Shazam

It started out as just another cold, boring day.They are sitting in a classroom where the importance of the order of calculations is constantly being repeated at the front of the room.Billy was obviously not paying attention; he was fiddling with an iron nail in his hand, his eyes focused as if he was holding some rare treasure in his hand.But to Billy, that iron nail was indeed very precious. It was the product of his magic—after two weeks of tireless practice, Billy was finally able to emit enough electric current to magnetize an inch-long iron nail.Of course, this is far from the "two or three million volts" that Miss Glaucus said, but it is more or less a start.So Billy didn't stop practicing even in math class, and now he is trying to use an electric current to reverse the direction of the north and south poles of the iron nail.But Billy still remembered to stand his textbooks upright on the table to hide his face and hands.Since Billy has always been good at mathematics, Damian simply pretended that he didn't see Billy deserting at all.But their math teacher was not so forgiving.

"Has everyone solved this problem? Who can give me an answer?" Mr. Morrison asked loudly, "Billy, what do you think?"

With a "bang", Billy's textbook fell down.Billy jumped up from his seat, his eyes widened like a deer covered by headlights.Everyone around couldn't help laughing out loud, and Billy's face turned red all of a sudden.He glanced at the arithmetic problems on the blackboard.It was not a difficult problem for him at all, and he knew the answer at a glance; he opened his mouth to answer, but froze again.He still couldn't speak, and could only stand there in a daze, like a fish thrown ashore.

"What do you think, Billy?" Mr. Morrison shook his head. "Shouldn't you be paying attention this time?"

Everyone around laughed louder, and Billy looked as if he would just dig a hole and disappear in it.Damian couldn't hold back, and punched the table, feeling that his anger was about to burst out.That bastard Morrison deserves to be a teacher too!He clearly knew that Billy couldn't speak, and he was instructed like other teachers, and he shouldn't have forgotten it even for a while.Damian was about to stand up when there was a loud bang outside the window, and the whole world began to shake.Everything hanging from the walls and ceiling seemed about to hit the ground.Something appeared outside the window - a [-] to [-] feet high metal jellyfish-like thing was floating in the air, dozens of metal tentacles were constantly twisting, and countless blood-red lamps were still on the body.

Everyone in the classroom froze.

Then the machine fired another round.boom!The world trembled again, several windows were shattered, and broken glass rained down inside the house.The screams erupted like wildfire on the prairie, and the teacher in front of the classroom was also frightened and motionless, helpless.Damian and Billy jumped to their feet simultaneously.Two and a half children rushed to the row of seats closest to the window at the same time, where several children were frightened and settled in the seats, at the front line of fire.

"Get out of the window, you idiots!" Damian yelled, almost throwing him out.

The children finally came to their senses and hurriedly escaped from the window one by one, just in time to escape the moment when all the windows exploded at the same time.The metal jellyfish outside the window seemed to be getting closer.Only the roar of artillery fire was heard, and the entire wall facing the outside was crumbling.

"We can't stay here, Morrison," Damian turned to the teacher, "who knows when this room will collapse. And that thing outside, don't know what they want, anyway, we can run or we have to Run as quickly as possible. Isn't there an underground storage room along the corridor? It should be safer to hide there."

Mr. Morrison took a breath, and said with some uncertainty, "But the earthquake regulations say... we should hide in the classroom or something, and it's probably considered a lockdown..."

"Why are you crazy?!" Damian waved his hand in the direction of the window, "Which point looks like an earthquake?"

At this time, there was another loud noise outside, and then the classroom windows disappeared.It turned out that the location of the window was a hole the size of half a wall, and they could see the metal jellyfish as a whole without hindrance.So Mr. Morrison no longer hesitated.

"Okay, let's get out of here quickly! Children, quickly, go out and turn left until you reach the cleaning room at the top of the corridor. Everyone line up and don't crowd at the door. Be careful!"

After all, they are the children of Gao Qin's elite private school. Half of them are accustomed to seeing all kinds of magical events, and half of them are well-educated. A group of ten-year-old children left the classroom in a surprising order and speed.But that's clearly not enough.When the last few students were still at the door, the whole building shook violently again, and then the ceiling of the classroom fell from the sky.There was no order and calm anymore, the children were just screaming and running in the opposite direction of the classroom.When the world finally seemed to be calm again, and the flying dust gradually fell, the people around stopped and looked back at the ruins behind them.Is anyone buried?

A little girl rose from a pile of debris dust.She ran forward a few steps, then stopped abruptly, turned around, with a terrified expression on her face.That's when they finally saw Billy, who seemed to have a whole wall built up with the brick press boards up to his chest.

"Billy, Billy, Billy," the little girl murmured the name as if it were a spell.

Damian rushed to his brother, who fell to his knees and hugged Billy's head.Billy didn't respond, his eyes were closed tightly, his face was pale, and he should have passed out.

