I'm really excited with the feedback I got with the first chapter, so here we go.

Diana lifted her hands, causing two chairs to levitate. Slowly, she allowed them to land back on the ground, before repeating without using her hands.

"Excellent, Diana," said the instructor. He was a tall, stately man with graying hair and blue eyes.

He turned around, changing the setting of the simulation room to a forest-like scene. "Now, I want all of you to try to use your abilities and uproot a tree."

All of the students turned and focused on a tree. Diana picked a tree and began to try to uproot it.

"Never stop pushing yourself. Keep testing your limits. Stay focused and stay strong."

Following the instructor's advice, Diana uprooted the tree with power, accidentally throwing it in the air, directly at another student. Not knowing what to do, she held up one hand, hearing the room lapse into silence.

They were all looking at her, as she...

As she held an uprooted tree in the air. Taking a deep breath, she threw it as far as she could, before reading the minds of the people close to her.

How can she do that?

I've been here for two years. She's been here for two days and is already better than me.

I heard she's joining the Council, and that they're going to call themselves The Nine. No wonder.

The instructor dismissed the class, and Diana left feeling satisfied. Walking around a corner, she overheard James and Kendall speaking. Straining her ear, she heard,

"I understand that she's powerful, but recruiting her on her first day?"

"I have to. James, you and I have been friends since forever. You know about my family. I have to be sure."

"I guess," James said.

Diana quickly peered around the corner and tried to read Kendall's mind, almost reaching his thoughts, but being roughly shoved out.

"Diana, wherever you are, know that I can feel you whenever you try to read my mind, and know that I can get you out."

Diana leaned back against the wall and tried to catch her breath. J had been teaching her to enter the mind of another person, but not how to push her way in. Kendall had obviously been trained to block his mind, and even push out, but she was as going to practice until she could.

Taking a deep breath, she stood up and walked the other way, for her lesson with J. If anyone could tell her information about the school's most powerful student, it would be J.

On her way, she caught a glimpse of a very familiar man walking out of a classroom. Her grandfather.

Walking in his direction, she called loudly, "Mr. Schaeffer," waiting for a reaction.

He turned around, and smiled upon seeing her, leading her into a room.

"I see my granddaughter has discovered the Palm Woods academy."

Diana smiled widely. "I accidentally stumbled. But how, and why are you here?"

He stood up, made sure the door was closed, and sat down.

"Diana, since the dawn of metahumans 120 years ago, our family has been involved in the training of supers. Your great grandfather, my father, founded this school. But when we had to go into hiding, he found a way to make us a top-secret government project. We are so secret, not even the Secretary of State knows we exist. Our work is about to be re-legalized, but until then, we are being used for top secret jobs."

Diana sat in shock. "So what about you? What power do you have?"

He smiled. "I can control kinetic energy. But that's beside the point. You are a powerful girl, Diana. Not just a freak or mutant."

She nodded, then asked another question. "What about my dad? And Alex?"

"Your dad has powers. He just has always been afraid to use them. I'm not sure about your brother, since he keeps to himself."

"What about my mother?" Diana continued.

He paused before answering. "She is a very powerful woman. I made sure that my son didn't marry just anyone."

"Is? So that means that she's alive."

He smiled and began to stand.

"One last question, Grandpa."

He sat down. "Where do J and The Nine fit into this?"

He smiled widely. "I will tell you about J, but very little about The Nine. You'll find out about them, being a member and all. J is my assistant. I am head of the school, and J does what I ask her to do. She knew who you were before her son brought you. All I will tell you about The Nine is that they're powerful. Don't upset them."

"Kendall is J's son?"

"And closer to you than you think, as is J. But I can't tell you everything. That would be no fun. Besides, a superheroine like yourself should have good deductive skills. If you find something out, come to me and I'll tell you if you're right or not."

He stood up to leave, but Diana stood as well. "Grandpa, can you tell me right now that Dad and Alex are safe?"

He smiled. "Without a doubt. If even for a second I feel that they aren't, I'm bringing them in."

She gave him a hug. "I have to go. J is teaching me how to effectively read minds."

Diana walked out deep in thought. Her grandfather had told her that J and Kendall were closer to her than she thought. What did that mean? She was going to find out, and quickly.

J greeted her with a wide smile. "Hi Diana. We're going to do something a bit strenuous today, so brace yourself. Try to enter my mind. I'm going to introduce you to a mental plane."

Diana quickly entered J's mind, finding herself in a strange place. It looked as if she was outside, but everything had a haze over it. Looking in the distance, she found she could see both trees and their underground roots.

"Welcome, Diana. This is a mental plane. You have your own, and I have mine. This is something I prepared for today. Any questions?"

"What is a mental plane for?"

"It's a place where you can think and focus without any effect on time. If you're attacked by another telepath, you can retreat here, and fight them out."

Diana nodded. "Is there a way a person can keep themselves from having their mind read?"

J walked into Diana's line of vision. "Yes. That actually ties in to what we're going over. Here comes the strenuous part. Follow me."

J led Diana to a castle, then disappeared. "Try to get in. This won't be easy. You're going through the final line of defense in a mental plane."

Diana walked up to the castle's moat, being narrowly missed by an arrow.

"Remember, this is the last line of defense."

Diana stepped back and surveyed the tower, before using her power to lift a tree, using it as a battering ram to break the drawbridge.

The arrows continued to come, one skimming her arm. Using the tree as a shield, she looked up, and sire enough, saw several archers firing their arrows. Throwing a rock to her left, she angled herself to her right and continued battering the door.

