A Month Later
Tori collapsed on her bed, taking the time to finally relax. After an intense training session and a long shower she was beat. Laura really did not take it easy when training. She made the Latina block every attack she could dish out and did not go easy on her. Laura's claws tore through ice walls and fire didn't phase her. She did find flying worked against Laura, for the first few minutes at least.
Laura had been more help to Jade in pure honesty. Even though Jade didn't have claws on her feet she could still use most of the techniques with a bit of adjusting. Though they didn't bond at all. Tori was surprised that Laura was the one attempting to get to know Jade, even if Tori could tell she was hesitant to do so.
But overall they were all getting better and were even starting to work better as a team. They still didn't have a name for the team but that didn't matter. They didn't fight anyone but Robbie and his goons it seemed. They had a few run ins with the group but they weren't able to keep them down and sent to prison. To make matters worse, for Jade at least, Rachel still hadn't said anything to Jade at all. Unless you count the banshee screams.
Robbie continued to "steal" ideas from other heroes and copied a few suits for his team. Whether it was their idea or his Robbie fixed up Hayley and Tara with suits that were similar to Emma Frost's, a cape, an armored bra and long pants with knee high boots. He made improvements to Ponnie's suit so now she was up to par with Cat. For Rachel, Robbie took a page from the X-Men's book and put her in a suit designed like Banshee's. He even gave her the wings on the back so using her supersonic scream she could fly.
Laura had not joined them in fighting Robbie yet. They wanted to keep her a surprise. Robbie was planning something, but no one exactly knew what it was yet.
A knock on the door broke her from her thoughts. "It's open."
Laura walked in and shut the door behind her. "I need to talk to you."
"You're not going to flirt with me are you?" Tori questioned. "Or make me do more training?"
Laura rolled her eyes, "I'm already torn between two of my friends I don't need a third."
"Sorry poor joke I guess. What's up?"
Laura walked over to the bed and stood next to it as Tori sat up. "Jade hates me."
"She doesn't hate you." Tori interjected quickly. "She just..she lost a lot of her family recently and she's probably scared to let anymore in."
"I've lost family too. I'm not good with other people and emotions. Pixie keeps telling me I need to work on this. If I have a sister then I want to get to know her. I was hoping you could tell me what to do, being her girlfriend and all."
Tori blushed as she stuttered, "I-uh I'm not her girlfriend."
Laura looked confused at that, "You're not? But you're always looking at each other and the other day you were making out."
"I know..we just...haven't talked about it."
"You can still help me though right?"
Tori sighed, "I don't know. Jade's...she's not a talker. She doesn't talk about how she feels. You should probably just give her some time. Don't give up either. I think she wants to know her family too, she just doesn't want to lose anyone else. Maybe it's why she won't talk to me about us."
Laura nodded. "I think I understand. There's also something you should know. I'm not sure how to bring it up with Jade but there is something strange about her claws."
"What do you mean?" Tori asked curiously.
"Well." Laura paused for a moment. "I've been stabbed by adamantium claws before. Wolverine doesn't go easy on anyone when he trains them and his daughter is no exception. Daken made me fight to the death with him. I don't hold back with Jade because the only thing that can stop her healing factor is the Muramasa blade. We stab each other and her claws do not feel like adamantium."
"You're saying Jade's claws aren't coated in adamantium."
"I don't think so, no. However, it isn't a normal metal because I've tested this. She can cut through everything I put in front of her."
"It doesn't sound like it's much of a problem then." Tori said.
"Robbie told you all he coated them in adamantium. That's a lie and since he is your bad guy he may have done something dangerous."
"You have a point there…"
"There's a lot of drama here." Laura said.
"Indeed. I guess we can check out Robbie's old lab but I doubt his equipment is in there. He probably took it all with him."
"I'll go look. Jade's on her way here. You should talk to her."
"How do you know that?"
Laura tapped her nose. "I can track people. Tell her how you feel. Good luck." With that Laura slipped out the door.
Not a minute later Jade walked in drenched in sweat and already stripping. Tori's eyes widened, "Jade, what are you doing?"
Jade threw her shirt in the corner, "Tori? Oh didn't know you were in here. I'm heading to the shower."
"You're getting naked though."
Jade chuckled, "Not like you haven't seen it before."
Tori blushed again. "Speaking of that...can we talk?"
"Can you wait till I shower?"
"I can talk while you shower."
Jade shrugged as she headed into the bathroom. "Okay then."
