A/N: I hope this is good! Not a lot of action, especially compared to the intro, but I hope you like it! And to those of you who are going to say, "What's happening? This doesn't have anything to do with the last chapter!" The last chapter was an introduction, a peek into the life of Koti Grayson. I couldn't resist putting it in!
Disclaimer: I only own my OCs and the story plot. I am not making money off of this. All rights to their respective owners.
_Chapter One_
I started walking home, school having just let out.
"Koti!" I heard someone call my name.
I turned around to be met with the sight of my best friend Amanda running toward me. Her long, curly, light brown hair was coming out of its ponytail.
"Hey Amy… what's wrong?" I asked her.
Just then I heard a loud crashing sound, but paid no mind to it.
"The teachers are gone! I was walking down the halls, passed by the teachers' lounge and saw them. I remember I need to talk to Miss Boyd, so I go back, and they're gone!" she says, worry clear in her brown eyes.
"What do you want me to do?"
"Well, duh. I was thinking you could call the police commissioner. He is your dad, after all," she replies, handing me her cell phone.
I dial the Blüdhaven Police Department's private number instead of 911, while Amy fixes her hair. After no one picked up, and the noises became louder and more frequent, I began to worry.
"No answer," I tell her solemnly, closing her phone and handing it to her.
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We had agreed to go to our own homes and "wait and see what happens." I rushed in through the front door of my house.
"Calm down. Yeesh, where's the fire?" my older brother, Jacob, commanded from the living room, having come home before me.
"There isn't one yet, but there might be one soon." I said, running upstairs to get my halo-glove. Yes, I always have my utility belt with me, but not always my costume.
Jacob rolled his eyes, not believing me, "If this is another of your practical jokes –"
I slammed my door, not waiting to hear the rest. I put on my glove and started quickly typing. I heard my brother come into my light pink room, tripping over my rollerblades I had forgotten to put away. I hear him mutter something about my room being messy as he kicked a soccer ball that I hadn't yet put into the garage out of his way.
'And yet his room is messier…' I think to myself.
"So what's going on?"
I smirked at how clueless my brother could be sometimes. By the way he asked that question, I could tell he wanted a chance to show off his powers.
"Look outside," I answered, not stopping for a second.
As I said that I finished searching through Facebook profiles. I know Facebook is old, but it's still popular.
"Look, a lot of people are saying their parents disappeared. By the looks of it, they're not adults," I informed. I searched a different chatting site. "And look, here too!"
Jacob came over and read a couple of messages, "What are you waiting for, we have to go. Suit up!" he commanded, saying a spell.
I put on my Robin costume and, without waiting for Jacob, grappled to the roof of a nearby building. I saw a lot of car crashes, kids yelling, teens taking advantage of having no supervision, and other forms of chaos. I was about to grapple down and help people when Jacob, dressed as Jaiten, appeared next to me, but I acted unsurprised.
"What the heck was that? You disappear without warning, not bothering to tell me where you're going! Oh, wait, of course you did! You're an immature little girl who shouldn't even be a hero!" he ranted.
I reply, "First of all, I don't have powers, I didn't disappear. Second, I have just as much of a right to be a hero as you do. Thirdly, I thought you would know the best place to be within reasonable distance to observe this kind of stuff, and meet me here."
"How would I know that? I can't read your mind like Martian Manhunter!"
I heard a kid screaming, so I grappled down. I followed the sound to a stopped car, that was apparently locked. I easily picked the lock on the door, and crawled to the back seat. After unbuckling the about five-year-old boy, I carried him to the sidewalk. I didn't feel good about leaving him there, but couldn't think of anything else.
"Stay here unless you're in trouble. If you need my help, scream."
"I want my mommy," he said as he started crying.
"I will find your mommy, I promise."
I sprinted to help the next person, then thought of an idea.
"We should gather everyone at the public high school nearest them," I informed Jai via comm. link.
"Robin, where are you now!"
