A/N: Enjoy!
Chapter 2
Roslyn woke up excited in spite of almost being kidnapped a few days ago. Why was she so excited? Because her mother and father had agreed to train her in her powers. She showered dressed and rushed out to find them.
Since they weren't in their room she predictably found them both in the library.
"You two spend more time here than in your own room." She said smiling.
"We like it here." Felicity said simply smiling at her daughter. "Are you ready for your training?"
"Yes, please!" She said happily.
"Alright then, follow me to the training center." Felicity said blurring off knowing that she knows where that is.
She got there and was surprised to see the whole room was padded. "What's with this?"
Felicity looked around and it clicked what she was confused over. "Oh, the room's always been padded, we don't want to hurt the trainees too badly ourselves so we got it padded."
"So, you wanna start with super strength or speed?" Adam asked since she had shown that she has the strength plenty of times as well.
"Can I start with strength please?" She asked.
"Alright, control or use?" Felicity asked just like twelve years ago with Isabella.
"Um...control first."
"Alright, then I'm up." Felicity said pulling out on of those punching bags and hung it up. "These things are indestructible, please don't break them." She said simply glancing back at her husband.
Adam laughed. "Oh sure you break one indestructible punching bag and your wife never lets you live it down."
"Isabella broke one, you broke TWELVE." Felicity corrected. "And you probably STILL can't complete such a simple exercise."
"I could so!"
Felicity stepped back, "Then prove it, you know the rules, one hit, full draw, no reaction."
"Fine." Adam stepped up to the bag and hit it. and nothing happened
"Ok, I stand corrected, I'm sorry." Felicity apologized before turning to her daughter. "So, you wanna learn how to do that instead of breaking it like your father and aunt did when they were in training?" Roslyn nodded vigorously so Felicity explained it to her the same exact way as the other times.
Roslyn walked up and hit it. The bag flew across the room and slammed into the wall.
Felicity walked over to the bag finding it to sure enough, be broken. "Am I a bad mutant or something? I can't even do that when I try to."
"No, she has her fathers control which is good and bad depending on the situation."
"True, I guess since I am the only mutant who isn't a Garcia-Shapiro by blood, just marriage." Felicity said getting another bag and putting it up.
"You're faster than the rest of us." Adam said.
"I'm also better at control but that's probably because I STILL suck at actually using."
"No, you don't." Adam said.
Felicity turned to the punching bag she just put up and hit it as hard as she could and it swung like crazy but didn't break off or take ANY damage what-so-ever.
"Oh come on!" She huffed.
She turned back to her husband motioning to the bag. "See?"
"You're thinking about it too much just hit it." Adam said
Felicity tried that 'just hitting it' but ended up passing her own test. Frustrated, she kicked the bag. The chain broke so she went over and took a look at it. "Really?!" She shouted… no damage.
"Wow! That is weird." Roslyn said.
Felicity turned to her daughter before putting the same bag up with a different chain. "Sorry, we made this about us didn't we?"
"Yeah, but it was fun." Roslyn said.
"But we're here to train you. So breath and try again focusing on the movement instead of the force." Felicity explained awkwardly.
"Right." Roslyn said taking a deep breath and hitting the bag again.
Felicity held her breath as the fist connected. Nothing happened. "That's my girl!" Felicity said.
"I did it!" Roslyn said with a large smile.
"Why does everyone have better strength control than I dis?" Adam asked
"The same reason everyone with powers is stronger than I am." Felicity said but didn't say the last part out loud.
"Maybe girls have better control than boys?" Roslyn suggest.
"I guess that's possible." Adam said with a shrug.
"Seems to be true. We have no other boys to test that theory with." Felicity shrugged.
"We probably will when Slate's older." Roslyn reminded.
"Do you think so?" Adam asked.
"Well, I don't see why he wouldn't." Roslyn observed.
"Well we don't know if you got the powers from me or your mother so.." Adam shrugged.
"Well, I guess that's true so we'll just have to wait and see then." Roslyn agreed.
"Yeah, so I guess we move on to use." Adam said.
Roslyn nodded. "Ok."
"Okay, this one is easy we will set up a simulation of objects all you have to do is get through them by figuring how much strength you'll need." Adams said.
Roslyn nodded. "Sounds easy enough."
"It's harder than it sounds." Felicity said.
