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Chapter 10! YOUNG JUSTICE IS BACKKKKK! AAHAHAHKAHJAJHAHAH!

Cassie had a mighty shock when she turned around from searching in her cupboard to face the great Batman standing perfectly still in her bedroom. She briefly questioned how long exactly she had been looking into the cupboard. The window had even been closed after Batman had entered.

Despite natural urges to question everything about how he got into her room and how he had got to her house in such a short space of time. Instead, she tried her best to act indifferent to the Bat, and flopped picked up her hairbrush to brush her wig, whilst she made sure it was looking okay in the mirror. Then she put her goggles back on.

"It's rude to walk into a young lady's bedroom uninvited, you know."

"I didn't walk in." Batman didn't like it when people were so calm around him. it was unnerving, considering mostly people shouted or got into a fluster. "You shouldn't brush your wig with the same hairbrush that you use for your real hair – leftover strands will give away your secret hero identity."

So he wants to act like he knows it all, huh? Cassie thought.

"I have two hairbrushes, actually, to keep them different," she said whilst smirking. She didn't have two hairbrushes (yet), so that was a complete lie, but Batman didn't need to know that.

"I don't know how much time we have, so it would be good if you come with me now."

"Where to?"

No response from the Batman.

"How did you know where I live?" No response. "Oh, I forgot," said Cassie, her voice now dripping with mock-contempt, "You're the goddamn Batman." Cassie likes to think a flicker of a smirk appeared on Batman's face but, in reality, there was no response.

"I would just suggest you come now or don't come at all."

"My mother taught me to not be whisked away from my bedroom by strong, tall men with pointy ears and long black capes." Batman's face remained indifferent. "Or husky voices." An eyebrow was raised the smallest of measurements.

"Are you coming?" Cassie heard annoyance in batman's tone, so reckoned she better stop with the teasing…for now.

Cassie grabbed a bag and placed in it: a hairbrush, hair bands, hair clips, other various items a girl ahs in her bag, and her chemistry revision book (she had a test the next day that she needed to not forget). Then she walked towards Batman, stood directly in front of him and looked upwards.

Cassie was rather short. Batman was rather tall. She therefore, at that moment, had the most intimidating of viewpoints. Yet Cassie had little time to reflect on this and the terrifying face above her as Batman took only a second to lift her up and whisk out of the window.

It would be sensible to assume that after battling the Joker, meeting superheroes, going into space and being asked to be Wonder Woman's sidekick, that Cassie would have a calmness around all things superhero related.

When Batman placed her (yes, he was still carrying her as he swung down to his jet) in the Bat-plane, Cassie started squealing and speaking so quickly that Batman had to check she didn't have a fever nor that she was hyperventilating.

The ride from her house to Mount Justice was not too long, but Cassie kept the conversation up with Batman, ignoring when he wasn't replying. After such a journey, Cassie felt like they had made a connection. Batman disagreed.

"I enjoyed this, Mr Bat. We should do it again," Cassie claimed as they flew down into the cave through a door that opened in the roof of the cave.

"I don't think we will be." Batman firmly replied. "At least not anytime soon." As Batman side glanced at Cassie, she knew that she definitely saw a smirk that time.

As Cassie got out of the plane, she immediately ran over to Barbara, who had been standing with the rest of Young Justice.

"Don't spill about our lives, Cas," Barbara whispered in Cassie's ear as they hugged.

"Your secret's safe with me, Batgirl!" Cassie whispered back, "But don't call me by my name!"

"What should I call you then?" Batgirl asked as the two of them came apart.

"Wonder Girl." Wonder Girl pulled her Wonder-Woman-pose with her hands on her hips, causing Batgirl to laugh.

Zooming over in a flash of ginger came Kid Flash, "Well you certainly are wonderful." With a cheeky wink, Kid Flash made his first (and certainly not last) attempt to flirt with Wonder Girl.

"Are your chat-up lines always as cheesy as the colour of your hair?" Wonder Girl answered, causing Kid Flash's cheeks to turn a tomato red colour and causing eruptions of laughter from the rest of the team.

Looking around, Wonder Girl noted that the adults that had previously been present (Batman, Red Tornado and Black Canary) had all disappeared, and she was left with the team and Batgirl.

"Let me introduce you to everyone, Wonder Girl! Wow, that's kind of a mouthful…" Batgirl trailed off.

"How about Wonder Chick?" Kid Flash suggested, shooting Wonder Girl yet another cheeky grin.

"If I'm a chick, that gives you no right to be a cock-erel." Wonder Girl lengthened the first syllable, satisfied with the eyebrows raised on Kid Flash's face. Wonder girl was certainly taking a liking to him…

"We can decide later!" Batgirl, never one for wasting time, continued, "This is Artemis, as you know." The three girls exchanged a giggle, much to the bemusement of the others (except Robin, of course, who, as the sidekick of Batman, knew everything about Cassie already anyway). "This is Aqualad, Robin, Miss Martian, Superboy and, as you well know, Kid Flash."

Kid Flash's grin was the widest as he was introduced. Superboy was the only one not to smile or wave, but instead merely grunted. Wonder Girl therefore felt an instinctual reaction to dislike him. Moody boys were never her type.

Wonder Girl, despite disobeying her mother and realising the wrath awaiting her at home, felt very content at that point in time, excited about her future with such acquaintances and, hopefully one day or sooner than one day, friends.