Mount Justice
December 20 3:47pm
The sound of static buzzed through the room as Superboy watched the tv on the couch. Artemis sat behind him at the island checking over her arrows sharpening them against a black stone. Robin sat in between Wally and her, his head between crossed arms that laid on the table. He sighed "I'm bored" Wally whined his face stuffed in his arms "Shut it Baywatch, we all are" Artemis murmured focused on the tip of her arrow head
"I'm obviously feeling the aster" he replied sarcastically "Hey" Robin snapped lazily "that's my word"
'Batman 02. Unknown 04' the computer announced
the fastest teen raced to the entrance of the zeta tubes. The team was left behind giving each other looks. Conner shrugged as he jumped over the couch running to greet the black cloaked male."Batman! Do we have a-" they heard Wally begin
"No you don't." he frowned "Robin" he called "you have a visitor" A young girl walked forward from behind batman smiling with a waving hand "Daniell!" he smiled greeting her openly, exchanging a handshake turned hug "what are you doing here" she patted his back roughly "What I can't visit my little brother" she mumbled to the side of his head "Come on don't be that cold" she teased playfully punching his shoulder "besides I brought something; that and Bruno..." she fast talked with delight
"Hey wait!" KF stood between them "Sorry to ruin your ooooh so happy reunion but aren't you forgetting something?" he pointed back and forth between them. Robin turned to his left looking at the other five members "Oh yea guys Daniell, Daniell that is kid flash , the one to the farthest right is super boy followed by Aqualad, Artemis and M'gan"
"Sup, nice to meet you" she greeted saluting two fingers at them "Let's head back and catch up" robin rushed pushing her along "Yea how long has it been four - no FIVE years! I never realized how much time it's been" the two talked out of the mountain talking to no end
"Who is she? I mean robin doesn't talk or even act like that with us" sulked Wally "Probably some old friend don't worry he'll come around" Aqualad reassured placing a hand on his shoulder
Robin swung back "So how did you convince the Bats to come see me?" Daniell scoffed "Come on, seriously Dick, I've known you for as you've been alive maybe even more so, it isn't hard to convince someone that I know you, you know what I mean?"
"Really now? How so?" he asked arrogantly as he swung again from the swings in Gotham park "One, you're my little brother" she paused puffing out hot air to the cold "Two, I'm sure we know more about each other than we know about ourselves, don't you think?" she shrugged taking spins on the seat next to him "Yea that's true" he nodded "so how's it going back with old pop Hayley," Daniell face palmed "I forgot to tell you, i left the circus not so long after you left"
"What why!" he exclaimed stopping the swing "Well with no family to keep me from leaving I left" she reasoned "so what have you been doing since then?" he shivered slightly from the sudden burst of cold December wind "Nothing much, Just a bit of traveling being an undercover spy, Just happened to be passing by" she casually stated
"Wait what!?" he gasped
"Yea, I mean, I know you deal with worse things you know, the usual monsters, aliens, supervillains, people-trying-to-take-over-the-world and or destroy it, um am I leaving anything out?" she sassed. He laughed "Nope you've covered most of it, but wait, back up, you said something about being a spy?"
"Well yeah well that's not the correct term but close enough. You see I'm like bodyguard sidekick minion. I take orders I accept then I follow. It can vary from finding hidden anti-military um, groups to disarming nuclear bombs missiles taking down illegal basis taking down evil doers that happen cross paths with me etcetera, you know the easy stuff" she stated nonchalantly "Whoa" he awed "Yup you know you're not the only one with a, should I say 'adventurous schedule'"
"Hey why don't we go over to my house and finish this up there besides I've been wanting to see Bruno for a while now" he urged "Oh so You want to see him not me" she teased with a slightly hurt tone "Th-that's not.." he stammered, she slapped him on his head softly. "I'm just teasing you, besides I can't blame you, he was just a baby when you last saw him, dear gosh if you see him now" she scoffed with disbelief "I bet, hold up I'll call Alfred to pick us up" reaching into his pocket he grabbed his phone. Daniell swung patiently waiting for him to come off the phone. She took off her winter hat and fluffed her own short mop of fluffy black hair before fixing her scarf around her neck once again
"Bye," he said finally hanging up the phone "he'll be here soon" he shivered
"Cold 'ey?" she swung off the swings throwing off her backpack letting it land on the frosted floor "here you can borrow these" she separated a pair of gloves and scarf "I'm sure you'll need them" She tossed the items to him before fixing her own.
