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Alex P.O.V. 4:00 am Thursday September 3, 2026
I walked down the alley to the phone booth, I had decided to go and start training early before anyone got there. I wanted to try out my new sword and explore the Mountain. I walked up to the phone booth and stepped in, "B31" The computer went off announcing my arrival, the mountain was empty as far as I could see. I head to the locker room and changed into black spandex shorts, a whit tank top, a gray sleeveless jacket, and a black domino mask. I headed into the gym to start my workout.
Hawkboy P.O.V.
"Redwing B31." The computer announced, I had been in the kitchen making breakfast for myself when the zeta tube went off. I look at the clock, She's an hour early. I walk into training room to see her heading to the gym. An hour later I walked to gym to get Redwing for training and I see Redwing sitting on the bench drinking some water, She looked up at me and smiled.
"Morning Hawk." She says smiling at me. I looked at her bracelet, it was just like Alex's bracelet.
"Morning Wing." I say and stand in front of her.
"It's time for training you coming?" I ask looking down at her.
"What are we doing?" She asks me looking up.
"Hand-to-hand combat." I say, I have to find out if she's Alex... How?
"Well you coming," Alex asks as she gets up. I nod and follow her into the training room.
"Well it's about time you two got here... Having fun?" KF asks smirking, I shake my head as Artemis walks in.
"Okay lets get started, Redwing... Please pick someone to spar with." Artemis tells Redwing.
"Um... Hawkboy." Redwing looking at me. We walk onto the platform and get into fighting stances.
"Go." Artemis says. Redwing swings a fist at me, I block it and jump back as she ducks down and tries to kick my feet from under neath me. She throws herself at me, I grab her arm and throw her over my shoulder. Redwing lands perfectly and stands up.
"You're good." She comments.
"Thanks," I say and run at her, she jumps up and kicks me in the face. I flip back and land, Redwing was gone I heard someone behind me. I spin around just as a fist goes past my face, Redwing falls past me I try and catch her only to fall on top of her. I feel my lips press against hers, it felt just like when Alex kissed me. I pushed myself up, Redwing was smiling up at me, I found myself smiling back.
"Redwing Fail." The computer went off. I smiled again.
"Looks like I win." I say helping her up.
"Nah." She says and kicks my feet from under neath me. I land on the ground with a thud, my breath is knock out of my lungs. Artemis and Redwing giggle at me, I sit up and glare at Redwing.
"Nice moves, they could use some work tho." Redwing tells me, I nod.
"Redwing you weren't trying at all. Please tell me one of the things you and Hawkboy could work on." Artemis commands, Wait! She wasn't even trying.
"I was distracted and I left myself exposed. Hawkboy was also distracted and wasn't watching his back." Redwing said.
"Good, now..." The rest of training was basic move and how we needed to act more like a team. At the end of training all of us were sore... all of us except Redwing. She was stretching, was I going to tell her I new who see was under the mask. Alex was shy but confident when she needed to be, Redwing was confident and was willing to take risks. I looked at my watch, it was 6 a clock I had to get going.
"See you guys later." I say and head to the zeda tubes.
Alex P.O.V.
~8:00 am School grounds~
Anna and I step out of the car and said by to our dad. The first person I saw Jake, I smiled remembering training. I wanted some more proof before I confronted him, He probable knows who you are to... but I don't really care I trust him. Jake smiled and waved, Jake's eyes went wide as he looked up.
"Alex run!" He shouted at me. I looked up to see a car flying at me, someone pushes me out of the way. Next thing I know I'm half way across the school grounds with Shadow sitting next to me.
"That was a close one." Shadow says standing up.
"Did anyone see you?" I ask in panic.
"No, now get changed I'll need back up." She says and takes off. I stand and pull up my sleeve.
"Wings out!" I shout. I close my and let the energy surround me. I race out from behind the tree and look for Shadow. She and Kid Flash were dogging bullets, well that was fast. Bane and a bunch of goons with guns were shooting up and destroying the street. Why I had know idea. Five goons were heading towards a group of students, two of those students were Hallie and Jake. I grabbed my sword and started to run at them, I wasn't going to make it. Something sparked in me and I pushed myself off the ground, I was flying straight toward the goons. I landed and kicked one goon in the chest, I flipped out of the way just as two goons came at me. They bumped into each other and were out cold. A goon started shooting at me before I knew it I was deflecting bullets with sword as I ran at the man. I hit the gun out of his hand and pointed the end of the sword at his neck. I heard the click of the gun behind me, I turned head a little to see a gun pointed at my head and Jake behind him with a plank of wood.
