Summary: Olympic AU, none of the season 1 team knows each other outside of fighting crime. None of them are friends; in fact they all kind of hate each other, thus they don't know each other's secret identity. All of them are competing in the 2012 Summer Olympics because they have the skills to compete well, without using their powers (they wear power inhibitors so that they aren't tempted). Pairings: AquaRocket, SuperMartian, Chalant, Spitfire, RoyxOC.
A/N: For the team members who don't wear masks i.e. Superboy, Aqualad, Zatanna and Rocket basically none of them know each other very well and Superboy is less likely to be around after a fight and is always moving during one so they don't see him enough to I.D. him in civvies. Aqualad, in this story, is able to use some Atlantean magic to hide his tattoos and his gills, the power inhibitor prevents him from breathing from them, and so they don't know who he is also. In this story Zatanna just wears a black domino mask OK, because I don't think she would be the kind of person who would just avoid everyone during and after a fight like Superboy might. And for Rocket, her 'mask' covers her overall face shape and she basically has her glow/power things always up when she is around the other 'sidekicks'(for the sake of this story). The power inhibitors are little things they can wear during their events, like goggles for Kaldur or a necklace for KF, so they are not noticeable. Oh yeah, the story is mainly told from the OC's point of view but may switch between the different members of the team.
'There it is,' Suki thought, 'my home for the next 6 months.' The Olympic training facility in Colorado Springs was huge, there were separate dorms for the different age groups, and she was staying in the dorm for the Olympic competitors ages 18-25, the young adults. There was an aquatic center for swimming, a shooting range for both archery and rifle shooting, and two sports centers, each with multiple gyms and sport courts inside. She had access to any of these facilities if she wanted, but as a judo fighter she didn't think she would be using some of them that often.
She adjusted her ring, making sure that the telltale symbol was facing the underside of her hand, so that it was as unlikely to be seen as possible. After making sure she had completed her procedure for hiding her identity, she took a deep breath and walked into her dorm building.
Dick Grayson looked around the room at the people he would be living with for the next 6 months until the Olympics started. A black-haired girl with medium dark skin had just walked into the room and sat next to the blond girl who was already there. There were two red-haired boys, one other black-haired boy, and a blond boy, all of them looked older than him. There was also another two other black-haired girls, one pale the other with cocoa skin, and a red-haired girl, the pale black-haired girl was the only one who looked about his age.
Just then, one of the red-haired boys, 'Wally West', Dick remembered he had introduced himself, walked over to the new girl and said,
"Hey babe, are you from Tennessee? Because you're the only ten I see. So how 'bout telling me your name?" Dick shook his head at Wally's idiotic pick up line and then at his idiocy in general because the girl then stood up, looked at Wally, and flipped him. The blond who had been sitting next to her laughed; Wally had hit on her as well when she first came in.
"It's Suki Santiago, I'm from Albuquerque not Tennessee, and if you hit on me like that again I will make the pain in your back the least of your problems." She said, bending down so he couldn't pretend not to hear her. Then she went back to talking to the blond.
"It hurts so good," he mumbled as he came back to sit by Dick.
"Dude, that was not smart, she's the number one female Judo fighter in the U.S. You were just asking to get your butt kicked." Dick snickered at the look on his face.
"Well how was I supposed to know that? She looked like she was a gymnast or something," Wally said, clearly upset that he had just gotten his butt handed to him by a girl. Dick was about to comment on this when their dorm advisor, James Brown, walked in.
"OK everyone, listen up, here are your room assignments: in the left wing, room one is Kaldur Curry and Roy Harper," The older red-haired boy and the blond boy nodded to each other, "room two is Richard Grayson and Wally West and room three is Conner Kent, alone since there are five boys and we can't have you sharing a room with one of the girls since they have the same problem. " the other black haired boy nodded his understanding, "So in room one in the right wing is Artemis Crock and Zatanna Zatara," the blond girl next to Suki and the pale black-haired girl looked at each other, "room two is Raquel Ervin and Suki Santiago," The black girl looked over at Suki and they smiled at each other, "and room three is Megan Morse. Alright, feel free to go settle in and dinner is at 6:30 in the dining room down the hall."
The room was nice, but plain. There were two twin beds, two night tables, two dressers, and a TV. It looked like whoever was in charge wanted the rooms to look as symmetrical as possible because there was one of everything on each side of the room except for the TV, which was in the center.
