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Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.


Chapter XXIII: Elder Wisdom.

Last Time.

"Look at your phones." Wendy finished as everyone looked at their phones and brought up Courtney Whitmore is covering the Outsiders mission in Cuba.

She explained that the team is now more popular than ever. Even more than the Justice League. The group all stare at each other, flabbergasted about that last comment.

"Nope, that is bull!" Naruto yelled out. "The League has me! No way are you all more popular!"

Tower Of Fate December 21, 17:58 EST.

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"Dang it!"

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Klarion and Teekl are both still stuck in the Tower of Fate trying to get out.

Now.

Bwundasa; Bwunda December 31, 09:00 CAT.

Outside of a hotel in the city of Bwundasa, G. Gordon was interviewing Lex, Garth, Zviad and another man.

He's a tall slightly overweight African man wearing a General's uniform.

"No, G. Gordon… We're not holding the United Nations Climate Conference here in Bwundasa simply because my company owns the hotel. I own a lot of hotels in many cities."

"Why Bwunda Lex? What's wrong with bringing it to the good ol' U.S.A.?"

"Because Bwunda's leader in perpetuity Simon M'Barra invited us. Global warming affects all of us. And with a new year comes a new chance to set the world right."

Up in the hotel, Megaera was in her room in a white battle dress, knee-high boots talking to Wonder Woman on her laptop.

"Do you need to go to the conference?"

"No, talks aren't until later and I don't mind the chance to miss a photo op with Luthor," Meg said crossing her arms as she walked to the window.

Outside, Beast Boy, as a lizard, is watching over the photo op that Luthor is taking. Suddenly, several darts come out of nowhere and hit Garth in the neck, one able to scratch him having him fall unconscious.

"Ambassador!"

Inside her hotel room, Meg's head begins to hurt. A female wearing a black bodysuit with a grey helmet and a sword on her hip smashes through the window, knocking her onto the sofa.

"Fury? Meg! Meg, are you OK?!"

The woman pulls her sword and approaches Fury, who's unconscious. Suddenly, the room by the door disappears in green light showing the room was fake revealing Halo and Terra standing.

"Stop!"

Outside women and men dressed like the first woman ran out to the Ambassadors and President to attack them for legitimizing General M'Barra's presidency by holding the talks here.

Beast Boy returned to normal before giving them orders to leave in both languages. The Ambassador, Security General, and President hid behind very large vases before Lex looked to Simon holding his phone.

"General M'Barra, do I have your permission?"

"Yes!"

Lex then hit a number on his phone as Beast Boy as a bird flew around dodging arrows from the masked people shooting crossbows. Kid Flash sped in as Eduardo teleported with Wonder Girl.

"The B.I.F. will not be denied!"

"B.I.F.? BIF?" Kid asked before dashing and punching several of the people. "BIF, BIF, BIF! Ha! You guys made your own sound effect!"

Eduardo is now wearing a red jacket with a gold logo on his back, sleeves stopping at his elbows over a black long-sleeved shirt, black fingerless gloves, and pants. He also has a black belt with a gold belt buckle as well as a gold belt hanging loose on his hips.

"Thanks for the lift, Ed." Wonder Girl said, pulling her lasso.

"That's El Dorado, the golden one," Ed replied with his hero name before teleporting away.

"Right, right. Thanks, E.D."

"Don't use that abbreviation." She hears Naruto through her comms as El Dorado teleports beside M'Barra and brings him to safety while Wonder Girl catches a B.I.F. agent in her lasso and throws her into a wall.

Inside the hotel, another B.I.F. member is standing outside Meg's room, being the one who's mentally attacking her. A hotel maid standing behind suddenly transforms into Miss Martian, who begins using her telepathy on the B.I.F. agent. Inside the room, Terra drops a few rocks into her hand and tosses them at the B.I.F. in front of her. The member easily dodges and throws a set of daggers at Terra.

