A/N: This chapter is Sam, Colton, and Avery. Like I said in the last chapter, codename ideas are appreciated! I already have some great one ready to roll, but your input might change my mind on some things!

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Mount Justice - 8:25 a.m.

Sam had been the fourth to be called for a training assignment. To her delight she was assigned to the quite popular hero, Static. Static had made a big name for himself by being one of the few African-American heroes, but what truly set him apart was his easy-going nature with the media and the citizens he protected. Yet despite what Sam knew of Static's public nature it was still a shock to her when the hero began attempting to converse with her.

"So Sam, how long have you known about your powers?"

Sam had to look up slightly at Static, who was slightly taller than her 5'8" frame, "A couple years."

"Mind if I ask how you found out about them?"

Sam's eyes looked down at her feet as they walked. After recalling the traumatic events that led her to this point she answered Static, "I was on the run from my dad. He called the cops on me and I didn't want to go back." Sam never said what it was exactly that her dad had done to her, but Static had enough experience to piece things together. Sam paused for a moment before continuing her story, "Trying to get away from the cops I got chased near a military base. The fence around it was electrified, but I didn't see the signs. I started climbing and it just felt this burning sensation wherever I was touching the fence, but it just stopped all of sudden. The cops came up behind me with their guns drawn. I guess dear old dad told them I was armed or some bullshit like that. Seeing I was cornered I got down off the fence. It was dark, I freaked out when one of the cops got close and I thought he was going to hit me so I threw my hands up to defend myself. The next thing I know the cop is on the ground like he got tazered." Sam fell back into silence as the pair walked into the training room.

"Not a fun way to find out you've got powers." Static's words had a strong tone behind them, as though he had his own harrowing story to tell. "I used to run in a gang and we got caught up in a turf war back in Dakota City. There were about 60 guys, all armed to the teeth, meeting up to fight it out at an abandoned dock house. The cops got called out and threw in tear gas. Turns out the gas was actually an experimental gas meant to induce meta-gene changes in the human tissue. The cops didn't know it, but they basically turned 60 gang members into super-powered assholes. The people behind it tried to bring me in with the rest, but me and few of the rest made it out safely. The next morning I woke up with all the electronic stuff in my room stuck to me. And the rest is history."

The last part of the story caught Sam's attention, "They were stuck to you? Does that mean you've got magnetism too?"

Static thought for a moment, "Sort of." Seeing the quizzical expression on his charge's face he endeavored to explain, "My powers are electromagnetic in nature. The EM spectrum has two extremes, pure electricity and pure magnetism. My powers are one the electrical side of things, but I have some latent magnetic ability. Magenta, the girl training your friend Penny, has similar powers, but on the opposite ends of the spectrum. It's actually my magnetism that partially allows me to fly."

"So will I be able to fly too?" Sam's face didn't hide her eagerness at all.

"We'll see right now." Static pulled out several metallic objects from his overcoat, "I want you to focus on just one object and try to make it move towards you."

Sam's face contorted with concentration, but after several minutes hadn't made any one of the objects move so much as a millimeter. Frustration and defeat radiated off her, even though she didn't say a word.

Static, however, had plenty of words, "Hey, it's like it makes less powerful or anything. I mean, I'll never be able to punch through a skyscraper like Superman, or fly without a ship in space like the GLs, but I do the best with what I've got. You just need to focus on doing the same, OK?"

Sam nodded in agreement and her demeanor become much more relaxed than a few moments before, "So when do we get started?"

"How about right now?" Static motioned for Sam to follow him over to a jery-rigged setup of generators in the middle of the room, "What we've got here are several generators that, in conjunction with one another, will produce 75,000 volts of electricity. You said that you can absorb electricity so I figured a natural starting point would be to see how much you can actually hold. When you're as far as you think you can go you can release your energy here." Static pointed to bank of relays along the wall. "Those relays will hold and transfer the power gradually into the local power grids. Ready to give it a shot?"

Sam nodded and Static flipped the on switch for the first generator. As the generator whirred to life Sam pulled all the juice from the machine, leaving it a steaming hunk, useless forever. She nodded toward the second generator and repeated the process on it and the following four. Feeling slightly strained she had Static let the final generator loose, absorbing every last drop of wattage from it. Sam was visibly straining to hold in all that energy and moved over to the relays where she slowly let out the electricity for several minutes, until she was back down to where she started the morning.

"Wow!" Static was busy looking over some readouts form the relays, impressed with the girl's amount of absorption. Looking from the monitor to the smoldering generators dimmed his expression slightly, "Man, 'Wing's going to be all kinds of pissed that we blew out those generators right off the bat!"

"Sorry." Sam apologetically added.

"Don't be, I just didn't think you'd be able to absorb that much. And that's not even the amazing part. What's so cool is that your output was significantly higher than your input. You took in 75,000, but the output was well north of 100,000. Somehow, you don't just absorb the energy, you amplify it as well! This is going to make training you quite interesting!"

