Chapter 24

A/N: I own nothing.

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Thoughts/telepathy

Bumblebee's speech

India Sepember 10

"Indian Tiger print boys," a hunter smirked, "see, I told you we didn't need some superstitious guide to lead us to big game. Devil beasts, ha!" They trecked through the jungle fallowing the footprints. Getting to a ridge they spotted the tiger hopping out of a tree in a clearing below them. As it landed, three pillars came out of the ground and electrified, causing the creature to fall to the ground as if some unknown force was shoving it down.

"What is that?"

"Who cares, I just made my quota," the leader smiled aiming the weapon.

A growl sounded behind them and they turned to see a large gorilla step out of the forest, a machine gun in hand, aimed right at them. The ape seemed to glower before open firing.

-.-

September 22

Erica and Brandon walked into one of their favorite cafés in Central City. "So how do you think Artemis fared on her first day at Gotham Academy?" Erica asked.

"Not sure, I'm sure it'll be difficult for her since she's from a lower-income family rather than the rich, high-class kids that are there for advanced education and need protection, she's in a whole different ball-game now," he shrugged.

"Only you could make it sound like that," she frowned.

"Hey Erica, Brandon, you guys want the usuals?" the baresta asked.

"You know it," she smiled.

"What name this time?"

"I am Darth Vader!" Erica declared dramatically. "He's Darth Sidious."

"That's Emperor to you Vader," 'Bee smirked.

"Of course," she said with a mock bow as they went to their favorite booth. "So, what do you think of the team?"

"They're alright, a little new, but they're getting the hang of it. Conner is a little too hot-headed still, Megan seems a little to eager to please, and Wally is—and probably always will be—too impulsive for his own good," Brandon shrugged.

"I could've told you that," Erica snickered. "But I have to agree. And Artemis?"

"Tolerable. She understands complex battle strategy and situations, she also understands the need to kill when it is necessary. However, she seems to lack trust in others, which is needed to have a fully functional team. You?"

"She seems good to me, but she's a little tempermental," Erica shrugged.

The song changed and both grinned as the theme song for Darth Vader came on. "Darth Vader, Emperor Sidious, your drinks are ready."

Grabbing their hot-chocolates they laughed as they sat down. "I vote next time we do Lord Voldemort and Belletrix," 'Bee grinned.

"I'm so up for it," she smiled fist-bumping him. "So what movie should we see this time? Because I really want to see that new action movie!"

"I'm up for it, I just get to pick next time."

"Deal!"

"So, anything exciting going on lately?"

"Not really," Erica shrugged. "Though Luthor came to my school last week."

Brandon's head snapped up from where he was checking something on his phone. "What?! Why was he there?!"

"He was looking me up for an intership, he wants me to write an essay to see if I'm qualified," she replied.

"Well…this could be an advantage."

"You've lost me," she said staring at him.

'Bee rolled his eyes, an evil smirk playing across his lips. "I just mean it would provide the opportunity for you to infiltrate LexCorp and find out what he's up to, not to mention you could saboutage the major 'evil' projects. Considering your IQ there's a point-three-one-five percent chance that you would not be working on one of those projects," he calculated.

"Shut up," Erica muttered.

"So what's the essay about?" he asked pulling an energon treat he smuggled from base out.

"The Justice League."

'Bee coughed slightly as the statement caught him by surprise. "You're joking."

"Unfortunately not," she huffed, "and I can't say too much, otherwise he'll realize I know detailed information I shouldn't know, but I can't say too little because he's already read my Taipei essay so having a sucky essay would also raise his suspiscions."

"Well Dad works closely with the League in his civilian job, he's even dragged me to a few 'formal meetings' with them."

"Does that mean I can use you as a reference?!" she said grabbing the front of his black leather jacket.

"Duh."

"Thank you!" she squealed squeezing him.

"Erica…need air…and hot-coco," he ground out trying to reach for the mug just out of his reach as his arms were pinned to his side by the excited girl.

"Sorry! Though I need to find other references too, but I can just use various news articles, can you set up a meeting with Aria for me?" Erica asked referring to Arcee's human name. Aria Pax was the younger sister of Orion Pax and was a well-known reporter for the news, getting her as a reference with her Aunt Iris would ensure Luthor didn't suspect her of knowing too much; those two, along with Lois Lane, had the most live interviews with superheroes.

