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Chapter 4

"I don't know we usually don't talk about his past." Roy said. "But seeing as you are helping us I guess it wouldn't hurt. So here's the thing his parents were Japanese and really strict….."

"They were S.H.I.E.L.D. agents since the age of 15, both of them. When Grayson was born they started training him to become an S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent before he could even walk. They were cruel and brutal but he loved them anyway. He said he wouldn't be able to stand the thought of not loving his parents because he had no one else to love. He was homeschooled and he only left the house for training or to go to the S.H.I.E.L.D. Agency. He became an official S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent at the age of 10. He knew how to hold a gun as a toddler instead of a rattle and the first time we met him we hated him. Later we found out that he was really desperate for love and friendship and we found out how his parents had raised him. One day he came to the agency with a black eye, broken nose, and a busted lip. He said that it was his usual punishment for disobeying rules. Since he thought of us as friends we tried to convince him that his parents were abusive and that he had to tell an adult. He wouldn't listen he said that they loved him and the only reason why they punish him is because he deserves it. The next day it was the invasion and his parents died. We heard that he had come to the agency and tried to attack the Fury but he saw the Avengers and asked them why they didn't save his parents. Then out of the blue they decided that they were adopting him. They would take turns taking care of him but he mostly lived with Captain America. Then they decided that they would adopt all the kids involved with S.H.I.E.L.D. and we were the last three kids involved with S.H.I.E.L.D., instead of all of them adopting us they individually adopted us. Dr. Banner, a.k.a. the Hulk, takes care of West, Agent Romanova a.k.a. Black Widow takes care of Crock, Clint a.k.a. Hawkeye takes care of me, and since they all switch off on Grayson he has more attachment to them more than all three of us combined." Harper explained the story.

"I thought Agent Grayson said you were in orphanages." Black Canary said.

"Yeah, we were in an S.H.I.E.L.D. orphanage. You had to take a test to get into it and only a few get nominated to take the test the 4 of us made it the rest of the orphanage had grown up." West explained.

"I have a question that has been bothering me ever since Agent Grayson said that there was no Justice League, how did you even know about us?" Superman asked.

"Well about two months ago S.H.I.E.L.D. had found a kid who said that he had been to another dimension. We took him into a facility to interrogate him. He said that he had been to another dimension that had no Avengers and that instead there was a Justice League. He mainly talked about a Batman that he would see on news reports. He was taken to a mental facility. When the Avengers were kidnapped we thought about the kid. It was a long shot but we had no other choice. West here spent the last month making the portal and the through that month Grayson has been driving us insane with all his worrying. The kids thirteen and I feel like he already has gray hairs, I just feel like he grew up to fast." Crock sighed.

"So how did your mentors get captured?" Robin asked, he knew of Batman got captured by Joker he would be worrying just the same.

"We have no idea, all we know is that Thor came to the Stark Tower one day and saying that Loki had changed. At first they didn't believe him, they had all agreed to go and meet him in Asgard to his holding cell. They went and next thing we know they haven't come back for a week. At first we assumed that they were all fine because Asgardians like to party, then 2 weeks passed and we started to get worried. Somewhere in the third week we got a message saying that we only had a month and a half to turn ourselves in to be Loki's apprentices and he would let them go. The thing is we think he's going to trick us and kill the Avengers anyway." West informed the team in more detail than when Grayson told them hurriedly.

"What is the Stark Tower?" Conner asked.

"This is the Stark Tower." Roy spread his hands out. "That is what the Stark Tower looks outside and the proud owner is Tony Stark a.k.a. Iron Man." Harper pointed at a picture that covered most of the wall.

"Wow, that's a big tower." Green Arrow whistled.

"Yeah, he was a bit of a narcissist." Crock smirked.

A few seconds later a voice came from the speakers that were installed to the intercom.

"Sirs I believe that dinner is ready." The voice spoke and the 11 heroes looked around the room trying to find the source of the talking.

"Thanks Jarvis." The three Agents said in unison.

"You're welcome sirs." Jarvis spoke. The three teens lead the 11 heroes to the dining room where Grayson had set up five serving bowls full of Fried Rice, three huge plates piled high with lumpia, and little individual bowls, set up in front of every seat, that were filled with miso soup.

"Thanks for cooking, Grayson."West thanked with great sincerity.

"Yeah and it's still your turn to cook tomorrow." Grayson shouted from the kitchen.

"Aww, come on you know you're just punishing yourself." West complained.

"No, Harper, Crock and yourself will be eating your puke for food. I will be out with these guys." Grayson shot back.

"What, why are we being punished?" Crock asked.

"Because you didn't man the portal." Grayson growled.

"I thought we went over this." Harper sighed.

"We did but the spar is also for training, this is your real punishment." Grayson said.

"Ahem." A sound went through the dining room. The four arguing teens turned towards the person who made the noise.

"Yes?" Grayson asked.

"Um can we eat?" Barry asked back.

"Oh yeah, I figured that if you are Agent West's doppelganger you probably eat as much as him so I made the three of you your own bowl." Grayson explained.

"The other two bowls are for everyone else, you all can dig in now." Grayson smiled.

"Wow a smile, haven't seen that in a long time." Crock murmured, which got a glare form Grayson.

"Shut it." Grayson growled. Once everyone was seated, except for Grayson, they all started digging in. Grayson went for the exit of the dining room.

"Hey where are you going?" Artemis called.

"Oh, sorry I didn't tell you I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat meat but I have to cook it for these meat eaters." Grayson told them.

"What are you going to eat?" M'gann asked.

"I just have to go get a bowl of miso with tofu, I made it separate." Grayson told the group.

"Are you coming to join is after you get your food?" Conner asked.

"Um, no but you'll be fine. I'll just be in the living area, at the desk if you need me. By the way that reminds me you three will give me a status report of the time I was gone, you will tell me about the letter you have been trying to hide, and we are going out tomorrow." Grayson ordered the teens and walked out of the dining room.

"See what we mean he grew up too fast." Crock sighed and went to eating her food in silence.