"Look out." I say, the goon looks back. I spin around and hit the gun out his hand, I grab his hand and twist it behind his back. I use the bottom of the handle of the sword and hit him in the back. He was out, the other goon was running for his life.
"Thanks." I say and run towards Bane, Batman and Robin landed next to me.
"Get out of here Redwing." Batman says.
"No way." I say just a fist comes flying at me. I flip back and throw some knives at bane as I land. They all hit him but they bounce off him.
Jake P.O.V.
I watch Redwing fight in awe, Artemis was right she wasn't even trying with me. She could have taken me out when ever she pleased... But why didn't she? What if she meant to fall... She expected me to catch her. Now that I think about it she pulled me onto her. Redwing flipped back as Bane's fist tried to hit her, she threw some knives at him. They didn't make a dent, one of them slid over to me. I picked it up, it was just like the one Alex gave me... That meant I was right Redwing was Alex! I heard to scream, I looked up Bane had his back to me, he had thrown Redwing on her back and was stepping on her chest. Batman and Robin were trying to disconnect the tube that went from his back to the back of his neck. I looked at the knife in my hand then back up. This was going to hurt. I charged at bane, he saw me coming a threw a fist at me. I threw the knife at the tube, it cut threw. Unfortunately Bane's fist was still coming at me, it hit me in the side. I went flying but someone caught me and threw me on their back.When we came to a stop I saw it was KF. Shadow ran up to KF.
"Good you caught him man Redwing would have been mad at us." Shadow said with a sigh of relief. I jumped off KF's back and looked to where Bane had been. Redwing was laying on the ground breathing heavily, I ran over to her and helped her up.
"Your just full of surprises today." Redwing said leaning on me. I smiled, Redwing pushed herself off me and smiled.
"Thanks again Jake... I got to go." Redwing said and ran off. I smiled, oh yeah that's Alex.
Alex P.O.V. 9:00 am
School had been canceled because of the Bane fiasco. They were going to cancel the dance but I asked if I could call Bruce and see if we to do the dance at the Manor. He of course said yes, I was in my room looking at the gift Jake had given me. I wish I could tell him the truth about me being Redwing, I had picked up all my knives so he wouldn't find out. But one was still missing and I was worried that someone would find out. I put in my head phones and started to listen to music. I had a feeling that Hawkboy was Jake... I also had a feeling Jake was on to me. In training we had kissed it was just like when I kissed Jake that one day. I smiled at the thought, if only... I started to day dream about if Jake ever found out about me and what would happen if he did. Suddenly to knives were dropped onto the desk in front of me, I looked at them in surprise. One was the knife I gave Jake and the other one was from the fight today. I looked behind me to see Jake, I take out my head phones.
"J-Jake.. you scared me." I say hoping that he didn't know anything.
"Thought I would return the knife you left at the school." He said frowning. He knows.
"T-Thanks," I say turning to look at the knives, he grabs my arm. I look at him, the anger in his eyes... There was something else in them tho.
"I need to know, one of those knives is from the fight with Bane. And the other is the one you gave me. Each has RW carved into it, so are you or are you not Redwing?" Jake asks me, I sigh. I had to tell him.
"Y-Yes, b-but you can't tell anyone Jake. You could get hurt and the people I care about could get killed." I say looking away. Jake pulls me close to his chest, I look up him. He's smiling, He was faking... He's Hawkboy.
"I would never tell anyone my lady." He says, I wrap my arms around his neck and lean back.
"You'll still visit me as Hawkboy right?" I ask smiling as his arms wrap around my waist.
"Of course... But can we not tell anyone we know each other's ID's?" Jake asks, I smile and kiss him on the lips.
"Gladly." I say and let go of him.
"So do you want to go meet at cave?" I ask.
"Sure, I'll go call the rest of the team later. But first... open the gift I gave you." Jake says smiling, I smile as I turn around and open the package. My eyes went wide as I looked into the box. It was a short red strapless dress with gold decorations on it, there were high heels that were mostly red with gold heels. At the bottom of the box was a necklace case, I picked it up. Inside was a gold plated, heart shaped, red crystal pendant. "Where did you get this?" I asked turning to Jake in shock.
