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Chapter 11: Falling Star
Mount Justice
June 19th 19:07EDT
"Nightwing, what are all these beeping noises?" Gar groaned as he removed himself from the coach where he had just finished his three hour nap.
"Radiation." He muttered as he continued to press buttons.
"What's going on?" Cassie asked as she and Blue walked in, followed by Robin and Impulse.
"Should we be concerned?" Roy laughed nervously. Nightwing mock laughed but shook his head as Virgil walked in.
"According to the scans, it's not a threat to earth. It's not big enough to really create much damage, or at least it shouldn't be. Check outside, we should be able to spot it from here." With that being said, everyone ran outside mines Gar he plopped back onto the coach. Outside the sun was just going down, but a large burst of light could be spotted high in the sky, kind of like a shooting star. Jaime stared at it, while Cassie backed away a bit, Virgil walking closer for a better look and Roy held his bow tighter, Impulse and Robin standing on either side of Virgil, Robin closer to the front though.
"Is it a shooting star?" Impulse glanced at Nightwing who shook his head in response.
"The computer scanning's showed it going around earth, it shouldn't make contact, and it was too close to be a shooting star."
"Maybe it's a comet?" Cassie asked but a loud beeping from Nightwings emergency wrist alarm startled everyone. He quickled glanced at it and shook his head.
"It's coming right at earth now, it suddenly changed it path." He explained.
"Should we um, oh I don't know, move maybe?" Jaime shouted. A loud boom and a bigger burst of light from the sky caught the attention of the group, the large ball of what looked like fire, began to grow and move faster.
"It just entered Earth's atmosphere, it'll crash any moment and by the looks of it, it'll be close by." Nightwing muttered. They all gasped as it burst out flames in the sky then with a loud boom it crashed, sending large gusts of wind in every direction, sending everybody backwards to the ground.
"Oh... Not much of a threat." Virgil groaned but failed to notice that Nightwing had already gotten to his feet and was headed towards the crash site. "Great, more running." He sighed and was the last to his feet and running. Everyone followed, and even Impulse didn't dare to run faster than Nightwing.
As they neared the site, smoke began to fog their sight, Nightwing climbed over the wall of dirt and stood atop, staring down at the flames that were slowly dying out.
"What is it?" Cassie whispered as a loud groaning emitted from the pit of smoke. Nobody moved a muscle as two large orbs of green appeared through the smoke. A low growl soon becomes a full out screech and the orbs of green soon move quickly at Nightwing, sending him backwards, a girl lands beside him. Dark, blood red hair tumbles down to her waist past a black mid-stomach shirt to meet a black mid-thigh skirt. Knee high black boots covered most of her long pale legs, while silver metallic gloves and collar covered her shoulders, neck and arms from elbow down. A metallic, M shaped mask was placed neatly on her head, but her hands were tightly clamped in metal alien tech handcuffs.
"Wow, she's hot!" Bart laughed but earned a punch from Cassie. The alien girl muttered something but nobody understood. Nightwing climbed to his feet but the girl aimed her glowing green hands at his chest and growled something.
"We can't understand you." Jaime spoke up and she snapped her head at him. That was enough to time for Nightwing to jump to his feet. She spun around and threw herself forward at him, her lips hitting his. Everyone stood shocked but the alien soon pulled away and growled at them before pushing Nightwing backwards.
"Have I reached the planet known as Earth?"
"Yeah, not to mention you-"
"You do not speak to me that way." She sent a blast of green light at Bart from her eyes but he dodged.
"Whoa girl, chill! That was so not crash." Bart complained. The girl narrowed her eyes at him as if trying to think hard on what he just said.
"On my homeland that sentence would cause you death." She stated slowly before looking away and back at Nightwing. "I seek protection from the Gordanians."
"The alien species?" she nodded and began to walk off in the direction of Mount Justice. "Are you not coming?" everyone glanced at each other before heading off back to Mount Justice.
"So let me get this straight chicka. You invade our planet, fight us, threaten us then seek our protection from some random alien species?" Jaime summarized. The girls eyes flared green as she looked at him.
"Do you, as you humans say, have a problem with my situation?" Jaime went wide eyed and shook his head.
