A/N: Here's the next chapter! This is all I have ready to post right now, but Katie and I will work on writing more chapters this Friday, so it's safe to expect an update next week! I hope we did good with Bab's personality. I RP as Batgirl/Barbara Gordon from YJ (or from anywhere, really...), and I've been told I'm good at it, so that helped xD Enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: We do not own anything except Elle, Zoey, an OC that might appear later, and most of the plot. All rights to their respective owners.
_Chapter Six_
"OMYGOSH! He's gonna skin us alive! Maybe he'll cook us up for dinner or we'll get kicked off the team—" Gar rambled on, hiding behind a barrel of meat meant for Wolf, as Bart and Zoey devoured bag after bag of Chicken Whizees.
"These are SO good! Where did you find out about them anyways?" Zoey asked Bart over Gar's rambling.
"KF introduced them to me. Best day ever," Bart answered, smirking, as he munched on some Chicken Whizees.
"Maybe they'll leave us out to die in some wilderness, where there are these mutated animals that eat humans like us!" Gar threw his arms up in the air. "ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING TO ME!? WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!"
"Relax Gar, we have at least a day's worth of food, what could go wrong?" Zoey asked as she finished the last bag of Chicken Whizees.
The door squeaked open, once again revealing Nightwing.
"Eek!" Gar hid further behind the barrel as Bart and Zoey tried to hide the crime scene evidence from Nightwing.
"Hey, Nightwing, how's it going?" Bart sheepishly asked.
"We need to talk. Now." Nightwing said, getting straight to the point. The three troublemakers glanced at each other as they slowly stood up and walked out of the pantry into the kitchen, where Elle stopped in her conversation with Cassie and Robin to glare at the trio.
Oracle – B16
The Wasp (AKA Marvel's ripoff of Bumblebee) – B17
The girls walked in together, rolling their eyes at the names. They would have to fix them later.
As the zeta beams announced the two girls' arrival, Elle looked up a little from her breakfast. She had been watching the conversation between Cassie, Robin, and Jaime, who had just come into the kitchen.
Nightwing, along with the trio of pranksters, their heads hanging down in shame, were walking towards where the four were in the kitchen.
"Now say you're sorry," Nightwing commanded, his lips curled in a slight smirk.
"Sorry," Gar and Bart mumbled under their breaths, not looking at Elle as Cassie, Robin and Jaime looked on with amusement.
"Fine, I'm sorry—but please don't do anything to me! The flowers and leaves were Gar's idea!" Zoey blurted out, causing Gar to look at her with a slight glare.
"Relax. I'm not gonna do anything to you. You said you were sorry so I'm over it." Elle calmly replied.
"Wait, you're not going to burn us alive?" Bart asked.
"No. I never do stuff like that." Elle replied, confused as to why he would think that.
Bart and Gar sighed in relief, as Zoey cautiously glanced at her best friend, not sure if she could trust her word.
"Have I ever done that before?" Elle asked Zoey.
"No, but you know, your 'mom' has kinda tried that," Zoey thoughtfully replied.
"Shut up!" Elle quickly exclaimed, slightly blushing.
Everyone in the room stared at Elle, but not saying anything about the mention of her mom.
"Can we go shopping now?" Elle asked, trying to change the subject.
"Sure but when you get back, Zoey will have to help Bart and Gar clean up the mess they made." Nightwing said as Bumblebee and Batgirl walked into the kitchen, dressed in their civvies.
"Yes! Shopping! This will be so fun!" Cassie excitedly exclaimed. "Wait, who has money?"
Nightwing handed Batgirl a debit card, trusting her the most.
"You have the most important mission today," Nightwing said.
"Oh? And what is that?" Batgirl smirked.
"Chaperoning the mall shopping spree," Nightwing replied. "100 dollar limit."
"Come on, girls." Batgirl said. "I have the money."
"Yes, we're going shopping with Batgirl and Wondergirl! Awesome!" Zoey said under her breath.
Karen questioningly looked at Nightwing as the four girls left the room. Zoey picked a leaf that Elle had missed when she had brushed out her hair.
"Missed one," Zoey teasingly said to Elle as they went through the zeta beams.
"Don't worry, I have another mission for you," Nightwing told Karen.
-Page Break-
Happy Harbor Mall was an average sized mall. It wasn't too gigantic but it wasn't too small either. The four girls entered the mall, looking around at the stores.
"So, where do you want to shop first?" Cassie asked the two thirteen-year-old girls.
"Ooh! How about Forever 21?" Zoey said, pointing over at the store.
"Or Aeropostale," Elle said, longingly looking over at the store next to Forever 21.
"We'll go to both." Batgirl said, shrugging her shoulders as she walked towards Aeropostale first.
"Why does everyone always listen to the shy girl?" Zoey exclaimed, exasperated.
Elle simply shrugged her shoulders as she smirked at her best friend. They entered the store.
