Where I Belong
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What's going on, is this where I belong at night?
This is what I've got going on
This is where I belong tonight
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I could have fainted.
There. At the Brotherhood of Evil's secret headquarters. It was a major fight. The Teen Titans. Versus the Brotherhood. Oh my god.
Wally would want to know. But how did I contact him? We didn't have any fancy communicators. So what was I supposed to do?
He'd be back soon. He was the fastest kid in the world. It didn't take long to get food for him. Right? It never seemed to take long.
I paced, back and forth, through the apartment. What was taking him so long? The minutes were dragging and I could hardly register how much time had gone by. It felt like a century.
When Wally walked through the door – after what seemed like forever – I raced over to where he was.
"Wally!"
"Whoa there, Jinx – what's up?" asked Wally.
"The Brotherhood of Evil," I said simply. "Teen Titans. Big fight."
"Oh god," said Wally immediately. "Come on. We have to go help."
"But what about…?" I asked, gesturing to outside the window dumbly. He knew what I meant.
"We can't do anything about that," replied Wally. "Not right now. The Titans need us. I'm going – are you?"
I hesitated. This was the Team I've always been against. I never liked them. But I did not like the Brotherhood of Evil. Madame Rouge is terrible. She needs to be brought down. And I would love to be the one to do that.
I needed to come to my decision. There wasn't much time – not as much as I needed. Wally was looking at me with big blue eyes, and I took a breath. And I took his hand.
Suddenly, I was swept up into his arms, and he began to run. "Where is the Brotherhood of Evil's base?" he asked, loudly over the wind.
"Paris," I whispered. "There was a huge fight…" I trailed off as Wally began to race across the Atlantic Ocean – having already run across the United States. That boy is fast.
"There," I said. I pointed at the back entrance – a plain wooden door with a keep out sign and a padlock. With a snap of my fingers, the lock opened and Wally was running through the secret base. He put me down, and grinned at me.
"Are you ready?" he asked me. "Time to show Madame Rouge what you can really do, right?" I felt nervous. Nauseated, even.
"I'm not sure if I can do this," I said. He smiled reassuringly at me.
"You can." That's all he said, before running quickly forward. He stopped on the stairs leading to the room, speaking to someone or some people just inside: my old team. "Now's the time where you're probably thinking 'I shouldn't have hooked up with these brotherhood guys." He rubbed his hair back. "Hate to say it, but told ya!"
Suddenly, I saw Cyborg crash against the stairs, next to Wally, wrestling with some villain. I blushed slightly at the sight of my old school mate – Stone had been his alias to infiltrate the HIVE, and I had a small crush on him.
"Sorry I'm late," said Wally with a flash of that lightning fast grin. "I had to pick up a friend."He looked back at me, in the shadow of the doorway, and with a deep breath, I walked out into the light. With Wally at my side, I was filled with confidence, and I really felt like I could do anything.
My old team was still standing at the bottom of the stairs, gaping.
"You're with him? Traitor!" Gizmo asked in shock. I wasn't sure if it was shock because I was with Kid Flash, or shock because I was still alive. As far as they knew, I had died of blood loss in that alleyway. I smiled serenely. Their words bounced off of me. I was unaffected by any of them. I was free.
"You probably have some catching up to do," said Wally with a grin, before racing off in a blur of yellow.
I smiled at the five of my ex-teammates. "Nothing personal," I said with a shrug, before snapping my finger.
With a "hwah!" they were swept off their feet by a bright pink hex. I couldn't help but smile broadly. I was glad that I came. That was fun.
"Now that was unexpected," said Cyborg. Control Freak nodded. Cyborg began to punch the little loser's lights out.
I made my way into the fray and grinned at the sight of all my old school mates and allies. I started shooting hexes this way and that, pretty pleased with myself. It was all more fun than I'd ever expected. Trust Robin to take the fun out of everything. Whenever he did any crime fighting, it seemed so with the rules. Rules were never anything I'd paid attention to.
"Is it just me, or is this getting easier?" asked that Goth girl who always wears blue.
"Children, vhen vill you learn?" asked Madame Rouge, standing in the middle of the floor. She was swept off her feet by Hot Spot and Wildebeest. The three of them tumbled through the air – almost in slow motion – and Madame Rouge knocked them down. She landed on her feet and faced the two heroes.
I walked over innocently. With a snap of my fingers, the floor beneath her broke, trapping her feet there. "Oops," I said innocently. "Did I do that?"
The two superheroes on either side of me took Rouge by her arms and stretched her. I released her feet with another hex, and she was thrown against the fast freeze machine, where those two Spanish twins froze her. That felt really good.
Disgusted with myself for looking up to that woman, I was very pleased that I could help make her into a icicle. Revenge is sweet.
The Brain was getting ready to leave. As he and Monsieur Mallah began to leave, a whole bunch of soldier like things appeared in the center of the floor. I joined the fray against them, and all hell broke loose. Not that it wasn't already. It definitely was.
The robot things shot red lasers – pretty similar to the ones that alien shoots, except hers are green. I hexed everything I could, knocking lasers aside, punching things, and breaking them as fast as I possibly could. I knew that Wally was running around the whole place, helping those Spanish twins freeze the villains. That I used to be included as. Whoa. This was weird.
The fight was over as quickly as it started. That green Titan beat the monkey, and Robin had the brain in his hands.
Wally found me in the crowd, and gave me a hug. I returned it – it went against everything I knew – and it felt nice. This day was weird. Everything is weird now. I think I like it, though.
The whole crowd assembled behind the original Teen Titans.
"Dudes, check it out," said Beast Boy. He tossed the Brain and Más y Menos pushed the button. "Brain freeze."
I groaned along with everyone else. That was a terrible joke. Really. Truly. It was.
Wally grinned at me. "Apparently, everybody's going back to Titans Tower to celebrate. Do you want to go?"
I looked around at the people I'd called enemies, and realized that they weren't any different than I was. "Sure, why not?" I said, and he grinned at me.
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Hurray. I finished chapter seven! Please review and leave your comments that make me so utterly happy!
It's not over. It will continue. Even though this is pretty much where all the interesting things leave off in the series. Things Change never happens, by the way. I'm making the rest up, so watch out!
