Author Note
This story jumps about a bit as Azrael remembers what he got up to while drunk, as such it might be a bit confusing. I just wanted to try something a bit different.
DC Gothic - Young Justice
Mount Justice - The Morning After
I woke up with a dry mouth, a bit of a headache, and no memory of what happened to me recently. However with my keen detective skills I was soon able to deduce that I had gone out drinking last night.
While I hadn't yet opened my eyes, as I knew it would hurt, I still had other senses to work with. I could feel soft fabric on the side of my face and also soft flesh beneath what I was guessed was an item of clothing. It was a familiar sensation.
Aside from that I could smell the stink of booze, and a female scent, not perfume of any kind but a natural and very pleasant smell. Which was also familiar.
I moved my hand and felt around, feeling a human form. She was defiantly a woman I discovered upon using my hand to define the size of the breast I was not currently resting my head upon.
"You can play later" said a voice very well known to me "Go back to sleep".
That had been Colette speaking, and given how things had been the last time I'd seen her I decided that getting up and leaving might be a good idea, as while right now she wasn't ripping me apart with her bare hands, she might do that if she fully woke up.
Slowly I rolled over, while keeping my eyes shut, and I found that there was another body in my way. Another pair of boobs, these also covered in thin fabric, were now playing the role of pillows.
"Oh" another female voice said, one I didn't know "Is this an Earth custom?".
I shot up out of bed and looked around. I was in my room, but not the one at the Monastery, which was pretty basic compared to my room at Mount Justice, where I was now.
When my vision came into focus I saw that my bed was occupied by two women, which explained all the boobs, and one of them was unknown to me. She looked like Blackfire, only her skin was a different colour and she was younger, a kid really.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked.
She didn't answer, nor did Collete who was now looking at me as if I'd gone crazy, it was Red Arrow who spoke.
"That's Blackfire's sister" he told me.
I did recall her mentioning that she had a sister who had also been enslaved, and the alien girl in my bed did look like the princess.
"Can someone please explain how I ended up in bed with my ex and Blackfire's sister".
As Red Arrow got up of the floor I saw that he wasn't along. He, along with Cheshire and Blackfire, had made a bed on the floor out of cushions from the sofa and some spare sheets. Thankfully they were all somewhat dressed.
"We went out drinking last night" Roy reminded me "After your training with Batman".
Now I was starting to remember.
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Gotham- Yesterday
It was a cloudy day in Gotham City, with the sun remaining hidden and the odd spattering of rain falling down from the heavens. In England we'd called this 'A typical summer's day', but the people of Gotham seemed to find it somewhat depressing, or perhaps my own foul mood just made it seem that way.
I was walking down the street, but not really going anywhere. I was sore all over from training with Batman, and while it made sense to go home so I could rest. I didn't really want to as Roy and his two girlfriends couldn't keep their hands of each other. It made me sick with envy.
Talia al Ghul ditching me as her toy boy had only made me feel worse. I felt used, although beating up her bodyguards while breaking into her penthouse apartment meant that I was partly to blame for the breakup.
My moping came to a halt when I heard a car horn go honk. I turned to see a red car and in the transport was Red Arrow, he was wearing sunglasses and had a red hood covering his head.
"Hey, Az, Az, Az, Az, Azrael!" called out Roy "Get in the car".
Several people looked at me upon hearing that name, but I ignored them. I wasn't worried about the whole secret identity thing as I was just some white guy with blue eyes and dark hair, which meant I didn't stand out in a crowd, and if anyone took a picture I wouldn't show up in it due to the magic I'd put into my clothes.
"Why?" I asked.
He smiled at me.
"We're gonna get drunk so we can try to forget about that whole torture thing" he answered.
That did sound like a good plan, but I wanted to be alone right now, so I started to walk off.
"Get in the damn car before I shoot you between the eyes!" Cheshire shouted while sticking her head of a back seat window "Don't think I won't do it".
Given what she'd done for a living until recently I had no doubt that she would, so I got into the passenger seat at the front of the car.
As Red Arrow drove through the city, he opened a flask of whisky, judging by the smell, and took a sip.
"You're driving" I pointed out.
Roy didn't seem to care, in fact he sped up.
"Why worry" he then said "Even if I crash it won't kill you".
I ignored him and turned around to see that in the backseat of Red Arrow's car, was not just Jade. Blackfire was here too.
"Oh! Look!" shouted the alien princess, while pressing her face against the window, "That man is urinating against a building!".
I got the sense she'd already started drinking, and I also figured that I wanted to catch up.
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The car had stopped in front of a midtown bar that was neither seedy or high class, and now three of the four of us, all dressed in civilian clothing, were at the bar, and all three of us were holding glasses of something that didn't look at all good for our livers.
"I'm telling you Dark Side of the Moon syncs up with Wizard of Oz" Jade stated.
I had no idea how we'd gotten onto this topic, mostly because I was brooding, and therefore not really paying attention.
"No! It does not!" stated Red Arrow.
Blackfire was up on the karaoke stage, singing 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun'
"She sings…good," slurred Red Arrow.
Most of the bar patrons were nodding their heads to the song, even Killer Croc, which was kinda weird because I'd heard he was dead, or maybe just in Arkham. It was possible that I was simply imagining him however.
"So, what'cha gonna sing?" asked Red Arrow "I've heard you sing.. you can sing".
This was news to me.
"Something Emo" I said "I'm feeling Emo".
Normally Emo people annoyed me, but today their depressing outlook on life was something I shared.
"Ha! Emo!" laughed a drunk Red Arrow.
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Mount Justice - The Morning After
"Okay now I remember the drinking" I said "but that doesn't explain how we met Starfire, or how we ended up here".
