Author's Note: Heeeeey readers! Sorry if it took me a while to update, i wanted this chapter to be longer than the last time so it took me longer to write. So in this chapter a whole bunch of nonsense and Kyro meets the team and gets glared at by an angry Batman! O.o But anyways totally forgot to put the disclaimer so here it is.
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice nor do i own any other DC stuff! I only own my character and the plot.Also my story does get weird later... well the good weird and there is violence cursing and adult content in later chapies guys so it's rated M for a reason.
Chapter 2: Not the sandwich!
So I keep laying in my bed waiting patiently for the two men to leave and MY GOD did it feel like forever! Come to think of it, it felt like everything was moving at a snails pace. Even when the two men were talking they sounded like a record playing in slow motion, but instead of music it was people talking. But they finally made their way out of my room, I slowly sat up letting out a sigh of relief. I quickly pinched my arm hoping this was all some crazy ass dream and I would wake up.
And of course with my luck it wasn't.
"Ok ow, ok this is bad I'm not dreaming..."
I look around the room once again and decide I might as well get the questioning over with. Besides I couldn't hide from Batman forever. To be honest I don't think anyone really could. I take the little stickers for the heart monitor off of my chest, as for the IV that was a little more complicated mostly because I had to actually pull the tube out of my arm without getting blood everywhere, luckily for me Dee's mom was a nurse and liked to teach me stuff about anatomy. Thankfully it worked out ok, so now I was in the hall walking aimlessly. The chains on my pants and my belt were jingling as I walked, the silver metal clanking together as my feet quietly padded along in my black and cheetah creepers.
"Since this apparently isn't a figment of my imagination might as well look around." I think out loud shrugging my shoulder as I turn down a corridor.
I wasn't really paying attention to where I was going, but apparently I had found where the rooms were. I stopped when I heard voices close to the opening of the corridor leading into a main room. I hid in the darker shadows making sure I didn't make any noise while I listened in on their conversation. I'm usually not one for eves dropping, but in this case I guess there was an exception... if only so I could figure out what the hell was going on.
"Where do you think she came from?" the first voice said curiously.
"I don't know, I've never seen here before." the second voice replied.
"Hey, that was pretty cool how she left a streak of teal colored fire when she ran!"
'Of course Kid Flash ever the distracted one.' I thought shaking my head.
"Seriously KF?"
'Robin!' I exclaimed in my head... oh shit I hope Miss M didn't hear that.
"What?! It was!"
"Focus kid idiot, there's some random girl in the cave that could be evil and for all we know she could be a spy or an assassin!"
'Now that we all know which voice belongs to Artemis.' I couldn't help rolling my eyes at my own thought.
"Artemis does have a point Wally" said a shy sweet voice.
'That's got to be Megan, but wait... where's Superboy and Kaldur?'
'Grunt...'
'Whelp that answers the superboy question.'
"Hey, we should talk to her before bats gets the chance to scare her."
"That's actually a good idea KF!"
"Really?! You're agreeing with him!" Artemis exclaimed.
"What? I'm curious." I could hear the smirk in Robin's voice.
Next was a very polite voice that could only be Kaldur's "I do not think that would be wise." he said shooting down the other boys idea.
"Aww come on Kaldur live a little, it'll be fun!" came KF's excited voice.
'Sigh' "Fine, but I still do not like this." Kaldur said tiredly.
"It's decided then come on guys." Robin instructed as they took off somewhere.
That was my cue to get the hell out of there. I peek around the corner to make sure they weren't in the room anymore, I ran through the room at normal speed. Right before I got to the other side the most amazing smell drifts into my nose sniffing the air my stomach growled angrily.
"Mmm cookies." I said practically drooling.
I look at the kitchen longingly then back down at my rumbling stomach, it felt like I hadn't eaten in months. Which surprisingly enough wasn't the weirdest thing going on right now.
'I hope they won't mind if I have a little snack' I think to myself as I back track over to the kitchen.
"Where are the oven mitts?" I murmured to myself.
~~~~ Back with the team~~~~~~
"She's supposed to be in here..." Wally said stating the obvious.
Artemis rolled her eyes at him "Yes, bay watch we all know that." came her snarky reply.
"Wait," Robin said surveying the room "...She was here, but it looks like she just didn't want to stay here, Miss M see if you can sense where she is." Robin ordered.
"Ok." came her cheery reply.
Megan's eyes began to glow bright red as she used her power to locate the girl. Soon her eyes went back to normal, Megan then turned back to the team with a big smile on her beautiful olive green face.
"She likes my cookies!" the martian girl squealed in delight at someone liking her cooking, forgetting all about what she was doing.
Kid Flash dramatically dropped to the floor on his knees "Not the cookies!" he screamed to the heavens.