Halo protects Terra with a shield and then flashes a bright light, blinding the agent. She picks Fury up off of the couch as Wonder Woman is still screaming from the laptop. "Do not worry Wonder Woman! The Team will protect your daughter!" Halo said before turning to walk to the door.

The B.I.F. agent recovers from her blindness and dashes to attack again. Terra uses her rocks to hit the agent but the agent defends herself before charging at Terra.

"Terra look out!"

Once Fury is out of harm's way, Halo jumps in front of Terra letting the B.I.F. agent slash her throat. Seeing a stone mask on the wall, Terra uses it to knock the agent to the ground before aiding Halo who was healing her throat.

Outside, Miss Martian wins her mental battle with the B.I.F. agent, knocking her out. She then removes the woman's helmet and a control chip from the neck.

She is a young Caucasian woman with red hair parted to the left.

Back inside, Meg recovered in time to dodge a stab to her head before punching the woman, cracking her helmet and having her fly through the window.

"Meg!"

"I'm fine mother, just angry!"

Outside, the Outsiders were attacking the group before Kid Flash grabbed an arrow shot at Garth who was standing up.

"Ha-Ha! Now, now, now, no more-!"

BOOM!

The arrow exploded sending Kid Flash flying to the hotel, visor breaking.

"KID!"

El Dorado teleported over and grabbed Kid Flash before landing on the ground. "You OK?"

"Feeling the mode (Groan!) But with my accelerated healing, I'll be fine." Kid replied, left eye closed with a thumbs up.

Garth stood up with his tattoos glowing light blue having water from the pool come out to protect him before attacking as an arrow bounced over to G Gordon before the Flash caught it as he and Kage appeared.

"Careful, Mr. Godfrey, we don't wanna spoil those telegenic good looks."

"No, indeed, we do not."

Flash sped around as Naruto took out his bow to attack. He suddenly turned and fell on his back to dodge an arrow and grab another before it hit him forcing him to drop his bow. Naruto brought his left foot up to the handle, notched an arrow, pulled back and shot it, having the bow fly up before he grabbed it as the arrow froze the B.I.F. agent from the neck down when it exploded in ice.

Flash rounds up the rest and checked on Kid Flash before reporting to the Watchtower that the crisis is averted. Fury descends from the hotel and comments to Flash and Naruto that she thought the Justice League was barred from Bwunda. Luthor explains that he called in the League after M'Barra gave him permission.

A news cameraman got the whole situation on tape. Luthor turns to the camera and explains that the system worked while the Outsiders are the ones who really entered the country illegally. He finishes by thanking Flash and Naruto for their heroics.

"This doesn't mean anything Luthor. We won't be a part of your plans on this." Naruto whispers to the billionaire before disappearing as Beast Boy orders the Outsiders to head back to the Bio-Ship.

On the way back to the States, Miss Martian is talking with the woman, whom she rescued after their mental battle. The woman introduces herself as Lia Briggs and explains that she couldn't control her actions. Beast Boy talks to the team about how well-staged the ambush was and how well prepared that Luthor was to call in the League.

"The whole thing felt like a setup."

Lia then walks in. "Wrong, it was definitely a setup."

On another plane, two female B.I.F. agents, one of them the one who attacked Meg took their helmets off revealing Shiva and Cassandra Savage. Cassandra sat at a laptop and showed she was talking to Lex

"Yes, Ms. Savage, you have questions?"

"Perhaps it's not my place."

"How will you learn if you don't ask?"

"Alright, the Atlantean and Themysciran survived. Did we fail?"

"Well… It would have been nice to eliminate two of my biggest U.N adversaries, but defaming the Outsiders was the main goal. That's why the Light planted seeds on the dark web, suggesting a B.I.F. attack was imminent. We wanted the Outsiders to show up and they did. So… Mission accomplished."

"The Outsiders are still trending positively," Cassandra said with a sigh.

"Trust me, they're playing right into our hands."

"They captured Briggs, she'll tell them it was a set-up."

