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Part 2
Danni PoV
I glared at her, didn't she get that I just wanted to be left alone? "Stop calling me that!" Then I swung the shadows at her again.
She hesitated slightly then pulled the trigger on the gun.
At the last second I pulled the shadows down and made them pack together tightly.
I heard a small rip sound and I leaned back the small needle just barely missing my face. Snarling I flipped back, landing lightly on my feet.
I wanted out of here, and no one was going to stop me. I turned the shadows into knives and I flung them at her, the rage inside of me pouring out in great waves.
She dodged every one of them, bending her body at impossible angles. Finally I turned them into a net and I trapped her at the top of my room.
"See you later.. Mom." I sneered at her then turned and walked towards a shadow.
"Wait, honey where are you going?" I turned my head towards her and gave her a small smile.
"Its called running away, you don't tell where your going.. Then they could catch you.. You know a lot about that don't you?"
Then I stepped into the shadow in front of me, I was done here.
Then the thought hit me, I don't know where I'm going... Not good when mixed with shadow travel...
I could feel the darkness start pulling me deeper in, so I thought of the last place I had seen a shadow, some crumbling down diner in Metropolis.
Yea I know what your thinking, 'Is she crazy? Superman lives there!' And no I'm not crazy! I had my civvies on, the silver hair was probably gonna be a giveaway but what ever, I couldn't care less right now.
I felt the pull of a location tug me out of the dark clutches of the shadows and I was practically thrown out of the shadow and into the street. I stumbled forward then glanced around to see if anyone had seen.
There was no one here, just a hobo. But I don't think I have to worry about him.
I looked up at the neon sign shining down on the street, Bibbo's Diner. Huh, Bibbo.. unique.
I slowly slouched over and pulled up the hood of my neon green sweatshirt. I shuffled over to the door and pulled it open with the sleeve of my jacket, who knows how many germs were on that thing!
There was a man behind the counter, tall and stocky, like a fridge. He had on this burgundy shirt with the sleeves rolled up, the ends of which were stained with various food smears. Blue jeans that were ripped and a very nasty apron topped off the grubby ensemble.
The mans dirty blonde hair stuck up in every which direction, and he had this crazy look in his gray eyes.
He gave me the elevator eyes then nodded and shoved a menu into my hands, "Sit anywhere... But not near the door."
I glared at him, I mean I didn't look that bad did I? I walked over to the other side of the diner, I mean I wasn't going to sit by the door anyway!
I slowly opened up the menu and kicked my feet up on the table. When I wasn't yelled at I assumed it was ok.
A few seconds later I heard Gordon come on the TV. I glanced up at the screen and listened to what the crazy dude had to say.
"So the Justice League finally provided scanners to every government on Earth to root out those nasty little aliens posing as real human beings... But you have to wonder.. How were they able to whip up this deck.."
He was interrupted right in the middle of his sentence by the ringing of a bell, signaling that someone else was here.
I zoned out of what he was saying and focused on the two people walking in. They were of average height, and medium build as far as I could tell from underneath their snow clothes.
The man I now guessed to be Bibbo slowly turned away from the screen, his eyes turning away from me then trailing towards the kids reluctantly.
He started walking towards them, then he leaned over the counter an grabbed a couple of menus.
Both of them had on what looked to be pretty new clothes, which meant that they had just bought them, meaning they didn't live here. There for meaning that they lived some place warm and far away. Now what would bring two teens all the way to Metropolis?
The one in the lead pulled off their hood, and now I saw that it was a dark skinned female. I tried to match her face to any well known police figures or heroes but without some sort of scanner it was hard to get a match.
I mean she could have been any one from Janice Morison, to a younger Vixen, or some long lost daughter of Amanda Waller!
There was a boy also, he now turned to face front as well. He was Latino, maybe 16 or so, and there was this little familiarness about his shadow and the way he held himself. I bit my lip and racked my brain for a match.
That's when I heard it, mumbling. I glanced up and saw that the boy was glancing in my direction. That alone freaked me out, but to add to the creepy factor I saw that he was talking to himself. Then the match hit me, Blue!