"Idiot," Damian whispered, "how could I have such an unbearable stupid brother like you?"

The little girl next to them seemed to let out a sob and said, "Billy pushed me..."

"So that you can get away. Why are you still here?" Damian scolded without looking up, "Get out. Stay away from here, I'm talking about all of you."

No one takes a step.After a moment of silence, Mr. Morrison said softly, "Damian, if we come together, we will be able to pull Billy out."

Damian glared at the well-meaning teacher, and said mercilessly, "Your plan is to let a group of ten and eleven-year-old kids dig up the ruins with their bare hands, even though the building is still collapsing? How did you become a teacher!" For God's sake, get out of here, right now."

Others might not be able to see it, but Damian knew at a glance that it was impossible for a group of schoolchildren and a teacher to dig his brother out of the rubble.Their school is a nearly 200-year-old hybrid brick and wood building, and Billy has a load-bearing wall down on him, and there is no need to talk about rescue without large tools.What's more, the whole ruins look unstable, and if the force is not used properly, it will collapse again.

"Damian, how could we keep you and Billy here..."

Poor Mr. Morrison didn't have time to finish his sentence, just because Damian suddenly appeared in front of him and directly put a dagger on his chest.The six-inch blade gleamed cold and silver—no joke, after all.God knows how Damian brought such a big knife into the school with such swagger.

"I'm in a bad mood, teacher, I really don't have time to pester you," Damian said, "You think a group of elementary school students dug my brother out from under a load-bearing wall? You take the group of brats out now, Go to the basement, right now."

With just one word, Damian backed away again.He heavily planted the dagger on the ground, then stared at the math teacher in front of him without saying a word, apparently waiting for everyone else to leave.

Mr Morrison was still hesitating. "What about you, Damian? You...or else you'll go hide with us first, and wait until it's safe..."

"I will never leave my brother, but he is not your brother."

There was another long silence, then Mr Morrison turned away.He shouted to a class of students, "Okay, kids, go to the cleaning room at the top of the corridor!"

When the last figure disappeared, Damian pulled out the emergency communicator.He adjusted the channel, and then whispered into the communicator impatiently, "Are you there? Where are you now, and what happened?!"

There was a period of noise and silence, and then I heard Batman's hoarse and slightly tired voice, "If you see strange aircraft, they are all Brainiac's fleet. Don't, let me say it again, don't Step forward. The Alliance is dealing with it. Stay indoors. Better go somewhere underground."

Damian couldn't hold back, and muttered, "That's easy to say."

Batman's voice suddenly became anxious, "Are you okay?"

"Something is going on, it's very bad at the moment," Damian didn't explain the details, but just asked, "Can you send someone over here?"

There was only one silence that lasted for a long time, which was too long for the current crisis, and even made Damian suspect that there was something wrong with the communicator.Finally, I only heard the word "No" coming from the end of the communicator.Batman struggled and said, "Everyone has been mobilized. If we can't destroy Brainiac's fleet to 26%...what's the situation with you?"

"I'll take care of it myself. Happy hunting, go."

Damian directly turned off the communicator and even pulled out the battery.Then he took a deep breath and collected himself.What now?Sitting here, protecting Billy the best he can, and waiting?But no rescue team is coming here.Besides, it sounds like the world is on the verge of destruction, and even the heroes of the Justice League don't know if they can win this battle.So what else could he do?

In just a few minutes, sitting at the door of the classroom that was still collapsing little by little, Damian quickly made a decision.He hugged Billy tightly and yelled, "Shazam!"

nothing.Of course, Damian didn't expect everything to be right the first time.Although it was very similar, he could hear it himself, and it was still a little far from Billy's voice.He took a breath, calmed down, and put aside all other anxieties, just concentrating on remembering his brother's voice.He hasn't had time to practice imitating Billy's voice, but they are brothers anyway, and their voices are quite similar, and with the two months of being together day and night, he will definitely be able to do it.He tried again, and although it still didn't work out, Damian felt that it was at least a bit more like the first time.

"Shazam!" He tried again.

Still not right, but soon.One more time, one more time he must be able to summon Zeus's lightning.

"sand……"

He couldn't finish the word because Billy put his hand over his mouth suddenly.Billy woke up when Damian wasn't looking, and was now staring at his brother with terrified blue eyes.Billy shook his head desperately.He still couldn't speak, but his silent plea was all too obvious.

Damian grabbed Billy's hand and said, "That's Brainiac's invasion vanguard out the window. You need help, but no one can come to us anymore, and the world needs Captain Fantastic. It's just Lightning , it's not [-]% fatal, it's worth a try. Trust me."

Damien paused, before wondering if this might be the last time he looked his brother in the eye, and took a deep breath.