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Seven

The next month seemed to pass by faster than the Flash. Starla was making some progress with Scarlet. The hero was used to having hour maybe an hour and a half sessions but Scarlet would always shut down after half an hour.

The two had almost hit a snag in their relationship when Starla came home from work to find Scarlet out in the backyard with Dani and Leon. Luckily Barry had been there to stop her from making things break down, Scarlet had friends and he felt that not everything could be solved from the advice from a textbook. After all it was his idea that Scarlet bring the two over to begin with.

It wasn't long before Starla was soon to realise that keeping Scarlet away from the YJL wasn't the best idea and it started with an attack on the high school the day that the older league members were out of Central.

"Man I am bored as fuck," Dani complained as the three of them hung out behind the bleachers.

"We could skip," Leon suggested. "Miss Lee isn't here."

Scarlet shrugged. "Sure, why not. Just as long as we're back to pick up Bart and Jessie from day care I don't care."

"My place?" Dani suggested in the usual teenage fashion of a nonchalant shrug.

Scarlet went to open her mouth when there came a sudden explosion from the gym. The three of them turned to the school as the sound of screams started ringing out across the school. "Just our bloody luck," she muttered under her breath. The one day that the Starla and Barry were out of town. She straightened up when she saw flash of black across the carpark. "Oh shit!"

"What?" Leon asked.

"Hunters," Scarlet answered from behind the bleachers. "Meta-human hunters," she explained. "They must be really desperate attacking a school in broad daylight."

"We're not the only gifted people in the school Scarlet," Leon told her. "There's like twenty other kids."

"Do you guys hold a support group or something?" Scarlet muttered. She pulled her new phone out of her pocket and dialed Starla.

"Hey you've reached Starla, I can't take your call at the moment. You know what to do."

"Get your superhero ass to the school right now!" Scarlet snapped. "There are hunters here! They've attacked the school." She hung up, "son of a bitch!"

"What does Miss Lee have to do with this?" Dani frowned.

Scarlet took her jacket off and the vest she was wearing leaving the black shirt she wore with a Celtic triquatra on the back. "Stay here, someone needs to get those hunters out of the school." She handed Dani her phone. "Keep calling Starla until you get her." Scarlet pulled her hair back into a bun and slipped her sun glasses on her face.

"We're coming with you," Dani told her.

"Take everything off that makes you recognisable," Scarlet warned. She watched from the bleaches as two hunters brought out an unconscious cheerleader, home room bitch Kelly. She groaned and shook her head. "Why her?"

The Hunters loaded her up into a van.

Scarlet narrowed her eyes and crinkled her brow, trying to concentrate.

Suddenly the first Hunter shot the second hunter with a dart gun before he shot himself. The two dropped to the ground.

"That was pretty cool," Leon grinned. Flames wrapped around his fingers as sirens could be heard in the distance.

The three teens ran across the football field as another lot of Hunters came out with more kids. Dani threw an energy ball at them, it exploded at their feet, knocking everyone to the ground.

"RUN!" Leon told the kids.

Scarlet reached out and grabbed at the air, pulling the fallen Hunters along the ground before throwing them aside like the trash they were. "If we split up we lose contact with each other."

Dani patted her shoulder. "We keep fighting till the cops arrive."

Scarlet nodded. She ran off into the school, automatically going into the gym. She crouched down and slipped through the doors. The Hunters were bringing all the students and teacher's into the gym where they were being scanned with some kind of device.

"Here's another one, Level 3 meta-human."

The woman behind the Hunter with the device shot a dart at kid around twelve. When he fell to the ground, a second woman came and attached some kind of collar around his neck, when it clicked into place, it glowed red.

Two others dragged him away.

Wanting to know what it was that they had scanning for meta-human's, Scarlet jumped out of her hiding place.

"We got another," one of the Hunters called out. "They're coming to us in loads."

"Bring her over," the guy with the scanner ordered.

Scarlet was brought over just as an explosion rocked the building. She waited as some of the Hunters in the gym took off to see what it was. The device beeped in front of her.

"She's a meta-human," the man spoke. He fell silent as the device beeped. "Classification level 10. This is the one they want."

Scarlet snapped her hand out, grabbing him. Like Starla had done weeks ago, Scarlet forced her way into his mind.

The Hunter drew his sidearm and shot his partner in the head.

She spread her consciousness all over the gym, forcing her control over all the hunters. Never having spread herself so thin before, Scarlet's noise started to bleed. She tried to focus as her control slipped completely out of her hands. A blue force exploded outwards across the room, knocking everyone out in a single blow. Scarlet collapsed on the ground, blood coming from her ears and nose.

"Come on you," Leon grunted, picking Scarlet up off the floor of the gym. She grabbed the scanner off the floor and hugged it to her chest, thinking that the League would need it. Leon navigated the room full of unconscious Hunters and students, taking Scarlet outside. Dani hurried to help Scarlet put her outer layers back on as the police arrived.

Scarlet looked up, her nose bleeding and sporting a killer headache as a lightning bolt flashed by her.

The cavalry had arrived.

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By nightfall story of the attack on the school by terrorists had become international news. Across the world officials were singing the praises of the group of teens who had saved the school, freeing all those that were captured.

The Justice League and Young Justice League had been summoned to the Watchtower to discuss what had happened and to hunt down those responsible. Somehow the discussion had turned to Scarlet, Dani and Leon as well as Starla's refusal to let her join the YJL because she wasn't ready.

"Admit it, Mindwarp," Superman suggested. "The girl's ready to be trained and join the YJL. Keeping her as some kind of project isn't going to work. All three of them risked their lives today and saved a lot of people in the process. Controlling twenty-five people at once-not even you can do that."

"That's not what's up for discussion," Mindwarp snapped. "You asked me to bring her into my home and I did. We do this my way."

"I'll be happy to take her off your hands," original JL member and Star City's famous Shade grinned. "I'm sure anyone of us will. She's about Wolf's age. Same age as my son as well." Shade nodded at the Black Wolf, the teenage protegee of the Green Arrow, sitting beside her mentor.

The Green Arrow looked across at Shade and smirked. "We've got enough room in the mansion."

"Yeah thanks for that, Green Arrow," Mindwarp snapped. "I've been inside this girl's head and she hates herself. Is that really the kind of backup you want for your protégée's?"

"You've got something against Scarlet joining us?" Superboy asked. "I really don't think it's up to you."

"Her birth records," Cypher spoke up, "on what we've been able to find of them, has her eighteenth birthday in six months. You can't keep her locked up. I makes you no better than the hunters that chase after the meta-human kids. I know you mean well but the road to hell is pathed with good intentions."

"I suggest we take a vote," Nightwing spoke up as the two women glared at each other. "The team and I have discussed it and we'll be happy to take her. It's clear there's no lack of places for Scarlet to go, we're even refurbishing the rooms in Mount Justice. She's won't be alone. All for Scarlet, Danielle Oscar and Leon Thomas to join the YJL?" he called out.

All but four members of the combined teams put their hands up.

"Looks like you're out of luck," Pisces shrugged.

"Let it go, Mindwarp," Flash sighed.

"Back to the subject on hand," Batman ordered. "What do we intend to do about these hunters…?"