I know it's been so long! And I really didn't mean to be so late but it just happened with my jobs and personal situations. Ugh but I got this in for you guys! There are a lot of mistakes but I'll go over them on my next day off and fix any errors! I also wanted to change a few ideas for the story.

IMPORTANT NOTE! You don't need to read back on any of the chapters just note, instead of Guardian taking over Cadmus, it will be Amanda Waller!

Enjoy!

Episode 3: Welcome to Happy Harbor

Star City. July 12th, 23:19 EDT

Raven was perched up on a rooftop. The night was warm and comfortable with a cool breeze to brush against her face. The sound of the city passed below her. She sat in a normal sweatpants and tube top, her most comfortable pair of clothes. She leaned against a stone wall as she petted the creature with her. The g-gnome, that decided to stow away with her, laid comfortably in her lap. He decided he wanted to be called Hendrix, nothing too generic like John or Amy. Of course, g-gnomes had no true gender as they were living weapons to be cloned and replaced but Raven couldn't see replacing him anytime soon and he preferred the pronoun. She smiled as she petted his head.

The shadow user lighted up a thick joint and breathed it in. She took a long drag of the mary jane and relaxed her body against the wall.

"I don't think that's legal in this state," a voice came about but didn't startled her in the least.

She smirked. "Are you going to say that every time I'm up here?" Roy Harper stepped out of the shadow; he was dressed down in his normal clothes as he just came off duty. There was a slight limp in his step as walked towards his closest friend. He plopped down next to her. "Don't want me to fix that?"

Roy brushed her off. "It's nothing; a hit of this and I'll be good as new," he said as Raven handed him the joint. "Besides, I don't need to be coddled." He took a long a hit and immediately coughed. He whistled. "What is this? King Tut?"

"Sure is; can't be cheap with the job we work. And taking advantage of my super healing factor is not being coddled; it's called being smart," she corrected as the two passed the joint back and forth.

"I'm fine," he said as his stern voice closed the discussion. If he continued, he would lose and they both knew it. He looked down at the clone in Raven's lap. "So what are you with that?" As soon as Hendrix heard 'that', he growled. "Whoa! Feisty."

Raven chuckled. "He sure is. He decided he wants to call himself Hendrix. I think it's a great name. What about you? Sure is better than Roy." She smirked as he nudged her.

"I beg to differ."

"So," she started. "How was breaking up the latest gun hustle?"

Roy grimaced. "I think you know."

"I do. Wally texted me." Roy rolled his eyes as he passed the drug. He couldn't believe after everything those two went through, they still talked as if it was nothing. Of course, there was still some tension between the speedster and shadow user but never enough to stop Raven from receiving a text and replying. Raven took a puff. "So we're the 'Junior Justice League'? Weren't we already that when we signed up for all of this?"

Roy leaned his head back as he looked at the sky. This was probably the only sight in the Star City where they could see the stars, which is ironic given the name. It was something peaceful about being able to see the sky's natural light as it twinkled. He remembered when he was a kid he thought the stars were giant diamonds far away. It's was odd to find out something beautiful was just a giant hot, ball of gas.

"I'm guessing they wanted you to convince me." He didn't need to guess. He knew that's why he got a sudden visit from Raven. He knew that everyone else knew that their friendship ran deep through a bunch of trials. With Black Canary and Green Arrow often paired up, they saw each other time and time again. Even if he didn't trust her at first, he grew to know her and cared for her. Raven knew everything about him and, while he knew her mannerisms like the back of his hand, he didn't know everything about the dark heroine. There was something her and Black Canary was keeping a secret but he never pushed. Raven didn't come to know him by invading his mind or even asking too many questions; she listened. That's why he appreciated her so much and didn't want to ruin anything by being too forward.

"They did." She admitted "but I'm not going to."

Roy raised an eye brow. "Then why are you here?"

"You don't answer your damn phone," she stated simply. "I can't visit you, now? A lot of shit happened you know."

Roy felt kind of bad about that. He let his rage towards the League get to him. "Right. Sorry about that," he said as he rubbed the back of his neck. "So a clone, huh?"

"So you quitted huh? See, I can be awkward too," she teased.

