Phoenix Rising
Young justice fanfic

A/N: Hey guys sorry but I have officially gotten sucked back into the DC verse lol. I hope you like this new fic, Enjoy!

CHAPTER 1

The petite dark haired girl cowered back in her cell as she watched the masked men melt down more of the strange glowing red or green rocks, They seemed to scan curiously through the many lab animals before choosing a small Monitor lizard with black scales, They injected the scarlet liquid into the reptile, and watched in fascination as it squirmed and seized before going limp with a pained screech.

The girl watched in horror as they simply took notes before moving on, making a fresh batch of the blood colored fluid. When it was done the masked scientists turned to her, her brown eyes widened and she pressed herself against the wall farthest from the door.

"Now now, my dear, this won't hurt for long…" the scientist who had spoken motioned two of the larger men to hold her as he grabbed her arm and injected her with the glowing red substance. She screamed and a strange combination of burning hot pain and fury rolled through her coursing with her very blood, it was nearly unbearable and she could literally feel her temperature rising like a boiling blush covering her whole body, she felt the men release her with surprised yelps, but she couldn't tell why, couldn't open her eyes. Everything was so hot… then nothing.

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The dark haired girl blinked her burning eyes open and struggled to her feet, gasping when she saw the lab she had kept been in… The walls and ceiling were all scorched and charred, the floor littered with the burnt corpses of the cruel scientists and lab animals alike. She stumbled to her feet and out of her half melted cell. She caught a look at herself in some reflective glass and stared for many long moments in utter shock, her once short pitch black hair was now hip length and combination of bright red, ginger, blond and black and her previously brown eyes were a creepy amber color, her skin had gone from naturally tan to a Pale creamy white, and she had strange almost tribal- like markings on her arms and legs, She half-turned and saw that they covered her back and shoulders as well.

She leaned forward on a metal exam table bracing herself on her hands and felt the panic set in, What had they done to her?! She felt that odd heat again in her hands and arms and saw the black tattoos glow gold as her hands melted through the table; she jumped back in alarm and stared at the melted hand prints in the steel surface, then looked at her hands.

There was a loud clatter behind her, startling her from her shock. She turned and stared in surprise at the long black reptile from before trying weakly to pull its self from the rubble burying its cage. She went over to it, but it only hissed at her. It stopped in surprise when she hissed back, going still when she moved the larger chunks of half melted metal with ease. She scooped the arm length black reptile up and slowly made her way to the damaged elevator finally feeling her fatigue. She stumbled into the wall and smacked at the elevator button, slumping inside when the door slid open. She pushed the up button and prayed that she would get out before she passed out again, the door slid open again and she came face to face with a group of armed guards. Her eyes widened and she ducked under the reaching arms of the first one and slid between the legs of the one behind him, before bolting clumsily to the Exit. She yelped when she felt something sharp stab painfully into her neck and she ripped it out, not stopping even for a moment.

She could hear the men running after her, chasing her into the surrounding fields, the dizziness and exhaustion from before intensifying from whatever had been in that dart. She stumbled to her knees almost dropping the black reptile who hissed softly, weakly, at the men surrounding them. She felt panic begin to fill her again as her heart beat shot through the roof. Suddenly she felt that heat and fury rush through her again, only this time it didn't hurt. Then there were bluish-white flames everywhere surrounding her in a protective circle fending off the men and catching the dry grass in the process. She clutched the Monitor lizard closer and listened to the pained and terrified screams as the familiar blackness crept into her vision and she slipped back into blissful unconsciousness.

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Superman stared around the scorched field not sure what to think, he turned to look at Batman. "What exactly are we looking for?"

Batman slanted his masked eyes towards the man of steel, "Whatever started this fire and killed all those people. This was a Luthor Corp. Facility so I wouldn't be surprised if whatever it was his own fault anyway…"

Superman nodded and took to the sky to get a better view of the crispy field, He signaled to Batman when he caught sight of a small form in the center of an un-charred ring of grass. Batman was there shortly after he landed and they approached the small person together. When they were at the edge of the grass they saw that it was a young girl, probably around fifteen, with long black streaked flame colored hair and pale tattooed skin. She was dressed in a torn, burnt and bloody hospital gown and had some kind of small black reptile curled in her arms.

They stepped forward into the grass and the reptile shifted, opening its slitted yellow eyes and letting out a loud hiss at the sight of them. It crawled out of the girls arms and quite suddenly grew to the size of a small horse wrapping part of its body and all of its long tail around the girl protectively. The Hero's simply stared in shock as the reptile opened its now gaping maw, showing its large intimidating teeth and releasing a terrifying high pitched screech, waking the teen it was curled around.

