Well, I suppose it could have been worse. Basically Robin got behind this
podium in front of countless cameras and reporters, and then he said some
stuff about how we were going to save the city and defeat evil bla, bla,
bla. Then he shook hands with the mayor, and then the mayor got up and said
some cool stuff. Then the mayor who was a plump jolly man in a brown suit
with a red tie with a white mustache pulled me up to stand with him.
Then he asked me how it felt to be with the team and then I... just froze. My eyes got big and round and I just stared at the cameras. I looked over to Robin who waved his hands desperately trying to get me to talk.
"Awww, poor little thing is just camera shy!!" the mayor said brightly. All the reporters thought it was adorable. Raven jumped to her feet and dragged me away from the podium.
"Wait!" I cried, and rushed back up to the podium. "I'm very proud to be apart of this team!" I said desperately trying to redeem myself. The cameras went crazy and started snapping picture. The reporters started yelling questions, I answered some of them, but then I got overwhelmed and Robin decided I had had enough for one day.
As we all walked back to the T-car, which may I say is a VERY neat-o car; the reporters had obviously decided that they weren't done with me. Trust me, reporters are vicious!! I'd rather face this Slade guy that a pack of reporters. They followed us to the car. One reporter even had the nerve to trip me, just trying to get on interesting shot of me for a magazine. Thankfully, Starfire caught me before I fell. I turned around to tell the guy off, but Robin elbowed me, and shook his head. Robin is so image possessed! Is there like, someone out there that he is trying to prove himself to? I glared at the reporter, just to show my spirit hadn't been broken.
We all piled into the car, and the reporters surrounded the car, trying to yell questions through the glass. To tell you the truth, it was a little scary; one reporters face was smooshed up against the glass because of the swarm of other reporters fighting to get through to the car. I actual felt a little scared, I scooted as close into the middle of the seats as possible; unfortunately Beastboy was already sitting there.
"God Naomi! Get off! What are you trying to do? Rape me?" He said grinning good-naturedly. So I good-naturedly smacked his face with my hand. When Cyborg started the car it sent the reporters scattering like chickens. I felt relived.
"You did well," Robin commented, turning around from shotgun to talk back to me behind him.
"I didn't say much," I replied frowning.
"That's ok, that was even better than ok! They all thought it was cute. You won their heats."
"I'm NOT cute." I muttered grumpily. I did NOT want to be portrayed as cute.
"Beastboy used to be the cute one," Raven said dully, not really talking to anyone.
"HEY! I still am the cute one!" BB exclaimed looking insulted. I was about to respond smartly to his last statement, but I got interrupted.
"Woh!!" Cyborg suddenly yelled, swerving the car, causing me to fall on Beastboy.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Beastboy and I yelled at the same time. Cyborg craned his neck to see out the windshield.
"Oh fuck!! It's the H.I.V.E.!!" He said, as he stopped the car and threw open the door to jumped out. Beastboy and Starfire clamored over me to get out the door while Raven and Robin barreled out their door. The H.I.V.E.? What? I tried to scramble out after them but Cyborg blocked my way.
"No, no, no you don't!" he said sternly, "You stay here. You haven't had any battle training yet! We don't need you getting yourself hurt. Stay. In The. Car."
"WHAT ARE YOU, CRAZY?" I asked angry, as I tried to get out of the car.
"Stay." He commanded as if I was some sort of dog. He shut the door and ran to join the team who were defiantly standing up to three strange teenagers.
One was a girl with a evil smirk that seemed to be permanently set to her pale skinned face, as she stood with her hands on her slender hips. She sported dark blue and black clothing, and her purple hair was in two thick strange looking pigtails that seemed to stick up in a funny fashion. The other two were male.
One was an absolute GIANT! He must have towered over ten feet tall! He even made Cyborg look tiny. But he honestly didn't look to smart; he had a squashed monkey face with brown shoulder length hair. All brawn and no brain, I suppose. The last one was the complete opposite.
