Its been a while, amigos! But I'm back, if only for a chapter. Winter breaks a'coming 'round the corner, so expect to see more soon.

Blue's POV

We said our goodbyes to Travis and Crew quickly. Robin sure was in a hurry for them to leave, and so was Scarab, who viewed them more as a threat with each passing minute. Emma asked Travis to keep the whole fiasco on the down-low, but she warned us that, chances are it wouldn't stay a secret for long. When every last demigod (well, I mean, except for the first two) was out of the mansion and off the street, Robin pulled me over.

"We're going to the Watchtower. Meet me at the Central City Zeta-tube."

I looked at Emma and Leo. "What about them?"

"They're coming with us."

I stared at him in confused shock. "You're bringing them to the Watchtower? Dude!" The demigods are threats who should be handled with extreme caution. Bringing them into the Justice League Base will result in disaster.

"I couldn't agree more. With the disaster part, I mean."

"The Justice League's base? You mean that satellite called the Watchtower? We're going there? That's so cool! Hey Emma, Emma we're going to space!" Mierda, forgot Leo could hear anything the scarab said. He started jumping around like a little kid, tugging on Emma, who'd been making idle conversation with Wondergirl.

"Space? Riiiiiiiiight. I'll make sure to pick up my lightsaber and laser blaster on the way."

"No, there really is a space-station, called the Watchtower, that the League uses. It was all over the news in April, didn't you hear?"

Emma waved her hand in a "so-so" motion. "Kinda. Sorta. Was a little busy preparing for a war, maintaining the Streak in Capture the Flag, that sorta thing. Figured it was just a rumor."

"We're going to space! We're going to space!" Leo cried out again. "I've always wanted to work on a space station! I've got this great idea for re-inverting parabolic radiation shields with disrupting the dish resonance." I didn't have a clue what he was saying.

What the Valdez means is that the shields-

"Forget it, okay? This is the last thing I need cluttering my brain."

"So we'll just fly on over there-" Cassie began.

"Nope. No flying. Not again." Emma cut her off. Then she added hastily "It's not like we're on the clock anymore. We don't have to hurry anywhere, and Central City's in Missouri, its not that far away. Not that I don't like flying. Except I don't. I mean, you're okay Blue, but just not flying." I totally got it, logically, but it still kinda hurt.

"Okay then, we'll take the bus." Tim said.

"WE'RE GOING TO SPACE!"

Leo's POV

We were going to space! We were going to space! Did I mention we were GOING TO SPACE?

I always wanted to go to space! The final frontier! The un-ending universe! The future of humanity.

Sure, I'd been to the gates of Hell and survived (ha ha ha, everyone who's ever told me to go there!), an Camp Fish-Blood, which was underwater, which was cool. But this was space!" Space! SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

So yea, I was kinda excited.

"Do you think we'll meet an alien? I've always wanted to meet an alien!" I asked as we followed Cassie down the street to the Zeta-tube (which, by the way, is also awesome!).

"Doesn't Blue Beetle already count? I mean, he is Reach, right?"

Cassie shook her head. "No, Blue's human."

"You sure? Because he spent like, 3 hours straight alone with me and didn't tell me shut up once. No human is capable of that."

"Emma, focus," I remind her. "Space. Station."

She rolled her eyes, then looked around. "Um, should't we be going to STAR Labs? Why are we in a run-down neighborhood?" The street we were on was pretty shabby looking. Not the kind of place you'd find crazy high-tech.

Cassie giggled evilly. "You'll see."

I stop moving. "Wait. My Leo Sense is tingling." Somewhere, somewhere close by, there was something big.

"You can't call it that, Spider-infringer. Marvel will sue you for everything you've got.* Besides, the closest thing for your 'Leo Sense' to pick up is someone's radio set. "

"Nope." Cassie said. She pointed to abandoned photo-booth in an alley. "That's it."

Emma stared at it incredulously. "That's a zeta-tube? Seriously?" she shrugged. "Well, my sword's a glue stick. I probably shouldn't judge."

"I can feel all sorts of security around here. Why didn't you notice, Emma?"

"I've got to be actively looking for something for my 'powers' to work to work. Otherwise I'd sense every home security system on the street. That's too annoying."**

Cassie gave a quick check for nosy civilians, then ran into the booth. I tried to come in too, but she shoved me out.

