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Chapter 10: A New Friend

The girl in white, she's standing in front of me, leaning on the crate of Kobra-Venom blocking my view of the field.

Her outfit is all white, and leather as well. She's wearing a long sleeved leather jacket over her full body white uniform, going from her chest to her legs. She's also wearing white gloves and laced combat boots, as well as a white mask over her eyes, which are a light blue. They actually go really well with her golden blonde hair, and her skin complexion is so… Snap out of it man! Get your head on straight and focus!

"You've got some nerve, you know! Following me and my friends into Project Cadmus, making me believe whether or not you were real! And now you follow us all the way across the world and to do, whatever it is you're doing! What're you doing here anyways?" I breath loudly through my nose after my rant. Guess I had more anger in me about this than I thought.

"Waiting to see how you get out of your situation here. And I never meant to make you think I wasn't real, even though it was a little funny seeing you react the way you did." She chuckles a little as she probably sees my shocked expression.

"Funny?! Are you kidding me?"

"I know that kinda sounds bad, but trust me I never meant for you to think that."

I start to calm myself, breathing in and out through my mouth. "It's okay, I only felt like that for a little while so it's no big deal."

But still, I have a million questions going through my head. But only one sticks out from them all. "So why have you been following my team for the past few weeks?"

The girl in white slides down the crate, sitting on the concrete with her hands at her side. "I was on my way to the Hall of Justice when I noticed fire trucks heading their way to Project Cadmus. And then I saw you, Aqualad, Robin and Kid Flash going into the building after saving those scientists. When you guys never came out, I decided to follow you all in, and I did not expect to see all those weird creatures down there."

"They're called genomorphs, and they were all slaves to Cadmus. Just like Superboy was until we rescued him."

"Once I saw the scientist turn into that big monster, I got out of there. Soon after, I heard you all were forming your own team, regardless of what the Justice League said or did. And after what you all did at Cadmus, I wanted to check you guys out. What you all could do, how you worked together as a team, what you were like. But I thought I should do it from the shadows, didn't want any of you seeing me."

"Well clearly that didn't work, since I saw you. Twice."

"Okay, so clearly you have good green eyes behind that mask, or else you wouldn't have noticed me at all."

I chuckle a little at her observation. "You must've focused a lot of your attention towards me, or else you wouldn't have known my eyes are green."

Her head pops up in surprise, realizing what she just said. "Of course your eyes are green, you're a Green Lantern." Is she actually blushing?

I laugh at that awful joke she just made. "Just because I'm a Green Lantern doesn't mean my eyes are automatically green. Here, let me prove it to you. Take off my mask."

From the look on her face, she looks surprised from what I just said. "Are you serious? You don't know me, not at all. And now you're trusting me with your identity. What makes you think I won't tell Sportsmaster, or use this against you somehow?"

"Well for all I know, you might already have seen my face if you've been stalking me all the way to my home. And I'm usually a good judge of character, and you seem pretty good yourself." I smile at the girl in white as she stares back to me.

She comes in closer to me, our faces inches from each other. She takes her white glove off of her right hand before she places it on my mask, barely touching my face too. Her hands feel so soft, so smooth…

She slowly and gently takes off my mask, letting off some pressure around my eyes from wearing it all night. The girl then looks me right in my eyes, with me looking back into her eyes. Emerald green and light blue. Her eyes remind me of the moonlight hitting me in the night sky…

"Well… You were right, green eyes indeed. Still, kinda funny isn't it. A Green Lantern with green eyes." She laughs at my coincidence, with me joining her in the laughter.

"Yeah you're right there. So you mind getting me out of these?" I ask referring to the tight ropes I'm bound down to.

"Not that I don't want to but I don't think you need my help. You can take care of yourself, even in a situation like this." Clearly I'm not the only good judge of character here.

"You're right, I can." I say to her as I bring out my hand to shake hers.

But all she does is look at my hand and my face, moving back and forth from each one, in total surprise. "But how did… How did you…?"

I laugh a little at her confusion and shock while I take the rope off of me and throw it to the back. I reach behind me and bring out the instrument of my escape: a red circular sharp blade.

"One of Robin's batarangs. When I was thrown to the ground, I saw one near by me. I grabbed it with my free hand and hid it before anyone saw it. I figured it might come in handy, I guess I was right." I smile with joy due to my cleverness.

The girl shakes her head in, what I believe, in amazement of my clever escape as she takes the Robin batarang from me. "Very nice, Green Lantern."

I pick up her white glove as I stand up and stretch my back. "So now that we got that out of the way, you wanna lend us a hand in taking these guys down?"