"No problem, she owes me a favor or two anyways," he said with a thumbs-up. Pullung out his phone, he checked movie times. "Alright, so we can either leave now and see the one at 5:30 or wait for the 6:10 one."

"I vote we wait for the 6:10 movie," she said. "This way we can finish our drinks."

"Sounds good to me," he nodded taking a drink of the cooling hot chocolate.

-.-

Emerald and Bumblebee stood in the Central City Zeta Tube looking at it in confusion. "Hello? Emerald Lantern—B02. Bumblebee—B06. Mt. Justice."

"Zeta Tubes to Mt. Justice offline."

"Weird," 'Bee said. "According to my scans there's no reason on why the Tubes would be offline. Ratchet send us a bridge." The blue, swirling vortex appered and they went through, before adjusting the coordinates for the cave.

"Thanks Doc," Emerald said.

"Just a sec, I'm coming with," Ratchet said holding his medical gear and grabbing the remote control for the bridge.

"Whoa…what happened?!" Emerald gasped upon seeing the forms of their teammates lying on the ground as they started regaining consciousness. However, Robin was coherent enough to explain what happened to Batman.

Ratchet rushed over to check on M'gann and Kaldur since according to Batman's report they had been suffering from severe dehydration.

"Stand back," Emerald said flying over to where Captain Atom and Flash were trying to cut through the substance containing her cousin and Superboy.

"My head," Wally groaned, Superboy grunted in agreement.

"Both of you need to stay still," Emerald warned before she started to use a lazer from her ring to carefully start cutting through the material.

"Bumblebee! Here now!" Ratchet called. Hurring over he started to help the medic with treating the dehydrated teens with what little training he had received over the past few millennia.

"Artemis…Artemis can you hear me?" Superman asked. "She's alright." He helped her up. "What happened here.

"What happened?! The Reds happened! Wait—where are they?!" she gasped.

"Gone…all three of them…gone," Robin stated.

-.-

September 23

The team sat quietly at a table as the Leauge worked around them, fixing up the cave after the attack. Emerald and 'Bee were told of what happened and felt guilty that they failed to arrive earlier to help their teammates as they struggled to survive in a place they all considered safe.

"Thanks, but no thanks," Wally growled as Green Arrow set down a bowl of pretzels.

"Yea, what we want are answers about Red Tornado and his siblings," Robin agreed.

"Exactly!" Wally exclaimed and GA started to take the bowl. "Leave the pretzels."

"YOU KNEW?!" Superboy shouted, lunging and grabbing Aqualad from where he was giving a report to Batman and Optimus. "THAT ANDROID AND HIS MANIAC FAMILY ALMOST KILLED M'GANN!"

"Conner what are you doing?!" Megan gasped as they rushed over.

"Kaldur knew we had a traitor amongst us and said nothing!"

"You knew?!"

"And didn't tell us?!"

"I just sought to protect the team," he replied.

"Protect us from what? Knowledge that might've saved our lives?!" Artemis growled.

"Enough," Batman said.

"With Red Tornado missing, the team will now be overseen by rotating supervisors, Captain Marvel has volunteered to take the first shift," Optimus stated.

"I'm really looking forwards to hanging with you guys."

"After I dismantle Red Tornado—"

"Superboy. Shut Up," Bumblebee said narrowing his eyes. The clone froze and the others took a step back as they felt the anger rolling off their normally calm-in-any-freakin-situation teammate, continuing to push his buttons when he was like this…not wise.

"Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League, and is a League responsibility, you will leave him to us," Batman stated. "We have another assignment for this team."

Optimus pulled up a few news articles on the holoscreen. "Gotham Mayor gets attacked by Gorillia Gorilla," Kid Flash scoffed.

"Was this the only thing he could find to distract us?" Conner growled.

"Superboy, things aren't as black and white as you all are seeing them right now," Emerald said.

"Can it Em! Where were you when the Reds attacked, huh? Not here, no, you were out seeing a movie, or going to the café, or playing video games; you weren't here," Wally growled.

"Batman, please tell us you're not sending us on a wild ape chase," Robin sneered.

"We never joke about a mission," Optimus said coldly, making the Boy Wonder flinch.

"I've checked the sources and studied the patterns, Mayor Hill's attack is only the latest in a series of related incidents," Batman stated. "Aqualad, you and your team will depart for India and check this out."

"Your team?" Kid scoffed shoulder-checking Aqualad as they passed.

As they approached the Bioship, they saw Captain Marvel flying over. "You're coming with?" Robin groaned.

