Chapter 9-Catching up with the Team, Happy Birthday Hermione
While Harry was learning magic in Hogwarts, the team was far from being idle and was called in to help a friend named: Roy Harper, who now goes as Red Arrow, had requested assistance in guarding a scientist as she programmed anti-virus for a nanite project her employer was making with the funding from Legion of Shadows. "Miss Martian," said a deep baritone, into a commlink before he continues, "Set up a mindlink with everyone but the professor and Harry," from his position in on the grounds of a school that Red Arrow had holed up the scientist in.
A minute later and the whole team heard, 'Okay everyone should be up, roll call,' as everyone starting with Kid Flash said, 'Kid Flash good to go,' then moved to Superboy with, 'Superboy ready,' then Zaterra stated, 'Zaterra here,' with her sister following and it went to Artemis who said, 'Artemis good,' before Poison Ivy said, 'Ivy ready, and this is still freaky,' after Ivy was Robin and finished with Aqualad, who then said, 'Okay Ivy, control the hedges and cover the school,' to a response of, 'Way ahead of you Aqualad,' while placing her hands on the ground and focus her powers, causing the plants and roots to grow exponentially until they formed a tight barred bird-cage like form.
Watching the wooden cage form, Red Arrow silently admitted, 'Okay maybe she is good for the team,' as before the mission there was some contention between her and him, over how the Justice League could trust Ivy. Before Red Arrow returned to Staking out the schools roof. While on the outside of the cage, a grinning cat masked wearing individual looked on with a curse of, "Shit," in whisper, as she realized there was squeezing herself threw the bars and hacking would not work, as the noise would alert all those inside.
While inside the school, only the soft click of a keyboard and the sighs of woman, could be heard, as the professor continued to do her best with the setup she had, for programming the virus for: Project Fog, sighing as she wished to use her own computer, while the mental chatter was mainly filled with Kid Flash, antagonizing (see Flirt) Artemis and flirt with Miss Martian, as he still did not get the idea that she and Superboy were an item.
Now at Hogwarts, Harry and his newest friends were now noticing the classwork was getting a little bit more difficult, though the work was not too difficult and the house of El was basically powering threw each lesson, while also keeping up with their homework. But with Hermione's birthday coming up, the whole house of El had another reason to complete their schoolwork and with the birthday on the coming weekend, Harry and Neville wanted to be able to take some time off studying to celebrate Hermione's birthday, though not that the others in the house of El were not wanting to make Hermione's birthday, as they each continuously sent mail to their parents to send them a gift for them to give to Hermione, though the guys (save Harry and Neville) mostly requested their parents to send them books of rare aspects of topics like: Charms, Transfigurations and Astronomy, while Harry had handmade his present and Neville, arranged for Hermione and by extension: her parents, to have a tour of magical Perth, Western Australia.
Back with the Team, as the virus started to take a better shape with the assistance of Robin, who had linked up an extra computer and began typing away, while offering his own input. (A.N. that always was weird to me, Robin clearly had the skills necessary to program the virus, so why didn't he help the professor.) Outside of the non-magical school, the cat masked assassin tape her finger to her ear and said, "I can not get in, they've got an Arbormancy (wood manipulator) and they've created a tight cage and I can not slip between the bars," into a radio mounted within her ear.
Silence met her statement, before an angered sigh responded and said, "Are you sure? What about from the roof?" that got the answer of, "I am sure, and as cat-like as I am, I can not hope to reach the top, silently," with an irritated eye roll, before saying, "I suggest you begin operation fog now, so we can get as much tech as we can, before they finish and our goals are delayed."
In an out of the way Lair, belonging to the Shadows; a man was standing over a microphone and listen to the suggestion been transmitted by: Cheshire and then orders to a tech in the room, "Start operation fog now," he says, admitting the wisdom of their agent. A few minutes later and the swarm of Nanobots were released on their first target of: Star Labs. Inside the caged school, the professor with the help of Robin, are now approaching the ¾ mark of the finished virus and the rest of the team were now conferring over how to find the fog now, when Robin speaks up from his station, "If I create some dummy relay's, to confuse the Legion of Shadows could we use the Justice League satellites to find it?" as the team thought on it, the professor was hesitant and asked, "are you sure these relays are going to be enough? Because I plan to live a while longer," as Aqualad then crossed over to her and said, "Trust us professor, Robin knows what he is doing and I guarantee that he'll keep continuously creating dummy relays while you work on finding the fog," while cupping the professors hands and she nods confidently knowing that they can protect her.
Over in Scotland, within the school of magical learning, that Harry is now attending as he worked feverously on setting up an empty classroom that was loaned to him by: Professor McGonagall, for Hermiones birthday and with the help of his Kryptonian speed, Harry was half done with 30 seconds on the clock. Once Harry had finished, he left for the kitchens and began to help the house elves with the food.
Time skip: 5 hours;
The mission was a success, as it had not taken long to find the nanite swarm, before it was able to reach Star Labs and upload the completed virus, causing the fog to fall to the ground like dust particles. So with the completed mission, the professor was place into a witness protection program and hidden away from the world at large.
As the legions of Shadows commander, showed his displeasure of his plans failing to Cheshire as he tortured her, while listening to her screams.
Another time skip: Sunday afternoon;
"Harry where are we going?" said Hermione, as said mage of steel guided her to the classroom blindfolded, before Hermione said, "Come on Harry, this isn't funny," this was when Harry then said, "Relax Hermione, we are almost there," as they rounded the last corner, where a silent McGonagall opened the door of the classroom as they approached. Entering the classroom, Harry then removes the blindfold as each and every one of her friends screamed, "Happy Birthday Hermione," making her realize what the day was and fainted in excitement.
(Author says, Malum Cliff sodali dedicet Hebro)