**Chapter 4; Welcome to Happy Harbor**
|MOUNT JUSTICE
| JULY 18 11:16 EDT
"Recognized: Robin B01, Kid Flash B03"
The two ran in wearing their civvies while the others were tracking Red Tornado down.
"Did you ask him?" Robin asked.
"What did he say?" KF spoke with a follow-up question.
"You do guys know that deploying us on missions are Batman's responsibility right?" NCM got a hold of KF.
"We never know, Red Tornado might have something for us" KF ruffled NCM's bangs.
"He's arriving now" Aqualad spoke out.
"Then what are we waiting for?" KF ran with the others following behind him as they headed to the field.
The side of the mountain opened up as they ran outside to see Red Tornado flying down.
"Red Tornado" KF waved.
"Greetings. Is there a reason you intercept me out of the cave?"
"We hoped you had a mission for us" Aqualad spoke.
"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility"
"But it's been over a week and nothing-" Robin got cutted off.
"You will be tested soon enough. For the time being simply enjoy each other's company" Red Tornado held up a hand.
"This team is not a social club" Aqualad spoke.
"No. But I am told social interaction is an important team building exercise. Perhaps you can keep busy, by familiarizing yourself with the cave" He suggested as he walked passed the proteges.
"Keep busy" KF scowled as he turned to Robin.
"Does he think we're falling for this?" Robin questioned.
"Ooh, I'll find out" Miss Martian spoke as she turned to Red Tornado as she tried to read his mind.
"Recognized: Red Tornado 16"
"I-I'm sorry. I forgot he's a machine, inorganic. I cannot read his mind" Miss Martian sighed.
"Nice try though. Soo uhhh, you know what I'm thinking right now?" KF moved an inch closer to Miss Martian.
"Pff. We all know what you're thinking now" Robin stated as he elbowed KF.
"Oww" KF winced.
"And now we tour the clubhouse" Aqualad spoke with a slight annoyance at his voice.
"Well, Superboy, NCM, and I live here, we can play tour guides" Miss Martian stated as the others turned to Superboy and NCM.
"Don't look at me" Superboy spoke not wanting too much attention.
"We won't" KF replied.
"A private tour sounds much more fun" KF continued as he turned to Miss Martian.
"S-She never said private" Robin stated.
"Don't you want a private tour with me?" NCM winked at Robin.
"Team building. We'll all go" Aqualad spoke as we began to walk, Robin pulling KF away from Miss Martian.
"Soo, this would be our front door...and this would be the back. The cave is actually the entire mountain" Miss Martian stated as she continued to tour us inside.
"It was hollowed out and reinforced by Superman and Green Lantern in the early days of the League" KF explained.
"Then why abandon it for the Hall of Justice?" Superboy asked.
"The Cave's secret location was...compromised" Aqualad replied.
"So they traded it in for a tourist trap? Yeah, that make sense" Superboy stated with a sarcasm on his voice.
"If villains know of the Cave, We must be on constant alert" Miss Martian pointed out.
"The bad guys know we know they know about the place so they never think to look" Robin held Miss Martian's hand.
"How do you say that so fast?" I asked Robin as I held both his hands.
"Uh, He means, We're hiding in plain sight" KF explained.
"Ah, That's much clearer" Miss Martian scratched her head.
"I smell smoke" Superboy exclaimed.
"My cookies" Miss Martian gasped as she flew all the way to the kitchen, removing the tray out of the oven using telekinesis.
"I was trying out Grammy Jone's recipe from Episode 17 of-uhuh-nevermind" Miss Martian exclaimed.
"I've bet they tasted great! He doesn't seem to mind" Robin stated as the others stared at KF.
"I have a serious metabolism" KF uneasily replied
"I'll make more?" Miss Martian asked uncertainly.
"It was sweet of you to make any" Aqualad stated.
"Thanks Aqualad" Miss Martian replied.
"We're off duty. Call me Kaldur'ahm, actually, my friends call me Kaldur" Kaldur spoke out.
"I'm Wally. See I already trust you with my secret I.D., Unlike Mr. Dark Glasses over here. Batman has forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name" Wally stated.
"Mine's not secret. My name is M'gann M'orrz, But you can call me Megan; it's an Earth name, & I'm on Earth now" Megan exclaimed.
"Well then, I'm Zyrile Althea Amanda Zatara. Long names actually ran in the family, but feel free to call me Althea" NCM; Althea smiled.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD" Superboy shouted.
The others turned to Superboy then to Megan.
"What's wrong? I don't understand? Everyone on Mars communicates telepathically."
