The Secret of the Supers (The First Superhero Book 4) by Logan Rutherford

sure,” Ellie said. “It did seem like they were hiding something. Searching for something. I don’t know. Leopold would’ve been really good at figuring this type of stuff out.”
    “Where is he?” I asked.
    Ellie shook her head. “I’m not positive, but even if I was I wouldn’t be able to tell. Out on some sort of mission. Thomas and Nathan too. Not the smartest decision to send our main Supers off whenever we’re being attacked, although they all left before Jigsaw got here. Now you and your mates are here though, so we’ll be fine,” Ellie said. “We did pretty well together.”
    We all smiled and nodded. “Yeah, we make a pretty great team.”
    The large doors at the entrance to the library swung open and I looked over the edge of the balcony and saw a flood of government agents poor in.
    “Looks like our replacements are here,” Avery said. “I’ll go show them where we’re at.”
    “Thanks,” Ellie said as Avery walked towards the stairwell. She turned to us. “Not much longer now and we can all head back and get cleaned up.”
    “I think I’m going to read a book. In memory of our fallen comrades,” Drew said with a smirk.
    We laughed at him as we waited for the agents to make their way up to us and take the prisoners off our hands.

    ****

    A n hour later and I was standing in my bathroom shower, my mind empty of all thoughts, enjoying the hot water running down my skin. I wanted to stay in there forever, but I knew I had to get out at some point. After a few more minutes, I shut the water off, and got out. I dried off and got dressed in a pair of basketball shorts and a black t-shirt.
    I left the bathroom and walked into my room, unsure of what I was going to do for the rest of the night. I was pretty tired, but didn’t feel like going to sleep just yet.
    A brown package sat on my bed with a note on it. I looked at the door and saw it was unlocked. Somebody must’ve come in and set it there for me. I sat down and looked at the note. It read:

    F igured you could use one of these so we don’t have to page you every time we need you :)
    -Ellie

    I opened the box up , and inside was a brand new cell phone sitting in its package. I couldn’t help but smile as I opened it up and pulled out the slick black device. It was brand new, not a single fingerprint on it.
    I turned the phone on, and went through the process of setting it all up. My number was long and confusing, very different from how the phone numbers in America were set up.
    A funny feeling fell over me. The phone felt alien in my hands. It’d been so long since I held one, much less used one. But as I looked at the four bars of signal I had, I thought I was going to tear up and cry. It sounds stupid, but it all just felt so normal, and that was something I hadn’t felt in a very long time. If I closed my eyes, I could imagine that I was back home on my parent’s farm in Ebon, Indiana, sitting on my bed, texting my friends.
    I got the idea that I might send out a mass text to as many phone numbers as I could remember, but that idea got squashed pretty quick. All the antennas had long since been destroyed. There was no way anybody in America was getting a signal.
    I then thought about checking and seeing if any of my friends had posted something to Facebook or Twitter. It would’ve been a few months old, but still, maybe I could see if they’d been able to get somewhere safe. The servers for all those websites were long gone though, so there was no chance.
    As I held a device in my hand that could connect me to the whole world, I felt hopelessly alone.
    A knock at the door shook me from my own thoughts. I jumped up and walked over to the door, checking through the peephole. Doug stood on the other side looking freshly showered. “Hey,” I said as I opened the door.
    “Hey man, gonna go get some food. Come with me, I wanna hear all about your fight with Jigsaw,” Doug said with an eager smile.
    Even though Doug—and most