He was extremely tiny, almost cute! He couldn't be taller that four feet! He wore a dark body suit that was cover with little blinking electronics. He also prized a pair of goggles that he wore on the top of his head, and a little backpack that seemed to weigh him down. He was extremely pale, like the kind of person who had gone frail from spending all their time inside tinkering with electronics that actually go out side and see the world. I shook my head. The others had to be crazy to think I was going to sit in a car and miss this.
I quietly opened the car door and slunk out and hid behind a nearby dumper to jump into action when the fight started.
"What do you losers want?" BB sneered, talking to the three teens. The girl, who was obviously the leader, was the first to speak,
"Our boss told us to come here and give the new girl a nice welcome," She sneered, "Slade said that a proper salutations was in order."
"You can't scare her away!" Robin said confidently. Scare me away?!? Oh hell no!! I looked to the girl and started to immediately dislike her.
"Well," the little boy asked in a shrill voice, "Where is she?" The teens looked around.
"I think you guys have bigger things to worry about," Robin said in a dangerous voice.
"Oh yeah?" Then the fight erupted in the middle of the street. Robin and the girl had a face off in the middle of the street, but he was losing, this girl was too quick for him. Cyborg and Starfire sent off sonic blasted and starbolt combo in the direction of the little guy while BB transformed into an elephant and tried to pick him up with his trunk, but the little boys back backpack exploded into metal spider legs and take him out of BBs reach. While Raven squared off with the big guy, but she was losing badly as well, every time she tried to attack, he would stomp his foot, sending a tremor thought he ground causing her to fall. NO!! They were doing this all wrong!!
"You guys!!" I called jumping out from behind the dumpster and they all stopped fighting to turn and look at me, "Raven! Fight the girl!! She is at a disadvantage against fighters faster than her! Starfire! Fight the big one! He can't do anything to you if you're flying! Cy-" but before I could finish the sentence I felt a ham sized fist collide with the sided of my head. I jumped instinctive on top of a parked car near me. The big one was after me! Ok, time for happy thoughts! Which is not easy to do when a ten- foot giant is intent on crushing every bone in your body. But I somehow managed to glide off the car. I struggled to gain altitude as sledgehammer fists swung at me from below. I heard Robin yelling at me from the ground, but I couldn't make out what he was saying.
I felt the breeze of Raven taking position beside me. She telekinetically lifter a car and threw it at him. When it hit him, I though we had won, but no, that would have been too easy. Next thing I knew, the car was being chucked right back up at us from the ground, the wind from the car defying gravity caused me to waver in the air and fly higher. Now we were to high for him to reach from the ground, so he started scaling the building next to us, in hopes of knocking us out of the air.
Raven and I smiled at each other and I did a barrel kick in mid air knocking him off the building, then as he was falling, Raven sent a dark energy blast right into his gut knocking him away from the building so he would damage anything when he hit. Then I zoomed up above him and blasted him with water, causing him to hit the street twice as hard. Pavement cracked and went flying in every direction. I looked down and was shocked to see that the big one had created a five-foot crater in the street.
Yes!! Victory!! I immediately caused a swarm of thick vines to spring out of the cracks of the pavement to tie him down. He was completely bound to the ground by the cocoon of vines; you couldn't even see him anymore. I glided to the ground with Raven. Yes!! We WON!! I stated jumping up and down unable to control my excitement.
"Yes, yes, YES!!" I squealed. I just was in my very first fight! And I won, thank you very much!! Raven bent over and inspected the vines.
"That'll hold him," she said sounding pleased. I was BEYOND pleased, its like, the first time you can ride a bike without your dad holding up the back of the seat for you. I spread my arms and rocketed into the air twirling and laughing. Then I arched my back in the air and shot down back again but before I hit I stopped and landed gracefully on my feet. I finally got the hang of landing. I looked over to Raven who had one eyebrow arched.
