A Family

by BaconYourFace

What happens when two girls enter the Bat Family? Follow Christine Carter and Autumn Cross on their experiences as part of the family. Yes, Tim, Damian and Alfred are in this too (major characters, yes) Warnings: contains some gory scenes, swearing, and NO SLASHES. There are a few funny and fluffy chapters later on. Sucky summary but you get the point. Please read and review!

3. Autumn's Past

CHAPTER 3: Autumn's Past

A/N: Sorry if her story's way too long...it's kinda different from the last chapters :) review please!

CHEERS!

-BaconYourFace

Autumn's POV

I'm Autumn, my mom was Sheila Haywood, a relief doctor in Ethiopia, my dad was Ryan Cross, a mercenary that killed criminals, a metahuman that saw glimpses of the future, a playboy, a member of the All Caste and a good friend of Talia Al Ghul. My mom didn't want me so she left me with my dad when I was born, which was fine with me. We lived in Gotham, in a big house near the woods.

I never lived a normal and simple life, because from birth my dad trained me, he told me that I always needed to be perfect and that I was never really good enough, he never showed me any affection, he was always cold with; I think it was because he was stuck with a kid, I think he hated me at first, but he still trained me; he wanted me to be like him when I grow up, he taught me about the scumbags that littered the city, he told me that they should die; anyone that hurts the innocent doesn't deserve a life. I didn't understand his words at first, of course, I was only two years old at that time. He trained me for two years, we didn't have time for anything else but training and studying, no time to celebrate my birthday, thanksgiving, or even Christmas, as our neighbors lighted fireworks on new years we trained in the dark cold woods.

It was when I was almost three when I discovered that I was a meta like my dad. I was reading a book about rocks on my dad's wooden desk in his study, with a sample rock in my left hand as I read.

I played with the rock in my hand then I squeezed it as I read, I suddenly felt warmth churn through my veins and shoot straight to my hand and to the rock. I closed my book and looked at the rock, it was burning from the inside out, I dropped the rock on the desk in shock, then I hid. After three seconds I started to stand back up and look at the stone that was supposed to be on the desk where I dropped it, but instead there was a hole the size of the rock burning through the table.

"Huh?" I questioned "Um...daddy!" I called and he came rushing in, he calmly walked to the desk.

"What happened?" He asked with no particular emotion "I-I don't know...I was holding the rock then…" my dad moved the table to reveal another heated hole through the cemented floor "what?" I wondered trying to process what was happening, my dad got a tweezer out of one of the drawers of his desk and picked at the hole. He soon pulled out a piece of a heated shard that was once the rock,he stared intensely at the shard, my eyes widened when the shard got redder and smoke started rising from the piece of rock as it slowly melted, my dad let go of it and the piece just melted into ashes on the ground. "Um…" was my response

My dad dropped the tweezers that looked like it was slowly heating as well, he got up "come on" he said and walked out of his study, I took one last glimpse at the "scene of the crime" then followed him to the living room.

He closed all the windows and the curtains then turned to me "listen to me" his strong gruff voice echoed in my ears "yes?" "Let me ask you a question, do you know why I'm training you?" "To kill all criminals like you, because Arkham has revolving doors" I said happily, and he sighed and crouched down to be the same height as me "and to make you stronger, even stronger than I am, because you will need the strength, you are a meta like I am" he said "a meta?" "Yep, I can see glimpses of the future" "cool" "you are a meta too, you have the genes" "woah…" he shook his head.

"It's really nothing to be astonished of kid. Us metas are fighting in a war" "war?" "Yes, you need to train" "I have been!" "You don't understand, you need to train harder than ever before. You need to be much stronger, stronger than I am. You have a very long journey ahead of you" I cocked my head in response "I won't be your mentor anymore, instead I'll send you to places where I went when I trained, while I will do my best to contribute to win this war" "tell me about this war!" He shook his head again "you need to be strong, understand?" I looked down and pouted "Understand?" He said louder "yes, sir" "you still remember the rules I taught You kid?" "Yes, destroy the enemy, complete the mission, come back alive, remove the evidence, attack first ask questions later, and attach yourself to no one and to nobody...daddy, I don't like the last rule" I said looking at my father's blue green eyes "I know kiddo, I know" for the first time in my life, he hugged me.