He smirked. "I know. Have you not met you?" They laughed. As Raven's body bounced with laughter, Hendrix curled deeper into her lap. She petted the clone as she soothed him into a slumber.

"I do want you to join us," Raven said. "But I know you won't and I respect that, just don't lose touch and call me when you need something- anything. I know how stubborn you can be."

He rolled his eyes. "So are you and… I will," the archer promised. He watched Raven take the last hit as they reached the end of their blunt. "You know you don't have to join them. The League don't respect us like they should; we could… be a duo."

Raven shook her head. "As much as I like the sound of that, my situation is different than yours." She put out the joint. She whipped out a silver cigarettes case and pulled out another mary j. "I owe her a lot and I'm not leaving her just yet. Besides, I don't take Batman as a man who jokes around; he'll pull through if not the others." She lit up and took in a drag.

"If only that's the weed talking," Roy joked as she passed the blunt.

She smirked. "I think you would know." She let her body fall to lean against his shoulder.

"So after this, you wanna murder a bucket of chicken?"

"I thought you would never ask."

Mount Justice. July 13th, 09:08 EDT

Raven B04

Raven entered the cave with her civilian clothes. There were plenty of ups and downs to being an empath, and one of them is being the "go-to" person which she didn't necessarily enjoyed. She cared about Roy, Dick and even Wally, despite their messy background but they came to her for insight she didn't always have or send her to talk to someone (she never got to know Kaldur). Well, Ollie and Dinah did it as soon as Roy dropped his guard around her and Roy didn't want to speak to either of them during his "teen moods". And the boys asked Raven to talk to him after their attempts failed; she warned them it wouldn't work but she went anyways and she turned up empty handed. Why did she agree? Who knows. Maybe she wanted him to join them, maybe there was a glimmer of hope that sparked in her but it was a foolish thing to think and she should've known better.

A red head sped towards her. "So what did he say?"

Raven put her hands on her hip "Like I said he would: no" She walked passed him and stretched her arms above her head.

"Well, I was kinda hoping you would be wrong," Wally grumbled as he was disappointed by her answer and lackluster reply.

She ignored his tone. "So what about Red Tornado?" She asked Dick as he stood with Aqualad, Superboy and Miss Martian.

"He's arriving now," Miss Martian replied. Speak of the devil, the cave opened up and entered a flying Red Tornado.

Red Tornado landed in the cave as the young heroes approached them. "Greetings. Is there a reason you intercepted me outside of the cave?"

Aqualad spoke up. "Well, we were hoping you had a mission for us."

"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility." Red Tornado answered bluntly as he sashayed around the team.

Robin began, "But its been over a week and nothing-,"

Red Tornado stopped him before he would begin. "You will be tested soon enough." He turned to the anxious faces. "For the time being, perhaps you should simply enjoy each other's company."

Superboy growled. "This team is not a social club."

Red Tornado replied "No, but I am told social interaction Is an important team-building exercise. Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarizing yourself with the cave." He said as he walked away to leave.

"Keep busy he says." Dick rumbled in

"Does he think we're falling for this?" Wally said with a firm frown on his face.

The martian jumped in with excitement. "Oh, I'll find out!" She said, eager to please. She concentrated her telepathic powers as Raven rolled her eyes but didn't say anything. She knew how brutally honest she could be to the point it shocked and hurt people so she had to learn to hold her tongue at the right moments. The Martian seemed a bit too sensitive for Raven's sharp tongue; one day, Miss Martian would get used to but it didn't seem like right time at that moment.

Recognized: Red Tornado, 1-6

"I'm sorry. I forgot he's a machine, inorganic. I cannot read his mind." Miss Martian said with disappointment. I could have told you that, Raven thought.

"Nice try, though." Robin shrugged as he gave her an encouraging grin

Wally grinned at the martian as he unsubtlety flirted with her. "So, uh, you know what I'm thinkin' right now?" he said. Raven elbowed him in the ribs. "Ow!" He rubbed his side as he glared at the pale girl.

Dick shook his head. "We all know what you're thinking," he said.

"So what are we supposed to do now?" Superboy said impatiently.

