Silvia age 7

I'm stuck acting like a giant battery.

My voice is gone, no speaking, just sign language.

I don't know how, but I just know it

A man with white hair broke in and kicked Frost's butt, and took me.

When we got where we were, ne told me he had my siblings, and he showed me two boys.

One of 12 or 13 and another of 5, they were surprised to see me.

"Big sister, run" whispered the small boy.

The teen just looked pale, he was made of green energy, and his eyes were turquoise.

The younger one was in blue jeans and a white tee shirt. His hair was black and purple swirled in. His hair fell down to his back. His eyes are silver with whisks of sky blue.

They both have a metal collar that covers their neck. They are in electric cages that have light blue walls of energy.

I think that I know them.

I don't like them being in there

"Why are they in there?"

"They are my prisoners, they refuse to learn or be, my workers, so this is their fates,

oh

"And you're fate will be my worker until I get this school up and running, understood?"

"Yes sir"

I walked up to a machine, similar to the one I was drained in before.

"Get in it"

I obediently fallowed my orders.

My skin fell back as plasma took over its surface. My energy spiked with the electricity running through my very being. My once short hair grew and became energy.

"Release"

My energy and every emotion I hid for so long escaped its container.

"I can't believe it; she has the same capability as the other one! She'll make an excellent worker, and not even attempting to rebel!"

Why do I not think for myself, or is it why do I obey without another thought?

The boys seemed to be thinking the same thing, just by the look on their faces.

I stopped.

"Why did you-"

I used many complicated hand signs to say, "any more and the system would have exploded, me and tech do not work together."

They blinked.

Does anyone understand sign language?

… I guess not…

Age 8

Frost and Blood seem to be constantly kidnapping me, and Rouge is trying to get in on the action, but it is rather difficult.

Right now I'm with Blood. He's having me stop the Atlantans from looking over here, so I'm stuck using telepathy to get them away or plant the thought in their heads at least.

After my job with that is done, I'm powering the machines and when they're at full power I'm in a cell with the now 6 year old.

He was crying, and for a reason I still can't comprehend, I touched his shoulder. His hair instantly turned white and his bangs mirrored mine.

He threw his arms around my neck and held on to me. I don't know how to react, but I patted his back as he sniffled and cried into my shoulder.

"I-I'm s-so sor-ry b-big s-sis-ter, I-I n-nev-ver sh-should-d've g-gone out l-look-king f-for y- you, b-but I-I w-wan-ted t-to h-have a f-fam-mily a-an-and-" he broke out into fresh sobs.

I have no idea what to do; I've never seen someone cry, well, at least not to my memory anyway…

The older boy of 16 or 17 looked at me, then to the boy.

I don't know if it was his thoughts or if he was speaking. "How pathetic, she doesn't even know how to comfort her own clone. Or even how to react to human contact."

Get away from him, leave him alone, don't hurt the immature jerk, and just concentrate on the younger boy, erm… what's his name?

"I'm Sam, that's Ed" he said gesturing to the plasma boy.

Okay- I signed.

"What's your name, you're here often enough and you never told us."

Okay, why don't I make this easy for them?

I pulled down my shirt just enough to show the I shaped scar under my clavicle. Then I made a C with my hand and made a Y with my body.

"I….C…Y I,C,Y I,C,Y, oh Icy is your name! is that right?"

I nodded my head.

"Why aren't you talking?"

I pointed to my eye, then made a NO by shaking my uncurled pointer finger left and right in a fist then made a mock talking with my hand by making them meet and opening and closing it.

"Eye. No. Talk? Oh! I don't talk, is that it, you can't?"

I nodded again; this is the most conversation that I've participated in, in a long time.

Ed looked over at us.

He signed to me "do you speak sign language?"

I signed back "yup"

He smiled. "She doesn't speak, but she does know sign langue"

"Why can't cha' talk Icy?" asked Sam

I used some complicated hand signs to say "it's complicated"

"She says it's complicated"

"Can ya try to explain it?"

I nodded. "Can you translate?" I signed.

He nodded. "I'll speak for her. Alright go.

"Where I have been raised, you take an apprenticeship with many people, and for some you are not allowed to talk, so they sometimes take away your voice, or if you are in debt, they make you swear to silence and not talk until you have repaid your debt.

"I am indebted to a head priestess apprentice, so I may not speak at all and my voice was sealed into a box that only opens when I am fused with a sprit animal or demon as you call them here. Then they speak for me in my voice, but I gain their personality in return. I am only able to talk with those that know this language also.

