the other two on the line.

Jasper and Charlotte call his name a few times and waited worriedly. The elevator stop with a ding as it opened to reveal a nice underground cave to Henry's surprise.

He gets up from his spot on the ground and fixed his flannel. "I'll uh, call you back." he replied and hang up the phone to take a look around.

"Hello?"

"Hey, how are you? Cool. Thanks. Great to meet you. I'm doing good. What's your name?" A man in his late 30's appeared while bombarding the boy with questions.

"Well um, I'm Henry Hart. I'm 13.. well I'll be 14 on my next birthday" he smiled and Ray placed a hand under his chin to think.

"So you're aging sequentially. I like that. My name's Ray" The male introduced with a charming smile.

"Hi, Ray" Henry greeted with a handshake and Ray raised his eyebrows curiously.

"You ask a lot of questions."

"I don't think I've asked any question?" Henry told him as he tilted his head at the taller male but shrugged it off.

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"Complete this sentence, "I'm sorry, Mother, I didn't mean for my elephant to--" Ray trailed off as he left the boy to fill in the answer himself.

"Uh, lick Dad." He responded as Ray laughed and the boy laughs with him. They cackled for a couple more seconds until Ray cleared his throat.

"That's not funny."

"No. Um, is this the job interview?" Henry asked and the male placed his hands on his hips.

"Maybe, What do you think the job is about?" Ray questioned as the blonde hummed.

"Well, the ad said part-time helper, so I'm thinking maybe you need someone to help you, you know, part time--" Henry was cut off by Ray who had made his final decision.

"Alright, David."

"Henry.." He corrected and Ray turned to him with a serious look on his face. "Can I trust you?" he asked and Henry nodded.

"Can you keep a secret? because I'm going to blow a bubble." Ray said and took out a tube of bubblegum out of his pocket.

"You're going to blow a bubble?" Henry squinted his eyes at him in confusion.

"And I'm going to blow your mind" Ray smirked and popped a gumball into his mouth as he chewed and blowed. A large light covers his whole body and he transforms into Swellviews best crime-fighter.

"Y-You're Captain Man!" Henry stuttered and pointed at the male in excitement.

"That's right, Henry. Hold on a second. Stupid zipper always sticks. Come--Ow, that's my skin! Yeah, there we go." He chuckled while fixing his suit.

"Whoo! Always good to keep the old zipper lubed"

"I--I can't believe I'm standing here talking to Captain Man!" Henry jumped up and down at the hero in front of his eyes.

"Why, are you a fan? Do you like me? Most people like me, but not everyone" Ray explained and the boy nodded happily.

"Yeah, I'm a huge fan. Oh, man, I've got to tell Jasper about this. He's gonna freak when I tell him I'm here standing next to Captain--" The moment Henry took out his phone, Ray unbuckled something off his belt and shot it with a laser.

Henry screamed and drops the burning item on the ground. He looked at Ray in shock. "Sorry, but you can't tell your friends about this"

"Okay. But--Did you have to melt my phone?" He looked down in disappointment.

"I'll get you a new one"

"Really?" Henry questioned with hope in his eyes and Ray shook his head. "No. So, Henry, tell me why you want a job" He asked the boy and went to go sit on the couch.

"Well, you know, to--to learn responsibility and challenge myself."

"So you want money?" Ray said and Henry nodded in agreement as the elevator opened and revealed an 'old lady' who magically found and wandered inside the man cave.

"Oh, is this the ladies' room?" she asked in a poor british accent amd Henry raised his eyebrows at the elder.

"No, ma'am. You're not supposed to be down here-"

"What an interesting place" their voice croaked and glanced around. "Thank you, but I'm conducting a job interview, and you're very old, so can you please just get back in the elevator?" he told the women and she slowly shrugged.

"Oh, I'll just take me phone out of me purse and call me nephew" She said and slowly reached into her bag to Henry's suspicion.

"Great. I'll just turn my back and look at something" Ray turned around and looked at the monitors like a fool. Henry looks at the lady's neck as he tried to remember where he saw it before.

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𝐅𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐇𝐁𝐀𝐂𝐊;

He moved his gaze away from the shelves and it lands on the man with a beanie who scoffed when he caught him staring.

"what are you looking at?"

Henry flinched and glanced at the tattoo on their neck before looking away and going towards the counter.