I traveled to Japan, where I trained for only two months but I learned many techniques, I trained under the hot sun and the warm wind blowing. After Japan, I travelled to Greece, then Spain, where I learned how to be tough and to speak my mind when I need to (and how to speak their language). When I turned four, I learned about pity, brutality and anger.

In China, my mentor was a rapist who had many victims even before I met him, I killed him, I hung his neck on top of a building. I went to Hong Kong, where my mentor was a woman who sold drugs to young children and pregnant women, I cut her eyes out, then skinned her face off. In Korea my mentor kidnapped children and sold their organs for money, I burned him to the ground and listened to his horrid screams as he turned into nothing but a puddle of blood and a pile of bones.

My dad didn't care about the deaths I caused, in fact, he was actually proud of me for finding out that my mentors were actually criminals and being able to easily overcome them. But the problem was, I killed all my mentors...so...there was only one last choice...send me to Hundreds of Acres.

As my father and his friend talked in Ra's study I listened through the door "She's preparing for war" "she is but a child, Ryan" "I know...she has to start right now, I will be back for her after...a long time" "do you want me to recruit her for the League of Shadows?" "No, I want her mentor to be our old mentor" "Ducra?" "Yep." "You want her to be a part of the All Caste?" "Yeah, Talia...she has a really long journey ahead of her, I know, I've seen. once I take her with me when I come back...do not interfere with her journey" there was a long pause then Talia answered "I understand my friend"

My dad left me with Ducra, who led me to my "room" a dark small room that looked very much like a prison with pieces of hay on the floor "where's the bed?" I asked as we stood by the door "one must earn comfort" Ducra chuckled and closed the door "right…" I said as I put down my bag on the floor in the dark, dark room.

My first few weeks were very tough, especially my test. Ducra lead me to a huge brick wall "take this down" "all of it?" "Yes child" "where are the tools?" "there" she pointed to the two buckets standing by the wall "what am I supposed to do with these?" I asked "figure it out for yourself child" The thousand year old woman said as she walked away, I sighed, and slowly, day by day, I took down the huge brick wall by carrying the bricks on two buckets on my back and carrying it to the other side of the mountain. After a few weeks of gaining scrapes and wounds on my hands, I finally took down the wall. "There!" I said proudly as I showed Ducra my work "congratulations young one, you have been patient...now...build another wall" I stared at her "what! But I just took it down!" "If you have the patience to destroy a wall then you have the patience to build one as well." "But it will take days, or weeks!" "Then I suggest you get started." She chuckled and walked away. "Patience...Autumn...patience..." I sighed and got started by getting the bag of cement.

After I successfully built the wall, the cleansing came, it wasn't that hard to pass though, I would have been the first human in a thousand years to pass the cleansing came I'm a metahuman, not really a human; so I guess I was the first child to pass the cleansing in a thousand years...not bad.

I woke up at three in the morning everyday and jogged for one hour, I trained for ten more hours with my mentor then studied with Talia for the rest of the time left. I learned history, english, spanish, latin, Roman, Greek, Arabic, math, science, and many other subjects. I learned how to hack and how to work with advanced technology, by the time I was five, I was already able to hack into systems like the League's and I figured out all their secret identities, strengths and weaknesses.

I was able to gain many intense skills, and awesome techniques, I learned how to adapt easily, and I became one of their greatest warriors, over the years; Talia was good to me, almost more like a mother to me than a mentor or maybe an aunt of mine. I remember when I met her son, I was eight and a half and Talia was teaching me Algebra then the door slightly opened and a young boy popped his head in "mother?" "Yes my child?" She asked the boy "grandfather is requesting for your presence." Talia sighed "we will continue this later on young one" she said and left the room leaving me and the boy alone in the room. "You're Talia's son?" "Yes, I am heir to the throne and the grandchild of Ra's Al Ghul." He said proudly "and who are you that my mother cares about?" He asked me "oh, I'm Ryan Cross' daughter, a good friend of your mother, I-" "Who is your mother?" He asked "A woman named Sheila Haywood, she didn't want me so she left me with my father, dad says that she was a pretty b****" I said casually "what about your father?" I asked him "I never met him, but I imagine him to be as tall as your father" "ahh, well I imagine my mother to be as nice as your mother...I keep thinking that maybe she had some sort of reason but didn't just tell my father" "you should not get your hopes up." "I know"

I climbed a giant mountain when I was eight, I broke my ankle when I was half way, I made it up and down anyways.

