Hey, guys! So yeah, I'm back! New title and everything! Sorry for taking so long. There is no real excuse other than I was focusing on my other story and school but yeah no I was just being lazy. But no more! I am back and ready to start my writing up again.

~SM

Disclaimer: If I owned Batman…dude no


Previously on A New Type of Hero

"I can't keep this up much longer!" Hal said.

Cinderblock turned and grabbed Batman, crushing him in his grip then throwing him at the incoming Superman.

"Nooo!" Wonder Woman wiped around, floating off the ground. "Let's go, beast!"

"Hey, Blockhead!"

Cinderblock wiped his head around to see a girl sitting on a gargoyle.

"Pick a card." Suddenly the cards stopped and just dangle in the air around her. "Any card."

He turned back to them and boarded the ship. Shrugging the others, following orders, wondering who the girl was.


When she came to it, she was tied down to a medical table with various instruments lying beside her (and not the musical type) on a table beside her. Having been in this type of incident before and not wanting a repeat, she did the obvious thing.

She panicked.

Reaching, she called out her cards. Thankfully her gloves were still on so they came almost instantly. Two of them slipped between the cuffs and broke her out. With her legs being free already, she kicked herself of the table and made her way toward the exit. "This is what I get for helping the Justice League,"she mumbled. "Could have just stayed hidden but noooo had to 'help the general public'!" She sighed as she snuck out of the area. (What was it? A portable hospital or something? She didn't care.)

Creeping along the walls she came past a window. On the other side, she could her a shuffling of feet, and ducked as to not be seen. She got out as quickly as she possibly could.

She rushed down the hallway, soaring past another window. Where was she?! Panic grasped her as the labyrinth seemed to get more complicated as she went. At this point she couldn't even make it back to the hospital room thing. (not that she really wanted to, mind you. It stirred too many memories that she preferred stayed dormant.)

"Hey!" someone screamed from behind her as she flew passed them. Quite literally flew. Her cards had made a sort of sphere-like object, glowing blue, that she was hovering on. The hallway became more and more crowded by confused heroes. Some even she didn't recognized, some she did. That didn't matter. All she saw in her mind was people who had strapped her to a table with weird medical instruments left out for her to fear the worse.

She wanted out of here.

She could hear people chasing her, fanning out throughout the building to catch her, but there was no way that was happening. Swooping up, she crashed through an air vent. Her cards cuffed her arms and legs to keep her afloat, the paper chafing her bare skin. Suddenly the air vent pitched downward, making her follow. Wrapping her arms around her face, she braced for impact.

There was no doubt in her mind that there would be people on the other side of the vent so she would need to move at relatively fast. Not wasting a second thought on the gasps below her, she zoomed above their heads and out the only door she saw. There was another hallway and more footsteps and yelling, but she. Didn't. Care.

Sliding into what appeared to be the main room, she slid under the huge console in the middle of the room, but only after shooting some more of her cards through another ventilation shaft. She tucked her head away from the opening and held her breathe. A gravely voice shouted commands as she continued to tremble.

Then it was quiet.

Slowly, she crawled out. The super computer leaned over her, intimidating the already scared girl. Turning she caught sight of a window and gasped.

The Earth shown from the other side of the glass sheet, moving slowly around. Running up to it she made to touch it but stopped short, keeping her hands hovering. She was in space. Space!

Focusing, she caught her image in the glass.

Her vest was gone along with her cape, but her mask was still present. She was in a different, baggier white shirt. Her gloves were still on also. She could feel tight bandaging around her torso, barely visible though the clothe. Looking down, she saw her pants had been replaced with another black pants. Tears leaked through the mask as she wondered how the hell she was going to get home now.

The cards that she had sent through the vents knocked her in the back of the head, breaking her out of her melancholy thoughts. Flicking her hands, she had the cards flurry around her, surrounding her in a cyclone of black, red, white, and a glowing blue. As they slowed, a black figure flickered to life in front of her.

Yelping, she jumped backwards only to fall into a strong brightly colored chest.

Batman inched closer to her as Superman attempted to calm her. "You're fine," he assured the hyperventilating girl. "We're not going to do anything to you." By then the rest of the main founders were in there. Diana went to the frightened girl. "Please, sister, be calm. We meant not to worry you."

Pulling back from the crowding heroes, she built a barrier between herself and them. "Yeah!" she yelled. "Then why the hell'd you strap me down!" Superman turned to the Martin in the room."I told you that was a bad idea." J'hnn shrugged before they turned to the problem at hand.

The girl had backed to the middle of her dome of cards, knees brought to her chest. A black glove was placed on her shoulder, making her jump. The cards were sent flying around the room as she turned to the Batman.

He gripped her by the shoulders. "Calm. Down." he growled out but not harshly. She nodded shakily as her deck returned to her side, taking the shape of a staff. The Ace of Hearts stood at the top of it, emitting an eerie blue glow.

