On something from an earlier chapter the reason Shazam didn't throw a temper tantrum like red arrow is that he grew up with the dursleys he knew cry and moaning wouldn't get shit done. Growing up he learned that you had to do something if you wanted something done.


"Red Arrow to Aqualad do you read me?" Roy called into his ear-piece as he waited for a response.

"Aqualad can't come to the phone right now he is sleeping with the fishes." Red Arrow sighed it was Shazam, great.

"Shazam, where the hell is Aqualad?"

"Visiting Atlantis why?" Roy couldn't help but think about how strange their lives were. When saying someone was visiting Atlantis was a legitimate answer.

"I need to know how tall the league of shadows assassin Cheshire is."

"Sure thing Speedy." Shazam said entering several keys as he drew up the league's database.

"My name is Red Arrow." Roy growled, not liking the reminder of his days as a sidekick.

"Cheshire is 1.68 meters tall." Shazam told him ignoring what he had just said.

Roy made a noise of confusion and he could feel Shazam smirk. "She is five foot six for you stupid Americans."

"Might I remind you, you are an american."

"Please I'm about as much as an american as you are an adult, Speedy." Red Arrow growled at the mention of both his supposed immaturity and former code name. "Technically but not really."

"Whatever thanks for the info, but I got to go. Cheshire is about to make her move."

"Sure you don't need any help?"

"I don't need any help from the Junior Justice League." Roy said, he did not want the Justice League butting in on this he could handle it.

"Fine then next time you want information get it yourself." Shazam said before ended the call.


"Where are you Cheshire?" Roy muttered looking around the area, his glasses scanning every person and checking their faces, height and build. Trying to find the assassin. "Got you." he said finding her in the news stand. Roy saw the limo containing the negotiator pull. 'Just gotta wait for her to make her move.' he thought, he knew that she would have to make her move now, after this she would need back up to even place eyes on the target.

He saw her climb on top of the news stand. 'What's your move Cheshire- a fucking rocket launcher!' he thought incredulously this was ridiculous they were ninjas what kind of ninjas used rocket launchers.

Acting fast Red Arrow drew his bow back and fired and arrow to send the rocket launcher off course. Cheshire jumped to the ground and began to run through the panicking crowd kicking anyone who tried to stop her aside. As she reached the limo she pulled out a pair of sai and jump over several members of the panicking crowd as well as the security force.

Roy jumped on top of the limo than fire an arrow that broke open in mid air to reveal a net, Cheshire cut through the net before it could slow her down. "Nice tr-" she grunted as the former sidekick followed up the arrow with a football tackle knocking her to the ground. Unluckily for Red Arrow the errant rocket finally hit something the explosion dazing him long enough for Cheshire to turn the tables pinning him to the ground with a sai at his throat. The cocking of guns drew her attention to the dozens of soldier pointing the weapons at the two of them. She calmly lifted her hands into the air in a clear gesture of surrender.

"This is Cat Grant and we have just witnessed an assassination attempt on the arbitrator." the door of the limo opened to show who was inside it was. "Lex Luthor?" She said in confusion. As a resident of Metropolis and worker for the Daily Planet she knew full well that he wasn't the cleanest of characters. he was more likely to be against this peace talk than for it.

'Damn it!' Roy thought 'should have let her complete the mission.'


Red Arrow emerged from the water under a bridge gasping for air, holding the broken remains of his bow. With grit teeth he activated his comlink. "It's Red, I may be in a bit over my head." he growled out not wanting to admit he needed help.

"On my way." he could hear the amusement in Shazam voice as he said this.


"The League of Shadows is after you." Roy told Luthor, with disgust in his eyes that he was even protecting this man.

"Isn't every league?" Lex asked rhetorically as he calmly got dressed, with the help of his assistant.

"It's not just Cheshire it's Sportsmaster and Ra's himself and they won't stop until they have completed the contract." he said eyes narrowing he would be surprised if scum like Luthor considered this to be merely saying hello.