"It's good to see you again, Raquel" Suki said to the other girl once she had put her bags down.
"Yeah, it's been, what, two years since we saw each other at that competition in Dakota?"
"Yeah," Suki said replied remembering that trip. She had gone to Dakota City, first and foremost, for her judo competition, but had ended up having to protect the city, with Rocket and Icon, from Holocaust and his gang. She should have expected Rocket showing up when there was trouble; after all it was her city. Suki really hated that girl, she didn't really know why, but she knew Rocket got on her nerves way to often for it to be accidental. "That was a really interesting tournament weekend. Do you remember how Rocket, Icon, and that green lantern girl fought that gang?"
"Yeah, I don't know why Emerald Torch was there though. I guess she was just flying through and thought she needed to help." Raquel said, bitterly. "I mean she helped, but I think Rocket and Icon could have handled it themselves."
"Well, I'm not gonna argue with you, it's your hometown not mine." She said laughing inside. 'If only Raquel knew she was talking to Emerald Torch right now. I wonder what she would do.'
"Come on it's almost six-thirty; we should head down for dinner." Raquel said putting her suitcase under her bed.
"Right behind you." They left the room and headed downstairs to the dining room.
Dinner was simple; spaghetti and meatballs, and they spent it getting to know one another. For example: Dick and Artemis learned that they were both from Gotham City and Megan and Conner were both from Happy Harbor. Kaldur was from Florida and was a swimmer, Roy was from Star City and, like its heroes, he was an archer, along with Artemis, Wally was from Central City and ran in track and field, Zatanna was from New York and, with Megan, was an equestrian, Dick was a gymnast, and Raquel was in judo with Suki. They talked long after they had all finished dinner and only went back to their rooms to sleep when Brown told them to.
Suki waited until Raquel went to sleep to leave the room. They were on the second floor so if she wanted to leave she would either have to activate her ring now and fly out the nearest window or go downstairs and risk getting caught sneaking out. She chose the former since she didn't want to have to come up with an explanation as to why she was sneaking around the dorm at midnight. So she went to the closest window, opened it, and activated her ring, changing into Emerald Torch. She had updated the Green Lantern uniform to fit her style more, so she had white knee-high boots, a white skirt, white, fingerless gloves, and a white leather jacket, a green shirt with the white Green Lantern symbol, and a green domino mask. She flew out of the newly opened window and started to patrol the city, little did she know she wasn't the only hero out in Colorado Springs that night.
Red Arrow jumped across to another rooftop on his patrol of Colorado Springs. So far the town had been quiet, but he knew better and was sure that something would happen that would require his stepping in. Just then his police scanner picked up a bank robbery a couple of blocks away. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'they might not need me, but I shouldn't take any chances, and plus I'm bored as hell.' And he ran off to the bank.
When he got there he saw the robbers starting to make their getaway and immediately fired an exploding arrow right in front of the robbers, causing them to stop in their tracks. As he got ready to fire a net arrow to trap the robbers, they were encased in a glowing green cage. He looked up and saw Emerald Torch, 'Damn it,' he thought, she was his least favorite of the sidekicks of the Justice League, and he barely liked any of them in the first place. Torch just smirked and winked at him, "Looks like I caught your criminals before you did, Red." He scowled at her infuriating name for him. "I had it handled; you didn't need to do anything." He said as he shot four arrows at the bags of money the robbers were still carrying, attaching them to the bank wall. "What are you doing here anyway, Torch?"
"I could ask you the same question," She said coming down to meet him on the ground, "but since you asked first, I was on my way to meet with Green Lantern and I saw the robbery and no police and thought I'd take care of it quickly and be on my way, your turn."
"Visiting a friend," he answered gruffly.
"Whatever, don't tell me, I don't really care. I'm gonna take these guys to jail, do you think you can take care of getting the money back to the bank yourself or do you need me to come back?" she asked sarcastically.
He rolled his eyes and said, "I think I can handle it, just take care of them and get on your way to Green Lantern." She flew off with the cage flying just beneath her and Red breathed a sigh of relief, thinking 'Well, at least that was a one-time thing,' and took the bags of money back into the bank and went off to finish his patrol.
A/N: So this is my first story, and I'm moderatly happy with it. Review and tell me what you think. No flames please, constructive critism only.