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Chapter 8: Drop-Zone

Mount Justice

June 22, 18:54 EDT

"He's late, again."

I stand, impatient, along with Robin, Kaldur, M'gann and Superboy, with Batman and Red Tornado standing in front of us, probably more impatient than we are.

"How is it that he's one of the fastest people on the planet and yet he's always running late to everything?"

"Be patient, Kyle. Wally will be here soon enough. He doesn't want to miss our first mission either", Kaldur says as he tries to calm and relax me, with it working.

I then take a deep breath, inhaling and exhaling out. "You're right. I'm just anxious about our first mission together. Aren't you guys?"

"Absolutely!" M'gann exclaims ever so happily.

"Yeah I guess", Superboy says so calmly. At least look excited man.

"But we wait for Wally and do this together, the six of us."

"I know Kaldur, but it doesn't help anymore that we have to wait for Wally for Batman to debrief us on our mission." I bring our attention to the Dark Knight, who never shows any emotion under that cape and cowl whatsoever. And Robin really want's to be like him?

"True. But let me ask you this. What are you more anxious about, our first mission or finding your mysterious girl-"

"Friend?" Robin adds that last part to Kaldur's sentence, making my face turn into a ripe, red apple probably.

"SHE IS NOT MY GIRLFRIEND!"

Robin, M'gann and Superboy all back away, surprised from my sudden outburst. Kaldur, Batman and Tornado, however, stay perfectly still, not affected by my outburst.

I shake my head and try to calm down, breathing in and exhaling out. "I'm sorry, but ever since seeing her outside of Cadmus, I can't get her out of my mind. I can't explain it really." I then turn to Batman for help. I can't believe I'm about to do this.

"Batman, I can't believe I'm about to ask this, but is there anyway you can help me locate or find out who this girl is?"

Robin pulls me back, probably saving my hide. "No offense Kyle, but Batman's got bigger things to do than help you find your secret crush. And even if he didn't, there's no way-"

"I've already found her."

Everyone turns to the Dark Knight, with just as shocked expressions as I have on right now. Even Tornado looks to his League companion, wondering why he would do this? Why would he do this for my anyway?

"And I know who she is."

"Really? Who is she? Where is she?"

But he stays silent, not giving me a name, an address, nothing at all.

"Come on Batman, you can't just tell me something like this and not give me what you know about her. Back me up guys."

I turn to my friends for support, to which Kaldur'ahm steps forward. "Batman, if you know who this person is, it would probably put Kyle's mind at ease knowing who she is."

M'gann then joins him as well. "I agree with Aqualad. I'd want to know who has taken an interest in me as well…" She looks to Superboy in the corner of her eye, hoping he doesn't notice.

But still, Batman does not say a word.

"At least tell me why you won't share this information with me."

Then he finally breaks his silence. "This is someone you are looking for. This is your mission. If I just simply give you what you want, it won't be the same as you earning it yourself. If you want to find out who she is, you need to do it on your own."

I try to speak but am interrupted. "End of discussion."

I sigh, depressed as ever. "Yes sir."

I walk back over to the others, who try to comfort me.

"Recognized: Kid Flash, B03."

Wally then speeds over from the teleporter tube to join the rest of us, finally. "Sorry I'm late, family emergency." He looks around and notices me. "Did I miss anything here?"

"No, nothing at all, Kid Late." I joke with Wally to try to hide my depression and change the topic of conversation. "So, Batman, now that we're all here, can you please debrief us on our mission?"

Caribbean Sea

June 22, 20:08 ECT

As we fly over the Caribbean in Miss Martian's Bioship, I try to stay focus on the task at hand. It seems now that this is actually happening, we're all anxious and ready to do this.

"We're approaching Santa Prisca." Miss Martian lets us know, bringing my attention to the small island growing in size as we fly closer to it.

I look over to Robin, who seems the most anxious out of us all to start our mission. More like lead this mission. Batman told us to figure out amongst ourselves who would be the leader of this team. I don't see myself being a leader really. I'll go into battle with my friends any day, but still not sure if I'm qualified to lead. And no offense to Robin, but I'm not sure if he's ready to lead this team either. He's too young and eager, always going off on his own. If I had to pick a leader out of the six of us, I'd say it would be…

"Drop zone A in 30." Miss Martian alerts us all, stopping my train of thought. I turn over to see Aqualad standing up from his seat, which morphs into nothingness. He presses his Aqua symbol on his belt, turning his uniform all black and dark. Camo mode, nice.

"Ready."

"Putting Bioship in camouflage mode." I can feel the ship fly in lower to the water surface. Then a hole opens in the middle of the ship, to which Aqualad drops down through and into the water, making is way to drop zone A.

