A/N Thank you for all the good feedback, thank you as well for all of those who gave me constructive criticism, I'll try to make the chapters longer. I took some liberties with the fight scene, between robin, kid flash and superboy. Though I kept the important parts
Mulangumulangu and the watcher: Sorry but I don't really like the super soldier from Amalgam comics and he already has an indestructible sword/trident so a shield would be a bit over kill in my opinion. That being said I like the idea of a third super clone that wants to replace him, still thanks for the suggestion and I hope you still like the story regardless.
Percy has no idea why Diana sent him to Gotham City in the first place, Batman and Robin already polices the place and from what he had gathered the times he met Batman was that the guy is fiercely territorial. Still he has to give the dynamic duo props; they're able to handle this big, weird city without any powers at all.
According to Diana, the Batman is involved in a league case involving the Parasite and Robin is with his brother on the Amazo guarding mission, looking around to the couple of giant plants that he's barely able to handle and the irritating laugh of the insane clown chick that's been peppering him with cartoonish bombs, he's starting to wish Batman allowed him to go on that mission.
Yep, the clown chick's been very annoying. In fact in his mind Percy has evolved her from clown chick to clown bitch. She's been complementing Percy's Tempest outfit and it was getting on his nerve. He was wearing a dark green armoured and long sleeved suit re-purposed from his old solar-suit, denim jeans with a garrison belt with Wonder Woman's W emblem on the buckle, black platinum lined combat boots, finger less black gloves, and a domino mask.
He felt a vine curl around his waist and started using him as a hammer, smashing him against sides of buildings.
"Maybe I *smash* should *smash* be paying *smash* more attention *smash*." Percy reflected
"Oh no, keep spacing out sugar, it gives me more giggles" laugh Harley Quinn, throwing three lit bombs at him
He waved one arm in a sideways motion and willed a whip of air to redirect the bombs towards the red head in green leotards that has the same powers as a daughter of Demeter. Said woman, named Poison Ivy, if Percy recalls the name right, summoned a flower tipped vine which opened its petals and in a manner of speaking swallowed the bombs. After a small poof the vine died and petals opened slightly releasing black smoke.
"You'll pay for hurting my baby!" Ivy yelled up at him
"Lady you're the one who forced it to eat the bombs!" Percy argued
He grabbed the vine that's still wounding itself around his waist and flew up into the air. He's not strong enough to uproot the plant or snap it in half just by pulling so instead he used the water from Gotham's sewers and willed it to blast from the four closest manhole covers from him. He commanded the water to form the shape of an octopus, all eight arms tipped with sharp edges and used it to cut through the stems of the plants eight at a time.
"NO!" Ivy shouted shaking her fist up at him as Harley pulled her biggest bomb from the brown burlap sack she seemed to be carrying on her back. It was easily one and a half times the size of Percy's head.
"Honey, you should get us out of here. This little baby of mine packs a really good punch line!" and in what was supposed to be a conspiratorial whisper to Ivy but was heard by everyone still around nonetheless "I got it from Mr J. Oh my beloved Mr J"
Her eyes turned to hearts for a few seconds before hefting the bomb on her shoulder and in a surprising show of strength hurled it towards the perimeter Gotham PD has formed. A flower rose from the ground and swallowed the two women before sinking back below the pavement. Percy's got no time for the two of them though he raced towards the bomb. Creating a mini-hurricane from his waist below, much like Red Tornado to augment his flight speed, he decided against touching the bomb as it might detonate and he's not sure if he has enough durability to escape that explosion unharmed, plus all the bystanders that will definitely get hurt. He called the water octopus he created earlier (he decided to call it soupy) it turned to a formless blob of water that sped to the bomb and wrapped around it. He called the winds as well to jet the bomb high in the air; keeping it in the water cocoon he forced the winds to form a sort of ball around it. A sudden boom erupted and the Gotham sky turned from blue to a bright orange consuming an area of around three blocks and might have been bigger had Percy not threw gale winds against it. Mindful of shrapnel that Batman somewhat view as evidence, seriously that guy can find DNA sample from a block of Swiss cheese a mile away from the crime scene, he did his best to contain the explosion with air shields as the water cocoon evaporated with the initial explosion.
The strain is seemingly being proven to be too much, all of his muscles are contracting even his toes are curled in response to his determination. After what felt like an eternity the explosion begins to shrink and Percy started to let his muscles relax, black spots are dancing around his vision as he collapsed to his knees heaving and sweating.
"Easy there son" said Commissioner Gordon of the Gotham PD. Another police officer came over handing him a jug of water
"Thank you" Percy said
"You saved a lot of good lives son, it's the least we could do."
Percy drank just a little bit, preferring to douse his face with water. The contact with his element allowed enough strength to get up and fly towards home thinking of his brother. He wasn't able to talk to the team much as they have a mission and he was forbidden by Batman to accompany them on it, saying that he was currently an unknown factor with the team and he may mess up their established hierarchy. However he is quite concerned with his brother, since he didn't seem to be in the best mental state. Percy can practically feel the anger rolling off him in waves, anger he believes is directed towards the Man of Steel, he can definitely understand seeing as Superman practically avoided him the first few weeks. Good thing Diana took over and gave him an older cousin.
"I'm just going to help out in whatever way I can" he thought
Percy altered his flight path to the nearest Zeta tube intending to go to the cave.
-Mount Justice-
"Recognized Tempest"
Red Tornado was busy with the mainframe of the cave monitoring team locations, visual feeds, and radio contact (or most likely the surprising lack of).
"Greetings Tempest" he spoke in his mechanized voice.
"Red Tornado, good to see you again." Percy answered "How are they doing?"
