A/N Sorry that this one came out a little later, some friends were dealing with some stuff, and then I got distracted by E3, but we're back now!
Disclaimer; Nope, still don't own 'em. Both Young Justice and any character seen within this work of fiction belong to DC Comics and Warner Bros.
Mount Justice
March 2, 08:40 EST
In the days since the discovery of Marie Logan's tragic death and Garfield Logan's moving into the cave, things had been a bit morose. M'gann was still upset, and Kara was still mad at Connor for repeatedly disregarding her orders. She was seriously considering suspending him again, this time for real.
The only good thing that had come out of it all was that Garfield had finally emerged from his room.
Kara had a day off, and was sparring with Aqualad. The rest were all on missions, or at school, and Garfield was watching the fight between Kara and Kaldur in awe. At the very least. They could distract him for a few minutes from his mother's passing.
They were interrupted by the sound of the zeta-tube entrances whirring to life.
"Recognised: Aquaman 0-6"
Kaldur stopped what he was doing and immediately went over to salute his mentor as he entered. Behind, Kara instructed Garfield to go back to his room.
"Greetings, my king."
"Uh, hey Aquaman" Kara called out from behind. They were teammates now, but it didn't make it any less weird greeting the Atlantean king like an equal.
"Greetings Kaldur'ahm, and you Supergirl" the man nodded.
"If I may, what brings you here?" Aqualad asked the man.
"It is okay" he held up a hand to his former sidekick "foremost, I am here to... check in on my protégé.
"With all due respect my king, that is not necessary" Aqualad replied.
"Yes, but it is also not the only reason I am here" he turned to the console beside him, and hit several holographic keys.
"Access Granted: Garth A0-1, Tula A0-2. Authorisation: Aquaman 0-6"
Two teens around Kaldur's age stepped out of the zeta-tubes and beside Aquaman.
The boy looked around the cave, impressed, and the girl looked at Kaldur in a strange mixture of sadness and happiness.
"Garth and Tula wished to visit the surface world, and maybe even stay as a teammate of yours" he placed his hands on the shoulders of the two.
"Wait, you wish to remain on the surface?" Kaldur's eyes widened.
"Maybe" the boy, Garth, replied "now that we have finished our studies under Queen Mera, we wished to see what you do on the surface" he explained.
"I'm afraid I must take my leave, so I will entrust them to you both" Aquaman cut in, and zeta'd out of the cave.
"Well, if you're gonna join the team, then we need to see how well you can fight" Kara decided, ignoring the apprehensive face Kaldur was making, and leading them over to the sparring circle.
"You know we are trained for combat, right?" Garth asked her incredulously.
"Yeah, in Atlantis, but things are different above the ocean, and you've never faced a Kryptonian."
She turned to face them, and raised an eyebrow expectantly.
Garth and Tula looked at each other, and the latter shrugged "after you" she said.
Garth rolled his eyes, but maintained a smile, and stepped over to Kara, dropping into a combat stance.
Making the first move, he lunged at her, but continued forward, stumbling a little when she suddenly wasn't there.
"On this team you'll face a lot of different people with powers, one of them is inhuman speeds."
He grunted, and spun around on her, lifting his leg up. His foot impacted her face with a solid smack, but she didn't even flinch. Grabbing the foot that had yet to land, she flipped him over her head, and onto his back.
Tula burst into a fit of giggles on the sidelines.
"Another, is near-indestructibility."
He growled low, and shot back up to his feet. The Atlantean boy then threw a hard punch at her mid-section, which was caught with ease, and the blonde tossed him into the air.
"Incredible strength is common too" she told him as he flew, and as he fell back to the ground, she fired a pair of low-energy lasers into him. Enough to burn, but not permanently.
He grabbed the spot she had fried at the same time as his lower-back, which he had landed on quite hard.
"Also, many of them will have the power to manipulate energy and matter in different ways."
He jumped at her again, and this time, she stepped to the side, grabbed his ankle, and flew up into the air, dangling him high over the ground "my personal favourite is flight" she smirked, and dropped him back to the ground.
