CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Unfortunately, we didn’t have time to investigate the room ourselves, because as soon as we reached the top deck, Hilda thrust brooms and buckets of soapy water into our hands and immediately set us to work scrubbing the whole deck.
Normally, I wouldn’t care about scrubbing. A good deal of my time in the NHA, prior to being assigned to Showdown, had been spent helping the Hero Island Janitorial Team perform basic maintenance work on Hero Island. That included scrubbing the Justice Statue, a massive statue designed to symbolize the unity and trust between the Neohero Alliance and the Independent Neoheroes for Justice, the two largest superhero organizations in the country. I couldn’t count the number of times I spent scrubbing seagull droppings off the heads and shoulders