Artemis and Superboy both rose a questioning brow "Seriously?" Artemis asked not really shocked at the red head's stupidity as he mourned his 'precious' cookies.
Kaldur just sighed and shook his head at his friend's dramatics.
"Megan where is the girl?" Robin asked getting the team back on subject.
Megan blinked "Oh hello Megan," she said lightly slapping herself on the forehead "In the kitchen!" Megan finished her statement with a smile.
The teen heroes took off heading straight for the kitchen, but were stopped before they could get to the end of the hallway. Batman stood in front of the team his usual glare set in place while Flash stood next to him looking concerned.
"Hey Bats uh... Flash, What are you guys doing here?" Kid Flash said with a nervous smile.
Batman shifted his gaze over to Wally, who was now fidgeting with nervous energy "I was in the middle of informing Zatara about the dimensional rift when a silent alarm went off alerting me that someone removed the girl's medical equipment or she is awake and has removed it herself." the dark hero explained.
"I came to make sure Bats doesn't scare her too much." Flash said grinning at the young heroes, but everyone could tell he really came because he was concerned for the girl's well being as well.
Wally laughed nervously as Robin pretended he wasn't affected by his mentor's glare. "So... what about these hallways guys? They're all nice and cavey... and uh..." Kid said trying to stall so their mentor's didn't discover the girl had decided she wanted to stop in the kitchen for a snack.
Surprisingly the rest of team mumbled some type of agreement going along with what he said, but all their statements died in their throats at the glare Batman was giving them.
"What did you do?" Batman growled.
"Baywatch did it." Artemis stated completely throwing him under the bus for something he didn't even do.
"Hey don't blame me for this!" Wally yelled at the archer.
Flash crossed his arms over his chest as he leveled the red headed boy with a stern look "Kid, what did you do."
"Nothing! Geez why does everyone always blame me!" Kid said throwing up his hands in annoyance.
"Because you're the only one stupid enough." Artemis said making fun of the young speedster, who just growled angrily.
"Ok guys, since there's nothing wrong we need you to move so we can get to the infirmary." Flash said trying to maneuver around the young heroes only to be blocked by the young kryptonian clone "Uh... hey superboy I kinda have to get through so if you don't mind..." Flash trailed off gesturing for him to move out of the way.
"I mind." Conner said glaring at the older speedster.
Standing a few feet away the team stood trying to look as nonchalant as possible... or should they say chalant? Either way they were currently trying to figure out a plan that didn't involve throwing KF under the metaphorical bus.
'Dude he's on to us!' Wally's voice rang out through the teams heads.
'I say we just blame kid idiot.' Artemis snarked
'We just agreed we're not doing that no matter how much you suggest it we're not doing that!' Wally yelled at the blond through the mind link.
Kaldur sighed out through the link 'The most reasonable thing to do is tell Flash and Batman what happened, surely they will understand.'
'Kaldur's right, we're acting like kids we should just tell them the girl is missing... besides Kaldur's team leader so he has to do it.' Robin said cackling.
Once Robin was done talking as if on queue the rest of the team all looked to their leader, who just sighed and stepped forward. Conner moved to stand next to Miss M while Aqualad explained what happened.
Back to Kyro :)
"Man, those were good I wish I had more." I stated solemnly, wishing I had more of the delicious sweets.
I frowned as I put the dirty baking sheet in the sink and rinsed it off. I was still sooo hungry it was ridiculous I just ate an entire batch of cookies BY MYSELF! Awe man I still felt like there was a black hole in my stomach and that it was caving in on itself, not a nice feeling.
"They won't mind if I make a sandwich or two, but no that would be rude... I already ate all their cookies, but I'm sooo hungry!" I argued with myself like a crazy person.
Then it was decided when my stomach growled again. I open the fridge and pulled out stuff to make a few sandwiches.
'Now where's the bread?' I thought to myself looking around the kitchen, it only took me a second.
Now I was half way done making about three sandwiches when my hands started to feel like they were burning up then caught on fire. I 'eeped' as I panicked trying to figure out how to put my hands out without destroying anything. The best thing I could think of was to use my foot to turn on the sink to put my hands out, sounds easy right? If you said yes you my friend are very mistaken, I may be flexible but not in these pants. So instead of gently turning the lever on so the water would come on. I clumsily kicked it causing the whole thing to break off! Water was now spraying everywhere! When did I even get that strong?!
'THE SINK!' I screeched in my head.
Even though my hands were on fire I still tried to fix the sink. Which in turn was a very bad idea because my hands only melted a hole through the metal sink making the fountain of water even bigger. That's when I remembered my sandwiches, I could feel my hair catch on fire as I panicked even more.