Tula tried to hide her snickers behind a hand, and Aqualad even seemed to chuckle as Kara lifted the other Alantean off the ground once she landed.
"Wait until we fight for real, because Atlantean combat training can only get you so far, but I bet you've never seen Amazonian, Apokaliptan, or Kryptonian styles, have you?"
"No, we haven't" Tula smiled "but, it does seem like something worth learning."
"Well if you're ready to learn..." Kara trailed off, and turned to fully face the Atlantean girl, whose smile dropped.
A beeping from a small spot in Kara's belt interrupted, and the blonde stepped away, placing a hand to her earpiece.
"Supergirl here" she announced.
"Kara-" Black Canary's voice came over. She was obviously on monitor duty "-where are you right now, and what are you doing?"
"Uh, I'm at the cave, and training?" She frowned.
"Good, an alert came through a few minutes ago-" the other woman was interrupted by a drawn out groan.
"You know I'm not-"
"Yes Kara, I do know, but this is a small alert, I'm not even sure why it came to us" they were both silent, and Kara relented.
"Fine, what is it?"
"Thank you. It's a few miles west of Happy Harbour, a burglary. The police there think the suspect is a meta-human, so..."
"Alright, I'll deal with it..." Her eyes wandered to the three Atlanteans speaking nearby "...on one condition."
"Which would be?" Kara didn't need enhanced vision to see Black Canary's raised eyebrow.
"I have some of the team here, I want to bring them. Consider it a... training program."
Canary then sighed "fine" and cut communications.
"Change of plans" Kara called out, walking back over to the others "we're going on a trip."
"We are?" Aqualad looked at her, surprised.
"Yes, we are, an official Justice League sanctioned mission" she smiled "let's go" she led hem towards the hangar.
They followed her silently.
"Tornado, you there?" she called as she walked.
The android flew down from his room as response.
"We're going out on a mission, make sure Garfield behaves?"
Tornado nodded, and Kara resumed leading the Atlantean trio to the hangar.
When they reached the spacious area, inside which both Tula and Garth looked around in awe, Kara was relieved to see that the Bio-ship was out of it's resting position. It wouldn't help if the only way to transport three non-flying people in relative speed and ease were inaccessible, and the only person who could 'wake' it was at cheerleading practice.
"Kaldur" she nudged him as his two old friends continued to stare at the ship "think you can pilot it?'
"I believe so, yes" he confirmed.
Kara nodded, and led them onto the ship. Inside, Kaldur took a seat in the pilot's seat, and Kara sat down directly in front of him, while Garth and Tula hesitantly sat down on either side of her.
"This is the Bio-ship, our primary mode of transportation" Kaldur explained.
"You own a ship?" Tula asked him, surprised.
"No, it is M'gann's" he corrected.
"You'll meet the rest of the team eventually" Kara told them "but there are a few... quirks you'll have to get used to."
"Like what?" Kara didn't answer Garth.
Lucky's Gas Station, Rhode Island
March 2, 09:10 EST
The arrived on the scene of a remote gas station, surrounded on all sides by police cars and officers. Between the police and the gas station, black scorch marks painted the ground, contrasting the large spines of ice sprouting from the windows of the station.
Kaldur landed the Bio-ship on the ground outside the ring of police cars, and the four of them exited to face the daunting gas station turned ice fortress.
Kara narrowed her eyes, and used her x-ray vision to look past the ice covering every glass surface. Inside, a large man in thick fur seemed to be arguing with a smaller woman in leather.
"There're two of them" she explained, "one's a man, he's big, wearing mostly blues, and a lot of fur."
"Maybe he wears fur to stay warm" Tula suggested.
"Which would mean he's probably responsible for the ice" Garth agreed
"But ice doesn't leave scorch marks like that" Kaldur frowned, gesturing at the black markings all over the ground outside the station.
"Well, the second suspect is a woman, she's wearing lots of red and black, most of it is leather" Kara shrugged.
"A leather does not burn easy" Kaldur continued.
"So she's our pyrokinetic" Kara frowned, "what do you think?" She asked her old leader.
"We should split up " Kaldur decided "if we all attack them both at once, you would likely be left alone."
