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Kataly'a

princess of tamaran

Nineteen years of brutal training on Tamaran had prepared Kataly'a for....whatever the kriff this was. It had been only a few weeks since Kataly'a had joined the Heroes of Tomorrow initiative with the other heroes in training, and only a little over two months since she'd left Tamaran to take up permanent residence on Earth with her aunt. The Tamaranean found many Earth things strange, but the training the Heroes of Tomorrow initiative assigned to them was the strangest so far.

She and the strange, loud man named Natalio had been paired up for a training exercise, the whole team had been dropped into a practice field and split up into groups to complete the task of "capture the flag", some silly human game that was meant to test their abilities. They'd done practice exercises like this almost every day of training, and yet it seemed like they weren't getting any better at working as a team. Ever since arriving on the base, Natalio had made a habit of flirting with the alien girl every day, almost incessantly. It seemed he flirted with everyone in the base, even in the middle of training.

"You know, I wouldn't mind being the next King of Tamaran." Kataly'a tried her best to ignore Natalio's comment, floating a few inches off the ground to silence her footsteps and keep the other team from finding their location. The Tamaranean wasn't very good at sneak attacks, she was more of a head on fighter, but learning new things was the whole point of this training.

The two teammates made their way around the edge of the perimeter, keeping their eyes and ears open for the sounds of the other team as they made their way towards the flag. Finally, Kataly’a could see the blue flag waving just a few meters ahead, seemingly unguarded. The alien crept a little closer the the flag before making a decisive plan of action, even if their was someone waiting for her to grab the flag she was probably fast enough and strong enough to get away with it with Nat’s help.

“Okay Natalio, let’s do this.” She spoke, turning to give her partner a firm look before flying towards the flag. Just as she was about to reach it, she slammed into something hard, sending both parties flying backwards.

“What the hell Kat! You’re supposed to be guarding our flag!” Draven yelled from where he was laying sprawled out on the ground from the impact of the alien girl flying directly into him.

“I am not! You said you were going to be doing the watching of the flag.” Kataly’a argued as Draven sat up from the ground with a wince and headed over towards her.

“So who’s watching the flag?” Draven shouted, throwing his hands up in exasperation as he and Kataly’a continued to argue over who had been assigned to watch the flag.

Before the two could argue more, the communicators at their side went off, causing both of them to pause. The communicators had been given to them by their trainer, the Black Canary, and were meant to be used for real missions. The little machines had never gone off before, they were meant to be for emergencies only and they hadn't been approved for real missions yet.

With slight hesitation, Draven removed the communicator from his belt and opened it, Canary's face staring back at him as it came to life. "Hey kids, as much fun as this training has been, our assistance is needed downtown. I advised against sending you all into a serious situation this early into training, but the League is in a tough spot and no one else is available to respond."

The news made Kataly'a tense up, she hadn't fought on Earth yet outside of training and she was still learning how to hold herself back while still being an effective fighter. Unlike on Tamaran, the goal of an Earth fight was to capture your opponent, not everything was a battle to the death here.

"Return to the entrance of the training course, we've got a hostage situation at Future Bank downtown." Black Canary spoke, and then suddenly their communicators went black.

The two young heroes shared a look with one another before turning to make their way towards the front of the trainig grounds, ignoring Natalio's excited chatter along the way.

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