Spoilers: Season 7 Buffy, up to (And maybe including, haven't decided yet) Infinite Crisis in DC, and mid-to late ninties issues of various X-Men, X-Force, that sort of thing. I'm sorry, but current Marvel really sucks.
Rating: T/pg-13 (for the moment)
Pairings: Dawn/Bart Allen (Kid Flash), mentions of Robin/Batgirl, Wondegirl/Superboy, Connor/Greta
Summary: During the fight against the First, Dawn falls through a potal which sends her to an alternate dimension. Unable to return home, Dawn makes a new life for herself, only there's a couple problems: her new boyfriend is anything but normal, and how exactly is she related to the Summers family anyway?
AN: FOr my next story I'm thinking of doing a Fullmetal Alchemist/BtVS? x-over. What do you think? I'm conisdering Anita Blake, Marvel, or DC. I'm not sure which to decide on.
To my reviewers at ff dot net:
Theory: Greta is without powers... I think.
Mae: Yup, kicking guys there is a lot of fun. There will be more Connor by Chapter 20 or so. Probably sooner. Greta is an amazing character. Personally, I would suggest reading YOung Justice: Sins of Youth. Although that trade paperback cost about $20.
the Iron Chef: They didn't meet in the series. I just decided that they met the summer after the whole Glory thing. I think I mentioned that in the story, not sure though.
Chapter 9
Dawn looked at herself in the mirror before leaving the bathroom, satisfied with her appearance. The dress she had bought for $5 was very pretty and perfect for late November.
Deciding not to chance ruining the dress at school, Dawn had changed into after school. Dawn looked at her watch. She still had two minutes before she was supposed to meet Bart outside.
Bart leaned against the wall just inside the school. It had snowed the night before and it was too cold to meet outside.
He was nervous, far too nervous, but he couldn't move. If he did, he was pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to stop. He didn't have all that much experience with girls. He had kissed Carol once or twice, but it hadn't amounted to much more than that.
He'd dated a girl last year, but she hadn't been able to deal with his unexplained absences and how he was always away during the weekends, both of which were due to his crime fighting. He couldn't just leave people to die, and for that matter, he couldn't abandon some of the few friends he had. Every weekend, except for when he was grounded was spent with the Titans, his teammates and best friends since he had first come to this time from the thirtieth century.
Dawn was different. She was like him... sort of. Dawn was involved in his world, both of them. Ok, so she didn't run around in spandex, but she was still familiar with crime fighting and such. Hopefully she would understand about his obligations.
He looked up as Dawn walked over to him. She wore a rather pretty maroon dress. It had bell sleeves and a long flowing skirt. There was a black bodice with matching maroon embroidery and on her feet were black boots.
He stared for a moment, unable to form a sentence. She was very... he couldn't even describe how good she looked. After a second he realized that it was the first time he had ever seen her wear a skirt.
Dawn and Bart walked out of the pizza parlor.
"So what movie?"
Dawn shrugged. "They're showing Spaceballs in the theater a couple blocks east of here. At eight, I think."
"Cool," said Bart. It was one of his favorite movies. "Let's do th-"
Bart's voice was cut off by the sounds of screams. He looked in the general direction of the screaming and then back at Dawn.
Dawn recognized the look on his face. The please-don't-be-angry-but-I-have-to-go-rescue-people-now.
Dawn smiled at Bart. Standing on her tippytoes, she gave him a quick kiss. "Go save the day. Drop me off near the edge, I'll see what I can do about crowd control."
He gave her a kiss and a smile. The next thing Dawn knew, they were just outside what looked like it would soon be a stampede. Bart put Dawn down, taking one last look at her before running off to stop whatever was causing this.
Dawn made her way through the panicking crowd quite easily. She'd faced worse back home in Sunnyhell.
She picked people up when they fell, and knowing that they probably wouldn't remember her, created portals that took the injured to the nearest hospitals. She had gotten good enough with her powers that she could be up to a hundred feet away from where she was creating the portal. Even after creating several dozen, Dawn hadn't even lost her breath. Ok, so chronal and temporal portals took more out of her, but still...
Making her way toward what everybody was running from, Dawn couldn't help but wonder what was frightening these people so much. She nearly stopped short upon seeing what was happening.
How the hell did a Hydra end up in north-eastern Kansas?
When she glanced back, the Hydra was being tied up by a yellow and red blur. Thank the goddess Bart had decided not to cut off its head. That would had been unpleasant, especially when the hydra grew more heads.
Once most of the crowd was gone, Dawn walked over and leaned against a wall about fifty feet from Bart and the hod tied and muzzled beast.
Dawn couldn't help but gasp as Bart, in his Kid Flash uniform, appeared right in front of her. He winked at her, causing Dawn to blush and giggle.
"Miss," he said. " Do you have a cell phone I could borrow?"
"Of course, kind sir," said Dawn, fishing out the cell phone Mrs. Bernstein had told her to bring with her just in case. "How could I refuse such a request?"
"Thanks," he said, dialing a number quickly. "Hi? This is Kid Flash... I need to speak to Wondergirl... There's a hydra in Keystone City. Tied up at 1st and Clementine... Yes I said Hydra... I just thought you'd want to let it go somewhere out in the wild in Greece or something...I'll see you then."
Bart hung up the phone and walked over to Dawn. Handing the phone back to Dawn, he took her right hand and kissed the inside of her wrist, not even looking at the scar. Dawn felt herself blush again.
Bart waited patiently for his teammate to arrive, well patiently for him at least. Wondergirl had agreed to take the hydra to... he wasn't sure where.
Dawn was leaning against a wall, waiting for him. He'd seen the portals of purple and white mist with green electricity running through them. The portals had taken the injured to... well Bart really wasn't sure where. Whatever the portals did, they were definitely related to Dawn's glow, of that much he was sure.
The glow around Dawn was currently the normal pink and purple, a hint of scarlet could be seen around the edge. The glow had scarlet in it every time Bart was near her since they had kissed on Tuesday. When they were kissing, the glow became almost completely scarlet.
He raised an eyebrow as Wondergirl materialized. Apparently she was using the JLA teleporter.
"You hog tied the hydra!"
"What, could you think of anything better?" Bart said defensively.
"Good point," said Wondergirl. "Do you want to help-"
"Can't," said Bart. "I kinda alreadyhavesomethingtodo."
Cassie gave him a not quite believing look, and then shrugged. "See you tomorrow then."
"So, where did you send the injured anyway?" asked Bart as he walked Dawn home after the movie.
"The hospital," said Dawn, looking decidedly uncomfortable. "You saw that?"
"Yup."