"She cannot confirm my involvement."

"Respectfully sir, they'll know you were involved," Cassandra said looking down.

"My dear, knowing and proving are two very different things."

Taos December 31, 07:15 MST.

Wonder Girl escorts Lia into the Meta-Human Youth Center. Halo checks her phone to see several text messages from Brion. Miss Martian approaches Halo and sighed. "Halo, I understand you attacked without a shield, rushing in taking crazy risks.

"I heal."

"You were almost beheaded! I doubt you can heal from that. Besides you still haven't talked about your arrest. You can talk to me, Naruto, Stephanie, Helga. But you have to talk to someone. Until you do and until I know what's going on with you, you're benched from the Team."

Eduardo Dorado Sr. pulls his son aside and explains to him that he saw what happened on the TV.

"We saved lives! We did good, what did you think we were going to do?!"

"That's the problem... I understood that but seeing it live is different. Your friend was injured."

"I'll be fine!"

"He has a meta-metabolism, he heals fast," Ed said to his father.

"But you don't, what if you're hurt? You can't walk away so easily."

"Watch me," Ed said as he started to walk to the others before being stopped by Eduardo.

"You didn't even have to be there, the League was called.

"Lex only called us to make the Outsiders look bad," Naruto said walking over.

"So the most powerful man in the world has a target on their backs?"

"Let's not go that far," Naruto said, raising his hands.

"You've already given permission for me to join, it's too late to take it back!"

"It's not too late for me to resend my permission," Eduardo said, throwing his arms out. "I've spoken to the other parents."

"Behind my back?!"

"Oh, he's not allowed to talk to others now?" Naruto asked, arms crossed.

"Stay out of this Naruto you have no idea-!"

"Of what? Having a parent worry? Yeah because my parents died the day I was born and I've been on my own since I was five!"

"I-I'm sorry Naruto."

"That's right you better remember who you are talking to here. That goes for me and your father. And remember, I also have two daughters in this work, so I can understand where he's coming from." Naruto said as Ed left to join the others.

Boom!

Halo created a Boom Tube having the Outsiders leave as Miss Martian and Naruto looked to Beast Boy. Who shrugged. "Solidarity, you know?"

Naruto sighed before seeing the Boom Tube disappear. "They forgot me," He said before disappearing.

Hollywood December 31, 08:29 PST.

Naruto appeared with the others before looking at them. "You all forgot me. You know I'm your supervisor until 10."

"S-Sorry," Halo said as Naruto looked at her.

"Go sleep it off," Naruto said before walking to Garfield and smacking him upside the head.

"Ow! What was that for?!"

"For disregarding a Parent's worry for their child. You will need to deal with that for any kid that joins under the age of 18."

"You didn't!"

"The hell I didn't! Sure it wasn't as bad as it'll be for you due to the Team being covert and yours is public but there was still a parent who I've had to talk to when they saw a news report on a mission of ours worried their kid was injured if not worse. You wanna be the leader for this Squad? Act like one!" Naruto said before noticing the others were looking at him. "What? Something to say?"

"No/No/No!"

"Good, for any that were a part of the Bwunda mission that didn't already, call or visit your parents, the others, you have the rest of the day off if nothing else happens."

A few hours went by before Marie came in and sat on the couch in front of her son. "What's this I hear of you ignoring a parent who's worried for their child?"

"It's not that big a deal."

"Tell that to Bruce when he lost Jason. Or Tula's parents, Wally's? Do you want to tell them to get over losing a child? No parent should outlive their child."

"She's right. You're the leader Gar, the parents are leaving their family in your hands." Naruto said standing behind the couch. "Being the leader isn't for the weak."

A few blocks away, fireworks went off as it hit midnight and Victor walked down the street. (1.)

Ring!

He picked up his phone before answering it. "Stone."

"Victor, it's me," Silas spoke up as Victor glared.

"How did you get this number?!"

"Does it matter?"