Aqualad suggested, "I guess we tour the clubhouse." With nothing better to do, the group silently agreed with him.

"Well, Superboy and I live here so we can show you around; we can play tour guides," Miss Martian said while sheepishly rubbering arm and glancing at the clone.

He put up his arms in defense. "Don't look at me."

Wally used that as an opportunity to slide in a line. "We won't" He approached the pretty Martian. "A private tour sounds much better," he said as he winked and try to wrap his arm around her but a shadow reached up and pulled him by his ear. "Ow, ow!"

"Ok, we get it," Raven said as she rolled her eyes. She was getting annoyed and overwhelmed by Wally's teenage horomones. "She's attractive; may we move on and start the tour?" There was no subtlety with her line and she didn't want to be. It caused the alien to blush.

"Oh-oh right; this way!" Miss Martian said as flew and led the rest of the group: Raven followed behind her and so did the rest of the team. Dick snickered at the embarrassed speedster as he glared at the boy wonder and dragged on to follow the rest.

The group went from one room, "So this would be our front door," to another. "And this would be the back. The cave is actually the entire mountain."

"It was hollowed out and reinforced by Superman and Green Lantern in the early days of the League." Robin explained as he laid down some superhero history.

"Then why abandon it for the hall of justice?" Superboy asked.

Aqualad answered, "The cave's secret location was compromised."

Superboy jumped in alert. "If villains know of the cave, we must be on constant alert!" He said.

"The bad guys know we know they know about the place, so they'd never think to look here."

Raven saw the confusion that passed across the Martian. "He means we're hiding in plain sight," Raven explained.

"Ah, that's much clearer."

Aqualad sniffed the air as an aroma entered the room. "Do you smell something burning?" He asked as he questioned if it was his imagination.

Miss Martian let out a gasp as she came to terms to what it was. "My cookies!" she exclaimed as she used her flight to take off into the kitchen. The rest followed the Martian and Raven remained in the back of them which Robin took noticed of.

"Hey," he said as he looked up at the older teen. She raised an eyebrow at him. "Just wanted to know what's up. You're quieter than usual."

"Didn't know I strike you as a talker; I'm pretty sure that's Wally," she said in her usual monotone voice. Before Dick could press any further, Raven quickly spoke up. "And I'm fine, thank you. Teenagers have particularly strong emotions, especially the Martian and Kryptonian. I just have to get used to them."

Her explanation seemed to satisfy Dick as he patted her arm. "I understand. You don't need to take a break, do you?"

She nudged him a playful way. "Who, me? Please." She gave him a reassuring smile. "Spending time with them would probably do me some good, anyways. I can't just leave each time emotions get the best of people; I signed up for the wrong gig if that was the case."

He smiled at her. "I guess you're right, I just-,"

"I get it and thank you, Boy Blunder," she gave him a wink as he grimaced at her nickname for him. It quickly disappeared as he stuck his tongue out at her. She chuckled at his childish antics as they entered the kitchen with the rest. They soon found a speedster munching down on burnt cookies; burnt to the point it looked like tar. "Still would eat anything, huh?" She approached him as she stared the tray of inedible pastries.

The red head defended himself. "Hey! I have a serious metabolism." Raven rolled her eyes as Wally munched away as crumbs flew around which messed with Raven's inner clean freak. And what exactly did she ever see him? Out of habit, she brushed away the crumbs from his face as she looked into his green eyes. At first his smile was endearing, as an array of emotions swept by him but then Wally wiggled his eyebrows which quickly cracked a smile on Raven's face. Oh right, that's why…

Interrupting their brief moment, Miss Martian explained, "They were supposed to be for everyone but I completely forgot about them. Sorry." Raven and Wally took a step away from the other and she quickly ignored the knowing stare from the Gotham resident.

"Well, someone is eating them at least," she gestered towards the speedster as leaned on the kitchen island.

"I can make more?" the Martian suggested.

Aqualad said, "It's sweet of you to make any," as he wanted her to make sure she didn't have to impress them.

"Thank you Aqualad," she said as she signed. She was a little relief that she didn't completely mess things up and everyone was being so kind.

"We're off duty so call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually, my friends call me Kaldur." He said as he opened a line of trust.

