Chapter Ten: School day
A/N: me here hoping to get some word from you guys that story's quality's not dropping or anything or if your fine with its direction so far. will be a while before next update as i have work to do for the next few weeks.
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20:21 EDT Mount Justice September 5th 2010
"Come on Conner a little bit higher now that's it perfect!" Adrian said from his comfy bed in the cave where he was talking to his best friend Conner Kent as the guy helped Kara set up the T.V in his room. "You know getting a large T.V and all the cookies I can eat makes breaking every rib in my body almost worth it."
"Well focus on getting better so you can visit Emily alright you lay about." Conner said smiling sadly as he placed the copy of the group photo by his bedside. "Don't go over board on cookies too Dinah will make you regret it when your cleared for training, you do know that right."
He grimaced and placed the cookie down conceding the point to his mate before the T.V came to life displaying Breaking Bad as Adrian praised the gods: laughing the Kents bid him goodnight as they left to make sure Conner was all set for school.
"Try not to go superboy on anyone conner I had… an accident where I kinda blew up the principles car on my first day of school." She said causing Conner to stop and stare at her, she blushed before waving a hand. "Ask Kal he still ribs me about it to this day."
"So you think Diana will agree to training us tomorrow?" Amelia spoke up from the lounge where she was watching true blood wearing her polar bear dressing gown. After asking Kal to petition her to train the three on fighting superman as she was one of the few members of the league who can best him in hand to hand combat. " Any word from Eve or is she still with Mia, Robin and Kathy working on their AKW gadgets?"
"We're kinda behind the bad guys in that department and since only batman is allowed to have kryptonite they'll be working with non-poisonous lead smoke and red solar emitter technologies… personally its up to us three plus maybe Kaldur to fight him, the rest are just going to learn how to survive the battle so no pressure there right." She responded as the intro ended and the episode began, the two left her and walked on to where megan was making dinner before Kara stopped suddenly looking at the martian girl.
"Of course it makes sense he was avoiding megan." She spoke slowly as the others turned to face her; looking up she elaborated to them. "when we reached the bioship super soldier gave up almost right away and now I know why: he didn't want to enter your telepathic range megan encase you mind fucked him like psimon did to us so as long as you can shut him down that way we have a better chance of beating him in a fight!"
"good thinking kara; Any weakness we can add to the list alongside red solar rays, magic and kryptonite." Conner said encouragingly heading to take his seat. "we'll tell Eve and the others in the morning."
20:22 PDT the conduit September 5th 2010
"So we got the designs down for the red solar emitter arrow heads and batarangs, the red solar patches, treated lead particle smoke pellets and refraction gel dispensers on the suits now though those ones might or might not work so i'll get Kara to test them out when she's free." Robin listed off their progress so far as they eat dinner in what amounted to kid's kitchen in her secret base. "given the progress we've made in a few hours and how your set up here has the hardware to fabricate this stuff without much management I guess you genius status is well deserved kid, though it could do with a zeta platform."
"I have finite resources and the batman funding doesn't cover all the things I buy a suit that can withstand the friction i produce isn't cheap i can tell you; besides most of these new equipment designs are useless unless we can separate him from his armour. I'd bet my life that his suit is insulated against solar rays and kryptonite radiation and since he has bio-invulneability aura too we can't destroy his suit without serious force needed to break that aura." Evelyn told them pointing out the fact about the lesser known kryptonian ability to the others who nodded, they weren't taking this new development lightly, Adrian was perhaps their best trained hand to hand fighter given his mentor and previous occupation as a meta brawler, the fact that this guy took him out the fight with a back hand was a serious danger to the rest of them and since they couldn't get access to the league's stockpile of kryptonite they would have to rely on their own kryptonians and krypto-humans to deal with him should he make another appearance.
"So i'm right in saying this guy has super strength into the tens of thousands of tonnes range, can move at speeds over mach three, heat vision which could vapourise us if we got caught in it, can travel in water and space, super senses, can hear radio waves if trained too, arctic breath... it's really terrifying when all of these are possessed by a guy with no problem killing innocent people and who is against us." Robin said quietly voicing the major concern the league had with this guy and godlike power he had to throw at them. "i mean sure we've got four on our side but he's stronger than ours, we got so lucky he only broken Adrian's rib cage it could have ended much much worse for us."
"Well we may be behind in the arms race but we still have four kryptonians to this one guy right?" Mia pointed out as Kathy nodded in agreement to her.
"You forget that of those four: one is a leaguer and not with us during missions, one has half the powers of a kryptonian so wouldn't last long against him, and another has at least one power missing while this guy seems stronger than a normal one and won't have any problems killing people in his way." Robin countered causing her to looked down in defeat.
"But how is he enhancing his abilities even a solar suit won't account for those larger heat beams, i mean enhancement drugs like venom don't work on kryptonians as their physiology isn't terrestrial at all." Evelyn voiced her frustration at how this new development put her team in danger, she could maybe fight him with the combined powers of speed and her ring but she wouldn't outlast him in a slugfeast at all and she only needed to make one mistake for it all to end.
"what about a yellow solar emitter?" Kathy suddenly said before going on. "not as a reason for his power boost but as a buff for our ones, say power-girl gets sunned in a night mission, without access to the sun she would take a long time to regain her powers from even a small dose of red rays… with a yellow emitter we could half or even quarter that time."
"Your right and a concentrated dose would work faster smart thinking Kathy I just need to twik some of our red emitter designs and we're set." Evelyn said as she moved over to the computer " well guys I think we should call it a night I can upload the designs to the fabricator and send supplies over in the morning when we meet for training."
21:11 EDT watchtower September 5th 2010
" now that the league has been assembled we can began this emergency meeting." Batman began from the head of the table: they all looked worried at the topic of this meeting. "As you have all been informed we have recently discovered the existence of another more powerful krypto-human dubbed the 'super soldier' he has been shown having access to all kryptonian powers and seems to be enhanced in their power level as well, this also shows a link as he was encountered in bialya while Amelia was found in Cadmus whether there are anymore of them out there we can't be certain but make no mistake there is some sort of cooperation going on in the underworld, I have no doubt that queen bee is only providing a safe haven to operate in since we can't intervene there. I personal believe he was only staying there away from us… until now."
