Hey everyone! Sorry for taking so long with this, life got busy! Just wanna say, thanks for the support, it means a lot to me! Again, not trying to offend anyone here, but I just want to get my frustrations out by writing. So here we go! Chapter two! This chapter is dedicated to Annieo for their suggestion! Read, Review, and Enjoy! TO THE BATTLEGROUND!
The court could only be described in one word: Chaos. Everyone was in mad pandemonium as they tried to get a hold on their bearings. Authors squawked and screamed, and the court recorder furiously scribbled down notes. Outside, the press eagerly clicked away with their cameras, documenting this momentous occasion. A Black Limousine rolled up, and the media went crazy. The journalists flocked over, being barred by body guards. The door swung open, Conner and Kaldur stepped out, and the cameras began to flash.
"Keep moving," Conner pushed Kaldur towards the courthouse, avoiding the frenzied crowd.
"But where are the others? Why is it just us?" The Atlantean frowned, searching the crowd for the rest of the team.
Conner's eyes flicked guiltily back to the courthouse doors, "I don't know. Artemis left the cave early this morning, Robin disappeared as we were leaving, and I haven't seen Megan, Wally, or Zatanna all day."
Kaldur pursed his lips,"That is troubling. Wouldn't they be at the trial?"
"Considering how the last one went, I don't think they'd have the stomach to sit through another one," Conner replied gruffly.
"I barely suppressed my own vomit. How can someone make a character so... nice? And boring?" Kaldur winced at the memory." And how could can someone ruin Spitfire?!" He gasped.
"The real question is how can someone like that be related to Robin," Conner rolled his eyes,"The Bats aren't sweet at all. And who the hell has purple eyes?!"
I do not know, my friend. We should head inside, it's probably time for the trial." Kaldur sighed, shaking his head. The pair walked up the stairs, heading into the courthouse. They were surprised to find Artemis already there. She sat in the VIC section, or Very Important Character, her legs propped up on the back of the bench in front of her. "What took you guys so long?" Artemis drawled, lifting a pair of sunglasses off her face.
"We had to get past the major group of fangirls," Conner deadpanned, pointing to a bunch of squealing teens.
Artemis smirked at the girls, then frowned as she craned her neck to glance around the room. "Where's Wally?" Kaldur shrugged, then noticed someone storming down the aisle.
"Crock," Mr. Lawyer snarled, his eyes narrowed,"What are you doing? Aren't you supposed to be up there, ready for the trial?" He pointed an accusatory finger at Artemis. She wasn't the least bit fazed.
"Someone else is taking over tonight, Mr. Lawyer." She smirked. Inwardly, the man began to panic. He had been prepared to go against Artemis tonight, and did extensive research on her strategies and tactics.
"But-but who's the prosecutor?!" Mr. Lawyer stuttered, horrified at the situation now before the door to the courtroom swung open, and all the occupants gasped dramatically.
"You're looking at her," A familiar voice floated from the door.
"Megan?" Conner gaped. He hadn't been expecting that.
His girlfriend looked ready for business dressed in a white blouse, black pencil skirt, and black pumps. She adjusted a pair of box glasses on her face, and smirked at the lawyer. "Hello Conner!" She sang.
"What are you-"
"I'm the prosecution!" Megan gave him jazz hands, a bright grin on her face.
Artemis smirked at the lawyer, "Megan usually interrogates people telepathically, but I wanted to give her a shot at interrogating those on the stand." Mr. Lawyer paled and tried to come up with an answer, but he was interrupted by the sound of a gavel.
"All rise for his majesty Wally West!" A voice crowed. Artemis' mouth popped open at the sight of her boyfriend dressed in a judge's robe and sitting in the chair. "Wally?! Where's Zatanna?!"
"Oh... Well... You see, she's a bit... Busy at the moment." The ginger speedster chuckled nervously, a bead of sweat slipping down his forehead from his girlfriend's intense gaze.
"Wally... What. Did. You. Do?" Artemis gritted her teeth and stood up. Conner and Kaldur immediately rushed between the two of them, intent on protecting Wally from her wrath. She jabbed an accusatory finger towards her boyfriend,"You may be fast, but you will never be able to outrun me."
"I know that babe," He laughed nervously, then quickly slammed down the gavel." That's why I call order in the court!" She threw her hands up, then sat down. Wally sighed with relief,"May the defendant take the stand?"
It was at that moment that the courtroom doors swung open, and someone strode in. A teenage girl with jet black hair and sunglasses strode in, dressed in black catsuit. "Defendant is present!" The girl deadpanned. Megan quickly began to analyze the girl, then waved to her like she was an old friend.
"Oh, sweet Jesus. What have I agreed to?" Wally pinched the bridge of his nose, then banged the gavel down. "Alright! Get up on that stand!" He pointed to the chair.
The girl rolled her eyes,"Don't rush me or I'll obliterate you." She slowly strolled up to the stand, kicking her feet up on the table.
Kaldur blinked," Well, that was random."