In the shadows loomed the one and only kid flash and wolf hiding behind a tree. Blue eyes headed from under the snow nodding as it confirmed it's prey "Ah what the... Get off me" he yelled. A large white dog had gotten hold of his coat and began to pull on it vigorously, wolf barked as to stop the animal from harming him; the dog glared and growled lowly. Wolf whined and stepped back during a few feet away from them. The dog had managed to drag Wally to the floor, this, of course, caught the attention of the duo.
"Waly what are you doing here" Dick exclaimed running to his fallen friend "Ehhe he; hey" he responded with a nervous laugh, Dick opened his mouth ready to get a full explanation when he was pushed to the ground by a massive body, a slobbery warm tongue licking his face "Bruno!?" he exclaimed "I told he grew" she scoffed slightly "you weren't kidding" he grunted painfully at the weight of the massive dog. Seeing his discomfort she clicked her tongue getting the attention of Bruno. The dog rose and picked him up from the hood of his jacket, helping him onto his feet. "Wow you're just about the same size ofwolf if not bigger" he smiled scratching behind his ears, Bruce barked In acknowledgment after he licked his hand. "So Wally, care to explain?" Robin glared, Wally just laughed nervously
Alfred parked the car on the side opening the door for the four to exit. Bruno stepped out first waiting for the other three. Upon entering, they took of heir snowy shoes and coats. The two dogs shook off the extra snow from their backs trotting in as Alfred closed the front door
"Master Bruce has been awaiting your arrival" Alfred informed
"Thanks, Alfred we'll be there shortly" the faithful butler excused himself and left
"explain," Dick said monotonously with a glare
"Hey Hey I was just curious, wolf wanted to tag along" hehe defended
"We'll they're here anyways besides there's no harm done" Danel brushed off "so this is wolf?"
"Yup" he answered popping the 'p'
"Can he do tricks?!" she beamed. Her gaze changed to the animal who stood next to them
"Um, I don't know, let's find out," he paused he stood in front of Wolf "sit" he commanded. Wolf moved and scratched his head.
"well what can he do" he questioned
"Ask him anything" she boasted crossing her arms
"Anything? Come on your exaggerating! Fine" Bruno stood in front of wally waging his tail excitingly "sit" Bruno sat, Wally was filled with awe "alright alright, um, lay down" the dog quickly obeyed "Roll over" the dog followed command
"Woah cool" he inhaled
"Dick, you try" she nudged
"Bruno" he paused watching him paint, his tongue sticking out "bang" the dog collapsed Immediately whining weakly before closing is eyes "Dude she said a trick, not kill it" he exclaimed, Daniell chuckled and clicked her tongue making the dog jump to life waging his tail once again "He's gotten better" dick stated
"Yea, oh and dick I have something I want to show you something cool. So wally are you staying over?" she asked
"Yea but I have to be home for dinner"
"Alright do want to participate a game of winter war?"
"Snowball fight?" wally questioned
"Snowball fight" she reassured competitively
"Hold on Bruce's calling me" Dick paused
He walked down to the hallway door he closed the door bind himself turning to see bruce "You called?" he asked "Yes I did and it concerns her" he walked down the hallway dick following closely "What's your connection with her?" he asked "Danel? I've known her for as long as I can remember, we were raised together and lived together a couple years"
"What about her parents?" he asked
"I don't know. I was told that her parents abandoned when she was small and my parents took her in" his voice lowered. Bruce's stayed silent finally spoke "She's welcome to stay here for a while." he paused "oh and one more thing" he smirked softly
Dick came back running "Ready?" she asked "Yea lets go" he exhaled
The three put on their winter gear before stepping side into the snow closing the door behind "Okay, close your eyes and… spread your legs" he looked at her awkwardly but did as he was told despite the awkward request, though slightly reluctant. Bruno jumped excitedly barely holding in his barks, anxiously Bruno slipped into the triangle of a gap made from his legs throwing him onto his back with a push of his head. "Careful Bruno," she told the dog petting his shoulder "You ride on him?!" they gasped
"Yup, his thick bone structure allows him to carry up to 250 pounds. Give or take few, right Bruno." she smiled petting the dog's thick fur coat whispering something his ear "alright, to steer you simply tug on the fur of his nape, left or right back to stop" she pat Bruno softly "hold on tight Bruno's taking you slowly" Bruno barked taking slow steps forward then stopped "Bruno what's wrong?" the boy wonder questioned. But he stayed still, kicking away the snow behind Bruno launched himself into a sprint, robin grabbing hold of the large animal.