"We believe that he attacked the team to either take out both super-girl and power-girl or to capture them." Black canary spoke up next.
"So their Anti-kryptonian weapons weren't the only things they were working on?" Hawkman inquired now.
"It looks that way, Kid flash is working on developing a set of AKW for the team and we will also equip the league as well but we are mostly re-engineering captured technology and I can rightly say we're behind in this arms race." Batman informed them seeing shocked looks: the league had also been on top of the bad guys with it's watchtower zetabeams and backing from major tech companies meant that it was at the cutting edge of tech, but now that clones, gene spliced individuals and advance technology like the Amazo android were showing up was causing a great deal of concern for them. "I believe we may need to expand the league by the years end to increase our manpower and skill pool but for now leaguers cleared to able hand a kryptonian must be on standby for sudden deployment. The rest of you are to call for back up if you encounter him on your own."
"I was told to asked Wonder woman if she would be willing to help train the power-girl, super-girl and super boy to better prepare them should they meet this guy in the future since they're the only ones on the team who could engage him safely compared to the rest." Superman spoke up as attention shifted to Diana.
"I would also asked then to help train the whole team since they're not ready to face this kind of threat with their currently level of training." Black Canary spoke up too concerned about her students.
"I will comply with both requests, this could be a good chance to introduce Donna to the team and help her interact with people around her age plus she can help me in the training." Wonder woman said before the meeting was ended.
9:01 EDT mount Justice September 6th 2010
Recognized: wonder woman 03, Donna Troy A03
The team looked up to see two figures emerge from the blinding light, one the towering amazon warrior Wonder woman, the other a girl about thirteen with the same black hair and blue eyes as Diana, dressed in a similar get up which was all red with gold stars and black sleeves and leggings with the double set W on the silver belt and same silver bracelets on the arms.
'so Diana brought Donna with her could it be to join the team?' Eve thought as she watched them walk over to the gathered heroes.
"Gather round everyone." Diana called to them while donna looked at them all with curiosity especially towards the boys. "I will be your advance combat instructor and personal trainer to the three of you." She pointed at the supers before going on. "when faced with superior power you can overcome it with skill and training something the amazon's have perfected over the centuries."
"We well begin with sparring matches between one of you and my sister Donna troy." She said as the girl walked up to the middle gaining the courous looks of the rest of the team.
"Well since our resident close combat expert is out of action I say our fearless leader should do it." Amelia said patting Evelyn on the back with enough force to knock her forward a few feet. After glaring at her she walked into the sparring ring and faced off against Donna; dispute the age difference she was only a foot and half shorter than her plus a few inches given by her heels.
'thanks Amelia.' she thought sarcastically to herself as she slide into the stance Canary taught them.
"Began" Diana commanded as they the two began trading blows, Kid was not prepared for the onslaught of blows Donna threw at her dodging and dancing around her as both we're almost blurs as they fought, she launched a punch towards Donna's face which she casual dodged stepping inside kids guard grabbing her outstretched arm and pulling her over her shoulder with sick popping sound as Kid's arm became dislocated from her shoulder as she hit the ground hard.
'God that hurts... i forgot how brutal Donna could be in a fight.' Kid thought to herself as she tried and failed to get up with one hand hissing with the pain.
"If you can keep the pressure up then you can control the course of the fight entirely simply waiting for the enemy to slip up and give you the perfect opportunity like so." Diana said as Donna sat on top of kid grabbing her dislocated arm with both hands and set it back in place with a loud crack as a cry of pain left her lips before helping her up. "Next Robin"
Robin went next and fared much better before she got hold of his cape and ended the fight, and it went on for each and everyone of them beaten down hard with some receiving dislocations like Evelyn. She knew what Diana was doing, she wanted them to get angry at how easily they were being taken down by a much better trained adversary so as to motivate them to train harder and also to show them how easily they were taken down dispute all the training they had done with black canary, they learned basics as well as other advance techniques with canary but it would be Diana who would teach them how to survive a prolonged battle of titans and she began by running them through a series of drills where each screw up lead to various painful results dislocation of limbs being one of them as they had to learn how to handle this situation fast which went on for hours.
"I know you are questioning this training regime but you need to understand that without adequate training you won't survive an opponent of this caliber with your current level of training... this isn't some mindless brute or thug trying to beat you with brawn alone, this person has displayed advance training in his powers and was able to best supergirl in combat without any apparent difficulty so you must train hard to overcome that. we will run exercises in improving your general fighting abilities in addition to your weekly training time with Black Canary as well as private lessons for Amelia, Kara and Conner in their free time from here on i won't go easy on you and i will push you hard for your own good the league is currently facing a bigger threat than we have known with the super-villains now working together against us and you need to be prepared for this." Diana said causing looks between the battered and bruised teens at the words before being dismissed.
"Wow and I used to think canary's training sessions were tough." Amelia said as they all showered off with inclusion of Donna with them off in one corner of the female showering room. "So Donna you live on the amazon island right?"
"Yes I do indeed why?" she asked politely looking at them still rather reserved around strangers she barely knew.
"Well I'm curious are there any… close relations between the woman of the island since there are no men?" she asked everyone stopped to look at her.
"Depends on you definition of 'relation' there are those who perfer the company of woman in bed and those who do not but it isn't an issue on the island." She responded as Kathy raised her eyebrow at Eve.
"Well I suppose you're close with all the amazons right having lived there you whole life?" Mia asked her next.
"I have only returned to the island three years ago after… an incident happened to me, Diana thought it would be good if I got a chance to see the outside world and decide if I wanted to be a part of both worlds." She said before looking down at her feet in deep thought.
"it is so different from my world." She said quietly before Kara went over and wrapped an arm around her startling her.
"Its not as different as you believe; I came from an alien world and I found similarities to my home… how about we take you out on a sleep over, Eve's house is too small, so is mine, Amelia and Megan live here and we can't get the cave free with Dinah looking after Adrian, Kathy you got a second home or what?" she asked the girl smiling a 'come on its for a good cause' smile.
