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A Matter of Perspective
by: Eternity Bites
Chapter 1 - Luck
Luck, I thought, was all a matter of perspective. The only good thing that happened to me in all of my time on earth was completely by chance. I was found one night by the hive and they took me back to the H.A.E.Y.P. It was the luckiest thing that had ever happened to me. Finally there was a place I wouldn't be looked at oddly, a place where metahumans weren't 'freaks'. Luck, as I said is all a matter of perspective. I imagine the titans didn't find my addition to the Hive academy a lucky thing.
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My first day at the academy was predictable. Everyone was trying to pull a fast one on the new kid but most gave up quickly, after eliciting no response. I had breezed through all my morning classes because my love of books gave me a lot of knowledge. My hood covering my face, I silently made my way to the cafeteria. After getting my food I sat down at an empty table and pulled out a thick spell book written in azarathean. I was flipping through the pages when I was interrupted.
"Hey Newbie, that's our table." A nasally voice sneered behind me.
As I turned from my volume I noticed that the lunch room had suddenly gone silent. No one wanted to miss a minute of the action I guessed. I looked at the three in front of me. These must be the criminal gang I once saw on the news. What had been they're names? Ah yes, Gizmo, Mammoth, and Jinx.
Gizmo, the boy who had talked to me, was hovering a few feet above the ground courtesy of the backpack he was wearing. He was a small, bald boy in a green jump suit. Next to him was a girl of average size with bright pink hair. Jinx's locks were pulled up into two horns and her rose coloured cat eyes were in slits. Standing behind her was a large teen. Mammoth was aptly named. He stood, towering above many in the cafeteria glaring down at me. He had hair covering most of his face.
"Hey we're talking to you!" Mammoth's harsh voice bellowed.
"Yes?" I asked in my signature monotone.
"You're sitting at our table." Jinx said in a dangerous voice.
"I heard you the first time." I told her without a hint of emotion in my voice.
"So why aren't you moving skud ball? You got sludge for brains?" Gizmo asked me.
"One, skud isn't a word," The entire academy was looking at me now, as if I had a death wish. I imagined it wasn't common for anyone to stand up these three. "And two, I think you're going to need to get a new table."
They looked at me confusedly before jumping slightly when the table collapsed on account of its missing legs. I grabbed my book and got up silently. Mammoth looked as he was about to charge at me but Jinx put up one hand to stop him.
"Don't bother." Jinx told them and shook her head slightly. "Let's just see how she does in combat practice."
The large teen pouted but complied. Amusement sparked in my eyes as I made my way to my dorm to meditate. The team was probably going to pull some complex manoeuvre, hoping they'd be able to make me look incompetent and unqualified for the academy. If I could laugh I probably would have. Let them think they're smart, I thought to myself.
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My suspicions proved to be true. We stood atop a large hexagonal pillar at the beginning of combat practice and as soon as the starting buzzer went Jinx yelled to Gizmo and Mammoth to perform the Alpha manoeuvre. I rolled my eyes from underneath my hood. I had already picked it from Jinx's head and found a hole that I could slide into easily.
The course didn't prove to be much of a challenge to my powers. I fought effortlessly alongside Jinx, Mammoth, and Gizmo. The trio seemed a bit shocked to see that I had fluidly entered myself into the pattern. We passed the finish line and the headmistress descended upon us. She was clapping in a slow manner.
"Good job." The headmistress said in a flat voice.
"Raven?" I looked up, seemingly uninterested, as the headmistress called on me.
"Meet Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth. They are the Hives top students." She told me.
"We've met." I deadpanned.
"Very well, I will leave you four to get acquainted." With that said the headmistress left.
I turned to look at the Hives top students. They were all glaring openly at me. First I had stood up to them in front of their peers and then I stole their lunch table. They obviously hated me. I let out a small sigh before starting.
"I do not care what the headmistress said; I have no desire to become acquainted with anyone. You all dislike me and I couldn't care less." I told them impassively.
"Is that your only expression?" Jinx said incisively as I turned to walk away.
Looking over my shoulder I told her yes in a flat voice and left the room.
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The next few weeks passed by quickly. I trained with Jinx, Gizmo, and Mammoth and that was the only interaction I had with them. I had taken to spending lunch in my room where I could meditate or read in peace. I excelled in all my classes and found myself quickly growing bored, well more bored than usual.
It was on that day that I was cornered by the HTS (the Hive Top Students as I had taken to calling them) in the hallway.
"Hey there birdie." Mammoth said, towering over me.
Jinx reached behind her and whipped something out in an exaggerated gesture. I looked at the device she held in her hand. It was a honeycomb shaped communicator. Jinx threw it to me and I plucked it out of the air easily.
"Congratulations. You've proved your worth. Welcome to the team." Jinx told me.
"Thanks." I said nodding my head slightly.
"There's a briefing in my room tonight, got it pie head? Don't be late." Gizmo told me, clearly sore about my being let on the team.
I raised an eyebrow but of course they couldn't see it with my midnight blue cloak covering my eyes. "I'll be there." I told them apathetically. "Now if you don't mind, I have to go study for my theorem of mayhem test."
As I walked off toward my room I granted myself a small smile. I was finally a part of a team, accepted. Hopefully it would be more exciting than laying about my room. I read up on my new team members after I was in the safety of my room. They seemed to enjoy robbing banks and jewellery stores. I sighed quietly. At least I'll get out of the academy, I thought to myself.
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The plan was extremely simple. I teleport the four of us to the Jump city bank and Gizmo disables the security. I could see about a dozen ways our plot could go wrong but felt it better not to speak up. I didn't need to be an empath to know that Gizmo didn't like or trust me. I felt it best not to push him over the edge by pointing out the flaws.
A giant black bird emerged from the floor and left to reveal Jinx, Gizmo, Mammoth, and I right inside the security room.
"Nice driving." Jinx told me. I acknowledged her compliment only with a nod of my head.
By now Gizmo had made his way over to the bank's computer and was hacking into it easily.
"Gizmo, are you in yet?" Jinx asked rather impatiently and Gizmo snorted.
"Yeah these pit-sniffers have no idea what they're doing. It's almost like they want to have all their goods lifted from them." Gizmo said sneering in his whiny voice.
"Alright Team Hive, rob 'em blind." Jinx said and we sprang into action.
I moved up to a stack of golden bars and after muttering my mantra a few million dollars worth of gold disappeared in a flash of black. I moved over to where my teammates were working and soon their piles were back in the dorms as well.
I was preparing to teleport the four of us back to the academy when the wall behind us was blasted apart. Knowing instinctively that it would be the Teen titans I swept myself into the shadows where I could see without being seen as I was instructed to do earlier. My squad opted for my entrance to be more on the dramatic side. It seemed they were very into theatrics.
"Welcome titans." Jinx said in a voice sounding a lot like a purr. "We've been hoping you would drop by."
"Cut to the chase Jinx, what do you want?" Robin, their leader, said in a brusque tone.
"Titans, meet Raven." Jinx said with a flourish and a bow.
I took that as my cue and phased into the floor, emerging a few feet in front of them. The green boy, Beast boy was his name if I remember correctly, jumped about three feet into the air and let out a high pitched squeal. Behind me I could hear Jinx, Mammoth, and Gizmo laughing hysterically. My face was still in its emotionless mask as I stared down their leader.
"You must be Boy Blunder." I said in a bored tone. It must have set him off because quite suddenly they all bounded into battle at his cry.
"Azarath Mentrion Zinthos." I said in a soft voice that was full of power and we all disappeared into floor, leaving what I imagined to be four very stumped titans.
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