Roslyn shrugged. "Alright then, I'll still give it a shot."
"Alright I'll go program things." Adam said blurring away
Roslyn turned to her mother. "What did I just get myself into?"
"You'll see." Felicity smirked.
Roslyn sighed knowing that can't end well. A wooden wall popped up in front of them. "He's starting off easy on you." Felicity said.
Roslyn looked at the wall wondering what she was suppose to do with it. Was she suppose to break it down? Trying that she made it through.
"Good now let's try something harder." Adam said over the comm as a cement wall appeared. Roslyn's ninja star eyes scanned the wall for any kind of imperfection. There was not a single one to be found..
She aimed a punch at the middle knowing that according to physics, that's the weakest spot. The wall still stood but there was a hole in it large enough for her to fit through. 'All you have to do is get through.' Roslyn reminded herself climbing through the hole.
"Good! You're learning." Felicity said.
'Already made it farther then I did.' Felicity thought since though she had her powers first Adam had helped her try and get stronger to little avail.
"Let's try metals now, if you're ready." Adam said.
"Ready." Roslyn said getting into position.
"Let's start with metal concrete blend." Adam said as the wall appeared in front of her.
"Original." Roslyn observed before using a kick this time. The wall did not break and her foot hurt now as she hopped around.
"Not as good that time." Adam said.
Roslyn gritted her teeth putting weight on the foot and looked at the wall in thought. Where she kick left a small crack but barely anything and she's definitely not gonna try THAT again. She glanced back at the last wall, grabbed a large piece of concrete and tried hitting it with that instead. The concrete piece shattered and the crack got a little bigger. Seeing that would take too long, Roslyn got an idea and headed back through both broken walls back to her mother. "Can I borrow you're nun-chucks?" She asked unsure if the answer would be yes or not.
"No, you have to use your own strength."
"Figures." Roslyn said with a sigh before turning back to the walls with an idea from here that could either work or seriously injure her. Possibly both.
"Roslyn, what are you thinking?" Felicity asked.
"I'm thinking that if I start from here using my super speed to back in up for power I might be able to make it through." Roslyn said thoughtfully.
"As long as you don't go head first it should." Felicity said.
Roslyn decided to try it putting her fist out before blurring towards the wall hoping to break the wall instead of her hand.
Luckily she did break the wall unfortunately she also broke her hand.
Roslyn held her injured hand in pain. "Well, that was stupid." She muttered.
"Maybe we should stop for the day?" Adam asked.
Roslyn nodded, "I think I broke my hand."
"I'll be right down." Adam said as the walls vanished and Felicity came over to her.
"Hold out your hand." She said. Roslyn held out her injured hand to her mother. She couldn't move any of her fingers at all. "Oh, you broke it good." She said looking at the fingers. She pulled out her sonic screwdriver feeling guilty for encouraging her to do that.
"It's okay mom I've had worse remember when I fell down the stairs?" Roslyn asked
"How could I forget?" Felicity mumbled as she activated the screwdriver fixing her daughter's hand.
"A broken leg and ankle and you still wanted to swim." Adam said walking over to her.
"Well, of course!" Roslyn said in a duh! voice. "There's no excuse not to swim."
"That's my girl." Adam said smiling.
"But you haven't swam today." Felicity reminded.
"I will and you know it."
"Of course you will, you wouldn't be Roslyn Garcia-Daniels if you weren't." Felicity said since in Hispanic culture a child has two last names: a primary which is their father's primary last name and a secondary which is their mother's maiden primary last name.
Roslyn smiled proudly as both her parents ruffled her hair
"Now, let me see your hand again." Felicity told her since she had fixed it.
She held out her hand and bent each finger easily. "All better!" She said happily
"Well, then you could go swimming now if you want." Felicity said. Roslyn was gone before Felicity finished.
"She really loves to swim." Adam said.
"Well, she is your daughter." Felicity quoted from when she was seventeen.
"Yeah, I am so proud."
Felicity shrugged. "At least she's not wearing shoes."
"Yeah I gave up on that years ago. At least she wears socks."
"I still don't understand the problem you have with that, I never wear shoes or socks and I'm perfectly fine. Besides, the socks just make it more dangerous because there's literally no traction where your feet have their natural traction from the dermal papili in your skin." Felicity complained. They've had this conversation way too many times.
