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-Chapter 4-

Grava jumped back from Kalder's watery blades and landed just in time to dodge the training dummy that Megan threw using telekinesis. Growling in frustration, since they'd been fighting like this for the last twenty minutes, Aqualad shouted at Grava. "Why do you not fight back?"

"If I hurt you it would be the same as hurting someone on the Justice League and I don't want to be under their ire."

Kalder narrowed his eyes but stayed ready. "I understand but this is training. You need to have the mentality that I am the enemy at this time. You will not be able to learn anything from us if you do not show us what you are capable of."

Grava's normal frown deepened. "Do you and Robin have the same script? He told me the exact same thing, except with bizarre words."

"We both wish to help you."

The girl stared look at Aqualad then reached for her hood and pulled it over her head. "I doubt it."

Miss Martian slowly landed on the training room floor in front of Grava, concern on her green face. "Why?"

Grava whirled around to look at them both. "Why you ask? Why should I trust you with my secrets? You haven't proven to me that you're worthy of my trust!"

Aqualad soften then calmly stated. "We cannot accurately prove ourselves trustworthy if you first do not trust us."

His statement was met with silence for the space of five minutes. Finally, Grava sighed, "Fine. You want to see my power, I'll show you. However, I will not answer any questions about me or my past until I see you're trustworthy."

Aqualad held out his hand. "That is all we ask."

Grava turned to Megan who smiled in agreement. Before either of them could react, both Megan and Aqualad were instantly flung into the air before they crashed down to Earth. They slowly tried to get up but found that they couldn't move their body even an inch. Grava walked over and looked down at them. "Satisfied, now?"

Aqualad, breathless, was able to gasp out, "All this time… you could have beaten us …and you didn't? Why?"

"Because I wanted to observe your combat styles and ranges; though I was really disappointed you weren't using your short and long range attacks to their full potential. You weren't working in tandem either so you made it too easy for me to defeat you."

Grava waved a glowing hand over her two teammates and both Aqualad and Miss Martian were finally able to move freely. Megan looked closely at Grava before she brought up a hand and lightly tapped her forehead. "Duh, Megan! You must be a gravity manipulator! I heard about some other heroes that have similar abilities and- Oh! That must be why it was so easy for you to defeat everyone yesterday!"

Aqualad turned quizzically to Grava. "Is this true?"

Grava hesitated but slowly nodded.

"What else can you do?"

"Well-"

"SNEAK ATTACK!" Wally jumped to tackle Grava just as the girl conjured a yellow orb to float above her hand. Wally barely had the chance to widen his eyes before Grava spun around and threw the orb at him. It nailed him in the chest, right on his yellow thunderbolt, and sent him crashing into one of the training room walls.

Turning her head back to Kalder, Grava smiled. "I am from Telmar so my abilities have some Telmarine traits."

Her smile vanished when she saw the other three members walk into the training room. Artemis took one look at Wally and burst out laughing. "I've wanted to do that all year! Ha!"

Wally grimaced and groaned, "You would…"

Uncomfortable, Grava started to walk off before Aqualad caught her arm. Glaring at the Atlantian, she tried to pull her arm out of his grasp but failed. "You have yet to finish explaining your powers to us, Gravatina."

With one final pull, she freed her arm then reached into her cloak to pull out a metal disk. "I guess I don't have a choice…"

The disk grew larger and larger until it was around the size of a trash can lid. Grava tossed the disk in front of her and before it hit the ground it glowed yellow and began to levitate. Robin and Wally, who apparently had recovered, both watched with grins plastered on their faces. "It's like a hoverboard!"

Grava nodded then jumped onto the disk. "It's powered by my abilities, so I can use it as transportation or as a weapon if need be."

"Awesome!"

As the rest of the team watched Grava do aerial maneuvers, Artemis looked back towards the place Wally had crashed into the wall. Cracks were spreading from the impact zone, causing Artemis to wonder. If Wally had really crashed that hard into the wall, he shouldn't have been just winded. In all reality he should have been out for the count. So why was he able to bounce around like the kid he was and try to ride Grava's disk without falling over?

Artemis looked closely at Grava, hoping somehow she could read the girl's intentions that way. She would've had a better chance trying to catch the Flash. Teammate or not, though Grava had started to trust the team, Artemis did not trust this new girl. Not one bit.


J'onn was watching the monitors in the main hallway of the cave when Batman called him. Bringing up a screen of the Caped Crusader, he addressed his comrade. "Greetings, Batman."

"J'onn. How have things been going at the cave?"

"As well as can be expected with a new teammate."

"And how is she doing?"

"She's reluctant to trust anyone right now, as should be expected from the experiences she revealed to me. Why do you ask?"

"I need to know when she's ready for missions," Batman responded but J'onn raised one of his large eyebrows. Batman wasn't known to be a very trusting teammate but he was more trusting than Grava.

"She won't be ready for some time. Her mental state is still too unstable."

Batman frowned. "He's moving too fast for us to just sit back and wait for her to completely trust the team, J'onn. Notify me when she's able to do missions."

"As you wish."


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