Astra could run faster than the wind, she was stronger than any human man, and she could fly into the clouds in a shiny burst of speed with hardly any effort. Astra was quite naturally the shining star of the Meta-Human Super Ball League. Astra starred on her Super Ball team and was the new face of every new advertising campaign. And she was as cute as a button. Astra was hardly a month over eleven years old but her name was already famous around the world and everyone wanted to be just like Astra.

Legions of little fangirls (and fanboys) cheered Astra on as she ran around her meta-human competition, scoring goals and setting new records with every flick of her dainty wrist. "Astra Superstar" was what the media dubbed her and she was the universe's darling. Astra, quite naturally, had a very big head. Not literally mind you, her real head was quite small and perfectly proportionate, but her ego head was much too big. On her last birthday little Astra had demanded that she be only surrounded by yellow things. Yellow candy, yellow flowers, yellow bedspreads, yellow soap, and even yellow people. When an offensive brown dog ran into her line of sight, Astra threw such a fit it took fifty yellow-clad human police officers to calm her down.

Astra also had started to refer to herself in the third person. "Astra said that she played a pretty good game today. Astra thought the competition was weak and flimsy." Astra had even stopped talking to anyone who stood taller than she was. If a reporter or an adult towered over her she would refuse to answer any questions or look directly in their eyes until they had squatted down. Nearly everyone squatted down to talk to Astra, who was only three foot seven. Many press photos showed Astra holding conferences while every other person in the room worked hard to keep their heads below hers. Sometimes Astra would purposely lie down just to see everyone else fall down on their faces.

This was really starting to be too much. Even though Astra was the clear cut MVP of her Super Ball team, her teammates and her coach were seriously starting to dislike her. Even Astra's parents, the famous Mr. and Mrs. Incredible, were starting to lose control of her. They told Astra to behave like a "good little girl" and to be "respectful of elders" but Astra would have none of it. She would run around in tight little circles until her parents got dizzy trying to keep up with her. A worn out Mrs. Incredible was heard saying "I don't know what happened to Astra, we certainly didn't raise her to be this way." Part of the problem was that Mr. and Mrs. Incredible were always away on missions to save the universe and everybody else was too frightened of Astra to reprimand her.

One day Mindy, the human mascot of Astra's Super Ball team, came up with a great idea. "What if we dunked Astra in milk? Wouldn't that make her lose all her powers and she wouldn't be super anymore?" Everyone knew that dunking meta-humans in milk was the best way to take away their powers. While dunking anything in milk seemed excessively cruel, nobody had a better idea of how to control Astra. The plans were made, the milk was prepared, and during the last game of the season, Astra Starfall would be dunked in milk.

The championship game of the season rolled around and quite naturally Astra was the superstar. In the first quarter alone she had accumulated three scores, one assist, six high fives and two stadium wide waves. Astra was shining brighter than ever and she was playing better than ever. Zipping along and moving around the giant redwood sentinels had never been this easy. Every time a teammate got the ball Astra would scream, "Pass it to me! Pass it to me!" Whenever a player on the opposing Cerulean Blues got the ball Astra would steal it away and cry at them "Astra just played you! You suck fool!" With the score seven to three during halftime, Astra headed into the locker room for her usual yellow crème cookie extravaganza.
While the coach tried to talk some strategy and her teammates tried to keep their focus, Astra sat in her own leather recliner and munched on her cookies. She never offered to share her cookies, ever. And if anyone was caught even looking at a cookie, Astra would pick it up and gulp it down as fast as possible. The team huddled together and gave one last pre-championship cheer, minus Astra of course. She always exited the locker room last so she could wait for the crowd to cheer her entrance. As her teammates ran onto the field, Astra stayed behind and waited for her name to be called. "Astra! Astra!" the crowd chanted and Astra smiled and prepared to slowly glide her way up onto the field.

Without warning, a jumbo, extra large, economy sized bucket of milk came sloshing down over the railing and Astra fell flat on her butt from the force of the downpour. The milk kept coming and coming and even as Astra screamed, her mouth filled with milk and her shiny superhuman glow started to fade away. Astra struggled and tried to fly out of the milky mess but she could only levitate for a split second before she fell back down. After a few minutes of desperate paddling, Astra Starfall, MVP of the Super Ball league, was fished out of the milk, looking very sad and wet with milk still dripping off her ponytails.

"Ready to go back out there Astra? The game's about to start!" Astra struggled onto the field and she could hardly move, all her superhuman speed was drained from her. The Super Ball came bouncing in front of her and Astra ran over to pick it up but she only succeeded in nudging it a little before a Cerulean Blue player grabbed it out of her hands and scored. This kept on happening the entire game. Astra would run, very slowly, to get the ball but then she wouldn't be able to lift it. Finally, Astra looked over to the bench and motioned for a substitute. Without a single goal, assist, high five, stadium wave or insult to her credit, Astra chose to leave the game. The crowd jeered at little Astra and threw brown cookies at her.

But Astra was still a super girl, even without her super powers, and she did not cry even one bit. Astra sulked for a while on the bench but then as the game got close she started to cheer her teammates on. Astra was yelling and screaming and using her still super human female vocal cords to rally her teammates. The Astroville Astras won the championship again but for the first time, Astra wasn't selected as the most valuable player. But that was okay with her, Astra had her teammates and her cookies and she shared them both with everyone and started to use "we" instead of "Astra" and floated up to meet the reporters who were taller than her. Astra's powers had slowly returned after the dunking because although Mindy and the team wanted to teach Astra a lesson, they didn't want to be overly cruel. They had used low fat milk for Astra's dunking and everyone knows that only whole milk completely eliminates super powers.