Four years later...
August 16th, 2010
I ran as fast as I could to the terminal. I mean, I was really excited to back home and I NEED to see my friends ASAP. My brown hair bounced as my ponytail flew behind me. I got the baggage claim and was ecstatic when my bag was one of the first out. I grabbed and ran out to main lobby. I looked around for sec hoping that Hal was here already but I didn't see him anywhere.
"Looking for someone tyke?"
I spin around to see my brother, Hal, standing behind me. "Hal!" I shout as I embrace him in a hug. "What, you couldn't survive a month without me?"
"I so did. I bet you were the one who was lonely.", I say back, smirking.
"Well I got a month free of 'parental duties'." He said. "Says the man child.", I say back with a giggle. "Hey! I'm not a man child.", he glares back.
"Whatever. But we need to get to the car. I promised my friends I'd meet them for the stream in an hour.", I whined with puppy eyes. Puppy eyes ALWAYS work on Hal. Especially if it's from me.
"Ok, ok tyke. You got an hour."
"But I want to get there early.", I whined. I may be a Sophmore, but I am still 12.
"Ok then we'll just drop your bags of at the apartment and I'll drive-" "NO! I'm walking!", I interrupt.
"Whatever floats your boat tyke. Time to go.", Hal said in relaxed manner as he grabs my bag. We walk out to the car and he throws my bag in the trunk. I hope into the front seat with my backpack and we drive off from the airport.
The car ride was silent for the first 10 minutes before I remembered two things. "Hey, how'd the protege thing at the Hall go?" I said as I casually played with my hair. Hal almost choked on the coffee he was drinking. "I take it they found out about the watchtower or some shit like that." I say.
"Something like that.", he says nervously. "Did something else happen?", I ask as we pull up to the apartment building.
"Um..well.. Oh look! Don't you need to meet your friends?", he responds urgently. I look at the time. "Shizz. I'm late. I'll see you later!" I say as I hope out of the car and run down the sidewalk with my backpack. I turn to corner and run down an alley way before I proceed to fade into a cluster of sparkles.
At the mountain...
"Hey M'gann, what you watching?" Artemis asked as she looked over M'gann's shoulder, who was sitting on the couch. "I'm on this site called YouTube and I found these really funny bunch of kids called the DotS Crew!"
"I've heard of them. It's a group of five channels with around 12,000,000 subscribers total. Their younger than us if I'm right.", Artemis said as she watched the video M'gann was watching. It was of two girls, one with blonde hair and one with ginger hair. They looked like they were eating jellybeans(It's the Bean-Boozled Challenge!). They both laugh when the blonde started cheering and the ginger got up and started running to a trash can. "Well that concludes this video! Make sure you slap that like button and leave a comment on what our next challenge video should be. This is DotS Tourmaline-" "-And DotS Scarlet! *gags*" "Signing out! Buh-bye!". The video ended with one of the two girls waving goodbye and started to play the outtro music.
"Are you two watching DotS Crew?", Robin asked as he walked into the room with Wally. "I love the DotS Crew! They're so funny! I heard they're live streaming on Twitch right now.", Wally said as he ran over to the laptop.
"What's a live stream?", Superboy asked as he walked, having heard the conversation with his super hearing.
"I believe it is where people do things online in real time.", Kaldur responded as he walked in behind Superboy.
"Do you guys want to watch it?", Robin asked as he walked over the computer and started typing.
"Definitely!", M'gann and Wally shouted. Everyone stared at Wally. "What? I like watching Richard's channel."
"And there we go.", Robin said as he finished typing. The tv flickered before it showed what was currently on M'gann's computer. Wally took the computer from M'gann and pulled up twitch. He quickly found their twitch channel. When they pulled it up, the stream hadn't started yet. "We need popcorn!", M'gann said as she dragged Artemis to kitchen with her as the boys say in living room. The girls came back with 6 bowls of popcornv just as the stream started and they both settled down in their seats.
The stream cut to four people sitting what looked like a living room. "Hej all you moon sprites. It's DotS Tourmaline and today I am here with the whole crew.", the blonde, Tourmaline, started. "Siku njema all my falcons out there. DotS Richard here.", the black boy with dreadlocks said(it is not racist cause I'm black and I'm saying it.) "Hello all my beautiful color spirits. It's DotS Scarlet here." , the ginger said in a thick British accent. "Ciao all my friends. My name is DotS Carter.", a boy with a awkward curl said in an Italian accent. "Now you all my be thinking that's not all of you because there's suppose to be five of you.", Tourmaline started before being interrupted by Richard. "Our fifth and final member is late but she should be here-" "I'm here!", a girl's voice yelled as blur of brown hair crashed on the floor face first. She immediately sat up and you could see a young girl with a large ponytail. "Hello my starlings! It's DotS Sapphire and I'm back from Japan!" She said with the biggest smile in the world.
