Mount Justice
September 23, 06:34 EDT

After the attack by the reds, and Tornado's subsequent betrayal, or hacking, who knows with an android, the team were shaken.

They sat around at a table, excepting Aqualad with Batman and Kara with Superman, while the League rebuilt the base, and tried to calm their tempers.

Supergirl stood off to the side with her cousin trying to discuss how they managed to figure out where Kara lived, and send a kryptonite bracer there.

"I'm not sure, but maybe T. still had a link to Red Tornado's memories. I haven't been exactly quiet around some of the League" her cousin admitted. She couldn't blame him, they all trusted Tornado before, and look where they were now.

"It's not your fault, we couldn't have seen this coming" she smiled at him "besides, they were obviously smart enough to recognise me as the greatest threat" Kara flexed arm arm for humorous effect, but it was still true. She was technically the biggest powerhouse of the team, so the Reds must have found a way to target her specifically.

"Keep thinking that way" Kal chuckled "you should go sit with your friends, I think it's time I head home" Kara nodded and hugged her cousin one last time before returning to her seat with the team.

Green Arrow placed a bowl of pretzels in front of Kid Flash, and Black Canary placed a somewhat pitiful cupcake with a singular candle in front of Supergirl. It was probably to make up for her birthday yesterday. Kara thanked her and slowly began to pick away at it.

"Thanks, but no thanks" Wally said, pushing the pretzels away.

"What we want are answers," Robin said.

"What happened with Red Tornado?" Kara demanded

"Yeah" Wally agreed "leave the bowl" he muttered as Green Arrow tried to take them back.

"We're working on it," Black Canary reassured. "Batman has placed it as his highest priority."

"You knew?!" Superboy roared out of nowhere. He ran at Aqualad, who had been discussing with Batman off to one side, and pinned him to the wall "That android and his maniac family nearly killed M'gann!"

"Okay, first of all Connor they almost killed all of us but, what happened?" Kara stepped between the boys, prying them apart.

"Kaldur knew we had a traitor among us and said nothing!" Conner told her.

"You knew!?" Robin asked incredulously.

"And didn't tell us!?" Wally demanded.

"I sought to protect the Team from–" Kaldur started.

"Protect us from what!?" Artemis cut off angrily. "Knowledge that might've saved our lives?"

"Enough," ordered Batman.

The team grudgingly shut up, and listened to the Dark Knight. "With Red Tornado… missing, the team will now be overseen by rotating supervisors. Captain Marvel has volunteered to take the first shift."

A man walked forward. He was a big and as well built as Superman, and had on a red, white and gold outfit, with a large lighting bolt on the chest.

"Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League. That makes him a League responsibility. You will leave it to us." Batman threatened.

Multiple screens popped up displaying a story about the Gotham Mayor being attacked "I have another assignment for this team."

"Gotham Mayor Attacked by Guerrilla Gorilla?" Wally read aloud.

"Batman, please!" Robin cried, "tell me you're not sending us on this joke of a wild ape chase!"

"I never joke about the mission," Batman's eyes narrowed, giving an infamous Bat-Glare "I've checked the sources. I've traced the patterns. Mayor Hill is only the latest in a series of incidents. Aqualad, you and your team will depart for India and check things out."

As the team and Captain Marvel left, Kid Flash scoffed at Kaldur "Your team."

Northern India
September 23, 21:36 IST

The bio-ship, in camouflage mode of course, made it to the jungle Mayor Hill was attacked in, and hovered over a small clearing. Artemis and Robin leapt out to survey the immediate area.

"All clear," Robin reported when the rest of the team joined them.

"Switch to stealth," Aqualad ordered, pressing the symbol on his belt "and we'll review mission parameters."

"Parameters?" Kid Flash also activated his stealth suit "we don't need no stinkin' parameters."

"It's recon, we know what to do," Robin agreed.

"Kid, Robin!" Aqualad protested.

"The four of us started this team because the Justice League was keeping secrets from us!" Robin gestured to themselves and Kara.

Kid pushed his goggles down "or did you forget about that like you forgot to tell us about the mole?"

They turned and left together.