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"Captain Man!" Henry shouted to get his attention and the man turned as that resulted in him getting shot right in the chest with the blaster.

Ray grunted painfully and fell back on the couch after the laser hit his chest as the 'criminal' snickered evilly.

"Goodbye forever.. Captain Man!" He spat while using their normal voice this time and the blonde's eyes widened in horror.

"No!" Henry cried as he jumped on the guy's back hurriedly as the man in the disguise hissed at the boy.

"Hey, Get off of me!" The man shouted and repeatedly tried to wiggle him off as he twirled.

"Quit talking like a British lady! Imposter!!" Henry yelled bravely and held on to the man tighter as he wraps his arms around his neck to secure himself while pushing the mans wig down to cover their face.

"Stop pulling me wig over me eyes. I can't see!" The 'criminal' cried out as he fell to his knees and Henry successfully took him down as the boy quickly hops down to check on the 'defeated' hero slumped on the man couch.

"Captain Man! come on! are you okay?" Henry questioned and cradles his head in his arms as he stared down at the hero baffled.

A few moments passed as Ray opened his eyes and then smiled up at the boy proudly.

"Captain Man is always okay!"

"Nice work, Boris." He called as he stands on his feet and gave the other man a thumbs up as Boris smirked back at Ray.

"The boy did a good job." The so called 'criminal' commented as the blonde furrowed his eyebrows and blinked.

"Wait, wait, wait.. You know the--" Henry trailed off as he pointed at the man in the grandma disguise and Ray patted the blonde's shoulder comfortingly.

"That's Boris, he works for us."

"Also how'd you know he wasn't really an old lady?" Ray chuckled and tilted his head in wonder as Henry smiled awkwardly.

"The tattoo on his neck gave it away.. I saw it on him up in the store and his boobs are too wobbly to be a woman's." He scratched his cheek nervously and Ray nodded in agreement.

"True. Go get those under control." Ray ordered the other man as Boris saluted him and went towards the back of the man cave.

"Henry, you have a sharp eye, good instincts, a nice shirt, and.. you're brave." Ray told the blonde and Henry smiled genuinely.

"Thanks.."

"Do you know how to make sandwiches?" Ray asked him as his stomach growled in response and the blonde nodded swiftly.

"I do!"

"Then you have all the qualities I'm looking for.. You're the one, Henry." Ray grinned and Henry's face lit up with interest and slight honor.

"The one to make you a sandwich?"

"No. Well, yes but everybody gets old some day, even Captain Man. I can't do this forever. Protect the town, SwellView, from bad guys, bad things, bad smells.." Ray said as he winced at the mere thought of it.

The elevator dings as the teen from upstairs popped out with his hands in his pockets and a short grin.

"Hey..how's it going?"

"Captain Man!" Henry yelled in surprise as he jumps backwards and tried to shield Ray with his own body while shoving his two hands on the man's face in attempt to cover their identity.

Ray rolled his eyes as he pushes the young boy's hands away as Y/n grinned at them and waited for the boy to settle down.

"Relax, your test is over.. so did he pass or not, Capsicle?" The h/c haired teen teased while turning to Ray who rolled his eyes at the dumb nickname.

"Yes, and what did I say about calling me that." He warned while pointing a finger and the teenager shrugged lightly in response.

"Right."

"Well.. honestly, I had no actual hope when you said, you wanted the 'perfect' little sidekick by your side." He quoted his boss while micking his voice and strolled over to the monitors as he sat down.

"Hey! I didn't say perfect." Ray muttered as he crossed his arms in denial and Y/n smirked at him as the man sighed loudly.

"Okay. Henry, this is Y/n.. who is also known as H/n." Ray introduced the boy as Y/n turned to the blonde who was in immediate awe.

"No wayy!! Really!?" He blurted as Henry paused and a sudden question pops into his head while smiling sheepishly.

D-Do you also have that bubble thing Captain Man has?" The blonde questioned as the H/c haired teen slips it out of his pocket and waved it out for him to see.

"So cooool!" Henry whispered as he gasped and the teenager slowly got up to approach Henry as he took out his hand out for him to shake.

"Hope we can become great friends then, Henry." Y/n explained as he threw a sincere smile his way and he takes his hand out for the blonde to shake.

Henry blinked at him when he grew closer as the boy took a moment to glance at their face before looking down at their hand with a light blush on his cheeks and silently shakes his hand as he mumbles,

"Looking forward to it."

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