A/N: Picture Cam but girl version for Kass' crystal body. Mmm, Cam… Oh! Anyways, I found the 'official' sounding word that describes Kass' abilities: Crystallokinetic. I use it in this chapter so thought I'd mention it. :]

Also, I'd like to note again that yes, the characters from Young Justice have different names (used in their non-hero lives) this detail is to note that it may not be the same exact world that we know and love - I mean it's a DC & Marvel Universe all put into one so I hope that makes it clear it's not going to be exactly the same - or is it? Dun dun duuun!

Chapter 10: The Search

October 10th

Kassidy ran to her room and got changed into more normal clothes. She tied up her hair into a high pony tail after brushing it out. She then ran for the hangar, where she knew the team and Zatanna would be leaving inside Miss Martian's bio-ship. As she ran she let go of her mental hold on her crystal self. She then took off flying through the halls, telekinetically moving the crystal that made up her body. Kassidy made it into the hangar as the Bio-ship lifted from the ground. Kassidy flew off with it, keeping pace like she was following it out for the sake of the security cameras. After following beneath it, out of sight from the teens inside, she veered off heading in the direction of the city. Before she got too close she landed on the ground and changed her physical-self back into a human.

Kassidy's feet touched down to the ground and she walked forward. As previously planned her time spent out of the mount was going to be doing 'bad' things in hopes of getting someone - anyone's attention who was affiliated with the bad guys, the anti-Justice League. She needed some kind of in and then, under the 'wise' care of a supervillan - no matter how small their name was - she could build a reputation. But instead of doing all this, Kassidy sat herself beneath the branches of a tall tree and started to think.

So Miss Martian's real name wasn't Megan Morse? Did this change anything else? It must, Kassidy thought. But then what about Batman's reaction to what I knew, Kassidy stood from her spot and began to pace around the tree. I'm still clearly right about some things - or at least enough to be considered suspicious enough to have someone have a watch on me.

The only option that seemed to remain was for Kassidy to just wait it out and see if anything else supported or refuted her theories. For now she had to leave those wandering thoughts behind and focus on the task she wanted to accomplish. She wanted to get herself in contact with Dr. Kinner. Kassidy was willing to do just about anything to get to look at the face of the man that had changed her life so drastically. The only hurdle that she had to overcome was the way she would have to go about getting herself there. She had a pretty big hurdle to climb over to get what she wanted, and there was no way in telling just how long that would take.

But Kassidy was ready, and she sat herself down and started to brainstorm some ideas.

If she wanted to meet the bad guys who might just know something about Dr. Kinner she would have to stir a bit of trouble if she wanted their attention. But then the Justice League would know that it was her, they knew every aspect of her progress in training it would be highly unlikely that a different person would have her same exact abilities. The League would simply connect the dots and dispose of Kassidy in any way that they wanted. If she wanted to create an evil-alter-ego, she needed to stop training in the hall or in the view of any League members and places. Or if she discovered any new powers on her own time she simply shouldn't use them in her training at the Mount. Kassidy also noted that whatever clothes she was wearing out of the mount would have been recorded on the cameras in the hanger too. Unless...

Every superhero had their memorable uniforms, why should she have one? Kassidy glanced around and created a bubble of crystal around her. She turned her body back into crystal. Easily having her firm hold over her form, she began to undress. Mentally she conjured up crystallized clothes. It looked like she was wearing a crystal onesie. Her clothes became a part of her and the bottom hem of her 'shorts' stopped mid-thigh while the top collar spread upwards to stop just before her jawline.

"There," Kassidy said aloud. Kassidy did a little flip to prove the crystal was just as pliable as a spandex suit, due to her mental command. She reached up and took out her hair tie. Her long hair fell down past her shoulders. It was strange that it didn't all solidify together. Instead, each strand of hair was its own little string of crystal. They did not break as Kassidy ran a hand through her hair, hearing her own hand scrape against the crystal that was now her hair.

"Crystal is a pretty darn good name." Kassidy created a lock on her appearance then, the same type that she had when she turned into a human form. Feeling the mental chains fall into place she got rid of the bubble. Now Kassidy needed to find a way to communicate to Dr. Kinner. If only she could find out which prison he had been placed into. Maybe she could visit and pretend to be his daughter or niece. Kassidy shook her head to herself as she hid her clothes high up in a tree. The Justice League would have a tab on the cameras and would know about any visitors. She at least needed to establish the fact that she was on the baddies' side. She lightly rose in the air to pause just above the treetops. She didn't want to hurt anybody; she just needed a bit of attention. This is such a stupid idea, Kassidy thought to herself. But I really want that talk with Dr. Kinner.