"Not many know this language; therefore I can not talk most of the time to other, unless I use normal body language. These are very limited to thumbs up for go for it, thumbs down for do not. Nodding for yes, and shaking my head left to right for no. If there are too many to list or I do not know I must simply shrug."

"Jeez that sucks, did you have any friends"

I stopped.

"… two… Herald and Jericho… or Harry and Jerry for short, they always hated it when I called them that… I haven't seen them since Jerry's mom died… Harry didn't talk much and Jerry couldn't like me but could read lips. We don't speak or sign anymore… I haven't seen them since I was taken to this world…"

"I'm sorry big sister! I didn't know…"

I guess I looked pretty upset, because even Ed showed some concern.

"How did you two get here?"

"I was kidnapped, and Sam was here before me, that's as far as I know."

Oh…

Age 9

Nothing much, just going in between kidnappings. I'm still with Blood. Ed, Sam and me are a lot closer than before.

Age 10

Frost has me in a hallowed fake machine. We recently learned that me plus real machines equals dangerous and explosion, so now I get to go into battle.

I am in a fake machine that's supposed to put Gotham into a new ice age…

He clicked the fake buttons that I knew meant start up in 5…4…3…2…1…0

I closed my eyes and willed the winds and snow to fall along with a constant dropping temperature.

Some guy tried to reverse it, and I heard a battle going on outside. I dared to look out, my silver skin and blue bangs making me a sore thumb.

A boy in a mask and speedo saw me… but a speedo … seriously, if their goal is to make me fall with a roar of laughter, then they succeed.

Unfortunately he broke the "machine" when it eventually fell.

After the police came and left, with Frost in it, Speedo birdbrain came back.

"Come on, we're getting you out of here." He said as he put his arm on the opening, trying to find me. I fell back as far as I could, thankfully he couldn't reach me.

"Robin, what are you doing?" asked a famine voice

"Hey, Bat Girl, do you think you could get this girl out of here?" said Robin

"Wait, there's someone in there?" said a famine voice I'm guessing is Bat Girl.

"Yea, hey kid, don't you want to get out of there?" asked Robin.

I glared at the opening and shot an icy wind at him.

"Ouch," he murmured.

"She obviously doesn't want to come. Leave her."

I felt slightly relieved.

"Wait, maybe she thinks Frost is the good guy, and we're the bad guys, or maybe she can't hear- we have to at least get her out of there, please?" said Bat Girl and Robin

"…"

Please just go.

A masked famine face came over the opening. I saw some red hair escaping the mask.

"Come on guys, she's only a little girl, I think she's scared"

"She shot down Robin,"

I let a blue glow cover my body and my eyes glowed silver as a warning.

"Can you talk?"

I looked at her glowing brighter.

"Bat Girl," said Robin

I began to glow even brighter.

The face disappeared, probably tackled down by Robin.

My glow faded. I a wave of fatigue washed over me. My body felt like it was on fire. My vision began to blur. I started to fall down, and Bat Girl was looking at me again.

"Guys, she's fainting!" said her voice quickly and alert.

Her arm reached down to me as I fell to the side, another arm grabbed me as I blacked out.

When I awoke they were identifying me.

"Her name is Joan Hope James. Her father is in a coma and her mother died giving birth to her. Her older brother was in foster care and was kidnapped a few years ago. Her sister and she ran away at 2 and a half, Joan was believed to be dead. Dr. Leo Scar found and experimented on them, and neither found a good path. I am assuming they both got away, and Jenifer, her sister, is Jinx Hex or Jenny Smith, ran away again at 7 and I believe is working with Joker as one of his new clowns. I wish I had better news, but it seems Frost must have found her somewhere along the lines and decided that her "abilities"-"

"-Her powers-" said Bat Girl.

"-yes call it what you wish, it caught his eyes, and he took her in, I'm guessing that she was kidnapped, again and for the past few years with little to none human contact, so she may be alarmed by touch itself or new people, judging by what you said her reaction was to you trying to help her before she fainted, she must not have seen anyone new in only god knows how long. She can hear, from what I can tell, but not talk or chooses not to."

I opened my eyes, and saw a girl with red hair and green eyes talking to an old man. A boy with black hair and green eyes accompanied her, along with a tall man with black hair and blue eyes.

I looked at them, and fear came over me, they're not going to let me go, and I won't see Sam or Ed, most likely ever again!