"No-no, not at all amiga, I just wanted to get things straight." He laughed with a hand on his neck. I say we kill the Tamaranian "No!" everyone glanced at Jaime. "Eh- sorry, just um talking to myself again." He laughed and ran inside and off to his room.
"Such strange creatures inhabit this earth." The alien girl whispered to herself.
"Who's she?" Gar questioned as she looked the alien up and down.
"Um, good question actually." Cassie laughed. "What's your name?" the red headed alien stared off into space for a second then smiled a bit.
"I believe my name would be translated to Starfire in your language."
"That's cool, my name is Gar." He held his hand out for her to shake but she stared awkwardly at it before raising her cuffed hands.
"Right." Nightwing pulled out a small misshapen tool and began to pick the lock holding the cuffs in place. After a few silent minutes the cuffs popped open and she stretched her hands.
"I believe the correct term would be thank you." She smiled.
"Yeah it would." Nightwing stood up and walked to the main screen.
"Should we trust her?" Impulse questioned Nightwing.
"I can't exactly answer that question yet, we have to ask her a couple of things and figure some stuff out before I can judge her." He typed away before Impulse shrugged and walked over to the group.
"B04: Superboy." The computer announced as Conner walked in from the zeta-beams.
"Conner, you're just in time, look at the new girl!" Gar shouted in joy. Conner raised an eyebrow before spotting Starfire. He waved and smiled before walking off down the hall. "Where ya' going?" Gar questioned.
"I have to get ready… I'm going somewhere with a… friend." His door slammed before Gar could respond.
"But… You weren't supposed to give up on my sister." He stalked off back to the group just as Nightwing began his questions.
"Where are you from?"
"Tamaran." Everybody turned to see Jaime walking back into the room. "She's a Princess from Tamaran, and they aren't trustworthy." Jaime narrowed his eyes at Starfire but everybody remained silent and surprised at his outburst.
"It is true, on my home planet, the Tamaran way is to lie, cheat and as you say, feel above all others." She looked away as if embarrassed by her culture.
"Then how can we trust you?" Cassie asked.
"There is no sure way for you to trust me. But I assure you that I am trustworthy, I was the Princess of Tamaran and I was raised by not my mother and father but by the maid, one of honor and truth. I was raised by her to not lie, and when I became of age I was betrothed to a prince, one who could save our home planet from disaster." She paused but nobody interrupted. "But when he was killed there was only one way to stop the Gordanians from killing our planet. I was sold into slavery for them by my own mother and father. I managed to get out, I was mutated as a child and gained the ability to shoot starbolts from my eyes and hands, something most Tamarans can't do. They believed me to be dangerous and kept me in a cell with locks. I got out and managed to find Earth."
"How did you find out about Earth?" Nightwing asked curiously.
"My mask, it is as you say, a computer. The planet of Rimbor has sent out a free for all invitation of planet Earth, a so to say, advertisement. All is free to aliens on Earth, and I would not be surprised if you were to be invaded by many species who wish for more land and slaves." The team gave her a look of pure horror.
"You mean to say, we're like an all you can eat buffet to aliens?!" Jaime shouted and the little red headed alien nodded with a smile. "Ay dios mío. We're doomed."
"No we aren't. We just need to figure out what happened." Nightwing rubbed his temples and groaned. "This is a disaster.
"Isn't Rimbor the planet that Batman and them went to?" Cassie piped up. Nightwings head snapped up and then he facepalmed. "I'll take that as a yes… I suppose this means the mission for them was a fail?"
"We can't just assume they failed." Nightwing stood up and headed to the computer to contact Batman, but Batman beat him to it. "God, you always manage to call right before I do." Nightwing snapped.
"Call it fatherly intuition. Anyways, I was calling to let you know there might be some alien invasions in the next couple of days. We'll be home soon, we're traveling as fast as we can. But the mission…it failed." He grumbled. Nightwing couldn't hold back the sigh of frustration.
"The heads up is a little late." With that he showed the Tamaran to the unexpecting Batman. "She's a Tamaran and she heard of Earth already. She says the Gordanians are after her."
"What's your name?" he directed his question to the Tamaran.