"well dad is taking my step mom to the opera and then dinner after that; I could call and ask but no crazy dares ok." She said thinking over before looking at kara who pouted but promised.
"So willing to come Donna just us girls showing you the merits of the modern world." She said as the girl looked unsure before a powerful voice called from the door.
"Go and have fun Donna consider it a royal command." Diana said smiling before heading out again as Kara called out in triumph.
"But first you need to change into normal clothes lucky I keep a few outfits here." Kara said dragging the naked girl off to get dried and try on some clothes.
"poor donna she won't stand a chance." Megan said to laughs from the rest.
"So what do you think Donna Troy normal teenage girl or what." Kara said point to the amazon dressed in a black short jacket with a black tank top exposing her toned mid-rift and wearing a black skirt with leggings and black boots. "copied elements of black canary's wardrobe with some styles we all would wear."
"She looks get now lets go already!" Amelia chimed in impatiently, as the others chuckled at her antics and left the cave.
"So i finally get to meet your family Kathy." Eve said smiling as she wrapped her arm around kathys shoulder smirking at the nervous look she gave Evelyn.
"Well for a few minutes at least." she replied as we arrived in gotham city not far from her home.
17:21 EDT Gotham City September 6th 2010
"Wow Kathy nice digs you got." The girls walked into the large two story penthouse as Kathy showed them to where Mr and Mrs Kane were getting ready to leave.
"Can we trust you to be responsible Katharine no alcohol… no drugs please." Catherine said as Kathy gave her a shocked look before nodding as she smiled hugging her dad goodbye and noticing him wink at Evelyn who blushed and waved.
"Have fun girls and don't stay up to late." Mr Kane said as they left for the opera as the girl headed to living room awing at the large T.V and huge space for the giant covers.
"Ok Kara, Mia you set up the covers, I'll handle the movies and Eve and Megan can cook dinner Kathy maybe tell Donna about Gotham's history to pass the time lets work girls!" Amelia said heading over to the DvD collection while Megan and Evelyn walked through to see the large kitchen.
"So Greek food hue well I guess its makes sense." Amelia said now that they were all dressed for bed with Donna wearing a shorts and a tank top like the rest looking at them curious once more. "So our options are the following: sf fy is Star ship troopers, Romance is the last song, or we can do Armageddon which is good for either I guess, Action we have RED, Comedy we have despicable me... Donna how about you choose one?" Amelia pointed to the girl who had been beaten them to a pulp all day as she looked awkward rubbing her neck.
"I don't think I could choose one over the others." She said as the others smiled at her sadly. "What?"
"I was asking which one you wanted to watch first… we'll go with action then Retired Extremely Dangerous here we go." Amelia said as the lights went out and movie went on as they all digged into their food.
"Not bad but how about we have a really classic now Armageddon heard it was really good." Amelia said switching movies as they brought out the Ice cream and other deserts.
"I had to mental restrain Eve from eating all the ice cream up." Megan said smiling as she nudged the blushing red head; Kathy stuck out a her spoonful of ice cream at her, she eat half before Kathy ate the rest as the pair continued it throughout the film.
"Wonder if anyone will make a movie about me." Kara said thoughtfully before Amelia coughed loudly.
"It'll be shit… bad cough it goes around doesn't it." She said as Kara glared at her. "What about you Eve first female teen heroine, someone's bound to make a movie about you right."
"Please don't kid yourself before nobody could even get my name right and now they all asking if I'm changing my name even when I keep telling them I'm not… I get no respect from the media, I have the smallest fan base; I'm not that cool a hero or even popular to public I guess i'm not that much of a hero if all i can do is run really fast." She said laying back on her pillow only to have someone hit her on the head with a pillow hard. "Ouch that hurt Kathy."
"Come on Eve you inspired me didn't you, who cares if people dress up as you or not you're a good person who helped people because she wanted to simple as that." She said leaning forward and looking at her with an encouraging smile. "So stop selling yourself short ok."
"Movie two is starting… I could totally stop that meteorite from killing those dinosaurs." Amelia said as they all shushed her.
"I'll admit that harry stamper is very brave man to do what him did even if it is a fictional story." Donna said wiping away a tear as Areosmith sang 'I don't want miss thing' Kathy laying asleep beside Eveyln who wiped the tears from her eyes depth in thought. "Kathy don't you wise to watch the remind of the plays?"
"I'm up next movie better be the last one thought I'm really tied after having mini-Diana beat me up all day." Kathy said as she lay back down arms wrapped around Evelyn, her head resting on her shoulder as she fell back asleep.
'Night night Kathy.' Evelyn thought kissing her forehead and laying down to sleep next to her as well.
6:00 EDT Gotham City September 7th 2010
The sound of a flash wake the two girls up as they looked around to see Mr Kane holding a camera and smiling at them as they glanced around.
'where is everyone else gone?' Evelyn thought as she saw a note beside her.
"To Kathy and Eve, left a bit early for school, Diana picked Donna at platform, didn't want to bother you two love birds since your not at school right now signed Kara
P.S Amelia did it I swear!"
They looked at each other and saw that someone had taken a felt tip pen to their faces and drawing everything from unibrow, to whiskers, to a goatee before Kathy turning to face her dad's grinning face.
"Give me the camera dad or the bostaff comes out." She threatened him as he ran away laughing with Kathy in hot pursuit as Evelyn just sat there laughing her head off at the scene in front of her.
'like the times bruce would do the same to dick back when I was… wally… why must I always compare everything to that time its over gone finito, I am Evelyn west I am a girl I am fifteen and I love Kathy Kane…Wally west died aged twenty-one saving his world from the Reach, he died to save his love Artemis crock… he died and I was born and I should stop comparing everything to back then.' She thought as the pair ran into the kitchen.
"Come on dad this isn't funny." Kathy said irritated blushing crimson having cornered him and yanking the camera hard as he chuckled at her grinning broadly.