"Quite well I must say, there were complications but Superboy, Aqualad, and Miss Martian are currently in pursuit. Robin and Kid Flash have re-grouped and discovered how Ivo tracked the parts and are about to commence their pursuit."
"I'm sensing a 'but' after that sentence" Percy said
"Indeed, there will be a five minute interval between the arrival of the parts and the arrival of Superboy. It is more than likely enough time to put the android together."
"What?!" Percy exclaimed, that was his brother out there, about to go into a situation that taxed the league's most capable members
"If it's agreeable to you, I would like to give you your first mission as part of the team." Tornado turned towards Percy "Head over to their location and rendezvous with the team, if possible prevent the android from being re-assembled, if not then eliminate the threat."
"No need to tell me twice." Percy muttered then ran for the Zeta tube
-Gotham Academy, Gymnasium-
"Superman must be so proud" taunted an old known as Professor Ivo
His creation, the android Amazo, is currently choking Superboy lifting him about a foot of the ground using the strength of Superman. Suddenly Amazo was peppered on the side by a multitude of balls, it didn't have much of an effect but it did stun Amazo long enough for Robin to shoot a Taser with two prongs attached to cable. Taking advantage of the distractions Superboy to struck a powerful kick at the android's gut making it drop him. A few spinning red disks flew through the air sticking to Amazo's torso, a couple of beeping sounds after the disks exploded making Amazo stagger backward about a step or two. Superboy launched himself at Amazo again,
"Access: Martian Manhunter" Amazo said making Superboy pass through him as though he was made of air
"Access: Captain Atom" Aiming his left palm he blasted Superboy with a concentrated beam of pure energy making Superboy hit the opposing bleachers
"Access: The Flash" Amazo then sped through the Robin and Kid Flash delivering blow after devastating blow at the end catching Kid Flash by the throat and lifting him in the air
"Superman" Amazo's eyes turned red, preparing to incinerate Kid Flash. Luckily an arrow came from behind Wally narrowly missing him and forcing Amazo to call on Martian Manhunter's power and turn intangible effectively releasing Kid Flash from his grasp.
With a loud yell Superboy leaped to Amazo striking him with a 1-2 punch combination on the face. Unfortunately Amazo still has his eyes charged and blasted Superboy hard right on the S-Shield making him stagger, grabbing Superboy and hoisting him again, Amazo kept blasting eliciting a scream of pain from Superboy.
"Let my brother go!" a loud animalistic growl sounded rousing the team to see Superboy's predicament. They didn't have time to act on it however as a glowing figure flew through the roof smashing a hard right at the android freeing Superboy
Superboy raised his head to see his brother standing protectively in front of him; he was surprised to see Percy glowing with bolts of electricity travelling intermittently around him.
"Unknown ability detected: Scanning" Amazo voiced
"You again?!" cried out the professor in the stands "Why must you insist on ruining my tests?! You even stopped Amazo from killing the Wonder Woman."
"Glad to be of assistance." Percy said in a calm hollow voice
"Electrokinesis, origin unknown, unable to replicate; eliminate target, priority: Alpha"
"Access: Superman" Amazo blasted Percy with Superman's heat vision; Percy merely aimed both hands towards Amazo with a gesture reminiscent of one holding small balls in each hands. The electricity traversing his body obeyed his will without question creating a bolt of lightning that intersected with Amazo's heat vision blast
"The Wonder Sidekick thinks it can take on the power of the league?" Ivo commented from a safe distance in the stands, it was obvious that though Percy is giving his all Amazo's beam will eventually overpower his lightning "How amusing."
That one comment pushed Superboy's already heated temper to the boiling point.
"You want to see me use my anger?!" he yelled at Ivo as he launched himself up to the stands towards the professor. Scared, Ivo flailed to get away from Superboy's landing point; he got away just in time as Superboy smashed the bench he was sitting on with the landing
"Amazo, Protect you creator! Priority Alpha" Ivo yelled at the Android forgetting that Amazo has declared eliminating Percy at Priority: Alpha already. Confused the android looked towards his master ending the heat vision attack, he was about to launch himself at Superboy when Percy's lightning struck him head-on pushing and ramming Amazo towards the concrete wall of the gymnasium effectively keeping him there. Seeing this Percy maxed out the voltage that he can currently supply with a loud roar, nearly blinding Robin and Kid flash, scorching the gymnasium floor, and instantly overloading most of Amazo's insulation
"Martia-tian Manhu-hunter" Amazo declared his circuitry sending out sparks from the lightning attack. Phasing through the wall he re-appeared a few seconds later right in front of Superboy, reconstituting his tangibility as Superboy's fist passed through his head. The moment he turned completely tangible the unaccounted density from blew off the android's head. Superboy lifted the Androids body and threw it down to the court but the time was enough for Ivo to complete disappear. Aqualad and Miss Martian finally arrived to Robin and Kid Flash dismantling the android and Superboy approaching Percy who is currently at his hands and knees heaving with all the power he's put out today black spots was dancing across Percy's vision but he was able to remain conscious.
"B-brother" Superboy stuttered slightly on the unfamiliar word
"Hi brother, are you hurt?" Percy asked
"You're worried about me?" he asked raising an eyebrow
"You may be tough and indestructible, but you're still my brother." Percy smiled at Superboy
Superboy was left speechless; he felt a warm feeling rush all over him, as he realized that he's not really as alone in this world as he thought. He still wants to prove himself to Superman, but with his brother and his friends by his side he can wait as long as it takes. One day at a time Superboy told himself.
"One day at a time" he muttered looking around at his friends. Percy gave his new brother a small smile before giving in to his exhaustion and passing out.
