A strange craft appeared outside the cave and opened its door, lowering down a ramp. The Team ran inside leaving the feline shifting girl standing alone in the only thing she knew. Alice was unsure now, should she really go and find her mother? Or would it be easier to stay in the safety of the forest she called home?

"You coming?" Kid Flash asked standing at the foot of the ramp.

Taking another heartbeat Alice raced for the open door feeling one last drop of rain splash her scalp.

"What is this?" Alice asked trying to see very new thing at once.

"M'gann, can you make another seat?" Robin asked.

"Of course!" A seat formed itself beside Alice and she gave a small jump back.

"Don't worry, the Bioship won't hurt," M'gann smiled taking the chair on a platform. "Unless I want it to attack of course."

Alice gave the green skinned girl a nervous look then sat down. She was then rapped with what seemed like rope.

"Hey, don't be scared." Aqualad touched Alice's shoulder and gave her an encouraging smile.

"Thanks, it's just all so…new to me." The new girl smiled back. "I'm also not use to being in this form. It'll take some time for me to get acquainted again." Alice looked at her hands clenching and unclenching them into fists.

Aqualad gave a court nod and walked over to another seat.

"Everyone ready?" Robin asked taking a seat near the front of the ship.

"Ready." Artemis answered.

Superboy just nodded.

"Alright M'gann take us home."

The ship took off smoothly flying though the air, being driven by M'gann.

Alice took the time to think back on her days in the forest. Lying her head back she closed her eyes soon being pulled in by sleep.

Alice felt her eyes open, the edges blurred and she only seeing in yellows, oranges and blues.

"She's perfect!" A woman's voice cried with joy. "My perfect little Alice."

Alice felt herself give a small squeak in response to the woman. Her paws reaching out for the glass that separated them. Paws! She had paws!

"My dear she still has several months of developing." Another voice, an older man's voice, sounded close.

"Yes I know, but she's still perrfect!"

That woman just purred! She must be my mother!

Alice tried to get a better look at the woman but the glass gave her a strange appearance. Even if Alice did meet her in the future she couldn't be sure she'd even recognize her.

"Sleep well tonight my little kitten, soon we will be together."

Alice was jostled awake breaking the bindings that were holding her to the chair.

"Hey," Kid Flash had left his chair and rushed over bending down over Alice. "Are you alright?"

Alice couldn't say anything, there was nothing to say. She was neither alright nor bad.

"I'm fine." She choked out. "Just not use to this form."

"If you wish, you can change back." Aqualad insisted.

"Thank you, is there anywhere I could go to change?" Alice asked looking at M'gann.

"Why can't you just change like you did last time?" Artemis asked turning in her chair.

Looking down at the floor the girl gathered her words. "Changing back in to my feline form is painful, I go into a blind rage and strike at anything. I don't want to hurt anyone."

"That's why you don't change from your cat form." Robin observed.

Alice nodded.

"I've created a room at the back of the ship for you." M'gann nodded.

"Thank you." Alice was helped to her feet by Kid Flash and made her way to the back of the ship. She saw a door with a little feline figure marking it as the room M'gann had created for her. Alice entered and sat on the floor buried her face in her hands and drawing her knees to her chest. She cried. For how long Alice didn't know. But she did have mother, somewhere. But why had she left Alice in the forest? Why as she born in her feline form? Who was the old man? Her father? No he couldn't be. Forcing herself to stop the tear shed Alice pulled herself together and changed.

Pain rippled though her muscles expanding and contracting them, her bones jutted forward stretching her face, her nose split and her hands seemed to crush forming her paws. Alice's spine straightened and realigned her body, her scull felt like it was being smashed by a large tree then pulled apart by a bear. She growled, grunted, roared, hissed and screamed. A small glint at the back of her mind told her someone was listing in to her painful transformation. Her claws jutted out and she stuck at the walls leaving large gashing that filled back in. Finally, her jaw widened and her long k-9 teeth brook though the gums causing her to split her gums, warm iron rich blood trickled into her mouth staining her feline teeth. The final parts of her change were her arms and legs. Alice's hips seemed to break and buckle slamming her to the ground there she wriggled in pain striking out with claws and fangs. Finally, after nearly five minutes of pure agony and her transformation from human to feline was complete. Panting and energy spent Alice stood and pushed open the door making her way to the front of the ship. She looked at each Team member, each with a different expression on his or her face.

Alice looked to M'gann, terror spread her eyes wide. Superboy had clenched fists, Robin looked content but by his heart rate he was trying not to break. Artemis and Aqualad looked as if their heads were about to pop off their shoulders. Kid Flash looked much like Robin only his face was staring back at the newly changed girl.

'I tapped your mind.' M'gann's voice echoed in Alice's head.

'Yes, I know. I felt you there. But why?' Alice asked.

'We wanted to know what it was like.' Aqualad was recovering himself but he still looked sick.

'I'm sorry.' Alice spoke looking down at her paws. 'I didn't mean to cause any pain.'

"I can't believe you go through that." Robin spoke.

'That's why I never change from this form.'

'But changing from that to human form doesn't hurt?' Superboy asked.

Alice shook her head. 'Quite the opposite, I feel more comfortable in this form. More, alive.'

"We need to get back to Batman, he'll be wondering where we are at." Robin was all business but Alice could sense there was a change in him. A small change but a change none the less.

"Here," M'gann created another chair, this time shaped like a tree branch on an angle. "It's okay if you use your claws, it won't hurt."

Alice climbed onto the trunk and looked out the window laying her head on her paws making sure not to fall asleep again