Hello! This is Number Eleven is my OC! Espy and I are writing an SYOC story (as all of you know)! We don't own YJ, and I agreed to write the first chapter! Thank you for reading!
We hope you enjoy!
Ashley stretched her arms above her head before lying down on her mattress. She looked around at her team. Her best friend Rebecca was turned towards the rough wall of the cave. Jack was staring at the ceiling and Kenely was polishing her sword sitting up on her mattress. Everyone else was sleeping, except Bart Allen and Damian Wayne. Bart was vibrating in his bed, proof that he wasn't sleeping.
Damian was staring at the bat-computer. As he did for incredibly long amounts of time every night, looking for his two brothers who were still alive. He almost never slept.
Rebecca was shaking slightly, as if crying. Ashley knew exactly why.
Tomorrow was the anniversary.
She always acted like this on the day before the anniversary. And she would take the day off tomorrow. Green would end up picking up the slack. She loved fighting. They would just have to hope they didn't run into Arc. If they did, she would probably end up killing him without someone to hold her back. Kenely and Rebecca were probably the only people who could hold her back.
Ashley would have gotten up to comfort Rebecca, but she knew not to draw attention to it in front of everyone. Rebecca didn't want her teammates seeing her as weak.
Ashley slid under the thin blanket on the stiff mattress. It was freezing in the Bat-Cave, but all they had managed to get was these thin blankets that did almost nothing to keep them warm. And some people had to sleep in sleeping bags or just on top of blankets.
"Damian Wayne, stop playing with your odd device and go to bed." Kenely said, setting her sword to the side.
"No, Nash. I do not take orders from you." Damian replied, staying focussed on the screen.
"If you wish to find Jason Todd and Tim Drake, maybe you should go find them without the use of your 'technology.'" Kenely replied snarkily.
Damian didn't reply, he went back to his computer screen like Kenely hadn't interrupted him.
Kenely slipped under the blanket and turned away from the computers.
Ashley smiled slightly, the scar on her back was starting to ache again.
Rebecca woke up with water covering her face. She had had the dream again. She always woke up crying on the anniversary.
She curled herself into a ball and hugged her knees. She let herself cry. This was the one day of the year when she didn't care if anyone saw her cry.
Today her uncle Damian would be leading the team, and Green and Kenely would be kicking twice as much ass each.
"Hey, Becky? Are you okay?" Ashley came up behind her and placed a hand on her left arm, right over the Batgirl Tattoo.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Rebecca replied, knowing Ashley would be able to tell she was lying.
"Okay." Ashley replied before walking away.
Lily tossed Ashley two breakfast bars. Ashley put one of the bars in front of Rebecca before tearing the wrapper off her own and eating it. She was almost always hungry, but didn't often eat.
Corey grabbed one of the bars from his sister's hand, who smiled at him sarcastically.
Ashley felt an instant wav of envy hit her. That's how Misty had looked at her when they were on the run. When they would share a playful moment even when their world was so bleak.
She sat on one of the couches they had dragged down from the mansion. Green was sitting next to her, cleaning one of her knives.
"Who's patrolling first?" Green asked.
"I'll go." Ashley replied, finishing her breakfast bar.
"Okay." Lily replied.
Ashley stood as the blue beetle armor began to encase her.
She walked to the zeta tube and stepped through.
"Blue Beetle 04" The robotic voice declared as she stepped through.
She stepped out of the only other zeta tube that hadn't been destroyed. The one that had been in the cave. They hadn't been careful when they destroyed the cave for a second time. They left the zeta tubes and part of that room intact by accident. It was pure luck.
"Take off the armor Scarab" She told it. It obeyed and she snuck out of the rubble of the mountain into the almost rubble of what was once called Happy Harbor.
Now it was hardly happy.
She walked down the street, seeing platy of dirty looking people lying on the street. There were plenty of clean people she could see in the few apartment buildings left standing. No doubt supporters of the Reach. People the Reach had hand selected to live like kings while everyone else slept in the dirt.
She could see the school just ahead of her, where many members of the Young Justice team had gone to school before everything went to hell. Bart had gone there. Corey and Lily's mom had gone there too.
It was destroyed, the ceilings were caved in, the walls were crumbling, and a few of the buildings had fallen down. But some were still standing, as if declaring that they would not give up, no matter what.
Okay, the first chapter was a little centered around Ashley, but it won't be like that for the whole story. Everyone who got in will have a chance to shine! Don't worry about that!
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