"I'm Wally. See? I already trust you with my secret identity unlike Mr. Dark Glasses over here." He said as he pointed at Robin. "Batman's forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name." The Gotham hero crossed his arms as he didn't look too please at the explanation as if the situation was so simple.

Raven decided to interject, "Raven is fine but in civilian setting, you should call me Racheal."

"Mine's no secret. It's M'gann M'orzz but you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name since I'm on Earth now," she said with pep in her voice. The martian noticed the clone off to the side as he looked bothered by everyone going around with their names.

Don't worry, Superboy. He grunted as a voice invades his head. We'll find you an Earth name too.

"Get out of my head!" he shouted. Raven was jolted by the amount of anger that shook throughout the room.

What's wrong? I- Raven quickly stopped the alien at her tracks. The Martian was completely blocked from her mind and a small pain fired back at the green alien which broke the telepathic link. "Do not do that." Her voice was firm and dangerous to the point that it shook Megan; the alien's eyes widened. Raven's hand rested on her head, keeping her head low to not looking anyone in the eye and regain her composure. An uninvited source completely invaded her head completely puts her off. She could hear the shadows scream as they slowly creeped towards the Martian across the floor.

"I-I'm sorry! Everyone on mars speaks telepathically!" she explained as her eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"Megan," Kaldur said sternly. "Things are different on Earth. Your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."

"And dangerous," Raven said as she rubbed her temples. She took a breath as the shadows retreated to their rightful place and she got a grip on her powers. "There are other psychics on this planet and some of them are our enemies. People like Psimon would use an open communication as an advantage."

Wally added, "Also, Superboy had a bad experience with g-gnomes controlling his mind."

Megan turned to Superboy, "I-I didn't mean to-,"

"Just stay out!" the young Kryptonian stormed out the kitchen and stepped into the living room to sulk.

With her powers, the Martian brought the mood down and defiantly made Superboy upset. Raven wasn't particularly impressed as well as she sent a painful backlash. It was only for a split second but it really felt her head would have split apart if it went any longer. Raven wasn't as friendly as the boys which was a shame. They were both females and telepaths; she thought maybe they could have really hit it off. She felt bad, however, and didn't want anyone to hate her.

Eager to please, Megan thought up an idea. "Hello, Megan!" That better not be a thing…Raven thought "I know what we can do! We can hop on my bioship. Maybe, take a ride?"

The young protégés looked at each other and shrugged. They had nothing better to do and didn't want to sit around in a funk. Kaldur smiled and nodded at Megan. She perked right up and led the group to the garage. As Wally passed Raven, he gave her a kind smile to ask if she was ok. She smiled back and nodded her reassurance.

As the group walked on, Megan stopped at the living room. "Superboy, please-,"

"Don't talk to me," he stayed at his seat and didn't even turn to face her. She sighed. Raven noticed; she wondered if she was going to regret this. She tapped on the Martian's shoulder and nodded her head towards the garage as she signaled the naïve girl to join the rest. The Martian left but not without taking one last glance at the clone.

Raven rested her arms against the couch as she leaned forward. "You know sulking won't do you any good." He growled as he pushed deeper into the couch. "Listen, I know what she did wasn't right, I sure as hell didn't like it, but she is new and she didn't know about Cadmus. Also, she wants to make up for it; that has to count for something." Superboy continued to look forward; his face scrunched up in thought. Raven stayed with him and didn't waver. He finally turned to her and faced her with his icey glare.

Superboy began to wonder if she always had the right things to say. He noticed that Raven was… odd the moment he felt her prying the mind control away from him. There was something almost mystical about her yet dangerous. She wasn't very emotional or open like the rest, almost cold, but someone he could trust. When Superman completely rejected him like that, his hopes were dashed and an anger grew within him like weed but one sympathic touch on his shoulder, and he felt amazingly relaxed. He didn't know that was even possible.

He sighed and got up. Raven seemed satisfied and the two walked to the garage to join the others waiting for them in a massive red ship. A ladder was let down and stretched to the grown as if it was alive. And it was; Raven felt something circling within the ship and it made her strangely uncomfortable. She didn't feel any particular emotion but she felt that it was organic. Superboy went ahead of her and took the first steps into the ship. Raven took in a deep breath. You can face a vampire, you can do this. She followed the clone inside.