So the other one was most likely either another hero or a girlfriend of some sort and he was on a date. But unless she was an awful girlfriend and he wanted to get rid of her or he was to cheap to pay for Olive Garden or something, I didn't know why he would be taking a girl here.
Suddenly Bibbo's whole demeanor changed, even I could see it just from his back. His entire body relaxed and I could feel the smile I'm sure he plastered on his face.
He extended his arm towards the teens, but when they didn't reach to shake his hand back he pulled the menus back slowly, "Sit anywhere kids!" I glared at his back, of course I was the one treated like trash!
Suddenly his entire posture changed, his back went rigid and he pulled back from the duo, the menus now pulled up to his chest.
Blue's eyes widened and he took a small step forward, the girl glanced over at him then did the same.
Bibbo gasped then dropped the menus to the floor. Suddenly he spun around and jumped up on top of the counter knocking off the cash register. It fell to the ground with a loud clang and the contents spilled out everywhere.
Then with surprising agility for an older dude he jumped off the counter and hurled himself through the small opening to the kitchen.
Blue and the girl glanced at each other, then they took off after the strange dude.
"So that must make her a hero as well.. huh interesting!" I smiled to myself then stood up out of my seat. I popped my knuckles then ran over to the door that would lead me outside to wherever the others had gone to.
I went to open the door but I discovered that it had been blown off its hinges! "Someone has super strength.." I muttered.
I turned to look down the alley just in time to see the two teens changing into their other persona's.
The female reached up and pulled this tight fitting hood thing over her head, and it looked like there may have been goggles at the front but I wasn't sure. Then she jumped up and transformed into this tiny little person. I tried to run faster so I could see what it was supposed to be but she was to small and I was too far away.
But Blue just kept running as this armor stuff literally grew out of him and wrapped around his body like a second skin. Then he grew wings and flew off even faster.
I of course not having any cool powers like that was forced to sprint harder, and trust me I don't think I was getting any closer.
About fifty meters ahead of Bibbo and the heroes was this huge wall looking thing. The heroes were getting closer to him and I'm pretty sure adrenaline was kicking in for him so as we all know from Twilight adrenaline rushes can give you amazing powers. Which was probably the only reason 'Bibbo' was able to jump about fifty feet in the air and easily scale the wall of trash.
Of course tiny little ant-girl was able to find herself a chink in the wall and easily buzz through it. But unfortunately me and Blue didn't have that luxury. So Blue did what Blue probably does best in these situations, he smashed the entire thing apart.
When I finally got to the no longer existent wall I merely had to hurdle a few stray pieces of wood here and there, easy as pie. But it cost me a few seconds, so I decided I could spare a little bit of my power and I shadow teleported about thirty yards forward.
Bibbo was only about ten yards away from the end of the alley when suddenly another Bibbo burst out of another alley. He stopped right in front of the clone and totally K.O. Him with a punch to the nose.
The sucker went flying, literally! He sailed above the heroes and landed right at my feet. Smiling I glanced up at the now startled heroes, "Well what do you know! People can fly without wings!"
The man stomped past the goody two shoes and over to the unconscious man in front of me, "There's only one Bibbo! And don't you forget it!"
That's when things started getting creepy. The mans stomach started budging outwards like a balloon then it burst open, revealing the little Krolotean inside. The alien started hissing and spitting at us, and I'm guessing it wasn't saying that it loved us and wanted to be peaceful for forever.
Then it jumped out of the human capsule and lept onto the alley wall next to it. It crawled along side it then jumped off and started heading for the sewers. With surprising strength it pulled off the grate and got ready to jump inside.
The girl, who I now saw to be dressed up as a bee, started shooting these little laser things at it. A few of them hit, but they weren't kill shots by far.
It fell into the sewer and I ran over and looked inside. It had fallen into some type of vehicle that quickly shot off into the darkness of the sewer leaving a huge burst of flame behind.
I gasped and watched as it came streaking straight for my face. I pulled back, but I wasn't fast enough. I felt like someone had just lit a bonfire on the entire right side of my face.
