Super Story:
Chapter 1
Now she had to finally go up against her worst enemy, and she felt like she wasn't prepared at all for this. But the time had finally come and she couldn't prolong the task any longer. This college freshman was going to take on her English Comp. paper, and she was gonna get at least a B on her paper!
"Or maybe I should just shoot for a C," she said to herself, neither of her two roommates were in the room. "It is my very first college essay, it's not like I could even get an A if I tried."
Kassidy wasn't an optimist, but neither was she a pessimist. She was just realistic. She was short, only five feet tall and one inch. She preferred jeans and a t-shirt over anything, and she always, always, always had her hair up. NO one had seen her hair down since the fourth grade. It was always up in a braid, a ponytail, or some form of a bun. This was because in wholehearted truth she really hated her ginger hair. She also loved the winter because she could easily put a hat over her hair.
"OK, now let's do this," Kass said, mentally preparing herself for the task she was about to try. She popped in her headphones into her iPod Nano, with its white cord plugged into the computer to be able to charge. She pressed play for her "School Work Playlist", which was mainly classical and score music.
She ended up just staring at the blinking cursor. That little black vertical line was just taunting her, teasing her with every blink. Kass was in a way having a very intense staring match with the blinking line except that the blinking cursor had no eyes to see, yet it blinks twice every second. She just stared at it. Just… stared at it. Not in the sort of way that the line itself would write her paper and have all the answers to her question, but like she wish it would cease to exist. Then for a split second it felt like her world was tilted to the right, by a good forty degrees.
"What the?" Kass said, as the same thing happened again but this time backwards. The large glass window in the room broke as her world tilted forward.
It was like the floor just vanished and she was falling some bits of glass dropping down with her, along with some items from her room. It was like she had fallen into a vortex. She spent less than a minute in that strange vortex-like place, where it felt like the world was pressing down on her while at the same time she was being pulled apart. She met the ground eventually – hard.
"Ow, what the fu-" She stopped short when she noticed what was around her and as a man started laughing and clapping with joy.
A tall man was standing in front of her, laughing manically, dressed in the stereotypical lab coat. Another man was standing across from him and he had on the same exact suit the Flash wore. A rain of glass came out of the hole she flew out of and Kass quickly ducked her head, covering it with her arms. When all the clattering of glass and objects was finally over, she lifted herself onto her hands and knees.
"It worked!" The man shouted. "My gracious, it wer-her-her-herked!"
"So that is what your crazy machine does, it brings in awesome gingers into our world? I thought you were supposed to be a genius. I guess I heard wrong," the man dressed as Flash said.
Kass reached a hand to her head feeling that her baseball cap had fallen off. She got off of her hands and knees and stood up, instantly feeling woozy and dizzy.
"No, I am a genius! Any person who can make it through that portal and live is a super powered individual," The mad scientist said.
Kass dropped to the ground, no longer able to stay standing.
"Are you sure about that Dr. Kinner?" Flash said.
"This can't be real," Kass mumbled.
The two men looked down at the girl.
"Shut up girl," Dr. Kinner ordered.
"This can't be real. There really are no evil scientists and Flash isn't real," Kass said clearly and loudly, despite the Dr.'s orders.
"Isn't real?" Flash asked. "Last time I checked I had super speed not the power of invisibility. And by the look of your outfit we do exist. Now if you excuse me, I got to cuff me some bad guy."
Flash ran forward and delivered a quick jab to Dr. Kinner and the doctor dropped to the ground like a bag of wrenches. Kass took a second to realize what she was wearing… total geek-out gear. She recalled that her and her friends were going to watch her new X-men movie later in the day and had thrown on everything that had a super hero's logo or name on it. Standard Superman sweatshirt, Flash t-shirt, jeans with a red arrow running down the right leg with the words "RED ARROW" written on the arrow shaft while the left leg had a doodle of Hawkeye on it, all that with her red converse with the Flash's logo written on with black Sharpie.
Kass looked up to see Flash holding out his hand to her. She hesitantly took it and pulled herself up. She staggered a bit and Flash put a hand to her back.
"Are you OK?" Flash asked.
Kass closed her eyes and took a deep breath. "Yeah, I'm good."