"You gonna introduce me to your girlfriend... she's quite the looker isn't she." he said laughing as his daughter's face light up like a Christmas tree as she finally grabbed hold of the camera deleting the photos. "She makes you happy doesn't she?"
"Yes she does dad, she helps fill the gap Beth left and i really do love her." Kathy said as he smiled before hugging her.
"Well lets not leave her hanging then." he said as they headed over to her.
"Sorry about all that Evelyn, so its nice to finally meet you at least." he said holding out his hand to her as she shook it before he gestured to the kitchen. "i hear from Kathy you have a rather ravenous appetite so why don't we talk over breakfast."
"sure." she replied as the three of them headed through to the clean kitchen where Mr Kane insisted on making it for them.
"So about a dozen good enough for you?" he asked casting a look from where he was making pancakes for the pair.
"Em sure that'll do." she replied turning to look at kathy who was still trying to remove the marker pen. "you're gonna need to wash it kathy because it isn't going to come any by rubbing it alone."
"Stupid Amelia why did she do it?" she said frustrated at being embarrassed by her dad in front of her girlfriend.
"Because she's Amelia and its just a joke kathy it'll come off alright." Eve said grinning now as the piles of pancakes were placed in front of them both.
"So Eve i hear your attending the H.I.V.E whats it like?" Mr Kane asked sitting down beside his daughter looking over at her warmly.
"Well it offers a wide range of subjects to study and provide the best equipment and technology for it so yeah i'm enjoying it quite a lot, we do so pretty ground breaking work there." she said after she finished a quarter of the pancakes smiling at the surprised look on his face as she wolfed down the remaining pancakes in under a minute.
"I guess there's a trade off for speed isn't there?" he said looking amazed as she finished the second plate of pancakes as well.
"Yeah it can be expensive at times but hey i can run at near the speed of light so it's worth it in my opinion." she said as she wiped her mouth clean.
"there's a bathroom up stairs where you can get rid of that stuff then maybe if you want we can have that second date today or.." Kathy said glancing over to her dad who was washing the plates and clearly eavesdropping on them.
"Actually I always meet up with my friends from the H.I.V.E on the last day of the holidays a tradition of sorts… want to come with me?" Evelyn asked surprising Kathy who looked at her.
"Do they know about us and you being gay?" she asked.
"No but their my friends I have no doubts they'll have no problem with it, besides I'm not ashamed of us in anyway."Evelyn said kissing Kathy on cheek before getting up and heading over to the mentioned bathroom.
6:41 EDT Mount Justice September 7th 2010
"So I packed our lunches guys you two ready for school." Megan said excited dressed in her 'school outfit' complete with human skin tone, Conner was wearing his superboy shirts since he wore a jumpsuit as his costume, Amelia was wearing jeans, steel toe capped boots and a white t-shirt under her canary leather jacket as they headed over to where megan was, red tornado, j'onn and strangely enough kal where there.
"we came to see you guys off," kal said in his reporter outfit walking over to Conner and placing a hand on his shoulder. "Kara was nervous too since she wasn't fully use to earth culture but she managed in the end and so will you Conner."
"the first day of the scholastic season carries great culture resonance" j'onn spoke up hugging megan. "we came to wish you all well."
"Remember you two no power display ok or people will suspect your meta's at best or blow you hero identities at worst." Kal warned them. Due to the medical privacy act all children born with a conformed meta status had their records sealed in case of people trying to use them or bullying them which was a really stupid thing to do since meta children like any normal child could snap in a very abnormal way.
"Believe me you don't want give them any reason to stigmatize you… metas can scare normal children and others are jealous of them." Dinah said coming out of Adrian's room carrying a food tray.
"Are meta's common in schools?" Conner asked curious of it.
"Not really, depends on the place America has a higher rate of metas than other countries like Britain or Germany but not all of those are 'meta-genes' some are the result of experiments like kid flash or killer frost and get lumped in the same category as true born meta's like me or brick, but all the same a meta-gene can mean anything from super-strength to a slight increase in a lung capacity giving you two more minutes of air under water." She went on to say as they all headed out to school.
7:21 EDT Metropolis September 7th 2010
"everything alright Kara you seem distant today boy troubles?" Jessica asked leaning over the brunettes shoulder and looking her in the eye with the puppy dog pout as the others laughed.
"its… nothing my cousin conner's starting school today in a new place and I'm just worried about him fitting in." she told them as they looked interested now.
"Didn't know about a younger cousin shows us a picture if you got one." Clarie asked interested as Kara got out her phone and showed them one of her photo's in civies with conner.
"Damn girl where have you been hiding him because I'd make him fit in any day." Jessica said goggling Conner up, as Kara blushed yanking the phone away.
"That's my baby cousin your ogling serious Jessica your dating Mark aren't you?" She inquired as the girl nodded before pouting at her.
"So you guys ready for band practice tonight?" Siobhan spoke up as they all nodded; at the sleepover they had all shown some degree of talent with an instrument and decided to from a band with Siobhan as the vocals. "You really think the 'silver banshee' is a good band name?"
"Yep your vocal abilities are amazing plus your irish isn't a banshee an Irish fay or supernatural or something and that kind of stuff makes the best band names?" Alice chimed in as they headed toward first period and drama.
"we're gonna need a lot of practice for that guys you do know that." Kara said looking over her friends who nodded after a while, they could use the instruments they just needed to practice them first for a while before they were ready for anything.
7:58 EDT Happy Harbour high September 7th 2010
"So this is school don't see all the hyp really." Amelia said adjusting her backpack as the three of them headed through the crowd as they gained a fair few looks from the other school goers; a sudden cry of alarm sounded from a guy on a skateboard which was veering out of control at high speed heading towards them. Conner grabbed him with one hand as Amelia halted the skateboard with her boot catching it as it went flying into the air.
"You alright?" Conner asked as he put the boy down as he relaxed brushing himself off nodding.
"Yeah thanks to you man; I don't know what happened the board started sliding around and I lost my balance." He said as another voice sounded from the left as they turned and saw a group of people coming towards them. It was a group of large guys clearly jocks with a blonde girl wearing shorts and a very revealing top looking at them with snide look as the guy in front looked at guy smugly.
