Chapter 2: Meeting the New Girl

A/N: standard disclaimers apply to the whole story, you know what I'm talking about

She woke up in a bed (hospital bed, she thought) which monitored her vitals. 'Bad news for me if they found out my dirty little secret,' she thought. She noticed no one around her, she was thankful for that as she began to take off the things attached to her body.

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Raven chanted, "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos," over and over again, hoping to get the regular "MEAT vs. TOFU" fight out of her head. Cyborg and Beast Boy were penetrating her thoughts all the way up to the roof (where she was). She was getting steamed at them, when she felt it. A new presence with thoughts and pictures floating up to her as well. She clasped her head in her hands as she felt secrets, disappearances, loathing, hatred, hurt, and…Slade. Slade was merely a picture though, not a name to go along with it at this time. She thought it must be the new girl, who didn't know his name, yet.

'Robin should know about this,' thought Raven. Although she knew the infamous Boy Blunder would be with Starfire, and wouldn't want his time interrupted, she felt it was the least she could do for the new girl and her team. Whatever this girl knew about Slade, they had to find out. Otherwise…

"Yo Raven," came Beast Boy's voice from next to her, interrupting her thoughts, "are you gonna come down for breakfast, or what? We've got tofu waffles!"

"Joy," said Raven in her usual monotone. She had tried tofu waffles once, and every bulb in the Tower was shattered, every window was smashed, and she was sick for weeks, not to mention smelly.

But nevertheless, she pulled her hood up over her short purple hair, her purple eyes shut tight, and she allowed herself to melt into the floor to the Ops. Room. She went to go see if Robin was interested in this newest development from Slade.

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The girl was almost free. She knew it'd be a matter of time till she was out, finding that idiot guard of hers, and giving him a thrashing for failing to protect her. But it was like he said the night before, "Titan's are coming. They're after me, and if we appear to know each other, they'll be after you, too. Take care of yourself, okay?" But for hurting a…. She thought it best not to think about it.

Standing up slowly, she began to check herself for her weapons. Guns, nun chucks, swords, everything! was gone. Probably in the hands of the Titans, who would be looking at them now, trying to figure it all out. Fists clenched at her sides, she felt anger pour through her body.

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Raven felt anger coming from the Hospital Wing of the Tower. She noticed her weapons were gone. Now it was time to tell Robin.

"Boy Blunder, we're going to need to talk," she said, walking in as Robin was in a frilly apron, cooking breakfast. A small smile crossed her lips, and the nearest light bulb went on the fritz. She pulled herself into line, and said, "The new girl knows something about Slade, and whatever it is, it's not a good thing."

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Meanwhile, the girl had pulled on her sneakers, hoping to sneak out of the room without too much commotion over what was going on. Especially because she needed to see X, and give him a taste of her mind…

With a swoosh, the door opened to reveal a half-metal man arguing with a small green boy. They acted like they were six and five (respectively), not ten years older. It was the basic fight for them.

"Meat!"

"Tofu!"

"Meat!"

"Tofu!"

"MEAT!"

"TOFU!"

"I'll give you both five bucks to shut up, and eat each other's food," replied the calm although sarcastic tone of the girl. Surprisingly, they shut up and stared at the girl.

She was 5'7" and seemed dainty to look at but must be strong, as she had fought all those Slade Bots last night. In fact, it wasn't until she managed to push past Cyborg that they learned how strong she was.

She had managed to bruise him from one side to the other, metal and all. They were amazed at what this girl could do without weapons. With weapons, she'd be impossible to beat.

As she continued to wander out near the exit of the room, Cyborg spoke on his communicator, "Heads up. Girl up and not exactly a weak specimen, this one. Ow." With this, he hung up, leaving Robin very confused.

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Whoosh. The door slid open, and ebony hair poked out followed by a pair of jade eyes, as the girl was looking around. Spotting no one at all, she decided to walk right out of the tower.