"Sure, we'll have a blast," he smiled walking in.

"Translation, he blames us for Red Fiasco, he doesn't trust us," Robin snorted.

"It's a big club," KF sneered glaring at Aqualad.

-.-

India

The Bioship flew over the jungle, opening the bottom to let Bumblebee, Robin, and Artemis down to scout the area. The ship landed and the others came out as Artemis and Robin returned.

"We're clear," 'Bee said stepping out of the shadows making Artemis jump. "Orders?"

"Switch to stealth, and we'll review mission perameters," Aqualad stated.

"Perameters? We don't need no stinkin' perameters," Wally growled as they went to stealth mode.

"It's recon, we know what to do," Robin retorted as the pair started to walk away.

"Kid, Robin."

"The six of us started this team because the Justice League was keeping secrets from us!" Robin snapped. "Oh, wait, I forgot, 'Bee and Emerald already knew about all of it and they didn't bother to tell us."

"Kinda like how Aqualad forgot to tell us about the mole," KF added as they ran off.

"C'mon! I'll keep you safe!" Superboy said grabbing Miss Martian's arm.

"You're my boyfriend Conner, not my keeper, stop handling me like a character from a seventies' sitcom."

"I…just want to protect you," he stuttered.

"Like how Aqualad protected us from the Reds, I'm not sure your protection is beneficial to our health," Artemis snarled as they two girls walked away.

"Why didn't you stop them?! You're supposed to be in charge?!" Superboy snapped glaring at Kaldur.

"I am—"

The clone leapt away without even waiting for his answer.

"That hypocrite," 'Bee growled glaring after him.

"What do you want us to do?" Emerald asked looking at Aqualad.

"See if you can find anything, contact us when you do," he said relieved that at least the two team powerhouses were on his side. Nodding the Black Lantern and the scout vanished in different directions.

"Um…did I miss the part where you actually said the plan?" Captain asked. Kaldur just sighed as they went their own way.

-.-

Artemis and Miss M travelled alongside a creek, both failing to notice the large shadows fallowing in the water.

-.-

Robin and Kid Flash pushed through the thick jungle foliage, neither bothering to look up to see three large forms flying above them.

-.-

Bumblebee landed silently in the middle of a large trench formed by something big, big enough to topple trees. Kneeling down, he picked up a shiny black scale, a scale several sizes too large for the species it belinged to.

-.-

Superboy leapt through the woods, so caught up in his rage, he didn't hear the sound of several forms chasing after over the sounds of his landings and the blood roaring in his ears.

-.-

Emerald flew quietly through the jungle, careful not to disturb anything, but she couldn't see the red eyes watching from the bushes nearby.

-.-

"Guess this is where Mayor Hill's monkey business went down," Captain Marvel said as they arrived in a clearing with marks of a fight everywhere. "So at least we've confirmed the story, right? Aqualad?"

"My apologies Captain Marvel, I am…plagued by doubts…perhaps I was wrong to withhold," he confessed.

Both stopped talking as thunderous steps headed towards them, shaking the very earth they stood on. The trees on the side of the clearing fell as two, supersized Indian Elephants charged out of the jungle. Captain flew up and shoved the bigger one back, but it only moved a foot before the elephant's trunk grabbed his leg and hurled him through a tree.

Aqualad was left standing between both enraged pacederms, one charged, forcing him to jump out of the way or be crushed by its massive foot.

Marvel got up to see a tiger growling at him, but it was forced to retreat as Aqualad landed between them with a pained grunt.

-.-

A giant cobra burst of of the forest, nearly snatching 'Bee's head up in its oversized jaws. Sliding under the massive snake, he leapt up and punched it, sending its head slamming into the ground. Sitting on it, he held the head down, it was just under the size of a python but it was skinnier, and had an inhibitor collar on. He ripped it off, but still left the snake pinned.

"You're too small to have ripped through the jungle that way," he mused just as a python with a body the width of a bus rose and loomed over him, its head was easily the size of a car. "I just had to say something."

The cobra hissed in his hand and 'Bee felt that if he could understand it it would've been a very sarcastic reply. The python gave a roaring hiss as it spotted them, 'Bee shook his head, grabbed the cobra's tail and started running through the jungle with a screaming snake.

-.-

Superboy was slammed to the ground by a brown wolf, ripping it off two more jumped on him, tearing at his clothes, leaving deep scratch marks in his skin. Up on the ledge above him, a large white wolf with golden eyes sat, staring at him.

