I don't own Young Justice!
Sorry for the many grammar mistakes.
I really wanted to post this before the newest episode,
this is why I didn't have time to properly edit it.
Not Exactly an Old-Fashioned Gentleman
I.
M'gann M'orzz had never seen this much water in her life, which was not a big surprise, given she'd spent most of it on the brownish-red wastelands of planet Mars.
It would be more correct to say it was the first time for the alien girl to observe this much water from this angle: while she did see the vast mass of transparent fluid rumbling along the shores of Rhode Island, and many other regions of the Earth where she brought her team by her spacecraft, she'd never been seeing the Atlantic from beneath.
While there were several billion gallons of water pressing against the thick crystal dome separating Poseidonis from the rest of the ocean, Miss Martian had nothing to fear of. Her body was tougher than it looked, being capable to resist extremely high pressure levels, as well as the vacuum on her home planet.
"I'm sick of this stupid, marshmallow Disneyland!" told the boy, who was sitting in one of the passengers' seats suddenly, driving the Martian girl's thoughts away from the huge depths they dived into. "When will Kaldur finish, already?"
M'gann exhaled hopelessly. The last time Kid Flash stated the same question was exactly five minutes ago. And that was not the first time he had done that since they were here, in the very center of Atlantis.
Anyway, Miss Martian had to agree with him. Sitting inside of the Bio ship, and waiting for their leader to return, was indeed boring. At first, they tried to chat about something, but then they gave up. M'gann had to realize that there was a huge space between them, both literally and considering their cultural heritage.
Wally, the young speedster of the Team knew very little about the Mars, and Miss Martian had approximately the same amount of information about the Earth, save the things she'd recently learnt in school and some recipes.
"This is ain't fun. Or should I say, it's quite uncool" growled Wally, and he picked out the energy bar which was hidden into his glove, and started to munch it. His face became a bit brighter, feeling the sweet taste of the bar, almost reminding of orange. "At least if we'd go and see if this place is as dull as it looks like…"
At least as long as his iPhone was functioning, Wally could entertain himself with beating the chess software on 'Grandmaster' level several times, and with doing an Angry-Birds-marathon, but since the battery had run out, he had become completely intolerable.
M'gann thought about trying to recharge the battery using the ship's bioelectricity, but she changed her mind. There was a chance that the ship's energy would be too much for the small machine, and roast it. And that would've been yet another thing Kid Flash could've complained about.
The girl was quite sure Wally's whining was the single worst thing that had ever happened to her. Even having twelve sisters was better, most of the time.
"Wally, you know it perfectly well that we cannot go outside again" said an upset M'gann. "Your diving cylinder is empty, and we can't refill it here."
It was Wally's fault, of course. He should've kept in mind that with hyper-accelerated metabolism came hyper-accelerated breathing as well.
It wasn't a big surprise that all the oxygen disappeared from his tank in no time.
The little fiasco made Wally's presence completely useless. Luckily M'gann was able to bring all the waterproof equipment - donated to the Atlanteans by STAR Labs - to the research areas alone, thanks to her telekinesis.
Anyone could've been more help. But Artemis and Robin were on duty with their mentors, when Aqualad asked us to help him… and Conner…
Well, the girl wasn't quite sure what was the matter with Conner. She never thought he won't answer the door, when she knocked and asked if he wanted to come and help delivering the supercomputers to Poseidonis.
His presence here would've been much more pleasant, than Kid Flash's.
"Why don't we get lost?" said Wally, after running around in the cabin at super speed, and resettling in his seat. "Kaldur is a big boy, he can get home using the Zeta tube. Let's go get something to eat… or to the movies, perhaps …"
"We can't just leave here, Wally!" said M'gann, nevertheless she really wanted to return to the surface as well. But she didn't want to disappoint Aqualad, no matter how much the speedster got onto her nerves by now. "He wanted to introduce his friends to us! How do you think he would feel if we'd just go away?"
"Dunno, sometimes I'm not sure if he has feelings at all. I'm not even sure if you have any emotions, actually."
