FREAKS IN THE BACKYARD
"Anything about this Saturday family, Bruce?" Clark A.K.A. Superman was hovering over his colleague curiously.
"... Their eleven year old has a criminal record." the Dark Knight replied.
"What?" Clark nearly choked on his drink.
"In a remote village in Southern England..." Bruce added, as if it would explain everything.
The Justice League was currently in a more peaceful era. Most super villains have been jailed or lost in space (for now) and disasters were at their lowest. Bruce had found it an ideal opportunity to investigate the anomalous reports that the league didn't get involved in. There had been series of anomalous earthquakes occurring all at once. Then, an incident in Rome about some illusion fiasco gone wrong. Another more recent event had been the sudden bursts of unidentified energy in the Himalayas. Several occurrences linked to one name, the Saturdays. The latest one had finally made the Justice League look into the situation.
"Not much record on them, they have bank accounts all over the world and extremely well-off. Very successful scientists who have been receiving generous offers from random leaders, millionaires, towns, and even some cities but I doubt that's their main source of income."
"What else is there on them?"
"The father is Solomon Saturday and his wife is Drew Saturday, they have their own island as a home and an airship. Their son is Zak Saturday."
"The kid with the British criminal record?"
"Yup, I suspect he's home-schooled by his parents and they seem to have no form of citizenship which gives them something similar to being categorized as refugees... but they are in unchartered waters and a privately-owned island so there's nothing illegal here."
"... so why are we investigating them?"
"Recent events had been resolved by these people, they probably had something to do with stopping these events from ending up as a disaster, seeing as so many are grateful enough to give them money..."
"Oh..."
"They know a threat, we don't; we might need their help if anything like that arises again."
"So they're good guys?"
"For now, I've managed to track them down using the Watchtower's satellite system; they're at the deep in the Amazon forest." Batman concluded as he sent the coordinates to the teleporters.
"We're talking to them? Now?" the Man of Steel looked at him, a little shocked.
"Yes now, who knows when another world crisis blows up in our faces, I'd rather be prepared for anything." The man stubbornly added. "Flash is on break, Hawkgirl and Lantern are off on another galaxy, J'ohn is somewhere in China getting hitched, and Diana went back to Themesycra for the time being... the less people we have, the less threatening we'll look."
"Fine..." Clark groaned as he joined Bruce in the teleporters.
Meanwhile...........
"Fisk! No fair using mom's sword!" Zak shouted at his Lemurian brother, a series of garbled noises followed as a reply.
Ever since they found out Zak was the 'ultimate evil' Kur, things at home had been surprisingly normal. His parents and uncle were convinced that the legend was untrue about Kur being evil, about their precious son/ nephew being evil. Doyle had obliterated the Naga's glowing chicken head with his laser, making sure no one would ever put it back together. His parents had revealed to the rest of the secret scientists that Kur was finally destroyed, using the giant cryptid remains left the Himalayas.
Aside from the thousand times increase in protectiveness from both his parents and uncle, things were looking normal as he played with his cryptid brothers and sister.
"Hey! It is so not the same as using the Claw! You know that's my niche!"
A growl and a shriek interrupted Zak. The boy looked up to see an irritated Ornithocheirus flying rather territorially and looked down to see the komodo dragon in the same anxious state.
"Zon? Komodo? What wrong you guys? Is something coming?"
Right on cue, two huge men suddenly appeared out of nowhere in front of him. Almost immediately, Fiskerton had grabbed the boy as far away as possible all the while growling threateningly at the two intruders. Zon had swooped down in front of them, shrieking in anger at the two while Komodo growled menacingly. Did he mention that virtually any cryptid that becomes his friends (or siblings) will be extremely protective and territorial of him as well?
Bruce and Clark had arrived in costume, hoping their appearance would be more soothing as world heroes than complete strangers. Apparently, it had not worked.
"MOM! DAD! DOYLE! THERE ARE FREAKS IN THE BACKYARD!" Zak had his Claw was armed and ready just in case the two tried anything funny before his parents got there. The effect had been immediate as three adults rushed from the building upon hearing their youngest shouts.