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Chapter 4: The Fair
I wake up to a pair of bright green eyes staring at me. "What the?" Then I remember. "Hey Gar," I smile at him. "It said in the radio that there's a fair in town today. Can we go?" He asks hopefully. I know he's still depressed about his, no, our mom (I just can't get used to saying 'our') so maybe this will cheer him up. "Sure Gar. Just let me get dressed and we'll go." "What about breakfast?" "There should be some cereal in the kitchen." "What about Dad?" "He probably already left for work." "Okay."
I quickly throw on my favorite T-shirt, a Hello Megan shirt I got at a yard sale down the street, and a pair of sweatpants, then quickly brush my teeth and head for the kitchen. I quickly grab an energy bar from the cupboard and text Hazelle to tell her that I got home early and that I'm coming to the fair. I then get a text from Dick saying that Wally invited him and the rest of the team to a fair in Central, and that he wants to know if Gar and I want to come. I laugh at that and write that we were planning on coming anyway.
Garfield finishes his cereal and we rush out to catch the subway.
When we get to the fair I immediately spot Hazelle and three of my other friends, Charlotte, Rebecca and Shannon, as well as Rebecca's boyfriend, John. Hazelle spots me and waves me over. "Hey guys!" I smile. "Hi Sarah!" Shannon says. "Who's this?" Charlotte asks, kneeling in front of Garfield. "Hi. I'm Garfield." He says, waving at my friends. I can tell Rebecca, the gossip queen of Central City High, is about to ask how I know him, so I quickly change the subject.
"Who's that?" I ask, gesturing to a girl who's dominating a game in a booth near us. "Barbara Gordon," Rebecca obviously knows, "From Gotham. Goes to Gotham Academy, rich kid private school. Don't know what she's doing here. She's into gymnastics, was at your meet yesterday Sarah." "Speaking of which, you weren't supposed to be home until a few hours from now. What are you doing here?" Shannon asks me. "I met someone. He gave me a lift back," I reply vaguely. "Who?" Rebecca asks. "Dick Grayson." I mutter under my breath. "I'm sorry, I didn't catch that." Rebecca smiles mischievously.
"Dick Grayson." I say. "Dick Grayson, as in, Bruce Wayne's adopted son, Dick Grayson? He gave you a ride? In what, his private jet?" Rebecca asks. I roll my eyes at her. "No."Just then, I see the team, Jason and Tim walk into the fair, under their human guises, though the Bats are wearing sunglasses and are using fake names. "I think I see my coach, hold on, I'll be back in a sec." I tell my friends, and pull Garfield towards the team.
"Hi Sarah. Garfield! Hi Gar!" M'gann greets in an overly peppy way. "Hi Megan," I say as Garfield goes and gives her a hug. "Hi Sis!" He smiles up at her. He called me that a couple of times too, but M'gann isn't his sister. At least, I don't think so...
"Calls himself her blood brother because of the blood transplant she gave him on that Bialya mission we told you about." Dick mutters in my ear. "Is that why she was so upset about Marie?" I ask him. He nods. "She also thinks it's her fault Marie's dead." "What?" I ask in a whisper. "You know how we told you about Queen Bee blackmailing her about her Martian form?" I nod. "M'gann thinks that Marie's death was a punishment for her betrayal. And she might be right." He mutters. "M'gann is a genuinely good person, er, alien. Don't be mad at her." He finishes. "Mad? I'm not mad at M'gann. I feel sorry for her. She's got all this guilt on her conscience when it's really this Bee Queen person's fault." I tell him.
I glance away from Dick. M'gann is taking Garfield to one of the game booths with Superboy and Tim close behind, Wally and Artemis are off bickering over what kind of food they want to get, Aqualad and Rocket are playing one of those water squirter games (Aqualad is representing) and Zatanna is just standing there awkwardly. She pulls Dick away as soon as she sees we're finished talking. I'm left alone with Jason. He looks at me with a mixture of disgust and annoyance on his face. He stalks off in the direction of a taco stand.
I roll my eyes and head back to where I left my friends, but they're gone, and now I'm in the mood for a taco. I sigh and pull my wallet out of my purse while walking into the taco stand. The only seat left is next to Jason. He grins lopsidedly at me. "I thought you didn't like me." He says. "I thought you didn't like me." I counter. "I don't. But you sat down next to me." He's still smiling the most annoying smile, it's annoying me even more than West's "prank smile" as it's been called when Wally's smiling this huge troll smile just after he's pulled a prank on someone, and believe me, he's smiled it at me plenty of times.
Just then, there's a huge crash from somewhere I can't see from the taco stand. I drop my Mexican lunch and run towards the sound, despite the fact that there are plenty of people running away from it. Jason's right behind me. When we get close enough to the action, we see M'gann, Aqualad and Zatanna in their hero outfits and fighting the giant robotic... whatever it is. The others are probably changing into their hero costumes or whatever. Jason has disappeared as well.
I see Garfield on the ground, several pieces of destroyed carnival booths just missing him as they were thrown to the ground by the robot. I quickly run to him, dodging flying debris on the way, and shake him out of his shock. We run to safety as the place where Garfield had just been standing was crushed by the water squirter booth Aqualad had been dominating just a few minutes ago.