"Doesn't matter, just help people and tell them what I told you while I hack this radio station's antenna and distribute a signal to every screen in Blüdhaven and its surrounding cities."
He gave me no reply, but I knew he would do it. I started furiously typing, easily hacking into the station. It took awhile because of how big a signal I would have to distribute. I rewired the antenna so that the signal would be visual, not audio. I typed in what I wanted to appear on all the screens, and hit enter.
Immediately I saw, 'Go to your local high school. Older teens, step up and care for the younger kids. The adults will be found soon,' on some screens near me.
"Uh, did you do that?" Jaiten questioned through his communicator.
Figuring that he meant the message, I replied, "Yeah."
So we continued helping people and bringing them to the closest high school, when a bank alarm went off.
'About time,' I thought to myself. When I arrived I saw Jaiten already fighting some teens that looked like they lived on the street, not even really having to use his powers. I ran over and knocked out the rest.
Jaiten turned around, annoyance laced in his voice, "I had them."
"Of course you did. You have magical powers, you're invincible," I sarcastically replied. "Well I have powers, but I'm also older than you. I don't need your help."
"So you're not invincible?" I teased with a smirk.
He glared as well as he could, but I was unfazed.
'Heh, that's not half as scary as the batglare.'
Then I realized something. Batman, Talon, Red, and BG would all have disappeared, leaving Gotham unprotected. Even though the adults would be gone, there were a few teenagers that would wreak havoc, just like Shadow will here if she escapes prison. I widen my eyes under my mask as I realize all of the things that could happen. I pull up the halo-computer on my glove and look up which jail she's in, then start running out of the bank.
"Dloh reh!" Jaiten exclaimes, then I'm unable to move. "Where are you going now?"
"To check on Shadow. You forgot about your girlfriend already?"
"She is not my girlfriend!"
"How about this, I go check Gotham, while you go check Shadow and keep everything here under control."
I'm worried about Blüdhaven, but Gotham is just as bad a city. Blüdhaven used to be worse than Gotham, but with four heroes protecting it, they're about the same.
"How are you going to get to Gotham? I could get there faster," Jaiten argues.
"Well Gotham knows me. And, just my luck, there's a motorcycle right there," I say, pointing to it.
"Fine, I'll stay here and check on Shay."
"Aw, now you're at the nickname stage! You two make such a cute couple!" I teased. Shay was the nickname we sometimes called Shadow, who was a 17 year old villainess, the same age as my brother.
"Just go. Tel reh og."
I smirked as I made my way over to the fallen motorcycle. It's scratched, but overall it's nice, in good condition.
'When we get the adults back from – uh, wherever they are – someone's gonna miss this. Well, small price to pay for your life.'
I get on and find the keys still in and the engine on, so I won't have to wait for it to warm up. I rev the engine a couple times, just to hear it and feel the gentle vibration. I could have called my bike, but I wanted to see what a real, unmodified one was like. I start heading towards Gotham, using my glove-computer as a GPS. After a bit I realized that the bike was slightly big for me. I continued however, knowing it wouldn't affect me, the wind blowing through my hair and my cape flying out behind me as I drive over the speed limit.
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I got to Gotham and saw a gang robbing a bank, again. People always go for banks, despite them not being able to hack the alarms half the time. I stop the gang and go help a kid find her older sister, then tell them to go to the high school. I see smoke coming from a 15-story apartment building, so I run over to it. The fire is on the right side of the 12th floor, so I grapple up.
"Anyone in here?" I yell.
I hear a faint "over here!" and head in that direction. I see a 13 or 14-year-old boy protecting his 4 or 5-year-old sister. The fire isn't very intense in this room, but to them it must be scary.
"Follow me," I command.
They stand up, a little surprised that Robin the Girl Wonder is their rescuer.
"Wow, you're really cool," the little girl comments.
"Thanks. I bet you're cool, too," I reply, trying to calm them down.
The little girl smiles and giggles.
