Fan Fiction ❯ Tales of a Snake ❯ Chapter 2: New Face, Same Titans ( Chapter 2 )

Chapter 2: New Face, Same Titans

Before Kira knew that it happened the decision was made and she was given a room to sleep in until the next day. However she did feel a familiar unease, as though she was being watched. She wouldn't have been surprised if there was a hidden camera in the room she was in but she trusted that she was safe and found sleep quickly.

The next morning, well the time wasn't really known since she was out in space, she awoke and was ready for her new way of living. After wandering for a few minutes she found one of the figures that over heard her situation the night before. A woman in a white exercise outfit, Kira recognized her because she was the only one with real wings in the room.

"Um...excuse me?"

The winged heroine turned to her and just stared.

"Do you know where I can find Ted, um Wildcat?"

Kira just waited momentarily before the woman turned and simply said, "Follow me."

While they walked Kira decided not to comment much. She assumed this was one of the members that preferred to talk less. They finally approached a door that opened to reveal another one of the women she saw last night. It was an attractive black woman wearing a skin tight brown suit showing a large amount of cleavage. The winged woman's face twisted into a smirk.

"Vixen." was the only greeting the woman got.

At this the woman took on a similar smirk. "Shaira."

Shaira led Kira into the room and with a quick glance around she found Ted. This time it was the Ted she was more familiar with, out of costume. He merely smiled and greeted her.

"Hey kid. Ready to go?"

Kira looked up at him and simply nodded. Ted then pulled her onto a platform that sent them back down to Earth. When the flash of light faded Kira found her and Ted standing in front of her apartment complex. Kira didn't have to be told twice on what she had to do. She sprinted up the stairs and into her room. Her room didn't appear to be tampered with but she checked to see if anything was missing. Of the little things she owned everything was there. She stuffed the few clothes, some CDs, and her CD player into a grocery bag. She wanted to take her food but knew that it would go bad quickly so she decided to give it to Frank instead and threw it all into another bag. When she was done she did one last check around the place and then locked the door on her way out.

She stopped to knock on door 1A and waited. Frank yelled from the other side and said, "Who is it?"

"Frank, it's me Kira."

With that said Kira heard him scurrying around his apartment to the door. When he opened he gave her a smile and said, "Kira, what can I do for you?"

"I came to tell you I was leaving and to return this to you," she handed him the key to the apartment. After he took it she reached into her pocket and pulled out some money. "How much do I owe you for the week?"

He shook his head, "Keep it kid. You'll need it more than me."

Kira then handed him the bag full of food and explained that it would all go bad if she took it with her. He merely smiled and took the bag. Before she left he was sure to give her a hug. Kira noticed then how warm he was, regardless of his appearance. She then dashed back to Ted who merely nodded toward Frank. The two then walked toward Chaney's.

They entered the building through a side door that Kira knew of. When they entered they quickly saw Chaney cleaning up at the bar and getting the place ready for the up coming night.

"Kira, what you doing here this early?" Chaney asked a little surprised.

"I've been offered a new job and I'm starting today so I thought it be a good idea to let you know I'm leaving."

"Well, it ain't like I can stop you or anything. I wish you luck, kid."

He held out his hand and shook Kira's hand. Then he reached under the counter and pulled out some money. "Here's your pay up to last night. Don't forget to stop by kid."

"I will," Kira promised. Then both her and Ted walked out the door.

As they left Chaney sighed and then said, "Now where am I gonna get a new bouncer?"

Just after he said this the door opened and closed again and a girl a little older then Kira walked in. She had reddish-orange hair, wore an orange tank-top, and green pants. She walked up to Chaney and asked, "You Chaney?"

"Yeah, why?"

"My name's Grace. I hear you get trouble here at night, want some help clearing them out?"

At this last statement Chaney just said, "Your seem a little small for the job?"

"I'm a lot tougher than I look."

After a moments thought Chaney asked, "How soon can you work?"

"How soon do you open?"

When Ted and Kira returned to the League's headquarters a shuttle was ready for them to board. Kira had to wait a few minutes for Ted to get back into his uniform. While she waited a man in what looked like a cowboy outfit walked toward her.

"Evenin' Miss. Name's Vigilante I'll be your driver for the evening."

Kira merely nodded and boarded the shuttle with him and waited for Wildcat to return.

Within a few minutes they were off and headed toward Earth. When they were in space Kira looked out of a window and merely said, "Wow."

"First time flying, Miss?"

"Uh-huh."

"Well don't be worried little lady, I ain't crashed once this week."

"WHAT?"

"He's just toying with you kid, he's been flight certified for months." said Ted, in between bouts of chuckling.

Ted walked her out of the shuttle and walked her toward what apparently was a huge T in the middle of an island. Waiting for them at the entrance at the base of the building was a girl about Kira's age with fiery red hair and green eyes. Kira didn't noticed until she was closer that the girl was floating in mid air.

"Welcome friends!" the girl said when the two reached her.

"Hello, Starfire," Ted greeted her.

"It is good to see you again, friend Wildcat. You must be the Kira we were told about."