Bruce looked the window, watching the three frolic about.
"Master Bruce I brought you your tea" his words snapped him from his trance "Ah thanks, Alfred"
"Something caught your interest sir?" he angled looking out of the window as well "the girl seems have made good friends with Master Wallace"
Bruce stayed quiet watching them from the warmth of the manner
Dick jumped off of Bruno "okay I'm officially whelmed"
"Wally want a turn?" Daniell asked before reconsidering what she said "well actually wolf is looking a bit jealous" wolf whined nudging his nose against the speedster's elbow "hey wolf are you sure you can handle me?" wolf barked in agreement
"Actually, can you ride him, I think I'm too big for this" he sighed
"Alright you can catch up with your super speed" she started combing through wolf's fur "How about it boy?" she asked as large animal as he barked and wagged his tail. "let's take a couple of laps around the manor" the three walked to the end of the front wall to the corner. She grew a line in the snow with her foot "alright starting point here, well countdown alright, together" they nodded lining up, Daniell was first, Robin Wolf, Bruno, and with Wally being closest to the wall. "Three," they began "two-one" she called in rapid succession running to a quick sprint, snapping out of their shock they ran after them "no super speed KF" he scolded running past him "aw dude, not cool, you know I'm not good at that!" Bruno ran to him throwing him on his back quickly passing him "ha ha! Take that!" he laughed gathering a hand full of snow compacting it into a snowball, he took aim waiting for the perfect shot and threw it. Daniell tripped into the snow after a hard impact to the back of her knee taking in a face full of snow "hey! That's cheating!" she called out "it's not called cheating, it's called being smart" she grabbed a snowball herself making it big enough to fit in her arms. Richard sent a smirk at her as he ran passed "catch me if you can" he taunted. Accepting the challenge she stood up taking the ball with her holding it above her head "how about you take this!" with all the force she could she launched the massive ball at the speedster throwing him off of Bruno's back with an undignified yelp. She cheered in victory as Bruno joined her on her side "looks like we're going to make it boy" she smiled turning the last corner "and the winner is! Richard, the boy genius Robin stood at the finishing line with a triumphant smirk, wolf standing next to him "aw come on!" she raged running next to him "well at least I'm third, I think" Wally came running in as last much to his disappointment. "Alright howz about we begin the war?" Wally shrugged with a frown "I can't believe I was beaten by a ninja and a girl" he huffed "you are so going to regret saying that KF" rob warned
"Alright let's assemble our ammo" she grinned sweetly
Thirty passed by as they built their icy fortress preparing snowballs beforehand "Alright stop what you're doing. The winter war is about to begin." She announced "first one with ten hits is DOWN ready. Steady. Go!" Snowballs flew through frosty air, but not even thirty minutes into the rigorous game, Wally had only eight strikes due to his speed, Dick had seven strikes escaping an ambush with his agility, wolf didn't seem like he was playing his main focus was on eating the snowballs as they were thrown, Daniell had five strikes dodging them with both agility and speed but feel into a small ditch costing her three, and as of for Bruno, he had eaten most of the projectiles but catching most of them too, placing them in a line in front of himself.
"Bruno are you ready yet?"Daniell asked the dog barked once "alright, take aim." she paused "fire" the large dog kicked its hind legs sending more than a dozen snowballs into the air.
Bruce walked out, thick coat covering him from the cold
"Mister Wayne look out," Daniell called out, but failed to call out with time as fifteen snowballs landed on him in a heavy rain, all three winced heavily watching the piled snow fall off from his head
"Mister Wayne I'm so sorry" she apologized running over on the back of her beloved canine "we didn't mean to aim at you" she stood on Bruno's back reaching to clean off the layer that covered his face, the two boys in the background laughing so hard the joker himself proud. Daniell snapped her head back glaring at them "one more laugh and I swear I Will make you regret you were ever even born" she spat, the two shut their mouths without a blink. Clearing of the rest of the snow from his sweater she jumped off.
