"Who's your captain?" This time it was Robin who stepped forward and asked.

In answer I raised my hand and pointed, "Aqualad,"

Again I forgot to take into account the impact a single word can have to a human being. My head cocked and a hint of confusion touched my core when Aqualad's companions erupted with yells and questions of shock. Aqualad himself stood frozen where he stood.

Superman and Batman exchanged a look before Batman raised his hand. Instantly it was like a switch was thrown and all noise ceased. "Superman and I need time to make a decision," he glanced over his shoulder at the younger humans behind him, "in the mean time why don't you take your 'Captain' and his friends around your ship,"

I nodded and made to turn away but before I did Batman stopped me with one more sentence, this time when I looked at him a harsh glare was on what little of his face was actually visible. "If any harm comes to them,"

He didn't finish his sentence but he didn't need to, even with my limited experience with humans my simulations were able to come up with possible endings. "Do not worry, no harm will come to them while they are in my hull,"

It was a simple matter for me to once again create a staircase out of my Wave-force armor allowing them easier access to my deck. I turned to them as they all stood on my deck. We were beside the entrance to my bridge and therefore my deck looked similar to the ship it was molded after, just simple wooden planks without any of the markings that differed myself from other ships. "What would you like to see first?"

"Oh oh what guns do you have?" I was hit with my own bout of shock as Robin asked the question with almost childlike glee his hand waving in the air.

"I believe we shall leave that answer for later, but rest assured I have more than what can be easily seen from the deck,"

"Cool,"

Looking at the others Miss Martian raised her hand. "Um how about just a tour?"

"Of course," I allowed a small grin to cross my face hoping that it would relax them a little.

It took nearly an hour till I was satisfied that they had become properly familiarized with all the rooms within my hull. The first stop was my Bridge where I outlined each function for the computers that ran along the windows. The next was the Conning tower. After that I took them on a tour along my weapons bay which ran the length of nearly the whole vessel and took out two whole floors. Needless to say they were surprised by the hundreds upon hundreds of warheads, torpedoes and ammunition for my many guns and cannons.

After they got over their shock and I was once again forced to assure them that I meant them no harm I finally moved on.

"This way please," I told them. I led them to the end of the Weapons Bay where a narrow staircase sat. As we moved I dedicated as much processor energy as I could to research and manufacturing of everything that humans needed to survive.

By the time we got to the next room I had used a good chunk of my Nano-material reserves to remodel the interior of my hull to fit their needs and there were still many more rooms that I had to remodel that I won't be able to show them on this tour.

Keeping the tour going I showed them the newly made Cafeteria which could hold upwards one hundred beings. It was a buffet style set up with a large counter at the other end of us. Behind the counter sat a large kitchen with all the appliances a human could need.

I lead them further through the room showing them the kitchen before moving to a door that led into a hallway. Doors lined the hallway, all open. The first two doors were bathrooms, one on either side of the hallway and every consecutive door after were furnished bedrooms. The hallway split not far down for more bedrooms with two bathrooms half way down each hallway one on either side just like the two by the Cafeteria.

Down another staircase I showed them a gym, a small entertainment room and a larger room with padded walls that I called the practice room.

"This room concludes the tour," I told them.

"It is a very interesting ship," Aqualad praised.

"Very big," Miss Martian added.

"What about the engines?" Kidflash asked, "or the power plant?"

Surprisingly I felt the face of my Mental-model heat up and sensors noted a discoloration of its face. "Those are off limits," I told them.

A chirping noise interrupted them before they could say anything else. "Batman to Robin,"

Raising his arm Robin touched a small button on his gauntlet. "Robin here,"

"Superman and I have made our decision, please have everyone return to the beach,"

It took nearly ten minutes of walking to leave my hull and return to the sand of the beach. Standing not far from my prow, his eyes examining the green waves and symbols that dotted my exterior stood Batman, behind him stood Superman a small glare on his face.

They both turned to face us as we approached.