The girl yelped in surprise before calming and seeming to take in her surroundings, she realized that the small lizard she had saved was missing and that the large snarling one wrapped around her now must be it. That weird red stuff must have done something to him just like it had to her. She placed one hand on the lizard's great neck and it turned one large yellow eye to look at her. She opened her arms and it shrunk down to a more manageable size before crawling into her arms and wrapping around her shoulders.

She turned warily to look at the costumed men and they stared back, one looking grim and straight faced and the other looking worried and a little confused. "W-who are y-you?" She asked after a long moment, stumbling over her words, her voice was hoarse and cracked from disuse.

Superman moved closer, kneeling in front of the girl, "I'm Superman, Can you tell us who you are, what happened here?"

The girl blinked her amber eyes and looked confused, "I-I d-don't know, don't remember my name… I'm not s-sure I had one…" Superman and Batman exchanged a look, "The masked people… t-they were doing something w-with these glowing r-red rocks, the melted them and injected us with it…" She winced and subconsciously reached up to rub at the reptiles head, "I-it bb-burned, so hot, and when I woke up every one was dead but us, things were melted and it smelled terrible. I just w-wanted to get out…" she whimpered and curled her arms around her knees pulling them to her chest. Superman reflexively reached out to comfort her only to be hissed at by the black lizard who grew some to appear more threatening, the girl didn't even seem to notice the added weight, the lizard rubbed his scaly head against the side of her face and she smiled a little petting him.

Batman raised an eyebrow, as far as he knew reptiles did not generally act like large house cats… he looked at superman and he seemed to be thinking something similar. Superman cleared his throat and drew her attention He held out his hand and she stared at it nervously, "Come with us, we can take you somewhere safe."

She looked at the reptile the field around her biting her lip, "O-okay…" she took his hand and he helped her to her feet, picking her up a moment later when it looked like her legs wouldn't support her.

Superman turned to Batman, "I'll meet you at the cave." Batman nodded and left the field.

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The girl sat on a steel exam table in the Bat-Cave staring boredly at the large computer screen, her Lizard whom she had decided to name Jett, curled next to her. she had let them take a blood sample and they had scanned her finger prints.

The computer that was searching for her fingerprints let out a loud beep and the girl hopped off the table, Jett in her arms and walked over to the caped crusader as he opened her file, in the file was a picture of a black haired little girl around five years old with big brown eyes and tan skin.

That was her! She vaguely remembered that picture being taken. She looked down and started to read her information:

NAME: Kirra Lynn Simmons
DOB: 4/13/1996
Status: Orphan, Missing…

The girl, Kirra stopped reading after that. She wasn't sure how to feel, she was 15, she knew her name… but she didn't have parents… and didn't have a home.

Alfred and Batman shared a look after they finished reading, the file said she had witnessed her parent torture and murder at the age of eight and had gone practically catatonic from shock shortly after being found, then had gone missing not even a week later.

Batman sighed and rubbed a hand over his cowl, He wasn't sure what to do. She had gone through something very similar to what he had, but she clearly didn't remember it. That heaped together with her strange pet and assumed superpowers… He couldn't very well shove her off on to children's services… "Alfred set up a bedroom for Kirra and see if you can get a hold of my attorney."

Kirra looked up from her resumed seat on the Exam Table. "You're letting me stay here?"

Bat man gave her a gruff nod pulling off his cowl, "My name is Bruce Wayne, in public or at home that is what you can call me. If I'm suited up or later on if you decide you want to work with the league, it is Batman and ONLY Batman." Kirra nodded seriously and smiled. "We're going to get you wash away hair dye as well and some color contacts, so you'll look like your picture in public-"

The rest of his speech was cut off by a fiery blur as he was hugged tightly. "Thank you Bruce…" Batman stared at her for a moment before patting her wild fiery hair in an awkwardly affectionate manner. She released him and waved goodbye to Superman before following Alfred out of the bat cave.

"Nice one Bats." Superman smirked at him and Bruce gave him an annoyed growl. "What are you gonna tell Dick you know how possessive he is of you and your free time…"

Batman shook his head, "I'll let them meet. Dick is a good kid, He'll make the right choice."

Superman nodded and left the cave without another word.

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Kirra blinked and hugged the small Tree Monitor to her chest, "Is this what home is supposed to feel like Jett?" The reptile tipped its head and hissed softly at her. The flame haired girl bit her lip and looked around the large room, suddenly feeling far to exposed. She felt her heart beat pick up as she looked nervously at the large windows and open empty space. She gasped when she felt herself heat up, panic setting in when she tried to keep from losing control. She screamed when her bedcovers burst into flames. She threw herself across the room and curled into a ball against the far wall, dropping Jett in the process. The lizard was growing to the size of a dog and at her side in moments nudging her still glowing arms from her face, and flicking his tongue over her burning hot cheek.

