NEVER TAKE THE NAME OF BATMAN IN VAIN

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"NARINA!!! NARINA-CHAN!!!"

A voice exploded into Narina's ears.. a familiar one that was for sure. She was pretty used to it by now.. her Android attendant Bella constantly yelling at her to get up if she was sleeping in too late..

It was only a few weeks after Narina had graduated from the Academy, and Violet had come to live with her and her parents as her adopted sister... 

Narina had found a job relatively quick, starting in the Special Operations office as a rookie officer in training, basically for heroes who specialized in covert operations and special combat.. which meant waking early, and terribly tough training..

But after her week of basic training was up, and she began going on jobs that were more of a nighttime deal.. she began sleeping late and waking late..  Bella was just going to have to get used to that..

"Bella stop.. five more minutes.." Narina groaned, stuffing her face further into her pillow. 

"Narina something is VERY wrong.. VERY VERY VERY wrong!!"

"Did dad buy something from Ikea again? I swear they should've taken the hint about how to put stuff together when they were founded like..decades... or centuries... ago.. I dunno.." Narina moaned as she dimly opened her eyes. "When was Ikea invented again?"

"NARINA THIS IS AN EMERGENCY!!" Narina's android squealed into her face.. her green hair fluttering a little as Narina bolted up

"Hahhh?" Narina muttered, sitting up and rubbing her eyes. "What the heck are you.. wait a minute.."

Narina looked around the strange dilapidated looking apartment that she was in..  with the wallpaper sort of peeling off ... pictures of herself and people she never met before were sitting on the shelves..  and there was a mini fridge in the corner.. 

"This isn't my room!!" Narina stammered. "Oooo..kay.. who kidnapped us!?"

"I.. I don't know.. look.. " said Bella, quivering a little, her lower lip trembling with confusion. "I think I might be malfunctioning. Cause according to my logs, I only shut myself down for about 2 minutes before we suddenly woke up here.. and to top it off.."

Bella pointed at the window. "IT'S FREAKING DAY TIME!! AND THE CITY LOOKS SO OLD TIMEY!!!"

Narina looked out the window as Bella indicated. Rather then seeing the Roots and the massive Tree of our great city in the distance.. I saw what looked like a VERY normal metropolis.. and not just normal.. old..

No hover cars..  no holo-billboards, no magnetic hover trains.. not even a City Tree as was usually designated in all the big cities, with the branches being where the Nobles lived..   It all looked so... so... 21st century!!

And to top it off.. many of the famous people she could see on the billboards around were heroes alright.. but NONE of them were heroes I had ever heard of in my life.. in fact.. plenty of them were the GOOFIEST looking goddamn heroes Narina ever saw.

Best Jeanest!? What the hell!? Was that guy wearing pants over the bottom half of his face!? Kamui wood? A Ninja tree!? seriously!? 

Okay.. maybe Ms. Mountain.. a girl who could turn ginormous.. yeah.. that was cliche and not strange.. but still.. 

It all felt very... how to put it?

Anime... there she said it.. it felt like an Anime! I mean where ELSE do you find something like friggin' "Best Jeanest!?"

Narina backed away, and breathed in and out. "Okay.. obviously, something VERY weird is going on here.. we always learned in the Academy that when in a situational crisis like this, best thing to do is not to panic.. but to find clues.."

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