"Socks keep her feet safe." Adam said.
"You have your stratum lucidium which does a whole lot better job at protecting your feet than a single thin layer of loosely knit cloth. You're feet are literally designed to protect themselves." Felicity explained knowing pretty much everything there is to know on the subject.
"Felicity, you just won't let this drop will you?"
Felicity shook her head. "Not until you give me some logic on this that actually makes since."
"I just, want her a bit safer." Adam said.
"She would be safe without the socks though… well… as safe as Roslyn will ever be. Besides, if you believe that socks are safer then why have you never tried to get me to wear them?" Felicity asked in the most amazing point ever. "Do you not care about my safety like you do hers."
"Of course I do, but I know you and your too stubborn to consider it." Adam said making an excellent counter point and Felicity knew that was true.
"In fact, I bet you couldn't go one day with socks on." Adam challenged. Felicity's eyes narrowed. She was never one to back down from a challenge. "I bet you I could."
"Sounds like a bet what happens to the loser?" Adam asked.
"Loser gives the winner a back rub." Felicity said knowing that she'll probably need it after a full day wearing socks.
"Sounds like a deal to me." Adam said offering his hand
Felicity shook it before blurring off, getting socks on, and blurring back. However, when she tried to stop the socks kept her sliding and she crashed right into Adam proving her point on socks being more dangerous.
"Okay, in this one instance socks made it hard to stop." Adam said
"My point's still valid." Felicity said before standing back up and almost falling right back down but she caught her balance. "Are you ok?"
"I'm fine are you?" Adam chuckled.
"I'm fine but I'm not gonna lie this feels REALLY weird." Felicity said looking down at her not bare feet. "Then again, so did clothes in general when I first got of the table. I guess my body's just not use to having something there."
"Well, you could take them off." Adam said.
Felicity shook her head with a smirk. "Not a chance."
"You'll give in." Adam said with confidence.
"I think you've got us mixed up." Felicity corrected confidently. "I never give in."
"You do when it comes to your feet." Adam said.
"I'll be fine." Felicity agreed slightly hesitant. It's not like they're full shoes. Just socks. Doofenshrimtz could have put the needle through socks… they're not preventing anybody from anything."
"Ah, but he didn't." Adam said.
"That's because I was wearing sandals when he captured me." Felicity stated as a fact of course remembering EVERY little detail of that day. "He might have if I was wearing any to begin with but I wasn't."
"You'd think he would have bought socks." Adam said.
"That would have been a completely unnecessary waste of time." Felicity reminded. "What would he gain from doing that?"
"You would wear shoes just not socks."
Felicity tried really hard to make any sense of that logic before cracking up. "If that's how you think it works then I didn't do a very good job at explaining why I'm afraid of shoes."
"Maybe." Adam said turning red.
"Seriously though, what was you're logic there?" Felicity asked.
"I am not sure really."
"Ok, but can we please stop talking about Doofenshmertz?" Felicity asking knowing that he probably wants to, too.
"Yeah, right sorry. So, want to go for a swim?" He asked sarcastically.
"That's not funny, Adam. Besides, I'm getting hungry." Felicity said since Adam STILL has to always cook for her.
"I need to teach Roslyn to cook." Adam said.
Instantly Roslyn was back "You're cooking!?" She asked excitedly covered in water.
"Ok, if you try and teach her how to cook just try and avoid sexist pans." Felicity said in an inside joke that just confused Roslyn.
"What do you mean mom?" She asked.
Felicity chuckled, "That's an interesting story actually. You see, when we were 16 your father let me help make lunch but when I was trying to boil the water I kind of… blew it up. So naturally, I accused the pan of being sexist so that became kind of an inside joke with us."
"That makes no sense mom. Pans can't be sexist." Roslyn said
"Yes she's on my side!" Adam said.
"She doesn't know where we were when this happened though." Felicity reminded.
"So, she's still on my side."
"You gave up on that side when I reminded you that we were in a virtual reality at the time so anything could happen." Felicity reminded.
"Oh yeah I forgot about that."
"So, she's actually on her own side." Felicity concluded simply. "In the meantime, I'm still hungry."
"Right, Roslyn are you hungry?"
Roslyn nodded, she's always hungry for something her dad made, just like she always has energy to swim.
