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It was the first time I didn't fall asleep until the sun came up

Cause we never ever had enough

It was the first time that we could rush the streets

Feeling no defeat

Cause we were ready to ignite the sky

It was the last time

That I had the time of my life

-Wasting Time (Eternal Summer)-

Four Year Strong

No matter how hard she tried, Kenna could not stop the fast beat of her heart. She couldn't understand what was going on. It's not like the team had come in contact with any hostiles; they had spent maybe fifteen twenty minutes navigating through the tropical terrain. At every sound she would flinch and snap her eyes in the direction. When seeing no threat, she would take quiet deep breaths to calm her nerves. Her eyes gazed at the ground as her fingers shot up to grasp the rocks beside her to maintain balance. She then looked up, watching the movement of her teammates. Miss M walked behind Kid Flash who was following the boy wonder. They each took careful steps on the narrow path; careful of the long drop to the side. She let out a small gasp when rocks gave out below her boots. She began to teeter over the edge until she felt a hand pull her back to steady feet. She turned to look over her shoulder at her savor. Her lavender eyes came in contact light blue eyes.

"Thank you." She whispered with smile towards Superboy, grateful he had her back. The clone let her good with a nod of his head. She then began to walk forward once again, eyes following the curve of the ground. She made sure to come to a stop behind a crouching boy wonder. He had his arm out, holographic screen displayed.

"Did you hear that?" Superboy asked, causing the blonde to raise an eyebrow. Her eyes shifted towards the forest, trying narrow in on the disturbance.

"Is this a super hearing thing?" Wally asked pivoting to gaze at the super clone.

"He does have great ears." The whisper caused the blonde to gaze over at the martian. She raised an eyebrow when she made eye contact with the the older girl. A faint blush appeared on her green cheeks. Kenna shook her head with a knowing smirk, crossing her arms under her chest.

"Okay Rob, now what?" Kid Flash asked, turning back to look at the boy wonder. A look of sheer annoyance appeared on his face when he caught no sight of his best friend.

"Man I hate when he does that." Kid Flash groaned. Kenna looked over at Kid with a raised eyebrow. Her eyes then searched for Robin, finally understanding the ginger boy's frustration.

"Yup, he's getting the collar and bell whether he likes it or not." Kenna spoke, moving to stand next to Kid Flash. She looked around one more time trying to catch a glimpse of the black haired boy.

"Superboy, Kid, switch to infrared." Sounded through the comms. Kenna put her finger to the small ear piece to help hear better.

"See if you're being tracked." She let her finger fall from her ear, eye's shifting to stare at Superboy. Both boy's walked down the hill and came to hide behind a large branch. They crouched down looking in opposite directions of each other. Miss M quietly glided through the air before landing softly next to Superboy. Kenna jogged quietly to the rest of the team, careful of her foot steps. Her small body came to stand behind Kid's, who was crouching clicking buttons on his goggles.

"We got a squad of armed bozos incoming." Kid Flash spoke, sliding his goggles to the resting place upon his head.

"Two squads."

Kenna's heart began to thump fast at Superboy's words. Fear began course it's way through her veins. Contact. This is what had been one of the many things that she had been worrying about. If they came in contact then their cover would be blown. Cover blown means that the mission is compromised. Compromised mission means angry Batman and Kenna was not looking forward to an angry Batman. No. She couldn't think like that. She had to put faith in team and the teams abilities.

Being so caught up in her thoughts, Kenna failed to notice the firing sounds in the air or the fact that Kid Flash was no longer in the vicinity. When she came to, she frantically looked at Superboy and Miss M. Miss M's face held a sign of worry while Superboy had his iconic frown evident. The sound of gunfire began to increase causing the blonde to sigh and pinch the bridge of her nose.

