(Gotham City September 7 10:13)
(Oceana)
Gotham was a strange city. Strange things happened there. It was a commonly known fact. After all, there was a resident clown for a super villain, and some lady dressed as a cat stealing jewelry all over the place. Also the city's main crime fighting source was a psychopathic man dressed as a bat with a tights wearing acrobatic child as a sidekick. So it was safe to say that eleven kids on top of a rooftop at night wasn't as strange a sight as you'd think. And even their conversation wasn't that crazy, if you'd only think about where they all were at the time.
"So, what you're saying is that this guy called Psimon took over our minds with some sort of telepathic power? That makes no sense!" Luminate was crying out shrilly, eyes widening comically as her hazel orbs danced between Robin, Artemis, and Kid Flash.
"You do know telepathic means the ability to communicate through the mind right? Kind of like what Sin does. And the Martians?" Shark Bait asked slowly. One of his eyebrows cocked upwards as realization dawned on Luminate's face. We all loved her, but she wasn't the smartest of people.
"Oh…well that helps…but I was talking about the P in front of his name! Why is that necessary? Why can't it be Simon without the P?"
"What doesn't make sense is how you got to Bialya?" Artemis cut in. Her voice scraped across our ear drums like a cheese grater as she angrily narrowed her dark eyes.
"Oh, there was a-" Luminate started to explain before a gentle hand cupped around her mouth. Sona loomed over her, his cat like features glinting with the moonlight dangerously, as he cast her a warning glance.
"Sona…got us…tickets," Ghost mumbled, quickly pulling himself in front of Luminate, growling lightly. "He's a tribal prince. Very rich."
Behind them, Luminate's features contorted into confusion as Shark Bait leaned to whisper something to her. From where I stood I could hear something that sounded like 'you think they'd let us fly a stolen plane without a liscense?'
"Then what's a tribal prince doing h-"
"Ask no questions," Sin answered, smoothly covering up the blunder, "And we tell no lies, Speedy."
"It's Kid Flash!"
"Of course it is, Flash Boy," Ghost muttered, grinning cheekily.
"I- you- ugh!"
"Not that I don't like watching KF make a fool out of himself," Robin smirked, pulling a noise of indignation from Kid Flash, "But next time you guys feel the need to save us…don't. Now we gotta go, before Batman decides to freak out on me again…"
"Wait, does that mean you haven't already called him through some weird secret gadget thing and you aren't stalling us while you wait for the whole league to come and arrest us?" I asked. I'd been glaring at the three sidekicks since my mind had been recovered, and I still wasn't sure if we could trust them or not. Last time we trusted Robin he got us arrested.
"…No. Sorry about that…I did a little research on Ghost when I-"
"Betrayed us." Dragon accused. She too had been silent the whole time, analyzing Artemis, Kid Flash, and Robin to test for betrayal.
"Yeah, that. I didn't know you were forced to kill. I just knew you were wanted for murder."
"It doesn't matter now. We're all fine and not arrested and we got Sin and Shark Bait out of it too." Ceridewen, always the pacifist, reasoned as she gestured to the newest members of the team. But Luminate wasn't having any of it.
"It doesn't matter?" she gasped. "You got us sent to fire trucking jail!"
"Fire trucking?" Kid Flash questioned.
"She means fucking. You sent us to fucking jail." Sin seemed as angry as Luminate was, although he hadn't even been a part of that fiasco. He'd heard enough about it though.
"And you know how much crud-monkeys we had to go through to get out of there? Luminate continued, ignoring the interruption. "The Flash and Superman and Batman came to get us! Was the league bored or something? I mean seriously! They needed three superheroes to take down a group of kids. I swear my whip should be around your neck!"
"…Crud- monkeys?"
"Crap! Do you know how much crap they had to go through?" Sin translated, "And there was Martian Manhunter too and I swear if I didn't know that fire was the Martian's weakness I'd probably be brain dead by now. Do you guys enjoy mind destruction or something?"
"Sin, Luminate!" I finally called, strutting over to the two red faced teens, "enough. I think it's time to just forgive and forget." There was silence. A long and disbelieving silence. I knew I looked like a hypocrite, considering all the things I'd said against the sidekick club before, but now that I thought about it, if I was them I'd have probably done the same thing. I wouldn't have let a murderer go just like that. We shouldn't have been so naive as to think they would either. And I told them that, right after Sin had let out all his rage against whatever issue he had with the Costumes and Luminate had muttered every fake swear word she could think of.
Finally it was settled. All was forgiven. Even Dragon, who'd been attempting to subtly burn Kid Flash's hair off without him noticing, had backed down and accepted the apologies. Robin and Artemis left for their homes, and Kid Flash ran straight back to Central City.
