A.N: I am now a registered voter….. what did I get myself into? Also, I'm having trouble choosing between a Cal State for collage or a regular liberal arts.
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Beawolf's Pen: I made that up on the top of my head, sorry Mary.
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Bonding Over Anything
When Aquaman left be sea….hehe, by sea…we all began to introduce ourselves. Wally was the first to say, "Hi! I'm Kid Flash, the one and only!"
"Yeah, the one and only dumb head." Speedy said.
"Geez, man, you're seventeen, act like it." I grumbled.
"I'm Robin, just Robin." Boy wonder said.
"I'm Speedy, and if you need help with these guys you can ask me." He extended a hand and Kaldur'am looked at it in confusion. Speedy snorted and said, "Just shake it, it's how we greet each other here." Kaldur'am grabbed his hand and shook it once. I have a feeling these two will be close friends.
When Kaldur'am looked at me, I put a fisted hand on my chest, remembering how Aquaman taught us how Atlantians greet each other. I've made a habit to learn different ways of salutation since becoming a Green Lantern. Kaldur'am smiled and put a hand over his chest in return. I said to the others, "See, being a Green Lantern is more than just glowing stuff." I hinted the last part to Kid.
"I said I was sorry!" Kid Flash grumbled.
We looked at Kaldur'am to see what he would do next. He said, "Excuse my speech. I do not much know human."
"Well, you're English is ok if that is what you're asking, Kaldur'am" Robin reassured.
"And we can teach you." Kid Flash said, putting an arm around Kaldur'am, "I know all about how things work here so just stick with me."
"Maybe he should stick more with me more." Speedy said, "Who know what you'll teach him." Kid Flash just stuck his tongue out. As they began to argue, Kaldur'am, Robin and I just watched. Robin told Kaldur'am, "This is one of just many arguments. Usually I'm in these things but I'm mature when I need me."
"For a twelve year old, that's deep." I said. I looked at Kaldur'am's arms and saw black eel figure tattoos on them. "Nice tattoo's." I told him.
Kaldur'am looked confused, "These are marks as conduits of my magic."
"You use magic?" I asked surprised.
"Not the one that pulls Rabbits out of hats." Robin told me.
I ignored Robin's sass and said to Kaldur'am, "That's cool." He gave me another confused look. I sighed, "Oh boy."
"We're going to have to work on his lingo." Robin said.
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"Every now and then we got together to hang out. Than the team happened and I….. well, it's just been crazy. Wow, it feels so great to tell you guys this. It's fun."
"And we already know you a lot more, too." M'gann pointed out. "You used to be shy and you're humorous and you like magic. You get along great with others you know how to interact with those who can't. Your attention to detail is amazing…."
"I try to be accurate and funny. You make friends that way."
"Ironically I got my humor from my dad." Artemis commented
"Really? Does he do standup or what?"
"No, he just finds the nearest enemy and tries to through a mace at them."
I blinked. "Umm….." this become awfully awkward.
"Sorry. Trying to be humorous. Looks like I didn't do well on that one. If it clears things up; my dad is Sportsmaster."
"Holy Cow." I gasped, and then I clamped my mouth shut and winced. "Sorry, I didn't mean to say that out load sorry."
"Don't worry," Raquel said, "We all had the same reaction."
"If it makes you feel any better," I began, "I can tell you my dad was responsible for the fire that killed my mother and attempted to kill me on New Year's because apparently it was my fault to him."
Everyone cringed. Artemis held out a hand and said, "At least we have something in common….dad's, am I right?"
I smirked and held her hand and we gave each other a tight squeeze. I smiled and said, "Thanks."
Then Artemis winced, "Oh shoot." She looked at Zatanna and said, "Sorry, Z, I didn't mean-"
"It's ok, everyone just has different opinions, and fathers apparently."
I remembered what happened to Zatanna's dad and I put a hand on her shoulder. "You know, I did go one on one with Dr. Fate last year. If I could survive mind controlled Fate, I could probably take him down for you when he's not. Just say the word."
"I'll remember that offer." Zatanna said.
Raquel added in, "Hey, maybe you can come with me to beat the snot out of my dad…. if we ever find him of course. I hadn't seen him in years but from what my mom told me he's a jerk."
"So, is that why you became a hero?" I asked.
