Disclaimer: I do not own Teen Titans or the X-Men Evolution
Summary: This story takes place post Terra and pre Titans Rising. Terra's powers almost get her killed and in the process, Cerebro picks her up and the X-Men save her. Now Terra is being fostered by the X-Men. They want to help her, but who else wants to help her?
Chapter Summary: Terra moves out of the Institute and finds herself at the Brotherhood. Only problem is, will they accept her?
Chapter 12
Lance
Terra dove
out of her window and held her hand out using her powers to call a
rock towards her. A rock flew out of the ground and hovered under
Terra. She somersaulted and landed perfectly on it.
"She's
going!"
Terra crouched down lower and held onto the rock tight.
The last thing she remembered being trained for was speed. The rock
shot off with Terra holding on. Terra directed the rock outside the
Brotherhood and landed.
The rock was still hovering off the
ground by just a few centimetres. Terra leaped off and adjusted the
straps on her backpack.
Do you really want to join the
Brotherhood? she asked herself as she stood outside the door
nervously.
Having second thoughts, the skinny girl took a step
back, but the door flew open. Pietro was standing there smirking as
though he knew she would end up on their doorstep, confused and
alone.
"Hey Terra," he said coolly. "Come on in!"
Pietro
grabbed Terra's twig-like arms and dragged her inside. She was
repulsed at the sight of the house, but said nothing.
"Yo,
who's the new girl?" a very smelly boy said hopping into the
room.
Terra couldn't help but wrinkle her nose in disgust.
Terra took a step back from Toad, shrugging Pietro's hold on her
arm.
"I'm Toad," he said moving close to her and wriggling
his eyebrows.
Terra held her breath and her eyes watered from the
stench either coming from his mouth or from his scalp. Either way,
two more minutes with the Toad could land Terra in the emergency
room.
"What's your power?"
Terra turned her head to see
a tall boy with long-ish dark brown hair standing at a doorway
leading to a dark room.
"I-I can move the earth," Terra
stammered.
"You can move the earth?" the boy said coldly
glaring at Pietro, who shrugged in reply.
"Let's see what you
got then little girl," the boy sneered.
He held
his hands out in front of him and caused a large earthquake. Pietro
and Toad stumbled and a very, very, very large boy fell into the
room, through the wall.
"LANCE!" the large boy shouted
chucking a sandwich at the dark haired boy.
It looked as though
Blob had been eating a sandwich. Mustard stained his shirt, but it
also looked like there was ice cream, jelly, juice and coke stained
on it. And it also looked two months ago.
The sandwich hit Lance
in the face and he lost his concentration. The earthquake stopped.
"Beat that," Lance said wiping the mayonnaise off his face.
Terra smiled.
Somewhat, she was glad that she trained with
the X-Men, because now, she could show off. She had been working on a
routine with Rogue for a presentation night for the parents of the
mutant students at the Institute.
A rock shot through the front
door, taking it down, and Terra back flipped onto it. The rock
elegantly floated outside, with the boys following. The rock Terra
was on shot high into the sky along with four other rocks. They
followed Terra's rock and she soared through the air. At one point,
she slipped, but one of the five rocks caught her and she continued
her routine. She zoomed low to the ground and hopped off lifting the
rocks high into the air.
As they reached as high as the eye could
see, the rocks collided giving a firework like display.
"Whoa,"
Blob said, his mouth hanging open like a goldfish.
Lance stared
jealously.
"Ta-da!" Terra said smugly. She took a step
towards the guys when there was a terrible earthquake and Terra's
eyes glowed and her hair flew wildly.
She dropped to her knees
and gripped her head as though she was in terrible pain. Almost as
quick as the earthquake started, it ended. Terra stood up hastily and
stared at the ground.
"I can't control my powers," she
admitted sheepishly.
"Gee, we didn't notice," Lance said
sarcastically.
"Come on, I'll show you your room," Pietro
said grabbing Terra's arm and speed running into the house.
"I
hate her," Lance said coldly raising a clenched fist.
"Gee
Lance, she doesn't look that bad," Toad said smoothing his greasy
hair back with a chuckle.
Lance glared at Toad and banged his
fist on the side of the house. The ground shook dangerously.
"Hey,
hey! I didn't mean it like that!" Toad said hopping away. "But
for my safety, I'm staying away from here till she's gone,"
Toad muttered to himself hopping away.