I shot up, feeling really dizzy, but swung out of the bed, ad grateful that they didn't take me out of my light blue and silver stripped leggings, purple sweat shirt with blue lightning bolt pattern sweat shirt and black mini skirt.

I tried walking and felt even dizzier, but I had to get out of here. They would just use me, or test on me or hurt me, that's all anyone ever did to me, well with Sam, Ed, Herald and Jericho as the exception.

I saw a window, and made a break for it, but my dizziness got even worse. I leaned against the landing they left there and looked out the window, and saw normal people, the people that I have been told do not accept people like me, people with powers, or anyone truly, they just are waiting for my kind and their own kind to mess up so that they can ridicule and make fun of us for not conforming to their rules, expectations and way. They looked happy and kind of scared at the same time.

I panted from fatigue trying to take over my body again.

"Can we see her, she must not even know about decent people yet, plus I think she could use a friend," said Bat Girl.

"She needs a family, and the one she has, well to say it's good is a lie. Her closet family, form her files that is, is her sister, and she won't trust you, she's seen a lot of pain from her files, so she won't be able to return your-"

"I'm going in there, she should be up by now, she's a fast healer, I've seen it, she got cut on her way out, and in seconds her cut was gone, completely," Said Robin.

Why do they even want to be near me? I'm the enemy, they must think I'm a helpless creature and be taking pity on me.

Anger spiked in me at that thought.

I open the window, and was met by a strong wind.

A storm was brewing outside, and I was furious, so I willed it to flash lightning, and close.

The red head opened the door, and looked at me with the window open, and I kicked out the screen. Her eyes widened and I hopped on the window sill, and let myself glow again, the red head, grabbed my arm and pulled me in, just as I was sent somewhere else by the lightning as it struck me and her.

In seconds I was flying off, into the ocean, to the floor and into the hive building.

I refuse to have to deal with this anymore. I grabbed my brothers, and focused my energy around their collars. The collars fell to the ground, and I then noticed that the red head teenage girl was with us, looking really shaken up. Okay, so now I have to port 3 people!

I signed "can you teleport by any chance?" to Ed.

"yea, why?"

I signed to him, "can you take Sam and I take Red and fallow me?"

Ed nodded. He grabbed Sam, I grabbed the red head.

"Wait- what are you-" she was cut off by me teleporting us back to that monstrous building, in the room I was in before.

The boy in black hair along with the man in black hair and doctor gawked as I reappeared in a flash of lightning with the red head, a boy made of green plasma, a pale boy with silver hair and light blue to violet bangs and fell back on my own, with Ed to catch me.

After I got back up, I signed "thank you" to Ed.

"No problem Icy"

"So that's what you go by?" asked the old man. I got a good look at him, and he's African American with silver hair and balding on his head. He has on spectacles and has bright green eyes. He has a stubble beard on his chin and a patchy mustache. His hair is graying from silver.

I stayed silent, and didn't respond to him.

"Big sister doesn't talk to strangers, or sign is it?" asked/explained Sam.

"What was that?" asked the talk dark haired man.

"Barbara, are you okay?" asked the boy.

"Yea, I'm fine Dick," replied Barbara.

I stayed silent.

"Big sister, who are these people?" asked Sam.

I shrugged.

Ed looked at me and signed, "Why did you have me port Sam and me here?"

I signed back, "She belongs with them, I don't think it's a good idea to have her fallowing us around, so give it a few minutes for me to recharge, okay?"

He nodded.

"What are they doing?" asked Greg.

"Big sister can't talk at all, but she can hear just fine, so she and big brother sign to each other, and when he feels like talking, he translates for me."

"So they're talking?"

"Ah-huh," said Sam. He looked outside, and his eyes widened. "What's that!" he said in reference to the snow falling.

"That's snow, haven't you ever seen it before?"

"I've never been out of the cage before big sister got me and big brother out today"

"Really?"

"Yup"

"Where is this cage of yours?"

"In a building underwater"

Everyone's eyes but Ed's Sam's and mine widened.

"Can we go now Icy?"

I nodded, gaining my strength again.

"Wait, where will you guys go?"

I shrugged, not caring as long as we got out of here, and soon along with Frost and Blood not finding us.

In seconds my fear was realized.

Gotham prison is losing its touch or the guards are getting more idiotic, that's a record break out time for Frost.

Frost looked at me and my brothers grabbed us and ordered, "port us out, now!"

I nodded, my brothers understood just as well as me if we didn't do as he says I die.

I closed my eyes as they lit up and let us out.