"Well Marvin disrupting and endangerment of student body and right after you got it back from being confiscated this time you lose it for good school rules I'm afraid." he said walking towards them looking pleased with the events.
"So I'm guessing you were responsible for looking after confiscated goods right?" Amelia said looking at him nod. "Then why has the four screws holding the wheels to the board been partial unscrewed or were you just hoping he'd fall over and get hit by a car or something because of it really clever thing to do right?"
He didn't look happy about it and glared at them turning and heading off as the girl looked at her before whispering something to her friends as they laughed loudly and cruelly.
"What did you just call me blondie?" Amelia said in a dangerous voice as the girl stopped as she walked up to her and poked her in the chest. "Well first off just because I won't let you brainless boytoy endanger someones life doesn't make me killjoy and just because i'm dressed like this doesn't make me a 'dyke' second I'm not gay but I know girls who are and they are some of the smartest, kindest and caring people I know so to me being called that isn't an insult in the slightest, but you on the another hand are nothing more than petty, worthless creature who hurts other people because they are smarter than you or to simply make you're self feel better; well your not and when you reach your lowest point in life and all your 'so called friends' leave laughing at you like everyone else then you have no one else to blame but yourself you pathetic bitch."
People started whispering and even a few sniggers could be heard as the girl looked at her with a look of outrage and hatred; he boyfriend looked at Marvin who was smiling with some satisfaction before advancing towards him.
"Laughing at my girl Marvin I'll teach some manners." The boy said advancing on Marvin who looked scared as he approached before both Amelia and Conner stood in front of him.
"Not gonna happen." They both stared glaring at the larger boy who stopped but looked angry at the challenge to his authority before a large African American boy wearing a blue superman t-shirt walked in front of them folding his arms and glaring at him.
"You ain't gonna touch Marvin or anyone else Daniel or you'll have to answer too me from now on." He said staring down Daniel who glowered at them before heading off in defeat; the boy turned to face them holding out his hands. "nice to see some people willing to stand up for others; just because your stronger than others doesn't give you the right to bully them for your own personal entertainment, Mal Duncan football captain."
"Conner Kent." Conner said shaking his hand.
"Amelia Starr and this is our friend Megan Morse we're new first day and all." She said as she shook his hand pointing to megan as she waved.
"Daniel thinks he's so tough but he cried his eyes out when those kid heroes battled it out with that red storm guy back in July when the town got wrecked, it was cool the way you put down Courtney Blair girl is a sadistic narcissist in my opinion nearly made a girl commit suicide last year because she had autism."
"I won't take any of her shit you can bet on that." Amelia said smiling folding her arms as a girl walked up to megan smiling wearing a uniform of sorts.
"Hi megan was it, I'm wendy Harris I used to be the new girl last year so if you need help fitting in you can ask me, say you ever though about trying out for the cheerleaders the try outs are after school." Wendy said holding out her hand to Megan who looked shocked before nodding as the bell rang and they all headed into school.
8:23 PDT Jump city train station September 7th 2010
'I hope Victor shows up for the dayout.' Evelyn thought as Kathy walked beside her; looking excited but nervous too.
"So do you and your school friends always hang out the day before school starts up again?" she asked as they left the train station and walked towards the cab station; she was still surprised when Eve had asked her to meet her friends on their annual day out and went to say that when heading to school she always took the train as it was subsidised for her and people would wonder why she never used it.
"Yep that way we made sure to end the holiday's on a good note." Eve told her holding her hand as her pocket vibrated, she took her phone out and answered it. "Yes Sebastian is there something up?"
"Evelyn I glad I caught you I called because I've been informed that victor has pulled out of school… I don't know what's going have you seen him since that day?" he asked her as she stopped looking shocked at the news; Kathy also stopped looking worried now.
"No I haven't but I'm going to see the others now maybe Natasha has… thanks for telling me Sebastian." She responded.
"happy to help after all it would be disastrous if we lost such a brilliant mind." He said before hanging up.
"Victor pulled out of school; I've got to see the others." Eve explained pulling Kathy to a secluded spot before picking her up and speeding away.
"Next time give a girl so warning you know." Kathy said fixing her hair when she was put down outside of the café; Evelyn kissed her.
"there that better now come on I'm really worried now." She said leading her into the place and looking around for her friends; she spotted them in the back, what was weird was Christine was missing and Darius troy was there.
"I thought you said Garfield and Victor were the only guys?" Kathy asked noticing where she was looking.
"That's Darius troy a friend of Natasha's come on." Evelyn said taking her by the hand and leading her there. "Hey guys have you heard about victor."
"Yeah we were just discussing what were going to do." Garfield said as Evelyn sat down; it was then that he noticed Kathy and looked confused. "who's your friend Eve?"
"Katharine Kane and I'm her girlfriend." Kathy held her hand out as Garfield's eyes went wide with surprise.
"Garfield Blaze nice to meet you." He said after a few moments glancing at Alyssa who also looked surprised at the news along with Francine and Natasha; they each accepted her hand when offered.
"So that explains a lot, don't suppose you've seen Victor at all Eve?" he asked to which she shock her head.
"Why don't you all go see him?" Kathy spoke up as they all glanced at her.
"What sneak into star labs… wait there a five geniuses here we could so sneak in." Garfield said looking at them encouraging.
"We've gave him a lot of space but now we need to see him; come on guys lets go." Natasha said getting to her feet as they all followed her.
"So Kathy Eve you two being going on long or?" Alyssa asked looking at her brimming with curiosity as they all got into a cab watching Eve wrap a hand around Kathys shoulders as she laid her head on her shoulder.
"Two weeks now we meet a few years back and when we ran into each other again Kathy asked me out so I said yes." Evelyn explained their pretty short history so far.
"So you knew you liked girls the whole time?" She asked going onto which Evelyn nodded feeling the situation getting a little awkward.
"Guys we're here how are we getting in?" Alyssa asked to which Garfield leaned forward smiling looking between Kathy and Darius as he did.
