CHAPTER 9

Power

" What the hell is that?!" Nightwing growled at Batman who suddenly appeared beside him quietly and turned off the communicator. Then, Batman activated the training system and switched the level of the system to level 6 and sent Bat-Glare at Nightwing to quieten him.

Nightwing's brows behind the domino mask ceased, feeling confused at his former mentor's action why he did that. But since he had spent her life with Batman, he knew that Batman wanted to test something on Rou and he chose not to argue with him and crossed his arms as a gesture to say that he disapproved him.

" Just watch..." Batman said before he observed her. Nightwing rolled his eyes annoyingly for lacking of the answers from his former mentor and watched at Rou to see what she would do next...

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Rou groaned as she got up to her feet totteringly because of impact from being thrown across the room. It seemed that robot ninja made a surprising attack from the behind when she tried to the dodge away from the turret that caught her by surprise.

' That blue bird guy...I'm gonna rip his head off once we got out of here...' The alien growled .

' Before that, I think we should focus on the current situation...' Rou's eyes widen when she saw the amount of ninja robots that was cornering her. There were at least twenty of them that tried to herd her to the wall until she wish she could disappear from here but it turned out that she couldn't teleport herself like she did in that room.

" AH!" Rou yelped when one of those robots gripped her wrist tighly and tried to use the sword in its hand to stab her. However, it stopped and was thrown away by the giant tentacle which had the same color as the slim on her body. Rou looked at it and saw that it came from the hand that she used to shield herself from being stabbed with fear. Rou felt the power flowing through her body like stream of cold water from the feet to her neck. The slim on her body started stirring as if it response the danger coming to her and readied to destroy it.

The other robots charged at her but, they were blocked by the tentacle that changed it form into the shield. Once she successfully blocked it, the tentacle changed into giant mallet and beat it into pieces ,including some turrets that got into the crossfire from it.

Rou was speechless and impressed about her power a little before another robots that somehow survived from that hit headed straight toward at her quickly. She evaded from the punch that directly sent to her face and used another hand that had turned into the claw and scratched its face deeply which also ripped the circuit of the monitor that act like its eyes.

Then, Rou waited calmly as the robots assembled into the group again and rushed toward her in group. Like a magic when Rou raised her hand at them, the gust of snowstorm came from her hand and freeze those robots in place before they could reach to her. After that, Rou raised her hand in the air 'v' shape which froze the rest of other turrets until the training system announced that it was offline due to extreme cold condition.

' Wait, aren't you suppose to have only that tentacle things?' Rou's brows ceased with confusion after she found that she had another powers beside the tentacle thing from the slim of her body.

' Apologize, my host. My power had just recovered from that place.' The alien explained.

' I see...but, how?'

' No idea...but at least, I think it started when I was bounded with you.' The alien said as she also wondered why she felt better when she was with this human unlike the previous human that had been sent to her cell when she was locked up in there.

' Sound like I'm your savior even it should be you who saved me...' Rou thought and was somehow happy that she could repay the alien for saving her life.

' Then, we are even...if it is what mortal being like you call that when both of them helped each other at the same times..' The alien said with a 'smirk' in her voice as she felt that being struck with this human may open her mind about mortal beings again.

' Yeah, we are even now.' Rou looked around the room to see how damaged she had cause.

' And, I think we had just scared those sidekicks squad. Let's go and see if they pee in their pants yet.'

Rou's corner lips twisted up a little, the alien's scoff before headed back to the observatory room where the rest of the team was. Once she reached to the room, everyone looked at her in pure shock. Batman looked at the her with unreadable face while Nightwing was speechless but he kept his cool by pretending to look at the training room which is covered with the pile of snow by now.

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Sorry if this is very short. The homework from my college plied up. I got the homework about analyzing the classic literature like A Christmas Carol by Charles Dicken ( Sorry if I misspelled his name and last name =_=" ). My teacher asked us to analyze the character and moral message which we have to do that every week but I don't mind. Actually, I kinda like this type of homework because they at least help me about writing this story.

For this chapter, I admit that it's hard to describe the action scene especially, the part about Rou's attack. My vocabulary to describe this scene is short unlike most writers which annoyed me but I had tried my best. In this chapter, I tried to show that Nightwing somehow was worry about Rou and treated her like normal people by ignoring her look unlike the other people in the Team except Superboy who somehow show the compassion to her since he was also the victim of some crazy experiment but that made MissMartian think that he had a feeling for Rou and she decided to take a revenge on him by going out with Lagoon boy again. I suggest you ignore the logic why MissM back to Lagoon boy again after she had broke up with him in season 2 because I intended to make it slightly AU fic. About The alien inside Rou, penny for your thoughts ! Tell me in your review or PM. I would like to hear your idea or opinion about her.

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter and forgive me for uploading this chapter so late...

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