The rest of us in the Bioship fly farther up the island, still in camo mode. I look down towards my ring, readying it for whatever comes when I hear a certain someone's voice in my ear. "Heat and motion sensors are patched. Data is on a continuous loop. Move in." Comms ear pieces, camouflaging, doesn't get any more covert than this.

We fly over the jungle area of the island, preparing to drop onto the island. "Drop zone B."

We all stand up, our seats dissipating into the ship. Two drop cords lower before Robin and Kid Flash, with them strapping themselves to drop down safely.

I turn to see Kid Flash turning on his suit's stealth mode too, as well as Miss Martian changing - or morphing - her outfit into an all black outfit, with the exception of the red X on her chest and her blue cape. "Very nice Miss M."

"Thank you Green Lantern. You sure you don't want to do something with your suit? So you don't be seen."

I look down towards myself, overlooking my usual Green Lantern garb. Most, if not all, Green Lanterns' uniforms are the usual emerald green spandex, with white gloves and black leggings, and the GL symbol on the chest. But mine is a little different than the normal uniform.

More than half of the spandex suit itself is all black, going from my legs up to my waist and my arms. In the middle on my chest is white surrounded by the black. In the top left corner of the white is the GL symbol stylized in a way, half of the lantern being green and the other half being black. I also wear green energy powered armor on my legs and my arms, not only protecting them but also giving them a little more weight for attacks.

And of course, my uniform cannot be complete without my mask, armored like my arms and legs. You never know when you'll get a blast to the face. Plus I gotta keep my identity a secret from the bad guys.

"No, I'm good. My outfit should blend in with the forest so I think I'll be covered. But thanks for asking M'gann." I say to her with sincerity. There's no way I would ever change anything about my uniform…

"What about you Supey? Not too late to put on the new stealth tech." Kid Flash offers to Superboy, who looks he's not changing out of his Super t-shirt.

"No capes, no tights. No offense." He says as he crosses his arms.

"Can't say I don't blame you there. As much as I like my outfit, it can get a little uneasy in it at times."

Miss Martian then brings up her hood over her head and goes into camouflage mode herself. The ship opens up for us to make our exit. Miss Martian flies down first with my floating down with her, with Robin and Kid Flash descending down themselves with their cords.

We all touch down safely to the ground, with just enough time for us to notice and move out of Superboy's way as he drops down himself - with no cord whatsoever.

Landing onto the ground, he stands in the small crater he's just created. "Knew I didn't need a line."

"And yet, creating a seismic event may not have helped us much with the covert", as Robin points out to the Kryptonian.

"It should be fine, I don't think anyone heard us this far and deep into the jungle." I reassure Boy Wonder as I walk towards Superboy, as does everyone else. Except for Miss M, who's levitating down.

"Aqualad, drop B is go."

"Head for the factory. I'll track your GPS and rendezvous ASAP."

"Roger that", Robin says as he brings up a map of the island that we all look at right before we make our way for the factory.

The five of us travel through the jungle, wading through vines and trees, walking on narrow pathways. We make it past a waterfall when Superboy stops dead in his tracks. "Did you hear that?"

"Well since I don't have super hearing, I'm afraid not."

"You do have great ears", as M'gann compliments him. Could you be more obvious?

"Okay, Rob, now what?" Kid Flash asks his friend, who is nowhere to be found. Again. "Man I hate it when he does that."

"You and me both Kid." I bring my hand to my earpiece, receiving something from Aqualad.

"Superboy, Kid, switch to infrared. See if you're being tracked."

Both of them do what Aqualad tells them to do, Kid using his goggles and Superboy his super eyesight, to see if there's anyone in the vicinity. "Anything?"

Kid and Superboy both turn different directions, Kid left and the other right. "I've got a squad of armed bozos incoming."

"Two squads." Superboy corrects the speedster. "But they'll meet each other before they find us."

"Good, I'd rather they run into each other instead of us."

Next thing I hear is gunfire, coming from both squads it seems. "No super hearing needed now."

"Oh really, you think?" I annoyingly tell KF.

"Swing hide, steer clear."

"You got it. We're- Kid!" One moment KF is standing right next to me, the next he's running off somewhere - in the direction of the gunfire. "Ugh, come on. Let's go get him before he gets himself killed."

We head off into the direction Kid was running, while still trying to keep our cover from the two squads. Before we go any further down, I stop. "Guys, stops."

"Wait, why?" Miss Martian asks me.

"Do you hear that?"

"I don't hear anything."

"Neither do I, and I have better hearing than both of you."

"Exactly. No gunfire at all. Kid's blown his cover."

The horrid thought flows over me, going over to both Miss M and Superboy, shown with their expressions. Without a second thought, we make our way to Kid before someone starts shooting at him. But then the gunfire resumes as it was before. Great job Wally. Just don't get yourself shot.