A series of arrows destroyed the tree, but she grabbed the biggest piece and threw it at the archers. The arrows temporarily stopped, but came back quickly, with more and more bing shot, and faster between shots.

Diana quickly used a sonic scream to level the drawbridge and outer wall. Joining all the rubble together, she created a bridge to cross the moat, keeping some of the rocks floating around her. In the courtyard, several soldiers came running, but a rock to the chest kept them on the ground.

Diana crossed the courtyard, facing another door. With a sonic scream, it was quickly destroyed.

Diana walked in, to find J sitting in a chair inside of the large room behind the door.

"Well done, Diana. Now, let's get back to the real world."

Diana blinked, and found herself back in the simulation room, facing J.

"Since that wasn't a real plane, you had the use of your powers. Sometimes you will, sometimes you won't. You actually didn't have to force your way in. You could have just walked straight through. Most don't realize that it isn't a real place. A mental plane is only real if you let it be. You can't get hurt."

"Why didn't you say so?"

J smiled. "I wanted you to learn something. You're a natural, by the way. And you have an ability we didn't know about. Enhanced strength."

"Like super strength?"

J nodded. "It's a weaker version. You aren't as strong as Kendall. At your weakest, you can lift half a ton. Your strongest would probably be about four tons. We have several excercise rooms, but there's a great one reserved for The Nine, so you have the best stuff available."

Diana rolled her eyes. "Does everyone know I'm in The Nine?"

J laughed. "Diana, my son is the leader of The Nine, and his best friend's mother is like a sister to me. I know all of their decisions."

Diana nodded. "Can I ask you a question? And will you be honest?"

J nodded.

"How did you know about me?"

"I work for your grandfather. Among other things."

"Define other things."

"It's like what your grandfather told you. Kendall and I are closer than you think."

"So you're my aunt and Kendall is my cousin."

J was about to nod, but Diana stopped her.

"I asked you to be honest. You aren't my aunt. What are you to me?"

J's eyes softened. "I'm your mother. Kendall is your brother, and you have a sister that's 14."

"How?" Diana managed to respond, shocked.

"I knew Kendall had powers the instant he was born. It was hard, but your father and I decided to leave him in the care of some people here. We registered him under a pseudonym to keep him safe. Then you came along two years later, and I couldn't do the same thing, or else the people in our neighborhood would get suspicious. So we moved outside of LA, and I commuted. We brought Katie, but we never brought you here."

"So why did you disappear?"

"After Alex was born, 14 years later, I knew your father could take care of him, and my work here was becoming demanding. The government began to crack down, and since my frequent trips were making the people in that awful town suspicious, we agreed that I needed to disappear."

Diana sat down. "How did you know I saw my grandfather?"

J held up her phone. "Text message. Your grandfather let me do what I wanted, so here we are."

"What's my real last name?"

"It's Knight, but Schaeffer is what we usually use. It's common but uncommon."

"Does Kendall know?"

"He's known for a while. Now can I ask you a question?"

"I guess," Diana answered.

"How is Alex? Your Dad says that he's quiet. Is that true?"

Diana nodded. "He is quiet. But only because I was afraid that if Ispoke, I would lose control. He had no one to talk to."

J smiled. "He has a power, but your grandfather has yet to figure it out. Now get to lunch. It's ravioli today."

Diana laughed and turned to leave.

"And Diana?"

Diana turned.

"You still have to call me J. If we're attacked, or if one of us is captured, you can't think of me as your mother."

Diana nodded and left. The lunchroom was its usual hub of chatter, and Diana soon found herself at the center table. As she sat, Camille, Stephanie, and Lucy moved to sit next to her.

"Is it true? Are you really Kendall's sister?" Camille asked.

Diana looked up, shocked. "How quickly does news travel in this school?"

Stephanie laughed. "Kendall just told us. We occasionally have impromptu meetings, and we just had one. So is it?"

Diana nodded. "Believe me, I'm as shocked as you are. I didn't know I had an older brother until twenty minutes ago."

Lucy smiled. "You have to excuse them. Besides, if what I hear is true, then Camille was way wrong about you. If you don't move up, that will be an insult. I've heard you're really powerful."

As Lucy finished, Kendall stood and motioned for the others to follow him.

A hush fell over the cafeteria when they all stood and walked out. Reading a few minds, Diana heard,

I wonder what they're doing.

The Nine is meeting. I hope it's something they'll share with us

They make me nervous.

Suppresing a smirk, Diana walked in line to the conference room, sitting at her usual seat at the table. Kendall and James stood at the head of the table, and Kendall spoke up.

"Diana, because of your work today, you are moving up in The Nine. You are now third. You are no longer required to go to general training sessions, and you are now allowed to tutor other students here."

Lucy and Camille clapped. As they walked out, Lucy turned to Diana. "We should spar sometime. We have our own practice room, and I'll set up a simulation."

Diana agreed and soon found herself back in her room. Sitting on her bed she sighed and removed her gloves, sitting back when a knock sounded ay the door. It was James, Kendall's best friend and number two. He gave her a smile.

"Hey Diana. Since you've moved up even more, you'll need to have even better control of your powers. Do you want to train with me sometime?"

Diana nodded. "Sure. Just tell me where the Nine's training room is, and set a time."

"Every day at 3:30. It's on the same floor as our conference room. See you there," James answered before walking away.

Diana silently closed the door and sat on her bed, unable to shake the feeling that despite how well everything was turning out, something was wrong.

Diana is now number three. And Kendall's sister. So that means that this is my first story that isn't Kendall/OC. Review please!