As Jade turned the water on and got a towel and a change of clothes Tori leaned sat on the counter. The Goth finished stripping and jumped in the shower. "What's going on?"
"I wanted to talk about us." Tori said slowly.
"Okay.." Jade said unsure.
"What are we?"
"I.." Jade paused lathering up her hair. "I'm not sure." She continued washing her hair.
Tori frowned. "What do you want?"
"I don't know. Why are you suddenly bringing this up?"
"I've always wanted to talk about this but something's always coming up. I'm just going to come out with it Jade. I love you."
Jade gasped. "You...what?"
"I love you. I want to be your girlfriend." It really bothered Tori that she couldn't see Jade's reaction.
She could hear the hesitation in Jade's voice though. "I don't know about that Tori. I mean I saw you get shot last month that scared the hell out of me. I thought you were gone. If we're going to be going around being heroes then bad things could happen to you or me and I don't want that to happen."
"Then we'll just make sure it doesn't happen okay? I know it's dangerous but even if we weren't doing this it would still be dangerous. You never know what life will do to you. Just give us a chance. Please?"
There was silence for minutes and it was making the Latina nervous. The shower stopped running and Jade stepped out, wrapping the towel around herself. She took a breath then looked at Tori. "Okay. We'll give it a chance."
Tori's smile covered her face. "Really?"
Jade nodded. "Yes."
Tori squealed happily and kissed her. Jade happily returned it.
Cat sat on her patio chair looking across the backyard. It seemed like too much room for just one person really. The pool and hot tub took up some room but there was still a lot of empty space. It's not like she couldn't afford to live here anymore, she had her own money and the house was paid off to start with. She wasn't in financial danger.
"Hey, Cat." She looked over her shoulder to see Andre walking towards her. "Can we talk?"
"What about?"
Andre took the seat next to her. "Us. You. Ever since the divorce you've been distant."
"Look, Andre, I just needed some time to think about things." Cat sighed softly.
"I'm not upset if that's what you're thinking."
Cat blinked in surprise. "You're not?"
Andre shook his head. "Nah. I didn't think we'd be the marrying type. I thought you and Robbie would've worked it out honestly."
"I don't think that would've happened with or without you. It was just a bad relationship."
Andre nodded. "But your still taking it hard."
"Well...he did turn out to be evil and it was kind of my fault."
"Now that's not true." Andre shook his head, rubbing her shoulder. "He was like that to start with. Remember all the volunteer's that died while he was experimenting? A good man wouldn't not care about that."
"But that doesn't mean he would've tried to take over the world."
Andre raised an eyebrow. "He's trying to take over the world?"
"I think so. I've been thinking...what if he's controlling Rachel somehow?"
"How would he do that?"
"Maybe that speaker that's on her neck? I don't know."
"Right now there's no proof he's trying to take over the world. But he is planning something. But we'll stop him and save Rachel and the city. Right?"
Cat nodded. "Right."
"So, are we good?"
"Yeah. We're good."
"Good. I didn't like not talking to you."
Cat smiled. "Lay out here with me. We can talk."
"Sounds good to me." Andre grinned, getting comfortable.
A/N So, four things. First, about this chapter: It's a bit filler and a bit of needed talks. I probably could have put more in the chapter but I didn't want to get into the next part in my head just yet. That's next chapter.
Second, for Tori's powers I wanted to explain a bit. I gave her this power because in the show Tori's shown to be good at multiple things. I thought the power fit perfectly. I don't believe she's overpowered because her drawback is her copied powers aren't as strong as the original.
Thirdly, these people need codenames. As you see I have one for Andre and Cat. I'm going to just use Beck's name as his code name, because Thor and Loki don't have codenames...that I know of, and I have a plan for Jade so I really only need one for Tori and Rachel. And the team name. If you have an idea for it let me know, but please don't steal codenames that's already existing (i.e. Avengers) and don't put a name in front of the existing name to make it different (like West Side Avengers or something). And I know the quickest name for Tori is copycat but I don't like that one that much.
Last, I'm thinking of expanding this universe, when I complete this story, into more TV Shows and such. So, if you have a character or show you'd like to see incorporated in the universe lemme know. Well just let me know if you even want an expansion of the universe. I've already got Victorious, Glee, and iCarly included in the story, but I wouldn't mind exploring other characters (Carly, Freddie, Santana, Quinn). I currently have no other ideas so nothings set in stone yet.