Chapter 3: Just Forget It
The morning came in, the sun rose up high at Titans tower. Robin was the first one up and then slowly the rest of the team gotten up from their beds. Katrina herself slept in until 10:50 a.m. on the couch. The rest of the team saw this.
"Should we wake her, friend Robin.?" Starfire asked as she was floating next to Robin. Robin nodded his head at Starfire and he gone over to Katrina's sleeping figure and shook her shoulder gently. Robin didn't know what to expect since she was a hybrid, and for all he knows, Katrina could up and attack Robin where he stands. But he sighed mentally to himself as Katrina woke up calmly. She sat up slowly as her hair was all messed up from rolling around in her sleep and her eyes had small bags underneath them. Katrina yawned and stretched, smiling tiredly at the team members around her.
"Morning to all of ya'll." Katrina said, using some bit of southern slang out of habit. That's what happens when you have been raised in the south for quite sometime, you use southern slang sometimes. The team didn't care though as they just smiled, all except for raven of course.
"Dude, your hair!" Beast boy laughed a bit.
"I know it looks like you in the mornings, too." Katrina smirked as Beast boys hair was a bit messed up too since he just woke up. Beast boy seemed surprised at this and the team laughed as the green teen fixed up his hair quickly. Raven smiled a bit to herself at the time of the laugh but faded off to not show it.
"Anyway, how about we all eat some bacon and eggs before training?" Cyborg suggested to everyone.
"Can it be tofu eggs and bacon?"
"No way that stuff isn't real!"
"I think it's real!"
Cyborg and Beast Boy took their argument to the kitchen area and Robin, Starfire, Raven, and Katrina blocked out the argument and the sound of food being put together.
Katrina now started to remember what happened last night. How she met Slade and she now started to remember his voice; his choice of words that nearly made her self doubt last night. Katrina looked up at the three members next to her.
"Robin? Do you know who Slade is?" Once Katrina asked it was instant silence. Cyborg and Beast Boy looked over at Katrina like she just shot up the tower, and Robin stared in surprise and then glared down at the floor.
"Yes. He is a psychopath. A villain that wants to try and destroy us and destroy and take over the world. How do you know him?" Robin's tone was serious as ever as he stared down at Katrina.
"Yes, did he hurt you, too?" Starfire asked with all seriousness as well.
Katrina thought of her words and Slade's first and then stood up from the couch. "No, he didn't hurt me. But he came here last night and called me outside to meet him. I did and he persuaded me to be his apprentice. I declined of course. But he kept persuading me and even told me that another girl was his apprentice and you all betrayed her." Instantly, Beast Boy interfered.
"That's a lie! Terra betrayed us because she chose to work for Slade. She was a hero in the end! She saved us all from that monster!"
"Yo, calm down B.B. we all know what happened." Cyborg comforted Beast Boy by rubbing his back. B.B. sighed calmly but frowned at the memories. Katrina felt guilty for even speaking up at this point and looked down sadly.
"I'm sorry…I shouldn't have said anything. But I felt the need to and I believe Slade is like a monster anyway." Starfire, the immediate forgiver, hugged Katrina and Katrina was somewhat surprised at this sudden hug. Starfire pulled away with a soft smile.
"You have nothing to apologize for, friend Katrina. You did the right thing for telling us what has happened and Slade will have his butt kicked!" Starfire cheered happily, which made the entire team smile at her enthusiasm. Starfire was important to this team, to always cheer them up and comfort and somehow bring them all together. She was basically the superglue to a project and helped made that project a success.
"What she said." Raven stated calmly and Katrina smiled at everyone around her.
"I feel better now, thank you all for understanding." Katrina said happily.
Eventually the time skipped by to 1:00 p.m. Beast Boy was in the combat training field and running towards the first obstacles. The first obstacles were huge mechanical doors that seemed to move up and down fast, the weight of the doors going down could squish anyone if they weren't careful. Beast boy, however, transformed into a cheetah and ran fast under the doors before they could squish him down. In the background, Robin was timing him as Starfire and Cyborg cheered him on. Katrina smiled watching him and Raven was next to Robin, pulling up different obstacles in front of Beast boy. The next one was heat sensing lasers, and as three of them fired at Beast boy, he quickly transformed to a T-rex and roared, then using his gigantic tail and knocking down the lasers with ease. Eventually Beast boy was done training and turned back to his human form, walking back to the Titans with a grin.
"Watch out, this green machine is burning!" Beast boy made a sizzling sound as I touched his tongue with his finger.
"If that were the literal case, I'd be impressed." Raven said sarcastically and Beast boy glared with a red vein popping out, irritated at Raven's remark.
"Alright Katrina, let's see what you can do." Robin smiled down at Katrina and Katrina nodded, walking towards the field where Beast Boy started at. The team cheered her on ass Katrina got ready for the first obstacle. The timer buzzed that means "BEGIN". The first obstacle for Katrina was flying explosive discs and they zoomed in on Katrina. She calmly had her guns appear in blue flame and aimed and fired quickly at the discs. Not missing as she made them explode by her bullets. Katrina ran toward the next obstacle. Out of no where the ground beneath her boots moved, and it appeared to be a huge trap door. Katrina fell in to the trap and quickly teleported out of the trap and onto the now real field. Katrina sighed a bit and ran forward again as the team yelled out happily at Katrina managing this far. With a smile of determination, she then ran towards the same kind of lasers Beast boy dealt with. Katrina made her guns disappear and instead she wanted to show off. Katrina dodged each laser attack and as she did, she begin to transform into what seems like a gigantic black werewolf with golden glowing eyes. She was as big as Beast boys T-rex form. The team was wide eyed and silent as Katrina then used her pure white canines and bit into the machines that fired at her. As a werewolf, this pain was minor to nothing. She knew there could be a lot worse weapons out there that were painful but in this case, lasers were the first stage. She tore of the laser machines from the ground and threw them into a nearby boulder. The last obstacle that showed up was mines underground. Katrina ran, still in her werewolf form under the mines and the ground beneath her exploded greatly. After the explosion, all that was seen is smoke and dust. It was silence enough that the teens seemed worried that she was hurt. Fortunately, Katrina appeared out of the smoke in her human form once again, she didn't seemed harmed at least as she smiled walking back to the team.
"Instant regeneration." Katrina smiled wiping the dirt off her arm. Everyone was silent but then they all smiled a cheered at Katrina.
"That was glorious!"
"Well Alright!"
"Dude that was awesome!"
"And all I can say is this." Robin went up to Katrina and gave her a Teen Titans communicator. Katrina was dumbfounded as she looked at it like a valuable piece and she slowly took it. "Welcome to the Teen Titans." Robin smiled.
"Wow. Thank you!" Katrina grinned happily and put the communicator in her pocket. She then looked at Raven happily and Raven looked back with a small smile and a nod.
"Now this calls for a celebration, pizza and movie night!" Cyborg grinned yelling out.
"Agreed! Let us splurge the night with the slices of cheese and a theater." Starfire agreed happily and the 5 teens followed inside back to the tower. Katrina followed behind them. At that moment, Katrina thought about Slade again but then easily shook him off. She forgot him and his proposal because she knew this was now her family and she would do anything to protect them. The Teen Titans wouldn't abandon her, or leave her. And at that moment too, Katrina was actually happy after a really long time of loneliness.
