A/N: Thank you so much for all the amazing reviews! I appreciate it beyond belief! A few of you asked about the title One of the Few and why I chose the Marines. Until an injury, I was actually going to join the Marines. A good friend of mine is one now, and their big quote is One of the Few, One of the Proud. I thought that also had a good parallel to the Superheroes.
Ch. 4 –
"Thanks for the pizza girls." I said as I returned to the cave with Batgirl and Zatanna.
"Not a problem." Batgirl smiled. "I have to head to Gotham though."
"Batman?" I asked.
"No, my dad." She rolled her eyes. "I have to go to this party thing."
"Oh, well have fun." I said try to hide my surprise. I guess it never occurred to me that heroes had a life outside of the whole saving the world gig.
"You should come with us!" Zatanna smiled and Batgirl frowned.
"Um, that might not be such a great idea." Batgirl said. "It's not you or anything," She added quickly, "It's just that would be a reveal on at least three classified secret ID's."
"Oh, I understand." I said quickly. "I want to respect the rules."
"She is so from the military." Zatanna shook her head. "But Batgirl's right, I forgot."
"Really, it's ok." I smiled. "I'm kind of looking forward to actually having a night by myself. You have no idea how annoying the base can be, even if I have my own quarters now."
"Well, how about I show you to the library so you have something to do." Zatanna said.
"Sounds good." I smiled. Batgirl left to go get ready, and after Zatanna showed me to the library she went off as well.
I took a book off the shelf at random and opened it, but I didn't really read it. I had to think.
This whole superhero thing was really a lot more than I ever expected. Admittedly, I had some experience on the other side of things, but this was different. From the one day she had spent here she had seen firsthand a dangerous criminal created by more criminals, a team that worked well together and seemed to get along pretty well. No people trying to further their own interests, no political red tape. Just good people trying to make a difference.
I had to smile. I mean, that's the whole reason I joined the Marines in the first place. These people were a family and cared for each other. It was defiantly surreal. Yeah, my old squad mates were like my family, but since I was promoted out I hadn't seen them in a while.
But I was only here for a week. As much as I liked these people, I had to remember it was only temporary. I mean, it's not like I could be part of this family in a week.
I finally looked at the book and saw it was a Pride and Prejudice. I loved this book actually, so I didn't mind reading it a little. It was an interesting love story on how first impressions and miscommunications cause two people who should have gotten together sooner to fight before finally recognizing their feelings.
But that was a story, not real life. I sighed and headed back to my room. I took a nice, hot shower and finally headed to bed.
The next morning I woke up and decided that I'd change into some workout clothes and go for a nice run along the beach outside. I quickly put on my Gotham City Knights sweatpants and a black sports bra with my running shoes. I headed to the kitchen to get some water to hydrate first to see that Superboy, Beast Boy, and some cute red-head were in there.
"Dude, its Wendy! Go for it!" the red-head smiled. "She's pretty hot."
"She's cute, yeah," Superboy sighed. "But I just don't know."
"Gar, back me up here." He turned to Beast Boy.
"Um, dude, I'm staying out of anything to do with this." He said quickly.
"At least someone is." Superboy rolled his eyes. "Even Nightwing's trying to get me to go out with other girls."
"Dude, we could double date!" the red head smirked. "You know I broke up with Linda a while back and I could easily get another girl."
"I don't know, maybe Wally." He said. I decided to break the moment and walked in. They all stopped and stared, oblivious to the fact I had been listening.
"Oh, hey Artemis." Beast Boy smiled.
"Hey guys." I said as I noticed for the first time that the red-head was in swim trunks. "Who's Baywatch?"
"This is Wally." Beast Boy laughed. "Kid Flash."
"Dude, not my secret ID." He exclaimed and I giggled.
"You're name is Wally?" I asked.
"Yeah, so what." He crossed his arms. "And we were going to go for a swim." I then noticed the other two were also in swimsuits.
"Oh, well I was going to go for a run, so I guess I'll see you out there." I shrugged. "Later Red." And I headed out without hearing him mutter something about me being a crazy bitch and smirked. I got outside, noticing the boys following me, and stretched out a bit. I bent over to see only Superboy and Beast Boy, but when I came back up I caught Wally staring at me, or rather my ass. I smirked when he realized he was caught and quickly rushed off.
I ran across the beach and back blissfully exhausted and all before noon. I finally made it back to see a lot more heroes had joined the beach party.
"Hey girl!" Zatanna smiled at me as she saw me. She was on Nightwing's back, and he had his shades on, as well as Batgirl and Robin. Everyone else was enjoying the water completely exposing their identities.
"Hey." I smiled. "Am I missing a party?"
"Nah, we tend to do this a lot." Zatanna smiled as she hoped off his back. "It's nice to relax every once in a while, even if I have to drag him out of his room." She pointed to Nightwing who just shook his head.
"I have a lot of work to do." He said. Suddenly there came a beep from his clothes on the beach. "Speaking of which."
"Nightwing, Zatanna, Miss Martian, Superboy, and Kid Flash please report to the watch tower." Came an automatic response.
"We need to go." Nightwing said and without hesitation the senior leaders of the team left.
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"Team, meeting, now." Came a voice over the intercom. I finally got to meet Mal and Bumblebee and we were getting to know each other.
"What's going on?" Mal asked as I saw a new face added to the mix, a pretty black girl.
"We found the missing 16 hours." Nightwing said and everyone noticeably tensed. I remembered what Zatanna had told me about it and tensed as well. "Superboy and Miss Martian will be leaving on a classified mission, Beast Boy you will be joining them."
"Sweet." Beast Boy grinned.
"Rocket here will be beaming you up since you haven't had previous Watch Tower clearance." Nightwing said.
"Who's that?" I asked Bumblebee.
"Raquel, great gal." She whispered back. "She was on the team but joined the League recently. Nightwing, Kid Flash, Superboy, Zatanna, and Miss Martian all had a chance to join, but declined for some reason. Red Arrow joined, and so did Donna Troy, Starfire, Cyborg, Changeling, Raven, and Ravenger."
"You all started as young sidekicks?" I asked in surprise.
"No, some of us are just teen heroes." She huffed. "But a lot of us, yes."
"Wonder Girl and Batgirl, you will be heading to the United Nations' headquarters." Nightwing continued. "The rest of us will be splitting up to look at certain Boom stations to gather intel."
Nightwing divided up the teams, putting Artemis with Zeta Team, and they all got ready to head out.