"I got a plan: its called the messy break up." he said as they all looked at the two and realised what he was thinking.
8:44 PDT Star Labs Jump City september 7th 2010
"Hey Jacob we're here to see victor." Evelyn spoke as they walked up to the security station while Kathy and Darius walked over to the middle of the entrance room.
"Sorry guys but you're not allowed to see victor the Stones orders some sort of testing going on-" he began before they was shouting coming from Kathy and darius who were up in each others faces.
"How could you cheat on me with jesse Owens she couldn't tie her own shoes without help, its because she had a boob job isn't it!" she roared in his face gaining everyones attention as well as the guards who moved over to break it up.
"What about you and frank Gilson he's got a laugh like a walrus or is it since he started getting behind stage at the gigs!" he roared loudly and aggressively in her face causing the guards to run towards him suspecting hostile intent.
"Oldest trick in the book." Garfield said as they sprinted towards victors parents work lab barging past technicians and scientists alike; until they busted into the lab and stopped frozen in the shock. "What the fuck."
They were staring at a large metal humanoid which had exposed areas of human flesh and has half of victors face exposed as well. His parents came running over yelling at them to leave; that stopped when Garfield lifted victors dad by the scruff of his neck and slammed him into the wall.
"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO YOUR OWN SON YOU BASTARD." He yelled into his face shocking everyone with this sudden display of rage and aggression from the normally mellow and slightly childish teen.
"Put him down Garfield." Victor said walking over to them with heavy metallic foot falls as Alyssa and Francine actually took a step back in fear while both Natasha and Evelyn advanced still shocked at what had happened to him. "They did this to keep me alive fused me with sentient alien technology… they were just trying to keep their son alive its not their fault."
"No its mine its all my fault." Evelyn said looking down crippled and crushed under the weight of guilt currently flooding her system as she saw what had happened to her friend while she did nothing. She felt something heavy clamp hold of her shoulders looking up she saw Victor looking into her dead guilt ridden eyes as he hugged her tightly.
"Its not your fault Eve it's the people who did this to us, you're a victim like I was and you have nothing to feel guilty of at all do you understand me ." he said as she wrapped her arms around him tightly trying to come to terms with what had happened to her best friend while she hadn't even gotten a scar.
"Why won't you come back to the H.I.V.E with us Victor… you shouldn't be alone why are you shutting out your friends." Natasha said wrapping her hands around his as well. "Inside this tin can is the stupid idiot I kept waiting on to ask me out… are you telling me there's nothing left of him in here or just some spineless coward with his face."
"How can I show myself to people without them recoiling in fear?" He asked pleadingly of them as the girls stopping back off before slowly walking towards him and placing hands on his metal arms.
"By letting us in for start you big idiot with whats flying around out there I doubt anyone will bat an eye at you." Garfield said as he let Silos down and heading over to place a hand on his shoulder. "Your still our friend regardless of what you look like."
"I'm sorry guys but its still too soon… if you want to see me then you can come here but for now this is where i belong." He said as he turned and headed off to his room; leaving them looking shocked before eventually them all filed out of the building and meet up with Kathy and Darius at the café.
"How'd it go guys?" she asked face falling when she saw they're looks; they agreed to keep Victors condition a secret until he choose to reveal it.
"Hes not coming back… not yet at least." Evelyn said finally looking grim as Kathy understood she needed some love and care without the added questions as she wrapped her arms around her chest as she laid her head against kathys chest. "I can't help but feel responsible for it even though its not my fault."
"Sometimes bad things just happen to good people regardless of notions such as right or wrong." Darius said solemn as he finished his drink looking at her sadly. " dwelling on how the battle could have been will not change it's outcome."
"What does that mean?" She asked looking at him confused.
"It means hindsight is useless when all you use it for is wondering on how things could have been better then… it happened that way and no matter how much pain you put yourself through it won't change that outcome one bit." He said as she nodded before they decided to part ways the days planned events seeming trivial compared to the weight on their souls now at the price their friend had paid.
8:42 EDT Happy Harbour high school September 7th 2010
"I really do hate maths." Amelia spoke quietly to herself as the class filed out to head to their next lesson history; so ignored the looks the boys were giving her or more precisely her chest as she walked past. She stopped at her locker putting in the combination and was about to open it when a voice called up from behind her.
"I wouldn't open that if I was you." She turned to she Marvin standing there smiling as went on. "Courtney rigged a stinkbomb to explode in your face when it is opened as a get back for standing up to her in front of everyone."
Amelia turned to look back at the locker activating the spectrum vision in her eyes and seeing the aforementioned device in her locker; Marivn walked up to her and gestured for her to stand back as he took out a pair of scissors and opened the locker a smidge cutting the wiring and opening the locker fully, before taking it out of her locker and smiling at her.
"I owed you for helping me out early beside its nice to see someone take a stand against these guys like Mal does, Marvin White so you looked like you had some difficulties in the maths class I could help you if you want?" he said as they walked towards history dropping the device in the trash can as they did.
"I won't turn down help if its offered sure." Amelia said as they walked in Amelia was surprised to see her league tutor Lucas 'Snapper' Carr who winked at her before calling the class to quieten down.
"So in relation to the on going peace summit of north and south rhealasia we will be doing a project on it then: anyone care to share any knowledge they have on the current hostilities between the two rhelasia's?" he asked them showing a picture of the two countries as Conner answered him with almost robotic precision.
Eventually the bell for lunch rang and the three of them plus Wendy and Marvin made there way to spot outside the school building, they were soon joined by a few others Wendy chatting away to Megan, while Conner and Amelia sat down beside Marvin at a free table at the back.
19:20 NST Taipai September 8th 2010
"So I all for accepting offered help Kid but all I wanted was Cheshire's height you didn't need to come out here to help me out; i mean your supposed to be back at the H.I.V.E today right?" Roy spoke into his communicator as the unseen speedster scanned the crowded with her magnified vision.