Bruce cleared his throat "Anyways Alfred sent me so tell you that there's got chocolate inside"
"Yea" the boys cheered high fiving each other
Daniell turned around to them "Hey guys we never really finish playing the game, but I think I've established the winner already" she boasted aloud grabbing a hand full of snow
"You wish" Wally challenged grabbing hold of a snowball. She chuckled throwing the snowball high
"You missed" he gloated
"Not entirely" she pointed at the heap of snow clustered on a tree branch, then it promptly fell on him. Dick laughed at him but soon was covered himself with snow "It's never good to laugh at others you know" she teased helping them out of the snow
closing the door behind themselves they took their boots off to place by the door, and hanging their snow covered coat they walked their way to the next room, Alfred handing them a cup of hot chocolate individually
"So how do you and boy wonder here know each other?" Wally asked
"Dick does he know your other story?" she asked, he nodded
"Well me and Dick were raised together at the circus, for as much as I know my parents abandoned me and I worked in the animal stalls until I was three, then Mr. and Mrs. Grayson took me in with their son relevantly almost the same age as me, kind of"
"Remember they called us the Deadly Duo" Dick added "only because we caused so much trouble" he coughed
"His parents trained us to be the best acrobats we could, but in the meanwhile, we had our own small side show, the daring duo." she daydreamed sliding her hand in an arch
"So what do you do now?" Wally asked taking a gulp from his third cup cocoa
"Alright here goes again, You see I'm like bodyguard sidekick minion. I take orders I accept then I follow. It can vary from finding hidden anti-military um, groups to disarming nuclear bombs missiles taking down illegal basis taking down evil doers that happen cross paths with me etcetera technicality just about the same as you guys"
"Bombs, missiles am I the only one who's amazed by this" he blabbered
"Hey I didn't exactly pick up your name"
"Wally West at your service" he announced
"Daniell, just Daniell. spelled like it sounds all minus 'e' "
"Realy I thought it was a guy written name, and, You don't have a last name?"
"She doesn't know, well remember. When we found her she barely knew how to talk" Dick said
"No, but I do remember it being with 'B' or something like that, I did search for my parents for a while but time just seemed to run out over the course of years" she sighed lightly. Bruce sat on a couch across from them reading the newspaper but listening intently to what they spoke of.
"So what have you been doing these past years?" the boy wonder asked
"Well, for the past five years I've done nothing but train" she sighed
"What kind of training?"
"Alright, here we go again the first year me and 43 others were abandoned on an island, the first stage survival for a month, there were only 17 remained, from that small group we were taken to combat practice each day then left again, told us to show up no matter what, we hunted for food made our own shelter,. 17 turned to 11, 11 turned to 8, then on the last day he couldn't do it, all out of energy from not being able to hunt down enough food" she took another sip from her cocoa eating at one of the marshmallows "after that we had 9 months of endurance agility and strength; nailed that part by the way. Then it was a year of psychological training, very nasty stuff there ugh" she gagged as if vomiting. "Assassin's book training for another year, then separate training for my team; while I did leadership training for ten months, and a month of 'supervised' missions. Well whatever they call supervision, they technically just told us what we did wrong. All seven of us graduated and I am now the proud leader of 5" she paused taking a gulp from her now warm cocoa "were now an elite team of vigilantes. Maybe one day I'll introduce them to you, right now they're in metropolis trying to break down a shipment of illegal enhancement drugs and artillery" The three of them stared in slight shock
"hold up" Wally cut off "the numbers didn't fit together, you're missing one" Jay cleared her throat "we had a casualty on a mission, though we lost one it feels like we've lost two"
"So then what about school?" Wally inquired trying to break the cold atmosphere "I dropped out of public school five years ago, but I was taught all the time being when I wasn't and was physically training"
"That must have been intense" Wally gasped "Meh, it was at first but after trigonometry and AP chemistry. Well let's say I don't remember much" she shrugged "Isn't that that like college stuff!?" Wally exasperated moving his arms to exaggerate his point "I don't know!" she exclaimed returning the gesture "I - just- just forget it" she huffed finally crossing her arms
Wally opened his mouth to speak but just before he could utter a vowel Alfred came in to break the ice "Master Wallace, it's for you"
"Oh well looks like it's time for me to go home, thanks for having me over," he told them, but before any more words were spoken he sped out Wolf hot on his trail
"Hey Dick how about you show our guests around the mansion" Bruce suggested not moving an eye from the paper "Alright" he paused "Let's go, Daniell" he stood off the couch Daniell following his movements walking to the entrance hall "Let's start with the basics" he began "Front door" he pointed "I have a feeling this is going to take forever"
After being left behind, Bruno looked over at the last person in the room. Feeling a gaze from the side of his vision he looked over to see the girl's dog staring at him with crystal colored eyes. The stares were exchanged to one another until it escalated to his infamous bat glare and pup snarl. But suddenly the dog turned running off to the direction the other two went. Bruce brushed it off returned to reading his paper.
