Set after S1 Ep10 "Targets"

"Did your first day at school pass to your satisfaction?" Kaldur greeted her with friendly concern when she went to the training area, where most of the others where already gathering for their physical class. M'gann smiled brightly in his direction, she knew that he was wary that their short trip to Atlantis had taken too much of their time they might have wanted or needed for preparation. But she did not feel this concern necessary, not only because the city under the sea had been exciting and interesting, and Kaldur had needed his friends at his side and she had been happy to be there with him, but also because she had been preparing for Earth-High School basically her entire life.

"It was great!" she beamed "the other kids were so nice, well, most of the time, and we had classes and everything and they asked me to try out for.."

"You know, M'gann, you are not supposed to like school when you are a teenager, right?" Wally barged in with a grin on his face.

"What?" M'gann looked a little confused. But school was important? She had met all these new and interesting people and she had wanted to go since forever. Had she done it wrong?

"Don't listen to the idiot." Robin planted himself next to Wally shaking his head "not everybody is a bored genius who cannot sit still for his life. I kinda like school, too."

"You do?" Wally asked with a suspicious look on his face.

"Well, they asked me…" M'gann felt the excitement again as she prepared to tell her teammates more about this great day, but something else caught her attention again, or rather someone else.

"Hey Conner." She greeted the Kryptonian with a smile and tucked a streak of hair behind her ear. He looked as grumpy as ever, even with Sphere rolling beside him. The living machine had greeted them when they had returned to the cave and seemed a little disappointed that they had left it alone for the day.

"Conner?" Wally looked up as well.

"It is the name that Superboy chose to take for his secret identity." Kaldur explained with a hint of a smile. Maybe he felt like M'gann did, that it would be good for the clone to find a life besides the team's missions and training, like he had in Atlantis.

"Conner Kent." M'gann nodded "Isn't it a great name? Mine's Megan Morse, what do you think?"

"Well… it's alright, I guess" Wally shrugged then looked at her "I like yours better."

Robin sighed "can you ever… " But Black Canary and Artemis chose this moment to enter the room as well, and so they got ready for their training.

"M'gann!" Artemis smiled and leaned next to her when they finished the first workout "you look awfully happy today – so, how was it?"

"It was perfect. They asked me to audition for the cheerleading squad and I went and I made the team!" her voice was pitched high now that she finally had the chance to tell someone.

Artemis looked at her, a little surprised "Cheerleading, really?"

"I wanted to be a Cheerleader ever since I saw… well, it looked like a lot of fun. And the uniform is cute, too!" She changed her appearance to show the yellow-and-black uniform of the Bumblebees.

Artemis look was still a little sceptical.

"Wow, Cheerleader-M'gann!" She heard Wally's voice from the other end of the training room and could see the blonde archer next to her rolling her eyes, hard.

"You didn't tell us!", the speedster looked at Superboy with an accusatory glance, then grinned "I so have to go to one of your team's matches."

"Well it's… cute." Artemis acknowledged "I mean, if you like this kind of stuff, which is.. ok, I guess." she smiled towards her teammate "glad you already found yourself a hobby and everything. New school is not something I'm looking forward to…"

She lost herself for a moment in a trail of thoughts, her eyes wandering through the room where Kaldur and Superboy were starting the second round of training.

"How about… Conner? Did he join the sports-team or something? Because I might just want to accompany Wally to one of these games some day… "

"Oh. no… he was…" She hesitated.

"He didn't go full Superboy on them, did he?" Artemis asked with a slightly worried tone.

"No, nothing like that, he'll need some time to adjust, I'm sure he will like it eventually." She smiled again. The other pupils at Happy Harbor had been nice. Especially Wendy who had come up to her and encouraged her to join the Bumblebees. And Conner… he had seemed interested in the classes, although his knowledge from the G-Gnomes was extensive and most likely exceeded that of the others students, he had asked questions, had wanted to understand more than just the facts. For her all these names of Earth-places and dates had been much more puzzling, since her knowledge of Earth-culture was rather more specific and she tended to get confused with the details of human politics, apart from those that had come up in earlier missions. But everything else had been more than perfect.

Lost in her own thoughts she didn't realize that the others had already taken up with training again.

"Is that your boyfriend? ´Cause – he's hot, but kind of a freak."

Well he wasn't her boyfriend, not really, was he? He had waited for her when she had her audition instead of going back to the cave after school. And he had cared, when he thought the other girls were mean to her. He had carried her books.

The girls were wrong of course, not only with him being her boyfriend – she would certainly like him to be, but it wasn't that – Superboy.. Conner, he wasn't a freak. He was a bit ill-adjusted to the world him around because of his previous experiences, like she – the outsider, the alien – was, only that she hid it better. But he was caring, and interested, and… nice if you could find a way to see past the anger.

"M'gann, would you care to join us again?" It was Black Canary's voice that reminded her of the time and place she was in.

"Sorry, I'm here" She pushed herself away from the wall she had been leaning against and joined the others.

"Want to cheer us on?" She looked puzzled towards Robin's grin, before she laughed heartily.

"Hello, Megan!" she slapped herself slightly on the head while she changed her clothes back to her hero's uniform. It was this team now.