Alright, well, it's been a while sine I updated, (sorry about that, btw) anyways, this is the chapter before everything starts making sense, so it's really...weird. There is a author, -who shall not be named- but they talked me into doing this chapter instead of my usually more serious stuff. Yeah, this is different than what I usually update, it's a house party chapter. I love reading those because they are hilarious, but I suck at that. So this is probably my worst chapter -_-. Anyways, if you want to, you can read it, but the important stuff is at the very bottom, so you can skip there if you want to.
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Chapter Eleven
3rd POV
Everyone met up at the cave so they could go to the house party that Bart was talking about last time they met up. It was a friday, and with much persuasion, Nightwing had agreed to let them have a little fun. He told hem to have minimal alcohol, mostly because there was going to be training in the morning. They all agreed, but it was pretty obvious that if they got a little booze in their hands, being totally immature teenagers, they wouldn't give a crap about anything and 'savour' the moment.
What was pretty shocking was when Nightwing told them that Bart was in charge. It did make some sense, the fact that it was his friend's house they were going to, and the fact that he was the only one there that couldn't get drunk because of his metabolism. It was also made that none of the meta's were allowed their powers at any times. The would all be monitored by a telepathic link M'Gann would set between them, so if anyone did anything stupid, the rest of the team would be there to stop them. No powers were allowed, and they knew, very well, that if they did use any powers, then Nightwing would have their heads.
"Where is everyone?" asked Bart stomping into the kitchen. He came straight into the kitchen, and started going through the food. It was 6:55, which gave them exactly 5 minutes before they were officially considered 'late'. He was usually the one late, but he lived at the cave, and the day at school, his friend Cole had made him promise to come a bit early to help set up. So, at the moment, Bart was just a little tense, because if he didn't show up on time to help, he would have to listen to the whole football team, as well as the basketball and baseball teams complain about how everything went. They just loved to annoy Bart. But, they were really cool to him, so it didn't really matter.
In the kitchen, Jamie and Virgil were there, both buried in books. He rolled hie eyes. Jamie was a sophomore and Virgil a freshman in college. So, they were spending a lot more time studying.
Bart raced over and grabbed the books out of their hands, ran into the showers and put them in the change room. He then ran back and grinned, "there is no way that I begged Nightwing to let the whole team to go to a party, so the two of you could mess it up by bringing books." They both scowled, but didn't argue, so he took it as a win.
The next person to enter was Mia. She as usual, had her hair in a low ponytail, but was wearing khaki short-shorts and a yellow tank top. She wasn't carrying any books, so it was great for Bart who wouldn't have to make another trip to the change rooms.
Bart liked Mia. As a friend. She seemed pretty nice, and was a good addition to the team. For one, she was a really good fighter, even though she had only been Speedy for a bit of time. She had really great endurance, and was pretty flexible. Since she was a non-meta, those were both qualities that Bart thought were pretty important.
At times, there was an initial thought that the non-metas were stronger than the metas. There was Nightwing, Tigress, Red Arrow and Oracle as examples from the team. The Bat-family that were legendary, the green-arrow family, and Black Canary. All expert fighters that didn't have powers to reply on, but somehow managed to shine even with all the meta competition. They weren't head strong and didn't get cocky, which was a weakness of most metas. The 'humans' didn't think that they were invincible, which really, none of them were.
Mia, was no different. She wasn't cocky, and quite strong. But also relied a lot on her smarts instead of running into battle with just strength to rely on, which many of the hot heads had a bad habit of doing.
"So, are you gonna get totally drunk?" asked Bart running up to her.
"I hope not," she replied grinning, "I get totally horny when I'm drunk."
"Well, I wouldn't mind watching, or should I say, filming that," he told he taking out his cell phone from his pocket.
"Well, there's no way I'm gonna get drunk, so dream on loser," she said grinning.
"Hey! I'm gonna catch you, and then we'll see who's the loser," Bart replied cockily.
By now, Gar had also arrived in the room. He also went to Happy Harbour High. After years of homeschooling, he was able to convince Zatanna to make him a charm that could change his skin from green to his older version of Caucasian. He didn't know Cole that well, but they had a few senior/junior classes together, and got along pretty well, so he was actually invited as a guest, instead of crashing. But then again, basically the whole school was.