"Its my victory flight," I explained to her.
"Naomi!" I heard Robin's stern voice behind me. I looked around to see Robin looking kinda angry, I looked over and saw the others had done quite a number on the other two teens, Cyborg was holding the little one immobile while the girl was lying on the pavement, sporting a nasty looking cut on her forehead. I knew Robin was mad but I couldn't help blurting out,
"Did you guys see that?!?!" Robin sighed, and must have decide that he couldn't be that mad because he smiled and said,
"Yeah, that was good, excellent actually."
"And it came so naturally, like my powers were just waiting to explode out of me!" I was still giddy from all this excitement, I hardly noticed when Raven and Robin exchanged dark looks at my last statement. But the others didn't notice,
"I must say Naomi, you kicked ass!" Cyborg said punching my arm playfully.
"Yay!!" Starfire exclaimed clapping her hands. But Beastboy looked quite beside himself,
"YOU DID GOOD!" he exclaimed happily.
"Now, don't let the magnitude of this history making moment spoil your grammar," Cyborg said to his green little buddy. All of a sudden I was blinded my hundreds of cameras going off. CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK. I squinted my eyes trying to see through the blinding lights. Oh hell, the reporters found us. Then all the reports started yelling at ones,
"Naomi! Over here please!"
"How did you do it?"
"Do you feel any resentment towards Mammoth?"
"Naomi! Over here!"
"Are you injured in any way?"
"How dose it feel to be the rookie?"
"Look at her, she's so overwhelmed!" I head one reporter say to the channel 34 cameraman, "She's so cute." I'M NOT CUTE!! I thought furiously. What are these people problems? Raven and I looked at each other, and then we turned to the others,
"I don't know how you guys are getting home, but we're flying." And with that Raven and I left the swarm of reporters on the ground.
StArRy- Ok, this is the second to last chapter of this story. I've already prewritten a lot of my sequel. But I was wondering, should I kick it up a notch and take the story to R? Not for anything to bad, probably just for language and some suggestiveness, probably a very soft R, but nothing you want a little kid to read. Or should I leave it at a strong pg13? I want to know what you the readers think, kick it up to R, or leave it as it is?
Then he asked me how it felt to be with the team and then I... just froze. My eyes got big and round and I just stared at the cameras. I looked over to Robin who waved his hands desperately trying to get me to talk.
"Awww, poor little thing is just camera shy!!" the mayor said brightly. All the reporters thought it was adorable. Raven jumped to her feet and dragged me away from the podium.
"Wait!" I cried, and rushed back up to the podium. "I'm very proud to be apart of this team!" I said desperately trying to redeem myself. The cameras went crazy and started snapping picture. The reporters started yelling questions, I answered some of them, but then I got overwhelmed and Robin decided I had had enough for one day.
As we all walked back to the T-car, which may I say is a VERY neat-o car; the reporters had obviously decided that they weren't done with me. Trust me, reporters are vicious!! I'd rather face this Slade guy that a pack of reporters. They followed us to the car. One reporter even had the nerve to trip me, just trying to get on interesting shot of me for a magazine. Thankfully, Starfire caught me before I fell. I turned around to tell the guy off, but Robin elbowed me, and shook his head. Robin is so image possessed! Is there like, someone out there that he is trying to prove himself to? I glared at the reporter, just to show my spirit hadn't been broken.
We all piled into the car, and the reporters surrounded the car, trying to yell questions through the glass. To tell you the truth, it was a little scary; one reporters face was smooshed up against the glass because of the swarm of other reporters fighting to get through to the car. I actual felt a little scared, I scooted as close into the middle of the seats as possible; unfortunately Beastboy was already sitting there.
"God Naomi! Get off! What are you trying to do? Rape me?" He said grinning good-naturedly. So I good-naturedly smacked his face with my hand. When Cyborg started the car it sent the reporters scattering like chickens. I felt relived.
"You did well," Robin commented, turning around from shotgun to talk back to me behind him.