Kira merely nodded at Starfire. She was surprised. Starfire didn't react the way she thought she would. She was expecting disgust at her inhuman appearance. But after seeing Starfire she wasn't sure how human Starfire was, since last she checked humans don't have orange skin. Starfire guided the two into the tower and up to a door which she told Kira was where they mostly hung out.

"Oh everyone will be so happy to meet you," Starfire said as the doors slid open to show a huge living room and kitchen area. There were four beings standing in the room. One girl was reading a book while floating in the air, she tore her eyes away form her book when the doors opened. The two standing next to one another, a green boy crouched on a table and a half boy half robot, looked up when the door opened as well. The fourth member didn't realize that the door even opened and continued a conversation that her was having with a boy on a huge television screen.

"Speedy, next time watch what you say to Green Arrow! The last thing any of us here need is for the JLA to be deciding who our new members should be! They don't know what it takes to be a Titan!"

"Um...Robin?" the green boy said.

"I don't know about you kid. But I would say being able to notice Batman walking into a room when Superman didn't even notice sounds pretty good to me."

The boy now identified as Robin had ignored the first comment but the second got his attention. He turned around and saw Kira and Ted standing there. The boy known as Speedy apparently could see what was going on as well and broke off the communications link. From what Kira could see in Ted's movements he wasn't pleased. Starfire was shocked when she heard what Robin had said. Kira then realized as she looked around the room that Starfire was the only one that was happy about her coming. The expressions she received from the others ranged from hostile to simply neutrality, though Cyborg did seemed impressed by Ted's mention of her ability. Kira wondered to herself if she had made a mistake in saying 'yes.'

After about twenty minutes Ted finally left the tower and left Kira and the Titans to settled their differences. Before Ted left he made sure to mention that he was going to have a word with Batman about this situation. Robin looked as if he was slashed when that comment was made. Before Ted had left he made it clear who each Titan was, the other girl was named Raven, the green boy was called Beast Boy, and the half robot was called Cyborg. He didn't bother to mention Robin since it was clear who he was. Kira did however notice that all the names mentioned were only titles none, except for maybe Raven, were actual real names. She wasn't much surprised about it, they didn't trust her and therefore thought it wasn't necessary to share a personal information as that.

Starfire was furious with the way Robin behaved that she refused to talk to him. She tried to talk with Kira but noticed that it was an impossible task now that Ted was gone. Kira didn't know what else to do so she merely curled up in a ball next to her stuff in the sunlight.

Even with her eyes closed she knew where everyone was. Beast Boy and Cyborg were sitting by the television playing a video game and Robin stood by the kitchen, watching her no doubt. Raven and Starfire were harder to detect since they could actually lift themselves off the floor. Every now and then Kira could sense Starfire's feet touching the ground. Kira assumed that Raven preferred to stay off the ground unlike herself.

After nearly half an hour an alarm sounded and a red light started to flash in the room. At this change in the scenery Kira sat up attentively. Kira saw an image on the screen of an odd looking trio robbing a bank. Robin gave the order for Starfire, Raven, and Beast Boy to fly ahead, while he and Cyborg follow in the T-car. With these orders those three left. The only ones left were Cyborg, Robin, and Kira. Robin looked to her and said, "Stay here, we'll handle this."

He then ran out of the room. Kira noticed Cyborg was still standing in the doorway.

"You know, you don't have to stay here," he said with an almost grin, and then ran out the door.

Kira watched this and then ran after him. She followed after him and found him climbing into a car similar to his body armor. Before the door shut Kira stopped it and pulled it opened. Inside she only saw Cyborg and Robin, Robin in more shock than anything else.

"I told you to stay where you were!" Robin yelled at her in rage.

"You don't think I can do this? Well, I'm here to prove you wrong!" she barked back at him.

"Forget it Robin! We got no time," Cyborg then stepped on the gas and the car suddenly started to fly straight toward the city buildings. When they started to take off Kira could have sworn she saw Cyborg's red eye blink on and off in the mirror, as if he winked at her.

When they reached the bank the three climbed out. Robin glared at her and said, "Don't get in our way!"

The scene to be taken in was one to notice. The three breaking in, Mammoth, Gizmo, and Jinx were heavily engaged in their fights against Raven, Beast Boy, and Starfire. Raven was levitating random objects and hurling them at Jinx who was shooting pink hex blasts which Raven was forced to dodge. Mammoth was fighting a giant gorilla, who had to be Beast Boy. Finally Starfire was in the air chasing after Gizmo and shooting Starbolts at him.

Robin ran over to assist Raven who informed him that Gizmo had planted a bomb in the bank to open the vault. Robin turned to Cyborg and yelled for him to disarm the bomb. Cyborg ran into the building. Robin then proceeded to fight alongside Raven.

Suddenly Beast boy slammed into a bus not to far from Kira and from what she could tell he looked unconscious. Kira was about to run to see if he was alright but found Mammoth blocking her way. She hissed at his interference but before she had a chance to even attack he threw an upper cut straight toward her chin and a loud snapping noise was heard that caused all fighting around them to stop. Starfire yelled at the scene when she noticed Kira's head hanging limply at the top of her spine.