Screaming I fell to the ground and looked around for some ice or something to cool my face down. Suddenly I felt hands on either side of my face. They gently pulled up, but I wasn't about to look weak. I kicked out blindly with my foot but I felt no contact.
The hands did let go, and I crawled desperately towards the street, there had to be snow there! I stopped and felt my face, the skin didn't hurt as bad as the first time I had burned my face, so this was probably just a higher first degree.
"Blue scan for it!" I heard him mutter something, then there was a electronic kind of sound. Slowly I turned around and watched as his eyes traced the tunnel lines under the ground.
"Sorry, nothing. He's gone.." He looked down for a moment then frowned, "No it would not have been preferable to vaporize him back at the diner! And if you knew she was there why didn't you say so!" He glanced over at me then back at the others, who gave him slightly confused looks in reply.
I stood up, hopefully the burn wouldn't scar, that would be just one more thing to set me apart. I looked up at the heroes and saw that they were staring at me.
"So wheres the rest of your posse? I didn't see any other people in the diner." I glared at Blue, did he really think I was gonna tell him?
I rolled my eyes and turned towards the end of the alley, "Wouldn't you like to know?" I heard a small buzzing sound and I stopped and glanced over my shoulder, "And I'm through with all that stuff, you don't have to arrest me."
Then I stepped into the closest shadow and teleported to the nearest shop I could think of, Larry's Wig Emporium
I stepped out and glanced at the beat down shop, it was rough on the edges, but it would do.
I opened the door and stepped inside. The small man at the counter glanced up at me and gave me a warm smile, "Hello! How can I help you today!"
I plastered a fake grin on my face and tried to look as happy as possible, "My BFF is having this totally rad costume party! And I like totally want to like rock it! So like, do you have any natural looking wigs? I've always liked to imagine myself brunette!"
He smiled at me then nodded and silently led me over to a small box full to the brim of brunette wigs. It was like barber heaven.
I dug through the box until I found a long wig that went to about the middle of my back, and curly. I slipped it on and looked in the mirror.
I looked different, but not different enough.
I quickly went back to the front and paid the man. Then I ran out to find a makeup store.
I tried to decide in my head what could be my new identity, I liked the play I had done in the store, but it would have been easier if I had gone for the blonde approach. So I decided I could be nerdy, the nerdy brunette you see at the back of the class. The one that never raised her hand and was easily forgotten. Oh yea this was gonna be fun!
I found the store and I easily found some makeup that would make my paler complexion tanner, and I found a pair of fake glasses I could use.
Next I ran into the nearest clothing store and bought lots of pleated skirts and white long sleeve tees, sweater vests, long socks and a single pair of black converse.
Now for a place to stay... I went online and looked around for good places to live and I found that one of the safest places was Washington D.C. I mean I know that Hall of Justice is there but that just makes living there all the more exciting!
So I shadow ported there and went to this place that rented apartments in one of the nicer parts of town. After a lot of hassling about my age and all this other legal stuff the dude finally acknowledged that I was right and I was allowed to stay in one of his smaller rentals for a fee of 800 dollars per month.
I knew I could pay that, for about six months anyway. After that I was gonna have to get a job. Shit. I mean I have absolutely zero experience working at a job! I had only just turned sixteen for crying out loud!
But since it was my first day here I decided to be the amazing tourist I am and go and look at some of the sights. And when I say 'the sights' I mean the Hall of Justice. So to avoid suspicion I hailed a cab and got him to drive me there.
About halfway there I realized that I had no cash on my person at all. I wasn't about to tell the driver that though so I acted like I did until he drove right up to the entrance.
I pulled on the sleeve of my sweater, I was a tiny bit nervous I must admit. I mean the cab driver was huge! And built like a brick.
Casually I pushed open the door of the cab and started to get out.
"Hey lady! You need to pay!" I glanced back at the huge hulking figure in the car.
"Oh yes.. Well you see I left my purse at home and uh well.. How about a coupon?" I gave him a small smile and pulled a coupon for a free salad out of the pocket of my skirt. Snarling at me he started to get out of the car as well.
"If you cant pay something's gonna happen that you aren't going to be very happy about!" He was out of the car by now and stalking towards me.
