Ok…..sorry bout the longer than I anticipated wait, but my computer decided that it wasn't going to work for a while……flippin' figures. Any way……here it is….the next scene…..by the way, as much as I wish I did, I do Not own the Teen Titans…..bummer
Beast Boy pulled out his communicator and called for help. As he did so, he noticed that Leia seemed to be torn as to what to do.
"Get out of here if you can. He usually doesn't go for people, just electronics." he quickly told her. She just continued bouncing on her feet, the look on her face telling all that she was debating a course of action. He, thinking that she froze, gave her a shove towards the door.
"How do you beat him?" she asked, making him pause before transforming.
"What?" he asked.
"How do you beat this guy?"
"Water. Now sorry, but I gotta hold this guy till the people can get out and the other get here." he shouted. He transformed into a bird and swooped around Overload's head, keeping him distracted until the others could arrive to help him.
Leia had no choice. She had to. She glanced around, looking for a source of water and spotted the sprinklers in the ceiling. "Perfect!" she said to herself. She then looked around for a dropped lighter. Finally spotting one, she ran to it, grabbed it and looked for the easiest way to set off the sprinkler system. She resorted to climbing on top of a car game seat and hoisting herself up onto the game's top.
"Beast Boy!" she cried, "Get away from him."
Being confused, he did as he was told as she lifted the light to the sprinklers, much like Max did in the Disney movie "Hocus Pocus", and lit it. Water started to fall from them as Overload turned to her, noticing her after she called out to Beast Boy.
"Foolish girl." he cried, "The small amount of water that hits Overload will not stop Overload!" he taunted.
"No." she said, "But I bet all this water in one shot will!" She then gave a cry of great concentration and thrust both hand forward. Following the movement of her hands, all the water falling from the sprinklers rushed toward Overload. He gave shouts that rivaled the Wicked Witch of the West's when Wendy poured water on her and Leia could almost hear him shout "I'm melting, I'm melting!", but knew this was in her head (she watched WAY too much TV!). She stopped when she saw that he was nothing more than his chip of a face.
She wearily hopped down from her perch on top of the videogame and sat in the chair. She looked at the damage she did, then gave a cough. 'Great!' she thought, 'My cold's gonna come back and my mom isso gonna ground me.'
Beast Boy didn't know what happened. One minutes he's pushing frozen with fear Leia towards the door, the next thing he knows, is that she's on top of a game, telling him to get away from Overload. Then she dramatically thrusts a light to a sprinkler, setting off the whole system, then she directs it all towards Overload. Then Overload's a chip. But, Leia doesn't have any powers, dose she?
"I guess she does." he said to himself.
It was at that point that the rest of the team made themselves noticed. They walked up to Beast Boy and asked what happened. He explained that he fully didn't understand, and gave them what he had worked out, as Raven used her powers to shut off the sprinkler system and Starfire retrieved the chip that was now Overload.
"You know her?" Robin asked.
"We met at the comic book store last Tuesday." he told them, "I saw her here and we were playing a game when Overload attacked."
They walked over to her. "Um, Leia, is it?" Robin asked.
Leia looked up from her seat, then stood up, "Yes." she said.
"First off, thanks for beating Overload. I can tell you that you set a record when it comes to him." Robin congratulated her.
"Um, thanks." she said, then looked to brace herself for the worst.
"Ever done anything like this before?" Robin asked.
"Uh, no." she said.
"Well, Beast Boy tells me that you two are friends. If you ever decide that you wanna try to be a hero, have him let me know and we'll set up a trial."
"A trial? Like court?"
"No, no." Robin said, ""Think of it as a sort of, interview."
"Oh. Uh. Ok. Thanks." she said. At this time the cops showed up and Robin went to talk to them and hand them Overload. Cyborg, Starfire and Raven followed him,
but Beast Boy stayed to talk to Leia.
"So, you have powers, huh?" he asked.
"Yep." she simply said, no looking at him. He was mad at her for not telling him, she knew it, he had to be. He was going to yell at her, shout at her, call her a freak.