Flash let go of the girl thinking that he didn't give enough credit to Dr. Kinner. He hadn't actually believed he could do that, though the man was a threat to the world in various other ways.
He glanced over at the girl to see her beginning to sway again. He was going to suggest she sit down while he ran back to the group to see how they were doing and tell them about Dr. Kinner's so called accomplishment when the girl fainted. He caught her before she hit the ground. He lifted her into his arms and ran off to inform the rest of the team.
o\/\/\/o
"Who is that?" Batman questioned, looking down at the girl in Flash's arms.
"Dr. Kinner's machine actually worked," Flash said with a serious face. "He had said that anyone that came out of his new machine alive means they have superpowers."
Batman studied the girl. "Well, what powers does she have?"
Flash shrugged. "Unless it has to do with fainting, your guess is as good as mine."
"The fact that Dr. Kinner said the word "alive" means that he has used it before and gotten dead bodies," Superman said, joining in on the conversation. "It probably took a lot of trials to get his machine right, which means a lot of innocent people from another world were dying."
"Well, he's laying down there unconscious. So he won't be doing any more experiments with inter-dimensional travel," Flash said. "That leaves us to deal with this girl. What are we going to do with her?"
"Wait, are you sure she's from another world? She is wearing clothing with different heroes' logos," Batman pointed out.
"Whatever, we can discuss all this later. Can you just tell me where I can put this girl?" Flash said, jerking his head down to the passed out girl in his arms.
"We could bring her to Mount Justice, if she does develop powers she would be training there," Superman said.
o\/\/\/o
They brought the girl to the Mount, placing her in the rarely used med bay. Flashed placed her in the middle bed in the room.
"So what, we just wait until she wakes up?" Flash said.
"The kids should be back within the next few hours. I'm just worried about what her powers are going to be. Could anything have been implied by Dr. Kinner?" Superman said.
Flash shrugged. "He just seemed really excited when he saw her move – that she was alive." Flash thought for a moment recalling the scene in his head. "He looked seriously surprised at first, like he couldn't believe it… and then he was really happy. So no, nothing can be taken and used as some sort of clue as to what she will be able to do."
Kass stirred in the bed and the heroes all looked down at her. When Kass realized that she was lying in a bed she smiled. So it was all just a dream, she thought. "Not a very good one," She mumbled. "…Red Arrow wasn't even in it." Kass yawned and turned onto her left side, snuggling into the pillow. "Or even Robin," Kass added as an afterthought before attempting to go back to sleep. Wait… one second..., she thought growing more aware of herself and her surroundings. "I'm wearing shoes…? And my pants?" Kass sat up looking down at herself, seeing her slightly ratty jeans and Converse still on her. Then beyond those shoes were a number of heroes she never thought she would see with her own eyes.
"Nice to see you awake again Red," Flash said.
"The names Kass, Kassidy Cole," Kass said scratching her head.
"Well, Miss. Cole we had tried to reach Dr. Kinner before he could do anything with his new invention and bring harm to some other dimension. You were brought to our dimension by Dr. Kinner before we seized him. It is clear to assume that he planned on keeping you so he made nothing to return you to your dimension," Superman explained.
"What I find strange is that you apparently know who we all are, or at least a majority of us," Batman said.
Kass looked down at her clothing and blushed, why she blushed – she didn't know.
"Well, there is a reason why I'm all geeked out right now-" Kass said before Flash interrupted her.
"Geeked out? What's that supposed to mean?"
"Um…," Kass was trying to search for a way to explain it all, "In my dimension there is this comic book series, you see? – Well it's actually two big companies, DC Comics and Marvel. Have you ever heard of them?" Kass directed the question to the three men and they all shook their heads. "Well they both got really big on making comic book series about heroes, more specifically super heroes. There's a whole list of super heroes, some are a part of the Justice League and the Avengers, and others prefer to fly solo… um… I'm thinking that if all you guys are actually real," Kass took a second to study all three men, double checking that they were real, "Then I might be in more of a DC Comics sort of world, or does Iron Man or Spiderman exist?"
"Wow, now that's just weird," Flash glancing at the two other guys, looking surprised.
