WARNING!: GUYS I CHANGED THE ENDING TO CHAPTER 11: JUST A CITY GIRL. PLEASE REREAD IT BECAUSE IT IS DIFFERENT.
On the other hand: If you are too lazy to go read it (even though it's like two pieces of dialogue), then I'll just tell you what happened. So, the fact that Batman wanted to test Bethany would just take up too much time, so I took that part out. Instead, Batman says that Bethany fighting against Devastation is a test in and of itself, so Bethany will now have to choose whether or not she will stay on the Team or leave.
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Bethany's POV:
"So let me get this straight. There are superpowers and superheroes?!" I said, slightly excited. It had taken them about three hours to explain everything, including the fact that I was in a different dimension. At that part, they had to get me to calm down from a near heart attack for like 15 minutes and I almost fainted from mind overload. But that was a couple hours ago that they said that, so by now, I think I am over that fact. I think.
"Yeah, I'm cool, I know," the boy named Kid Flash said with a smirk.
"No, you're just the product of a freak accident, remember?" Artemis punched Kid Flash's shoulder.
"Well, actually -" He started to retort.
"Team, give Bethany and I some privacy. We have other things to discuss," Batman said firmly. Everyone obeyed, except for Robin, "That means you too, Robin."
Reluctantly, Robin walked out of the room to join the rest of the Team, but not after throwing one last glance at me over his shoulder. Now it was just Batman, the woman called Black Canary, and me. All alone.
"Now," Batman wheeled on me, "will you join us?"
Well that was straight forward. "Umm... I don't know."
"So straightforward Batman," Black Canary turned to me, "Sweetie, think about it. But we need an answer now because, well, you already know a lot and we need to know that you can handle more and that we can trust you to show you everything," Black Canary patted my shoulder and then went to stand with Batman. They both looked down at me, and then I felt like a little kid again.
"It's a big decision and I..." I trailed off in thought. Was it really that big of a decision? Where would I stay if I said no. I don't even know where I am, and according to Batman, I'm in a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT DIMENSION. That still makes me dizzy thinking about it. If I said yes, then I would have food, shelter, and maybe, just maybe, some friends. I could do what I love: fighting. I could fight and train alongside all these teenagers my age and go to school and have a new life. I could start over!
I looked up with my decision and realized that Batman and Black Canary were still looking at me for an answer. I looked straight into Batman's mask.
"I would like to stay."
I slowly walked towards where Batman said the kitchen was. What if the Team finds out about my weird upbringing. Will they reject me? Oh god, what if they found out that I was this really weird reject and loner at my old school and that my parents even rejected me. I don't think I could stand any more rejection. I've already been through enough.
Before I knew it, I entered a silent kitchen. The air was buzzing with nervousness, I could practically feel it tickling my skin. Right when I walked in, everyone stopped what they were doing and looked at me. I suddenly found this extremely interesting spot on my shoes. I would officially be meeting and joining the Team, and my heart was fluttering with butterflies.
"Bethany?" I felt someone's warm hand on my arm. I looked up and it was Robin. His face scrunched with concern.
I shyly looked up and said quietly, "Batman said I could stay."
Immediately, a smile broke out on Robin's face and the room was alive with noise. All of a sudden everyone was in front of me.
"All right! More hot girls!" Kid Flash bounced up and down and then winked at M'gann.
"Shut up, Kid Moron," Artemis smacked him upside the head. She looked at me and smiled, "It's about time we have some more girls around here."
"I agree, Artemis! Now we can have sleepovers and do each other's nails and go shopping together and do all the other things that Earth girls tend to do!" M'gann bubbled.
"Welcome to the Team," Aqualad stretched his hand out, and I gratefully took it, "I'm sure you'll feel right at home."
M'gann nudged Superboy who broke out of his daze and said, "Yeah, welcome," and gave me a small smile.
All of a sudden, a burning pungent smell struck my nose. I sniffed and broke away from the crowd.
"Umm, sorry to break the moment right now, but does anyone else smell, I don't know, fire?" I said, looking around frantically, until I spotted smoke coming out of the oven.
"Oh no! My cookies!" M'gann flew (literally!) over to the oven and telekinetically took them out. For a second I couldn't believe what I just saw. A floating pan of burnt cookies and a floating girl. I shook my head. How will I ever get used to this?
After everyone calmed down, they all went back to doing their casual activities. I watched M'gann cook for a little bit, while Kid Flash snagged pieces of the food when she wasn't looking. Sometimes, Kid Flash would even wink at me behind her back. Superboy sat on the couch just staring at a screen of static. Robin was on the couch with him typing something on his computer. And Artemis was on the floor, taking her bow apart and cleaning each part. Even Aqualad seemed pretty normal. He was doing something on his phone and occasionally scolding Kid Flash. Everyone just seemed so normal, and yet they were all dressed in these weird costumes and there was a girl cleaning a freaking deadly weapon! What has my life become? I left to go take a shower in one of the nearby rooms, but the thoughts only continued.
But regardless of these crazy things, I still admired them all. They all were so different. Artemis was sassy and teasing, Kid Flash was flirty and talkative, Superboy was quiet and brooding, Aqualad was obviously the more grown up of all of them, M'gann seemed so bubbly and sweet, and Robin... I don't know what to say about Robin. Something about him is just... I don't know, magnetic. Alluring. Usually I could read people and know all their dirty little secrets, but here, everything is so foreign and I don't know what to expect anymore. I can't read any of them. My sense are just all out of place.
I stepped out of the shower and put on a pair of clothes that Artemis lent me. It was a pair of blue skinny jeans and simple black cotton short sleeved shirt. Her clothes fit me perfectly. I am definitely borrowing this girl's clothes in the future. I returned to the kitchen, hair still wet and uncombed. Whatever, my hair usually falls into place when it dries.
"Bethany," Batman entered the kitchen, "You will be staying in the Cave until further plans." And then he left.
"Yay!" M'gann flew over to me and enveloped me in a tight hug, "You can get the room next to me! And we can go to the store to get you some clothes and stuff! Let's go!"
She basically dragged me over to the hanger and tossed me into this red ship.
"Woah! You guys have a ship?! Omygosh what the hell?!"
She was about to close the door when a voice rang out.
"M'gann! Don't you think you should go in something, I don't know, maybe a little more discrete?" Artemis yelled. Even yelling, the sarcasm dripped from her voice.
"Oh!" M'gann's green cheeks tinged red, "I didn't think of that. Well, I don't really know how to drive, so Artemis, you drive the car."
"Yeah, and Batman gave me some cash. So let's go blow it all!" She said wiggling her eyebrows at me and giving me her best sinister face.
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