"Well you needed a dress... So I designed one and asked your dad for some help with getting someone to make it." Jake said smiling.
"Let me see this." Jake said as he took the pendant and turned me around. I lifted up my hair as Jake put the necklace on.
"Thank you..." I whisper as I look at the pendant.
"You're welcome my lady." Jake whispered in my ear. I smile as I lean into him.
"I'll meet you at the zeda tube with everyone else." Jake says a couple minutes later as we walk out of my bedroom. We walked down stairs to find Sofia with Taylor in the living room.
"That must have been some talk." Sofia said smiling at me. I started to blush as I let go of Jake's hand.
"Hey Taylor we have to go get everyone and go home." Jake said.
"You guys live together?" Sofia asked, Taylor looked at Jake for help.
"Um.. Yeah we got to Gotham Academy on scholarship's. But we couldn't afford a place in Gotham so the school payed for a place for us to stay." Taylor said quickly.
"Okay." Sofia said as Taylor grabbed Jake's arm and rushing them out the door. Sofia looked at me.
"Did you know?" She asks, I shake my head.
"Come on, I know something that will cheer you up." I say pulling her at her arm.
"Hawkboy called early, KF wants to me-" I started to say before I reliase it where in the cave and I was laying on the floor.
"Shadow B27... Redwing B31..."
"Owwwwww." I shout as I see Shadow race into the other room.
Aquagirl P.O.V. 7:00 pm
"I'm bored..."Hawkboy complains. M, Hawkboy, KF, Shadow, and I had gone down to the beach Redwing said she had homework. We had been playing around and talking about our lives, right now we were laying on the beach looking at the sunset.
"Maybe I can help with that." Redwing said smiling. Redwing was wearing a one piece swim suit that had long sleeves. Her hair was thrown in a pony tail, Hawkboy looked at her in awe. I looked at Martian, Want to go somewhere else? I ask Adam.
Sure where to? Adam asks getting up
I was thinking a swim on the reef. I say taking his hand as he helped me up.
To the reef then. Adam says smiling, I smile back.
"Where are you two love birds off to?" Shadow asked smiling from her spot with KF.
"That is for us to know and you to never find out." I say smiling. I grabbed Adam's hand and started to run to the ocean. I dove in and turned to see Adam next to me. We swum deeper into the water.Adam grabbed my hand I turned around and closed my eyes. I felt his lips on my as I put my hands on his chest, he wrapped arms around waist. I smiled as we parted, Sometimes I wish we could leave Cadmus behind us. I say looking down
I know... But they'll find us and we would be living a life on the run... And I don't want that. Adam say tilting my head up.
I don't want that either... but what if w-, I start to say
No what ifs, we have the entire team with us. We will win... no matter what. Adam says and we start to swim again.
Hawkboy P.O.V.
"Maybe I can help with that." I heard a voice say. I propped myself up on my elbow, my jaw dropped at the sight of Redwing. She was wearing a black one piece swim that had long sleeves and shorts. Her hair was in a pony tail that was blowing in the wind and sunglasses. I so glad I knew her real identity.
"We'll just leave you two..." KF said smiling at me. He like me and Redwing better as a couple than me and Alex.
"Want to go for a walk?" Redwing asked me uncomfortably. I stand up and take her hand and lead her towards town.
"Why are you so uncomfortable?" I finally ask, she looks at me in surprise.
"I have worn a swim suit in a couple years because of an indecent..." Redwing said looking down. I could feel regret flowing off her in waves. It was weird I had never been able to sense her feelings before... I squeeze her hand and she smiles up at me. I hear a boy whistle as pass, Redwing glares at him at lets go of my hand.
"You're kind of cute girl." I man says walking up to Alex.
Let me deal with this. Alex says. She walks past the man, he grabs her arm.
"I complemented you girl." Alex grabbed his arm and flipped him over her shoulder. She took out dagger and started to walk towards him. He was dead. I thought smiling.
"Please... I'm sorry..." the man shouted. Alex smiled at walked back to me.
"You have to know how to treat me like a lady even when I'm acting crazy." Redwing said smiling.
"I'll remember that." I said and wrapped way arm around her waist.