I forced out a nervous laugh and took a step back like I was scared or something. I mean C'mon I could take this guy in my sleep!
He leaned forward and grabbed onto my forearm and started squeezing the life out of it. I feebly pulled back and tried to look like I was about to faint or something then I glanced around. Where was my knight in shining armor or whatever!
"C'mon buddy! Let the lady go! I'll pay for her." I glanced up at the sky and mouthed, 'Thank you Jesus!' Somebody up there had to be looking out for me!
Slowly the beefy cab driver let go of my arm and I turned to look at my savior. He was probably a good to or three years older than me, and he had on this neon Superman shirt, which was probably why he had paid for me and stuff. Everybody wants to be a hero!
He had short brown hair and brown eyes to match. He was tan and a few freckles here and there, not to mention braces and a long scar running up the entire right side of his face.
I smiled at him then cast my eyes downward, playing the 'shy girl' part of my act.
"Thank you so much..." I paused then glanced up at him then back down to my feet. Ugh this was so embarrassing! I had to act all shy and helpless, it was the exact opposite of me! Which in this case was good I suppose..
"Jason! Its Jason!" I looked up at him and giggled.
"Smooth!" I smiled at him and forced myself to blush then I looked down, "Um I think there's a tour starting.. I'm just gonna head there.." I ran around him and up to the doors at the entrance. They opened up automatically and I stepped inside.
As soon as I passed through the doors all these security guards were all over me, they kept asking if I had any dangerous objects on my person then they made me go through one of those metal detector things.
Once I passed through all the security I made my way over to a small line waiting for the tour to start.
"Hey wait! I never got your name!" I spun around and pretended to look both embarrassed and astonished at the same time. Not an easy feat.
"Oh yea! Its.." I trailed off and then I realized something, I couldn't remember my fake name! I knew it started with an A...
"It's uh..." I tried not to freak out and I thought hard.
"Angela! It's Angela! Angela Beatrice-Carter!" Jason smiled at me and I blushed and looked down back at my shoes, which were now stained with some mysterious food item.
"So your initials are A.B.C?" He started laughing, "Interesting! I have got to meet your parents!" I laughed then turned around towards the front of the line, we were moving and I didn't want to miss my spot in the group.
"So who's your favorite member of the League? Mine's Superman!" The line had come back to a halt so I turned back around to face the enthusiast.
I gave him a small smile and I tried to think who was the least annoying member of the good patrol.
"Robin?" I shrugged my shoulders and gave him an unsure smile. He burst out into laughter and I took an automatic step back.
"Robin's not apart of the League! But Batman is! He can be your favorite!" I laughed along with him then turned back around to face the front. Those Leaguers had a hard core fan base.
"All of those that wish to go on a tour of the Hall please line up here!" A blonde lady with way to much red lipstick and a blue pantsuit came over to us and motioned towards that Russian lady from that clip a while ago.
Once we got there she gave us all this big smile then started talking about what an honor it was to guide us through one of the most famous and prestigious places ever and blah blah blah. I zoned out the entire time until we got to the very last cases, four to be exact.
"And finally we have ze four surviving host bodies used by a race of alien energy beings known as the Apalxions! Zho attempted to conquer ze Earth!" Smiling she spun around on her heel and started walking back toward the entrance.
"Of course ze attack also brought together Earth's mightiest heroez!" Laughing I raised my hand high in the air.
"Do you mean the Avengers?" She spun around and glared at me.
"Of courze not! Zhey are fictional!" Turning back towards the rest of the tourists she gave them all this, please excuse the dumb ass, smile and continued on.
"ZE Justice League!" I could see her beaming up at the large statues up above us, proud at all the good they had done it the world... Aw man I cant even say it with a straight face!
The man next to me turned to face Jason, "G. Gordon Godfrey says that the Justice League is working with the aliens!" Jason glared at him and turned around to face the front.
The lady cleared her throat and turned to look back at us, "Zis way to ze viewing gallery!"
I zoned out for that too, I mean what use was there! Then I realized that maybe Birdy was there! I zoned right back in and looked down at the library below us.