"Watch it be that that idiot blew our cover." She groaned placing her hand on the rough bark and swing both legs over it. She ran down as far she could towards the increasing sound of the bullets. She slide to a stop when she saw the muddy hill that led into the opening. Getting into a crouched position, Kenna prepared herself to slide down. She picked up speed as the slope got steeper and leaned forwards. In about a hundred feet, the slope would even out giving her a great access point to the small battle. She prepared herself and took a deep breath before using the hill to vault into the area. Kenna broke through the brush and collided with a hard body. The man she had hit fell to the ground with a groan. Kenna herself had used the fallen mass to propel herself into a hand spring. Once on her feet, she ducked to avoid the multiple bullets that whizzed past her body. She quickly sprinted behind her looking for cover. Her body slide behind a tree, using it's broad width as cover. She heard a large thud and took a chance looking around the tree. Superboy had just body slammed a massive guy wearing a wrestling mask. She gave a small squee when a bullet flew past her nose, and she turned back behind her cover. What she had failed to notice was the to armed goons that stood behind her. Her eye's widened in pure terror as they lifted their arms to fire.

The sound of a fluttering cape caused the panicked girl to snap her gaze up. Robin descended on the goons knocking one to the side.

"What is wrong with you guys? Remember Covert? Why didn't you guys follow my lead? Vanish into the jungle?" He snidely asked, uppercutting the man to his right and spinning kicking him to the side.

"That's what you were doing?!" Kenna practically yelled, irritation laced in her voice. Fed up with hiding, Kenna leaned around the tree and concentrated on her target. A large group of men were crowded around each other, causing most of the gunfire in her direct. She stuck out her hand, palm side up and eye's glowing before phase locking a man in the middle of the group. His body lifted into the air, trapped in the black and purple sphere. The guys around him screamed in terror as their bodies were sucked into the gravitational pull of the sphere. She let a smirk pull out the corner of her lips as the sphere exploded with the flick of her wrist, sending the mass of bodies to scatter amongst the forest.

"Way to fill us in! We're not mind readers you know!" Kid Flash spoke snidely once he was down knocking out the goon he had been fighting but pausing in his sentence when Miss M appeared behind them using her mind powers to launch a guy into the air.

"Uhh!...Er, I'm not anyway."

"You told me I could only read the bad guy's minds." She said landing on the ground. Kenna gave a sigh of relief when no more guy's seemed to appear. She moved from her hiding place and walked to stand next to the other teens. She moved her gaze to scan the area, eye's widening when a guy appeared out of nowhere behind Robin. She was about to warn him when Aqualad came out of the tree's and took down the man using his tattoos to electrify him. She let out a breath and smiled, happy that the atlantean was had joined them.

"I recognize those belong to the cult of Kobra."

"The cult of what now?" Kenna asked the boy wonder. Her small body was sitting on a large boulder, one leg crossed over the other. She hadn't heard the name of the cult for her mind had blanked out watching Superboy tie the remaining goons to a tree with rope.

"The cult of Kobra." Robin sighed looking at the blonde in minor annoyance. She looked back at him and shrugged her shoulders defensively. It wasn't her fault that she didn't know half of the bad guy's they would be fighting. Both of their attentions snapped towards Aqualad as he spoke.

"I am certain Batman would have mentioned it if had known that a dangerous extremist was running Santa Prisca's Venom operation."

"Agreed. And since there's clearly no love lost between the cultist and the goons, i'm betting Kobra came in and tossed them out. That's why normal supply lines have been cut off." Robin spoke in reply looking over to the tied up cultists. Kenna quietly stood to her feet and went to stand next Robin.

"So, what do we do next?" She hesitantly asked, eyes glancing between Robin and Aqualad.

"Well Kobra wanted super cultists. Mystery solved. Radio Bats, and we'll be home in time…" Kid Flash spoke before Robin cut him off.

"These cultist's aren't on Venom. Kobra's hoarding the stuff." He spoke as a matter of factly, glaring at the speedster.

"We don't leave. Not until I know why." That comment opened up the flood gate to a full blown argument.

"Until you know why?" Kid asked, getting into Robin's personal space.

"This team needs leader." Robin countered sternly.

"And it's you? Dude, you're a thirteen-year-old kid who ducked out on us without a word."

" Ha ha! And you're a mature fifteen? You blew our cover first chance you got!"

As the argument continued, Kenna rubbed her fingers against her temples, trying to fend off the oncoming migraine. She glanced up at Aqualad who in return gave a small shrug, having no clue what to do. Miss M and Superboy had their own discussion about the leadership role.

"Yeah? You don't even have super powers!"

"Neither does Batman!"

"Duh. You're not Batman!"