"Agreed, so I'll take Garth-"
"What?" They all chorused.
"You heard me, I'll take Garth, and we'll take on the woman, while you two take on the cryokinetic" Kara ordered.
Not allowing them any chance to argue, Kara began to march over to the police surrounding the gas station, an increasingly familiar sight, and found the officer in charge.
"Hello, officer?" The older man turned around to face her "I'm going to make this simple, me and my team can stop whoever is in there, but we need water, lot's of water."
The officer stared at her for a moment, before picking up a radio "you there?" He asked "yeah, I need firetrucks, the more, the better."
Within minutes, three firetrucks had arrived on the scene, and the emergency personal present had been informed of Kara's plan.
She stood several metres away from the iced over front doors of the gas station, with Tula, Garth, and Aqualad behind her.
"Review plan?"
Kaldur spoke first "you will break the ice barring our entry into the station-"
"-then you and I will attack the pyrokinetic woman, and move her out of the building, away from everyone else-" Garth continued.
"-meanwhile, Kaldur and I will try to stop the cryokinetic" Tula finished.
"I guess we're all ready then" Kara decided.
She fired up her heat-vision, and began to melt away the ice around the door.
Inside, the two figures stopped whatever they were doing, and turned to the door. The man looked calm and collected, but the woman's face began to turn red from anger.
She smacked a hand into her stoic partner's chest, and seemed to demand he do something.
The man stepped backwards, and the woman blasted the doors open with one massive burst of fire, startling the surrounding officers, Garth, and Tula.
"Time to-" she began to summon a large ball of fire above her head, and a wild smirk broke out across her face, when she was interrupted by Kara surging forward faster than a blink.
The blonde hit the pyrokinetic in the mid-section, and spear-tackled her through the gas station, and through the wall at the rear of the building, with Garth following at a run.
The cryokinetic also seemed floored by this, and so was distracted when Aqualad summoned the water from one of the firetrucks, and morphed it into a battering ram of sorts.
When the cryokinetic realised what was happening, he was already being blasted through a side wall, into the ground outside, while Aqualad and Tula followed.
Behind the store, Kara and Garth stood, facing off with the woman who had now recovered from Kara's initial attack.
"What's your name?" The blonde suddenly asked.
"Why?" The woman frowned, flicking lone black hair out of her eyes.
"So the police know what to document you as once I've beaten you unconscious."
Both woman glared at each other, until the pyrokinetic relented "Pyra" she stated "that's what you'll screaming when I burn my name into your flesh" she fired a jet of flame at them both to punctuate, and the two heroes split.
Pyra also split her jet into two smaller beams, one focusing on Kara who seemed unperturbed, and one on Garth, who had quickly summoned the water from the second firetruck to act as a shield.
Aqualad, meanwhile, had turned a great deal of his water into a large shield, and was in the middle of a test if strength with the cryokinetic who had fashioned a similar shield, made of ice.
"May I... At least... Know... Your name?" Aqualad grunted.
"Cryo" the man growled back, and gave one last mighty push, throwing Kaldur off balance.
Cryo turned his shield into an axe, and lifted it above his head, about to bring it down on Kaldur's neck, when another battering ram of water knocked him out of the way, this time controlled by Tula.
Cryo stumbled back to his feet, and gave a grunt of frustration.
Aqualad also stood, and readied himself beside his old friend.
"Kaldur" Tula suddenly spoke.
"Yes?" the boy replied, already running at Cryo with a sword made from his water-bearers ready.
The Atlantean boy leapt into the air, and brought the water-blade down on Cryo, who quickly deflected the blow with an ice-shield
"We need to talk" Tula said as she too ran forwards. Not possessing water-bearers like Kaldur, she simply fashioned some of the water into long cord, and wrapped it around Cryo.
"About?" Kaldur asked, reading himself once more as Cryo formed a pair of ice-knives, and began to try slashing through his watery bonds.
"Garth!" Tula yelled, mostly in panic as the cryokinetic before them broke from his temporary prison, and dove toward her.