"Well, that only leaves the three arguing musketeers," said Jamie looking around the room. He, like all the others in the room, were getting quite annoyed by the open war going on between Cassie, Stephanie, and Tim.
"What's with them anyways?" asked Mia reminding them that she was new.
"Well, what basically happened was that Cassie and Tim dated, took a break, Tim met Steph who was already pregnant, they fought, Tim and Cassie got back together, Steph came back, and now they all want to kill each other," Virgil told her.
"Wow, tough story."
"Yeah."
And then, as if on cue, Stephanie stomped in the room. She looked pissed, and growled as she joined everyone. Right behind her, there were voices of yelling.
"What the hell! You really need to learn some manners!" came Cassie's voice.
"Yeah, cause you're little miss perfect, quit pretending that you were actually going to wait or something," came Tim's annoyed reply.
The team looked at each other, all trying not to smirk at their behaviour. It was really annoying, and quite distracting, but also pretty funny when they acted like children. It was weird that for people who were so head strong, and some the the smartest as well as physically strongest teenagers in the world, that they still fought within each other like little children.
As they entered the room, still yelling, Stephanie found her opportunity, "LISTEN UP! We're already late, and it's because of you, can you two stop your personal fighting for a second?"
The two growled at her, and it reminded Jamie a lot like Wolf when he didn't get any of their dinner.
"Woah, guys we don't have time for this!" he said stepping in-between them.
"Yeah, anyways, M'Gann wanted me to go over the rules again," said Bart handing them all bracelets. "These bracelets will make sure you don't have too much alcohol."
"Dude!" said Virgil looking at the bracelet that had attached itself to his skin, "what the hell?"
"Right…" Bart said, "haha, well, it's gonna attach itself to you guys so you can't take it off, the only person that can do that is M'Gann," they all glared at him because all of them had it on.
"Anyways, this will basically send like brain waves to me explaining how much alcohol you guys have had. It will be like a reminder for me to stop you before you get too drunk, and if I can't get to you, I can just think about electrocuting you, and it will happen," he told them mischievously.
They all stared in horror, thinking that their fate lied in the hands of an over excited speedster.
"Well, we're all fucked," Jamie commented.
"Oh yeah, and none of that either, no fucking strangers, and we all need to be at the cave by three latest to get at least a little bit of sleep because Nightwing informed me that we have training early in the morning," Bart told them, getting a couple of disappointed faces. What could be said? They were teenagers who wanted to get laid, or have a little fun for once in their lives instead of living will the worries of the world on their shoulders. The only person who could live with that was Batman. But he was … Batman.
"Alright, but lets go before he tells us we'll all have to sit next to each other and hold hands," said Cassie flying out. But right as they were all about to leave, Tim grabbed Bart's shoulder.
"Will M'Gann know how much we've drunk?" he asked speaking about the bracelets.
"Nah, I'll have full control," Bart replied.
"Okay, so you're running low on cash right?" asked Tim grinning. Bart gave him a weir look and asked, "Where the hell are you going with this?"
"Let me have as much as I want, I have a hundred dollar bill with your name on it."
Bart raised an eyebrow. Tim didn't break rules. Out of all 5 Robin's he was the good one. The careful one.
"You do know that we have training in the morning right?"
"I'm a quick healer, c'mon Bart, I don't have any powers, so I can't do anything that bad, and when I go over the top, just get a baby sitter or something," he pleaded.
Bark knew that M'Gann was going to be pissed. Really pissed, but he did need the cash. So, he finally relented, "alright, but one wrong move, and I'm cutting you loose, and dragging your butt to M'Gann, plus facing Nightwing's wrath in training."
"Deal," Tim grinned and they left to join the others at the 7 seater SUV the team had gotten as a gift from the League last year. The of them ended up getting totally squished, but it was alright for the short ride.
The only bad thing was that Bart had managed to get into the drivers seat first. He was just getting his G1, and couldn't drive without an adult, so got Jamie to sit next to him. Everyone in the car clutched the seats and each other as he started to drive. 'Slowly.'
By the time they arrived, it felt like travelling to Mars in a mini air shuttle. It was freakin revolting. They should never, ever let a speedster drive.
"Remind me never to let you drive again!" commented Garfield running out the car, trying not to puke.