"Usually I'd take any chance to prove Kid Dipstick wrong" Kara said "but you really screwed up this time Aqualad, I'll see you guys later"

She took off into the skies, and flew around, just above the trees for a while, keeping her eyes open for any strange movement.

"I can't believe him!" She spoke to herself "what part of his actions are good teamwork? none of them is what!" She rolled her eyes and touched down on a tall tree, narrowing her eyes into infrared to survey further.

A snapping noise behind start,ed her, and she turned to find... nothing, "what the-" another crack, and an almost chimp-like whining dragged her attention somewhere else.

"Okay, show yourself" she muttered. Suddenly, she sensed a presence behind her, and her head snapped around to find a monkey, slightly larger than usual, staring at her with big dark eyes.

"Oh, just a monkey" she chuckled in relief, "hey little guy, you alone?" Her question was answered when a dozen more monkeys appeared around it.

"Aww, there's more of you-" her cooing was interrupted when the first monkey let out an incredibly loud screech, and the others attacked.

Kara screeched in fright, and fell backwards off the tree as several of the beasts scratched at her face, and body.

"Get off!" She grabbed one on her face and pried it off, kicking it away into the air, before flying up as well at an extreme speed, causing some more to lose their grip and fall off too.

She turned in the air, ignoring the primate pulling at her shirt, and cannoned down into a large tree, where the branches whipped and smacked several more monkeys off her, until she was left standing on the ground with one more scratching her arm.

She pulled it off and inspected the collar it wore "strange" she then pulled it off, and let the monkey down. It took a short whiff of her boot, and scurried away.

A voice echoed through her skull "Link established."

"Should he really still be giving us orders? And should you really be following them?"Artemis referenced Aqualad.

"Listen, please" Aqualad pleaded.

"Oh, great. Aqualad's voice in my head" Kid Flash sarcastically said"I've so missed that."

"Hey Kaldur! KF, and I were attacked by giant vultures!" Robin informed "'Course since we're moles, you probably think weattacked ourselves."

"If he did, he wouldn't tell you" Artemis continued.

"Wait, you too? I got monkeys" Supergirl added.

"Superboy, are you online or just pouting?" Miss Martian asked.

"Busy. Call back later," Superboy replied.

"What gets me is how nonchalant he is about not telling us"Kid Flash complained

"Well, he should be chalant. Way chalant. Extremely chalant" Robin agreed in his usual prefix removing way.

The entire team began to argue about trust, Aqualad's leadership, and Connor's overprotectiveness, with Supergirl throwing in comments about how she should have taken leadership.

"Enough!" Kaldur mentally ordered "Captain Marvel has been captured, and we must act as a team to save him."

Wally scoffed "under your leadership? I don't think"

"This is not up for debate" Aqualad interrupted "you all chose me to lead. When the mission is over, if you wish to select a new leader, I will happily step down. But until that time, Iam in command here."

"Okay" Kara agreed "I guess now is a good time to say I found something" during the commotion in her head a moment ago, she had located a large building with tall pylons outside of it "just come to my coordinates, but stay quiet, I don't know what security this place has"

The team, sans Superboy, arrived at her location shortly after, where Wally and Robin used their equipment to survey, and Kara switched through her various enhanced visions to do the same

"I'll fly over and check it out," Miss Martian said.

"No, those towers are keeping up some kind of energy dome" Kara informed.

"Pylons are insulated, but one good shock could cause a momentary gap" Robin informed.

Kara narrowed her eyes and, using telescopic vision, located a small power box "Artemis, fuse box, over there" she pointed it out.

"I see it" Artemis nodded.

"Be ready to hit it," Aqualad ordered "Be readyall of you" Aqualad silently sprinted out of the forest, and next to the dome, before placing his hands on the invisible surface, and sending thousands of volts of electricity through it, creating a small gap on the shield.

As soon as the gap appeared, Artemis fired an arrow through it, which cut through the air, and hit dead in the centre of the fuse box, shutting down all of the pylons.

The team advanced and stood outside of the building when something caught Supergirl's eye. Looking up, she saw a monkey, bigger than normal, sitting atop the entrance of the place.

"Not you again!" She complained out loud.

"Supergirl, what-" Aqualad was cut off when the monkey let out a screech, and a hoard of more monkeys came out from behind and attacked the team, excepting Miss Martian who was in camouflage mode.

