"Rose Canton. Age 18. You attend the Central City College of Biology majoring in plants." The cop read off her description.
"Yeah, that's me." Rose nodded, looking back cautiously at Nightwing and Kid Flash waiting in the hall. They watched her talk to the cop in a secluded room behind glass.
"What's the point in this?" Nightwing asked Kid Flash, "she seems like an innocent victim."
"But that guy. The leader of the trio. He was scared of her. Legit fear. How could a grown man be scared of an 'innocent' 18 year-old girl?" Kid Flash crossed his arms, "and if she's from Central City, why is she in Blüdhaven?"
"I'm...studying abroad." Rose swallowed hard, answer in the cop. As he wrote on the sheet on his clipboard he looked up at her.
"Are you certain? That answer sounds a bit hesitant..."
"I'm positive." Rose nodded.
"Okay. I think I may have all I need. You can go." The cop said as he wrote down some notes. Rose then immediately got up and ran out to where Nightwing and Kid Flash were staring at her.
"Are you okay?" Kid Flash asked.
"I...I don't know..." Rose said, tugging at her red hair, the pink flower pin she had put in held tight to her hair, almost as if it were connected.
"What do you mean?" Nightwing asked.
"I lied... I really don't know how I got here." Rose said, "it was as if I went to bed last night, and when I woke up this morning, I was being held at gunpoint by those three muggers..."
"Do you have...I don't know... Amnesia?" Kid Flash suggested.
"I'm pretty sure I don't..." Rose answered.
"So...you fell asleep in your bed in Central City, and you wake up in an alley in Blüdhaven." Nightwing thought hard, "this isn't just ordinary sleep-walking."
"So you're studying plants?" Kid Flash asked, "photosynthesis, mesophyll, chloroplasts, pigments, all that fun stuff?"
"Yeah." Rose said.
"Do you remember getting caught in any serious accident or something? Maybe you have a serious case of amnesia just recently diagnosed?" Nightwing considered.
"I don't know..." Rose said.
"I have an idea." Kid Flash spoke up, "we can watch your place tonight. See if you do anything you never knew that you do."
"In other words, we're going to stalk her outside her house at night. That's a perfect plan..." Nightwing said sarcastically.
"I'm serious! It could work!" Kid Flash said, then turned to Rose, "if that's okay with you, of course."
"If that's what will help me, then I'm willing to try anything." Rose nodded.
"Then we can start tonight." Nightwing said.
"Okay." Rose said and they left the precinct.
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It was silent and calm in Blüdhaven. It was five minutes before midnight, and Nightwing and Kid Flash were sitting in a nearby tree outside the hotel Rose was staying in.
"Got any theories?" Kid Flash asked.
"Well, she studies plants..." Nightwing thought out loud, "but I can't make connections..."
"Yeah. Maybe it's just major sleep-walking..." Kid Flash rolled his eyes.
"But get this. Not only is she smart, she did martial arts. She went out in the line of duty with the alias, Rose. She used the power of plants to put down crime." Nightwing explained as he read a document on his wrist holocomputer.
"Could that mean anything?"
"No clue..." Nightwing said as he continued to research deeper. Kid Flash turned to the building and his eyes opened wide.
"So, uh, what exactly does she do at night?"
"Sleep? Study? Why?" Nightwing asked as he turned to the building.
"Because...does she have anything to do with THAT?" Kid Flash pointed at the hotel. There were vines and thorns growing out of Rose's window.
"Okay. There might be our answer." Nightwing said and they ran out to get her. But when they got into her room, it was like a jungle. It was covered in weeds, poison ivy, and thorns.
"Rose?" Kid Flash called, "dang, where could she have gone?"
"Are we sure this isn't just a science experiment gone wrong?" Nightwing suggested.
"So this is what Rose does? She's like the good version of Poison Ivy..."
"Where is she?!" Nightwing looked around, "Rose!"
"Rose....isn't....here...." The familiar female voice said behind a curtain of thorns.
"Rose?" Kid Flash asked.
"I'm not Rose..." Suddenly, a girl with red hair wearing green vines and hands glowing green stepped out, and her pink flower pin had shriveled up and turned into what looked like a vine of thorns, "I'm Thorn..."
-To be continued!-
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