"Oh. Ra's and I are something of competitors it doesn't surprise me that he wants me dead."

'Yeah competing scum bags for who is more of monster.' Roy thought, "I should let you two destroy each other." he said.

"Your stab at pragmatism is" a brief chuckle emerged from Luthor's throat. "Well adorable. But you and I both know I'm the only shot at peace these two countries have."he said smirking as Red Arrow looked away in annoyance knowing full well he had no choice but to help. Not if he wanted peace. His smirked widened. "I will increase security but if our friends in the league of shadows think that you're dead maybe we can use that to our advantage."

"I have a better surprise." Red Arrow said as he walked out the door. Halfway through the building his comlink went off. "Red Arrow."

"It's Canary." Roy held in a sigh he didn't want another conversation about joining the team first with Kaldur and the others then Ollie now this.

"Look Canary I'm not going to join the team." he said getting it out of the way.

"I'm not calling about that." she said before sighing. "I need a favor."


Shazam landed with a loud thump on the roof of a building about two miles away from the summit, he would have landed closer but tensions were already high. "Nice landing, I see you are no longer causing earthquakes." Roy said with a smirk as he knelt down looking over the edge of the building at the city below.

"I see you still can't get anything done with needing someone to save your ass."

Roy frowned. "Shouldn't you be in school." he shot back.

"I'm ditching. Not like I need it." he said with a shrug and Roy had to concede that point, of the former sidekicks none of them really need to be in school both Robin and Kid Flash were geniuses beyond anything a school could teach and Shazam had a perfect memory and super speed allowing him to crack open a book and read everything in it in less than a minute.

"Maybe I should tell Black Canary about this." Roy mused with a playful smirk, knowing full well that she was one of the only heroes who could tell him what to do.

"Do it and I will tell her about the time Green Arrow took you to drinking after a mission last year." Shazam threatened.

"Touché." Red Arrow conceded she was much more likely to kick his ass than yell at Shazam for that. He then yawned and stretched. "Man I can't wait for this mission to be done. Being around Luthor is exhausting every time he breathes could be a play with him." more like every time his black heart beat.

"If only you had a team to back you up than you wouldn't be so exhausted." Shazam said in a seemingly off handed way.

"One I'm not joining the team get over it. Two you don't have to sleep to begin with." Shazam just grinned. "When was the last time you slept by the way?"

Shazam's grin immediately vanished. "Black Canary put you up to this didn't she?" he asked his gaze hardening. "I'm fine!"

"No Shazam you are not!" Roy shouted getting up and turning around to face Shazam. "Canary told me what's going on with you, for the last two and a half weeks you haven't slept once, and despite the fact that school started for gotham two days ago you haven't been there once, you may not want to deal with a normal life but too bad! Life isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Grow up!"

"Who the hell are you to talk to me about growing up?!" Shazam shot right back. "If you didn't notice you threw a temper tantrum all because you weren't allowed into the watch tower!"

"No we are not going off topic here! Shazam what happened to you?!" he said pushing down his desire to argue that he should have gotten access but also clearly seeing through the attempt to change the topic.

"I FAILED!" he shouted before he fell to the ground and leaned against the roof access door. "I failed to save Kent Nelson not because I wasn't fast enough or strong enough but because I didn't take the fight seriously." he muttered putting his head in his hands.

Roy sighed and placed a hand on his shoulder. "I know how you feel Shazam. You think you are the only one of us who's screwed up before."

"I didn't 'just' screw up Roy I could have ended it from the start, I was faster than Klarion if I had wanted to I could have blocked the blast I was just too confident that I would win. Didn't see why I should." he said with a humorless laugh.