When the shadow user stepped in, she noticed how the ship reminded of her of rubber. It wasn't like stiff metal but a flexible material. The boys were sitting in the front as Megan sat in the center at the control center. Two more seats grew on the ship for the new incomers; Raven took a seat at the far end to sit next to the Boy Wonder as Superboy took the other seat next to Aqualad.

Aqualad calmly turned to the clone and said, "I don't have to have telepathy to guess what you're thinking. You overreacted and you don't know how to apologize. Just say sorry." Superboy glanced at him for a moment as the Atlantean smiled.

"Isn't this cool? A biomartian ship," Dick said to Raven. She studied the ship as her intuitions was correct; she wasn't aware that ships could even be biological.

Miss Martian contacted their guardian through the ship's communication device. "Red Tornado, please open the bay doors." The cave opened up; the large doors let in the sun and overlooked the sea. The ship lifted from the ground and took off into the sky.

They zoomed over the water. The sun gleamed over the sea as it glittered from the rays' touch. They flew passed the birds and the fish that jumped from the water. Raven always wanted to fly, not in a ship or carried by anyone else; just herself passing through the air, away from everything and everyone. She could fly over the New England woods during the fall evening or the west coast beaches during summer nights. If she wasn't busy balancing her civilian and super hero life, she would take the time to watch the sunset over Gotham City.

"This is incredible, Megan," Dick complimented.

The Martian lit up with joy and pride as she was happy to make everyone enjoy themselves. She turned over to see Raven look over the view with an expressionless face but there was no clear animosity so that a plus, she guessed. Megan looked over at Superboy as he was having a small conversation with Aqualad as he still didn't look at her.

"He'll come around," Dick said quietly as he noticed Megan's demeanor.

She whispered to him, "H-he doesn't seem to like me much."

Raven swept in without even turning to them, "He has super hearing." Martian was taken back by her tone as Raven didn't even bother to whisper. Well, there wasn't much of a point to do it anyways.

"How about showing us some Martian shape-shifting?" Dick quickly interjected to not make the situation even worse. Megan stood up and morphed into Robin. The only problem was he was a she; she spun and shifted to a female Kid Flash.

"Is it wrong that I think I'm hot?" the red head said.

Raven teased, "Narcissistic? Perhaps. Wrong? Yes." She turned from the view to see female Wally standing not so far from the real one. She couldn't even come up with a response to that.

Dick clapped. "Impressive. But you know that's not going to fool anyone, right?

Megan shifted her feet. "Mimicking boys is a lot harder," she explained as she was able to turn into Raven just fine. It was odd seeing a shy yet bubbly version of herself.

"Better," Wally said. "But Raven doesn't smile that much." He was returning Raven's comment. Megan shifted back to herself.

"Oh, scathing," she said sarcastically. She always had to have the last line.

Aqualad inquired, "And your clothes?"

"They're organic, like the ship. They respond to my mental commands." She explained.

"As long as their the only ones," Superboy growled out loud as he didn't even look at the rest. He was 'preocupied' by the ship.

Skipping over the clone's comment, Wally asked, "Can you do that ghosting through walls thing that manhunter does?"

"Density shifting? No." she said disappointly as she sat back down. "I-it's a very advanced technique."

"Flash can vibrate his molecules right through a wall." Robin chuckled and pointed at Wally. "When he tries it, he gets a bloody nose."

"Dude!"

Megan jumped in, eager to show her skills. "Here's something I can do." And right before their very eyes, the Martian disappeared. "Camouflage mode."

Raven observed the invisible alien. The dark teen rested her elbow on the arm rest and her cheek against her fist. The green ward's eagerness definitely bothered her but it was something she could certainly ignore. However, somewhere in her head, she was hiding and strugging with something. Did Raven care? No, however, it would be a lie if she said the alien was hiding it very well. At least not well enough to hide from an empath in her caliber. It would be unfair to say she was the most powerful empath, simply because she didn't know anymore.