Kassidy hovered in the air, thinking. What could I do that everyone could see, but not harm anyone? This left very few options left for Kassidy. She also had to account for the fact that she didn't know how long the team would be out on their mission. If they came back before she did her cover would be blown. Kassidy didn't expect Morgan to cover for her simply because Kassidy didn't ask. The team could be a couple of hours or maybe even longer?

With the limited choices Kassidy had at the moment, she made her decision fairly quickly. Kassidy decided on doing a Robin Hood-esque move, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Kassidy was well aware of the butterfly effect that stealing money from a bank, but was sternly set on building up a bad reputation in order to possibly gain some sort of a contact in the 'dark' side.

But why would they want to contact her? This thought brought Kassidy's spirits down. If she was bad enough wouldn't someone want to be allied with her? But as much as she wanted to talk to Dr. Kinner she wasn't sure how far she could go without breaking her ties with the Justice League. The League was great, and Kassidy did want to stay with them and be on their good side. She wasn't just going to toss away everything they've done for her in just a few hours.

Kassidy drifted back to the ground, once again standing on her feet. Kassidy told herself that she was going to stay put in Happy Harbor for the day, she'd go back to the Mount soon because she had no idea how long the team was going to be gone.

Kassidy did have some time to kill and maybe take a moment enjoy herself while she was out of the mount. It was amazing how just a simple change in scenery could do some real good for a person. This fact was very true with Kassidy and she was content to stay in the little clearing she had found and to continue her brainstorming seeing how she had sorted through a good amount of problems.

"Now where did I leave off...?" Kassidy said aloud as she bent down and picked up a branch off of the forest floor. "Oh, yeah, the bad guys. What would be a good 'in' with them?"

A really useful power? Kassidy thought, dragging the branch against the ground. What would be a really useful power to a supervillan? Teleportation – this answer took some time to spark in Kassidy's mind. With the added ability of teleportation she would have an idea of where to drop off her goods to some needy people.

"But how am I gonna teleport?" What could get her from one place to another? Crystal of course, Kassidy thought. She stroked her chin with her fingers in thought. The resulting noise of crystal on crystal was strange but it gave her an idea. She created a thick wall of crystal in front of her. It was three feet wide, six feet high and three feet thick. Now if I were to assume I can actually teleport, what would I have to do? Mentally she created a wall in the fields of her old elementary school, the one she had visited while staying with the Tatmans. The object was so simple the distance didn't have any effect.

As the crystal grew into a column just like the one in front of her, she could feel its physical presence in her mind, both sets of crystal seeming to exist on their own little plain of existence in her head, miles and miles separating the two. She could feel that it was there, without a doubt in her mind. So with her two 'doors' of sorts Kassidy concentrated on picturing herself traveling into the block of crystal in front of her. She pictured some inner world that only she could access. A place where only a pure element made up the same way as she could enter. A world completely made of crystal. A whole different plane of existence that could be her own very playground, filled with the same clear crystal she was now made of.

Closing her eyes she stepped forward, reaching her hand out in front of her. She imagined the two columns just as one single archway, one that when she stepped through and out of the other side she would then be miles and miles away. She reached her hand out and it rested against the wall. There was no give to the wall like she had expected in her mind's-eye. Trying not to grow frustrated she took a relaxing breath and tried again.

She knew teleportation was possible; there were metahumans that had the power. It was just a factor of if she had the ability; there was no way to tell the extent of her abilities because she was only just starting to scratch the surface of what her powers really could do. Kassidy pictured her very basic understanding of string theory, a theory that she thought of being shelved with all of the alchemists. Two points that seemingly seemed far apart on our plane of existence could actually be right next to each other, or actually one door, on another plane. If this actually works my hand would pass through and come out on the other side, a whole state away, looking like a disembodied hand, Kassidy thought. This wall is the one in the same as the other, the only difference being that I'm on this side of the door rather than the other side like I want, Kassidy said, running through the drill again in her head. Thinking that if she believed in it enough, and willed it to be true, it would work, just like in Peter Pan. You could bring a fairy back to life just by chanting a phrase and it would happen. Who was to tell her that it wouldn't work in this cartoon world?

As she rested her hand against the wall chanting her own little mantra in her head she began to push against it with the palm of her hand. The wall in its changing state weakened, the wall was depressed by her hand, but not so that her hand passed through it. Not physically feeling the change through her hand, Kassidy was growing to believe her chanting wasn't working. She opened her eyes to glare at the crystal. They widened when she noticed it was working, to a certain extent, what would happen exactly was still unclear. She grinned and continued chanting, willing the wall to change at her bidding. The wall slowly conformed to her hand, and in a second her hand passed through the surface of the wall. Seeing that her hand had passed through she laughed with joy. She did it! But there was a consequence to her actions. It felt as if her atoms were being scrambled, and not in the cool way like in the sy-fy shows and movies. The sensation was like placing her hand on one of those electric bug swatters. She quickly pulled her hand out, cradling it to her chest.

