Hero Housekeeper (A DC Comics Fanfic)

Nate Gets Super-Training! (Pt. 2/4)

(A/N: Okay, so the Teen Titans had a fight with Ares. I had tried to write the battle scene in, but it took too long and I didn't want to waste any more time, so here's a simple summary of what went down. I'll write the battle in at some point!

Nothing more to say. I'm back, you've been waiting a year and a half plus - here's the chapter! Enjoy!) 

Battle Summary: The Teen Titans fought Ares, the God of War, who had been stoking tensions among Southern senators to ignite another American Civil War.

The Titans did battle with a battalion of skeletal Civil War soldiers, while Wonder Girl engaged Ares, who taunted her about her 'unworthiness' to the Wonder Girl mantle before taking her down with a magical attack.

Thankfully, Arrowette intervenes, striking Ares. The War God laughs her threat off, refusing to even block her arrows, only to learn that one of the arrows was made of Nth Metal, to cancel out magic. Injured and his magic unstable, Wonder Girl invokes the powers of Zeus and banishes Ares from the earthly plane.

The Titans celebrate their victory, but on their way back to the Tower, Wonder Girl sees a vision of Ares in the Titans Jet and starts acting a little agitated towards everyone.

But the Titans brush it off as post-mission tension and return to the Tower, where Arrowette briefs Robin on the mission, only to find herself walking in on one of Nate's training sessions...)

ARROWETTE/CISSIE POV

I've seen a lot of painful things in my life. Schoolyard fights (at public and private schools), archery field injuries, shootings, supervillains and superheroes duking it out to the point of near-death...

I sigh deeply.

...But the this has got to be the most painful thing I've ever seen. Something so painful and caustic to the eyes that nothing else comes close:

Our 'housekeeper' trying to climb a gym rope.

"...Urgh...I can't...feel my legs!"

"Because they're dangling, Nate." Robin calls out. "Keep them around the rope at all times!"

I groan so hard I worry that I almost worry I'll throw up.

There I was, so glad to get some one-on-one time with Robin (to talk about the mission, of course) only to be stuck watching Houseboy go through more training. Am I really playing second fiddle for Robin's attention with some scrawny pervert who can't even climb a frickin' rope?

Houseboy groaned as he climbed another foot higher, still nowhere near the two-storey high gym roof. "Remind me again, why...why I'm doing this?"

Now it was my turn to groan. "Because Robin said we had to train you, remember? And we can't exactly train you if you have the fitness level of a couch potato."

Even though I clearly said that I did not want to be involved in all of this 'training' two weeks ago...

"Oh yeah," Houseboy remarks. "'Cos high school-level rope climbing really brings out your inner hero!"

I fold my arms. Well, maybe it would be easier if he stopped complaining and started climbing!

"This is nothing, Nate!" Robin suddenly chimes in. "There were times when Batman would have me practice climbing burning scaffolds in weighted training gear!"