The Zeta Tubes announced the arrival of three people; Batman, Robin and 'guest'. That'd be me. "What's she doing her?" Superboy asked, obviously still pissed at me. He should be thankful that I used the code, not my da- not Lex Luthor. Black Canary stood there as well as the league members promised. "Ignore him. We were just in the middle of training. Care to join?" She was nice. I liked her.
"Sure," I smiled, knowing now that all eyes would be on me. I stood there, holding my fists just below my eyes. She nodded once, then struck. I raised my arm and deflected the blow with ease. Several more came in quickly, but her speed was no match for mine. She ducked, kicking her leg out and trying to kick me off my feet. I saw it coming, moving my legs in such a way that I trapped her. I kicked her shin hard, but lost my hold on her and she got up easily. I blocked several more of her blows, then put her in a head lock. Her hand came up to my neck, and I snapped. I took her out of the headlock and threw her across the room. Everyone in the room stared at me. "Oh my God I'm so sorry!" I ran over with super speed towards the woman. "It's fine, I've had worse." She stood up and smiled, but I could tell I hurt her. Crap.
I sat behind the bench as M'gann wandered around preparing dinner, idly balancing a knife of the tip of my finger. The league had left without so much as a how do you do. "It's great to have another girl on the team, I mean Artemis is great but the more the merrier! And there were four boys and only two girls but now you're here so it's nearly even." She was rambling again. I tried not to be annoyed at her, after all, I had momentary paralysed her boyfriend yet she still continued to be kind towards me. In fact, I was highly surprised at the reaction of the team when Batman announced I would be joining them. The only person who didn't seem genuinely happy was Conner, but I couldn't blame him for that. "Do you want some help?" I asked, feeling guilty that I wasn't really doing anything. But the Martian smiled widely.
"You can ice the cupcakes! Do you know how to make icing?" She left me no time to reply, using her telekinetic powers to throw ingredients and equipment at me. I used my own to take them off her and place them on the bench before an accident happened.
"I can figure it out."
Half an hour later, dinner was ready and all the tiny cakes had been filled with cream and covered in colourful sugar. I smiled at my work, until a certain flash of canary yellow stole one. "Wally!" I yelled, taking off after him. I could hear him laughing around a mouthful of food. I caught up to him easily, tackling him to the ground. The cupcake was already gone. "You little turd," I laughed as I helped him up.
"Did you seriously just call me a turd? That's such a little kid thing to say, baby sis." He ruffled my hair.
"Just because approximately 12.5% of my D.N.A. comes from your uncle does not make us siblings!"
"Whatever little sis!" And he sped off, probably to get food. I did not appreciate the new nickname.
We ate the spaghetti in front of the T.V., putting on a movie. It was a violent horror movie, but we had all seen worse so no one gave it a second thought. I finished my food way before anyone else, including Wally. I sat on the floor, even though there was still room. I just really didn't want to sit next to anyone. M'gann and Connor were cuddling, so that was a big no. Kaldur was sitting in between Artemis and Wally, trying to keep them from ripping each other's throats out. And Dick... Well, let's just say kissing him the third time I ever saw him probably wasn't the best idea. But his face had been right there and he was so damn cute. The left corner of my mouth twitched up into a half smile as I remembered it.
I tried to focus on the movie, but I kept laughing at the wrong times. It wasn't really my fault, but the parts that were meant to be scary just weren't, and I kept finding hidden jokes and stupid cross-references. By the time the movie had finished, I had no grasp of the plot whatsoever and I doubted the rest of the team had either. I really wasn't any fun to watch movies with. It was about 9:30, but since we had a 4am start tomorrow for some stake-out mission, everyone was staying here and sleeping early. We all headed to our rooms, some used more often than others. I flopped onto the bed, surprised that it was actually comfortable.
I slept for four and a half hours, waking two hours before I had to. I wasn't going to get back to sleep, so I got up and headed for the gym. I knew my strength, speed and stamina were things I could not work on in such an environment, but balance was. My face fell as I came to the equipment designed for balance and core muscles. Oh no, this wouldn't do. I left the cave, coming out of the mountain and running up and down the face. It might have seemed easy enough, but the mountain side a slick with mud and the rocks were unstable. Speed meant nothing if I couldn't gain sure footing. A half hour of this and I grew bored. I looked out into the large ocean on our doorstep. I smiled, flying over the water, far out enough that I knew the water would be deep. Not that it mattered much, being nearly indestructible and all. I dived into the water, the small part of me that was Atlantan squealed in delight. I gave myself gills, swimming further out. The water was cold, but I enjoyed it. Nothing amazing happened on the swim though. I didn't swim with a pod of dolphins as they gleefully played around me. I didn't save a baby seal from a shark. I didn't discover sucker treasure. I just... swam.
A half hour until the mission briefing and I came back to the cave. I was soaking wet and stunk of fish, so I went straight to the showers. I cleaned myself, dried off and stood in my room, trying to decide what to wear. My Martian ability meant I could just give myself clothes, but if I got another dose of that serum, what was stopping me from becoming completely naked? I had not changed when I had it before, but I was in my original form anyway. I eventually settled on all black; black sleeveless shirt, long black pants, and black boots. I didn't know what to do with my hair. After the torture incident, I realised I could easily change the length of my hair on command. I shortened to Robin's length, just to see what I looked like. I nearly pissed myself laughing. I changed the costume to match his. A knock sounded on the door. "You whelmed?" Robin asked. I guess living in Gotham meant random outburst of laughter were not a good thing. I opened the door to both him and Wally. Robin looked shocked, while Wally... "Look, it's Dixie, the Girl Wonder!" I laughed as I changed back into my real clothes and lengthened my hair, so it sat mid back. Apparently it wasn't fast enough for the speedster, as he took his phone out and snapped a picture. "What the actual fuck?" The real boy wonder was so obviously internally tossing up being amused and being embarrassed. I changed my hair to flaming red, shortened it, and dawned the costume of the other boy in front of me. It was Robin's turn to laugh and take pictures. "God if we weren't related I would totally-" Robin cut Wally short by smacking him over the head. I changed back into me. "Shall we?" I picked up Robin and ran, a yellow costumed boy right behind me.
Sorry it's short and probably terrible, but this is the second chapter I've posted in the last hour or so. Pease review blah blah blah *insert witty comment here*
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