When I was nine, my dad came to Hundreds of Acres, he looked more tired and depressed than usual, we went on a walk around the palace "how is your training kid?" He asked "fine." I said quickly "your studies?" "Talia says that I am a little genius and a quick learner" my father chuckled "like father like daughter" I smiled at his comment "what brings you here?" I asked politely "I am taking you out of Hundreds of Acres, and we're going back to Gotham" "may I ask why?" my father looked down at me with his chin high up "no." We lived a normal life after that, a simple life for a few months, father told me to never ever show anyone about my powers not even if it's life or death because that could end very very badly, we had to blend in with the crowd, no showing off of skills or powers at all. On my tenth birthday, we went to the pier, where I tried cotton candy for the first time, and where the first tragedy of my life happened.

As I ate my pink cotton candy, I suddenly heard a loud cackling coming from the tunnel of love. Joker was running away from Batman who wasn't far behind him. I dropped my cotton candy, when The Joker held me with his arm and choked me, he pointed a gun towards my temple, his cackling sickened me. I held his arm with my hands, "father!" "Autumn, just stay calm, okay?" He said as he stood beside Batman. I nodded under the choke hold, and the Joker only laughed "calm!? Calm!? HAHAHA!" he laughed "no one make a move, or this little girly goes bye bye!" He said dragging me to his van where he tied me up with ropes. I struggled to get out of the ropes "no, no little girly, you see if you so much as try to get out of the knots laughing gas will break loose!" He giggled "why are you doing this?!" I yelled as I stopped struggling "Do you think old Joker would exit without a bang? Yeesh kiddo, have you not been reading news papers lately?" He asked as he drove the van away from the pier all the way to the north side of Gotham, then the van stopped and the Joker poured gasoline everywhere around the white van as he whistled a happy tune, he dragged me outside the van but still near enough to be caught in any explosion. He lighted a match and fire started to ignite, I closed my eyes and wondered how hot it would be; I suddenly felt strong arms wrap around me then I felt an explosion. I tightened my eyelids and when I opened them everything was blurry and I was out of the ropes. I slowly got up and looked at the carnage around me, I saw Batman punch that mad man multiple times in the fire as the Joker only cackled with the blood dripping down his chin. I tried walking even in the blurry haze, that was when I felt the touch of a body hit my feet, I looked down and it was my dad on the floor consumed in fire "father!" I pulled him away from the fire, and I turned his face over to see that there was a huge grin on his burned face and blood dripping down his eyes and ears, I screamed in horror and looked away from his body, I choked in my sobs, I took one step the other way, then another one then I broke into a painful sprint. I returned to our house where I grabbed all the supplies I needed, I was planning on leaving forever because I knew that the social services would be in my house in seconds, I had time to treat my wounds and grab a bag where I put some clothes, water and money before I heard a loud banging on the front door. "We're not here to hurt you!" a gruff voice said, I scowled, and I left through the window, and just kept running.

I was on the streets of Gotham after that, with no where and no one to go to, for months I fended for myself, I stole money or food to survive, I was all alone and on my own for one whole year, no one to love me and no one to love. The only way I survived was because of my skills that I got from the All Caste. It was horrible, feeling alone, abandoned, guilty, and...afraid.

Until came the best day of my life; I walked through the streets carrying my tattered bag on my back when I heard a loud scream in one of the alleys, I ran towards the scream and found a man holding a gun up at a woman and her child. "Get away from them!" I yelled, they all turned their heads to look at me "stay the f*** outta this kid!" The man said, and I smirked "yeah sure" I moved back and jumped off of the wall behind me, and I ended up standing in front of the thug, I kicked away his gun and punched his face, he tried to punch me but I ducked and I kicked his face and he simply fell to the ground "psh, weak"

The woman that I saved was named Teressa and her son was named Nico. After a long calm talk, although she was only poor, Teressa adopted me (not legally though, who has the time for that?) She told me I could call her mom though she didn't have any intention about replacing Sheila, but I couldn't care less about Sheila so I called Teressa "mom." Nico became my cute younger brother, who was innocent and compassionate, he looked up to me and I cared for him, he was kind and loving to all the people around him no matter who they were.