"Megan stop!" Kaldur stated.
"Things are different on Earth. Here your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy" Kaldur continued.
"Besides, Cadmus' creepy little psychic Genomes left a bad taste in his brain" Wally exclaimed pointing at Superboy.
"I-I didn't mean to" Megan stated.
"Just. stay. OUT" Superboy stated as he walked over to the couch.
There was a moment of silence and awkwardness between the young heroes, until...
"Hello Megan! I know what we can do" Megan took off flying as the others followed behind, well not everyone exactly.
"Superboy please?" Megan pleaded as she went back to Superboy.
"Don't talk to me" Superboy replied coldly, sighing to himself as he stood up and joined the others.
Eventually, all of them were on the Hangar.
"It's my Martian Bioship" Megan stated.
"Cute. Not aerodynamic, but cute" Wally stated.
"It's at rest silly, I'll wake it" Megan giggled.
After a few seconds, her bioship turned into a full blown ship.
Megan telekinetically turned the bioship as the back of the ship opened.
"Well, are you coming?" Megan stated as she began to walk inside along with the others.
Six seats popped out like a jelly as the young heroes sat on them as seatbelts then popped out and strapped the proteges in.
"Woah" Robin stated surprised as the seatbelts strapped him in.
"Cool" Wally smiled.
"Red Tornado, Please open the bay doors!" Megan stated as the bay doors opened.
Megan drove the ship out from the cave and flew to the skies as the others looked at the bay below.
"Incredible" Robin commented.
"She sure is" Wally sighed as he stared at Megan.
"I-I mean the ship, which like all ships, is a she" Wally folded his hands on his chest as Megan turned to him.
"Fast with his feet, Not so much with his mouth" Robin stated.
"Dude!" Wally stated feeling embarrassed as Megan smiled.
"Soo, what do you think of the ship?" Robin turned to Althea.
"Huh? Oh uh, It's pretty cool" Althea gave two thumbs up.
"You seem kinda down, What's up?"
"Just tired but, I'll manage" She smiled.
Meanwhile...
"Red Tornado to Miss Martian. An emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbor powerplant. I suggest you investigate; covertly. I'm sending coordinates"
"Received. Adjusting course" Miss Martian replied.
"Tornado's keeping us busy again" Robin stated.
"Well a simple fire led you to Superboy, We should find out what caused the alert" Miss Martian reasoned.
"I think, I know the cause" Superboy looked out at the window as a tornado came to attack the bioship, disabling its camouflage mode.
Miss Martian then focused at the ship's control, leading them out of the tornado and down to a safe zone.
"Robin, Are tornadoes common to New England? Robin!" Aqualad questioned as he turned around only to find Robin gone, leaving the Team with his creepy laugh.
"He was just here" Megan stated as the Team turned to the factory's window finding it being blown out one by one.
The Team ran inside the factory as they saw Robin being thrown harshly at a pillar.
"Who's your new friend?" Superboy questioned as he approached Robin.
"Didn't catch his name, But he plays kinda rough!" Robin stated as Superboy dashed to the villain.
"Are you alright?" Althea asked helping Robin up to his feet.
"My apologies, You may address me as Mr. Twister" Mr. Twister spoke as he used his powers and harshly threw Superboy at a wall.
Kid Flash attacked next, but to no avail, Mr. Twister threw him out of the factory.
Aqualad and Miss Martian then attacked, but just like Superboy, he sent them to the harsh ground.
"Nommus ym snoinim" Althea chanted as she summoned her undead minions, ordering them to dashed up to Mr. Twister, but to no avail he threw them back, making them hit their master to the ground.
"I was prepared to be challenged by a superhero. I was not however expecting children" Mr. Twister stated with a satisfaction on his voice.
"We're not children" Robin shouted as he threw explosive birdarangs to Mr. Twister, but again to no avail.
"Objectively you are. Have you no adult supervision? I find your presence here, quite disturbing" Mr. Twister replied.
"Well, we hate to see you turbed, Let's see if you're more turbed, once we kick your can!" Robin yelled, as Miss Martian used her telekinesis that caused Mr. Twister fogged up in a smokescreen. Superboy then, jumped to the air in attempt to pound Mr. Twister, but Mr. Twister used his powers on Superboy, sending him away to Miss Martian, as the two hit the floor, harshly.
He then punched the floor, sending vibrations of small to medium sized twisters as Aqualad, Althea and Robin dashed up to him, causing the three to be sucked by the twister and eventually get slammed by each other.
"Indeed. That was quite turbing. Thank you" Mr. Twister stated as he walked out of the factory.
