Massachusetts Academy, Snow Valley, Massachusetts
Cheetah’s van pulled up to the school entrance. The blonde woman in the white leather skirt suit was of course Ms. Emma Frost and she waited there arms folded and rocking her foot back and forth on her white stiletto heel of her knee boots.
“Ah, the Minervas and the Dubrovnas,” Emma unfolded her arms and started calling off names for the tarty slips, “Richard, Barbara, Diana, Donna, Felicia, and Cassandra.”
Each of the children grabbed a slip as they went to their schools. Cassie and Felicia headed across the street to the Emma Frost’s Finishing School for Gifted Young Ladies. Diana, Dick, Babs and Donna went to the Massachusetts Academy. Dick and Babs strained to hear the exchange between Cheetah and Emma Frost.
“Classes don’t start for another half an hour,” Cheetah walked up to their head mistress.
“I told you and Selina,” Emma pronounced, “If you wanted to keep them in a home style environment, they still need to be here for the early morning exercise and conditioning period…”
“Oh come on,” Cheetah started.
“That is where an large part of their physical and mental reconditioning takes place!” Emma almost shouted at Cheetah, “If we want them to be villains they need to be reconditioned…”
Dick and Babs lost the conversation when they went inside.
Entering the main hall of the Massachusetts Academy the Kittens came face to face with the Princesses. At least that is how Dick thought of it was they walked right in and were blocked by a line of girls. A tall seventeen red head, a fifteen year old black haired girl and a sixteen year old Raven.
“Oh look who managed to escape the pound,” the Red head sneered.
“Oh look who got dragged back from the whore house by their mommy,” Dick sniped in Catwoman’s style of wit.
“Listen sissy boy,” Raven started.
“What’s the matter Jean,” Babs found herself throwing the name out there, “Can’t keep up on your own?”
“What is going on here?” Mister Freeze intoned.
“Nothing Professor Frease,” Jean said, “We were just saying good morning.”
“It is time to go to class,” Mister Freeze ordered, “Richard may I have a word with you?”
All of the kids split off leaving Dick alone with the armored supervillain.
“You managed to score an 87 on your test yesterday,” Mister Freeze said, “Some people think that you cheeted. They think you used your sister to get the answers somehow.”
“If I cheated would I confess?” Dick bantered, “Babs is the brains, but while she did help me study, I took the test by my self. Is that all?”
“Yess…” Mister Freeze moved to let Dick go.
At Lunch they all gathered at a table next to a wall. Diana was squaring off with Jean between their tables and Donna took a seat between Dick and Babs. All of them were watching everything around them. They had figured out there was power struggles going on, and they were at the center of them. One girl Wanda and her brother controlled a block of mutants called the Brotherhood, Diana and them were the center of the Kittens, Miss Frost controlled the Princesses and the Cuckoos. All of the Kittens were feline themed or at least animal themed.
“Dick, Babs, does the names Batgirl and Robin mean anything to you?” Donna asked quietly.
“Does Wonder-girl?” Babs whispered back.
“Oh thank god, I thought I was going insane,” Donna said, “I woke up yesterday and it was all three of us Amazons calling Cheetah mom, then we picked up Felicia on the way to school. Now today we grabbed you as well. I remember being an Amazon, I remember being a mother, I remember Dying, I remember coming back… Then I woke up and I was my archenemy’s child.”
The conversation stopped when they saw Raven walk up.
“Dick,” Raven started, “You know your soul shadow really isn’t a cat. I see a bird…”
“A bird?” Babs prodded hoping Raven remembered too.
“I see… A yellow bellied sap sucker!” Raven let out a cruel laugh.
They said nothing as she left then Babs pulled something from her pocket.
“A ghost left me a note, meet under the gym during detention time,” Babs whispered to the others.
“I’ll go with you,” Dick spoke up.
“Me too,” Donna said.
“No,” Babs put her hand on the girls shoulder, “We were trained by bats on disappearing.”
“That is so sexist,” Babs sneered.
“What?” Dick asked as he dropped out of a ventilation shaft.
“Boys and girls being split up for detentions?” Babs fumed, “Do I want to know what you pulled to get out?”
“Well, plan anchovy pizza,” Dick shrugged, “beyond that you don’t want to know.”
“Isn’t plan anchovy pizza from the Joker play book?” Babs asked.
“Joker and his clowns,” Dick shrugged, “and I had to do an escape and evasion from Professor Harleen Quinzelle.”
“Professor Pamela Isley,” Babs shot Dick a look of disgust.
A girl fell throw the gym floor holding a volley ball. Dick caught her out of instinct. They recognized her, it was the black haired girl from the Princesses earlier.
“Hi,” she said sheepishly, “My name is Kitty Pryde or rather it was…”
Dick put the girl down and folded his arms.
“You two remember before don’t you?” Kitty asked, “I mean you remember being a hero?”
“Yeah,” Dick admitted, “We both woke up this morning and teenagers again.”
“Jean, Laura, and even the Professor are now convinced that they are Emma’s kids,” Kitty explained, “And we got this new girl living with us today. She is completely mind wiped. She thinks that the White Queen and some demon had her.”
“That would be Raven, she is a half demon,” Babs said, “But her mom was a cultist who got offered as a bride to their demon lord.
“I can’t remember what happened before,” Kitty said, “I remember that I was an X-men. Frost was part of Cyclops’s X-men and then there was a lot of tension… Then I woke up as a kid again and one of my nightmares came true!”
“What?” Dick asked.
“When I first awoke as a mutant,” Kitty grabbed the volley ball, “Frost kidnapped me to be her student here, then the X-men saved me. Each morning I wake up I freak out more and more. Don’t contact me unless it is absolutely needed, remembering may be a crime now, be careful.”
With that the mutant girl climbed some boxes and went throw the ceiling back into the gym above.
“Darksied?” Babs asked.
“If we were still adults, maybe,” Dick said, “But teenagers again? He might be a part, but not behind it alone.”
“Lets get back,” Babs said, “Well talk at home.”
“Felicia dear get to work on your homework, Aunt Holly is making dinner, YOU TWO GET CHANGED AND GET TO THE CAR,” Selina greeted the kittens as they entered the safe house, “Now!”
Dick and Babs looked at each other and then at Catwoman staring at them.
“MOVE IT,” Catwoman ordered.
Dick and Babs found the outfits Selina had laid out. For Barbara there was a gold pair of latex pants and a tiger stripped sweater, Dick had a black pair of latex pants and a tiger striped sweater.
“Is she kidding?” Dick asked.
“I don’t think so,” Babs confessed.
“I am not wearing this,” Dick said.
“You wore skin tight green booty shorts for years,” Babs countered, “and you have a problem with this?”
“That was a uniform,” Dick argued.
“If I have to wear this,” Babs held up the gold latex, “You do to.”
“OK,” Dick said thinking of Babs in the tight outfit.
They changed and then went down and found Selina waiting by the Jaguar sedan.
“Where are we going?”
“Fetish shop,” Selina said, “If you two are going to be playing kinky games that’s one thing, but none of my kittens are going to be playing with cheap mall novelty bondage toys!”
Thursday Morning, Cheetah house hold
Donna woke up and sneezed, something had been tickling her nose. She looked over, a tiger tail was sticking out of the sheets. She pulled back the sleets and found Greer Minerva, alas Tigra, curled up in a ball next to her. Donna looked at the other bed in the room, it had been torn to shreds, and now her sister was in her bed. Donna slapped herself, this wasn’t her sister, she had to remember being a hero…