"OMG it's THE DotS Sapphire! She hasn't been on uploaded anything new in over a month!", M'gann exclaimed excitedly, squealing in delight.
"Weren't you on Mars over a month ago?", Robin asked.
"Yeah but that doesn't mean I never saw her channel while I was on YouTube."
"Well I think she's kinda cute.", Wally said. "And I think she's 3 years younger than you.", Artemis retorted back.
"Isn't that..." Kaldur said only to look over to see Robin shushing him with a smirk. Back on the stream, the DotS were doing a Q&A.
"Ok, this next question's from Madilicious. 'When is the Richhire ship going to sail?", Scarlet read out loud as Tourmaline and Carter started laughing their heads off, soon joined by Scarlet. Sapphire and Rochard took a moment to process what was said before shouting at the same time, "WHY AM I SHIPPED WITH THIS IDIOT!" The laughter from their friends and their audience got louder as the two started to duke it out, yelling multiple profanities at each other before Tourmaline finally pulled them apart.
"I wonder who they remind me of..", Robin said, stealing a glance at KF and Artemis who were sat on opposite ends of the couch. The team continued to watch the stream for the next hour and half in which the DotS also played some WoW and Overwatch(I can't help myself!).
"And that is all we have for our little 'Welcome home!' Stream for miss Sapphire over here but before we go were gonna play a song for all of you!", Scarlet said with a smile on her face. "You Dotlings have one minute to comment a song and we'll choose from the chat below." Sapphire said as she ran to the computer. She put a finger up before saying "Starting...NOW!"
"Rob give me that computer!", KF said as he sped over and snatched the computer from Robin. He quickly typed something in the stream chat before handing it back over to Robin.
"And...STOP!", Carter said as loudly as he could. "Ok let me look through these...", Sapphire said as she fished through the comments. Her eyes lit up as one caught her eyes and a smile spread across her face. "Ok we have a song request from 'SuperDuperFlashFan'- The team stared at Wally- "he or she would really like us to play Dream & Reality by Area 11.(I am Dave EXCLAMATION MARK Yognau(gh)t and I have the balls!) Ok then lets get to it.", Sapphire said as she flipped the camera around towards a band set up. She and the DotS ran over to the set and got ready.
START SONG HERE
Carter rocked the first keyboard part and soon the rest of the group joined in. Tourmaline on drums, Richard on bass, Scarlet on guitar, and Sapphire was preparing to sing.
Dreams... are realities.
You mean so much to me,
I can't forget the way,
The choice that we made that day.
Brick up the window to block out the world,
200 sleepless nights ago,
Is it worth the risk that we take?
Gambling our youth away,
Waiting and hoping from the side-lines
But this is our moment, it's our chance to shine.
Sapphire did a jumping air guitar before landing and pointing at the camera.
'Cause this feels better than the best thing,
'Cause we are stronger than anything,
We've grown from all the things we've been through,
And they couldn't break us if they wanted to.
The team couldn't help but feel like a magic energy was radiating off of them as they performed.
[Instrumental]
I see, when I close my eyes,
Your smile is brighter than the lights in the skies
Now I put the colour between the lines,
24 years of biding my time.
'Cause this feels better than the best thing,
'Cause we are stronger than anything
We've grown from all the things we've been through,
And they couldn't break us if they wanted to
'Cause this feels better than the best thing,
'Cause we are stronger than anything
We've grown from all the things we've been through,
And they couldn't break us if they wanted to
[Instrumental]
Dreams... are realities.
You mean so much to me,
Umbillical cell phone, wont you tell me what is real?
Lets write our names in history,
Let's make these dreams reality,
'Cause this feels better than the best thing,
'Cause we are stronger than anything
We've grown from all the things we've been through,
And they couldn't break us if they wanted to.
Cause this feels better than the best thing,
'Cause we are stronger than anything
We've grown from all the things we've been through,
And they couldn't break us if they wanted to.
Cause this feels better than the best thing,
Cause this feels better than the best thing,
Cause this feels better than the best thing,
'Cause we are stronger than anything
We've grown from all the things we've been through,
And they couldn't break us if they wanted to.
SONG SHOULD END HERE
The stream shut off a few moments later. "That was awesome!", Wally screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Well, before you start yelling Wally, we need to go pick up someone.", Robin said to the team.
"Who?", Wally asked obliviously.
"The comet of Coast City.", Kaldur said for Robin.
At this, Wally paled and the rest of the team was very confused.