Moving Day

Twelve years later, Kori and Richard were packing while Mari was at school.

"You know she is really mad at you, right?" Kori asked Richard while helping him pack pictures and other objects from his office at Wayne Manor. Richard and Kori decided to live at the manor because they were often away, and it was nice to have Alfred watch over their kids when they were gone.

"Yes, I know that. But look on the bright side; I was transferred over to Jump City," Dick replied, while doing some last minute packing.

"Here, Mommy," their youngest son, Ryan, said handing his mother a book that looked bigger than him. He was not moving with the rest of his family, he was staying with his grandfather.

Thank you, sweetheart," Kori said, grabbing the book out of his little five year old hands. She kissed him on the forehead. "When is Mari getting home, Richard?"

"I don't know, soon I think. It is three but she had to clean her school locker out and will probably have a heavy backpack, so she'll be a little slower," Dick said, not looking up from packing.

"MOM! DAD! IVY, CAM, AND I ARE HOME… for the last time," was heard from the front door. Both Kori and Dick giggled; they could picture Alfred's face when she started to yell. Ryan ran downstairs to see his older sister and her friends, Ivy Crawford and Cam Rodriguez.

"Shall we go down to see what the kids are doing?" Richard asked, offering a hand to help Kori up off the floor. They both walked down the stairs to hear laughing from the kitchen. When they walked in, Mari, Ryan, Cam, and Ivy were laughing with Alfred while eating his famous double chocolate chip peanut butter cookies.

"Man, I wish Baile was here to be with us on your last day," Cam said with her very thick Spanish accent, before biting down on a cookie.

"Yeah, too bad she had cheerleading practice. I really hate the cheerleaders here," Ivy said after dunking her cookies into some soy milk, she was a vegetarian.

"You mean you actually liked the cheerleaders at your old school?" Mari asked, her little brother sitting in her lap. As soon as she saw her parents walk in, the mood changed. "Why do we have to move? Or better yet, you two can move two Jump City and I can stay here with Ryan and Grandpa," Mari tried; it was the third time she had asked the question that day.

"Because Ryan is too young to move and we thought it would be nice for him to stay here," Kori said "and before you start, we think it will be good for you to go Jump and get new experiences" she added, seeing her daughter's mouth open to complain. "I'm sorry sweetheart, I really am," she said. "So did you say goodbye to all of your friends?"

"Yeah. They even gave me presents! Let's see… Peter gave me a framed photo of all of us at the park last week and Balie gave me a cool address book with all my friends' numbers in it. Not that I don't already have them, but you never know. Wait a minute… You tow haven't given me any going away presents," Mari said to Ivy and Cam, giving them a look that said "well, where is my gift?"

"We made you a special bracelet. Here, and don't ever give us that look again," Cam said, handing her a bracelet made with her favorite colors: blue, purple, black, and orange. "Mom helped us with the pattern," Cam said. Mari looked at the bracelet. She got up (forcing Ryan to move), went over to Cam and Ivy, and gave them a big hug.

"I'm really going to miss you guys," she said, almost crying.

"Aww man, I have to go or I'm going to be late getting home. My dad is going to mad if I'm late again! Bye Mari… I don't want to leave you." Ivy said, her eyes watering at the last part.

"I have to leave too," Cam said. "What time are you leaving tomorrow?" she asked while getting her coat on.

"Really early. We're driving all the way there 'cause of the fear Mom and I have about airplanes," Mari replied, looking down.

While this was going on, Kori and Dick were looking at a map, trying to figure out their route to Jump City and where they were going to stay; it took two days to get to Jump by car. All of a sudden, a barking was heard. Titan, the Graysons' dog, came running down to see Cam and Ivy to the door. He was going too, mostly because he was really Mari's dog "Titan, come!" Mari shouted before Titan went running into the kitchen.

"Bye, we'll miss you a lot," Cam and Ivy both said as they walked out the front door. Mari closed it and went up to her room with Titan at her heels.

"I'm going up to do some last minute packing," Mari said to her parents as she passed the kitchen. "Titan, this is going to be terrible. Nothing exciting ever happens in Jump City."

Little did she know, a lot was going to happen at Jump City.