"'Does it matter'?"

"I did not want to start the new year without my son in my life."

Victor turned around as he put his right hand in his pocket. "Meaning what I want doesn't count right? If I ask you a question, you don't answer. If I beg you… BEG YOU to come to a game, you don't show. If I tell you I need space, you ignore my wishes."

"Victor!"

"Good-bye, dad. Don't call back."

Victor hung his phone up before groaning as he held his head and fell to one knee. He then ran to an alley before screaming and fell down unconscious.

Hollywood January 01, 2019, 14:14 PST.

"Where are Violet and Fred?" Wonder Girl asked walking to the living room of the hub as she saw Beast Boy and Terra playing virtual air hockey against Static and Blue Beetle.

"Violet's upstairs and Fred went out to look for Vic." Geo-Force replied looking at his phone.

"Gosh, I forgot about Vic. Even when I'm here, I never see him."

"I live here most of the week and I never see him." Beast Boy said hitting the puck over.

Halo watches the group from the upstairs balcony when Helga approaches her. She explains to Halo that she and her mentor have still found no cure for her illness but haven't given up as Geo-Force approaches. "Could I have a word with Halo?"

"Of course," Helga said before leaving.

"Violet, please, you've been distant. Won't you tell me what's going on?" Geo-Force asked Halo to remember accepting money from Henchy and kissing Harper.

"Maybe I'm not a very good girlfriend!" She said before walking away.

Down below, Wonder Girl bugged Beast Boy for training. "Just a sec!" He said checking his phone and saw they were still trending before a shirtless Naruto picked it up. "Hey!"

"Team first Gar, we've got training to do, get to it."

"(Ahem!)"

Naruto heard Wonder Girl clear her throat before looking to see Jay, Eduardo, and a woman walk in.

She has a slender figure and shoulder-length dark brown hair. She also has glasses and is wearing a light blue business dress.

This is Helena Sandsmark, Cassie's mother.

"Mom?! I just left you in D.C.! How'd you get here?"

"They wanted to talk so I invited them here," Naruto replied as the others turned to him.

"Guys look! One of Professor Ivo's robot M.O.N.Q.I.s and this girl…" Beast Boy said to bring up a post of a picture of a small robot monkey.

Its body is sleek and aerodynamic. They are dark metallic gray in color, except for their eyes, the joints in their armor, and their mouths which are glowing green. It also has a rocket pack.

The girl is a teenaged girl with purple wool hat earmuffs with her red hair pulled in a ponytail.

LittleMatchGirl16

Robot Monkeys stealing from my dad. No one believes me.

Need #WeAreAllOutsiders!

"Needs our help. She's reaching out to us! It's exactly what we want! What I hoped would happen! She lives in Dublin Ireland. I'd hit the Troub-Alert but we're already geared up! So, Outsiders are outta here!"

"No," Jay said as the others looked at him. "None of you kids are going anywhere until we hash this out."

"My mother gave me the go-ahead last night. And both Jaime and Virgil are 18." Beast Boy said walking to the others.

"But Eduardo, Cassandra, and Bart do not have our permission to go," Eduardo said as Naruto sighed.

"Gar, take Virgil, Jaime, and Brion if he wants to go," Naruto said, noticing Geo-Force was still on the upper floor.

"I'll stay."

Dublin January 01, 22:41 UTC.

Beast Boy knocks on the door of a Match Electronics Store, explaining to Beetle and Static that the information he gathered said that the girl lives upstairs. A man then answered and was flabbergasted to see the three of them.

"You're the Outsiders!"

He has short grey hair and a mustache with glasses and blue eyes. He's wearing a grey and black coat over a turtleneck sweater and pants.

He explains to them that his daughter was kidnapped. He tried to call the police, but when he told them that robotic monkeys they didn't believe him.

Hollywood January 01, 14:52 PST.

"All this showboating! Can't you do something else for attention?" Helena asked as her daughter sighed before El Dorado spoke.

