Snippet #16362

Nikki looked over her shoulder at the other teen heroes gathered around where the cook Dick Grayson had hired was cooking on the grill, she stared and realized that at least one of them was missing. Nikki shook her head, it wasn't any of her business.

She quickly stood up and moved away from them.

She needed to find something to occupy her time, and right now she felt like getting sweaty and dirty, which meant the ideal activity for her was the obstacle course.

She walked over and turned the dial that decided the difficulty to one and set the countdown. She quickly took her place at the starting line and watched the clock

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The siren signaling the start went off. She ran forward and ducked under a door as it slammed down. She was already rolling back to her feet when a blade came slicing horizontally at her. She jumped over and went flying as a section of the ground dropped out from under her.

Nikki barely managed to grab the edge and pull herself up. She felt the blasts as they slammed into her. She could feel the heat licking at her skin but she charged forward anyways. Lasers never did have an effect on her. She was just glad that it wasn't bullets, as painful as lasers could be to others, they were still just light and couldn't push her back. She fell and went sliding down a slide that had been hidden behind an outcropping, quickly pulling her board off her back she managed to pull it under her feet. She glided down the slide and noticed the long trench she'd need to clear to get to the other side. She popped her back wheels just as she reached the end of the ramp and went sailing. Her eyes widened as a barrage of discs came from both sides.

"CRAP!"

She brought her energy soaked right hand up and swatted at the ones on her right. Two went flying while three more smashed into her body and exploded throwing her at the other discs. Nikki lost track of her board as the explosions from the second set of discs threw her to the side.

Her head hit the edge of the wall as she fell into the pit.

Nikki coughed. "Okay, that one hurt."