As promised, here is Chapter 3! A big thank you to catpatch30 and prettykitty473 for the reviews! And if people are wondering about my OC's bio, please be patient. All will be revealed in due time. Although, I think I'm giving all of you pretty big clues in this chapter.
Disclaimer: I own nothing of Young Justice, I only own Gravatina Nova.
Mentors – Chapter 3
Grava strode into the training area the next afternoon to see the whole team waiting for her. After she quickly joined them, Kaldur gave her a small smile then began the meeting.
"Thank you all for coming. I wanted to make sure that we create a new bond with Grava and strengthen our own bonds. Grava, since you're new to the team, I'm afraid you're going to to have to work hard before you can come on missions with us."
"I wouldn't expect anything less," she stated as she adjusted her hood so that it hid her eyes in shadow.
Kid Flash appeared beside her then contorted himself so that he was away from Grava but still able to see underneath her hood. "You know... You don't have to hide your face around us."
Grava shook her head just as Black Canary approached the group. "Why don't we make it a challenge? Each of you will have two minutes in the ring to try and reveal Grava's face. Reasonable, Gravatina?"
Everyone turned to Grava. The girl turned away from the stares and mumbled, "Whatever. You'll just make me do it anyway."
"Awesome!" Wally jumped up with a fist in the air then raced over to the training ring. "I'm first!"
Artemis gave him a rueful smile. "Didn't you get enough of a beating yesterday?"
"She didn't beat me!" Wally exclaimed as he rolled his eyes. "She just caught me a bit off guard. Today she'll see what I really can do!"
Artemis burst out laughing and both Megan and Robin started to chuckle. Aqualad just shook his head. Grava quietly walked over into the ring and stood so still that, compared to the hyper Kid Flash, she was like a statue. Black Canary glanced at both of them before she stated, "Begin."
Kid Flash leapt forward his hand outstretched; ready to grab Grava's hood and end the bout in seconds. Grava ducked under his attempt then turned to face him. Wally snapped his fingers in annoyance then used his powers to race at Grava. With unnatural ease, Grava sidestepped Wally and sent him sprawling onto the hard ground by sticking out a foot. The pattern continued for nearly the whole two minutes.
Finally, after dashing about like a lunatic, Wally managed to take a slim opening in Grava's defenses to reach out and grab at the tip of Grava's hood. Just before his hand touched the fabric, his arm grew suddenly light, missing the hood entirely, and Grava sent him crashing to the ground once again. Dazed, Wally barely managed to ask, "Did ya take lessons from Black Canary or somethin'?"
Grava's yellow eyes met Wally's green ones as she responded with a hard, "No."
The rest of the team struggled to try and accomplish the challenge. Superboy's punches never struck Grava squarely and even the few that brushed against her never made her move back an inch. Artemis' arrows and Robin's boomerangs either missed high or fell short of their target. Aqualad's attacks met with a similar fate to Wally's when he fought Grava, though he did manage to grab the end of her cloak before he was sent flying. Megan was the only one to give the new team member any resemblance of a hard fight. In the end, Canary had to stop the two girls as their powers were starting to grow dangerously chaotic.
The team finished practice for the day and left in a somber mood. No one had thought the new hero would be such a hard opponent and, as they went back to their daily routines, each silently contemplated a strategy for a rematch.
Thunder and lightning clashed in battle for dominance of the skies over Happy Harbor that night. Tears from the clouds fell down upon the sleeping landscape and went unnoticed by three people, all within Mount Justice.
Robin crept into the main computer room of Mount Justice. He hadn't exactly told Batman he was going to stay the night with the team but he'd asked Alfred to cover for him. In the back of his mind, he knew that Batman wouldn't believe Alfred since he'd already figured out what Robin was up to. You didn't get the title "World's Greatest Detective" for nothing.
In the space of a few seconds and a hundred codes later, Robin had access to the Justice League archive and was searching through the entries until one superhero bio caught his eye. A light flashed on his wrist guards and Robin quickly saved the file and disconnected from Mount Justice's computers.
Loading the file again, this time on his personal holographic wrist computer, Robin took a closer look at the file's contents. It wasn't an overly long and detailed file; in fact, it was barely acceptable by League standards. However, what wasn't stated was as clear as the actual details reported.
Robin sent the file to Aqualad and deleted the file completely from his computer in the time it took for him to walk over to the zeta beam. Both he and Aqualad had a lot to think and discuss about when they saw each other tomorrow, and most of it wasn't aster…
A dark shadow raced down the halls, pausing once to wait for a security camera to pass before resuming its flight. When it reached the rear of the mountain, the figure raised a glowing hand and the hidden door smoothly and quietly opened. Leaping out and over the zeta beams, the figure raced out to the surrounding forest.
The individual was nearly to the first outcropping of trees before a phantom-like form emerged from the ground then solidified into the Martian Manhunter. "Grava, why did you leave the cave?"
Grava slid back her hood, her yellow eyes glowing brightly in the night. "I left because I know what they'll do once they find out what I am! It's happened to me many times before, J'onn. They'll pretend to care for me because of what I can do for them, but at the first sign of me losing control... I can't bear to be cast out again!"
J'onn patiently listened to Grava. It wasn't often the girl spoke more than a few words, but when she did decide to speak it was always something to the point or important. "The team is not like the Telmarines, Grava. They each have their own unique abilities and will understand."
"Really? How can you prove it? I fear what happen once I inevitably lose control, J'onn. If only I could control this 'power'..."
"Give it time. You can't control your powers overnight. It takes long hours of study, practice, and patience."
Grava sighed. "I know that and I have been patient. Nevertheless, I need answers! I can't just stumble around with these powers all my life."
"The League is working on a solution. For now, be patient and learn what the team can teach you."
Fists clenched, Grava growled in frustration. "If the League turns on me, I will leave this team and find my sister on my own. Anyone who gets in my way will be flattened. Permanently."
Without another word, she strode back into the mountain.
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