Coast City, July 4, 2010, 13:00 PDT
Ben sunk a bit through his knees and focused on his opponent rushing towards him. His concentration was flawless, as was his position. Nothing would get past him, he was absolutely sure of that. He smirked as the other got ready to attack, pulling his foot back and kicking the ball as hard as he could. The white and black orb flow towards Ben and the goal, but Ben jumped in time and caught it. The other team cursed, while Ben's team cheered loudly. They won 3 – 0 and would be going to the finals.
Ben grinned, holding up the ball for the whole audience to see, reveling in the cheers he got. Ben was pretty proud of his talents as a keeper. Hell, he was pretty much the best High School keeper in the city, maybe even beyond its borders. His teammates clapped him on the back, congratulating him while some of the girls called out his name.
Ben's attention was taken away from the celebrating teens when he noticed a certain man on the bleachers. Hal Jordan, AKA Green Lantern, Ben's part time mentor since the past four years, grinned proudly and gave the brunette a thumbs up. Ben grinned and waved. Saying goodbye to his friends, he walked over to the man.
"Good job, Ben," Hal said as he reached him.
"It's not like I saved the world from an apocalypse," the 15 year-old replied, rolling his eyes.
There was a 'Not this time at least,' they both knew silently followed that comment and Hall chuckled.
"With how your teammates looked, you might as well have."
Ben laughed and stuck his hands in his pockets, grinning up at the hero in civilian clothing. The two talked for a bit longer, mostly about Ben's studies, both schoolwork and his training.
Azmuth had encouraged Ben to use his perfect memory for school instead of letting the talent go to waste like he had done before coming here, as well as demanding the brunette to spent at least two hours a week in the Galvan's lab in the basement to study science with him. Ben sometimes felt as if he had been promoted to the small alien's assistant, and he had gained a new sense of respect for both Albedo and Myaxx for putting up with him.
The rest of his free time he spent either with Verdona, training his, be it limited, Anodite abilities, or with Green Lantern on patrols or for combat training. He still tried to make time for Ship as well of course, teaching him new tricks or taking him for a flight around Earth. Added to all this, he still was the ace of his school's soccer team. All in all, Ben had a pretty busy life.
"You ready?" Hal asked after a while.
Ben grinned and activated the Omnitrix's newest setting. His entire body was being covered in a white and green armor that somewhat resembled Green Lantern's, with the black in light green, the green in white and black tight fitting pants. His head and hands were the only parts where his skin was still visible. In the middle of his chest stood the Omnitrix symbol, large and proud while the real Omnitrix was still attached to his left wrist. From behind the black domino mask, green eyes were sparkling in excitement. It had taken some convincing on Ben's side to get Azmuth to add this, but after his school report of near perfect grades last month, the grumpy alien had finally agreed.
"Of course!" he replied.
"Today is the day!"
. . . . .
Hall of Justice, 14:00 EDT
Green Lantern and Jetray landed in front of the Hall of Justice about the same time as Green Arrow and his sidekick Speedy arrived. Aquaman, Batman and their own sidekicks, Aqualad and Robin were already waiting. As Jetray landed, he transformed back to human, still wearing his new hero uniform.
"Cool," Speedy muttered smirking.
"You're Ben 10, right? Heard about you."
"Yeah," Ben replied grinning.
"Nice to finally meet you guys."
"Same here!" Robin said, holding out his hand.
Ben's grin widened as he shook the Boy Wonder's outstretched hand before turning towards the two Atlanteans. Aqualad smiled as well, holding out his own hand in greeting. Ben reached for his, but the Omnitrix suddenly lit up, scanning the tan skinned teen.
"New DNA sample acquired," the metallic voice of the Omnitrix said.
The young heroes, as well as their mentors stared at Ben in surprise and slight suspicion. The brunette rubbed the back of his neck and chuckled nervously.
"It does that sometimes," he explained weakly.
"Aww man!"
The group turned around, just in time to see Flash and a very unhappy looking Kid Flash arrive. The redheaded speedster crossed his arms, glaring in front of him as he addressed his mentor.
"I knew we'd be the last ones here."