"Sorry. Panicked." she said, tucking a hair behind her ear. The man nodded before strutting past her. Superman took his place in front of her. "You okay?" At her nod, he smiled sadly. "I didn't catch your name there. Mine's-" "Superman!" she blurted before she blushed. "I-I know who you all are,"she stammered, but Superman just nodded.

"What's your name if you don't mind me asking?" She mumbled under her breathe so softly even he didn't pick it up. "Sorry?" he tried again. She looked up into his eyes, the white of the mask widening innocently. "My name is Ace."

"Well, thank you, Ace. You helped us out of quite a jam back there." She blushed and laughed a littler. "T-Thanks, I guess." He smiled as Diana came up behind him, placing her hand on the girl's shoulder and steer her toward the meeting room.

xXxXxXx

Ace shuffled in front of the room of superheroes. This had been the room she crashed out of the air vent. The door to it still hanging open. Flicking a finger, she sent a card to take care of the annoying creaking sound it was making.

Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman were sitting at the table in front of her along with a few others. Aquaman and Martian Manhunter glanced at her as they continued their discussion. Flash, both Green Lanterns, sat next to Black Canary and Hawkgirl openly staring at her but not commenting.

She wasn't really sure which was more terrifying.

"Okay," Superman said from the head of the table,"Everyone, this is Ace. She helped us in our last battle, taking down Cinderblock." Flash immediately decided to add his opinion. "Are you kidding? She basically did all of the heavy lifting!" He silenced himself after one look from Batman and Superman continued. "Yes, now we'd like to talk to her about the next step."

"About that," Ace broke in. Everyone turned to her and she began to fidget. "I-I don't think that's necessary. I just...I'd really like to go home now." Wonder Woman nodded. "Yes, and you will, but first we need to discuss what comes before that." "And what exactly to do with you." Hawkgirl broke in.

"Why do you have to do anything?" Ace asked desperately, tugging on the sleeves of her shirt. "It's not necessary. Just drop me off where you found me and we'll all go on our merry way!" she rushed out. Batman narrowed his eyes at her but she didn't back down. She wanted out, and if he thought she'd sit quiet just because he was looking at her, he had another thing coming.

"Alright," he conceded. The table's occupants whipped their heads to stare at the cloaked man. "First, we'd need to speak to your parents or a legal guardian," he continued cooly. Despite her dark skin, Ace paled visibly. Her face scrunched up. "Yes! My-my dear mum and pops! Well, they're..." she floundered for a bit before nodding. "They're on a...business...trip? Yes, business so 'fraid ya can't."

He narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth to speak but Black Canary beat him to it. "How old are you?" she demanded. Ace, taken back by the intrusion, scrambled again. "thirteen," she said hesitantly," but I'm turning fourteen in like two weeks so."

"And you have no other family looking after you? No neighbor checking in?" She shook her head. "My sister comes by a few times a day, but we live kind of far out of the city for neighbors."

"Then what were you doing in New York?" She squinted at the martin. "Well, not all of New York is concrete and bricks."

Superman cleared his throat. "That's not what we're here to talk about." "Then what is it?" she demanded. "We wanted to know whether or not you wanted to join."She stopped short, stunned. "You want...me...to join the Justice League." Reeling she glanced at them all confused. "Why? Aren't I a bit young?"

Batman cleared his throat. "You are. That's why we have a different offer for you." Walking to the head of the table. He touched a panel and blue holographs showed above his head. A video played of eight teens.

A green girl hovering over a boy in a black shirt with a red Superman sign. The girl would move her hand, knocking over a couple of goons as the boy jumped and punched them into submission. A black boy with blond hair and gills wielded a glowing blue hammer. An arrow slammed into one of them sneaking up on the boy. The camera shifted to show a girl with a long blond ponytail, systematically taking down any extras from a treetop.

A laugh sounded through the screen and suddenly a blur of black, yellow, and red flashed through the screen. Stopping short, a shorter figure flipped off of a yellow clothed boy, throwing gadgets into the fray. A bubble appeared to block on-comming bullets from the now still boy with inky black hair and a criminal smile. A black girl with short hair was hovering in another bubble, keeping her teammates safe as one more girl, dressed in a magician's costume sent bolts of light from her gloved hand, standing back to back with the mischievous boy as the yellow blur appeared again running back and forth across the battlefield.

They all converged to the center when everyone had been taken down. The forest scene suddenly faded to what appeared to be a sparing mat with more holographic computers hanging from the ceiling. The video stopped as they each congratulated each other, moving to exit the room.

Everyone turned back to her. Her mouth was probably on the floor, but she didn't care. She recognized some of them. Artemis, Green Arrow's partner. Kid Flash, Flash's. The girl in green was obviously a martian so Martian Manhunter's. Superman's sidekick wore his freakin' emblem. Wasn't hard to guess. Everyone knew Robin the Boy Wonder and only true fans like her could know that Rocket was Icon's protege. If she had to, she'd guess magician girl was Zatara's, maybe a close relative?

"So what would you like to join?" someone asked. She honestly didn't know nor care who.

"Hell to the yes!"