"We're not doing it for ourselves. The Meta-Teens at the Youth Center needs role models."

"So that's how you help them? By encouraging them to put themselves in danger?" Eduardo asked as Naruto stood off to the side before seeing Geo-Force walk-in Violet's room.

"I thought we were past all of this! Now suddenly you're upset I'm a hero?! I've been on the Team for three years!" Wonder Girl said to her mother. (2.)

"It was one thing for you to be part of a Covert unit. But now you've put a target on your chest that rightfully belongs to Wonder Woman! You're a target for all of her enemies! If not all of the League's!"

"Damn it!" Jay cursed getting their attention. "It's like you kids have never been to the Watchtower's grove! Most of the memorials are kids like you, who never had the chance to grow up. Get married, have kids of their own. Wally was like a grandson to me. And I don't want any more holograms.

"No one does Jay."

They turned to see Naruto leaning against the wall. "Especially me, almost everyone who's died, died under my watch. The Doom Patrol, Tula, Jason, and Wally. And I live with that every day and do my best to make sure no one else dies."

"Then why haven't you talked to them about this?" Helena asked the ninja who shrugged.

"I'm not their father nor am I the leader for this Squad."

"How can you be their father? You would have been too young for most and for the rest you've never met their mothers before meeting them." Red Inferno said walking in from the door leading outside.

"With how long all of you have been around, I don't if you're just messing with me or still take things literally."

Dublin January 01, 23:01 UTC.

The Outsiders burst through a door to a factory and saw large robotic spiders with a pink lens for an eye.

"I recognize these! They're Luthor's Spider-Bots!" Beast Boy said before they heard laughing and looked up to see the M.O.N.Q.I.s flying above them. "And Anthony Ivo's M.O.N.Q.I.s." He finished before hearing a throat being cleared.

Looking up, they saw the girl being held by a man.

He is slighter short wearing a white dress shirt beneath a green, sleeveless sweater and a red bow tie. His dress shirt is tucked in his pants, and the sleeves are rolled up to his elbow. His sleeveless, green sweater has a pocket, holding two pens. He's wearing black pants that reach to his ankles, revealing his white socks.

He has visible wrinkles on his forehead, beneath his eyes, and marionette lines. He has high cheekbones. His hair is auburn, with a streak of gray hair on the sides.

Hollywood January 01, 15:08 PST.

Naruto quickly looked up to see Geo-Force storm out of Violet's room as a feint looking Terra followed. Naruto jumped up and placed his hands on her shoulders. "Tara, look at me, deep slow breath." Taking a deep breath, Terra sighed before turning. "Why don't you go out on the balcony to get some air." nodding, Terra walked to the balcony while picking up her phone and started typing.

Good news: outsiders parents grounding them

Naruto walked into Violet's room and saw her looking out the window. "Violet? What happened?"

Violet finally explains that she got memories from Gabrielle who took a bribe from Henchy to turn off the Markovian Palace's security system and allow Baron Bedlam's assassin inside to kill their parents.

"I'm guessing that's what's been wrong with you since November?" She looked at him in shock at that. "Another power of mine is I can sense emotions and since late November you've had a lot of worry and anxiety. I'd say give them some time, that was a lot to take in. But it wasn't you that did that. And for Gabrielle, she probably needed the money and of course, was tricked anyways as they tried to see if she had a Meta-Gene."

She nodded before Naruto gave her a hug before leaving and closed the door. He then saw Jay explain that this life is too dangerous and the League should have never agreed to the idea of the Outsiders. Finally, Kid Flash comes forward and explains to Jay that his fear isn't about the Outsiders, but about Joan.

He explains that Jay really feels lost and alone, and promises that he's not going anywhere. But there are several meta-humans out there that actually are lost and alone and someone needs to be there for those kids. Then Wonder Girl admits to her mother that the Outsiders do have targets on their backs, but it's nothing new.

