It was slightly odd being in San Francisco. This wasn’t her City, hell she was in the opposite side of the US. But it was for a good reason at least. After a month or two from hiatus superhero-ing to heal from her wounds, I mean it was a two month hiatus that was more enforced on her rather than her accepting it. Hard to sneak out of a house of a SHIELD operative and with super sense who remembered the sound of Alex preparing for a night out. After coming home that day with several high degree burns and a limp, set the maternal instincts that she had in motion and both helped bandage and remove the shrapnel while telling her off for acting so brash and reckless and should’ve contacted her or Lydia or someone else who could help her. And Jesse had a few points. She was being reckless and because of her, majority of the evidence was up in flames.

At least Jesse and the Danvers helped her. I mean Carol also chewed her out a little for being so brash whenever it came up but she also brought baked goods and Lydia which was a big plus. So the months fly by fast and hell there was even a proposition sent out to help her get back in tip top shape by spending sometime in San Francisco helping by training alongside the Titans for a bit. As Jesse and Carol repeatedly put it ‘some discipline and learning to keep a cool head is something that was paramount to learn.’ Which she of course agreed to. She hated not being a hero and hell if this would prove to them she was ready to return, it’d help.

She arrived in San Francisco early that day. She had packed light bring only essentials and made her way into the city. It was her very first time being in this city… or anywhere outside of New York City so it was kinda of an adventure for her. She texted Lydia she had landed and was making her way to the tower now.

Now if I was a giant tower holding some of the best and brightest of my generation where would I be? She asked herself. She looked at some of the buildings and a smirk crossed her face. definitely somewhere high and easily accessible to heroes… Time to do a little scouting she said to herself as she made her way to an empty alleyway. Looked around for any onlookers and started climbing the building. Even with 2 months of no scaling the tall buildings of New York at least she could still scale ones half their size extremely quickly. She scoped the skyline for the building she was heading for. What could the building loo- Gee Imagined it standing out, but not this much. T for Target I supposed. She thought to herself as she looked at the comically large T across slightly offshore of the city. That was going to be fun getting there. She raised the hood of her Bat Man hoodie and started running. Jumping from building to building letting out the occasional shout of excitement that escaped her as she felt the same rush again.

She arrived at the beach in no time. Then she came across the problem that was the water. She sighed. Taking a boat seemed too suspicious and Jess had refused to give her the location for the teleporter and the code for it saying ‘it’ll be good exercise’. Alex sighed and dropped her bag.

”Why did I ever agree to doing this…” She said to herself as she grabbed her phone and stuck it to her laptop. Then began webbing the computer and phone into a sticky air bubble filled variation. She grabbed the air bubble and aimed it at the Titan Tower. She took a few steps back before running forward and tossing it across the water. She crossed her fingers as she saw it hit and stuck against the tower. She sighed in relief as it hit.

”Strength hasn’t gone at least. That’s good.” She said as she put the bag on again and tightened the straps. She took a deep breath in and jumped into the water and started swimming to the island. She regretted keeping the hoodie on, it was brand new and slightly an annoyance to swim in. It was not the weight that was the problem but the way it constrained her from doing full movements.

It didn’t take her too long to arrive and she shook herself and took off her hoodie to rinse, she started looking around for the entrance to this place. ”Unidentified individual arrived on the island. Activating defense mechanisms.” An automated voice said from the building itself which took Alex by surprise.

”Wait what? She said as turrets arose from the sand and started firing in her direction. She chucked her hoodie away as she started to move, which got shredded to pieces, and started to duck and weave around to dodge getting hit by the pellets, the Titans apparently had some serious defenses.

”Lydia!” She yelled as loud as she could as started getting more and more mobile. This must’ve been some kind of mistake. It must be.

Right?

Standing in the kitchen, Lydia was going over the shopping list again, just to make sure she was getting everything they'd need. Alex was coming to stay with them, and she wasn't sure how much food she'd need, how much Alex would go through normally. She'd gotten a text from her saying she'd be their soon, so she'd need to put the order in before Alex got there. She had all the usual things ready to go, though she didn't have to feed Walt as much anymore now that he had "graduated" as it were. The Avengers would be good for him. She was still needed here with the Titans, and having Alex to train would be a nice return to normalcy. Still, she wondered what it would be like not having to constantly cook for a speedster, or put up with his shenanigans. (she'd definitely miss his shenanigans).

