4.12 Midwestern time.
I stared around at the ally in which kid flash and I were standing. The sky had gone black again from the much lighter blue that had been appearing in the previous skyline apart from that and the walls here were made from corrugated metal there didn't appear to be any difference. Oh wait there was a green dumpster to differentiate it she thought sadly.
"Where are we?" I said trying to figure out how this was better than the previous place.
"Central city!" He said again throwing his arms wide like he was announcing a parade. "Also you should probably move"
"Why?" I said curious before I was knocked onto my face by something from behind me. I went down in a tangle off limbs with whoever had tripped into me.
"Get out my way" said superboy from somewhere near my feet keying me in to whom had hit me.
"Ouch!" Said Kidflash sympathetically "That's why."
"Here we go" said another voice from behind me before superboy finally managed to get off my legs. "Didn't keep walking did you?, don't worry everyone makes that mistake sooner or later."
"Thanks" I get to my feet and blush a little bit at tripping as Flash helps me up.
"No problems" he says walking off to stand with kidflash who he talks to for a second to nod and suddenly disappears off.
"Well come on!" he waves us on walking out the alley without Kidflash.
I share a look with superboy who shrugs as confused at there antics as I am before seeming to remember he's mad at me for tripping him and giving me a sudden glare before he goes past to follow flash out the alley.
I follow flash for a while a few metres back taking in the sights of this new city, there aren't really any, a clock on a building flash the time out as 4.23 meaning we've moved west in the world. The sunrise won't be for a few more hours I sigh to myself.
Before too long we arrive at a gray warehouse that lies away from the taller buildings of the centre of the city, the entrance we go through is guarded by a heavy door and security cameras.
As the metal door is thrown open we walk into a black empty space stretching off into the distance the only lights coming from the streetlight through the doorway.
"Welcome to safe house número uno" says kid flash before the lights flick on row by row.
The room is probably a small warehouse converted to housing, support struts crossing along the walls and ceiling hold up the outside like a shell whilst the far end of the room is walled off with four doors leading away from us. The area I can see to the right has a large TV in the corner surrounded by a number of sofas whilst in the left side of the room is a small kitchen area with a polished black marble table.
"So this is where batman wants you guys to stay for the time being but I reckon we can see about finding you somewhere better in a few hours. Anyway rooms at the end are yours, they've got clothes in there and a bathroom for stuff like that so just relax here for a bit" with that he zips out of sight in a red blur leaving just me and superboy left in the warehouse.
Superboy grunts as he heads towards one off the rooms at the end of the common area only to suddenly stop as a red blur appears in front of him.
"Also you guys shouldn't leave here till we give you a medical checkup" says the suddenly reappeared flash " should be a few hours tops" he says before disappearing in a final blur of red.
Superboy again grunts and enters the room on the left before slamming the door shut behind him. I'm starting to think that he might have a bit of a temper.
I went to the room furthest to the left before closing the door behind me. The room just has a large bed,wardrobe and a small TV on the walls that were the same grey as the common room area. The far wall had another door leading to what I guessed was the bathroom. The one weird thing about the room was that it was the same height as the walls outside meaning it looked like you were at the bottom of a well.
I didn't waste much time though and quickly made my way to bathroom which was decked out with a large bath loads of towels and two bathrobe one pink one blue. I quickly turned on the bath finding that just right spot for the tempreture.
Ahh it felt so good, this was definitely the best most relaxing thing that had happened to me ever I decided as I slipped into the bath.
Deciding that it needed something a little extra extra I pulled over a bottle of shampoo and poured it over my head and into the bath which quickly filled with bubbles.
this was so good I almost managed to fall asleep in the water but before I could the water was cold and I decided that it was time to get out,
Looking at my descarded clothing on the floor, Robin's cloak turned improv skirt and superboy's top from Cadmus I quickly decided that I didn't really want to put either one back on my body so I grabbed the pink bathrobe and exited the room.
All in all a pretty great step up from were I'd been kept as long as I could remember. A smile tugged at my lips before I jumped on the bed and started jumping up and down.
"Huhuhuuhu" I laughed as I bounced up and down on the springy blue mattress jumping higher and higher, this is something I'd wanted to do and I'd have never even known it if I was still in my sphere.
"Whoo" I shouted and heard Voice shout a equal whoo in my head alongside me as we jumped higher a few metres in the air now.
As I jumped in the air again my feet pushed me up and it felt like I weighed near nothing.
"Whoa" I was flying, ha take that little brother I can fly!. Well nearly, I seem to be just sort of hanging in the air but still this is great!.
I hang in the air for a few seconds slowly falling back to earth again before jumping even higher.
"Ouch" bad idea, clutching my head I glared at the ceiling which now had a large dent in it where my head had impacted with the metal roof.
Still though I had to show Superboy this we could fly together!.
A loud clang came from outside my room followed by flash speaking "Hay hello in there it's me Flash I'm here with a doctor so if anyone's about to punch me thinking I'm a villain don't it's just me"
i look down at myself the bathrobe covers most of my body before ending just above my knees not appearing to be made for someone as tall as me. I can't really go out in this now can I, I ask voice who doesn't reply merely humming in my head a sort of agreement as turn to the cupboard in the room.
The wardrobe of the room contains a load of different sized clothing all black unisex tops, pants, underwear and socks making my choice of clothing pretty simple.
dropping the bathrobe I quickly pull on a pair of underwear, trousers and socks before I consider another article of clothing.
i stare shortly at a pile of black bras in the corner before looking down at my flat chest and deciding to ignore them for now before pulling on a T-shirt and pair of black boots from the back of the wardrobe.