"I called in sick beside i needed to distract myself from someone in my life Roy and having the solace of my own head is something that i don't get with a team mission." She said as she noticed a target moving on the rooftop below her; scanning the figure the body dimensions matched tigress to a T, she felt rage now where she once felt love, it was time to burn a bridge in her heart for good. "Red Arrow i've spotted the secondary target and I'm moving into engage target over."
She rushed over to the figure dropping with a roll to avoid the arrow aimed for her previous position as the figure of tigress smirked at her.
"No bat bitch to save you this time kid bitch." She said smugly eliciting feelings of angry in Kid seeking an outlet for the emotional turmoil boiling beneath her surface as she glared hatefully at the blonde.
"No big sis to shoot me in the back… how about we settle this like men no bow no ring." Kid said holding her soulless gaze as she smirked dropping the bow and springing forward swinging her fist at the space where Kid's head had been as she moved it to the side slightly as she brought her speeding fist in a upper cut to tigress's jaw before sending another blow to her chest and another one aimed at her head which she caught trying to twist Kids arm. That was until kid went from stationary to 60 miles per hour as her body lurched forward smashing the surprised girl into the wall knocking her out but not before she had pulled Kid's arm hard enough to dislocate it as an explosion sounded from below.
"Tigress down Red but she dislocated my arm need to fix that." She said dragging the blonde by the hair into an up right position as she fumbled with the cuffs. She activated the ring which fly out of her pocket and onto her finger before constructing a cage to carry the assassin down as the crowds looked up at her surprised taking photos. The guards leveled their weapons at her before lowering at a word from luthor.
"My my first Green arrows sidekick now the flash's and I see she picked up a trinket along the way I guess I must extended my thanks to you as well Kid… would it still be flash or lantern now?" he asked in the voice which hammered on your homicide button in your head as she glared watching the police take Tigress away.
"Its still Kid Flash Red if you'd please?" she asked him as he walked over grabbing her arm and ramming it back into place as she snarled looking at Luthor as she did. "Bastard!"
"My my I thought the first teen heroine had better manners than that but I suppose it can't be helped with some people." A female voice sounded from behind her as she turned to see who it was.
'What the hell!' she thought staring at the very same blonde she had seen at the central city mall when Amelia and Kara had went shopping with her. She was wearing a bright blue dress which thrusted her large bust outwards as she smiled holding out her hand.
"Forgive me I guess I haven't introduced myself Luxanna Luthor but please just call me Lux, at your service Kid Flash." She said smiling a luthor smug smile of superiority; Kid shook it once and turned to face Red Arrow they followed Luthor in side.
"I must sincerely thank you Red Arrow for saving my and my daughters lifes from the league of shadows." He said placing an arm around lux's shoulders as she smiled for the cameras. "And to think this was her first public outing such is reason for such noble hearted individuals such as yourselves ready to protect a man and his daughter from dangerous rogues and cutthroats; I shall repay your kindness by doing everything in power to achieve peace this night."
"Drop the act luthor why would lex corp want peace when your own shell companies are arming the two sides." Red Arrow growled at him as the camera's still followed Lux whom Kid noticed Mercy throwing several glances a second towards.
"Because war profiteering is pocket change compared to the millions we would stand to make through infrastructure investment if the two countries unified and while I may not be an angel I am most certainly on the side of the angels this time Red Arrow." He said mockingly as walked over to take his daughters delicate hand as they continued into the building. "So is it really bad to help me do the right thing if lex luthor stands to make a big buck from it."
"Kid Flash Lois Lane daily planet, a word on the new outfit and the power ring, are you switching mentors from the Flash to one of the lanterns now?" she asked as kid looked at her intensely.
"No I'm still kid flash." she said before walking towards the jailhouse where Red Arrow was entering; they sisters were dumped in the same cell as they both grinned when they noticed her enter.
'so that girl was following us because i'm sure luthor's daughter wouldn't need to shop at place like central city mall.' kid thought as she walked towards roy as the girls grinned at her smugly. 'wait that means she knows who i am under the mask... who kara really is.'
"Oh if it isn't my favourite speedster looking a lot better than last time I left you off." Cheshire spoke grinning at her causing Kid's aggression levels to raise as her grin reminded her of Duela's and what she did.
"Hope you like the cell since you'll both be spending quite a while in there." She said gaining a laugh from the pair.
"You'd be surprised at how soon that will actually be speedster you can be sure of that." She said quietly and deathly serious as the two suddenly gripped the bars of their cells as Roy sudden swear and kid raised her ring in the blink of an eye constructing a shield as the wall of the cell blasted opened and Sportsmaster stood there glaring at kid menacingly.
"Well at least you didn't brush us off like mom!" Tigress snarled at Sportsmaster before the family shimmed down the rope while kid dismantled her construct and smashed through the jail bars and fly after them with Red Arrow in pursuit on foot. She fired several light blasts at them infinitely glad for the ring and ranged fire support it gave her. A rocket suddenly fired towards an apartment complex as she diverted towards it trying to shot it down before it hit the homes.
"Fuck it." She said forming a giant fishing rod and hooking the rocket pulling upwards till it sailed over head and exploded in the air harmlessly. "guess Guy was right 'not everything has to be a weapon'."
"Kid lost them but planted a tracer sending you coordinates over." She heard his voice in her eye before checking the position and heading to it on her map. She saw a compound up a head and spotted Red Arrow laying on roof top as she turned to land beside him.
"I'll keep watch you go in and see what intel you can find for us Kid." He whispered as she hit her stealth button and slide down into the compound, she sneaked past patrolling ninja and eventually came across a room with a map inside it with the locations of.
"Lazarus pits." She breathed as she recorded the vital information before hearing a door close behind her she turned to see a tall woman wearing a green kimono looking at her sharply a rope dagger in hand.
"So you are the one who caused my two star pupils to fail their assignment then and now… let us see how fast you really are." She said before throwing the dagger like lightening as kid tried to dodge feeling it scrap across her juglar grazing the skin as it was pulled down sliding down her left breast cutting a few milimeters into the skin and eliciting howls of pain as it was yanked down biting deeper in to her left calf and drawing forth a stream of blood from her leg as she quickly corrected her footing before assessing her situation.