"Starfire."
"Are you an idiot? If the Gordanians are after you why would you lead them to another planet?" he growled. Starfires eyes blazed green.
"I am no idiot! Perhaps I lured them here in a trap? Perhaps my home land sent me here on purpose! I am a Tamaran Princess and I shall not be spoken to in that manner!" she hissed. Batman stared with an expressionless face before he got up, walked out of the view of the screen, some loud crashing was heard, fowl words and soon a slam. Superman came into view and saw the angered Tamaran.
"Nightwing, I suggest you teach her manners, or get rid of her before we arrive, who knows what Bats will do to her." He hung up and the team remained silent as Star turned around to face them.
"Was that your leader?" she questioned meekly.
"In a way you could say that." Cassie giggled. "That was pretty awesome, I've never really seen anybody stand up to Bats that way."
"Why don't you try being nice?" Gar suggested.
"Nice…? There is no translation of nice in Tamaran, the closest word would be weak, and I am not weak."
"Well here, being nice is not being weak." Gar smiled. "Being nice is a way of life, how everybody should act."
"Perhaps I could give this…weak-"
"Nice."
"Right…this nice a chance." She smiled.
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Gotham
June 28th 2014 12:30 EDT
"Don't do it!" The blonde woman laughed.
"Too late!" the red headed laughed as he threw her into the pool. She hit the water with a splash and came up laughing.
"Get in here west." The red headed shrugged and jumped in. "You're a jerk." She giggled before shoving his head underwater. He wrapped his arms around her slim body and pulled her under. She pushed him off and went up gasping for air.
"Had enough?" he laughed as he came up.
"Very funny." She mocked.
"Have I ever told you how much I love you?" he smiled.
"Many times." She walked to the pool steps and climbed out. She made her way to her towel and dried of a bit before Wally caught up to her.
"Come on Arty, I'm being serious here, do you know how much I love you?" he smiled.
"Tons." She grinned.
"Ugh, fine don't answer me correctly." He picked her up in a tight hug and spun around. "I love you so much."
"Wally put me down." She laughed. Once she was back on her feet the world was spinning but she smiled at him.
"I really do love you."
"Me too, and I hope that never ends." She went to kiss him but everything went black…
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Manta Sub
June 20th 00:03EDT
And she burst awake, shaking. She nervously looked around her pitch black room. "Wally…leave me alone for a while…let me sleep." She sighed before climbing out of bed and heading to the attached bathroom.
She turned on the water and splashed some onto her face.
"I really love you Arty." Her eyes snapped open and she turned around quickly.
"Who's there?" she gasped. When no answer was returned she shut off the water and headed back to her bed, shaken up. She laid down and soon fell into a restless sleep. A man with flaring red hair and a domino mask to hide his eyes stood by the bathroom door however. He eyed her suspiciously before smiling. Walking over to her bed, he smiled before moving a wild strand of hair behind her ear. He kissed her forehead softly.
"I really love you Arty." He whispered before heading to the door.
"I…love you Wally." Artemis blinked her eyes open but nobody stood in her room, and the door hadn't even opened. Could she be imagining all of these appearances?
Aw, sorry, that last part wasn't originally part of this chapter but I decided to just add it in because Artemis won't be mentioned at all in the next chapter, and she wasn't mentioned in the last chapter, and that would have been like three chapters in a row she wouldn't have been mentioned!
Ok, anyways, I used most of the background info about Starfire, like being engaged, then being sold into slavery and escaping from the Gordanians and blah blah, but she'll have a new personality in my story, she won't be the goody two shoes that Teen Titans made her out to be. In my story, she'll be tough and won't be bossed around, I remember in the episode Go! She was tough and then something must have happened because in all the other episodes she was so nice, I wanted her to be tough though, and in my story she will be. I also changed a few of the background details of the Tamarans, like how they're untrustworthy, and yes I know, Jaime was the one who explained that, and you all wanna know how he knew, well I'll explain that in a later chapter, and don't worry, Conner isn't going on a date…for any of you who were wondering.
Yeah, so send me questions people…I still don't have any! I'll write the next chapters soon, and have em up regularly hopfully.
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