I get my feet into the boots quickly enough but i can't quite figure out how to do up the laces on the boots so I end up just leaving them undone sort of hanging loosely off my shoes. I'm a little sad that my first tangle with shoes has been so disappointing.
Still as I hear Superboy talking to Flash in the main room I hurry out of my bedroom after stuffing my laces into the sides of my shoes.
"ahh Supergirl this is doctor shires she'll be checking you out today along with superboy just to see if there was anything we missed at Cadmus" said flash pointing towards the strange women standing beside him, unlike what she thought doctors looked like she looked to be a thirtyish year old women with blonde hair coiled into a ponytail.
"Hi" I said giving the new women a little wave as I crossed the hall.
"hello there it's nice to meet you flash was filling me in on you on the way over, you know how he talks all good I assure you" said Dr Shires beaming at me before turning back to the flash and asking " has anyone every punched you by accident?"
"you'd be suprised how often that happens in the business I'm in" he said rubbing the back of his head as did so.
"Can we get on with this, so we can get out of here" said superboy bluntly, who I now noticed was wearing a new black shirt but still had on the dirty solar suit trousers that he'd been wearing from the escape from Cadmus.
"Sure" said Dr Shires looking a bit put off by my little brothers attitude "I'll just need my equipment from my car and.." The rest of what she was going to say was cut off as flash disappeared only to reappear standing next to a now midriff high pile of silver briefcases and containers.
"Okay then let's get started" said the women not appearing to be distracted by Flash's ability for more than a moment as she reached for the largest rectangle shaped box before splitting it in the middle to reveal it as a spindly looking massage table sort of thing.
"So, who wants to go first?" She said as she placed the table down with a thunk onto the ground.
just as I was about to volunteer for the first checkup superboy sat on the table causing only a small bending in the legs witch caused me to reaffirm my opinion of the table as I knew superboy was heavier than he looked.
"good to always have volunteers" said the doctor with a cheerful smile before getting superboy to lie on his front as she prodded up and down his body.
The rest of Superboy's medical I sort of chimed out of except for when he managed to crush the grip strength tester and when he got on the scale to be told that he weighed 122 kg which caused me to give a wide eyed look at him, I hadn't thought he was so heavy!
as he disappeared away from the room to his as his medical was complete he was shortly followed by Flash disappearing out the door with a quick "bye."
With the boys gone soon enough it was my turn which went normally enough as she ran her hands up and down my legs and back asking me if I felt pain anywhere.
It was only as I was flipped over and had her hand on my belly that she seemed to become confused as she ran her hands over my gem.
"hmm, what's this?" She said as I felt her hands leverage themselves over my gem trying to fell it out which was a little weird seeing as no one had ever touched my gem before!.
"seeing as it's just us girls would you mind lifting your shirt" I blushed bright red which got her to say "not all the way I just need to see this!" Which frankly just got my face beat red.
i mean you have someone tug at you teeth and see how you feel.
lifting my shirt I heard a whistle as my gem came into the light my rose quartz lighting up the women's face as it reflected the light of the room.
"uhh ha" was all the women said as she got a near glazed look over her face.
i started to panic a little as I wondered weather my gem was in the right place or was it the wrong colour? Maybe it was to small, I mean I didn't think I had a small gem but who could tell the others had gems of similar sizes I mean!
'What others?' Came Voice in my head before forgetting that line of thought to focus back on the doctors face as she tapped on the centre of my gem.
It's hard to describe what that feels like but my best description is someone touching your funny bone but it being dragged out.
"Have you always had this?" Asked the doctor after a good thirty seconds of feeling my gem, which was frankly enough.
I nodded trying to convey it had always been there with me, well that and my voice was feeling a little dry from the staring she was giving me.
"Uh huh" she said "and it doesn't hurt?" She asked as she reached her phone out of her pocket to take a photo of me.
I shook my head to that one as I wondered just what could be up with my gem, I mean I'd always had it!
Dr Shires had a strange look on her face before suddenly declaring " okay then on with the checkup" and continuing down my legs checking for anything a lot more forcefully I noticed than before she had touched my gem.
The rest of the tests were fine after that as she said something about her being unable to take samples for the moment due her not having acces to kriptonite needle or something and instead simply swabbed my mouth and had me stare at a bright light and read some numbers of a board, there was loads of other stuff but it was all boring as well.
The only things that I found cool was when she weighed me and I found out at I weighed 146kg which caused me to do a little dance happy that I was bigger than my little brother which got me a strange look from the women and a weird comment.
Next was when she measured my height to declare me at a height of "181 cms" which got me to smile as I thought that meant I had just crossed the six foot barrier.
The last was when she passed me a grip strength measurer like the one my brother had broken along with a warning 'to try not to break it as it was the only one she now had' to which I nodded seriously.
Anyway as I gripped the handle and slowly squeezed causing the needle to spin to the right until it was off the charts I was quickly stopped by the women's hand on my shoulder from pressing any harder, which was good as I don't know how much harder I could of pressed.
"That's great!" she said "250kg plus grip strength, that's amazing" she slowly but firmly removed the tester from my hands and I wondered if despite her warning she thought I was going to crush it.
"I'll just write that you where off the scale" she said as she turned back to her phone before typing.
After that it was all boring stuff before she packed up to leave carrying her stuff out to the car whilst making me stay inside saying over my attempts to help that I shouldn't go outside without Flash and promising to that if there was any issues then I could phone her from the number on a card she gave two copies of, a extra for my brother.
i didn't bring up that I didn't have anything to phone her with but I figured that I could always find someone.
So with everything packed away and her speaking on her phone she finally disappeared out the door.
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this chapter doesn't feel quite right to me yet so I'll go over it at a later date and smooth it out but for now this is the plot. So please enjoy :)