Sky High Page #3

Comets away!

All right, listen up.

My name is Coach Boomer.

You may know me as "Sonic Boom."

You may not.

Here's how Power Placement is gonna work.

You will step up here and show me your power.

And, yes, you will do so in front of the entire class.

I will then determine where you will be assigned.

Hero or sidekick.

Now, every year there are a few students

or, as I like to call them, "whiner babies,"

who see fit to question

and to complain about their placement.

So let's get one thing straight.

My word is law.

My judgment is final,

so there will be no whiner babies.

- Are we clear?

I said, are we...clear?!

Yes, Coach Boomer!

Go-time!

You! What's your name?

Larry.

Little Larry.

Get up here.

What's humiliating him going to prove?

This is so unfair.

If life were to suddenly get fair,

I doubt it would happen in high school.

Car!

Big Larry. Hero!

So he's good.

But I'm better.

Did I say you were next?

Name's Zach, Coach Boomer.

Try not to drop your clipboard.

Any day now, superstar.

- I'm doin' it.

- Doin' what?

- I'm glowin'.

- I don't think so.

Well, it's easier to see in a dark room.

Turn off these lights, cup your hands

around your eyes and look real close...

- Sidekick!

- Are you sure you don't want to just...

Sidekick!

You! Front and center!

Let me start off by saying

- what an honor it is to...

- Is that your power? Butt-kissery?

Very funny, sir.

I've heard you had a wicked sense of...

- Shut up and power up.

- Right away, sir.

Say, that's pretty impressive...

...for a Popsicle! Sidekick!

Hero!

Side...kick!

Super spit?

Sidekick.

Acid spit.

Hero!

Ho! Hero!

And a handsome one at that.

Get out of here, knucklehead!

Purple kid. Let's go.

- What's your shtick?

- I'm a shape-shifter.

OK. Shift it.

- A guinea pig?

- Yep.

Not even a swarm of guinea pigs?

Uh, no.

Sidekick. Shoo!

- Bite me.

- You. Flower child. Let's go.

Uh, I believe in only using my powers

when the situation demands it.

Well, you're in luck.

This is the situation, and I'm demanding it.

But to participate in this test

would be to support a flawed system.

The whole hero-sidekick

dichotomy only serves to...

Let me get this straight.

- Are you refusing to show your powers?

- It's more complicated than taht...I mean -

Sidekick!

- We'll pick it up right after lunch,

starting with you.

That's not cool.

I tell you, Boomer will regret making me a sidekick.

All right? Someday it'll be dark,

he'll be all alone, walking to his car.

He'll drop his keys, and I

won't glow to help him find 'em.

You got a problem with me?

- Uh, no.

- No what?

No, sir. No, sir! No, sir!

Just messin' with you, sidekick.

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