"Thanks but I'll pass." She says this as she stands up herself and throws the batarang to the side. "Don't get me wrong, you guys are great and all, but I don't do teamwork so well like you and your friends. Plus, I work better alone."

I just look at her as she turns down my offer of fighting along with us. "What makes you think you work better solo?"

"Easy, because there's no one else to worry about and no one to weigh me down when on mission. Sometimes when you don't care for others and only look out for yourself, that's when you know you'll be at your best."

I just look at her in awe of shock of what she just told me. Look out for yourself? Don't care for others? No way does this girl believe this! Still, I don't really know her so how could I really know what she believes in?

But then I notice something I didn't before. Two somethings actually.

She starts walking her way to the window in the back, but I before she leaves, I say to her, "I don't believe that."

She then stops dead in her tracks, and turns around, looking at my back. "What?"

I turn around myself to face her. "You heard me. I don't believe you actually believe in not caring in others and looking out for you and you alone."

"And what makes you think that? You don't even know me."

"No, but I'm starting to get a good idea of what kind of person you are. You are a survivor, yes, but you also have a heart and care about your loved ones."

Her eyes widen in my accusation. "What makes you think I have loved ones?"

"Everyone has loved ones, even criminals. Also, you wouldn't be wearing a mask yourself if you didn't have someone you care about to protect."

The girl raises her left hand to her face, feeling the mask she's wearing over her light blue eyes. She also brings her right hand up, which is still holding my green armored mask. She must've forgotten she still was still holding it.

Holding it with her bare hand. I raise my hand up, still holding her white glove. Guess I forgot to give this back to her as well.

We walk to each other to hand each other our parts to our uniforms. I hand her back her glove as she hands to me my mask. And now that I'm closer to her now, I can notice it much better now.

"And also, you have to be holding someone special in that locket you're wearing."

She steps back, after putting her glove back on, surprised that I was able to notice the silver chain of her locket around her neck, since it almost completely blends in with her white outfit. "How do you know it's a locket?"

"Lucky guess. People like us don't carry pieces of jewelry or trivial items into battle unless they mean something to us."

The girl brings her bare right hand to her chain, pulling the heart shaped locket from under her clothing. "The one person that has always been there for me, who I can always depend on, no matter what. Someone who saved me a long time ago…"

Her voice and her eyes drift off, staring at her locket in a daze. "She must be someone truly important to you."

"Yes, she is…" The girl says this as a teardrop travels down her cheek. Moonlight in the rain.

Next thing I hear is gunfire and what feels like small earthquakes, all coming from outside. The noise from outside seems to shake both of us out of our dazes, her letting go her grip of her locket.

We both look out to the field to see my friends fighting off the enemy. "Sounds like your friends made it back. Good, now you're not my problem anymore." She says with some annoyance towards me.

"Your problem? Please, you've been my problem ever since the Fourth of July. And by the way, I think you didn't just want to scope us out."

The girl looks at me confused. "What do you mean?"

"You wanted to see how we did in the field, how we worked together. But you also wanted to see what kind of people we were, if we were nice or snobby, if we would want anyone else on our team."

"You really think I want to be on your little rag-tag team?"

"I never said you wanted to join our team."

Her eyes widen then shut close after hearing herself say what she just said. "Okay then, you tell me. Why would I want to join your team?"

"Because working alone does put others' safety safer, but it can also be more lonely than you'd imagine. Other than the person who you depend on," as I refer to her locket, to which she holds again, "There's no one else to have your back. No one else to talk to when you can't talk to anyone. No one else to hold you and be there for you when you need them more than ever."

The girl's gaze towards me focuses more into my eyes. "How would you know about being alone in the first place?"

I walk past her and look toward the window, looking into the night sky. "I never said I learn about this from being a Green Lantern…"

I feel a hand on my shoulder, and I find it to be hers. The look on her face, filled with sorrow from somewhere. And her eyes, where there was moonlight, I can now see pain and sadness in there too. So much sadness, loneliness… Whatever happened to her, it must've been bad.

"And what if I did want to join your team?"

Her words put a small smile on my face for some reason. "Find us in Mount Justice at Happy Harbor. We'd love to have you join as a teammate, and as a friend."

I bring out my hand, to which she grabs it with hers. "I'll think about it."

The girl then shatters the window glass for her exit. No need to be quiet now I guess. Before she leaves, I ask her one last thing. "Wait. You never told me your name."

"You never told me yours. What makes you think I'm telling you mine, Green Lantern?"

I laugh at her statement. "Fair enough. So what do I call you then?"

"White Canary", she says with a sly smile.

White Canary, I wonder…

The noise from outside gets exceedingly louder, making me turn towards it and remembering about my friends. "Oh crap!"

