Hey so I have a small problem, I'm creating way too many Young Justice ocs, it's like OC Overdose. Anyway, in this chapter you'll meet another one of my six (for now) ocs So I don't own Young Justice.
Robin
I had to admit I was surprised when Dice pulled down her hood. She went to my school. I would recognize that short dyed purple hair and large pink eyes anywhere.
"You know her, don't you?" Batman asked me as we headed for the batcave.
I nodded. "Yeah, she's Alice O'Malley. She goes to Gotham Academy." I answered.
"Did you know she had powers?" I shook my head. Honestly besides Maggie Alice mostly kept to herself. Everyone was shocked when the two Irish girls had started hanging out. They were almost instant friends, each drawing the other out of their introvert shells.
"No, but if anyone knew about them it would be Maggie O'Hara, Alice's best friend. I'm pretty sure they talk about everything." I replied. In fact, I was almost positive Maggie knew about Alice's powers. It wasn't unusual to see them heads together bent over a pair of dice. They said they were doing an experiment on probability, but now that I knew Alice's powers revolved around dice I realized she was probably showing Maggie her abilities.
"When school starts, I want you to investigate the pair. For now, just try and get close to Alice. See if you can find out why Poison Ivy wants her and if it's for her powers." I nodded.
Gotham City
July 8th 7:15 EST
I entered the apartment building Alice lived in. I felt a little guilty for hacking into her school records to find her address, but Batman wanted me to get close to Alice and I figured traveling with her to the meeting with the others might be a good start. Alice lived in apartment 3G, three stories up, third door on the left.
I was about to knock when I heard voices from inside. "Damn it Maggie!" I heard Alice shout. It was unusual to hear her raise her voice. "Why did this have to happen?" She continued. Her voice was lower, but I could still hear her.
"I would say canon, but you and I were never part of canon to begin with." The slightly familiar voice of Maggie O'Hara said muffled by the door.
"Very funny Maggie, I'm serious." Alice exclaimed her voice rising in volume again.
"So was I." Maggie stated simply. There was a sigh.
"I know. I'm sorry Mags. I just… I have to protect Charlie at all costs, but…" Alice trailed off as if she didn't want to say.
I decided I might as well knock then instead of spending the entire day eavesdropping. I knocked. I was surprised that the person who opened the door was neither Alice nor Maggie, but a little girl with brown eyes and shoulder length blue hair. She was small perhaps eight or nine. Her eyes narrowed at the sight of me.
"Whatever you want go away." She growled.
"Charlie." Maggie said with a laugh as she and Alice walked up behind her. So, the little girl was the one Alice had to protect.
Maggie and Alice caught sight of me. Maggie's eyes filled with recognition and possibly a bit of envy and Alice's eyes filled with fear and anger. "Can you watch Charlie for me Maggie?" Alice asked turning to her friend who only nodded. "Thanks, I'll be back shortly." She continued before grabbing me by the front of my hoodie and dragging me behind her.
We were outside the apartment building before she stopped. She let go of me, but I could tell she was furious. "You shouldn't have come here!" She shouted crossing her arms. Her long nails dug into her bare arms.
"Why not?" I asked confused. This seemed to make her angrier, but after a moment she deflated.
"Nothing, it's just not smart for you to be around here. Why are you here anyway?" She continued. Now that her anger was gone she was confused.
"Well there's a meeting today and like you said the other day you don't have any ties to the Leaguers so I've come to escort you." I told her.
"Alice looked away and huffed out a breath before running a hand through her purple hair. "Alright, just promise me something, will you?" She asked turning back to me. There was something in her eyes I couldn't read.
"What?" I asked unsure what she was getting at.
"Stay away from the apartment." I didn't get it, but I promised her. After that she relaxed a bit. We headed for the zetatube entrance where Batman was waiting.
"You know we need to get you a costume." I said as I looked at her outfit. She wore black jeans, like she had on July fourth, however her orange hoodie was replaced by a black vest, and a green tank top. What surprised me was the spiked choker and Batman symbol necklace that hung around her neck. She also had on black rimmed glasses.
"Oh, and where'd this particular subject come from?" She asked taking her dice out of her pocket.
"Well you don't want people to know your secret identity." I pointed out as Alice switched her dice from hand to hand. She shrugged.
"If you say so." She agreed, she agreed way too easily it was as if she was distracted.
"Alright if you're willing to answer questions, what are your powers?" I prodded.
Alice sighed. "My powers deal with numbers, that's why they're tied to dice, but I don't need to use the same set of dice each time. Each number is set a specific value or power." She answered skywards as if she had her own questions and thought that the sky held the answers she sought.
"Is that what you meant by number nine photokinesis?" I wondered. She nodded.
"Are you able to use all twelve numbers?"
"Yeah, that why my eyes are weird. When someone with a tie to numbers unlocks them all something about their physical being changes. A kind of badge of adulthood I suppose." She muttered with a shake of her head.
"Wait if you have two dice how do you roll a number one?"
"I don't. Number one Telekinesis due to the low probability of rolling a one is set as my base power which means that as long as I'm not using another number I can use it." She explained.
"You're late." Batman announced as we reached the entrance to the zetatubes.
"Dude you sound like my sister." Alice exclaimed.
"Sister?" Batman asked not sounding particularly interest, but I knew of course he wanted as much information on Alice as he could get.
"Yes, as you well know. From the way I see it, Boy Wonder here recognized me the other day. Most likely meaning he goes to Gotham Academy and he hacked my school file to get my address though I haven't the faintest clue why. But back on the subject my school records clearly show Charlotte O'Malley to be my little sister." Alice rapid fired a scowl taking root on her face.
"We should go to the meeting." I said quickly trying to change the subject.
Maggie
"When is Alice coming home?" Charlie asked me as she proceeded to take apart the computer in front of her. We were in my apartment across the hall from the one Charlie shared with Alice with their despicable mother figure. Auntie Pamela, she was an entity of evil, but I tried hard not to say anything in front of Charlie.
I sighed. Sometimes I hated the fact I knew so much. Unlike Charlie and Alice I hadn't grown up in Gotham in fact I hadn't even grown up in this world. I'd grown up in a world where Batman was just a franchise, comic books, movies, cartoons, heck the dude even had his own roller coaster where I came from. The only reason I was here was because of a stupid shooting star, but because of that shooting star you are able to read this fanfiction which I convinced Alice and the rest of them to write. "Ah-hem." Charlie said loudly.
"I don't know Charlie, but she shouldn't be long." I answered with another sigh. Charlie wasn't always bratty however the "incident", as Alice referred to it and living with Auntie Pamela had scarred Charlie, hardening her until almost all she knew was being a brat. Charlie growled in frustration and went back to taking apart the computer.
My phone rang. It was Alice. "Hey." I said unsure if I wanted to alert Charlie to her sister's call or not.
"Hey Maggie. I just wanted to check in. Charlie's been edgy since my late night fourth of July excursion." Alice said. She sounded a bit on edge herself.
"Are you alright?" I questioned her, a second question already readied on my tongue.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Alice said carefully. She was trying to hide her complicated psyche from her voice. Unfortunately, I knew her too well. My second question catapulted from my lips.
"What happened?" Charlie was turned to me taking great interest in the one side of the conversation she could hear. She squinted at the phone and in the next second the phone was on speaker.
"Nothing happened Maggie." Alice tried to lie however there was a slight tremor in her voice.
"Alice sweetheart. You can tell me." I told her sweetly, attempting to coax her out of her shell.
"It's nothing. I'm just… confused." She whispered as if too afraid to truly admit this out loud.