"What, guys c'mon, guys, it wasn't that fast," Bart crossed his arms childishly and pouted.
"Yeah, Bart you're right," said Jamie gaining incredulous looks, "it was pretty normal for a HIGHWAY in GERMANY!"
Before Bart could retaliate, there was a yell from the house. This was the first time the Team actually got to look at the house. Well, it was a mansion, and pretty impressive. Not Wayne Manor impressive, but impressive all the same. There was already old music blaring from the house, even though it was only 7, and no-one was really there. Except for some jock guy who was wearing the black and yellow varsity jacket of the Happy Harbor Hornets. It was actually pretty funny in those colours, but the team managed not to laugh when Bart shot them all a dirty look.
"Dude, everyone's going to get here soon, and the place except for the music isn't set up!" the guy yelled and Bart dragged the team into the house, and they were all given different jobs without even knowing the guy who's house it was. But the guy was right. As soon as it was a bit darker, people showed up. Tons of people. An hour and a half later, the whole house was packing, and the team had all gotten separated into smaller groups.
Jamie and Virgil were caught in a small group of people at the side, who instead of dancing, were playing Spin the Bottle, and 7 Minutes in Heaven. It was really fun, and since both of them were in college, they got instant liking. These games were for middle school kids, but were fun to bring up for college students as well. To remember their wasted days.
It was pretty funny how people had just invited them over when they found out both were graduated. They even had fun playing with random girls they had never seen before. That was the beauty of it.
While they were getting tons of attention, as soon as it was 10, Bart got what felt like a brain blast telling him that Stephanie and Mia were down. He had to leave his group of friends to go and find them.
Cole's house was pretty big, and he wasn't able to use super speed, so it took a while in tracking them. Both girls were actually at the back of the house, and were laying dangerously close to the pool. By laying, he meant passed out. How the hell were they able to pass out this fast? He thought as he started dragging both girls away.
In the process, Mia woke up and ran to puke by the plants. But Stephanie was totally out cold. He checked their bracelets, which told him that in the time it took finding them, they almost had double the amount in their systems as they should have.
But, in the process of waking Stephanie up, he got another blain blast telling him Garfield was also down. Aaaarrrrrrr, he thought running to find Gar. Unlike the girls, if he was to late this time, Gar would turn into some weirdly huge animal, so he had to catch him before he did anything stupid. He lightly electrocuted Gar, hopefully sending the message that he was on the way.
It didn't take long to find Garfield. He was dancing, with some girl. It was a bit gross seeing everyone totally drunk around you, but being totally sober. It was annoying.
"Sorry Lexi," Bart said dragging Gar away from her before he totally passed out.
"Duuuddddeeee," came Gar's voice, "I totally had her!" he pointed.
"Garfield, you're drunk, and I can't leave you there to blow the whole secret, cause it'll blow all of our cover, you know, as super heroes and stuff."
"Ohhhhh, yeah, I remember … can we go to swimming?"
"What?" asked Bart looking at him weirdly.
"I wanna go swimming," said Gar trying to get up, but still swaying.
As he was about to tell Gar he was crazy, another brain blast hit him. This time, it was Tim. Even though they had made a deal, that Bart wouldn't interfere with Tim, he would still have to watch him, so he didn't do anything too stupid.
"Gar, stay here, and if you drink anymore, I'll tell M'Gann that it was you who 'borrowed' the cash from her.
"YOU WOULDN'T!"
"Try me," Bart grinned, then sped off to find Tim.
It took a while, but he finally found Tim. But he wasn't alone. Tim was at the back of the living room, trying to avoid all the people dancing, but he was with some girl he thought he recognized from school, making out with her. For normal guys, that was fine, but Tim had 2 girls who were fighting each other, and him so they could be with him, and here was Tim, getting drunk at a party and forgetting about them. As well as the fact that the girls were both here.
He rushed over to try and stop Tim, but before he could move any further, a hand stopped him on his shoulder. He looked back to see that Cassie was standing behind me smiling slightly. But she didn't look happy. It was a sad smile; that made his heart break. It was hilarious really, he was trying to get my best friend to fess up for either one of the girls that would probably die to keep him safe, yet here he was, drunk off the charts, making out with a stranger not giving a crap about those he affected.