I turn back to White Canary before I head into the battlefield, but when I do she's already gone, without even saying goodbye. I'll be seeing you soon, White Canary.

I run outside to find everyone busy as ever. Aqualad is pushing back the man beast with a huge stream of water. Kid Flash is knocking down cultists faster than you could think. Robin is facing off against the woman, probably wanting a piece of Kobra for himself. Don't bite off more than you can chew Bird Boy.

"Green Lantern!" I look around to see who called me, but see no one. Then I feel a hand one my shoulder but see no hand at all.

"Miss Martian." Next thing I know I'm getting an invisible hug from my favorite martian.

"Thank goodness you're alright." She says with relief for me.

"Not exactly."

I show her my hand that's missing my accessory, to which I hear her gasp in horror. "Where's your ring?"

I look over to see Superboy being blasted over and over by an unhappy hockey player. "Sportsmaster has it. And there is no way I'm letting him off this island with it."

"Agreed. We have a plan to stop them from taking the Kobra-Venom."

"Good. Carry on with your plan, I'm gonna help Superboy with Hockey Mask over there."

I rush through the battlefield, dodging and ducking from gunfire. I make my way to the helicopter and tackle Sportsmaster into it, surprising him I bet.

Before he can react, I knee him in the chest. And while he's dazed for the moment, I grab for his pocket and find my ring. "Not so bad for a Green Lantern without his ring huh?"

"Superboy!" The Kryptonian hears me and knows exactly what I'm thinking of. I toss Sportsmaster towards Superboy and he punches him straight to the ground.

He hit's the ground so hard, his mask comes off for a second. His head is big, burly with a strong looking chin, with blonde hair and an ugly looking face. I'd hate to see that face every time I look in a mirror.

But Sportsmaster doesn't stay down for too long. He gets back up just as fast as he went down. He grabs his mask and his weapon, resuming shooting at us while putting on his faceplate.

I put my ring back on just as quickly and raise a shield big enough to cover the both of us. I get ready to fire a few shots through my shield, but then he grabs a camouflaged Miss Martian out of the sky and uses her as a shield for himself. How did he know she was there?

He keeps firing at us while backing up to the back of the helicopter, making sure he gets out with his shipment of new Venom.

"Thanks for the workout, but I gotta fly." He tosses Miss Martian our way, so I drop the shield and she lands onto Superboy. "I'll be seeing you around, Lantern Jr." I take aim at him and shoot energy shots at him but the hangar door closes up. Great.

The helicopter's blades blow the wind our way, picking itself up and making it's way off Santa Prisca.

"I'm going after him." But before I can get off the ground, M'gann stops me.

"That won't be necessary." She says as she brings out a detonator switch, and then pushes it. Next thing that happens, the helicopter catches on fire and falls downwards, destroying the factory and engulfing it in flames.

"Very nice."

But I do happen to see Sportsmaster in the air gliding down with a parachute on his back. I'll be seeing you around, Sportsy.

Then I hear Robin pinned down by Kobra, who has disrobed and is winning their fight. "Come on, Robin needs our help."

Me, Superboy and Miss Martian rush over to join Robin, along with Aqualad and Kid Flash. The six of us against Kobra. We can take him.

"Another time, then." He says this as he backs into the forest, with Robin going after him. But he finds nothing. Somehow Kobra escaped us. Great, no villain to bring home to the League.

Then I remember Kobra and Sportsmaster weren't the only ones on Santa Prisca.

"Whatever happened to Bane?" I ask, to which Miss Martian points up towards a nearby cliff. On said cliff is a tree, which has a masked mad wrestler tied to it. "Very nice." I say with a smile.

"Oh, thanks for waking me up before, Miss M."

"What're you talking about Kyle?" She asks me while looking at me confused.

"When those cultists had me tied up, someone woke me up telepathically. I assumed that was you reaching to me while I was out cold."

"I'm sorry Kyle, but I was out of range from you to have waken you up once we retreated from the factory. I don't know who reached to your mind, but it wasn't me."

Now I'm the one confused, and probably looking like it too. M'gann was the only person on the island who knows telepathy. Now that I think about it, I didn't really hear the voice too well since I was out cold, but even still whoever did it knew my name. If M'gann didn't speak to me, then who did?

I decide to shake it off for now, knowing that whoever did it is probably gone by now. "Don't worry M'gann, I'm fine and alive. We all are, that's all that matters really." I reassure her with a smile, to which she replies with a smile of her own and a hug. Who knew martians were huggers.

We all look onto the factory burning to the ground. "All in all, not a bad first mission." I look over to Aqualad. "And not a bad job leading the team, Kaldur."