Her thoughts were completely interrupted. "Red Tornado to Miss Martian." The girl quickly made herself visible as she accepted the call. "An emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbor power plant. I suggest you investigate covertly. I'm sending coordinates."

"Received. Adjusting course accordingly." The ship quickly took a turn into the city and zoomed over the inhabits.

Dick rolled his eyes. "Tornado keeping us busy again."

"Well a simple fire led you to Superboy," the Martian said as she tried to uplift his mood. "We should find out what caused the alert."

The team landed near the power plant and exited the ship which Raven just noticed was invisible. I really need to pay attention more… A powerful wind picked up and whipped Raven's hair around. A tornado crashed inside the building.

"I think I know the cause," Kid Flash said as a tornado went by. He put on a pair of goggles over his eyes.

Aqualad shouted over the wind, "Robin, are tornadoes common to New England?" There wasn't an answer. He looked around to see the young ward disappear. All he could he hear was a laughter in the distance. He sighed; he was getting real tired of that.

The rest didn't hesitate to race inside the building. The entered the power plant just as Robin landed on his backside.

"Who's your new friend?" Superboy said as he stood by him, prepared for a fight.

"Didn't catch his name, but he plays kind of rough," Robin responded. A red, bulky robot came into view. He had a raggedy scarf wrapped around his neck which Raven didn't understand. She didn't know machines needed to make a fashion choice or even get cold.

"My apologies. You may address me as Mr. Twister." It said as he summoned another tornado.

Superboy rushed to him and swung his fist but was blown away by a twister. Kid Flash sped towards the robot. He flipped and attempted to kicked the machine square in the chest but he was picked by controlled wind and tossed outside a window.

Aqualad rushed towards him with Miss Martian flying next to him but they were sent away by a twist of wind. The two crashed into the walls on opposite side. Mr. Twister barely even moved from his spot.

"I was prepared to be challenged by a hero. I was not, expecting children," the elemental user said he wasn't impressed by the slightest.

Superboy growled. "We are not children!" He shrugged off his crash and stood up.

"Objectively, you are," the machine teased. Raven took the opportunity to sense the machine while he was busy talking. Her eyes glowed white. "Have you no adult supervision? I find your presence here quite disturbing."

"Well, we hate to see you disturbed." Robin took out a few gadgets from his jacket. "Let's see if you're more turbed once we kick your can!" He threw the batarang at the robot as Superboy jumped into the air. MR Twister blew the shuriken to the side, tossing them off as useless and dodged Superboy as flew away. The machine grew a tornado as it twisted the super clone around and threw him out like the speedster from before. Another mini tornado gathered Robin and tossed about. Aqualad tried to come from the side but was blocked by a gust of wind that sent him outside, crashing through a window.

Raven was right. Her eyes returned to normal. It was a normal machine. She couldn't sense a thing- no emotion, no thought. However, wanting to be challenged was a very human characteristic thing to have which made no sense. The way the machine said his words, along with his wit and sarcasm, were human, albeit it could have been programmed or controlled. Perhaps, it was organic like the ship.

"That was quite turbing, thank you" the machine teased. He turned to Raven, who had yet to make a move to his better knowledge. "And what about you girl?"

She shrugged. If she was going to be tossed around like a sack of potatoes, there was no reason to do her normal close range attack. She summoned a shadow to whip across the floor to cut at his feet. A tornado headed towards Raven as he flew into the air and dodged the shadow.

Raven flipped away into the air. A shadow formed a disc in the air and her feet landed on it. She flew away from the chasing tornado.

Miss Martian groaned as she rubbed her head. She was lucky her species was tough because landing head first was not a pretty thing to go through. As she stood up, she was grabbed by her arm and taken away into the air. She gasped and looked up to find Raven holding onto her.

"Climb up," the shadow user demanded. The Martian hopped on the shadow as the dodged a tornado over and over again. "I need you to read his mind; I can't find anything." The two passed through an open door as the tornado destroyed the opening right behind them. However, it did stop Mr Twister from seeing them and ceased the tornado chasing them.

"But I thought you couldn't do that on earth," she questioned.

Raven explained, "I know what we said. Perhaps we should have explained more clearly but during missions you can, especially if we're trying to find information."

