Sentry duty and revelelations
- Prelude -
Some missions just went randomly to whomever of the heroes that happened to be around at the time, while
other missions were given to selected people. This was a combination of the two.
Lightning Lad happened to be the only one available who had enough experience at that given time. For this
kind of mission you couldn't just send a rookie or two in. It was for security reasons as well, the UP
President's chief of security would not accept someone that hadn't been checked according to drawn out and
complex security protocols and whose loyalties hadn't been proven time and again. Besides, the president knew
him in person and would undoubtedly feel more at ease with him than someone she didn't know. She knew him by
his superhero persona but she didn't know his real name: Garth Rannz. She didn't have to know that. It was
enough that the security chief did.
Garth wasn't overly excited about the mission but as always he knew it was his duty and duty was something he
took very seriously. That not so optimistic opinion of the mission was partly because he thought Cosmic Boy
should have tried to pull some strings to send at least one more hero along to begin with. From past experiences
he knew the team in question that would most likely go for the UP President wasn't a bunch of clumsy thugs.
No, the LSV were skilled and well co-ordinated while he only had his powers in combination with the element
of surprise and the security guards until another seasoned hero or two could be dispatched from other big
missions to help out.
He had voiced his opinion about the lack of other heroes for the mission to Cosmic Boy and Saturn Girl over the
comm. link. Speaking his mind was something he had never hesitated to do over the years. But it had been one of
their usual argumentative discussions and not many aside from the newbies on the team were worried about it.
The trio tended to reconcile in the end most of the time.
A minor unspoken issue he had in addition to the main concern had been that playing the role of a bodyguard to the
President who was also the mother of a team-mate could also end up getting very awkward. Or maybe not?
Hopefully not.
Author's notes: Now edited and improved. Yay. The main plot idea for this fanfic came from the one it's written for,
RogueKitty, but with some minor ideas from yours truly added along the way after a few discussions.
There is an important continuity difference between this story and the stories Catching Up, In The Legion and Legionnaire Lost.
This is another possible reality where some things are different. Here Phantom Girl's father is from Triplicate Girl's world
like he was in one of the old original comic book stories!This continuity also has two notable alternative pairings: Lightning Lad/Phantom girl and Cosmic Boy/Saturn Girl.
The canon characters do not belong to me they belong to WB and DC Comics and so on and so forth.