I head towards the kitchen, the boy and girl following me. I grab a couple of rags and wet them in the sink.
"Here, cover your nose and mouth with these, and stay low."
The boy nods as I help the little girl cover her nose and mouth.
"What's this for?" The girl asks.
"So you don't breathe smoke, it's bad for you." I reply, taking out my re-breather.
"Oh…"
I lead them to the fire escape, all the way at the end of the hall. We crawl there. Or more like the boy crawls while I carry the girl in one arm and crawl with my other three limbs. I had decided to carry her so we could get out of there faster, and before I knew it, we were at the fire escape.
I take out my re-breather to talk, "Watch your sister. The high school should be safe; I'll try to get everyone there. If you see anyone other kids, help them out for me, will you?"
"Where are our parents?" The boy asks as I put down the girl.
"I… don't know. But I'll find them."
"She will, she's a superhero! She can do anything!" The girl assures her brother, pronouncing "superhero" as "supa-hewo."
I smirk as I turn to leave, thinking 'I wish' to myself.
I see that the fire is only in one other room, so I go there. I don't see anyone, so I turn on the water sprinklers – which surprisingly, weren't on. That's Gotham for you―lousy apartment complexes.
After exiting the building, I hacked into another radio antenna, the signal from the one not reaching all parts of Gotham.
A couple "saved" kids and crying tykes later, I realized I was going to need help finding the adults, - wherever they were. I was worried for Mom and Dad, thinking of the possibility that I might never see them again.
If I never see them again, I'd miss them, and the rest of my family. I'd miss training with Dad, going shopping with Mom, listening to the stories Grandpa, Uncle Tim, Aunt Steph, and Aunt Barb always tell me… I shake my head, getting those thoughts out of my mind. We will find them. We have to.
"Jai, we're gonna need help," I informed, using the comm.
"What was your first clue?" he grunts. I hear a wailing kid on the other end.
"Well, my first clue –"
"Don't answer that. But who would we get to help?"
"There's Speedy and Impulse from Central, but I don't think they'll be enough."
"Aren't there any other teen heroes? Like wasn't there Auquagirl on the news in Pearl Harbor?"
"Yeah, I think there are. I'll look for some more; everything here's okay for now."
"Okay," is how he replies before hanging up.
I pull up my computer, wirelessly connecting to and hacking into the batcave's files. I try to open one, to find that it's double encrypted. I hack into it and see four sub-files. They're labeled Grayson, Hyde, Kent, and West. I know Grayson probably has something to do with my family, and West with Ari and Matt's, but I don't know about the Kent and Hyde.
'Why would Grandpa keep tabs on us? And Kent… Is that Kent as in Clark Kent, Superman?' I think to myself. "Only one way to find out," I say aloud, opening them all.