Kaldur, along with the others, look to me with surprise. "Dude, how did you know we picked him to be leader?" Kid Flash asks me.

"Oh please, I knew Aqualad would lead this team from the moment we formed it. I just didn't say anything because he had to come to terms with it on his own."

I walk over to the Atlantean, bringing out my hand towards him. "I think he'll make a great leader, and I will follow him into battle anytime, anywhere."

My hand is met with one that is webbed, a good and strong grip. "Thank you for your support, Kyle." I nod my head in acknowledgement.

Then I feel a hand tapping me on my back. I turn around to see the hand belongs to Robin, who looks a little upset for some reason. "Kyle, I'm… I'm sorry. I didn't mean for you to-"

"Stop", I say to him before he continues. "It's not your fault I was caught off guard and captured, that's on me. You shouldn't need to apologize for that."

"Yeah but the only reason you were out there was to make sure I got out of there. Which I should've done right away." Admitting when he's made a mistake? Maybe not becoming leader has taught him more than he thought.

I place my hand on his shoulder, looking at the Bird Boy sincerely. "Like I said Robin, that's on me. I was just making sure you got out of there safe and sound. What happened afterwards was on me, being a bit protective I guess."

"There's nothing wrong with that, Kyle", Aqualad says, coming into our conversation. "We're a team, so we need to have each others back when on missions. We do our jobs, make sure we all see tomorrow, and do the same thing the next day. Agreed?"

We all nod in agreement of Aqualad's perimeters as a team. "We definitely picked the right leader for this team."

"Most definitely, GL", Robin says agreeingly, then fist pumping with me.

We all then come in together, forming a group huddle. "Oh, and also… I found her."

Next thing I know, the looks on everyone's faces are full of shock. Even Superboy looks surprised to hear my news, and Wally's jaw is dropped while looking at me.

Kaldur speaks first of out everyone. "You found her? Here? How, when?"

"When they had me tied up. And it was more of she found me, but nevertheless I finally did see and talk to her."

"You talked to her?!" Wally shouts towards me.

Then everyone starts asking me questions about her like, 'What does she look like? Where does she come from? What is she doing? Is she seeing anyone?' I smacked Wally for that stupid question.

"Do you atleast know who she is?" Superboy asks me.

I look around my friends, all wondering just who this girl is. "I think I'm realizing who she really is now. She's a lot like us, trying to find her place in life, making a name for herself."

They all look over to each other, bringing back their attention towards me. Kaldur then asks me, "What's her name?"

"White Canary."

"He's different than what I expected from him, far more clever and sharper than I thought a GL could be. But I guess that's my fault, should never assume. And he looks pretty handsome up close." I stop myself before I say anything else. Did I really just call this guy handsome?

"And there's definitely more to him inside, especially in his eyes. They remind me of emerald jewels almost." I laugh at my comment over his eyes. "One hell of a coincidence, a Green Lantern with green eyes."

I walk over to the full length mirror in my room, looking at my reflection. I see myself, the girl in all white going out at nights, wanting to help the world be a safer place. "Somehow, he was able to see the real me, the person underneath the white leather. And he seems to like me, leather and all."

I remove my mask slowly, showing my light blue eyes more. "If he likes me, I wonder if his friends will like me. I wonder… I wonder if they'd actually let me be a part of their team." I say that with a hopeful smile.

But that smile goes away just ask quickly as it came. I look down and pulls out my silver locket. "Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. I made her a promise, and I have to keep it. Plus she'd kill me if she ever knew I was going out in the night doing this."

"But still, maybe if she knew how I felt, maybe she'd understand…" I open my locket slowly and look down to see the picture in it: myself, in regular day clothes, being hugged by her, a tall, beautiful woman with blonde hair and light blue eyes, just like mine.

"…That I want to be like my sister."

"All I recovered is a single ampoule of Kobra-Venom." Sportsmaster says while holding the single ampoule.

"Peut-etre, the drug can be reverse engineered. Mais what of our young heroes? First Cadmus, then Mister Twister. Now, Santa Prisca."

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. But three times is enemy action, and enemies of the Light must not stand."

"And the Green Lantern, you let him escape with his power ring?"

"Yes, it seems that even without his ring, the Lantern was able to get free and get back his ring. But next time I see that Green Brat, I won't let him get away from me a second time."

"That won't be necessary, Sportsmaser. You have other more pressing matters to deal with than one Green Lantern and his ring. We will find another agent to handle it, one more capable of dealing with this Lantern. But if he thinks his light of willpower is stronger than our Light, he's got another thing coming towards him."