"We have made a decision," Batman began casting his stern eyes around the group. "It took longer then expected and we had to call in the opinions of other League members before we came to an agreement but eventually we did,"

Superman stepped forward at this point, the glare still there but taking on a sterner look instead of angered. "Since you have already decided to take on Aqualad as your 'Captain' we have decided that it wouldn't be much of a step for you to join the team,"

"But on one condition," Batman growled stalling any celebration that may have happened. "You share your technology,"

"No," Stepping forward I donned a glare of my own to match both adult's current expressions. "My technology is my own and belongs to no one else, humans will be able to craft it in their own time and no sooner,"

"If you refuse to share your technology than we will be forced to act as if you are a threat," Batman warned.

My eyes narrowed even more and I stepped to the side. Waving my hand, I allowed my Digital-ring to form around my Mental-model. The water grew agitated, heaving in waves around the stern of my hull as my engines slammed in reverse. Within minutes my secondary's were able target them and in approximately ten minutes at full reverse my primaries would be able to lock on. My Wave-force armor flared around both my Mental-model and my hull.

"Be warned that if you wish to make an enemy of me I will not hold back,"

"Wait!" Robin yelled. "I have a compromise,"

"Yes?" I prompted glancing at the small male.

"You won't share because we need to learn to make everything ourselves right?" I nodded agreeing with his statement. "And you two want to know what she's capable of and what her kind might be able to do. So how about you allow them to examine your systems for a half hour. You won't fight them but you don't need to help them,"

"I see," I muttered letting my simulations run. "This way I don't actively give them my technology but they have to put in the effort of figuring out the functions and components involved in making every system work,"

I nodded but left my systems powered up until I heard their thoughts. "I agree to these terms,"

"We do to," Batman nodded.

I let my systems power down, my Digital-ring disappearing and my Wave-force armor shutting off. Reversing the motion of my engines I let my hull drift back to its previous position and cast my Wave-force armor in a ramp to allow them access.

"You have one half of an hour to examine all the systems of my ship body. Safety measures are engaged to prevent you from bringing harm to yourself, my body or any other beings within the area. Jamming devices are shut down to allow the use of both audio and video recording devices. At the end of the half hour mark you will be notified and all system rooms will seal and jamming devices will reactivate. Is this sufficient?"

"It will be fine," Superman told me placing a hand on Batman's shoulder. The darkly clothed human nodded grudgingly and both moved towards my hull.

I monitored them for every second they were on or in my hull. Just as they examined me I examined them.

Superman's physiology was different from normal humans but it shared certain traits that were the same. His bone and muscular structure was denser by many magnitudes and a radiation scan showed him absorbing the ambient ultra violet energy produced by the earths sun similar to a sponge.

Curious I scanned Aqualad and his companions. From data gathered I was able to determine that out of all of them Robin was the only real human. Kidflash appeared to be human but upon further examination I was able to detect a difference in his body chemicals and muscles.

Aqualad shared a similarity to aquatic beings in that only half of his respiratory system was designed to breath in oxygen, the other appeared similar to the make up of many water based animals.

Miss Martian was the farthest from human of the group and until I could study her further I would not be able to draw any similarities to any other creatures of this planet.

Superboy shared a similar physiology to Superman but he seemed to be to a lesser degree than his adult counterpart.

"The half hour mark has been reached please leave my hull now,"

I waited watching on the camera's as both Batman and Superman made their way through my halls. Just before Batman exited onto my deck I made the door slam shut. "Batman please retrace your steps by ten feet and look to your right and down to waist height. You will see the surveillance device that you left on your way in that you thought I would not detect. Retrieve it now,"

A small smirk crossed the lips of the dark human as he did as I instructed, bending slightly he grabbed the small device that would have been over looked by anybody else and slipped it back into one of the many pouches on his belt. "Not bad,"

Letting a smirk of my own form I allowed the door to open up for him.

When he finally made it back down to the beach he joined Superman in front of all of us. "It is not wise to try to fool a being that is much more advanced than yourself," I told him. I leaned back slightly and rested my hands in my jacket pockets letting both halves of the long coat join to nearly conceal my form. "But nice try,"

Aqualad stepped forward to stand at my side and looked towards the two full grown men. "Are you satisfied?"