Roy closed his eyes for a moment and took a deep breath before exhaling. "Look Shazam you have always been straight with me telling what you thought and never sugar coating it like everyone else so I'll do the same with you. You were an idiot." He said plainly. "You could have done any number of things with your powers to stop Klarion but you were too cocky and someone payed the price." he said not holding back causing Shazam to look down in shame. Black Canary and everyone else said it wasn't his fault and tried to comfort him. But Roy was tell him what happened and not sugar coating it in the slightest,

"But that just makes you like the rest of us." he said making the young hero look up in shock. "You don't think the rest of us haven't made mistakes like that in the past? Going in over confident and getting our asses kicked to remind us that we aren't all powerful."

"I didn't get my ass kicked I got someone killed!" He growled, there was a difference he wished that he could claim that he got his ass kicked at least then he would have been the only one hurt.

"Alexander Walt."

"What?" he asked confused. "Who is that?" did this have something to do with the mission.

"My Kent Nelson." Roy said with a sigh. "A man who was completely innocent yet got caught up in my arrogance."

"What happened?"

Roy slide down and sat next to Shazam. "It was a few months after a became Green Arrow's...sidekick." he muttered as if it made him sick to admit he was once a sidekick. "I was going up against a couple street thugs in an old warehouse, I don't even remember what they were doing just that I had gotten there before Green Arrow and that meant I could take them down without him, show him I was improving. But I got cocky after taking down all but one of them I played with him. Just to piss the guy off." he gave a humorless chuckle. "And it worked he got so angry eventually he just started shooting everything that moved." Here Red Arrow's eyes lowered as the memory of what happened haunted him to this day.

"One of the bullets flew through a window a moment later I heard a cry of pain. Turns it was middle aged man who was walking home from the bus station, his house was only a few blocks away. The bullet tore right into his chest he died before the ambulance got there." he turned to Shazam his eyes becoming hard once more. "If you want to make up for what happened than do so train your ass off day in and day out. But trust me you can't let it become an obsession for you, I did and I ended up kidnapped for a month because I became so single minded in my attempt to make amends. Ollie didn't even notice I was missing for a week assuming I was just blowing him off again. So trust me Shazam don't let this control who you are because it is not worth destroying yourself over." Red Arrow got up and walked to the edge of the building drawing his bow as he did so. "If nothing else promise that." he said as he notched an arrow and fired it into a building, the rope attached to it making an impromptu zip line.


"It seems our plan failed." Ra's Al Guhl said as he enter Luthor hotel room and began pouring himself a drink.

"Yes and I wonder whose fault that was?" Luthor said bitingly this had cost his company millions.

"No one could have predicted he would have called in Shazam, all our reports show the two have an antagonistic relationship. We had suspected he would have called in Aqualad or perhaps Robin." the one downside was that he still used league issue communicators and while they could hack them every time they did, it was detected and they beefed of their cyber security there were few places they could hack. The watch tower was one and the batcave was another.

"Yes it's a shame your doll could not show off her abilities." Shazam had taken down most of the assassins before the dust had even settled. More skilled they may have been but skill meant very little when your opponent could hit you before your brain could even register they had moved, and your weapons just bounce harmlessly off them.

"Peace has been achieved but they have not yet embraced the light." Luthor said pouring himself a drink.

"Don't worry in the end everyone will embrace the light."


Shazam entered the cave feeling better than he had in months. He still felt guilty over what had happened with Kent but he had taken Speedy's words to heart. To focus on making sure it didn't happen again, but also to not let it destroy him.

"So Shazam how was school?" Canary asked as he enter the cave lounge. She was sitting in a chair clearly having been waiting for him. "Is there a reason you're back early?"

"Damn." he had forgotten about the time difference, it may have been late at night at the summit but it was still just past two here.


In my personal opinion every hero has a Kent Nelson, someone who died because of their over confidence or lack of caring. For example spider-man's is his uncle ben someone who died because he didn't stop a criminal. And yes did skip the fight scene nothing major happened and i felt it best to skip it … soooo yeah.

Also thank you to Akasha drake for pointing out that it was koriand'r not komand'r.

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