"What was that?" Kassidy mumbled, glancing down at her hand to see if she had somehow been hurt.

Kassidy was split in her decision on what to do next. Should she try again, or should she leave it be and return to the mount? She was grateful for how far she had reached in the hour that she had been out and decided to retire back to the mount. She planned on returning back to the same place to practice in secret. Once she figured out all the facets of her ability, she would then go out and build a rep as a villainess. For now she was going to stay and refine her abilities, partly with Black Canary and partly in secret. Kassidy pulled her clothes back on and flew off back to the mount.

Kassidy flew into the hangar of the mount, seeing the others hadn't come back yet. Still flying she went down the halls to enter into the expansive main hall. Black Canary and Zatara were there in front of the holographic computer in the middle of the hall.

"Kass, where have you been, and where is the rest of the team?" Black Canary said.

"Oh," Kassidy said, taking a second to come up with something. "I decided I wanted to come back to train some more. They shouldn't be too long. It did take me some time to get back." Making an act, Kassidy scuffed her foot on the floor. "I kind of had a little practice flying."

"I could see that from the footage of you leaving the mount," said Black Canary. "Why weren't you in the bio-ship with the others?"

"It would have been cramped," Kassidy said, scrunching up her face like she was disgusted. "Besides, ever since I've learned how to "fly" I've wanted to try it out outside. Don't worry, I stayed low and close – nobody saw me," I assured.

"Well, have fun practicing. I think Batman had arranged for another person to stop by to help you in your training," Canary said.

"Really? Who are they? What are their powers?" Kassidy asked, eager to meet another person especially one that could share her same power.

"He's a Cryokinetic," Black Canary said.

"A what?" Kassidy said.

"He has the power to manipulate ice," Zatara explained.

"Oh…" Kassidy said. "That sounds cool. Well, I'm just gonna go to my room and – freshen up." Kassidy left with a wave, wanting to leave quickly after her dumb moment.

Kassidy stayed in her room for over an hour, hoping that when she came out Black Canary and Zatara would be gone. She did have another guest trainer today and was excited to who it could be. She tried to think of all the people who were Cryokinetics but the only ones she could think of were the people in the DC world and all of them were bad-guys (and girls). Kassidy got dressed in a neon-blue and white striped tank-top and a pair of black running shorts. Kassidy entered into the main hall to find that Black Canary and Zatara were gone. Because Black Canary hadn't mentioned when her guest trainer would arrive, Kassidy found a seat across from the Zeta-tubes and waited.

Twenty minutes in Kassidy grew bored. She laid her legs out in front of her, uncrossing them.

"Computer, run training program C-zero-two," Kassidy said.

"Accessing," the computer sounded.

Holograms showed up depicting targets of varying sizes. As the hologram started up, Kassidy stood and walked to the center of the room. Three crystals appeared in front of Kassidy as she stood with her feet planted on the ground. After shooting at the target, the hologram would disappear as the crystal passed through it. After all of the sixteen targets were cleared, Kassidy restarted the program. After throwing her fourth crystal at her target the computer announced an arrival.

"Recognized: Iceman 2-7"

Kassidy turned and saw a boy her own age enter the main hall. Iceman took in Kassidy's appearance, her skin now the clear blue it was when she was in crystal form.

"I assume you're Kass?" Iceman said, coming to stand at the edge of the training area.

"You're my guest mentor?" Kassidy said, clearly surprised. "You can't be more than a year older than me."

"Computer, end program," Iceman said.

"Hey!" Kassidy said in protest as the program was turned off, the holograms disappearing.

"Agreed, I'm probably not that much older than you," Iceman said slowly walking towards Kassidy as he spoke. "You're probably around 16 years-old?"

"Eighteen," Kassidy said crossing her arms over her chest.

Iceman held his hands out in an indifferent gesture. "And I'm only two years older than you, but for today I am mentoring you. If you don't want to work on your power, fine. But that means it's going to take longer to master your power."

"You saying you're better than Canary? I've been training with her since I got stuck in this place, what am I gonna learn from you that I couldn't learn from Canary – or Manhunter?" Kassidy said.