For the first time in my life, I celebrated Christmas with them, when I watched as Nico put the star on top of our small Christmas tree, when they lighted those simple fireworks on New Years, and when we had a simple chocolate cake and a candle for my birthday; when Teressa gave me a pretty necklace for my eleventh birthday, "it was my mother's, she gave it to me. I kept all my precious memories in it, I hope you do too" she said as I held it in my palm and smiled lightly.

Teressa was rarely home, she had to work double-sometimes triple shifts in the wet market or at some store just to last us food for a few days, I helped out a little, not by stealing, mom didn't want me to steal anymore. I just babysat some of the children of our neighbors for a few bucks. I would babysit Nico along with the other kid that I babysat.

I remember one stormy night when just laying on my bed and Nico was somewhere in our small kitchen, the lights suddenly went out and thunder boomed "Autumn!" He yelled and ran to me. It wasn't completely dark, there was light coming from the windows. We sat on my bed and my little brother moved closer to me " 'm scared" I hugged him and ran my hand through his hair as he trembled "shsh...there's nothing to be afraid of" I said rubbing circles on his back, I gently pulled him away from me and I smiled "hey...you know what I think of when I'm scared of the dark?" "What?" He asked curiously "BATMAN!" I said and I tickled him, he giggled. Lightning flashed and thunder boomed and he moved closer to me and I hugged him again, I brushed his hair with my hand "shsh" I said and I hugged him tighter, I started humming his favorite lullaby, the lullaby that mother always sang to him, his body relaxed and he rest his head on my shoulder and fell asleep.

The second tragedy happened when my little brother came with my mother to the wet market to help her out while I stayed home babysitting some children. Mom came home without him "you took forever...where's Nico?" I asked her, she bowed her head "where is he?" I tried again "at the hospital" she whispered "what happened, is he okay? Let's go visit him!" She shook her head and let the tears slide down her cheeks "there was a drug ring by the wet market, then...we heard shouting and screaming then gunshots, I tried to run away with Nico but he ran towards the gun shots...I was too late and he was caught in the crossfire of these two men." "TELL ME, WHERE HE F***ING IS!" I yelled at her for the first time "MY SON IS DEAD!" Teressa yelled back and collapsed on the floor. At first I didn't want to believe her, I was hoping she was just lying...but I saw his dead body and at his small funeral.

Days turned into weeks, the apartment was so silent and pain hung in the air. My mom didn't make a sound at all, it was as if she wasn't home at all. Things changed after my little brother's death, especially mom; her brown hair was always messier than usual, her dark brown eyes were always clouded and she would always look right through me, she spent more time alone in her room or in the bathroom, she used to be kind, gentle and caring, but then she just snapped as if she let the poverty and pain finally catch up with her. From time to time she would tell me to buy her medicines from some guys that smelled weird. She said that she was "sick" but the medicines only made it worse.

She stopped caring about our food, water, shelter, electricity as if she didn't need any of it, so I was forced to take matters into my own hands, I was back on the streets fending for two people. I stole car parts and sold them, I begged on the streets and walked barefoot (it didn't really bother me though). Mom used to despise stealing, but like I said, she just stopped caring, about everything and everyone including me. I was able to make enough money for the both of us, for water, and then food, we didn't really need heat we had lots of blankets, we didn't need electricity either because I would just leave or sleep at night and during the day the sun was enough to be our light, besides, mom wasn't bothered by the cold or the dark.