And that Meta-humans feel like they're in the cross-hairs all the time, and the Outsiders need to empower them. El Dorado explains to Eduardo Sr. their family is everything to him, but there are meta-humans out there who don't have families or are being torn from them. Eduardo Sr. finally gives in. He and El Dorado smile at each other.

"Naruto, we saved the girl, and it was that android Ivo." Naruto heard Beast boy through his comms.

"He might have been paid to do that. Got the girl home?"

"Yeah, Mr. Malone was really grateful."

'Malone? That sounds familiar.' Naruto thought before walking down. "OK, we've got training to do, get to the gym!"

Later, Naruto was watching G. Gordon's report on the Dublin mission as the others were still in the gym.

He showed a video of Beast Boy pushing the person who was recording out of the way as the factory exploded.

LIVE

January 01, 20:03 EST.

"And there you have it, faithful viewers. The latest explosive exploits of every punk's favorite heroes, the Outrageous Outsiders." Gordon then walked past his desk to Lex who was sitting down. "We're here with U.N General Secretary Lex Luthor." Gordon then sat down beside Lex. "Mr. Secretary, thoughts?"

"It's wonderful the girl was rescued, of course. But, frankly, the locals could have handled that. Instead, these irresponsible super children, rush in and get a predictable result. An explosion, massive property damage, it's sad really."

"Isolated incident or pattern?"

"The latter I'm afraid. Take the Bwunda, where I witness the near-death of Kid Flash! He, and Wonder Girl, and Beast Boy show all the maturity of children playing dress-up in the backyard. It's appalling Flash, Wonder Woman and the League allow it! I happen to know that the parents and guardians of the teenaged Outsiders are not on board with their teenaged antics."

Gordon raised an eyebrow at that as he frowned before Lex continued. "That's why I call on the nation's of the world to Authorize a new Hero registry to catalog, unmask and regulate all vigilantes, cracking down on them and holding them accountable even for their wayward proteges. Something like what we had in the US. In the 1950s."

Gordon just yawned at that. "You make some interesting points."

Lex narrowed his eyes at that. "I'd call 'Interesting' an understatement G. Gordon."

Gordon raised his hand up at that. "Perhaps, 'Inaccurate' would better suit? Based on recent social media posts…" He trailed off as a picture of Wonder Girl, El Dorado with their parents and Naruto wearing his half mask came up

'1K WOODSWORTH

WonderGirlOutsiders

Me, Mom, my other mentor Kage, El Dorado, his dad

#WeAreAllOutsiders'

"Say their parents and mentor are on board. The original Flash Jay Garrick even just created an account to post this video.

A video of Jay in a costume of a silver hat with wings and a long-sleeved shirt with a lightning bolt, Flash and Kid Flash came up.

"No one could have stopped me when I was young so I say… We are all Outsiders/ We are all Outsiders/ We are all Outsiders." All three speedsters finished together.

"And oh look, Mr. Garrick must watch our show because he just posted this in response to your comments."

Flitter-International

Jay_Garrick_JSA

Fascist Hero Registry didn't work in the 1950s. Won't work now.

#WeAreAllOutsiders

"Fascist Hero Registry didn't work in the 1950s. Won't work now. #WeAreAllOutsiders. And there's more."

He brought up video clips of people that the heroes saved, heroes themselves with Fury, the teens at the Center, and Helga, all using an app called EyeSpam. Saying We are all Outsiders.

"It appears you're on the wrong side of well… Everyone."

Naruto turned the screen off before looking to see Beast Boy and Eduardo Sr. "Gar, Eduardo." He said getting their attention. "Lex knew the parents wanted to stop this at first. I think the Hub or the Center is bugged, or we got another mole."

Up above, Terra stiffened before walking to her room. Naruto's phone then vibrated before picking it up. "Hey, Talia."

"You don't do anything online for your entire life and the first thing you do is pose shirtless?!"

"I was training before taking that picture!"

"And now you're eye candy!"