Looking at Cassie, Bart realized that she was totally sober. He quickly remembered how M'Gann taught him to think 'graph' and magically almost, would get a graph appear in his head showing him exactly how much all of these idiots drank. He relaxed, then concentrated and a perfect graph appeared that looked like it was made on excel.
"Cassie, you don't drink?" Bart asked confused. He knew for a fact that everything at Cole's parties was spiked. Everything always was, so that meant she was purposely trying to stay sober.
"You don't know that?" she asked with an amused expression. Bart just shook my head, lost. But when he though about it, she never seemed to be there when we were totally getting wasted, or doing something totally dumb. It was funny, but since he was usually stuck on babysitting duty, and the others were, well, drunk, no-one ever realized that she wasn't there.
"Huh, well, what have you been doing then?" he asked hoping she wasn't bored.
"Eh, I was talking to the kids from you school before the brownies came along," she said smiling.
"That's lame," Bart laughed, "you know? That's totally lame, that they totally mess up brownies like in every movie out there. So overrated."
She just shrugged, "well, that doesn't really stop them, never does."
They talked for a bit more. It was really the only thing to do. Bart was waiting for Jamie and Virgil to screw up so he would have to find them, and Cassie just really didn't have anything else to do. At a party. She didn't have anything to do.
"So, Cassie, what do you normally do at these kinds of parties?" asked Bart finally asking for some kind of explanation.
"Well, I'm usually stuck with your job cause my friends know I don't drink, so I'm the designated driver," she shrugged. He was about to respond until they heard a mix of yells from the other side of the room.
They weren't exactly like yells and screams they heard at most crime scenes for help. These were of pleasure. Girly pleasure. Which by no doubt was a surprise. They both made their way over to where the screams came from.
There, it was clear to Bart why both Jamie and Virgil were pretty sober. Well, to the most part. Since both were older, they weren't the type to hang out with high school kids, but Cole's older brother was Jamie's age in college, and a ton of his friends were also there. So, both oped to stay with the older people. There was a game of spin the bottle going on as well as a game of 7 minutes in heaven. And guess who was in the centre of attention?
Bart groaned. Controlling these two would be tough. Even though neither would get drunk, because they hadn't yet, that still wouldn't change their desire to get laid. Since both were single, and in college. It was obvious from the beginning, that their time would be spent in trying to get anything fun.
Bart remembered Wally telling Bart about when Dick was their age, it was the only thing on his mind. What was funny was that at the same time, he was also the leader of the team, and Bart was more worried about the fate of the world to think that all the time, their leader had the time to get laid.
"Cassie," whispered Bart, "go get Jamie, and I'll get Virgil. Make sure he does nothing stupid, trust me, these guys are not fun when they're drunk."
She nodded and they both headed towards the boys to try and pry them away from the group before damage was done. The problem was that these two were conscious, so it would take actual work and convincing. But, they were both powerful meta's that needed to be controlled as well. As Bart dragged away a pissed Virgil, he remembered that he had totally left Garfield, Stephanie, Tim, and Mia. Alright, that was going to cause a couple of problems.
"Virgil, you're a bit drunk, go and find Cassie and Jamie," Bart told him trying to make an understanding argument. But it was late, he was drunk, and it was exam season. To top everything off, Dick was being a total pain in the ass, so it was easier to just complain, and not listen to Bart. So that's what Virgil did.
"Dude, I wanna go back," he insisted.
"Look, I have 6 of you bastard's to babysit, and thankfully, Cassie was smart enough to help me, but 4 idiots have passed around somewhere around here, and I need to find them before either one of them gets themselves killed, or reveal out powers," Bart ranted, now tired, as well as irritated.
Virgil was really looking like a pissed 10 year old. Bart remembered that he wasn't totally sane at the moment. He didn't argue, but just stomped his foot, causing all of the lights in the room to turn on. Then, a second later, they turned back on.
Bart shot him a warning look, and turned to get to the backyard where he left the others. But of-course, in the way, was Cole who was also drunk off his ass. Bart was glad that he lived in a totally isolated mansion, and his parents were cool with parties. Yes, his parents wanted him to have parties because at least this way they'd know when everything was going to happen instead of having a total surprise. Bart loved their parenting.
