Chapter 3

Catrina's P.O.V.

I lay on the ground my body unmoving, my form visibly lifeless. My mom turned and saw me. Batman and The Joker stopped what they were doing too. " Dancer!" My mother yelled, " I'll kill you, boy!" " Why is this villain so important to you?" Batman asked curiously. She needs to leave, I can't look dead forever, I thought. It took every ounce of my very being to keep on looking dead. I felt another pang from the " Robin Star" in my side, it looked like it hit a vital organ, but it was simply a flesh wound.

Cat Woman turned toward Batman, " You can have her now, Batman… after all I had her for the first fifteen years, now you can have a turn." my mom, scratch that, Cat Woman said with a smug voice. " What are you talking about, Cat Woman?" Batman asked with a clear voice. " Ha, she's your little girl, Batman… Your daughter, Catrina." Cat Woman said, and then she and the Joker were gone.

Batman walked over to Robin (Who had his mouth wime. He pulled my head and mask covers off of me, my braid fell onto my shoulders and I held still, but opened my eyes. Batman looked into my eyes and said, " So you're Catrina?" " Yes." I quickly answered. " You have a daughter?!" Robin shouted at the top of his lungs, " Why did you not tell me this?!" Robin was upset, obviously. " Maybe because I just found out, Robin." Batman stated unenthusiastically.

Some people around my age ran in and the light turned back on with their entering. " What happened?" A dark skinned, electric blue-eyed, guy with Atlantian tattoo's said ( I think he's Aqua Man's sidekick, Aqualad.) and then looked at me with his electric eyes. " Who are you?" A red haired, green eyed, spunky looking guy asked me. There was also a Martian girl with red hair, a buff roguish mini- Superman, a mysterious blonde chick, and a dark-skinned punk rock looking girl. " She's Catrina." Batman said then went on, " She's your new teammate." I looked at him aghast. Why on earth is he letting me join his mini-hero team, he doesn't even have proof I'm his daughter! " You can call me Dancer." I said casually. " The Dancer, isn't that the name of the new rumored villain?" The mysterious blonde asked, sounding curious, she had a very raspy voice. " No, there isn't a new villain, I checked it out, but she liked the name so much and it kind of suits her." Robin said quickly. " Well, welcome to the team… I guess." Aqualad said hesitantly.

We all were Zeta-beamed into a large room with machines of all kinds in it, it was an open room and seemed to be made of rock. I looked at the team they all went their separate ways, except Robin and I, so we were stuck with Batman, " Robin, would you show Dancer her new room?" Then Batman was Zeta-beamed somewhere that he had typed in the computer before, I believe it was Gotham.

We walked down a tunnel with fluorescent lights on the rock ceiling. We came to a large room where there was a kitchen, a media center, and a couple of doors on the opposite wall. The Martian and the mini- Superman were there, the boy was watching News on the T. V. and the Martian was at the fridge getting out orange juice. " Catrina, this is M'gann M'orzz, also known as Megan, or Miss Martian. And that guy over there," Robin explained gesturing with his hands, " Is Conner Kent, or Superboy." " Hello, it's so nice to meet Batman's daughter." Megan said and reached her hand out to me. " Crap! No one is supposed to know that." I mumble to myself, inside I'm thinking about committing suicide to save time from dying from someone who finds out about me from this Martian ditz. Megan smiles shyly, "Hello Megan," Megan says, tapping her forehead with her palm, " I'm sorry, before Batman told us you were on the team I read your mind and shared it telepathically with the team, purely accidental." " It's okay, a lot of us on the team have evil relatives or weird pasts, you'll fit right in." Conner said gruffly, standing from the couch and crossing his arms over his chest. " Well that was awkward, but anyway, over there is your room." Robin said crossing the room to the second door on the wall.

I walked in the room, it had a bed, a dresser, a desk, a closet, and an intercom on the right wall. I leaned against the desk and put my mask in the top drawer then turned around, Robin was leaning on the door frame, I put my hands on the desk, " Thanks, Richard." I say smiling at the ground, Robin walks farther in and slams the door shut behind him. He puts his back against the door and says firmly, " How do you know my name?!" " If my father is Bruce Wayne's don't you think I would know you too, I mean really, do you not remember who my parents are?" I say, raising my eyebrows in question. " I would kill you, but Batman might frown upon that." Robin answers opening the door, then continues, " Welcome to your new home, Catrina." I walked over to the door, right in front of Robin's face, " When did I ever say I wanted to do this?" I asked him, putting my hand on the door handle, ( I needed to strangle something, and killing Robin wouldn't get me anywhere… at least not right now, plus I can't kill like that…) " Well, you don't have much else to do though, now do you?" He says with a crooked smile, " And since you know who Batman is, I can tell you that he will now most likely get you an acceptance letter to Gotham Academy. Now if you wouldn't mind, I have some things to do. " He walked away. I closed the door with a thud. I walked over to the dresser and slid my clothes off, I find clothes in the dresser, a light blue T-shirt, a pair of jeans, and a black and blue checkered jacket. I put my uniform in the closet.