-Page Break-
It wasn't long until Elle had found some jeans and a graphic tee that she liked. Zoey ended up getting a hoodie with the Flash symbol on it and some colored jeans. They had earned a few looks from other customers, still wearing their somewhat dirty uniforms. The total amount came up to 84 dollars.
"84 dollars? That only leaves us 16 dollars to spend on everything else!" Elle exclaimed.
"Doesn't NW know that 100 dollars isn't enough?" Cassie exclaimed.
"Well, he didn't specify what he meant by a 100 dollar limit," Barbara explains, "So each of you get 100 dollars for clothes, 100 for pjs and underwear, then 100 for shoes and anything else you might need. Oh and we'll need some money to eat but that's not in the 100 dollar limit."
"That's sounds good to me," Zoey agreed.
"This is so fun! I haven't gone shopping in a while." Cassie remarks.
After spending money on some more clothing and shoes, the slightly exhausted girls headed towards the food court, which was pretty large, full of all sorts of food restaurants and people. Zoey's mouth was watering as she looked over the food court in awe.
"I haven't eaten in like, an hour." Zoey remarked, glancing down at her growling stomach.
"You mean two hours," Cassie reminded her.
"Oh, right." Zoey said as they continued to the restaurants in the food court.
"So, which restaurants?" Barbara asked the girls.
"Look! They have a Chicken Whizees, let's go there." Zoey said with excitement.
"Chicken Whizees, what the heck is that?" Elle asked, never seeing the restaurant before in her life.
"Bart showed me Jaime's stash of Chicken Whizees…..I may have eaten the last bag." Zoey explained.
"I guess we'll go to Chicken Whizees then," Cassie said, dropping her bags at a table near the fast-food restaurant.
"What kind of name is Chicken Whizees?" Elle muttered as she dropped her bags at the table along with Zoey and Barbara.
Once they had ordered their food, the four girls sat at the table, waiting for it to be prepared.
"So, I heard you are a heavy sleeper, right? I saw Nightwing carry you into the living room." Cassie said, laughing a little as a light blush came across Elle's cheeks.
"He did? I bet you must have liked that!" Zoey teased her best friend.
Elle once again told her to shut-up.
"Oh, so you did." Zoey remarked, smirking at Elle.
"Is the food ready yet?" Elle muttered, looking away from Zoey.
"Not yet," Barbara said, finding this amusing.
"Okay, enough Nightwing. What was Zoey saying about your mom?" Cassie asked.
"Well—"
"Her mom likes to steal stuff and thinks it's fun to try to burn her daughter's best friend alive." Zoey replied, rolling her eyes.
"SHUT. UP!" Elle said, punching her best friend in the shoulder.
"Yesh, somebody has mommy issues," Zoey muttered, rubbing her arm. "As you can see, we try to avoid talking about her mother in front of her."
Cassie and Barbara nodded their understanding.
"Well, the same thing goes with you and your 'Dad.'" Elle retorted.
"Hey! How would you like to live your whole life thinking you were someone else?" Zoey said, glaring at her friend.
"I don't know, but I'm not the one that willingly told my story in front of complete strangers." Elle said, the redhead's glare not fazing her at all.
Zoey blushed, realizing that Elle was right.
"Wait, what?" Cassie said, trying to keep up with what they were saying. Barbara didn't even try as she went up to get their food from the counter.
"Well, Zoey's not my real name actually," Zoey replied, with a slight frown. "It's a long story but basically I'm a Princess, my country's in war, I was sent to my Dad's house for my safety, blah blah blah. I didn't find out until a month ago or so."
"….Oh." Cassie said, looking expectantly at Elle for her back-story.
"Hey, look! There's our food!" Elle said, changing the subject as Barbara arrived with their food.
-Page Break-
The girls were walking back to the cave when they heard an explosion and turned back to look at the mall, which was covered in ice. Gleeful laughter could be heard from the mall.
"Icicle Jr.?" Cassie wondered out loud.
"Probably," Barbara replied.
"But why is he in Happy Harbor of all places?" Elle questioned.
"You never know with him." Barbara said, pulling out her utility belt. Where she had hidden it on her body, the others didn't know. It must be a Bat thing.
"I know a villain attacking is like, really bad and stuff—" Zoey starts.
"But best day of your life, right?" Cassie finished, grabbing sunglasses and handkerchiefs.
"Yeah, totally!" Zoey exclaims, realizing that she probably sounded a lot like Jaime when he first started working with the team.
"Here, wear these." Cassie instructed Zoey and Elle, handing them the sunglasses and handkerchiefs.
The two girls quickly put them on.
"This is like what Wally and Supey did in the comics when the Terror Twins attacked Central City Mall!" Zoey exclaimed, running ahead before anyone could stop her.
Icicle Jr. was in a small town called Happy Harbor, at the mall. He wasn't going to actually cause any trouble, but he became frustrated with the cashier at the McDonalds, who kept getting his order wrong.
"I said I want a coke, fries and a cheeseburger, that's all I want!" He finally screamed at the cashier.
"Got ya, chicken burrito with mountain dew and bean stew?"