The other teens all chuckled in amusement, until Batman motioned for them to follow. Ben grinned in excitement and glanced over to Green Lantern, who gave him a proud grin and a nod before he joined the other three youngsters and Hal walked over to Flash. From all the other heroes, Ben had only met Flash a couple of times, along with Kid Flash, the other human Green Lanterns and Batman, though that last one was more of an interrogation. The Dark Knight seemed to have some difficulty trusting Ben and had ordered a detailed rapport on all the aliens he possessed. It had taken the brunette several hours to explain that it would be impossible to make that many.
"I still want that rematch," Kid Flash muttered softly as he walked up to Ben.
"Name the time and place," Ben whispered back.
Speedy raised a brow at the two of them, but didn't say anything. After that, their attention was driven towards the many onlookers cheering them on as they walked up to the large building that held the so called Head Quarters of the Justice League.
"There's Flash and Flash Junior!" one woman called out in awe, making Ben smirk at Kid.
"His name is Speedy. Duh," someone else replied.
"No. Speedy is Green Arrow's sidekick!" another person said.
"Well that makes no sense."
"And there are Green Lantern and that Alien Kid!"
"Yeah! 10 something right? Alien Ten?"
This time, it was Kid's turn to smirk at Ben, who frowned and looked at his Omnitrix.
"I've got an Alien X, does that count?" he whispered at the redhead.
"Can he beat me?" the young speedster shot back.
"Nah, he's pretty useless."
"Then it doesn't count."
"Ready to see the inner sanctum?" Green Arrow asked his prodigy.
"Born that way!" Speedy replied grinning.
"I'm glad we're all here," Aqualad said smiling.
"Yeah! Have all the five sidekicks been ever in the same place at the same time?" Kid asked grinning.
"DON'T call us sidekicks. Not after today," Speedy spoke up sternly.
"Sorry," Kid Flash muttered, still grinning in excitement.
"First time at the Hall. I'm a little overwhelmed."
"You're overwhelmed, Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone ever just whelmed?" Robin wondered out loud.
Just then, they entered the Hall, looking straight up at the large statues of the seven founders of the Justice League. Ben stared in awe, just like the other four did.
"Maybe that's why?" he said to Robin, who nodded silently in agreement.
The Martian Manhunter and Red Tornado walked up to them, the green man smiling in greeting at the five teens. As they saw the two heroes approach, the five of them stood at attention, their faces serious, even if they were buzzing in excitement on the inside.
"Robin, Speedy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Ben 10. Welcome," he spoke calmly.
Robin and Kid Flash fist bumped as the Martian led them inside, giving them a small tour of the Hall. Ben walked behind them, next to Speedy as he looked around the place. It was pretty amazing, he had to admit, but what he was really looking forward to was seeing the Watchtower. He'd seen it several times from the outside on his flying trips with Ship, or when Hal or John Steward let him join them on an off planet mission for the Green Lantern Corps. He remembered scaring some heroes by turning into Jetray and pressing his face against the window.
As they reached the library, Flash told them to make themselves at home before joining the other adult heroes. Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad dropped down onto the seats, while Ben and Speedy kept standing. The young archer was slightly frowning, and if Ben had to guess, he would say the other was disappointed.
"Quick debrief on the coincidence of four ice villains attacking on the same day. We shouldn't be long," Batman said before turning towards what Ben knew to be the transporters.
As all heroes were scanned and the door opened, Speedy walked forward, and angry scowl on his face.
"That's it?!" he asked.
"You promised us a real look inside, not a glorified backstage pass!"
"It's a first step," Aquaman told him.
"You've been granted access few others get."
"Really?" Ben asked sarcastically, pointing at the large glass with several civilians looking in, taking pictures of them.
"What does it matter on which side of the glass we're standing?"
"Ben, please…" Green Lantern sighed.
"Hey, it's fine for me dude," the brunette shrugged.
"I've seen the real thing before. I just hoped next time I wouldn't have to sneak in."
The glares he received from some of the heroes made him realize he shouldn't have said that and he took a step back.
"Oops," he muttered.
"See?! Even the alien kid has seen more than us! And he isn't even officially with any of you guys!"
"Roy," Green Arrow addressed his partner.
"You just need to be patient."
"What I need is respect!" the archer prodigy growled before turning towards the other teens.
"They're treating us like kids! Worse: like sidekicks! We deserve better than this."
Ben looked over at the three seated teens, who were all looking at each other as well. They didn't seem to understand what the problem was. Ben did, of course, but then again, he was used to being treated as a real hero, not as a kid in training. He used to be the savior of the Universe, multiple times, while he was barely even an exception around here.