"Duh. Closest thing we got!"

"ENOUGH!" The outburst caused both boys to look at the frustrated blonde. Kenna stopped rubbing her temple and glared at both boy's.

"Here let me solve this little dilemma." She spoke, stepping towards them. Both Kid Flash and Robin leaned back, knowing how scary that small blonde when aggravated. Who knew that some much anger could reside in such a small figure. Kenna brought her hands up and gave both boy's a smack on the back of the head. They cringed in slight pain, bring up their hands to rub the back of their heads.

"Both of you idiots are immature. Age doesn't matter, seeing as both of you are acting like toddlers. It doesn't matter who does or doesn't have super powers, or who is more like Batman. We need a leader that can handle the pressure and responsibilities that comes with a the job in a mature and tactful manner. As far as i'm concerned, you two idiots aren't anywhere close to being the leader we need. Now stop fighting, you're giving me a migraine." She ranted, eyebrow scrunched together and a frown on her face. Both boy's looked like deer in the head lights. Kenna crossed her arms and took a deep breath.

"Now are you going to continue to argue?" Her question go no response except for them shaking their heads. She leaned back with a smirk on her face.

"Good."

"Such clever ninos. but you only know half the story. Let me show you the rest- Get you into the factory via my secret entrance." A new voice spoke. Kenna turned to look at the new speaker. She raised an eyebrow looking at the masked man who was tie up like his companions. Miss M moved towards the man, crouching down in front of him.

"There is a secret entrance, but he's hiding something." She spoke. Kenna couldn't see her face but she could imagine Miss M's eye's turning green as she read the bag guy's mind.

"Ah, ah, ah chica. Bane is not that easy." The masked man spoke, eregance in his voice. Miss M gave a sigh, looking over her shoulder at her team.

" He's mentally reciting futbol scores en could take a while." Her attention was snapped back to Bane when he laughed.

"It's not complicated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend." His words made a shiver run own Kenna's spine. Something about this made her feel really uneasy. She looked over to Aqualad and watched him nod, indicating that they would release the prisoner.

The crunching of leaves under her feet was all Kenna could hear. Her mind blacked out everything else except her suspicions of their guide. He body was rigid and tense as they came to the edge of a cliff. Kenna had yet to let her guard down and would not do it any time soon. Bane raised his arm and pointed to the factory down below in the distance. Kid Flash and Robin crouched down on the edge, Robin bringing out a pair of binoculars and Kid Flash using his goggles to see the factory.

"Look at all that product. A buy is going down, but if Kobra's not selling to the usual suspects, then.."

"We need to identify that buyer." Aqualad spoke, finishing the boy wonder's sentence. Kid Flash stood up and slide up his goggles.

"Just what I was thinking." Kid spoke, turning to Aqualad. He glared when Robin stood up speaking smugly.

"Yup, you're the thinker."

"Sarcasm? Dude, a real leader would focus on getting answers." Kid grumbled back to the younger teen. Kenna cleared her throat, catching both the speedster and boy wonder's attention. She gave them a knowing look, indicating for them to drop the conversation. A large thud caused the team to turn towards Bane. He had obviously picked up the giant bolder and moved it to the side, revealing a long mining shaft.

"Answers are this way." He gestured to the walkway with his big muscular arms.

"So, now el luchador is our leader?" KF crossed his arms over his chest, in almost a pout. Robin slapped his friend as he walked by, Kenna close behind. They followed the twists and turns of the shaft in silence much to Kenna's relief. It was nice to have some quiet time with her thoughts without getting interrupted by everyone's bickering. They came to a stop behind Bane who used his thumb print to open the steel door at the end of the hallway. Bane opened the second door behind the steel door. Robin came to his side to peer out.

"All clear." He said before running out into the opening. Bane opened the door fully and let the teenagers emerge. They used one of the tall racks full of barrels as cover.

"Has that little fool already been caught? " bane asked looking at who he assumed was the leader; Aqualad in this case.

"No, he just does that." Aqualad said somewhat uncertain. Kenna crossed her arms and snorted at the atlanteans words.

" Stay put. I'll get our intel and be back before the boy wonder." Kid said before putting his goggles over his eyes and speeding off. Aqualad tried to stop him but Kid was already gone.