"That is weird," Kass agreed. "So everyone here in this dimension has superpowers?"
Superman shook his head. "No, only a select few humans have superpowers the rest of us are from other planets."
"Or we don't have any at all," Batman added.
Kass smirked a little.
"OK I'm a little confused as to how you know about all of us. You live in a completely different dimension!" Flash said.
Kass shrugged. "I don't know. It's not like I know everything about you guys, I just recognize who you guys are or who you are supposed to be."
"Well know that we will be trying to find some way to get you back if not, we'll put you under someone's care," Superman made a turn to leave but Kass reached a hand out to stop him.
"Wait, I'll be put under someone's care? I'm nineteen years old in my dimension, attending college none the less."
"But to the rest of the world there is no record of your birth or existence," Superman said. "The details will be worked out at a later time. For now you need to be supervised for your own safety." Superman turned and left the room.
Kass stared after the man of steel.
"So, what? I'm just supposed to stay in this room until when?" Kass asked the two remaining men.
"You have to stay for at least the night. Other arrangements will be made to give you a place to live if you need to stay here for an extended period of time," Batman answered.
"But what am I supposed to do until you get that Dr. Kinner guy to get me back?" Kass said, beginning to worry. Tension began to grow inside of her; she began to think of her bleak future of never seeing any of her friends and family again.
"For tonight, stay here," Batman said leaving the room.
A frown spread across her face. She slowly looked over to Flash. "You're not going to leave me too, are you?"
"I'll stay here for a little while," Flash said. "Batman is going to go tell Red Tornado to check up on you throughout the day. Besides I do have other things to do."
Kass nodded her head. "So did Dr. Kinner have a reason for bringing me, or anyone from my world, to here?"
Flash walked over to the far wall across from where Kass sat and picked up a seat, bringing it over to Kass's bed. He put it back down at the foot of the bed, and then sat in it, leaning forward and resting his elbows in his knees.
"Ooh, it must be serious then…" Kass mused.
"Dr. Kinner's plan was to bring over numerous super powered individuals from another dimension and put together an army to enforce any of his orders. We've found that he had already brought over a number of individuals that didn't exactly survive the transportation between worlds, that last bit is my guess, and you are the first to make it through alive. He had said that because you were alive it meant that you had a power. Do you mind telling us what it is?" Flash said.
"Superpower? I'm supposed to be getting a superpower?" Kass asked, astounded.
"Guess not," Flash said, looking away. He hoped for the sake of everyone's safety that it would be a small, non-lethal power. If she were to have one, then she would need to stay and train to gain control of her power if she were to go back home. The chances of her going back seemed very small, even if the girl didn't seem to fully comprehend this fact yet. He turned his attention back to the girl when he saw that she was getting up. "What are you doing?"
"I've been sitting around all day, I need to stretch a little," Kass explained as she walked away from the bed and around the room.
"It's not even ten o'clock yet," Flash said.
"What? No you're wrong it's at least, like, three," Kass said.
"It's not."
"Stop screwing with me Flash. I don't really know how long I was out so, it is at least a little after three o'clock, it couldn't be possibly earlier than that," Kass said.
"There is a clock right by the door, up on the wall," Flash said, pointing, "Now you tell me what time it is."
Kass glanced at it, and then looked back at Flash. "I can't read analog."
Flash got up and walked over to Kass. "Short hand is the hour hand; long one is the minute hand. Now tell me what time it is."
Kass pursed her lips. "Nine… Forty…two? 9:42? It was a quarter past three back in my dimension… wait a second…," Kass looked up at Flash worried. "What's the date?"
"August 3rd, 2011," Flash said.
"I jumped back a month and four days when I traveled here," Kass said.
"OK, so you jumped back in time by a month, were you somewhere in Happy Harbor in your dimension?" Flash asked.
"Happy Harbor?" Kass said. "No, I wasn't, I've never heard of the place. I was in my dorm room, working on an essay for my English class."
"Where was the College?"
"I go to the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine," Kass said.
"Never heard of the school, or the town," Flash said.
"It's right next to Saco, some call it the Biddeford-Saco area," Kass explained.
"Never heard of that either," he said.
