Amberly was eager to see Red Robin again. While she learned that he didn't have any powers, he still had multiple ideas on how to hone hers. Red Robin told her of the superhero team, Young Justice, he had been a part of in the past, where he trained with individuals who had superstrength among other abilities.
"We should get a gauge on how strong you really are," Red Robin told her while pointing at a decommissioned semi-trailer truck in Gotham's junk yard. "Go ahead try and pick it up, no one's around here to worry about hurting."
Amberly couldn't lie; she was curious about her strength. She stepped forward and gripped the bottom of the truck lifting slowly. It was light in her hands. The truck was soon hovering a few feet above the ground.
Red Robin's eyes bugged out of his head. "Awesome."
She could say the same about his suit, that was thick enough to stop a bullet yet was still skintight. The red and yellow colors stood out amongst the cloudy weather, and two R's were stuck to his chest.
"Branding is everything." She could hear Pepper saying in the back of her mind.
Maybe Harley had some ideas on developing a uniform for her. He was always sketching out different things in that notebook of his. She'd need to talk to him about it if their impromptu trip extended any longer.
Red Robin commented on seeing her fight the other night and how her stance could be improved. "Have you had much hand-to-hand combat training?"
"Not really," she admitted.
"I know it can be scary to properly form a punch when you've got super strength, but it's important to know how to use it." He mimicked a fighting stance and encouraged Amberly to copy.
"Like this?" she questioned, stepping forward and following through with a punch to the air. Red Robin adjusted her posture and told her to try again.
It felt like they were practicing for hours, but Amberly was thoroughly enjoying it. Besides some simple self-defense moves, she never learned many fighting techniques in the past.
Red Robin suggested that they go around the city together, and in her excitement Amberly agreed. He knew a route that should avoid any of the other vigilantes and insisted it would be quiet. Soon she was following him, getting acquainted with his style of mixing parkour and free running with bouncing between places.
The spider sense tingling in the back of her mind was something she was still getting used to. It saved her from missing a step here and there, but it wasn't something Amberly felt was very predictable.
"What was your team like?" Amberly asked when they took a break to have a snack on top of Wayne Enterprises. The two were perched on a air conditioning unit.
Red Robin wanted to stop for street tacos. He was friendly with the cooks in the back of the food truck they visited, and the pair got their food for free. Amberly was hesitant to sit on top of WE, but Red Robin insisted that it was fine, and he was able to hack the security cameras to wipe any evidence of them.
"They are or at least were my best friends," he reminisced. "I was closest with Superboy and Kid Flash."
"Did you have a falling out?"
He took a moment staring out into the distance before responding. "Not exactly. I left for a mission. It wasn't something I could really tell anyone about unless I wanted to be labeled as crazy and thrown in Arkham."
"That's the place Joker escaped from?"
His head mimicked the motion of rolling his eyes. "Yeah, well inconveniences often find themselves there."
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If Souls Return (Then Tell Them I Say Hi) - Tony Stark's Daughter in Gotham
ActionTony Stark's daughter is lost in Gotham with no way of getting home and a certain Batfamily trying to adopt her. This was bad. Her thoughts were hard to make out with the pain in her head. The last thing she remembered clearly was the stage and then...