"Not the sandwich, not the sandwich, NOT THE SANDWICH!" I yelled at the top of my lungs as I lunged for my food protecting it from the water, flying over the counter into the main room. "That would have been so awkward if someone saw that." I said thoughtfully after landing on my butt.
I was about to take a bite of my life saving sandwiches when someone cleared their throat. I look up to see the entire team plus Batman and Flash... oops. The team and Flash looked confused and Batman just looked pissed off.
"Awkward..." I mumble as I stand up.
I ran like a bat out of hell, I was NOT trying to get jumped by a bunch of superheroes! I ran as fast as I could but immediately got blocked by the Flash. Damn it! I panicked and ran the other way only to be stopped by a very angry looking Batman. I tried finding another way to get out but everywhere was blocked, it felt like I was going to die, cause of death: Beaten to death by angry superheroes. I flinched closing my eyes waiting for one of the heroes to tackle me but when the pain never came I cracked my eyes open to see a wall of purple and teal fire. That's when the adrenaline wore off and my whole body felt like it was on fire. I look down at myself to see that I was in fact on fire, I could feel the flame burning me deep inside my core. Before I knew what happened I had collapsed onto the floor screaming in pain just wanting it to all go away. I was in too much pain to pay attention to the heroes anymore. A second later I felt my body being dowsed with water, god that felt so good. I look up to see Aqua Lad standing over me with his weapons at the ready just in case. There was that damned feeling again, the dizzy light headed one, the one from earlier when I pasted out before. My vision blurred and I could barely keep my eyes open before once again the darkness consumed me.
"Ugh..." I groaned as I rubbed my head feeling a migraine coming on, my eyebrows crinkled in confusion when I felt cold water trickle down my face "Water?" I asked no one in particular.
I opened my eyes only to immediately shut them. Grrr, what is it with these people and bright lights! My goodness the sun isn't even that bright. I think angrily to myself. I feel my body heat up at my anger and annoyance, that's when I could feel the space around me getting hotter and the air getting more humid. I open my eyes again to see I was in a half empty tub and a steam filled room. Oh yeah, Batman was also in the corner being his creepy shadowy self. I cracked a small smile at that thought making Batman narrow his eyes at me.
"Who are you?" the dark knight demanded more than asked.
I stared at him for a minute blinking dumbly, then shook my head finally answering "Kyro."
the man's eyes narrowed even further "Your real name."
My brow rose at his demand "Kyro."
Batman was now glaring at me as his eyes narrowed even further if that were even possible "I'm only going to ask you one more time, what. Is. Your. Name." he growled
I looked at him flabbergasted, some detective he is "Wha-, seriously? My name is Kyro K-Y-R-O why is that so hard to comprehend?!"
Batman just glared harder at me "Where did you come from and why are you here?"
I resisted the urge to roll my eyes at the man and answered anyway "The fuck if I know, I just ended up here... as for the why..." I trailed off shrugging my shoulders.
He leaned forward with a calculating stare trying to read me "Very well." were his last words before disappearing out the bathroom door.
I just sat there in the tub just thinking... How did I get here? One minute I'm running from one of the biggest assholes on the planet then I literally ran here into the DC Young Justice universe in a burst of fiery pain and blurred color. It... was weird and so confusing, stuff like this doesn't just happen... well I guess in my case it does, but still. Finally finding my way out of my troubling thoughts I climbed out of the tub surprisingly still soaking wet, but I couldn't find it in me to actually care right now. I was too tired and way too hungry to think about anything anymore. I walked into the now broken kitchen and carelessly ate the food I made earlier staring at the heroes as they all watched me waiting for what I might do next, that is until Batman spoke again.
"Since you are obviously not from... here you will be staying at the cave until further notice."
I barely glance at him "So what? Am I just gonna sleep in the bath tub or something?" I continued to eat as I waited for someone to answer me.
Before anyone could say anything though, Kid Flash was standing in front of me with a flirtatious grin "You can stay with me beautiful, I don't mind."
I desperately fought the urge to giggle like a maniac, one: because KF was like my favorite character and two: it didn't help that he was cute in real life. So I just settled on just smirking at the cute ginger boy.
"That sucks for you red,"
He gave me a curious look and asked "Why?"
Leaning in real close I whispered in his ear "Because I bite." I get a sense of satisfaction when I felt him shiver at my warm breathe on his neck.
I lean back with a smug smirk on my face as I watched the boy in front of me gulp nervously. I walked past the stunned boy and stood in front of Batman looking directly into his white covered eyes waiting for an answer, obviously he got my drift because the next thing I know I'm being shown to my room by the young red headed speedster. We walked there in silence but it wasn't really awkward, it was more of a comfortable one ya know? Until I decided it was time to talk.