"That's slightly annoying, but moving on!" Wally shuffled some papers, then narrowed his eyes at the defendant's move. "Feet down. This isn't your mother's house." Wally snapped his fingers, and the girl reluctantly puts her feet down.
"State your name for the court." Megan stood up, assessing the defendant.
"Shade."
"That's... that's it? No last name?" Megan frowned slightly, glancing unsurely at Artemis. "You don't have, like, five other names?"
"No. It's just Shade," The girl snapped angrily.
"Okay..." Megan stared at her, then cleared her throat. "Can you tell us your origin story?"
"That's confidential. My mentor wants me to keep my identity a secret." Shade snapped, rolling her pink eyes.
Conner winced from the back of the room," She's so... Edgy. And weird."
Megan laughed darkly, then narrowed her eyes. "Do you realize what charge you have been brought up on? You are facing Canon Character copying of the First Degree!" She jabbed a finger at Shade, and the Jury gasped at the development. Canon Character copying was a very serious charge around here, one that could result in banishment from the fandom. "Now, there is any hope for you to be pronounced Not Guilty, I suggest you answer my questions." The Martian finished.
Shade didn't even look miffed by Megan's explanation." Fine." She rolled her eyes," My parents and I were some acrobats working at a circus, then they died when I was young. I went to an orphanage, where Catwoman took me in."
"That sounds... Oddly familiar. It sounds a bit like Robin's background, actually." Megan raised an eyebrow.
"Objection!" Mr. Lawyer shot up from his seat." Robin was adopted by Batman. Shade was adopted by Catwoman." He straightened his tie and smirked at Megan, pleased with the point he made.
Meanwhile, in the back of the courtroom, Artemis was taking in everything that was being said up there."That sounds a lot like Robin, actually." Artemis mumbled from her seat in the crowd. She was analyzing the case on her own, even though she wasn't the prosecution.
"Tell me about it." A man sitting next to her, dressed in a trench coat and fedora hat, rolled his eyes. Artemis blinked, seeing the man. She hadn't noticed him sit down next to her.
Aqualad squinted her eyes at the newcomer, trying to figure out why he sounded so familiar. He gasped sharply, recognizing the sound of his voice, and shook his head. "Robin?"
"Shhhhh!" Robin quickly hushed her, motioning for her to be quiet. He glanced around furtively, then relaxed." I'm going incognito right now. The fangirls are after me. They haven't left me alone all day." Artemis and Kaldur peeked out the courthouse window, and true to his word a gaggle of fangirl waited by the entrance, all wondering where Batman's protege had gone.
"Fangirls?" Kaldur raised an eyebrow. "How come I do not have these problems?"
"It's a curse, Kaldur. You really don't want to have hordes of fangirls obsessing over you all the time." Robin shuddered. "It's horrifying."
Judge West noticed the whispering people in the back, then slammed his gavel down." Quiet in the name of the law!" He shouted. Artemis rolled her eyes, but shut up.
"Now, let's see..." Megan looked at a long list of questions she had prepared. "What do you do on the team?"
"I'm a hacker, fighter, spy, and an unofficial-but-everyone-still-listens-to-me-leader." Shade rattled of a list.
"So... you do everything. Great." Wally snorted, rolling his eyes.
Megan chewed her bottom lip, her face blank. "You say you fight for the team. How good are you in combat?" She mused.
"I'm better than Robin at hand to hand and armed combat, and I'm a better hacker. Thanks to the training with Catwoman, it makes me superior to every member on the team in every way." She smirked. The jury muttered amongst themselves.
"Let me get this straight." Megan rubbed her temple." You can take on the boy who was trained by Batman for years, the boy who is one of the strongest fighters on the team? And beat him?" She stared at Shade.
"Yep," The defendant shrugged. Shade didn't look bothered at all by this obvious display of OP-ness, but Megan certainly was.
"Alright," Megan was greener than usual from hearing this." Now... what about a love interest?" She asked. The entire courtroom was silent as Shade simply smirked at them. Artemis gave Wally a distrustful glare.
"My writer paired me with Robin, although I don't know where he's at right now." Shade deadpanned, scanning the crowd for him. Robin, still sitting in the back, paled a bit and glanced towards the exit. If he was quick he could still escape while he had his dignity... But no. He had to support his team. They were fighting up there for him, after all.
"What is your... Relationship... Like?" Megan asked, cringing at the word.
"Well, at first Robin was enamored by this enigmatic girl who was hacking into his personal records. He wanted to know who she was, and struggled with my mysteriousness. Then they met out on the streets while he was on patrol. I'm a real bad girl, so I stole something right in front of him, then taunted him. We fought, and me being the better fighter, I won. He was immediately drawn to my superior smarts, fighting skills, and hacking. But we were star-crossed, as the protégés of Catwoman and Batman, and horrified that we could never be together. But Robin discussed it with Batman, and he decided to let his son be with his one true love. And in the end, he reveals his secret identity-"
"That is so OOC of me!" Robin whipped off his fedora and trench coat, prompting a dramatic gasp from the jury. "And Batman too!"
"He's interrupting the trial!" Mr. Lawyer protested to Judge West.