"That's cool." he said, "Really cool."
She looked up, disbelief in her eyes, "You're not mad?" she asked.
"About what?" he asked, "Beating Overload in under five minutes? Saving me from getting electrocuted?"
"Not telling you." she said, looking down again.
"That? Nah. I didn't tell you that I had powers."
"Well, it was kinda obvious."
"Yeah, but I've been where you are now. Trying to hide it. Never really worked for me though, being green and all." he chuckled. She gave a small chuckle too.
"That's why I always keep my hair in a hat when I'm in public." she said as she reached up. When she pulled off her hat, it was to reveal hair that was the exact same color as her eyes. "I can't change the color, the dye doesn't hold for some reason. Actually got me in a bit of trouble at my school on Ohio." she added pensively.
"That's it's natural color?" he asked.
"Yep." she sighed.
"Well, I like it." he said.
"Thanks." she said. She looked at her watch, "Crap!" she said, "I better get home so I can explain this to my parents before they see it on the news."
"Want me to come? I can help." Beast Boy offered.
"I don't know if that'll make it worse or not." Leia said, then added, "It can't get much worse, so it can only help, really."
In the end it was the entire team that accompanied Leia to her house to explain the situation to her parents. At first her mother was not happy at all.
"You WHAT! Leia Isabelle! What have your father and I told you about using your powers in public?" it was at this point that Beast Boy cut her off. ("He's got guts." Leia thought to herself. NO ONE interrupted her mother, not if they wanted to survive the day.)
"Ma'am!" he said, "I'm sorry to interrupt you, but Leia helped us out a ton here. She single-handedly stopped Overload with in five minutes! I would have been fried if it wasn't for her."
"I thought it through, mama." she said in her best voice. (She used the deadly-to-anger combination of "mama" and this voice to get out of many tight spots before and it never failed her except for that once in third grade…..but I digress.) "It really was the best thing for me to do."
While her mother still looked less than pleased, the even deadlier-to-anger combination of "mama", that voice and Beast Boy's praise at least stemmed her mother from being-we'll leave it at "very upset"-to being merely steaming. Robin expressed his offer for Leia to take the test to be part of the team.
"What exactly does that entail?" her father asked.
"Well, she'd train with us, and fight crime with us. She'd be on call 24/7 like the rest of us. Of course there'd be the danger expected in fighting villains." Robin explained.
"But she has yet to finish high school!" Leia's mother said.
"Well, we could arrange for a tutor or one of us could teach her." Robin said.
"She'd be on call, you say?" her father asked, then asked the real question of, "How is she supposes to get to the scene if one of us can't take her?"
"She'd be living with us." Robin said as though that had been overtly apparent.
"No." Leia's father said.
The Titans all shouted "What?" (Except for Raven, who deadpanned it). Leia looked as though she had expected this, which she had.
"She's not leaving this house. We're not going through that again." her father said again.
"But, sir-" Beast Boy started, but was cut off by Leia's mother.
"He said no and I agree with him."
"Now if you don't mind, I'm going to ask you to leave." her father said, rather forcefully. They looked to Leia, who told them goodnight and that she hoped to see them again.
The Titans left not quite knowing what had happened. There was silence on the ride on, both on the R-Cycle and in the T-Car. Nobody had ever turned down a chance to be in the Titans, full time or honorary. Then again, most people with powers didn't live with their parents anymore either.
Leia could feel the tears forming in her eyes, but fought to hold them back.
"I'm sorry, Leia, but I couldn't." her father said, "Not in good conscience. Not after what happened to your sister."
"I understand." Leia said, "I expected it."
"Leia, sweetie. We really are sorry, but-" her mother said.
"Honestly." Leia said, "I'm cool with it. I'm gonna go to bed now. I'm pretty tired." She gave her parents a quick peck on the cheek, then went to her room and locked the door. The sound of the lock was like a switch that opened the floodgates in her eyes and tears poured from them. It was a chance to make friends. To be able to be her. To not be a freak.