Naruto blinked at that before checking to see that he had hundreds of replies on Flitter, mostly women saying very adult things about his body or what they would do to him.

New York January 01, 20:15 EST.

Lex was in Gordon's dressing room as he was taking off the makeup on his face. "That wasn't in the script!"

"The script needed changing. And you needed a wake-up call." Gordon then turned and pointed at Lex. "You took the wrong approach, my friend. Allowing a personal vendetta to cloud your judgment."

"Personal vendetta?"

"Please, we know that Ivo's factory actually belongs to you. We know you lost a fortune in spider-bots. But your campaign against the Outsiders was backfiring, badly. Your attacks only increased their popularity."

"So don't attack? Embrace? Embrace and coop?"

Gotham January 01, 21:10 EST.

Batman's team was finishing watching the interview and froze it at the end.

"Someone should e-mail that pic to Superman, he'll want it framed." Miss Martian said as Wonder Woman placed her hands on her hips.

"A publicly annoyed Luthor is… a minor miracle. How was it achieved?"

Batman explains that Oracle found Luthor's factory in Ireland. So the team devised a plan. Oracle was the one that posted the image of the M.O.N.Q.I. on the Outsiders' feed while Batman and Miss Martian posed as the father and kidnapped the daughter. Robin salvaged the M.O.N.Q.I.s and the Ivo robot from the real Ivo's last base who operated them by remote control.

"To… Fool the Outsiders?" Wonder Woman asked, raising her eyebrow.

"Among others?"

"But not Lex Luthor?"

"No, Lex will know this was a setup. But knowing and proving are two different things." Batman replied to the Amazon.

"Is that your excuse?! Don't any of you see how truly compromising this situation is?"

"This is a war, Diana." The detective

"And which side are we on? We're not simply hiding things anymore. We've gone beyond lying to our comrades and the public, now we're staging false events, creating fake news, merely to make our opponents look bad? Or the Outsiders, and by extension, the rest of us, look good? Even with the best of intentions, that is crossing a line. You must see that. You must."

Hollywood January 01, 18:19 PST.

Halo sat at her desk with the Halloween picture she took with Brion, Forager, and Victor on the wall beside her desk before she started writing on a notepad.

To Be Continued.


A/N: Thanks for reading and let me know of any mistakes.

Beta: Jebest4781 and Chaos-PSD.

1. That's a scene for the next episode but since it took place on Midnight on New Years, I decided to put it here as the bulk of the next Ep is on the 2nd.

2. Yeah, that's another goof they did in the Ep of her saying she's been on for two years. I guess they (The writers for the Ep) forgot the comics are canon and she's actually been on the Team since at least December of 2015 so she's been on for three years as of this episode.

I'm going, to be honest, I thought Beast Boy was a bit of a jerk for this episode of when Ed had the fight with his father at the Center when M'gann looked to him when Ed wanted to leave he just shrugged at her saying "What can I do?" and at the Hub, Wonder Girl kept bugging him to start training but he kept blowing her off to either play the hockey game or to check social media.

I'm sure they went with a "He thought being a leader was easy and he didn't have to do anything" and with the parents, the only good ones in his life with Mento being a jerk were his mother and Rita who both died and in canon he's emancipated so that's why He can't use Child Labor Laws on Gretchen in the previous Ep of doing over 50 takes for one scene.

So maybe he couldn't get why the parents worry about their kids with his mother dying when he was around 9 and the Godparents being heroes themselves later on down the road.

And the parents talking to the kids I've actually seen a lot due to being in a Military family with a lot of cousins/people who married into the family either is in the Military or has been and also living in a Military area with a lot of friends in or have been in the Military.

OK not sure when the next update will be as I'm taking a break as my dog passed on Monday and I had this already written as I try to write these Ch's up right after the previous upload to keep with the schedule of every 2 weeks. For the others, I'm around halfway done anyways too.

Nothing else to say.

Talk To You Later,

Lone Wolf Out.