There were times when I heard her sobbing in the bathroom, there were times when she came out her room with bruises and wounds on her face, there were other times when she would take the money I earned and used them to buy drugs. There were times when mom locked herself away and I heard a banging from our door, I would take our unloaded gun and opened the door "She doesn't want what you're selling! So don't f***ing come back!" The man's eyes widened and he ran away. There was one time that must have been the most painful moment of my life when mom was screaming at me for chasing away her dealer, she grabbed me by the arm and I was to tired to fight back even if I wanted to. "Mom, ow!" I said, she just yelled at my face "mom, please! The medicine's only making you worse!" "SHUT UP! I DON'T GIVE A CRAP!" She yelled at me, then she violently let go of my arm and pushed me away. She collapsed on the floor sobbing "you don't understand! They all left me, my family...I'm all alone" she sobbed into her hands "they're all gone...I'm alone now…" "no mom, I'm right here" I crouched down next to her and held her shoulder trying to hug her, but she shoved me away "DON'T CALL ME THAT, I AM NOT YOUR MOTHER AND YOU ARE NOT MY DAUGHTER!...so just go, just go!" She cried, her words stabbed me with my favorite knife. I bit my lips and cried, I still wrapped my small arms around her "I'm not going anywhere, I won't leave you alone mom...I promise."

The third tragedy in my life was when I came home from stealing parts, it was dark in the crappy apartment and I suddenly felt a cold wetness touch my bare feet and I smelled the scent of blood. I found mom's body laying on the floor drenched in blood with a bloody rope around her neck, she choked herself, I crouched down and hugged her body not minding that I was starting to become drenched in her blood and I cried...it was at that time when I understood why my father told me to never attach myself to nobody and to nothing.

The police came and found me with hugging my mom's dead body and crying, they took her body and they threw me in an orphanage, they said that she was just a depressed overdosed druggie but she wasn't just a druggie, she was my mom damnit! I stayed in the orphanage for a few days, I had no where to go anyways.

One day a man and woman came to me, "hello Autumn" the woman spoke and I crossed my arms "what do you want from me lady?" I spat "relax, she just wants to ask you a question" the man in a trench coat said. The woman leaned forward "are you ready for the war?" She whispered in my ear.

They brought me to a forest in Africa where at first there was nothing but trees "there's nothing here" I stated, then a hole in one of the trees opened and the woman and the man entered it. The man gestured for me to follow him, I raised an eyebrow "we're not going to Wonderland kid" I followed him and mumbled " what's Wonderland?"

There was a gigantic underground base, with steel walls, dozens of jets, hundreds of scientists and soldiers, and each and everyone of them were metas. I caught glimpses of epic sparring sessions, and smart ass scientists working with supercomputers, I saw metas training to be able to master their abilities. The woman lead me to a room where I met a man with white hair and gray eyes, "who are you, what is this place?' I asked "this is where us metas hide and where we train for the ongoing war...your father, he was a good man...he told me all about you, he asked me to explain to you what the war is about. The war has been on going for generations, an immortal man seeks to destroy all and start a new generation-a new era, where everyone's metahumans." "Who is this man?" "No one knows his true name, no one has ever seen him. He has recruited thousands of powerful metas who are called The Unknown, while we have hundreds compared to his army because of the power The Unknown possesses...your father, was an old friend of mine, he helped us so much, he wanted you to help in saving the world. We have been watching you, since our brother's death. We are trying to stop The Unknown from destroying us all." "I don't understand, why not ask other people for help, like the Justice League?" "Half of JLA recruits are metahumans, if they chose to be on the side of The Unknown, do you think it will be good?" "But they won't they are the JUSTICE LEAGUE" "It's too risky. If we pull everyone else into this, there could be chaos on the entire earth...we must keep this a secret, do I have your word?" I nodded "you have my word sir" "good, now are you willing to join the war and risk your life for others?" "Yes" I didn't hesitate

There were many amateurs and there were a lot of experts that showed a lot of skills. I made friends that were my age, Jake, he was always so kind to me for some reason, and a girl named Ella who was his sister and seemed to be so quiet and emo. Us new recruits shared one room depending on our age, I shared with girls and boys my age; the room was full of double deckers children my age.

After months of showing what I was capable of, I lead the beta teams with the ages of 14-21 because of my leadership skills. I made more friends but sadly some of them died in the war, my best friends were Jake and Ella even as I started to lead Alpha teams in a matter of months. I even made a frenemy, at first she hated me for some reason, then I saved her from being shredded to pieces by another meta. I had my own quarters and I was given firearms and knives, I was taught how to control my powers, every time I went on a mission I would have my gear that I needed, and a hood over my face, I wore gloves a gray hoodie and some jeans depending on my mission.

I was a skilled genius so the leaders couldn't decide if I was a scientist or a soldier, so i was both. I worked on trying to find the headquarters of The Unknown.