'First, get my weapons. Second, leave. Third, find…" the girl thought before being interrupted by voices.

"We need to find her. Raven, think you can heal this?"

"Robin, it's only a bruise."

"That goes all the way through the metal part of me. Do you know how much that hurts?"

"Yeah, she was all like, 'Shut up or else' and we were all like, 'woah' and she was pushing and everything. Man that girl is dangerous!" Her eyes turned into slits at that remark. They had no idea what kind of danger she was in, or what she could cause.

"I do not think our new friend would do something so harmful to us, friend Beast Boy. I think she did not mean it."

At this point, the Titans opened up the door to the connecting hallway to discover one mad girl staring at them.

"Where am I?" she asked, a snarl gracing her normally sweet face, giving her a look that even Slade would cower from.

"Titans Tower. Please friend, what is your name?" Starfire asked, hoping to prove her point to her friends.

"Why should I tell you," the girl snapped. Star's eyes began to water. Never had someone said such mean things to her, save for the villains they often fought.

As the girl began to walk away from them, Star yelled at her. "On my planet, we were polite to whoever saved us!" That caused the girl to turn around and reply, "I never asked you to save me."

"That does it!" Raven blew up, breaking the light bulb over the girls head. She merely flinched slightly. "We saved you, you owe us your name."

"Hmm, let's see. You did NOT save me, but got in my way. You caused a good…friend to hurt me, and disrupted me during a VERY IMPORTANT FIGHT!" the girl started screaming now, her eyes flashing a dangerous green. The jadiest (A/N: is that a word? If not, oh well) of jades, and her hair seemed to blow around, slightly, as though a wind was blowing through it, save for the fact that there was no wind near them at all. The Titans seemed to be miniature replicas of themselves (A/N: like puppets, only better) as she kept screaming at them.

Suddenly Beast Boy stepped up to the plate. He was used to being yelled at. "Dude, what's your problem? We just want your name. Is that so hard?"

She actually looked at him with admiration and awe. This little green one had more guts than she had thought. Raven started to get jealous, and another bulb broke.

"Do you do deals?" The girl was now into dealing with this one.

"Like what kind of deals?" Beast Boy asked her.

"We fight. If you win, you get my name. I win, I get my stuff and get to high-tail it out of here, no questions, no followings, nothing. Deal?" They shook on it.

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On the rooftop, the two of them prepared for the upcoming fight. The girl started with some basic flips and kicks, stretching out and giving herself a heads-up for what he was going to do. Beast Boy stretched out as different animals. She glanced over at him, and smiled the first time in a long time.

The battle began. Beast Boy began as a bull, and charging around. The girl merely flipped over him, spinning out of his reach, as though teasing him to come get her. He then changed over to kangaroo, and began to kick her. She kicked back, and her round house hit him a few times, but his jabs beat her down. Then he saw his chance. He turned into a mouse, grabbed some string, ran around her, and she went down, HARD!

"Give up?" he asked her, handing her his hands. She nodded and accepted his hands. There were slight cracks near Raven.

She stretched out, and walked over to the Titans. Hands crossed over her chest, she said, "A deal is a deal, isn't it? I'm Jade. Who are all of you?"

Beast Boy said, "I'm Beast Boy, this is Raven, Starfire, Robin, and Cyborg. We're the Teen Titans."

Jade began laughing. They all were wondering what was going on. She merely fell onto her knees, slapping her thighs and rolling around.

Everyone looked at her weirdly. Then she said, "WHAT? I can't believe it. You gotta be joking me." No one told Jade it was, so she began to subside in her laughter, which eventually fell to silence.

Then, their communicators went off.

A/N: End of chapter 2. Please read and review!

Next chapter!

"Who is this bozo?"

"Are you supposed to be a penguin, or something else?"

"Jade, you okay?"

"Are you…?"

"You mean, do I do this for fun? Yeah, I do. Don't tell anyone, please…?"