"I don't…"
Before she could finish the sentence, she realized Wally West was standing in front of her, and he was staring at her with his eyes, as green as Miss Martian's skin.
"Tell me something, Beautiful! Am I doing something wrong?"
The girl failed to answer, being startled by the pure desperation in Kid Flash's orbs.
"I… I don't know what you mean, Wally…"
"Oh, I bet you do!" the fastest kid alive let out an irritated grunt. "I'm flirting with you all the time, giving you nicknames n' stuff… Why isn't it working?"
M'gann was not quite sure what the kid meant by "working", but she had an impromptu idea. She really hoped that Wally was as good at human relations as he seemed to be.
"May I ask you a question first?" the Martian girl said, and she asked right away, before Kid Flash had a chance to reply: "What's wrong with me?"
Wally raised a surprised eyebrow, and then smiled widely, making his freckles fill his whole face.
"You need to be more specific, 'cause I can't name anything. I'm afraid you are… perfect."
"Oh, Wally" said M'gann, blushing (more precisely, with her cheeks becoming a lighter shade of green), and she shook her head in disbelief. "You are just saying that to cheer me up! But I know you think I'm weird and ugly. At least, that would be quite normal, since you are… er… human, and you must be quite unfamiliar with beings who are so… green, and…"
"What, you calling me a racist?" Wally joked, and he put a reassuring hand on her arm. "You think I'm saying those things, and asking you out just to… make fun of you? Or what?"
M'gann put a hand in front of her mouth when it came to her, in order to withhold a surprised yell.
"Wait, you… wasn't joking?" she said, while levitating off the pilot's seat, and mumbling to herself aloud:
"After you saw me with like a dozen arms, and… how you Earth people say it? Oh yes, freaked out… And you being such a joker, and a goofball…" she turned to Wally, and asked with a bright smile on her spinach tainted face: "So, you do really like me? I mean, really really?"
Kid Flash was not just the fastest kid, but also the kid with the stupidest facial expression alive, right before he nodded positively.
"Hello, Megan!" she told, slapping her forehead, and punching her fist into the air…
Then she frowned, and slowly landed on her feet. She had to tell Wally he didn't have a chance, no matter how sad and hurt the boy will become.
She had to tell him, even if Conner will never hold her in his arms again. She remembered as the boy hugged her tightly, but still surprisingly gently despite his great strength. Or maybe she never realized how powerful that hug was, given her own pretty resistant body? Maybe Superboy's arms would've crushed an Earth girl to death if he did the same thing to her which he'd done to M'gann.
And also… what Conner did with his mouth seemed to be wonderful, yet she wasn't sure whether it was the proper way of kissing or not. She never learnt to perform that act of concern and kindness, since it wasn't a fashionable custom on Mars… And it was very improbable that Conner had learnt to make out from the little creatures which had taught him back in the lab where he was born…
Did they know it by instinct, as a trait common to them; no matter they were members of completely different species? Or maybe it felt good only because of the little tingling sensation inside her chest whenever she got close him…?
"Er… Miss Martian? Gorgeous? Are you there?" The girl realized that Kid Flash was waving his hand before her eyes rather impolitely. It seemed her thoughts wandered away for a while.
Before she could think otherwise, she spoke out the truth:
"I kissed Conner."
Wally turned away, and M'gann saw pain in his leaf green orbs. He had enough strength to prevent his face from wincing, but he couldn't control his eyes.
Looks like it would be customary for me to post three, four, five etc. shots lately, given my chronic lack of time...
Okay, so things will probably happen a bit different in the show, but I bet the reaction of Wally will be similar to his reaction in this story. I wanted to at least start posting the story because I have a feeling that the relationship between Conner and M'gann will be revealed in today's episode, and I wanted to make sure no one would think I'm merely copying the show, lol^^
Next chapter will be probably up next week (yeah, I promised weekly updates for my ATLA story as well, and I couldn't keep that promise. But still...).
Please, leave a review, if you liked this (or you think you'll like it, if something will happen, lol).