See, I kept my promise. I got a cover and everything.
Characters in case you don't know: Milagro Reyes = Blue Beetles little sister, Iris 'Irey' West II = Wally West's daughter from the comics, Mar'i Grayson = Dick Grayson and Starfire's daughter from the comics, Nell Little = A huge Batgirl fan and Batgirl in a dream Stephanie has of the future, Stephanie Brown = The 4 Robin and the 3 Batgirl, she was in the show for an episode as like an extra
Disclaimer: DC owns all of this
Artemis was in a tree.
Climbing it was necessary to get a cellphone signal. Jade was right next to her, Roy, Ollie and Dinah just bellow, and Cam was almost halfway up. As much as she loved him, climby he was not. She felt AWFUL that she was missing Isabelle's birthday, and was getting impatient for her father to answer. When he finally did, on the fifth ring, she hit the speaker button.
"Mommy?"
"Isabelle! Sweetheart, Happy Birthday! How's your week been!?"
"Mommy! I missed you so much! Guess what!"
"What?"
"Lian almost died and I got a sunburn when we went to the beach. And we got to ride on top of a car! And I sawed Aunts and Uncles and we got arrested! And we killed the eye monster! And Lian is bad at Taboo! And..."
"*Okay, that's enough sugar for you! Hows vacation going Baby Girl?" Artemis hears her fathers voice replace her daughters.
"What's she talking about?" Jade asks.
"She had a lot of candy. Creative mind, that one,"
"No Grandpa, we only have Thia, pizza and tap water. No candy,"
"Shhhh Lian, I'm on the phone,"
Artemis starts to ask some questions when she hears a yelp and looks down to see her husband has fallen out of the tree.
Is his arm suppose to bend like that?
No, probably not.
"Tell the girls I love them, gotta go," She snaps the phone shut and climbs down the tree, hoping it really was just candy talking.
(..)
Paula Crock wonders if this was the home shed semi-raised a family in.
The living room was filthy. Popped balloons and streamers hung off of every surface, and cupcakes were stuck to walls. In the center of it all stood a red headed kid with a robot arm covered in pink glitter shouting at Joar Mahkent (who had bright blue eyeshadow on) about how Mexican food was WAY better than Pizza Hut.
Blinking, she roles into the kitchen to look for Lawrence. Instead she finds a blonde teenage girl standing on the table in a pink tutu and sunglasses having a food fight with another blonde girl in a bikini top and a princess crown standing on the counter. As Paula's wheeling her way in between them, a cupcake fly's over her head and into a hole in the cabinet*.
In the hallway she sees her eldest grand daughter Lian in a fist fight with a dark haired Asian girl of about the same age. Both had on neon green bandannas. She almost breaks them up when she hears Isabelle's voice n Artemis and Jades old room. She goes to the doorway and peers in.
Isa's sitting Indian style in the floor, warm water paper tattooing glittering stars on a blonde African American boys forehead and cheeks. Behind her on Jades bed is a little boy asleep in a green bandanna.
Belles eyes light up when she sees Paula, running and jumping into her lap and hugging her tight.
"Chúc mừng sinh nhật, Isabelle," She says, kissing the little girls head.
"I don't know what that means, Grandma. But I got you something!" Isa scrambles off of her lap and runs to the closet, throwing the door she sees her ex husband, scowling. Isabelle ignores him, getting on her knees and digging through a big pink tote. Smiling, the little girl returns with a purple feather scarf and red lipstick.
She smiles and takes it.
"Why is Grandpa in the closet?" She asks, not sure she wants to hear the answer.
"Grandpa don't want to play dress up so he's in time out," Belle shrugs, sitting back down in the floor in front of the blonde boy again.
Taking a deep breath, she rolls her shoulders and takes a deep breath. It's up to her to save this party.
(..)
Cissie scrapes cupcake off the wall with Mia's help while Ms. Crock bakes fresh ones in the kitchen they've already cleaned.
The food fight had been a bit 'childish', but Mia had started it. The frosting was NOT "too sweet", that was just Mia being judgmental. Roy was sweeping, Connor blowing up balloons, Lian and Sin hanging up pictures in the hallway, Isabelle giving Sports Master a VERY reluctant makeover, Robbie was still asleep and Icicle was out getting chips, pizza, pop, and anything else little girls could want.
Cissie and Mia were both spending the night as 'big girl chaperones". She'd say it was more along the lines of 'make sure the villains don't kill our kids' babysitters, but that was just her. The party didn't start for another hour, thank God, but there was a lot of work to do. She really hoped Joar got enough food for the tiny tanks and Irey.
Especially Irey.
Lord knows that kid could eat enough for 100 people. she hoped he got ice cream.
Damn she wanted ice cream.
(..)
Isabelle was in LOVE with this party already.
Everything was purple, pink and green! She was ecstatic when she heard the first knock on the door, and rushed to be the one to open it. Standing behind the door was a big girl with blonde hair, Stephanie, Aunt Mi and Cissies friend, and two little girls. One little girl was orange with big blue eyes and super long black hair, the other African American with a sweet face and corn rows.