"You're kidding, right?" Speedy asked at the blank looks he received.
"You're playing their game? Why?! Today was supposed to be the day! Step one in becoming fully fledged members of the League!"
"Well, sure," Kid Flash shrugged.
"But I thought step one was a tour of the HQ."
"This isn't the HQ," Ben muttered.
Three pairs of eyes stared at him in question while Speedy glared at them.
"I bet they never told you. It's just a false front for tourists and a pit stop for catching Zeta-Beams Teleporter Tubes to the real thing! An orbiting satellite called the Watchtower," the archer prodigy told the others.
"It almost wasn't," Ben cut in as he saw Batman and Flash glare at Green Arrow.
"I nearly crash-landed on it about two years ago. Few days later, Batman broke into my house to find out if I was a threat or not. Grandma Verdona was pretty pissed off."
The memory made him smile. It had taken Ben half an hour to calm everyone down. Verdona still got angry every time Batman was even mentioned. Speedy didn't even seem to hear Ben as he glared at Green Arrow.
"I thought I was your partner," he accused his mentor.
"But not anymore."
Ben, Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad stared in shock as Speedy took off his hat and threw it to the floor before turning his back on the adult heroes.
"I guess they're right about you guys," he said, glaring at the other teens.
"You're not ready!"
Ben rolled his eyes at the drama and watched as Speedy walked out. Glancing over at the senior heroes, he saw Green Lantern look at him apologetically. He smirked and shrugged. That just means I have to sneak around for a while longer. The space hero glared in warning and shook his head slightly, but Ben had already looked away again. An alarm went off and Superman's face appeared on a big screen.
"Superman to Justice League. There's been an explosion at Project Cadmus. It's on fire."
"I've had my suspicions about Cadmus," Batman muttered.
"This may present the perfect opportunity to-"
"Zatara to Justice League. The Sorcerer Wotan is using the Amulet of Aten to blot out the sun. requesting full League response!"
"It's a small fire," Superman told the League as he too had heard Zatara's request.
"Local authorities have it under control."
"Then project Cadmus can wait," Batman concluded.
The heroes all walked over to the transporter, followed by the teens. Batman stopped in front of them, a stern expression on his partially covered face.
"Stay put," he said.
"What?! Why?" Robin demanded to know.
"This is a League mission," Aquaman told them.
"You're not trained," Flash added.
"Since when?" Kid Flash asked his mentor.
"I meant you're not trained for this team."
"Speak for yourself," Ben said frowning, crossing his arms as he glared at the older heroes.
"I've got more power than the whole League combined!"
"You are too immature," Green Lantern scolded.
"Oh come on! I make one little mistake! Besides, it's not like Oa actually blew up, right?
"There will be other missions, when you're ready," Aquaman told the teens.
"But for now, stay put," Batman ordered sternly.
The League members all walked away, using the Zeta-Beam Teleporter Tubes to get to Zatara's location. The four teens glared at their backs, angry to be left behind like that.
"Glad you didn't bring you-know-who?" Green Arrow asked Martian Manhunter.
"Indeed."
"When we're ready?" Kid Flash raged when the senior heroes were all gone.
"How are ever supposed to be ready if they treat us like sidekicks?!"
"My King, my mentor. I thought he trusted me," Aqualad muttered sadly.
"Trust? They don't even trust us with the basics?" Kid continued.
"They have a secret HQ in space!"
"What else aren't they telling us?" Aqualad wondered.
All of them looked at Ben when he asked that, and the brunette took a step back, shaking his head.
"Don't look at me," he told them.
"They trust me less than you guys! I only knew because I found it accidentally, and even then, Batman still wanted to have Martian Manhunter to erase my memories of it. It took both League Green Lanterns to change his mind."
"He never told me any of that," Robin muttered.
The three sidekicks all frowned and looked at the floor. They were really disappointed to be treated like that, Ben noted. He guessed it was normal. These guys had trained and work beside those heroes for years, built up relationships with them and worked hard to gain their trust and respect. He had just been fooling around whenever he was out with Hal or John. It wasn't like he needed to learn things from the other heroes anyway. He always pulled through in the end because nothing he had met was as powerful as the Omnitrix.
"Does anyone even know what that 'Project Cadmus' was they were talking about?" Ben asked after a while.