"For now," Batman admitted. "Be ready to deploy on missions that will require you to leave your… other half behind,"

"I understand, though limiting it will not effect my performance,"

"Good, for now return to Mount Justice," Batman ordered.

"Wait you don't have a mission for us?" Robin asked.

Batman turned to look at the small human with a small weak glare on his face. "No, and until I do, return to Mount Justice,"

Superman exchanged one last look with everyone his eyes lingering on Superboy for just a moment before with a small jump he flew off. Batman quickly returned to his jet and with a whistle of its engines it raised vertically, angled and it to was off.

I turned to my now teammates. "Where is this Mount Justice?" Based off local maps I was able to determine multiple options for where this 'Mount Justice' is located with the most likely one further west of us and directly off the Atlantic Ocean. Though not the most defensible it would offer the strategic advantage in height over its surroundings and also allow for a wider range of vehicles, including marine and aircraft to access their base.

"West of here, if we had a map I could show you," Robin told me.

Nodding I waved my hand summoning my Digital-ring and creating a large holographic map of the area. "Sweet," Kidflash muttered moving forward to look closer.

Robin also stepped forward examining the map with interest. "Very accurate," he admitted, he pointed to the map and I had t freeze my Mental-models facial response so a smirk didn't show, the location he was pointing out was the one that I deemed the most likely place for their base of operations, "here, if you come in from this side there's a hanger bay that used to hold boats, I'm not sure but I think it might be able to fit you."

"Very well," It turned towards my ship and with a single easy jump I landed on the deck. "Do not worry, if I cannot fit I will submerge myself to remain undetected,"

Without saying anything else I eased my hull away from land and angled towards the mountain. It was not far away, maybe only ten minutes at a leisurely pace of thirty-five knots.

It wasn't long before I came across the mountain itself. A small beach head was on the water side of it, cliff faces surrounding it and making access to the beach itself tricky. A cove off to the side of beach went right up to the mountains side. I angled towards this cove and ran some depth scans. It was surprisingly deep. Increasing my number of scans, I was able to determine that while natural in appearance the waters depth was artificially increased some time ago to allow the passage of larger vessels, maybe even submersibles. As it were I would be able to fully submerge with no issue. Even as I approached I saw Miss Martian's ship fly above me, the mountain opening up for her.

I moved in just behind her, quick calculations showing that the Hanger was large enough with almost ten meters' prow to stern and almost three dozen port to starboard of clearance. I allowed myself to drift to a stop submerging just enough to bring my deck level with the landing platform that ran the length of the back wall of the hanger that they had landed on.

With a small jump even by human standards I landed on the pad.

"Interesting," I muttered looking around me. Scans showed the extensive work done to the interior of the mountain.

"Welcome back team," I turned at the new voice and saw a red autonomous robotic being walking through the single door into the hanger. I was surprised with the results of the scans I made and couldn't help but step forward to examine it more closely.

"Interesting," I muttered again. A small whine of hydraulics and countless motors and the featureless head turned towards me. "An android, self charging, with pneumatic generators. Scans show the possibility of external wind generation with the possibility of lift,"

"Interesting," the android echoed. "I had heard from Batman and Superman that an android was joining the team but to see one more advanced than myself is very surprising,"

"I admit to being surprised that an android like you could possibly exist. Your components are in line with technology in line with over a decade from now,"

"Umm," we both looked towards the voice seeing Miss Martian standing there looking the most confused out of all the organics there. "What's happening?"

"I think," Robin began trying to put his thoughts into words, "that they just said hi to each other,"

I nodded and the red robot did the same.

I turned back to my fellow inorganic being. "What is your designation?"

"Red Tornado," it introduced itself.

I nodded in greeting. "I am Battleship Montana, it is good to meet you."

1 knot = 1.15078 miles per hour

1 knot = 1.852 kilometers per hour

35 knots = 64.82 kilometers per hour or 40.2773 miles per hour