Chapter 2

It had been hard for Alex to recover in the days following his public humiliation. How could he look anyone in the eye, after they had seen him led through the halls of the school naked? At least his self-esteem benefited from his secret role as Pantsboy. Still Alex decided not to step down from editor, and he showed up to the baseball game that night. With Pants-boy hanging the Latina Queenz by their panties, the fear was broken and the newspaper published article after article exposing them.

Alex secured his big break when Jessica Shine agreed to do an interview with him. Jessica Schine was the most popular senior, and captain of the cheerleading squad. She was also the mayor’s daughter and an actress of Jamie Wyoming, a popular teen sitcom. Before the incident Alex had thought she was in reach. Sure he was just a freshman, but he was also varsity baseball star. Then had come the humiliating incident. He remembered looking into her eyes, as his shaking hands had lowered the waistband of his briefs. Clearly he was a freshman…if that! Butt-naked he had been forced to join in Jessica’s routines. His balls had bounced up and down as he waved the pom-poms, and Juanita made him and the squad cruelly chant the same cheers they used for Alex during the baseball games. And then the pyramid. He remembered feeling the warmth of her back on his hand. But that was behind them now. Alex tried his best to act nonchalant as he faced Jessica for the first time since the incident. Jessica revealed to him how 60% of the cheerleader’s budget was being laundered by the Latina Queenz.

The very night the article with Jessica’s interview was published, Rosa, Maria and Isabel attempted to kidnap Jessica and perhaps worse. Pants-Boy was able to show up for the rescue however. After a brief fight, all 3 were found tied up in their bra and panties outside the mayor’s office. Jessica soon made her love for Pants-Boy known and daddy was happy to arrange a public parade to celebrate Pants-Boy’s cleanup of the town. Alex had generally avoided such public exposure, but a Utube video from Jess quickly swayed him.

Pants-Boy and Jessica marched proudly down mainstreet arm in arm. Suddenly Pants-Boy felt a jolt of pain. A stream of electricity and hit him frontally knocking him down. “I’m Blighta” shouted a women dressed in a yellow costume. Through her electric force she was able to float mid-air. And she continued to blast Alex. The living material that made up his suit seemed to be very averse to electric and parted, leaving most of his body above the waist exposed. Blighta had been hired by the Latina Queenz just to kidnap Jessica. But the chance to humiliate her foe could not be passed up. Blighta rained blow after blow of electric currents upon Alex. Before long most of his suit had melted away, living him with nothing but his mask, cape and boots. The town looked in shock at what had become of their beloved hero. But Blighta was not finished with him. The weakened Pants-Boy was made to strip off his briefs in front of the entire town and hand them over to captive Jessica. The embarrassment was excruciating. Now Pants-Boy’s reputation was as ruined as Alex’s. The towns people looked in shocked amazement at the rather undeveloped body who had been their superhero. Noticing this, Blighta decided to have more fun. “Sorry to rain on your parade, but you know what we can still have a great time!” Pants-Boy and Jessica were once again put in lead of the parade. Naked but for his mask and cape, Pants-Boy was forced to march the entire parade route.

Alex met with Ms.Brody after the horrible parade. Ms.Brody had received a communication from the Latina Queenz on where Jessica was located. The Trouser City, Female Correctional Facility had been seized in a prison riot, organized by the Latina Queenz. The security and staff were being held hostage. Blighta had delivered them Jessica, and there was word that the prisoners were joined by gang members from the outside, heavily armed. Juanita had demanded that Pants-Boy appear at the prison, or Jessica and the hostages would suffer the consequences.

“Please don’t go” pleaded Ms.Brody “I’m so sorry I go you into this, if you couldn’t beat Blighta at full-strength, you will never defeat her now. I haven’t been able to restore what was left of your suit to full capacity”

“I have no choice” replied Alex “the police can’t handle this, besides my suit protects me from their weapons, I’ll just have to deal with Blighta.”

Ms.Brody reluctantly repaired Alex’s suit and allowed him to return to action. But she had grave doubts over what awaited him.