Iceman's brows lowered. "You're gonna force me to be hard on you – aren't you?" Iceman stopped a few feet away from Kassidy. She had to turn her head upwards to still hold his gaze. "No need for formalities either, I mean I'll be calling you Kass. You can call me Bobby."

"Well let's see it Bobby. What can you do with your weak ice?" Kassidy said, feeling far less respect for the boy who was only two years older than herself. She knew she wouldn't be saying the words that were coming out of her mouth if Superman or Wonder Woman were just in the room.

"You sure?" Iceman said taking another step closer.

Kassidy held his gaze, lifting her head some more. "Ready for anything you can throw at me Bud." They were so close that she could see the glimmer in his blue eyes as he smirked down at her.

He inhaled a short breath, before releasing it along with a giant wave of ice that had Kassidy crashing into the wall. Kassidy let out a shout of surprise as she was knocked off her feet. Annoyed Bobby would ambush her like that; she tore her way out from all the ice. She enlarged her hands and her fingers turned into pointed shards.

"Well that was definitely unexpected," Kassidy said, coming to stand back in the circle that was clear of ice. "But now it's not like I can let you get away with it." Kassidy turned throwing her arm in an arc, crystals shooting from her fingers. Iceman dodged to the side as he threw up a small wall.

This continued for a few more minutes, Iceman making a move and Kassidy counter striking. Iceman then made it past a swarm of flying crystals. He then attempted to test her hand-to-hand combat ability. Kassidy tried to get away from him by bringing up walls but he would freeze the air before it grew any more than three feet tall.

"Thought you said you were training with Canary?" Iceman said, getting a taste of her weak combat skills.

Kassidy had stopped trying to push Iceman away and was putting up with his forceful blows. Kassidy tried to throw a hit but Iceman took advantage of a break in her defense. He blocked her right hit and stepped forward, planting his right hand on her chest, pushing her back and downwards. Kassidy landed hard on her back, grunting as she hit the ground.

"Are you actually ready to train now?" Iceman said looking down at her.

"Then what do you call what we've been doing for the past ten minutes?" Kassidy said, using her arms to prop herself up.

Iceman reached a hand down to help her up. "Playtime?" Kassidy took it and was aided to her feet. Kassidy glanced down at their two hands. His form was very similar to hers but less blue and more clearer. Iceman looked as well and saw the strange similarity.

"That's so cool," Kassidy said quietly.

"Yeah, we look almost the same," Iceman said. He looked away from their hands and up into Kassidy's face. Her eyes lingered a bit longer at their linked hands. She smiled up at him, feeling for the first time that she wasn't alone. Iceman quickly let go of her hand. "Now how about some actual training?" He said taking a step back.

"Alright," Kassidy said.

Iceman turned away from Kassidy and glanced around the room, getting a look at the aftermath of a Cryokinetic and a Crystallokinetic fight.

"Why don't we start by cleaning up this mess?" Iceman said, still facing the masses of ice and crystal.

Kassidy glanced around the room and took notice of the result of their fight. "Wow… well that's easy enough."

Iceman turned slightly to look over his right shoulder. He was going to ask her about what she meant before a loud crunching and crashing noise sounded. He quickly turned to see her crystal was suddenly gone. Some of his ice had been attached to some of that crystal that now no longer existed. Both the tall and small structures of intertwined ice and crystal collapsed when Kassidy removed her crystal with the ease of a thought. Iceman slowly shook his head, wondering why Batman had contacted him asking if he'd volunteer to train a novice. In reality he was still a novice himself. Only recently had he refined his control enough to stop being the 'Snow'man and look like the clear crystal that he was now. Somehow Batman had talked him into coming to Mount Justice.

"So it's pretty clear that you are not confined to use pre-existing crystal, but there is no doubt that you could. You can telekinetically manipulate the crystal along with bringing it in and out of existence," Iceman said going over what he had learned for himself after their fight. Batman had described her abilities while trying to sway him. "One of your secondary powers is crystal mimicry turning you into a near impenetrable crystal, but be sure not to piss off Canary because she has the ability to shatter you when you are in that state with just one Canary Cry. If you can trap my ice then you can probably trap people in your crystal as well. Anything else that I didn't catch?"

Kassidy's eyes widened slightly in surprise. "Umm, I can hop on a piece of crystal and fly that way if I don't feel like telekinetically moving myself through the air."

Iceman nodded. "I don't know if you could ever manage to matter surf, I don't think there's enough crystals in the ground for you to do that." Iceman saw Kassidy's confused face at his use of terms. "Matter surfing or riding, it's when you have enough of your element and use it to travel. The way I do it with my ice is by making one giant ramp, but it can't go unsupported or else the bridge would collapse eventually."

