I woke up on cold concrete, my whole body hurt, my arms were shaking and my chest felt tight from the gate
Then I sat up slow, my hands were bigger than before, my body felt heavier and stronger at the same time, like I had been training for years without even trying
A small bag sat next to me, inside the bag there was an ID card with my new name on it, some cash, and a key with an address on it, that was the citizen papers Zero talked about, free, so I exist on paper in this world now
My age in this body was the same as the Teen Titans, around Cyborgs age, old enough to live alone and old enough that no one would ask questions, that was the age I picked when Zero let me choose
Nobody was looking for me, no cops, no Titans, no one even knew I arrived, I was just a new citizen on paper and nothing else, and that was good because I needed time
I stood up and I looked around, I was in an alley in Jump City, I could see the tall buildings and I could hear cars and people talking far away
Then I looked across the water and I saw it, the big T shaped tower, the Teen Titans Tower from the old 2003 cartoon, not the new one
I liked the Teen Titans, I watched the show back in my old life and I thought it was cool, but I was not obsessed with it, I did not know every line or every episode by heart, I just knew the main stuff, Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and that was enough
I closed my eyes and I tried to feel for ki, at first there was nothing, then I felt it, a warm buzz in my chest, like a small fire that would not go out, and under that I felt magic too, cold and quiet, like water running under my skin
I opened my eyes fast because the feeling was too much at once
A man walked past the alley and he looked at me weird, like he could tell I did not belong there
Man" You good kid, you look like you got hit by a truck "
Me" I am good, just tired "
Man" Go home then, Titans are fighting some robot downtown, you do not want to be out here "
The man walked away and I followed the sound, I could hear booms far away and I could feel the ground shake a little under my feet
I stopped at the corner and I hid behind a wall, I could see smoke in the sky and I could see Beast Boy flying over the buildings, he was green and he had turned into a big bird, his wings were wide and he was diving fast toward the robot
My hands started to shake again, not from fear, from the ki, my body wanted to move, my body wanted to fight, that was the Saiyan part
Then my new power kicked in, I watched Beast Boy move and my brain started to copy it, how he turned his wings, how he dived, how he pulled up before he hit the ground, like my body was learning how he flew just from watching him
At the same time my Saiyan blood was doing something else, it was finding a way to win against him, when he dived his wing stayed open too long, when he pulled up his neck was exposed, if I was fighting him I would hit him right there, I did not want to fight him, I was not even trying to think about it, but my body kept showing me the opening anyway
I tried it, I tried to turn into a bird like him, and I could do it, my arms started to change and feathers started to grow, but it hurt, it hurt a lot, my bones felt like they were bending the wrong way and my skin felt like it was burning, because I was new at it and my body was not used to changing like that yet
I stopped right away and my arms went back to normal, I was breathing hard and my arms were red and sore, so I knew I could do it but I needed to train before I tried it again
Then I looked at the key in my hand and I looked at the address on it, I needed a place to hide and figure this out before anyone found me, even though nobody was looking for me yet
I started walking toward the address, and as I walked my body felt a little stronger with every step, like the Zenkai boost was still working, like my body was still healing from almost dying in the portal.