KF, who was thrown earlier, got up on his feet as he gained his conciousness. He ran up to Mr. Twister.
"What have you done to my team" He questioned with a hint of anger at his voice.
"Embarrassed them, largely" Mr. Twister replied as he created a huge tornado, in attempt to spin KF to the factory wall behind them.
"I got you, Wally" Miss Martian used her telekinesis to levitate KF as the others walked behind her.
"Woah. Thanks" Kid Flash replied.
"I would have thought you would all learned your limitations by now" Mr. Twister stated.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Aqualad questioned.
"Isn't it obvious? I'm waiting for a REAL hero" Mr. Twister replied after levitating himself using his powers.
"Read his mind. Find a weakness" Aqualad turned to Miss Martian.
"I, thought I wasn't suppose to do that?" Miss Martian replied.
"It's okay with the bad guy!" Robin spoke as Miss Martian began to concentrate and read Mr. Twister's mind.
"Nothing! I'm getting nothing!" Miss Martian stated.
"Hello Megan! Mr. Twister is Red Tornado in disguise. He's inorganic; an android. How many androids do you know that can generate tornadoes." She continued.
"Red Tornado sent as here" Aqualad spoke.
"After saying we'd be tested soon enough? This was is test! Something to keep us busy" Robin stated with anger.
"Speedy called it. We're a joke" KF stated.
"This game is soo, over" KF stated as Aqualad, Robin, and Him walked to Mr. Twister.
"We know who you are and what you want!" Robin pointed to Mr. Twister.
"So let's end this" Aqualad spoke out.
"Consider it ended" Mr. Twister replied using his powers,
"An impressive show" Aqualad yelled. "But we will not indulge you! We will not engage" He continued, as Mr. Twister began into creating a tornado along with bolt of lightnings.
"Uh, can red Tornado... do that?" KF asked.
"You think I'm Tornado? Ironic." Mr. Twister replied, setting the young heroes aside.
"You're not the only one who can do that" Althea levitated herself, too late of helping the others as they felt unconscious, except for herself and Superboy.
"Feel the wrath of a NECROMANCER!" She yelled out, sending her own undead ghouls to attack Mr. Twister as Superboy leaped onto the air in attempt to punch him.
Unfortunately, he just shot Superboy with a strike of lighting, into which angle also hit Althea, sending them to the ground with the others.
He began to levitate himself towards the unconscious heroes, when Miss Martian telekinetically sent her bioship; which was camouflaged, above them.
"Fine then. I won't deny you children have power. But playing hide and seek with you, will not help me achieve my objectives. So stay concealed" Mr. Twister warned.
"If you confront me again, I will, show. no. mercy" He continued and left off to Happy Harbor.
"A-Are you okay?" Althea held on Robin's face looking if he has injuries.
"I'm fine. B-but you..." He wiped off some blood on Althea's forehead.
"I'll manage." She smiled as he held Robin's hand, helping him up.
"What happened?" KF asked.
"I placed the bioship between us" Miss Martian stated as Superboy smashed some boulder.
"And that's supposed to make it right? You tricked us into thinking Mr. Twister was Red Tornado" Superboy accused Miss Martian.
"She didn't do it on purpose" Aqualad exclaimed.
"I-It was a rookie mistake. We shouldn't have listen" Robin stated.
"You are pretty inexperienced" KF shrugged.
"Hit the showers. We'll take it from here" KF continued.
"Stay out of our way" Superboy snarled as he began to ran after Mr. Twister, followed by KF, and Robin.
"I was just trying to be part of the team" Miss Martian stated.
"To be honest, I'm not sure we even have a team" Aqualad stated before following the guys.
"I know your gonna do the right thing here, But right now... I better help out with Twister. I guess, I'll see you there?" Althea gave a reassuring smile to Miss Martian as she took off and tracked Mr. Twister.
Meanwhile... the Team; excluding Miss Martian, were busy exploiting Mr. Twister, still attempting to weaken him down.
"Listen to me. All of you" Miss Martian telepathically linked the Team up.
"What did we tell you?" Superboy spoke out with anger.
"I know! And I know I messed up, but now I'm very clear on what we need to do. Please, trust me."
Meanwhile, Megan explained the plan to the Team.
"Hit the showers, boys. I was hoping you could handle this, Clearly, You cannot." Miss Martian mimicking Red Tornado stated as (s)he landed on the field, between Mr. Twister and the young heroes.
"Uh, I'm a girl, but clearly, that doesn't matter in this situation" Althea sighed.
"But we've got a plan now" Robin protested.