"What do you two want?"
"Raviolis?" Roslyn suggested.
"I'll do you one better how about sea food raviolis?" Adam asked knowing they both loved seafood
"That's perfect!" Roslyn said excitedly.
"Well let's go! You can help me make them." Adam said
The three of them blurred off to the nearest kitchen but Felicity fell again. "Uh, mom, why are you wearing socks?" Roslyn asked in confusion having just noticed that.
"I made a bet with your dad that I could wear them all day." She said defiantly
"Oh well, I'm sure you can do it." Roslyn said helping her mom back up to her feet.
"She's on my side!" Felicity said happily
"I still say you'll cave." Adam said confidently as he started making the raviolis.
"Never!" Felicity said.
"We'll, just see about that." Adam said with a smirk.
"I will win." Felicity said.
Roslyn rolled her eyes. "You guys are so weird."
"And you're not?" Adam asked.
"I am, but you guys are a special kind of weird."
"Thank you." They both said.
"Yeah, normal's overrated." Roslyn agreed walking up to her dad.
"That's our girl."
"So, can I help?" Roslyn asked.
"Sure why don't you boil the water?" Adam said.
"Ok!" Roslyn said before turning to the water. As if the universe loved to remind us that she's Felicity's daughter... she blew it up. Just like her mother did. She stared at it in shock for a while before turning to her father, pointing the the pan, and saying, and I quote, "That pan was sexist."
Felicity just laughed it off pulling out a different pan since unlike back on the jet, they have many here. "That's my girl." She said ruffling her hair.
"Well, I stand corrected even in reality you can blow up water. But pans are not sexist."
Roslyn wiped some ash from her face from the explosion. "Well, I am Roslyn, I could and do blow anything up."
"Well, I am impressed." Adam said.
Roslyn took a step back. "You should probably just cook though."
"Yeah, guess I should."
After a while they were all enjoying delicious seafood raviolis. "So what other walls can I break?" Roslyn asked.
"It's a surprise if you're still up for it." Felicity told her simply.
"Of course I am!" Roslyn said.
"Then once you're done eating we'll head back there." Adam said finishing his own.
Roslyn rushed through her meal. "Done!"
"Alright then, lets go." Adam said and they all headed back to the training center.
"Okay, so, what's this new wall?" Roslyn asked.
"Next is actually an unknown substance." Adam said as a sparkly looking wall came up. "You won't always know what everything is."
Roslyn stared at it trying to figure out what it is when she realize something. "Wood, concrete, concrete/metal blend; well, it is a Fan-fiction." Roslyn said causing the wall to shatter like glass confusing Felicity.
"Roslyn, what did you just do?" She asked.
Roslyn looked back at her mom with a smirk. "I broke the fourth wall."
"The fourth wall?" Adam asked
"Yes, the wood wall was the first wall, the concrete wall was the second wall, the blended one was the third wall, so that was the fourth wall." Roslyn explained. "And that's how you break the fourth wall."
"What do you mean it's a fan-fiction?" Adam asked.
"It's not a Fan-fiction. It's the real world." Roslyn said causing the wall to rebuild itself. "Actually no, it's a Fan-fiction." It shattered again so you just kept going back and forth literally playing with the fourth wall.
"So, wait is this the real world?" Felicity asked
Roslyn went to the other side of the shattered wall carefully before saying. "Yes, yes it is." Separating her from her parents with the fourth wall.
"Ah! what happened to my daughter?" Adam asked.
"Isn't she just on the other side of that wall?" Felicity asked confused.
"I don't know she did not explain well." Adam said.
Roslyn appeared in a pitch black bedroom with the exection of the light illuminating from a phone onto the emotionless face of a seventeen year old girl who was currently writing out into a pm everything that you see here. Which kind of creeped Roslyn out and it was even worse the more she typed.
"Umm, who are you?" She asked.
The girl switch to a different story for a second before turning to Roslyn having good night vision because of her photophobia but she didn't say anything. It was kind of stupid that she couldn't figure out that this girl was Out With a Woosh and A Thunk, one of the coauthors of this amazing story.
"Please tell me who are you?"
Thunk sighed, she did not like talking. "I'm the coauthor of this story Out With a Woosh and a Thunk."
"This story and also co-author?" She asked.