"I didn't say much," I replied frowning.
"That's ok, that was even better than ok! They all thought it was cute. You won their heats."
"I'm NOT cute." I muttered grumpily. I did NOT want to be portrayed as cute.
"Beastboy used to be the cute one," Raven said dully, not really talking to anyone.
"HEY! I still am the cute one!" BB exclaimed looking insulted. I was about to respond smartly to his last statement, but I got interrupted.
"Woh!!" Cyborg suddenly yelled, swerving the car, causing me to fall on Beastboy.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Beastboy and I yelled at the same time. Cyborg craned his neck to see out the windshield.
"Oh fuck!! It's the H.I.V.E.!!" He said, as he stopped the car and threw open the door to jumped out. Beastboy and Starfire clamored over me to get out the door while Raven and Robin barreled out their door. The H.I.V.E.? What? I tried to scramble out after them but Cyborg blocked my way.
"No, no, no you don't!" he said sternly, "You stay here. You haven't had any battle training yet! We don't need you getting yourself hurt. Stay. In The. Car."
"WHAT ARE YOU, CRAZY?" I asked angry, as I tried to get out of the car.
"Stay." He commanded as if I was some sort of dog. He shut the door and ran to join the team who were defiantly standing up to three strange teenagers.
One was a girl with a evil smirk that seemed to be permanently set to her pale skinned face, as she stood with her hands on her slender hips. She sported dark blue and black clothing, and her purple hair was in two thick strange looking pigtails that seemed to stick up in a funny fashion. The other two were male.
One was an absolute GIANT! He must have towered over ten feet tall! He even made Cyborg look tiny. But he honestly didn't look to smart; he had a squashed monkey face with brown shoulder length hair. All brawn and no brain, I suppose. The last one was the complete opposite.
He was extremely tiny, almost cute! He couldn't be taller that four feet! He wore a dark body suit that was cover with little blinking electronics. He also prized a pair of goggles that he wore on the top of his head, and a little backpack that seemed to weigh him down. He was extremely pale, like the kind of person who had gone frail from spending all their time inside tinkering with electronics that actually go out side and see the world. I shook my head. The others had to be crazy to think I was going to sit in a car and miss this.
I quietly opened the car door and slunk out and hid behind a nearby dumper to jump into action when the fight started.
"What do you losers want?" BB sneered, talking to the three teens. The girl, who was obviously the leader, was the first to speak,
"Our boss told us to come here and give the new girl a nice welcome," She sneered, "Slade said that a proper salutations was in order."
"You can't scare her away!" Robin said confidently. Scare me away?!? Oh hell no!! I looked to the girl and started to immediately dislike her.
"Well," the little boy asked in a shrill voice, "Where is she?" The teens looked around.
"I think you guys have bigger things to worry about," Robin said in a dangerous voice.
"Oh yeah?" Then the fight erupted in the middle of the street. Robin and the girl had a face off in the middle of the street, but he was losing, this girl was too quick for him. Cyborg and Starfire sent off sonic blasted and starbolt combo in the direction of the little guy while BB transformed into an elephant and tried to pick him up with his trunk, but the little boys back backpack exploded into metal spider legs and take him out of BBs reach. While Raven squared off with the big guy, but she was losing badly as well, every time she tried to attack, he would stomp his foot, sending a tremor thought he ground causing her to fall. NO!! They were doing this all wrong!!
"You guys!!" I called jumping out from behind the dumpster and they all stopped fighting to turn and look at me, "Raven! Fight the girl!! She is at a disadvantage against fighters faster than her! Starfire! Fight the big one! He can't do anything to you if you're flying! Cy-" but before I could finish the sentence I felt a ham sized fist collide with the sided of my head. I jumped instinctive on top of a parked car near me. The big one was after me! Ok, time for happy thoughts! Which is not easy to do when a ten- foot giant is intent on crushing every bone in your body. But I somehow managed to glide off the car. I struggled to gain altitude as sledgehammer fists swung at me from below. I heard Robin yelling at me from the ground, but I couldn't make out what he was saying.