'shes fast, fast enough to hit me and I get the feeling she isn't even trying yet… guess its time to beat feet.' She thought in a second before rushing straight for the wall as the blade striked out to catch her but she managed to reach the wall first and vibrated through it before racing through the compound and out again as she saw Red Arrow pull himself out of the water and retreated to the summit.
"You alright Kid your bleeding?" he asked looking at the ribbed fabric and blood still dribbling from her left leg.
"Just some scratches from a woman in a green kamino she was really fast though." She said seeing him look scared now as he patched her leg up.
"Sounds like Lady Shiva guess she wasn't really trying to kill you or you would be died right now Kid." He said giving her a swift lookover for any signs of poison taking effect. "Ra's is after Luthor to end to peace process if we can hold them off until then the contract will be voided."
"They'll try again but we'll be ready for them and well make them regret it." Kid said growling as she got to her feet lightening up the ring feeling the surge of power it brought.
"Hey Kid everything alright you seem overly aggressive for you it isn't that time of the month is it or is something else going on?" Roy asked as he refilled his quiver with the right arrows; he wilted under the look she gave him.
"Unless you actually go through PMS you don't get to pull that card now lets get a move on." She said as he breathed out following her to room. "I'm just in a bad mood and I needed an outlet that is all."
21:23 NST Teipei september 8th 2010
"Now then shall we cease our arguments to enjoy the Rhelasian tea ceremony my daughter has spent so long rehearsing it." Luther said gesturing to his Daughter as she bowed dressed in the tea girls ceremonial outfit as she waited for the tea to be brought forth. As the serving girl neared an old news reporter suddenly flashed purple turning into kid flash pointing her ring right in Cheshires face smiling at her surprised look.
"Heard you were a fast one… smart too." Her eyes opened wide as the dart hit her neck paralysing her to the ground; kid casual walked over her face hearing her grunt in pain as she did.
She opened the cart and disabled the bomb in seconds before hearing gasps and dodging a sai aimed at her head from the standing figure of Cheshire looking angry with a broken nose blood pouring from it.
"Antidote in a false tooth you really are smart aren't you." Kid said smiling at her as they traded blows left and right while the wall exploded behind them letting in Sportsmaster and the other assassin's in.
"Trade partners." Red Arrow said lunging in to hook Cheshire across the face hard as Kid rolled over landing a ring boosted blow across sportsmaster mask sending him crashing to his knees.
"Well your definitely doing better than your team did in santa Prisca or in Bialya I dare say super soldier had his fun with your team though." He said mockingly; as she glared at him. " how do I know you're thinking well I got an inside source very inside."
He suddenly dropped his ball and chain into the ground before throwing it at Kid who dodged speeding forward to land several boosted blows to the head and spinning kick to send him reeling before constructing a bat and smashing him in the chest with it again and again.
"Well I pissed and you're the only I got to hit so it sucks to be you today." Kid smirked before batting him into a wall and turning to see smoke filling the room before glancing back to see Sportsmaster gone she glanced around but she caught no sign of him anywhere. "Kudos to you speed though."
The sound of mercy's pulse gun firing alerted them to the end of the battle as she and Red Arrow regrouped in the middle watching luther take all the credit.
"It out your system now Kid." Roy asked as they took their leave of luther and his daughter.
"Yep it was residual feelings of self guilt I thought I'd manifest onto the bad guys and just keeping punching." She said as they walked down the stairs, Roy was wise enough not to ask what the self guilt was over, he know Eve liked to keep her privcy and he wasn't going to intrude on his friend's personal business.
"You believe what he said about the mole?" Roy asked as they left the main doorway now heading for the zeta beam platform.
"No but I'll check discretely since I have to take the chance the son of a bitch isn't lying… take care Roy if you ever need me to watch your back again I'm a phone call away." She said hugging him as she turned to old phone box.
"Same here Eve same here." He said as she headed homeward.
23:12 NST Lex's office Teipei September 8th 2010
"well that went as planned we have our control over Rehlasia secured, Sportsmaster will have hopefully sown doubt in the girls mind about her team, and our mole is still open to sensitive league information… a good night don't you think Ra's."Lex said pouring wine into two glasses and offering it the master assassin who smiled taking it.
"We better tread carefully now that they know there's corporation in the criminal world we may need to engage the 'injustce league' plan to divert suspicion… any luck tracking down this mister sinister he's encroaching on Brother Blood's operations and this will hurt the light greatly if we lose those plans." Ra's asked as Luther frowned as his daughter smirked from the sofa as she watched the two at it.
"I'm surprised at the level of organization he has and he's as mysterious to us as we are to the league this could bode ill for our plans unless he can be brought into the fold or taken care soon." Lex answered looking out over the cityscape. "who he is now that's a something I'm very much inclined to find out."
A/N:i will be busy with work so i won't be able to do so much writing in the coming weeks so i can't say when the next update will come. i looked it up some on the dc comics wikia that stated the vast majority of meta powers are trivial and only a few are on the level of super strength and the like so i wondered about how the public see meta's in the young justice universe canary tells about how she found out about her power in the first grade.
I wanted to bring Donna in but not fully into the team right away i thought of a more ease her into it slowly approach as Diana tries to help her connect with people her ago since the amazons are all adults apart from her. yes she's still a trained amazon so the team aren't likely to beat her in a fight as unlike black canary she has super strength and super reflexes.
when you fight super villains you ain't gonna take shit from the common school bully.
I know people are wonder when victor starts being a hero but right now he's coming to terms with what his place in society is.
I had to change the peace to the 8th from the 7th since i didn't want to swap out kid back to aqualad and yet i wanted to keep the victor scene as well there, i made kid run from Shiva because it doesn't take a genius to know when someone with superspeed is unable to dodge the attacks in time they may be in trouble. plus right now Eve would be having conflicting emotions of guilt, angry, frustration stemming from conflicting emotions from wally's life on people in her's as well as her trying to sever what remaining feelings she has for artemis before it comebacks to bite her later on, plus the knowledge that luther most likely knows her secret identity and wondering why his daughter was following her won't help her mood at all.
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