"No you don't 'got ya!'" Icicle Jr. finally had enough of this and formed an icicle in one of his hands and flew it at the cashier. But didn't stop there, he threw icicles everywhere, laughing darkly. "Now you 'got ya!'"
"Whoa, looks like someone's throwing a tantrum." A young, feminie voice said.
Icicle Jr. turned around to face a young red-headed girl. He growled and threw an icicle at her. But she quickly sped out of the way.
"Another speedster…great," Junior mumbled under his breath as he glared at the laughing girl as he went for another tactic, freezing the floor so she couldn't run.
"Freezing the floor so the speedster can't run? It's been done before, I'm used to it," Zoey, now Flickerfoot, said, running around the ice Junior had made on the floor.
Flickerfoot ran up to punch him, but he grabbed her fist and threw her behind him. Flickerfoot screamed, and then stopped falling. She looked up at the face of her best friend, realizing Elle, now known as Ember, had caught her.
"Nice martial arts," Ember remarked, smirking.
"I didn't expect him to block that. Now put me down!" Flickerfoot said, disliking it when Ember saved her from falling, which happened more than she liked to admit.
Ember flies to the ground and sets Flickerfoot down, seeing Wonder Girl getting ready to lasso Junior. As soon as she's set down, Flickerfoot runs to Icicle Jr., determined to beat him this time. Batgirl throws an exploding batarang at Junior, but he freezes it in midair. He shoots some ice at Cassie, causing her to have to block it with her Amazonian bracelets instead of using her lasso on him. Ember flies over to Icicle Jr. while Flickerfoot runs up behind him and lands a punch at superhuman speed. Ember throws a fireball at his shoulder, causing him to stumble back.
"Like my fire, huh? Plenty where that came from!" Ember cockily says, smirking.
"You— who are you? Since when can a kid shoot fire?!" Icicle Jr. asks, getting freaked out. Fire does beat ice, after all.
"I'm your worst nightmare," Ember nonchalantly replies.
While Junior's distracted by Ember, Batgirl throws a couple batarangs at him. Wonder Girl flies to Junior, punching him with her super strength, sending him flying. Flickerfoot runs to where he's about to land and creates a small tornado, sending him flying once again. Batgirl throws an exploding batarang at him and Wonder Girl lassos him. When the batarang hits him it explodes on contact. Ember gathers the fire from the small explosion and surrounds him with it. He falls and Flickerfoot punches him in the jaw.
"Kid had a glass jaw," Flickerfoot says with a smirk, knowing Ember will get her "joke."
Batgirl takes out some cuffs and cuffs up Icicle Junior as the police arrive.
"Seriously, cliché much?" Ember asks.
"You should see the Batcave!" Flickerfoot replies, knowing her friend didn't quote Artemis on purpose, and laughing.
"Since when did you see the Batcave?" Wonder Girl asks, confused.
Batgirl is also confused, knowing that they didn't see the Batcave.
The two dimension travelers looked at each other and laughed.
"I was quoting Green Arrow from season one, the first episode and Robin from season one, episode Homefront. Em unknowingly quoted Artemis from Homefront," Flickerfoot explained between laughs, "We haven't been to the Batcave yet."
"Yet?" Batgirl asked.
"Don't mind her, she's just messing with your mind," Ember replies.
"Nice job, girls," A police officer says, coming to thank the heroes while the others took care of Junior, "Who are you two?" he asks, directing the question at the two heroes he hadn't seen before.
"Your friendly neighborhood speedster!" Flickerfoot replies with a big smile.
"I'm Ember and this is Flickerfoot," Ember explains, rolling her eyes behind her sunglasses.
"They're new," Batgirl clarifies, "And aren't permanent."
"Oh, okay," the police officer says, not really understanding the heroes. Although none of them were in costume, by the way they fought and had superhuman abilities, he had easily figured out they were superheroes.
Batgirl brings her finger to her ear, answering her comm., "Nightwing? It is? Yeah we're almost done. Okay. Sorry."
"We have to go, Nightwing's wondering where we are," Batgirl informs the younger girls and the police officer.
"Ok, thank you for helping with Icicle Jr." the police officer says, walking off.
"Aw, why do we have to go?" Flickerfoot asks, following Batgirl, who was walking towards a tree.
"It's already 4 o'clock," Batgirl informs.
"Really? Wow." Ember says, arriving at the tree and taking her 'disguise' off.
"Already?" Cassie asks unbelieving, also taking off her disguise.
"Yeah," Barbara replies, picking up some of their bags they had hid behind a tree.
Flickerfoot takes off her disguise, and then the girls each grab some bags, not worrying that they spent well over one hundred dollars.
-TheNinjaAndTheTroll-
A/N: See? Action! Told ya! Sorry for the sucky ending. I hope y'all liked this chapter! I look forward to seeing what you guys think! Tell you anything you think we can improve on, what you liked about the story, what you disliked, ect., please :) Thanks for reading!
-Rose
(PS; I drew the picture on the cover thingy for this story. Just an FYI :3)