Everyone was quiet as Superboy slammed his hands on the table causing small cracks to form.

"Conner it's alright." Harry said trying to calm him down.

"No it is not! She is blaming you for something that is not your fault!" Conner growled jabbing a finger at Zatanna who glared at him.

Aqualad tried to break the tension in the room. "Everyone calm down let's all take a deep breath-"

"No, it is his fault." Zatanna said ignoring Aqualad. "He cast the spell that killed my dad!"

"Your father begged him to do it!" Superboy told her. "Shazam didn't make him do anything! It was your father's idea and his choice!"

"Well why couldn't he have found another way!" she yelled. "What kind of god is he!" she yelled revealing the truth of her anger. No matter how casual she had gotten around Shazam she had still seen him as the larger than life god that was aiding mortals, in many ways she had idolized him. To find out her father had been killed by the person she had put on a pedestal had turned that awe into anger and disappointment. Why couldn't he have found another way, he was a God of Magic surely he knew of a hundred ways to save her that didn't involve killing her father.

"A Young one! a kid just like the rest of us!" Conner returned. "A stupid an idiot who doesn't always think things through, keeps secrets and makes mistakes just like me and just like you!"

The zeta tube flared to life suddenly. Recognized kid flash B-03 recognized artemis B-06

Hey guys we decided to stop by and hang out for a ...bit." Wally said cheerfully only to finished awkwardly as he entered the room to see Superboy and Zatanna glaring at one another.

"I am guessing we showed up at a bad time?" Artemis ventured seeing the cracked table and the glaring superteens.

"You could say that." Robin muttered before speaking up in a louder voice. "Why do I get the feeling you're not talking about just Shazam anymore." he said to Superboy who shifted uncomfortably.

He pulled out a small metal box with Superman's shield on it. "It's a gift from my...father." he said after a moment.

M'gann blinked before she broke into a wide smile. "That's great, I told you to give it time." she beamed, but the rest of them exchanged confused looks why would he be ashamed of that.

"Not Superman." he muttered making them all stop. "I am not fully kryptonian, it's why I don't have all the powers that Superman does and will never have them." he admitted, while he had known it for a while now it still hurt to say it aloud, then he let out a small sigh and began to elaborate. "I got a message from Lex Luthor early telling me to come to cadmus, going there I found out there was another Superman clone named Match he was pure kryptonian but he was unstable so they put him on ice and began to work on a new clone one that was stabilized by human DNA, the DNA of the founder of Cadmus, Lex Luthor."

"So what's in the box?" Wally asked after a silent moment.

"Shields," he told them opening the box and showing them the small patches that were similar to superman's crest in shape. "They suppress my human DNA and allow me full access to my powers." he remembered the feeling of flight under his own power, Match had destroyed his belt buckle that allowed him to fly forcing him to use the patches to win. It had been remarkably similar to flight with the flight device but it had felt more natural, easier.

"Do they work?" Wally asked snatching the box and looking the patches over he could see the smallest of lines running across it, this was advance tech probably the most advance in the world if Luthor made it. The man was many things but behind in the technology industry he was not.

"Yeah." He nodded remembering the feeling of power that came when he wore the patches. "I had to use them after Match broke my buckle." He said pulling out the shattered remains of his belt buckle.

"Oh come on we spent three weeks working on that thing." Shazam grumbled, it was not easy making that, magic and technology did not mix especially with his electrical powers, he tended to fry them.

Robin ignored him. "You tried an unknown piece of tech given to you by Lex Luthor of all people? What if it made you a slave to cadmus again or wiped your mind or any number of things!" he pointed out scathingly. He can't believe he trusted Luthor of all people.

"I had no choice!" Superboy said. "I had to stop Match!"

"And since when did you need a full set of kryptonian powers to stop a supervillain?" Robin asked. "According to you he was on ice this entire time, when exactly did they have a chance to train him? He was a berserker like you were when you first started and you should have very well been able to beat him without your powers."

"He couldn't exactly stop and think it through in the middle of a fight Robin." M'gann said jumping to the defense of her boyfriend.

But Superboy looked worried, he hadn't even considered that the patches might affect his mind. Did cadmus program him to trust Luthor? It made sense the entire time no matter how reluctantly, he went through with whatever he suggested. "There's more." he said reluctantly. "When I confronted Luthor, he shut me down."

"What? What do you mean he shut you down?" Wally asked before his eyes widened. "Did he threaten you?" His eyes narrowed in anger.

"No he literally shut me down with just two words."

"Trigger phrase." Robin realized.

"Isn't this a good thing?" Artemis asked looking at M'gann. "You said as long as you knew one trigger phrase you could find the rest."

She gave a hesitant nod. "I-I can." She turned to Conner. "What is the phrase?"

Superboy took a nervous breath before telling them. "Red Sun."

