Author's Note:
Thanks for the reviews. They were all so wonderful. I am actually making this a three-parter.
This is my first time writing a comedy fic, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoy writing it.
Enjoy and please review at the end.
Thanks,
Neo
Onto The Story:
How unreliable... Raya flashed back to what Rei had said earlier in the diner and scowled. Walking forward, she pulled her fiance's shoulder back and stood on the ledge of the rooftop of the building. A twitch developed over her brow that she couldn't stop.
"Fenix," the hoarse voice of Batman came from behind her. She didn't need to turn around to know that his face matched her own, his eyes possibly throwing daggers and his lips like a baby about to cry. The look would scare even a demon, but she'd grown accustomed to it. "We have to figure out..."
"Now I understand why..." Raya interrupted, her eyes not once leaving the 'monster' below her, her baby bird.
"Rae, you understand what?" One of them had said, but her mind was so far gone, their voices sounded like the same person.
"I understand why Lifetime movies are only about the mothers who would do anything to save their babies." Raya turned to the two of them; she was sure that they could see the confusion in her face. She held her hand over her chest, wondering why she couldn't feel pain in her chest when her baby bird was in trouble.
"We'll find a way to get him back to normal..."
She turned to see Sailor Mars shoot fire towards Damian. Shaking her head, she looked back at Robin and Batman. "You do that. I have other plans." Before either one could reply, she flipped backwards into the battlefield.
"Rin, pyou, tou, sha, kai, jin, retsu, zai, zen..." Raya couldn't understand what Sailor Mars was saying. She was sure that she heard an element or two then suddenly saw her take out a few papers out of thin air then screamed, "Akuryo taisan!"
Raya's eyes widened. 'Evil spirit, be gone' was the one thing was the one thing she understood. This woman was trying to exorcise him. At least, she hoped that was her purpose.
The Damian-monster easily dodged the attack then ran forward with speed that could only be matched by Flash. Mars, however, didn't move but rather closed her eyes as a flash of light got close but then was stopped by what appeared a hundred of those same papers surrounding him.
He froze in place, but he seemed to struggling to get out of an invisible bind.
"Mars Flame!" An arrow of fire came out of nowhere, the violet eyed soldier held it and aimed it at the 'monster!'
"Stop!" Fenix screamed out, throwing a stolen batarang at the other woman's wrist. Unsurprisingly, she dodged it and caught it on its way back then looked back at the woman who'd thrown the weapon.
Sailor Mars didn't say a word, just crossed her arms as if to say that she needed an explanation.
"That's just a boy!" Fenix screamed, "He's just a little boy... you can't kill him."
Mars frowned slightly and looked at the monster then at her. "So, Sailor Moon didn't send you in her place?"
Fenix furrowed her brows. Does she even care about what I said? "Unfortunately not."
Sighing, Mars looked back at the monster again, her expression softening then growing into confusion. "You sure he's not a monster?"
"That boy is important to me." Raya confirmed.
"Oh."
"Oh?"
There was silence. Raya could mentally place this in her diary as the most awkward moment in her entire life as a hero.
"Is your name Fenix?"
"Y-yea..." What does this have to do with anything?
"Oh... Hi."
Raya's fist tightened, annoyed and mentally crossing out the idea that Sailor Mars and Rei Hino were one and the same, leaving Clark and Connor as the only two heroes who considered changing clothes to be a good enough disguise. "You realize that we're in an important fight, right?"
Mars scratched her head. "Yes." She looked back at the monster, her expression serious and slightly annoyed but turned and smiled the most unrefined grin she'd ever seen. Definitely not Rei. Not even a little bit.
"Then why would you..."
"Mercury says I need to work on my social skills with other heroes."
"Oh... that makes sense." I say the same thing to Bruce all the time.. and Damian. And Tim... Now, I'm glad they don't listen.
Mars nodded, but she looked as confused as Raya felt.
"Slash attack!" Raya turned to the Damian-monster and saw a wave of white energy shooting towards her, the sound of men's girly laughter and grunts getting closer as the attack got closer. The ground quaked and she could hear the wind cracking against it.
Instinctively, Raya threw her arms up, knowing it was all over.
She could hear screams, but they all sounded filtered.
'Fenix!'
'Fenix!'
Everything went black.
