Bethany Ford - A Young Justice Novel (Robin/Dick Grayson Romance) [Completed]

Chapter 33: Hold Your Fire

Okay so the picture on the side (or above, depends on how you're viewing it) is a picture of Jean Grey from the X-Men. This is what the fiery woman is supposed to seem like. Not the outfit that Jean is wearing, just the image that there is a woman encased in a wall of fire, basically.

Happy Bday guys. You deserve another chapter today.

Bethany POV:

A huge pit of fire was whizzing it's way towards us at a frightening speed. Inside the flames, I saw the outline of a woman, her hair was a pile of flames and she had her arms spread out. It looked like she was creating the entire wall of fire that was rapidly approaching us. The wall of flames were half the size of the Wayne Enterprises building and took up the entire four lane highway length.

"OH SHIT!" I blurted out, fear draped behind my voice, "this huge fiery...thing is behind us!!!"

"What?" Robin replied. He looked through his side mirror and cursed under his breath, "Well that's a new trick."

I felt the bike lurch and then we unexpectedly bolted forward, going faster than we already were, "I'm driving. Can you do something?"

"Like what?!" I yelled, still glancing back at the huge flames of death barreling towards us. The cars that got into its way were flung to the side, landing in a heap of metal and smoke on the sides of the road. This thing, whatever it was, was throwing stuff out of its way to catch up with us. I thought about all the innocent people being flung through the air just so that this wall of fire could catch us.

"Anything!" Robin emerged from the traffic that we had been swerving through and got out into a clearer area of the highway. There were still plenty of cars to navigate around though.

"Uhhhh," I said as I looked around myself. I released one of my hands from around Robins torso and pulled out one of my mini crossbow guns, "Bingo!"

I started firing at what I thought would be the woman's face. It didn't do anything. The arrows disintegrated before they could even reach the woman inside. And it still kept charging forward.

"Uhhhhhh," I mumbled to myself nervously and stashed the gun back into the holster. I yanked out the other mini crossbow with the trick arrows and started firing. I didn't even know what the arrows were supposed to do, I just hoped they did something.

The first couple of arrows were exploding ones. Fortunately, they seemed to do something because I heard a howl from the woman behind. The wall of flames receded a little, and then angrily charged forward again. It was gaining ground on us.

My heart started pounding. Oh shit oh shit oh shit. God, why did here have to be such thing as superpowers?!

I rummaged through my utility belt and started throwing random pellets as hard as I could. Smoke clouds erupted, explosions exploded, a freaking net flung out at the thing. Nothing was stopping it. It kept barreling at us.

"Robin! Go go go!" I tapped on his chest frantically. My heart started racing and the adrenaline started kicking in. That thing was gonna catch us.

"What's going on? I'm going over sixty miles over the speed limit!"

"GO FASTER! The damn flame lady is gaining ground on us!!! Nothing is working! I think I even threw my utility belt at her!"

"Reach into the front of my utility belt. There should be a couple cylindrical pellets there," he sped up even faster and I almost fell off the back of the bike. I looked behind me and saw that the flame woman was only thirty feet away.

I frantically stuck my hand where I thought his belt was.

"AH! NOT THERE! Definitely not there! Further up!" Robin yelled.

"Oh sorry!" I was glad he couldn't see my face because it was burning from embarrassment.

I inched my hand up and caught the feel of the metal belt. I rummaged in the pocket carefully and grabbed hold of the cylindrical pellets. I glanced behind and saw she was now less than twenty five feet away.

"Take all of them," Robin commanded. I did, "Now load them into your crossbow and shoot them straight at the woman. Don't miss her."

I stuck the pellets into the crossbow as best as I could and yanked it out of the holster. I turned around, aiming at the flame lady. Twenty feet. Nineteen feet. Eighteen feet.

"Don't miss!" Robin warned, "Those are knockout gas pellets. With all of them, it should be strong enough to delay her. If you miss, you're gonna cause all these civilians on the freeway to knockout."

"Okay," I took aim at her face. I mentally calculated the angle needed, factoring in gravity and aerodynamics. I had my finger on the trigger and took a breath, about to fire.

"Don't miss."

"Please shut the hell up."

I pulled the trigger and all the pellets shot out of my gun like a machine gun. They headed straight for the flame lady, who was now so close I could feel the heat from all the flames.

At first, the pellets seemed to merely disintegrate in front of her, but the clouds that came out of the capsules were right in front of her face. She ran right through all the smoke and almost immediately, the flames receded. The wall of fire stopped its approach and all the flames seemed to shrink back into the flame lady. We kept speeding off further and further away until all I could see was a figure drop from the air and land smack onto the side of the highway.

"Eat that, bitch!" I couldn't help but yell and then cackle in my fake evil laugh.

I turned back around and hugged Robin even closer as we continued to speed past cars.

"We're here," Robin said as the view of the Harbor came into my sights.

Stay traught. I have the next chapter ready and will update tomorrow!