"It is a short drive away from Portland."
"I thought you said it was in Maine, not Washington?" He asked.
"Maine! It's near Portland, Maine!" Kass shouted, annoyed.
Flash shook his head. "Never heard of it. You sure you don't mean Odaford? It's right near Arcos."
"You gotta be kidding," she said, looking up at Flash annoyed.
"Okay, that last one was made-up," Flash admitted.
Kass growled in frustration and sat back down on the bed. Flash looked down on the girl, trying to think if there was anything he could say that could cheer her up. Kass began to untie her shoes and threw them on the floor. She then unzipped her Superman sweatshirt and took it off, fully revealing the Flash logo.
"So one last question before I leave for a bit," Flash said.
"What?" She asked.
"Do you know the names of our secret identities?" Flash asked seriously.
"Bartholomew "Barry" Allen," Kass said.
The Flash smiled. "Nope." He then walked out leaving Kass to herself.
Kass waited a moment and looked around the room. There wasn't much in it, just three beds with monitoring equipment beside each one. It was almost like a hospital sans the doctors and nurses. After ten minutes of sitting around Kass walked over to the door to the room and slowly turned the knob of the door. It opened and Kass peeked her head out into the hallway, checking to see if anyone was coming. No one was in sight so she quietly edged her way into the hallway, silently closing the door behind her. She looked left, down the hallway, and then right. After playing a short game of eenie-meenie Kass headed left. She took off at a quick pace down the hallway, hoping to get out quickly before she got caught. But as she began to think of who she was going up against, she would most likely loose against anyone who wanted her to stay. If no one crossed her path or came after her, she was taking that as a verbal request to get out.
She paused when she thought she heard people talking.
"Do you hear that, Morgan?" a male voice asked.
"What do you hear, Caleb?" A female voice answered.
Shit, Kass thought. She was going to get caught, and she had no idea who the two people were. She knew of no one from comic books with the names Morgan and Caleb. Because she didn't know who they were she didn't know what their powers were (if they had any) and had no possible way of getting out. How about the vents, she thought. She'd use them just until she got out of earshot of the two people up ahead. The downside was that she could get easily lost. She looked around her, to see if there were any nearby. Looking back down the hall she spotted the grill to a vent. She moved to stand below it and cursed her short stature. Was she going to be able to reach it? She had to at least give it a shot. She jumped up and didn't even come close. When she tried again she amazingly reached it but lost her grip and fell down with a thud.
"It's coming from the hallway," the male voice said.
Third time is the charm, she thought. She quickly jumped up, gripped it and hoisted herself up. She reached her right hand up and pushed away a foam ceiling tile, gripping the edge of the next one, so she could have a hand to steady herself when she attempted to pull away the grill. She gave it a quick yank and failed. Suppressing a sigh she resituated herself and tried again, putting all of her muscle into it. As she pulled she placed a foot next to the grill and it gave her enough leverage to pull it away. She nearly fell but tossed the grill into the vent and quickly followed.
She tried to move as quietly as she could. As she moved along the vent she tried to keep in mind any building layout of any of the places they could have brought her, which was a lot. She took an immediate right, now going in the same direction of the hallway she used to be traveling in. She took a second to roll up the legs of her jeans to sit right below her knees, giving her some amount of padding as she crawled along.
The vent then headed straight down before splitting. Kass glanced down the drop of five feet and sighed. She turned around, scooted backwards until she dropped her legs then torso down the vent. Her feet quietly met the metal of the lower part of the vent. She stood for a second to stretch then crouched back down. She went right this time, eventually meeting a dead end.
She looked out of the grill to see that she was only a few feet off of the ground. The room that led from the vent was a whole other story, it was one large room. No one was in it but she would be easily spotted. She was getting tired of the vents and decided to screw it and kicked at the grill, it easily popping out. She took a quick glance around and picked up the grill and threw it into the vent, like she had done before. She ran across the gargantuan room her sock-covered feet making a light padding noise across the floor. As she ran she looked around her and decided to go through a hall that she hoped led outside.