While they were out of sight, Miss Martian focused on reading his mind. However, she turned up empty.

She shook her head disappointingly. "Nothing, I got nothing," she told Raven but a lightbulb went off in her head. "Hello, Megan!" Oh sweet Lucifer, it is a thing… "Mr Twister is Red Tornado in disguised! He's inorganic, an android- And how many androids do you know that can generate tornados?"

She looked at the shadow use to find her with a blank expression Raven raised an eyebrow. "That doesn't make sense."

"Well, I meant he could be here testing us-,"

Raven shook her head. "No, I meant there's too many things wrong with that theory. Red Tornado is practical and would never come up with something so theatrical, even it is to tests. If anyone was gonna test are fighting abilities, it could be Black Canary. And if I remember correctly he did say "missions were Batman's responsibility". He would say the same for Canary. And trust me, I know Canary, she wouldn't come up with this either. Besides, Tornado may be a machine but he's capable of more than being an android; he's capable of empathy and I would've sense… something."

Miss Martian was embarrassed. "O-oh right, I guess you're correct." Raven promptly ignored her sighs and studied the android below.

Kid Flash zoomed back to Superboy and Aqualad outside the power plant. The two were on the ground and tried to gather themselves. Mr. Twister flew outside the building to see only the speedster but ignored Kid Flash completely as he looked for the two girls.

"Is this supposed to be a game of cat and mouse?" Mr. Twister called out.

"What did you do to my team?" Kid Flash demanded as if he was going to get answer.

Mr Twister responded, "Embarrassed them, largely." A tornado was sent towards him; the speedster was able to dodge it. He sped away from the tornado but another grew and knocked him from the side. Unlike last time, Kid Flash wasn't sent flying, he was caught in the air. He looked down to see himself floating.

"I got you!" Miss Martian called out to him and gently let him down on his feet. Her and Raven landed near him. The fellow heroes came from behind them. Robin pulled out the utility belt from his jacket.

Kid Flash had to ask. "You carry that around?"

"Never leave the batcave without it. First thing Batman taught me," the Boy Wonder explained.

Kid Flash mumbled, "Right. After he taught you to never go to the bathroom without it."

Aqualad called out to the villain, "What do you want?"

"Isn't it obvious? I want a real hero," he said as struck a chord with the young men.

"Did you read his mind? Find a weakness?" Aqualad said.

"No," said Raven.

"He's inorganic; he's an android- like Red Tornado but not him," Miss Martian finished.

"So now what?" Kid Flash asked. "Can't keep getting our butts kicked around!"

Mr. Twister interrupted their conversation. "I'm starting to feel ignored. Is this play date over or not? Because I'm willing to end it." The android summoned a bolt of lightning and struck it directly at the team.

A shadow was raised between them and it concealed the whole team. Both of Raven's hand were up as she held her forcefield as much as she could. Unfortunately, she wasn't used to this, and the strongest force she ever held back was a half grown Kryptonian clone.

Raven said, "Well, think of something quick, will you?" as she struggled to keep the bolt at bay.

Thinking on his feet Aqualad said to Kid Flash, "Perhaps with your speed, you would be able to counter the tornados?"

"You're right! Why didn't I think of that!" Kid Flash said.

"And Raven, if you're able to hold off the lightening for this long, maybe you can play defense while everyone else goes in," the Atlantean said.

Robin interjected, "But we should disarm him. It's too much of a coincidence for a red android to have Red Tornado's exact abilities."

Raven nodded and said, "Well, split up because I'm dropping this shield."

Kid Flash sped off to the back of the android. Robin, Aqualad and Miss Martian split to the side. Superboy jumped from behind Raven and went into an attack. Mr. Twister dropped his lightening to throw a tornado at the young man. While he was distracted, Raven disappeared into the ground, covered by the shadows.

"You never learn, do you?" the android said as a spinning tornado was sent to the clone but another tornado blocked the way. It canceled out the tornado and rushed towards Mr Twister. The android quickly took flight into the air.

Robin took the opportunity to send a grappling hook to grab onto machine's left arm.