"Don't know," Robin replied before grinning.
"But I can find out!"
Ben and the others followed the youngest member towards the computers, where Boy Wonder immediately set to work.
"Access Denied."
"Heh, wanna bet?"
A large wall of codes appeared and Robin started typing away, awing Ben and Kid in the process.
"Wow. How are you doing that?" Kid Flash asked.
"Same system as the Bat Cave," came the smug reply.
"Access Granted."
"Project Cadmus, Genetics lab here in D.C," Ben read out loud.
"That all there is? You'd think the League would have more information, right?"
"And if Batman's suspicious, maybe we should investigate?" Robin proposed grinning.
"Solve their case before they do. It would be poetic justice," Aqualad commented.
"Hey. They're all about Justice," Robin replied.
"Otherwise, they've picked a really stupid name," Ben chuckled.
"But they told us to stay put," the Atlantean reminded the others.
"For the blotting out the sun mission, not this!" Ben told him as Robin nodded in agreement.
"Wait. Are you guys going to Cadmus?" Kid asked, throwing and arm over both Ben and Robin's shoulders.
"Because if you're going, I'm going."
All three of them grinned at Aqualad, hoping that he too would agree.
"Just like that, we're a team on a mission?" the Atlantean asked.
"We didn't come for a play date."
. . . . .
Cadmus
The firemen were in the middle of putting out the fire when the four teens arrived. Two scientist were stuck on the second floor, until an explosion pushed them outside the window. Using their super speed, Kid Flash and ran up the wall of the building and grabbed one of the two men, throwing him on the roof. At the same time, Big Chill had grabbed the second man and gently lowered him to the ground before transforming into Water Hazard and helping the firemen.
Robin used his grapple hook to enter through the window the two scientists had fallen from, taking Kid Flash with him. Aqualad arrived last, using his control over water, the Atlantean created a water tornado to get the man still on the roof down and himself to the window. Ben used the same trick to follow. When he too entered the building, he slapped the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and turned back into a human.
"Thanks for the help," Ben muttered to the two already sniffing around.
"You handled it!" Robin told him.
"Besides, we're here to investigate. Poetic justice, remember?"
Aqualad had already walked ahead and noticed a horned creature stepping into a still working elevator. Shocked, he watched as the doors closed and the creature disappeared.
"There was something in the-" he started before Kid Flash appeared behind him.
"Elevators should be locked down," the speedster said.
Ben and Robin looked at each other before rushing after the others. The four of them approached the elevator to investigate.
"This is wrong," Robin said as he looked at the holographic computer on his wrist.
"This is a high speed express elevator. This doesn't belong in a two story building."
"Neither does what I saw," Aqualad commented.
The Atlantean walked up to the elevator doors and forced them open, the rest of the team walking up behind him. When they looked down, their eyes widened in shock at how deep the shaft went. There had to be at least fifty more levels underground.
"At least that explains the express elevator," Ben muttered as he activated his watch and transformed into Big Chill.
As he started floating down, Robin attached a rope to the top of the shaft and jumped, Aqualad and Kid Flash following after him. Big Chill was already three stories lower when he heard Robin call him back up.
"I'm at the end of my rope here, Ben!"
"Alright, that means this is going to be our stop," the Necrofriggian spoke in his chilling voice as he flew back up.
He stayed suspended in midair while Aqualad and Kid Flash jumped on the ledge next to the closed elevator doors, where Robin was already standing and pulling up his holographic computer.
"I'll go check it out," Big Chill told the others before floating through the doors.
The hallway seemed pretty high tech, and Ben had to admit reluctantly he had no idea what most of the thing he saw did. However, nothing of it seemed like it would attack him or his friends. Seeing nothing that could be of any immediate danger, he flew back and told the others to follow. Just like before, Aqualad forced the doors open and walked out first, followed by Robin and Kid Flash.
"Welcome to Project Cadmus," Robin muttered.
Kid Flash immediately took off at high speed, leaving the rest behind.
"Kid! Wait!" Aqualad called out after him, but the ginger speedster ignored him.
In a flash of green, Ben turned into XLR8.
"I'll go after him!" he said before taking off as well.
He arrived only seconds after Kid, was now lying on the floor and about to be stepped on by a giant monstrous creature. XLR8 rushed forward, grabbing Kid and getting back to the other two, who were now staring in shock at the large rows of beasts walking past. As he and Kid Flash were back on safe grounds, Ben transformed back to himself.