"Wait Kid."

"Puft, great chain of command." Banes observation made Kenna sigh and face palm. She was going to kill them when they got back to the cave. Aqualad sighed as well Movement ahead caught the blonde's eye. She narrowed her eyes, watching as a Kobra cultist picked up box with a forklift. Once holding the contents, the forklift turned around and headed in a different direction.

"I see something." She whispered to her team, slowly creeping in towards the area the forklift had disappeared.

"Siren?" Aqualad called making the pause in step and look over her shoulder.

"This way."

"We're pinned down!" Kenna called over the loud noises, leaning around the concrete pillar she was using as protect to fire a swirling vortex at the mass of cultist firing at her. She could faintly see Kobra and Sportsmaster; the secret buy standing at the opening to the warehouse. Bullets whizzed has her shoulder, one knick the flesh. She let out a hiss and grabbed the bleeding wound. She leaned her head back against the pillar, teeth gritted in pain. An explosion made her momentarily forget the throb of her arm as she peered up at Miss M. The green skinned girl leaned up and placed a hand to her temple.

Every one online? Echoed through the blondes mind.

Yeah. She heard Superboy grumble.

You know it beautiful. Kenna rolled her eyes at Kid Flashes comment

A little busy but i'm here. She thought, leaning around the pillar once more to send multiple vortexes towards the bad guy's. She grinned when the vortexes knocked into the ground, sending the men off their feet and into the air.

Good. We need to regroup. Kid, Siren clear a path. Aqualad commanded, returning to fending off what he could. Kenna leaned back against the pillar, looking at the group of guy's Aqualad had wanted her to take out. Concentrating on her objected, Kenna vanished in a puff of purple smoke. She used her phase walk to clear out one side of the path while Kid used his speed to clear the other. They ran through the door they had enter the factory. She ran through the door and ran along the shaft. The rest of the team was right behind her. Kenna stumbled when path began to shake. She looked over her shoulder to see Superboy punching down the support beams of the tunnel. She watched with wide eyes as the ceiling began to cave in behind the clone. She gave a sigh of relief when she spotted her team; all of them well. Kenna leaned against the wall trying to catch her breath. The red hue from the glow stick Aqualad had broke was the only source of light.

"How could my first mission as leader go so wrong?" Robin asked, his voice sad and low. Kenna looked sympathetically at the young boy.

"You do have the most experience but perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared. Fighting alongside Batman, your roles are defined. You two do not need to this team is new, and a leader must be clear, explicit. He cannot vanish and expect others To play parts in an unknown plan. " Aqualad spoke softly, trying to reason with the boy. Robin turned around in irritation.

"Oh, so I'm supposed to hold everyone's hands?" He childishly asked, gesturing with his arms to make his point before sighing.

"Who am I kidding? You should lead us, 're the only one who can." The comment surprised the blonde. Personally, she had always thought that Kaldur was the perfect candidate to lead the team but she had never thought that every one else would agree.

"Please, I could run circle's.." Kid Flash butted in before Robin interrupted him.

"Wally, come on. You know he's the one. We all do."

"Hello, M'gann. It's so obvious."

"Could have told ya." Superboy added in. Kenna looked at the atlantean and spoke no words; only nodded and smiled at the older boy. Kaldur than made small steps towards Robin and placed his hand on the young boy's shoulder.

"Then I accept the burden until you are ready to lift it from my shoulders. You were born to lead this team. Maybe not now, but soon. All right. Our first priority is Preventing that shipment from leaving this island." Aqualad said earning a smile from the boy wonder.

"Funny, I had the same thought." Robin said, his grin getting wider. Kenna didn't want to ruin the nice moment but the adrenaline was no longer pumping through her veins, making the painful throb of her present. She gave a small hiss and brought her hand to grasp the open wound, hoping the pressure would help the stop the blood. Her sound of pain did not go unnoticed.

"Kenna, you're bleeding!" M'gann called out in worry causing the rest of the team to turn in her direction.

"I'm okay M'gann, just got nicked by a bullet. It's not that big of a cut, just bleeds a lot." She said trying to reassure the green skinned girl. She then shifted her lavender eyes towards the masked boy

"Hey Rob? Do you think you have something in that magic belt of yours that could temporarily patch this up until we get home?" She asked, slightly praying he had something. Robin nodded at her and looked at Kaldur.