"That and I broke into Icon's apartment the night we met and then once I found out he had powers I was like 'Hey, let's be partners."
Who knew breaking into place, having jerky parents, or just losing them can make one become their own better person. For me I became a GL. I looked to M'gann and said, "So how about you M'gann? Any evil parents or are you one of them lucky ones?"
"My parents are ok, but I have a huge family which makes being an individual very hard, so that's why I stowed away on my uncles ship."
"Ooo, stow away. Sweet M'gann not so innocent."
"Bad girl M'gann." Artemis mocked. The Martian girl just rolled her eyes.
"Now I need to hear about you guys. Like, missions, you know. I hear once you want up against five super villains, one being the Joker."
"I hated that day!" Artemis almost yelled, "They took my bow."
"Did you ever think there is more to weapons then just arrows?" Zatanna asked.
Artemis scuffed, "You have no idea what you're talking about honey. Arrows are my life."
They started to talk about all the missions they went on from fighting a robot at a high school to fighting plants and Red Tornadoe's family and blackmailing villains. It was practically four in the morning when we finally got to bed.
Five hours of sleep, and yet we managed to wake up on the morning and get ahead on practice. Zatanna and Artemis went up first to spar. After Zatanna won, I got paired up with M'gann. She managed to get a few punches at me, but with nothing around to move with her telekinesis, I managed to get her by incasing her in a green box. "Hello Megan." She said, "I knew I should have done the Gaber move."
"Does she say that Hello Megan thing a lot?" I asked Artemis.
"The catch phrase is from her favorite show." She answered.
"I see."
Raquel went up against Zatanna and beat her, and then it was me and Raquel. Even though she could only make force fields and orbs of light, Raquel and I were evenly matched. She said, "All right, give me all you got."
"Same to you." She and I flew around the room and shot energy bolts at each other until at the same time we made a ball of energy and threw it at each other. The two forces collided making a small explosion in the air and pushing us back into the walls. We hit he rocky sides hard and then fell on the floor. Artemis went to help Raquel whereas Zatanna helped me up. I said, "Oh yeah! Let's do that again."
"Round 2." Raquel yelled across the room.
"Hold it!" came a load yell. I looked to the other side of the room to see Killowag and Superboy walk into the room. Killowag had been the one to yell and I could see him getting into Sergeant Mode. "You didn't even do well on round one."
I cut in, "Killowag, these aren't one of your students to butcher up and train. They know what they're doing."
"And they did that so well the other night." Killowag said sarcastically. "If you want to learn how to fight together, you learn to train together first. You can't just go all one on one."
"So what do you suggest?" Artemis asked.
Killowag thought about it and said, "How about the five of you against me."
Superboy snorted. "Are you kidding? That's the same as asking for a death wish."
"I've gone up against a whole army of red lanterns; believe me I know what I'm doing."
I got an evil idea and said, "Ok then, hold on a second." I leaned towards M'gann and asked her to mind link us. She did and all five of us girls were connected. I said, "Ok, if we want to beat him, we just got to surprise him. Just give him everything you got. A blast of energy, anything."
"Will that work?" Zatanna asked, "He's pretty big."
"We've got triple the energy combined against him. Trust me, I know when he's over confident, and right now he is. So let's teach him a lesson."
"That's my specialty." Raquel said. All us girls stood in a line on the platform and got in defensive stances. Then Killowag took his stance on one side of the room and said, "Ok, hit me!"
I said, "On the count of three, one, two, THREE!" At the same time, we gave it all we got; Artemis shot an explosive arrow, Zatanna made a spell creating a bright light, Raquel shot an energy beam, M'gann used telekinesis to push him back, and I blasted big amount of will powered green light. It all went towards Killowag who made a shield in front of him. But the blast pushed him back so hard, he hit the wall and made a huge dent in it. He groaned a bit and swayed around as he got off the wall and tried to recuperate. "Hi five." I said our loud, and us girls high fived each other.
Superboy went over to Killowag, who had fallen on his back, and said, "I warned you. They don't play around."
A.N: Slow clap for Killowag and his choice in opponent. So the girls are bonding over family issues how sweet. Oh yeah, and that's the last of the flash backs, but as you can see, Kaldur's first impression of the surface world was, well, diverse. Next the boys come back and we get back to business. I'm KikaKatTIOI, peace out!