On her journey she had been thinking why she was doing this and she came up with a few reasons: one to show that she could one up a set of super powered individuals. Second, her little jaunt could be considered as an exploration or her own little personal tour of the building. The third and more serious reason: she wanted to find Dr. Kinner herself and get him to bring her back home. The first step to finding Dr. Kinner was to get out of this place.
The hall she ran into led to a set of doors that automatically opened for her and opened up to a large airship bay. Looking around, she recognized she was in The Mount. She smiled. She knew where she was, kind of, and knew the city wasn't too far off. She ran down the stairs, taking two at a time, leaping off of the steps, passing the last six. She was running now, knowing where her destination was. Sure she was going to have to climb down a mountain now, but she knew where she was going.
"Go ahead and stop her Sam," Batman said.
"Sure thing," Sam said with a grin before running away at super speed.
"Hey, there," A boy dressed in a yellow get-up similar to the Flash appeared in front of her.
She yelled in surprise and wasn't able to stop in time before she ran into the boy. They collided and fell to the ground.
"Real smooth, man," another, unrecognizable voice said.
When the two stopped rolling Kass untangled herself and got up and started running away.
"You should really stop trying to get away now, especially by running," the Kid Flash said.
"S-T-F-U!" She shouted, when he appeared in front of her again. She didn't stop running and shouldered him, knocking to the ground.
"Hey!" Kid Flash yelled.
There was a crash in front of her and she nearly lost her footing. Somebody ran forward and socked her in the stomach. She was thrown over the man's shoulder and he just stood there as she tried to catch her breath.
"You didn't hurt her, did you Superboy?" the same feminine voice as before asked.
"She's still alive," the boy said.
"Shit…," Kass breathed. "That hurt."
"What do you think you were doing?" sounded Batman's voice.
Superboy began walking, taking Kass up to wherever the others stood. She attempted to get out of his not-so-gentle grip and obviously failed.
"Kassidy, what were you doing?" Batman said.
"I was hoping to eventually find Dr. Kinner, and get back home!" Kass shouted.
Superboy started up the stairs Kass had raced down earlier.
"How did you even expect to get to him?" Batman questioned.
"I didn't care; I just want to get back home! The longer I wait the less likely I am to get back home," Kass said.
"Well, dumb move on your part. He's in prison right now," another voice said.
Superboy had finally made it up the stairs and put her back down on her feet. As soon as he did the girl fell to the ground. Superboy looked down at the girl Batman had told the team about and felt sorry for her. Neither of them had families at the moment, but the similarity between the two was a bit of a stretch. He held a hand out for the girl but she didn't see it, placing a hand to her head.
"Oh boy, it feels like I'm going to faint," Kass said.
"Maybe Flash was right," Kid Flash said as Kass fainted again.
Batman looked down at the girl. Either Flash was right, or all this fainting had to do with the dimension switch she went through earlier in the day. He walked over and scooped up the girl into his arms. He turned to the team.
"You are to keep watch on her now for the remainder of your day here, but keep your interactions to a minimum if possible," Batman said.
"Sure thing," Kid Flash said.
The others nodded and Batman walked on to bring the girl back to the med room.
The girl began to stir when he was halfway there. He picked up his pace, hoping she wouldn't wake up while she was still in his arms. He got the sense that she wasn't the type to let strangers be near this close to her as he was. As he walked he thought that he could 'adopt' her for the short while that it would take to get her back, or better put Douglass Tatman would.
o\/\/\/o
"You would do that?" Superman asked.
"Who else's cover would allow for a random girl to show up in their lives? The long lost relative bit is getting old," Batman said. "It's not like I don't have the room. The question would be how long will she be here?"
"I talked to the warden and will talking to the doctor on Friday. I also explained what happened to the governor and he actually agreed for some papers to be written up for her, some temporary I.D. until we can figure out a way to get her back. He was actually very responsive and didn't put up many questions or problems," Superman said.
"Are you going to make her age low enough that she can attend school?" Even if Batman did offer his hospitality to the girl, he didn't want her around 24/7 and able to snoop around the house.
"Her age will be 17. So we could possibly get her into a high-school as a senior. A two year age difference isn't a noticeable one. I'll be talking to her tomorrow to make her birthday in the legal papers the same as her actual one and I'll be telling her of our arrangements with Mr. Douglass Tatman," Superman said.
