I was awoken by the sound of a rooster. A rooster? Since when did mum and dad get a rooster? I sat up rubbing my eyes as they adjusted to the bright light. As they settled and I looked the room over I was reminded that I wasn't home. As I searched the room I found a familiar green boy in the doorway.

"Remind not to sleep with you if that's gonna be the wakeup call I get." I mumbled getting up. He even turned the lights on. I walked towards the doorway, heading out. "You suck."

"I'm pretty sure that's a woman's job." He replied with a toothy grin.

"Yep, like your mum." I countered as I kept my pace through the halls with him following.

"Maybe she would if Queen Bee hadn't killed her." Gar said solemnly. Really, is every joke I make gonna strike a nerve.

"That's a shame I would've liked to meet the woman that gave birth to a green kid. What was your dad?" I asked trying to lighten the mood a bit.

"He was human. I wasn't always green." We walked the rest of the way in silence until we reached Batman at the centre of a bunch of computers.

"Teagan Cerinson I presume. I've done a complete background check on you and your family. You yourself have nothing to hide. Your family however did. You." He glanced to Gar standing behind me. Did he call me Teagan Cerinson? "Beast Boy why don't you join the others."

I watched as he reluctantly left me alone with Batman. "So what do you mean?"

"It means Teagan that you weren't always known as Teagan Mathews. Your 'parents' kidnapped you from a hospital. You possessed something their superiors were after. Your brother Riley is another kid like you. According to the databases I hacked in the facility you were in detected something in him." Batman began explaining.

"Stop saying 'something' and tell me what they found!" I interrupted.

"It wasn't specified. The facility was apparently working with an ally of the couple that kidnapped you and Riley. Once you two, their assets had escaped, they decided to bring you in." He paused bringing up a scan of what looked to be me. "They didn't find what they were looking for in you and they put you in project Scarab. Something luckily started a fire bringing this organisation onto our radar. We're still investigating."

"Wow, so they weren't my parents? Who are my parents then?" I asked. He brought up a picture of a man and a woman with the word deceased below.

"Your mother regrettably is dead. Your father went a little crazy after her death and your kidnap. He is now in a cell in Arkham Asylum. Sorry if they were not the dream family you were hoping for." he closed all the holographic computers surrounding us and walked me over to a bunch of weird tunnels.

"These are Zeta-Beam platforms, we use them to transport ourselves long distance in an instant. Given you are still new I will not be allowing you access to the Watchtower yet." What's the watchtower? Batman continued to type in something to wager I assumed was a control panel for the Zeta Tubes.

"Authorised, 02 Batman, B30 Cochineal." A female voice announced. I get that he's batman but how'd he know what code name I wanted?

"Kid Flash told me." Now that's just creepy. Not that Bart told him but the fact he knew what I was asking myself. "Don't look so shocked, reading people is quite easy for someone like me."

"Really? I thought it was easy for Martians." He smiled slightly for a second.

"So does that mean I'm on the team? Because that'd be awesome." I looked up at him shyly.

"Yes you're on the team. Kaldur had a look over your file with me. He approves of you. You'll start training with Black Canary this afternoon. For now, let's introduce you to the team." We kept walking, silently until he spoke again. "You're taking this remarkably well considering the circumstances."

"I'm not really surprised. They always seemed cold, indifferent towards me. M-my parents I mean." I looked to the floor, following his lead. "I've always wanted something better. I feel like I've found it. This is probably the best day of my life."

"Trust me, it always seems that way." He replied, but there was something behind what he said. Something pained.

"So this is the new girl. Doesn't look very fierce, what can she do?" A weird looking green fish-man said crossing his arms.

"Probably something better than what you can do pufferfish. After all, we can't all have lame powers like yours." A ginger girl with dark glasses said as she flipped and escrima stick around in her hand. She smiled, probably happy to see another girl on the team close to her age. Everyone else looked at least five years older.

"I'm Teagan Cerinson. I'm kinda like Blue Beetle." I let the suit morph over me. I feel like I'm getting the hang of this.

"Cool. A girl Beetle. I'm Batbrat. My dad use to run this team. You heard of Nightwing?" I nodded and the suit morphed back.

"I'm La'gaan. I'm from Atlantis." I thought they still looked like humans, but with gills. What, did this guy mutate or something?

"Of course you've already met Garfield, Jaime and Bart. The one facing the other way is-"

"Not sure why he had to be here." The boy interrupted sounding very annoyed. Barbrat hit him over the head with her escrima stick.

"Be nice demon spawn." She looked back to me. "Sorry, Robin's like me and hates people."

"Moving on, we have Batgirl, Red Robin, Artemis, Roy," Each of them waved as he introduced them, Batman obviously trying to speed things up. "Kaldur, Conner, Megan and Wolf."

I raised my eyebrow at him as he introduced the large white wolf. "Really? The dog gets introduced. What next, the motorcycle?"

"Her name's Sphere." Conner, or I knew him as Superboy answered.

"You're kidding, right?" I blurted out, looking at him like the weirdo he was.

"Sadly no. You see after you're on this team for as long as he's been you go a little crazy." Batbrat remarked circling her index finger around the space near her ear to sign that he was a nutcase.

"You know Sphere is an artificial intelligence from another universe. Stop trying to act cool." Superboy, because that's what I'm gonna keep calling him, reprimanded.

"Stop trying to act like you're older than me. I'm four years older." Wait, wouldn't that make him like ten? Batman cleared his throat load enough to halt their squabbling.

"Someone needs to take Teagan shopping. Batbrat that means you." Batman ordered.

"Alright but I'm taking your credit card and I'm warning you, I'm going to Typo. I'm not spending below a hundred bucks." She said getting up and leading me towards the Zeta-beam platforms.

~Batbrat, B28. Cochineal, B30. ~

"Don't take forever. I know what you're like once you enter Typo!" Batman yelled out before we were teleported out of the cave.