Taking out most of the brown wolves, the white one jumped down and attacked the clone.

-.-

Robin and KF ran through the jungle with undignified cries as three vultures chased them down.

"I though vultures only ate dead meat?!" Robin called as he tossed a couple explosives at them.

"Then these are very proactive scavengers!" Wally replied.

"Proactive and supersized! You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Kobra Venom? Yea," the speedster said as they dodged the attacking birds.

-.-

Emerald grunted as a heavy weight slammed into her, making a construct she shoved it off and got into a fighting stance.

The albino panther growled back, its tail waving widly back and forth. With an angry roar, it lunged at her again.

-.-

A massive crocodile leapt out of the water, trying to snatch Miss M up in its jaws.

Artemis immediately stood up and pulled out her bow, but a second one shot out and grabbed her by her quiver, dragging her under and starting to barrel-roll.

Getting rid of hers, M'gann flew down and helped Artemis detatch from her quiver. The croc prepared to lunge again, but was shot back by the Martian's telekinetic abilities as she made the waters recede around her friend so she could breath.

"Almost drowning two nights in a row, way less fun than it sounds," the blonde coughed after finishing hacking up water.

-.-

Aqualad looked up to see Marvel slammed back by the smaller elephant, looking closer his eyes widened as he saw the inhibitor collar locked around its neck. Grabbing his water bearers he ducked under the trunk, rolled under the foor, leapt up and used the whips to slice the collar off. The freed animal looked at him before it began lumbering off.

"Remove the collars!" he called.

"Got it!" Captain Marvel replied. Flying under the elephant he punched the collar off, landing next to Kaldur as they watched the animals leave. "Smart, figuring out that the collars were the problem."

"But the collars indicate there is an intelligence behind this attack, the rest of the team may alos be in danger," he replied. "Comm's jammed, and Miss Martian failed to establish a link before we split up."

"Actually, you failed to establish a link before everyone split up."

"They wouldn't listen!"

"Maybe," the Leaguer shrugged, "but back at the cave, Batman was able to get everyone to stop fighting with one word."

"Because Batman is…Batman."

"Don't have to tell me, when I first joined the League all he did was boss me around, and it's hard not to take it personally, but, I never disobeyed and order, and that's probably what kept me alive."

"Batmans takes command, for the good of the League, thank you for helping me understand," Aqualad nodded.

"Hey, wisdom of Solomon," he shrugged.

"Aqualad, can you hear me?"

"Yes Miss Martian, report?" he asked.

"Artemis and I were attacked by animals wearing inhibitor collars, like those used at Belle Reve penitentiary."

"Cool! Tiger! I'll be back!" Captain called before flying off.

"Hey, speed of Mercury," Aqualad sighed.

"Hey there, bet you'd like good ol Captain Marvel to remove that nasty collar," he cooed at the big cat. Landing in front of it, it roared and backed up as the collar shocked it again. The Leaguer approached it, wanting to help, but three pillars emerged from the ground, creating an energy field that made him unable to stand.

A gorilla wearing a red beret came down from the tree and started banging its chest.

-.-

"Miss Martain, I need a telepathic link-up with the entire team, now."

"Link established."

"Should he still be giving us orders? And should you really be fallowing them?" Artemis growled instantly.

"Listen, please!"

"Oh good, Aqualad's voice in my head, I've so missed that," Wally said.

"Yo Kaldur, KF and I were attacked by giant vultures, course since we're moles you probably think we attacked ourselves."

"If he did, he wouldn't tell you," Artemis said.

"Superboy, are you online or just pouting?"

"Busy, call back later."

"Emerald?"

"Just a sec!" the Lantern replied as she tried to get the collar off the panther.

"'Bee?"

"Kul'vak!" he cursed as he held the giant snake's mouth open as it tried eating him. The cobra was wrapped around his torso trying to bite the massive snake before it gave up and started shrieking and flailing its head in terror.

"What gets me is how nonchalant he is about not telling us."

"He should be chalant, way chalant."

"SHUT UP! ALL OF YOU! YOU'RE ALL SOUNDING LIKE WHINING CHILDREN AND IT'S DRIVING ME INSANE! DID IT NOT OCCUR TO YOU THAT HE COULDN'T TELL WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF TIPPING OFF WHOEVER THE MOLE WAS?!" Emerald shouted as her temper finally got the better of her.