"I basically half created and control your world through this phone and occasionally my netbook." Thunk explained typing all this up. "You broke the fourth wall then walked through it, what did you think was going to happen?"
"Not this, but okay. So whose the other?" She asked.
Thunk sat up, "You know what? It's February, and I have to get ready for school, just go bug him." She said and Roslyn disappeared from thin air because I can make her do whatever I want.
She reappeared in another dark room this time lit by the screen of a laptop. In front of the laptop she could see the relaxed looking face of an nineteen year old boy. He was also typing as she watched on.
"So, I'm guessing your the other author?" Roslyn asked awkwardly.
"That would be me I'm Batmarcus. Nice to meet you, are you aware you shattered the fourth wall?"
"Yeah but I definitely didn't expect this." Roslyn said looking around. "Why is it so dark in here?"
"The light bulb died and I have not changed it." Batmarcus shrugged
Roslyn shrugged, "Ok… how can I back home? My parents are probably really worried."
"You really just have to ask or say that this is the real world." Batmarcus said smiling.
Batmarcus got an email from Thunk, '14 Billion: Why would you tell her that. Since when do we have their best interests at heart?'
He emailed her back: 'When it comes to Roslyn, since always.'
Roslyn looked at that with a frown. "What about with my parents?"
"Oh their fine, worried, but fine."
"But you don't care what happens to them?" Roslyn asked. Right as another email came in that I don't feel like actually sending. 'Oh, we care, we just prefer bad things, it's fun to torture them.'
"We do not torture them!"
Thunk rolled her eyes and typed. 'Yes we do, we've LITERALLY tortured then.'
"No, we tortured Adam, but not your mom that was Skye and we're sorry."
'In my defense, I wasn't part of the team yet for either of them.' Thunk messaged.
"That's true, but in my own defense if it were not for that you would not have powers or be as smart as you are." Batmarcus said to Roslyn
"I guess there's a bright side to everything then but I should really get out of the real world." Roslyn said remembering what he told her.
"Right, you should. We'll see you around, but you won't see us again."
"Hopefully not." Roslyn said before disappearing.
In the training room Roslyn walked back out and the wall disappeared
"Where were you Roslyn?" Felicity asked worried hugging her daughter.
"In a very weird place." She said shrugging
"Adam, what WAS that wall made of?" Felicity asked, Roslyn was the first to make it through that one.
"Not sure it just sort of started to turn up." Adam shrugged.
"Huh, that's really odd." Felicity observed looking at the shattered wall. "She is the first to make it through the fourth wall though."
"You now have a house record." Adam said.
"Victory!" Roslyn shouted.
"So what was on the other side?" Adam asked.
Roslyn hesitated but told her parents what she saw, or didn't see really since it was dark.
"So we're ruled by teenagers?"
"Apparently, kind of a creepy thought for me so I can imagine what it must be like for you two since you're older than them." Roslyn said awkwardly.
"No, I can except that." Adam shrugged
"Well, ok then, it's still kind of weird for me at least."
"No, I can except it, too." Felicity said
Roslyn chuckled "I said that it's weird for me." she corrected.
"You get used to this sort of thing." Felicity said.
"So, is there a fifth wall?" Roslyn asked changing the subject.
"No, I don't think so, other than metal." Adam said.
"Then, should we just move onto speed?" Roslyn asked turning to her mom.
"If you still have the energy."
"I'm pretty sure I do." Roslyn said with a nod.
"Well then on to speed." Felicity said.
"Ok, so how does the speed training go?" Roslyn asked.
"Well, it's just an obstacle curse." Adam said.
Roslyn almost said that it sounds simple enough but remembered how that went with strength use.
"Not simple to you?" Adam asked.
"It sounds like it, I'm just hesitant to say so again."
"Well, don't worry, it'll be okay and less likely to break your bones."
"Ok, then, I assume Mom's gonna teach this one, though?" Roslyn guessed.
"Well, yeah I guess she should." Adam said a bit disappointed he would not get to teach his daughter something.
Adam remembered something that was always included in Felicity's speed training and hoped she's wasn't gonna do it with her.
"Okay, first I want you to run in a straight line and stop before the wall." She said pointing to the padded wall.
"Got it." Roslyn said then did as she was told. Just as she tried to stop she hit the wall bouncing off and landing on her butt.