Batman smirked. "I'll have to tell Philip about this, it will be interesting to see what his reaction will be."
o\/\/\/o
Kass fully awoke back in the med room with half of the lights off. Probably that way so I'm more likely to try and go to sleep, Kass thought. She pulled herself up to rest on her elbows. She had a massive headache pounding in her head and didn't know why. It half felt like her body was being put through another vortex thingy. She lay herself back down and stared up at the ceiling. She felt horrible right now and it wasn't like she could get up and get herself some Advil or Tylenol.
She groaned in frustration and pain and turned onto her side, latching onto the soft pillow and snuggling into it. She pulled her legs up, turning herself into a little ball under the plain sheets. She reached down and pulled the socks off of her feet and threw them off into the room, figuring that she'd deal with them later.
There was a sound of a sigh that didn't come from Kass and she sat up, and actually looked around the room this time. Sitting by the door with green skin and red hair, was a girl. When the green skinned girl noticed that Kass finally knew she was there she stood up.
"Hello, I'm Miss. Martian. Do you need anything?" the girl said.
"Do you have anything for a migraine, something like an Advil? Or a Tylenol? I'm feeling kind of achy too," Kass said.
"Sure thing, I'll be right back with something for you," Miss. Martian said before leaving the room.
She made her way for the lounge, where she knew the others were relaxing after all of their training.
"Do we have anything called an Advil or Tylenol? Kass is complaining of a migraine and is feeling 'achy'," Miss. Martian said to the room.
They all looked up at her.
"Just give her a Venn," Robin said.
"OK," Miss. Martian said.
"She hasn't tried to get out yet has she?" Kid Flash asked.
Miss. Martian took a second to telepathically see if Kass was in fact was still in her room.
"Yes, she still is," Miss. Martian answered. "Artemis, do you want to come with me?"
Artemis got up off of the couch. "Sure," She said, and walked over to Miss. Martian.
They both walked back to the med room. Artemis stayed outside in the hall, looking into the room through the window in the door. Miss. Martian went to the cabinets along one of the walls and searched one till she came up with the medicine. She poured out two white pills into her hand and gave them to Kass. She walked back over to grab a cup and some water from the sink.
"Thanks Miss. Martian, even though we both know that isn't your real name," Kass said with a smile. She put the two pills into her mouth and took a gulp of water, swallowing the pills down. She drained the rest of the water that was in the paper cup. Then Kass handed the empty cup to Miss. Martian who had her hand held out for it. Kass lay herself back down on the bed mumbling a thank you to the room. She heard Miss. Martian move around the room, then settle back down in a chair.
"Can you turn off the lights?" She asked, not getting up to look at Miss. Martian.
Kass heard her get up and all the lights went out. Kass let out a content sigh and closed her eyes. She heard the door open and close.
Miss. Martian stood by Artemis, watching her from the hallway. Some of the light from the hall was able to light up the room well enough to make out Kass's curled up form.
"Do you think we should tell Batman about her condition? She was fine before, just fainting a lot," Miss. Martian said, starting to grow concerned about the girl.
"Well she did have that little tumble with KF and Superboy did get her in the stomach when he picked her up," Artemis said. "I'm sure she'll be fine tomorrow."
"Alright," Miss. Martian said.
o\/\/\/o
When Kass began to grow hungry she decided it was worth chancing her headache, which had begun to fade.
Aqualad was watching her when Robin walked up beside him.
"Morgan told me to come and tell you that dinner is ready and to bring Kass with us," Robin said.
"Batman said to keep contact to a minimum with her," Aqualad said.
"If it was applicable, our main task was to keep watch on her," Robin said, turning to look into the room.
Both boys watched curiously as Kass jerkily sat up and clumsily got out of bed. She hurried over to the wall across from the door. They watched as she ran over to the counter and hunched over. Kass clamped a hand over her mouth hoping her hardest that she would in fact not throw up. Her eyes darted over the counter looking for the sink; she knew Miss. Martian had used it to get her water. She didn't and was thankful for it being a false alarm. She looked up to see Aqulad and Robin enter the room.
