I glared as Tina Terror did a backflip over my head, landing next to her sister, Tammy Terror. Their smiles grew wide, stretching the red clown makeup that surrounded their lips. "What? Is poor little Ivy afraid?" Tina asked in her thick French accent.
"Please. Believe it or not, neither of you are very terrifying," I said with a smirk.
Tammy giggled before speaking, her words coming out in French. "Oh vraiment? Eh bien, nous pouvons résoudre ce problème." [1] I groaned, why did one of these sisters have to only speak French, one of the languages I didn't bother to learn.
Before any other thoughts could run through my head Tammy and Tina lunged forward, stretching their arms out towards me. And when I say stretching their arms towards me, I meant stretching, they both have the power of elasticity, and I'll admit, it gave me quite a disadvantage.
Just as one of their hands was about to wrap around my ankle, I back flipped away and raised my hand towards a pathetic looking weed that was growing from one of the cracks in the sidewalk. The weed slowly began to grow and I manipulated it toward the legs of the Terror's. The now thick, large vine wrapped it's ways up both of their ankles and up around their waists before lifting them both so that they were hanging upside down in the air.
"Vous pourris petite fille!" [2] Tammy yelled angrily. Now that was one phrase I had come to know. Especially since she called me that every time I took them down.
I shook my head, "I get it. Vous pourris petite fille," I repeated jutting out my hip. In the distance I heard the sounds of police sirens. "Finally, took them long enough." I turned my gaze back to the scene of the twins encased in vines, "I'll be taking my leave ladies, hope you enjoy Belle Reve."
Just as I turned the corner out of the alley, I came face to face, or rather face to chest, with a dark figure. I looked up and saw the black cowl adorned with small pointed ears that hid Batman's face. His eyes watched me for a second before I finally looked away. I usually wouldn't break eye contact with someone as important as Batman, but that stare was too much.
"Ivy."
"Batman, sir," I said, still not looking at him, instead I glanced towards the side and saw the Flash standing on his right and Aquaman on his right.
"Good job with the Terror Twins."
"Thanks." We all stood there in silence, all three of the Justice League members looking at my intensely. Finally the tension in the silence became thick enough that you wouldn't even be able to cut it with a batarang. "Is there something you all wanted?" I blurted out, immediately set regretting it upon seeing Batman's eyes narrow under his cowl.
Flash chuckled, "don't worry, you're not in trouble." At that I let out a sigh. I had a good sense that I wasn't in trouble in the first place. I mean I fight crime and help keep crime down, what could I do to get myself in trouble?
"So if I'm not in trouble, why are you here?"
"We wanted to talk to you about joining a team," Aquaman said.
"What team?"
"It's a team consisting of our protégés, including a few other younger hero's," Batman stated.
I stared at him with a look that mixed surprise with confusion. He knew who I really was, who was really in my family, and he still wanted me on this team? "You want me to join this team?" I asked, just to clarify. He gave a curt nod.
"Now don't think you'll be going on large scale, life or death missions. Most of the missions are covert, the Team, and you, if you choose to join will take on undercover missions, gathering intel relevant to larger missions that the League will take on," Flash explained.
"So?" Batman asked quickly. I could sense that he was in a hurry to get my answer. He must have some hot date in his real life.
"I guess I could join the team, it sounds like a good chance to broaden my horizon."
"Good." He reached into one of the pouches on his utility belt and pulled out a piece of paper. I unfolded it when it was handed to me and saw directions written out. "Those will bring you to the closest Zeta-tube. Use the coordinates to zeta to Mt. Justice at noon."
I nodded and slipped the paper in the pocket of the jeans I wore. Yes I wore jeans while crime fighting. I wasn't exactly an official hero, at least not to the world, and I didn't have money to make an official looking uniform, so I made due with what was in my closet.
"We'll see you tomorrow, get some rest, there'll probably be some training tomorrow." Flashed informed. At least he gave me a small warning.
Batman took out something small and pushed the red button on it, within seconds a black jet flew to the ground, landing beside us. The hero's loaded into the jet and buckled themselves in.
"By the way," Flash said, "wear your, um," he stopped and looked me up and down. "Uniform tomorrow." With that they flew off, a gust of harsh wind followed closely behind.
I pushed my auburn hair from my face and watched as the black jet finally disappeared above the clouds. I stood there for a moment, not moving, just thinking about what had happened. Members of the Justice League came to me, asking me to join their team of protégés. My mind could quite grasp everything, and it seemed as if everything that had just happened was a dream. But I knew it wasn't because of the piece of paper, which suddenly felt very heavy, that was held in my pocket.
After coming back down to earth, I started walking home. As I went I debated whether or not I should tell my parents. They knew about my powers and how I fought crime from time to time, but I wasn't quite sure how they would react to me joining a team organized by the Justice League.
As I stepped over the threshold that led me into the house, my mom called out to me from the kitchen. "How was it?"
I threw off my boots and pulled off the mask I wore. "Fine, but something really weird, and I think great, happened."
"And what's that?" She questioned.
"Well..."
A/N:
[1]: "Oh really? Well we can fix that."
[2]: "You rotten little girl!"
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I didn't plan to post this story until I had a few more chapters written, but I just thought since it's a new year, it would be a nice treat for all of my readers. I hope you all had a great New Years, and I hope you all made good choices.
I originally wrote this like most if the other stories out there, you know, where the OC knows all the other Team members and all that, but I thought I'd just start it off randomly. So I'm not fully sure where in the show this story is going to start, so let's see where this takes us.
Fun Fact: Ivy lives in Honolulu, Hawaii with her mom and dad.
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