"Embicle! You have no-," before MR Twister could finish he was knocked across the jaw by Superboy. Miss Martian sent a rock flying towards him. The sharp boulder pierced through the left shoulder, detaching his arm.

The android used his available arm to send a lightening towards the alien but a shadow interrupted his actions. Aqualad jumped in the air and swung his arm at the distracted enemy; he sliced through one of his legs.

Robin quickly sent several electric discs toward Mr. Twister's back and shocked his whole system. While the android spasmed from the uninvited electric pulse rung through his system. A shadow ripped from the ground and sprung out to grab his remaining leg. While Superboy kicked off the last arm, Raven ripped off his leg. Kid Flash, acting as another tornado, spun the robot around and flew him into the ground.

The young heroes caught a breath as they approached the broken down machine. Raven appeared from the shadows next to the destroyed android. Just then, the robot opened up and a small, skinny man crawled out of the huge metal suit.

"I-I give! I give up!" he said in desperation as he removed himself from his machine. Raven raised an eyebrow. Before anyone can do anything, Miss Martian telekinetically picked up a near by boulder and hung it over his head.

Aqualad tried to stop her, "M'gann, no!" But it was too late as she crushed the man's head with a heavy boulder.

Robin was in complete shock but he shook it off as he approached the Martian with anger. "I don't know how things are done on Mars but on Earth we don't just execute our prisoners!"

Raven ended it before anyone else pressed further. "Relax." A shadow lifted the boulder in the air to reveal the man to be just another machine. "That's why we couldn't read his mind."

Aqualad put a hand on Miss Martian's shoulder. "I'm sorry; we should have trusted you," he said as the green alien smiled back.

Kid Flash picked up on of the loose eyeballs from the android. "Cool, a souvenir!"

Unknown place, Unknown time

"Now, Brom, aren't you relieved I didn't let you wear the armor?"

"Extremely, professor, but you're not upset?"

"I'm more or less convinced our tracking program was operational and that the real Tornado was somewhere in the vicinity. Besides, you know science advances in fits and starts. Even failure can be instructive and I'd say we learned quite a lot today, especially about his allies."

Mount Justice. July 13th, 10:03 EDT

The team was back in the cave with the broken machine at their disposal. It laid on the table for Red Tornado to see.

"We thought it was weird how it had the same powers as you. Perhaps it was sent as a threat or to sabotage you," Dick said as a million possible theories flew through his head. "We don't know but we were able to take him down."

Red Tornado responded, "I know, I've seen and I agree that this may have something to do with me."

Miss Martian jumped on that, "And you didn't come to help us?"

"Of course not," he answered. "This is your battle. I do not believe it is my role to solve your problems for nor should you solve mine for me."

"But if you're in any danger-,"

"Consider this matter closed," the android said as he walked away.

Robin said, "Batman, Aquaman, Flash and Canary would have jumped right in to fix things"

Wally whispered, "Guess if we're gonna have a babysitter, a heartless machine is exactly what we need." Raven elbowed him in the ribcage. "Ow! That's still a little sore!"

Robin scowled, "Dude, harsh!"

"And inaccurate," the red android responded as he paused from his walk. "I have a heart, carbon-steel alloy. I also have excellent hearing."

Wally sheepishly rubbed his head. "Right, sorry. I'll strive to be more accurate."

"And more respectful," Aqualad said sternly as he glanced at Wally. Red Tornado walked away from team and disappeared into the next room.

Wally stretched his arms over his head. "Well, this was great. I say we go out for ice cream as celebration," he said as aimed for the exit.

"And who's gonna pay for your appetite?" Raven said as she followed him. Ice cream sounded really good at the moment. Crime fighting in Californian heat was tough.

"You know, this team thing may work out." Robin tagged along with Aqualad not too far behind them.

Before M'gann could follow the rest, Superboy said, "I'm sorry…for earlier." She smiled at him as the two went to catch up with the rest.

I hope everyone enjoyed! I hope you enjoyed Raven's chemistry with all her friends as much as I enjoyed writing it! I also hope I'm dropping enough hints of her powers. I also wanted to show another example of Aqualad's leadership and Raven's insight so there was a change in how they defeated Mr. Twister. Tell me what you think!

Peace~