"Cain get down!" I pushed him to the ground before an explosion went off.

I jumped off my ally, and got my knife, my knife started to heat up and I jabbed it through the metal man.

I kicked the meta that was invisible and I burned the invisible man by holding his face.

I jumped up and stabbed the cyclops that tried to attack me. I grunted when a man took my knife out of my hand, I took my gun and shot the man, I jumped up and shot the face of another enemy. When we won the battle and the fire died down I walked to Cain "did you get it?" He nodded "good" "I still think we should have told them that we went on a mission unauthorized" "don't worry, I do this all the time" "what!" "Let's go" we got in the jet and flew back to base, I got the flash drive from my friend and walked to my room. I plugged it in my computer and looked through the files that The Unknown suddenly got their hands on.

Lately The Unknown has been always one step ahead of us, as if they all knew all our secrets...as if there was a bug in our base. So I tried to get the upperhand and got my hands on every file on each of their recruits. I scrolled down through the people they recruited, and that's when I stopped when I found the names that we recruited Owen Reyes, Ina Curt, John Kindle, and Ella Rane, my own best friend was one of the traitors. I opened her file and I found out that she agreed with The Unknown to be the bug. My face darkened, and I sneaked into our leader's office and placed the flash drive on his table.

I told these four people that we had a mission near the docks of Star City, I lead them to a warehouse near the docks "where's the enemy?" Ella asked, I walked in the last and I closed the door behind me, the lights turned off and darkness became my friend. The traitors became frightened all of the sudden and I only chuckled at their fear.

"Autumn, what's going on?" Ina asked as I danced with the shadows.

"I don't know, you tell me. TRAITORS" "What the hell are you talking about...let us out of here now!"

John yelled as Owen ran for the door "It's locked!" "No kidding, I melted the lock, and your powers and skills are useless with the titanium door" I said as my voice echoed through the huge warehouse "YOU FOUR ARE TRAITORS! DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY GOOD PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF YOU?!" "What are you talking about!" John denied. First I got Owen by his collar, I burned his skin off and made sure that his screams were loud enough for everyone else to hear, it was like music to my ears then I hung his neck, I dropped his body right in front of the three, the two girls screamed at the sight of a body without skin.

"DON'T BOTHER DENYING IT! I STOLE THE FLASH DRIVE FROM THE UNKNOWN,THE FLASH DRIVE WITH ALL THE FILES OF THEIR RECRUITS, I SAW VIDEOS AND PICTURES, IT'S ALL GOOD ENOUGH PROOF FOR ME" I shouted, I took John, then stabbed his face fifteen times then just dropped the limp body of my old friend on the floor. Ina and Ella backed up in fear, I took Ina then cut her throat and left her body on the floor. Then I quietly walked to my best friend stepping on Ina's unmoving body "Autumn...please...we're best friends remember?"

"Pathetic" I spat and I stood right in front of her "please...don't kill me!" I stood up straight "I won't kill you...because I have mercy, and because your brother's my friend, now why would I take his sister away from him right? Even if you are a f***ing b****" I cocked my head and smiled "Of course, not because you're my friend, and also, I kinda need a messenger." I turned my back and quickly ripped the heads off the bodies and stuffed them in a bag and handed them to Ella "here, take this home" I smirked and I saw her disgusted but fearful face as she looked at the plastic bag and when she looked up I was gone and door slowly opened.

She ran and ran to one of the bases of the Unknown, I followed her as she entered the base and screamed and cried, I watched from a distance as she sobbed and talked to a few people, I smirked and picked up a rock from the ground, I heated it in my palm then threw it at her, there was so much force that it slowly went right through her head and she collapsed to the floor. The men she was talking to scattered like ants, I grinned and left.

When I came back, I told everyone else that the traitors were killed and that I was the only one that made it, Jake was sad but not mad at me. Our top leader and I were the only ones who knew that they were traitors.

The scientists and I found the main headquarters of the Unknown, it was in space, floating by the orbit of Venus.