I sit on the bed, knees to chest, arms around knees, and hair in front of my face. " What the heck just happened?! " I yell at the wall, standing up on my bed. I pick up a pillow and chuck it at the door. " Stupid shock!" I shout.

I don't know what to think now, I mean, I always knew I wasn't evil, but am I a hero… I've been involved with some pretty shady stuff… It might just be something I should mention to my new-found father… Who is Batman, the leader of the Justice League…Yeah this will be interesting… I paced around my room thinking these thoughts. I finally cracked, I had to get out of this room.

I came out, and there was the whole team, hanging out like a clique at a school, talking, eating, and sifting through a movie pile on the media center floor. " We thought that since we had a new team member we would have a get together, so we can all get to know each other a little better." Aqua Lad said, taking a bag of popped popcorn out of the microwave. " Do you want cocoa, Kaldu'r?" asked the blonde mysterious looking girl. " Yes, that would be nice." Aqua Lad answered, he spoke very slow and very formal. Megan came, stood by me and said, " The one getting cocoa for Kaldu'r is Artemis," She said gesturing to the blonde mysterious girl, The one she's getting cocoa for is Kaldu'r," She said pointing to the dark-skinned, electric eyed guy. She turns around and I turn with her to find the red-headed spunky guy shoving down a carton of ice cream, " That's Wally, but his team name is-" Megan started to say, but I cut her off saying, " Kid Flash, yeah, I know… He's kind of huge with the kids and I see a lot of kids, so, yeah." I picked up a spoon from the counter and scooped a small bite of ice cream from the carton in Wally's hands and put it in my mouth and voiced my satisfaction with the taste, " Mmmmhhhmmm, fudge brownie, always been a comfort food though… Hmmm, Wally, is something wrong with you?" Prying should have been my middle name. I turned around and everyone was looking at me like I had just drop kicked Dr. Strange onto the floor or something. " What?!" I asked irritated that they think I did something wrong. I really just don't know what to do here it's all so new and a little scary. ( To think I have spent the night in the same room as the Joker and this, of all things, scares me.)

The spunky girl was the first to come out of her stare, She walked over to me and held out her hand, " I'm Raquel, but my Team name is Rocket." She said as we shook hands, " Cool name…" I said quietly, " Not as cool as Dancer, sweetie." She said with a genuine smile then walked away, I grimaced at being called sweetie, I saw Robin smirk at the peninsula where he was snacking on Sour Patch Kids, in all honesty, if I were him I would have laughed so that was somewhat justified

" I think that's everyone…" Megan said, smiling kindly. I nodded awkwardly and sat on the couch. Robin was now, once again, leaning against the wall with his arms across his chest ' I think he thinks he's invisible when he does that…' I thought to myself.

At the moment I didn't realize it, but apparently I was smiling while I was staring at Robin like a silly school girl, so he was looking at me like I had lost my mind and Megan came over and asked, " So, you and Robin have some kind of connection, huh?" She smiled mischievously. I turned my head and glared at her and since she was a telepath I thought some nasty words, just in case she looked inside my head. She frowned, I smirked. She walked back into the kitchen murmuring an unknown language, probably Martian.

Out of nowhere music was playing, it was an upbeat classical song, my kind of music. I swayed a little where I sat, hypnotized by the beautiful music. " You like music, huh?" Raquel said, half-smiling while she sat on the coffee table. I bit my lip then answered, " I picked the Dancer for some reason, now didn't I?" She pursed her lips and crossed her arms across her chest. " Wow, she just asked a question Catrina, not your dirty little secrets. Why the 'tude?" Wally said as he was eating some popcorn. I rolled my eyes, " Where has humanity gone…" I muttered under my breath. " Yeah, you're the one with the crazy, psychopathic mom and the background of criminal activity and we're the ones with so little humanity, yeah that makes sense… By the way, not all of us are human." Conner said from his spot in the kitchen looking at a sports catalog. I was about to bring up that he had a psychopathic father and was a science experiment, but that could cause some harmful repercussions…. I simply stood and headed for my room. I felt eyes watching me, I turned around they were Robin's he gave me a somewhat sympathetic look… He might actually understand me, but he also didn't know me… I walked into my room.

The intercom suddenly came to life and Batman's voice blared statically, " Team, report to the mission room." I rushed to put on my uniform. I needed to get out of here to think and a mission may be just the way to do it.

I'm sorry it took so long guys, I was really confused with this chapter... I still don't think it's my best work, but I wanted to get it out there for you guys. Catrina is a really confusing character at the moment, but she is a work in progress... Please follow and review! Do you guys like Catrina? I do not own Young Justice... The only thing I own is Catrina and the story I am forming. Follow and Review!

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