"Miss Martian made some dinner, you can come join us if you like," said Robin.
Kass reached a hand to the faucet and turned on the water. She breathed in a few deep breaths before cupping her hands, filling them with some water and rinsing out her mouth. She did this a few more times before turning around. She took in the two boys and easily put names to the outfits that they wore.
"I'd love to," Kass said.
o\/\/\/o
Kass walked into the kitchen with her eyes squinted against the bright lights.
"So you're going to have dinner with us?" Miss. Martian said excitedly.
"Yes, but I'd give her half a plate," Robin said, going to the cabinets.
"Why?" Miss. Martian asked.
"My stomach isn't feeling very well right now… Just for reference, where is the closest bathroom?" Kass said.
Miss. Martian pointed to the hall they had just come out of. "First door on the right is the girl's room."
"Thanks," Kass said.
"Maybe you could take a shower when you go in there again," Artemis said, scrunching up her nose.
Kass turned to the blonde. "I do not plan on going and throwing up, Artemis."
Artemis' brows pulled together. "How do you know my name?"
"You're hero name," Kass said. "I know a little about you, girl. I know that you are basically the replacement for Red Arrow and you probably aren't Green Arrow's niece." There was a beat of complete silence. "Yeah, surprised I know anything? So am I." Kass walked over to the island and sat down in one of the four stools, on the complete opposite end of Kid Flash.
"I talked with Flash, he said that you would know who we were but nothing beyond that," Kid Flash said. "What you said was pretty specific."
"I'd say pretty basic, I don't even know how she and Green Arrow got together," Kass said, leaving out the Cheshire Cat part, hoping that it wasn't true and not fully understanding what it meant herself.
"It's just so weird!" Kid Flash said randomly. "You know who we are, yet we have no clue who you are."
"Don't worry it's not just you," I said. Kass pulled up her right leg and laid it in on the table. She unrolled the pant-leg for the other's to see her intricate doodle. "See, Red Arrow," She said as she pointed to the words written on her jeans, "In my world his 'secret identity' is Roy Harper and eventually takes the name Arsenal when he is older. I know a whole lot of shit about this hot redhead than any of you Superheroes combined. Red Arrow is the shit, and so is Hawkeye-" Kass took the moment to place her other leg on the table, placing her hand on her left leg, "-they don't have any powers except for being kick-ass, well I guess there is Batman, Robin, Artemis, and Batgirl, but besides that-"
"Sorry, but you're wrong on one of those names, there isn't any Batgirl," Robin interrupted.
"Yet," Kass said.
Robin smirked and settled into the stool next to Kid Flash. He was happy to know that she didn't know everything and had been incorrect in her statement.
"Now don't get so comfortable there Robin, it's only because it hasn't happened yet. Batgirl/Oracle is the – commissioner's daughter," Kass said.
"Well, I hope you feel better soon," Miss. Martian said, changing the direction of the conversation.
"I feel alright, just not one hundred percent. I'm guessing it has to do with the dimension change, which would be the best guess I have," Kass said. She slid her legs off the counter and sat up straight.
"Well, you have your dinner with us, then you go back to your room," Aqualad said.
"It's not really my room, I'm just sleeping there for the night," Kass said. She looked over to Aqualad, studying him. "Why do you want me out so quickly, Aqualad? Did you get some sort of order to not interact with me?"
"Sorry, I'm late for dinner!" A boy said, running into the kitchen. "Wow, never thought I could possibly be late for dinner."
"Beast Boy?" Kass said surprised.
"That's my name, don't wear it out," Beast Boy said with a grin.
"Wha-? How?" Kass said, confused. She had thought she was hanging out with the Young Justice team, apparently she was not. "You're Be-… Is there anyone else not here?"
"Cyborg is giving himself a tune-up, but besides him we're all here now," Kid Flash said.
"Hmm." Kass took a bite of a Saltine and began to speculate. So there was Superboy, Aqualad, Miss. Martian, Artemis, Kid Flash, Robin, Beast Boy and Cyborg who made up this team. She only saw it as strange because she had begun to think after taking her 'tour' of the Mount that she had been put into a dimension that was the equivalent to the TV cartoon Young Justice.