"The subject is not up for debate" Red Tornado dismissed the matter as the young heroes departed from each other.
"I was beginning to believe you would never show up" Mr. Twister stated with a cocky tone.
"I'm here now"Red Tornado stated as KF began to spin around generating as his own tornado. With their plan beginning to turn over Mr. Twsiter, KF met with on of Mr. Twister's twisted cyclone, disappearing before the Mr. Twister's tornado could disperse.
"We are evenly matched, Twister" Red Tornado stated as KF spinned, generating himself as a tornado, as debris flew over Mr. Twister.
"No Tornado, we are not" Mr. Twister angrily rammed his fist on the ground as his own wall of wind diverted the incoming debris away.
Tired of the head to head combat with Red Tornado, Mr. Twister generated his lightnings once more, following Red Tornado's every move. As Red Tornado took cover behind a turned over rental boat, Mr. Twister didn't let this chance pass & shot lighting over the boat, knocking Red Tornado down to the ground.
"Remain still, Android" Mr. Twister stated as wires flowed from his fingertips attaching it to Red Tornado's head.
"Reprogramming won't take long" He continued. Red Tornado then turned to Mr. Twister before getting a hold of the wires as Miss Martian morphed her head on her usual appearance, "Longer than you might think."
"No" Mr. Twister stated as Megan passed him to KF, who had spun around as he generated his own tornado, then throwed him to Superboy who was waiting to beat up the android. Superboy punched him a couple of times, then threw him onto the shore which was where Aqualad snapped his impromptu weapon on Mr. Twister's chest generating electricity, managing to remove the Android's left arm. Althea then attacked the Android next, as she ordered her electric flying ghouls to attach themselves to Mr. Twister, short-circuiting the Android as Megan telekinetically removed his remaining arm , followed by Robin, who ran on the ground, throwing his explosive birdarangs over Mr. Twister.
The Android then met up to his end as he fell to the harsh ground, still managing to get on his knees, his chest began to open revealing a scrawny looking man. "Foul. I, I call foul."
Megan, who telekinetically held up a large boulder dropped it at the guy.
"M'gann NO!" Aqualad protested, but it was too late. The others were left alarmed of the situation.
"Don't know how things are done on Mars, but on Earth, we don't execute our captives!" Robin turned to Miss Martian with anger.
"You said you'd trust me" Miss Martian telekinetically removed the boulder out, revealing the guy; who happens to be an android, into pieces.
"That's why I couldn't read his mind" Miss Martian explained.
"Cool! Souvenir" Wally stated as he held the android's disconnected eye.
"We should've had more faith in you." Aqualad put his hand over Miss Martian's shoulder.
"Yeah, You rocked this mission! Get it? Rocked" KF stated.
"Ignoring. We're just all turbed here in the Team" Robin replied.
"Uh, Thanks. You too" Miss Martian smiled.
Later that night...
The Team along with Red Tornado were all gathered up as they continued to examine the android.
"It was clearly created to sabotage or destroy you" Kaldur turned to Red Tornado.
"Agreed" Red Tornado replied.
"Is that why you wouldn't help us?" Megan asked.
"No. This was your battle. I do not believe it is my role to solve your problems for you, nor you should solve mine for me" He replied.
This alarmed Robin, Wally, Althea, and Superboy.
"But, If you're in danger" Megan reasoned out.
"Consider this matter, Closed." Red Tornado turned away dismissing the conversation.
"Batman, Aquaman, and Flash, they'd have jumped right in to fix things" Wally stated.
"Guess, If we're gonna have a babysitter, a heartless machine is exactly what we need" Robin stated.
"Dude! Harsh" Wally replied.
"And inaccurate. I have a heart. Carbon-steel alloy" Red Tornado stated before turning around. "I also have excellent hearing."
Robin then chuckled nervously, "Right. Sorry. I'll strive to be more accurate."
"And more respectful." Kaldur added as Red Tornado then turned to resume walking away.
"Speedy was soo wrong" Wally stated.
"This team thing?" Robin stated.
"Might just work out" Kaldur added.
"So, Is Speedy related to Wally and Flash?" Althea walked up to the three boys.
"Nope. He's an archer." Wally replied.
"And was formerly, Green Arrow's protege" Kaldure added.
"Well that makes no sense" She stated.
"Funny, I heard the same thing when we first walked the Hall of Justice" Robin chuckled.
Megan smiled at the four, until she turned to Superboy.
"Sorry" Superboy stated as he began to walk with the others.
Megan then smiled and flied over to the Team.
Apologies for the long await :))