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Reddy was standing at the slideways, arms crossed, waiting for me when I got there.

"So how's this all going to work?" I touched down, powering down my ring.

Black Canary walked up with a folder in her hand. "These are the 'foster' papers if anyone at the school asks to see them."

Reddy took them from her and quickly skimmed through them. "Okay. Remember Jamie, you now 'live' with me, my wife Kathy, and our daughter, Traya."

I looked over at Black Canary. "Can robots…y'know.." I whispered, trying to ask without John hearing.

He still heard.

"We adopted our daughter. And me and my wife do make love," he said matter-of-factly.

"Okay… a little bit too much info Reddy."

"You did ask."

He had me there. I just stood there awkwardly, with Black Canary smiling at my awkwardness.

"So are you going to the school now?" Black Canary was trying to change the subject from Red Tornado's love life.

"What time is it?"

"It is 9:17 in Brantford right now." Reddy must have had an internal clock or something.

"Hmm… I know where my art teacher is, but none of my other teachers… period two I can find two teachers, which just leaves my fourth period teacher." I counted on my fingers as I listed.

"Well go to wherever you have to to drop out, and see if you can find your other teachers," Black Canary reasoned. No wonder she was the chair person of the JLA.

"It shall be done mistress," I said in a fake English accent. I added a bow for effect.

Canary rolled her eyes. "Get him out of here Reddy, before I hurt him." She turned and left.

We went through the slideways and appeared in the Hall of Justice. Firestorm and Zatanna walked up.

"Hey guys. Where ya going?" Firestorm waved.

"School." I scowled. "But I'm dropping out." I brightened up, making everyone laugh.

"For now. Once we settle all of this with the Injustice League, you will be going back." Red Tornado pointed out, making me scowl again.

Zatanna smiled. "Don't worry Jamie. School isn't that bad, is it?"

"No… I guess not…" I looked up. "But it's still depressing."

All three heroes laughed. "I'll be right back. I just need to check something before we leave. Stay here." Reddy flew off.

"I have some news on the Injustice League, actually."

I looked at Firestorm hopefully. "What news?"

"Seems that they're doing everything they can to get to you."

"What do you mean?" I gave him a puzzled look. "They haven't attacked the school, have they?" All that went through my mind was my friends all dead or dying while Luthor, Joker and Cheetah stood over them laughing.

"No. They haven't grown that bold. Yet. But they are gathering every bit of information on your powers they can."

"But I don't even know a lot about my powers… so how would they…?"

"I'm not sure. They have a lot of smart people in their group, so it wouldn't be impossible for them to find out info."

Zatanna stepped in. "We'll worry about that later." She nodded at my ring. "Where'd you get the ring?"

I lifted my hand and the ring glowed. "I took some of Green Lantern's energy and made a ring to focus it through."

"Well make sure you have power, cause there's always the chance of ambush."

"Don't worry. Hopefully they'll have powers I can take if we do get ambushed." I grinned.

Reddy walked over. "We'd better get going Jaime. We have to go to my house to pick up my wife before we leave."

"'K, see ya guys."

Zatanna waved. "Bye."

We left the Hall and flew to Reddy's apartment. Reddy took out a pair of keys and unlocked the door. "Kathy! I'm home!"

"John?" A female voice called out from upstairs.

Reddy's house was a raised ranch. When you went in, there was two short staircases. One went upstairs and the other went downstairs. I couldn't see the downstairs from where I was standing, but I could see the upstairs. It had a nice sitting room and then the kitchen was connected to it at the back. There was also a hallway connecting into the sitting room that I could not see into.

Kathy Sutton came out of the hallway. "What are you doing home? I thought you said you had League business?" She looked at me. "And who's this?"

"Hi. I'm Jamie." I waved at her.

Kathy came down the stairs. "Hello. I'm Kathy." She smiled and shook my hand. "You must be our 'foster child'."

"Yeah. You have a nice house."

"Thank you. So why are you guys here? Not that you can't just come visit."

"We are going to Jamie's school to give consent to him dropping out," Reddy explained.

Kathy frowned. "Why are you dropping out?"

"It's just too dangerous for me to be there right now."

Her frown turned to worry. "Is someone after you?" She looked at John. "Do you know who it is?"

Reddy nodded. "The Injustice League. They want him for his special power."

"John… you know I'd never turn away from someone in need… but Traya… I wont put her in harms way."

"No, no Kathy. I would never make either one of you a target." John hugged his wife. "I would never, ever do anything that might hurt my family." He stroked her hair and kissed her.

"I love you." She kissed him.

"Umm… hi… so I'm going to leave now…" This was just getting awkward and I didn't want to intrude.

"No. No, it's okay. We should get going anyways."

I checked my cell. "It's almost ten after ten. First period will be ending soon."

"Then let's go." Kathy grabbed a coat and we all left the house with Reddy locking up.

We walked over to the car. I looked around. They lived in a nice neighbourhood. A school nearby. Probably where their daughter goes to school, I thought. Reddy and Kathy sat up front while I sat in the back. As we started driving, the song Blah Blah Blah came on. I sat quietly in the back of the car, deep in thought. I was so zoned out I didn't even notice Reddy and Kathy talking up front. I wondered what it would be like to go back after a couple of days. Sure, it was only two or three days. Big deal. But I was very quiet during school. Some times people forgot I was even there. Heck, sometimes my teachers forgot I was there. Had Alexis forgotten about me already? Was she dating someone else?

My train of thought was interrupted, however, when Kathy turned back to look at me. "So Jamie. How old are you?"

"I'm fifteen, but I'll be turning sixteen soon."

"Oh, okay. When's your birthday?"

"July 25th."

She smiled. "My birthdays the 20th."

"Cool. We'll have a double birthday party." I smiled at her, then looked out the window again. When I looked out, I saw something in the air, flying. It wasn't a plane. It wasn't a bird. And it definitely wasn't Superman. The object looked purple and like… a human? He or she or whatever looked like they were following us too. Whoever they were, they had a flowing blue cape and the rest of them was purple except for their legs, which were silver. "Hey, do you guys see that?"

Kathy looked out her window. "See what?"

"There was -" He was gone. "Nevermind. I didn't get to much sleep last night. That's probably it."

Reddy looked at me through the rear view mirror. "Why not?"

"Well… I was kinda up sparring… till four…"

"Sparring? With who?"

"Kendra… we both couldn't sleep so she took me to the Kitchen to spar." I looked down. "I'm not in trouble… right?"

Reddy smiled. "No. But Kendra is."

My eyes widened. "Whoops…"

They both laughed as we pulled into Assumption's parking lot.

"You know where the main office is, right?" Kathy asked as we got out of the car.

"Mhm." I nodded as I closed my door and walked to the front entrance with my new 'parents'.

We walked in and turned left down the hall towards the main office. The office was at the end of the hall, only a couple of feet away. Only we never made it that far.

Before we could take another step, metal shot out of the floor and entrapped all three of us, constricting us so we could barely breathe.

"Well, well, well. Who have we here?"

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