"Do you know why the bat glares so much? It's kinda like he thinks he can stop crime by glaring at people or something." I ask randomly
Kid immediately answered "I know right! It's so CREEPY!"
"I KNOW! When he was talking to me earlier that's all he did, how does someone glare that hard through a mask!" I exclaimed
"I don't know how Rob doesn't get fazed by it." he said thoughtfully.
I tilt my head to the side in false confusion, cause I mean of course I know who he's talking about, but I couldn't let him know that. "Rob?"
"Oh um, he's Batman's partner." Kid explained
I nodded my head in understanding my mouth making an small "o" then I looked at the boy next to me "Uh... would you mind telling me your name unless you wanna be called red?" I ask
His emerald green eyes gaze at me as he smiles at me, the happiness gleaming in his eyes and smile "Kid Flash but if you want you can call me Wally."
I give him a small smile "Well, my name's Kyronin I'd rather be called Kyro."
Wally's smile only grew "Cool Kyro it is then, oh and we're at your room."
We stopped in front of a steel door with a key pad on the side of it, that looked like it needed to read a person's hand print for it to open. I look to Wally with a look of confusion adorning my face I had no clue how to work that thing.
"Ummm, how do you open the door?" I ask seriously confused
Wally face palmed "Oh yeah! I almost forgot I have to teach you how to set up the key pad."
"So what do I do?" I asked
"Ok, so you put your hand right here." he said taking my hand and gently placing it on the key pad.
I felt sparks erupt from where Wally touched me and move throughout the rest of my body "Like this?" I asked looking up at Wally not realizing how close we were until his bright green eyes met my dark hazel ones. "Yeah..." his voice trailed off into nothing.
We sat like that for a while just staring into each others eyes so fiercely I could almost feel the electrical jolt up my spine giving chills making me shutter. I could've stared into his eyes forever if it weren't for the beep coming from the door making us break eye contact to look at the key pad that said "Access Granted" in small green letters. We stepped away from each other, both of us feeling a bit awkward. I could feel my cheeks get hot with my growing blush as I looked at Wally again
"Um, so... I'm gonna go to bed, so see you around I guess." I say rubbing my arm shyly
Wally rubbed the back of his neck nervously "Y-yeah, see ya." he said with one last smile before we parted ways with him going back with the team and me going into my new bedroom.
Once the door to my room shut I let my back lean against the cold steel. I let myself slide down until I was in a sitting position against the door as I stare at my pale hands.
'Wow...' was the only coherent thing I could think as I thought back to when the young speedster touched me. It was much more than a small spark, it was full on electrifying. I never wanted it to end, I wanted to be next to him right now in fact... but I knew that was a bad idea, plus I really was sleepy. That's when I knew tonight I was going to have happy dreams. A small smile made it onto my lips maybe this won't be so bad.
~~~~~~Back with the team~~~~~
Wally sat on the couch in the main room with everyone else except for Kyro obviously. He couldn't help the goofy smile that made it onto his face as he thought about the fiery girl and how when they touched it felt as if the warmth from her hand set his body on fire, spreading like wildfire. Making him feel as if his heart exploded in a burst in white heat, talk about a real heart burn. Only for it to settle into a warm fuzzy feeling that made him feel so euphoric he still had yet to get over it.
"-ally, Wally, WALLY!" someone said rudely bringing said boy back to reality.
"Huh...?" he asked still a little dazed
"Hey are you okay KF? You've been staring into the distance with a weird look on your face." Robin said concern obvious in his best friend's voice.
"Yeah kid mouth this is the longest you've gone without running your mouth." Artemis said in her usual sassy way.
Wally blinked then smiled brightly "What? I'm fine I don't talk all the time ya know."
And with that everyone exchanged wary looks, dropping the subject and went back to what was being discussed. Wally couldn't help but let a tiny smirk onto his lips as he thought how there was nothing wrong how could there be, wrong...? HA! How things were far from it actually.
~~~~~~Kyro's home dimension~~~~~
"Hey look at that, mom's calling you." Damaris said to her little brother.
Anthony looked at his big sister in boredom "So..."
"So, get out of my room you little shit!" the red headed girl cursed pushing her little brother out of her room and slamming the door behind him.
Damaris made her way back over to her bed and stretched out across it laying flat on her stomach. Scooping up her phone, she dialed her best friend's number and put it up to her ear waiting for Kyro to pick up. Damaris didn't wait long, but instead of her teal haired friend it was her answering machine and the dial tone before it cut off.
Damaris made a worried face "That's not right..." she trailed off.
The red haired girl pressed redial as a bad feeling set in like something horrible was going to happen. When she got nothing but Kyro's answering machine again only made the feeling worse.
Oh yeah, something was definitely wrong.
Well, that's all for now folks :) but read and review and I'll remember to get back to writing! Bye for now! :D
