Five friends stumbled into St. George's Market on an oddly sunny Belfast afternoon.

"You gotta love a chocolate festival!" Exclaimed one of them, she was the second tallest and had long ginger hair.

"And looks like we got here just in time." A tall girl with short brown hair grinned. "Though we would have been here sooner if Matthew and Tori hadn't made us all go to the comic book store." She glanced back at her two of her friends.

"Hey!" Matthew and Victoria both cried in unison.

"We always go to the comic book shop when we're in town!" Victoria argued brushing her auburn hair out of her brown eyes. "It's tradition!"

"And you wanted to go to! You're just upset because they didn't have any 'Umbrella Academy' that you don't already have!" Matthew grinned.

"Well said Little Man!" Victoria grinned and threw her arm around the small boy and ruffled his short, dark hair. "See Briar, it's as much your fault as mine." Victoria winked at her dark haired best friend.

"Enough talk!" The youngest girl chirruped as she waited impatiently. "I can smell the chocolate." This girl had shoulder length strawberry blonde hair and square glasses that rested on her small nose.

"Soph has a point." The tallest red head smiled. "Let's get going."

"Thank you Ally." Smiled Sophie,

"Alright then Squirrely, Kitty, Little Man, Bubbles." Victoria addressed her friends with the nicknames she had chosen. "Let's go my dears, I'm starving!"

"You're always hungry," Briar grinned, wrapping her arm around Victoria's waist.

Victoria yelped and jumped in the air. "Don't touch my waist!" she gasped as people in the crowded market place turned to look at them.

"Well don't yell!" Sophie blushed and looked away from the onlookers eyes.

"Can we just get going now?" Matthew asked.

"Yes can we?" Ally agreed.

"I'm not stopping anyone, let's go." Grinned Victoria as she set off down the main aisle.

They walked on all chattering; soon they began to split up as they went to different stalls. It was like being in a chocolate factory, the aromas of melted cocoa hung in the air like a sweet blanket smothering them.

Eagerly Victoria looked around for something good, but something that wasn't chocolate caught her eye. Despite it being a chocolate festival, the normal market activities were still continuing, and there amidst the busy people going about their business was a small brick-a-brack stall with a middle aged woman wearing a head scarf sitting, smiling behind it.

"Hello pet," she smiled sweetly as Victoria approached her stall. "Come to take a look at my wears?"

Victoria nodded politely as her eyes browsed the small stall; it was covered in beautiful sparkling necklaces, bracelets and broaches, and there off to the side was a solitary spoon, nothing special or shiny about it just an old silver spoon.

As soon as she had noticed it an odd feeling began to stir inside her, she dismissed it immediately as hunger and continued looking over the jewellery but her eyes kept being drawn back to the small spoon.

Finally her curiosity got the better of her. "Um…," Victoria cleared her throat. "What's with the spoon?"

The stall keeper leant in closer to Victoria, as if she was telling her a huge secret. "Well," she started. "It's magic." She leaned back in her seat again grinning.

"OK," Victoria replied looking thoughtful. "But if it is magic, why are you selling it?"

"A person can't just do something nice without question nowadays?" The woman sniffed.

"All right I'll bite," Victoria grinned. "How much is it?"

"Five pounds." She smiled.

"Alright!" Victoria agreed and began digging in her pocket, she took out a five pound note and handed it over. The stall keeper picked up the spoon and put in into a small paper bag before taking the five pounds off Victoria and giving her customer the bag.

"Tori!" Victoria turned as she heard her friends calling behind her. "Come on! We have to meet you're Dad at 4 remember?"

Victoria glanced down at her watch it was a quarter to four, they had to get halfway across down in that time. "Crap!" she exclaimed. "Huh, thank you miss!" She smiled at the woman.

"Goodbye dear." The woman waved back.

She turned and ran back to her friends, clutching the paper bag and her comic books close to her. "Well come on then!" she told them. "Maybe we can stop for chippie, and you guys can stay for a while."

"That seems like a normal Saturday night to me!" Briar laughed as they walked quickly through Belfast city centre.

They continued walking and discussing what they were to have for dinner, and soon enough they were outside the Starbucks that Victoria's Dad always picked them up.

And there, as usual, was her father's silver car waiting patiently for the five of them. They piled their shopping bags into the front passenger seat of the car and got into the back.

"'Ello children!" Her dad said as they got in the car.

"Hey dad." Victoria smiled

"Hi Jim." The rest of the car chirruped.

"To the chippie and then home to our house?" Jim asked the kids.

"You know us so well." Replied Ally.

The five friends piled into Victoria's small room with their bags of shopping and paper bags of food.

They all collapsed onto the floor and tore into the paper bags.

"Hey guys," Ally said looking down into a paper bag that was smaller than the others. "Who bought a spoon?" She lifted the spoon out of the bag.

Everyone stared at the spoon and then Victoria finally spoke up. "That would be me."

Briar took the spoon of Ally and inspected it, "Why exactly did you buy this spoon?"

"Well," Victoria looked around at her friends sheepishly. "The stall owner told me it was a magic spoon…"

"A magic spoon?" Scoffed Ally looking over Briar's shoulder at the normal looking spoon. "And you believed that?"

"Yeah," Victoria shrugged. "I guess I did…"

"You believed that the same way you believe Gotham City exists?" Sighed Matthew.

"What a girl can dream!" Victoria growled back but she was still smiling. She grabbed the spoon off of Briar and leant back against the bed. "What do you think Sophie?"

Sophie swallowed a mouthful of chips and then spoke, "I don't see why Tori can't dream! She's nuts and we all know it."

Victoria smiled smugly, "Thanks love!" She pulled Sophie into a hug, still clutching the spoon. "But," she sat up "We will all go to Gotham City someday!" She held the spoon up proudly.

"What is that spoon doing?" Matthew yelled suddenly, eyes wide.

The spoon was beginning to glow oddly, Victoria immediately dropped it as it began to vibrate violently and glow brightly.

"Holy crap!" Victoria yelled and a flash blinded them all.

All of a sudden it felt like they were falling through the air before they hit a layer of tarmac with a thud.

"What the hell just happened?" Briar yelled.

They looked around and found themselves in a dark alley way.

Victoria and Matthew looked up and found themselves looking at an all too familiar sky, one where the Bat signal was blazing across a murky black night sky.

"I don't believe it," Ally gasped behind them, following their gaze. "Gotham City."