Rule #2: Adult supervision is required during the decoration portion of Christmas preparation. Shazam does not count as "adult supervision."

"Left. No, your other left. A little more… Perfect! Right there!"

Why M'gann (who could fly) was safely on the floor directing a frazzled Superboy (who, evidently, could not fly) with hanging the the lights at the top of the Cave. It was not an easy task- one that took an extra-long ladder and a paranoid Kaldur to complete- but M'gann had insisted. The Team, never being one to refuse their Martian friend anything, had eventually complied, which led them to where they were now.

Artemis was doing what she considered a "safe" task, which was helping Shazam carry the tree out of the bioship. The pair had cut down the tree themselves (with a little help from Robin's birdarangs) that morning. Artemis could feel the pine needles sticking out of her ponytail, could still feel the aching chill in her fingertips from being out in the snow for over an hour. ("Honestly, could we have just bought a tree?")

"OHH, It's perfect," M'gann squealed when the pair pushed the evergreen through to the living area (Artemis decided not to ask what was currently smoking in the oven). The Martian gestured to a space beside the television. "There should be perfect!"

So Artemis and Shazam walked the tree over to the aforementioned spot, grateful to be able to finally save themselves from the dozens of pine needles digging into their eye sockets. Sitting the tree down was easy, however getting it to stand up was not. The tree leaned to various different sides, both heroes alternatively catching the large green mass before it fell to the floor.

It had been Superboy's idea to use the loveseat, if anyone asked. For the tree now leaned to its left, held up by a worn green loveseat and a very unwilling Sphere. However, within an hour, the tree still fell.

Robin suggested cables from the ceiling hold the tree upright, which worked for the first ten minutes. When one of the cables snapped upon Red Tornado's exiting of his "apartment" (the long-time suffering supervisor had flown back into his residence soon after witnessing the many boxes of ornaments littering the floor). The tree had been half-decorated by then, which meant the occupants of Mount Justice spent a good half an hour picking up shattered glass (and, in Kaldur's case, removing a large shard of ornament from Wally's thigh).

When Black Canary returned to the Cave for afternoon training, she would wonder many things. Of these things were questions such as, "Why are the Christmas lights melting?", "Why is the stove on fire?", and "Why is there a Christmas tree in the bathtub?"