++++++ I'm going to give you guys some advanced noticed here, my grandmother is dying and may have been given a few weeks left to live. They're doing more tests but the outcome is not good. So if you suddenly see me just vanish for a while-this will be the reason why.
I'll be putting these notes on all my fics as I update.
Now I'm sorry I didn't post last night, it kept saying the server was down.
I hope you enjoy.
I do not own ++++++
Nine
"Somebody please explain to me why I'm been dragged through Star City in the middle of a school day?" Scarlet demanded. She wasn't angry at the girls but more worried about what Starla would say, finding out she'd skipped a day of school.
"Woman has you wound up tighter than anything," Dani snorted, walking along casually without a care in the world.
"Just relax, Psi," Cassie grinned. "Trust me it's for a good cause. Besides, today was the only time that we could get you and Lightwave in at the same time. As long as the Big Three know where we are it's nothing to worry about."
"Fit us in where?" Scarlet asked. Both Scarlet and Cassie got along famously. Cassie, the protégée of Wonder Woman was bright, funny and bubbly. She loved to fight and was the best training partner anyone could have.
"Here," Barbara deadpanned.
"Here?" Dani frowned.
"Here," Suki repeated.
The five teenage girls found themselves standing in front of a warehouse in the middle of nothing.
"This is where dreams are made," Cassie grinned. "All of us come here."
"For what?" Dani frowned. "Apart from the serial killer experience?"
Barbara approached the door and pressed a buzzer to the side. She spoke and moments later the door was opened. She led them inside, as a hero, Batgirl was a natural leader, just like she was in civilian life. "We call this place the Outfitters. State of the art security, protected 24/7 by the JL space Watchtower. This is where we get our suits and weapons as well as repairs done and even our vehicles."
Scarlet gasped. The warehouse was fitted with state of the art security for a reason. The wall to her right was covered in the suits of all the league members including the YJL. "Oh my god."
Suki laughed. "It started with Oliver and Aunt River. They found a woman who made their suits for them. She agreed to make the suits for the JL and the YJL for a quarterly fee. Don't ask but it's paid for by the Big Three of Finances-Oliver, Aunt River and Bruce Wayne."
"Well hello little cousin," came a voice from the side. A rather tall blonde woman with the bluest eyes Scarlet had ever seen came over from a black SUV. She looked at Scarlet and Dani and grinned. "So these the new girls?" she asked. "Sara Harper," she smiled.
"Dani Oscar," Dani grinned.
"Scarlet Lords," Scarlet replied. "Nice to meet you."
"Getting your suit?" Suki asked her.
"My bow repaired," Sara answered. "Got totally shattered in my last fight. Lucky the Outfitter had some time to see me. Four bows in a month. She wasn't happy. So you'll be at the family gathering this weekend? Last time you were on duty."
Suki nodded. She looked to Scarlet, "it's the Queen-Harper-Allen gathering. We have them when we can. I think this is the first time all of us aren't on duty of some kind," she explained. "You guys well be coming. Barry said you would."
Scarlet frowned. "Starla never said anything."
"That woman," Sara muttered.
"Don't be rude," Barbara warned. "She has her reasons. Seeing your baby sister kidnapped when she was little takes its toll. Let her be over protective, Harper."
"You're early!" came a booming voice from above them. The teenage girls all looked up to see an older woman with silvery hair standing above them. "Come on up!"
When the girls got up to the second level, the woman grabbed Dani. "Nice to meet you, Danielle Oscar. Call me the Outfitter. Now-you went over your suit specifics with Greyson. I got your specs from RT."
"Um-thanks?" Dani frowned.
"So you can manipulate energy and turn invisible?" the Outfitter questioned. "Well, your outfit will be able to do that." She walked over to a table and yanked a black sheet off the table. Underneath sat the suit Dani would be wearing as Lightwave. "The usual way you turn invisible will do the same with your clothes."
To start with there was a black bikers jacket with shimmering bronze L's on either shoulder, underneath that was a bronze shirt with a black L in the middle of the chest followed by what looked like black cargo pants and the boots were black combat boots. There was also a bronze staff with black and white swirling orb on the top. "Woah," Dani gasped.
"The staff is a prototype," she warned Dani. "I'll get you back here in a month to give you the proper version, this is just to focus your powers more-I heard about the incident." She was in fact speaking about Dani's energy getting out of control whilst pushing it during training.
"Yeah thanks," Dani scowled. "So how exactly have you gotten away from the bad guys all this time? Someone would have figured it out?"
The Outfitter laughed. "I'm not exactly defenceless," she answered. "I live here. I don't like to go out. I have a zeta here and two apprentices. I also have fantastic defences-scientific and magical. Now anything else before I break out the tea and scones?" she snapped. "I fitted you in what should have been my break but today we don't get one. But by all means waste my time."
Dani shook her head. "Nope. Nothing else."
"MARCO!" the Outfitter barked. "Pack this and zeta it to Mount Justice! Now boy!"
A greasy teenager came literally out of nowhere, he cleaned his hands and started packing Dani's suit up.
"Now, the telepath," the Outfitter frowned. "I don't much care for blondes."
"Is that even relevant?" Suki scowled. "Just do what you're paid for."
"Too much like your cousin," the Outfitter observed. She crossed to another table and yanked the sheet off. Underneath the sheet were black and white knee high boots, the left was black and the right was white, a white skirt with a black midriff top, there was a white leather shrug jacket with a black triquetra on the back and finally black and white fingerless gloves. "Like all the outfits I make it's fitted with stealth tech." She showed Scarlet a black belt with a white triquetra on the buckle. "Push the buckle and the white becomes grey. Both your suits have scrambler tech as well. I'll have the final versions in a month along with the other girl's staff. MARY!" she screamed.
"WHAT!" the girl screamed back. Down on the floor there was a girl working on a green and black motorbike. "I'M BUSY!"
The Outfitter actually smiled at the girl screaming back at her.
The boy, Marco, came back and packed Scarlet's suit back up.
"If any of you see Ramon before I do," she scowled, "tell him he owes me about ten million in nanites. And tell Miss Lee her previous suit has been fixed. Now fuck off, all of you."
"She is delightfully charming," Dani frowned as they went down the stairs.
"Don't mind her," Marco muttered. "Brilliance is often angry."
"No fucking kidding," Dani snorted.
"Oh, here," the Outfitter frowned, throwing down two small boxes to Dani and Scarlet before she pushed them out. "Wear them, don't wear them, I don't give a fuck."
When they got outside, the door slammed beside them leaving them.
"Masks?" Dani frowned, opening her box.
"Yup," Scarlet nodded. She picked her white mask up, noting that there was a fine layer of plastic over the eyes. She'd ask about it later.
The girls stood there definitely looking like they didn't belong.
"So what do we do now?" Scarlet finally asked.
"We shop, what else?" Cassie grinned. "The whole day is ours."
"With what money?" Scarlet asked. "I don't know about you but I'm not exactly swimming in pennies let alone any kind of cash."
"Best thing about being a Queen heir?" Suki asked. "Everyone wants you to wear their latest fashion and put it out there. I've accounts all over, the lawyers pay the bills. As long as I don't go too crazy Oliver doesn't care. Now, like Cassie said-the day is ours ladies and I am starving."
"I didn't say that," Cassie laughed. She stopped as her stomach growled. "But come to to think of it I am kinda hungry."