"One at a time." She turned to us one last time.

"The machines gonna scan you when you get in. wait until it says your confirmed and then press a big red button. If you don't then it'll go on lockdown, and you'll have to go to STAR Labs and answer a bunch of questions about who you are and why you're here." With that she pulled the curtain down and disappeared in a flash of bright light.

"Me first!" I called, pushing Emma aside.

"Sure thing, I'd rather you be the guinea pig."

I clambered inside. It was dark and the seat I was on smelled like cheap leather cleaner. It kinda reminded me of the inside of a NY cab. An eye like apparatus popped out and began to scan me with a white light.

"Intruder not authorized. Please hold for additional scanning." It scan me again, this time the light was a darker blue.

"User recognized, Leo Valdez, A21." A flash of bright light blocked my vision, and everything went white.

Emma's POV

"Emma Lee, A22." When my vision and feeling returned, I was standing on some sort of high tech platform, feeling like I was on pins and needles. I could Leo next to me, and Wondergirl in front of us. Behind her were pristine white hallways with huge windows showing the vacuum of space outside. The weird thing was, I wasn't even that freaked out about the whole space thing. I guess it needed a while to set in.

Leo sure seemed to get it. He was bouncing around like he was on the sugar high of his life, and that's saying something, since he was ADHD.

"It's totally awesome, right?" He said.

I nodded. "I gotta admit, it is pretty cool."

Cassie start to fly down the halls, which didn't make me jealous at all. "I'll give you guys a tour later, but right now I have to talk to whoever's on monitor duty, and maybe call my mom. Everyone's probably freaking out right now. She led us into a room full of athletic equipment, and had us sit next to a bunch of lockers.

"This is our training room, and those are our lockers. Don't touch my snacks." Then she flew out, leaving us alone with the gear and other people's food.

Bet you can't guess what I did next.

That's right, I started exercising! Nah, I kid. Actually, I started going through other people's lockers. I saw one that was already open. Underneath it was a note that said:

Stop taking my whizzes KF

-BB

The first thing I found in it was an empty bag of Chicken Whizzies. Guess 'KF' got them after all.

"Um, you sure you should be doing that? I think this guy doesn't want us going through his locker."

"No, he doesn't want KF going through his locker. That letter didn't say anything about me." Logic. Helping people steal things since the year Gimel.

"Jackpot." I pulled out a pack of microwave popcorn. "Hey Leo, wanna heat this up for us?"

He grinned. "I am really hot." He held the pack in his hand , which began to glow red hot. Gradually, the popping began.

"So what do you thinks taking them so long?" I asked.

"Emma, its only been a couple minutes."

"Yea, but I'm impatient. Plus, its like 10 minutes in ADHD Child of Hermes Time. Double plus, its boring here. What am I supposed to do, other than go through people's private stuff? Use the treadmill? Hell no. Hey, do you know your hand's on fire?" Instantly, Leo's hand stopped smoking, but the popcorn bag didn't. It caught on fire.

"Put it out!" He tossed it on the tiled floor. I went to jump on it, but he lobbed a fireball right at it, and the entire bag exploded in a delicious yet fiery explosion of popcorn.

"Leo what the hell? I told you to put it out, not set it on fire!"

"I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking! It was just my first instinct!"

"Dude, it just set off the fire alarm!" I started stomping on it, and red hot kernels spilled everywhere. Meanwhile the alarm was blaring away.

"You've gotta be kidding me!" Leo picked up all the pieces and put them in pile, which naturally began smoking like crazy.

So while we're coughing and panicking, the Big Blue Boy Scout himself comes flying in faster than a speeding bullet.

And that's how I met the Justice League.

*Marvel exists in this AU. Also I'm pretty sure it exists in the real Young Justice, because in episode 2 Kid Flash made an "Incredible Hulk" reference. And Black Spider clearly based his whole schtick off of Spiderman.

**Don't you hate it when authors make up powers and never explain how they work?

Yay, Murphy's Law did not disappoint! This is based off a real life incident where a friend in boarding school set a bag of popcorn on fire in the microwave, and like three kids were standing around just taking videos of her putting out the fire for Snapchat. Jerks.

Since I'm not updating my other fan fiction, I'd like to thank Apple-Bougher for reviewing one of my other stories.

Arrivederci fellas,

Sage Nicholson