20 Years Ago
"Why did you come back for me?" Raya asked the dark-haired teen. She'd told her to escape, but instead, the priestess had come back and risked her life.
Rei sat beside her, staring at her feet and holding her bow and arrows close to her chest. "Grayson-san says that you're a lot stronger than you think you are." she deflected.
What does that idiot know? Raya scowled. What was he doing talking to Rei about her anyways? She didn't need some stupid girl thinking she knew her. As if she didn't have enough people pulling her strings. Everyone claimed to know what was best for her, acted like she had to this to be able to get that, but she was no one's puppet. Not her uncle's, not Dick's, not Barbara, and definitely not this wannabe psychic girl.
"But I think he's wrong..."
Raya stood up, feeling heat behind her eyes, infuriated with the girl before her. She watched as Rei nonchalantly got up after her, barely fazed after saying something so crude.
"I think you're perfect."
Raya's eyes narrowed. She couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or genuine, but the latter was becoming less and less likely after seeing how the girl was barely taking the time to explain herself.
"You're perfectly broken," Rei finally said, looking away. "I guess that's what makes you fit into Wayne-san and his son's world so well. You're so perfectly broken, but every piece is there, and right now, you can either be glued back together..."
Raya froze, listening.
"You can be ripped apart, but you can also be rebuilt from the ground up."
"What the hell does that even mean?"
Rei sighed. "You're a phoenix."
"A-a what?"
"The phoenix will live on forever - no matter how many times the flames are put out. You will come out stronger and you'll fight harder."
Raya scowled, stretching her fist out. "You coulda started with that first, yanno?" This girl was just so weird.
Rei smiled slightly. "Yeah, but then I wouldn't have caught your attention."
"So I'm a Phoenix, eh?"
Present Day
Dust crowded her senses, and she could feel moisture underneath her. Looking up, Raya saw Batman covering her, his arm cut deep. "Why don't you ever listen?" Blood was dripping down onto her and into the ground.
"W-why would you?" Raya quickly caught her composure then grinned, "Like father, like faux-daughter.."
Bruce smirked. "Sheesh, between you and Dick..."
"Besides," Raya said, silently watching his wound, wondering how bad it was and trying to keep him calm and make sure he wasn't losing too much blood, she added, "Why should I listen when you don't?"
The sound of the wave came forth like the boom of a bomb, but this time, she was sure they wouldn't be so lucky to live.
"Mars Crystal Power!" Sailor Mars screamed out, her entire body glowing red as she stood in front of them, holding the attack back. Her energy created a barrier of heat around them. Then, without saying a word, she threw the older man on her shoulder and ran off into the alleyway.
Raya, seeing him being moved, quickly followed after Mars.
The girl was quick for someone running in red high heels that would make a prostitute trip over their own feet.
"Fenix," Sailor Mars said, her posture nothing like the awkward woman she'd seen before. "I need to fight this monster my way."
"There is a boy in there..."
Mars scowled. "I'm well-aware, but he's on a time limit also." Her violet eyes stared coldly into the Fenix. "The creature that has taken over him hasn't completely possessed him, but it will if I have to fight against you and him."
Raya felt her knees weaken underneath her. "How did it happen?"
"He's a monster created through a demon that was stalking innocent hearts through fanfiction."
Raya quirked an eyebrow. How did she say that with a serious face? A fanfiction monster? How could that ever be a thing?
"So that slash attac-" Fenix looked up only to see Mars had already left. "Freaking brilliant... even Sailor Mars disappears before people finish talking."
A fanfiction monster, a hurt Batman, a girl that was more confusing than Damian, Raya could, at least, tell the Teen Titans an interesting story after this was over. Crouching beside Batman, she saw the alley way had been covered by those papers that she'd seen the sailor soldier using earlier.
She lifted his arm, only to find that he'd been crudely wrapped. "Bruce, I'll bring Damian back, I promise," she whispered and hugged the unconscious man.
Fenix scaled the walls, taking a distant approach. Bruce was right despite her need to get down and dirty quick and finish the mission quickly; it wasn't the right approach. She needed to figure out his weakness in this strange form and work it from there. Maybe, Mars was wrong, and Dick could create a medicinal way to get it out.
Mars could do her thing, sure, but Fenix was going to do things her way also.