Grayson
Name: Jacob Andrew Grayson
Age: 17, Gender: Male
Powers/Abilities: Magic, Martial Arts, Acrobatics, Multilingual (English, Romani, Spanish, Italian, High School Latin, Some French)
Alias: Jaiten, Jacob Zatara
Name: Dakota Mary Grayson
Age: 13, Gender: Female
Powers/Abilities: Advance Martial Arts, Advance Acrobatics, Hacking, Marksmanship, Multilingual (English, Romani, Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, German, Some Japanese and Vietnamese)
Alias: Robin, Robin Zatara
Parents: Zatanna and Richard Grayson
Residence: Blüdhaven
Hyde
Name: Caitlyn Julie Hyde
Age: 16, Gender: Female
Powers/Abilities: Hydrokinesis, Electricity Generation, Flight (with belt), Bilingual (English and some Atlantean)
Alias: Aquagirl
Parents: Raquel and Kaldur Hyde(1)
Residence: Pearl Harbor
Kent
Name: Trevor Daniel Kent
Age: 17, Gender: Male
Powers/Abilities: Super Strength, Super Hearing, Super Leap, Invulnerability, Infrared Vision, Trilingual (English, Some Martian, High School Spanish)
Alias: Titan(2)
Name: Clara Mariella Kent
Age: 15, Gender: Female
Powers/Abilities: Flight, Telepathy, Camouflage, Shape-shifting, Trilingual (English, Some Martian, Some Spanish)
Alias: Phobia(3)
Parents: Connor and Megan Kent
Residence: Metropolis
West
Name: Arianna Jade West
Age: 16, Gender: Female
Powers/Abilities: Marksmanship, Ambidexterity, Acrobatics, Black Belt Martial Artist, Multilingual (English, Vietnamese, French, High School Spanish, Little Romani)
Alias: Speedy
Name: Matthew Kenton West
Age: 14, Gender: Male
Powers/Abilities: Superhuman Speed, Gymnastics, Multilingual (English, Vietnamese, Some High School Latin, Little Romani)
Alias: Impulse
Parents: Wally and Artemis West
Residence: Central City
I scan through everything, and assume that these are the children of the original team members who are currently heroes. I don't know a whole lot about the team that Mom and Dad were on, it doesn't come up in many conversations, usually only when we're visiting Aunty Arty and Uncle Wally, or they're visiting us.
Yes, I know they're not family, but they might as well be. Dad and Wally were best friends since Dad was like eleven! Besides, I don't have any biological family other than my parents, brother, and Giovanni – currently Fate, so why not?
I can easily guess that Auquagirl is the daughter of the water person that was on the team, and I now know that Kent is Conner Kent and his family.
'Clark Kent, Conner Kent, Clara Kent… they must really like double alliteration,' I think with a giggle.
I sigh and lean against a nearby wall. I need to focus; I need to figure out a way to contact them all. I could find their numbers, but why would they be home when the adults are gone?
"Think. What do I need to do? How can I contact them all? And once I contact them, how can I get us all in one place to discuss a plan? Ugh..." I say aloud.
It just seems impossible. The parents are gone, all the real heroes are gone, I don't know where on earth they are, and I don't even know who or what caused this. I'm getting tired from all this running around and confusion, I wish I could take a break. But I think back to the little boy who I promised to, the little girl who believes that I'm going to find them, and all the hopeful looks of the other kids, even the ones older than me.
I take a deep breath and tell myself, "I can't give up, not now. I can't take a break until I find the adults. All that training can't have been for nothing! I just need think…" I say aloud, and then I come up with an idea.
"Okay, I found some people to help," I inform Jaiten.
"Who?" He asks.
"Well, I could tell you. Or you could meet them for yourself."
"What're you implying?"
"I have a plan, if you know a spell for teleporting people."
-RoseTheNinja-
(1) I don't know what Kaldur's last name is, so I used what his last name is in other comics, where his secret identity is Jackson Hyde. I saw it in a different fanfic once. So Hyde is the last name he took, like M'gann took Morse. *Update* Thank you, A (Guest) for telling me that his last name is Durham. I looked it up, and it turns out that in YJ, it's his foster father's last name. I could use it, but I already typed it up like this, so I think I'll keep it like this. Thanks!
(2) Please help me come up with a name for him! I need hep! Comment or PM me with your idea, please! *Update* Thank you, CHALANT FTW(guest), for the suggestion!
(3) Martian Girl sounds stupid... help would be appreciated! *Update* Thank you, CHALANT FTW(guest) for the suggestion!
Thank you for taking the time to read my fanfic! But please, if you like it, please review! I mean I'm super happy you guys are following/favoriting my story, but I'd really appreciate a review! I didn't even really know that people wanted me to continue this until some people told me that out of all my fanfics, this was their favorite and they asked me to continue this. You don't even have to have an account. Helpful criticism is appreciated! And so are suggestions
Oh, and if you guys think it's a good idea, I'm planning on making a series of one-shots of little Koti. Her age will vary in the one-shots, she'll be 5-9 years old in pretty much all of them, though.
-Rose