"And finally the training room" Dick huffed breathlessly after naming most of the rooms inside mansion "Say I haven't trained since I've gotten here, want to practice acrobatics for old times' sake?" she pleaded softly "Alright let me change into clothes for this"
"I will to" She copied, whistling a high tune she waited. Bruno came trotting her backpack snapped in his jaws "Good boy Bruno!" she approved patting his head before leaving the bathroom exciting the restroom she back flipped into the padded floor "What do you think?" she asked playfully "Could use less white" he commented on the extravagant clothing "Could use more blue" she added "so how do we begin?" he stretched "Like before?" he suggested "alright, for old times' sake" she smiled warmly
Alfred made way through the kitchen swiftly adding and moving around spices the steaming pan before spreading the sauce on pasta. He washed his hands drying them on the towel; he walked to a phone the side table "Master Bruce, will you be joining us for dinner" he called to him "No I'm working on a case with the justice league on an important mission, I might have to go off world for a couple of days" Pennyworth sighed "Alright Master Bruce i'll bring down something for you"
"Thanks, Alfred" The line was cut, Alfred sighed placing towel on the counter "time to get my young charges" he muttered under his breath
"Alright. One. Two. Three." Daniell stood at a hand stand; Dick balancing on her feet
"tebineacolo (you good up there?), " Daniell asked
"Da" (yea)
"Gata? (Ready)"
"Da, eu sunt gata" he responded, with a right hand to the floor, Dick balanced on her opposite foot they paused
"te bine acolo (You good up there)" Daniell asked not looking up from the ground "desăvârşit(Perfect)" he responded with rigor
"vine cineva (Someone's coming)" Daniell warned looking to the door. Alfred turned to the door, staying at the entrance.
"Dinner is ready upstairs" he announced watching as the two landed gracefully "Thank, Alfred" Dick sighed "we'll be there soon" Promptly after Alfred left "I'm going to take a quick shower ill see upstairs." Dick dismissed as he walked to the shower room. At the dining table sat Dick and Daniell sitting straight across from each other empty plates in front of them. Daniell hummed in delight "the pasta was great! My compliments to the chef" she exclaimed Alfred standing proudly in the background. "I got the plates!" Daniell proclaimed, she stood grabbed her plate before walking past Dick, leaning to grab his plate before swiftly whispering into his ear before walking into the kitchen. Bruno crawled out from under the table receiving a pat on the head from Dick. "Looks like they caught us boy" He laughed lightly as Bruno licked the last bit of vegetable from hand "Hey Dick what are we doing next?" she questioned walking out from the kitchen "Um... Video games?" he suggested with a shrug "Ah, but Master Dick remember you have school on Monday as well as homework to finish" Alfred proclaimed "also I would recommend that you get to bed early tonight" Dick opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by Daniell "Considering the facts you probably should; also considering I'm going to 'sleep' at the same time you are" she shrugged "besides maybe I can help you with our science and or English homework" dick though about it then accepted seeing nothing wrong with a bit of help with his studies "Alright" he carried on with a shrug leading her to the direction of their rooms "Sooo...You have school on Monday?" she questioned joylessly "It's one day, the teachers want to give us homework for the rest of the month off" she gasped "The rest of the month? Of vacation? Wow. That's the longest vacation I've ever heard of" she scoffed with little belief "The best one too" he added "except the homework, not exactly excited about that" he opened the door to his room taking a seat at his desk "Who would be" she agreed his study "so- what do we begin with" Dick reached behind the desk pulling out a thick book "Language arts" she opened the first page "Wow" she gapped "well then we best get started"
Dick reclined back in his chair stretching collected the papers collecting on his desk as he "Done!" He exclaimed "now time for bed"
"10 pm's your bedtime? Hmm well then... goodnight then" she dismissed reaching the door
"Night"
Edited 6/ 19/16