I passed by the office of our commander "We found the headquarters" "But how the hell are we going to infiltrate it?!" "We can't send everyone, we'll lose our entire army!"Another leader argued "we need to send just one person" "But what stupid kid would go on a suicide mission like that?!" I burst through the doors "I would" I said firmly "they can recruit me, I can be a spy, they've never seen my face and I can always change my name" "You're not supposed to be here, get out!" "Listen! I'm just a kid, but I am a powerful meta plus I am an expert who wouldn't want that person on their side? Plan's simple, I get in there, gain their trust, don't get compromised, find out where their other bases are on earth then blow up the damn place and their stupid leader!" "You wouldn't be able to get outta this alive kid" "Uh, duh" I said casually.

I was easily recruited by the enemy along with a few other metas, and I was sent to their main headquarters because of my abilities and skills, the ride to the orbit of Venus was fun. The place was so huge, I think I got lost once, we had to wear stupid uniforms, a black kevlar. I sneaked in to get to the main computer and send all the data that my home needed to win the war.

A woman named Eva with the power to read minds figured me out but cut her in half with my sword before she even got a chance to tell anyone. I was able to plant the radioactive bombs, but the trigger broke so I had to activate it manually but I was discovered by half the axium after I planted them. As I ran for the escape pods, I met the leader, he had tubes connected to the axium, he was huge and he had a large build up, but the problem was that he had telekinesis, so he could control me. When he controlled me, it felt like my body was numb, like I just lost control of something extremely important; control.

He pulled me towards him using his telekinesis "I WILL NOT LET A MERE CHILD RUIN THE PLANS THAT I HAVE PREPARED FOR THREE GENERATIONS!" His voice was booming, it sent chills up my spine. He beat me, he moved my body towards the two walls and kept banging me towards a wall and the floor, all he needed to do was lift a finger "so, you are supposed to be one of the most powerful metas?" He chuckled as he hit my stomach, I just needed to keep him busy, and wait for the bombs to go off.

He punched me many times and I was able to break my right arm, a few ribs and fractured my skull. He pulled me near him, his disgusting breath blowing at my face as he spoke "you are weak!" I spat in his face and he slammed me to the ground "THEY SEND A STUPID CHILD TO KILL ME?" He laughed and I heard a crack on my left ankle, I stayed quiet the entire time. He suddenly grabbed my neck with his large hand and started to squeeze me, he grinned as I struggled to breathe and I clawed at his hands.

He suddenly let go and I gasped for air as I laid on the floor, he kicked my stomach and I grunted "GET UP, AND KNEEL!" I got up, holding my arm, but I didn't kneel "I thought...I thought...you just wanted everyone to be the same."

"STUPID GIRL, THAT WAS WHEN I WAS HUMAN" I used the wall to support me "so...you were human...then?"

"I WAS ONCE A HUMAN, THEN I EVOLVED AND I BECAME A META, I THOUGHT THAT IF WE WERE ALL THE SAME THEN WE WOULD ALL JUST ACCEPT EACH OTHER RIGHT. BUT OVER TIME I EVOLVED ONCE MORE, AND I REALIZED THAT THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS JUSTICE OR EQUALITY, JUST POWER!" I looked at him, and I stood up straight without the help of the wall, and I took a step towards him, he raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, there is such thing as justice, but I just don't care about equality or power anymore." I stepped forward "because now, all I care about now...is revenge...and of course, when there's revenge, there's always death."

I grinned at the large man who suddenly took a step back, he looked at his hands "what?" it was melting. His skin was melting off his face and he fell to the ground below me "You see, people like you, people that want power so much that they'd kill the innocent for it, eat of the ground"

"AAAAAH! NOOOO" He screamed as I heard the sizzling of his burning skin, I only looked at him and he started melting "ah, yes the horrible screams of pain is like music to my ears."

He tried to control me with his telekinesis but somehow, it didn't work. I grabbed his melting face "I want all those scumbags, all those people that don't deserve life, I want them to feel the pain, that I felt...I want them all to burn in hell with me...I want them all to suffer." I

smiled as and I let go of his face, soon all that was left of him were glowing bones, and even his bones were still starting to melt. Dizziness took over me, but I fought it with will power. I left the room and started walking to the escape pod "to bad we can't all get what we want" I murmured before entering the escape pod.

I didn't see it, but I knew that the time bombs I planted just hit one as soon as my escape pod shot out of the axium. I was still caught in the damn explosion and I went straight towards the earth and I crashed to earth in a ball of metal and fire. The last thing I saw before everything went black were two men that looked like they were one of the enemies.