"Tula, now is most certainly not the time!" Kaldur admonished. He morphed his swords into a large hammer, and smashed Cryo in the side, throwing him away from Tula
"I know!" Tula yelled back while morphing a heal of water into a large serpent of sorts, "I just don't want things to be weird between us!"
Kaldur didn't answer, he only ran at Cryo, who was seemingly distracted by the water-snake attacking him at the moment.
Aqualad threw his water-hammer to the side, about to bring it into Cryo's ribs, but was knocked away when the cryokinetic swung his own hammer made of ice into the teen's head, sending him flying, and rolling along the ground.
"Kaldur!" Tula yelled, dropping control over her water snake, and Cryo took advantage.
The large man sprinted at the still distracted girl, and smashed his ice-hammer into her gut, knocking her down.
He then reshaped it into an axe, and hefted it above his head.
Several metres away, Kaldur stirred and sat up, turning to look at the two.
Seeing Cryo about to harm his childhood friend and secret love, Kaldur jumped to his feet, and sprinted ahead without thought.
He lifted a water-hammer above his head, and electrified the water.
Kaldur brought the hammer down on Cryo's head, who spasmed and shook wildly from the electricity now coursing throuh him, until he flopped over, unconscious.
Kaldur reached down, and pulled Tula up.
When she stood, they were face to face, and both looked away from each other after a moment, with Kaldur making sure to take a few steps backwards.
Around him, the dome of water began to dissipate from Pyra's attacks, and Garth had to think quick, lest the woman's relentless attacks burn him.
Suddenly, the fire stopped, and he dropped the dome to see Kara now directing all of Pyra's attention.
To capitalise, Garth morphed the water into the shape of a large shark, and sent it barreling toward Pyra, who didn't have enough time to avoid the blow.
She was sent skidding along the ground from the impact, and snarled at Garth as the shark fell apart.
Pyra stood, and glared at the teen, who summoned some of the water back to him, and began to swirl it in the air above his head. Pyra, meanwhile, quickly built up a ball of flame in her arms, and released it, smirking as the fire sped directly at Garth.
Kara grabbed Garth by the collar of his clothing, and threw him to side just as the fireball Pyra threw went through his former position, and harmlessly into the invulnerable Supergirl.
Letting out twin grunts of frustration, Kara and Pyra lunged at one another, and locked hands in a power struggle.
The pyronkietic woman was stronger than she looked, but Kara was still stronger, and began to push her opponent back when she felt her palms heat up.
Pyra was generating fire even when her hands were covered, and by this point had superheated their joint hands to the point where the heat actually began to bother the Kryptonian.
Kara released her grip on the other woman's hands, and the two jumped back from each other, smoke rising from their palms. Above, grey clouds and brief flashes of lighting could be seen as a storm brewed.
Beside her, Garth looked up, and seemed to realise something. Morphing the water into a large pedestal for himself, Garth rose above high the ground.
"I summon the power of the tempest!" He yelled.
Water and air began to swirl around him in some kind of typhoon, and electricity began to crackle in his hands and along his arms.
Pyra lifted her palms to face the teen, about to attack, and Kara lunged, tackling the pyrokinetic to the ground.
Pyra tried to burn Kara again, but the Kryptonian pinned her arms down forcing the fiery attacks to sail harmlessly upward, until the whipping wind put them out.
Pyra pulled her knees up to her chest, and kicked Kara away.
Both women stood up, and readied themselves to attack, when water surged forth from Garth's hands, and encased Pyra, before freezing solid.
Kara was taken aback from the sudden attack, and looked over at Garth as he dropped back to the ground, and forced the storm to recede.
Inside her icy prison, Pyra still sported a vicious frown
Kara walked over to Garth, and smacked hum on the shoulder, "good work Tempest" she smiled.
"Tempest?"
"Well, that's what you shouted back there" she reasoned "actually, that's a pretty good name."
Tula and Aqualad walked back over to them from where they had knocked Cryo unconscious.
"Garth, that was amazing!" The girl leapt into his arms, and they embraced. Out the corner of her eye, Kara noticed Aqualad look away.
"Ahem" she cleared her throat "So, still want to join the team?"
They shared an exited look.
A/N, meh, not one of my best, but what the hell.