Bruce rushed in still in batman garb and quickly removed and flattened his cape over the flames dancing on Kirra's duvet. He knelt in front of the hysterical girl ignoring that the heat from her skin had burnt off most of the remaining hospital gown. He grabbed her arms and she wailed, flailing, trying to make him let go, "N-no! stop DON'T TOUCH ME ! I'll burn you! Please!" Bruce flinched when he realized he could almost feel her heat through his gloves.

"Calm down Kirra, NOW!" Kirra literally froze in his arms letting out a whimper and slumping a moment later, her skin cooling and sobbing into his chest.

"Sorry, S-so Sorry… I didn't mean t-to…" She whimpered, through her softening sobs.

Bruce shushed her and awkwardly pet her hair, She calmed and he stepped away pulling his cape from the scorched bed and draping it around her shoulders Clearing his throat uncomfortably, "We um we should probably find you some heat proof clothes… and some metal furniture wouldn't hurt either…"

Kirra blinked big wet amber eyes at batman hugging his cape around her, "You're n-not mad?"

"I can't very well expect you to be able to control new strange powers overnight without any training can I?" He gave the teen a serious stare, "But we're gonna have to work at this, you can't go having panic attacks over every little thing and making things spontaneously combust…" Kirra nodded totally agreeing and Batman nodded in return "Now we have some where we need to go and we need to get you dressed It's a good thing your small you can probably wear some of Dick's clothes until we can get you your own." He led Kirra to the bedroom across the hall and dug through a drawer handing her a loose, hooded red shirt and a pair of black cargo pants before leaving her to change in peace.

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They were in the car Bruce driving for once, "where are we going?"

The Billionaire glanced in the rearview mirror briefly to see the girl, "To pick up Dick from school then to get you some temporary clothes, I'm going to have to order some more sturdy stuff made of Kevlar or leather later this week."

Kirra nodded and stared in awe as the pulled up to a massive mansion-like school. She watched out the window seeing a Dark haired boy of about 13 waving to a taller red headed girl and running towards their car. The boy slid in next to her before looking at her with an expression of total confusion, he looked at Bruce in the driver's seat, "…Bruce?"

Again Bruce glanced at the teens in the rear view mirror, checking Kirra's expression before focusing on Dick, "Dick meet your new sister Kirra, I should be filling out her paperwork tonight." His eyes turned serious and Dick's widened a bit more, "Do NOT upset her she might accidently blow us up."

Bruce turned his eyes turned back to the road and Dick turned to the girl next to him. He wasn't particularly happy about this turn of events but he had no intentions what so ever of being cruel to the new girl. "You have Powers?" Kirra bit her lip and looked down at the small reptile cuddled in her arms before nodding. "What can you do?"

Kirra shook her head and Bruce spoke up for her, "She's Pyrokenetic."

Dick grinned a little at his soon to be sister, "Cool." Kirra's amber eyes widened and she looked at Dick with shock before a small smile stole across her face as well. "Is that your Pet?" Dick asked blue eyes focusing on the black reptile.

Kirra shook her head almost violently surprising both men in the car, "Jett's my Partner. We were made for each other."

Bruce gave her a curious stare in the mirror, "What do you mean Kirra?"

Kirra held up her hand showing naturally black fingernails she focused on them and they sharpened and elongated into black reptilian claws. "The always injected us with the same stuff and one time they put his blood in me and mine in him, He can breathe fire when he's bigger and he's immune to my heat."

They both nodded and she cuddled her partner with a small smile. Bruce parked the car and the trio climbed out walking over to the small shop with a closed sign. When they reached the door it opened to reveal an older woman with a smile on her face, "Hello Bruce, Is this the girl?"

"That's Right Martha; I'm going to be ordering some special fabric though for her clothes."

The older woman smiled and took Kirra's hand "Let's get you measured and then you can show me what clothes you like so I know what to make for you when your cloth arrives."

Kirra glanced at Bruce, who nodded at her and motioned at her to go on ahead. "So I have a sister?" Dick raised an eyebrow, crossing his arms over his chest.

Bruce sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, "I couldn't just send her away after we found her Dick. She has some nasty memory gaps, blocked out emotional Trauma, and untrained experimental superpowers… Her parents were tortured and murdered. I'm worried about how she'll handle that alone... She almost set her room on fire just from a small panic attack. She needs training, and stability and most of all she needs to know she's not alone in the world. We both know what that's like…"

Dick was quiet for a long moment as he watched Kirra move around the shop with Martha, Jett wrapped around her shoulders and a smile growing on her face. He did know what needing someone was like… He'd had Bruce when he needed someone most, didn't this girl deserve the same chance… Kirra laughed loudly when Martha held up some horribly yellow and lacy creation and Dick smiled, he was going to make sure she laughed like that more often.

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TBC…