"She's right, I've had to go undercover loads of times with the Cons, do you know how many times I was tiped off about being the mole? And let me tell you, those who had suspicions of a mole never saw dawn again, I made sure of that. Same thing couldn've happened if he tipped off the mole in our team," Bumblebee stated before releasing a string of very explicit curses in various Earth and alien languages.

"BUMBLEBEE!" Erica scolded.

"Call back later!"

"Thank you," Aqualad said as he found the pillars. "We can continue this discussion later, but right now we have a larger problem: Captain Marvel has been captured, and we must act as a team to save him."

"Under your leadership—!"

"This is not up for debate! You all chose me to lead, when the mission is over I will step down if you wish, but until then I'm in command!"

-.-

Captain Marvel woke up to find himself strapped down to a table with an inhibitor collar around his neck.

"The brain enhancement of this Tigre already pays dividens no, for he as brought us a prize most glorious. Le Capitain Marvel."

"Why can't I move?!"

"It is obvious Mi-no. your collar is set to inhibit movement from the neck down, I have allowed you to retain the power of speech, as your reactions may prove instructive during La Procedure."

"La Procedure? What procedure?" he questioned.

"I have often wondered the affects of your powers on the cerebral cortex, I long to see the Wisdom of Solomon up close. Mousier Malliah, prepare for surgery."

A gorilla in scrubs grunted.

-.-

"I'll fly over," M'gann said as they got into position.

"Negatory, field surrounds the building like a dome over the whole compound," KF informed.

"Pylons are insulated, a good shock could cause a momentary gap," Robin informed. "Too bad we don't have our resident Cybertronian, he could just snap his fingers and it'd be down."

"I don't think it'd be that simple for him Rob," Emerald commented from where she sat petting the sabertoothed albino panther.

"I see a target," Artemis stated.

"Be ready to hit it, be ready, all of you." Aqualad ran down and his tatoos started glowing, making contact with the field he forced a small hole open, just wide enough for Artemis to shoot an arrow through to hit the main control. The shield deactivated and they raced down.

"Emerald…is that…?"

"Yep," she smiled.

"Guys, we have a different problem," Robin said as he pointed out the inhibitor collar-wearing baboon. The monkey screeched as the alarms went off and a hoarde of monkeys raced at them.

-.-

"Go Malliah, deal with sie intruders, I will handle the Captian's brain extraction myself."

-.-

Aqualad tossed a baboon over his shoulder onto the ground, ripping off the collar. "Get rid of the collars!"

"Sounds easy when he says it," Robin grumbled when the panther landed next to him and swiped the monkeys away and Emerald ripped off the collars with a construct. "Thanks!"

"Don't mention it!"

Artemis was firing at the incoming ones, Robin tossed two disks at the two coming up behind her, making them run away as the collars fell off.

The gorilla gorilla came out and snatched M'gann as she tried to sneak past him, he slammed her into thr ground and was about to shoot. "Get your paws off her!" Wally called slamming into the gorllia, only to be the one bounced back.

Malliah was about to shoot when a terrifying screech came out of the jungle, pausing in their fighting, they all started as Bumblebee sprinted through them, a screaming cobra wrapped around him, and the world's biggest snake chasing after.

Emerald flew over and slammed Malliah into a wall with her giant hammer, and the fighting resumed.

-.-

"You're not taking my brain!"

"Don't worry el Capitain, do not struggle. Brain extraction is virually painless, the benefits of ignorance. Look what it has done for me," The Brain said rolling out into the surgical light.

Captain sighed as a lazer lowered down and settled over his head. "That won't work on me."

"Perhaps, but it works on solid steel, so I'll try my luck. I'm told you have the courage of Achilles, perhaps you should've asked for his invulnerability instead."

The tiger roared and punced on The Brain, shoving him back.

"Traitor! You will suffer for that!"

The big cat roared in pain as the collar began shocking it. "Stop it! Leave it alone!"

Malliah came through the wall and Miss Martain could bee seen floating there as the rest raced in.

"It's the Brain!" KF exclaimed.

"I can see it's a brain," Artmis scoffed.

"Not a brain, the Brain!" Emerald emphasized.

"In the flesh, so to speak. Malliah."

The gorilla pressed a button and the prons came out, slamming them all to the ground.

"Miss Martian, Superboy, now!"

