Chapter One

Happy Harbor

Mt. Justice

"Are you clear on your mission objectives?" The dark knight asked the three young girls standing before him.

"Yes, we are to retrieve our teammate designated Pyro and apprehend the super criminal Dark Matter" a teenage girl with black and red hair answered him.

"That shouldn't be too hard." The tall blonde next to her said as she draped her arms around her friends' shoulders.

"That's what you always say Lily." The third girl of their group said as she rolled her eyes at her best friend.

"Ok you three, it's time." Zatanna said as she lifted the golden helmet she held in her hands and put it over her head. There was a flash of light and in front of them stood the Lord of Order. "Zoe whenever you are ready" Nabu addressed the dark haired girl. Zoe Grayson ran up to the dark knight and threw her arms around her father.

"Be careful." Richard whispered to his daughter and kissed her forehead. Lily West hugged her mother and brothers.

"Sorry your father couldn't be here." Artemis said as she held her only daughter in her arms.

"Its ok mom, villains never rest. I understand." She turned to her brothers and looked them in the eye, "take care of mom ok?" The two boys nodded and hugged her once more before she went and stood next to Zoe.

Aurora held on to her mother," don't worry mom, we won't let anything happen to him." After what had just happened, she didn't want her mother to lose her son nor did she have any intentions of losing her brother.

"Be safe and look out for each other" Megan Morse on the verge of tears told her daughter. Aurora Kent went and took her place beside her friends as they prepared for the mission that they had been assigned.

"Don't worry, we'll be back in a flash" Lily said smiling brightly.

"Lily!" several voices rang out as Artemis face-palmed herself and shook her head.

"Ready?" Nabu asked the raven haired magician.

Zoe nodded and went to stand next to fate, "together?" She asked enthusiastically.

Fate nodded "Together." They both spread their arms and started to chant the incantation that would open the portal to their destination. As the portal opened, Zoe heard another voice chanting with them as she turned towards the voice she saw her sister standing next to Aurora's younger sister who was holding her hand tightly. Her eyes widened as she finally realised what her sister was doing. "Zahara what are you…" her query was cut short as there was a flash of blinding light and an explosion that sent the three girls flying into a building that had not existed a second ago.

Aurora found herself lying on her stomach in a pile of debris. Her vision was blurry as she surveyed her surroundings. Her eyes landed on the young magician her eyes were closed and blood oozed from a nasty cut on her forehead. "Zoe," she whispered as she raised her hand towards the young girl before she blacked out and her hand fell to the ground as the hood of her costume covered her head and she turned invisible.

Mt. Justice

(Present day)

7:48 P.M

Cassandra was shaking slightly, partly due to excitement and partly due to fear as she stood in front of her opponent. Normally, she wouldn't be scared but she was slightly at awe of the kryptonian clone that stood before her.

Conner was staring at M'gann and La'gaan as they sat at the end of the training room hand in hand having a conversation with Artemis. The Martian had been spending a lot of time with them ever since La'gaan was rescued and Kaldur and Artemis came back. Conner's eyes found their clasped hands and he turned to face his opponent as a low growl escaped his throat and he clenched his fists so hard that his knuckles popped.

Cassie instinctively took a step back from the demi-kryptonian and turned to face her mentor. Wonder woman gave a small nod of encouragement to her protégé and turned to exchange a look with Canary.

It had been a few days since they all learned about Conner's new power and the league wanting to know his true potential had run varying simulations. They were in the cave's training room, with the members of the team seated around on the floor or on fold-out chairs or just leaning against the cave wall. Batman and superman were standing at the end of the room, quietly analyzing the situation and ready to intervene incase Connor lost control. Oliver was sitting cross-legged next to Wally, sharing a bowl of popcorn.

Cassie waited and when Conner looked at M'gann out of the corner of his eye, she saw an opening and lunged at her teammate. This turned out to be a big mistake when Conner ducked under her before making a roll and coming to a stop at the other side of the floor. Cassie sensing her error turned just as a telekinetic blast threw her into the air and she had the sense to fly just a few centimeters from the ground. She flew into the air and straight at Conner using all her strength to punch him just as Conner used his telekinesis with his kryptonian strength to punch her back and where the two fists contacted each other, there was a giant shockwave and Cassie was thrown back sliding across the room on her back while Conner was pushed back a few steps. He walked over to the fallen Amazon and held his hand out for her. Cassie accepted his help and stood up, brushing dust off of her. "That was impressive Kon-el" Superman said as he walked over and clapped a hand on his shoulder.

"Thanks." Conner said rubbing the back of his head. He glanced over at M'gann and their eyes met for a moment before she blushed and looked away.

Conner walked over to Gar, Jaime and Zatanna, who were petting wolf at a corner of the cave. "Conner that was awesome." Garfield said as he morphed from a "wolf"-sized green wolf to his normal monkey-boy hybrid.

"Thanks Gar." He said as he went down on one knee and started to pet wolf who licked his face affectionately. It was then that Conner noticed that Zatanna was holding her head in her hands her face contorted in pain. "Zee, what's wrong" he asked her his hands outstretched towards her, but before he could even touch her, she threw her head back her eyes glowing a bright golden light and her mouth open in an ear-splitting scream of pain that lasted for a few seconds before she closed her eyes and passed out as Conner caught her before she hit the ground.