There was a loud THUNK that startled her out of her planning and Lydia looked around, wondering what could have made the sound. Leaving her list on the counter, she started to head to the monitor room to see if something was going on. As soon as she got to the room the proximity alarm went off and the monitors all started showing a string of alerts as to what was going on. On the biggest screen, it showed her where the turrets had been triggered and she swore softly as she saw Alex. Rushing to a console, she started to target her for a teleport then paused, thinking this could be a good exercise and Lydia could do a spot assessment of her skills. She instead set the turrets to stun and got on the loudspeaker.

"Alex! You crazy girl! How come you didn't just teleport in!?" She asked, knowing very well Jesse had refused to give her the codes and warned her off doing the same. She watched Alex's progress, artfully dodging the now set to stun phasers. "Sorry they're shooting at you! Haven't had a chance to put you into the system yet."

Lydia opened the front door with a few keystrokes and started directing her toward it. "Alex, jump through the door! I'll try shutting down the defense system but, they've been making upgrades and I haven't had a chance to learn all the new systems." And it was partially true, they had upgraded a lot of things after the invasion of doppelgangers. James had taken a special interest in setting everything up. However, the first thing she learned was how to control the defenses, just in case something exactly like this happened. It was a tower full of teenagers, someone was bound to set something off. And if Alex did manage to get inside, Lydia would commend her for it. If not, she'd go outside and bring her friend in herself, set her up in her room and wait for her to wake up.

Alex kept dodging and dodging, focusing on trying to keep dodging the constant fire of the turrets. It wasn’t so much that it was difficult to dodge it was just that she had to keep moving constantly due to the amount of it that was being fired at her was just starting to become annoying. There was one solution to it all, though Alex wasn’t too sure if the Titans, Avengers and Justice League would agree with what she was thinking to do. Though there didn’t seem much choice for Alex. It was hard to think with everything happening around her.

She was starting to stress when a familiar voice blasted over the speakers, when a familiar voice blasted over the loudspeaker. It was Lydia calling her a crazy girl. Maybe She was for what she did. ”Wait?!” Alex shouted trying to shout over the firing of the turrets ”You have teleportation!? Why didn’t you just give me the code or process on how to teleport! I had to fly 6 hours to get here!” She shouted still constantly dodging everything that was fired at her. She listened closely to what Lydia was saying to her and saw the door of the tower open up. That was fine, now she just needed a way to get in there without getting hit.

Of course if Alex had more time to think and wasn’t being fired at by multiple turrets, she would’ve thought of a smarter way to get inside. But drastic times call for drastic measures as the arguably shoddy plan she was thinking before Lydia connected came back.

”Sorry… person who built and installed these things.” Alex said to no one in particular as she jumped up and shot web at the closest turret near her and pulled hard. The turret broke in half with the head flying up towards her without being able to fire anyway. Maybe it was flying a bit too fast as it hit Alex knocking the air out of her. She grabbed onto it hard sticking to it as she flew slightly more onto the island, before crashing down back on the island. ”Oww…” Alex exclaimed, where the painly mainly came from the shock of the landing then the landing herself. At least she landed in such a way that the the turret took up majority of the fire, Alex sighed in relief. At least it had worked.

Though now she just had to get into the tower, but at least she had a makeshift shield for now, which she could use to think of something. Then an idea popped into her head as she sticked her hands to the turret head. She took a deep breath as she through on how to do it.

Seeing as she already destroyed one turret it was likely she was already in trouble, so how much more trouble could she be in for destroying a second? Less fire for her to dodge and easier for her to just weave her way into the entrance. Gotta love spidey strength and silk senses. She took a deep breath, cracked her neck and got herself more pumped.

”Let’s do this” She as she chucked the hunk of metal at one of the turrets and dashed to the entrance, weaving a rolling out of the fire that the last few turrets were firing at her. As she approached she just leaped as hard as she could, cracking the ground a little, and dived into the entrance and did a little roll before standing up straight. ”WOOO I… left my computer, clothes and costumes outside… damnit.” She said hoping Lydia, being somewhat of being Big Brother was listening up on the conversation.

”So… Not judging, you’re the almighty leader of the Titans, but can you call your Brother to get the code so I can get my stuff. This stuff is wet and I’d like to get changed into actual clothing or my costume for… the trai-” Then everything kinda hit her at once. ”Jess told you not to give me the teleportation code/method/thingy you guys use didn’t she? And please tell me you didn’t almost kill me to test my skill? Cause if so you’re a bad friend, but I can’t stay mad at you so you’re already forgiven. Just don’t do anything that might kill me again, I like my life.” She said still coming down from the adrenaline rush, her face slightly flushed red with the odd mix of no sweat.