"Well, at least it was padded." Roslyn said standing up.
"Do you know what you did wrong?" Felicity asked.
Roslyn thought about it for a while than shook her head.
"Focus, you concentrate too much and you will trip too little and you won't stop when you want to."
Roslyn nodded understanding. "Should I try it again, then?"
"Yes, if you want to."
Since she was already at that wall she turned to a different one and tried again trying to focus less this time. The result was halfway across she tripped and fell. "Ok, I obviously need to feed a balance." Roslyn observed standing back up.
"That's the tricky part." Adam said.
"Any suggestions on figuring that medium out?" Roslyn asked either of them.
"Well it's different for everyone you just have to find what's right for you." Felicity said
"Which will involve a lot of tripping and running into walls?" Roslyn asked.
"Yea and you have not even reached the obstacle course yet.
"Obviously not."
"You're lucky the walls are padded though. I had to learn all this stuff the hard way on the field, where the walls are most definitely not padded." Felicity explained.
"Yeah, that's not fun trust me." Adam said remembering a few of those steel walls
"I can imagine from when I hit the third wall, at least that was just my hand though." Roslyn said flinching slightly at the thought of hitting a real wall the same way she hit the padded one.
"Yeah, as you can clearly imagine, not fun."
"So, now what?" Roslyn asked.
"Now, you can keep trying or be done for today." Adam said
Roslyn looked at the wall determinedly. She was a klutz, almost everyone knows it so she was probably really high on required focus level so she tried again. Though she did manage to slow down she still hit the wall tough at a slower speed. "Ok, getting closer." Roslyn observed trying again with a little bit less focus. She stopped inches from from the wall. "I did it!" Roslyn shouted happily.
"Great job, Roslyn!" Adam said hugging her.
"Thank you, Daddy." Roslyn said then glanced over at her mom.
Felicity smiled and hugged them both. "I'm proud of you." She said.
"So, what's this about an obstacle course?" Roslyn asked.
"It's lots of running, jumping, swinging, and climbing at high speed." Felicity said.
"So, that's next?" Roslyn asked.
"Yes I'll go program it in. It's based on the ultimate ninja obstacle course." Adam said. He left to program it.
Roslyn's jaw dropped when the ninja warrior course came up out of the ground. "He wasn't joking?" She asked.
"When have you known me to joke?" Adam asked over the intercom. "Especially about stuff like this?"
"Well...Okay point taken." Roslyn huffed
"Now, just like the show, try and get through each obstacle as quickly as possible and even though you love it so much, do NOT touch the water. Of course, unlike the show, since you'll be doing it with super speed but you have one minute." Felicity explained pulling out the special stop watch and turning to the camera. "Which I still think is way too long."
"Okay, fine how about 15 seconds?" Adams voice rang out.
"That's better." Felicity said before turning to her daughter who was still staring at the course. "You ready?"
"Um sure, yeah." She said nervously
She walked up the the start of the course which was set up EXACTLY like the first stage of the 27th competition so: slide step, rolling escargot, giant swing, jumping spider, half pipe attake, warped wall, spinning bridge, tarzan rope, ropeladder.
"Ready?" Adam asked
Roslyn hesitantly nodded so Felicity called go starting the timer and she was off. She did well too until she hit the spinning bridge. At that point, she lost her footing falling into the water.
"So close." Adam said through the comm
Roslyn floated on her back in the water. "Yeah, just one little mistake."
"I think you're done for the day." Felicity said walking over
"Alright, fair enough." Roslyn said getting out of the water.
"Don't worry, you can try again tomorrow. Now, go relax."
"Alright Mom, you know where to find me." Roslyn said before blurring off to the pool.
"You know she'll try all day tomorrow?" Adam said
"Until she gets it right at least. She got the determination we both have." Felicity said agreeing.
"That makes me a proud parent."
"Me too, we raised her right, you and I." Felicity agreed.
"Yes we did tough should we send her to school like a real school?" Adam asked.
"Well, I never went to school and look how I turned out but as a parent I'd have to say yes. She's smart enough to not but it could be good for her." Felicity said after little thought.
"So, we're agreed, we'll talk to the other parents as well." Adam said
"Alright, but I'd be very surprised if any of them see it as a bad idea." Felicity said and the two of them went off the find the other parents.
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