Chica received a quick response on her commlink while heading back indoors.<br/><br/>"Trailing the UFO's curvature. Landed northwest of the Highway State Route 6. No observed casualties around the crater, detecting minimal activity. Good job La Mariposa, you likely knocked it out cold! Star Knight out."<br/><br/>The interior hallway was less crowded than usual; partly because it wasn't technically time for next period, partly because the presence of the nanoswarm caused many to retreat to the designated 'panic rooms.' But La Mariposa's victory soon returned things to a sense of normalcy. A few of the exchange students, who were easy to recognize by their behavior, wildly gestured and snapped smartphone pics at a scene outside the window. They were so excited that they did not notice the other superheroine walking right past them. The football field's nano-dissolved holes were being filled up by cement materializing out of nowhere, the giant goal post rising on its own to be planted nice and neat at the end of the field. All the while a green-cloaked figure levitated in mid-air, surveying the situation.<br/><br/><div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/8v2AVAb.png)</div><br/>"Hey, check out that cloak man! It's Dr. Metropolis!"<br/><br/>"I took care of the exposed gas line. It's fortunately intact and undamaged. Dr. Metropolis out."<br/><br/>But the gawking newcomers were in the minority: most returning to class had their eyes on the closer and more present Freedom Leaguer.<br/><br/>"Oh my God, is that...is she really wearing<em>just a towel?!?"</em><br/><br/>"I just got a text that the blob-thing burned like, all of her clothes off!"<br/><br/>"She can borrow my clothes anyday!"<br/><br/>The awkwardness of youthful lust combined with being starstruck meant that none of the seniors directly approached or address Chica, although they certainly didn't refrain from staring as she opened her locker to change. Although normal on the outside, the interior was lined with the same material of her comm button and science lab table, her trademark clothes hanging by velcro strips than hooks so as to prevent any accidental super-strength tears.<br/><br/>And yet it was discovered in the reflection of her mirror turned that La Mariposa had a secret admirer; and not the one trying to covertly snap a smartphone shot. An entity clad in red armor peered at her through a helmeted visor.<br/><br/><div class="floatright">(https://i.imgur.com/burEI1n.png)</div><br/>"Do not think your disrespect went unchecked, La Mariposa!" he exclaimed. "Yes, it was I who animated those pithy mortal machines. Before days' end I, Lord Hades, will claim sole mantlehood over your Autumnal festival, where I and I alone shall be honored! Mwahahahaha!"<br/><br/>And then the Greek God of the Underworld disappeared from the mirror in a puff of smoke. Smoke which wafted out of the locker, now echoing with his laughter.<br/><br/>"That...was awesome!" a student exclaimed. " Naked girls, haunted lockers...Best Halloween ever!"