Wally leaned forward eagerly, "I want to see where this is going."
"I would never reveal my identity, and Batman is not that mushy. The author totally portrayed me wrong." Robin growled to Mr. Lawyer. "The Canons are so out of character!"
"Justice must be served. It must be swift. It must be merciless." Megan adjusted her glasses. "The prosecution rests." She walked back to her seat.
Mr. Lawyer simply stared at her, wondering what tricks the Martian was hiding up her sleeve. Little did he know, the telepath was working on her closing statements. And boy, were they a knockout. He stood up, his eyes sweeping the crowd as he tried to figure out a plan of attack.
"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury," He began, smoothing out his tie. "As you can see here, Miss Shade is a valuable member to the team, clearly one of the strongest. She saves her comrades multiple times throughout her story. She even has a rest romance, a criminal and misguided teen who suddenly goes good from forbidden love. Robin's love for her is what saves her in the end. And so, ladies and gentlemen, my client is obviously not a Sue. Need I explain more?"
"Thank you Mr. Lawyer. Prosecution, your statement." Wally leaned back in his chair, a bit bored with the way the proceedings were going. He was glad he wasn't the object of the defendant's interests, but was still bored with her whole character. She was just...blegh. Not impressive in the least.
Megan stood up eagerly, making her glasses slip down her nose. She pushed them back up, then gathered her papers." Ladies and gentlemen. The person you see before you on trial... is a Sue." Megan pointed at Shade, prompting a gasp from the audience. "This is character... Is not even an OC. She's a carbon copy of Robin. She has almost the exact same backstory-"
"Catwoman! Shade was adopted by Catwoman!" Mr. Lawyer interrupted.
"Continue!" Wally slammed his gavel down.
"She's aloof and mysterious, exactly like him, was trained like him, and put on the team! She's a Carbon copy! And the author even had the gall to make her more powerful than Robin!" Megan protested to the court. "Down with this horror! Justice must be dealt swiftly and fairly! How many characters do you know hat are better hackers than Robin? None! And who on the team would even make her the leader? No one! So I must say, it's quite plain to see, she's a Sue!"
The courtroom was in complete chaos now. Some of the jury yelling at Shade, and some of the bitter authors yelling at Megan. No one could believe that the prosecutor could be so vicious on the stand.
"Order!" Wally roared, slamming his gavel down. The handle snapped off as he banged it, and his green eyes widened. "Oh no. What did Zatanna do to this thing?" He whispered, gritting his teeth. Glancing around quickly, Wally pocketed the two pieces of the gavel inconspicuously.
As the courtroom quieted down, Megan gave Shade and Mr. Lawyer a smug smile. "The prosecution rests," She purred, then sauntered back to her seat.
"Well, to wrap this up, I'd like to say good job to everyone!" Wally chuckled nervously, turning the broken gavel over in his hand. This looked old. And expensive. Zatanna was going to kill him, he knew it. "Has the jury reached a verdict?" He called loudly.
"We have, your honor," One of them stood up, clearing their throat. "We, the jury, find Shade with-no-last-name to be guilty of Canon Character copying of the First Degree."
Robin let out a sigh of relief, and slumped back against the bench he was sitting on. "Thank god. I don't think I could have handled being shipped with her. That has the be one of the worst Sue's we've seen yet!"
"Do not worry, my friend. We will make sure no one else is paired with you." Aqualad patted his arm.
Robin winced,"Or else Zatanna is going to kill me." He sighed. It was at that moment the doors to the courtroom swung open, and a gaggle of teenagers bust in.
"It's the fangirls!" Artemis hissed, jumping to her feet.
"There they are!" One of the girls screeched, pointing a finger at him.
"Robin! Run!" Conner shouted, struggling to hold back the wave of fangirls that surged towards him. Robin cried out, then threw a smoke bomb, making the courtroom fill with a thick, black smoke.
"Order!" Wally yelled, but it was futile to regain peace. The team was scrambling out of the room, using the smokescreen as a cover. He pinched his nose, then decided to continue with the proceedings, even with the pandemonium in the courtroom. "I sentence Shade to banishment from the FanFiction community! Have a nice day!"
There we are! The long awaited Part 2! You can kinda tell where I stopped writing, because that's where I lost my inspiration and mojo with this story. Sorry if the ending is choppy, I tried. :(
Well, tell me what you think and if you'd like to see another chapter! Thanks!
~Plot Queen Quinn
Review Responses:
Argentum: Haha, I know. The Lorien trials seem like a good book, I never read it although I might now. Thanks for the review! XD
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Annieo: Here you are, a Catwoman OC chapter. Thanks for the suggestion, if you have any more, tell me! Thanks for the review!
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Guest: Thanks! I'm not too good at Satire, but I made an effort with this one. I read Less than Zero, and I have to thank you. It's an awesome fanfic! I love it! :D
Rookblonkorules: Exactly! Canons are so developed and amazing! They're my precious little babies! But making an OC is fun too, you just have to know how to make them realistic. Shade and Amethyst are not realistic.
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