"Initation." Hellfire mutters. "Perfect."

She's sitting on a couch surrounded by the titans. Robin glances at the time and starts speaking.

"I'm going to ask you a few questions, okay? One person's gonna ask one question." he looks at her, and the bored girl gives a thumbs-up. She starts taking off her coat and her hat.

"What's that?" Raven points to three necklaces hanging around Hellfire's neck. They're the size of regular jewelry, and for some reason all three are made of silver.

"Oh, these. This is the eye of horus, a protection symbol. This one's ankh. Symbol of life, blah, blah, blah. I don't really need it, but my dad made me wear it. Like I said, asshat. The last one's the star of david. Blah, blah, blah. Can we go on now?"

"Why are they all silver?"

"Cause I like silver. They're nice. If dad doesn't give me a choice, then at least he could make it un-goldy."

"You really hate your dad, don't you?"

"What? No! I actually kinda like him! Just that he's, you know, an asshat."

"Okay." Robin interrupts. "First question: would you give up your life to save the world?"

"My dad would kill me again, but yup." Jo leans back and closes her eyes.

"BBs question: do you like tofu?" Beast boy hopes for a yes.

The other members glare at him.

"Kinda." Jo shrugs.

"Third! Do you like playing video games?" Cyborg jumps with excitement.

"Kinda." Jo shrugs again.

Starfire raises her hand. "Do you like zorkaberries?"

Jo shrugs for the third time. "Maybe. Probably."

Raven hovers up to Hellfire.

"Do you read books?"

"Yes."

Raven sighs in relief. "Finally. Someone else who reads books around here."

The titans look at each other.

"Well, one stage left."

"What stage?"

"Going through the training program Cy built."

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The titans sit at the scoreboard.

"So this is how it works. It's simple: smash all the machines as fast and effective as you can."

"Okay." Hellfire fingers her coat and takes out the cubit-long stick.

"Three." Cyborg starts counting down, and Hellfire gets in position.

"Two. One. Start!" The machines activate, the stopwatch counts up, and Hellfire starts running. She dodges a blast, gets to the offending machine, grabs a wire and yanks it out. The whole machine shuts down. Jo gathers up a ball of energy in her hand and throws it, and the other machine explodes. A blast hits the place right next to her, so she rolls, blocks the next blast with a shield and parries the next with her silver rod.

"Two machines in 9.8 seconds." Cyborg says.

Hellfire twirls the stick, lengthening it into a bo staff like Robin's, and swings the staff. It hits the third machine and the mechanical weapon flies off its hinges, and crashes into the next blaster.

"A few more to go." Raven grumbles.

Hellfire throws a disc that latches onto the next blaster and explodes on impact.

"Why isn't she using magic?" Beast boy scratches his head. "I mean, it's pretty handy."

The initiating girl launches herself at the last machine using her staff, it shrinks back into a baton and she sticks a small round thing to the last one. Electricity flows out of it and shuts down the last machine.

The titans walk over.

"Well?" The exhausted girl runs a hand through her hair. "How'd I do?"

Robin smiles and looks at the rest of his teammates.

"No arguments there." He says. "You're on the team, all right."

"Can I ask you one question, though?" Beast boy raises a hand.

"Yeah."

"Why didn't you use magic?" the green boy inquires.

"Because," Hellfire explains, "I just prefer stuff un-magicky. Like, my dad does too. He only uses magic if he can't help it or if he's caught in a robbery or something. We prefer stuff like tricking people. Hitting certain unflattering not-necessarily-humans. Maybe we'll use mind control once in a while, though. I kinda like mind control." The girl looks at Beast boy doubtfully. "Maybe."

"Got it."