"Go. I'll patch her up quickly then meet you outside." He gestured to the opening with with his head. Aqualad looked between the two and nodded.

"Move out." He commanded to the rest of the team. Kenna watched as they walked past her then turned her attention to the body next to her. Robin was not looking at her but searching through the numerous pouches on his utility belt.

"That was a very mature thing to do. I'm proud of you bird boy." She spoke sincerely but couldn't help but grin at the boy. Robin raised an eyebrow in amusement as he found what he was looking for. He pulled out two small cloths and a small bottle of spray.

"You know me, always the mature one." He spoke with a small laugh. He took the spray and pried the girls hand from her arm. Her hand was completely red while her arm was covered in multiple streaks of dried blood. He then squirted the upon the wound causing the girl to hiss and cringe. The liquid; mostly rubbing alcohol dribbled down her arm. The masked boy gave a puzzled look at the pout the blonde currently had on her face. She was looking down at her arm with her bottom lip poking out.

"What's wrong Blondie?" He asked taking one of the cloths and gently wiping away the blood on her wound.

"I just got this outfit and it's already covered in blood." She whined looking back up at the black haired boy. He couldn't help but laugh at the blonde, shaking his head. he then threw blood covered loth on the ground. He then took the other cloth and looped it around her arm, tying it tight but not tight enough to cut off circulation. Once it was double knotted, Robin stepped away from the blonde, a teasing smirk on his lips.

"You'll live. Come on Blondie, lets get out of here."

She was tired of people shooting at her. Emerging from behind the helicopter, Kenna glared at the groups of cultist that were shouting at Kid. Bringing her hand up, Kenna phased locked an unfortunate soul, which in turn sucked the other members in to grasps of the sphere. Flicking her wrist, the sphere exploded sending the bad guy's flying in different directions. She then concentrated on the group of guy's that were heading her way.

"You goons never learn." She spoke, a smirk on her lips as she vanished before their eyes.

"Where did she go?"

"She just vanished." They said, frantically turning trying to find the girl. They were then knocked out when Kenna phase walked, unleashing her energy. Dusting off her hands, Kenna turned to see if she could help any of her teammates. Aqualad was in the midst of electrocuting the big monster Superboy fought earlier. Kid was taking out stragglers while Robin was stupidly taking on Kobra. She was about to run over and help the boy wonder when she caught Sportsmaster out of the side of her eye. He had Miss M in a choke hold. Her eyes widened, feet moving on their own accord. She skidded to a stop next to Superboy, watching as Sportsmaster threw Miss M towards Superboy. They both tumbled across the ground while Sportmaster lifted the helicopter into the air. Kenna ran to her friends, couching once she got to them. Miss M rose her hand revealing the detonator that Bane had tried to use on them earlier. An evil smirk pulled at the blondes lips.

"Make it rain M'gann." She said, turning her gaze to watch the festivities. She watched in amusement as the chopper explodes into a fiery blaze. Standing up, Kenna surveyed the area. Aqualad and Kid were done fighting their guys and Robin was still fighting Kobra. Superboy and Miss M stood behind her, following the line of sight. All three of them ran towards Robin, meeting up with the rest of the team. Kobra had Robin under his foot but the boy wonder was able to maneuver from underneath. He landed on his feet in front of the team.

"Another time then." Kobra said, vanishing into the shadows behind him.

"That guy's a total pansy." Kenna said, straightening out of her fighting stance. She then turned to look at the destruction of the factory.

"We sure did number on this place." She said, crossing her arms and kicking a small clump of rubble with her boot.

"We picked the right guy to lead," Robin spoke, looking at Aqualad before delivering his punch line.

"Automatically making you the right guy to explain this mess to Batman." He cackled while gesturing to the blown of factory with his arms. Kenna face palmed at the boy's comment, but as much as she didn't want to admit it. Robin was right. Poor Aqualad. He was going to be in some deep shit when they got home.

Author's Note: Hey guy's! So here's the more exciting chapter. There's not much to say about this chapter. I hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to review and favorite. Love you guys!:)