[center][i]River Corner[/i][/center]
[center][b]Just Outside of Jump City[/b][/center]

Ashes scatter on her white tennis shoes as she walks through the remains of the blackened and broken home. She has her black helmet tucked under her arm and she glances over her shoulder to make sure that her brother's black and red motorcycle, the one she kept after selling all his possessions after his death, is still there. She looks across the blank area just before the forest, right next to the road, and she gently sets her helmet down on the ground. She walks into the house, though she could still be seen from the outside, since the roof and walls were broken down, either in the fire or over the years. Covering her hand in a little bit of ice, she runs her fingertips along the walls, feeling the ashes and burnt wood. It is hard to imagine that this only happened three years ago. 

She walks quietly back out of the house and walks around to the back. She sees the five gravestones before she sees the graves. She approaches them cautiously and stands before them, her eyes beginning to fill with tears. This is not what she wanted. Her eyes scan over each of the gravestones, reading her mother's name, all the way down to her youngest brother's. Next to his, her mind forms a mental image of her older brother's gravestone. [i]At least he is with the rest of the family now[/i]she thinks to herself. 

Taking a deep breath, she steps away from the gravestones and walks back over to the motorcycle. She does not have the heart to call it her own yet. She pulls her helmet back on over her white hair and shoves the back of her hoodie down on her neck. She turns the motorcycle on and revs it up, spinning it back toward the direction of Jump City. That's when she notices it. What seems like a dark spot in the distance. [i]What the--[/i] Suddenly, screams come from the city and she swears under her breath. She yanks the throttle all the way back on her motorcycle and speeds in the direction of the city. As she comes closer within the ten minutes it takes to get to the outskirts of the city, she notices that those are not normal ships. Those are definitely not of this Earth.

Within fifteen minutes she is in the center of the city. She pulls the motorcycle to a pause near one of the buildings and gets off it, taking off her helmet. She sets the helmet on the back of the motorcycle and looks up to see the beams carrying away some of the people. There is a small child just a few feet away from her, screaming and crying for her mother. Suddenly, one of the beams catches the child. Reacting out of instinct, River runs for the child and tackles her out of the beam, pulling her close into her chest and protecting her from the fall of the ground. River slides on her back, still protecting the child, and once they stop, the child jumps up and runs to her mother without a thank you. She doesn't care though. River just jumps to her feet and looks to the ships. Ice begins to grow on her fingers, but she doesn't know what to do. She has never used her... "gifts" for battle before. Who was going to help them though?