She filled her hands with tranquilizers, and guessing by the size of the thing, she'd probably need more but for now, this was gonna do. Running rooftop to rooftop, she could see her fiance from the distance. He had a plan, she could tell. Now to see whose plan would work faster.
Fenix jumped off the building, throwing all ten tranquilizers through the air and into her target.
Fanfiction Monster turned around, twisting his arm in front of him, the needles landing perfectly.
"Ooh, you think you know this plot, don't cha?" An effeminate voice shot forth.
"Keep your attention on me!" Mars screamed.
"Sure thing..." it said then suddenly a copy of himself came from him and faced his attention towards the monster. "Only if you like whump!"
Raya scratched the back of her head. "Nobody likes that smut."
"Oh really?" The fanfiction monster roared angrily as he began to make a strange gassy sound, somewhere between a fart and a wave. "WHUMP ATTACK!" The copy of him began to dance with himself, both thrusting their pelvises towards one another, a chain forming from the air and connected to both their wrist.
Fenix ran forward and watched as Mars did the same thing from the other side. Before either could get close, the chains moved outward and slammed into both their bodies, grabbing onto Fenix and flinging her upward.
Fenix screamed as she turned her body in the air, seeing the chain coming forward, aiming for her stomach but before it could hit, Nightwing caught onto her and moved her out of the way.
"Rae, you should really be more careful."
Fenix nodded, not listening. "Was Damian reading a whump/slash fic about you before he got possessed?"
Dick's face turned red. "I thought you blocked that shit."
"Oh like you can talk..."
Dick frowned. "Well, at least, I'm always the man in the relationships."
"Are you serious?" Raya knitted her eyebrows. This was definitely something she needed to know about before they got married. He actually read the stories about himself.
"There was this one about Batgirl and Fenix..."
Raya jumped back into the battlefield. This wasn't a conversation she was ready to discuss. She was sure Crane's going after the Inceptive potion was less scary than what she'd learn about her fiance so close to their wedding day.
"Slash..." Raya was watching the fanfiction monster closely this time, seeing his pelvis extend and go into a strange club beat . "Attack."
This time, she quickly dodged it. Like the fics, she figured the attack only had one purpose. Go straight but also get nowhere. The attack apparently was strong like she'd seen many have a strong following but the stories often went nowhere and as such, the attack also went so many feet only to fade in the air.
"Mars, I figured out his attack pattern."
"You.. did what?"
"Whump attack!" Fenix threw out every batarang she'd stolen from Dick's stolen collection to hit every chain being thrown out.
"Alternative Universe Mist!"
A gray mist covered the entire ground, smoking coming up from a few places. She didn't see this attack coming... or was this a defensive attack? If his attacks were based off a story he read, she could assume that every chapter had an author's note, probably used to defend why people were out of character. It was probably used as a reason to explain people's sexuality in the fic or just because they felt going 'AU' could mean that the rules go out the window.
Of course, those were just her presumptions. Where were Nightwing and Sailor Mars? Was it possible that she'd been sent to another world? This wasn't in her calculations when she had begun to figure everything out.
"Nightwing! Batman!" She called out. Nothing.
She called out once more, and no one answered. She walked for a little bit, but it felt as if the world was going nowhere.
"Raya Kean!" She felt her entire body go cold. That voice... it was so familiar. So nostalgic.
But it was impossible. That person was long gone. "Mommy?"
The fog disappeared, and before her stood a person she'd long known was gone. Her eyes seemed kind, and her posture was inviting. "Mr. Wayne said you'd been having nightmares again. Is that true?"
The nightmares had long stopped. Bruce and her uncle chased those away long ago.
Raya stayed silent.
"I'm so sorry... so sorry..."
The woman reached out her hand and touched her face. Raya shivered, remembering the last time she'd seen her mother, the blood on her face, her hair ripped out of her scalp and her face mangled by the fist of the man she married.
Tears slid down the woman's cheek. "Raya Kean-Berkeley, stay with me."
"Bruce needs me."
"You'll never hurt again, Raya... stay with me."
"Damian will have no one who can..."
Raya's mother hugged onto her. "I'm lonely."
"And Dick..."
"Raya, please, you'll find greater happiness here with me. I'll stop the nightmares. I will keep you warm. You can find a new baby birdie."
Raya's eyes widened, shock filled her, and fear shrouded her soul.
"Stay with me."