I felt the breeze of Raven taking position beside me. She telekinetically lifter a car and threw it at him. When it hit him, I though we had won, but no, that would have been too easy. Next thing I knew, the car was being chucked right back up at us from the ground, the wind from the car defying gravity caused me to waver in the air and fly higher. Now we were to high for him to reach from the ground, so he started scaling the building next to us, in hopes of knocking us out of the air.
Raven and I smiled at each other and I did a barrel kick in mid air knocking him off the building, then as he was falling, Raven sent a dark energy blast right into his gut knocking him away from the building so he would damage anything when he hit. Then I zoomed up above him and blasted him with water, causing him to hit the street twice as hard. Pavement cracked and went flying in every direction. I looked down and was shocked to see that the big one had created a five-foot crater in the street.
Yes!! Victory!! I immediately caused a swarm of thick vines to spring out of the cracks of the pavement to tie him down. He was completely bound to the ground by the cocoon of vines; you couldn't even see him anymore. I glided to the ground with Raven. Yes!! We WON!! I stated jumping up and down unable to control my excitement.
"Yes, yes, YES!!" I squealed. I just was in my very first fight! And I won, thank you very much!! Raven bent over and inspected the vines.
"That'll hold him," she said sounding pleased. I was BEYOND pleased, its like, the first time you can ride a bike without your dad holding up the back of the seat for you. I spread my arms and rocketed into the air twirling and laughing. Then I arched my back in the air and shot down back again but before I hit I stopped and landed gracefully on my feet. I finally got the hang of landing. I looked over to Raven who had one eyebrow arched.
"Its my victory flight," I explained to her.
"Naomi!" I heard Robin's stern voice behind me. I looked around to see Robin looking kinda angry, I looked over and saw the others had done quite a number on the other two teens, Cyborg was holding the little one immobile while the girl was lying on the pavement, sporting a nasty looking cut on her forehead. I knew Robin was mad but I couldn't help blurting out,
"Did you guys see that?!?!" Robin sighed, and must have decide that he couldn't be that mad because he smiled and said,
"Yeah, that was good, excellent actually."
"And it came so naturally, like my powers were just waiting to explode out of me!" I was still giddy from all this excitement, I hardly noticed when Raven and Robin exchanged dark looks at my last statement. But the others didn't notice,
"I must say Naomi, you kicked ass!" Cyborg said punching my arm playfully.
"Yay!!" Starfire exclaimed clapping her hands. But Beastboy looked quite beside himself,
"YOU DID GOOD!" he exclaimed happily.
"Now, don't let the magnitude of this history making moment spoil your grammar," Cyborg said to his green little buddy. All of a sudden I was blinded my hundreds of cameras going off. CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK, CLICK. I squinted my eyes trying to see through the blinding lights. Oh hell, the reporters found us. Then all the reports started yelling at ones,
"Naomi! Over here please!"
"How did you do it?"
"Do you feel any resentment towards Mammoth?"
"Naomi! Over here!"
"Are you injured in any way?"
"How dose it feel to be the rookie?"
"Look at her, she's so overwhelmed!" I head one reporter say to the channel 34 cameraman, "She's so cute." I'M NOT CUTE!! I thought furiously. What are these people problems? Raven and I looked at each other, and then we turned to the others,
"I don't know how you guys are getting home, but we're flying." And with that Raven and I left the swarm of reporters on the ground.
StArRy- Ok, this is the second to last chapter of this story. I've already prewritten a lot of my sequel. But I was wondering, should I kick it up a notch and take the story to R? Not for anything to bad, probably just for language and some suggestiveness, probably a very soft R, but nothing you want a little kid to read. Or should I leave it at a strong pg13? I want to know what you the readers think, kick it up to R, or leave it as it is?