"Let the force be with you!" Ghost had called out after the sidekicks, earning a few funny looks.
"And beware the Jabberwocky!" was Ceridwen's contribution to our already bad image.
"What is it with you and the Jabberwocky?" Shark Bait asked.
"He's out there!"
"Oh, ok," he accepted, as if that really was a good explanation. We sat in silence for a few seconds, feet dangling from the rooftop, and eyes scanning the flying lights below.
"What a night, eh?" Ceridwen finally asked as she let herself fall flat so that her back was against the roof and eyes to the sky.
"Yeah, that's the last time I try a mind link!" Sin declared. He was leaning against Shark Bait subtly and his eyes were half closed. 'Brain restoration takes a lot out of you, huh? Well at least we know your weakness now; some weird guy with an unnecessary P in front of his name.'
"But it was so cool!"
"Last. Time."
"Kill joy."
"You're such a child." Ceridwen stuck her tongue out at him in retaliation. Without even looking at her Sin muttered, "Put it away before I cut it off."
"You can't do that! You wouldn't be able to hold me still long enough."
"Nonsense." This was Shark Bait talking. "There's s a pressure point just on the side of the neck. If he goes about it the right way, you should be knocked out for a good hour."
"But-"
"And there's another one just by the elbow too. If you press down hard enough she'd be out like a light." It was Ghost who'd interrupted Ceridwen this time. He grinned absently and didn't seem to realize just what he'd said until he noticed the weird look his girlfriend was sending him. "Me and Shark Bait are ex-assassins too, remember. Just because we don't go threatening people all the time like Sin does, doesn't mean we don't know stuff too."
"I don't threaten people…all the time…" There was a buzz of 'yes you do's' and 'all the times' from everyone before silence relapsed again.
"There's something that I can't understand, Sin," Sona said suddenly, bringing his warm brown orbs to meet the archer's bright blues.
"What?"
"You always say you don't have much power and everything, correct?" There was a tight nod from Sin and Sona continued. "But you seem to be able to do everything the Martians can do. You can form a mind link and restore our minds just like they can. What's the difference?"
"Well, err…" Sin trailed off, and his boyfriend quickly offered a:
"It's difficult to explain."
"Try," was Sona's blunt answer.
"Alright," Sin muttered, which surprised all of us. He usually wasn't one to reveal when he wasn't up to revealing. "Honestly, I'd have- I do have- as much power as Martian Manhunter -if I tried. I mean, I took him out easily enough, remember? But I don't have any…control. I can do the small things fine, but when I put too much power in it…I can do some damage. Like knocking out Martian Manhunter. Any other telepath wouldn't have put so much power into that simple image, so he wasn't expecting it. And that wasn't a good idea for me to do. I could've done some serious damage. I've done it before too. Accidently of course, but I've gotten too reckless when trying to get information. So I've just decided to stick to the simple tricks.
"Oh," was all Sona had to say. Again silence blanketed over us, and again not for very long.
"I have an idea!" Dragon suddenly announced. She surprised us all by jumping upward from her seat with enthusiasm.
"What?"
"We should follow Robin and Artemis! Find out where they live…figure out their secret identity...What do you think Ceridwen?"
"No way! We'll get caught. This's a bat we are talking about."
"Bat smat cat what, whatever!"
"It's a terrible idea, right Oceana?" Ceridwen turned to me smugly, clearly expecting my backing of her belief. After all my 'forgive and forget' talk, she knew I'd want to keep the good terms we had with the little league. But I was never one for consistency.
"Actually I think we should. Why not have something over them for a change? We wouldn't tell anyone of course, but it'd be handy to know…you know, just in case."
"But it's too late anyway!"
"Not if Dragon flies. She can take one of your vines or something and leave a trail."
"Of course you need my vines!"
"You don't have to come if you don't want to."
"Yes I do."
"Yeah, you're right, you do, anyone else coming?"
"Nah," Luminate shrugged, who'd been listening in to the conversation. "Me and Ghost are going to watch Die Hard tonight."
"Oh, can me and Sin watch it with you?" Shark Bait asked hopefully. Sin didn't look nearly as pleased by the proclamation.
"Sure. We can make it a double date."
"Alright. Have fun guys. Don't kill anyone. Sona you coming or what?"
"Err," Sona hummed, glancing towards the two couples, who were busy discusing popcorn or something. "…Please." He jumped up eagerly to join us, taking a position next to Ceridwen.
"Alright, let's go figure out these guys secret identity's. Can't be too hard, right?"
Here is another chapter! Yay. It was supposed to be much longer; I never actually got to any of what I was planning. But after I got to five pages, which is about how long the rest of the chapters are, I decided to just cut it in half so this will be part one and I'll get part two out asap.
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