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concert!”
    “But it’s painful,” Max says, jerking pathetically at the wire. “Can’t you just loosen it a bit?”
    “No,” she says.
    “But Raindrop--”
    “I don’t have an official name, you know,” she tells him, absently taking a step closer just to glare at him.
    “Raindrop is cute,” he says shamelessly, only to grab her before she can reply. “HA! I got her!” he says, taking to the air. The wire drops to the ground as he carries Malina into the air. “A water manipulator is EXACTLY what I asked Santa for, for Christmas!”
    “Christmas was over MONTHS ago!” Emily yells.
    “Bad boys don’t get presents,” Max says with a shrug.  I see water coming up from the barrels and know that Malina is about to take him down, when shockingly, Max falls out of the air without even being touched.
    “Ow,” he mutters. I note that he’s moved Malina so she fell on top of him, even after whatever happened to him. “What the heck was that?” he asks, looking over at me with confusion. Water spills over both of them, drenching his perfectly spiky hair. I would laugh, but I seriously don’t think he planned on falling. I turn to the audience, my eyes widening as I see a woman standing in the middle of the group, her hand aimed straight at Max.
    “Negatia,” I say. Well... Crap.
     
    ***
     
      “HE was not assigned to be at this concert! If he was, I would have been informed--I made sure of that the LAST time he attacked Justin’s concert,” Nagatia says, pointing straight at Max. We finished up the concert and found her waiting impatiently for us in our tour bus. Now she’s yelling at us for goofing around. Oh, joy.
    “HE,” Max repeats, “is still in CENTRAL TERRITORY--which means YOU are the one who’s not supposed to be at the concert!”
    “Well, you’ve got to admit she’s right, you could have called first,” I point out to Max, lounging on the couch next to him. I’m best friends with Ace, and that means once in a rare while I have to hang out with the other villains (or fight with them, in Jack’s case)--and put bluntly, I rather feel like taking Max’s side on this. “But it’s not like anyone got hurt. We were goofing off.”
    She gives me a scathing look, one that says she’s got a LOT to tell me off for. “This is not a game!”
    “Actually, um, it sort of is,” Emily says, sitting on the bunk over our heads next to Freddy. “Look, if it’d been a real super villain--”
    “I am a real super villain,” Max says.
    “One that’s NOT dating my best friend and pals with my sister’s boyfriend,” Emily goes on, “it would have been a problem. But that doesn’t change the fact that you were supposed to be doing debut tours,” she says to Max. “Why aren’t you working?”
    “My first debut is in your next town,” Max says. “Same night as your concert. I figured I might as well check in with you guys, and hey, crashing your concert sounded fun.”
    “Where’s the rest of your group?” Freddy asks. “You’ve got Rocco, Lance and Piper, right?”
    “They decided to play a game of shadow run for the night--Summer went with them,” Max says. “Which, honestly, is a TON of fun, I just hope they can figure out how to get back in time for our first gig,” he admits.
    “Shadow run?”
    “Rocco opens a shadow tunnel and you run through it--you can wind up anywhere,” Max says grinning. “I’m working on getting him on the villain team, he’d be awesome.”
    “What are they teaching you kids at that school?” Negatia demands. “From what I’ve seen, you’re just playing around, causing distractions and a ridiculous panic among the norms!” She looks at me, her eyes narrowing. “I said nothing when they sent me your transfer papers, because I trust Mastermental, but I see that was the wrong choice.”
    “Wait just a second,” I say, feeling panicked, myself. “You don’t know the full story!”
    “Wait, why does she have your transfer papers?”