"No, nothing odd going on here," Aqualad muttered.
"I've seen weirder," Ben told them.
"Not by much, but still weirder."
When the monsters were gone, the four young heroes continued on their way. Robin hacked every door on their path, until they found themselves in a room filled with strange creatures in tubes.
"Okay, I'm officially whelmed," Robin said.
"This is how they hide this massive facility from the world," Kid Flash muttered.
"The real Cadmus isn't on the grid! They generate their own power with these… things. Must be what they're bred for."
"Man! What's is with bad guys and using living creatures as energy source?" Ben whined.
"You've seen something like this before?" Aqualad asked curiously.
"It's how my grandparents met."
"Dude, one day you gotta tell us those stories!" Kid Flash grinned.
"One day," Ben replied shrugging.
In the meantime, Robin had walked over to the computer and hacked into it to find out what was going on.
"They call these things Genomorphs," Boy Wonder told the others.
"Wow! Look at the stats on these things! Super strength, telepathy, razor claws. These things are living weapons!"
"They're engineering an army," Kid Flash muttered.
"But for who?" Ben asked.
"Wait, there's something else," Robin interrupted.
"Project Kr… Ah! The file is triple encrypted. I can't-"
"Don't move!"
The four teens turned around only to see a man in dark armor and a golden helmet running towards them, followed by several Genomorphs. He had a small one on his shoulder as well. Ben raised his hand towards the Omnitrix, but Aqualad stopped him.
"Let's try talking first," he said.
"Only if those things are ok with that," Ben replied.
"Wait," the man with the helmet said.
"Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Ben 10?"
"At least he got your names right," Robin chuckled from where he was still decrypting information.
"I know you," Aqualad said to the man.
"Guardian. A hero."
"I do my best."
"Then what are you doing here?" Kid asked.
"I'm chief of security," Guardian replied.
"You're trespassing. But we can call the Justice League, figure this out."
"You think the League is gonna approve of you breeding weapons?" Ben accused.
"Weapons? What are you-"
The small horns on the Genomorph on Guardian's shoulder lit up red and the hero groaned in pain. After only a few seconds, he stood up straight again, glaring at the teens.
"Take them down hard! No mercy!" he told the Genomorphs, who jumped forward to attack.
Robin used a smoke bomb and disappeared, leaving the other three to fend for themselves. With a flash of bright green light, Ben transformed into Wildmutt and jumped on top of one of the Genomorphs. He and Kid Flash took care of the nasty creatures, while Aqualad took on Guardian. The Atlantean managed to take the hero down, but when more creatures appeared, the three teens had to run. They found Robin already in the hallway, hacking the elevator. Kid approached him as Aqualad and Wildmutt took a fighting stance to hold off the oncoming Genomorphs.
"Way to be a team player, Rob!" Kid yelled angrily as he stopped next to the Boy Wonder.
"Weren't you right behind me?" the younger one asked.
Just then, the elevator doors opened up. Kid Flash and Robin quickly entered the elevator as Ben and Aqualad rushed over. Once they were all safely inside, the doors closed again, locking the attacking Genomorphs outside. Ben transformed back to himself, the small space of the elevator forcing the other three to close their eyes and turn away as he did.
"Why are we going down?" Ben asked curiously.
"Dude! Out is up," Kid told Robin.
"Excuse me? Project Kr is down, on sublevel 52," the raven replied.
"This is getting out of control," Aqualad sighed.
"Perhaps we should contact the League."
"We can handle it," Ben shrugged, smirking confidently.
A soft ping warned the four young heroes that they had reached their destination and the doors opened. When they saw where they had arrived, Ben couldn't help but feel weirded out. The whole place seemed organic, as if they were inside a living creature.
"Still seen something weirder?" Kid asked Ben softly.
"Doesn't even rank in the top five."
They ran through the hallway until they reached a cross point. With a sigh, Aqualad crouched down next to Robin while Ben hid close to Kid Flash.
"Which way?" Aqualad asked.
"Yeah, bizarre looking hallway One or bizarre looking hallway Two?" Robin replied.
"Halt!"
A humanoid Genomorph walked out of one of the hallways and levitated two barrels, throwing them towards the four young heroes. They jumped aside in time, as the barrels smashed against the wall and exploded.
