A/N: Chaper 1, enjoy.
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J'onn J'onzz scanned the watchtower floor from the command center platform. He spotted Diana walking towards the transporter, most likely heading home after her shift.
"Diana, may I have a word with you?" J'onn shouted down to the Amazon princess.
"Of course," Diana floated up to J'onn's perch.
When Diana's feet touched down on the platform, she saw Mr. Terrific manning the computers.
"Hello," she nodded in his direction, and he nodded back.
Diana walked over to J'onn and he directed her attention to one of the larger screens.
"The computer has red flagged some of your missions recently," J'onn stated as files flew up onto the screen.
"What does that mean?" Diana asked.
"After the Carter Hall incident Bruce installed a facial recognition program that reviews videos of our missions and flags individuals that appear too frequently."
"And you think that someone is stalking me?" Diana looked at J'onn in disbelief.
"Yes," J'onn pointed to the screen which displayed videos of Diana's missions from the past month.
Diana watched as J'onn froze each video on the crowd and then zoomed in on one individual. It was a young girl, probably in her early twenties. Her skin was tan and she held her blond hair in a pony tail.
"Is she a threat?" Diana turned to J'onn.
"She could be; then again she might not be. I wanted to inform you of the possibility," J'onn answered.
"I'll make sure to keep an eye out for her," Diana nodded.
One of the consequences of Legion that no one could have foreseen was the alliances that the villains formed together. Livewire, Killer Frost, and Star Sapphire had joined forces somewhere along the line, as well as Evil Star, Heatwave, KGBeast, Lady Lunar, Major Disaster, Psycho Pirate, and Queen Bee uniting into their own miniature Legion. At the moment, the alliance, made up of Silver Banshee, Volcana, Devil Ray, and Atomic Skull, were being carted away by Metropolis PD. Wonder Woman watched as the four villains were taken away. By her side stood B'Wana Beast, Aztek, and Gypsy.
It was then that Wonder Woman noticed one face in the crowd. It was the young girl that J'onn had warned her about. As Wonder Woman approached the crowd the girl backed away. Once out of the crowd, the girl broke out into a sprint. Wonder Woman flew over the crowd and watched the girl as she ran. The girl came to a near halt as she turned down a side street. Wonder Woman landed and followed the girl down the street.
"Stop!" Wonder Woman shouted as she reached for her lasso.
The girl stopped and turned around, which shocked Wonder Woman- most people don't stop on command when being chased.
"Who are you?" Wonder Woman asked.
"Julia Morning," The girl answered quickly.
"Why are you watching me?" Wonder Woman took a step closer to the girl, but the girl didn't move.
"I was told to observe you," The girl stated calmly.
"By who…?" Wonder Woman asked as the possibilities flew through her mind.
To this, the girl did not respond verbally but instead bit at her lip. She stood in front of Wonder Woman, in silence.
"Who-" Wonder Woman began in a harsh tone but was cut off by a flash of light.
When Wonder Woman opened her eyes a woman radiating magnificence stood before her. The woman wore a golden chest plate and bracers, which countered her long white flowing skirt and classical sandals. She carried a spear and a shield, and a sword rested on her hip. Beautiful brown locks tumbled out from under her golden helmet. Wonder Woman caught sight of Julia out of the corner of her eye. The girl had dropped to her knees at the sight of the woman.
"I did," The woman stated, "do you know who I am?"
"Athena," Wonder Woman managed to utter.
"Correct," Athena smiled then turned her eyes to the bowing girl.
"You are dismissed Julia. We will discuss this later on."
"Yes Athena," Julia jumped up, nodded, and quickly spun on her heels and ran swiftly around the corner.
Athena watched until Julia was out of her sight and then turned to Wonder Woman.
"Diana, you are confused."
"Yes, very," Diana nodded.
"Allow me to explain," Athena motioned for Diana to walk alongside her.
"Julia is my ward. She is a true prodigy. I haven't seen so much strength and determination in one so young since, well since you were her age."
"But why-" Diana started but Athena immediately put up her hand.
"She is destined for greatness." Athena paused reveling in some sort of thought. "She needed a role model, an individual in her world that could show her what she could become. You were of course the first one that I thought of. I hope you don't mind."
Diana shook her head.
"Good, good. I actually have a slight request," Athena waited for Diana's response.
Diana slightly tilted her head.
"Would you be interested in mentoring her?" Athena paused but Diana's face didn't move. "You see I've taught her everything I know, every fighting style, every law, every bit of wisdom that I could give her I have. Unfortunately I do not know how to be a hero; I do not know how to inspire her to be all that she can be. I'm not asking you to make her Wonder Girl or anything of the sort. I just want her to see what she is capable of being. And I believe that you could show that to her."
Athena waited for a reply as Diana breathed slowly.
"How am I supposed to do that?" Diana asked
"Allow her to shadow you for a day, give her a tour around the watchtower, or introduce her to some of the others in the League. Anything that could inspire her would get her headed down the right path," Athena responded.
"I would have to ask the others if they were all right with this…I'll let you know what they say," Diana sighed.
"Thank you," Athena took Diana's hands in her own and then disappeared in a flash of light.
"I don't like this," Batman protested.
"Of course you don't," Diana sighed.
The seven of them sat around the table, debating whether or not Diana could bring Julia to the watchtower. Diana glared across the table at Batman as he recounted every incident of bringing outsiders into the towers and how horribly things went.
"It's not as if we're leaving her alone in the nuclear reactor!" Diana exclaimed in Batman's general direction.
At the beginning of this meeting, Diana wasn't even sure what her opinion was of mentoring Julia. But the way that Batman so quickly and firmly opposed the idea made Diana want to bring in Julia that much more.
"Diana, please," Superman looked at Diana and she begrudgingly sat down.
"I think this is a good idea. One day we aren't going to be here-we might as well start looking for the future's heroes now," Shayera stated, making Green Lantern and Batman look to each other grimly.
"I have thoroughly looked into Ms. Morning's background and found nothing to insinuate that she is a threat to us." J'onn gained the attention of the group. "Ms. Julia Morning is twenty-four years old. She was born in Boston Massachusetts, to a Donald and Laura Morning. Neither have criminal records, juvenile or otherwise, or ties to criminal organizations."
"That's as much as we require from the staff," Diana interjected quickly.
"Go on J'onn," Batman said icily as he met Diana's stare.
"Donald Morning was a history professor at Harvard, Laura Morning was an archeologist. They died in a plane crash in 1995 when Julia Morning was fourteen. She is their only child."
The room fell silent for a moment before Superman spoke up.
"Let's take a vote. All in favor?"
Diana walked down the hall with a slight smile showing on her lips. The room to her door slid open quickly and allowed the light from the hall to flow in. The stream of light illuminated a familiar female lying across Diana's sofa. Diana was surprised but realized that she really shouldn't be. It hadn't been too long since Hermes had been on that same piece of furniture. She then began to wonder what the point of a multi-million dollar security system was if the gods could come and go as they pleased.
"What is the decision?" Athena asked standing.
"I'll do it," Diana met Athena's eyes and they both smiled, "She can visit the metrotower during my shift next week. But I'll make sure to see her before then."
A large smile appeared on the goddess' face as she walked over to Diana.
"You are not going to regret this, I promise," Athena said before she disappeared in a flash of light.
"I really hope so," Diana sighed.
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