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"There's talk of a meteor shower. A big one. Do you think the Watchtower will be fine?" Aqualad turns to Batman.
"The Watchtower will be fine. Its held its own before."
"Readings say it will be huge." Aqualad stands near a terminal, examining blinking red dots nearing a larger green circle. Batman stares at him intently, as if commanding him to speak what's on his mind. The Atlantean sighs. "There's a prophecy saying that when the stars fall from the sky in year two-thousand and twenty, the gods will roam the Earth on the longest day of the hot times. That's Midsummer Day. They impact the Earth at twenty four-hundred hours. "
"Where did you hear of this?"
"Its a Mayan legend that was discovered two years ago, after the Reach incident." Nightwing walks into the room. "Hey, Kaldur." Kaldur nods. "The question is, are we just overreacting to it?"
"Gods walking the Earth. I highly doubt such a thing," replies Batman. "An alien, maybe, but a real god? That is unrealistic. Carry on in normal meteorite protocol."
The other two men nod and walk off. Batman turns back to the terminal, eyes narrowing. Could it be possible? No. Its absurd. They're just comets, meteorites. The most god-like they can be is the energy they give off.
"Mom, I'm home!" Jaime Reyes walks through the front door of his home, hanging his coat on the rack next to the door. His mother, standing in front of the stove on the opposite side of the room, smiles. She puts down an oven mitt.
"Where have you been, hijo? You're late for dinner. I just put dessert in the oven." The older woman walks over to her son and embraces him. He smiles and hugs back.
"I was out with my friends again."
"Saving the world?" Jaime nods. His mother smiles. "That's my boy. Now park that tush! I'll heat up some cena for you."
"Thank you, mom."
"Make sure to eat quick and get some rest. It may be summer vacation but you still need to sleep. I hear tomorrow is the Midsummer Day festival. We'll be going. After all, your sister is the one that really wants to go." Jaime smiles at the thought of his little sister. "After dinner, will you check up on her before you go to bed?"
"Si, mamá." Jaime finishes his food in no time. He stands, excuses himself, and heads off to his sister's room. He opens the door and sees her sleeping. Smiling, he goes to his room. He sits at a desk and turns on his computer. Maybe he can fit an hour of YouTube or something before heading off to bed? Its only eleven at night. After he finishes his activities, he sees an add before he shuts off the computer. Out of curiosity, he clicks the link.
"Meteor shower? At midnight?" He checks the clock. Six minutes?! He picks up his phone and dials Bart's number. "Hey, hermano, there's a meteor shower tonight. Wanna come over and watch it?" There's a knock at his window. Jaime turns around and sees Bart.
"Already here, dude."
Jaime smiles, ending the call and opens his bedroom window. His armor wraps itself around him, his wings appear and they both take off into the air, heading towards a large hill not too far. They both settle down. The armor retracts itself and Jaime looks at his watch.
"Two more minutes."
"The sky is already lighting up," says Bart. He points at the clouds, which slowly glow a brighter and brighter gold. Jaime checks his watch again. One more minute.
The entire sky lights up and the clouds begin to part.
"Uh, Jaime, I don't think the comets are passing by. We gotta get out of here or else we'll be feeling the mode!"
"Uh, yeah!"
Jaime's armor activates and his wings spring free. Bart races off and Jaime flies away as fast as he could. He looks up at the sky. Every cloud for miles glow a fiery gold, orange, and white. The clouds sprung apart, forming a perfect circle as a comet half the size of the Watchtower falls towards the Earth.
Jaime Reyes, there's a heat signature coming from inside the meteorite.
"How is that possible?"
The comet is not on fire. It should be, since it went through the Earth's atmosphere, but it is only intensely heated light particles. The comet is made of light.
"What?"
There is a heat signature that is weaker than the heat the light gives off. It suggests a life form of alien origin.
"Fantastic."
Best tactic: Get away as fast as possible.
"I'm already doing that!"
Bart jumps into the air and grabs onto Jaime, signaling for the hero to land. He does just that, and Bart manages to speed off with the two. They stop a few hundred meters away, Bart panting and collapsing on the ground.
"Ugh! You're heavier than you look!"
"Shut up! Watch."
The two gaze upon the crashing comet as it slowly descends towards the Earth. The moment it comes within contact of the ground, an explosion lit. The heat was intense enough to almost singe the teenagers' eyebrows off. The light lit the entire city. In an entire instant, the large hill was decimated. Another explosion, the light so intense the two had to cover their eyes. Once the brightness became less intense, Jaime uncovers his eyes. He sees another comet falling in the far distance, but gazing upon the blackened dirt, his only concern is for the life form that was supposedly in the middle of the inferno.
There are still readings of life inside the crater. Alien origin is still alive.
"Let's go check it out," says Jaime. Bart nods and follows him to the crater. Once they reach the rim, they peer inside.
"Wow. That is deep," says Bart while scratching his head.
"There's something at the bottom. Down there!" Jaime points. Among the glass that formed at the bottom of the crater, a figure clothed in gold lay at the bottom. Cautiously, the two descend into the crater.
"Its a girl." Bart looks at her with wide eyes.
"What? How?"
The girl's face scrunches a bit, and her eyes slowly flutter open, revealing gold orbs with a white cross shape in the middle.
The ground rumbles and shakes.
"The other comet?" options Bart. Jaime didn't listen. The only thing he could focus on is the golden girl at the bottom of the crater.
Aaaaaand that's the prologue. Not my style of humorous but I think it turned out okay. It became a little serious. But first chapters often end up a little awkward feeling because you don't really know how to start the entire thing off. At least for me. It took me a few days to figure out how my OC came to Earth. And when I did figure it out I though, okay, but how does Jaime meet her? But now that that's all out of the way, feel free to give me some constructive criticism. Tell me what you guys think.
And she's not actually made of gold. That would be weird. Expect an update within a week. Thanks for reading!
~Slayer
