Is anyone else kinda ticked that they won't have a new episode for a couple of weeks? Well, I guess they need some time to write more episodes, yadda yadda yadda.

OH, and if you're wondering I made Wally fourteen in the last chapter because I wanted it to be obvious that this was before Young Justice was formed.

Title: Costume

Rating: K

Pairing: None

"Robin, I've always wondered this, but why is your costume like that?"

Robin looked over to Artemis, who was inspecting his costume. They had all returned from a mission, too tired and lazy to do anything but crash on the couch. "What do you mean?"

"Well- Batman wears all black to blend in with the night right? So- as his sidekick- shouldn't you wear all black too?"

"Not all sidekicks wear the same colors as their mentors," Kid Flash reminded her in a not so friendly tone of voice.

Artemis replied with a narrow of her eyes. "I know that, I mean, Gotham City at night is when all the bad stuff happens, so shouldn't you wear black to blend in?"

KF and Robin both opened their mouth for a rebuttal, but Superboy chimed in. "It isn't normal for a kid dressed like a traffic light to be running around with a guy dressed like giant bat at all hours of the night."

Everyone froze.

Robin gaped, his mouthing opening and closing. Kid Flash began to laugh uncontrollably, until he could feel Robin glaring at him from behind his sunglasses.

Miss Martian fought back a grin. "It's not nice to say things like that, Superboy."

He raised an eyebrow. "I was only telling the truth."

Aqualad, previously silent, spoke up. "It is good to tell the truth." Everyone broke out into laughter and Robin sulked.

They were all going to wake up tomorrow with a kidney missing.

Title: Metro

Rating: K

Pairing: None

It became a habit for Superboy to ride the metro.

At first it had been just to look at all the different people and personalities. The stylish pre-teen girl blabbing away on her cell phone, or the calm looking middle aged man with a backpack. The twenty-something guy with the tattoos, or the tired looking brother and sister on their way home from school. The young mother with a newborn pressed to her chest.

When Superboy first began riding, he openly stared at people. This usually got negative reactions in the form of glares and sneers. Once, a man had got up and began to yell at Superboy while the bus was moving. His first reaction was to punch the man, but he then remembered Batman's condition for riding the bus. Not to hurt any delicate humans. Superboy clenched the pole next to him until the man realized he wasn't going to get a reaction before stalking back to his seat. When Superboy let go of the pole, there where large hand shaped indents in them.

There were the positive responses too. When Superboy had been caught staring by a girl in a mini skirt, she grinned flirtatiously back. When the guy with the skate board looked up and his lips quirked before going back to his iPod.

One time he had been berated by the bus driver when he had sat in front for eating his lunch, (Megan packed it for him when she found out what he did all day) then kicked off at the next stop.

He blinked and looked around for a moment. What should he do now? Superboy considered going back to Mount Justice, but decided against it.

Superboy sat down and waited for the next bus to come.

Title: Rain

Rating: K+

Pairing: None

Superboy's mind registered the steady plop plop plop on his skin, but his body didn't. It was too delicate for his thick skin to feel.

He was mesmerized by the drops on water gliding over his body, and Superboy briefly compared it to a shower before he killed the idea.

(Rain came and went as it pleased. It couldn't be controlled.)

Superboy knew he should have felt the cool temperatures and that any normal human would be dead. Until he realized he wasn't human.

(Was so wrong to try to be free?)

He threw his head back to the sky and tried to focus on every drop as it fell on him, the sharp feeling of contact, then the feeling of it pooling on his skin until gravity took effect and it fell back. Superboy knew that eventually the rain would be absorbed back into the clouds (evaporation, he told himself) then cleansed for another rain. He wondered how long the oldest drop of rain had been around, until he realized that water didn't have ages and that him thinking about it was weird.

(Was it wrong to try to be normal?)

He knew that the rain was gathering into puddles around his feet, but the thick soles of his combat boots blocked out any water. Superboy wanted to stay out in the rain forever, but he knew that someone would come out soon to for a mission, or training or something that the Justice League set up.

(Unlike the rain, Superboy wasn't free. He was controlled.)