As Roy started to explain I found that more memories of last night were coming back to me.
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Gotham- Last Night
"Stop it!" screamed a crying Blackfire "Don't you see that…I care about you both equally?"
Roy and I stopped hitting each other and looked at her as she cried softly while kneeling on the sidewalk, which was just outside the bar we'd been thrown out of.
"We were fighting over whose fault it was we got kicked out" I told Blackfire.
Clearly she hadn't understood that.
"I miss my sister" she then told us.
As I looked at the crying alien princess and a notion entered my mind.
"Guys I have a brilliant idea" I said.
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The Citadel - Last Night
"Whose brilliant idea was this?" Cheshire yelled as she fired an alien weapon she picked up soon after we'd arrived here.
While this place was called the Citadel, it was not be confused with that awesome place some other versions of myself lived in, nor was it anywhere near as cool as the Citadel in Mass Effect. This Citadel was the headquarters of an organisation which turned people into slaves and sold them to the highest bidder.
A Princess would fetch a high price as a sex slave in some parts of the galaxy, which was why Starfire, Blackfire's little sister, was being held in the most well defended part of the massive slavers base.
"My brilliant idea!" I shouted, while firing my energy weapon at some slavers "Blackfire's sister is a hot alien babe in distress. She must be saved and then seduced".
That was my plan, and Blackfire supported the entire of it. The hard part was waiting for Roy to get Starfire out her cell while Blackfire disabled the shields that would prevent me from making a Boom Tube back to Earth.
An explosion suddenly shook the entire Citadel, and since I knew we needed to get moving I set my weapon to maximum and blasted my way in Starfire's cell.
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Mount Justice - The Morning After
"Okay I remember now" I told everyone "We went drinking and then we broke into the largest slaver base in the known galaxy to rescue a princess".
At the time I hadn't known that Starfire was a kid, which might explain why I was in bed with Colette, but I wasn't sure about that.
"So what happened next?" I then asked.
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Gotham- Last Night
Red Arrow was driving once again while still drunk, and he was covered in alien blood, and the Xenos princess we'd just saved had only just stopped talking to her sister in their native tongue. Which so far hadn't made for a pleasant drive as Blackfire's language seemed to involve a lot of shouting and dramatic hand gestures.
"What should we do now?" asked Jade.
I had no freaking ideas.
"Let's go…see a movie," suggested Red Arrow with a grin.
Now could be fun.
"Capital idea, good sport!" I said, feeling very British all of a sudden.
Jade spoke next.
"There's no where showing movies at this time of night" she pointed out "and we don't have a DVD player, or a TV, or a sound system. We should get those things".
I had another brilliant idea.
"My room at Mount Justice has all those things and more" I told the people in the car "I can boom tube us right into my room, and before anyone realises we've broken in, we grab all my cool stuff and tube out again. And best of all no one will shoot at us".
It was a flawless plan.
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Mount Justice - The Morning After
It hadn't been. We'd been caught, lectured by Black Canary. Also I was pretty sure that Super-boy had hit me. Then Batman had turned up, and he'd settled things.
"Starfire's going to the Teen Titans, and we get Colette on our team" I said "And the team here gets to call upon the Outcasts if they ever need the extra numbers".
Which was unlikely as they had another new team member, a witch called Zantanna.
"But that doesn't explain why you're in my room" I then said to Colette "or why you're now on my team".
Power Girl sighed before giving me the info I required.
"I decided to forgive you for cheating on me, but only because you were horribly tortured by a Middle Eastern Dominatrix. For some reason after finding that out I just couldn't be mad at you any more" she told me "but if you break my heart again I'll rip yours out of your chest and crush it with my bare hands".
That sounded both fair, and totally terrifying.
"Now come back to bed" Colette insisted.
Which was exactly what I did. There were still things that didn't make sense, but I could worry about them later.
It wasn't in till after I'd laid down that I remembered something else I'd done, something that drunk people sometimes did. I was so embarrassed by the memory that I had to hide my face in Colette's massive boobs. Not that I really needed a reason to do that.
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Gotham - Last Night
In her penthouse apartment Talia al Ghul sat on her lounge chair, while reading something that had been published back when the printing press was still being perfected Suddenly, her mobile phone rang and, without looking at her phone, she picked it up and pressed it against her ear.
"Hello?" she said to it.
Upon hearing a voice she frowned
"Yes, Azrael" she said.
Talia listened for a while.
"That's nice " she said in a annoyed tone "Look, I'm busy with something, maybe we can..."
She stopped to listen.
"Calm down" she then had to say.
She then listened some more.
"Call me again when your sober" she told the caller.
Talia then put the phone done and groaned slightly in annoyance. Talia then looked to her left to see Ra's al Ghul looking at her. He had entered the room while she was on the phone.
"Your taste in men has not improved, daughter" he calmly stated.
Talia resisted the urge to sigh again.
"I did not think he would become so attached" she told her father.
Ra's had a different view.
"I'm not at all surprised that it happen, Talia" Ra's replied "You did use the potion after all".
Talia was regretting that, but she wasn't too worried as she hadn't given the Angel that many doses.
"Perhaps a dip in the Lazarus Pit should help him see The Light, Ra's said with a smile "It would interesting to see what effect it would have".
Talia did not approve of that idea, and upon thinking about it further Ra's found that he had concerns. If Azrael was the host to an angelic being, unlikely as that seemed, then putting in a Lazarus Pit could have unforeseeable results. But if it worked then he would have unkillable assassin. It could be worth the risks.
He wasn't concerned about the so called: Angel of Death, not going along with his plans. he was sure that his daughter could bring Azrael back under his control if she wished. It wasn't as if he had anyone else.