"Nelly! Mar'i!" She squeaks, rapping her arms around both of them and jumping up and down excitedly.
"Sorry to crash, but the Bats a raving paranoid," Stephanie says, walking over to talk to her aunts.
Next comes a Hispanic girl in a green t-shirt, her brother waving from the doorway "Jaime hermano! What's up?! Mila!" She hugs them both and Blue Beetle leaves.
Lastly, to no ones surprise, was a little redheaded girl with freckles, holding the hand of a man that matched.
"Irey!"
This was going to be the birthday party of the year!
(..)
Crusher wonders HOW exactly this became his life.
He'd been one of the League of Shadows top assassins. He was a ruthless killer. People feared him.
So why was he in a pink baseball cap driving up and down the street in a purple Fiat with three teenage girls at 3:30 in the morning?
His grand daughters and several other children may have escaped. With weapons.
It wasn't his fault. Those damn girls were suppose to be watching them, not "texting Tim and Bart to see what they were up to".
If they were dead, he wasn't taking the heat for it.
A small pain hits his arm as Batgirl punches him from the backseat. "Slug bug!" She shouts as a VW Beetle fly's past.
He glares into the rear view mirror.
"Focus!" He snaps.
The party had gone fine. The girls had dressed up as hot sparkly messes. Cupcakes were good, presents went great, and the girls had been strait off the bed after the boys had left. Paula had stayed, to babysit him and clean up. Thank God for Joar being around to distract her now.
The girls had snuck out the window, to do what he wasn't sure. He was going to kill them though, when he found them.
(..)
Lian was in trouble.
It had sounded like a good idea, honest. She DID recommend it, after all.
But now, surrounded by Black Masks goons, she wasn't so sure. She was down to her last four arrows, Irey looked exhausted, Isa could barley keep her hands iced out, Mar'is' star balls were barley a glow in her hands, Milagros knee was bleeding really bad from where she had fallen earlier, and Nell had disappeared.
The only one of them that was doing any good was Sin. She had better stamina, but she couldn't take them all down alone, there were way to many.
She was a little scared.
Suddenly, a high pitched whining rang in her ears and a small explosion went of to her left, then her right, and then they started going off everywhere, smoke, shouting, and the sound of flesh on flesh filled the room.
(..)
Cissie was going to kill Stephanie for all the smoke.
She couldn't see, making it hard to aim, and she could hardly breath. Mia didn't seem to be doing any better, but by the sound of it, Stephanie and Sportsmaster were kicking ass.
When the smoke clears everybody's knocked out, and Batgirl and Nell (who has a black blanket tied around her shoulders like a cape) are tying up Black Mask.
Looking at the girls she sees that their all in there own "uniform". Lian has on a red hoodie, Isa a blue t shirt and white pajama pants, Milagro a green tank top, Irey a yellow jacket and red rain boots, Mar'i a silver princess crown and a purple half shirt, and Sin a black shirt with white shorts.
It's almost kind of flattering, that they want to be like them already. But they were still in trouble.
"Looks like this party's over," Speedy says, and the rest of them agree.
(..)
Paula was worried.
She knew something was wrong with the way Icicle hadn't let her go five feet from the kitchen. He'd needed her help washing dishes, cleaning out the fridge (How much takeout had her granddaughters consumed in less than a week?), and now he was having her show him how to make chilli, so the girls could eat something 'healthy' once in a while.
Not only was Icicle acting sketchy, but her ex husband was as well. He'd left three hours ago with those teenage girls to 'pick up some milk' at midnight? Her bullshit detector was on red alert. He'd complained to her the entire day about how he didn't need babysitters, so why were they hanging out now?
"I think I'll go check on the girls," She says, rolling her chair twords the hall.
"No! I mean, c'mon their fine! Wouldn't want to wake them! Lets finish cooking eh?" Joar exclaims quickly, grabbing the handles on her wheelchair.
Reaching up and removing his hand, she continues to roller way twords the girls room.
"...unnecessary Paula, really their fine, why wouldn't they be? Honestly let's go back to the kitchen it needs swept..." He stops his ramble as she swings the door open and rolls inside. The girl are all there in their beds and sleeping bags.
"See I told you! Now let's go back to the kitchen..." The door clicks close and smiles.
Maybe they CAN take care of the girls.
(..)
Isabelle holds her breath as she hears her Grandma roll down the hall.
As soon as everybody's sure she's gone, the light flicks on and everybody sits up and cheers quietly.
Grandpa,Stephanie, and Aunt Mi and Cissie come out of the closet, still in their uniforms.
"We did it!" She yells, running to hug her Grandpa.
He picks her up and spins her around. "We sure did Rosie Girl!" He chuckles.
"This is the bestest birthday EVER!" She says with a smile.
"I'm glad you had fun. Your still grounded, forever, but I'm glad you enjoyed yourself,"
Yeah, this three weeks wasn't getting any shorter.
I had a little to much fun with this.
*Name that movie!
*See chapter 2
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