Several pounced onto Kara and began to scratch her face and body. She grabbed the ape clinging to her face, and inspected it, noticing a bruise on it's chest where she no doubt kicked it earlier.

"We meet again" she was about to kick the thing away again, but she remembered something.

"Tear the collars off!" She shouted at the same time as Kaldur, and tore the piece of machinery off it's neck.

"They make it look easy" Robin complained from where he was grappling with several primates.

Artemis caught a break from the vicious attack, and aimed a few arrows at the beasts attacking the boy Wonder, before loosing, each one hitting the collars off.

Robin returned the favour by throwing several discs at Artemis, which flew right into several more monkey collars, slicing them off.

Looking to the entrance, Kara saw a large gorilla with a machine gun and a red beret standing there. Suddenly, it reached out to thin air, and threw a formally invisible Miss M to the ground.

"Keep your paws off her you damn, dirty ape!" Kid Flash growled, charging towards the primate. The speedster hit the gorilla, but was knocked back and onto the ground.

Kara, now free of the monkeys, turned to see the gorilla about to attack M'gann again.

"Hey Curious George" she shouted. The beast turned to her, but only received a fist to the face, knocking him into the wall nearby.

Miss Martian stood and used her telepathy to lift the gorilla and throw him into the wall, causing it to collapse, and the primate to fly into a hallway inside.

The team ran in, and found the gorilla had moved away, and now stood beside a short robot with a large brain floating inside a jar.

"It's the Brain!" Kid Flash exclaimed.

"Ugh!" Artemis groaned. "I can see it's a brain!"

"No, he means the Brain. As in... that" Kara pointed to the criminal mastermind.

"In the flesh… eh, so to speak," the Brain agreed in it's strong french accent "Mallah."

The gorilla now known as Mallah activated a small device, causing three pylons to pop out of the ground, activating a triangular gravity field that caused the team to collapse on the ground, excluding Kara.

"What!?" Brain shouted.

"Krypton had a lot of gravity" she shrugged, before waltzing up to the shocked pair, and pinch-crushing the remote, switching off the gravity field.

Another wall broke down, and in jumped Superboy with a huge white wolf. The boy had scratch and bite marks on his arms and shoulder, which indicated this was why he was 'busy' earlier.

The gorilla roared fiercely "Try it," Connor goaded. "I hate monkeys."

"No, Mallah," Brain called to the primate "this will not be our Waterloo. Au revoir, mes amis." A plethora of strange machinery and devices popped out of various compartments in Brain's body, as two wing-like structures unfolded on his back.

"GET DOWN!" Kid Flash yelled. Everything went pitch black.

Moments later the lights came on again, but Brain and Mallah were gone.

"Wait" Kid started "that big weapon thing was… a light switch?"

The team made their way back to the bio-ship, including the wolf and a large tiger that accompanied Captain Marvel.

They made it back and the tiger had every animal in the jungle come to that spot so their collars could be pulled off. It took a while, but every animal was eventually freed.

"Are you sure that was the last one?" Kaldur asked the tiger, which grunted in positive reply.

"And I can trust you to keep the other animals in line?" the Captain inquired "i'll come back and visit" and with that the tiger ran back into the jungle "I think i'l name him Mister Tawny" the Leaguer said.

A small whimpering caught the teams attention, where a monkey had come out and sat next to Kara's boot.

"Oh, uh, hey little buddy..." the creature sniffed the shoe, and screamed again, causing a dozen more monkeys to run out of the tree line and tackle Kara to the ground, her screaming all the while, only instead of scratching and fighting, they all hugged and petted her like doting children, and left.

"I am still ready to resign leadership if you'd like" Aqualad offered.

"All in favour of keeping Aqualad as leader?" All but Kara raised their hands.

The team looked to her hopefully, and after a moment of internal debate, her hand slowly raised, and a smile spread across her face "who am I kidding, no one's better than you"

The team walked back onto the ship, Superboy's wolf following.

"What are you gonna name him?" M'gann asked Connor.

"What's wrong with Wolf?" He asked.

"Well, not exactly as creative as Krypto, but it works" his kinda-cousin assured.

A/N so... Better late than never, right?