There was something wrong with this picture though. Mammoth realized that her body was still standing. Before anyone could react her head rolled back around across her shoulder and finally back in its place with a loud pop. She then looked up at Mammoth with a grin and said, "Thanks, I've been trying to get that kink out for weeks."

Reacting to this he swung an arm at her stomach. She reacted quickly enough to block it but it wasn't enough to stop it from sending her into the air. She landed with a hard thud onto a mailbox which crumpled underneath her. Before she could even think about getting up, someone had grabbed her by the waist and lifted her up. When her vision started to clear she saw a maliciously grinning face staring at her as she was suspended several feet in the air. Still a little dizzy, she just noticed that her opponent seemed to be covered in a thin layer of fur.

"Hello fuzzy."

He frowned at her and then tossed her across the street slamming her against a brick wall. She fell to the concrete shortly after and then slowly proceeded to stand up in pain. She had gotten to her knees when Mammoth reached her again. He grabbed her by the throat this time and lifted her off the ground. Not wanting to be thrown again Kira swung her lower body up and wrapped both her arms and legs around Mammoth's giant arm. Once she got a grip she reached her hands up and then pulled at his pinky until she heard a loud snap. At this point Mammoth cried out in pain and released her throat and then she tightened her arms around his wrist and her legs around his upper arm. Once she got her grips locked in she began to arch her back putting Mammoth in the equivalent of an arm bar, causing his elbow to hyper-extend. At this point Mammoth was screaming in pain and trying with all his might to remove her from his arm but swinging his arm wasn't dislodging her and he couldn't grab her with his other arm due the odd angle she had his arm trapped.

Suddenly Kira noticed a giant green elephant walking toward Mammoth's back. It's trunk lifted and slammed into the back of Mammoth's head, which caused both her and him to fall toward the ground. She felt a lot of weight fall on her but was distracted by Beast Boy's next move. Still in his elephant form he crossed his legs and sat on top of Mammoth's body, leaving only his head and the arm she held onto hanging out. The elephant faced her and said, "I got this, lug. Go help the others."

Though it was hard for Kira to tell she could have sworn he smiled at her. She turned her attention toward the other two fights. Now both Raven and Robin were still battling with Jinx and they seemed to be doing well. Thinking three on one might be a little unfair she turned her attention to Starfire who was still battling Gizmo in the air. She wanted to help but there was only one problem, Kira couldn't do a thing so long as they were in the air.

"Hey, Starfire!"

Starfire looked down toward her.

"Bring him down here and I'll help you out!"

Starfire grinned in response, and renewed her assault, this time with a specific target, his jet pack. After a few more impressive aerial combat moves a lucky shot from a starbolt nicked the back of his jets and they sputtered out. He started to fall toward the ground but before hitting four long spider like legs sprouted from his outfit.

Kira looked up at him and barely had time to dodge as one of his legs came crashing down towards her. He then continued to play pin the leg on the Kira and she couldn't manage to escape the range he had on her. Kira knew she couldn't keep this up for very long, she was losing speed and fast. She then dodged the seventh try at hitting her and lost her balance causing her to fall. When she looked back up she saw a leg coming down on her and knew she couldn't move fast enough. Before she knew it she was lifted off the ground by Starfire. Kira would have been surprised by this display of strength and speed by Starfire if she hadn't spent the last three months around some rather powerful metas.

As the two were in the air they noticed that Robin was about to get blasted by Jinx but that plan failed when a blue stream of power hit her in the back knocking her unconscious. The attack came from Cyborg who said, "Boo-ya, bomb's taken care of."

With this said the Titans and Kira heard Gizmo say, "Not so fast Titans. Did you think that was the only way to set off my bomb?"

As he said this he showed the detonator to the Titans, implying that he was going to push it.

The Titans weren't sure how to respond. Suddenly Kira had an idea and said to Starfire, "Drop me on him!"

Not being one to question and unsure of what she was going to do Starfire did as Kira asked. They flew above Gizmo and she then dropped Kira. The other Titans saw this and proceeded to watch.

Gizmo was about to activate the bomb when he felt a huge weight fall on his back.

"Huh?"

Before he could even react Kira opened her mouth and displayed a pair of impressive looking snake fangs, which she then used to bite deep into Gizmo's shoulder. Almost immediately Gizmo froze in place and and they watched as his eyes raced back and forth, but that was all that moved, not a single muscle on his body seemed capable of movement. When Gizmo ceased moving Kira released him and pulled the detonator out of his hand. She then climbed down his spider legs which had stopped functioning as well. When she reached the ground she walked over to Cyborg and handed him the detonator.

"Here. That isn't my expertise."

Beast Boy approached the Titans and Kira, he had sat on Mammoth so long that he passed out from lack of oxygen. Starfire was ranting in joy of how good of a job they did together. Raven merely asked if they could go home yet. Beast Boy and Cyborg started talking about pizza and video games. Kira noticed Robin looking at her, at least she thought he was, it was hard to see his eyes behind his mask.

"Alright then Titans lets get these three where they belong. Then get some food. Hey new girl."

"Yeah." responded Kira.

"Nice work."

Kira smiled at Robin's compliment. Maybe this wasn't such a bad idea after all.

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