Finally, the others appear and start fighting the robot. I decide that the robot must be being controlled by someone. I leave Garfield with Hazelle, who I managed to find in the terrified crowd, and go to find whoever's controlling the robot.
After looking in a few abandoned warehouses near the fairgrounds, I finally find a big guy and a tall woman standing in front of a huge machine equipped with a dozen or so screens and a few keyboards. A nerdy-looking guy, probably around 25 or so, sat in front of it, typing furiously. The big guy spun him around in his chair and smacked him in the face every so often, so I figured that they were forcing him to control the gigantic robot that was currently fighting the Team and the Bats.
I had silently slipped through an open window out of their line of sight and had climbed a big ladder leading up to a few catwalks that had obviously been used for maintenance and such. There were a few mats that resembled the ones used for gymnastic practice on the ground, and the tall woman was now practicing sparring with a buff guy who had been standing in a corner talking with some other buff guys until now.
I studied the woman more closely. She had long red hair pulled back into a perfect ponytail, and fought gracefully, though she wasn't afraid to break bones as more and more of the buff guys came to fight her. She also looked really familiar...
"Whisper!" The guy who slapped the nerd in the face called her back to the machine. "What is it Ugly?" She asked. "Look. Our boy is making sidekick roadkill!" He cried followed by a maniacal laugh. I nearly gasp but remember that I have to be silent. I pull out my phone and text Robin about my situation. His answer is; What the hell were you thinking?! Stay put. Don't get caught. I'm sending Bluejay to your coordinates. "Bluejay," I mutter under my breath, forgetting to be completely silent.
"Intruder!" The tall woman screams. Shit.
Meanwhile, at the fair,
"Sarah found the people who are controlling the thing! Sounds like Intergang!"
"What the hell? What's Sarah doing fighting Intergang?"
"She's not fighting them, she snuck in!"
"She's an idiot!"
"Just go help her out bro!"
"Fine!"
Back at the Central City Intergang headquarters (a.k.a the warehouse)
I know that I have to get away from the woman. She's the most dangerous. The buff guys come at me first. All of them are coming up the ladder. I run but I'm on a catwalk 30 feet off the ground. I don't think I can get away. The first guy comes at me. I dodge. I do the same with the second guy and the third but they keep trying to grab me. I can't keep this up much longer.
Acting on instinct and hope, I jump onto the railing of the catwalk, then grab one of the rafters and pull myself up onto it. There's a square hole in the ceiling that probably used to have glass in it, like a skylight or something. However it got there, it's just what I need to escape. I pull myself up onto the next rafter, and then grab onto the edge of the square and pull myself up onto the roof. From there, I have a pretty good view if the fair grounds, where the robot is still fighting the Team. I also have a great view of a black and blue speck leaping from warehouse roof to warehouse roof, coming closer by the second.
Bluejay lands on the rooftop next to me. "What the hell Sarah? What did you do this for? Are you really that stupid?" He explodes. "I didn't want to stand around and be useless!" I tell him. He rolls his eyes. "What are you doing out here?" He asks. "Got caught. This was the only way to escape. Must have been a skylight or something. The glass must have been broken after the warehouse was abandoned.
"Stay put. I've been on Intergang cases for too long. They're going down. Now." He sneers down into the warehouse through the square hole in the roof and jumps through it, landing on one of the buff guys' shoulders. One of the other guys tries to punch him, but he flips off the first guy and lands on a third guy. The second guy's punch breaks the first guy's nose instead. It goes on like this for a few minutes before Bluejay simply jumps off the catwalk and lands on one of the sparring mats. The buff guys start running and tripping over each other to get to the ladder.
"Ugly. Whisper." Bluejay smiles cruelly as he sees the pair standing behind the guy at the machine controlling the robot. "Don't stop working or you're dead." The big guy, who must be Ugly, growls. The tall red-head, who must be Whisper, takes on Bluejay. "So you were our little intruder. I thought Bats were supposed to be silent." She grins, dodging all of his attacks. "I wasn't your intruder. She was." He growls, pointing up at me. She sees me standing at the edge of the broken skylight. "Sarah?" I read her lips.
Bluejay uses her shock to his advantage and knocks her down, but the buff guys have finally made it down the ladder and are advancing. But I now know why Whisper looked familiar before. I quickly jump onto the catwalk below and descend the ladder as quickly as possible. Bluejay has taken out over half of the buff guys by now. I get to the ground. A couple of the buff guys charge me, but I trip one and flip out of the way of the other (the Bats aren't the only ones who are good at gymnastics) and he trips on his fallen comrade.
I rush over to Whisper. Out of the corner of my eye I see Jason hog-tie Ugly and the fallen buff guys to the machine, then cut through most of the circuits with a batarang or whatever they're called. I lean down to where Whisper lies on the ground. Jason has restrained her, so she can't move. "Sarah?" She asks me. "It's me Hannah."
AN: Bet you didn't see that one coming! Remember in chapter 3 when I said that Sarah has an Aunt Bella and a cousin HANNAH. Just in case you didn't remember. This is my longest chapter yet. Do you think my chapters are too short? I really hope not. So, review please. Oh, and I'm going to camp on Wednesday so this'll be on hiatus for a while. Still, review.
