A bit of celebratory fic

[mithen]

[Setting:  A ROOM.  It looks somewhat like a waiting room:  featureless and filled with uncomfortable chairs.  The walls are lined with television screens showing various superheroes in action.  A blond woman in an eggplant-colored sweater slouches on one of the chairs, her posture revealing that she's been here a while.  She watches the screens:  now and then when one of them shows SUPERGIRL, RED ROBIN, or BATGIRL she sighs].

STEPH BROWN:  I guess everyone's getting on okay.  That's good and all, but--

[Suddenly, a clarion call is heard!  Steph sits up straight in her chair.]

STEPH:  What's that?  A call?  Am I needed?

[A door materializes in the wall.  It swings open:  beyond is only blackness.  Steph springs to her feet.]

STEPH:  I'm ready!  Whatever it is, I'm ready!  I can be Spoiler, or Robin, or Batgirl--

[In a cheesy CG effect, Steph is suddenly encased in a black suit.  Purple wings spread across the front.  Her hair shifts to purple, and a black domino mask covers her face.  Steph looks down at herself.]

STEPH:  Nightwing?!

[She looks up, straight out of the camera at you, smiling.  She gives a thumbs-up.]

STEPH:  Cool.

[Turning, she leaps through the door into the void, ready for whatever is on the other side]

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Go Steph!