"I vote for bizarre looking hallway Two!" Ben told the others as he started running while activating his watch at the same time.
"Right behind you!" Kid called, zooming after the brunette as both Robin and Aqualad did the same.
Kid Flash and XLR8 reached the closing doors first, and Ben quickly slammed the Omnotrix on his chest to change into Upgrade. Kid stared as the Galvanic Mechamorph took over the door and opened it again. He, Robin and Aqualad quickly entered and Upgrade closed the doors just in time to keep the Guardian and his Genomorphs outside. After that, he jumped out of the door and turned back into Ben and turned towards Robin and Aqualad.
"I disabled the door," he told them.
"Uh. Guys?" Kid called out.
"You'll wanna see this."
All eyes widened as the noticed the pod with the letters Kr on it in the middle of the room. Inside lay a teenage version of superman, wearing a white suit with the red crest of the House of El. Above him stood sat three of those small Genomorphs.
"Big K, little r. The atomic symbol for Krypton!" Kid Flash remembered.
"Think that's a clone?" Ben wondered.
The other three stared at him as if he had said something stupid, and the brunette shrugged. Aqualad looked away first, turning towards the youngest member of their team.
"Robin. Hack."
"Right."
The Boy Wonder immediately set to work to get the information they needed.
"Weapon designation: Superboy," he read.
"A clone force grown in… 16 weeks?! From DNA acquired from Superman."
"Stolen from Superman," Ben guessed.
"No way the big guy knows about this," Kid agreed.
"The solar suit allows him to absorb Yellow Sun radiation 24/7" Robin continued.
"And these creatures?" Aqualad asked, pointing at the three sitting on top of the pod.
"Genomorph Gnomes. Telepathic. Force feeding him an education."
"Wasn't there one of those things of Guardian's shoulder?" Ben asked.
"This is wrong," Kid Flash muttered.
"We can't leave him like this," Robin agreed.
"Set him free," Aqualad ordered after a moment of thought.
Robin immediately set to hacking the pod on his holographic computer. In a matter of seconds, the glass front slid away. The clone twitched and opened his eyes. As he focused on the four young heroes, Ben looked up, noticing the small horns of the gnomes were glowing red. He wanted to warn the others, but Superboy had already jumped out of the pod and tackled Aqualad.
"Think they got him under mind control?" Ben asked as he searched through his various aliens for the right one.
"Looks like it," Robin agreed.
Kid already charged, followed by Robin as they both grabbed one arm of the clone in an attempt to make him stop beating up Aqualad. The Kryptonian clone didn't seem fazed by it and simply threw both teens off of him.
"Rath!" the tiger like alien now standing in Ben's place yelled before charging the fighting males.
"Let me tell you something clone of Superman. Nobody attacks Rath's friends and doesn't get beat up by Rath!"
The Apoplexian was actually able to throw the clone to the other side of the room and he ran after him. before he could get there, Robin hat already shot Superboy with his Taser, but the thing didn't seem to do any damage. The clone just grabbed the cords and pulled Robin over, slamming him into the floor with one hand. Before he could do anything else, Rath grabbed him and gave him a headbutt. That seemed to hurt Rath just as much as it did the clone but at least it bought Aqualad enough time to hit Superboy with a water hammer. Rath was back on him in seconds, beating the clone as hard as he could.
"Don't hurt him too much!" Aqualad called.
"He is being controlled."
Rath paused and looked over at the Atlantean. He looked like he wanted to argue, but the clone hit him hard in the head, making Rath loose conscious and change back into Ben. Next, he attacked Aqualad. The young hero stood his ground and got in a few good hits, but Superboy was much stronger and faster than he was. Once all four heroes were out, Superboy forced the locked door open and walked up to the Cadmus scientists waiting outside. Dr. Desmond smiled as he saw the unconscious forms of the four teens and looked back at the clone.
"Atta boy."
I still haven't decided on which pairing aside from the fact that it will almost definitely be either Batgirl or Zatanna. I know Batgirl doesn't really play a part in the first season, but I really like her, so I'll most likely put her in this anyway.
Please let me know whether you want Ben to end up with either of them, or if you have another idea for a pairing. Also, Tell me which episodes from the series you want to see back in this.
Thank you for reading this story and see you guys on the next update this Friday!