"Is there anything else that I could do?" Kassidy said taking an eager step forward.

Iceman lifted an eyebrow at her. "I thought you were the one being trained by Canary and Manhunter?"

"Oh, come on Bobby! Tell me!" Kassidy said, trying her best puppy-dog face.

Bobby laughed. "You know that doesn't work so well when you look like an ice-sculpture."

Kassidy frowned and shoved at Iceman's shoulder. He laughed again. "You're the one made out of ice not me."

"Aren't you powerful enough Kassidy? You have total control over your crystal, that you can either form from your own body or create and I'm sure that you could manipulate natural crystal as well."

"I wanna be able to study and strengthen all of my abilities, and then I won't ever have to rely on just a few for whenever I get stuck in a fight," Kassidy said.

"Alright," Iceman sighed. "Um, let's go through the list - you can create, generate, and increase the size of your crystals; you can shape them and manipulate them along with sharpening them or on the flipside make them dull; you got your elemental constructs, things like your weapons, the crystal shards, walls, and amour. You sort of used it to empower your attacks by coating your limbs with the crystal material. You could try toying with manipulating the internal pressures and forces of the crystals to make mines and bombs."

"Wow…" Kassidy managed to say.

Iceman shrugged. "You would have figured it all out eventually." He looked down at her turning serious. "Being a telekinetic there are a lot of possibilities, you'll probably think of some stuff on your own." Kassidy thought of her crazy attempts at teleportation. "You have a lot of power, until you have some basic control over it you have to be careful. You may do something by accident that you didn't mean."

"You mean like subconsciously?" Kassidy asked.

"I guess that could happen. Why do you ask?"

Kassidy lifted her hand to rub at her neck. "'Cuz I've kind of already done it with Canary."

"Oh, OK. If that's happening I'd focus on your concentration before any sort of combat fighting," Iceman said.

"And what am I supposed to do about my concentration?" Kassidy said, dropping her arm to her side.

"Beats me, maybe you can ask your next guest mentor about that."

"I don't want any other mentors. I should just train with you, we're both telekinetic we don't exactly control the same elements –but they're pretty darn close," Kassidy said, defending her need for him. If every once in a while she trained with Iceman and Martian Manhunter, she would have a pretty good grasp on her concentration and fighting skills.

"Hey, depends on when I'm free," Iceman said with a shrug. "You'll get it in time."

"Ugh, I don't have time!" Kassidy said, growing frustrated. She turned and walked away, beginning to pace as her annoyance grew. She needed to get to Dr. Kinner and she wanted to go home, back to the Tatmans. When both of those events would end up occurring all depended on when she was able to master her abilities.

"What do you mean you don't have time?" Iceman said, getting confused as he watched Kassidy pace back and forth. In actuality Iceman hadn't been briefed on her reason for being at Mount Justice. He was told she needed help training, he wasn't told the reasons why she was there or what she was being trained for.

"I wanna get back to my life is why!" Kassidy yelled.

Iceman swallowed the uneasy feeling that rose in him. He was now clearly aware that he didn't have the full picture. He was only at the mount to train Kassidy and that was all that he could do. He turned around and cleared the room of his ice.

"Let's get back to training."

o\/\/\/o

After her training with Iceman she felt just as tired as she had when she left Martian Manhunter's training. She was not only sore but upset as well. Kassidy headed straight to the showers. Once she was all washed up she wrapped a towel around herself and made her way to her room. She didn't have to worry about anyone seeing her because it was just her, Black Canary and Zatara, and the adults were probably off doing something regarding the Justice League.

Once in her room she got changed into some fresh clothes. Kassidy turned away from her closet and fell onto her bed. Kassidy sat up and focused her gaze at the door. She was happy that there was buttons but worried about it opening when someone approached from the hall. She pointed her finger at the door. "Open-sesame!" The door automatically opened to reveal Black Canary. Kassidy let out a scream of surprise. Black Canary paused in the doorway, surprised by Kassidy scream. "Sorry, that was just – kind of – so what's up?" Kassidy said, settling on not explaining her craziness to Black Canary.

"Did the team mention that they were going anywhere?" Black Canary asked.

Kassidy was able to answer honestly. "No, they didn't. Why, did they go missing or something?"

"No, they showed up at Belle Reve Penitentiary and visited Professor Ivo," Black Canary answered.

"And I'm supposed to know where that prison is and who that person is?" Kassidy said. "No they didn't mention anything like that, but I'm sure they'll be fine."

AN: Can I just mention how much cuter I picture characters like Bobby from X-Men and Cam from YJ after rise of the guardians? :]