There was the Flash, the Atom, even Shining Knight was there! But no Birdy. Frowning I glanced away, but a tiny sliver of moment caught my eye. I looked on the top of one of the book cases and saw... BIRDY!
I wanted to shadow port right through the glass and give him a big hug but well, I didn't want to blow my cover when I had just gotten it. So instead I opted for ripping a camera out of an unsuspecting tourist hands and snapping a couple of pics.
The man immediately started cursing at me in Spanish and I responding with doing the exact same. I could see the shock o his face when I realized that Angela Carter probably wouldn't be doing this. So I coughed and smiled at him innocently. Not being able to help myself I glanced over back where Birdy was crouched and I saw that he was staring at me.
I gave him a meek smile and I waved nervously. A ghost of a smile crossed over his face before he seemed to melt back into the shadow of the bookcase.
Exhaling I stepped back and I speed walked out of there as fast as I could. I made my way over to the gift shop and I debated stealing a pen or something before suddenly a hand wrapped around my own and started hauling me towards the back exit.
My first instinct was to knee whoever this guy was straight in the balls then leave him lying there but I changed my track of thought to whatever Angela might do.
And I concluded that Angela would probably put on the brakes and untangle her hand from her kidnappers own. So that's what I did, or tried to do.
Their grip was like iron. So I tried option B, yelling as loudly as you can. But as soon as my mouth had opened another hand was slapped over my mouth. I bit down hard but they still didn't let go.
They let go of my mouth briefly to open the door and I took advantage to start screaming like hell. Then man spun me around to face the store and suddenly I felt something cold come into contact with my head. I recognized the feeling almost immediately, the barrel of a gun.
"Everybody down now! Or I blow her head off!" I looked around quickly, my assailant now had a ski mask on so I had no idea what his face looked like, crap. This one old guy was still standing and I was pretty comfortable with having my head on my shoulders.
"Um gramps could you get down please?" I gave him this pleading look and he slowly knelt on the ground. I mouthed thanks then looked over to my kidnapper. The gun was held tightly, but his finger wasn't anywhere near the trigger, he didn't plan on using the gun at all.
I needed a distraction.. I thought of a feather brushing my nose and a few seconds after I could feel the urge to sneeze start to come on.
"Ah! Ah! ACHOO!" I threw my head down and swung my elbow out and hit him right in the abdomen. Groaning he dropped the gun and fell to the ground. I plastered a freakin scared look on my face and I ran towards the cops who were now flooding in.
I forced myself to tear up and I tried to look as shook up as I could. "Are you ok miss?" I turned around and faced one of the many people who haunted my nightmares, the Flash.
I nodded and sniffled a bit, "Yes sir.." Then I gave him a shaky grin and looked down at my feet. "I learned how to get away from him from you sir! I was watching you fight this one day and I never thought that move would actually come in handy!"
Alright I am a little kiss ass I will admit. But hey if it gets them off my back then whatever.
The Flash smiled then nodded to me, "I don't want to seem rude but the officers are motioning for me to go to them, see ya later kid!"
I smiled at him then turned around and started walking away. Once I got out of the building I practically started running back towards my apartment.
Once I got there I couldn't help but relax, nobody knew who I was, I was safe. I wandered over to the small kitchen area and I turned on the stove, grilled cheese always made me feel better after almost getting killed!
I had just put the bread on the stove when the phone started ringing like crazy. I jogged over to it and pushed the answer button, "Angela Carter how may I help you?"
Crackling came over the other side and I bit my lip, something wasn't right.
"Please Danni! Don't even try to trick us! We know all! Oh and you might want to check your sandwich... its burning!" I spun around and grabbed a gun that was lying on the chair next to me.
"Where are you you little creep! When I find you you are gonna be dead!" I spun around and looked around my room and the other rooms adjacent to my windows.
"We don't mean to harm you Danni. We are just in need of your.. skills. Be at Malina Island in five minutes or else we may have to turn this conversation into a bit of a conflict.. Your outfit is being shipped to you as we speak.. and I trust you can arm yourself fine. An image is being faxed to you of the island. I hope you find a shadow to your liking!"
Then the line went dead.
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