I was out for days, I was in stuck tied up in ropes, they punched drugs into me, but I learned how to fight drugs with the help of the All Caste years ago. I was in a truck with lots of large men surrounding me, I burned the ropes off, and then I killed all the men that captured me, I killed the driver, and I jumped out the back of the truck, I walked and walked holding my bleeding arm as the truck behind me exploded.

THAT'S MY STORY AND I'M STICKING TO IT.

Now...I just keep walking and walking, it's so cold because it's December, but even as my feet are buried in the cold snow and as blood drips down my mouth, I still keep walking and I stab anyone that tries to hurt me with the knife I stole from a thug (but it's not counted as stealing if the guy that owned it was dead, right?) I rely on my skills, waiting for myself to heal from all my injuries.

Maybe I can find Sheila, my birth mother, dad said that she lived in Gotham, maybe she can help me; I look for her around Gotham, I take a little money from a dead guy that probably died from malnutrition. It's just enough for one hour at a cheap computer shop here in Crime Alley. I clean all the blood off of me, and hide all my really bad wounds, I look sort of presentable, by presentable I mean tattered clothes, messy tied up hair and no shoes, but hey, here in Gotham who cares bout how you look like as long as you give them the money right?

We won the war, my friends and allies are already taking down The Unknown's bases.

I search my own name, apparently my team thought that I was dead and buried a coffin without a body, they declared me legally on the day the axium exploded. Sheila's was a doctor all the way in Ethiopia (I already knew that though) it says here on the documents that...she was killed about five years ago, by the same mad man that took away my father and my brother away from me, I scroll down through her documents, and it says that she had another son, a boy that's years older than me, a boy named Jason Peter Todd.

I research about him, he was the adoptive kid of Bruce Wayne, also known as Batman, why does this Jason Todd's name jog a memory? ...RIGHT! Jason Todd WAS the second Robin.

His adoptive mother was Catherine Todd, and his father was Willis Todd, Willis died in prison and Catherine was a druggie like Teressa...It says that he died, five years ago with Sheila on April 27 at fifteen years old...

I connect the dots...he didn't know that Sheila was his real mother, he probably found out and he could have went all the way to Ethiopia to go to her, but maybe Sheila was in trouble with The Joker, he might have tried to save her...but I guess instead, they both died...

He could have been my older brother, he was probably a good kid unlike me, I mean of course he was a good kid, he was Robin...I might have never met him, but he's still...something.

I just realize something...I HATE THEM ALL...I hate The Joker for taking away my dad, my birth mom, my little brother and the big brother I never met.

I hate Batman for not killing The Joker in the first place, and then maybe none of these deaths would have happened at all. I hate myself for not killing that mad man myself when I had the chance...WHY WAS I SO STUPID!? By killing that psychopath I could have saved thousands of lives...but instead I chose to run! I hold on to my necklace as I fight back the anger boiling in my blood...one day I'll get my revenge on all of them.

I read about how distraught Bruce Wayne was when his son died in an "accident." I also search on articles about how Batman suddenly started patrolling the city without a Robin. It's Batman's fault...why Jason Todd/Robin died, why my father and my little brother's dead, why I'm all alone now.

My time's up to use the computer and I leave erasing all the data.

I walk and walk, holding and rubbing the necklace that I never took off. It's sad how Jason Todd, or Robin was only fifteen when he died, he could have had so many plans and dreams, so much to still do...but that mad man took him away before he could have even finished high school.

I hate how unfair the world is, I hate myself for being so stupid for not looking further into the second Robin's background before when I was still with the All Caste...who knew it turned out that I had a family member that I never even knew about!

I hate The Joker for taking away the people I cared about, for taking away Jason Todd, even though I never really met him, for taking away Sheila even though dad said she was a b**** she could have been something, anything...I wish I got to meet Jason Todd...he could have been a great big brother...

****Break****

I run and run as five thugs chase me, I can't fight back due to my injuries and my knife won't really help right now. I keep running, even though my feet are already bleeding, I'm already breathless, then suddenly young man wearing a brown leather jacket and a red crimson helmet jumps right in front of the scumbags.