"DUDE, you have to play 'I Never' with us!" came his voice which sounded very off…
"Sorry Cole, I have friends to look for, by the way, I have to get home soon."
"No! You've gotta stay! The party's just starting!" Before he realized it, Cole had pushed him into the group so they could play I Never. Bart already knew the perks of being the only sober person playing. He got to watch as people poured their hearts out or do something incredibly stupid. Either way, it was a gain position. Plus, when it's you're turn, you just told crap stories. It didn't make much of a difference.
They played, and the music kept blasting. It was loud, and fast. Before he knew it, Bart felt drunk. But he didn't drink anything. It was more like the adrenaline that was catching up to him. His body wasn't even the least bit concerned about anything at the moment. M'Gann and Dick could go in hell for he cared, but he wanted to enjoy himself for a little bit. he other's got to, why couldn't he have a little fun?
As time passed, he felt like his body wasn't his anymore. They had started playing strip poker a while ago, so there were clothes strewn around, and no-one was really keeping track of who was winning. Even now, there was that loud music he adored, and basically the whole school still there. Some people still had tons of energy left.
Bart watched as slowly, people one by one passed out every where. He felt certain that some girl had fell into the plants in his house, and people were all in closets as well as bathrooms. Who he didn't see though was any of his teammates. But he was okay with that.
He played until it was 2:30, until there was finally a familiar ace from his team. Cassie was there, and she pulled him up. No-one in the room really noticed her tough, even though she was using her strength. Everyone was either not conscious, or too self involved at the moment.
"What are you doing here?" she asked calmly.
"Cole…Never Have I Ever…force," he told her, "water."
She quickly understood that he was totally wiped, and wasn't eating anything. There wasn't anything but alcohol everywhere, so he wasn't going to drink that at the possibility of wiping out at this moment. The food was messed up as well, and getting a high Bart would be pretty messed up. She ran to the kitchen where she got him water from the tap. As the water slowly filled to the top, he was next to her.
He took less than half the time in drinking it all, and suddenly old Bart was back. "We need to go, M'Gann is totally going to cream us!"
She agreed, "alright, well, the others feel a little messed up, but the whole hungover stage should be over soon, the only person missing is Tim, so Bats was told that he won't be home tonight. He really didn't seem to mind that much."
They both made there way to the group at the back. From there, they all climbed in the car and Bart started driving. Sadly, they all had forgotten how much of a totally ass hole idea that was.
"What the fuck are you doing?" asked Mia from the back as she feel onto Gar as they turned sharply.
"I'm driving you bastards home, you better keep you mouth shut back there!" Bart yelled back. He kept this up for a while, until finally a cop car started blaring. He groaned and pulled over. The cop took his sweet time getting to them. Bart was tired, hungry, and sick of babysitting the team.
The first thing that cop asked was, "are you kids drunk?"
"If I was drunk, do you think I'd stop for you?" asked Bart unlike his normally nice demeanour.
The cop rolled his eyes and said, "well, I need to test you, and see your drivers licence. Bart cursed under his breath and took it out. Then he stepped out of the car to do their tests.
By the time they were finally cleared with just a speeding ticket, it was 3:30. M'Gann was going to have their heads. Ignoring the ticket he just got, Bart sped the rest of the way back. Thankfully, they ended up back at the cave without any other tickets and in one piece.
When they walked back, they expected M'Gann waiting for them, but were surprised at what they saw. Zatanna was bringing coffee to everyone, Dick, Barbra and Kyle were all on the holo computers typing something, Ollie was standing at the side talking in hushed tones with Wally, Raquel and Donna, and Connor and Kalder were both MIA. But the weirdest thing was that Dinah and Artemis were both sitting on sides of Roy who looked like he was…crying?
"Roy?" asked Mia immediately. At that, everyone looked at them then quickly went back to what they were doing.
Then, the zeta tube went off, "Recognized: Batman 02"
"What the hell is going on?" asked Stephanie, as they all watched Batman go straight to Dick and wordlessly start typing.
Roy was the one to finally answer, "they got Jade," which everyone knew who he was taking about. The Light. But apparently he wasn't done.
"And Lian."
Well, I have to admit, that came out pretty awkward. If you did read that, please, feel free to comment to make me feel better about my pathetic writing. Oh! and stay tuned for the next chapter, when things start to actually happen!