"But that makes no sense I know you have heard someone say Red Sun before and you didn't suddenly shut down." Wally said before noticing what he had said. "See I just said it right now and you're fine."

Artemis slapped Wally on the back of his head. "Hey genius maybe they made it so it only works for Luthor." she said pointing out the obvious.

"M'gann do it." Superboy told her but she seemed unsure.

"I don't know Conner I would have to go pretty deep to make sure I got every trigger." she said shifting uncomfortably, 'and mental connections go both ways.' she thought nervously. What if he saw the truth of who she was?

"I trust you M'gann." he said looking into her eyes, and she smiled at him but realized she needed to come clean as well.

"It's not your secrets I'm scared for, it's my own."

"M'gann?" Aqualad asked.

"Queen Bee found out who I really am and is threatening me to do as she says or she would tell you guys." she admitted looking down in shame. They were all willing to risk life and limb to save people and she was scared of how they would react to her appearance.

She felt a hand slide into her own and give a small squeeze. She turned to the side and saw Superboy smiling at her.

"Bald M'gann?" Robin asked, why would she care about that. She had already shown them.

"No." she said taking a step away from Conner. She swallowed nervously. "This." her form shifted and twisted until she was standing at nearly ten feet tall with long limbs and pale white skin, a small hunchback with patches of muscle exposed.

Once more she felt a hand slide into her own. She turned to see Superboy smiling at her and gave her hand a comforting squeeze. Conner? You don't care?' she asked quietly even for a mental voice as if in fear of saying anything would wake her up and turn all of this into a dream.

"I've known since we mindmelded back in Bialya." he told her. "I was just waiting for you to tell me."

Wally clapped his hands. "Well that's great any other mind blowing secrets anyone want's to reveal?" he asked with a smile before his face froze as Artemis took a step forward. "I swear I was kidding." he said completely shocked.

"I guess it's my turn." Artemis said nervously. "Superboy is not the only one suffering from bad DNA." she walked up to the computer and brought up three criminals.

"My mom is Huntress an ex con." she told them. "But the rest of my family aren't even ex. Sportsmaster is my father and Cheshire's my sister."

"That's why on our first mission together you said you couldn't get a good look at her face." Wally realized.

"Yeah I was scared of how you guys would react." she admitted. "The only one who knew was Shazam and I was so nervous at that."

"I knew." Robin said before he gave a small smirk. "I'm a detective remember? But that didn't matter you are not defined by your family and besides you're one of us." Artemis felt a smile slide across her face at hearing that.

"Well actually I only knew about Huntress." Shazam said making Artemis' whip towards him in shock.

"What!" she exclaimed, she had been so nervous he would tell the team about her relation to Sportsmaster and he didn't even know.

"I knew about Huntress because I saw her drop you off at school and I have a perfect memory."

"Anyone else?" Robin asked when he saw Kori step forward he sighed. "Oh come on this is getting ridiculous please tell me she is the last one."

"Don't worry my big secret is that I'm not from new genesis and you all already knew that." Dreamer said with an amused smile at his exasperation.

"I told you I was taken by the citadel but that is not completely true. I was taken but rather given. My own sister to gain the throne sold out our people to the citadel and gave me to them as a gift to remove her only competition for the throne." starfire said looking down sadly, repeating it brought so much grief to the surface once more. "I can't go home because if I did I would be given right back to the Citadel."

Robin placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry you can make a home here Kori."

Kori smiled and pulled Robin into a hug. "Thank you friends." she said sincerely.

The team smirked as Robin blushed from the very tight hug and being the smallest member of the team while Starfire was nearly the tallest placed his face next some very prominent parts of her.

Zatanna saw all of this and sighed. "Shazam… Harry." she said quietly making everyone quiet down and turn to her. "I-I'm sorry." she said softly. "I don't know if I can let it all go but I will try." she told him and Shazam smiled.
"That sounds great."

"As joyous as all of this is there is still the question of what shall we do, Now that we know all of this information." Aqualad asked making their smiles vanish as they considered what to do.

It was Robin who spoke up and came up with a plan. "For now we should pretend that nothing has changed, Superboy you should continue to act like you haven't told us about Luthor or the patches, Artemis should still pretend that we don't know about Sportsmaster and hope they slip up and reveal something and M'gann keeping doing what Queen Bee tells you as long as they think they have a hold over us they will think they can divide us. As long as they believe they can control us they will get sloppy and make a mistake." he told them and Aqualad smiled at the boy wonder he had easily taken control and come up with a plan for the whole team, he would make a great leader.


what do you think about the new cover art I found an image of captain marvel JR online and used Photoshop to change the colors so it looked like Harry/Shazam. and come on let's get to three hundred reviews this chapter come on you lazy bums i want to hit three hundred! also for the chapter title for chapter twenty seven (27) Blurred lines Refers to the fact the differences between Shazam and Harry have been come vague and confusing.