But no! Some psycho had to go and convert her sister and now her parents wouldn't let her go and try her hand, afraid of the same result. But she wasn't her sister! No matter how hard Leia tried as a child, she was never her sister and would never be exactly like her sister. She was quite capable of making her own decisions. Her sister had been twelve when she left home, Leia was almost 16! And its not like they hadn't heard of the Titans before. They knew what they were dealing with here. It wasn't like she was just heading around until she find someone to help her! No! She had someone to help her.
Still thinking rather not nice thoughts, Leia changed into her pj's and climbed into bed.
That night as her parents watched the news, they saw coverage of the fight from a security camera in the arcade. The news anchor gave a dialog explaining what happened:
"Here, just moments before Overload struck, you can see Teen Titan Beast Boy and an unknown girl playing a video game. If you look in the top left corner of the screen, you'll see an unused videogame booth spark and you can just see Overload slipping out of the ventilation grid. He then sucks the power out of the booth and shoots a bit of electricity at the booth that Beast Boy and the unknown girl are playing at as civilians rush from the site.
Then, the unknown girl asks Beast Boy a question or two before allowing him to fly around Overload to distract him from the other civilians in the area. We then see the unknown girl grab something, later to be known as a simple, cheap lighter. She then jumps on top of a game and calls the attention of Overload. A small banter is exchanged as she triggers the sprinkler system. What we see next is the girl directing all the water towards Overload and he is reduced to a chip.
Who is this new girl? Is there a new Titan to help protect the streets of Jump City? If so, villains, beware, this new girl is a force to be reckoned with."
As the news changed a story to the recent spike in gas prices, again (the author would like to take a minutes or two of your time and say the gas prices are KILLING ME! I use a tank a week and that I spent $30 the other day filling up! KILLING ME I TELL YOU!). Leia's mother and father shared an uncomfortable silence.
"She was good." her father said.
"Yes, she was." said her mother.
"We still not letting her try out?" her father asked.
"I don't know if I can lose my other baby. When we lost-" her mother couldn't finish.
"We will find her." her father said, "We will. I won't give up until we do."
"I know. I just don't want to worry about finding both of them."
"I know. It's Ok."
They then turned back to the TV to watch the weather.
"Well, Jump City, don't put those umbrella's up yet, because rain is in the forecast for the next week."
"What did Leia's father mean by they weren't going through it again?" Robin asked the Titans collectively, though he was mostly asking Beast Boy.
"I don't know." the green teen answered, "Must be what she didn't want to talk about."
"What?" Cyborg asked. Beast Boy explained how he had asked why they had moved to jump city and she didn't want to talk about it.
"And you didn't push it?" Raven asked skeptically, thinking how he always pushed everything with her.
"I had just told her I didn't want to talk about why I was green, and she just dropped it. I owed it to her not to push it." he said.
"Well, if the opportunity arise again, see what you can get out of her." Robin said. He had this thing about rejection.
"It is most confusing that Leia's parents would not allow her to join us. Perhaps they did not like us?" she asked, tears forming in her eyes.
"No, Star, it's not that." Robin said, putting his arm around her. She brightened considerably.
"I shall go and make to pudding of confusion all the same." she said as she left his side and headed to the kitchen. Suddenly, three Titans had somewhere they had to
be or something they had to do. Only Beast Boy, who had been staring into space and thus not heard her, was there to test her concoction.
He had to brush his teeth and gargle for half an hour to get the taste out of his mouth.
Yep! Leia has powers! Sorry, Amishninja, but I kinda had to, really, well, ok, I didn't but I kinda wanted to……anyway…….umm……corn flakes for all those who review! Ohh, and I'll get marshmallows and green food coloring and we can make holy wreaths….even though it isn't Christmas any more….we'll dye them red and make hearts instead….how bout that? Well…I need to rewrite a bit of the story as I had it done before "Things Change" and need to make adjustments accordingly……soo….hope you enjoyed!