Sam was genuinely shocked at the news, having never considered how much energy she could actually store. As Static poured over the data he didn't notice Sam grabbing the gauze from her pocket and being wrapping her fingers. As she gingerly applied the first aid material she couldn't help but think, This is going to be a long day.


While Sam was dealing with her power-related physical issues Colton was been put through his paces by Hal Jordon, the first Green Lantern of Earth. Whereas Hal's power came from a Green Lantern ringed powered by willpower, Colton's power came from the ability to control the light around him. Nightwing had noted his newfound ability to create a light wall during the breakout and as such had him training with a hero who could create constructs with a thought.

At first Hal had tried to get just how exactly Colton's ability worked by having the teen attempt to make some light-based constructs. Unfortunately, that only ended with Colton swearing violently in frustration and Hal left mulling over how to continue. As Hal thought over his plan of action for the rest of the morning Colton was left alone for several minutes, stewing in what he viewed was abject failure on his part to do what was asked of him. I was able to lift Penny when we first got here, so why can't I do this? He held himself to a high standard, and given his quick temper, was beating himself up mentally. In anger he attempted to backhand the chair he had been using to rest earlier in the morning. Needless to say, Colton was deeply surprised when the can flew across the room and, with a loud clang, hit the opposite wall some 15 feet away. Colton froze, he was starting to figure out how his ability worked, but he wasn't quite there just yet.

The sound had shocked Hal as well, but confused him even more so than Cameron. How did this kid's ability work? Maybe I'm trying to wrong tack. Constructs don't seem to be his game.

"Hey kid, you said you could go invisible right?"

The 'kid' comment didn't sit too well with Colton considering that GL had called him that about eight times already, "My name isn't 'kid' dammit! It's Colton, get that through your head!"

Hal was a little taken aback, "Who, uh, sorry. Colton. Got it. So as I was saying, I was wrong thinking you could make constructs like I do with my ring. think I've got an idea about how exactly your ability works."

"Care to share?"

"Alright, I think you can literally bend light around you. That's why you can make yourself invisible and how you moved that can. It's like you created a force field and then pushed it. If you do it right, I think you can actually even make force fields around yourself. Which believe me, is damn handy in the field."

After Hal's explanation Colton felt his anger slip away, Finally getting some answers! Though there was still the issue of training those different abilities, "So how exactly are we going to test all that?"

Hal, having regained his confidence, had a sly smile on his face, "Oh, I've got a few ideas."


While Colton and Sam were dealing with their respective training issues, Avery was having the time of her life. Nightwing had allowed her to, along with Robin, investigate the captured Reach craft. Considering Avery had already cracked the computer's encryption and had a working knowledge of the Reach language things were going quite swimmingly. As soon as Robin had led her to the vehicle bay the tech genius set right to work, attempting to restore main power for the ship. The girl was certainly in hog heaven. It wasn't everyday one got to tinker with alien tech, and with Avery's ability she was just itching to see what she would find under the hood, so to speak.

Thankfully, Avery thought, the third Boy Wonder had decided to really only watch and observe her actions. At first Avery was able to ignore his presence altogether as she worked, but throughout the morning the boy continued to make little remarks, usually whenever she was about to turn something else on, or try to reroute power through certain systems.

After about 20 minutes of Robin's annoying antics Avery rounded on him, "Alright, what the hell do you think you're doing? You think you know so much about how this ship works that you can tell me, the girl who literally flew it out of their base, how to do my job?!"

Robin didn't even hesitate in his response, "As a matter of fact, I do."

The boy's boldness was definitely not what Avery had been expecting, "How's that exactly?"

"Well for just under two weeks, I've been studying this baby. I kind of hit a snag with the computer. I'm a great hacker, don't get me wrong, but really I just need your help to get into their mainframe."

"And you didn't tell me this why?"

"Well, I was more of the mind to just have you help with the computer, but Nightwing wanted me to put it back like I found it to see how long it would take you to fix it. If it makes you feel any better it took about 90 minutes to do what took me four days."

"It doesn't help. Not one little bit. Now would you mind helping me getting this bird back together so we can get to work on that computer?" What she didn't' mention was that she simply wouldn't have thought this kid was actually that smart.

"Sure, all you had to was ask."

And so the two set out, following Robin's instructions for a couple hours before settling into the cockpit to take a crack at the computer. Robin hadn't been joking about his hacking prowess, but he couldn't have been more impressed with Avery's grasp of the technology and how quickly she worked to open up a whole host of information. For about an hour Robin had Avery explain to him the information in the computer. Suddenly, Avery stopped everything and stared blankly at the monitor.

Robin, always needing to know what was going on, was unsettled by this development, "So you find something interesting?"

Avery was brought back to reality by Robin's question, "Only if you count the shield codes for ever Reach ship currently on the planet and their deployments as interesting."

Robin' eyes flicked back to the screen despite his inability to read it, "We need to get Nightwing down here."


So the final training chapter will include the trio of Cameron, Maya, and Jim. That will probably be a littler meatier than the rest, but I don't know for sure at the moment.

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