"Now can we have our dinner?" Kid Flash asked Miss. Martian.
Miss. Martian smiled. "Yes we can." Miss. Martian was glad to have Sam as a food tester, he would eat anything, so she wouldn't have to throw away any of her mess-ups. She had made a small dish of tonight's dinner earlier in the day for him, and he said it was great. She was getting the real hang of things, and didn't mind at all when she made dinner, even if she was falling into the stereotypical role of the tamed female. She knew and they all knew she could do well in a fight.
Miss. Martian went to the stove and finished up the preparations for dinner. She drained the pasta and left it to sit while she got the Italian bread from the oven. Soon enough everyone was quiet as they ate. A light conversation was maintained as the team, and Kass, ate.
Cyborg looked down to Kass. "Are you feeling any better?"
"I don't have the urge to throw up. I think the moment has passed," Kass said. "I don't know why that happened then, ya know?" Her eyes flickered over to Cyborg. "I mean if you think about it, I should've been throwing up shortly after I got into this dimension, not hours later."
"Maybe your system is getting used to it one by one. Like only until one system regulated and readjusted itself after your jump, and only then could your stomach begin to process things," Cyborg suggested.
"Kind of like a ladder of systems?" Kass mused.
"Yeah," Cyborg said.
"I guess that's one possible explanation," Kass said.
At the same time, the team was having their own conversation via telepathic conversation thanks to Miss. Martian.
OK, all of that is understandable, but I really want to know what her power is going to be. I mean, sure, we all hope she would eventually be able to go home, but if she had this really awesome offensive power she could be a great addition to the team, Beast Boy said.
Not to mention that it would mean another hot girl on the team, Kid Flash said.
Beast Boy smiled, just what I was thinking, man.
Not to mention that she is way older than the two of you, Artemis put in.
So? She's from a completely different dimension, maybe we can convince her that being with a guy four years younger is normal, Kid Flash said.
Good luck with that, Artemis said.
Let's just accomplish the task we were given at the moment and then move on from there, Aqualad said.
"Is there anything to do around here?" Kass said.
"We just come here for training. Miss. Martian, Super Boy, Cyborg and Beast Boy are the ones who live here," Robin said.
"What time is it?" Kass asked Cyborg.
"Five thirty," he answered.
Kass sighed. "Well its ten o'clock in my dimension. I guess that is a good enough reason for me to go to bed right now." Kass stood up; stretching her back once she was up. "Wait, does a day still consist of 24 hours?"
"Yes," Cyborg answered.
"Well, I'll see ya guys later, if not. It was nice meeting ya'll." She placed her cleaned up plate and glass into the sink.
Kass walked off down the hallway making a stop in the bathroom before heading to 'her' room.
o\/\/\/o Later that day on the ride back to the bat cave o\/\/\/o
"So Robin, you know that the length of time Kass will be staying with the League is unknown. We aren't even sure if we will be able to get her back," Batman said.
"Yeah… So what?" Robin said.
"I offered to give her a place to stay until the League is able to do so," Batman said.
"What?!" Robin yelled.
"She needs to stay with a League member just in case she begins to develop her powers. We can't just put her up in someone's house when she may accidentally hurt somebody," Batman said.
"But who says that you have to be the one taking in some random girl. What about any of the other League members?"
"Robin, I offered to give her a room. I expect you to get along with her until she is returned home or another suitable place is found," Batman said.
Robin slumped back into his seat, casting his eyes downward. "If she can even be sent back," he mumbled, knowing well himself that her chances of getting back home was slim to none. In the very back of his mind he did wonder if Kass would be able to connect the dots between Batman and Douglass Tatman. If she was able to get back or not would leave Robin in a good mood or not, respectively.
A/N: So yes this did start out as me but in the end she just has my name and hair color that is where the similarities end. I only wish I was a good drawer and that I met the real Batman and not the one dressed up as him at Six Flags. So if enough people like this story I'll post up other chapters if not the alternate version of the main character not knowing where they were (much less Mary-Sue).
On another note I added the Teen Titans bit because I feel like Beast Boy and Kid Flash could be really good friends because they are alike. Cyborg is in there to be bros with Aqualad. =]