Using her telekinesis, Miss M pulled the remote over and deactivated the gravity field as Superboy slammed his way in with the white wolf. The panther and wold attacked the gorilla simultaneously, backing off as Kid raced up and kicked him in the gut. The gorilla tried shooting them, but Robin swung over and kicked him in the face. Miss M, lifted him and slammed Malliah into the ground. Making a giant baseball club Emerald hit the ape with it and Superboy punched the flying ape into the ground. An arrow landed in his machine gun, making it explode. Aqualad dodged the Brain's lazer attacks before rushing over to help Captian Marvel. Ripping the collar off the Captain eagerly got up.

"Thanks," he said hopping down, removing the collar. "Now to return one favor for another." Removing the tiger's collar.

Malliah roared as the team surrounded them. "Try it, I hate monkeys," Superboy growled.

"Believe me he does!" Emerald warned.

"No Malliah, this will not be our Waterloo," the Brain said as a bunch of devices on him activated. "Au revoir."

"GET DOWN!"

The team ducked, but everything just went dark before the lights turned on a moment later, the gorilla and Brain gone.

"Wait…that big weapon was…a light switch?" Emerald questioned.

-.-

Off in the jungle, 'Bee grinned behind his mask as he leapt off the tied-up python. "Primus, that took forever!"

The black cobra looked at him and hissed with a look that resembled a glare.

"Oh, like you could've done any better?!"

-.-

"What are you grinning about?" Artemis asked.

"One word: souvnier," Wally grinned.

"Two words: gorilla lice," Artemis and Emerald said highfiving.

"Ah man!"

Aqualad ripped off another collar and the monkey ran off into the jungle. "That the last of the collars?" Captain asked the tiger.

The tiger growled.

"And can I trust you to keep the other animals in line?"

The tiger growled again.

"Good," he said petting it. "I'll be back for a visit." The big cat ran off into the night. "I think I'll call him Mr. Tawny."

"Rest of the pack is gone, why are you still here?" Superboy asked the wolf he was petting.

"Same with you?" Emerald asked petting the giant panther.

"Looks like they want to stay with you," M'gann laughed.

"Can I keep 'em?!" they asked.

"First the sphere, now these beasts, geez, we're making a habit of collecting strays," Kid chuckled.

"Maybe cause I'm such a stray myself," Superboy shrugged. "Sorry about earlier M'gann, I was just worried."

"I know, but out in the field I'm your teammate, not your girlfriend, ok?"

"Yea."

"Think we can add one more stray to that list?" 'Bee asked and they all stared at the python-sized, pitch black King Cobra sitting contentedly on his shoulders.

"Well their gonna need names," Wally said. "How about Krypto, Snowflake, and Terror?"

The wolf growled, the panther snarled, and the snake sprayed venom at him. "No."

"I'm thinking Moonknight," Emerald said scratching the panther's ears and it purred.

"Starburst," 'Bee said and the snake opened its hood, showing the large white star on its back that lead to the long white line trailing its spine.

"So Kaldur, I get why you didn't tell us, but I got to know why you were so keen on keeping it a secret," Robin stated.

Aqualad sighed. "The tip was from Sportsmaster."

"What?!"

"You can't trust him!"

"I didn't, I seemed possible he was trying to divide the team."

"And given how this mission went he almost succeeded, but you had to consider every possibility without alerting the traitor."

"Correct, though, I am still prepared to step down."

"All in favor of keeping Aqualad as leader?" Emerald asked and they all raised their hands, but stopped to stare as Starburst raised his tail.

"Unanimous then," Captian said shaking his hand. "See you tomorrow."

"Not coming back with us?" Kid asked.

"Nope, gotta fly," he said taking off.

"So what are you gonna call him?" Megan asked.

"What's wrong with Wolf?" Conner asked.

"Genaric, but acceptable," Wally noted.

-.-

Fawcett City September 24

Captian Marvel flew into an open window where an older man sat in front of a tv reading a magazine. "How'd it go?"

"It was great! The team is way more fun than the League! They go on these super cool covert ops missions! And I got nabbed by the Brain! And I met this tiger—"

"Ok, ok sport, glad you had fun sport, but it's getting late. Bursh your teeth and hit the hay."

"Ok, ok I'm going."

The man cleared his throat. "Aren't you forgetting something?"

"Na I was just seeing if you were paying attention—Shazam!" Lightning struck and in Captian Marvel's place was ten-year-old Billy Batson. "Night Uncle Dudley."

"Night kiddo."